This is why I like Neverwinter Nights 2. Kill peasants and your alignment shifts towards evil chaotic, break into someone's house, you shift towards evil. For a hero, this is bad. For an anti-hero, this is good. And then your alignment affects how different NPCs react to you. It had a lot more potential, but I think they're doing a good job of making the alignment mean something in a video game.
Lowest taxes? Wtf? Between Federal, State, Local, and Sales tax, I pay upwards of 35-40% in taxes. And then when I don't have shit for savings when I get laid off because of all the taxes, I get barely enough in unemployment to float me for 3 months.
There is something to what he is saying here though. It is an undisputed fact that men have more testosterone in their bodies than women. It is also known that testosterone affects aggression. It is not known whether or not this really has much to do with the gender gap in high power jobs. However, I think it's reasonable to make the assumption that it probably plays a big influence. I'm not a high roller yet, so I don't really know if there is anything to the idea that women have to be twice as productive as men to be seen as equally productive. I'm inclined to call bullshit on that. I'm sure there are men out there who are that way, but I have no reason to believe it is a majority. All I know is that my success to this point has been mostly due to my urge to claw my way up and to keep climbing even when my fingers are cracked and bleeding.
And this is precisely why I stopped watching the morning news after giving it a chance for 2 weeks 4 years ago. It was all trash sound bites with absolutely no substance. It didn't matter if it was CNN or Fox.
Not me. Too defiant. The desire for non-pain motivated me...
Sounds like you had some real issues going on if you're that defiant. Constant defiance without rationality is not normal.
How "regular" is regular? Daily, hourly?
Regular refers to you use spanking as a typical punishment for everything from stealing a cookie from the cookie jar to taking little Timmy's toy. Spanking if ever used should be reserved for those instances where had the kid not been stopped, the consequences would have been dire.
As opposed to "I'm very disappointed in you!"? Oh puh-leeze. Water off a duck's back.
Well that explains why you were so defiant. If your kid has that little respect for you, then you're doing something wrong. You don't have to beat your kids into respecting authority. If your kids respect you as a parent, they will respect those in authority positions in general.
yet they know that Autism is a spectrum and that everyone is on it to some extent
This is the problem with the diagnosis of many mental disorders in general such as ADHD and depression. To some extend, everyone is on the spectrum, and doctors are tasked with trying to judge at what point it becomes a disorder for a patient, where it negatively impacts their ability to function.
What exactly are those consequences? Sending him to time-out?
Sure! When I was a kid, I freaking hated getting sent to my room. It didn't matter if I had toys in there, I was bored. The only punishment that was worse than being bored was the genuine disappointment of a parent. If you spank a kid as a regular punishment, it quickly loses it's meaning and just tells the kid that physical aggression is how you tell people off. It's one thing if a kid gets spanked on a rare extreme occasion. But spanking is not appropriate, nor is it even effective, as a normal punishment. "Spare the rod..." doesn't just refer to corporal punishment. It refers to shielding your child from consequences in general.
Ambulance and police follow different rules. Under many circumstances, police are above the law. If they actually did anything about it, reporting such an incident would put your name in their service record as having made the complaint. You think that might not cause you problems later?
It's quite simple. Emergency vehicles are required to come to a complete stop at a red light, check that it is safe to proceed, and then may go through the red light. If after all of that is done in good faith, and someone blazes through anyways, I would guarantee the emergency vehicle driver would not be found at fault. Emergency vehicles are not permitted to just run red lights when their lights and sirens are on.
That's where AT&T should take this fight if they want to win. This is like the government insisting that a bank give the city cash for the value of abandoned land rather than just claiming the land for themselves. AT&T should just issue them a pile of calling cards.
I think that a myth of software development is that every line of code should always be simple and easy to understand.
No one here is saying that. They're just saying that you should comment it, so that if it is complex, the next guy can figure out what you did without spending days thinking about it.
I would be willing to put money down that the military has a documented plan for it somewhere. They have plans for tons of scenarios that may or may not happen some day.
You ignore the possibility that multiple collaborating people could read the bill and together verify its correctness
I do not accept this possibility. With proper quality control, there is a very careful and thorough review of the entire package before releasing it to production. This review might not go into line by line reviews, but it does go into code reviews and design reviews, verifying that everything has been thoroughly looked at. In addition, there is always the option to quickly amend missed fuck ups later. Law does not have the option to quickly amend fuck ups.
There is a world of difference between Law which affects every person in a country, or potentially in the world, without choice and an operating system that a customer chooses to use. On top of that, there are systems designers who do have a fairly complete upper level understanding of an entire operating system. In addition, there are software quality control measures in place to fend off garbage. Legislation has only those voting on it as quality control. If those voting are not given sufficient time to at least mostly comprehend the entire bill, then there is no quality control.
I am always amazed when I hear of people getting away with crap like this. Proper software quality control nullifies the effect of people like you and ensures that you will either be fired before you can do much damage or ensures that you will never be allowed to advance in your career due to poor coding practices that indicate you would be bad at software system design.
If someone is being "evil" but not breaking any laws, why should they be put in prison? The DA is there to enforce law, not good vs evil. The courts are there to determine if law was broken, not whether or not someone is good or evil. Using these systems in ANY other manner is abuse of the system. And you call yourself a Libertarian?
Slashdot Mirror
With a proper government, people are a net resource
Key point, "With a proper government"
I got the right to healthcare? I thought I got the mandate to either buy healthcare or to pay a tax that will cost me less than the healthcare would.
This is why I like Neverwinter Nights 2. Kill peasants and your alignment shifts towards evil chaotic, break into someone's house, you shift towards evil. For a hero, this is bad. For an anti-hero, this is good. And then your alignment affects how different NPCs react to you. It had a lot more potential, but I think they're doing a good job of making the alignment mean something in a video game.
If you think that's what a bidet is designed for, then you are horribly abusing your bidet
Lowest taxes? Wtf? Between Federal, State, Local, and Sales tax, I pay upwards of 35-40% in taxes. And then when I don't have shit for savings when I get laid off because of all the taxes, I get barely enough in unemployment to float me for 3 months.
Most dysfunctional legislature... ever!
I beg to differ. I live in California.
There is something to what he is saying here though. It is an undisputed fact that men have more testosterone in their bodies than women. It is also known that testosterone affects aggression. It is not known whether or not this really has much to do with the gender gap in high power jobs. However, I think it's reasonable to make the assumption that it probably plays a big influence. I'm not a high roller yet, so I don't really know if there is anything to the idea that women have to be twice as productive as men to be seen as equally productive. I'm inclined to call bullshit on that. I'm sure there are men out there who are that way, but I have no reason to believe it is a majority. All I know is that my success to this point has been mostly due to my urge to claw my way up and to keep climbing even when my fingers are cracked and bleeding.
And this is precisely why I stopped watching the morning news after giving it a chance for 2 weeks 4 years ago. It was all trash sound bites with absolutely no substance. It didn't matter if it was CNN or Fox.
You didn't read a book?
When I was a kid? Talk about boring.
Not me. Too defiant. The desire for non-pain motivated me...
Sounds like you had some real issues going on if you're that defiant. Constant defiance without rationality is not normal.
How "regular" is regular? Daily, hourly?
Regular refers to you use spanking as a typical punishment for everything from stealing a cookie from the cookie jar to taking little Timmy's toy. Spanking if ever used should be reserved for those instances where had the kid not been stopped, the consequences would have been dire.
As opposed to "I'm very disappointed in you!"? Oh puh-leeze. Water off a duck's back.
Well that explains why you were so defiant. If your kid has that little respect for you, then you're doing something wrong. You don't have to beat your kids into respecting authority. If your kids respect you as a parent, they will respect those in authority positions in general.
yet they know that Autism is a spectrum and that everyone is on it to some extent
This is the problem with the diagnosis of many mental disorders in general such as ADHD and depression. To some extend, everyone is on the spectrum, and doctors are tasked with trying to judge at what point it becomes a disorder for a patient, where it negatively impacts their ability to function.
What exactly are those consequences? Sending him to time-out?
Sure! When I was a kid, I freaking hated getting sent to my room. It didn't matter if I had toys in there, I was bored. The only punishment that was worse than being bored was the genuine disappointment of a parent. If you spank a kid as a regular punishment, it quickly loses it's meaning and just tells the kid that physical aggression is how you tell people off. It's one thing if a kid gets spanked on a rare extreme occasion. But spanking is not appropriate, nor is it even effective, as a normal punishment. "Spare the rod..." doesn't just refer to corporal punishment. It refers to shielding your child from consequences in general.
Ambulance and police follow different rules. Under many circumstances, police are above the law. If they actually did anything about it, reporting such an incident would put your name in their service record as having made the complaint. You think that might not cause you problems later?
It's quite simple. Emergency vehicles are required to come to a complete stop at a red light, check that it is safe to proceed, and then may go through the red light. If after all of that is done in good faith, and someone blazes through anyways, I would guarantee the emergency vehicle driver would not be found at fault. Emergency vehicles are not permitted to just run red lights when their lights and sirens are on.
That's where AT&T should take this fight if they want to win. This is like the government insisting that a bank give the city cash for the value of abandoned land rather than just claiming the land for themselves. AT&T should just issue them a pile of calling cards.
I think that a myth of software development is that every line of code should always be simple and easy to understand.
No one here is saying that. They're just saying that you should comment it, so that if it is complex, the next guy can figure out what you did without spending days thinking about it.
I prefer to think of it as an exit strategy.
Not really... after all, where are you going to go to escape bad laws?
I would be willing to put money down that the military has a documented plan for it somewhere. They have plans for tons of scenarios that may or may not happen some day.
You ignore the possibility that multiple collaborating people could read the bill and together verify its correctness
I do not accept this possibility. With proper quality control, there is a very careful and thorough review of the entire package before releasing it to production. This review might not go into line by line reviews, but it does go into code reviews and design reviews, verifying that everything has been thoroughly looked at. In addition, there is always the option to quickly amend missed fuck ups later. Law does not have the option to quickly amend fuck ups.
There is a world of difference between Law which affects every person in a country, or potentially in the world, without choice and an operating system that a customer chooses to use. On top of that, there are systems designers who do have a fairly complete upper level understanding of an entire operating system. In addition, there are software quality control measures in place to fend off garbage. Legislation has only those voting on it as quality control. If those voting are not given sufficient time to at least mostly comprehend the entire bill, then there is no quality control.
rooting the server because the client doesn't want to give you the root password is a bit much
Not only that, but I would think it is highly illegal as it is circumventing someone else's computer security without a warrant.
I am always amazed when I hear of people getting away with crap like this. Proper software quality control nullifies the effect of people like you and ensures that you will either be fired before you can do much damage or ensures that you will never be allowed to advance in your career due to poor coding practices that indicate you would be bad at software system design.
If someone is being "evil" but not breaking any laws, why should they be put in prison? The DA is there to enforce law, not good vs evil. The courts are there to determine if law was broken, not whether or not someone is good or evil. Using these systems in ANY other manner is abuse of the system. And you call yourself a Libertarian?
Is it possible that the Linux audio drivers are optimized for Heavy Metal?
This explains why I have not experienced this issue.
It would not be perfectly random. More likely, when people can not tell the difference, they will be biased towards mp3 because of familiarity.