So we should cause cheerleaders to date nerds, and football players fangirls? Maybe no one who can name all eleven doctors should be allowed to marry at all, but rather should be put full time to impregnating Olympic athletes?
I like the idea that Aspergers is associated directly with intelligence. I also like the whorish way that the paper's author plays with the concept of eugenics to get more hits.
I also like the way that the author tries to ignore environmental conditions such as increased urbanization and subsequent hyper-socialization.
Exactly. Is the use of the word religion rather than culture done to gain interest in the article or is it the best use of the word?
Or to put it better, do people of different religions have different cultures, even though they might live in a geographically contiguous area? Does the east coast Jew and the east coast Anglican belong to different cultures?
So if a teacher came out in favor of creationism, a radical form, let's say one that proclaimed blacks, asians, and all other non-whites as descendants of evil evil Cain, would it be possible to sue that teacher?
Clearly and obviously Adam and Eve never existed and this should be taught to any young person as truth is always preferable to falsehoods, but what about someone promoting a falsehood?
Thank you so much. That is the funniest thing I have seen all week, maybe all year. Oh man, that is absolutely hilarious. Brilliant, thank you for sharing.
'Cause I think we could use privateers in space. Arrrr. With me letters of reprisals and letters of marque, I shall cruise the interstellar shipping routes of my nation's enemies in search of plundar.
If you regularily get rid of 10% of the towns people due to gunfights, you'll get rid of 10% of the mobsters too - just by chance.
Arguments like this assume that people are bad. Most firearm civil liberty proponents support the opposite opinion. Most people are good. The vast vast majority of people are good. They do not go around shooting people on the street for no reason. If a town had 10% killed due to gun fights (a ridiculous stupid figure), it would be near 100% of the bad people who were shot by good people defending themselves and their neighbors.
For example, look at the Coffeyville Bank Robbery and the Jesse James Northfield Bank Robbery. When the citizenry is armed and responsible for their own security, they will defend their town and drive out the bad people.
No one over there cares. Last time I was over there, I had the opportunity to eat at Harry Potter Burger. (I did not, but could have.) Everyone knew it was fake, but did not care. There is a long established history in China of taking someone's intellectual property and bastardizing it. For example, the last 40 chapters of Dreams of Red Mansions.
To the Mandarin mind, if it is not government work, it is just a way to make money and not terribly important. The fake Apple Stores are a minor embarrassment, but that is all. That is just how the culture works.
Northern Han emigree? Let's see. Chauvinism? Check. An inability to accept even indirect cultural criticism? Check. A willingness to whine about racism? Check. An inability to articulate a contrary thought without reducing it to violence or swearing? Check.
What exactly is racist about cultural understanding?
It is stupidly PC (or even post-modernist) to ignore the way that culture drives decisions. Of course some people do things different than others for difference reasons. And cultural diversity extends beyond food. In fact, it extends to (gasp) culture.
And seeing as how I have an entire family who are from that region, perhaps you'd like to reconsider your statement. Unless I'm self-hating. Oh, that must be it. Please excuse me while I head out to cut my throat. Or maybe you'd like me to commit Harry Carey. Ah 1, Ah 2, Ah 3! Fhnu, you're a Pan Asian buffoon.
You've never spent any time with northern Han, have you? There are some seriously paranoid, screwloose individuals there. With the amount of effort they spent on the Olympics, they would feel required to monitor Olympic Committee activity for years to come.
Most other attacks are accompanied by Internet chatter. A business should not be surprised if it is hit by lulzsec or another social group attack. Typically, there are warning signs, and large businesses pay a good deal of money to be forewarned about such attacks. But a wide attack like this.... If there was no warning, chances are it was the Chinese.
Perhaps people need to start realizing what an authoritarian, reclusive, and paranoid regime can do to the world. After all, look at the damage the US has done under Bush and Obama.
Not that I know anyone working at the NSA, but it isn't exactly a geek paradise.
Most geeks that I know are none too fond of rules. This is exactly the opposite of what the NSA is about. There are many rules stemming from security. Of course, all rules get extended beyond their original purpose. This makes it difficult to get any work done, which of course is the antithesis of geek.
There is not enough energy potential in solar power nor in wind / hydro-electric to match the energy potential from nuclear power and fossil fuels. As fossil fuels become more expensive, nuclear power will be the world's only option. Gates is right on this issue because physics dictates his correctness. No matter how much people may wish it, you cannot legislate past physical laws.
Show me a/.er that likes TSA, and I'll show you someone who doesn't belong here.
Distrust of government is associated with competence, technical or otherwise. And most of the folks on/. are people who are competent. Competent and or self-reliant people do not feel the need for government to protect them from themselves or imaginary threats. The competent person is capable of feeding and housing himself. He is capable of defending himself as well, when given the opportunity (not disarmed).
TSA is obviously abusing the 4th Amendment, morality, and good plain sense. TSA (and DoHS) is bad government. TSA needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the airports. DoHS needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the Treasury Department.
Exactly. A cop who does not report a crime that another cop commits should be charged with the identical crime. That would put a stop to these shanigans in a hurry.
I'm buried so far down here, I'm sure no one will read this. But here is what you need to do.
1. Before you begin, attend a Cisco / Global Knowledge CCNA bootcamp. You may not leave able to program routers like a master, but you'll learn how networks work.
2. Visit every PC, Server, Router, Switch. Put eyes on everything. Create a master spreadsheet. Document model numbers, IP addresses. Create Visio documentation of the way your network is set up. Document everything. You need a good deal of cabinets to store it all.
3. Decide what is the most deficient part of the network, fix it with the simplest solution. If you're using hubs, buy switches. If the routers need to be rebooted constantly, buy new routers. Above all, keep it simple. If possible, stay away from V-Lans, encryption software, Linux, or anything else complicated. Do this every year.
4. Buy one third of the total number of PCs of the network plus ten percent. Buy only one model. Create a central image with Acronis and modify that image as necessary. Deploy these models. Repeat for the next three years.
5. Outsource security. That way, when it breaks you can blame someone. At the same time, make sure you can monitor security to prevent breakage.
6. If possible, outsource your main application. You don't want to support the product that everyone in the institution depends on. You need to keep the network up, not software.
7. At the end of year one, bring in a network assessment. Tell the assessor what he needs to find before he arrives. Use that the next year to justify your new purchases.
8. Make sure you stay friends with the president / CEO. When it is necessary to reorganize the server, etc, it will be necessary to have his good will.
9. Be prepared to work like a sunuvabitch for two years. Take your spouse / GF out when you can.
10. Don't let them make you program again. You're a network admin. You cannot support your old programming team.
Hence the statement about Natural Rights. The Federal and Several State Governments have begun to violate the Natural Rights of Man. They deny men the safety, liberty, and estate that is their inborn right. Something must be done.
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So we should cause cheerleaders to date nerds, and football players fangirls? Maybe no one who can name all eleven doctors should be allowed to marry at all, but rather should be put full time to impregnating Olympic athletes?
I like the idea that Aspergers is associated directly with intelligence. I also like the whorish way that the paper's author plays with the concept of eugenics to get more hits.
I also like the way that the author tries to ignore environmental conditions such as increased urbanization and subsequent hyper-socialization.
Exactly. Is the use of the word religion rather than culture done to gain interest in the article or is it the best use of the word?
Or to put it better, do people of different religions have different cultures, even though they might live in a geographically contiguous area? Does the east coast Jew and the east coast Anglican belong to different cultures?
So if a teacher came out in favor of creationism, a radical form, let's say one that proclaimed blacks, asians, and all other non-whites as descendants of evil evil Cain, would it be possible to sue that teacher?
Clearly and obviously Adam and Eve never existed and this should be taught to any young person as truth is always preferable to falsehoods, but what about someone promoting a falsehood?
Thank you so much. That is the funniest thing I have seen all week, maybe all year. Oh man, that is absolutely hilarious. Brilliant, thank you for sharing.
Privateers? You mean private enterprises, right?
'Cause I think we could use privateers in space. Arrrr. With me letters of reprisals and letters of marque, I shall cruise the interstellar shipping routes of my nation's enemies in search of plundar.
If you regularily get rid of 10% of the towns people due to gunfights, you'll get rid of 10% of the mobsters too - just by chance.
Arguments like this assume that people are bad. Most firearm civil liberty proponents support the opposite opinion. Most people are good. The vast vast majority of people are good. They do not go around shooting people on the street for no reason. If a town had 10% killed due to gun fights (a ridiculous stupid figure), it would be near 100% of the bad people who were shot by good people defending themselves and their neighbors.
For example, look at the Coffeyville Bank Robbery and the Jesse James Northfield Bank Robbery. When the citizenry is armed and responsible for their own security, they will defend their town and drive out the bad people.
No one over there cares. Last time I was over there, I had the opportunity to eat at Harry Potter Burger. (I did not, but could have.) Everyone knew it was fake, but did not care. There is a long established history in China of taking someone's intellectual property and bastardizing it. For example, the last 40 chapters of Dreams of Red Mansions.
To the Mandarin mind, if it is not government work, it is just a way to make money and not terribly important. The fake Apple Stores are a minor embarrassment, but that is all. That is just how the culture works.
Shhhh. That's a secret. ;)
Northern Han emigree? Let's see. Chauvinism? Check. An inability to accept even indirect cultural criticism? Check. A willingness to whine about racism? Check. An inability to articulate a contrary thought without reducing it to violence or swearing? Check.
FhnuZoag, you are a caricature of the Ugly Chinaman. Look in the mirror. You are what Bo Yang was warning of.
What exactly is racist about cultural understanding?
It is stupidly PC (or even post-modernist) to ignore the way that culture drives decisions. Of course some people do things different than others for difference reasons. And cultural diversity extends beyond food. In fact, it extends to (gasp) culture.
And seeing as how I have an entire family who are from that region, perhaps you'd like to reconsider your statement. Unless I'm self-hating. Oh, that must be it. Please excuse me while I head out to cut my throat. Or maybe you'd like me to commit Harry Carey. Ah 1, Ah 2, Ah 3! Fhnu, you're a Pan Asian buffoon.
You've never spent any time with northern Han, have you? There are some seriously paranoid, screwloose individuals there. With the amount of effort they spent on the Olympics, they would feel required to monitor Olympic Committee activity for years to come.
Most other attacks are accompanied by Internet chatter. A business should not be surprised if it is hit by lulzsec or another social group attack. Typically, there are warning signs, and large businesses pay a good deal of money to be forewarned about such attacks. But a wide attack like this.... If there was no warning, chances are it was the Chinese.
Perhaps people need to start realizing what an authoritarian, reclusive, and paranoid regime can do to the world. After all, look at the damage the US has done under Bush and Obama.
Not that I know anyone working at the NSA, but it isn't exactly a geek paradise.
Most geeks that I know are none too fond of rules. This is exactly the opposite of what the NSA is about. There are many rules stemming from security. Of course, all rules get extended beyond their original purpose. This makes it difficult to get any work done, which of course is the antithesis of geek.
This is absolutely brilliant. While we are at it, let's bring up a private prosecution against old butch Oscar Wilde. That will learn those satirists.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
In other news, the TSA continues to steal your 4th Amendment rights. You know, the certain inalienable rights that millions of us have died for?
There is not enough energy potential in solar power nor in wind / hydro-electric to match the energy potential from nuclear power and fossil fuels. As fossil fuels become more expensive, nuclear power will be the world's only option. Gates is right on this issue because physics dictates his correctness. No matter how much people may wish it, you cannot legislate past physical laws.
Show me a /.er that likes TSA, and I'll show you someone who doesn't belong here.
Distrust of government is associated with competence, technical or otherwise. And most of the folks on /. are people who are competent. Competent and or self-reliant people do not feel the need for government to protect them from themselves or imaginary threats. The competent person is capable of feeding and housing himself. He is capable of defending himself as well, when given the opportunity (not disarmed).
TSA is obviously abusing the 4th Amendment, morality, and good plain sense. TSA (and DoHS) is bad government. TSA needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the airports. DoHS needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the Treasury Department.
This joke feels like a dead duck.
Exactly. A cop who does not report a crime that another cop commits should be charged with the identical crime. That would put a stop to these shanigans in a hurry.
If there was no Bin Laden, it would have been necessary for the GOP to invent him.
Huh? What about Ryan Braun, the Hebrew Hammer. Or Sandy Koufax. Or Steve Stone. Or Gabe Carimi.
Being Jewish no more qualifies someone to be a geek than having brown hair.
I'm buried so far down here, I'm sure no one will read this. But here is what you need to do.
1. Before you begin, attend a Cisco / Global Knowledge CCNA bootcamp. You may not leave able to program routers like a master, but you'll learn how networks work.
2. Visit every PC, Server, Router, Switch. Put eyes on everything. Create a master spreadsheet. Document model numbers, IP addresses. Create Visio documentation of the way your network is set up. Document everything. You need a good deal of cabinets to store it all.
3. Decide what is the most deficient part of the network, fix it with the simplest solution. If you're using hubs, buy switches. If the routers need to be rebooted constantly, buy new routers. Above all, keep it simple. If possible, stay away from V-Lans, encryption software, Linux, or anything else complicated. Do this every year.
4. Buy one third of the total number of PCs of the network plus ten percent. Buy only one model. Create a central image with Acronis and modify that image as necessary. Deploy these models. Repeat for the next three years.
5. Outsource security. That way, when it breaks you can blame someone. At the same time, make sure you can monitor security to prevent breakage.
6. If possible, outsource your main application. You don't want to support the product that everyone in the institution depends on. You need to keep the network up, not software.
7. At the end of year one, bring in a network assessment. Tell the assessor what he needs to find before he arrives. Use that the next year to justify your new purchases.
8. Make sure you stay friends with the president / CEO. When it is necessary to reorganize the server, etc, it will be necessary to have his good will.
9. Be prepared to work like a sunuvabitch for two years. Take your spouse / GF out when you can.
10. Don't let them make you program again. You're a network admin. You cannot support your old programming team.
Worse than that, human activity from space would have been detectable for how many years? 2000? 3000? Likely less.
Hence the statement about Natural Rights. The Federal and Several State Governments have begun to violate the Natural Rights of Man. They deny men the safety, liberty, and estate that is their inborn right. Something must be done.