I'm sure age discrimination is real, but that's not the issue here.
Unless you have more information than TFA provides, you can't know this. Age discrimination is often subtle and should not be dismissed as glibly as you have tried to do.
A Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil
Fixed that for ya. (Most Christians of my acquaintance seem to have heard of that idea but consider it nonsense.)
That lines up pretty well with my experience that most Xtians are a duplicitous lot, picking and choosing freely with parts of their chosen edition of "...the complete, true and unerring word of god" are to be observed (and cited incessantly) and which to disregard as "nonsense".
The Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil: a demon will be the slave of the witch during the remainder of their lifetime on Earth (the demon is the source of their powers), and when they die their soul will become the slave of the demon in Hell for eternity. That might be why some are interested in life extension technology.
Not that Xtians are often prone to letting reason get in their way, but that theory kinda puts the lie to the whole "free will" argument does it not? If one is hoodwinked by supernatural powers, there can be no free will.
It's nonsense like this that is the direct result of lowering hiring standards in order to get a requisite quota of women and minorities employed where they should not be.
If you are referring to every religion that ever existed, then I'd the most I could accuse you of is being a bit insensitive. If you're singling out Wicca, then you are applying a blatant double standard and I would call that "absolutely fucking stupid". So, tell me. Are you religious at all?
It's up to 4 hours for a raving lunatic to "cool down".
Not sufficient. The widely employed standard period for the detention of the acutely mentally ill is there for a reason. Wild swings in behavior, mood, mentation are common in these people. Leave it to Texas to get the priorities for helping the mentally ill ass-backwards, yet again.
If you are talking about perl, you are not in the "skilled craftsmen" group. For certain jobs, it is unparalleled. Now pick up your hammer and start whacking those nails.
One of the defining traits of a skilled craftsman is her ability to choose the right tool for the job. In other words, not everything is a nail, rookie.
For those of us whose time is more valuable than most, it's not "too expensive", not even close. And noisy? From inside, I'm sure it's quite nice. Who gives a shit about people on the ground?
Assuming you're the local goody-two-shoes Administrator ("NT can be, and usually is, administered by an idiot") the first real question is, why block at all? Perhaps then you can answer why you feel the need to make a big show of allowing exceptions.
Given that end-users are now the most frequently exploited point in most networks, the first real question asked by idiots is "Why block at all?" Given a network that services anything at all sensitive, the default state for outbound connections to the Internet should "blocked".
No one. The existence of a master key for any given system renders everything in that system less safe. Period. I am far more afraid of a compromised master key for something that I am forced to use, than I am afraid of "teh terrorists". Are you listening, Congressman? Do not fuck with my privacy. The smart people are trying to tell you something. You don't understand the technology and the implications of what well-meaning law-enforcement types are asking for.
This latest episode was announced as if it had serious and broad impact. It did not, but that didn't help those of us who, on less than two days notice, moved things around to prepare for another round of mitigation of a "severe" security issue. Yes, we're all glad it's not as bad as it might have been, but the point is that somebody was aware of that when the announcements went out. They should have been more forthcoming.
Let's kill all advertising so that you will not be able to find any new products or services and no company could find a client who didn't know the company directly somehow. Wouldn't it be great, not to know about anything people are trying to create for you?
No. What we be great, really great, would be if advertising and marketing shitheads would stop insisting on using broken technology to animate their ads. For every Flash ad out there there is at least one engineer who has said, or tried to say, something like "We should build this on something proper..."
In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.
junkies might similarly claim that taking away their heroin is a dangerous social crime.
And they'd be as guilty as you are at making that lame comparison. Yes, yes, we all know that there are some users out there for whom various content available via the Internet is like a drug, but to lump all Internet traffic into that category is beyond stupid.
The article really has nothing to do with nuclear power plants, despite the opening references.
He is talking about the poor security at the Oak Ridge facility.
If private security guards are so bad, maybe they should call in the experts from Homeland Security.
For those who don't get the sarcasm, the notion that "privatization" is a good thing is proving to be a bad idea, yet again. Without careful regulation, something that itself comes with a cost, a profit-driven industry will, by it's very nature, seek to cut corners (cheat) it's customers in order to increase those profits. Pharmaceuticals, or automobile brakes, or guarding nuclear plants, these are not places to let the mythical free market run the show, and yet we continue to allow the Reagan era meme that "government is the problem" to pervade our thinking.
Its just another mastrabatory progressive poll where some collection of halfwits want to claim intellectual superiority by asking a set of cherry picked questions under controlled circomstances and then strip out all context.
Really? Somehow, I suspect that you'd have an entirely different critique if the answers weren't such an embarrassment to those who fit into the "conservative" camp.
The really glaring thing here, to me at least, is that the non-scientist sample is so far off from the scientist sample. Do some research into why the non-scientists believe the stupid shit they do. Come, on, less than half of all laymen believe evolution is a thing? That's scary.
We've managed to spend a trillion taxpayers dollars on an incredibly expensive airplane, which is being built by our friends. Our friends got their money. Right? I call that an unqualified success. Who gives a shit if it actually works?
Rightsholders keep pushing the fact that we're buying a personal use license to the media when we buy a CD/DVD/etc, so why is making a mere copy for personal use unlawful in any way?
You can't have it both ways, greedy bastards.
Oh, yes we can, you little person you. We missed the boat completely when it came to digital media and lack totally the vision to come up with a business model that works in this new age, so we've paid good money, a buttload of it, to have the rules tilt things in our favor. So shut up and take what we so generously offer you.
Regards,
Your Friends at RIAA
By pulling out of the process, they're basically ensuring they will have zero say in the outcome.
Not quite. They're finally recognizing the plain fact that in the United States today, if a "corporate citizen" wants something badly enough, they get it, and the little people can go fuck themselves.
Is this a great country, or what?/s
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I'm sure age discrimination is real, but that's not the issue here.
Unless you have more information than TFA provides, you can't know this. Age discrimination is often subtle and should not be dismissed as glibly as you have tried to do.
A Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil
Fixed that for ya. (Most Christians of my acquaintance seem to have heard of that idea but consider it nonsense.)
That lines up pretty well with my experience that most Xtians are a duplicitous lot, picking and choosing freely with parts of their chosen edition of "...the complete, true and unerring word of god" are to be observed (and cited incessantly) and which to disregard as "nonsense".
But perhaps President Bartlet illustrates it best...
The Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil: a demon will be the slave of the witch during the remainder of their lifetime on Earth (the demon is the source of their powers), and when they die their soul will become the slave of the demon in Hell for eternity. That might be why some are interested in life extension technology.
Not that Xtians are often prone to letting reason get in their way, but that theory kinda puts the lie to the whole "free will" argument does it not? If one is hoodwinked by supernatural powers, there can be no free will.
It's nonsense like this that is the direct result of lowering hiring standards in order to get a requisite quota of women and minorities employed where they should not be.
Jeezus, dude. Bigot much?
There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity.
If you are referring to every religion that ever existed, then I'd the most I could accuse you of is being a bit insensitive. If you're singling out Wicca, then you are applying a blatant double standard and I would call that "absolutely fucking stupid". So, tell me. Are you religious at all?
It's up to 4 hours for a raving lunatic to "cool down".
Not sufficient. The widely employed standard period for the detention of the acutely mentally ill is there for a reason. Wild swings in behavior, mood, mentation are common in these people. Leave it to Texas to get the priorities for helping the mentally ill ass-backwards, yet again.
Some tools are never right.
That applies both to tools and "tools".
If you are talking about perl, you are not in the "skilled craftsmen" group. For certain jobs, it is unparalleled. Now pick up your hammer and start whacking those nails.
Before I'd ever code in Perl.
One of the defining traits of a skilled craftsman is her ability to choose the right tool for the job. In other words, not everything is a nail, rookie.
For those of us whose time is more valuable than most, it's not "too expensive", not even close. And noisy? From inside, I'm sure it's quite nice. Who gives a shit about people on the ground?
Regards,
The Chosen 1%
Assuming you're the local goody-two-shoes Administrator ("NT can be, and usually is, administered by an idiot") the first real question is, why block at all? Perhaps then you can answer why you feel the need to make a big show of allowing exceptions.
Given that end-users are now the most frequently exploited point in most networks, the first real question asked by idiots is "Why block at all?" Given a network that services anything at all sensitive, the default state for outbound connections to the Internet should "blocked".
No one. The existence of a master key for any given system renders everything in that system less safe. Period. I am far more afraid of a compromised master key for something that I am forced to use, than I am afraid of "teh terrorists". Are you listening, Congressman? Do not fuck with my privacy. The smart people are trying to tell you something. You don't understand the technology and the implications of what well-meaning law-enforcement types are asking for.
This latest episode was announced as if it had serious and broad impact. It did not, but that didn't help those of us who, on less than two days notice, moved things around to prepare for another round of mitigation of a "severe" security issue. Yes, we're all glad it's not as bad as it might have been, but the point is that somebody was aware of that when the announcements went out. They should have been more forthcoming.
...to the Shark Tank, rook'.
Let's kill all advertising so that you will not be able to find any new products or services and no company could find a client who didn't know the company directly somehow. Wouldn't it be great, not to know about anything people are trying to create for you?
No. What we be great, really great, would be if advertising and marketing shitheads would stop insisting on using broken technology to animate their ads. For every Flash ad out there there is at least one engineer who has said, or tried to say, something like "We should build this on something proper..."
Funny like me laughing while I hack your fucking premises to pieces and then feed them one by one into a wood chipper.
Riiight. OK, then. Off the meds again, are we?
We're losing the space race to the Russians.
In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.
https://twitter.com/sarahoconn...
"Seriously, Sarah. You need to let go of these fantasies. Do you want to end up back in the hospital again?"
junkies might similarly claim that taking away their heroin is a dangerous social crime.
And they'd be as guilty as you are at making that lame comparison. Yes, yes, we all know that there are some users out there for whom various content available via the Internet is like a drug, but to lump all Internet traffic into that category is beyond stupid.
The article really has nothing to do with nuclear power plants, despite the opening references. He is talking about the poor security at the Oak Ridge facility. If private security guards are so bad, maybe they should call in the experts from Homeland Security.
For those who don't get the sarcasm, the notion that "privatization" is a good thing is proving to be a bad idea, yet again. Without careful regulation, something that itself comes with a cost, a profit-driven industry will, by it's very nature, seek to cut corners (cheat) it's customers in order to increase those profits. Pharmaceuticals, or automobile brakes, or guarding nuclear plants, these are not places to let the mythical free market run the show, and yet we continue to allow the Reagan era meme that "government is the problem" to pervade our thinking.
Its just another mastrabatory progressive poll where some collection of halfwits want to claim intellectual superiority by asking a set of cherry picked questions under controlled circomstances and then strip out all context.
Really? Somehow, I suspect that you'd have an entirely different critique if the answers weren't such an embarrassment to those who fit into the "conservative" camp.
The really glaring thing here, to me at least, is that the non-scientist sample is so far off from the scientist sample. Do some research into why the non-scientists believe the stupid shit they do. Come, on, less than half of all laymen believe evolution is a thing? That's scary.
We've managed to spend a trillion taxpayers dollars on an incredibly expensive airplane, which is being built by our friends. Our friends got their money. Right? I call that an unqualified success. Who gives a shit if it actually works?
Regards,
Your Elected Officials
...a crime was committed...
Not really. Laws, criminal codes to be more precise, apply to people, not corporations. Didn't you get the memo?
Rightsholders keep pushing the fact that we're buying a personal use license to the media when we buy a CD/DVD/etc, so why is making a mere copy for personal use unlawful in any way?
You can't have it both ways, greedy bastards.
Oh, yes we can, you little person you. We missed the boat completely when it came to digital media and lack totally the vision to come up with a business model that works in this new age, so we've paid good money, a buttload of it, to have the rules tilt things in our favor. So shut up and take what we so generously offer you. Regards, Your Friends at RIAA
By pulling out of the process, they're basically ensuring they will have zero say in the outcome.
Not quite. They're finally recognizing the plain fact that in the United States today, if a "corporate citizen" wants something badly enough, they get it, and the little people can go fuck themselves. /s
Is this a great country, or what?
What if I want to consume it despite there not being a consensus that it is safe to consume?
I've heard talk of a marketplace for "fat credits".