Anyone with half a brain is neither liberal or conservative. They're looking at the situation at hand and deciding the best way of handling it versus referring to some sort of football play-book handed to them by party leaders.
Right. And if I use my own judgement instead of taking the party's recommendations, and if I recommend that others do the same, then I won't think that someone who thinks differently from me is a traitor to the party, or to the cause, or whatever.
The other difference is, the other conservatives are too fucking stupid, with their heads buried so far up their asses, they can't see what they've become.
There are all sort of conservatives - not just the extremes and "the other conservatives". For example, I'm a moderate conservative; I'm a mixture of liberal and conservative.
Like a liberal, - I'm concerned about the environment, - I think we should get our military out of the Middle East, - I believe in gun control, - I think what consenting adults do in the bedroom is their own business, and - I think people should reach out and help each other. - Also back in the 1970s, liberals were concerned about overpopulation. I haven't heard warnings about overpopulation for a long time, but I'm worried about it.
But like a conservative, - I believe in a balanced national budget with no national debt, - small and efficient national and local governments, and - local control of schools. - I also believe in taking people as an individual as much as possible, in contrast to "identity" classifications based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. I don't think people should act a certain way, or refrain from "cultural appropriation" because of their race or gender. - I don't hate people who are different from me.
I wasn't happy with the choices we had for president. I voted for Trump because I didn't want the Clintons back in the White House.
Some of my conservative friends and family members were more conservative than I, and some were more liberal. So there's a big range of conservative viewpoints.
still better than not-elected dictatorship, a.k.a. U.S.A./Trump
We need to replace the Electoral College system with a popular vote for a President/Vice President (P/VP) pair of candidates. Have the vote in October, so that there will be time for a runoff vote in December, if necessary.
If there are more than two P/VP pairs of candidates on the October ballot, and if no P/VP pair gets at lest 50% of the vote, then in December, do a runoff vote of the two P/VP candidate pairs who won the most votes in October.
There probably won't be tie votes, with the top or second P/VP pairs getting the same number of votes. But if that happens, then let the US House of Representatives break the tie vote. If there's a tie in the House, then let the Senate vote. If that's a tie, then let the current Vice President vote to break the tie.
That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.
I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:
1) A British Transport Police officer didn't have a gun. Instead of running away, he fought the terrorists with his baton.
2) As people were escaping out of the back of a restaurant, a woman stayed at the front of the restaurant. She stayed there to block the front door closed with her body, as the terrorists were trying to force their way in. Her blocking the door saved about 20 people, by giving them time to escape. After the terrorists overpowered here and forced their way in, she was able to escape.
I sometimes wonder how unselfishly brave I would be, if I were in a situation like that. I hope I'd unselfishly brave, like those two people.
CSM has recently switched to be completely behind a paywall, as well.
Just now I went to csmonitor.com, with JavaScript enabled in my browser. On that web page, there are some links to Monitor articles. Near the bottom of the page, there is a grey "Show More" button. If you click it, more links to articles appear at the bottom of the web page. I clicked that button 3 times, then clicked on a link to an article. This article appeared. I was able to see the entire article. So I don't think you have to subscribe to the Monitor to read its articles.
I just wish that in their articles (like the one that I referenced), they'd use responsive web design, and put in more than one column if the screen's width is large enough to be a laptop.
Is the holster joke the only bad thing about Colbert's monologue? How about the the overall contempt and personal attacks? Here are a few:
You’re not the POTUS; you’re the ‘BLOTUS.’
You’re the glutton with the button.
You’re a regular ‘Gorge Washington.’
You talk like a sign-language gorilla that got hit in the head.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c*ck holster.
The only thing smaller than your hands are your tax returns and you can take that any way you want.
And Colbert treated Stephen Miller even worse - he made "jokes" about Miller being killed. In a video clip that contains superimposed heads of Miller,
he [Miller] is electrocuted, bashed in the head with a baseball bat, and decapitated. One of the scenes Miller is added to is from the HBO series Game of Thrones, and mirrors a controversial scene where the show’s creators placed former President George W. Bush’s head on a spike.
Can you imagine anyone making "jokes" like that about any other president or his advisors? I didn't like Obama's actions in his second term, but if anyone had made "jokes" like that against Obama or his advisors personally, I would have told him they weren't funny.
If Colbert doesn't like Trump's policies and actions, fine. I don't like some of them either. Colbert should make jokes that criticize Trump's policies. Maybe joke about the Obamacare replacement bill. Attack his policies, not the man personally.
As the RollingStone article says, after the backlash against Colbert's homo joke, Colbert talked about love: "... life is short, and anyone who expresses their love for another person, in their own way, is to me, an American hero." That sounds good. Let's see more brotherly love or kindness in Colbert's monologues in the future.
I switched to Macs partly because of AppleScript, and AppleScript is the main reason that I'm sticking with Macs. Back in 1999, Apple's website had a good description of AppleScript, as well as a tutorial on it. As I read the description and tutorial, I decided to get an iMac, so that I could use AppleScript.
AppleScript is a small scripting language that's built into the Mac OS. Besides the usual programming language stuff, it can also send commands to an application, telling the app to - modify a document's content (including its formatting data), - return the document's content to the script, or - do a non-IO action such as displaying a JavaScript alert.
For example, an AppleScript can 1) read the contents of a Numbers spreadsheet, then 2) send the spreadsheet data to Safari, and tell Safari to display the data.
AppleScript can also speak in different voices, including speaking into a sound file. And it can listen for one of several words that you give it (ex: "yes" or "no"), then take action based on which word you speak. But the main reason I need AppleScript is its ability to send commands to apps.
Oops, sorry - I listed the wrong Amazon web page URL. The one that I listed was for the AWN432S. I got the AWN432SP. Its web page is here.
If you get an AWN432SP, then I suggest you -not- get it through Amazon. All of the 1-star Amazon reviewers were for "Verified Purchase" washers - i.e., they were bought via Amazon.
Yes, as the Amazon web page says, "The full tub wash & rinse feature fills the entire tub with water . ..". However, some Amazon reviewers have written that because of some law, Speed Queen would soon have to make washers that use less water. I don't know if that's true. An appliance salesperson should be able to tell you. They don't seem to sell their machines from regular department stores like Sears. Their list of where to buy their machines seems to list only appliance stores. (Or you can get one through Amazon.)
Before you wash your first load in a new Speed Queen washer, you'll probably have to clean out a thin film of oil that's in the tub. You don't see the oil, but if you wipe a paper towel on the inside of the tub, you'll see that the towel has collected a little bit of grease. The Speed Queen customer service rep recommended Simple Green for the cleaning. (You only have to clean the tub once.)
Other than that, I like the washer. One nice feature is that when it's doing a spin dry, the washer is very stable. I can barely feel it moving back and forth. Also if you want to sanitize some clothes, you can set the wash temperature to "hot", and the wash water will be very hot. (The rinse temperature is always cold, though.)
Even my old-fashioned top loader (Speed Queen) came from the factory with a laughably low water fill to meet EPA regulations. Fortunately this is fixed with a simple adjustment.
Last September, I got a Speed Queen top-load washer with manual controls (AWN432). I set the "LOAD SIZE" dial to Medium or higher, and it there's plenty of water in the tub.
In another post, you say you're thinking of getting another washer. Before you buy it, I suggest you try different types of washers at the laundromat, to see what you like.
Before I bought my washer, I used a top-load washer and front-load washer at the laundromat. The top-loader worked fine (as does the one that I bought). But I didn't like the front-loader. For one thing, I couldn't open the washing machine's door when there was water in the machine, because some water would have leaked out. Also the final spin was very fast. When I took my clothes out of the machine, they were almost dry, but they were wrinkled. (I don't remember if I used a "delicate" or "heavy duty" cycle.)
People's preferences vary. You can try different machines, and see what works for you.
This month I might re-read "The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History", by Michael H. Hart. Hart chose the 100 people who, in his opinion, influenced mankind the most. Then in his book, he takes them one by one and tells who that person was, what they did, and why the author ranked that person higher than some and lower than others.
Sometimes you agree with the author, and sometimes you don't. But it's a lot of fun to read.
Require SW developer applicants to submit two pieces of code that they wrote:
1) A program that you assign each applicant. (This gives you a way to compare applicants.)
2) A project of their own choosing. (This code lets the applicant show off what their strong points are.)
And if your company has a way for users to submit bug reports to your company, then ask every IT applicant this: "Have you submitted bug reports to our company, regarding our products? If so, then what identifier (user name, email address etc.) did you use when you submitted them?" Then check that person's bug reports.
1) Did the bug reports demonstrate a knowledge of your company's product?
2) Were the bug reports well written? Do they indicate clear thinking, and the ability to see things from another person's point of view (the point of view of the person reading the bug report, who is trying to understand it)?
3) Were the bug reports polite or abusive? Would you want to work with this person?
Languages change. 500 years from now, will people be able to understand our current writing?
For the languages of the data that is stored in Norway, I suggest that they store a dictionary in those languages.
They should also store books on how to learn those languages. They might store books like the ones I used when I studied German in high school. Those books were completely in German. In the beginner's book, the first page had a small red rectangle, a small blue rectangle, and a small green rectangle, etc. Next to each rectangle was the German word for that color. So we learned those colors in German. Then the book showed the picture of hands pointing to rectangles of various colors. Next to them were the German words for "This is red.", or "This is blue.", etc. So we learned how to make those simple sentences. Then the book built on that, making the sentences more complicated, and introducing more words.
The first thing to do is to find out where the money is going, and publicize the numbers. One thing we should know is how much money colleges spend on things that don't have anything to do with education. For example, apparently at the University of Arizona,
Jesus Trevino, the university’s Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, is paid $214,000 per year to develop diversity and inclusion themed programming for the community and instructional material for the faculty.
Really, how many documented cases of speakers being prevented can you provide? How many injuries? How many hospitalizations?
Here are a few:
(1) Berkeley riots, which injured people, and caused the university to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos:
The university insists that it made elaborate preparations for protests. It canceled the speech only after what it called an “unprecedented” invasion of the campus by “more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black” who engaged in violent, destructive behavior. They hurled metal barricades, threw Molotov cocktails and smashed windows at the student union.
The event was cancelled after left-wing rioters, who the university claim were not students, smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, set fires in the street, and sprayed the words “Kill Trump” on storefronts.
Video was posted showing violent leftists chasing and beating a man with sticks. The man appears unconscious in the street as they beat him.
(2) A speech at Middlebury College was severely disrupted by protesters. After the speech, when the speaker and Professor Allison Stanger left, they were attacked, and Prof. Stnager's neck was injured:
Then I went onstage, got halfway through my first sentence, and the uproar began.
First came a shouted recitation in unison of what I am told is a piece by James Baldwin. I couldn’t follow the words. That took a few minutes. Then came the chanting. . .. This went on for about twenty minutes. . .. Professor Stanger and I were led out of the hall to the improvised studio. . .. Then there was the sound of shouting outside, followed by loud banging on the wall of the building. . . . Then a fire alarm went off, which was harder to compete with. . .. We finished around 6:45 and prepared to leave the building . . . I didn’t see it happen, but someone grabbed Allison’s hair just as someone else shoved her from another direction, damaging muscles, tendons, and fascia in her neck.
There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck,” he said. . . . After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.
(3) About 600 people protested the immigration ban at the Portland Airport. There was a 4-person counter-protest:
One of the counter-demonstrators was assaulted just after 5 p.m., Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson said.
Grant Chisholm, 39 of Portland told The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he was at the airport with three other members of the group Bible Believers for a counter-protest when a Trump opponent hit him in the head three times with something metallic. Chisholm dropped and drifted in and out of unconsciousness, he said, while vomiting a
"The reactionaries were further applauding Mexico dumping 150 million tons of sewage claiming that the US deserved it for wanting control of it's own borders."
Haven't heard that one. Valid link?
This is an article on the sewage spill. The article is called "'Tsunami of sewage spills' in Tijuana fouls U.S. beaches, may have been intentional".
A massive sewage spill in Tijuana that polluted beaches in San Diego County last month may have been no accident, according to state and local officials.
In a preliminary estimate, officials said about 143 million gallons of raw sewage spewed into the Tijuana River during a period of more than two weeks that ended Thursday. While cross-border sewage spills of a few million gallons are routine for the region, this is one of the largest such events in the last two decades, according to water quality experts in San Diego.
I voted for Trump, and I'm *not* giving Pence a free pass on this. One reason that I voted for Trump was because of H. Clinton's carelessness with security, using her personal mail server. This, and carelessness with phone security, are just as bad.
I'm not for a particular party or politician. I'm for the US. I want conversations "including issues related to homeland security" to be secure, no matter who the politician is.
Once I was flying to southern California. Before my plane could take off, it had to sit at the originating airport for about an hour. There was a power failure in southern California, and because of the power outage, the airports there couldn't accept incoming planes. I don't know the details, but apparently not only some primary power equipment failed, but also both backup systems failed.
Regarding the weather website:
Hickman said two core routers for transmitting information from the Weather Service offices out to satellites, which beam the information back to public service providers, had stopped working. "There is a primary and a backup and both have failed," Hickman said. . . . Hickman added that another backup system known as the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) was also not operating.
The article also states that they were doing "dissemination upgrades", and that in about a year, the system would be reliable, with "full backup capacity".
I hope during and after the upgrade, their attitude is not, "if we check off some boxes of to-do lists, then we've done our job". I hope their attitude is, "My job is to keep the systems up. If the systems go down, then I have failed." People's lives can depend on weather forecasts.
I voted for Trump, because I can't stand the Clintons. I'm not for Trump, or for the Republican party. I'm for the US - I want good government.
So even though I agree with most of Trump's positions, I'm glad that the Democrats and the press point out the ways that Trump messes up, like selecting a national security adviser who can be blackmailed. We have to correct problems like that.
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Anyone with half a brain is neither liberal or conservative. They're looking at the situation at hand and deciding the best way of handling it versus referring to some sort of football play-book handed to them by party leaders.
Right. And if I use my own judgement instead of taking the party's recommendations, and if I recommend that others do the same, then I won't think that someone who thinks differently from me is a traitor to the party, or to the cause, or whatever.
The other difference is, the other conservatives are too fucking stupid, with their heads buried so far up their asses, they can't see what they've become.
There are all sort of conservatives - not just the extremes and "the other conservatives". For example, I'm a moderate conservative; I'm a mixture of liberal and conservative.
Like a liberal,
- I'm concerned about the environment,
- I think we should get our military out of the Middle East,
- I believe in gun control,
- I think what consenting adults do in the bedroom is their own business, and
- I think people should reach out and help each other.
- Also back in the 1970s, liberals were concerned about overpopulation. I haven't heard warnings about overpopulation for a long time, but I'm worried about it.
But like a conservative,
- I believe in a balanced national budget with no national debt,
- small and efficient national and local governments, and
- local control of schools.
- I also believe in taking people as an individual as much as possible, in contrast to "identity" classifications based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. I don't think people should act a certain way, or refrain from "cultural appropriation" because of their race or gender.
- I don't hate people who are different from me.
I wasn't happy with the choices we had for president. I voted for Trump because I didn't want the Clintons back in the White House.
Some of my conservative friends and family members were more conservative than I, and some were more liberal. So there's a big range of conservative viewpoints.
still better than not-elected dictatorship, a.k.a. U.S.A./Trump
We need to replace the Electoral College system with a popular vote for a President/Vice President (P/VP) pair of candidates. Have the vote in October, so that there will be time for a runoff vote in December, if necessary.
If there are more than two P/VP pairs of candidates on the October ballot, and if no P/VP pair gets at lest 50% of the vote, then in December, do a runoff vote of the two P/VP candidate pairs who won the most votes in October.
There probably won't be tie votes, with the top or second P/VP pairs getting the same number of votes. But if that happens, then let the US House of Representatives break the tie vote. If there's a tie in the House, then let the Senate vote. If that's a tie, then let the current Vice President vote to break the tie.
That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.
I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:
Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com
Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch
Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help
Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect
Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com
Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)
Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch
Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News
Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com
Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com
Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch
Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network
Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com
Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost
Hmm. I need a new refrigerator, and was thinking of getting it at Lowe's. I guess I'll get the refrigerator somewhere else.
Does anyone know of any appliance companies that haven't outsourced their IT workers?
Two books, both by Dale Carnegie:
How to Win Friends and Influence People - I would have avoided a lot of useless arguments if I'd read it sooner.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - It helped me get through a very rough patch of my life.
These people are heroes:
1) A British Transport Police officer didn't have a gun. Instead of running away, he fought the terrorists with his baton.
2) As people were escaping out of the back of a restaurant, a woman stayed at the front of the restaurant. She stayed there to block the front door closed with her body, as the terrorists were trying to force their way in. Her blocking the door saved about 20 people, by giving them time to escape. After the terrorists overpowered here and forced their way in, she was able to escape.
I sometimes wonder how unselfishly brave I would be, if I were in a situation like that. I hope I'd unselfishly brave, like those two people.
CSM has recently switched to be completely behind a paywall, as well.
Just now I went to csmonitor.com, with JavaScript enabled in my browser. On that web page, there are some links to Monitor articles. Near the bottom of the page, there is a grey "Show More" button. If you click it, more links to articles appear at the bottom of the web page. I clicked that button 3 times, then clicked on a link to an article. This article appeared. I was able to see the entire article. So I don't think you have to subscribe to the Monitor to read its articles.
I just wish that in their articles (like the one that I referenced), they'd use responsive web design, and put in more than one column if the screen's width is large enough to be a laptop.
Is the holster joke the only bad thing about Colbert's monologue? How about the the overall contempt and personal attacks? Here are a few:
You’re not the POTUS; you’re the ‘BLOTUS.’
You’re the glutton with the button.
You’re a regular ‘Gorge Washington.’
You talk like a sign-language gorilla that got hit in the head.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c*ck holster.
The only thing smaller than your hands are your tax returns and you can take that any way you want.
And Colbert treated Stephen Miller even worse - he made "jokes" about Miller being killed. In a video clip that contains superimposed heads of Miller,
he [Miller] is electrocuted, bashed in the head with a baseball bat, and decapitated. One of the scenes Miller is added to is from the HBO series Game of Thrones, and mirrors a controversial scene where the show’s creators placed former President George W. Bush’s head on a spike.
Can you imagine anyone making "jokes" like that about any other president or his advisors? I didn't like Obama's actions in his second term, but if anyone had made "jokes" like that against Obama or his advisors personally, I would have told him they weren't funny.
If Colbert doesn't like Trump's policies and actions, fine. I don't like some of them either. Colbert should make jokes that criticize Trump's policies. Maybe joke about the Obamacare replacement bill. Attack his policies, not the man personally.
As the RollingStone article says, after the backlash against Colbert's homo joke, Colbert talked about love: "... life is short, and anyone who expresses their love for another person, in their own way, is to me, an American hero." That sounds good. Let's see more brotherly love or kindness in Colbert's monologues in the future.
I'm not a fan of the Mac though. The OS is complicated, adds about $600 to the price, and you have to install windows to make them useful.
Why do you say that the OS adds about $600 to the price? macOS is free.
I switched to Macs partly because of AppleScript, and AppleScript is the main reason that I'm sticking with Macs. Back in 1999, Apple's website had a good description of AppleScript, as well as a tutorial on it. As I read the description and tutorial, I decided to get an iMac, so that I could use AppleScript.
AppleScript is a small scripting language that's built into the Mac OS. Besides the usual programming language stuff, it can also send commands to an application, telling the app to
- modify a document's content (including its formatting data),
- return the document's content to the script, or
- do a non-IO action such as displaying a JavaScript alert.
For example, an AppleScript can
1) read the contents of a Numbers spreadsheet, then
2) send the spreadsheet data to Safari, and tell Safari to display the data.
AppleScript can also speak in different voices, including speaking into a sound file. And it can listen for one of several words that you give it (ex: "yes" or "no"), then take action based on which word you speak. But the main reason I need AppleScript is its ability to send commands to apps.
Oops, sorry - I listed the wrong Amazon web page URL. The one that I listed was for the AWN432S. I got the AWN432SP. Its web page is here.
If you get an AWN432SP, then I suggest you -not- get it through Amazon. All of the 1-star Amazon reviewers were for "Verified Purchase" washers - i.e., they were bought via Amazon.
Yes, as the Amazon web page says, "The full tub wash & rinse feature fills the entire tub with water . . .". However, some Amazon reviewers have written that because of some law, Speed Queen would soon have to make washers that use less water. I don't know if that's true. An appliance salesperson should be able to tell you. They don't seem to sell their machines from regular department stores like Sears. Their list of where to buy their machines seems to list only appliance stores. (Or you can get one through Amazon.)
Before you wash your first load in a new Speed Queen washer, you'll probably have to clean out a thin film of oil that's in the tub. You don't see the oil, but if you wipe a paper towel on the inside of the tub, you'll see that the towel has collected a little bit of grease. The Speed Queen customer service rep recommended Simple Green for the cleaning. (You only have to clean the tub once.)
Other than that, I like the washer. One nice feature is that when it's doing a spin dry, the washer is very stable. I can barely feel it moving back and forth. Also if you want to sanitize some clothes, you can set the wash temperature to "hot", and the wash water will be very hot. (The rinse temperature is always cold, though.)
Even my old-fashioned top loader (Speed Queen) came from the factory with a laughably low water fill to meet EPA regulations. Fortunately this is fixed with a simple adjustment.
Last September, I got a Speed Queen top-load washer with manual controls (AWN432). I set the "LOAD SIZE" dial to Medium or higher, and it there's plenty of water in the tub.
In another post, you say you're thinking of getting another washer. Before you buy it, I suggest you try different types of washers at the laundromat, to see what you like.
Before I bought my washer, I used a top-load washer and front-load washer at the laundromat. The top-loader worked fine (as does the one that I bought). But I didn't like the front-loader. For one thing, I couldn't open the washing machine's door when there was water in the machine, because some water would have leaked out. Also the final spin was very fast. When I took my clothes out of the machine, they were almost dry, but they were wrinkled. (I don't remember if I used a "delicate" or "heavy duty" cycle.)
People's preferences vary. You can try different machines, and see what works for you.
This month I might re-read "The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History", by Michael H. Hart. Hart chose the 100 people who, in his opinion, influenced mankind the most. Then in his book, he takes them one by one and tells who that person was, what they did, and why the author ranked that person higher than some and lower than others.
Sometimes you agree with the author, and sometimes you don't. But it's a lot of fun to read.
If a book isn't currently copyrighted, you might be able to get a free copy of it at Project Gutenberg.
Tips on finding good candidates:
Require SW developer applicants to submit two pieces of code that they wrote:
1) A program that you assign each applicant. (This gives you a way to compare applicants.)
2) A project of their own choosing. (This code lets the applicant show off what their strong points are.)
And if your company has a way for users to submit bug reports to your company, then ask every IT applicant this: "Have you submitted bug reports to our company, regarding our products? If so, then what identifier (user name, email address etc.) did you use when you submitted them?" Then check that person's bug reports.
1) Did the bug reports demonstrate a knowledge of your company's product?
2) Were the bug reports well written? Do they indicate clear thinking, and the ability to see things from another person's point of view (the point of view of the person reading the bug report, who is trying to understand it)?
3) Were the bug reports polite or abusive? Would you want to work with this person?
Languages change. 500 years from now, will people be able to understand our current writing?
For the languages of the data that is stored in Norway, I suggest that they store a dictionary in those languages.
They should also store books on how to learn those languages. They might store books like the ones I used when I studied German in high school. Those books were completely in German. In the beginner's book, the first page had a small red rectangle, a small blue rectangle, and a small green rectangle, etc. Next to each rectangle was the German word for that color. So we learned those colors in German. Then the book showed the picture of hands pointing to rectangles of various colors. Next to them were the German words for "This is red.", or "This is blue.", etc. So we learned how to make those simple sentences. Then the book built on that, making the sentences more complicated, and introducing more words.
My app is easy for a non-technical person to understand and use.
My code is easy to understand and modify.
The first thing to do is to find out where the money is going, and publicize the numbers. One thing we should know is how much money colleges spend on things that don't have anything to do with education. For example, apparently at the University of Arizona,
Jesus Trevino, the university’s Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, is paid $214,000 per year to develop diversity and inclusion themed programming for the community and instructional material for the faculty.
Really, how many documented cases of speakers being prevented can you provide? How many injuries? How many hospitalizations?
Here are a few:
(1) Berkeley riots, which injured people, and caused the university to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos:
The university insists that it made elaborate preparations for protests. It canceled the speech only after what it called an “unprecedented” invasion of the campus by “more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black” who engaged in violent, destructive behavior. They hurled metal barricades, threw Molotov cocktails and smashed windows at the student union.
The event was cancelled after left-wing rioters, who the university claim were not students, smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, set fires in the street, and sprayed the words “Kill Trump” on storefronts.
Video was posted showing violent leftists chasing and beating a man with sticks.
The man appears unconscious in the street as they beat him.
(2) A speech at Middlebury College was severely disrupted by protesters. After the speech, when the speaker and Professor Allison Stanger left, they were attacked, and Prof. Stnager's neck was injured:
Then I went onstage, got halfway through my first sentence, and the uproar began.
First came a shouted recitation in unison of what I am told is a piece by James Baldwin. I couldn’t follow the words. That took a few minutes. Then came the chanting. . . . .
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This went on for about twenty minutes.
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Professor Stanger and I were led out of the hall to the improvised studio.
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Then there was the sound of shouting outside, followed by loud banging on the wall of the building. . . . Then a fire alarm went off, which was harder to compete with.
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We finished around 6:45 and prepared to leave the building . . . I didn’t see it happen, but someone grabbed Allison’s hair just as someone else shoved her from another direction, damaging muscles, tendons, and fascia in her neck.
There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck,” he said. . . . After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.
(3) About 600 people protested the immigration ban at the Portland Airport. There was a 4-person counter-protest:
One of the counter-demonstrators was assaulted just after 5 p.m., Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson said.
Grant Chisholm, 39 of Portland told The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he was at the airport with three other members of the group Bible Believers for a counter-protest when a Trump opponent hit him in the head three times with something metallic. Chisholm dropped and drifted in and out of unconsciousness, he said, while vomiting a
"The reactionaries were further applauding Mexico dumping 150 million tons of sewage claiming that the US deserved it for wanting control of it's own borders."
Haven't heard that one. Valid link?
This is an article on the sewage spill. The article is called "'Tsunami of sewage spills' in Tijuana fouls U.S. beaches, may have been intentional".
A massive sewage spill in Tijuana that polluted beaches in San Diego County last month may have been no accident, according to state and local officials.
In a preliminary estimate, officials said about 143 million gallons of raw sewage spewed into the Tijuana River during a period of more than two weeks that ended Thursday. While cross-border sewage spills of a few million gallons are routine for the region, this is one of the largest such events in the last two decades, according to water quality experts in San Diego.
I voted for Trump, and I'm *not* giving Pence a free pass on this. One reason that I voted for Trump was because of H. Clinton's carelessness with security, using her personal mail server. This, and carelessness with phone security, are just as bad.
I'm not for a particular party or politician. I'm for the US. I want conversations "including issues related to homeland security" to be secure, no matter who the politician is.
Once I was flying to southern California. Before my plane could take off, it had to sit at the originating airport for about an hour. There was a power failure in southern California, and because of the power outage, the airports there couldn't accept incoming planes. I don't know the details, but apparently not only some primary power equipment failed, but also both backup systems failed.
Regarding the weather website:
Hickman said two core routers for transmitting information from the Weather Service offices out to satellites, which beam the information back to public service providers, had stopped working. "There is a primary and a backup and both have failed," Hickman said.
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Hickman added that another backup system known as the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) was also not operating.
The article also states that they were doing "dissemination upgrades", and that in about a year, the system would be reliable, with "full backup capacity".
I hope during and after the upgrade, their attitude is not, "if we check off some boxes of to-do lists, then we've done our job". I hope their attitude is, "My job is to keep the systems up. If the systems go down, then I have failed." People's lives can depend on weather forecasts.
I voted for Trump, because I can't stand the Clintons. I'm not for Trump, or for the Republican party. I'm for the US - I want good government.
So even though I agree with most of Trump's positions, I'm glad that the Democrats and the press point out the ways that Trump messes up, like selecting a national security adviser who can be blackmailed. We have to correct problems like that.