But prosecutors aren't allowed to ignore exculpatory evidence or go with the "everybody knows you guys are crooked..." line of attack. My suspicion is the Obama administration would love, love, love to have a series of high profile Wall Street indictments, and maybe we'll see that sometime in October.
I hope you're right. Recent history doesn't support that theory though.
I like Obama and what he says, but his actions speak otherwise. Actions speak louder than words.
Economic rapists (sorry) landing cushy gov't jobs where they can influence gov't oversight doesn't speak well of integrity of the overall system.
Seems like someone has been watching too many 80s B movies.
Nah. Al Quaida's just lost so many of their leaders via drone strikes, they're outsourcing strategy and planning to the net. Smiple. [sic] Funny they'd come here.:-?
But that [requires] access. Just try to get into any big [building] without a security guard on your ass.
How about an airport? I've seen multiple stories attesting to the fact that passengers are scrutinized enormously, while catering staff and baggage handlers are challenged once at beginning of shift, then given free reign and left alone.
That, and perhaps someone can explain what, if any, need there is for an elevator's speed to change after it has been calibrated?
Stress testing the system? On a holiday when no civilians are around, speed it up and see if anything breaks. If not, then running at civilian speed should be safe.
Don't you people feed your programs bad data to find out what happens when they encounter it?!?
They aren't the writer is a idiot. Boiler's have MULTIPLE safeties that will just [shut] them down locally.
Not to mention [mechanical] pressure release devices; at worst they would vent boiler water onto the boiler room floor...
We hope. Far too many geeks just assume what's drop dead obvious to them is drop dead obvious to users/regular mortals. You guys should know by now that's not true.
Then, add in moronic management. !@#$ generally wants to happen if it can. See Murphy's Law.
That's exactly what happened to Aurthur Anderson. The corporation was charged in criminal court and was essentilally "executed".
So, their board of directors suffered, or will suffer, the same fate eventually, or at least go to jail? And Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros, & etc?
Nope. See, you need to have evidence to send people to jail.
Is anyone doing anything about that problem? I've watched a lot of documentaries and read a lot of articles swearing that there's plenty of smoking guns lying around all over the place, but I haven't seen much movement on the prosecution front. Out here in the peanut gallery, it looks like the game's rigged with insiders calling the shots, and they're getting away with their crime.
Disclaimer: I think the US' gov't/system is borked, and well on its way towards a fascist dictatorship. The guy on the street's just too busy trying to pay the rent to have noticed, so far. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic about it.
I just don't think the mere fact that children are somehow involved or at risk is enough of a reason to do something.
I take it back. You're not jaded. You're too recently picked from the vine to have any clue as to what's what. Others have called you a sociopath. I'll just assume you're youthfully ignorant. Enjoy growing up.:-)
Freedom's really not worth all that much if innocent noncombatants are dieing all around you. They tend to stink up the place for one thing. You need a bit more empathy, IMHO.
The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, [than] to force a penis into your body.
How do you feel about religious nuts who believe in the healing power of prayer, to the point that they refuse medical treatment for their critically ill child? I see very little difference between stepping in and treating that child and mandatory vaccination.
In the case of using prayer to heal critical illness that could have been easily treated then charge the former parents with negligent homicide.
Body count: one dead child.
The harder case would be with the anti-vax people unless their child was severely harmed or killed by not getting the vaccination.
You're not really thinking this through. I'm generally not much of a Think of the children!!! sort of person, but I do recognize kids are vulnerable and their survival is at the whim of their parents. If the parents get thrown in jail because their stupidity/ignorance killed their kid, that's not going to do that kid much good when s/he's dead.
Add to that the urgency factor. Critical life-saving medical care vs. vaccination; the latter is long term (problems may never show up), and the former is very short term (the kid may die at any moment).
"The State" and "The Authorities" are not very high on my list of considerations either (I'm small "l" libertarian/Objectivist; it's complicated:-), but I do think we all owe that kid enough sensibility that we don't let him get killed needlessly through ignorance. That's the crux of civilization of civilization for me. Kids are usually innocent noncombatants. They deserve our consideration even if their parents don't.
Have fun, and try not to hurt anyone while doing it.:-)
Well, that just changes everything. Children are involved.
Often these days, "Think of the children!" reduces to a buzz phrase. Sometimes, children really are at risk. It's good to differentiate between the two. For the children, who really are at risk.
Does anybody seriously suspect that advertisements prove compelling because we are deceived by them in some trivial 'I believe that this advertisement is a representative depiction of reality" sense that could be refuted simply by a textual disclaimer?
The fashion industry preys on the insecurity inherent in children, teens, and barely sentient twenty-somethings. Yes, within their peer group, this shiat is seriously important to them. Stupid, yes. Insignificant and unimportant in the long run, no. There's a lot of money involved, which is why it works.
If I were them, I'd prefer not to be preyed upon.
Go ahead and blame their parents for not hardening them against this crap, but how often does that happen these days?
I know about the "great Mexican wall". My question still stands: do you believe that it makes Mexico a "walled-off getto"?
I don't, no. Mexico's got a lot to say for itself (I often wish I were there, not here). Mexicans seeing their only chance for honest employment picking US farm crops may think otherwise.
considering there's no industry in Gaza and the West Bank, but getting to them means pretty much going from Mexico to the US
Is Mexico a walled-off ghetto as well, then?
I take it you haven't heard. A hundred miles on each side of the border, both in Canada and Mexico, is border patrol jurisdiction. "Papers please, comrade." Yes, they are building a wall along the southern US border. They've had geophones planted along the Canadian-US border for a long time now.
That some people lack self control in resisting external influences, real or perceived, is unfortunate but it does not justify infringing others' freedoms.
This is the fashion industry. It preys on the impressionable; children, insecure teens, and barely sentient twenty-somethings hyped up on hormones.
Therefore, seeing up-close and being around actual obese people on a daily basis would have a far greater effect than the occasional view of a rail-thin model in an advertisement.
Ah. That's why there's so much of an obesity problem. Too many fat people. Oh, wait,...
Gaza and the West Bank? Lots of Palestinians have jobs in Israel, considering there's no industry in Gaza and the West Bank, but getting to them means pretty much going from Mexico to the US, with the Israelis shutting down the border any time they feel threatened.
The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, [than] to force a penis into your body. Both actions are a violation of your natural right to control what goes into your body.
How do you feel about religious nuts who believe in the healing power of prayer, to the point that they refuse medical treatment for their critically ill child?
I see very little difference between stepping in and treating that child and mandatory vaccination. I'm for both of them. I almost died from whooping cough (pertussis) before I reached one year old. Sometimes, dragging them kicking and screaming into the present is justified, merciful even.
Apparently not. The post-mortem on that was reported in "Computer" (IEEE Computer Society), July 1993. I wonder if TSA scanners will be found in the future to have adversely affected as many innocent victims, or more.
If the insulin pump is that easy to break, surely some blame lies there as well?
You're blaming the victim. How many other sensitive life saving devices also need to be hardened, just to survive a TSA scan? Besides, I wouldn't be the least surprised if the amplitude and frequency spectrum of the scanners varied wildly all over the map. She could simply have landed in a bad scanner (as if they all aren't).
The last I heard, US congresscritters were writing letters to the TSA demanding third party tests on the scanners to find out what they're really putting out. The TSA says they're safe, so shut up!
Ubuntu comes with a C compiler, but no.h files. Before you can do even the littlest [programming], you have to do, in command-line, a cryptic wget.
I don't use Ubuntu, but I find all of that hard to believe. For one thing, you can apt-get from Ubuntu repositories; no need for wget. On my Debian boxes, I did install gcc with apt-get and that dragged in the header files with it.
If you need some specific programmer's toolkit (eg. wxWindows), yeah you can apt-get that too, and if you don't have the headers or gcc installed, that'll drag them in too.
All this assumes is/etc/apt/sources.list is correct for your release.
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But prosecutors aren't allowed to ignore exculpatory evidence or go with the "everybody knows you guys are crooked..." line of attack. My suspicion is the Obama administration would love, love, love to have a series of high profile Wall Street indictments, and maybe we'll see that sometime in October.
I hope you're right. Recent history doesn't support that theory though.
I like Obama and what he says, but his actions speak otherwise. Actions speak louder than words.
Economic rapists (sorry) landing cushy gov't jobs where they can influence gov't oversight doesn't speak well of integrity of the overall system.
Seems like someone has been watching too many 80s B movies.
Nah. Al Quaida's just lost so many of their leaders via drone strikes, they're outsourcing strategy and planning to the net. Smiple. [sic] Funny they'd come here. :-?
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But that [requires] access. Just try to get into any big [building] without a security guard on your ass.
How about an airport? I've seen multiple stories attesting to the fact that passengers are scrutinized enormously, while catering staff and baggage handlers are challenged once at beginning of shift, then given free reign and left alone.
That, and perhaps someone can explain what, if any, need there is for an elevator's speed to change after it has been calibrated?
Stress testing the system? On a holiday when no civilians are around, speed it up and see if anything breaks. If not, then running at civilian speed should be safe.
Don't you people feed your programs bad data to find out what happens when they encounter it?!?
They aren't the writer is a idiot. Boiler's have MULTIPLE safeties that will just [shut] them down locally.
Not to mention [mechanical] pressure release devices; at worst they would vent boiler water onto the boiler room floor...
We hope. Far too many geeks just assume what's drop dead obvious to them is drop dead obvious to users/regular mortals. You guys should know by now that's not true.
Then, add in moronic management. !@#$ generally wants to happen if it can. See Murphy's Law.
That's exactly what happened to Aurthur Anderson. The corporation was charged in criminal court and was essentilally "executed".
So, their board of directors suffered, or will suffer, the same fate eventually, or at least go to jail? And Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros, & etc?
Nope. See, you need to have evidence to send people to jail.
Is anyone doing anything about that problem? I've watched a lot of documentaries and read a lot of articles swearing that there's plenty of smoking guns lying around all over the place, but I haven't seen much movement on the prosecution front. Out here in the peanut gallery, it looks like the game's rigged with insiders calling the shots, and they're getting away with their crime.
Disclaimer: I think the US' gov't/system is borked, and well on its way towards a fascist dictatorship. The guy on the street's just too busy trying to pay the rent to have noticed, so far. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic about it.
I just don't think the mere fact that children are somehow involved or at risk is enough of a reason to do something.
I take it back. You're not jaded. You're too recently picked from the vine to have any clue as to what's what. Others have called you a sociopath. I'll just assume you're youthfully ignorant. Enjoy growing up. :-)
Freedom's really not worth all that much if innocent noncombatants are dieing all around you. They tend to stink up the place for one thing. You need a bit more empathy, IMHO.
The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, [than] to force a penis into your body.
How do you feel about religious nuts who believe in the healing power of prayer, to the point that they refuse medical treatment for their critically ill child? I see very little difference between stepping in and treating that child and mandatory vaccination.
In the case of using prayer to heal critical illness that could have been easily treated then charge the former parents with negligent homicide.
Body count: one dead child.
The harder case would be with the anti-vax people unless their child was severely harmed or killed by not getting the vaccination.
You're not really thinking this through. I'm generally not much of a Think of the children!!! sort of person, but I do recognize kids are vulnerable and their survival is at the whim of their parents. If the parents get thrown in jail because their stupidity/ignorance killed their kid, that's not going to do that kid much good when s/he's dead.
Add to that the urgency factor. Critical life-saving medical care vs. vaccination; the latter is long term (problems may never show up), and the former is very short term (the kid may die at any moment).
"The State" and "The Authorities" are not very high on my list of considerations either (I'm small "l" libertarian/Objectivist; it's complicated :-), but I do think we all owe that kid enough sensibility that we don't let him get killed needlessly through ignorance. That's the crux of civilization of civilization for me. Kids are usually innocent noncombatants. They deserve our consideration even if their parents don't.
Have fun, and try not to hurt anyone while doing it. :-)
I think you may be becoming jaded. I try my damnedest to avoid that sort of thing.
Well, that just changes everything. Children are involved.
Often these days, "Think of the children!" reduces to a buzz phrase. Sometimes, children really are at risk. It's good to differentiate between the two. For the children, who really are at risk.
Does anybody seriously suspect that advertisements prove compelling because we are deceived by them in some trivial 'I believe that this advertisement is a representative depiction of reality" sense that could be refuted simply by a textual disclaimer?
The fashion industry preys on the insecurity inherent in children, teens, and barely sentient twenty-somethings. Yes, within their peer group, this shiat is seriously important to them. Stupid, yes. Insignificant and unimportant in the long run, no. There's a lot of money involved, which is why it works.
If I were them, I'd prefer not to be preyed upon.
Go ahead and blame their parents for not hardening them against this crap, but how often does that happen these days?
That's exactly what happened to Aurthur Anderson. The corporation was charged in criminal court and was essentilally "executed".
So, their board of directors suffered, or will suffer, the same fate eventually, or at least go to jail? And Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros, & etc?
I like accountability. :-)
I know about the "great Mexican wall". My question still stands: do you believe that it makes Mexico a "walled-off getto"?
I don't, no. Mexico's got a lot to say for itself (I often wish I were there, not here). Mexicans seeing their only chance for honest employment picking US farm crops may think otherwise.
considering there's no industry in Gaza and the West Bank, but getting to them means pretty much going from Mexico to the US
Is Mexico a walled-off ghetto as well, then?
I take it you haven't heard. A hundred miles on each side of the border, both in Canada and Mexico, is border patrol jurisdiction. "Papers please, comrade." Yes, they are building a wall along the southern US border. They've had geophones planted along the Canadian-US border for a long time now.
You're surprised by this?
That some people lack self control in resisting external influences, real or perceived, is unfortunate but it does not justify infringing others' freedoms.
This is the fashion industry. It preys on the impressionable; children, insecure teens, and barely sentient twenty-somethings hyped up on hormones.
Therefore, seeing up-close and being around actual obese people on a daily basis would have a far greater effect than the occasional view of a rail-thin model in an advertisement.
Ah. That's why there's so much of an obesity problem. Too many fat people. Oh, wait, ...
They aren't the product, but the implied claim is 'our clothes/makeup will make you look like this person'.
Actually, in fashion it's more like, "Our stuff will help you NOT look like those other people."
What walled-off ghettos are you referring to?
Gaza and the West Bank? Lots of Palestinians have jobs in Israel, considering there's no industry in Gaza and the West Bank, but getting to them means pretty much going from Mexico to the US, with the Israelis shutting down the border any time they feel threatened.
The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, [than] to force a penis into your body. Both actions are a violation of your natural right to control what goes into your body.
How do you feel about religious nuts who believe in the healing power of prayer, to the point that they refuse medical treatment for their critically ill child?
I see very little difference between stepping in and treating that child and mandatory vaccination. I'm for both of them. I almost died from whooping cough (pertussis) before I reached one year old. Sometimes, dragging them kicking and screaming into the present is justified, merciful even.
Remember the Therac-25 incident.
Apparently not. The post-mortem on that was reported in "Computer" (IEEE Computer Society), July 1993. I wonder if TSA scanners will be found in the future to have adversely affected as many innocent victims, or more.
It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine.
Are people just too fucking lazy to even read before they open their big mouths?
Well, others are stupid enough to believe a Rent-A-Cop's advice when asking about mm-Wave scanners. You do the math.
If the insulin pump is that easy to break, surely some blame lies there as well?
You're blaming the victim. How many other sensitive life saving devices also need to be hardened, just to survive a TSA scan? Besides, I wouldn't be the least surprised if the amplitude and frequency spectrum of the scanners varied wildly all over the map. She could simply have landed in a bad scanner (as if they all aren't).
The last I heard, US congresscritters were writing letters to the TSA demanding third party tests on the scanners to find out what they're really putting out. The TSA says they're safe, so shut up!
Ubuntu comes with a C compiler, but no .h files. Before you can do even the littlest [programming], you have to do, in command-line, a cryptic wget.
I don't use Ubuntu, but I find all of that hard to believe. For one thing, you can apt-get from Ubuntu repositories; no need for wget. On my Debian boxes, I did install gcc with apt-get and that dragged in the header files with it.
If you need some specific programmer's toolkit (eg. wxWindows), yeah you can apt-get that too, and if you don't have the headers or gcc installed, that'll drag them in too.
All this assumes is /etc/apt/sources.list is correct for your release.
My main problem is having multiple of the same program open, ie. 6 terminals. I can't work out how to select the one I want ...
Try mrxvt; multiple terminals, all in one window. CTRL-TAB (sort of) toggles between them.
As for which one's which, I customize my prompt (PS1) so it displays hostname in the prompt and "[root]" if it's an su session.
export PS1='($?) $(hostname) ${PWD}_ '