I knew a guy in high school who wore some contact lenses that whited out the iris, only allowing you to see his pupil. They were actually pretty freaky.
Might as well have said "If Emperor Palpatine was elected, he probably would have laughed that creepy little laugh of his and then destroyed Alderaan."
Yes, you're probably right. However, Mitt is not president. You don't need to worry about him being elected in 2012, because it's over. We still have lots of real problems.
To your point however, I also observe that Obama does not seem to have any problems with Wall Street practices either. It's almost like both political parties are just two sides of the same shit sandwich.
Since we do not fully know what he took and what he revealed and how much the frenemy states of China and Russia know right now or will eventually learn if they have to brute force decrypt it, it's hard for us in the public to judge what he took and shared. When he complained about the actions of the US government against its own citizens, that was one thing. But when he told Hong Kong and thus China that actions were being taken against them, I promise you that he violated the terms of his employment and in this case US law. None of us currently have the knowledge necessary to judge his actions. It could be that it's no more serious than China and Russia now know for sure we are watching them and how and can block it. Worse may be that he may actually have done something to endanger the life of people in the field or made sure that the really bad guys nobody likes (ie. Al Queda) can now avoid detection.
That is absolutely a possibility. Of course, we have nothing to confirm any of that happened either, but it's like you said, it's hard to judge for ourselves.
In my opinion, the US government has yet to drive the point home to anybody that you may be executed if you commit treason. There has been an absolutely endless parade of people like Robert Hanson who escape the death penalty by successfully holding out the carrot of "I'll tell you all that I did if you don't kill me". The fact that nobody has been executed for treason in my lifetime means that nobody really fears getting caught. Snowden knows that no matter what, he won't die. In fact, I suspect that he may have a 50% chance of living as a free man for the rest of his in some foreign country. So I think some of this is based on the point that the US government needs to drive home the point that people who tell our secrets to other countries are going to answer for this, at least with something like Supermax. But don't worry, tin foil hat brigade. Despite the general paranoid fears, he's not going to be at the wrong end of a gun "eating a lead sandwich" or find a cruise missle knocking at his door in Bolivia (assuming he goes there).
Well, would you actually know if anything DID happen to him? I mean, ultimately, when WAS the last time anyone heard from Hanssen?
Snowden is unfortunately very typical of his generation in that everything is so much bigger because it happens to them. This what happens when an entire generation is told that they never make mistakes and they are the greatest kids ever born. When is the last time any of you saw somebody cry at work because they were being trained how to do their job? My best friend is an attorney and he and his wife run a small practice. They hired a mid-20s paralegal. This girl has been exposed in school to the field. He told me that he was showing her how to do some of the work required from her and she started bawling like a baby. She quit that day. This is his generation to a tee. Everything is just bigger because it happens to them. They feel more pain than anyone else does. They are smarter than anyone else ever born. Snowden is the biggest hero in US history. Blah blah blah.
There's a woman at work who has burst into tears, like a baby. She's in her late 30s. Turns out, she has some sort of thyroid imbalance that completely plays hot potato with her emotional state. I feel really sorry for her. Point is, there's a reason for everything. Maybe your anecdote actually WAS coddled too much. Maybe there was something else going on.
Snowden's 30 years old. I'm 29, so my opinion apparently might not count, but Snowden's not my hero. All my heroes are dead. I made mistakes constantly, and still do. Hell, the first 2/3 of my life was spent being a worldclass fuckup, for the most part. I think you do yourself a vast disservice when you paint such a large subsection of people with such a wide brush. People have been trotting that same line since Socrates. I m
Are you saying that those people have not had public figures call for their execution?
Mind you. I said "calling for assassination", not "assassination". Reading comprehension will get you far in life, unfortunately, it makes you less of a fan of Fox News.
He must be something much more dangerous to somebody. I don't understand how everything he revealed can be so trivialized, and yet he be this sought after.
"Home of the brave, land of calling for the assassination of anyone who pulls back the veneer hiding the relentless authoritarianism" just didn't have the same ring, I guess.
Actually, that's something that bugged me when I realized that my old thinkpad battery didn't fit my newer one.
Yeah, I know there's a radically different power requirement from an older generation system to the next. I'm not sure what would be required to get it more compatible, but you can't tell me that they couldn't try harder to do so.
You may have a point. I've always thought I wasn't smart enough to produce a way to "keep the stupid people from breeding". My grandiose solution was to keep the people who contribute meaningfully still breeding enough to keep up with the ones who contribute nothing but more of themselves.
Question is, assuming it's an opportunity thing, and not a genetic thing, how do you fix it then?
I think average pay in STL is about 50k. We're looking for entry level phone support people who can talk on the phone, provide tier 1 support for our software, and are teachable. We can offer between 35-45, roughly, based upon experience and how much you wow people in the interview. Pay really sucks, but it's a decent enough gig for a desperate fresh college graduate until he can find a decent job.
Last position we put out, we got 30 people who applied, interviewed the top five people (that is, the ones who didn't obviously lie on their resumes), and the best guy they could find didn't know where the colon key was on the keyboard. That's not hyperbole. That actually happened. This kid is supposed to be a graduate from Ranken, for what that's worth (not much to me). We then found out he has a typing speed of about 10 wpm, still can't form complete sentences in writing no matter how long he takes, and cannot complete a task unless specifically directed in how to do it. I've been bitching a storm about how they should have tried harder, but they're in so great of need that management decided that a warm body was more important that a useful one.
I'm not sure what the actual point of my anecdote is. I guess it's that I'd be happy seeing a young punk willing to work for cheap. We can't even find one of those.
The problem as I see it becomes that too many of the people who should be passing on their genes aren't, because not having kids enriches one's own life in the aforementioned ways, while too many people who shouldn't be "contributing" to humanity are doing it at breakneck speed.
What metrics do you use for determining when people are smart enough and when they aren't? I'm afraid I'm not smart enough to come up with any that don't create massive abuses.
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I knew a guy in high school who wore some contact lenses that whited out the iris, only allowing you to see his pupil. They were actually pretty freaky.
A nice layer of petroleum jelly or a good rub with some coarse sandpaper come to mind.
Naturally, you'll have to have cameras watching the scanners...
If you can point to a trend, it stops being a fallacy.
Remember when the crowd who loudly declared, "They're going to ban smoking!" was called nutjobs and crazies?
For that matter, remember when the crowd who loudly declared, "The NSA is spying on people!", was called nutjobs and crazies?
Surely you mean "The Dangers of Overextending the Scope of Your Project Beyond What Resource Allocations Allows".
I guess that's not scary enough though.
Few people would willingly take a 25% paycut, even if it means fewer hours, and no executive is going to have that overhead cut into his bonus.
What does that have to do with anything?
Might as well have said "If Emperor Palpatine was elected, he probably would have laughed that creepy little laugh of his and then destroyed Alderaan."
Yes, you're probably right. However, Mitt is not president. You don't need to worry about him being elected in 2012, because it's over. We still have lots of real problems.
To your point however, I also observe that Obama does not seem to have any problems with Wall Street practices either. It's almost like both political parties are just two sides of the same shit sandwich.
Since we do not fully know what he took and what he revealed and how much the frenemy states of China and Russia know right now or will eventually learn if they have to brute force decrypt it, it's hard for us in the public to judge what he took and shared. When he complained about the actions of the US government against its own citizens, that was one thing. But when he told Hong Kong and thus China that actions were being taken against them, I promise you that he violated the terms of his employment and in this case US law. None of us currently have the knowledge necessary to judge his actions. It could be that it's no more serious than China and Russia now know for sure we are watching them and how and can block it. Worse may be that he may actually have done something to endanger the life of people in the field or made sure that the really bad guys nobody likes (ie. Al Queda) can now avoid detection.
That is absolutely a possibility. Of course, we have nothing to confirm any of that happened either, but it's like you said, it's hard to judge for ourselves.
In my opinion, the US government has yet to drive the point home to anybody that you may be executed if you commit treason. There has been an absolutely endless parade of people like Robert Hanson who escape the death penalty by successfully holding out the carrot of "I'll tell you all that I did if you don't kill me". The fact that nobody has been executed for treason in my lifetime means that nobody really fears getting caught. Snowden knows that no matter what, he won't die. In fact, I suspect that he may have a 50% chance of living as a free man for the rest of his in some foreign country. So I think some of this is based on the point that the US government needs to drive home the point that people who tell our secrets to other countries are going to answer for this, at least with something like Supermax. But don't worry, tin foil hat brigade. Despite the general paranoid fears, he's not going to be at the wrong end of a gun "eating a lead sandwich" or find a cruise missle knocking at his door in Bolivia (assuming he goes there).
Well, would you actually know if anything DID happen to him? I mean, ultimately, when WAS the last time anyone heard from Hanssen?
Snowden is unfortunately very typical of his generation in that everything is so much bigger because it happens to them. This what happens when an entire generation is told that they never make mistakes and they are the greatest kids ever born. When is the last time any of you saw somebody cry at work because they were being trained how to do their job? My best friend is an attorney and he and his wife run a small practice. They hired a mid-20s paralegal. This girl has been exposed in school to the field. He told me that he was showing her how to do some of the work required from her and she started bawling like a baby. She quit that day. This is his generation to a tee. Everything is just bigger because it happens to them. They feel more pain than anyone else does. They are smarter than anyone else ever born. Snowden is the biggest hero in US history. Blah blah blah.
There's a woman at work who has burst into tears, like a baby. She's in her late 30s. Turns out, she has some sort of thyroid imbalance that completely plays hot potato with her emotional state. I feel really sorry for her. Point is, there's a reason for everything. Maybe your anecdote actually WAS coddled too much. Maybe there was something else going on.
Snowden's 30 years old. I'm 29, so my opinion apparently might not count, but Snowden's not my hero. All my heroes are dead. I made mistakes constantly, and still do. Hell, the first 2/3 of my life was spent being a worldclass fuckup, for the most part. I think you do yourself a vast disservice when you paint such a large subsection of people with such a wide brush. People have been trotting that same line since Socrates. I m
You could not get modded high enough here. You're right, it is breaking the formula.
Then it sounds like we have a rather distressing problem.
Are you saying that those people have not had public figures call for their execution?
Mind you. I said "calling for assassination", not "assassination". Reading comprehension will get you far in life, unfortunately, it makes you less of a fan of Fox News.
He must be something much more dangerous to somebody. I don't understand how everything he revealed can be so trivialized, and yet he be this sought after.
"Home of the brave, land of calling for the assassination of anyone who pulls back the veneer hiding the relentless authoritarianism" just didn't have the same ring, I guess.
Actually, that's something that bugged me when I realized that my old thinkpad battery didn't fit my newer one.
Yeah, I know there's a radically different power requirement from an older generation system to the next. I'm not sure what would be required to get it more compatible, but you can't tell me that they couldn't try harder to do so.
You may have a point. I've always thought I wasn't smart enough to produce a way to "keep the stupid people from breeding". My grandiose solution was to keep the people who contribute meaningfully still breeding enough to keep up with the ones who contribute nothing but more of themselves.
Question is, assuming it's an opportunity thing, and not a genetic thing, how do you fix it then?
Oh, I know. I'm just not the guy who makes those decisions. :/
I think average pay in STL is about 50k. We're looking for entry level phone support people who can talk on the phone, provide tier 1 support for our software, and are teachable. We can offer between 35-45, roughly, based upon experience and how much you wow people in the interview. Pay really sucks, but it's a decent enough gig for a desperate fresh college graduate until he can find a decent job.
Last position we put out, we got 30 people who applied, interviewed the top five people (that is, the ones who didn't obviously lie on their resumes), and the best guy they could find didn't know where the colon key was on the keyboard. That's not hyperbole. That actually happened. This kid is supposed to be a graduate from Ranken, for what that's worth (not much to me). We then found out he has a typing speed of about 10 wpm, still can't form complete sentences in writing no matter how long he takes, and cannot complete a task unless specifically directed in how to do it. I've been bitching a storm about how they should have tried harder, but they're in so great of need that management decided that a warm body was more important that a useful one.
I'm not sure what the actual point of my anecdote is. I guess it's that I'd be happy seeing a young punk willing to work for cheap. We can't even find one of those.
The problem as I see it becomes that too many of the people who should be passing on their genes aren't, because not having kids enriches one's own life in the aforementioned ways, while too many people who shouldn't be "contributing" to humanity are doing it at breakneck speed.
Not yet. We require an answer, preferably with specifics on voltage and current.
Source?
Well, doesn't it make sense that, assuming they have a method for developing film, you've never heard of it?
...there's that word again!
I logged in for the first time in months to mod you up, only to find I didn't have any mod points. :(
What metrics do you use for determining when people are smart enough and when they aren't? I'm afraid I'm not smart enough to come up with any that don't create massive abuses.
Are low uid accounts actually worth something? It might be worth trying to figure out my old password then.
True 'dat. I've never heard of this knucklehead, but random stoned bloggers are pants. May he be quickly forgotten.