I met Prince (Regent?) Michael years ago, during the dotcom boom, when HavenCo was still on Sealand. He was in San Francisco to meet with techie folks, and we all had sushi together. He struck me as a good, knowledgeable, fair fellow.
I wish him the best and offer my counsel (for what it's worth) in the service of Sealand.
I'll save you the time: "American beer sucks, har har har".
Really? You *all* think you're clever for saying that?
Anyway -- it's not even true. That is, it's a meaningless statement. America has an enormous range of native beers, of every style, strength, and flavor. It's true that our tastes run toward weaker beers, but it's just stupid to say popular = "American".
There are certain technical requirements for taking part in society and punishments can be severe.
For example: I suspect that a parent in the U.S. could be considered "unfit" for not having any kind of phone. Well, maybe that on its own wouldn't be damning, but it would be taken into consideration in a custody battle.
This is the weakest story concept I've ever seen on Slashdot.
I see press release pitches like this constantly: The Olympics are exciting! And you know what else is exciting? Canon dot-matrix printers! Our newest model...."
I'm typing this on a Dvorak keyboard and actually speak Esperanto -- I even worked in the world organization's central office. Both of those skills have benefitted me.
But I have no illusions about their cost/benefit ratio for the public at large. And this? It's just fucking stupid.
When my bag was stolen (from the Best Buy parking lot in San Francisco), the thing I feared most was losing control of the data on my hard drive. I prayed that it didn't end up in the hands of someone who knew what could be done with it.
(Point being: This is one area your comment didn't touch on.)
Three months of immersion is typically enough to be able to have simple conversations, for example to exchange pleasantries and buy things in the store.
But you'd be lost trying to pick up a conversation in the middle (lacking context), or having a complicated conversation, or understanding jokes, or picking up subtleties required in a business setting. You also wouldn't have much specialized vocabulary.
I don't believe anyone in the history of human existence has acquired "fluency" in any natural language within three months.
(FWIW, I know Esperanto (well; worked in Esperanto business setting), Dutch (high transactional, some conversational), French (low transactional), Russian and Yiddish (tortured reading and basic speaking). I'm a professional writer in American English.)
This brought a smile to my face. Two groups that are bad for society -- one a dictatorship, the other an ignorant mob -- expending their energy on each other.
I feel like the neutral dwarf army at the end of The Last Battle, standing by while the armies of Lord Tirian and Shift the Ape beating the crap out of each other. (Not to get too nerdy with my allusions....)
The only downside would be if the battle increased the visibility of either group. I just hope the media ignore them while they scratch and pull hair on their playground.
This barely merits a response, but what the hell. Where to start?
>Journalists are only allowed to print facts that have been independently verified by their editors.
O.K., I can find three errors of fact in this sentence:
1) "Allowed"? By whom? The Federal Bureau of Truth? You posit an authority where there is none.
2) "...to print facts". You've never heard of an opinion column, or advocacy journalism?
3) "...independently verified by their editors". I don't know what newsroom you work in -- I'm guessing it's none, ever. But as a working writer of over a decade, including a few years in what could fairly be called "journalism", with dozens of editors, I've never once heard of an editor checking a writer's *facts*. That's usually impossible, for one thing. What are they going to do, return to the scene of primary reportage by turning back time? Re-interview the reporter's sources? Get an advanced degree that duplicate's the writer's?
The rest of your post exhibits the same Making Shit Up school of knowledge. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Thanks for posting one of the first *useful* comments. I'm going to use it as my soapbox.:)
I'm the story's source, and never meant to suggest suggest number of commits implies code quality or anything of the sort. Dries doesn't feel that way either, as his comment shows. I was just celebrating it, as one celebrates a birthday -- and asking who the "oldest" person is.
Saturday Night Live made a cinema-verite thing of David Spade getting a tattoo. He was nervously chatting with the artist during the process, and one of the things he said was:
DS: "Did you see that talking pig movie?"
Tattoo guy: "Yeah, I did."
DS: "Oh, you saw The Net?"
For some reason I remember that 15 years later....
(Hint for those of you under 18: "Babe" came out at about the same time.)
By odd coincidence I was writing for a magazine called "The Net" (Imagine Publishing) at the time.
Cabbies, yes. Buses, maybe. But I can't see any automated system replacing truck drivers. Driving is only one part of their job: They also load, judge equipment conditions, manage intermodal connections....
All those things might eventually be automated. But GoogleDrive by itself won't do the job.
And a "trashy" magazine dedicated mostly to hairstyles and movie stars was the one who brought the photos of murdered Emmett Till to light, greatly galvanizing the U.S. civil rights movement.
That's exactly what I thought. "Company A announced Company A's findings using Company A's nifty new tool. Try Company A's tool for yourself!"
There may be valuable information here. Without independent third-party review, we don't know.
Wait... there are doubtlessly other Sarah Palins. According to a web site that specializes in such things*, there are three. Couldn't any of those people -- particularly if older -- effectively squash the application?
--Tom
*I'm not giving the link because it has obnoxious pop-unders. You're welcome.
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This is wonderful, and exactly what should be happening. I have to ask why they didn't start doing this 20 years ago, though....
I met Prince (Regent?) Michael years ago, during the dotcom boom, when HavenCo was still on Sealand. He was in San Francisco to meet with techie folks, and we all had sushi together. He struck me as a good, knowledgeable, fair fellow.
I wish him the best and offer my counsel (for what it's worth) in the service of Sealand.
I'll save you the time: "American beer sucks, har har har".
Really? You *all* think you're clever for saying that?
Anyway -- it's not even true. That is, it's a meaningless statement. America has an enormous range of native beers, of every style, strength, and flavor. It's true that our tastes run toward weaker beers, but it's just stupid to say popular = "American".
It's not the fault of WP. As long as they toss him out, they've done the right thing and all's well.
If they act like the Catholic Church and protect the abusers, that's another matter.
This, or something like this, is inevitable.
There are certain technical requirements for taking part in society and punishments can be severe.
For example: I suspect that a parent in the U.S. could be considered "unfit" for not having any kind of phone. Well, maybe that on its own wouldn't be damning, but it would be taken into consideration in a custody battle.
This is the weakest story concept I've ever seen on Slashdot.
I see press release pitches like this constantly: The Olympics are exciting! And you know what else is exciting? Canon dot-matrix printers! Our newest model...."
I'm typing this on a Dvorak keyboard and actually speak Esperanto -- I even worked in the world organization's central office. Both of those skills have benefitted me.
But I have no illusions about their cost/benefit ratio for the public at large. And this? It's just fucking stupid.
When my bag was stolen (from the Best Buy parking lot in San Francisco), the thing I feared most was losing control of the data on my hard drive. I prayed that it didn't end up in the hands of someone who knew what could be done with it.
(Point being: This is one area your comment didn't touch on.)
You don't know what "fluent" means.
Three months of immersion is typically enough to be able to have simple conversations, for example to exchange pleasantries and buy things in the store.
But you'd be lost trying to pick up a conversation in the middle (lacking context), or having a complicated conversation, or understanding jokes, or picking up subtleties required in a business setting. You also wouldn't have much specialized vocabulary.
I don't believe anyone in the history of human existence has acquired "fluency" in any natural language within three months.
(FWIW, I know Esperanto (well; worked in Esperanto business setting), Dutch (high transactional, some conversational), French (low transactional), Russian and Yiddish (tortured reading and basic speaking). I'm a professional writer in American English.)
This brought a smile to my face. Two groups that are bad for society -- one a dictatorship, the other an ignorant mob -- expending their energy on each other.
I feel like the neutral dwarf army at the end of The Last Battle, standing by while the armies of Lord Tirian and Shift the Ape beating the crap out of each other. (Not to get too nerdy with my allusions....)
The only downside would be if the battle increased the visibility of either group. I just hope the media ignore them while they scratch and pull hair on their playground.
This barely merits a response, but what the hell. Where to start?
>Journalists are only allowed to print facts that have been independently verified by their editors.
O.K., I can find three errors of fact in this sentence:
1) "Allowed"? By whom? The Federal Bureau of Truth? You posit an authority where there is none.
2) "...to print facts". You've never heard of an opinion column, or advocacy journalism?
3) "...independently verified by their editors". I don't know what newsroom you work in -- I'm guessing it's none, ever. But as a working writer of over a decade, including a few years in what could fairly be called "journalism", with dozens of editors, I've never once heard of an editor checking a writer's *facts*. That's usually impossible, for one thing. What are they going to do, return to the scene of primary reportage by turning back time? Re-interview the reporter's sources? Get an advanced degree that duplicate's the writer's?
The rest of your post exhibits the same Making Shit Up school of knowledge. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Oh, no worries. I've been on /. long enough to know that everything becomes a dick-measuring fiasco. ;)
Thanks for posting one of the first *useful* comments. I'm going to use it as my soapbox. :)
I'm the story's source, and never meant to suggest suggest number of commits implies code quality or anything of the sort. Dries doesn't feel that way either, as his comment shows. I was just celebrating it, as one celebrates a birthday -- and asking who the "oldest" person is.
This comment made more sense than the original post.
You are probably less relevant than RMS.
Is that possible?
Saturday Night Live made a cinema-verite thing of David Spade getting a tattoo. He was nervously chatting with the artist during the process, and one of the things he said was:
DS: "Did you see that talking pig movie?"
Tattoo guy: "Yeah, I did."
DS: "Oh, you saw The Net?"
For some reason I remember that 15 years later....
(Hint for those of you under 18: "Babe" came out at about the same time.)
By odd coincidence I was writing for a magazine called "The Net" (Imagine Publishing) at the time.
Cabbies, yes. Buses, maybe. But I can't see any automated system replacing truck drivers. Driving is only one part of their job: They also load, judge equipment conditions, manage intermodal connections.... All those things might eventually be automated. But GoogleDrive by itself won't do the job.
American bills are made of a linen/cotton blend -- that's why they don't shred in the wash.
Summary: "I hate Drupal because it undermined my high-priced business". If this was a troll, nice work!
For the record: It was a Russian, Vladimir Nabokov, who turned Lolita into a "bad word". (He admittedly did it in English, though.)
And a "trashy" magazine dedicated mostly to hairstyles and movie stars was the one who brought the photos of murdered Emmett Till to light, greatly galvanizing the U.S. civil rights movement.
Or you could skip a step and just short it.
That's exactly what I thought. "Company A announced Company A's findings using Company A's nifty new tool. Try Company A's tool for yourself!" There may be valuable information here. Without independent third-party review, we don't know.
This is what I love about technologists. "All we need is a 22-mile-high tower...". :)
Wait... there are doubtlessly other Sarah Palins. According to a web site that specializes in such things*, there are three. Couldn't any of those people -- particularly if older -- effectively squash the application? --Tom *I'm not giving the link because it has obnoxious pop-unders. You're welcome.