For those clueless like me, PAC stands for Politicial Action Committee
PAC's have been a major factor in American politics for around forty years now. One of two possible cause for being clueless is to be fourteen.
I can forgive the headline and summary for not defining the acronym, but when the article itself also doesn't say, it's getting ridiculous.
Horseshit. Very few articles explain that NASA or DNA are acronyms - it's assumed that the average educated individual knows their meaning. The second of two possible causes of being clueless is subnormal intelligence or education.
Except, this story is religion. It's just one guy making an unsubstantiated claim, and another guy linking to said unsubstantiated claim and giving truth to it based on "internet rumours". There's no peer review to be found.
I'm asking them to do their job to the best of their ability which means a measured response proportional to the real threat.
The problem isn't that they're not "doing their job to the of their ability", the problem is that you've pulled a standard out of your ass and decided they've failed to live up to that standard - without providing any justification for that standard.
Consider the Patrick Frey (Patterico) case, for example. Listen to the transcript and tell me that the caller was credible and that an immediate response with guns drawn, and rousting a man out of his home and putting him in handcuffs on the street was the best response.
Hindsight is always 20/20, especially when the person looking back wasn't there, and is completely lacking in relevant experience, relevant knowledge, and heavily biased to boot.
Swattings are only effective because they prey on the tendency of police, who crave adrenaline and action, to overreact.
Swattings are effective because they emulate actual situations - one where real people die or are seriously injured.
If you're deployed on a ship for six months, having 300 books to choose from is a lot better than having zero books to choose from.
Not only can you carry your own books onboard... the Navy has had a library service, which provides books to ships and maintains libraries on base, for decades (at least as far back as WWII AFAIK). This reader is a (piss poor IMO) supplement/replacement for the latter.
Heck, even my submarine (designed and built in the early 60's) had a library space provided. It wasn't much more than a large closet, and it was often in use for meetings, training, and as an ad hoc office space... but we had one. (We also kept the one white-box PC clone that Squadron bought and provided each boat (in 1985) in the library. Being the Ships Computer Petty Officer and in charge of that computer* was my first ever 'IT' job.) The Ship's Librarian was a buddy of mine, so I got first crack at newly arrived books. That's how I discovered Douglas Hofstadter back in the mid 80's - a copy of Metamagical Themas was in the box of books we were unpacking one refit.
*Somebody had to keep track of the boot and program disks and track down the Doc when he absent mindedly took them back to his office again.
So the solution is for the police to react calmly, professionally using their presumably expert knowledge with a little bit of common sense. They should be able to suss out these swattings and act appropriately in the vast majority of cases.
Why "should" they be able to suss out these swattings? What symptoms are the police missing that differentiates a swatting from a real incident? I.E. the same questions the grandparent asked, but that you airily handwaved away.
Unless you can answer them, you're blaming the cops based on a belief you've pulled out of your ass rather than anything resembling reality.
Yet, despite the biology, the grandparent is correct - until very recently and very locally, 16 year olds were expected to act pretty much like adults and by and large they actually did so. Heck, I've seen the change in my own lifetime (my odometer just ticked past the half century mark) from mid/late teens being expected to act more like adults to them being treated and expected to behave more like oversized tweens.
It seems to me if you add coding to math curriculum, it would enhance both. In my high school during the '80's, boolean logic was not discussed at all, nor were principles like recursion, numerical approximation, and general algorithms.
Coding isn't math. Nor is it boolean logic, recursion, numerical approximation, or algorithms. Coding is writing a program and that program may or may not include those things.
No, the Klan did not create the law. I blame the government and its supporters.
You can blame it on the Great Pumpkin and be just as wrong as blaming it "on the government and it's supporters". The grandparent is correct, the anti-mask laws go back decades and have nothing to do with the current conditions.
Opposing the Klan is all well and good, but when you ban masks in public places, you're anti-freedom.
There's a wide variety of limits to our freedoms that are generally and widely agreed are a good idea (such as the (in)famous "the freedom of speech does not include the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater") because they provide for the greater good. You're going to have to make a better case than "anti-freedom" I'm afraid.
A better solutions appears to be that all 12 people spend less hours at work.
Only if you can stand the whining and bitching because those 12 aren't getting enough hours and as a result their paychecks aren't what they used to be.
Also, has anyone given a thought to supply and demand?
The average Slashdotter doesn't think about anything except how to justify himself getting what he wants, when he wants it, at the lowest possible price (or preferably free), and utterly without a care for long term consequences or the effect on others.
If you don't grasp the difference between the sysadmins required to run a Windows based system, and the expertise needed to audit and maintain an open source based system... you're on the wrong site.
(Actually, scratch that, ignorant bias is practically a hallmark of Slashdot.)
That's assuming it's always sunny and that anyone that owned a BMW would be ok with having a carport.
And that they live somewhere than can have a carport. (I can't because of how my house sits on the lot.) And that they live in a place with ideal solar conditions. (Even if I didn't live in the Pacific Northwet... my driveway is shaded by the house until late morning, and by the trees across the street from mid-afternoon on.)
Could Apple have reached the same point cheaper if they did it all themselves? Probably. Would it have been as fast? No.
True. And no doubt Apple learned from the Apple Maps fiasco - if you're going to compete out of the gate with existing, popular, feature complete installations... you need to be as close to feature complete as possible out of the gate yourself.
At least with Linux you can maintain your own verified version based on the source code.
At the cost of maintaining your own IT department or an ongoing contract with a third party.
But without the source code there could be a thousand of those types of vulnerabilities and only insiders at Microsoft could know about them.
Even with the source code, there could be vulnerabilities - that nobody knows about. Look how long Heartbleed existed before it was discovered more-or-less by happenstance.
There seems to be a major problem with sotware projects producing an accurate requirements spec, and following that though to implementation. End users have no idea what they want, fill the requirements full of edge cases, and keep moving the goalposts. Programmers often have no idea how the software will be used so whenever there are gaps they improvise with the most ridiculous schemes. And software architects always say "technology XXXX will save us, it makes YYY so easy", forgetting entirely that you still have to produce a sensible user interface with a sane workflow and that takes 80% of the effort.
While you're busy throwing blame around to individuals, you're missing a deeper cause... we're really still in the very early stages of figuring out how to develop and deploy such system. (Think the steamships in 1870 or the airplane in 1920.) The speed at which the [hardware] underlying technology has obscured the fact that we're still crawling up the steep part of the learning curve of how to apply that technology because they systems have gotten so big so fast.
Essentially, we're trying to build a Space Shuttle as a direct follow-on to the Ford Tri-Motor.
Right now there are two few drivers for the market but when everything settles (more Uber-like companies) most taxi drivers will not get payd work thier hours they put in. Uber will still make money since it does not cost much extra to have 1000 cars or 10000 cars. But when there are two many cars for the market workers will suffer greatly.
And that's the thing most of the knee jerk "free marketeers" here on Slashdot don't grasp - not only does existing taxi regulations serve to protect the consumer by ensuring the taxi's have insurance, vehicle inspections, etc... it also serves something like a union to protect the workers (drivers) by limiting the supply. It's not an ideal situation from anyone's point of view, but it does more-or-less work. In the simplistic and self centered world view of the knee-jerk "free marketeer" however, there is only his personal inconvenience and and a "money grab" by the metropolitan authorities.
I lived in Boston for a while and the parking is just as bad there as it is in SF. For those of you that have not visited the fine city of Boston, allow me to enlighten you. Boston is an historical city and, as such, has numerous historical buildings. Buildings that cannot be knocked down in order to widen roads. The road that Paul Revere travelled on is just as wide now as it was then.
Though it's not applicable everywhere, I've always loved the compromise they came up with for Old Salem. When the area began to be preserved in the late 40's/early 50's, there were more modern buildings and empty lots interspersed among the historic ones. They just knocked down the more modern buildings, cleaned up the empty lots, paved them and fenced them in with quite attractive wooden fencing - thus the residents get off street parking and the district is preserved reasonably close to it's historic condition. Everyone wins.
And now I'm making myself hungry... I haven't had sugar cake from Winkler's in years.
They were not planning to make a profit at this point. It's part of the long term strategy.
Given their debt and cumulative losses, it's a risky strategy. There's possibility that they'll run out of people who will loan them money, and then.... they're shut down and out of business. There's also a chance that they'll start making a profit, but insufficient to both pay off the accumulated debt and to attract further investment, stunting future growth. Etc... etc...
Fancy that, a CEO who can see past the next quarter's results!
There's lots of CEO's that look beyond the next quarter - but none of them own a fully operational crystal ball.
No, you don't (theoretically) need the engineering talent at the factory. (Though it's a damn good idea.) But you do need the skilled workers, and California has an ample supply of those. Florida doesn't.
And Florida has a huge amount of aerospace firms, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pratt and Whitney, United Technologies. and Vought to name just a few off the top of my head.
Sure, Florida has a bunch of aerospace branch offices and local representatives. But the main factories and engineering facilities are almost all elsewhere.
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PAC's have been a major factor in American politics for around forty years now. One of two possible cause for being clueless is to be fourteen.
Horseshit. Very few articles explain that NASA or DNA are acronyms - it's assumed that the average educated individual knows their meaning. The second of two possible causes of being clueless is subnormal intelligence or education.
If he were a Slashdot poster, his every post would be modded up through the roof.
Except, this story is religion. It's just one guy making an unsubstantiated claim, and another guy linking to said unsubstantiated claim and giving truth to it based on "internet rumours". There's no peer review to be found.
The problem isn't that they're not "doing their job to the of their ability", the problem is that you've pulled a standard out of your ass and decided they've failed to live up to that standard - without providing any justification for that standard.
Hindsight is always 20/20, especially when the person looking back wasn't there, and is completely lacking in relevant experience, relevant knowledge, and heavily biased to boot.
Swattings are effective because they emulate actual situations - one where real people die or are seriously injured.
Not only can you carry your own books onboard... the Navy has had a library service, which provides books to ships and maintains libraries on base, for decades (at least as far back as WWII AFAIK). This reader is a (piss poor IMO) supplement/replacement for the latter.
Heck, even my submarine (designed and built in the early 60's) had a library space provided. It wasn't much more than a large closet, and it was often in use for meetings, training, and as an ad hoc office space... but we had one. (We also kept the one white-box PC clone that Squadron bought and provided each boat (in 1985) in the library. Being the Ships Computer Petty Officer and in charge of that computer* was my first ever 'IT' job.) The Ship's Librarian was a buddy of mine, so I got first crack at newly arrived books. That's how I discovered Douglas Hofstadter back in the mid 80's - a copy of Metamagical Themas was in the box of books we were unpacking one refit.
*Somebody had to keep track of the boot and program disks and track down the Doc when he absent mindedly took them back to his office again.
Why "should" they be able to suss out these swattings? What symptoms are the police missing that differentiates a swatting from a real incident? I.E. the same questions the grandparent asked, but that you airily handwaved away.
Unless you can answer them, you're blaming the cops based on a belief you've pulled out of your ass rather than anything resembling reality.
Yet, despite the biology, the grandparent is correct - until very recently and very locally, 16 year olds were expected to act pretty much like adults and by and large they actually did so. Heck, I've seen the change in my own lifetime (my odometer just ticked past the half century mark) from mid/late teens being expected to act more like adults to them being treated and expected to behave more like oversized tweens.
Coding isn't math. Nor is it boolean logic, recursion, numerical approximation, or algorithms. Coding is writing a program and that program may or may not include those things.
You can blame it on the Great Pumpkin and be just as wrong as blaming it "on the government and it's supporters". The grandparent is correct, the anti-mask laws go back decades and have nothing to do with the current conditions.
There's a wide variety of limits to our freedoms that are generally and widely agreed are a good idea (such as the (in)famous "the freedom of speech does not include the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater") because they provide for the greater good. You're going to have to make a better case than "anti-freedom" I'm afraid.
Only if you can stand the whining and bitching because those 12 aren't getting enough hours and as a result their paychecks aren't what they used to be.
Is there any Chinese propaganda that Slashdot won't breathlessly repeat?
The average Slashdotter doesn't think about anything except how to justify himself getting what he wants, when he wants it, at the lowest possible price (or preferably free), and utterly without a care for long term consequences or the effect on others.
If you don't grasp the difference between the sysadmins required to run a Windows based system, and the expertise needed to audit and maintain an open source based system... you're on the wrong site.
(Actually, scratch that, ignorant bias is practically a hallmark of Slashdot.)
And that they live somewhere than can have a carport. (I can't because of how my house sits on the lot.) And that they live in a place with ideal solar conditions. (Even if I didn't live in the Pacific Northwet... my driveway is shaded by the house until late morning, and by the trees across the street from mid-afternoon on.)
True. And no doubt Apple learned from the Apple Maps fiasco - if you're going to compete out of the gate with existing, popular, feature complete installations... you need to be as close to feature complete as possible out of the gate yourself.
At the cost of maintaining your own IT department or an ongoing contract with a third party.
Even with the source code, there could be vulnerabilities - that nobody knows about. Look how long Heartbleed existed before it was discovered more-or-less by happenstance.
TANSTAAFL.
While you're busy throwing blame around to individuals, you're missing a deeper cause... we're really still in the very early stages of figuring out how to develop and deploy such system. (Think the steamships in 1870 or the airplane in 1920.) The speed at which the [hardware] underlying technology has obscured the fact that we're still crawling up the steep part of the learning curve of how to apply that technology because they systems have gotten so big so fast.
Essentially, we're trying to build a Space Shuttle as a direct follow-on to the Ford Tri-Motor.
And that's the thing most of the knee jerk "free marketeers" here on Slashdot don't grasp - not only does existing taxi regulations serve to protect the consumer by ensuring the taxi's have insurance, vehicle inspections, etc... it also serves something like a union to protect the workers (drivers) by limiting the supply. It's not an ideal situation from anyone's point of view, but it does more-or-less work. In the simplistic and self centered world view of the knee-jerk "free marketeer" however, there is only his personal inconvenience and and a "money grab" by the metropolitan authorities.
Though it's not applicable everywhere, I've always loved the compromise they came up with for Old Salem. When the area began to be preserved in the late 40's/early 50's, there were more modern buildings and empty lots interspersed among the historic ones. They just knocked down the more modern buildings, cleaned up the empty lots, paved them and fenced them in with quite attractive wooden fencing - thus the residents get off street parking and the district is preserved reasonably close to it's historic condition. Everyone wins.
And now I'm making myself hungry... I haven't had sugar cake from Winkler's in years.
Given their debt and cumulative losses, it's a risky strategy. There's possibility that they'll run out of people who will loan them money, and then.... they're shut down and out of business. There's also a chance that they'll start making a profit, but insufficient to both pay off the accumulated debt and to attract further investment, stunting future growth. Etc... etc...
There's lots of CEO's that look beyond the next quarter - but none of them own a fully operational crystal ball.
When the parameters match observed conditions it does.
Yes, I do.
I didn't say anything about any flashy stuff.
Get back to me when your reading comprehension skills get somewhat above kindergarten.
Pretty much. That's why I didn't contest those parts... though I disagree with his exact choices, his general ideas on those topics are sound.
No, you don't (theoretically) need the engineering talent at the factory. (Though it's a damn good idea.) But you do need the skilled workers, and California has an ample supply of those. Florida doesn't.
Sure, Florida has a bunch of aerospace branch offices and local representatives. But the main factories and engineering facilities are almost all elsewhere.
Since applesauce isn't the goal, the ability to produce it is completely and utterly irrelevant.