If they are electing a lawyer it is pretty obvious what they consider important.
If you're going to leap to conclusions about someone you've never met based on their profession, then I can assume you'll be picked to head the next committee of people in charge of living in their mothers' basements.
How about you do some research before you just bash the guy?
And of course, meth busts aren't for people who can read anyway; the drug war is free job security for politicians courtesy of those voters who don't have the sense to pour piss out of a boot, much less read, along with the various other wars against our right to make personal choices.
So, if a meth lab was busted next door to your house, or your kids' school, or your job you wouldn't want to know about it? Regardless of your stand on drug enforcement, if you saw 15 cop cars on the neighbor's front yard, you wouldn't be just a little curious what's going on? You must be really stoned to not want to care that little about what's happening in the world around you.
IEEE, CIPM, SAE, NIST, CENELEC, and the European Union.
I'll give you the first five, but the E.U.? Who wants the E.U. making standards? These are the people who get store owners fined for selling bananas in the local weight and came up with a 1,000-page constitution only readable by lawyers while the Americans managed to come up with a one-page constitution readable by anyone. If you're going to support your argument, don't weaken it by leaning on the E freaking U.
We can instead use the money on more important things like social services, education and sceence. Let's hope you guys over there catch up to us soon.....;-)
Maybe you could use some of that whale hunting money to learn some manners and humility. Pride goes before a fall.
Use your brain to understand context. It's not that hard.
While we're talking about context, it's important to understand that the U.S. government isn't the only organization subject to political whims when making measurements.
Remember that one kilometer isn't some measurement derived from an impartial mathematical measurement of nature -- it's the distance from the North Pole to Paris divided by 1,000. Logic would dictate that it's a measurement to the equator or some other neutral location, but the French have hijacked the measurement of distance for their own purposes. So much for SI being "scientific."
This sort of thing is science when it works at its best. Someone throws something out there, and another scientist checks it, and bam, we learn something.
Did we learn something? As far as I can tell we're back where we started.
I had a similar experience last spring. I purchased a sack of manure from the gardening wholesaler and when I got home and opened the bag it was full of F# documentation.
This story has been published in the Consumerist and now on Slashdot without either publication checking facts and looking for at least talking points from Best Buy itself. As far as I'm concerned, this story may yet be true, but all I can safely assume is that someone took some pictures of bathroom tiles wrapped in newspaper next to his HDD box in the hopes of scamming Best Buy out of a second drive for free or perhaps just defaming them as revenge for something unrelated. I agree with the columnist in the Consumerist that if this fellow does want to take the issue seriously he should file a complaint for theft and/or a consumer complaint with the Attorney General's office. Up to now, all we're doing by disseminating this story is continuing to feed the anonymous-libel monster.
Exactly. This illustrates the difference between journalism and blogging. When a blogger makes stuff up, people shrug and look the other way. When a journalist makes stuff up, he loses his job. Without accountability there can be no journalism in the so-called "blogosphere."
Any time I'm in there it's nothing but a bunch of assholes trying to shove sales down your throat, sign you up for credit cards, etc.
I had exactly the opposite experience this Summer. I went in to spend $6,000 on a new HDTV. I was just about the only one in the store, but none of the sales droids would talk to me. I guess I looked too much like I knew what I was doing.
After about 20 minutes I walked out and gave my cash to a local mom-and-pop shop and have been thrilled with my new TV ever since.
Here's how to get rid of botnets: license computer users.
Yeah, because that's worked so well for keeping the roadways safe. And keeping corrupt doctors and lawyers from practicing. And making sure no restaurants ever sicken people.
You should consider yourself part of the problem, not part of the solution. Try coming up with solutions instead of excuses.
In the words of an old (very successful and now very rich) boss... "Just make it happen."
Mail a letter to the address with a URL where they have to go to and it asks them what domains are registered - If they don't reply or can't input it, then F-em.
I mailed a letter to a domain once based on the address listed in its WhoIs record. A week later the letter came back stamped from the post office indicating the address doesn't exist.
I reported it to GoDaddy, the registrar, and they were quite rude about it and wouldn't take the complaint unless I mailed them the bounced letter. Since the letter was of a business nature (and completely legit -- not domain registration spam or anything like that) I couldn't turn it over to GoDaddy and when I told them they said that nothing would be done.
Regardless if you agree with their goals or not, they left credibility behind a long time ago.
No kidding. On Michigan Avenue and State Street in Chicago Greenpeace deploys brainwashed high school kids begging for money in the streets like common vagrants. It doesn't cast their "movement" in the best light.
How about Greenpeace gives back to average hard working Joes the money its little stock-panicing publicity stunts suck out of retirement accounts?
does not try to control the way I use my computer (as the iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV do)
What's your beef with AppleTV? And how does it possibly control your computer use? Start making sense, man.
I love my AppleTV. It plays my entire collection of ripped DVDs, so now I can keep those hundreds of silly little discs on a spindle in the cupboard while I stream the video to my TV. It's fantastic. Sounds like you're just another Slashdot griefer.
You don't consider this a feature, do you? I'd rather be able to choose which media that I use rather than have Apple dictate that I only use certain discs.
I can see it both ways. Sometimes you want to slap in whatever disc you have lying around for a quick burn. For my purposes, I use very high quality media because it's what my clients expect, and it has to last a long time. If I was in the sort of job where that didn't matter, I might think differently. I don't think of it as Apple dictating what discs I can use. I think of it as Apple making sure I don't waste my time making unreliable discs that won't last. Garbage in - garbage out.
I also wouldn't necessarily consider macs wanting high quality RAM chips a good thing either... as somebody with an E.E. degree, that tells me that they have designed so poorly that the slightest value variation will break everything. IMO, it is a better design if you can deal with a wider variety of specs.
It's not about the hardware, it's about the software. It was explained to me once on another web site, but I didn't retain the information. It was too technical for me. But it's the same reason you used to be able to get away with the cheap RAM in Windows boxes, too. But now even Microsoft wants the good stuff.
To compare an Apple to a Porsche is confirmation to me that I don't need one. I'll stick with Linux.
I understand. I used to drive a pick-up truck when I was young, too.
If there is a Wikipedia entry for "Moral Lifestyle due to religious beliefs" the picture would be of a Buddist.
I wouldn't go that far. There are as many shades of Buddhists as there are Christians.
There have been plenty of occasions where Buddhists have picked up guns and shot people or planted bombs, etc... in the disputed regions of the world (China, Tibet, and so on) and still call themselves Buddhists. Just like there are people who do un-Christian acts and still call themselves Christians. The problem is that we as Westerners (I assume you are one, too) don't know about it because of a lack of media coverage caused by language barriers, the remoteness of the incidents, and other factors.
The Western image of the fat, smiling, passive Buddhist is accurate as often as the Western image of the pious, charitable, humble Christian.
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How about you do some research before you just bash the guy?
It seems the simple solution is to just do the counting in base 820. Great. Just when I was getting hex down.
Remember that one kilometer isn't some measurement derived from an impartial mathematical measurement of nature -- it's the distance from the North Pole to Paris divided by 1,000. Logic would dictate that it's a measurement to the equator or some other neutral location, but the French have hijacked the measurement of distance for their own purposes. So much for SI being "scientific."
After about 20 minutes I walked out and gave my cash to a local mom-and-pop shop and have been thrilled with my new TV ever since.
You should consider yourself part of the problem, not part of the solution. Try coming up with solutions instead of excuses.
In the words of an old (very successful and now very rich) boss... "Just make it happen."
I reported it to GoDaddy, the registrar, and they were quite rude about it and wouldn't take the complaint unless I mailed them the bounced letter. Since the letter was of a business nature (and completely legit -- not domain registration spam or anything like that) I couldn't turn it over to GoDaddy and when I told them they said that nothing would be done.
How about Greenpeace gives back to average hard working Joes the money its little stock-panicing publicity stunts suck out of retirement accounts?
I love my AppleTV. It plays my entire collection of ripped DVDs, so now I can keep those hundreds of silly little discs on a spindle in the cupboard while I stream the video to my TV. It's fantastic. Sounds like you're just another Slashdot griefer.
There have been plenty of occasions where Buddhists have picked up guns and shot people or planted bombs, etc... in the disputed regions of the world (China, Tibet, and so on) and still call themselves Buddhists. Just like there are people who do un-Christian acts and still call themselves Christians. The problem is that we as Westerners (I assume you are one, too) don't know about it because of a lack of media coverage caused by language barriers, the remoteness of the incidents, and other factors.
The Western image of the fat, smiling, passive Buddhist is accurate as often as the Western image of the pious, charitable, humble Christian.
(Proud former operator of an ARBnet BBS -- 300bps public networked e-mail back in 1984)