Comment Re:Do they ever follow up? (Score 1) 283
Those people disagree with you. If you prefer calling them names to engaging them in dialogue, you might not be as different from them as you think.
Those people disagree with you. If you prefer calling them names to engaging them in dialogue, you might not be as different from them as you think.
It possible to believe that tolerating some abuse is an acceptable price to pay to ensure that charity reaches the need without creating a culture that celebrates fraud.
We really need to extend the program to homo sapiens
Maybe they already did.
can't stand to see someone get something for free on principle?
For many people that is, on principle, a bad thing, unless there's a demonstrable benefit.
The benefit may seem self-evident to some people, but others may need it identified and measured.
Seriously, it's like it's the 90s and the web site is maintained by one of those people who think they are gifted at designing user interfaces and are wrong about that and many other of their 'talents'.
Competent web site designers at least make these things user preferences.
The right groups -- fundamentalist Christians, separatists, money launderers, etc. - will be somewhat less targeted.
I'm sure the technology exists or could be added to the phone system to basically say "if your caller ID is faked, we're not even accepting this".
If the phone company offered this, not only would I pay them for it, I'd, well, they'd still be an evil monopoly, but I'd at least start speaking politely about and to them.
Mulclair also stands for selling out *workers* rights - of all things - just to suck up to the separatists.
even vaguely insulting.
There is nothing at all vague about it. I even doubt that it's unintentional.
Why should not being a retarded child be an "advanced use"?
The condescension says a great deal about Google views its users.
In other words, not as default.
I've been saying this for twenty years.
Java tried to be this, and unfortunately came close enough to remove the incentive to improve but not quite good enough to really accomplish the goal.
Everything on the web is ultimately a crude hack on top of HTML, which is why there are new development and deployment frameworks constantly being created, because no-one has come up with something good.
First issue, x/0 mathematically is infinity, not zero.
Which infinity? There are many.
Not-a-number is at least a suitable return value, though not necessarily the best response.
Zero is simply incorrect.
weren't these exact activities what caused the USSR to bankrupt themselves
Lots of activities contributed to that.
Including the irony of having 18 million people employed in planning the economy and being extremely bad at it.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
