Good point. You can't prove their numbers are wrong!
Any time you come up with any other number, they'll claim your methodology is flawed. And then cry a lot about their children starving in the rain. Or driving last year's Benz instead of buying a new one like they deserve.
Well, since Slashdot is not a grand jury and has no power to return indictment*, GPP's point stands: the only legal action in play right now is a civil lawsuit against the district and its officials.
*A fact for which I awaken every morning praying a sincere prayer of gratitude.
stuff not working WELL because of negligence on my part
That's letting your drive off a bluff into the river because the bridge was condemned and about to collapse
a software provider deliberately breaking software, and my entire mail system, to punish me for not having the latest version
That's putting up construction barriers and stopping your progress across the river to save you from your own inattention to the "BRIDGE CONDEMNED" signs that have been up for the last six months.
Anyone wanna try phrasing this as a pizza analogy?
That money got wasted in a highly incompetent way is not news.
That someone is getting in trouble for whistleblowing is not especially news.
But this kind of whistleblowing is always going to end badly for the whistleblower, because even if a legitimate transparency function is served (calling attention to wasteful and inefficient program administration), the programs themselves are classified. In the public eyes, they're not supposed to even exist. To praise them in public would also be a breach of classification. So, this is the hardest class of whistleblowing on the books: even if 99% of the classification decisions on the program can be written off as cover-up, there's still a critical core of legitimate secrecy which gets violated. Trends and techniques used in espionage get exposed. Adversaries are tipped off. Whole lines of intelligence gathering dry up, fail, or have to be abandoned.
God doesn't need your help. He's a big God, and can take care of Himself. If someone insults Him online, don't you think He can deal with the offender as he pleases without your worthless help?
This is why, IMHO, one of the strongest tenets of true faith truly held is separation of church and state.
OTOH, it sounds like a child with Williams' is inclined to take social risks that would make a parent break out in cold sweat.
Yes, it's sweet and wonderful that someone can be so loving. But as a Daddy, I'd rather my baby girl learn to protect herself from a world that sometimes returns hatred for love and violence for affection.
That's my job, I suppose, and realistically I can't succeed completely, because that's also unbalanced. The logical extreme of "stranger danger" is hermetic isolation, hiding fearfully from a hostile world. So I rein myself in, and try not to betray my near-panic when my 4-year-old wants to greet everyone with a cheerful shout and a hug. And that's with a child who's not even genetically predisposed to social fearlessness. What a challenge it must be to raise a child without even innate social self-defenses.
Still, even if it's a big scary world, it's also a huge wonderful world, and we'll find the right balance to face it.
Well, other than the loaded language and cheap ad-hominem, yes. Vitriol should be protected speech, within reasonable limits. The definition of "reasonable" is what's at the heart of the issue, and moves around a bit. Still, the operant principle is anonymity is protected unless you have DAMN good reason not to. "Good reason" rising to the level of criminal indictment for actual crimes, not political censorship (let alone ass-hurt of any group of people, no matter how prominent or influential).
I don't know about Canadian history, which as far as I can tell has a suspicious history of obsessive politeness, but angry anonymous pamphleteering is one of the cornerstones of the independence of the United States from Mother Britain.
Come to think of it, that might explain somewhat why Her Majesty is still the Canadian Head of State, but not ours.
I'm sure his "cover" is more than adequate for any objective viewer. Canadian identity hypersensitivity simply makes you unable to believe it.
Some principles are universal. The fact that the United States has notable examples in recent history of both implementation and denial of those principles provides convenient reference material. I'm sure anyone sufficiently motivated by "Canada or die!" can come up with comparable domestic references.
But that raises a chicken-and-egg question. Did we name the ancient Egyptian structures "pyramids" because they looked like the abstract pyramid, which already had that name? Or did the name of the abstract geometric construct come from the big rock thingies in the desert?
If the latter, the "pyramids" could be as pointy, branchy, bendy, or needle-shaped as they please, and we'd call them pyramids. And then any sort of abstract geometric construct which happened to looks like a pyramid would be called a pyramid too.
Shoot, don't lecture me about cards. My first professional software projects were on cards. My first professional software projects were floor-sorted by computer operators, too, so I know of what I speak in this context.:)
I'm conforming to the storage scheme described earlier. 64 bytes per card is very low-density, given the total number of holes available. But avoiding lace cards is an admirable goal, unless you want to piss off the machine room operators. Which you may want to do in retaliation for floor-sorting your 1-3 km tall deck.
No, actually, I think the formatting overhead has been included in GPP's calculations.
They're only storing 64 bytes per card. Each Hollerith zone is one byte. Therefore, each card has 80, not 64, bytes of capacity.
The remaining 16 bytes? Formatting. Go ahead and include a 16-digit card number. There's your format. And also, when the computer operator drops your deck, you'll have card numbers to use in sorting the deck back into correct order.
There would be no danger at all were vehicles to keep their proper couple seconds of spacing when headed down the roads.
Ah, the "two-second interval". What a charming fantasy. Do you know what the two-second interval is? It's about 5 carlengths in front of me, in the process of being promptly filled in by 4.5 clueless asshats who want into my lane. (The half-asshat is looking at the remaining fractional carlength speculatively. He'd go for it if his insurance wasn't already on the verge of cancellation.)
Ultimately you can't fix stupid, but you can give people the best chance possible of walking away from the accident alive and in one piece.
We try, but I think those two goals are mutually exclusive. Stupid should be fatal.
Well, bear in mind... not shooting everyone may be a budgetary mitigation. Ammunition can be expensive, and there are so many cost-effective ways to deal with offenders.
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Good point. You can't prove their numbers are wrong!
Any time you come up with any other number, they'll claim your methodology is flawed. And then cry a lot about their children starving in the rain. Or driving last year's Benz instead of buying a new one like they deserve.
an arrest warrant was issued for noted military leader, statesman, father of the nation, and library scofflaw George Washington.
Recursive legal advice is recursive.
Well, since Slashdot is not a grand jury and has no power to return indictment*, GPP's point stands: the only legal action in play right now is a civil lawsuit against the district and its officials.
*A fact for which I awaken every morning praying a sincere prayer of gratitude.
Or, better yet, get something like CentOS and leech shamelessly off the care and craftsmanship of the fine Redhat people AT NO COST!
-- A proud CentOS user
Of course, buying from RH means buying into a team, and not having to go it alone. At worst, that means you have someone else to blame.
You're absolutely right. To use a car analogy:
stuff not working WELL because of negligence on my part
That's letting your drive off a bluff into the river because the bridge was condemned and about to collapse
a software provider deliberately breaking software, and my entire mail system, to punish me for not having the latest version
That's putting up construction barriers and stopping your progress across the river to save you from your own inattention to the "BRIDGE CONDEMNED" signs that have been up for the last six months.
Anyone wanna try phrasing this as a pizza analogy?
There are dozens of people who can outline a supremely profitable business model for Oracle or anyone else who asks.
1. Maintain open-source software
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
How about the calamari I can buy
Geez, I need more sleep.
I misread that Katamari.
If you want a chuckle, try to picture what type of uber-bizzaro PS2 otaku hentai could come from that combination.
That money got wasted in a highly incompetent way is not news.
That someone is getting in trouble for whistleblowing is not especially news.
But this kind of whistleblowing is always going to end badly for the whistleblower, because even if a legitimate transparency function is served (calling attention to wasteful and inefficient program administration), the programs themselves are classified. In the public eyes, they're not supposed to even exist. To praise them in public would also be a breach of classification. So, this is the hardest class of whistleblowing on the books: even if 99% of the classification decisions on the program can be written off as cover-up, there's still a critical core of legitimate secrecy which gets violated. Trends and techniques used in espionage get exposed. Adversaries are tipped off. Whole lines of intelligence gathering dry up, fail, or have to be abandoned.
It's an unpleasant situation.
God doesn't need your help. He's a big God, and can take care of Himself. If someone insults Him online, don't you think He can deal with the offender as he pleases without your worthless help?
This is why, IMHO, one of the strongest tenets of true faith truly held is separation of church and state.
-- H. L. Mencken
--Salman Rushdie
Who, it must be admitted, has also suffered at the hands of those who took offense at his freedom of speech.
OTOH, it sounds like a child with Williams' is inclined to take social risks that would make a parent break out in cold sweat.
Yes, it's sweet and wonderful that someone can be so loving. But as a Daddy, I'd rather my baby girl learn to protect herself from a world that sometimes returns hatred for love and violence for affection.
That's my job, I suppose, and realistically I can't succeed completely, because that's also unbalanced. The logical extreme of "stranger danger" is hermetic isolation, hiding fearfully from a hostile world. So I rein myself in, and try not to betray my near-panic when my 4-year-old wants to greet everyone with a cheerful shout and a hug. And that's with a child who's not even genetically predisposed to social fearlessness. What a challenge it must be to raise a child without even innate social self-defenses.
Still, even if it's a big scary world, it's also a huge wonderful world, and we'll find the right balance to face it.
Well, other than the loaded language and cheap ad-hominem, yes. Vitriol should be protected speech, within reasonable limits. The definition of "reasonable" is what's at the heart of the issue, and moves around a bit. Still, the operant principle is anonymity is protected unless you have DAMN good reason not to. "Good reason" rising to the level of criminal indictment for actual crimes, not political censorship (let alone ass-hurt of any group of people, no matter how prominent or influential).
I don't know about Canadian history, which as far as I can tell has a suspicious history of obsessive politeness, but angry anonymous pamphleteering is one of the cornerstones of the independence of the United States from Mother Britain.
Come to think of it, that might explain somewhat why Her Majesty is still the Canadian Head of State, but not ours.
I'm sure his "cover" is more than adequate for any objective viewer. Canadian identity hypersensitivity simply makes you unable to believe it.
Some principles are universal. The fact that the United States has notable examples in recent history of both implementation and denial of those principles provides convenient reference material. I'm sure anyone sufficiently motivated by "Canada or die!" can come up with comparable domestic references.
Oh, yeah, Welcome to the U.S.
Here you go.
But that raises a chicken-and-egg question. Did we name the ancient Egyptian structures "pyramids" because they looked like the abstract pyramid, which already had that name? Or did the name of the abstract geometric construct come from the big rock thingies in the desert?
If the latter, the "pyramids" could be as pointy, branchy, bendy, or needle-shaped as they please, and we'd call them pyramids. And then any sort of abstract geometric construct which happened to looks like a pyramid would be called a pyramid too.
"What shape is a pyramid?"
"Pyramid-shaped."
Shoot, don't lecture me about cards. My first professional software projects were on cards. My first professional software projects were floor-sorted by computer operators, too, so I know of what I speak in this context. :)
I'm conforming to the storage scheme described earlier. 64 bytes per card is very low-density, given the total number of holes available. But avoiding lace cards is an admirable goal, unless you want to piss off the machine room operators. Which you may want to do in retaliation for floor-sorting your 1-3 km tall deck.
BTW, the lawn I'm standing on is my own.
Minor correction:
Well, you don't expect some Paramount idiot board member to send his personal assistant to shop anywhere other than a big box chain store, do you?
Good movie, even if it was a Keanu Reeves vehicle.
No, actually, I think the formatting overhead has been included in GPP's calculations.
They're only storing 64 bytes per card. Each Hollerith zone is one byte. Therefore, each card has 80, not 64, bytes of capacity.
The remaining 16 bytes? Formatting. Go ahead and include a 16-digit card number. There's your format. And also, when the computer operator drops your deck, you'll have card numbers to use in sorting the deck back into correct order.
Sure you can.
There would be no danger at all were vehicles to keep their proper couple seconds of spacing when headed down the roads.
Ah, the "two-second interval". What a charming fantasy. Do you know what the two-second interval is? It's about 5 carlengths in front of me, in the process of being promptly filled in by 4.5 clueless asshats who want into my lane. (The half-asshat is looking at the remaining fractional carlength speculatively. He'd go for it if his insurance wasn't already on the verge of cancellation.)
Ultimately you can't fix stupid, but you can give people the best chance possible of walking away from the accident alive and in one piece.
We try, but I think those two goals are mutually exclusive. Stupid should be fatal.
Or how about NOT entering the intersection until you can safely complete the turn in the same cycle.
Or, to put it more succinctly, never turn left. NEVAR.
(as apparently some states and other jurisdictions do).
[citation required]
You forgot to put IANATE* into your comment.
*I Am Not A Traffic Engineer
Well, bear in mind... not shooting everyone may be a budgetary mitigation. Ammunition can be expensive, and there are so many cost-effective ways to deal with offenders.
Some good reference material