It's a climate story. Just sit back, pass the popcorn and enjoy the rants from both sides.
I decided a long time ago to not get involved anymore. I have no kids and the world, even according to the worst predictions, will last longer than me. So why bother caring?
Sure, it's also noteworthy though that the basic idea behind our "month" (along with its name) comes from the moon and its 27.something day phase cycle. Maybe that's the thing we should remember when it comes to "blue moons", that the sun and the moon cycles don't fit nicely into each other and that by padding months to fit the sun cycle and putting the lunar cycles on a back burner, we pretty much made the transition from a hunter society that depends on moonlight to see something during a hunt, to an agrarian society that depends on an annual cycle for sowing and reaping.
You don't need elite, top of the line hacking abilities. Yes, if you want to break into high security areas where you're facing policies that Put the C of the CIA triad (read the link before you post conspiracy bullshit, please) before the A, then yes, Otherwise you're facing the same problem the average malware jockey faces: If you don't want a specific targets, there's plenty of easy ones.
Take a look at the OWASP Top 10. These are the 10 security issues that are considered the most critical and most common out in the field. Take a look at the 2017 edition, then 2014, then 2010. Notice something? They barely change. And believe it or not, the number 1, top level security issue has not changed since 2003.
If companies considered security at least a tertiary priority, do you think the most critical, most widespread and most common security issue would still be an issue? Or at least still be number 1?
No, but it's interesting to note that this year we have actually two "blue moons". Because there's no full moons in February, there will be two in March again.
And no, it still has no astronomical relevance. It's just a funny coincidence. And something to talk about at parties, maybe even something to pick up the chick with the healing crystal around her neck who tried to engage you in a discussion about the veracity of Daeniken's books.
The "once in 150 years" applies to the coincidence of both things, a "blue moon" and an eclipse. And that can by the very nature of an eclipse only happen on a full moon.
Of course this ain't real. It's one of those reality soaps. The production value is pretty good, though, and they try to pass it off as real, but let's be honest, who writes those unbelievable scripts?
The usenet still exists exactly because the masses never caught on. If you could reach a sensible amount of people with it, that thing would be outlawed so fast...
How about giving people no reason to become extremists? How about giving people a reason to live instead of making them susceptible to promises of a great afterlife because they notice that they can't get anywhere in this life because everywhere they look they see a dead end?
No, that's unpossible, right? That would cut into the bottom line of the people paying you, you old ho!
There has never been a shortage of jobs that pay crap and demand a lot.
The kind of people in short supply is programmers with 20 years of experience in a technology that existed for 10 years working for 30k a year. That's something you'll be looking for for a long, long time.
The superlative is meaningless if what you compare it to is nothing to compare with. The GDR was also the most productive country of the East Bloc. Compared to a real economy, though...
In other words, just because they were the "best" movies of the year doesn't mean that they performed well. Or, rather, that really good movies could have made them look pale in comparison. What you would have to compare them to is the revenue of movies that sold well in good years.
Maybe the list can shed some light onto the problem. So we have:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Thor: Ragnarok Beauty and the Beast Justice League Logan Wonder Woman Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Spider-Man: Homecoming King Arthur: Legend of the Sword The Fate of the Furious Dunkirk Kong: Skull Island Kingsman: The Golden Circle Transformers: The Last Knight Power Rangers...
And so on. Can you spot a theme here? Sequels, Prequels, new installations of a series, reboots... and to the cherry on top of the shitcake is that the movie about King Arthur is the one with the most original, non-derivative script.
Then it's time to take a step back and reevaluate your system.
Authority is simply nothing to base a qualified opinion on. Never has been, never will be. "Because I say so" has never been a sensible way to explain anything.
The roof works fine, it's the damn snow that's the problem.
Maybe write into the specs that the roof cannot be used to keep snow away. While you're at it, just to be safe, write it for water in general. Or hail. Or anything else that might fall from the sky.
Slashdot Mirror
And still we pray to him 2000 years later.
All you really need is a good PR machine, reality or truth are secondary.
It's a climate story. Just sit back, pass the popcorn and enjoy the rants from both sides.
I decided a long time ago to not get involved anymore. I have no kids and the world, even according to the worst predictions, will last longer than me. So why bother caring?
Sure, it's also noteworthy though that the basic idea behind our "month" (along with its name) comes from the moon and its 27.something day phase cycle. Maybe that's the thing we should remember when it comes to "blue moons", that the sun and the moon cycles don't fit nicely into each other and that by padding months to fit the sun cycle and putting the lunar cycles on a back burner, we pretty much made the transition from a hunter society that depends on moonlight to see something during a hunt, to an agrarian society that depends on an annual cycle for sowing and reaping.
You don't need elite, top of the line hacking abilities. Yes, if you want to break into high security areas where you're facing policies that Put the C of the CIA triad (read the link before you post conspiracy bullshit, please) before the A, then yes, Otherwise you're facing the same problem the average malware jockey faces: If you don't want a specific targets, there's plenty of easy ones.
Take a look at the OWASP Top 10. These are the 10 security issues that are considered the most critical and most common out in the field. Take a look at the 2017 edition, then 2014, then 2010. Notice something? They barely change. And believe it or not, the number 1, top level security issue has not changed since 2003.
If companies considered security at least a tertiary priority, do you think the most critical, most widespread and most common security issue would still be an issue? Or at least still be number 1?
No, but it's interesting to note that this year we have actually two "blue moons". Because there's no full moons in February, there will be two in March again.
And no, it still has no astronomical relevance. It's just a funny coincidence. And something to talk about at parties, maybe even something to pick up the chick with the healing crystal around her neck who tried to engage you in a discussion about the veracity of Daeniken's books.
Oh my god! My son's a Furry!
Please, please tell me you were just looking for BDSM porn, son!
The "once in 150 years" applies to the coincidence of both things, a "blue moon" and an eclipse. And that can by the very nature of an eclipse only happen on a full moon.
Of course this ain't real. It's one of those reality soaps. The production value is pretty good, though, and they try to pass it off as real, but let's be honest, who writes those unbelievable scripts?
Duuuuuude, the smoke, the SMOKE....
Anyone else havin' the munchies?
You can either recycle it ... or put it somewhere. And Africa is big.
aka "if you don't know a sucker to take your fall, you're someone else's".
So? Like it mattered anymore.
Quite seriously, if you put a gun to someone's head last year and said "Hillary or Trump?" he'd probably have said "Oh just shoot already".
The only defense against this would be to give people the ability to think critically and detect bullshit if they're told some.
But what politician would want their subjects to be able to tell when they're being fed bullshit?
The usenet still exists exactly because the masses never caught on. If you could reach a sensible amount of people with it, that thing would be outlawed so fast...
How about giving people no reason to become extremists? How about giving people a reason to live instead of making them susceptible to promises of a great afterlife because they notice that they can't get anywhere in this life because everywhere they look they see a dead end?
No, that's unpossible, right? That would cut into the bottom line of the people paying you, you old ho!
There has never been a shortage of jobs that pay crap and demand a lot.
The kind of people in short supply is programmers with 20 years of experience in a technology that existed for 10 years working for 30k a year. That's something you'll be looking for for a long, long time.
The economy in China is doing great, too. Try discussing this with some of the sweatshop workers and tell them how good they got it.
So ... splice together a few YouTube Videos of demolitions and you have the next blockbuster.
The superlative is meaningless if what you compare it to is nothing to compare with. The GDR was also the most productive country of the East Bloc. Compared to a real economy, though...
In other words, just because they were the "best" movies of the year doesn't mean that they performed well. Or, rather, that really good movies could have made them look pale in comparison. What you would have to compare them to is the revenue of movies that sold well in good years.
Maybe the list can shed some light onto the problem. So we have:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ...
Thor: Ragnarok
Beauty and the Beast
Justice League
Logan
Wonder Woman
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Spider-Man: Homecoming
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The Fate of the Furious
Dunkirk
Kong: Skull Island
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Transformers: The Last Knight
Power Rangers
And so on. Can you spot a theme here? Sequels, Prequels, new installations of a series, reboots... and to the cherry on top of the shitcake is that the movie about King Arthur is the one with the most original, non-derivative script.
Well, being a record low year would suggest that superhero movies are exactly NOT popular...
Then it's time to take a step back and reevaluate your system.
Authority is simply nothing to base a qualified opinion on. Never has been, never will be. "Because I say so" has never been a sensible way to explain anything.
The language nazi in me can stay quiet and not go into an "It's Autumn, idiots!" rant.
Personally I'd have called it the "Crash Update", but Fall Update is close enough.
No problem. I'll have that certificate printed in no time.
The roof works fine, it's the damn snow that's the problem.
Maybe write into the specs that the roof cannot be used to keep snow away. While you're at it, just to be safe, write it for water in general. Or hail. Or anything else that might fall from the sky.