Comment Re:so, the key to amnesty... (Score 2) 322
The much simpler, less-conspiracy-theory reason would be that it's easier to stop supporting old versions of Windows when users can update to the newest version for free.
I think we need laws stating that anyone who has ever worked for an industry, and their immediate families and their known business associates, is not allowed to work in any capacity for a regulating agency, and vice-versa.
The downside to this idea is that you would be left with pretty much only two groups of people available for a regulatory agency: people who don't know anything about the field that the agency is responsible for, and new graduates whose only knowledge of the field is from their time in college. The FCC needs people with telecommunications knowledge, the EPA needs ecologists and chemists, etc. If you disallow anyone who has worked in the industry, you aren't left with much.
So what's the right answer? Damned if I know.
Given that you need a certain base amount of income to live, depriving someone of 12 days of income is terribly regressive - someone living paycheck to paycheck may well not be able to eat for a while if lacking nearly 12 half-days of income, whereas someone being fined $50k or whatever because they make a few million a year will not miss it that much... though they may well decide that spending about $200k to support a candidate to run against the sheriff in that region is a worthwhile expense.
Even when Phase 2 is ???, there's still a Phase 1, so you might want to read a bit more carefully:
It starts with an estimate of the amount of spending money a Finn has for one day
You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again!
No, but that does sound kind of like Bender's idea of a fun evening. It just needs more booze and hookers.
That's not the impression SpzToid's post gave. He speculated explicitly that Hillary was influenced by Bush 43's bad actions. Thus one would conclude she is excused for such mistakes.
I'm sure there are plenty of people that feel that way (I have no idea if the original poster does or not), and I strongly disagree with them. I highly doubt there was any illegal or scandalous activity going on through these emails, as much as Fox News will try to insinuate that there was, but "Government business must be done through government email" should be an easy rule to follow.
Dear Slashdot editors,
Don't forget your journalistic rigor.
Is it possible to forget something that you never had?
but as soon as it started heading toward the south indian ocean, it wouldn't surprise me if no one was looking
there is just nothing, absolutely nothing, to look at there
In other words, the perfect location for a super villain's secret volcano lair.
Tell us who you work for!
Linux is just the kernel, maybe the heart of the operating system, but not the OS itself. The OS is the kernel and the whole bunch of other stuff that allows you to run the program you click, type or tap at.
That depends on exactly how you want to define "operating system". You can make the argument that the "operating system" really is just the kernel, and that everything else, including the X server, are user-level programs. In particular, this is true in Linux, where many system services that some people would consider part of the operating system are just normal processes.
and the sex tape
It's on a wall of the cave on the other side of the hill.
Uh... you know *why* Iran wants nukes, right? It is precisely because a nearby military rival has them.
That's not what Iran says.
The tiny fraction can still wipe out the human race
They could certainly wipe out many urban population centers, and kill billions of people. They would also cause major economic disruption, and a collapse in trade that may kill billions more.
Unless the number of each of those "billions" is only 2, then that's just about the entire human species.
A zombie vegetarian with an insatiable lust for green beans isn't exactly a future doomsday preppers are imagining.
I like green beans, you insensitive clod!
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
