Very clever finding notorious hack Bill Saffire commenting on his own column, and painting it as some sort of third party endorsement of his original column that history has shown is a pack of fail. Lest we forget The Starr Report. Lest we forget the final Travelgate report. Lest we forget the transparently political climate.
You need to troll much harder kid. I remember this shit.
This is where Emoji came from. Imagine a late 1990's cell phone with the 12 standard buttons, and having to send text messages to someone in Japanese. How do you use those 12 buttons to select from thousands of Kanji symbols?
Don't try and be an amateur linguistic historian, when people are alive today that sent SMS messages in the mid 1990s. Also, the history of emoji is in Wikipedia.
So what's the real story? Someone at NTT Docomo wanted prettier emoticons. Then once they had that, they decided to shove all their icons into this new dingbat font for ease of use. Softbank wanted feature parity, so they did the same. Then later the two fonts were shoved together, and so we have the unholy union that gives us ðY"' and ðY--, âoe'ï and ðY-, and my favorite ðY" and ðY"Z.
True, but it's unlikely that even after The Great Cataclysm(tm), that you'll ever have to build everything from scratch again. There's instruction manuals.
Foxfire has been doing this the mid 1960s. How to raise and slaughter animals. How to grow crops. How to bootstrap iron working, including gunsmithing. Everything you need, and with all the mammy-pamby crap from "urban homesteaders" and preppers. Practical knowledge from people that were doing it daily.
I've never been a great FPS player, but I do enjoy the genre, or at least I used to. (Apparently, kids these days think camping at spawn points is cool. In my day, that would get you kicked.) I really liked BF2. I liked hopping in anti aircraft batteries and gibbetting whole groups of people until inevitably someone stuck a bomb on the back on detonated it. Loads of fun. When I got BF3, I thought, "What the fuck is this?" Every gun, every add-on had to be unlocked. It was stupid, and made an already frustrating game, unplayable. I was a goddamn sniper, without a goddamn scope! WTF?
Even the single player campaign was boring and by the numbers. It was almost as bad as a rail-shooter, that I couldn't bother to finish it. And that's when I realized that I'd probably never play another FPS. (Well that, and the stupidity of the COD Black Ops demo where I had to walk to a U2, climb up a latter, turn on the plane, fly up, then watch a cut scene. Pointless.)
The USPS has a history of supporting OCR research, as part of its need to quickly and accurately route mail to its intended destination. That's main reason why ZIP codes and their later evolution of ZIP+4 came about.
That said, the National Security Complex has used the this system to institute the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking, which is a program to expand what used to be law enforcement surveillance technique (mail covers), as part of mass warrantless surveillance.
When the prequels, came out, Lucas tossed everything the EU under the bus, including everything stated and implied in the films. ("I just remember my mother was always very sad," No! That was your adopted mom!) About the only thing he kept was Obi-Wan and Anakin fought over lava. So none of this is surprising.
When milking an existing franchise there's this need to be different-yet-similar, and a need to ramp everything up a notch or two. Eventually, everything gets a bit stupider as a result.
Years, ago I ingested everything out of the WEG RPG source books. I loved it. Now when I look out at the EU, it seems like such overwrought load of rehashed crap. A perpetual war of Sith and Jedi with even the uniforms and technology always looking the same. It's like the Star Wars Galaxy didn't even have changes in design, or different empires to grow and fall. (The Rakata being the notable exception.) Its quite a boring universe really.
Mr. Jackson seems rooted in an age that has long since gone by. What he needs to do is tell the people he claims to represent, "pull up your damn pants, don't get ugly tattoos all over your body, learn to address people in respectful language and study your ass off rather than trying to figure how you can goof off more. There's boatloads of money, waiting to be made and odds are you aren't going to be a zillionaire hip-hop or movie star, but if you take an interest you could make more than all of them put together.
Personally, I find it unlikely that the CIA would do something so ham handed and transparent. And yet, since the War on Terror and the idea that anything goes when the people you're drowning don't wear matching hats, the CIA and the entire IC has lost all credibility, that I can't dismiss the allegation.
You need to check your facts. The government didn't create employer health care plans. The market did. Now don't get me wrong, the market was reacting to a different government intervention (namely WWII wage freezes), but there is no law that says,"Companies with more than N employees, must offer health insurance."
The reason why the ACA didn't move towards single-payer model (like most (yes, capitalist) countries) is that employers and insurance companies do not want that. Insurance companies don't want competition that would actually provide coverage, and employers like the fact that employees are indentured to them for health coverage. Make no mistake, the individual mandate, and no single payer is the Republican plan. In fact, it was famously the opposing position to the Clinton health care plan (aka "Hillarycare").
No, what I'm saying is that your own statements are proof enough of your misogyny.
I withdrawal and apologize for my paraphrase. I'm surprised and happy to learn that you also believe that there is a problem with a culture of gender discrimination by the practitioners of computer science, and that this needs to be rectified. I also am surprised that to find that, as you put it "claim[ing] the right to put men at a disadvantage in any given situation", is not misandry, or as I more literally put it "man-hating".
The assertions I wanted you to back up were: 1) Feminism seeks to discriminate against men. 2) Those take exception at perceived (which is not in opposition to actuality) gender and sexual discrimination, are simply bomb-throwers that want to undermine accepted and acceptable norms. 3) The implicit point that "Feminazis want to destroy computer science by dumbing it down and make it too appealing to women and girls."
You don't get to misdefine terms and then taking umbrage at when you're called on it. No more than someone gets to say, "I don't see what the big deal about pedophiles are," and then turn around and say, "I defined 'pedophiles' as 'caring parents', so screw you child-haters."
You don't know that, and I gave specific examples of where graffiti and CS intersect, while you have given nothing but loud and repeated assertions to support yours. The whole point of this project is to get someone in the door and thinking about possibilities. Perhaps you get all hot and bothered thinking about installing printer drivers, writing some timecard application in Visual Basic, or tweaking the borders on some random intranet webpage to get it work in IE6, but most people don't, but that's most people in CS do. Only an exceedingly few get paid to do exactly what they want to do.
The fact is most people -- including the best people in CS think of it as simply a job, an interesting job, better than most jobs, but still just a job, not a lifestyle. Well-rounded people have interests outside of their job. As one I know put it, "I spend 10 hours a day five days a week either sitting at a computer, or sitting in meetings talking about computers. Why the hell would I want to do that on my days off? I'm riding my bike."
You're just over-reacting to people coming in to your subculture that didn't grow up like you.
No one is saying computer science has a culture context. What people are saying is that computer scientists have a cultural context, and that's obvious since they are human.
If dance or graffiti or whatever inspires someone to stay in school, study hard, and then get a six-figure salary, then who gives a fuck what the initial reason was?
You make these assertions, but never once support them. You are behaving exactly like misogynist. Listen to yourself. "There's nothing wrong here, and only those with illegitimate positions think there is. If you say there is, you must be some sort of man-hating bitch, so your opinion is worthless, which reinforces my belief." You've created a epistemological closure.
How the fuck is saying we need more outreach to the 51% of the population that isn't male, and the 28% of the population that isn't white or asian, "discriminating" against anyone? You have very odd definitions of words, that have no basis in reality.
Of course, you never bothered to actually read the link before you go off and loudly spout your uniformed opinions about how damn liberals are trying to dumb these down for the minorities, and thus undercut "our" exalted position in society. If you had bothered to read the link, you'd know that it says:
These types of lessons are important for students to build personal relationships with computer science concepts and applications â" an important process for discovering the relevance of computer science for their own life. Allowing students to build an authentic identity as someone who does computer science within a familiar cultural context increases the likelihood that they will pursue additional study or careers in the field.
Heaven forbid anyone first start coding something that they find interesting!
You are exactly the reason why these program need to exist.
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Get punched fascist.
Very clever finding notorious hack Bill Saffire commenting on his own column, and painting it as some sort of third party endorsement of his original column that history has shown is a pack of fail. Lest we forget The Starr Report. Lest we forget the final Travelgate report. Lest we forget the transparently political climate.
You need to troll much harder kid. I remember this shit.
This is where Emoji came from. Imagine a late 1990's cell phone with the 12 standard buttons, and having to send text messages to someone in Japanese. How do you use those 12 buttons to select from thousands of Kanji symbols?
T9.
Don't try and be an amateur linguistic historian, when people are alive today that sent SMS messages in the mid 1990s. Also, the history of emoji is in Wikipedia.
So what's the real story? Someone at NTT Docomo wanted prettier emoticons. Then once they had that, they decided to shove all their icons into this new dingbat font for ease of use. Softbank wanted feature parity, so they did the same. Then later the two fonts were shoved together, and so we have the unholy union that gives us ðY"' and ðY--, âoe'ï and ðY-, and my favorite ðY" and ðY"Z.
Pfft, just the corners off. That way you'll be prepared when the robots come to kill you.
True, but it's unlikely that even after The Great Cataclysm(tm), that you'll ever have to build everything from scratch again. There's instruction manuals.
Foxfire has been doing this the mid 1960s. How to raise and slaughter animals. How to grow crops. How to bootstrap iron working, including gunsmithing. Everything you need, and with all the mammy-pamby crap from "urban homesteaders" and preppers. Practical knowledge from people that were doing it daily.
And then you drop it...
Couldn't the government just take down the DNS entries of those sites, rather than install malware?
Not if you want to track the people visiting the site.
It makes more sense that this was done by script kiddies with an agenda.
A little from column A... A little from column B...
I've never been a great FPS player, but I do enjoy the genre, or at least I used to. (Apparently, kids these days think camping at spawn points is cool. In my day, that would get you kicked.) I really liked BF2. I liked hopping in anti aircraft batteries and gibbetting whole groups of people until inevitably someone stuck a bomb on the back on detonated it. Loads of fun. When I got BF3, I thought, "What the fuck is this?" Every gun, every add-on had to be unlocked. It was stupid, and made an already frustrating game, unplayable. I was a goddamn sniper, without a goddamn scope! WTF?
Even the single player campaign was boring and by the numbers. It was almost as bad as a rail-shooter, that I couldn't bother to finish it. And that's when I realized that I'd probably never play another FPS. (Well that, and the stupidity of the COD Black Ops demo where I had to walk to a U2, climb up a latter, turn on the plane, fly up, then watch a cut scene. Pointless.)
you trusted your BC to some yahoo that ran a fricking Magic:The Gathering trading club...really?
What? You don't do all your banking at the comic book shop?
"That's libertarians for you â" anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
-- Kim Stanely Robinson, _Green_Mars_
The USPS has a history of supporting OCR research, as part of its need to quickly and accurately route mail to its intended destination. That's main reason why ZIP codes and their later evolution of ZIP+4 came about.
That said, the National Security Complex has used the this system to institute the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking, which is a program to expand what used to be law enforcement surveillance technique (mail covers), as part of mass warrantless surveillance.
thanks. I'll have to check this out.
This service is already available. It's called Your Momâ. It's free to use, but they do ask you to log in from time to time.
Wow, with the exception of the names of planets, that's a whole lot of meaningless fan service cameos.
But fan boys are cheap right?
When the prequels, came out, Lucas tossed everything the EU under the bus, including everything stated and implied in the films. ("I just remember my mother was always very sad," No! That was your adopted mom!) About the only thing he kept was Obi-Wan and Anakin fought over lava. So none of this is surprising.
When milking an existing franchise there's this need to be different-yet-similar, and a need to ramp everything up a notch or two. Eventually, everything gets a bit stupider as a result.
Years, ago I ingested everything out of the WEG RPG source books. I loved it. Now when I look out at the EU, it seems like such overwrought load of rehashed crap. A perpetual war of Sith and Jedi with even the uniforms and technology always looking the same. It's like the Star Wars Galaxy didn't even have changes in design, or different empires to grow and fall. (The Rakata being the notable exception.) Its quite a boring universe really.
Wow.
Personally, I find it unlikely that the CIA would do something so ham handed and transparent. And yet, since the War on Terror and the idea that anything goes when the people you're drowning don't wear matching hats, the CIA and the entire IC has lost all credibility, that I can't dismiss the allegation.
That said, Feinstein is a out of touch 80 year-old that thinks mass surveillance is cool, but at the same time gets upset when the IC spies on allies (like everyone else does), and when spy on her.
As a Democrat and a Californian, I say Fuck Feinstein.
Alright, not really.
You need to check your facts. The government didn't create employer health care plans. The market did. Now don't get me wrong, the market was reacting to a different government intervention (namely WWII wage freezes), but there is no law that says,"Companies with more than N employees, must offer health insurance."
The reason why the ACA didn't move towards single-payer model (like most (yes, capitalist) countries) is that employers and insurance companies do not want that. Insurance companies don't want competition that would actually provide coverage, and employers like the fact that employees are indentured to them for health coverage. Make no mistake, the individual mandate, and no single payer is the Republican plan. In fact, it was famously the opposing position to the Clinton health care plan (aka "Hillarycare").
No, what I'm saying is that your own statements are proof enough of your misogyny.
I withdrawal and apologize for my paraphrase. I'm surprised and happy to learn that you also believe that there is a problem with a culture of gender discrimination by the practitioners of computer science, and that this needs to be rectified. I also am surprised that to find that, as you put it "claim[ing] the right to put men at a disadvantage in any given situation", is not misandry, or as I more literally put it "man-hating".
The assertions I wanted you to back up were:
1) Feminism seeks to discriminate against men.
2) Those take exception at perceived (which is not in opposition to actuality) gender and sexual discrimination, are simply bomb-throwers that want to undermine accepted and acceptable norms.
3) The implicit point that "Feminazis want to destroy computer science by dumbing it down and make it too appealing to women and girls."
You don't get to misdefine terms and then taking umbrage at when you're called on it. No more than someone gets to say, "I don't see what the big deal about pedophiles are," and then turn around and say, "I defined 'pedophiles' as 'caring parents', so screw you child-haters."
You don't know that, and I gave specific examples of where graffiti and CS intersect, while you have given nothing but loud and repeated assertions to support yours. The whole point of this project is to get someone in the door and thinking about possibilities. Perhaps you get all hot and bothered thinking about installing printer drivers, writing some timecard application in Visual Basic, or tweaking the borders on some random intranet webpage to get it work in IE6, but most people don't, but that's most people in CS do. Only an exceedingly few get paid to do exactly what they want to do.
The fact is most people -- including the best
people in CS think of it as simply a job, an interesting job, better than most jobs, but still just a job, not a lifestyle. Well-rounded people have interests outside of their job. As one I know put it, "I spend 10 hours a day five days a week either sitting at a computer, or sitting in meetings talking about computers. Why the hell would I want to do that on my days off? I'm riding my bike."
You're just over-reacting to people coming in to your subculture that didn't grow up like you.
No one is saying computer science has a culture context. What people are saying is that computer scientists have a cultural context, and that's obvious since they are human.
If dance or graffiti or whatever inspires someone to stay in school, study hard, and then get a six-figure salary, then who gives a fuck what the initial reason was?
Put up or shut up.
You make these assertions, but never once support them. You are behaving exactly like misogynist. Listen to yourself. "There's nothing wrong here, and only those with illegitimate positions think there is. If you say there is, you must be some sort of man-hating bitch, so your opinion is worthless, which reinforces my belief." You've created a epistemological closure.
How the fuck is saying we need more outreach to the 51% of the population that isn't male, and the 28% of the population that isn't white or asian, "discriminating" against anyone? You have very odd definitions of words, that have no basis in reality.
Yeah, there's certainly no CS in Eye Writer or Time Writer.
Of course, you never bothered to actually read the link before you go off and loudly spout your uniformed opinions about how damn liberals are trying to dumb these down for the minorities, and thus undercut "our" exalted position in society. If you had bothered to read the link, you'd know that it says:
These types of lessons are important for students to build personal relationships with computer science concepts and applications â" an important process for discovering the relevance of computer science for their own life. Allowing students to build an authentic identity as someone who does computer science within a familiar cultural context increases the likelihood that they will pursue additional study or careers in the field.
Heaven forbid anyone first start coding something that they find interesting!
You are exactly the reason why these program need to exist.