So you're saying we are perfectly free to huddle in a shack with no electricity, no telecommunication, no gas, no water, etc if we don't like the nearly ubiquitous clauses limiting recourse to the courts?
Actually, we're not, the shack would be condemned as uninhabitable without at least power and water.
Since you think saying no to DirectTV is equivalent to huddling in a shack without electricity, water, gas, or basic essentials...
Yes, you SHOULD huddling in a shack without those things for a while to get your priorities in order.
Freedom of speech is not the same as the freedom to force people to hear you.
If Trump were to use the government to silence these two assclowns, that would be obstructing their freedom of speech. Blocking them from his account because he doesn't want to hear what they have to say is not obstructing their freedom of speech - and they do not have a mandate that forces people to hear them.
There is a brand recognition issue. EpiPen has multiple competitors, even domestically in the U.S., one of which is 6x cheaper and sold in CVS. But people find EpiPen synonymous with the PRODUCT, and many - even doctors - don't know that there are competitors because EpiPen has done such successful marketing for so long.
Just like Kleenex. You don't ask for a facial tissue, you ask for a Kleenex. Even if you have a box of facial tissues branded by someone else (like Proctor and Gamble's Puffs) - because the brand is synonymous with the product from effective marketing.
I did - and I commented on it up above. Earlier. Since you don't read before you criticize, I'll copy and paste for you.
The lead researcher (Anna Filippova) just completed a PhD on the role of conflict expression in shaping distributed teams. She has also studied the collective user experience with privacy management strategies on Facebook, how to crowdsource history, and Twitter brand sentiment following crisis communication campaigns.
I'm too lazy to dig further, since the last time slashdot did a puff piece on women and minorities in tech, it wasn't even by scientists and... I just don't care enough anymore to try to stop being jaded.
Never one to disappoint. You always bring us the best women are repressed slant pieces written by women's studies students, usually self-published on facebook or medium, and then slathered with the barest hint of academic credibility to try sneaking it onto peoples' eyeballs as credible news.
The lead researcher (Anna Filippova) just completed a PhD on the role of conflict expression in shaping distributed teams. She has also studied the collective user experience with privacy management strategies on Facebook, how to crowdsource history, and Twitter brand sentiment following crisis communication campaigns.
I'm too lazy to dig further, since the last time slashdot did a puff piece on women and minorities in tech, it wasn't even by scientists and... I just don't care enough anymore to try to stop being jaded.
I used to have a Motorola Droid; then a Samsung Android.
In 2010 or so, GE policy basically mandated that I have a work phone, but they only offered iphones. I got an iphone 4s for work e-mail and phone, and kept my Samsung in my pocket.
Several years later, I ended up consolidating both phones into my work phone (iPhone 5s at that point) because I was tired of carrying two phones around, especially if work was going to pay for one - and I hardly used the other for anything except for playing crap off the google store in my downtime.
Today I have an iphone 6, having passed on the iphone 7. Text messaging is weird, even with autocorrect turned off; if I tilt the phone at the wrong angle, it switches to that stupid doodle mentioned in TFS. If I swipe or fat finger, it switches from text messaging to that stupid doodle or emojis.
Fuck you apple. Seriously. Fuck you and your wannabe Wechat. I wish I had my android back.
Without a way to try the game, I doubt the developers would've gotten any of those sales. If everyone had to buy before they could find out whether they like it, most of them would go for the well known AAA titles that their friends are raving about. For most indie titles though, word of mouth really doesn't work, since everybody has their own niche they like.
I know I'm not the only one to remember when game demos were real. When you could get freeware or demo disks in the mail, or they came bundled with magazines because game developers wanted you to try their latest games.
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if Peter Jackson had had the budget and approval to make two 3-hour movies for each LotR novel (6 3-hour movies total).
Seriously? After the mess of the Hobbit movies, you wonder what he'd have done?
Think love triangle between Gandalf and Galadrial, with Saruman has a spurned lover, and imagine a 30-minute long CGI rendered single combat between Legolas and Sauron.
I've been an avid user of RottenTomatoes since its inception - and I'd like to think that I've saved a lot of money over the years as my wife and I are both avid movie-goers - we use it to dodge some real turds.
But over the last couple of years, I'm increasingly starting to feel like RottenTomatoes is losing its relevance. It used to be that audience reviews were within a few percentage points of critic reviews. Now...its like critics go out of their way to dislike anything that isn't an indie-film documentary, and don't write reviews that align with anything the movie-going public might think.
Baywatch is a prime example. 17% critic review, 70% audience review. What kind of bullshit is that? What value is a critic, or an aggregate site like RottenTomatoes if the work they are doing doesn't reflect what a movie-goer might think of the film?
Now that NSA's tool-belt is spilled how do we get a new one? A contest!
Wouldn't it be great if our government would work with us to secure our assets rather than working against us for their own nefarious undisclosed reasons?
You assume that the government agencies work together. They do not - which is laughably, transparently obvious. This program started with good intentions - all the way back in 2004 - but so much has happened with different agencies with their own agendas that no one trusts anyone.
The people have spoken, and their preferences - despite bundling and presets - have been made known.
If variants of IE weren't mandatory or exclusive at many places (my company has some 400,000 computers with IE, and business critical Oracle modules that only work in IE), Microsoft would have even less than 24%.
Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
I can't be the only one extremely disappointed with this article.
The subject "Science Needs to Clean Up Its Act" was so promising - and then its about how the scientific community needs to be more PC - more diversified - more accepting of participating in peoples' personal self-image and validating them - less harassment.
Science *does* need to clean up its act. It needs to harass scientists who publish nonsense that can't be replicated. It needs to purge administrative non-sense that clouds the pursuit of truth. It needs to blacklist scientists who publish fraud, and those who use fake contact information to peer-review their own research.
Instead of trying to broaden scientific pursuit to LGBTXYZ by making scientists acknowledge their white cis privilege and beg forgiveness, science needs to bleach its festering sores clean of festering disease, clinically diagnose and treat the cancerous tumors in its ranks, and make science EQUALLY appealing to everyone of any sex, race, creed, or religion who wants to pursue scientific achievement absent this horrific PC attitude.
Anyone still on the bitcoin bandwagon are the ones who either have free electricity or criminals. As a currency it's just doomed to fail due to the ever changing "value" people attribute to it. It's simply too volatile. One day it can be worth $2k and the next it could be worth $500. The fact it becomes rarer after a while, only the ones who invested heavily in bitcoin in the early days actually made a decent profit, today if you join, you basically get peanuts.
That's the nature of every system, including Wall Street, education, investments, government, and sex.
But on the other hand, some students are starting to demand that professors address them according to the personal pronouns with which they personally identify.
To which all professors should respond with some variant of "You're welcome to your own self-image, but I am not required to participate in it."
No. It is not the job of college professors to correct students unable to communicate correctly. That was the job of the high school teachers. Students unable to communicate correctly should not have been admitted to college, because they shouldn't have received their high school diploma.
Fuck, can't give you a +1 because I commented. But damned straight. Send them back to high school and make them get another participation award.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it. What did they put on their college application, a plagiarized form letter?
Are you kidding?
40% of American High School GRADUATES (yes, graduates) can't read or write. They get graduated anyway. Front cover of Time Magazine.
These little assfaces get participation trophies for showing up and told that everyone is a winner. They think that they're ahead of their peers for knowing how to plagiarize a form letter.
Doesn't really matter that they talk to their professors....
The problem is that they are writing papers like this. And communicating to potential employers like this. There's an entire generation if kiddiespeaking illiterate sons of bitches that can't figure out why their attempts to get meaningful employment go unanswered.
A roommate and I rented the front unit of a triplex in Silicon Valley after the dot com bust. I had planted some petunias in the front yard, got busy with life, and let the petunias die. While we were out in front one day, a little old lady came up to tell us that the dead petunias in our front yard lowered the value of her house down the street by $25K. I asked her if she was selling her house. She said no. I asked her how she knew that the value of her house dropped by $25K if it wasn't up for sale. She walked away in a huff.
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So you're saying we are perfectly free to huddle in a shack with no electricity, no telecommunication, no gas, no water, etc if we don't like the nearly ubiquitous clauses limiting recourse to the courts?
Actually, we're not, the shack would be condemned as uninhabitable without at least power and water.
Since you think saying no to DirectTV is equivalent to huddling in a shack without electricity, water, gas, or basic essentials...
Yes, you SHOULD huddling in a shack without those things for a while to get your priorities in order.
Freedom of speech is not the same as the freedom to force people to hear you.
If Trump were to use the government to silence these two assclowns, that would be obstructing their freedom of speech. Blocking them from his account because he doesn't want to hear what they have to say is not obstructing their freedom of speech - and they do not have a mandate that forces people to hear them.
Jesus.
There is no patent issue.
There is a brand recognition issue. EpiPen has multiple competitors, even domestically in the U.S., one of which is 6x cheaper and sold in CVS. But people find EpiPen synonymous with the PRODUCT, and many - even doctors - don't know that there are competitors because EpiPen has done such successful marketing for so long.
Just like Kleenex. You don't ask for a facial tissue, you ask for a Kleenex. Even if you have a box of facial tissues branded by someone else (like Proctor and Gamble's Puffs) - because the brand is synonymous with the product from effective marketing.
I did - and I commented on it up above. Earlier. Since you don't read before you criticize, I'll copy and paste for you.
The lead researcher (Anna Filippova) just completed a PhD on the role of conflict expression in shaping distributed teams. She has also studied the collective user experience with privacy management strategies on Facebook, how to crowdsource history, and Twitter brand sentiment following crisis communication campaigns.
I'm too lazy to dig further, since the last time slashdot did a puff piece on women and minorities in tech, it wasn't even by scientists and ... I just don't care enough anymore to try to stop being jaded.
BeauHD:
Never one to disappoint. You always bring us the best women are repressed slant pieces written by women's studies students, usually self-published on facebook or medium, and then slathered with the barest hint of academic credibility to try sneaking it onto peoples' eyeballs as credible news.
This is your second time in the last two weeks.
The lead researcher (Anna Filippova) just completed a PhD on the role of conflict expression in shaping distributed teams. She has also studied the collective user experience with privacy management strategies on Facebook, how to crowdsource history, and Twitter brand sentiment following crisis communication campaigns.
I'm too lazy to dig further, since the last time slashdot did a puff piece on women and minorities in tech, it wasn't even by scientists and ... I just don't care enough anymore to try to stop being jaded.
I used to have a Motorola Droid; then a Samsung Android.
In 2010 or so, GE policy basically mandated that I have a work phone, but they only offered iphones. I got an iphone 4s for work e-mail and phone, and kept my Samsung in my pocket.
Several years later, I ended up consolidating both phones into my work phone (iPhone 5s at that point) because I was tired of carrying two phones around, especially if work was going to pay for one - and I hardly used the other for anything except for playing crap off the google store in my downtime.
Today I have an iphone 6, having passed on the iphone 7. Text messaging is weird, even with autocorrect turned off; if I tilt the phone at the wrong angle, it switches to that stupid doodle mentioned in TFS. If I swipe or fat finger, it switches from text messaging to that stupid doodle or emojis.
Fuck you apple. Seriously. Fuck you and your wannabe Wechat. I wish I had my android back.
Without a way to try the game, I doubt the developers would've gotten any of those sales. If everyone had to buy before they could find out whether they like it, most of them would go for the well known AAA titles that their friends are raving about. For most indie titles though, word of mouth really doesn't work, since everybody has their own niche they like.
I know I'm not the only one to remember when game demos were real. When you could get freeware or demo disks in the mail, or they came bundled with magazines because game developers wanted you to try their latest games.
It should have been clear to individual voters 18 months before the election that this guy was unfit for office. Certainly by 12 months. Or 6 months.
Everyone on the ballot was unfit for office.
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if Peter Jackson had had the budget and approval to make two 3-hour movies for each LotR novel (6 3-hour movies total).
Seriously? After the mess of the Hobbit movies, you wonder what he'd have done?
Think love triangle between Gandalf and Galadrial, with Saruman has a spurned lover, and imagine a 30-minute long CGI rendered single combat between Legolas and Sauron.
I've been an avid user of RottenTomatoes since its inception - and I'd like to think that I've saved a lot of money over the years as my wife and I are both avid movie-goers - we use it to dodge some real turds.
But over the last couple of years, I'm increasingly starting to feel like RottenTomatoes is losing its relevance. It used to be that audience reviews were within a few percentage points of critic reviews. Now...its like critics go out of their way to dislike anything that isn't an indie-film documentary, and don't write reviews that align with anything the movie-going public might think.
Baywatch is a prime example. 17% critic review, 70% audience review. What kind of bullshit is that? What value is a critic, or an aggregate site like RottenTomatoes if the work they are doing doesn't reflect what a movie-goer might think of the film?
Now that NSA's tool-belt is spilled how do we get a new one? A contest!
Wouldn't it be great if our government would work with us to secure our assets rather than working against us for their own nefarious undisclosed reasons?
You assume that the government agencies work together. They do not - which is laughably, transparently obvious. This program started with good intentions - all the way back in 2004 - but so much has happened with different agencies with their own agendas that no one trusts anyone.
The people have spoken, and their preferences - despite bundling and presets - have been made known.
If variants of IE weren't mandatory or exclusive at many places (my company has some 400,000 computers with IE, and business critical Oracle modules that only work in IE), Microsoft would have even less than 24%.
Summary should read, "A former top drone manufacturer..."
There's nothing better for your competitors than fucking your customers.
Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
If you want to reach out to her, you can contact her here: metcalf@awis.org
I can't be the only one extremely disappointed with this article.
The subject "Science Needs to Clean Up Its Act" was so promising - and then its about how the scientific community needs to be more PC - more diversified - more accepting of participating in peoples' personal self-image and validating them - less harassment.
Science *does* need to clean up its act. It needs to harass scientists who publish nonsense that can't be replicated. It needs to purge administrative non-sense that clouds the pursuit of truth. It needs to blacklist scientists who publish fraud, and those who use fake contact information to peer-review their own research.
Instead of trying to broaden scientific pursuit to LGBTXYZ by making scientists acknowledge their white cis privilege and beg forgiveness, science needs to bleach its festering sores clean of festering disease, clinically diagnose and treat the cancerous tumors in its ranks, and make science EQUALLY appealing to everyone of any sex, race, creed, or religion who wants to pursue scientific achievement absent this horrific PC attitude.
Anyone still on the bitcoin bandwagon are the ones who either have free electricity or criminals. As a currency it's just doomed to fail due to the ever changing "value" people attribute to it. It's simply too volatile. One day it can be worth $2k and the next it could be worth $500. The fact it becomes rarer after a while, only the ones who invested heavily in bitcoin in the early days actually made a decent profit, today if you join, you basically get peanuts.
That's the nature of every system, including Wall Street, education, investments, government, and sex.
The ones who get in early reap the benefits.
But on the other hand, some students are starting to demand that professors address them according to the personal pronouns with which they personally identify.
To which all professors should respond with some variant of "You're welcome to your own self-image, but I am not required to participate in it."
No. It is not the job of college professors to correct students unable to communicate correctly. That was the job of the high school teachers. Students unable to communicate correctly should not have been admitted to college, because they shouldn't have received their high school diploma.
Fuck, can't give you a +1 because I commented. But damned straight. Send them back to high school and make them get another participation award.
I went to a service academy; the instructors were called Sir or Ma'am - and in the third person as "Dr. ____" or by rank.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it. What did they put on their college application, a plagiarized form letter?
Are you kidding?
40% of American High School GRADUATES (yes, graduates) can't read or write. They get graduated anyway. Front cover of Time Magazine.
These little assfaces get participation trophies for showing up and told that everyone is a winner. They think that they're ahead of their peers for knowing how to plagiarize a form letter.
And sadly, they're mostly not wrong.
Doesn't really matter that they talk to their professors....
The problem is that they are writing papers like this. And communicating to potential employers like this. There's an entire generation if kiddiespeaking illiterate sons of bitches that can't figure out why their attempts to get meaningful employment go unanswered.
Arrest people.
A roommate and I rented the front unit of a triplex in Silicon Valley after the dot com bust. I had planted some petunias in the front yard, got busy with life, and let the petunias die. While we were out in front one day, a little old lady came up to tell us that the dead petunias in our front yard lowered the value of her house down the street by $25K. I asked her if she was selling her house. She said no. I asked her how she knew that the value of her house dropped by $25K if it wasn't up for sale. She walked away in a huff.
These are the kind of stories I want to read!