Well geez, it's not like the stock market was cratering when Trump took over. You can see a nice upward trajectory that's unbroken by the inauguration.
Uh yeah, it kind of is. I've known people get fired for deploying stuff to a production system by mistake when they thought they were deploying to a test system because they didn't know what the hell they were doing and causing chaos.
That's too bad. I see it pretty often though -- creating a poorly designed system with a bad user interface, then blaming the operator for a minor slip-up that we ALL make. You can't possibly blame the system set up for people to fail, it's easier to ask for someone's head than to recognize that UI is important, and UI guides actions.
Everyone makes mistakes. If your standard for an employee is perfection, year after year, then you are in an extremely hostile (and managerially incompetent) environment.
Not that this has anything to do with the missile alert incident, it was a lot weirder than that.
I turned off Amber alerts the time I was woken up for an alert for a missing child 400 miles away. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with the alert -- am I supposed to call the police every time I see a "Blond girl, 90 lbs, white or grey Toyota, heading north"?
The Amber alerts I've gotten have been more detailed than that (they always had an actual license plate number), but I got sick of getting a loud alert at 4am for an abduction that happened 21 hours earlier 400 miles away.
I'm trying to understand this concern over energy use. If the real concern is on carbon then measure the carbon. If the concern is on the money spent then measure the money spent. Perhaps I'm missing something? Why should I care about energy used?
Because nothing is free. Everything has a cost. The more energy you save in one area, then that's energy that can be applied for other work instead. Or it's less effort and cost to serve 100k people, money that can be applied to other tasks. We're still an energy-starved society. Need a desalination plant in a state with a drought? Sorry, desalination takes a huge amount of electricity. Etc.
Really? "Exercise" is a little vague to me. "This is not a drill" is definitely clear.
Nobody cares what is clear to you, you don't work in an emergency operations center. It is PERFECTLY clear to anyone who does, and who has ever had any training on how to do this kind of thing. The excuse being given by the alert operator is not that the message was vague, it is that he didn't hear part of it. Had he heard it, he would have known immediately and without doubt that the message was not a real alert, it was an exercise.
The problem is hearing "this is not a drill" all the time then desensitizes you to the actual phrase "this is not a drill" in an emergency. If people get used to mixed messages, then they stop questioning mistakes and malfunctions.
I still have tons of fun beating a lot of bosses in WoW.
I also like to go riding through the hills on my bike on the weekend. The outdoors, the actually immersive experience (as opposed to faux immersive that VR guys like to sell you), the physical exercise. The online world is fun, but it simply doesn't compare.
Aren't drills usually *scheduled*? I know when there is a fire drill at the office, we usually get an email at least a day in advance. This prevents everyone from panicking because they know there is no real danger. In this case, it would prevent a Statewide alert from being sent.
Yeah, it sounds like the supervisors knew, but the workers did not. Also according to the story: "The supervisor specifically decided to run a drill during a shift change to train officers for a challenging situation." Sounds like they found out what would happen!
If "This is not a drill" was included, the worker didn't misunderstand anything. He correctly understood the message and performed as expected. Dont' blame him, blame the person who sent the drill.
If you're told in the same message that it's a drill and it's not a drill, then there is a misunderstanding. The misunderstanding came because he claimed he didn't hear the "exercise" disclaimer like the other folks got.
Don't ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Doesn't mean it's not malice, but this whole thing exposes some flaws in the system. The biggest flaw being that they had no way to send a retraction for 38 minutes because the system only allowed for a pre-programmed list of responses, and they had to figure out how to hack it/reprogram it to send a custom alert.
Yeah, I'm sure Obama spent his rare moments off the golf course bothering to vet FCC appointees.
BTW, what do you think the golf course is FOR? That's where meetings and discussions happen -- in a relaxed, casual atmosphere when folks are not on guard.
If Pakistan and India go nukes, why would anybody else get involved?
It depends on what defense pacts other countries have. World War I could have just been a small regional conflict but everyone in Europe was tightly bound in entangling alliances. The idea was "peace through strength," since if any country attacked a country in a pact, they would face massive retaliation. But at the same time it was a domino effect where a regional conflict involved a third country, then another, then another.
Serbia got annoyed with Austria and vice versa. Russia got into it with Austria because of their pact with Serbia. Germany got into it with Russia because of their unification with Austria. France got into it with Germany because they had a pact with Russia. More followed.
and unless I missed something, the only reason Trump was elected was because the Republican party allegedly with overseas help gamed the electoral college system, while Clinton, who was not necessarily the better candidate won the popular vote.
Yes, well, when the rules say that the electoral college decides the President, then you go with what the rules say and don't whine that that's the way the other side played when you lose.
By "lack of self control" you mean "insufficient deference to the para-state"?
Is that what we call lack of recklessness now? Because most people in government aren't actually... you know, reckless, they have self-control, and they think this antagonism is absolutely idiotic, they're the ones who have the attitude problem when an easily-trolled nitwit gets into power?
Pollution sucks ass. Everyone agrees on that. But have some perspective. It's not global nuclear war.
I think their point has often been that climate change leads to larger conflicts, since almost no nation is just going to accept having less (less production, even less land) and that fighting over diminishing resources, food, and water will lead to more large scale violence.
That said, they were pretty open that even though climate change has affected their clock in the past, moving the minute hand this year was based entirely on the nuclear situation between the US and North Korea, China, and (less likely) Russia.
We've seen the ideology of compliance and complicity with tyranny, corruption, and abuse before.
Yeah. Someone's Netflix stream might be a bit slower until Netflix pays off the ISP. OH NOOESS. So worth the rivers of blood that result from such revolutions.
I'd counter with my favorite critic, the late Roger Ebert. Was he interested in Great Art, movies that would make you think, make you feel? Yes, of course he did. The better done examples of that type of movie are well worth checking out.
But he also had a love for the enjoyable schlocky movie, or the enjoyable pop art. He wrote the screenplay for Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a movie that had bad reviews and no one would consider great art, but eventually got cult classic status.
The more I read his work, the more I realized he was not trying to rate any movie absolutely, but instead, relative to its prospective audience (though still keeping in consideration its value as a whole). So it's difficult to rank movies of different types to each other, and his ranking system was not designed with that aim in mind. He had a quote that I think perfectly illustrates this:
When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher. And my answer would be, on a scale of one to four, if Superman is four, then Hellboy is three and The Punisher is two. In the same way, if American Beauty gets four stars, then The United States of Leland clocks in at about two.
Also he didn't like Basic Instinct 2 very much, but still gave it a favorable rating: I cannot recommend the movie, but why the hell can't I? Just because it's godawful? What kind of reason is that for staying away from a movie? Godawful and boring, that would be a reason.
But he was just one critic, and even though he was my favorite, I didn't agree with him all the time either (I liked Die Hard and didn't like Speed 2). It's more worth knowing what a critic likes, and know where your differences are. I think this is often at odds now with the current trend where we aggregate all critics together, and the movie with the highest score "wins" the game.
Bright didn't waste 25% of the screen time on a red herring side story that does nothing to advance the plot.
About 2/3 of the way through the Last Jedi I checked my watch and thought "wow, they're really trying to cram two movies worth of plot into this. I wonder where they're going to go with it?" 45 minutes later, my answer was "oh." I was pretty sure the whole point of that sequence was to introduce the code-cracker, a character who seems more like Lando Calrission the longer the movie went on (With a hint of Han Solo), betrays the heroes like Lando Calrission did in Empire Strikes Back, and is almost sure to heel-face-turn again and rescue the heroes in the next movie like Lando did in Return of the Jedi.
Batman vs Superman had issue mostly in that Batman was conned way easier than he should have been and didn't show much of the intelligence and finesse his character is known for. That said, the movie was actually a very good case study into why being an SJW and being worked up over non-issues is so dangerous.
IMO, Wonder Woman was about the only thing good about that movie. I was not into Eisenberg's Lex Luther take. Definitely not into how DUMB Batman was during the movie and how incapable he was of analyzing his situation or the motivations of the people around him. The moment when Batman refused to kill Superman because his mother was ALSO named Martha was when they completely lost me. Also, it was a shameless rip-off of Ecks Vs. Sever (lol). Add on top of that the usual Snyder/DC mess of horrible art direction, and you get a mess that's difficult to enjoy.
I'm fine with the non-mystery of Snoke, and the non-importance of Rey's parents is a great plot point. Far better than that nonsense of her being Luke's secret daughter or the other sort of BS that the prequels had where there were like.. 6 important people in the galaxy and they were all friends or related to each other.
Last Jedi needed about half an hour, maybe more, cut off from it. The entire "let's find the code breaker" section. Poe's mutiny. Those sections of the movie were ONLY there because they needed to remind us those characters exist and they couldn't figure out anything to do with them. Those are big mistakes, then there were the small mistakes, like Leia's Mary Poppins moment, Luke's will-he-or-won't-he indecision about burning the jedi texts, the general lack of Captain Phasma.
Every time I see one of these overstuffed confusingly plotted blockbusters, I remember what Peter Jackson said about adapting the Lord of the Rings: you had two main plots -- Frodo's quest to destroy the ring, and Aragorn's destiny to be king. If a sequence doesn't advance the story in those directions, then it's a sequence that's a possibility to cut. By that metric, Tom Bombadil was unnecessary. Crazyness on the Paths of the Dead that was only in the extended edition, fine to cut. Etcetc.
I only wish Jackson had kept that narrative focus. The Hobbit movies could certainly have benefited from that sort of discipline.
I guess it depends on the season/episode of either. When I was rewatching TOS awhile back, I was struck by the amount of episodes that were sheer fantasy. Not science fiction, just fantasy stories set in space.
So what you're saying here is that it doesn't benefit them, right? So this would invalidate your original idiocy. Thank you for playing. Have a nice day.
The mortgage deduction cap has adverse affects that primarily fall upon his political enemies. IE, the blue states with high property values for one-bedroom houses and high costs of living. They didn't vote for him, so fuck 'em.
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Well geez, it's not like the stock market was cratering when Trump took over. You can see a nice upward trajectory that's unbroken by the inauguration.
Uh yeah, it kind of is. I've known people get fired for deploying stuff to a production system by mistake when they thought they were deploying to a test system because they didn't know what the hell they were doing and causing chaos.
That's too bad. I see it pretty often though -- creating a poorly designed system with a bad user interface, then blaming the operator for a minor slip-up that we ALL make. You can't possibly blame the system set up for people to fail, it's easier to ask for someone's head than to recognize that UI is important, and UI guides actions.
Everyone makes mistakes. If your standard for an employee is perfection, year after year, then you are in an extremely hostile (and managerially incompetent) environment.
Not that this has anything to do with the missile alert incident, it was a lot weirder than that.
I turned off Amber alerts the time I was woken up for an alert for a missing child 400 miles away. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with the alert -- am I supposed to call the police every time I see a "Blond girl, 90 lbs, white or grey Toyota, heading north"?
The Amber alerts I've gotten have been more detailed than that (they always had an actual license plate number), but I got sick of getting a loud alert at 4am for an abduction that happened 21 hours earlier 400 miles away.
I'm trying to understand this concern over energy use. If the real concern is on carbon then measure the carbon. If the concern is on the money spent then measure the money spent. Perhaps I'm missing something? Why should I care about energy used?
Because nothing is free. Everything has a cost. The more energy you save in one area, then that's energy that can be applied for other work instead. Or it's less effort and cost to serve 100k people, money that can be applied to other tasks. We're still an energy-starved society. Need a desalination plant in a state with a drought? Sorry, desalination takes a huge amount of electricity. Etc.
Really? "Exercise" is a little vague to me. "This is not a drill" is definitely clear.
Nobody cares what is clear to you, you don't work in an emergency operations center. It is PERFECTLY clear to anyone who does, and who has ever had any training on how to do this kind of thing. The excuse being given by the alert operator is not that the message was vague, it is that he didn't hear part of it. Had he heard it, he would have known immediately and without doubt that the message was not a real alert, it was an exercise.
The problem is hearing "this is not a drill" all the time then desensitizes you to the actual phrase "this is not a drill" in an emergency. If people get used to mixed messages, then they stop questioning mistakes and malfunctions.
"Buuuh, Videogames are for losers"
meh
Unfortunately, the GP's every post is confirming the stereotype for him.
I still have tons of fun beating a lot of bosses in WoW.
I also like to go riding through the hills on my bike on the weekend. The outdoors, the actually immersive experience (as opposed to faux immersive that VR guys like to sell you), the physical exercise. The online world is fun, but it simply doesn't compare.
Aren't drills usually *scheduled*? I know when there is a fire drill at the office, we usually get an email at least a day in advance. This prevents everyone from panicking because they know there is no real danger. In this case, it would prevent a Statewide alert from being sent.
Yeah, it sounds like the supervisors knew, but the workers did not. Also according to the story: "The supervisor specifically decided to run a drill during a shift change to train officers for a challenging situation." Sounds like they found out what would happen!
If "This is not a drill" was included, the worker didn't misunderstand anything. He correctly understood the message and performed as expected. Dont' blame him, blame the person who sent the drill.
If you're told in the same message that it's a drill and it's not a drill, then there is a misunderstanding. The misunderstanding came because he claimed he didn't hear the "exercise" disclaimer like the other folks got.
Don't ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Doesn't mean it's not malice, but this whole thing exposes some flaws in the system.
The biggest flaw being that they had no way to send a retraction for 38 minutes because the system only allowed for a pre-programmed list of responses, and they had to figure out how to hack it/reprogram it to send a custom alert.
Then I don't want to spoil it. I'll just say it's a much more low budget version of Batman v. Superman.
Yeah, I'm sure Obama spent his rare moments off the golf course bothering to vet FCC appointees.
BTW, what do you think the golf course is FOR? That's where meetings and discussions happen -- in a relaxed, casual atmosphere when folks are not on guard.
If Pakistan and India go nukes, why would anybody else get involved?
It depends on what defense pacts other countries have. World War I could have just been a small regional conflict but everyone in Europe was tightly bound in entangling alliances. The idea was "peace through strength," since if any country attacked a country in a pact, they would face massive retaliation. But at the same time it was a domino effect where a regional conflict involved a third country, then another, then another.
Serbia got annoyed with Austria and vice versa. Russia got into it with Austria because of their pact with Serbia. Germany got into it with Russia because of their unification with Austria. France got into it with Germany because they had a pact with Russia. More followed.
and unless I missed something, the only reason Trump was elected was because the Republican party allegedly with overseas help gamed the electoral college system, while Clinton, who was not necessarily the better candidate won the popular vote.
Yes, well, when the rules say that the electoral college decides the President, then you go with what the rules say and don't whine that that's the way the other side played when you lose.
By "lack of self control" you mean "insufficient deference to the para-state"?
Is that what we call lack of recklessness now? Because most people in government aren't actually... you know, reckless, they have self-control, and they think this antagonism is absolutely idiotic, they're the ones who have the attitude problem when an easily-trolled nitwit gets into power?
Pollution sucks ass. Everyone agrees on that. But have some perspective. It's not global nuclear war.
I think their point has often been that climate change leads to larger conflicts, since almost no nation is just going to accept having less (less production, even less land) and that fighting over diminishing resources, food, and water will lead to more large scale violence.
That said, they were pretty open that even though climate change has affected their clock in the past, moving the minute hand this year was based entirely on the nuclear situation between the US and North Korea, China, and (less likely) Russia.
We've seen the ideology of compliance and complicity with tyranny, corruption, and abuse before.
Yeah. Someone's Netflix stream might be a bit slower until Netflix pays off the ISP. OH NOOESS. So worth the rivers of blood that result from such revolutions.
I'd counter with my favorite critic, the late Roger Ebert. Was he interested in Great Art, movies that would make you think, make you feel? Yes, of course he did. The better done examples of that type of movie are well worth checking out.
But he also had a love for the enjoyable schlocky movie, or the enjoyable pop art. He wrote the screenplay for Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a movie that had bad reviews and no one would consider great art, but eventually got cult classic status.
The more I read his work, the more I realized he was not trying to rate any movie absolutely, but instead, relative to its prospective audience (though still keeping in consideration its value as a whole). So it's difficult to rank movies of different types to each other, and his ranking system was not designed with that aim in mind. He had a quote that I think perfectly illustrates this:
Also he didn't like Basic Instinct 2 very much, but still gave it a favorable rating: I cannot recommend the movie, but why the hell can't I? Just because it's godawful? What kind of reason is that for staying away from a movie? Godawful and boring, that would be a reason.
But he was just one critic, and even though he was my favorite, I didn't agree with him all the time either (I liked Die Hard and didn't like Speed 2). It's more worth knowing what a critic likes, and know where your differences are. I think this is often at odds now with the current trend where we aggregate all critics together, and the movie with the highest score "wins" the game.
Bright didn't waste 25% of the screen time on a red herring side story that does nothing to advance the plot.
About 2/3 of the way through the Last Jedi I checked my watch and thought "wow, they're really trying to cram two movies worth of plot into this. I wonder where they're going to go with it?" 45 minutes later, my answer was "oh." I was pretty sure the whole point of that sequence was to introduce the code-cracker, a character who seems more like Lando Calrission the longer the movie went on (With a hint of Han Solo), betrays the heroes like Lando Calrission did in Empire Strikes Back, and is almost sure to heel-face-turn again and rescue the heroes in the next movie like Lando did in Return of the Jedi.
Batman vs Superman had issue mostly in that Batman was conned way easier than he should have been and didn't show much of the intelligence and finesse his character is known for. That said, the movie was actually a very good case study into why being an SJW and being worked up over non-issues is so dangerous.
IMO, Wonder Woman was about the only thing good about that movie. I was not into Eisenberg's Lex Luther take. Definitely not into how DUMB Batman was during the movie and how incapable he was of analyzing his situation or the motivations of the people around him. The moment when Batman refused to kill Superman because his mother was ALSO named Martha was when they completely lost me. Also, it was a shameless rip-off of Ecks Vs. Sever (lol). Add on top of that the usual Snyder/DC mess of horrible art direction, and you get a mess that's difficult to enjoy.
I'm fine with the non-mystery of Snoke, and the non-importance of Rey's parents is a great plot point. Far better than that nonsense of her being Luke's secret daughter or the other sort of BS that the prequels had where there were like.. 6 important people in the galaxy and they were all friends or related to each other.
Last Jedi needed about half an hour, maybe more, cut off from it. The entire "let's find the code breaker" section. Poe's mutiny. Those sections of the movie were ONLY there because they needed to remind us those characters exist and they couldn't figure out anything to do with them. Those are big mistakes, then there were the small mistakes, like Leia's Mary Poppins moment, Luke's will-he-or-won't-he indecision about burning the jedi texts, the general lack of Captain Phasma.
Every time I see one of these overstuffed confusingly plotted blockbusters, I remember what Peter Jackson said about adapting the Lord of the Rings: you had two main plots -- Frodo's quest to destroy the ring, and Aragorn's destiny to be king. If a sequence doesn't advance the story in those directions, then it's a sequence that's a possibility to cut. By that metric, Tom Bombadil was unnecessary. Crazyness on the Paths of the Dead that was only in the extended edition, fine to cut. Etcetc.
I only wish Jackson had kept that narrative focus. The Hobbit movies could certainly have benefited from that sort of discipline.
#whiteprivilege
#whitepeopleproblems
White people aren't necessarily the only people to have enough money to go to the movies.
TNG was far less science fiction than even TOS
I guess it depends on the season/episode of either.
When I was rewatching TOS awhile back, I was struck by the amount of episodes that were sheer fantasy. Not science fiction, just fantasy stories set in space.
You can make anyone sound like a total a-hole when you remove important context. :-D
So what you're saying here is that it doesn't benefit them, right? So this would invalidate your original idiocy. Thank you for playing. Have a nice day.
The mortgage deduction cap has adverse affects that primarily fall upon his political enemies. IE, the blue states with high property values for one-bedroom houses and high costs of living. They didn't vote for him, so fuck 'em.