I tend to agree with the AC, since the second amendment appears to protect the "right to harass" as well as the "right to offend", the law is not interested. So you either suck it up, or sort it out yourself with the less civilized eye for an eye protocol. No need for guns or friends in the intelligence community (since you know ehere he lives). Just tell your story at the local bar, someone will know where to hire a "wrecking crew" to redecorate his home office whilst giving him a lecture on how quickly life turns to shit when people use "free speech" as an excuse for their bad behavior. $500 tops with no hospital grade violence, slime ball will be back in his box before you can finish your beer.
Thing is, you no longer have the option of cheap, efficient, "natural justice". By posting the story on Slashdot you have already committed yourself to fighting him indirectly, and worse still, on his home ground.
Why is this modded informative? Bacteria did not, and have not, stopped evolving and their sheer numbers mean they do it a lot faster than mammals do. A simple, modern, amoeba has something like 200X the number of genes found in human DNA.
Property law varies from place to place. For example nomads don't believe that you can own land, they believe the land owns you.
Nationalization is a euphemism for stealing.
I don't personally agree with Hugo but I do believe that ultimately a nations resources belong to it's people, this is why there are eminent domain laws in all modern nations. Nationalization is the same thing, except it targets powerful people who have a heavy influence on entire industries rather than just the plebs who refuse to budge just because some robber-barron needs a railway through their living room to export whatever they are exporting. Regardless of who owns the land, without such laws infrastructure would simply not work, without fair compensation written into those laws I would agree it is akin to "stealing". But who decides what is "fair", amoral executives at Exxon or a vindictive Venezuelan legislature?
tl;dr. However I skimmed the conclusion and bookmarked it. The "Money is made for man" thing nails the problem in a soundbite, especial when you consider environmental "externalities". Now all we need is a thesis with an answer, a peaceful way to "socialize" profits, like we already do with losses.;).
What do you mean "our", I'm an Aussie, "my" economy is doing fine, China now buys more of our special rocks than you guys do, if China becomes a military superpower (as well as an economic superpower) we will also have some disused foreign military bases we can rent to them. You see, I'm old enough to remember the last of Mao's famines on the nightly news, and while I agree their political system is more vulnerable to despots I'm also aware that they have dragged more people out of poverty in the last 40yrs than the rest of the world combined.
They paid a heavy price in environmental degradation and the one child policy, but "credit where credit is due", they did it, they basically turned a famine riddled "N Korea" into an economic superpower that now has a rapidly growing middle class and a booming real estate industry akin to the gold rush days of the 1800's.
Philosophically I'd say the most desirable superpower would be an ideological cross between Doctors Without Borders and The National Academies, but with the "can do" attitude of Attila the Hun. It really doesn't matter what you call your ideology, communism, democracy, whatever, what matters is results. Besides, it was rich merchants who forced the Magna Carta on the nobility. Today's rich merchants are not limited by oceans, just as the merchants of the Magna Carta were not limited by the intricate feudal borders of Europe. Since the end of the cold war hard core despots have been seen as bad for business on all sides, in the same way warring nobility were bad for business, their days are numbered because for the vast majority of rich merchants, peace is more profitable than war.
Don't hate on the AC parent post, he's just a victim of bad parenting, his parents unwittingly trained him from birth to behave like an arsehole by capitulating to his tantrums. Society does not always react to his tantrums in the same way his parent did, which is probably why he's posting AC.
Gold or paper the value of either is nothing unless someone will trade it for something you can use such as food. Whether you like it or not investors view US treasury bonds as more secure than gold. You can stamp your feet and insist that gold is better but it won't change a damned thing, political capital and military superiority simply trumps all other forms of financial security, period. Gold, paper, clay stamps, sea shells, they are just tokens that represent goods, trust is how money works and it is how it has worked for "4,000yrs", ( actually it's 11000 since cows were first used as a standard denomination of wealth ).
NASA has probes zipping all over the solar system, they shot Cassini through gaps in the rings of Saturn, twice, then dropped another probe on Titan and returned pictures from near total darkness in temperatures cold enough to freeze methane. NASA also recently landed a fucking truck on Mars, in one piece and talking to a NASA satellite orbiting above. While I'm a fan of SpaceX and admire Musk for putting his money where his mouth is, the fact remains they have a very, very, long way to go before they can fill NASA boots.
I'm not an American but I'm pretty sure LIFE comes first, as in "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Also just because the plane does not come crashing to the ground when you switch on your phone does not mean there is no interference. As for proof, radio interference HAS caused problems with planes in the past which is why the rules were created in the first place, they may be overly cautious about it but that's the wise thing to do (as opposed to the smart thing to do). Besides airlines are required by law to carry out very rigorous maintenance if they want to fly in US/EU airspace, strict regulations have made that airspace the busiest and safest in the world, why should you (with zero industry knowledge and experience) be allowed to operate YOUR equipment in the same plane and not have the equipment subject to the same maintenance regime?
We all laugh at the rules for the first cars that required someone to walk in-front of it with a flag in certain situations. However to this day the 1920's have the worst statistics for number of deaths per car, IIRC it was something like 1 death per 280 cars on the road. The FFC rule may have outlived it's usefulness, but it's certainly not "tyranny" by any common definition of the word.
The "problem" in the US is all the homeland security bullshit, "(air) travel without papers" is the liberty you have lost (if you ever had it?). The FCC is there to make sure the planes are as safe as possible and it has a pretty good track record compared to other countries. The FCC was established to responsibly ensure the safety of the public and it has done that with minimum inconvenience to the punter. Homeland security was put there by the same sub-culture that wants to arm kindergarten teachers, it has greatly inconvenienced the punter, discouraged paying tourists such as myself, and made no discernible difference to public safety.
Glad you mentioned life support, most people gloss over that part and talk about propulsion. Long term life support is by far the most difficult technical problem for an interstellar traveler. A revolution in that technology would not only make interstellar travel "possible", it would also have profound implications here on Earth.
I was 10yo when they landed on the Moon and like all school boys in the 60's I dreamed of being an astronaut. At that time telescopes could not deal with the random distortions of the atmosphere, the largest mirrors were roughly an order of magnitude smaller in diameter, detecting a planet around another star was "impossible", black holes were "mathematical curiosities", Saturn was the only planet with rings, the gas giants had less than half the number of moons, etc, etc.
My dream of being an astronaut met with the real world but I still consider myself lucky to have witnessed a revolution in astronomy that is second only to the invention of the telescope and is to this day still building momentum. Personally I think that revolution is largely due to the millions of school kids around the planet who didn't even realize politics was involved and were simply awe struck by the Apollo project. A lot of those kids grew up and explored the universe in a different, but equally inspiring way. For example anyone who is not immediately awe struck by the Hubble deep field, invariably does not understand what they are looking at. The Moon landing was "special" not because people were in awe of it, it was because you knew (or at least believed) that the rest of the planet was simultaneously experiencing the same thing.
So your porno example would never occur in the real world.
The porn industry is just part of the much larger entertainment industry, they are allowed to ask for a female midget, if that's what the part calls for.
Realize that most of them were born in the 80' and 90's, the civil right movement is history to them in the same way WW1 was history to "boomers" like me who grew up in the sixties. However that doesn't mean there aren't any problems today, the political paralysis in the US over climate change is one such example. It's a constant struggle, someone points out something "inconvenient", (wish Al Gore hadn't stolen that word), and those who are inconvenienced start pumping out the most outrageous (and surprisingly effective) propaganda. Actually they hire others to do it, who have no qualms about assassinating the charter of the genuine "Galileo's" for a meager $100k/yr. A sound and broad scientific education seems to be the best defense for the average punter and the only way to obtain that is through humility and self skepticism.
The hard truth can be both painful and constructive, but telling someone that they suck does not require "harsh words". There is simply no need for a stream of abuse via emial. However a dud developer is not the case here, Linus says he thinks the guy is competent in the summary quote, indicating it was a mistake. So if Linus never makes mistakes and is that upset somebody else has, then he should sack the guy. If it was me he wouldn't have to, I'd leave (after picking a few choice quotes in a "send all" email explaining my resignation). I haven't RTFA, but if the bug escaped into a "stable" release then Linus' development/change procedures should take the blame, not the guy who tripped over them.
Disclaimer: Worked in the construction industry as a laborer for 15yrs, lots of abusive bosses, some of them sporting missing front teeth from their destructive criticism.
My arteries are that hard they are in danger of cracking. I'm not "stuck" programming C, I enjoy it, but it's hardly a "god like" experience since there's more C code in the corporate world than there is Java code. If your looking for the "god like" experience you need to become THE resident expert on one or more of your employers mission critical systems. You get to that position mainly via luck (or simply outlasting others). I had that position at a large telco for a few years in the 90's, I got there because I outlasted the other competent developers who had helped build the system from scratch. Not as much fun as you would think, lots of responsibility and pressure being a "guru". And at the end of the day you're left nursing an underfunded system that's is in the process of being mothballed to make room for the next big thing. "Functionally stable" in any accounting language means your project is going nowhere.
I'm certainly not claiming to have any special, insights or wisdom, but you can't get that kind of life experience from a book or from a couple of years hanging around the office, which is why they hired the guy with more industry experience.;)
Exactly, I had just turned 21 when my 18yo wife had her first son in 1980, he was no accident. Neither side of the family offered any kind of financial help and a tax break on fuck all is obviously less than fuck all. Having kids early ruined my finances, not my life, it gave life a purpose and bone-headed determination that non-parents have great difficulty understanding, I was no longer "working for the weekend" I was "putting bread on the table" and I was doing it the hard way, as a high school drop out. Neither of my kids followed their parents lead and dropped out of HS, and neither will my three grand kids.
Great post, and testament to the fact that most Americans are clueless about their own recent history, if anyone ever needs proof that US teachers are not a bunch of brainwashing communists, then mass ignorance about the civil rights movement is it.
I was taught that scientists are first and foremost skeptics and that a good scientists was most skeptical about his own ideas and motivations. From what I've seen over the last half century that is indeed how they behave as a group. Psuedo-skeptics have no need for questions about their own ideas or motivations in fact they fear them which is why they bombard their targets with "have you stopped beating your wife" type questions/accusations.
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I tend to agree with the AC, since the second amendment appears to protect the "right to harass" as well as the "right to offend", the law is not interested. So you either suck it up, or sort it out yourself with the less civilized eye for an eye protocol. No need for guns or friends in the intelligence community (since you know ehere he lives). Just tell your story at the local bar, someone will know where to hire a "wrecking crew" to redecorate his home office whilst giving him a lecture on how quickly life turns to shit when people use "free speech" as an excuse for their bad behavior. $500 tops with no hospital grade violence, slime ball will be back in his box before you can finish your beer.
Thing is, you no longer have the option of cheap, efficient, "natural justice". By posting the story on Slashdot you have already committed yourself to fighting him indirectly, and worse still, on his home ground.
That has nothing to do with Google, I heard on Onion News that Apple are rearranging geography to suit their maps.
Bacteria's evolution finished so early
Why is this modded informative? Bacteria did not, and have not, stopped evolving and their sheer numbers mean they do it a lot faster than mammals do. A simple, modern, amoeba has something like 200X the number of genes found in human DNA.
It has to do with rule of law.
Property law varies from place to place. For example nomads don't believe that you can own land, they believe the land owns you.
Nationalization is a euphemism for stealing.
I don't personally agree with Hugo but I do believe that ultimately a nations resources belong to it's people, this is why there are eminent domain laws in all modern nations. Nationalization is the same thing, except it targets powerful people who have a heavy influence on entire industries rather than just the plebs who refuse to budge just because some robber-barron needs a railway through their living room to export whatever they are exporting. Regardless of who owns the land, without such laws infrastructure would simply not work, without fair compensation written into those laws I would agree it is akin to "stealing". But who decides what is "fair", amoral executives at Exxon or a vindictive Venezuelan legislature?
tl;dr. However I skimmed the conclusion and bookmarked it. The "Money is made for man" thing nails the problem in a soundbite, especial when you consider environmental "externalities". Now all we need is a thesis with an answer, a peaceful way to "socialize" profits, like we already do with losses. ;).
What do you mean "our", I'm an Aussie, "my" economy is doing fine, China now buys more of our special rocks than you guys do, if China becomes a military superpower (as well as an economic superpower) we will also have some disused foreign military bases we can rent to them. You see, I'm old enough to remember the last of Mao's famines on the nightly news, and while I agree their political system is more vulnerable to despots I'm also aware that they have dragged more people out of poverty in the last 40yrs than the rest of the world combined.
They paid a heavy price in environmental degradation and the one child policy, but "credit where credit is due", they did it, they basically turned a famine riddled "N Korea" into an economic superpower that now has a rapidly growing middle class and a booming real estate industry akin to the gold rush days of the 1800's.
Philosophically I'd say the most desirable superpower would be an ideological cross between Doctors Without Borders and The National Academies, but with the "can do" attitude of Attila the Hun. It really doesn't matter what you call your ideology, communism, democracy, whatever, what matters is results. Besides, it was rich merchants who forced the Magna Carta on the nobility. Today's rich merchants are not limited by oceans, just as the merchants of the Magna Carta were not limited by the intricate feudal borders of Europe. Since the end of the cold war hard core despots have been seen as bad for business on all sides, in the same way warring nobility were bad for business, their days are numbered because for the vast majority of rich merchants, peace is more profitable than war.
Don't hate on the AC parent post, he's just a victim of bad parenting, his parents unwittingly trained him from birth to behave like an arsehole by capitulating to his tantrums. Society does not always react to his tantrums in the same way his parent did, which is probably why he's posting AC.
Gold or paper the value of either is nothing unless someone will trade it for something you can use such as food. Whether you like it or not investors view US treasury bonds as more secure than gold. You can stamp your feet and insist that gold is better but it won't change a damned thing, political capital and military superiority simply trumps all other forms of financial security, period. Gold, paper, clay stamps, sea shells, they are just tokens that represent goods, trust is how money works and it is how it has worked for "4,000yrs", ( actually it's 11000 since cows were first used as a standard denomination of wealth ).
NASA has probes zipping all over the solar system, they shot Cassini through gaps in the rings of Saturn, twice, then dropped another probe on Titan and returned pictures from near total darkness in temperatures cold enough to freeze methane. NASA also recently landed a fucking truck on Mars, in one piece and talking to a NASA satellite orbiting above. While I'm a fan of SpaceX and admire Musk for putting his money where his mouth is, the fact remains they have a very, very, long way to go before they can fill NASA boots.
And you're a typical rube for believing that...
Liberty ALWAYS comes first
I'm not an American but I'm pretty sure LIFE comes first, as in "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Also just because the plane does not come crashing to the ground when you switch on your phone does not mean there is no interference. As for proof, radio interference HAS caused problems with planes in the past which is why the rules were created in the first place, they may be overly cautious about it but that's the wise thing to do (as opposed to the smart thing to do). Besides airlines are required by law to carry out very rigorous maintenance if they want to fly in US/EU airspace, strict regulations have made that airspace the busiest and safest in the world, why should you (with zero industry knowledge and experience) be allowed to operate YOUR equipment in the same plane and not have the equipment subject to the same maintenance regime?
We all laugh at the rules for the first cars that required someone to walk in-front of it with a flag in certain situations. However to this day the 1920's have the worst statistics for number of deaths per car, IIRC it was something like 1 death per 280 cars on the road. The FFC rule may have outlived it's usefulness, but it's certainly not "tyranny" by any common definition of the word.
The "problem" in the US is all the homeland security bullshit, "(air) travel without papers" is the liberty you have lost (if you ever had it?). The FCC is there to make sure the planes are as safe as possible and it has a pretty good track record compared to other countries. The FCC was established to responsibly ensure the safety of the public and it has done that with minimum inconvenience to the punter. Homeland security was put there by the same sub-culture that wants to arm kindergarten teachers, it has greatly inconvenienced the punter, discouraged paying tourists such as myself, and made no discernible difference to public safety.
Besides if you cannot putdown the device for 15 minutes on each end of the flight there is something wrong, but it isn't with the FAA or the airlines.
Why do so many people in this discussion have this dick attitude?
Because the opposite attitude is what is known as an arrogant dick.
The practice has been officially banned
So no, not worth a Goodwin.
No, sadly there was no Mr Gorsky.
Glad you mentioned life support, most people gloss over that part and talk about propulsion. Long term life support is by far the most difficult technical problem for an interstellar traveler. A revolution in that technology would not only make interstellar travel "possible", it would also have profound implications here on Earth.
I was 10yo when they landed on the Moon and like all school boys in the 60's I dreamed of being an astronaut. At that time telescopes could not deal with the random distortions of the atmosphere, the largest mirrors were roughly an order of magnitude smaller in diameter, detecting a planet around another star was "impossible", black holes were "mathematical curiosities", Saturn was the only planet with rings, the gas giants had less than half the number of moons, etc, etc.
My dream of being an astronaut met with the real world but I still consider myself lucky to have witnessed a revolution in astronomy that is second only to the invention of the telescope and is to this day still building momentum. Personally I think that revolution is largely due to the millions of school kids around the planet who didn't even realize politics was involved and were simply awe struck by the Apollo project. A lot of those kids grew up and explored the universe in a different, but equally inspiring way. For example anyone who is not immediately awe struck by the Hubble deep field, invariably does not understand what they are looking at. The Moon landing was "special" not because people were in awe of it, it was because you knew (or at least believed) that the rest of the planet was simultaneously experiencing the same thing.
How nice to be in a position to storm out of job interviews. Some people have it a little tougher than that these days.
Since when have principles been cheap?
So your porno example would never occur in the real world.
The porn industry is just part of the much larger entertainment industry, they are allowed to ask for a female midget, if that's what the part calls for.
Realize that most of them were born in the 80' and 90's, the civil right movement is history to them in the same way WW1 was history to "boomers" like me who grew up in the sixties. However that doesn't mean there aren't any problems today, the political paralysis in the US over climate change is one such example. It's a constant struggle, someone points out something "inconvenient", (wish Al Gore hadn't stolen that word), and those who are inconvenienced start pumping out the most outrageous (and surprisingly effective) propaganda. Actually they hire others to do it, who have no qualms about assassinating the charter of the genuine "Galileo's" for a meager $100k/yr. A sound and broad scientific education seems to be the best defense for the average punter and the only way to obtain that is through humility and self skepticism.
I would have preferred, "Planning authorities deny application to build pipe from factory to river".
The hard truth can be both painful and constructive, but telling someone that they suck does not require "harsh words". There is simply no need for a stream of abuse via emial. However a dud developer is not the case here, Linus says he thinks the guy is competent in the summary quote, indicating it was a mistake. So if Linus never makes mistakes and is that upset somebody else has, then he should sack the guy. If it was me he wouldn't have to, I'd leave (after picking a few choice quotes in a "send all" email explaining my resignation). I haven't RTFA, but if the bug escaped into a "stable" release then Linus' development/change procedures should take the blame, not the guy who tripped over them.
Disclaimer: Worked in the construction industry as a laborer for 15yrs, lots of abusive bosses, some of them sporting missing front teeth from their destructive criticism.
My arteries are that hard they are in danger of cracking. I'm not "stuck" programming C, I enjoy it, but it's hardly a "god like" experience since there's more C code in the corporate world than there is Java code. If your looking for the "god like" experience you need to become THE resident expert on one or more of your employers mission critical systems. You get to that position mainly via luck (or simply outlasting others). I had that position at a large telco for a few years in the 90's, I got there because I outlasted the other competent developers who had helped build the system from scratch. Not as much fun as you would think, lots of responsibility and pressure being a "guru". And at the end of the day you're left nursing an underfunded system that's is in the process of being mothballed to make room for the next big thing. "Functionally stable" in any accounting language means your project is going nowhere.
;)
I'm certainly not claiming to have any special, insights or wisdom, but you can't get that kind of life experience from a book or from a couple of years hanging around the office, which is why they hired the guy with more industry experience.
Why is it either/or and not neither/nor?
Exactly, I had just turned 21 when my 18yo wife had her first son in 1980, he was no accident. Neither side of the family offered any kind of financial help and a tax break on fuck all is obviously less than fuck all. Having kids early ruined my finances, not my life, it gave life a purpose and bone-headed determination that non-parents have great difficulty understanding, I was no longer "working for the weekend" I was "putting bread on the table" and I was doing it the hard way, as a high school drop out. Neither of my kids followed their parents lead and dropped out of HS, and neither will my three grand kids.
Great post, and testament to the fact that most Americans are clueless about their own recent history, if anyone ever needs proof that US teachers are not a bunch of brainwashing communists, then mass ignorance about the civil rights movement is it.
A right-leaning professor in the US, lol, what will Hollywood dream up next, a black klan leader?
I was taught that scientists are first and foremost skeptics and that a good scientists was most skeptical about his own ideas and motivations. From what I've seen over the last half century that is indeed how they behave as a group. Psuedo-skeptics have no need for questions about their own ideas or motivations in fact they fear them which is why they bombard their targets with "have you stopped beating your wife" type questions/accusations.