If you look at her social media posts, it is clear that she was not emotionally stable and while her views were not particularly extreme, she was very passionate and riled up about even small issues. She should have had her security clearance revoked long ago.
I've seen clearances pulled for emotional instability before, but only when sparked by reported alcohol treatment. I don't know the extent that social media plays in determining somebody's fitness for a clearance with the NSA, but I have experience with the DoE. Social media wasn't brought up when I was evaluated for my "Q" back in 2002 nor did they ask about it during either of my 5-year reviews. I saw no mention of a social media check when I requested my 80+ page background investigation. (They talk to people I used to smoke pot with in high school but don't bother to check if I'm lauding Snowden as a hero on FB?) Different agencies may have different requirements.
Wins and losses in a sports league are literally a zero-sum game. For you to win, someone else has to lose.
That depends on how you're defining wins and losses. The fan gets to watch a game for a price he was willing to pay and the players and various members of the organization earn wages at a rate they've agreed to. That's a win for both sides. Who cares who won the game?
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences
Um, yes, that's exactly what it means. That is, in fact, the definition.
If Randall disagrees, then I disagree too. I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
A good lesson for all the kids out there. Learn proper grammar.
If WalMart introduces grammar screening for their "associates", they're going to alienate a lot of their labor pool. Actually that goes for a lot of places - Proper grammar seems to be a rarity. Not everyone talks as goodly as you and I.
How about throwing rocks from behind bushes? Do you have a right to do that too?
No, but I'm allowed to hide behind those bushes and say just about anything I like. I'm not defending a right to anonymous calls, just pointing out that throwing rocks at people isn't really a First Amendment issue.
I've passed on reporting several serious crimes over the last few years because I know there are cameras at or near those locations.
That sounds irresponsible. How serious were those crimes and what were your concerns regarding the cameras? Were you afraid of footage showing up on the news announcing that you were the rat? Or that you'd somehow be tracked down and prosecuted just for possesing the information you turned over? Was there no other mechanism to report these "several serious crimes"?
When a new, better model of car comes out, they stop producing the old ones.
Perfect! We'll just tell all new parents to adjust their settings! Like I said in some thread yesterday, not everyone is born to be an engineer no matter how much they apply themselves. We can change the way we're training people, but some people's natural limits may not surpass the best of our future robots. Producing "new models" isn't as simple as flipping a switch on the uterus. As jobs become more sophisticated, the number of people incapable of doing them goes up and the number of positions for unskilled labor goes down.
Sure a few of the old, worse models are kept around as vintage keepsakes...
Sure. For the people that can't keep up, we'll just put them up on blocks and forget about them. What's wrong with that? I'm in the camp that thinks that a person working as hard as they can at the most useful task they're capable of deserves food, shelter, and maybe even medical care.
When 100% of the countries invited to be part of the Paris Climate Agreement felt the agreement was either worth signing or didn't go far enough to curb emissions, its safe to say you can objectively say what the reasonable opinion is.
Don't exaggerate. It's only 99.5% - Syria claims it has other things to worry about right now. They're obviously planet haters like DJT.
> The Amazon server from which the data was leaked was “not directly > connected to classified networks,” the spokesperson noted.
That makes me wonder how the information got there then. It must have been some really strange kind of unintentional accident if there is no possible connection between the networks.
I don't understand the confusion. The Amazon server was never connected to a classified network and no classified information was leaked. It would be a really strange accident if data had migrated off of a classified network. That didn't happen.
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
Like GP said, maybe they're not capable. Not everyone's born to be an engineer, no matter how much they apply themselves. We try to train everybody for something, but we need some mechanism to employ (or at least feed) people with naturally limited abilities. Maybe telling a 55 year old coal miner that he needs to learn to code or be unemployed isn't practical. This isn't the jungle where we leave the weak to die while the rest of us progress.
You're only laughing at Breitbart because your corporate master told you to.
"Laughing at" is inaccurate. "Disgusted by" is more accurate. They've been involved in several of the big conspiracy theories including the Birthers & Pizzagate. I don't see that kind of behavior from CNN. Buzzfeed maybe. Here are some of their more notable headlines.
If you're only paying attention to one particular narrative, then you're a chump. Doesn't matter what that narrative is. There is really no way to choose "A" news source. You have to pick several with opposing narratives.
I agree with that, but you need credible news sources. Breitbart exists at the very fringe of being considered "news".
...as do most people who crave a dose of reality with a side of THC.
Everybody could use a side of THC with their reality these days. Have you seen the numbers on how many more adults are using marijuana today than when Obama took office? Or even the few presidents before him? Surely this is causal. We obviously smoke pot because of Trump.
Utility patents can be used to keep someone else from implementing your invention, but given that math is disallowed from being patented (it can only be discovered, not invented), most of us would contend that software patents are invalid, simply because software = algorithms = math.
Are you suggesting that all code has existed forever but was waiting to be discovered? I'm not sure I agree.
With some of the code I've written, it would have been better left "undiscovered." I'd call these failures "failed inventions" rather than "worthless discoveries."
It's almost as customizable as Firefox (though I still miss Tree Style Tabs), but it does not seem to leak memory as badly and the stability is better.
My experience is different. I use Chrome exclusively at work and am entirely satisfied. Typical use is gmail, slashdot, programming forums, and news sites. I can't remember the last time I restarted it - Probably the last time I had to reboot for patches. Win 7 Pro. At home I use a mix of Chrome, FF, and Opera. Win 10. I tend to leave a YouTube tab open and paused indefinitely. I assumed that Chrome would be ideal for that - It seems like YouTube & Chrome should literally be made for each other. But that's not what I see. After a few days, Chrome bloats to about a gig of RAM before I have to kill it. That sometimes requires the Task Manager. I haven't seen this behavior from FF. YMMV.
A close friend has Netflix which I use her login for kids shows. I have Amazon Prime (Grand Tour mostly) and she uses my login.
If violating their TOS's bothers you, feel free to use my login for TPB. The selection is better than both of those services combined and the TOS is pretty liberal.
It's very difficult to make an actual cost comparison because we do not actually ever clean up our messes from coal or nuclear.
We've put a lot of time, effort, and money into gettingready for nuclear waste. So far, we're not making much much use of what we've built. There's somecontention over plans to move forward. Agreed - We're not doing enough for a closed-loop cost comparison.
"Cleaning up the mess" from coal is an entirely different animal.
Last time I bought a hard cover book from Amazon it came dented and they claimed it wasn't their fault.
My experience ordering books from Amazon suggests that your dent is atypical. I've made many book orders, both hard-cover and paperback, and so far have received adequately packaged, undamaged books every time. From what I've seen, they do a pretty good job.
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If you look at her social media posts, it is clear that she was not emotionally stable and while her views were not particularly extreme, she was very passionate and riled up about even small issues. She should have had her security clearance revoked long ago.
I've seen clearances pulled for emotional instability before, but only when sparked by reported alcohol treatment. I don't know the extent that social media plays in determining somebody's fitness for a clearance with the NSA, but I have experience with the DoE. Social media wasn't brought up when I was evaluated for my "Q" back in 2002 nor did they ask about it during either of my 5-year reviews. I saw no mention of a social media check when I requested my 80+ page background investigation. (They talk to people I used to smoke pot with in high school but don't bother to check if I'm lauding Snowden as a hero on FB?) Different agencies may have different requirements.
Ms. Winner’s apparent Twitter feed, which used a pseudonym but had a photo of her and the same account name as her Instagram feed...
D'oh! The first rule of using a pseudonym...
Wins and losses in a sports league are literally a zero-sum game. For you to win, someone else has to lose.
That depends on how you're defining wins and losses. The fan gets to watch a game for a price he was willing to pay and the players and various members of the organization earn wages at a rate they've agreed to. That's a win for both sides. Who cares who won the game?
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences
Um, yes, that's exactly what it means. That is, in fact, the definition.
If Randall disagrees, then I disagree too. I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
That seems paranoid. To think that there is no mechanism that can be used to report a crime without some conspiracy leading back to the guilty party?
A good lesson for all the kids out there. Learn proper grammar.
If WalMart introduces grammar screening for their "associates", they're going to alienate a lot of their labor pool. Actually that goes for a lot of places - Proper grammar seems to be a rarity. Not everyone talks as goodly as you and I.
How about throwing rocks from behind bushes? Do you have a right to do that too?
No, but I'm allowed to hide behind those bushes and say just about anything I like. I'm not defending a right to anonymous calls, just pointing out that throwing rocks at people isn't really a First Amendment issue.
I've passed on reporting several serious crimes over the last few years because I know there are cameras at or near those locations.
That sounds irresponsible. How serious were those crimes and what were your concerns regarding the cameras? Were you afraid of footage showing up on the news announcing that you were the rat? Or that you'd somehow be tracked down and prosecuted just for possesing the information you turned over? Was there no other mechanism to report these "several serious crimes"?
The war hasn't even started yet.
If you believe that, I don't think you understand the war. Right now we're just mitigating casualties.
Their reliability is pretty good in some situations. It sucks when I'm driving.
I ordered six small boxes of granola bars from Walmart a few months ago. Since it got shipped by FedEx, I had the box diverted to a FedEx Store.
This presents more confusing questions than the size of the delivery box...
What's a "landline"?
When a new, better model of car comes out, they stop producing the old ones.
Perfect! We'll just tell all new parents to adjust their settings! Like I said in some thread yesterday, not everyone is born to be an engineer no matter how much they apply themselves. We can change the way we're training people, but some people's natural limits may not surpass the best of our future robots. Producing "new models" isn't as simple as flipping a switch on the uterus. As jobs become more sophisticated, the number of people incapable of doing them goes up and the number of positions for unskilled labor goes down.
Sure a few of the old, worse models are kept around as vintage keepsakes...
Sure. For the people that can't keep up, we'll just put them up on blocks and forget about them. What's wrong with that? I'm in the camp that thinks that a person working as hard as they can at the most useful task they're capable of deserves food, shelter, and maybe even medical care.
When 100% of the countries invited to be part of the Paris Climate Agreement felt the agreement was either worth signing or didn't go far enough to curb emissions, its safe to say you can objectively say what the reasonable opinion is.
Don't exaggerate. It's only 99.5% - Syria claims it has other things to worry about right now. They're obviously planet haters like DJT.
> The Amazon server from which the data was leaked was “not directly
> connected to classified networks,” the spokesperson noted.
That makes me wonder how the information got there then. It must have been some really strange kind of unintentional accident if there is no possible connection between the networks.
I don't understand the confusion. The Amazon server was never connected to a classified network and no classified information was leaked. It would be a really strange accident if data had migrated off of a classified network. That didn't happen.
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
Like GP said, maybe they're not capable. Not everyone's born to be an engineer, no matter how much they apply themselves. We try to train everybody for something, but we need some mechanism to employ (or at least feed) people with naturally limited abilities. Maybe telling a 55 year old coal miner that he needs to learn to code or be unemployed isn't practical. This isn't the jungle where we leave the weak to die while the rest of us progress.
You're only laughing at Breitbart because your corporate master told you to.
"Laughing at" is inaccurate. "Disgusted by" is more accurate. They've been involved in several of the big conspiracy theories including the Birthers & Pizzagate. I don't see that kind of behavior from CNN. Buzzfeed maybe. Here are some of their more notable headlines.
If you're only paying attention to one particular narrative, then you're a chump. Doesn't matter what that narrative is. There is really no way to choose "A" news source. You have to pick several with opposing narratives.
I agree with that, but you need credible news sources. Breitbart exists at the very fringe of being considered "news".
...as do most people who crave a dose of reality with a side of THC.
Everybody could use a side of THC with their reality these days. Have you seen the numbers on how many more adults are using marijuana today than when Obama took office? Or even the few presidents before him? Surely this is causal. We obviously smoke pot because of Trump.
Last week's news didn't show up this week. It'll get here on Sunday.
Utility patents can be used to keep someone else from implementing your invention, but given that math is disallowed from being patented (it can only be discovered, not invented), most of us would contend that software patents are invalid, simply because software = algorithms = math.
Are you suggesting that all code has existed forever but was waiting to be discovered? I'm not sure I agree.
With some of the code I've written, it would have been better left "undiscovered." I'd call these failures "failed inventions" rather than "worthless discoveries."
I wish TPB was faster. Found a hard to find cartoon Tiny Toons franÃais. 5kb/sec 1 seeder.
Faster than what? It has limits due to its nature, but I'll bet it's a hell of a lot faster than your best alternate source.
It's almost as customizable as Firefox (though I still miss Tree Style Tabs), but it does not seem to leak memory as badly and the stability is better.
My experience is different. I use Chrome exclusively at work and am entirely satisfied. Typical use is gmail, slashdot, programming forums, and news sites. I can't remember the last time I restarted it - Probably the last time I had to reboot for patches. Win 7 Pro. At home I use a mix of Chrome, FF, and Opera. Win 10. I tend to leave a YouTube tab open and paused indefinitely. I assumed that Chrome would be ideal for that - It seems like YouTube & Chrome should literally be made for each other. But that's not what I see. After a few days, Chrome bloats to about a gig of RAM before I have to kill it. That sometimes requires the Task Manager. I haven't seen this behavior from FF. YMMV.
A close friend has Netflix which I use her login for kids shows. I have Amazon Prime (Grand Tour mostly) and she uses my login.
If violating their TOS's bothers you, feel free to use my login for TPB. The selection is better than both of those services combined and the TOS is pretty liberal.
It's very difficult to make an actual cost comparison because we do not actually ever clean up our messes from coal or nuclear.
We've put a lot of time, effort, and money into getting ready for nuclear waste. So far, we're not making much much use of what we've built. There's some contention over plans to move forward. Agreed - We're not doing enough for a closed-loop cost comparison.
"Cleaning up the mess" from coal is an entirely different animal.
Last time I bought a hard cover book from Amazon it came dented and they claimed it wasn't their fault.
My experience ordering books from Amazon suggests that your dent is atypical. I've made many book orders, both hard-cover and paperback, and so far have received adequately packaged, undamaged books every time. From what I've seen, they do a pretty good job.