The Muslims had a religion that promised virgins to holy warriors that died, and if you survived, you got to have multiple wives to breed your successful genes into the next generation. And so on recursively. Not unnaturally, they have a warlike culture that used conquered peoples as slaves (e.g. the Turkish empire prior to WWII).
This is the crux of the issue. Muslims would not "like us" if we didn't use drones. Their religion teaches them to hate and kill non Muslims anyway. We may as well use all weapons at our disposal against them, as they surely will do to us.
Well they can add that to the patent of the rounded rectangle and the tablet shaped tablet. Really they have replaced innovation with trying to prevent other companies from operating.
A company I worked for had sales people teamed up with "presales technical support" people. Sales happen at two levels, the people who are actually going to use the product and their managers. Developers will actually be put off by someone who spouts verbage about how it will improve productivity and reliability but obviously doesn't understand how or what. You need someone who can sit with them and demonstrate the product features.
Management on the other hand just want the bullshit spouted, together with some nice figures and an "excellent deal" so they can feel that they have done a good job negotiating. Given this, if they check with their lead developers and they say "yes this can help us", you have almost certainly got a sale. On the other hand if the developer turns round and says "The sales guy couldn't get it to work properly", or "we weren't shown anything that will help us" then you shouldn't get a sale (though I did work briefly for a company where the management forced unsuitable tools on development staff because they were cheap, so it is possible).
How much do you charge for an hour's work? If you were doing a Master's degree, and were hoping for high quality feedback on the work you'd laboured over, and handed in, representing your highest quality academic achievements, what sort of feedback would you like?
I agree with you, this is certainly not suitable for post graduate degrees where research needs to be graded.
The business case here is that it is expensive (time-wise) to develop content for 100 students, but becomes much cheaper to do so for 200,000.
But many other costs of education, grading, feedback, etc., are proportional to the number of students. The amount of personal time you get from instructors for $100 is at most a few hours. For some students, that's enough. For most, it isn't.
With checks and balances, marking the lower level students could be an assignment for the higher grade ones. Some exercises can be computer marked. Of course there are still going to have to be some professional markers, and providing exam conditions isn't free (for most certification exams its about £50 or $75 to the centre).
A court or someone trying to provide "binding arbitration" without legal authority makes no sense. If I were a client and some web developer didn't finish a job, for instance, and tried to insist I pay him, I'd refer him to the new website blow.me.
If you supposedly owe someone money, and don't want to pay, and they can't force you because it would cost them more money than they'd likely get out of it, so they try to insist you go with them to arbitration... what do you have to gain? You've already won, why waste a second? It'd be like getting subpoenaed to go before "Judge" Judy. I'd tell them to eat a fat, hairy dick!
My guess is this new business venture is going to FAIL hard.
Absolutely. Both parties have to agree to be bound by the decision. This is not quite useless, I can see some cases where it might work. Firstly is where both parties believe that they are in the right. Secondly when being bound by this service has been put into the contract to start with; I might feel happier signing up to a contract with a provider in some countries if their contract stipulated this than if it said "you will be bound by the laws of the Cameroon" for example. (I should say that I have no Idea how good the laws of the Cameroon are, but in any case bringing a claim there would be much harder for me than using an international online service).
I agree that this gives no recourse if someone just refuses to pay - they just have to ignore any papers from the arbitration service.
As a Texan, I somewhat resent this statement. Some of us were lucky enough to have parents who valued education, despite the State's constant de-funding of it.
Yes, I bet you can down a bull with a lasso at thirty feet!
Those muzzies are so stupid they'll probably not realise it is a codeword and bomb the Olympics for infecting their computers
Muzzies? Is that what we're calling them now? What happened to rag-head, towel-head, Haji, and sand nigger? Camel Jockey? I just can't keep up with the bigoted slurs.
Of all of those only Haji is an acceptable term. The rest are racist, and don't get to the heart of the problem, Islam. There have been white, black and brown Islamic terrorists - just as there are good people of all colours. read the Qur'an and you will see why this hate-filled religion urges them to rape, kill, and subdue non-Muslims
Afaik explicit consent is not explicitly demanded by the EU. UK opted in to require this in their law. IANAL, currently in Austria it says that the user decision already happens through the browser settings. If the browser accepts cookies, so does the user and the government sees the problem solved.
Such a logical decision will never be accepted by the EU!
Europe has a clear political bias too (we're left wing socialist surrender monkeys), and we're quite happy about that. So, please America, leave our wikipedia alone..
Didn't you know that every use of British spellings counted as a "left wing" article.
I wonder what a similar study on slashdot would show. Probably neutrality as well, for every "hang the niggers" there is a compensating "death to America".
The statement "The Falcon Heavy has more than twice the power of the next largest rocket in the world" is true but somewhat misleading. Both the USA and Russia have had rockets in the past with more than twice the power that the "Falcon Heavy" will.
Also, since this is in development, maybe the comparison should include other systems in development. Russia has a rocket with similar capabilities as the Falcon Heavy scheduled for launch at the same time, and China has a system under development" which has a lower low-earth orbit capability but similar lifting capability to geostationary orbit that is scheduled to launch a year later.
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Where do you live that only rich people have fences or hedges?
A lot of places, including some in America don't have fences.
The Muslims had a religion that promised virgins to holy warriors that died, and if you survived, you got to have multiple wives to breed your successful genes into the next generation. And so on recursively. Not unnaturally, they have a warlike culture that used conquered peoples as slaves (e.g. the Turkish empire prior to WWII).
This is the crux of the issue. Muslims would not "like us" if we didn't use drones. Their religion teaches them to hate and kill non Muslims anyway. We may as well use all weapons at our disposal against them, as they surely will do to us.
its like patenting a triangle....
Well they can add that to the patent of the rounded rectangle and the tablet shaped tablet. Really they have replaced innovation with trying to prevent other companies from operating.
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines false? I just realised that I could do better. Now I've got you ... answer that one!
I always think of Betteridge's Law of Headlines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines true? .... though there is only one logically consistent answer.
Only you can decide!
A company I worked for had sales people teamed up with "presales technical support" people. Sales happen at two levels, the people who are actually going to use the product and their managers. Developers will actually be put off by someone who spouts verbage about how it will improve productivity and reliability but obviously doesn't understand how or what. You need someone who can sit with them and demonstrate the product features.
Management on the other hand just want the bullshit spouted, together with some nice figures and an "excellent deal" so they can feel that they have done a good job negotiating. Given this, if they check with their lead developers and they say "yes this can help us", you have almost certainly got a sale. On the other hand if the developer turns round and says "The sales guy couldn't get it to work properly", or "we weren't shown anything that will help us" then you shouldn't get a sale (though I did work briefly for a company where the management forced unsuitable tools on development staff because they were cheap, so it is possible).
How much do you charge for an hour's work? If you were doing a Master's degree, and were hoping for high quality feedback on the work you'd laboured over, and handed in, representing your highest quality academic achievements, what sort of feedback would you like?
I agree with you, this is certainly not suitable for post graduate degrees where research needs to be graded.
But many other costs of education, grading, feedback, etc., are proportional to the number of students. The amount of personal time you get from instructors for $100 is at most a few hours. For some students, that's enough. For most, it isn't.
With checks and balances, marking the lower level students could be an assignment for the higher grade ones. Some exercises can be computer marked. Of course there are still going to have to be some professional markers, and providing exam conditions isn't free (for most certification exams its about £50 or $75 to the centre).
I will not use it at my home. I have an IPv4 address, and always will.
I'm still hanging on to NCP you insensitive clod!
if you want to sell tickets, any kind of tickets, online, you have to sell 'em through one of those ".tickets" domains
These aren't tickets. These are vouchers. For a drink. But no, you can't enter this gig without a voucher for a drink.
Well you can't sell them unless you register ".voucherforadrink"
A court or someone trying to provide "binding arbitration" without legal authority makes no sense. If I were a client and some web developer didn't finish a job, for instance, and tried to insist I pay him, I'd refer him to the new website blow.me.
If you supposedly owe someone money, and don't want to pay, and they can't force you because it would cost them more money than they'd likely get out of it, so they try to insist you go with them to arbitration... what do you have to gain? You've already won, why waste a second? It'd be like getting subpoenaed to go before "Judge" Judy. I'd tell them to eat a fat, hairy dick!
My guess is this new business venture is going to FAIL hard.
Absolutely. Both parties have to agree to be bound by the decision. This is not quite useless, I can see some cases where it might work. Firstly is where both parties believe that they are in the right. Secondly when being bound by this service has been put into the contract to start with; I might feel happier signing up to a contract with a provider in some countries if their contract stipulated this than if it said "you will be bound by the laws of the Cameroon" for example. (I should say that I have no Idea how good the laws of the Cameroon are, but in any case bringing a claim there would be much harder for me than using an international online service).
I agree that this gives no recourse if someone just refuses to pay - they just have to ignore any papers from the arbitration service.
Why is the website registered in Montinegro?
Someone is crying because he couldn't get into MENSA? Dude EVERYONE gets into MENSA... er except you.
My cat got into Mensa
And they could have played the piano if they only had some sheet music.
And a piano.
They might have needed a piano teacher too. While we're at it if they took an orchestra and chorus with them they could have put on a show.
Bury the old dribe somewhere unretrievable
I guess "old dribe" must be the guy sending out these blackmail notices then.
As a Texan, I somewhat resent this statement. Some of us were lucky enough to have parents who valued education, despite the State's constant de-funding of it.
Yes, I bet you can down a bull with a lasso at thirty feet!
Those muzzies are so stupid they'll probably not realise it is a codeword and bomb the Olympics for infecting their computers
Muzzies? Is that what we're calling them now? What happened to rag-head, towel-head, Haji, and sand nigger? Camel Jockey? I just can't keep up with the bigoted slurs.
Of all of those only Haji is an acceptable term. The rest are racist, and don't get to the heart of the problem, Islam. There have been white, black and brown Islamic terrorists - just as there are good people of all colours. read the Qur'an and you will see why this hate-filled religion urges them to rape, kill, and subdue non-Muslims
Every time you go to use the word "muzzie" like that, replace "Muslim" with "Jew" and run the sentence through your head before you say it.
Does it still sound like a clever thing to say?
Well no, it makes no sense when replaced by "Jew", as they are not stupid mental fanatics. "Muslim" is an alternative, I'll grant you that
begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games
Those muzzies are so stupid they'll probably not realise it is a codeword and bomb the Olympics for infecting their computers
IANAL from Austria.
Afaik explicit consent is not explicitly demanded by the EU. UK opted in to require this in their law. IANAL, currently in Austria it says that the user decision already happens through the browser settings. If the browser accepts cookies, so does the user and the government sees the problem solved.
Such a logical decision will never be accepted by the EU!
What size bomb will we need?
Tell the Muzzies its a Christian galaxy and send them into space with their suicide bombs
I think they are a bit smaller, but as this picture shows pretty similar.
Europe has a clear political bias too (we're left wing socialist surrender monkeys), and we're quite happy about that. So, please America, leave our wikipedia alone..
Didn't you know that every use of British spellings counted as a "left wing" article.
I wonder what a similar study on slashdot would show. Probably neutrality as well, for every "hang the niggers" there is a compensating "death to America".
The statement "The Falcon Heavy has more than twice the power of the next largest rocket in the world" is true but somewhat misleading. Both the USA and Russia have had rockets in the past with more than twice the power that the "Falcon Heavy" will.
Also, since this is in development, maybe the comparison should include other systems in development. Russia has a rocket with similar capabilities as the Falcon Heavy scheduled for launch at the same time, and China has a system under development" which has a lower low-earth orbit capability but similar lifting capability to geostationary orbit that is scheduled to launch a year later.