The Berlin wall became an economic divide and some wanted it to stay that way. Although all the politicians said it was a good thing after it came down, the US and many EU countries (such as UK and France), were actively lobbying the two germanys to keep it up.
"What they should have told him at that point was that he was on his own to figure out the problem"
Yes. However I still can't see why someone would want the passwords, customer extracted logs and configs are usually more than enough to work out the problem. Being a developer also means being third level (ie: last chance) support. In 20yrs I cannot think of anyone who needed to ask a corporate customer for access to thier production servers to sort out a software problem. Mind you, that level of support is probably too expensive for a simple hosting set up. Not to mention the owner of the site will often have developed it, so in essence he is his own third level support.
"and yes it's true, as an employer, I have two equal candidates, and one of them show up on a list like this, guess what? I'm not going to hire that person"
It cuts both ways. If you're that unreasonable that 40yrs worth of clean record counts for nought, guess what? - I don't want you as my boss.
40yrs is probably hyperbole but yes, you're track record is visable to people who have to place trust in you. A resonable person would see the 40yrs worth of clean record and conclude you had learnt your lesson, thus you are at least teachable.
The US paid $1000 for David Hicks. In a way Hicks was lucky because the Northern Alliance were using the invasion as an excuse to massacre any forigeners they came across. Note that both the US and Australia could not find any law that Hicks's had broken, in the end they just made up a new law and applied it retrospectively.
Little bit of a seniors moment there, the campaing started 20yrs ago (maybe the booze buses started a bit earlier?). Anyway, just found their 20th anniversary montage of some of their ads. Drunk or not they leave a powerfull impression.
"Innocent until proven guilty" goes all the way back to the dark ages when it replaced trial by fire in England. This system is a modern day trail by fire and would offically put Texas back to the dark ages when it comes to the rights of the accused.
However I think shaming is a reasonable but insufficient punishment for those convicted, and it is definitely an effective deterent for others. A consistent campagin by the state of Victoria, (Australia) to make drink driving socially unacceptable has dramatically cut the road toll over the past 30yrs. DUI is no longer seen as a "bad decison" as it was when I learnt to drive in the 70's, it's seen as a selfish and reckless act that is worthy of jail time.
There's are few Aussie's alive who have never seen the award winning bloddy idiot ads. These ads combined with "booze buses" were so effective that in the first few years of the campaing the TAC saved several billion in injury payouts. Yeah I know, it's "social engineering", but it's the good kind that fills young heads with images of reality. Of course Aussies being what they are the slogan quickly became; "If you dink and drive you're a bloody idiot, if you make it home you're a bloody ledgend".
PS: from your link; "He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer". This is just pure comedy gold. Lindzen is a journalist in the WSJ, Fred Singer runs the lobby group called the Heartland Institute and is an ex-tabacoo "scientist".
Maybe not but someone did. I have no idea who Strong is or wether he is hell bent on world domination, none of it changes the clear scientific conclusion that we a fucking up the climate on a grand scale.
"Thank you for demonstrating how the AGW alarmists typically respond to critics"
Critics sort things out by peer-review, hecklers throw red-herrings and scream abuse from websites and editorials.
Seems to be a prevelant myth that rare earths are in fact rare. The other one I keep hearing is we're running out of nobium which is used in the magnets of wind turbines. I assume it's used in most turbines, but hey windmills are new so they must use new magic. I haven't paid enough attention to it to figure out if it's anti-AGW FUD or plain old stock pumping.
"Unionized, government street sweepers won't stand for mechanical sweepers that take their jobs."
Belive me the guy driving a street sweeper would defenitely prefer to be designing them.
The industrial revolution's success is based on the premise that automation allows society to progress. OTOH, it's basic failure is the current tradgedy of the commons. At fifty I have lost several jobs due to technology/social changes but I've made a good living from changing things with technology, and however small it may be I am changing society with this post.
The last time I was on a factory floor was the 80's, which in itself was quite a step up the food chain from a twenty-something "trailer park" day labourer with a wife and a kid. I recall reading at the time that the UK "metal workers(?)" union after months of fruitless negotiating had put a work ban on qualified fitters and turners performing any task that took less than X minutes to cycle (such as the metal press I was working in Australia). Their rationale was that any task that was that repetitive could be performed using a "one of a kind machine" by the same fitters and turners. This kind of thinking used to be called progressive, regardless of who it comes from.
Unions, Government and Big business (UGB) are all nessacary evils unless you can find somewhere to chase furry things with a stick and not be noticed, although don't expect to live much past your next severe tooth/throat/lung infection. When two or more of the "tribes" in UGB start swinging at each other the little guy is invariably trodden on in all the commotion. Yet like the abusive "parents" that they are, they will all tell you they love you dearly, it's the other parent who want's to, as Bill Cosby would once put it; "shoot you in the face with a bazzoka".
"This is where the problems begin. Like a fragile naked human pyramid, we are simultaneously supporting and resenting each other. We bitch out loud about our soul-sucking job as an anonymous face on an assembly line, while at the exact same time riding in a car that only an assembly line could have produced. It's a constant contradiction that has left us pissed off and joining informal wrestling clubs in basements." - David Wong, "The Monkeyshere".
My point was that germs (and, well, animals in general) do it for survival.
Humans do it for sheer domination.
Yes, domination of resources and territory that allow the individual and his tribe to prosper. Groups of humans work with each other to out survive other groups of humans working with each other, just like any other animal. This behavioural pattern (instinct) to form competing tribes is found everywhere in nature from bacterial colonies to moon landings. The instinct "just is", it is neither good nor evil as it's responsible for bullets from an enemy, bandages from a friend and, no condoms from the pope's tribe.
IMHO the most remarkable thing about modern homo-sapiens is that an individual can belong to multiple tribes simultaneously. To my mind this very recent evolutional trait is what makes us unique.
"This being News for Nerds I assumed you would too. Sorry....[snip]...Actual cases are, of course, difficult to cite because they are by their nature disputed."
I asked for evidence, not insults. So please take the stick out of your arse.
Yes, this is how it works in Australia, I assumed the same was true for the UK since these things are based on common law. However this article posted by "canadian right" below seems to indicate the truth of a statement is not a bullet proof defense in the UK (either that or the Judge's brother-in-law is a Chiropractor).
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The Berlin wall became an economic divide and some wanted it to stay that way. Although all the politicians said it was a good thing after it came down, the US and many EU countries (such as UK and France), were actively lobbying the two germanys to keep it up.
"What they should have told him at that point was that he was on his own to figure out the problem"
Yes. However I still can't see why someone would want the passwords, customer extracted logs and configs are usually more than enough to work out the problem. Being a developer also means being third level (ie: last chance) support. In 20yrs I cannot think of anyone who needed to ask a corporate customer for access to thier production servers to sort out a software problem. Mind you, that level of support is probably too expensive for a simple hosting set up. Not to mention the owner of the site will often have developed it, so in essence he is his own third level support.
"and yes it's true, as an employer, I have two equal candidates, and one of them show up on a list like this, guess what? I'm not going to hire that person"
It cuts both ways. If you're that unreasonable that 40yrs worth of clean record counts for nought, guess what? - I don't want you as my boss.
40yrs is probably hyperbole but yes, you're track record is visable to people who have to place trust in you. A resonable person would see the 40yrs worth of clean record and conclude you had learnt your lesson, thus you are at least teachable.
Bullshit relativism. A freedom fighter doesn't target civilians.
So, your dog doesn't bite?
The US paid $1000 for David Hicks. In a way Hicks was lucky because the Northern Alliance were using the invasion as an excuse to massacre any forigeners they came across. Note that both the US and Australia could not find any law that Hicks's had broken, in the end they just made up a new law and applied it retrospectively.
There is more to the art of skepticisim than typing the sounds you hear.
Let me rephrse that, to make commercial electricity from any turbine you need good magnets.
I don't know why the AC was modded troll, I like Gore more than most but that was fucking hillarious.
"cut the road toll over the past 30yrs"
Little bit of a seniors moment there, the campaing started 20yrs ago (maybe the booze buses started a bit earlier?). Anyway, just found their 20th anniversary montage of some of their ads. Drunk or not they leave a powerfull impression.
"Innocent until proven guilty" goes all the way back to the dark ages when it replaced trial by fire in England. This system is a modern day trail by fire and would offically put Texas back to the dark ages when it comes to the rights of the accused.
However I think shaming is a reasonable but insufficient punishment for those convicted, and it is definitely an effective deterent for others. A consistent campagin by the state of Victoria, (Australia) to make drink driving socially unacceptable has dramatically cut the road toll over the past 30yrs. DUI is no longer seen as a "bad decison" as it was when I learnt to drive in the 70's, it's seen as a selfish and reckless act that is worthy of jail time.
There's are few Aussie's alive who have never seen the award winning bloddy idiot ads. These ads combined with "booze buses" were so effective that in the first few years of the campaing the TAC saved several billion in injury payouts. Yeah I know, it's "social engineering", but it's the good kind that fills young heads with images of reality. Of course Aussies being what they are the slogan quickly became; "If you dink and drive you're a bloody idiot, if you make it home you're a bloody ledgend".
There is supposed to be a difference between being charged and being convicted.
"NORAD's been putting out .kml files since 1958?"
Yes, but Al Gore's minions are hiding the data and now millions in the US are going to have their god given fairy tales taken away from them.
Opps, cut of the funny part of the quote; "...Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world's most distinguished climate scientists"
PS: from your link; "He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer". This is just pure comedy gold. Lindzen is a journalist in the WSJ, Fred Singer runs the lobby group called the Heartland Institute and is an ex-tabacoo "scientist".
"You can't make this stuff up"
Maybe not but someone did. I have no idea who Strong is or wether he is hell bent on world domination, none of it changes the clear scientific conclusion that we a fucking up the climate on a grand scale.
"Thank you for demonstrating how the AGW alarmists typically respond to critics"
Critics sort things out by peer-review, hecklers throw red-herrings and scream abuse from websites and editorials.
Seems to be a prevelant myth that rare earths are in fact rare. The other one I keep hearing is we're running out of nobium which is used in the magnets of wind turbines. I assume it's used in most turbines, but hey windmills are new so they must use new magic. I haven't paid enough attention to it to figure out if it's anti-AGW FUD or plain old stock pumping.
While reading your reply the term "parinoid lunatic" came to mind.
"Unionized, government street sweepers won't stand for mechanical sweepers that take their jobs."
Belive me the guy driving a street sweeper would defenitely prefer to be designing them.
The industrial revolution's success is based on the premise that automation allows society to progress. OTOH, it's basic failure is the current tradgedy of the commons. At fifty I have lost several jobs due to technology/social changes but I've made a good living from changing things with technology, and however small it may be I am changing society with this post.
The last time I was on a factory floor was the 80's, which in itself was quite a step up the food chain from a twenty-something "trailer park" day labourer with a wife and a kid. I recall reading at the time that the UK "metal workers(?)" union after months of fruitless negotiating had put a work ban on qualified fitters and turners performing any task that took less than X minutes to cycle (such as the metal press I was working in Australia). Their rationale was that any task that was that repetitive could be performed using a "one of a kind machine" by the same fitters and turners. This kind of thinking used to be called progressive, regardless of who it comes from.
Unions, Government and Big business (UGB) are all nessacary evils unless you can find somewhere to chase furry things with a stick and not be noticed, although don't expect to live much past your next severe tooth/throat/lung infection. When two or more of the "tribes" in UGB start swinging at each other the little guy is invariably trodden on in all the commotion. Yet like the abusive "parents" that they are, they will all tell you they love you dearly, it's the other parent who want's to, as Bill Cosby would once put it; "shoot you in the face with a bazzoka".
"This is where the problems begin. Like a fragile naked human pyramid, we are simultaneously supporting and resenting each other. We bitch out loud about our soul-sucking job as an anonymous face on an assembly line, while at the exact same time riding in a car that only an assembly line could have produced. It's a constant contradiction that has left us pissed off and joining informal wrestling clubs in basements." - David Wong, "The Monkeyshere".
s evolutional/evolutionary.
My point was that germs (and, well, animals in general) do it for survival.
Humans do it for sheer domination.
Yes, domination of resources and territory that allow the individual and his tribe to prosper. Groups of humans work with each other to out survive other groups of humans working with each other, just like any other animal. This behavioural pattern (instinct) to form competing tribes is found everywhere in nature from bacterial colonies to moon landings. The instinct "just is", it is neither good nor evil as it's responsible for bullets from an enemy, bandages from a friend and, no condoms from the pope's tribe.
IMHO the most remarkable thing about modern homo-sapiens is that an individual can belong to multiple tribes simultaneously. To my mind this very recent evolutional trait is what makes us unique.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it. :)
"This being News for Nerds I assumed you would too. Sorry....[snip]...Actual cases are, of course, difficult to cite because they are by their nature disputed."
I asked for evidence, not insults. So please take the stick out of your arse.
Yes, this is how it works in Australia, I assumed the same was true for the UK since these things are based on common law. However this article posted by "canadian right" below seems to indicate the truth of a statement is not a bullet proof defense in the UK (either that or the Judge's brother-in-law is a Chiropractor).
You can certainly call a prostitute a whore in Australia and unless you can prove otherwise I belive the same is true in the UK.