I'm sorry but; 50g's is a lot of money. Missionaries collecting that just from family and friends? I take it you live in Manhattan? I come from a fairly intelligent professional family, but none of my family members *own* a home more less have thousands of dollars burning holes in their pockets. Any extra cash laying around from my family and friends is in their rainy day fund because they need one or being slowly saved to get something a little pleasant, think 50 dollars a month until they can afford a nice big screen tv after a full year. Not the kind of money that would ever amount to 50 grand.
People with means are apparantly clueless about what the average household revenue and costs are just to stay afloat.
I know, all that maple syrup; our troops wouldn't stand a chance! Gives me the heebeejeebee's just thinking about Canada's first strike: the great syrup flood of NYC... all those poor people encased forever in maple deliciousness:(
This is the problem with looking at research in the eyes of concrete uses, you end up short-sighted. Think of a solution to public transport that could do this: Ensure no one spends more than 20 minutes a day each way in transit, from their front door to the door of their workplace.
Will google's technology solve this? I don't know how and have no idea, but maybe, maybe not. Something that creates this solution will have *immense* economic and quality of life impact. But you'll never get their without doing general research on a much wider variety of things expecting many failures. Eventual success on a goal like this would immediately pay for every failure it cost, and ignoring this fact is the short-sightedness that you get in looking for immediate applicability of what you fund.
Think of it like the 20% time at google, undirected research has created basically all of their real revenue streams and moreover things that have been beneficial to many thousands if not millions of people.
Nice strawman. I can make one too, how's this:
You're an IT consultant on a team of IT consultants, due to cutbacks your team has dwindled to you and one other guy, and the company sold 40% of your networking hardware.
Will your network perform as well as it did pre-cuts? Now that you're working double shifts will your work output be of the same *quality* as pre-cuts?
People who always complain that departments or anyone isn't doing a good enough job after their resources were cut as an excuse to cut more resources is ignorant. I'm not saying if the DOJ hadn't had resources cut they would do a great job, maybe they're incompetent and deserve the cuts- I don't know, but the fact that the cuts already happened prior to this event you're referring to invalidates that event as an excuse for cuts. It's like cutting off someone's fingers then saying they didn't need them since they can't type, because they have no fingers.
You presume these people aren't blinded by the number of 0's in their paychecks into believing that they are the ultimate asset and whatever all those IT people are doing for the company is totally unimportant and unnecessary.
Hah, Irony. Undegreed folks are constantly smeered for only knowing the trivalities of their one language or technology stack, and here's a fellow wining about them for not knowing the trivalities of his one language. I'm pretty sure this little detail isn't what people get a CS for, and if it is then I guess the CS degree is already just a trade degree..
Like I said, "unless that expression of free speech violates other laws", in each of your example a law was being broken:
If you're protesting on private property, you can be kicked off.
If ordered to leave and you do not, you are trespassing, illegal.
If you're on a private radio station and the owner doesn't like what you're saying, that person can remove you.
See above, trespassing, illegal.
if you had previously signed an HOA covenant in your deed that precludes walls other than white
Breach of contract, illegal.
The right to free speech extends to all forums, but it does not override other laws. It's like the white space outside of the other laws, so long as you aren't breaking any laws, you have the right to free speech.
Then this just shows people trust their previous judgement blindly, when told they answered a certain way they assumed that answer reflects their position on the topic and that since it's their position it's right, rather than being self-critical and asking themselves again if that answer is the correct position.
Just shows people's personal choice for faith over critical thinking, which we already knew.
Create a git repository on 'production' and then a fork on your development machine. (Or a fork on a test machine would be better really, which you then fork to development)
Do your development, checkin and then pull to test, execute there, if all goes well, pull to prod and execute there.
A judicial system based on judges making points in disregard of it's legal authority and the rights of the parties involved is a slippery slope. Some of the points may be well intended and effective in teaching the defendant a lesson, but that doesn't change the fact that the practice in and of itself is the definition of a slippery slope.
Which is why appeals are an escalation process, up to the levels to more regulated/standardized courts. I think what you submit at the bottom is a known, expected part of the process with a cure baked in. Unfortunately the system is altogether too expensive for most people to take advantage of in any fashion anyway, otherwise it would be a decent system.
You're equating vandalism with free speech, these are not the same. A court could not order you to white wash a wall you covered with graffiti if it was your wall. That would be an encroachment on your right to free speech.
The right to free speech isn't restricted to certain forums, the right is to all forums, unless that expression of free speech violates other laws such as threats, libel, or as you pointed out, vandalism.
At home, my reference was of the countries where no one leaves their house without an ak on their shoulder. Those countries exist, and they are troubled by more than speed limits.
Exactly what I was thinking! I love it! Corporate version of MAD! On the time line of chest pounding this is the official point where those exponential graph lines start soaring directly upwards.
This is all great news, because this means the war will be over sooner than later! Reconstruction always has more opportunities and innovation anyway, so I for one am cheering this on!
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I'm sorry but; 50g's is a lot of money. Missionaries collecting that just from family and friends? I take it you live in Manhattan? I come from a fairly intelligent professional family, but none of my family members *own* a home more less have thousands of dollars burning holes in their pockets. Any extra cash laying around from my family and friends is in their rainy day fund because they need one or being slowly saved to get something a little pleasant, think 50 dollars a month until they can afford a nice big screen tv after a full year. Not the kind of money that would ever amount to 50 grand.
People with means are apparantly clueless about what the average household revenue and costs are just to stay afloat.
I'm not sure if I should be terrified or elated.
One things for sure, he's got my vote just to see how a slashdotter's trolling skills stand up in the big leagues.
I know, all that maple syrup; our troops wouldn't stand a chance! Gives me the heebeejeebee's just thinking about Canada's first strike: the great syrup flood of NYC... all those poor people encased forever in maple deliciousness :(
This is the problem with looking at research in the eyes of concrete uses, you end up short-sighted. Think of a solution to public transport that could do this: Ensure no one spends more than 20 minutes a day each way in transit, from their front door to the door of their workplace.
Will google's technology solve this? I don't know how and have no idea, but maybe, maybe not. Something that creates this solution will have *immense* economic and quality of life impact. But you'll never get their without doing general research on a much wider variety of things expecting many failures. Eventual success on a goal like this would immediately pay for every failure it cost, and ignoring this fact is the short-sightedness that you get in looking for immediate applicability of what you fund.
Think of it like the 20% time at google, undirected research has created basically all of their real revenue streams and moreover things that have been beneficial to many thousands if not millions of people.
Nice strawman. I can make one too, how's this:
You're an IT consultant on a team of IT consultants, due to cutbacks your team has dwindled to you and one other guy, and the company sold 40% of your networking hardware.
Will your network perform as well as it did pre-cuts? Now that you're working double shifts will your work output be of the same *quality* as pre-cuts?
People who always complain that departments or anyone isn't doing a good enough job after their resources were cut as an excuse to cut more resources is ignorant. I'm not saying if the DOJ hadn't had resources cut they would do a great job, maybe they're incompetent and deserve the cuts- I don't know, but the fact that the cuts already happened prior to this event you're referring to invalidates that event as an excuse for cuts. It's like cutting off someone's fingers then saying they didn't need them since they can't type, because they have no fingers.
You presume these people aren't blinded by the number of 0's in their paychecks into believing that they are the ultimate asset and whatever all those IT people are doing for the company is totally unimportant and unnecessary.
Hah, Irony. Undegreed folks are constantly smeered for only knowing the trivalities of their one language or technology stack, and here's a fellow wining about them for not knowing the trivalities of his one language. I'm pretty sure this little detail isn't what people get a CS for, and if it is then I guess the CS degree is already just a trade degree..
I don't like the first world anyway, the successive revisions are going to be way better. Cyborg brain and martian mansion, here I come!
Let us all hope long and hard for that option.
Unless the envelopes have checks in them with donald trump level 0's on them, those people could give two craps.
If you're protesting on private property, you can be kicked off.
If ordered to leave and you do not, you are trespassing, illegal.
If you're on a private radio station and the owner doesn't like what you're saying, that person can remove you.
See above, trespassing, illegal.
if you had previously signed an HOA covenant in your deed that precludes walls other than white
Breach of contract, illegal.
The right to free speech extends to all forums, but it does not override other laws. It's like the white space outside of the other laws, so long as you aren't breaking any laws, you have the right to free speech.
Then this just shows people trust their previous judgement blindly, when told they answered a certain way they assumed that answer reflects their position on the topic and that since it's their position it's right, rather than being self-critical and asking themselves again if that answer is the correct position.
Just shows people's personal choice for faith over critical thinking, which we already knew.
I'll just pencil the grin in, along with evil mustache on my next picture.
Create a git repository on 'production' and then a fork on your development machine. (Or a fork on a test machine would be better really, which you then fork to development)
Do your development, checkin and then pull to test, execute there, if all goes well, pull to prod and execute there.
A judicial system based on judges making points in disregard of it's legal authority and the rights of the parties involved is a slippery slope. Some of the points may be well intended and effective in teaching the defendant a lesson, but that doesn't change the fact that the practice in and of itself is the definition of a slippery slope.
Which is why appeals are an escalation process, up to the levels to more regulated/standardized courts. I think what you submit at the bottom is a known, expected part of the process with a cure baked in. Unfortunately the system is altogether too expensive for most people to take advantage of in any fashion anyway, otherwise it would be a decent system.
You're equating vandalism with free speech, these are not the same. A court could not order you to white wash a wall you covered with graffiti if it was your wall. That would be an encroachment on your right to free speech.
The right to free speech isn't restricted to certain forums, the right is to all forums, unless that expression of free speech violates other laws such as threats, libel, or as you pointed out, vandalism.
Unless the fair market of the services he receives are of greater value than the bacon he barters with.
Zaltor the merciless, is that really you??
At home, my reference was of the countries where no one leaves their house without an ak on their shoulder. Those countries exist, and they are troubled by more than speed limits.
Exactly what I was thinking! I love it! Corporate version of MAD! On the time line of chest pounding this is the official point where those exponential graph lines start soaring directly upwards.
This is all great news, because this means the war will be over sooner than later! Reconstruction always has more opportunities and innovation anyway, so I for one am cheering this on!
Yep, there's also the lottery and cigarette sales
Yeah.. dearer? What?
Soulskill: ROT13 in your head! He will have no idea what you're typing! You can do it!
Are you in danger?
Do you think you can take the shill?
You can and will wait as you will never see it, that comment will be deleted by our welcome overlords.