Comment Re:Doesn't corn, corn, corn (Score 2) 599
no it doesn't, because not much corn is grown in CA. The two greatest water consumers are parsley and rice. I don't know why the summary mentions it.
no it doesn't, because not much corn is grown in CA. The two greatest water consumers are parsley and rice. I don't know why the summary mentions it.
it's not a desert
i think you're overreaching a bit.
sure man, i can get on board with this. ban the smoking in public. my motto, if something is smoking, call the fire department or douse it with water.
why? cuz smoking is gross and nasty and smelly. I want to actually enjoy the food that I'm paying for, not to have everything taste like an ashtray. The same goes for both tobacco and MJ.
But I don't have the right to tell some guy what behaviors he can't allow in his place.
it depends. places of public accomodation have significantly curtailed private property rights. think ADA requirements or nondiscrimination requirements. Also places that require licenses (like restaurants) open themselves up to restrictions that would not otherwise be imposed on private property.
so yes, in many cases, "we" (society) have the right to tell some guy what behaviors he can't allow in his place.
why? cuz smoking is gross and nasty and smelly. I want to actually enjoy the food that I'm paying for, not to have everything taste like an ashtray. The same goes for both tobacco and MJ.
We're in an era of rebirth, where we have finally liberated our noses and taste buds from 300 years of oppression of somebody crumpling up a plant leaf and smoking it over your dinner plate.
remember when they used to allow smoking on planes? I do? they did it on international flights. The last few rows were "smoking rows", and they even put up a handy plaque to denote the dividing line.
of course they'll bill for the trips to the john. I'm a consultant, and I do that all the time. You think I have a billing code for "trips to john"?
I prefer the rooted Android solution where ads are blocked in the hosts file.
HOSTS! FTW!
For instance,
OMG this brought back some good memories. I used to participate in the yahoo questions boards. Many questions were kids who were just posting their math homework online. I used to give them thoughtful thorough write-ups that resulted in the wrong answers. Man, I had a lot of spare time...
How is censoring them holding them accountable? And on a website where there are subreddits specifically designed to let women attention whore their bodies for men?
what is the name of the subreddits of which you speak?
Regardless of your obvious bias against Uber, if said non directly employed third parties and/or passengers enter into agreements (e.g., TOS, etc.) and then purposefully violate said agreements, Uber is justified in trying to combat said violations.
the gp isn't arguing against uber trying to combat the fraud. s/he's only suggesting that we all tamp down on the moral outrage, especially considering that uber itself has been known for its rapacious practices/"disruption".
I don't have the necessary data to say if the Chinese are or aren't more unscruplous(or, as an intermediate possibility, have a different distribution of unscruplousness, so westerners are surprised to be shivved in the back by manufacturing managers rather than financial services assholes, say)
I think this is the key point - many throughout the world and throughout history would be shocked at the Gordon gecko-like avariciousness of demolishing a company to sell the bricks in the wall, or bankrupting an entire country in order to profit off the spread, or other acts that we consider not just "just" but also "necessary for a functioning economy."
if another culture is applying the same maxims in different areas of business where we are used to a more collaborative or respectful approach, then maybe we should cut back on the moral outrage.
I had also have significant experience (PhD researcher) in some narrow topics that are frequently discussed in ask science. I've never been forceful enough to get banned, but I did stop contributing because the 6th grade understanding always trumps the nuanced answers, often in a rather hilariously aggressive way. I see that a lot here as well. Non experts also generally fail to understand the dynamism of their topics. I deal enough with this in the real life, what is the purpose of further subjecting myself to this in an environment where I have nothing to gain?
I dealt with a similar thing on Wikipedia. a couple of the articles are within my domain of expertise. on one or two occasions I attempted to invest a little bit of time in making the articles better through additional text, citations, corrections, etc. Everything was immediately reverted by others. I could go to the mat on something, and argue in the talk pages on why my content is valid, but why bother? I have actual stuff to do.
(caveat - we already do https and IPv6 so it's not a problem, but might be for others like John Hopkins)
I don't know who John Hopkins is. Does he work at Johns Hopkins?
yes, the os is free, but you can only download it by buying a computer or having owned a computer. then there's lock in because anything you do in el capitan also needs to be done on a computer
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