The DOD still standardizes on IE 6 from what I am told.
The different services have their own IT departments; they even have their own networks, NIPR and SIPR are just two of many. Not sure about the DOD proper, but even the Army is phasing out IE 6 and XP. I'm pretty sure the Air Force and Navy are mostly on Win 7, and the Marines got some new brightly colored rocks with sparkly beads.
Have you actually met a real police officer in the US? It sounds like you haven't.
I'm ex-military. About a quarter of the guys from my unit became cops after they finished their enlistment. Some friends from school are cops. I also know guys in the Bureau, DEA, hell, I even knew a TSO. Laziest motherfucker I've ever met...
They have no conscience whatsoever. They are bullies. They took the job they have because they can beat people up without getting in trouble for it.
Tell me more about having no conscience. How do people without a conscience make you feel?
When you are attuned to that kind of thing you can see it as soon as you meet them.
What other things are you attuned to?
They are the kinds of people who watch those stupid, unrealistic, violent movies and imagine they were the guy shooting and beating people up. That's their motivation. They want to be that badass.
Tell me more about these violent movies, and how they imagine that they are shooting people and beating them up. How does that make you feel?
Any meeting you have with them as a civilian is a potential opportunity for them to feel that power that they crave so much.
Could you tell me more about craving power?
It's also a way to express their anger at whatever it is they are angry at. That's another cop characteristic: anger. The only people they care about defending are the other cops. They protect and serve only themselves.
Ah, anger is the issue. Tell me more about how angry these cops make you feel.
They're coming up with ever-more creative ways to hurt peaceful protesters -- and let's be honest: Most of the time, they provoke, prod, cajoule, and taunt these people
I've watched plenty of protests. "Most of the time" the cops are the ones who stand around and get screamed at.
The reality is that it _sucks_ to be screamed at. While I was in the Army, I was in OPFOR unit, so part of our job was to play the bad guys, and part of that meant participating in "spontaneous" demonstrations in the fake villages we had set up. (The majority of the demonstrators were locals, played by contractors brought in for the part.)
And we were good at it. We'd rant and rave, whip up the crowd, and the soldiers being trained just had to stand there and suck it up. Even though it was all obviously fake, it was still extremely stressful and from speaking with them later, they really hated that part of the training.
The doctrine was based on the Iraq and Afghan insurgencies, but it speaks to basic human nature: the vast majority don't care about politics, a smaller group are nonviolent partisans, and a very small number are violent more for violence's sake than anything else. The strategic goal to deal with us was to befriend the locals so they'd assist the coalition forces in eliminating us.
and one of our main pressure valves to prevent violence is peaceful protest.
Doubtful. Very few people protest because most people can't take days off work. Of those that do, most of them can't afford a criminal record. Most violent protestors are professional instigators who go to various protests to commit and incite acts of violence, rather than for any specific attachment to the issues.
They're busy stuffing that up now
Okay, back that up. I ran some searches, but can't find any stats on the number of permits granted nationally, but you made the claim. Organizers benefit from the permitting process because they need the police to protect their message from violent instigators.
Care to show me a weapon that works that is non-lethal 100% of the time? otherwise please use the term "Less-Lethal". I'm pretty sure that even pepper spay can kill someone.
No. Non-lethal is a perfectly good term since it is explicitly designed to incapacitate the target without killing. After all, pistol rounds that are designed to be lethal and are almost invariably fired at "center mass" are only actually lethal in about 20% of cases. Should those be called "less than lethal"? Even rifle rounds are only about 35% lethal, going by battlefield casualty to KIA rates.
And, of course, "unarmed" measures are generally far more painful and debilitating and have a much higher risk of causing death to both parties.
Very few (if any) cops want to be the guy who shot his sidearm into a crowd of protesters. Even if they don't wind up being prosecuted, it would make their life very shitty for a while.
Not to mention, they are human beings and, with normal human variance, possess a conscience, possibly even slightly more than the average citizen given their affinity for a dangerous job that primarily involves protecting other people.
The German Wehrmacht (and the other regular branches of the German military in WWII) had little to do with the Nazi party. The only "Nazi" military was the Waffen-SS, whose notable accomplishments include running death camps and overall pathetic performance in actual combat. The American stereotype of branding anything related to Germany in the 1933-1945 era as "Nazi" is just wrong.
Conversations between captured soldiers of the Wermacht were recorded by the Allies, and the recordings prove that they knew about the death camps and that many of them had taken part in war crimes themselves. Source.
I'm sure you'd have posted evidence if you had any, just as you wouldn't have posted anonymously if you had any evidence.
This troll is also 0/10.
Well, the witchhunt against Bush would fill a book, obviously. Notably, Dan Rather destroyed his career trying to prove that Bush had gone AWOL, a campaign run by prominent figures in the Democratic establishment and the media establishment.
Clarence Thomas was attacked with a bogus sexual harrassment scandal when he was nominated for the Supreme Court, though unsuccessfully, as opposed to Bork whose nomination was successfully derailed. You'll notice that Republican criticisms of Sotomayor and Kagan, by comparison, have targeted their adherence to the Constitution and their legal background.
Governor Palin was forced out of office by Democrats abusing Alaskan ethics laws to repeatedly file charge after charge until she was threatened with bankruptcy. What's really odd is that she later even had her own birther conspiracy as leftists tried to prove that she was her daughters's baby's mother, or some such affair.
The recent primaries have had a number of withchunts. Obviously there's the long running hateful campaign against Rick Santorum instigated by Savage's radio show, but we also saw Herman Cain's candidacy destroyed by allegations that were published without, incredibly, detailing what the accusation actually was. For comparison, the papers sat on DNA evidence in the Lewinsky affair, and squelched a bona fide scandal with Sen Edwards.
Obama started off his presidency by going after Joe the Plumber; his life was turned upside down in an effort to discredit him. Lesser known were the journalists who were targeted as they dug into his records, I recall one radio show that was flooded with calls after his campaign put the word out that a journalist researching Obama's background was on the air.
Andrew Brietbart was routinely demonized as the hateful messages that abounded when he died prove. He's just a more notable member of the new media. Most conservative bloggers have been similarly attacked, but they're too numerous to list.
Charles and David Koch have had the White House leaning on them directly, and they are also routinely demonized by liberal interest groups, politicians, etc. They're only second to the long campaign to demonize Fox News, that has culminated in the bizarre belief that Fox News somehow controls the media.
Also, I've heard the "eye of a needle is figurative" argument before- what is the evidence that it wasn't intended literally?
I don't see how the fundamental point the proverb is making changes if you take it more or less literally.
At any rate, it started out as a story told in Aramaic, and then written down in classical Greek, and then translated to English. I don't believe there ever was any gate of Jerusalem called the eye of the needle.
At any rate, if the bible is divinely inspired, it must be intended to be read literally. The whole point of it is for unenlightened readers to become enlightened, and they are, by the rules of causality and nature God also wrote, literal minded.
That's fine, right? No more complex than the C version. Well, almost. Let's make French the target language. We want to turn 'the black cat' into French. Now we have a problem. In French, the word order is different. The result we want has the colour after the noun.
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just change the word order of the offending languages than to screw up perfectly good C++.
Just reverse the tachyon field on your deflector array, and then inject a stream of polarons into the positronic matrix.
Jeez, do I have to do everything around here?
Haven't you noticed that whenever the ship is about to have a core breach, you are the only person in your entire engineering team who does anything? So, yes, it is up to you to clean up the mess left by the two scientists who the Federation sent to completely redesign warp drives.
But maybe the annoying genius kid will have a science project you can use or something.
Yes, ramdisk can go away on a un-planned phone reboot
So it's a complete no-go. The point of using a DBMS is that you have some kind of guarantees as to your state.
By all means, you can push intermediate work to a RAM disk or use it as a cache, but any time you're going to tell the user their changes have been committed, there has to be a call to fsync.
Roundabouts are extremely common here in Portugal. One of our cities has alone 35 of them. I doubt there are many places where you can drive 20km without going through one.
And unless your city is really a small town, it probably has thousands of intersections with traffic lights.
So why claim that roundabouts are "extremely common" when your own experience is that they aren't?
1. No, the usage of 'fail' was entirely appropriate.
Defined by popular usage, FAIL means "there was a slight incongruity between what was promised and what was delivered, and by the way, I'm slightly retarded." (For comparison, EPIC FAIL is the same as FAIL, with the addendum, 'and I shat myself.')
If the speaker had meant to imply that the system really didn't perform, he would have written that it performs "literally."
2. If you ask one thousand experts about your great idea, you'll find that 990 of them aren't experts, 9 of the 10 remaining will only tell you all the ways it can't work, and the last guy will try to steal your idea.
it was just a "voluntary" request for cooperation.
(That means they had good old Joe Lieberman call up the company and "ask" them to print teh dots.)
If Slow Joe had made the call, there would be dots, then some stripes, a nice bit of plaid here and there, and probably the wallpaper pattern from his Aunt Lizzie's place in the 70s. Boy, let me tell you about Aunt Lizzie, she made the best apple pie...
Who the f*** is "Cecil B. Demille"? Are we supposed to know that name, or what?
You don't know the name of a celebrity? What's wrong with you?
After looking him up, it seems that the reference is nothing more than "I've got cameras and I feel like I'm a movie director," which seems so witless that it's probably right.
I bet he won't be punished NEARLY as bad as the megaupload guy. Such bullshit.
How can you get so angry at something you speculate is going to happen?
But there's no need to bet, it's in the fucking summary. 105 weeks in prison, after a guilty plea. The megaupload guy is fighting it, which means he might get off entirely, or they might slam him, so the two sentences won't be comparable.
Obviously, choose your battles carefully. It's easier to be punctual and voice your disapproval when someone else is the one late.
I'm late to a meeting, for whatever reason, and you are asking me to do what now? No. I don't think so.
More specifically, "no, such activity is not in the job description as specified in the contract I signed with you. An expansion of my duties to include running laps, singing songs, etc. would constitute a material change and require renogotiation."
But the legalese is the last resort. My first line of argument would basically be, look, if we need to get some servers online with a quickness, I'm happy to temporarily do what would technically be sysadmin duties, even though I'm a software engineer. But I didn't sign up to be a clown, and it's not advancing the company's mission in any concrete manner.
So you don't get confused with a real, actual engineer.
Look, I don't see why people respect real, actual engineers so much. The ones on the DC Metro can't even pronounce the names of stations properly, and have a hard time centering the train on the platform.
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The DOD still standardizes on IE 6 from what I am told.
The different services have their own IT departments; they even have their own networks, NIPR and SIPR are just two of many. Not sure about the DOD proper, but even the Army is phasing out IE 6 and XP. I'm pretty sure the Air Force and Navy are mostly on Win 7, and the Marines got some new brightly colored rocks with sparkly beads.
You underestimate the power of a PHB with a Bcc list.
They only use MIME to wrap their true container format: the almighty PowerPoint presentation.
Great idea! Well, great until you've a lady friend over and the bed scoots just a little too close to the wall.
That just means you need to learn how to tie knots properly.
Have you actually met a real police officer in the US? It sounds like you haven't.
I'm ex-military. About a quarter of the guys from my unit became cops after they finished their enlistment. Some friends from school are cops. I also know guys in the Bureau, DEA, hell, I even knew a TSO. Laziest motherfucker I've ever met...
They have no conscience whatsoever. They are bullies. They took the job they have because they can beat people up without getting in trouble for it.
Tell me more about having no conscience. How do people without a conscience make you feel?
When you are attuned to that kind of thing you can see it as soon as you meet them.
What other things are you attuned to?
They are the kinds of people who watch those stupid, unrealistic, violent movies and imagine they were the guy shooting and beating people up. That's their motivation. They want to be that badass.
Tell me more about these violent movies, and how they imagine that they are shooting people and beating them up. How does that make you feel?
Any meeting you have with them as a civilian is a potential opportunity for them to feel that power that they crave so much.
Could you tell me more about craving power?
It's also a way to express their anger at whatever it is they are angry at. That's another cop characteristic: anger. The only people they care about defending are the other cops. They protect and serve only themselves.
Ah, anger is the issue. Tell me more about how angry these cops make you feel.
They're coming up with ever-more creative ways to hurt peaceful protesters -- and let's be honest: Most of the time, they provoke, prod, cajoule, and taunt these people
I've watched plenty of protests. "Most of the time" the cops are the ones who stand around and get screamed at.
The reality is that it _sucks_ to be screamed at. While I was in the Army, I was in OPFOR unit, so part of our job was to play the bad guys, and part of that meant participating in "spontaneous" demonstrations in the fake villages we had set up. (The majority of the demonstrators were locals, played by contractors brought in for the part.)
And we were good at it. We'd rant and rave, whip up the crowd, and the soldiers being trained just had to stand there and suck it up. Even though it was all obviously fake, it was still extremely stressful and from speaking with them later, they really hated that part of the training.
The doctrine was based on the Iraq and Afghan insurgencies, but it speaks to basic human nature: the vast majority don't care about politics, a smaller group are nonviolent partisans, and a very small number are violent more for violence's sake than anything else. The strategic goal to deal with us was to befriend the locals so they'd assist the coalition forces in eliminating us.
and one of our main pressure valves to prevent violence is peaceful protest.
Doubtful. Very few people protest because most people can't take days off work. Of those that do, most of them can't afford a criminal record. Most violent protestors are professional instigators who go to various protests to commit and incite acts of violence, rather than for any specific attachment to the issues.
They're busy stuffing that up now
Okay, back that up. I ran some searches, but can't find any stats on the number of permits granted nationally, but you made the claim. Organizers benefit from the permitting process because they need the police to protect their message from violent instigators.
Care to show me a weapon that works that is non-lethal 100% of the time? otherwise please use the term "Less-Lethal". I'm pretty sure that even pepper spay can kill someone.
No. Non-lethal is a perfectly good term since it is explicitly designed to incapacitate the target without killing. After all, pistol rounds that are designed to be lethal and are almost invariably fired at "center mass" are only actually lethal in about 20% of cases. Should those be called "less than lethal"? Even rifle rounds are only about 35% lethal, going by battlefield casualty to KIA rates.
And, of course, "unarmed" measures are generally far more painful and debilitating and have a much higher risk of causing death to both parties.
Very few (if any) cops want to be the guy who shot his sidearm into a crowd of protesters. Even if they don't wind up being prosecuted, it would make their life very shitty for a while.
Not to mention, they are human beings and, with normal human variance, possess a conscience, possibly even slightly more than the average citizen given their affinity for a dangerous job that primarily involves protecting other people.
The German Wehrmacht (and the other regular branches of the German military in WWII) had little to do with the Nazi party. The only "Nazi" military was the Waffen-SS, whose notable accomplishments include running death camps and overall pathetic performance in actual combat. The American stereotype of branding anything related to Germany in the 1933-1945 era as "Nazi" is just wrong.
Conversations between captured soldiers of the Wermacht were recorded by the Allies, and the recordings prove that they knew about the death camps and that many of them had taken part in war crimes themselves. Source.
I'm sure you'd have posted evidence if you had any, just as you wouldn't have posted anonymously if you had any evidence.
This troll is also 0/10.
Well, the witchhunt against Bush would fill a book, obviously. Notably, Dan Rather destroyed his career trying to prove that Bush had gone AWOL, a campaign run by prominent figures in the Democratic establishment and the media establishment.
Clarence Thomas was attacked with a bogus sexual harrassment scandal when he was nominated for the Supreme Court, though unsuccessfully, as opposed to Bork whose nomination was successfully derailed. You'll notice that Republican criticisms of Sotomayor and Kagan, by comparison, have targeted their adherence to the Constitution and their legal background.
Governor Palin was forced out of office by Democrats abusing Alaskan ethics laws to repeatedly file charge after charge until she was threatened with bankruptcy. What's really odd is that she later even had her own birther conspiracy as leftists tried to prove that she was her daughters's baby's mother, or some such affair.
The recent primaries have had a number of withchunts. Obviously there's the long running hateful campaign against Rick Santorum instigated by Savage's radio show, but we also saw Herman Cain's candidacy destroyed by allegations that were published without, incredibly, detailing what the accusation actually was. For comparison, the papers sat on DNA evidence in the Lewinsky affair, and squelched a bona fide scandal with Sen Edwards.
Obama started off his presidency by going after Joe the Plumber; his life was turned upside down in an effort to discredit him. Lesser known were the journalists who were targeted as they dug into his records, I recall one radio show that was flooded with calls after his campaign put the word out that a journalist researching Obama's background was on the air.
Andrew Brietbart was routinely demonized as the hateful messages that abounded when he died prove. He's just a more notable member of the new media. Most conservative bloggers have been similarly attacked, but they're too numerous to list.
Charles and David Koch have had the White House leaning on them directly, and they are also routinely demonized by liberal interest groups, politicians, etc. They're only second to the long campaign to demonize Fox News, that has culminated in the bizarre belief that Fox News somehow controls the media.
At which point, they're no longer rich, right?
Also, I've heard the "eye of a needle is figurative" argument before- what is the evidence that it wasn't intended literally?
I don't see how the fundamental point the proverb is making changes if you take it more or less literally.
At any rate, it started out as a story told in Aramaic, and then written down in classical Greek, and then translated to English. I don't believe there ever was any gate of Jerusalem called the eye of the needle.
At any rate, if the bible is divinely inspired, it must be intended to be read literally. The whole point of it is for unenlightened readers to become enlightened, and they are, by the rules of causality and nature God also wrote, literal minded.
That's fine, right? No more complex than the C version. Well, almost. Let's make French the target language. We want to turn 'the black cat' into French. Now we have a problem. In French, the word order is different. The result we want has the colour after the noun.
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just change the word order of the offending languages than to screw up perfectly good C++.
Just reverse the tachyon field on your deflector array, and then inject a stream of polarons into the positronic matrix.
Jeez, do I have to do everything around here?
Haven't you noticed that whenever the ship is about to have a core breach, you are the only person in your entire engineering team who does anything? So, yes, it is up to you to clean up the mess left by the two scientists who the Federation sent to completely redesign warp drives.
But maybe the annoying genius kid will have a science project you can use or something.
Yes, ramdisk can go away on a un-planned phone reboot
So it's a complete no-go. The point of using a DBMS is that you have some kind of guarantees as to your state.
By all means, you can push intermediate work to a RAM disk or use it as a cache, but any time you're going to tell the user their changes have been committed, there has to be a call to fsync.
And unless your city is really a small town, it probably has thousands of intersections with traffic lights.
No, it doesn't. It's a city of 50k inhabitants.
So it's a small town. Thanks for playing.
Roundabouts are extremely common here in Portugal. One of our cities has alone 35 of them. I doubt there are many places where you can drive 20km without going through one.
And unless your city is really a small town, it probably has thousands of intersections with traffic lights.
So why claim that roundabouts are "extremely common" when your own experience is that they aren't?
Good rant, but a few nitpicks:
1. No, the usage of 'fail' was entirely appropriate.
Defined by popular usage, FAIL means "there was a slight incongruity between what was promised and what was delivered, and by the way, I'm slightly retarded." (For comparison, EPIC FAIL is the same as FAIL, with the addendum, 'and I shat myself.')
If the speaker had meant to imply that the system really didn't perform, he would have written that it performs "literally."
2. If you ask one thousand experts about your great idea, you'll find that 990 of them aren't experts, 9 of the 10 remaining will only tell you all the ways it can't work, and the last guy will try to steal your idea.
Yet some of their models were positive on the EFF tests.
it was just a "voluntary" request for cooperation.
(That means they had good old Joe Lieberman call up the company and "ask" them to print teh dots.)
If Slow Joe had made the call, there would be dots, then some stripes, a nice bit of plaid here and there, and probably the wallpaper pattern from his Aunt Lizzie's place in the 70s. Boy, let me tell you about Aunt Lizzie, she made the best apple pie...
The solution to car problems in SF is to get rid of cars.
But that leads to the real problem, which as it turns out, is that people who own cars get to vote, too.
Yeah, even in San Francisco! They actually think they've got "rights" or something like that. Nuts, isn't it?
Who the f*** is "Cecil B. Demille"? Are we supposed to know that name, or what?
You don't know the name of a celebrity? What's wrong with you?
After looking him up, it seems that the reference is nothing more than "I've got cameras and I feel like I'm a movie director," which seems so witless that it's probably right.
Send him to Gitmo!!! He's obviously an Terrorist Evildoer(tm) bent on destroying the American Economy!!!
Haven't you heard? There's a Democrat in the White House, so Gitmo and the drone strikes are no big deal.
I bet he won't be punished NEARLY as bad as the megaupload guy. Such bullshit.
How can you get so angry at something you speculate is going to happen?
But there's no need to bet, it's in the fucking summary. 105 weeks in prison, after a guilty plea. The megaupload guy is fighting it, which means he might get off entirely, or they might slam him, so the two sentences won't be comparable.
Obviously, choose your battles carefully. It's easier to be punctual and voice your disapproval when someone else is the one late.
I'm late to a meeting, for whatever reason, and you are asking me to do what now? No. I don't think so.
More specifically, "no, such activity is not in the job description as specified in the contract I signed with you. An expansion of my duties to include running laps, singing songs, etc. would constitute a material change and require renogotiation."
But the legalese is the last resort. My first line of argument would basically be, look, if we need to get some servers online with a quickness, I'm happy to temporarily do what would technically be sysadmin duties, even though I'm a software engineer. But I didn't sign up to be a clown, and it's not advancing the company's mission in any concrete manner.
Could a Slashdot editor please add to the summary info about teh Koch brothers payola for organizations relased at the same time, and the new built-in government tracking software? Even a link too a website with coverage about the Apple iPad vs. Google Android would do.
Fixed your post to meet slashdot editorial standards.
So you don't get confused with a real, actual engineer.
Look, I don't see why people respect real, actual engineers so much. The ones on the DC Metro can't even pronounce the names of stations properly, and have a hard time centering the train on the platform.