No acquired handicaps, because the company will provide sterile padded rooms and self-driving cars, and monitor forbidden risky behaviors. No handicaps from birth, because the company breeding program is optimized to ensure no imperfect children.
If you find yourself being the primary (or only) maintainer of a package, it really belongs to you, doesn't it? You can fork and rename it, continue maintaining only the new fork, and voila! It's yours.
I've had the feeling more than once that NASA promotes a lot of ideas that they know are impractical in order to fire up their base of support, which is largely SF fans who can't or won't distinguish fantasy from reality. With an election coming up the strategy works brilliantly, and now they're handed a big pot of money to begin realizing their dreams. So they have to hire a battalion of scientists and engineers to work on growing crops on Mars, squeezing water out of rocks, mining asteroids for minerals, and all the rest. This should be interesting.
It's looking more and more like a certain Sunni extremist group has already obtained one of their primary objectives: polarizing the United States against anyone of middle-eastern origin.
No, we're quite capable of doing that all by ourselves, and we do it because fear is politically useful.
Nope, sorry. I've lived here all my life and I see it every day: Xenopphobic fear and bigotry are political tools used to induce the common folk to throw their political weight against their own vital interests. It's an integral part of the system. "Ideologies" are no accident; they serve very real political interests. The pathetic thing is that America - or at least conservative America - is starting to resemble Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s despite having none of the same stresses such as enormous unemployment, hyperinflation, and national humiliation from the Versailles treaty. I shudder to think of what would be going on here with any of those things going on.
If we would open drilling even more in the US and more publicly support fracking...
Have you filled you tank lately? That's exactly what we've been doing, with the result that the price of the oil has plummeted to the point where it's becoming unprofitable to extract it this way.
Brings back memories. Learned computing on an Amdahl 470 V/6 (the second one made, I think) back in the days of punch cards and standing in line at the input window...
For the most part, corporate executives are schooled in business, not engineering. They know planning, reorganizing, finance, merging and acquiring, and (maybe) marketing. Their path to success is through doing those things. Initiatives that originate among the engineers have a long wait to see the light of day -if they ever do - because they first have to be championed by one of the aforementioned executives. That's why innovation in larger companies is done by acquiring products and technology from the outside, and usually not by developing ideas from within. The silver lining is that it creates opportunity for smaller companies that are more focused on their customers' needs and the technologies for satisfying them.
Software/web development is the only field I can think of where practitioners delight in ridiculing people outside of their specialty for not knowing everything that they do. I don't see that with medical doctors or lawyers or pharmacists or physicists. Every profession seems to have its own standards for basic maturity.
I'm trying to imagine, at the time the postal service was organized, what the public reaction would have been if it was announced that your mail would be opened and read, and the information so gained would be sold to merchants, employers, and police in your area. Would people have accepted that in exchange for free postage?
I use a different one, but the principle is sound and it works great; no Adblock needed. One change I'd make to yours is to uncomment some lines, like these: #127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com # breaks some sites #127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com #127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.l.google.com
So it "breaks some sites". Haven't noticed that myself, and don't care if it does.
Both refugees and migrants want to find a place where they are safe, can build decent lives, and can provide for their families. Exactly like you would, under comparable circumstances. This idea that they should have no preferences about where they might best do these things is more than a little bizarre (but typical of the dehumanization by many people of others they perceive to be unlike themselves). "Gee, honey, it's a shame that we lost our home and you and the kids are going to be tortured and starved, but Hognoxious says it just wouldn't be right to try moving the family to a better place." This would make them fools in addition to being migrants or refugees. Whether they can satisfy those preferences is another matter, of course.
Nevertheless, if you were considering an investment (or a job) in that company, it's something that you might want to look at before making your decision.
I'm non-Muslim and have friends who are Muslim. This may come as a shock, but they are not all the same, any more than all conservative Christians are ignorant xenophobes. They're not all ignorant xenophobes, right?
I don't think I got the point of that sentence either. Does the 747 have a lot of cubic inches, and is this what made it great? Or are good ol' American cubic inches better than those cubic centimeters that everyone else uses?
Correct. Even if you specify your subgroups beforehand in the experimental design, you still need to modify your interpretation of statistical significance (downward) to account for the consideration of multiple hypotheses. If you're going on a fishing expedition by identifying subgroups post hoc, then you ideally need to base this correction on the potentially large number of conceivable subgroups that are available to be drawn. It's very hard to achieve real significance under those circumstances. On the other hand, you might find a subgroup result suggestive and conduct a separate follow-on study to test it independently; that's perfectly legitimate.
A lot of people are still running Windows XP (and earlier) for much the same reason. It works as well as it ever did for them (not considering the security issues), they've acclimated to it, and who knows what may go wrong with an update? Will their old familiar apps still work, or will they have to shell out hundreds of $$ to update those too?
...it's the momentum that keeps people choosing this crapware.
Unfortunately true. It causes most people a great deal of anxiety to acknowledge there's a problem and that there are things they can do to mitigate it, because that means they have to learn about those things, which they fear will be outside their experience and abilities. As long as they're in the same boat as their friends and family, they feel the safety of numbers and can ignore the issue. The FUD mantra against Linux has always been that you have to be an elite geek to install and use it; of course that's nonsense but people believe it. It creates a lot of fear and trepidation that they'll be in over their heads if they even try, and so they don't.
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Moderated "Troll", seriously?
Anyway, it's not $222 million for the drone, it's $500K for the drone and $221,500,000 for continued patronage from the contractor.
Yet another reason to block this crap at the hosts file. And to update it frequently.
No acquired handicaps, because the company will provide sterile padded rooms and self-driving cars, and monitor forbidden risky behaviors. No handicaps from birth, because the company breeding program is optimized to ensure no imperfect children.
If you find yourself being the primary (or only) maintainer of a package, it really belongs to you, doesn't it? You can fork and rename it, continue maintaining only the new fork, and voila! It's yours.
I've had the feeling more than once that NASA promotes a lot of ideas that they know are impractical in order to fire up their base of support, which is largely SF fans who can't or won't distinguish fantasy from reality. With an election coming up the strategy works brilliantly, and now they're handed a big pot of money to begin realizing their dreams. So they have to hire a battalion of scientists and engineers to work on growing crops on Mars, squeezing water out of rocks, mining asteroids for minerals, and all the rest. This should be interesting.
It's looking more and more like a certain Sunni extremist group has already obtained one of their primary objectives: polarizing the United States against anyone of middle-eastern origin.
No, we're quite capable of doing that all by ourselves, and we do it because fear is politically useful.
Nope, sorry. I've lived here all my life and I see it every day: Xenopphobic fear and bigotry are political tools used to induce the common folk to throw their political weight against their own vital interests. It's an integral part of the system. "Ideologies" are no accident; they serve very real political interests. The pathetic thing is that America - or at least conservative America - is starting to resemble Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s despite having none of the same stresses such as enormous unemployment, hyperinflation, and national humiliation from the Versailles treaty. I shudder to think of what would be going on here with any of those things going on.
If we would open drilling even more in the US and more publicly support fracking...
Have you filled you tank lately? That's exactly what we've been doing, with the result that the price of the oil has plummeted to the point where it's becoming unprofitable to extract it this way.
You mean Muslims like Timothy McVeigh, or the IRA?
Brings back memories. Learned computing on an Amdahl 470 V/6 (the second one made, I think) back in the days of punch cards and standing in line at the input window...
If you're referring to IBM, I would say no, we don't.
For the most part, corporate executives are schooled in business, not engineering. They know planning, reorganizing, finance, merging and acquiring, and (maybe) marketing. Their path to success is through doing those things. Initiatives that originate among the engineers have a long wait to see the light of day -if they ever do - because they first have to be championed by one of the aforementioned executives. That's why innovation in larger companies is done by acquiring products and technology from the outside, and usually not by developing ideas from within. The silver lining is that it creates opportunity for smaller companies that are more focused on their customers' needs and the technologies for satisfying them.
Software/web development is the only field I can think of where practitioners delight in ridiculing people outside of their specialty for not knowing everything that they do. I don't see that with medical doctors or lawyers or pharmacists or physicists. Every profession seems to have its own standards for basic maturity.
That's completely untrue. The lower bidders get a lot of that sweet data as well.
I'm trying to imagine, at the time the postal service was organized, what the public reaction would have been if it was announced that your mail would be opened and read, and the information so gained would be sold to merchants, employers, and police in your area. Would people have accepted that in exchange for free postage?
I use a different one, but the principle is sound and it works great; no Adblock needed. One change I'd make to yours is to uncomment some lines, like these:
#127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com # breaks some sites
#127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
#127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.l.google.com
So it "breaks some sites". Haven't noticed that myself, and don't care if it does.
Both refugees and migrants want to find a place where they are safe, can build decent lives, and can provide for their families. Exactly like you would, under comparable circumstances. This idea that they should have no preferences about where they might best do these things is more than a little bizarre (but typical of the dehumanization by many people of others they perceive to be unlike themselves). "Gee, honey, it's a shame that we lost our home and you and the kids are going to be tortured and starved, but Hognoxious says it just wouldn't be right to try moving the family to a better place." This would make them fools in addition to being migrants or refugees. Whether they can satisfy those preferences is another matter, of course.
Nevertheless, if you were considering an investment (or a job) in that company, it's something that you might want to look at before making your decision.
Maybe they practice good personal hygiene with the facilities that are available to them. That alone is no reason to kick them out.
Are they really? The very same people? That's quite an accusation, coming from the very same person who bombed the hell out of Iraq.
I'm non-Muslim and have friends who are Muslim. This may come as a shock, but they are not all the same, any more than all conservative Christians are ignorant xenophobes. They're not all ignorant xenophobes, right?
I don't think I got the point of that sentence either. Does the 747 have a lot of cubic inches, and is this what made it great? Or are good ol' American cubic inches better than those cubic centimeters that everyone else uses?
Correct. Even if you specify your subgroups beforehand in the experimental design, you still need to modify your interpretation of statistical significance (downward) to account for the consideration of multiple hypotheses. If you're going on a fishing expedition by identifying subgroups post hoc, then you ideally need to base this correction on the potentially large number of conceivable subgroups that are available to be drawn. It's very hard to achieve real significance under those circumstances. On the other hand, you might find a subgroup result suggestive and conduct a separate follow-on study to test it independently; that's perfectly legitimate.
A lot of people are still running Windows XP (and earlier) for much the same reason. It works as well as it ever did for them (not considering the security issues), they've acclimated to it, and who knows what may go wrong with an update? Will their old familiar apps still work, or will they have to shell out hundreds of $$ to update those too?
...it's the momentum that keeps people choosing this crapware.
Unfortunately true. It causes most people a great deal of anxiety to acknowledge there's a problem and that there are things they can do to mitigate it, because that means they have to learn about those things, which they fear will be outside their experience and abilities. As long as they're in the same boat as their friends and family, they feel the safety of numbers and can ignore the issue. The FUD mantra against Linux has always been that you have to be an elite geek to install and use it; of course that's nonsense but people believe it. It creates a lot of fear and trepidation that they'll be in over their heads if they even try, and so they don't.