Can you name a single primarily psychopathic society to provide even anecdotal experimental evidence for your claim? Theory is nice and all, but is notoriously inapplicable to human behavior.
I am not at all providing this as any evidence for the GP's claim, I'm just mentioning one of my favorite books by Frank Herbert; "The Dosadi Experiment". A planet full of sociopaths makes for a dangerous environment.
Who the hell decided to call something "Dell Venue 8 7000"? You don't put two numbers one after another, it's just stupid!
Time to fire the marketing guys!
You're posting about it, so I guess the marketing guys earned their pay on this one. Sure, you can say, "but, but I'm pointing out how stupid that is!"
Makes no difference; you already made the contribution that they wanted from you. For free.
40 is old for a software developer. Someone who is 40 today entered college just as web browsers were being invented. You could not just connect the dots on library calls to put together an application then. Now you can.
I have a strong sense of wanting to know how things work that comes from having built a lot of software in the 80's and 90's, when you had to know the internals to make progress. That is downright counterproductive in web development now. By the time you learn enough to understand how a library works, the developer who just learned enough to use it already shipped their code. That's the sort of disconnect between age ranges at work now.
Yeah, that slapdash mentality is a large part of what I have to manage, so we don't experience continual disaster. I didn't say I was a software developer any more. I ride herd over business analysts, systems analysts, and the menagerie of IT who do the programming.
Fortunately, I have a long technical history, and even though I got my degree about 8 years before the first browsers, I picked up web programming just like I did every other model, from mainframe to minicomputer to PC, to web services. It's so much easier to manage my folks when they realize they can't bullshit me.:-)
I often feel like everyone on Slashdot is a mix of two people
- Old 50+ year olds used to the good 'ol days when you would write your own stack from scratch whenever writing an application
- 20 year olds fresh out of (or still in) college who yell "squirrel!" at everything new and shiny
50+ is old? Huh.
Well, you forgot a third class - 50+ (old? really?) people who still learn about new tools and concentrate on process and quality, instead of sticking exclusively to what worked early in our careers. I am one of those.
But then, I graduated from coding to management about 10 years ago, which probably explains it.:-)
Yeah, that's pretty funny. UPS does an excellent job for me. So does FedEx. I only had one problem with a package in the last 10 years, out of the hundred or so deliveries I've had to my home, and that was when someone stole my gaming rig out of the UPS warehouse. Which had nothing to do with delivery.
I tried your suggestion, so I could post something useful (rather than just post a useless, "well, why don't you..."), but neither Bing nor Google provided a good candidate to answer the question.
I think your search term is useless, and a few minutes of searching variations didn't help either. Feel free to actually try to contribute.
For my last mortgage I took pictures of documents with my phone and sent them via email. Not one problem....living in the house now.
...and we're all very proud of you.
For my last refinancing, over 5 years ago, I received documents via email, signed, scanned and emailed them back. What does that have to do with my observation that "...fax machines are still very common in... mortgage underwriting."?
Fax machines are still very common in medical claims processing and mortgage underwriting. For medical claims, think Medicare - very old people, who insist on filling out paper forms. It's easier to fax them than scan and email - especially since the email has to be secure, because of HIPAA.
Just more activist trying to cause an another unwarranted hullabaloo. Diesel engines are a blessing. I ought to know. I've owned Cummins stock for many years.
I own stock in Baby Seal Fur Harvester, Inc. Does that make me an expert on threatened species?
That is interesting, since all of his crew mates I have heard say they are true.
I think you're full of shit. The people who made the accusations were either not part of his crew, or were not present on the missions for which they disputed Kerry's accounts and questioned the basis for the medals he received.
Some of those who did make the accusations flip flopped - they actually praised him, and one officer submitted his name for a Silver Star, before joining the Swiftboat political action group.
I think it's more likely that you just never bothered to get the facts, rather than that you are outright lying, but by all means, post a single shred of evidence for what you claim.
I'm not sure why you feel classical and/or modern arts are necessary to enjoying science and technology...
You misunderstand, I don't think the arts are necessary to enjoying science and technology, although they certainly do that. My point was that without the arts, in addition to science, technology, and lots of other things, *human existence* is kind of hollow.
Just sue the people running wallet/mixing/whatever servers for international money laundering and the anonymity will go away, the money flows become more traceable. They can still transfer it to temporary bank accounts and get mules to get the money out of ATMs, but it all becomes a little harder.
Harder, yes, and eventually someone like me on a grand jury will indict them for money laundering after the Justice Department squeezes the mules to make them turn on the higher ups.
TFA, which I read on the NYT site a couple of days ago, was NOT intended to be a fucking Yahoo! answers article about avoiding ransomware. It was about the experience of being held up by ransomware. This was an Op-Ed piece, NOT a goddam NYT Technology column.
I can't speak for the/. poster, but while the original article's title was ambiguous, it was not click bait. The NYT op-ed pieces are mostly about experience, and what it means to humans, not a technical manual, so don't blame the Times for continuing to be what it has been since 1851.
Now go back to reading whatever it is nerds read so they have the latest tech info at the ready (for me, it was PC Week, some 30 years ago, but I got over it.).
I've never understood the appeal of museums. They are the most boring place in the world to be dragged to. It's not like you can learn anything or interact with anything there. It's like people are afraid to admit they are boring because they are afraid to appear uncultured. Does anyone honestly enjoy museums?
It depends on if you're genuinely interested in the subject being presented. For me, modern art? No thanks - total snore-fest.
Well, I won't try to argue you off of your opinion of modern art, but assuming you're talking about physical media of modern art turning you off, how about modern dance? Same? Snore fest? How about a modern dance that recounted the march of evolution from fish with legs to the next stage of humans after ours? I saw that in Philadelphia recently, from one of my favorite choreographers, it was brilliant, and some people got a better appreciation for evolution and what it means to humans.
I love science and technology, but without the classical and modern arts, it's kind of hollow.
High school in my suburban town starts well before the butt-crack of dawn, for much of the year. The bus picks up kids on my block at 6:30 am, and it's not a long ride.
But then, my Mondays start at 4:00 am, when I get up to drag my ass to Scranton for the first three days of my week, so fuck 'em.:-)
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Can you name a single primarily psychopathic society to provide even anecdotal experimental evidence for your claim? Theory is nice and all, but is notoriously inapplicable to human behavior.
I am not at all providing this as any evidence for the GP's claim, I'm just mentioning one of my favorite books by Frank Herbert; "The Dosadi Experiment". A planet full of sociopaths makes for a dangerous environment.
Who the hell decided to call something "Dell Venue 8 7000"? You don't put two numbers one after another, it's just stupid!
Time to fire the marketing guys!
You're posting about it, so I guess the marketing guys earned their pay on this one. Sure, you can say, "but, but I'm pointing out how stupid that is!"
Makes no difference; you already made the contribution that they wanted from you. For free.
Aw, lighten up, Francis. It's a fucking joke.
40 is old for a software developer. Someone who is 40 today entered college just as web browsers were being invented. You could not just connect the dots on library calls to put together an application then. Now you can.
I have a strong sense of wanting to know how things work that comes from having built a lot of software in the 80's and 90's, when you had to know the internals to make progress. That is downright counterproductive in web development now. By the time you learn enough to understand how a library works, the developer who just learned enough to use it already shipped their code. That's the sort of disconnect between age ranges at work now.
Yeah, that slapdash mentality is a large part of what I have to manage, so we don't experience continual disaster. I didn't say I was a software developer any more. I ride herd over business analysts, systems analysts, and the menagerie of IT who do the programming.
:-)
Fortunately, I have a long technical history, and even though I got my degree about 8 years before the first browsers, I picked up web programming just like I did every other model, from mainframe to minicomputer to PC, to web services. It's so much easier to manage my folks when they realize they can't bullshit me.
Not really. My point was that you were generalizing too much.
I often feel like everyone on Slashdot is a mix of two people
- Old 50+ year olds used to the good 'ol days when you would write your own stack from scratch whenever writing an application
- 20 year olds fresh out of (or still in) college who yell "squirrel!" at everything new and shiny
50+ is old? Huh.
:-)
Well, you forgot a third class - 50+ (old? really?) people who still learn about new tools and concentrate on process and quality, instead of sticking exclusively to what worked early in our careers. I am one of those.
But then, I graduated from coding to management about 10 years ago, which probably explains it.
Yeah, that's pretty funny. UPS does an excellent job for me. So does FedEx. I only had one problem with a package in the last 10 years, out of the hundred or so deliveries I've had to my home, and that was when someone stole my gaming rig out of the UPS warehouse. Which had nothing to do with delivery.
Maybe they just don't like you?
I tried your suggestion, so I could post something useful (rather than just post a useless, "well, why don't you..."), but neither Bing nor Google provided a good candidate to answer the question.
I think your search term is useless, and a few minutes of searching variations didn't help either. Feel free to actually try to contribute.
My post didn't blame anyone. I think you misread it. I mentioned a couple of facts. All I related to HIPAA is the fact that email must be secure.
:-)
I sure as heck didn't write, "BLAME HIPAA AND THE GOVERNMENT!", so easy there, cowboy.
omg, you likened my theoretical ownership of a non-existent company with Jenny McCarthy's activities.
Even at that remove, I still feel all dirty and need to take a shower. Well played, sir.
For my last mortgage I took pictures of documents with my phone and sent them via email. Not one problem....living in the house now.
...and we're all very proud of you.
For my last refinancing, over 5 years ago, I received documents via email, signed, scanned and emailed them back. What does that have to do with my observation that "...fax machines are still very common in... mortgage underwriting."?
You and I are in agreement - you know that, right? My citation also showed the GP's post to be nonsense.
...saying, "Sorry, we got that one wrong. I apologize to the parents of that young man."
Yes, but if you turn them into ash, then you can keep a container of what the mortuary claims was them, on your mantel.
Fax machines are still very common in medical claims processing and mortgage underwriting. For medical claims, think Medicare - very old people, who insist on filling out paper forms. It's easier to fax them than scan and email - especially since the email has to be secure, because of HIPAA.
He served for two and half years. How is that "ridiculously short"?
He was also awarded a Bronze Star, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts.
Are you really denigrating his service? Are you nuts?
Just more activist trying to cause an another unwarranted hullabaloo. Diesel engines are a blessing. I ought to know. I've owned Cummins stock for many years.
I own stock in Baby Seal Fur Harvester, Inc. Does that make me an expert on threatened species?
That is interesting, since all of his crew mates I have heard say they are true.
I think you're full of shit. The people who made the accusations were either not part of his crew, or were not present on the missions for which they disputed Kerry's accounts and questioned the basis for the medals he received.
Some of those who did make the accusations flip flopped - they actually praised him, and one officer submitted his name for a Silver Star, before joining the Swiftboat political action group.
I think it's more likely that you just never bothered to get the facts, rather than that you are outright lying, but by all means, post a single shred of evidence for what you claim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth
I'm not sure why you feel classical and/or modern arts are necessary to enjoying science and technology...
You misunderstand, I don't think the arts are necessary to enjoying science and technology, although they certainly do that. My point was that without the arts, in addition to science, technology, and lots of other things, *human existence* is kind of hollow.
Just sue the people running wallet/mixing/whatever servers for international money laundering and the anonymity will go away, the money flows become more traceable. They can still transfer it to temporary bank accounts and get mules to get the money out of ATMs, but it all becomes a little harder.
Harder, yes, and eventually someone like me on a grand jury will indict them for money laundering after the Justice Department squeezes the mules to make them turn on the higher ups.
TFA, which I read on the NYT site a couple of days ago, was NOT intended to be a fucking Yahoo! answers article about avoiding ransomware. It was about the experience of being held up by ransomware. This was an Op-Ed piece, NOT a goddam NYT Technology column.
/. poster, but while the original article's title was ambiguous, it was not click bait. The NYT op-ed pieces are mostly about experience, and what it means to humans, not a technical manual, so don't blame the Times for continuing to be what it has been since 1851.
I can't speak for the
Now go back to reading whatever it is nerds read so they have the latest tech info at the ready (for me, it was PC Week, some 30 years ago, but I got over it.).
I've never understood the appeal of museums. They are the most boring place in the world to be dragged to. It's not like you can learn anything or interact with anything there. It's like people are afraid to admit they are boring because they are afraid to appear uncultured. Does anyone honestly enjoy museums?
It depends on if you're genuinely interested in the subject being presented. For me, modern art? No thanks - total snore-fest.
Well, I won't try to argue you off of your opinion of modern art, but assuming you're talking about physical media of modern art turning you off, how about modern dance? Same? Snore fest? How about a modern dance that recounted the march of evolution from fish with legs to the next stage of humans after ours? I saw that in Philadelphia recently, from one of my favorite choreographers, it was brilliant, and some people got a better appreciation for evolution and what it means to humans.
I love science and technology, but without the classical and modern arts, it's kind of hollow.
I heard that 9/11 was an inside job too, probably from the same sources.
Ha ha! Go to a school board meeting and suggest that.
The parents would murder you.
High school in my suburban town starts well before the butt-crack of dawn, for much of the year. The bus picks up kids on my block at 6:30 am, and it's not a long ride.
:-)
But then, my Mondays start at 4:00 am, when I get up to drag my ass to Scranton for the first three days of my week, so fuck 'em.