When pedantics are more important than semantics. You know perfectly well what the expression means, even if you want to minimize that meaning to justify your own behavior.
If the article is so bad, why is Slashdot linking to it in the first place? You can't have it both ways. Either it was newsworthy and contained sufficient content to justify its existence (in which case stealing it is bad), or it wasn't newsworthy or lacked sufficient information to be worth reading it (in which case mentioning it in the first place was bad.) Either way, Slashdot is in the wrong here.
That's not necessarily true. I find it harder to make sudden but precise movements with a mouse than I do with a thumbstick. I'm aware in the minority, but that doesn't mean you get to pretend I don't exist at all.
You'd think so, but apparently Entreprise is to be entirely scrapped, and not even a significant piece of her such as her island will be placed in a museum:
...it's the entire contents of the article, minus the ads and with Slashdot's wrapped around it instead. This is copyright theft, pure and simple, and this summary should be deleted and replaced with a much, MUCH more abbreviated version.
That's not even remotely what this is for. This will be used predominantly for more accurately tracking whom you are (even if you dump your cookies, switch machines etc.) by noting which bluetooth devices are frequently visible from your browsing device, and then pairing that with all the other info they already had on you. This is all about uncloaking the anonymous, and nothing else at all.
Actually, the cable bill will only keep going up as it has done. The big expense will be the fees for access to every single website you value too much not to use, with higher costs for more obscure topics. They're all going to need to charge you once net neutrality goes and they get throttled out of existence, then their audience tanks, which kills their ad money and affiliate revenue, and they go out of business because their main (or quite likely only) source of revenue vanishes. And any site which is non-commercial -- your friend's blog, say -- will be so slow that you'll never bother checking it.
Dr. Mark Jamison is multiple economists in one body? I wonder if he knows?
Thank you for sharing this obviously true fact from your amazing internet resource! Hope they make enough money to pay your internet provider for you to be able to continue reading their articles, or you may not be able to reach them for much longer.
The website I work for is one piece of proof for that point. I've been there 18 years and I like the work. I'm the third most senior person in the company. But I'm also a single dad, already make little enough that I'll likely never afford to buy a new car, can barely afford upkeep on my 1970s house, never take a vacation and don't expect ever to be able to retire.
If we have to start paying for access to our readers, the well will dry up overnight and I'll find myself without a job and with no safety rope. And the millions of readers who value our content will suddenly find it gone.
I can't make less than I do now and get by, full stop. That the leader of the USA now wants to help Comcast and their ilk do that to me tells me everything I need to know about Donald Trump and his government, not to mention the Republican party.
And by "At no charge," you mean "At a charge which was already factored into the purchase price."
You paid for your free upgrades when you bought your phone, and people's concern here is for Apple intentionally making older devices unusable with a forced OS update, thereby also forcing a new phone purchase which includes the cost of another round of phone updates. Rinse, repeat until the user finally wises up and stops buying Apple crap. Sadly, most never do so.
There has to be something to actually "get". In this case, there wasn't. (Or if there was, you failed to translate it into words on-screen, and it lives only inside your own head.)
I said Slashdot fellates him, and that's true. The comments are about a 50/50 mix of fellation and rightful indignation at yet another pathetic puff piece.
Exactly. Unfortunately this is Slashdot, where we fellate Elon Musk at every possible opportunity, even when his so-called plans are clearly so absurd as to be an obvious joke.
It's a shame. This used to be a site for nerds; now it's a site for mouth-breathing morons to act breathless about the companies, products and figureheads that they personally idol-worship.
Except you're giving him *far* too much credit. He never said it had to be a commutation, at least not until after the fact. He said:
"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case "
What's the legal definition of clemency? Repreieve, commutation or pardon by a governor for state crimes, or the president for federal crimes. There is no question that Assange's request was hence filled, and far from being clever that he actually didn't expect clemency and was caught looking for an excuse once it was granted.
Funny how you make assumptions without a lick of fact to back them up. I've been against Assange from day one. It was always clear he was most interested in self-publicity, and had no real interest in improving the world.
Install base tells you next to nothing except that the app was downloaded and installed. It doesn't tell you if the app was ever tried even once, and even if you set it to show only app installs which have been run a single time, there's no meaning beyond that tiny, meaningless metric. You might have used the app once for twelve seconds; I might have used it for a thousand hours, but we both show as identical participants in the install base. You might have used the app and hated it, but been too lazy to uninstall it; I might've loved it and wanted to use it on an hourly basis for years, but again we both show as identical participants in the install base. Like it or not, install base numbers are only fractionally more meaningful than download numbers, and both Google and Apple already provide approximate download numbers for every app.
Has the price of a Big Mac been adjusted since Brexit? Can you guarantee that it won't be? Yeah, stop trying to abuse a metric to have it match your preconceptions. All else being equal, McDonalds will eventually be adjusting its pricing just like many, many other businesses.
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When pedantics are more important than semantics. You know perfectly well what the expression means, even if you want to minimize that meaning to justify your own behavior.
When pedantics are more important than semantics...
Yep, however that's not a reason to condone copyright theft because "Well it's only short."
So you know how much they got paid for it, eh? Interesting, and most likely not true. And without that information, your point is invalid.
If the article is so bad, why is Slashdot linking to it in the first place? You can't have it both ways. Either it was newsworthy and contained sufficient content to justify its existence (in which case stealing it is bad), or it wasn't newsworthy or lacked sufficient information to be worth reading it (in which case mentioning it in the first place was bad.) Either way, Slashdot is in the wrong here.
That's not necessarily true. I find it harder to make sudden but precise movements with a mouse than I do with a thumbstick. I'm aware in the minority, but that doesn't mean you get to pretend I don't exist at all.
You'd think so, but apparently Entreprise is to be entirely scrapped, and not even a significant piece of her such as her island will be placed in a museum:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/10/22/enterprise-nimitz-class-carriers-wont-be-museums.html
...it's the entire contents of the article, minus the ads and with Slashdot's wrapped around it instead. This is copyright theft, pure and simple, and this summary should be deleted and replaced with a much, MUCH more abbreviated version.
That's not even remotely what this is for. This will be used predominantly for more accurately tracking whom you are (even if you dump your cookies, switch machines etc.) by noting which bluetooth devices are frequently visible from your browsing device, and then pairing that with all the other info they already had on you. This is all about uncloaking the anonymous, and nothing else at all.
Actually, the cable bill will only keep going up as it has done. The big expense will be the fees for access to every single website you value too much not to use, with higher costs for more obscure topics. They're all going to need to charge you once net neutrality goes and they get throttled out of existence, then their audience tanks, which kills their ad money and affiliate revenue, and they go out of business because their main (or quite likely only) source of revenue vanishes. And any site which is non-commercial -- your friend's blog, say -- will be so slow that you'll never bother checking it.
Apologies for the wall of text, forgot to add line breaks on my phone.
Dr. Mark Jamison is multiple economists in one body? I wonder if he knows? Thank you for sharing this obviously true fact from your amazing internet resource! Hope they make enough money to pay your internet provider for you to be able to continue reading their articles, or you may not be able to reach them for much longer. The website I work for is one piece of proof for that point. I've been there 18 years and I like the work. I'm the third most senior person in the company. But I'm also a single dad, already make little enough that I'll likely never afford to buy a new car, can barely afford upkeep on my 1970s house, never take a vacation and don't expect ever to be able to retire. If we have to start paying for access to our readers, the well will dry up overnight and I'll find myself without a job and with no safety rope. And the millions of readers who value our content will suddenly find it gone. I can't make less than I do now and get by, full stop. That the leader of the USA now wants to help Comcast and their ilk do that to me tells me everything I need to know about Donald Trump and his government, not to mention the Republican party.
And by "At no charge," you mean "At a charge which was already factored into the purchase price." You paid for your free upgrades when you bought your phone, and people's concern here is for Apple intentionally making older devices unusable with a forced OS update, thereby also forcing a new phone purchase which includes the cost of another round of phone updates. Rinse, repeat until the user finally wises up and stops buying Apple crap. Sadly, most never do so.
There has to be something to actually "get". In this case, there wasn't. (Or if there was, you failed to translate it into words on-screen, and it lives only inside your own head.)
If you think that woosh-worthy, you need to recalibrate your sarcasm. I'm a Brit, I know actual sarcasm when I see it and that wasn't it.
No, sir, I'm not. Here's a citation to back up the actual (not alternative) fact I stated: http://individual-contributors...
Obviously, considering that most of the world doesn't use Mac OS and yet somehow gets along just fine without it.
*old fogey-like typing detected*
I said Slashdot fellates him, and that's true. The comments are about a 50/50 mix of fellation and rightful indignation at yet another pathetic puff piece.
Musk donates to Republicans and Democrats about equally, or if anything slightly favors the Republicans with his donations.
Exactly. Unfortunately this is Slashdot, where we fellate Elon Musk at every possible opportunity, even when his so-called plans are clearly so absurd as to be an obvious joke.
It's a shame. This used to be a site for nerds; now it's a site for mouth-breathing morons to act breathless about the companies, products and figureheads that they personally idol-worship.
Except you're giving him *far* too much credit. He never said it had to be a commutation, at least not until after the fact. He said:
"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case "
What's the legal definition of clemency? Repreieve, commutation or pardon by a governor for state crimes, or the president for federal crimes. There is no question that Assange's request was hence filled, and far from being clever that he actually didn't expect clemency and was caught looking for an excuse once it was granted.
Funny how you make assumptions without a lick of fact to back them up. I've been against Assange from day one. It was always clear he was most interested in self-publicity, and had no real interest in improving the world.
Install base tells you next to nothing except that the app was downloaded and installed. It doesn't tell you if the app was ever tried even once, and even if you set it to show only app installs which have been run a single time, there's no meaning beyond that tiny, meaningless metric. You might have used the app once for twelve seconds; I might have used it for a thousand hours, but we both show as identical participants in the install base. You might have used the app and hated it, but been too lazy to uninstall it; I might've loved it and wanted to use it on an hourly basis for years, but again we both show as identical participants in the install base. Like it or not, install base numbers are only fractionally more meaningful than download numbers, and both Google and Apple already provide approximate download numbers for every app.
Has the price of a Big Mac been adjusted since Brexit? Can you guarantee that it won't be? Yeah, stop trying to abuse a metric to have it match your preconceptions. All else being equal, McDonalds will eventually be adjusting its pricing just like many, many other businesses.