It is merely ammo for a flame war. They seem to think "engagement" means for two sides to spit vitriol at each other under the banner of AC. Sometimes I feel like reading/. is akin to attending a session of Congress.
Yeah, the paywall kind of leaves a bunch of stuff to the imagination.
It's maybe also possible that they are simply smart enough to recall that different specific people use a specific language or that intent is based on things other than language.
Dogs read our emotions by looking at our facial expressions and other body language. They can then associate those with the words we use. It might seem like the dog understands what we say, but it's just Pavlov up to his old tricks.
Maybe the elephants use a similar mechanism. Their memories are outstanding, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they simply remember specific people very well and can determine their intentions by body language. Couple that with a recollection of what that person was saying (and what it sounded like) and the elephant then appears to understand differences between languages when what is really happening is they've simply been conditioned to have that response based on a sound being similar to the guy that tried to spear them previously.
I have little idea what a tiger is trying to communicate when it makes sounds, nor do I have much of an idea what a lion is trying to communicate. But if you expose me to some tigers that try to kill me, chances are I will remember what that sounded like later and I'll be able to distinguish the difference between a lion and a tiger.
Start a truly new party, something different enough to actually catch people's imagination. Perhaps a direct-democracy party with serious penalties for candidates that don't do as their constituency tells them.
I gave this some thought a few years ago. I could build a simple application that would allow constituents to vote on any random congressional bill. I would then use this as my primary campaign strategy. "Don't vote for me, vote for you." I would vow to vote the way my constituents wanted me to. Pretty damn simple, really.
I started to think further, and that it's kind of a problem I don't have the perfect political background. People would dig up dirt on me and that's not too fun. Then I thought, why would it matter? They're not voting for me, they're voting for themselves!
I think there are definitely some congressional districts that would like this type of approach, but probably not many. I think it would be an interesting thing to do, though, simply for the potential advancements to democracy thanks to the digital age. Hell, the number of signatures needed to run is not really that many. Maybe I'll do it, but probably better for someone with more financial freedom than myself to give it a shot.
It might not be illegal, but it might likely be unenforceable.
A previous employer gave all us employees a new NDA to sign. A cursory read-through and pretty much nobody wanted to sign it. A coworker had a lawyer look at it, and he said there was plenty of items in there that would easily be ruled as unenforeable by a judge. Get just one thing on that contract thrown out and it's likely the entire contract will not be valid.
It's almost certainly much more humiliating for a kid with low scores to see that exposed to the adults than it is to just have your classmates know it.
Is this the same reason they no longer show the Olympics in entirety? All those people and all that humiliation of coming in last place. Those people should truly feel shame. I'm surprised their parents were even allowed to breed.
I can't even remember what service it was (this was mid 90's) but I once got an auto-generated password string from a site I registered on (might have been my online banking).
I ended up using that short string as a base password for everything and have continued to do so even today. I did this by doing the same thing you suggest, taking a small chunk and devising your own system for encrypting it while leaving it easy to recall.
Yes, there are certain site with overly simplistic password rules. For those I simply use a generic password that I would use on other sites as well. Obviously, those are what I consider "throwaway" logins and I am not concerned at all about someone finding the password as that site/service has no long-term value to me.
The sites/services that really mean something (web hosting panels, email, SSH stuff, etc) will always work with my scheme because they will always have robust password rules. If they don't, I choose another provider. This allows me to always know a password for something even though I may have not used the service in many months. Something like &Google-!@#$(mystring)$#@! or &Facebook-!@#$(mystring)$#@! is a simple enough way to do it, but you could certainly get more inventive if you like.
The Colorado floods were a natural disaster, but there were only a few deaths. The environmental consequences are much higher, part of which are all the fracking fluids that got spilled.
FYI, some of the best and brightest to ever walk this Earth were sacked for expressing this very sentiment.
If you find yourself in this situation, don't be a hero to anyone but yourself. If you have a better way, keep it to yourself, find investors and become an employer.
The problem with "solutions" is that they undermine the abilities of others. If this is deemed necessary in your current position, then you're simply better off saying "thank you for your time" and walking away NDA free.
My advice: act like a grown-up. They're paying you to code new features? Code new features. Paying you to fix bugs? Fix bugs. If you have the time and resources, refactor and fix existing code as you are able.
This is the only response you need. Like I once told a previous employer when I was given a shit project, "Hey, I don't really care what you want me to work on, but I do want you to know that this project is doomed and here's why... "
Don't forget all the roads you're going to tear up trying to plow them. Which seem ludicrous anyway. 2 or 3 inches? Snowplows? What is there to plow?
You seriously do not need 500 snowplows for a couple inches of snow. Does anyone even realize you don't just "roll out 500 snowplows"? Hell, why not convince people to buy some snowmobiles also... you know... just to be safe!
For the record, a Denver Public Works tweet mentions 70 snow plows were out for a recent event (about the same 2 or 3 inches).
Pretty much the same thing I thought when they were just doing local news stories on the subject. Now that these stories and being covered on national news, the cat is most certainly out of the bag.
Fortunately, there have been "sympathetic banks" that have been allowing these businesses to operate a bank account with a wink and nudge.
The same way I do when I try to SSH into a server and find out my IP address changed and is no longer whitelisted? I email the host's support and have them add my new IP to the whitelist.
Right? I was talking with a friend that works for a pot facility here in Colorado. The news outlets are finally starting to catch wind of the fact that some of these people are moving $50k in cash on a regular basis, and doing stories about the security practices being put in place.
My friend said she was often nervous while doing her job, and I asked her, "If some dudes with guns came in and demanded the cash, wouldn't you give it to them and try to get them out the door as quickly as possible?" She obviously agreed.
I guess the only difference between that and this story is Mr. Hiroshima was never put in direct life-threatening danger. The example about mugging, however, is completely off base. If someone mugs you, you give them your shit and get a hold of the police. If someone mugs you and you have a bigger gun than they do and decide to use it, you're betting the rest of your life on a coin flip.
I was going to simply say that the teachers get demonized because it's their fault the prison union got so big. I know that's not true, rather, I know that's not 100% true.
And this, my friend, is a fucking art and it is difficult as hell! If you want to do it properly, of course...
The art of it is having two fundamental skills or traits.
The first is obvious. You need to have a passion for teaching. If May 1 rolls around and you're focused on your summer vacation, you should probably consider a different career.
I think people really overlook the second fundamental trait, and that's to have the proper intuition to keep people coming back. You're a con man. You said actor, but I think it's a bit more than that and involves reading body language, adjusting to disruptions, and keeping kids engaged. Think more of a traveling salesman than an actor.
Nearly everything else is irrelevant if you want to be a successful and satisfied teacher. I have many friends who are teachers, and really there's only one guy that I could say possesses these two traits. Unfortunately, he works at a residential treatment facility. The kids he works with have no idea how lucky they are to have him. Hell, any prestigious prep school would be lucky to have him. I think it's great that he's working with the kids he is, but for all our sake I'd rather he helped shaped the minds of the future leaders of this country.
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It is merely ammo for a flame war. They seem to think "engagement" means for two sides to spit vitriol at each other under the banner of AC. Sometimes I feel like reading /. is akin to attending a session of Congress.
Yeah, the paywall kind of leaves a bunch of stuff to the imagination.
It's maybe also possible that they are simply smart enough to recall that different specific people use a specific language or that intent is based on things other than language.
Dogs read our emotions by looking at our facial expressions and other body language. They can then associate those with the words we use. It might seem like the dog understands what we say, but it's just Pavlov up to his old tricks.
Maybe the elephants use a similar mechanism. Their memories are outstanding, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they simply remember specific people very well and can determine their intentions by body language. Couple that with a recollection of what that person was saying (and what it sounded like) and the elephant then appears to understand differences between languages when what is really happening is they've simply been conditioned to have that response based on a sound being similar to the guy that tried to spear them previously.
I have little idea what a tiger is trying to communicate when it makes sounds, nor do I have much of an idea what a lion is trying to communicate. But if you expose me to some tigers that try to kill me, chances are I will remember what that sounded like later and I'll be able to distinguish the difference between a lion and a tiger.
Start a truly new party, something different enough to actually catch people's imagination. Perhaps a direct-democracy party with serious penalties for candidates that don't do as their constituency tells them.
I gave this some thought a few years ago. I could build a simple application that would allow constituents to vote on any random congressional bill. I would then use this as my primary campaign strategy. "Don't vote for me, vote for you." I would vow to vote the way my constituents wanted me to. Pretty damn simple, really.
I started to think further, and that it's kind of a problem I don't have the perfect political background. People would dig up dirt on me and that's not too fun. Then I thought, why would it matter? They're not voting for me, they're voting for themselves!
I think there are definitely some congressional districts that would like this type of approach, but probably not many. I think it would be an interesting thing to do, though, simply for the potential advancements to democracy thanks to the digital age. Hell, the number of signatures needed to run is not really that many. Maybe I'll do it, but probably better for someone with more financial freedom than myself to give it a shot.
It might not be illegal, but it might likely be unenforceable.
A previous employer gave all us employees a new NDA to sign. A cursory read-through and pretty much nobody wanted to sign it. A coworker had a lawyer look at it, and he said there was plenty of items in there that would easily be ruled as unenforeable by a judge. Get just one thing on that contract thrown out and it's likely the entire contract will not be valid.
I'm not sure about the reassembling part. I don't think it is capable of that without maybe some extreme heat and pressure or something.
I would assume it also ends up concentrating at higher levels as you work up the food chain, just like mercury and things like ciguatoxins.
So I guess the take-away here is that we shouldn't cannibalize anyone that is a fish eater in South Africa.
It's almost certainly much more humiliating for a kid with low scores to see that exposed to the adults than it is to just have your classmates know it.
Is this the same reason they no longer show the Olympics in entirety? All those people and all that humiliation of coming in last place. Those people should truly feel shame. I'm surprised their parents were even allowed to breed.
I can't even remember what service it was (this was mid 90's) but I once got an auto-generated password string from a site I registered on (might have been my online banking).
I ended up using that short string as a base password for everything and have continued to do so even today. I did this by doing the same thing you suggest, taking a small chunk and devising your own system for encrypting it while leaving it easy to recall.
Yes, there are certain site with overly simplistic password rules. For those I simply use a generic password that I would use on other sites as well. Obviously, those are what I consider "throwaway" logins and I am not concerned at all about someone finding the password as that site/service has no long-term value to me.
The sites/services that really mean something (web hosting panels, email, SSH stuff, etc) will always work with my scheme because they will always have robust password rules. If they don't, I choose another provider. This allows me to always know a password for something even though I may have not used the service in many months. Something like &Google-!@#$(mystring)$#@! or &Facebook-!@#$(mystring)$#@! is a simple enough way to do it, but you could certainly get more inventive if you like.
The Colorado floods were a natural disaster, but there were only a few deaths. The environmental consequences are much higher, part of which are all the fracking fluids that got spilled.
Talk about a lack of perspective.
Totes adorbs!
FYI, some of the best and brightest to ever walk this Earth were sacked for expressing this very sentiment.
If you find yourself in this situation, don't be a hero to anyone but yourself. If you have a better way, keep it to yourself, find investors and become an employer.
The problem with "solutions" is that they undermine the abilities of others. If this is deemed necessary in your current position, then you're simply better off saying "thank you for your time" and walking away NDA free.
If a hundred people get herpes, you'd probably treat them all with basically the same medicine.
If a hundred browsers visit a website, you'd probably treat them all with some sort of library that unified all the esoteric inconsistencies.
I guess you're right!
Are you the naked guy I saw running with no shoes on during the blizzard?
So does that mean if someone lives for six months in the US, and six months in NZ, they can officially become stateless?
Sign me up!
My advice: act like a grown-up. They're paying you to code new features? Code new features. Paying you to fix bugs? Fix bugs. If you have the time and resources, refactor and fix existing code as you are able.
This is the only response you need. Like I once told a previous employer when I was given a shit project, "Hey, I don't really care what you want me to work on, but I do want you to know that this project is doomed and here's why ... "
Light and dry snow? As I look out the window this evening, it sure seems pretty wet and slushy to me. (currently 34 and snowing)
Really, does the number 500 come out of thin air?
Denver Fleet. -- Keep in mind this is a city of fairly comparable size to Atlanta.
Don't forget all the roads you're going to tear up trying to plow them. Which seem ludicrous anyway. 2 or 3 inches? Snowplows? What is there to plow?
You seriously do not need 500 snowplows for a couple inches of snow. Does anyone even realize you don't just "roll out 500 snowplows"? Hell, why not convince people to buy some snowmobiles also ... you know ... just to be safe!
For the record, a Denver Public Works tweet mentions 70 snow plows were out for a recent event (about the same 2 or 3 inches).
5. Double or Triple your distance that you normally are between you and the car in font of you, to allow more time to stop.
I don't think 8 or 12 feet is going to be enough.
Pretty much the same thing I thought when they were just doing local news stories on the subject. Now that these stories and being covered on national news, the cat is most certainly out of the bag.
Fortunately, there have been "sympathetic banks" that have been allowing these businesses to operate a bank account with a wink and nudge.
The same way I do when I try to SSH into a server and find out my IP address changed and is no longer whitelisted? I email the host's support and have them add my new IP to the whitelist.
I'm sorry if that's too inconvenient for you.
I use Google Voice as my phone number, you insensitive clod!
Right? I was talking with a friend that works for a pot facility here in Colorado. The news outlets are finally starting to catch wind of the fact that some of these people are moving $50k in cash on a regular basis, and doing stories about the security practices being put in place.
My friend said she was often nervous while doing her job, and I asked her, "If some dudes with guns came in and demanded the cash, wouldn't you give it to them and try to get them out the door as quickly as possible?" She obviously agreed.
I guess the only difference between that and this story is Mr. Hiroshima was never put in direct life-threatening danger. The example about mugging, however, is completely off base. If someone mugs you, you give them your shit and get a hold of the police. If someone mugs you and you have a bigger gun than they do and decide to use it, you're betting the rest of your life on a coin flip.
How do you think whitelisting works bright guy?
I was going to simply say that the teachers get demonized because it's their fault the prison union got so big. I know that's not true, rather, I know that's not 100% true.
And this, my friend, is a fucking art and it is difficult as hell! If you want to do it properly, of course...
The art of it is having two fundamental skills or traits.
The first is obvious. You need to have a passion for teaching. If May 1 rolls around and you're focused on your summer vacation, you should probably consider a different career.
I think people really overlook the second fundamental trait, and that's to have the proper intuition to keep people coming back. You're a con man. You said actor, but I think it's a bit more than that and involves reading body language, adjusting to disruptions, and keeping kids engaged. Think more of a traveling salesman than an actor.
Nearly everything else is irrelevant if you want to be a successful and satisfied teacher. I have many friends who are teachers, and really there's only one guy that I could say possesses these two traits. Unfortunately, he works at a residential treatment facility. The kids he works with have no idea how lucky they are to have him. Hell, any prestigious prep school would be lucky to have him. I think it's great that he's working with the kids he is, but for all our sake I'd rather he helped shaped the minds of the future leaders of this country.