X is pretty damn ambiguous. I've had two cornea transplants. In each case, the surgeon wrote "yes" on my forehead over the eye to be oprated on. And that after three nurses and the anesthesiologist asked me which eye, and verified that my answer matched the chart.
I'm a bit curious as to this guy's history given the technology used to find him. Seems like a questionable use of resources to nab a busboy. Given that they didn't tell us why he was deported the previous two times I'm curious if they used it simply because he simply was two-time deportee that keeps coming back, or if he had any history of criminal activity involved in any of his deportation orders.
This says he was first apprehended in 2005, but wasn't deported (the first time) until 2012. Possibly when he was first snagged he was released with an order to appear for a hearing, and then skipped the hearing; this is fairly common with the "catch and release" protocol that's been in use for some time. But that's just a guess.
When you say, "I'm curious if they used it simply because he simply was two-time deportee that keeps coming back, or if he had any history of criminal activity involved in any of his deportation orders," are you taking the position that the crime of illegal entry doesn't count as illegal activity?
The first time a person is caught for illegal entry, it's a federal misdemeanor. If the person is deported and re-enters illegally it's a federal felony, and that usually results in immediate deportation, which happened in 2014. He re-entered illegally again, and DHS caught him because of his involvement in a hit-and-run incident, and that's when the Stingray was used. So no, he wasn't deported for taking a citizen's busboy job.
The 2012 law explicitly prohibited the FAA from doing exactly what it did.
That's right. And that 2012 law expires 4 months from now. What will happen next? From TFA: “The goal of the registration rule was to assist law enforcement and others to enforce the law against unauthorized drone flights, and to educate hobbyists that a drone is not just a toy and operators need to follow the rules,” said Lisa Ellman, an attorney and specialist on the drone regulation with the law firm Hogan Lovells. “These are worthy goals, so if this ruling stands it wouldn't surprise us to see a legislative response here."
You seem to be overlooking a key message of the article, which is that parents are saying "that while they would prefer to do more activities away from devices, outings are far too expensive". So when you say, "nobody argued that you couldn't have a weekend getaway for a lot less than they are saying", you are dead wrong; that's exactly what those parents are saying.
It isn't the cited cost of a weekend getaway that I have a problem with. What I have a problem with is the proposition that the only way to pry your kids away from their devices is to distract them with something shinier. If that's your situation, then you've already lost the battle.
mileage based tax is not that easy and more toll roads are not that easy to flip from free ones.
You don't need mileage based taxes or toll roads. Just do what California's doing: add a hefty electric car surcharge to the annual vehicle registration.
Cow lifespan: 18 - 22 years. I'm pretty sure you can milk a cow for 16 years.
Maybe someone with small farm experience can weigh in on that. Multiple sources (no, I'm not providing links; just search "dairy cow lifespan") indicate that the general practice on large dairy farms is to slaughter dairy cows for beef at the age of 4 or 5 as milk production drops.
Where can I get my own pay oaf. Are you one of them. Your spelling would indicate you do the pay very well.
You need to pay better attention to punctuation. He said, "delivering pay,oafs", which means they are delivering both pay (shades of stagecoach payroll deliveries) and oafs (of which he may be an example).
The article doesn't mention education or the classroom even once. Why did you post that?
Did you miss the section under Microsoft wins the kids...and therefore the future? "As much as I dislike some aspects of Windows 10 S, as a way to get cheap computers into schools, it's a lot more practical than iPads. Even the conceptual graphics tools Microsoft is delivering are better and cheaper than Adobe's for kids, especially those at underfunded schools."
More practical than iPads? Sure. More practical than Chromebooks? Not a chance.
"They said they were going to revolutionize the way transportation and cars are used"
They did, and still are doing this. So you hate them because of some VC valuation?
Some revolution. They're a taxi service. Having an app doesn't make it revolutionary. Reminds me of the "[do something commonplace] ON A COMPUTER" patent approach.
When they use taxpayer money we have a right to know the details.
You state that as if it were a fact, when it's really just your opinion. I'm a little fuzzy on the fine details, though, so I'd like to hear more.
Do we have a right to know the medical details of everyone whose health insurance is subsidised under the ACA? Medicaid? Medicare? Workers Compensation? Do we have a right to know the financial details of everyone who receives Social Security? Unemployment compensation? Food stamps? Do we have the right to know the driving record of everyone who uses public roads?
Please tell us how much we have a right to know about your personal life because your local government provides police, fire, and other emergency services, or because your kids attend public schools, or because you jog on public sidewalks, or because you occasionally use a public park, or because you use government regulated utilities.
Title says "Amazon is the 2nd Most Popular App". Content says, "Amazon came in second among list of apps in use now that weren't in use several months ago". When did those two things become equivalent? Also, are we really to believe there's a lot of teens that just discovered Snapchat in the last couple of months?
Amazon is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020.
But this will have no effect on the homeless population until 2020, how does this help the homeless community today?
It doesn't, and it obviously isn't supposed to. But not to worry, there will probably still be homeless people in 2020.
Just wanted to congratulate you on your efforts to educate the Slashdot world on whataboutism (though you should be more careful with your spelling). I hope to see you back sometime in the future when someone invokes Colin Powell in a discussion of Hillary's email server, or when someone blames Bush for an Obama policy failure.
AI is acheived when the results are indiscernible from or better than a human.
Gosh, that means I've been creating AI in the form of scripts that automate mundane tasks, for many years now. Either that, or your simplistic statement is completely off base.
This is a completely pointless law then isn't it? The cable companies will simply add to their ToS that they can do that and either A) you don't get internet or B) they sell your stuff.
Doubtful. That might be possible if the ISP could make more money selling your information than they make selling you internet access. You know how ISP ToSes all have clauses that say they can terminate your service for anything that boils down to being an asshole? Well, they don't make a habit of doing that, because there's more money to be made by tolerating assholes than there is to be made by terminating service.
ISPs have always been in a position legally to sell your information. There is no credible evidence that they've been doing so on a wholesale level. And no, "they're probably doing it and we just don't know" is not credible evidence.
Seriously, only in America can a majority of Americans vote against a guy and he still wins.
Well, no shit, Sherlock; where else would you expect to find Americans voting? Oh, yeah, I understand the point you're trying to make, but it's moot. Like it or not, the guy who came in second in the popular vote somehow figured out that it's the Electoral vote that actually decides the winner of the election.
And yet if you weren't around, they wouldn't have been speaking English, would they?
That is what we call "an assumption", and it has the additional attribute of being entirely unrelated to the question of whether English is losing importance. I have no idea what they would have been speaking if I wasn't there, and neither do you; maybe they prefer Klingon. I can tell you, though, that the folks from Sweden I mentioned were speaking English among themselves before we introduced ourselves to them; if they'd been conversing in Swedish (or Klingon), we wouldn't have participated.
As for my personal language skills, I am able to limp along in Spanish. Unfortunately, not a language of much use in the countries I mentioned. But your snippet on the benefits of bilingualism makes me wonder if there's a similar benefit associated with being conversant in multiple programming languages.
Once the UK leaves, English will be the mother tongue of less than 1% of the EU. It's the Brexiters who are doing the bashing to their own language by reducing its relevancy.
Last summer my wife and I toured the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. We encountered language barrier issues exactly zero times. Everybody we met - hotel staff, merchants, even random people in the street when we needed directions - understood and spoke English more than adequately for the purpose. Also true to a slightly lesser extent when we visited Amsterdam a few years back. I suspect tourism drives this as much as any other factor. We met a group of people travelling together who were from Sweden, and they spoke English so fluently and accent-free that I was shocked to learn where they were from (I had been guessing Canada).
Cloudflare reportedly also keeps to a policy of turning over contact information of anyone who complains to operators of the offending sites, thus exposing the complainants to personal harassment.
Isn't a basic tenet of any justice system the right to face one's accuser? Why should accusers be able to hide behind a mask of anonymity?
This is just a guess, but probably because we're not talking about a court case, where your reference to "justice system" would be relevant.
Have you ever had the police show up at your door because a neighbor complained that your loud party was disturbing them at 2:30 in the morning? No? They don't say, "John Smith, whose phone number is 555-1212, accused you of disturbing the peace." They say something like, "Your party is too loud. Keep it down, or you'll be cited for disturbing the peace."
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Yep. It's nice when the game is carefully rigged and gerrymandered in your favor so you can win even when you're the unpopular party, isn't it?
Sure it is. Now then, how does gerrymandering help you win Senatorial and Presidential elections again?
X is pretty damn ambiguous. I've had two cornea transplants. In each case, the surgeon wrote "yes" on my forehead over the eye to be oprated on. And that after three nurses and the anesthesiologist asked me which eye, and verified that my answer matched the chart.
...wait, I was told AI was right around the corner. Are you telling me we can't even make simple software work?
I guess this means that making simple software work is around the same corner.
I'm a bit curious as to this guy's history given the technology used to find him. Seems like a questionable use of resources to nab a busboy. Given that they didn't tell us why he was deported the previous two times I'm curious if they used it simply because he simply was two-time deportee that keeps coming back, or if he had any history of criminal activity involved in any of his deportation orders.
This says he was first apprehended in 2005, but wasn't deported (the first time) until 2012. Possibly when he was first snagged he was released with an order to appear for a hearing, and then skipped the hearing; this is fairly common with the "catch and release" protocol that's been in use for some time. But that's just a guess.
When you say, "I'm curious if they used it simply because he simply was two-time deportee that keeps coming back, or if he had any history of criminal activity involved in any of his deportation orders," are you taking the position that the crime of illegal entry doesn't count as illegal activity?
The first time a person is caught for illegal entry, it's a federal misdemeanor. If the person is deported and re-enters illegally it's a federal felony, and that usually results in immediate deportation, which happened in 2014. He re-entered illegally again, and DHS caught him because of his involvement in a hit-and-run incident, and that's when the Stingray was used. So no, he wasn't deported for taking a citizen's busboy job.
The 2012 law explicitly prohibited the FAA from doing exactly what it did.
That's right. And that 2012 law expires 4 months from now. What will happen next? From TFA: “The goal of the registration rule was to assist law enforcement and others to enforce the law against unauthorized drone flights, and to educate hobbyists that a drone is not just a toy and operators need to follow the rules,” said Lisa Ellman, an attorney and specialist on the drone regulation with the law firm Hogan Lovells. “These are worthy goals, so if this ruling stands it wouldn't surprise us to see a legislative response here."
You seem to be overlooking a key message of the article, which is that parents are saying "that while they would prefer to do more activities away from devices, outings are far too expensive". So when you say, "nobody argued that you couldn't have a weekend getaway for a lot less than they are saying", you are dead wrong; that's exactly what those parents are saying.
It isn't the cited cost of a weekend getaway that I have a problem with. What I have a problem with is the proposition that the only way to pry your kids away from their devices is to distract them with something shinier. If that's your situation, then you've already lost the battle.
mileage based tax is not that easy and more toll roads are not that easy to flip from free ones.
You don't need mileage based taxes or toll roads. Just do what California's doing: add a hefty electric car surcharge to the annual vehicle registration.
Cow lifespan: 18 - 22 years. I'm pretty sure you can milk a cow for 16 years.
Maybe someone with small farm experience can weigh in on that. Multiple sources (no, I'm not providing links; just search "dairy cow lifespan") indicate that the general practice on large dairy farms is to slaughter dairy cows for beef at the age of 4 or 5 as milk production drops.
Where can I get my own pay oaf. Are you one of them. Your spelling would indicate you do the pay very well.
You need to pay better attention to punctuation. He said, "delivering pay,oafs", which means they are delivering both pay (shades of stagecoach payroll deliveries) and oafs (of which he may be an example).
The article doesn't mention education or the classroom even once. Why did you post that?
Did you miss the section under Microsoft wins the kids...and therefore the future? "As much as I dislike some aspects of Windows 10 S, as a way to get cheap computers into schools, it's a lot more practical than iPads. Even the conceptual graphics tools Microsoft is delivering are better and cheaper than Adobe's for kids, especially those at underfunded schools."
More practical than iPads? Sure. More practical than Chromebooks? Not a chance.
Uh, huh. Critics who rely on literal interpretation of the Bible are as deluded as the faithful who do the same.
"They said they were going to revolutionize the way transportation and cars are used" They did, and still are doing this. So you hate them because of some VC valuation?
Some revolution. They're a taxi service. Having an app doesn't make it revolutionary. Reminds me of the "[do something commonplace] ON A COMPUTER" patent approach.
When they use taxpayer money we have a right to know the details.
You state that as if it were a fact, when it's really just your opinion. I'm a little fuzzy on the fine details, though, so I'd like to hear more.
Do we have a right to know the medical details of everyone whose health insurance is subsidised under the ACA? Medicaid? Medicare? Workers Compensation? Do we have a right to know the financial details of everyone who receives Social Security? Unemployment compensation? Food stamps? Do we have the right to know the driving record of everyone who uses public roads?
Please tell us how much we have a right to know about your personal life because your local government provides police, fire, and other emergency services, or because your kids attend public schools, or because you jog on public sidewalks, or because you occasionally use a public park, or because you use government regulated utilities.
Title says "Amazon is the 2nd Most Popular App". Content says, "Amazon came in second among list of apps in use now that weren't in use several months ago". When did those two things become equivalent? Also, are we really to believe there's a lot of teens that just discovered Snapchat in the last couple of months?
Yes, but putting on the Windows Store means you can install it on Windows 10S! Yay!
Amazon is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020.
But this will have no effect on the homeless population until 2020, how does this help the homeless community today?
It doesn't, and it obviously isn't supposed to. But not to worry, there will probably still be homeless people in 2020.
Just wanted to congratulate you on your efforts to educate the Slashdot world on whataboutism (though you should be more careful with your spelling). I hope to see you back sometime in the future when someone invokes Colin Powell in a discussion of Hillary's email server, or when someone blames Bush for an Obama policy failure.
AI is acheived when the results are indiscernible from or better than a human.
Gosh, that means I've been creating AI in the form of scripts that automate mundane tasks, for many years now. Either that, or your simplistic statement is completely off base.
Like when states decided to legalize marijuana, Obama just said it's still illegal under federal law then conduct raids on dispensaries.
OK, so states decide to restrict ISPs from selling user info, and in response the feds conduct raids on [nope, I got nothing]
This is a completely pointless law then isn't it? The cable companies will simply add to their ToS that they can do that and either A) you don't get internet or B) they sell your stuff.
Doubtful. That might be possible if the ISP could make more money selling your information than they make selling you internet access. You know how ISP ToSes all have clauses that say they can terminate your service for anything that boils down to being an asshole? Well, they don't make a habit of doing that, because there's more money to be made by tolerating assholes than there is to be made by terminating service.
ISPs have always been in a position legally to sell your information. There is no credible evidence that they've been doing so on a wholesale level. And no, "they're probably doing it and we just don't know" is not credible evidence.
Seriously, only in America can a majority of Americans vote against a guy and he still wins.
Well, no shit, Sherlock; where else would you expect to find Americans voting? Oh, yeah, I understand the point you're trying to make, but it's moot. Like it or not, the guy who came in second in the popular vote somehow figured out that it's the Electoral vote that actually decides the winner of the election.
And yet if you weren't around, they wouldn't have been speaking English, would they?
That is what we call "an assumption", and it has the additional attribute of being entirely unrelated to the question of whether English is losing importance. I have no idea what they would have been speaking if I wasn't there, and neither do you; maybe they prefer Klingon. I can tell you, though, that the folks from Sweden I mentioned were speaking English among themselves before we introduced ourselves to them; if they'd been conversing in Swedish (or Klingon), we wouldn't have participated.
As for my personal language skills, I am able to limp along in Spanish. Unfortunately, not a language of much use in the countries I mentioned. But your snippet on the benefits of bilingualism makes me wonder if there's a similar benefit associated with being conversant in multiple programming languages.
Once the UK leaves, English will be the mother tongue of less than 1% of the EU. It's the Brexiters who are doing the bashing to their own language by reducing its relevancy.
Last summer my wife and I toured the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. We encountered language barrier issues exactly zero times. Everybody we met - hotel staff, merchants, even random people in the street when we needed directions - understood and spoke English more than adequately for the purpose. Also true to a slightly lesser extent when we visited Amsterdam a few years back. I suspect tourism drives this as much as any other factor. We met a group of people travelling together who were from Sweden, and they spoke English so fluently and accent-free that I was shocked to learn where they were from (I had been guessing Canada).
Cloudflare reportedly also keeps to a policy of turning over contact information of anyone who complains to operators of the offending sites, thus exposing the complainants to personal harassment.
Isn't a basic tenet of any justice system the right to face one's accuser? Why should accusers be able to hide behind a mask of anonymity?
This is just a guess, but probably because we're not talking about a court case, where your reference to "justice system" would be relevant.
Have you ever had the police show up at your door because a neighbor complained that your loud party was disturbing them at 2:30 in the morning? No? They don't say, "John Smith, whose phone number is 555-1212, accused you of disturbing the peace." They say something like, "Your party is too loud. Keep it down, or you'll be cited for disturbing the peace."
Why???????
For the love god why did he do it????
I dream of a time when a chicken can cross the road without having to justify its actions.