Well, it just so happens that if we think about the magnitude of chlorocarbons that affected the atmosphere and caused the ozone hole (which, by the way, is now shrinking), and compare it to the magnitude of carbon dioxide that has been dumped into the atmosphere -- the latter out-masses the former by HALF-A-MILLION TIMES .
That comparison is one of the greatest examples of dumbassery I've seen in a long time. The quantity difference is irrelevant if the effect size per unit is vastly different. Sugar and cyanide might both be bad for you but you can tolerate a fuck of a lot more sugar than cyanide.
Being that most of these posts here are on Slashdot seem to be against the idea that she was harassed, it doesn't really make too much sense for a woman to just accuse people of this stuff willy-nilly
Sure it does. People who fling around unfounded accusations don't care whether Slashdot takes them seriously; they care about what HR and corporate lawyers have to say on the matter. It's even worse in the case of government/military workers, where there's no concern about profitability and therefore no incentive to try and reign in the abuse. Lots of people (men and women) are willing to lie their asses off with zero corroborating evidence if they know that there's a high likelihood of a large payout.
I'm not in charge of booking venues for CPAC, so I'm not sure why you would ask me that question. However, they didn't "give up" anything; they came up with a reasonable exchange. I know that anti-gun zealots aren't the most nuanced bunch, but even you lot can't honestly think that the NRA and/or republicans are opposed to all gun free zones in principle...
Even including war zones, the gun related death rate per thousand of population in Africa is still about 1/10 of what it is in America (for the whole of Africa - individual countries are, of course different, just as States in America are different).
The murder rate in Africa "as a whole" is 3 times higher than in the US. No clue where you're getting your "gun related" info from, but I doubt that the average African much cares whether he's getting shot to death with an AK-47 or cut to death with a machette.
Of course it's a gun-free zone, pope fatso. The venue, owned by Marriott, does not allow guns. However, they made up for it by having armed security and metal detectors, thereby ensuring the safety of those who choose to give up their personal protection when entering the premises.
The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources.
Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program.
Ooooooo, scary! That's a whole $6.5 million per year! I wonder what the NRAs total annual revenue is?
The workaround for that seems pretty simple; they only have to specify that your license for the downloaded movie is only valid so long as you have the original disc. If you sell the disc then the license is revoked, and you have to delete the downloaded copy. This doesn't violate the "first sale" doctrine since you still retain the right to sell the disc.
I'm not sure whether that's part of their license or not... if not then it was obviously a rather large oversight. Expect it to be rectified.
That's wonderful. I'm sure that Christopher "Da Joos did 9/11" Bollyn has all sorts of incredible insights into how the lizard people are planning on forcing is into FEMA camps
To the extent that this is true, it's true of all food and not just fast food. Ergo it's irrelevant to the discussion.
the employees are subsidized in the form of food stamps, low income health care, etc.
My local McDonalds is staffed entirely by teenagers and retirees, with an adult manager to oversee them. If any of those people are receiving "food stamps", I would be very surprised. As for healthcare, I live in a nation which provides socialized health care, so EVERY industry is "subsidised", according to you. Fast food is still comparatively cheap.
There's also a ton of hidden subsidies around the wasteful packaging (oil subsidies make the cheap plastics possible and we shift the cost of the waste disposal).
The only place I know of which still uses plastic packaging is Wendies, and that's only for their large drink cups. The vast majority of packaging has been switched over to paper/cardboard, so this seems like a minor issue at best. Moreover oil subsidies are so small in comparison to volume that the effect on the resultant plastic products is essentially unnoticeable; fractions of a cent for something like a plastic straw.
And the farming techniques used to keep those prices down have a ton of long term issues (that's where the "sustainability" comes in).
We are far better at sustainable farming than we have ever been before. While sustainability is certainly a concern, it's not a new one, and it's DEFINITELY not unique to the fast food industry.
Saying things like "developing the belief that she's a man" could be used as evidence of a hostile workplace. If someone said something like that, he reported it and HR didn't take action, it strengthens his case. That's why it's part of the lawsuit.
Her lawsuit doesn't make any such allegation, ergo her lack of a penis is not pertinent to the case. Besides which, it would take a special kind of gullible idiot to believe that Google - the bastion of "progressivism" - discriminates against trannies.
A more likely explanation is that she's used to being able to scream "I'm disabled and transgender!!!" to immediately end disagreement and receive deference from pretty much everyone around her. She's do used to it that she's fooled herself into believing that the legal system works the same way; just claim that you're transgendered and you automatically win.
BSO is betting that businesses including private scientific ventures and hotels will be interested in creating a profit above the Earth
I'm curious about what kind of profit they think they might generate. At this point the only potentially profitable venture seems to be space-tourism marketed to the ultra-rich. While NASA has done some interesting experiments in orbit, it seems unlikely that the returns from orbital experiments would ever produce results which could result in profit for private enterprise.
I am however looking forward to space tourism, if for no other reason than sheer curiosity about how long flat-earth beliefs will persist after private individuals are able to go into orbit.
If by "alt right" you mean the literal white supremacists who adopted that label, then you might be right, if hyperbolic. Even they are capable of some compassion.
If by "alt right" you mean the huge number of people who adopted that term as a rejection of both the far left and far right, then you're just an idiot.
There are similar idiots on the left, but they are still mostly kept safely locked away in their echo chamber media.
Far from it; the far left has influenced and implemented all sort of policies in both private enterprise and government policy, and their rhetoric permeates the public sphere. They are currently much more dangerous than the far right.
Weird, I can't seem to remember any passages in the novels in which the human characters tell the spaceships to "check their privilege". Could you quote one for me?
You have an issue with that, it's your problem, not his.
I'm pretty sure that her being born with a vagina and then developing the belief that she's a man is an issue for her, and nobody else. It certainly isn't an issue for the court to examine, so wtf is it doing as part of the lawsuit?
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Well, it just so happens that if we think about the magnitude of chlorocarbons that affected the atmosphere and caused the ozone hole (which, by the way, is now shrinking), and compare it to the magnitude of carbon dioxide that has been dumped into the atmosphere -- the latter out-masses the former by HALF-A-MILLION TIMES .
That comparison is one of the greatest examples of dumbassery I've seen in a long time. The quantity difference is irrelevant if the effect size per unit is vastly different. Sugar and cyanide might both be bad for you but you can tolerate a fuck of a lot more sugar than cyanide.
Testing. IME, most self taught programmers have no idea how to write tests or use a testing framework.
That's easy. If it compiles, it passes the first test. If it compiles without warnings that's like an A+.
For the second test just put it into production and see if anyone complains.
She tried to refactor your comment but lost part of it on the way.
300 years ago we were still 100 years away from developing the steam locomotive ... but you think that we won't "go elsewhere" in the next 300 years?
That's adorable.
Just because you're running for the fainting couch doesn't make it wrong.
Being that most of these posts here are on Slashdot seem to be against the idea that she was harassed, it doesn't really make too much sense for a woman to just accuse people of this stuff willy-nilly
Sure it does. People who fling around unfounded accusations don't care whether Slashdot takes them seriously; they care about what HR and corporate lawyers have to say on the matter. It's even worse in the case of government/military workers, where there's no concern about profitability and therefore no incentive to try and reign in the abuse. Lots of people (men and women) are willing to lie their asses off with zero corroborating evidence if they know that there's a high likelihood of a large payout.
Well, we've learned
Please don't lie. You're incapable of learning a damn thing.
Gun-free zones are not
Just a declaration you make.
Gun free zones are
An area you can actually secure and protect.
Well, we've learned
Please don't lie. You're incapable of learning a damn thing.
I'm not in charge of booking venues for CPAC, so I'm not sure why you would ask me that question. However, they didn't "give up" anything; they came up with a reasonable exchange. I know that anti-gun zealots aren't the most nuanced bunch, but even you lot can't honestly think that the NRA and/or republicans are opposed to all gun free zones in principle ...
Even including war zones, the gun related death rate per thousand of population in Africa is still about 1/10 of what it is in America (for the whole of Africa - individual countries are, of course different, just as States in America are different).
The murder rate in Africa "as a whole" is 3 times higher than in the US. No clue where you're getting your "gun related" info from, but I doubt that the average African much cares whether he's getting shot to death with an AK-47 or cut to death with a machette.
Of course it's a gun-free zone, pope fatso. The venue, owned by Marriott, does not allow guns. However, they made up for it by having armed security and metal detectors, thereby ensuring the safety of those who choose to give up their personal protection when entering the premises.
Don't you ever get tired of looking like a goof?
The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources.
Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program.
Ooooooo, scary! That's a whole $6.5 million per year! I wonder what the NRAs total annual revenue is?
Oh. Wait. Its over $400 million.
Sure, the man's a hero. Just think of all the aspiring actresses he saved from a life of obscurity!
The workaround for that seems pretty simple; they only have to specify that your license for the downloaded movie is only valid so long as you have the original disc. If you sell the disc then the license is revoked, and you have to delete the downloaded copy. This doesn't violate the "first sale" doctrine since you still retain the right to sell the disc.
I'm not sure whether that's part of their license or not ... if not then it was obviously a rather large oversight. Expect it to be rectified.
Insurrect; it stretches from one edge of the flat earth to the other.
That's wonderful. I'm sure that Christopher "Da Joos did 9/11" Bollyn has all sorts of incredible insights into how the lizard people are planning on forcing is into FEMA camps
The food gets massive farm subsidies
To the extent that this is true, it's true of all food and not just fast food. Ergo it's irrelevant to the discussion.
the employees are subsidized in the form of food stamps, low income health care, etc.
My local McDonalds is staffed entirely by teenagers and retirees, with an adult manager to oversee them. If any of those people are receiving "food stamps", I would be very surprised. As for healthcare, I live in a nation which provides socialized health care, so EVERY industry is "subsidised", according to you. Fast food is still comparatively cheap.
There's also a ton of hidden subsidies around the wasteful packaging (oil subsidies make the cheap plastics possible and we shift the cost of the waste disposal).
The only place I know of which still uses plastic packaging is Wendies, and that's only for their large drink cups. The vast majority of packaging has been switched over to paper/cardboard, so this seems like a minor issue at best. Moreover oil subsidies are so small in comparison to volume that the effect on the resultant plastic products is essentially unnoticeable; fractions of a cent for something like a plastic straw.
And the farming techniques used to keep those prices down have a ton of long term issues (that's where the "sustainability" comes in).
We are far better at sustainable farming than we have ever been before. While sustainability is certainly a concern, it's not a new one, and it's DEFINITELY not unique to the fast food industry.
tl;dr: you're wrong about pretty much everything.
Very cool. I can't wait to see that!
Saying things like "developing the belief that she's a man" could be used as evidence of a hostile workplace. If someone said something like that, he reported it and HR didn't take action, it strengthens his case. That's why it's part of the lawsuit.
Her lawsuit doesn't make any such allegation, ergo her lack of a penis is not pertinent to the case. Besides which, it would take a special kind of gullible idiot to believe that Google - the bastion of "progressivism" - discriminates against trannies.
A more likely explanation is that she's used to being able to scream "I'm disabled and transgender!!!" to immediately end disagreement and receive deference from pretty much everyone around her. She's do used to it that she's fooled herself into believing that the legal system works the same way; just claim that you're transgendered and you automatically win.
She's about to get a nasty surprise.
BSO is betting that businesses including private scientific ventures and hotels will be interested in creating a profit above the Earth
I'm curious about what kind of profit they think they might generate. At this point the only potentially profitable venture seems to be space-tourism marketed to the ultra-rich. While NASA has done some interesting experiments in orbit, it seems unlikely that the returns from orbital experiments would ever produce results which could result in profit for private enterprise.
I am however looking forward to space tourism, if for no other reason than sheer curiosity about how long flat-earth beliefs will persist after private individuals are able to go into orbit.
If by "alt right" you mean the literal white supremacists who adopted that label, then you might be right, if hyperbolic. Even they are capable of some compassion.
If by "alt right" you mean the huge number of people who adopted that term as a rejection of both the far left and far right, then you're just an idiot.
There are similar idiots on the left, but they are still mostly kept safely locked away in their echo chamber media.
Far from it; the far left has influenced and implemented all sort of policies in both private enterprise and government policy, and their rhetoric permeates the public sphere. They are currently much more dangerous than the far right.
Yes, Iain M Banks believed in social justice.
Weird, I can't seem to remember any passages in the novels in which the human characters tell the spaceships to "check their privilege". Could you quote one for me?
Von Braun was German and Hitler was Austrian.
There was no doubt about the latter even in the Nazi Germany.
That's cute. Tell me, then, what nationality was Napoleano di Buonaparte?
Y'all are pissed off that Slashdot doesn't like your iPhone's Unicode.
yes, he was born with a vagina.
You have an issue with that, it's your problem, not his.
I'm pretty sure that her being born with a vagina and then developing the belief that she's a man is an issue for her, and nobody else. It certainly isn't an issue for the court to examine, so wtf is it doing as part of the lawsuit?