If you think that programming naturally leads to improved problem solving skills, you're psychotic. Just look at all the delayed, failed, and buggy software out there.
But that's a side point. You have to consider whether those people would have been even stupider if they weren't programming. Crossword puzzles increase mental agility (especially in the elderly) even when people suck at them.
Well, Trump certainly does have a history with offshore wind farms. He and his lawyers managed to delay the implementation of a wind farm project off the coast of Scotland for several years. It finally went ahead after he lost three successive court judgements.
His objection was that the turbines would spoil the view from his golf course.
You can't just "outlaw certain encryption types". People in the rest of the world won't be falling all over each other to outlaw encryption technology that the American government can't penetrate. Who the hell would want to do business with any American company if it meant they had to spread their ass cheeks wide open for the U.S. government?
And any "bad guys" could safely and easily encrypt their plaintext "illegally", and cloak it with a steganographic layer to fool any Feds who would bother to peek through whatever half-assed backdoor they might mandate on the rest of us.
Right now most politicians don't seem to realize that what they want will require a backdoor. Or if they do, they think it will be one that will magically open just for them. They're still in the stage where they think they can just legislate fundamental changes into number theory and computer science.
I guess you don't live in New Jersey- this guy is horrible. I wouldn't trust him any further than I can throw him. He's having more success campaigning in other states- but in his home state, even Republicans hate him. He injected himself into the Exxon settlement and let them off for pennies on the dollar, and now their environmental disaster in North Jersey will never be cleaned up. Covering up a necropsy on a dolphin to hide disturbing news about that river is exactly his style.
You can't blame Google for saying "left" when they mean "right". Left and right are subjective concepts which are ambiguous except to each other.
This is part of my grander theory that we live in a mirror world where DNA winds the other way and so do screws. Our liver is on the opposite side. Game controllers have the buttons on the other side than you think and the letters are printed backwards. We switch the words "left" and "right" because our brains were wired ass-backwards when the English language developed. In fact, the only reason I can type on this YTREWQ keyboard is because I think it's a QWERTY keyboard.
All I can say is, if you're writing software, stay the hell away from pot. Nothing kills a high like staring at code, and nothing kills code like being high.
Verizon and Comcast were not pushing for Net Neutrality and saying "we need it"; they were the principal forces opposing it, and they were the reason that FCC regulations were required to preserve it in the first place. They had plans for paid prioritization of traffic that would basically amount to charging websites for the privilege of not having their traffic throttled on the "last mile" link between the ISP and its customers. Google was diametrically opposed to this, as well as most small web sites and 3.7 million individuals who sent letters to the FCC.
The fact that an ex-CEO of HP, of all people, is pontificating about Net Neutrality while exposing her ignorance of even the most basic facts about who was involved and what sides they were on seems incredible. Was she merely confused herself or just trying to confuse everyone else? I have no idea.
Here's what Carly said about Net Neutrality during an interview back in May:
JOHN FUND: You, at Lucent, and at Hewlett Packard, began at the dawn of the internet era, seeing the possibilities of what that would bring. And here we are, 20 odd years after the World Wide Web, and we've created a marvelous industry, marvelous possibilities. The Obama administration has decided, this can't be left to its own devices, we need Net Neutrality. And even though Congress doesn't want it, and people in both parties in Congress don't want it, and the courts have blocked them consistently, they're moving forward of course with what they call executive action, which I call the divine right of kings. Uh, what do you think about Net Neutrality, and how should we fight it if we should?
CARLY: Well we should- it's ridiculous. We now have an FCC, deciding on a 3-2 vote, that the Internet will be regulated with 400 pages of legislation. Terrible idea. Terrible idea. Of course, the dirty little secret of that regulation, which is the same dirty little secret of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank or all of these other huge complicated pieces of regulation or legislation, is that they don't get written on their own, they get written in part by lobbyists for big companies who want to understand that the rules are going to work for them. And this is part of what people see. Look, crony capitalism is alive and well. Elizabeth Warren, of course, is wrong about what to do about it. She claims that the way to <airquotes>solve</airquotes> crony capitalism is more complexity, more regulation, more legislation. Worse tax codes. And of course the more complicated government gets- and it's really complicated now- the less the small and the powerless can deal with it. And so the big get bigger, the powerful get more powerful, the wealthy and the well-connected get more wealthy and more well-connected. I mean, that's a fact. It's what's happening. And it's partially why people feel so disconnected. So, the dirty little secret of those 400 pages of legislation in Net Neutrality was, who was in the middle of arguing for net neutrality? Verizon, Comcast, Google, I mean, all these companies were playing. They weren't saying "we don't need this," they were saying "we need it." And so, the only way to level the playing field, so that the small, the new, the entrepreneurial, the powerless, have a shot, is to reduce all this complexity. And meanwhile, while, you know, the big are getting bigger, we're crushing the small. So we're now for the first time in history, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating. We are destroying more businesses than we are creating- it's a terrible statistic. And it means that we're never going to get this economy growing and growing again, yes I had the great privilege of playing uh, important roles in Lucent and Hewlett Packard, but like most people I started out at a little company. I started out as a secretary in a nine-person real estate firm. My husband started out driving a tow truck for a family-owned auto body shop. Most Americans start in little humble businesses, which create 2/3 of the new jobs and employ half the people. So when we're crushing those little businesses, as we are every time we roll out a new, complicated piece of legislation or regulation, we're crushing the possibilities of this economy.
JOHN FUND: I grew up in Northern California, and part of the ethos was, reading about Hewlett and Packard starting their business in a garage.
CARLY: A garage. Two guys in a garage. By the way, Google started out that way too, in a dorm room. But they seem to have forgotten that. [audience laughs]
JOHN FUND: Well, uh, they have new friends in Washington.
I really regret leaving Agilent. I left for a startup with six people, and the company expanded; but soon they hired a guy who fired everybody and made the company 90% H1-B.
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That's what we were already doing.
If you think that programming naturally leads to improved problem solving skills, you're psychotic. Just look at all the delayed, failed, and buggy software out there.
But that's a side point. You have to consider whether those people would have been even stupider if they weren't programming. Crossword puzzles increase mental agility (especially in the elderly) even when people suck at them.
Are windmills really that ugly? You'd think these were offshore coal furnaces from the way they act.
True, but you have to admit that photovoltaics don't look as awesome as this.
Well, Trump certainly does have a history with offshore wind farms. He and his lawyers managed to delay the implementation of a wind farm project off the coast of Scotland for several years. It finally went ahead after he lost three successive court judgements.
His objection was that the turbines would spoil the view from his golf course.
This seems asinine. "Hello Bob? This is Alice. If you're at FBI headquarters could you please turn off the speakerphone?"
Why would I be a fool to think that NSA can't break properly-done encryption? Just wondering.
You can't just "outlaw certain encryption types". People in the rest of the world won't be falling all over each other to outlaw encryption technology that the American government can't penetrate. Who the hell would want to do business with any American company if it meant they had to spread their ass cheeks wide open for the U.S. government?
And any "bad guys" could safely and easily encrypt their plaintext "illegally", and cloak it with a steganographic layer to fool any Feds who would bother to peek through whatever half-assed backdoor they might mandate on the rest of us.
Right now most politicians don't seem to realize that what they want will require a backdoor. Or if they do, they think it will be one that will magically open just for them. They're still in the stage where they think they can just legislate fundamental changes into number theory and computer science.
It's too cold in here- let's light some explosives to "save" us!
They flat out don't seem to realize where snow comes from.
We shouldn't pay attention to thermometers anymore because a satellite was expensive? What?
Back when Florida was about 1000 miles wider than today.
I guess you don't live in New Jersey- this guy is horrible. I wouldn't trust him any further than I can throw him. He's having more success campaigning in other states- but in his home state, even Republicans hate him. He injected himself into the Exxon settlement and let them off for pennies on the dollar, and now their environmental disaster in North Jersey will never be cleaned up. Covering up a necropsy on a dolphin to hide disturbing news about that river is exactly his style.
You can't blame Google for saying "left" when they mean "right". Left and right are subjective concepts which are ambiguous except to each other.
This is part of my grander theory that we live in a mirror world where DNA winds the other way and so do screws. Our liver is on the opposite side. Game controllers have the buttons on the other side than you think and the letters are printed backwards. We switch the words "left" and "right" because our brains were wired ass-backwards when the English language developed. In fact, the only reason I can type on this YTREWQ keyboard is because I think it's a QWERTY keyboard.
All I can say is, if you're writing software, stay the hell away from pot. Nothing kills a high like staring at code, and nothing kills code like being high.
Where are you getting this shit? How much is it per ounce?
Actually I thought you were British. (You're still not a Merkin, which was my point.)
But I didn't actually say I was voting in the GOP primary.
Geez- every time someone expresses sympathy for those killed, they spell "misbehavior" as "misbehaviour", "honor" as "honour", etc.
Verizon and Comcast were not pushing for Net Neutrality and saying "we need it"; they were the principal forces opposing it, and they were the reason that FCC regulations were required to preserve it in the first place. They had plans for paid prioritization of traffic that would basically amount to charging websites for the privilege of not having their traffic throttled on the "last mile" link between the ISP and its customers. Google was diametrically opposed to this, as well as most small web sites and 3.7 million individuals who sent letters to the FCC.
The fact that an ex-CEO of HP, of all people, is pontificating about Net Neutrality while exposing her ignorance of even the most basic facts about who was involved and what sides they were on seems incredible. Was she merely confused herself or just trying to confuse everyone else? I have no idea.
I'd pick Trump too, in the same way that I would choose to drink bleach rather than ammonia or nitric acid.
As for the Democrats, right now it seems like a choice between Dr. Pepper and Coke Zero.
JOHN FUND: You, at Lucent, and at Hewlett Packard, began at the dawn of the internet era, seeing the possibilities of what that would bring. And here we are, 20 odd years after the World Wide Web, and we've created a marvelous industry, marvelous possibilities. The Obama administration has decided, this can't be left to its own devices, we need Net Neutrality. And even though Congress doesn't want it, and people in both parties in Congress don't want it, and the courts have blocked them consistently, they're moving forward of course with what they call executive action, which I call the divine right of kings. Uh, what do you think about Net Neutrality, and how should we fight it if we should?
CARLY: Well we should- it's ridiculous. We now have an FCC, deciding on a 3-2 vote, that the Internet will be regulated with 400 pages of legislation. Terrible idea. Terrible idea. Of course, the dirty little secret of that regulation, which is the same dirty little secret of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank or all of these other huge complicated pieces of regulation or legislation, is that they don't get written on their own, they get written in part by lobbyists for big companies who want to understand that the rules are going to work for them. And this is part of what people see. Look, crony capitalism is alive and well. Elizabeth Warren, of course, is wrong about what to do about it. She claims that the way to <airquotes>solve</airquotes> crony capitalism is more complexity, more regulation, more legislation. Worse tax codes. And of course the more complicated government gets- and it's really complicated now- the less the small and the powerless can deal with it. And so the big get bigger, the powerful get more powerful, the wealthy and the well-connected get more wealthy and more well-connected. I mean, that's a fact. It's what's happening. And it's partially why people feel so disconnected. So, the dirty little secret of those 400 pages of legislation in Net Neutrality was, who was in the middle of arguing for net neutrality? Verizon, Comcast, Google, I mean, all these companies were playing. They weren't saying "we don't need this," they were saying "we need it." And so, the only way to level the playing field, so that the small, the new, the entrepreneurial, the powerless, have a shot, is to reduce all this complexity. And meanwhile, while, you know, the big are getting bigger, we're crushing the small. So we're now for the first time in history, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating. We are destroying more businesses than we are creating- it's a terrible statistic. And it means that we're never going to get this economy growing and growing again, yes I had the great privilege of playing uh, important roles in Lucent and Hewlett Packard, but like most people I started out at a little company. I started out as a secretary in a nine-person real estate firm. My husband started out driving a tow truck for a family-owned auto body shop. Most Americans start in little humble businesses, which create 2/3 of the new jobs and employ half the people. So when we're crushing those little businesses, as we are every time we roll out a new, complicated piece of legislation or regulation, we're crushing the possibilities of this economy.
JOHN FUND: I grew up in Northern California, and part of the ethos was, reading about Hewlett and Packard starting their business in a garage.
CARLY: A garage. Two guys in a garage. By the way, Google started out that way too, in a dorm room. But they seem to have forgotten that. [audience laughs]
JOHN FUND: Well, uh, they have new friends in Washington.
CARLY: Yes, they do. Yes they do.
The transcript doesn't do it justice at all- her tics and mannerisms while shoveling this horseshit will make you want to smack her upside the head. Carly is a clueless liar- but I have to admit, I can never tell exactly when she's lying and when she's just being clueless.
What Google should at least provide is some sort of "I'm finished jerking off" feature.
There is absolutely no 100% guarantee that this kid wasn't carrying around a bomb.
Nothing in life is guaranteed. There is no "100% guarantee" that a white kid won't show up with a bomb either.
Even if only 10% of Muslims are 'radical' that means there was a 10% chance this kid wanted to martyr himself that day. Wake up.
Out of whose ass did you pull that 10% figure? If I lived in Texas I'd be much more worried about my kid's teacher packing heat.
I really regret leaving Agilent. I left for a startup with six people, and the company expanded; but soon they hired a guy who fired everybody and made the company 90% H1-B.