I've been to many DWI check points. Never once have I been asked for documentation.
Thank you for that helpful anecdote that doesn't prove a goddamn thing. Pro-tip: if you start your post talking about statistical fallacy, it's best not to base your argument on personal anecdote.
I like the output from LaTex. I've learned that just hypenating gets you most of the aesthetics without the miserable interface, though, so I wouldn't recommend LaTex for anything that wasn't going to be published.
Honestly, they killed it when they dropped the DOS version and went with that modern Windows 95 interface that they're still using today. It's not what it once was. When I was doing my dissertation, I had every keystroke combination in my DNA. I could navigate that bitch so fast it would make your head spin.
And I owe it all to a very great man and famous writer, Wayne Booth, who turned me on to Nota Bene in the first place. He also played a mean cello and had a heart as big as the world and the most generous mind I've ever known.
From the time I was born until I finished grad school, neo-Nazis were in the news at most once or twice. Once when they marched in Skokie, Illinois, and maybe when George Lincoln Rockwell died. Today, white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other "third way" types are in the news every single day. And not just for some ridiculous display or meaningless statements, but for killing people, rioting and getting elected President.
So no, I'm not sure how you can say people are less racist than they used to be.
Here is a sitting Republican from Iowa asking publicly how "white supremacist" ever got to be seen as a bad thing.
Started with the militarization of the Los Angeles Police Department under Darryl Gates.
That's true. But coming from Chicago, I can tell you that LA has nothing on us when it comes to militarized police. Chicago even had police death squads that would go out on kill missions, and special black sites for holding and torturing people.
But I think it really goes back to long before the police riots at the '68 Democratic Convention, to the days when local police rented themselves out to corporations as strike breakers w/ anti-union violence and probably before that going back to the "slave patrols".
Yeah, maybe police have always been shit. I guess it has to do with the type of people who see being a cop as a viable career alternative. From the guys I knew from the old neighborhoods, the ones that became cops were the worst bullies and psychos. Many got trained up in the military and got a taste for it there.
I love LaTex. It's the one document production software that I feel really gets me since Nota Bene disappeared. I learned to use it when I was helping my mathematician wife with her PhD thesis (I was no help with the math part, but I like to make nice documents). My publications were all written in LaTex. Years later, it's still on every computer I own because if I want it to look just right, it's the best way.
DWI checkpoints are a reasonable law enforcement tactic.
"DWI checkpoints" are not used to catch drunk drivers. They mainly go after expired plates, unpaid tickets, outstanding warrants. auto insurance, minor drug offenses.
They're document checks, nothing more. The statistics on this are pretty clear.
When did policing in the United States become gestapo-like? I mean, it's always been that way for certain minority groups. I get that. But now it's just across the board, from local cops to staties to border patrol and that deepest of the deep state, ICE (who is actually not under the jurisdiction of any US court, if you can believe that).
It's gotten to the point that anyone who wears a badge is the enemy. Cops in neo-Nazi gangs. Well, maybe not park rangers, but everyone else? Fuck them.
Wait until people discover what a misogynist and racist Gandhi really was and kick him to the curb.
In India, they have a #MooToo movement for calling out guys who sexually assault cows.
OK, not really. I made that up as a joke in an effort be more civil. But seriously, fucking a cow is the worst. Except for that British prime minister who fucked a pig. Now THAT was the worst. I mean, it was only the head of the pig, so you can't even say you put a bag over the pig's head and got some of that sweet, sweet, pig poon.
Personally, I have become a lot more civil. I'm trying to set an example for the younger Slashdotters out there.
But the haters and losers can't seem to handle my civility. That's OK, because like Ghandi, I can withstand their trollish nonsense and allow them to fuck right off. Plus, I've fucked most of their mothers, so it's all a wash in the end.
I been using that tag line since 2009, and BeaHD is a prick troll who I wouldn't piss on if he was on fire. He's stealing my intellectual property, goddamnit.
It's not complicated. Just ask the person what pronoun would be preferred. Done.
Of course it's not complicated. I was just joking off the clumsy use of "he/they" in the comment above and the fact that right-wing jackoffs are always complaining about all the gender pronouns. The other day on a conservative talk radio station out of Fresno, they were complaining that the didn't know how to pluralize "they" because they encountered some people online who go by "they/them".
I guess I don't always make it clear that I'm ridiculing. Either that, or Poe's law is coming down hard on me.
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The original comment didn't mention Trump, so really you're the one tying it to him.
The smartest man in the world believes vaccines are a danger.
http://fortune.com/2017/02/16/...
Show of hands: If you were 19 and building yourself a robotic arm, wouldn't you make it double as a grenade launcher?
I'm thinking this kid missed a real opportunity.
https://kdvr.com/2014/07/07/ex...
https://www.motherjones.com/po...
Thank you for that helpful anecdote that doesn't prove a goddamn thing. Pro-tip: if you start your post talking about statistical fallacy, it's best not to base your argument on personal anecdote.
Or anything that contains formulas or equations.
Honestly, they killed it when they dropped the DOS version and went with that modern Windows 95 interface that they're still using today. It's not what it once was. When I was doing my dissertation, I had every keystroke combination in my DNA. I could navigate that bitch so fast it would make your head spin.
And I owe it all to a very great man and famous writer, Wayne Booth, who turned me on to Nota Bene in the first place. He also played a mean cello and had a heart as big as the world and the most generous mind I've ever known.
Yeah, about that:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
From the time I was born until I finished grad school, neo-Nazis were in the news at most once or twice. Once when they marched in Skokie, Illinois, and maybe when George Lincoln Rockwell died. Today, white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other "third way" types are in the news every single day. And not just for some ridiculous display or meaningless statements, but for killing people, rioting and getting elected President.
So no, I'm not sure how you can say people are less racist than they used to be.
Here is a sitting Republican from Iowa asking publicly how "white supremacist" ever got to be seen as a bad thing.
https://thehill.com/homenews/h...
And here is an article about the rise of white supremacists in local police departments:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...
That's true. But coming from Chicago, I can tell you that LA has nothing on us when it comes to militarized police. Chicago even had police death squads that would go out on kill missions, and special black sites for holding and torturing people.
But I think it really goes back to long before the police riots at the '68 Democratic Convention, to the days when local police rented themselves out to corporations as strike breakers w/ anti-union violence and probably before that going back to the "slave patrols".
Yeah, maybe police have always been shit. I guess it has to do with the type of people who see being a cop as a viable career alternative. From the guys I knew from the old neighborhoods, the ones that became cops were the worst bullies and psychos. Many got trained up in the military and got a taste for it there.
I love LaTex. It's the one document production software that I feel really gets me since Nota Bene disappeared. I learned to use it when I was helping my mathematician wife with her PhD thesis (I was no help with the math part, but I like to make nice documents). My publications were all written in LaTex. Years later, it's still on every computer I own because if I want it to look just right, it's the best way.
I'm grateful to the LiberOffice folks. They're been the "Office-but-better" suite on my computers for a while now, and I'm very happy with it.
If you use LIbreOffice (like I do), you should go donate if you can (like I do) and/or contribute to improvements if you're capable (I am not).
"DWI checkpoints" are not used to catch drunk drivers. They mainly go after expired plates, unpaid tickets, outstanding warrants. auto insurance, minor drug offenses.
They're document checks, nothing more. The statistics on this are pretty clear.
When did policing in the United States become gestapo-like? I mean, it's always been that way for certain minority groups. I get that. But now it's just across the board, from local cops to staties to border patrol and that deepest of the deep state, ICE (who is actually not under the jurisdiction of any US court, if you can believe that).
It's gotten to the point that anyone who wears a badge is the enemy. Cops in neo-Nazi gangs. Well, maybe not park rangers, but everyone else? Fuck them.
In India, they have a #MooToo movement for calling out guys who sexually assault cows.
OK, not really. I made that up as a joke in an effort be more civil. But seriously, fucking a cow is the worst. Except for that British prime minister who fucked a pig. Now THAT was the worst. I mean, it was only the head of the pig, so you can't even say you put a bag over the pig's head and got some of that sweet, sweet, pig poon.
https://youtu.be/LvYkBmXeyeQ
Personally, I have become a lot more civil. I'm trying to set an example for the younger Slashdotters out there.
But the haters and losers can't seem to handle my civility. That's OK, because like Ghandi, I can withstand their trollish nonsense and allow them to fuck right off. Plus, I've fucked most of their mothers, so it's all a wash in the end.
I been using that tag line since 2009, and BeaHD is a prick troll who I wouldn't piss on if he was on fire. He's stealing my intellectual property, goddamnit.
Probably. Most of what passes for heroin these days in the chic set is actually fentanyl, watered way down.
Jackoff, you should give me credit if you're going to use my tag line. You do it like this:
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I just let go of my bowels in my pants. -- BeauHD
Yes.
As I said, you shouldn't trust companies from rogue states though.
See, this is one of the benefits of globalism. You have fewer places from where you can do crooked shit.
Yes, they do. Civil penalties are enforced against foreign corporations all the time. This is not some radical concept.
I mean, if it's some outlaw North Korean outlet or from some rogue regime like Russia, then it's harder, but not impossible.
Yes, moron. Believe it or not, foreign corporations are fined by the US all the time.
Of course it's not complicated. I was just joking off the clumsy use of "he/they" in the comment above and the fact that right-wing jackoffs are always complaining about all the gender pronouns. The other day on a conservative talk radio station out of Fresno, they were complaining that the didn't know how to pluralize "they" because they encountered some people online who go by "they/them".
I guess I don't always make it clear that I'm ridiculing. Either that, or Poe's law is coming down hard on me.
We don't use "midget" any more. Currently the acceptable term is, "wee dobby".
Or, don't use bitcoin.
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