Seriously. All this article is making me feel is dread knowing a new barrage of requests to update firefox will soon be arriving, and I will have to ignore them for a few weeks so I don't lose any of my add-ons.
Slashdot is mean't to be a tech-related news feed, but a lot of the comments on here are offensive, use foul language and are so ridiculously biased and childish that they sound like they are written by 15 year old idiots.
We knew that already without you providing an additional example. Thanks just the same.
Basically we have two possible responses to fear/danger: fight or flight.
Those who are predisposed to fight will resent the authoritarian control and rigid discipline, and will probably grow more willful as they get older. They tend to become domineering selfish assholes who walk all over other people to get what they want.
Those predisposed to flight will look for a way out, a compromise, or just bottle up their fear, anger, stress, and frustration. They will probably grow more ineffective and helpless as they get older. They tend to become apathetic, depressed, and codependent and turn to alcohol or drugs for relief.
None of this is desirable or inevitable.... Unfortunately, some people... rationalize the violence and intimidation as "normal" and the cycle perpetuates itself.
In the physical world if I see a valve and think " Hey if I change this part it would leak less" it would cost me millions to create the prototype make a factory to make the valve and then sell it. These manufacturing costs prevent small iterations from small companies to be major factors in any physical world business.
Huh? Why do you need a whole new factory? What's stopping you from doing a licensing deal with someone who already has one (along with R&D facilities)?
I see us heading to a bazaar situation in mobile some day. A real one. And then apple is going to get kicked out on their ass again, just like they did in the PC market when commoditized home computers yanked the market out from under them.
Please don't compare the U.S.A. to a country like Sweden that has the diversity of a vanilla ice cream cone with an M & M face on it,..
You do realise that over 10 percent of Sweden's population is either immigrants or the children of immigrants, don't you? (And in Stockholm and Malmö, it's more like 20-25%.) In my suburb, you hear Russian and Arabic spoken about as much as you do Swedish.
You might also be interested to learn that Sweden is a parliamentary democracy.
And I fail to see what size has anything to do with it, other than your attempts to impress us with numbers/factoids that don't actually have any bearing on the topic at hand.
BTW, one of my best friends here was born in the US of Swedish parents, and migrated back here (and reclaimed her Swedish citizenship) as soon as she was old enough to do so on her own, legally.
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Seriously. All this article is making me feel is dread knowing a new barrage of requests to update firefox will soon be arriving, and I will have to ignore them for a few weeks so I don't lose any of my add-ons.
Lose them no more, young Jedi.
is that supposed to be sarcasm, or do you figure such contact would Improve my attitude?
Are you saying that the two are mutually exclusive?
You should visit Thailand. I've some friends there whom I'm sure you'd enjoy meeting.
In 2008, it became in vogue to keep all profits private, but then socialize the debt.
2008? Let me guess, you've been asleep for the last 30 years or so, right?
Shhhhhh! Talar man om trollen, så står de i farstun!
Society/civilization depends on men who act like men and women who act like women.
Who decides what 'like men' and 'like women' mean?
Would that be you?
I don't think so.
Slashdot is mean't to be a tech-related news feed, but a lot of the comments on here are offensive, use foul language and are so ridiculously biased and childish that they sound like they are written by 15 year old idiots.
We knew that already without you providing an additional example. Thanks just the same.
Basically we have two possible responses to fear/danger: fight or flight.
Those who are predisposed to fight will resent the authoritarian control and rigid discipline, and will probably grow more willful as they get older. They tend to become domineering selfish assholes who walk all over other people to get what they want.
Those predisposed to flight will look for a way out, a compromise, or just bottle up their fear, anger, stress, and frustration. They will probably grow more ineffective and helpless as they get older. They tend to become apathetic, depressed, and codependent and turn to alcohol or drugs for relief.
None of this is desirable or inevitable. ... Unfortunately, some people ... rationalize the violence and intimidation as "normal" and the cycle perpetuates itself.
Bingo.
You're just offering a variation on "Granddad terrorised Dad, Dad terrorised me, so it must be right for me terrorise my kid."
I know this is overused as hell, but it fits here: Correlation is not causation.
In the physical world if I see a valve and think " Hey if I change this part it would leak less" it would cost me millions to create the prototype make a factory to make the valve and then sell it. These manufacturing costs prevent small iterations from small companies to be major factors in any physical world business.
Huh? Why do you need a whole new factory? What's stopping you from doing a licensing deal with someone who already has one (along with R&D facilities)?
You're mixing up patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
While there are *major* (systemic) problems with the first two of these, they're not the same problems.
As for trademarks--yes, there are some issues here as well, but these are comparatively minor.
What goes around, comes around, eh?
(We did exactly this to the Europeans for quite a long time, IIRC.)
Untrue, at least for Mandarin, in which /l/ and /r/ are separate and distinct phonemes.
I see us heading to a bazaar situation in mobile some day. A real one. And then apple is going to get kicked out on their ass again, just like they did in the PC market when commoditized home computers yanked the market out from under them.
We can only hope...
No.
Fear is the enemy of freedom and wisdom.
It's that simple.
Please don't compare the U.S.A. to a country like Sweden that has the diversity of a vanilla ice cream cone with an M & M face on it,..
You do realise that over 10 percent of Sweden's population is either immigrants or the children of immigrants, don't you? (And in Stockholm and Malmö, it's more like 20-25%.) In my suburb, you hear Russian and Arabic spoken about as much as you do Swedish.
You might also be interested to learn that Sweden is a parliamentary democracy.
And I fail to see what size has anything to do with it, other than your attempts to impress us with numbers/factoids that don't actually have any bearing on the topic at hand.
BTW, one of my best friends here was born in the US of Swedish parents, and migrated back here (and reclaimed her Swedish citizenship) as soon as she was old enough to do so on her own, legally.
I believe judges there are elected, not appointed. If so, he can't be fired as he was never hired.
There's no way to impeach or recall him?
...it boils down to fear. With a foundation of fear, you can build up respect, trust and love.
If you honestly believe that, then you are one sick fuck.
Yep. If there's grass on the field, it's time to play ball...
In my day, the rubric used by those trying to justify their preference for jailbait was, "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed".
...any respectable lady shaves her pussy, but that's a separate issue.
I have some news for you. The women you see in pornos are generally not "respectable ladies".
I would consider getting some counselling before you get yourself in a heap of trouble.
... but it isn't child abuse unless it leaves a mark.
WTF? Can you say, "Stockholm Syndrome"?
That's funny, I spend at least half of my work day using a Java GUI app.
Works pretty damn well, too.
I manage some very large general-interest sites...
IOW you're hosting many TB of straight and gay porn?
You suspect wrongly.
And I suspect the folks who gave the Insightful mods don't really get it, either.
< is your friend.
Yeah, he's a busy little shit, isn't he?