Memorizing and reproducing algorithms in a school exam doesn't mean u can create new algorithms not created by others on u'r own.
You're making a pretty big assumption there about schools. Did it ever occur to you that maybe that assumption does not apply to the world's top schools?
Watches represent the time of segregation and white power for most...
No. Just no. My god what a silly-ass comment. Most people wore watches well past 2000. The thing of ditching your watch and using your cell phone instead really only took off with the era of smart phones. So unless you're claiming that the time of segregation ended in the 21st century, instead of the 1960s & 1970s...
If figure skating isn't a sport solely because it's not objective, then there are a lot of Olympic sports that aren't actually sports either (high-dive, gymnastics,etc) as well as most of the X-games (freestyle BMX, half-pipe, etc)
I was being simplistic in that sarcastic comment. The thing is, that figure skating (along with all the other sports you mention) does absolutely have objective criteria for much of the scoring. But in figure skating, far, far, more than any other sport, the judges have a long history of simply ignoring the objective criteria when they so desire.
Bingo involves the physical act of moving your hand to tick the scorecard, and there's a clear, objective winner.
I think it's arguable, because that act is not a skill, and there's not a whole lot of variation in how well people do it. I think winning involves the purely mental act of being first to notice that the just-drawn ball completes your bingo, and that the placement of the marker comes after, just to keep track before the next round starts.
Well, let's see... There has to be some kind of physical skills involved. Check. There has to be some kind of scoring system in place by which one can observe the participants and objectively declare a winner. Check.
Or, in other words: Bowling is a sport. Figure skating is not. Video games are.
I'm going to be surprised if Amazon wins this one, even in the People's Democratic Republic of California.
??? Apparently you do not realize that CA has some of the strongest laws in the nation restricting non-compete agreements. CA is actually the least likely state in the country for Amazon to win this.
We also have tempurature ranges from -45ÂC to +45ÂC,and 9 months of winter, 3 months of potholes.:-)
Where I live the county government describes it to new residents this way: "The two weeks of summer are bracketed by one week each of spring and fall. The rest is winter."
Because I'm sure going to trust that guy with the east-Indian accent telling me over the phone to install a remote access tool to my computer. Which actually happened to me 3 something weeks ago.
I had one that when I informed how that I knew how the scam worked, assured me that it was not a scam. When I continued to refuse, but did not hang up just because I was curious, he got really authoritative with me and ORDERED me to do what he was telling me to. Lord, did I curse then.
What is the legal precedent for taking ownership of a company's assets (without apparently even informing them beforehand) and randomly giving them to some other company to use?
Well, I'll give you an example--which does not apply in this case, but it is an example. Suppose that a company owes you money, suppose they got into that situation by deception (lying about their ability to pay). Suppose further that you discover that they intend to thwart any collection activity by moving their assets out of the country as soon as you go to court to get a judgment, because, say, they tell you exactly that: "if you try to sue us, we'll just move our assets out of the country!"
In that case, you can file for an ex-parte hearing to get a writ of attachment and have the sheriff show up at their offices with a moving van, completely unannounced. Now, the thing is, if you present false information to the court to obtain that order, you have put yourself on the hook for any and all damages you cause to the business by showing up and taking their stuff, so it's really not a wise idea to do this unless they actually owe the money, and you actually have the evidence that they intend to engage in hiding assets from the court.
Before you go to blame the judge, however, please bear in mind that he can only rule based on the petitions before him. Presumably, a two-party hearing will be held soon, and then things can, and should, go differently.
Generally, ex-parte hearings are exceptional, and to prevail in one you first have to convince the judge that it would proper. Only after doing that, does it proceed as if the other side hasn't shown up. I suspect that either the judge made a serious mistake here, or Microsoft seriously mis-represented the situation. If Microsoft filed an affidavit with knowingly false information, then owners of NO-IP should be hearing cash registers in their dreams...
It's an abuse of power, the tragedy is it took a suicide for people to notice.
Something I only learned yesterday, Heymann (Ortiz's boss) had done it before a couple of years prior to Swartz--hounded a 16 year-old with heavy-handed charges until the kid put a bullet through his brain.
Stop blaming others for his inability to cope with the consequences of his actions.
OK, how about blaming them for such overzealous prosecution of such minor crimes, that it had cost him over $1,000,000 before the trial began. Can we blame them for that? (And fuck only knows how much of the taxpayers' money those clowns spent on their side...)
That only applies to federally funded research (which means almost all colleges and universities). Attempting to apply this to the private sector would raise serious First Amendment questions. What one person calls "psychological experiments", another might call "protected free speech".
There are laws governing obtaining informed consent from humans before performing psychological experiments on them. I doubt that a EULA can override them. This should be interesting...
Right... this seems like more of "A scientist that doesn't know anything about music explains something everyone who plays already knew" type of thing.
No, more like: everybody pretty much knew that the bridge being mounted on a vibrating membrane would affect the sound, but a scientist thoroughly analyzed and modeled the whole setup in order to quantitatively figure out exactly how all the parts and vibrations contributed to the sound. Then a dumbass know-nothing journalist wrote an article that misstated what had actually happened;-)
Those of you who believe that an H-1B worker is paid less than a domestic worker don't know anything about the requirements of the program.
And you, apparently, know nothing about the ways employers game the system wrt advertised job titles vs actual duties. If you had friends who are program managers in large tech companies (I do), you'd know that the reason they are forced by upper management to hire H-1B's is most often explicitly to pay a lower wage. As in being told by the big boss "use H-1B's on this contract because we can't afford Americans."
Interesting... Although, I'm pretty sure it's already been said, at this point, how variations in statistical reporting methods pretty much invalidate comparisons between nations. Probably municipalities, too, if we bothered to look hard enough.
I would hope that municipalities would at least be pretty comparable. But this is still something to check to the extent one can. Especially since from time to time a local scandal emerges when police get caught falsifying crime statistics.
So, kudos to you for making a valid point and not being a jackass about it.
Well, your point to which I responded, although wrong in my opinion, was reasonable. One does not necessarily expect that some other culture's understanding of "suicide" and "homicide" could possibly be so very different. Believe me, my posting history here has plenty of flat-out insulting posts with no sort of justification at all. The difference is, I'm a jackass to dumbasses;-)
Directly, no. It has been way too long since I first learned this for me to remember where.
But googling gets you this news article from today. Can you imagine any police or newspaper in North America, the EU or UK using the phrase "forced family suicide"???
And don't give me that "fuh fuh culture fuh fuh" crap, we're talking pure statistics here...
Actually, no they are not pure at all. They are contaminated with cultural interpretation. For instance, and my specific point, Japan's patriarchal society counts things very differently than we in the west do. When a stressed-out man comes home, kills his wife and two children, then himself, we call that a "murder-suicide" and count 3 murders + 1 suicide. In Japan they call it "familial suicide" and count it as 4 suicides.
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Memorizing and reproducing algorithms in a school exam doesn't mean u can create new algorithms not created by others on u'r own.
You're making a pretty big assumption there about schools. Did it ever occur to you that maybe that assumption does not apply to the world's top schools?
Watches represent the time of segregation and white power for most...
No. Just no. My god what a silly-ass comment. Most people wore watches well past 2000. The thing of ditching your watch and using your cell phone instead really only took off with the era of smart phones. So unless you're claiming that the time of segregation ended in the 21st century, instead of the 1960s & 1970s...
Go to bingo-night, see the ones running 10+ bingo cards, and still manages to tick off all the numbers being called :)
Yes, but they don't tick them off before calling bingo, because if they did, they wouldn't win ;-)
If figure skating isn't a sport solely because it's not objective, then there are a lot of Olympic sports that aren't actually sports either (high-dive, gymnastics,etc) as well as most of the X-games (freestyle BMX, half-pipe, etc)
I was being simplistic in that sarcastic comment. The thing is, that figure skating (along with all the other sports you mention) does absolutely have objective criteria for much of the scoring. But in figure skating, far, far, more than any other sport, the judges have a long history of simply ignoring the objective criteria when they so desire.
Bingo involves the physical act of moving your hand to tick the scorecard, and there's a clear, objective winner.
I think it's arguable, because that act is not a skill, and there's not a whole lot of variation in how well people do it. I think winning involves the purely mental act of being first to notice that the just-drawn ball completes your bingo, and that the placement of the marker comes after, just to keep track before the next round starts.
How about rock-paper-scissors?
Yes, it's a sport. A stupid, boring, incredibly lame sport, but...
What is a "real sport" anyway?
Well, let's see... There has to be some kind of physical skills involved. Check. There has to be some kind of scoring system in place by which one can observe the participants and objectively declare a winner. Check.
Or, in other words: Bowling is a sport. Figure skating is not. Video games are.
I'm going to be surprised if Amazon wins this one, even in the People's Democratic Republic of California.
??? Apparently you do not realize that CA has some of the strongest laws in the nation restricting non-compete agreements. CA is actually the least likely state in the country for Amazon to win this.
We also have tempurature ranges from -45ÂC to +45ÂC,and 9 months of winter, 3 months of potholes. :-)
Where I live the county government describes it to new residents this way: "The two weeks of summer are bracketed by one week each of spring and fall. The rest is winter."
shitpisscuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits
(Did I get that right???)
Because I'm sure going to trust that guy with the east-Indian accent telling me over the phone to install a remote access tool to my computer. Which actually happened to me 3 something weeks ago.
I had one that when I informed how that I knew how the scam worked, assured me that it was not a scam. When I continued to refuse, but did not hang up just because I was curious, he got really authoritative with me and ORDERED me to do what he was telling me to. Lord, did I curse then.
What is the legal precedent for taking ownership of a company's assets (without apparently even informing them beforehand) and randomly giving them to some other company to use?
Well, I'll give you an example--which does not apply in this case, but it is an example. Suppose that a company owes you money, suppose they got into that situation by deception (lying about their ability to pay). Suppose further that you discover that they intend to thwart any collection activity by moving their assets out of the country as soon as you go to court to get a judgment, because, say, they tell you exactly that: "if you try to sue us, we'll just move our assets out of the country!"
In that case, you can file for an ex-parte hearing to get a writ of attachment and have the sheriff show up at their offices with a moving van, completely unannounced. Now, the thing is, if you present false information to the court to obtain that order, you have put yourself on the hook for any and all damages you cause to the business by showing up and taking their stuff, so it's really not a wise idea to do this unless they actually owe the money, and you actually have the evidence that they intend to engage in hiding assets from the court.
Before you go to blame the judge, however, please bear in mind that he can only rule based on the petitions before him. Presumably, a two-party hearing will be held soon, and then things can, and should, go differently.
Generally, ex-parte hearings are exceptional, and to prevail in one you first have to convince the judge that it would proper. Only after doing that, does it proceed as if the other side hasn't shown up. I suspect that either the judge made a serious mistake here, or Microsoft seriously mis-represented the situation. If Microsoft filed an affidavit with knowingly false information, then owners of NO-IP should be hearing cash registers in their dreams...
I will gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork!
It's an abuse of power, the tragedy is it took a suicide for people to notice.
Something I only learned yesterday, Heymann (Ortiz's boss) had done it before a couple of years prior to Swartz--hounded a 16 year-old with heavy-handed charges until the kid put a bullet through his brain.
Stop blaming others for his inability to cope with the consequences of his actions.
OK, how about blaming them for such overzealous prosecution of such minor crimes, that it had cost him over $1,000,000 before the trial began. Can we blame them for that? (And fuck only knows how much of the taxpayers' money those clowns spent on their side...)
They can do whatever they want, it's their site.
Did you think about that before you wrote it? If not, take a second and think about it.
There are many, many, many things they cannot do with their site.
That only applies to federally funded research (which means almost all colleges and universities). Attempting to apply this to the private sector would raise serious First Amendment questions. What one person calls "psychological experiments", another might call "protected free speech".
This study appears to have taken federal funds...
There are laws governing obtaining informed consent from humans before performing psychological experiments on them. I doubt that a EULA can override them. This should be interesting...
Right... this seems like more of "A scientist that doesn't know anything about music explains something everyone who plays already knew" type of thing.
No, more like: everybody pretty much knew that the bridge being mounted on a vibrating membrane would affect the sound, but a scientist thoroughly analyzed and modeled the whole setup in order to quantitatively figure out exactly how all the parts and vibrations contributed to the sound. Then a dumbass know-nothing journalist wrote an article that misstated what had actually happened ;-)
Those of you who believe that an H-1B worker is paid less than a domestic worker don't know anything about the requirements of the program.
And you, apparently, know nothing about the ways employers game the system wrt advertised job titles vs actual duties. If you had friends who are program managers in large tech companies (I do), you'd know that the reason they are forced by upper management to hire H-1B's is most often explicitly to pay a lower wage. As in being told by the big boss "use H-1B's on this contract because we can't afford Americans."
I shall allow this. Sometimes dumbassery warrants jackassery in response.
Why, thank you, Your Most Exalted Highness, Prince of Internet Manners.
And that shall conclude my participation in this thread ;-)
Interesting... Although, I'm pretty sure it's already been said, at this point, how variations in statistical reporting methods pretty much invalidate comparisons between nations. Probably municipalities, too, if we bothered to look hard enough.
I would hope that municipalities would at least be pretty comparable. But this is still something to check to the extent one can. Especially since from time to time a local scandal emerges when police get caught falsifying crime statistics.
So, kudos to you for making a valid point and not being a jackass about it.
Well, your point to which I responded, although wrong in my opinion, was reasonable. One does not necessarily expect that some other culture's understanding of "suicide" and "homicide" could possibly be so very different. Believe me, my posting history here has plenty of flat-out insulting posts with no sort of justification at all. The difference is, I'm a jackass to dumbasses ;-)
Do you have any reference source for this claim?
Directly, no. It has been way too long since I first learned this for me to remember where.
But googling gets you this news article from today. Can you imagine any police or newspaper in North America, the EU or UK using the phrase "forced family suicide"???
And don't give me that "fuh fuh culture fuh fuh" crap, we're talking pure statistics here...
Actually, no they are not pure at all. They are contaminated with cultural interpretation. For instance, and my specific point, Japan's patriarchal society counts things very differently than we in the west do. When a stressed-out man comes home, kills his wife and two children, then himself, we call that a "murder-suicide" and count 3 murders + 1 suicide. In Japan they call it "familial suicide" and count it as 4 suicides.