Meanwhile the rest of the class is bored out of their skulls waiting for the new kid to have the teacher explain it to them for the tenth time. I've seen it happen in a university course where someone (not me) spent a third of the lecture not grasping the idea before the professor shut him off and said to see him during office hours. By that time most of the class was ready to kick him into the hall, and not gently.
Not everyone is a genius. Just like everyone is not cut out for university. That's perfectly okay. Everyone can still be an important part of society if they want and are given the chance. Not everything needs a university education. People that pick up garbage & recycling and load & unload cargo ships both play important roles in society.
I've got a feeling that it's going to get harder to tell what's fake news for the next while. I thought that this was a joke at first. Earlier today there was an article on CNN about women who have babies from sexual attacks have to share custody of the child with the attacker. If the attacker doesn't get convicted with a serious enough crime (for example, convicted of sexual assault 3 instead of sexual assault 1) then they can sue for visitation rights. I didn't check it out but when you articles like this then it makes one think that the other could be true because the laws are so screwed up.
Then why did the head of the FBI bring up the whole email thing with a week left to go and let it hang until a day or two left? I wouldn't be surprised if it was an FBI operation by themselves. They are going to need lots of money for people and equipment if Trump wants all of the immigrants and Muslims out of the country. Even kicking out a couple million immigrants is going to mean a big ramping up of resources and lots more spying on the public.
Well it didn't help that the leave side was promising the world and people were buying it. Especially all the money that was to go to the NHS and the farmers. The day after the election it was "What money?"
At least the UK can run a proper election. Not hearing about it for years ahead of time, not changing the rules on who can vote, not hearing about chads or electronic voter machine fraud.
That's the BS excuse they used for Brexit. Muslims enter other parts of the EU and because the UK is part of the EU there is unchecked migration between member countries. Hence "unlimited Muslim migration". It's all fear mongering and if people took two seconds to actually think about things they would see it for crap argument that it is.
But the problem is that people have stopped thinking and that is why we have all of these articles now talking about how we need to stop fake news. We are past peak civilization and now every Onion story needs to come with a warning stating that it's a Fake News story.
Technically the vote for the president hasn't taken place yet. The vote for who will vote in the electoral college will. By tradition, and sometimes by state law, those people vote by the will of the people the represent. There was at least one person in Washington State this election who stated they wouldn't vote for Clinton on December 19 even if she won the state. Of course this one case won't make a difference if everyone else votes the way they are expected to.
That's the problem with politicians. You don't know what are lies and what are the things they actually intend to go through with. I'm definitely not okay with it. It's why I didn't like Clinton because she was saying things to get elected. For example she was for the TPP for a long time and then Sanders came along and became popular. Then Clinton announces she won't pass the TPP if she's elected. Everyone knows that if she got in that TPP was going to be signed. And as much as I didn't like her I didn't want Trump in.
The danger with Trump, as he has repeatedly stated, is that he isn't a politician. So as far as we know he could have been completely honest in what he wants to accomplish as President.
(You can take that in both of it's meanings.) Facebook just delivers the messages that users put on it. A decade ago people were using email to send these stupid stories and images.
The real problem is that the majority of people have stopped thinking. They come across a story about Trump killing a yeti family while they were vacationing in Colorado and they accept it at face value as an example of how he'll keep America safe from immigrants. People have turned off their critical thinking and will believe what they are told to. If you are brought up believing that a certain party is the right one then nothing is going to change that.
These people like living in their bubbles with simple answers being fed to them, even if those simple answers are wrong and bring about dangerous consequences.
Vancouver has a lot of tech companies because of it's close to California. There's a lot of graphics work as a lot of movie and TV work goes on there. The big downside is the price of housing. And there is Montreal too which has more of a focus on gaming (building, not playing).
I wouldn't say that we don't have any Trump-like entities. Currently we don't but there's a Trump-lite who might run for the Conservative Party leadership.
I think that there are some pockets within the CBC that are really in touch with their audience and do things like that and podcasting. But then word gets to the corporate level and they have to shut things down.
About three or four years ago they killed all but one of their CBC Radio 3 podcasts and pushed everything over to streaming. They explained that it was to get more accurate listening numbers because people could download the podcasts and not listen to them. I was a longtime listener to their podcasts and I'm still missing them because I found a lot of great musicians there. Radio 3 only played Canadian indie musicians. Last time I checked their website it still required Flash which I'm not putting on my computer. The podcasts were very convenient because they would just show up on my iPhone when I synced it.
I would guess that they are trying to only get their podcasts sent out on players that provide some feedback on playing statistics. It's just a guess because I don't know if that's possible with iTunes. Either that or they will be coming into budget season again soon and they will be able to say that they had to chop something popular due to a lack of funds.
Polls don't start to report until all of the polls have closed. What happens is that the media are conducting exit polling (asking people as they leave the polls who they voted for) and are reporting that before the polls close.
I worked on an application that allowed certain people at large organizations to manage the firms phones on the switch instead of going through the telephone company. The application was provided by the telco and worked with Centrex type phones.
I spent 6 months adding in support for some phone options that the sales team said one customer wanted. After I finally got everything done and tested the customer was informed and decided not to go with it. The options dealt with group pick up and were used for creating call centres. They needed a computer or two to be working with the switch to figure out which line should receive the next call, etc.
As it turns out that my work was not wasted after all. I got a job at that client about 5 years later and I was talking to one of the Windows admins. Turns out that they had a computer for the call centre so they changed their mind about using the options.
So you are one of those that keep asking for the screen print!:)
I was talking to the first level help desk of the company that handled the credit card transactions for the websites of the government department I was working at. Their servers were down and I was trying to get them to start working on it. The process for a transaction was that we sent their server an XML file with information about the transaction, they returned an XML file with an URL to give to the user, the user completes the transaction using the URL, and we traded XML files again with information about the final status of the transaction.
So we kept sending XML files to start transactions but there were no responses coming back from their servers. The person at their help desk was didn't know how their system worked, even at the high end. He was asking for a screen shot. But how do you send a screen print of a XML that hasn't been returned? He wanted to see the screen that the URL pointed to but we never got that information. So after 10 or 15 minutes of hearing to send over the screen print I just said, "Okay, just create the ticket and send it back to the technical group. If they have any questions then have someone who knows what they are talking about call me." I hang up the phone, turn around, and see my three cubicle mates staring at me with their mouths open.
They called back about an hour later saying the problem had been fixed. I only got called once from them in the future and that was because it was early in the day and I liked getting in early so that I could get work done. They kept calling other people in my group instead of me.
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Don't worry, I'm sure that there's a robot that can fix it.
Meanwhile the rest of the class is bored out of their skulls waiting for the new kid to have the teacher explain it to them for the tenth time. I've seen it happen in a university course where someone (not me) spent a third of the lecture not grasping the idea before the professor shut him off and said to see him during office hours. By that time most of the class was ready to kick him into the hall, and not gently.
Not everyone is a genius. Just like everyone is not cut out for university. That's perfectly okay. Everyone can still be an important part of society if they want and are given the chance. Not everything needs a university education. People that pick up garbage & recycling and load & unload cargo ships both play important roles in society.
So that they can make money selling ads?
It's amazing how decent support can get when you start throwing buckets of money at the company.
I've got a feeling that it's going to get harder to tell what's fake news for the next while. I thought that this was a joke at first. Earlier today there was an article on CNN about women who have babies from sexual attacks have to share custody of the child with the attacker. If the attacker doesn't get convicted with a serious enough crime (for example, convicted of sexual assault 3 instead of sexual assault 1) then they can sue for visitation rights. I didn't check it out but when you articles like this then it makes one think that the other could be true because the laws are so screwed up.
I'm sorry but the US has soooooo many police agencies it's confusing which one does what.
Then why did the head of the FBI bring up the whole email thing with a week left to go and let it hang until a day or two left? I wouldn't be surprised if it was an FBI operation by themselves. They are going to need lots of money for people and equipment if Trump wants all of the immigrants and Muslims out of the country. Even kicking out a couple million immigrants is going to mean a big ramping up of resources and lots more spying on the public.
Well it didn't help that the leave side was promising the world and people were buying it. Especially all the money that was to go to the NHS and the farmers. The day after the election it was "What money?"
At least the UK can run a proper election. Not hearing about it for years ahead of time, not changing the rules on who can vote, not hearing about chads or electronic voter machine fraud.
Maybe the UK is trying a new approach to stop terrorism. Take away freedoms one at a time until the terrorists no longer hate them! /s
Well, the UK is trying to pick both options, restricting access and spying on everyone.
That's the BS excuse they used for Brexit. Muslims enter other parts of the EU and because the UK is part of the EU there is unchecked migration between member countries. Hence "unlimited Muslim migration". It's all fear mongering and if people took two seconds to actually think about things they would see it for crap argument that it is.
But the problem is that people have stopped thinking and that is why we have all of these articles now talking about how we need to stop fake news. We are past peak civilization and now every Onion story needs to come with a warning stating that it's a Fake News story.
Technically the vote for the president hasn't taken place yet. The vote for who will vote in the electoral college will. By tradition, and sometimes by state law, those people vote by the will of the people the represent. There was at least one person in Washington State this election who stated they wouldn't vote for Clinton on December 19 even if she won the state. Of course this one case won't make a difference if everyone else votes the way they are expected to.
Why would Congress start working with Obama now?
Idiots with explosives tend not to run about for very long.
Just pining for the fjords.
That's the problem with politicians. You don't know what are lies and what are the things they actually intend to go through with. I'm definitely not okay with it. It's why I didn't like Clinton because she was saying things to get elected. For example she was for the TPP for a long time and then Sanders came along and became popular. Then Clinton announces she won't pass the TPP if she's elected. Everyone knows that if she got in that TPP was going to be signed. And as much as I didn't like her I didn't want Trump in.
The danger with Trump, as he has repeatedly stated, is that he isn't a politician. So as far as we know he could have been completely honest in what he wants to accomplish as President.
(You can take that in both of it's meanings.) Facebook just delivers the messages that users put on it. A decade ago people were using email to send these stupid stories and images.
The real problem is that the majority of people have stopped thinking. They come across a story about Trump killing a yeti family while they were vacationing in Colorado and they accept it at face value as an example of how he'll keep America safe from immigrants. People have turned off their critical thinking and will believe what they are told to. If you are brought up believing that a certain party is the right one then nothing is going to change that.
These people like living in their bubbles with simple answers being fed to them, even if those simple answers are wrong and bring about dangerous consequences.
Vancouver has a lot of tech companies because of it's close to California. There's a lot of graphics work as a lot of movie and TV work goes on there. The big downside is the price of housing. And there is Montreal too which has more of a focus on gaming (building, not playing).
I wouldn't say that we don't have any Trump-like entities. Currently we don't but there's a Trump-lite who might run for the Conservative Party leadership.
I think that there are some pockets within the CBC that are really in touch with their audience and do things like that and podcasting. But then word gets to the corporate level and they have to shut things down.
About three or four years ago they killed all but one of their CBC Radio 3 podcasts and pushed everything over to streaming. They explained that it was to get more accurate listening numbers because people could download the podcasts and not listen to them. I was a longtime listener to their podcasts and I'm still missing them because I found a lot of great musicians there. Radio 3 only played Canadian indie musicians. Last time I checked their website it still required Flash which I'm not putting on my computer. The podcasts were very convenient because they would just show up on my iPhone when I synced it.
I would guess that they are trying to only get their podcasts sent out on players that provide some feedback on playing statistics. It's just a guess because I don't know if that's possible with iTunes. Either that or they will be coming into budget season again soon and they will be able to say that they had to chop something popular due to a lack of funds.
Polls don't start to report until all of the polls have closed. What happens is that the media are conducting exit polling (asking people as they leave the polls who they voted for) and are reporting that before the polls close.
Just make sure that they have Samsung batteries in them and you'll have your booms, ooh's and aah's.
And still be just as comprehensible as the original 2500 page bill.
I worked on an application that allowed certain people at large organizations to manage the firms phones on the switch instead of going through the telephone company. The application was provided by the telco and worked with Centrex type phones.
I spent 6 months adding in support for some phone options that the sales team said one customer wanted. After I finally got everything done and tested the customer was informed and decided not to go with it. The options dealt with group pick up and were used for creating call centres. They needed a computer or two to be working with the switch to figure out which line should receive the next call, etc.
As it turns out that my work was not wasted after all. I got a job at that client about 5 years later and I was talking to one of the Windows admins. Turns out that they had a computer for the call centre so they changed their mind about using the options.
So you are one of those that keep asking for the screen print! :)
I was talking to the first level help desk of the company that handled the credit card transactions for the websites of the government department I was working at. Their servers were down and I was trying to get them to start working on it. The process for a transaction was that we sent their server an XML file with information about the transaction, they returned an XML file with an URL to give to the user, the user completes the transaction using the URL, and we traded XML files again with information about the final status of the transaction.
So we kept sending XML files to start transactions but there were no responses coming back from their servers. The person at their help desk was didn't know how their system worked, even at the high end. He was asking for a screen shot. But how do you send a screen print of a XML that hasn't been returned? He wanted to see the screen that the URL pointed to but we never got that information. So after 10 or 15 minutes of hearing to send over the screen print I just said, "Okay, just create the ticket and send it back to the technical group. If they have any questions then have someone who knows what they are talking about call me." I hang up the phone, turn around, and see my three cubicle mates staring at me with their mouths open.
They called back about an hour later saying the problem had been fixed. I only got called once from them in the future and that was because it was early in the day and I liked getting in early so that I could get work done. They kept calling other people in my group instead of me.