Posts like these sometimes make me think the USA is some kind of third world country with a civil war waging.
If you go to our big cities you'd be justified in thinking so.
The paradox is that the cities are run as welfare states in much the same way as Europe! If you go to the suburbs where there are guns in every household crime there is virtually no crime.
My best explanation is this: before the civil rights movement and to some extent even today, the police and the justice system persecuted blacks. The Democrats pushed strongest for their rights, and they are loyal to them.
As a result, black voters elect politicians who set up a welfare state, hamstring the police and the justice system. So crime runs rampant and whites flee to the suburbs. The politicians don't really have to do anything to fix the situation because they blame it on white racism, and the charge sticks because the state and federal governments don't want to dump money into corrupt city governments. We can't reform them from the top down because (as in, for example, DC) the locals view it as a takeover by the oppressive white government.
An eye for an eye leaves the world blind - ever heard that quote?
I don't fight to die for my country but to make the other poor bastard die for his country, ever heard that one? These women need to kill people who want to hurt them. That way the good guys are alive and the bad guys are dead, which is the way it should be.
A gun is by far one of the LEAST effective tool for self-defense. It is useful when you want to attack someone (that, or a rifle), but for proper so-called "self-defense" a gun is one the worst options unless you really know what you're doing. A knife is a better tool, but then again it's not the best one. The "most effective tool for self-defense" is your own body and the weapons that came free with the purchase.
Spoken by someone who has never been in a fight, has no military or law enforcement training. (I'm in a combat MOS in the US military, active duty.)
The only reason an aggressor is going to fight you is if he thinks he can win. Sure, you can use "martial arts" to convince him otherwise, but only after he's had a chance to inflict significant injury on you (especially in a knifefight) and only if you actually are better. And if you're small, female or old (old is over 25, if he's 18) you have to be very good to win against someone who has planned an ambush.
By simply brandishing a firearm, you can convince him that he risks death.
Sir, I tip my hat to your karma whoring abilities.
Let's review this post:
The title and hook use a trendy geek term "five nines" to make a sweeping and unsubstantiated generalization.
The post is arranged as a series of bullets, rather than actual ideas. This way placid mods aren't compelled to think about what's being written.
The bullets moan about the condition of society, which 99.999% of people agree with, and suggest that "change is good," which 99.999% of people also agree with. It sounds like a stump speech, but most/.ers have never heard a stump speech so they don't clue in.
And he wraps it up by saying he hates IP, which 99.999% of/.ers agree with.
None of it actually makes any sense but that doesn't matter to a karma whore!
Our goal should be to establish a viable self-sufficient colony
If you're worried about any kind of calamity that renders Earth uninhabitable, what's the point of a leaving a few thousand people stranded on the moon?
If it's a calamity that leaves Earth habitable after a few hundred years, Cold War style bunkers seem like they'd have a better ROI...
The Navy mostly gets paid for driving ships around and looking fierce. Keeping up the PR image at home with respect to whales is rather a secondary mission.
That's also a pretty fair estimation of how it works in other branches of the military. The Army, for example, has an Environmental Compliance Officer and NCO in every company. I'd say that for the common sense stuff, like energy conservation, protected habitat and proper disposal of POL, the rules are followed 95% of the time. Where I work, we have various chunks of the training area marked for an endangered bird and no one goes in those areas unless they're lost.
If it were a case where someone blatantly broke existing rules then I'd expect the PR guys to try to cover up or find a scapegoat. But that's not the situation here.
Everyone wants to believe that they're special, and the way you use "average" shows that you're just as prone to this kind of thinking as anyone else.
I suspect that scams perpetrated by complete strangers are the minority. Who here can *honestly* say that they have never been manipulated or taken in by a friend or colleague? If you have been so screwed, you obviously share (or at least shared at the time) the characteristics of "stupid and gullible."
MySQL itself is largely a langauge parser and a simple and technically inadequate storage engine (for anything where data integrity matters). In other words they don't own any of the foundations of their technologies.
That kind of nuts and bolts nerd attitude is bad enough with mainstream programming (compilers will never be fast enough, shared objects will never be fast enough, virtual machines will never be fast enough...) but it's lethal to DBMS development.
One of the fundamental principles of the relational model is that you separate your logical constructs from the physical implementation. If anything, using other people's storage software was one of the few things they got right! (Of course, the rest of the time they succumbed to the nuts and bolts nerds and talked about how high they could score on arbitrary benchmarks and how integrity was for sissies, &c &c.)
A DBMS is a *system* and when you design such a system you need to step back from the details of implementation and work out a rigorous, mathematically grounded plan for how it is going to work.
You know, we are evolved (or designed, heh) to live in a world with bacteria, viruses, and fungus.
You could be a creationist with a remark as inaccurate as that.
We evolved so that *enough* of us would live in this world to make it to the next generation.
And compared to most animals, let alone plants, we have far less natural immunity against pathogens. That's because as our brains became more powerful we started using intelligence to avoid obvious dangers rather than having huge genomes to deal with every possible environment.
Our immune system has to "evolve" proteins to respond to new pathogens, and it doesn't need a full blown disease to do so. It makes sense, then, to keep your living place clean so you get the immunity without the disease.
I was planning to moderate, but then I saw that someone modded this post "Insightful." It seems pretty much impossible that a nerfherder like this could post something insightful. But I'm worried... Is stupidity contagious?
How the "liberals" got caught up in this illiberal crusade is beyond me. It smacks more of anti-Republicanism than anything else.
Speaking as a conservative, I figured that liberals weren't particularly for or against it. The mainstream media, of course, supported it because it gave them more influence, and enough incumbents and established lobby groups supported it because they knew ways around it.
So I suspect media spin of it as a left-right issue was what threw people off. The right wing immediately assumed that it was a massive liberal conspiracy backed by RINOs which made liberals think they probably ought to support it on the grounds that if it pissed off right-wing loonies it must be good.
I'm pretty sure most companies have gotten over the urge to put everything on the web, but for reporters, a web app has to deal with certain limitations:
1. The network.
2. Flaky web standards.
3. Living along side other plugins and browser extensions. (That means Other People's Threads in your process space.)
4. No standard API for printing, the raison d'etre for an office suite.
5. Browsers, by design, have virtually no integration with the rest of the OS.
Not to mention the fact that the *author* didn't RHFA. He explicitly states that Real's network is compatible with iPod but we're "stuck" with iTunes? Further, he leaves out all the podcasts and audiobooks on iTunes, as well as iSync and a number of third party utilities that work with iPod (e.g. ipodit).
Most of my music comes from CDs and is supplemented by the occasional "ooh, I want that song I heard on the radio." I think I'm a pretty typical consumer in that I use online stores as a supplement to regular stores, not as a replacement.
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"That is not a criticism of the author..." You can say that again.
Aside from a few sentences of vague praise, the bulk of this "book review" is a summary of the table of contents.
Posts like these sometimes make me think the USA is some kind of third world country with a civil war waging.
If you go to our big cities you'd be justified in thinking so.
The paradox is that the cities are run as welfare states in much the same way as Europe! If you go to the suburbs where there are guns in every household crime there is virtually no crime.
My best explanation is this: before the civil rights movement and to some extent even today, the police and the justice system persecuted blacks. The Democrats pushed strongest for their rights, and they are loyal to them.
As a result, black voters elect politicians who set up a welfare state, hamstring the police and the justice system. So crime runs rampant and whites flee to the suburbs. The politicians don't really have to do anything to fix the situation because they blame it on white racism, and the charge sticks because the state and federal governments don't want to dump money into corrupt city governments. We can't reform them from the top down because (as in, for example, DC) the locals view it as a takeover by the oppressive white government.
An eye for an eye leaves the world blind - ever heard that quote?
I don't fight to die for my country but to make the other poor bastard die for his country, ever heard that one? These women need to kill people who want to hurt them. That way the good guys are alive and the bad guys are dead, which is the way it should be.
A gun is by far one of the LEAST effective tool for self-defense. It is useful when you want to attack someone (that, or a rifle), but for proper so-called "self-defense" a gun is one the worst options unless you really know what you're doing. A knife is a better tool, but then again it's not the best one. The "most effective tool for self-defense" is your own body and the weapons that came free with the purchase.
Spoken by someone who has never been in a fight, has no military or law enforcement training. (I'm in a combat MOS in the US military, active duty.)
The only reason an aggressor is going to fight you is if he thinks he can win. Sure, you can use "martial arts" to convince him otherwise, but only after he's had a chance to inflict significant injury on you (especially in a knifefight) and only if you actually are better. And if you're small, female or old (old is over 25, if he's 18) you have to be very good to win against someone who has planned an ambush.
By simply brandishing a firearm, you can convince him that he risks death.
Sir, I tip my hat to your karma whoring abilities.
/.ers have never heard a stump speech so they don't clue in.
/.ers agree with.
Let's review this post:
The title and hook use a trendy geek term "five nines" to make a sweeping and unsubstantiated generalization.
The post is arranged as a series of bullets, rather than actual ideas. This way placid mods aren't compelled to think about what's being written.
The bullets moan about the condition of society, which 99.999% of people agree with, and suggest that "change is good," which 99.999% of people also agree with. It sounds like a stump speech, but most
And he wraps it up by saying he hates IP, which 99.999% of
None of it actually makes any sense but that doesn't matter to a karma whore!
If they're fragile psyche's can't handle it the way it is, then they should just avoid it entirely, rather than corrupt the author's original intent.
Why do we care about the author's original intent, again?
Our goal should be to establish a viable self-sufficient colony
If you're worried about any kind of calamity that renders Earth uninhabitable, what's the point of a leaving a few thousand people stranded on the moon?
If it's a calamity that leaves Earth habitable after a few hundred years, Cold War style bunkers seem like they'd have a better ROI...
The Navy mostly gets paid for driving ships around and looking fierce. Keeping up the PR image at home with respect to whales is rather a secondary mission.
That's also a pretty fair estimation of how it works in other branches of the military. The Army, for example, has an Environmental Compliance Officer and NCO in every company. I'd say that for the common sense stuff, like energy conservation, protected habitat and proper disposal of POL, the rules are followed 95% of the time. Where I work, we have various chunks of the training area marked for an endangered bird and no one goes in those areas unless they're lost.
If it were a case where someone blatantly broke existing rules then I'd expect the PR guys to try to cover up or find a scapegoat. But that's not the situation here.
There are too many people out there who (a) have low incomes, (b) like TV, and (c) vote.
They'll just loot their TVs next time there's a hurricane or a riot. But don't worry, the Dems still have the graveyard constituency locked up.
I had a Palm III way back when. A simple setup like one computer at home, one at work and one PDA simply didn't work.
I knew people who worked for big companies and their staff would try to set up employees with PDAs.
During the synchronization, data either gets lost or truncated and the fields on the PDA never match the fields on your organizer.
Does your organizer support links between items? Forget it.
There was never a decent way to prioritize what info, for want of screen space and memory, should be copied to the PDA.
I know plenty of people got PDAs to work. More power to them. But I junked mine after a few missed deadlines and lost contacts.
Louisiana is worse.
Is the average american stupid and gullible?
Everyone wants to believe that they're special, and the way you use "average" shows that you're just as prone to this kind of thinking as anyone else.
I suspect that scams perpetrated by complete strangers are the minority. Who here can *honestly* say that they have never been manipulated or taken in by a friend or colleague? If you have been so screwed, you obviously share (or at least shared at the time) the characteristics of "stupid and gullible."
or blogger?
Before the Internet, I thought a "blogger" was the one that stopped up the toilet.
Wikipedia is an encylopaedia. Contrast with...
Google and Apple's media strategy: if you can't pass off a video game as a productivity app, release something shiny or that has pretty colors.
We went back and forth a few times but we eventually agreed to combine that postive and negative effect lists, and now it is all settled.
What really happened was you all went out to gather empirical evidence and everyone forgot where the article was.
MySQL itself is largely a langauge parser and a simple and technically inadequate storage engine (for anything where data integrity matters). In other words they don't own any of the foundations of their technologies.
That kind of nuts and bolts nerd attitude is bad enough with mainstream programming (compilers will never be fast enough, shared objects will never be fast enough, virtual machines will never be fast enough...) but it's lethal to DBMS development.
One of the fundamental principles of the relational model is that you separate your logical constructs from the physical implementation. If anything, using other people's storage software was one of the few things they got right! (Of course, the rest of the time they succumbed to the nuts and bolts nerds and talked about how high they could score on arbitrary benchmarks and how integrity was for sissies, &c &c.)
A DBMS is a *system* and when you design such a system you need to step back from the details of implementation and work out a rigorous, mathematically grounded plan for how it is going to work.
So all the people who are against "Activist Judges" should be happy.
Funny you should say that because my first thought was surprise that the judge was respecting the authority of the legislative branch...
Without him, you'd be slaving away 7 days a week, 10 hours a day, in horrible conditions in the guts of some factory
Maybe you would, but I have this thing called an "education."
That aside, if the system is built according to a few simple OO principles the excess components will be easily removable.
The key OO principles of:
1. Wishful Thinking
2. Fairie Dust
You know, we are evolved (or designed, heh) to live in a world with bacteria, viruses, and fungus.
You could be a creationist with a remark as inaccurate as that.
We evolved so that *enough* of us would live in this world to make it to the next generation.
And compared to most animals, let alone plants, we have far less natural immunity against pathogens. That's because as our brains became more powerful we started using intelligence to avoid obvious dangers rather than having huge genomes to deal with every possible environment.
Our immune system has to "evolve" proteins to respond to new pathogens, and it doesn't need a full blown disease to do so. It makes sense, then, to keep your living place clean so you get the immunity without the disease.
I was planning to moderate, but then I saw that someone modded this post "Insightful." It seems pretty much impossible that a nerfherder like this could post something insightful. But I'm worried... Is stupidity contagious?
How the "liberals" got caught up in this illiberal crusade is beyond me. It smacks more of anti-Republicanism than anything else.
Speaking as a conservative, I figured that liberals weren't particularly for or against it. The mainstream media, of course, supported it because it gave them more influence, and enough incumbents and established lobby groups supported it because they knew ways around it.
So I suspect media spin of it as a left-right issue was what threw people off. The right wing immediately assumed that it was a massive liberal conspiracy backed by RINOs which made liberals think they probably ought to support it on the grounds that if it pissed off right-wing loonies it must be good.
I'm pretty sure most companies have gotten over the urge to put everything on the web, but for reporters, a web app has to deal with certain limitations:
1. The network.
2. Flaky web standards.
3. Living along side other plugins and browser extensions. (That means Other People's Threads in your process space.)
4. No standard API for printing, the raison d'etre for an office suite.
5. Browsers, by design, have virtually no integration with the rest of the OS.
So you have no way of backing up your data?
Not to mention the fact that the *author* didn't RHFA. He explicitly states that Real's network is compatible with iPod but we're "stuck" with iTunes? Further, he leaves out all the podcasts and audiobooks on iTunes, as well as iSync and a number of third party utilities that work with iPod (e.g. ipodit).
Most of my music comes from CDs and is supplemented by the occasional "ooh, I want that song I heard on the radio." I think I'm a pretty typical consumer in that I use online stores as a supplement to regular stores, not as a replacement.