The problem with dinner conversations is that there are usually a number of them going on at one time. A computer has enough trouble following one voice let alone multiple voices at the same time.
2) Edit your age down to below 13 years old. This may kick in automatic account privacy settings.
Some sites won't allow you to do that.
3) If none of this works, then look at the TOS and find things that they don't want you to do. (ie, Wikipedia freaks out if you mention suing them on any forum. A TOS might make it a violation to badmouth the parent company, or to solicit other users. You might think of creating a couple of throwaway accounts, and getting into a royal flamewar with your invisible clones. Call them really bad names. Threaten to sue them.)
All the site will do is disable the account, delete the bad posts through the normal moderation process and keep the good posts. You will be no further ahead.
There are many comments about the ownership of the posts and how if the poster owned the posts he should be able to delete them. I have a different view.
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Notice they say rights. The poster owns the posts in that the poster is responsible for the content and the site can not sell or copy the posts to other sites. Those are the general copyright laws. The issue comes in that by posting on the site the owner has given a copy to someone else, much like giving someone a book. The poster still owns the right to the post but not ownership of that specific copy.
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It looks pretty explicit that they will retain conversations.
Not according to this, this or this. You are correct that there is only one coal fired plant in Hawaii, which put out 14% of the State's total electricity, but there are 17 oil fired plants. According to this 75% of production is from oil, 14% is from coal. According to this less than 0.25% comes from biofuel.
Do you have any reference to support your idea? Perhaps you should try Google and check your figures before posting.
This discussion seems to be about extremes. There are CLI purists who seem to look down on anyone who uses a GUI. Yes you can do everything with a CLI and you should learn how to do it. GUI's are also helpful in that they are easier to use for many things. Use each tool to their best. For example I use eclipse and eGit. For me to do a commit and push it is a click to start the commit, a few clicks to select the files to be committed and another to do the commit and push. From the command line that would be a command to stage the files and having to remember the paths and file names that changed, another to do the commit, and another to do the push. The GUI is much faster.
My comment was in response to the posters idea that anyone who uses a GUI is a "lazy, unmotivated fuck" which is patently not true. CLI's have their place as to GUI's. Use them both for what they are good for.
Most electricity in Hawaii is generated using petroleum and coal fired plants. These plants are notorious for their slow warm up and cool down. With enough solar feeding in during peak times they will produce excess heat before the rising demand when the sun goes down and to compensate for the diving demand when the sun comes up. Coal and oil plants are not light switches. So in effect enough solar panels could produce power than can't be used but still has to be purchased by the grid companies and the grid companies still have to sell power to the solar produces when they need it. The solar produces pay nothing for the power produced grid maintenance and the cost for people without solar goes up. By the way, many people live in apartments without enough roof area to power them.
Is that like those "lazy, unmotivated fucks" who use an electric drill instead of a bit and brace? Or those people who drive a car instead of walk everywhere? Technology changes and calling people names does not motivate them to stay stuck in the past.
Another issue with Linux adoption is packaging and backward compatibility. I tried to install an older version of Capistrano (the current version is not backward compatible and I didn't want to re-write the scripts) under CYGWIN. It would not work with the newest version of Ruby because Ruby is not backward compatible (the compatibility issue) and I couldn't find a older ruby binary for CYGWIN. Sure I could have compiled it but I just want to use it not be a Ruby developer. If you are not using the latest version there are too many dependency and compatibility issues.
The other issue is that command line requires remembering a lot of esoteric commands. I would rather concentrate on creating software than remembering the difference between "git -push" and "git -commit". Also, since I use Eclipse it is an extra step to get out of eclipse to go to a command line and enter a command rather than just click a few times. If I am in a GUI I want to stay in it.
To those who say "You can do everything you want on command line" I say "You dig a canal with a teaspoon too but I wouldn't want to do that either". Command line has it's place for some things and GUIs others.
The researchers published a study a few months before the earthquake, describing the particular locked patch with the clearest potential for the next large earthquake in the region. The team projected the total amount of energy that could have developed across that region and forecasted that if the locking remained similar since the last major earthquake in 1950, then there is presently enough energy for an earthquake on the order of magnitude 7.8 there.
Because of limits in technology and scientific understanding about processes controlling fault locking and release, scientists cannot say much about precisely where or when earthquakes will occur. However, earthquakes in Nicoya have occurred about every 50 years, so seismologists had been anticipating another one around 2000, give or take 20 years, Newman said. The earthquake occurred in September of 2012 as a magnitude 7.6 quake.
There is a major difference between a couple of days off school and 8 months in prison and a permanent criminal record. Yes there have been some questionable arrests but I have yet to see convictions and prison sentences in the US.
Any country that can not take a little criticism of their youth really needs to take a hard look at themselves. The only way to change bad things is to first admit they are happening.
Considering that majority of the people who have read or re-tweeted the post are from Europe or North America it would follow that the majority of outrage would also come from Europe or North America.
I would consider myself a member of at least five different tribes. While there is overlap between these tribes the overlap is nowhere near complete. For example I am a crafter and a gamer. While there are many gamers who are also crafters there are at least as many who are not.
How do you opt out of the benefits of the Clean Air Act? The act regulates emissions into the atmosphere and if you are still breathing in the US you are benefiting from the act. (If you are in another country there is probably another law similar to the CAA). OF how about the FDA which protects you from harmful medications.
Draper's slipshod plan would actually be a step towards that goal—and towards a government that ceases to favor the concerns of rural voters over the urban ones.
There is already an entity that does the exact opposite of that; The House. The House is proportionally represented and the concerns of urban voters override the concerns of rural voters. By having two separate bodies with sometime conflicting goals they are forced to compromise. If both bodies had the same voting base then they would be exactly the same so why have two bodies.
I took that test and see a major flaw in it. Mainly that the questions ate much too broad. For example "Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet." For the most part I agree except that there are certain kinds of speech that the government should censor; hate speech, slander, incitement to violence, etc. Does "End government barriers to international free trade." mean that other countries can dump product on us until our industry is driven out of business and then jack up prices? "Replace government welfare with private charity." it would be nice if people were charitable enough to actively do that but in reality they are not. "Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more." That sounds like a nice number but it is unrealistic considering the services the government supplies.
You brought up the main problem with the Libertarian philosophy; reality. While the tenants sound good they do not work well in reality.
Do we really need a national agency to monitor local cable TV rates?
Yes, without such regulation there would be a great disparity in rates in different areas to the point that few people in rural areas could afford TV. By setting rates thaty allow easily serviced areas to subsidize areas where service is difficult.
Should it be a government function to support the arts?
Yes, art along with pure science and sport are part of the culture of a nation. Having it around is important to the wellness of the people.
I see taxes as a bundle purchase of all the services provided by governments. While I don't agree with the way everything is spent I have control by voting different parties into office. The libertarian view seems to be that they want an a la carte menu where they can select exactly what they want to pay for. Such a menu would have tens of thousands of options and be unworkable. It would also assume that everyone would have the time and intelligence to accurately gauge the value of each and every option. You might be able to do it but many other can not. The main thing about an individually controlled payment scheme is that budgets are not stable or predictable. They can vary greatly and it is extremely difficult to provide services with such uncertainty. Sorry but for me reality trumps idealism every time.
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Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years
Kinda like "I will win the lottery".
How do these blatant PR articles get posted anyway. Lets stop giving any credence to this scam.
The problem with dinner conversations is that there are usually a number of them going on at one time. A computer has enough trouble following one voice let alone multiple voices at the same time.
With Software Engineering courses more prevalent so is testing. What is a much bigger problem is coder schools who teach languages but not methods.
Has testing degraded so far that people don't now what a bounds test is?
There are eight tets to pass to Since the name is the only thing displayed after an account is deactivated the posts it fails the first test
2) Edit your age down to below 13 years old. This may kick in automatic account privacy settings.
Some sites won't allow you to do that.
3) If none of this works, then look at the TOS and find things that they don't want you to do. (ie, Wikipedia freaks out if you mention suing them on any forum. A TOS might make it a violation to badmouth the parent company, or to solicit other users. You might think of creating a couple of throwaway accounts, and getting into a royal flamewar with your invisible clones. Call them really bad names. Threaten to sue them.)
All the site will do is disable the account, delete the bad posts through the normal moderation process and keep the good posts. You will be no further ahead.
There are many comments about the ownership of the posts and how if the poster owned the posts he should be able to delete them. I have a different view.
From the Nextdoor Member Agreement:
Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.
Notice they say rights. The poster owns the posts in that the poster is responsible for the content and the site can not sell or copy the posts to other sites. Those are the general copyright laws. The issue comes in that by posting on the site the owner has given a copy to someone else, much like giving someone a book. The poster still owns the right to the post but not ownership of that specific copy.
This is from the Privacy Policy:
Data Modification/Deletion. You can delete your account by contacting us. Alternatively, you can delete most types of individual Content items. Deleting your account will delete all Content you provided, except that we may choose to retain Content incorporated into the neighborhood's conversations (and, as applicable, nearby neighborhoods); and we may attribute that Content to your name even after you depart. If we allow you to change neighborhoods on our site, we may retain your conversation contributions in your old neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods (and keep the attribution to your name) but allow you to move your profile to your new neighborhood. If you are the subject of an unauthorized profile, please contact us.
It looks pretty explicit that they will retain conversations.
You are a bit off on the price. This one is $17,000.
Not according to this, this or this. You are correct that there is only one coal fired plant in Hawaii, which put out 14% of the State's total electricity, but there are 17 oil fired plants. According to this 75% of production is from oil, 14% is from coal. According to this less than 0.25% comes from biofuel.
Do you have any reference to support your idea? Perhaps you should try Google and check your figures before posting.
Exactly, use the tools be they CLI or GUI to their best tasks.
This discussion seems to be about extremes. There are CLI purists who seem to look down on anyone who uses a GUI. Yes you can do everything with a CLI and you should learn how to do it. GUI's are also helpful in that they are easier to use for many things. Use each tool to their best. For example I use eclipse and eGit. For me to do a commit and push it is a click to start the commit, a few clicks to select the files to be committed and another to do the commit and push. From the command line that would be a command to stage the files and having to remember the paths and file names that changed, another to do the commit, and another to do the push. The GUI is much faster.
My comment was in response to the posters idea that anyone who uses a GUI is a "lazy, unmotivated fuck" which is patently not true. CLI's have their place as to GUI's. Use them both for what they are good for.
Most electricity in Hawaii is generated using petroleum and coal fired plants. These plants are notorious for their slow warm up and cool down. With enough solar feeding in during peak times they will produce excess heat before the rising demand when the sun goes down and to compensate for the diving demand when the sun comes up. Coal and oil plants are not light switches. So in effect enough solar panels could produce power than can't be used but still has to be purchased by the grid companies and the grid companies still have to sell power to the solar produces when they need it. The solar produces pay nothing for the power produced grid maintenance and the cost for people without solar goes up. By the way, many people live in apartments without enough roof area to power them.
the inability to use the CLI == incompetent.
So is the over reliance on a CLI. There are many things a GUI can to faster than a CLI.
Learn CLI's and use it for what it is good for but also learn GUI and use them for what they are good for.
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Don't pander to lazy, unmotivated fucks.
Is that like those "lazy, unmotivated fucks" who use an electric drill instead of a bit and brace? Or those people who drive a car instead of walk everywhere? Technology changes and calling people names does not motivate them to stay stuck in the past.
Another issue with Linux adoption is packaging and backward compatibility. I tried to install an older version of Capistrano (the current version is not backward compatible and I didn't want to re-write the scripts) under CYGWIN. It would not work with the newest version of Ruby because Ruby is not backward compatible (the compatibility issue) and I couldn't find a older ruby binary for CYGWIN. Sure I could have compiled it but I just want to use it not be a Ruby developer. If you are not using the latest version there are too many dependency and compatibility issues.
The other issue is that command line requires remembering a lot of esoteric commands. I would rather concentrate on creating software than remembering the difference between "git -push" and "git -commit". Also, since I use Eclipse it is an extra step to get out of eclipse to go to a command line and enter a command rather than just click a few times. If I am in a GUI I want to stay in it.
To those who say "You can do everything you want on command line" I say "You dig a canal with a teaspoon too but I wouldn't want to do that either". Command line has it's place for some things and GUIs others.
From this article:
The researchers published a study a few months before the earthquake, describing the particular locked patch with the clearest potential for the next large earthquake in the region. The team projected the total amount of energy that could have developed across that region and forecasted that if the locking remained similar since the last major earthquake in 1950, then there is presently enough energy for an earthquake on the order of magnitude 7.8 there.
Because of limits in technology and scientific understanding about processes controlling fault locking and release, scientists cannot say much about precisely where or when earthquakes will occur. However, earthquakes in Nicoya have occurred about every 50 years, so seismologists had been anticipating another one around 2000, give or take 20 years, Newman said. The earthquake occurred in September of 2012 as a magnitude 7.6 quake.
I don't see any reference to "imminent".
A couple of days of school says "you might want to think about that" while 8 months in prison says "we will ruin your life".
There is a major difference between a couple of days off school and 8 months in prison and a permanent criminal record. Yes there have been some questionable arrests but I have yet to see convictions and prison sentences in the US.
Any country that can not take a little criticism of their youth really needs to take a hard look at themselves. The only way to change bad things is to first admit they are happening.
Considering that majority of the people who have read or re-tweeted the post are from Europe or North America it would follow that the majority of outrage would also come from Europe or North America.
I would consider myself a member of at least five different tribes. While there is overlap between these tribes the overlap is nowhere near complete. For example I am a crafter and a gamer. While there are many gamers who are also crafters there are at least as many who are not.
How do you opt out of the benefits of the Clean Air Act? The act regulates emissions into the atmosphere and if you are still breathing in the US you are benefiting from the act. (If you are in another country there is probably another law similar to the CAA). OF how about the FDA which protects you from harmful medications.
Draper's slipshod plan would actually be a step towards that goal—and towards a government that ceases to favor the concerns of rural voters over the urban ones.
There is already an entity that does the exact opposite of that; The House. The House is proportionally represented and the concerns of urban voters override the concerns of rural voters. By having two separate bodies with sometime conflicting goals they are forced to compromise. If both bodies had the same voting base then they would be exactly the same so why have two bodies.
I took that test and see a major flaw in it. Mainly that the questions ate much too broad. For example "Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet." For the most part I agree except that there are certain kinds of speech that the government should censor; hate speech, slander, incitement to violence, etc. Does "End government barriers to international free trade." mean that other countries can dump product on us until our industry is driven out of business and then jack up prices? "Replace government welfare with private charity." it would be nice if people were charitable enough to actively do that but in reality they are not. "Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more." That sounds like a nice number but it is unrealistic considering the services the government supplies.
You brought up the main problem with the Libertarian philosophy; reality. While the tenants sound good they do not work well in reality.
Do we really need a national agency to monitor local cable TV rates?
Yes, without such regulation there would be a great disparity in rates in different areas to the point that few people in rural areas could afford TV. By setting rates thaty allow easily serviced areas to subsidize areas where service is difficult.
Should it be a government function to support the arts?
Yes, art along with pure science and sport are part of the culture of a nation. Having it around is important to the wellness of the people.
I see taxes as a bundle purchase of all the services provided by governments. While I don't agree with the way everything is spent I have control by voting different parties into office. The libertarian view seems to be that they want an a la carte menu where they can select exactly what they want to pay for. Such a menu would have tens of thousands of options and be unworkable. It would also assume that everyone would have the time and intelligence to accurately gauge the value of each and every option. You might be able to do it but many other can not. The main thing about an individually controlled payment scheme is that budgets are not stable or predictable. They can vary greatly and it is extremely difficult to provide services with such uncertainty. Sorry but for me reality trumps idealism every time.