Yeah, but,... if the clocks have to be up in space to be fully accurate, etc., What is the meaning of the word "today" in the sentence "You will not go to space today" ? [joke, dammit!!!]
I am terrified by the fact that new services almost always get really stupid things wrong like Newsweek saying that Earhart ran out of jet fuel!
Well, you do have to admit that Earhart had zero reserve margin of jet fuel. Of course, she also had sufficient jet fuel supplies onboard to support a flight around the world 100 times...
You don't really strike me as the type that knows nothing about improvised explosives.
The fact that you apparently know your way around circuit boards is icing on the cake.
And the fact that you write crappy logic like that indicates that you're both a troll and one of those people who thinks anyone who's heard of The Anarchist's Cookbook should be in jail. sheesh
Because Catholics do not believe that everything a pope says is to be considered infallible.
That prompts two responses. First, your sentence is a variant of "no true Scotsman." What's the point of having a pope if every Catholic gets to interpret matters religious on their own?
Second: on the bright side, unlike a certain other religion popular the world around, you can say something against the pope and not get assassinated by religious leaders for doing so.
If they want to scare her they wake her up in the middle of the night with 4 people in her bedroom
That sort of thing leads to amusing (or tragic) tangles with armed professional law enforcement, and the toy soldiers do not cope well with such situations.
and here I thought it was the lead-in to a video about a woman and four pizza-delivery boys...
This strikes me as arguing over whether or not Batman could beat Superman in a fight.
Depends: does Batman have access to some Green Kryptonite? Does the fight take place on a planet orbiting a red star? Does Batman say (quite out of context), " You can't win, Darth^H^H^H^H Superman. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Quote: "'They're going after people who are really not criminals,' said David Smith, a former federal prosecutor "
Ummm, hey Mr. Lawer Dude: why should they be allowed to impound ANY non-criminal item from ANYONE? It's one thing to remove, say, guns and illegal drugs when arriving with a warrant. It's another to say "hey, I bet that cash and those guns are illegal so let's take them " (and the car they're in -- the car is often taken as well) It's been pretty well established that local police depts use the forfeiture laws as a moneymaking operation. How about we take property the old-fashioned (joke) way: after conviction, or at the very least, grand-jury indictment?
What he did was illegal, but I can't say that it was wrong.
I'm not in the least convinced that it was illegal. Revealing classified info which reveals the existence of criminal behavior is not necessarily illegal (at least as of one of my early briefings when having a clearance bestowed upon my august presence).
And you're offensively paternalistic in thinking I want to go thru 10 minutes of booting & reloading all my apps and active development docs every day (or even week) just to satisfy some IT god's paranoia. I repeat: load the patches and give the users a minimum of 5 day's warning before forcing a reboot.
You're entirely missing the point. Aside from the fact that viruses almost never penetrate the corporate firewalls, what I stressed was that system (and AV-software) updates can be pushed without executing a forced shutdown. There are better ways to achieve the same goal. Call someone else a PEBCAC, 'mkay? I lost 2 days of work because some red flag went off and IT wasted 2 days doing their SuperSpecial scans only to find nothing at all -- and here I am with an 8-core machine but they wouldn't let me run their scans while simultaneously working.
Computers that aren't rebooted at least once a month are likely to miss a critical patch and present a serious risk to the network. If the users aren't willing to do their part to maintain network security, then the script needs to reboot the computers.
And, THAT is why we call IT workers total fuckwits. Until you figure out how to tell the users they must reboot without doing a forced shutdown of apps without so much as saving the work in process, we're going to do everything we can (e.g. pulling the ethernet plug every night before going home) to stop your idiocy. Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
And we can do it without any fear of retribution. "PEDO" now means "person of excellent demeanor online" (by which I mean "I just made that piece of BS up") .
What if your cloud service provider goes down? How you going to get all your data if you get only 1 day, or a week notice? How about if you get no notice, the shit just stops working? The company goes poof! So does all your data.
Not the best analogy, but: in case of bankruptcy, shutdown, or death, a medical doctor's practice/office/heirs are required by law to store the patient records & provide them or transfer them upon request. Similar legislation is needed for data storage service companies. (Oh,wait-- intelligent legislative action in today's Congress? Putting a burden on the Job Creators? nevva mind)
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Yeah, but, ... if the clocks have to be up in space to be fully accurate, etc., What is the meaning of the word "today" in the sentence "You will not go to space today" ?
[joke, dammit!!!]
You need a four dimensional fix.
Mr. B. Banzai would like a little word with you.
Hey, I have a dozen watches (you insensitive clod) -- and I know how to calculate mean, median, and standard deviations!
So there.
I am terrified by the fact that new services almost always get really stupid things wrong like Newsweek saying that Earhart ran out of jet fuel!
Well, you do have to admit that Earhart had zero reserve margin of jet fuel. Of course, she also had sufficient jet fuel supplies onboard to support a flight around the world 100 times...
You don't really strike me as the type that knows nothing about improvised explosives.
The fact that you apparently know your way around circuit boards is icing on the cake.
And the fact that you write crappy logic like that indicates that you're both a troll and one of those people who thinks anyone who's heard of The Anarchist's Cookbook should be in jail.
sheesh
This opinion gets written up at least once a year. Nothing's new this time around.
Except..
Now we have a viable alternative to Hypercard: the Brainfuck programming language.
You can thank me later.
Like I said, No True Scotsman.
Because Catholics do not believe that everything a pope says is to be considered infallible.
That prompts two responses.
First, your sentence is a variant of "no true Scotsman." What's the point of having a pope if every Catholic gets to interpret matters religious on their own?
Second: on the bright side, unlike a certain other religion popular the world around, you can say something against the pope and not get assassinated by religious leaders for doing so.
If they want to scare her they wake her up in the middle of the night with 4 people in her bedroom
That sort of thing leads to amusing (or tragic) tangles with armed professional law enforcement, and the toy soldiers do not cope well with such situations.
and here I thought it was the lead-in to a video about a woman and four pizza-delivery boys...
SRSLY? You bought a house in [redacted] Hawaii and didn't get volcano insurance?
This strikes me as arguing over whether or not Batman could beat Superman in a fight.
Depends: does Batman have access to some Green Kryptonite? Does the fight take place on a planet orbiting a red star?
Does Batman say (quite out of context), " You can't win, Darth^H^H^H^H Superman. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Quote: "'They're going after people who are really not criminals,' said David Smith, a former federal prosecutor "
Ummm, hey Mr. Lawer Dude: why should they be allowed to impound ANY non-criminal item from ANYONE? It's one thing to remove, say, guns and illegal drugs when arriving with a warrant. It's another to say "hey, I bet that cash and those guns are illegal so let's take them " (and the car they're in -- the car is often taken as well) It's been pretty well established that local police depts use the forfeiture laws as a moneymaking operation. How about we take property the old-fashioned (joke) way: after conviction, or at the very least, grand-jury indictment?
What he did was illegal, but I can't say that it was wrong.
I'm not in the least convinced that it was illegal. Revealing classified info which reveals the existence of criminal behavior is not necessarily illegal (at least as of one of my early briefings when having a clearance bestowed upon my august presence).
And you're offensively paternalistic in thinking I want to go thru 10 minutes of booting & reloading all my apps and active development docs every day (or even week) just to satisfy some IT god's paranoia. I repeat: load the patches and give the users a minimum of 5 day's warning before forcing a reboot.
Wow -- someone's doing it right :-). Can I come work for your company pleez?
You're entirely missing the point. Aside from the fact that viruses almost never penetrate the corporate firewalls, what I stressed was that system (and AV-software) updates can be pushed without executing a forced shutdown. There are better ways to achieve the same goal.
Call someone else a PEBCAC, 'mkay? I lost 2 days of work because some red flag went off and IT wasted 2 days doing their SuperSpecial scans only to find nothing at all -- and here I am with an 8-core machine but they wouldn't let me run their scans while simultaneously working.
Without that, what's the point :-) .
Go ahead, make some Rule34 versions of what "bobbles" you want to get.
Computers that aren't rebooted at least once a month are likely to miss a critical patch and present a serious risk to the network. If the users aren't willing to do their part to maintain network security, then the script needs to reboot the computers.
And, THAT is why we call IT workers total fuckwits. Until you figure out how to tell the users they must reboot without doing a forced shutdown of apps without so much as saving the work in process, we're going to do everything we can (e.g. pulling the ethernet plug every night before going home) to stop your idiocy. Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
So what you're really saying is "Criminals are the job creators" ? :-) :-)
And we can do it without any fear of retribution. "PEDO" now means "person of excellent demeanor online" (by which I mean "I just made that piece of BS up") .
Who would ever confuse 'PEDO' and 'pedo'?
What if your cloud service provider goes down? How you going to get all your data if you get only 1 day, or a week notice? How about if you get no notice, the shit just stops working? The company goes poof! So does all your data.
Not the best analogy, but: in case of bankruptcy, shutdown, or death, a medical doctor's practice/office/heirs are required by law to store the patient records & provide them or transfer them upon request. Similar legislation is needed for data storage service companies. (Oh,wait-- intelligent legislative action in today's Congress? Putting a burden on the Job Creators? nevva mind)
Damn sure all the Founding Fathers would be on the no fly list.
Response #1: Well, of course, since airplanes didn't work back then.
Response #2, Well, duh, it was easier to put on leggings than use button-fly pants back then (zippers weren't due to be invented for a while)
That's because the world is fucked and nothing maters. At all.
Nice Freudian typo there!
Anyway,
"Nothing really matters, any more"
or
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
See, the musicians have it covered.
China and Russia already have the F-35 plans.
I certainly hope so! Just wait for them to try to *build* the F-35 and watch their budgets explode just as wildly as the intra-USA budget has.
Slaves are not people.
Bah. Here in the US of frakking A, slaves are (well, were) 60% of a person. Take that, you backwater countries like Dubai!