So do elephants. There is a well documented incident where a female elephant was observed using an epileptic Maasai midget as a vibrator. This is the real reason for their animosity towards elephants. Not competition for land which is the common excuse cited in animal documentary films. This is usually because of a puritan streak in America that causes Americans to shy away from elephant sexuality. I saw this on animal planet. Honest.
Turkey's armed forces are so overwhelmingly superior to Syria's, that if they really wanted to do that, they would have just walked in and done it years ago. Just because they are in the region doesn't mean they in the same lower league as the rest of the middle east. In terms of advancement in the world they are closer to or the same as Eastern Europe which they are also a part of (across the Bosporus) than with most banana republic Arab countries. And they aren't Arab either, so I seriously doubt that they are all that interested in owning trouble making areas.. And the proof is in the fact that they have always had a very strong and disciplined military. I think you need to stop reading so many conspiracy theory web sites.
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That's what a degree says to me. Ever heard the expression, you don't need to understand the material, just know the stuff the professor wants you to get right on the tests. Or your assignment only has to say the things the professor wants to see. That's how students get good marks. Not from understanding, just mimicking back to the professor what he/she wants to see and hear.
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I think that is why I said I don't always get it right either.:)
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This comment would have had a lot of impact if you took the time to use and spell the words correctly. I make a lot of spelling mistakes on Slashdot, but if this were a post not to make them on, this is it.
For the record, and for the most part I agree with you. I've seen too many University grads who assume that a piece of paper means they are more intelligent, wise, and skillful than someone without one even if that person has years of experience; not understanding that such an attitude belies those assumptions. Not everyone has the means to afford university or the mindset that allows them to learn in that environment. The United States seems to be less inclined this way than in Canada (where a piece of paper is everything) at least in IT. In the U.S., experience still seems to mean something. From what I've seen, equivalent time in the work place often equals or exceeds time studying for a master's degree. There are always exceptions, but it still doesn't add IQ or wisdom, just knowledge. Autodidacticism is highly under-rated.
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Heh heh heh heh, I scratched my ass and got a dingle ball in my finger nail. It smells bad. Wots a mook?
Didn't read the other articles I guess. They meant metres. As in altitude. You can only go up so far before you run out of mountain. Plus there is this funny physical trait of them being kind of conical... surface area seems to get less as you go up. Might not be able to just move to another mountain because it may not have suitable daylight or rain (probably more study needed).
Evolution is a bitch, and these plants evolved to grow with certain environmental conditions including seasonal changes and moisture. That also leaves out things like symbiotic relationships with other animals like insects, bacteria, mammals, etc. While I am no evolutionary biologist, I would hazard a guess that 50 years is a bit short to for it to adapt too much. But who knows, maybe they can be treated like grapes and moved somewhere else. As long as it doesn't cause some sort of invasive species issue or something equally negative with bringing in non-native plants to another country.
I know of a possible parallel in vanilla, but it was back in the day when the idea of 'invasive plant species' was not known or understood. Vanilla originated in Mexico. It is actually from the orchid family and took a few centuries for someone to finally figured out sometime in the 19th century how to grow it successfully (i.e. on a commercial scale) outside of Mexico. Granted it wouldn't have taken so long to figure out today, but I think the analogy still holds up if not in an accelerated form. IIRC Madagascar is where most comes from today though some people say that the best still comes from Mexico. Maybe it's a good thing they broke Mexico's lock on vanilla so long ago. Otherwise we would have had even more deadly vanilla gangs and vanilla massacres. We dodged a bullet on that one.
Notice they use a pear as it's symbol. That's because when it is held upright like on their homepage, it resembles their average customer... a pin head.
Wow. You are a rare breed. You started out as an advanced computer user as soon as you were born. Fuck, I wouldn't doubt that you are advanced at everything. And you can do anything be reading a book and never get help from anyone. Nor have you ever asked anyone for help or advice. Fuck, you are superman. Wow, never thought I'd see the day...
Yes they are relevant. In 2000, third party candidate Ralph Nader helped Bush get elected president. Thanks Ralph. Just thinking about Nader now makes me want to...
Bullshit. Plain and utter bullshit. It started in Hama. In 1982. It restarted in Hama last year. But it originally started with Assad's father and the Muslim Brotherhood. And it started IN Syria. A lot of people who are fighting Assad now are foreigners but not the majority by any means. And the only reason there are hardline religious factions there at all is because they are the only ones who are willing to help (whatever their reasons). Everyone else for whatever reason is staying well clear. If you need help in a life and death match, you'll take it where-ever it comes from. We all would. And Assad is not innocent in terms of using hardline religious fanatic terrorists either. In partnership with Iran, he uses Hezbollah as his surrogate army to control Lebanon and to indirectly maintain Syria's war with Israel. And it's evident he is bringing them into play again.
He's a fanatic. You won't change his mind with rational argument. He doesn't get that he's just as invested in this society as anyone else. All it will take is some sort of accident where he can't work for a few years to shuffle him back to reality. Or not. If something were to happen to him, he might revel in the poverty he descends into because he did it on his own and didn't accept any help from others, because after all, that wouldn't be taking all the responsibility on himself. No-one should ever need to have to ask for help or share in community. [/sarcasm] People like that are a minority and a lost cause and should be treated like trolls in the forums. Humans progressed in the world because we evolved as social animals. We certainly weren't strong enough to take on large predictors on our own individually that would have eaten our ancestors if they were individualistic libertarians. If things were really the way he wanted, it would rapidly change to the way it is as those individuals like he wants to be would be Darwinized while social groups who banded together would survive by their ability to handle catastrophic crises by cooperation.
I hope you pay for your own private fire department and police and water lines etc. Twit. Nothing you say will convince me your libertarian hogwash is valid. Especially when you talk out of both sides of your mouth.
Never mind the basic computer programming fundamentals you mentioned (and very good points made). I see things that boggle me like far too many "young" Java programmers whose code is deployed on an app server in a *nix environment while they have only the barest understanding of Linux/Unix. They might know ls, grep, and a couple of other commands (I did say server which usually means command line only). I just can't understand when programmers aren't well versed in the environment in which their code is going to run in.
I personally don't have a problem with frameworks per se, they can be considered libraries in some sense and can cut time in developing solutions. Where I tend to get leery is when they obfuscate the language they are based on. Or are so rigid they make it hard to think outside of the framework box, possibly truncating novel solutions. Done right they are a very good thing. For example JEE is really a kind of framework that allows programmers wide latitude for the most part.
We need a new "Godwin's Law" with respect to discussions about 'older' programmers. In this case, a person's thread becomes invalid any time they use the term 'new fangled' in their explanation on why they think older workers aren't as good as young ones.
Generalizing is a survival trait. Those who do it, live longer. The ones who keep looking for the exception to the rule fall to Darwin. Besides people have other things to do than research every story that comes out of Glenn Beck's ass to see if it legit. The best use of people's time is to just assume it isn't, then move on. If the OP would have posted from a legit news source, there would be no argument.
Maybe instead of raising money by grassroots means to finance Democratic presidential candidates, they should put all the money in a Congressional slush fund. It really doesn't matter which side wins the presidency anyway. Whatever they want, it has to go through congress first, and neither side is that much different from each other once they get in the Oval Office; how is that warrantless wiretapping going with Obama, or drone strikes, or his buddies in the RIAA/MPAA and their DMCA/ACTA schemes, or... you name it. He has done a few things different from Bush, but on the whole not much.
Now with a Grassroots Congressional Slushfund, the 99% can have a fund that rivals the corporations when it comes to buying their local congressman or senator (since only the naive think they aren't for sale in some way). The average American can have their own lobby group with heavy financing that can rival the drug, medical insurance and Wall Street lobby groups. Right now in this day and age, the only way I can see change happening is to fight fire with fire.
Exactly. After how many stories like this will people 'get it' that if you put anything on a web connected device it should not be shocking that it gets on the web. Nor on any device that you let someone else access, whatever the reason. At a minimum she should have had the photos stored on a separate memory card that could be removed. And if the phone didn't have that or she didn't know who to do that, don't put compromising or embarrassing photos on the phone. Right or wrong aside, it is just setting yourself up. When I'm crossing at a crosswalk I still watch to make sure the cars stop. It doesn't matter if I'm in the right it they run me over. I'd still be dead. Sometimes being in the right isn't enough.
Ah that is where thinking comes into it. You see you have to notice the name Glenn Beck. Then also be able to recognize that Glenn Beck was fired from Fox News for being too much of a right wing nut job. And if you know all this but can't understand the implications, then you are more in need of a hockey helmet than explanations. As to the sites you link to, they are moot to this particular conversation since the OP didn't link to them. The OP linked to a not credible news source. And the issue people have is that articles that use not credible news sources shouldn't make the front page. It's like using the Bible (a good book full of great metaphors, parables, lessons, and loosely transcribed history) to form a conclusion that the earth is 6000 years old.
This was the first story I down voted on the recent submissions page when I looked in there today. It really wasn't that hard to click on the link and see the spam site and that this was spam. I even chose the binspam option on the down vote. Whoever is the editor today is slacking. I know I'm not the only voting on those but you'd think anything with a vote of binspam should get an automatic closer look. The second story I down voted was the Glenn Beck trash story. At least for that one I had to highlight the "theblaze" site name and right click on search google to get to the wikipedia link (third or fourth site down the google search) to see that it was bullshit.
Is this lameness the result of the new ownership? Or is it because it's Friday night and they're network gaming and only spending a few minutes here and there posting stories so they look like they're working?
Well I gave it minus when it was still in the recent submission / firehose stage. Of course I actually looked up what "TheBlaze" was when I saw the site banner of the story and didn't recognize the source (can't bring myself to put the 'news' prefix on it). Right near the top on Google was the Wikipedia link. Yep Glenn Beck. A guy so vile even Fox fired him. People, you have to look at the source before believing shit is legit. This guy is just a slightly less fat Rush Limbaugh.
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So do elephants. There is a well documented incident where a female elephant was observed using an epileptic Maasai midget as a vibrator. This is the real reason for their animosity towards elephants. Not competition for land which is the common excuse cited in animal documentary films. This is usually because of a puritan streak in America that causes Americans to shy away from elephant sexuality. I saw this on animal planet. Honest.
Turkey's armed forces are so overwhelmingly superior to Syria's, that if they really wanted to do that, they would have just walked in and done it years ago. Just because they are in the region doesn't mean they in the same lower league as the rest of the middle east. In terms of advancement in the world they are closer to or the same as Eastern Europe which they are also a part of (across the Bosporus) than with most banana republic Arab countries. And they aren't Arab either, so I seriously doubt that they are all that interested in owning trouble making areas.. And the proof is in the fact that they have always had a very strong and disciplined military. I think you need to stop reading so many conspiracy theory web sites.
That's what a degree says to me. Ever heard the expression, you don't need to understand the material, just know the stuff the professor wants you to get right on the tests. Or your assignment only has to say the things the professor wants to see. That's how students get good marks. Not from understanding, just mimicking back to the professor what he/she wants to see and hear.
I think that is why I said I don't always get it right either. :)
Too bad imbecile moderators don't get the sarcasm that most of the general public has no idea what the term mooc means, never mind the intention to use any of the resources available.
This comment would have had a lot of impact if you took the time to use and spell the words correctly. I make a lot of spelling mistakes on Slashdot, but if this were a post not to make them on, this is it.
For the record, and for the most part I agree with you. I've seen too many University grads who assume that a piece of paper means they are more intelligent, wise, and skillful than someone without one even if that person has years of experience; not understanding that such an attitude belies those assumptions. Not everyone has the means to afford university or the mindset that allows them to learn in that environment. The United States seems to be less inclined this way than in Canada (where a piece of paper is everything) at least in IT. In the U.S., experience still seems to mean something. From what I've seen, equivalent time in the work place often equals or exceeds time studying for a master's degree. There are always exceptions, but it still doesn't add IQ or wisdom, just knowledge. Autodidacticism is highly under-rated.
Heh heh heh heh, I scratched my ass and got a dingle ball in my finger nail. It smells bad. Wots a mook?
Didn't read the other articles I guess. They meant metres. As in altitude. You can only go up so far before you run out of mountain. Plus there is this funny physical trait of them being kind of conical... surface area seems to get less as you go up. Might not be able to just move to another mountain because it may not have suitable daylight or rain (probably more study needed).
Evolution is a bitch, and these plants evolved to grow with certain environmental conditions including seasonal changes and moisture. That also leaves out things like symbiotic relationships with other animals like insects, bacteria, mammals, etc. While I am no evolutionary biologist, I would hazard a guess that 50 years is a bit short to for it to adapt too much. But who knows, maybe they can be treated like grapes and moved somewhere else. As long as it doesn't cause some sort of invasive species issue or something equally negative with bringing in non-native plants to another country.
I know of a possible parallel in vanilla, but it was back in the day when the idea of 'invasive plant species' was not known or understood. Vanilla originated in Mexico. It is actually from the orchid family and took a few centuries for someone to finally figured out sometime in the 19th century how to grow it successfully (i.e. on a commercial scale) outside of Mexico. Granted it wouldn't have taken so long to figure out today, but I think the analogy still holds up if not in an accelerated form. IIRC Madagascar is where most comes from today though some people say that the best still comes from Mexico. Maybe it's a good thing they broke Mexico's lock on vanilla so long ago. Otherwise we would have had even more deadly vanilla gangs and vanilla massacres. We dodged a bullet on that one.
it needs a reader who read the preview ... snicker
Notice they use a pear as it's symbol. That's because when it is held upright like on their homepage, it resembles their average customer... a pin head.
Wow. You are a rare breed. You started out as an advanced computer user as soon as you were born. Fuck, I wouldn't doubt that you are advanced at everything. And you can do anything be reading a book and never get help from anyone. Nor have you ever asked anyone for help or advice. Fuck, you are superman. Wow, never thought I'd see the day...
Yes they are relevant. In 2000, third party candidate Ralph Nader helped Bush get elected president. Thanks Ralph. Just thinking about Nader now makes me want to ...
Bullshit. Plain and utter bullshit. It started in Hama. In 1982. It restarted in Hama last year. But it originally started with Assad's father and the Muslim Brotherhood. And it started IN Syria. A lot of people who are fighting Assad now are foreigners but not the majority by any means. And the only reason there are hardline religious factions there at all is because they are the only ones who are willing to help (whatever their reasons). Everyone else for whatever reason is staying well clear. If you need help in a life and death match, you'll take it where-ever it comes from. We all would. And Assad is not innocent in terms of using hardline religious fanatic terrorists either. In partnership with Iran, he uses Hezbollah as his surrogate army to control Lebanon and to indirectly maintain Syria's war with Israel. And it's evident he is bringing them into play again.
He's a fanatic. You won't change his mind with rational argument. He doesn't get that he's just as invested in this society as anyone else. All it will take is some sort of accident where he can't work for a few years to shuffle him back to reality. Or not. If something were to happen to him, he might revel in the poverty he descends into because he did it on his own and didn't accept any help from others, because after all, that wouldn't be taking all the responsibility on himself. No-one should ever need to have to ask for help or share in community. [/sarcasm] People like that are a minority and a lost cause and should be treated like trolls in the forums. Humans progressed in the world because we evolved as social animals. We certainly weren't strong enough to take on large predictors on our own individually that would have eaten our ancestors if they were individualistic libertarians. If things were really the way he wanted, it would rapidly change to the way it is as those individuals like he wants to be would be Darwinized while social groups who banded together would survive by their ability to handle catastrophic crises by cooperation.
I hope you pay for your own private fire department and police and water lines etc. Twit. Nothing you say will convince me your libertarian hogwash is valid. Especially when you talk out of both sides of your mouth.
Never mind the basic computer programming fundamentals you mentioned (and very good points made). I see things that boggle me like far too many "young" Java programmers whose code is deployed on an app server in a *nix environment while they have only the barest understanding of Linux/Unix. They might know ls, grep, and a couple of other commands (I did say server which usually means command line only). I just can't understand when programmers aren't well versed in the environment in which their code is going to run in.
I personally don't have a problem with frameworks per se, they can be considered libraries in some sense and can cut time in developing solutions. Where I tend to get leery is when they obfuscate the language they are based on. Or are so rigid they make it hard to think outside of the framework box, possibly truncating novel solutions. Done right they are a very good thing. For example JEE is really a kind of framework that allows programmers wide latitude for the most part.
We need a new "Godwin's Law" with respect to discussions about 'older' programmers. In this case, a person's thread becomes invalid any time they use the term 'new fangled' in their explanation on why they think older workers aren't as good as young ones.
Generalizing is a survival trait. Those who do it, live longer. The ones who keep looking for the exception to the rule fall to Darwin. Besides people have other things to do than research every story that comes out of Glenn Beck's ass to see if it legit. The best use of people's time is to just assume it isn't, then move on. If the OP would have posted from a legit news source, there would be no argument.
Maybe instead of raising money by grassroots means to finance Democratic presidential candidates, they should put all the money in a Congressional slush fund. It really doesn't matter which side wins the presidency anyway. Whatever they want, it has to go through congress first, and neither side is that much different from each other once they get in the Oval Office; how is that warrantless wiretapping going with Obama, or drone strikes, or his buddies in the RIAA/MPAA and their DMCA/ACTA schemes, or... you name it. He has done a few things different from Bush, but on the whole not much.
Now with a Grassroots Congressional Slushfund, the 99% can have a fund that rivals the corporations when it comes to buying their local congressman or senator (since only the naive think they aren't for sale in some way). The average American can have their own lobby group with heavy financing that can rival the drug, medical insurance and Wall Street lobby groups. Right now in this day and age, the only way I can see change happening is to fight fire with fire.
Just a thought... slag away. I can take it.
Exactly. After how many stories like this will people 'get it' that if you put anything on a web connected device it should not be shocking that it gets on the web. Nor on any device that you let someone else access, whatever the reason. At a minimum she should have had the photos stored on a separate memory card that could be removed. And if the phone didn't have that or she didn't know who to do that, don't put compromising or embarrassing photos on the phone. Right or wrong aside, it is just setting yourself up. When I'm crossing at a crosswalk I still watch to make sure the cars stop. It doesn't matter if I'm in the right it they run me over. I'd still be dead. Sometimes being in the right isn't enough.
Do you watch porn movies for the dialog?
This was one of the links at the bottom of the OP article. It is a pretty funny look at some unrealistic dreams of going to Mars.
Ah that is where thinking comes into it. You see you have to notice the name Glenn Beck. Then also be able to recognize that Glenn Beck was fired from Fox News for being too much of a right wing nut job. And if you know all this but can't understand the implications, then you are more in need of a hockey helmet than explanations. As to the sites you link to, they are moot to this particular conversation since the OP didn't link to them. The OP linked to a not credible news source. And the issue people have is that articles that use not credible news sources shouldn't make the front page. It's like using the Bible (a good book full of great metaphors, parables, lessons, and loosely transcribed history) to form a conclusion that the earth is 6000 years old.
This was the first story I down voted on the recent submissions page when I looked in there today. It really wasn't that hard to click on the link and see the spam site and that this was spam. I even chose the binspam option on the down vote. Whoever is the editor today is slacking. I know I'm not the only voting on those but you'd think anything with a vote of binspam should get an automatic closer look. The second story I down voted was the Glenn Beck trash story. At least for that one I had to highlight the "theblaze" site name and right click on search google to get to the wikipedia link (third or fourth site down the google search) to see that it was bullshit.
Is this lameness the result of the new ownership? Or is it because it's Friday night and they're network gaming and only spending a few minutes here and there posting stories so they look like they're working?
Well I gave it minus when it was still in the recent submission / firehose stage. Of course I actually looked up what "TheBlaze" was when I saw the site banner of the story and didn't recognize the source (can't bring myself to put the 'news' prefix on it). Right near the top on Google was the Wikipedia link. Yep Glenn Beck. A guy so vile even Fox fired him. People, you have to look at the source before believing shit is legit. This guy is just a slightly less fat Rush Limbaugh.