I know (or hope) you meant well, but what does it matter if the person shot in the back is a US citizen or an illegal immigrant?
A police officer shooting a person running away in the back is an act of police brutality regardless of the country of citizenship of said person.
When you make this about a police officer shooting a US citizen, you are (hopefully inadvertently) denying the brutality that is committed against non-US citizens by the same police, for the same absurd reasons.
Does it matter if the beheadings are done to US citizens or other-country citizens? No, it doesn't they are still as cruel, absurd and enraging.
Many here have said that she was suing just to get money, and that is likely true.
However, as a woman in tech I can tell you that even though this lawsuit might have been a scam, it doesn't mean that there is no discrimination out there.
There's a lot of comments here saying that the pay gap is only due to women going out of the workforce during their child-bearing years. It is not just that. Sure, women that go on maternity leave may "lose time" and thus be paid less than their colleagues that didn't, but that's not the only reason. Men are promoted on expectations, whereas women are promoted on acomplishments. This means that a woman needs to go do more and prove herself more than a man in order to get the same promotion.
Several studies have shown that when faced with the SAME RESUME changing the name from a female to a male one will raise the intended salary. When faced with the same performance review, changing the name to male will raise the overall score and the monetary bonus. The gender of the person selecting the salary or bonus is irrelevant, women and men equally discriminate against women.
Some comments mentioned women not studying CS because they weren't interested or similar stuff. Sure, some women might not be interested. But a lot of women leave the tech industry every year, at all the stages (students, graduates, employees, managers, etc) due to the constant pressure to prove that they actually belong there. It's in the small stuff that accumulates over time, like a female conference attendee (or even speaker) being taken to be someone's girlfriend, a female programmer getting handed all the admin work for the team, a female engineer being told that she would understand a certain solution to a problem because it's too complex. It's in larger things like a new hire being told by her peers that she only got hired because she's a woman, in promotion processes that require assertiveness (a trait that most women find hard) even though the job itself doesn't call for that, and a culture that values hours in front of the monitor over actual results (in general, women value their free time more, and they will work harder in order to leave early, but this is not something the tech industry in general appreciates).
And all of this is without mentioning harassment. There's a lot of harassment towards women in the tech industry. And not only sexual harassment (of which there is plenty and hopefully you don't need examples of this), there's also plain anti-women harassment, i.e. people telling it to your face that you are not good enough because you are a woman, managers refusing to give their female employees big projects because they don't believe them capable, thus making them unable to prove that they are... And to top it all there's the GamerGate.
Most women leave quietly, there's plenty of those. For the few that don't, there's thousands of male voices eager to shut them down, claiming over and over that they are exaggerating or directly lying, and then threatening to swat them, rape them, kill them... No wonder most choose the silent path.
So, please, even if we agree that this suit was absurd and just a grab to get money, do not take this to mean that there is no discrimination. There is. A lot of it. And the vast majority of those discriminated just take it silently because they know that it's the safest route. And it will still be until we as a society do something to change this.
The whole point of Mars One is to be funded by broadcasting 24/7. If there are 10 days of disconnections (as some other post says, I don't know the details), there are 10 days of loss in advertisement.
Exactly what I thought when I read the article. How long can the copyright on the design of a clock last? If it's 70 years, then it'll still be protected for 11 more years.
But then, it's also a trademark. I don't know swiss law, but trademarks are usually allowed to be renewed forever... If that's the case with this clock, then nobody will be able to ever make a clock that looks like this one without paying the Swiss Railway.
The problem is in your first statement: "with no bus service". If you had a bus service, then you wouldn't be wondering about public transit.
When "public transit" means fast trains for interurban and noiseless tramways for urban, with a joined fare so that you pay for the time you travel and not for the amount of different vehicles you use, you could perfectly take the tram to the train station, take the train and then again the tram to your parents house.
This works like a charm in Switzerland (and other european countries, but my best experience was in.ch). Tram times are synchronized with train times, so that you don't have to spend more than one or two minutes in the change of vehicle. You travel comfortably and fast from one or two blocks away or your house to one or two blocks away of your destination.
Many places currently do not have good public transportation, and people cannot even think of moving around without a car. It doesn't mean that good public transportation is impossible and that living without a car is always a show of being "poor".
There are some very dark times in Argentina's sort-of-recent history, when people against the government were illegally detained and made to disappear. However, that stopped with the return of democracy, almost 30 years ago.
10 years ago, there was an incident of protests and violence, when the president then was forced to resign. However that was an isolated event, and probably not what you are aiming at.
The current state of affairs regarding people thinking differently in the US has nothing to do with Argentina. Protestors here are not attacked by the police, their rights to protests are many and are respected. Any kind of repression like the one suffered by the Occupy movement would trigger governors/mayors resignations... Even maybe the president.
My thoughts exactly. Whenever I read about this story I think both of "I am Legend" and "Resident Evil" movies. Even if they are fantasy I think the "do not mess with viruses" message still holds true.
(P.S. I did check and the plural of virus is viruses not viri nor virii).
Given the current history of stupidity regarding harmless tweets, I seriously doubt that they have anything that really filters the good from the bad. If one of your tweets triggered them, then you are not welcome in the US.
> I had a public school education, yet i know how this ends.
How? In a civil war/uprising like happened in Egypt? In a yet more oppressing tyranny like North Korea?
The whole wide word is going at a very fast speed towards giving more and more control to the governments. Some countries are further into it than others, but the whole world is going in that direction.
I'm afraid that the most likely outcome is a 1984-like world:-\
Thanks for sharing such a masterpiece against copyright. It's sad that those that came afterwards didn't have someone like Thomas Babington Macaulay to put into such excellent words the devil of copyright.
I don't think most women truly understand that the concept of a woman being able to take care of herself and her children without resorting to prostitution as a relatively recent societal construct.
I disagree. I think most women do understand it. The fact that it's a new possibility doesn't mean that we should still live like it isn't possible.
It has only been in the past 75 years (generously) that women could arguably do fine without a man.
[citation needed].
Just of the top of my head I can think of books like "Little Women" or "Jane Eyre" that happen about 150 years ago, where women are already able to work and support themselves, even if society is still not accepting it as "normal".
130 years ago, women were already accepted as university graduate students in the US.
100 years ago, Marie Curie earned her SECOND Nobel prize (1903 and 1911).
Yes, it's still fairly recent, but it's NOT 75 years. At least for some countries, I'd say women have been able to support themselves for 150 to 200 years. There are of course places where women still do not have this possibility.
It is actually only a fairly recent concept that marriage occurred with common folk
[citation needed], again. You describe how marriage was handled among nobility in Europe. That DOESN'T mean that marriage was handled the same way everywhere, for the "common folk", as you say. Maybe you are referring only to big weddings, and you are most probably forgetting what is called "Common law Marriage".
Note that sexual monogomy was originally only a constraint imposed on women, and that was to ensure the sire of any offspring the woman produces. Men had no such constraints.
Yet another [citation needed]. "Originally" where? when? under which laws?
Even in many countries today a man caught being unfaithful is punished with a fine while a woman being unfaithful is punished with death. This isn't mysogynistic, this is reality.
As already stated in another comment, reality can be misogynistic, and in many places in the world it is. This doesn't mean that you should accept it as valid, and that you shouldn't take a stand against it.
I find your comment completely misogynist and dumb.
Even if marriage WAS designed to protect women in the past, it doesn't mean that it cannot get a new significance with new times.
I agree that a lot of people get married for the wrong reasons. And that it'd be better if they didn't. I feel that you are mistaken in almost everything else you say, though.
Your statements are suprisingly dumb for a +5 comment... "I'll make a promise to this lady because I love her and I don't want her to ever worry about where her next meal is coming from"... "I'm too weak to care for myself and I need some legal protection that makes it so he can't just run off to be with someone else without some form of legal and financial repercussion."...
Marriage goes both ways. You fail to see that a man can also need the support of a woman. If a man is disabled for any reason (be it physical or psychological) then having a wife will mean having a person by his side to support him no matter what.
For me, marriage means: "I'm committed to you, I'll stand by your side, in the good times and the bad times, I'll respect you and care for you until death do us apart".
[I'm a married woman, I earn the same as my husband, I didn't marry him so he wouldn't run off, nor did I marry him so he would support me economically]
People who rely on libraries shouldn't need to touch anything, except update their libraries.
This would quickly identify good programmers from bad programmers.
In any case, this ain't going to happen. Not a chance. Who would want their birthday always on the same day? Is there any benefit from such a stupid (and old) suggestion?
> Take an example 1/4" = 0.635 cm, it's a hell of a lot easier > (and cheaper) to make something 1/4th of the length of > something else, versus 127/200th of some standard length.
This is ridiculous. It's not cheaper or easier, it's just that that was what was there before.
There are inch-screws and millimetric screws. In millimetric screws you have, for example, a 6mm one. You wouldn't have a 6.35 mm one, that's stupid.
The same goes with everything else. The fact that certain things are measured as 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch is just a convenience, there's nothing magical in these numbers. They could perfectly be rounded to 2cm, 1cm, 1/2 cm or whatever is handy for each use.
The ContentID system is prepared to match parts of video and parts of songs. You have to modify more than just a few frames at the beginning and the end to fool ContentID.
The only solution is to complain until they listen.
She had a very unusual life, at least by our standards. Reading about her life makes me think that it may not be the genes so much as the environment that made her live that much.
So, if you've read them and studied them, can you tell us what are the most important things that they say?
For years and years people have spoken about these scrolls as if they held the key to understanding Christianity, or maybe as if they would somehow discredit the bases of Christianity. However, it doesn't seem to be the case, so why is it that people keep talking about this as if it were a great menace?
Finally, I once heard a theory that Jesus had come FROM Qumran, i.e. he was living that monastic life before going to Jerusalem to preach... What do you make of such theory?
Even though it's still obvious and quite plainly not patentable, what the patent says is that _the broker_ (i.e. not _the shipper_) 'pushes' the estimate the client.
So, it's not the same as inputting your tracking number into a FedEx website, because it's A) a separate entity B) it's a push rather than a pull.
That is not to say that other people don't do exactly this, but still, it's better to really know what's being patented here.
The math is not so simple as that, because these devices waste some battery while on stand-by. So if you don't turn them completely off (which is not usual, due to the painful amount of time it takes to start-up).
With my nook (first edition), I've found that I can read between 10 to 14 days of aprox. 1 hour a day (about 12 hours of reading), but I can also use it for 3 days of 8 hours a day (about 24 hours of reading) -only feasable on holidays, obviously-. All of this with wireless off, and none of it an exact measurement, just what I've experienced.
So yes, measuring battery life is hard, it depends a lot on the use you give the device. However, it annoys me that it wastes so much battery on keeping it on stand-by. Maybe they've worked on that for the nook 2, and that's why they are parading their 2 months estimate. Because, with the old nook, it's not true that you can double the amount of days the battery lasts if you halve the amount of hours you read.
As a Debian Developer, I'm very pleased to read comments like yours.
However, I think you are exaggerating. It's true that Debian is much more stable than Ubuntu, yes, and I'm very proud of that. Unfortunately it is not true that it _never_ breaks. Creating that sort of expectation is going to end up in a lot of frustration when something does break.
My worst cases of breakage are old notebooks, that used to work just fine with Lenny but now don't work just as well in Squeeze (hibernate doesn't work, fan control doesn't work, etc), due mainly to the kernel people not supporting those peripherals any more. There's only so much that we Debian folks can do, when upstream breaks, it's very very difficult to prevent the breakage in the distro.
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I know (or hope) you meant well, but what does it matter if the person shot in the back is a US citizen or an illegal immigrant?
A police officer shooting a person running away in the back is an act of police brutality regardless of the country of citizenship of said person.
When you make this about a police officer shooting a US citizen, you are (hopefully inadvertently) denying the brutality that is committed against non-US citizens by the same police, for the same absurd reasons.
Does it matter if the beheadings are done to US citizens or other-country citizens? No, it doesn't they are still as cruel, absurd and enraging.
Many here have said that she was suing just to get money, and that is likely true.
However, as a woman in tech I can tell you that even though this lawsuit might have been a scam, it doesn't mean that there is no discrimination out there.
There's a lot of comments here saying that the pay gap is only due to women going out of the workforce during their child-bearing years. It is not just that. Sure, women that go on maternity leave may "lose time" and thus be paid less than their colleagues that didn't, but that's not the only reason. Men are promoted on expectations, whereas women are promoted on acomplishments. This means that a woman needs to go do more and prove herself more than a man in order to get the same promotion.
Several studies have shown that when faced with the SAME RESUME changing the name from a female to a male one will raise the intended salary. When faced with the same performance review, changing the name to male will raise the overall score and the monetary bonus. The gender of the person selecting the salary or bonus is irrelevant, women and men equally discriminate against women.
Some comments mentioned women not studying CS because they weren't interested or similar stuff. Sure, some women might not be interested. But a lot of women leave the tech industry every year, at all the stages (students, graduates, employees, managers, etc) due to the constant pressure to prove that they actually belong there. It's in the small stuff that accumulates over time, like a female conference attendee (or even speaker) being taken to be someone's girlfriend, a female programmer getting handed all the admin work for the team, a female engineer being told that she would understand a certain solution to a problem because it's too complex. It's in larger things like a new hire being told by her peers that she only got hired because she's a woman, in promotion processes that require assertiveness (a trait that most women find hard) even though the job itself doesn't call for that, and a culture that values hours in front of the monitor over actual results (in general, women value their free time more, and they will work harder in order to leave early, but this is not something the tech industry in general appreciates).
And all of this is without mentioning harassment. There's a lot of harassment towards women in the tech industry. And not only sexual harassment (of which there is plenty and hopefully you don't need examples of this), there's also plain anti-women harassment, i.e. people telling it to your face that you are not good enough because you are a woman, managers refusing to give their female employees big projects because they don't believe them capable, thus making them unable to prove that they are... And to top it all there's the GamerGate.
Most women leave quietly, there's plenty of those. For the few that don't, there's thousands of male voices eager to shut them down, claiming over and over that they are exaggerating or directly lying, and then threatening to swat them, rape them, kill them... No wonder most choose the silent path.
So, please, even if we agree that this suit was absurd and just a grab to get money, do not take this to mean that there is no discrimination. There is. A lot of it. And the vast majority of those discriminated just take it silently because they know that it's the safest route. And it will still be until we as a society do something to change this.
The whole point of Mars One is to be funded by broadcasting 24/7. If there are 10 days of disconnections (as some other post says, I don't know the details), there are 10 days of loss in advertisement.
Exactly what I thought when I read the article. How long can the copyright on the design of a clock last? If it's 70 years, then it'll still be protected for 11 more years.
But then, it's also a trademark. I don't know swiss law, but trademarks are usually allowed to be renewed forever... If that's the case with this clock, then nobody will be able to ever make a clock that looks like this one without paying the Swiss Railway.
The problem is in your first statement: "with no bus service". If you had a bus service, then you wouldn't be wondering about public transit.
When "public transit" means fast trains for interurban and noiseless tramways for urban, with a joined fare so that you pay for the time you travel and not for the amount of different vehicles you use, you could perfectly take the tram to the train station, take the train and then again the tram to your parents house.
This works like a charm in Switzerland (and other european countries, but my best experience was in .ch). Tram times are synchronized with train times, so that you don't have to spend more than one or two minutes in the change of vehicle. You travel comfortably and fast from one or two blocks away or your house to one or two blocks away of your destination.
Many places currently do not have good public transportation, and people cannot even think of moving around without a car. It doesn't mean that good public transportation is impossible and that living without a car is always a show of being "poor".
Argentina? I'm failing to see the parallel.
There are some very dark times in Argentina's sort-of-recent history, when people against the government were illegally detained and made to disappear. However, that stopped with the return of democracy, almost 30 years ago.
10 years ago, there was an incident of protests and violence, when the president then was forced to resign. However that was an isolated event, and probably not what you are aiming at.
The current state of affairs regarding people thinking differently in the US has nothing to do with Argentina. Protestors here are not attacked by the police, their rights to protests are many and are respected. Any kind of repression like the one suffered by the Occupy movement would trigger governors/mayors resignations... Even maybe the president.
My thoughts exactly. Whenever I read about this story I think both of "I am Legend" and "Resident Evil" movies. Even if they are fantasy I think the "do not mess with viruses" message still holds true.
(P.S. I did check and the plural of virus is viruses not viri nor virii).
Given the current history of stupidity regarding harmless tweets, I seriously doubt that they have anything that really filters the good from the bad. If one of your tweets triggered them, then you are not welcome in the US.
I tried to find .gov sites with this flyer without success. However I DID find .gov or other sites with similar flyers, but for different cases:
On reno.gov, for hotels and motels (does not say FBI):
http://www.reno.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=17584
Florida Self Storage Association, for cargo holders (says FBI, low quality scan)
http://www.floridassa.org/form/FBI-Indicators.pdf
The "Columbus, Ohio Police" site (not .gov, I don't know if it's legit or not) has quite a number of these flyers, although the Internet Cafe ones are not included:
http://www.columbuspolice.org/Units/Terrorism%20Early%20Warning.html
This page (supposedly the sheriff's office page for Osceola County, Florida) seems to have a compendium of all of them, in plain text:
http://www.osceola.org/sheriff/113-14385-19137/communities_against_terrorism.cfm
If it's someone trolling, they really did put A LOT of energy into making this look legit.
> I had a public school education, yet i know how this ends.
How? In a civil war/uprising like happened in Egypt? In a yet more oppressing tyranny like North Korea?
The whole wide word is going at a very fast speed towards giving more and more control to the governments. Some countries are further into it than others, but the whole world is going in that direction.
I'm afraid that the most likely outcome is a 1984-like world :-\
I've been unsuccessfully trying to find an official (.gov) site that has this flier.
The FBI site doesn't include any of the "Communities against terrorism" fliers.
In the Reno government site, I found one flyer, but a different one.
Does anyone have a link to an official version?
Amazing!
Thanks for sharing such a masterpiece against copyright. It's sad that those that came afterwards didn't have someone like Thomas Babington Macaulay to put into such excellent words the devil of copyright.
I disagree. I think most women do understand it. The fact that it's a new possibility doesn't mean that we should still live like it isn't possible.
[citation needed].
Just of the top of my head I can think of books like "Little Women" or "Jane Eyre" that happen about 150 years ago, where women are already able to work and support themselves, even if society is still not accepting it as "normal".
130 years ago, women were already accepted as university graduate students in the US.
100 years ago, Marie Curie earned her SECOND Nobel prize (1903 and 1911).
Yes, it's still fairly recent, but it's NOT 75 years. At least for some countries, I'd say women have been able to support themselves for 150 to 200 years. There are of course places where women still do not have this possibility.
[citation needed], again. You describe how marriage was handled among nobility in Europe. That DOESN'T mean that marriage was handled the same way everywhere, for the "common folk", as you say. Maybe you are referring only to big weddings, and you are most probably forgetting what is called "Common law Marriage".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_marriage
Yet another [citation needed]. "Originally" where? when? under which laws?
As already stated in another comment, reality can be misogynistic, and in many places in the world it is. This doesn't mean that you should accept it as valid, and that you shouldn't take a stand against it.
I find your comment completely misogynist and dumb.
Even if marriage WAS designed to protect women in the past, it doesn't mean that it cannot get a new significance with new times.
I agree that a lot of people get married for the wrong reasons. And that it'd be better if they didn't. I feel that you are mistaken in almost everything else you say, though.
Your statements are suprisingly dumb for a +5 comment... "I'll make a promise to this lady because I love her and I don't want her to ever worry about where her next meal is coming from" ... "I'm too weak to care for myself and I need some legal protection that makes it so he can't just run off to be with someone else without some form of legal and financial repercussion." ...
Marriage goes both ways. You fail to see that a man can also need the support of a woman. If a man is disabled for any reason (be it physical or psychological) then having a wife will mean having a person by his side to support him no matter what.
For me, marriage means: "I'm committed to you, I'll stand by your side, in the good times and the bad times, I'll respect you and care for you until death do us apart".
[I'm a married woman, I earn the same as my husband, I didn't marry him so he wouldn't run off, nor did I marry him so he would support me economically]
Not every program should be fixed by hand.
People who rely on libraries shouldn't need to touch anything, except update their libraries.
This would quickly identify good programmers from bad programmers.
In any case, this ain't going to happen. Not a chance. Who would want their birthday always on the same day? Is there any benefit from such a stupid (and old) suggestion?
> Take an example 1/4" = 0.635 cm, it's a hell of a lot easier
> (and cheaper) to make something 1/4th of the length of
> something else, versus 127/200th of some standard length.
This is ridiculous. It's not cheaper or easier, it's just that that was what was there before.
There are inch-screws and millimetric screws. In millimetric screws you have, for example, a 6mm one. You wouldn't have a 6.35 mm one, that's stupid.
The same goes with everything else. The fact that certain things are measured as 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch is just a convenience, there's nothing magical in these numbers. They could perfectly be rounded to 2cm, 1cm, 1/2 cm or whatever is handy for each use.
What has to stay off YouTube? The whole show or just that podcast?
Are you prepared to fight them in court?
I don't think this would work at all.
The ContentID system is prepared to match parts of video and parts of songs. You have to modify more than just a few frames at the beginning and the end to fool ContentID.
The only solution is to complain until they listen.
She had a very unusual life, at least by our standards. Reading about her life makes me think that it may not be the genes so much as the environment that made her live that much.
So, if you've read them and studied them, can you tell us what are the most important things that they say?
For years and years people have spoken about these scrolls as if they held the key to understanding Christianity, or maybe as if they would somehow discredit the bases of Christianity. However, it doesn't seem to be the case, so why is it that people keep talking about this as if it were a great menace?
Finally, I once heard a theory that Jesus had come FROM Qumran, i.e. he was living that monastic life before going to Jerusalem to preach... What do you make of such theory?
Even though it's still obvious and quite plainly not patentable, what the patent says is that _the broker_ (i.e. not _the shipper_) 'pushes' the estimate the client.
So, it's not the same as inputting your tracking number into a FedEx website, because it's A) a separate entity B) it's a push rather than a pull.
That is not to say that other people don't do exactly this, but still, it's better to really know what's being patented here.
What are the "bigger privacy problems" ? I see it basically as _the same_ privacy problems, I fail to see how they are bigger.
The math is not so simple as that, because these devices waste some battery while on stand-by. So if you don't turn them completely off (which is not usual, due to the painful amount of time it takes to start-up).
With my nook (first edition), I've found that I can read between 10 to 14 days of aprox. 1 hour a day (about 12 hours of reading), but I can also use it for 3 days of 8 hours a day (about 24 hours of reading) -only feasable on holidays, obviously-. All of this with wireless off, and none of it an exact measurement, just what I've experienced.
So yes, measuring battery life is hard, it depends a lot on the use you give the device. However, it annoys me that it wastes so much battery on keeping it on stand-by. Maybe they've worked on that for the nook 2, and that's why they are parading their 2 months estimate. Because, with the old nook, it's not true that you can double the amount of days the battery lasts if you halve the amount of hours you read.
As a Debian Developer, I'm very pleased to read comments like yours.
However, I think you are exaggerating. It's true that Debian is much more stable than Ubuntu, yes, and I'm very proud of that. Unfortunately it is not true that it _never_ breaks. Creating that sort of expectation is going to end up in a lot of frustration when something does break.
My worst cases of breakage are old notebooks, that used to work just fine with Lenny but now don't work just as well in Squeeze (hibernate doesn't work, fan control doesn't work, etc), due mainly to the kernel people not supporting those peripherals any more. There's only so much that we Debian folks can do, when upstream breaks, it's very very difficult to prevent the breakage in the distro.
This happened more than once during DebConf6 (Debian Developer's Conference 2006).
The cleaning staff kept unplugging the router that provided PoE to the whole wireless, TO WATCH TV WHILE CLEANING!