I'll second this. My reading speed varies based on the "density" of the text, for lack of a better term. I can blow through a Jim Butcher or a Ben Bova novel in a matter of hours. Granted, my information absorption isn't complete and in subsequent readings I pick up on foreshadowing I didn't notice the first go through. Denser fiction ("A Farewell to Arms") or anything translated into English ("Three Body Problem", "All Quiet on the Western Front")* requires me to slow down and think about the context to understand what's going on.
My speed reading with non-fiction is similar. I can burn through modern non-fiction in a matter of hours or days, depending on the length of the text. Reading Greek philosophy, like Epictetus' "Discourses" takes significantly longer, weeks or months sometimes.
*Shakespeare occupies a weird middle ground, as my difficulty with that is mostly translating the vernacular into modern English in my head as I read along.
Depending on where BlackHawk-66 lives, that could be prohibitively expensive. It makes more economic sense to buy a bottle of fish-oil pills (which lasts for months) than a fish (which lasts for maybe two meals) and use the remaining money to buy more food.
I would rather be violently raped than have my wife impregnated by another man and then be tricked into raising it.
To each their own I suppose
There's a stigma (and shame) attached with both, but being cuckolded is guaranteed to throw your life into a tailspin, while being violently raped is only mostly-like to.
Had experience with both or do you have some data to back that assertion up?
I agree with your first paragraph, in so far as men not being forced to provide for children that aren't theirs. Your second paragraph is, in a word, nuts.
Paternity fraud is nowhere near the same level as violent rape, nor should it prosecuted as such. Paternity fraud is equivalent to pyramid schemes, long-term cons, or any other form of white-collar fraud, and that is the level at which it should be prosecuted. When we begin to prosecute white-collar crime with the same force we prosecute murder, assault, or robbery, you might have something approaching a point.
I can think of at least three things that would bring me greater shame than knowing the child I've been raising isn't mine.
"We encouraged painters to become more and more interested in the weave of the canvas, the weight of the brush-strokes, the plasticity of the paint; less and less interested in what the painting was about. The ideal picture was not a window on reality, but a sculpture a quarter of an inch thick; and for the most part, I am happy to report, the new art was as shallow as its medium. Painters stopped talking to their audience through imagery; now they only talked to one another about texture and impasto. We killed that art in a generation, and despite valiant efforts to revive it, it has remained safely in the grave. You can tell this is so, because whenever a painter dares to produce a vivid representation of a real or imagined scene, all the critics hiss and sneer and call him an illustrator: the worst insult in their vocabulary." - Tom Simon, Death By Bebop [bondwine.com]
It is, but it's not as popular as it used to be. Biscuits-and-gravy is popular mostly with the rural crowd in the Deep South areas of the US, though I've also seen it in Tennessee and the eastern portions of Texas and Tennessee. Outside of that geographic area, you'd probably have to find a Southern-style chain like Waffle House or Cracker Barrel to get it.
Generals throughout the years have understood the effectiveness of good intelligence. George Washington is said to have remarked "I do not fear the enemy; I fear his spies" based on effectiveness of his own spies, the Culper Ring.
Both an Italian hotel and a Maltese hotel I stayed in had the options for ensuite or communal bathrooms, with the ensuite bathrooms being higher-priced for the night. These were both older buildings (the Maltese one was 200 years old and undergoing renovations at the time).
Not quite. The US left Italy after the war and was invited back a few years later. The installations the US military uses are technically Italian military bases and there are joint-use agreements for training and so forth.
Let's give Mrs. Clinton the benefit of the doubt and assume she didn't send anything out. She still has a responsibility to report any compromise of classified material (known as "spillage"), to include classified information showing up on her private email server, to the security office of the Department of State. The DoS would have opened an investigation to trace the source and wiped all the computers involved with the spillage to ensure there was no information left on it. Mrs. Clinton knew she had a duty to report. She failed that duty. End of story.
I've read some speculation that Trump is running a false-flag campaign to keep the Republicans from mounting any real centrist opposition to Clinton. I'm not convinced, but it's an interesting idea to ponder.
Second reply to your comment because I'm apparently a moron today. Re-reading the last three posts, my OPEC comment was irrelevant to what I should have asked to begin with. Please elaborate on the connection between shale oil fracking and local passenger rail, aside from them both being (currently) unprofitable ventures. I can't understand what point you were trying to make.
In answer to your question: I'm not suggesting that at all.
Returning to your original comment, I'm still not understanding what connection you're trying to make between shale oil fracking and passenger rail, unless you're simply trying to point out that any venture can lose money.
I'm not certain that's a fair comparison, seeing as how OPEC started a price war with the shale oil fracking companies (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/fracking-boom-bust-opec/).
Aside from his target being James Clapper, I'm not really sure what the fuss is. From my reading of the article, Cracka managed to re-route residential phone numbers and got into some Yahoo accounts. Granted, this isn't the greatest PR for the DNI and this kid is certainly more technically skilled than I am, but it's not like he compromised a classified system somewhere.
Perhaps someone else with more technical expertise can explain to me what I'm missing?
Perhaps I was unclear. I'm not asking you to "lead me by the nose to the numbers", I was asking for clarification on what numbers you're considering relevant here. Rates of unemployment? GDP by year? Hourly productivity rates of factories? Mean income? Poverty rates?
Whoa guy, what are you doing? You're supposed to berate the GP for his lack of knowledge and inability to coalesce knowledge from the ether by will alone. Are you trying to destroy the quality of Slashdot?:)
Okay, that's three comments and three times that you have failed to provide a counter-argument to my original argument that a difference in the scale of corruption is a significant difference in the corruption situation between the US and Russia. Instead you've decided to attack me for supposedly reading too much into your comment. Since you're either incapable or unwilling to mount a coherent defense of your original assertion, I'll conclude you're either a friggin' moron or a troll. Either way, it's apparent that talking to you is a waste of my time. Good day.
And yet again, you fail to provide a valid counter-arguement to my original point. Are you being intentionally dense or are you just incapable of anything but rhetoric?
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I'll second this. My reading speed varies based on the "density" of the text, for lack of a better term. I can blow through a Jim Butcher or a Ben Bova novel in a matter of hours. Granted, my information absorption isn't complete and in subsequent readings I pick up on foreshadowing I didn't notice the first go through. Denser fiction ("A Farewell to Arms") or anything translated into English ("Three Body Problem", "All Quiet on the Western Front")* requires me to slow down and think about the context to understand what's going on.
My speed reading with non-fiction is similar. I can burn through modern non-fiction in a matter of hours or days, depending on the length of the text. Reading Greek philosophy, like Epictetus' "Discourses" takes significantly longer, weeks or months sometimes.
*Shakespeare occupies a weird middle ground, as my difficulty with that is mostly translating the vernacular into modern English in my head as I read along.
Depending on where BlackHawk-66 lives, that could be prohibitively expensive. It makes more economic sense to buy a bottle of fish-oil pills (which lasts for months) than a fish (which lasts for maybe two meals) and use the remaining money to buy more food.
I would rather be violently raped than have my wife impregnated by another man and then be tricked into raising it.
To each their own I suppose
There's a stigma (and shame) attached with both, but being cuckolded is guaranteed to throw your life into a tailspin, while being violently raped is only mostly-like to.
Had experience with both or do you have some data to back that assertion up?
Well, ThatBeDank did, for one, in the post I originally replied too. Is 5 sentences too much for your attention span?
I agree with your first paragraph, in so far as men not being forced to provide for children that aren't theirs. Your second paragraph is, in a word, nuts. Paternity fraud is nowhere near the same level as violent rape, nor should it prosecuted as such. Paternity fraud is equivalent to pyramid schemes, long-term cons, or any other form of white-collar fraud, and that is the level at which it should be prosecuted. When we begin to prosecute white-collar crime with the same force we prosecute murder, assault, or robbery, you might have something approaching a point. I can think of at least three things that would bring me greater shame than knowing the child I've been raising isn't mine.
"We encouraged painters to become more and more interested in the weave of the canvas, the weight of the brush-strokes, the plasticity of the paint; less and less interested in what the painting was about. The ideal picture was not a window on reality, but a sculpture a quarter of an inch thick; and for the most part, I am happy to report, the new art was as shallow as its medium. Painters stopped talking to their audience through imagery; now they only talked to one another about texture and impasto. We killed that art in a generation, and despite valiant efforts to revive it, it has remained safely in the grave. You can tell this is so, because whenever a painter dares to produce a vivid representation of a real or imagined scene, all the critics hiss and sneer and call him an illustrator: the worst insult in their vocabulary." - Tom Simon, Death By Bebop [bondwine.com]
Rob Bos, I am your wallbreaker...
It is, but it's not as popular as it used to be. Biscuits-and-gravy is popular mostly with the rural crowd in the Deep South areas of the US, though I've also seen it in Tennessee and the eastern portions of Texas and Tennessee. Outside of that geographic area, you'd probably have to find a Southern-style chain like Waffle House or Cracker Barrel to get it.
Generals throughout the years have understood the effectiveness of good intelligence. George Washington is said to have remarked "I do not fear the enemy; I fear his spies" based on effectiveness of his own spies, the Culper Ring.
Both an Italian hotel and a Maltese hotel I stayed in had the options for ensuite or communal bathrooms, with the ensuite bathrooms being higher-priced for the night. These were both older buildings (the Maltese one was 200 years old and undergoing renovations at the time).
How do you propose we capture that?
Not quite. The US left Italy after the war and was invited back a few years later. The installations the US military uses are technically Italian military bases and there are joint-use agreements for training and so forth.
I'm interested in reading that. Can you provide a link to the article? My google-fu is failing me today.
Let's give Mrs. Clinton the benefit of the doubt and assume she didn't send anything out. She still has a responsibility to report any compromise of classified material (known as "spillage"), to include classified information showing up on her private email server, to the security office of the Department of State. The DoS would have opened an investigation to trace the source and wiped all the computers involved with the spillage to ensure there was no information left on it. Mrs. Clinton knew she had a duty to report. She failed that duty. End of story.
I've read some speculation that Trump is running a false-flag campaign to keep the Republicans from mounting any real centrist opposition to Clinton. I'm not convinced, but it's an interesting idea to ponder.
Second reply to your comment because I'm apparently a moron today. Re-reading the last three posts, my OPEC comment was irrelevant to what I should have asked to begin with. Please elaborate on the connection between shale oil fracking and local passenger rail, aside from them both being (currently) unprofitable ventures. I can't understand what point you were trying to make.
In answer to your question: I'm not suggesting that at all. Returning to your original comment, I'm still not understanding what connection you're trying to make between shale oil fracking and passenger rail, unless you're simply trying to point out that any venture can lose money.
I'm not certain that's a fair comparison, seeing as how OPEC started a price war with the shale oil fracking companies (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/fracking-boom-bust-opec/).
Aside from his target being James Clapper, I'm not really sure what the fuss is. From my reading of the article, Cracka managed to re-route residential phone numbers and got into some Yahoo accounts. Granted, this isn't the greatest PR for the DNI and this kid is certainly more technically skilled than I am, but it's not like he compromised a classified system somewhere. Perhaps someone else with more technical expertise can explain to me what I'm missing?
Perhaps I was unclear. I'm not asking you to "lead me by the nose to the numbers", I was asking for clarification on what numbers you're considering relevant here. Rates of unemployment? GDP by year? Hourly productivity rates of factories? Mean income? Poverty rates?
Whoa guy, what are you doing? You're supposed to berate the GP for his lack of knowledge and inability to coalesce knowledge from the ether by will alone. Are you trying to destroy the quality of Slashdot? :)
Okay, that's three comments and three times that you have failed to provide a counter-argument to my original argument that a difference in the scale of corruption is a significant difference in the corruption situation between the US and Russia. Instead you've decided to attack me for supposedly reading too much into your comment. Since you're either incapable or unwilling to mount a coherent defense of your original assertion, I'll conclude you're either a friggin' moron or a troll. Either way, it's apparent that talking to you is a waste of my time. Good day.
To what numbers are you referring?
And yet again, you fail to provide a valid counter-arguement to my original point. Are you being intentionally dense or are you just incapable of anything but rhetoric?
Claiming insult is not a valid counter-argument. Until you learn the difference, I suggest you hush and let the grown-ups talk.