The laughable thing is that the actual speech that the founders wanted to protect, political speech, nobody much cares about protecting that.
We must protect the public from the dire effects of political speech from rich people, for example (well, from some rich people; Hollywood types and union bosses are fine). You remember how awful President Steve Forbes was, of course - only tight regulations on political speech can protect us from such things.
Meanwhile, crap that they never had any dream of protecting, and that bears pretty much no resemblance to speech? That's sacrosanct.
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits....
A better question would be: What has javascript done that's GOOD?
Says the man who's never used jQuery... you can't be serious.
Yes, with great power comes great responsibility. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. (And I have more cliches where those came from!)
No one is threatening to fire Eich. The employees disagree with his position and are asking him to step down. It is their right to do so. It is his right to choose not to do so. If he doesn't, it is their right to quit. No one's rights are being infringed upon in this particular situation. Employees disagree with his views towards gay marriage, and so they don't want to work for him. That sounds reasonable to me.
"His views towards gay marriage" == "Obama's official views until early 2012"
You know, there are plenty of "normal" computers that aren't connected to the Internet for this very reason: they are just too dangerous/important to get hacked. I would think you'd want the same for your oven, a massive heat-generating device.
Bullshit! I can't believe the Republicans are still sticking to that lie to try to scare the general public. That is a complete and utter lie. Besides the ones the CIA runs, there are no terrorist training camps. They're trying, and failing(!), to try to convince us that terrorists are a problem when the Republicans are the problem.
You are trying to be funny, right?
I know that to most of you, Republicans are responsible for everything from circles-that-can't-be-squared to bad breath, but really, I assure you that they didn't invent Muslim nutso bombers.
Peter Molyneux has probably never taken antidepressants in his life or he would not say this. Antidepressants don't make the "world just feels too comfortable". They make the world feel survivable.
Exactly right. Clinical depression is a life-threatening illness. Antidepressants are as "comfortable" as heart medication.
No-one will start with a blank screen in the morning and start to write code, just because. You need to have an itch, something you want to solve. Writing code is the means, not the goal.
Think about your support job, and ask yourself what tool would really make your life easier. Then set out to write that tool. You have the target people sitting around you right now, solve your problem and solve theirs too.
This!
Somewhere right around you, people are doing something in a laborious way. Automate it. Make their lives easier. Make a business process work better.
A police officer can follow you around all day without a warrant, and run as many checks on your plate number as he desires, and make a note of everywhere you go.
Read the book Knock 'em Dead. Seriously, it's a great book.
The other thing is to remember that an "interview" is just a meeting. You are both deciding whether you want to work together, for years... pretty important. Makes sense to have a meeting about it. But that's all it is: a specialized type of meeting.
It's not hate, it's recoil. Time and time again, Creationism seeks to undermine legitimate scientific thought in order to shout its psychobabble at us and expect us to call it 'legitimate science.' Those who recoil aren't doing it out of hate or disgust, but well-founded fear-- the fear of what will happen when religious ignorance dresses up as science for Halloween and people actually take it seriously. It's not just ignorant though; it's irresponsible, because it affects public policy. Texas representative Joe Barton SERIOUSLY said that the 'great flood' from the Bible was evidence of climate change not being influenced by human activity. These are the ideas that are truly terrifying because they poison people's minds and any responsible scientific mind would do everything it could to assist in debunking these ridiculous ideas. Again-- not hate, recoil-- recoil out of fear on behalf of the whole of society.
Give me a break.
After this two minute hate, the very same people who think they are so rational will go back to being against pipelines and nuclear power (their iCrap being powered by moonbeams and sunshine, of course). They will go back to avoiding vaccines. They will go back to destroying health insurance and then convincing themselves that it is more affordable. They will go back to believing that they can borrow their way to prosperity. They will go back to believing that rutting like animals has been good for women and families, when by every scientific measure, it hasn't.
But by all means. continue your ritual denunciation of those who don't recite your catechism.
you must be interested in everything, especially the shit that we have to sell! be excited! be excited about everything! nothing less than your value as a person is at stake!
Devil's advocate: if you are not excited, why work there?
... in fact, as I get older, obviously more people have worked with me. So my "network" (yeah, hate that word, but oh well) is bigger.
My current job happened when someone who used to manage me called me up and said they needed someone good, right now, would I be interested? She already knew me, so that was the interview.
Now, would I have a hard time just walking in off the street, playing buzzword bingo? No idea, and hope I don't have to find out...
The study adds to an ongoing debate about whether past peoples lived and hunted animals in a sustainable manner or were largely to blame for the extermination of numerous species
There's actually a debate?
The noble savage is a character of the imagination.
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How about pseudoscience like "forcing people to pay more for something won't make them buy less of it" (higher minimum wage)?
The laughable thing is that the actual speech that the founders wanted to protect, political speech, nobody much cares about protecting that.
We must protect the public from the dire effects of political speech from rich people, for example (well, from some rich people; Hollywood types and union bosses are fine). You remember how awful President Steve Forbes was, of course - only tight regulations on political speech can protect us from such things.
Meanwhile, crap that they never had any dream of protecting, and that bears pretty much no resemblance to speech? That's sacrosanct.
Cosponsors are a mix, 14 dems, 11 repugs
Ah. So clearly that makes it Republican's fault, and we should use childish modifications of their party name. Because that's so rational.
... Klobuchar is a Democrat. And these tech CEOs are noted "progressives".
It seems that they think that paying low wages is a great idea ... for them.
Other businesses, mind you, we have to mandate that they pay their employees more. And claim that this will have no effect on the bottom line.
Gay rights activists rarely care about people's personal religious beliefs,
Sploooosh!! (soda->nose)
Or you could just have a proper time zone (and you are not alone in that problem).
I haven't heard a cogent explanation of Daylight Savings Time, ever.
It's some stupid thing that we do just because we do it.
Obama's rhethoric was certainly very inconsistent at the time, though.
Obama's official position was that marriage is for a man and a woman. (Same as Bill Clinton's position when he was president, by the way.)
So, was Obama a hideous bigot?
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits.... A better question would be: What has javascript done that's GOOD?
Says the man who's never used jQuery ... you can't be serious.
Yes, with great power comes great responsibility. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. (And I have more cliches where those came from!)
No one is threatening to fire Eich. The employees disagree with his position and are asking him to step down. It is their right to do so. It is his right to choose not to do so. If he doesn't, it is their right to quit. No one's rights are being infringed upon in this particular situation. Employees disagree with his views towards gay marriage, and so they don't want to work for him. That sounds reasonable to me.
"His views towards gay marriage" == "Obama's official views until early 2012"
So ... was Obama a horrid bigot?
Why would my oven be connected to the Internet?
You know, there are plenty of "normal" computers that aren't connected to the Internet for this very reason: they are just too dangerous/important to get hacked. I would think you'd want the same for your oven, a massive heat-generating device.
"on his way to terrorist training"
Bullshit! I can't believe the Republicans are still sticking to that lie to try to scare the general public. That is a complete and utter lie. Besides the ones the CIA runs, there are no terrorist training camps. They're trying, and failing(!), to try to convince us that terrorists are a problem when the Republicans are the problem.
You are trying to be funny, right?
I know that to most of you, Republicans are responsible for everything from circles-that-can't-be-squared to bad breath, but really, I assure you that they didn't invent Muslim nutso bombers.
It's like taking antidepressants.
Peter Molyneux has probably never taken antidepressants in his life or he would not say this. Antidepressants don't make the "world just feels too comfortable". They make the world feel survivable.
Exactly right. Clinical depression is a life-threatening illness. Antidepressants are as "comfortable" as heart medication.
"Refuted" doesn't mean that someone disagrees. "Refuted" means that someone has conclusively proved that something is incorrect.
No-one will start with a blank screen in the morning and start to write code, just because. You need to have an itch, something you want to solve. Writing code is the means, not the goal.
Think about your support job, and ask yourself what tool would really make your life easier. Then set out to write that tool. You have the target people sitting around you right now, solve your problem and solve theirs too.
This!
Somewhere right around you, people are doing something in a laborious way. Automate it. Make their lives easier. Make a business process work better.
A police officer can follow you around all day without a warrant, and run as many checks on your plate number as he desires, and make a note of everywhere you go.
Your whole life, for no reason? Nope.
... the temps of the Medieval Warm Period?
Read the book Knock 'em Dead. Seriously, it's a great book.
The other thing is to remember that an "interview" is just a meeting. You are both deciding whether you want to work together, for years ... pretty important. Makes sense to have a meeting about it. But that's all it is: a specialized type of meeting.
It's not hate, it's recoil. Time and time again, Creationism seeks to undermine legitimate scientific thought in order to shout its psychobabble at us and expect us to call it 'legitimate science.' Those who recoil aren't doing it out of hate or disgust, but well-founded fear-- the fear of what will happen when religious ignorance dresses up as science for Halloween and people actually take it seriously. It's not just ignorant though; it's irresponsible, because it affects public policy. Texas representative Joe Barton SERIOUSLY said that the 'great flood' from the Bible was evidence of climate change not being influenced by human activity. These are the ideas that are truly terrifying because they poison people's minds and any responsible scientific mind would do everything it could to assist in debunking these ridiculous ideas. Again-- not hate, recoil-- recoil out of fear on behalf of the whole of society.
Give me a break.
After this two minute hate, the very same people who think they are so rational will go back to being against pipelines and nuclear power (their iCrap being powered by moonbeams and sunshine, of course). They will go back to avoiding vaccines. They will go back to destroying health insurance and then convincing themselves that it is more affordable. They will go back to believing that they can borrow their way to prosperity. They will go back to believing that rutting like animals has been good for women and families, when by every scientific measure, it hasn't.
But by all means. continue your ritual denunciation of those who don't recite your catechism.
Time for the Slashdot ritual flogging. It's been about five minutes since the last one.
Prehistoric history is kind of a contradiction in terms, isn't it? It also isn't scientific, not being amenable to experiment.
But carry on with your ritual denunciation of those who won't recite your catechism ... because that's so rational ...
Which version of prehistory you believe has no practical significance at all.
Some of us "wingnuts" wanted to slow down the immigration flood, you know ... but we must just be racists. Yeah, that's it.
Al Gore? Is that you?!?
you must be interested in everything, especially the shit that we have to sell! be excited! be excited about everything! nothing less than your value as a person is at stake!
Devil's advocate: if you are not excited, why work there?
... in fact, as I get older, obviously more people have worked with me. So my "network" (yeah, hate that word, but oh well) is bigger.
My current job happened when someone who used to manage me called me up and said they needed someone good, right now, would I be interested? She already knew me, so that was the interview.
Now, would I have a hard time just walking in off the street, playing buzzword bingo? No idea, and hope I don't have to find out ...
The study adds to an ongoing debate about whether past peoples lived and hunted animals in a sustainable manner or were largely to blame for the extermination of numerous species
There's actually a debate?
The noble savage is a character of the imagination.