I wish it were that simple, that a beating heart and formed brain is what defines human-ness. Most pro-lifers (speaking as a recovering Pentecostal) believe that the instant sperm meets egg you have a new soul that must be treated with all human dignity. Never mind the fact that it isn't even a zygote yet. What really boggles the mind is the people who think it's OK to murder abortion providers or bomb Planned Parenthood clinics. Makes me wonder if the study also calculated how much religions take out of the economy.
Off-topic rant: Funny how those guys who do shitty things in the name of Jesus never get called what they are. Always "attacker" or "shooter" or "bomber" but never "terrorist." Yet you never hear the right wing whackadoodles moan and complain about "Why don't politicians say 'Christian terrorist'?"!
It may not indicate what you think. It's possible that Tesla drivers are just bigger d-bags and worse drivers than the average joe blow. It might have nothing to do with autopilot at all. In my part of the country, it's generally assumed that if you drive a fancy car, you have to drive it like a complete asshat.
I see this as a failing of the DIN paper sizes. Sometimes, the different aspect ratios of B and C size drawings are actually advantageous. Not terribly often, but it does matter sometimes.
These are all legit reasons, especially the last one. I have actually had a contactor in an AC unit catch fire. Oddly, my spell check wanted a contractor to catch fire... maybe computers can do Freudian slips?
People change. You may know your spouse better than anybody, but the people you will become in 15 or 20 years is unknown to anybody. I have been fortunate. My wife and I have grown and changed in interesting but manageable ways. For better or worse, and all that. It can take work, but that's OK. Not all of my friends and family have been so lucky.
Sometimes one spouse outgrows childish habits and wants an adult partner for life. Sometimes people develop gambling addictions. Sometimes people start listening to short-wave radio and think the black helicopters are out to get them. Sometimes people go nuts and threaten to harm the kids. I really don't think we should consider somebody a failure for knowing when to call it quits. If somebody changes careers just before their industry tanks, we applaud their insight and good timing.
As a survivor of sexual abuse, I can see where the GP is coming from. Look at it this way. You're in a loving relationship with somebody you trust with everything: your money, your body, your truck, your kids, your deepest secrets and fears. (OK, I'm a Texan, so truck might be first on that list.) Then you find out he's been lying and cheating for the last four years. Now it's suddenly as if you've been getting raped for four years and didn't even know it. It's not like you would have consented knowing that he could have picked up god-knows-what VD from his little fuck buddy. Not only that, but the perpetrator has 100% access to your money, your house, and can even take your kids if he has a good lawyer. In some states you can't even insist that he leave the premises.
And the whole "blame the victim" thing is every bit as common with cheating/divorce as it is with rape. How many forums have you read where people just say, "maybe if you would have put out more often" or "maybe if you stayed thin" or "you should have known he was a cheater before you married him." In some states, the spouse getting cheated on has no recompense, either. So implicitly the state is blaming the victim, too.
Sure, it's not the most elegant comparison, but it's not totally beyond the pale.
I've often wondered why this is the case. More states had laws against sodomy than adultery. Yet, to my mind adultery is far more heinous, since there's definitely one party not consenting who will be pretty hurt by the activity. In Texas, you could have a mistress, but you couldn't buttfuck your wife. (at least not legally) For all the talk about "Defense of Marriage" you would think adultery would be one of those things the Congress could agree on. Especially since some people have affairs across state lines (interstate.. ummm.. commerce?). But I guess since most of them are adulterers, they don't want to seem *that* hypocritical.
Just checked the driver's handbook. It doesn't really say one way or another. It just says that if the light is red you must stop before you enter the crosswalk or intersection, and that if it's yellow you must stop if you can do so safely (which is not how most people understand it). It doesn't even have the rule about not entering an intersection on green if you can't get through. And I'm positive that's what I was taught decades ago. So some things must have changed.
It's high time for some civility in our public discourse. If an owner of a private company decides to show the Commander-in-Chief some respect while he's using those services, that is to be applauded. God forbid that Trump should become president, but if he does, I will still show some respect for the office, even if I disdain the person in it. Unfortunately, the censor-able tweets in a Trump Q&A are more likely to come from the other side of the conversation.
My understanding is that was more to do with a long-standing ban on Pokemon in general, since they view it as Zionist for some bizarre reason. But I think that was a fatwa, not necessarily having the same standing as an actual legal ban. My understanding of religion and politics in the Middle East is not 100%, though, so look it up before you travel.
You could always fly Frontier, if you value money over your self-respect and sanity. They sum it up pretty well with their new slogan: "Frontier -- for when Spirit just isn't shitty enough for you!"
When United had it's little hiccup a couple of years ago, I was on my way to Tulsa. I needed to bump my flight time up. Right as I got approved to be on the new flight, their computer system went down. The lady at the counter said, "I guess we'll have to do this the old-fashioned way." She hand-wrote my boarding pass. I still have it stapled to my wall. The lady at the gate looked at it, chuckled, and let me pass. I got on the flight, and the pilot said, "Well, they've told us we can't leave because the corporate computers are having some kind of a problem. But screw those guys, I got clearance from the tower so we're leaving anyway!" To which the whole plane erupted in applause. Here's to people that still know how to do things the old-fashioned way.
Yeah, that was the first thing I tried; it does not affect signing in from sleep. I used the default installation settings, so anything that is "broken" was done by Microsoft. BTW, it's not just me having this problem. Forum. Basically the only way to fix it is to use a local account, not the default integrated-with-everything-Microsoft account. Forgot the official name. But that breaks all of the stuff I got the Surface for, so not worth the trouble. The PIN thing works fine, and it's probably a good habit to be in anyway.
I have a Surface (don't ask, seemed like a good idea at the time). I wish it were as easy as settings in two places. I was trying to make it where I didn't have to enter my password every damn time. There were two different setting locations, neither of them worked. Went into the belly of the beast and fiddled with some of the user profile crap. Didn't work. Found a registry setting that should have fixed it. Didn't work. So even though you have all the settings saying not to check the password, it still checks the password. I finally found a totally different screen that allows you to use a 4-digit PIN. I guess that's no worse than my iPad, but the fact that it took me three days to figure out is INSANE!!
They absolutely did. It was one of the saddest parts of my life. I basically gave up photography because of it. At least I have more time for my music now...
I am not alone in this. Once Yahoo! bought Flickr, it immediately ceased being an interesting site for budding photographers to learn about what was then a fairly new medium. It had been a vibrant community of like-minded hobbyists trying to improve their craft. As soon as Yahoo! bought it, it because a Shutterfly / Facebook / Chive wannabe, and almost everybody in my circles abandoned it. Some went to DiviantArt, some tried Picasa, but a lot of us just stopped sharing photos publicly. It was sad: I had a lot of good photos on there, and learned a lot. I still visit from time to time to see if any of my old acquaintances post anything interesting. But basically if it's not HDR or other overly-processed tripe it doesn't make the front page anymore.
When I'm using my kid's iPad Mini, I have to take off my glasses so I can't see the pixels. But then I get eye strain. I find e-ink to be the easiest on the eyes, but that appears to have gone the way of the Zune.
One of the things I haven't seen addressed in these specs is the gap between the pixels. My old hp laptop had lower resolution, but I liked it better than my Dell because I could see teeny tiny little black lines between the pixels. Everybody else thinks I'm crazy. But I took a macro photo of the two screens, and there is definitely a difference.
I was surprised not to see that article on Slashdot, too. But I didn't submit it, did you? If not, then don't complain. This site depends on user submissions. Frankly, shutting Milo up is likely to be as successful as rerouting the Mississippi.
At first, your misspelling of the man's name struck me as humorous. So I googled the right way to spell it. Oddly, there are about half as many hits for "Satay Nutella" as "Satya Nadella." Most of those were indeed posts about the CEO of Microsoft. That would imply either this is a pretty common misspelling, or that it's intentional. Interestingly, there were a couple of hits that were links to recipes for a hazelnut dipping sauce for chicken skewers. YUM!!
But to your actual point. It is amazing how often these sorts of bonus structures have unintended consequences. Like the Office Depot computer people who would get a bonus based on a percentage of people who bought equipment with their stupid extra warranty. Safety bonus programs that reward reporting certain types of events (like trips or hand injuries), now all of a sudden people are dropping hammers on fingers. Or capping out a sales bonus, so a sales person just doesn't bother after he's met his quota.
A well constructed incentive plan is hard to come by.
When did it become OK to bash an entire religious population on slashdot? It seems to be happening a lot more often, and I find it pretty disturbing. Let's try on a different version of your comments.
Baptists are incapable of rational thought or putting things in perspective. Drink, dance, or have anal sex and they go into an uncontrollable rage.
Slashdot Mirror
...the conservative religious are the noisiest...
America: where the "silent majority" is neither.
I wish it were that simple, that a beating heart and formed brain is what defines human-ness. Most pro-lifers (speaking as a recovering Pentecostal) believe that the instant sperm meets egg you have a new soul that must be treated with all human dignity. Never mind the fact that it isn't even a zygote yet. What really boggles the mind is the people who think it's OK to murder abortion providers or bomb Planned Parenthood clinics. Makes me wonder if the study also calculated how much religions take out of the economy.
Off-topic rant: Funny how those guys who do shitty things in the name of Jesus never get called what they are. Always "attacker" or "shooter" or "bomber" but never "terrorist." Yet you never hear the right wing whackadoodles moan and complain about "Why don't politicians say 'Christian terrorist'?"!
It may not indicate what you think. It's possible that Tesla drivers are just bigger d-bags and worse drivers than the average joe blow. It might have nothing to do with autopilot at all. In my part of the country, it's generally assumed that if you drive a fancy car, you have to drive it like a complete asshat.
I see this as a failing of the DIN paper sizes. Sometimes, the different aspect ratios of B and C size drawings are actually advantageous. Not terribly often, but it does matter sometimes.
These are all legit reasons, especially the last one. I have actually had a contactor in an AC unit catch fire. Oddly, my spell check wanted a contractor to catch fire... maybe computers can do Freudian slips?
No, but I know what Scottish robots dream about!
Sometimes one spouse outgrows childish habits and wants an adult partner for life. Sometimes people develop gambling addictions. Sometimes people start listening to short-wave radio and think the black helicopters are out to get them. Sometimes people go nuts and threaten to harm the kids. I really don't think we should consider somebody a failure for knowing when to call it quits. If somebody changes careers just before their industry tanks, we applaud their insight and good timing.
As a survivor of sexual abuse, I can see where the GP is coming from. Look at it this way. You're in a loving relationship with somebody you trust with everything: your money, your body, your truck, your kids, your deepest secrets and fears. (OK, I'm a Texan, so truck might be first on that list.) Then you find out he's been lying and cheating for the last four years. Now it's suddenly as if you've been getting raped for four years and didn't even know it. It's not like you would have consented knowing that he could have picked up god-knows-what VD from his little fuck buddy. Not only that, but the perpetrator has 100% access to your money, your house, and can even take your kids if he has a good lawyer. In some states you can't even insist that he leave the premises.
And the whole "blame the victim" thing is every bit as common with cheating/divorce as it is with rape. How many forums have you read where people just say, "maybe if you would have put out more often" or "maybe if you stayed thin" or "you should have known he was a cheater before you married him." In some states, the spouse getting cheated on has no recompense, either. So implicitly the state is blaming the victim, too.
Sure, it's not the most elegant comparison, but it's not totally beyond the pale.
I've often wondered why this is the case. More states had laws against sodomy than adultery. Yet, to my mind adultery is far more heinous, since there's definitely one party not consenting who will be pretty hurt by the activity. In Texas, you could have a mistress, but you couldn't buttfuck your wife. (at least not legally) For all the talk about "Defense of Marriage" you would think adultery would be one of those things the Congress could agree on. Especially since some people have affairs across state lines (interstate.. ummm.. commerce?). But I guess since most of them are adulterers, they don't want to seem *that* hypocritical.
Just checked the driver's handbook. It doesn't really say one way or another. It just says that if the light is red you must stop before you enter the crosswalk or intersection, and that if it's yellow you must stop if you can do so safely (which is not how most people understand it). It doesn't even have the rule about not entering an intersection on green if you can't get through. And I'm positive that's what I was taught decades ago. So some things must have changed.
It's high time for some civility in our public discourse. If an owner of a private company decides to show the Commander-in-Chief some respect while he's using those services, that is to be applauded. God forbid that Trump should become president, but if he does, I will still show some respect for the office, even if I disdain the person in it. Unfortunately, the censor-able tweets in a Trump Q&A are more likely to come from the other side of the conversation.
My understanding is that was more to do with a long-standing ban on Pokemon in general, since they view it as Zionist for some bizarre reason. But I think that was a fatwa, not necessarily having the same standing as an actual legal ban. My understanding of religion and politics in the Middle East is not 100%, though, so look it up before you travel.
You could always fly Frontier, if you value money over your self-respect and sanity. They sum it up pretty well with their new slogan: "Frontier -- for when Spirit just isn't shitty enough for you!"
When United had it's little hiccup a couple of years ago, I was on my way to Tulsa. I needed to bump my flight time up. Right as I got approved to be on the new flight, their computer system went down. The lady at the counter said, "I guess we'll have to do this the old-fashioned way." She hand-wrote my boarding pass. I still have it stapled to my wall. The lady at the gate looked at it, chuckled, and let me pass. I got on the flight, and the pilot said, "Well, they've told us we can't leave because the corporate computers are having some kind of a problem. But screw those guys, I got clearance from the tower so we're leaving anyway!" To which the whole plane erupted in applause. Here's to people that still know how to do things the old-fashioned way.
Yeah, that was the first thing I tried; it does not affect signing in from sleep. I used the default installation settings, so anything that is "broken" was done by Microsoft. BTW, it's not just me having this problem. Forum. Basically the only way to fix it is to use a local account, not the default integrated-with-everything-Microsoft account. Forgot the official name. But that breaks all of the stuff I got the Surface for, so not worth the trouble. The PIN thing works fine, and it's probably a good habit to be in anyway.
I have a Surface (don't ask, seemed like a good idea at the time). I wish it were as easy as settings in two places. I was trying to make it where I didn't have to enter my password every damn time. There were two different setting locations, neither of them worked. Went into the belly of the beast and fiddled with some of the user profile crap. Didn't work. Found a registry setting that should have fixed it. Didn't work. So even though you have all the settings saying not to check the password, it still checks the password. I finally found a totally different screen that allows you to use a 4-digit PIN. I guess that's no worse than my iPad, but the fact that it took me three days to figure out is INSANE!!
Satan Nutella
Worst. Hazelnut spread. EVAR!!!!
It is well documented that Jesus had a sense of humor. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth!" What a gas!!
They absolutely did. It was one of the saddest parts of my life. I basically gave up photography because of it. At least I have more time for my music now...
I am not alone in this. Once Yahoo! bought Flickr, it immediately ceased being an interesting site for budding photographers to learn about what was then a fairly new medium. It had been a vibrant community of like-minded hobbyists trying to improve their craft. As soon as Yahoo! bought it, it because a Shutterfly / Facebook / Chive wannabe, and almost everybody in my circles abandoned it. Some went to DiviantArt, some tried Picasa, but a lot of us just stopped sharing photos publicly. It was sad: I had a lot of good photos on there, and learned a lot. I still visit from time to time to see if any of my old acquaintances post anything interesting. But basically if it's not HDR or other overly-processed tripe it doesn't make the front page anymore.
When I'm using my kid's iPad Mini, I have to take off my glasses so I can't see the pixels. But then I get eye strain. I find e-ink to be the easiest on the eyes, but that appears to have gone the way of the Zune.
One of the things I haven't seen addressed in these specs is the gap between the pixels. My old hp laptop had lower resolution, but I liked it better than my Dell because I could see teeny tiny little black lines between the pixels. Everybody else thinks I'm crazy. But I took a macro photo of the two screens, and there is definitely a difference.
I was surprised not to see that article on Slashdot, too. But I didn't submit it, did you? If not, then don't complain. This site depends on user submissions. Frankly, shutting Milo up is likely to be as successful as rerouting the Mississippi.
At first, your misspelling of the man's name struck me as humorous. So I googled the right way to spell it. Oddly, there are about half as many hits for "Satay Nutella" as "Satya Nadella." Most of those were indeed posts about the CEO of Microsoft. That would imply either this is a pretty common misspelling, or that it's intentional. Interestingly, there were a couple of hits that were links to recipes for a hazelnut dipping sauce for chicken skewers. YUM!!
But to your actual point. It is amazing how often these sorts of bonus structures have unintended consequences. Like the Office Depot computer people who would get a bonus based on a percentage of people who bought equipment with their stupid extra warranty. Safety bonus programs that reward reporting certain types of events (like trips or hand injuries), now all of a sudden people are dropping hammers on fingers. Or capping out a sales bonus, so a sales person just doesn't bother after he's met his quota.
A well constructed incentive plan is hard to come by.
Baptists are incapable of rational thought or putting things in perspective. Drink, dance, or have anal sex and they go into an uncontrollable rage.
That makes about as much sense.
I read it more like: Hillary = "say whatever is likely to get me elected" and Trump = "say whatever crazy shit comes to mind"
Gary Johnson 2016, or Jill Stein for that matter. Anybody but those two jackwagons.