Homeopathy began in the 1720s upon the accidental discovery that milkmaids who get cowpox on their hands never get smallpox. The Homeopathic school assumed this met their criteria for "like protects against like" and from the homeopathic school we got immunization technology in 1720.
That's utter bollocks.
So vaccines are homeopathic for one thing
No, that's utter bollocks.
Your entire argument appears to be based on stating utter bollocks then using flawed logic to extrapolate some fantasy fucked up argument that is in fact utter bollocks. Please stop.
I don't see people on Slashdot arguing that someone poorly shouldn't drink water.
I do see people arguing that telling poorly people they'll get better by drinking water is (when their issue is not dehydration) fraudulent, damaging and dishonest.
That doesn't stop anybody managing their own body however they want. We need an abortion debate for that.
The more interesting position is case 4: My office is 20 miles away, and instead of going to my office I go straight to a client.
At the moment, my employer will pay me for the shorter of the journey from my home, or from my office. Does this ruling mean that my employer will have to pay for the full journey? It doesn't really make sense, the current approach is already equitable and lets the employee avoid driving 20 miles in the wrong direction before visiting the client.
On a personal level, my normal commute is 15 minutes, and if the journey is less than an hour's drive I wont claim on expenses anyway. I'm also salaried and largely set my own hours, so the time element isn't a factor either. But some of my colleagues live an hour away from the office and ten minutes from some of our clients..
I can burst up to well over 80 hours in a single week with minimal to no loss in per-hour productivity.
It can be done. It does happen. It's a viable option.
What I can't do is sustain that. This is where the 'average 48 hour week' comes in as quite sensible. Sustaining 40-45 hours/week is possible, but sustaining 80 hours/week leads to burn out and (as you state) reduced productivity.
But you can average 40 and throw in the occasional 'shit hit the fan' week without dicking around.
(Note that I prefer to do a 40-45 hour 'dicking around' week than a pure 30 hour productivity week. I gain and add a lot of value through the information gained and shared while dicking around, and my brain benefits from the downtime between the 'hard' bits)
It's faster to brake to a halt on snow covered ice with locked wheels than with ABS. The ABS merely means you slide for less than half the time instead of all the time. You still slide, and you're now failing to slow down at all during the period in which you're not.
I get far better control and handling of my car with the ABS disabled on snow covered roads.
A good university teaches people how to think. I'd rather employ someone from MIT with a 1st in any degree subject than someone from Cov Poly with their best academic qualification.
I'm also not the only one.
Every programming job description I see has the requirement "BSCS or equivalent experience".
Been there, applied for that. "Do you have a degree in computer science?" Nope. "Oh. What degree do you have?" "Where is that from?"
My 'fuck all to do with computing in any sense' degree from a Russell Group university got the (quoted exactly) response, "That'll do nicely."
At the same time, anybody that mandates a degree in an IT job is a fuckwit anyway. A degree tells me you've been taught to think, and assessed on those grounds. Several years experience in the domain tells me you've got several years experience in the domain. Either is great.
By that reckoning both platforms would fail miserably, given that both combined have a couple of orders of magnitude fewer games than I can access just via Steam, let alone other channels.
290 is plenty of games, if they're the right ones. A lot of people seem to think that they are.
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Homeopathy began in the 1720s upon the accidental discovery that milkmaids who get cowpox on their hands never get smallpox. The Homeopathic school assumed this met their criteria for "like protects against like" and from the homeopathic school we got immunization technology in 1720.
That's utter bollocks.
So vaccines are homeopathic for one thing
No, that's utter bollocks.
Your entire argument appears to be based on stating utter bollocks then using flawed logic to extrapolate some fantasy fucked up argument that is in fact utter bollocks. Please stop.
I love the fact they're not even debating, they're just discussing and implicitly agreeing.
It's pretty much a given that it wont be. If Corbyn gets in there'll be no fucking economy left to fund it anyway.
I don't see people on Slashdot arguing that someone poorly shouldn't drink water.
I do see people arguing that telling poorly people they'll get better by drinking water is (when their issue is not dehydration) fraudulent, damaging and dishonest.
That doesn't stop anybody managing their own body however they want. We need an abortion debate for that.
Because nobody's successfully made a Urwerk UR-202 for less than several thousand dollars.
Forget mere accuracy, ignore the jewellery element entirely, that's a mechanical masterpiece.
But will you laugh in their face when they auction it for $150k in 20 years time?
Don't bet against it..
The 1 series is a very underrated line. Genuinely excellent cars.
Although only in coupe form. These days you need the 2 series instead.
The more interesting position is case 4:
My office is 20 miles away, and instead of going to my office I go straight to a client.
At the moment, my employer will pay me for the shorter of the journey from my home, or from my office. Does this ruling mean that my employer will have to pay for the full journey? It doesn't really make sense, the current approach is already equitable and lets the employee avoid driving 20 miles in the wrong direction before visiting the client.
On a personal level, my normal commute is 15 minutes, and if the journey is less than an hour's drive I wont claim on expenses anyway. I'm also salaried and largely set my own hours, so the time element isn't a factor either. But some of my colleagues live an hour away from the office and ten minutes from some of our clients..
Yeah, I have a friend that does this sort of work and the employers are very abusive.
They're going to get hit badly by this ruling, and I think that's a good thing.
Not in the UK. I haven't received overtime in my life, and I've averaged 65 hour weeks for over a year at times.
I can burst up to well over 80 hours in a single week with minimal to no loss in per-hour productivity.
It can be done. It does happen. It's a viable option.
What I can't do is sustain that. This is where the 'average 48 hour week' comes in as quite sensible. Sustaining 40-45 hours/week is possible, but sustaining 80 hours/week leads to burn out and (as you state) reduced productivity.
But you can average 40 and throw in the occasional 'shit hit the fan' week without dicking around.
(Note that I prefer to do a 40-45 hour 'dicking around' week than a pure 30 hour productivity week. I gain and add a lot of value through the information gained and shared while dicking around, and my brain benefits from the downtime between the 'hard' bits)
I love my speed limiters. They've saved me a lot of money and probably helped me avoid losing my licence.
The problem is that if you drive at a speed that's safe for the conditions, you end up getting fined for speeding. Stupid, I know.
rtb61 occasionally has to drive down a steep exit from a driveway.
Now tell me why he doesn't have that problem?
That made me laugh.
Although the anti-speed brigade also underestimate the safety benefits of momentum.
It's faster to brake to a halt on snow covered ice with locked wheels than with ABS. The ABS merely means you slide for less than half the time instead of all the time. You still slide, and you're now failing to slow down at all during the period in which you're not.
I get far better control and handling of my car with the ABS disabled on snow covered roads.
Less heat losses, and the increased drag of the projectile due to its greater frontal surface area.
The maths just got a bit harder.
What the fuck do you think the 'm' in m*v stands for?
Are you shooting 9mm bullets out of your BB gun? No? Then fuck off and get a basic education before commenting again.
My bank gets confused every time my answer to, "What's the first school you went to?" is "I don't know"
I have stopped using 'fuck off' as my mother's maiden name though. Even I found that one awkward over the phone.
A good university teaches people how to think. I'd rather employ someone from MIT with a 1st in any degree subject than someone from Cov Poly with their best academic qualification.
I'm also not the only one.
Every programming job description I see has the requirement "BSCS or equivalent experience".
Been there, applied for that. "Do you have a degree in computer science?" Nope. "Oh. What degree do you have?" "Where is that from?"
My 'fuck all to do with computing in any sense' degree from a Russell Group university got the (quoted exactly) response, "That'll do nicely."
At the same time, anybody that mandates a degree in an IT job is a fuckwit anyway. A degree tells me you've been taught to think, and assessed on those grounds. Several years experience in the domain tells me you've got several years experience in the domain. Either is great.
Even user interface design requires significant attention to detail to handle input errors.
Better user interface design minimises input errors.
Fuck this binary distinction. Give me intelligent motivated capable people. I don't give a shit which degree they did.
I'm glad he's there to be crazy on my behalf.
That'll be 1.4 billion smartphone users, just to get us started.
Or maybe there's another definition of 'stupid motherfucker' that we should use?
They *could* sue for that in small claims court, but the fees would be higher than the recovery absent punitive damages.
Curious. In the UK you just add the admin cost of the small claims process to the amount claimed.
Is that SO BAD now ?
Several gigabytes of unwanted network traffic? Yes.
If I want to install Windows 10 I'll fucking download it. Until then, get your shitty fucking software off my network and off my storage.
By that reckoning both platforms would fail miserably, given that both combined have a couple of orders of magnitude fewer games than I can access just via Steam, let alone other channels.
290 is plenty of games, if they're the right ones. A lot of people seem to think that they are.