I bet that whatever complicated maths you used, the battery meter would slowly tick down to 14% and then drop immediately to zero before you had a chance to plug your phone in.
The fact that something is "general and wide ranging" does not imply that it has no meaning at all.
Take the term "Renaissance". It covers a huge amount of time and field of human activities, and can't be pinned down to a two or three word explanation either.
This study just corroborates what I already knew. People are shallow. Especially all you Comic Sans haters. I think half the Comic Sans hatred is just because it has become trendy to hate Comic Sans.
No, it's because of the "MS" in "Comic Sans MS". Anything associated with Microsoft is evil in Slashdot World.
Non-geeks do not have the same hysterical reaction to what is just a fucking typeface, not a symbol of the downfall of western civilization.
Reading Times New Roman always reminds me of looking out of a school window at an Austin Ambassador car in the drizzle in 1970s Britain during a Latin lesson.
Comic Sans is utterly despised by anybody who cares about fonts
There are few things more tedious than a font (sorry, typeface) fanboy, and I say that as someone from the UK who enjoys watching cricket and has visited the legendary Keswick pencil museum.
To be honest, although I'm all in favour of getting off your tits by any and any means possible, when I read posts like this I just think "that's too much like hard work" and go and buy a couple of litres of cheap scotch from Lidls.
If a rapist is caught, we have their DNA to prove they raped that person. They should have their equipment cut off sans any anesthesia. Maybe a little. They should feel most of it.
Careful, you injected a note of near-sanity there. It quite threw the tone.
I know people who have eliminated prescription drugs with some nasty side effects in favor of a little pot before bed.
Their mistake was taking the unnecessary prescription drugs in the first place. If a little pot helps you go to sleep or whatever, fine, you didn't really have that much of a problem with sleeping in the first place.
Where there is demand, there will always, ALWAYS be supply. To claim otherwise is to expound an utter lack of understanding in regard to the topic of economics.
You make it sound as though "economics" was some great universal set of truths. It's not. It's just a description of how things work.
A couple of hundred years ago, economists would have said that you were bound to have slaves and child labour "because that's how things are".
I don't actually care much about drugs, I'm just saying the "law" of supply and demand is not like the laws of thermodynamics.
I suspect the campaign against "drunk" driving (in reality, the laws apply long before you're drunk) is simply a holdover of prohibitionists who simply can't stand the thought of people enjoying alcohol period./quote>
Well then, you suspect wrong, you fucking moron.
I enjoy alcohol enormously and think that drink drivers are selfish, stupid twats. I get around this apparent contradiction by not fucking drinking and driving.
If you have to drive to get a drink, move somewhere more civilised or drink at home or get a fucking taxi, whatever.
This assumes that the society has adopted socialized medicine and old-age pensions. These problems and questions and reasons to interfere in the lives of adults go away in a free (non-socialized) system - see parent.
A society has to pay for medical care and pensions and old age care one way or another. In your "free" system, rich people pay insurance companeis rather than the government, and poor people simply don't get anything as they can't afford to fund it themselves.
It's basically oligarchism which tends towards fascism, with a powerful well off elite living off the backs of the majority, and is the inevitable consequence of so-called libertarianism.
The thing is, if I were a content owning corporation CEO my business plan wouldn't be based on giving away my content for free indefinitely.
As a user, you may love having free content, but at some point it all has to be paid for, unless you want to get rid of professional quality work and just have random people shouting on YouTube.
And now the slashdot "well it is up to you to make money by other means such as selling action figures" idiots will reply, and I will get down-modded, and lah di da.
(This is probably going to sound racist, deal with it) Eastern European politics aren't exactly known for their transparency and willingness to divulge information about the basis for its decision-making.
"Eastern European" is not a race, so the phrase you're looking for is "xenophobic stereotyping based on ignorance and prejudice".
Actually, none of this would matter if scientists weren't funded by the state, and needed to keep 'finding out things' to justify their funding. In the days of amateur scientists people had a much better understanding of balancing the importance of discoveries.
Yes let's go back to the Eighteenth century model of Gentlemen Amateurs doing all the science, sport and arts. It's all wasted on the plebs anyway.
Personally, I blame the French Revolution. All that liberty, fraternity, equality nonsense has just ruined things for Us Toffs.
So the end result of the US's much-vaunted freedom of speech compared to the evil, socialist Brits/Europeans with their silly hate speech laws, is that you're afraid to identify yourself as a supporter of one of the two main political parties? It's not like you're supporting a campaign to legalise paedophilia or something.
I prefer politics over here, at least we're not afraid to debate things without worrying that our neighbour will pull out a gun to conclude the argument by shooting one of our kids.
Do you really live in fear of NRA members and (or) people who disagree with you politically?
It seems to me you should have at least a healthy paranoia when confronted with armed extremists. Not fear, as that will paralyse you when the time comes to defeat them in single combat, mano a mano, just you , him and two sharpened staves.
So-called anarcho-capitalism would simply end up with some Blade Runner-style dystopia with a few obcscenely rich people in control and the vast majority reduced to a level barely above slavery.
Incidentally, true anarchists have nothing to do with US libertarianism. The key words for radical left wing political philosophy are: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Together.
Or at least vote Libertarian where the "evil plan" is to shrink government and leave you the hell alone. How diabolical is that!
Smug fools like you seriously don't realise what will happen if you "leave alone" the majority of the people. Here's a clue: they will rise up and restore democracy rather than the rule of the rich that libertarians desire like spoiled children.
You can't really be a left wing libertarian, as there is inextricable left wing trinity of liberty, equality and fraternity, and US-style libertarians certainly don't believe in the last two.
And "right wing libertarian" is just another way of saying "rich selfish fascist".
When Adams wrote that, a lot of public records were still maintained on paper. That alone provided a huge natural barrier to intrusive searches, despite the fact that the information was technically public. Placing all this information online in a publicly searchable database creates the biggest invasion of privacy in history, yet the legal basis has not changed.
Everybody here always mocks "security through obscurity" so it's interesting to look back to a time when it actually was quite plausible.
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I bet that whatever complicated maths you used, the battery meter would slowly tick down to 14% and then drop immediately to zero before you had a chance to plug your phone in.
The fact that something is "general and wide ranging" does not imply that it has no meaning at all.
Take the term "Renaissance". It covers a huge amount of time and field of human activities, and can't be pinned down to a two or three word explanation either.
So now /. is resorting to interviewing past editors? When is the multi-part story on Jon Katz coming out??
Please god, no.
This study just corroborates what I already knew. People are shallow. Especially all you Comic Sans haters. I think half the Comic Sans hatred is just because it has become trendy to hate Comic Sans.
No, it's because of the "MS" in "Comic Sans MS". Anything associated with Microsoft is evil in Slashdot World.
Non-geeks do not have the same hysterical reaction to what is just a fucking typeface, not a symbol of the downfall of western civilization.
Reading Times New Roman always reminds me of looking out of a school window at an Austin Ambassador car in the drizzle in 1970s Britain during a Latin lesson.
Margaret Thatcher...attractive? What form of sexual perversion / brain abnormality / sight defect is it that you suffer from?
It's called "being a Tory."
Comic Sans is utterly despised by anybody who cares about fonts
There are few things more tedious than a font (sorry, typeface) fanboy, and I say that as someone from the UK who enjoys watching cricket and has visited the legendary Keswick pencil museum.
To be honest, although I'm all in favour of getting off your tits by any and any means possible, when I read posts like this I just think "that's too much like hard work" and go and buy a couple of litres of cheap scotch from Lidls.
If a rapist is caught, we have their DNA to prove they raped that person. They should have their equipment cut off sans any anesthesia. Maybe a little. They should feel most of it.
Careful, you injected a note of near-sanity there. It quite threw the tone.
I know people who have eliminated prescription drugs with some nasty side effects in favor of a little pot before bed.
Their mistake was taking the unnecessary prescription drugs in the first place. If a little pot helps you go to sleep or whatever, fine, you didn't really have that much of a problem with sleeping in the first place.
Where there is demand, there will always, ALWAYS be supply. To claim otherwise is to expound an utter lack of understanding in regard to the topic of economics.
You make it sound as though "economics" was some great universal set of truths. It's not. It's just a description of how things work.
A couple of hundred years ago, economists would have said that you were bound to have slaves and child labour "because that's how things are".
I don't actually care much about drugs, I'm just saying the "law" of supply and demand is not like the laws of thermodynamics.
I suspect the campaign against "drunk" driving (in reality, the laws apply long before you're drunk) is simply a holdover of prohibitionists who simply can't stand the thought of people enjoying alcohol period./quote> Well then, you suspect wrong, you fucking moron.
I enjoy alcohol enormously and think that drink drivers are selfish, stupid twats. I get around this apparent contradiction by not fucking drinking and driving.
If you have to drive to get a drink, move somewhere more civilised or drink at home or get a fucking taxi, whatever.
This assumes that the society has adopted socialized medicine and old-age pensions. These problems and questions and reasons to interfere in the lives of adults go away in a free (non-socialized) system - see parent.
A society has to pay for medical care and pensions and old age care one way or another. In your "free" system, rich people pay insurance companeis rather than the government, and poor people simply don't get anything as they can't afford to fund it themselves.
It's basically oligarchism which tends towards fascism, with a powerful well off elite living off the backs of the majority, and is the inevitable consequence of so-called libertarianism.
The thing is, if I were a content owning corporation CEO my business plan wouldn't be based on giving away my content for free indefinitely.
As a user, you may love having free content, but at some point it all has to be paid for, unless you want to get rid of professional quality work and just have random people shouting on YouTube.
And now the slashdot "well it is up to you to make money by other means such as selling action figures" idiots will reply, and I will get down-modded, and lah di da.
(This is probably going to sound racist, deal with it) Eastern European politics aren't exactly known for their transparency and willingness to divulge information about the basis for its decision-making.
"Eastern European" is not a race, so the phrase you're looking for is "xenophobic stereotyping based on ignorance and prejudice".
With all the drinks out there loaded with caffeine why is it coffee get's put under the spot light?
Because coffee has become an emblem of ridiculous, preening consumer capitalist conspicuous consumption?
Three quid for a cup of coffee with some fucking squirty cream in?
You're having a giraffe.
Actually, none of this would matter if scientists weren't funded by the state, and needed to keep 'finding out things' to justify their funding. In the days of amateur scientists people had a much better understanding of balancing the importance of discoveries.
Yes let's go back to the Eighteenth century model of Gentlemen Amateurs doing all the science, sport and arts. It's all wasted on the plebs anyway.
Personally, I blame the French Revolution. All that liberty, fraternity, equality nonsense has just ruined things for Us Toffs.
Democrats and Liberals are business hostile. I applaud this new tool for qualifying hiring candidates.
People like you are the reason they invented lampposts and rope.
So the end result of the US's much-vaunted freedom of speech compared to the evil, socialist Brits/Europeans with their silly hate speech laws, is that you're afraid to identify yourself as a supporter of one of the two main political parties? It's not like you're supporting a campaign to legalise paedophilia or something.
I prefer politics over here, at least we're not afraid to debate things without worrying that our neighbour will pull out a gun to conclude the argument by shooting one of our kids.
Do you really live in fear of NRA members and (or) people who disagree with you politically?
It seems to me you should have at least a healthy paranoia when confronted with armed extremists. Not fear, as that will paralyse you when the time comes to defeat them in single combat, mano a mano, just you , him and two sharpened staves.
So-called anarcho-capitalism would simply end up with some Blade Runner-style dystopia with a few obcscenely rich people in control and the vast majority reduced to a level barely above slavery.
Incidentally, true anarchists have nothing to do with US libertarianism. The key words for radical left wing political philosophy are: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Together.
Or at least vote Libertarian where the "evil plan" is to shrink government and leave you the hell alone. How diabolical is that!
Smug fools like you seriously don't realise what will happen if you "leave alone" the majority of the people. Here's a clue: they will rise up and restore democracy rather than the rule of the rich that libertarians desire like spoiled children.
Generally, a corporation having access with data means they'd be able to better market and serve you.
Yes isn't consumer capitalism a wonderful thing?
I'm guessing from your signature you are a "libertarian" so as a broad clue, I was being sarcastic.
Lefty "cosmotarian" libertarians
You can't really be a left wing libertarian, as there is inextricable left wing trinity of liberty, equality and fraternity, and US-style libertarians certainly don't believe in the last two.
And "right wing libertarian" is just another way of saying "rich selfish fascist".
When Adams wrote that, a lot of public records were still maintained on paper. That alone provided a huge natural barrier to intrusive searches, despite the fact that the information was technically public. Placing all this information online in a publicly searchable database creates the biggest invasion of privacy in history, yet the legal basis has not changed.
Everybody here always mocks "security through obscurity" so it's interesting to look back to a time when it actually was quite plausible.