lol. Why bother avoiding accusations of sexism? You're an anonymous coward on Slashdot. What are you afraid they're going to do to you?
Anyway, the right way to treat people who are too easily offended is to brush them off, not acquiesce to their neurosis. If enough people call them on their bullshit, they'll grow a thicker skin and stop being so easily offended, and that's better for everyone in the long run.
I'm sure most women wouldn't object to not being called mobsters, but if you're really concerned about it, use they and get the number agreement wrong. Using "she" is just distracting.
Also, it's not sexist. Defaulting to one gender, usually male, is how most languages deal with the issue. It's just understood that the gender is indeterminate. For instance, Spanish uses "ellos" for a group of mixed gender people, while "ellas" is referred to a group of only women. No one gets confused by this.
(once upon a time, the Republicans were the anti-slavery Party, not the Democrats, for instance)
Both major parties in the US are anti-slavery today, as well as most minor parties.
Yes, and the customers or state would still foot the bill, because the insurance premium raises the cost of doing business for all banks, making the interest rate spread offered to customers higher and a bank in trouble more likely to fail, due to the increased difficulty of making profits when the cost of business is higher.
Stealing from someone where insurance will cover it just means you're stealing from a lot of people instead of just one.
Why is a mobster a mobster? Because she believes she is above and beyond the law...
Dude, not all mobsters are female. Use "he" or (cringe) "they".
To be fair, it's hard to pretend not to be black, but it's usually pretty easy to pretend not to be gay. You don't even have to pretend; you just have to not bring up your sexual orientation.
So a business wanting to discriminate against gays would have to have some sort of policy that you have to make out with the cashier to prove you're straight, or something. That might prove very popular with some customers, but they'd probably have trouble hiring cashiers.
Getting better every day. Used in several popular offline GPSes like Navmii already. Only a matter of time before it either takes over or at least drastically depresses prices.
going so far as to point out that you could be ticketed for unsafe driving (or impeding traffic) if you were driving the speed limit (e.g. 60mph on the freeway) but the rest of traffic was going 90.
Yeah I don't think so. Otherwise, there would be no way to drive on that road at all without breaking the law. I think that would violate due process. Also common sense.
Your driving instructor isn't wrong about safety, though.
Yes, people talking about suicide want "attention". But this usually isn't the same kind of attention spoiled children want. People talking about suicide often mean it, or at least think they do, and talking about suicide is one of their last attempts to grasp at whatever straws they think might support them as they fall.
Don't trivialize the pain that can and does make people end their own lives.
...have to defend their license at a license board hearing...
To all Slashdotters, take note:
- Never support licensing for programmers.
- NEVER support licensing for programmers.
- NEVER SUPPORT LICENSING FOR PROGRAMMERS!
If there's anything that can make you a raving libertarian, it's professional licensing. Did you know the US state bars can refuse to license a lawyer who passed all tests and has no criminal record because (paraphrasing) "he's a jerk"? Seriously. Not an exaggeration. I can't find the case right now (slow Internet), but that has happened. Look up how broad the requirement of "good moral character" can be. Don't want that bull feces in YOUR profession? Oppose licensure. Always.
In OO language, we don't want any friends and we want to make sure that no data is exposed and all functions that provide functionality (get, set, do_something, whatever) are checked properly.
Friends are irrelevant. In C and C++, you have the ability to set pointers to arbitrary values, cast them to whatever you want, and then use them to overwrite arbitrary memory. Friends matter for minimizing code complexity, but, as Stroustrup said, C++'s object model is intended to prevent accidents, not fraud. If you have evil code with access to an object, whether or not the code is friends with the object's class is entirely irrelevant.
Christ
Is this what you're talking about: http://blog.invisiblethings.or...
It's an impressive idea, although it depends on the TPM which is not designed to be safe against physical attacks. There's no reason the implementation of that should only work with QubesOS, either, although the developers appear to be the same.
Please read the link again, and/or work on your reading comprehension skills. The part you talk about is referring to not showing up to court when summoned, not failing to pay a monetary judgment.
Generally, once you have a judgment, it's up to you as a creditor to enforce it. You can do this in a number of ways, including enlisting a sheriff to help you (for a fee). But the debtor doesn't end up in prison for not paying a judgment.
Do you see how "not showing up to court" != "not paying a judgment"? Like I said earlier, the only way you can end up in jail for not paying a debt is if it's child support or a fine. These exceptions are perpetually controversial because they're basically debtors' prison, although supposedly inability to pay is a defense to the contempt charge.
In any case, I've thoroughly skewered your stupid "send me an email saying you'll pay me $10000" or whatever hypothetical. Unsecured creditors have no ability to force you into jail. Just make your court appearances, stupid.
Yes, protocol on Slashdot with alleged bullshit things is that burden of proof is on the bullshitter. Since, you know, you made the original claim?
But I'll throw you a bone. I won't even use insult you with lmgtfy.com. Aren't I a nice guy?
Bullshit.
It's generally not contempt of court not to pay a judgment. There are special cases where it sometimes can be with child support, but, as a general rule, you're just wrong on this. Even with child support, if you show up in court and prove you can't pay the debt, it's not contempt of court.
It's time to boot, do your boot ROMs know where your disk controllers are?
