Another day, another slashdot click bait climate story, and of course all the usual suspects made all the same arguments they make every day.
Of course the original post - as always - is from Hugh Pickens dot com - the same place all the climate click bait comes from. Is it accurate and non biased? OF COURSE NOT!!! (Hint: It never is)
But you suckers (that includes OFA trolls, right wing loons, left wing loons, and the like)... you all fell for it, and entered 534 comments not worth reading.
So the bankers are evil because they act in their own self interest, and the politicians are evil because they act in their own self interest, people who believe in the free market are wrong because it doesn't exist... which leaves us with one choice that you think will make you happy - A totalitarian dictatorship.
Which, at the end of the day, in your own words, fucks everybody except the small number of people at the top.
And yet, the greatest country in the world - with the strongest economy in the world - occurred because of CAPITALISM - which is now evil.
Gotta have some story on global warming, er cooling, er climate change, er disruption every damn day! Otherwise we won't get the same people making the same arguments, totally ignoring each other, but driving up our traffic stats.
Boring Boring Boring people. Find something new to argue about, will ya?
Yes, the whole idea that working hard and producing results is related to compensation... It's just so "anti-progressive". Lazy people who hardly do any work deserve six figure salaries too, it's just so unfair. Why, I should be able to do nothing at all and make a big salary as long as I vote for the right folks, right?
Eat less and exercise more. WHAT? People no longer accept such simpleton explanations of how anything works.
It's far more appealing to the modern human that there is a vast evil food conspiracy brought on by evil corporations intent on enslaving everyone, and that the only way to stop this conspiracy is to enact thousands of pages of regulations, to be enforced by enlightened, benevolent, government union employees.
It is far more appealing to the modern human that we only eat raw, unprocessed plants fertilized with our own feces, rather than eat ANIMALS who are, after all, so much better than any of us.
The very idea that evil corporations would produce food that tastes good... in order to get people to eat it... why, that's absolute proof of the evil in society today, promulgated by ignorant hayseeds, who are clearly racist, xenophobic, women haters who are radical extremists -- dangerous to America - with backwoods ideas.
What's needed is a new food narrative. One where more enlightened, progressive individuals carefully mange our diets with only the most expensive, most "natural" eco-friendly foods. Foods that our leaders, of course, don't have to eat, because as every good sheeple knows, all people are equal, but some people are far more equal than others. And by the way, if you deviate from that food narrative by a single calorie, you are the enemy and must be stopped at all costs.
My programming career started in 1979 as a BASIC-PLUS programmer on RSTS/E 6.0 for the POISE company (People Oriented Information Systems for Education). In those days the single key ISAM "database engine" was also written in BASIC-PLUS. Then, we got BASIC-PLUS-2 which was compiled, as opposed to being a threaded interpretive language (A TIL for language people). The hardest part about BP2 was ODL (Overlay Descriptor Language) where you had to manage memory for the program yourself. Compile (called task build) took absolutely forever. We used a chalkboard to sign up for compiles.... no kidding.
VB3 was a rip off of BP2. At that time, Microsoft and DEC were on either side of the 520 freeway in Redmond, and there was much going back and forth. That's why Windows NT has the comments from VAX/VMS still in it LOL.
VB.NET was the only version of BASIC I ever encountered that you can do modern stuff with... but as BASIC programmers have always been regarded as the idiots of the I.T. world, it was shunned even though it was C# with BASIC keywords. If they had named it HARD instead of BASIC we'd probably all be coding in it to this day. Trouble is, FOR I=1 TO 10 looks easy, whereas for(i=0; i
Anyway I digress. BASIC is a TIL, and anything that's not a TIL isn't really BASIC. If you want a taste of what BASIC was like, try coding in VBA, it's horrible beyond belief to debug the stuff....
The old, tired lie that the ACA was cloned from the Heritage foundation plan, plus an unsubstantiated, source free quote from the CEO's of allegedly all the major insurance providers is not really worth much here.
In the real insurance business "enrolled" - for the last one hundred years - has meant an individual who paid their premium and is now eligible for service. Not signed up. Paid, and verified. Of course the Obama administration chose to redefine that term, in order to make themselves look better. And we are to believe that this whole business of insurance is so horribly complex that nobody, nobody at all, has any idea who has paid and who hasn't? Really? If a business operated this way you lefties would be screaming about an evil corporation covering up malfeasance, and the need for a special prosecutor to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice.
Thank you for having the courage to make such a bold, direct, and completely factual statement on slashdot. Of course the everyone who doesn't parrot "The Narrative" 100% of the time on all things crowd is going to declare you a radical extremist right wing fanatic who is spreading evil lies (I have been accused of this more times than I can count here).
"Do as I say, not as I do, the truth is what I say it is and everyone else is a liar" -- this is why I am no longer a Democrat....
The new left, where if you make a single statement not encapsulated in the official narrative of the party turns you into a hard radical right wing extremist ignorant hayseed country bumpkin clinging to guns and religion is so old, so tired, so worn out, and so completely and utterly pointless....
Now I'm sure I'll get attacked mercilessly for saying this, but the reason Health Care is so expensive in the U.S. is because of the government endlessly screwing with it, and the lawyers getting rich off it....
It would take the NSA about a day to write an algorithm to detect the signature of an encrypted call... thus ensuring that anyone using such a device would immediately draw attention to themselves...
Why not just do AFSK over a phone line.... same diff. About as secure as anything else, which is to say not secure at all really.
The idea that there are fewer entry level jobs because of outsourcing is not representative of the current state of outsourcing. More and more you find development teams made up of both U.S. and offshore folks, all speaking English, collaborating over Skype video and Goto Meeting. Five years ago you outsourced the crap jobs to take advantage of wage deltas. Now just about anything might be outsourced.
Random rants sort of related to this thread and the comments on this topic follow...
You can't stop globalization, you can't legislate it out of existence, stop whining about it, it is a fact of life, it's here to stay, and we all have to find ways to survive in this new world we have created for ourselves. It didn't happen because evil, greedy corporations set out to screw everyone (the popular myth). It happened because the Internet drove the cost of communication down to zero, and as it turns out there are just as many smart, intelligent, good developers in other countries as there are here.
There's a mindset that the current generation (e.g. the millennials) have a bad case of "somebody OWES me" - With somebody being the government, or society, or an employer but I do not believe this is true for the majority. I believe that the whiners congregate on the Internet, so it appears that millennials are lazy, whiny folks who want everything handed to them on the proverbial silver platter, with nanny state cradle to grave care taking. In the real world, I just don't find this to be the case, at all.
You are correct but what you say is sacrilege to the folks who blather on about it, they are going to attack you in droves.
It's actually worse than this. The initial bill (which was practically written by Arthur Daniels Midland, who's stock went through the roof as a result) mandated that a fixed amount of the stuff be produced every year - regardless of demand! Great for agribusiness, guaranteed high prices. Of course when the recession hit, and demand for fuel overall dropped... guess what? The refiners are drowning in the stuff. So the great minds in Washington decided they should force the refiners to put more of the stuff in gasoline! This is the classic case of a government created problem being compounded by more foolish government.
And needless to say, the rush to embrace corn based ethanol slowed research on other biofuels, thus moving us backwards environmentally protective wise.
Eager to capitalized on market manipulated corn prices, farmers planted corn like crazy, tilling up land that should have never been planted, causing yet more environmental damage, and potentially leading us to another dust bowl.
All of this... because of powerful lobbyists and an environmental movement that has no patience. Had the government simply done NOTHING... all biofuels would complete on a level playing ground, and the most economically viable and environmentally sound solution would have emerged. But no... that can't happen... because the wackos know what's best for all of us, RIGHT NOW, and We Can't Wait. etc. etc.
Agreed, and sometimes those "quick and dirty" solutions are exactly what the business needed. Far too often I have seen senior I.T. gray beards who refuse to build something that isn't fully engineered from end to end with every conceivable risk mitigating long term future worry built in when management needed something to run three months at the lowest cost.
Funny and oh so true. Back when I was an I.T. manager in a small company (2 developers) I was in charge of the air conditioning system (Hey it's got a digital thermostat), the security system (It's got a keypad), and basically anything else that used electricity.
Developers as SysAdmins is a HORRIBLE idea, as very few developers are meticulously anal-retentive enough to be good admins. Having developers with root privs on prod systems is like hanging a big sign outside the building that says "Hackerz Please come steal stuff" - it only takes one guy to rip you off....
It's so foolish. I can easily tell who's working and who isn't, I don't need to see them typing. When we hire new people we figure out in less than a week if they are suited for unsupervised, remote work; if they are not, I kindly let them go.
I have servers I've never seen (drop shipped to a COHO data center), full time employees I've never met face to face, clients I've never met face to face...
I'm all for electric everything as long as it's a choice I can make, it's not forced on me, and I don't have to subsidize it LOL. My point is that a lot of the folks on slashdot see batteries as some magical entity that are going to do all kinds of magical things in just a few years - e.g. that all things on earth are subject to Moore's law.
Much of the grandiose plans of the non engineers revolve around being able to store, and later retrieve electricity.... It's not that easy. That's all.
Automotive history folks know that at the turn of the century, the battle between the electric and internal combustion was fought in earnest. The electric cars of that era ran about 40 miles between charges, and were faster than a running horse, which in those days was as fast as anyone would EVER want to move;-)
I prefer to tele-commute, and save my vehicle entirely. With the cost of global communication being near zero, HD web cameras being disposable commodities, why commute at all if you're a knowledge worker? A virtual enterprise - is the greenest company of all. I know, I run one. Our employees love not having to drag themselves into an office everyday.
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Another day, another slashdot click bait climate story, and of course all the usual suspects made all the same arguments they make every day.
Of course the original post - as always - is from Hugh Pickens dot com - the same place all the climate click bait comes from. Is it accurate and non biased? OF COURSE NOT!!! (Hint: It never is)
But you suckers (that includes OFA trolls, right wing loons, left wing loons, and the like)... you all fell for it, and entered 534 comments not worth reading.
Best signature line.... Ever.
So the bankers are evil because they act in their own self interest, and the politicians are evil because they act in their own self interest, people who believe in the free market are wrong because it doesn't exist... which leaves us with one choice that you think will make you happy - A totalitarian dictatorship.
Which, at the end of the day, in your own words, fucks everybody except the small number of people at the top.
And yet, the greatest country in the world - with the strongest economy in the world - occurred because of CAPITALISM - which is now evil.
Fast food has real meat in it? No way. Dog Food probably has a higher meat content...
Gotta have some story on global warming, er cooling, er climate change, er disruption every damn day! Otherwise we won't get the same people making the same arguments, totally ignoring each other, but driving up our traffic stats.
Boring Boring Boring people. Find something new to argue about, will ya?
Yes, the whole idea that working hard and producing results is related to compensation... It's just so "anti-progressive". Lazy people who hardly do any work deserve six figure salaries too, it's just so unfair. Why, I should be able to do nothing at all and make a big salary as long as I vote for the right folks, right?
ROFLCOPTER
Lies = Any statement that might contradict "The Narrative" in any way, shape, for form.
Lies = Any statement that asks people to do their own research and/or come to their own conclusions.
Lies = Any derogatory statement about a critical voting block.
Lies = Any word uttered on Fox news by anyone
I have been the victim of this so many times... It's so booring and so immature and such a colossal waste of time...
I can't suffer through another 450+ comments with the same, exact arguments and neither side having any interest at all in listening to the other.
Eat less and exercise more. WHAT? People no longer accept such simpleton explanations of how anything works.
It's far more appealing to the modern human that there is a vast evil food conspiracy brought on by evil corporations intent on enslaving everyone, and that the only way to stop this conspiracy is to enact thousands of pages of regulations, to be enforced by enlightened, benevolent, government union employees.
It is far more appealing to the modern human that we only eat raw, unprocessed plants fertilized with our own feces, rather than eat ANIMALS who are, after all, so much better than any of us.
The very idea that evil corporations would produce food that tastes good... in order to get people to eat it... why, that's absolute proof of the evil in society today, promulgated by ignorant hayseeds, who are clearly racist, xenophobic, women haters who are radical extremists -- dangerous to America - with backwoods ideas.
What's needed is a new food narrative. One where more enlightened, progressive individuals carefully mange our diets with only the most expensive, most "natural" eco-friendly foods. Foods that our leaders, of course, don't have to eat, because as every good sheeple knows, all people are equal, but some people are far more equal than others. And by the way, if you deviate from that food narrative by a single calorie, you are the enemy and must be stopped at all costs.
Agreed.
My programming career started in 1979 as a BASIC-PLUS programmer on RSTS/E 6.0 for the POISE company (People Oriented Information Systems for Education). In those days the single key ISAM "database engine" was also written in BASIC-PLUS. Then, we got BASIC-PLUS-2 which was compiled, as opposed to being a threaded interpretive language (A TIL for language people). The hardest part about BP2 was ODL (Overlay Descriptor Language) where you had to manage memory for the program yourself. Compile (called task build) took absolutely forever. We used a chalkboard to sign up for compiles.... no kidding.
VB3 was a rip off of BP2. At that time, Microsoft and DEC were on either side of the 520 freeway in Redmond, and there was much going back and forth. That's why Windows NT has the comments from VAX/VMS still in it LOL.
VB.NET was the only version of BASIC I ever encountered that you can do modern stuff with... but as BASIC programmers have always been regarded as the idiots of the I.T. world, it was shunned even though it was C# with BASIC keywords. If they had named it HARD instead of BASIC we'd probably all be coding in it to this day. Trouble is, FOR I=1 TO 10 looks easy, whereas for(i=0; i
Anyway I digress. BASIC is a TIL, and anything that's not a TIL isn't really BASIC. If you want a taste of what BASIC was like, try coding in VBA, it's horrible beyond belief to debug the stuff....
The old, tired lie that the ACA was cloned from the Heritage foundation plan, plus an unsubstantiated, source free quote from the CEO's of allegedly all the major insurance providers is not really worth much here.
In the real insurance business "enrolled" - for the last one hundred years - has meant an individual who paid their premium and is now eligible for service. Not signed up. Paid, and verified. Of course the Obama administration chose to redefine that term, in order to make themselves look better. And we are to believe that this whole business of insurance is so horribly complex that nobody, nobody at all, has any idea who has paid and who hasn't? Really? If a business operated this way you lefties would be screaming about an evil corporation covering up malfeasance, and the need for a special prosecutor to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice.
Thank you for having the courage to make such a bold, direct, and completely factual statement on slashdot. Of course the everyone who doesn't parrot "The Narrative" 100% of the time on all things crowd is going to declare you a radical extremist right wing fanatic who is spreading evil lies (I have been accused of this more times than I can count here).
"Do as I say, not as I do, the truth is what I say it is and everyone else is a liar" -- this is why I am no longer a Democrat....
The new left, where if you make a single statement not encapsulated in the official narrative of the party turns you into a hard radical right wing extremist ignorant hayseed country bumpkin clinging to guns and religion is so old, so tired, so worn out, and so completely and utterly pointless....
Now I'm sure I'll get attacked mercilessly for saying this, but the reason Health Care is so expensive in the U.S. is because of the government endlessly screwing with it, and the lawyers getting rich off it....
You are absolutely correct of course.
It would take the NSA about a day to write an algorithm to detect the signature of an encrypted call... thus ensuring that anyone using such a device would immediately draw attention to themselves...
Why not just do AFSK over a phone line.... same diff. About as secure as anything else, which is to say not secure at all really.
The FCC gave up on CB enforcement of individuals a long time ago, they prefer to go after manufacturers.
You need to find your local ham radio club and get them involved, Start at www.arrl.org.
We've outsourced so many of the entry level jobs
The idea that there are fewer entry level jobs because of outsourcing is not representative of the current state of outsourcing. More and more you find development teams made up of both U.S. and offshore folks, all speaking English, collaborating over Skype video and Goto Meeting. Five years ago you outsourced the crap jobs to take advantage of wage deltas. Now just about anything might be outsourced.
Random rants sort of related to this thread and the comments on this topic follow...
You can't stop globalization, you can't legislate it out of existence, stop whining about it, it is a fact of life, it's here to stay, and we all have to find ways to survive in this new world we have created for ourselves. It didn't happen because evil, greedy corporations set out to screw everyone (the popular myth). It happened because the Internet drove the cost of communication down to zero, and as it turns out there are just as many smart, intelligent, good developers in other countries as there are here.
There's a mindset that the current generation (e.g. the millennials) have a bad case of "somebody OWES me" - With somebody being the government, or society, or an employer but I do not believe this is true for the majority. I believe that the whiners congregate on the Internet, so it appears that millennials are lazy, whiny folks who want everything handed to them on the proverbial silver platter, with nanny state cradle to grave care taking. In the real world, I just don't find this to be the case, at all.
Really? I run a small business, I've taken one week off in five years.
That's right, it's only crony capitalism when the right wing does it....
This was a government funded study, if folks would actually read articles instead of knee-jerk "narrative" that a well trained parrot could learn...
You are correct but what you say is sacrilege to the folks who blather on about it, they are going to attack you in droves.
It's actually worse than this. The initial bill (which was practically written by Arthur Daniels Midland, who's stock went through the roof as a result) mandated that a fixed amount of the stuff be produced every year - regardless of demand! Great for agribusiness, guaranteed high prices. Of course when the recession hit, and demand for fuel overall dropped... guess what? The refiners are drowning in the stuff. So the great minds in Washington decided they should force the refiners to put more of the stuff in gasoline! This is the classic case of a government created problem being compounded by more foolish government.
And needless to say, the rush to embrace corn based ethanol slowed research on other biofuels, thus moving us backwards environmentally protective wise.
Eager to capitalized on market manipulated corn prices, farmers planted corn like crazy, tilling up land that should have never been planted, causing yet more environmental damage, and potentially leading us to another dust bowl.
All of this... because of powerful lobbyists and an environmental movement that has no patience. Had the government simply done NOTHING... all biofuels would complete on a level playing ground, and the most economically viable and environmentally sound solution would have emerged. But no... that can't happen... because the wackos know what's best for all of us, RIGHT NOW, and We Can't Wait. etc. etc.
Agreed, and sometimes those "quick and dirty" solutions are exactly what the business needed. Far too often I have seen senior I.T. gray beards who refuse to build something that isn't fully engineered from end to end with every conceivable risk mitigating long term future worry built in when management needed something to run three months at the lowest cost.
Funny and oh so true. Back when I was an I.T. manager in a small company (2 developers) I was in charge of the air conditioning system (Hey it's got a digital thermostat), the security system (It's got a keypad), and basically anything else that used electricity.
Developers as SysAdmins is a HORRIBLE idea, as very few developers are meticulously anal-retentive enough to be good admins. Having developers with root privs on prod systems is like hanging a big sign outside the building that says "Hackerz Please come steal stuff" - it only takes one guy to rip you off....
It's so foolish. I can easily tell who's working and who isn't, I don't need to see them typing. When we hire new people we figure out in less than a week if they are suited for unsupervised, remote work; if they are not, I kindly let them go.
I have servers I've never seen (drop shipped to a COHO data center), full time employees I've never met face to face, clients I've never met face to face...
I'm all for electric everything as long as it's a choice I can make, it's not forced on me, and I don't have to subsidize it LOL. My point is that a lot of the folks on slashdot see batteries as some magical entity that are going to do all kinds of magical things in just a few years - e.g. that all things on earth are subject to Moore's law.
;-)
Much of the grandiose plans of the non engineers revolve around being able to store, and later retrieve electricity.... It's not that easy. That's all.
Automotive history folks know that at the turn of the century, the battle between the electric and internal combustion was fought in earnest. The electric cars of that era ran about 40 miles between charges, and were faster than a running horse, which in those days was as fast as anyone would EVER want to move
I prefer to tele-commute, and save my vehicle entirely. With the cost of global communication being near zero, HD web cameras being disposable commodities, why commute at all if you're a knowledge worker? A virtual enterprise - is the greenest company of all. I know, I run one. Our employees love not having to drag themselves into an office everyday.