I remember when some fucktard in the House Judiciary Panel sent an open email to every whistleblower and Dick Cheney as was reported here on slashdot and elsewhere.
I know that every time there's an internet outage at our university it's usually a backhoe. Backhoes are the natural enemy of the Internet. Anyway, this is disturbing and fascinating at the same time. The reason why the Internet was design the way it was so that it could survive an nuclear war even if the networks became fragmented. In a way this is an interesting test of the design, but it does have disturbing overtones given that it's happening in the Middle East. That being said I think there are three possibilities as to who or what is responsible: Mossad, CIA, or underwater backhoes. Which do you think is the most plausible and least paranoid?
I think it's time to share the lyrics of "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life" by Bobby Bare or if you want listen to it here.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I've got the will, Lord if you've got the toe.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Take all the brothers who've gone on before
And all of the sisters who've knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick'em up front in the offensive line.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
If the Fuck, er, ah, Protect America Act expires, the old FISA law is still in effect. The key difference is oversight. The Democrats in the Senate will pretend to put up a brave fight then give Bush everything he wants. We got screwed when Congress rammed the PATRIOT Act I down our throats. Everything else since then has been gravy for them. Makes you wish you were a big fat corporation. After the telecoms get their immunity, other corporations will want the same deal. I hope I'm wrong. I really do.
Nope. I'm right. I know how to lie with statistics too. The methodology may be correct but it's easy enough to omit data sets so things look better than they really are. I doubt we'll see Weimar era inflation, but if that happens neither one of is going to have Internet access any more.
We'll have to agree to disagree on the inflation rate. Because everything went up a whole lot this year. I think the inflation rate is higher as is the unemployment rate than is reported. Anecdotally, the economy seems to be in the toilet awaiting the great flush.
Considering how much the dollar has dropped. Employees have already received a %15 pay cut through inflation alone. Another %15 percent cut is adding insult to injury.
I do wonder where those components were made. I wouldn't be surprised if those burning exploding items were made in China. It's not like they don't sell us poison dog food, lead coated or date rape drug toys.
There will always be open source software. It might languish during a recession, but it won't go away. And I suspect that out of work programmers will work on OSS regardless. It will show they are keeping their skills up in hopes they'll get a better paying job when the recession is over with.
Ever fill a balloon with carbon dioxide then drop it? It gives visual meaning to the phrase 'went over like a lead balloon.'
Now that would be a cool sight. Dropping C02 filled balloons at a political rally. They wouldn't float down. They'd plummet straight to the ground and wouldn't even bounce. It wouldn't look natural.
Having not read the article like most of us, I'll say that the problem is that most youth that had it good have unrealistic expectations entering the workforce. They have an entitlement mentality. They probably heard how good it was during the dot-com boom when they were kiddies but somehow thought the good times would return by the time they entered the workforce.
Older IT workers are pretty disillusioned too. I'll bet many of them if they are still in IT are making the same or less than what they were during the dot-com boom. They know the good times aren't coming back.
Don't you know that Ruby is manna from Heaven and everyone and I mean everyone should be using it. They could do an occasional foray in to C# if need be. If you must use Visual Basic never ever admit to it. Don't even get me started on FORTRAN users.
Snarkery aside (is that a word?). Use the language that you are most productive in. Use the right tool for the job. If you are simulating nuclear explosions or climate modeling then FORTRAN may be your tool. Some programmers are stuck in the.NET world and must use VB or C#. I never got my head around Java but since I'm a web developer and part-time sysadmin I'm very comfortable with Perl, PHP, and Python (my preferred language). In my CS classes I had to learn Pascal, Assembly, FORTRAN, C then C++. And I even had to roll my own mini-language using Lex and Yacc. On the job I learned Visual Basic, Objective-C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Powerbuilder.
I think a programmer should be exposed to multiple programming paradigms. You don't know what you may actually end up programming in. The big sell about Java is that it is an 'Enterprise Level Language' and is a big sell to companies. Same goes for.NET. 'Everyone' uses Microsoft so they want MS based programming systems. You just have to find your niche. My preferred language is Python because it can run in Jython so it has an in into the Java world. It can be IronPython so it has an in into the MS world. It is object oriented and much easier for me to debug than Perl. It's also easy to learn and there is a lot of crap I just don't have to worry about.`
I've been wrong almost every time in guessing how much gasoline will rise. I think the prices will depend on the political situation going into November. Did you notice how gas prices stabilized and remained relatively low during the 2006 election? I know people say the prices weren't manipulated, but it sure seemed to me the oil companies did what they could to help the Republicans win in 06. It didn't help. So unless there is some kind of major disruption I suspect we may see a repeat of the Fall 2006 pricing.
I've no doubt it'll hit $5 USD/gal at some point in the future, but I don't think it'll be 2008. Supply and availability are going to be the real determining factors. Until there are shortages and long lines people will grumble but they won't be up in arms.
I predict gasoline will eventually be sold per liter as prices go up and that car mileage will be listed in kilometers per gallon. It won't change anything but it'll be an attempt to obfuscate the real costs.
I know everyone is complaining that oil and gas is way too expensive. They are wrong. I used to think the same way. I saw a nice chart showing gasoline prices adjusted for inflation over a period of about eighty years. You know what? It really hasn't changed that much. It was still higher in 1981 than it is now. What has changed is a decrease in our earning power.
Proof that gasoline is still too cheap: I still see tons of Hummers, Expeditions, Navigators, Armadas, Sequoias and other mondo SUVs (aka Urban Assault Vehicles) on the road.
laser printers are far more cost effective than any inkjet. Even color lasers are coming down in price. Unless you do a lot of printing the cartridges will last a while.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember when some fucktard in the House Judiciary Panel sent an open email to every whistleblower and Dick Cheney as was reported here on slashdot and elsewhere.
I know that every time there's an internet outage at our university it's usually a backhoe. Backhoes are the natural enemy of the Internet. Anyway, this is disturbing and fascinating at the same time. The reason why the Internet was design the way it was so that it could survive an nuclear war even if the networks became fragmented. In a way this is an interesting test of the design, but it does have disturbing overtones given that it's happening in the Middle East. That being said I think there are three possibilities as to who or what is responsible: Mossad, CIA, or underwater backhoes. Which do you think is the most plausible and least paranoid?
why some women are frigid.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I've got the will, Lord if you've got the toe.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Take all the brothers who've gone on before
And all of the sisters who've knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick'em up front in the offensive line.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
"The spiders are on not on Mars. Get your ass over to Mercury!"
Don't taste me, bro!
If the Fuck, er, ah, Protect America Act expires, the old FISA law is still in effect. The key difference is oversight. The Democrats in the Senate will pretend to put up a brave fight then give Bush everything he wants. We got screwed when Congress rammed the PATRIOT Act I down our throats. Everything else since then has been gravy for them. Makes you wish you were a big fat corporation. After the telecoms get their immunity, other corporations will want the same deal. I hope I'm wrong. I really do.
Nope. I'm right. I know how to lie with statistics too. The methodology may be correct but it's easy enough to omit data sets so things look better than they really are. I doubt we'll see Weimar era inflation, but if that happens neither one of is going to have Internet access any more.
We'll have to agree to disagree on the inflation rate. Because everything went up a whole lot this year. I think the inflation rate is higher as is the unemployment rate than is reported. Anecdotally, the economy seems to be in the toilet awaiting the great flush.
Considering how much the dollar has dropped. Employees have already received a %15 pay cut through inflation alone. Another %15 percent cut is adding insult to injury.
Apparently the Cloverfield monster did something to her mouth. It's a cartoon that explains it all in graphic detail.
I do wonder where those components were made. I wouldn't be surprised if those burning exploding items were made in China. It's not like they don't sell us poison dog food, lead coated or date rape drug toys.
There will always be open source software. It might languish during a recession, but it won't go away. And I suspect that out of work programmers will work on OSS regardless. It will show they are keeping their skills up in hopes they'll get a better paying job when the recession is over with.
Ever fill a balloon with carbon dioxide then drop it? It gives visual meaning to the phrase 'went over like a lead balloon.'
Now that would be a cool sight. Dropping C02 filled balloons at a political rally. They wouldn't float down. They'd plummet straight to the ground and wouldn't even bounce. It wouldn't look natural.
Having not read the article like most of us, I'll say that the problem is that most youth that had it good have unrealistic expectations entering the workforce. They have an entitlement mentality. They probably heard how good it was during the dot-com boom when they were kiddies but somehow thought the good times would return by the time they entered the workforce.
Older IT workers are pretty disillusioned too. I'll bet many of them if they are still in IT are making the same or less than what they were during the dot-com boom. They know the good times aren't coming back.
NSI will soon be the proud owner the following domains:
networksolutionscansuckmyballs.com
networksolutionscangofuckthemselves.com
networksolutionsarecocksuckers.com
networksolutionstakesitupthekeister.com
It's interesting to note they put this disclaimer for every search:
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don't delay; there's no guarantee that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Yeah, that's because the bastards went and registered it themselves.
Don't you know that Ruby is manna from Heaven and everyone and I mean everyone should be using it. They could do an occasional foray in to C# if need be. If you must use Visual Basic never ever admit to it. Don't even get me started on FORTRAN users.
.NET world and must use VB or C#. I never got my head around Java but since I'm a web developer and part-time sysadmin I'm very comfortable with Perl, PHP, and Python (my preferred language). In my CS classes I had to learn Pascal, Assembly, FORTRAN, C then C++. And I even had to roll my own mini-language using Lex and Yacc. On the job I learned Visual Basic, Objective-C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Powerbuilder.
.NET. 'Everyone' uses Microsoft so they want MS based programming systems. You just have to find your niche. My preferred language is Python because it can run in Jython so it has an in into the Java world. It can be IronPython so it has an in into the MS world. It is object oriented and much easier for me to debug than Perl. It's also easy to learn and there is a lot of crap I just don't have to worry about.`
Snarkery aside (is that a word?). Use the language that you are most productive in. Use the right tool for the job. If you are simulating nuclear explosions or climate modeling then FORTRAN may be your tool. Some programmers are stuck in the
I think a programmer should be exposed to multiple programming paradigms. You don't know what you may actually end up programming in. The big sell about Java is that it is an 'Enterprise Level Language' and is a big sell to companies. Same goes for
Marked flamebait, eh? Must be an Intel supporter.
Intel are a bunch of dicks?
I was surprised they came on board in the first place.
It's full of blue.
I predict it will hit 5/gal by the end of 2008.
I've been wrong almost every time in guessing how much gasoline will rise. I think the prices will depend on the political situation going into November. Did you notice how gas prices stabilized and remained relatively low during the 2006 election? I know people say the prices weren't manipulated, but it sure seemed to me the oil companies did what they could to help the Republicans win in 06. It didn't help. So unless there is some kind of major disruption I suspect we may see a repeat of the Fall 2006 pricing.
I've no doubt it'll hit $5 USD/gal at some point in the future, but I don't think it'll be 2008. Supply and availability are going to be the real determining factors. Until there are shortages and long lines people will grumble but they won't be up in arms.
I predict gasoline will eventually be sold per liter as prices go up and that car mileage will be listed in kilometers per gallon. It won't change anything but it'll be an attempt to obfuscate the real costs.
I know everyone is complaining that oil and gas is way too expensive. They are wrong. I used to think the same way. I saw a nice chart showing gasoline prices adjusted for inflation over a period of about eighty years. You know what? It really hasn't changed that much. It was still higher in 1981 than it is now. What has changed is a decrease in our earning power.
Proof that gasoline is still too cheap: I still see tons of Hummers, Expeditions, Navigators, Armadas, Sequoias and other mondo SUVs (aka Urban Assault Vehicles) on the road.
They aren't the source of innovation, the buy it.
laser printers are far more cost effective than any inkjet. Even color lasers are coming down in price. Unless you do a lot of printing the cartridges will last a while.
Now, Miss South Carolina will be able to find Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris.