(for the record: i believe that ISP's should -try to- block access to such materials if users ask for it)
If you believe that, then you have failed to understand the Internet at a profoundly fundamental level.
The Internet was designed from the very beginning for all of the intelligence to be at the edges. The network itself is supposed to be as dumb as it is possible to be while still moving everybody's packets around. If you want censorship, it's your job to implement it on the tiny little network in your house, or even individual nodes on that network, and leave everyone else alone. No one else should be spending any CPU time for what you want.
Easy. You call up the US vendor that sold China their Great Firewall and order another one. This one will be cheap, considering the UK's population is a fraction that of China.
And yes, you can hire enough busy-body bureaucrats to keep the blacklists up to date. China does. Think of it as a jobs program. If there's one thing history has shown, it's that 10% of the population is willing, eager, and waiting to oppress the other 90%, "for their own good." That plus a tiny number of sociopathic opportunists is all you need to get it done.
I'm sure when it's in place that the UK will become a beacon of morality for all the world to admire. Kind of like the Victorian era.</sarcasm>
The Greek government is a public body. Attacking private institutions to force the Greek government to do something would be, in essence, weaponizing the banking system.
The US did that with Goldman Sachs more than a century ago, and they've been a scourge on humanity ever since. I can't imagine why Europe thinks creating their own banking weapon is a good idea.
Let's go even further back, to Anne McCaffrey's novel The Rowan, which featured a pooka—an animatronic stuffed bear used as a therapy device for the titular character. Published in 1990.
Technically not prior art, since it was a sci fi bear, far advanced of current robotics, with sensors in every hair, and squishable enough to be hugged by a child.
And except for AM radio conservatives, nobody gives a shit about Benghazi.
Are you kidding? One of the victims of the Benghazi attack was a major diplomatic power in EVE Online. The game was permanently altered by his death.
He served on the Council of Stellar Management, a position you get by player votes, and there are only 9 members. You have to be very visible and quite well respected to get a seat. You get a free trip to Iceland out of the deal, plus the ability to propose significant changes to the game with the assurance that CCP will seriously consider the proposal. It was a major loss for his corporation in particular and EVE Online in general.
He was also a Something Awful moderator, for what that's worth...
The people who actually know this, and who claim they don't care, are desperately hoping that Clinton's complicity in spreading that lie won't remain on people's minds during this upcoming election.
What makes you think anybody wants to see Mrs. President Hillary? (Again?) The last time she tried, an unknown senator from Chicago got the nomination, and I'm willing to bet only pat of the reason was "unknown half-black senator." The other part was "not Hillary."
But even so....nobody is scared of that, even though we know for a fact that it will happen, it will kill most of north America, and it will plunge the entire planet into a year-long winter.
Well, almost. A good sized fraction of North America gets buried in ash, which is dangerous to inhale, and makes a mess of machinery, but it isn't immediately deadly if you make any effort at all to avoid inhaling it. It will definitely result in another Year Without a Summer, possibly two. But the ash in the upper atmosphere, the lightest and finest stuff, tends not to cross the equator, so the southern hemisphere won't suffer the serious crop failures that the northern hemisphere will. Given how much of North America's food (and Europe's food, these days) comes from South America, the resulting famine will only be bad, rather than catastrophic.
The problem is how many volcanoes get set off by a large asteroid strike, including possibly Yellowstone itself. Given the probability of an ocean strike (high), you get all possible fun: massive steam cloud and tidal waves, followed by volcanic ash everywhere.
The school owned the camera he used. Therefore all work from that camera belongs to the school.
No. It does not work like that. If you borrow my guitar and write a hit song, it's your song, the copyright is yours. If you borrow my camera and take a Pulitzer-winning photo, it's your photo, the copyright is yours. Copyright goes to the creator of a work, not to the owner of any tools incidental to the creation.
A state of affairs that will undoubtedly be "fixed" in the next Mickey Mouse law...
Costco hires even the most basic, unskilled shelf-stackers for well above minimum wage (closer to $19).
Disingenuous statistic is disingenuous. Costco is legendary for paying more than minimum wage and irritating stockholders in consequence. The famous quote from Deutsche Bank was "it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder." Naming an extraordinarily unusual retailer does not bolster your point.
The Waltons wealth did not come from their employees payroll. The Waltons wealth is in shares of the company.
It's that and it's money they didn't pay to their employees.
Walmart pays a dividend. More than 50% of Walmart shares are held by Walton family members. Walmart has 3.226 billion shares outstanding. In 2014, Walmart paid a quarterly dividend of 48 cents, or $1.92 per share for the year.
So for 2014 alone, the Walton family collected approximately $3.09 billion in cash from Walmart. Completely ignoring the value of the shares themselves, and changing no ownership of those shares in any way...
Your argument seems to be: Owners of a valuable company should sell the company and give the money to the employees. Except who is going to buy the company if they too must then sell it and give the money to the employees?
The reason you made this argument is because you are an ignorant fuck that doesnt understand the difference between wealth and income.
It's sickening to see the mindset of the Space Nutter. If this planet is a "dirt rock", then what's so important about going to see other "dirt rocks"?
Because every square centimeter of this rock is owned by someone? And no one owns any square centimeters of the other rocks in the solar system? It's about the frontier, and its opportunities.
You or I might not be interested in making the attempt, because sterile, barren, bathed in radiation, etc. but other people do, and why do you care if other people run off and get themselves killed in an attempt to acquire unclaimed land?
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Also, small businesses like Comcast could not compete with big government like the council of a town with a population of 1,000 people.
Have you got a license to use that much sarcasm in one post? That exceeded the unlicensed sarcasm allowance. You'll need to file a form and pay a fee. The queue forms on the left. The office is open on alternate Tuesdays if the previous Wednesday was a full moon.
Yea, well you were not kept as slaves, killed for learning to read, beaten with inch and a quarter thick poles (often to death). Your families were not sold separately to different owners and broken up. You were not systematically excluded from education, jobs, housing, medical care for generations and eveb lynched for generations.
Never heard of coolie labor, have you. In much of the Americas, it was literal slavery, and in the US, it was slavery in all but name. Until 1879, where it was recognized as slavery even in name, in the constitution of the State of California.
Asiatic coolieism is a form of human slavery, and is forever prohibited in this State, and all contracts for coolie labour shall be void.
Chinese immigration to the US up to that time was nominally voluntary. And you can believe as much of that as you like. Once they got here, they were enslaved with contracts of indenture that were rigged to be impossible to pay off because they were forced to buy all necessities from the company store, which was rigged to make them go further into debt. It didn't last nearly as long as Black slavery, but it still involved hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Many, many third and fourth generation Chinese-Americans can claim a slave ancestor.
Last week, I live-blogged a talk by theoretical physicist Amanda Peet, and while there were a great amount of comments and discussions focused on her lecture, there was also a great amount focused on Dr. Peet’s physical appearance
Random schmucks commenting on an internet blog do not constitute "sexism in science." The world is full of such people. They're about as far away from scientist as it is possible to get without actual brain damage.
... the church I just quit put out a fact sheet that men were 95% of perpetrators of domestic abuse...
When domestic abuse statistics are kept solely for physical abuse, yep, 95%. If statistics for emotional abuse were kept (and men were willing to report it (never EVER happen across the general population)), it'd be 50/50.
And in a great many cases, that unacceptable treatment came simply because of their gender.
You haven't proven there's a sexism problem, you simply dictated it like some kind of god. Where's the evidence?
They're taking the fact that all graduate students everywhere are treated like slave labor as evidence that there is sexism.
Sorry ladies, that's not why you're being treated like crap in grad school. You're being treated like crap because everyone is treated like crap in grad school. Yes, something should be done about that, but it isn't driven by sexism.
1. All the descions are taken at the time you know the least about the outcome, ie at the begining.
2. By the time you get to the end your requirements are out of date, you get the product you wanted at the start of the project not the one you need now.
Ridiculous. Maybe in stupid-ass punch-the-monkey dev shops writing web-based crap no one will care about in 6 months. There are plenty of industries where this is nonsense.
In international finance, some country decides on a new law (usually a new regulation). The software therefore must change.
Is the law going to change again this year? No. Is the development cycle less than a year? Yes. Is the development cycle longer than a fucking sprint? Yes.
Wake me up when the people who broke the law start seeing some time. Let me know when the guy who exposed this illegal activity is allowed back into the country with his liberty intact.
Good night Mr. van Winkle. We'll wake you in a thousand years.
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Throw out all that shit. Engage the collective human mind in sitcoms and 'reality' shows.
Three anonymous coward responses, and not one of them actually read your post.
Reading comprehension has gone out of style...
So the genius marketers came up with this:
http://www.lionel.com/Products...
That's... fanTASTIC. It's like the train ran over the Easter Bunny, *splat*.
Anyway, it probably failed because it's a fashion disaster. I mean really. Who wears lilac and pink at the same time?
Disgusting straight white cishet male shitlord here.
Dude. Therapy. Damn.
The prevalence of girls/women in theater disproves it.
So that's what they're calling it these days...
(for the record: i believe that ISP's should -try to- block access to such materials if users ask for it)
If you believe that, then you have failed to understand the Internet at a profoundly fundamental level.
The Internet was designed from the very beginning for all of the intelligence to be at the edges. The network itself is supposed to be as dumb as it is possible to be while still moving everybody's packets around. If you want censorship, it's your job to implement it on the tiny little network in your house, or even individual nodes on that network, and leave everyone else alone. No one else should be spending any CPU time for what you want.
And how exactly do you block access?
Easy. You call up the US vendor that sold China their Great Firewall and order another one. This one will be cheap, considering the UK's population is a fraction that of China.
And yes, you can hire enough busy-body bureaucrats to keep the blacklists up to date. China does. Think of it as a jobs program. If there's one thing history has shown, it's that 10% of the population is willing, eager, and waiting to oppress the other 90%, "for their own good." That plus a tiny number of sociopathic opportunists is all you need to get it done.
I'm sure when it's in place that the UK will become a beacon of morality for all the world to admire. Kind of like the Victorian era.</sarcasm>
The Greek government is a public body. Attacking private institutions to force the Greek government to do something would be, in essence, weaponizing the banking system.
The US did that with Goldman Sachs more than a century ago, and they've been a scourge on humanity ever since. I can't imagine why Europe thinks creating their own banking weapon is a good idea.
It was to make up for having awarded it to Henry Kissinger in 1973.
To do that they would have had to award it to Starlight Glimmer.
Hey now, I'm pretty sure Henry Kissinger actually exists.
Although on further reflection, he might be a lizard...
Let's go even further back, to Anne McCaffrey's novel The Rowan, which featured a pooka—an animatronic stuffed bear used as a therapy device for the titular character. Published in 1990.
Technically not prior art, since it was a sci fi bear, far advanced of current robotics, with sensors in every hair, and squishable enough to be hugged by a child.
And except for AM radio conservatives, nobody gives a shit about Benghazi.
Are you kidding? One of the victims of the Benghazi attack was a major diplomatic power in EVE Online. The game was permanently altered by his death.
He served on the Council of Stellar Management, a position you get by player votes, and there are only 9 members. You have to be very visible and quite well respected to get a seat. You get a free trip to Iceland out of the deal, plus the ability to propose significant changes to the game with the assurance that CCP will seriously consider the proposal. It was a major loss for his corporation in particular and EVE Online in general.
He was also a Something Awful moderator, for what that's worth...
The people who actually know this, and who claim they don't care, are desperately hoping that Clinton's complicity in spreading that lie won't remain on people's minds during this upcoming election.
What makes you think anybody wants to see Mrs. President Hillary? (Again?) The last time she tried, an unknown senator from Chicago got the nomination, and I'm willing to bet only pat of the reason was "unknown half-black senator." The other part was "not Hillary."
But even so....nobody is scared of that, even though we know for a fact that it will happen, it will kill most of north America, and it will plunge the entire planet into a year-long winter.
Well, almost. A good sized fraction of North America gets buried in ash, which is dangerous to inhale, and makes a mess of machinery, but it isn't immediately deadly if you make any effort at all to avoid inhaling it. It will definitely result in another Year Without a Summer, possibly two. But the ash in the upper atmosphere, the lightest and finest stuff, tends not to cross the equator, so the southern hemisphere won't suffer the serious crop failures that the northern hemisphere will. Given how much of North America's food (and Europe's food, these days) comes from South America, the resulting famine will only be bad, rather than catastrophic.
The problem is how many volcanoes get set off by a large asteroid strike, including possibly Yellowstone itself. Given the probability of an ocean strike (high), you get all possible fun: massive steam cloud and tidal waves, followed by volcanic ash everywhere.
The school owned the camera he used. Therefore all work from that camera belongs to the school.
No. It does not work like that. If you borrow my guitar and write a hit song, it's your song, the copyright is yours. If you borrow my camera and take a Pulitzer-winning photo, it's your photo, the copyright is yours. Copyright goes to the creator of a work, not to the owner of any tools incidental to the creation.
A state of affairs that will undoubtedly be "fixed" in the next Mickey Mouse law...
Costco hires even the most basic, unskilled shelf-stackers for well above minimum wage (closer to $19).
Disingenuous statistic is disingenuous. Costco is legendary for paying more than minimum wage and irritating stockholders in consequence. The famous quote from Deutsche Bank was "it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder." Naming an extraordinarily unusual retailer does not bolster your point.
The Waltons wealth did not come from their employees payroll. The Waltons wealth is in shares of the company.
It's that and it's money they didn't pay to their employees.
Walmart pays a dividend.
More than 50% of Walmart shares are held by Walton family members.
Walmart has 3.226 billion shares outstanding.
In 2014, Walmart paid a quarterly dividend of 48 cents, or $1.92 per share for the year.
So for 2014 alone, the Walton family collected approximately $3.09 billion in cash from Walmart. Completely ignoring the value of the shares themselves, and changing no ownership of those shares in any way...
Your argument seems to be: Owners of a valuable company should sell the company and give the money to the employees. Except who is going to buy the company if they too must then sell it and give the money to the employees?
The reason you made this argument is because you are an ignorant fuck that doesnt understand the difference between wealth and income.
...you ignorant fuck.
It's sickening to see the mindset of the Space Nutter. If this planet is a "dirt rock", then what's so important about going to see other "dirt rocks"?
Because every square centimeter of this rock is owned by someone? And no one owns any square centimeters of the other rocks in the solar system? It's about the frontier, and its opportunities.
They're sterile, barren, lifeless, radioactive hells!
Nobody said it had to be an easy frontier.
You or I might not be interested in making the attempt, because sterile, barren, bathed in radiation, etc. but other people do, and why do you care if other people run off and get themselves killed in an attempt to acquire unclaimed land?
<snip>
Also, small businesses like Comcast could not compete with big government like the council of a town with a population of 1,000 people.
Have you got a license to use that much sarcasm in one post? That exceeded the unlicensed sarcasm allowance. You'll need to file a form and pay a fee. The queue forms on the left. The office is open on alternate Tuesdays if the previous Wednesday was a full moon.
Yea, well you were not kept as slaves, killed for learning to read, beaten with inch and a quarter thick poles (often to death). Your families were not sold separately to different owners and broken up. You were not systematically excluded from education, jobs, housing, medical care for generations and eveb lynched for generations.
Never heard of coolie labor, have you. In much of the Americas, it was literal slavery, and in the US, it was slavery in all but name. Until 1879, where it was recognized as slavery even in name, in the constitution of the State of California.
Asiatic coolieism is a form of human slavery, and is forever prohibited in this State, and all contracts for coolie labour shall be void.
Chinese immigration to the US up to that time was nominally voluntary. And you can believe as much of that as you like. Once they got here, they were enslaved with contracts of indenture that were rigged to be impossible to pay off because they were forced to buy all necessities from the company store, which was rigged to make them go further into debt. It didn't last nearly as long as Black slavery, but it still involved hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Many, many third and fourth generation Chinese-Americans can claim a slave ancestor.
They don't. And they don't dwell on it.
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a Mars-shattering kaboom.
Last week, I live-blogged a talk by theoretical physicist Amanda Peet, and while there were a great amount of comments and discussions focused on her lecture, there was also a great amount focused on Dr. Peet’s physical appearance
Random schmucks commenting on an internet blog do not constitute "sexism in science." The world is full of such people. They're about as far away from scientist as it is possible to get without actual brain damage.
... the church I just quit put out a fact sheet that men were 95% of perpetrators of domestic abuse...
When domestic abuse statistics are kept solely for physical abuse, yep, 95%. If statistics for emotional abuse were kept (and men were willing to report it (never EVER happen across the general population)), it'd be 50/50.
And in a great many cases, that unacceptable treatment came simply because of their gender.
You haven't proven there's a sexism problem, you simply dictated it like some kind of god. Where's the evidence?
They're taking the fact that all graduate students everywhere are treated like slave labor as evidence that there is sexism.
Sorry ladies, that's not why you're being treated like crap in grad school. You're being treated like crap because everyone is treated like crap in grad school. Yes, something should be done about that, but it isn't driven by sexism.
Waterfall just cannot work.
1. All the descions are taken at the time you know the least about the outcome, ie at the begining.
2. By the time you get to the end your requirements are out of date, you get the product you wanted at the start of the project not the one you need now.
Ridiculous. Maybe in stupid-ass punch-the-monkey dev shops writing web-based crap no one will care about in 6 months. There are plenty of industries where this is nonsense.
In international finance, some country decides on a new law (usually a new regulation). The software therefore must change.
Is the law going to change again this year? No.
Is the development cycle less than a year? Yes.
Is the development cycle longer than a fucking sprint? Yes.
Waterfall will work just FINE.
Wake me up when the people who broke the law start seeing some time. Let me know when the guy who exposed this illegal activity is allowed back into the country with his liberty intact.
Good night Mr. van Winkle. We'll wake you in a thousand years.
Windowless planes are coming. And they will be awesome.
Transparent aluminum!