ego often fades with age when you realize the pitiful skills you have are no better than those of a banker, lawyer, doctor, or anyone else that truly knows their shit. On the other hand, you could just be a raging asshole, those exist in any field of study.
If all the countries in the world take their military budgets for one year and spend the money on space research and exploration, how much farther we could progress as a species.
Spin it any way you want, if your goal is to have a system that just 'feels like it knows me' then it HAS to collect data on you to personalize the experience.
You linked an article in a newspaper. I'm referencing the actual law. btw, did you bother to READ the rest of the comments on the/. post you referenced? They pretty much nullified the post.
The last line is most relevant. DOUBLE WRONG!
Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent.
"It's part of a pattern. There is basically a war on anyone who dissents from Darwin and we've seen that for several years," said John West, associate director of Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute." --
WRONG. It's a war on anyone who crams their beliefs down others throats. It's a war on those who don't respect that other people MIGHT have a different opinion and not want to discuss such subjects for fear of oh, say LAWSUITS?!! i.e. leave it at home.
let me get this straight. If you don't submit to a search, you're not allowed to get on a train now? Even though your taxes are used to pay for that public service?
So we have a search with no probable cause or witnesses that I have committed a crime, and taxation without representation . . . . .
If I lived in Boston I think it would be about time to start a riot over this nonsense.
If you don't feel a discussion about losing your rights of citizen ship is useful, perhaps you have also missed something else. Generations of our fathers have fought for these rights that politicians have RIPPED from us in the last 12 years.
'It’s the policymakers’ responsibility to create a structure that leads to these technologies being put toward fuel economy,' he says.
NO, IT'S NOT! It's the stupid consumers responsibility to START BUYING UP ALL THE FUEL EFFICIENT CARS! Supply and demand, when people demand it, companies will supply it!
Blank stares occur when the recipient does not have enough knowledge about a subject however believes that due to their level in an organization that they must be included and involved in every decision. You make the assumption that blank stares are the fault of the person who is sharing information and that the receiver has no responsibility to increase their own knowledge.
I am not someone who is offended easily. That said, the author of this article and the 'subject matter expert' that was interviewed have offended me greatly.
Three pages of stereotype. Here, let me summarize and save you wasting 5 minutes of your life. . . . . . "IT people are not the best communicators." oh, wait, this comment was made by someone with an advanced degree in in psychology, I guess it must be legit.
Here is the rest of the article in a nutshell -
IT managers are aloof, technical people with a skillset that an organization cannot do without. They have been 'gifted' since childhood with a technical mindset and they believe that the world is against them. They want people to bow to them as the come into the room (direct quote) and it is difficult to get anything out of them.
I had to laugh when the sme stated that as a dean she could "force them off their high horse". From experience, when managers "force" technical people to do something or provide something, the end result is a piece of garbage that doesn't work right, upsets the customers, makes the IT department look bad and does the "forcer" get blamed for the poor results? No, the IT department loses credibility in the end.
This person doesn't get that most of the reasons IT folks "don't communicate" with those outside of IT is for a very basic reason . . . . . we start talking and we get BLANK STARES as a response!
I love her definition of 'c-level' folks.
The final straw in this article is the last paragraph. Steve Jobs was a BUSINESS MANAGER, not an IT professional. He ran a company and and 'forced' the technical people to dance for him.
Most of them wished they had the internet when they were growing up. Granted, I'm about a generation behind most of them and got my first internet access account when I was 23, however I have to admit that over the last 10 years the 'potential' of the internet has pretty much turned to crap thanks to a) ISP Corporatism b) government meddling & c) the mistaken belief by so MANY groups that it is something that needs to be "CONTROLLED".
Personally i'm starting to take the pov that anything that has occurred on the internet could have eventually happened with 'near-line' or 'on-line' bbs's. I mean honestly, has http actually made things BETTER, or just more accessible by the masses?
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ego often fades with age when you realize the pitiful skills you have are no better than those of a banker, lawyer, doctor, or anyone else that truly knows their shit. On the other hand, you could just be a raging asshole, those exist in any field of study.
I've bought so much crap off Amazon with them, I wish the difficulty would go back down so I could generate more!
. . . . the only way to win is not to play.
My car already gets 50mpg highway and it was built 12 years ago. 2000 VW Jetta TDI.
503 - Service Unavailable . . . . HA!
Except 3 guys in a rowboat with 20 pounds of IED.
If all the countries in the world take their military budgets for one year and spend the money on space research and exploration, how much farther we could progress as a species.
FARKIN TIME!
ISP - You provide me with access to The Internet, what I choose to do with that access is none of your business. I SO hate what the net has become.
650 miles in 3 minutes? I'm SO there!
Spin it any way you want, if your goal is to have a system that just 'feels like it knows me' then it HAS to collect data on you to personalize the experience.
I stand corrected. The link does not carry rule of law . . . . . but a bit more searching provided the actual regulation.
http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/consumer/FederalRegisterNotice.pdf
Interesting that it doesn't state that it replaces the prior law, I guess we get to choose which law we follow?
You linked an article in a newspaper. I'm referencing the actual law. btw, did you bother to READ the rest of the comments on the /. post you referenced? They pretty much nullified the post.
The last line is most relevant. DOUBLE WRONG!
Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent.
Maybe in Canada, not in the US. If you ARE referring to the US, you are thinking about it's illegal to DEFACE currency, meaning revalue it.
"It's part of a pattern. There is basically a war on anyone who dissents from Darwin and we've seen that for several years," said John West, associate director of Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute."
--
WRONG. It's a war on anyone who crams their beliefs down others throats. It's a war on those who don't respect that other people MIGHT have a different opinion and not want to discuss such subjects for fear of oh, say LAWSUITS?!! i.e. leave it at home.
let me get this straight. If you don't submit to a search, you're not allowed to get on a train now? Even though your taxes are used to pay for that public service?
So we have a search with no probable cause or witnesses that I have committed a crime, and taxation without representation . . . . .
If I lived in Boston I think it would be about time to start a riot over this nonsense.
If you don't feel a discussion about losing your rights of citizen ship is useful, perhaps you have also missed something else. Generations of our fathers have fought for these rights that politicians have RIPPED from us in the last 12 years.
'It’s the policymakers’ responsibility to create a structure that leads to these technologies being put toward fuel economy,' he says.
NO, IT'S NOT! It's the stupid consumers responsibility to START BUYING UP ALL THE FUEL EFFICIENT CARS! Supply and demand, when people demand it, companies will supply it!
water is wet!
Blank stares occur when the recipient does not have enough knowledge about a subject however believes that due to their level in an organization that they must be included and involved in every decision. You make the assumption that blank stares are the fault of the person who is sharing information and that the receiver has no responsibility to increase their own knowledge.
I love it! I'm going to try it. :)
I am not someone who is offended easily. That said, the author of this article and the 'subject matter expert' that was interviewed have offended me greatly.
Three pages of stereotype. Here, let me summarize and save you wasting 5 minutes of your life. . . . . . "IT people are not the best communicators." oh, wait, this comment was made by someone with an advanced degree in in psychology, I guess it must be legit.
Here is the rest of the article in a nutshell -
IT managers are aloof, technical people with a skillset that an organization cannot do without. They have been 'gifted' since childhood with a technical mindset and they believe that the world is against them. They want people to bow to them as the come into the room (direct quote) and it is difficult to get anything out of them.
I had to laugh when the sme stated that as a dean she could "force them off their high horse". From experience, when managers "force" technical people to do something or provide something, the end result is a piece of garbage that doesn't work right, upsets the customers, makes the IT department look bad and does the "forcer" get blamed for the poor results? No, the IT department loses credibility in the end.
This person doesn't get that most of the reasons IT folks "don't communicate" with those outside of IT is for a very basic reason . . . . . we start talking and we get BLANK STARES as a response!
I love her definition of 'c-level' folks.
The final straw in this article is the last paragraph. Steve Jobs was a BUSINESS MANAGER, not an IT professional. He ran a company and and 'forced' the technical people to dance for him.
the US doesn't have a monopoly on government stupidity.
not to 95% of the people using it.
Most of them wished they had the internet when they were growing up. Granted, I'm about a generation behind most of them and got my first internet access account when I was 23, however I have to admit that over the last 10 years the 'potential' of the internet has pretty much turned to crap thanks to a) ISP Corporatism b) government meddling & c) the mistaken belief by so MANY groups that it is something that needs to be "CONTROLLED".
Personally i'm starting to take the pov that anything that has occurred on the internet could have eventually happened with 'near-line' or 'on-line' bbs's. I mean honestly, has http actually made things BETTER, or just more accessible by the masses?