Let's not pretend for a minute that Trump did this himself. This was, without a doubt, some sycophantic underling either trying to curry favor with the boss, or trying to distract the petulant man-baby from something with a shiny new achievement. "Look, Mr. Trump, you're on the cover of Time Magazine again!"
I'm sure that with Microsoft's Army of Lawyers(tm), they've got some weasel language in the Terms of Service that either absolve them of responsibility, or shove it onto users who don't properly patch their machines.
Even if they don't, good luck with that lawsuit. (Refer again to the Army of Lawyers(tm)).
My problem with most (I'd say easily 75%) of the drug company advertisements that I've seen on TV is that they never tell you what in the Nine Hells the drug is for.
It's a montage of people strolling down a boardwalk, looking out at sea, and hanging out on their porch, and "Ask your doctor is Sleminiforal is right for you."
But they don't tell you what the fuck it's for. Gee, thanks, drug company, for spending a whack of cash on that TV spot. I'm sure it justified someone's salary at your company.
It doesn't. But most of Trump's base doesn't know that or won't understand the difference. And Trump will no doubt spin this to sound like he's doing something to "protect American job/stop immigration".
I'm not saying that the CEO being a toxic dude-bro was the sole reason that he got ousted. I'm not even saying it was the main reason. But the VCs almost certainly considered it along with all the other reasons that they already had.
Yes, the fact that he wasn't pushing for an IPO was probably a big reason. But when a company has that bad of a public image problem, it doesn't help attracting investors for an IPO.
No, but it's hard to argue the point that the blog post got a lot of people, who wouldn't otherwise be interested in the matter, looking at the corporate culture at Uber.
If it hadn't been for her blog post, would the CEO still be there? Maybe, maybe not. With as toxic as the culture was there (and probably still is to an extent... that shit doesn't change quickly), it probably wouldn't have been long before he was given the heave-ho. He might have lasted through the end of the year.
Oh, I'll agree that if Trump is good at anything, it's self-promotion and posturing.
But I honestly think that he thought some of his campaign promises (the border wall among them) were doable, and he's so far out of his depth with not just political reality, but reality itself, that he doesn't understand why it can't be done with a snap of his fingers.
Trump's big problem (wait, I've narrowed it down to just one?) is that he expects the government to work in the same way that a corporation works. He's the CEO of the United States, and damnit, he should be able to snap his fingers and big projects are started.
Except that it doesn't work that way, and it never has.
I lost track of how many times I've had to explain to Republicans/right-leaning independents that, no, the border wall could not be started on Day One of the Trump Presidency, because of silly things like land surveys, and floodwater surveys, and so forth.
Also, didn't he basically just treat a "We'd like to do this thing?" as a "It's a done deal, I'm signing this now." for an air traffic control overhaul? (Or am I remembering the wrong thing?)
Regardless, Trump is all sizzle and no steak. He will say anything that makes him look good, and well, if his attention wanders later and no one ever gets around to doing anything, it doesn't matter, because Trump has already moved on to the next shiny thing.
I think it's fairer to say that the intelligence range of cats and dogs can widely vary. I've known some dogs that were dumber than a bag of hammers.
Okay, story time. One of the cats we had when I was younger was a Siamese that we got from a shelter. If she had a previous owner, that owner never let her outside. Well, all of our cats have been indoor/outdoor cats, so we didn't see any problem letting her outside after she had acclimatized to her new home.
No, she didn't run away. She was, quite frankly, amazed at the outside. Kind of a "Oh, wait, there's more?"
Anyway, a while after we got her, she's outside, sunning herself on the front walk when a neighbor's Golden Retriever sees her. Now, this dog was a very pretty dog (as Golden Retrievers tend to be), but it was so dumb it's brain might as well have been a flowchart.
So, it sees the cat, and in it's doggie brain, the only possible response is "run at cat, barking madly" followed by "WHEN cat runs, chase it."
Not, "IF cat runs". "WHEN".
Well, of course, the cat had no idea what a dog even was, and being the most chill cat ever, waited until the dog came to a screeching halt, still barking, to get up, sniff the dog's face, do a little kitty shrug, and lie back down. The dog was not important to the cat.
The dog wandered off back to it's own yard. It had no concept of what to do when the cat didn't run.
Except that there are other limits to speech outside of hate speech.
You cannot threaten public officials and expect to use the First Amendment as a dodge for criminal charges. You cannot yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire, and expect to use the First Amendment as a dodge for criminal charges.
Then there's inciting to riot, "fighting words"....
I did the graveyard shift at a FedEx Office (before it was known as such) for over a decade. During that time, I worked with easily a dozen other people on that shift, most of whom couldn't hack it.
Not in terms of work or anything. They just found it very hard to adjust to sleeping during the day, and working at night. (One poor guy was trying to be a full time student, work the graveyard shift, and work part time at his church. He.... didn't last long at the store.)
And every once in a while, my manager would insist that I show up at the generally pointless store meetings. He finally understood why I wasn't showing up when I explained it as "Okay, go home. relax a little. Have dinner. Go to bed. And then, three hours later, get up, stay up for an hour and a half, and then go back to bed. And see how effective you are in the morning when you're supposed to come in."
Alas, shortly after he understood it, he transferred to another store, and I had to go through the whole rigamarole with a new manager.
The difference is, Iceland still had breathable air. Mars is notoriously lacking in that.
I'm not saying a Mars colony is impossible. But you cannot compare a trek to Iceland 12 centuries ago to a trek to Mars now because, ultimately, the environment in Iceland was not inherently inimical to human life.
Shelter on Mars? Reasonably solvable. Energy? Reasonably solvable. Air? You can't skip back to Earth every time it gets a little low on that.
That, more than anything else, is going to be the problem.
I'm sure it's not the only reason for U.S. politics becoming so partisan, but the Soviet Union fell in '90-91. Before that, the Democrats and Republicans may have not gotten along, but they had the the "common enemy" of the USSR.
Once it was out of the picture.... without that common enemy, it was inevitable that they would turn on each other, more or less. Then throw in that news programs are ratings driven these days, and there's no incentive for the news to calm things down.
âoeDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (NIV, Matthew 5:17â"18)
There's a lot of interpretation of this one. Some people say that it means that Mosaic law is still in effect, others don't. Since Jesus and his disciples arguably ignored certain parts of Mosaic law, the latter interpretation is generally held to be more accurate, but it still causes problems.
... these things had good security. It seems that you can't go a month without hearing about some IoT hack or another. It's bad enough when it's an IoT camera in a kid's toy (or nursery camera), but how long before somebody uses an IoT stove to start a house fire?
Did they not remove the ex-admin's credentials, or what? I mean, regardless of how the ex-admin gained access to the data to wipe it, it's a crime. But I'd like to know if Verelox was stupid enough to not remove his credentials, or this happened some other way. (Like, did he do this his last day of work as a "fuck you" to management for firing him?)
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Can someone explain to me why someone would need a Bluetooth enabled fidget spinner?
Let's not pretend for a minute that Trump did this himself. This was, without a doubt, some sycophantic underling either trying to curry favor with the boss, or trying to distract the petulant man-baby from something with a shiny new achievement. "Look, Mr. Trump, you're on the cover of Time Magazine again!"
Blame who?
I'm sure that with Microsoft's Army of Lawyers(tm), they've got some weasel language in the Terms of Service that either absolve them of responsibility, or shove it onto users who don't properly patch their machines.
Even if they don't, good luck with that lawsuit. (Refer again to the Army of Lawyers(tm)).
My problem with most (I'd say easily 75%) of the drug company advertisements that I've seen on TV is that they never tell you what in the Nine Hells the drug is for.
It's a montage of people strolling down a boardwalk, looking out at sea, and hanging out on their porch, and "Ask your doctor is Sleminiforal is right for you."
But they don't tell you what the fuck it's for. Gee, thanks, drug company, for spending a whack of cash on that TV spot. I'm sure it justified someone's salary at your company.
It doesn't. But most of Trump's base doesn't know that or won't understand the difference. And Trump will no doubt spin this to sound like he's doing something to "protect American job/stop immigration".
No, fool. He's saying submit the story to Slashdot. You know, how most of the stories end up on Slashdot to begin with? User submission....
I'm not saying that the CEO being a toxic dude-bro was the sole reason that he got ousted. I'm not even saying it was the main reason. But the VCs almost certainly considered it along with all the other reasons that they already had.
Yes, the fact that he wasn't pushing for an IPO was probably a big reason. But when a company has that bad of a public image problem, it doesn't help attracting investors for an IPO.
I'd like to think that after this (the CEO ouster, etc.) they'd think twice about retaining employees who sexual harass co-workers.
Look one article up from this one.
No, but it's hard to argue the point that the blog post got a lot of people, who wouldn't otherwise be interested in the matter, looking at the corporate culture at Uber.
If it hadn't been for her blog post, would the CEO still be there? Maybe, maybe not. With as toxic as the culture was there (and probably still is to an extent... that shit doesn't change quickly), it probably wouldn't have been long before he was given the heave-ho. He might have lasted through the end of the year.
Oh, I'll agree that if Trump is good at anything, it's self-promotion and posturing.
But I honestly think that he thought some of his campaign promises (the border wall among them) were doable, and he's so far out of his depth with not just political reality, but reality itself, that he doesn't understand why it can't be done with a snap of his fingers.
Trump's big problem (wait, I've narrowed it down to just one?) is that he expects the government to work in the same way that a corporation works. He's the CEO of the United States, and damnit, he should be able to snap his fingers and big projects are started.
Except that it doesn't work that way, and it never has.
I lost track of how many times I've had to explain to Republicans/right-leaning independents that, no, the border wall could not be started on Day One of the Trump Presidency, because of silly things like land surveys, and floodwater surveys, and so forth.
Sometimes, it even got through to them.
Also, didn't he basically just treat a "We'd like to do this thing?" as a "It's a done deal, I'm signing this now." for an air traffic control overhaul? (Or am I remembering the wrong thing?)
Regardless, Trump is all sizzle and no steak. He will say anything that makes him look good, and well, if his attention wanders later and no one ever gets around to doing anything, it doesn't matter, because Trump has already moved on to the next shiny thing.
I think it's fairer to say that the intelligence range of cats and dogs can widely vary. I've known some dogs that were dumber than a bag of hammers.
Okay, story time. One of the cats we had when I was younger was a Siamese that we got from a shelter. If she had a previous owner, that owner never let her outside. Well, all of our cats have been indoor/outdoor cats, so we didn't see any problem letting her outside after she had acclimatized to her new home.
No, she didn't run away. She was, quite frankly, amazed at the outside. Kind of a "Oh, wait, there's more?"
Anyway, a while after we got her, she's outside, sunning herself on the front walk when a neighbor's Golden Retriever sees her. Now, this dog was a very pretty dog (as Golden Retrievers tend to be), but it was so dumb it's brain might as well have been a flowchart.
So, it sees the cat, and in it's doggie brain, the only possible response is "run at cat, barking madly" followed by "WHEN cat runs, chase it."
Not, "IF cat runs". "WHEN".
Well, of course, the cat had no idea what a dog even was, and being the most chill cat ever, waited until the dog came to a screeching halt, still barking, to get up, sniff the dog's face, do a little kitty shrug, and lie back down. The dog was not important to the cat.
The dog wandered off back to it's own yard. It had no concept of what to do when the cat didn't run.
I paraphrase George Carlin when I say, "The Earth will be fine. The people are fucked."
Except that there are other limits to speech outside of hate speech.
You cannot threaten public officials and expect to use the First Amendment as a dodge for criminal charges. You cannot yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire, and expect to use the First Amendment as a dodge for criminal charges.
Then there's inciting to riot, "fighting words"....
You aren't kidding.
I did the graveyard shift at a FedEx Office (before it was known as such) for over a decade. During that time, I worked with easily a dozen other people on that shift, most of whom couldn't hack it.
Not in terms of work or anything. They just found it very hard to adjust to sleeping during the day, and working at night. (One poor guy was trying to be a full time student, work the graveyard shift, and work part time at his church. He.... didn't last long at the store.)
And every once in a while, my manager would insist that I show up at the generally pointless store meetings. He finally understood why I wasn't showing up when I explained it as "Okay, go home. relax a little. Have dinner. Go to bed. And then, three hours later, get up, stay up for an hour and a half, and then go back to bed. And see how effective you are in the morning when you're supposed to come in."
Alas, shortly after he understood it, he transferred to another store, and I had to go through the whole rigamarole with a new manager.
The difference is, Iceland still had breathable air. Mars is notoriously lacking in that.
I'm not saying a Mars colony is impossible. But you cannot compare a trek to Iceland 12 centuries ago to a trek to Mars now because, ultimately, the environment in Iceland was not inherently inimical to human life.
Shelter on Mars? Reasonably solvable.
Energy? Reasonably solvable.
Air? You can't skip back to Earth every time it gets a little low on that.
That, more than anything else, is going to be the problem.
Correlation is not causation.
Early reports are wrong. It was not the shooter who asked if the players were Republican or Democrats.
The shooter hasn't even been identified yet, jackass.
I'm sure it's not the only reason for U.S. politics becoming so partisan, but the Soviet Union fell in '90-91. Before that, the Democrats and Republicans may have not gotten along, but they had the the "common enemy" of the USSR.
Once it was out of the picture.... without that common enemy, it was inevitable that they would turn on each other, more or less. Then throw in that news programs are ratings driven these days, and there's no incentive for the news to calm things down.
âoeDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (NIV, Matthew 5:17â"18)
There's a lot of interpretation of this one. Some people say that it means that Mosaic law is still in effect, others don't. Since Jesus and his disciples arguably ignored certain parts of Mosaic law, the latter interpretation is generally held to be more accurate, but it still causes problems.
... these things had good security. It seems that you can't go a month without hearing about some IoT hack or another. It's bad enough when it's an IoT camera in a kid's toy (or nursery camera), but how long before somebody uses an IoT stove to start a house fire?
Did they not remove the ex-admin's credentials, or what? I mean, regardless of how the ex-admin gained access to the data to wipe it, it's a crime. But I'd like to know if Verelox was stupid enough to not remove his credentials, or this happened some other way. (Like, did he do this his last day of work as a "fuck you" to management for firing him?)