This guy was not another Emperor Norton. Even before he declared himself the sovereign of an abandoned radar platform, he was involved in activities (unauthorized radio stations, gambling) that he conducted offshore in an attempt to put himself outside UK law. Basically, the dude was a small-time criminal with a particularly creative lawyer.
A lot of dumb people who are into silly "antigovernment" movements think the Prince of Platform #2 was a hero because his legal gimmick vaguely resembled a seastead, an offshore settlement a lot of libertarian visionaries advocate. That's doubly stupid, since "Sealand" never had any actual settlers and because the idea of seasteading itself is just plain hilarious.
The irony is that two groups, both with the same stated goal (helping children's development) come to opposite conclusions.
You mean like Romney and Obama on the economy?
Yes, but I can declare pickles on hamburgers to be bad for you without giving any valid reasons.
Reasons were given on the TV issue. You've simply found it easier to ignore them. Instead you keep repeating "too much of anything is bad for you" which is perfectly true — and utterly irrelevant.
Sounds like you don't know what Baby Einstein is and didn't bother to look it up before commenting on it.
Wrong. How one could possibly avoid knowing about this shit?
So the irony is that one group is claiming that watching more TV is good for you, and another claiming the opposite. That's the irony.
What? It's ironic because there's a difference of opinion? The argument you and I are having is ironic? The fact that everybody but me thinks that Jessica Alba can act is ironic? Sounds like you don't know what irony is and didn't bother to look it up before commenting on it.
They gave a long list of reasons they don't like it, but gave a total of zero reasons for why it is bad.
Your logic is not our earth logic. On this planet, people don't like things they consider bad, and do like things they consider good. How is it on your planet?
The real consequence of those "Baby Einstein" tapes now becomes clear.
Huh? Is that sarcasm? Or what? You seem to be assuming that there's some ironical fact that obvious to everybody, but it ain't obvious to me
I also don't see television as something inherently bad for kids.
Well, TFA gives several reasons why developmental psychologists think it is. Care to share why you think they're wrong, or is this just more obvious stuff everybody's supposed to know?
But too much of anything is often poisonous. Television takes up time that could better be spent running around playing tag or...
OK, I'm sure we can all agree that too much of a good thing is a bad thing. That doesn't change the act that very little of a bad thing is a bad thing.
That's fine, as long as you don't care whether your data is still there when you need to restore it. These guys are cheap because they're bucking the trend toward cloud storage for big data. Instead they're building their own "pods". Anybody who's doing manufacturing on that kind of scale needs to be a lot better at supply chain manageent. If they screw up something so central to their business model, what else might they screw up? How much redundancy do they offer? How glitchy are these home-brew NAS devices? What are the bandwidth caps?
It's because the rate of suicide is low enough to be carried by the gene pool--it's not high enough to threaten the population as a whole.
Dude, evolution is something that happens to the populatin as a whole. If suicide doesn't have any effect on the gene pool, then there's no evolution going on.
Personally I think you're over-philosophizing this.
I'm not philosophizing at all. I'm pointing out your poor understanding of how evolution works.
I don't code for a living, but if I wanted a better language for the JVM, I'd go with something that has more mindshare, like Scala. Groovy has appealing features, but I get the impression that it's failed to develop a serious ecosystem.
I agree with you, only more broadly. I'm a college dropout who started working as a tech writer (I can read code, but suck at actual programming; this is actually a positive combination) back when tech companies looked at skills and track record, not degrees. Nowadays, I can still find work, but I've learned to not bother submitting for jobs at most big companies, because their HR gatekeepers filter out resumes like mine.
This is a minor aspect of a much bigger problem: hiring has become so bureaucratized and automated that most people are excluded from the process out of hand. Fascination with academic credentials is part of it (don't apply for any kind of CS-releated job at Google unless you have a Masters; a PhD is better) but the big problem is that filters for background and buzzword compliance and other such trivia exclude so many people that some jobs actually go unfilled for lack of "qualified" candidates. This is the sort of nonsense that has destroyed the American lead in technology.
Like when you get a rounding error after adding 0.01 to a value. Were you aware that primitive data types are almost always stored as binary numbers, not decimal? Guess not.
Once upon a time, processors were hard-wired to support binary-coded decimal. Even the ultra-primitive 6502 had this feature. Pity it went away.
Oh lord. Are you unaware that there is no binary floating point representation for 0.01? Guess so. Given your issues with written English, I guess I'm not suprised.
Tagental topic: this kind of ignorance would matter a lot less if programming languages still had currency data types. PL/1 even had a pre-decimal (20 shillings to the pound, 12 pennies to the shilling) British Pound data type. It's often bothered me that common languages don't even have arbitrary precision arithmetic, which is overkill for currency representation, but a lot easier to work with than primitive integers. Java, irritatingly, has a robust big decimal class, but refuses to implement operator overloading, so that price + price * salesTaxRate becomes price.add(price.multiply(salesTaxRate)).
And I've seen guys with Master's degrees in CS and systems science using floats for currency calculations.
Ha! You know the kind of technophobe who lacks any kind of curiousity about the technology they work with, and refuses to advance their IT skills beyond the bare miminum they need to do their job? The worst one I ever worked with a Ph fucking D in Computer Science!
I've often regretted that I didn't finish college and that I didn't make more of college when I was there. But when I work with people who've gone to Ivy League schools (and presumably studied under the kind of teachers I'd kill to spend a few hours with) and yet show considerable ignorance and lack of curiousity not just of technology but about every other subject, and whose thinking skills barely extend beyond rote regurgitation, I want to scream.
Actually, that's just one of many churchs eastern churches that have papal issues. But most American Christians are Protestants, and thus care more about Martin Luther and John Calvin than about whether you should use leavened flour to make sacramental wafers.
I'm not a Christian myself, but I see Christianity as a key part of western history. It bugs me how ignorant many Americans (like TPP) are on the subject.
I graduated from HS in 1971. In those ancient times, most people knew computers as big machines with lots of blinking lights that were subject to paranoia and megalomania. So no high-school classes in computing!
IPv6 is already deployed. Its on my Windows laptop (and has been for a couple years) and is supported by my ISP. But knowledge of IPv6 doesn't become essential until substatnial bits of the Intertubes stop using IPv4. That might well be more than 4 years away.
And even when that happens, it might well make sense for an introductory course to concentrate on a more simple model that beginners can more easily understand. I have a friend who teaches introductory assembly language as a way of helping CC students understand computer fundamentals. Does he teach the latest x64 processors? No, he teachs a processor that's much easier to understand, the venerable 6502.
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Can you read? I was criticizing their inept parts procurement, not the mere fact that they build stuff.
This guy was not another Emperor Norton. Even before he declared himself the sovereign of an abandoned radar platform, he was involved in activities (unauthorized radio stations, gambling) that he conducted offshore in an attempt to put himself outside UK law. Basically, the dude was a small-time criminal with a particularly creative lawyer.
A lot of dumb people who are into silly "antigovernment" movements think the Prince of Platform #2 was a hero because his legal gimmick vaguely resembled a seastead, an offshore settlement a lot of libertarian visionaries advocate. That's doubly stupid, since "Sealand" never had any actual settlers and because the idea of seasteading itself is just plain hilarious.
You mean its royal family. Sealand doesn't have any citizens.
I myself am the Earl of Buckman. I haven't gotten round to dreaming a BS legal theory to justify this title, but does that really matter?
And then there's the well-known Duke of Santa Monica? Never heard of him? Really? Surely you've heard of the Santa Monica Peer!
The irony is that two groups, both with the same stated goal (helping children's development) come to opposite conclusions.
You mean like Romney and Obama on the economy?
Yes, but I can declare pickles on hamburgers to be bad for you without giving any valid reasons.
Reasons were given on the TV issue. You've simply found it easier to ignore them. Instead you keep repeating "too much of anything is bad for you" which is perfectly true — and utterly irrelevant.
Sounds like you don't know what Baby Einstein is and didn't bother to look it up before commenting on it.
Wrong. How one could possibly avoid knowing about this shit?
So the irony is that one group is claiming that watching more TV is good for you, and another claiming the opposite. That's the irony.
What? It's ironic because there's a difference of opinion? The argument you and I are having is ironic? The fact that everybody but me thinks that Jessica Alba can act is ironic? Sounds like you don't know what irony is and didn't bother to look it up before commenting on it.
They gave a long list of reasons they don't like it, but gave a total of zero reasons for why it is bad.
Your logic is not our earth logic. On this planet, people don't like things they consider bad, and do like things they consider good. How is it on your planet?
How did they screw up? Are you kidding? You manufacture something and don't find a reliable source for parts?
The real consequence of those "Baby Einstein" tapes now becomes clear.
Huh? Is that sarcasm? Or what? You seem to be assuming that there's some ironical fact that obvious to everybody, but it ain't obvious to me
I also don't see television as something inherently bad for kids.
Well, TFA gives several reasons why developmental psychologists think it is. Care to share why you think they're wrong, or is this just more obvious stuff everybody's supposed to know?
But too much of anything is often poisonous. Television takes up time that could better be spent running around playing tag or...
OK, I'm sure we can all agree that too much of a good thing is a bad thing. That doesn't change the act that very little of a bad thing is a bad thing.
So you get a fire/flood resistant NAS or drive:
http://www.hddfiresafe.com/
BTW, the Backblaze data center is pretty close to the San Andreas fault..
Website says that $5 with discounts for paying in advance. Though I'm sure you're right about bandwidth limitations.
That's fine, as long as you don't care whether your data is still there when you need to restore it. These guys are cheap because they're bucking the trend toward cloud storage for big data. Instead they're building their own "pods". Anybody who's doing manufacturing on that kind of scale needs to be a lot better at supply chain manageent. If they screw up something so central to their business model, what else might they screw up? How much redundancy do they offer? How glitchy are these home-brew NAS devices? What are the bandwidth caps?
It's because the rate of suicide is low enough to be carried by the gene pool--it's not high enough to threaten the population as a whole.
Dude, evolution is something that happens to the populatin as a whole. If suicide doesn't have any effect on the gene pool, then there's no evolution going on.
Personally I think you're over-philosophizing this.
I'm not philosophizing at all. I'm pointing out your poor understanding of how evolution works.
I don't code for a living, but if I wanted a better language for the JVM, I'd go with something that has more mindshare, like Scala. Groovy has appealing features, but I get the impression that it's failed to develop a serious ecosystem.
I agree with you, only more broadly. I'm a college dropout who started working as a tech writer (I can read code, but suck at actual programming; this is actually a positive combination) back when tech companies looked at skills and track record, not degrees. Nowadays, I can still find work, but I've learned to not bother submitting for jobs at most big companies, because their HR gatekeepers filter out resumes like mine.
This is a minor aspect of a much bigger problem: hiring has become so bureaucratized and automated that most people are excluded from the process out of hand. Fascination with academic credentials is part of it (don't apply for any kind of CS-releated job at Google unless you have a Masters; a PhD is better) but the big problem is that filters for background and buzzword compliance and other such trivia exclude so many people that some jobs actually go unfilled for lack of "qualified" candidates. This is the sort of nonsense that has destroyed the American lead in technology.
It's true you can have pathological cases,
Like when you get a rounding error after adding 0.01 to a value. Were you aware that primitive data types are almost always stored as binary numbers, not decimal? Guess not.
Once upon a time, processors were hard-wired to support binary-coded decimal. Even the ultra-primitive 6502 had this feature. Pity it went away.
Oh lord. Are you unaware that there is no binary floating point representation for 0.01? Guess so. Given your issues with written English, I guess I'm not suprised.
Tagental topic: this kind of ignorance would matter a lot less if programming languages still had currency data types. PL/1 even had a pre-decimal (20 shillings to the pound, 12 pennies to the shilling) British Pound data type. It's often bothered me that common languages don't even have arbitrary precision arithmetic, which is overkill for currency representation, but a lot easier to work with than primitive integers. Java, irritatingly, has a robust big decimal class, but refuses to implement operator overloading, so that price + price * salesTaxRate becomes price.add(price.multiply(salesTaxRate)).
And I've seen guys with Master's degrees in CS and systems science using floats for currency calculations.
Ha! You know the kind of technophobe who lacks any kind of curiousity about the technology they work with, and refuses to advance their IT skills beyond the bare miminum they need to do their job? The worst one I ever worked with a Ph fucking D in Computer Science!
I've often regretted that I didn't finish college and that I didn't make more of college when I was there. But when I work with people who've gone to Ivy League schools (and presumably studied under the kind of teachers I'd kill to spend a few hours with) and yet show considerable ignorance and lack of curiousity not just of technology but about every other subject, and whose thinking skills barely extend beyond rote regurgitation, I want to scream.
Actually, that's just one of many churchs eastern churches that have papal issues. But most American Christians are Protestants, and thus care more about Martin Luther and John Calvin than about whether you should use leavened flour to make sacramental wafers.
I'm not a Christian myself, but I see Christianity as a key part of western history. It bugs me how ignorant many Americans (like TPP) are on the subject.
I graduated from HS in 1971. In those ancient times, most people knew computers as big machines with lots of blinking lights that were subject to paranoia and megalomania. So no high-school classes in computing!
Stop creating kewl online courses that I just have to take faster than I have time to actually take them!
IPv6 is already deployed. Its on my Windows laptop (and has been for a couple years) and is supported by my ISP. But knowledge of IPv6 doesn't become essential until substatnial bits of the Intertubes stop using IPv4. That might well be more than 4 years away.
And even when that happens, it might well make sense for an introductory course to concentrate on a more simple model that beginners can more easily understand. I have a friend who teaches introductory assembly language as a way of helping CC students understand computer fundamentals. Does he teach the latest x64 processors? No, he teachs a processor that's much easier to understand, the venerable 6502.
If you want my hackable PC, you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!
And 1,000 years in the future!
You're more than welcome to dismiss my lengthy, well-reasoned, and far forward-looking argument, ...
Gee, you really think highly of yourself, don't you? How can I argue with such genius?
I think you're kind of missing the context here. Try reading the message I was replying to.