Bullcrap.
Torture can net you verifiable truths. Period. There is a degree of torture where freedom for information is a good bargain, and a degree of torture where death for information is a good bargain.
That should frame the philosophical debate on torture, but you have to be man enough to admit it does work first.
You do realize that's how Stalin got people to confess for the show trials of the thirties, right?
Doubtful. Thieves are interested in obtaining things, not hanging around to damage your car. They would likely be more interested in looking for a different laptop to steal.
An angry thief will damage your car. It doesn't take very long to break another window, slash a tire or put a long scratch down the side.
A beer with more than an ounce or two of black patent per gallon is going to taste astringent and burnt, somewhat like sucking on a bag of tea leaves. It certainly will not be flavorless. Also, there's no such thing as "light on malt." Beer can't be made without it, it's chemically impossible.
Of course you can make a beer that's "light on malt." A pound of malt has enough enzymes for at least an equal weight of non-malted grains. For that matter, you could convert non-malted grains with a source of enzymes. For instance, chicha is traditionally made with non-malted corn, with the starch converted to sugar by the enzymes in saliva. No reason you couldn't do that with unmalted barley or wheat.
Getting back to the original poster, though, there are definitely dark lagers available (e.g., dunkels, schwarzbiers and Baltic porters).
I was raised in a Protestant household. I now lead a Protestant household (Baptist). I've been to several churches, camps, meetings, and various gatherings. I have never, ever met a preacher or other leader that believed the EarthSunMoonStars were 6000 years old. Now, I'm sure that these people exist and use religion as their reasoning, but there are nutjobs in every group. Saying that because of the occasional nutjob believes it, all or most must believe the same thing is no different that saying because the occasional Muslim wants to kill all humans then all Muslims want to kill all humans.
HERE. Would it be fair for me to say that many NASA scientists are spies? Of course not. Then why is it fair for you to stereotype any other group based on a few nutjobs who mental illness is in no way related to whatever group you are using them to belittle?
Unfortunately it looks like you need to have a talk with some of your co-religionists.
I don't think he's overgeneralizing. I moved to Toronto from Madison a few years ago, and I think the cyclists are a little better behaved in Madison. Most cyclists have lights in Madison, too. As a pedestrian and a driver, I see cyclists misbehave all the time. They go the wrong way down one way streets, they drive without lights or even reflectors at night, they blow through stop lights and stop signs, they pass cars making right turns on the right, they change willy-nilly from the road to the sidewalk or from the road into a crosswalk, and so on. A biker going the wrong way down a one way street had a serious collision with a pedestrian a couple of weeks ago not too far from where I live.
Drivers are worse than they were in Madison, though. Drivers here are very bad about rolling through stop signs or through stop lights to make a right turn on red, or just plain running them. When the light turns green and they're making a right turn, they'll gun it through the inersection even when people are starting to cross. I've nearly been hit twice by idiots making a u-turn while I was on the sidewalk. I live by the police station and I see people texting all the time within sight of it (which is illegal here, I should add). This year has been better, but last year we had a large number of pedestrian fatalities. The police have been talking about cracking down on cyclists, but they need to crack down on drivers as well.
I am quite sure that not all of it is what we call "physical" servers.
Google has a different model. Quila mentioned what their hardware is like; here is a slightly outdated Wikipedia article describing it. Google would prefer to avoid the overhead associated with running virtual machines. 10-20% overhead may not be a lot for an organization with smaller computing needs, but with Google that would mean adding another 90,000-180,000 servers. Their computing needs are way beyond what any individual server can do anyway.
What they've been doing instead is writing their apps for clusters. When they need more performance, they just add nodes. When a node fails, it's only a minor nuisance as the load is carried by thousands of other nodes.
BAD project management gets in the way... a project manager is suppose to get obstacles out of the way of the talent and provide resources where needed... not crack the whip because they are idiots.
Another thing that kills project is bad management. A good project manager can't be effective if bad management gets in the way.
Pharmaceutical companies don't make a lot of money.
I'm not sure why people think that. I suspect they confuse revenues with profit.
That's actually not true. The pharmaceutical industry makes a lot of profit. For instance, a little googling shows that according to Fortune they were the third most profitable industry in both 2008
and 2009. If you keep going back you'll find that they've been quite profitable for a long time.
Oh, so you shift the burden of payment to countries that don't do this. I love paying for Canadian health care here in the US!
The obvious answer to this would be to have the US government bargain with pharmaceutical companies. Problem solved!
What are the units they are measuring by... SU? I can't find this unit anywhere online. Until I get an answer, I will just assume it stands for 'Successful Ulcers'
Indeed. There are people dying from malnutrition, war and persecution by their own government. And these selfish little shits are complaining about having to wait a day or three to play a computer game. FFS!
By that logic, what the hell are you doing posting anything on Slashdot? FFS!
You realize Holmes is a fictional character, right?
Which is true, but his use of recreational drugs wasn't out of line with the times.
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