I'm fine with the idea that climate and weather are different things. But where are all of you to point this out when idiots get on TV and try to claim that the latest big hurricane was "exacerbated by global warming"? You can't have it both ways.
Ironically, Clemson is in South Carolina, a state that has taken a very hard-line against both absentee voting and for strict voter identification requirements (hardly surprising in a state that used very similar tactics to keep blacks from voting during Jim Crow).
I've worked with managers that did nothing but get in everyone's way and make their subordinates' lives hell, and managers who were masters at building esprit de corps and getting their subordinates the resources they needed to do better work. So, they come in all flavors.
The CIA these days prefers a trumped-up sexual assault charge over a bullet. Less messy and just as effective. Just ask a former IMF chief who dared to question the supremacy of the U.S. dollar.
I would say that this incident mostly proves that these "scientists" are a bunch of media whores and drunks (seriously, these guys gotten more footage of themselves drinking and joking around onto TV lately than Russell Brand on a bender), with a captain who doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.
peta cares about animals (does that mean they don't care about humans?
My experience with PETA is that the only thing they care about is themselves. They've done way more to serve their own smug senses of self-importance than they've ever done to help any animals.
However, ignoring technological (and social, for that matter) advance doesn't make it go away.
Not every predicted advance catches on. Sometimes a new technology doesn't catch the public fancy the way pundits think it will (such as 3D anything), or it just turns out to be a passing fad (VRML anyone?), or it's just impractical (remember those flying cars we were all supposed to be driving by now?). And Google Glass has yet to prove itself catchy, long-lasting, OR practical.
I don't know who the fuck modded this down (Disney fan maybe??), but I'm dead serious. Back in the day, I used to teach my students the in-and-outs of copyright law (75 years plus, or whatever the hell the law happened to be at any given time). But since the 90's, I just tell them that anything that anything published from 1923 onwards will always be under copyright.
I tried to get my mom to use a Mac several years ago, just so I wouldn't have to worry about her getting viruses ever again. Now, on every holiday I still have to hear her bitch about her *stupid son* who made her waste $1,500 on a computer that wouldn't even run her simple sewing machine software (THAT ONLY HAD A FUCKING WINDOWS VERSION). One year she even paraded the dead corpse of said laptop around for all to see, as direct evidence of my bad-soness.
At the end of the day, you have to trust someone either way. Saying "It's open source, and therefore more trustworthy," is bullshit--because unless you or someone you trust has went through it line by line, it's functionally little different than trusting a closed-source binary. It's just a false sense of security most of the time.
It comes down to who you trust, not whether their software is open or closed source.
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I'm fine with the idea that climate and weather are different things. But where are all of you to point this out when idiots get on TV and try to claim that the latest big hurricane was "exacerbated by global warming"? You can't have it both ways.
Ironically, Clemson is in South Carolina, a state that has taken a very hard-line against both absentee voting and for strict voter identification requirements (hardly surprising in a state that used very similar tactics to keep blacks from voting during Jim Crow).
I've worked with managers that did nothing but get in everyone's way and make their subordinates' lives hell, and managers who were masters at building esprit de corps and getting their subordinates the resources they needed to do better work. So, they come in all flavors.
I'm more worried about it incinerating my dog.
The CIA these days prefers a trumped-up sexual assault charge over a bullet. Less messy and just as effective. Just ask a former IMF chief who dared to question the supremacy of the U.S. dollar.
Proof, or it doesn't happen.
I submit pretty much the entirety of South American history since WWII.
I would say that this incident mostly proves that these "scientists" are a bunch of media whores and drunks (seriously, these guys gotten more footage of themselves drinking and joking around onto TV lately than Russell Brand on a bender), with a captain who doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.
Well, at least they were able to show the world conclusively that the antarctic ice is, in fact, disappearing.
peta cares about animals (does that mean they don't care about humans?
My experience with PETA is that the only thing they care about is themselves. They've done way more to serve their own smug senses of self-importance than they've ever done to help any animals.
However, ignoring technological (and social, for that matter) advance doesn't make it go away.
Not every predicted advance catches on. Sometimes a new technology doesn't catch the public fancy the way pundits think it will (such as 3D anything), or it just turns out to be a passing fad (VRML anyone?), or it's just impractical (remember those flying cars we were all supposed to be driving by now?). And Google Glass has yet to prove itself catchy, long-lasting, OR practical.
Jumping the gun a bit, aren't you? Or did you call everyone who didn't believe that 3D TV would catch on a Luddite too?
The future is on its way, and it is going to be on your face.
No, it's not going to be on *MY* face.
I don't know who the fuck modded this down (Disney fan maybe??), but I'm dead serious. Back in the day, I used to teach my students the in-and-outs of copyright law (75 years plus, or whatever the hell the law happened to be at any given time). But since the 90's, I just tell them that anything that anything published from 1923 onwards will always be under copyright.
I tried to get my mom to use a Mac several years ago,
See, I can use bold tags too!
Thanks to Disney and others, the very idea of works EVER entering the public domain will eventually become a relic.
I tried to get my mom to use a Mac several years ago, just so I wouldn't have to worry about her getting viruses ever again. Now, on every holiday I still have to hear her bitch about her *stupid son* who made her waste $1,500 on a computer that wouldn't even run her simple sewing machine software (THAT ONLY HAD A FUCKING WINDOWS VERSION). One year she even paraded the dead corpse of said laptop around for all to see, as direct evidence of my bad-soness.
My cousin has a degree in psychology, and he's on his third marriage. So, apparently, it doesn't help.
a navel-gazing extended, tortured analogy
An apt metaphor for the whole of Western literature.
Acceptable risk != suicide
At the end of the day, you have to trust someone either way. Saying "It's open source, and therefore more trustworthy," is bullshit--because unless you or someone you trust has went through it line by line, it's functionally little different than trusting a closed-source binary. It's just a false sense of security most of the time.
It comes down to who you trust, not whether their software is open or closed source.
Are you going to go through every line of code to make sure it's okay, and then compile it yourself?
If Robert Zemeckis is to be believed, in less than 2 years.
They could have said it did stop an attack but its a secret.
That's essentially EXACTLY what they said. They claimed several prevented attacks but refused to provide details.
Think of all the corn and E.T. cartridges we could donate to the starving if we weren't so short-sighted.
hull of a schooner
IT'S A SAILBOAT!