I was considering applying to be faculty at ITT. I figured at this point in my career if I can no longer be part of the solution I might as well be part of the problem, right? I'll have to find a different for-profit college to go after instead.
Look to Sears. The CEO there is Eddie Lampert, who used various financial manoeuvres to first take over KMart and then Sears. He has zero retail experience. He is known for only attending board meetings via videoconferencing (where he yells at board members). He has passed down illogical orders to the stores that have turned the skeleton crews into Lord of the Flies.
So why haven't they fired him? They can't. His moves placed him as majority share holder as well as CEO. The board has no way to fire him. He is in a can't-lose situation now as with very few exceptions Sears owns the land their stores sit on (even in malls) so once he drives the ship under he has millions of dollars of real estate that he can sell.
We have never had a republican president to date who would not have enthusiastically signed it into law.
How soon we forget Richard Nixon!
[referring to the ACA]
You're joking, right? The seriousness of an AC is always difficult to gauge, but I would have to presume you're joking on that comment. Considering how much of a capitalist idiot Nixon was, he would have jizzed from one end of the white house to the other at the opportunity to legally bind all US citizens to the for-profit insurance industry.
You can't impeach people for things they did before they were elected. I forgot which president this happened to, but the POTUS has already ruled on the exact case of impeaching someone for something they did before they were elected (you can't)
Why would the GOP be concerned about legal restraints when they are going after one of their favorite boogeymen? Look at the hundreds of millions of dollars they wasted on Benghazi investigations, or the millions they wasted investigating Bill Clinton's affair with an intern. They have made a name for wasting time and money going after people from the "wrong" party for matters that are either resolved or irrelevant. Of course impeachment will be the first article on the house agenda in 2017. In fact if it only comes up once in 2017 I would be astonished; look at how many times they have attempted to repeal the ACA.
People who like the government to not get any meaningful work done are terrified of a Clinton presidency.
Why? We didn't see anything useful done under the Obama Administration. If anything, the laws Obama has signed into law make him the most conservative president to date. The law most frequently associated with him was the largest handout to corporate America in the history of government, bar none. We have never had a republican president to date who would not have enthusiastically signed it into law.
with Souter dead
I presume you meant Scalia? I'm pretty sure David Souter would be surprised to learn that he's no longer alive.
and Thomas expected to retire after the election
Interesting speculation, there. Thomas is a conservative justice. Why would he retire right after the inauguration of President Clinton?
What you really should be afraid of, though - and based on your comment you have quite a bit of fear in you directed towards non-GOP politics - are these five words: Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama
There is a very good chance this could happen soon. Then you literally can't get him out of Washington DC until he's ready to retire (or dies).
The result would be, within eight years, either such a conversion, or (when she gets to the "disarm the potential opposition with gun bans" stage), a second civil war (depending on how serious gun owners are about the "from my cold dead hands" rhetoric.)
Unless the goal is to actually kill people, why would a civil war be necessary? Why not just secede? Any reasonable person can see our country is fracturing regardless (though some dispute how many countries it should be split into). Why not just carve out new countries and be done with it?
This report won't mean anything to whatever number of republicans remain in congress after Clinton is sworn in as POTUS on January 20. January 21 will begin with GOP members attempting to initiate impeachment hearings over the email server. It will be the endless series of Benghazi hearings and investigations all over again.
People who like the government to not get any meaningful work done should be able to rest easy. Those who would like to see something happen will be inevitably disappointed.
particularly if you are in a situation where you need to X-forward a browser session over the internet; Chrome and Firefox might be particularly painful while Konqueror could be usable.
Neither Chrome nor Firefox's bloat is drawing on the desktop
You're probably correct on that, in that those browsers are just simply bloated, period.
and in any case the performance of the window draw will pale in comparison to sending a bitmap of the website you're currently visiting over the internet.
From my experience that is not the case. I have had times where I have used XForward to send browser sessions across the internet before and there have been profound differences in the initial loading of the same site between firefox and konqueror. From my experience konqueror was faster to the point where I could start the browser, load the page, get what I needed from it, and close the session in less time than it took just to get firefox to open and accept an address in the address bar. This was with no flash or other fancy plug-ins loaded on either browser, connecting to the same PC on the same cable modem either way.
I don't know that maintaining a web browser in the face of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and the rest makes any sense?
I can tell you from experience that Konqueror is a browser with a vastly smaller footprint than Chrome or Firefox. There are times when this can make a really big difference, particularly if you are in a situation where you need to X-forward a browser session over the internet; Chrome and Firefox might be particularly painful while Konqueror could be usable.
Opera I haven't used in a long time, and the last time I tried to use it I found it quite broken in *nix. Maybe it's better now? As for Edge, I'm not aware of a system upon which you could have both KDE and Edge. If you know of such a beast, feel free to enlighten me.
Also, a standalone mail client? I haven't used one of those in nearly 5 years now. So, do I care that it hasn't updated? Do its users want it to become more like Outlook? I think probably not.
There is still demand for a standalone mail client, though I can't say I've used KMail much. I use Thunderbird religiously. I most certainly do not want it to look any more like Outlook, in fact I value how much it looks like the old Netscape Communicator.
My gripe with KDE the last time I tried to use it was lack of font scaling support for 4K screens.
Holy first world problems, batman. If I ever find myself with that much disposable income...
I'm not sure how active desktop development needs to be for a single *nix desktop environment. I am a big KDE user myself, and I'm happy with where it is. Sure, some of the applications from the KDE team have been neglected quite a but but they're not fully broken either. KDE runs GNOME stuff quite well when there are GNOME applications that I just can't get by without.
That and of course I still do a huge part of my most important work from the command line. That won't change any time soon, so as far as that is concerned it matters not at all whether or not any additional new features are ever incorporated into the environment.
I haven't applied to Amazon though I have applied to a lot of other major employers in my area. What is the most common response? Nothing at all. Not even a form rejection letter, just nothing - drawn out over a long time.
It seems the majority of employers in our country are reliant on various shitty HR algorithms to evaluate resumes en masse, and most often the employers don't know shit about how those algorithms work. The employers then congratulate themselves about how many resumes they were able to avoid reading, and then they get stuck with a thoroughly illogical collection of resumes written by people who happened to match the correct combination of keywords (which were often not included in the job posting).
If they would actually have human beings read the resumes, they would find hiring gets a lot easier.
The summary of this article is mangled by the fact that slashdot still doesn't handle unicode correctly. Didn't the new owners promise that they were going to fix this? Yeah, we know the old guard left a mess behind but there are already examples of other sites starting with slashcode and fixing that bug...
That's exactly what I was going to say about this one. The authors set themselves up for it by calling it Pokemon. There is a limit to how far one can expect to go with a fan creation, and these guys went past it. I know Nintendo gets a lot of flack for going after silly cases but this one is a pretty clear case of infringement.
By the time you replied, the massive typo in the headline ("boarder" instead of "border") had finally been corrected (after several hours on the front page no less). The typo is why I brought up the xkcd strip on the third amendment; when it is corrected it becomes a less exciting matter of the fifth amendment instead. I would certainly expect the fifth exists in some form in Canada but whether the third does as well I'm not sure.
... could decide the race. The race is largely boiling down to which party can get more of their followers to vote for their candidate based on endorsement alone (look at how many republicans don't like Trump but will vote for him because he is the republican candidate and how many democrats don't like Hillary but will vote for her because she is the democratic candidate), and then pick up enough of the independent vote.
Donald Trump could be beaten severely by any random democrat except Hillary Clinton (who brings out massive amounts of GOP hatred based on her name). Hillary Clinton could be beaten severely by any random republican except Donald Trump (who sabotages his own campaign on a daily basis). It almost seems as if neither of the two parties actually want to win this election.
I know that my parents will need social security. However I also know that I won't ever get to retire unless the economy makes a profound change; social security won't be anywhere near enough for me to retire before I die and the money I have been able to save for retirement isn't enough to retire in the next 70 years (and I don't expect to live another 70 years).
When your retirement plan is summarized as "Die At Work", it is hard to justify placing a lot of concern in the state of social security.
Trump doesn't want his friend Putin and his friends to get tied to this too much. Soon the Trump campaign will instead claim that the democrats hacked their own system and set it up to look like someone else, to take attention away from some other conspiracy. I expect we'll see this on the front page of slashdot and the Washington Times by Saturday, maybe sooner if Trump says something else stupid yet today.
It is hard to imagine anything that has been as destructive to the productivity of the American work force as facebook. Now he wants to release educational tools to some how make up for it?
If they hold your thermostat ransom for $300, why not just use the $300 to buy a new thermostat and tell the hackers to get lost? I can pick up the Nest Thermostat at my local big box home improvement store today for $249.99; why would I pay more to the hackers?
Granted, my thermostat cost a lot less than that - and doesn't have the fancy features of the nest - but if I was someone inclined to purchase a thermostat for $300 I don't see why I would pay the same amount to get it back from hackers if I could replace it instead and tell them to take a hike.
Try folding grandma into cattle class from Chicago to Paris after getting her molested by the TSA. She has time,
If grandma has the time but finds steerage class unbearable on an airplane (which is absolutely a valid complaint, I can't stand the airlines for long as I'm 6'3" myself), what is she going to do for 4 days on the ship? Is she mobile enough to take care of herself on the long trip? Otherwise if you need to send someone with her to make sure she's OK who is that going to be?
this would be much better if anywhere close to cost comparable
Unfortunately it almost certainly would not be cost comparable. An airplane has a crew of 4-8 staffing it for 8 hours. An ocean liner has a crew of at least 100, staffed for 4 days at a time. As much as airplanes are not the most fuel efficient vehicles on the planet, ocean liners are even worse still.
Similarly, flying with littles is miserable.
It certainly is, and this allows the parents to get their screaming kids further from the rest of the passengers. However the cost (both money and time) is such that families will likely still want to fly instead.
This would be reasonable for moving
If you're not in a hurry to get there, I suppose. I don't know the space allotment for this ship but the last time I was on a cruise it was basically one full-size suitcase per passenger (maybe more for first class cabins? I don't know) so it wouldn't really be that great unless you have most of your belongings going by some other (presumably slower) method.
and going for long vacations.
That is what I expect it would be used for most if it became sea-worthy again. The problem though is that ocean liners are vastly different animals from today's cruise ships. Water slides? Nope. All-you-can eat buffets open all the time? Generally no. Numerous eating options? Not likely. Multiple stops and ports of call? Probably not. Shopping? Generally no. Communication to the land? Generally no. This was about point-to-point transportation. Modern cruise ships trade off speed for relaxation and luxury options (and of course make up for it by selling you stuff and opening their on-board casino while they are in international waters).
Don't get me wrong, I think this could still be an interesting ship to travel on - especially at the speeds it used to be capable of - but I don't think it is something a lot of people would use more than once. For that matter I don't think a lot of people would even use it that many times.
Even if it can cross the ocean in under 4 days, it still doesn't seem like something that a lot of people would be interested in paying money for in the current era. The floating hotel seems like a better idea to me.
Doesn't the fob unlock the door as well? The standard place for a VIN is under the wind shield; hence any car parked in the open could be a target as someone could easily walk by and snap a picture of the vin through the wind shield with their phone while walking by and nobody would think of it as odd. You won't be doing yourself any good to lock your car if that is the case.
Besides, if they are stealing Wranglers the parts are so easily obtainable that a broken window is trivially easy to replace. Maybe Grand Cherokees are slightly more difficult to obtain quickly but likely not by much.
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I was considering applying to be faculty at ITT. I figured at this point in my career if I can no longer be part of the solution I might as well be part of the problem, right? I'll have to find a different for-profit college to go after instead.
Look to Sears. The CEO there is Eddie Lampert, who used various financial manoeuvres to first take over KMart and then Sears. He has zero retail experience. He is known for only attending board meetings via videoconferencing (where he yells at board members). He has passed down illogical orders to the stores that have turned the skeleton crews into Lord of the Flies.
So why haven't they fired him? They can't. His moves placed him as majority share holder as well as CEO. The board has no way to fire him. He is in a can't-lose situation now as with very few exceptions Sears owns the land their stores sit on (even in malls) so once he drives the ship under he has millions of dollars of real estate that he can sell.
We have never had a republican president to date who would not have enthusiastically signed it into law.
How soon we forget Richard Nixon!
[referring to the ACA]
You're joking, right? The seriousness of an AC is always difficult to gauge, but I would have to presume you're joking on that comment. Considering how much of a capitalist idiot Nixon was, he would have jizzed from one end of the white house to the other at the opportunity to legally bind all US citizens to the for-profit insurance industry.
You can't impeach people for things they did before they were elected. I forgot which president this happened to, but the POTUS has already ruled on the exact case of impeaching someone for something they did before they were elected (you can't)
Why would the GOP be concerned about legal restraints when they are going after one of their favorite boogeymen? Look at the hundreds of millions of dollars they wasted on Benghazi investigations, or the millions they wasted investigating Bill Clinton's affair with an intern. They have made a name for wasting time and money going after people from the "wrong" party for matters that are either resolved or irrelevant. Of course impeachment will be the first article on the house agenda in 2017. In fact if it only comes up once in 2017 I would be astonished; look at how many times they have attempted to repeal the ACA.
People who like the government to not get any meaningful work done are terrified of a Clinton presidency.
Why? We didn't see anything useful done under the Obama Administration. If anything, the laws Obama has signed into law make him the most conservative president to date. The law most frequently associated with him was the largest handout to corporate America in the history of government, bar none. We have never had a republican president to date who would not have enthusiastically signed it into law.
with Souter dead
I presume you meant Scalia? I'm pretty sure David Souter would be surprised to learn that he's no longer alive.
and Thomas expected to retire after the election
Interesting speculation, there. Thomas is a conservative justice. Why would he retire right after the inauguration of President Clinton?
What you really should be afraid of, though - and based on your comment you have quite a bit of fear in you directed towards non-GOP politics - are these five words:
Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama
There is a very good chance this could happen soon. Then you literally can't get him out of Washington DC until he's ready to retire (or dies).
The result would be, within eight years, either such a conversion, or (when she gets to the "disarm the potential opposition with gun bans" stage), a second civil war (depending on how serious gun owners are about the "from my cold dead hands" rhetoric.)
Unless the goal is to actually kill people, why would a civil war be necessary? Why not just secede? Any reasonable person can see our country is fracturing regardless (though some dispute how many countries it should be split into). Why not just carve out new countries and be done with it?
This report won't mean anything to whatever number of republicans remain in congress after Clinton is sworn in as POTUS on January 20. January 21 will begin with GOP members attempting to initiate impeachment hearings over the email server. It will be the endless series of Benghazi hearings and investigations all over again.
People who like the government to not get any meaningful work done should be able to rest easy. Those who would like to see something happen will be inevitably disappointed.
The .410 bore is a size of shotgun shell, as is the 20 gauge. There is no decimal in the 20.
particularly if you are in a situation where you need to X-forward a browser session over the internet; Chrome and Firefox might be particularly painful while Konqueror could be usable.
Neither Chrome nor Firefox's bloat is drawing on the desktop
You're probably correct on that, in that those browsers are just simply bloated, period.
and in any case the performance of the window draw will pale in comparison to sending a bitmap of the website you're currently visiting over the internet.
From my experience that is not the case. I have had times where I have used XForward to send browser sessions across the internet before and there have been profound differences in the initial loading of the same site between firefox and konqueror. From my experience konqueror was faster to the point where I could start the browser, load the page, get what I needed from it, and close the session in less time than it took just to get firefox to open and accept an address in the address bar. This was with no flash or other fancy plug-ins loaded on either browser, connecting to the same PC on the same cable modem either way.
I don't know that maintaining a web browser in the face of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and the rest makes any sense?
I can tell you from experience that Konqueror is a browser with a vastly smaller footprint than Chrome or Firefox. There are times when this can make a really big difference, particularly if you are in a situation where you need to X-forward a browser session over the internet; Chrome and Firefox might be particularly painful while Konqueror could be usable.
Opera I haven't used in a long time, and the last time I tried to use it I found it quite broken in *nix. Maybe it's better now? As for Edge, I'm not aware of a system upon which you could have both KDE and Edge. If you know of such a beast, feel free to enlighten me.
Also, a standalone mail client? I haven't used one of those in nearly 5 years now. So, do I care that it hasn't updated? Do its users want it to become more like Outlook? I think probably not.
There is still demand for a standalone mail client, though I can't say I've used KMail much. I use Thunderbird religiously. I most certainly do not want it to look any more like Outlook, in fact I value how much it looks like the old Netscape Communicator.
My gripe with KDE the last time I tried to use it was lack of font scaling support for 4K screens.
Holy first world problems, batman. If I ever find myself with that much disposable income ...
I'm not sure how active desktop development needs to be for a single *nix desktop environment. I am a big KDE user myself, and I'm happy with where it is. Sure, some of the applications from the KDE team have been neglected quite a but but they're not fully broken either. KDE runs GNOME stuff quite well when there are GNOME applications that I just can't get by without.
That and of course I still do a huge part of my most important work from the command line. That won't change any time soon, so as far as that is concerned it matters not at all whether or not any additional new features are ever incorporated into the environment.
I haven't applied to Amazon though I have applied to a lot of other major employers in my area. What is the most common response? Nothing at all. Not even a form rejection letter, just nothing - drawn out over a long time.
It seems the majority of employers in our country are reliant on various shitty HR algorithms to evaluate resumes en masse, and most often the employers don't know shit about how those algorithms work. The employers then congratulate themselves about how many resumes they were able to avoid reading, and then they get stuck with a thoroughly illogical collection of resumes written by people who happened to match the correct combination of keywords (which were often not included in the job posting).
If they would actually have human beings read the resumes, they would find hiring gets a lot easier.
The summary of this article is mangled by the fact that slashdot still doesn't handle unicode correctly. Didn't the new owners promise that they were going to fix this? Yeah, we know the old guard left a mess behind but there are already examples of other sites starting with slashcode and fixing that bug...
That's exactly what I was going to say about this one. The authors set themselves up for it by calling it Pokemon. There is a limit to how far one can expect to go with a fan creation, and these guys went past it. I know Nintendo gets a lot of flack for going after silly cases but this one is a pretty clear case of infringement.
By the time you replied, the massive typo in the headline ("boarder" instead of "border") had finally been corrected (after several hours on the front page no less). The typo is why I brought up the xkcd strip on the third amendment; when it is corrected it becomes a less exciting matter of the fifth amendment instead. I would certainly expect the fifth exists in some form in Canada but whether the third does as well I'm not sure.
Sorry you were a little late to the party...
... could decide the race. The race is largely boiling down to which party can get more of their followers to vote for their candidate based on endorsement alone (look at how many republicans don't like Trump but will vote for him because he is the republican candidate and how many democrats don't like Hillary but will vote for her because she is the democratic candidate), and then pick up enough of the independent vote.
Donald Trump could be beaten severely by any random democrat except Hillary Clinton (who brings out massive amounts of GOP hatred based on her name). Hillary Clinton could be beaten severely by any random republican except Donald Trump (who sabotages his own campaign on a daily basis). It almost seems as if neither of the two parties actually want to win this election.
"hey, data scraping is our gig"
No, I think they are the ones that you plead the third to. Unfortunately in Canada one might not have the same protections.
I know that my parents will need social security. However I also know that I won't ever get to retire unless the economy makes a profound change; social security won't be anywhere near enough for me to retire before I die and the money I have been able to save for retirement isn't enough to retire in the next 70 years (and I don't expect to live another 70 years).
When your retirement plan is summarized as "Die At Work", it is hard to justify placing a lot of concern in the state of social security.
Trump doesn't want his friend Putin and his friends to get tied to this too much. Soon the Trump campaign will instead claim that the democrats hacked their own system and set it up to look like someone else, to take attention away from some other conspiracy. I expect we'll see this on the front page of slashdot and the Washington Times by Saturday, maybe sooner if Trump says something else stupid yet today.
It is hard to imagine anything that has been as destructive to the productivity of the American work force as facebook. Now he wants to release educational tools to some how make up for it?
If they hold your thermostat ransom for $300, why not just use the $300 to buy a new thermostat and tell the hackers to get lost? I can pick up the Nest Thermostat at my local big box home improvement store today for $249.99; why would I pay more to the hackers?
Granted, my thermostat cost a lot less than that - and doesn't have the fancy features of the nest - but if I was someone inclined to purchase a thermostat for $300 I don't see why I would pay the same amount to get it back from hackers if I could replace it instead and tell them to take a hike.
I haven't seen a front-page article here that criticized a conservative anything in a long time.
Try folding grandma into cattle class from Chicago to Paris after getting her molested by the TSA. She has time,
If grandma has the time but finds steerage class unbearable on an airplane (which is absolutely a valid complaint, I can't stand the airlines for long as I'm 6'3" myself), what is she going to do for 4 days on the ship? Is she mobile enough to take care of herself on the long trip? Otherwise if you need to send someone with her to make sure she's OK who is that going to be?
this would be much better if anywhere close to cost comparable
Unfortunately it almost certainly would not be cost comparable. An airplane has a crew of 4-8 staffing it for 8 hours. An ocean liner has a crew of at least 100, staffed for 4 days at a time. As much as airplanes are not the most fuel efficient vehicles on the planet, ocean liners are even worse still.
Similarly, flying with littles is miserable.
It certainly is, and this allows the parents to get their screaming kids further from the rest of the passengers. However the cost (both money and time) is such that families will likely still want to fly instead.
This would be reasonable for moving
If you're not in a hurry to get there, I suppose. I don't know the space allotment for this ship but the last time I was on a cruise it was basically one full-size suitcase per passenger (maybe more for first class cabins? I don't know) so it wouldn't really be that great unless you have most of your belongings going by some other (presumably slower) method.
and going for long vacations.
That is what I expect it would be used for most if it became sea-worthy again. The problem though is that ocean liners are vastly different animals from today's cruise ships. Water slides? Nope. All-you-can eat buffets open all the time? Generally no. Numerous eating options? Not likely. Multiple stops and ports of call? Probably not. Shopping? Generally no. Communication to the land? Generally no. This was about point-to-point transportation. Modern cruise ships trade off speed for relaxation and luxury options (and of course make up for it by selling you stuff and opening their on-board casino while they are in international waters).
Don't get me wrong, I think this could still be an interesting ship to travel on - especially at the speeds it used to be capable of - but I don't think it is something a lot of people would use more than once. For that matter I don't think a lot of people would even use it that many times.
Even if it can cross the ocean in under 4 days, it still doesn't seem like something that a lot of people would be interested in paying money for in the current era. The floating hotel seems like a better idea to me.
Doesn't the fob unlock the door as well? The standard place for a VIN is under the wind shield; hence any car parked in the open could be a target as someone could easily walk by and snap a picture of the vin through the wind shield with their phone while walking by and nobody would think of it as odd. You won't be doing yourself any good to lock your car if that is the case.
Besides, if they are stealing Wranglers the parts are so easily obtainable that a broken window is trivially easy to replace. Maybe Grand Cherokees are slightly more difficult to obtain quickly but likely not by much.