As much faith as I have in the NSA's security abilities, does anyone have any idea what criteria they were using exactly? Any in-depth results they've made public, preferably?
It's an aggregate result of how many social security numbers B1 bombers have lost over the last 10 years divided by how many B1 bombers, with the software installed, have been stolen out of government offices or left behind in taxi cabs.
The true, insidious purpose of the space station has yet to reveal itself. It's up there to allow for a new unit of measurement. Even with tons, tonnes, elephants, library of congresses, football fields, million millions, we don't have a good cubic-meter measurement yet. So we'll use the obvious choice, (how many xxx can fit into a car?)
We stuff clowns into cars to see how many cubic feet they can reasonably allow. The reason the US, Russia, Japan, and all our other friends are collaborating on this project is to get all of our clowns up there, stuffed into the space station, to see how many can fit, and this will be our new standard of measurement for cubic space. Then, once we've tallied how many tens of thousands of clowns can fit into the space station, we launch it into the sun.
I'd like to see anyone disagree that all the money has been ill-spent on this endeavor.
The man wrote brilliant novels, for sure but as he is living today I will never purchase another because I can't stand the idea of him having more money to spend on anti-civil rights measures.
Let's take a look at the "cherry" kool-aid you've been drinking and see what it's made of. We can do this by flipping this around, and even including the strawman that those of your view are parading about. What if you were to write up a proposition to the constitution next to the definition of freedom of religion to say "Mormonism shall not be considered a religion, but shall have all the same rights, protections, and legal recognitions of a religion." and see just how little anyone will care? No rights were taken away, so it's not an anti-civil rights measure unless they're victimizing themselves out to make it one. As long as a people consider themselves a victim, they will never receive equal recognition in the eyes of those of which they consider themselves victims. This is the fault of a gay rights movement when they have all the same legal rights, protections, and recognitions as anyone else.
This is like 7% of mathematicians demanding that rectangles can now be called 'squares' and that squares, as we now know them, be known as 'traditional squares' -- it's simply ridiculous. They're both shapes. They both have 4 sides intersecting at right angles, but their definitions are as old as their recognition, and changing those definitions falls outside the right of a minority vote, no matter how loud or angry they get about it.
So go ahead and buy his books, because he never supported such a measure as one you described.
Apparently you weren't aware that this week is "Opposite Week" for karma.
I get a -1 Troll for pointing out a +4 insightful post directed toward my -1 Offtopic Post was nothing but a personal flamebait attack, that was hypocritically also offtopic.
will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?
A friend of mine is set to be drafted immediately into their military if he ever sets foot in Turkey, since he was born in a Turkish hospital. That said, do you think he's dumb enough to accept a job interview for a Turkish company? It doesn't matter how delicious it sounds, he's not biting.
When I see "One of your classmates wants to contact you!" I just say to myself "If they're someone I wanted to keep contact with, they would know how to get ahold of me."
OTOH I should expect this from someone who can't even grasp why the current pledge of allegiance is a prayer.
That's it. Nothing wrong with my post. You just have a problem with me. Nice to see the ad-hominems clearing that up for everyone. I was starting to wonder about how you were managing to completely miss the points of my post or interpret them as the exact opposite of what they said.
ON a side note, at least we live in a society that allows you to go on and on spouting your ignorant drivel...no thanks to you.
Optimistic? Oversimplified? Overzealous? Certainly. Calling it "ignorance" is mislabeling, though. The harmful ignorance is had by those who think the government that requires a bailout from its citizens is capable of competent governance over said citizens. The same goes for financial institutions. If the guys you give all your money to have proven themselves so clumsy at handling said money that they manage to trip up and cause a worldwide recession, YOU DON'T GIVE THEM MORE OF IT.
And that "no thanks to you" comment... Should I be sorry I didn't build a time machine to go back to 1776 and push for freedom of speech?.. Because I'm not. Those guys handled it pretty well without me.
My priority is not to save a failing government or any other failing vectors in my [semi]free-market[read: state] economy. My priority is making sure my family is fed and living as comfortably as possible. If the government comes crumbling down, it is not due to any failure on my part. It is due to failure on its own part -- and as a government entity, its job is not to fail. If it fails at that, it's time for it to be replaced. The same goes for financial institutions. If it is time for them to fail, it's not my job to revive them. It's time for more successful buds to grow, just like trees after a forest fire. The dead should not be propped back up and watered, but their ashes should be strewn to feed the new and struggling successors. As for the automakers? Let their deaths drown the unions in blood that those might lose whatever power they have tried so hard to hold on to in these trying times. Let society's bloated parasites die first. Once that's over, we can start worrying about priorities.
Unfortunately, those free food and drinks, museum, airport, and culture all make a box of 45 blocks cost $15 instead of the $1.50 it would cost if built with whips and child labor.
You offer good solutions and alternatives to the mountain of financial debt, but the fundamentals of higher education are still broken. Nowadays, at a large university, I have to take English, Business Communications, Accounting, and Psychology to get my CIS degree -- and pay extortionate amounts of money to get it. Instead of 2 new Lexuses, I get to spend the same amount taking 15 credit hours of worthless generals. My head assistant got his first of several bachelors degrees when I was 1 year old. He never learned to work, though, so he makes a fraction of what I do. He wasn't getting experience and making money for those 20+ years he spent in school. He was losing valuable time.
The original universities in Paris were founded to allow people to study what they wanted without the rigidity and structure of primary education. Today's universities have become the polar opposite -- where primary education is deemed a preparator for the hamstrung framework students are forced through to prove "I can be taught something from a book well enough to pass a test on it the following week! Give me money!"
I'm a programmer not a manager. It always bugs me to see "answers" like this because all it really says is "do their job for them."
As a programmer, it's completely within your job description to raise concerns to your manager when they tell you to add/remove something that will cause long-term system instability or delayed software. You're still letting them do their job in making the final decision, but it's your job to make sure their decision is informed. Don't be afraid to make your life or job easier by washing blood off your hands and onto his. You can only make him responsible for the negative impact of his decisions if you let him know what those negative impacts will probably be. Otherwise, you can stay quiet, head down, in the dark, and then you can enjoy your forced overtime, minimum wage, and unemployment lines. You help the guy out enough and you can expect to be getting more money for less work without leaving the comfort of your company, and your manager will treat you like a golden child.
would have warned the manager that the risk of starting before the thing is properly speced is that all work might have to be thrown away.
One thing that is not taught in schools but learned "on the battlefield" is the instincts of when a project is going to go bad before it starts. You can simply smell it on the proposal or project schematic.
Until that's developed, you have to live with damage control. I always suggest to new guys, who deal with management or clients, what I used to say when something like this would happen: "Sure, it can be done, but we'll have to extend the deadline a few (days/weeks/months), and it will be expensive to add that since we'll have to change our [blah blah blah, you said the word 'expensive' so they're no longer listening. They're thinking. Once their eyes refocus, stop talking and ask them for their final decision]."
They don't care how difficult it is or how many bugs will be introduced by cramming foundational changes in at the last second. They care about deadlines and money. You tell them that both will be sacrificed for some unneccessary feature creep, and you'll start seeing some managerial decision making instead of simple managerial delegation.
Are Christian, Jewish and Muslim Americans excused from idolatrous worship of the flag, or do they have to choose between their religion and their country?
Anyone refusing to participate on religious grounds is excused, but it's not flag worship. It's respect. Citizens of the US aren't expected to pray to the flag as if it were a god. They are asked, however, to recognized its symbol for the nation that protects their rights to worship how they may. If they claim themselves to be a citizen of a nation, they have already claimed to ally themselves to the flag of that nation. Allegiance != Obescience. It is alliance, not servitude, that is being pledged. Also, I'm fairly certain those are the first and second of the 10 commandments you are trying to refer to.
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As much faith as I have in the NSA's security abilities, does anyone have any idea what criteria they were using exactly? Any in-depth results they've made public, preferably?
It's an aggregate result of how many social security numbers B1 bombers have lost over the last 10 years divided by how many B1 bombers, with the software installed, have been stolen out of government offices or left behind in taxi cabs.
The true, insidious purpose of the space station has yet to reveal itself. It's up there to allow for a new unit of measurement. Even with tons, tonnes, elephants, library of congresses, football fields, million millions, we don't have a good cubic-meter measurement yet. So we'll use the obvious choice, (how many xxx can fit into a car?)
We stuff clowns into cars to see how many cubic feet they can reasonably allow. The reason the US, Russia, Japan, and all our other friends are collaborating on this project is to get all of our clowns up there, stuffed into the space station, to see how many can fit, and this will be our new standard of measurement for cubic space. Then, once we've tallied how many tens of thousands of clowns can fit into the space station, we launch it into the sun.
I'd like to see anyone disagree that all the money has been ill-spent on this endeavor.
How long is a soccer pitch?
It's about the length of a football field, including the endzones.
And just how many elephants is 300 tons?
I don't know how many elephants, but it's around 380 stripped honda civics.
The man wrote brilliant novels, for sure but as he is living today I will never purchase another because I can't stand the idea of him having more money to spend on anti-civil rights measures.
Let's take a look at the "cherry" kool-aid you've been drinking and see what it's made of. We can do this by flipping this around, and even including the strawman that those of your view are parading about. What if you were to write up a proposition to the constitution next to the definition of freedom of religion to say "Mormonism shall not be considered a religion, but shall have all the same rights, protections, and legal recognitions of a religion." and see just how little anyone will care? No rights were taken away, so it's not an anti-civil rights measure unless they're victimizing themselves out to make it one. As long as a people consider themselves a victim, they will never receive equal recognition in the eyes of those of which they consider themselves victims. This is the fault of a gay rights movement when they have all the same legal rights, protections, and recognitions as anyone else.
This is like 7% of mathematicians demanding that rectangles can now be called 'squares' and that squares, as we now know them, be known as 'traditional squares' -- it's simply ridiculous. They're both shapes. They both have 4 sides intersecting at right angles, but their definitions are as old as their recognition, and changing those definitions falls outside the right of a minority vote, no matter how loud or angry they get about it.
So go ahead and buy his books, because he never supported such a measure as one you described.
I'd rather see research and development dollars spent making war and conflict obsolete.
Seeing an end to war is less likely than seeing an end to sex.
Wish I'd saved a mod point earlier.
Apparently you weren't aware that this week is "Opposite Week" for karma.
;)
I get a -1 Troll for pointing out a +4 insightful post directed toward my -1 Offtopic Post was nothing but a personal flamebait attack, that was hypocritically also offtopic.
Then later, I get a +4 Funny for a post about how my friend will be shanghai'd if he ever visits Turkey.
So unless you're aware of the announcement that this week is crazy week, you might want to hold on to any mod points you have
you mean you didn't have 5 years of ASP experience 2 years after it came out, either?
Wow... wow... the flashbacks that sentence just induced sent goosebumps up my spine. The Bad kind of goosebumps.
ahh.. American Relevance in the new century fades a little more. Just hope we don't go kicking and screaming.
Oh $#@*! They're only 40 years behind us! PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT, MEN!
will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?
A friend of mine is set to be drafted immediately into their military if he ever sets foot in Turkey, since he was born in a Turkish hospital. That said, do you think he's dumb enough to accept a job interview for a Turkish company? It doesn't matter how delicious it sounds, he's not biting.
When I see "One of your classmates wants to contact you!" I just say to myself "If they're someone I wanted to keep contact with, they would know how to get ahold of me."
I also get a lot of those Crushmail...
OTOH I should expect this from someone who can't even grasp why the current pledge of allegiance is a prayer.
That's it. Nothing wrong with my post. You just have a problem with me. Nice to see the ad-hominems clearing that up for everyone. I was starting to wonder about how you were managing to completely miss the points of my post or interpret them as the exact opposite of what they said.
ON a side note, at least we live in a society that allows you to go on and on spouting your ignorant drivel...no thanks to you.
Optimistic? Oversimplified? Overzealous? Certainly. Calling it "ignorance" is mislabeling, though. The harmful ignorance is had by those who think the government that requires a bailout from its citizens is capable of competent governance over said citizens. The same goes for financial institutions. If the guys you give all your money to have proven themselves so clumsy at handling said money that they manage to trip up and cause a worldwide recession, YOU DON'T GIVE THEM MORE OF IT.
And that "no thanks to you" comment... Should I be sorry I didn't build a time machine to go back to 1776 and push for freedom of speech?.. Because I'm not. Those guys handled it pretty well without me.
My priority is not to save a failing government or any other failing vectors in my [semi]free-market[read: state] economy. My priority is making sure my family is fed and living as comfortably as possible. If the government comes crumbling down, it is not due to any failure on my part. It is due to failure on its own part -- and as a government entity, its job is not to fail. If it fails at that, it's time for it to be replaced. The same goes for financial institutions. If it is time for them to fail, it's not my job to revive them. It's time for more successful buds to grow, just like trees after a forest fire. The dead should not be propped back up and watered, but their ashes should be strewn to feed the new and struggling successors. As for the automakers? Let their deaths drown the unions in blood that those might lose whatever power they have tried so hard to hold on to in these trying times. Let society's bloated parasites die first. Once that's over, we can start worrying about priorities.
The actors are in their low thirties. You're just too used to seeing 40-year olds playing teens in your favorite TV shows.
Unfortunately, those free food and drinks, museum, airport, and culture all make a box of 45 blocks cost $15 instead of the $1.50 it would cost if built with whips and child labor.
And given your tenuous grasp of the English language, it's quite obvious that you have no college degree.
Did you just start that sentence with a conjunction?
You offer good solutions and alternatives to the mountain of financial debt, but the fundamentals of higher education are still broken. Nowadays, at a large university, I have to take English, Business Communications, Accounting, and Psychology to get my CIS degree -- and pay extortionate amounts of money to get it. Instead of 2 new Lexuses, I get to spend the same amount taking 15 credit hours of worthless generals. My head assistant got his first of several bachelors degrees when I was 1 year old. He never learned to work, though, so he makes a fraction of what I do. He wasn't getting experience and making money for those 20+ years he spent in school. He was losing valuable time.
The original universities in Paris were founded to allow people to study what they wanted without the rigidity and structure of primary education. Today's universities have become the polar opposite -- where primary education is deemed a preparator for the hamstrung framework students are forced through to prove "I can be taught something from a book well enough to pass a test on it the following week! Give me money!"
I'm a programmer not a manager. It always bugs me to see "answers" like this because all it really says is "do their job for them."
As a programmer, it's completely within your job description to raise concerns to your manager when they tell you to add/remove something that will cause long-term system instability or delayed software. You're still letting them do their job in making the final decision, but it's your job to make sure their decision is informed. Don't be afraid to make your life or job easier by washing blood off your hands and onto his. You can only make him responsible for the negative impact of his decisions if you let him know what those negative impacts will probably be. Otherwise, you can stay quiet, head down, in the dark, and then you can enjoy your forced overtime, minimum wage, and unemployment lines. You help the guy out enough and you can expect to be getting more money for less work without leaving the comfort of your company, and your manager will treat you like a golden child.
You can't take a cell sample from somebody and pop it in an analyzer and come back and say "this person is 93% black and 7% white".
Not in those certain terms, no, but close.
would have warned the manager that the risk of starting before the thing is properly speced is that all work might have to be thrown away.
One thing that is not taught in schools but learned "on the battlefield" is the instincts of when a project is going to go bad before it starts. You can simply smell it on the proposal or project schematic.
Until that's developed, you have to live with damage control. I always suggest to new guys, who deal with management or clients, what I used to say when something like this would happen: "Sure, it can be done, but we'll have to extend the deadline a few (days/weeks/months), and it will be expensive to add that since we'll have to change our [blah blah blah, you said the word 'expensive' so they're no longer listening. They're thinking. Once their eyes refocus, stop talking and ask them for their final decision]."
They don't care how difficult it is or how many bugs will be introduced by cramming foundational changes in at the last second. They care about deadlines and money. You tell them that both will be sacrificed for some unneccessary feature creep, and you'll start seeing some managerial decision making instead of simple managerial delegation.
If that's such a good idea, why don't YOU do it?
What's the difference between G. Roseum and an oil baron?
One is a parasitic inhuman slime capable of producing copius amounts of fuel, and the other is a mushroom.
Anyone know what the standard made-up unit is for energy/time?
Sadly, we don't need a made-up unit for that. The one we have is bad enough:
Horses
Poor little guy gets a single centimeter in 20 picoseconds-time and poofs into nothingness
I can already see the spam... "P4rticl3 not going far enough? Last longer! Natur4l P4rticle eh4ncement!"
Are Christian, Jewish and Muslim Americans excused from idolatrous worship of the flag, or do they have to choose between their religion and their country?
Anyone refusing to participate on religious grounds is excused, but it's not flag worship. It's respect. Citizens of the US aren't expected to pray to the flag as if it were a god. They are asked, however, to recognized its symbol for the nation that protects their rights to worship how they may. If they claim themselves to be a citizen of a nation, they have already claimed to ally themselves to the flag of that nation. Allegiance != Obescience. It is alliance, not servitude, that is being pledged. Also, I'm fairly certain those are the first and second of the 10 commandments you are trying to refer to.
The 5 people on Slashdot who actually bothered to buy SPORE and play it will get this joke
What about the 250,000 people on Slashdot who actually bothered to download SPORE and play it?