That's failure to comply, which is a different part of the law. If a civil judgment between you and another private party goes against you and you fail to comply with it, you might face criminal penalties including fines and imprisonment for failure to comply with the judgment. This is little different from that.
In a recent PaulDotCom podcast about burnout in IT, Jack Daniels brought up a good point. We IT people love the 40-hour work week. It's why we never settle for just one.
There's a fairly serious problem within the general IT realm that has to do with burnout. A lot of professions (firefighters, air traffic control, medical field) have people watching out for those burning out and have ways to help them cope. Because we just deal with computers and sit at a desk most of the time, it's presumed that we have a cushy job and we're not really at risk. We also, as Jack mentions at about that same time, are often hit by a hero complex: only we can do this particular job right now. That might be arrogance--only we can do it--or it might be justification--it will take longer to show someone else how to do it than for me to just do it myself--but it still can stack up until something in our life breaks. That something might be our job when we can no longer do it right or we blow up at the wrong person, it might be our career when we come to hate the work in general, it might be our family or friends because we're not spending time with them, or it might be ourselves when our health suffers. Of course, if we do try to balance it, we face the wrath of our peers who become convinced that we can no longer cut it. Whether real or imaginary, that adds stress, too, and in general there are few mechanisms to catch someone pushing the edge.
I upgraded a couple of days before the actual F18 release once I saw that they had signed off on release code. I went to use preupgrade as I've done (with very mixed success) in the past and found it wasn't showing upgrade possibilities. I saw something about the new fedup method, ran that, and it went more smoothly than any distro upgrade I've ever done. I had to work around one package from a repo that hadn't rolled out F18 code yet and KDE wouldn't start without a separate update (quickly applied from within GNOME), but aside from that, there were no issues. I would have appreciated more information about where the upgrade was at any given time, but since I saw the drive light was still flashing, I let it run, and after an hour or so, I was back in business.
I also know, though, that using Fedora in the weeks after a new version release means taking on enormous risk. I've spent weeks recovering from a bad upgrade and occasionally even an install. I think it was around F13 that I had the worst experience. But in the long run, I prefer Fedora because it has some of the newest code and it has reasonably decent community support. It's a good enough mix that I stay with it for main installations.
There's been far too much focus on the process. The way they seemed to be talking about it at the time, they felt that it was more important to hype the process that integrated manufacturers all over the world, including many who had never worked on an advanced aircraft. They believed that their process could deliver a new aircraft with the first major shift in construction materials in 80 years in a shorter time than any previous plane they'd rolled out since before the 707.
In the meantime, there were other articles that quoted industry experts and anonymous Boeing personnel as saying that management was moving too fast, had too much confidence in a relatively new process, and had routinely covered up failures with cosmetic touches (like rolling a 787 out of the factory on July 8, 2007, using fasteners that weren't intended for use on aircraft and reportedly barely held the plane together) to reassure customers. It's part of what extended the first flight by more than two years and first delivery by more than three years beyond the planned schedule, and the first few were seriously overweight.
I know that almost all new aircraft have schedule and production problems. But Boeing was trumpeting the process while hiding as best it could the failures of that very process that were leading to these serious delays and cost overruns. That's putting the process ahead of the actual finished airplane, and that's a management failure.
You can't get pregnant from oral or anal sex, either, but it can still constitute rape. So does entry with a physical object. It's also possible for a woman to rape a man by causing him to penetrate her, even though she's the willing part of it.
For example, under Texas law, penetration "by any means" of another person without the consent of both of those involved is sexual assault. Even non-consensual contact (without penetration) of one person's sexual organ with another's sexual organ, anus, or mouth is considered sexual assault. (Penal Code Section 22.011)
The flights sell out regularly, quickly, and well ahead of the flight times. Despite this, I'm still planning on flying on one on a trip in either April or May.
There was an article a couple of years ago where Boeing said that "the process is the product." They truly believed that managing the process of building the plane was a more important product over the plane itself. I've seen so much of this kind of thing that I used it as an example of process management gone wrong where I worked, and it triggered an interesting discussion and some changes in how IT marketed itself to the rest of the enterprise.
In many locations, they're only required to accept up to a certain number of pennies, often 100. This is to prevent someone from coming in with bags of pennies to pay for something because of the costs to the business of having to count all of the pennies.
You're inflating the point to add confusion. Like you said, most approximations are 1 inch = 2.5cm, which is off by a little under 2%. For rough approximations, it works, just like calling a meter a little over a yard. The point was that at the precisions demanded by sjames, a metric equivalent exists.
How many things on a common construction site are measured in micrometers anyway? Being within a millimeter is usually enough, and even then you're going to be working with fairly precise measuring tools.
She was refused the iPhones that she had come to pick up after ordering them online (and for which she presumably would get a refund). She did that after she bought two iPhones last week, reaching Apple's imposed cap. That's when she was asked to leave the store, at which point she refused.
If I have a disagreement with someone and the police get involved, I'm generally going to get a bit quieter if a Taser or a gun is unholstered as I don't want either going off while pointed at me. The woman reportedly was also resisting arrest for about 15 minutes, which is a lot more patience than people here are thinking is happening.
That said, some articles have provided the department's use of force policy, which apparently considers tasers as the equivalent of pepper spray, something that sounds like a poorly-considered policy. The taser should be considered an intermediate between pepper spray and a firearm. An article in Fortune paraphrases a department captain this way: "He described the use of electroshock weapons as standard procedure when a subject refuses to obey a lawful order or resists arrest." If that's the case, some very minor issues could be used to justify someone getting shocked.
I don't think the Apple store was in the wrong in asking her to leave or to call in the police when she refused to do so. I do think the officers overreacted. Tasers are much more dangerous than pepper spray.
Israel developed their nuclear program with help from the French in the 1960s before the NNPT took effect. They may have stolen designs from the US, but they also have a very high-caliber arms industry of their own. I doubt the US would have given them weapons after the NNPT took effect, and even before it, the US was expressing concern that the French assistance could lead to an Israeli bomb, something that might have been seen as very unbalancing in those days.
The left side of the graph labels the power output in kT/sec with a plateau around 1.6E13 (16,000,000,000,000 kT). This strikes me as problematic.
So, too, does the part of the article that says, "The bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima...had a force of about 15 kilotons. Modern nuclear weapons have yields hundreds of times higher than that." A handful of weapons are in the megaton range, but most weapons are 300kT or smaller. It's enough to devastate a military base or a city core, but it's less than two dozen times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. It's been this way for decades as delivery systems have gotten more accurate, allowing for smaller warhead sizes that use less fissile material, making each weapon less expensive.
I see the sarcasm, but it's important for people to know that Israel is not a signatory to the NNPT and hence is not bound by its requirements for declarations and inspections. Neither is North Korea, Pakistan, or India, all nations with nuclear arsenals (North Korea's is perhaps debatable), and the only nuclear-armed nation that has not threatened to use one, though their policy of deliberate ambiguity basically precludes such threats.
I'm hoping for a consumer-level version so I can run Linux as my primary and Windows as a secondary gaming OS and still get full GPU performance on both platforms.
I thought it more interesting that he likes wobbly windows. I've seen for a long time Linux elitists deride those of us who like a little eye candy on the desktop, calling it useless and suggesting that eye candy is just for simpleton Windows or Mac users. It's kind of nice to see that someone of Linus's stature will openly say that he likes a little candy, too.
That line presumes certain things about the curve of intelligence. It's possible that the larger portion is below the average line if the low end is sufficiently low, but it's also possible that the larger portion is above the average line if the high end is sufficiently high.
Spock was the bridge captain in Khan, but gave up that role to Adm. Kirk when they were sent to check on Regula I. He played a major role in the story, though not as bridge captain.
The cultures of the Middle East are historically authoritarian, and even Iran's democracy was not always that democratic. Iran arguably has a stronger democratic tradition over the last 30+ years than most of the nations in the area. Seats are even set aside in its parliament for minorities, and a minimum of two Armenians and one each Catholic (technically Assyrian and/or Chaldean), Zoroastrian, and Jewish must be seated. The current parliament includes five Armenians, four Catholics, three Jews, and two Zoroastrians. And the fraction of women in parliament is, for Middle Eastern nations, relatively high. That's not to say that the structure in place is a true democracy. The vetting of candidates and the role of the Grand Ayatollah at a minimum clearly interfere with that. But it's a more solid framework than many realize.
Much of this framework has been in place for more than a century. I'm not defending the current government. Far from it, I watched the last set of major protests closely and with some eagerness for a weakness to show in the government. I think the Iranian people, in general, are capable of running a modern democracy probably better than most in the region. Without Iran's influence, maybe Lebanon can return to the way it was a few decades ago before the civil war and become a prime tourist spot and melting pot once more instead of one constantly on the brink of fighting.
When looking back at the toppling of Mossadegh, though, be mindful of several things. First: it was a British desire. The US didn't want to do it until Eisenhower came in, and then only when Churchill convinced Eisenhower that Mossadegh was becoming or would become reliant on the Soviet-backed communists in Iran to maintain his majority. Expanded Soviet influence, particularly in oil-rich nations, was perceived as a major strategic threat at the time. Second: Mossadegh was popular, but he was ruling by decree. He had six months of power granted by parliament to enact any law he saw fit, and his political coalition began to falter when he demanded (and got) another year of such power. Eight months later, he supported a referendum dismissing parliament and providing him almost unlimited power to make law. Benevolent and popular ruler though he may have been, removing legislative impediments to get what he wanted was not in the democratic tradition.
History is often much more complex than people like it to be.
He's got a point. Many (most?) public schools are worried about their funding. At a high level, this is appropriate because books, teachers, etc., cost money. But when it starts getting presented as providing a certain set of data and being provided a certain level of funds, it starts to look like administrators selling the data to the state in exchange for money. When one is worrying about 0.67% of the day's funding (8 students out of 1200), it starts to look like someone who is too focused on the financials and not focused enough on the school's stated mission.
I wonder how seriously he took it since he was said to be proud of his service to England in WWII and, if the need arose, he would serve the crown again.
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That's failure to comply, which is a different part of the law. If a civil judgment between you and another private party goes against you and you fail to comply with it, you might face criminal penalties including fines and imprisonment for failure to comply with the judgment. This is little different from that.
In a recent PaulDotCom podcast about burnout in IT, Jack Daniels brought up a good point. We IT people love the 40-hour work week. It's why we never settle for just one.
There's a fairly serious problem within the general IT realm that has to do with burnout. A lot of professions (firefighters, air traffic control, medical field) have people watching out for those burning out and have ways to help them cope. Because we just deal with computers and sit at a desk most of the time, it's presumed that we have a cushy job and we're not really at risk. We also, as Jack mentions at about that same time, are often hit by a hero complex: only we can do this particular job right now. That might be arrogance--only we can do it--or it might be justification--it will take longer to show someone else how to do it than for me to just do it myself--but it still can stack up until something in our life breaks. That something might be our job when we can no longer do it right or we blow up at the wrong person, it might be our career when we come to hate the work in general, it might be our family or friends because we're not spending time with them, or it might be ourselves when our health suffers. Of course, if we do try to balance it, we face the wrath of our peers who become convinced that we can no longer cut it. Whether real or imaginary, that adds stress, too, and in general there are few mechanisms to catch someone pushing the edge.
I upgraded a couple of days before the actual F18 release once I saw that they had signed off on release code. I went to use preupgrade as I've done (with very mixed success) in the past and found it wasn't showing upgrade possibilities. I saw something about the new fedup method, ran that, and it went more smoothly than any distro upgrade I've ever done. I had to work around one package from a repo that hadn't rolled out F18 code yet and KDE wouldn't start without a separate update (quickly applied from within GNOME), but aside from that, there were no issues. I would have appreciated more information about where the upgrade was at any given time, but since I saw the drive light was still flashing, I let it run, and after an hour or so, I was back in business.
I also know, though, that using Fedora in the weeks after a new version release means taking on enormous risk. I've spent weeks recovering from a bad upgrade and occasionally even an install. I think it was around F13 that I had the worst experience. But in the long run, I prefer Fedora because it has some of the newest code and it has reasonably decent community support. It's a good enough mix that I stay with it for main installations.
There's been far too much focus on the process. The way they seemed to be talking about it at the time, they felt that it was more important to hype the process that integrated manufacturers all over the world, including many who had never worked on an advanced aircraft. They believed that their process could deliver a new aircraft with the first major shift in construction materials in 80 years in a shorter time than any previous plane they'd rolled out since before the 707.
In the meantime, there were other articles that quoted industry experts and anonymous Boeing personnel as saying that management was moving too fast, had too much confidence in a relatively new process, and had routinely covered up failures with cosmetic touches (like rolling a 787 out of the factory on July 8, 2007, using fasteners that weren't intended for use on aircraft and reportedly barely held the plane together) to reassure customers. It's part of what extended the first flight by more than two years and first delivery by more than three years beyond the planned schedule, and the first few were seriously overweight.
I know that almost all new aircraft have schedule and production problems. But Boeing was trumpeting the process while hiding as best it could the failures of that very process that were leading to these serious delays and cost overruns. That's putting the process ahead of the actual finished airplane, and that's a management failure.
You can't get pregnant from oral or anal sex, either, but it can still constitute rape. So does entry with a physical object. It's also possible for a woman to rape a man by causing him to penetrate her, even though she's the willing part of it.
For example, under Texas law, penetration "by any means" of another person without the consent of both of those involved is sexual assault. Even non-consensual contact (without penetration) of one person's sexual organ with another's sexual organ, anus, or mouth is considered sexual assault. (Penal Code Section 22.011)
Orphan Girl Scouts. Gotta have the orphans in there.
The flights sell out regularly, quickly, and well ahead of the flight times. Despite this, I'm still planning on flying on one on a trip in either April or May.
There was an article a couple of years ago where Boeing said that "the process is the product." They truly believed that managing the process of building the plane was a more important product over the plane itself. I've seen so much of this kind of thing that I used it as an example of process management gone wrong where I worked, and it triggered an interesting discussion and some changes in how IT marketed itself to the rest of the enterprise.
I thought the catch with SL is that it doesn't guarantee compatibility in the way that CentOS does. Has that changed?
In many locations, they're only required to accept up to a certain number of pennies, often 100. This is to prevent someone from coming in with bags of pennies to pay for something because of the costs to the business of having to count all of the pennies.
You're inflating the point to add confusion. Like you said, most approximations are 1 inch = 2.5cm, which is off by a little under 2%. For rough approximations, it works, just like calling a meter a little over a yard. The point was that at the precisions demanded by sjames, a metric equivalent exists.
You do have your trusty E-6B with you, right?
How many things on a common construction site are measured in micrometers anyway? Being within a millimeter is usually enough, and even then you're going to be working with fairly precise measuring tools.
She was refused the iPhones that she had come to pick up after ordering them online (and for which she presumably would get a refund). She did that after she bought two iPhones last week, reaching Apple's imposed cap. That's when she was asked to leave the store, at which point she refused.
If I have a disagreement with someone and the police get involved, I'm generally going to get a bit quieter if a Taser or a gun is unholstered as I don't want either going off while pointed at me. The woman reportedly was also resisting arrest for about 15 minutes, which is a lot more patience than people here are thinking is happening.
That said, some articles have provided the department's use of force policy, which apparently considers tasers as the equivalent of pepper spray, something that sounds like a poorly-considered policy. The taser should be considered an intermediate between pepper spray and a firearm. An article in Fortune paraphrases a department captain this way: "He described the use of electroshock weapons as standard procedure when a subject refuses to obey a lawful order or resists arrest." If that's the case, some very minor issues could be used to justify someone getting shocked.
I don't think the Apple store was in the wrong in asking her to leave or to call in the police when she refused to do so. I do think the officers overreacted. Tasers are much more dangerous than pepper spray.
Israel developed their nuclear program with help from the French in the 1960s before the NNPT took effect. They may have stolen designs from the US, but they also have a very high-caliber arms industry of their own. I doubt the US would have given them weapons after the NNPT took effect, and even before it, the US was expressing concern that the French assistance could lead to an Israeli bomb, something that might have been seen as very unbalancing in those days.
It never gets inspected because Israel's not part of the NNPT. They don't have to submit to inspections.
The left side of the graph labels the power output in kT/sec with a plateau around 1.6E13 (16,000,000,000,000 kT). This strikes me as problematic.
So, too, does the part of the article that says, "The bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima...had a force of about 15 kilotons. Modern nuclear weapons have yields hundreds of times higher than that." A handful of weapons are in the megaton range, but most weapons are 300kT or smaller. It's enough to devastate a military base or a city core, but it's less than two dozen times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. It's been this way for decades as delivery systems have gotten more accurate, allowing for smaller warhead sizes that use less fissile material, making each weapon less expensive.
I see the sarcasm, but it's important for people to know that Israel is not a signatory to the NNPT and hence is not bound by its requirements for declarations and inspections. Neither is North Korea, Pakistan, or India, all nations with nuclear arsenals (North Korea's is perhaps debatable), and the only nuclear-armed nation that has not threatened to use one, though their policy of deliberate ambiguity basically precludes such threats.
I'm hoping for a consumer-level version so I can run Linux as my primary and Windows as a secondary gaming OS and still get full GPU performance on both platforms.
I thought it more interesting that he likes wobbly windows. I've seen for a long time Linux elitists deride those of us who like a little eye candy on the desktop, calling it useless and suggesting that eye candy is just for simpleton Windows or Mac users. It's kind of nice to see that someone of Linus's stature will openly say that he likes a little candy, too.
That line presumes certain things about the curve of intelligence. It's possible that the larger portion is below the average line if the low end is sufficiently low, but it's also possible that the larger portion is above the average line if the high end is sufficiently high.
Now, if he'd been talking about the median...
Spock was the bridge captain in Khan, but gave up that role to Adm. Kirk when they were sent to check on Regula I. He played a major role in the story, though not as bridge captain.
The cultures of the Middle East are historically authoritarian, and even Iran's democracy was not always that democratic. Iran arguably has a stronger democratic tradition over the last 30+ years than most of the nations in the area. Seats are even set aside in its parliament for minorities, and a minimum of two Armenians and one each Catholic (technically Assyrian and/or Chaldean), Zoroastrian, and Jewish must be seated. The current parliament includes five Armenians, four Catholics, three Jews, and two Zoroastrians. And the fraction of women in parliament is, for Middle Eastern nations, relatively high. That's not to say that the structure in place is a true democracy. The vetting of candidates and the role of the Grand Ayatollah at a minimum clearly interfere with that. But it's a more solid framework than many realize.
Much of this framework has been in place for more than a century. I'm not defending the current government. Far from it, I watched the last set of major protests closely and with some eagerness for a weakness to show in the government. I think the Iranian people, in general, are capable of running a modern democracy probably better than most in the region. Without Iran's influence, maybe Lebanon can return to the way it was a few decades ago before the civil war and become a prime tourist spot and melting pot once more instead of one constantly on the brink of fighting.
When looking back at the toppling of Mossadegh, though, be mindful of several things. First: it was a British desire. The US didn't want to do it until Eisenhower came in, and then only when Churchill convinced Eisenhower that Mossadegh was becoming or would become reliant on the Soviet-backed communists in Iran to maintain his majority. Expanded Soviet influence, particularly in oil-rich nations, was perceived as a major strategic threat at the time. Second: Mossadegh was popular, but he was ruling by decree. He had six months of power granted by parliament to enact any law he saw fit, and his political coalition began to falter when he demanded (and got) another year of such power. Eight months later, he supported a referendum dismissing parliament and providing him almost unlimited power to make law. Benevolent and popular ruler though he may have been, removing legislative impediments to get what he wanted was not in the democratic tradition.
History is often much more complex than people like it to be.
He's got a point. Many (most?) public schools are worried about their funding. At a high level, this is appropriate because books, teachers, etc., cost money. But when it starts getting presented as providing a certain set of data and being provided a certain level of funds, it starts to look like administrators selling the data to the state in exchange for money. When one is worrying about 0.67% of the day's funding (8 students out of 1200), it starts to look like someone who is too focused on the financials and not focused enough on the school's stated mission.
I wonder how seriously he took it since he was said to be proud of his service to England in WWII and, if the need arose, he would serve the crown again.