You neatly illustrated why we do, in fact, have freedom of speech with a joke. Then, for no reason, you insert a completely unsupported "the sky is falling!" opinion that we will not have freedom of speech in the future.
Honestly, the internet is littered with the ramblings of irrelevant paranoid people predicting this or that catastrophe for the past 20 years. No one cares, because you're always wrong.
Or it could show that the women who finish college don't want to bother with an industry that is being saturated with H1B's.
So you're saying men are dumber than women when picking an industry?
Or it shows that women are as interested in coding as men are in being hairdressers.
It could be that men don't become hairdressers because there's inequality of opportunity in hairdressing; that is, it's dominated by women, so there's more women entering the field, as men are discouraged from entering it simply because they're men. But you know what? The inequality in that field is not something we care about addressing, because hairdressing isn't as important to a modern economy as STEM fields are.
even after your find that you have that talent, you must be willing to consign yourself to a job that pays far less than it is worth
You are being paid exactly what someone believes it's worth to pay you to stick around.
Look, coding isn't anything like cooking, for example, where it's up to the individual to find their passion for it. It takes a certain level of raw talent that even most people in the industry severely lack.
To be a professional cook, it absolutely takes a level of raw talent, along with dedication to it. I also have a feeling you're not much of a cook.
Let's face the facts, efforts like these stem from hundreds of rooms full of lonely nerds looking around and saying "Why can't we have any hot girls in our office like the sales people do?".
You are saying that. The people in high enough positions at Google to be directing these efforts have no problems finding a significant other, partly because they make more money than you, but mostly because they're not sitting around whining about their inability to function in society.
Miguel Tejada was, and is, a lying, cheating, excuse-making sack of crap. You forgot to mention the string of evidence, starting in 2005, that preceded his eventual suspension, including the one year of probation that he accepted as part of his guilty plea for lying to Congress. And to be clear, it's only Tejada that claims his testing positive for amphetamines because of Adderall; when you look at his history, it's very convenient that he developed ADHD in order to be able to fail drug tests for amphetamines - he could've been taking anything.
Don't forget that he also was exposed for lying about his age (a somewhat common practice among Dominican players in MLB in the 1990s-2000s - if you're two years younger, you can get a longer contract) in 2008, and admitted later that he'd been lying about it for his entire career. You're painting a very different picture from the reality.
No, I'm saying that if an Islamaphobic site publishes some bullshit story about a "refugees throwing away food", and people are sharing that story on Facebook, they are probably douchebags.
And yes, I realize you're just trolling at this point. But maybe not; maybe you're just an idiot and legitimately don't see how those people are douchebags. Your call.
He implied that they're not so much posting about people fleeing a war, but about refugees "refusing food because it isn't good enough for them", a framing meant to say "look at these ungrateful bugs!" when read between the lines. Nice try though.
Our intelligence services are getting quite lazy. No actual humint work, even on line. They just want to scrape the Internet with giant automated filters and act on every instance of "bomb" or "jihad" that they trip over.
Your lack of understanding of what US intel is currently doing is hilarious.
You're not looking hard enough for a new credit card company. My credit union offers a doubling of my max limit every 6 months, if I want it, and I've taken advantage of it until I'm at a max that I feel is more than enough. (it's a ridiculous number now) I too pay off every month, and my score is just barely over 700.
The system is fine. If your bank isn't offering you the service you want, go to one that does. Credit unions are a good place to start.
This is just nonsense because you don't want to admit that your fabricated assertions are dead wrong. "many of them are near Russia or Russian interests" ?? Please list those that were opened after 1989, and show everyone what your definition of "many" is.
Oh, and P.S. - the US closed some bases?? Gimmie a break. I'm really not going to bother researching and listing the hundreds of installations across Europe and Japan that were closed at the end of the Cold War - you can do it yourself. I thought the quick example of 214 closed installations just in Germany would give you a clue - but I guess I was wrong.
We absolutely were making similar reductions. There's a Wikipedia pagethat lists 214 former US installations in Germany alone - the vast majority of which were closed since 1991. We completely closed our base in Iceland, which at one point had thousands of Air Force and Navy personnel stationed there. And that's just scratching the surface with 5 seconds of googling. Surely you can do better than making a point based on a completely false premise.
You only addressed one part of the mountain of evidence that illustrates why the Sweden charges are completely trumped up and designed to get Assange to the US. What about the rest of his very valid points?
Yeah, but FanDuel isn't doing research on DraftKings, or vice versa. Employees at both places have access to data (that is basically the same) that isn't available to customers outside those places. Hence, insiders.
I think it's closer to insider trading than that. After all, the two sites provide almost exactly the same service, and aggregate data from a huge number of users can probably be assumed to be almost identical from one site to the next. It'd be more like if you worked at HTC, and you found out news that the US gov't was going to adopt Android as the official platform for all phones issued in every single gov't agency, and so you go out and buy a bunch of Samsung stock.
Uber drivers, at least where I live, are required, by Uber, to be insured. Also, taxes are paid on the money exchanged. So your whole analogy is rubbish.
The handful of police officers that have been shot and killed in the last year just for being police officers is a tiny drop in the ocean of unjustified police killings that this country has seen.
And in case you're missing another obvious difference - in the vast majority of murders of officers, the perp is caught and sent to prison for life, at a minimum, as he should be. Most of the cops that kill unarmed people are still on the job, which is outrageous. So fuck you and your blind "defend the cops at all costs" mentality.
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You neatly illustrated why we do, in fact, have freedom of speech with a joke. Then, for no reason, you insert a completely unsupported "the sky is falling!" opinion that we will not have freedom of speech in the future.
Honestly, the internet is littered with the ramblings of irrelevant paranoid people predicting this or that catastrophe for the past 20 years. No one cares, because you're always wrong.
If this had been an auto-driving car, in all likelihood the accident would never have happened.
Or it could show that the women who finish college don't want to bother with an industry that is being saturated with H1B's.
So you're saying men are dumber than women when picking an industry?
Or it shows that women are as interested in coding as men are in being hairdressers.
It could be that men don't become hairdressers because there's inequality of opportunity in hairdressing; that is, it's dominated by women, so there's more women entering the field, as men are discouraged from entering it simply because they're men. But you know what? The inequality in that field is not something we care about addressing, because hairdressing isn't as important to a modern economy as STEM fields are.
even after your find that you have that talent, you must be willing to consign yourself to a job that pays far less than it is worth
You are being paid exactly what someone believes it's worth to pay you to stick around.
Look, coding isn't anything like cooking, for example, where it's up to the individual to find their passion for it. It takes a certain level of raw talent that even most people in the industry severely lack.
To be a professional cook, it absolutely takes a level of raw talent, along with dedication to it. I also have a feeling you're not much of a cook.
Let's face the facts, efforts like these stem from hundreds of rooms full of lonely nerds looking around and saying "Why can't we have any hot girls in our office like the sales people do?".
You are saying that. The people in high enough positions at Google to be directing these efforts have no problems finding a significant other, partly because they make more money than you, but mostly because they're not sitting around whining about their inability to function in society.
Slashdot needs a -1 "Whoosh" mod option.
Miguel Tejada was, and is, a lying, cheating, excuse-making sack of crap. You forgot to mention the string of evidence, starting in 2005, that preceded his eventual suspension, including the one year of probation that he accepted as part of his guilty plea for lying to Congress. And to be clear, it's only Tejada that claims his testing positive for amphetamines because of Adderall; when you look at his history, it's very convenient that he developed ADHD in order to be able to fail drug tests for amphetamines - he could've been taking anything.
Don't forget that he also was exposed for lying about his age (a somewhat common practice among Dominican players in MLB in the 1990s-2000s - if you're two years younger, you can get a longer contract) in 2008, and admitted later that he'd been lying about it for his entire career. You're painting a very different picture from the reality.
So you went from "we're not doing any actual human intel" to "we're not doing it well."
I think we're done here.
No, I'm saying that if an Islamaphobic site publishes some bullshit story about a "refugees throwing away food", and people are sharing that story on Facebook, they are probably douchebags.
And yes, I realize you're just trolling at this point. But maybe not; maybe you're just an idiot and legitimately don't see how those people are douchebags. Your call.
So you're saying that because we didn't see Paris coming, that means we're not doing human intel anymore?
Try again.
He implied that they're not so much posting about people fleeing a war, but about refugees "refusing food because it isn't good enough for them", a framing meant to say "look at these ungrateful bugs!" when read between the lines. Nice try though.
My Facebook is getting blown-up with stories about Syrian Refugees refusing food because it isn't good enough for them
Perhaps you need less douchebag-y Facebook friends.
Nice off-topic slam of vegetarians for no reason.
No, it was covered in film.
Our intelligence services are getting quite lazy. No actual humint work, even on line. They just want to scrape the Internet with giant automated filters and act on every instance of "bomb" or "jihad" that they trip over.
Your lack of understanding of what US intel is currently doing is hilarious.
Arizona, Montana and Nevada banned FanDuel and DraftKings long before NY did. How you got modded insightful is beyond me.
"meant" to carry.
I know no one RTFA, but at least RTFS
You're not looking hard enough for a new credit card company. My credit union offers a doubling of my max limit every 6 months, if I want it, and I've taken advantage of it until I'm at a max that I feel is more than enough. (it's a ridiculous number now) I too pay off every month, and my score is just barely over 700.
The system is fine. If your bank isn't offering you the service you want, go to one that does. Credit unions are a good place to start.
This is just nonsense because you don't want to admit that your fabricated assertions are dead wrong. "many of them are near Russia or Russian interests" ?? Please list those that were opened after 1989, and show everyone what your definition of "many" is.
Oh, and P.S. - the US closed some bases?? Gimmie a break. I'm really not going to bother researching and listing the hundreds of installations across Europe and Japan that were closed at the end of the Cold War - you can do it yourself. I thought the quick example of 214 closed installations just in Germany would give you a clue - but I guess I was wrong.
We absolutely were making similar reductions. There's a Wikipedia pagethat lists 214 former US installations in Germany alone - the vast majority of which were closed since 1991. We completely closed our base in Iceland, which at one point had thousands of Air Force and Navy personnel stationed there. And that's just scratching the surface with 5 seconds of googling. Surely you can do better than making a point based on a completely false premise.
You only addressed one part of the mountain of evidence that illustrates why the Sweden charges are completely trumped up and designed to get Assange to the US. What about the rest of his very valid points?
Yeah, but FanDuel isn't doing research on DraftKings, or vice versa. Employees at both places have access to data (that is basically the same) that isn't available to customers outside those places. Hence, insiders.
I think it's closer to insider trading than that. After all, the two sites provide almost exactly the same service, and aggregate data from a huge number of users can probably be assumed to be almost identical from one site to the next. It'd be more like if you worked at HTC, and you found out news that the US gov't was going to adopt Android as the official platform for all phones issued in every single gov't agency, and so you go out and buy a bunch of Samsung stock.
Uber drivers, at least where I live, are required, by Uber, to be insured. Also, taxes are paid on the money exchanged. So your whole analogy is rubbish.
off-topic, but since it's in your sig, I wanted to help out:
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) edited by Geoff Tibballs, p. 299
The handful of police officers that have been shot and killed in the last year just for being police officers is a tiny drop in the ocean of unjustified police killings that this country has seen.
And in case you're missing another obvious difference - in the vast majority of murders of officers, the perp is caught and sent to prison for life, at a minimum, as he should be. Most of the cops that kill unarmed people are still on the job, which is outrageous. So fuck you and your blind "defend the cops at all costs" mentality.
They have? When? For real, I don't recall reading about that. Got a link? I'd read it.