From TFS: "The ship, 31 feet tall, 114 feet long, and 81.5 feet wide at its widest point"
114 * 81.5 = 9291 square feet, or 1032 square yards. An acre is 4900 square yards. This will be less than a quarter of an acre in area. What are the other 87 3/4 acres for? All the shops selling models of the Millenium Falcon?
I live in a rural area now - the closest shop is about 10 miles away... that's not rural for the US, but it is for England.
For England that is like being in the middle of nowhere. I've lived in various rural areas and never been more than a ten or fifteen minute walk from some sort of shop.
Correction: they probably are perverts, just not of the kiddie-diddling variety. Unless you're one of those that thinks watching 5 years of combined porn turns you into a paedo. Ahem.
Watching a lot of child abuse imagery and getting sexually excited by it doesn't turn you into a paedo: it means you were one to start with.
Revenue is your income or takings. The word you're looking for is profit. You can manipulate profit to a certain extent, but you really can't pretend you took in no money at all.
So, Hollywood is actively trying to push itself into obscurity?
Yes, but it's more based on the shit stained recycled crapola they're peddling as entertainment these days.
To forcibly push it to not be marketed was of course the next logical step.
If Hollywood films are so terrible (and they generally are) just go and do something else instead of watching them. Play some music, read a book, go to see a live comedian. It's not compulsory to watch every crappy thing they push out, you know.
You assume that counter terrorism actually does something to stop terrorism. There is no evidence for that assertion.
Here in the UK there have been several court cases involving bomb plots foiled by the security services. I suppose you would say that these are all just made up?
I hate it when people here say things like that. Autism is either a disease/condition, or it is not. You can't "probably" be pregnant.
If you can't definitely diagnose something wrong with you, there's nothing wrong with you. Being a bit obsessive and socially awkward doesn't mean you have something wrong with your brain, it's just a minor human variation like being good at running or singing.
The moment you limit liberties for the "general good" you're falling into the trap of tyrants and dictators.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
What complete and utter bullshit. My liberty to shoot you in the face with a crossbow and rape your dog is quite rightly limited. With absolute liberty, it is precisely the tyrants who will be in charge.
Well, why would they want another health care system? No one is arguing that it's not great to get health care for free. What people are legitimately wondering is how long the gravy train will last.
The NHS here in the UK isn't "free", it's funded out of taxes. Everyone pays for it, and those in need get the treatment they need. It's insurance companies living off people's fear that are on a fucking gravy train.
The NHS example is just another extreme, which is effectively a strawman for the universal healthcare as an idea. NHS is just a poorly implemented version.
The NHS may not be perfect but it's a million fucking times better than any for-profit system run for the benefit of insurance companies.
The real problem is with dating. Apologies to Artie Lange for tweaking one of his jokes: Tell a 25-year-old girl you just met who's trying to FB stalk you that you don't have a FB account, and she'll look at you like you're wearing a Revolutionary War outfit.
Wow, racist AND stupid. That's a pretty good combo you've got going there.
All racism is stupid, by definition, as it is based on an utterly trivial irrelevance (skin colour) to justify treating other human beings as somehow belonging to another species.
I've spent far longer at the bar than I should have, but that time at the bar has been with guys from my computer science classes and we've discussed a lot of ideas, brought in our laptops and worked on some awesome things
If you're working on computer science stuff on a laptop in a bar, you're doing neither bars nor computer science right.
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In the end - College didn't fit my learning style: Hands on, highly practical, very project-oriented. Combining my need for that with my ADD, meant I learn much better staying up all night tinkering in a lab working on my own projects, than sitting in some lecture hall for a mandatory "humanities" course on "Modern European History".
Sorry, but I don't see that. My brother did an engineering degree and it was very hands on, practical and project-oriented. He had to work harder to get his degree than me (I did an Arts degree) but all the hard work was precisely the sort of stuff you need to be good as an engineer. Even the additional non-engineering courses were necessary because in the real world engineers have to be able to read accounts, write reports and so on.
If your ADD is so bad that you can't do anything that doesn't fit with your learning style, you must be pretty limited in terms of jobs, most of which involve getting on with people and having to do shit you don't want to, in one way or another.
Setting aside the fact that I think education should be free to everyone, you have to have some form of government backing for loans, or else poorer students whose parents have a shaky credit history simply won't be able to get a commercial loan.
And once you go back to only rich people being able to afford education, you've wiped out most hope of ever achieving a sane, progressive, democratic and equitable society. Which I know would suit a lot of the libertarians here.
When you think about it, it makes sense: You'd rather hire somebody you know than a complete stranger. The trick is that you don't have contacts, you need to build your own. There's a great tool for that now: Linkedin.
I've found Linedin highly effective at getting contacts in the Recruitment Agency field. I have nothing against Recruitment Agencies, but it's pushing things to equate them with personal contacts.
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You have no idea about my political leanings, though they tend towards libertarianism, fiscal conservatism, and social liberalism.
i.e. you're a rightwinger who does drugs, like most Americans on slashdot, it seems.
114 * 81.5 = 9291 square feet, or 1032 square yards. An acre is 4900 square yards. This will be less than a quarter of an acre in area. What are the other 87 3/4 acres for? All the shops selling models of the Millenium Falcon?
I live in a rural area now - the closest shop is about 10 miles away... that's not rural for the US, but it is for England.
For England that is like being in the middle of nowhere. I've lived in various rural areas and never been more than a ten or fifteen minute walk from some sort of shop.
Correction: they probably are perverts, just not of the kiddie-diddling variety. Unless you're one of those that thinks watching 5 years of combined porn turns you into a paedo. Ahem.
Watching a lot of child abuse imagery and getting sexually excited by it doesn't turn you into a paedo: it means you were one to start with.
The Chinese are only copying data, not "stealing" anything. At worst it's copyright infringement, and we all know that copyright infringement!=theft.
Movie studios don't make money on movies that get bad reviews.
Of course they do. How would people like Will Ferrell or Jennifer Aniston have careers otherwise?
Revenue is your income or takings. The word you're looking for is profit. You can manipulate profit to a certain extent, but you really can't pretend you took in no money at all.
So, Hollywood is actively trying to push itself into obscurity?
Yes, but it's more based on the shit stained recycled crapola they're peddling as entertainment these days.
To forcibly push it to not be marketed was of course the next logical step.
If Hollywood films are so terrible (and they generally are) just go and do something else instead of watching them. Play some music, read a book, go to see a live comedian. It's not compulsory to watch every crappy thing they push out, you know.
Goatse.cx is now a safe-for-work webmail provider
Yeah, I'll just go and check it out now while my boss is standing behind me.
You assume that counter terrorism actually does something to stop terrorism. There is no evidence for that assertion.
Here in the UK there have been several court cases involving bomb plots foiled by the security services. I suppose you would say that these are all just made up?
I likely have autism myself
I hate it when people here say things like that. Autism is either a disease/condition, or it is not. You can't "probably" be pregnant.
If you can't definitely diagnose something wrong with you, there's nothing wrong with you. Being a bit obsessive and socially awkward doesn't mean you have something wrong with your brain, it's just a minor human variation like being good at running or singing.
The moment you limit liberties for the "general good" you're falling into the trap of tyrants and dictators.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
What complete and utter bullshit. My liberty to shoot you in the face with a crossbow and rape your dog is quite rightly limited. With absolute liberty, it is precisely the tyrants who will be in charge.
Presumably if vaccinations did cause autism, most slashdotters would be queueing up for extra shots.
I've had it as a kid, and I don't recall it being much worse than, say, the flu I've had at least once in my life.
You wouldn't be saying that if you'd died of it.
I should point out that preventing death in general is a fruitless endeavor in and of itself.
So your solution to the health care issue is not to bother having any health care, because in the long run we're all dead anyway?
Genius, pure fucking genius.
Well, why would they want another health care system? No one is arguing that it's not great to get health care for free. What people are legitimately wondering is how long the gravy train will last.
The NHS here in the UK isn't "free", it's funded out of taxes. Everyone pays for it, and those in need get the treatment they need. It's insurance companies living off people's fear that are on a fucking gravy train.
The NHS example is just another extreme, which is effectively a strawman for the universal healthcare as an idea. NHS is just a poorly implemented version.
The NHS may not be perfect but it's a million fucking times better than any for-profit system run for the benefit of insurance companies.
The real problem is with dating. Apologies to Artie Lange for tweaking one of his jokes: Tell a 25-year-old girl you just met who's trying to FB stalk you that you don't have a FB account, and she'll look at you like you're wearing a Revolutionary War outfit.
Try dating girls with a brain instead..
Suppose I'm a small business with 15 employees. Most of what we do is on Google Apps
You will fail.
Right, for some reason the "Disable ads" checkbox is not hiding all ads.
Worse than that, it's inserting them where the stories used to be.
Wow, racist AND stupid. That's a pretty good combo you've got going there.
All racism is stupid, by definition, as it is based on an utterly trivial irrelevance (skin colour) to justify treating other human beings as somehow belonging to another species.
I've spent far longer at the bar than I should have, but that time at the bar has been with guys from my computer science classes and we've discussed a lot of ideas, brought in our laptops and worked on some awesome things
If you're working on computer science stuff on a laptop in a bar, you're doing neither bars nor computer science right.
In the end - College didn't fit my learning style: Hands on, highly practical, very project-oriented. Combining my need for that with my ADD, meant I learn much better staying up all night tinkering in a lab working on my own projects, than sitting in some lecture hall for a mandatory "humanities" course on "Modern European History".
Sorry, but I don't see that. My brother did an engineering degree and it was very hands on, practical and project-oriented. He had to work harder to get his degree than me (I did an Arts degree) but all the hard work was precisely the sort of stuff you need to be good as an engineer. Even the additional non-engineering courses were necessary because in the real world engineers have to be able to read accounts, write reports and so on.
If your ADD is so bad that you can't do anything that doesn't fit with your learning style, you must be pretty limited in terms of jobs, most of which involve getting on with people and having to do shit you don't want to, in one way or another.
And once you go back to only rich people being able to afford education, you've wiped out most hope of ever achieving a sane, progressive, democratic and equitable society. Which I know would suit a lot of the libertarians here.
When you think about it, it makes sense: You'd rather hire somebody you know than a complete stranger. The trick is that you don't have contacts, you need to build your own. There's a great tool for that now: Linkedin.
I've found Linedin highly effective at getting contacts in the Recruitment Agency field. I have nothing against Recruitment Agencies, but it's pushing things to equate them with personal contacts.