If I don't burn fossil fuels acquire a book made of murdered trees processed with toxic chemicals, and instead transfer some bytes down a wire, I'm a bad American?
Or are you advocating for recruiters to break the law?
Yes, in cases such as you cited, I am. The recruiter or employer should have balls enough to say something like "The very best you're going to get out of this process is a rejection letter, so now that you are fully informed you can make your own decision." Anything less is pure chickenshit.
We should treat these transactions with respect when we are not being respected by our opposites? Fuck that.
It's just been routine in the last decade or so, as I understand it, for employers to say things like "If you don't hear from us you didn't get the job." Or for recruiters to post jobs that aren't available, or to interview folks just so they could say that they did so before promoting internally.
Me pointing out that you haven't provided any rational reason for disliking the guy is not an ad hominem.
Uh...
What I don't get is all the idiots...
an innate desire to despise anyone who is doing well
on completely superficial grounds
some weird caricature
a half-hearted attempt at amateur pyschoanalysis
I'd attempted to explain why "all the idiots" think poorly of Musk. You made it about me rather than explaining why his behavior does not deserve to be characterized as that of a narcissistic punk. Unnamed tens of saboteurs are responsible for his company failing to meet unrealistic production targets. A man who pointed out that underwater caves are not swimming pools is a "pedo guy". He's like Trump: He just says shit and expects the rest of us to be blind to how ludicrous that shit is. Narcissism exemplified.
What I don't get is all the idiots who absolutely hate his guts. I mean, I understand that some humans have an innate desire to despise anyone who is doing well... but I don't understand WHY that desire exists.
Your framing of the phenomenon might have something to do with your inability to understand it.
I don't personally know anyone who hates the punk, but I do know a lot of people who think poorly of him because he's a narcissistic man-child who tries to portray the selfish pursuit of his lunatic Richie Rich fantasies as some kind of grand and heroic vision. It's not. It's narcissism exemplified.
If I'm an idiot for possessing the ability to perceive reality accurately, so be it. Title accepted, with pride.
The Comsats going to geosynchronous orbit have end-of-life disposal processes to put them into graveyard orbits where they won't cause any trouble.
"... except to wait on gravity to do it's thing", I seem to recall writing. The graveyard orbit is a can kicked down the road that's going to land on our descendants' heads.
It's a service to the world that the world can now add even more crap to the orbital junkyard without any plan to clean it up except to wait on gravity to do its thing?
I've often wondered that very thing. Way back when the One-Click patent was issued, slashdorks were enraged by it. Now... say something less than glowing about scAmazon or the Elongated Muskrat, and your/. karma takes a big hit.
I've unwittingly given money to Bozo twice via eBay resellers. Otherwise, none.
I'd expect that history books about computing would more than passingly mention the internet, where Linux and BSD have always run the majority of servers.
What failed in Eastern Europe was not communism at all, and wasn't socialism, either. It was state, rather than private, capitalism. None of the states of Eastern Europe even claimed to be communist -- the one attempt at it, the Makhnovschina which occurred in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, was crushed by the Red Army.
The fact that we're bankrupting and sacrificing ourselves with illegal, immoral wars to prop up Nixon's petrodollar while allowing our social institutions and infrastructure to decay is very relevant to the discussion. The fact that this grotesque irresponsibility is the driver of capitalism's collapse and American social decay is very, very relevant. Personally, I consider these to be the most relevant aspects of the discussion.
I would be ashamed of myself were I one given more to reaction than reflection.
His warning, while true, was as it would be were Trump to declare that pathological narcissism is a threat to democracy. Eisenhower was the chief promoter of the military-industrial complex.
Be of good cheer, the military-industrial state will soon collapse. Meanwhile, we must do all in our power to oppose, resist, and subvert its desperate aggrandizements. As a matter of course. As a matter of honor.
-- Edward Abbey, _Down The River_
We had a shared television, one of the first color models on the block. When the parents wanted the channel changed or the volume adjusted they called out "Hey boy! Channel Two!", usually followed by "You make a better door than a window. Move your ass!"
On the up side, I learned to work the tube tester at the drug store and went on to have a career in electronics before it got moved to Taiwan.
At least, that's what mommy told me when I lost my virginity.
But, seriously: If peace through military superiority were a real thing, the deployment of USA's military around the globe would have brought us world peace by now. Some days I envy my parents for having done as they said they would: dying before the shit got really bad.
The change is more along the lines of, "we are no longer emphasizing when a site is secure, we are emphasizing when it is NOT secure."
Those who are accustomed to looking for the word "Secure" because thousands of web pages told them to are going to be astonished by this change. Emphasize both conditions and the typical user will make the wise choice.
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This could only be more ironic if it were Yayhoo doing it.
If I don't burn fossil fuels acquire a book made of murdered trees processed with toxic chemicals, and instead transfer some bytes down a wire, I'm a bad American?
Yeah, right.
Or are you advocating for recruiters to break the law?
Yes, in cases such as you cited, I am. The recruiter or employer should have balls enough to say something like "The very best you're going to get out of this process is a rejection letter, so now that you are fully informed you can make your own decision." Anything less is pure chickenshit.
We should treat these transactions with respect when we are not being respected by our opposites? Fuck that.
It's just been routine in the last decade or so, as I understand it, for employers to say things like "If you don't hear from us you didn't get the job." Or for recruiters to post jobs that aren't available, or to interview folks just so they could say that they did so before promoting internally.
Folks learn the rules of the game by playing it.
Me pointing out that you haven't provided any rational reason for disliking the guy is not an ad hominem.
Uh...
What I don't get is all the idiots...
an innate desire to despise anyone who is doing well
on completely superficial grounds
some weird caricature
a half-hearted attempt at amateur pyschoanalysis
I'd attempted to explain why "all the idiots" think poorly of Musk. You made it about me rather than explaining why his behavior does not deserve to be characterized as that of a narcissistic punk. Unnamed tens of saboteurs are responsible for his company failing to meet unrealistic production targets. A man who pointed out that underwater caves are not swimming pools is a "pedo guy". He's like Trump: He just says shit and expects the rest of us to be blind to how ludicrous that shit is. Narcissism exemplified.
HTH. HAND.
I think you have cause and effect reversed; my inability to understand it is much more likely to drive my framing of it than vice versa.
No disrespect intended: Haven't you just said that you cannot understand the phenomenon of disrespect for Musk, therefor it must be irrational?
I'll not defend myself against an ad hominem argument. The discussion is about Musk, not me.
What I don't get is all the idiots who absolutely hate his guts. I mean, I understand that some humans have an innate desire to despise anyone who is doing well ... but I don't understand WHY that desire exists.
Your framing of the phenomenon might have something to do with your inability to understand it.
I don't personally know anyone who hates the punk, but I do know a lot of people who think poorly of him because he's a narcissistic man-child who tries to portray the selfish pursuit of his lunatic Richie Rich fantasies as some kind of grand and heroic vision. It's not. It's narcissism exemplified.
If I'm an idiot for possessing the ability to perceive reality accurately, so be it. Title accepted, with pride.
The Comsats going to geosynchronous orbit have end-of-life disposal processes to put them into graveyard orbits where they won't cause any trouble.
"... except to wait on gravity to do it's thing", I seem to recall writing. The graveyard orbit is a can kicked down the road that's going to land on our descendants' heads.
It's a service to the world that the world can now add even more crap to the orbital junkyard without any plan to clean it up except to wait on gravity to do its thing?
ask your nerd god why can't he manage
Money != brains. If you can't get rich by running an unregulated bank, one of your parents was not a primate.
I've often wondered that very thing. Way back when the One-Click patent was issued, slashdorks were enraged by it. Now... say something less than glowing about scAmazon or the Elongated Muskrat, and your /. karma takes a big hit.
I've unwittingly given money to Bozo twice via eBay resellers. Otherwise, none.
I'd expect that history books about computing would more than passingly mention the internet, where Linux and BSD have always run the majority of servers.
Once upon a time my wife hated it when I downloaded five floppies worth of Debian over a 28.8kbps dialup using the only telephone line we had.
22 years later, Debian is still here but that wife is not. :-)
What failed in Eastern Europe was not communism at all, and wasn't socialism, either. It was state, rather than private, capitalism. None of the states of Eastern Europe even claimed to be communist -- the one attempt at it, the Makhnovschina which occurred in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, was crushed by the Red Army.
The fact that we're bankrupting and sacrificing ourselves with illegal, immoral wars to prop up Nixon's petrodollar while allowing our social institutions and infrastructure to decay is very relevant to the discussion. The fact that this grotesque irresponsibility is the driver of capitalism's collapse and American social decay is very, very relevant. Personally, I consider these to be the most relevant aspects of the discussion.
I would be ashamed of myself were I one given more to reaction than reflection.
His warning, while true, was as it would be were Trump to declare that pathological narcissism is a threat to democracy. Eisenhower was the chief promoter of the military-industrial complex.
Be of good cheer, the military-industrial state will soon collapse.
Meanwhile, we must do all in our power to oppose, resist, and subvert
its desperate aggrandizements. As a matter of course. As a matter of
honor.
-- Edward Abbey, _Down The River_
I don't recall ever meeting a ham named Norma, but there are enough amateur radio operators that there probably is one. Or several.
This, coincident with a $717B Defense Authorization?
We need to have a very serious conversation with the god who blessed America. Fucker's high on something.
We had a shared television, one of the first color models on the block. When the parents wanted the channel changed or the volume adjusted they called out "Hey boy! Channel Two!", usually followed by "You make a better door than a window. Move your ass!"
On the up side, I learned to work the tube tester at the drug store and went on to have a career in electronics before it got moved to Taiwan.
... it will be over soon.
At least, that's what mommy told me when I lost my virginity.
But, seriously: If peace through military superiority were a real thing, the deployment of USA's military around the globe would have brought us world peace by now. Some days I envy my parents for having done as they said they would: dying before the shit got really bad.
Our modern society cannot emphasize anything but the individual because capitalism makes losers of those who try to focus upon community.
Making America a Giant Asshole, one billionaire at a time...
...because we'd have a government that represented the citizens again.
There is no again. It would be a historic first.
The change is more along the lines of, "we are no longer emphasizing when a site is secure, we are emphasizing when it is NOT secure."
Those who are accustomed to looking for the word "Secure" because thousands of web pages told them to are going to be astonished by this change. Emphasize both conditions and the typical user will make the wise choice.
What? Did your analogy not got the way you wanted it to?
What? Does conceptual thinking evade you?