Postmodernism is just fine for some disciplines. It improved anthropology a great deal. I think problems begin when you apply postmodern thought to areas it isn't suited for.
As for it being "discredited", I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Some fields went through a postmodern phase, some are in one, and it is irrelevant to others. Seems sort of like saying the Enlightenment has been discredited because it's an epoch we've already passed through.
You can't have an unknown problem floating around a critical system. You're confusing marketing critical with engineering critical. One needs to be up as often as possible, the other needs to be right as often as possible. When one fails you push a button, the other fails and your IT department has to cancel vacations.
Let's see. When I have a security or performance issue I can
A: Pay a bearded guy in suspenders for hours while he incants various arcane phrases like "sudo" and "grep" and hope that he actually manages to clean up the problem at the end, or
B: Press a button and have a factory fresh install in seconds.
Assuming that you have a decent build done first (Pay the bearded guy big for that) why on earth would *anyone* pick A? It's hardly just Unix- we're a Windows shop and we're heavily virtualized because it makes sense from so many different angles- security, load balance/failover, ease of setup, etc.
Well part of it too is that nobody gives a fuck if your Etsy-inspired e-store is working well. The beards are there for critical systems.
Well, pre-Xbox attention spans it was digging through man pages. I don't know how you're supposed to find that kind of focus now, when everything in your house either blinks, beeps, or vibrates. Good luck.
Managing an IT shop at a school, my biggest problem with the student workers was beating the "anyone who doesn't give a shit about computers is a stupid idiot" out of them.
I know it's a stage all geeks go through, but man is it irritating. The only thing that kept my rage in check was the knowledge that I was an even bigger douchebag at their age.
The thing to keep in mind is that for most of the planet computers are a means to an end. They are (and should be) practically invisible to the user when they work. The fact that we have to constantly harass users into sane behavior (e. g. "don't open that, it's a goddamn virus") isn't a reflection of their intelligence, it's a reflection of POOR DESIGN.
I don't know that Filson has an explicit lifetime guarantee, but they've repaired a jacket belonging to my grandfather, then my dad, then myself for free ever since the GP (hehe) bought it in the 40's.
Oh wait, they sort of do:
"We guarantee every item purchased from us. No more, no less. Your satisfaction is the sole purpose of our transaction."
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble.
The problem with Marinol is that it's usually prescribed for nausea and loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy (cancer, AIDS). It's orally administered. Do you understand why that might be a problem?
You might want to lay off the stuff, I think you've had enough.
You'd know this if you weren't such a fucking drunk. YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
you guys have less than 2 years to get your shit together and FIND SOMEONE ELECTABLE
What are you talking about? Sarah Palin is totally going to get elected.
... and then she'll finally read my letters and realize I'm right for her and she's right for me and then invite me over for homemade pie and tell me she'll always be my mom but had thoughts about other relationships and she'd say how she secretly read my blog posts and totally agreed with my politics but couldn't say my name on air for legal reasons.
No, in fact I did a little digging after your post and it seems like he was pretty happy with the screenplay but that DC was up to some weird merchandising shit. My bad.
A giant alien squid is cheesy and we've already seen that an attack on New York City doesn't unite the whole world (See: 9/11).
9/11 actually did unite the world very briefly, it was the "you're either with us or agin' us" and "FUCK MUSLIMS!" steam coming off the neo-cons that killed it. Google "today we are all Americans" for a lot of commentary on the effect, or check out this article for a decent overview.
I prefer the book's craziness, but I can see why they shied away from it.
I don't know what Alan Moore's deal is, but apparently his giant squid was the entire point of the book judging by the hissy fit he threw. I mean, the movie is basically a scene-for-scene adaptation of the book in all other regards.
I wonder if movie studios take his attitude into account when planning budgets...
Ask yourself this. What weights more, the Bible or the Haaretz?
Well worldy scholars and scientists have known for quite some time that the Bible outweighs the Haaretz here by a pound to a pound and a half sometimes, outweighs the Talmud sometimes by three to four pounds, outweighs that mighty Koran sometimes by five to ten pounds. You think about that.
Just say something like "your statement is inherently unprovable" or something. Using specific fallacies incorrectly makes you look like you don't know what you're talking about.
That's not really an appropriate application of the true scotsman fallacy. He'd have to categorically state that ALL honest and intelligent people are left leaning, and then provide this rhetorical gambit when confronted with a counterexample.
I wouldn't call that "idiotic", I'd call that looking out for the long-term interests of the company. It's easy to point to the short-term monetary gains to be had from outsourcing or eliminating internal R&D, but for some reason the crashing failures of this approach (Carly Fiorina at HP, Boeing and the 787, etc etc) never seem to register with people.
He makes a pretty good point that going to root forces you to think through your actions. I don't see the same "everything I now do carries a consequence" mentality with frequent users of sudo.
You might be interested in this book by Ernest Callenbach, which posits secession of the western states from the US and Canada. If I remember correctly (It's been a while) this secession was primarily a reaction to the right-wing culture of violence and control emanating from the East.
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Postmodernism is just fine for some disciplines. It improved anthropology a great deal. I think problems begin when you apply postmodern thought to areas it isn't suited for.
As for it being "discredited", I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Some fields went through a postmodern phase, some are in one, and it is irrelevant to others. Seems sort of like saying the Enlightenment has been discredited because it's an epoch we've already passed through.
You do know that the television show '24' is fiction, right?
You can't have an unknown problem floating around a critical system. You're confusing marketing critical with engineering critical. One needs to be up as often as possible, the other needs to be right as often as possible. When one fails you push a button, the other fails and your IT department has to cancel vacations.
Let's see. When I have a security or performance issue I can
A: Pay a bearded guy in suspenders for hours while he incants various arcane phrases like "sudo" and "grep" and hope that he actually manages to clean up the problem at the end, or
B: Press a button and have a factory fresh install in seconds.
Assuming that you have a decent build done first (Pay the bearded guy big for that) why on earth would *anyone* pick A? It's hardly just Unix- we're a Windows shop and we're heavily virtualized because it makes sense from so many different angles- security, load balance/failover, ease of setup, etc.
Well part of it too is that nobody gives a fuck if your Etsy-inspired e-store is working well. The beards are there for critical systems.
Well, pre-Xbox attention spans it was digging through man pages. I don't know how you're supposed to find that kind of focus now, when everything in your house either blinks, beeps, or vibrates. Good luck.
The "training" thing is a red herring MOST of the time.
Now we may never receive HTML email with fancy borders.
Yeah he's branching out with a few different socks... just can't get rid of his quoting style though.
Managing an IT shop at a school, my biggest problem with the student workers was beating the "anyone who doesn't give a shit about computers is a stupid idiot" out of them.
I know it's a stage all geeks go through, but man is it irritating. The only thing that kept my rage in check was the knowledge that I was an even bigger douchebag at their age.
The thing to keep in mind is that for most of the planet computers are a means to an end. They are (and should be) practically invisible to the user when they work. The fact that we have to constantly harass users into sane behavior (e. g. "don't open that, it's a goddamn virus") isn't a reflection of their intelligence, it's a reflection of POOR DESIGN.
But we have no shortage of forests in North America, or well really even Europe.
For a given value of 'forest'.
Considering that the standard running shoe design isn't really that good for you to begin with, you should probably replace them right now.
I don't know that Filson has an explicit lifetime guarantee, but they've repaired a jacket belonging to my grandfather, then my dad, then myself for free ever since the GP (hehe) bought it in the 40's.
Oh wait, they sort of do:
"We guarantee every item purchased from us. No more, no less. Your satisfaction is the sole purpose of our transaction."
-Clinton C. Filson, 1897
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble.
The problem with Marinol is that it's usually prescribed for nausea and loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy (cancer, AIDS). It's orally administered. Do you understand why that might be a problem?
You might want to lay off the stuff, I think you've had enough.
You'd know this if you weren't such a fucking drunk. YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
The government is merely Filtering its OWN personal service
Not entirely clear on the concept of our government, are you?
you guys have less than 2 years to get your shit together and FIND SOMEONE ELECTABLE
What are you talking about? Sarah Palin is totally going to get elected.
... and then she'll finally read my letters and realize I'm right for her and she's right for me and then invite me over for homemade pie and tell me she'll always be my mom but had thoughts about other relationships and she'd say how she secretly read my blog posts and totally agreed with my politics but couldn't say my name on air for legal reasons.
No, in fact I did a little digging after your post and it seems like he was pretty happy with the screenplay but that DC was up to some weird merchandising shit. My bad.
A giant alien squid is cheesy and we've already seen that an attack on New York City doesn't unite the whole world (See: 9/11).
9/11 actually did unite the world very briefly, it was the "you're either with us or agin' us" and "FUCK MUSLIMS!" steam coming off the neo-cons that killed it. Google "today we are all Americans" for a lot of commentary on the effect, or check out this article for a decent overview.
I prefer the book's craziness, but I can see why they shied away from it.
I don't know what Alan Moore's deal is, but apparently his giant squid was the entire point of the book judging by the hissy fit he threw. I mean, the movie is basically a scene-for-scene adaptation of the book in all other regards.
I wonder if movie studios take his attitude into account when planning budgets...
- Moore, Alan, towering rage - $2 mil savings
Microsoft's security problems reside between the keyboard and the chair...
...of the developers.
Ask yourself this. What weights more, the Bible or the Haaretz?
Well worldy scholars and scientists have known for quite some time that the Bible outweighs the Haaretz here by a pound to a pound and a half sometimes, outweighs the Talmud sometimes by three to four pounds, outweighs that mighty Koran sometimes by five to ten pounds. You think about that.
Just say something like "your statement is inherently unprovable" or something. Using specific fallacies incorrectly makes you look like you don't know what you're talking about.
I can see you're not a true Scotsman.
That's not really an appropriate application of the true scotsman fallacy. He'd have to categorically state that ALL honest and intelligent people are left leaning, and then provide this rhetorical gambit when confronted with a counterexample.
Two of their points address this:
- End of distributed R&D
- End of R&D outsourcing
I wouldn't call that "idiotic", I'd call that looking out for the long-term interests of the company. It's easy to point to the short-term monetary gains to be had from outsourcing or eliminating internal R&D, but for some reason the crashing failures of this approach (Carly Fiorina at HP, Boeing and the 787, etc etc) never seem to register with people.
Somehow I don't see most vi-using folks looking down on those who prefer Emacs.
Google "vi vs emacs holy war" or similar.
He makes a pretty good point that going to root forces you to think through your actions. I don't see the same "everything I now do carries a consequence" mentality with frequent users of sudo.
You might be interested in this book by Ernest Callenbach, which posits secession of the western states from the US and Canada. If I remember correctly (It's been a while) this secession was primarily a reaction to the right-wing culture of violence and control emanating from the East.