Cutting off now accomplishes JACK SHIT. And all the tools will simply be mirrored outside the US.
The especially bad part? Look at the whole encryption export debacle.
Basically most of the meaningful security jobs and development will move outside the US. Sure, we'll have in-country development, but it'll be happening in a vacuum, as nobody else will want to touch development of tools they can't legally use. Meaning that security tools in general will stagnate in the US and slow down elsewhere as they have to now gear up for development without using resources inside US borders.
Okay, the most powerful super in the setting is one SQUIRREL GIRL!
She's the living embodiment of "Chuck Norris Facts" for the Marvel Universe, and is basically on par with the Living Tribunal (a fundamental entity of the universe and essentially a godlike manifestation).
How, pray tell, does one get "more super" than that?
ASIDE from grating on about the feminist implications of "Name+GIRL" vs "Name+WOMAN" or "Name".
That the universe is large and diverse enough that statistically improbable happenstances like this can (and do) still happen. And we've been lucky enough to live during a time when we can actually observe such a phenomenon.
That's just it. These schools aren't looking for good little rote learners.
They're looking for intelligent, and WELL ROUNDED people.
People who've been drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled by so-called tiger-mothers generally don't perform well when finally cut loose in the collegiate environment.
Sure, they still have the overbearing parents at home making their lives hell. But there's long gaps in between where they simply don't see those people. And, eventually, the habit of drill, drill, drill breaks.
More over, collegiate classes generally aren't the sort that you coast through on rote learning.
You have not been kept as a slave, nor have your parent or grandparent. You have not been killed, or even corporally punished for learning to read. The closest you've gotten to being beaten nearly to death is corporal punishment delivered by your elders or in gang initiation or at the hands of police in commission of a crime. Your family has not been broken up and sold off, though statistics show that african american households have far greater tendency to be single parent homes, that has NOTHING to do with said parent being sold off. You haven't been systematically excluded from jobs, housing or medical care. If you've been lynched by idiots, I'm sorry. Idiots are everywhere. And while the police may stop or shoot young african americans with more regularity, the fact is, your neighborhoods generally have higher incidents of violent crime.
As for Affirmative Action "correcting evils". Please don't tell me you're such a child that you actually believe that bullshit. Affirmative Action is simply another hand-out to make you shut up and go the fuck away. To make you a complacent little consumer. And all that happens when you destroy property, look and riot is that you fulfill the very stereotype you wish to divorce yourself from.
And, at some point, you KNOW that it's going to have to go away, right? Or are we still going to have to deal with it 100+ years from now, when nobody in living memory even alive at the same time as anyone who suffered through racial segregation, let alone slavery. At some point, the hand-out is going to stop.
She honestly doesn't give a shit about her people. She just wants her percentage of whatever can be bilked out of the populace and world in general. And her solution to every problem is to ignore its very existence. Entirely.
Basically Argentina needs a bloody revolution and then a general election.
Counter-Strike is the oldest computer game feigning it's some sort of sport in the world today.
Sorry but the whole notion of "eSports" is idiotic.
Sure, there's a bit of temporal glory for the guy who rolls over Pac-Man, etc, etc. But it isn't a sport.
The fact that the supposed "league" is rife with cheating/hacks with no real way to catch creative cheaters simply detracts from the notion of "sport" even more.
Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624). It's been a massive metropolitan settlement for the better part of the last two hundred.
It's not as if someone went back to 1700 or so and started out with a city planning commission and 2015-level civil engineering technology. So yes, the city's going to be ANYTHING but efficiently run, plumbed, or laid out.
As opposed to London, Paris, and Tokyo, which were designed and built during the last 50 years, and thus are more efficient.
Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624).
There was settlement in the area of Paris TEN THOUSAND years ago. And 200 BC (2200 years ago) they were already building forts. Same with London, two thousand years old (Londinium founded AD 47).
Sigh. Why do people take an argument and ad absurdum it without trying to understand what is being said and what isn't?
I didn't say there weren't older cities out there. I'm simply explaining part of why NYC is the way it is.
If you look at Paris, London and Tokyo, they're all wasteful as well.
Maybe not AS wasteful as NYC. But that could simply be a function of something else as well. There's no straight-line formula for this.
Part of the problem with adoption is that many of these releases are radically different from the previous versions. And of COURSE the carriers are falling down on the job! When you have to completely replumb an OS over and over and over again, as they do to make sure it's locked down for their network? They're not equipped for meaningful updates to existing equipment. Small firmware and software updates? Sure. Whole new OS? No fucking way. They're set up for static hardware and mostly static software release. Then they focus on the next generation. Retrofitting doesn't fit for them.
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At this point, it's pretty much moot.
The tools are already out there.
Cutting off now accomplishes JACK SHIT. And all the tools will simply be mirrored outside the US.
The especially bad part? Look at the whole encryption export debacle.
Basically most of the meaningful security jobs and development will move outside the US.
Sure, we'll have in-country development, but it'll be happening in a vacuum, as nobody else will want to touch development of tools they can't legally use.
Meaning that security tools in general will stagnate in the US and slow down elsewhere as they have to now gear up for development without using resources inside US borders.
Okay, the most powerful super in the setting is one SQUIRREL GIRL!
She's the living embodiment of "Chuck Norris Facts" for the Marvel Universe, and is basically on par with the Living Tribunal (a fundamental entity of the universe and essentially a godlike manifestation).
How, pray tell, does one get "more super" than that?
ASIDE from grating on about the feminist implications of "Name+GIRL" vs "Name+WOMAN" or "Name".
*I*, personally *DO NOT* practice voter fraud asshole.
Learn to take a fucking joke already.
People have been joking about the dead voting in Chicago for decades.
Okay, I'm from Chicago. And I can ASSURE you, that the Democrats have been making dead people vote for almost a century now!
That the universe is large and diverse enough that statistically improbable happenstances like this can (and do) still happen.
And we've been lucky enough to live during a time when we can actually observe such a phenomenon.
So does this mean Apple Maps will stop guiding people out into the middle of nowhere, off cliffs and into lakes?
And this has been marked a troll.
Because anything not reeking of social guilt and "give 'em what they want" is obviously evil and racist and trollish.
*Sigh*
That's the main problem. There's no such thing as an honest participant in this debate.
Or, if there is, such a person is shouted down by everyone else.
Sorry bub. There's no such thing as "equal footing".
It's a nice concept. But that's all it is.
What you're asking for isn't EQUAL treatment. It's SPECIAL treatment.
This is victim mentality and places you at greater disadvantage than the actual oppression did to your ancestors.
And your mindset would have us eternally offering "reparations" because there's no way you can ever be "equal" in your own mindset.
Nowadays, how much of the African American community's problems are from remnants of oppression and how much is of their own making?
That's just it. These schools aren't looking for good little rote learners.
They're looking for intelligent, and WELL ROUNDED people.
People who've been drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled by so-called tiger-mothers generally don't perform well when finally cut loose in the collegiate environment.
Sure, they still have the overbearing parents at home making their lives hell. But there's long gaps in between where they simply don't see those people. And, eventually, the habit of drill, drill, drill breaks.
More over, collegiate classes generally aren't the sort that you coast through on rote learning.
Even if you were african american:
You have not been kept as a slave, nor have your parent or grandparent.
You have not been killed, or even corporally punished for learning to read.
The closest you've gotten to being beaten nearly to death is corporal punishment delivered by your elders or in gang initiation or at the hands of police in commission of a crime.
Your family has not been broken up and sold off, though statistics show that african american households have far greater tendency to be single parent homes, that has NOTHING to do with said parent being sold off.
You haven't been systematically excluded from jobs, housing or medical care.
If you've been lynched by idiots, I'm sorry. Idiots are everywhere.
And while the police may stop or shoot young african americans with more regularity, the fact is, your neighborhoods generally have higher incidents of violent crime.
As for Affirmative Action "correcting evils". Please don't tell me you're such a child that you actually believe that bullshit.
Affirmative Action is simply another hand-out to make you shut up and go the fuck away. To make you a complacent little consumer.
And all that happens when you destroy property, look and riot is that you fulfill the very stereotype you wish to divorce yourself from.
And, at some point, you KNOW that it's going to have to go away, right? Or are we still going to have to deal with it 100+ years from now, when nobody in living memory even alive at the same time as anyone who suffered through racial segregation, let alone slavery. At some point, the hand-out is going to stop.
The death penalty is not an effective deterrent against murder.
HUMANE execution isn't an effective deterrent.
Fuck it. If you're going to kill someone. It should be in the most obscenely horrific and painful way you can possibly think of.
Death by giant mechanical grinder.
Death by giant belt sander.
Or go old school. Vlad Tepes had it right. Sit them on a spear. And let go.
You want to deter people from doing things that'd get them the death penalty?
Make the death penalty something nobody in their right mind could think about without shitting themselves in fear.
Seriously.
She honestly doesn't give a shit about her people.
She just wants her percentage of whatever can be bilked out of the populace and world in general.
And her solution to every problem is to ignore its very existence. Entirely.
Basically Argentina needs a bloody revolution and then a general election.
Likely that'll never happen though.
Basically means that this is going to be a Windows-only platform. Since it'll just be SO EASY to use Microsoft's secret sauce to get things working.
Making it totally impossible to duplicate on any other platform and requiring people to start from scratch with the platform again.
So, stopping multi-platform development means it's never going start again. At least not seriously.
Look at gaming in Linux. Now add an order of magnitude or three to that for Occulus support. And nobody's going to want to even try.
They may as well just say "We're going Windows-only-forever so fuck the rest of you up your stupid asses".
How very "Rock and Roll"!
Okay, Elbrus has been a Russian artifact for pretty much all of its 40-something years of existence.
They've always been "Last decade's technology! TOMORROW! (We hope!)"
Like every other aspect of Russian engineering, they talk a good game and throw out a slick demo unit now and again.
But being competitive in a production environment? Pfft!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/...
Speaking of "eyes", one of the doctors brought back to the US and declared cured wound up with an ebola infection in his eye.
Fix the politicians
But they keep screaming and calling the cops and objecting when I bring out the gelding knife...
Well, what do you propose then?
Uh.
Video game?
Call a spade a spade please.
Counter-Strike is the oldest computer game feigning it's some sort of sport in the world today.
Sorry but the whole notion of "eSports" is idiotic.
Sure, there's a bit of temporal glory for the guy who rolls over Pac-Man, etc, etc. But it isn't a sport.
The fact that the supposed "league" is rife with cheating/hacks with no real way to catch creative cheaters simply detracts from the notion of "sport" even more.
Nope. I had Microsoft take three weeks to pull a working SQL backup out of a hosted Dynamics instance.
So, SOMEONE was doing something wrong. But it sure as fuck wasn't me.
Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624). It's been a massive metropolitan settlement for the better part of the last two hundred.
It's not as if someone went back to 1700 or so and started out with a city planning commission and 2015-level civil engineering technology.
So yes, the city's going to be ANYTHING but efficiently run, plumbed, or laid out.
As opposed to London, Paris, and Tokyo, which were designed and built during the last 50 years, and thus are more efficient.
Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624).
There was settlement in the area of Paris TEN THOUSAND years ago. And 200 BC (2200 years ago) they were already building forts.
Same with London, two thousand years old (Londinium founded AD 47).
Sigh. Why do people take an argument and ad absurdum it without trying to understand what is being said and what isn't?
I didn't say there weren't older cities out there. I'm simply explaining part of why NYC is the way it is.
If you look at Paris, London and Tokyo, they're all wasteful as well.
Maybe not AS wasteful as NYC. But that could simply be a function of something else as well. There's no straight-line formula for this.
Part of the problem with adoption is that many of these releases are radically different from the previous versions.
And of COURSE the carriers are falling down on the job!
When you have to completely replumb an OS over and over and over again, as they do to make sure it's locked down for their network?
They're not equipped for meaningful updates to existing equipment. Small firmware and software updates? Sure. Whole new OS? No fucking way.
They're set up for static hardware and mostly static software release. Then they focus on the next generation. Retrofitting doesn't fit for them.