And what makes them pointless? Because you personally are too stupid/ignorant to understand the reason they exist?
In a civilized society, people pay respect for the dead, because it is recognized that #1 you don't have command of all the facts. You don't know what kind of person this was. There is one thing you do know though, and that's #2 people are sad, upset, and feel terrible about their loved one, their friend, their father/uncle/cousin whatever dying in a horrible plane crash. Respect for the person shows respect for those who were hurt by his passing. EVERY person in our society deserves a modicum of respect. Respect doesn't have to be "earned", it is freely given amongst peers in a civilized society. Do you, or anyone else screaming "RESPECT MUST BE EARNED!!!!!!1111!" *really* want to live in a society where nobody respects anyone else? Funny how slashdot posters yell about "RESPECT IS EARNED" in one article, then in the next people are crying about all the violence, crime, etc that plagues our cities. WAKE UP, people.
I hope when I die I don't get my own Slashdot article full of hundreds of lame, rude comments and snickering by basement dwelling nerds. I hope none of you do either. Can we have a little compassion for another human being, even if we don't personally know them and like them?
His friends, his family, his loved ones, the good things he's done on this Earth should be overlooked and forgotten, after all he's dead and we're glad, right?
And I resent having to buy Apple hardware if I want to run OSX.
And you're not in the majority.
Oh, and if you do buy some "PC except Apple's" I bet a few people here on Slashdot could recommend operating systems besides Win7 you could run on it.
He wants a quality, modern, general purpose OS, one that was designed from the bottom up to be great, usable, and well supported, not a convoluted hacked up pile of half-ass integrated crap that works well out of the box for a certain percentage of use cases and nothing else.
Talk about completely missing the point. The point is, Apple sells physical goods. They know that when you deliver a physical product to somebody and it doesn't work right, nobody is going to put up with that the same way they'll put up with Windows 7 crashing or being buggy. So nobody gets fired over Windows 7 bugs unless they're really horrid, but at Apple you don't want to be That Guy who's responsible for The Antenna Problem.
... It's a type'o, simple as that. Either that or someone forgot to rub out the little horizontal bit on the t to turn it into an i, when they were having a little joke with themselves to lighten up the day, working for the man an all.
lol. +1, funny.
next post.... we finally have our answer: dental x-ray machines, alien dental x-ray machines. that is what inspired pre-homo sapiens species to begin the journey to modern man: the divine inspiration of advanced dental technology
LOL. +1, funny.
next.
SETI at home project... communicate with the aliens... invisible, black monoliths around Jupiter... force of Dental X-Rays... denial of service attack on Jupiter, igniting it into a second sun...Zionists... Muslims... Jews... coming of the second son... hell on earth where I'm standing... Christians... Bible was correct after all...
To be fair, I think a lot of the problems with the patent system stem from the rapid advances we as a world and particularly as a nation have made over the past 50 or so years: rapid advances in technology, new ways of thinking, and new abstract concepts. The patent system probably worked fine 100 years ago, it's just incapable of correctly handling some of the concepts we deal with today, and the side effects (patent trolls, patent portfolios, Monsanto suing farmers and winning, etc) are getting to be unacceptable. I foresee a major reform of the patent system (maybe even copyright too) coming within the next 10-15 years.
A dog is always with you, so whenever you're not there your dog won't be either. You can't leave your dog at home while you go on vacation.
I don't know what part of the city you live in, but you do realize theres more to life and homes than what's available in the city, right? Your dog is always with you--WTF? The only people I know who are that nutty live in places like San Franscisco, and their dogs serve replacements for a life. You most certainly can leave your dog at home in most parts of the U.S., and yes, even while you're on vacation, assuming you have--I dunno, maybe FRIENDS--that could stop by and feed the thing every once in a while?
Yeah, it is not like a burgler would never think to calm the dog (treats are wonderful; 'here boy' is used by most ppl to call their dog). And, it would never dawn on a burgler to simply KICK the dog to quiet it down. My Sister had two dogs at their place in Mesa, AZ. The first time their house was robbed, both dogs were in corners with broken ribs. The burglers simply kicked both of them.
Yeah, try that with a well trained Rottweiler, German Shepherd, etc and see what happens. You think a security-minded dog is going to automatically trust you and let you bust in and do whatever you please just because you bring him a steak? You can train and raise up a dog to automatically kill anybody who tries to enter an area, or never to harm a fly, or anywhere in between depending on the owner's preferences. A properly trained Rottweiler isn't going to buckle over just because you kicked him in the stomach, thats why you train him and feed him to have muscles to protect himself from that kind of attack. Would be robbers would do themselves well to avoid this nonsense about throwing the dog a steak and "just kick him", LOL good luck with that.
No, insurance will cover your house. Suitable application of high explosives can certainly solve the nut who did it. It's easy to dispose of a bomb maker and disguise it as a suicide/accident; I mean who would really ask questions if one of "his" creations underneath his workbench "accidently" exploded?
What's with all the touch typing Mormons bicycling around trying to convert everyone to their way of doing things? To hell with touch typing. I just counted and I use like five fingers to type. I don't care about the home row, I have my own mental map of how the keyboard is laid out, and I just grab the keyboard and get to it. I can type up to 120 peak wpm, 80-100 constant, with few errors, so whats the big deal?
I'm also not clear, given that that was going on, why he is being golden parachuted, rather than shitcanned. Some he-said, she-said dramafest that boils down to no morally shocking offenses and a few technical violations is something I can see a company wanting to avoid. Fraud of the sort that a decent forensic accountant could demonstrate seems like the sort of thing that they could, and would, want to nail you to the wall for....
The secret of life: everything is a charade.
The (the board) just wanted him gone, for whatever reason, nothing personal but we're tired of you running our company. Maybe he refused to leave, or wasn't taking their strong hints about it. So they found whatever they could on him, drummed up all the charges they could, in order to force him to resign. So he did, and he gets his golden parachute of course, cause like I said: nothing personal, they accomplished their goal, no need to stir up further drama by refusing to pay a bonus. It's not like the money is coming out of these people's own personal checking accounts or anything, so it's all good.
Or what? You think this board of directors is a bunch of saints, having never committed any similar offenses and were thus shocked to hear that this guy was banging a contractor? I guarantee every one of those guys and girls has their own skeletons in the closet, but most smart people keep those well hidden to avoid them being used against oneself.
You rather glossed over the whole inaccurate expense reports, misappropriation of corporate resources and undisclosed close relationship with a contractor part of things that was uncovered while investigating the non-violation. Either that or your opinion of "didn't really do anything wrong" is substantively different than most other folks'.
The funny part is, EVERYONE DOES THIS KIND OF SHIT. For every one CEO "misappropriating corporate resources" how many underlings are there stealing extra pens, note pads, computers stuffed in the corner, etc? Not defending this guy cause I don't know him, but I am so sick and tired of people hearing about some minor infraction another person committed and then getting all up in arms about it like this kind of shit doesn't go on all day, every day, and everyone knows about it. This isn't about the guy's misconduct, because I guarantee nobody truly gives a fuck to hear he was banging a contractor. It's other things he did that put the nails in his coffin, like running the company poorly and/or pissing people off, and this is simply the leverage they gained to get rid of him. That's all.
Furthermore, how much of "sociologist/Criminologist calls CEOs sociopaths" is a sociologist making a sound general judgment of a class of people, and how much of it is sensationalist headline targeted towards many persons' hatred of those in power? What is the connotation of the word "sociopath"--it's negative, isn't it? We love to hear negative things about people we don't like. It's easy for some random asshole with paltry ambitions and little to recommend him to sit back and say "CEOs are sociopaths!!!!1" and get the nodding heads and approval of all his similarly incompetent peers.
I don't think a machine that has access to the internet is allowed to have access to any of these networks. I'm not sure on the implementation though.
SIPRNET (Secure IP Routed Network) has its own address space, its own routers with its own globally mandated policies and rules. An encryption device, often a TACLANE or similar, is used to encapsulate and encrypt the stream for transmission over a non-secure network (i.e. NIPRNET, which is tied to the Internet) to wherever it's going.
On the other hand, the absolute logic of a blanket ban seems suspect to me.
Welcome to the US military--the ONLY persons in Afghanistan (including Afghans) who are prohibited from drinking alcoholic beverages. Other services might drink a beer or two in the evening to unwind, and the Afghans will be glad to sell it to em. The U.S. just get to suffer, punctuated by the occasional idiot smuggling in a case of alcohol, getting drunk out of his mind, and being found unconscious in a puddle of his own puke on the back road, or worse, in the guard tower. What else did they expect to happen from a blanket ban? Yet stupid policies persist.
It's called SIPRNET. Anyone with Secret or higher clearance can log in, anywhere in theatre, and view all sorts of intelligence information from anywhere in theatre. One time I logged on and read an IRC chat log from an attack that occurred on a base on the East and was overrun. (The U.S. military uses IRC servers w/ mIRC clients as a way for forward operating base command centers to communicate events in real time.) There was also a complete analysis with the analysts' breakdown of the events that occurred and at what time, how many enemy fighters involved and where they came from, number killed, number of friendlies and civilians killed, etc. They have a Google Maps-esque mapping program called FalconView, where anyone with access to the system can plot points on the map and describe events that occurred there at what particular time, include photographs, etc. The U.S. military has its flaws, and the technology is sub-par in some ways, but a lot of thought and money has been put into communications and especially intelligence.
I guess its because of a higher percentage of aspies on this site or something. FWIW, the dead giveaway that it was a joke was the "PROBLEM SOLVED!! stop asking questions, its solved, next problem!" bit at the end.
Let me rephrase that. You *have* to adopt an attitude of not being "sexually irresistable" or whatever, but that you consider yourself valuable and worthy of a good woman. Reality is something we can create. If you won't even believe in and act as if you believe in the reality of you being a good man with good qualities that women want, and that a woman would be lucky to have, and that you're not gonna settle for just any ole gal, then why the hell should a woman believe it?
In this case we don't need to argue until you make your own spelling mistake. Why? Because your too stupid to read what you are writing. I did not misspell deprecating. I spelled depreciating correctly. Now, I know that depreciating is a 'big word' to 3rd graders and the mentally retarded, but most grown-ups, even the ones who are not too smart, would disagree with you.
Depreciating is the wrong word for what you meant. Depreciating is what an asset does when it loses value. Deprecating is the correct adverb for this context and meaning. Idiot.
As for the rest of your comment: you should try getting laid more often. Not only would you learn more about the various types of intelligence that do in fact exist, but you'd also learn more about what it takes to participate in society without resorting to flinging insults and anger at anyone who dares to disagree with you or correct you where you're wrong.
The "everybody is smart, just in different ways" is total BS. That is what the stupid and self loathing tell each other.
I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out which group you belong to based on your self depreciating logical error in claiming that you know other forms of intelligence are more important than you could guess.
Hey buddy, here's a hint: using big words doesn't make you smart, or appear smart. (Especially when you misspell "deprecating.") Congratulations on the irony of being a prime example of an ignorant person who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. How does it feel to be outcompeted in every aspect of social life by those with much higher social intelligence than you?
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Stop following pointless customs.
And what makes them pointless? Because you personally are too stupid/ignorant to understand the reason they exist?
In a civilized society, people pay respect for the dead, because it is recognized that #1 you don't have command of all the facts. You don't know what kind of person this was. There is one thing you do know though, and that's #2 people are sad, upset, and feel terrible about their loved one, their friend, their father/uncle/cousin whatever dying in a horrible plane crash. Respect for the person shows respect for those who were hurt by his passing. EVERY person in our society deserves a modicum of respect. Respect doesn't have to be "earned", it is freely given amongst peers in a civilized society. Do you, or anyone else screaming "RESPECT MUST BE EARNED!!!!!!1111!" *really* want to live in a society where nobody respects anyone else? Funny how slashdot posters yell about "RESPECT IS EARNED" in one article, then in the next people are crying about all the violence, crime, etc that plagues our cities. WAKE UP, people.
He abused power granted to him for his own gain and that of others around him, regardless of the harm he was doing to others.
Just like EVERY HUMAN ON THIS PLANET does, intentionally or not.
You're saying you've never done anything that helped you and your friends, but hurt others in some way? Then you're a fucking liar. Or an idiot.
amen and praise Jesus. that's all I can add to this epic and 100% true rant
I hope when I die I don't get my own Slashdot article full of hundreds of lame, rude comments and snickering by basement dwelling nerds. I hope none of you do either. Can we have a little compassion for another human being, even if we don't personally know them and like them?
REST IN PEACE, TED STEVENS.
His friends, his family, his loved ones, the good things he's done on this Earth should be overlooked and forgotten, after all he's dead and we're glad, right?
And I resent having to buy Apple hardware if I want to run OSX.
And you're not in the majority.
Oh, and if you do buy some "PC except Apple's" I bet a few people here on Slashdot could recommend operating systems besides Win7 you could run on it.
He wants a quality, modern, general purpose OS, one that was designed from the bottom up to be great, usable, and well supported, not a convoluted hacked up pile of half-ass integrated crap that works well out of the box for a certain percentage of use cases and nothing else.
Signed,
Ubuntu user
Talk about completely missing the point. The point is, Apple sells physical goods. They know that when you deliver a physical product to somebody and it doesn't work right, nobody is going to put up with that the same way they'll put up with Windows 7 crashing or being buggy. So nobody gets fired over Windows 7 bugs unless they're really horrid, but at Apple you don't want to be That Guy who's responsible for The Antenna Problem.
... It's a type'o, simple as that. Either that or someone forgot to rub out the little horizontal bit on the t to turn it into an i, when they were having a little joke with themselves to lighten up the day, working for the man an all.
lol. +1, funny.
next post. ... we finally have our answer: dental x-ray machines, alien dental x-ray machines. that is what inspired pre-homo sapiens species to begin the journey to modern man: the divine inspiration of advanced dental technology
LOL. +1, funny.
next.
SETI at home project ... communicate with the aliens ... invisible, black monoliths around Jupiter ... force of Dental X-Rays ... denial of service attack on Jupiter, igniting it into a second sun ...Zionists ... Muslims ... Jews ... coming of the second son ... hell on earth where I'm standing ... Christians ... Bible was correct after all ...
-1, head explodes
To be fair, I think a lot of the problems with the patent system stem from the rapid advances we as a world and particularly as a nation have made over the past 50 or so years: rapid advances in technology, new ways of thinking, and new abstract concepts. The patent system probably worked fine 100 years ago, it's just incapable of correctly handling some of the concepts we deal with today, and the side effects (patent trolls, patent portfolios, Monsanto suing farmers and winning, etc) are getting to be unacceptable. I foresee a major reform of the patent system (maybe even copyright too) coming within the next 10-15 years.
A dog is always with you, so whenever you're not there your dog won't be either. You can't leave your dog at home while you go on vacation.
I don't know what part of the city you live in, but you do realize theres more to life and homes than what's available in the city, right? Your dog is always with you--WTF? The only people I know who are that nutty live in places like San Franscisco, and their dogs serve replacements for a life. You most certainly can leave your dog at home in most parts of the U.S., and yes, even while you're on vacation, assuming you have--I dunno, maybe FRIENDS--that could stop by and feed the thing every once in a while?
Yeah, it is not like a burgler would never think to calm the dog (treats are wonderful; 'here boy' is used by most ppl to call their dog). And, it would never dawn on a burgler to simply KICK the dog to quiet it down. My Sister had two dogs at their place in Mesa, AZ. The first time their house was robbed, both dogs were in corners with broken ribs. The burglers simply kicked both of them.
Yeah, try that with a well trained Rottweiler, German Shepherd, etc and see what happens. You think a security-minded dog is going to automatically trust you and let you bust in and do whatever you please just because you bring him a steak? You can train and raise up a dog to automatically kill anybody who tries to enter an area, or never to harm a fly, or anywhere in between depending on the owner's preferences. A properly trained Rottweiler isn't going to buckle over just because you kicked him in the stomach, thats why you train him and feed him to have muscles to protect himself from that kind of attack. Would be robbers would do themselves well to avoid this nonsense about throwing the dog a steak and "just kick him", LOL good luck with that.
No, insurance will cover your house. Suitable application of high explosives can certainly solve the nut who did it. It's easy to dispose of a bomb maker and disguise it as a suicide/accident; I mean who would really ask questions if one of "his" creations underneath his workbench "accidently" exploded?
What's with all the touch typing Mormons bicycling around trying to convert everyone to their way of doing things? To hell with touch typing. I just counted and I use like five fingers to type. I don't care about the home row, I have my own mental map of how the keyboard is laid out, and I just grab the keyboard and get to it. I can type up to 120 peak wpm, 80-100 constant, with few errors, so whats the big deal?
I'm also not clear, given that that was going on, why he is being golden parachuted, rather than shitcanned. Some he-said, she-said dramafest that boils down to no morally shocking offenses and a few technical violations is something I can see a company wanting to avoid. Fraud of the sort that a decent forensic accountant could demonstrate seems like the sort of thing that they could, and would, want to nail you to the wall for....
The secret of life: everything is a charade.
The (the board) just wanted him gone, for whatever reason, nothing personal but we're tired of you running our company. Maybe he refused to leave, or wasn't taking their strong hints about it. So they found whatever they could on him, drummed up all the charges they could, in order to force him to resign. So he did, and he gets his golden parachute of course, cause like I said: nothing personal, they accomplished their goal, no need to stir up further drama by refusing to pay a bonus. It's not like the money is coming out of these people's own personal checking accounts or anything, so it's all good.
Or what? You think this board of directors is a bunch of saints, having never committed any similar offenses and were thus shocked to hear that this guy was banging a contractor? I guarantee every one of those guys and girls has their own skeletons in the closet, but most smart people keep those well hidden to avoid them being used against oneself.
You rather glossed over the whole inaccurate expense reports, misappropriation of corporate resources and undisclosed close relationship with a contractor part of things that was uncovered while investigating the non-violation. Either that or your opinion of "didn't really do anything wrong" is substantively different than most other folks'.
The funny part is, EVERYONE DOES THIS KIND OF SHIT. For every one CEO "misappropriating corporate resources" how many underlings are there stealing extra pens, note pads, computers stuffed in the corner, etc? Not defending this guy cause I don't know him, but I am so sick and tired of people hearing about some minor infraction another person committed and then getting all up in arms about it like this kind of shit doesn't go on all day, every day, and everyone knows about it. This isn't about the guy's misconduct, because I guarantee nobody truly gives a fuck to hear he was banging a contractor. It's other things he did that put the nails in his coffin, like running the company poorly and/or pissing people off, and this is simply the leverage they gained to get rid of him. That's all.
Furthermore, how much of "sociologist/Criminologist calls CEOs sociopaths" is a sociologist making a sound general judgment of a class of people, and how much of it is sensationalist headline targeted towards many persons' hatred of those in power? What is the connotation of the word "sociopath"--it's negative, isn't it? We love to hear negative things about people we don't like. It's easy for some random asshole with paltry ambitions and little to recommend him to sit back and say "CEOs are sociopaths!!!!1" and get the nodding heads and approval of all his similarly incompetent peers.
I don't think a machine that has access to the internet is allowed to have access to any of these networks. I'm not sure on the implementation though.
SIPRNET (Secure IP Routed Network) has its own address space, its own routers with its own globally mandated policies and rules. An encryption device, often a TACLANE or similar, is used to encapsulate and encrypt the stream for transmission over a non-secure network (i.e. NIPRNET, which is tied to the Internet) to wherever it's going.
On the other hand, the absolute logic of a blanket ban seems suspect to me.
Welcome to the US military--the ONLY persons in Afghanistan (including Afghans) who are prohibited from drinking alcoholic beverages. Other services might drink a beer or two in the evening to unwind, and the Afghans will be glad to sell it to em. The U.S. just get to suffer, punctuated by the occasional idiot smuggling in a case of alcohol, getting drunk out of his mind, and being found unconscious in a puddle of his own puke on the back road, or worse, in the guard tower. What else did they expect to happen from a blanket ban? Yet stupid policies persist.
It's called SIPRNET. Anyone with Secret or higher clearance can log in, anywhere in theatre, and view all sorts of intelligence information from anywhere in theatre. One time I logged on and read an IRC chat log from an attack that occurred on a base on the East and was overrun. (The U.S. military uses IRC servers w/ mIRC clients as a way for forward operating base command centers to communicate events in real time.) There was also a complete analysis with the analysts' breakdown of the events that occurred and at what time, how many enemy fighters involved and where they came from, number killed, number of friendlies and civilians killed, etc. They have a Google Maps-esque mapping program called FalconView, where anyone with access to the system can plot points on the map and describe events that occurred there at what particular time, include photographs, etc. The U.S. military has its flaws, and the technology is sub-par in some ways, but a lot of thought and money has been put into communications and especially intelligence.
I guess its because of a higher percentage of aspies on this site or something. FWIW, the dead giveaway that it was a joke was the "PROBLEM SOLVED!! stop asking questions, its solved, next problem!" bit at the end.
You missed the point of what he was saying. His point was private shares are not liquid as public shares are.
Let me rephrase that. You *have* to adopt an attitude of not being "sexually irresistable" or whatever, but that you consider yourself valuable and worthy of a good woman. Reality is something we can create. If you won't even believe in and act as if you believe in the reality of you being a good man with good qualities that women want, and that a woman would be lucky to have, and that you're not gonna settle for just any ole gal, then why the hell should a woman believe it?
In this case we don't need to argue until you make your own spelling mistake. Why? Because your too stupid to read what you are writing. I did not misspell deprecating. I spelled depreciating correctly. Now, I know that depreciating is a 'big word' to 3rd graders and the mentally retarded, but most grown-ups, even the ones who are not too smart, would disagree with you.
Depreciating is the wrong word for what you meant. Depreciating is what an asset does when it loses value. Deprecating is the correct adverb for this context and meaning. Idiot.
As for the rest of your comment: you should try getting laid more often. Not only would you learn more about the various types of intelligence that do in fact exist, but you'd also learn more about what it takes to participate in society without resorting to flinging insults and anger at anyone who dares to disagree with you or correct you where you're wrong.
No, gaining self worth means that you don't have to adopt an absolutely unconvincing air of superiority and sexual irresistibility.
Reading comprehension fail.
The "everybody is smart, just in different ways" is total BS. That is what the stupid and self loathing tell each other.
I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out which group you belong to based on your self depreciating logical error in claiming that you know other forms of intelligence are more important than you could guess.
Hey buddy, here's a hint: using big words doesn't make you smart, or appear smart. (Especially when you misspell "deprecating.") Congratulations on the irony of being a prime example of an ignorant person who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. How does it feel to be outcompeted in every aspect of social life by those with much higher social intelligence than you?