They can omit certain things, misrepresent statistics, and stir up fear and emotion by reporting on one thing all day every day for days at a time.
And almost every news source does this. I read The Atlantic. I enjoy it. But two days ago they ran an article titled "Why the Trump Administration Won't Ask About LGBT Americans on the 2020 Census" (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trump-census-lgbt/521229/). They mention in the article that these statistics have never been collected on a census before, but from the title of the article (which was enough to get the SJW momentum in full force) many inferred that this was a change of course. There was no article about this from the same source when there was a Democrat president for the last two census. So apart from tone, tenure, and content... You also have what is decided to be run, timing, and how it is framed.
I'm not trying to speak for the OP here, but I have a similar sentiment. I can't stand President Trump. But I've almost completely reading news from several outlets I truly enjoy like The Atlantic, NPR, fivethrityeight, and the New Yorker. Not because of "fake news" but because of obviously biased and poor representation. For example, The Atlantic ran an article a month into Trump's presidency about automation and how many middle class jobs weren't coming back to America. Everything in the article was factual, however it was something they largely had avoided during the previous president's tenure. Additionally, the tone of the article suggested blame on the executive branch for not dealing with the issue. This was a week into his presidency. Or how many articles have there been portraying the POSSIBLE executive order reforming H1-B visas that cast it in the light of being xenophobic? Most here have a far better understanding of the process than the average American, and know of abuses far beyond those of SoCal Edison or Disney. I'm all too familiar with PewDiePie. As the father of a young minecraft gamer that loves youtube videos... He has been responsible for far more "teachable moments" with my son than I would like. So I have watched far more of his videos than I would have cared too. I can't stand the guy. Just like President Trump, there are plenty of things to take issue with this idiot than to fabricate or send of out of context videos to Disney laying the underlying reputation on it to make it seem as though that were how things actually happened. Dammit, it pisses me off that trusted media outlets could make me feel sympathetic toward people I can't stand. For my old guy get off the lawn rant... I believe in journalism as the fourth estate. I grew up on Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings. Maybe I was young and naive, or maybe now I'm just more cynical... But dammit I've never had this much contempt for journalism in this country.
That's how it's supposed to work. And the vast majority of companies do just that. Unfortunately, the vast majority of visa holders aren't hired under that principle come from the big body shops that get most the visas (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, etc..). We get some tremendous talent in this country via h1-b, and I don't think most that work in the tech industry wants to see them go away. When used properly it expands the talent pool and knowledge base for everyone. It is the companies abusing the system that most take issue with.
Not last in gdp - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP)
or gdp per capita - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita)
And when you factor GDP to cost of living - or Purchasing Power Parity Oklahoma is 17th in the country. (http://taxfoundation.org/blog/new-state-level-price-data-shows-smaller-state-real-income-differences)
Sounds like you are regurgitating some hate-talk-radio host's flawed hateful email.
While there isn't a firm definition for "mass shooting" most seem to go by the 4 victims in a single event. This is based on the FBI definition of mass murder being 4 or more victims from a single assailant.
HeyJackass,com compiles their own dataset via following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago, DNAInfo Chicago, Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker(no longer updated), NBC5 Chicago, City of Chicago Data Portal and CPD CLEARMAP.
To date within the city limits of Chicago there have been 17 events of 4 or more victims shot in a single event (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/). Every instance has been black assailants with black casualties. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/)
Chicago being my hometown, it is the only place I follow statistics closely and I cannot say that this trend holds true nationally. Also of note, within the city limits of Chicago, 78.7% of the victims of shootings are black with 68.8% of the assailants being black. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-race-of-victim/)
Except GM and BMW executives dont know how to sell a premium brand that makes everyone want to buy it.
GM executives certainly seem to know how to sell a mediocre brand that's marketed as a premium brand that makes the ignorant masses and the nouveau riche want to buy it...
Again, this is where GM has failed. Go drive a CTS-V and tell me what other car you can find that offers the same performance and luxury. It beats the M5, RS6, and E63 in virtually every comparo AND costs less, yet most people have the same belief you do.
It would be a false flagged, initiated and carried out by Bears fans. Because really, there is no other way they will be beating the Packers in the foreseeable future.
Agreed... This is a pretty idiotic line of thought. I live in the only state where every single county voted red in the last two presidential elections and have more than one carrier where I can get 48+mbps. The D or R next to the politicians name isn't why he has no high speed access, it is his local government and ISP.
Except that it doesn't make sense without subsidy. Solar is still one of the most expensive per megawatt of any of the various energy sources.
Even with projected costs reducing the price, the forecast by 2020 for solar is not bright.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/a...
Except that number isn't limited to the US. And it also isn't limited to married people. Some single people prefer relationships with married people for a way of ensuring it stays casual.
Pure speculation, but I would assume part of this would lend to having traffic go to a webpage where the predominately heterosexual traffic in a country with such archaic punishment for homosexuality would be to NOT having traffic destined for grindr or whatever other dating site. The nature of the confidentiality AM purported to have would be desirable. Again, speculation... But seems logical.
The marking of classification level, doesn't impact the classification level. Yes, whoever sent it inappropriately marked has made an error, and should be held accountable. But the difference between classification level is based on TS = poses "grave danger" to US if publicly released / Secret = "serious damage". With Secret information there is some pretty innocuous stuff that can be inadvertently perceived to be unclassified. That isn't the case with TS.
Can we please keep things on topic and not have every article turn into a gay marriage debate?
No?
Ok, Let's just get this exo-whatever thing built so we can have more time for our military to attend sensitivity training.
RE sensitivity training: People who are actually IN the military don't complain so much about who they are fighting next to, it's the people that are out or were never in, trust me.
This is extremely true. I was in the Marine Corps during DADT and the repeal. I heard maybe a couple of people complain at the repeal of DADT, and in execution I noticed a grand total of 0 changes, including no decrease in the rampant number of dick and gay jokes.
Not sure where you're coming from on this; how? Do you think the automated cars are going to be free/cheaper than existing taxi cabs and public transit? Or are you basing this claim on some rationale I have yet to consider?
"To those who say that self-driving cars have nothing to do with Google's core business selling ads, listen up: Google was just awarded a patent for an ad-powered taxi service.
The patent, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, would allow advertisers to offer potential customers a free ride to their place of business. This would solve one of the biggest problems for brick-and-mortar retailers: getting customers to their location. The system would offer free or discounted transportation based on an algorithm-powered decision-making process involving the user's current location, the cost of transportation, and the potential profit from a completed sale. The concept is basically a "free ride coupon" and mentioned transportation modes like taxis, trains, buses, or even autonomous vehicles."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
I don't know how many read this (probably not many, came from a link, from a link in the automated semi article last month). Its a study from Oxford where they went through the various industries, and the results were pretty scary.
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac....
From the summary, since I know 98% won't RTFA:
"We distinguish between high, medium and low risk occupations, depending
on their probability of computerisation. We make no attempt to estimate
the number of jobs that will actually be automated, and focus on potential job
automatability over some unspecified number of years. According to our estimates
around 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category. We
refer to these as jobs at risk – i.e. jobs we expect could be automated relatively
soon, perhaps over the next decade or two."
First off.... Wow, most of this thread is useless (not that I'm shocked). He doesn't state specifics on finances. I would say I can't "afford" to be out of work for more than 3 months too. In reality I put a ton of money away for retirement and kids college, and could probably make it a few years without working, but with my current retirement plans, I couldn't "afford" more time that either. It really doesn't give specifics on the financials and everyone is just speculating wildly.
For the real question he asked... I switched from software to network engineering about a decade ago, because my then employer (the USMC) told me to, so there really wasn't an option. I found it interesting, and after transitioning to the private sector stayed on the networking side. While you can make that amount of money, you are starting in a new field lacking relevant experience. The 150k+ jobs are almost exclusively working in sales engineering, ISP, or a senior engineer at a very large enterprise. Even with a CCIE (which isn't exactly a small undertaking) the only position that you would likely get hired into is the sales side, the other two will likely require a large amount of work experience as well. The sales side is easier, because to be a Cisco requires certified personnel to receive "gold" and "silver" partner levels.
A couple of side notes... Outsourcing and H1-B's are every bit as prevalent for network engineers as software engineers. They may not be bringing a ton of people in for 45k cable monkey jobs, but for the gusy in the 6 figure range... You betcha.. They are all over the place. And the potential for other onshore outsourcing is possible to. Verizon, AT&T, and BT take on huge clients every day that are outsourcing their networking.
I think the best way ahead.... If networking interests you... You could stick with software and migrate toward one of the SDN platforms... Cisco ACI or VNX and hope its VHS and not Betamax... Or even worse, laserdisc and never gets adoption.
A "computer company" is one which makes something computer related for sale (hardware or software) as it's primary business.
Software is Uber's primary business. Opentable isn't a restaurant, they are a software as a service operating in the restaurant industry. Golfnow isn't a golf company, they are software company in the golf industry. Uber is the same thing. They may be targeting a certain industry, but ultimately they are a software company servicing that industry.
While Liam Neeson was an established actor with some memorable roles (Schindler's List / Les Mis / Excalibur) his career was completely transformed by Star Wars. He went to leading roles in action movies and franchises. Before Star Wars, he had never been in a movie that grossed 100 mil, and afterwards was in the Batman, Narnia, and Taken, Titan's franchises and is #16 on the boxofficemojo gross list. To dismiss SW having an impact by just saying he was already established is a pretty poor statement.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/p...
It amounts to "hey, we made our crap software that nobody wants available for your platform, so now you have to support our platform".
The sad part, is they they aren't really a crap software company. They are a stupid software company. I've personally owned an ipad, galaxy tab, and blackberry playbook. The playbook had the best UI of the three. Incredibly intuitive os and gestures and slick presentation. But it rarely got used because they chose the "walled garden" approach without the user base to create the demand for app developers to support it. They did a half ass attempt right before I sold my playbook for pennies on the dollar to port google app's, but only ones they approved that didn't have a paid blackberry counterpart. Thanks, but no thanks.
For me the first two that come to mind... F-5 and Riverbed. F-5 has a few security suites and data mining services that haven't really caught hold, but the vast majority of their business is still load balancing. As SDN becomes more prevalent, much of that requirement will go away. Same goes for Riverbed, they have network and application performance monitors, but their core business is still WAN acceleration. With the combination of bandwidth becoming cheaper and less traffic being able to be optimized over the WAN (VDI is becoming much more prevalent and PCoIP doesn't do particularly well / video is becoming more of the percentage of the WAN utilization anyway / etc..) I could see them being in trouble.
Nintendo isn't going away. There look may change, and they may be out of hardware in 10 years, but just from the core character base of Mario and the like they can pretty easily morph out of hardware into a 3rd party software distributor for the other gaming platforms. Regardless of what the median age of gamers changes to, there will always be a market for kids, plus the nostalgia factor for those that grew up with the brand.
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They can omit certain things, misrepresent statistics, and stir up fear and emotion by reporting on one thing all day every day for days at a time.
And almost every news source does this. I read The Atlantic. I enjoy it. But two days ago they ran an article titled "Why the Trump Administration Won't Ask About LGBT Americans on the 2020 Census" (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trump-census-lgbt/521229/). They mention in the article that these statistics have never been collected on a census before, but from the title of the article (which was enough to get the SJW momentum in full force) many inferred that this was a change of course. There was no article about this from the same source when there was a Democrat president for the last two census. So apart from tone, tenure, and content... You also have what is decided to be run, timing, and how it is framed.
I'm not trying to speak for the OP here, but I have a similar sentiment. I can't stand President Trump. But I've almost completely reading news from several outlets I truly enjoy like The Atlantic, NPR, fivethrityeight, and the New Yorker. Not because of "fake news" but because of obviously biased and poor representation. For example, The Atlantic ran an article a month into Trump's presidency about automation and how many middle class jobs weren't coming back to America. Everything in the article was factual, however it was something they largely had avoided during the previous president's tenure. Additionally, the tone of the article suggested blame on the executive branch for not dealing with the issue. This was a week into his presidency. Or how many articles have there been portraying the POSSIBLE executive order reforming H1-B visas that cast it in the light of being xenophobic? Most here have a far better understanding of the process than the average American, and know of abuses far beyond those of SoCal Edison or Disney. I'm all too familiar with PewDiePie. As the father of a young minecraft gamer that loves youtube videos... He has been responsible for far more "teachable moments" with my son than I would like. So I have watched far more of his videos than I would have cared too. I can't stand the guy. Just like President Trump, there are plenty of things to take issue with this idiot than to fabricate or send of out of context videos to Disney laying the underlying reputation on it to make it seem as though that were how things actually happened. Dammit, it pisses me off that trusted media outlets could make me feel sympathetic toward people I can't stand. For my old guy get off the lawn rant... I believe in journalism as the fourth estate. I grew up on Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings. Maybe I was young and naive, or maybe now I'm just more cynical... But dammit I've never had this much contempt for journalism in this country.
That's how it's supposed to work. And the vast majority of companies do just that. Unfortunately, the vast majority of visa holders aren't hired under that principle come from the big body shops that get most the visas (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, etc..). We get some tremendous talent in this country via h1-b, and I don't think most that work in the tech industry wants to see them go away. When used properly it expands the talent pool and knowledge base for everyone. It is the companies abusing the system that most take issue with.
Not last in gdp - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP) or gdp per capita - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita) And when you factor GDP to cost of living - or Purchasing Power Parity Oklahoma is 17th in the country. (http://taxfoundation.org/blog/new-state-level-price-data-shows-smaller-state-real-income-differences)
Mind sharing some statistics for that claim?
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
Sounds like you are regurgitating some hate-talk-radio host's flawed hateful email.
While there isn't a firm definition for "mass shooting" most seem to go by the 4 victims in a single event. This is based on the FBI definition of mass murder being 4 or more victims from a single assailant. HeyJackass,com compiles their own dataset via following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago, DNAInfo Chicago, Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker(no longer updated), NBC5 Chicago, City of Chicago Data Portal and CPD CLEARMAP. To date within the city limits of Chicago there have been 17 events of 4 or more victims shot in a single event (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/). Every instance has been black assailants with black casualties. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/) Chicago being my hometown, it is the only place I follow statistics closely and I cannot say that this trend holds true nationally. Also of note, within the city limits of Chicago, 78.7% of the victims of shootings are black with 68.8% of the assailants being black. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-race-of-victim/)
Except GM and BMW executives dont know how to sell a premium brand that makes everyone want to buy it.
GM executives certainly seem to know how to sell a mediocre brand that's marketed as a premium brand that makes the ignorant masses and the nouveau riche want to buy it...
Again, this is where GM has failed. Go drive a CTS-V and tell me what other car you can find that offers the same performance and luxury. It beats the M5, RS6, and E63 in virtually every comparo AND costs less, yet most people have the same belief you do.
Comcast or Verizon don't have the power to change the law, ignore it, force something on you, or invoke obscure "national security".
Well, not the national security part at least.
It would be a false flagged, initiated and carried out by Bears fans. Because really, there is no other way they will be beating the Packers in the foreseeable future.
Agreed... This is a pretty idiotic line of thought. I live in the only state where every single county voted red in the last two presidential elections and have more than one carrier where I can get 48+mbps. The D or R next to the politicians name isn't why he has no high speed access, it is his local government and ISP.
Except that it doesn't make sense without subsidy. Solar is still one of the most expensive per megawatt of any of the various energy sources. Even with projected costs reducing the price, the forecast by 2020 for solar is not bright. http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/a...
Except that number isn't limited to the US. And it also isn't limited to married people. Some single people prefer relationships with married people for a way of ensuring it stays casual.
Pure speculation, but I would assume part of this would lend to having traffic go to a webpage where the predominately heterosexual traffic in a country with such archaic punishment for homosexuality would be to NOT having traffic destined for grindr or whatever other dating site. The nature of the confidentiality AM purported to have would be desirable. Again, speculation... But seems logical.
The marking of classification level, doesn't impact the classification level. Yes, whoever sent it inappropriately marked has made an error, and should be held accountable. But the difference between classification level is based on TS = poses "grave danger" to US if publicly released / Secret = "serious damage". With Secret information there is some pretty innocuous stuff that can be inadvertently perceived to be unclassified. That isn't the case with TS.
Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
Oops, wasn't logged... I'm the AC.
Can we please keep things on topic and not have every article turn into a gay marriage debate? No? Ok, Let's just get this exo-whatever thing built so we can have more time for our military to attend sensitivity training.
RE sensitivity training: People who are actually IN the military don't complain so much about who they are fighting next to, it's the people that are out or were never in, trust me.
This is extremely true. I was in the Marine Corps during DADT and the repeal. I heard maybe a couple of people complain at the repeal of DADT, and in execution I noticed a grand total of 0 changes, including no decrease in the rampant number of dick and gay jokes.
Not sure where you're coming from on this; how? Do you think the automated cars are going to be free/cheaper than existing taxi cabs and public transit? Or are you basing this claim on some rationale I have yet to consider?
"To those who say that self-driving cars have nothing to do with Google's core business selling ads, listen up: Google was just awarded a patent for an ad-powered taxi service. The patent, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, would allow advertisers to offer potential customers a free ride to their place of business. This would solve one of the biggest problems for brick-and-mortar retailers: getting customers to their location. The system would offer free or discounted transportation based on an algorithm-powered decision-making process involving the user's current location, the cost of transportation, and the potential profit from a completed sale. The concept is basically a "free ride coupon" and mentioned transportation modes like taxis, trains, buses, or even autonomous vehicles." http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
I don't know how many read this (probably not many, came from a link, from a link in the automated semi article last month). Its a study from Oxford where they went through the various industries, and the results were pretty scary. http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.... From the summary, since I know 98% won't RTFA: "We distinguish between high, medium and low risk occupations, depending on their probability of computerisation. We make no attempt to estimate the number of jobs that will actually be automated, and focus on potential job automatability over some unspecified number of years. According to our estimates around 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category. We refer to these as jobs at risk – i.e. jobs we expect could be automated relatively soon, perhaps over the next decade or two."
First off.... Wow, most of this thread is useless (not that I'm shocked). He doesn't state specifics on finances. I would say I can't "afford" to be out of work for more than 3 months too. In reality I put a ton of money away for retirement and kids college, and could probably make it a few years without working, but with my current retirement plans, I couldn't "afford" more time that either. It really doesn't give specifics on the financials and everyone is just speculating wildly. For the real question he asked... I switched from software to network engineering about a decade ago, because my then employer (the USMC) told me to, so there really wasn't an option. I found it interesting, and after transitioning to the private sector stayed on the networking side. While you can make that amount of money, you are starting in a new field lacking relevant experience. The 150k+ jobs are almost exclusively working in sales engineering, ISP, or a senior engineer at a very large enterprise. Even with a CCIE (which isn't exactly a small undertaking) the only position that you would likely get hired into is the sales side, the other two will likely require a large amount of work experience as well. The sales side is easier, because to be a Cisco requires certified personnel to receive "gold" and "silver" partner levels. A couple of side notes... Outsourcing and H1-B's are every bit as prevalent for network engineers as software engineers. They may not be bringing a ton of people in for 45k cable monkey jobs, but for the gusy in the 6 figure range... You betcha.. They are all over the place. And the potential for other onshore outsourcing is possible to. Verizon, AT&T, and BT take on huge clients every day that are outsourcing their networking. I think the best way ahead.... If networking interests you... You could stick with software and migrate toward one of the SDN platforms... Cisco ACI or VNX and hope its VHS and not Betamax... Or even worse, laserdisc and never gets adoption.
A "computer company" is one which makes something computer related for sale (hardware or software) as it's primary business.
Software is Uber's primary business. Opentable isn't a restaurant, they are a software as a service operating in the restaurant industry. Golfnow isn't a golf company, they are software company in the golf industry. Uber is the same thing. They may be targeting a certain industry, but ultimately they are a software company servicing that industry.
While Liam Neeson was an established actor with some memorable roles (Schindler's List / Les Mis / Excalibur) his career was completely transformed by Star Wars. He went to leading roles in action movies and franchises. Before Star Wars, he had never been in a movie that grossed 100 mil, and afterwards was in the Batman, Narnia, and Taken, Titan's franchises and is #16 on the boxofficemojo gross list. To dismiss SW having an impact by just saying he was already established is a pretty poor statement. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/p...
The Doomsday Clock is currently closer to midnight than it was during the Bay of Pigs. Really? REALLY?
It amounts to "hey, we made our crap software that nobody wants available for your platform, so now you have to support our platform".
The sad part, is they they aren't really a crap software company. They are a stupid software company. I've personally owned an ipad, galaxy tab, and blackberry playbook. The playbook had the best UI of the three. Incredibly intuitive os and gestures and slick presentation. But it rarely got used because they chose the "walled garden" approach without the user base to create the demand for app developers to support it. They did a half ass attempt right before I sold my playbook for pennies on the dollar to port google app's, but only ones they approved that didn't have a paid blackberry counterpart. Thanks, but no thanks.
For me the first two that come to mind... F-5 and Riverbed. F-5 has a few security suites and data mining services that haven't really caught hold, but the vast majority of their business is still load balancing. As SDN becomes more prevalent, much of that requirement will go away. Same goes for Riverbed, they have network and application performance monitors, but their core business is still WAN acceleration. With the combination of bandwidth becoming cheaper and less traffic being able to be optimized over the WAN (VDI is becoming much more prevalent and PCoIP doesn't do particularly well / video is becoming more of the percentage of the WAN utilization anyway / etc..) I could see them being in trouble.
Nintendo isn't going away. There look may change, and they may be out of hardware in 10 years, but just from the core character base of Mario and the like they can pretty easily morph out of hardware into a 3rd party software distributor for the other gaming platforms. Regardless of what the median age of gamers changes to, there will always be a market for kids, plus the nostalgia factor for those that grew up with the brand.