A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress were called in to discuss Iraq sometime before the October 2002 vote authorizing Bush to move forward. A Republican senator recently told Time Magazine that the president walked in and said: "Look, I want your vote. I'm not going to debate it with you." When one of the senators began to ask a question, Bush snapped, "Look, I'm not going to debate it with you."
"An employee suggested to me that we use this encoding scheme for a few offices here as an evaluation. [...] I made the employee remove the Morse Code from the radios and lets just say he's not with us anymore."
You kicked an employee out because an evaluation that he suggested didn't work out? That is, pardon my French, completely fucked. The whole reason you do evaluations is so that you don't end up in a position where new products put people's job on the line.
Apart from anything else, from now on if an employee suddenly discovers a wireless protocol that at a stroke will double productivity, halve costs and save small kittens from drowning, do you think they're going to tell you about it? No, they're going to hide behind conformity, in the hope that that way they'll keep their jobs.
Congrats, you've singlehandedly halted improvement of your company's network infrastructure. I'm sure it'll mean far less trouble for you, right up to the point where an innovative competitor buys you up and fires everyone.
<kritical> matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph <matts> kritical: um no... <kritical> matts: um yes <kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph <kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph
"An employee suggested to me that we use this power supply for a few offices here as an evaluation. [...] I made the employee remove the Hiper from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore."
You kicked an employee out because an evaluation that he suggested didn't work out? That is, pardon my French, completely fucked. The whole reason you do evaluations is so that you don't end up in a position where new products put people's job on the line.
Apart from anything else, from now on if an employee suddenly discovers a product that at a stroke will double productivity, halve costs and save small kittens from drowning, do you think they're going to tell you about it? No, they're going to hide behind conformity, in the hope that that way they'll keep their jobs.
Congrats, you've singlehandedly halted improvement of your company's computing infrastructure. I'm sure it'll mean far less trouble for you, right up to the point where an innovative competitor buys you up and fires everyone.
Gullible hacks are all over this 'blogger' gibberish because somebody somewhere thinks it's a hot new word.
It isn't - it's silly and it rolls off your tongue wrong, like "Pog" - but that hasn't stopped anyone.
In fact, it's gotten so bad that I was reading Time magazine today and saw a totally serious sidebar on this hip new phenomenon, "Blogebrity". This is a nonsense Contagiousmedia hoax, and I'm surprised the editors let it slip through. (Or I wonder how much they got paid.) At any rate, Time's sloppy standards there exemplify the cultural phenomenon where anything that says 'blog' and sounds trendy is brilliant and worth supporting.
This just came up in another Slashdot thread, where I learned all about King Canute.
Apparently poor, lower-class people who think they're oppressed have heard the version where Canute was arrogant. By contrast, the enlightened people all know the story as it was originally told, where Canute wanted to prove to his fawning blockhead vassals that he was just this guy, you know?
1) Update Firefox (reinstall) 2) Run updated version of Firefox happily! 3) Close Firefox 4) Reopen Firefox - wait! It's hung apparently in the middle of loading extensions! 5) Delete all extensions from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Profiles\gibberish.default\exten sions 6) Reopen Firefox - yay! it works! 7) Reinstall all extensions from [currently swamped and apparently insecure] update.mozilla.org 8) Wait a few months for next update; rinse; repeat.
I'm sure it has to do with a broken extension, but I'll be buggered if I can figure out which. Oh well! It beats the competition!
I've read the article rather carefully. Thanks for asking. A key quotation to ponder is:
This applies also to the polity, the citizens at large. Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those whoflagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.
The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail. The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community in the polity's ability to provide rules for safe, stable, dependable marriage and family relationships.
Note that Card isn't just concerned with Church law here. He wants the government to actively legislate against people his church doesn't tolerate.
Moreover, I've been in Salt Lake City at the tail end of the Gay Mormon Pride festival (it was awesome). Card's hard-line conservative moral stance is hardly one held by his church, and it's not very nice to have those views (though I can see why a zealot would.)
I've always felt like Card is an outsider to the science fiction world. Nowhere was this more clear than reading the introduction to his collection of short stories Flux - he relates his entry into the community and his writing for a Mormon audience lucidly, and it reveals a lot about his attraction to the genre.
Some people seem to me like they're just living in a different world from everyone else. This isn't a good or a bad thing; they're very remarkable people, but they just don't share the same existence as the rest of us. A loose friend (whom I haven't seen in years) is a bit of a pyromaniac, a megalomaniac with moderately serious plans of world domination, and a significantly above-average intelligence. I don't actually expect him to conquer the world, but he sees it in a way that most other people don't. It's hard to express but easy to see.
Card is one of these people, too; reading his work, I can feel the alien nature of his message, his plots, and his characterization. It's very much the intangible sense you get from a zealot - the absolute dedication to a worldview which is almost, but not quite, completely unlike your own. In many cases, this adds a great deal to his fiction, but it's also uncomfortable to realize just how distant his strict Mormon perspective is.
I can't find the link (or the title) now, but Card's approach to the science fiction field reminds me in some subtle way of a sf story about a brilliant molecular geneticist who engineered a virus that would promote his religion's idea of chastity but didn't have quite enoug foresight to predict all its effects. (Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's fairly well-known.)
All qualitative things aside, Card's open assertions (cf. that 1990 article, or the one you linked) that the government should legislate against homosexual people are downright scary. I'm glad that he's a writer and not a politician. (But there are plenty of politicians in Utah, and who knows how much influence there is in Card's stories - especially the ones he produces and performs only for Mormon audiences?)
(It's amusing that although Card hates what gay people do, according to the introduction to Flux, his first calling was as a playwright.)
You should take a look at Jonathan Littmann's "The Fugitive Game" - along with being a reasonably entertaining story about the pursuit of Mitnick, it also addresses many of the borderline-libellous claims Markoff made in explicit detail.
Of course it's been nearly a decade since I read the book, and almost as long since I've been naive enough to care - but if you're interested in journalistic integrity, and make sure to critically examine the work, you should check it out.
To think that Spanish speakers couldn't distinguish between "no va" and "nova" is like asserting that Americans can't tell the difference between a "notable" kitchen and one with no table.
Well, you know, the sun is a mass of incandescent gas - a gigantic nuclear furnace - where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
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He gave them the blood of convalescant Ebola patients, and 87.5 of them survived.
Should I ask what happened to that last half there?
The best feature of old Slashdot layout is Taco's note next to the "post your comment!" box:
"If you don't have anything worthwhile to say, don't say it. If people continue to abuse this feature, I will have to remove it."
"An employee suggested to me that we use this encoding scheme for a few offices here as an evaluation. [...] I made the employee remove the Morse Code from the radios and lets just say he's not with us anymore."
You kicked an employee out because an evaluation that he suggested didn't work out? That is, pardon my French, completely fucked. The whole reason you do evaluations is so that you don't end up in a position where new products put people's job on the line.
Apart from anything else, from now on if an employee suddenly discovers a wireless protocol that at a stroke will double productivity, halve costs and save small kittens from drowning, do you think they're going to tell you about it? No, they're going to hide behind conformity, in the hope that that way they'll keep their jobs.
Congrats, you've singlehandedly halted improvement of your company's network infrastructure. I'm sure it'll mean far less trouble for you, right up to the point where an innovative competitor buys you up and fires everyone.
http://bash.org/?1988
<kritical> matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph
<matts> kritical: um no...
<kritical> matts: um yes
<kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph
<kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph
"An employee suggested to me that we use this power supply for a few offices here as an evaluation. [...] I made the employee remove the Hiper from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore."
You kicked an employee out because an evaluation that he suggested didn't work out? That is, pardon my French, completely fucked. The whole reason you do evaluations is so that you don't end up in a position where new products put people's job on the line.
Apart from anything else, from now on if an employee suddenly discovers a product that at a stroke will double productivity, halve costs and save small kittens from drowning, do you think they're going to tell you about it? No, they're going to hide behind conformity, in the hope that that way they'll keep their jobs.
Congrats, you've singlehandedly halted improvement of your company's computing infrastructure. I'm sure it'll mean far less trouble for you, right up to the point where an innovative competitor buys you up and fires everyone.
Gullible hacks are all over this 'blogger' gibberish because somebody somewhere thinks it's a hot new word.
It isn't - it's silly and it rolls off your tongue wrong, like "Pog" - but that hasn't stopped anyone.
In fact, it's gotten so bad that I was reading Time magazine today and saw a totally serious sidebar on this hip new phenomenon, "Blogebrity". This is a nonsense Contagiousmedia hoax, and I'm surprised the editors let it slip through. (Or I wonder how much they got paid.) At any rate, Time's sloppy standards there exemplify the cultural phenomenon where anything that says 'blog' and sounds trendy is brilliant and worth supporting.
Yikes.
This just came up in another Slashdot thread, where I learned all about King Canute.
/. post about that.
Apparently poor, lower-class people who think they're oppressed have heard the version where Canute was arrogant. By contrast, the enlightened people all know the story as it was originally told, where Canute wanted to prove to his fawning blockhead vassals that he was just this guy, you know?
Wish I could find the
(And not just for the 14-17 year old British girls).
I wonder if they'd like my entry "GPL Wars: Revenge of the Linksyth".
"Anakin, don't use that code! It's a trap!"
I'm getting really tired of this cycle:
n sions
1) Update Firefox (reinstall)
2) Run updated version of Firefox happily!
3) Close Firefox
4) Reopen Firefox - wait! It's hung apparently in the middle of loading extensions!
5) Delete all extensions from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Profiles\gibberish.default\exte
6) Reopen Firefox - yay! it works!
7) Reinstall all extensions from [currently swamped and apparently insecure] update.mozilla.org
8) Wait a few months for next update; rinse; repeat.
I'm sure it has to do with a broken extension, but I'll be buggered if I can figure out which. Oh well! It beats the competition!
President Bush must be pretty intellectually dishonest, then.
Note that Card isn't just concerned with Church law here. He wants the government to actively legislate against people his church doesn't tolerate.
Moreover, I've been in Salt Lake City at the tail end of the Gay Mormon Pride festival (it was awesome). Card's hard-line conservative moral stance is hardly one held by his church, and it's not very nice to have those views (though I can see why a zealot would.)
I've always felt like Card is an outsider to the science fiction world. Nowhere was this more clear than reading the introduction to his collection of short stories Flux - he relates his entry into the community and his writing for a Mormon audience lucidly, and it reveals a lot about his attraction to the genre.
Some people seem to me like they're just living in a different world from everyone else. This isn't a good or a bad thing; they're very remarkable people, but they just don't share the same existence as the rest of us. A loose friend (whom I haven't seen in years) is a bit of a pyromaniac, a megalomaniac with moderately serious plans of world domination, and a significantly above-average intelligence. I don't actually expect him to conquer the world, but he sees it in a way that most other people don't. It's hard to express but easy to see.
Card is one of these people, too; reading his work, I can feel the alien nature of his message, his plots, and his characterization. It's very much the intangible sense you get from a zealot - the absolute dedication to a worldview which is almost, but not quite, completely unlike your own. In many cases, this adds a great deal to his fiction, but it's also uncomfortable to realize just how distant his strict Mormon perspective is.
I can't find the link (or the title) now, but Card's approach to the science fiction field reminds me in some subtle way of a sf story about a brilliant molecular geneticist who engineered a virus that would promote his religion's idea of chastity but didn't have quite enoug foresight to predict all its effects. (Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's fairly well-known.)
All qualitative things aside, Card's open assertions (cf. that 1990 article, or the one you linked) that the government should legislate against homosexual people are downright scary. I'm glad that he's a writer and not a politician. (But there are plenty of politicians in Utah, and who knows how much influence there is in Card's stories - especially the ones he produces and performs only for Mormon audiences?)
(It's amusing that although Card hates what gay people do, according to the introduction to Flux, his first calling was as a playwright.)
You should take a look at Jonathan Littmann's "The Fugitive Game" - along with being a reasonably entertaining story about the pursuit of Mitnick, it also addresses many of the borderline-libellous claims Markoff made in explicit detail.
Of course it's been nearly a decade since I read the book, and almost as long since I've been naive enough to care - but if you're interested in journalistic integrity, and make sure to critically examine the work, you should check it out.
Lofar: Stella? STELLA!!!
The reason people think you're an idiot is that the posted links actually neither pointed to goatse nor tubgirl.
HTH HAND.
Apple: proudly failing to capitalize first letters since iMac
Your anecdote strikes his anecdote for 3d5 damage.
Anecdote victory! You gain three XP.
You leveled up! Your gains are: 2 'made that up off the top of my head's, 3 'abject nonsense', and 2 practices.
will their encyclopedia be digitally signed?
I don't know how I can trust it otherwise.
Call your product "Nova" in English to sound high tech and Spanish speakers will read this as "doesn't go"
That's an urban legend that makes me sad to hear.
To think that Spanish speakers couldn't distinguish between "no va" and "nova" is like asserting that Americans can't tell the difference between a "notable" kitchen and one with no table.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
On the topic of credit card signatures:
I like Shamu.
(Spoiler: Circuit City gets it right at the end)
Somebody please explain [why this article is on Slashdot to] me....
Well, Taco's got to pay the bills...
Well, you know, the sun is a mass of incandescent gas - a gigantic nuclear furnace - where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
I'm not sure this fits in with our War on Terra.