While I generally agree with you, are you really pulling a six year old failed vice-presidential candidate out of the bag? Also, to be pedantic, it was Flavor-Ade
I have to laugh a bit about all the stories on CFLs being so horribly toxic. My Dad's always telling stories about how, when he was a kid, he and his brothers would play with mercury they borrowed from a school lab, cleaning pennies with it, etc. This is all barehanded, no gloves or anything. He's currently 78 and probably twice as smart as I am.
Man enters car, hits ignition: Car: By starting this car, do you agree to the EULA found on page 345 of the GM owners manual? press 1 to accept Man (presses 1) Car: the GM EULA has been modified on 8/9/2021 to include additional features, please press 3 now to accept and start the car Man ( presses 3) Car: welcome to the GM Rocket! You may start the car now! Man ( Presses start) Car: Hi! I'm your security Plus security system. In order to drive this car, you MUST agree to the licensing agreement found at www.securityplusnow.com/license/agreement. Press 5 to hear the agreement in full, or press 8 to agree to it now. Man: (presses 8) Car: thank you. (pause) Welcome to the additional hands free navigation system! please be aware that all hands free movement in this car are subject to the EULA which you must agree to before starting this car.... Man: (takes out death ray, shoots car) Car: Thank you for uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....
Maybe, some day, we'll have incubation centers freeing women from the need to carry the burden for months. But I'm not very optimistic, given that we are yet to solve even the much simpler problem of breast-feeding.
What is this, some sort of dystopian future? Seriously, if you're going that route, why not just eliminate children altogether and have robots.
I can only speak from my experience. In my company, there is one CEO (male, probably will be succeeded by a female SVP), there are two male SVPs, and 5 female SVPs. In the technology department, there are only three women, and ten men. The woman I directly work with , and has the same job level as me, makes slightly more than me with slightly more seniority. Unless there's some insidious "but they should make more!" thing going on, then I don't see it. Doesn't mean it's not happening, just means I don't observe it.
I will add that it's also quite common for women to go out on maternity leave for 6 months to a year. I have yet to see a male employee out when having a child for more than a few weeks. That HAS to affect pay rates/experience/ability to perform a job at some level. Not accounting for that is ignoring the elephant in the room.
I'd have to agree, "CipherShed" is just awful. TrueCrypt was an excellent name, and working off the -crypt portion is logical. Perhaps you can vary off the True prefix? or maybe "TrueCrypt II. It seems to work for movies.
Just stop it. He's dealing with Family. When you deal with family,especially older family members, you just roll with the punches. They have a limited ability to change, and a limited ability to learn completely new information. You have to realize that and work within the boundaries. Their naivety and ignorance of the system becomes a requirement, just as setting up a network onsite at a business may have requirements. I used to think my father was difficult when teaching him things on the computer. Then I tried teaching my mother how to use a tablet to look at Google street views of various places. Sweet Jesus I thought I was going to kill myself. But I sat there, smiled, and hammered away at it. Because....She's my Mother.
Every time I'm forced to anything more difficult than looking at someone's posts on facebook ( and i include actually posting in facebook in this group), using a tablet makes me want to punch my face. EVERYTHING is harder to enter on a tablet. If tablets are the future of computing, the future is a giant tablet, smacking you in the face, forever.
I once suggested, in my youth, that the United States annex Canada because it would be "neat". I was appropriately castigated for making important decisions based on silliness
Have you ever thought that, perhaps, by feeding someone less fortunate, they stopped trying to help themselves , and ended up worse off then if you'd just stopped being a hand-wringing idiot and drove your civic that you earned?
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
I eventually grew tired of debating the whole "but does it even matter". Eventually, I simply decided to do/vote whatever I think is right. Do the correct and moral thing based on my beliefs. In the long run, it may not change anything. But I've stayed true to myself, and hopefully if enough people do that, things may change.
My solution: Determine the average person's earnings over their lifetime. Take the white collar criminal's stolen earnings and compare them to the this. If they exceed it, then they have effectively stolen the equivalent of a lifetime's work. Thus, they need to pay it back, with their own life.
So, if the average person working over their life earns ( I'm making this up, I don't know what it is) 2 million dollars and the Bernie Madoff wannabe embezzled more than that, then it's a death sentence.
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While I generally agree with you, are you really pulling a six year old failed vice-presidential candidate out of the bag?
Also, to be pedantic, it was Flavor-Ade
"He who climbs on high-horse often falls and breaks face"
-me
It's their attempt to be personal.
The First US president did a fairly good job of it
I have to laugh a bit about all the stories on CFLs being so horribly toxic. My Dad's always telling stories about how, when he was a kid, he and his brothers would play with mercury they borrowed from a school lab, cleaning pennies with it, etc. This is all barehanded, no gloves or anything.
He's currently 78 and probably twice as smart as I am.
technically, swimming pools aren't as big and issue as lawns:
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
Oh god, do NOT go down this road.
Man enters car, hits ignition:
Car: By starting this car, do you agree to the EULA found on page 345 of the GM owners manual? press 1 to accept
Man (presses 1)
Car: the GM EULA has been modified on 8/9/2021 to include additional features, please press 3 now to accept and start the car
Man ( presses 3)
Car: welcome to the GM Rocket! You may start the car now!
Man ( Presses start)
Car: Hi! I'm your security Plus security system. In order to drive this car, you MUST agree to the licensing agreement found at www.securityplusnow.com/license/agreement. Press 5 to hear the agreement in full, or press 8 to agree to it now.
Man: (presses 8)
Car: thank you. (pause) Welcome to the additional hands free navigation system! please be aware that all hands free movement in this car are subject to the EULA which you must agree to before starting this car....
Man: (takes out death ray, shoots car)
Car: Thank you for uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....
"I'm sorry, but I'm illiterate".
Audio is the key. You'll notice stores don't record audio usually. Audio laws are more stringent
Maybe, some day, we'll have incubation centers freeing women from the need to carry the burden for months. But I'm not very optimistic, given that we are yet to solve even the much simpler problem of breast-feeding.
What is this, some sort of dystopian future?
Seriously, if you're going that route, why not just eliminate children altogether and have robots.
I can only speak from my experience. In my company, there is one CEO (male, probably will be succeeded by a female SVP), there are two male SVPs, and 5 female SVPs. In the technology department, there are only three women, and ten men. The woman I directly work with , and has the same job level as me, makes slightly more than me with slightly more seniority.
Unless there's some insidious "but they should make more!" thing going on, then I don't see it.
Doesn't mean it's not happening, just means I don't observe it.
I will add that it's also quite common for women to go out on maternity leave for 6 months to a year. I have yet to see a male employee out when having a child for more than a few weeks. That HAS to affect pay rates/experience/ability to perform a job at some level. Not accounting for that is ignoring the elephant in the room.
If we buy this argument, then shouldn't we simply stop making as much food, and bring the number down through mass deaths? I mean, why work so hard?
I bought a Moto X SPECIFICALLY because it was made in the US.
Great phone, BTW.
ugh.
I'd have to agree, "CipherShed" is just awful.
TrueCrypt was an excellent name, and working off the -crypt portion is logical.
Perhaps you can vary off the True prefix? or maybe "TrueCrypt II. It seems to work for movies.
Just stop it.
He's dealing with Family. When you deal with family,especially older family members, you just roll with the punches. They have a limited ability to change, and a limited ability to learn completely new information. You have to realize that and work within the boundaries. Their naivety and ignorance of the system becomes a requirement, just as setting up a network onsite at a business may have requirements.
I used to think my father was difficult when teaching him things on the computer. Then I tried teaching my mother how to use a tablet to look at Google street views of various places. Sweet Jesus I thought I was going to kill myself. But I sat there, smiled, and hammered away at it.
Because....She's my Mother.
Every time I'm forced to anything more difficult than looking at someone's posts on facebook ( and i include actually posting in facebook in this group), using a tablet makes me want to punch my face. EVERYTHING is harder to enter on a tablet.
If tablets are the future of computing, the future is a giant tablet, smacking you in the face, forever.
I once suggested, in my youth, that the United States annex Canada because it would be "neat". I was appropriately castigated for making important decisions based on silliness
Have you ever thought that, perhaps, by feeding someone less fortunate, they stopped trying to help themselves , and ended up worse off then if you'd just stopped being a hand-wringing idiot and drove your civic that you earned?
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Cue the guy who thinks a ban on all guns in workable, and in the next comment rages against the war on drugs and how it's been an abject failure.
Yeah, there's too many "eventually"'s in that...
I eventually grew tired of debating the whole "but does it even matter". Eventually, I simply decided to do/vote whatever I think is right. Do the correct and moral thing based on my beliefs. In the long run, it may not change anything. But I've stayed true to myself, and hopefully if enough people do that, things may change.
I agree, except for #4. Islam at the top religion in the US in 10 years is just silly talk. It would require MASS conversion.
My solution:
Determine the average person's earnings over their lifetime.
Take the white collar criminal's stolen earnings and compare them to the this. If they exceed it, then they have effectively stolen the equivalent of a lifetime's work. Thus, they need to pay it back, with their own life.
So, if the average person working over their life earns ( I'm making this up, I don't know what it is) 2 million dollars and the Bernie Madoff wannabe embezzled more than that, then it's a death sentence.