Maybe he was an engineer, the one who designed the round nylon shoelaces I bitched about in that K5 article a few years ago that seem to have gone the way of the dodo (thank God). That was you? Man, that article was awesome! Totally changed my life!
Don't be such a moron. Don't resort to childish name calling.
Plame was not outed by the administration, she was outed (if you can even call it that, since she wasn't in a covert status at the time) by a single individual who said something he probably should not have to a reporter. And it certainly wasn't done to "end her career". It was a total non-story.
Bet you supported the NY Times publishing all the details about the SWIFT program, though, huh?
It is illegal in Germany and France to sell Nazi material because many people find it very offensive. Incorrect. Nazi memorabilia is illegal in those countries due to de-Nazification programs enacted at the end of WW2. They remain illegal due to a perceived belief that those icons would provide a rallying point to neo Nazis today. It doesn't really have anything to do with the symbols being offensive, it has to do with the fetish that certain people have towards them.
Right. Replace one worker who takes 29k a year off your bottom line with three workers who would take more than triple that a year off your bottom line Um, no, train other existing workers to do one of the stated tasks (the mail merge) themselves, completely removing the need for a dedicated worker for that job. The second job you listed, the recording of phone calls, can be handled by a machine; and with the first one, once you've replaced the other two, could either be amalgamated into someone's else responsibilities, or be obviated by automating the process of delivering of the consent forms in the first place.
Tell that to all of your employees, see how long they stick around. If this is truly your opinion, and you are a "highly placed executive", I suggest you stop fisting yourself and realize that assholes are not appreciated, regardless of what role they take in a company. You may have a larger bank account than me, and you may have a fancier bit of paper on the wall, but that doesn't mean you are liked as a human being. My wife would disagree with you about my not being liked as a human being (though to be fair, my ex-wife would agree with you).
I don't have any employees, and I'm not a Fortune 500 CEO. But that doesn't mean I don't understand the basics of efficiency and management, two things which you fail to grasp.
You may live in a bigger house, but I guarantee you I live a more satisfied and happier existence. Considering you know nothing of my career and have made grossly inaccurate assumptions not just about that but about my lifestyle as well, how can you be in a position to guarantee any sort of knowledge about the quality of my "existence"?
Don't get angry at me because I pointed out you have a pointless job that doesn't do anything important for your company that can't be replaced by a well written shell script. Go get some real skills and get a better job, and stop wasting your time justifying your existence to someone who doesn't really care about you in the first place.
I'm pretty sure Millennials are the kids who were born within two or three years of the millennium, up to today. Basically, grade schoolers, the children of Gen X. Gen Y are the ones who are late adolescent to early 20s, also sometimes the children of Gen X, or late baby boomers.
Or maybe they're all just meaningless terms used by people to try to lump groups of other people together, arbitrarily. I forget which it is.
FWIW, I lived for two years in Chicago on US$12,000. It's not accurate to compare your experience in 1967 with young workers today. Back then, that was a good salary.
I essentially do the job of three different people, from three different industries, with three different trainings, with three different backgrounds. Every single one of which could be easily replaced by a well-written program, or by simply providing some basic training to the other employees. This is very much not the case for highly placed executives. So don't be too proud of your "achievements" every day, they pale in comparison to what highly trained and sought after people do for a living.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something about "currying". The mathematics aspect of computer science has never been my strong suit, so if I'm missing something, please enlighten me.
Except that's not how you'd do it in most procedural languages today. Instead, you'd define a function and then call that function recursively. Eg, in Python it would be: def add(x,y):
return x+y add(add(1,2),3) 6
So how is that fundamentally different from your Lisp segment, other than you used a built-in function and I created one that mimicked yours?
Having never used Comcast, I'll leave it to those who have to asses the meaning of "serve our customers". Let's just say that if this system doesn't include whips, truncheons, or water boarding, then it's not on par with how they normally service their customers.
I specifically mentioned aircraft, so I'm not sure why you had to ask about combat planes (you must be referring to fixed-wing fighter and/or bomber aircraft, though it's not clear which it is).
I'd leave out heavy machine guns, but allow squad automatic weapons. They're specifically designed to be operated and maintained by one person. I'd also allow grenades, if only because IEDs have proven so effective and grenades could form the heart of an IED. The whole point is to level the playing field as much as possible between the populace and the army, after all.
Using that logic, the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education should've just agreed with the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and called it a day.
"...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Not really sure why that instance of "people" is considered so different from every other time the word is used in the Bill of Rights.
As for free citizens having military grade hardware, I'm of the opinion that if one man can operate and maintain it, then it should be allowed. Pretty much rules out artillery, aircraft, and so forth. Additionally, if the military isn't allowed to use it, then civilians shouldn't be, either (WMDs and mines, for instance). Anything else should be fair game.
No, it's called a "Big Tent", and it's something that Goldwater and Reagan both championed to help combat communism (which was the mutual enemy of all those groups). Now that communism is, for all intents and purposes, dead, there's not as much reason for socialcons and libertarians (to name two) to have anything to do with each other. Hence the breakdown of the Republican party which we are all watching unfold.
The Democrats still stand for the things that FDR and Johnson stood for (internationalism and social programs), so they're doing much better, the Obama-Clinton fracas notwithstanding.
I mean, beavers are intelligent; they're just not intelligent like us, and that's what it's really about. Not all beavers are intelligent. Just look at the ones in my wife's coat.
Show me an AI that passes the Turing Test. I'll ask it what coffee tastes like, or what sex feels like, or what it felt when its mother died. You need to jump straight to the hard stuff, and ask it what it would do if it came upon a tortoise on its back in the middle of the desert.
Did you never see the video of the guy lifting the crashed helicopter off his friend ~10 years ago? No, but I know a guy who knows a guy who saw it. He said it was really cool!
Why didn't a "Communications Squadron" offer to work with the domain owner to resolve these problems? Why didn't someone just update the distribution list in Exchange? How freakin' hard is that?
Besides, these emails should have been going over SIPR (secret military VPN), not NIPR (public Internet). The SIPR machines can't route email to NIPR networks, so the problem never would've happened in the first place if proper OPSEC had been followed. Someone needs an Article 15 for this.
(I'm a former IT1 in the Navy, and worked with Air Force guys in Operation Northern Watch, and I can state that all of the Air Force personnel I worked with in the comms section were highly skilled professionals, so this is not a slam on Air Force-types in general.)
It is absolutely a strawman, because I was talking specifically about a teaching of the Catholic Church, and you starting complaining about evangelical Protestants. It would be like if I stated "the Linux kernel handles TCP traffic routing natively", and you started talking about how Windows 98 can't do that so all operating systems suck. It's a stupid argument, and you sound stupid for making it. (Based on your previous posting history, it's apparent to me that you are not, in fact, stupid, but feel free to start thinking I called you that.)
Did you read my post? I stated that the Church's teaching (and yes, I am referring specifically, and only, to the Roman Catholic Church, as that was the context of the discussion about Catholic schools) is that there is no conflict. If you want to contradict me, find a Roman Catholic teaching issued recently that does so, don't pile up a strawman about evangelicals in the US.
Don't laugh, I went to a catholic grade school which had books in the library that honestly showed a earth centered solar system. If your school was anything like the Catholic elementary and high schools I attended, those books were in the history section, not the science section. The Church fought (and lost) that battle centuries ago, current teaching is that there is no conflict between science and religion: science seeks to explain "What?", "Where?", "When?", and "How?", religion seeks to explain "Who?" and "Why?".
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Plame was not outed by the administration, she was outed (if you can even call it that, since she wasn't in a covert status at the time) by a single individual who said something he probably should not have to a reporter. And it certainly wasn't done to "end her career". It was a total non-story.
Bet you supported the NY Times publishing all the details about the SWIFT program, though, huh?
Oh, and let's just ignore the fact that:
If that's how this administration punishes its "enemies", where do I sign up to become one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
Oh, you said "carbon nanotubes", not "sons". My bad.
I don't have any employees, and I'm not a Fortune 500 CEO. But that doesn't mean I don't understand the basics of efficiency and management, two things which you fail to grasp. You may live in a bigger house, but I guarantee you I live a more satisfied and happier existence. Considering you know nothing of my career and have made grossly inaccurate assumptions not just about that but about my lifestyle as well, how can you be in a position to guarantee any sort of knowledge about the quality of my "existence"?
Don't get angry at me because I pointed out you have a pointless job that doesn't do anything important for your company that can't be replaced by a well written shell script. Go get some real skills and get a better job, and stop wasting your time justifying your existence to someone who doesn't really care about you in the first place.
I'm pretty sure Millennials are the kids who were born within two or three years of the millennium, up to today. Basically, grade schoolers, the children of Gen X. Gen Y are the ones who are late adolescent to early 20s, also sometimes the children of Gen X, or late baby boomers.
Or maybe they're all just meaningless terms used by people to try to lump groups of other people together, arbitrarily. I forget which it is.
Yeah, but I bet your stomach could help two or three people with stomach cancer. Better get working on those ulcers!
Sure it can:
def curryadd(x):
return add(1,x)
curryadd(curryadd(2))
4
Unless I'm misunderstanding something about "currying". The mathematics aspect of computer science has never been my strong suit, so if I'm missing something, please enlighten me.
Except that's not how you'd do it in most procedural languages today. Instead, you'd define a function and then call that function recursively. Eg, in Python it would be:
def add(x,y):
return x+y
add(add(1,2),3)
6
So how is that fundamentally different from your Lisp segment, other than you used a built-in function and I created one that mimicked yours?
I specifically mentioned aircraft, so I'm not sure why you had to ask about combat planes (you must be referring to fixed-wing fighter and/or bomber aircraft, though it's not clear which it is).
I'd leave out heavy machine guns, but allow squad automatic weapons. They're specifically designed to be operated and maintained by one person. I'd also allow grenades, if only because IEDs have proven so effective and grenades could form the heart of an IED. The whole point is to level the playing field as much as possible between the populace and the army, after all.
That.
Was.
AWESOME.
You're my new hero. I've never seen a barking moonbat eviscerated so well before. I tip my hat to you, sir.
Using that logic, the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education should've just agreed with the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and called it a day.
"...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Not really sure why that instance of "people" is considered so different from every other time the word is used in the Bill of Rights.
As for free citizens having military grade hardware, I'm of the opinion that if one man can operate and maintain it, then it should be allowed. Pretty much rules out artillery, aircraft, and so forth. Additionally, if the military isn't allowed to use it, then civilians shouldn't be, either (WMDs and mines, for instance). Anything else should be fair game.
No, it's called a "Big Tent", and it's something that Goldwater and Reagan both championed to help combat communism (which was the mutual enemy of all those groups). Now that communism is, for all intents and purposes, dead, there's not as much reason for socialcons and libertarians (to name two) to have anything to do with each other. Hence the breakdown of the Republican party which we are all watching unfold.
The Democrats still stand for the things that FDR and Johnson stood for (internationalism and social programs), so they're doing much better, the Obama-Clinton fracas notwithstanding.
Besides, these emails should have been going over SIPR (secret military VPN), not NIPR (public Internet). The SIPR machines can't route email to NIPR networks, so the problem never would've happened in the first place if proper OPSEC had been followed. Someone needs an Article 15 for this.
(I'm a former IT1 in the Navy, and worked with Air Force guys in Operation Northern Watch, and I can state that all of the Air Force personnel I worked with in the comms section were highly skilled professionals, so this is not a slam on Air Force-types in general.)
It is absolutely a strawman, because I was talking specifically about a teaching of the Catholic Church, and you starting complaining about evangelical Protestants. It would be like if I stated "the Linux kernel handles TCP traffic routing natively", and you started talking about how Windows 98 can't do that so all operating systems suck. It's a stupid argument, and you sound stupid for making it. (Based on your previous posting history, it's apparent to me that you are not, in fact, stupid, but feel free to start thinking I called you that.)
I don't have $100k. Would an unused shotgun shell do? If not, maybe you'd accept a (recently) used shotgun shell, instead?
Did you read my post? I stated that the Church's teaching (and yes, I am referring specifically, and only, to the Roman Catholic Church, as that was the context of the discussion about Catholic schools) is that there is no conflict. If you want to contradict me, find a Roman Catholic teaching issued recently that does so, don't pile up a strawman about evangelicals in the US.