No. If I have mused it in passing, it has immediately slipped through my mind, as the answers are obvious.
Well, it may not surprise you to learn that standing up for eight hours in heels isn't much fun. Some enjoy the work, while others don't enjoy being the subject of stares.
You're right, it didn't surprise me, as it's fucking obvious that's what they'd think about it.
There's no possible business model better than piratebay
Piratebay isn't a business model.
the only alternative is encouraging people to feel guilty for piracy, or criminally prosecuting pirates
This is simply not true. I don't feel remotely guilty about downloading copies without paying for them, yet still I pay £15 a month for an unlimited cinema pass, and pay £10 a month for spotify, and I bought all the humble bundles at the average contribution, and I buy games on Steam when they get heavy discounts, just in case I ever want to play them.
Guilt and threat of prosecution didn't motivate me to adopt these services (i pirate stuff all the time), they simply provided the appropriate level of value and convenience.
If there were a movie streaming service with as universal a catalogue as spotify has for music, i would subscribe in a heartbeat. Unfortunately Netflix in the uk is barely finding it's feet in terms of content at the moment.
Dude, I don't have any opinion on US immigration. I haven't claimed anything about it. I'm simply pointing out the glaring hypocrisy of of pulling hypotheticals out of your ass in order to justify accusing someone of making things up.
And your response to that is a tirade of empty assertions and the claim that you "don't need any survey" to know something that you just tried to back up with a hypothetical survey.
Also, if you're going cite Wikipedia, you might want to check if it backs up your claims first. Your attitude is one of arrogant assumption that you somehow "know" what the facts are, and don't need any scientific studies to inform your opinion. Where do you think the facts in the wikipedia article come from? They come from the very studies and surveys that you seem to think you're too omniscient to bother reading.
This is the UN survey that's used as the first citation in the wikipedia article. Page 16, table 1, The North America is 3rd of 6 continents behind both Europe and Asia as "the destination of choice", Page 17, paragraph 8, the U.S. is 5th out of 8 countries.
But of course "by almost anyone who can get here" perhaps you mean mexicans. Oops.
Well, as I said I don't really have an opinion on US immigration, but it's amazing how informed you can become with an open mind and 20 minutes of reading isn't it? As opposed to assuming your opinions are "fact", trying to shout everyone down and blithely tossing around admonitions to "read wikipedia", when you clearly haven't done it yourself.
How would the advertisers know if I watched the advert or not? The promise of my potential eyeballs is what earned them the money, and that transaction has already been completed, so even if I don't watch the adverts, they've still been paid.
The advertiser buys the space because it increases the probability that their goods will be sold. They aren't buying any kind of guarantee from the content provider that everyone will watch the ads.
Extending this logic that you owe it to content provider to watch all the ads, you should also be morally obliged to buy all the products advertised, and then write to the advertiser, enclosing proof of purchase and declaring which tv show you were watching when you saw the relevant ad.
And guess what? Slashdot are free to ban pointless verbal abuse from their comments.
Instead of whining about how mean everybody is, why don't you learn the ropes and grow a pair...I mean, sheesh...it's online! You're not getting shoved into the sidewalk or having sand kicked in your face!
That's life. Deal with it.
External validation isn't going to ease your conscience in the long run. You should pay attention to how you genuinely feel about it, because you already know whether you are comfortable doing it or not. Asking slashdot is counter-productive attempt at rationalisation.
At no point during the thread that i replied to did anyone state, or even imply, that they were referring to a specific type of sound proofing, because they weren't.
Whoever's hypothesis it is it's demonstrably untrue - the other day I took the sound proofing out of the back of my Subaru Legacy wagon to do some welding, and drove it to town and back and the road and exhaust noise coming up from the back was an alarmingly cacophonous racket.
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Ever wonder what they think of their jobs?
No. If I have mused it in passing, it has immediately slipped through my mind, as the answers are obvious.
Well, it may not surprise you to learn that standing up for eight hours in heels isn't much fun. Some enjoy the work, while others don't enjoy being the subject of stares.
You're right, it didn't surprise me, as it's fucking obvious that's what they'd think about it.
Otherwise it is all just teaching ones own faith
Acceptance of evidence based consensus is not equivalent to faith. Faith is believing something despite the evidence or lack thereof.
it's the same guy replying to himself.
Bitterness is a sheild against ones own shortcomings.
Recall any great economists? Psychologists? Biologists? Philosophers?
Because those fields are run by incompetent hacks.
????
You're a lunatic.
Lang didn't deny AIDS...or so according to Wikipedia anyway...
...Lang's most controversial political stance was as an AIDS denialist...
Way to go!
Only one possible interpretation of the data that we have.
No it isn't. There's simply too many independant converging lines of evidence to rationally conclude anything else.
Just because it's untestable doesn't mean it's false
It also doesn't mean it's true. It does however mean that it's logically indefensible.
What was the rationale behind targetting it?
You can prove a negative if the positive is self-contradictory. See the monospaced quote above for the disproof of the god of the bible.
Ok, Gingerboy, we'll play it your way.
If by "play it your way" you mean engage with the scientifically gathered facts then yes, that's more like it.
See how much better these arguments go when you have something to back up what you're saying?
There's no possible business model better than piratebay
Piratebay isn't a business model.
the only alternative is encouraging people to feel guilty for piracy, or criminally prosecuting pirates
This is simply not true. I don't feel remotely guilty about downloading copies without paying for them, yet still I pay £15 a month for an unlimited cinema pass, and pay £10 a month for spotify, and I bought all the humble bundles at the average contribution, and I buy games on Steam when they get heavy discounts, just in case I ever want to play them.
Guilt and threat of prosecution didn't motivate me to adopt these services (i pirate stuff all the time), they simply provided the appropriate level of value and convenience.
If there were a movie streaming service with as universal a catalogue as spotify has for music, i would subscribe in a heartbeat. Unfortunately Netflix in the uk is barely finding it's feet in terms of content at the moment.
Dude, I don't have any opinion on US immigration. I haven't claimed anything about it. I'm simply pointing out the glaring hypocrisy of of pulling hypotheticals out of your ass in order to justify accusing someone of making things up.
And your response to that is a tirade of empty assertions and the claim that you "don't need any survey" to know something that you just tried to back up with a hypothetical survey.
Also, if you're going cite Wikipedia, you might want to check if it backs up your claims first. Your attitude is one of arrogant assumption that you somehow "know" what the facts are, and don't need any scientific studies to inform your opinion. Where do you think the facts in the wikipedia article come from? They come from the very studies and surveys that you seem to think you're too omniscient to bother reading.
This is the UN survey that's used as the first citation in the wikipedia article. Page 16, table 1, The North America is 3rd of 6 continents behind both Europe and Asia as "the destination of choice", Page 17, paragraph 8, the U.S. is 5th out of 8 countries.
But of course "by almost anyone who can get here" perhaps you mean mexicans. Oops.
Well, as I said I don't really have an opinion on US immigration, but it's amazing how informed you can become with an open mind and 20 minutes of reading isn't it? As opposed to assuming your opinions are "fact", trying to shout everyone down and blithely tossing around admonitions to "read wikipedia", when you clearly haven't done it yourself.
Capitalism. It works.
60% of the time it works every time ;)
What, make stuff up like a hypothetical survey of immigrants? Sorry, who is just making stuff up?
How would the advertisers know if I watched the advert or not? The promise of my potential eyeballs is what earned them the money, and that transaction has already been completed, so even if I don't watch the adverts, they've still been paid.
The advertiser buys the space because it increases the probability that their goods will be sold. They aren't buying any kind of guarantee from the content provider that everyone will watch the ads.
Extending this logic that you owe it to content provider to watch all the ads, you should also be morally obliged to buy all the products advertised, and then write to the advertiser, enclosing proof of purchase and declaring which tv show you were watching when you saw the relevant ad.
That LED tape looks fun, pity there are no prices on their website.
How about Colour Ugliness Neatening Toolkit?
The most significant bit was probably the sign bit - if you set all 8 bits high you would have had minus 1 lives :)
And guess what? Slashdot are free to ban pointless verbal abuse from their comments.
Instead of whining about how mean everybody is, why don't you learn the ropes and grow a pair...I mean, sheesh...it's online! You're not getting shoved into the sidewalk or having sand kicked in your face! That's life. Deal with it.
Yes, exactly.
Believing yourself to be invulnerable to irrationality is irrational.
External validation isn't going to ease your conscience in the long run. You should pay attention to how you genuinely feel about it, because you already know whether you are comfortable doing it or not. Asking slashdot is counter-productive attempt at rationalisation.
At no point during the thread that i replied to did anyone state, or even imply, that they were referring to a specific type of sound proofing, because they weren't.
Whoever's hypothesis it is it's demonstrably untrue - the other day I took the sound proofing out of the back of my Subaru Legacy wagon to do some welding, and drove it to town and back and the road and exhaust noise coming up from the back was an alarmingly cacophonous racket.
that sounds like the flavour text from a NetRunner card
If he's not allowed an opinion, then neither are you.
Not only that, you read your own post wrong.