As a note, the reason for the Fairness Doctrine being removed was Cable News like CNN. The Fairness Doctrine was intended to make sure everyone had a voice on the big three channels. With Cable, people aren't locked in to ABC, NBC, or CBS. You can get news from CNN or any other company that can get a cable presence. Then with the 'net, there are even more options with FoxNews and lots and lots of other sites like BBC and Al Jazeera.
The problem with this though is folks start to gravitate to their bubbles. Don't like hearing a Conservative or Liberal spin on the news? There are sites that cater just to your ideology. You don't hear other viewpoints and worse, the viewpoints you do hear are much stronger. And even worse are News Aggregators like the ones on devices (phones and tablets) and like Facebook where they're weighing what you click on and configuring your feed to give you more of what you indicate you like enough to read. Without a conscious effort to go to alternate sites, you get into a feedback loop.
Over the years I've found myself getting into that loop and having to work at broadening my news to include sites outside my ideology. The bad part are the aggregation sites aren't good at providing just news. I'll go to different sites and then have the "For You" sites include opinions that can be quite offensive, to the point that I have to block them from my views.
Anyone can set up another twitter clone. Heck, a quick search shows several clones so they're not a monopoly.
There is no law that says they have to let you speak. The Republicans fixed that back in the 80's by removing the Fairness Doctrine and again in 2004 or so by refusing to consider reinstating it. Punishment to a company/corporation is by folks going to alternate twitter sites or just not using it.
Yea, we had a senior DBA way back in the late 80's who quit in a fit of rage, but first formatted his DOS drive. It took me a few minutes to bring up Norton Utilities and undelete everything. A year later, he tried to come back and we declined to even interview him.
Yea, in the military in the 70's, you were advised to put your SSN on all your personal gear. Most of my 70's era gaming gear and books have my SSN and full name written in the inside covers.
Been reconfiguring my email and web clients to send text only and not to display or download images. Fun at corporate when I don't see folks idiot corporate icons and backgrounds. Heck, I seldom click on attachments from others in the company (certainly not from external sources) for a couple of hours at minimum. I already know my boss doesn't love me:)
A couple of years back, corporate came out with a standard signature block with html, images, and links. I kicked back with a request for a text only signature block due to various issues with how we manage servers plus provided a link to the Usenet RFC for signatures. They responded with an updated standard that included a text based block with dashdashspace (-- ):)
For another data point, I'm in a fairly large corporation, multiple data centers around the world and in Ops/Eng working on implementing DevOps and CI/CD, moving my stuff from rcs to git, learning CD for our Ops gear, Ansible, Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry, etc. I think there's a requirement to continue to learn and explore in order to maintain employment. If you're not moving forward, you'll be passed and passed over. With the kids long gone, I have lots of time to continue learning and with my income, I can have a multi-server, VMWare environment here at home with a decent testing environment to help with learning all this new stuff:) I've duplicated the work environment in order to explore. Jenkins and Gitlab, Kubernetes with pfSense for Load Balance testing, Red Hat registrations are free because I'm on VMWare so I get continued updates, Ansible and Ansible Tower. All similar to work so I can play and of course learn.
Depends on what you do I guess. At 60 I'm still employed in IT/Operations as a Systems Engineer. My girlfriend is a MS-SQL DBA and is older than 40 (nope, I'm not saying:) ). Pay wise we're doing pretty well. Not Silicon valley well but nice house well where we are.
Facebook is basically crazy shit my mom sends me. Back in the 90's when I got nonsense from friends and family, I'd respond with correct information and eventually send them to snopes. In pretty much all cases, these people eventually stopped sending me this stuff. Even if I bail, they continue to recycle nonsense to their friends like a fake new hurricane without levees to stop them.
I can only speak for myself but from my experience and point of view, the alt-right and alt-left appear to be the extremes of both groups. As you move center, you find the next group that'll vote R or D no matter what the platform. Too much nonsense and there's a good chance they'll stay home. Continuing you find people who are one major and maybe a few minor issue voters. Most likely vote R or D but should the respective person be too light on the major and heavy on a minor, they most likely will not vote. Closer center and you find the lean left and right folks. These guys can be influenced by the main stream media whether Fox or every other news service apparently:) Most of my friends and family are closer to center on the right or left side with at least one alt-right aunt:)
Hah. A Bethesda Softworks Classics Superbundle has that plus the original Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, and quite a few others I recognize:) Big snag and lots of "wasted time" this weekend:)
It depends. I"ve picked up the original Doom series, Half-Life 2, Carmagedden, and Starcraft Remastered and still have a good time with them. I've picked up the newer versions of these games like Doom, Wolfenstein, and Starcraft II and even other games like Left4Dead, Fallout, and Bioshock and just don't find them as mindlessly fun. Even jumping across from tower to tower in Doom still gives me a thrill.:)
Hell, Steam is having a sale again. Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, and Quake III: Team Arena are up for $1.24 or $3.24 each. Shoot, for $6.24, you can get Quake, Quake II, Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, Quake Mission Pack I: Scourge of Armagon, Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity. (I know what I'm getting right now:D ).
I think there's always been a process where the individual also needs to be able to fit within the team. Part of the interview process with the technical team is not only how technical you are, but what your personality is. The team has a dynamic and if you don't seem to be a good fit, personality wise, you also wouldn't get the job.
Yea, I built my previous one in 2008 and it is still running (girlfriend uses it occasionally). I had enough Windows 10 problems with it that I rolled it back to 7 and built myself a new system last year, just because I can:)
I probably didn't need to replace my 2008 system as it still works just fine for most of what I do at home (mostly systems type stuff with lots of VMs on my R710), but I did get a pretty hefty kickback from the government last year so I initially spent about $2,900 on a new system that included a 43" 4k LG type monitor. Then added more bits over the year bringing it up to $3,600.
With the power I have now, for my more simple needs (I play a few older games and am looking forward to the Starcraft Reboot), it'll last a few years:)
I've had $10 keyboards. Heck, I have a $100 Mac keyboard. The feel isn't the same. When I'm typing on one of my Model M's, I know what I'm typing is getting through. With the squishy keyboards, I keep having to backspace because I'm missing a letter, which sucks when I'm on a unix box typing in commands (which I do most of the day).
I've had my Model M since 89 and it still works great (I'm on it now). Work has provided Dell keyboards, Mac keyboards, and various other brand and non-name brand keyboards. Just nothing works like the IBM I have, to the point that I bought a second one just on case:)
My Model M has a 9 pin din with a connector to PS/2. Fortunately even the motherboard I bought last year still has PS/2 connectors or I'd have to add a PS/2 to USB and a scaffolding to keep things in place:) .
One problem I've found is that scientific research is mostly behind paywalls of some sort. Either you read an article where the company has access to the site and you get an interpretation or you pay the $10 or $100 or $1000 for access to the raw data and report.
But any nut job can set up a website and as long as it sounds believable (for small values of belief), he or she will have a following of similar nut jobs.
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As a note, the reason for the Fairness Doctrine being removed was Cable News like CNN. The Fairness Doctrine was intended to make sure everyone had a voice on the big three channels. With Cable, people aren't locked in to ABC, NBC, or CBS. You can get news from CNN or any other company that can get a cable presence. Then with the 'net, there are even more options with FoxNews and lots and lots of other sites like BBC and Al Jazeera.
The problem with this though is folks start to gravitate to their bubbles. Don't like hearing a Conservative or Liberal spin on the news? There are sites that cater just to your ideology. You don't hear other viewpoints and worse, the viewpoints you do hear are much stronger. And even worse are News Aggregators like the ones on devices (phones and tablets) and like Facebook where they're weighing what you click on and configuring your feed to give you more of what you indicate you like enough to read. Without a conscious effort to go to alternate sites, you get into a feedback loop.
Over the years I've found myself getting into that loop and having to work at broadening my news to include sites outside my ideology. The bad part are the aggregation sites aren't good at providing just news. I'll go to different sites and then have the "For You" sites include opinions that can be quite offensive, to the point that I have to block them from my views.
[John]
Anyone can set up another twitter clone. Heck, a quick search shows several clones so they're not a monopoly.
There is no law that says they have to let you speak. The Republicans fixed that back in the 80's by removing the Fairness Doctrine and again in 2004 or so by refusing to consider reinstating it. Punishment to a company/corporation is by folks going to alternate twitter sites or just not using it.
[John]
Releasing sulfer into the atmosphere?
[John]
And high speed wifi (radio anrenna) which we have.
[John]
Yea, we had a senior DBA way back in the late 80's who quit in a fit of rage, but first formatted his DOS drive. It took me a few minutes to bring up Norton Utilities and undelete everything. A year later, he tried to come back and we declined to even interview him.
[John]
I've actually had quite a few heading south at my place at 8,200'. Not a swarm but certainly a lot more than I expected to see this time of year.
[John]
Yea, in the military in the 70's, you were advised to put your SSN on all your personal gear. Most of my 70's era gaming gear and books have my SSN and full name written in the inside covers.
[John]
Been reconfiguring my email and web clients to send text only and not to display or download images. Fun at corporate when I don't see folks idiot corporate icons and backgrounds. Heck, I seldom click on attachments from others in the company (certainly not from external sources) for a couple of hours at minimum. I already know my boss doesn't love me :)
A couple of years back, corporate came out with a standard signature block with html, images, and links. I kicked back with a request for a text only signature block due to various issues with how we manage servers plus provided a link to the Usenet RFC for signatures. They responded with an updated standard that included a text based block with dashdashspace (-- ) :)
[John]
Yea, I'm still using 36 at work. Running anything newer kills my company Windows access within a few minutes, locking my account.
[John]
For another data point, I'm in a fairly large corporation, multiple data centers around the world and in Ops/Eng working on implementing DevOps and CI/CD, moving my stuff from rcs to git, learning CD for our Ops gear, Ansible, Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry, etc. I think there's a requirement to continue to learn and explore in order to maintain employment. If you're not moving forward, you'll be passed and passed over. With the kids long gone, I have lots of time to continue learning and with my income, I can have a multi-server, VMWare environment here at home with a decent testing environment to help with learning all this new stuff :) I've duplicated the work environment in order to explore. Jenkins and Gitlab, Kubernetes with pfSense for Load Balance testing, Red Hat registrations are free because I'm on VMWare so I get continued updates, Ansible and Ansible Tower. All similar to work so I can play and of course learn.
And I'm 60.
[John]
Not everyone in IT is a code monkey :)
[John]
Depends on what you do I guess. At 60 I'm still employed in IT/Operations as a Systems Engineer. My girlfriend is a MS-SQL DBA and is older than 40 (nope, I'm not saying :) ). Pay wise we're doing pretty well. Not Silicon valley well but nice house well where we are.
[John]
Facebook is basically crazy shit my mom sends me. Back in the 90's when I got nonsense from friends and family, I'd respond with correct information and eventually send them to snopes. In pretty much all cases, these people eventually stopped sending me this stuff. Even if I bail, they continue to recycle nonsense to their friends like a fake new hurricane without levees to stop them.
[John]
I can only speak for myself but from my experience and point of view, the alt-right and alt-left appear to be the extremes of both groups. As you move center, you find the next group that'll vote R or D no matter what the platform. Too much nonsense and there's a good chance they'll stay home. Continuing you find people who are one major and maybe a few minor issue voters. Most likely vote R or D but should the respective person be too light on the major and heavy on a minor, they most likely will not vote. Closer center and you find the lean left and right folks. These guys can be influenced by the main stream media whether Fox or every other news service apparently :) Most of my friends and family are closer to center on the right or left side with at least one alt-right aunt :)
[John]
Hah. A Bethesda Softworks Classics Superbundle has that plus the original Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, and quite a few others I recognize :) Big snag and lots of "wasted time" this weekend :)
[John]
It depends. I"ve picked up the original Doom series, Half-Life 2, Carmagedden, and Starcraft Remastered and still have a good time with them. I've picked up the newer versions of these games like Doom, Wolfenstein, and Starcraft II and even other games like Left4Dead, Fallout, and Bioshock and just don't find them as mindlessly fun. Even jumping across from tower to tower in Doom still gives me a thrill. :)
Hell, Steam is having a sale again. Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, and Quake III: Team Arena are up for $1.24 or $3.24 each. Shoot, for $6.24, you can get Quake, Quake II, Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, Quake Mission Pack I: Scourge of Armagon, Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity. (I know what I'm getting right now :D ).
Why not keep playing what you like? :)
[John]
I think there's always been a process where the individual also needs to be able to fit within the team. Part of the interview process with the technical team is not only how technical you are, but what your personality is. The team has a dynamic and if you don't seem to be a good fit, personality wise, you also wouldn't get the job.
[John]
Yea, I built my previous one in 2008 and it is still running (girlfriend uses it occasionally). I had enough Windows 10 problems with it that I rolled it back to 7 and built myself a new system last year, just because I can :)
[John]
I probably didn't need to replace my 2008 system as it still works just fine for most of what I do at home (mostly systems type stuff with lots of VMs on my R710), but I did get a pretty hefty kickback from the government last year so I initially spent about $2,900 on a new system that included a 43" 4k LG type monitor. Then added more bits over the year bringing it up to $3,600.
With the power I have now, for my more simple needs (I play a few older games and am looking forward to the Starcraft Reboot), it'll last a few years :)
[John]
I've had $10 keyboards. Heck, I have a $100 Mac keyboard. The feel isn't the same. When I'm typing on one of my Model M's, I know what I'm typing is getting through. With the squishy keyboards, I keep having to backspace because I'm missing a letter, which sucks when I'm on a unix box typing in commands (which I do most of the day).
I've had my Model M since 89 and it still works great (I'm on it now). Work has provided Dell keyboards, Mac keyboards, and various other brand and non-name brand keyboards. Just nothing works like the IBM I have, to the point that I bought a second one just on case :)
[John]
My Model M has a 9 pin din with a connector to PS/2. Fortunately even the motherboard I bought last year still has PS/2 connectors or I'd have to add a PS/2 to USB and a scaffolding to keep things in place :) .
[John]
Agree. I think that's the same for both though as I recall.
[John]
I'm always interested in the opinions of folks if any article, regardless of the media source, replaced Trump with Obama in the article.
[John]
Who watches porn for an hour?! You looking for a plot??
[John]
One problem I've found is that scientific research is mostly behind paywalls of some sort. Either you read an article where the company has access to the site and you get an interpretation or you pay the $10 or $100 or $1000 for access to the raw data and report.
But any nut job can set up a website and as long as it sounds believable (for small values of belief), he or she will have a following of similar nut jobs.
[John]