Well, there you have it. Somebody at Google pressed the "any" key.
Nobody else could ever find it; but everybody at Google is a genius
so they must know where it is.
If you can't find the Lincoln Memorial without a map,
you are too stupid to remember to breathe. Therefore, anybody
for whom this would be a problem will pass out before they
get there. Hopefully they won't be behind the wheel when it happens.
I'm not just saying this because I'm from that area. It's big.
The land around it is flat. There are nice views of it from everywhere.
That's a good point. I'd say, "do your job, but don't be blind". So yes, your
admins should be able to write Perl scripts... but you might not want to base your
entire product on that. Your developers should write unit tests... but you want system
tests done by testers, and perhaps even unit tests written by testers, which bolsters
your point. As long as the testers are writing code for test purposes, it makes perfect
sense.
That said, I know cases where these rules have been violated and it's a winner.
The first mover wins, or as Joel Spolsky said "shipping is a feature". If your admin
had to write the product code because it's a startup and everybody wears multiple hats... so be it.
Even when the suggestion of "would you like root on this internal
box?" was put to me, my answer was always "No". I write code. Others
test it. Admins deploy it.
People specialize for a reason. If you want half-assed administration,
give root to a developer. If you want half-assed code, let admins write
software. If you want half-assed testing, have admins and/or developers do it.
Yeah. Even if the screenshot wasn't on the back,
everybody knew that actual gameplay was nothing like
the box cover. To me, it just seemed like the tradition
was carried over from the arcade. Take a look at any
classic standup arcade game, and the art on the side
of the cabinet looks nothing like gameplay either.
Everyone packing up and moving their mobile homes. Yeah, that would be an interesting traffic jam a few hours ahead of the wildfire
What happened when Yellowstone was closed due to wildfire a number
of years ago? I seem to recall pictures of the fire burning very close
to the main park HQ there. I'm sure all the mobiles were long gone.
They have parks like that in San Jose too. The way I see it,
the only real difference between living in those parks and living
in a regular home is that you don't own the land. On the one hand,
it makes entry easier into what is still an overpriced housing
market. On the other hand, they probably hold value somewhat less
than a regular home. They probably don't depreciate anything like
the typical trailer though. As you say, they look very nice. The only
giveaway is that the houses are a bit closer together and there tends
to be a brick wall around the community.
There are Southern style trailer parks
in the bay area too, with trailers that get trashed badly just like
in the South. With land being so constrained here though, I imagine
that the "lost cause" rust buckets get pulled out of the parks and scrapped
more frequently.
Cheap land in the South is a blessing and a curse in that regard--it probably
makes it cheaper to just let the eyesores sit there.
Yes, there would be difficulties in moving on a tight deadline.
If you're lucky you have 24 hours before the evacuation notice on a fire.
The more aestheticly pleasing modular homes might require too much
setup time for a move. Something like a 5th wheel, OTOH, you haul that
out all the time anyway.
If it were a legal market, we'd probably see some really interesting
developments in making the homes aestheticly pleasing *and* mobile without
special setup or equipment (other than a V8 pickup). Since it's not a legal
market, there's no reason to invest.
The "expendable" option is also something that common sense mountain
folk do all the time, when the government isn't looking. A very nice yurt
can be had for $10,000 or so. It'd go up like paper in a fire. In a quake,
I bet they just wiggle. Where do people end up living right after a quake?
In tents! Why not just cut out the middle man and go straight to living
in a very nice tent, which is essentially what a yurt is?
And just to reiterate, this is for rural zones only. It might be silly
in a city. Then again, my ideal city would only have nuisance laws (noise, smell,
excessive light, etc.) and no zoning. $10,000 yurts should be built right next
to tract homes.
Now cue the usual argument about property values. This is why most people
shouldn't own. From an investment perspective, owning your own home is like
purchasing a Berkshire Hathaway class A share on Margin as the majority of your
investment.
Any investment advisor would scoff at such a strategy, yet home ownership is
regarded as perfectly sane. OTOH, if you don't own you can't chose what to build.
IMHO, we need to rethink the whole idea of owning vs. renting, and find a way
to provide more rights to renters while distributing the risk more equitably. If your
house were owned by a REIT, you could hedge your rent with shares in said REIT. If the
REIT were non-leveraged, margin would be a choice for ownerships as opposed to the requirement
that it is now for most people...
They should build green modular homes and deliver them all over the country.
A modular home is not a trailer. You can afix it to a permanent foundation, although
in many parts of the country you shouldn't do that either.
Much of California, for example, in its infinite government insanity, will not
allow you to live in a trailer even in a rural area. Why would I want to live in
a trailer, praytell? Well, it'd be nice to think that the next time a nearby hill
caught on fire, you could, you know... maybe at least have a fair chance of MOVING
THE HOUSE OUT OF THE WAY. Instead, the county insists that you 1. Build a really
expensive house and then 2. Permanently cement it to something that will eventually
blowtorch it down, wash it away, or shake it apart.
Invariably, when fires occur they strip away trees and reveal more "illegal
substandard housing" than anybody ever realized existed. These would be "people who had the right
idea". It makes a helluva lot more sense to build a *shack* up there than anything more
expensive. If you try to do that, the county will FINE YOU. IMHO, it's the county government
that should be fined. If only we had a government by the people, for the people...
That was the first pass. I had to ask her to repeat
it several times, and she knew I was having a hard time
with her speech. Her final, phrasing, the one I got due
to the additional supplied context and knowing that I was
near a jail, was this:
"Wurazee d'tensun cennah at. Ma boyfrien' in there".
Bear in mind, this was an interraction with a woman
in public who wanted me to understand her and it was extremely
difficult. On a wiretap recording I would have been totally SOL.
I have special comment abilities on this post so that scepticly impaired
persons do not have to read remarks by Rubinesque intellectuals
who prefer not to appreciate biting the wax tadpole.
This stuff reminds me of that cartoon where the mice
decide to give the cat a present: a pretty, shiny
bell to put around the cat's neck. For me? the cat
exclaims. Now the mice know when the cat is coming.
tl;dr. When you brought in the WWII Germans, I saw this as
just shy of a Godwin and tuned out. How did this get modded up?
Followed by, who is going to follow all those links?
We need an international effort to legalize personal production of all personally produceable drugs
Generally agreed; but it should still be illegal to make meth in your home.
Ditto for anything else where the process might cause the house to explode and/or
leave a toxic waste dump in the 'hood.
Between this and Wikileaks, what's Big Brother supposed to do?
It was supposed to be his game. Looks like he fumbled the ball,
and the average Joe ran with it. At least, that's how it looks for
now...
There are still parts of Yahoo that take comments.
The trouble is, it's not moderated or filtered in any decent
way. As flawed as Slashdot's moderation system can be, at least
it has one.
I will certainly concede that they suffer from a serious
case of what I call being "Deja'd". I started calling it that
after Deja News (remember that?) updated their web site with bells
and whistles, essentially destroying the utility for me.
The saving grace of Yahoo (and why I still use it) is that they
don't kill off the old UI. I guess there are just enough
grouchy old curmudgeons like me to make it worthwhile. You never
know when the axe might fall though. Yahoo mail "Classic" could disappear
any day, and when it does I'll probably go Gmail. It'll be a sad end
to something like a 10 year run if that happens.
Personally, I think that paled in comparison to his behavior during the hearings on record high gas prices, where he nastily shot down colleagues who wanted the record-profit-making oil company executives to be under oath. You can find the written quotes [cnn.com] (near end of article) easily enough, but if you can find video, you will see that his attitude indicated he was firmly siding with those executives over any public interest, before the hearings even began.
This man occupied a job "for the people" while feeling far more beholden to his corporate sponsors
He represented Alaska--a state where many people are employed by the oil industry, and where every citizen
receives a check from oil. It sounds to me like he represented Alaskans just fine there.
As for net neutrality, watch out what you ask for--you might get it. The State will define
what is "neutral", and require you to document that you are running your network in a manor
which is "neutral" according to their definition. Where are the Slashdot Libertarians when you
really need them?
Look, I'm no fan of clearcutting timber up there either, as the Wiki article on his life describes.
That's beside the point. I don't live in Alaska. The rural, western states in general have a much
different attitude towards "resources" than coastal, "blue states". A sizeable portion of Alaskans
might consider somebody who violates Federal law in that regard a hero, and somebody who prevents
them from being subject to perjury as a defender. I'm not saying I agree with that. I'm just saying it's more complex
than "a doddering, corrupt old man who does the corporate bidding".
Slashdot Mirror
It also goes there for "any memorial, washington"
Well, there you have it. Somebody at Google pressed the "any" key. Nobody else could ever find it; but everybody at Google is a genius so they must know where it is.
I was going for Funny there.
If you look for the Jefferson Memorial, the same thing happens. The Washington Monument and the White House work fine though.
If you can't find the Lincoln Memorial without a map, you are too stupid to remember to breathe. Therefore, anybody for whom this would be a problem will pass out before they get there. Hopefully they won't be behind the wheel when it happens.
I'm not just saying this because I'm from that area. It's big. The land around it is flat. There are nice views of it from everywhere.
Instant Water, just add^%$^$ NO CARRIER.
I care about the integrity of a work of art, cheesy pyro effects and all.
Digital remasterings that go beyond color correction and noise reduction suck. JMHO.
Acceptable? Getting rid of the matte outlines that were visible in VHS Star Wars IV. Not acceptable? Adding a CGI tauntaun.
That's a good point. I'd say, "do your job, but don't be blind". So yes, your admins should be able to write Perl scripts... but you might not want to base your entire product on that. Your developers should write unit tests... but you want system tests done by testers, and perhaps even unit tests written by testers, which bolsters your point. As long as the testers are writing code for test purposes, it makes perfect sense.
That said, I know cases where these rules have been violated and it's a winner. The first mover wins, or as Joel Spolsky said "shipping is a feature". If your admin had to write the product code because it's a startup and everybody wears multiple hats... so be it.
Even when the suggestion of "would you like root on this internal box?" was put to me, my answer was always "No". I write code. Others test it. Admins deploy it.
People specialize for a reason. If you want half-assed administration, give root to a developer. If you want half-assed code, let admins write software. If you want half-assed testing, have admins and/or developers do it.
Yeah. Even if the screenshot wasn't on the back, everybody knew that actual gameplay was nothing like the box cover. To me, it just seemed like the tradition was carried over from the arcade. Take a look at any classic standup arcade game, and the art on the side of the cabinet looks nothing like gameplay either.
You had me at "a pair".
Everyone packing up and moving their mobile homes. Yeah, that would be an interesting traffic jam a few hours ahead of the wildfire
What happened when Yellowstone was closed due to wildfire a number of years ago? I seem to recall pictures of the fire burning very close to the main park HQ there. I'm sure all the mobiles were long gone.
They have parks like that in San Jose too. The way I see it, the only real difference between living in those parks and living in a regular home is that you don't own the land. On the one hand, it makes entry easier into what is still an overpriced housing market. On the other hand, they probably hold value somewhat less than a regular home. They probably don't depreciate anything like the typical trailer though. As you say, they look very nice. The only giveaway is that the houses are a bit closer together and there tends to be a brick wall around the community.
There are Southern style trailer parks in the bay area too, with trailers that get trashed badly just like in the South. With land being so constrained here though, I imagine that the "lost cause" rust buckets get pulled out of the parks and scrapped more frequently.
Cheap land in the South is a blessing and a curse in that regard--it probably makes it cheaper to just let the eyesores sit there.
Yes, there would be difficulties in moving on a tight deadline. If you're lucky you have 24 hours before the evacuation notice on a fire. The more aestheticly pleasing modular homes might require too much setup time for a move. Something like a 5th wheel, OTOH, you haul that out all the time anyway.
If it were a legal market, we'd probably see some really interesting developments in making the homes aestheticly pleasing *and* mobile without special setup or equipment (other than a V8 pickup). Since it's not a legal market, there's no reason to invest.
The "expendable" option is also something that common sense mountain folk do all the time, when the government isn't looking. A very nice yurt can be had for $10,000 or so. It'd go up like paper in a fire. In a quake, I bet they just wiggle. Where do people end up living right after a quake? In tents! Why not just cut out the middle man and go straight to living in a very nice tent, which is essentially what a yurt is?
And just to reiterate, this is for rural zones only. It might be silly in a city. Then again, my ideal city would only have nuisance laws (noise, smell, excessive light, etc.) and no zoning. $10,000 yurts should be built right next to tract homes.
Now cue the usual argument about property values. This is why most people shouldn't own. From an investment perspective, owning your own home is like purchasing a Berkshire Hathaway class A share on Margin as the majority of your investment.
Any investment advisor would scoff at such a strategy, yet home ownership is regarded as perfectly sane. OTOH, if you don't own you can't chose what to build.
IMHO, we need to rethink the whole idea of owning vs. renting, and find a way to provide more rights to renters while distributing the risk more equitably. If your house were owned by a REIT, you could hedge your rent with shares in said REIT. If the REIT were non-leveraged, margin would be a choice for ownerships as opposed to the requirement that it is now for most people...
...end rant.
They should build green modular homes and deliver them all over the country. A modular home is not a trailer. You can afix it to a permanent foundation, although in many parts of the country you shouldn't do that either.
Much of California, for example, in its infinite government insanity, will not allow you to live in a trailer even in a rural area. Why would I want to live in a trailer, praytell? Well, it'd be nice to think that the next time a nearby hill caught on fire, you could, you know... maybe at least have a fair chance of MOVING THE HOUSE OUT OF THE WAY. Instead, the county insists that you 1. Build a really expensive house and then 2. Permanently cement it to something that will eventually blowtorch it down, wash it away, or shake it apart.
Invariably, when fires occur they strip away trees and reveal more "illegal substandard housing" than anybody ever realized existed. These would be "people who had the right idea". It makes a helluva lot more sense to build a *shack* up there than anything more expensive. If you try to do that, the county will FINE YOU. IMHO, it's the county government that should be fined. If only we had a government by the people, for the people...
OK, then answer me this: "Wurzee d'ten cen a'"
That was the first pass. I had to ask her to repeat it several times, and she knew I was having a hard time with her speech. Her final, phrasing, the one I got due to the additional supplied context and knowing that I was near a jail, was this:
"Wurazee d'tensun cennah at. Ma boyfrien' in there".
Bear in mind, this was an interraction with a woman in public who wanted me to understand her and it was extremely difficult. On a wiretap recording I would have been totally SOL.
Indeed. Check out the chronology for Linux. Three months? That's nothing.
The translator needs some work though.
I did a BS-English-BS translation and got this:
I have special comment abilities on this post so that scepticly impaired persons do not have to read remarks by Rubinesque intellectuals who prefer not to appreciate biting the wax tadpole.
So that's where the money went: Into subprime space.
This stuff reminds me of that cartoon where the mice decide to give the cat a present: a pretty, shiny bell to put around the cat's neck. For me? the cat exclaims. Now the mice know when the cat is coming.
No thanks.
tl;dr. When you brought in the WWII Germans, I saw this as just shy of a Godwin and tuned out. How did this get modded up? Followed by, who is going to follow all those links?
We need an international effort to legalize personal production of all personally produceable drugs
Generally agreed; but it should still be illegal to make meth in your home. Ditto for anything else where the process might cause the house to explode and/or leave a toxic waste dump in the 'hood.
Between this and Wikileaks, what's Big Brother supposed to do? It was supposed to be his game. Looks like he fumbled the ball, and the average Joe ran with it. At least, that's how it looks for now...
Napoleon Hill was the original mass-market "motivational speaker".
Did he live in a van down by the river?
There are still parts of Yahoo that take comments. The trouble is, it's not moderated or filtered in any decent way. As flawed as Slashdot's moderation system can be, at least it has one.
I will certainly concede that they suffer from a serious case of what I call being "Deja'd". I started calling it that after Deja News (remember that?) updated their web site with bells and whistles, essentially destroying the utility for me.
The saving grace of Yahoo (and why I still use it) is that they don't kill off the old UI. I guess there are just enough grouchy old curmudgeons like me to make it worthwhile. You never know when the axe might fall though. Yahoo mail "Classic" could disappear any day, and when it does I'll probably go Gmail. It'll be a sad end to something like a 10 year run if that happens.
Personally, I think that paled in comparison to his behavior during the hearings on record high gas prices, where he nastily shot down colleagues who wanted the record-profit-making oil company executives to be under oath. You can find the written quotes [cnn.com] (near end of article) easily enough, but if you can find video, you will see that his attitude indicated he was firmly siding with those executives over any public interest, before the hearings even began.
This man occupied a job "for the people" while feeling far more beholden to his corporate sponsors
He represented Alaska--a state where many people are employed by the oil industry, and where every citizen receives a check from oil. It sounds to me like he represented Alaskans just fine there.
As for net neutrality, watch out what you ask for--you might get it. The State will define what is "neutral", and require you to document that you are running your network in a manor which is "neutral" according to their definition. Where are the Slashdot Libertarians when you really need them?
Look, I'm no fan of clearcutting timber up there either, as the Wiki article on his life describes. That's beside the point. I don't live in Alaska. The rural, western states in general have a much different attitude towards "resources" than coastal, "blue states". A sizeable portion of Alaskans might consider somebody who violates Federal law in that regard a hero, and somebody who prevents them from being subject to perjury as a defender. I'm not saying I agree with that. I'm just saying it's more complex than "a doddering, corrupt old man who does the corporate bidding".