Sure, but I have to wonder if those scifi authors were right.
I suspect the vast majority have a powerful desire for significance. I suspect that pursuing mere hedonism leaves a person sad after a while.
Not saying that poetry, etc. are necessarily in that category. Just that on some cases, what a person imagines he'd do of not required to work, could be.
Possibility 2A) I once read a story where this led to a slow human die-of, because humans only thrive when they have meaningful work to do. And, sadly, I now realize the Matrix movies used that same idea.
I can only speak for my local schools, but the school board tends to be pretty responsive. A pissed-off parent with a reasonable point often gets change, and always has the board members reaching for their Tylenol*.
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So how big are you going to draw that circle? You're perhaps a U.S. citizen, who hasn't lead an armed revolution against the NSA. Are you and the head of the NSA equally culpable? If so, does that mean your hatred for yourself matches your hatred for Janet Neapolitano?
Or are you assuming that the U.S. government is such a small organization that someone who works in the DoD has even the slightest more ability to disrupt the NSA's spying program than you as a (I assume) citizen do?
No, they'd only think they had, because after years of equal-opportunity feel-good hiring, the organization's average IQ has dropped considerably from the 1960's.
The point I was trying to make was that the GP referred to "the government", almost as though it were a monolithic entity.
When civil servants in the DoD break the law, it usually involves stuff like accepting bribes for contract steering, timecard fraud, etc. And most of the civil servants in the DoD didn't do that stuff. It's annoying, and they definitely deserve some jail time, but it's kind of a normal part of life that's to be expected.
When civil servants in the NSA or CIA to bad stuff, it can (and has) involved spying on all Americans, kidnapping, and torture. My point is that I think we should treat NSA/CIA criminals as probably more dangerous to our country than most DoD wrongdoing.
I hate people who use char * instead of void * for things like generic buffer handling (e.g. myread()).
Wow, your judgment of a person is contingent on a surprisingly small detail!
Just kidding. It bugs me too. The problem is that programmers aren't always great about differentiating between different levels of abstraction. I.e., calling something "binary data" in contrast to something else. It's all binary data. The question is whether or not you know how to interpret it at a level any higher than "a sequence of bits".
As someone who used to work for the U.S. government, I can say that not everyone there is pure evil. I worked in the DoD, and it was more or less a normal workplace. If anything we were more sticklers for obeying the law there then we were anywhere else I've worked. Maybe because the lack of profit pressure removed one possible temptation to break the law.
According to the recent human brain study, facts do not matter. So no wonder people still believe in things like Windows (or open-source) safety and security...
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Regardless of the truth of your statement, stating that religion A is better than religion B on this site is normally considered trolling.
Meh, given my feelings about the direction Ubuntu's desktop environment has taken over the past few years, I was already not paying attention.
I'll be somewhat more interested when the Linux Mint derivative of Ubuntu 13.10 comes out.
The English translation of the German magazine, Der Spiegel.
I wouldn't sweat it - there's a lot of Unix shops around. I assume you can grow a beard?
Sure, but I have to wonder if those scifi authors were right.
I suspect the vast majority have a powerful desire for significance. I suspect that pursuing mere hedonism leaves a person sad after a while.
Not saying that poetry, etc. are necessarily in that category. Just that on some cases, what a person imagines he'd do of not required to work, could be.
Possibility 2A) I once read a story where this led to a slow human die-of, because humans only thrive when they have meaningful work to do. And, sadly, I now realize the Matrix movies used that same idea.
We the People don't need clear guidance. The Government does.
Yes. And, woosh.
I wept bitter tears at your post.
Not their fault. They had to pass the legislation before they could know what was in it.
"Don't judge a philosophy by those who misapply it."
I'm sure that's a quote, but of whom I don't know.
What's the relationship between (a) wiretap laws, and (b) the reasonable expectation of privacy?
Because if the NSA didn't need a court order to obtain my emails from Google, do the same factors imply Google had a right to scan those same emails?
Or are different legal issues at play in those two cases?
So if I'm a company listed on the NASDAQ, do I get bump in my stock price for being in the NSA's "circle of trust"?
And if so, what incentives does that give to the NSA, to companies, and to traders?
I can only speak for my local schools, but the school board tends to be pretty responsive. A pissed-off parent with a reasonable point often gets change, and always has the board members reaching for their Tylenol*.
* This posting is not endorsed by the Tylenol corporation, which makes no representation as to the accuracy of this post. All reading, discussion, and thought about Tylenol products which may be offensive to anyone or which breaches Tylenol's internal trade-secret free-speech-zone guidelines is strictly prohibited. Copyright 1984, all rights reserved.
Given George Lucas's history, Zork's going to involve ring-shaped explosion wavefronts.
Oh, and the Grue will have turned out the lights first.
Is there any company which you'd find acceptable at the top?
So how big are you going to draw that circle? You're perhaps a U.S. citizen, who hasn't lead an armed revolution against the NSA. Are you and the head of the NSA equally culpable? If so, does that mean your hatred for yourself matches your hatred for Janet Neapolitano?
Or are you assuming that the U.S. government is such a small organization that someone who works in the DoD has even the slightest more ability to disrupt the NSA's spying program than you as a (I assume) citizen do?
No, they'd only think they had, because after years of equal-opportunity feel-good hiring, the organization's average IQ has dropped considerably from the 1960's.
I think you make fair points.
The point I was trying to make was that the GP referred to "the government", almost as though it were a monolithic entity.
When civil servants in the DoD break the law, it usually involves stuff like accepting bribes for contract steering, timecard fraud, etc. And most of the civil servants in the DoD didn't do that stuff. It's annoying, and they definitely deserve some jail time, but it's kind of a normal part of life that's to be expected.
When civil servants in the NSA or CIA to bad stuff, it can (and has) involved spying on all Americans, kidnapping, and torture. My point is that I think we should treat NSA/CIA criminals as probably more dangerous to our country than most DoD wrongdoing.
Touché. Excuse me while I go knock over a liquor store.
I hate people who use char * instead of void * for things like generic buffer handling (e.g. myread()).
Wow, your judgment of a person is contingent on a surprisingly small detail!
Just kidding. It bugs me too. The problem is that programmers aren't always great about differentiating between different levels of abstraction. I.e., calling something "binary data" in contrast to something else. It's all binary data. The question is whether or not you know how to interpret it at a level any higher than "a sequence of bits".
As someone who used to work for the U.S. government, I can say that not everyone there is pure evil. I worked in the DoD, and it was more or less a normal workplace. If anything we were more sticklers for obeying the law there then we were anywhere else I've worked. Maybe because the lack of profit pressure removed one possible temptation to break the law.
According to the recent human brain study, facts do not matter. So no wonder people still believe in things like Windows (or open-source) safety and security...
Then why are you presenting a fact?
It's amazing what can be automated.