May I remind you that the U.S. is the only country to win to win 2 Olympic golds in Rubgy, and it happens to also be the only two years they competed, primarily with a team of (american) football players and track athletes?
If the IOC hadn't dropped Rugby from the summer games it'd be interesting to see how developed Rugby in America would be. The reason for the padding, like it or not, is that American football developed into a game with much larger, stronger, faster, players rather than a slogged out game of endurance. It's not a question of superiority or toughness, there are few American football players who I think would be able to play an entire Rugby match in the style they play now, on the other hand I don't see a lot of Rugby players who I think would particularly effective on the NFL field trying to push around guys who would regularly 100lbs heavier and who are built and trained to be very good at pushing for 40 seconds at a time then taking a break.
Read the F.A.Q.: Slashdot is an American website catering primarily to American users. When they say "football" instead of "soccer" you can assume that they're using the American terms for these sports. There's not need to explore context or cultural ramifications.
Because this is about the science of the yellow line not about football. Would you prefer we didn't talk about border security, cars, and replacement limbs because this is news for nerds, not news for travelers/mechanics/the disabled?
Or more correctly, the mechanic not learning how to size his own wrenches, because he can buy them pre-sized in two convenient formats and then get back to his real job.
The problem is, that while they may not be dumb, they refuse to believe that they're completely ignorant and uninformed about the matters they're trying to affect. I know that I don't know a damn thing advanced chemistry, so the last thing I should be doing is getting together my angry mob to go down to the university and demand that they stop experimenting on amino acids because acids are dangerous! How do you respond to something like that without being a little snarky? "I'm sorry but everything you just said is absolutely and complete wrong and I respect you less for having said it."?
The second problem is that once people get it in there head that there's some sort of dark conspiracy no amount of proof or information is usually successful in bringing them back because people only believe what they want to. My aunt believes that denim makes her daughter depressed, these guys think WiFi is any more harmful to them than the other 50K kinds of EM radiation they're being bombarded with from natural and man-made sources.
That you're trying to be a smug shit about the GP suggesting that this wont end until the Palestinians are dead or stop buying into Hamas, completely ignoring that there's been a 60 year campaign to wipe out the Israelis that just hasn't been very successful.
Until the Palestinians come to grips with the fact that they are never going to get that land back unless Israel is in a giving mood, and move on with their existence, there will never be peace. (And that's assuming you believe that the Palestinians would settle for getting what they want unless they also get the destruction of Israel.) Of course that hasn't happened in the last 60 years, and it's probably not going happen any time soon, as GP points out it's a lot more likely that Hamas or some similar group will probably continue to goad Israel until they turn Gaza into a sheet of glass.
Who pays for it is the biggest problem, clearly you don't want to, and neither do companies or government agencies. The problem is there will be cost to be responsible with them, period. There is no market for resale, no real hope for reuse*, and nothing of value in them that can be harvested to make them break even. Thankfully there has been a lot of backlash against the practice of off-shoring all of our waste, and companies are now seeing it as a marketable point to spend the extra money to have it done right. If an extra bullet point on their handouts is the best reason for people to protect the environment than so be it.
*: I work in the industry. Glass to glass recycling has always been the hope, but there just isn't a market domestically for CRT monitors anymore. Not one that can support the amount produced by the retirement of old monitors anyway. I'm away of the program working in SE Asia right now to refurbish and resell monitors and TVs for cheap, but this just delays the problem rather than solving it, and trusts the next user to deal with the waste as responsibly as the first owner was trying to.
The problem is that not all green alternatives are in fact cheaper, especially many that are used in industrial process.
Landfilling CRTs is a lot cheaper than recycling them, incinerating hazardous waste is a lot more expensive than putting it in a drum somewhere to forget about it.
That's funny, one google search for "prius battery replacement" shows that there were issues with the '01-'03 modles all thought they appear to be cleared up in the newer model which does not allow the battery to go move outside of 40-80% charge.
There's also an an aftermarket for replacement batteries from wrecked Priuses so clearly someone needs them.
The funny thing is that Hamas has thousands of weapons that were provided by the state department to the "peaceful moderate factions" which no longer exist, and Isreal has quite a weapons industry. I don't think removing the U.S. from the picture would make the conflict much different.
Speaking of, while you're at it why don't you call the Russians and Chinese to task for what their AK-47s have done to Africa and the Middle East for the last 50 years. What about the French? British? Belgians? Anyone?
Weapons don't cause conflicts, they just affect who wins.
And leads to the death of the population they represent. Sounds pretty selfish, unless you buy into the Hamas rhetoric that they "are the people" and "are the culture" in which case there are no victims.
Analog tuners are non-upgradable components that exist in TVs, very shortly they will be pointless, does that mean that people should have spent the last decade not buying any TV that came with one rather than be burdened by the horror of obsolete components?
What does it matter if there's some "out dated system" in the TV? Does that throw the colors off? Melt the inputs? Is there any difference between a system that no longer works and one that you weren't using in the first place?
If I want to know what's going on in someone's life I ask them, if they give me six pages about how they're going to the store, now looking at pants, going to another store, oh shit I forgot to look at something, this guy cut me off, traffic is bad, I'm in a store, I have to work later, getting read for work, working, work sucks... etc etc etc you'd probably punch them in the face.
The problem with twitter, like facebook statuses, and for many people blogs, is that a lot of people are very poor at filtering how many god awfully minute and mundane status updates they give you.
You mean like all the TVs that have analog tuners in them?
Don't be a cry baby, I'm pretty sure having it in there isn't going to hurt your future video watching ability, and it's not like it's taking up space.
That's been my big problem with the who movement lately. I don't understand how a group of people can espouse freedom and then go out of their way to put every possible roadblock in place to the end user making use of software that does not meet their standards of free. When are we going to get a free software movement that says "We will work for unlimited interoperability so our users are free to use any and all software and hardware, open source proprietary, to best accomplish their needs."
Microsoft for all the demonizing they get around here has been doing a lot less work to control my options in both senses of the word free.
(I know Windows costs money, but it's usually subsidized or pirated anyway, so in my personal domain the cost is 0. Professionally speaking is a whole other story on all fronts for a number of reasons.)
The may have changed it since the last time I used Ubuntu, but opening up third party repositories required (or at least was explained in the how-tos) using both the command line and config file editing.
You must have the premium model, because I don't even bother using my company provided GPS anymore because of how rarely it's of any help at all.
The entire state of Kansas, flat and open, and it can't figure out where I am half the time. It seems to do better in metro areas, but really, if you can't tell me where I am in the middle of nowhere than what use is it to me?
There's a simple solution, and I hope you don't take this as the knee-jerk response of immaturity on the internet:
If you don't like the "lax Western culture", get the fuck out.
How about this, I'm absolutely sickened that you're Christian, or eat meat, or like olive green or facial hair or jazz music. Thankfully we live in a cesspool of degradation that allows these terrible habits from its malformed populace. Last time I checked your system of values and morality is not the gold standard, or even the Wal-Mart standard. If I want to pleasure myself to cartoons, cars, or Rorschach tests that's my right in so far as I do not harm others.
Should we have laws on morality beyond a reasonable belief in harm vs. safety? No.
Naval combat is sadly one of those things that people view as a depressing afterthought, only needed to get troops from one side of the pond to the other.
I have the same desire though, I'd even settle for a really good space navy game. There are a few that come close but they always leave something lacking.
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May I remind you that the U.S. is the only country to win to win 2 Olympic golds in Rubgy, and it happens to also be the only two years they competed, primarily with a team of (american) football players and track athletes?
If the IOC hadn't dropped Rugby from the summer games it'd be interesting to see how developed Rugby in America would be. The reason for the padding, like it or not, is that American football developed into a game with much larger, stronger, faster, players rather than a slogged out game of endurance. It's not a question of superiority or toughness, there are few American football players who I think would be able to play an entire Rugby match in the style they play now, on the other hand I don't see a lot of Rugby players who I think would particularly effective on the NFL field trying to push around guys who would regularly 100lbs heavier and who are built and trained to be very good at pushing for 40 seconds at a time then taking a break.
Read the F.A.Q.: Slashdot is an American website catering primarily to American users. When they say "football" instead of "soccer" you can assume that they're using the American terms for these sports. There's not need to explore context or cultural ramifications.
Because this is about the science of the yellow line not about football. Would you prefer we didn't talk about border security, cars, and replacement limbs because this is news for nerds, not news for travelers/mechanics/the disabled?
Or more correctly, the mechanic not learning how to size his own wrenches, because he can buy them pre-sized in two convenient formats and then get back to his real job.
The problem is, that while they may not be dumb, they refuse to believe that they're completely ignorant and uninformed about the matters they're trying to affect. I know that I don't know a damn thing advanced chemistry, so the last thing I should be doing is getting together my angry mob to go down to the university and demand that they stop experimenting on amino acids because acids are dangerous! How do you respond to something like that without being a little snarky? "I'm sorry but everything you just said is absolutely and complete wrong and I respect you less for having said it."?
The second problem is that once people get it in there head that there's some sort of dark conspiracy no amount of proof or information is usually successful in bringing them back because people only believe what they want to. My aunt believes that denim makes her daughter depressed, these guys think WiFi is any more harmful to them than the other 50K kinds of EM radiation they're being bombarded with from natural and man-made sources.
You did catch that he's just being a smartass right?
"Flynt and Francis concede the industry itself is in no financial danger"
That you're trying to be a smug shit about the GP suggesting that this wont end until the Palestinians are dead or stop buying into Hamas, completely ignoring that there's been a 60 year campaign to wipe out the Israelis that just hasn't been very successful.
Until the Palestinians come to grips with the fact that they are never going to get that land back unless Israel is in a giving mood, and move on with their existence, there will never be peace. (And that's assuming you believe that the Palestinians would settle for getting what they want unless they also get the destruction of Israel.) Of course that hasn't happened in the last 60 years, and it's probably not going happen any time soon, as GP points out it's a lot more likely that Hamas or some similar group will probably continue to goad Israel until they turn Gaza into a sheet of glass.
Who pays for it is the biggest problem, clearly you don't want to, and neither do companies or government agencies. The problem is there will be cost to be responsible with them, period. There is no market for resale, no real hope for reuse*, and nothing of value in them that can be harvested to make them break even. Thankfully there has been a lot of backlash against the practice of off-shoring all of our waste, and companies are now seeing it as a marketable point to spend the extra money to have it done right. If an extra bullet point on their handouts is the best reason for people to protect the environment than so be it.
*: I work in the industry. Glass to glass recycling has always been the hope, but there just isn't a market domestically for CRT monitors anymore. Not one that can support the amount produced by the retirement of old monitors anyway. I'm away of the program working in SE Asia right now to refurbish and resell monitors and TVs for cheap, but this just delays the problem rather than solving it, and trusts the next user to deal with the waste as responsibly as the first owner was trying to.
The problem is that not all green alternatives are in fact cheaper, especially many that are used in industrial process. Landfilling CRTs is a lot cheaper than recycling them, incinerating hazardous waste is a lot more expensive than putting it in a drum somewhere to forget about it.
That's funny, one google search for "prius battery replacement" shows that there were issues with the '01-'03 modles all thought they appear to be cleared up in the newer model which does not allow the battery to go move outside of 40-80% charge.
There's also an an aftermarket for replacement batteries from wrecked Priuses so clearly someone needs them.
Well they tried just getting rid of Isreal, but that plan also failed, a lot.
The funny thing is that Hamas has thousands of weapons that were provided by the state department to the "peaceful moderate factions" which no longer exist, and Isreal has quite a weapons industry. I don't think removing the U.S. from the picture would make the conflict much different.
Speaking of, while you're at it why don't you call the Russians and Chinese to task for what their AK-47s have done to Africa and the Middle East for the last 50 years. What about the French? British? Belgians? Anyone?
Weapons don't cause conflicts, they just affect who wins.
And leads to the death of the population they represent. Sounds pretty selfish, unless you buy into the Hamas rhetoric that they "are the people" and "are the culture" in which case there are no victims.
I would doubt it, even though the IRS requires him to report himself as a small business.
Then again, he also doesn't get health care or the 401(k).
Analog tuners are non-upgradable components that exist in TVs, very shortly they will be pointless, does that mean that people should have spent the last decade not buying any TV that came with one rather than be burdened by the horror of obsolete components?
What does it matter if there's some "out dated system" in the TV? Does that throw the colors off? Melt the inputs? Is there any difference between a system that no longer works and one that you weren't using in the first place?
They're both wackadoos, but I'll save my Ballmer pay-by-the-hour critiques for an article about that.
If I want to know what's going on in someone's life I ask them, if they give me six pages about how they're going to the store, now looking at pants, going to another store, oh shit I forgot to look at something, this guy cut me off, traffic is bad, I'm in a store, I have to work later, getting read for work, working, work sucks... etc etc etc you'd probably punch them in the face.
The problem with twitter, like facebook statuses, and for many people blogs, is that a lot of people are very poor at filtering how many god awfully minute and mundane status updates they give you.
You mean like all the TVs that have analog tuners in them?
Don't be a cry baby, I'm pretty sure having it in there isn't going to hurt your future video watching ability, and it's not like it's taking up space.
I had to wiki her, but the two points of note in it are both lawsuits.
Thumbs down to litigious Bay area sex bloggers.
I don't know how that got posted as anonymous.
That's been my big problem with the who movement lately. I don't understand how a group of people can espouse freedom and then go out of their way to put every possible roadblock in place to the end user making use of software that does not meet their standards of free. When are we going to get a free software movement that says "We will work for unlimited interoperability so our users are free to use any and all software and hardware, open source proprietary, to best accomplish their needs."
Microsoft for all the demonizing they get around here has been doing a lot less work to control my options in both senses of the word free.
(I know Windows costs money, but it's usually subsidized or pirated anyway, so in my personal domain the cost is 0. Professionally speaking is a whole other story on all fronts for a number of reasons.)
The may have changed it since the last time I used Ubuntu, but opening up third party repositories required (or at least was explained in the how-tos) using both the command line and config file editing.
You must have the premium model, because I don't even bother using my company provided GPS anymore because of how rarely it's of any help at all. The entire state of Kansas, flat and open, and it can't figure out where I am half the time. It seems to do better in metro areas, but really, if you can't tell me where I am in the middle of nowhere than what use is it to me?
There's a simple solution, and I hope you don't take this as the knee-jerk response of immaturity on the internet:
If you don't like the "lax Western culture", get the fuck out.
How about this, I'm absolutely sickened that you're Christian, or eat meat, or like olive green or facial hair or jazz music. Thankfully we live in a cesspool of degradation that allows these terrible habits from its malformed populace. Last time I checked your system of values and morality is not the gold standard, or even the Wal-Mart standard. If I want to pleasure myself to cartoons, cars, or Rorschach tests that's my right in so far as I do not harm others.
Should we have laws on morality beyond a reasonable belief in harm vs. safety? No.
Naval combat is sadly one of those things that people view as a depressing afterthought, only needed to get troops from one side of the pond to the other.
I have the same desire though, I'd even settle for a really good space navy game. There are a few that come close but they always leave something lacking.