I'm a long-time reader but rarely log in these days. I made an exception to voice my displeasure at the beta version of Slashdot. The new layout wastes space and moves the comments to the background.
I, along with many others, come here for the comments. If the beta is the default design, I will stop coming here. I imagine many others will do the same.
One point of data, every 140 years? You'll have to wait 280 more years before being able to identify a trend. At least 7 or 8 points will be needed to do any sort of statistical analysis, if we assume the points follow a standard distribution.
We'll chat in a thousand years, if you're still around.
The wife and kids (if any) did not create wealth. They deserve money, but so do we. Otherwise, we pay their taxes for them. The government has to get money from somewhere.
Do you live on a commune? How in the world do you deserve someone else's money? Unless you performed some deed for them that requires monetary compensation, they owe you NOTHING. Their money is theirs and its redistribution is their decision.
As for the government needing this money, do you seriously think that someone worth 1000 times the average net worth uses 1000 times more government services? Uses roads and bridges 1000 times more than a regular driver? Creates hospital bills for the government that are 1000 times larger? This whole notion of "fair share" conveniently forgets that an individual can only use a finite amount of resources the government provides, and asking that individual to pay more than the maximum worth of those resources is plain greed.
From what I've read, the browser doesn't display pages pre-rendered by Indigo/Chapters. It will be slower to show pages than the Kindle Fire, but this is a HUGE plus to anyone who doesn't wish to be tracked by the people who sold them the tablet. Given that both units are $200, the choice just got a lot easier to make.
AdBlock and NoScripts are both available for Chrome. I switched from Firefox about a month ago after finding out about this. So far, a very smooth experience.
Unfortunately, if online anonymity goes away, free speech will suffer.
No, only anonymous speech will suffer. Free speech does not require the speaker to be anonymous - in fact, it works because speech is protected even though the speaker can be identified. Anonymous quotes can't have retribution.
July 2031 - CmdrTaco visits a sweat lodge in Idaho, drinks some mysterious peyote-based beverage, strips down to his undies, climbs a tree and proceeds to live-tweet his 23-hour psychedelic trip.
Tablets became the new thing to have. Demand for netbooks dropped and so did prices. Netbooks that were selling for $300 are selling for $200, so manufacturers are moving to producing tablets, which have higher profit margins. It's not rocket science, just simple economics.
You're either an idiot or a troll. My guess is the latter - nobody with half a brain likes to waste time watching ads or searching for content on a webpage that's obstructed by Flash ads.
Most traction control is a joke. I have to turn it off on my Suzuki or I can easily get stuck and not move. (flooring it results in no engine revs, nothing. sometimes on ice you have to spin a bit to get going.
I think the GP's point still applies: if you're spending that much time in your car every day and it's not your job, you're doing it wrong. I have a 15 minute commute each way and would move if it ever went over 30 minutes. There are better things to do with your time than having your butt heated while listening to traffic reports for an hour.
If you commute for 10 hours a week, you're looking at 500 hours in a year, assuming a 2 week vacation. That's over twelve 40-hour weeks of commuting. You could spend that time at work earning extra money, or spend it on hobbies or sports, or with your loved ones. I don't know anyone who would pick sitting in a car, no matter how comfortable, over at least one of those options.
Too bad the civil rights movement and the end of DADT have nothing in common. When blacks were allowed to integrate, they went into places where they weren't allowed previously. With DADT, there are already gays in the military - there is no integration involved. The only thing that changes now is that they're allowed to be open about it.
the backlash from the WL episode will be a push for laws and technology to control communications at the direct expense of democratic ideals which require free speech
And you can thank that fucking tool Julian Assange for it. He's like a kid that found a $100 bill - he knows he has something very valuable but has no clue of how to use it.
I'm out in California after much time in the East and would completely love it if California where to leave the union.
I suspect many parts of the US have wanted California to leave the Union since they found out its slogan was "California: the land of fruits and nuts".
And to complete the MUD experience, the Kindle has a refresh rate equivalent to a 1200 baud modem. You know, where you can read faster than text can appear on the screen.
I'm just not seeing it -- what does a stylus buy you, that you can't get just using your finger(s)?
You get a real speed advantage with a stylus when precision is required. It also doesn't smudge the screen and doesn't cover as much of the screen as a finger does. However, a stylus sucks for typing - you're pecking with the equivalent of a single finger.
If you want to experience this, try playing a card game like solitaire on the Nintendo DS with a stylus and then try playing it on an iPod Touch or an iPhone (obviously two different game versions). Dragging the small cards around the screen is much easier on the DS.
What I have trouble with is your unequivocal claim of ALL of the Bible being a hoax. There are plenty of contradictions in it, but it's no reason to discount all of it as false. For example, Genesis has two stories of creation, one following the other (one is a "small scale" description, the other is a "large scale"). If it's such a great hoax, wouldn't the authors make sure that there were no contradictions, especially in the first chapter? The proper way to read it is to take this story as an attempt to understand the world around us.
There's also the fact that major religions cross-reference each other. The story of a giant flood has been around since Mesopotamia and is referenced by religions all over the world. The description presented in the Bible is in all likelihood not accurate, but it is representative of a historical event (global or local, take your pick) that affected the people enough to pass the story along for thousands of years.
The stories in the Bible get more and more accurate as you read on. They go from universal myths to pretty accurate historical accounts, with real people whose existence can be verified through various documents. There are other documents, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, which prove that the stories have not changed over time. It is therefore reasonable to believe that Jesus did exist, and that the accounts of his life are somewhat accurate.
By the way, your original post makes reference to Jesus performing magic. There are a LOT of texts that didn't make it into the Bible, some of which have Jesus fighting dragons, making clay pigeons and bringing them to life with his breath and all sorts of other nonsense. They were left out because Jesus was not a magician, or a superhero. His miracles were recorded by ordinary people. There's two possibilities here: the first is that the miracles were true, the work of God. The other is that the miracles were based on science, unknown to people who were witnessing them. Neither possibility disproves the existence of Jesus, nor the fact that he did something that was considered incredible.
Your proposal that all religions are hoaxes is astounding. I could believe that at some point in time, a person or a group of people managed to impress enough followers to start a religion. (S)he or they perpetrated some hoaxes, fooled some simple minds and started a legend. But your suggestion that this is how ALL the major religions of the world started is simply absurd. The amount of complexity involved with creating deceptions of this scale is too big to have succeeded so many times.
Again, please stop spreading false conspiracy theories and state something that's actually believable.
Assuming Jesus didn't exist, how did Christianity start?
Are you seriously proposing that a bunch of people got together, invented a story about a man who could do magic and believed it so much that they were willing to be burned on crosses and get eaten by lions before admitting that it was a hoax? Please abandon this conspiracy theory in favor of a more plausible one.
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I'm a long-time reader but rarely log in these days. I made an exception to voice my displeasure at the beta version of Slashdot. The new layout wastes space and moves the comments to the background.
I, along with many others, come here for the comments. If the beta is the default design, I will stop coming here. I imagine many others will do the same.
Your move, Slashdot.
One point of data, every 140 years? You'll have to wait 280 more years before being able to identify a trend. At least 7 or 8 points will be needed to do any sort of statistical analysis, if we assume the points follow a standard distribution.
We'll chat in a thousand years, if you're still around.
Do you live on a commune? How in the world do you deserve someone else's money? Unless you performed some deed for them that requires monetary compensation, they owe you NOTHING. Their money is theirs and its redistribution is their decision.
As for the government needing this money, do you seriously think that someone worth 1000 times the average net worth uses 1000 times more government services? Uses roads and bridges 1000 times more than a regular driver? Creates hospital bills for the government that are 1000 times larger? This whole notion of "fair share" conveniently forgets that an individual can only use a finite amount of resources the government provides, and asking that individual to pay more than the maximum worth of those resources is plain greed.
From what I've read, the browser doesn't display pages pre-rendered by Indigo/Chapters. It will be slower to show pages than the Kindle Fire, but this is a HUGE plus to anyone who doesn't wish to be tracked by the people who sold them the tablet. Given that both units are $200, the choice just got a lot easier to make.
Also, if CmdrTaco's trend continues, tomorrow will be a very bad day for him.
AdBlock and NoScripts are both available for Chrome. I switched from Firefox about a month ago after finding out about this. So far, a very smooth experience.
No, only anonymous speech will suffer. Free speech does not require the speaker to be anonymous - in fact, it works because speech is protected even though the speaker can be identified. Anonymous quotes can't have retribution.
They stupid mobs are more likely follow smart people. Look at what's happening in the White House.
July 2031 - CmdrTaco visits a sweat lodge in Idaho, drinks some mysterious peyote-based beverage, strips down to his undies, climbs a tree and proceeds to live-tweet his 23-hour psychedelic trip.
At least he provided a picture this time.
Tablets became the new thing to have. Demand for netbooks dropped and so did prices. Netbooks that were selling for $300 are selling for $200, so manufacturers are moving to producing tablets, which have higher profit margins. It's not rocket science, just simple economics.
You're either an idiot or a troll. My guess is the latter - nobody with half a brain likes to waste time watching ads or searching for content on a webpage that's obstructed by Flash ads.
This is explained by the fact that it's a Suzuki.
Anybody who texts should of known this already. Texting is not only addicting but educational!
I think the GP's point still applies: if you're spending that much time in your car every day and it's not your job, you're doing it wrong. I have a 15 minute commute each way and would move if it ever went over 30 minutes. There are better things to do with your time than having your butt heated while listening to traffic reports for an hour.
If you commute for 10 hours a week, you're looking at 500 hours in a year, assuming a 2 week vacation. That's over twelve 40-hour weeks of commuting. You could spend that time at work earning extra money, or spend it on hobbies or sports, or with your loved ones. I don't know anyone who would pick sitting in a car, no matter how comfortable, over at least one of those options.
Too bad the civil rights movement and the end of DADT have nothing in common. When blacks were allowed to integrate, they went into places where they weren't allowed previously. With DADT, there are already gays in the military - there is no integration involved. The only thing that changes now is that they're allowed to be open about it.
And you can thank that fucking tool Julian Assange for it. He's like a kid that found a $100 bill - he knows he has something very valuable but has no clue of how to use it.
I suspect many parts of the US have wanted California to leave the Union since they found out its slogan was "California: the land of fruits and nuts".
And to complete the MUD experience, the Kindle has a refresh rate equivalent to a 1200 baud modem. You know, where you can read faster than text can appear on the screen.
Who's the retard modding this as "informative"? It wouldn't be informative even if the poster's name was CrystalBall.
Dude, what are you doing on Slashdot with this precious information?? Hurry up and edit the Wikipedia page!
You get a real speed advantage with a stylus when precision is required. It also doesn't smudge the screen and doesn't cover as much of the screen as a finger does. However, a stylus sucks for typing - you're pecking with the equivalent of a single finger.
If you want to experience this, try playing a card game like solitaire on the Nintendo DS with a stylus and then try playing it on an iPod Touch or an iPhone (obviously two different game versions). Dragging the small cards around the screen is much easier on the DS.
Dr. Mario will be "administrating" the cure.
Sorry for the delay, I was away for a few days.
What I have trouble with is your unequivocal claim of ALL of the Bible being a hoax. There are plenty of contradictions in it, but it's no reason to discount all of it as false. For example, Genesis has two stories of creation, one following the other (one is a "small scale" description, the other is a "large scale"). If it's such a great hoax, wouldn't the authors make sure that there were no contradictions, especially in the first chapter? The proper way to read it is to take this story as an attempt to understand the world around us.
There's also the fact that major religions cross-reference each other. The story of a giant flood has been around since Mesopotamia and is referenced by religions all over the world. The description presented in the Bible is in all likelihood not accurate, but it is representative of a historical event (global or local, take your pick) that affected the people enough to pass the story along for thousands of years.
The stories in the Bible get more and more accurate as you read on. They go from universal myths to pretty accurate historical accounts, with real people whose existence can be verified through various documents. There are other documents, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, which prove that the stories have not changed over time. It is therefore reasonable to believe that Jesus did exist, and that the accounts of his life are somewhat accurate.
By the way, your original post makes reference to Jesus performing magic. There are a LOT of texts that didn't make it into the Bible, some of which have Jesus fighting dragons, making clay pigeons and bringing them to life with his breath and all sorts of other nonsense. They were left out because Jesus was not a magician, or a superhero. His miracles were recorded by ordinary people. There's two possibilities here: the first is that the miracles were true, the work of God. The other is that the miracles were based on science, unknown to people who were witnessing them. Neither possibility disproves the existence of Jesus, nor the fact that he did something that was considered incredible.
Your proposal that all religions are hoaxes is astounding. I could believe that at some point in time, a person or a group of people managed to impress enough followers to start a religion. (S)he or they perpetrated some hoaxes, fooled some simple minds and started a legend. But your suggestion that this is how ALL the major religions of the world started is simply absurd. The amount of complexity involved with creating deceptions of this scale is too big to have succeeded so many times.
Again, please stop spreading false conspiracy theories and state something that's actually believable.
Assuming Jesus didn't exist, how did Christianity start?
Are you seriously proposing that a bunch of people got together, invented a story about a man who could do magic and believed it so much that they were willing to be burned on crosses and get eaten by lions before admitting that it was a hoax? Please abandon this conspiracy theory in favor of a more plausible one.