What will his staff do, read the Wikipedia page about Wikileaks and report back? With senators having so much free time and resources, it is little wonder that US is facing a deficit in the small trillions.
Do they indeed? Maybe you have a reference? In a peer-reviewed study?
It is precisely the other way around - his stance backs what he believes a "majority of experts" back. Whether he understands that or not is an altogether different matter.
This isn't much better than your average denialist, up to and including the condescending tone.
Have you ever tried to have a rational discussion about climate change with someone who's either unaware of willfully ignorant of the science? It's really irritating, much like trying to talk to a Creationist about evolution. No, actually, it's worse, because at least Creationism isn't getting a leg up by way of the media's gross oversimplification. If I were a climate scientist,
I can't put these two together. Are you a climate scientist with a peer-reviewed record who can evaluate contributions without resorting to realclimate.org? If you're not, how come you're claiming expertise?
US Won't extradite any member of the US Military unless it is for something like Murder
US won't extradite any member of the military on any account. In fact, US will extract murderers in their military from a foreign country, ship them back to the US and shield them from prosecution.
DNRTFA, but I just did a search in Simplified Chinse for Tiananmen, and the first couple of hits referenced the massacre. Links to Wikipedia and bloggers discussing the events also popped up. I am not in China, FWIW.
Awwell, if you're working for the government (albeit indirectly), then the primary goal of the business is to siphon off tax money rather than make a product and succeed in a market. Obviously the hiring criteria are also different.
On the other hand you probably enjoy job security of which the folks like me, who actually pay the taxes, cannot even dream of:)
No, they wouldn't - I don't know what is your experience with HR people, but for me the HR people (when I was hiring people in IT anyway) were just a convenient tool to do the menial part of the process -- contact and manage the numerous sources of job candidates, appointments, etc. They were also a simple filter for whether a candidate's resume matched the basic skills required, and if it didn't I would still get the resume, but it would be flagged - i.e. the decision was all mine (or my department's). For positions for which we administered various tests, the HR people would generally help organizing and processing those, but that's about all they did.
So, had I said minimum 2 year associates degree, that would mean exactly that for the HR.
Having tried both DSL and puppy linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/) on similar hardware, I say both are quite usable. I personally prefer puppy (so much so, that I even have a full-blown development setup in a virtual box), probably because it works very nicely off RAM and flash (and I use it on hardware with no harddisks, just flash and ram), but that may just be because I didn't stick long enough with DSL to read all the docs. Puppy somehow did what I want from the first boot.
Give both a try and pick one.
I run puppy on the oldest vaio picture book (from flash on IDE adapter) and an even older 486 DX/66 w 32 megs of ram, 100MB disk and a flash rom.
I was the owner of the business from day one, but I haven't "graduated" from the job at all.
While I do use some help from other people, and the really menial stuff is heavily automated (by myself), I still work in the shop, and do a lot of the work.
I got out of IT after more than 10 years in the field (and CTO-ing for a public company in my last job) as I finally got fed up with it. After a longish sabbatical, I started a small bakery/coffee shop. I'd say it is as big a change as you can axe for, and I have been pretty happy so far. I still use some of my mad skillz, but since I went the hard way - designed and built my shop and equipment more or less from scratch - I had to learn (and I am still learning) a lot of stuff - from carpentry, construction work and machinery to advanced chemistry.;)
At the beginning, the money wasn't that good and it was hard work and long hours, but eventually things picked up and now I am better off than I used to be. The biggest benefit outside of the pay is the free time -- now I have a lot of time for side projects. Half are somewhat related to extending the business, the other half are just things I like. I don't push it very hard though, because that was what I was running away from in the first place. Overall, I regret it I didn't run away from the field earlier. That said, I got into IT by accident, and I didn't like it that much.
No you didn't. You witnessed people who have studied how to interpret ancient Chinese texts in school for 11 years interpret them. Reading old Chinese books aloud, listening to the Chinese literature teacher explaining each and every bit afterwards, and memorizing what you've read and what it supposedly means is large part of the education in a Chinese school.
Whether they really understand the scripts, and whether those scripts mean what the teacher says they do remains to be seen -- perhaps we'll know when the Time University folk kidnap Confusius from the olden times, let him fix his teeth and tell us about what those inscriptions really mean.
You post assumptions you pulled out of your ass, but that doesn't mean real world works the way you think it does.
Here is a post to get you started, from the horse's mouth. This is for their "enterprise" filtering system, there are links for the gmail one as well. Notice how "total volume of spam" they get keeps increasing, just like everyone else's.
Google (or anybody) hasn't solved any spam problem, they keep doing what I do - spend money/resources to filter it on the server side. Everyone else who is running an email server does the same. The effort and resources are still wasted, whether the clueless lusers see it or not.
The "government" (especially that of the US, which is still the top spammer, accounting for more spam than the next 9 in the top list) can do many things -- like hitting the spammers and their customers hard, and press other governments to the same. They do it very well for a lot of things (including "intellectual property" rights) already.
Instead, we see large budgets spent on "cyber terror", tons of spam, and people with their heads up in the cloud, or darker places.
I am not worried about some scary foreign governments.
I am worried by something I really suffer from -- a permanent attack going on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a normal year, 366 in a leap year, indistinguishable in nature from this "cyber-terror" scare talk, except it is real and harmful.
For no other recourse, I participate in a complex voluntary international network, and employ significant resources internally to mitigate this cyber attack. And all I can do is keep some part of it away, barely. Sometimes I suffer from the complexities of this very same mitigation system, when my services are denied by mistake.
And the governments, who btw also suffer from it, just keep tolerating it.
What I am talking about is called spam, and with the government of the largest spamming country being a bit more pro-active, it would decrease significantly. But the government does nothing, spending money on bullshit, instead of focusing on real problems.
My guess is, solving real problems is hard, and because of that less money are left for graft, so the interest of the politicians in solving them is significantly lower.
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What will his staff do, read the Wikipedia page about Wikileaks and report back? With senators having so much free time and resources, it is little wonder that US is facing a deficit in the small trillions.
Your condescending tone implies you know more about the subject than the person you're replying to.
The sad fact is you are not much different than him -- you're only parroting other people's opinions.
Do they indeed? Maybe you have a reference? In a peer-reviewed study?
It is precisely the other way around - his stance backs what he believes a "majority of experts" back. Whether he understands that or not is an altogether different matter.
This isn't much better than your average denialist, up to and including the condescending tone.
Have you ever tried to have a rational discussion about climate change with someone who's either unaware of willfully ignorant of the science? It's really irritating, much like trying to talk to a Creationist about evolution. No, actually, it's worse, because at least Creationism isn't getting a leg up by way of the media's gross oversimplification. If I were a climate scientist,
I can't put these two together. Are you a climate scientist with a peer-reviewed record who can evaluate contributions without resorting to realclimate.org? If you're not, how come you're claiming expertise?
US Won't extradite any member of the US Military unless it is for something like Murder
US won't extradite any member of the military on any account. In fact, US will extract murderers in their military from a foreign country, ship them back to the US and shield them from prosecution.
I prefer bosom-on-bosom action, with me in between, but, hey, whatever makes you happy.
And there is a live video feed available here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
You're not linking to data, you're at most linking to a graphical representation of it.
You sure carbon sinks are decreasing? Cuz the so-called "science" says the opposite. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8352469.stm
I have no problem getting results: (not a goatse, copypaste):
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6613/falunsrch.png
DNRTFA, but I just did a search in Simplified Chinse for Tiananmen, and the first couple of hits referenced the massacre. Links to Wikipedia and bloggers discussing the events also popped up. I am not in China, FWIW.
Awwell, if you're working for the government (albeit indirectly), then the primary goal of the business is to siphon off tax money rather than make a product and succeed in a market. Obviously the hiring criteria are also different.
On the other hand you probably enjoy job security of which the folks like me, who actually pay the taxes, cannot even dream of :)
No, they wouldn't - I don't know what is your experience with HR people, but for me the HR people (when I was hiring people in IT anyway) were just a convenient tool to do the menial part of the process -- contact and manage the numerous sources of job candidates, appointments, etc. They were also a simple filter for whether a candidate's resume matched the basic skills required, and if it didn't I would still get the resume, but it would be flagged - i.e. the decision was all mine (or my department's). For positions for which we administered various tests, the HR people would generally help organizing and processing those, but that's about all they did.
So, had I said minimum 2 year associates degree, that would mean exactly that for the HR.
Having tried both DSL and puppy linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/) on similar hardware, I say both are quite usable. I personally prefer puppy (so much so, that I even have a full-blown development setup in a virtual box), probably because it works very nicely off RAM and flash (and I use it on hardware with no harddisks, just flash and ram), but that may just be because I didn't stick long enough with DSL to read all the docs. Puppy somehow did what I want from the first boot.
Give both a try and pick one.
I run puppy on the oldest vaio picture book (from flash on IDE adapter) and an even older 486 DX/66 w 32 megs of ram, 100MB disk and a flash rom.
People are only so willing to not have webmail, and they are not always available in person.
Their loss.
DD XXL
and communicating in person with people who don't for quite some time now ;)
I was the owner of the business from day one, but I haven't "graduated" from the job at all.
While I do use some help from other people, and the really menial stuff is heavily automated (by myself), I still work in the shop, and do a lot of the work.
Please, never, ever use axe as a joke.
Someone might get hurt, or worse, you may blunt the instrument and make a mess trying to kill yourself.
Good luck :)
I got out of IT after more than 10 years in the field (and CTO-ing for a public company in my last job) as I finally got fed up with it. After a longish sabbatical, I started a small bakery/coffee shop. I'd say it is as big a change as you can axe for, and I have been pretty happy so far. I still use some of my mad skillz, but since I went the hard way - designed and built my shop and equipment more or less from scratch - I had to learn (and I am still learning) a lot of stuff - from carpentry, construction work and machinery to advanced chemistry. ;)
At the beginning, the money wasn't that good and it was hard work and long hours, but eventually things picked up and now I am better off than I used to be. The biggest benefit outside of the pay is the free time -- now I have a lot of time for side projects. Half are somewhat related to extending the business, the other half are just things I like. I don't push it very hard though, because that was what I was running away from in the first place. Overall, I regret it I didn't run away from the field earlier. That said, I got into IT by accident, and I didn't like it that much.
Good luck.
No you didn't. You witnessed people who have studied how to interpret ancient Chinese texts in school for 11 years interpret them. Reading old Chinese books aloud, listening to the Chinese literature teacher explaining each and every bit afterwards, and memorizing what you've read and what it supposedly means is large part of the education in a Chinese school.
Whether they really understand the scripts, and whether those scripts mean what the teacher says they do remains to be seen -- perhaps we'll know when the Time University folk kidnap Confusius from the olden times, let him fix his teeth and tell us about what those inscriptions really mean.
I hope he likes the modern Chinese food too.
You post assumptions you pulled out of your ass, but that doesn't mean real world works the way you think it does.
Here is a post to get you started, from the horse's mouth. This is for their "enterprise" filtering system, there are links for the gmail one as well. Notice how "total volume of spam" they get keeps increasing, just like everyone else's.
Your perspective is the luser perspective, you're content with a problem as long as you don't see it.
Google (or anybody) hasn't solved any spam problem, they keep doing what I do - spend money/resources to filter it on the server side. Everyone else who is running an email server does the same. The effort and resources are still wasted, whether the clueless lusers see it or not.
The "government" (especially that of the US, which is still the top spammer, accounting for more spam than the next 9 in the top list) can do many things -- like hitting the spammers and their customers hard, and press other governments to the same. They do it very well for a lot of things (including "intellectual property" rights) already.
Instead, we see large budgets spent on "cyber terror", tons of spam, and people with their heads up in the cloud, or darker places.
I am not worried about some scary foreign governments.
I am worried by something I really suffer from -- a permanent attack going on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a normal year, 366 in a leap year, indistinguishable in nature from this "cyber-terror" scare talk, except it is real and harmful.
For no other recourse, I participate in a complex voluntary international network, and employ significant resources internally to mitigate this cyber attack. And all I can do is keep some part of it away, barely. Sometimes I suffer from the complexities of this very same mitigation system, when my services are denied by mistake.
And the governments, who btw also suffer from it, just keep tolerating it.
What I am talking about is called spam, and with the government of the largest spamming country being a bit more pro-active, it would decrease significantly. But the government does nothing, spending money on bullshit, instead of focusing on real problems.
My guess is, solving real problems is hard, and because of that less money are left for graft, so the interest of the politicians in solving them is significantly lower.