Just curious: could you check your web logs and see how many clickthroughs from slashdot actually read the article to its 10 page end?
And another thought: maybe the author shouldn't be in such a rush. This lives up to the stereotype that free content is worth what you pay for it. Lame excuses don't cut it.
You're thinking about this the wrong way. The MTA boss is embarrassed because someone is doing *his* job, and doing it better than he could. Consider: he's been given a budget, staff, everything he needs to do his job, and he's not doing it due to incompetence, nepotism, corruption, or all the other reasons that Northeastern government has a bad reputation. Now, here comes some blogger who not only does his job better, but does it for free! You can imagine how bad this looks for the boss. And naturally, he isn't fixing the problems (he doesn't see that he has any), but rather going after the person who is making him look bad. And to him, it's perfectly natural that this should happen: after all, plebes shouldn't criticize their betters. Does this blogger have a degree in transportation management? So how he hell does he have any credibility to criticize? It's like you're a book reviewer for the New Yorker, and you read a column in the daily shopper (correctly) pointing out you're full of crap. Are you going to accept that? Hell no!
No, they were deliberately poking a stick in the eyes of numbnuts like you. Maybe all those environmental studies classes provided you with a deliberately one-sided view of the situation instead of properly broadening the mind like universities should?
The "Russian dipshit" you refer to was a Soviet engineer. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the history of the Soviet Union (do they teach that in schools these days?) but they didn't exactly have a lot of respect for human life. Actually, they would have traded hundreds of lives in order to finish the project on schedule and avoid penalties from the bosses.
1. Those are server names, not workstation names. 2. Namespace exhaustion: after you've named trixie, and speedracer, and pops, and a couple more, you're out of names. Moreover, nobody but you is familiar with that TV show or whatever...you might think that everyone knows the characters, but you're wrong, and moreover nobody cares. 3. Starting a comment in the Subject: field is extremely irritating and you'd think an oldschooler would know better.
"One thing you can do is use Twitter to fight the regime yourself. Help bring these fascist bastards down at the end of your modem." Andrew Sullivan did his part by turning the logo on his blog from blue to green. Improbably, Ahmadinejad and the mullahs weathered the storm.
Paying the factory makes zero difference when the managers (or even line workers) skimp on materials for their own profit. We had one case where the guy was saving expensive solder one drop at a time to make a tiny extra bit of money. All the guanxi with the GM won't ever help then.
Whaaaat? What China are you living in? Kids can get into college - actually the problem is a vast pool of college graduates who can't find jobs. Getting into the best colleges is hard, but that's hard anywhere. A "tiny percentage"...maybe you live way out in the rural where kids are stupid.
So, as long as it's for a cause someone considers "good", we should insist that the same someone be allowed to grossly violate fundamental freedoms? I'm sorry but if it's a choice between the protection of photographers rights or topless women, I'm not on the side of the strippers, nope. My right to take photos supercedes your "right" to run around with no clothes on.
It's just funny how when the EFF goes after others, it's "right on, brothers", but when they turn their attention towards us, everyone just needs to chill out and go away. It's irrelevant if the policy is used or not - if it can be used, it will. The most outrageous claims against freedoms we all share are justified because it makes the lives of BM administrators easier. "That we don't tolerate, period, end of discussion." is something that Sheriff Joe Arpaio would say. Stupid policies about owning camera images and then refusing to obey the law when confronted is something that a school principal on a power trip would do.
Oh yeah, bash soldiers for not being good writers. You know, if they could write, they probably wouldn't have taken up soldiering. But I forget, this is the year 2009, and we all need to be warned not to hire ex-soldiers.
Wagon Train in space? With all the extra stuff from the Book of Mormon? No thanks. Even the retread series that went off the air last year wasn't that great. I mean, come on, live as hick farmers on a dirt planet?
This administration was elected on promises of Hope and Change, and that they'd be better than everyone who came before them. The press was hyping this fact every night from June-November 2008, maybe you're one of those people who don't have a TV? (Nah, because then you'd have pointed out the fact in your post...)
Uh, my own fault? By defintion, a blocked site is beyond my (or anyone's) control. The alternative is to use websites that everyone can access, rather than the self-defeating behavior of limiting information to people with the luxury of unlimited internet access.
#1 I tend not to trust blogspot so much, for the same reason that I never trusted geocities sites back in the day. #2 Blogspot is blocked in a lot of places. I hate when someone sends me a link in a breezy tone, never thinking that it might not be accessible everywhere.
So what? There is a correlation between being black and being a criminal, and it's illegal to use that data when hiring! As people of color have poorer credit scores, this is just one more way to redline deserving people for no other reason than racism.
The industrial West has ceased population growth. Some countries like Japan, Russia, Italy are actually shrinking. All of the world's population growth is in developing countries. Therefore, the best way to help is to tell third world people not to have more than 2 children. "Most people" in the world are not Westerners! Lobbying the UN for a legislative requirement would be good, too.
In 1965 a United Nations report predicted that the world's population would rise to 5.7 billion by 1995. It did.
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And another thought: maybe the author shouldn't be in such a rush. This lives up to the stereotype that free content is worth what you pay for it. Lame excuses don't cut it.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line irritating?
You're thinking about this the wrong way. The MTA boss is embarrassed because someone is doing *his* job, and doing it better than he could. Consider: he's been given a budget, staff, everything he needs to do his job, and he's not doing it due to incompetence, nepotism, corruption, or all the other reasons that Northeastern government has a bad reputation. Now, here comes some blogger who not only does his job better, but does it for free! You can imagine how bad this looks for the boss. And naturally, he isn't fixing the problems (he doesn't see that he has any), but rather going after the person who is making him look bad. And to him, it's perfectly natural that this should happen: after all, plebes shouldn't criticize their betters. Does this blogger have a degree in transportation management? So how he hell does he have any credibility to criticize? It's like you're a book reviewer for the New Yorker, and you read a column in the daily shopper (correctly) pointing out you're full of crap. Are you going to accept that? Hell no!
PS the "help the guy with a broken leg" is Christian morals - obsolete.
That's a vanity press. No book reviewer would ever take one of those seriously, sorry. Maybe the ones that work for Murdoch-owned papers.
No, they were deliberately poking a stick in the eyes of numbnuts like you. Maybe all those environmental studies classes provided you with a deliberately one-sided view of the situation instead of properly broadening the mind like universities should?
The "Russian dipshit" you refer to was a Soviet engineer. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the history of the Soviet Union (do they teach that in schools these days?) but they didn't exactly have a lot of respect for human life. Actually, they would have traded hundreds of lives in order to finish the project on schedule and avoid penalties from the bosses.
this link is for you
1. Those are server names, not workstation names. 2. Namespace exhaustion: after you've named trixie, and speedracer, and pops, and a couple more, you're out of names. Moreover, nobody but you is familiar with that TV show or whatever...you might think that everyone knows the characters, but you're wrong, and moreover nobody cares. 3. Starting a comment in the Subject: field is extremely irritating and you'd think an oldschooler would know better.
Muslims weren't singled out solely due to their religion. That's the huge difference, the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge.
"One thing you can do is use Twitter to fight the regime yourself. Help bring these fascist bastards down at the end of your modem." Andrew Sullivan did his part by turning the logo on his blog from blue to green. Improbably, Ahmadinejad and the mullahs weathered the storm.
Paying the factory makes zero difference when the managers (or even line workers) skimp on materials for their own profit. We had one case where the guy was saving expensive solder one drop at a time to make a tiny extra bit of money. All the guanxi with the GM won't ever help then.
Whaaaat? What China are you living in? Kids can get into college - actually the problem is a vast pool of college graduates who can't find jobs. Getting into the best colleges is hard, but that's hard anywhere. A "tiny percentage"...maybe you live way out in the rural where kids are stupid.
So, as long as it's for a cause someone considers "good", we should insist that the same someone be allowed to grossly violate fundamental freedoms? I'm sorry but if it's a choice between the protection of photographers rights or topless women, I'm not on the side of the strippers, nope. My right to take photos supercedes your "right" to run around with no clothes on.
It's just funny how when the EFF goes after others, it's "right on, brothers", but when they turn their attention towards us, everyone just needs to chill out and go away. It's irrelevant if the policy is used or not - if it can be used, it will. The most outrageous claims against freedoms we all share are justified because it makes the lives of BM administrators easier. "That we don't tolerate, period, end of discussion." is something that Sheriff Joe Arpaio would say. Stupid policies about owning camera images and then refusing to obey the law when confronted is something that a school principal on a power trip would do.
It is best to be loved and feared. If both cannot be achieved, which is rare, then it is better to be feared than loved.
In addition, unrequested gifts from a strong entity are interpreted as weakness in many of the world's cultures.
Oh yeah, bash soldiers for not being good writers. You know, if they could write, they probably wouldn't have taken up soldiering. But I forget, this is the year 2009, and we all need to be warned not to hire ex-soldiers.
Please have some new ideas. Please!
This administration was elected on promises of Hope and Change, and that they'd be better than everyone who came before them. The press was hyping this fact every night from June-November 2008, maybe you're one of those people who don't have a TV? (Nah, because then you'd have pointed out the fact in your post...)
Wow, you had me going until the racist comment in the last line. If you're going to parrot Fox News talking points, you'd better be clean yourself.
Uh, my own fault? By defintion, a blocked site is beyond my (or anyone's) control. The alternative is to use websites that everyone can access, rather than the self-defeating behavior of limiting information to people with the luxury of unlimited internet access.
#1 I tend not to trust blogspot so much, for the same reason that I never trusted geocities sites back in the day. #2 Blogspot is blocked in a lot of places. I hate when someone sends me a link in a breezy tone, never thinking that it might not be accessible everywhere.
So what? There is a correlation between being black and being a criminal, and it's illegal to use that data when hiring! As people of color have poorer credit scores, this is just one more way to redline deserving people for no other reason than racism.
In 1965 a United Nations report predicted that the world's population would rise to 5.7 billion by 1995. It did.
If it's game of the year, then obviously it's a game for everyone, not just "smart" people!