When South Africa did this (to black people, rather than women), under Apartheid, the civilized world rightly condemned it, and imposed trade sanctions.
Where are the trade embargoes on Saudi Arabia? They're in contravention of the UN declaration of Human Rights.
Hmm... Does South Africa have any substantial Oil reserves/production for export? No? There's your answer.
Rupert Murdock, is loathed by most of the readers of Slashdot as the owner of Fox News and as the company which put the overly complicated paywall on the Wall Street Journal.
Do you know how easy it'd be for someone with a middle name to trip that heuristic? By that measure, you'd trust only one of the last five U.S. Presidents.
Ronald Wilson Reagan: oaioeaa (7)
George Herbert Walker Bush: eoeeeaeu (8)
William Jefferson Clinton: iiaeeoio (8)
George Walker Bush: eoeaeu (6)
Barack Hussein Obama: aaueioaa (8)
Your point being?
But apples vs. oranges anyway. I don't know Ucha Gobejishvili's middle name (if he even has one), else I might have upped the minimum number, if I hadn't been completely joking... Though 7 vowels in just a first+last name seems excessive; I blame his parents.
Maybe GNOME folks should indeed remove the classic mode and focus on whatever their goal is rather than trying to keep an unsupported classic mode, ending up with a Jekyll and Hide type of DE.
You mean like Windows 8 / Metro, or to a lesser extent, Unity? Seems everyone wants us to have a new and better "user experience". Funny how "new" and "better" don't always actually seem to go together. I don't recall reading - anywhere - about major UI productivity woes with GNOME2, Windows XP/7, Office (pre-ribbon) etc... You know, Classic Coke.
The home the brave, where we fear unusual timepieces and footwear.
Tragic. And it's not like his watch was a Urwerk or something weird from Think Geek...
(Man those Urwerk watches are cool - if only I had $150k to blow on a watch...)
Reading the Telegraph (fairly respectable paper) article, it actually links back to a story on the Daily Mail.
Since the latter is a hate-filled gutter rag that makes up whatever lies suit its agenda, I'd suggest taking this story with a vary large pinch of salt.
Correction, the latter is a hate-filled gutter rag read by a huge part of middle class England which believes what it prints (which is the real problem)
So, it's like the Wall Street Journal - especially the Op-Ed pages - as read by rich people in the US ?
You don't think the same folks who will try to regulate speech in meatspace would try and do the same online?
Sure, intolerance comes in baby steps. (And, I totally agree with your original post.)
Personally, I believe there's a time and place for all kind of speech, but I try to be mindful of my audience and speak appropriately. Rude and crude is not always appropriate or, more importantly, necessary, but some times it is either and/or both. As George Carlin said (perhaps paraphrasing), "There are no dirty words. Dirty thoughts and intentions, but no dirty words." So, people need to just grow the fuck up - about all kinds of things.
My philosophy is: If you're reasonable, I'm reasonable; if you're unreasonable, I can be just as unreasonable; if you want to make it a contest as to who can be more unreasonable, I'm probably going to win.
That being said, my mom used AT&T. They never got her bill right...
My parents used to have Verizon Wireless many years ago. They still get a bill from Verizon for $0.00 every month.
Many calls to the Verizon billing department have failed to stop this.
This can sometimes be quite effective. Here's an unrelated example...
When SunTrust bank told me they were dropping support for ATM-only cards and "upgrading" them to ATM/Debit cards, I complained that I didn't (and never) want a debit card. The branch manager had no real solution except to NOT activate the debit card, assuring me that it would still work for ATM usage - and it did. However, I kept getting mail from SunTrust reminding me that I hadn't activated my card yet. I finally wrote the president of SunTrust to explain my situation, my dislike of debit cards, and that I would switch my accounts to another bank if forced to accept a debit card - I'm not rich, but my accounts are not small (okay, maybe a little rich).
Apparently, I wasn't the only one who complained.
I now have an ATM-only SunTrust card.
[ For anyone interested, you have to specifically ask for this type of card and your branch might be clueless. ]
I hope you are joking. "Under-performing" doesn't mean "idiot" or "turkey" or imply incompetence or malfeasance as TFS would have us believe. To the contrary. someone capable of doing things requiring the type of audit you suggest would probably not be an under-performing employee.
No, not the walk, the fact that she actually went to get some facts. In reality, I bet she was just really pissed off at Rove for being a hyper-partisan dick. You're correct that it was difficult to find pundit-free air time on Fox, but it was there and not badly done.
Of course, any (marginal) good will Fox earned was immediately blown when the usual ass-hats (Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, etc) got on the air and asserted that Romney lost because the people who voted for Obama are ignorant parasites who "want stuff and things" from the government - as opposed to all the old, rich, white, straight men that voted for Romney (you know, the "job creators") that just want money and power...
That doesn't take away from Silver's math, though, considering that the polls all had Obama and Romney neck and neck and Obama won by a huge margin.
Actually, it wasn't "all the polls" that said that, just some of the polls. His math actually took all the polls into consideration and their vectors, which is the point. Additionally, while Obama won by a large Electoral College margin, the Popular Vote was rather close - something the Republicans will try to remind us all of in the months to come as they try to find some grip on reality.
Pundits were creating the illusion of close races to drive up viewing.
Of they are simply delusional - to the very end. Example: Live Fox News coverage exchange between Meghan Kelly and Karl Rove just after Fox predicted an Ohio win for President Obama and, thus, the election. Rove said they were flat-out wrong and Kelly said:
Is this just math you do as a Republican to make you feel better, or is it real?
Karl assured her that his "math" was real. Kelly then trotted off to talk with the statisticians who explained their math and stood by their results with "99.95% certainty."
I really hate to say this, but "Yay Meghan" and, except for the talking-head pundits they had on, Fox actually did a rather professional job of covering the election (I flipped through all the major channels), though it was probably because they were expecting a huge Romney win... (especially considering how quickly they signed off after Obama's acceptance speech)
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC called him a “joke,” while an op-ed in the LA Times accused him of running a “numbers racket.” The Examiner dismissed him as a “thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice.” Even the legendary David Brooks claimed that his work was “getting into silly land.”
I'm sure they will all apologize to Nate for their rude behavior and comments in 3... 2... 1.../sarcasm
The evangelicals have a hard-on about any depiction of magic, even fictional.
Yes, but they unquestioningly believe that God and miracles exist... (Which is, of course, nothing but magic by another name.) To each their own delusions I say and I will tolerate theirs if they will tolerate mine, which, I have found, they generally won't.
The way you make sure the machine does not switch your vote after you leave is that the machine prints out a prefilled paper ballot for you that is exactly the same as a paper ballot. And this paper ballot can be visually verified and validated normally before it goes into the same pile as all the other ballots to be counted normally.
Unfortunately, some states, like Virginia (mine), don't use machines that print paper receipts.
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When South Africa did this (to black people, rather than women), under Apartheid, the civilized world rightly condemned it, and imposed trade sanctions. Where are the trade embargoes on Saudi Arabia? They're in contravention of the UN declaration of Human Rights.
Hmm... Does South Africa have any substantial Oil reserves/production for export? No? There's your answer.
Rupert Murdock, is loathed by most of the readers of Slashdot as the owner of Fox News and as the company which put the overly complicated paywall on the Wall Street Journal.
FTFY
Never trust a guy with 7+ vowels in his name...
Do you know how easy it'd be for someone with a middle name to trip that heuristic? By that measure, you'd trust only one of the last five U.S. Presidents.
Your point being?
But apples vs. oranges anyway. I don't know Ucha Gobejishvili's middle name (if he even has one), else I might have upped the minimum number, if I hadn't been completely joking... Though 7 vowels in just a first+last name seems excessive; I blame his parents.
Never trust a guy with 7+ vowels in his name...
Maybe GNOME folks should indeed remove the classic mode and focus on whatever their goal is rather than trying to keep an unsupported classic mode, ending up with a Jekyll and Hide type of DE.
You mean like Windows 8 / Metro, or to a lesser extent, Unity? Seems everyone wants us to have a new and better "user experience". Funny how "new" and "better" don't always actually seem to go together. I don't recall reading - anywhere - about major UI productivity woes with GNOME2, Windows XP/7, Office (pre-ribbon) etc... You know, Classic Coke.
'An overtly negative or critical connotation.'
Yeah imagine people being critical. Even worse: People being critical with a frown on their face!
Just wait until they hear about ".gov" and ".mil" ... overtly negative or critical connotation indeed.
This new, injectable sponge ... has a memory and can be collapsed down to a tiny fraction of its original size.
So does my kitchen sponge.
The home the brave, where we fear unusual timepieces and footwear.
Tragic. And it's not like his watch was a Urwerk or something weird from Think Geek...
(Man those Urwerk watches are cool - if only I had $150k to blow on a watch...)
Reading the Telegraph (fairly respectable paper) article, it actually links back to a story on the Daily Mail.
Since the latter is a hate-filled gutter rag that makes up whatever lies suit its agenda, I'd suggest taking this story with a vary large pinch of salt.
Correction, the latter is a hate-filled gutter rag read by a huge part of middle class England which believes what it prints (which is the real problem)
So, it's like the Wall Street Journal - especially the Op-Ed pages - as read by rich people in the US ?
Because porn isn't dangerous. Crazy people that use porn as an excuse for their actions are dangerous.
FTFY
(I know you were being sarcastic and/or facetious, but thought this point was important too.)
You don't think the same folks who will try to regulate speech in meatspace would try and do the same online?
Sure, intolerance comes in baby steps. (And, I totally agree with your original post.)
Personally, I believe there's a time and place for all kind of speech, but I try to be mindful of my audience and speak appropriately. Rude and crude is not always appropriate or, more importantly, necessary, but some times it is either and/or both. As George Carlin said (perhaps paraphrasing), "There are no dirty words. Dirty thoughts and intentions, but no dirty words." So, people need to just grow the fuck up - about all kinds of things.
My philosophy is: If you're reasonable, I'm reasonable; if you're unreasonable, I can be just as unreasonable; if you want to make it a contest as to who can be more unreasonable, I'm probably going to win.
Most if not all were being deliberately obnoxious rather than just voicing a genuine opinion.
A genuine opinion can also be deliberately obnoxious.
Besides, there a place for stuff like that: 4chan ... (especially /b/ - yikes!)
That being said, my mom used AT&T. They never got her bill right...
My parents used to have Verizon Wireless many years ago. They still get a bill from Verizon for $0.00 every month. Many calls to the Verizon billing department have failed to stop this.
Why not mail the executive office?
This can sometimes be quite effective. Here's an unrelated example...
When SunTrust bank told me they were dropping support for ATM-only cards and "upgrading" them to ATM/Debit cards, I complained that I didn't (and never) want a debit card. The branch manager had no real solution except to NOT activate the debit card, assuring me that it would still work for ATM usage - and it did. However, I kept getting mail from SunTrust reminding me that I hadn't activated my card yet. I finally wrote the president of SunTrust to explain my situation, my dislike of debit cards, and that I would switch my accounts to another bank if forced to accept a debit card - I'm not rich, but my accounts are not small (okay, maybe a little rich).
Apparently, I wasn't the only one who complained.
I now have an ATM-only SunTrust card.
[ For anyone interested, you have to specifically ask for this type of card and your branch might be clueless. ]
People like to bitch but the 50 States together are a superpower. Separately they're just little countries.
Ya. No would ever be afraid of a little country, like Italy, Germany or Japan - oh, wait... :-)
The Texas petition needs only 7,000 more signatures to trigger an official White House response.
... No.
I hope you are joking. "Under-performing" doesn't mean "idiot" or "turkey" or imply incompetence or malfeasance as TFS would have us believe. To the contrary. someone capable of doing things requiring the type of audit you suggest would probably not be an under-performing employee.
And the Autohop feature lets viewers skip advertisements completely — rather than fast-forwarding through them — at the press of a button.
So... It can now do what my MythTV system could do since ... forever?
No, not the walk, the fact that she actually went to get some facts. In reality, I bet she was just really pissed off at Rove for being a hyper-partisan dick. You're correct that it was difficult to find pundit-free air time on Fox, but it was there and not badly done.
Of course, any (marginal) good will Fox earned was immediately blown when the usual ass-hats (Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, etc) got on the air and asserted that Romney lost because the people who voted for Obama are ignorant parasites who "want stuff and things" from the government - as opposed to all the old, rich, white, straight men that voted for Romney (you know, the "job creators") that just want money and power ...
That doesn't take away from Silver's math, though, considering that the polls all had Obama and Romney neck and neck and Obama won by a huge margin.
Actually, it wasn't "all the polls" that said that, just some of the polls. His math actually took all the polls into consideration and their vectors, which is the point. Additionally, while Obama won by a large Electoral College margin, the Popular Vote was rather close - something the Republicans will try to remind us all of in the months to come as they try to find some grip on reality.
Pundits were creating the illusion of close races to drive up viewing.
Of they are simply delusional - to the very end. Example: Live Fox News coverage exchange between Meghan Kelly and Karl Rove just after Fox predicted an Ohio win for President Obama and, thus, the election. Rove said they were flat-out wrong and Kelly said:
Is this just math you do as a Republican to make you feel better, or is it real?
Karl assured her that his "math" was real. Kelly then trotted off to talk with the statisticians who explained their math and stood by their results with "99.95% certainty."
I really hate to say this, but "Yay Meghan" and, except for the talking-head pundits they had on, Fox actually did a rather professional job of covering the election (I flipped through all the major channels), though it was probably because they were expecting a huge Romney win... (especially considering how quickly they signed off after Obama's acceptance speech)
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC called him a “joke,” while an op-ed in the LA Times accused him of running a “numbers racket.” The Examiner dismissed him as a “thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice.” Even the legendary David Brooks claimed that his work was “getting into silly land.”
I'm sure they will all apologize to Nate for their rude behavior and comments in 3... 2... 1... /sarcasm
The evangelicals have a hard-on about any depiction of magic, even fictional.
Yes, but they unquestioningly believe that God and miracles exist... (Which is, of course, nothing but magic by another name.) To each their own delusions I say and I will tolerate theirs if they will tolerate mine, which, I have found, they generally won't.
The weather was here, wish you were beautiful.
The way you make sure the machine does not switch your vote after you leave is that the machine prints out a prefilled paper ballot for you that is exactly the same as a paper ballot. And this paper ballot can be visually verified and validated normally before it goes into the same pile as all the other ballots to be counted normally.
Unfortunately, some states, like Virginia (mine), don't use machines that print paper receipts.