I love my job at HPE, but it's mostly eyes-on-glass and I often don't do any "work" all week. I work overnights though, if I was day shift I would have a pile of change control requests / approvals to sort through. My main job is watching netflix and primewire and posting here.
Disclaimer: I work for HPE. Anyway, the split isn't quite done yet. We just changed email domains last week, and the internal sites are still in the process of splitting. Funny you mention Wipro, much of our unix and wintel support has long ago been outsourced to them. My facility is in Tulsa, we mostly support various airlines and have the SABRE mainframes in our basement.
Due to a long-illegal "exclusivity contract" my apartments had many years ago, I am stuck at the "max" of 2.4. Sometimes it will get up to 2.8 (not sure how that's possible) but it's total suckage. Three hours to download XCom from Steam, and had to tell my gf "your netflix may time out over the next few hours". What's even more annoying is that the ONLY fiber broadband in all of Oklahoma is just right across the street! But it's a private teleco for a specific suburb, so they can't run a connection across the street since that's not in their CLEC area of service. If my apartments hadn't had this contract many years ago, Cox would have done upkeep on the coax that is actually already ran. But they didn't, so now it's all cut, chopped, and not the right type for their current deployment...and they won't do anything unless the apartments pay for them to run new cable. I even offered that if they buy the cable, I'd run it myself to at least each building and to my apartment but their corporate masters said that's a no-go since I'm not an incorporated business with the "proper insurance".
FireEye has replaced nice with "angry". Every thread immediately grabs all the resources it can as soon as it's launched and refuses to give up anything until you reboot every device on the network.
my DNS is on a 2012 box, that syncs on Gandi for my hosted pages, and my firewall has an entry that refers to the external IP I've assigned to that DNS and then Google as a secondary. I'm actually surprised it all works with how circular I've made it...but that's just what happens when a chaos magickian also is the network admin.
That was my first thought. Looks like I'll soon be adding two new entries on my pfsense box. None of my Win7 boxes are acting up, I'm assuming because everything is the "Enterprise" version and already has Office on all the boxes. It's all legit too, thanks to my work-provided MSDN account. Honestly, I've probably got thousands of dollars of MS software installed in my home lab, when you include the servers with Hyper-V, 2012, SCCM, SCOM, etc. I try and stay away from "Home" editions mostly because I don't do customer support anymore. Telling people "oh, I only do corp apps" has saved me many headaches from end-users who think "hey, can you fix this?" is a good way to start a one-sided friendship.
True, there might not be a vast amount of habitual worlds, but my theory still holds. People are not forced to live with people they really disagree with. Also, I think the actual number of colonizable worlds / colonies might not be properly represented in the series as the Enterprise's job takes them to places were there is conflict, problems, or such usually. They do scientific exploration, but it seems to be a "side mission" depending on where their at in that episode. Ironically, our "real world" planetary searches are showing there are probably more habitual worlds than the writers of Star Trek ever envisioned.
"Current status of our welfare systems seems to disagree." I think your missing part of the core of ST. Our current welfare people have little other choice. They can't just go get a job that's good enough to survive off of. There is no place for them to go that they can earn an actual living. Especially the inner-city poor, there just isn't enough work nearby to have everyone gainfully employed and no way to move them to some place with a different economic base. Yet in Star Trek, there are numerous colonies that most anyone can get to that always need "workers", and their government itself is actively involved in moving the population and finding new worlds to expand to.
Compare ST more to the Wild West of America, back when we had an entire continent to expand into (well, the Native Americans were already there but that's beside my point). Need work, a job, etc? "Go west young man" and build your own opportunity. Today, you can't do that. Every little plot of land is owned by someone already, all resources are locked up and owned by other people.
In Star Trek those people just go off and start a colony of their own and don't actively interfere in the day-to-day running of the Federation. I'm sure if we had FTL there would already be multiple "True Believer" colonies for people like Kim Davis to go to so she could live out her chosen lifestyle with a bunch of other people who feel the same. Not that this would really escape homosexuality, as it is triggered by mostly unknown environmental and genetic elements and is a general option amongst all sexually reproducing species that we've studied enough so far. When there is almost 1,500 animal species that exhibit various aspects of pansexualism it's very obvious this is some type of lower level function than a "conscious choice" or other religious nonsense. It might take awhile on another colony to feel the population pressure for homosexuality to be triggered...but that too is just another theory and honestly we just don't know.
The Federation is pretty much straight-up atheist organizationally, but does not seem to incorporate this into general policy nor push that on their members. Every series has reinforced this repeatedly. There are still many religions followed by various races both inside the Federation and other governments, Many Star Fleet members have religious or spiritual beliefs, yet the general idea seems to be "we don't know what happens after death so over-all we don't care". Their version of secular humanism still endorses the general idea of "law" and "don't do bad things" without the need for a constant threat from a supernatural entity to keep people from falling into barbarism.
The biggest reason for this, IMHO, is that their society isn't all crowded up and stuck into a confined space like we are. If you feel like leaving all civilization behind and forming your own colony based on whatever philosophy you can. We on Earth are slowly loosing our "freedoms" because there is a very limited supply of everything so it all must be managed. Fishing rights, mining rights, even water rights, are all policies due to scarcity. Star Trek doesn't have this, they are (at least in the core worlds) post-scarcity so there is little reason to fight over this or much else. If you disagree, there is an almost unlimited amount of worlds you can just pick up and go to and do your own thing. This goes back to Roddenberry's original "Wild West" idea; there is once again a vast unpopulated frontier to expand into.
They also don't have to keep "undesirables" in their society. If someone has personality quirks that makes them anti-social, then those people can be moved to somewhere else so not to be disruptive. On Earth we're forced to live next to people who break the law under the belief of their religious system and there isn't much anyone can do about it. If those people had a chance to go somewhere else they would; but there is no place to go.
ME TOO! My religious freedoms are destroyed and censored by the American government every day. A decade ago I consumed 36 ounces of shroom and drank a vial of liquid LSD; Ahura Mazda showed Himself to me and commanded me to return the Eternal Flame of Zoroastrianism to the world. Yet my government has attacked my beliefs via their "laws" against "arson"! They even claim that by me enacting my God-commanded ritual purification rituals on unholy buildings could be considered "murder"! No matter those involved go to their eternal reward and dwell forever with Ahura Mazda, I am persecuted!
My God commands me to create fire and bring forth His Light to the world! We must defeat Angra Mainyu, who is the evil behind my arch nemesis the "fire fighter".
"2. FOX News, conspiracy theorists, and bloggers who make contradictory, conflicting claims about why the scientists are wrong, but produce no evidence, no working and generally misrepresent the truth. " there, FTFY.
I actually agree with #4 in a way. I think most of the "geoengineering" ideas have a decent chance of having some horrible back firing and making everything worse. The iron filings in the ocean might work OK, but I think the idea of "sulfur dumped into active volcanoes" isn't the best idea.
My Senator, Jim Inhofe, says this. He quotes the Bible to "back himself up", because since it says "As long as the earth remains, There will be springtime and harvest, Cold and heat, winter and summer.” (Genesis 8:22) therefor nothing humans can do can ever change this. I'm assuming he's also a huge proponent of global thermonuclear war, since per his logic even if we set off every nuke on the planet nothing humans can do can possibly change the environment.
I honestly think that, on a personal level, they do believe it. But when it comes to their base and who actually pays for their campaigns (Koch brothers, oil money, etc) then they will vote as they have been told to do by their paymasters.
here ya go "The study is the first to document the biological communities living on the tiny particles of debris known as microplastics, and recorded many new types of microbe and invertebrate for the first time." This is pretty "new" discovery, from 2015, so yeah you might not have heard about it yet.
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I love my job at HPE, but it's mostly eyes-on-glass and I often don't do any "work" all week. I work overnights though, if I was day shift I would have a pile of change control requests / approvals to sort through. My main job is watching netflix and primewire and posting here.
Disclaimer: I work for HPE. Anyway, the split isn't quite done yet. We just changed email domains last week, and the internal sites are still in the process of splitting. Funny you mention Wipro, much of our unix and wintel support has long ago been outsourced to them. My facility is in Tulsa, we mostly support various airlines and have the SABRE mainframes in our basement.
Due to a long-illegal "exclusivity contract" my apartments had many years ago, I am stuck at the "max" of 2.4. Sometimes it will get up to 2.8 (not sure how that's possible) but it's total suckage. Three hours to download XCom from Steam, and had to tell my gf "your netflix may time out over the next few hours". What's even more annoying is that the ONLY fiber broadband in all of Oklahoma is just right across the street! But it's a private teleco for a specific suburb, so they can't run a connection across the street since that's not in their CLEC area of service. If my apartments hadn't had this contract many years ago, Cox would have done upkeep on the coax that is actually already ran. But they didn't, so now it's all cut, chopped, and not the right type for their current deployment...and they won't do anything unless the apartments pay for them to run new cable. I even offered that if they buy the cable, I'd run it myself to at least each building and to my apartment but their corporate masters said that's a no-go since I'm not an incorporated business with the "proper insurance".
FireEye has replaced nice with "angry". Every thread immediately grabs all the resources it can as soon as it's launched and refuses to give up anything until you reboot every device on the network.
well, I suppose you could always use the roof of the apartment building...
"JUMP to Conclusions!" "yes, that idea, it is horrible"
Vegan Von Boogeyman sounds more insidious.
Hanlon's Razor indeed. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."
My meat all comes from free-range vegans, they make great bacon.
and after awhile many vegans end up looking like zombies too.
I crush up my Adderall and sprinkle it on my breakfast cereal because I demand "real" amphetamines on my morning get-up-and-go food.
my DNS is on a 2012 box, that syncs on Gandi for my hosted pages, and my firewall has an entry that refers to the external IP I've assigned to that DNS and then Google as a secondary. I'm actually surprised it all works with how circular I've made it...but that's just what happens when a chaos magickian also is the network admin.
That was my first thought. Looks like I'll soon be adding two new entries on my pfsense box. None of my Win7 boxes are acting up, I'm assuming because everything is the "Enterprise" version and already has Office on all the boxes. It's all legit too, thanks to my work-provided MSDN account. Honestly, I've probably got thousands of dollars of MS software installed in my home lab, when you include the servers with Hyper-V, 2012, SCCM, SCOM, etc. I try and stay away from "Home" editions mostly because I don't do customer support anymore. Telling people "oh, I only do corp apps" has saved me many headaches from end-users who think "hey, can you fix this?" is a good way to start a one-sided friendship.
"I'm sorry, Harlequin80, but I can't do that. You are experiencing an error. Please remain calm."
True, there might not be a vast amount of habitual worlds, but my theory still holds. People are not forced to live with people they really disagree with. Also, I think the actual number of colonizable worlds / colonies might not be properly represented in the series as the Enterprise's job takes them to places were there is conflict, problems, or such usually. They do scientific exploration, but it seems to be a "side mission" depending on where their at in that episode. Ironically, our "real world" planetary searches are showing there are probably more habitual worlds than the writers of Star Trek ever envisioned.
sounds like he needs some Adderall or something for his attention deficit syndrome.
"Current status of our welfare systems seems to disagree." I think your missing part of the core of ST. Our current welfare people have little other choice. They can't just go get a job that's good enough to survive off of. There is no place for them to go that they can earn an actual living. Especially the inner-city poor, there just isn't enough work nearby to have everyone gainfully employed and no way to move them to some place with a different economic base. Yet in Star Trek, there are numerous colonies that most anyone can get to that always need "workers", and their government itself is actively involved in moving the population and finding new worlds to expand to.
Compare ST more to the Wild West of America, back when we had an entire continent to expand into (well, the Native Americans were already there but that's beside my point). Need work, a job, etc? "Go west young man" and build your own opportunity. Today, you can't do that. Every little plot of land is owned by someone already, all resources are locked up and owned by other people.
In Star Trek those people just go off and start a colony of their own and don't actively interfere in the day-to-day running of the Federation. I'm sure if we had FTL there would already be multiple "True Believer" colonies for people like Kim Davis to go to so she could live out her chosen lifestyle with a bunch of other people who feel the same. Not that this would really escape homosexuality, as it is triggered by mostly unknown environmental and genetic elements and is a general option amongst all sexually reproducing species that we've studied enough so far. When there is almost 1,500 animal species that exhibit various aspects of pansexualism it's very obvious this is some type of lower level function than a "conscious choice" or other religious nonsense. It might take awhile on another colony to feel the population pressure for homosexuality to be triggered...but that too is just another theory and honestly we just don't know.
The Federation is pretty much straight-up atheist organizationally, but does not seem to incorporate this into general policy nor push that on their members. Every series has reinforced this repeatedly. There are still many religions followed by various races both inside the Federation and other governments, Many Star Fleet members have religious or spiritual beliefs, yet the general idea seems to be "we don't know what happens after death so over-all we don't care". Their version of secular humanism still endorses the general idea of "law" and "don't do bad things" without the need for a constant threat from a supernatural entity to keep people from falling into barbarism.
The biggest reason for this, IMHO, is that their society isn't all crowded up and stuck into a confined space like we are. If you feel like leaving all civilization behind and forming your own colony based on whatever philosophy you can. We on Earth are slowly loosing our "freedoms" because there is a very limited supply of everything so it all must be managed. Fishing rights, mining rights, even water rights, are all policies due to scarcity. Star Trek doesn't have this, they are (at least in the core worlds) post-scarcity so there is little reason to fight over this or much else. If you disagree, there is an almost unlimited amount of worlds you can just pick up and go to and do your own thing. This goes back to Roddenberry's original "Wild West" idea; there is once again a vast unpopulated frontier to expand into.
They also don't have to keep "undesirables" in their society. If someone has personality quirks that makes them anti-social, then those people can be moved to somewhere else so not to be disruptive. On Earth we're forced to live next to people who break the law under the belief of their religious system and there isn't much anyone can do about it. If those people had a chance to go somewhere else they would; but there is no place to go.
ME TOO! My religious freedoms are destroyed and censored by the American government every day. A decade ago I consumed 36 ounces of shroom and drank a vial of liquid LSD; Ahura Mazda showed Himself to me and commanded me to return the Eternal Flame of Zoroastrianism to the world. Yet my government has attacked my beliefs via their "laws" against "arson"! They even claim that by me enacting my God-commanded ritual purification rituals on unholy buildings could be considered "murder"! No matter those involved go to their eternal reward and dwell forever with Ahura Mazda, I am persecuted!
My God commands me to create fire and bring forth His Light to the world! We must defeat Angra Mainyu, who is the evil behind my arch nemesis the "fire fighter".
"2. FOX News, conspiracy theorists, and bloggers who make contradictory, conflicting claims about why the scientists are wrong, but produce no evidence, no working and generally misrepresent the truth. " there, FTFY.
I actually agree with #4 in a way. I think most of the "geoengineering" ideas have a decent chance of having some horrible back firing and making everything worse. The iron filings in the ocean might work OK, but I think the idea of "sulfur dumped into active volcanoes" isn't the best idea.
My Senator, Jim Inhofe, says this. He quotes the Bible to "back himself up", because since it says "As long as the earth remains, There will be springtime and harvest, Cold and heat, winter and summer.” (Genesis 8:22) therefor nothing humans can do can ever change this. I'm assuming he's also a huge proponent of global thermonuclear war, since per his logic even if we set off every nuke on the planet nothing humans can do can possibly change the environment.
I honestly think that, on a personal level, they do believe it. But when it comes to their base and who actually pays for their campaigns (Koch brothers, oil money, etc) then they will vote as they have been told to do by their paymasters.
here ya go "The study is the first to document the biological communities living on the tiny particles of debris known as microplastics, and recorded many new types of microbe and invertebrate for the first time." This is pretty "new" discovery, from 2015, so yeah you might not have heard about it yet.