Reasons: - I can't provide meaningful help anyway, living on a different continent an ocean apart;...
"Can't" and "won't" aren't synonymous. The most meaningful way most of us can help is by donating to the relief funds. Don't pretend that the ocean is standing in your way. It's not. Believe it or not, most of the world has water between it and Puerto Rico. Big water. Ocean water.
Although the OP seems to have exaggerated a bit: the owner wasn't "born and raised" in Hawaii, he just had relatives there and went there to visit them every summer as a kid.
What's the minimum amount of time somebody has to live in Hawaii before they can open a Hawaiian-themed restaurant without being insensitive? My opinion? None.
The guy I replaced is quite a bit older than I am (35 yrs I'm guessing?) Those are years of experience, not deterioration. He wrote most of the 340,000 lines of C++ I inherited and, from what I can tell, still keeps it all in his head. Here I am a month into the job excited that I'm learning what the call stack is and how a debug assertion error works. After a year I've come a long way, but fully recognize how far there is to go.
I hired on as "dead weight". At best. By education, I have an MSEE but had only limited, self-taught, 20-year old programming experience. After parting with my EE job about a year ago, I hired on as my new company's sole "Programmer". (I was shotgunning my resume out and lucked into a great position that I was radically unqualified for - Must've been my irresistible charm.) I don't think that a 20:1 productivity ratio between my predecessor-at-retirement and first-day-gnick is an exaggeration. Not at all. Declaring negative productivity might have been fair. I've closed that gap quite a bit since hiring on, but it'll take a long time before I'm at his level. I'd be shocked if he made twice what they pay me, although there's no question he was worth it compared to what they've gotten from me.
If the top 10 results for a Google Search query all want $4 for a 30-day subscription just to view one page, how is a viewer supposed to build a rounded picture of an issue by comparing articles from multiple sources?
Ads are immoral -- they don't respect my time, space, bandwidth, or money...
Of course they respect your time - They're buying it from you. Your time, space, and bandwidth are what they're purchasing in exchange for access to the content they're linked to. Your money is the ultimate prize. How can you say ads don't respect those things when they're literally the entire goal?
Maybe you're saying that they don't respect your time because they're demanding more than you think is fair? Browse elsewhere or pay for ad-free premium content.
But as a way to pay for content, this is kind of brilliant.
If this was an alternative to ads and had some CPU cap, I'd agree. But this is being deployed in addition to ads and I don't know how aggressive it is about consuming resources.
Itâ(TM)s called being salaried. I come in when I want and leave when I want, as long as the work gets done nobody cares.
Right now, I'm employed as an hourly "Programmer" and put in exactly 80 hours every 2 weeks. I set my own hours at about 6:30-3:00. When I was salaried, that was not the case. I was expected to be at work from 9:00-3:00 with a 30-60 minute lunch between 11 & 1. Outside that I could work when I wanted. It was explained to me that 40 hours was the minimum number I should charge to my projects during the week. It was expected that I'd charge more. Getting all my work done was secondary. Charging hours to the customer and making money for the company was Job #1.
Do you mean before they abandoned the gold standard in 1971 and inflation went through the roof?
That's not the only thing that was happening with the economy at the time. We had a major manufacturing bubble for a couple/few decades after WWII while all of our competitors were busy rebuilding their infrastructure. Eventually, those countries became competition again. So the situation where a married couple with 3 kids landed in a 4 bedroom house with 2 cars while one person worked an entry level manufacturing job didn't just fall apart - It was an anomaly that it was ever realistic.
It would of course mean you can't set foot within their sovereign soil without facing their punishment, but that's pretty easy to avoid.
I'm in New Mexico. For a lot of travel around the state, that sovereign soil is not easy to avoid. Specifically, you have to drive right by the casinos as the tribes won't allow construction of more direct routes that would avoid them.
I for one will NEVER put my life in the hands of a computer.
Good luck with that. Maybe you'll never willingly/knowingly put your life in the hands of a computer, but if you've ever flown then you already have. That's not the only example.
They said we'd have flying cars when my grandfather was a kid... And people have also been saying driverless cars...
I don't get it. Driverless cars are HERE. They need work before we can say confidently say they're safer than humans, but we have prototypes driving around. These aren't illustrations in "Future Now!" magazine; these are actual, moving, autonomous car prototypes.
Hell even the trucking companies who've run trials with driverless trucks are finding that while the workers complain, they still got a better return.
For now. Early adopters never see the highest ROI, but I'm more confident than you that these human truck drivers are endangered.
A friend told me that after three hours, it does it again.
Or 90 jack offs at the current rate.
You might get your first one out in 2 minutes. If you're gifted, maybe even your second 2 minutes later. But by #80 or so, it's hard to maintain that pace. Maybe I'm just getting old.
A person's sentence is based on the charges against him. It sounds like there's a proposal for additional charges, on which the sentence would be based. Are you talking about digging up past viewing habits for convicted terrorists and re-trying them to EXTEND their sentence? That's the only way I can make sense of what you're saying and it still seems silly. Maybe I AM failing reading comprehension because your comment sure seems like nonsense.
Somebody gets caught committing a terrorist act and you want to base his sentencing on his video habits? That seems silly. Surely in that case there would be more relevant charges.
"I'm sorry, but you purchased the Platinum edition. The Undo button is only available in the Quantum edition. You do not meet the system requirements for the Quantum edition."
IT ONLY TOOK 2 SECONDS TO THINK, WHY DOES IT TAKE 6 MONTHS TO WRITE?!
Last week, one of my users suggested an Undo button. Just a simple button that can revert after any potential operation. Specifically, he wanted to Undo a "Save". He did the hard part (conceptualizing an Undo button); the trivial task of implementation was left to me.
(Actually my role was pretty easy. A quick note to my boss: "This guy wants a universal Undo button. It would be a PITA. Let's ignore him.")
Making nice and poking fun are not the only options. There's no easy answer, but damn near everyone is in agreement that calling Kim names is fucking reckless.
List the issues you believe Trump is not tackling responsibly, troll.
Let's start with #NoKo and work from there. He's regularly addressing the situation, but I wouldn't call poking fun at Little Rocket Man responsible handling.
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Reasons: ...
- I can't provide meaningful help anyway, living on a different continent an ocean apart;
"Can't" and "won't" aren't synonymous. The most meaningful way most of us can help is by donating to the relief funds. Don't pretend that the ocean is standing in your way. It's not. Believe it or not, most of the world has water between it and Puerto Rico. Big water. Ocean water.
Although the OP seems to have exaggerated a bit: the owner wasn't "born and raised" in Hawaii, he just had relatives there and went there to visit them every summer as a kid.
What's the minimum amount of time somebody has to live in Hawaii before they can open a Hawaiian-themed restaurant without being insensitive? My opinion? None.
The guy I replaced is quite a bit older than I am (35 yrs I'm guessing?) Those are years of experience, not deterioration. He wrote most of the 340,000 lines of C++ I inherited and, from what I can tell, still keeps it all in his head. Here I am a month into the job excited that I'm learning what the call stack is and how a debug assertion error works. After a year I've come a long way, but fully recognize how far there is to go.
I hired on as "dead weight". At best. By education, I have an MSEE but had only limited, self-taught, 20-year old programming experience. After parting with my EE job about a year ago, I hired on as my new company's sole "Programmer". (I was shotgunning my resume out and lucked into a great position that I was radically unqualified for - Must've been my irresistible charm.) I don't think that a 20:1 productivity ratio between my predecessor-at-retirement and first-day-gnick is an exaggeration. Not at all. Declaring negative productivity might have been fair. I've closed that gap quite a bit since hiring on, but it'll take a long time before I'm at his level. I'd be shocked if he made twice what they pay me, although there's no question he was worth it compared to what they've gotten from me.
If the top 10 results for a Google Search query all want $4 for a 30-day subscription just to view one page, how is a viewer supposed to build a rounded picture of an issue by comparing articles from multiple sources?
By viewing ads.
If I "pay for ad-free premium content" on one site, which other sites will honor my having "pa[id] for ad-free premium content"?
Surely you can't tell me that EVERY DEVELOPER wants to be paid for his time or bandwidth! I'd like a subscription to the Internet, please.
I was earning $50,000 a year in Silicon Valley... What am I supposed to do now for a job?
Sell the cardboard box you've been living in and move the hell out of Silicon Valley. I hear there are great opportunities leasing through Uber.
Ads are immoral -- they don't respect my time, space, bandwidth, or money...
Of course they respect your time - They're buying it from you. Your time, space, and bandwidth are what they're purchasing in exchange for access to the content they're linked to. Your money is the ultimate prize. How can you say ads don't respect those things when they're literally the entire goal?
Maybe you're saying that they don't respect your time because they're demanding more than you think is fair? Browse elsewhere or pay for ad-free premium content.
But as a way to pay for content, this is kind of brilliant.
If this was an alternative to ads and had some CPU cap, I'd agree. But this is being deployed in addition to ads and I don't know how aggressive it is about consuming resources.
Itâ(TM)s called being salaried. I come in when I want and leave when I want, as long as the work gets done nobody cares.
Right now, I'm employed as an hourly "Programmer" and put in exactly 80 hours every 2 weeks. I set my own hours at about 6:30-3:00. When I was salaried, that was not the case. I was expected to be at work from 9:00-3:00 with a 30-60 minute lunch between 11 & 1. Outside that I could work when I wanted. It was explained to me that 40 hours was the minimum number I should charge to my projects during the week. It was expected that I'd charge more. Getting all my work done was secondary. Charging hours to the customer and making money for the company was Job #1.
Do you mean before they abandoned the gold standard in 1971 and inflation went through the roof?
That's not the only thing that was happening with the economy at the time. We had a major manufacturing bubble for a couple/few decades after WWII while all of our competitors were busy rebuilding their infrastructure. Eventually, those countries became competition again. So the situation where a married couple with 3 kids landed in a 4 bedroom house with 2 cars while one person worked an entry level manufacturing job didn't just fall apart - It was an anomaly that it was ever realistic.
It would of course mean you can't set foot within their sovereign soil without facing their punishment, but that's pretty easy to avoid.
I'm in New Mexico. For a lot of travel around the state, that sovereign soil is not easy to avoid. Specifically, you have to drive right by the casinos as the tribes won't allow construction of more direct routes that would avoid them.
I for one will NEVER put my life in the hands of a computer.
Good luck with that. Maybe you'll never willingly/knowingly put your life in the hands of a computer, but if you've ever flown then you already have. That's not the only example.
They said we'd have flying cars when my grandfather was a kid... And people have also been saying driverless cars...
I don't get it. Driverless cars are HERE. They need work before we can say confidently say they're safer than humans, but we have prototypes driving around. These aren't illustrations in "Future Now!" magazine; these are actual, moving, autonomous car prototypes.
Hell even the trucking companies who've run trials with driverless trucks are finding that while the workers complain, they still got a better return.
For now. Early adopters never see the highest ROI, but I'm more confident than you that these human truck drivers are endangered.
Maybe I've just never hit a site that uses tab-unders... I'd just leave the site and never return...
Piracy and porn.
A friend told me that after three hours, it does it again.
Or 90 jack offs at the current rate.
You might get your first one out in 2 minutes. If you're gifted, maybe even your second 2 minutes later. But by #80 or so, it's hard to maintain that pace. Maybe I'm just getting old.
A person's sentence is based on the charges against him. It sounds like there's a proposal for additional charges, on which the sentence would be based. Are you talking about digging up past viewing habits for convicted terrorists and re-trying them to EXTEND their sentence? That's the only way I can make sense of what you're saying and it still seems silly. Maybe I AM failing reading comprehension because your comment sure seems like nonsense.
...will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
That seems likely. A license or equivalent. Enforcing child porn laws has similar protections.
I have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that I downloaded as a teenager in the mid-90s. Should I be afraid?
Somebody gets caught committing a terrorist act and you want to base his sentencing on his video habits? That seems silly. Surely in that case there would be more relevant charges.
If they took half my brain and transplanted it to a new body, which one would be me?
Neither and both.
"I'm sorry, but you purchased the Platinum edition. The Undo button is only available in the Quantum edition. You do not meet the system requirements for the Quantum edition."
IT ONLY TOOK 2 SECONDS TO THINK, WHY DOES IT TAKE 6 MONTHS TO WRITE?!
Last week, one of my users suggested an Undo button. Just a simple button that can revert after any potential operation. Specifically, he wanted to Undo a "Save". He did the hard part (conceptualizing an Undo button); the trivial task of implementation was left to me.
(Actually my role was pretty easy. A quick note to my boss: "This guy wants a universal Undo button. It would be a PITA. Let's ignore him.")
They claim, rightly, that groups of people should not be judged based on the actions of the few.
Not even the few they elect?
Making nice and poking fun are not the only options. There's no easy answer, but damn near everyone is in agreement that calling Kim names is fucking reckless.
List the issues you believe Trump is not tackling responsibly, troll.
Let's start with #NoKo and work from there. He's regularly addressing the situation, but I wouldn't call poking fun at Little Rocket Man responsible handling.