Sorry, I rarely (never) get the chance to rename masses of files, as I am usually engaged in adding value to my company.
Ensuring the requirements are accurate, and reflect what is actually needed, and then designing the solution to correctly express the requirements, and also be maintainable, none of those things benefits from CLI over GUI. And when building the solution, any advantage by using arcane CLI arguments is minor compared to GUI.
Did you know that the dock is actually a lousy place to catch fish? I analyzed success rates for catching fish in the area, and found a spot that is quite productive. I'll drop by the dock and give you some fish later.
Reading comprehension FTW. I was obviously asking what rushed changes were made in response to Snowden's leaks. You know, showing the dark side of government "protection". You missed the context - next time, read it twice.
Rushed changes? WHAT rushed changes? Do you mean the report that the President requested last July that he's now reading (and you can read it too), before deciding what changes, if any, to make to data collection policies?
Perhaps you mean the (possible) pullback on monitoring the cell phones of the leaders or our allies, like Angela Merkel. They didn't say, but I would imagine they'd stop doing that shit, at least for a while.
... when he was working there. According to Forbes, his coworkers report that he would wear a Electronic Frontier Foundation hoodie to work and have a copy of the constitution on his desk to argue when he was asked to do something against the constitution.
Oh my goodness, they really were clueless then. Even though I agree he's a hero, from a commonsense standpoint, I'm not kidding - they had someone working in a spook agency literally wearing his feelings about freedom on his sleeve, arguing using THE CONSTITUTION, and they didn't watch him closely?
Whether you think the NSA is the devil, on the side of the angels, or somewhere in between, their inaction in the face of these clear signals an employee disagreed with how they conduct their business is extraordinarily incompetent.
By the way, your sig - I was shocked that we lost Iain M. Banks so quickly and so young. When I heard, I found the last couple of his Culture books that I hadn't read, and now there are no more for me. Inversions was one of the best, strangely because very little of Culture is visible in the novel.
Now I'll have to start on the books he authored as Iain Banks.
At this point, we're talking past each other, because you deliberately started by claiming I said something I didn't. My point is that we are motivating people who would otherwise not take up arms against the U.S. or its allies with tactics that are repugnant and illegal, that is, killing civilians in countries with which we are not at war, and keeping demonstrably innocent people (along with some real monsters) in a gulag.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are bad - committing the inevitable "collateral damage" of slaughtering innocents with flying robot bombers is also bad. The U.S. has lost its way again, like we did during the Vietnam war.
You are either blinkered or heartless in your support of these tactics, but even worse, you're just plain wrong that they are effective.
Thank you for plainly displaying the mindset that makes so many people hate the U.S. and prolong this "war" on terrorism with negligent and morally bankrupt tactics.
My point stands - if you slaughter people, expect more of them to hate you. Your argument, "well the Taliban is worse!" doesn't pass the laugh test.
Also, your claim that I or any of the parent posters said the "terrorists being held in Gitmo were created by fighting against al Qaida and / or the Taliban" is simply a lie. Try to argue without strawmen. Mine, and the other points being made were, "if you slaughter people or imprison them unjustly, they will turn against you", but I guess that's inconvenient to your ideological embrace of repugnant tactics.
How about some other type "collateral damage" inflicted by the incompetence of the United States government and its allies? How about if you watched a hellfire missile destroy your daughter's or son's wedding party? Or you were the groom and survived the attack that ripped your bride apart, literally limb from limb? And the U.S. government stuck with its "surgical precision" claims and that civilian casualties are vanishingly small?
Try that in Texas... hell, try it in any state in the union. A foreign aggressor who pulled that on Americans would without doubt create new "terrorists" more quickly than they could kill them.
This just in: The homeless and unemployed mobbed a bus full of people perceived to be rich, perhaps unaware of the 60-80 hour work weeks endured by software engineers, that once you take that into consideration, many in the industry make at, or less, than minimum wage.
So, let's use your unsubstantiated upper figure of 80 hours per week, and pay for those software engineers at the minimum wage, which is $8 in CA. Annualized salaries are approximately 2,000 times hourly wage.
So, for those software engineers, once you take 80 hours per week into consideration, make an effective minimum wage if their base salaries are... $32,000.
Do you really believe anyone on those buses with the title "software engineer" makes less than $60,000 base salary? Given that 80 hours per week is absurdly high, and they work at most 60 hours per week, wouldn't you say they make at the very least a few multiples of minimum wage? Oh, and leaving out the incredibly high likelihood that Google and Microsoft would quickly be found out for BREAKING THE LABOR LAWS?
Did it really add anything to the conversation to make sub a hyperbolic claim? I'd be happy to admit you're right if you can substantiate what you said.
Oh, and I forgot; a 1 second search found a list of average Google software engineer salaries. The lowest average salary on the list is $103K, and that's for a lowly test engineer. Most engineers make much more.
By George, I think you've hit on exactly the right solution! Merge all states, so that they are a single entity. That's brilliant!
Now, what could we call this entity? The Grouped Together Localities? The Aggregated Places Between Mexico and Canada? The Strongly Connected States of America?
Actual link to real facts below. "significant evidence" is one attempt in the past 10 years, detected by the dealer on receipt because of an obvious weight discrepancy? This must be some new definition of significant with which I am unfamiliar; trend identified by a single data point.
Even unloaded, a gun is much more a weapon than is a rock. The sight of a gun-waving robber will induce people to do all sorts of things a rock-waving robber would not. Imagine the irony of serving a life sentence for felony murder because you brandished an empty gun, and the responding police opened fire, negligently killing a bystander. You then own that murder.
I do this all the time. People are sometimes surprised when I can calculate an answer in a couple of seconds that takes other people half a minute or more, and my answer is within a few integers (or Saves me energy, too.
Okay, it's clear you're impervious to any facts that would contradict your established world view, so I won't waste my time. You said the federal government has not accomplished "anything" beneficial to society in recent decades. I admire your black and white mindset.
But way to play the "I'm older than you, so I must know better" card. Too bad it's a swing and a miss. I have ties older than half the professionals who report to me. My worldview is based on experience, education, and intelligence.
I didn't propose to "ban guns completely". Did you read what I wrote? I pointed out the discrepancy between actual impact of 9/11 and the crazy over the top response to that, and the actual impact of gun homicides that is much higher, and the lack of any response to it at all.
But you seem to be having a conversation with me in your head that doesn't correspond to what I wrote, so please, continue. I'll leave you to it.
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Sorry, I rarely (never) get the chance to rename masses of files, as I am usually engaged in adding value to my company.
Ensuring the requirements are accurate, and reflect what is actually needed, and then designing the solution to correctly express the requirements, and also be maintainable, none of those things benefits from CLI over GUI. And when building the solution, any advantage by using arcane CLI arguments is minor compared to GUI.
Did you know that the dock is actually a lousy place to catch fish? I analyzed success rates for catching fish in the area, and found a spot that is quite productive. I'll drop by the dock and give you some fish later.
...it's starkly beautiful, and nothing compares to hiking an extinct volcano and looking down on a colony of hundreds of penguins.
But I don't recommend getting stuck there. No. Definitely not.
Reading comprehension FTW. I was obviously asking what rushed changes were made in response to Snowden's leaks. You know, showing the dark side of government "protection". You missed the context - next time, read it twice.
Yes, the PATRIOT act was written and passed in 2001 as a too-hasty response to the information that Snowden released in 2013.
Thanks. Good job.
Rushed changes? WHAT rushed changes? Do you mean the report that the President requested last July that he's now reading (and you can read it too), before deciding what changes, if any, to make to data collection policies?
Perhaps you mean the (possible) pullback on monitoring the cell phones of the leaders or our allies, like Angela Merkel. They didn't say, but I would imagine they'd stop doing that shit, at least for a while.
So, what was your point again?
... when he was working there. According to Forbes, his coworkers report that he would wear a Electronic Frontier Foundation hoodie to work and have a copy of the constitution on his desk to argue when he was asked to do something against the constitution.
Oh my goodness, they really were clueless then. Even though I agree he's a hero, from a commonsense standpoint, I'm not kidding - they had someone working in a spook agency literally wearing his feelings about freedom on his sleeve, arguing using THE CONSTITUTION, and they didn't watch him closely?
Whether you think the NSA is the devil, on the side of the angels, or somewhere in between, their inaction in the face of these clear signals an employee disagreed with how they conduct their business is extraordinarily incompetent.
...Ann Coulter says something like "we should invade their countries and forcefully convert then to Christianity.."
The complete quote was "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
It doesn't change the context of what you wrote; I just thought that murdering their leaders was a nice touch.
By the way, your sig - I was shocked that we lost Iain M. Banks so quickly and so young. When I heard, I found the last couple of his Culture books that I hadn't read, and now there are no more for me. Inversions was one of the best, strangely because very little of Culture is visible in the novel.
Now I'll have to start on the books he authored as Iain Banks.
At this point, we're talking past each other, because you deliberately started by claiming I said something I didn't. My point is that we are motivating people who would otherwise not take up arms against the U.S. or its allies with tactics that are repugnant and illegal, that is, killing civilians in countries with which we are not at war, and keeping demonstrably innocent people (along with some real monsters) in a gulag.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are bad - committing the inevitable "collateral damage" of slaughtering innocents with flying robot bombers is also bad. The U.S. has lost its way again, like we did during the Vietnam war.
You are either blinkered or heartless in your support of these tactics, but even worse, you're just plain wrong that they are effective.
"Regrettable things happen in war..."
Thank you for plainly displaying the mindset that makes so many people hate the U.S. and prolong this "war" on terrorism with negligent and morally bankrupt tactics.
My point stands - if you slaughter people, expect more of them to hate you. Your argument, "well the Taliban is worse!" doesn't pass the laugh test.
Also, your claim that I or any of the parent posters said the "terrorists being held in Gitmo were created by fighting against al Qaida and / or the Taliban" is simply a lie. Try to argue without strawmen. Mine, and the other points being made were, "if you slaughter people or imprison them unjustly, they will turn against you", but I guess that's inconvenient to your ideological embrace of repugnant tactics.
How about some other type "collateral damage" inflicted by the incompetence of the United States government and its allies? How about if you watched a hellfire missile destroy your daughter's or son's wedding party? Or you were the groom and survived the attack that ripped your bride apart, literally limb from limb? And the U.S. government stuck with its "surgical precision" claims and that civilian casualties are vanishingly small?
Try that in Texas... hell, try it in any state in the union. A foreign aggressor who pulled that on Americans would without doubt create new "terrorists" more quickly than they could kill them.
That could be... like an addict who's sure everything will be okay if he gets just. one. more. hit. Eventually we'll have enough guns.
This just in: The homeless and unemployed mobbed a bus full of people perceived to be rich, perhaps unaware of the 60-80 hour work weeks endured by software engineers, that once you take that into consideration, many in the industry make at, or less, than minimum wage.
So, let's use your unsubstantiated upper figure of 80 hours per week, and pay for those software engineers at the minimum wage, which is $8 in CA. Annualized salaries are approximately 2,000 times hourly wage.
So, for those software engineers, once you take 80 hours per week into consideration, make an effective minimum wage if their base salaries are... $32,000.
Do you really believe anyone on those buses with the title "software engineer" makes less than $60,000 base salary? Given that 80 hours per week is absurdly high, and they work at most 60 hours per week, wouldn't you say they make at the very least a few multiples of minimum wage? Oh, and leaving out the incredibly high likelihood that Google and Microsoft would quickly be found out for BREAKING THE LABOR LAWS?
Did it really add anything to the conversation to make sub a hyperbolic claim? I'd be happy to admit you're right if you can substantiate what you said.
Oh, and I forgot; a 1 second search found a list of average Google software engineer salaries. The lowest average salary on the list is $103K, and that's for a lowly test engineer. Most engineers make much more.
By George, I think you've hit on exactly the right solution! Merge all states, so that they are a single entity. That's brilliant!
Now, what could we call this entity? The Grouped Together Localities? The Aggregated Places Between Mexico and Canada? The Strongly Connected States of America?
Well, I'm sure we'll come up with something.
doesn't matter - you can divide the input number by 3 and if its exactly zero, then print fizz out
Then you would fail. The instructions are if it's divisible by 3 AND 5, then print "fizzbuzz".
:-)
But thanks for playing!
Actual link to real facts below. "significant evidence" is one attempt in the past 10 years, detected by the dealer on receipt because of an obvious weight discrepancy? This must be some new definition of significant with which I am unfamiliar; trend identified by a single data point.
http://www.perthmintbullion.com/us/blog/blog/12-03-26/Fake_Bars_-_The_Facts.aspx
Even unloaded, a gun is much more a weapon than is a rock. The sight of a gun-waving robber will induce people to do all sorts of things a rock-waving robber would not. Imagine the irony of serving a life sentence for felony murder because you brandished an empty gun, and the responding police opened fire, negligently killing a bystander. You then own that murder.
I do this all the time. People are sometimes surprised when I can calculate an answer in a couple of seconds that takes other people half a minute or more, and my answer is within a few integers (or
Saves me energy, too.
I think you just used the word "draconian" the way kids use the word "random". That is, randomly.
Okay, it's clear you're impervious to any facts that would contradict your established world view, so I won't waste my time. You said the federal government has not accomplished "anything" beneficial to society in recent decades. I admire your black and white mindset.
But way to play the "I'm older than you, so I must know better" card. Too bad it's a swing and a miss. I have ties older than half the professionals who report to me. My worldview is based on experience, education, and intelligence.
What, are you still here? Go, educate yourself!
This is very cool. They could probably sell tens of thousands to kids (like me) if they need money.
I didn't propose to "ban guns completely". Did you read what I wrote? I pointed out the discrepancy between actual impact of 9/11 and the crazy over the top response to that, and the actual impact of gun homicides that is much higher, and the lack of any response to it at all.
But you seem to be having a conversation with me in your head that doesn't correspond to what I wrote, so please, continue. I'll leave you to it.
Bzzzzt!
Gratz, this was the best non sequitur I received on this topic.