Comment Re:No public drug use (Score 2) 474
>Drug use is not OK
Why?
>A concentration of drug use...will have a serious negative impact on the local community.
Why?
>Drug use is not OK
Why?
>A concentration of drug use...will have a serious negative impact on the local community.
Why?
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
Cory Doctorow wrote a story where reputation acts as money: http://craphound.com/down/Cory...
Did they know Bush was lying when he said he had evidence?
TL;DR: I don't need it, therefore no one does.
Right, cause cheap/free VR certainly isn't of interest to the slashdot crowd.
Because creating an account on a website is a measure of how important someone's opinion is, duh.
"They can't really hang it off their belt because it's too big and unwieldy, it's a solid slab in their pocket, so the phone migrates to less and less convenient locations."
I wonder how many people who say this have actually used one of the larger screens.
My Galaxy note 3 is huge compared to my old iphone, but fits in my pocket perfectly comfortably.
"are you expecting us to believe that you genuinely don't understand the fears of those in this forum who oppose your optimistic view of the way data collected on customers of these services will be used?"
Yes. All I hear is a bunch of Chicken Little's freaking out because Google will know what temperature they like their house to be when they wake up in the morning.
A screen the size of my Galaxy note 3.
"An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument"
"Sorry, since this is Slashdot I was expecting that I would be speaking to a rational adult.
Forgot that school's out."
You disregard my argument on the basis that you think I am still in school.
How is that not ad hominem?
"But yeah, duh, we're all luddites if we don't bow and kiss the ring."
who's ring? What are you talking about?
Irrational fear of technology is what makes you luddite, nothing else.
>FYI, so you know - "dur, yer uh Luddite" is not a substitute for a valid argument
And ad hominem is soooo much better.
If you had actually read what I wrote you would have seen that my real suggestion was "Go to settings and turn 'GPS' to off".
Could you really not tell that the luddite remark was sarcasm?
This is the 21st century and we are talking about GPS on cell phones.
I am obviously referring to map apps on phones.
It's later than you think, the joint Russian-American space mission has already begun.