If lives were important, we'd be in Africa solving poverty and treatable disease.
You cannot compare people being murdered to people who do not know (at least according to popular perception) how to eke out a living.
This Slashdot poll is about whether to bomb Syria, not whether to go after the oppressive regime somehow.
"Innocent people were gassed
I'm in favor of cleanly executed assassinations that take out all the correct bastards one at a time.
Yawn!
I wrote:
If I think that some publisher's output is poor, that is my opinion. It is not libel.
Ah, in the United States perhaps. But if I express that opinion in Canada, it might in fact be defamation. Oops!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_defamation_law
True North Strong and Free, indeed
For instance, the publisher could start a blog in which they call the librarian "Mr. Poopy Pants".
That is essentially the equivalent of what he did to them.
If I think that some publisher's output is poor, that is my opinion. It is not libel. You can't sue people for having standards (even completely vague ones that change daily) and for claiming that some things don't measure up to those standard (in no objective way).
Libel would be if I claim that, say, the publisher cheated someone out of ten thousand dollars, when in fact that is false.
Nobody would be dumb enough to be seen with that, especially around airports. So your luggage is safe.
The dot com bust hit the IT sectory specifically, and followed a huge bubble in which tons of people were found in unnecessary jobs fueled by the gush of easy start-up money.
How can you even compare.
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A little PC board with a soldered-on Intel chip, which itself has pins
I don't agree. Even if it says somewhere that there is free support, it's an obvious TGTBT claim that only an idiot would believe and get irate at, if that idiot knows that the program was free.
I think these people do not know that the program was free. They think someone in their organization (maybe an IT person) paid for it, and the support goes with that.
With big, complex, multi-user applications, you can't assume that the person calling the support line is the one who selected and deployed the application, or that the person who did select and deploy the application made it clear to everyone that it's free.
Time does not run the same way backward as it does forward. It, like, runs forward and does not run backward.
If they don't kill them swiftly and surely after release, they will go on to be pests.
No, it frightens "grownups" too. It's just that later in life you're segregated away from those people by your education, career, and your income: where you live, where you shop, where you go for fun and so on.
This problem eventually goes away as people are sorted into classes based on their achievement.
It is caused because schools are a "melting pot" for people from various social strata, personalities and intellectual levels.
As people go through life, they tend to segregate and associate with similar people.So bullying based on intelligence diminishes or goes away entirely. I mean, you're not going to be bullied by your peers for being smart if you're a grad student in engineering physics.
The fix is to identify the talented and smart kids as early as possible and whisk them off to separate schools, where they not only benefit from being away from the bullies, but also benefit from a more advanced, accelerated curriculum.
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To program is to be.
