I mean, if you don't read the news and can't Google, I don't know why you want to come here and hold forth on these topics.
I most certainly do read the news, and know how to use google. Go fuck yourself.
Any fool knows that things happen in Israel all the time that make those two kids, with their civilian guns and their couple of pressure cooker bombs look like an episode of sesame street
None of those incidents involves an ongoing rampage like the one in Cambridge/Watertown. They're all events that were over and done with in a single attack. Go fuck yourself.
I see you didn't answer my main point at all...
Well, yes, I did actually. You just chose to ignore the substance of my response, about the unique situation of an ongoing, in-progress rampage--because acknowledging the unique circumstances in Cambridge/Watertown would be inconvenient for your (silly, trite & offensive) argument. So, once again, with feeling: GO FUCK YOURSELF!
What other details are you thinking about? What seems obvious to me is that these guys should have warn disguises, and not having done that, fled long before once all the stories about the pictures and suspects came about. All in all they were pretty dumb.
Those, and... Why plant bombs at MIT? Why run out and shoot a cop without a get-away plan better than carjacking a random dude? Why stop and get out of the car? Why Watertown?
There's just so much that seems so random. Compare this with the detailed planning, and determination either to die or get away clean, of McVeigh, or the WTC garage bombers, or Columbine, or the 9/11 hijackers, or the Aurora shooter, or Newtown, or Virginia Tech... Those were all crazies in some sense, but "driving around randomly throwing bombs" was not in the plan...
Oh well, the fact that he's communicating with police, I think, is a sign that he likely wants to tell his deranged story. So at least we'll hear his side. (And that's another one--if it was you, would you be communicating with the cops at this point???)
Actually, if there's one thing I don't understand is why they let the guy whose car they hijacked go.
There's more details than that which I don't understand. Unless evidence comes out to the contrary, I'm going to have to stick with the theory that somebody was just fucking nuts.
When's the last time there was a bomber in Israel who was not a suicide bomber and lived, who then went on a rampage, murdered a policeman, carjacked a guy, shot at police during a car chase through a very densely populated urban area, stopped the car and jumped out and continued to shoot at police, threw more bombs at police, and then disappeared into a densely-populated residential neighborhood??? Point me to news story where something similar to that happened, and the residents just shrugged it off and the police just waited for the guy to show up again--please, prove it to me how in this case they would not shut down the area and carry out the most intensive manhunt possible.
Please, people, stop being fucking idiots about this. I'm way more thoroughly armed than the average American, have more ammo than these guys did, and am a very good shot. If this happened in my neighborhood? I'd stay inside too in order to make things easier for the police. (Now, if the dude came to my door, that would be a different story...)
Tell that to people who lost their EUROs in their Cyprus accounts.
Use your fucking head. 1) The value of euros did not drop precipitously at all--these were banks playing dangerous games and offering impossible-to-maintain returns, in other words, more of an investment than a bank. (When the value of your mutual funds in your 401K drops, do you claim that's a drop in the value of the dollar???). 2) Small depositors lost 6.7% while large depositors lost 9.9%, so even that was nothing like the wild fluctuations in bitcoin.
So, no, fiat currencies are not anywhere near as vulnerable as bitcoin--the worst example you were able to come up with is both not relevant because it's not a currency fluctuation, and not even close to the same magnitude of devaluation.
That is a total of over 30,000 deaths per year and exactly the number the grandparent alluded to.
Yes, see my later response. I grabbed numbers for homicides, mistakenly excluding suicides and accidents. (Although the FBI claims 9,000 homicides, not 11,000, for 2010, that's close enough for qualitative discussion.)
Note, however, that I stand firmly behind my 2nd, and more important, point--that the unique circumstances on Friday in Watertown most certainly justified the all-out pursuit, including the request that people stay the hell out of the way.
Such an eloquent response. You obvious intelligence is awe inspiring.
Your assertion deserved not one bit more--it was an absolute gem of ignorance and stupidity, pulled straight out of your ass, with neither fact nor logic nor history nor the slightest understanding of economics to elevate it one single quantum above "steaming turd" status.
to put things in perspective, guns kill about 100 people per day in the US.
1) Bullshit. The actual number is 8,000-10,000 per year, which is of course too much, but less than 1/3 your claim.
2) Bullshit. 25-30 per day in a country of over 300,000,000 are spread out among isolated incidents which police have very little chance of preventing. In Boston, they had a single attacker, shooting at multiple people, and throwing multiple bombs, in a small known area, in a short time, and ***EVERY*** reason in the world to believe that he would continue his attempts at murdering more people until the moment he was captured or killed.
While this was a horrible event, only three people died, and the whole city got shut down. Three. How long till they lockdown the city because two people die.
Bullshit. They locked down the city because after the 3 people died there was still a nut running around shooting at people and throwing bombs indiscriminately.
After all, the company still has a lot of really smart developers and engineers, a whole ton of cash, and the ability to let its projects play out over years.
And really bad management, clinging to stupendously dysfunctional and wasteful project management practices.
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of what he's done, if he's done it, but I rather suspect that is a common experience for immigrants to the USA now, especially muslim immigrants whose backgrounds are poorly understood. It's merely honest.
Really? In my dorm there were students from all over the world, they ranged from outgoing to painfully shy, but none were friendless.
The ratio of crappy versus good cops seems to go up when you're dealing with rent-a-cops and security, yes.
OK, just stop this bullshit now.
MIT Campus Police are real police, recruited only from among real police departments, with lots of experience required before they can even apply to the department.
His self-awareness must be as dull as a lead brick, then - after I (and a handful of other critical folks) left, the CxO's threw a fit and sacked him in the hardest possible way.
I've had literal screaming cursing matches with a boss-type, telling him what a miserable person he was, and sent email to the board of directors spelling out what was going on, and within months he thought we were old friends. It really is hard to get a grasp on the delusions inside the head of the narcissist, but it is a useful skill to cultivate...
...and I'm sure the feeling would have been mutual.
Probably not, actually. People like that tend to have such restricted self-awareness and such finely-hone rationalization skills, that no matter how explicit you were when leaving that you hated his guts, he now thinks it was just a bad time for you and that you'd be glad to reconnect, having realized that you were being a bit overwrought at the time;-)
It's in the developer guidelines if you'd take five minutes to look at them.
Where?
Seriously, googling "google glass developer guidelines" turns up several of Google's documents on the use of the APIs, none of which mention this--only the restriction that developers may not present ads.
Googling the exact text used in the summary turns up only anonymous reports, nothing from Google.
So where are these guidelines (which are apparently invisible to google searches)??? Where exactly has Google "explicitly and openly said that the Glass platform should and must be clean and clear of any ads whatsoever"???
The internet company has explicitly and openly said that the Glass platform should and must be clean and clear of any ads whatsoever...
Really? When? Where? I cannot find any reference whatsoever to Google making that statement, only references, like this one, to an anonymous source claiming it. I feel confident that if Google had "explicitly and openly" said any such thing that I would have been able to well, you know, google it;-)
Unmentioned here is the fact that Google is also forbidding developers to charge for their software, leaving developers with no revenue model at all. I imagine this is intended as an exploratory phase, and there is intent to in the future allow some revenue model for developers, but not giving any clue as to how developers might be allowed to make some money seems like a really good way to stifle development right from the outset.
Otherwise 9/11 truther , Alien landing believer, and other believer in woo stuff would be religion. They are not. It needs much much more than that to have a religion.
Absolute faith in that which you cannot observe is the cornerstone of religion, the very definition of religious experience. Yes, religions in the strict sense build much more on that foundation. But all of the beliefs you mention are religious in nature, not full religions, but sharing that single defining attribute.
Why do you religious people keep saying that atheism is a religion?
Because some atheists act in a religious manner.
We (I am an atheist) cannot prove the non-existance of God. We can use our observations of the world around us and logic to come to a refusal to believe the fairy tales we're taught as children, and this is all in the realm of reason. But those of us who claim to know without doubt that there is no deity have crossed into the realm of faith.
But you have to be a fucking idiot to have read/. and never noticed that it's more than news for nerds. And it's right in the slogan: "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Memorandum: The company-wide morale building dining event will now run from 12:00:01 - 11:59:59. Anyone arriving at 12:00:00 will have to wait until the next event starts. As ever, these events will be held annually, to commemorate holidays like every day ending in "Y."
Exactly, there is, as far as I know, nothing in the law limiting how often you can have morale-building events. Annual Christmas/winter party, monthly party, weekly Friday afternoon beer bash, daily morning donuts--none of those are being questioned and it's a small step to daily lunch.
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I mean, if you don't read the news and can't Google, I don't know why you want to come here and hold forth on these topics.
I most certainly do read the news, and know how to use google. Go fuck yourself.
Any fool knows that things happen in Israel all the time that make those two kids, with their civilian guns and their couple of pressure cooker bombs look like an episode of sesame street
None of those incidents involves an ongoing rampage like the one in Cambridge/Watertown. They're all events that were over and done with in a single attack. Go fuck yourself.
I see you didn't answer my main point at all...
Well, yes, I did actually. You just chose to ignore the substance of my response, about the unique situation of an ongoing, in-progress rampage--because acknowledging the unique circumstances in Cambridge/Watertown would be inconvenient for your (silly, trite & offensive) argument. So, once again, with feeling: GO FUCK YOURSELF!
What other details are you thinking about? What seems obvious to me is that these guys should have warn disguises, and not having done that, fled long before once all the stories about the pictures and suspects came about. All in all they were pretty dumb.
Those, and... Why plant bombs at MIT? Why run out and shoot a cop without a get-away plan better than carjacking a random dude? Why stop and get out of the car? Why Watertown?
There's just so much that seems so random. Compare this with the detailed planning, and determination either to die or get away clean, of McVeigh, or the WTC garage bombers, or Columbine, or the 9/11 hijackers, or the Aurora shooter, or Newtown, or Virginia Tech... Those were all crazies in some sense, but "driving around randomly throwing bombs" was not in the plan...
Oh well, the fact that he's communicating with police, I think, is a sign that he likely wants to tell his deranged story. So at least we'll hear his side. (And that's another one--if it was you, would you be communicating with the cops at this point???)
Actually, if there's one thing I don't understand is why they let the guy whose car they hijacked go.
There's more details than that which I don't understand. Unless evidence comes out to the contrary, I'm going to have to stick with the theory that somebody was just fucking nuts.
When's the last time there was a bomber in Israel who was not a suicide bomber and lived, who then went on a rampage, murdered a policeman, carjacked a guy, shot at police during a car chase through a very densely populated urban area, stopped the car and jumped out and continued to shoot at police, threw more bombs at police, and then disappeared into a densely-populated residential neighborhood??? Point me to news story where something similar to that happened, and the residents just shrugged it off and the police just waited for the guy to show up again--please, prove it to me how in this case they would not shut down the area and carry out the most intensive manhunt possible.
Please, people, stop being fucking idiots about this. I'm way more thoroughly armed than the average American, have more ammo than these guys did, and am a very good shot. If this happened in my neighborhood? I'd stay inside too in order to make things easier for the police. (Now, if the dude came to my door, that would be a different story...)
Tell that to people who lost their EUROs in their Cyprus accounts.
Use your fucking head. 1) The value of euros did not drop precipitously at all--these were banks playing dangerous games and offering impossible-to-maintain returns, in other words, more of an investment than a bank. (When the value of your mutual funds in your 401K drops, do you claim that's a drop in the value of the dollar???). 2) Small depositors lost 6.7% while large depositors lost 9.9%, so even that was nothing like the wild fluctuations in bitcoin.
So, no, fiat currencies are not anywhere near as vulnerable as bitcoin--the worst example you were able to come up with is both not relevant because it's not a currency fluctuation, and not even close to the same magnitude of devaluation.
That is a total of over 30,000 deaths per year and exactly the number the grandparent alluded to.
Yes, see my later response. I grabbed numbers for homicides, mistakenly excluding suicides and accidents. (Although the FBI claims 9,000 homicides, not 11,000, for 2010, that's close enough for qualitative discussion.)
Note, however, that I stand firmly behind my 2nd, and more important, point--that the unique circumstances on Friday in Watertown most certainly justified the all-out pursuit, including the request that people stay the hell out of the way.
http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/ [smartgunlaws.org]
31,076 gun deaths in 2012. that's 85 per day.
Sorry, I mistakenly grabbed numbers for homicides, excluding suicides and accidents...
Such an eloquent response. You obvious intelligence is awe inspiring.
Your assertion deserved not one bit more--it was an absolute gem of ignorance and stupidity, pulled straight out of your ass, with neither fact nor logic nor history nor the slightest understanding of economics to elevate it one single quantum above "steaming turd" status.
to put things in perspective, guns kill about 100 people per day in the US.
1) Bullshit. The actual number is 8,000-10,000 per year, which is of course too much, but less than 1/3 your claim.
2) Bullshit. 25-30 per day in a country of over 300,000,000 are spread out among isolated incidents which police have very little chance of preventing. In Boston, they had a single attacker, shooting at multiple people, and throwing multiple bombs, in a small known area, in a short time, and ***EVERY*** reason in the world to believe that he would continue his attempts at murdering more people until the moment he was captured or killed.
While this was a horrible event, only three people died, and the whole city got shut down. Three. How long till they lockdown the city because two people die.
Bullshit. They locked down the city because after the 3 people died there was still a nut running around shooting at people and throwing bombs indiscriminately.
After all, the company still has a lot of really smart developers and engineers, a whole ton of cash, and the ability to let its projects play out over years.
And really bad management, clinging to stupendously dysfunctional and wasteful project management practices.
Nothing gets the point across like a surprise evisceration.
I swear to you, I don't think that would have done it ;-)
It can become nearly worthless overnight.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Dollars, euros and other fiat currency are just as vulnerable.
Bullshit! Currencies backed by the economic activity of entire 1st-world nations are nowhere near as vulnerable.
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of what he's done, if he's done it, but I rather suspect that is a common experience for immigrants to the USA now, especially muslim immigrants whose backgrounds are poorly understood. It's merely honest.
Really? In my dorm there were students from all over the world, they ranged from outgoing to painfully shy, but none were friendless.
The ratio of crappy versus good cops seems to go up when you're dealing with rent-a-cops and security, yes.
OK, just stop this bullshit now.
MIT Campus Police are real police, recruited only from among real police departments, with lots of experience required before they can even apply to the department.
His self-awareness must be as dull as a lead brick, then - after I (and a handful of other critical folks) left, the CxO's threw a fit and sacked him in the hardest possible way.
I've had literal screaming cursing matches with a boss-type, telling him what a miserable person he was, and sent email to the board of directors spelling out what was going on, and within months he thought we were old friends. It really is hard to get a grasp on the delusions inside the head of the narcissist, but it is a useful skill to cultivate...
...and I'm sure the feeling would have been mutual.
Probably not, actually. People like that tend to have such restricted self-awareness and such finely-hone rationalization skills, that no matter how explicit you were when leaving that you hated his guts, he now thinks it was just a bad time for you and that you'd be glad to reconnect, having realized that you were being a bit overwrought at the time ;-)
It's in the developer guidelines if you'd take five minutes to look at them.
Where?
Seriously, googling "google glass developer guidelines" turns up several of Google's documents on the use of the APIs, none of which mention this--only the restriction that developers may not present ads.
Googling the exact text used in the summary turns up only anonymous reports, nothing from Google.
So where are these guidelines (which are apparently invisible to google searches)??? Where exactly has Google "explicitly and openly said that the Glass platform should and must be clean and clear of any ads whatsoever"???
The internet company has explicitly and openly said that the Glass platform should and must be clean and clear of any ads whatsoever...
Really? When? Where? I cannot find any reference whatsoever to Google making that statement, only references, like this one, to an anonymous source claiming it. I feel confident that if Google had "explicitly and openly" said any such thing that I would have been able to well, you know, google it ;-)
Unmentioned here is the fact that Google is also forbidding developers to charge for their software, leaving developers with no revenue model at all. I imagine this is intended as an exploratory phase, and there is intent to in the future allow some revenue model for developers, but not giving any clue as to how developers might be allowed to make some money seems like a really good way to stifle development right from the outset.
Otherwise 9/11 truther , Alien landing believer, and other believer in woo stuff would be religion. They are not. It needs much much more than that to have a religion.
Absolute faith in that which you cannot observe is the cornerstone of religion, the very definition of religious experience. Yes, religions in the strict sense build much more on that foundation. But all of the beliefs you mention are religious in nature, not full religions, but sharing that single defining attribute.
It wasn't a Big Bang, but a Medium Bang!
That's what she said!
Why do you religious people keep saying that atheism is a religion?
Because some atheists act in a religious manner.
We (I am an atheist) cannot prove the non-existance of God. We can use our observations of the world around us and logic to come to a refusal to believe the fairy tales we're taught as children, and this is all in the realm of reason. But those of us who claim to know without doubt that there is no deity have crossed into the realm of faith.
What does this have to do with news for nerds?
Why nothing at all that's what.
But you have to be a fucking idiot to have read /. and never noticed that it's more than news for nerds. And it's right in the slogan: "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Memorandum: The company-wide morale building dining event will now run from 12:00:01 - 11:59:59. Anyone arriving at 12:00:00 will have to wait until the next event starts. As ever, these events will be held annually, to commemorate holidays like every day ending in "Y."
Exactly, there is, as far as I know, nothing in the law limiting how often you can have morale-building events. Annual Christmas/winter party, monthly party, weekly Friday afternoon beer bash, daily morning donuts--none of those are being questioned and it's a small step to daily lunch.