Slashdot has been fairly in the bag for the SJWs over the whole #gamergate thing, but this is a bit much. Really, we need be a advertizing platform for pet projects of the SJW crowd now? A "gender equality in tech" story 3 days a week wasn't enough? WTF happened to Slashdot? Broad political clickbait was a bit understandable but this is starting to look like a Gawker site.
We miss you Taco, but it's becoming clear why you left.
If the FBI can skip the warrant for anyone using VPN, and that's basically every/.er, the powers being granted are broader than a non-technical person would suspect.
Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Wild - are distributed in the US by Fox Searchlight, which is the "indie films" distribution unit of Fox. How indie these films really were I'm not hipster enough to have any opinion on, but Birdman and Wild premiered at film festivals, and GBH was a British-German co-production. Whiplash premiered at Sundance and was only picked up by Sony some time after that. Why would you call these Hollywood films?
American Sniper? Maybe. Also premiered at a film festival, and Clint Eastwood is like Warren Beatty was - able to make whatever he wants regardless of Hollywood norms.
Selma - sure. But we always get one halfway decent Oscar-bait drama each year. Would you call it original?
It's almost as if all the good films are the ones that avoid the Hollywood system.
Hollywood has set the bar so low you'd need trenching equipment not to clear it. Every big-budget movie in 2015 will be a sequel or reboot. Pretty much the only Hollywood fare that I expect to be a little original are the superhero movies, which while they'll be a predictable sack of tropes, we've seen new stories within the established comic book worlds, so at least some original writing within that constraint (plus utter shit like the Spiderman stuff).
Gawker lost 7 figures in ad revenue in a couple months after the "bring back bullying" comment. You'd think/. could take the hint about which side of these issues has the money. This site has been in "controlled flight into terrain" since Taco left. Now we know why - I never had such respect for him as I do now, seeing what he chose to avoid.
You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice --Peart
They sang that lyric, but the printed lyric books read "You cannot have made a choice". I've always loved the fact that they described agnosticism both ways.
The GOP maybe, but this has been a hot-button issue for conservatives for a while, and the current sentiment is "wait, who did this wonderful thing, I must have heard you wrong". The difference between conservatives and the GOP is left as an exercise for the reader.
Juries want a "story of the crime" they can believe. Prosecution and defense each tell such a story, and juries go with the more compelling tale. The job of the defense is to invent a story that includes all the facts and still explains why the defendant didn't do it.
That's why we have this somewhat goofy story of the bitcoin CEO - the defense does far better when they present a specific alternative killer (that's a better story than "some unknown guy"), and any suggestions that put the alternative in the scene makes the story more credible.
So the agent's theories are quite useful to the defense in knocking down the credibility of the prosecution's story by attacking the credibility of the agent: "see, he got it wrong before, so don't take anything he touched too seriously" - it's a good emotional argument. If there's some fact that doesn't fit into the defense's story (but the rest works), then they need to start attacking the credibility or relevance of that inconvenient fact from the start of the trial. If there are several, they're pretty screwed, but if there's a common source for them all then they're going to at least try to knock down the source, in hopes the jury isn't paying attention to the details.
All of which is likely why the judge was so insistent into explaining all the details to the jury - to limit such defense shenanigans.
There have been some assertions that there are more smart women on average than men, but that the men are better represented at the extremes. Which is to say, men are not as "smart" as women on average, but the few men that are brilliant outnumber the women. Of course, the flip side is that men have more complete idiots than the female gender does.
Not quite. Average IQ is the same for men and women, but the bell curve is flatter for men, with a longer tail. More women than men are close-to-average IQ, more men than women are far-from average IQ (in both directions).
How important IQ is is a different question, but the measure is repeatable across a population - there's a real effect here.
It's not the piss; that's sterile. It's the zoo of microbes crawling all over your dick
For most men anyhow, they keep their dick in clean cotton underwear, but touch many things with their hands. Typically, your hands get your dick dirty, not the other way around. Didn't Penn and Teller do a "Bullshit!" on this? Your ass has less bacteria than your hands.
It's good to wash your hands on the way out of the bathroom just because it's good to wash your hands occasionally, and hey there's a sink there, how convenient.
Well put. This is the same role as Windows' SCM. I actually like SCM, but it's as Windows-philosophy an OS component as you can get. Opaque, not really diagnosable, great when you're doing what they expected you to, hopeless if you get creative - it's as Windows as it comes. WTF is happening to Linux?
And it's clear now that Linux is on its way out. While Linux and Linux systems will still be around for some time, everyone important who made Linux great in the past is fleeing from it. We're moving to BSD
Bah, until Netcraft confirms it, I won't believe it.
It doesn't take many sellers, is the thing. 3 is often enough if they're not illegally colluding.
The main protection, though, is lack of barrier to entry. If the few big players are bad, but new players can just undercut them without being regulated out of existence by the big guys' pet senators, then that's just as good. That's the battle right now with Tesla - they're quite the disruptive new player, but they're being fought in the "you must have dealerships" regulatory war, instead of in the market.
Acorns and minnows though? I'd keep those both because they're stuff kids actually encounter in many parts of the world, and they're common metaphors, which gets really weird if you don't know what the actual thing is.
I'm OK with spending a little money to avoid unpleasant tasks. My budget is limited, so I clean my own toilet, and pay someone to do my taxes - most disgusting task to the top of the list!
TMP? WTF is TMP? Ohhhhh, you meant "Star Trek the Tone Poem". The last 6 or so ST movies were crap. The director hired for Reboot-3 recently quit in disgust. Maybe when the last traces of JJ are gone we'll get another shot at someone who understands the franchise, but really best for it to sit for 5+ years and then be picked up by someone who gets it.
But not soon - there's barely any SF t all today anyway - the notion of mankind conquering the stars, solving ancient mysteries, and exploring new frontiers is a bit to macho for the modern book publishing culture (80% of novels are bought by women, so I can't even blame them for effeminizing genre fiction - that's the market).
I always have something weir - not sure why, t's not like I seek goofy investments, but there's always stuff like foreign tax paid, some employee stock thing that was done wrong, I used to have some investments that were traded like stock, but were actually limited partnerships that went on some other form. It's probably only saving me a few hours' work, but it's worth the money so that it's all correct.
Not quite: AIT was also good - that was Sony's take on 8mm. It was still helical scan with the problems that brings, but it was much cheaper than DLT at the time and just as reliable (since DLT went far downhill before the monopoly broke and LTO happened).
I used DAT professionally too - it wasn't terrible, but you definitely wanted to verify and reading on other drives was somewhat iffy (but worlds better than QIC), and we could re-use a tape a few times. Still, it beat 9-track reel-to-reel.
Too many of us have "gone to the backup tapes" and found them to be corrupted.
1 - That tape was bad when written - verify at least some after write and you're fine.
2 - Old-school home backup drives were total crap: QIC, crap; DAT, crap. But LTO is solid. Not perfect -- do that verify -- but worlds apart from the low-end crap tape that has all vanished.
My "real CPA" does just type all my info into his (better) program, then file my taxes and charge me $500. Easily worth it: he can drag me through the whole process in 1 hour, including exceptions. "Oh, Fidelity screwed up your basis for these positions, as they have with all my clients, here let me add the form where I amend that so you don't get charged twice". No stress, 5 minutes, fixed. He adds a ton of value to what he tax program does by understanding context.
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Very well put, sir.
Slashdot has been fairly in the bag for the SJWs over the whole #gamergate thing, but this is a bit much. Really, we need be a advertizing platform for pet projects of the SJW crowd now? A "gender equality in tech" story 3 days a week wasn't enough? WTF happened to Slashdot? Broad political clickbait was a bit understandable but this is starting to look like a Gawker site.
We miss you Taco, but it's becoming clear why you left.
Way to completely miss the point.
If the FBI can skip the warrant for anyone using VPN, and that's basically every /.er, the powers being granted are broader than a non-technical person would suspect.
Ahh, you work in the industry. Well, it's all your fault then.
Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Wild - are distributed in the US by Fox Searchlight, which is the "indie films" distribution unit of Fox. How indie these films really were I'm not hipster enough to have any opinion on, but Birdman and Wild premiered at film festivals, and GBH was a British-German co-production. Whiplash premiered at Sundance and was only picked up by Sony some time after that. Why would you call these Hollywood films?
American Sniper? Maybe. Also premiered at a film festival, and Clint Eastwood is like Warren Beatty was - able to make whatever he wants regardless of Hollywood norms.
Selma - sure. But we always get one halfway decent Oscar-bait drama each year. Would you call it original?
It's almost as if all the good films are the ones that avoid the Hollywood system.
Hollywood has set the bar so low you'd need trenching equipment not to clear it. Every big-budget movie in 2015 will be a sequel or reboot. Pretty much the only Hollywood fare that I expect to be a little original are the superhero movies, which while they'll be a predictable sack of tropes, we've seen new stories within the established comic book worlds, so at least some original writing within that constraint (plus utter shit like the Spiderman stuff).
Gawker lost 7 figures in ad revenue in a couple months after the "bring back bullying" comment. You'd think /. could take the hint about which side of these issues has the money. This site has been in "controlled flight into terrain" since Taco left. Now we know why - I never had such respect for him as I do now, seeing what he chose to avoid.
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
--Peart
They sang that lyric, but the printed lyric books read "You cannot have made a choice". I've always loved the fact that they described agnosticism both ways.
Best SNL skit ever. That was Ed Asner, right?
The GOP maybe, but this has been a hot-button issue for conservatives for a while, and the current sentiment is "wait, who did this wonderful thing, I must have heard you wrong". The difference between conservatives and the GOP is left as an exercise for the reader.
No doubt the defense did their best to exclude potential jurists with your mindset from the jury - it's not the common one.
Juries want a "story of the crime" they can believe. Prosecution and defense each tell such a story, and juries go with the more compelling tale. The job of the defense is to invent a story that includes all the facts and still explains why the defendant didn't do it.
That's why we have this somewhat goofy story of the bitcoin CEO - the defense does far better when they present a specific alternative killer (that's a better story than "some unknown guy"), and any suggestions that put the alternative in the scene makes the story more credible.
So the agent's theories are quite useful to the defense in knocking down the credibility of the prosecution's story by attacking the credibility of the agent: "see, he got it wrong before, so don't take anything he touched too seriously" - it's a good emotional argument. If there's some fact that doesn't fit into the defense's story (but the rest works), then they need to start attacking the credibility or relevance of that inconvenient fact from the start of the trial. If there are several, they're pretty screwed, but if there's a common source for them all then they're going to at least try to knock down the source, in hopes the jury isn't paying attention to the details.
All of which is likely why the judge was so insistent into explaining all the details to the jury - to limit such defense shenanigans.
There have been some assertions that there are more smart women on average than men, but that the men are better represented at the extremes. Which is to say, men are not as "smart" as women on average, but the few men that are brilliant outnumber the women. Of course, the flip side is that men have more complete idiots than the female gender does.
Not quite. Average IQ is the same for men and women, but the bell curve is flatter for men, with a longer tail. More women than men are close-to-average IQ, more men than women are far-from average IQ (in both directions).
How important IQ is is a different question, but the measure is repeatable across a population - there's a real effect here.
It's not the piss; that's sterile. It's the zoo of microbes crawling all over your dick
For most men anyhow, they keep their dick in clean cotton underwear, but touch many things with their hands. Typically, your hands get your dick dirty, not the other way around. Didn't Penn and Teller do a "Bullshit!" on this? Your ass has less bacteria than your hands.
It's good to wash your hands on the way out of the bathroom just because it's good to wash your hands occasionally, and hey there's a sink there, how convenient.
Well put. This is the same role as Windows' SCM. I actually like SCM, but it's as Windows-philosophy an OS component as you can get. Opaque, not really diagnosable, great when you're doing what they expected you to, hopeless if you get creative - it's as Windows as it comes. WTF is happening to Linux?
And it's clear now that Linux is on its way out. While Linux and Linux systems will still be around for some time, everyone important who made Linux great in the past is fleeing from it. We're moving to BSD
Bah, until Netcraft confirms it, I won't believe it.
Ahh, so it's ripping off Windows' Service Control Manager, a.k.a. "scum". This will certainly end well.
It doesn't take many sellers, is the thing. 3 is often enough if they're not illegally colluding.
The main protection, though, is lack of barrier to entry. If the few big players are bad, but new players can just undercut them without being regulated out of existence by the big guys' pet senators, then that's just as good. That's the battle right now with Tesla - they're quite the disruptive new player, but they're being fought in the "you must have dealerships" regulatory war, instead of in the market.
Acorns and minnows though? I'd keep those both because they're stuff kids actually encounter in many parts of the world, and they're common metaphors, which gets really weird if you don't know what the actual thing is.
I'm OK with spending a little money to avoid unpleasant tasks. My budget is limited, so I clean my own toilet, and pay someone to do my taxes - most disgusting task to the top of the list!
TMP? WTF is TMP? Ohhhhh, you meant "Star Trek the Tone Poem". The last 6 or so ST movies were crap. The director hired for Reboot-3 recently quit in disgust. Maybe when the last traces of JJ are gone we'll get another shot at someone who understands the franchise, but really best for it to sit for 5+ years and then be picked up by someone who gets it.
But not soon - there's barely any SF t all today anyway - the notion of mankind conquering the stars, solving ancient mysteries, and exploring new frontiers is a bit to macho for the modern book publishing culture (80% of novels are bought by women, so I can't even blame them for effeminizing genre fiction - that's the market).
I always have something weir - not sure why, t's not like I seek goofy investments, but there's always stuff like foreign tax paid, some employee stock thing that was done wrong, I used to have some investments that were traded like stock, but were actually limited partnerships that went on some other form. It's probably only saving me a few hours' work, but it's worth the money so that it's all correct.
Not quite: AIT was also good - that was Sony's take on 8mm. It was still helical scan with the problems that brings, but it was much cheaper than DLT at the time and just as reliable (since DLT went far downhill before the monopoly broke and LTO happened).
I used DAT professionally too - it wasn't terrible, but you definitely wanted to verify and reading on other drives was somewhat iffy (but worlds better than QIC), and we could re-use a tape a few times. Still, it beat 9-track reel-to-reel.
Too many of us have "gone to the backup tapes" and found them to be corrupted.
1 - That tape was bad when written - verify at least some after write and you're fine.
2 - Old-school home backup drives were total crap: QIC, crap; DAT, crap. But LTO is solid. Not perfect -- do that verify -- but worlds apart from the low-end crap tape that has all vanished.
My "real CPA" does just type all my info into his (better) program, then file my taxes and charge me $500. Easily worth it: he can drag me through the whole process in 1 hour, including exceptions. "Oh, Fidelity screwed up your basis for these positions, as they have with all my clients, here let me add the form where I amend that so you don't get charged twice". No stress, 5 minutes, fixed. He adds a ton of value to what he tax program does by understanding context.