When this power-man with serious connections gets called by the scammer, suddenly the wheels of justice spring into motion in top gear, the next day the FBI is on it and they get the guy right away.
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but you are also factually incorrect. The article says that Thomas called Webster in 2014, but he was not arrested until 2017, 3 years later. He was then tried and convicted in October 2018, and finally sentenced in February 2019.
The scammer didn't even get anything. What about grandma who lost her $200,000 life savings in a scam only to hear "that's a shame" from the police?
Again, I understand your sentiment, but you are again factually incorrect. The article says:
The FBI was able to document that Thomas, 29, from St. James Parish in the Montego Bay area, collected at least $300,000 with his scam from about three dozen victims, according to court records.
notes that Clair, who spent his career in relatively low-level jobs, retired in 1973 when he was just 54 years old..
Retiring at 54 from a railroad was not unusual back in the 70s -- it is one of the reasons Penn Central and other US freight railroads all went bankrupt!
Railroad employees pay into the Railroad Retirement system (instead of Social Security), which provides really good retirement benefits. At age 54, he could have had 30 years of service if he had started at the railroad in 24 (after having served in the military.) Having been in "relatively low-level jobs" would mean he would have been earning overtime -- getting paid 1.5 times his hourly rate for every hour he "worked" over 40 hours. He was working in a heavily unionized industry, where overtime is handed out based upon seniority, so staying in "low level jobs" often made more financial sense than going into management.
(while sales of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class are down 28 percent through September)
The Mercedes dealership in Atlanta is basically a huge, 4 story parking garage. About half of the front bottom level is the dealer showroom and there is big facade on the front of the building, so it doesn't quite look like a typical parking garage. The other half of the front of the building is the entrance to the service area -- I think it is about two big garage doors wide. If you drive by before the Dealership opens at (I think) 8 am, you'll see a line of Mercedes cars waiting to get into the service area. I notice the line because it frequently backs up out into the travel lanes on Piedmont Road.
This Mercedes dealership is in a very new and shiny building, probably less than 10 years old, so I was really surprised a couple months ago when I saw construction workers tearing down the front facade of the building -- why would such a new building need major repairs already? It turned out they were installing a giant window on the top deck. The dealership now usually parks a C-class and another car behind that window, and they keep them lit up in spotlights 24/7. It's not a very tasteful display -- it's really a tacky, 3-D billboard, but I guess it is not considered a billboard because it is part of the building.
Anyway, thanks to the design of their building, whenever I pass by this Mercedes dealership, I think tacky product that needs to be frequently brought in for fixing. I am not surprised that their sales are down 28-percent.
I do not own any TSLA stock, nor am I shorting it.
When I previewed my comment, I decided it would better if the link was more descriptive. So I then edited the post to include the "which contains" line in the link, and when I did that I somehow also inserted a period between post and meritocracy in the URL.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity!
The real news here isn't that Linus decided to get some therapy.
The real news is that Linux, the project, adopted the "Contributor's Covenant" code of conduct and thereby acknowledged SJW ideological supremacy. The CC is an SJW vehicle promulgated by Coraline Ada and a related group of activist malcontents. While the CC appears on the surface to be a call of civility, it's actually the tip of a very long and exsanguatory anti-meritocracy spear,
When I first read this, I knew nothing of Coraline Ada and so I figured the AC was full of shit. I decided I would do a little searching to prove the AC wrong. One of the first things I came across was her website, PostMeritocracy.org, which contains The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto
It used to be that Twitter was the best place for breaking news, which was the only reason I got on the platform at all. But now, it’s basically worthless.
And when you got a little older, you would spend hours and hours drooling over the models in the Ladies' Underwear section.
Sear's Wish Book, the Christmas time catalog filled with toys for children, did not have much of a ladies underwear section. To see ladies in underwear, you had to look at the Spring and Fall catalogs.
A few articles back I read about the huge burn-out problem in the US. That makes for a pretty good explanation. If you're burned out, your mind has pretty much shut down higher reasoning. Recovery usually takes months, so a vacation won't cut it. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people just go " ah, fuck it". Combine it with depression or other mental illnesses and you have somebody sitting in a true hellhole.
Thank you for perfectly explaining why I was unprofessional when I departed a former employer.
Over the years, I gradually became very depressed while working in my dream job for a very respected organization. I now realize it was a very unhealthy place to work -- it would sadistically tell employees it was very "family friendly" while being anything but (there was no maternity leave, etc.) My depression came on gradually, so I was not able to realize what was happening to me.
One day, a very popular employee in another office died suddenly and unexpectedly. The cause of death was never announced, nor was there a funeral, so I deduced that he had committed suicide. Years later, I am still shocked by this -- he was really popular and well liked. He was at a level in the organization that I knew I would never rise to.
Another employee I knew shot his two beautiful children to death before taking his own life. That one made the news, but our leadership pretended nothing happened. A work friend, who had been cubicle neighbors with the killer, told me he believed the guy snapped because their supervisor had been putting the screws to him. My friend then told me he need to be on a prescription medication for his own depression.
Hearing that my friend was on anti-depressants was what finally made me realize I needed to get out -- I didn't want to medicate myself in order to stay in a job that was making me sick. I looked up the separation procedure and followed all the steps in it -- I made sure our BOFH properly closed my accounts and disabled most of my logins. Once I confirmed it was all done, I told my Supervisor I was quitting and emailed my resignation letter to him while we were talking.
I was very unprofessional, but I am still alive. I don't think I would still be here had I continued to work for that organization.
Have you even been to West Virginia? High-speed internet service is a major technical challenge there because of the geography. It's really mountainous and sparsely-populated.
Colorado has much worse terrain -- higher mountains, more snow, etc. -- and yet Colorado finished wiring all of its county seats wth high-speed, fiber-optic broadband Internet back in 2014: Wired Internet arrives in Silverton, finally
The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.
Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.
Slashdot Mirror
When I RFTA, I see that Cotton died in India - how was this verified?
What makes you think that "Gerald Cotton" was his/her/their true identity?
When this power-man with serious connections gets called by the scammer, suddenly the wheels of justice spring into motion in top gear, the next day the FBI is on it and they get the guy right away.
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but you are also factually incorrect. The article says that Thomas called Webster in 2014, but he was not arrested until 2017, 3 years later. He was then tried and convicted in October 2018, and finally sentenced in February 2019.
The scammer didn't even get anything. What about grandma who lost her $200,000 life savings in a scam only to hear "that's a shame" from the police?
Again, I understand your sentiment, but you are again factually incorrect. The article says:
The FBI was able to document that Thomas, 29, from St. James Parish in the Montego Bay area, collected at least $300,000 with his scam from about three dozen victims, according to court records.
....youth and exuberance." - David Mamet
As an old grey beard, I always enjoy seeing that saying proven true!
Domains aren't just for web sites, of course.
Indeed. I have a short .com domain that is only used for my for personal email.
and Zuck has left lots of dirt out there in plain sight, free for the picking.
so did Trump.
notes that Clair, who spent his career in relatively low-level jobs, retired in 1973 when he was just 54 years old..
Retiring at 54 from a railroad was not unusual back in the 70s -- it is one of the reasons Penn Central and other US freight railroads all went bankrupt!
Railroad employees pay into the Railroad Retirement system (instead of Social Security), which provides really good retirement benefits. At age 54, he could have had 30 years of service if he had started at the railroad in 24 (after having served in the military.) Having been in "relatively low-level jobs" would mean he would have been earning overtime -- getting paid 1.5 times his hourly rate for every hour he "worked" over 40 hours. He was working in a heavily unionized industry, where overtime is handed out based upon seniority, so staying in "low level jobs" often made more financial sense than going into management.
"O’Hara had joined Snap in September after more than a decade at Time Warner Inc. In her short time as Snap’s vice president of U.S. sales,"
while the first sentence says:
On a recent Friday, Kristen O’Hara got a major promotion: to become Snap Inc.’s chief business officer.
Apparently, she was at the company for a few weeks as "Vice President of US Sales" before her two-day long stint as "Chief Business Officer".
Slashdot posts don't get deleted. Perhaps they are being moderated below your reading threshold.
As long as you've been around, and you don't know this?
*Ahem*
Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot (Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 16, 2001 @09:05AM from the i-guess-it-was-inevitable dept.)
(while sales of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class are down 28 percent through September)
The Mercedes dealership in Atlanta is basically a huge, 4 story parking garage. About half of the front bottom level is the dealer showroom and there is big facade on the front of the building, so it doesn't quite look like a typical parking garage. The other half of the front of the building is the entrance to the service area -- I think it is about two big garage doors wide. If you drive by before the Dealership opens at (I think) 8 am, you'll see a line of Mercedes cars waiting to get into the service area. I notice the line because it frequently backs up out into the travel lanes on Piedmont Road.
This Mercedes dealership is in a very new and shiny building, probably less than 10 years old, so I was really surprised a couple months ago when I saw construction workers tearing down the front facade of the building -- why would such a new building need major repairs already? It turned out they were installing a giant window on the top deck. The dealership now usually parks a C-class and another car behind that window, and they keep them lit up in spotlights 24/7. It's not a very tasteful display -- it's really a tacky, 3-D billboard, but I guess it is not considered a billboard because it is part of the building.
Anyway, thanks to the design of their building, whenever I pass by this Mercedes dealership, I think tacky product that needs to be frequently brought in for fixing. I am not surprised that their sales are down 28-percent.
I do not own any TSLA stock, nor am I shorting it.
This isn't a PC that's wrapped in leather, it's a PC that's made from the very Holstein cows that were Gateway 2000's Mascots.
Rayn@RyPatts
So I apparently fell down 627 stairs then stopped moving for over 5 minutes. An ambulance showed up at the house along with my mum who let them in.
Tip: don't wear your new Apple Watch whilst having some alone time. Thanks Apple.
Lesson learned: Don't wear your Apple Watch while masturbating.
This makes me think that you didn't stumble upon it just now, because if you had you would have copy/pasted the correct URL.
No, I simply screwed up the url in the href in my post. My comment originally included just a simple link to her manifesto site, like this:
https://postmeritocracy.org/
When I previewed my comment, I decided it would better if the link was more descriptive. So I then edited the post to include the "which contains" line in the link, and when I did that I somehow also inserted a period between post and meritocracy in the URL.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity!
(Yes, I'm a very stupid person.)
The real news here isn't that Linus decided to get some therapy.
The real news is that Linux, the project, adopted the "Contributor's Covenant" code of conduct and thereby acknowledged SJW ideological supremacy. The CC is an SJW vehicle promulgated by Coraline Ada and a related group of activist malcontents. While the CC appears on the surface to be a call of civility, it's actually the tip of a very long and exsanguatory anti-meritocracy spear,
When I first read this, I knew nothing of Coraline Ada and so I figured the AC was full of shit. I decided I would do a little searching to prove the AC wrong. One of the first things I came across was her website, PostMeritocracy.org, which contains The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto
I apologize for having doubted you, AC.
I kept my account because I have a few apps that are tied into Facebook--it's the only way to use them.
What apps are these?
This site sucks now. Bring back CmdrTaco
, Jon Katz,
and the old OpenSource Tech Slashdot days. Endless political drivel now.
There was a lot of drivel back then too!
It used to be that Twitter was the best place for breaking news, which was the only reason I got on the platform at all. But now, it’s basically worthless.
The only thing left on twitter worth reading is Internet of Shit's feed: http://twitter.com/internetofshit,
Need public list of banks willing to cooperate.
All of them.
So I can be sure to take my business elsewhere.
Good luck with that.
And when you got a little older, you would spend hours and hours drooling over the models in the Ladies' Underwear section.
Sear's Wish Book, the Christmas time catalog filled with toys for children, did not have much of a ladies underwear section. To see ladies in underwear, you had to look at the Spring and Fall catalogs.
A few articles back I read about the huge burn-out problem in the US. That makes for a pretty good explanation. If you're burned out, your mind has pretty much shut down higher reasoning. Recovery usually takes months, so a vacation won't cut it. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people just go " ah, fuck it". Combine it with depression or other mental illnesses and you have somebody sitting in a true hellhole.
Thank you for perfectly explaining why I was unprofessional when I departed a former employer.
Over the years, I gradually became very depressed while working in my dream job for a very respected organization. I now realize it was a very unhealthy place to work -- it would sadistically tell employees it was very "family friendly" while being anything but (there was no maternity leave, etc.) My depression came on gradually, so I was not able to realize what was happening to me.
One day, a very popular employee in another office died suddenly and unexpectedly. The cause of death was never announced, nor was there a funeral, so I deduced that he had committed suicide. Years later, I am still shocked by this -- he was really popular and well liked. He was at a level in the organization that I knew I would never rise to.
Another employee I knew shot his two beautiful children to death before taking his own life. That one made the news, but our leadership pretended nothing happened. A work friend, who had been cubicle neighbors with the killer, told me he believed the guy snapped because their supervisor had been putting the screws to him. My friend then told me he need to be on a prescription medication for his own depression.
Hearing that my friend was on anti-depressants was what finally made me realize I needed to get out -- I didn't want to medicate myself in order to stay in a job that was making me sick. I looked up the separation procedure and followed all the steps in it -- I made sure our BOFH properly closed my accounts and disabled most of my logins. Once I confirmed it was all done, I told my Supervisor I was quitting and emailed my resignation letter to him while we were talking.
I was very unprofessional, but I am still alive. I don't think I would still be here had I continued to work for that organization.
The National Radio Quiet Zone covers a large part of West Virginia. The "lack of Internet" is by design,
Does 30% of West Virginia's population live within that "National Radio Quiet Zone".
(If not, then the "lack of internet" is *not* by design.)
Have you even been to West Virginia? High-speed internet service is a major technical challenge there because of the geography. It's really mountainous and sparsely-populated.
Colorado has much worse terrain -- higher mountains, more snow, etc. -- and yet Colorado finished wiring all of its county seats wth high-speed, fiber-optic broadband Internet back in 2014: Wired Internet arrives in Silverton, finally
Trying to figure out what aspect of this story actually merits coverage on Slashdot.
The story was worth posting because the comments demonstrate that Bill Gates is no longer the most hated man on slashdot.
> I won’t name names or give examples because I’m not an asshole.
He submitted his own article to slashdot. Ergo, he is an asshole.
Click to continue
The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.
Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.