Considering lawyers as the answer is clouding your vision that they are also the cause.
Assholes are the cause. Asshole lawyers just make it even worse. In theory, non-asshole lawyers (and judges, and politicians, and just about everyone else) are the answer.
he wrote that he thought religion was only good for stupid people because the fear of hell made them behave. That's not a particularly ringing proclamation of faith.
Your founding fathers abhored the idea of religion in charge, and I'm sure they would be completely aghast with the current state of the country they helped build.
That doesn't make them atheists, it only means they knew what would happen if a single organized religion took control of the secular government.
Can you (legally) pull over cars on a public road? Can you detain someone for questioning?
Legally, I believe you can (i.e. citizen's arrest). Whether or not you can do so practically is another matter entirely, and if you try without a damned good reason, you'll probably get rung up for kidnapping.
I use to bite my nails. Is that a syndrome? Maybe it's a compulsive behavior that can affect my health.
If you do it frequently, without really thinking about it, and get anxious when you don't bite your fingernails or bite your fingernails whenever you get anxious, then yes, it is a compulsive behavior, and there are plenty of people that have such compulsions. Whether or not it affects your health enough that you feel you should correct it is an individual decision.
if you sold a product and have over 700 reported injuries with the same cause/result.
700 injuries out of how many non-injuries? Nothing is perfectly safe, and there's a huge difference between 700 injuries in 7,000 sales and 700 injuries in 7,000,000,000 sales.
The whole point of green is creating an Age of Less.
NO, the whole point of green is creating the Age of Sustainability, and anyone who wants less isn't green.
I assume he meant "green", with sarcasm quotes. Not the people that actually care about the environment, but the loud, obnoxious idiots that use the environment as a facade to attack anybody that makes money.
Palin stated that "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska" which is a true fact. She did not state "I can see Russia from my house"
The joke, though, is that she believed that this fact made her qualified to handle the type of foreign relations work that's done by the federal government.
So just use an android to plant a quantum message to yourself so that you know to open the shuttle bay doors and let the explosive depressurization knock you out of the other ship's path.
Congratulations, you've discovered that PHP is not, has never been, and most likely never will be, a language where everything is an object. Did you also know that myInteger.plus(myOtherInteger) doesn't work in PHP? I am truly in awe of your vast knowledge of programming languages.
I think it's an incredibly stupid decision too (when we saw the decision at my last job, we decided never to use namespaces just because the separator would look ridiculous), but it still doesn't top register_globals and magic_quotes.
How good is the object oriented support in PHP these days?
Everyone involved with PHP pretty openly admits that PHP5's OO model is a direct ripoff of Java, so inheritance, abstracts, interfaces, and access modifiers work pretty much the same way as they do in Java. If you like Java's OO, you should be fine with PHP5's.
But there are some senators that think that gay marriage will lead to children being born out of wedlock. The video isn't working for me right now, but I think this is the right clip.
Offensive and ugly are not part of "severe, repeated, and hostile". In a sane world, "hostile" would be well-defined to only mean threatening to cause physical harm or intentionally and knowingly trying to cause physical harm (e.g. intentionally harassing a person when you know that the person has emotional problems and that your actions are likely to cause the person to commit suicide). Of course, I'm sure that this law will be vague, overly broad, and end up being abused to the point that calling a person fat or ugly costs you a couple million dollars in a lawsuit. And why existing harassment laws don't already cover this is left as an exercise for the reader.
Parts per million (ppm) is a standard, commonly used unit when talking about things like chemical concentration. To people that work with this stuff on a daily basis, ppm is probably easier to understand than "1 part per hundred".
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Communist! Get him!
Considering lawyers as the answer is clouding your vision that they are also the cause.
Assholes are the cause. Asshole lawyers just make it even worse. In theory, non-asshole lawyers (and judges, and politicians, and just about everyone else) are the answer.
If the US government violates human rights, Americans need to do something about it themselves.
Replace "US" with "Foobaristan" and "Americans" with "Foobaristanis", and then explain why we Americans repeatedly depose the Foobaristani leaders.
he wrote that he thought religion was only good for stupid people because the fear of hell made them behave. That's not a particularly ringing proclamation of faith.
Not all religions have a hell to fear.
Your founding fathers abhored the idea of religion in charge, and I'm sure they would be completely aghast with the current state of the country they helped build.
That doesn't make them atheists, it only means they knew what would happen if a single organized religion took control of the secular government.
Can you (legally) pull over cars on a public road? Can you detain someone for questioning?
Legally, I believe you can (i.e. citizen's arrest). Whether or not you can do so practically is another matter entirely, and if you try without a damned good reason, you'll probably get rung up for kidnapping.
how much word-of-mouth advertising they're sacrificing by shafting OS X and Linux distributions?
Yes, which is why they don't care.
Chrome is still too simplifistic
Apparently so is English.
Why would the average home user (the vast majority of, if not all, Slashdot readers do not count as the average home user) ever need Firebug or YSlow?
I use to bite my nails. Is that a syndrome? Maybe it's a compulsive behavior that can affect my health.
If you do it frequently, without really thinking about it, and get anxious when you don't bite your fingernails or bite your fingernails whenever you get anxious, then yes, it is a compulsive behavior, and there are plenty of people that have such compulsions. Whether or not it affects your health enough that you feel you should correct it is an individual decision.
if you sold a product and have over 700 reported injuries with the same cause/result.
700 injuries out of how many non-injuries? Nothing is perfectly safe, and there's a huge difference between 700 injuries in 7,000 sales and 700 injuries in 7,000,000,000 sales.
They're like locks, they make getting in hard enough that most people will look for an easier target.
And just like locks, there isn't really a whole lot you can do to prevent brute force attacks.
The whole point of green is creating an Age of Less.
NO, the whole point of green is creating the Age of Sustainability, and anyone who wants less isn't green.
I assume he meant "green", with sarcasm quotes. Not the people that actually care about the environment, but the loud, obnoxious idiots that use the environment as a facade to attack anybody that makes money.
Or do you think it coincidence that the first Earth Day happened to also be Lenin's 100th Birthday?
The word "coincidence" exists for a reason. And every day is somebody's birthday.
Palin stated that "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska" which is a true fact. She did not state "I can see Russia from my house"
The joke, though, is that she believed that this fact made her qualified to handle the type of foreign relations work that's done by the federal government.
So just use an android to plant a quantum message to yourself so that you know to open the shuttle bay doors and let the explosive depressurization knock you out of the other ship's path.
Or something
Ah, I do remember that incident. In the spirit of completeness, though, Reuters is not the AP.
As a scientist, am I supposed to go down the reference tree of every paper I cite and reproduce every result back to Newton?
Yeah, right, as if anybody would trust that guy's ideas. Definitely need to check all of the references in his work.
The AP's habit of running absurd or blatently photoshopped images convinced me of this.
[Citation needed]
Congratulations, you've discovered that PHP is not, has never been, and most likely never will be, a language where everything is an object. Did you also know that myInteger.plus(myOtherInteger) doesn't work in PHP? I am truly in awe of your vast knowledge of programming languages.
I think it's an incredibly stupid decision too (when we saw the decision at my last job, we decided never to use namespaces just because the separator would look ridiculous), but it still doesn't top register_globals and magic_quotes.
How good is the object oriented support in PHP these days?
Everyone involved with PHP pretty openly admits that PHP5's OO model is a direct ripoff of Java, so inheritance, abstracts, interfaces, and access modifiers work pretty much the same way as they do in Java. If you like Java's OO, you should be fine with PHP5's.
But there are some senators that think that gay marriage will lead to children being born out of wedlock. The video isn't working for me right now, but I think this is the right clip.
Offensive and ugly are not part of "severe, repeated, and hostile". In a sane world, "hostile" would be well-defined to only mean threatening to cause physical harm or intentionally and knowingly trying to cause physical harm (e.g. intentionally harassing a person when you know that the person has emotional problems and that your actions are likely to cause the person to commit suicide). Of course, I'm sure that this law will be vague, overly broad, and end up being abused to the point that calling a person fat or ugly costs you a couple million dollars in a lawsuit. And why existing harassment laws don't already cover this is left as an exercise for the reader.
Parts per million (ppm) is a standard, commonly used unit when talking about things like chemical concentration. To people that work with this stuff on a daily basis, ppm is probably easier to understand than "1 part per hundred".