As I remember it was useful if you went on holiday to mainland Europe (from the UK) as you got free calls, when using a mobile phone abroad was potentially quite expensive.
Trump withdrew from the Paris accord, and Covfefe was the more searched term than Paris Climate Agreement [fortune.com].
Maybe in the US, not the rest of the world. It was all over our "MSM" and the reaction to Trump was universally negative. The "covfefe" thing was just a bit of comic relief.
"He's more likely to have read John le Carre than John Locke."
And this is the sort of snide bullshit that illustrates why he resonates with voters, but the intelligentsia despises him.
I've read both le Carre and Locke, and I'd agree, le Carre is a FUCKTON more readable.
And frankly, I doubt Mr Trump reads. Much of anything. Again, putting him in the same camp as 90% of Americans.
Call me old fashioned, but I want my head of state to be more intelligent than 90% of the population. If you can just have any Joe Below-Average doing the job, you might as well have a random annual lottery for the post.
Here in the UK, we've had some appalling, unpleasant and useless leaders in the past fifty years, but as far as I remember none of them were actually thick like Trump.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest).
They're more like saying "that dress does make you look fat" to a stick thin model because you have body image issues yourself.
They don't agree with reality, but no doubt accurately reflect what's in Trump's own mind.
I've had friends in similar situations and one of the reasons they stayed to the end is they got paid a significant bonus to do so.
Exactly. A lot of people on slashdot forget that work is primarily about balancing the work/leisure mix, so if you can earn six months worth of free holiday time just by carrying on turning up for work and making sure no one nicks the spare laptops, why wouldn't you?
The exceptions would be people whose work is intrinsically important and rewarding to them, which I assume wouldn't apply to anyone working for AOL or Yahoo in the first place.
Women didn't arrive on earth until much later, they stopped off to buy shoes first, and then had to use the restroom, apply sunscreen, return the shoes because of buyer's remorse, and then get an overpriced drink from StarBucks before coming to earth.
Neither your comment nor the comment you are replying to have shown what capitalism has to do with any of this.
Under capitalism, the most important thing is to be economically productive, rather than well educated for it's own (or other people's) sake. So colleges are churning people out with apparently relevant/useful degrees in things like Business Studies that do not actually teach critical thought.
If you have to borrow tens of thousands to get your degree, your primary concern is making sure you pass it so that (a) you haven't got into doubt for nothing and (b) you have a certificate to show employers.
Now, you might well say that this is better than the socialist alternative, where education is paid for out of taxes and people can freely study Ancient Sumerian Folk Dancing for five years and end up working as a barista, but you can't say that money and capitalism aren't involved at the core of the choice.
There's a difference between physically impossible and technologically impossible.
There is also a continuum from "we can build this now for pennies" to "we could theoretically build this in a few years' time at a cost of half the whole planet's GDP".
The FBI search warrant application mentioned that Winner took a trip to Belize in May, and judging from some of the pictures found on her social media accounts, it looks like it was a vacation trip. But I'm wondering if she met with anyone down there.
Slashdot Mirror
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
Theresa May is (was?) one of the leading figures in attempts to censor the internet in the UK, and this is entirely relevant to Your Rights Online.
As I remember it was useful if you went on holiday to mainland Europe (from the UK) as you got free calls, when using a mobile phone abroad was potentially quite expensive.
So if you're fucked either way, choose the one that makes you laugh at least.
There is a crucial difference between laughing with someone and laughing at them.
Trump withdrew from the Paris accord, and Covfefe was the more searched term than Paris Climate Agreement [fortune.com].
Maybe in the US, not the rest of the world. It was all over our "MSM" and the reaction to Trump was universally negative. The "covfefe" thing was just a bit of comic relief.
"He's more likely to have read John le Carre than John Locke." And this is the sort of snide bullshit that illustrates why he resonates with voters, but the intelligentsia despises him.
I've read both le Carre and Locke, and I'd agree, le Carre is a FUCKTON more readable.
And frankly, I doubt Mr Trump reads. Much of anything. Again, putting him in the same camp as 90% of Americans.
Call me old fashioned, but I want my head of state to be more intelligent than 90% of the population. If you can just have any Joe Below-Average doing the job, you might as well have a random annual lottery for the post.
Here in the UK, we've had some appalling, unpleasant and useless leaders in the past fifty years, but as far as I remember none of them were actually thick like Trump.
Bullshitting is not the same as communicating, except to self-glorified second hand car salesmen like Trump.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest).
They're more like saying "that dress does make you look fat" to a stick thin model because you have body image issues yourself.
They don't agree with reality, but no doubt accurately reflect what's in Trump's own mind.
I've had friends in similar situations and one of the reasons they stayed to the end is they got paid a significant bonus to do so.
Exactly. A lot of people on slashdot forget that work is primarily about balancing the work/leisure mix, so if you can earn six months worth of free holiday time just by carrying on turning up for work and making sure no one nicks the spare laptops, why wouldn't you?
The exceptions would be people whose work is intrinsically important and rewarding to them, which I assume wouldn't apply to anyone working for AOL or Yahoo in the first place.
muggle cars
I just fwew up
I thought condos were a US-only thing? I never saw a proper explanation of what the difference between a condo and a block of flats was anyway.
rocking out ahead of jimmy concerts with blenders running in my line-x bed
No, I give up, what does this mean?
I'm in a room with 12 developers, 24 screens (24 inch flat). SInce I have been here (4 years) only 2 have died.
"Only" 2 out of 12 developers dead in 4 years? Are you in some Special Forces cyber unit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Beautiful and probably the most wicked car money can buy.
Amusingly bonkers quote from Wikipedia:
The electronically limited top speed is now 355 km/h (221 mph)
Is there a technical reason for this limitation? Does the car take off if it goes faster or something? I can't imagine it's a regulatory thing.
Yeah, but what about Women?
Women didn't arrive on earth until much later, they stopped off to buy shoes first, and then had to use the restroom, apply sunscreen, return the shoes because of buyer's remorse, and then get an overpriced drink from StarBucks before coming to earth.
"I don't understand why I'm still a virgin".
politically incorrect discoveries
Twat
This will probably decimate the slashdot readership through death by apoplexy.
Neither your comment nor the comment you are replying to have shown what capitalism has to do with any of this.
Under capitalism, the most important thing is to be economically productive, rather than well educated for it's own (or other people's) sake. So colleges are churning people out with apparently relevant/useful degrees in things like Business Studies that do not actually teach critical thought.
If you have to borrow tens of thousands to get your degree, your primary concern is making sure you pass it so that (a) you haven't got into doubt for nothing and (b) you have a certificate to show employers.
Now, you might well say that this is better than the socialist alternative, where education is paid for out of taxes and people can freely study Ancient Sumerian Folk Dancing for five years and end up working as a barista, but you can't say that money and capitalism aren't involved at the core of the choice.
A pint a day certainly isn't "moderate consumption", it's a drinking problem.
Indeed, if it's a pint of whisky.
If you are on average consuming one or more pints of beer every day then that is a rather brisk consumption of the product.
You appear to have misspelled "hour" as "day" .
Plus, I know it's England, but since when is 3 drinks a day, every day of the week, moderate?
3 units is one pint of beer. One pint of beer a day isn't moderate, it's abstemious.
There's a difference between physically impossible and technologically impossible.
There is also a continuum from "we can build this now for pennies" to "we could theoretically build this in a few years' time at a cost of half the whole planet's GDP".
As an Engineer, I always see solutions to problems. I always thought that was the point of the job.
So let's see your plans for a free-as-in-beer time machine then.
Oh no, wait, not everything is possible, either technically or economically.
Seriously, they only thought to do this now?
Apple is ridiculous. Who else would introduce basic functionality ten years late and call it innovation?
No, it's courage.
Bad things happen in armed countries when the populace loses faith in the election systems.
The important point about a mass, armed uprising is that it is a mass uprising, not that it is armed.
If you piss enough people off, it doesn't matter if they've only got bits of wood with nails in as weapons, you can't kill all of them.
The FBI search warrant application mentioned that Winner took a trip to Belize in May, and judging from some of the pictures found on her social media accounts, it looks like it was a vacation trip. But I'm wondering if she met with anyone down there.
Status update: Spying lol