Also the hijacked body narrative is a negative viewpoint.
Yeah, it is. Kind of the point.
The positive viewpoint is that they feel the newborn kicking, get an intimacy during feeding, etc. There are positives that get overlooked all too often.
Sex is pretty awesome and intimate for a woman, too. IF it's consensual. If not, not so much, eh?
Yep. CA bought up smaller, established, but failing software companies that had a market for at least one decent software title. They would then fire all of the developers and use the software titles as cash cows. wash, rinse, repeat. They made a decent business out of this strategy.
Yeah, so this fits in 100% with Avago....excuse me....Broadcom's normal strategy.
Underwater aesthetics should decide how we all live our lives?
On behalf of the rest of the goddamned planet that has to pick up after shit stains who quip about this, please feel free to go fuck yourself. Too bad short sighted fuckwits aren't the only ones hurt by their asinine and selfish behaviors.
I played World of Warcraft from vanilla to MoP under the default Wine that was rolled out with Debian. Never had a problem.
Well, aside from the problems caused by too much time sunk into WoW....
Honestly, I think the other more senior people in my group grew concerned that I could do something they couldn't. I was a relative newcomer at the time.
That's bad news, too. If they are doing that, I can pretty much guarantee that they are undermining your reputation behind your back. If they are in the management chain, run. If not, try to work around them.
Well they ran up one side of me and down the other for doing something that apparently wasn't my job.
If that is accurate(and I have no reason to doubt you), I would be spreading my resume like pollen in spring. Any place that hammers on you for legitimate improvements is a place to leave ASAP. If it's a contract, document your work, note the boundaries that they threw up in your path, collect your paycheck and move on.
Now, if you work in a strictly controlled and regulated environment, such as some parts of healthcare or military engineering, then I could see why fooling around with a standard library would get you in trouble. If you are doing on the fly changes to a system that is under change management, say for FDA regulatory reasons, you are definitely treading on thin ice. But I assume that you would have included that tidbit if it applied to your scenario.
After the first few, learning a new programming language is just syntax. If you have experience in python, call it out. Be honest("I worked with it, but I'm not an expert"), but don't sell yourself short, either. When I'm interviewing someone, I'm looking for flexibility in coding. I'll throw out a few challenges, but I'm not looking for gotchas. Hell, I take python pseudo code all the time, because any half ass programmer with google can get that right. I want to see your thought process. Same for when I was being interviewed. Passed with flying colors because I can think around the problem and see ways to solve it, regardless of the language involved.
Huh. A few seconds of a search and replace and peeling off the "progressive" bit makes your post actually reflect reality.
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The real problem is that we've seen the rise of extreme rightism over the past 40 to 50 years. The seeds were planted in the late 1960s, but it wasn't until the last decade that it has really taken off and become entrenched throughout Western society, especially within the so-called "Baby Boomer Generation".
Rightism abhors originality. It abhors creativity. It abhors free thinking. Why is that? Because individuals who engage in such activities quickly tear apart the intellectual "foundation" (or lack thereof) of rightist ideologies. Rightism collapses when confronted with any sort of intelligent analysis. That's why rightists try to hard to stamp out free thought in favor of people just mindlessly parroting rightist narratives.
Rightism is actually an intense form of conservatism, even to the point of regression. Rightist ideologies revolve around fixed, unchanging narratives. There is no flexibility for these narratives to evolve. What's wrongly perceived as "progress" is actually a society regressing so as to conform to these fixed rightist narratives.
We shouldn't be surprised that we see stagnation within academia, within the various R&D fields, and within business. As more and more rightists have worked their way into academic, research and business organizations, the focus has been taken away from doing real work and coming up with real innovation.
BS. If what you said is true then China, the USSR, etc.. would not have happened or been put in check by the same moral code you claim can be adopted from nothing.
Non sequitur. Atheism != Humanism. And there is no reason to assume that atheistic, non-humanist regimes will develop humanistic moral codes.
Scientific facts: Not everyone is moral, not everyone has the same values, and not everyone has the desire or capacity to learn.
Not having the same values != not being moral. Again, the question of whether humanist morals can be derived from materialistic principles, true or false, has nothing to do with your statements.
From that perspective, what religion is is the distillation of millenia of human experience, retaining what works well for people and discarding what doesn't.
When you ignore the entire history of religion, I suppose this could look true. In the real world, where people are still persecuted and killed for "crimes" like blasphemy and "sins" like unapproved sexual behavior, your argument falls flat.
In other news, rolling coal is alive and well in the US.
Yeah, those fucking idiots. I really, really hate those assholes. I fully support their right to do this in the confines of their garage. Preferably, with all of the doors closed and any ventilation sealed shut.
Just like everything else. Participate in democracy. Sometimes it sucks, like when morons vote in morons. Such is life.
So, basically what we have now is "Crony capitalism" in the form of Franchise agreements creating monopolies for telco/cable companies, from an era before the Internet. THAT is statism at its utter worst.
You don't seem to notice that your plan doesn't help. Get this. I DIG your idea of having a municipal government running the last mile. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality. I don't even care if a private corp runs the wire. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality.
No, NetNeutrality says COMCAST (aka UPS) can only provide services the government deems appropriate.
False.
My solution is to build a road
Ok, let the state build the wire. Be specific in that you are relying on government to do your work for you.
and let COMCAST carry exactly what it wants, Netflix can offer its services, HULU.. HBO, NETNEUT (geek special) can all provide services and compete for the use of the ROAD (wire).
Oh, so in other words, the last mile provider has to provide the wire to anyone who is paying. Geez, that sounds so familiar.
How do you prevent spam on your network, when it is classified the exact same as high priority public safety data?
Rule 4 of the FCC NN rules specifically exempt reasonable network management. And it doesn't disappear in your version either. Try again.
How do you throttle the asswipe who has a Porn Torrent setup, sucking all the bandwidth the ISP has to offer?
Rule 4 covers this, too. More specifically, deal with it in the ToS for the end user. And, again, the problem doesn't disappear in your scheme.
The problem is lack of competition for the last mile.
No, it's human nature and physics.
Change that, and you'll have all the Net Neutrality you want, and can afford from the vendor of your choice (and no bandwidth because that asswipe wants the same thing to abuse) and I'll get my properly tuned network connection from the vendor I choose
And we all go through the same last mile pipe cause we're neighbors and....oops, we're equally fucked. Unless, of course, you make a deal with the last mile provider to get a guaranteed percentage of the connection. Which leads you to the same scenario of a limited number of providers chosen by the government providers. We've been on this merry go round before.
I can see how that is a bitch for you though, my way doesn't dictate to anyone anything.
It dictates 100% as much as NN does. Because it IS NN.
Net Neutrality is like saying I have to use a Prius to haul 2 tons of bricks, or I have to us USPS instead of Fed/Ex or UPS.
In a world where net neutrality means something completely different, then maybe? In this world, it's complete bullshit. You keep describing your ideal system, and it sounds suspiciously like this:
the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites
Which is the definition of net neutrality. Literally. You know, not favoring the Prius, in your tortured example, or the truck that would make sense, but rather treating bits as bits, regardless of source or destination. Like our transportation system does today.
mostly liberals who want to control everything via Government decree
Versus the free market fairies who will always do the right thing and don't have to deal with physical constraints, like a limited footprint in which to connect services. Seriously, we've already established above that your alternative to government control is government control. Are you a "liberal" in disguise?
It is interesting that you start with this statement against the government designing networks:
Net Neutrality is anything but. It is government designed networking. Last thing we need is more government interference.
And end with the solution of.....governments designing networks:
This is easily solved, by allowing municipalities to build out common infrastructure that can be used by anyone to any provider.
It seems to me that the easiest way out is to simply declare that anyone who is running a line to an end user is a common carrier and required to lease that line to anyone the end user wishes to connect to without preference. We call that concept...."net neutrality."
You kids are so privileged these days, it makes me livid.
In all serious, now it is just ridiculous. My kids have cheap microcontrollers and SBCs that vastly outperform anything I had to work with. I look at this stuff and just imagine what I could have done with it in my youth. Alas....
Ok, now back to the subject at hand...
I read Levy's book Hackers at the time, and the fact that all I could do was BASIC drove me batty! We were so dirt poor that a $20 Z80 was just a pipe dream! Now, my wife wonders why I can't turn down the opportunity to pick up vintage machines to play with. I tried to explain that this is all psychological scars from my childhood, but she still doesn't understand....
Pshaw. At least you could get under the hood. Without the disk system and extended basic for my bare bones TI-99/4a, I was stymied. I lusted after the Adam computer and the generic TS-1000 clones for sale in the back of Radio Electronics magazines.
I spent 20 years in Kansas(and decades more growing up in the south). I can assure you that Lawrence is an oasis of decency compared to the majority of Kansas. Some of the most viscous, bigoted assholes I've ever had the misfortune to have met came from small towns in Kansas. I got my kids the hell out of there, and I have never felt for a moment that I didn't make the right decision.
I have lived all through the south and the midwest. The minute I had a chance to have the corp I worked for pay for a move to the Bay area, I jumped on it. Sure, I gave up the perks of low cost living(a 5 bedroom with a huge yard for $40k, etc). But, on the other hand, I've somehow figured out how to live under my means here. I suspect a lot of people just can't realistically budget themselves no matter where they lived or how much they make. A family of 5 with one full time income, and I'm saving money every month(and paid off my school loans, car loans. Zero debt at this point). I can't be the only one who knows how to do this.
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Also the hijacked body narrative is a negative viewpoint.
Yeah, it is. Kind of the point.
The positive viewpoint is that they feel the newborn kicking, get an intimacy during feeding, etc. There are positives that get overlooked all too often.
Sex is pretty awesome and intimate for a woman, too. IF it's consensual. If not, not so much, eh?
I'd settle for some sign of HI (Human Intelligence) from this administration.
Yep. CA bought up smaller, established, but failing software companies that had a market for at least one decent software title. They would then fire all of the developers and use the software titles as cash cows. wash, rinse, repeat. They made a decent business out of this strategy.
Yeah, so this fits in 100% with Avago....excuse me....Broadcom's normal strategy.
Underwater aesthetics should decide how we all live our lives?
On behalf of the rest of the goddamned planet that has to pick up after shit stains who quip about this, please feel free to go fuck yourself. Too bad short sighted fuckwits aren't the only ones hurt by their asinine and selfish behaviors.
I played World of Warcraft from vanilla to MoP under the default Wine that was rolled out with Debian. Never had a problem. Well, aside from the problems caused by too much time sunk into WoW....
Honestly, I think the other more senior people in my group grew concerned that I could do something they couldn't. I was a relative newcomer at the time.
That's bad news, too. If they are doing that, I can pretty much guarantee that they are undermining your reputation behind your back. If they are in the management chain, run. If not, try to work around them.
Well they ran up one side of me and down the other for doing something that apparently wasn't my job.
If that is accurate(and I have no reason to doubt you), I would be spreading my resume like pollen in spring. Any place that hammers on you for legitimate improvements is a place to leave ASAP. If it's a contract, document your work, note the boundaries that they threw up in your path, collect your paycheck and move on.
Now, if you work in a strictly controlled and regulated environment, such as some parts of healthcare or military engineering, then I could see why fooling around with a standard library would get you in trouble. If you are doing on the fly changes to a system that is under change management, say for FDA regulatory reasons, you are definitely treading on thin ice. But I assume that you would have included that tidbit if it applied to your scenario.
After the first few, learning a new programming language is just syntax. If you have experience in python, call it out. Be honest("I worked with it, but I'm not an expert"), but don't sell yourself short, either. When I'm interviewing someone, I'm looking for flexibility in coding. I'll throw out a few challenges, but I'm not looking for gotchas. Hell, I take python pseudo code all the time, because any half ass programmer with google can get that right. I want to see your thought process. Same for when I was being interviewed. Passed with flying colors because I can think around the problem and see ways to solve it, regardless of the language involved.
Huh. A few seconds of a search and replace and peeling off the "progressive" bit makes your post actually reflect reality.
================
The real problem is that we've seen the rise of extreme rightism over the past 40 to 50 years. The seeds were planted in the late 1960s, but it wasn't until the last decade that it has really taken off and become entrenched throughout Western society, especially within the so-called "Baby Boomer Generation".
Rightism abhors originality. It abhors creativity. It abhors free thinking. Why is that? Because individuals who engage in such activities quickly tear apart the intellectual "foundation" (or lack thereof) of rightist ideologies. Rightism collapses when confronted with any sort of intelligent analysis. That's why rightists try to hard to stamp out free thought in favor of people just mindlessly parroting rightist narratives.
Rightism is actually an intense form of conservatism, even to the point of regression. Rightist ideologies revolve around fixed, unchanging narratives. There is no flexibility for these narratives to evolve. What's wrongly perceived as "progress" is actually a society regressing so as to conform to these fixed rightist narratives.
We shouldn't be surprised that we see stagnation within academia, within the various R&D fields, and within business. As more and more rightists have worked their way into academic, research and business organizations, the focus has been taken away from doing real work and coming up with real innovation.
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BS. If what you said is true then China, the USSR, etc.. would not have happened or been put in check by the same moral code you claim can be adopted from nothing.
Non sequitur. Atheism != Humanism. And there is no reason to assume that atheistic, non-humanist regimes will develop humanistic moral codes.
Scientific facts: Not everyone is moral, not everyone has the same values, and not everyone has the desire or capacity to learn.
Not having the same values != not being moral. Again, the question of whether humanist morals can be derived from materialistic principles, true or false, has nothing to do with your statements.
From that perspective, what religion is is the distillation of millenia of human experience, retaining what works well for people and discarding what doesn't.
When you ignore the entire history of religion, I suppose this could look true. In the real world, where people are still persecuted and killed for "crimes" like blasphemy and "sins" like unapproved sexual behavior, your argument falls flat.
In other news, rolling coal is alive and well in the US.
Yeah, those fucking idiots. I really, really hate those assholes. I fully support their right to do this in the confines of their garage. Preferably, with all of the doors closed and any ventilation sealed shut.
How do you avoid Crony capitalism....
Just like everything else. Participate in democracy. Sometimes it sucks, like when morons vote in morons. Such is life.
So, basically what we have now is "Crony capitalism" in the form of Franchise agreements creating monopolies for telco/cable companies, from an era before the Internet. THAT is statism at its utter worst.
You don't seem to notice that your plan doesn't help. Get this. I DIG your idea of having a municipal government running the last mile. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality. I don't even care if a private corp runs the wire. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality.
No, NetNeutrality says COMCAST (aka UPS) can only provide services the government deems appropriate.
False.
My solution is to build a road
Ok, let the state build the wire. Be specific in that you are relying on government to do your work for you.
and let COMCAST carry exactly what it wants, Netflix can offer its services, HULU .. HBO, NETNEUT (geek special) can all provide services and compete for the use of the ROAD (wire).
Oh, so in other words, the last mile provider has to provide the wire to anyone who is paying. Geez, that sounds so familiar.
How do you prevent spam on your network, when it is classified the exact same as high priority public safety data?
Rule 4 of the FCC NN rules specifically exempt reasonable network management. And it doesn't disappear in your version either. Try again.
How do you throttle the asswipe who has a Porn Torrent setup, sucking all the bandwidth the ISP has to offer?
Rule 4 covers this, too. More specifically, deal with it in the ToS for the end user. And, again, the problem doesn't disappear in your scheme.
The problem is lack of competition for the last mile.
No, it's human nature and physics.
Change that, and you'll have all the Net Neutrality you want, and can afford from the vendor of your choice (and no bandwidth because that asswipe wants the same thing to abuse) and I'll get my properly tuned network connection from the vendor I choose
And we all go through the same last mile pipe cause we're neighbors and....oops, we're equally fucked. Unless, of course, you make a deal with the last mile provider to get a guaranteed percentage of the connection. Which leads you to the same scenario of a limited number of providers chosen by the government providers. We've been on this merry go round before.
I can see how that is a bitch for you though, my way doesn't dictate to anyone anything.
It dictates 100% as much as NN does. Because it IS NN.
Net Neutrality is like saying I have to use a Prius to haul 2 tons of bricks, or I have to us USPS instead of Fed/Ex or UPS.
In a world where net neutrality means something completely different, then maybe? In this world, it's complete bullshit. You keep describing your ideal system, and it sounds suspiciously like this:
the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites
Which is the definition of net neutrality. Literally. You know, not favoring the Prius, in your tortured example, or the truck that would make sense, but rather treating bits as bits, regardless of source or destination. Like our transportation system does today.
Oh, cool. I wasn't aware that local governments were incapable of being completely corrupted with crony capitalism. Good to know!
mostly liberals who want to control everything via Government decree
Versus the free market fairies who will always do the right thing and don't have to deal with physical constraints, like a limited footprint in which to connect services. Seriously, we've already established above that your alternative to government control is government control. Are you a "liberal" in disguise?
Net Neutrality is anything but. It is government designed networking. Last thing we need is more government interference.
And end with the solution of.....governments designing networks:
This is easily solved, by allowing municipalities to build out common infrastructure that can be used by anyone to any provider.
It seems to me that the easiest way out is to simply declare that anyone who is running a line to an end user is a common carrier and required to lease that line to anyone the end user wishes to connect to without preference. We call that concept...."net neutrality."
I'm glad you are so certain of all this.
Are you serious? You say something as blindingly stupid as this:
Where do you get the power to run the (undoubtedly huge and multiple) pumps? From the water?
And then get lippy when the basic design of a hydro storage system is explained to you at kindergarten level?
STFU and go read a damned book.
All claims made by your proxies in the political arena and even in Science. ALL Fails
Citation needed.
You kids are so privileged these days, it makes me livid.
In all serious, now it is just ridiculous. My kids have cheap microcontrollers and SBCs that vastly outperform anything I had to work with. I look at this stuff and just imagine what I could have done with it in my youth. Alas....
Ok, now back to the subject at hand...
I read Levy's book Hackers at the time, and the fact that all I could do was BASIC drove me batty! We were so dirt poor that a $20 Z80 was just a pipe dream! Now, my wife wonders why I can't turn down the opportunity to pick up vintage machines to play with. I tried to explain that this is all psychological scars from my childhood, but she still doesn't understand....
Pshaw. At least you could get under the hood. Without the disk system and extended basic for my bare bones TI-99/4a, I was stymied. I lusted after the Adam computer and the generic TS-1000 clones for sale in the back of Radio Electronics magazines.
After living in Lawrence, Kansas
I spent 20 years in Kansas(and decades more growing up in the south). I can assure you that Lawrence is an oasis of decency compared to the majority of Kansas. Some of the most viscous, bigoted assholes I've ever had the misfortune to have met came from small towns in Kansas. I got my kids the hell out of there, and I have never felt for a moment that I didn't make the right decision.
You chose to live and work out there.
I have lived all through the south and the midwest. The minute I had a chance to have the corp I worked for pay for a move to the Bay area, I jumped on it. Sure, I gave up the perks of low cost living(a 5 bedroom with a huge yard for $40k, etc). But, on the other hand, I've somehow figured out how to live under my means here. I suspect a lot of people just can't realistically budget themselves no matter where they lived or how much they make. A family of 5 with one full time income, and I'm saving money every month(and paid off my school loans, car loans. Zero debt at this point). I can't be the only one who knows how to do this.