Yeah. That was back in the good old days when I was able to carry my pocket knife (which is always with me except when I'm flying now). And when no one threw away my toothpaste for being too large (happened last week). And when the government's website didn't say I could bring 3.4oz bottles but the airport TSA signs said they could only be 3oz. And when the woman carrying a baby standing behind me in line didn't have three separate examiners check out her baby's bottle to make sure it wasn't very liquidy plastique. And when I didn't get a high-energy full-body X-ray followed immediately by a lower body pat down. And when the pat-down agent asked "are you carrying anything in your pockets?", I was too worried about the possibility of an express detour to Gitmo to reply sarcastically, "did your scanner see anything?" And when I didn't watch a foreign exchange student on the edge of tears as she was swabbed down for explosive residue.
Yeah, private screeners let some guys carry knives onto a plane. Strangely, I don't feel a single bit safer for having been through the new "security through intimidation" process.
No, they're not. Two of my kids are; one isn't. We don't know about the youngest yet because they don't give much homework in preschool. This wasn't the normal "I'd rather be doing something else" behavior.
Learning is not just about enjoyment, I'm afraid.
It's not "just" about enjoyment, but it's a whole hell of a lot about enjoyment. My parents taught me how fun and cool it is to learn new things and that shaped a large part of my life and career. Sometimes learning isn't fun, but if you teach your kids that it simply is not enjoyable and something to be dreaded then you've failed as a parent.
Also, I get nervous at the idea of non-medical people prescribing anything stronger than calpol for their kids.
From your spelling and word choices, I infer you're in the UK or a UK-influenced country. In America, prescriptions are issued solely by licensed medical personnel. Anything you walk into a pharmacy to buy on your own is referred to as "over the counter". That I mentioned a prescription implies that we saw a physician. In this case, it was a pediatric neurologist who knows a lot more about ADD in general (and my children in particular) than you ever will.
Respect for the dead, especially loved ones, and the sensitivity that comes with that, is essential to human societies.
No, it's not. Fred Phelps, Sr. is somebody's loved one, but I reserve the right to smugly welcome his eventual passing and to publicly state that I hope any afterlife of his involves being tormented by gay and lustful demons. Someone who earned no respect in life doesn't magically garner it in dying, and the fact that someone may care about them and mourn their death doesn't change that.
If you can cause other people just as much harm by impersonating their dead daughter as you could by punching them in the face, why treat it differently?
Because physical assault is clear-cut: either you punched someone or you didn't. The findings are limited to determining whether you contacted them and whether it was deliberate or accidental. In contrast, insults are subjective in that they depend on the reaction of the target, and that reaction may change from time to time. The findings involve determining the state of mind of the assailant and in order to calculate whether the verbal assault actually happened.
For instance, suppose I great a coworker each morning with "hey, dumbass!", and he laughs because we're friends and call each other names. One morning, I issue my customary greeting and he flips out: "quit calling me that, jerk! I'm not a dumbass and I'm tired of your insults! I've had enough!" There are two ways to interpret the story: I was being a crude (but harmless) coworker who inadvertently pushed another employee too far and may deserve a letter of reprimand from our boss, or I was being a crude (and malicious) jerk who established a pattern of abusive speech and may deserve prison time.
Please understand that I don't intend to take Duffy's side in any way. His actions were a far cry from my hypothetical example and clearly crossed the line into abusive, despicable behavior. Still, I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of the government issuing prison terms based on hurt feelings. Duffy's case is rather clear-cut but the precedent seems ripe for overzealous application.
I haven't reached your august age but I've seen a lot of the same. I knew exactly one kid at school with a food allergy, and she couldn't eat large amounts of chocolate. That was the extent of the allergies my school had to content with.
That said, two of my kids have been diagnosed with ADD (not ADHD). They simply could not concentrate on school stuff. For example, I'd watch my son try to do homework at the kitchen table, and he'd be fine for a little while until a neighborhood dog barked. Maybe the numbers on a clock would change and he'd turn to look at it. He'd work on a few more problems, then start playing the drums with his pencil. He's a good, well-behaved, smart, funny kid but couldn't focus on school stuff unless I physically sat next to him and yelled every time he got distracted. That certainly didn't help his enjoyment of learning.
One day, he was nearly in tears and asked for our help because he'd tried everything and wanted to do better at school but couldn't do it on his own. A prescription for a non-stimulant medication later and his entire workflow changed. He's still the same kid, but is able to knock out his homework in a few minutes before going out to play.
And know what? He's me. I wasn't any better at sitting still and working than he is. I could usually get all my work done before leaving school but I never was good at finishing homework. I wish they'd known more about ADD when I was a kid; I think things would've turned out a lot differently for me. I'm glad I can help my kids work through these problems until they're a little older and we can all work on good coping strategies together. (In my case, I discovered "Getting Things Done" which was a life-changer, but the kids are a little young to start in on it full-scale).
Sorry, Diane, but you are contagious. Just as you learned of this invented disease from someone else, you've undoubtedly passed it along to another hypochondriac. Just because it's not transmitted by biological vectors doesn't mean that it can't spread from person to person.
I'm not an expert by any means, having only been there a couple of times (although most recently last week so it's still fresh in my mind). I'm certain there are parts I missed that are wholly different from my perception and that a local will think, "this guy is an idiot! Hasn't he even heard of [....]?" That said:
Silicon Valley is among the least walkable places I've ever been. The whole time I was there, I saw literally not a single person on foot. If you wanted, you could probably hoof it from your homogenous residential section to the nearby strip mall, but I didn't see anyone doing it.
Although mental acuity may be a forbidding factor, a mortician may be a better career for prospective TSA employees.
My dad was a mortician (his license plates read "EMBALM" - seriously). He took great pride in his job of helping survivors through a difficult time and in making the deceased look peaceful and natural. He was a true craftsman when it came to sculpting prosthetic parts such as when a gunshot wound ruined a jaw, or cancer ate a nose. In his day, he was called in to send statesmen and business leaders to their rest.
Hmmm. That ended up a lot more serious than I intended, and he would've teased me for getting so somber about it. The guy with the "EMBALM" plates liked to laugh a lot. Still, morticians tend to be extremely professional and respectful.
I skipped right past TFS and into the inevitable flamewar and never bothered to notice that the blogger in question is Umair Haque, author of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. Haque is unapologetically pro-capitalism, and his book (which I'm reading now) is about the changes needed to make it a permanently-sustainable, society-lifting system without the government having to step in and tear it all apart.
You keep using the word "deserve" as though that's an objective, uncontroversial value. But who decides what someone deserves? Do we all deserve 1 (GDP/population)th of the nation's output? That doesn't work because that kills the incentive for self-improvement. If you want to pay a doctor precisely as much as a janitor, you'll soon find that no one's going to bother with 12 years of post-high-school education to become a doctor. Or maybe compensation should cover a range? In that case, who gets to decide that my contribution to the economy deserves more or less compensation than yours? And thus communism breaks down, because it absolutely mandates strong central planning to resolve those issues (as a roomful of workers will never, ever agree that someone in the room should make more than everyone else).
Because greed exists in human nature and can't be routed around, those planners will feel the irresistible pull of ensuring that their friends and families just happen to be in state-critical, well-compensated jobs. Replace human planning with an algorithm? The programmers (and their friends and families) get rich tailoring the formula. Place them under strict supervision? Then their supervisors (and their friends and families) get rich after instructing the programmers to tailor the formula.
Any system that tries to fight against greed is certain to fail because it only takes a few systemic hackers to game the mechanism and profit. While there clearly need to be checks and balances in a capitalist economy, at least capitalism is built on a plausible sociological theory and not "this will work as long as we have 100% cooperation from every citizen".
At 10:52:03 local time (NTP accurate to a couple of milliseconds), an employee sent a 116KB email from their machine on our LAN to our internal mailserver. At 10:52:09, the mailserver received the message back from the virus/spam filter (of course we do egress filtering!). At 10:52:11, the customer's mailserver accepted the message and replied with an acknowledgement that it was received and ready for delivery via the customer's internal mailsystem.
With maillogs, I can testify that an email the exact same size and with the same timestamp as one in our employee's "Sent" folder entered our email system, then was successfully delivered to the customer. With fax logs, I can testify that we called them at such-and-such a time and they didn't hang up for however many seconds, but can't demonstrate that anything of any size was actually transmitted to them.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Several local schools have fundraisers of selling coupon books to local businesses. My full price lasagna tastes just as good if the guy next to me is using a coupon. The OP's restaurant wasn't giving out discount vouchers; they were selling discount-rate gift certificates. The only unusual twist here is that a lot of people happened to be cashing in their certificates on the same night.
I'm a regular at a few restaurants. My "compensation" is that I can always get a table quickly even on the busiest of nights, and the waiter will bring my usual drink on his/her first trip to my table. Someone else might be paying a few bucks less than me on any given evening, but I'll bet the owner doesn't come by their table to shake their hand and tell them how happy he is to see them, and that he hopes that their family is doing well, and to ask how their kids are (by name).
Fan-freakin'-tastic. Even a cheap USB flash drive makes a huge difference in IOPS. I have a couple of TB of slow storage with a 16GB SSD set up as a L2ARC, and many random access patterns (like "make buildworld") are astoundingly fast once the cache warms up.
My first keyboard, literally, was on a piano. Maybe because of that, I type much like I'd play a song. My hands move to hover over where the most keypresses are happening at that instant, and whenever I need to press a key I use whichever finger (or thumb) is closest to that key. I've been told that I type very oddly but at 90+ WPM I can live with the strange appearance.
And there are all sorts of other considerations. For instance, I have a webserver that handles a small number of hits, but where each hit is pretty expensive in computing time. I chose a CPU with a small number of fast cores over a larger number of slower cores to optimize page load time. Similarly, I bought smaller-but-faster hard drives over larger-but-slower because I was more interested in quick looks of small files than bulk storage of huge files. A million little decisions like that sometimes make it a lot easier to build to order than to find something premade that would fit the bill.
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Yeah. That was back in the good old days when I was able to carry my pocket knife (which is always with me except when I'm flying now). And when no one threw away my toothpaste for being too large (happened last week). And when the government's website didn't say I could bring 3.4oz bottles but the airport TSA signs said they could only be 3oz. And when the woman carrying a baby standing behind me in line didn't have three separate examiners check out her baby's bottle to make sure it wasn't very liquidy plastique. And when I didn't get a high-energy full-body X-ray followed immediately by a lower body pat down. And when the pat-down agent asked "are you carrying anything in your pockets?", I was too worried about the possibility of an express detour to Gitmo to reply sarcastically, "did your scanner see anything?" And when I didn't watch a foreign exchange student on the edge of tears as she was swabbed down for explosive residue.
Yeah, private screeners let some guys carry knives onto a plane. Strangely, I don't feel a single bit safer for having been through the new "security through intimidation" process.
All kids are like this about homework
No, they're not. Two of my kids are; one isn't. We don't know about the youngest yet because they don't give much homework in preschool. This wasn't the normal "I'd rather be doing something else" behavior.
Learning is not just about enjoyment, I'm afraid.
It's not "just" about enjoyment, but it's a whole hell of a lot about enjoyment. My parents taught me how fun and cool it is to learn new things and that shaped a large part of my life and career. Sometimes learning isn't fun, but if you teach your kids that it simply is not enjoyable and something to be dreaded then you've failed as a parent.
Also, I get nervous at the idea of non-medical people prescribing anything stronger than calpol for their kids.
From your spelling and word choices, I infer you're in the UK or a UK-influenced country. In America, prescriptions are issued solely by licensed medical personnel. Anything you walk into a pharmacy to buy on your own is referred to as "over the counter". That I mentioned a prescription implies that we saw a physician. In this case, it was a pediatric neurologist who knows a lot more about ADD in general (and my children in particular) than you ever will.
Respect for the dead, especially loved ones, and the sensitivity that comes with that, is essential to human societies.
No, it's not. Fred Phelps, Sr. is somebody's loved one, but I reserve the right to smugly welcome his eventual passing and to publicly state that I hope any afterlife of his involves being tormented by gay and lustful demons. Someone who earned no respect in life doesn't magically garner it in dying, and the fact that someone may care about them and mourn their death doesn't change that.
If you can cause other people just as much harm by impersonating their dead daughter as you could by punching them in the face, why treat it differently?
Because physical assault is clear-cut: either you punched someone or you didn't. The findings are limited to determining whether you contacted them and whether it was deliberate or accidental. In contrast, insults are subjective in that they depend on the reaction of the target, and that reaction may change from time to time. The findings involve determining the state of mind of the assailant and in order to calculate whether the verbal assault actually happened.
For instance, suppose I great a coworker each morning with "hey, dumbass!", and he laughs because we're friends and call each other names. One morning, I issue my customary greeting and he flips out: "quit calling me that, jerk! I'm not a dumbass and I'm tired of your insults! I've had enough!" There are two ways to interpret the story: I was being a crude (but harmless) coworker who inadvertently pushed another employee too far and may deserve a letter of reprimand from our boss, or I was being a crude (and malicious) jerk who established a pattern of abusive speech and may deserve prison time.
Please understand that I don't intend to take Duffy's side in any way. His actions were a far cry from my hypothetical example and clearly crossed the line into abusive, despicable behavior. Still, I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of the government issuing prison terms based on hurt feelings. Duffy's case is rather clear-cut but the precedent seems ripe for overzealous application.
On Slashdot, you don't have to be a girl to have large breasts.
What I'm questioning is whether any non-trivial task can really be accomplished using a single application.
Full-screen Emacs. Problem solved.
I haven't reached your august age but I've seen a lot of the same. I knew exactly one kid at school with a food allergy, and she couldn't eat large amounts of chocolate. That was the extent of the allergies my school had to content with.
That said, two of my kids have been diagnosed with ADD (not ADHD). They simply could not concentrate on school stuff. For example, I'd watch my son try to do homework at the kitchen table, and he'd be fine for a little while until a neighborhood dog barked. Maybe the numbers on a clock would change and he'd turn to look at it. He'd work on a few more problems, then start playing the drums with his pencil. He's a good, well-behaved, smart, funny kid but couldn't focus on school stuff unless I physically sat next to him and yelled every time he got distracted. That certainly didn't help his enjoyment of learning.
One day, he was nearly in tears and asked for our help because he'd tried everything and wanted to do better at school but couldn't do it on his own. A prescription for a non-stimulant medication later and his entire workflow changed. He's still the same kid, but is able to knock out his homework in a few minutes before going out to play.
And know what? He's me. I wasn't any better at sitting still and working than he is. I could usually get all my work done before leaving school but I never was good at finishing homework. I wish they'd known more about ADD when I was a kid; I think things would've turned out a lot differently for me. I'm glad I can help my kids work through these problems until they're a little older and we can all work on good coping strategies together. (In my case, I discovered "Getting Things Done" which was a life-changer, but the kids are a little young to start in on it full-scale).
I rather doubt most of these people, but I don't doubt it's possible.
I do, as it'd mean throwing out all of modern physics and starting over with a brand new theory where their claims wouldn't be impossible.
Sorry, Diane, but you are contagious. Just as you learned of this invented disease from someone else, you've undoubtedly passed it along to another hypochondriac. Just because it's not transmitted by biological vectors doesn't mean that it can't spread from person to person.
I'm not an expert by any means, having only been there a couple of times (although most recently last week so it's still fresh in my mind). I'm certain there are parts I missed that are wholly different from my perception and that a local will think, "this guy is an idiot! Hasn't he even heard of [....]?" That said:
Silicon Valley is among the least walkable places I've ever been. The whole time I was there, I saw literally not a single person on foot. If you wanted, you could probably hoof it from your homogenous residential section to the nearby strip mall, but I didn't see anyone doing it.
Better yet, why not bar all forms of golden parachute compensation.
Nice, but by what legal theory do you get to restrict the upper limit of compensation agreements between two private entitities?
Where's "-1: Creepy as hell"?
No offense taken, and I know what you meant. I started that reply with the intent of making it funny but then got derailed halfway through.
Terrorist, authorities, what's the difference in the end?
I've actually seen authorities.
Although mental acuity may be a forbidding factor, a mortician may be a better career for prospective TSA employees.
My dad was a mortician (his license plates read "EMBALM" - seriously). He took great pride in his job of helping survivors through a difficult time and in making the deceased look peaceful and natural. He was a true craftsman when it came to sculpting prosthetic parts such as when a gunshot wound ruined a jaw, or cancer ate a nose. In his day, he was called in to send statesmen and business leaders to their rest.
Hmmm. That ended up a lot more serious than I intended, and he would've teased me for getting so somber about it. The guy with the "EMBALM" plates liked to laugh a lot. Still, morticians tend to be extremely professional and respectful.
I skipped right past TFS and into the inevitable flamewar and never bothered to notice that the blogger in question is Umair Haque, author of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. Haque is unapologetically pro-capitalism, and his book (which I'm reading now) is about the changes needed to make it a permanently-sustainable, society-lifting system without the government having to step in and tear it all apart.
You keep using the word "deserve" as though that's an objective, uncontroversial value. But who decides what someone deserves? Do we all deserve 1 (GDP/population)th of the nation's output? That doesn't work because that kills the incentive for self-improvement. If you want to pay a doctor precisely as much as a janitor, you'll soon find that no one's going to bother with 12 years of post-high-school education to become a doctor. Or maybe compensation should cover a range? In that case, who gets to decide that my contribution to the economy deserves more or less compensation than yours? And thus communism breaks down, because it absolutely mandates strong central planning to resolve those issues (as a roomful of workers will never, ever agree that someone in the room should make more than everyone else).
Because greed exists in human nature and can't be routed around, those planners will feel the irresistible pull of ensuring that their friends and families just happen to be in state-critical, well-compensated jobs. Replace human planning with an algorithm? The programmers (and their friends and families) get rich tailoring the formula. Place them under strict supervision? Then their supervisors (and their friends and families) get rich after instructing the programmers to tailor the formula.
Any system that tries to fight against greed is certain to fail because it only takes a few systemic hackers to game the mechanism and profit. While there clearly need to be checks and balances in a capitalist economy, at least capitalism is built on a plausible sociological theory and not "this will work as long as we have 100% cooperation from every citizen".
Emailing HIPPA documents in not an option and I wouldn't use it even it was.
Not that I doubt you, but I haven't met a pharmacist who couldn't spell HIPAA.
I have never acknowledge a read receipt request in my entire emailing career, on general principle.
That makes a big difference, with email the other party could simply delete the mail and claim they never heard anything from you at all.
Fascinating. You know mailservers keep logs too, right? Here's a trace of an outbound email from this morning:
At 10:52:03 local time (NTP accurate to a couple of milliseconds), an employee sent a 116KB email from their machine on our LAN to our internal mailserver. At 10:52:09, the mailserver received the message back from the virus/spam filter (of course we do egress filtering!). At 10:52:11, the customer's mailserver accepted the message and replied with an acknowledgement that it was received and ready for delivery via the customer's internal mailsystem.
With maillogs, I can testify that an email the exact same size and with the same timestamp as one in our employee's "Sent" folder entered our email system, then was successfully delivered to the customer. With fax logs, I can testify that we called them at such-and-such a time and they didn't hang up for however many seconds, but can't demonstrate that anything of any size was actually transmitted to them.
"Why'd you leave your last job?" "Those guys were assholes and the depression! DemOgrats! Froth-froth-froth!" "Thanks. We'll call you."
That makes no sense whatsoever. Several local schools have fundraisers of selling coupon books to local businesses. My full price lasagna tastes just as good if the guy next to me is using a coupon. The OP's restaurant wasn't giving out discount vouchers; they were selling discount-rate gift certificates. The only unusual twist here is that a lot of people happened to be cashing in their certificates on the same night.
I'm a regular at a few restaurants. My "compensation" is that I can always get a table quickly even on the busiest of nights, and the waiter will bring my usual drink on his/her first trip to my table. Someone else might be paying a few bucks less than me on any given evening, but I'll bet the owner doesn't come by their table to shake their hand and tell them how happy he is to see them, and that he hopes that their family is doing well, and to ask how their kids are (by name).
Fan-freakin'-tastic. Even a cheap USB flash drive makes a huge difference in IOPS. I have a couple of TB of slow storage with a 16GB SSD set up as a L2ARC, and many random access patterns (like "make buildworld") are astoundingly fast once the cache warms up.
My first keyboard, literally, was on a piano. Maybe because of that, I type much like I'd play a song. My hands move to hover over where the most keypresses are happening at that instant, and whenever I need to press a key I use whichever finger (or thumb) is closest to that key. I've been told that I type very oddly but at 90+ WPM I can live with the strange appearance.
And there are all sorts of other considerations. For instance, I have a webserver that handles a small number of hits, but where each hit is pretty expensive in computing time. I chose a CPU with a small number of fast cores over a larger number of slower cores to optimize page load time. Similarly, I bought smaller-but-faster hard drives over larger-but-slower because I was more interested in quick looks of small files than bulk storage of huge files. A million little decisions like that sometimes make it a lot easier to build to order than to find something premade that would fit the bill.