and it's being used against Google to stop them from selling phones. Yep. I agree. Apple really does not innovate. I mean, it takes quite a bit of imagination to come up with this argument.
think this is a direct effect of all the Nouveau Russ immigrants settling in London. Before you know, they'll be opening their Korova bars and London will be overran with the gangs of overdressed gangs of teenagers. We need liberally minded approaches to enforcement... The kinds which influence the mind in subtle ways... through re-purposing associations. Oh, where have I seen this movie before. And why is it that every generation thinks it's so important to ruin the fun for the generation after? Life is inherently dangerous. Prudence is learned through experience... not through sheltering. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Companies should face an audit. How about the federal government itself? It's not supposed to hire non-citizens, so it hires "consulting firms" which import programmers on H1-B visas for the sole of purpose of cutting down the salaries they can pay them. This isn't hearsay, by the way. I had a recruiters admit this to me in plain text (no hints... just plain text). He told me that he'd rather import foreign programmers at subsistence wages than hire Americans at twice the pay. All he has to do is deal with $5k of fees for H1-B visa. I would love for someone to come out and argue that "no, recruiters don't do that because it's illegal". That's kind of my point. They are doing it. Federal contractors are not required to hire citizens.... which is fine. But they are contractors in name only. The federal government doesn't follow it's own guidelines that a full time employee who both reports and is directly supervised by a full time employee cannot be deemed an outside contractor.
I think you can draw a distinction between a programmer and a software engineer. A programmer is generally much more language-minded. Whereas as software engineer is much more solution-minded. Someone who can write anything in C is a programmer. Someone who knows why he should pick one language over the other (even though a solution can be written in both languages) is a software engineer. Engineering, in people's minds, is the work of building structures. When you build complicated constructs and an obvious repeatable reproducible way in software, your work simply feels more like engineering than like programming.
Do any ethical businesses have a pressing need for high-performance computing, or is it basically a hobbyist niche?"
how is this even a technical question? The guy is trying to impose his warped sense of ethics on others and just because he is doing development his question gets posted?
He is neither an idiot nor a savant. He is a prop.... hoodie and all. He has a budget of X million a year to make himself loud and stay in the news. He may have blown that budget with instagram though. He is about as much a CEO as rappers are gangsters.
Here's where the rat is: libel/slander is a civil tort rather than a criminal charge. So any legal fact finding mechanism does not owe the defendant a presumption of innocence -- only the plausibility of innocence. Therefore, a legal bar for innocence of a skeptic of scientific consensus can, on occasion, be raised as high as "your claims have not been supported by peer review, so they slander established scientific body." In a effect, by being ambivalent on the subject of validity of peer review, the law guarantees that peer review is not seen as a requirement for public pronouncements of scientific assertions.
So I get modded "troll" for saying "reality is not running for a re-election." I wonder if that means that someone on Slashdot thought that reality was, in fact, going a good-faith effort of running for an election.
It's only a non sequitur in as much as only dichotomies are allowed to be present within this realm. If you allow a sliding scale with health suspicion on one end and conspiracy theory on the other end, then my statement holds more true than the ggp's.
Umm... how do you reconcile the fact that you say this:
when its much better for his ego to buy into a big vast conspiracy theory.
in order to defend this:
If anything, it's the opponents of science that are guilty of groupthink.
You do realize that it is those who think that scientific skepticism amounts to "opposing science" are the ones seeing conspiracy theories and not the other way around, do you not? Skepticism is part of the scientific method. This law would effectively forbid continued inquiry after any claim of consensus can be made.
I guess that means that all scientific submissions made from labs in England have to be automatically rejected. This would make any questioning of consensus a slander. Which means that all scientific skepticism would be effectively prohibited. This would not just undermine, but effectively forbid the scientific method of inquiry. No journal should give any credence to research produced under such circumstances. It might finally dethrone Nature from being the most respectable scientific publication (because it's published in England).
If Russia wants to be a partner, it has to stop acting as strategic enemy. We don't have see Canada having air defenses against a possible US invasion -- for a reason. We consider Canada a partner. Russia is ruled by an oligarchy of security forces -- not oligarchy of merchants. Until that changes, they'll keep imposing the image of the West as a security threat. This is mostly done to justify it's internal tightening of the screws to prevent shift of power from the government to business.
Fortunately, you can move when you local government goes psycho. The larger the government which you allow to go psycho, the harder it is to move to get away from it.
"...And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and ill and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you 'ave to go. But the very opposite applies to judges – so all in all, I'd rather have been a judge than a miner..." -- Monty Python
I didn't say he was wrong. I simply asked to see a report of a documented claim. Your link definitely did that. Thanks. It made for an interesting read. Certainly such fraud does hurt both borrowers, the creditors and the homeowners at large. I hope whoever committed this fraud does serve time. Doing due diligence is pretty much the S&L bankers' main job. If they not only dropped the ball on it, but actually falsified the numbers, that's no different from just plainly stealing money out of your employer's cash register.
Wrong. I made 2 assertions. I definitely proved the 1st (greed was not responsible in any way whatsoever) and dropped the ball on proving the 2nd (empathy was 100% responsible).
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Any information which is useful will be copied over (ie, remembered) or most likely rediscovered. Any information which isn't useful is clutter.
and it's being used against Google to stop them from selling phones. Yep. I agree. Apple really does not innovate. I mean, it takes quite a bit of imagination to come up with this argument.
I was talking about Mormonism, but somehow I think you knew that.
think this is a direct effect of all the Nouveau Russ immigrants settling in London. Before you know, they'll be opening their Korova bars and London will be overran with the gangs of overdressed gangs of teenagers. We need liberally minded approaches to enforcement... The kinds which influence the mind in subtle ways... through re-purposing associations. Oh, where have I seen this movie before. And why is it that every generation thinks it's so important to ruin the fun for the generation after? Life is inherently dangerous. Prudence is learned through experience... not through sheltering. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
...takes an alien to fight an alien?
Nah. Everything about Romney is made in America. Even his religion.
Companies should face an audit. How about the federal government itself? It's not supposed to hire non-citizens, so it hires "consulting firms" which import programmers on H1-B visas for the sole of purpose of cutting down the salaries they can pay them. This isn't hearsay, by the way. I had a recruiters admit this to me in plain text (no hints... just plain text). He told me that he'd rather import foreign programmers at subsistence wages than hire Americans at twice the pay. All he has to do is deal with $5k of fees for H1-B visa. I would love for someone to come out and argue that "no, recruiters don't do that because it's illegal". That's kind of my point. They are doing it. Federal contractors are not required to hire citizens.... which is fine. But they are contractors in name only. The federal government doesn't follow it's own guidelines that a full time employee who both reports and is directly supervised by a full time employee cannot be deemed an outside contractor.
I think you can draw a distinction between a programmer and a software engineer. A programmer is generally much more language-minded. Whereas as software engineer is much more solution-minded. Someone who can write anything in C is a programmer. Someone who knows why he should pick one language over the other (even though a solution can be written in both languages) is a software engineer. Engineering, in people's minds, is the work of building structures. When you build complicated constructs and an obvious repeatable reproducible way in software, your work simply feels more like engineering than like programming.
Do any ethical businesses have a pressing need for high-performance computing, or is it basically a hobbyist niche?"
how is this even a technical question? The guy is trying to impose his warped sense of ethics on others and just because he is doing development his question gets posted?
He is neither an idiot nor a savant. He is a prop.... hoodie and all. He has a budget of X million a year to make himself loud and stay in the news. He may have blown that budget with instagram though. He is about as much a CEO as rappers are gangsters.
Here's where the rat is: libel/slander is a civil tort rather than a criminal charge. So any legal fact finding mechanism does not owe the defendant a presumption of innocence -- only the plausibility of innocence. Therefore, a legal bar for innocence of a skeptic of scientific consensus can, on occasion, be raised as high as "your claims have not been supported by peer review, so they slander established scientific body." In a effect, by being ambivalent on the subject of validity of peer review, the law guarantees that peer review is not seen as a requirement for public pronouncements of scientific assertions.
I smell a rat.
So I get modded "troll" for saying "reality is not running for a re-election." I wonder if that means that someone on Slashdot thought that reality was, in fact, going a good-faith effort of running for an election.
It's only a non sequitur in as much as only dichotomies are allowed to be present within this realm. If you allow a sliding scale with health suspicion on one end and conspiracy theory on the other end, then my statement holds more true than the ggp's.
How is that not tantamount to equating peer-reviewed with factual?
when its much better for his ego to buy into a big vast conspiracy theory.
in order to defend this:
If anything, it's the opponents of science that are guilty of groupthink.
You do realize that it is those who think that scientific skepticism amounts to "opposing science" are the ones seeing conspiracy theories and not the other way around, do you not? Skepticism is part of the scientific method. This law would effectively forbid continued inquiry after any claim of consensus can be made.
I guess that means that all scientific submissions made from labs in England have to be automatically rejected. This would make any questioning of consensus a slander. Which means that all scientific skepticism would be effectively prohibited. This would not just undermine, but effectively forbid the scientific method of inquiry. No journal should give any credence to research produced under such circumstances. It might finally dethrone Nature from being the most respectable scientific publication (because it's published in England).
Citation needed.
About time the new church got the same protections as the old church. Peer-reviewed doesn't mean factual. Reality is not running for a re-election.
All algae consumes C02. So do all tree leafs. Is photosynthesis a new discovery all of a sudden?
If Russia wants to be a partner, it has to stop acting as strategic enemy. We don't have see Canada having air defenses against a possible US invasion -- for a reason. We consider Canada a partner. Russia is ruled by an oligarchy of security forces -- not oligarchy of merchants. Until that changes, they'll keep imposing the image of the West as a security threat. This is mostly done to justify it's internal tightening of the screws to prevent shift of power from the government to business.
Fortunately, you can move when you local government goes psycho. The larger the government which you allow to go psycho, the harder it is to move to get away from it.
"...And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and ill and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you 'ave to go. But the very opposite applies to judges – so all in all, I'd rather have been a judge than a miner..." -- Monty Python
I didn't say he was wrong. I simply asked to see a report of a documented claim. Your link definitely did that. Thanks. It made for an interesting read. Certainly such fraud does hurt both borrowers, the creditors and the homeowners at large. I hope whoever committed this fraud does serve time. Doing due diligence is pretty much the S&L bankers' main job. If they not only dropped the ball on it, but actually falsified the numbers, that's no different from just plainly stealing money out of your employer's cash register.
Wrong. I made 2 assertions. I definitely proved the 1st (greed was not responsible in any way whatsoever) and dropped the ball on proving the 2nd (empathy was 100% responsible).