The instant you start up any productive project, you will start getting advice and other "help" from people who actually totally disagree with you.
Hint -- it's all toxic. We call this "concern trolling."
If you let them in, they will quietly find some unaccountable way to sabotage you, and then leave. Their leftist buddies will cover up for them. This is one of the many reasons we say liberalism is a mental health disorder; it's pathological.
Believing "brightness" to be an intrinsic character trait is a psychological crutch for those who view their intelligence as their only redeeming quality. A large proportion of the variety of cognitive impairments can be overcome, many even cured, and people can and do get smarter.
All the evidence points to intelligence being an innate trait, but it also sometimes co-exists with certain learning disabilities.
It doesn't go both ways however -- someone with Down's syndrome has a lower intelligence and won't be able to complete a college regimen (unless it's dumbed down for political reasons, or they're a poli sci major). Generally you're supposed to have a 115 IQ or higher to get through college.
It's widely accepted that there are fewer genetic similiarities between individuals of the same 'race' as there are between individuals from different 'races.'
It all depends on how you measure similarity. Difference however is easily seen since it's genetically reproducible.
There are plenty of rich idiots and talented poor people.
I assume this is your argument, as it is.
Exceptions-disprove-the-rule fallacies are very popular on the left, which you're obviously a member of. Let me caution you first: liberalism is a mental health disorder that leads to narcissism. You have been warned. Turn toward a reality-based narrative instead!
There are many people out there without five fingers on each hand.
Your social media information is public, even if you've specified "friends only." This makes it a treasure trove for any investigator.
While we're all in high gear about NSA surveillance, what about the greater likelihood of giving ourselves away by reckless use of our own personal information?
I come from the camp of people who are paleoconservatives, neoreactionaries, new righters and traditionalists.
We think the Nazis were amusing, but too far left for us. Also tended to engage in pointless behaviors like murdering Jews, losing wars to Russians and failing in diplomacy with the tea-drinking English.
Our local Taco Bell, which is a frequent hessian dining facility, has excellent management and attracts top of the line fast food workers.
They're not all interchangeable.
Unlike the sullen zombies at our local Burger King, McDonald's and KFC (but not Subway, Starbucks or Taco Cabana, which are also well managed) these workers have a positive attitude, seem to not mind the job, and are genuinely helpful and do a good job of making the food.
The difference is management, which is both realistic about the nature of people and the nature of the job. The TB managers eliminate a lot of busywork and keep their staff active at a reasonable pace but don't push them too far. I see managers jump in and make food all the time.
I don't think every fast food worker is this way -- see above for the description of the zombies at BK and McD's -- but for some, with good management and possibly higher salaries, this works out for the better.
As far as why someone might take this job, the simple answer is that it is low-stress and inoffensive. You can make enough money to live without ever having something that keeps you up at night worrying.
They're technical, but in another discipline: organizational management.
Unfortunately, most companies treat this as if it were not a discipline, which allows them to promote either (a) cronies or (b) droids who went through the project management courses that are short of an MBA.
Your "non-technical" managers specialize in planning projects, keeping people off your backs, and keeping you from falling into common developer pitfalls.
Keep them -- just insist on having good ones, so you have fewer of them.
So, should there be freedom for enemies of freedom?
That really is an essential question.
There's a related question, which is what to do about people who don't want "freedom" -- those who oppose democracy and equality and want to live under another system.
Carmakers like Saturn (RIP) offered no-haggle pricing and compensated their sales staff for being consumer-oriented.
The reason car salespeople are horrible is that they're set up to compete with the consumer for a concealed amount of money that is either in rebate or discount to the dealer.
Thus for the consumer, it's guesswork against a predatory salesperson interested only in their commission.
Now I realize that it's democratic: it comes from the people.
Your average consumer doesn't care that their TV is phoning home, or Google is tracking them, or that their cell phones are reporting to Amazon.
We used to be afraid of three-letter government agencies but really, the bigger story is that the average person doesn't care if they're spied on. To them it represents greater convenience in lifestyle as products are tailor-made to their kinks and purchasing habits.
When fascism arrives, it will appear on a Harley with a cheeseburger and a credit card, not wrapped in a flag carrying a Bible.
The problem with nerd-dom is that it's about mastery of the machine. The dirty secret is that the machine masters you. You judge yourself by how well you use it. That's a problem in itself.
However, that attitude results in an underlying nastiness in geek culture. Someone asks a question, and the first response most of you have is to attack the person for (basically) not being elite enough.
That's the attitude of a slave strapped to his machine, not someone who has mastered both machine and environment.
You alienate users this way, many of whom are smarter than you, and have transcended the need to be fascinated by flashing lights and silicon.
More telling, we see the "attacks" in the logs even when the computers are off.
Can you spot any pattern in the IPs and times they appear?
Also, this is a long shot, but are you hosting any web pages? Big companies unleashing irresponsible crawlers can effectively DOS you without meaning to.
Further, and I know this isn't a comfortable question, but is it possible that someone in the house is logging on to certain gaming servers, and this is bringing about the attacks? If so, is there a way to get them to log in from other places?
Finally, where the hell is the NSA? Surely they're reading this thread.;)
I would like to be able to purchase my drugs anonymously, but since I'm paying Silk Road a percentage, I'd like some kind of guarantee.
Some kind of accountability, in other words.
How to balance the two? They don't balance. Even if the only accountability is a seller's good name, there must be some kind of linked identification which, over time, provides enough information to find the individual and arrest them.
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Note to anyone more right-wing than center:
The instant you start up any productive project, you will start getting advice and other "help" from people who actually totally disagree with you.
Hint -- it's all toxic. We call this "concern trolling."
If you let them in, they will quietly find some unaccountable way to sabotage you, and then leave. Their leftist buddies will cover up for them. This is one of the many reasons we say liberalism is a mental health disorder; it's pathological.
Just keep in mind the typical liberal MO...
http://nypost.com/2014/01/11/why-bridgegate-made-headlines-but-obamas-irs-scandal-didnt/
All the evidence points to intelligence being an innate trait, but it also sometimes co-exists with certain learning disabilities.
It doesn't go both ways however -- someone with Down's syndrome has a lower intelligence and won't be able to complete a college regimen (unless it's dumbed down for political reasons, or they're a poli sci major). Generally you're supposed to have a 115 IQ or higher to get through college.
I always wanted a harem.
It all depends on how you measure similarity. Difference however is easily seen since it's genetically reproducible.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/09/24/south-asians-as-a-hybrid-popul/
There's a good basic primer on the topic.
I assume this is your argument, as it is.
Exceptions-disprove-the-rule fallacies are very popular on the left, which you're obviously a member of. Let me caution you first: liberalism is a mental health disorder that leads to narcissism. You have been warned. Turn toward a reality-based narrative instead!
There are many people out there without five fingers on each hand.
And yet, humans have five fingers on each hand.
Can you see why your argument was fallacious?
Your social media information is public, even if you've specified "friends only." This makes it a treasure trove for any investigator.
While we're all in high gear about NSA surveillance, what about the greater likelihood of giving ourselves away by reckless use of our own personal information?
Genders, races, and social classes have different genetic makeups and hence different abilities.
It's taboo to say this. You should ask yourself why.
USA has shifted spending from external (being a superpower, space conquest, invention) to the internal (entitlements, welfare and health insurance).
We may accomplish nothing but we're good people. Look at all the parasites we're funding.
I come from the camp of people who are paleoconservatives, neoreactionaries, new righters and traditionalists.
We think the Nazis were amusing, but too far left for us. Also tended to engage in pointless behaviors like murdering Jews, losing wars to Russians and failing in diplomacy with the tea-drinking English.
In this message I admit I'm basically a schlep.
Our local Taco Bell, which is a frequent hessian dining facility, has excellent management and attracts top of the line fast food workers.
They're not all interchangeable.
Unlike the sullen zombies at our local Burger King, McDonald's and KFC (but not Subway, Starbucks or Taco Cabana, which are also well managed) these workers have a positive attitude, seem to not mind the job, and are genuinely helpful and do a good job of making the food.
The difference is management, which is both realistic about the nature of people and the nature of the job. The TB managers eliminate a lot of busywork and keep their staff active at a reasonable pace but don't push them too far. I see managers jump in and make food all the time.
I don't think every fast food worker is this way -- see above for the description of the zombies at BK and McD's -- but for some, with good management and possibly higher salaries, this works out for the better.
As far as why someone might take this job, the simple answer is that it is low-stress and inoffensive. You can make enough money to live without ever having something that keeps you up at night worrying.
They're technical, but in another discipline: organizational management.
Unfortunately, most companies treat this as if it were not a discipline, which allows them to promote either (a) cronies or (b) droids who went through the project management courses that are short of an MBA.
Your "non-technical" managers specialize in planning projects, keeping people off your backs, and keeping you from falling into common developer pitfalls.
Keep them -- just insist on having good ones, so you have fewer of them.
That's what happens when you hire fast food workers into bureaucratic roles and give them absolute power over other people.
For double irony, we can transfer ownership to the Communist party...
If those go public domain, every Ron Paulite will be posting them everywhere.
We will die in a flood of one-dimensional characters and cardboard-cutout dilemmas.
Please make sure they never get into the public domain.
I hear that never even made it into the libraries in the first place.
That's a better form of censorship than letting it in, and then trying to ban it.
Trends always die.
All-purpose languages that adapt over time are better tools to learn.
You learn more in depth, instead of having certain tasks be very easy.
This is similar to the trade off between wizard-based interfaces and actually knowing what you're doing with an operating system.
That really is an essential question.
There's a related question, which is what to do about people who don't want "freedom" -- those who oppose democracy and equality and want to live under another system.
Nelson Mandela proven to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial
Carmakers like Saturn (RIP) offered no-haggle pricing and compensated their sales staff for being consumer-oriented.
The reason car salespeople are horrible is that they're set up to compete with the consumer for a concealed amount of money that is either in rebate or discount to the dealer.
Thus for the consumer, it's guesswork against a predatory salesperson interested only in their commission.
Now I realize that it's democratic: it comes from the people.
Your average consumer doesn't care that their TV is phoning home, or Google is tracking them, or that their cell phones are reporting to Amazon.
We used to be afraid of three-letter government agencies but really, the bigger story is that the average person doesn't care if they're spied on. To them it represents greater convenience in lifestyle as products are tailor-made to their kinks and purchasing habits.
When fascism arrives, it will appear on a Harley with a cheeseburger and a credit card, not wrapped in a flag carrying a Bible.
There, I said it.
I work with documents frequently.
The open source alternatives are not as good.
Further, pretty much anything can read/write to .docx format, which is XML-based, so you're definitely not locked in.
There's just a discernible difference in quality and when you're trying to make a good impression on the job, that's important.
The problem with nerd-dom is that it's about mastery of the machine. The dirty secret is that the machine masters you. You judge yourself by how well you use it. That's a problem in itself.
However, that attitude results in an underlying nastiness in geek culture. Someone asks a question, and the first response most of you have is to attack the person for (basically) not being elite enough.
That's the attitude of a slave strapped to his machine, not someone who has mastered both machine and environment.
You alienate users this way, many of whom are smarter than you, and have transcended the need to be fascinated by flashing lights and silicon.
Can you spot any pattern in the IPs and times they appear?
Also, this is a long shot, but are you hosting any web pages? Big companies unleashing irresponsible crawlers can effectively DOS you without meaning to.
Further, and I know this isn't a comfortable question, but is it possible that someone in the house is logging on to certain gaming servers, and this is bringing about the attacks? If so, is there a way to get them to log in from other places?
Finally, where the hell is the NSA? Surely they're reading this thread. ;)
What kind of citation do you want, bro?
I would like to be able to purchase my drugs anonymously, but since I'm paying Silk Road a percentage, I'd like some kind of guarantee.
Some kind of accountability, in other words.
How to balance the two? They don't balance. Even if the only accountability is a seller's good name, there must be some kind of linked identification which, over time, provides enough information to find the individual and arrest them.