Have you checked out Leigh Alexander's new website Offworld? I hear it's like Jezebel but better. Give it a try. It sounds closer to your convictions than/. will ever be.
I've been on Slashdot since you were jacking off to cheerleaders.
Every time you read the words "politically correct" in a Friday Slashdot MRA clickbait comments section, everyone has to take a drink.
Because a subreddit like/r/coontown isn't about being offensive, it's just patriots exercising their free speech on a public forum. Damn those Reddit SJWs for violating their First Amendments and spoiling their totally not racist and offensive speeching.
If the recent Hacker Team story has taught us, there is no such thing as a "secure back door". Just when you think you're cleverly safe creeping in a back door, there's someone else peering up your back door.
1 VST is commercial. You can't blame Linux because some other company isn't making their software available for it
And by the way, I'm not "blaming Linux" for anything. I have high hopes for it to become a pro-level music/audio platform. I've contributed to the Cockos Reaper for Linux project and annually try out the Linux audio tools to see what kind of progress has been made. It's just not there yet.
1 VST is commercial. You can't blame Linux because some other company isn't making their software available for it
VST is professional. I can't help it that a musical instrument or high-end compressor/limiter costs money. Until there are such tools available for Linux, at professional quality, it's just not going to be a platform that a music/audio professional is going to use (with very rare exception).
Hardware support on Linux is great. I plug it in, it works.
You're still talking about consumer gear. You cannot make your Universal Audio or RME interface work with Linux.
Jack is not only your best option on Linux, but its good enough for Apple! They use jack, too.
You find me one single audio professional that uses Jack ported to Apple. Seriously. Yes, it's been done, but nobody's using it professionally.
And latency on Windows is not "way higher" than Apple.
Bumblebees are clearly Communist Ecoterrorists out to destroy our fine, God-fearing Capitalist agricultural industry. We should immediately start executing those evil climatologists. God and the Invisible Hand would never permit massive CO2 emissions to effect humans, and anyone that says so should be taken out and beaten to death.
Then, we can privatize bumblebees the way white rhinos were privatized and the free market will work everything out by magic. Enviropreneurship, FTW!
You are an idiot. Sorry to burst bubble with respect to your bigoted view of the South, but both Georgia Tech and Emory University are located in Fulton County.
Fulton Country was also the location of a historically large meth raid.
Iowa has more roads than you would believe. Every mile on the mile except where pre-existing towns or rivers made it impossible there is a little gravel agricultural road.
That's a remnant of the WPA. Wisconsin (and to some extent, Illinois) are the same way. Class B highways every mile.
Did you ever notice that the border foliage on the edges of the roads change when you hit state borders? That's also from the WPA days, when states ran their own "beautification" (and anti-erosion) measures. I learned this during my long-distance bicycling days. When all you have to look at for miles and miles are soybeans and corn, you tend to notice little things like road foliage. I finally asked some old dude who told me the story of the road crews that came through planting the foliage.
in the south Fulton County, Georgia town of Hapeville
I'm sure they can ill-afford to discourage this young man from fulfilling his dream of becoming a chemical engineer. After all, that meth ain't gonna make itself.
Yes, but why would the owner of a herd of rhinos want to maximize the value of an individual rhino?
We're talking magic here. When you're selling magical properties, rarity is a selling point. If everyone on my block can now get the magic rhino horn, it's worth less to me (assuming I believe in rhino horn's magical effectiveness in treating erectile dysfunction).
Do you think that farmers try to maximize the value of an individual ear of corn?
Ears of corn don't have magical properties. They have an actual utility (term of art) that is not dependent on myth and hype (unless we're talking about Roundup corn).
In case you are wondering why this worked: If I own the last 20 white rhinos, they are worth a fortune. I have a tremendous economic incentive to protect them from poaching and reproduce them.
But what is your economic incentive to grow the population if you have the last 20? Wouldn't you maximize their value by keeping their numbers down?
Let's assume for the sake of argument that the curative effects of rhino horn are purely fictional (thought I suspect a rhino horn might give you an erection if you stick it up your ass). If you increase supply, don't you bring the price down, allowing more people to try rhino horn and then find out the sexual-enhancement properties are baloney.
It's the rarity of the rhino horn that makes them so sought-after, not their efficacy. And regarding the PERC link, do you know that the greater availability of white rhino horn has just made demand for the black rhino horn greater, thus making them even more vulnerable to poaching?
The thing about "free market environmentalism" is the complete unwillingness to see external effects of "enviropreneurship".
It's not the chemical makeup of rhino horn that makes it valuable to people, it's the 'mystical' properties of it. It's pure superstition.
Superstition (and to an extent, religion, but that's a lot more complicated) is just obsessive-compulsive disorder by another name. Replacement therapy is one possible treatment of the most destructive aspects of OCD. If they can replace the obsession, maybe they can deal with one of the worst symptoms (poaching, in this case).
Though now that I think about it, the last man on the moon was 1972, and that's when things started going downhill. Maybe you're right, let's terraform the moon, bitches!
Not directly no. It basically goes like this: Union regulations require that the certain members can administer medications. CFOs dictate that they charge for those people's time, but to increase the bill they break out each medication separately. So the nurse that is there to administer 5 medications gets to charge up the time 5x's (once for each medication). So if it took 5 minutes to administer the medication, the result is a 25 minute charge. Now, unions influence which members (RN vs regular, but qualified, nurse) can administer the medications thereby influencing the cost of the medication through the time allocation since the hospital has no choice but to use more expensive staff to administer the medication.
What percentage of a hospital's expenses are made up by total labor costs? Go ahead, take a guess.
Now take a guess at the differential between the bill presented to a patient paying their own bill and an insurance company.
The reason it costs that much is a systemic issue; solve that actual issue and you'll solve a lot of the health care cost issues. Only part of that issue is related to unions, but it still is a significant factor.
You make a lot of the $19 that a patient is charged for an aspirin. How much do you think the average nurse makes, and do you believe it is too much? Do you also believe doctors are overpaid? Do you also believe the corporations that run for-profit hospitals are making too much profit?
You mistake the price a corporation charges for a service with the cost of the labor for providing that service. You try to put the exorbitant cost of health care on the people who are providing that care, when in fact, the most expensive parts of health care are impacted barely at all by labor.
Pope Leo XIII, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis would disagree with you. But you would probably know more about God than those losers, right?
And labor unions would not necessarily make things much better. Many nurses work for under a union, and it tends to create the "well, it's not my job to do X" mentality, because if you're in a union and you do your job but could have done X that is Jane's or Joe's job then you get penalized despite it being faster for you to do it than calling Joe or Jane to do so.
You've never been in a labor union have you?
It's also why it costs $19 to get an aspirin in the hospital.
I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. You think the hospital's markup on drugs is because of the unions?
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I've been on Slashdot since you were jacking off to cheerleaders.
Uh oh, I seem to have hurt some delicate MRA snowflake's feelings.
Every time you read the words "politically correct" in a Friday Slashdot MRA clickbait comments section, everyone has to take a drink.
Because a subreddit like /r/coontown isn't about being offensive, it's just patriots exercising their free speech on a public forum. Damn those Reddit SJWs for violating their First Amendments and spoiling their totally not racist and offensive speeching.
If the recent Hacker Team story has taught us, there is no such thing as a "secure back door". Just when you think you're cleverly safe creeping in a back door, there's someone else peering up your back door.
And by the way, I'm not "blaming Linux" for anything. I have high hopes for it to become a pro-level music/audio platform. I've contributed to the Cockos Reaper for Linux project and annually try out the Linux audio tools to see what kind of progress has been made. It's just not there yet.
VST is professional. I can't help it that a musical instrument or high-end compressor/limiter costs money. Until there are such tools available for Linux, at professional quality, it's just not going to be a platform that a music/audio professional is going to use (with very rare exception).
You're still talking about consumer gear. You cannot make your Universal Audio or RME interface work with Linux.
You find me one single audio professional that uses Jack ported to Apple. Seriously. Yes, it's been done, but nobody's using it professionally.
And latency on Windows is not "way higher" than Apple.
And there's no such thing as climate change, amirite?
Slashdot climate change discussions, man. It's Friday, Friday.
What time does the men's rights activist clickbait get posted? Then the real fun starts.
Then, we can privatize bumblebees the way white rhinos were privatized and the free market will work everything out by magic. Enviropreneurship, FTW!
Fulton Country was also the location of a historically large meth raid.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/o...
http://www.11alive.com/story/n...
That's a remnant of the WPA. Wisconsin (and to some extent, Illinois) are the same way. Class B highways every mile.
Did you ever notice that the border foliage on the edges of the roads change when you hit state borders? That's also from the WPA days, when states ran their own "beautification" (and anti-erosion) measures. I learned this during my long-distance bicycling days. When all you have to look at for miles and miles are soybeans and corn, you tend to notice little things like road foliage. I finally asked some old dude who told me the story of the road crews that came through planting the foliage.
I'm sure they can ill-afford to discourage this young man from fulfilling his dream of becoming a chemical engineer. After all, that meth ain't gonna make itself.
In Soviet Russia, prostate fixes you.
We're talking magic here. When you're selling magical properties, rarity is a selling point. If everyone on my block can now get the magic rhino horn, it's worth less to me (assuming I believe in rhino horn's magical effectiveness in treating erectile dysfunction).
Ears of corn don't have magical properties. They have an actual utility (term of art) that is not dependent on myth and hype (unless we're talking about Roundup corn).
Isn't that a reason not to use Pu?
But what is your economic incentive to grow the population if you have the last 20? Wouldn't you maximize their value by keeping their numbers down?
Let's assume for the sake of argument that the curative effects of rhino horn are purely fictional (thought I suspect a rhino horn might give you an erection if you stick it up your ass). If you increase supply, don't you bring the price down, allowing more people to try rhino horn and then find out the sexual-enhancement properties are baloney.
It's the rarity of the rhino horn that makes them so sought-after, not their efficacy. And regarding the PERC link, do you know that the greater availability of white rhino horn has just made demand for the black rhino horn greater, thus making them even more vulnerable to poaching?
The thing about "free market environmentalism" is the complete unwillingness to see external effects of "enviropreneurship".
Superstition (and to an extent, religion, but that's a lot more complicated) is just obsessive-compulsive disorder by another name. Replacement therapy is one possible treatment of the most destructive aspects of OCD. If they can replace the obsession, maybe they can deal with one of the worst symptoms (poaching, in this case).
Who wants to count the number of wrong assumptions, straw men and red herrings in this summary? Bonus points if you count them in TFA.
Hint: You won't be able to count them on your fingers. There's at least four in the first sentence alone.
Help me find my keys and we can drive out.
Why would you have a robot that needs repair way up in there?
The sun will last longer than the plutonium.
I guess when your only tool is a shotgun, everything starts to look like a clay pigeon.
1970 = Led Zeppelin
1980 = Disco
Progress?
Though now that I think about it, the last man on the moon was 1972, and that's when things started going downhill. Maybe you're right, let's terraform the moon, bitches!
What percentage of a hospital's expenses are made up by total labor costs? Go ahead, take a guess.
Now take a guess at the differential between the bill presented to a patient paying their own bill and an insurance company.
You make a lot of the $19 that a patient is charged for an aspirin. How much do you think the average nurse makes, and do you believe it is too much? Do you also believe doctors are overpaid? Do you also believe the corporations that run for-profit hospitals are making too much profit?
You mistake the price a corporation charges for a service with the cost of the labor for providing that service. You try to put the exorbitant cost of health care on the people who are providing that care, when in fact, the most expensive parts of health care are impacted barely at all by labor.
Less than a quarter of all doctors in the US are members of the AMA.
Pope Leo XIII, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis would disagree with you. But you would probably know more about God than those losers, right?
http://w2.vatican.va/content/l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.usccb.org/upload/Pr...
You've never been in a labor union have you?
I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. You think the hospital's markup on drugs is because of the unions?
https://web.williams.edu/Econo...