Keep pushing the envelope to be cool and edgy and this is what you get.
Same thing with thinking everything needs to be touch screen and/or digital. Witness the fiasco of trying to use touch screens for radio controls. Knobs and buttons for the win!
People will pay a reasonable price for content make it more easy than pirating.
Such as.99 cents on the Apple Store and elsewhere?
The fact of the matter is people believe they are entitled to take whatever they want without having to pay the artist. Period. You can try to use whatever semantics you want but in the end the result is the same. People have taken something which they do not have a right to and have not compensated the person/group who has created the work.
I said the same thing. I have no idea what drug the people were on when they considered redesigning nbcnews.com, but if ever there was a drug that needed to be outlawed, that is the one.
Who in their right mind could possibly think that making a web site look like Windows 8 was a good idea?
It's not just this site which decided that usefulness should be jammed down the sewer in favor of shiny, take a look at NBC's redesigned site. It looks and acts like Windows 8!
Something needs to be done to get them to lose weight and stop leeching off everyone else who has to pay for their high medical expenses.
Unfortunately we can't force them to lose weight, only make "suggestions", unlike being forced to hand over your money to a private company or have the government reach into your bank account and forcibly extract the money.
When dealing with woo, there is no train of logic. What the OP said is correct. Some people believe if you add something to water, then dilute that water to the point where there might be a single part per billion (or even trillion) of that substance in the water, that somehow, magically, the water will "remember" what was put in it and act as a conduit for a "cure" of what ails you.
In fact, when you read homeopathic literature they will tell you the more dilute a substance is, the stronger its potency.
What these scam artists fail to explain is how water can retain this memory of a substance while completely forgetting about all the piss, feces, rotting vegetable matter and dead carcasses that have been run through it over the eons. By their own logic, these substances, by being so dilute, should be exponentially more powerful than whatever they put in the water.
This will prevent people from driving at a high rate of speed in the left lane, slamming on the brakes and swerving into the right lane just so they don't have to wait in line like everyone else or because they wanted to get one car ahead.
This will never fly because it's everyone's right to drive like they want.
P.S. I am completely and unequivocally opposed to this nonsensical crap being mandated for cars. If you can't pay attention to where you're driving, you shouldn't be driving. We need to stop coddling people and let them find out the hard way why rules of the road and safe driving methods exist.
We were notified that our support phone number was being changed. When I called it, I was sent to a call center in India where it took me half an hour to get a return label sent out. We had a replacement part shipped to us the previous week but there was no return label included so I was calling to get one.
Half an hour to get a label sent out. Pathetic.
I guess it's just another example of private industry doing it better than the government.
the smokers, obese, alcoholics and drug users don't have to change their ways, right? They can continue to choose lifestyles known to increase health risks while increasing the costs for the rest of us.
Apparently it's not an invasion of privacy or government overreach to force people to hand over their money to private companies or have the government forcibly extract the money from one's bank account whereas making people lead healthier lives is.
encourage the development and widespread use of technological advances in providing video, telecommunications and broadband services at competitive rates; and
That will never happen. Under no circumstances will people be able to get any of those services at competitive rates. What they will get are high prices for slow speeds.
Looks like Verizon/Comcast/whomever was successful in bribing Kansas State House members into bringing this bill up for consideration.
Gotta love fascism. Nothing like getting shafted by the government AND private industry.
You're forgetting the ice. It wasn't so much the snow but the wonderfully slippery layer of ice which coated everything. Since traffic was blocking the roads, the limited number of trucks couldn't lay down salt or sand. Thus, every road, including the highways, were coated in ice and unable to be treated because the trucks themselves were stuck in the traffic jams.
I am from up north and while I laugh at the idea of 2 inches of snow affecting anything (we've had that amount and more in the last two weeks), I do understand those in the South who only experience this every decade are out of their league when it comes to dealing with this type of event.
Should treatment have started earlier? Absolutely. Should better preparations regarding traffic control been implemented? Absolutely. Should Southerners learn to drive in bad conditions? Absolutely. Would any of the above have prevented what occurred? Most likely not.
If there were a legitimate and reasonably priced download service
Bullshit. As various people and groups have shown, they have provided very easy methods to get their work at extremely cheap prices and people still go out and steal the work.
You can use iTunes if you want. 99 cents for a song and people still complain. Or, if you prefer, RadioHead said they will allow people to download their song (album?) but would appreciate a "donation" for the song. The amount of money they received didn't even cover the cost of the electricity.
People can use semantics or whatever excuse they choose to explain why they're stealing someone's work without compensating that person, but in the end, they're just that, an excuse. The more you continue to steal someone's work, the more justification you give to them to make it more restrictive.
But it's okay to report on a flaw in an Intel chip or a software patch which breaks a person's system, right?
This has nothing to do with being biased. It's reporting on a known issue which affects those who bought a Tesla, just like people who bought that certain Intel chip or installed the patch.
That people feel they are entitled to steal someone else's work and not compensate that person (or group)? Yes, it is sad that a study needs to state the obvious
Don't tell that to Verizon or Comcast. They actively bribe, er, lobby elected officials to prevent competition in their areas, thus keeping prices high and broadband speeds low.
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - - George Bush on Bin Laden in March of 2002
that in the commercial Apple was referencing 1984 and all the invasion of privacy and Big Brother-ness that went along with it, and now they are doing essentially the same thing.
That's not Regulation Nation. That's a general story and all they did was pull from the AP.
As to Benghazi, what cover up? The incident took place over 9 hours. The Republicans had just cut the State Department's budget as far as security was concerned. The incident was spontaneous and happened because of the tape. Or didn't you read the New York Times article which laid out the facts?
So point me to the Fox story showing the incompetence of the Bush administration which had 6 months of daily warnings of an Al Qaeda attack on the U.S. and did nothing. An administration which didn't even read the report personally handed to George on his first day by Richard Clarke telling him an attack was being planned.
Why did the administration refuse to give any testimony or provide any documents to the 9/11 Commission on what it did or did not do to stop the attacks?
What about the two days of refusal to provide more troops at Tora Bora as repeatedly requested by troops on the ground to block Bin Laden's escape?
What about the coverup of Pat Tillman's death?
When you can point me to any Fox articles on these issues, issues which took place over days and months, we can talk about an incident which happened over 9 hours.
Slashdot Mirror
Still running IE8 so no problems.
Keep pushing the envelope to be cool and edgy and this is what you get.
Same thing with thinking everything needs to be touch screen and/or digital. Witness the fiasco of trying to use touch screens for radio controls. Knobs and buttons for the win!
People will pay a reasonable price for content make it more easy than pirating.
.99 cents on the Apple Store and elsewhere?
Such as
The fact of the matter is people believe they are entitled to take whatever they want without having to pay the artist. Period. You can try to use whatever semantics you want but in the end the result is the same. People have taken something which they do not have a right to and have not compensated the person/group who has created the work.
Considering Bitcoin is trading around $300 on at least one exchange, I'll take my $500 now, Alex.
but has chosen instead to respond with a giant "fuck you" to its user base.
So you're saying Dice/Slashdot is just like Microsoft when they did the same thing to end user in Windows 8.1?
I said the same thing. I have no idea what drug the people were on when they considered redesigning nbcnews.com, but if ever there was a drug that needed to be outlawed, that is the one.
Who in their right mind could possibly think that making a web site look like Windows 8 was a good idea?
It's not just this site which decided that usefulness should be jammed down the sewer in favor of shiny, take a look at NBC's redesigned site. It looks and acts like Windows 8!
Once again, Rule #3 that should never be broken:
Never let a web designer design your web site.
Something needs to be done to get them to lose weight and stop leeching off everyone else who has to pay for their high medical expenses.
Unfortunately we can't force them to lose weight, only make "suggestions", unlike being forced to hand over your money to a private company or have the government reach into your bank account and forcibly extract the money.
When dealing with woo, there is no train of logic. What the OP said is correct. Some people believe if you add something to water, then dilute that water to the point where there might be a single part per billion (or even trillion) of that substance in the water, that somehow, magically, the water will "remember" what was put in it and act as a conduit for a "cure" of what ails you.
In fact, when you read homeopathic literature they will tell you the more dilute a substance is, the stronger its potency.
What these scam artists fail to explain is how water can retain this memory of a substance while completely forgetting about all the piss, feces, rotting vegetable matter and dead carcasses that have been run through it over the eons. By their own logic, these substances, by being so dilute, should be exponentially more powerful than whatever they put in the water.
This will prevent people from driving at a high rate of speed in the left lane, slamming on the brakes and swerving into the right lane just so they don't have to wait in line like everyone else or because they wanted to get one car ahead.
This will never fly because it's everyone's right to drive like they want.
P.S. I am completely and unequivocally opposed to this nonsensical crap being mandated for cars. If you can't pay attention to where you're driving, you shouldn't be driving. We need to stop coddling people and let them find out the hard way why rules of the road and safe driving methods exist.
it gives you good karma,
Thank you Mr. Hippy for destroying any valid point you might have had.
Claiming karma somehow exists is like saying homeopathy procedures are medicine.
No, the real non news is when people believe they are entitled to something, they will continue to find ways to steal it.
We were notified that our support phone number was being changed. When I called it, I was sent to a call center in India where it took me half an hour to get a return label sent out. We had a replacement part shipped to us the previous week but there was no return label included so I was calling to get one.
Half an hour to get a label sent out. Pathetic.
I guess it's just another example of private industry doing it better than the government.
the smokers, obese, alcoholics and drug users don't have to change their ways, right? They can continue to choose lifestyles known to increase health risks while increasing the costs for the rest of us.
Apparently it's not an invasion of privacy or government overreach to force people to hand over their money to private companies or have the government forcibly extract the money from one's bank account whereas making people lead healthier lives is.
I love subsection b of Section 2. Quote:
encourage the development and widespread use of technological advances in providing video, telecommunications and broadband services at competitive rates; and
That will never happen. Under no circumstances will people be able to get any of those services at competitive rates. What they will get are high prices for slow speeds.
Looks like Verizon/Comcast/whomever was successful in bribing Kansas State House members into bringing this bill up for consideration.
Gotta love fascism. Nothing like getting shafted by the government AND private industry.
someone wasn't playing a trick on them and was turning the electric can opener on and off in the other room?
You're forgetting the ice. It wasn't so much the snow but the wonderfully slippery layer of ice which coated everything. Since traffic was blocking the roads, the limited number of trucks couldn't lay down salt or sand. Thus, every road, including the highways, were coated in ice and unable to be treated because the trucks themselves were stuck in the traffic jams.
I am from up north and while I laugh at the idea of 2 inches of snow affecting anything (we've had that amount and more in the last two weeks), I do understand those in the South who only experience this every decade are out of their league when it comes to dealing with this type of event.
Should treatment have started earlier? Absolutely. Should better preparations regarding traffic control been implemented? Absolutely. Should Southerners learn to drive in bad conditions? Absolutely. Would any of the above have prevented what occurred? Most likely not.
So you're talking something the size of Rama?
If there were a legitimate and reasonably priced download service
Bullshit. As various people and groups have shown, they have provided very easy methods to get their work at extremely cheap prices and people still go out and steal the work.
You can use iTunes if you want. 99 cents for a song and people still complain. Or, if you prefer, RadioHead said they will allow people to download their song (album?) but would appreciate a "donation" for the song. The amount of money they received didn't even cover the cost of the electricity.
People can use semantics or whatever excuse they choose to explain why they're stealing someone's work without compensating that person, but in the end, they're just that, an excuse. The more you continue to steal someone's work, the more justification you give to them to make it more restrictive.
But it's okay to report on a flaw in an Intel chip or a software patch which breaks a person's system, right?
This has nothing to do with being biased. It's reporting on a known issue which affects those who bought a Tesla, just like people who bought that certain Intel chip or installed the patch.
It must be sad to make studies about the obvious.
That people feel they are entitled to steal someone else's work and not compensate that person (or group)? Yes, it is sad that a study needs to state the obvious
Don't tell that to Verizon or Comcast. They actively bribe, er, lobby elected officials to prevent competition in their areas, thus keeping prices high and broadband speeds low.
Who cares about 3-D printing? Come get me when they have 4-d printing!
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - - George Bush on Bin Laden in March of 2002
that in the commercial Apple was referencing 1984 and all the invasion of privacy and Big Brother-ness that went along with it, and now they are doing essentially the same thing.
That's not Regulation Nation. That's a general story and all they did was pull from the AP.
As to Benghazi, what cover up? The incident took place over 9 hours. The Republicans had just cut the State Department's budget as far as security was concerned. The incident was spontaneous and happened because of the tape. Or didn't you read the New York Times article which laid out the facts?
So point me to the Fox story showing the incompetence of the Bush administration which had 6 months of daily warnings of an Al Qaeda attack on the U.S. and did nothing. An administration which didn't even read the report personally handed to George on his first day by Richard Clarke telling him an attack was being planned.
Why did the administration refuse to give any testimony or provide any documents to the 9/11 Commission on what it did or did not do to stop the attacks?
What about the two days of refusal to provide more troops at Tora Bora as repeatedly requested by troops on the ground to block Bin Laden's escape?
What about the coverup of Pat Tillman's death?
When you can point me to any Fox articles on these issues, issues which took place over days and months, we can talk about an incident which happened over 9 hours.