This is the kind of statement made by people who seem to think reading is some difficult chore that people don't want to do, so this will immediately shut up everyone. It always befuddles me. Just because you don't like to read doesn't mean EVERYONE is like that. Of course I've read it multiple times, and will do so again whenever the mood strikes me. If you are unwilling to read up on a topic, you have no business talking about it.
did you know that the constitution says we cannot have a standing army?
Nope. It says no such thing. Which one would think you'd know if you had read the document.
I does have a clause that no Army appropriations can last more than 2 years, the idea of which appears to have been to keep any US Army beholden to (elected) Congress for its continued existence. But in fact it explicitly ALLOWS Congress to create an Army.
The Congress shall have Power To... (long list of other powers)... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Back in the day we used to have killer pokes, that would do things like cause the electron gun to stop sweeping and put a hole in your monitor with a single BASIC ("POKE") instruction. The assembly equivalent of course is the Halt-and-Catch Fire instruction (eg: 0xDD on a M6800).
Nice to see kids with their fancy new fonts can get in on the act with Killer Glyphs.
So, how does this new app compare to the other, Inbox by Gmail?
See, originally there was just Gmail. Its interface was kind of dated though, so a dude at Google on one of those Friday coding sabbaticals they are famous for created something new and fresh; Inbox.
The problem is now that means my Android devices all have two email apps installed on them. Since I have two Android devices I carry with me, that means each email I receive now gives me four notifications. The vast majority of that email is spam of course. The two email tools are good at different things, so even if I could delete the older gmail (I can't), I probably wouldn't want to.
Google has analyzed this situation and come up with the perfect solution: A third email app for my Android devices.
That's stupid. If the game looks interesting, the first thing I look for is the negative reviews. You aren't going to help yourself one iota by trying to "balance" those out, because I'm not going to look at your apple-polishing nonsense.
And yes, I'm quite capable of detecting when the user is just being bitchy, or is complaining about something I don't care about (or has likely been patched in the 2 years since they wrote it). But if 30 users are complaining about the same thing and its something I care about, you probably have a problem. Good luck with your rating padding, though.
Nope, that isn't how they do it. You get a phone interview with a technical person, tied to a Google Doc. They give you a coding puzzle and you implement something (language of your choice, or even pseudo-code. Doesn't matter, since its not being compiled).
I got two of those. IMHO, I knocked the first one out of the park. The second one was a bit tougher, but I think I came up with something useful. As near as I could tell really the main thing they were querying me for was knowledge of things like design impact on O() time behavior and efficiency/maintainability tradeoffs. That's the kind of things the interviewers seem to be asking me about as I went.
But as a guy who's been writing software since his grade-school hobbyist days 40 years ago, if you give me a software design quiz, you really are playing into my strength. Its like giving a strength test to a bodybuilder.
A call from HR seems extremely unlikely.
That was exactly what I thought when I got called. But no, she identified herself as being from HR in Cali (as opposed to the recruiters who made the initial calls to me, who were I believe reported being based in Texas.) I don't remember getting asked a single question by her other than the ones about if I was a manger. And of course a few weeks later I found out Google hired a co-worker of mine from a less intensive software group who was 20 years younger.
You're right that there could be innocent explanations for it. That's the thing about prejudice, there could ALWAYS be some other more innocent explanation for it. Any time a woman gets interrupted, there could be a innocent reason it happened that once. Any time a black guy has trouble getting a bartender's attention, there could be an innocent reason. Its only in aggregate where things become obvious.
Likewise, younger workers have open said on slashdot that older workers "don't fit their culture".
The response to which is of course that if this is the case, your culture is effed, and you should probably work on that. Hiring an older worker or two would be a good start.
FWIW: I'm pretty sure this happened to me a few years back when I was in my late 40's. I got through 2 rounds of technical interviews with no problem, and then got a really weird call from someone at Google HR that appeared to be designed to somehow trick me into saying I'm a manager and don't actually program any more. The problem is that couldn't be farther from the case, so we had this really bizzare dancing conversation about how much coding I do for about 10 minutes, until she apparently heard something she could use and ended the convo. Got my "rejection" letter ("rejection"? You fools called ME) in the mail a week later.
I think the point is that "version" of the game is abandoned.
The release had a bug where only one Paladin could advance their mount quest past a particular mob every server reboot (he didn't respawn right after being killed). By this logic that version is also "abandoned", because they fixed that bug about a week in.
Those were the days! Relogging your stuck Paladin in a panic the instant the server came back from a crash in hopes you could finally play him again... Paladin's really appreciated their mounts back then. Not like you young whippersnappers that just get given yours.
Time was, copyright required not only registering the copyright, but periodically renewing the registration. That kind of scheme would solve a rather lot of problems.
"Evil Trump supporters" should just ask Trump to do it.
The POTUS can declassify anything he wants with an executive order (or occasionally implicitly by just releasing it himself). The FBI is required to follow established procedures, none of which are designed for this kind of situation, and Congress can only do it by passing a law (either with a POTUS signature, or over his veto).
I'd suggest putting an Ad on TV during either Fox and Friends, or Shark Week.
No, the people of the United States of America "own" it. The Executive branch (headed by POTUS) administers it. The only entity in that branch with the authority to unilaterally declassify fresh classified info on a whim is the POTUS. Readjust your "speaks for itself" accordingly.
Ah yes, the traditional leftist approach: "I don't like it, so somebody else force them to stop so I don't have to be inconvenienced."
(sigh) One last time, although I fear this will fall on deaf ears.
Youtube is not the government. They are free to allow or disallow whatever content they want on their own website with their branding at the top, and not allowing bait-and-switch NAZI recruitment (or puppies, if that's their issue) would not be censorship. If puppy-fanciers don't like it, they are FREE to go make puppy-tube, and the government can't stop them.
Does this mean they are finally going to do something about all those people posting Nazi screeds thinly veiled as comic book or movie commentaries? I'm kinda sick of those polluting my searches.
Half their hits are just people who came to argue in their comments, but all those hits just serve to raise the video's profile so innocent searchers have to wade through screens of them to find a legit video. Its just trolling. If Nazis honestly want to recruit, let them go do it on their own Nazitube and leave the rest of us alone please.
With a lot of Democratic votes, IIRC. I'm a registered Democrat myself, but I don't think you can fix the FISA issue with simple party-line politics. This is a PRIMARY problem, more than a general election problem. Whichever party you register with, make sure to support primary candidates who care about this issue. If they don't care, then the path of least resistance is always going to be to avoid being flanked in the next election by someone "tough on terrorisim".
You're talking like every word in there is the God's honest truth. The guy who wrote it is a full-fledged climate-change denying Trump supporter. He could easily have written the same nonsense for Breitbart and released it instantly. However, as head of a House committee he was instead able write his partisan screed under its aegis, get it approved on party line votes, then turn around and play like his own committees' rules are some kind of giant conspiracy of silence.
I'll allow it as long as they're 80's references and look cool.
That's kinda where I am. For a flick like this, the Rule of Cool is The Rule.
However, you may have to be a bit flexible on the 80's too. At least two of the videogame references I saw in the trailer are more from the early 2000's. (DDR and a racing game I can't remember the name of where all the cars flip in unison). So yeah, let that one go too. This is gonna be Spielberg's vehicle, and the rest of us are just gonna have to climb in and try to enjoy whatever weird places he drives us.
STTOS and STTNG were great at showing us a different path. A way of living where, simply, no one cared about race - at least among Earthlings.
You have to realize the time STTOS came out though. In 1966 there were almost NO non WASP characters on television. In 1968 a Presidential candidate was running on a "Segregation Forever" platform, winning 5 states and 46 electoral votes. Only about 50% of Americans at that time approved of women working outside the home.
Merely depicting whites, blacks, women, Asians, Russians, and even aliens in a functional work environment was a radical "social justice" message, and a direct affront to both existing society and social conservative ideology. Doing much more than that would have gotten them thrown off the air. (In fact, the pilot had a female 2nd officer. The network wouldn't allow it because the role involved her giving orders to men).
Michelle Nichols was thinking of quitting after the first season, and Martin Luther King Jr., a man who literally dedicated his life to fighting for Social Justice, personally forbade her from doing so. Told her she was fighting for the cause on TV more than anyone on the streets.
It was simply a completely different world than the America of today. Conservatives HATED the show. So its a pretty good bet that if you're a conservative today and don't like "SJW Trek", you would have never liked trek. You only like it when its so dated its no longer radical.
I don't expect the movie to be anything other than a Ready Player One-flavored movie. The trailers are chock-full of stuff that made 0 appearances in the book. But with Spielberg at the helm it could still be a really entertaining flick.
I'd still encourage reading the book too. Its a great book if you survived the 80's as a nerd, and I highly doubt either it or the movie will spoil the other much.
I've been in a 4 year drought for Dresden Files, which looks to end with a light sprinkle this June with a short story anthology, followed hopefully by the next full installment, Peace Talks, in 2019 or 2020. Dude got divorced, met someone new, and got married in the intervening years, so I guess his personal life wasn't in a good stable place for writing books for my needy self, but still...
Its been an even longer drought in the Heirs of Alexandria series, but the new book All the Plagues of Hell should be arriving in stores just in time for Christmas.
My favorite author Eric Flint reports being about 2/3rds done with the next (third) installment in the Joe's World series too. The second book, Forward the Mage, is one of my favorite novels ever, but many people I show it to can't stand it. Its likely unlike anything else you've ever read (for a small taste, half the book has as a conceit that it was written by a hostile narrator. And that's not even the weird part...).
Movie -wise, of course Black Panther. My current stressor is that nobody appears to be showing it in 3D IMAX (seriously, check Fandango in your area. I found a *single* 3D IMAX showing in LA on 2/17, but none in my hometown, Manhattan, Philly, or anywhere else I checked). Next most interested is Captain Marvel. Besides that we have the whole upcoming Marvel wave of movies.
Netflix, new season of Jessica Jones should drop soon along with all her friends. Hopefully next season Defenders will live up to its promise a bit better, and Iron Fist will be a bit less of a drag on the franchise.
The first Netflix Godzilla flick was really cool, although it was more like Attack on Titan with Godzilla than it was a Godzilla movie. The post-credit scene (make sure you watch that!) held out hope for it upcoming series being more interesting though.
Which brings up Attack on Titan. After a several year hiatus, its second season I believe is currently ongoing. So it should hit Netflix later this year, or early next year at the latest.
Youtube, the new season of Critical Role has just started with all new level-2 characters. Episode 4 I believe will be streaming tonight at 7 Pacific (too late for my old-timey self), and up on Youtube next Monday. At 4+ hours each, that gives you just enough time to listen to the first three eps if you start right now.:-)
Even in places where its legal, there's still an age associated with that. Juvenile arrests in Colorado actually went up in some communities (the ethnic minority ones) after legalization.
Quite. If a human listener cannot trust the phrase "This is not a drill" to be an indicator that this is not a drill, then the phrase itself has no meaning whatsoever and shouldn't be included in either case.
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have you read the constitution?
This is the kind of statement made by people who seem to think reading is some difficult chore that people don't want to do, so this will immediately shut up everyone. It always befuddles me. Just because you don't like to read doesn't mean EVERYONE is like that. Of course I've read it multiple times, and will do so again whenever the mood strikes me. If you are unwilling to read up on a topic, you have no business talking about it.
did you know that the constitution says we cannot have a standing army?
Nope. It says no such thing. Which one would think you'd know if you had read the document.
I does have a clause that no Army appropriations can last more than 2 years, the idea of which appears to have been to keep any US Army beholden to (elected) Congress for its continued existence. But in fact it explicitly ALLOWS Congress to create an Army.
The Congress shall have Power To ... (long list of other powers) ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Back in the day we used to have killer pokes, that would do things like cause the electron gun to stop sweeping and put a hole in your monitor with a single BASIC ("POKE") instruction. The assembly equivalent of course is the Halt-and-Catch Fire instruction (eg: 0xDD on a M6800).
Nice to see kids with their fancy new fonts can get in on the act with Killer Glyphs.
I'll be back to get started on this after I'm done learning to alphabetize all of CNS 11643's 48,027 glyphs....
So, how does this new app compare to the other, Inbox by Gmail?
See, originally there was just Gmail. Its interface was kind of dated though, so a dude at Google on one of those Friday coding sabbaticals they are famous for created something new and fresh; Inbox.
The problem is now that means my Android devices all have two email apps installed on them. Since I have two Android devices I carry with me, that means each email I receive now gives me four notifications. The vast majority of that email is spam of course. The two email tools are good at different things, so even if I could delete the older gmail (I can't), I probably wouldn't want to.
Google has analyzed this situation and come up with the perfect solution: A third email app for my Android devices.
That's stupid. If the game looks interesting, the first thing I look for is the negative reviews. You aren't going to help yourself one iota by trying to "balance" those out, because I'm not going to look at your apple-polishing nonsense.
And yes, I'm quite capable of detecting when the user is just being bitchy, or is complaining about something I don't care about (or has likely been patched in the 2 years since they wrote it). But if 30 users are complaining about the same thing and its something I care about, you probably have a problem. Good luck with your rating padding, though.
Two rounds of face to face interviews?
Nope, that isn't how they do it. You get a phone interview with a technical person, tied to a Google Doc. They give you a coding puzzle and you implement something (language of your choice, or even pseudo-code. Doesn't matter, since its not being compiled).
I got two of those. IMHO, I knocked the first one out of the park. The second one was a bit tougher, but I think I came up with something useful. As near as I could tell really the main thing they were querying me for was knowledge of things like design impact on O() time behavior and efficiency/maintainability tradeoffs. That's the kind of things the interviewers seem to be asking me about as I went.
But as a guy who's been writing software since his grade-school hobbyist days 40 years ago, if you give me a software design quiz, you really are playing into my strength. Its like giving a strength test to a bodybuilder.
A call from HR seems extremely unlikely.
That was exactly what I thought when I got called. But no, she identified herself as being from HR in Cali (as opposed to the recruiters who made the initial calls to me, who were I believe reported being based in Texas.) I don't remember getting asked a single question by her other than the ones about if I was a manger. And of course a few weeks later I found out Google hired a co-worker of mine from a less intensive software group who was 20 years younger.
You're right that there could be innocent explanations for it. That's the thing about prejudice, there could ALWAYS be some other more innocent explanation for it. Any time a woman gets interrupted, there could be a innocent reason it happened that once. Any time a black guy has trouble getting a bartender's attention, there could be an innocent reason. Its only in aggregate where things become obvious.
Likewise, younger workers have open said on slashdot that older workers "don't fit their culture".
The response to which is of course that if this is the case, your culture is effed, and you should probably work on that. Hiring an older worker or two would be a good start.
FWIW: I'm pretty sure this happened to me a few years back when I was in my late 40's. I got through 2 rounds of technical interviews with no problem, and then got a really weird call from someone at Google HR that appeared to be designed to somehow trick me into saying I'm a manager and don't actually program any more. The problem is that couldn't be farther from the case, so we had this really bizzare dancing conversation about how much coding I do for about 10 minutes, until she apparently heard something she could use and ended the convo. Got my "rejection" letter ("rejection"? You fools called ME) in the mail a week later.
Just something for others to compare notes with.
I think the point is that "version" of the game is abandoned.
The release had a bug where only one Paladin could advance their mount quest past a particular mob every server reboot (he didn't respawn right after being killed). By this logic that version is also "abandoned", because they fixed that bug about a week in.
Those were the days! Relogging your stuck Paladin in a panic the instant the server came back from a crash in hopes you could finally play him again... Paladin's really appreciated their mounts back then. Not like you young whippersnappers that just get given yours.
Time was, copyright required not only registering the copyright, but periodically renewing the registration. That kind of scheme would solve a rather lot of problems.
People don't trust CNN, MSNBC, etc because they say things that don't help my favorite political party fucking constantly
FTFY
Give me your address and I'll be right over to scroll your browser up and down a bit for you.
"Evil Trump supporters" should just ask Trump to do it.
The POTUS can declassify anything he wants with an executive order (or occasionally implicitly by just releasing it himself). The FBI is required to follow established procedures, none of which are designed for this kind of situation, and Congress can only do it by passing a law (either with a POTUS signature, or over his veto).
I'd suggest putting an Ad on TV during either Fox and Friends, or Shark Week.
No, the people of the United States of America "own" it. The Executive branch (headed by POTUS) administers it. The only entity in that branch with the authority to unilaterally declassify fresh classified info on a whim is the POTUS. Readjust your "speaks for itself" accordingly.
Ah yes, the traditional leftist approach: "I don't like it, so somebody else force them to stop so I don't have to be inconvenienced."
(sigh) One last time, although I fear this will fall on deaf ears.
Youtube is not the government. They are free to allow or disallow whatever content they want on their own website with their branding at the top, and not allowing bait-and-switch NAZI recruitment (or puppies, if that's their issue) would not be censorship. If puppy-fanciers don't like it, they are FREE to go make puppy-tube, and the government can't stop them.
Does this mean they are finally going to do something about all those people posting Nazi screeds thinly veiled as comic book or movie commentaries? I'm kinda sick of those polluting my searches.
Half their hits are just people who came to argue in their comments, but all those hits just serve to raise the video's profile so innocent searchers have to wade through screens of them to find a legit video. Its just trolling. If Nazis honestly want to recruit, let them go do it on their own Nazitube and leave the rest of us alone please.
Rep Nunes has the reputation, even within his own party, of being a bumbling Inspector Clouseau type of investigator
Leave it to Republicans to put the most incompetent guy available IN CHARGE of a committee.
Is LiDAR really a revolutionary technology at this point?
No, but using it for the purposes of Archeology is pretty new. The first such uses I know of were only 6 years ago.
With a lot of Democratic votes, IIRC. I'm a registered Democrat myself, but I don't think you can fix the FISA issue with simple party-line politics. This is a PRIMARY problem, more than a general election problem. Whichever party you register with, make sure to support primary candidates who care about this issue. If they don't care, then the path of least resistance is always going to be to avoid being flanked in the next election by someone "tough on terrorisim".
You're talking like every word in there is the God's honest truth. The guy who wrote it is a full-fledged climate-change denying Trump supporter. He could easily have written the same nonsense for Breitbart and released it instantly. However, as head of a House committee he was instead able write his partisan screed under its aegis, get it approved on party line votes, then turn around and play like his own committees' rules are some kind of giant conspiracy of silence.
I'll allow it as long as they're 80's references and look cool.
That's kinda where I am. For a flick like this, the Rule of Cool is The Rule.
However, you may have to be a bit flexible on the 80's too. At least two of the videogame references I saw in the trailer are more from the early 2000's. (DDR and a racing game I can't remember the name of where all the cars flip in unison). So yeah, let that one go too. This is gonna be Spielberg's vehicle, and the rest of us are just gonna have to climb in and try to enjoy whatever weird places he drives us.
STTOS and STTNG were great at showing us a different path. A way of living where, simply, no one cared about race - at least among Earthlings.
You have to realize the time STTOS came out though. In 1966 there were almost NO non WASP characters on television. In 1968 a Presidential candidate was running on a "Segregation Forever" platform, winning 5 states and 46 electoral votes. Only about 50% of Americans at that time approved of women working outside the home.
Merely depicting whites, blacks, women, Asians, Russians, and even aliens in a functional work environment was a radical "social justice" message, and a direct affront to both existing society and social conservative ideology. Doing much more than that would have gotten them thrown off the air. (In fact, the pilot had a female 2nd officer. The network wouldn't allow it because the role involved her giving orders to men).
Michelle Nichols was thinking of quitting after the first season, and Martin Luther King Jr., a man who literally dedicated his life to fighting for Social Justice, personally forbade her from doing so. Told her she was fighting for the cause on TV more than anyone on the streets.
It was simply a completely different world than the America of today. Conservatives HATED the show. So its a pretty good bet that if you're a conservative today and don't like "SJW Trek", you would have never liked trek. You only like it when its so dated its no longer radical.
I'd still encourage reading the book too. Its a great book if you survived the 80's as a nerd, and I highly doubt either it or the movie will spoil the other much.
I've been in a 4 year drought for Dresden Files, which looks to end with a light sprinkle this June with a short story anthology, followed hopefully by the next full installment, Peace Talks, in 2019 or 2020. Dude got divorced, met someone new, and got married in the intervening years, so I guess his personal life wasn't in a good stable place for writing books for my needy self, but still ...
Its been an even longer drought in the Heirs of Alexandria series, but the new book All the Plagues of Hell should be arriving in stores just in time for Christmas.
My favorite author Eric Flint reports being about 2/3rds done with the next (third) installment in the Joe's World series too. The second book, Forward the Mage, is one of my favorite novels ever, but many people I show it to can't stand it. Its likely unlike anything else you've ever read (for a small taste, half the book has as a conceit that it was written by a hostile narrator. And that's not even the weird part...).
Movie -wise, of course Black Panther. My current stressor is that nobody appears to be showing it in 3D IMAX (seriously, check Fandango in your area. I found a *single* 3D IMAX showing in LA on 2/17, but none in my hometown, Manhattan, Philly, or anywhere else I checked). Next most interested is Captain Marvel. Besides that we have the whole upcoming Marvel wave of movies.
Netflix, new season of Jessica Jones should drop soon along with all her friends. Hopefully next season Defenders will live up to its promise a bit better, and Iron Fist will be a bit less of a drag on the franchise.
The first Netflix Godzilla flick was really cool, although it was more like Attack on Titan with Godzilla than it was a Godzilla movie. The post-credit scene (make sure you watch that!) held out hope for it upcoming series being more interesting though.
Which brings up Attack on Titan. After a several year hiatus, its second season I believe is currently ongoing. So it should hit Netflix later this year, or early next year at the latest.
Youtube, the new season of Critical Role has just started with all new level-2 characters. Episode 4 I believe will be streaming tonight at 7 Pacific (too late for my old-timey self), and up on Youtube next Monday. At 4+ hours each, that gives you just enough time to listen to the first three eps if you start right now. :-)
Even in places where its legal, there's still an age associated with that. Juvenile arrests in Colorado actually went up in some communities (the ethnic minority ones) after legalization.
Quite. If a human listener cannot trust the phrase "This is not a drill" to be an indicator that this is not a drill, then the phrase itself has no meaning whatsoever and shouldn't be included in either case.