Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
Only "ridiculous" to the people who said it was "ridiculous" to not smoke in bars/restaurants.
Fine, so let them smoke at home, in their cars, the spaces they own. In public? They're almost never alone. There's usually somebody within smoking distance and nobody appreciates the trail of butts they leave behind them.
Also: Opening a door, taking three deep drags on a cigarette and throwing the butt to the floor behind you as you come inside and breathe out? Not welcome.
No, but not many people fart proudly in public. Society/culture mostly tells them it's wrong.
Smokers, OTOH, are oblivious to their condition and will happily sit near other people who are trying to eat. They often pop out for a quick one during the meal to reinforce their miasma.
The chance of dying by terrorism does NOT justify 10 trillion in spending, all this spying on the population and being sexually molested every time you want to travel more than a few miles.
Many people wrongly labeled as "deniers" aren't denying anything. They're merely taking a far more stringent and critical look at the data than those who have political agendas to push do. The wrongly-accused "deniers" are just doing science as it's meant to be done.
No they're fucking not.
It's like you go to 100 doctors, 99 of them tell you have cancer, one doesn't.
Are the people who go with the one doctor "doing science as it's meant to be done"? No, they're idiots. They deserve to die of it.
Except this time it's not cancer, it's a contagious disease.
PS: "Political agenda"? Really?? The only political agenda here is the people selling you the oil and funding the denialist movement.
I don't have enough facepalms for the people who keep repeating the crap you just repeated.
This is almost, but not quite, as stupid as people who watch cellphone video of a movie, at home, when it is released.
I was on the metro the other day and there was a girl watching a movie on her cellphone. It was a letterboxed movie and she was holding the phone vertically so only the middle few pixels of the screen were being used.
The temptation to lean over and rotate the phone 90 degrees just to see the look on her face was strong, but I figured "no", somebody _that_ stupid doesn't deserve to have their life improved.
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No one cares about your personal shit. Windows 10 is installed on 200 million+ devices.
And ... how many of those devices use a touch screen and really needed more "windows ink"?
Microsoft has lost the plot. Seriously.
The first thing I do for anybody unfortunate enough to be running Windows 10 is install a copy of Classic Explorer.
Cigarettes haven't been banned.
Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
Only "ridiculous" to the people who said it was "ridiculous" to not smoke in bars/restaurants.
It's weird how the most religious states (like Utah) have the highest porn consumption.
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Fine, so let them smoke at home, in their cars, the spaces they own. In public? They're almost never alone. There's usually somebody within smoking distance and nobody appreciates the trail of butts they leave behind them.
Also: Opening a door, taking three deep drags on a cigarette and throwing the butt to the floor behind you as you come inside and breathe out? Not welcome.
No, but not many people fart proudly in public. Society/culture mostly tells them it's wrong.
Smokers, OTOH, are oblivious to their condition and will happily sit near other people who are trying to eat. They often pop out for a quick one during the meal to reinforce their miasma.
And none of them seem to have a problem leaving a trail of butts behind them.
I can be sitting on a park bench surrounded by the evidence of smokers being there.
QFT.
The chance of dying by terrorism does NOT justify 10 trillion in spending, all this spying on the population and being sexually molested every time you want to travel more than a few miles.
Why on earth would they use a frozen bird?
Maybe you're just repeating a well-known urban legend.
(you could always check and find out...)
...and millions of $$$ in repair bills.
Just so some dickhead can fly his drone in a flight path? How about we say "no"?
Even if it doesn't actually crash it's still millions of $$$ in damage if an engine is wrecked.
Just so some dumb teenager can fly his drone? Sensible people would say no to that cost/benefit proposition.
With any luck that will keep them out of the regular theaters.
Nah, it'll just reinforce the behavior.
How can anybody who regularly reads Slashdot complain about "junk food" and "spoon fed".
What percentage of Slashdot stories are "decent" these days? 1 in 50?
In the third world they know that putting your hand over the screen and squinting works.
We can't use that method here in the first world. We need a solution, dammit!
5.8 inches? Finally the perfect size.
I might actually have to buy an Apple product if that prediction comes true...
That's not a problem with LCDs, that's a problem with your particular TV.
It's not really a computer at all, it's a crap Arduino
Yeah, those Arduinos are completely useless.
It's not surprising to you that they only sold a couple of dozen units, right?
Also note that they didn't need to get anything past airport security to do this.
Remember that, next time you're being groped by a TSA agent.
NO, next step is to find a whole load of "evidence" on the phone that could have prevented something or other.
"See, this is what Apple's delay has cost us!"
Tax evasion? Start with Apple...
Many people wrongly labeled as "deniers" aren't denying anything. They're merely taking a far more stringent and critical look at the data than those who have political agendas to push do. The wrongly-accused "deniers" are just doing science as it's meant to be done.
No they're fucking not.
It's like you go to 100 doctors, 99 of them tell you have cancer, one doesn't.
Are the people who go with the one doctor "doing science as it's meant to be done"? No, they're idiots. They deserve to die of it.
Except this time it's not cancer, it's a contagious disease.
PS: "Political agenda"? Really?? The only political agenda here is the people selling you the oil and funding the denialist movement.
I don't have enough facepalms for the people who keep repeating the crap you just repeated.
They're after the people with no moral compass.
People like you.
(If this is really the first thought that popped into your head then I can tell you're a bit lacking in moral fiber)
The only reason to make noise about it is to force someone else to pay more.
You are correct. Well spotted. I bet you were good in school.
Its snowing out today, and this story just confirms it: Hell froze solid today.
Let's see: 40 people said "yes", haw many said "no"...?
I didn't see any big corporations, senators, stockbrokers, etc., holding their hands up. That will be when Hell freezes over.
This is almost, but not quite, as stupid as people who watch cellphone video of a movie, at home, when it is released.
I was on the metro the other day and there was a girl watching a movie on her cellphone. It was a letterboxed movie and she was holding the phone vertically so only the middle few pixels of the screen were being used.
The temptation to lean over and rotate the phone 90 degrees just to see the look on her face was strong, but I figured "no", somebody _that_ stupid doesn't deserve to have their life improved.
I know we're all basement-dwelling loners on here but can't a single one of you imagine more than 2 people for the $50 viewing?
If you've got 4 (or more) friends (LOL!) then the $50 option is really cheap, especially since you can provide your own nachos and popcorn.
I came here thinking the thread would be about piracy. I'm leaving disappointed.