Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 365
Lower prices???? In what world?
I think they're talking about the prices they can charge other utility companies. Consumer prices will continue to rise, because corporate greed will never decline.
Lower prices???? In what world?
I think they're talking about the prices they can charge other utility companies. Consumer prices will continue to rise, because corporate greed will never decline.
I wish i could say that therapy is worth a hoot but so far what I see is cell therapy (the iron bar type) works better than a two thousand dollar a day rehab.
All qualitative arguments aside, and sticking to purely quantitative evidence: imprisoning drug users has resulted in no reduction in drug users over the last 30+ years. Drug use has risen, unabated by the threat of prison, from the very beginning of our misguided war on drugs.
Punishing addiction is bad policy. There are far deeper psychological issues surrounding drug addiction that cannot be addressed by the penal code.
No, it isn't legal. Look up Impeding Traffic. You aren't allowed to impede the normal flow of traffic, even if that traffic is violating the law.
Impeding Traffic varies from state to state. In Missouri, for example, drivers in the left lane must move faster than drivers in the right line (assuming both lanes are for the same direction); but only up to and including the speed limit. If the driver in the left lane is at the speed limit, and the driver in the right lane is exceeding the speed limit, the right-lane driver is violating the law while the left-lane driver is obeying the law.
This is valuable stuff, now that it has a market use. And to think that I wrote it off as waste and was just pissing it away.
If successful (and mass-producible), this could be like the polio vaccine.
It won't be like the Polio vaccine unless:
1) It is introduced after Malaria is already all but eradicated due to better hygiene and sanitation.
2) It takes credit for the former.
Dissolving the corporation and forming a new corporation with the same assets(in this case, patents) is a classic example of where that can happen and what that very concept was created for.
Which is VERY easy to skirt:
1) Form a new corporation, issue stock (tada, new ownership free of liability).
2) Declare bankruptcy on the old corporation (triple point score if it's incorporated in Delaware).
3) Liquidate the assets of the old corporation to the new corporation for a pittance.
4) Shutter the old corporation.
5a) Next victim, please.
5b) Thumb your nose at the judge, who is now powerless.
I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player.
You have clearly never actually worked with a woman.
...that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.
I knew porn was conducive to programming!
The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.
I started with GNOME way back when, but then switched to KDE at version 1.44.
I have a love/hate relationship with KIO. My biggest complaint is that KIO isn't a virtual file system, but rather is just a file copy mechanism. It works great for many uses, but completely falls flat when trying to perform an open/read/close sequence. It copies the entire file to a temporary location, then opens that temporary copy. This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.
Even Windows' UNC handles remote files better in this regard, which is saying something since most of Windows networking is a painful joke.
You have a better chance of a wish for a flock of pink Unicorns to be granted than you have of a White House petition having any desireable effect. White House petitions exist solely as a feel good measure; nothing else.
If you want a better alternative, stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. While not a silver bullet (how apt a metaphor), it has a much better chance of evoking change. Vote for someone who usually wouldn't stand a chance against the RepubliCraps, and stop wasting your vote. Neither major party is the lesser of two evils.
Since nobody can tell what skills will be needed in the next decade, learning a particular coding language, the "learning to code" is almost certainly teaching the wrong language to children.
Teaching several languages is just a vehicle driving all of the things you mentioned; they are all the natural results of learning multiple programming languages. Each language contributes to a person's understanding of abstract terms. Teaching multiple languages will even mitigate against the stupidity of "teaching the keystrokes" that currently infests most "introduction to computers" classes.
You're in trouble for bragging about it.
âoeEssentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,â
And now you're going to prison because you just confessed to it all on public forums.
Again.
Your trial is going to be very short, and your sentence is going to be very long.
It's said that there is no accounting for stupidity, but this is natural selection at work.
Also keep in mind that Ballmer flew to Germany to personally offer HUGE discounts if Munich stayed with Windows. Microsoft was only cheaper because Microsoft was willing to do just about anything to prevent a high profile switch to Linux.
And the Microsoft experience is so bad that even that wasn't enough to sway Munich. And I wholeheartedly agree.
If this ruling doesn't get struck on appeal, IBM's lawyers should be drooling oceans as they warm up to sue Oracle for copyright infringement on SQL. Oracle owes IBM many billions of dollars in infringement, by Oracle's own logic.
This is yet another judge that is completely incompetent for the job.
You speak as someone who never had to guide an older family member/relative in how to use smart devices.
I have guided my fair share of older people through technology, but I wasn't thinking of them when I called people stupid. You're right that it makes a difference, so I shouldn't be so judgemental. I was thinking of the tech types who still think that it's safe putting important data on some stranger's Internet-connected server, unable to see the inevitable consequences of doing so.
A majority of the older generation, especially those in their 60s or 70s....
Thank you for the perspective check, though. I'll keep older people in mind when I'm raging against stupendously bad choices.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.