They are doing harm to the school (financially) and its image. Why should they remain as students? They don't run the place and they don't get to make this call.
"Due process" has nothing to do with filing frivolous lawsuits without standing. That's just harassment. They didnt' like something so they are whining. They don't get to waste the college's endowment that way.
So, "journalists" get to make noise in the sphere of public opinion but are to be immune from the negative repercussions of said attention? Quite a deal for them, I say. Especially when many take money to alter the focus of their writings, or otherwise have a political axe to grind.
There is seriously no point in explaining to these nimrods that they are being (semi-)expertly fleeced by con men. Con men suitable for their dulled senses, at least. They'll either learn with time, or they won't. The fact that they are still willing to dump tons of money on games - moreover, with Kickstarter, even worse than the usual 'prerelease' scam* - indicates the foolishness beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Imagine an alternative situation where a food retailer crowdfunded "Christmas Dinner". You donate your money, and they remove the previously promised turkey and replace it with Spam on December 23. Would these same morons argue that Spam was better for you at that point? I think they would...
* Why on earth would you ever give money to a retailer or even a manufacturer for a vaporware product? Ever.
In 1984 no one bought an IBM PC with 16k of RAM. 256K was normal, larger sizes less so, but not entirely unheard of. 640K was growing common within a couple of years, but the great RAM price spike of the late 80s (something like $1k a meg) put a little bit of a damper on that.
You can't get governments to stop doing this shit, though. All you can do is minimize the size of government - starve the beast - so it can't do more of this crap. The group mind is a feeble thing and easily swayed emotionally.
Because multicast is complicated. You think it's easy - it is not. The professional tools for distributing multicast are not ready for prime time and the consumer hardware doesn't know how to deal with it at all. It's not as simple as sparse mode vs dense mode, even. Try doing multicast with multiple links not run by the same provider, for instance.
You are missing the point. Attacking "denialism" doesn't advance the cause even a bit. Most of us have come to the conclusion that something is happening with climate. The thing is, no one is willing to take on a vow of poverty to stop an ambiguous threat that we can't even quantify is amenable to being stopped by humans.
An asteroid can hit us tomorrow and despite all of our grandiose schemes, my feeling is that we won't be able to get our shit together to do anything about it when the time comes. Ditto climate. It's just not worth crippling economies for decades, perhaps centuries, to try to affect the problem. Idealists can drone on about the need for immediate action, but it'll never get traction as soon as it hits pocketbooks, employment and food supplies.
Markets are the most efficient way to find the value of anything. Setting an artificially high value for labor harms those seeking jobs, minimizing the number that become available. The government is a blunt instrument and cannot possibly adjust the value appropriately.
Moreover, those who want to raise the minimum wage, like you, are looking toward the forlorn hope of a "living wage" being the actual minimum value of labor. It is not, and never will be equivalent. Minimum wage means minimum requirements - educational, responsibility and social requirements all bound into one. If you are making minimum wage that means that you aren't expected to have any distinguishing characteristic. If your level of ambition and accomplishment is to be entirely undistinguished and achieve nothing more than the absolute minimum, then living in poverty is what you deserve, since you aren't interested in doing better than that. In this way, we encourage effort on the part of all that are capable of same.
No one wants to talk seriously online to total strangers. Where's the value add? These people aren't part of your social network and with the relative anonymity of posting online, they won't be. Back in the Fido days, we'd actually know the other posters in our net and might meet up with them on a regular basis. Where's the tie-in here? It's no wonder that it's all trolling, all the time.
Only a special environment composed exclusively of people from a real life community of interest could possibly overcome this.
What FPS BS? I deployed. I was under fire. Death was seen, bodies, human bones, discarded equipment with blood splotches, people shitting themselves, the whole nine yards. I still love FPS games. They are fun and are imaginary.
More to the point, this is just about power. Squeaky wheels getting oil. It has nothing to do with the horrors of dealing with other people*, except when it can be emotionally harnessed to achieve more power.
Get older - you realize it's all bullshit posturing for power for people ill-equipped to achieve it through honest means. In other words, beta males and most women. It's ineffectual and the power achieved is of a group nature in most cases, which is the worst kind. But it doesn't stop people from seeking it by trumpeting how terrible their life has been. Race peddlers, gender peddlers, homosexual activists - all the same.
Nothing but contempt for the idea and the execution. Something to be routed around.
* And it's most assuredly horrific, but we all get to deal with it at some level or another.
That is not true. If my job is important and my systems are important, i'm on site to make sure that change is successful.
When I was with IBM, our policy was to open up a conference call and have all the requisite support staff on the call until the change window closed. You paid through the nose for that kind of support, but our downtime was minimal and some customers needed that.
When I am working in theater on critical systems in wartime, I don't sit in my fucking hooch and use automated tools. My ass is in front of the boxes in question to respond instantly. The alternative is broken tactical systems meaning bad information being used to make decisions meaning dead people.
Your slack attitude doesn't cut it in the places I work.
Maintenance windows are at off-hours to accomodate real work happening. If every action was painless and produced the desired result, you could do it over lunch or something like that. But that's not the real world.
This begs the question of how the hell are you going to fix unexpected problems in an automated fashion? The answer is, you aren't. Therefore, you have to be up at 2am.
It had side windows and a periscope. Lindbergh would bank to look at things out the side windows. None of the above had failure modes anything like a video camera on a wire. Your point?
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Are you crazy? Civil war in no time with that plan. People need their time consumed and need to feel it is happening at least semi-constructively.
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They are doing harm to the school (financially) and its image. Why should they remain as students? They don't run the place and they don't get to make this call.
Defending the suit costs the college money. Hence, wasting the endowment.
"Due process" has nothing to do with filing frivolous lawsuits without standing. That's just harassment. They didnt' like something so they are whining. They don't get to waste the college's endowment that way.
And they'd be justified.
So, "journalists" get to make noise in the sphere of public opinion but are to be immune from the negative repercussions of said attention? Quite a deal for them, I say. Especially when many take money to alter the focus of their writings, or otherwise have a political axe to grind.
Your attitude is naive in the extreme.
There is seriously no point in explaining to these nimrods that they are being (semi-)expertly fleeced by con men. Con men suitable for their dulled senses, at least. They'll either learn with time, or they won't. The fact that they are still willing to dump tons of money on games - moreover, with Kickstarter, even worse than the usual 'prerelease' scam* - indicates the foolishness beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Imagine an alternative situation where a food retailer crowdfunded "Christmas Dinner". You donate your money, and they remove the previously promised turkey and replace it with Spam on December 23. Would these same morons argue that Spam was better for you at that point? I think they would...
* Why on earth would you ever give money to a retailer or even a manufacturer for a vaporware product? Ever.
Upmod this...
In 1984 no one bought an IBM PC with 16k of RAM. 256K was normal, larger sizes less so, but not entirely unheard of. 640K was growing common within a couple of years, but the great RAM price spike of the late 80s (something like $1k a meg) put a little bit of a damper on that.
A rehash of this, iow
You can't get governments to stop doing this shit, though. All you can do is minimize the size of government - starve the beast - so it can't do more of this crap. The group mind is a feeble thing and easily swayed emotionally.
Because multicast is complicated. You think it's easy - it is not. The professional tools for distributing multicast are not ready for prime time and the consumer hardware doesn't know how to deal with it at all. It's not as simple as sparse mode vs dense mode, even. Try doing multicast with multiple links not run by the same provider, for instance.
You are losing and will continue to lose on the political stage. Stew in that nicely, douchebag, as the temperature rises. Or maybe not...
You are missing the point. Attacking "denialism" doesn't advance the cause even a bit. Most of us have come to the conclusion that something is happening with climate. The thing is, no one is willing to take on a vow of poverty to stop an ambiguous threat that we can't even quantify is amenable to being stopped by humans.
An asteroid can hit us tomorrow and despite all of our grandiose schemes, my feeling is that we won't be able to get our shit together to do anything about it when the time comes. Ditto climate. It's just not worth crippling economies for decades, perhaps centuries, to try to affect the problem. Idealists can drone on about the need for immediate action, but it'll never get traction as soon as it hits pocketbooks, employment and food supplies.
You'd better hope the shooting doesn't start anytime soon. Guess who has most of the guns?
Markets are the most efficient way to find the value of anything. Setting an artificially high value for labor harms those seeking jobs, minimizing the number that become available. The government is a blunt instrument and cannot possibly adjust the value appropriately.
Moreover, those who want to raise the minimum wage, like you, are looking toward the forlorn hope of a "living wage" being the actual minimum value of labor. It is not, and never will be equivalent. Minimum wage means minimum requirements - educational, responsibility and social requirements all bound into one. If you are making minimum wage that means that you aren't expected to have any distinguishing characteristic. If your level of ambition and accomplishment is to be entirely undistinguished and achieve nothing more than the absolute minimum, then living in poverty is what you deserve, since you aren't interested in doing better than that. In this way, we encourage effort on the part of all that are capable of same.
No one wants to talk seriously online to total strangers. Where's the value add? These people aren't part of your social network and with the relative anonymity of posting online, they won't be. Back in the Fido days, we'd actually know the other posters in our net and might meet up with them on a regular basis. Where's the tie-in here? It's no wonder that it's all trolling, all the time.
Only a special environment composed exclusively of people from a real life community of interest could possibly overcome this.
What FPS BS? I deployed. I was under fire. Death was seen, bodies, human bones, discarded equipment with blood splotches, people shitting themselves, the whole nine yards. I still love FPS games. They are fun and are imaginary.
Nothing exemplifies the beta male mindset like mod points!
More to the point, this is just about power. Squeaky wheels getting oil. It has nothing to do with the horrors of dealing with other people*, except when it can be emotionally harnessed to achieve more power.
Get older - you realize it's all bullshit posturing for power for people ill-equipped to achieve it through honest means. In other words, beta males and most women. It's ineffectual and the power achieved is of a group nature in most cases, which is the worst kind. But it doesn't stop people from seeking it by trumpeting how terrible their life has been. Race peddlers, gender peddlers, homosexual activists - all the same.
Nothing but contempt for the idea and the execution. Something to be routed around.
* And it's most assuredly horrific, but we all get to deal with it at some level or another.
That is not true. If my job is important and my systems are important, i'm on site to make sure that change is successful.
When I was with IBM, our policy was to open up a conference call and have all the requisite support staff on the call until the change window closed. You paid through the nose for that kind of support, but our downtime was minimal and some customers needed that.
When I am working in theater on critical systems in wartime, I don't sit in my fucking hooch and use automated tools. My ass is in front of the boxes in question to respond instantly. The alternative is broken tactical systems meaning bad information being used to make decisions meaning dead people.
Your slack attitude doesn't cut it in the places I work.
How about looking up "pedantry".
Maintenance windows are at off-hours to accomodate real work happening. If every action was painless and produced the desired result, you could do it over lunch or something like that. But that's not the real world.
This begs the question of how the hell are you going to fix unexpected problems in an automated fashion? The answer is, you aren't. Therefore, you have to be up at 2am.
So we got rid of human slavery but are forced to endure ...human slavery? Is that your argument?
It had side windows and a periscope. Lindbergh would bank to look at things out the side windows. None of the above had failure modes anything like a video camera on a wire. Your point?