That's good to know. My next questions are going to be.. What's your favorite bar, songs, pics? Who are your friends, and what do they look like? Do you ever mention picking up your child or dropping them off at a given time (in Chat, Email or Voice Mail)? If so, does your employer store this information? Can your employer stop a stranger from getting your GPS information about your home and anywhere you go in a given day? Your employer can only tell you what information about you that it gathers from your phone. I'd ask your employer's IT/Security department how much info they keep, how long, and most importantly, how secure do they store this information of you. It won't be me who busts you out in this post, but if someone were to tell you your life-history in a response to your post, would you be freaked-out? I would. Should you be surprised? You won't now, because I'm telling you. Should you think twice about this arrangement with your boss? Somehow, I think you won't, but I could be wrong.
What if you were a sex worker? Would you be ready at any notice? Never mind, you would like it or not. Some complain of loss of privacy, while others sell yours to the next highest bidder. Capitalism works; it trickles down as long as your mouth is open.
Actually, there is. You're off the clock, so tell em to stay out of your fucking life until I clock in again (get it?). Your employer and you have a business relationship that ends at the end of YOUR work-day, UNLESS they have evidence of behavior that requires you to pee in a coupe owned by the boss, or take a breathalyzer by shoving your tongue down the throat of said boss' wife. Should you be caught on PUBLIC (NOT COMPANY) camera with said boss' girl friend, the company should stay the fuck out of your life, unless you bring her home to mom, and she happens to be in bed with said boss; now that's mixing personal business with professional. In those cases, hire a professional. Otherwise, let him live, and chuck it up to stupidity on your part. As for the tracking part with the phone, that's easy. Forward professional calls to your personal cellphone, tie professional phone call to bosses car, and see where the story goes. Remember, this is a business relationship, not a marriage, but if they insist, you have every right to cheat when you feel weak or they feel cheap.
What happens to his pension plan, if he has one with the company? I mean, he was on the clock when he died, which is about as loyal as you can expect from an employee. Proving his ill intentions in the media is one thing. Negating his pension fund to whomever has legal rights to it is something else. Or is it?
Thank You. I can't say it better than you. I only add, if the horse is red, labelled it red. For those who disagree, I understand that the green crayon tastes the same as the red one, but that's still no excuse. The label should not deny that the crayon is made from your grandmother's hooves, if that's the case. The truth matters; straight from the horse's mouth.
How can you deduce if a comment was sincere, versus a contrary or inflammatory comment for the sake of it? For some, I think, expressing bile is their way of mental exercise, without even realizing that they are trying to weigh the merits of what they say. Without knowing the person ( a context), every comment, pretty much comes out of context, and the trick of the pen versus the trick of deduction always requires further engaging that person in negative and positive arguments. As an earlier poster mentioned, a real troll doesn't respond; they eat popcorn instead.
I agree. Working on the right response to what one perceives as trolling would be a better detector and deterrent.
Some people are simply being contrary for the sake of inflaming an argument, off-topic or not. Others are triggered by an off-subject comment, and have a real emotional tie to the off-subject comment. Perhaps someone like this needs to be simply socially-steered back to the topic.
Someone above this thread suggested hiding a troll's comments, rather than deleting them, allowing them to get the sense that they are being ignored. I think this could be a great social experiment, if trolls weren't always allowed negative responses and being banned. Not everyone who is perceived as someone intending to disrupt the conversation is such a person. We, as a group, have to be smarter than the individual. This would include allowing participants of a topic to "tag" another as a troll without them knowing about it for a day or two. Another approach is to allow only positive responses to the troll's posts, hiding the negative responses, once someone has been trolled. The opposite approach is to allow ONLY excessively negative, inflammatory responses (no intelligent responses), to someone "tagged" by PARTICIPANTS not PROCTORS of the discussion. The boundary of intelligent response and inflammatory, hateful speech needs to needled back out to the individual as a group response, in order for this to work. The simply UP/DOWN flagging doesn't cut it. Humans are non-linear beings, and our ways of rating each other's responses and how we respond to them should also be non-linear. BTW, I agree, detecting a troll through automation is just a form of censorship, and does little to allow the PARTICIPANTS of the topic to deal INTELLIGENTLY with those who's motivation is to disrupt the conversation.
I agree. Every great empire in the ancient world were great because of excellent use of many different fields, such as engineering, military, philosophy, writing, sculpturing, painting, textiles, commerce, shipping, trade, etc. It's also cool how societies borrow from both past societies and the societies with whom they interact. EG: The trade of eastern spices from the silk-road would also bring philosophy and new languages as par for the course.
I've never understood people who think it's their right to steal other people's hard work.
Would it be OK if someone else took over your role in your family, just because they could do so easily?
Granted, it's not easy now, but the future is always one step ahead of you.
Is it OK to replace you as care-giver of your family, simply because it is easy to do,
despite what you do, because others can use your history of good works towards your own family (EASILY) as reasons to why THEY should replace you?
No worries, your logic is soon coming soon, so please continue to support it. *sigh*
First off, I understand that you are NOT siding with pirates, but stating that you think the measure will be ineffectual.
But, for the rest of those reading this, who download songs for free, I have this to say.
Yeah, screw Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones, just because YOU think you have a right to free music and videos.
Why don't you create a song of your own, post it on line for free, and show us your culture?
I tend to think you need the culture of the world to be any good at producing your own "culture".
I agree, and I live in the US. If you vote during the work week, you have a choice of either voting in the morning and showing up late, voting during lunch if your polling place is near you work-place, or voting after you work, which is usually the case for me. Voting after work always results in a mad dash from work to the polling place.
Bitcoin started at low point, relative to the US Dollar.
It has thus risen in value as more people use it. Thus, as bit-coin has rose in use, so has it's value.
Given that the bit-coin rises in value, relative to its use, means that it is a commodity.
Therefore, the term, Bit-coin is both misleading by appearance of its name, and treacherous at heart.
Kill the beast whilst it's still an infant, and it'll rot, as it should, as a dubious jewel,
not unlike fools gold.
Trees and plants display distress through hormones in the soil.
Parent trees also direct baby trees to nutrients they provide through their roots with other hormones.
The whole thing seems weird, because as humans, we've over thought the whole thing, without complete inspection.
The concept of soul is spirit, which is described as the "breath of life" or Atmen in the Egyptian "Book of the Dead".
We don't know the source of this concept; the idea might have been uniquely Egyptian or borrowed from the Babylonians.
We do know that the Babylonians shared ideas with their differing belief systems, that Egyptian rites reflect this in the "Book of the Dead" and that Judaism also has the concept of spirit and soul. However, so does Hinduism, African Animism, and old European paganism.
Religion might be good at describing what happens after you die,
but the judgement of the fundamentalists is better at describing how you die.
If you are having a hard time understanding what hamjudo was saying, read Paper Moon or other stories about con-artists.
Con is short for Confidence, and a con-job is a means to earn someone's confidence long enough to get their money or to dupe them long enough to get away with whatever you took from them. This includes playing the patsy or the dumb crook, when you think you're being tracked by the authorities, the mob or that angry husband.
I don't recommend this life style, but I like reading about what con-jobs worked, how long they lasted, and when were the perps caught. Con-artists are gregarious extroverts with an exuberance for your life, your loves, your interests, and most importantly, your purse.
My experience in life has taught me three things about con-artists.
The first thing is knowing when you've been caught.
The second thing is knowing how to get away with it anyway by admitting to the first lie.
The third thing is remembering the objective; never give back the goods you've taken, hide them well, and spend them well.
Don't even think of considering bit coin as a commodity.
First off, the name, "Coin" is used in the name "Bit Coin" to refer to some form of currency, and is treated as such, thus it is a form of currency.
Secondly, bit-coin doesn't fit the common definitions of commodity: noun
a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee. Another definition of commodity is: an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.
Bit-coin is not a tangible item or article. It is a measure of value in an electronic form, produced by an UNAUTHORIZED entity. In my opinion, anyone who deals with bit-coin should be prosecuted and jailed.
Article 1
Only Congress is allowed to produce any currency, whether it be sticks, stones or electronic currency. Congress elected to use the Federal Reserve Bank as the entity that CONGRESS authorizes to "print" money. Only the monies produced under the authority of Congress can be backed by the Reserve and guaranteed to follow FDIC regulation.
Section 8:
Congress
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures
Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
I will, under no circumstance allow those two spoiled rich-boys de-stablize our monetary system with their idiot schemes. Yea you two doofuses, if it smells like PONZI, it's PONZI. So, kiss off.
Let's try this on you. First, assume that you are NOT a woman; you're a man. Secondly, assume that you're raped as a child. Later in life, you join a mooc or social chat session for something other than sex, say an interest in mathematics or coding in Java. Your proctor is a man and begins chats with you about things OUTSIDE of mathematics or Java. He then sends a photo of himself. He asks you to send your photo. He continues asking for your photo, and tells you repeatedly to engage him in sexual conversation. You shouldn't resist, because there is no reason to not engage sexually. Beside, it's your fault for befriending him. Since you've been victimized sexually in the past, will you be able to resist his continuous requests for sexually explicit photos and conversation? It doesn't matter what your gender is. What matters is if you can stand up to a perp after being a victim in the past. Will you have the courage to not comply to the abuse, or will you give up and comply, allowing the abuse to happen, until you can't take it any more?
What would you do if someone constantly harassed you in your favorite online game? They keep following around, stopping you from accomplishing goals, and gang-up on you with other online players, because they see you as a sheep. How would you stand up to them? BTW. Just quitting the game is not option. That would be cheating, because, remember, this is your favorite game, and you want to play it, despite being harassed. Please let us know how you would stop the harassment.
I also found the search box to be the quickest way to applications and utilities, rather than getting lost in the UI.
Oh, too funny. I almost got the sense that some developers must have insisted that it be put in place. Of course, I don't know this, but I can imagine a group of developers making the search box as a short-cut early on in the development cycle, and then they insisted that it's included in production, because of it's convenience.
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That's good to know. My next questions are going to be.. What's your favorite bar, songs, pics? Who are your friends, and what do they look like? Do you ever mention picking up your child or dropping them off at a given time (in Chat, Email or Voice Mail)? If so, does your employer store this information? Can your employer stop a stranger from getting your GPS information about your home and anywhere you go in a given day? Your employer can only tell you what information about you that it gathers from your phone. I'd ask your employer's IT /Security department how much info they keep, how long, and most importantly, how secure do they store this information of you. It won't be me who busts you out in this post, but if someone were to tell you your life-history in a response to your post, would you be freaked-out? I would. Should you be surprised? You won't now, because I'm telling you. Should you think twice about this arrangement with your boss? Somehow, I think you won't, but I could be wrong.
Then one solution could be to call forward to a personal phone. I'm not defending the tracking, just sayin....
You didn't "forward/disable" the camera or speaker. you are a dumbass.
What if you were a sex worker? Would you be ready at any notice? Never mind, you would like it or not. Some complain of loss of privacy, while others sell yours to the next highest bidder. Capitalism works; it trickles down as long as your mouth is open.
Actually, there is. You're off the clock, so tell em to stay out of your fucking life until I clock in again (get it?). Your employer and you have a business relationship that ends at the end of YOUR work-day, UNLESS they have evidence of behavior that requires you to pee in a coupe owned by the boss, or take a breathalyzer by shoving your tongue down the throat of said boss' wife. Should you be caught on PUBLIC (NOT COMPANY) camera with said boss' girl friend, the company should stay the fuck out of your life, unless you bring her home to mom, and she happens to be in bed with said boss; now that's mixing personal business with professional. In those cases, hire a professional. Otherwise, let him live, and chuck it up to stupidity on your part. As for the tracking part with the phone, that's easy. Forward professional calls to your personal cellphone, tie professional phone call to bosses car, and see where the story goes. Remember, this is a business relationship, not a marriage, but if they insist, you have every right to cheat when you feel weak or they feel cheap.
What happens to his pension plan, if he has one with the company? I mean, he was on the clock when he died, which is about as loyal as you can expect from an employee. Proving his ill intentions in the media is one thing. Negating his pension fund to whomever has legal rights to it is something else. Or is it?
Thank You. I can't say it better than you. I only add, if the horse is red, labelled it red. For those who disagree, I understand that the green crayon tastes the same as the red one, but that's still no excuse. The label should not deny that the crayon is made from your grandmother's hooves, if that's the case. The truth matters; straight from the horse's mouth.
Wow. Send this to the top of the comments, you crazy moderators!
How can you deduce if a comment was sincere, versus a contrary or inflammatory comment for the sake of it? For some, I think, expressing bile is their way of mental exercise, without even realizing that they are trying to weigh the merits of what they say. Without knowing the person ( a context), every comment, pretty much comes out of context, and the trick of the pen versus the trick of deduction always requires further engaging that person in negative and positive arguments. As an earlier poster mentioned, a real troll doesn't respond; they eat popcorn instead.
If it is non-trivial for you to detect a troll, then you're just stupid ;
I agree. Working on the right response to what one perceives as trolling would be a better detector and deterrent. Some people are simply being contrary for the sake of inflaming an argument, off-topic or not. Others are triggered by an off-subject comment, and have a real emotional tie to the off-subject comment. Perhaps someone like this needs to be simply socially-steered back to the topic. Someone above this thread suggested hiding a troll's comments, rather than deleting them, allowing them to get the sense that they are being ignored. I think this could be a great social experiment, if trolls weren't always allowed negative responses and being banned. Not everyone who is perceived as someone intending to disrupt the conversation is such a person. We, as a group, have to be smarter than the individual. This would include allowing participants of a topic to "tag" another as a troll without them knowing about it for a day or two. Another approach is to allow only positive responses to the troll's posts, hiding the negative responses, once someone has been trolled. The opposite approach is to allow ONLY excessively negative, inflammatory responses (no intelligent responses), to someone "tagged" by PARTICIPANTS not PROCTORS of the discussion. The boundary of intelligent response and inflammatory, hateful speech needs to needled back out to the individual as a group response, in order for this to work. The simply UP/DOWN flagging doesn't cut it. Humans are non-linear beings, and our ways of rating each other's responses and how we respond to them should also be non-linear. BTW, I agree, detecting a troll through automation is just a form of censorship, and does little to allow the PARTICIPANTS of the topic to deal INTELLIGENTLY with those who's motivation is to disrupt the conversation.
I agree. Every great empire in the ancient world were great because of excellent use of many different fields, such as engineering, military, philosophy, writing, sculpturing, painting, textiles, commerce, shipping, trade, etc. It's also cool how societies borrow from both past societies and the societies with whom they interact. EG: The trade of eastern spices from the silk-road would also bring philosophy and new languages as par for the course.
Good point. However, imaginary and irrational numbers is a pretty creative way to solve a problem. PI comes to mind.
You are a crack pot. Now, go produce a movie that everyone wants to see, then post it for free. Otherwise, piss off.
I've never understood people who think it's their right to steal other people's hard work.
Would it be OK if someone else took over your role in your family, just because they could do so easily?
Granted, it's not easy now, but the future is always one step ahead of you.
Is it OK to replace you as care-giver of your family, simply because it is easy to do,
despite what you do, because others can use your history of good works towards your own family (EASILY) as reasons to why THEY should replace you?
No worries, your logic is soon coming soon, so please continue to support it. *sigh*
First off, I understand that you are NOT siding with pirates, but stating that you think the measure will be ineffectual.
But, for the rest of those reading this, who download songs for free, I have this to say.
Yeah, screw Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones, just because YOU think you have a right to free music and videos. Why don't you create a song of your own, post it on line for free, and show us your culture? I tend to think you need the culture of the world to be any good at producing your own "culture".
Just saying.
I agree, and I live in the US. If you vote during the work week, you have a choice of either voting in the morning and showing up late, voting during lunch if your polling place is near you work-place, or voting after you work, which is usually the case for me. Voting after work always results in a mad dash from work to the polling place.
Bitcoin started at low point, relative to the US Dollar. It has thus risen in value as more people use it. Thus, as bit-coin has rose in use, so has it's value. Given that the bit-coin rises in value, relative to its use, means that it is a commodity. Therefore, the term, Bit-coin is both misleading by appearance of its name, and treacherous at heart. Kill the beast whilst it's still an infant, and it'll rot, as it should, as a dubious jewel, not unlike fools gold.
Trees and plants display distress through hormones in the soil. Parent trees also direct baby trees to nutrients they provide through their roots with other hormones. The whole thing seems weird, because as humans, we've over thought the whole thing, without complete inspection.
The concept of soul is spirit, which is described as the "breath of life" or Atmen in the Egyptian "Book of the Dead". We don't know the source of this concept; the idea might have been uniquely Egyptian or borrowed from the Babylonians. We do know that the Babylonians shared ideas with their differing belief systems, that Egyptian rites reflect this in the "Book of the Dead" and that Judaism also has the concept of spirit and soul. However, so does Hinduism, African Animism, and old European paganism.
Religion might be good at describing what happens after you die,
but the judgement of the fundamentalists is better at describing how you die.
If you are having a hard time understanding what hamjudo was saying, read Paper Moon or other stories about con-artists.
Con is short for Confidence, and a con-job is a means to earn someone's confidence long enough to get their money or to dupe them long enough to get away with whatever you took from them. This includes playing the patsy or the dumb crook, when you think you're being tracked by the authorities, the mob or that angry husband.
I don't recommend this life style, but I like reading about what con-jobs worked, how long they lasted, and when were the perps caught. Con-artists are gregarious extroverts with an exuberance for your life, your loves, your interests, and most importantly, your purse.
My experience in life has taught me three things about con-artists.
The first thing is knowing when you've been caught.
The second thing is knowing how to get away with it anyway by admitting to the first lie.
The third thing is remembering the objective; never give back the goods you've taken, hide them well, and spend them well.
Don't even think of considering bit coin as a commodity.
First off, the name, "Coin" is used in the name "Bit Coin" to refer to some form of currency, and is treated as such, thus it is a form of currency.
Secondly, bit-coin doesn't fit the common definitions of commodity:
noun a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.
Another definition of commodity is: an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.
Bit-coin is not a tangible item or article. It is a measure of value in an electronic form, produced by an UNAUTHORIZED entity. In my opinion, anyone who deals with bit-coin should be prosecuted and jailed.
Article 1 Only Congress is allowed to produce any currency, whether it be sticks, stones or electronic currency. Congress elected to use the Federal Reserve Bank as the entity that CONGRESS authorizes to "print" money. Only the monies produced under the authority of Congress can be backed by the Reserve and guaranteed to follow FDIC regulation. Section 8: Congress To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. I will, under no circumstance allow those two spoiled rich-boys de-stablize our monetary system with their idiot schemes. Yea you two doofuses, if it smells like PONZI, it's PONZI. So, kiss off.
Let's try this on you. First, assume that you are NOT a woman; you're a man. Secondly, assume that you're raped as a child. Later in life, you join a mooc or social chat session for something other than sex, say an interest in mathematics or coding in Java. Your proctor is a man and begins chats with you about things OUTSIDE of mathematics or Java. He then sends a photo of himself. He asks you to send your photo. He continues asking for your photo, and tells you repeatedly to engage him in sexual conversation. You shouldn't resist, because there is no reason to not engage sexually. Beside, it's your fault for befriending him. Since you've been victimized sexually in the past, will you be able to resist his continuous requests for sexually explicit photos and conversation? It doesn't matter what your gender is. What matters is if you can stand up to a perp after being a victim in the past. Will you have the courage to not comply to the abuse, or will you give up and comply, allowing the abuse to happen, until you can't take it any more? What would you do if someone constantly harassed you in your favorite online game? They keep following around, stopping you from accomplishing goals, and gang-up on you with other online players, because they see you as a sheep. How would you stand up to them? BTW. Just quitting the game is not option. That would be cheating, because, remember, this is your favorite game, and you want to play it, despite being harassed. Please let us know how you would stop the harassment.
I also found the search box to be the quickest way to applications and utilities, rather than getting lost in the UI. Oh, too funny. I almost got the sense that some developers must have insisted that it be put in place. Of course, I don't know this, but I can imagine a group of developers making the search box as a short-cut early on in the development cycle, and then they insisted that it's included in production, because of it's convenience.
Please don't ask Dr. Seuss those questions, nor George Bush Jr., for that matter.