What happens when you get lost or have a flat or other emergency? I accidentally left my cell phone at home charging one day a while back when I was trying to find a shop my mom directed me to. I drove around for 20 minutes without seeing a single pay phone, and every store I went in politely told me that either the phone was "broken" or company policy no longer allowed letting customers make calls. I finally drove 15 minutes out of my way to the nearest YMCA to call for directions before having to drive 15 minutes back to the area of town the store was in.
That's different. Congress has a low approval rating, but people don't elect Congress. They elect their individual Congressman (okay, three Congressmen including their Representative and two Senators), who typically have a significantly higher approval rating.
You're the second person to say that, so maybe my assumptions are a little off. I grew up in North Carolina and, despite living in lily-white suburbs, went to school in the ghetto. So my experience working in Oklahoma is a little backwards from y'alls. I guess if you live in an area with few blacks you will keep whatever ideals you were brought up with, which are either racist or not. If you live in an area with more blacks, you're probably more likely to be a little bit racism, but hardly to the same degree as those brought up racist with no counter-examples. Most of the people I met in Oklahoma were no more racist than the ones I grew up with. However, in 21 years of living in the South, I have never heard a white person use the n-word. In 2 months of living in Oklahoma in a town of less than 10,000 I met two who used it frequently. There's a difference between thinking someone probably doesn't have manners and deliberately picking a fight or being shocked to death that they turned in your lost wallet instead of keeping it solely because of the color of their skin.
Exactly. Bank, online shopping, and primary email account passwords are stored in KeePass or in my head. Those are important. My Slashdot, Facebook, and junk email account passwords are stored in Firefox, because I got tired of typing them in every time and frankly I don't really care if they get stolen.
Oklahoma is not the South. Sadly, I have met some of the same people you have in Oklahoma, and my take on it is primarily that its easy to be racist when you don't ever really see people who are different races. Come to the real South where you can't avoid blacks, and while there is certainly some racism remaining, there's a lot less of it and what's left is less vehement. The more you interact with another race, the less you are capable of claiming they are fundamentally different and less than you.
They sure aren't charging me 20-25% interest. Pay your bills off at the end of the month. If you have to take out a loan at a bank, I'm pretty damn sure it will still be better, since it will be less interest. Maybe I'm just lucky that I had a nice start in life, so I do not carry any debt at the moment and do not expect to carry debt on anything smaller than my first house, but I just have a real hard time seeing anyone who's made decent life choices and not been hit with a major medical catastrophe really needing to carry credit card debt. You don't need that 8800GTX that much.
My computer breaks more often than most of my non-techie friends' computers. Then again, I suspect it has a lot to do with my tendency to play "What happens when I change this random system setting?" Oh. It won't boot now. Oops../wanders off to dig up a live CD and fix it.
Not quite true. Treason and espionage are punishable by death (see the Rosenbergs), as is desertion in wartime (see Eddie Slovik). These are, however, the most recent examples, so for all intents and purposes the parent is true.
More to the point, how many of them plan to vote? Facebook is heavily geared toward college kids, since that was its initial market, and our age range votes in smaller numbers than practically anyone.
That said, my bf's daughter told us last week about a major activity in her 3rd grade class that day - the teacher had brought in a box of doughnuts, and each child had to earn a doughnut by Persuading, Entertaining, or Explaining to the teacher why they deserved one.
WTF?
Granted, it's not rote memorization, or a meaningless SOL test drill or something, but I nearly choked.
There is some reasoning behind that exercise. It's to teach children about the different reasons and methods of communication. There's more to English than grammar and novels. We encounter many different forms of communication each day, and it is beneficial to recognize and be proficient in each one. That's why in younger classes, you rarely see English taught any more. It's always called Communication Skills.
I think the "crazy" part is the fact that Slashdot doesn't care. If he sent in an email (not a post) that 2+2=4, he would still be crazy. It is correct, but it is also a complete non-sequitur.
Mileage rate is not the same thing as gas money. It also takes into account wear and tear on the car and other such things. $0.485/mile is fairly standard.
You really wanna play that game? I got a 1380 in 1998... in 7th grade. I got a 1600 when I took it for real. I'm sure somebody on here can trump me, too. I missed 3 questions.
I do apologize regarding the use of opposite sex rather than preferred sex, but I would argue the reason it works is not because sex drives are notoriously irrational but because they are rational. Dressing nicely is a subtle indication that one has money, which (if you'll forgive me for using females here as homosexuality does not present an evolutionary advantage for the individual in question) is an indication of the ability to raise children without need.
I wonder sometimes why I try to present an opposing point of view on slashdot. Elitism rears its ugly head and anyone who disagrees is simply an idiot and need not be considered except as a barrier. For what it's worth, my reaction upon seeing someone not dressed nicely in an occasion that calls for it is not that they are poor or stupid or beneath me, it's that they lack the interpersonal skills to see that there are occasions in which is it beneficial to conform to cultural norms even if they disagree with them.
With that said, I can see that I am making no headway here and am done with this conversation.
I will grant you it's no benefit to you if you work from home to dress up. It's of no benefit to you to dress up if you work with similarly minded people who already know you. If you are seeing people you do not know or do not know well, dressing nicely serves several purposes. It shows respect for the people you are meeting, making their first impression of you better. A poor first impression can be corrected with time and effort, but why create that bother?
I can pretty much assure you nobody else thinks better of you because you're a slob. They might not think worse, but they don't think better. You don't want to dress too well when it's out of place, as that makes you look like a prick, but there's a happy medium that consists mostly of what other well adjusted adults are wearing that will make people respect you more (not everybody knows you intimately, so they have to have something to go on) and might even make you attractive to the opposite sex.
That's because you're going to the popular clothes store, not the nice clothes store. There's a difference. Just because people pay out the ass to buy Abercrombie doesn't mean it's nice. I don't find myself shopping for men's clothes very often so I don't have a good comparison for nice, but in women's clothes it would be something like Ann Taylor. You want to apply analytical thinking to fashion? How about "I cared enough to put time into how I looked today. I respect myself, and so should you." Nice clothing is a fairly timeless fashion because it's pleasing to the eye, not because it's the new hot thing. Imagine you were turning in your doctoral thesis. You have your amazing new algorithm scribbled down on a restaurant napkin. Do you turn that in, or do you retype it and lay it out in TeX and turn in a neat, (reasonably) clear version? The amount of time, effort, and/or money a person puts into something is usually a decent barometer of what they believe the subject is worth. What is logical about saying that doesn't apply to yourself?
The explanation I've heard is usually poorly written password programs that use special characters to escape stuff and really weird characters may not be in the character set it's using. I don't remember where it was - an online store I think - but a while back I got an email telling me to change my password explaining helpfully that they were improving the security of their password system by no longer allowing special characters.
I'm well aware of that. My point is it's going to be just as hard to filter this as it is for ISPs to tell the difference between me downloading LatestHotSong.mp3 and CCLicensedIndie.mp3, which they don't even try for. Everybody says "bomb" just a little differently - although at least they no longer have to worry about teenage kids generating false positives much any more.
You're forgetting you have to divert and filter a shitload of packets coming through fast enough that nobody notices the delays in the conversation. Yeah, ISPs do it, kinda, but they're filtering on headers, not content. Audio is audio, so that doesn't help much.
Defence lawyers? How do you know you'll never need one? Are you planning on dying now?
I suspect he has enough money to be fairly certain he can hire a lawyer instead of depending on a public defender. That, depending on his situation, is not an unreasonable assumption.
if your arguing meaningless try Mcdonalds I honestly can't parse that into English, so I'll have to skip that in my response.
As for the rest of it, you are correct that Microsoft is one word, not two, but do you argue that America Online should be abbreviated AO or do you accept general usage there? Hell there's not even a dollar sign in Microsoft; at least there is an 's' beginning a syllable. Again, your statement is correct that Slashdot is more than just computers and Microsoft, however a quick Google search of the site turns up a grand total of one story ever regarding Multiple Sclerosis (two if we count the RIAA suing a lady who happens to have the disease) while there are three Microsoft stories on the front page alone. Regarding "M$=B$," I have no lost love for Microsoft either, but I prefer not to descend to that level. The fact that Microsoft plays dirty doesn't mean that everyone else has to as well.
I'd like to introduce you to this wonderful concept called context. If I'm on a health or charity site, I expect MS to refer to Multiple Sclerosis. If I'm on Slashdot or anywhere else talking computers, I expect MS to refer to Microsoft. Do you get confused too when people start talking about Java classes and think they're writing instructional material about an island in Indonesia?
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What happens when you get lost or have a flat or other emergency? I accidentally left my cell phone at home charging one day a while back when I was trying to find a shop my mom directed me to. I drove around for 20 minutes without seeing a single pay phone, and every store I went in politely told me that either the phone was "broken" or company policy no longer allowed letting customers make calls. I finally drove 15 minutes out of my way to the nearest YMCA to call for directions before having to drive 15 minutes back to the area of town the store was in.
Have you never taken a ride in an ambulance? Yes, we do charge for that.
That's different. Congress has a low approval rating, but people don't elect Congress. They elect their individual Congressman (okay, three Congressmen including their Representative and two Senators), who typically have a significantly higher approval rating.
You're the second person to say that, so maybe my assumptions are a little off. I grew up in North Carolina and, despite living in lily-white suburbs, went to school in the ghetto. So my experience working in Oklahoma is a little backwards from y'alls. I guess if you live in an area with few blacks you will keep whatever ideals you were brought up with, which are either racist or not. If you live in an area with more blacks, you're probably more likely to be a little bit racism, but hardly to the same degree as those brought up racist with no counter-examples. Most of the people I met in Oklahoma were no more racist than the ones I grew up with. However, in 21 years of living in the South, I have never heard a white person use the n-word. In 2 months of living in Oklahoma in a town of less than 10,000 I met two who used it frequently. There's a difference between thinking someone probably doesn't have manners and deliberately picking a fight or being shocked to death that they turned in your lost wallet instead of keeping it solely because of the color of their skin.
Exactly. Bank, online shopping, and primary email account passwords are stored in KeePass or in my head. Those are important. My Slashdot, Facebook, and junk email account passwords are stored in Firefox, because I got tired of typing them in every time and frankly I don't really care if they get stolen.
Oklahoma is not the South. Sadly, I have met some of the same people you have in Oklahoma, and my take on it is primarily that its easy to be racist when you don't ever really see people who are different races. Come to the real South where you can't avoid blacks, and while there is certainly some racism remaining, there's a lot less of it and what's left is less vehement. The more you interact with another race, the less you are capable of claiming they are fundamentally different and less than you.
No, it's not. At least not in NC.
They sure aren't charging me 20-25% interest. Pay your bills off at the end of the month. If you have to take out a loan at a bank, I'm pretty damn sure it will still be better, since it will be less interest. Maybe I'm just lucky that I had a nice start in life, so I do not carry any debt at the moment and do not expect to carry debt on anything smaller than my first house, but I just have a real hard time seeing anyone who's made decent life choices and not been hit with a major medical catastrophe really needing to carry credit card debt. You don't need that 8800GTX that much.
My computer breaks more often than most of my non-techie friends' computers. Then again, I suspect it has a lot to do with my tendency to play "What happens when I change this random system setting?" Oh. It won't boot now. Oops. ./wanders off to dig up a live CD and fix it.
Not quite true. Treason and espionage are punishable by death (see the Rosenbergs), as is desertion in wartime (see Eddie Slovik). These are, however, the most recent examples, so for all intents and purposes the parent is true.
More to the point, how many of them plan to vote? Facebook is heavily geared toward college kids, since that was its initial market, and our age range votes in smaller numbers than practically anyone.
That said, my bf's daughter told us last week about a major activity in her 3rd grade class that day - the teacher had brought in a box of doughnuts, and each child had to earn a doughnut by Persuading, Entertaining, or Explaining to the teacher why they deserved one.
WTF?
Granted, it's not rote memorization, or a meaningless SOL test drill or something, but I nearly choked.
There is some reasoning behind that exercise. It's to teach children about the different reasons and methods of communication. There's more to English than grammar and novels. We encounter many different forms of communication each day, and it is beneficial to recognize and be proficient in each one. That's why in younger classes, you rarely see English taught any more. It's always called Communication Skills.
I think the "crazy" part is the fact that Slashdot doesn't care. If he sent in an email (not a post) that 2+2=4, he would still be crazy. It is correct, but it is also a complete non-sequitur.
Mileage rate is not the same thing as gas money. It also takes into account wear and tear on the car and other such things. $0.485/mile is fairly standard.
You really wanna play that game? I got a 1380 in 1998... in 7th grade. I got a 1600 when I took it for real. I'm sure somebody on here can trump me, too. I missed 3 questions.
I do apologize regarding the use of opposite sex rather than preferred sex, but I would argue the reason it works is not because sex drives are notoriously irrational but because they are rational. Dressing nicely is a subtle indication that one has money, which (if you'll forgive me for using females here as homosexuality does not present an evolutionary advantage for the individual in question) is an indication of the ability to raise children without need.
I wonder sometimes why I try to present an opposing point of view on slashdot. Elitism rears its ugly head and anyone who disagrees is simply an idiot and need not be considered except as a barrier. For what it's worth, my reaction upon seeing someone not dressed nicely in an occasion that calls for it is not that they are poor or stupid or beneath me, it's that they lack the interpersonal skills to see that there are occasions in which is it beneficial to conform to cultural norms even if they disagree with them.
With that said, I can see that I am making no headway here and am done with this conversation.
I will grant you it's no benefit to you if you work from home to dress up. It's of no benefit to you to dress up if you work with similarly minded people who already know you. If you are seeing people you do not know or do not know well, dressing nicely serves several purposes. It shows respect for the people you are meeting, making their first impression of you better. A poor first impression can be corrected with time and effort, but why create that bother?
I can pretty much assure you nobody else thinks better of you because you're a slob. They might not think worse, but they don't think better. You don't want to dress too well when it's out of place, as that makes you look like a prick, but there's a happy medium that consists mostly of what other well adjusted adults are wearing that will make people respect you more (not everybody knows you intimately, so they have to have something to go on) and might even make you attractive to the opposite sex.
That's because you're going to the popular clothes store, not the nice clothes store. There's a difference. Just because people pay out the ass to buy Abercrombie doesn't mean it's nice. I don't find myself shopping for men's clothes very often so I don't have a good comparison for nice, but in women's clothes it would be something like Ann Taylor. You want to apply analytical thinking to fashion? How about "I cared enough to put time into how I looked today. I respect myself, and so should you." Nice clothing is a fairly timeless fashion because it's pleasing to the eye, not because it's the new hot thing. Imagine you were turning in your doctoral thesis. You have your amazing new algorithm scribbled down on a restaurant napkin. Do you turn that in, or do you retype it and lay it out in TeX and turn in a neat, (reasonably) clear version? The amount of time, effort, and/or money a person puts into something is usually a decent barometer of what they believe the subject is worth. What is logical about saying that doesn't apply to yourself?
The explanation I've heard is usually poorly written password programs that use special characters to escape stuff and really weird characters may not be in the character set it's using. I don't remember where it was - an online store I think - but a while back I got an email telling me to change my password explaining helpfully that they were improving the security of their password system by no longer allowing special characters.
I'm well aware of that. My point is it's going to be just as hard to filter this as it is for ISPs to tell the difference between me downloading LatestHotSong.mp3 and CCLicensedIndie.mp3, which they don't even try for. Everybody says "bomb" just a little differently - although at least they no longer have to worry about teenage kids generating false positives much any more.
You're forgetting you have to divert and filter a shitload of packets coming through fast enough that nobody notices the delays in the conversation. Yeah, ISPs do it, kinda, but they're filtering on headers, not content. Audio is audio, so that doesn't help much.
I suspect he has enough money to be fairly certain he can hire a lawyer instead of depending on a public defender. That, depending on his situation, is not an unreasonable assumption.
As for the rest of it, you are correct that Microsoft is one word, not two, but do you argue that America Online should be abbreviated AO or do you accept general usage there? Hell there's not even a dollar sign in Microsoft; at least there is an 's' beginning a syllable. Again, your statement is correct that Slashdot is more than just computers and Microsoft, however a quick Google search of the site turns up a grand total of one story ever regarding Multiple Sclerosis (two if we count the RIAA suing a lady who happens to have the disease) while there are three Microsoft stories on the front page alone. Regarding "M$=B$," I have no lost love for Microsoft either, but I prefer not to descend to that level. The fact that Microsoft plays dirty doesn't mean that everyone else has to as well.
Your school buses had radios?!
I'd like to introduce you to this wonderful concept called context. If I'm on a health or charity site, I expect MS to refer to Multiple Sclerosis. If I'm on Slashdot or anywhere else talking computers, I expect MS to refer to Microsoft. Do you get confused too when people start talking about Java classes and think they're writing instructional material about an island in Indonesia?