The rigorous, six-month training teaches carefully selected inmates the ins and outs of designing and launching technology firms, using local experts as volunteer instructors.
Yes, they need jobs, but on this planet, prisoners are not going to be "designing and launching technology firms". One in a million has the intelligence and skills to make that work. Don't you suspect that the initial touted success of the program might be due to these same local experts pulling strings to get the ex-cons a job so the local expert looks good? Do you think this is sustainable? Do you think that corporate America, which is paranoid about hiring ex-felons to wash floors, is going to hand them the keys to their IT department?
I needed a steaming hot cup of thinly-veiled racebaiting with a small side of patriarchal guilt to start my day.
This is offtopic and trolling. Why is it not missed as such?
Because most of us know the demographics of the "geek" community and therefore suspect the motives, conscious or not, of this idea of going back to the good old days.
Bring in nerds to try and turn cons into high tech entrepreneurs? Why not bring in Itzhak Perlman to teach them all how to be first-chair violinists? These guys need anger management, substance abuse counseling, and a job. They don't need angel financing.
The problem is, nobody has identified a metric to measure the tier an executive belongs in. So we recruit a CEO by offering them $10 million a year, reasoning that if we are paying them that much, they must be first-tier.
Here's why the CEO of my last company makes way way more than he is worth:
Compensation is set by the board.
The board positions are overpaid cush noshow jobs.
The board is appointed by the CEO.
If this is a threat that "should be ranked alongside terrorism" then I'm not even going to waste my time reading about it.
This should be ranked in your mind way way way above terrorism. You will go your whole life plus ten without being within a whiff of a terror attack, but you will get a minor skin infection this month. You should be more terrified of that small red patch going septic and killing you in a day or so than any ill-tempered jihadist.
Why does the blood always have to come from a finger? That's where all the nerves are. Why can't you get the drop of blood from your elbow or some other place?
Actually, it's not. I mean it's really fucking not. I realize this is/., where cops are bad and independence rules, but some reading comprehension would get you to realize that the point of this has to do with dispatch calls, not police officer donut consumption.
Actually, it is. I will spare you the italics, and my reading comprehension is correctly calibrated. We don't know where the cops are or for how long because we don't track them currently.
This seems quite innocent and hugely useful at the same time - can anyone see the angle from which the rights holders will most likely try to attack his effort?:)
Yes. "More people are listening to our product, therefore...uh...GIVE US MONEY!"
I know you're trying to be funny by implying he's reinventing the wheel, but ironically, there's more than one way to clean your ass. In some countries, they use water streams rather than TP. There's not just one unique solution to each problem.
You just made my point. There are already multiple and satisfactory ways to clean one's ass.
Wolfram announced his latest idea - that there needed to be some kind of pliable material available next to toilets with which to clean one's bum. This material, he said, is going to be really soft, probably a couple of layers thick, and needed to be on some kind of continuous dispenser mechanism which he is developing.
Primitive airplanes were just going to be used for observation of the other side's ground troops. Opposing pilots used to wave and call good morning to each other. Then some pilots started carrying pistols in case they were forced down in enemy territory. Then some pilot took a shot at an enemy pilot. Pretty soon they were taking pot shots and dropping bricks on each other. Then someone mounted a machine gun on the top wing to try and do real damage to enemy planes. Then some genius figured out how to make the machine gun fire through the propeller. Then engines got powerful enough that the planes could start to carry small bombs to drop on troops as long as the planes were overhead observing anyway. And so on.
This comes back to me when I see things like the iRobot robotic pack mule. It will just be a helper at first, then it will come with armament. As long as it's going to be in a warzone anyway it might as well be packing.
I'm glad to see those making-of and the "Let me tell you why I'm so great" extra features go away. I found them pretentious and irritating.
Yes, there were many special features which consisted of the stars and director as talking heads talking about how awesome they others were to work with blah blah blah. But there were also gag reels, demonstrations of how the technology was used, interviews with costume designers, etc. One of the best was an interview with the foley artists - I forget which movie, maybe Wall-E - which was in depth and quite fascinating.
This is really the question that needs to be addressed: why is poverty still possible - and why can it even get worse - after 200 years of Gates's capitalism? Surely by now if capitalism was the answer, we'd not be where we are today.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
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I have all but concluded that I will probably not eat that piece of chocolate cake in the fridge.
That sweet chocolatty cake.
That dark moist delicious cake.
The rigorous, six-month training teaches carefully selected inmates the ins and outs of designing and launching technology firms, using local experts as volunteer instructors.
Yes, they need jobs, but on this planet, prisoners are not going to be "designing and launching technology firms". One in a million has the intelligence and skills to make that work. Don't you suspect that the initial touted success of the program might be due to these same local experts pulling strings to get the ex-cons a job so the local expert looks good? Do you think this is sustainable? Do you think that corporate America, which is paranoid about hiring ex-felons to wash floors, is going to hand them the keys to their IT department?
I needed a steaming hot cup of thinly-veiled racebaiting with a small side of patriarchal guilt to start my day.
This is offtopic and trolling. Why is it not missed as such?
Because most of us know the demographics of the "geek" community and therefore suspect the motives, conscious or not, of this idea of going back to the good old days.
Bring in nerds to try and turn cons into high tech entrepreneurs? Why not bring in Itzhak Perlman to teach them all how to be first-chair violinists? These guys need anger management, substance abuse counseling, and a job. They don't need angel financing.
I bet that women and minorities are underrepresented in this movement to turn the calendar back.
We are limited to second and third-tier execs....
The problem is, nobody has identified a metric to measure the tier an executive belongs in. So we recruit a CEO by offering them $10 million a year, reasoning that if we are paying them that much, they must be first-tier.
Here's why the CEO of my last company makes way way more than he is worth:
Compensation is set by the board.
The board positions are overpaid cush noshow jobs.
The board is appointed by the CEO.
Good luck, and don't call me Shirley.
You missed it. The proper response to that was "don't call me surely."
If this is a threat that "should be ranked alongside terrorism" then I'm not even going to waste my time reading about it.
This should be ranked in your mind way way way above terrorism. You will go your whole life plus ten without being within a whiff of a terror attack, but you will get a minor skin infection this month. You should be more terrified of that small red patch going septic and killing you in a day or so than any ill-tempered jihadist.
A pinprick of blood from a finger
Why does the blood always have to come from a finger? That's where all the nerves are. Why can't you get the drop of blood from your elbow or some other place?
running over some debris is neither high speed, nor a collision.
If the Concorde had been electric, all those people would still be alive.
No - and that is the point of the whole thing.
Actually, it's not. I mean it's really fucking not. I realize this is /., where cops are bad and independence rules, but some reading comprehension would get you to realize that the point of this has to do with dispatch calls, not police officer donut consumption.
Actually, it is. I will spare you the italics, and my reading comprehension is correctly calibrated. We don't know where the cops are or for how long because we don't track them currently.
Do you have data on how often this happens
No - and that is the point of the whole thing.
Everyone's guilty of something these days - if they want to deal with you all they have to do is look closely enough.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu
I always thought Finnan haddie was supernatural.
The lesson in most cases is to take the million, walk, then buy back your old company for pennies on the dollar in a couple of years.
This seems quite innocent and hugely useful at the same time - can anyone see the angle from which the rights holders will most likely try to attack his effort? :)
Yes. "More people are listening to our product, therefore...uh...GIVE US MONEY!"
I know you're trying to be funny by implying he's reinventing the wheel, but ironically, there's more than one way to clean your ass. In some countries, they use water streams rather than TP. There's not just one unique solution to each problem.
You just made my point. There are already multiple and satisfactory ways to clean one's ass.
Wolfram announced his latest idea - that there needed to be some kind of pliable material available next to toilets with which to clean one's bum. This material, he said, is going to be really soft, probably a couple of layers thick, and needed to be on some kind of continuous dispenser mechanism which he is developing.
Primitive airplanes were just going to be used for observation of the other side's ground troops. Opposing pilots used to wave and call good morning to each other. Then some pilots started carrying pistols in case they were forced down in enemy territory. Then some pilot took a shot at an enemy pilot. Pretty soon they were taking pot shots and dropping bricks on each other. Then someone mounted a machine gun on the top wing to try and do real damage to enemy planes. Then some genius figured out how to make the machine gun fire through the propeller. Then engines got powerful enough that the planes could start to carry small bombs to drop on troops as long as the planes were overhead observing anyway. And so on.
This comes back to me when I see things like the iRobot robotic pack mule. It will just be a helper at first, then it will come with armament. As long as it's going to be in a warzone anyway it might as well be packing.
Don't know about that, maybe we just can't look at tiny enough particles to see it's turtles all the way down also? Who know what's inside quarks?
Very very very old clams.
I'm not sure I'd right off the USPS.
What other business is at the special mercy of Congress and is continually in the crosshairs of the Ayn Rand/Paul family/Koch brothers crazies?
I'm glad to see those making-of and the "Let me tell you why I'm so great" extra features go away. I found them pretentious and irritating.
Yes, there were many special features which consisted of the stars and director as talking heads talking about how awesome they others were to work with blah blah blah. But there were also gag reels, demonstrations of how the technology was used, interviews with costume designers, etc. One of the best was an interview with the foley artists - I forget which movie, maybe Wall-E - which was in depth and quite fascinating.
This is really the question that needs to be addressed: why is poverty still possible - and why can it even get worse - after 200 years of Gates's capitalism? Surely by now if capitalism was the answer, we'd not be where we are today.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
After the way he "improved" my computing experience over the last few decades, I will take my chances without his plan.