That's the best part... Hillary supporters have, for weeks if not months, been saying that those who support Trump will need to accept the outcome of the election. That they will need to come together peaceably and accept the new president and support them.
Wait, that next president is Trump? Revolution!!!!!!!
And reports of teargas being used on protesters in Oakland!
It's going to be a long night.
(After weeks of being told to accept the election outcome, anything else is an attack on democracy. Sheesh!)
It seems the teargas was needed. From this article:
Tear gas has been deployed in Oakland tonight where an anti-Trump demonstration has been declared an unlawful assembly by police after bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers.
The window of the Agave Uptown restaurant, located at 2135 Franklin St., was vandalized by a man with spray paint as members of the crowd urged the vandal to stop.
Other windows were smashed and spray-painted in the vicinity of Webster and 17th streets. . . . A number of fires were set on Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, and firefighters were called in to extinguish them.
(There's more in the article, but I don't know how much I'm allowed to quote from an article.)
I voted for Trump, and I hate getting these calls as much as anyone. But disrupting election efforts like this is morally wrong. It's unfair to the party that's getting attacked, and it's an attack against having a free and fair election.
I think a trade group, and guild/apprenticeship system would work wonders for this mainly because I directly benefited from informal mentoring by senior folks in my previous jobs to get where I am now.
I like the idea of an apprenticeship/mentoring system. I'd also like Congress to give a tax break to American companies, for each student intern or entry-level IT employee who is a US citizen.
There aren't many entry-level IT jobs for Americans. We should help beginners get their foot in the door.
Good point about the box having a battery. The MacBook Pros (MBPs) recharge through their USB-C ports. So if the box plugged into the MBP's USB port, it could recharge the MBP from the battery in the box.
I guess you're referring to the "Box to contain peripherals" post, right? As the second paragraph of that post says, it's a lot easier to carry a laptop with a box attached to it which contains peripherals, than to carry a laptop and a lot of separate peripherals.
Tim Cook should encourage Apple's top hw and sw executives to speak their minds, and then listen to them. If they say, "Tim, that looks pretty but I wouldn't buy it because it's not practical", then Cook should have the design changed, so that the execs would want to buy it.
About 15 years ago, Apple put out a new laptop computer (the TiBook?), and released a video about the design process. In the video, one of the engineers who worked on it said something like, "Steve didn't give us many instructions. He just told us to design the best laptop computer in the world." They designed a laptop that they themselves wanted to use. And they put out a very popular and successful computer.
I can't find that video, but I did find this one. At 2:30, a customer says, "Well, forget about gorgeous. It's a G4. And it's five pounds. And it's got a five-hour battery life." He wanted that computer, not because of its looks, but because of its features and what it could do.
Similarly, when Apple was designing the iPod, the design team created an portable music player that the team members wanted to use, and they put out a very popular product.
Tim Cook should do the same thing. He should tell the people who design the next Mac hw or sw to design hw and sw that they would love and want to use.
Why again do we give China favored trade status when all it does is evil?
Because it's profitable to sell things there, it's relatively cheap to manufacture things there, and as Opportunist says, "Because they hold us by the balls and own an increasing portion of our companies."
Here's what our government should do:
1) Make a list of things in which the US should be self-sufficient, so that Xi Jinping can't threaten to withhold them from us. This list would include raw materials, finished products, factories, tools, skilled laborers, and skilled managers. (By "skilled managers", I don't mean MBAs. I mean technicians/scientists, who understand how to manufacture CPUs, jet engines, etc.)
2) Write regulations and incentives that will cause these vital items and skills to be brought back to the US.
A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions..."
Sorry, I messed up the last link. A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions..."
Yes, Hillary and Obama voted for the "Secure Fence Act of 2006". See this list of who voted for it. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton all voted for it.
Also, Mrs. Clinton gave a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on October 31, 2016. A transcript of the speech, and Q&A after the speech, are here. (You can do a search on that web page for the word "Mexico".)
A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions..."
As far as I know, O'Reilly hasn't given away many free books. (Maybe they're changing that now.) But they've sold ebooks at a 50% discount.
You can request to be put on their email list. Then most days, you'll get an email that tells you that one or more books are on sale for 50% off for one day.
Also 3 or 4 times a year, they email you, telling you that for a few days, all ebooks, or all ebooks on a particular subject, are on sale for 50%. If I want to get an ebook, but I'm in no hurry to get it, I wait for those sales to get it.
When you get a book on sale this way, you have to type in the discount code that's mentioned in their email.
I see your point, but in some cases, online forums are the only alternative. For example, take Slashdot. We see an article that we're interested in, post our comments, and "talk" about it.
Here's another example: I'm a member of an online discussion group. That group switched to Facebook. So in order to read and write posts to that group, I have to use Facebook.
As I said in another Slashdot post on this web page, I created another user id on my computer just for Facebook. I made that user id very restricted, which I hope will protect me.
I wouldn't use Facebook unless I had to, but in this case I do have to.
An online group of people, that I'm a member of, moved to Facebook. So now I have to use Facebook, if I want to keep on reading and writing posts to that group.
So I created a new user id on my Mac. I use that user id for logging onto Facebook, and sending messages to my Facebook group.
When I set up the user id on my Mac, I went into parental controls, and made the use of that user id very restrictive. When I'm logged into that user id, Safari is the only app that can run, Facebook is the only website that can be accessed, no Mail or Contacts for that user id, etc. Hopefully that will help protect my privacy.
Create a bootable external drive of Sierra. It's slower than putting Sierra onto your main drive, and some things might work differently than if it were on your main drive. But it's a way to test out Sierra without committing to it.
If I were a UCSF IT employee, and if I thought I'd have a hard time getting another job, I'd be willing to keep my job at a lower salary.
Can UCSF offer their current employees a lower salary? Doing this would help UCSF, because the employees who stayed would be experienced.
If UCSF's HR/contracts department was able to fire current employees and bring in new HCL employees under a new contract, then they should be able to figure out a way to lower the salaries. If all else fails, maybe they can eliminate the current jobs, and then re-create the same jobs at a lower salary, and offer the jobs first to the current employees.
The way the government does things, I can see someone gaining that kind of lofty position not getting a briefing on it.
On January 22, 2009, Clinton signed a statement that said that she had "received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information", and that she understood the procedures. You can see the signed statement here.
I'm not a fan of either Trump or Clinton. But Trump being president scares me less then Clinton being presideint. I'll keep an open mind until election day, though.
"I hereby acknowledge that I have received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information, including the procedures to be followed in ascertaining whether other persons to whom I contemplate disclosing this information have been approved for access to it, and that I understand these procedures." -- Signed by H R Clinton 22-01-2009
I recall my training on confidential information when I entered the Defense Industry nearly thirty years ago. Hell, I remember the Food Safety course I took at age 17.
It's clear Hillary has some kind of Brain Injury issue going on.
Mrs. Clinton told the FBI she couldn’t remember if she was ever briefed on preserving records, but said it may have happened in 2012, after she fell and suffered a concussion and had a blood clot.
“Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received,” the agents wrote in their notes.
Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009. I doubt she got her briefing on preserving records in 2012.
Claiming that she can't remember things because of her concussion helps keep her out of legal trouble. However, it doesn't help her claim that her mind is healthy enough to be president. Well, maybe she'll say that her mind was messed up then, but that it's ok now.
[Editor's note: Cisco Wednesday disclosed plans to lay off up to 5,500 employees in a restructuring plan that it will implement this quarter. A Cisco spokesman said, "Today we disclosed the correct number and you’re off by 8,500 roles." He refused to answer the question of whether additional cuts are planned for the foreseeable future.]
Also a Wall Street Journal article says the number is 5,500.
I wonder what percent of the people to be laid off are Americans. And I wonder what percent of the new hires to replace them with "different skill sets" will not be Americans.
The IOC's olympic games aren't the only way to have sports competitions.
It's probably too late for this year, but I'd love to see some of the athletes raise money (crowdfunding?) to move their competition somewhere else, and not have anything to do with the IOC. Just hold their competition on their own.
For example, for the sports that are scheduled to take place in polluted water - raise money for those athletes to drop out of the Olympic competitions, and to move to another location with clean water. If these alternate games were not held at the same time as the IOC's Rio games, then some news organizations would cover the alternate games.
Unfortunately doing this in the next two weeks would probably break some rules, and might set up the athletes for a lawsuit, besides disappointing spectators who paid to see those sports in Rio. But if some athletes could set up alternate games in the future, then great.
Better yet, don't mess with the IOC. Just avoid the olympics entirely. Then we'll see how quickly they realize the stupidity of their decisions. Maybe.
If you're curious how the games turned out, but you don't want to encourage the major news organizations to report on the Olympics, then either
1) check with Wikipedia (which is usually updated pretty quickly), or
2) do an Internet search with a search engine that's not well-known like Google or Bing (ex: Ecosia), and in the resulting list of news listings on the game, click the link of a smaller-sized newspaper.
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That's the best part ... Hillary supporters have, for weeks if not months, been saying that those who support Trump will need to accept the outcome of the election. That they will need to come together peaceably and accept the new president and support them.
Wait, that next president is Trump? Revolution!!!!!!!
How I wish I could mod this up.
And reports of teargas being used on protesters in Oakland!
It's going to be a long night.
(After weeks of being told to accept the election outcome, anything else is an attack on democracy. Sheesh!)
It seems the teargas was needed. From this article:
Tear gas has been deployed in Oakland tonight where an anti-Trump demonstration has been declared an unlawful assembly by police after bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers.
The window of the Agave Uptown restaurant, located at 2135 Franklin St., was vandalized by a man with spray paint as members of the crowd urged the vandal to stop.
Other windows were smashed and spray-painted in the vicinity of Webster and 17th streets.
. . .
A number of fires were set on Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, and firefighters were called in to extinguish them.
(There's more in the article, but I don't know how much I'm allowed to quote from an article.)
I voted for Trump, and I hate getting these calls as much as anyone. But disrupting election efforts like this is morally wrong. It's unfair to the party that's getting attacked, and it's an attack against having a free and fair election.
Interesting story. This case study (pdf) has more info on what happened, especially page 2.
I think a trade group, and guild/apprenticeship system would work wonders for this mainly because I directly benefited from informal mentoring by senior folks in my previous jobs to get where I am now.
I like the idea of an apprenticeship/mentoring system. I'd also like Congress to give a tax break to American companies, for each student intern or entry-level IT employee who is a US citizen.
There aren't many entry-level IT jobs for Americans. We should help beginners get their foot in the door.
Good point about the box having a battery. The MacBook Pros (MBPs) recharge through their USB-C ports. So if the box plugged into the MBP's USB port, it could recharge the MBP from the battery in the box.
I guess you're referring to the "Box to contain peripherals" post, right? As the second paragraph of that post says, it's a lot easier to carry a laptop with a box attached to it which contains peripherals, than to carry a laptop and a lot of separate peripherals.
Tim Cook should encourage Apple's top hw and sw executives to speak their minds, and then listen to them. If they say, "Tim, that looks pretty but I wouldn't buy it because it's not practical", then Cook should have the design changed, so that the execs would want to buy it.
About 15 years ago, Apple put out a new laptop computer (the TiBook?), and released a video about the design process. In the video, one of the engineers who worked on it said something like, "Steve didn't give us many instructions. He just told us to design the best laptop computer in the world." They designed a laptop that they themselves wanted to use. And they put out a very popular and successful computer.
I can't find that video, but I did find this one. At 2:30, a customer says, "Well, forget about gorgeous. It's a G4. And it's five pounds. And it's got a five-hour battery life." He wanted that computer, not because of its looks, but because of its features and what it could do.
Similarly, when Apple was designing the iPod, the design team created an portable music player that the team members wanted to use, and they put out a very popular product.
Tim Cook should do the same thing. He should tell the people who design the next Mac hw or sw to design hw and sw that they would love and want to use.
Why again do we give China favored trade status when all it does is evil?
Because it's profitable to sell things there, it's relatively cheap to manufacture things there, and as Opportunist says, "Because they hold us by the balls and own an increasing portion of our companies."
Here's what our government should do:
1) Make a list of things in which the US should be self-sufficient, so that Xi Jinping can't threaten to withhold them from us. This list would include raw materials, finished products, factories, tools, skilled laborers, and skilled managers. (By "skilled managers", I don't mean MBAs. I mean technicians/scientists, who understand how to manufacture CPUs, jet engines, etc.)
2) Write regulations and incentives that will cause these vital items and skills to be brought back to the US.
A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions ..."
Sorry, I messed up the last link. A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions ..."
Yes, Hillary and Obama voted for the "Secure Fence Act of 2006". See this list of who voted for it. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton all voted for it.
Also, Mrs. Clinton gave a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on October 31, 2016. A transcript of the speech, and Q&A after the speech, are here. (You can do a search on that web page for the word "Mexico".)
A video of part of the speech is here. From 2:17 to 2:29: "What we need to simultaneously - you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places - and we need to have tougher employer sanctions ..."
As far as I know, O'Reilly hasn't given away many free books. (Maybe they're changing that now.) But they've sold ebooks at a 50% discount.
You can request to be put on their email list. Then most days, you'll get an email that tells you that one or more books are on sale for 50% off for one day.
Also 3 or 4 times a year, they email you, telling you that for a few days, all ebooks, or all ebooks on a particular subject, are on sale for 50%. If I want to get an ebook, but I'm in no hurry to get it, I wait for those sales to get it.
When you get a book on sale this way, you have to type in the discount code that's mentioned in their email.
I see your point, but in some cases, online forums are the only alternative. For example, take Slashdot. We see an article that we're interested in, post our comments, and "talk" about it.
Here's another example: I'm a member of an online discussion group. That group switched to Facebook. So in order to read and write posts to that group, I have to use Facebook.
As I said in another Slashdot post on this web page, I created another user id on my computer just for Facebook. I made that user id very restricted, which I hope will protect me.
I wouldn't use Facebook unless I had to, but in this case I do have to.
An online group of people, that I'm a member of, moved to Facebook. So now I have to use Facebook, if I want to keep on reading and writing posts to that group.
So I created a new user id on my Mac. I use that user id for logging onto Facebook, and sending messages to my Facebook group.
When I set up the user id on my Mac, I went into parental controls, and made the use of that user id very restrictive. When I'm logged into that user id, Safari is the only app that can run, Facebook is the only website that can be accessed, no Mail or Contacts for that user id, etc. Hopefully that will help protect my privacy.
... there are reports of it bricking people's Macs ...
I've found reports of Macs being bricked by earlier releases, but I haven't found any articles of yesterday's official release bricking Macs.
Create a bootable external drive of Sierra. It's slower than putting Sierra onto your main drive, and some things might work differently than if it were on your main drive. But it's a way to test out Sierra without committing to it.
If I were a UCSF IT employee, and if I thought I'd have a hard time getting another job, I'd be willing to keep my job at a lower salary.
Can UCSF offer their current employees a lower salary? Doing this would help UCSF, because the employees who stayed would be experienced.
If UCSF's HR/contracts department was able to fire current employees and bring in new HCL employees under a new contract, then they should be able to figure out a way to lower the salaries. If all else fails, maybe they can eliminate the current jobs, and then re-create the same jobs at a lower salary, and offer the jobs first to the current employees.
Oops - "president", not "presideint".
The way the government does things, I can see someone gaining that kind of lofty position not getting a briefing on it.
On January 22, 2009, Clinton signed a statement that said that she had "received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information", and that she understood the procedures. You can see the signed statement here.
I'm not a fan of either Trump or Clinton. But Trump being president scares me less then Clinton being presideint. I'll keep an open mind until election day, though.
Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009. I doubt she got her briefing on preserving records in 2012.
Ok, I found it:
"I hereby acknowledge that I have received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information, including the procedures to be followed in ascertaining whether other persons to whom I contemplate disclosing this information have been approved for access to it, and that I understand these procedures." -- Signed by H R Clinton 22-01-2009
I recall my training on confidential information when I entered the Defense Industry nearly thirty years ago. Hell, I remember the Food Safety course I took at age 17.
It's clear Hillary has some kind of Brain Injury issue going on.
According to this article,
Mrs. Clinton told the FBI she couldn’t remember if she was ever briefed on preserving records, but said it may have happened in 2012, after she fell and suffered a concussion and had a blood clot.
“Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received,” the agents wrote in their notes.
Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009. I doubt she got her briefing on preserving records in 2012.
Claiming that she can't remember things because of her concussion helps keep her out of legal trouble. However, it doesn't help her claim that her mind is healthy enough to be president. Well, maybe she'll say that her mind was messed up then, but that it's ok now.
The CRN article says,
[Editor's note: Cisco Wednesday disclosed plans to lay off up to 5,500 employees in a restructuring plan that it will implement this quarter. A Cisco spokesman said, "Today we disclosed the correct number and you’re off by 8,500 roles." He refused to answer the question of whether additional cuts are planned for the foreseeable future.]
Also a Wall Street Journal article says the number is 5,500.
I plan to vote for him.
I wonder what percent of the people to be laid off are Americans. And I wonder what percent of the new hires to replace them with "different skill sets" will not be Americans.
The IOC's olympic games aren't the only way to have sports competitions.
It's probably too late for this year, but I'd love to see some of the athletes raise money (crowdfunding?) to move their competition somewhere else, and not have anything to do with the IOC. Just hold their competition on their own.
For example, for the sports that are scheduled to take place in polluted water - raise money for those athletes to drop out of the Olympic competitions, and to move to another location with clean water. If these alternate games were not held at the same time as the IOC's Rio games, then some news organizations would cover the alternate games.
Unfortunately doing this in the next two weeks would probably break some rules, and might set up the athletes for a lawsuit, besides disappointing spectators who paid to see those sports in Rio. But if some athletes could set up alternate games in the future, then great.
Better yet, don't mess with the IOC. Just avoid the olympics entirely. Then we'll see how quickly they realize the stupidity of their decisions. Maybe.
If you're curious how the games turned out, but you don't want to encourage the major news organizations to report on the Olympics, then either
1) check with Wikipedia (which is usually updated pretty quickly), or
2) do an Internet search with a search engine that's not well-known like Google or Bing (ex: Ecosia), and in the resulting list of news listings on the game, click the link of a smaller-sized newspaper.