No. I'm saying a single-digit (or double-digit, for that matter) list of "commandments" doesn't make for any sort of functional morality for an actual grown-up type person.
And it was modded down, too. Are there actually simpletons out there who thought I was condoning rape, torture, and murder? (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were breaking balls in the finest snarky/. tradition)
Seriously, though... Call me paranoid, but I think plugging any of my USB devices into the PC equivalent of a Korean War-era B-girl is even *less* desirable to putting my username/password into one.
In a world where the ravages of entropy are bringing you ever closer to the end of your finite lifespan, you just end up pissing away a whole lot of time.
How about this for some morality: Killing people, except in defense of self or someone else, is wrong (and worshiping a different invisible guy or the same invisible guy differently isn't a very good reason). Torturing people is wrong. Raping people is wrong. Hurting people, except in defense of self or someone else, is wrong. Stealing (however done) is wrong, but less wrong than hurting, raping, torturing, or murdering.
It's a common, but not ubiquitous, problem. I have it myself. It either stops sharing altogether, or will (apparently) randomly decide it will only work uni-directionally - usually host-to-guest, but occasionally guest-to-host instead, just to keep us on our toes.
As an "outsider", you're not looking close enough at the ACA. In spite of making insurance obligatory, there's no reason to expect ACA to do anything to lower costs. All it does is use punitive taxation (not a fine, because that would be illegal!) to force people into a business arrangement with a private corporation.
It's easy to blame "us" for not writing these things, but that's an oversimplification. The security and privacy features you describe are decidedly non-trivial to implement, it's not generally something that works well as a weekend/hobby project. And no one wanted to pay us to implement them.
And I'm not referring to the corporate overlords (who have a vested interest in the end user *not* having access to them) or the government (ditto). I mean every end user who, up until the recent shitstorm, dismissed those very concerns with suggestions to "make sure the shiny side is *out*," etc...
Yes, we need them now. And in true, modern corporate fashion, our (collective) short sightedness is biting us in the ass. Barn doors and horses and all.
That's what someone says when their side gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar
Or when quixotically trying to mentally Gibbs-slap the common bobblehead who doesn't know the difference between a football team and a political party.
It means the exact same thing in the context that I used it that it does in the context I quoted, and your comment about "standing offers" is hardly the norm in a corporate culture that views employees as largely interchangeable "resources" rather than people.
In the end, the defeatist "Bah...it's all bullshit...meh" is immature and reductive. It's not an intellectual conclusion....it's the opposite...the refusal to engage a complex situation...something that requires mental effort to dig below the rhetoric.
Unless by "mental effort" you mean "advancing technology to the singularity and welcoming our new AI overlords," human nature is what it is, and you're just pissing into the wind.
- The Tea Party: contrary to the media-industry's tendentious portrayal of the Tea Party, as far as I can tell the Tea Party was formed to protest the ridiculous and ongoing government spending beyond its means.
What it was formed to do, and what it actually ended up doing/is doing, are orthogonal points.
By picking only one side of the shit sandwich to call out, you've done a fantastic job of displaying your own political incompetence while calling out an entire country on it.
I used Pascal back in my Senior year of HS, but I don't remember anything object oriented about it. Shit, it was dead and buried before the turn of the century. What does it have to do with Java today?
Luckily, FSU only made me take 1 Java course (just enough for me to be able to dick around making mods for Minecraft), but used C++ for the "applied theory" courses.
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And eat 10 chocolate sundaes. Can't forget that part.
Worse. Much worse.
More code.
Not the guy who said it originally, but I think that would be the lion's share of the hilarity he mentioned.
No. I'm saying a single-digit (or double-digit, for that matter) list of "commandments" doesn't make for any sort of functional morality for an actual grown-up type person.
And it was modded down, too. Are there actually simpletons out there who thought I was condoning rape, torture, and murder? (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were breaking balls in the finest snarky /. tradition)
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What has one got to do with the other?
Why would you want to let Dell define you're api?
Seriously, though... Call me paranoid, but I think plugging any of my USB devices into the PC equivalent of a Korean War-era B-girl is even *less* desirable to putting my username/password into one.
Ideally, sure.
In a world where the ravages of entropy are bringing you ever closer to the end of your finite lifespan, you just end up pissing away a whole lot of time.
How about this for some morality: Killing people, except in defense of self or someone else, is wrong (and worshiping a different invisible guy or the same invisible guy differently isn't a very good reason). Torturing people is wrong. Raping people is wrong. Hurting people, except in defense of self or someone else, is wrong. Stealing (however done) is wrong, but less wrong than hurting, raping, torturing, or murdering.
It's fantastic, if you're six years old.
I think you have to go to The Street of Small Gods now.
So if you're in an environment where you don't have Administrator access, you're not covered.
Cute.
It's a common, but not ubiquitous, problem. I have it myself. It either stops sharing altogether, or will (apparently) randomly decide it will only work uni-directionally - usually host-to-guest, but occasionally guest-to-host instead, just to keep us on our toes.
It is kind of a pain in the ass when it pops up.
And of course, the US is debt free... What country is not in debt? How stupid of a metric of how well the healthcare system works is that?
As an "outsider", you're not looking close enough at the ACA. In spite of making insurance obligatory, there's no reason to expect ACA to do anything to lower costs. All it does is use punitive taxation (not a fine, because that would be illegal!) to force people into a business arrangement with a private corporation.
Did it occur to you that all of the women are in this lab because they are qualified
Considering the utter ridiculousness of their methodology and conclusions, I can safely say 'no, that never occurred to me.'
It's easy to blame "us" for not writing these things, but that's an oversimplification. The security and privacy features you describe are decidedly non-trivial to implement, it's not generally something that works well as a weekend/hobby project. And no one wanted to pay us to implement them.
And I'm not referring to the corporate overlords (who have a vested interest in the end user *not* having access to them) or the government (ditto). I mean every end user who, up until the recent shitstorm, dismissed those very concerns with suggestions to "make sure the shiny side is *out*," etc...
Yes, we need them now. And in true, modern corporate fashion, our (collective) short sightedness is biting us in the ass. Barn doors and horses and all.
That's what someone says when their side gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar
Or when quixotically trying to mentally Gibbs-slap the common bobblehead who doesn't know the difference between a football team and a political party.
Except
1) there's a difference between ease and success in finding a new job, and having a pile of "standing offers."
2) Considering the entirety of the corporate workforce, exactly how far along the right tail do you think the people you're talking about show up?
It means the exact same thing in the context that I used it that it does in the context I quoted, and your comment about "standing offers" is hardly the norm in a corporate culture that views employees as largely interchangeable "resources" rather than people.
In the end, the defeatist "Bah...it's all bullshit...meh" is immature and reductive. It's not an intellectual conclusion....it's the opposite...the refusal to engage a complex situation...something that requires mental effort to dig below the rhetoric.
Unless by "mental effort" you mean "advancing technology to the singularity and welcoming our new AI overlords," human nature is what it is, and you're just pissing into the wind.
We're not going to end up in a socialist utopia, but state-run capitalism that rewards the elite, yet treats the worker as mere chattel.
As opposed to sitting in a privately-run capitalism that rewards the elite, yet treats the worker as mere chattel.
A minor nitpick.
- The Tea Party: contrary to the media-industry's tendentious portrayal of the Tea Party, as far as I can tell the Tea Party was formed to protest the ridiculous and ongoing government spending beyond its means.
What it was formed to do, and what it actually ended up doing/is doing, are orthogonal points.
By picking only one side of the shit sandwich to call out, you've done a fantastic job of displaying your own political incompetence while calling out an entire country on it.
Well done, that.
I used Pascal back in my Senior year of HS, but I don't remember anything object oriented about it. Shit, it was dead and buried before the turn of the century. What does it have to do with Java today?
Luckily, FSU only made me take 1 Java course (just enough for me to be able to dick around making mods for Minecraft), but used C++ for the "applied theory" courses.
So do Microsoft Access (or, gods help us all, Excel) "databases" and PHP.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
Make up your mind, it's either true or it isn't.
Read for context. Doing otherwise doesn't make you look clever, it makes you look like a putz.
As a rule I don't see that from government. They seem to be a bit clearer about its meaning.
I guess that might be considered true, since the government feels that the rules don't apply to them, and that "rule" would be no exception.
Here you go.