Nonsense. There is no First Amendment issue here. You can talk all you want OFF the plane. There are dozens of limitations on talking / speech now that are perfectly valid - the idea behind the first amendment is to prevent the government from muzzling dissent. You can dissent all you want. Just not in the middle of the road. Not in the middle of a theatre. Not on an airplane.
Because those high performance 400 mph prop planes were piloted by 20 year olds with great eyesight and reflexes (and a depressingly large fatality rate). Your average 50 year old dentist should be in a Cessna, not a P51.
This may be a generational thing (you must be new here). With the assumption that your UID implies that you are not yet a candidate for a nursing home or AARP membership and thus you started your foray into the Internet well after Eternal September, it may be that you LIKE the current crop of web sites with inflexible single columns, large, pointless graphics and very limited functionality.
You must realize that us geezers are still getting over 80 column screens and those fancy modems that don't need to have the phone handset stuffed into the rubber doughnuts.
Fortunately, the humorists have temporarily achieved the upper hand. It is an unfortunate side effect of the moderation system where 'Funny' points don't give you extra karma leading to well meaning moderators to attach a different mod type to to the post.
That's fine. We know that. I just wonder what happens when a Slashdot naive person looks at these posts and gets a well, different, view of us.
Not that I'm a great fan of Christian Rock, but I have to feel that there are more people who would prefer to listen to that genre of music as compared to the random electrical noise of your blender. Haven't recently checked on the popularity of the heavy metal scene, but I think I'm right.
Heidelbergenisis is pretty hard to spell and pronounce. Homo Heildelbergvariousrandomplacesinanarcbetweenafricaandnorway would be quite a larger mouthful.
Although the Hippocratic Oath does entreat physicians to keep patient information secret, it also asks the practitioner to pray to some fairly obscure deities (and I would point out that His Noodliness is not among them), prohibits assisted suicide and abortion (at least with a pessary) and to keep one's daughters in the dark. So it's a bit of a wash in the 21st Century.
But it does point out that, once you put something into a computer database, it's pretty easy to get it out.
That's cuz there is nothing else better to do in Canada. We have McDonalds, Chuck-E-Cheeze, Burger King, Pizza, Pizza and More Pizza. Three thousand different flavors of ice cream and enough big screen TVs to cover the planet's surface several times around. Starbucks and Apple Stores every 1000 yards (notice the units).
We also don't try to speak French (or English, if you're going to belabor the point).
We did. BozoBeta has been around for quite some time. Aside from a few minor cosmetic changes and a few (very few) functional improvements, it's been the same pile of fail. There have been precious few positive comments about it. When Slashdot started pushing the Beta design, the negative comments became more numerous, more strident and more detailed.
So what we get from Timothy is a bit of marketing babble liberally sloshed on to a smidgen of comprehension.
The ball is in your court, Slashdot. Figure it out, it's not really all that hard.
They're just trying to attract a new audience. You know, the kind that like shiny irrelevant pictures and big fonts and now way to usefully comment. Like ACs.
So, I suggest a selector that allows one to JUST view ACs. Watch the money roll in.
You mean other than the fact that it doesn't work?
No, it doesn't 'look bad' - it looks like every other 'modern' web site with non sequitur images and 2 paragraph long topics. But you can't USE it. I'm not going to repeat the specific complaints, just look above and below. It's amply documented.
It is an attempt to dumbify the site, and His Noodliness knows we don't need that.
Idiocracy was NOT supposed to be an instructional video.
Well, yes. If, for example, Adobe wrote Creative Suite to run on Linux, a lot of folks who use those programs would consider moving off of OS X, especially given Apple's reluctance to come up with mid priced tower hardware instead of high tech ashtrays.
Autodesk does run on Linux but here you're talking high five and into the six figures - effectively not 'desktop'. And there is some other very, very pricey Linux enterprise software, but in this scenario, the workstations are really just chump change.
If MS ported the Office Suite to Linux, well, hell would probably freeze over, Stahlman would expire in a bought of apoplectic fury and quite a few places who don't rely on Windows based Line of Business software would switch, but I don't think that's happening any time soon.
So yes, Developers, Developers, Developers. Ballmer was right about that.
> Because of the cost of the chemicals, they reuse the same water over and over for more than one well.
Yeah, I thought that I'd read that elsewhere. This article only mentions water use in one well, and implies that it isn't reused.
Then why have they been dumping it into the wastewater treatment plants? No, the fracing chemicals aren't particularly expensive. Cheaper than pumping it out and moving it around. When you inject the fluid into the bore, it's done under very, very high pressure (those big red trucks). What you pump out isn't necessarily what you pumped in.
You contaminate groundwater by lousy (cheap) cement jobs on the bore. It shouldn't happen and, with the right regulatory framework (like in Texas, where they actually check the pressure tests and fine the hell out of you if you screw up) it won't.
The problem has been that a number of states have let the drillers in without comprehensive regulations and oversight. Despite places like Texas saying 'hey, we have 50 years of experience with this, you want some help drafting regulations?'.
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Nonsense. There is no First Amendment issue here. You can talk all you want OFF the plane. There are dozens of limitations on talking / speech now that are perfectly valid - the idea behind the first amendment is to prevent the government from muzzling dissent. You can dissent all you want. Just not in the middle of the road. Not in the middle of a theatre. Not on an airplane.
Obama's signature accomplishment was basically a republican plan.
A giant, uncoordinated cluster fuck that had no chance of surviving intact? That was the Republican plan?
Pray, what are they thinking about for an encore?
Because those high performance 400 mph prop planes were piloted by 20 year olds with great eyesight and reflexes (and a depressingly large fatality rate). Your average 50 year old dentist should be in a Cessna, not a P51.
"English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
This may be a generational thing (you must be new here). With the assumption that your UID implies that you are not yet a candidate for a nursing home or AARP membership and thus you started your foray into the Internet well after Eternal September, it may be that you LIKE the current crop of web sites with inflexible single columns, large, pointless graphics and very limited functionality.
You must realize that us geezers are still getting over 80 column screens and those fancy modems that don't need to have the phone handset stuffed into the rubber doughnuts.
Now, get off our lawn.
Fortunately, the humorists have temporarily achieved the upper hand. It is an unfortunate side effect of the moderation system where 'Funny' points don't give you extra karma leading to well meaning moderators to attach a different mod type to to the post.
That's fine. We know that. I just wonder what happens when a Slashdot naive person looks at these posts and gets a well, different, view of us.
Not that I'm a great fan of Christian Rock, but I have to feel that there are more people who would prefer to listen to that genre of music as compared to the random electrical noise of your blender. Haven't recently checked on the popularity of the heavy metal scene, but I think I'm right.
The only way to fix the immediate problem is to compel the end-user to STOP TRANSMITTING.
This is true on so many levels.
Heidelbergenisis is pretty hard to spell and pronounce. Homo Heildelbergvariousrandomplacesinanarcbetweenafricaandnorway would be quite a larger mouthful.
Although the Hippocratic Oath does entreat physicians to keep patient information secret, it also asks the practitioner to pray to some fairly obscure deities (and I would point out that His Noodliness is not among them), prohibits assisted suicide and abortion (at least with a pessary) and to keep one's daughters in the dark. So it's a bit of a wash in the 21st Century.
But it does point out that, once you put something into a computer database, it's pretty easy to get it out.
We should go back to stone tablets.
That's cuz there is nothing else better to do in Canada. We have McDonalds, Chuck-E-Cheeze, Burger King, Pizza, Pizza and More Pizza. Three thousand different flavors of ice cream and enough big screen TVs to cover the planet's surface several times around. Starbucks and Apple Stores every 1000 yards (notice the units).
We also don't try to speak French (or English, if you're going to belabor the point).
Hosers...
What? The beta?
You want one of those on YOUR head? Look at the nice picture. That debris field is so big you can see it from orbit!
Well, altslashdot is certainly alternative. Just a pretty red box and a bunch of whitespace.
Even beta is better than that (and that aint sayin much)
Not to worry. It will be April. Soon.
Ahh. Ponies!
Let's give them a chance, folks.
We did. BozoBeta has been around for quite some time. Aside from a few minor cosmetic changes and a few (very few) functional improvements, it's been the same pile of fail. There have been precious few positive comments about it. When Slashdot started pushing the Beta design, the negative comments became more numerous, more strident and more detailed.
So what we get from Timothy is a bit of marketing babble liberally sloshed on to a smidgen of comprehension.
The ball is in your court, Slashdot. Figure it out, it's not really all that hard.
I am Slashdot.
I'm Spartacus.
Nice ta meet ya.
They're just trying to attract a new audience. You know, the kind that like shiny irrelevant pictures and big fonts and now way to usefully comment. Like ACs.
So, I suggest a selector that allows one to JUST view ACs. Watch the money roll in.
Oh this figures.
You mean other than the fact that it doesn't work?
No, it doesn't 'look bad' - it looks like every other 'modern' web site with non sequitur images and 2 paragraph long topics. But you can't USE it. I'm not going to repeat the specific complaints, just look above and below. It's amply documented.
It is an attempt to dumbify the site, and His Noodliness knows we don't need that.
Idiocracy was NOT supposed to be an instructional video.
Well, yes. If, for example, Adobe wrote Creative Suite to run on Linux, a lot of folks who use those programs would consider moving off of OS X, especially given Apple's reluctance to come up with mid priced tower hardware instead of high tech ashtrays.
Autodesk does run on Linux but here you're talking high five and into the six figures - effectively not 'desktop'. And there is some other very, very pricey Linux enterprise software, but in this scenario, the workstations are really just chump change.
If MS ported the Office Suite to Linux, well, hell would probably freeze over, Stahlman would expire in a bought of apoplectic fury and quite a few places who don't rely on Windows based Line of Business software would switch, but I don't think that's happening any time soon.
So yes, Developers, Developers, Developers. Ballmer was right about that.
> Because of the cost of the chemicals, they reuse the same water over and over for more than one well.
Yeah, I thought that I'd read that elsewhere. This article only mentions water use in one well, and implies that it isn't reused.
Then why have they been dumping it into the wastewater treatment plants? No, the fracing chemicals aren't particularly expensive. Cheaper than pumping it out and moving it around. When you inject the fluid into the bore, it's done under very, very high pressure (those big red trucks). What you pump out isn't necessarily what you pumped in.
You contaminate groundwater by lousy (cheap) cement jobs on the bore. It shouldn't happen and, with the right regulatory framework (like in Texas, where they actually check the pressure tests and fine the hell out of you if you screw up) it won't.
The problem has been that a number of states have let the drillers in without comprehensive regulations and oversight. Despite places like Texas saying 'hey, we have 50 years of experience with this, you want some help drafting regulations?'.
Those states got bought out clean and simple.
So,you're right. It's always about money.
"This is a triumph.
I'm making a note here, huge success.
It's hard to over state my satisfaction."
(Looks around)
Just wondering.....
You first....