Did you even read the summary? The person who released the data clearly stated they are not part of Anonymous and not part of the operation. As Anonymous stated, they will release it November 5th from a specific twitter handle. Additionally Anonymous has also clearly stated that just because names exist in their dump, does not mean those people are members of KKK, it just means those names existed in the KKK members database. After all, George Bush's name appeared on dozens of accounts on in the Ashley Madison dump.
Yes in my department the HR process of competition and hire for employees is ridiculous. It's one of many bureaucratic hurdles that makes hiring consultants easier. It's just one symptom of a larger problem - applying so many rules to ensure fairness, equity, transparency, etc, such that it's just easier to find some other way. My group has much better luck hiring students, since the process is not controlled by HR - manager approaches the school, does interviews, hires students. There is not a lot of oversight. Once the student graduates there is an HR mechanism to hire them without competition. This works for entry-level only, so generally we have consultants to fill positions that require experience.
This. I work in the Canadian government and for we tend to hire a significant number of consultants for larger development projects. On average the consulting devs are only slightly better than our employee devs, but they always cost at least twice as much. We would do far better to attract more competent employees in the first place.
I admit I currently only use it once or twice a year now. Since I broke free of my iPhone I tend to only use the store now, the other features can rot.
The problem with iTunes is how often they modify the UI or key functions. At my peak iTunes usage I probably only used it once a month. Every single time there was a new update waiting, and every time I allowed the update it would modify the UI in some non-intuitive way, and it would take an onerous amount of time trying to figure out where they moved a particular command. So eventually I only updated when a particular function stopped working entirely. Honestly, if you have to refactor your UI every time you add a feature, start from scratch and design something more scalable.
I like what I do, but sure as hell wouldn't put up with the more stressful parts of it if it didn't pay well
Whether you are paid well for what you do should not need to take into account the salaries of people who do unrelated work that you have no interest in doing. If you are paid a good industry wage for the work that you do, what difference does it make if the janitor makes an excellent wage? If you want less responsibility but the same money then apply for the janitor's position - but know that you are going to have to compete against some really fucking good janitors for that job.
When will gamergate become the new Godwin's law? Honestly it seems impossible for any conversation about harassment to exist at all without resorting to bringing up GG FUD. The only thing regarding harassment that you can take from gamergate is that there is a HUGE potential for harassment in the gaming community regardless of who started it, who deserved it, who was making a valid point, or who is a troll. And now it's impossible to have any kind of public conversation about harassment in that community because "OMG your opinion is irrelevant because gamergate".
As part of a national engagement process, we will ensure that electoral reform measures – such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting – are fully and fairly studied and considered.
It's one of many of options. It's very unlikely they will try to implement mandatory voting though, unless they actually want the reforms to fail. Changing the voting system at all is controversial enough, given how badly the notion has been defeated in recent times.
I wouldn't have a problem with a majority government having such power if the government actually represented the majority of voters. Hopefully Trudeau will follow through on his promise of election reform. With his 54% of seats achieved through only 39% of the votes, we have to hope he won't change his mind.
Have to agree more with the inflammatory OP. To call this cheating would only make sense if you apply the term to the betting part. Nobody cheated at StarCraft, but the book keepers or whoever cheated at betting by fixing the outcome. Article summary is therefore inflammatory. I only clicked because I thought someone was cheating the actual game.
But you can't tell me that spraying our food with not just a little bit of poison but a TON of poison is not absorbed by the food.
Yes, we actually can tell you that. We can tell you that because, and this may be shocking, your government routinely tests foods for the presence of poisons, carcinogens, etc, and makes recommendations on maximum allowed presence of these contaminants. I'm sure there have been thousands of proposed pesticides that were never used because they could not get government approval due to negative effects on either humans or the environment. Honestly, sugar is killing you far more surely than these regulated substances are.
I have no issue with labelling GMO foods, it's just a label and it's better to have overly stringent labelling laws than overly lax laws IMHO
Even though it's just a label, the process surrounding the label is not zero-cost. Companies have to add the labels, and add a process to ensure they are complying with the label and that their supply chain is complying. This requires certification of parts of the supply chain, etc, etc. This drives up costs, which drives up the cost of the product. Also, labels are useless without regulatory enforcement. So you need a regulatory body to inspect/audit the processes to ensure compliance, and the cost of that will either be billed to the food company (again driving up product costs) or is simply paid for by your taxes. So in the end, everyone pays more for a process that arguably provides no benefit to society.
If people realize that they are eating GMO food all the day, and they are still healthy, wouldn't that be much better for proving that GMO food is ok?
The average joe who is generally uninformed IS eating GMO food all day today, and statistically is as healthy as the control group. But the only reason they are eating it today is because they do not see scary GMO labels that they have only heard of because their friend on facebook shared a meme saying it was a bad thing. In the end it is wasted productivity - the actual labelling, the enforcement, the consumer confusion. I'm all for allowing companies to label GMO products as GMO voluntarily to cater to the anti-science types, but forcing all companies to do so is just promoting quackery.
I love that at least two of the incidents linked on that page are examples of an argument escalating to shooting, which is the most obvious counter-argument to everybody toting guns around. I completely agree that everybody being armed would likely stop mass shootings, and this would probably save about 100 people every year who would otherwise have been mowed down by some psychotic. On the other hand, everyone having a gun on their person at all times would likely lead to a massive surge in gun-related deaths just from people acting irrationally for a few seconds in the heat of the moment.
Based on today's media standards, the mere fact that the race/religion of the kids is not mentioned suggests that they are white. But you just go on gobbling up all the fear-mongering about those dangerous muslims.
It won't work for exactly the same reason. Your average laptop owner doesn't know their device's MAC address. Even if they knew how to get it, they probably don't have it written down. The article also indicates they are not after bag-snatching types. This would be more likely to be used if there was a home burglary where a device happened to be taken among other things.
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That's better than the status quo over here, where they charge extra 24/7.
Not everybody believes that a growing economy is the cure for all ailments. I wonder if this belief mostly afflicts people who own stocks.
This article is related to the bogus release, not at all tied to Anonymous' data.
Did you even read the summary? The person who released the data clearly stated they are not part of Anonymous and not part of the operation. As Anonymous stated, they will release it November 5th from a specific twitter handle. Additionally Anonymous has also clearly stated that just because names exist in their dump, does not mean those people are members of KKK, it just means those names existed in the KKK members database. After all, George Bush's name appeared on dozens of accounts on in the Ashley Madison dump.
Yes in my department the HR process of competition and hire for employees is ridiculous. It's one of many bureaucratic hurdles that makes hiring consultants easier. It's just one symptom of a larger problem - applying so many rules to ensure fairness, equity, transparency, etc, such that it's just easier to find some other way. My group has much better luck hiring students, since the process is not controlled by HR - manager approaches the school, does interviews, hires students. There is not a lot of oversight. Once the student graduates there is an HR mechanism to hire them without competition. This works for entry-level only, so generally we have consultants to fill positions that require experience.
This. I work in the Canadian government and for we tend to hire a significant number of consultants for larger development projects. On average the consulting devs are only slightly better than our employee devs, but they always cost at least twice as much. We would do far better to attract more competent employees in the first place.
I admit I currently only use it once or twice a year now. Since I broke free of my iPhone I tend to only use the store now, the other features can rot.
The problem with iTunes is how often they modify the UI or key functions. At my peak iTunes usage I probably only used it once a month. Every single time there was a new update waiting, and every time I allowed the update it would modify the UI in some non-intuitive way, and it would take an onerous amount of time trying to figure out where they moved a particular command. So eventually I only updated when a particular function stopped working entirely. Honestly, if you have to refactor your UI every time you add a feature, start from scratch and design something more scalable.
I like what I do, but sure as hell wouldn't put up with the more stressful parts of it if it didn't pay well
Whether you are paid well for what you do should not need to take into account the salaries of people who do unrelated work that you have no interest in doing. If you are paid a good industry wage for the work that you do, what difference does it make if the janitor makes an excellent wage? If you want less responsibility but the same money then apply for the janitor's position - but know that you are going to have to compete against some really fucking good janitors for that job.
Yes, certainly those three unrelated events mean that all public discussions, everywhere, have no interest in actual discourse.
When will gamergate become the new Godwin's law? Honestly it seems impossible for any conversation about harassment to exist at all without resorting to bringing up GG FUD. The only thing regarding harassment that you can take from gamergate is that there is a HUGE potential for harassment in the gaming community regardless of who started it, who deserved it, who was making a valid point, or who is a troll. And now it's impossible to have any kind of public conversation about harassment in that community because "OMG your opinion is irrelevant because gamergate".
They are not interested in a conversation, in an exchange of arguments and opinions.
One would think that trying to organize a "discussion panel" would imply they are interested in a conversation.
They are a cult, and they demand obedience and faith.
Who is a cult? Anyone who takes the opposing view?
I hate you for linking to the movie and not the original TV series.
As part of a national engagement process, we will ensure that electoral reform measures – such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting – are fully and fairly studied and considered.
It's one of many of options. It's very unlikely they will try to implement mandatory voting though, unless they actually want the reforms to fail. Changing the voting system at all is controversial enough, given how badly the notion has been defeated in recent times.
I wouldn't have a problem with a majority government having such power if the government actually represented the majority of voters. Hopefully Trudeau will follow through on his promise of election reform. With his 54% of seats achieved through only 39% of the votes, we have to hope he won't change his mind.
The only difference is that Trudeau comes across as empty-headed, somebody else has to tell him what to say and do.
Just wondering what leads you to this opinion?
Have to agree more with the inflammatory OP. To call this cheating would only make sense if you apply the term to the betting part. Nobody cheated at StarCraft, but the book keepers or whoever cheated at betting by fixing the outcome. Article summary is therefore inflammatory. I only clicked because I thought someone was cheating the actual game.
Didn't you know? Slashdot is now an extension of George Takei's facebook feed.
But you can't tell me that spraying our food with not just a little bit of poison but a TON of poison is not absorbed by the food.
Yes, we actually can tell you that. We can tell you that because, and this may be shocking, your government routinely tests foods for the presence of poisons, carcinogens, etc, and makes recommendations on maximum allowed presence of these contaminants. I'm sure there have been thousands of proposed pesticides that were never used because they could not get government approval due to negative effects on either humans or the environment. Honestly, sugar is killing you far more surely than these regulated substances are.
I have no issue with labelling GMO foods, it's just a label and it's better to have overly stringent labelling laws than overly lax laws IMHO
Even though it's just a label, the process surrounding the label is not zero-cost. Companies have to add the labels, and add a process to ensure they are complying with the label and that their supply chain is complying. This requires certification of parts of the supply chain, etc, etc. This drives up costs, which drives up the cost of the product. Also, labels are useless without regulatory enforcement. So you need a regulatory body to inspect/audit the processes to ensure compliance, and the cost of that will either be billed to the food company (again driving up product costs) or is simply paid for by your taxes. So in the end, everyone pays more for a process that arguably provides no benefit to society.
If people realize that they are eating GMO food all the day, and they are still healthy, wouldn't that be much better for proving that GMO food is ok?
The average joe who is generally uninformed IS eating GMO food all day today, and statistically is as healthy as the control group. But the only reason they are eating it today is because they do not see scary GMO labels that they have only heard of because their friend on facebook shared a meme saying it was a bad thing. In the end it is wasted productivity - the actual labelling, the enforcement, the consumer confusion. I'm all for allowing companies to label GMO products as GMO voluntarily to cater to the anti-science types, but forcing all companies to do so is just promoting quackery.
I love that at least two of the incidents linked on that page are examples of an argument escalating to shooting, which is the most obvious counter-argument to everybody toting guns around. I completely agree that everybody being armed would likely stop mass shootings, and this would probably save about 100 people every year who would otherwise have been mowed down by some psychotic. On the other hand, everyone having a gun on their person at all times would likely lead to a massive surge in gun-related deaths just from people acting irrationally for a few seconds in the heat of the moment.
it is much more likely that they were all muslim
Based on today's media standards, the mere fact that the race/religion of the kids is not mentioned suggests that they are white. But you just go on gobbling up all the fear-mongering about those dangerous muslims.
It won't work for exactly the same reason. Your average laptop owner doesn't know their device's MAC address. Even if they knew how to get it, they probably don't have it written down. The article also indicates they are not after bag-snatching types. This would be more likely to be used if there was a home burglary where a device happened to be taken among other things.
The most effective ads are lies portrayed as truth.
FTFY.