Considering both Japan and Switzerland have extremely low murder rates, despite being on extreme ends of the spectrum when it comes to gun ownership, maybe you're a dipshit and gun ownership isn't correlated in either direction with murder rates.
DOMA wasn't struck down as a whole, only Section 3. That section restricted federal agencies from interpreting "marriage" and "spouse" to apply only to heterosexual couples.
Sounds about right. There's a list that covers literally anything, including multiple that would cover BT's site if they weren't the ones running the list.
Those Nvidia GPU numbers are outdated for CUDAMiner. There's been a substantial speedup for newer architectures recently - a 780, for example, can typically run substantially over 500 khash. At 250 watt TDP, that puts it in the ballpark of AMD cards for KHash per watt, even though the hardware investment per khash is substantially higher. It means that people who were buying one of the Nvidia cards anyway will still be on the profitable side of things for as long as ATI will be, but you wouldn't want to build mining rigs with Nvidia cards.
Well, in a conversation about privacy, it really is relevant. If Google is the one who has all the information but never releases it to outside entities, they're doing something that is some degree less problematic for privacy than a company like Facebook that is giving the user data to any outside entity that is willing to pay. How significant that degree is would be debatable, but it's clearly a substantially different action each organization takes.
What people don't realize is that while the USPS doesn't take taxpayer money, and hasn't for more than 30 years, they're still entirely run under a mandate from Congress, and cannot make substantial changes to their operations without Congressional approval. When people complain about socialism, or complain about capitalism, they don't see the giant mess that can happen when an organization is effectively subject to both. They have to do inane shit like constantly renaming post offices, but are prohibited from doing the kinds of things, like offering new services, or cutting costs, that would actually bring them into the black.
Specifically, what the parent is referring to is the retiree prefunding required of the USPS. They have to fund health benefits for retired employees for 75 years in advance, far beyond what any other company or government agency has, or chooses, to do. Consider that the USPS is currently funding health benefits for employees who haven't even been born yet, and you can see how absurd this concept is - yet Congress still decided this was a smart idea. The USPS appears to be floundering to the outside world, but that's because of that particular $5.5 billion payment they have to make yearly, not due to some competitive pressure, or environmental change like "lower delivery volume". AFAIK, at the beginning of 2013, they had about $44 billion banked for these retirement benefits.
That's what their leadership claims to their masses, but it's not their true motivation for their actions. For example, bin Laden may have claimed Jihad against non-Muslims as the cause in and of itself, but actually believed that the US's foreign policy harmed Muslims in the Middle East.
Freak out over incandescent bulbs? Everything I said applies just as much to CFL and LED bulbs as it does to incandescents - actually, even more so, considering the safety concerns of breaking a CFL are amplified in a crawlspace. My post was about the utter stupidity of running mains wire to light a crawlspace because of concerns like spectrum, or even light spread. If you need more light in this kind of area, you use temporary lighting of some kind, because no place other than your ill-conceived house has mains wire with fixtures and bulbs set up in that crawlspace.
Also, I didn't even mention LED headlamps, so you may want to reread what I wrote.
That's not the "quality" of the light, which almost exclusively refers to the spectrum, but the spread. Get a lantern if you really care about the spread. This is not a "bad" solution. In fact, it's more versatile, safer and far cheaper than having a circuit run down into a crawlspace with fixtures installed for light bulbs that you're almost bound to bump into at some point - this is a crawlspace, not a walkspace. If you care about "not having it on hand", you keep it at the entrance to the crawlspace (here's an idea, put in a hook just inside the crawlspace entrance) instead of in the garage where you keep the thttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4597193&cid=45786799#ools (the ones you expect to use in the crawlspace). Unless you're hunting gnomes, you don't need light absolutely everywhere in the crawlspace, just wherever you happen to be at the moment. If you're checking rat traps, you don't want more wires to be run in there anyway because they're the little bastards chewing on them and causing fires in the first place.
When it comes to cocaine on currency, I remember reading somewhere a very long time ago that nearly all of it in the US, something like 90%, down to $1 bills, was contaminated.
Seriously, I read/. regularly, and I have no clue what the hell is going on here from the summary alone. As in, not even a slight clue as to what the problem was originally. Sure, you can post some analysis, but sum up what happened up to this point for people who really haven't heard the original story.
That's what I thought when I read the original submission. You get it out to the public, and you have a defense if they decide to take you to court for leaking it.
I'm not sold on the idea of Bitcoin, but that's not exactly a solid argument against Bitcoin over the long term. You'd have trouble converting any currency into goods before the currency became widely accepted. There's a lag time for adoption with any attempt at a currency, even ones mandated by law, so it's no surprise that a currency that's essentially discovered and adopted by word of mouth takes a long time to be truly useful in all situations.
It's not even the article. Just the headline and summary. There's a link to the actual study, and the CBS article is really well written to emphasize the specific areas where this is applicable.
Considering the study specifically mentions that 39% of Americans take multivitamins, they have a point. There's no way almost 40% of the country has nutritional deficiencies.
Spoken like someone who thinks that $5/lb Hormel salami is the most expensive deli meat available, and not the >$15/lb good stuff. Load up on some Belgioioso provolone and Di Lusso salami for your sandwich, then come back complaining how you can't fit bread into your budget, let alone fresh tomatoes and lettuce.
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Considering both Japan and Switzerland have extremely low murder rates, despite being on extreme ends of the spectrum when it comes to gun ownership, maybe you're a dipshit and gun ownership isn't correlated in either direction with murder rates.
DOMA wasn't struck down as a whole, only Section 3. That section restricted federal agencies from interpreting "marriage" and "spouse" to apply only to heterosexual couples.
Sounds about right. There's a list that covers literally anything, including multiple that would cover BT's site if they weren't the ones running the list.
Well, I dug through the links to BT's list, and it seems web forums aren't on there. However, it's worse than you could imagine.
Wow, "web forums". That's just absurd.
I have no idea to be honest, but I'd venture a guess that it's been done already for everything except for printed parts, by many parties.
This is not Edward Murrow's opinion - the guy's name is Fred Kaplan, and he's the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Of course, this is Slashdot, so reading the first sentence of the summary is far too much to ask.
Those Nvidia GPU numbers are outdated for CUDAMiner. There's been a substantial speedup for newer architectures recently - a 780, for example, can typically run substantially over 500 khash. At 250 watt TDP, that puts it in the ballpark of AMD cards for KHash per watt, even though the hardware investment per khash is substantially higher. It means that people who were buying one of the Nvidia cards anyway will still be on the profitable side of things for as long as ATI will be, but you wouldn't want to build mining rigs with Nvidia cards.
Well, in a conversation about privacy, it really is relevant. If Google is the one who has all the information but never releases it to outside entities, they're doing something that is some degree less problematic for privacy than a company like Facebook that is giving the user data to any outside entity that is willing to pay. How significant that degree is would be debatable, but it's clearly a substantially different action each organization takes.
Actually, the loss for 2012 was for two years' worth of payments, so it's more like a $2 billion loss for the year. I could also get into how Congress decided that Saturday mail delivery is a service that no American should do without (even though that alone would turn around the $2 billion deficit), they cannot shut down individual post offices, and cannot allow shipment of alcoholic beverages.
What people don't realize is that while the USPS doesn't take taxpayer money, and hasn't for more than 30 years, they're still entirely run under a mandate from Congress, and cannot make substantial changes to their operations without Congressional approval. When people complain about socialism, or complain about capitalism, they don't see the giant mess that can happen when an organization is effectively subject to both. They have to do inane shit like constantly renaming post offices, but are prohibited from doing the kinds of things, like offering new services, or cutting costs, that would actually bring them into the black.
Specifically, what the parent is referring to is the retiree prefunding required of the USPS. They have to fund health benefits for retired employees for 75 years in advance, far beyond what any other company or government agency has, or chooses, to do. Consider that the USPS is currently funding health benefits for employees who haven't even been born yet, and you can see how absurd this concept is - yet Congress still decided this was a smart idea. The USPS appears to be floundering to the outside world, but that's because of that particular $5.5 billion payment they have to make yearly, not due to some competitive pressure, or environmental change like "lower delivery volume". AFAIK, at the beginning of 2013, they had about $44 billion banked for these retirement benefits.
He's talking about reinforced cinderblocks (i.e. rebar + grout), not empty ones like the ones used in the video you linked.
That's what their leadership claims to their masses, but it's not their true motivation for their actions. For example, bin Laden may have claimed Jihad against non-Muslims as the cause in and of itself, but actually believed that the US's foreign policy harmed Muslims in the Middle East.
Freak out over incandescent bulbs? Everything I said applies just as much to CFL and LED bulbs as it does to incandescents - actually, even more so, considering the safety concerns of breaking a CFL are amplified in a crawlspace. My post was about the utter stupidity of running mains wire to light a crawlspace because of concerns like spectrum, or even light spread. If you need more light in this kind of area, you use temporary lighting of some kind, because no place other than your ill-conceived house has mains wire with fixtures and bulbs set up in that crawlspace.
Also, I didn't even mention LED headlamps, so you may want to reread what I wrote.
That's not the "quality" of the light, which almost exclusively refers to the spectrum, but the spread. Get a lantern if you really care about the spread. This is not a "bad" solution. In fact, it's more versatile, safer and far cheaper than having a circuit run down into a crawlspace with fixtures installed for light bulbs that you're almost bound to bump into at some point - this is a crawlspace, not a walkspace. If you care about "not having it on hand", you keep it at the entrance to the crawlspace (here's an idea, put in a hook just inside the crawlspace entrance) instead of in the garage where you keep the thttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4597193&cid=45786799#ools (the ones you expect to use in the crawlspace). Unless you're hunting gnomes, you don't need light absolutely everywhere in the crawlspace, just wherever you happen to be at the moment. If you're checking rat traps, you don't want more wires to be run in there anyway because they're the little bastards chewing on them and causing fires in the first place.
Do you regularly paint in your crawlspace, or is "quality of lighting" just some bullshit you can toss out regardless as to the actual use case?
When it comes to cocaine on currency, I remember reading somewhere a very long time ago that nearly all of it in the US, something like 90%, down to $1 bills, was contaminated.
Seriously, I read /. regularly, and I have no clue what the hell is going on here from the summary alone. As in, not even a slight clue as to what the problem was originally. Sure, you can post some analysis, but sum up what happened up to this point for people who really haven't heard the original story.
That's what I thought when I read the original submission. You get it out to the public, and you have a defense if they decide to take you to court for leaking it.
I'm not sold on the idea of Bitcoin, but that's not exactly a solid argument against Bitcoin over the long term. You'd have trouble converting any currency into goods before the currency became widely accepted. There's a lag time for adoption with any attempt at a currency, even ones mandated by law, so it's no surprise that a currency that's essentially discovered and adopted by word of mouth takes a long time to be truly useful in all situations.
This is an incredible piece of machinery, thank you for the link.
It's not even the article. Just the headline and summary. There's a link to the actual study, and the CBS article is really well written to emphasize the specific areas where this is applicable.
Considering the study specifically mentions that 39% of Americans take multivitamins, they have a point. There's no way almost 40% of the country has nutritional deficiencies.
Spoken like someone who thinks that $5/lb Hormel salami is the most expensive deli meat available, and not the >$15/lb good stuff. Load up on some Belgioioso provolone and Di Lusso salami for your sandwich, then come back complaining how you can't fit bread into your budget, let alone fresh tomatoes and lettuce.
I'm not surprised if it were Mercedes, considering the high level of connection between them and McLaren.