As an aside North and Poindexter spending DAYS deleting emails one by one (yes there was a quicker way but they did not ask or look up the manual) would have worked with the normal backup cycle but the deletion was noticed and some tapes were put aside just in case. It took quite a few months between the deletion and the legal request for the tapes. So there you go people - IT folks can make a difference to expose things like North giving classified anti-tank missiles to Hezbolla less than a year after Hezbolla killed over a hundred US Marines. That, and many other things, was in the email exchanges between North and Poindexter. I wonder if either of those two have ever dared go near Israel since? It really shows the discipline of Marines that both North and Poindexter are still alive.
The above poster should have waited a few years before calling him that. I think after Trump's dead we'll hear a bit of detail about the underage hooker parties he ran but it's too soon. One of his really close buddies who was at many of those parties did time for being a pedophile, but apart from that everything is hearsay.
There's prudes, and there's people that just think it's the wrong time, place and use of money. If I'm paying for someone's product I really don't want the price bumped up because they forked out on sending people to a conference where all those people did was stare at strippers that don't strip. It's unprofessional as hell and nothing to do with prudishness or whatever.
It depends entirely on the org as to what professional dress is. Smaller places tend not to obsess about it, especially ones with a strong engineering or science basis. No suits, ties or high heels where I work.
So they dress a certain way
It's funny you should mention that right after a discussion about looking professional, suit and tie etc. They dress that way because, to be blunt, the tech industry is often so fucking unprofessional that strippers who don't strip are a fixture unlike most other types of industry conferences. A conference becomes entertainment paid for by the company dime instead of something useful.
Nice try, but it doesn't quite excuse going to see a bunch of strippers that don't even strip on the company or taxpayers dime instead of paying attention to the conference.
Will we soon be banning attractive women because they are attractive
Obviously not, it's just a sign that these conferences are "growing up" and getting more like the conferences of other industries. There's a bit of a difference between having salesfolk who are dressed appropriately and look good or blatantly hiring a bunch of strippers that don't even strip.
I don't have anything against strippers but spending company money or taxpayers money to send people to see strippers that don't even strip instead of paying attention to the conference is a waste that disgusts me a bit. I don't want the people who sell me stuff to be jacking up the price of the thing they sell me just to pay for a bunch of people to go to such a junket. Personally I think if people want to pay to see strippers that don't strip (or even better ones that do) they should do it out of their own pockets. They'll be helping the community. http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/i-support-single-moms/
Looks like I've caught you at a time when you are not at your best. Despite the mismanagement of the TSA do you really think screeners can just arbitrarily turn people away without giving a reason to their bosses? You didn't think that through before posting did you?
Democratic delusions
For fucks sake try again when you are sober or restless or something - that is just embarrassing.
Put yourself in the shoes of those who are getting their accounts looked at because there is a good chance that it may end up being a blanket policy and you or the people you care about may be subjected to it.
Do you really think this stunt is about "the US keeping itself safe"? If so a few courts disagree with you, but it's going to go to another court. Will you still think so if the Supreme court ends up ruling against the stunt?
One thing that dramatically demonstrates it was not about keeping the US safe was the Iraqi pilots entering the US to work with the USAF being blocked by it. Another is some translators and other workers who supported US forces being blocked. Why should the TSA have the ability to piss all over the Pentagon and everyone else? It's about Trump getting attention. The USA is a secondary consideration if not even lower priority.
That's not really the reason. IMHO they would be looking for the equivalent of the "drunken pirate" costume party Facebook post that resulted in a teacher being sacked - something that makes the poster look bad is an excuse to block someone at an airport and thus show that the TSA is doing something.
Also there are a vast number of countries "without adequate record keeping". Even heavily developed countries have a non-trivial number of people that fell through the documentation cracks until the 1970s and a few afterwards. Not every child is born in a hospital. Perhaps you should consider that while you are arguing about an increasingly irrelevant suspended executive order some others here are discussing this issue of the TSA looking at social media in a broader context that has been in the press for around a year at least.
The problem is when the alleged 10% of the population
Perhaps you should have read my post before replying to it. The words "1 in 70 prone to it" are there. That's not sufferers but people who are genetically disposed for it to happen under the right conditions, which may not happen to them in their lifetime if they are lucky.
balloons into what appears to be 50% of the population thinking gluten is bad for you
And you are accusing OTHERS of hysteria after making such a ridiculous statement? I get gluten free stuff sometimes for when I have a visitor with coeliac disease ( I know two people who really have it and have been in hospital for it several times) and while it's a bit of a fad there's still not a huge number of people in the supermarket getting gluten free stuff at the same time.
That's when people get mass hysteria over something that's completely safe for the overwhelming majority of the population
There is a very large difference between a trend or diet fad and mass hysteria. Maybe you should think about it like the option to have low fat milk. For some people that's more of a fad than an actual health option but for others it's a good idea.
So if the first actual fact (only after changing the context to an irrelevant one of China and Russia) out of so many attempted corrections helps me than what about those large number of mistakes you've made? You lose your silly new game - now please piss off.
Fair enough, but this had been discussed for quite a while and those are nowhere near the only two articles on the topic. When you said it was only being considered for seven countries I pointed out that it is also being considered for a general case.
Seriously, wtf? When and why did gluten become an evil boogeyman
It is to some people, just not many of them.
Was there a recent research that found gluten causes cancer or something? Or is it just a new age hippie thing?
There's coeliac disease (around 1 in 70 people prone to it apparently), and yes it does sometimes result in cancers in that group of vunerable people but it's not common. For everyone else (such as myself) - no problem. I know a couple of people with coeliac disease and I'm sort of happy that the gluten-free fad took off, but when it gets down to it while the fad is highly visible it's still not trivial to find stuff without gluten. For example, why it's so hard to find gluten-free corn flakes I've got no idea - normal corn flakes they are supposed to be made of all corn so what's with all the cheaper filler material that isn't corn? I wouldn't have thought about that without the fad.
So what, peanut allergies are far more common and yet I don't see a lot of anti-peanut crusading
There was a MASSIVE amount of it a couple of decades back especially in schools. Some teachers I knew bitched about it.
Gluten is just wheat protein. It's nutritious
Correct and I eat it too but some people can't without problems. At least the gluten-free fad has far more of a basis in reality than paleo and it's a good idea to mark if processed foods don't contain gluten anyway.
Cross breeding and selective breeding aren't genetic modification
They are, you are just assuming that there is a silent "direct" or "artificial" inside the phrase "genetic modification". That's kind of expected since this stuff tends to get discussed in emotive instead of rational terms.
Actually some of them are jet engines (although a purpose built device is better). A backup generator at a small power station I did some work at was a 1950s Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine recovered from an old British fighter jet some time in the 60s or 70s. I think it's still in use because despite it's age it wouldn't have a lot of hours on the clock.
You were quite correct once you moved the goalposts to include China - a first for you and those dozens of attempted corrections you have been haunting me with. So you win - will you piss off and stop your pathetic and childish attempts to bully me and others now?
Perhaps an older article will help bring you up to speed: https://www.theguardian.com/te... Even better for your sake - due to it's age you can use it to blame Obama if it's introduced under Trump!
Ah - another utterly pathetic nitpick on top of the denial. A least I'm not the only one you attempt to bully according to your posting history - but fuck - you must have been incredibly bored to waste time on all that petty harassment.
No problem - the US has a large water boarder. Several I'm sure. Back when this site started I had no idea that a North Korean torture technique would be condoned by US administrations.
Some place offered to give me a discount if I "liked" them on Facebook so that's one reason to have an almost empty account. I then attempted to use it to keep track of tour dates etc for a band, entirely useless, only a portion of the bands posts made it through unblocked because that band with a low income didn't have a commercial account.
Slashdot Mirror
As an aside North and Poindexter spending DAYS deleting emails one by one (yes there was a quicker way but they did not ask or look up the manual) would have worked with the normal backup cycle but the deletion was noticed and some tapes were put aside just in case. It took quite a few months between the deletion and the legal request for the tapes.
So there you go people - IT folks can make a difference to expose things like North giving classified anti-tank missiles to Hezbolla less than a year after Hezbolla killed over a hundred US Marines. That, and many other things, was in the email exchanges between North and Poindexter. I wonder if either of those two have ever dared go near Israel since? It really shows the discipline of Marines that both North and Poindexter are still alive.
The above poster should have waited a few years before calling him that. I think after Trump's dead we'll hear a bit of detail about the underage hooker parties he ran but it's too soon. One of his really close buddies who was at many of those parties did time for being a pedophile, but apart from that everything is hearsay.
There's prudes, and there's people that just think it's the wrong time, place and use of money.
If I'm paying for someone's product I really don't want the price bumped up because they forked out on sending people to a conference where all those people did was stare at strippers that don't strip. It's unprofessional as hell and nothing to do with prudishness or whatever.
It's funny you should mention that right after a discussion about looking professional, suit and tie etc. They dress that way because, to be blunt, the tech industry is often so fucking unprofessional that strippers who don't strip are a fixture unlike most other types of industry conferences. A conference becomes entertainment paid for by the company dime instead of something useful.
Nice try, but it doesn't quite excuse going to see a bunch of strippers that don't even strip on the company or taxpayers dime instead of paying attention to the conference.
Obviously not, it's just a sign that these conferences are "growing up" and getting more like the conferences of other industries.
There's a bit of a difference between having salesfolk who are dressed appropriately and look good or blatantly hiring a bunch of strippers that don't even strip.
I don't have anything against strippers but spending company money or taxpayers money to send people to see strippers that don't even strip instead of paying attention to the conference is a waste that disgusts me a bit. I don't want the people who sell me stuff to be jacking up the price of the thing they sell me just to pay for a bunch of people to go to such a junket.
Personally I think if people want to pay to see strippers that don't strip (or even better ones that do) they should do it out of their own pockets. They'll be helping the community.
http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/i-support-single-moms/
Restless should be rested.
Looks like I've caught you at a time when you are not at your best. Despite the mismanagement of the TSA do you really think screeners can just arbitrarily turn people away without giving a reason to their bosses? You didn't think that through before posting did you?
For fucks sake try again when you are sober or restless or something - that is just embarrassing.
Put yourself in the shoes of those who are getting their accounts looked at because there is a good chance that it may end up being a blanket policy and you or the people you care about may be subjected to it.
Do you really think this stunt is about "the US keeping itself safe"?
If so a few courts disagree with you, but it's going to go to another court. Will you still think so if the Supreme court ends up ruling against the stunt?
One thing that dramatically demonstrates it was not about keeping the US safe was the Iraqi pilots entering the US to work with the USAF being blocked by it. Another is some translators and other workers who supported US forces being blocked.
Why should the TSA have the ability to piss all over the Pentagon and everyone else?
It's about Trump getting attention. The USA is a secondary consideration if not even lower priority.
That's not really the reason. IMHO they would be looking for the equivalent of the "drunken pirate" costume party Facebook post that resulted in a teacher being sacked - something that makes the poster look bad is an excuse to block someone at an airport and thus show that the TSA is doing something.
Also there are a vast number of countries "without adequate record keeping". Even heavily developed countries have a non-trivial number of people that fell through the documentation cracks until the 1970s and a few afterwards. Not every child is born in a hospital.
Perhaps you should consider that while you are arguing about an increasingly irrelevant suspended executive order some others here are discussing this issue of the TSA looking at social media in a broader context that has been in the press for around a year at least.
Perhaps you should have read my post before replying to it. The words "1 in 70 prone to it" are there. That's not sufferers but people who are genetically disposed for it to happen under the right conditions, which may not happen to them in their lifetime if they are lucky.
And you are accusing OTHERS of hysteria after making such a ridiculous statement? I get gluten free stuff sometimes for when I have a visitor with coeliac disease ( I know two people who really have it and have been in hospital for it several times) and while it's a bit of a fad there's still not a huge number of people in the supermarket getting gluten free stuff at the same time.
There is a very large difference between a trend or diet fad and mass hysteria.
Maybe you should think about it like the option to have low fat milk. For some people that's more of a fad than an actual health option but for others it's a good idea.
Answer the question in the subject line before attributing actions you take yourself to others.
So if the first actual fact (only after changing the context to an irrelevant one of China and Russia) out of so many attempted corrections helps me than what about those large number of mistakes you've made?
You lose your silly new game - now please piss off.
Fair enough, but this had been discussed for quite a while and those are nowhere near the only two articles on the topic.
When you said it was only being considered for seven countries I pointed out that it is also being considered for a general case.
Only if they are lazy IMHO.
It's like the recent stuff about people who are "woke" instead of a longer description that actually makes sense.
It is to some people, just not many of them.
There's coeliac disease (around 1 in 70 people prone to it apparently), and yes it does sometimes result in cancers in that group of vunerable people but it's not common. For everyone else (such as myself) - no problem. I know a couple of people with coeliac disease and I'm sort of happy that the gluten-free fad took off, but when it gets down to it while the fad is highly visible it's still not trivial to find stuff without gluten. For example, why it's so hard to find gluten-free corn flakes I've got no idea - normal corn flakes they are supposed to be made of all corn so what's with all the cheaper filler material that isn't corn? I wouldn't have thought about that without the fad.
There was a MASSIVE amount of it a couple of decades back especially in schools. Some teachers I knew bitched about it.
Correct and I eat it too but some people can't without problems. At least the gluten-free fad has far more of a basis in reality than paleo and it's a good idea to mark if processed foods don't contain gluten anyway.
They are, you are just assuming that there is a silent "direct" or "artificial" inside the phrase "genetic modification". That's kind of expected since this stuff tends to get discussed in emotive instead of rational terms.
Actually some of them are jet engines (although a purpose built device is better). A backup generator at a small power station I did some work at was a 1950s Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine recovered from an old British fighter jet some time in the 60s or 70s. I think it's still in use because despite it's age it wouldn't have a lot of hours on the clock.
You were quite correct once you moved the goalposts to include China - a first for you and those dozens of attempted corrections you have been haunting me with.
So you win - will you piss off and stop your pathetic and childish attempts to bully me and others now?
Perhaps an older article will help bring you up to speed:
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Even better for your sake - due to it's age you can use it to blame Obama if it's introduced under Trump!
Ah - another utterly pathetic nitpick on top of the denial. A least I'm not the only one you attempt to bully according to your posting history - but fuck - you must have been incredibly bored to waste time on all that petty harassment.
No problem - the US has a large water boarder. Several I'm sure.
Back when this site started I had no idea that a North Korean torture technique would be condoned by US administrations.
The people who DO like the US are also avoiding it. Not such a desirable outcome.
Not the same as the other visa issue. It's not the seven special countries. It's all of them - UK, Canada, the lot.
Some place offered to give me a discount if I "liked" them on Facebook so that's one reason to have an almost empty account.
I then attempted to use it to keep track of tour dates etc for a band, entirely useless, only a portion of the bands posts made it through unblocked because that band with a low income didn't have a commercial account.