Ignorant jackasses always have the time to share their thoughts, such as they are, on slashdot. This post was always going to be a train-wreck. The OP may as well have headed it "Females! Show yourself, so that a crowd of insecure jackasses can take some pot shots you."
UnknownSoldier, proper noun, - a slashdotter who finds it necessary to have a directory of names to call people at the foot of his post. The irony of one of them complaining about Ad Hominem labels is apparently lost on him.
Except the value of your BTC-Cash is entirely speculative. It could turn out to be entirely worthless. "Value" is only determined by how much others are interest in having your BTC-Cash. If no-one cares, then all you have is a heap of bits costing disk space.
Creating a new currency is easy and can be done by anyone using anything. Get a post-it off your desk, draw a smiley face and write the number 100 on it. There you go, you have ownership of a new currency. Open Notepad, type a few random words and save it with a file name of "1 million.cash". There you go, a new virtual currency. Value? Absolutely nothing. No-one cares.
When you search for something it'll lead with what they're being paid to show you, rather than what is the most accurate/popular/relevant thing to show you.
We shall see if people will accept that. I'm thinking they won't.
Google get away with this because they're only showing text and it's mostly clear what's the advert and what's the results.
The real problem is the kind of people that set themselves up to be politicians starting in fucking high school. Until Trump, nobody that had lived a life was perceived as electable.
Yeah, you want someone who's lived the hard-knock life of being the son of a multi-millionaire and gone on to racked up six bankruptcies. That's six times he's walked away from a failed business owing other people money.
Just the kind of guy who has the experience, qualifications, probity and wisdom to lead a country.
I understand what you're saying, but the point of most laws is that they are above all other arrangements. You shouldn't be able to reach an agreement with someone that effectively says "the law does not apply to our arrangement". And this is because laws can be complex, not everyone understands or knows them until they need them. It shouldn't be possible for one party to prey on another's ignorance to trick them into releasing the protections the laws supply.
Why is it that American law permits clauses in contracts that deny people access to the law of the land?
It's quite peculiar. In the UK any contract that attempts to limit a consumer's statutory rights and legal protections is automatically void. It cannot be done. This is why most sales contracts actually state that "This does not affect your statutory rights", because it cannot.
Dishonest businessmen take their ideas to governments. Senators don't care about making good investments, they are looking to buy campaign donations with taxpayers' money.
Well, if we're playing this game; "Investors don't care about making clean energy, or cutting CO2 emissions they are looking to make a profit within the next 10 years."
A significant amount of investment is needed in order for new technologies to develop and replace existing/obsolete technologies. There is no reason why this investment has to come from the private sector alone, particularly when the technology is something that will benefit everyone, and not just the pockets of the investors.
So feel free to continue with your anti public sector mindset. Once this technology is mature Scotland, that is everyone in the country, will be reaping the benefits, while some countries will still be burning coal like it was 1900.... because money.
Unless this wind is coupled with some sort of energy storage
Thanks for this insight. No-one in the industry had thought of this and obviously it means they are wasting their time and money.
But the point is that the timber is labelled with dimensions than accurately measure it.
Whether you are using imperial or metric, or whether it used to be one size during manufacture, but ended up another is entirely irrelevant. You give the product the dimensions it actually is at the point of sale.
If I buy a fish, the fish I buy has to, by law, be the weight specified. It is not the weight it was before it was boned and gutted, long before I even set eyes on it.
"Here at the Olympics Committee we've notice that many countries don't have snow. So, to be fair, we have canceled the Winter Olympics."
"Here at Tableau we've noticed that many of our Chinese customers do not live in the United States. So, to be fair, we have canceled our 2017 conference in Las Vegas."
The rest of us know (and Trump himself knows) that the tweets are meaningless and valueless in and of themselves
I think you credit Trump with waaaay too much guile.
Trump is an inflated blowhard. I wouldn't be surprised if he values his tweets, and the attention they garner, more than anything.
Personally, I think his tweets have great value. They are a valuable insight into his thinking processes and make it clear for all to see what a vile man-child he is.
Someone's trash is worth precisely what others are willing to pay for it. Fortunately, for them, the movie industry is not reliant on your valuation and millions of others will pay for it. So their "trash" is worth billions. That sounds like something worth stealing, which is immoral but not at all strange.
"Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership. The rest will adapt to vehicles on demand."
This safely accounts for you and your car. Naturally there will still be people who drive cars as a hobby. Just like there are still people who still drive steam trains.
While I can comfortably get on board with the main thrust of this report; i.e. burning fossil fuel to move vehicles is on the way out, I do think this guy is living in a dream if he thinks this is all going to happen in eight short years. And the eventual results of it all are likely to be radical and not what anyone predicts.
And how is this different from people who live two streets apart, one rich, the other poor? They are forced to pay the same price.
How far apart they live is only relevant if the online retailer uses distance as a means of creating separate market prices. And when they do this, it is done for their benefit, to maximize their profits, not to be fair to poor people.
Making this illegal removes the distortion from the market and the genuine, uniform, market price is established. No-one benefits or suffers because of where they are geographically. Which is how it should be online.
Being, in your estimation, above other taxi companies does not change the fact that Uber is still a taxi company.
Uber have obvious interests in claiming they are not a taxi company. But if you provide a service like a taxi company, in vehicles like a taxi company, with drivers like a taxi company, charging a fare like a taxi company, then there's no denying you are a taxi company. The addition of an app doesn't change that.
If you dropped $155 on ordering something that not only didn't exist yet, but hadn't even been shown to be possible, then you can either afford to lose $155, or are an idiot.
Cambridge English Dictionary; bubbly: - (especially of a woman or girl) attractively full of energy and enthusiasm
It could be argued that "bubbly personalities" is code for "young, pretty and female". So that's age, sex and attractiveness discrimination. Particularly when they are vetting applications based on a tiny video where very little can be determined apart from age, gender and appearance.
Of course, whether such discrimination is legal or not depends on where you are.
But you don't understand! They have an app! People can call them up and track them on their phone! On their phone!
Any similarity with the old style industry is extremely tenuous, and only similar in that they also put people in the back of a car, drive them some place, then charge them. This is an entirely new industry, Industry v2.0 if you will. All the old rules don't apply and can be ignored because all those old fart legislators don't understand these new things that the youngsters have invented.
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Ignorant jackasses always have the time to share their thoughts, such as they are, on slashdot. This post was always going to be a train-wreck. The OP may as well have headed it "Females! Show yourself, so that a crowd of insecure jackasses can take some pot shots you."
It was never going to happen.
UnknownSoldier, proper noun, - a slashdotter who finds it necessary to have a directory of names to call people at the foot of his post. The irony of one of them complaining about Ad Hominem labels is apparently lost on him.
sad news for anyone who'd prefer to not have to lug around an entire phone to listen to music
That's right, because there are no other manufacturers of digital music players, and there aren't thousands of other players to choose from.
If you choose to lock yourself into the Apple ecosystem, you choose to limit how you do things.
Except the value of your BTC-Cash is entirely speculative. It could turn out to be entirely worthless. "Value" is only determined by how much others are interest in having your BTC-Cash. If no-one cares, then all you have is a heap of bits costing disk space.
Creating a new currency is easy and can be done by anyone using anything. Get a post-it off your desk, draw a smiley face and write the number 100 on it. There you go, you have ownership of a new currency. Open Notepad, type a few random words and save it with a file name of "1 million.cash". There you go, a new virtual currency. Value? Absolutely nothing. No-one cares.
Ultimately Bitcoin Cash could be no different.
And as soon as they attempted to, the value of them would plummet.
When you search for something it'll lead with what they're being paid to show you, rather than what is the most accurate/popular/relevant thing to show you.
We shall see if people will accept that. I'm thinking they won't.
Google get away with this because they're only showing text and it's mostly clear what's the advert and what's the results.
unless he believes his mere presence moves markets.
There's no accounting for what Trump believes. He only has to say something for it to become cast-iron fact in his mind.
The rest of us live in the real world.
The real problem is the kind of people that set themselves up to be politicians starting in fucking high school. Until Trump, nobody that had lived a life was perceived as electable.
Yeah, you want someone who's lived the hard-knock life of being the son of a multi-millionaire and gone on to racked up six bankruptcies. That's six times he's walked away from a failed business owing other people money.
Just the kind of guy who has the experience, qualifications, probity and wisdom to lead a country.
the safe's design allows for a margin of error to compensate for humans getting their combination slightly wrong
Seriously? The safe is designed to say "Wrong number, but meh, close enough."
I understand what you're saying, but the point of most laws is that they are above all other arrangements. You shouldn't be able to reach an agreement with someone that effectively says "the law does not apply to our arrangement". And this is because laws can be complex, not everyone understands or knows them until they need them. It shouldn't be possible for one party to prey on another's ignorance to trick them into releasing the protections the laws supply.
It's not just "I don't know which one", it's "I don't care which one". Because it doesn't matter.
Why is it that American law permits clauses in contracts that deny people access to the law of the land?
It's quite peculiar. In the UK any contract that attempts to limit a consumer's statutory rights and legal protections is automatically void. It cannot be done. This is why most sales contracts actually state that "This does not affect your statutory rights", because it cannot.
Dishonest businessmen take their ideas to governments. Senators don't care about making good investments, they are looking to buy campaign donations with taxpayers' money.
Well, if we're playing this game;
"Investors don't care about making clean energy, or cutting CO2 emissions they are looking to make a profit within the next 10 years."
A significant amount of investment is needed in order for new technologies to develop and replace existing/obsolete technologies. There is no reason why this investment has to come from the private sector alone, particularly when the technology is something that will benefit everyone, and not just the pockets of the investors.
So feel free to continue with your anti public sector mindset. Once this technology is mature Scotland, that is everyone in the country, will be reaping the benefits, while some countries will still be burning coal like it was 1900.... because money.
Unless this wind is coupled with some sort of energy storage
Thanks for this insight. No-one in the industry had thought of this and obviously it means they are wasting their time and money.
But the point is that the timber is labelled with dimensions than accurately measure it.
Whether you are using imperial or metric, or whether it used to be one size during manufacture, but ended up another is entirely irrelevant. You give the product the dimensions it actually is at the point of sale.
If I buy a fish, the fish I buy has to, by law, be the weight specified. It is not the weight it was before it was boned and gutted, long before I even set eyes on it.
No. I do not remember this happening, ever.
Anyone going to tell us where this "incredibly trendy phenomenon" occurred? Cos I've never heard of it.
"Here at the Olympics Committee we've notice that many countries don't have snow. So, to be fair, we have canceled the Winter Olympics."
"Here at Tableau we've noticed that many of our Chinese customers do not live in the United States. So, to be fair, we have canceled our 2017 conference in Las Vegas."
FFS, does no-one on slashdot know how to encode text on the web? Does no-one give stories even the most cursory of proof reading?
The rest of us know (and Trump himself knows) that the tweets are meaningless and valueless in and of themselves
I think you credit Trump with waaaay too much guile.
Trump is an inflated blowhard. I wouldn't be surprised if he values his tweets, and the attention they garner, more than anything.
Personally, I think his tweets have great value. They are a valuable insight into his thinking processes and make it clear for all to see what a vile man-child he is.
In what way "strange"?
Someone's trash is worth precisely what others are willing to pay for it. Fortunately, for them, the movie industry is not reliant on your valuation and millions of others will pay for it. So their "trash" is worth billions. That sounds like something worth stealing, which is immoral but not at all strange.
From TFA;
"Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership. The rest will adapt to vehicles on demand."
This safely accounts for you and your car. Naturally there will still be people who drive cars as a hobby. Just like there are still people who still drive steam trains.
While I can comfortably get on board with the main thrust of this report; i.e. burning fossil fuel to move vehicles is on the way out, I do think this guy is living in a dream if he thinks this is all going to happen in eight short years. And the eventual results of it all are likely to be radical and not what anyone predicts.
And how is this different from people who live two streets apart, one rich, the other poor? They are forced to pay the same price. How far apart they live is only relevant if the online retailer uses distance as a means of creating separate market prices. And when they do this, it is done for their benefit, to maximize their profits, not to be fair to poor people. Making this illegal removes the distortion from the market and the genuine, uniform, market price is established. No-one benefits or suffers because of where they are geographically. Which is how it should be online.
Being, in your estimation, above other taxi companies does not change the fact that Uber is still a taxi company. Uber have obvious interests in claiming they are not a taxi company. But if you provide a service like a taxi company, in vehicles like a taxi company, with drivers like a taxi company, charging a fare like a taxi company, then there's no denying you are a taxi company. The addition of an app doesn't change that.
If you dropped $155 on ordering something that not only didn't exist yet, but hadn't even been shown to be possible, then you can either afford to lose $155, or are an idiot.
Cambridge English Dictionary ;
bubbly: - (especially of a woman or girl) attractively full of energy and enthusiasm
It could be argued that "bubbly personalities" is code for "young, pretty and female". So that's age, sex and attractiveness discrimination. Particularly when they are vetting applications based on a tiny video where very little can be determined apart from age, gender and appearance.
Of course, whether such discrimination is legal or not depends on where you are.
But you don't understand! They have an app! People can call them up and track them on their phone! On their phone!
Any similarity with the old style industry is extremely tenuous, and only similar in that they also put people in the back of a car, drive them some place, then charge them. This is an entirely new industry, Industry v2.0 if you will. All the old rules don't apply and can be ignored because all those old fart legislators don't understand these new things that the youngsters have invented.