What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, if they don't care to sift the politician's words for truths and lies? What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, when many of them do not care to vote? What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, when many of them vote along the party lines or ideology of their parents, never questioning whether they are actually effecting change, or spouting pointless drivel? What's the point of having a society whose beliefs include the idea that truth is not an absolute, but rather, it is whatever the vast majority happens to believe? If we were all of native American descent, experiencing the Dream Time, I might consider that something worth looking into...but in so far as we are not (to my knowledge), and at the thought of a single person being treated as an outcast for falsehoods believed to be true by every other person, I have little patience.
Indeed. It's getting to the point where even the powerful will soon have field armies just to purchase a cup of milk without being interrogated.
I mean, look at the current state of the Union: we have a NY Supreme Court Justice who can be struck by an police officer, for doing nothing more than offering some assistance, and the DA / Internal Affairs is unwilling to pursue the case to any end. I ask you, why are we letting this happen to this country? Are too many people still living in that daydream of 'it can't happen here'? Is there simply no other medicine that bloodshed to restore the Tree of Liberty to its former glory? Is this the latest challenge from the gods...to see if the vast majority of humanity will act like willing lemmings under the power of tyranny? Because the answer is probably in the gods' favor. What is this accomplishing? Are they showing their power over humanity, their ability to dominate? Is that all this is, someone beating their chest?
Well, we can do the knee-jerk thing, and randomly shout out guesses of where the funds may be going, or we can examine the various laws passed over the last several years, with a critical eye towards items that appear or disappear during those times. Granted, the language of those bills is...rough, to say the least, and you almost need an indexing service to generate hyperlinks to the original laws / dependencies to figure out what, exactly, they say now....which I imagine lawmakers already have. Actually...if they don't, that might be worth creating...something like $40K / per license, so the good Senators / Representatives can actually know what the current law says (when all the rewritten / redacted language is taken into account). Kind of like LexisNexis, but for the politicians / the people who care for such things. And the general formatting of such laws does lend itself to a parse-able format...
When has our society ever shown even an ounce of restraint when they were sure that they had gotten the 'right guy'?
Sure, it's true that for every person on this planet, something like five others share the same DNA (or at least, the tests would confirm positive matches for five others..perhaps not the same DNA, but a limitation of the tests). But our societies are, by and large, pro-conviction; the litmus test here could easily be the plea bargain and extortionate legal feeds. Our populaces are, by and large, pro-conviction; hold a poll, ask them if, on the word of an officer, someone was involved in a crime, would they tend to believe this person participated in this crime? You will find that many will doggedly answer "yes"; they simply cannot fathom any circumstance where it would not be true, and when they can, they dismiss it out of hand as paranoid thinking.
You're right. The PC industry needs to come out with maintenance free PCs, for the common people!
We will take the automotive industry's example of oil-free cars, and run with it. No longer will you need to stop by Good Year / Jiffy Lube / etc. or (shh, is forbidden) change your oil yourself: this is the year 2013, right, WTF do they mean read the car manual and perform maintenance? Don't they know that no one has time for that? Just make cars / trucks / boats / planes maintenance-free, and your problem is solved! Besides, those car mechanics probably steal from you when you bring your car in...or break something so that you need to bring it back in...and $40 for an oil change? It's a rip-off!
Hell, we should replace the keyboard with 'The Facepalmer (TM),' because the computers these days are smarter than the end users, so they should know what they want to do, right? It's not that hard! Just have the user smash their face into 'The Facepalmer (TM),' and it will reorganize their iTunes collection / send an email for them / or browse the web for them! It's that easy!
Thermonuclear reactors using some isotope of Uranium / Plutonium != All versions of nuclear reactors, in much the same way as 747s using a series of jet engines != All vehicles using engines (of some design).
But it does require some knowledge of physics to know how common something can qualify for the phrase 'nuclear reactor,' and it does take some browsing / reading to know of the various versions that have been used / are used today.
Hmm, this is a tough one. See, the math you are usually going to use in CS on a daily basis is not going to be using actual numbers, which is where things get tricky...as some of the engineers / mathematicians / other scientists will occasionally point out, you reach a level where you stop using real numbers, and start using symbols (variables)....similar idea with Computer Science on a basic programming basis -> when you are trying to determine whether this old algorithm needs to be replaced (i.e. do I need to focus on this, or should I leave it because it isn't worth it), you are, essentially, integrating in your head the performance, and having had experience with Calculus, can make the right judgement call. Linear algebra lends itself to programming, again, on a basic level, as, at times, you are adjusting several equations at the same time, if not solving all of them simultaneously.
Hmm. That's right....I own some O'Reilly eBooks...keep forgetting about them...almost as bad as Steam sales sometimes. "Lightknight, how would you like that $40 book for $20, in eBook format..." -> fine, fine, put it with the others, I'll eventually get around to reading it (when I recover from this backlog in the real world).
And be sure to write your name down, Citizen, when you buy gold. Some people will be by, later, to pick it back up, and give you new bonds / dollars in the Glorious Prosperous Union the next time the main bank is suffering a bout of insolvency (which has nothing to do with its policies, these are simply business cycles in the market, comrade!). Like the people of Cypress and their Spring-Time Double Happiness Reverse Bank Bailout, you are the one who is actually receiving the better deal! Those securities will one day be worth at least 100% more than their current worth! A doubling in value at least!
Oh God, let them. It seems today that a lot of governments seem to be suffering from Highlander Syndrome ("There can only be one"), so let them nuke each other back to the Stone Age. At the very least, it will weaken them, and hey, if one of them manages to dominate the others, it will be so f*cked up from being bludgeoned half the dead with a brick from its neighbor (since it will have exhausted its conventional weapon supply by then), that it won't pose much trouble.
Then people can go back to doing what they do when they are being ruled: living.
Well, did you expect him to tell them the truth about the current state of the field? Imagine how that would go down.
"For the intelligent / hard-working / lucky among you who managed to perform several internships (paid or unpaid) during this economic downturn, and have secured your futures at MS, Google, Amazon, etc., welcome to the team! For those of you here through some sort of immigration and worked hard for your degrees, welcome to the team! For everyone else, look forward to being out of work for at least 6 months, possibly a year or more, and entertaining offers that allow no way for you to live, eat, and pay back your college loans at the same time.
Now this applies to everyone, smart, immigrant, or 'got my degree' -> wage stagnation has occurred in this industry for the better part of a decade. You're going to be lucky to get that cost of living increase, so work hard! At current, programmers of every color are spending less and less time at each job, and each job is asking for and more; company loyalty is a thing of the past, but then, that's fine, since you won't be at a company for more than 3 years at most.
And yes, this is not the job you signed on for when you applied for your degree, but look at it this way: at the current rate things are going, with global unrest and so on, in a few years, you'll be lucky to have a job at all. And having a job will keep you out of the camps for invalids. Did I say invalids? Or camps? I meant the happy time re-education centers, for adults / adolescents who are having a hard time being placed in society."
Rich or poor, how well has anyone done with attempting to erase their mistakes from the internet? If it's a mistake, real or imaginary, it's typically broadcast at levels which leave a signature for years...and attempting to remove those mistakes via court orders usually invokes the Streisand effect, making those mistakes even more costly.
Nonsense. All publicity is good publicity. And think of all of the good publicity PayPal will receive in the future when the next time a bug like this is sold on the Russian bug exchange instead of sent directly to PayPal, resulting in thousands, possibly millions of dollars in losses.
Hmm. I thought it was the first step in colonizing China. They do have WMDs, and now they have plans for uber-weapons...sounds like a good reason to go over and say "Hello" (in Mr. Popo's voice). Then we can engage in a nation-(re)building exercise, while making Russia feel really uncomfortable.
We can only assume they wanted it stolen. Either that, or the Pentagon has had a serious markdown in quality recently.
If it's connected to a network, people will find a way to tap into it. They will then spend all their time trying to find the usernames / password for various accounts, because chances are, auditing is not turned on for those accounts, and no one ever checks the logs.
Indeed. It's kind of odd, when you think about it. It's almost like the Pentagon has purposefully left the barn door open...
But that's silly talk. It's not like our country would ever neglect to erect defenses when needed. It's not like there is a group of politicians looking for this generation's 'Pearl Harbor,' nor have they been recorded as saying this is their objective.
I believe I speak for my generation when I say that if they play the same games with this generation that they did the previous, they had best be looking at a retirement package that involves living in another country; failing to act on good information, for the singular reason of drumming up support for a war, and getting people killed in the process...well, we are aware now that the White House had advance notice of the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Did they mention the part where their kids (of the bigwigs @ the MPAA & friends) get a copy of the list of unlock codes for free, so they can save face?
Looks bad for a studio when the studio head's own kids are insane pirates, and the local tabloids get wind that they had to call the police to get their MacBook Pro's unlocked. Tabloids can be so irresponsible.
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I take it there is no word of condemnation from President Obama on this action?
What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, if they don't care to sift the politician's words for truths and lies? What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, when many of them do not care to vote? What's the point of giving the vote to the masses, when many of them vote along the party lines or ideology of their parents, never questioning whether they are actually effecting change, or spouting pointless drivel? What's the point of having a society whose beliefs include the idea that truth is not an absolute, but rather, it is whatever the vast majority happens to believe? If we were all of native American descent, experiencing the Dream Time, I might consider that something worth looking into...but in so far as we are not (to my knowledge), and at the thought of a single person being treated as an outcast for falsehoods believed to be true by every other person, I have little patience.
Indeed. It's getting to the point where even the powerful will soon have field armies just to purchase a cup of milk without being interrogated.
I mean, look at the current state of the Union: we have a NY Supreme Court Justice who can be struck by an police officer, for doing nothing more than offering some assistance, and the DA / Internal Affairs is unwilling to pursue the case to any end. I ask you, why are we letting this happen to this country? Are too many people still living in that daydream of 'it can't happen here'? Is there simply no other medicine that bloodshed to restore the Tree of Liberty to its former glory? Is this the latest challenge from the gods...to see if the vast majority of humanity will act like willing lemmings under the power of tyranny? Because the answer is probably in the gods' favor. What is this accomplishing? Are they showing their power over humanity, their ability to dominate? Is that all this is, someone beating their chest?
Well, we can do the knee-jerk thing, and randomly shout out guesses of where the funds may be going, or we can examine the various laws passed over the last several years, with a critical eye towards items that appear or disappear during those times. Granted, the language of those bills is...rough, to say the least, and you almost need an indexing service to generate hyperlinks to the original laws / dependencies to figure out what, exactly, they say now....which I imagine lawmakers already have. Actually...if they don't, that might be worth creating...something like $40K / per license, so the good Senators / Representatives can actually know what the current law says (when all the rewritten / redacted language is taken into account). Kind of like LexisNexis, but for the politicians / the people who care for such things. And the general formatting of such laws does lend itself to a parse-able format...
When has our society ever shown even an ounce of restraint when they were sure that they had gotten the 'right guy'?
Sure, it's true that for every person on this planet, something like five others share the same DNA (or at least, the tests would confirm positive matches for five others..perhaps not the same DNA, but a limitation of the tests). But our societies are, by and large, pro-conviction; the litmus test here could easily be the plea bargain and extortionate legal feeds. Our populaces are, by and large, pro-conviction; hold a poll, ask them if, on the word of an officer, someone was involved in a crime, would they tend to believe this person participated in this crime? You will find that many will doggedly answer "yes"; they simply cannot fathom any circumstance where it would not be true, and when they can, they dismiss it out of hand as paranoid thinking.
I think I'm looking at a society in denial.
You're right. The PC industry needs to come out with maintenance free PCs, for the common people!
We will take the automotive industry's example of oil-free cars, and run with it. No longer will you need to stop by Good Year / Jiffy Lube / etc. or (shh, is forbidden) change your oil yourself: this is the year 2013, right, WTF do they mean read the car manual and perform maintenance? Don't they know that no one has time for that? Just make cars / trucks / boats / planes maintenance-free, and your problem is solved! Besides, those car mechanics probably steal from you when you bring your car in...or break something so that you need to bring it back in...and $40 for an oil change? It's a rip-off!
Hell, we should replace the keyboard with 'The Facepalmer (TM),' because the computers these days are smarter than the end users, so they should know what they want to do, right? It's not that hard! Just have the user smash their face into 'The Facepalmer (TM),' and it will reorganize their iTunes collection / send an email for them / or browse the web for them! It's that easy!
Thermonuclear reactors using some isotope of Uranium / Plutonium != All versions of nuclear reactors, in much the same way as 747s using a series of jet engines != All vehicles using engines (of some design).
But it does require some knowledge of physics to know how common something can qualify for the phrase 'nuclear reactor,' and it does take some browsing / reading to know of the various versions that have been used / are used today.
Hmm, this is a tough one. See, the math you are usually going to use in CS on a daily basis is not going to be using actual numbers, which is where things get tricky...as some of the engineers / mathematicians / other scientists will occasionally point out, you reach a level where you stop using real numbers, and start using symbols (variables)....similar idea with Computer Science on a basic programming basis -> when you are trying to determine whether this old algorithm needs to be replaced (i.e. do I need to focus on this, or should I leave it because it isn't worth it), you are, essentially, integrating in your head the performance, and having had experience with Calculus, can make the right judgement call. Linear algebra lends itself to programming, again, on a basic level, as, at times, you are adjusting several equations at the same time, if not solving all of them simultaneously.
Hmm. That's right....I own some O'Reilly eBooks...keep forgetting about them...almost as bad as Steam sales sometimes. "Lightknight, how would you like that $40 book for $20, in eBook format..." -> fine, fine, put it with the others, I'll eventually get around to reading it (when I recover from this backlog in the real world).
Hmm, I take it you are neither a fan of satire, nor history.
Well, I hear they are working on an app for that.
And be sure to write your name down, Citizen, when you buy gold. Some people will be by, later, to pick it back up, and give you new bonds / dollars in the Glorious Prosperous Union the next time the main bank is suffering a bout of insolvency (which has nothing to do with its policies, these are simply business cycles in the market, comrade!). Like the people of Cypress and their Spring-Time Double Happiness Reverse Bank Bailout, you are the one who is actually receiving the better deal! Those securities will one day be worth at least 100% more than their current worth! A doubling in value at least!
Oh God, let them. It seems today that a lot of governments seem to be suffering from Highlander Syndrome ("There can only be one"), so let them nuke each other back to the Stone Age. At the very least, it will weaken them, and hey, if one of them manages to dominate the others, it will be so f*cked up from being bludgeoned half the dead with a brick from its neighbor (since it will have exhausted its conventional weapon supply by then), that it won't pose much trouble.
Then people can go back to doing what they do when they are being ruled: living.
if(exploit) {return false;} else {return true;}
A good prosecutor never lets something like the law get in the way of a conviction.
They wouldn't be able to buy laws if politicians weren't selling them.
Well, did you expect him to tell them the truth about the current state of the field? Imagine how that would go down.
"For the intelligent / hard-working / lucky among you who managed to perform several internships (paid or unpaid) during this economic downturn, and have secured your futures at MS, Google, Amazon, etc., welcome to the team! For those of you here through some sort of immigration and worked hard for your degrees, welcome to the team! For everyone else, look forward to being out of work for at least 6 months, possibly a year or more, and entertaining offers that allow no way for you to live, eat, and pay back your college loans at the same time.
Now this applies to everyone, smart, immigrant, or 'got my degree' -> wage stagnation has occurred in this industry for the better part of a decade. You're going to be lucky to get that cost of living increase, so work hard! At current, programmers of every color are spending less and less time at each job, and each job is asking for and more; company loyalty is a thing of the past, but then, that's fine, since you won't be at a company for more than 3 years at most.
And yes, this is not the job you signed on for when you applied for your degree, but look at it this way: at the current rate things are going, with global unrest and so on, in a few years, you'll be lucky to have a job at all. And having a job will keep you out of the camps for invalids. Did I say invalids? Or camps? I meant the happy time re-education centers, for adults / adolescents who are having a hard time being placed in society."
Rich or poor, how well has anyone done with attempting to erase their mistakes from the internet? If it's a mistake, real or imaginary, it's typically broadcast at levels which leave a signature for years...and attempting to remove those mistakes via court orders usually invokes the Streisand effect, making those mistakes even more costly.
Nonsense. All publicity is good publicity. And think of all of the good publicity PayPal will receive in the future when the next time a bug like this is sold on the Russian bug exchange instead of sent directly to PayPal, resulting in thousands, possibly millions of dollars in losses.
Hmm. I thought it was the first step in colonizing China. They do have WMDs, and now they have plans for uber-weapons...sounds like a good reason to go over and say "Hello" (in Mr. Popo's voice). Then we can engage in a nation-(re)building exercise, while making Russia feel really uncomfortable.
"Lao Tzu, these plans say to make the ultra-secret RADAR out of cardboard! Are you sure the CIA didn't modify them?"
We can only assume they wanted it stolen. Either that, or the Pentagon has had a serious markdown in quality recently.
If it's connected to a network, people will find a way to tap into it. They will then spend all their time trying to find the usernames / password for various accounts, because chances are, auditing is not turned on for those accounts, and no one ever checks the logs.
Indeed. It's kind of odd, when you think about it. It's almost like the Pentagon has purposefully left the barn door open...
But that's silly talk. It's not like our country would ever neglect to erect defenses when needed. It's not like there is a group of politicians looking for this generation's 'Pearl Harbor,' nor have they been recorded as saying this is their objective.
I believe I speak for my generation when I say that if they play the same games with this generation that they did the previous, they had best be looking at a retirement package that involves living in another country; failing to act on good information, for the singular reason of drumming up support for a war, and getting people killed in the process...well, we are aware now that the White House had advance notice of the Pearl Harbor attacks.
And they wonder why much of the internet has disappeared...
Wait, I realize my mistake: they wouldn't call to get their machines unlocked. They'd just purchase new ones.
And the tabloids would fish the locked ones out of the dumpster.
Did they mention the part where their kids (of the bigwigs @ the MPAA & friends) get a copy of the list of unlock codes for free, so they can save face?
Looks bad for a studio when the studio head's own kids are insane pirates, and the local tabloids get wind that they had to call the police to get their MacBook Pro's unlocked. Tabloids can be so irresponsible.