I could accept that you were talking about Australia
"Brownout" is low voltage or low current and is a failure mode unexpected in developed countries (because it tends to break stuff) and is not what happened in South Australia. It's a sign of incredibly poorly managed electricity infrastructure. Good supply or nothing is what is supposed to happen. Also comparing two events to the hundreds that happened during the Enron debacle alone is a bit much.
Over 11 billion dollars
On payroll for prison workers? They could move a lot of goalposts on that money. I really do not appreciate being seen as so stupid and what's with the dishonesty?
My point here is that stupid shit is drafted into law in California such as the one being discussed, not that they are in any way unique in that behaviour.
You used the plural so you don't get to move the goalposts to the single nation with "11 supercarriers with accompanying battlegroups"
If you meant becoming the world's leading economy you should have written so instead of attempting to "correct" my opinion that China and India are now among the leading economies of the world.
Since I can use it on a eeepc netbook I can't see where your speed complaints are coming from. It kind of looks like you are making them up unless you are using it on hardware from last century.
No there actually were elected idiots blaming payroll for a small number of employees for all of California's financial incompetence.
Australia has had issues
An amoral opportunistic academic economist (Allan Fels) at a third ranked University in a provincial city managed to convince a political party that a California style energy market would be a good thing. It was for him, he's on a dozen company boards now when otherwise he'd just be whining that he'd never end up as head of department. That has produced an environment where some of the lowest electricity generation costs in the world turn into some of the highest retail charges in the world - massive profits from a captive market. Add in games like gas turbine owners waiting until there is a shortage and thus a high price for their electricity and there's plenty of secondhand stupidity to go around.
Nobody really cares about the engineers warning that the grid needs maintenance
I used to be one of those, but instead of that extra work being done it was cut back and I was laid off along with a lot of others
Is India creating 800,000 new jobs per year for those 800,000 new graduates?
No, but your manager contemplating outsourcing is creating jobs there. The current unemployment is due to downturns elsewhere. There really are a huge number of tech jobs ending up there.
The gave some of those "entirely symbolic" tests to some kids from rural Chad some years ago, which they failed dismally, then gave them a different one involving arcs instead of rectangles and they hit the top of the scale. IQ tests are an approximate but flawed indication and apparently shouldn't be trusted much more than that utterly stupid Myer-Briggs that everyone games to provide the personality result they think the employer wants. IQ tests seem to only be considered relevant in the land where the "lie detector" is considered to be a real thing and not a scam.
Indian engineers suck for the same reason that no one will hire them: Because Indians cheat and lie. They cheat and lie when they wake up in the morning. They cheat and lie all day. They cheat and lie at night. They probably cheat and lie in their dreams too.
Isn't that the American Way these days? Sounds like Presidential material to me.
I think you've met the ones that are doing what they see earns rewards in the USA.
Most professional engineers do this no matter what country - some employment history is required before getting registered to be officially allowed to use the title. The "spin" on it in and the headline is somewhat sickening. Sure the submitter doesn't like Indians, we get that, but what's up with the editor today?
California lawmakers are always doing stupid shit - look at how Enron fleeced them for a classic if old example (and the only developed nation with "brownouts", what fun!). Find whoever is putting LSD in whatever they are drinking and you'll have less trouble. One other classic was blaming the entire failure to balance the books for the entire state on prison guards asking for more money! So yes, stupid shit as normal and an utterly insanely complex voting system to discourage people to do their duty and vote for representatives of worth.
Smart guns are really a clueless consultant trying to find something to say idea instead of a practical one. I'm no expert, nothing like it, but the veterans I've talked to see a gun that locks people out as a dangerously stupid idea that's going to get a lot of people killed.
Fair enough. At least the new white house guy saw active service even if he made it to the rank of full colonel before doing so. The "political track" is kind of insulting to those that do see active duty IMHO.
It'll stand for Systemd Multithreading before the year's out.
I think you are overestimating Lennart's ability. The "parallel startup" that upstart had and systemd was supposed to do didn't really happen. Multithreading is an "advanced topic" like checking that your inputs are valid.
A lot of corporate names and logos are childish anyway so what's the problem? Even medicines that can mean life or death have "cool" and "trendy" branding.
Considering it performs well on very old hardware (eg. 32 bit netbooks with tiny batteries) it's going to be even better on new stuff. Then again, everything performs well on new hardware apart from MS Win10 if you are unlucky enough to hit one of it's teething problems.
Ah - pretended misunderstanding due to pretending to ignore the context - what fun! So yes - I lose marks for lack of precision and you get a bug fat zero for reading comprehension that you do not deserve, you are only pretending to be so ignorant.
Is this some sort of new game? What are the rules? Do you get to collect a psi duck or only a migraine?
Here's something from the news site crikey.com.au "Yes, Australia's best bud Saudi Arabia is actively funding terrorism":
http://bit.ly/2tO8kKc It should be the full article. If not you can have read the full thing if you provide an email address and choose a password for a free two week trial of the site.
Criticism of a politician who later ended up on trial for corruption was the "anti-Zionist screed" in that case:( Hence not mentioning Fisk's excellent book that barely mentions Israel at all - there are plenty of others.
No, the House of Saud
You are treating it as monolithic and not the factional medieval basket case that it is. They did most of the setting up of Daash and appear to still be funneling money to them, as are people in power in Turkey.
but IS is absolutely fighting a religious war
That's what their propaganda says, but it fighting even less of a religious war than the IRA was. They are fighting people of their own religion.
Well, it is a case of being fucked up in the head....and it does matter to 'real' men
Or real women or real whatever. Seriously how many of us are "real men" in comparison to the average farm girl. Draft dodger Trump certainly isn't. You've been fed a very stupid argument. Most of the raw recruits that ended up winning WWII were initially nowhere near as tough as the professional military personel you are putting down - my mother and the people in her small town were not impressed by all those city slicker weaklings that couldn't even shoot straight.
That doesn't rate on the scale of those "God hates to poor" folks. Consider things like the people who got so angry when people who had been homeless in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina got some help just like those "real people" who had property. I don't think Jesus would call those angry folks religious.
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"Brownout" is low voltage or low current and is a failure mode unexpected in developed countries (because it tends to break stuff) and is not what happened in South Australia. It's a sign of incredibly poorly managed electricity infrastructure. Good supply or nothing is what is supposed to happen. Also comparing two events to the hundreds that happened during the Enron debacle alone is a bit much.
On payroll for prison workers? They could move a lot of goalposts on that money. I really do not appreciate being seen as so stupid and what's with the dishonesty?
My point here is that stupid shit is drafted into law in California such as the one being discussed, not that they are in any way unique in that behaviour.
You used the plural so you don't get to move the goalposts to the single nation with "11 supercarriers with accompanying battlegroups"
If you meant becoming the world's leading economy you should have written so instead of attempting to "correct" my opinion that China and India are now among the leading economies of the world.
Since I can use it on a eeepc netbook I can't see where your speed complaints are coming from.
It kind of looks like you are making them up unless you are using it on hardware from last century.
No there actually were elected idiots blaming payroll for a small number of employees for all of California's financial incompetence.
An amoral opportunistic academic economist (Allan Fels) at a third ranked University in a provincial city managed to convince a political party that a California style energy market would be a good thing. It was for him, he's on a dozen company boards now when otherwise he'd just be whining that he'd never end up as head of department. That has produced an environment where some of the lowest electricity generation costs in the world turn into some of the highest retail charges in the world - massive profits from a captive market. Add in games like gas turbine owners waiting until there is a shortage and thus a high price for their electricity and there's plenty of secondhand stupidity to go around.
I used to be one of those, but instead of that extra work being done it was cut back and I was laid off along with a lot of others
Look at wikipedia - they already do!
Have you heard of a guy called Trump?
Is India creating 800,000 new jobs per year for those 800,000 new graduates?
No, but your manager contemplating outsourcing is creating jobs there.
The current unemployment is due to downturns elsewhere. There really are a huge number of tech jobs ending up there.
The gave some of those "entirely symbolic" tests to some kids from rural Chad some years ago, which they failed dismally, then gave them a different one involving arcs instead of rectangles and they hit the top of the scale. IQ tests are an approximate but flawed indication and apparently shouldn't be trusted much more than that utterly stupid Myer-Briggs that everyone games to provide the personality result they think the employer wants.
IQ tests seem to only be considered relevant in the land where the "lie detector" is considered to be a real thing and not a scam.
It's already happening. It's called the fully Chinese companies that are making your solar panels etc.
Isn't that the American Way these days? Sounds like Presidential material to me.
I think you've met the ones that are doing what they see earns rewards in the USA.
It's such a great idea that nearly every professional engineering association around the world requires it.
Most professional engineers do this no matter what country - some employment history is required before getting registered to be officially allowed to use the title.
The "spin" on it in and the headline is somewhat sickening. Sure the submitter doesn't like Indians, we get that, but what's up with the editor today?
Yup. I have boxes and boxes of ammo. I probably need a twelve step program.
Definitely - carrying those boxes up twelve steps sounds like a good way to keep fit :)
California lawmakers are always doing stupid shit - look at how Enron fleeced them for a classic if old example (and the only developed nation with "brownouts", what fun!). Find whoever is putting LSD in whatever they are drinking and you'll have less trouble.
One other classic was blaming the entire failure to balance the books for the entire state on prison guards asking for more money!
So yes, stupid shit as normal and an utterly insanely complex voting system to discourage people to do their duty and vote for representatives of worth.
Smart guns are really a clueless consultant trying to find something to say idea instead of a practical one. I'm no expert, nothing like it, but the veterans I've talked to see a gun that locks people out as a dangerously stupid idea that's going to get a lot of people killed.
Fair enough.
At least the new white house guy saw active service even if he made it to the rank of full colonel before doing so. The "political track" is kind of insulting to those that do see active duty IMHO.
Well said.
It'll stand for Systemd Multithreading before the year's out.
I think you are overestimating Lennart's ability. The "parallel startup" that upstart had and systemd was supposed to do didn't really happen. Multithreading is an "advanced topic" like checking that your inputs are valid.
Considering they laid off just about everyone involved in CPU development as part of the cost cutting to afford buying ATI you have a very good point.
A lot of corporate names and logos are childish anyway so what's the problem?
Even medicines that can mean life or death have "cool" and "trendy" branding.
Considering it performs well on very old hardware (eg. 32 bit netbooks with tiny batteries) it's going to be even better on new stuff. Then again, everything performs well on new hardware apart from MS Win10 if you are unlucky enough to hit one of it's teething problems.
Ah - pretended misunderstanding due to pretending to ignore the context - what fun!
So yes - I lose marks for lack of precision and you get a bug fat zero for reading comprehension that you do not deserve, you are only pretending to be so ignorant.
Is this some sort of new game? What are the rules? Do you get to collect a psi duck or only a migraine?
Here's something from the news site crikey.com.au "Yes, Australia's best bud Saudi Arabia is actively funding terrorism":
http://bit.ly/2tO8kKc
It should be the full article. If not you can have read the full thing if you provide an email address and choose a password for a free two week trial of the site.
Criticism of a politician who later ended up on trial for corruption was the "anti-Zionist screed" in that case :( Hence not mentioning Fisk's excellent book that barely mentions Israel at all - there are plenty of others.
You are treating it as monolithic and not the factional medieval basket case that it is. They did most of the setting up of Daash and appear to still be funneling money to them, as are people in power in Turkey.
That's what their propaganda says, but it fighting even less of a religious war than the IRA was. They are fighting people of their own religion.
Or real women or real whatever.
Seriously how many of us are "real men" in comparison to the average farm girl.
Draft dodger Trump certainly isn't.
You've been fed a very stupid argument.
Most of the raw recruits that ended up winning WWII were initially nowhere near as tough as the professional military personel you are putting down - my mother and the people in her small town were not impressed by all those city slicker weaklings that couldn't even shoot straight.
That doesn't rate on the scale of those "God hates to poor" folks. Consider things like the people who got so angry when people who had been homeless in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina got some help just like those "real people" who had property.
I don't think Jesus would call those angry folks religious.