sounds good! anyone WITH 'wealth' these days likely got it by being a sociopath.
people with 'savings' are normal people. people with 'weatlh' are lying cheating bastards and that's the only way, now, to get 'wealth'.
I'm half serious. that's what's sad; this is not a joke. the redist of weath is one of the biggest crimes of this century. resetting that could only be a good thing.
Having a family to feed is not adequate justification for fraud and frankly weren't not talking about the sort of workers who cannot ever get another job. These are well paid engineers with options.
bullshit. spoken as someone who has never been on the 'blacklist' and been denied jobs and been near the brink of homelessness.
I have direct experience in this. been out of work for 9 months now, still no job offers and I'm nearly broke. the insensitive among you will blame me and say its all my fault for not being 'good enough' but I'm not going to feed the trolls. suffice to say, many people, not due to their own faults, are denied jobs and if you have rent to pay, its an incredible amount of stress to face being out of work long enough to lose your home and all your savings.
unless you have done this at least once, you have NO RIGHT to blame others for keeping an income going. jobs are NOT 'just around the corner' for every skilled person who wants one; that's a stupid republican talking point that has long since been untrue (since the fall of our economy, post-clinton days).
I have tons of sympathy for those who try to find work and can't get it. its being in that position that has increased my humanity and empathy. I suspect your life-experience is void of this; but don't worry, as you approach 45 and older, you WILL find out what I've been rambling about. but by then, you will be one of the 'struggles to stay employed' guys. will you feel any sympathy for your future self, now? or do you need to actually live thru that to get what I'm saying??
we all need to be more understanding of the realities of being a working class guy who simply wants to keep working and have the bills be covered. the attitude of blaming the worker has to stop. the bosses are trying to change the dialog and, for many of you, you have bought into his lies and deceipt.
maybe I've seen too many movies, but for something that is locked down that tight, it sounds like 'bad guys' would really want to get in there.
I need my fingers. I would have to have one cut off by a bad guy, so he could use my prints.
might be very farfetched, but I'm not so sure I'd want to sign up for a security job that needed prints. in fact, it seems quite stupid for a security company to put its people at risk like this!
here in silicon valley, we have some pretty good used surplus stores that we can run to, grab some old/quality parts and get our projects built. not high qty but for one-off POC's its great.
I've been going to halted (hsc electronics) for over 20 yrs now and I don't know what I'd do if they went out of business. sometimes I just walk the aisles in that store to get ideas. or to find some part that can be used for another project in a creative way.
china may have tons of crap-parts stores; but we have surplus stores from the days when parts lasted decades, not just months. old 'made in USA' transistors and caps and resistors and chips. stuff that you knew was not made 'to a price' but was meant to be reliable. that kind of stuff can be found here and very little of that can be found overseas in asia.
and, of course, mouser and digikey are here in the US and they are 2 of the most respected and trusted parts sources in the world. I can get next-day or 2nd-day shipments from them for reasonable rates. all their parts are real, genuine, trustable. no fake electrolytics here! and so, even though we can't stroll down china's or japan's or korea's electronics-alley areas, what we have in the US (in the bay area, at least) is, in some ways, better. we also have a great used equipment market here and since its not cost efficient to buy $10k agilent scopes and meters, we can find 5 or 10 yr (or hell, even 30 yr) old brand name test and measurement gear and it will often be enough to get the job done, plus it will continue working for many more years. the test gear from china is all throw-away. its unfixable, for the most part, and the company will abandon it in a year or two, tops. there's no staying power with china test gear; even they consider it a throw-away. and I'm sorry, you can't properly do development when your test gear has a lifetime that is in months and not years.
and, you have to WANT to be around for the long-run. we used to do that in the west and that concept is foreign (so to speak) in china. its a 'sell and run' attitude. who cares if the thing catches fire. that guy will not be coming back to buy more no matter what. I'll be in a different business and I'll continue to sell dangerous crap, then change names again and keep going. no care for welfare of others who use their stuff.
I'm not saying the west is perfect, but there IS some notion of your brand name and how you value it and try to keep it so that others will come back and buy more, again and again. repeat business from a good reputation is key, here, in the west. the eastern sellers really do not give 2 shits about what we think of them. you can't shame them into doing a good job and you can't sue them, either.
but one thing we both do share. we now force customers to do q/a work since there is no margin left in electronics anymore. disk drives, etc - those have high flaw counts now compared to 10 years ago. you used to be able to buy a drive and have a good confidence it would work. now, if you buy a drive you must hammer on it for 30 days to be sure its worth using. so, our quality has dropped, from american named companies that sell chinese low-cost goods. that does not mean profits are low! the ceo's are making the most money in world history! but they keep it all and claim poverty and pay their workers peanuts.
until china starts to care more about its sellers and its reputation, we will continue to have a 'sell and run' style commerce situation with them. they sell, they run and we're stuck holding substandard and often dangerous goods. we've given up trying to do lower end manufacturing here, so we now have no choice were we get our goods. we sold ourselves out and now if we want goods, there's only 1 place to get them. how stupid was THAT?
I solve that problem by refusing to even enter the shit-hole known as texas. not for business and not for anything. I actively avoid the deep south. not my kind of 'culture' down there. they have have their white christian world view without me. I want no part of their 'heritage of hate'.
but don't point out how racist texas is to a texan. them's fightin' words!
you didn't write that routine to read a disk file. you didn't write that routine to do virtual memory at the MMU level. you didn't write that floating point divide routine. and yet, you write code (I assume) that uses these things. you, sir, didn't 'create' anything, then!
no, the kid is no genius. not the point, though. he is starting out, he is curious about the stuff and he is transplanting electronics guts from one chassis to another. what's so bad about that? you start somewhere.
he's guilty of over-boasting, but last time I checked, almost every kid his age is guilty of things like that! if this was a 25 yr old, I would judge much differently, but a young kid that is overly proud of what he has done? no big deal, really. he'll grow up like most of us.
its the adult reactions that are key, here. the kid was just being a kid. the adults are supposed to be a bit more clueful about life and this showed they all failed.
I can categorically state that anyone who thinks that we are required by our religion to kill or convert "infidels" has never actually met one of us,
sorry, but your books do have some pretty condemning bits in them. how about this wonderful bit of prose:
Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
you know, if your religion was serious about changing its world view and being more accepting of others, you would fight to have that passive removed or at least nullified. why isn't anyone doing that? because they think its god's words and they take it VERY seriously!
do I think every muslim believes this deep-down? no! of course not. but its written, its part of the religion and there are many examples of this.
you cannot deny it. but what you can do is to deny that its the word of god and that its something that was a mistake, to be fixed.
no religion ever updates itself. has any ever done that? so its not just islam, all religions have an aspect of hate to them ('the other guys have it wrong; we have the only real truthful way!' and so on). but to say that your religion does not have hate as its basis is to be dishonest.
people can be good or bad. but religions have a dark aspect to them that I'd prefer we didn't have, as a species. this 'us vs them' view is really tearing the world apart. and the islam religion is a classic example of 'if you are not with us, you are against us'.
please be honest about this. we can all look up passages and read them. if you are honest about this and say 'yes, its an embarrasment and none of us really believe this phrase' then we're all good. can you say that much, at least?
(Oh, and now it turns out Chinese agents take people against their will (dissidents, others) out of many countries.)
no worries. they bring them back an hour later.
btw, I've had chinese take-out many times. ain't no big thing. just watch out for the fried stuff. and make sure that the lo mein is in there; they shorted us on lo mein, last time.
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we can't differentiate it from random noise
reminds me of fox news...
faster than light communication?
even if that were possible, imagine the disk space it would take to store even a few seconds of it!
Is he trying to "bury the story" under the Papal news cycle?
wait, papal split from ebay a month or two ago, didn't they?
why is this news, now? did something happen?
destroy a lot of wealth?
sounds good! anyone WITH 'wealth' these days likely got it by being a sociopath.
people with 'savings' are normal people. people with 'weatlh' are lying cheating bastards and that's the only way, now, to get 'wealth'.
I'm half serious. that's what's sad; this is not a joke. the redist of weath is one of the biggest crimes of this century. resetting that could only be a good thing.
do you at least get lots of orange crush?
if its true that they can't be used if 'cut off'; does every thief who might TRY this, know this?
it actually matters less if it works. what matters is if anyone ever still thinks it can work and is willing to do this evil deed.
again, why even take the chance. there is risk and it seems like its not worth any risk at all, with other alternatives being better in many ways.
Having a family to feed is not adequate justification for fraud and frankly weren't not talking about the sort of workers who cannot ever get another job. These are well paid engineers with options.
bullshit. spoken as someone who has never been on the 'blacklist' and been denied jobs and been near the brink of homelessness.
I have direct experience in this. been out of work for 9 months now, still no job offers and I'm nearly broke. the insensitive among you will blame me and say its all my fault for not being 'good enough' but I'm not going to feed the trolls. suffice to say, many people, not due to their own faults, are denied jobs and if you have rent to pay, its an incredible amount of stress to face being out of work long enough to lose your home and all your savings.
unless you have done this at least once, you have NO RIGHT to blame others for keeping an income going. jobs are NOT 'just around the corner' for every skilled person who wants one; that's a stupid republican talking point that has long since been untrue (since the fall of our economy, post-clinton days).
I have tons of sympathy for those who try to find work and can't get it. its being in that position that has increased my humanity and empathy. I suspect your life-experience is void of this; but don't worry, as you approach 45 and older, you WILL find out what I've been rambling about. but by then, you will be one of the 'struggles to stay employed' guys. will you feel any sympathy for your future self, now? or do you need to actually live thru that to get what I'm saying??
we all need to be more understanding of the realities of being a working class guy who simply wants to keep working and have the bills be covered. the attitude of blaming the worker has to stop. the bosses are trying to change the dialog and, for many of you, you have bought into his lies and deceipt.
paging catherine the great. will you please come to the courtesy phone. catherine the great. to the courtesy phone. thankyou.
maybe I've seen too many movies, but for something that is locked down that tight, it sounds like 'bad guys' would really want to get in there.
I need my fingers. I would have to have one cut off by a bad guy, so he could use my prints.
might be very farfetched, but I'm not so sure I'd want to sign up for a security job that needed prints. in fact, it seems quite stupid for a security company to put its people at risk like this!
where is 'anonymous' when you need them? how come this guy has not had his life doxed and ruined? or even worse?
sometimes, you need the hero you deserve. and the US government is not is.
here in silicon valley, we have some pretty good used surplus stores that we can run to, grab some old/quality parts and get our projects built. not high qty but for one-off POC's its great.
I've been going to halted (hsc electronics) for over 20 yrs now and I don't know what I'd do if they went out of business. sometimes I just walk the aisles in that store to get ideas. or to find some part that can be used for another project in a creative way.
china may have tons of crap-parts stores; but we have surplus stores from the days when parts lasted decades, not just months. old 'made in USA' transistors and caps and resistors and chips. stuff that you knew was not made 'to a price' but was meant to be reliable. that kind of stuff can be found here and very little of that can be found overseas in asia.
and, of course, mouser and digikey are here in the US and they are 2 of the most respected and trusted parts sources in the world. I can get next-day or 2nd-day shipments from them for reasonable rates. all their parts are real, genuine, trustable. no fake electrolytics here! and so, even though we can't stroll down china's or japan's or korea's electronics-alley areas, what we have in the US (in the bay area, at least) is, in some ways, better. we also have a great used equipment market here and since its not cost efficient to buy $10k agilent scopes and meters, we can find 5 or 10 yr (or hell, even 30 yr) old brand name test and measurement gear and it will often be enough to get the job done, plus it will continue working for many more years. the test gear from china is all throw-away. its unfixable, for the most part, and the company will abandon it in a year or two, tops. there's no staying power with china test gear; even they consider it a throw-away. and I'm sorry, you can't properly do development when your test gear has a lifetime that is in months and not years.
and, you have to WANT to be around for the long-run. we used to do that in the west and that concept is foreign (so to speak) in china. its a 'sell and run' attitude. who cares if the thing catches fire. that guy will not be coming back to buy more no matter what. I'll be in a different business and I'll continue to sell dangerous crap, then change names again and keep going. no care for welfare of others who use their stuff.
I'm not saying the west is perfect, but there IS some notion of your brand name and how you value it and try to keep it so that others will come back and buy more, again and again. repeat business from a good reputation is key, here, in the west. the eastern sellers really do not give 2 shits about what we think of them. you can't shame them into doing a good job and you can't sue them, either.
but one thing we both do share. we now force customers to do q/a work since there is no margin left in electronics anymore. disk drives, etc - those have high flaw counts now compared to 10 years ago. you used to be able to buy a drive and have a good confidence it would work. now, if you buy a drive you must hammer on it for 30 days to be sure its worth using. so, our quality has dropped, from american named companies that sell chinese low-cost goods. that does not mean profits are low! the ceo's are making the most money in world history! but they keep it all and claim poverty and pay their workers peanuts.
until china starts to care more about its sellers and its reputation, we will continue to have a 'sell and run' style commerce situation with them. they sell, they run and we're stuck holding substandard and often dangerous goods. we've given up trying to do lower end manufacturing here, so we now have no choice were we get our goods. we sold ourselves out and now if we want goods, there's only 1 place to get them. how stupid was THAT?
anyone outsourcing to india or china already has shown their hand:
1) they care nothing about quality and are there ENTIRELY because of low-cost labor
2) they care nothing about security; they never did. its only about #1
too late for me, I already burned my rot13 card.
try getting THAT data back, suckers!
Modern education is run by C+ students.
cops are like that, too! and most authority figures, truth be told.
reminds me of a joke:
"cop: so, do you know why I pulled you over?"
"driver: because you got c's and d's in school?"
(not my joke; but forget the comedian's name.)
I solve that problem by refusing to even enter the shit-hole known as texas. not for business and not for anything. I actively avoid the deep south. not my kind of 'culture' down there. they have have their white christian world view without me. I want no part of their 'heritage of hate'.
but don't point out how racist texas is to a texan. them's fightin' words!
you didn't write that routine to read a disk file. you didn't write that routine to do virtual memory at the MMU level. you didn't write that floating point divide routine. and yet, you write code (I assume) that uses these things. you, sir, didn't 'create' anything, then!
no, the kid is no genius. not the point, though. he is starting out, he is curious about the stuff and he is transplanting electronics guts from one chassis to another. what's so bad about that? you start somewhere.
he's guilty of over-boasting, but last time I checked, almost every kid his age is guilty of things like that! if this was a 25 yr old, I would judge much differently, but a young kid that is overly proud of what he has done? no big deal, really. he'll grow up like most of us.
its the adult reactions that are key, here. the kid was just being a kid. the adults are supposed to be a bit more clueful about life and this showed they all failed.
you put the word president in quotes?
are you afraid that if you shake hands with him, some black may come off?
(channeling don rickles, here, are you?)
I can categorically state that anyone who thinks that we are required by our religion to kill or convert "infidels" has never actually met one of us,
sorry, but your books do have some pretty condemning bits in them. how about this wonderful bit of prose:
Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
you know, if your religion was serious about changing its world view and being more accepting of others, you would fight to have that passive removed or at least nullified. why isn't anyone doing that? because they think its god's words and they take it VERY seriously!
do I think every muslim believes this deep-down? no! of course not. but its written, its part of the religion and there are many examples of this.
you cannot deny it. but what you can do is to deny that its the word of god and that its something that was a mistake, to be fixed.
no religion ever updates itself. has any ever done that? so its not just islam, all religions have an aspect of hate to them ('the other guys have it wrong; we have the only real truthful way!' and so on). but to say that your religion does not have hate as its basis is to be dishonest.
people can be good or bad. but religions have a dark aspect to them that I'd prefer we didn't have, as a species. this 'us vs them' view is really tearing the world apart. and the islam religion is a classic example of 'if you are not with us, you are against us'.
please be honest about this. we can all look up passages and read them. if you are honest about this and say 'yes, its an embarrasment and none of us really believe this phrase' then we're all good. can you say that much, at least?
that's not 'research' its converative 'talking points' that they are using to try to twist this to THEIR agenda.
I knew the southern yokels would not take a lesson from this. "double down on the derp!" is the southern way, isn't it?
damn. sometimes I do want to get off this planet. "the stupidity, it burns!"
the actual algorithm used looks very similar to a combination Brazil movie scene and Will Wonka's chocolate factory.
midway, everyone on the project was sacked and the titles had to be completed at high expense and at the last minute.
(Oh, and now it turns out Chinese agents take people against their will (dissidents, others) out of many countries.)
no worries. they bring them back an hour later.
btw, I've had chinese take-out many times. ain't no big thing. just watch out for the fried stuff. and make sure that the lo mein is in there; they shorted us on lo mein, last time.
it sometimes happens in other states.
but shit like this happens all the freaking time in texas. and florida. sometimes kansas. ok, most of the deep south, as well.
calling it as it is. denying the duality in our country does not help us fix this or deal with it, if we can't fix it.
there is a link between this kind of behavior and fear of all who are different. the south has that, especially bad, for some reason.
Have you not seen House?
is that the one that the Romani went to?
and the chinese SLA are still out looking for whatever happened to this mystery person known as Tania...