Ever check what the Christian Right has in store for America? It is not much different than what Islam would like to do to America.
Christians and Muslims are fine, until they become overwhelming majorities. Then they turn into authoritarian dicks.
I think it's been a long time since Christians stoned someone to death for blasphemy. Meanwhile, there are multiple muslim communities that still practice it. They don't even hide it, it's documented in their penal codes!
I wouldn't assume someone is either muslim or christian. I'm pretty sure that there more options, including atheism. So defending muslims by comparing them to the "Christian Right" is like saying Shaytan is no worse than Satan.
I agree with you. When vapers/smokers allow their crap to invade another person's personal space, it should be considered an assault. And we should be able to defend ourselves if that happens.
Unfortunately, drug addicts are very passionate about rationalizing their addictions. They'll say they're not drug addicts, but that's normal for a drug addict. And they will claim it's not harming anyone, but it does. If anyone gets in the way of their drug habit, they become vicious, like a rabid weasel. But instead of rabies, they have hepatitis c, which is still scary.
Instead of people taking much safer commercially manufactured opiates we have people dying left and right from illicitly manufactured fentanyl smuggled in from China.
There is no safe long term use of opiates. Using medical grade opiates is only delaying your death. It is causing you bodily harm as you continually use it. And as you continually use it, your tolerance and dependance on it increases, making it harder to quit. How is this supposed to work? Maybe we should have medical professionals administering higher and higher dosages of medicinal grade heroin to drug addicts until they decide to get help?
Didn't the increase of opioid prescriptions help increase the number of heroin addicts? And isn't prescription opioids killing more people than heroin?
Trying to forcibly manipulate human behavior through legislation at best doesn't work, and at worst has resulted in some of the greatest human rights violation of our time.
It worked to reduce the number of cigarette smokers. Increasing the price of cigarettes and reducing the number areas where you can smoke. When you create smoke-free environments(bars, workplace, restaurants) it makes it a lot easier to quit. Otherwise you're just one OPC away from starting again.
The problem with imprisoning the parents is that it affects the children. I agree there should be a law against subjecting children to tobacco smoke. Instead of imprisonment, maybe they could place them in a room with a family of angry skunks for a week?
We had to wait until the 1940s to discover that smoking was bad for your health. Then we had to wait until the 1980s for secondhand smoke to be proven harmful. And that was despite the obvious impact it was having on people.
If vaping follows the same pattern, it will be decades before any dangers are announced. The possible contents of the e-juice are still not regulated, so technically, you can't say whether the contents are safe or not. If it contains diacetyl, will it eventually cause COPD?
There are a lot of us who remember what it was like to have to deal with people smoking around us against our will. It's still happening in some places and the smokers often use the same arguments as the vapers. If you're wondering why people treat you like smokers, it's because you are acting the exact same way and you are using the same lame arguments.
IE: If Cryonics ever proves that resuscitation is possible, does that mean the human soul hangs out until the body is resuscitated? How did it know this would happen and if it never happens does this mean your soul could be trapped forever waiting for an event that never happens? People have been resuscitated after life functions have stopped for a short period of time. Is there a time limit where the soul finally decides to leave?
Over 50 and no cavities and usually brush once a day with a Sonicare. Other family members have similar history. I suspect it is related to genetics and saliva production and ph. Dry mouth can lead to an increase in cavities.
It seems like a large portion of suggested friends are from the Middle East, Africa, South America, etc. Some of them are using character sets I have never seen before. Even when they use iso8859-1, it's not in a language I know. Some of them look like advertisement for porn, both gay and straight. It's so bad I am wondering if negative correlations are accidentally being included.
I've complained twice now to customer support, but I'm pretty sure they do not care.
Higher income households are more likely to use a gigabit connection. Given the choice they will more likely choose the $70 gigabit over the $30-$40 DSL.
They are more likely to have tvs that can support 4k streaming. They probably have more devices that are accessing the internet at the same time(smartphones, tablets, and multiple pcs/laptops). They are also more likely to be telecommuting.
They are also less likely to intentionally share their wifi with multiple neighbors and friends.
I believe it was an Apple IIe clone. It ran most everything that an Apple IIe could run. It seemed very high tech compared to the TRS-80(cassette player) I used in high school. It had a lot more memory and a 5.25 diskette drive.
Later on I bought and installed a rocket chip, which made it seem even more high tech running at 10MHz!
I used to have the same problem. My wife noticed that I have sleep apnea and that I sometimes woke up because of it. You don't realize that you woke up because you stopped breathing, but you do notice that you have to pee.
Before doing a sleep study, I decided to try one of the mandibular device solutions and it worked great! No snoring and I can sleep through the night, without waking up multiple times to "pee". If it didn't work I was going to give in and do the "sleep study" and possibly go with a cpap solution.
These were my first as well. We used them for regular greenbar printing, letters, envelopes, carbon forms, labels, junk mail. For non-greenbar forms we usually had to hack something together in the back to make the output stack evenly, otherwise it might backup inside and jam the printer. I still have my metal byte ruler from those days.
It was great for letters since the output looked like it came from a typewriter.
The IBM CEs who worked in our data center had to wear ties and white shirts. I think I only saw them using clip-on ties though. Otherwise some of those 1403s would have claimed a victim. Those printers needed a lot of maintenance.
Noisy teenagers giggling and talking and/or playing with their smartphones. It's also annoying when they slouch down and use the back of your chair as a footrest. Which is why I now only go to the movie theatres that have the larger reclining seats.
My wife and I went to see "Don't Breathe" in the theatre. It kills the effect when people decide they have to talk through the quieter scenes.
There is also a relatively new problem where some people decide it's okay to use their vape pen throughout the movie. They usually try to hide the output but you can still smell the strong odor of pot in the air.
I just upgraded my stereo system, it's getting more and more easier to replicate the theater environment at home. I just need a 90" screen and I'll be all set!
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are both horrible. Sometimes it seems like professional critics love boring movies that are plotless and meander all over the place and end without closure. The user reviews that exceed two or three sentences tend to be more useful, but then you run the risk of spoilers. If there was a movie review site that relied solely on audience EKG readings it would be far more useful.
I've tried http://movielens.org/ which seems like it should work but it still seems to miss the mark. I can't be the only one who is fed up with some of the insane reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Why isn't there a better site?
What is the cost of Heroin addiction? At least $200 billion? If you include financial support, health care, increased crime rate to support habit, cost of incarceration, etc. I suspect it is easily over a $1 trillion.
Looking at heroin overdose deaths over time you can see there are probably two main routes, one through Arizona and one through New Mexico. Looking it up afterwards it looks like Sinaloa is Arizona and Juarez is New Mexico? Sanctuary cities seem to function well as distribution points.
Something has to be done. We need to secure the southern border, increase efforts for drug rehabilitation, and reduce the number of sanctuary cities. The Mexican government would benefit as well. The drug cartels have too much power.
Cheap/low end doesn't have to mean sucky and dangerous.
Look at what happened in IT. When I started, many IT guys were strong generalists, capable at a wide variety of tasks. It was not uncommon to see a single team handle design and architecture, development, testing, requirements gathering, deployment,and support. However those guys were fairly expensive and managers figured that it would be better to compartmentalize the work and hand it either to specialists for improved quality (or at least repeatable mediocrity), or to lower paid workers to handle the simpler tasks like 1st line support.
Over time the different components of a datacenter became so complex that you had to specialize. In large companies, Networking and SAN storage management require their own specialists and departments.
But, you still need high end people in those departments. Just because they are specialists, that doesn't mean they can be mediocre. The problems I have seen over time is that when one component has a problem(Storage, Networking, Server, Application), there is a lot of finger pointing. I have seen storage performance issues where the storage team claimed there was no problem with the disks and meanwhile the FA ports were running at over 90% utilization, which is bad if you were expecting good response times. I have seen countless networking problems and the networking group would claim there was no problem with the network, meanwhile it turns out that they made firewall changes that were blocking required ports. DBAs often lthink there is a disk performance issue when the real problem is a bad query and now it's doing a full table scan on a 4TB database, that never ran in 5 seconds!
All of these problems should have been noticed within minutes, but mediocrity makes it possible for these problems to last for months because someone doesn't see the obvious problem and the other teams have no visibility into that mediocre team's environment. To compensate, there need to be high end players with visibility to all of the environments so that they can point out what someone is missing. Paying for people like that seems expensive, but it's not nearly as expensive as multiple teams spending months on a database performance problem that only one team can solve, but they keep overlooking the obvious problem and nobody can call them on it.
You need to be professional and think about your career. You train to keep your skills up to date, you maintain a network of contacts in the field and work on having a good reputation. Why sabotage that work with a vengeful act that will probably hurt you more than your target. You might even feel bad about it later when you reflect upon what you did.
He was probably was young and still thinking "job" and not "career".
I haven't had a stable connection for more than two weeks. If it was stable enough that a disruption would indicate a possible covert operation I could script for that, but I would get a false alert every week. I'm pretty sure my cable company isn't the only one that sucks for stability and problem determination,....Comcast
Does this mean that third world countries have a more dependable internet service than we do?
I don't understand how Star Track Borg technology would benefit anyone. I'm not aware of anyone who needs giant salt and pepper shakers that glide around telling about exterminating stuff. You're the expert on Star Track, though, so maybe there's something I'm missing about the Borg.
Did you just mix up the daleks from Doctor Who with the borg from Star Trek???? And you misspelled "Star Trek" twice?
For most development projects, I would agree that going into the nitty gritty can seem like overkill. But, having a core understanding of low level programming can make a huge difference in application performance. The third book "Sorting and Searching" should be required reading for anyone who plans on getting involved with databases, even if they only plan on being a dba.
You can do a lot with high level programming languages, but if you skip assembly or C programming for at least a background on what is happening behind the scenes, it starts to feel more like alchemy than chemistry.
I suspect that most of their sales are knockoffs! They say they have a process for this but you can see in the comments a lot of complaints about products being a cheap knockoff and yet the seller is still there. There are multiple articles on how a large percentage of their sales are knockoffs. If a competitor managed a way to cull the knockoff sellers from the marketplace they would crush amazon. For example, is there anyone selling real Birkenstocks on Amazon right now?
There is also a serious problem with their "Customer Reviews". Do a search on Amazon and Xfinity. It's hilarious!
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Ever check what the Christian Right has in store for America? It is not much different than what Islam would like to do to America.
Christians and Muslims are fine, until they become overwhelming majorities. Then they turn into authoritarian dicks.
I think it's been a long time since Christians stoned someone to death for blasphemy. Meanwhile, there are multiple muslim communities that still practice it. They don't even hide it, it's documented in their penal codes!
I wouldn't assume someone is either muslim or christian. I'm pretty sure that there more options, including atheism. So defending muslims by comparing them to the "Christian Right" is like saying Shaytan is no worse than Satan.
I agree with you. When vapers/smokers allow their crap to invade another person's personal space, it should be considered an assault. And we should be able to defend ourselves if that happens.
Unfortunately, drug addicts are very passionate about rationalizing their addictions. They'll say they're not drug addicts, but that's normal for a drug addict. And they will claim it's not harming anyone, but it does. If anyone gets in the way of their drug habit, they become vicious, like a rabid weasel. But instead of rabies, they have hepatitis c, which is still scary.
Instead of people taking much safer commercially manufactured opiates we have people dying left and right from illicitly manufactured fentanyl smuggled in from China.
There is no safe long term use of opiates. Using medical grade opiates is only delaying your death. It is causing you bodily harm as you continually use it. And as you continually use it, your tolerance and dependance on it increases, making it harder to quit. How is this supposed to work? Maybe we should have medical professionals administering higher and higher dosages of medicinal grade heroin to drug addicts until they decide to get help?
Didn't the increase of opioid prescriptions help increase the number of heroin addicts? And isn't prescription opioids killing more people than heroin?
Trying to forcibly manipulate human behavior through legislation at best doesn't work, and at worst has resulted in some of the greatest human rights violation of our time.
It worked to reduce the number of cigarette smokers. Increasing the price of cigarettes and reducing the number areas where you can smoke. When you create smoke-free environments(bars, workplace, restaurants) it makes it a lot easier to quit. Otherwise you're just one OPC away from starting again.
The problem with imprisoning the parents is that it affects the children. I agree there should be a law against subjecting children to tobacco smoke. Instead of imprisonment, maybe they could place them in a room with a family of angry skunks for a week?
We had to wait until the 1940s to discover that smoking was bad for your health. Then we had to wait until the 1980s for secondhand smoke to be proven harmful. And that was despite the obvious impact it was having on people.
If vaping follows the same pattern, it will be decades before any dangers are announced. The possible contents of the e-juice are still not regulated, so technically, you can't say whether the contents are safe or not. If it contains diacetyl, will it eventually cause COPD?
There are a lot of us who remember what it was like to have to deal with people smoking around us against our will. It's still happening in some places and the smokers often use the same arguments as the vapers. If you're wondering why people treat you like smokers, it's because you are acting the exact same way and you are using the same lame arguments.
Science might prove that the soul does not exist.
IE: If Cryonics ever proves that resuscitation is possible, does that mean the human soul hangs out until the body is resuscitated? How did it know this would happen and if it never happens does this mean your soul could be trapped forever waiting for an event that never happens? People have been resuscitated after life functions have stopped for a short period of time. Is there a time limit where the soul finally decides to leave?
Over 50 and no cavities and usually brush once a day with a Sonicare. Other family members have similar history. I suspect it is related to genetics and saliva production and ph. Dry mouth can lead to an increase in cavities.
I have the exact same problem.
It seems like a large portion of suggested friends are from the Middle East, Africa, South America, etc. Some of them are using character sets I have never seen before. Even when they use iso8859-1, it's not in a language I know. Some of them look like advertisement for porn, both gay and straight. It's so bad I am wondering if negative correlations are accidentally being included.
I've complained twice now to customer support, but I'm pretty sure they do not care.
Higher income households are more likely to use a gigabit connection. Given the choice they will more likely choose the $70 gigabit over the $30-$40 DSL.
They are more likely to have tvs that can support 4k streaming. They probably have more devices that are accessing the internet at the same time(smartphones, tablets, and multiple pcs/laptops). They are also more likely to be telecommuting.
They are also less likely to intentionally share their wifi with multiple neighbors and friends.
I believe it was an Apple IIe clone. It ran most everything that an Apple IIe could run. It seemed very high tech compared to the TRS-80(cassette player) I used in high school. It had a lot more memory and a 5.25 diskette drive.
Later on I bought and installed a rocket chip, which made it seem even more high tech running at 10MHz!
It might Morphogen. From Isaac Asimov's "Fantastic Voyage". Thirty minutes of solid dreaming and then you're set for a day!
I used to have the same problem. My wife noticed that I have sleep apnea and that I sometimes woke up because of it. You don't realize that you woke up because you stopped breathing, but you do notice that you have to pee.
Before doing a sleep study, I decided to try one of the mandibular device solutions and it worked great! No snoring and I can sleep through the night, without waking up multiple times to "pee". If it didn't work I was going to give in and do the "sleep study" and possibly go with a cpap solution.
The paper was also good for printing out 6' posters of naked women! Does that count as EBCDIC art or ASCII art?
These were my first as well. We used them for regular greenbar printing, letters, envelopes, carbon forms, labels, junk mail. For non-greenbar forms we usually had to hack something together in the back to make the output stack evenly, otherwise it might backup inside and jam the printer. I still have my metal byte ruler from those days.
It was great for letters since the output looked like it came from a typewriter.
The IBM CEs who worked in our data center had to wear ties and white shirts. I think I only saw them using clip-on ties though. Otherwise some of those 1403s would have claimed a victim. Those printers needed a lot of maintenance.
A broken carriage control tape could do it too. Inside rapidly fills with billowing paper followed by the 1403 cover automatically rising. :(
Noisy teenagers giggling and talking and/or playing with their smartphones. It's also annoying when they slouch down and use the back of your chair as a footrest. Which is why I now only go to the movie theatres that have the larger reclining seats.
My wife and I went to see "Don't Breathe" in the theatre. It kills the effect when people decide they have to talk through the quieter scenes.
There is also a relatively new problem where some people decide it's okay to use their vape pen throughout the movie. They usually try to hide the output but you can still smell the strong odor of pot in the air.
I just upgraded my stereo system, it's getting more and more easier to replicate the theater environment at home. I just need a 90" screen and I'll be all set!
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are both horrible. Sometimes it seems like professional critics love boring movies that are plotless and meander all over the place and end without closure. The user reviews that exceed two or three sentences tend to be more useful, but then you run the risk of spoilers. If there was a movie review site that relied solely on audience EKG readings it would be far more useful.
I've tried http://movielens.org/ which seems like it should work but it still seems to miss the mark. I can't be the only one who is fed up with some of the insane reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Why isn't there a better site?
What is the cost of Heroin addiction? At least $200 billion? If you include financial support, health care, increased crime rate to support habit, cost of incarceration, etc. I suspect it is easily over a $1 trillion.
Looking at heroin overdose deaths over time you can see there are probably two main routes, one through Arizona and one through New Mexico. Looking it up afterwards it looks like Sinaloa is Arizona and Juarez is New Mexico? Sanctuary cities seem to function well as distribution points.
Something has to be done. We need to secure the southern border, increase efforts for drug rehabilitation, and reduce the number of sanctuary cities. The Mexican government would benefit as well. The drug cartels have too much power.
Cheap/low end doesn't have to mean sucky and dangerous. Look at what happened in IT. When I started, many IT guys were strong generalists, capable at a wide variety of tasks. It was not uncommon to see a single team handle design and architecture, development, testing, requirements gathering, deployment,and support. However those guys were fairly expensive and managers figured that it would be better to compartmentalize the work and hand it either to specialists for improved quality (or at least repeatable mediocrity), or to lower paid workers to handle the simpler tasks like 1st line support.
Over time the different components of a datacenter became so complex that you had to specialize. In large companies, Networking and SAN storage management require their own specialists and departments.
But, you still need high end people in those departments. Just because they are specialists, that doesn't mean they can be mediocre. The problems I have seen over time is that when one component has a problem(Storage, Networking, Server, Application), there is a lot of finger pointing. I have seen storage performance issues where the storage team claimed there was no problem with the disks and meanwhile the FA ports were running at over 90% utilization, which is bad if you were expecting good response times. I have seen countless networking problems and the networking group would claim there was no problem with the network, meanwhile it turns out that they made firewall changes that were blocking required ports. DBAs often lthink there is a disk performance issue when the real problem is a bad query and now it's doing a full table scan on a 4TB database, that never ran in 5 seconds!
All of these problems should have been noticed within minutes, but mediocrity makes it possible for these problems to last for months because someone doesn't see the obvious problem and the other teams have no visibility into that mediocre team's environment. To compensate, there need to be high end players with visibility to all of the environments so that they can point out what someone is missing. Paying for people like that seems expensive, but it's not nearly as expensive as multiple teams spending months on a database performance problem that only one team can solve, but they keep overlooking the obvious problem and nobody can call them on it.
I totally agree with you!
You need to be professional and think about your career. You train to keep your skills up to date, you maintain a network of contacts in the field and work on having a good reputation. Why sabotage that work with a vengeful act that will probably hurt you more than your target. You might even feel bad about it later when you reflect upon what you did.
He was probably was young and still thinking "job" and not "career".
I haven't had a stable connection for more than two weeks. If it was stable enough that a disruption would indicate a possible covert operation I could script for that, but I would get a false alert every week. I'm pretty sure my cable company isn't the only one that sucks for stability and problem determination, ....Comcast
Does this mean that third world countries have a more dependable internet service than we do?
I don't understand how Star Track Borg technology would benefit anyone. I'm not aware of anyone who needs giant salt and pepper shakers that glide around telling about exterminating stuff. You're the expert on Star Track, though, so maybe there's something I'm missing about the Borg.
Did you just mix up the daleks from Doctor Who with the borg from Star Trek???? And you misspelled "Star Trek" twice?
For most development projects, I would agree that going into the nitty gritty can seem like overkill. But, having a core understanding of low level programming can make a huge difference in application performance. The third book "Sorting and Searching" should be required reading for anyone who plans on getting involved with databases, even if they only plan on being a dba.
You can do a lot with high level programming languages, but if you skip assembly or C programming for at least a background on what is happening behind the scenes, it starts to feel more like alchemy than chemistry.
This is how Amazon will eventually fail.
I suspect that most of their sales are knockoffs! They say they have a process for this but you can see in the comments a lot of complaints about products being a cheap knockoff and yet the seller is still there. There are multiple articles on how a large percentage of their sales are knockoffs. If a competitor managed a way to cull the knockoff sellers from the marketplace they would crush amazon. For example, is there anyone selling real Birkenstocks on Amazon right now?
There is also a serious problem with their "Customer Reviews". Do a search on Amazon and Xfinity. It's hilarious!