He's berated and belittled reporters who painted him in an unflattering light. He's insinuated that a black protester at one of his rallies deserved being roughed up because he dared to protest at the rally. This isn't a man who can take an opposing side, discuss differences, and reach an equitable arrangement. This is a man who sits down with you, tells you the terms, and expects you to capitulate on everything. That isn't negotiation and won't fly if he's sitting down with Russia or China.
I don't like the Track All Americans idea either. The thing that worries me about the Track All Muslims idea is that it blames a problem on an ethnic/religious group and directs people to regard those people with fear and suspicion. It also indicates that the targeted group is somehow less than an average citizen so you can violate their rights in the name of security. People will support this because "It's not targeting me so what do I care?"
Speaking as someone who is Jewish, "blame all X" talk has played out before in history and it's never good. The groups targeted for "extra examination" will expand if this is allowed. By the time it expands to encompass the people saying "it's not me", there won't be anyone left to speak up for them.
wxxy___ claimed Trump was a plant. If we accepted this as true, then the "real" GOP candidates would be Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, etc. Candidates who are all behind Trump in the polls. Whether or not Trump is a plant, the GOP needs to ask some tough questions like: Just why does our base love the xenophobic, racist trash that Trump spews?
Except Rule #1 of negotiation is "Don't make inflammatory statements to the press before, during, or after negotiations." You can take a hard line during negotiations, but the purpose-less inflammatory statements that Trump makes would torpedo any negotiations before they even started.
Whatever Trump is really, he's trying to portray himself as an ultra-conservative candidate and palling around with Gore would hurt his image. If there's anything Trump values more than anything, it's his image.
What is the disease does this country have in listening to people like this?
Because there is a change happening in America. No longer can "old, white Christian guys" (OWCG) be assured that they are the most powerful group. Now you have "upstarts" like women and Latinos and non-Christians gaining power. OWCGs see this as a threat but they feel powerless to stop them. Trump taps into OWCGs' frustration and fans their various hatreds (xenophobia, racism, etc). He says what they are all thinking because he himself is an OWCG. So they follow him and cheer him on without worrying about where his proposals will lead America. Because they see a Trump presidency as returning OWCGs to the seat of power and shoving everyone else back into their "proper place" of obeying the rules that OWCGs set.
In the long run, OWCGs can't win. This change will happen whether they like it or not. When I have grandchildren, they will regard many of the OWCGs ideas the same way most of today's society regards "black people should be kept separate and second class from white people." Yes, there's an ever-diminishing fringe that believes that, but society at large has moved on. OWCGs will be that fringe in a few decades. The only question is whether we'll keep moving forward or if President Trump will hit the brakes for a couple of years (slowing us down but not stopping us).
Watergate, rampant paranoia, and antisemitism aside, Nixon wasn't bad. He opened relations with China - a huge diplomacy feat at the time.
Somehow, I don't see Trump being an effective negotiator. Unless by "effective" you mean "triggers World War 3 by demanding all other countries unilaterally agree to his terms."
If he's a ringer, then what does it say that he has the backing of enough Republicans to keep ahead in the polls - ahead of the "real" GOP candidates?
If he's not a ringer, then the same question applies.
Ringer or not, he's ahead in the polls. There's a worrisome number of people who are saying "Close down Mosques? Sounds good. Track all Muslims? Great idea. Ban all Muslim immigrants and form a deportation task force to get rid of 11 million Mexicans? Fantastic!"
To be fair, while he hasn't proposed concentration camps yet, neither did Hitler when he was first rising to power. I have a feeling the German people would have rejected "let's kill all the Jews and everyone who disagrees with me" if he led with that idea. Instead, he began with smaller ideas. You are suffering (which Germany was and which Trump supporters seem to think America is) and it's all these people's fault (putting the blame on another group - be they Jews, Muslims, or Mexicans). Then, since it's all their fault, they should be identified (star on their clothes or a national Muslim database) and segregated from "normal society." Then, you need a task force to deal with these undesirables (Trump's Deportation Force might not be as bad as the SS on paper, but I doubt the SS on paper was exactly what they became).
No, Trump isn't Hitler, but he's stoking the same xenophobic flames, is proposing clearly unconstitutional ideas without care as to their legality, and doing so while his supporters seem to say "We don't care if it's legal or not, those people need to be 'taken care of.'" History has shown us where this path leads and it's NOT a nice place. It's certainly not anywhere that I'd want America heading towards.
Bah! Everyone knows it's the right to bear arms. Now I demand that I have two additional arms - grizzly bear ones to be exact - attached to my body. Only a good guy with bear arms can be counted on to fight bad guys with bear arms.
Thanks for that link. I'm not sure how I didn't know that classic ASP had prepared statements. Of course, my preferred method would be to convert the entire application off of classic ASP, but this might be a good stop gap method.
Wow, and I thought cockatoos were bad. My wife's parents had a couple of cockatoos. One died young due to illness, but the other is going strong at around 20. The life expectancy is 60+ years so we might wind up inheriting the bird (if it doesn't go to my wife's brother) and could even wind up passing it down to my kids.
A 300 year old dog? Fido was my great-great-great-granddad's dog, passed down from generation to generation. Someday he'll be my kid's dog also.
The difference is not the language. The difference are the people doing architecture, design and implementation. If some languages have more security problems, that is primarily because these languages attract less competent coders.
Exactly this. Take classic ASP, for example. It's not the most recent language by any stretch of the imagination, but it's easy to check user input and escape it to prevent SQL injection attacks.
SQLQuery = "Select UserID where Name = '" & Replace(UserEnteredName, "'", "''") & "'"
The above will allow you to take the user entered name and put it into a SQL query without fear of little Bobby Tables wrecking havoc with your systems. Too many developers (across many languages) just write their code quickly and don't constantly keep thinking "how can this code be broken and how can I either prevent the breakage or gracefully recover?"
We have quite a few classic ASP applications running. They were coded over a decade ago when that was what you used to develop web applications on IIS. I'd love to port these to PHP or some other language, but it's a time intensive process (both rewriting the code and testing it to find the bugs that the rewriting process introduced) and we don't have the manpower to rewrite EVERYTHING.
Unfortunately, I've been directed that all new applications are to be written in Cold Fusion. So I'm moving from dead language to "I'm not dead yet. I feel happy." language. (I do PHP work on the side and am learning other languages like Python and Java to keep my skills up to data.)
Don't worry. If they prove that the Universe is a hologram then it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more and inexplicable. In fact, some think that this has already happened.
And when you think that we're detecting planets that are dozens to hundreds of light-years away... The mere fact that we can detect any at all is amazing and speaks to how far we've advanced. A 50% confirmation rate is phenomenal.
Unsend is easy to defeat, assuming someone reads it before you unsend it. Simply take a screenshot and your message will live on. In fact, it might become standard practice to refer to screenshots of messages in case someone unsends the message and then tries claiming they never said it.
(Yes, screenshots can be faked, but it will be some proof that the message happened.)
They "only" surveyed 150K stars out of the 100 billion (as the lower bound -- could be 400 billion) stars in the galaxy
This is the most important point. The summary's claiming that since half were false positives, we're likely unique. Except we've now gone from 2,000+ planets to around 1,000 planets out of 150K stars. If we extrapolate up to the 100 billion stars in our galaxy, that would be over 660 MILLION stars with planets in our galaxy. Some of those won't have life, but 1 in 660 million seems like tiny odds given how prevalent the building blocks for life seem to be. Once you add in other galaxies, the chances that we're alone in the Universe drop to zero. We might never be able to communicate with alien life, but it's looking more and more certain that it's out there somewhere.
They make the full body suits also. (I'm guessing electromagnetic nerve pulses could make you detectable to marine life just as much as head-based electromagnetic signals.) So maybe "WiFi allergy sufferers" could wear these suits everywhere.
And it only seems to get worse. Some of the biggest politicians running for president (*cough*Trump*cough*Carson*cough*Cruz*cough*) don't only indulge in anti-science, but revel in it. Trump in particular has said some things that should have been an automatic, one-way ticket out of the presidential race, but there he remains at the top of the polls. When you have politicians in charge spouting anti-science nonsense and crowds of people cheering them on, it can make a person feel very pessimistic about the future of one's country.
Just like all the studies disproving any vaccine-autism link have proven to everyone that no vaccine-autism link exists? Or all the moon landing proof has everyone 100% convinced that moon landings occurred? Some people will believe whatever they want to believe and the only "proof/evidence" that matters is the stuff that proves them right. All that other stuff is manufactured by The Grand Conspiracy to keep the people in line.
It really is a shame that we stigmatize mental illness and disorders like we do. If someone has a physical ailment like diabetes, nobody (apart form a few wackos who are safely ignored) would think there's something wrong with the person taking insulin or modifying their diet. However, if someone has a mental disorder, they are told to "just get over it" as if they woke up one day and said to themselves "Hey, I think I'll be depressed today."
When my son was diagnosed with Autism (not a mental illness, but gets grouped in there in many people's minds), my parents had a hard time accepting it. They still insist that he'll "grow out of it." What upset them even more was when I said that I was sure that I was autistic as well (just not diagnosed). They acted as though me being autistic was a bad judgement on their parenting. As if I was saying "Well, I'm autistic because you were horrible parents." If anything, I think it means they were better parents because they were dealing with something without knowing what it was and I still turned out pretty good. My wife and I have access to a lot more resources for my son than my parents had with me.
We're not going to be able to properly deal with mental illness and disorders until we stop stigmatizing people for having them.
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He's berated and belittled reporters who painted him in an unflattering light. He's insinuated that a black protester at one of his rallies deserved being roughed up because he dared to protest at the rally. This isn't a man who can take an opposing side, discuss differences, and reach an equitable arrangement. This is a man who sits down with you, tells you the terms, and expects you to capitulate on everything. That isn't negotiation and won't fly if he's sitting down with Russia or China.
I don't like the Track All Americans idea either. The thing that worries me about the Track All Muslims idea is that it blames a problem on an ethnic/religious group and directs people to regard those people with fear and suspicion. It also indicates that the targeted group is somehow less than an average citizen so you can violate their rights in the name of security. People will support this because "It's not targeting me so what do I care?"
Speaking as someone who is Jewish, "blame all X" talk has played out before in history and it's never good. The groups targeted for "extra examination" will expand if this is allowed. By the time it expands to encompass the people saying "it's not me", there won't be anyone left to speak up for them.
Given that Trump has said that Jews can't control him because he won't accept their money, I don't think he's got much Jewish vote locked in.
wxxy___ claimed Trump was a plant. If we accepted this as true, then the "real" GOP candidates would be Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, etc. Candidates who are all behind Trump in the polls. Whether or not Trump is a plant, the GOP needs to ask some tough questions like: Just why does our base love the xenophobic, racist trash that Trump spews?
Except Rule #1 of negotiation is "Don't make inflammatory statements to the press before, during, or after negotiations." You can take a hard line during negotiations, but the purpose-less inflammatory statements that Trump makes would torpedo any negotiations before they even started.
Whatever Trump is really, he's trying to portray himself as an ultra-conservative candidate and palling around with Gore would hurt his image. If there's anything Trump values more than anything, it's his image.
Because there is a change happening in America. No longer can "old, white Christian guys" (OWCG) be assured that they are the most powerful group. Now you have "upstarts" like women and Latinos and non-Christians gaining power. OWCGs see this as a threat but they feel powerless to stop them. Trump taps into OWCGs' frustration and fans their various hatreds (xenophobia, racism, etc). He says what they are all thinking because he himself is an OWCG. So they follow him and cheer him on without worrying about where his proposals will lead America. Because they see a Trump presidency as returning OWCGs to the seat of power and shoving everyone else back into their "proper place" of obeying the rules that OWCGs set.
In the long run, OWCGs can't win. This change will happen whether they like it or not. When I have grandchildren, they will regard many of the OWCGs ideas the same way most of today's society regards "black people should be kept separate and second class from white people." Yes, there's an ever-diminishing fringe that believes that, but society at large has moved on. OWCGs will be that fringe in a few decades. The only question is whether we'll keep moving forward or if President Trump will hit the brakes for a couple of years (slowing us down but not stopping us).
Watergate, rampant paranoia, and antisemitism aside, Nixon wasn't bad. He opened relations with China - a huge diplomacy feat at the time.
Somehow, I don't see Trump being an effective negotiator. Unless by "effective" you mean "triggers World War 3 by demanding all other countries unilaterally agree to his terms."
But Al Gore is a dirty, rotten Liberal and Bill Gates is a wholesome, job-creating Businessman. Trump would much rather deal with the latter.
If he's a ringer, then what does it say that he has the backing of enough Republicans to keep ahead in the polls - ahead of the "real" GOP candidates?
If he's not a ringer, then the same question applies.
Ringer or not, he's ahead in the polls. There's a worrisome number of people who are saying "Close down Mosques? Sounds good. Track all Muslims? Great idea. Ban all Muslim immigrants and form a deportation task force to get rid of 11 million Mexicans? Fantastic!"
To be fair, while he hasn't proposed concentration camps yet, neither did Hitler when he was first rising to power. I have a feeling the German people would have rejected "let's kill all the Jews and everyone who disagrees with me" if he led with that idea. Instead, he began with smaller ideas. You are suffering (which Germany was and which Trump supporters seem to think America is) and it's all these people's fault (putting the blame on another group - be they Jews, Muslims, or Mexicans). Then, since it's all their fault, they should be identified (star on their clothes or a national Muslim database) and segregated from "normal society." Then, you need a task force to deal with these undesirables (Trump's Deportation Force might not be as bad as the SS on paper, but I doubt the SS on paper was exactly what they became).
No, Trump isn't Hitler, but he's stoking the same xenophobic flames, is proposing clearly unconstitutional ideas without care as to their legality, and doing so while his supporters seem to say "We don't care if it's legal or not, those people need to be 'taken care of.'" History has shown us where this path leads and it's NOT a nice place. It's certainly not anywhere that I'd want America heading towards.
Bah! Everyone knows it's the right to bear arms. Now I demand that I have two additional arms - grizzly bear ones to be exact - attached to my body. Only a good guy with bear arms can be counted on to fight bad guys with bear arms.
Thanks for that link. I'm not sure how I didn't know that classic ASP had prepared statements. Of course, my preferred method would be to convert the entire application off of classic ASP, but this might be a good stop gap method.
Wow, and I thought cockatoos were bad. My wife's parents had a couple of cockatoos. One died young due to illness, but the other is going strong at around 20. The life expectancy is 60+ years so we might wind up inheriting the bird (if it doesn't go to my wife's brother) and could even wind up passing it down to my kids.
A 300 year old dog? Fido was my great-great-great-granddad's dog, passed down from generation to generation. Someday he'll be my kid's dog also.
Exactly this. Take classic ASP, for example. It's not the most recent language by any stretch of the imagination, but it's easy to check user input and escape it to prevent SQL injection attacks.
SQLQuery = "Select UserID where Name = '" & Replace(UserEnteredName, "'", "''") & "'"
The above will allow you to take the user entered name and put it into a SQL query without fear of little Bobby Tables wrecking havoc with your systems. Too many developers (across many languages) just write their code quickly and don't constantly keep thinking "how can this code be broken and how can I either prevent the breakage or gracefully recover?"
We have quite a few classic ASP applications running. They were coded over a decade ago when that was what you used to develop web applications on IIS. I'd love to port these to PHP or some other language, but it's a time intensive process (both rewriting the code and testing it to find the bugs that the rewriting process introduced) and we don't have the manpower to rewrite EVERYTHING.
Unfortunately, I've been directed that all new applications are to be written in Cold Fusion. So I'm moving from dead language to "I'm not dead yet. I feel happy." language. (I do PHP work on the side and am learning other languages like Python and Java to keep my skills up to data.)
Don't worry. If they prove that the Universe is a hologram then it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more and inexplicable. In fact, some think that this has already happened.
And when you think that we're detecting planets that are dozens to hundreds of light-years away... The mere fact that we can detect any at all is amazing and speaks to how far we've advanced. A 50% confirmation rate is phenomenal.
It's all part of the Science News Cycle.
Unsend is easy to defeat, assuming someone reads it before you unsend it. Simply take a screenshot and your message will live on. In fact, it might become standard practice to refer to screenshots of messages in case someone unsends the message and then tries claiming they never said it.
(Yes, screenshots can be faked, but it will be some proof that the message happened.)
This is the most important point. The summary's claiming that since half were false positives, we're likely unique. Except we've now gone from 2,000+ planets to around 1,000 planets out of 150K stars. If we extrapolate up to the 100 billion stars in our galaxy, that would be over 660 MILLION stars with planets in our galaxy. Some of those won't have life, but 1 in 660 million seems like tiny odds given how prevalent the building blocks for life seem to be. Once you add in other galaxies, the chances that we're alone in the Universe drop to zero. We might never be able to communicate with alien life, but it's looking more and more certain that it's out there somewhere.
They make the full body suits also. (I'm guessing electromagnetic nerve pulses could make you detectable to marine life just as much as head-based electromagnetic signals.) So maybe "WiFi allergy sufferers" could wear these suits everywhere.
And it only seems to get worse. Some of the biggest politicians running for president (*cough*Trump*cough*Carson*cough*Cruz*cough*) don't only indulge in anti-science, but revel in it. Trump in particular has said some things that should have been an automatic, one-way ticket out of the presidential race, but there he remains at the top of the polls. When you have politicians in charge spouting anti-science nonsense and crowds of people cheering them on, it can make a person feel very pessimistic about the future of one's country.
Just like all the studies disproving any vaccine-autism link have proven to everyone that no vaccine-autism link exists? Or all the moon landing proof has everyone 100% convinced that moon landings occurred? Some people will believe whatever they want to believe and the only "proof/evidence" that matters is the stuff that proves them right. All that other stuff is manufactured by The Grand Conspiracy to keep the people in line.
It really is a shame that we stigmatize mental illness and disorders like we do. If someone has a physical ailment like diabetes, nobody (apart form a few wackos who are safely ignored) would think there's something wrong with the person taking insulin or modifying their diet. However, if someone has a mental disorder, they are told to "just get over it" as if they woke up one day and said to themselves "Hey, I think I'll be depressed today."
When my son was diagnosed with Autism (not a mental illness, but gets grouped in there in many people's minds), my parents had a hard time accepting it. They still insist that he'll "grow out of it." What upset them even more was when I said that I was sure that I was autistic as well (just not diagnosed). They acted as though me being autistic was a bad judgement on their parenting. As if I was saying "Well, I'm autistic because you were horrible parents." If anything, I think it means they were better parents because they were dealing with something without knowing what it was and I still turned out pretty good. My wife and I have access to a lot more resources for my son than my parents had with me.
We're not going to be able to properly deal with mental illness and disorders until we stop stigmatizing people for having them.