Isn't it bad enough we have rich people influencing our politics, now we have to worry about rich people influencing our justice system (more than they already do)?
As a clinically depressed person... My Instagram feed has a variety of photos with varying degrees of saturation, hues, and taken at various times of the day.
Management (Who usually don't do the work, or even understand the work. Not only IT, any field from IT to janitorial) always wants to outsource because they think it'll save money. It nearly never saves money, and the service usually ends up being well below what is expected or existed previously.
Sometimes the bottom line isn't the bottom line.
This is the biggest betrayal of modern media. Offer no ads, for a price, then renege on the deal. Cable TV, Public Radio, Public Television, and now streaming services.
More of American business pushing the profit envelope. It's not enough to make a profit, you gotta extort every fucking penny you possibly can out of consumers. Break promises, lie, cheat, steal.
As a man, I'm appalled and dismayed to see all the bile aimed at women. Whether it's gaming, or politics, or entertainment, there's this poisonous aggression towards women that's disturbing as fuck.
Seriously, dudes, what the fuck are you so afraid of?
I reserve my aggression for reaction to physical threats, not insecurity about my manhood.
"One day you will meet a not so nice Christian who might punch your teeth down your throat."
My impression is most Christians seem like they want to punch someone's teeth down their throat because that non-Christian, or less insanely fanatical Christian, doesn't believe in exactly the same Destructo-Jesus that Punchy does.
But Punchy forgets, even non-right-wing, non-Christians can be armed and/or aggressively willing to defend their own beliefs and rights.
Where I live, we're supposedly #4 in road rage in the country. I can see why. It's the Wild West on the streets and expressways. You'd practically have to crash into a cop car screaming "Allahu Ackbar" in order to get a ticket around here.
Shit, if cops issued tickets for reckless driving, the local court system would be awash in cases.
I don't know what the fuck the cops are spending their time on, but it certainly isn't traffic law enforcement. Believe me, stoners are the least of our worries. They might be a danger to the insanely aggressively-stupid drivers in that they're going the speed limit or lower ('cause they're stoned, maaan), and these dipshits texting, and driving aggressively (and/or drunk) might rear-end them.
I'm so sick of hearing people cry about paying into society. You want infrastructure? You want the CDC, NIH, EPA, DOT, FDA, etc., you pay taxes. You want civilization, you pay taxes.
Crybaby tax-dodgers, from all levels of the economy, are the one of the main reasons we so many problems in the U.S., along with the anti-regulators.
I'm not sure about Dunbal, but I'm pretty sure NdGT peed in my Cheerios. Somebody did! And who better to blame than that Pluto denier, Neil deGrasse Tyson. He'll pay when our Alien Overlords take their rightful place at the side of Earth Emperor Donald Trump! Confound it!
I find it remarkable that I grew up in a major metropolitan city (in which handguns were illegal), within the city limits, and lived in many sketchy neighborhoods, and I never felt the need for a gun. Yet many of these gun nuts live in the suburbs and rural areas where the crime rate is vastly lower, and they act like they're facing a goddamned war zone when they have to run over to Walmart to pick up some diapers.
You can do all you want (legally), I'm still gonna get your gun. You gotta sleep sometime. And then I'm gonna sneak into your bedroom and steal it out from under your pillow (illegally). I might also draw a dick on your forehead in Sharpie.
(I actually don't want your gun. I have my own. And I'm not paranoid about the "libruls" trying to take it away from me. Vote Bernie!)
As a web/system administrator, I would never call myself a coder. A programmer. I've fooled around with coding a bit, and written some shell scripts and SQL, but I wouldn't consider myself a programmer.
In fact, I wouldn't call even the most hot shit web designer using HTML & CSS coders. Unless they're writing their own original JavaScript scripts.
That said, even if you don't like math, you can learn enough to do some programming. You may even learn to love math after the fact.
"I'd be happy if folks would just bother to use their blinkers, instead of fiddling around with other hi-tech in their cars."
I'd be happy if people would go forward when the light changes so I can get through the intersection before the light turns red again. instead of texting, or updating Facebook, or whatever the fuck they're doing with their stupid phones.
It's not just a joke, it's an insult to every worker in the U.S. This company should have been closed down. Shuttered. Its executives should go to jail. Its assets should be liquidated.
If the company is so ethically-challenged as to blatantly disregard U.S. labor laws, what else would they be willing to do to make a profit?
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"Jar Jar Abrams"?! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's awesome! I'm stealing that. Er, I'm quoting you!.
Books. Paper books. For every serious e-book, make sure it's backed up with at least a limited printing.
Support your local library.
"And even with that data, Siri gets trained with a massive farm of GPUs running 24/7 -- but how can the open source community replicate that?"
Isn't it bad enough we have rich people influencing our politics, now we have to worry about rich people influencing our justice system (more than they already do)?
As a clinically depressed person... My Instagram feed has a variety of photos with varying degrees of saturation, hues, and taken at various times of the day.
Management (Who usually don't do the work, or even understand the work. Not only IT, any field from IT to janitorial) always wants to outsource because they think it'll save money. It nearly never saves money, and the service usually ends up being well below what is expected or existed previously. Sometimes the bottom line isn't the bottom line.
Just give 'em your MySpace ID.
This is the biggest betrayal of modern media. Offer no ads, for a price, then renege on the deal. Cable TV, Public Radio, Public Television, and now streaming services.
More of American business pushing the profit envelope. It's not enough to make a profit, you gotta extort every fucking penny you possibly can out of consumers. Break promises, lie, cheat, steal.
And consumers continue to put up with it.
There's a "hot babes in jail" series? Oh, maybe you mean OITNB. That's just women in jail. It's pretty good actually.
As a man, I'm appalled and dismayed to see all the bile aimed at women. Whether it's gaming, or politics, or entertainment, there's this poisonous aggression towards women that's disturbing as fuck.
Seriously, dudes, what the fuck are you so afraid of?
I reserve my aggression for reaction to physical threats, not insecurity about my manhood.
"One day you will meet a not so nice Christian who might punch your teeth down your throat."
My impression is most Christians seem like they want to punch someone's teeth down their throat because that non-Christian, or less insanely fanatical Christian, doesn't believe in exactly the same Destructo-Jesus that Punchy does.
But Punchy forgets, even non-right-wing, non-Christians can be armed and/or aggressively willing to defend their own beliefs and rights.
How about we enforce traffic law in general?
Where I live, we're supposedly #4 in road rage in the country. I can see why. It's the Wild West on the streets and expressways. You'd practically have to crash into a cop car screaming "Allahu Ackbar" in order to get a ticket around here.
Shit, if cops issued tickets for reckless driving, the local court system would be awash in cases.
I don't know what the fuck the cops are spending their time on, but it certainly isn't traffic law enforcement. Believe me, stoners are the least of our worries. They might be a danger to the insanely aggressively-stupid drivers in that they're going the speed limit or lower ('cause they're stoned, maaan), and these dipshits texting, and driving aggressively (and/or drunk) might rear-end them.
Seriously, so many tickets...
Aw, quit whining about taxes.
I'm so sick of hearing people cry about paying into society. You want infrastructure? You want the CDC, NIH, EPA, DOT, FDA, etc., you pay taxes. You want civilization, you pay taxes.
Crybaby tax-dodgers, from all levels of the economy, are the one of the main reasons we so many problems in the U.S., along with the anti-regulators.
I'm not sure about Dunbal, but I'm pretty sure NdGT peed in my Cheerios. Somebody did! And who better to blame than that Pluto denier, Neil deGrasse Tyson. He'll pay when our Alien Overlords take their rightful place at the side of Earth Emperor Donald Trump! Confound it!
I dunno, why does they?
Why are gun nuts so fearful?
I find it remarkable that I grew up in a major metropolitan city (in which handguns were illegal), within the city limits, and lived in many sketchy neighborhoods, and I never felt the need for a gun. Yet many of these gun nuts live in the suburbs and rural areas where the crime rate is vastly lower, and they act like they're facing a goddamned war zone when they have to run over to Walmart to pick up some diapers.
What a bunch of chicken-shits.
You can do all you want (legally), I'm still gonna get your gun. You gotta sleep sometime. And then I'm gonna sneak into your bedroom and steal it out from under your pillow (illegally). I might also draw a dick on your forehead in Sharpie.
(I actually don't want your gun. I have my own. And I'm not paranoid about the "libruls" trying to take it away from me. Vote Bernie!)
'Sachs calls augmented reality and virtual reality "the next generation computing platform"'
Blah blah blah... That's what that hippy with the dreadlocks used to say back in the 90s.
I see this crap all the time in my neighborhood. People seem to think traffic regulations don't apply *to them*. Entitlement is ubiquitous.
Cloud seeding has been used to attempt to modify weather for decades. It's just not that effective.
As a web/system administrator, I would never call myself a coder. A programmer. I've fooled around with coding a bit, and written some shell scripts and SQL, but I wouldn't consider myself a programmer.
In fact, I wouldn't call even the most hot shit web designer using HTML & CSS coders. Unless they're writing their own original JavaScript scripts.
That said, even if you don't like math, you can learn enough to do some programming. You may even learn to love math after the fact.
Go Victoria!
"I'd be happy if folks would just bother to use their blinkers, instead of fiddling around with other hi-tech in their cars."
I'd be happy if people would go forward when the light changes so I can get through the intersection before the light turns red again. instead of texting, or updating Facebook, or whatever the fuck they're doing with their stupid phones.
Dammit! And me with no mod points.
It's not just a joke, it's an insult to every worker in the U.S. This company should have been closed down. Shuttered. Its executives should go to jail. Its assets should be liquidated.
If the company is so ethically-challenged as to blatantly disregard U.S. labor laws, what else would they be willing to do to make a profit?
And if anyone's fear-mongering here, it's you. Besides just being nuts.
Porn. He means porn.