Not exactly. These notable examples of white men running amok are the outliers. They are a nice juicy thing for the media to latch onto. Most gun crime is not. So the mindless liberals get a really skewed idea of what's really going on and what really needs to be solved.
The solution to dealing with the dangerous places isn't the infantile approach of simply banning guns. You will still have violent criminals lurking about. They may even still have their guns despite being banned. They can just get them with the rest of their contraband.
The truth of the matter is that your serious drunks will just start sniffing glue next and perhaps just be less inconspicous in their squalor.
Plenty of places are fantasic even if you aren't rich. They usually include places where the cost of living isn't jacked up out of whack due to unbalanced supply and demand and too much media hype.
I agree with the guy that said for townies the attractions wear off after awhile and you've already done everthing. Then the glamour city starts to become a pointless grind.
> If our legislation allows a company to claim copyright on an API, then it is the law that is wrong and not that company. Isn't it?
Nice diversion there. It's specifically Oracle that's trying to push this atrocity. The fact that they can find civil servants stupid enough to go along with them glosses over the fact that they are the prime mover here.
The proof is in the pudding. If Mono were such a great thing for Linux users and Linux developers then it would already have some nice EXAMPLES to point to as to why you would want to use it. There would be apps out there saying "install Mono so you can run me".
It would be much like WINE.
A lot of droning on about rhetoric and marketing bullet points is really quite irrelevant.
For what Mono is being overhyped over, it should sell itself easily.
Don't try to kid us. In all likelihood you are a worthless nobody that has no ability to touch the kernel code anyways. You are most certainly an "acceptable loss". You simply don't matter here.
That's the key thing here. What's an acceptable loss? What's a good tradeoff?
In this regard, project management is very much governed by the same concerns that the engineering is.
Poor people are also much more likely to have 5 children each with a different person. Maintaining a healthy weight requires some degree of effort and discipline. People that never adequately prepared for their future are simply demonstrating the same faults in their eating habits as they have done in other things.
Being poor doesn't eliminate the possibility of doing better. People like that are just less likely to stay poor (been there, done that).
Yes. Quite. One of the neighbors is the equivalent of the "Two Bobs" from a well known megacorp. His job is to flush employees when things are slow and then try and hire people back on when the business cycle moves the other way.
I've always wondered how you manage to not burn all of your bridges doing crap like that.
In my own organization, the most important aspect of a new hire is "teachability". This is why we like new graduates over "senior" people. Tech is a rapidly moving area. Even if your degree from n+1 years ago was a finely tuned vocational program, chances are that it quickly became irrelevant because the industry simply moved on.
So depending on an IT degree to be a vocational training program is remarkably stupid.
Although some of the "academic nonsense" from a CS degree can be quite useful and applied to whatever the flavor of the month happens to be. Being able to do that is what separates the real talent from the pretenders.
You're assuming that the numbers account for percentage of graduates employed in the field. While it may be true that those that "make it" are well enough off, many may not "make it". BA is a pretty lightweight degree. There simply may not be enough jobs to go around for all the guys getting degrees.
It's not unusual for someone to end up in BA after washing out of something harder like engineering. The employment rate may reflect that.
Actually, I know a recently minted MBA who's first job out of school was total and utter crap. He managed to "move up" eventually but that was after getting a subsequent job where he had a good mentor and the opportunity for advancement.
No. They are NOT every bit as smart as us. It's amazing to see how many of them (the most egregious idiots) even manage to remain employed.
Also, quite often this doesn't even boil down to ignorance. They know better they just choose to ignore procedures, or how they've been trained, or industry best practices.
There's more to being your own boss than "just being smart". A lot of people are simply more specialized than that. That's a benefit from living in society. You don't have to do everything yourself.
This isn't the stone age.
Although you can minimize the politics somewhat by working for a smaller company where they don't have the luxury of putting up with any dead weight. Silicon Valley is probably great in that regard.
This right here would be my big complaint about the "better alternatives" to init. For anything but the most trivial desktop use case, they fuck up the boot sequence. Sometimes it's just glitchy behavior where things get started up out of order but they do start. Other times the box will just get stuck during startup because of some bogus error.
Manual tinkering is far more risky. The better-than-init options make it far to easy to render your system completely unbootable.
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> Does anyone really believe that doing something about cancer well prevent future illnesses?
We barely understand the problem and we're actually trying. What do you really think can be done that doesn't amount to buying into snake oil really?
Just like with gun violence, if you think there is some easy answer then you have no idea what the scope of the problem is.
Not exactly. These notable examples of white men running amok are the outliers. They are a nice juicy thing for the media to latch onto. Most gun crime is not. So the mindless liberals get a really skewed idea of what's really going on and what really needs to be solved.
But yes, NRA members are not the problem.
The solution to dealing with the dangerous places isn't the infantile approach of simply banning guns. You will still have violent criminals lurking about. They may even still have their guns despite being banned. They can just get them with the rest of their contraband.
The truth of the matter is that your serious drunks will just start sniffing glue next and perhaps just be less inconspicous in their squalor.
Plenty of places are fantasic even if you aren't rich. They usually include places where the cost of living isn't jacked up out of whack due to unbalanced supply and demand and too much media hype.
I agree with the guy that said for townies the attractions wear off after awhile and you've already done everthing. Then the glamour city starts to become a pointless grind.
No, not really. You either like a city like New York or you don't. Most people don't. That why they avoid such megacities.
The whole lot of them are like that (SFO,LA,London,NYC,DC). They are nice to visit but you probably wouldn't want to actually live there.
Glamour cities just get a lot of attention because of media concentration.
Security that can't meet real world usability requirements is ultimately useless. It doesn't matter how much contempt you show for the end user.
No. Microsoft just sues companies over nonsense like VFAT.
> If our legislation allows a company to claim copyright on an API, then it is the law that is wrong and not that company. Isn't it?
Nice diversion there. It's specifically Oracle that's trying to push this atrocity. The fact that they can find civil servants stupid enough to go along with them glosses over the fact that they are the prime mover here.
The proof is in the pudding. If Mono were such a great thing for Linux users and Linux developers then it would already have some nice EXAMPLES to point to as to why you would want to use it. There would be apps out there saying "install Mono so you can run me".
It would be much like WINE.
A lot of droning on about rhetoric and marketing bullet points is really quite irrelevant.
For what Mono is being overhyped over, it should sell itself easily.
I've never had any problems with "fake" power supplies EVER, or anything attached to them.
On the other hand, I do actively avoid Apple products.
No. He just has a realistic understanding of the Cult of Ayn Rand and what that means for corporate governance.
Sure... it's "stealing" despite the fact that you never actually "stole" anything and have actually paid for it too.
It's not "piracy". It's a violation of the DMCA.
Amazon sells a competing product.
Amazon also sells speciality Android hardware with XBMC preloaded.
Don't try to kid us. In all likelihood you are a worthless nobody that has no ability to touch the kernel code anyways. You are most certainly an "acceptable loss". You simply don't matter here.
That's the key thing here. What's an acceptable loss? What's a good tradeoff?
In this regard, project management is very much governed by the same concerns that the engineering is.
The BMI is only valid even for a subset of Northern Europeans. For people that are taller it's invalid. It's also invalid for other ethnic groups.
Peformance is a far more useful metric. It also separates out the anorexics from those that are genuinely fit.
Those BMI numbers also originally arose from a time of global economic catastrophe. Their value should be doubted simply for that.
No. It's about having better impulse control.
Poor people are also much more likely to have 5 children each with a different person. Maintaining a healthy weight requires some degree of effort and discipline. People that never adequately prepared for their future are simply demonstrating the same faults in their eating habits as they have done in other things.
Being poor doesn't eliminate the possibility of doing better. People like that are just less likely to stay poor (been there, done that).
They already did apparently. They just wanted to charge more than one person for the same "performance".
Yes. Quite. One of the neighbors is the equivalent of the "Two Bobs" from a well known megacorp. His job is to flush employees when things are slow and then try and hire people back on when the business cycle moves the other way.
I've always wondered how you manage to not burn all of your bridges doing crap like that.
In my own organization, the most important aspect of a new hire is "teachability". This is why we like new graduates over "senior" people. Tech is a rapidly moving area. Even if your degree from n+1 years ago was a finely tuned vocational program, chances are that it quickly became irrelevant because the industry simply moved on.
So depending on an IT degree to be a vocational training program is remarkably stupid.
Although some of the "academic nonsense" from a CS degree can be quite useful and applied to whatever the flavor of the month happens to be. Being able to do that is what separates the real talent from the pretenders.
...lies, damned lies, and...
You're assuming that the numbers account for percentage of graduates employed in the field. While it may be true that those that "make it" are well enough off, many may not "make it". BA is a pretty lightweight degree. There simply may not be enough jobs to go around for all the guys getting degrees.
It's not unusual for someone to end up in BA after washing out of something harder like engineering. The employment rate may reflect that.
Actually, I know a recently minted MBA who's first job out of school was total and utter crap. He managed to "move up" eventually but that was after getting a subsequent job where he had a good mentor and the opportunity for advancement.
A philosophy degree by itself won't entitle you to even become a lawyer at all. The various local guilds simply won't let it happen.
No. They are NOT every bit as smart as us. It's amazing to see how many of them (the most egregious idiots) even manage to remain employed.
Also, quite often this doesn't even boil down to ignorance. They know better they just choose to ignore procedures, or how they've been trained, or industry best practices.
There's more to being your own boss than "just being smart". A lot of people are simply more specialized than that. That's a benefit from living in society. You don't have to do everything yourself.
This isn't the stone age.
Although you can minimize the politics somewhat by working for a smaller company where they don't have the luxury of putting up with any dead weight. Silicon Valley is probably great in that regard.
Based on the behavior of the average ISP, all of the arrogance and and disrespect that those of us can muster here is WELL JUSTIFIED.
This right here would be my big complaint about the "better alternatives" to init. For anything but the most trivial desktop use case, they fuck up the boot sequence. Sometimes it's just glitchy behavior where things get started up out of order but they do start. Other times the box will just get stuck during startup because of some bogus error.
Manual tinkering is far more risky. The better-than-init options make it far to easy to render your system completely unbootable.