I'm truly curious what background check will keep someone from stealing another person's legally obtained weapon?
In Australia (that place where we had a couple of serious killings and decided to do something about it) the law states that you must keep your firearms in a locked safe that only you (or another person with a gun licence) has access to.
If I have a gun licence and the police come around to do a spot check and ask my wife to open the safe, and she does, I loose my licence. She is not allowed to have access to open the safe with firearms.
On the one hand its seems you people bitch about endless manipulation and conspiracy and on the other you claim your right to bear arms somehow protects you. If one took information to be power wouldn't you use the appropriate amendment to mandate access to information as "bearing arms" and an instrument for good as opposed a constant state of death and social division over these weapons?
Perhaps government and corporate secrecy is your real domestic threat and openness, access and debate are truly the arms of the modern age that will protect you.
"....I really don't see how it's so hard to find a way to reconcile ones religious beliefs with their scientific ones......"
None of the mainstream religions have a narrative that matches science. Saying "we dont know about the big bang" != "Jesus is cool"..you may be the exception but the moment a belief becomes a way to inturpret realtiy the human race loses
"......Let's say the government stops spending so much on defense....."
Thank you for your economics lesson. You could have opted to suggest the US Government invests in green energy projects, R&D, space research, (healthcare?) - but no you picked defense.
The day that countries stop spending on defense and move those resources to better the plight of their citizens and the human race is the day we as a species take a large jump forward. Justifying that defense is necessary so that Mandy from Iowa can stock grocery shelves after school doesn't amount to progress, it amounts to perpetuating a gun culture or at least one that is dependant on a handful of boardrooms paying a congress of politicians to own masses of people.
** The kinda sorta flip side is that quality newspapers (or blogs or whatever) will win... once there is no "free lunch" on news, pretty much all news will have to be for-pay again. **
I'm 40. I have never read a newspaper and had an interest in most of it. I would struggle for 3-4 articles (?3%). But if I buy a newspaper I buy it all.
It might be quality reporting (on the fact that some inbreds are having twins | Victoria's secret is no longer secret | the christian right follows jesus, etc) but its mainly worthless drivel that does not contribute the prosperity or well being of the human race as a whole.
"...will actually vouch for the work of their reporters..."
Please don't get me wrong - I agree with the need for reliable sources, but:
* Have you been on Facebook? A billion Sheeple will repost without any investigation of facts. Surely that means that their belief is strong or interest diminished in the junk they post. Perception is reality.
* Should we trust news? Really? Ever? Without going to look up a few facts?
"...'Our tolerance must never extend to tolerating religious hatred.'...."
Fuck you Julia I'm an atheist and the whole concept of religious tolerance revolts me to my core. I do it because I don't think people are ready yet to en masse face the realities of the universe and life without religion (aka one less thing to worry about).
I don't stir the pot actively but if a religious person injects themselves in my life I have zero tolerance. Having an official state that religion is on the agenda for Australia is piss weak. We don't have an official religion.
".... It was also heavily criticized for its National Intelligence Estimate in 2002, which supported claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction...."
So basically an idea to sell to the crowd that it is listening to their feedback. I doubt it. I am pretty sure that any intel agency with a budget is aware of most of the important stuff before we are.
The BBC is touting some tripe as to what the people across the pond are doing? It seems more like a way to soften their failures in light of the agenda to preserve their incursions into citizen monitoring.
I normally take the middle path and only use generic and robust techniques for the core of an application.
Also if you are selling a viable business application you can say things like IE9+ compatible to avoid such hell. Granted if you are writing for Joe Public then you have to be more mindful of older browsers but compatibility is not that hard (I haven't suggested HTML 5 I'm just suggesting using the appropriate level of language to solve your business case. )
If the client want HTML5 features to work on an old browser then they are already making a choice to either have multiple versions of a web application or have a structure fails gracefully for each one....sounds like divorcing your cousin - things are a bit fucked up to start with
When it comes down to it I would use a web app for most things. It scales better and you have a central point of debugging. You also aviod the hell of client OS/ library updates that your app depends on.
In a few years we've gone from scratching out code by hand to a wealth of JQuery libraries that make my web development easier. I've only used js as something to help the functionality of web pages at the client level / make AJAX calls. Whilst I realise it can be used for other things it seems to fit this need quite well.
So my question: It seems to produce the required outcome in its most prolific implementations so why the need to change it? Who benefits?
If you look up stuff on the Internet or watch mainstream media and choose to remember the stories then you get a pretty clear picture of "Blood for Oil" and "Too big to fail" stories. You balance that out with candidates saying money for influence and the massive disproportion in wealth in the US and it paints a grim picture.
A few people with a disgusting amount of money make decisions that impact the rest of the world and none of them are elected.
The bad part is that we know all this already and no doubt when troops hit the ground in Iran, Somalia, etc, we will continue to rage on the Internet while ours sons go and kill someone else's sons......Wikileaks rocks but unless we are using the information at our disposal for change then what's the point?
Just an idea - if you tax and legalise a gateway drug like marijuana you make it a "big step" for kids to go from being kids to addicts without being part of your gateway.
Most kids don't take up smoking these days because they get education that says - its a fucking mindless idea to smoke - because educators can talk about that with authority. Give educators the same powers with weed and you go from seeing drugs as "I'll just try a joint cos its like a strong cigarette" to "wft? I have to take a pill that some junkie made or put some hardcore up my nose???"
Its only hardcore because kids experience gateway drugs which build up the expectation of a high and in some cases have addictive personalties that lead them into the deeper world of drugs.
Sorry to spoil your point but I just couldn't help myself....
Did they come to you (or you to them) asking for a brief? Did you answer their questions? Did you give them specific advice on what they should look out for in the CV?
Hey if you said some specifics and HR over looked them then sure, go nuts (because you reviewed their brief right?). But if you didn't and expected them to "know" then the blame is on you.
Now I say this with an expectation that the candidate has requisite core skills (or at least partially and the rest are in the team that they work with).
Any day of the week I would hire a person with a genuine passion for what they do (and a certain amount of grounding) over a stale, set in their ways, experienced person. If the fire is out its out.
If you teach & mentor someone from the start you end up with a committed and talented colleague.
Its is a map of a Normandy beach where the Allies start off in the water and the Axis are in fortified positions. Its carnage. You spawn in water, take a step, take a bullet. Die.
Video games a the only way to experience taking a bullet in such a horrific encounter that is akin to a real experience but "do-able" in a mass education format.
I have used fedora for years then switched to Ubuntu. This is on a bunch of laptops for me and colleagues.
Wireless broadband didn't work in 7.x could get it in 8.4 with great amount of effort, out of the box in 8.10, fucked it again in 9.04 and had to fix it manually with usb_modswitch, fucked that up again in 9.10.
This is a Telstra series 7 (Australia's largest ISP) USB modem.
In the work sense you can imagine how crap Linux looks when it works, then not, then click the icon, no wait run this script, no now you can right click the system tray, no wait Apps->Internet-> Gnome PPP...!
If companies like Canonical / Ubuntu really want Linux to be adopted then they need to stop users have things that are crucial to the user experience (of a netbook) break just because the user - quite rightly - clicked "Update".
I love Linux but there are pleanty of other OS's I could use if I didn't need working Internet access.:-)
"Who..saves the server when things break? The guy that knows what he's doing. He may feel like a hero afterward but mostly he just feels pissed off that he had to do it at all...."
Isn't that their job? The one they were hired for? The one they accept payment for?
Feel like a hero? Isn't that called professional pride in the real world?
It sounds like you are in the wrong job if you don't understand why meetings are for listening as well as speaking.
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I'm truly curious what background check will keep someone from stealing another person's legally obtained weapon?
In Australia (that place where we had a couple of serious killings and decided to do something about it) the law states that you must keep your firearms in a locked safe that only you (or another person with a gun licence) has access to.
If I have a gun licence and the police come around to do a spot check and ask my wife to open the safe, and she does, I loose my licence. She is not allowed to have access to open the safe with firearms.
On the one hand its seems you people bitch about endless manipulation and conspiracy and on the other you claim your right to bear arms somehow protects you. If one took information to be power wouldn't you use the appropriate amendment to mandate access to information as "bearing arms" and an instrument for good as opposed a constant state of death and social division over these weapons?
Perhaps government and corporate secrecy is your real domestic threat and openness, access and debate are truly the arms of the modern age that will protect you.
"....I really don't see how it's so hard to find a way to reconcile ones religious beliefs with their scientific ones......"
None of the mainstream religions have a narrative that matches science. Saying "we dont know about the big bang" != "Jesus is cool" ..you may be the exception but the moment a belief becomes a way to inturpret realtiy the human race loses
"...Should the world now treat all Americans like paranoid war-mongers that embrace pre-emptive war and a police state?...."
Yes.
(At least that is what many US posters claim when talking about politics, gun control and "occupy" on Slashdot)
Governments go to war not people.
> What the US is doing is bulling at it's best.
+1
I have mod points but......(Its taken me a decade to say that :-)
In my colo I have a power allocation. Having X laptops each with their own power would probably eat my allocation before a 1RU server would.
"......Let's say the government stops spending so much on defense....."
Thank you for your economics lesson. You could have opted to suggest the US Government invests in green energy projects, R&D, space research, (healthcare?) - but no you picked defense.
The day that countries stop spending on defense and move those resources to better the plight of their citizens and the human race is the day we as a species take a large jump forward. Justifying that defense is necessary so that Mandy from Iowa can stock grocery shelves after school doesn't amount to progress, it amounts to perpetuating a gun culture or at least one that is dependant on a handful of boardrooms paying a congress of politicians to own masses of people.
** The kinda sorta flip side is that quality newspapers (or blogs or whatever) will win... once there is no "free lunch" on news, pretty much all news will have to be for-pay again. **
I'm 40. I have never read a newspaper and had an interest in most of it. I would struggle for 3-4 articles (?3%). But if I buy a newspaper I buy it all.
It might be quality reporting (on the fact that some inbreds are having twins | Victoria's secret is no longer secret | the christian right follows jesus, etc) but its mainly worthless drivel that does not contribute the prosperity or well being of the human race as a whole.
"...will actually vouch for the work of their reporters..."
Please don't get me wrong - I agree with the need for reliable sources, but:
* Have you been on Facebook? A billion Sheeple will repost without any investigation of facts. Surely that means that their belief is strong or interest diminished in the junk they post. Perception is reality.
* Should we trust news? Really? Ever? Without going to look up a few facts?
Oh OK - you mean stuff you could do with rsync / bash / cron in a heartbeat?
Are you retarded?????
"....I don't think anyone could argue that the Catholic Church doesn't do an amazing amount of good for impoverished African states....."
AIDS + no condoms????
"...'Our tolerance must never extend to tolerating religious hatred.'...."
Fuck you Julia I'm an atheist and the whole concept of religious tolerance revolts me to my core. I do it because I don't think people are ready yet to en masse face the realities of the universe and life without religion (aka one less thing to worry about).
I don't stir the pot actively but if a religious person injects themselves in my life I have zero tolerance. Having an official state that religion is on the agenda for Australia is piss weak. We don't have an official religion.
".......keeping others from doing me harm......"
Like killing you and your children by perpetuating bad lifestyle choices on the basis of "your rights"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwrV5e6fMY
"...she has six years to live...."
".... It was also heavily criticized for its National Intelligence Estimate in 2002, which supported claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction...."
So basically an idea to sell to the crowd that it is listening to their feedback. I doubt it. I am pretty sure that any intel agency with a budget is aware of most of the important stuff before we are.
The BBC is touting some tripe as to what the people across the pond are doing? It seems more like a way to soften their failures in light of the agenda to preserve their incursions into citizen monitoring.
By choosing a level that you are aiming your app at and testing it on said versions / platforms / etc.
The other part is to use plain old HTML instead of AJAX everything and pick your compatibility battles where you have the high ground
I normally take the middle path and only use generic and robust techniques for the core of an application.
Also if you are selling a viable business application you can say things like IE9+ compatible to avoid such hell. Granted if you are writing for Joe Public then you have to be more mindful of older browsers but compatibility is not that hard (I haven't suggested HTML 5 I'm just suggesting using the appropriate level of language to solve your business case. )
If the client want HTML5 features to work on an old browser then they are already making a choice to either have multiple versions of a web application or have a structure fails gracefully for each one....sounds like divorcing your cousin - things are a bit fucked up to start with
When it comes down to it I would use a web app for most things. It scales better and you have a central point of debugging. You also aviod the hell of client OS/ library updates that your app depends on.
What's broken with JavaScript?
In a few years we've gone from scratching out code by hand to a wealth of JQuery libraries that make my web development easier. I've only used js as something to help the functionality of web pages at the client level / make AJAX calls. Whilst I realise it can be used for other things it seems to fit this need quite well.
So my question: It seems to produce the required outcome in its most prolific implementations so why the need to change it? Who benefits?
See sub. ;-)
If you look up stuff on the Internet or watch mainstream media and choose to remember the stories then you get a pretty clear picture of "Blood for Oil" and "Too big to fail" stories. You balance that out with candidates saying money for influence and the massive disproportion in wealth in the US and it paints a grim picture.
A few people with a disgusting amount of money make decisions that impact the rest of the world and none of them are elected.
The bad part is that we know all this already and no doubt when troops hit the ground in Iran, Somalia, etc, we will continue to rage on the Internet while ours sons go and kill someone else's sons......Wikileaks rocks but unless we are using the information at our disposal for change then what's the point?
Just an idea - if you tax and legalise a gateway drug like marijuana you make it a "big step" for kids to go from being kids to addicts without being part of your gateway.
Most kids don't take up smoking these days because they get education that says - its a fucking mindless idea to smoke - because educators can talk about that with authority. Give educators the same powers with weed and you go from seeing drugs as "I'll just try a joint cos its like a strong cigarette" to "wft? I have to take a pill that some junkie made or put some hardcore up my nose???"
Its only hardcore because kids experience gateway drugs which build up the expectation of a high and in some cases have addictive personalties that lead them into the deeper world of drugs.
Sorry to spoil your point but I just couldn't help myself....
Did they come to you (or you to them) asking for a brief? Did you answer their questions? Did you give them specific advice on what they should look out for in the CV?
Hey if you said some specifics and HR over looked them then sure, go nuts (because you reviewed their brief right?). But if you didn't and expected them to "know" then the blame is on you.
(I'm not insinuating either way)
"...hire attitude not skills...."
Now I say this with an expectation that the candidate has requisite core skills (or at least partially and the rest are in the team that they work with).
Any day of the week I would hire a person with a genuine passion for what they do (and a certain amount of grounding) over a stale, set in their ways, experienced person. If the fire is out its out.
If you teach & mentor someone from the start you end up with a committed and talented colleague.
Day of Defeat: dod_charlie
Its is a map of a Normandy beach where the Allies start off in the water and the Axis are in fortified positions. Its carnage. You spawn in water, take a step, take a bullet. Die.
Video games a the only way to experience taking a bullet in such a horrific encounter that is akin to a real experience but "do-able" in a mass education format.
I have used fedora for years then switched to Ubuntu. This is on a bunch of laptops for me and colleagues.
Wireless broadband didn't work in 7.x could get it in 8.4 with great amount of effort, out of the box in 8.10, fucked it again in 9.04 and had to fix it manually with usb_modswitch, fucked that up again in 9.10.
This is a Telstra series 7 (Australia's largest ISP) USB modem.
In the work sense you can imagine how crap Linux looks when it works, then not, then click the icon, no wait run this script, no now you can right click the system tray, no wait Apps->Internet-> Gnome PPP...!
If companies like Canonical / Ubuntu really want Linux to be adopted then they need to stop users have things that are crucial to the user experience (of a netbook) break just because the user - quite rightly - clicked "Update".
I love Linux but there are pleanty of other OS's I could use if I didn't need working Internet access. :-)
"..Um, 'move' commands don't actually move the files on your hard disk...."
Unless they are moving between file systems / partitions.
"Who..saves the server when things break? The guy that knows what he's doing. He may feel like a hero afterward but mostly he just feels pissed off that he had to do it at all. ..."
Isn't that their job? The one they were hired for? The one they accept payment for?
Feel like a hero? Isn't that called professional pride in the real world?
It sounds like you are in the wrong job if you don't understand why meetings are for listening as well as speaking.