Twilight and Dan Brown consumers are hardly the bread & butter of the remaining independent bookshops. You’re describing an airport chain bookstore. Real bookstores are curated by knowledgeable staff who — especially if they know you — can make recommendations and provide ad-hoc reviews. I have at least two sci-fi oriented bookstores within half an hour of my house, plus a board/role-playing game store, plus several decent comic stores. I can hang out at any of them and chat with informed interested people. Online chats are no substitute.
(Of course technical books with a short shelf life are not a good niche for brick & mortar outside of universities, but most literature remains relevant a hell of a lot longer than “Windows 98 For Dummies.”)
“Accountable” in this context means responsive. Your interaction is a dialogue, not a mouse click. If your locals aren’t selling what you want, you can talk to them and make requests; their business model will adapt to shape itself to its customers’ desires. Go ask a Best Buy clerk to start stocking Linux laptops, see where that gets you.
If my values don’t sync with yours and you don’t care about the things that I care about, no problem, shop at Walmart and save money on cheap garbage produced by slave labor. Knock yourself out. But don’t pretend that my values are fictional because you don’t share them, or don’t see how they might benefit you.
Enjoy living in your desolate factory suburb then.
Believe it or not, to some of us, concepts like “community” are more than boxes to check off in Hipster Buzzword Bingo, they mean something identifiable and concrete. I want to live among businesses run by people I know, people who are accountable to the sensibilities of their particular customers, people who interact with the neighborhood they do business in beyond dreary gray spreadsheet transactions. I want to know where my stuff comes from and how it’s produced, and all of that’s worth a few extra bucks to me.
“Buy local” isn’t about guilt-tripping you into buying from a less-efficient-than-Amazon retailer, it’s about fostering values other than “the cheaper the better no matter what the external costs to society.”
Enlightenment just released a fourth alpha of e17 two days ago, with a full release apparently scheduled for before the end of the year. That timeline may be optimistic, but it's certainly being actively developed.
Parent didn't say it was literally impossible, just that it won't happen given the changes in how the game is managed since that era. Baseball equivalents would be Cy Young's starts & wins, and Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive games played. Starting pitchers are not allowed (by their managers, not the rules) to start more than one out of every four or five games; back then it wasn't uncommon for them to pitch two or three consecutive games, and complete ones at that. Likewise, any manager who played the same guy in every game for over sixteen seasons would today be considered criminally irresponsible, even assuming he could find a player who could stay healthy and never shirk or malinger in all that time.
No, it would be fair to translate that as "if you don't like it, don't click on it, and move on to something that interests you." I'm pretty sure Slashdot tracks which articles get read/commented on, and that those metrics are far more readily digestible than wading through the content of half a dozen "SPORTSBALL IS STUPID WHY IS THIS HERE" comments.
I agree with you about the decline of formerly-focused cable channels (Discovery, TLC, Sci-Fi) by the way. Turning a nominally educational channel into Screeching Ethnic Housewives or a science fiction channel into Extreme Wrestling Most Of The Time is dismaying, but a website, unlike a TV channel, gives you the freedom to skip content you're not interested in. Should Slashdot be a "general interest" site? Of course not. But dismissing anything you don't personally care about as "not worthy" is shortsighted. What if instead of nutshelling it as "huh, mebbe math ain't so useless," you read it as "sports is not the exclusive domain of muscular dimwits?"
Probably a holdover from high school social structures in which jocks are lionized and get laid and pick on the weaker nerd types. I don’t know how common this is today outside of TV/movie clichés; I never saw it in school in the 80s, but I didn’t go to a normal school (Strat-O-Matic baseball was more popular than varsity baseball,) so who knows?
The electric utility here uses a proprietary type of wire that no one else has access to (AFAIK it’s not “special” beyond being braided in a particular pattern) so recycling companies can identify cable that’s been pulled from streetlights and such.
The paper encouraged the use of intellectual property claims, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, and designs, as sources of income which can be used to support agriculture in Africa.
There’s no link to the paper, but that’s not what the linked article says. It says that they’re pushing an initiative to benefit African agriculture through IP and branding. Copyrights, patents, and designs are mentioned only in the context of the presenter explaining to the audience what “intellectual property” even means. (The fact that he felt the need to do that is telling.)
I suspect the main thrust would be developing geographical indicator branding, like appellations d'origine contrôlée or Cornish pasties; the article mentions Ethiopia’s success in this regard.
You wouldn't tweet individual baskets, that would be silly. Aside from the final moments of a close game, nothing much noteworthy happens in a basketball game except in aggregate, e.g. one team going on a 16-0 scoring run, or a player making a triple-double. (This is one of the main reasons some people don't care for the sport.)
Time spent playing does not correlate to how often something tweetworthy happens. In American football, every series of downs ends with either a first down, a turnover, or a score. The average soccer game has about three goals and maybe a red card or an injury.
Yeah, it seems a whole lot simpler and less time-consuming for the proctor to have a box of known-pure calculators. Can you imagine having to futz with, what, 30-100 student calculators before each exam?
I don’t know if the name is used in other parts of the world, but in the U.S. the “ovoid form with almond in it” are called “Jordan almonds.” The chocolate ones are usually M&Ms.
Congress as a whole has a low national approval rating. You can’t extrapolate from that that individual Congressmen have low approval ratings among their own constituents.
It’s tricky but important to tactfully communicate such things to your coworkers. Your cube neighbor may be so used to her perfume (applied or—ahem—natural) that she’s unaware it’s bothering anyone. Better to risk some mildly hurt feelings now than to bottle up annoyance until it overflows sometime down the road.
I'm saying those things just don't have any serious meaning. They did up until they basically polluted their religious practices with pagan practices.
Where to start? First of all, pagan is not the opposite of religion, it’s a somewhat derogatory blanket term for polytheism. Second, almost every religious holiday (the Christian ones at least) is a corruption of pagan rituals, not the other way around. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to bring a pine tree indoors for baby Jesus, or that a giant bunny rabbit will hide colored eggs in celebration of his resurrection.
That's fraud but it’s not “voter fraud.“ Instances of individuals voting multiple times or assuming another voter’s identity are vanishingly negligible, especially in contrast to organized fraud (“misplaced” ballot boxes) and voter intimidation/disinformation tactics.
Some Matias keyboards place Ctrl on the home row where Caps Lock usually is, and the Caps & Num Locks down between the right Alt & Ctrl. There are also utilities available to remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, but I’m not sure they work on all keyboards I’m thinking of the old ones where Caps Lock is an actual mechanical toggle that remains semi-depressed when activated, like on a typewriter. Haven’t seen that feature in quite a while, come to think of it.
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Twilight and Dan Brown consumers are hardly the bread & butter of the remaining independent bookshops. You’re describing an airport chain bookstore. Real bookstores are curated by knowledgeable staff who — especially if they know you — can make recommendations and provide ad-hoc reviews. I have at least two sci-fi oriented bookstores within half an hour of my house, plus a board/role-playing game store, plus several decent comic stores. I can hang out at any of them and chat with informed interested people. Online chats are no substitute.
(Of course technical books with a short shelf life are not a good niche for brick & mortar outside of universities, but most literature remains relevant a hell of a lot longer than “Windows 98 For Dummies.”)
“Accountable” in this context means responsive. Your interaction is a dialogue, not a mouse click. If your locals aren’t selling what you want, you can talk to them and make requests; their business model will adapt to shape itself to its customers’ desires. Go ask a Best Buy clerk to start stocking Linux laptops, see where that gets you.
If my values don’t sync with yours and you don’t care about the things that I care about, no problem, shop at Walmart and save money on cheap garbage produced by slave labor. Knock yourself out. But don’t pretend that my values are fictional because you don’t share them, or don’t see how they might benefit you.
Enjoy living in your desolate factory suburb then.
Believe it or not, to some of us, concepts like “community” are more than boxes to check off in Hipster Buzzword Bingo, they mean something identifiable and concrete. I want to live among businesses run by people I know, people who are accountable to the sensibilities of their particular customers, people who interact with the neighborhood they do business in beyond dreary gray spreadsheet transactions. I want to know where my stuff comes from and how it’s produced, and all of that’s worth a few extra bucks to me.
“Buy local” isn’t about guilt-tripping you into buying from a less-efficient-than-Amazon retailer, it’s about fostering values other than “the cheaper the better no matter what the external costs to society.”
Enlightenment just released a fourth alpha of e17 two days ago, with a full release apparently scheduled for before the end of the year. That timeline may be optimistic, but it's certainly being actively developed.
Parent didn't say it was literally impossible, just that it won't happen given the changes in how the game is managed since that era. Baseball equivalents would be Cy Young's starts & wins, and Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive games played. Starting pitchers are not allowed (by their managers, not the rules) to start more than one out of every four or five games; back then it wasn't uncommon for them to pitch two or three consecutive games, and complete ones at that. Likewise, any manager who played the same guy in every game for over sixteen seasons would today be considered criminally irresponsible, even assuming he could find a player who could stay healthy and never shirk or malinger in all that time.
No, it would be fair to translate that as "if you don't like it, don't click on it, and move on to something that interests you." I'm pretty sure Slashdot tracks which articles get read/commented on, and that those metrics are far more readily digestible than wading through the content of half a dozen "SPORTSBALL IS STUPID WHY IS THIS HERE" comments.
I agree with you about the decline of formerly-focused cable channels (Discovery, TLC, Sci-Fi) by the way. Turning a nominally educational channel into Screeching Ethnic Housewives or a science fiction channel into Extreme Wrestling Most Of The Time is dismaying, but a website, unlike a TV channel, gives you the freedom to skip content you're not interested in. Should Slashdot be a "general interest" site? Of course not. But dismissing anything you don't personally care about as "not worthy" is shortsighted. What if instead of nutshelling it as "huh, mebbe math ain't so useless," you read it as "sports is not the exclusive domain of muscular dimwits?"
I'm going to stick with the sports news is boring and irrelevant position thanks.
Good thing you read the article and posted a two-paragraph comment on it then.
Probably a holdover from high school social structures in which jocks are lionized and get laid and pick on the weaker nerd types. I don’t know how common this is today outside of TV/movie clichés; I never saw it in school in the 80s, but I didn’t go to a normal school (Strat-O-Matic baseball was more popular than varsity baseball,) so who knows?
* looks for TwineLogic posts complaining about video games being unimportant * ... nope, not finding anything.
The electric utility here uses a proprietary type of wire that no one else has access to (AFAIK it’s not “special” beyond being braided in a particular pattern) so recycling companies can identify cable that’s been pulled from streetlights and such.
There’s no link to the paper, but that’s not what the linked article says. It says that they’re pushing an initiative to benefit African agriculture through IP and branding. Copyrights, patents, and designs are mentioned only in the context of the presenter explaining to the audience what “intellectual property” even means. (The fact that he felt the need to do that is telling.)
I suspect the main thrust would be developing geographical indicator branding, like appellations d'origine contrôlée or Cornish pasties; the article mentions Ethiopia’s success in this regard.
You wouldn't tweet individual baskets, that would be silly. Aside from the final moments of a close game, nothing much noteworthy happens in a basketball game except in aggregate, e.g. one team going on a 16-0 scoring run, or a player making a triple-double. (This is one of the main reasons some people don't care for the sport.)
Time spent playing does not correlate to how often something tweetworthy happens. In American football, every series of downs ends with either a first down, a turnover, or a score. The average soccer game has about three goals and maybe a red card or an injury.
Yeah, it seems a whole lot simpler and less time-consuming for the proctor to have a box of known-pure calculators. Can you imagine having to futz with, what, 30-100 student calculators before each exam?
Why not issue standardized school-owned calculators to the students at the beginning of tests and forbid them from bringing their own?
[citation needed]
You care to make an argument to the contrary? Because you haven't yet.
I don’t know if the name is used in other parts of the world, but in the U.S. the “ovoid form with almond in it” are called “Jordan almonds.” The chocolate ones are usually M&Ms.
Congress as a whole has a low national approval rating. You can’t extrapolate from that that individual Congressmen have low approval ratings among their own constituents.
That was Fallout 2. The Macguffin in the first one was the water chip.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You’ve provided none.
It’s tricky but important to tactfully communicate such things to your coworkers. Your cube neighbor may be so used to her perfume (applied or—ahem—natural) that she’s unaware it’s bothering anyone. Better to risk some mildly hurt feelings now than to bottle up annoyance until it overflows sometime down the road.
I'm saying those things just don't have any serious meaning. They did up until they basically polluted their religious practices with pagan practices.
Where to start? First of all, pagan is not the opposite of religion, it’s a somewhat derogatory blanket term for polytheism. Second, almost every religious holiday (the Christian ones at least) is a corruption of pagan rituals, not the other way around. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to bring a pine tree indoors for baby Jesus, or that a giant bunny rabbit will hide colored eggs in celebration of his resurrection.
That's fraud but it’s not “voter fraud.“ Instances of individuals voting multiple times or assuming another voter’s identity are vanishingly negligible, especially in contrast to organized fraud (“misplaced” ballot boxes) and voter intimidation/disinformation tactics.
Some Matias keyboards place Ctrl on the home row where Caps Lock usually is, and the Caps & Num Locks down between the right Alt & Ctrl. There are also utilities available to remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, but I’m not sure they work on all keyboards I’m thinking of the old ones where Caps Lock is an actual mechanical toggle that remains semi-depressed when activated, like on a typewriter. Haven’t seen that feature in quite a while, come to think of it.