I recently started watching Fox after avoiding it for at least ten years--as a form of entertainment and to "see whats going on." I have noticed that they really function to make people feel like everything is OK while focusing on trivial political matters and controversies. They do such a good job that it cannot be an accident. Not sure about CNN/MSNBC but I'm sure they are doing the same thing. It's like a drug.
People are not happy with the way the country is going so these media arms use sophisticated mind fucking to placate (or arouse) based on their owners' needs.
It is the gradual increase of power in the executive branch. Washington likes it more than they hate it. They covet the office because of this now. The office of president has assumed more power with each passing term (mainly because of perpetual war). The neocon strategy was/is to increase it more--while exacting wars they feel are necessary to preserve American hegemony. The Trump is a good thing because it upended the comfortable pitch between parties over the last 30-40 years. I'm excited to see how things develop during and after Trump. Politics in America changed forever in 2016--a culmination that has been brewing over the last 40+ years. Beware the military-industrial complex--it has become our way of life.
Why are people complaining about a president who communicates directly with the people? If this had been Obama tweeting every day it would have been hailed as the crowning achievement of politics and technology married.
We need more fireside chats. The lack of presidential communications directly with the people is not a good fucking sign.
Bow to the mediocre security (cough: compliance) gods. Pomp, circumstance, tons of demands...engineer trips over PCI data in IIS logs (query strings with raw identifiable data). Millions of dollars in corporate IT expenditures and they can't even detect basic, glaring violations. Head in ass.
Just buy from the business with the cheapest prices or most value. Leave ideas out of this. Ideology, like training users, does not work for macroeconomic matters.
We have had a few presidents who were intellectuals. One will be remembered because he was black and started ISIS. The other was....? Leave your answer in the comments.
There is supposedly an affordable housing drought right now. My bet is that the Realtor lobby is going to whip this up into an issue...then *something* will be done to promote affordable housing construction. The incentives have to be in the right place.
Its out of control. Builders can build large houses out of very cheap materials. I see it every day. People building $600k houses draped poorly in Tyvek and covered over by EFS or brick--not cool. Most people don't notice because they have no knowledge of modern construction materials and methods. Houses sell by the sq ft or so the Realtors have everyone convinced, and the banks keep coughing up the cash. Builders hire the cheapest labor possible who only have the skills to employ inferior methods and materials--craftsmen are expensive as hell. These days the only "affordable" housing I see going up start in the $225k range--built like trash as well. We are going to end up with a lot of abandoned large houses in this country. When the neighborhoods/markets cool down the houses sell for a bit less, people barely squeeze into them (thank the banks) and can't afford the maintenance. Downward spiral.
Your story is common. Business realizes they are not using data and feel they are letting something slip by. The usual reason is that some other exec friend asked what they were doing with Data Analytics and they got embarrassed because they didn't even know anything about it so they damn near panic and demand we hire some data scientists. Yeah, businesses in 2018 are still run like this. (Same thing happens with the "Cloud.")
What they really need is to establish sound data analysis using the skills you pointed out (consolidate and standardize data access). Once you max out that avenue you have a sound basis to think about talking with "Data Scientists."
Most of the "Data Scientist" positions could be filled by training existing data engineers or DBAs. You need one data scientist for every ten data engineers. If you hire a Data Scientist without having competent data engineering team that understands the strategy (you do have an informed strategy don't you?) just prepare to look stupid wasting a shit-ton of money.
So half the internet acclaims the virtues of Acrylamide, teaching us how to roast meat to browned perfection for the ultimate taste while the other half decries this wonderful gift of nature. Sounds like SJW madness. I think Trump slam-dunking the election has really set off a scare among the pussy hats of the world.
People stopped sending troops home a hundred years ago. Standing armies are so normal and accepted that we do not even debate it. We debate gay marriage though. Progress.
"What is it with liberals that don't run, or can't win elections thinking their ideas should be put into place even if the majority of citizens showed they disagree with them."
It has always been like that. They are educated and much smarter than everyone else. If you were that smart you would realize the wisdom in using the state to force humanity to do the right things.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hillary probably would have been fine, or at least a non-event"
Exactly the problem.
While you argue about this, real shit is happening.
I recently started watching Fox after avoiding it for at least ten years--as a form of entertainment and to "see whats going on." I have noticed that they really function to make people feel like everything is OK while focusing on trivial political matters and controversies. They do such a good job that it cannot be an accident. Not sure about CNN/MSNBC but I'm sure they are doing the same thing. It's like a drug.
People are not happy with the way the country is going so these media arms use sophisticated mind fucking to placate (or arouse) based on their owners' needs.
It is the gradual increase of power in the executive branch. Washington likes it more than they hate it. They covet the office because of this now. The office of president has assumed more power with each passing term (mainly because of perpetual war). The neocon strategy was/is to increase it more--while exacting wars they feel are necessary to preserve American hegemony. The Trump is a good thing because it upended the comfortable pitch between parties over the last 30-40 years. I'm excited to see how things develop during and after Trump. Politics in America changed forever in 2016--a culmination that has been brewing over the last 40+ years. Beware the military-industrial complex--it has become our way of life.
Why are people complaining about a president who communicates directly with the people? If this had been Obama tweeting every day it would have been hailed as the crowning achievement of politics and technology married.
We need more fireside chats. The lack of presidential communications directly with the people is not a good fucking sign.
Everything is as it should be. We live in the best of all possible worlds.
It's just a twitter machine. There is literally no vector.
Bow to the mediocre security (cough: compliance) gods. Pomp, circumstance, tons of demands...engineer trips over PCI data in IIS logs (query strings with raw identifiable data). Millions of dollars in corporate IT expenditures and they can't even detect basic, glaring violations. Head in ass.
Just buy from the business with the cheapest prices or most value. Leave ideas out of this. Ideology, like training users, does not work for macroeconomic matters.
We have had a few presidents who were intellectuals. One will be remembered because he was black and started ISIS. The other was....? Leave your answer in the comments.
There has never been a towering intellectual who did a good job as president. Just Sayin.
There is supposedly an affordable housing drought right now. My bet is that the Realtor lobby is going to whip this up into an issue...then *something* will be done to promote affordable housing construction. The incentives have to be in the right place.
Its out of control. Builders can build large houses out of very cheap materials. I see it every day. People building $600k houses draped poorly in Tyvek and covered over by EFS or brick--not cool. Most people don't notice because they have no knowledge of modern construction materials and methods. Houses sell by the sq ft or so the Realtors have everyone convinced, and the banks keep coughing up the cash. Builders hire the cheapest labor possible who only have the skills to employ inferior methods and materials--craftsmen are expensive as hell. These days the only "affordable" housing I see going up start in the $225k range--built like trash as well. We are going to end up with a lot of abandoned large houses in this country. When the neighborhoods/markets cool down the houses sell for a bit less, people barely squeeze into them (thank the banks) and can't afford the maintenance. Downward spiral.
It is not a conspiracy of the ego...it is just incompetence.
I myself have calculated the pros/cons of being a homeless person. I would choose the forrest over the concrete jungle though.
Your story is common. Business realizes they are not using data and feel they are letting something slip by. The usual reason is that some other exec friend asked what they were doing with Data Analytics and they got embarrassed because they didn't even know anything about it so they damn near panic and demand we hire some data scientists. Yeah, businesses in 2018 are still run like this. (Same thing happens with the "Cloud.")
What they really need is to establish sound data analysis using the skills you pointed out (consolidate and standardize data access). Once you max out that avenue you have a sound basis to think about talking with "Data Scientists."
Most of the "Data Scientist" positions could be filled by training existing data engineers or DBAs. You need one data scientist for every ten data engineers. If you hire a Data Scientist without having competent data engineering team that understands the strategy (you do have an informed strategy don't you?) just prepare to look stupid wasting a shit-ton of money.
So half the internet acclaims the virtues of Acrylamide, teaching us how to roast meat to browned perfection for the ultimate taste while the other half decries this wonderful gift of nature. Sounds like SJW madness. I think Trump slam-dunking the election has really set off a scare among the pussy hats of the world.
They jumped the shark on this one. Any hope of cancer label relevancy has been lost.
People stopped sending troops home a hundred years ago. Standing armies are so normal and accepted that we do not even debate it. We debate gay marriage though. Progress.
"The war president."
All he did was war.
"What is it with liberals that don't run, or can't win elections thinking their ideas should be put into place even if the majority of citizens showed they disagree with them."
It has always been like that. They are educated and much smarter than everyone else. If you were that smart you would realize the wisdom in using the state to force humanity to do the right things.
"You're even more destructive than religion."
Citation needed.
Slaves are usually willing....Im with Kanye on this one
You forgot to mention Dennis Rodman's contribution in all this. Not small.
"The Golden State has long been at the vanguard of progressive energy policies" ....that are paid for by everyone else.