Example: I once told one of the bar/football people I was going to compete in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He gave me a disdaining look and
said, "Is there something wrong with you?"
That's what comes from starting conversations in the men's room with total strangers.
People are actually allowed to believe whatever they fuck they want to believe.
If I believe that the world is flat and the sun is a big lightbulb just a couple of miles up in the sky, I can't really complain if someone reports that I believe the world is flat and the sun is a big lightbulb just a couple of miles up in the sky.
Hogan didn't know that he was making a sex tape. The footage is from the vantage of a smoke-alarm-camera. The other person in the sex tape was the wife of his best friend. His best friend was one to suggest that Hogan and his wife have sex. Of the three of them, his friend was also the only one that knew about the recording, because he set it up, and then sold the resulting tape to Gawker.
Setting aside the whole professional damages area, what is fair for personal damages? Does a poor person get less because money is worth more to them? $10,000 is a shit load of money to me, that is the number that popped into my head as fair for breach of privacy and emotional distress. But to someone worth millions, who goes to $10,000 a plate dinners, obviously emotional distress is worth more to them. They might pay millions to avoid the leaking of a sex tape, while someone who makes $20K a year obviously would not. So are the emotions of rich people actually worth more than the emotions of poor people? What would be a fair way to put that into law?
If someone loses their reputation and livelihood, it is simple enough to do a discounted cashflow projection of their lost future earnings.
However, when it's their own fault, I'm not sure why they would get anything.
If you know you'll get fired for having a bit of extra-marital sex, you should either change jobs or keep it zipped.
Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.
He still won't admit the truth about that poor creature that lives on his head.
By causing trouble anonymously, Anonymous are technically working as agents for those entities (such as Russia) which would like to eliminate anonymity.
That's like saying that by exercising your right to free speech and offending people you are working as an agent for those who would like to limit free speech that offends people.
...you could just replace buses with trams or trains, because people like those and will travel on them if they're built.
Everyone hates buses, because they are an inferior mode of transport compared to rail.
Trains are better at going from A to B in a straight line for a reasonably long distance where you have enough demand and space to build dedicated train tracks.
Buses are better at serving remote rural locations and crowded city routes.
Personally, I can see how a paedophile who has served his time in prison should be allowed to work so he's not just a drain on society, but that doesn't mean you'd employ him as a school caretaker.
It's not like this is gonna be the first time NASA has set something ablaze in a blinding fireball of doom. They've kind of got a history of putting people in confined spaces, mixing in some O2 of varied volume, pressure, and purity levels only to set it alight and record the results. So, it's not like they're inexperienced at this or anything.
If you are making only 15x what the people who are flipping burgers are making
If you are making 15x the minimum wage you are doing really well. The idea that if you're not earning millions then you're barely scratching a living would be funny if it wasn't so offensive.
And in the 1950s, even the top bosses only made something like 10 - 20x the average workers' salary. The idea that a CEO is worth hundreds of times the average salary is a relatively recent and ridiculous one.
You realise that its extremely hard to just let a worker go in the UK, right?
No, it really is not that hard. You can't just sack a long serving employee one day because you decide they're ugly and pay them nothing in compensation, but the procedure isn't particularly onerous or expensive to get rid of them legally.
And if you're a casual or short term worker you have basically no protection at all.
Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does. When most people have extra time, they spend it watching TV or other similar things. When they have extra money, they can buy a bigger TV.
If you think having a big TV without the time to watch it improves the quality of your life, you are an idiot, and as such very useful to the religion of consumerism.
"Cisgendered" was coined as an alternative to writing "someone who identifies with the gender they were born with" and therefore has a valid purpose. You may believe that is unnecessary as there is no such thing as a transgender person, I suppose, but either way you do not control the language.
Or are you one of those people who are pissed off that "we'll have a gay old time" from the Flintstones has a different meaning than fifty years ago?
Props for not actually using the term "SJW" though.
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Example: I once told one of the bar/football people I was going to compete in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He gave me a disdaining look and said, "Is there something wrong with you?"
That's what comes from starting conversations in the men's room with total strangers.
People are actually allowed to believe whatever they fuck they want to believe.
If I believe that the world is flat and the sun is a big lightbulb just a couple of miles up in the sky, I can't really complain if someone reports that I believe the world is flat and the sun is a big lightbulb just a couple of miles up in the sky.
Don't make it in the first place.
Hogan didn't know that he was making a sex tape. The footage is from the vantage of a smoke-alarm-camera. The other person in the sex tape was the wife of his best friend. His best friend was one to suggest that Hogan and his wife have sex. Of the three of them, his friend was also the only one that knew about the recording, because he set it up, and then sold the resulting tape to Gawker.
Wow, and I thought I had some lowlife friends.
Setting aside the whole professional damages area, what is fair for personal damages? Does a poor person get less because money is worth more to them? $10,000 is a shit load of money to me, that is the number that popped into my head as fair for breach of privacy and emotional distress. But to someone worth millions, who goes to $10,000 a plate dinners, obviously emotional distress is worth more to them. They might pay millions to avoid the leaking of a sex tape, while someone who makes $20K a year obviously would not. So are the emotions of rich people actually worth more than the emotions of poor people? What would be a fair way to put that into law?
If someone loses their reputation and livelihood, it is simple enough to do a discounted cashflow projection of their lost future earnings.
However, when it's their own fault, I'm not sure why they would get anything. If you know you'll get fired for having a bit of extra-marital sex, you should either change jobs or keep it zipped.
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
Stolfa says there is "unexplored potential in blending conversational interfaces with rich graphical UI elements."
Kill. Me. Now.
-- BMO
I'm surprised he failed to mention that this was a synergistically disruptive paradigm shift in the Cloud.
Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.
He still won't admit the truth about that poor creature that lives on his head.
the media, and left-wing groups
You don't really have a left wing in the US. Even someone like Bernie Saunders is only a moderate social democrat by world standards.
And the media is left wing in the same way that a piece of rocks is left wing, i.e. it's not a raving right wing lunatic.
So basically any one who criticises Trump is helping him win? And any one who praises Trump is helping him win?
So the only way not to help Trump win is to remain silent, which helps Trump win too. So Trump is bound to win whatever anyone does.
There seems to be a logical flaw here somewhere.
By causing trouble anonymously, Anonymous are technically working as agents for those entities (such as Russia) which would like to eliminate anonymity.
That's like saying that by exercising your right to free speech and offending people you are working as an agent for those who would like to limit free speech that offends people.
...you could just replace buses with trams or trains, because people like those and will travel on them if they're built.
Everyone hates buses, because they are an inferior mode of transport compared to rail.
Trains are better at going from A to B in a straight line for a reasonably long distance where you have enough demand and space to build dedicated train tracks.
Buses are better at serving remote rural locations and crowded city routes.
They serve different needs.
And I'm pretty sure that if you were after investment advice for your $350,000+ you wouldn't be ringing a general help line.
When you hire a criminal, you get a criminal.
It depends on your view of rehabilitation.
Personally, I can see how a paedophile who has served his time in prison should be allowed to work so he's not just a drain on society, but that doesn't mean you'd employ him as a school caretaker.
Isn't that a Lion King character or something ?
That'll be Mustafa Pee, the incontinent hyena.
Women, as a general rule, are not as interested in tech as men are
No, to paraphrase Raymond Chandler, some women are not as interested in tech as some men.
It's not like this is gonna be the first time NASA has set something ablaze in a blinding fireball of doom. They've kind of got a history of putting people in confined spaces, mixing in some O2 of varied volume, pressure, and purity levels only to set it alight and record the results. So, it's not like they're inexperienced at this or anything.
Too soon?
More like the US has set off 10 high altitude nuclear bombs. It just depends on which ones you want to count as space
If they took out an orbiting satellite, I'd say that counted as space.
after making a controversial post, like saying something positive about systemd
You're a braver man than me. That's the slashdot equivalent of calling the Pope the Anti-Christ on the Vatican web site.
If you are making only 15x what the people who are flipping burgers are making
If you are making 15x the minimum wage you are doing really well. The idea that if you're not earning millions then you're barely scratching a living would be funny if it wasn't so offensive.
And in the 1950s, even the top bosses only made something like 10 - 20x the average workers' salary. The idea that a CEO is worth hundreds of times the average salary is a relatively recent and ridiculous one.
VR has been in use for decades, mostly by the military. Did you actually look for studies before posting this?
Military use is more in the area of augmented reality, rather than what most people would think of as virtual reality.
Every time I see the 100-meter dash I figure I'm watching a crime in progress: a gun goes bang and a bunch of blacks start running.
Yes, that is indeed what is meant by "a racist joke". Thanks for providing an example for all the people who have never come across one before.
There is a limit to the amount of time an employee is allowed to be sick in the United States?
I assumed they meant paid sick leave, but being from Europe I may be wrong.
You realise that its extremely hard to just let a worker go in the UK, right?
No, it really is not that hard. You can't just sack a long serving employee one day because you decide they're ugly and pay them nothing in compensation, but the procedure isn't particularly onerous or expensive to get rid of them legally.
And if you're a casual or short term worker you have basically no protection at all.
Bernard Shaw was also quite keen on eugenics and Mussolini. He was not then, and is not now, entirely typical of socialist thinking.
Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does. When most people have extra time, they spend it watching TV or other similar things. When they have extra money, they can buy a bigger TV.
If you think having a big TV without the time to watch it improves the quality of your life, you are an idiot, and as such very useful to the religion of consumerism.
"Cisgendered" was coined as an alternative to writing "someone who identifies with the gender they were born with" and therefore has a valid purpose. You may believe that is unnecessary as there is no such thing as a transgender person, I suppose, but either way you do not control the language.
Or are you one of those people who are pissed off that "we'll have a gay old time" from the Flintstones has a different meaning than fifty years ago?
Props for not actually using the term "SJW" though.