Standards are not being lowered for diversity hires. Stop perpetuating this bullshit.
They absolutely are. Even when your life is on the line. Female soldiers, firefighters, etc. have to pass easier qualification tests than their male counterparts. That's absolute and utter bullshit that:
1: Lets under-qualified people in to critical roles. 2: Is unfair to one half of the population. 3: Perpetuates the sexist idea that the other half of the population isn't as good and needs a handicap. (Even when this is true on average, those who beat the bell curve and can make it on their own still get treated as if they only got where they were because of the handicap.)
Your distinction is false. FBI, CIA, etc. are all acronyms. They're just abstracted names. Acronym literally means high name.
The term "initialism" is bullshit. It was bandied about in the late 1950s by some clown trying to foist your ridiculous distinction on the world. No one bought into it, nor should they have. The word "initialism" was already in use well prior, referring specifically to authors names.
Off the top of my head, cryptocurrencies that require proof of work seem to all suffer from this flaw.
Yes, this is intrinsic to proof of work. No, it is not a flaw. It's an intentional feature. People calling it a flaw are idiots or charlatans who want to get you to trust their proof of stake system, where the rich get richer simply because they're rich.
That's not Bitcoin. Such efforts are, at best, shit running on top of Bitcoin. Workable? Maybe. As trustworthy, resilient, etc. as Botcoin itself? Hell no.
The climate models only work when man-made inputs are included.
The climate models don't work. At all. No matter how hard they tweak them or how much they "adjust" the past data, they cannot predict a single fucking year into the future with any accuracy, let alone the 10 years they always use to claim will be the point of no return.
Their fucking jet pack belt shit is so fucking stupid. You're telling me they have the technology to create, maintain, and refuel those things, but they still rock the middle ages for everything else? And of course you have the magic lines and the magic blades. They may as well all be Spiderman + Wolverine rolled into one. It's as bad as Naruto where they're constantly flying, but the explanation is that they're cool ninja with skills and they're just running super fast (with the arms dragging way back behind them) and leaping non stop.
I'm like 10 episodes behind because it's gotten so fucking boring despite them desperately trying to layer more convoluted bullshit on top to make things seem complex. Only in anime do you get 6 fucking episodes to reveal one plot point that was telegraphed in its entirety last season. Attack on Titan is turning into Sword Art Online. It's REVERSE development. It's devolving into a pile of all the shitty tropes found across anime but with none of the interesting plot that it started out with.
They were examples intended to explain away the obvious signs that this is all fake.
Yes, something can be delivered without the postage being canceled. It's very, rare. It's also much rarer for something to have NO postage marks at all. To suggest that these packages could have gone through the USPS in any normal fashion is bullshit. If we had 1, maybe. 2? There's an outside chance. But all of these? Fuck off.
As for hand delivering, nope. The narrative is that this was a lone, right-wing nut with a crazy van. He COULDN'T hand deliver all of these.
As for couriers, nope. They generally won't take shit with postage, generally slap on their own tracking tags, generally won't take a bunch of shady looking packages from a dude with an obviously fake return address targeting a bunch of political people, etc.
Innocent until proven guilty ? How did that work out for "crooked hillary" ?
Seems like, so far, she's gotten away with multiple proven felonies (relating to her campaign, mail server, dissemination of classified information, etc.) and dozens or hundreds of others she's suspected to be directly involved with (lots of suicides with 2 shots to the back of the head, lots of staffers murdered in the night in botched robberies where nothing was taken, etc.).
Lastly, the premise that if a stamp is not canceled it was therefore not mailed through the USPS is incorrect. As the executive director of the American Philatelic Society, Scott English, tells TWS Fact Check, “It is possible for mail to go through the mail without being cancelled by the USPS. There are still hand-stamped packages and in other cases, a postal clerk will use a magic marker to draw a line through stamps. There is no standard throughout the country.”
You're a retard. That's simply stating that sometimes there's a fuckup and the worker PHYSICALLY MISSES when cancelling or FORGETS to cancel. Do you actually believe that somehow happened for all of these packages, at every point along the delivery?
It's not supposed to work. It's an obvious false flag with props (there was not even attempt to make actual bombs). You're just not supposed to pay attention and think.
Nononono get out of here with your facts. You aren't supposed to use the liberal CA rule that defines political ideology as a protected class. That's a cudgel for liberals to use, it's NOT FAIR to apply the law equally. And what are you doing pointing out the recent decision that jeopardizes our overlords and their ability to kick us out of their "open" platform discriminatorily? YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Android is Google spyware on top of Java (but don't call it Java - Oracle keeps suing us) on top of Linux on top of busted ass Qualcomm hardware that for some reason prevents us from updating anything running on it after Qualcomm cuts off support.
Don't worry guys, Project Fuchsia will fix it all!!!
People try to claim things like Qualcomm's Quickchare is BAD because it's "proprietary", or because it "violates the standard".
USB is proprietary, locked down, expensive, etc. It's just widespread.
Quickcharge being proprietary is no worse then USB being proprietary. On technical merits alone, Qualcomm has been beating the shit out of the USB Implementers Forum when it comes to fast charging shit. They were already well established years before USB IF even tried anything, and Qualcomm keeps improving their offerings regularly.
Qualcomm isn't "violating the standard". When Quickcharge came about, it looked for COMPATIBLE devices, then gave them more juice. They EXTENDED the standard. Everything else worked just as before. Now that we have USB-PD, Quickcharge isn't in violation of it, it's a COMPETING standard.
1) qualcomm's quick charge actually violated the USB spec.
It never claimed to BE part of the spec. It didn't violate it. It ignored it (or extended it since it didn't break any existing functionality).
Their quick charge still used USB cables to provide power. micro-usb wasn't designed to handshake or negotiate the cable's capabilities to the charger and the phone. The usb cable standard did NOT allow for quickcharge power draw. That actually IS dangerous.
Standard USB cables are fine. The extra power isn't gonna fry a cable - any cable crappy enough to get fried by a Quickcharge adapter that doesn't get a handshake would be fried by regular USB anyway. If handshaking fails, Quickcharge fails safe. If it succeeds, THEN Quickcharge comes into play. It's no more dangerous than anything the actual USB Implementers Forum has put out. It's dangerous only if you have shitty devices with no basic electrical engineering standards.
2) Google's 10w proprietary standard is negotiated, and there's no intermediate medium (unless you count the air molecules between the charger and the device, and I'm pretty sure there's no specification defining their behavior)
Quickcharge is negotiated. I think only 1.0 wasn't negotiated, but it had basic detection circuitry and also failed safe. If Quickcharge was dangerous I'd have jumped in on a bunch of class action suits to get several pittances. yet here we are.
By no standard definition is usb-pd proprietary.
ALL OF USB is proprietary. It is not open, it is not free, it is not extensible, it is not licensable, it is not sane, etc. It is WIDESPREAD and that's about it.
Google want$ to provide quick charging only from companie$ that give them obei$ance.
Obeisance?
And the Android, never flitting, still is shitting, still is shitting On the grim carcass of RIM stuck behind my old shelf drawer; And his pixels have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the LED-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my phone from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be updated-nevermore!
100% this. Google fought and bitched and moaned and campaigned and actively brainwashed users to think that USB Power Delivery (which is ALSO proprietary) is the only acceptable, safe, safe, good, etc. option. (This all despite the fact that their own products violate the spec, including some in unsafe ways.) Now they turn around and pull this shit?
But you seem to be starting out on the assumption that Netflix pays as much as they can for the first season. What really happens is that there's a lot of aspiring actors, directors, writers etc. so they'll start low and go *shrug* there's a hundred more in line behind you if you don't want the offer. And they will threaten to write you out of the script if you demand too much for the next season, they'll figure that out before the series is renewed. They'll keep renewing the shows that are profitable, not necessarily because they're popular if the costs get out of hand. And the last bit is a bit duh, if making "more or better" Netflix doesn't give any value it's just waste. If "more or better" gives value, then naturally you can charge more for that value. From a for-profit company's point of view, if you're not willing to pay for it it's not valuable.
I'm not assuming that.
90% of "Netflix Originals" are shit. 90% of those are low budget shit. Those can be safely ignored. They don't contribute significantly to cost OR subscribers.
The problem is when one of those "Netflix Originals" becomes a hit. Then the costs skyrocket. Netflix has a pattern of axing its most successful content after 2 or 3 seasons because no matter how much people like it, they can't bear the ever-increasing costs.
Sometimes Netflix skips the cheap phase because they're hunting for awards. See Stranger Things, Bright, the shit with the Obamas. These are HUGE spends on BIG names just to get notoriety that are far removed from actual subscriber increases. These projects wouldn't get the attention they do WITHOUT spending the big bucks on the people involved.
Content begets subscribers. Make good content, you get more subscribers looking for that content.
Netflix subscriptions have plateaued. More good content won't get more subscribers.
And then they discover other stuff you have already done, staying around and paying fees for stuff you are only paying bandwidth to serve.
That's the game, and it's one Netflix appears to be good at - others are trying to replicate it (Amazon, Apple, HBO, Cinemax, etc.)
No, people on Netflix already know everything Netflix has to offer. It's a pretty thin library. And with the binge model, you can sub for a month, see everything that even vaguely interests you, then cancel for 11 months.
Netflix is slowly learning to ape HBO and others. HBO gets by because people stick around for 3 months to catch 10 weeks of Game of Thrones, then stick around for 3 more months to catch 10 weeks of Westworld or whatever else. (I for one couldn't get through the second season of Westworld.) Even when the full back catalog is available, most people want to watch the new shit ASAP. Netflix is starting to drip feed some content in that traditional scheme in order to keep people from routinely stoping and restarting their subscriptions.
The content won't be worth much in a couple of years.
Not on Netflix, which is why they're already syndicating their shows elsewhere. Bojack Horseman is coming to FX / FXX (or was it AdultSwim?), for example. Either they sell it for big bucks and try to cash in immediately, or they sell it cheap and negotiate for a chunk of the ad revenue on each run?
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What law was broken? What crime was committed? When's the trial? Is he in custody? Did he post bail?
Standards are not being lowered for diversity hires. Stop perpetuating this bullshit.
They absolutely are. Even when your life is on the line. Female soldiers, firefighters, etc. have to pass easier qualification tests than their male counterparts. That's absolute and utter bullshit that:
1: Lets under-qualified people in to critical roles.
2: Is unfair to one half of the population.
3: Perpetuates the sexist idea that the other half of the population isn't as good and needs a handicap. (Even when this is true on average, those who beat the bell curve and can make it on their own still get treated as if they only got where they were because of the handicap.)
Your distinction is false. FBI, CIA, etc. are all acronyms. They're just abstracted names. Acronym literally means high name.
The term "initialism" is bullshit. It was bandied about in the late 1950s by some clown trying to foist your ridiculous distinction on the world. No one bought into it, nor should they have. The word "initialism" was already in use well prior, referring specifically to authors names.
I remember people celebrating in the streets when that happened. I watched news footage of people half a world away cheering and celebrating.
I'm not clicking that XKCD link. But extrapolation was done by the Simpsons much earlier and far better: https://www.billboard.com/file...
Off the top of my head, cryptocurrencies that require proof of work seem to all suffer from this flaw.
Yes, this is intrinsic to proof of work. No, it is not a flaw. It's an intentional feature. People calling it a flaw are idiots or charlatans who want to get you to trust their proof of stake system, where the rich get richer simply because they're rich.
I solved for U. U=0
That's not Bitcoin. Such efforts are, at best, shit running on top of Bitcoin. Workable? Maybe. As trustworthy, resilient, etc. as Botcoin itself? Hell no.
The climate models only work when man-made inputs are included.
The climate models don't work. At all. No matter how hard they tweak them or how much they "adjust" the past data, they cannot predict a single fucking year into the future with any accuracy, let alone the 10 years they always use to claim will be the point of no return.
Their fucking jet pack belt shit is so fucking stupid. You're telling me they have the technology to create, maintain, and refuel those things, but they still rock the middle ages for everything else? And of course you have the magic lines and the magic blades. They may as well all be Spiderman + Wolverine rolled into one. It's as bad as Naruto where they're constantly flying, but the explanation is that they're cool ninja with skills and they're just running super fast (with the arms dragging way back behind them) and leaping non stop.
I'm like 10 episodes behind because it's gotten so fucking boring despite them desperately trying to layer more convoluted bullshit on top to make things seem complex. Only in anime do you get 6 fucking episodes to reveal one plot point that was telegraphed in its entirety last season. Attack on Titan is turning into Sword Art Online. It's REVERSE development. It's devolving into a pile of all the shitty tropes found across anime but with none of the interesting plot that it started out with.
And knowingly lying about them can get you into serious shit.
They were examples intended to explain away the obvious signs that this is all fake.
Yes, something can be delivered without the postage being canceled. It's very, rare. It's also much rarer for something to have NO postage marks at all. To suggest that these packages could have gone through the USPS in any normal fashion is bullshit. If we had 1, maybe. 2? There's an outside chance. But all of these? Fuck off.
As for hand delivering, nope. The narrative is that this was a lone, right-wing nut with a crazy van. He COULDN'T hand deliver all of these.
As for couriers, nope. They generally won't take shit with postage, generally slap on their own tracking tags, generally won't take a bunch of shady looking packages from a dude with an obviously fake return address targeting a bunch of political people, etc.
This is all bullshit, and it's plain as day.
Innocent until proven guilty ? How did that work out for "crooked hillary" ?
Seems like, so far, she's gotten away with multiple proven felonies (relating to her campaign, mail server, dissemination of classified information, etc.) and dozens or hundreds of others she's suspected to be directly involved with (lots of suicides with 2 shots to the back of the head, lots of staffers murdered in the night in botched robberies where nothing was taken, etc.).
Damn, STICKERS? They got him! We've NEVER seen anyone try to frame shit up as being done by someone else! Certainly not the DNC!!!
All of the photos of the packages show absolutely no post marks, barcodes, cancelled postage..
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None of the packages shown have ever been in the USPS system, nor Fedex, UPS, etc, etc..
What the fuck?
The fuck is that you're an uninformed idiot.
From Fact Check: 'Canceled Stamp' Conspiracy (a conservative opinion site, BTW):
Lastly, the premise that if a stamp is not canceled it was therefore not mailed through the USPS is incorrect. As the executive director of the American Philatelic Society, Scott English, tells TWS Fact Check, “It is possible for mail to go through the mail without being cancelled by the USPS. There are still hand-stamped packages and in other cases, a postal clerk will use a magic marker to draw a line through stamps. There is no standard throughout the country.”
You're a retard. That's simply stating that sometimes there's a fuckup and the worker PHYSICALLY MISSES when cancelling or FORGETS to cancel.
Do you actually believe that somehow happened for all of these packages, at every point along the delivery?
It's not supposed to work. It's an obvious false flag with props (there was not even attempt to make actual bombs).
You're just not supposed to pay attention and think.
Nononono get out of here with your facts. You aren't supposed to use the liberal CA rule that defines political ideology as a protected class. That's a cudgel for liberals to use, it's NOT FAIR to apply the law equally. And what are you doing pointing out the recent decision that jeopardizes our overlords and their ability to kick us out of their "open" platform discriminatorily? YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Android is Google spyware on top of Java (but don't call it Java - Oracle keeps suing us) on top of Linux on top of busted ass Qualcomm hardware that for some reason prevents us from updating anything running on it after Qualcomm cuts off support.
Don't worry guys, Project Fuchsia will fix it all!!!
People try to claim things like Qualcomm's Quickchare is BAD because it's "proprietary", or because it "violates the standard".
USB is proprietary, locked down, expensive, etc. It's just widespread.
Quickcharge being proprietary is no worse then USB being proprietary. On technical merits alone, Qualcomm has been beating the shit out of the USB Implementers Forum when it comes to fast charging shit. They were already well established years before USB IF even tried anything, and Qualcomm keeps improving their offerings regularly.
Qualcomm isn't "violating the standard". When Quickcharge came about, it looked for COMPATIBLE devices, then gave them more juice. They EXTENDED the standard. Everything else worked just as before. Now that we have USB-PD, Quickcharge isn't in violation of it, it's a COMPETING standard.
1) qualcomm's quick charge actually violated the USB spec.
It never claimed to BE part of the spec. It didn't violate it. It ignored it (or extended it since it didn't break any existing functionality).
Their quick charge still used USB cables to provide power. micro-usb wasn't designed to handshake or negotiate the cable's capabilities to the charger and the phone. The usb cable standard did NOT allow for quickcharge power draw. That actually IS dangerous.
Standard USB cables are fine. The extra power isn't gonna fry a cable - any cable crappy enough to get fried by a Quickcharge adapter that doesn't get a handshake would be fried by regular USB anyway. If handshaking fails, Quickcharge fails safe. If it succeeds, THEN Quickcharge comes into play. It's no more dangerous than anything the actual USB Implementers Forum has put out. It's dangerous only if you have shitty devices with no basic electrical engineering standards.
2) Google's 10w proprietary standard is negotiated, and there's no intermediate medium (unless you count the air molecules between the charger and the device, and I'm pretty sure there's no specification defining their behavior)
Quickcharge is negotiated. I think only 1.0 wasn't negotiated, but it had basic detection circuitry and also failed safe. If Quickcharge was dangerous I'd have jumped in on a bunch of class action suits to get several pittances. yet here we are.
By no standard definition is usb-pd proprietary.
ALL OF USB is proprietary. It is not open, it is not free, it is not extensible, it is not licensable, it is not sane, etc. It is WIDESPREAD and that's about it.
Google want$ to provide quick charging only from companie$ that give them obei$ance.
Obeisance?
And the Android, never flitting, still is shitting, still is shitting
On the grim carcass of RIM stuck behind my old shelf drawer;
And his pixels have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the LED-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my phone from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be updated-nevermore!
100% this. Google fought and bitched and moaned and campaigned and actively brainwashed users to think that USB Power Delivery (which is ALSO proprietary) is the only acceptable, safe, safe, good, etc. option. (This all despite the fact that their own products violate the spec, including some in unsafe ways.) Now they turn around and pull this shit?
Fuck you, Google.
But you seem to be starting out on the assumption that Netflix pays as much as they can for the first season. What really happens is that there's a lot of aspiring actors, directors, writers etc. so they'll start low and go *shrug* there's a hundred more in line behind you if you don't want the offer. And they will threaten to write you out of the script if you demand too much for the next season, they'll figure that out before the series is renewed. They'll keep renewing the shows that are profitable, not necessarily because they're popular if the costs get out of hand. And the last bit is a bit duh, if making "more or better" Netflix doesn't give any value it's just waste. If "more or better" gives value, then naturally you can charge more for that value. From a for-profit company's point of view, if you're not willing to pay for it it's not valuable.
I'm not assuming that.
90% of "Netflix Originals" are shit. 90% of those are low budget shit. Those can be safely ignored. They don't contribute significantly to cost OR subscribers.
The problem is when one of those "Netflix Originals" becomes a hit. Then the costs skyrocket. Netflix has a pattern of axing its most successful content after 2 or 3 seasons because no matter how much people like it, they can't bear the ever-increasing costs.
Sometimes Netflix skips the cheap phase because they're hunting for awards. See Stranger Things, Bright, the shit with the Obamas. These are HUGE spends on BIG names just to get notoriety that are far removed from actual subscriber increases. These projects wouldn't get the attention they do WITHOUT spending the big bucks on the people involved.
Content begets subscribers. Make good content, you get more subscribers looking for that content.
Netflix subscriptions have plateaued. More good content won't get more subscribers.
And then they discover other stuff you have already done, staying around and paying fees for stuff you are only paying bandwidth to serve.
That's the game, and it's one Netflix appears to be good at - others are trying to replicate it (Amazon, Apple, HBO, Cinemax, etc.)
No, people on Netflix already know everything Netflix has to offer. It's a pretty thin library. And with the binge model, you can sub for a month, see everything that even vaguely interests you, then cancel for 11 months.
Netflix is slowly learning to ape HBO and others. HBO gets by because people stick around for 3 months to catch 10 weeks of Game of Thrones, then stick around for 3 more months to catch 10 weeks of Westworld or whatever else. (I for one couldn't get through the second season of Westworld.) Even when the full back catalog is available, most people want to watch the new shit ASAP. Netflix is starting to drip feed some content in that traditional scheme in order to keep people from routinely stoping and restarting their subscriptions.
The content won't be worth much in a couple of years.
Not on Netflix, which is why they're already syndicating their shows elsewhere. Bojack Horseman is coming to FX / FXX (or was it AdultSwim?), for example.
Either they sell it for big bucks and try to cash in immediately, or they sell it cheap and negotiate for a chunk of the ad revenue on each run?