You're begging the question. Are these companies left-leaning?
In all three cases, I see an organisation out for profit for itself, at least sometimes, and in my opinion often, at the expense of others. For example, I could hardly call Apple's use of near-slave labour in China a left standpoint.
Google's willingness to let its technology be used by any authoritarian government to gather information on its citizens is hardly left-leaning either; and in case you want to point to the Stalinist regimes of the Cold War, these were run-of-the-mill authoritarian regimes, hardly what any sane Socialist would call 'left'.
So, I'd like to see some proofs that these companies actually promote left values, like increasing the control of the lowly workers over the actual production, instead of a strictly hierarchical structure where wealth and power flows up to the Gates, Ballmers, Jobs and Brins.
The hierarchy may be benevolent, and therefore not actively hostile to left-leaning employees. This, however, does not make them left-leaning themselves. As poisoned as the US political climate is, English is not unique to the United States, and English words like 'Socialism' and 'Left' still have meanings beyond 'Bad' and 'Evil'.
And no, the equivalent of 'We told you so' is not a celebration.
And as for the tsunami victims, as callous as it may sound, that sort of death toll is a known risk in Japan. They have been living with earthquakes and tsunamis for ages; the sheer incompetence of the TEPCO management is not something they have similar experience with.
Again, you are producing a massive amount of verbiage to cloud a fairly clear point: there is a lot of anti-science publicity coming out of the United States, and on the subject of evolution, most if not all of that is driven by the Christian Right.
Moreover, the United States is fairly unique in having such a vocal Christian Right that it keeps turning up in mainstream politics, such as setting the books to be used in schools. Even if their proposals keep getting shot down, the US is the only developed country where such religiously motivated anti-science rhetoric keeps popping up.
And even money-influenced anti-science rhetoric is mostly US-based. European opponents of AGW, for example, love to cite US sources for their theories.
Point me out one country at the same technological level as the United States where evolution is such a political hot potato that school boards seriously propose to remove it from the textbooks and I will concede my point: even though the Christian Right may be a minority, its visibility and political influence is a uniquely US problem.
A small subset of Christianity that is not so small in the US, and almost exclusively US-based. Yes, that is what we are concerned with, when it comes to the preposition that a modern society is turning away from science.
Especially because this particular kind of moronic fundamentalism is rather close to The Big Red Button.
Eowyn needed Merry's help to kill off the Witch King; Galadriel had at most a chapter's worth of being the healer of the grief of Gandalf's fall, and Goldberry? Now you're stretching.
Strange. Firefox gives me a nice dialog that defaults to 'Open with Document Viewer'. How is that different from a PDF opening in my browser? Or are you suggesting that Chrome does not first download the PDF to a temporary directory?
Dear God, the stupid is really hurting in this one.
Number 3 fails Occam's Razor? When one good look shows that in the past 25 years, paralleling increasing cell phone ownership, car manufacturers have also rolled out better safety features like improved crumple zones, side impact protection systems and airbags?
Tell me, have you no shame? Showing yourself to be this stupid in public, have you really no shame at all?
Let's say I spot you in a gay bar, and I start reporting that publicly. That can, and quite probably will materially harm you (imagine this happening to a military officer before DADT was repealed), even though it is the truth.
even have an aerodynamics research lab? How about something besides an oil rig and a desert?
Surely I don't have to be a fan of Iran to point out the idiocy of this statement? Iran is technologically one of the most advanced states in the region, probably only second to Israel.
Oh they're a Gulf state; they must be camel-riding barbarians who only know how to sell oil. I'm going to say it right out: this is not mere ignorance, it's outright bigotry.
If you discount what Iranian politicians say at political rallies, and take a good look at their actual record in foreign policy, then you should admit that Iran is acting far from bat-shit crazy.
In fact, if you go by acts rather than words, the batshit crazy powers in the Middle East appear to be the various proxies of the United States, and the US itself.
That's a particularly short-sighted thing to say. And I'm being charitable here.
Since no EPR/CRM product can be tailored to all possible business rule cases up front, any decent system will need a way to customise the way it handles business rules.
Now, whether that is done directly in source or by way of plugin modules, or with a built-in rule-build system is immaterial. In terms of what you are doing it is the same: programming.
There are so many "fuck the police" rationalists, because:
There are too many bad apples.
The bad apples are being protected by the 'good cops' ('Thin Blue Line' ring a bell?)
And finally, even if you were wholly right, and it's standoff between assholes and a police force with a few bad apples, it's the police who have power, so it is incumbent upon them to make the first step to change the situation.
[mysql_real_escape_string] is made for escaping strings in case it contains a character that would break SQL. It's up to you to filter your inputs.
And this is why you fail, and why PHP coders have the reputation of clueless monkeys.
You don't filter your inputs when you are about to feed them to an SQL query. You use place holders and let the database cast your input into the right data type. You trust the database library to know that something is a data type and feed it to the query as a parameter, not as query text. If you trust filtering, all you need is one mistake and it's Bobby Tables time.
Actually, since there are virtually no competing views being offered in peer-reviewed journals, I'm just going to say that, yes, I have a good correlation. The onus is on opponents to provide a better theory, and so far all I've seen is lots of shouting in blogs, and one or two minor adjustments being actually published.
So why don't you just fuck off back under your rock, you ignorant troll.
Your comments get modded down because you're a one-trick pony who cannot do anything but post the exact same extremist libertard screed in any discussion, no matter the subject.
I generally ignore usernames while reading and/or modding. Often, after downmodding such a screed, I think "Wait, was that roman_mir?", and nine times out of ten, you know what? It is!
It's the bloody Daily Mail we're talking about. If they were to state the Sun rises in the East, I would be sitting outside with a compass in the morning.
Sometimes the well is poisoned, and it's not a fallacy to ask for another source.
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All three examples you cite were killed by Microsoft, 2 directly, one indirectly. Open Source had nothing to do with it.
Mart
You're begging the question. Are these companies left-leaning?
In all three cases, I see an organisation out for profit for itself, at least sometimes, and in my opinion often, at the expense of others. For example, I could hardly call Apple's use of near-slave labour in China a left standpoint.
Google's willingness to let its technology be used by any authoritarian government to gather information on its citizens is hardly left-leaning either; and in case you want to point to the Stalinist regimes of the Cold War, these were run-of-the-mill authoritarian regimes, hardly what any sane Socialist would call 'left'.
So, I'd like to see some proofs that these companies actually promote left values, like increasing the control of the lowly workers over the actual production, instead of a strictly hierarchical structure where wealth and power flows up to the Gates, Ballmers, Jobs and Brins.
The hierarchy may be benevolent, and therefore not actively hostile to left-leaning employees. This, however, does not make them left-leaning themselves. As poisoned as the US political climate is, English is not unique to the United States, and English words like 'Socialism' and 'Left' still have meanings beyond 'Bad' and 'Evil'.
Mart
I see what you did there.
How about some proof of this 'celebrating'?
And no, the equivalent of 'We told you so' is not a celebration.
And as for the tsunami victims, as callous as it may sound, that sort of death toll is a known risk in Japan. They have been living with earthquakes and tsunamis for ages; the sheer incompetence of the TEPCO management is not something they have similar experience with.
Mart
Again, you are producing a massive amount of verbiage to cloud a fairly clear point: there is a lot of anti-science publicity coming out of the United States, and on the subject of evolution, most if not all of that is driven by the Christian Right.
Moreover, the United States is fairly unique in having such a vocal Christian Right that it keeps turning up in mainstream politics, such as setting the books to be used in schools. Even if their proposals keep getting shot down, the US is the only developed country where such religiously motivated anti-science rhetoric keeps popping up.
And even money-influenced anti-science rhetoric is mostly US-based. European opponents of AGW, for example, love to cite US sources for their theories.
Mart
Point me out one country at the same technological level as the United States where evolution is such a political hot potato that school boards seriously propose to remove it from the textbooks and I will concede my point: even though the Christian Right may be a minority, its visibility and political influence is a uniquely US problem.
A small subset of Christianity that is not so small in the US, and almost exclusively US-based. Yes, that is what we are concerned with, when it comes to the preposition that a modern society is turning away from science.
Especially because this particular kind of moronic fundamentalism is rather close to The Big Red Button.
Mart
No. Dave gets a bit testy before the big blowup, but that's something that a good professional should be able to ignore.
Mart
The proof is in the fact that those things happen almost exclusively in the US.
Mart
Eowyn needed Merry's help to kill off the Witch King; Galadriel had at most a chapter's worth of being the healer of the grief of Gandalf's fall, and Goldberry? Now you're stretching.
Mart
I didn't mind Arwen's expanded part, because it fixed two problems that any adaptation has to face:
Frankly, telescoping Glorfindel's and Arwen's roles into the character of Arwen was a perfectly sensible decision in my view, almost genius.
However, the Elves at Helms Deep, and Faramir as Boromir 2.0 was stretching adaptation beyond its limits, IMO.
Mart
Strange. Firefox gives me a nice dialog that defaults to 'Open with Document Viewer'. How is that different from a PDF opening in my browser? Or are you suggesting that Chrome does not first download the PDF to a temporary directory?
Mart
Dear God, the stupid is really hurting in this one.
Number 3 fails Occam's Razor? When one good look shows that in the past 25 years, paralleling increasing cell phone ownership, car manufacturers have also rolled out better safety features like improved crumple zones, side impact protection systems and airbags?
Tell me, have you no shame? Showing yourself to be this stupid in public, have you really no shame at all?
Mart
Yes.
Let's say I spot you in a gay bar, and I start reporting that publicly. That can, and quite probably will materially harm you (imagine this happening to a military officer before DADT was repealed), even though it is the truth.
Mart
Surely I don't have to be a fan of Iran to point out the idiocy of this statement? Iran is technologically one of the most advanced states in the region, probably only second to Israel.
Oh they're a Gulf state; they must be camel-riding barbarians who only know how to sell oil. I'm going to say it right out: this is not mere ignorance, it's outright bigotry.
Mart
If you discount what Iranian politicians say at political rallies, and take a good look at their actual record in foreign policy, then you should admit that Iran is acting far from bat-shit crazy.
In fact, if you go by acts rather than words, the batshit crazy powers in the Middle East appear to be the various proxies of the United States, and the US itself.
That's a particularly short-sighted thing to say. And I'm being charitable here.
Since no EPR/CRM product can be tailored to all possible business rule cases up front, any decent system will need a way to customise the way it handles business rules.
Now, whether that is done directly in source or by way of plugin modules, or with a built-in rule-build system is immaterial. In terms of what you are doing it is the same: programming.
Mart
There are so many "fuck the police" rationalists, because:
And finally, even if you were wholly right, and it's standoff between assholes and a police force with a few bad apples, it's the police who have power, so it is incumbent upon them to make the first step to change the situation.
And this is why you fail, and why PHP coders have the reputation of clueless monkeys.
You don't filter your inputs when you are about to feed them to an SQL query. You use place holders and let the database cast your input into the right data type. You trust the database library to know that something is a data type and feed it to the query as a parameter, not as query text. If you trust filtering, all you need is one mistake and it's Bobby Tables time.
Mart
Actually, since there are virtually no competing views being offered in peer-reviewed journals, I'm just going to say that, yes, I have a good correlation. The onus is on opponents to provide a better theory, and so far all I've seen is lots of shouting in blogs, and one or two minor adjustments being actually published.
So why don't you just fuck off back under your rock, you ignorant troll.
Greenpeace activists: actually do something in the physical world, like doing a penetration test of a nuclear facility.
Slashdot poster antifoidulus: whines from his easy chair about Greenpeace activists on Slasdot.
I think the facts make it pretty clear just who the spoiled little rich kid is here.
Mart
Your comments get modded down because you're a one-trick pony who cannot do anything but post the exact same extremist libertard screed in any discussion, no matter the subject.
I generally ignore usernames while reading and/or modding. Often, after downmodding such a screed, I think "Wait, was that roman_mir?", and nine times out of ten, you know what? It is!
Mart
How about we start with Professor Dawkins producing verifiable figures, and not just a convenient soundbite for the Daily Hate?
Mart
It's the bloody Daily Mail we're talking about. If they were to state the Sun rises in the East, I would be sitting outside with a compass in the morning.
Sometimes the well is poisoned, and it's not a fallacy to ask for another source.
Mart
Apple fanbois in glass houses should not throw stones.
Seriously dude. I like your posts on other subjects, but just re-read your work in Apple-related threads.
Mart