Assuming its consensual, in Va they sort of have a gray area. If I remember correctly there is a 3 year rule. Basically 18-20 year old can get with a minor as long as the minor is not more than 3 years younger than the adult. It's still not legal, but it is not a felony. Its a misdemeanor, contributing to delinquency of a minor or something.
From what I understand police real only charge this if the minor's parents press for it. Or if you do something public, etc.
(The only reason I know this is because back in high school we had some sort of seminar that explained a lot of states laws to us that we may not know about, like premarital sex is a class 4 misdemeanor in VA)
I still find it out of place that churches are using Halo to bring young men to services. "Thou shalt not kill" does not mesh well with "Thou shalt kill aliens in copious numbers".
Or maybe, just maybe, these ministers/priests know that a video game is not real life.
I would guess that most people have some sort of moral value that killing another human is wrong. (Exceptions for self defense etc.) But I doubt most people really have anything wrong with video game killing, but they are not hypocrites. Just as a church is not hypocritical for letting kids play violent video games.
Video game violence is not the same as real life violence.
Very basic nutrition and maybe 3 hours sleep over a 5-day period? You are right about the sleep part. But not the nutrition part. They are given 4 meals a day. Some of them consume up to 7000 calories a day...hardly basic. (They still lose weight though) Also keep in mind that these guys are excellent shape before they start, and are also closely observed by instructors. I would also assume there is medical staff on-site the entire time too.
The guy in the cafe was probably out of shape, did not eat or drink much, if anything.
RFTA. Oh wait theis is slashdot
There are two issues at hand. The bill sponsored by Enzi has to do with imposing sales tax on goods bought in other states.
The other issue has to do with not extending the moratorium on taxing net access. (Which is what the headline is based on. I guess if you are paying net access tax, you could say you are paying a tax to send email) Much like the way your cable and phone bill is filled with other misc. taxes.
So this seems more like both sides want to raise taxes, just in different ways.
Now lets see if half of those people that voted for Linux on the ideastorm site actually buy a machine. Because if this flops it will seriously hurt Linux in the mainstream market.
Why use a one button backup when it's pretty trivial to write a shell script that'll do an Rsync backup?
Trivial to many slashdotters? Yes. Trivial to the average user? No.
Average user's response. What's a shell script? What the hell is rsync?
I have Cox. I think they have a cap of like 30GB down/ 10GB up per month. The standard plan of $40 month. But they don't (strictly) enforce it though, because I cross it every month. But then again I don't keep my connection maxed out. Cap the upload around 30 KB/s on torrents because I share the connection. Don't download enough things to keep the down stream maxed out on any sort of regular basis.
Haven't had any problems with them. I cross the limits but probably not enough for them to care, or make it worth losing a customer.
For example, they'll point out that you can get a Dell laptop for $600 while the cheapest Apple laptop is $1100. But you also forget a lot of people can't afford to pay $1100, like college students. $500 is a lot of money to some people.
I think a lot of it depends on what type of retail. Clothing stores for example, training probably doesn't matter as much, there isn't too much product specific knowledge.
If you are selling electronics like in circuit city's case yes more knowledge and training will be required. But that has probably dropped of some recently as more and more customers are doing research before hand. Not to mention there a lot of high school and college students that know a lot about those products before hand. So the learning curve isn't has high for some employees.
It wouldn't surprise me if this might be more of move on Circuit City's part to dump some of their more expensive full time employees with benefits in favor of part time employees who don't receive any benefits.
Since when does highest paid equal best performing??
In my experience in noncommissioned retail jobs. Highest paid typically = been with the company the longest.
The problem is retail for the most part is a pretty unskilled job. Why pay someone more and more each year to do the same the job?
I've seen this in the B terminal of Dulles Airport, everytime I fly out. I guess it could be someone who works there or something. But since it was ad-hoc I never connected.
I would be more worried more about the teachers not knowing what they are doing in Linux. Most teachers aren't going to want to learn how use Linux, and they certainly aren't going to want to explain linux to their students. No teacher is going to want to take the time to explain how to do basic things to their students. Students are going to want to know why their USB key doesn't show as removeable disk E: when they go to save their work, etc. It is small things like that, which may not seem like a big deal to you or I, that will frustrate teachers and students and potentially waste time.
If the lab was for a CS class, I would say go with Linux, because the students taking that type of class probably won't mind learning a new GUI, Filesystem etc.
Yeah the cost to keep a prisoner is pretty high, I've heard upwards of 50k a year. A better punishment would be limiting the guy's access to a computer and maybe a fine or community service. Prisons should be limited to violent crimes and major repeat offenders.
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Not sure where you live.
But the cable and phone industries are hardly free markets.
I would love to dump Charter today, but I can't.
Its certainly not going to happen overnight, but they are working on something
But does it have an emotions chip?
It really depends on the state.
Assuming its consensual, in Va they sort of have a gray area. If I remember correctly there is a 3 year rule. Basically 18-20 year old can get with a minor as long as the minor is not more than 3 years younger than the adult. It's still not legal, but it is not a felony. Its a misdemeanor, contributing to delinquency of a minor or something.
From what I understand police real only charge this if the minor's parents press for it. Or if you do something public, etc.
(The only reason I know this is because back in high school we had some sort of seminar that explained a lot of states laws to us that we may not know about, like premarital sex is a class 4 misdemeanor in VA)
Or maybe, just maybe, these ministers/priests know that a video game is not real life.
I would guess that most people have some sort of moral value that killing another human is wrong. (Exceptions for self defense etc.) But I doubt most people really have anything wrong with video game killing, but they are not hypocrites. Just as a church is not hypocritical for letting kids play violent video games.
Video game violence is not the same as real life violence.
Don't most large ISPs say something like that in their agreements.
Not saying it is right or anything, but singling out one ISP doesn't seem to really cover the scope of the issue.
And when exactly did Microsoft start forcing Rockstar to develop for the 360??
RFTA. Oh wait theis is slashdot There are two issues at hand. The bill sponsored by Enzi has to do with imposing sales tax on goods bought in other states. The other issue has to do with not extending the moratorium on taxing net access. (Which is what the headline is based on. I guess if you are paying net access tax, you could say you are paying a tax to send email) Much like the way your cable and phone bill is filled with other misc. taxes. So this seems more like both sides want to raise taxes, just in different ways.
Now lets see if half of those people that voted for Linux on the ideastorm site actually buy a machine. Because if this flops it will seriously hurt Linux in the mainstream market.
Trivial to many slashdotters? Yes. Trivial to the average user? No.
Average user's response. What's a shell script? What the hell is rsync?
I have Cox. I think they have a cap of like 30GB down/ 10GB up per month. The standard plan of $40 month. But they don't (strictly) enforce it though, because I cross it every month. But then again I don't keep my connection maxed out. Cap the upload around 30 KB/s on torrents because I share the connection. Don't download enough things to keep the down stream maxed out on any sort of regular basis.
Haven't had any problems with them. I cross the limits but probably not enough for them to care, or make it worth losing a customer.
I think a lot of it depends on what type of retail. Clothing stores for example, training probably doesn't matter as much, there isn't too much product specific knowledge.
If you are selling electronics like in circuit city's case yes more knowledge and training will be required. But that has probably dropped of some recently as more and more customers are doing research before hand. Not to mention there a lot of high school and college students that know a lot about those products before hand. So the learning curve isn't has high for some employees.
It wouldn't surprise me if this might be more of move on Circuit City's part to dump some of their more expensive full time employees with benefits in favor of part time employees who don't receive any benefits.
Since when does highest paid equal best performing?? In my experience in noncommissioned retail jobs. Highest paid typically = been with the company the longest. The problem is retail for the most part is a pretty unskilled job. Why pay someone more and more each year to do the same the job?
http://www.cio.com/archive/021507/fea_user_mgmt.ht ml?action=print
I've seen this in the B terminal of Dulles Airport, everytime I fly out. I guess it could be someone who works there or something. But since it was ad-hoc I never connected.
I would be more worried more about the teachers not knowing what they are doing in Linux. Most teachers aren't going to want to learn how use Linux, and they certainly aren't going to want to explain linux to their students. No teacher is going to want to take the time to explain how to do basic things to their students. Students are going to want to know why their USB key doesn't show as removeable disk E: when they go to save their work, etc. It is small things like that, which may not seem like a big deal to you or I, that will frustrate teachers and students and potentially waste time. If the lab was for a CS class, I would say go with Linux, because the students taking that type of class probably won't mind learning a new GUI, Filesystem etc.
Damn you must get a ton of play.
Becuase we all know chicks want guys with great skills.
Yeah the cost to keep a prisoner is pretty high, I've heard upwards of 50k a year. A better punishment would be limiting the guy's access to a computer and maybe a fine or community service. Prisons should be limited to violent crimes and major repeat offenders.
Everything netbuzz submits is from his blog. Not a bad way to get your page views up.
Funny I have never had a problem with scratched disks. Though I do keep them in cases, and don't just leave them laying out.