To be honest though, a random guy threatening an Olympic diver, is a bit like a random guy threatening to beat up a heavyweight cage fighter - not going to happen.
I've noticed a couple of things while working in offices - women get away with a hell of a lot more than men.
Women are allowed to wear the skimpiest of outfits, but men can be reprimanded for noticing.
Women are allowed to comment on men's looks (you look dashing today), but not the other way around.
Women are allowed to make fun of "man flu" when their male coworkers are ill, but men aren't allowed to make similar comments.
And if men try to point out that one or more of the female coworkers are behaving inappropriately, they get shot down and told to man up and no be crybabies.
Personally I don't see an issue with harassment policies being in place - my main issues are with selective enforcement and rules that do not apply to everyone.
So is farting in a lift. Telling people they're fat, ugly, retarded, cunts, gay, faggots, niggers, commies, cowards, rats, bastards or any other slew of insults you can think of. Firing guns into crowds. Flying planes in to buildings. Dropping bombs on each-other.
Neither of these are civilization killers (the last one has the potential though, depending on the bombs).
Doesn't mean I think we should just let it happen, simply because it's not affecting me personally.
a potential problem that amounts to little more a slight reduction in global GDP
If it was only an economical issue, then yeah - no worries.
However - the Maldives have 320,000+ inhabitants, who are about to be, quite literally, out to sea.
They aren't refugees, fleeing from poverty or war. They are an entire nation and culture being hung out to dry (if they're lucky), because the rest of us are greedy and lazy idiots.
Who's going to give them a new country? And where? Who's going to take them in and help them become self-sufficient again?
And they won't be the only ones.
Currently the GWP is about 58 trillion Euros/year. That means a cost of between 580 billion Euros/year and 2,900 billion Euros/year.
What is it going to cost to relocate 300,000 people? What about a million? Five? Imagine the chaos, hate and anger involved, if the US suddenly had to move all of Hawaii's population onto the continental US (1.3 million). Sure, it might smooth out after a couple of generations, but it's going to fuck things up quite a bit for several decades.
Considering that we keep hearing about people getting their own stuff blocked on YouTube by spurious claims, I fail to see how Google's Content-ID is better.
Easier for the big corporations, sure. But not better.
If I were in Kim DotCom's shoes (and had the financial assets to back the play), I'd go into court with a demand for a massive damages suit.
And then I'd tell the court and public, that I'd be willing to waive all financial claims (other than getting ALL of my assets released and returned), in exchange for the parties responsible going to jail (not minimum security either) for no less than 1 day for every 1,000 New Zealand dollar that was wasted and otherwise destroyed as a result of this case.
Call it contempt of court or whatever.
Then clarify that "the parties responsible" doesn't mean the officers doing the raid, but the administrators, managers, bureaucrats and politicians up the food chain who pushed for this rushjob.
And then I'd just lean back in my chair and watch as those people throw eachother to the sharks and media frenzy.
You need to be 18 to get a drivers license in Denmark.
If you're an exchange student to the US you can get a US drivers licence at 16.
Should those Danish exchange students be arrested and thrown in jail for having driven a car while in the US, once they return to Denmark?
Keeping in mind, that they broke absolutely no laws while in the US nor while they were in Denmark?
Or how about we turn it around.
In Denmark the age of consent is 15. Suppose a 15-year-old US citizen travels to Denmark on holiday with his or her family and ends up having sex with a 15-year-old in Denmark.
Should the 15-year-old be charged and marked for being a sex offender (statutory rape), travelling to engage in such etc., upon returning to the US?
How about this one. US citizen living in Nevada travels to New York. In New York he's arrested for having paid for sex with a prostitute in a licensed and regulated Nevada brothel. Something that is completely legal in Nevada, but illegal in New York.
Explain, "Its because we're trying to prevent another 9/11 and even though its a pain in the ass for everyone including the nice clerk who really wants to sell you an iPad, we all make small sacrifice during times of war for National Security."
The Iraq war perhaps? Technically that ended in 2003. I remember seeing President Bush giving a speech about it. Everything after that is either civil war or crime fighting.
War in Afghanistan? That ended in 2004, when Hamid Karai was elected in 2004. Everything after that is either civil war or crime fighting.
If you declare war on a concept instead of a nation, you can't end it. As such it's not a war.
It's pretty much the same order (potatoes, sauce and a steak), yet know that you can't just reuse the same ones from the original order.
Suppose you then change your mind again. But now, instead of steak, potatoes and sauce you want shepherd's pie. And then five minutes later you want pudding.
Would you expect to only pay for the pudding, or for all the other orders you've started?
And remember - cooking is generally a lot faster than programming, but people also realise that they can't just change their order halfway through having their original order prepared without payment.
So what you're saying is, that people in construction know how to make proper contracts?
I've actually done software development for and with engineering companies, and the ones I've worked with had a very interesting view on deadlines - they'd rather things work before being put to use, to the point that they'd move the deadline.
Hell, I got my ass chewed off for working overtime to finish a project on time. My boss (an engineer by trade and education) had taken my project estimation and essentially tripled it before sending it to the client. He wasn't upset that my estimation was off, he was upset that I didn't have the balls to come up and say "hey, there's a problem with this, and I can't make it on time".
It's amazing to work with those kinds of people. The kind of people that will make it abundantly clear, that the client gets what they paid for, and what they paid for is in the specifications.
THAT is the biggest problem with IT. Everybody being to scared to say no. Write the specification with the client, get their signature on it. Do not deviate without renegotiating EVERYTHING, including payment and deadlines.
Nothing wrong with the keyboard. Those are Swedish place-names, and the fucked up parts are due to Slashdot being incapable of handling non-Latin characters.
That's not really a loop, unless you want to accept the outlying stations in the loop as VÃstra Skogen, Ã...keshov, Ã-stermalmstorg, Liljeholmen and SkÃrmabrink.
Should the police be afraid of making mistakes? Depends on the mistake.
If they cause grievous harm to someone - yes, that they should be afraid of. Arresting someone who is innocent or is later found not guilty - no.
The prosecutors, however, should be held to a much higher standard, as they are the ones who are ultimately responsible. I.e. if they don't feel a case is strong enough, they'll have to release the suspect.
And in cases like this, where someone is found not guilty after having spent 11 months in jail, I wouldn't mind seeing the prosecutor responsible spend, say half that time behind bars for contempt of court or something. No regular income etc. (i.e. they don't get to simply sit in a cell and collect an income from the state).
Not in every single case, but if it could be codified in a reasonable way, it would certainly make railroading a lot less interesting for the prosecution. I mean - it's one thing to lose a case, but losing a case AND having to spend time in jail? Very unlikely that prosecutors will be willing to risk that simply because of political pressure.
Thankfully in my native language we don't use the term "organic" for food items - we use... well, something like "ecologically".
However, when I'm talking to English speaking 'green freaks', it is rather fun to point out that by their own standards dog shit is organic.
The same is true for urine. Not only is it organic in the chemical sense (uric acid), but for people who swear by organic foods etc., it is also a wholly organic product.
Granted, I rather doubt either of those are particularly healthy, but hey - at least it's organic, right?
The whole organic vs organic thing reminds me of an old anecdote (not sure if it's true though).
A news crew gets a call about a tanker truck crashing, resulting in a large chemical spill nearby, so they rush off to cover it. Two minutes later they get another call from their boss: "Don't bother with the tanker truck story - turns out it was only organic chemicals."
Considering the article ruled out some software, because it was considered too difficult to use, I suspect Elemental Technologies' software would be ruled out due to cost.
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Jeez ... what kind of funerals have you attended?!?
To be honest though, a random guy threatening an Olympic diver, is a bit like a random guy threatening to beat up a heavyweight cage fighter - not going to happen.
I've noticed a couple of things while working in offices - women get away with a hell of a lot more than men.
Women are allowed to wear the skimpiest of outfits, but men can be reprimanded for noticing.
Women are allowed to comment on men's looks (you look dashing today), but not the other way around.
Women are allowed to make fun of "man flu" when their male coworkers are ill, but men aren't allowed to make similar comments.
And if men try to point out that one or more of the female coworkers are behaving inappropriately, they get shot down and told to man up and no be crybabies.
Personally I don't see an issue with harassment policies being in place - my main issues are with selective enforcement and rules that do not apply to everyone.
So is farting in a lift. Telling people they're fat, ugly, retarded, cunts, gay, faggots, niggers, commies, cowards, rats, bastards or any other slew of insults you can think of. Firing guns into crowds. Flying planes in to buildings. Dropping bombs on each-other.
Neither of these are civilization killers (the last one has the potential though, depending on the bombs).
Doesn't mean I think we should just let it happen, simply because it's not affecting me personally.
If it was only an economical issue, then yeah - no worries.
However - the Maldives have 320,000+ inhabitants, who are about to be, quite literally, out to sea.
They aren't refugees, fleeing from poverty or war. They are an entire nation and culture being hung out to dry (if they're lucky), because the rest of us are greedy and lazy idiots.
Who's going to give them a new country? And where? Who's going to take them in and help them become self-sufficient again?
And they won't be the only ones.
Currently the GWP is about 58 trillion Euros/year. That means a cost of between 580 billion Euros/year and 2,900 billion Euros/year.
What is it going to cost to relocate 300,000 people? What about a million? Five? Imagine the chaos, hate and anger involved, if the US suddenly had to move all of Hawaii's population onto the continental US (1.3 million). Sure, it might smooth out after a couple of generations, but it's going to fuck things up quite a bit for several decades.
It SHOULD be considered a crime!
Don't you realise, that if you watch anything that isn't made in the US, you are subject to filthy and dirty propaganda?!?
Doesn't matter if you're not in the US - it's still propaganda!
USA! USA!
Or something like that ...
Sarcasm and irony may have been used ...
If I see you carrying around a loaded D20, I'm going to assume that I'm either dreaming or high.
Considering that we keep hearing about people getting their own stuff blocked on YouTube by spurious claims, I fail to see how Google's Content-ID is better.
Easier for the big corporations, sure. But not better.
That's not a gun. It's an ornamental projectile launcher.
If I were in Kim DotCom's shoes (and had the financial assets to back the play), I'd go into court with a demand for a massive damages suit.
And then I'd tell the court and public, that I'd be willing to waive all financial claims (other than getting ALL of my assets released and returned), in exchange for the parties responsible going to jail (not minimum security either) for no less than 1 day for every 1,000 New Zealand dollar that was wasted and otherwise destroyed as a result of this case.
Call it contempt of court or whatever.
Then clarify that "the parties responsible" doesn't mean the officers doing the raid, but the administrators, managers, bureaucrats and politicians up the food chain who pushed for this rushjob.
And then I'd just lean back in my chair and watch as those people throw eachother to the sharks and media frenzy.
Well, let's look at this another way then.
You need to be 18 to get a drivers license in Denmark.
If you're an exchange student to the US you can get a US drivers licence at 16.
Should those Danish exchange students be arrested and thrown in jail for having driven a car while in the US, once they return to Denmark?
Keeping in mind, that they broke absolutely no laws while in the US nor while they were in Denmark?
Or how about we turn it around.
In Denmark the age of consent is 15. Suppose a 15-year-old US citizen travels to Denmark on holiday with his or her family and ends up having sex with a 15-year-old in Denmark.
Should the 15-year-old be charged and marked for being a sex offender (statutory rape), travelling to engage in such etc., upon returning to the US?
How about this one. US citizen living in Nevada travels to New York. In New York he's arrested for having paid for sex with a prostitute in a licensed and regulated Nevada brothel. Something that is completely legal in Nevada, but illegal in New York.
I saw that pilot episode. I'm hooked. It looks awesome.
Is that the War on Poverty, War on Crime, War on Drugs, War on Christmas, War on Cancer, War on Women or are you referring to one of the many, many, many other "wars" that aren't really wars?
The Iraq war perhaps? Technically that ended in 2003. I remember seeing President Bush giving a speech about it. Everything after that is either civil war or crime fighting.
War in Afghanistan? That ended in 2004, when Hamid Karai was elected in 2004. Everything after that is either civil war or crime fighting.
If you declare war on a concept instead of a nation, you can't end it. As such it's not a war.
Never compare software to buildings - compare it to food instead.
Suppose you order a nice well done steak with a baked potato, béarnaise sauce and salad. Then once the chef is halfway done, you change your mind. You want the steak rare instead, you want hollandaise sauce and instead of a baked potato, you want poached potatoes.
It's pretty much the same order (potatoes, sauce and a steak), yet know that you can't just reuse the same ones from the original order.
Suppose you then change your mind again. But now, instead of steak, potatoes and sauce you want shepherd's pie. And then five minutes later you want pudding.
Would you expect to only pay for the pudding, or for all the other orders you've started?
And remember - cooking is generally a lot faster than programming, but people also realise that they can't just change their order halfway through having their original order prepared without payment.
So what you're saying is, that people in construction know how to make proper contracts?
I've actually done software development for and with engineering companies, and the ones I've worked with had a very interesting view on deadlines - they'd rather things work before being put to use, to the point that they'd move the deadline.
Hell, I got my ass chewed off for working overtime to finish a project on time. My boss (an engineer by trade and education) had taken my project estimation and essentially tripled it before sending it to the client. He wasn't upset that my estimation was off, he was upset that I didn't have the balls to come up and say "hey, there's a problem with this, and I can't make it on time".
It's amazing to work with those kinds of people. The kind of people that will make it abundantly clear, that the client gets what they paid for, and what they paid for is in the specifications.
THAT is the biggest problem with IT. Everybody being to scared to say no. Write the specification with the client, get their signature on it. Do not deviate without renegotiating EVERYTHING, including payment and deadlines.
Well, if they simply used the internet to send the copies, they'd all be liable for copyright infringement and risk being sent to jail.
Duh!
It's a great explanation, but why does it feel like it's explaining it to a 6-year-old?
I have a hard time imagining my 11-year-old self taking it serious at all.
Personally I think they should change the challenge a bit. Explain X to an adult, but in a way that an 11-year-old can grasp.
Stop talking down to kids.
That's ... somewhat disturbing, but not all that surprising.
I did see a result that caught my attention as a "how the fuck have they not secured their site?!?", and did a bit more digging:
This document is confidential site:corp.bankofamerica.com
And you didn't bother to figure out who it was and tell her? Or file a complaint with management?
Nothing wrong with the keyboard. Those are Swedish place-names, and the fucked up parts are due to Slashdot being incapable of handling non-Latin characters.
That's not really a loop, unless you want to accept the outlying stations in the loop as VÃstra Skogen, Ã...keshov, Ã-stermalmstorg, Liljeholmen and SkÃrmabrink.
The articles only mention New York, London, Moscow and Tokyo.
I'm curious to see if the two large ones I know personally were included.
I sort of agree and sort of disagree.
Should the police be afraid of making mistakes? Depends on the mistake.
If they cause grievous harm to someone - yes, that they should be afraid of. Arresting someone who is innocent or is later found not guilty - no.
The prosecutors, however, should be held to a much higher standard, as they are the ones who are ultimately responsible. I.e. if they don't feel a case is strong enough, they'll have to release the suspect.
And in cases like this, where someone is found not guilty after having spent 11 months in jail, I wouldn't mind seeing the prosecutor responsible spend, say half that time behind bars for contempt of court or something. No regular income etc. (i.e. they don't get to simply sit in a cell and collect an income from the state).
Not in every single case, but if it could be codified in a reasonable way, it would certainly make railroading a lot less interesting for the prosecution. I mean - it's one thing to lose a case, but losing a case AND having to spend time in jail? Very unlikely that prosecutors will be willing to risk that simply because of political pressure.
Thankfully in my native language we don't use the term "organic" for food items - we use ... well, something like "ecologically".
However, when I'm talking to English speaking 'green freaks', it is rather fun to point out that by their own standards dog shit is organic.
The same is true for urine. Not only is it organic in the chemical sense (uric acid), but for people who swear by organic foods etc., it is also a wholly organic product.
Granted, I rather doubt either of those are particularly healthy, but hey - at least it's organic, right?
The whole organic vs organic thing reminds me of an old anecdote (not sure if it's true though).
A news crew gets a call about a tanker truck crashing, resulting in a large chemical spill nearby, so they rush off to cover it. Two minutes later they get another call from their boss:
"Don't bother with the tanker truck story - turns out it was only organic chemicals."
Considering the article ruled out some software, because it was considered too difficult to use, I suspect Elemental Technologies' software would be ruled out due to cost.