So you're saying Obama's a Muslim terrorist because that's common use and it must be true even if it's wrong... You can support these people using the word inappropriately, incorrectly even, if you want. I'll just remember you as the guy who calls Obama a terrorist.
See, I'd call anything designed to do something as being a designer drug vs. something that was discovered. I'm not sure if that makes any sense or not. But, you know, designed - that's the way I always thought of it. I can't say that I've ever heard anyone actually define it.
Did you just call someone a hater like a 15 year old girl would? I have this strange mental image of your atypical Slashdotter bobbing their head and going "uh huh" now. Thanks. Thanks for that.
I get what you mean now and it may be my mistake. Designed means, to me, designed for a purpose (albeit maybe several purposes might become evident) where as the rest would be those remaining in nature or extracted from nature such as those which use opium as their base. I imagine that it is I who has the definition wrong. If so then, my bad. I still don't know why you'd assume the drug wouldn't have been made, we're creative and curious creatures. It may well have still been created even if LSD were available OTC.
Pretty much this. I was "in charge" of such things but I generally let the techs buy the products they said they needed and didn't do much more than sign on the dotted line. I'm not positive of the actual amount but I think it was pretty common to put 10% down and pay the rest off within 30 days. When we needed to expand we needed to do it in a hurry.
I had neither the time nor expertise to tell my techs how to do their job so we used what they needed. (That is some expensive stuff, by the way.) We usually stuck with a few OEMs and one vendor. Most of what we used was Sun, Dell, and we had some HP stuff for a while (I want to say it was Prolient but I truly don't know) and our switches and whatnot were from Cisco until Juniper came on the scene. I am pretty sure we also ordered a bunch of stuff through a company called CDW?
By then I was already kicked out of my own server room (rightfully so) and didn't have time for the finer details. The stuff was expensive but they'd get good use out of it. I tried keeping up with the techs for a while but it just got overwhelming as I was busy elsewhere. I figured it best to get out of the way and let them do what they were paid to do? I don't recall anyone ever walking out the back with valuable equipment or anything and they got done what they said they'd get done so I guess I can't complain.
I do know that we generally didn't pay for anything in total until after we had it and had it up and running. We were a compute and data storage intensive business so we went through a lot of hardware and were constantly needing to do more and to do it faster and with bigger data sets. Then as we expanded into multiple offices we had a bunch of teething issues with getting enough bandwidth. Ah well...
Pfft... Me! They'll be coming here to meet the one and great David, aka, KGIII and will be elevating him to the position of Supreme Rule of the Galaxy where he will be the kindest benevolent dictator who hands down wise decrees and ensures tranquility between the species until we suffer from death by entropy. And lo it is written in the great book, it shall be so.
Does it matter? I'm going to figure out a way to sex it regardless. I mean, hell, it's an alien! Imma fuck it. (As someone's name here is so eloquently put. And as a friend of mine might say.)
Assuming it's game and doesn't mind my trying, after all.
Hmm... We don't really have laws so much as a we have a working model - and I understand it doesn't even work in all situations. We call some things laws because they're respected and, as yet, disproved but they're not so much laws as they're written in stone. Hell, even Newton's Law of Gravitation isn't quite right.
I think you're all idiots for confusing wisdom and knowledge. But, that's just me. Wisdom is the application of knowledge (how one applies their intelligence would be a good way to put it) and there are lots of smart people who are not wise.
But we have gone past the moon. Not very far past it but beyond it indeed. We orbited the moon. To orbit it we went around the back side (we didn't orbit it in a perfectly plane facing the planet). So, we've gone past the moon - just not very far past it.
Consider a donation sent.;) I've added it to my list to make yearly donations to as well. I don't care about deducting it. That's not why I do it. Usually just the EFF and Red Cross reduce my tax burden to the maximum allowed so I don't much worry about it after those two.
Eh? They can't really lose what they never had. They never really had the phone market. They did have the tablet market back before it was popular. They could have had the phone market but they're idiots and I'm kind of glad they don't. I assume they're still strong on the desktop but I don't pay much attention any more. I don't actually have any MS software installed. Well, I think mono is installed.
That makes some sense. An AC also posited that the sex offenses may too be subject to some of that same criteria. Oddly, we (as society and based solely on my observations) seem to fear both of them when they're released. I don't really worry, I suppose, but those are the two types of criminals that make the news when they're released.
There is a huge bank of batteries. Once those are full the extra, unused, electricity is pushed out to the grid. Though I'm not sure how the poor would be paying when I'm giving electricity away. How do you figure?
81 people and 0% recidivism at this point. It doesn't appear for it to have been in place long enough for that to be a truly valuable metric. Usually they go by a five year time period when calculating recidivism. Hopefully the metrics hold true over a longer time frame. It looks like a nice program and I hope that it's being well funded or adequately funded. I'd like to see more programs like that and I don't think we need to wait for the official numbers to try it on a larger scale.
As an aside, according to the FBI statistics, murders and sex offenders are the two groups least likely to re-offend. Two of the worst crimes on the planet and they're the least likely to re-offend. I'm not sure why that is.
Even if I've employed women over men because they were the most suited for the job? They also look nicer in a skirt but that's besides the point.;) Either way, I fail to see how I'm bigoted by being preferential to quality over gender. I just don't get it. I didn't hire because of altruism, I hired because I needed help. I hired the best and brightest I could find because I wanted someone who was as good or better than myself.
I hired IT staff, engineers, programmers, etc... I can not wear all those hats as well as a specialist can. I know, it's taboo to admit such here but really - I had better IT staff, programmers, and engineers than I was able to be. I'm a maths geek. I am not a programmer. I can code in a variety of languages, I can secure and admin a system, etc... I can't do so as efficiently or as consistently as the professionals. That's why I hired them.
I didn't, and I still don't, care who they slept with or where they peed from. Quality, that's the metric. Hell, not even quality - I hired some who had not proven themselves yet but had a good education and were able to demonstrate that they'd reward us for the effort we put in to train them. (It's hard to find traffic engineers.)
I had multiple races, genders, and sexualities working WITH me. (Not for me. They worked with me. A few people even had a higher salary than I had, at least on paper.) I even had a DB admin who's species was questionable. I am not sure if those guys are humans. I really have no idea. Hell, we even had a male secretary. It's not like we were some mythical cabal where we scoffed at womenfolk and would hire someone less capable because of their gender or sexuality. You're an equal until proven otherwise and then you might just be more superior. Equal in the sense of what you're valued at by the company on paper - everyone gets treated more or less the same. We pulled no punches but we laughed and, truly, cried with one another.
Hell, we had times where we shut down the office because someone had a death in the family and we wanted to go to the funeral or to comfort our coworker and friend. We got shitfaced together. Laughed our asses off together. Yelled at each other. Called each other names just to piss them off because they came in to work with a hangover. And we got over our hurt feelings (if we had any) and moved on. It never, not once, crossed any sort of line from what I observed.
If there was a customer in the building our behavior was (usually) different. If not then we were a clothing optional facility! No, not really. But, sort of - we were much more relaxed and comfortable without customers in the building. We still wore clothing. Not always shoes though. I used to meander around in socks or moccasins all the time. Another was always in sandals and another was barefoot - even in the winter.
We were a happy bunch in an immature business sphere. We worked hard, played harder, and all that.
I say all that because, well, it baffles me that people will know this (and some do) and still seem to think that I'm an "MRA." I simply don't get it. Shouldn't a men's rights activist be just as proud and respected as a woman's rights activist? If not then why not?
I certainly am a men's rights activist. I'm also a female rights activist. I think a better term would be to say that I'm a human rights activist. I mean, yeah, I've met people from this site in the real world. I've met others from other sites. I'm not exactly unknown or anything. So, I operate under the assumption that I have no privacy so people have access to everything I've said, personal opinions, etc... How are they still concluding, with all this evidence, that I'm a bigot?
I'm not. At least I'm pretty sure I am not. I don't go out of my way to support anyone above the other except based on what they do or what they have done. I am not sure how this makes me a bad person. I've tried asking, I truly don't understand, and I get ignored once the questions become uncomfortable. At least that's what I'm
Nope. Not yet. It's usually still pretty family friendly at that point. The drugs stay in the house or out in the woods. Then the kiddies go to bed (lots of them tent for the weekend) and it gets more interesting. That usually happens on Saturday. It tends to fill up the rest of the way on Friday night and then on Sunday the jug is empty so it gets a start on the next round. It's been a running thing (the party and the milk jug) for about 8 years now. It has been dropped and broken, it split open, so now we keep several of them on hand and in the basement.
And each derived from context where it is ambiguous. They start with the most common definition and work their way down in order if there's ambiguity or the word isn't already defined clearly from prior legal cases. They actually sit up there and talk about it for quite some time - I've even seen them go into recess and return to jabber about it some more.
Hmm...
Do you accept that Obama is from Kenya? Is Hawaii now Kenya? Both seem to be in pretty common use. I dare say that using either makes one an idiot and that the definition didn't change. You can guess what I think about the rest.
In this case, there's no ambiguity. It's just wrong. People type "alot" frequently and have no idea what "fewer" means. I suppose you'll want to insist they're correct too? No, they're just wrong.
Either way, those who are aware of the difference should also be smart enough to know it's wrong but know what the author intended. Lots of stupid people get to write, some of them even get to write professionally.
They designed the drug to match an already existent behavior much like the designer drugs are created to match (or mimic) existing drugs. I'm not sure how you'd think that's not designed?
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So you're saying Obama's a Muslim terrorist because that's common use and it must be true even if it's wrong... You can support these people using the word inappropriately, incorrectly even, if you want. I'll just remember you as the guy who calls Obama a terrorist.
See, I'd call anything designed to do something as being a designer drug vs. something that was discovered. I'm not sure if that makes any sense or not. But, you know, designed - that's the way I always thought of it. I can't say that I've ever heard anyone actually define it.
Did you just call someone a hater like a 15 year old girl would? I have this strange mental image of your atypical Slashdotter bobbing their head and going "uh huh" now. Thanks. Thanks for that.
I get what you mean now and it may be my mistake. Designed means, to me, designed for a purpose (albeit maybe several purposes might become evident) where as the rest would be those remaining in nature or extracted from nature such as those which use opium as their base. I imagine that it is I who has the definition wrong. If so then, my bad. I still don't know why you'd assume the drug wouldn't have been made, we're creative and curious creatures. It may well have still been created even if LSD were available OTC.
Fucking shill.
(I keed, I keed indeed.)
Pretty much this. I was "in charge" of such things but I generally let the techs buy the products they said they needed and didn't do much more than sign on the dotted line. I'm not positive of the actual amount but I think it was pretty common to put 10% down and pay the rest off within 30 days. When we needed to expand we needed to do it in a hurry.
I had neither the time nor expertise to tell my techs how to do their job so we used what they needed. (That is some expensive stuff, by the way.) We usually stuck with a few OEMs and one vendor. Most of what we used was Sun, Dell, and we had some HP stuff for a while (I want to say it was Prolient but I truly don't know) and our switches and whatnot were from Cisco until Juniper came on the scene. I am pretty sure we also ordered a bunch of stuff through a company called CDW?
By then I was already kicked out of my own server room (rightfully so) and didn't have time for the finer details. The stuff was expensive but they'd get good use out of it. I tried keeping up with the techs for a while but it just got overwhelming as I was busy elsewhere. I figured it best to get out of the way and let them do what they were paid to do? I don't recall anyone ever walking out the back with valuable equipment or anything and they got done what they said they'd get done so I guess I can't complain.
I do know that we generally didn't pay for anything in total until after we had it and had it up and running. We were a compute and data storage intensive business so we went through a lot of hardware and were constantly needing to do more and to do it faster and with bigger data sets. Then as we expanded into multiple offices we had a bunch of teething issues with getting enough bandwidth. Ah well...
Pfft... Me! They'll be coming here to meet the one and great David, aka, KGIII and will be elevating him to the position of Supreme Rule of the Galaxy where he will be the kindest benevolent dictator who hands down wise decrees and ensures tranquility between the species until we suffer from death by entropy. And lo it is written in the great book, it shall be so.
*nods*
Don't argue, I know these things.
Does it matter? I'm going to figure out a way to sex it regardless. I mean, hell, it's an alien! Imma fuck it. (As someone's name here is so eloquently put. And as a friend of mine might say.)
Assuming it's game and doesn't mind my trying, after all.
Hmm... We don't really have laws so much as a we have a working model - and I understand it doesn't even work in all situations. We call some things laws because they're respected and, as yet, disproved but they're not so much laws as they're written in stone. Hell, even Newton's Law of Gravitation isn't quite right.
Um... Do you mean Mc or Mac?
I think you're all idiots for confusing wisdom and knowledge. But, that's just me. Wisdom is the application of knowledge (how one applies their intelligence would be a good way to put it) and there are lots of smart people who are not wise.
But we have gone past the moon. Not very far past it but beyond it indeed. We orbited the moon. To orbit it we went around the back side (we didn't orbit it in a perfectly plane facing the planet). So, we've gone past the moon - just not very far past it.
Consider a donation sent. ;) I've added it to my list to make yearly donations to as well. I don't care about deducting it. That's not why I do it. Usually just the EFF and Red Cross reduce my tax burden to the maximum allowed so I don't much worry about it after those two.
That is 6 year old data.
Eh? They can't really lose what they never had. They never really had the phone market. They did have the tablet market back before it was popular. They could have had the phone market but they're idiots and I'm kind of glad they don't. I assume they're still strong on the desktop but I don't pay much attention any more. I don't actually have any MS software installed. Well, I think mono is installed.
Good points. Thanks. I'll have to mull that over.
That makes some sense. An AC also posited that the sex offenses may too be subject to some of that same criteria. Oddly, we (as society and based solely on my observations) seem to fear both of them when they're released. I don't really worry, I suppose, but those are the two types of criminals that make the news when they're released.
There is a huge bank of batteries. Once those are full the extra, unused, electricity is pushed out to the grid. Though I'm not sure how the poor would be paying when I'm giving electricity away. How do you figure?
81 people and 0% recidivism at this point. It doesn't appear for it to have been in place long enough for that to be a truly valuable metric. Usually they go by a five year time period when calculating recidivism. Hopefully the metrics hold true over a longer time frame. It looks like a nice program and I hope that it's being well funded or adequately funded. I'd like to see more programs like that and I don't think we need to wait for the official numbers to try it on a larger scale.
As an aside, according to the FBI statistics, murders and sex offenders are the two groups least likely to re-offend. Two of the worst crimes on the planet and they're the least likely to re-offend. I'm not sure why that is.
Even if I've employed women over men because they were the most suited for the job? They also look nicer in a skirt but that's besides the point. ;) Either way, I fail to see how I'm bigoted by being preferential to quality over gender. I just don't get it. I didn't hire because of altruism, I hired because I needed help. I hired the best and brightest I could find because I wanted someone who was as good or better than myself.
I hired IT staff, engineers, programmers, etc... I can not wear all those hats as well as a specialist can. I know, it's taboo to admit such here but really - I had better IT staff, programmers, and engineers than I was able to be. I'm a maths geek. I am not a programmer. I can code in a variety of languages, I can secure and admin a system, etc... I can't do so as efficiently or as consistently as the professionals. That's why I hired them.
I didn't, and I still don't, care who they slept with or where they peed from. Quality, that's the metric. Hell, not even quality - I hired some who had not proven themselves yet but had a good education and were able to demonstrate that they'd reward us for the effort we put in to train them. (It's hard to find traffic engineers.)
I had multiple races, genders, and sexualities working WITH me. (Not for me. They worked with me. A few people even had a higher salary than I had, at least on paper.) I even had a DB admin who's species was questionable. I am not sure if those guys are humans. I really have no idea. Hell, we even had a male secretary. It's not like we were some mythical cabal where we scoffed at womenfolk and would hire someone less capable because of their gender or sexuality. You're an equal until proven otherwise and then you might just be more superior. Equal in the sense of what you're valued at by the company on paper - everyone gets treated more or less the same. We pulled no punches but we laughed and, truly, cried with one another.
Hell, we had times where we shut down the office because someone had a death in the family and we wanted to go to the funeral or to comfort our coworker and friend. We got shitfaced together. Laughed our asses off together. Yelled at each other. Called each other names just to piss them off because they came in to work with a hangover. And we got over our hurt feelings (if we had any) and moved on. It never, not once, crossed any sort of line from what I observed.
If there was a customer in the building our behavior was (usually) different. If not then we were a clothing optional facility! No, not really. But, sort of - we were much more relaxed and comfortable without customers in the building. We still wore clothing. Not always shoes though. I used to meander around in socks or moccasins all the time. Another was always in sandals and another was barefoot - even in the winter.
We were a happy bunch in an immature business sphere. We worked hard, played harder, and all that.
I say all that because, well, it baffles me that people will know this (and some do) and still seem to think that I'm an "MRA." I simply don't get it. Shouldn't a men's rights activist be just as proud and respected as a woman's rights activist? If not then why not?
I certainly am a men's rights activist. I'm also a female rights activist. I think a better term would be to say that I'm a human rights activist. I mean, yeah, I've met people from this site in the real world. I've met others from other sites. I'm not exactly unknown or anything. So, I operate under the assumption that I have no privacy so people have access to everything I've said, personal opinions, etc... How are they still concluding, with all this evidence, that I'm a bigot?
I'm not. At least I'm pretty sure I am not. I don't go out of my way to support anyone above the other except based on what they do or what they have done. I am not sure how this makes me a bad person. I've tried asking, I truly don't understand, and I get ignored once the questions become uncomfortable. At least that's what I'm
Nope. Not yet. It's usually still pretty family friendly at that point. The drugs stay in the house or out in the woods. Then the kiddies go to bed (lots of them tent for the weekend) and it gets more interesting. That usually happens on Saturday. It tends to fill up the rest of the way on Friday night and then on Sunday the jug is empty so it gets a start on the next round. It's been a running thing (the party and the milk jug) for about 8 years now. It has been dropped and broken, it split open, so now we keep several of them on hand and in the basement.
I bet you feel wise when you type "alot."
And each derived from context where it is ambiguous. They start with the most common definition and work their way down in order if there's ambiguity or the word isn't already defined clearly from prior legal cases. They actually sit up there and talk about it for quite some time - I've even seen them go into recess and return to jabber about it some more.
Hmm...
Do you accept that Obama is from Kenya? Is Hawaii now Kenya? Both seem to be in pretty common use. I dare say that using either makes one an idiot and that the definition didn't change. You can guess what I think about the rest.
In this case, there's no ambiguity. It's just wrong. People type "alot" frequently and have no idea what "fewer" means. I suppose you'll want to insist they're correct too? No, they're just wrong.
Either way, those who are aware of the difference should also be smart enough to know it's wrong but know what the author intended. Lots of stupid people get to write, some of them even get to write professionally.
They designed the drug to match an already existent behavior much like the designer drugs are created to match (or mimic) existing drugs. I'm not sure how you'd think that's not designed?