USMC Colonel Mazzar, speaking in his official capacity, about the use of force by cops and military forces against protestors:
"It is the exploitation of perceived civil liberties which extends into violence...
My civil rights are merely perceived?!
Colonel, I see you're working at a college. Do us all a favor and go audit the freshman civics courses again. You are an embarrassment to the cause you have sworn to defend.
When you want to get something done right damn now, pick a highly competent dictator.
We need Somebody of Stature (Yes, Linus would be perfect, but he's smart enough to duck the headache) to step up to bat and Set Forth The Plan. We need a Sanctioned List of What Linux Needs Today. Make it a list of tasks, broken up into the smallest reasonable size, tasks that one programmer or a small clan of programmers could tackle inside a reasonably specific timeframe.
Now, what incentive could we offer programmers to work on the Official Projects instead of their own?
We offer them Karma of course. Call it whatever you want, brownie points, geek cred, whatever. We need to come to an understanding inside the programming community that "open source karma" will be taken into consideration at job interviews.
In a community of fiercely competitive geeks who want to quantify everything, we give them a perfect way to do it. Make it the goal of every CS student to have 100 OSK (open source karma) points before they graduate. Let those older coders know that if they want to switch from COBOL to O'Caml in the job market, then 50 OSK points granted in the O'Caml category will get them taken seriously in a job interview.
Is this a perfect plan? Hell, no. I'm not even sure I like it. Would I expect bitching somewhere down the line? Yes, and in copious amounts.
But I do think this might at least help herd the cats in the same general direction.
Not weird at all. Your friend is just drinking the kool-aid, that's all.
Yes, of course she should have been paid...
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(It shouldn't matter, but a white male speaking)
A hair dye company is having great trouble finding a particular shade of brownish blondish hair. They offer a $100 million dollar bounty to the State Barber Association for a sample of this exact hair color.
Turns out it's your exact hair color. Your barber takes your hair clippings and retires forever. You don't find out until after the fact.
Tell me how many milliseconds would go by before you would be on the phone to a lawyer.
If anyone owns anything, you own your own body. You own every piece of it, every hair, every cell, every little bit of it. Ms. Lacks give a part of her body so her physician could try to cure her disease, a service she presumably paid for.
She did not authorize this. She did not LICENSE this use of her tissues. If you're going to be a capitalist, then don't be a hypocrite. This was, quite simply, a theft of Ms. Lacks' property. She deserves compensation.
There was a time, not too long ago, when having been awarded a patent was sort of an engineering badge of honor... well... merit badge at least. It definitely went on your resume.
Companies would even brag about holding a patent in their advertising.
But today, when I hear about someone getting a patent, I'm inclined to think "On what? Fire, the wheel, or did you go all out and invent an incandescent light bulb? By the way, where did you say you got your MBA again?"
So the ape picks up a bone, which leverages the strength in his arm so he can kill the other apes more efficiently. The discovery of the club leads to technology which eventually allows the ape to actually leave the planet and get to space.
And from this vantage point, where the unparalled magnificence of creation strikes the ape mute...
...the apes begin chunking rocks at other apes still down on the planet.
1. Coders get dumped when they turn 35.
2. We can't find any skilled coders.
Hello? Does anyone else see the correlation here? Skill is the product of talent and experience. Talent comes from God Almighty in precious little doses, but experience comes with age.
The skilled coder you can't find is probably one of the ones you dumped because his salary was just a little too high. Now you'll pay double his salary in recruitment costs and receive nothing productive in return.
You would think even an MBA could understand this.
The Tron PC video game is slated for a 2003 release, sources told the trade paper. The Tron game is also expected to appear on Microsoft's Xbox video game system.
Tron went to work for the Master Control Program?! I don't believe it!
I guess that's what happens after twenty years of unemployment on the game grid.
But seriously, I hope that Bit character gets to say more than just two things this time around. He was always so predictable. If it wasn't one thing, it was the other...
As an actual candidate for minor eye surgery (PRK), I'm sort of diappointed. I was so looking forward to being able to walk around and tell people with a straight face --
...and that's when the eye surgeon took a light saber and hacked a chunk of my eye out. Anyway, that's why a missed work last week...
So I'm sitting in front of my computer, dealing with a serious case of technolust, when my wife walks up and looks at the rotors over the pilot's head.
When I was young and working crummy, low-wage jobs, EVERY single one of my bosses let it be known that going to vote would get you fired.
Now, if you have a low-end job, your day begins before most of the polls open. If you work a 12-hour day, like most minimum-wage people do to have a chance at survival, you have no chance to get to the polls.
Pretty soon, your low-barrier-to-entry begins to work an awful lot like Jim Crow laws. Haven't you ever noticed that voter turnout is lowest among the low-wage groups? Are you perhaps beginning to get a clue why?
I saw the "Final Fantasy 10" story go up on Slashdot. I live and teach in Japan, and much of my time is spent trying to fix the English that my students hear and memorize that has been slaughtered by advertisers.
If you've ever lived in a non-English speaking country (and no, Mexico doesn't really count) you know what I mean.
Anyway, the article went up, and I sat down to reply when it was new. Unfortunately, this was the exact moment my toddler son chose to endanger his own life.
Five minutes later, I get back to my computer and hit "submit."
Ooops. Seems like 50 other people had the exact same thought at the same time as me, and boy, am I redundant. Whoops. Oh well.
I check back later and I've been modded down. Fair enough. But SIX replies filled with abuse?
(from the sales material) How to increase your students' attention span
ProGear allows you to help students conduct Internet research with touch-screen broadband wireless LAN anywhere in your classroom.
Yeah, that's exactly what I need, a bunch of 13-year-old boys surfing for porn while I'm trying to explain how to build a table in HTML...
Sorry. I live in Japan. I can personally assure you from bitter experience that Mr. Custom Guy's ENTIRE job is to ensure that the price of melons stays at least at 4000 yen.
Twenty-one of 22 spacewalks performed at the station to date have been staged from shuttle airlocks. The other took place within a spherical section of the station's Russian-built crew quarters, which can be converted into a makeshift airlock.
How well would you sleep tonight knowing that your bedroom could also be used as a "makeshift airlock?"
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"It is the exploitation of perceived civil liberties which extends into violence...
My civil rights are merely perceived?!
Colonel, I see you're working at a college. Do us all a favor and go audit the freshman civics courses again. You are an embarrassment to the cause you have sworn to defend.
We need Somebody of Stature (Yes, Linus would be perfect, but he's smart enough to duck the headache) to step up to bat and Set Forth The Plan. We need a Sanctioned List of What Linux Needs Today. Make it a list of tasks, broken up into the smallest reasonable size, tasks that one programmer or a small clan of programmers could tackle inside a reasonably specific timeframe.
Now, what incentive could we offer programmers to work on the Official Projects instead of their own?
We offer them Karma of course. Call it whatever you want, brownie points, geek cred, whatever. We need to come to an understanding inside the programming community that "open source karma" will be taken into consideration at job interviews.
In a community of fiercely competitive geeks who want to quantify everything, we give them a perfect way to do it. Make it the goal of every CS student to have 100 OSK (open source karma) points before they graduate. Let those older coders know that if they want to switch from COBOL to O'Caml in the job market, then 50 OSK points granted in the O'Caml category will get them taken seriously in a job interview.
Is this a perfect plan? Hell, no. I'm not even sure I like it. Would I expect bitching somewhere down the line? Yes, and in copious amounts.
But I do think this might at least help herd the cats in the same general direction.
Not weird at all. Your friend is just drinking the kool-aid, that's all.
A hair dye company is having great trouble finding a particular shade of brownish blondish hair. They offer a $100 million dollar bounty to the State Barber Association for a sample of this exact hair color.
Turns out it's your exact hair color. Your barber takes your hair clippings and retires forever. You don't find out until after the fact.
Tell me how many milliseconds would go by before you would be on the phone to a lawyer.
If anyone owns anything, you own your own body. You own every piece of it, every hair, every cell, every little bit of it. Ms. Lacks give a part of her body so her physician could try to cure her disease, a service she presumably paid for.
She did not authorize this. She did not LICENSE this use of her tissues. If you're going to be a capitalist, then don't be a hypocrite. This was, quite simply, a theft of Ms. Lacks' property. She deserves compensation.
Companies would even brag about holding a patent in their advertising.
But today, when I hear about someone getting a patent, I'm inclined to think "On what? Fire, the wheel, or did you go all out and invent an incandescent light bulb? By the way, where did you say you got your MBA again?"
Do patents have any prestige left?
Think of the new applications.
(No, not those, get your mind out of the gutter, get married for a few years and rejoin us at the grownups table.)
I would simply remind everyone to take this announcement with a LARGE grain of salt until you actually see it.
They do now.
And from this vantage point, where the unparalled magnificence of creation strikes the ape mute...
2. We can't find any skilled coders.
Hello? Does anyone else see the correlation here? Skill is the product of talent and experience. Talent comes from God Almighty in precious little doses, but experience comes with age.
The skilled coder you can't find is probably one of the ones you dumped because his salary was just a little too high. Now you'll pay double his salary in recruitment costs and receive nothing productive in return.
You would think even an MBA could understand this.
Tron went to work for the Master Control Program?! I don't believe it!
I guess that's what happens after twenty years of unemployment on the game grid.
But seriously, I hope that Bit character gets to say more than just two things this time around. He was always so predictable. If it wasn't one thing, it was the other...
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Logo! Logo! Bow before the awesome power of the turtle!
Wouldn't that really mess up your hair?
Sorry.
Yes, the above post is horribly redundant.
The lesson is not to let too much time go by between hitting the "reply" and the "submit" buttons.
Like if someone made the numbers in your bank account balance go away?
When I was young and working crummy, low-wage jobs, EVERY single one of my bosses let it be known that going to vote would get you fired.
Now, if you have a low-end job, your day begins before most of the polls open. If you work a 12-hour day, like most minimum-wage people do to have a chance at survival, you have no chance to get to the polls.
Pretty soon, your low-barrier-to-entry begins to work an awful lot like Jim Crow laws. Haven't you ever noticed that voter turnout is lowest among the low-wage groups? Are you perhaps beginning to get a clue why?
However, we anxiously await your contribution of humor for the day.
For those of you who found this funny, check out Cement Cuddlers, the marriage of concrete and teddy bears. I promise you'll laugh.
It may have failed as a solar sail, but it did work perfectly as a drogue chute.
I saw the "Final Fantasy 10" story go up on Slashdot. I live and teach in Japan, and much of my time is spent trying to fix the English that my students hear and memorize that has been slaughtered by advertisers.
If you've ever lived in a non-English speaking country (and no, Mexico doesn't really count) you know what I mean.
Anyway, the article went up, and I sat down to reply when it was new. Unfortunately, this was the exact moment my toddler son chose to endanger his own life.
Five minutes later, I get back to my computer and hit "submit."
Ooops. Seems like 50 other people had the exact same thought at the same time as me, and boy, am I redundant. Whoops. Oh well.
I check back later and I've been modded down. Fair enough. But SIX replies filled with abuse?
Ritalin. Learn it. Love it. Live it.
How to increase your students' attention span
ProGear allows you to help students conduct Internet research with touch-screen broadband wireless LAN anywhere in your classroom.
Yeah, that's exactly what I need, a bunch of 13-year-old boys surfing for porn while I'm trying to explain how to build a table in HTML...
Sorry. I live in Japan. I can personally assure you from bitter experience that Mr. Custom Guy's ENTIRE job is to ensure that the price of melons stays at least at 4000 yen.
How well would you sleep tonight knowing that your bedroom could also be used as a "makeshift airlock?"