CNN should be ashamed of itself - but it's been pellucidly clear for at least 3 decades now that it it has no sense of organizatonal shame, so I'm not holding my breath on that score.
I watch all the cable news channels. It should be clear to any viewer that all the mainstream media "news" stations have become the public relations arm of the democratic party. There is no longer any journalistic integrity on mainstream media (MM) channels. If you watch MM news for more than a minute or two and don't see either incredible bias or an outright lie, some part of your brain no longer works.
Yep, vinyl is dead. However, there is a new material that is quieter and delivers better sound. Don't remember what it is. Maybe a/. reader can update with the name of the material.
"We can't take any more cuts and still do the job that the American public needs us to do -- there simply will not be the staff available on duty to issue the forecasts and warnings upon which the country depends," said Dan
Sobien, the president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization.
I'll support the NWS when they begin delivering accurate and reliable forecasts. Now, whenever precip of any type is involved (especially frozen precip), forecasts are typically pretty stinking inaccurate.
Started programming in 1969 in Fortran, progressed through a number of assembly languages (including MetaSymbol on XDS machines, what a joy!), basic, enough cobol to know I'd never touch it again, snobol, Pascal (as many strengths as
weaknesses in the language, probably a mistake to protect the programmer from himself), Revelation, a bit of perl, a bit of forth (yuck, a solution in search of a problem), icon, a bit of java, awk, cubic metric tons of shell scripting, C, probably some others along the way. Retired and still doing some C for my own uses. Over 48.5 years, C is my all-time favorite language by far.
No, you don't want diversity. When a company is faced with extremely difficult tasks and insane deadlines, the last thing you want is diversity (and I don't mean diversity in the sense of skin color). You want the strongest, most experienced team you can possibly put together. Every member has to be strong in several areas. Every member has to be willing to work long hours, go in nights and weekends, whatever it takes. To accept less is to plan for failure.
Been there, done that, got the scars and t-shirt to prove it.
"In the case of celebrities, the potential for someone at risk to make an emotional connection and over-identify with them is greater, in some cases even to interpret their death as affirmation that they could take their own life."
As children, we are taught to value certain "famous" people, such as athletes, actors, musicians, politicians, etc. As adults, many continue a fixation with "famous" people. At some point I decided none of these "famous" people had much of worth to add to society and many seemed to have a lot more problems (drugs, crime, inappropriate behaviors, stupendous greed, much more) than I did, so I ended my fixations. I am my own person and I really don't give a rat's ass about anyone "famous." Prior to my learning to ignore "famous" people, I very much respected Robin Williams' talents, especially his amazing ability at improvisation. I am sorry for his suicide, but I have no wish to join him.
Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.
/. readers know Google is uber liberal. For Warner to say the "Google-owned video platform" damaged Hillary's campaign is nothing short of ludicrous! Hillary lost and the Dems need to get over it.
She ran a lousy campaign (and didn't bother with Wisconsin, one of the states she lost), she thought she was to be anointed president and never mind with the silly election, she lied constantly, she had no plan, she espoused the most destructive identity politics, and she probably believed all the drooling we-love-yous from the liberal media. And, of course, there is the matter of alleged felonies and the FBI writing a get-out-of-jail-free finding two months prior to her being interviewed by the FBI! Does anyone think it odd that the FBI interviewed her without her being under oath? If you weren't paying attention, we had people at the highest levels of the government doing everything possible to get her elected. Their actions contributed to a country that can no longer be considered a democratic republic.
IMHO she lost in no small measure because voters actually want to retain our democracy. And we want jobs, a healthy and growing economy, respect for laws and for our military, police, and other first responders, and perhaps most of all, we want to keep our precious FREEDOMS!
Dems, stop all the atrocious lying. We see right through you.
You must not be aware the Japanese were systematically starving about a quarter of a million people to death every month in lands conquered by Japan. If the U.S. nukes made the war shorter by a year, that's 2.4 million innocents who would otherwise have died due to Japanese occupation.
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but this one takes the cake! It's even more far out than the crazy people who came out of the woodwork after the JFK assassination.
The executives who had wanted Xerox to go the computer route...
Xerox went the computer route! They purchased Scientific Data Systems (SDS) from Max Palevsky in 1969 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Palevsky). SDS (renamed Xerox Data Systems or XDS) was based in El Segundo. Was this before your time?
This is a trend I have noticed for the last 10 years: Americans have become so ridiculously afraid of literally everything...
I'm afraid you are misinformed. Born and raised in the U.S.A., I am concerned about tornadoes and earthquakes where I live (both are endemic to this area) and it's somewhat disturbing that you have little warning of one and none of the other. I have no fear of terrorists (they should actually be scared shitless of us, especially in this area) or really much of anything else.
My only real fear is that when the democrats eventually regain the White House, they will finish the previous president's work of destroying the country from within.
Same message ("this is not [a] drill"), same geographic area (Hawaii), polar opposite outcomes. Under the definition of irony ("an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected"), I claim irony.
Of course "Congress" has a low approval rating. Most of the members of Congress do not represent you -- they represent their own districts and their own people and they work to bring resources (jobs, money, etc) to their people.
I never said most of congress represents me. I am represented by one person in the house and two senators. Your "of course" makes no sense. I hope you realize approval ratings change over time. CNN says, "Congress's overall 10% approval is the lowest for Congress in Quinnipiac's history of data back to 2003. Using Gallup data beyond that, it's the lowest for Congress in data back to 1974."
Congress is 535 people, only three of whom are nominally supposed to represent you. 3/535 is about 0.2% expected approval.
Math is not your speciality.
9% is nearly fifty times the expected approval rating for that situation.
Math is really not your speciality.
The President is supposed to represent one hundred percent of the people. Not just his party, not just his base, not just his personal corporations. He has about a third of his nominal potential approval rating.
You'll have to tell us what a "nominal potential approval rating" is. I've been following politics closely for many years and never heard that term.
So Congress is about 150 times more popular than the President. Mcconnel, Feinstein, etc are, as a group, 150 times better than the president in popular approval.
Wow, that's so illogical I don't know where to begin to deconstruct it.
Let that sink in for a bit.
Major, epic fail in math, reasoning, understanding. Let that sink in for a bit.
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CNN should be ashamed of itself - but it's been pellucidly clear for at least 3 decades now that it it has no sense of organizatonal shame, so I'm not holding my breath on that score.
I watch all the cable news channels. It should be clear to any viewer that all the mainstream media "news" stations have become the public relations arm of the democratic party. There is no longer any journalistic integrity on mainstream media (MM) channels. If you watch MM news for more than a minute or two and don't see either incredible bias or an outright lie, some part of your brain no longer works.
Yep, vinyl is dead. However, there is a new material that is quieter and delivers better sound. Don't remember what it is. Maybe a /. reader can update with the name of the material.
"We can't take any more cuts and still do the job that the American public needs us to do -- there simply will not be the staff available on duty to issue the forecasts and warnings upon which the country depends," said Dan Sobien, the president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization.
I'll support the NWS when they begin delivering accurate and reliable forecasts. Now, whenever precip of any type is involved (especially frozen precip), forecasts are typically pretty stinking inaccurate.
Started programming in 1969 in Fortran, progressed through a number of assembly languages (including MetaSymbol on XDS machines, what a joy!), basic, enough cobol to know I'd never touch it again, snobol, Pascal (as many strengths as weaknesses in the language, probably a mistake to protect the programmer from himself), Revelation, a bit of perl, a bit of forth (yuck, a solution in search of a problem), icon, a bit of java, awk, cubic metric tons of shell scripting, C, probably some others along the way. Retired and still doing some C for my own uses. Over 48.5 years, C is my all-time favorite language by far.
Boomers aren't the judge of cool.
Typical gen-xer, obsessed with cool for some bizarre reason. If cool is all you've got, you've got nothing.
No, you don't want diversity. When a company is faced with extremely difficult tasks and insane deadlines, the last thing you want is diversity (and I don't mean diversity in the sense of skin color). You want the strongest, most experienced team you can possibly put together. Every member has to be strong in several areas. Every member has to be willing to work long hours, go in nights and weekends, whatever it takes. To accept less is to plan for failure.
Been there, done that, got the scars and t-shirt to prove it.
Adults.
You wouldn't pressurize cabins with pure oxigen if you valued the austronauts life.
Please jump back to January 26, 1967, and warn NASA. Hindsight is always 20/20.
"In the case of celebrities, the potential for someone at risk to make an emotional connection and over-identify with them is greater, in some cases even to interpret their death as affirmation that they could take their own life."
As children, we are taught to value certain "famous" people, such as athletes, actors, musicians, politicians, etc. As adults, many continue a fixation with "famous" people. At some point I decided none of these "famous" people had much of worth to add to society and many seemed to have a lot more problems (drugs, crime, inappropriate behaviors, stupendous greed, much more) than I did, so I ended my fixations. I am my own person and I really don't give a rat's ass about anyone "famous." Prior to my learning to ignore "famous" people, I very much respected Robin Williams' talents, especially his amazing ability at improvisation. I am sorry for his suicide, but I have no wish to join him.
Perhaps there's a lesson herein.
Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.
/. readers know Google is uber liberal. For Warner to say the "Google-owned video platform" damaged Hillary's campaign is nothing short of ludicrous! Hillary lost and the Dems need to get over it.
She ran a lousy campaign (and didn't bother with Wisconsin, one of the states she lost), she thought she was to be anointed president and never mind with the silly election, she lied constantly, she had no plan, she espoused the most destructive identity politics, and she probably believed all the drooling we-love-yous from the liberal media. And, of course, there is the matter of alleged felonies and the FBI writing a get-out-of-jail-free finding two months prior to her being interviewed by the FBI! Does anyone think it odd that the FBI interviewed her without her being under oath? If you weren't paying attention, we had people at the highest levels of the government doing everything possible to get her elected. Their actions contributed to a country that can no longer be considered a democratic republic.
IMHO she lost in no small measure because voters actually want to retain our democracy. And we want jobs, a healthy and growing economy, respect for laws and for our military, police, and other first responders, and perhaps most of all, we want to keep our precious FREEDOMS!
Dems, stop all the atrocious lying. We see right through you.
young and hip
(young and hip) != (useful or interesting)
You must not be aware the Japanese were systematically starving about a quarter of a million people to death every month in lands conquered by Japan. If the U.S. nukes made the war shorter by a year, that's 2.4 million innocents who would otherwise have died due to Japanese occupation.
Alaska Airlines better stock up on barf bags!
Who's trying to derale anything??
I saw what you did their.
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but this one takes the cake! It's even more far out than the crazy people who came out of the woodwork after the JFK assassination.
The executives who had wanted Xerox to go the computer route ...
Xerox went the computer route! They purchased Scientific Data Systems (SDS) from Max Palevsky in 1969 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Palevsky). SDS (renamed Xerox Data Systems or XDS) was based in El Segundo. Was this before your time?
This is a trend I have noticed for the last 10 years: Americans have become so ridiculously afraid of literally everything...
I'm afraid you are misinformed. Born and raised in the U.S.A., I am concerned about tornadoes and earthquakes where I live (both are endemic to this area) and it's somewhat disturbing that you have little warning of one and none of the other. I have no fear of terrorists (they should actually be scared shitless of us, especially in this area) or really much of anything else.
My only real fear is that when the democrats eventually regain the White House, they will finish the previous president's work of destroying the country from within.
Apple acknowledged in December that it was secretly slowing the speeds of iPhones in an effort to help preserve aging batteries.
Apple, why would you secretly slow the speeds of iPhones? Something stinks about this and I'm glad you are being investigated!
California, please secede. You don't want to be a part of the U.S.A. and we are sick of you. Good riddance.
Not sure how that's irony.
Same message ("this is not [a] drill"), same geographic area (Hawaii), polar opposite outcomes. Under the definition of irony ("an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected"), I claim irony.
The drill incorrectly included the language "This is not a drill."
Here's some irony for you: see http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mcc/002/0001.jpg and note the date sent.
Of course "Congress" has a low approval rating. Most of the members of Congress do not represent you -- they represent their own districts and their own people and they work to bring resources (jobs, money, etc) to their people.
I never said most of congress represents me. I am represented by one person in the house and two senators. Your "of course" makes no sense. I hope you realize approval ratings change over time. CNN says, "Congress's overall 10% approval is the lowest for Congress in Quinnipiac's history of data back to 2003. Using Gallup data beyond that, it's the lowest for Congress in data back to 1974."
Congress is 535 people, only three of whom are nominally supposed to represent you. 3/535 is about 0.2% expected approval.
Math is not your speciality.
9% is nearly fifty times the expected approval rating for that situation.
Math is really not your speciality.
The President is supposed to represent one hundred percent of the people. Not just his party, not just his base, not just his personal corporations. He has about a third of his nominal potential approval rating.
You'll have to tell us what a "nominal potential approval rating" is. I've been following politics closely for many years and never heard that term.
So Congress is about 150 times more popular than the President. Mcconnel, Feinstein, etc are, as a group, 150 times better than the president in popular approval.
Wow, that's so illogical I don't know where to begin to deconstruct it.
Let that sink in for a bit.
Major, epic fail in math, reasoning, understanding. Let that sink in for a bit.
I read "CNN Shutters ..." and was instantly ecstatic! Then I read the remainder of the headline. Maybe next time.
Guess we'd better stop eating.
FTFY, the climate crazies will be happy now.