Actually that is about 1/7 of the worlds population, which is genocide. pr0fessor belongs in a re-education camp.
Since the group of people born on Monday is not a national, racial, political, or cultural group, it's not genocide. But it could help mitigate Climate Change, so it's not all bad.
I have a Dell 11.6" laptop that came with Win10. It's mostly used by my wife to check weather forecasts each morning when we're traveling (she has an iPhone, but for reasons understood only by her she prefers the laptop for this purpose). I did install Mint (dual-boot) on this little system, but I rarely feel the need to boot into it other than to keep it updated.
We also have two Win7 desktops and a Win7 laptop in the house. I have no plans to "upgrade" them to Win10, as they fulfill our needs as they are. Updates are set to "let me see them before they're downloaded" on all of them to avoid an unintended upgrade.
Right... Companies shouldn't be held accountable just because they made a crap product that advertises functionality that it doesn't have. It's all those idiot users' fault for believing that consumer protection laws should require a product to do what is advertised.
The company's website has a lot to say about how the type of exercise, range of motion, and the way the device is worn can affect the accuracy of heartbeat measurement, and they make no claims at all regarding measurement accuracy. It doesn't appear to me that they are advertising great accuracy at all. Aside from that, this is not a case of the company running afoul of consumer protection laws; it's a case of lawyers seeking a profit from a dodgy class-action suit. The consumers who were putatively damaged won't see much in the way of an award, which is the norm in cases like this.
An advertisement is supposed to be appealing to people.
No. An advertisement is supposed to make an impression on the observer. The deeper the impression, the more successful the advertisement. If the advertisement gets people to talk about it, as in your case, it's very successful.
Honestly, most people find a "plus sized model" disgusting. Most people also don't enjoy seeing disgusting things while browsing facebook. Ergo, that ad should stay banned.
Uh, huh. You know what? You don't have a right to not be disgusted, any more than you have a right to not be offended.
It appears that it has been quite warm in India, at least since 1897 (when Mark Twain published "Following the Equator"):
"In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
But of course, Twain was speaking of weather, not climate.
I would not place any special wisdom or divine provenance in the founders.
That, of course, is your right, as guaranteed by the Constitution put in place by those not especially wise folks. Aside from that, I wasn't the person who invoked the Founders; I was just pointing out that the poster's invocation of "founding principles" was likely misplaced.
As to the economic well-being of the average Colonist, you might want to look at this, which says in part, "The gross national product (GNP) of British North America multiplied some 25 times between 1650 and 1770, and scholars estimate that American colonists may have enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world by the time of the Revolution."
I doubt that you're actually familiar with the principles upon which the US was founded; if you were, you probably wouldn't be touting them. You can review them here. Warning: there are a lot of references to God and Religion. The Founders were also strong supporters of property rights. As far as unregulated migration is concerned, I believe the applicable principle is, "A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men." You know, like the laws against unregulated migration.
"Firefox 'Tops' Microsoft browser share.... if you don't count chrome which has an 60% install base"
Seriously, I expect this type of clickbait on BuzzFeed, not Slashdot:/.
Well yes, Firefox tops Microsoft browser share whether or not you choose to count Chrome, since Chrome is neither Firefox or Microsoft. In other words, Summary Title, which did not imply that Firefox had the most browser share, is not misleading at all. Unless you want to mislead yourself and then get upset about it.
Firefox has pulled ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge browsers
If I'm reading the graphs in TFA correctly, Firefox has "pulled ahead" of IE/Edge by losing market share over 3 months (going from 16.1% to 15.6%), but losing less than IE and Edge combined (16.6% to 15.5%). Yippee, terrific surge!
with ~300 Hours of content uploaded every minute, (2014 stats) that would require, let's do the math, 300 hrs x 60 x 24 = 432000 hrs uploaded per day, that would require 54000 8 hour shifts to go through all the content. 54000+ employees to monitor every video uploaded for copyright infringing content. Yeah, I don't think that's feasible.
Disclaimer: I personally think she's wrong. Having said that, if she was right and YouTube is breaking the law, the fact that it would be impossibly onerous to comply with the law would be immaterial. A business doesn't get a pass on "criminal racketeering" because "expensive".
Posts like yours get modded down because of their hysterical tone and detachment from reality. No one said anything about killing endangered sharks for their jelly. They did, however, say something about the development of new materials. And bio research as well; as the article said, "We hope that our findings may contribute to future studies of the electrosensing function of the ampullae of Lorenzini and the organ overall, which is itself rather exceptional."
How does this affect me? Why is this important to anyone except Warren Buffett? Slashdot users don't like answering important questions. But this needs to be asked....
It probably doesn't affect you. Why is that important? Sorry; I felt it needed to be asked.
By a guarenteed basic income, which would let people focus on other things than trying to eke enough for food, it would allow people to spend time doing research, making stuff, designing cooler items, and advancing the arts and sciences in general. The Renaissance is an object lesson to this, when people had time to do something other than toil in the fields.
Yeah, life for most people was a joy during the Renaissance. That is, if your definition of joy is subsisting on gruel and black bread, laboring on the farms owned by the local nobles, and dying miserably at an early age. The only people who had time to do something other than toil in the fields were the nobles, the few artists and "natural philosophers" (today we call them scientists) they patronized, and members of the merchant class. And of course, the clergy, who spent a lot of their time telling the poor that their compliance would be rewarded at the conclusion of their short, squalid lives.
WARN Act numbers only tell part of the story, as they only reflect mass layoffs. And even then, there are reporting exemptions. For example, "California WARN does not apply when the closing or layoff is the result of the completion of a particular project or undertaking of an employer". And then, there's this loophole: "Notice of a relocation or termination is not required where, under multiple and specific conditions, the employer submits documents to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the DIR determines that the employer was actively seeking capital or business, and a WARN notice would have precluded the employer from obtaining the capital or business."
and why all the fire and brimstone of private email server usage when they themselves are doing the same thing? oh, yeah, the old smoke and mirrors trick. same thing goes for the Facebook news slant when they have the 24 hour tea party propaganda machine Faux News.
i love hypocrisy.
You do know that government employees are not allowed to use government email for personal purposes, right? The intent there is to prevent the use of taxpayer-provided resources for campaign fund-raising efforts. And the intent of the rules against using non-government email for government business is to provide accountability and, in the case of sensitive information, a DoD-audited security environment. And yes, I know that a DoD-audited security environment is not proof against being hacked.Thing is, if you use the system and the information is compromised, you're not accountable; if you don't use the system, you're accountable even if the information isn't compromised.
Hillary used non-government email for everything. She did not use government email for anything. Given her position as Secretary of State, it is impossible that some of the traffic handled by her personal server was not classified Secret or Top Secret, whether or not it was marked as such (if this concept confuses you, google "born classified"). I believe that much has already been established by the FBI investigation. Oops, I mean, by the FBI "security inquiry".
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Actually that is about 1/7 of the worlds population, which is genocide. pr0fessor belongs in a re-education camp.
Since the group of people born on Monday is not a national, racial, political, or cultural group, it's not genocide. But it could help mitigate Climate Change, so it's not all bad.
exactly. who gets to decide what hate speech is real and what is imagined?
According to TFS, it will be Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook. And, you can look at the "code of conduct" here.
I have a Dell 11.6" laptop that came with Win10. It's mostly used by my wife to check weather forecasts each morning when we're traveling (she has an iPhone, but for reasons understood only by her she prefers the laptop for this purpose). I did install Mint (dual-boot) on this little system, but I rarely feel the need to boot into it other than to keep it updated.
We also have two Win7 desktops and a Win7 laptop in the house. I have no plans to "upgrade" them to Win10, as they fulfill our needs as they are. Updates are set to "let me see them before they're downloaded" on all of them to avoid an unintended upgrade.
Yes, I do. And so, apparently, has Snowden, as that's the one he chose.
I know! And how about all those childless people paying property tax to subsidize public schools? It's an outrage!
People keep saying that but I've not heard a single person quote a law she appears to be guilty of other than being a bitch.
I can help you with that. U.S.C Sec. 793(f) of the federal code makes it unlawful to send of store classified information on personal email.
Right... Companies shouldn't be held accountable just because they made a crap product that advertises functionality that it doesn't have. It's all those idiot users' fault for believing that consumer protection laws should require a product to do what is advertised.
The company's website has a lot to say about how the type of exercise, range of motion, and the way the device is worn can affect the accuracy of heartbeat measurement, and they make no claims at all regarding measurement accuracy. It doesn't appear to me that they are advertising great accuracy at all. Aside from that, this is not a case of the company running afoul of consumer protection laws; it's a case of lawyers seeking a profit from a dodgy class-action suit. The consumers who were putatively damaged won't see much in the way of an award, which is the norm in cases like this.
An advertisement is supposed to be appealing to people.
No. An advertisement is supposed to make an impression on the observer. The deeper the impression, the more successful the advertisement. If the advertisement gets people to talk about it, as in your case, it's very successful.
Honestly, most people find a "plus sized model" disgusting. Most people also don't enjoy seeing disgusting things while browsing facebook. Ergo, that ad should stay banned.
Uh, huh. You know what? You don't have a right to not be disgusted, any more than you have a right to not be offended.
"Murica"? Is that code for "Slovenia"?
It appears that it has been quite warm in India, at least since 1897 (when Mark Twain published "Following the Equator"):
"In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
But of course, Twain was speaking of weather, not climate.
I would not place any special wisdom or divine provenance in the founders.
That, of course, is your right, as guaranteed by the Constitution put in place by those not especially wise folks. Aside from that, I wasn't the person who invoked the Founders; I was just pointing out that the poster's invocation of "founding principles" was likely misplaced.
As to the economic well-being of the average Colonist, you might want to look at this, which says in part, "The gross national product (GNP) of British North America multiplied some 25 times between 1650 and 1770, and scholars estimate that American colonists may have enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world by the time of the Revolution."
Happy to help you out with that.
I doubt that you're actually familiar with the principles upon which the US was founded; if you were, you probably wouldn't be touting them. You can review them here. Warning: there are a lot of references to God and Religion. The Founders were also strong supporters of property rights. As far as unregulated migration is concerned, I believe the applicable principle is, "A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men." You know, like the laws against unregulated migration.
FTFY:
"Firefox 'Tops' Microsoft browser share.... if you don't count chrome which has an 60% install base"
Seriously, I expect this type of clickbait on BuzzFeed, not Slashdot :/.
Well yes, Firefox tops Microsoft browser share whether or not you choose to count Chrome, since Chrome is neither Firefox or Microsoft. In other words, Summary Title, which did not imply that Firefox had the most browser share, is not misleading at all. Unless you want to mislead yourself and then get upset about it.
Seriously, I expect this type of post from ACs.
Firefox has pulled ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge browsers
If I'm reading the graphs in TFA correctly, Firefox has "pulled ahead" of IE/Edge by losing market share over 3 months (going from 16.1% to 15.6%), but losing less than IE and Edge combined (16.6% to 15.5%). Yippee, terrific surge!
Tell that to the banks.
You don't like "the banks", got it. What "criminal racketeering" laws did they break, again?
with ~300 Hours of content uploaded every minute, (2014 stats) that would require, let's do the math, 300 hrs x 60 x 24 = 432000 hrs uploaded per day, that would require 54000 8 hour shifts to go through all the content. 54000+ employees to monitor every video uploaded for copyright infringing content. Yeah, I don't think that's feasible.
Disclaimer: I personally think she's wrong. Having said that, if she was right and YouTube is breaking the law, the fact that it would be impossibly onerous to comply with the law would be immaterial. A business doesn't get a pass on "criminal racketeering" because "expensive".
Posts like yours get modded down because of their hysterical tone and detachment from reality. No one said anything about killing endangered sharks for their jelly. They did, however, say something about the development of new materials. And bio research as well; as the article said, "We hope that our findings may contribute to future studies of the electrosensing function of the ampullae of Lorenzini and the organ overall, which is itself rather exceptional."
How does this affect me? Why is this important to anyone except Warren Buffett? Slashdot users don't like answering important questions. But this needs to be asked....
It probably doesn't affect you. Why is that important? Sorry; I felt it needed to be asked.
By a guarenteed basic income, which would let people focus on other things than trying to eke enough for food, it would allow people to spend time doing research, making stuff, designing cooler items, and advancing the arts and sciences in general. The Renaissance is an object lesson to this, when people had time to do something other than toil in the fields.
Yeah, life for most people was a joy during the Renaissance. That is, if your definition of joy is subsisting on gruel and black bread, laboring on the farms owned by the local nobles, and dying miserably at an early age. The only people who had time to do something other than toil in the fields were the nobles, the few artists and "natural philosophers" (today we call them scientists) they patronized, and members of the merchant class. And of course, the clergy, who spent a lot of their time telling the poor that their compliance would be rewarded at the conclusion of their short, squalid lives.
WARN Act numbers only tell part of the story, as they only reflect mass layoffs. And even then, there are reporting exemptions. For example, "California WARN does not apply when the closing or layoff is the result of the completion of a particular project or undertaking of an employer". And then, there's this loophole: "Notice of a relocation or termination is not required where, under multiple and specific conditions, the employer submits documents to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the DIR determines that the employer was actively seeking capital or business, and a WARN notice would have precluded the employer from obtaining the capital or business."
and why all the fire and brimstone of private email server usage when they themselves are doing the same thing? oh, yeah, the old smoke and mirrors trick. same thing goes for the Facebook news slant when they have the 24 hour tea party propaganda machine Faux News. i love hypocrisy.
You do know that government employees are not allowed to use government email for personal purposes, right? The intent there is to prevent the use of taxpayer-provided resources for campaign fund-raising efforts. And the intent of the rules against using non-government email for government business is to provide accountability and, in the case of sensitive information, a DoD-audited security environment. And yes, I know that a DoD-audited security environment is not proof against being hacked.Thing is, if you use the system and the information is compromised, you're not accountable; if you don't use the system, you're accountable even if the information isn't compromised.
Hillary used non-government email for everything. She did not use government email for anything. Given her position as Secretary of State, it is impossible that some of the traffic handled by her personal server was not classified Secret or Top Secret, whether or not it was marked as such (if this concept confuses you, google "born classified"). I believe that much has already been established by the FBI investigation. Oops, I mean, by the FBI "security inquiry".
It's not a sport. It's a competition. Sports by definition require an element of physical exertion.
Areyou trying to make sport of him?
He hacked a website, not a voting machine.