I agree that he should have paid, and that why would the risk their life, if you can't even give such a small amount.
However, the private fire departments creating arsonists isn't really a problem. Though it did happen, it also happens with public fire departments. In fact, it is rife (relatively speaking) within the fire fighting profession, because arsonists are just drawn to it, as are people with hero complexes and similar.
Either way, whether it's public or private, you're going to have these problems, but we've got pretty good investigative methods to handle that now, and I think they might even process these people like they do police (eg, finger prints, DNA, all of file).
Legally, you might find enforcing that contract hard, since it was made at the very last moment, and could be considered that one party had too much negotiating power. I'm doing a lot of commercial law at the moment though IANAL, and everyday I read heaps of cases where one person helped another for an agreed sum, and the other person just didn't pay in the end, and it was thrown out.
He knew there was a risk that his house would burn down, so he should have paid. If you want to be the dick who doesn't pay, then I am behind them 100%. Hopefully this will serve as a painful and valuable message to those in that community.
However, I hope they at least kept it under controlled and limited to just his house. Where I live (South Australia), letting one house burn is extremely dangerous for all of the houses around it. That shit spreads so quickly, and could end up setting fire to houses that are paying. If my house got burnt down, because they let his house burn, I'd be pissed and filing a suit. However, I am sure this would have been taken into account.
Come on, don't loose your temper over this, you just need to lose your pants a little and relax. Everybody knows the difference between lose and loose, it's really obvious. One has 2 o's in it, but they both mean the same thing... really.
You're an idiot. You care about people based on the context of the situation. Most people care plenty about the lives of others, only a few sociopaths wouldn't. If your model of other people is that they don't care, then your model is that these people are all sociopaths, and is an insane model to use.
If you are driving your car doing something which doesn't seem reckless, then you are being perfectly caring. If you then crash or have some horrific accident, only with the knowledge that this will be the outcome, can we retrospectively say "You weren't being careful enough". However, since most people do these things, talk on their phone, text, etc, all while driving, and have no problems what so ever. We know that most times we'll be fine, and so we are being careful. If however you drive around with the assumption that you are going to be in a car crash if you do any of these things, then you would probably be anxious a lot of the time, and you'd never do these things.
Finally we have developed hair washing technology. I have struggled with this all my life, and Panasonic feels my pain. It is so confusing to was your hair, sometimes I use all 10 fingers (and thumbs), while other times I only use 6. I am unable to maintain consistency, and I'm never sure how much I should wash and rinse. Sometimes I don't rinse, other times I spend the rest of the day rinsing. The portability of this machine will make it practical in every day life, I could take it to work with me, take it on a holiday, and wash my hair to the machines content. Luckily the two robot arms have the same dexterity as human fingers, because my fingers have the same dexterity as robot fingers. In this way, we will be a perfect match.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost.
Seriously mine make as much sense as yours. It's amazing how the efficacy of union's to basically stop anything bad from happening, is completely unquestioned by most people. It's almost as if you believe that unions are these awesome omnipotent entities which can tell businesses what's going to happen, and it does. It's like this is the null hypothesis. I'd almost guess that none of you have studied the history of unions. Say it isn't so!
Just because a disaster happened, does not mean that given they were in a union, that it wouldn't have happened.
I agree. Monopolies / Oligopolies / Cartels are awesome. They succeed by having overwhelming market power, and enforcing a determined price/quantity/benefits/etc, regardless of the externalities, or the true value of their goods/services. This is why OPEC and De Beers are so great, and why everybody loves them. Really, I think we all know, that you're goods/services are not worth what other people would pay for them, but instead are worth whatever you can collude to make them pay. That's the true spirit trade.
LOL Yeah it was hilarious when people were complaining about being unable to get on Facebook. So funny that people need services to keep in contact with others, it's like why don't you just talk to them in person? I mean like, HELLO, am I the only one getting this? Geeze. If it's so important to you then you should be more redundant with your services, like, everyone knows that!
Not because of product quality, though that seems significantly superior, but because they seem to be way more in tune with the nerd culture. Buckyballs should be ashamed of themselves for issuing a DMCA takedown notice. No geek/nerd would stoop so low.
In comparison, Zen Magnets seems to be kicking it nerdcore, which is how I roll.
ThinkGeek, you need to drop Buckyballs and pick up Zen Magnets. You gotta protect your nerd points, and getting behind a DMCA abuser, and a company which doesn't seem to understand the geek culture, is not cool. Drop Buckyballs, pick up Zen Magnets!
That's fine. It's not direct, and would be on my government loan then. I wish the textbooks were on my government loan too. But there are problems with that, but I'd prefer not to have to struggle with the costs now, when I've little to no income.
I'm pretty sure I'd find a way to pirate still. Also, it says a free iPad. So the net difference would be that I gain portability, searchability, and similar.
Seriously, I go to Adelaide Uni, and I have friends at UniSA and Flinders, and I haven't heard of anyone trailing it or banning physical textbooks. This would be fucking awesome, and I've been championing this for years. If I could get all of my textbooks on some eReader (iPad or elsewise), especially if it was an open standard, I could actually carry my books with me everywhere, and it would be a lot easier to study with. As it stands, textbooks are heavy, cumbersome, bad to navigate/search, and extremely expensive. I'd be willing to spend a lot of money on a fixed cost (eReader) to reduce my variable costs (textbooks). As it stands I spend 1,200 AUD a year on textbooks, and some of my textbooks are fucking written by the lecturers... who I'm already paying about 1,000 AUD (though admittedly on a government loan).
Anyhow, this would be great tech, and especially with my more abstract math, some visualizations and interactivity could help. The graphs are a good start, but sometimes you need to visualize the graphs changing, and that can be tricky.
I'm sure slow old Adelaide will take 20-30 years to implement anything like this, which means I'll totally miss out on any of this sort of stuff. Fie for shame.
It would also give me a rationalization to buy an eReader.
Wow, Slashdot won't allow me to post with that ratio of non-caps to caps. So I need to write all of this to correct the ratio. The error says "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.".
Dear robotic automated moderating overlord, I know it's like yelling, that's the effect I was going for. Obviously your algorithm is shit, because you don't seem to understand context... or love. Sincerely, definate
This does not imply a trend, since these groups are entirely different.
If the same group does it over time, then we see a trend. Compare random samples of adults over time and then you get a trend. You do not get a trend when you compare teenagers to adults.
This does not imply a trend, since these groups are entirely different.
If the same group does it over time, then we see a trend. Compare random samples of adults over time and then you get a trend. You do not get a trend when you compare teenagers to adults.
Move along, there is absolutely nothing to see here.
And all we had to do was set aside disproportionate amounts of capital and give extreme leniency to their entire budget. What a bargain!
It's weird that this is apparently such a beneficial vehicle, but for some reason nobody has created one before this. I guess we in the non-military world, just totally don't get it. But once the military spends an inordinate amount of money, then we'll realize that this is super beneficial, and that if they hadn't of done it, that we should have.
*I was being sarcastic above*
Your discussion and others in this thread about the value of this sort of technology, is extremely simplistic, and basically treats the military as some exogenous entity which doesn't affect us. Even lowering the scope to only this project, and ignoring its other budget problems, you're still not considering the total cost, and might be too enthusiastic about its benefits.
I love seeing the T-1000 in other movies. Me and my friends can never remember his name, and I think we don't want to, so every show/movie he is in we say "Sweet, the T-1000's in this show".
Even if it's a comedy, I like to pretend that he's just really good a mimicking (or really bad at mimicking) human emotion.
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I agree that he should have paid, and that why would the risk their life, if you can't even give such a small amount.
However, the private fire departments creating arsonists isn't really a problem. Though it did happen, it also happens with public fire departments. In fact, it is rife (relatively speaking) within the fire fighting profession, because arsonists are just drawn to it, as are people with hero complexes and similar.
Either way, whether it's public or private, you're going to have these problems, but we've got pretty good investigative methods to handle that now, and I think they might even process these people like they do police (eg, finger prints, DNA, all of file).
Legally, you might find enforcing that contract hard, since it was made at the very last moment, and could be considered that one party had too much negotiating power. I'm doing a lot of commercial law at the moment though IANAL, and everyday I read heaps of cases where one person helped another for an agreed sum, and the other person just didn't pay in the end, and it was thrown out.
He knew there was a risk that his house would burn down, so he should have paid. If you want to be the dick who doesn't pay, then I am behind them 100%. Hopefully this will serve as a painful and valuable message to those in that community.
However, I hope they at least kept it under controlled and limited to just his house. Where I live (South Australia), letting one house burn is extremely dangerous for all of the houses around it. That shit spreads so quickly, and could end up setting fire to houses that are paying. If my house got burnt down, because they let his house burn, I'd be pissed and filing a suit. However, I am sure this would have been taken into account.
I see you good Sir, went to Harvard. I'm more of a Brown man myself. I say good day to you!
The'y do mean the same thing! Look it up! It's in the dictionary! And all!
Their are many comon uses' of the word loose, the most comon is the same as lose. Identical! Word' for... word!
Come on, don't loose your temper over this, you just need to lose your pants a little and relax. Everybody knows the difference between lose and loose, it's really obvious. One has 2 o's in it, but they both mean the same thing... really.
Yeah, but you know some fuckhead will ruin the game by becoming a crab border guard.
You're an idiot. You care about people based on the context of the situation. Most people care plenty about the lives of others, only a few sociopaths wouldn't. If your model of other people is that they don't care, then your model is that these people are all sociopaths, and is an insane model to use.
If you are driving your car doing something which doesn't seem reckless, then you are being perfectly caring. If you then crash or have some horrific accident, only with the knowledge that this will be the outcome, can we retrospectively say "You weren't being careful enough". However, since most people do these things, talk on their phone, text, etc, all while driving, and have no problems what so ever. We know that most times we'll be fine, and so we are being careful. If however you drive around with the assumption that you are going to be in a car crash if you do any of these things, then you would probably be anxious a lot of the time, and you'd never do these things.
So, it has absolutely nothing to do with caring.
His holiness will be pleased. Ramen.
Finally we have developed hair washing technology. I have struggled with this all my life, and Panasonic feels my pain. It is so confusing to was your hair, sometimes I use all 10 fingers (and thumbs), while other times I only use 6. I am unable to maintain consistency, and I'm never sure how much I should wash and rinse. Sometimes I don't rinse, other times I spend the rest of the day rinsing. The portability of this machine will make it practical in every day life, I could take it to work with me, take it on a holiday, and wash my hair to the machines content. Luckily the two robot arms have the same dexterity as human fingers, because my fingers have the same dexterity as robot fingers. In this way, we will be a perfect match.
THANKS PANASONIC, YOU'VE SOLVED ALL MY PROBLEMS!
That's right... cock.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost.
Tell that to the workers of the Upper Big Branch Mine.
Tell that to the workers in the Twin Towers.
Seriously mine make as much sense as yours. It's amazing how the efficacy of union's to basically stop anything bad from happening, is completely unquestioned by most people. It's almost as if you believe that unions are these awesome omnipotent entities which can tell businesses what's going to happen, and it does. It's like this is the null hypothesis. I'd almost guess that none of you have studied the history of unions. Say it isn't so!
Just because a disaster happened, does not mean that given they were in a union, that it wouldn't have happened.
I agree. Monopolies / Oligopolies / Cartels are awesome. They succeed by having overwhelming market power, and enforcing a determined price/quantity/benefits/etc, regardless of the externalities, or the true value of their goods/services. This is why OPEC and De Beers are so great, and why everybody loves them. Really, I think we all know, that you're goods/services are not worth what other people would pay for them, but instead are worth whatever you can collude to make them pay. That's the true spirit trade.
In case the sarcasm is lost, you're a dick.
LOL Yeah it was hilarious when people were complaining about being unable to get on Facebook. So funny that people need services to keep in contact with others, it's like why don't you just talk to them in person? I mean like, HELLO, am I the only one getting this? Geeze. If it's so important to you then you should be more redundant with your services, like, everyone knows that!
AAAAhhh since when has DNS supported IPv6? I call shenaaaanigans!
LOL, After watching the response Zen Magnets vs Buckyballs Comparison Video, Zen Magnets seems far superior to BuckyBalls.
Not because of product quality, though that seems significantly superior, but because they seem to be way more in tune with the nerd culture. Buckyballs should be ashamed of themselves for issuing a DMCA takedown notice. No geek/nerd would stoop so low.
In comparison, Zen Magnets seems to be kicking it nerdcore, which is how I roll.
ThinkGeek, you need to drop Buckyballs and pick up Zen Magnets. You gotta protect your nerd points, and getting behind a DMCA abuser, and a company which doesn't seem to understand the geek culture, is not cool. Drop Buckyballs, pick up Zen Magnets!
That's fine. It's not direct, and would be on my government loan then. I wish the textbooks were on my government loan too. But there are problems with that, but I'd prefer not to have to struggle with the costs now, when I've little to no income.
I'm pretty sure I'd find a way to pirate still. Also, it says a free iPad. So the net difference would be that I gain portability, searchability, and similar.
Well now I feel silly. Apparently it's Adelaide Uni, but only the science department. That really fucks me off, since I could really do with this.
Seriously, I go to Adelaide Uni, and I have friends at UniSA and Flinders, and I haven't heard of anyone trailing it or banning physical textbooks. This would be fucking awesome, and I've been championing this for years. If I could get all of my textbooks on some eReader (iPad or elsewise), especially if it was an open standard, I could actually carry my books with me everywhere, and it would be a lot easier to study with. As it stands, textbooks are heavy, cumbersome, bad to navigate/search, and extremely expensive. I'd be willing to spend a lot of money on a fixed cost (eReader) to reduce my variable costs (textbooks). As it stands I spend 1,200 AUD a year on textbooks, and some of my textbooks are fucking written by the lecturers... who I'm already paying about 1,000 AUD (though admittedly on a government loan).
Anyhow, this would be great tech, and especially with my more abstract math, some visualizations and interactivity could help. The graphs are a good start, but sometimes you need to visualize the graphs changing, and that can be tricky.
I'm sure slow old Adelaide will take 20-30 years to implement anything like this, which means I'll totally miss out on any of this sort of stuff. Fie for shame.
It would also give me a rationalization to buy an eReader.
I don't get it.
REVEAL YOUR SECRETS!
Wow, Slashdot won't allow me to post with that ratio of non-caps to caps. So I need to write all of this to correct the ratio. The error says "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.".
Dear robotic automated moderating overlord,
I know it's like yelling, that's the effect I was going for. Obviously your algorithm is shit, because you don't seem to understand context... or love.
Sincerely,
definate
This does not imply a trend, since these groups are entirely different.
If the same group does it over time, then we see a trend. Compare random samples of adults over time and then you get a trend. You do not get a trend when you compare teenagers to adults.
Move along, nothing to see here.
This does not imply a trend, since these groups are entirely different.
If the same group does it over time, then we see a trend. Compare random samples of adults over time and then you get a trend. You do not get a trend when you compare teenagers to adults.
Move along, there is absolutely nothing to see here.
I have used it many times, and currently use it as a backup browser.
Everytime I use it I'm reminded how much I rely on extensions like AdBlock and TabMixPlus.
While it might be polished, without a good AdBlock extension, it's shit.
And yes, I know about the methods to block ads it supports. That method is buggy and shit.
And all we had to do was set aside disproportionate amounts of capital and give extreme leniency to their entire budget. What a bargain!
It's weird that this is apparently such a beneficial vehicle, but for some reason nobody has created one before this. I guess we in the non-military world, just totally don't get it. But once the military spends an inordinate amount of money, then we'll realize that this is super beneficial, and that if they hadn't of done it, that we should have.
*I was being sarcastic above*
Your discussion and others in this thread about the value of this sort of technology, is extremely simplistic, and basically treats the military as some exogenous entity which doesn't affect us. Even lowering the scope to only this project, and ignoring its other budget problems, you're still not considering the total cost, and might be too enthusiastic about its benefits.
I love seeing the T-1000 in other movies. Me and my friends can never remember his name, and I think we don't want to, so every show/movie he is in we say "Sweet, the T-1000's in this show".
Even if it's a comedy, I like to pretend that he's just really good a mimicking (or really bad at mimicking) human emotion.