Slashdot used to be full of smart people, what happened?
People have been drinking too much tap water all their lives. Their brain development may be hampered, but their teeth are shiny white.
http://www.fluoridation.com/c-... From the link:
"Only about 5% of the world population is fluoridated and more than 50% of these people live in North America.
That may sort of explains the political mess in the US then doesn't it. In most of western Europe, fluoride in water is banned; because they *do* actually read the research, such as the link that darkharlequin posted and don't just parrot others blindly.
So, someone from Syria who is demonstrably fleeing death and war, showing up in the UK should be sent back, because they happened to show up in the UK?
In the Netherlands the refugee procedures were often years long; this wasn't due to the refugees prolonging the procedure, it was due to the lawyers handling the application were paid per refugee, per month. So prolonging the procedure, meant more $$ for the lawyer handling the procedure. In some exceptional cases refugees were in limbo for 12 years. Unable to work, unable to develop themselves through education.
At the same time there were lots of dutch people who were actually misinformed and blamed the refugees for the huge expense of the cost of handling refugees, while all that time it was the incompetent bureaucracy and often greedy lawyers who were to blame.
This is bullshit.
I don't like Kim Dotcom, but Megaupload is in principle nothing different than Dropbox or OneDrive and even though he did not have to comply with the US DMCA law, he actually facilitated the US govt and removed things for which a take-down notice was issued.
At some point he was asked by the US government to retain files that were 'pirated' on Megaupload's servers, which was later used against him. Even though there is proof that this was done at the behest of the government.
The reason why Dropbox and OneDrive can exist is the fact that these are US companies. The US, not just the corporations, but its legal enforcer, the US government, will attempt stamp out any competition.
On top of that, sending a anti-terror squad to his house to arrest him, while a letter from the justice department telling him to come to the nearest police office, would have had a similar, but somewhat less dramatic effect.
He was meant to be made an example, with John Key sucking up to Obama and his RIAA/MPAA masters.
As a kiwi I hope he doesn't make progress with his damages suit, but if it does, they should present the bill to hair pulling, too sleazy to be a second card dealer, John Key.
How many heads do you think you're going to explode before people decide to go inside at a fairly brisk pace?
Depends on how many heads in the crowd line up neatly to the line of fire of he laser probably.
Undaunted, Eller set out to let others in on the flaw he had discovered and how he had fixed it. He pulled in any random developer he could find. He even pulled in Chairman Gates, whose office was just down the hall. "Bill, check this out," Eller said, pointing to his computer screen. "I mean . . . who was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of shit?" Gates stared at the screen. "See, now that's what I call a design flaw," Eller said. "Now check out my new version. Pretty cool, eh?" Gates nodded, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Does it work with really complicated things?" Gates asked. "Sure," Eller told him. He proceeded to draw a complicated object and flood-fill it. "See? It works perfectly." "Can you prove that this works all the time?" "Uhh, well umm, kind of," Eller said. "I mean, I know it always works, but I'm a mathematician. The word 'prove' conjures up really ugly ideas." Gates told Eller his program was nice, then turned and walked back to his office. After Gates left, Whitten walked into Eller's office. He had heard the entire conversation. "Do you know who wrote the original flood-fill algorithm?" he said, shaking his head. "Ahhh, nope," Eller replied. "I don't believe I do." Whitten paused, rubbed his finger on his left temple, and shook his head again. "Bill wrote it," he said. "Bill was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of shit."
We're talking 60-90k a year and you can retire in 20 years
This is utter bullcrap. First builders don't make this sort of money. Second even without paying for any living expenses at all during these 20 years, earning the highest rate you've given, someone would have earned 1.8mill. Maybe enough to retire on on fairyland where people get huge interest rates on their savings and pay no living expenses, but not in the real world where people pay rent, get sick and raise children.
/ ironically, many "American" words that British people hate on, originated in Britain, they just fell out of common usage in Britain for a while.
Really? Which words would that be? Defense? Which comes from the english 'defence', which has the base word 'fence' in it, a word which in itself is still written the same way in US english strangely. Maybe 'organize' (or any other verb that uses a 'z' instead of an 's', even though when pronouncing it, one can actually hear an 's' sound, instead of a 'z' sound. Or maybe 'color', where again, one can actually hear the 'ou', instead of the short 'o', when the word 'colour' is pronounced.
It seems that a lot of americanisms are just lazy use of english and poor spelling really, which have somehow become the default way to write things in the US.
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