Fuck a gender balanced workforce. I don't see one in primary school education, or nursing, or garbage collection.
Why pick on my industry, one of the few that genuinely rewards and respects competence? What, is it because an industry that rewards and respects competence has somehow managed to be successful and generate high wages? Well be competent then, and you'll get respect and rewards.
Don't want to do this type of work, don't want to put the effort in, don't find it easy? Go be a fucking garbage collector, they need gender balance.
I'd rather be overweight and addicted to sugar than consume aspartame.
Mental health matters more to me than physical.
However, this whole conversation (including your post) has urged me to try and cut down on sugar consumption. I'm very unlikely to try and cut it out entirely though.
What the fuck? People should spend money buying a new phone battery instead of using the simple, obvious and convenient option of charging it from their laptop?
You should play x-wing, tie fighter, x-wing vs tie fighter or x-wing alliance then. Deflector shield management was a very important gameplay element, one that's become a space combat genre staple.
Hmm. With a wingsuit it might well be possible. There are a couple of bloody big hills overlooking Monaco.
Ok, can confirm: Optimal glide path for a wingsuit is 2.5:1. So stand on Tete de Chien (height 450m if you believe English Wikipedia, or 550m if you believe French wikipedia, so lets assume halfway: 500m). Jumping from there gives you approximately 1.25km distance under optimal conditions before you reach sea level.
Assuming you can land on the sea (and someone's survived landing on cardboard boxes), assuming no tall buildings and assuming no yachts (a dodgy assumption here) you can fly over Monaco and land in the harbour in 1.25km (measured approximately using Google Maps).
Oddly no. One reason so few people die to terrorist incidents is that there's a lot of time and effort expended on preventing and mitigating against them.
A sensible balance is needed. There is a risk, it does need to be addressed, but it doesn't justify ubiquitous surveillance, blanket restrictions on movement, prevention of free speech or extrajudicial punishments.
If you really want to go down stupid unrealistic option routes then there's a better choice: You wont have to endure any longer at all if you nuke every major metropolis in America. It also wouldn't cause you all of the additional problems of nuking the middle east.
What, you think American civilians should be protected but not those in Syria or Iraq? Really?
There are a range of possible responses, and full military invasion is perhaps not the appropriate choice following an anonymous call via an untraceable service.
I'm comfortable with the police knocking on my door.
I'm less comfortable with the police standing on my property then telling me to go back to bed when I open my door to find out what they're up to at 4am, especially when they're taking a personal interest in my car. But generally the police are welcome to knock on my door for a polite conversation.
There clearly is because the whole concept of SWATing doesn't seem to have made it to Europe. I can't help that's because we just don't seem to do the full on wanna-be military style raids as standard response to so many crimes.
Hmm. The standard anti-terror arrest approach in the UK is simultaneous forced entry into the houses of the suspects by armed police at around 5am.
If you're a terror suspect and you've had a good sleep, you're probably safe all day around here.
I'm not sure whether my door frame would detach from the wall before the door was broken enough to get through. The hinges and deadlocks are strong enough that both are more likely than either those going though, even with 100lb of ram directed at them.
not understanding that women don't like hearing dick jokes is a sign of social immaturity
I know a seriously fucking large number of socially immature women then, given how many of them like joking about men's sexual organs when in female company.
What is with fuckwit Americans wanting to use the nuclear arsenal that they've spent so much money on, and thinking there wouldn't be devastating consequences for America?
Leaving aside your thoughts on terrorism, it's an interesting question whether this is legitimate self-defence.
US soldiers in the US are operating the drones killing ISIS members in Syria/Iraq, which implicitly makes them legitimate targets for anybody trying not to die to a drone.
Under US law that's not the case, but under the basic principle of "I have the right to kill someone that's motivated, capable and intent on killing me, to save my own life" it's a far more interesting question.
Slashdot Mirror
Fuck a gender balanced workforce. I don't see one in primary school education, or nursing, or garbage collection.
Why pick on my industry, one of the few that genuinely rewards and respects competence? What, is it because an industry that rewards and respects competence has somehow managed to be successful and generate high wages? Well be competent then, and you'll get respect and rewards.
Don't want to do this type of work, don't want to put the effort in, don't find it easy? Go be a fucking garbage collector, they need gender balance.
Show me the obese Tour de France cyclist? These guys consume around 10,000 calories a day.
I'd rather not take the drugs that they do, even if it let me eat more.
I'd rather be overweight and addicted to sugar than consume aspartame.
Mental health matters more to me than physical.
However, this whole conversation (including your post) has urged me to try and cut down on sugar consumption. I'm very unlikely to try and cut it out entirely though.
No-one is protected. You have the the choice of putting Middle Eastern civilians through decades more war, persecution and terrorism, or you can
..just kill them now.
No. Get a fucking grip on reality, please.
What the fuck? People should spend money buying a new phone battery instead of using the simple, obvious and convenient option of charging it from their laptop?
Forgive us all for being sensible.
Wait? You're saying that Cook's only pretending to be gay to increase Apple's appeal to a specific market segment? That's dedication, that is.
don't use "lowercase" without quotes since it isn't actually a verb.
Hey, this is our language. We can verb an adjective if we want to.
Which is why I have to acknowledge, Apple's given a nice uplift in speed there.
Those write speeds are frankly impressive. I'd be sorely tempted, if I could think of a decent use case :)
What's the immediate response to "We've invented deflector shields!" on Slashdot? "Cool, about time, we saw those in the 70s"
I'm not even going to be sarcastic with you about this article. The name of the fucking prize has 'tricorder' in it: http://tricorder.xprize.org/
Do you really expect someone to post to Slashdot and not mention that word? Really?
You should play x-wing, tie fighter, x-wing vs tie fighter or x-wing alliance then. Deflector shield management was a very important gameplay element, one that's become a space combat genre staple.
Hmm. With a wingsuit it might well be possible. There are a couple of bloody big hills overlooking Monaco.
Ok, can confirm: Optimal glide path for a wingsuit is 2.5:1. So stand on Tete de Chien (height 450m if you believe English Wikipedia, or 550m if you believe French wikipedia, so lets assume halfway: 500m). Jumping from there gives you approximately 1.25km distance under optimal conditions before you reach sea level.
Assuming you can land on the sea (and someone's survived landing on cardboard boxes), assuming no tall buildings and assuming no yachts (a dodgy assumption here) you can fly over Monaco and land in the harbour in 1.25km (measured approximately using Google Maps).
So yes, you can just jump over the whole country.
Oddly no. One reason so few people die to terrorist incidents is that there's a lot of time and effort expended on preventing and mitigating against them.
A sensible balance is needed. There is a risk, it does need to be addressed, but it doesn't justify ubiquitous surveillance, blanket restrictions on movement, prevention of free speech or extrajudicial punishments.
If you really want to go down stupid unrealistic option routes then there's a better choice: You wont have to endure any longer at all if you nuke every major metropolis in America. It also wouldn't cause you all of the additional problems of nuking the middle east.
What, you think American civilians should be protected but not those in Syria or Iraq? Really?
Well, yeah - I was highlighting that we do have that 'no notice' overwhelming force approach. I guess we use it more proportionately.
Perhaps your confusion as to my reason for trying to re-direct is because I'm not. You're reading far too much into what I posted.
If I were trying to divert attention I'd start commenting on common practices in Russia, North Korea and Brazil.
There are a range of possible responses, and full military invasion is perhaps not the appropriate choice following an anonymous call via an untraceable service.
Does it really intend a dangerous situation, or merely intend the comedy value of having armed police burst into a house on a live video stream?
There is inherent danger, but that doesn't make the danger the intent.
I'm comfortable with the police knocking on my door.
I'm less comfortable with the police standing on my property then telling me to go back to bed when I open my door to find out what they're up to at 4am, especially when they're taking a personal interest in my car. But generally the police are welcome to knock on my door for a polite conversation.
There clearly is because the whole concept of SWATing doesn't seem to have made it to Europe. I can't help that's because we just don't seem to do the full on wanna-be military style raids as standard response to so many crimes.
Hmm. The standard anti-terror arrest approach in the UK is simultaneous forced entry into the houses of the suspects by armed police at around 5am.
If you're a terror suspect and you've had a good sleep, you're probably safe all day around here.
I'm not sure whether my door frame would detach from the wall before the door was broken enough to get through. The hinges and deadlocks are strong enough that both are more likely than either those going though, even with 100lb of ram directed at them.
Not everybody thinks that their darling child is incapable of being a criminal, or that all criminals drink, smoke and/or have tattoos.
not understanding that women don't like hearing dick jokes is a sign of social immaturity
I know a seriously fucking large number of socially immature women then, given how many of them like joking about men's sexual organs when in female company.
I agree. Utah's spectacular, Colorada is beautiful and Texas does great barbecue, but you're right, a wasteland would greatly ease world tensions.
What is with fuckwit Americans wanting to use the nuclear arsenal that they've spent so much money on, and thinking there wouldn't be devastating consequences for America?
The rest of you must be awfully embarrassed.
Leaving aside your thoughts on terrorism, it's an interesting question whether this is legitimate self-defence.
US soldiers in the US are operating the drones killing ISIS members in Syria/Iraq, which implicitly makes them legitimate targets for anybody trying not to die to a drone.
Under US law that's not the case, but under the basic principle of "I have the right to kill someone that's motivated, capable and intent on killing me, to save my own life" it's a far more interesting question.