Some dummy with a PowerPoint seemed to do a lot of damage regarding the Niger yellow cake flawed intel. That was bad enough that Colin Powell decided to resign and has trended a bit left ever since. The agencies will attempt to please whatever administration they work for, complete objectivity might not be possible.
Oh, how I would love for EVERY department of the US Government to do this to Trump's team. Those people were hand-picked to destroy the very departments they will oversee. It would be glorious for every department of the government to simply rebel this way and refuse to acknowledge these new anti-leadership goons and just continue to do their jobs as if they don't exist.
Most of them could be replaced very quickly, there are a lot of people that would enjoy having the job security of the average federal worker. Hoping for chaos on a large scale doesn't seem like a wise wish.
I am a bit concerned that the employees are acting terrified to be named. If their information was based on measurable facts and not manipulated than they would have nothing to fear.
Shouldn't they have day jobs? I thought this Uber was supposed to augment incomes. Hoping to make ends meet with driving a car around as a sole source of income is quite the panacea in this day and age.
Of course they're just being corrupt. It couldn't be that the expectations of these low skilled people that the left has failed could be unreasonable. Globalization and automation certainly didn't help either. It does suck that it takes 2 incomes to live less comfortably than our parents did with one, but the cause is bigger than the local courts.
The real fantasy is that the drivers should expect to be full time employees, that was never promised anywhere. They can drive full time if they lack a job, but that is their choice. Uber is pushing hard for autonomous vehicles because of this full time entitlement fantasy. The entitled whiners will get nothing then and will have to find a day job and not have an option to drive at all. 1940 called, they want their taxi drivers back.
Al Jazeera is still good unless they start talking about conflict in the middle east and then it gets pretty one-sided, understandably. You picked the same two sources that I do when I see US MSM sources spewing slanted opinion instead of news: BBC, Al-Jazeera. Most of Europe simply echos CNNi so they usually aren't very helpful either.
If they were certain it was false, they were correct to censor the slanderous garbage PizzaGate stuff. It resulted in an act of violence recently as well. I find it abhorrent that our MSM in the US has become so untrustworthy that other sources are being pursued - some of them fake. I try to use BBC or Al-Jazeera at times when our "journalists" seem to be overly political.
Really? Both sides have dummies, that's a given. Wanna see some links to BLM or anti-Trump riots? Those are not geniuses in the crowds. How about the ObamaPhone six-time voter of 2012? Poking fun at the low end of either side isn't productive.
We already have PC "New Speak" being rammed down our throats constantly. 1984 becoming a reality has really scared me these last 8 years. I had know idea the left could become such extreme fascists with a bit of power given to them. They amass in ridiculously large cities and seem to develop a completely different value system. Look where Hillary won by county, it says volumes. Now they want to change the rules so a simply popular vote will allow these cities (less than 20 of them) to dominate the results of elections for perpetuity, completely disenfranchising the vast majority of the country.
On the other hand, that is a lot of people to have unhappy with our current system of being a republic. Will we be facing a case for a peaceful succession so both sides can have their way? Give NE and SoCal and some other territory to them to have their own nation? Would we be this divided if more issues were left to the states rather than being decided as federal law? Maybe that's the real problem. Way too many regulations that should have been left to the states.
Yeah, it takes them a day or two to memorize the material from the cheat sites for those certifications, too. I'm looking forward to the day that we can have some software replace most of these "visionary", "big picture", "strategic thinking" managers that simply follow the failed policies of other firms almost blindly.
I was especially horrified that after her disgusting example at HP of large-scale off-shoring of American jobs, Carly thought she was patriotic enough to run for President. It would be interesting to be a sociopath for a day, just to help understand how these saphien-bots think.
It might feel good to consider the rest of the world our equals. Trade barriers are seen as protectionism. Patriotism is viewed as xenophobia.
The thing is, humanity needs teams and rewards. Both provide something to compete with or for, in order to stay productive. The second world communist model failed and will always fail because without incentive, efficiency is what people will pursue. One will do the minimum to receive their paltry equal share.
As opposed to the _awesome_ upgrade path from Linix ca. 2001 to a modern Linux release, right? Dipshit.
You neckbeards, man you crack me up.
Things tend to be pretty modular or easy to convert in the Linux realm. Aside from dependencies such as libc, migrating an app or configuration files for a service is as simple as a copy. Big things, with a tar command and a quick FTP transfer. Got me through lots of sytem migrations for Y2K including Linux, AIX (additionally, MKSYSB rocks for migrations across hardware platforms), HP-UX, Xenix and a few others.
MS stuff wasn't quite so easy to migrate. Ferreting out all the little places apps dump their garbage is a mess.
DOS was nice, things were contained in one directory, including all configuration files, etc. MS killed that by chaining command.com to win.com in 1994's Win95. Check out offset 10BB0 in the original Win95 command.com, change win to ver in a hex editor!
7.2 billion sounds like a big number, but at today's rate (1 USD = 104.7645 JPY) it amounts to $68,725,568.24. Good to be in the black, but barely so, given the scale of money we're talking about in the multi-billion dollar gaming console industry.
They also stop drawing benefits. I tend to think they're doing us a big favor by not slowly fading away into dementia by dying earlier of smoking related symptoms. Big pharmacy and big medical must be the reason they want us all to live so long. Have you seen how many pills a geriatric needs to take per day?
Are you sure? Perhaps he's like me: a reader who never bothered to post before - but unlike me, didn't want to post under the "Anonymous Coward" heading. I'm not saying he is or isn't, I'm saying your reasoning is full of holes. I could have created a user ID just to post this, and your logic would have me being a PETA sockpuppet as well.
Never posting doesn't have any relation to the UID. When your account is created, it is assigned. Posting or not posting has no effect on the UID.
"there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it" and replaced it with "a platform for a smaller government."
Absolutely it's inflammatory. But there is an element of truth to what he said. When you have a nation that vote themselves more stuff at the expense of the productive members of society, that nation is on a paved path to ruin.
I have relatives that voted straight party ticket for Democrats this last election. I asked why. One of them said he really loved Romney and disliked Obama. However, he couldn't afford to lose his "benefits". Truth of the matter is that he's an indentured servant whether he admits to it or not.
Never ask from the government which can so easily take away.
Excellent point. There is a quote running around that apparently tends to be mis-attributed but is nonetheless quite insightful and worrisome.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Misattributed "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
I've also see a similar quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The source isn't my concern, the politicians on either side of the aisle having the power to but votes and the long term implications for the solvency of the U.S. is.
That's a pretty ineffective CS degree if it can be completed without any sort of practical application of skills. Even the on-line program I eventually finished required all assignments to be successfully completed so you couldn't game the system and just skip past an area you're weak on. Almsot all tests were proctored and proctors had to be preapproved.
Without some basic controls, the degree lacks integrity. This is sad for the guys that did get it, because the dummy you've described is touting that degree and no one that ever works with him will have any respect for that school or its graduates.
Any society that does not enable citizens to persue higher education if they wish fails at civilization. We do not exist merely to eat sleep shit and fuck. No everybody doesn't need to go to college, everybody shouldn't need to or have to go to college. But everybody deserves the chance to better themselves, and society as a whole benefits when they do.
It's deeply troubling that the response to "tuitions are too high" is "not everyone needs to go to college" these days. Education is not a luxury that we can afford to go without, it is civilization itself.
Censorship is obscene. Patriotism is bigotry
Yeah, let's lower our standards so EVERYONE can go to college. I guess that worked for you. Must have been Columbia, noticed your "Patriotism is bigotry" tag line. That one always warms my heart, dear comrade. Healthy patriotism (not xenophobia or racism) instills competition, it's necessary until we have aliens to compete with... Human nature or something...
Most degrees are already nothing more that a metric we must all achieve to get through the automated HR filters. Sure we should all look to improving ourselves after high school but we don't necessarily have to water down the worth of a degree by diluting the workforce with it. Having everyone get degrees entails dropping academic standards (so everyone that wants one can have one - I feel so warm inside), wasting obscene amounts of tax dollars and encumbering the poor sheep with massive amounts of debt to work in menial jobs that likely didn't even require a high school education 30 years ago.
There are other avenues such as tech schools for some.
I don't hate degrees, I finished mine for the sake of career advancement. Doctors, lawyers, architects, most scientists and real engineers certainly need them.
When more people consume bandwidth, more bandwidth has to be purchased by the ISP to increase capacity for the collective need. Otherwise, the existing connection becomes over-utilized and downloads slow down for everyone using that ISP.
Routers have processors that consume more energy when under higher demand. They also generate more heat when utilization is higher, which must be mitigated with cooling systems, also consuming more power. This factor might be small on your home network or even for a small or medium sized business, but it adds up when racks upon racks of networking equipment are being considered.
Power and real-time bandwidth (not what you download per month, what bandwidth is being used right now) cost money. That cost is passed to the consumer. Thinking of bandwidth as being like roll-over minutes that you need to use or you're wasting something is a flawed consumerist notion. If you conserve, perhaps you could move to a cheaper Internet package and save some money for a rainy day or know that you aren't being a wasteful consumer.
I use less than 10 GB per month and I still have room to play on-line games almost daily, view the news, e-mail, corporate remote access and keep my home network up-to-date.
Poor use of Bit-torrent chews up more than it should. Most clients include bandwidth throttling options that could easily be used to get what you need quickly and then control how fast you are going to seed what you've already downloaded.
Your tag line is bizarre, senseless and revolting. "Patriotism is bigotry" How cute. Did your Bohemian friends at Columbia teach you that one? Such ideas are why nations that still embrace patriotism or any level of national pride are going to destroy us economically, if not in other ways. When the U.S. looks like the 3rd world places I have to work in perhaps you'll understand why you should care about your nation, regardless of which nation you belong to.
Actually, your formula is calculating the mean average win per defaulted suit. To calculate the total loss you wouldn't need to divide by 1000. So rather than 1000*3.50/1000=$3.50, you'd have 1000*3.50=$3,500.00 + the attorneys' fees of 3,000,000 = $3,003,500.00.
I imagine that you realized this just after you clicked "submit", sorry to mince numbers!
Actually, years ago I was surprised at how far the protective detail for POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS, etc will go to protect the hecklers' right to free speech.
My rebellious little brother was at a Dan Quayle speech in Wyoming many years ago and was with a group of obnoxious rebels without a cause shouting miscellaneous non-sense. They apparently did a good enough job to annoy the Young Republicans (YPs) and were harassed. One of the YPs blasted an air horn in their face and attracted the attention of the Secret Service detail. The agent informed the YPs that if that happened again they would be arrested for assault and, furthermore, that the hecklers had a constitutionally protected right to be there and say almost anything they wished.
Little Brother, and his band of hecklers actually were so impressed by this that they ceased and went home. It was probably his first patriotic experience and he tells the story teary eyed as an affirmation of "His America".
There is a lot to be proud of in our country (USA), we simply take A LOT for granted.
Interesting point about FTL (faster-than-light) transmissions being necessary for intergalactic communications. I'm certainly no physics guru which will become obvious when I ask: I've heard that there are particles or energy waves/pulses/whatnot that travel faster than light. We don't know how to make this go this fast, but could we somehow communicate but interrupting streams/flows/whatever of these FTL moving things in order to produce FTL communication between two points that are very far apart? Morse code comes to mind, I'm sure something more sophisticated would rapidly develop.
Or did I simply mishear something when I thought I heard about things moving around the universe at FTL speeds?!?
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Some dummy with a PowerPoint seemed to do a lot of damage regarding the Niger yellow cake flawed intel. That was bad enough that Colin Powell decided to resign and has trended a bit left ever since. The agencies will attempt to please whatever administration they work for, complete objectivity might not be possible.
No one is worried? Where I am, they are quite concerned, but not hysterical.
Oh, how I would love for EVERY department of the US Government to do this to Trump's team. Those people were hand-picked to destroy the very departments they will oversee. It would be glorious for every department of the government to simply rebel this way and refuse to acknowledge these new anti-leadership goons and just continue to do their jobs as if they don't exist.
Most of them could be replaced very quickly, there are a lot of people that would enjoy having the job security of the average federal worker. Hoping for chaos on a large scale doesn't seem like a wise wish.
I am a bit concerned that the employees are acting terrified to be named. If their information was based on measurable facts and not manipulated than they would have nothing to fear.
I like that, and the animation should be of a combination lock on a wall safe to perfect the analogy.
Shouldn't they have day jobs? I thought this Uber was supposed to augment incomes. Hoping to make ends meet with driving a car around as a sole source of income is quite the panacea in this day and age.
Of course they're just being corrupt. It couldn't be that the expectations of these low skilled people that the left has failed could be unreasonable. Globalization and automation certainly didn't help either. It does suck that it takes 2 incomes to live less comfortably than our parents did with one, but the cause is bigger than the local courts.
The real fantasy is that the drivers should expect to be full time employees, that was never promised anywhere. They can drive full time if they lack a job, but that is their choice. Uber is pushing hard for autonomous vehicles because of this full time entitlement fantasy. The entitled whiners will get nothing then and will have to find a day job and not have an option to drive at all. 1940 called, they want their taxi drivers back.
Al Jazeera is still good unless they start talking about conflict in the middle east and then it gets pretty one-sided, understandably. You picked the same two sources that I do when I see US MSM sources spewing slanted opinion instead of news: BBC, Al-Jazeera. Most of Europe simply echos CNNi so they usually aren't very helpful either.
If they were certain it was false, they were correct to censor the slanderous garbage PizzaGate stuff. It resulted in an act of violence recently as well. I find it abhorrent that our MSM in the US has become so untrustworthy that other sources are being pursued - some of them fake. I try to use BBC or Al-Jazeera at times when our "journalists" seem to be overly political.
Really? Both sides have dummies, that's a given. Wanna see some links to BLM or anti-Trump riots? Those are not geniuses in the crowds. How about the ObamaPhone six-time voter of 2012? Poking fun at the low end of either side isn't productive.
We already have PC "New Speak" being rammed down our throats constantly. 1984 becoming a reality has really scared me these last 8 years. I had know idea the left could become such extreme fascists with a bit of power given to them. They amass in ridiculously large cities and seem to develop a completely different value system. Look where Hillary won by county, it says volumes. Now they want to change the rules so a simply popular vote will allow these cities (less than 20 of them) to dominate the results of elections for perpetuity, completely disenfranchising the vast majority of the country.
On the other hand, that is a lot of people to have unhappy with our current system of being a republic. Will we be facing a case for a peaceful succession so both sides can have their way? Give NE and SoCal and some other territory to them to have their own nation? Would we be this divided if more issues were left to the states rather than being decided as federal law? Maybe that's the real problem. Way too many regulations that should have been left to the states.
Yeah, it takes them a day or two to memorize the material from the cheat sites for those certifications, too. I'm looking forward to the day that we can have some software replace most of these "visionary", "big picture", "strategic thinking" managers that simply follow the failed policies of other firms almost blindly.
I was especially horrified that after her disgusting example at HP of large-scale off-shoring of American jobs, Carly thought she was patriotic enough to run for President. It would be interesting to be a sociopath for a day, just to help understand how these saphien-bots think.
It might feel good to consider the rest of the world our equals. Trade barriers are seen as protectionism. Patriotism is viewed as xenophobia.
The thing is, humanity needs teams and rewards. Both provide something to compete with or for, in order to stay productive. The second world communist model failed and will always fail because without incentive, efficiency is what people will pursue. One will do the minimum to receive their paltry equal share.
No need to add "Works". Shortest joke is simply: "Microsoft"
As opposed to the _awesome_ upgrade path from Linix ca. 2001 to a modern Linux release, right? Dipshit.
You neckbeards, man you crack me up.
Things tend to be pretty modular or easy to convert in the Linux realm. Aside from dependencies such as libc, migrating an app or configuration files for a service is as simple as a copy. Big things, with a tar command and a quick FTP transfer. Got me through lots of sytem migrations for Y2K including Linux, AIX (additionally, MKSYSB rocks for migrations across hardware platforms), HP-UX, Xenix and a few others.
MS stuff wasn't quite so easy to migrate. Ferreting out all the little places apps dump their garbage is a mess.
DOS was nice, things were contained in one directory, including all configuration files, etc. MS killed that by chaining command.com to win.com in 1994's Win95. Check out offset 10BB0 in the original Win95 command.com, change win to ver in a hex editor!
7.2 billion sounds like a big number, but at today's rate (1 USD = 104.7645 JPY) it amounts to $68,725,568.24. Good to be in the black, but barely so, given the scale of money we're talking about in the multi-billion dollar gaming console industry.
They also stop drawing benefits. I tend to think they're doing us a big favor by not slowly fading away into dementia by dying earlier of smoking related symptoms. Big pharmacy and big medical must be the reason they want us all to live so long. Have you seen how many pills a geriatric needs to take per day?
Are you sure? Perhaps he's like me: a reader who never bothered to post before - but unlike me, didn't want to post under the "Anonymous Coward" heading. I'm not saying he is or isn't, I'm saying your reasoning is full of holes. I could have created a user ID just to post this, and your logic would have me being a PETA sockpuppet as well.
Never posting doesn't have any relation to the UID. When your account is created, it is assigned. Posting or not posting has no effect on the UID.
And yes, you are also a PETA sock-puppet.
"there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it" and replaced it with "a platform for a smaller government."
Absolutely it's inflammatory. But there is an element of truth to what he said. When you have a nation that vote themselves more stuff at the expense of the productive members of society, that nation is on a paved path to ruin.
I have relatives that voted straight party ticket for Democrats this last election. I asked why. One of them said he really loved Romney and disliked Obama. However, he couldn't afford to lose his "benefits". Truth of the matter is that he's an indentured servant whether he admits to it or not.
Never ask from the government which can so easily take away.
Excellent point. There is a quote running around that apparently tends to be mis-attributed but is nonetheless quite insightful and worrisome.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Misattributed
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
I've also see a similar quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The source isn't my concern, the politicians on either side of the aisle having the power to but votes and the long term implications for the solvency of the U.S. is.
That's a pretty ineffective CS degree if it can be completed without any sort of practical application of skills. Even the on-line program I eventually finished required all assignments to be successfully completed so you couldn't game the system and just skip past an area you're weak on. Almsot all tests were proctored and proctors had to be preapproved.
Without some basic controls, the degree lacks integrity. This is sad for the guys that did get it, because the dummy you've described is touting that degree and no one that ever works with him will have any respect for that school or its graduates.
Any society that does not enable citizens to persue higher education if they wish fails at civilization. We do not exist merely to eat sleep shit and fuck. No everybody doesn't need to go to college, everybody shouldn't need to or have to go to college. But everybody deserves the chance to better themselves, and society as a whole benefits when they do.
It's deeply troubling that the response to "tuitions are too high" is "not everyone needs to go to college" these days. Education is not a luxury that we can afford to go without, it is civilization itself.
Censorship is obscene.
Patriotism is bigotry
Yeah, let's lower our standards so EVERYONE can go to college. I guess that worked for you. Must have been Columbia, noticed your "Patriotism is bigotry" tag line. That one always warms my heart, dear comrade. Healthy patriotism (not xenophobia or racism) instills competition, it's necessary until we have aliens to compete with... Human nature or something...
Most degrees are already nothing more that a metric we must all achieve to get through the automated HR filters. Sure we should all look to improving ourselves after high school but we don't necessarily have to water down the worth of a degree by diluting the workforce with it. Having everyone get degrees entails dropping academic standards (so everyone that wants one can have one - I feel so warm inside), wasting obscene amounts of tax dollars and encumbering the poor sheep with massive amounts of debt to work in menial jobs that likely didn't even require a high school education 30 years ago.
There are other avenues such as tech schools for some.
I don't hate degrees, I finished mine for the sake of career advancement. Doctors, lawyers, architects, most scientists and real engineers certainly need them.
When more people consume bandwidth, more bandwidth has to be purchased by the ISP to increase capacity for the collective need. Otherwise, the existing connection becomes over-utilized and downloads slow down for everyone using that ISP.
Routers have processors that consume more energy when under higher demand. They also generate more heat when utilization is higher, which must be mitigated with cooling systems, also consuming more power. This factor might be small on your home network or even for a small or medium sized business, but it adds up when racks upon racks of networking equipment are being considered.
Power and real-time bandwidth (not what you download per month, what bandwidth is being used right now) cost money. That cost is passed to the consumer. Thinking of bandwidth as being like roll-over minutes that you need to use or you're wasting something is a flawed consumerist notion. If you conserve, perhaps you could move to a cheaper Internet package and save some money for a rainy day or know that you aren't being a wasteful consumer.
I use less than 10 GB per month and I still have room to play on-line games almost daily, view the news, e-mail, corporate remote access and keep my home network up-to-date.
Poor use of Bit-torrent chews up more than it should. Most clients include bandwidth throttling options that could easily be used to get what you need quickly and then control how fast you are going to seed what you've already downloaded.
Your tag line is bizarre, senseless and revolting. "Patriotism is bigotry" How cute. Did your Bohemian friends at Columbia teach you that one? Such ideas are why nations that still embrace patriotism or any level of national pride are going to destroy us economically, if not in other ways. When the U.S. looks like the 3rd world places I have to work in perhaps you'll understand why you should care about your nation, regardless of which nation you belong to.
Actually, your formula is calculating the mean average win per defaulted suit. To calculate the total loss you wouldn't need to divide by 1000. So rather than 1000*3.50/1000=$3.50, you'd have 1000*3.50=$3,500.00 + the attorneys' fees of 3,000,000 = $3,003,500.00.
I imagine that you realized this just after you clicked "submit", sorry to mince numbers!
Actually, years ago I was surprised at how far the protective detail for POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS, etc will go to protect the hecklers' right to free speech.
My rebellious little brother was at a Dan Quayle speech in Wyoming many years ago and was with a group of obnoxious rebels without a cause shouting miscellaneous non-sense. They apparently did a good enough job to annoy the Young Republicans (YPs) and were harassed. One of the YPs blasted an air horn in their face and attracted the attention of the Secret Service detail. The agent informed the YPs that if that happened again they would be arrested for assault and, furthermore, that the hecklers had a constitutionally protected right to be there and say almost anything they wished.
Little Brother, and his band of hecklers actually were so impressed by this that they ceased and went home. It was probably his first patriotic experience and he tells the story teary eyed as an affirmation of "His America".
There is a lot to be proud of in our country (USA), we simply take A LOT for granted.
Interesting point about FTL (faster-than-light) transmissions being necessary for intergalactic communications. I'm certainly no physics guru which will become obvious when I ask: I've heard that there are particles or energy waves/pulses/whatnot that travel faster than light. We don't know how to make this go this fast, but could we somehow communicate but interrupting streams/flows/whatever of these FTL moving things in order to produce FTL communication between two points that are very far apart? Morse code comes to mind, I'm sure something more sophisticated would rapidly develop.
Or did I simply mishear something when I thought I heard about things moving around the universe at FTL speeds?!?