Comment Re:Name (Score 1) 57
As soon as Craig Wong's lawyer says this won't create a defamatory confusion with his client.
Let the countries they're registered in bail them out.
I live in a city that is overwhelmed by cruise ship passengers every summer, and I'd be happy to see the cruise ship companies die. They do everything in their power to avoid paying any local taxes and fees, have bought out or driven out of business most local businesses that cater to their passengers, hire as few locals as possible during the tourist season, and a list of sins longer than I can remember.
And really, the list of reasons why not to bail them out should only need one item: They're not American companies. Let them as Liberia or whatever country they're registered in bail them out.
Good question. I checked out for ten years and this place has really gone down the toilet.
What, by being black?
It looks like it was designed by a 12-year-old.
It looks like something from a low-budget sci-fi movie where they skinned some cars with silver-painted plywood and throw in zippy sound effects whenever it moves.
We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese.
alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die
And shit like this is why so many old-timers left this place. Slashdot used to be a site dedicated to tech news. Now it's become a rancid shithole full of angry nerds.
Grow the fuck up.
Surely nobody can feel an actual connection with something that could never truly reciprocate.
Not familiar with religion, are you?
intel hooked the mac pro so they can make bank with the mark up on that.
At $6,000 for the low end model, how many do you think Apple is going to sell? The Mac Pro (even before the 2013 model disaster) has always been a niche product. Even more so now that they have given the finger to the pro-sumer market.
Chrome is fast? During the weekend without Firefox extensions fiasco a few weeks ago I moved to Chrome so I could keep my sanity in a world overrun by intrusive advertisements. Holy crap, was Chrome slow! As soon as Mozilla fixed the issue I went back to Firefox.
Good old Pascal's Wager, an act of craven cowardice and an insult to God Almighty. Pascal's Wager is predicated on God being so stupid that He can't tell you're going through the motions out of fear and that you don't actually have faith. I'm sorry, but if God does exist, I'm not going to stand in front of him as a liar and insult Him to His face. And as for "what will you say to God?", there is nothing I can say, no case to plead, nothing to explain because God knows all. He (if He exists) knows why I didn't believe in Him. I will either burn or not, but I will do it with a clean conscience.
In what you might call spiritual terms, yes. Morality is largely a human construct.
If morality is a human construct, then it is arbitrary.
Yes. But so are morals handed down from a god.
As a social species we need rules of conduct, but the nature of those rules has varied wildly in time and space.
Surely there are some rules you like and some you don't. If morality is arbitrary, on what do you base your objections to the rules you don't like?
There are lots of rules I don't like. As for my objections, well, my objection to slavery, which is moral as long as I don't beat my slaves to death, should be fairly obvious.
My current phone works fine. I see no reason to waste money on a new phone when my current one does everything I need. Or at least what I've figured out what to do with it.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
