Huh. Religion aside, a minor thing called entropy means the human race is screwed. Whether tomorrow, or in a million years, or in the seconds before atoms rip themselves apart, the human race is doomed. Sure, it's a problem neither you nor your kids will have to face up to, but it should give you pause for thought. To be born into consciousness is to win a lottery of unimaginable odds; why don't you take the gift given to you by a blind universe and do something a little worthwhile with it?
Don't mung a date of birth by altering a single digit - electronic submissions will often silently accept these on the assumption that they are a typo. So for example, $EVILDOER can open a credit card account in your name, and the fact you've munged your date of birth slightly will not cause the process to fail.
This isn't true. Even in the current downturn, it is very hard to find quality staff who are 100% perfect for a given role. Granted, something really stupid on a public page would make an employer think carefully, but in general the good companies recognise that employees are humans too. Cue a flood of anecdote demonstrating the opposite..
Yes, it was suggested on the basis of some free association thinking. One they actually sat down and did the maths it became clear that it would take more than a puny nuclear bomb to do anything like destroy the entire planet. It's quite big.
Yeah, I used to make my gf log in as a normal user. She soon made it pretty clear that if she didn't get admin rights, my own root access would be revoked:-/
It's all relative. I'd love to have a UID under the 250k mark, whereas a teenager I know is insanely jealous that I have a UID under a million. Sad thing is I registered a/. account in 1999, but I have no damned idea what the UID, the nick, or the password is. Oh well.
Were you sitting out when they briefed you on the Geneva Convention and your obligations under it? If you are ordered to kill innocent women and children and throw them into a pit, your duty is clear. I'm not saying there aren't situations where the judgement is an awful lot more difficult, and that the lines aren't already being pushed in live situations, but there are certainly situations where you are bound to refuse a given order.
How do you know that the gains from distributing your capabilities will offset the increased inefficiencies of larger numbers of smaller operations, not to mention the set-up costs? Economies of scale isn't just a fancy word....
Sounds like an extension of the Peter Principle. It's pretty easy to imagine how tempting it would be to not hire someone that strikes you as capable of overshadowing you in short order.
Congratulations on completely missing the point (in fairness, so did everyone else that replied). A lawyer's personal opinions have no bearing on the position he puts forward. Maybe he does believe that the RIAA deserve everything they ask for in court. Or maybe he just realises it's a tricky area, with lots of scope for nailing down points of law, and he fancies being a part of that.
Do you know that David Ogden personally supports the position of the RIAA or do you just presume that because you happen to know he worked for them? If the latter, do you also presume that lawyers who work for murderers and rapists are also themselves keen on rape and murder?
That was more or less the thrust of my point. Bear in mind though, that Iraq was a fairly advanced country with a strong and educated middle class when Saddam first came along. The reasons for his success were more complex than ascribing it to religious nuttery.
Bit of a strawman, there, as suing the government of the day would have simply resulted in a free single fare ticket for the trip of a lifetime. And I don't really see why Google should have to compensate different employees differently because of their personal choices outside work.
Well, the UK's nuclear arsenal doesn't go on ships, it goes on subs, and that wasn't a sub. And I think the point of the advert was not to demonstrate capabilities, but more to say "hey, we have lots of guys, just like you! Come and join us, sailor!"
I have long been of the opinion that methods of implementing democracy in previously autocratic countries has been badly flawed. The only country in the world that managed to get it essentially right from the outset was the US, and they had a massive momentum behind getting it right. When you arbitrarily hand over democracy to a people not used to it, or used to the exact opposite, you end up - in the extreme case - with Zimbabwe.
I believe that the best way to go is to follow an evolutionary path, following the experience of countries like Britain or Switzerland, which essentially evolved democracy from what had gone before. Don't impose a democratic structure from the top: create thousands of village councils, each with enough teeth to make an impact but not enough to do severe damage. Ensure you have an effective and ethical policing and judiciary function. As people get used to dealing with their problems through local politics and courts, extend it up the way.
I reckon that in ten to twenty years time Iraq will freely elect yet another lunatic, and we'll be going back again to try and straighten out another mess. You heard it here first.
I'm looking at this post, five mod points ready to go, and I really have no idea what I should rate this. I've solved the problem by replying instead. Well played, Cap'n.
I;m more amused at the notion that the only possible way to know where he is is by tracking his cellphone. He's only the leader of the free world, I mean, it's not that hard to find out where he is...
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Heh. Not only that, they don't wash themselves.
Huh. Religion aside, a minor thing called entropy means the human race is screwed. Whether tomorrow, or in a million years, or in the seconds before atoms rip themselves apart, the human race is doomed. Sure, it's a problem neither you nor your kids will have to face up to, but it should give you pause for thought. To be born into consciousness is to win a lottery of unimaginable odds; why don't you take the gift given to you by a blind universe and do something a little worthwhile with it?
Don't mung a date of birth by altering a single digit - electronic submissions will often silently accept these on the assumption that they are a typo. So for example, $EVILDOER can open a credit card account in your name, and the fact you've munged your date of birth slightly will not cause the process to fail.
This isn't true. Even in the current downturn, it is very hard to find quality staff who are 100% perfect for a given role. Granted, something really stupid on a public page would make an employer think carefully, but in general the good companies recognise that employees are humans too. Cue a flood of anecdote demonstrating the opposite..
Yes, it was suggested on the basis of some free association thinking. One they actually sat down and did the maths it became clear that it would take more than a puny nuclear bomb to do anything like destroy the entire planet. It's quite big.
Not really. The RIAA is a perfect example of a cartel and what it can do. There's a reason they are usually illegal.
She got them.
It's all relative. I'd love to have a UID under the 250k mark, whereas a teenager I know is insanely jealous that I have a UID under a million. Sad thing is I registered a /. account in 1999, but I have no damned idea what the UID, the nick, or the password is. Oh well.
Were you sitting out when they briefed you on the Geneva Convention and your obligations under it? If you are ordered to kill innocent women and children and throw them into a pit, your duty is clear. I'm not saying there aren't situations where the judgement is an awful lot more difficult, and that the lines aren't already being pushed in live situations, but there are certainly situations where you are bound to refuse a given order.
Some people did make that choice. If you haven't heard of her, look up Sophie Scholl.
Meh. I'm with you. Let me know if you find somewhere sane.
How do you know that the gains from distributing your capabilities will offset the increased inefficiencies of larger numbers of smaller operations, not to mention the set-up costs? Economies of scale isn't just a fancy word....
Do fools just not deserve representation then? And who gets to decide?
Magnificent troll, Sir; I salute you. Well done. I think we all understand you didn't mean what you said, there.
Sounds like an extension of the Peter Principle. It's pretty easy to imagine how tempting it would be to not hire someone that strikes you as capable of overshadowing you in short order.
Congratulations on completely missing the point (in fairness, so did everyone else that replied). A lawyer's personal opinions have no bearing on the position he puts forward. Maybe he does believe that the RIAA deserve everything they ask for in court. Or maybe he just realises it's a tricky area, with lots of scope for nailing down points of law, and he fancies being a part of that.
Do you know that David Ogden personally supports the position of the RIAA or do you just presume that because you happen to know he worked for them? If the latter, do you also presume that lawyers who work for murderers and rapists are also themselves keen on rape and murder?
That was more or less the thrust of my point. Bear in mind though, that Iraq was a fairly advanced country with a strong and educated middle class when Saddam first came along. The reasons for his success were more complex than ascribing it to religious nuttery.
Bit of a strawman, there, as suing the government of the day would have simply resulted in a free single fare ticket for the trip of a lifetime. And I don't really see why Google should have to compensate different employees differently because of their personal choices outside work.
Well, the UK's nuclear arsenal doesn't go on ships, it goes on subs, and that wasn't a sub. And I think the point of the advert was not to demonstrate capabilities, but more to say "hey, we have lots of guys, just like you! Come and join us, sailor!"
And you, Sir, I moderate -1, Whooooosh.
I believe that the best way to go is to follow an evolutionary path, following the experience of countries like Britain or Switzerland, which essentially evolved democracy from what had gone before. Don't impose a democratic structure from the top: create thousands of village councils, each with enough teeth to make an impact but not enough to do severe damage. Ensure you have an effective and ethical policing and judiciary function. As people get used to dealing with their problems through local politics and courts, extend it up the way.
I reckon that in ten to twenty years time Iraq will freely elect yet another lunatic, and we'll be going back again to try and straighten out another mess. You heard it here first.
I'm looking at this post, five mod points ready to go, and I really have no idea what I should rate this. I've solved the problem by replying instead. Well played, Cap'n.
Awesome!
I;m more amused at the notion that the only possible way to know where he is is by tracking his cellphone. He's only the leader of the free world, I mean, it's not that hard to find out where he is...