From all of the replies I've gotten to the comments I've made about the state of/. , I don't believe that this is any sort of change in/. , editor's asleep at the wheel, thinking that the cruise control will steer us right... TFA and the TFPost almost never really say the useful things you need to know. Just wait a while and see which comments percolate to the top: they will contain the essence and seeds of knowledge which you seek.
re : before ICANN roles out the new gTLDs (generic top-level domains), [emphasis mine] .
You could say:
before ICANN rolls out the new gTLDs
or, you could say:
before ICANN doles out the new gTLDs
but srsly, you cannot say:
before ICANN roles out the new gTLDs
"Rolls out" and "doles out" have different implications, but they would at least make some sense. Hello,/., we need an editor on aisle 5, please send an editor to aisle 5 now, we've got a grammar spill. Bring the sawdust...;>)
the real details and answer about what "Apache Cloudstack" really is available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/cloudstack-faq.html .
Maybe apache is trying to make sure that the managers and bosses can be sure to play buzzword bingo and win when they choose Apache Cloudstack. I completely agree with you that an "about" page really ought to tell you what the software is really about. It's frustrating to have to go to the FAQ page and still see a lot of buzzword baloney (bologna / baloney, it's still compressed meat either way).
So how is "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" clouds different from "Software-as-a-service" clouds? Is one cumulonimbus and the other cirrus?;>) .
No, seriously, my question is whether supplying "infrastructure as a service" just means "hosting"? Because hosting has always been available. So it's hosting+software availability? From the Apache web site at http://cloudstack.apache.org/about.html:
CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds.
Orchestration? Srsly? ;>p
Private and public clouds? Would that be the same as restricted access internal facing "intranet" and public-facing "internet" access? I'm glad that Apache is joining the band of buzzword warriors, but I'm also glad that the real details and answer about what "Apache Cloudstack" really is available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/cloudstack-faq.html :
Apache CloudStack is a complete software suite for creating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Target environments include service providers and enterprises.
-- The Apache CloudStack platform enables service providers to set up an on-demand, elastic cloud computing service. It enables a utility computing service by allowing service providers to offer self-service virtual machine instances, storage volumes, and networking configurations over the Internet.
-- The Apache CloudStack platform enables enterprises to set up a private cloud for use by their own employees. The current generation of virtualization infrastructure targets enterprise IT departments who manage virtual machines the same way they would manage physical machines. The Apache CloudStack platform, on the other hand, enables self-service of virtual machines by users outside of the IT department.
-- As an open source IaaS, Apache CloudStack is available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use.
You're right about that. That's why I specifically said that there's no reason to worry about the "nonprofit behemoths", and even gave an example of the three most profligate wasters of our donations. I agree with you that these small-to-medium not-for-profits, particularly animal shelters, are worthy of receiving discounts or even freebies and free-assistance from linux and FOSS types. I volunteer at a local pet shelter, and they've got oodles of free labor types assisting on their web page, so they don't need me. I am all for the charities that do real work rather than the huge organizations that would rather have you donate cash instead of labor. (They can't skip their percentage off of your labor, while they can with cash).
Being a non-profit or "not for profit" corporation does not mean that the employees and board members work for a pittance. Take a look at the salaries for Goodwill and the Red Cross and United Way in the San Diego area. Each chair makes more than $300,000.00 per year, sometimes substantially more when you include their "car allowance" and "living allowance" and "competitive allowance". A lot of their other employees are also extremely well paid. So there's no need to worry about "non-profit" behemoths like these not getting any sort of serious discount.
Yup. The car's HUD occupies the same position in space relative to the vehicle frame of reference, whereas the google glass view would be positioned relative to the frame of reference of the wearer's head. I'm sure there are some distraction / annoyance factors involved in having your active viewing area overlaid with messages as opposed to having a car's HUD position information "floating over the hood", where you don't expect other useful things (which you would have to pay attention to) to be.
Plus I thought that higher resolution images means that the quantitative analysis has more precision and accuracy. Now they can quantitate the land-mass that is covered by vegetation of type-A vs. type-B based on differences in visible and infrared absorption/reflectivity, and they can quantitate changes over time of vegetation and of wetlands and dry-lands/deserts with more precision. .
re: I think it's disrespectful... :>)
You seem to misunderstand religion. Just because the other "established" religions were started much longer ago in time does not give them more authority, just more momentum. These "established religions" were just made up long ago, either as mental illness delusions or as sincere misunderstandings and beliefs. . The same can be said of Scientology, being made up in the 1940s or 1950s: it was either perpetrated as a con job, as part of a bet to show that someone could start a made-up religion, or it was part of a delusional system to show that all of "those people" who kept accusing the founder of being crazy why it was "those people" that were the crazy ones. This second reasoning would also help explain the extreme animosity to Psychiatry and Mental Health held by Scientology, eh? All those other religions that you somehow think are "valid" just started at earlier points in history. There were points in time when those religions did not exist. Those religions and all religions are constructs of man (and woman!); they are not really true revelations from magical Beings or a magical Being (if your preferred religion is monotheistic). .
It's crazier than Swift's Big-Endian vs. Little-Endian warring (hmmm, the Mac vs. PC wars [the 68k vs. x86 wars] must have started earlier than I thought!) that people would war about whether there is one magical god or multple magical gods or a crazy quantumy god that is simultaneously singular and triplicate all at once! All hail magical fairy dust!
They all go together: Symbolics, Lisp Machines, RMS, GNU EMACS.
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You have to go old old school to see "bare-metal" LISP:
Symbolics was a company that create one of the first "stand-alone" Lisp Machines: hardware dedicated to running LISP programs. Interestingly, the first "dot-com" ever was the symbolics.com domain, according to some trivia on wikipedia's symbolics page. Lisp Machines were also made by some other companies, but did not do as well commercially.
Richard Stallman also has a bit to say about the topic of Lisp Machines, since one of the founders of Symbolics Lisp Machines, Russ Noftsker, was the person who hired Stallman at MIT's AI Lab. See
his speech about his Lisp experiences and about writing Gnu EMACS.
Yeah, the LA Times even has an article about the phenomenon of "hurling and throwing cell phones" at Anger issue: When phone goes from mobile to aerial. I like the cute illustration showing the three baseball pitching styles for hurling a cell-phone. It reminds me of Steve Jobs explaining the antenna debacle for the iphone: You're holding it wrong!" .
In fact, cell phone throwing has become so common-place now that the concept is even part of a Taylor Swift break-up song,
Stay, Stay, Stay with the lyrics in the music video being:
"... I'm pretty sure we almost broke up last night. ... I threw my phone across the room at you...." The object of her aggression/desire returns ready to talk, wearing a football helmet.
You know it's trendy when Taylor Swift's all over it!
The L.A. Times has an article that points out that the new idiocy of the rude is
flinging and hurling their cellphones in anger, and they call their article Anger issue: When phone goes from mobile to aerial, with an illustration to go with it demonstrating "How To Throw a Phone" like a baseball as a
(1) curve phone
(2) knuckle phone
(3) fast phone
rendered in a faux-retro style. It has also entered the Taylor Swift breakup-song stage:
Taylor Swift also discloses a phone-flinging episode in her song
"Stay Stay Stay": "...I'm pretty sure we almost broke up last night. ... I threw my phone across the room at you...." The object of her aggression/desire returns ready to talk, wearing a football helmet.
But they were not illegal activities when he performed them as those actions were not illegal in his home country. It's like getting busted for being a member of a gang (by affiliation) rather than for a particular activity.
Hey, it's already happened here in the USA for Dmitry Sklyarov when he came to the USA to give a presentation. Look at the details at
U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Skylarov The case raised some concerns particularly since it involved an individual being prosecuted for activities that were fully legal in the country where they occurred.
So Twitteronians doing twiittery things that are all legal in teh USA could get stopped, frisked, arrested, and jailed for having done things that are deemed to be illegal elsewhere in this great wide world.:>(
re: They were the type of guys who would make quite explicit comments about other female coworkers, clients or vendors in front of me and made me wonder what they said about me behind my back. :>(
Damn it, you're right about that. I've had guys do that and then tell me hey it's because you're like one of us guys since you like tech and you know linux and gnu, you're just one of the guys so we can talk like that around you. And they actually thought that I wouldn't be offended! Well, I told them that yes I am offended: it's not right to treat any person (male or female) that way. Strangely, since they think of you as "one of the guys", they might weirdly have some respect for you and might actually not talk about you like that behind your back. But that depends on the particular people involved. . It's also like the problem of having business "meetings" or business talk continuing on at golf outings where women may not be welcome, or the apocryphal "business meeting" at a strip club (does that really happen?) Doing things that exclude women or make girls uncomfortable just to be around people (girls can be just as bad in being sexist or stupid) saying stupid or demeaning things. There are places where it is important to be professional and school is also such an environment. Considering how few women are in EE or physics (the two things which I am considering), I know I'm going to have to deal with (as I already do with the computer and tech nerds in school now) male chauvinism a lot in the coming years. Yeeesh.
Egads! You're making me learn new things before I get to A.P. U.S. History next year! Thanks for the information. I had not considered that:
the British DID see members of the American militia and the Continental Army as legitimate soldiers, because they took them as prisoners of war rather than just bayoneting them...
so thanks for informing me. I have to agree with you there. I assume that there was not as much gratuitous torture being performed in the Revolutionary War as there was at Abu Ghraib, but otherwise, yes, the accomodations were probably more sanitary in the Iraq war though much less humane, considering that the levels of humanity possible are much higher in this modern era. . :>) (btw, I have to admit that this is the part of slashdot which I really like: when responses even to small phrases in postings can be very educational and informative, particularly when they are also well-written and composed and presented in a thought-ful and sincere manner. I thank you for your courtesy and for your educational reply. Lister and Pasteur are names which I'd already heard of: one's listed on my fridge milk, and the other's name is on a mouthwash, but I do know a little bit about them!)
the wikipedia page on Valerie Aurora has a bit about Noirin Shirley being attacked at ApacheCon. I had not heard about that. That was the only page I could find on wikipedia about it. Do you have some other links about it?
True about morals being subjective, but what I'm pointing out is that even with people on the side of the USA in general and on the side of the USA military in specific and on the side of soldiers even more specifically, there have been people who despite being on the USA side of things can actually see that the USA does not hold the moral high ground, even vis a vis or relative to the moral subjectivity and moral point of view proclaimed by the USA. We do not even follow our proudly proclaimed standards that are in the Constitution of the United States of America. .
Look at what Pat Tillman had to write about it, even when he was willing to voluntarily join the armed forces and serve, and ended up being a victim of fratricide. (damn, that would also be a lousy outcome of the worst possible ever toga party in college, fratricide... ?...) .
Look at what Bradley Manning did, and what he claims are the reasons for doing it. Look at the USA's overzealous assistance to the MPAA/RIAA for attacking (and isn't "attacking" the apropros word for it) Dotcom in New Zealand after his company did what was asked of it by retaining the files it was told to retain. .
Look at the USA claiming the right to summarily execute those it wishes to with drone attacks impinging upon the sovereignty of other nation-states based upon the un-reviewable and un-knowable decision-making and machinations behind closed doors and solely upon their say-so ("their" being the executive branch of our constitutiobal tree trident). .
Look at the USA claiming that it is above review by others, and look at the executive claiming that its actions in selecting drone targets is above review by the Legistlative or Judicial branches of government. Look at it going back to "if the president does it, it cannot be illegal" type of beliefs and idolatry. . That is what I mean by that the USA cannot hold a moral high ground when it cannot stand for the proud and good things for which it used to stand and for which it still loudly proclaims to still stand for./rant. Sleepy-bye.
re: I realized I had to do something or she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so. .
There are always ignorant ass-holes/ass-clowns around us, whether we're in high-school and they're the jocks, or we're in a business-environment and they're the alpha-geek salesmen or alpha-uber-bosses, or we're in a medical residency and they're the fucking-elitist-attendings-who-went-to-Hahvahd-and-tell-you-at-the-beginning-of-every-sentence-they-spout (example from my mother the doctor!), or we're in a business environment and they're the dicks spouting off their misogynist leanings. .
The ass-clowns behind her were not making it impossible for little girls to have the chance to learn and love programming. They were being immature jackasses joking with each other. You can go all atomic when they're doing atomic level things, but diverting your anger from item X onto the people who perform action Y and push you over the edge is . as abusive as the guy/gal who comes home pissed off at what the boss said to dress them down at the pffoce and takes it out on their spouse. Misdirecting or projecting your anger, instead of directing the anger at the correct venue at the correct proportionality, is a waste of time. .
Another anecdote from mom: "don't waste your emotion on idiots. Save your emotional responses and caring for the ones you love." If you find yourself getting angry at someone, find a constructive way to use that anger to perform appropriate corrective or disruptive actions.
:>) IUDs != IEDs .
I agree with your points, however, I have to stop my laughing long enough to point out that perhaps only the Catholic Church and the most ardent right-to-lifers tend to think of "IUDs" (intra-uterine-devices, used for contraception) as weapons which take the life of the innocent. Thanks for the accidental injection of a little humor into an otherwise very sad and humorless topic. (if I didn't see the humor in these silly little things in life, life would be very very depressing.)
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On the other hand, the British redcoats saw the American militias as terrorists, not even being gentlemanly enough to wear uniforms or fight fairly standing out in the open light they ought to! The resistance most often makes use of whatever weapons they have access to and can improvise, whether they are IEDs or IUDs. To denigrate their actions as being targeted to the innocent is as wrong as to claim that the "selective drone strikes" of the USA do not cause any innocent civilians' deaths. There is a lot of collateral damage. Reread the definition of "militants" when you hear the statements from the press office about how many militants were killed: militant only means able-bodied males of a certain age, not that they were part of an organized or disorganized/unorganized militia or military or aggressor force.
re:Or possibly telling them to "grow up" to their face? .
Exactly. I was at a G-rated-cartoon with two kids (one niece, 8 yrs old, one cousin, 7 years old) when some guys behind us started yakking about their friday night date with some PG and R rated language, and I as a girl had no problem turning around and saying "hey, there are children here! Watch what you say!" Of course, that's cause the movie hadn't started yet, they were showing commercials. During the movie, I'd have turned around and said "shut it!" probably instead.
re: everyone else in the story - Adria, her employers, Mr-Hank, and his employer - all made dick moves, .
You are correct. Despite her gender, Adria was being a dick. I should have thought of that line for my comment below: Twitter-shaming.
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From all of the replies I've gotten to the comments I've made about the state of /. , I don't believe that this is any sort of change in /. , editor's asleep at the wheel, thinking that the cruise control will steer us right... TFA and the TFPost almost never really say the useful things you need to know. Just wait a while and see which comments percolate to the top: they will contain the essence and seeds of knowledge which you seek.
You,...
Get off of my cloud
Now you kids get off my damn lawn, and stay the hell off of my cloud! ;>)
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You could say: before ICANN rolls out the new gTLDs
or, you could say:
before ICANN doles out the new gTLDsbut srsly, you cannot say:
before ICANN roles out the new gTLDs"Rolls out" and "doles out" have different implications, but they would at least make some sense. Hello, /., we need an editor on aisle 5, please send an editor to aisle 5 now, we've got a grammar spill. Bring the sawdust... ;>)
the real details and answer about what "Apache Cloudstack" really is available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/cloudstack-faq.html
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Maybe apache is trying to make sure that the managers and bosses can be sure to play buzzword bingo and win when they choose Apache Cloudstack. I completely agree with you that an "about" page really ought to tell you what the software is really about. It's frustrating to have to go to the FAQ page and still see a lot of buzzword baloney (bologna / baloney, it's still compressed meat either way).
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No, seriously, my question is whether supplying "infrastructure as a service" just means "hosting"? Because hosting has always been available. So it's hosting+software availability? From the Apache web site at http://cloudstack.apache.org/about.html
Orchestration? Srsly?
Apache CloudStack is a complete software suite for creating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Target environments include service providers and enterprises.;>p
Private and public clouds? Would that be the same as restricted access internal facing "intranet" and public-facing "internet" access? I'm glad that Apache is joining the band of buzzword warriors, but I'm also glad that the real details and answer about what "Apache Cloudstack" really is available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/cloudstack-faq.html :
-- The Apache CloudStack platform enables service providers to set up an on-demand, elastic cloud computing service. It enables a utility computing service by allowing service providers to offer self-service virtual machine instances, storage volumes, and networking configurations over the Internet.
-- The Apache CloudStack platform enables enterprises to set up a private cloud for use by their own employees. The current generation of virtualization infrastructure targets enterprise IT departments who manage virtual machines the same way they would manage physical machines. The Apache CloudStack platform, on the other hand, enables self-service of virtual machines by users outside of the IT department.
-- As an open source IaaS, Apache CloudStack is available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use.
You're right about that. That's why I specifically said that there's no reason to worry about the "nonprofit behemoths", and even gave an example of the three most profligate wasters of our donations. I agree with you that these small-to-medium not-for-profits, particularly animal shelters, are worthy of receiving discounts or even freebies and free-assistance from linux and FOSS types. I volunteer at a local pet shelter, and they've got oodles of free labor types assisting on their web page, so they don't need me. I am all for the charities that do real work rather than the huge organizations that would rather have you donate cash instead of labor. (They can't skip their percentage off of your labor, while they can with cash).
Being a non-profit or "not for profit" corporation does not mean that the employees and board members work for a pittance. Take a look at the salaries for Goodwill and the Red Cross and United Way in the San Diego area. Each chair makes more than $300,000.00 per year, sometimes substantially more when you include their "car allowance" and "living allowance" and "competitive allowance". A lot of their other employees are also extremely well paid. So there's no need to worry about "non-profit" behemoths like these not getting any sort of serious discount.
Yup. The car's HUD occupies the same position in space relative to the vehicle frame of reference, whereas the google glass view would be positioned relative to the frame of reference of the wearer's head. I'm sure there are some distraction / annoyance factors involved in having your active viewing area overlaid with messages as opposed to having a car's HUD position information "floating over the hood", where you don't expect other useful things (which you would have to pay attention to) to be.
Plus I thought that higher resolution images means that the quantitative analysis has more precision and accuracy. Now they can quantitate the land-mass that is covered by vegetation of type-A vs. type-B based on differences in visible and infrared absorption/reflectivity, and they can quantitate changes over time of vegetation and of wetlands and dry-lands/deserts with more precision.
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re: I think it's disrespectful...
:>) You seem to misunderstand religion. Just because the other "established" religions were started much longer ago in time does not give them more authority, just more momentum. These "established religions" were just made up long ago, either as mental illness delusions or as sincere misunderstandings and beliefs.
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The same can be said of Scientology, being made up in the 1940s or 1950s: it was either perpetrated as a con job, as part of a bet to show that someone could start a made-up religion, or it was part of a delusional system to show that all of "those people" who kept accusing the founder of being crazy why it was "those people" that were the crazy ones. This second reasoning would also help explain the extreme animosity to Psychiatry and Mental Health held by Scientology, eh? All those other religions that you somehow think are "valid" just started at earlier points in history. There were points in time when those religions did not exist. Those religions and all religions are constructs of man (and woman!); they are not really true revelations from magical Beings or a magical Being (if your preferred religion is monotheistic).
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It's crazier than Swift's Big-Endian vs. Little-Endian warring (hmmm, the Mac vs. PC wars [the 68k vs. x86 wars] must have started earlier than I thought!) that people would war about whether there is one magical god or multple magical gods or a crazy quantumy god that is simultaneously singular and triplicate all at once! All hail magical fairy dust!
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You have to go old old school to see "bare-metal" LISP: Symbolics was a company that create one of the first "stand-alone" Lisp Machines: hardware dedicated to running LISP programs. Interestingly, the first "dot-com" ever was the symbolics.com domain, according to some trivia on wikipedia's symbolics page.
Lisp Machines were also made by some other companies, but did not do as well commercially.
Richard Stallman also has a bit to say about the topic of Lisp Machines, since one of the founders of Symbolics Lisp Machines, Russ Noftsker, was the person who hired Stallman at MIT's AI Lab. See his speech about his Lisp experiences and about writing Gnu EMACS.
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In fact, cell phone throwing has become so common-place now that the concept is even part of a Taylor Swift break-up song, Stay, Stay, Stay with the lyrics in the music video being: "... I'm pretty sure we almost broke up last night.
... I threw my phone across the room at you.
The object of her aggression/desire returns ready to talk, wearing a football helmet.
You know it's trendy when Taylor Swift's all over it!
(2) knuckle phone
(3) fast phone
rendered in a faux-retro style. It has also entered the Taylor Swift breakup-song stage:
Taylor Swift also discloses a phone-flinging episode in her song "Stay Stay Stay":"...I'm pretty sure we almost broke up last night.
... I threw my phone across the room at you.
The object of her aggression/desire returns ready to talk, wearing a football helmet.
But they were not illegal activities when he performed them as those actions were not illegal in his home country. It's like getting busted for being a member of a gang (by affiliation) rather than for a particular activity.
So Twitteronians doing twiittery things that are all legal in teh USA could get stopped, frisked, arrested, and jailed for having done things that are deemed to be illegal elsewhere in this great wide world. :>(
re: They were the type of guys who would make quite explicit comments about other female coworkers, clients or vendors in front of me and made me wonder what they said about me behind my back.
:>(
Damn it, you're right about that. I've had guys do that and then tell me hey it's because you're like one of us guys since you like tech and you know linux and gnu, you're just one of the guys so we can talk like that around you. And they actually thought that I wouldn't be offended! Well, I told them that yes I am offended: it's not right to treat any person (male or female) that way. Strangely, since they think of you as "one of the guys", they might weirdly have some respect for you and might actually not talk about you like that behind your back. But that depends on the particular people involved.
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It's also like the problem of having business "meetings" or business talk continuing on at golf outings where women may not be welcome, or the apocryphal "business meeting" at a strip club (does that really happen?) Doing things that exclude women or make girls uncomfortable just to be around people (girls can be just as bad in being sexist or stupid) saying stupid or demeaning things. There are places where it is important to be professional and school is also such an environment. Considering how few women are in EE or physics (the two things which I am considering), I know I'm going to have to deal with (as I already do with the computer and tech nerds in school now) male chauvinism a lot in the coming years. Yeeesh.
so thanks for informing me. I have to agree with you there. I assume that there was not as much gratuitous torture being performed in the Revolutionary War as there was at Abu Ghraib, but otherwise, yes, the accomodations were probably more sanitary in the Iraq war though much less humane, considering that the levels of humanity possible are much higher in this modern era.
:>) (btw, I have to admit that this is the part of slashdot which I really like: when responses even to small phrases in postings can be very educational and informative, particularly when they are also well-written and composed and presented in a thought-ful and sincere manner. I thank you for your courtesy and for your educational reply. Lister and Pasteur are names which I'd already heard of: one's listed on my fridge milk, and the other's name is on a mouthwash, but I do know a little bit about them!)
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the wikipedia page on Valerie Aurora has a bit about Noirin Shirley being attacked at ApacheCon. I had not heard about that. That was the only page I could find on wikipedia about it. Do you have some other links about it?
True about morals being subjective, but what I'm pointing out is that even with people on the side of the USA in general and on the side of the USA military in specific and on the side of soldiers even more specifically, there have been people who despite being on the USA side of things can actually see that the USA does not hold the moral high ground, even vis a vis or relative to the moral subjectivity and moral point of view proclaimed by the USA. We do not even follow our proudly proclaimed standards that are in the Constitution of the United States of America. ...) /rant. Sleepy-bye.
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Look at what Pat Tillman had to write about it, even when he was willing to voluntarily join the armed forces and serve, and ended up being a victim of fratricide. (damn, that would also be a lousy outcome of the worst possible ever toga party in college, fratricide... ?
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Look at what Bradley Manning did, and what he claims are the reasons for doing it. Look at the USA's overzealous assistance to the MPAA/RIAA for attacking (and isn't "attacking" the apropros word for it) Dotcom in New Zealand after his company did what was asked of it by retaining the files it was told to retain.
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Look at the USA claiming the right to summarily execute those it wishes to with drone attacks impinging upon the sovereignty of other nation-states based upon the un-reviewable and un-knowable decision-making and machinations behind closed doors and solely upon their say-so ("their" being the executive branch of our constitutiobal tree trident).
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Look at the USA claiming that it is above review by others, and look at the executive claiming that its actions in selecting drone targets is above review by the Legistlative or Judicial branches of government. Look at it going back to "if the president does it, it cannot be illegal" type of beliefs and idolatry.
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That is what I mean by that the USA cannot hold a moral high ground when it cannot stand for the proud and good things for which it used to stand and for which it still loudly proclaims to still stand for.
re: I realized I had to do something or she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so.
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There are always ignorant ass-holes/ass-clowns around us, whether we're in high-school and they're the jocks, or we're in a business-environment and they're the alpha-geek salesmen or alpha-uber-bosses, or we're in a medical residency and they're the fucking-elitist-attendings-who-went-to-Hahvahd-and-tell-you-at-the-beginning-of-every-sentence-they-spout (example from my mother the doctor!), or we're in a business environment and they're the dicks spouting off their misogynist leanings.
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The ass-clowns behind her were not making it impossible for little girls to have the chance to learn and love programming. They were being immature jackasses joking with each other. You can go all atomic when they're doing atomic level things, but diverting your anger from item X onto the people who perform action Y and push you over the edge is
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as abusive as the guy/gal who comes home pissed off at what the boss said to dress them down at the pffoce and takes it out on their spouse. Misdirecting or projecting your anger, instead of directing the anger at the correct venue at the correct proportionality, is a waste of time.
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Another anecdote from mom: "don't waste your emotion on idiots. Save your emotional responses and caring for the ones you love." If you find yourself getting angry at someone, find a constructive way to use that anger to perform appropriate corrective or disruptive actions.
:>) IUDs != IEDs
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I agree with your points, however, I have to stop my laughing long enough to point out that perhaps only the Catholic Church and the most ardent right-to-lifers tend to think of "IUDs" (intra-uterine-devices, used for contraception) as weapons which take the life of the innocent. Thanks for the accidental injection of a little humor into an otherwise very sad and humorless topic. (if I didn't see the humor in these silly little things in life, life would be very very depressing.)
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On the other hand, the British redcoats saw the American militias as terrorists, not even being gentlemanly enough to wear uniforms or fight fairly standing out in the open light they ought to! The resistance most often makes use of whatever weapons they have access to and can improvise, whether they are IEDs or IUDs. To denigrate their actions as being targeted to the innocent is as wrong as to claim that the "selective drone strikes" of the USA do not cause any innocent civilians' deaths. There is a lot of collateral damage. Reread the definition of "militants" when you hear the statements from the press office about how many militants were killed: militant only means able-bodied males of a certain age, not that they were part of an organized or disorganized/unorganized militia or military or aggressor force.
Nice def! Thanks for the laugh! Ought it be spelled a-ass-symmetry? (Where else would you be able to get away with a triple-S in a word?)
re:Or possibly telling them to "grow up" to their face?
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Exactly. I was at a G-rated-cartoon with two kids (one niece, 8 yrs old, one cousin, 7 years old) when some guys behind us started yakking about their friday night date with some PG and R rated language, and I as a girl had no problem turning around and saying "hey, there are children here! Watch what you say!" Of course, that's cause the movie hadn't started yet, they were showing commercials. During the movie, I'd have turned around and said "shut it!" probably instead.
Exactly. That was my point. Somehow, people are misreading that as saying I think that they ought NOT be targets, which is not my meaning at all.
re: everyone else in the story - Adria, her employers, Mr-Hank, and his employer - all made dick moves,
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You are correct. Despite her gender, Adria was being a dick. I should have thought of that line for my comment below: Twitter-shaming.