Comment Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes (Score 1) 410
Is London where you developed or discovered your xenophobic streak, or did that happen after you moved to the countryside?
When did you stop beating your wife?
Comment Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes (Score 1) 410
Someone I once worked with put it best regarding living in London, there are two groups of people, there are those who have lived there for a short time, i.e. only a year or two who think it's the best thing ever because they've not yet exhausted all the attractions, and then there are the people who lived there all their lives, and know that once the attractions are done, and you've eaten at all the cool places to eat, it's an incredibly shit city to live in.
I moved from London to somewhere where I can walk to unspoiled moor land from my house and live in a 4-bedroom house at the same cost as a studio apartment in London and have no desire to move back. When I have to travel there for work (maybe a week each year) a single trip on the underground reminds me why I moved out.
That said there are some people who live in London and love it. I know people who can't imagine living somewhere where the nearest cinema is a half-hour's drive away and the nearest decent theater over an hour away though.
Comment Let me apply for a mortgage with you company. (Score 1) 1067
Let me apply for a mortgage with you company. I'll take a zero term year please. Now what will my repayment be?
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 1067
Comment Depends on your perspective and tastes (Score 3, Interesting) 410
If you like "high culture", have money, and don't mind crowds then London is great. If you prefer other things not so much.
Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? 1067
New submitter CodeInspired writes: After 20 years of programming, I've decided I'm tired of checking for div by zero. Would there be any serious harm in allowing a system wide setting that said div by zero simply equals zero? Maybe it exists already, not sure. But I run into it all the time in every language I've worked with. Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?
Comment Re:European Court of Human Rights is retarded (Score 1) 401
But that's just my opinion.
Yes but now slashdot will be held responsible for it
Comment Re:Kids (Score 3, Funny) 168
Probably a kid with a grudge.
Keep my kids out of this
Or maybe an old white man with a lost sense of entitlement.
And my dad.
Comment This is disgusting (Score 1) 126
This is disgusting and everything possible should be done to - short of marginally increasing my electric bill or tax bill of course!
Comment There are non-nuclear EMP weapons (Score 1) 182
There are some non-nuclear EMP weapons.
Comment Really this should be done (Score 1) 182
Really this should be done over the ISlamic State
Comment Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way (Score 1) 1032
Its probably closer to one tenure-track job out there for every hundred PhD holders, Philosophy or otherwise.
That makes me wonder - how many philosophy PHDs can sit on the head of one tenure?
Comment Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way (Score 2) 1032
I have to question anyone who gets a BA in Philosophy and can't find a job thinks that getting a PhD or Masters will some how improve their odds of getting a job.
A professor of Philosophy?
Comment Re:In the more civilized parts of the world... (Score 5, Informative) 1032
...instead of guaranteeing loans, the government would have to guarantee a college education.
that is what we do. Works fine, here in Europe.
In fact a number of Americans are now coming to Europe to study for free
Comment anyone know a pipes alternative? (Score 1) 176
anyone know a pipes alternative? It's very useful in combining feeds for mashups
