Oh anarchists are good guys and not just as self centred and ideologically driven as to rival any other fanatics out there. I didn't know that. Sure keep drinking the cool aid. Fanatics are fanatics. I have no use for any of them regardless of their stripe. And when these guys steal other people's credit cards, they are then felons as well. There needs to be some way to modify the castle doctrine to apply to people who steal credit card numbers online as well.
I'm sorry but as sad as it is, anyone who uses the phrase, "rules of war" should just stop taking right then and there. War is war. Once you get into the thick of it, there are no rules. And I hope there never really is. And I mean 'really', not the theoretical bullshit philosophy of arm chair quarterbacks who watch the late night news or play Medal of Honour. War is ugly, and evil. And it needs to stay that way so we get reminded of why we try for peace before bringing out the bang sticks. The reason the politicians don't give a shit and send people to war is they think of them abstractly as these engagements with rules. Every politician should have to serve in the military, and if there was conflict going on during their service time and they didn't show up in the line of fire for a tour of duty, they should be excluded from office. You want to stop or reduce war, start putting the retired soldiers in congress. I would bet cash money that you'll find most vets would rather see peace than war again. And as for this three blocks thing you are arguing about, it is about as stupid as thinking cops should just try to shoot to wound if a bad guy has a gun. Three blocks can be nothing really fast. And civilians who start running around outside when there are bullets and fighting around are responsible for their own selves. They can see when the teams are arriving before the fighting starts. If they weren't smart enough to leave then, sad as it is they are the authors of their own misfortune. I know many in America with the 'it's never my fault' view of life won't want to understand this (notice I didn't say can't... I think they are active about it and just don't want to understand). And to drag kids out into the street when they should be going to ground in the basement is the worst. I consider it that they got their own kids killed. And I am sad about that.
Yeah heaven forbid someone turn in a murderer or meth dealer. They'd just be fucking snitches. [end_of_sarcasm] What if someone turned in their friend who just murdered your mother? Would you still be pissed off at that person for being a snitch? IMO that was a dumb statement you just made. Or what in your opinion does it mean to do the right thing? Not so cut and dried is it?... or if you think it is, you either lack perspective or very well may be a sociopath. There are whole neighbourhoods filled with crime and squalor because they think being a snitch if worse than the criminals they turn. Those neighbourhoods deserve the shit they live in. The whole concept that you are a horrible snitch for turning in a law breaker is absurd. And to paint everyone who does it with the same brush is worse. It does a disservice to those who whistle blow and other forms of fighting for just causes (and even then calling someone a snitch or a whistle blower is just the perspective one has on whose cause they believe is just).
I'm glad I'm not the only one where Silverlock sprang to mind instantly when seeing this post. This is book is a trip and a half. Great fantasy anchored in some of the best literature written in the last 4000 years! Well written and wonderful denouncement of rampant cynicism applicable today (the book was written in 1949).
I'll shamelessly add another book written not long after in the late 1950s: A Canticle for Leibowitz. A classic of American literature, rich in texture, dark without being depressing; an achievement since the author, Miller, suffered from it and eventually committed suicide. But he does show that he still had hope at that point in time. He suffered what we would now call post traumatic stress disorder from his time flying in bomber missions in WWII. The bombing of the abbey in Italy did a number on him.
And for the politically incorrect, whatever happened to the Gor series by Norman. I guess a series of books where women where kept as sex slaves fell out of favour. Imagine that. They should have been kept in the B&D section of the book store at least.:)
What the heck does it mean? Even the linked Wikipedia article is a mass of technobabble understandable only to subject matter experts. How about something to tell us what these changes to gene expression (whatever that is) mean in human readable terms.
"Procreation, that's the second most successful trait of us ignorent one's capabilities."
Based on the birthrate in trailer parks and from anecdotal evidence while surfing past the Jerry Springer show, I'd say you are wrong and that it is the most successful trait of the ignorant. Second is filling up the pews at right wing creationist churches. Third is supporting right wing politicians who have no interest in supporting those poor ignorant people who support them. And then there is, maybe, that one skill they are good at. And don't bitch about Limbaugh having no children. That is a good thing. And it might be good fodder for a rumour to say he's really one of those closet gay right wing republicans. Hell, he had a good run with all the claims of drug addled liberals when it turned out he was a junkie himself.
Considering this is happening in Eire one might find it kind of sad given this very famous quote:
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election for Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
This guy is trying to protect his company and himself from investors who should rightly be judging them as less than competent, seeing as how they are supposed to be good judges of the worth of technological innovation. Gee, who would have thought that businesses DON"T trust 'the cloud' for data integrity and security?
I like (sarcasm) this bunch of bullshit:
"As this market evolves, it's also becoming clearer that customers don't place additional value on trust and are unwilling to move the most mission-critical applications to the cloud before less-sensitive applications are thoroughly tested and vetted in a cloud environment," Brown added.
Bull shit has been called on the highest order, since he counters his own statement, calling himself a liar before the sentence is even finished. And then there is this:
"But it's becoming clear that customers, both government and commercial, currently have a preference for on-premise versus off-premise solutions."
And the final nail in the "This press release is to cover our asses and hopefully prevent me from losing my job like I should" horseshit parade:
Harris will instead focus on providing secure networks and cloud solutions for customers on their own premises. "These actions allow us to refocus our capital and efforts on the secure, cost-effective communications and IT solutions that our customers are demanding," said Brown.
Cloud solutions on their own premises. Riiiiight. Kind of like an "anti-cloud cloud," is that it? Yeah, that's the ticket. The next buzzword: The Anti-Cloud Cloud. This Brown guy sounds like all 'big thinkers' who don't have time for details: the old boys club who just happen to network really well. Heaven forbid they actually have to understand the core concepts around their business and what their potential customers actually need in order to make decisions. Instead he seems to be focusing on what he can sell them. Fire this buzzword-happy dipshit's ass and let him go back to the used car lot. Sigh... and even if they do, he'll still get a settlement package orders of magnitude more than what most people will earn in their lifetimes. Too bad there isn't a way to do more to offset that kind of crap too.
So let's look at the conversation. One person says when in conflict federal law in the U.S. prevails. Then some idiot says, oh yeah, well some states say marijuana is OK because they decriminalized it. What, as if that is some (erroneous) argument that there are states that can overrule federal laws and refute the first person's statement? Or maybe it was just meaningless drivel made by someone who is high and thinking they made a relevant and valid point (wrong on both counts). Then someone else says, look, a state can decriminalize it, but if the feds catch you with marijuana they will still arrest you if they want. Now if you can understand English then you would understand that it means you didn't say anything relevant. Then the idiot makes a personal attack thinking that this will somehow alter the fact that his first argument was essentially pointless to the whole conversation because it doesn't refute the fact that federal law still prevails when in conflict with state law. And for the record I lived in the U.S. for the better part of a decade and understand the laws there as well as any U.S. citizen. Never mind the fact that Canadians get all the same American news feeds that Americans get. Now you you can go back to the playground until you grow up. You do your name justice (and it doesn't mean you are cool, just a zero). I'll ignore the rest of your trolling now.
The state constitution thing is interesting. Now about the rest, I thought initially that it was silly but.... given tools for telecommuting, do we really need passenger plane travel? Aside from holidays, business travel makes up the majority of passenger flights. Cargo is a must have, and cargo doesn't have an issue with being groped. Maybe this could start a new heyday for rail travel. Or maybe not. I'm guessing not. But really, what would the impact of making people travel other than by air. The only time something like this happened was on and for several days after 9/11 when American airspace was closed.
So this device is them attempting to market an idea, and their art, rather than a product.
So what you're saying is that they are marketing something and now Slashdot is helping them. i.e. It is marketing like the OP thinks. Why does it matter if it is a product or art? (It's a rhetorical question.)
I suspect that this name appears only in the registers of motels where people pay by the hour or on the sign-in sheet in gay saunas.
In these cases I move that this fake name be changed from here on to George W. Bush. This however does not include use at Radio Shack as it could change the nature of the name to mean 'one who is intelligent enough to be a nerd/geek' (and how the word for one who bites the heads off chickens came to mean uber nerd I'll never know) .
An unelected bunch of twats who are appointed, to whom most today owe their allegiance to the PM. And the Senate rarely overrules the Commons anyway. It's happened maybe 10 times over the last 30 years. Being unelected they don't make it practice to oppose, just give sober second thought. If they voted to much they would certainly end up eventually voting against what the electorate wants. Then the public would be urging the Senate be abolished. There are a lot more people than you think who to get rid of it. I would rather they just be elected and have their election offset from federal elections. Sine they are supposed to be regionally representative, provincial elections would be a good time.
Funny, I thought you were disagreeing with me. You are right, SQL is a butt ugly construct. But I'm not sure if there is a more human readable AND understandable way to do it (you can't expect only math majors to query the database with nice neat set based mathematical constructs only understandable by math majors). And all I was trying to point out was that as ugly as the language is, my original points still stand: part of the problem with DB performance is programmers who think the closest they need to get to the DB is their ORM framework.
But it doesn't mean that if one of the main technologies in your stack is a database, that you shouldn't have to do it well. Or that most ORM programmers should get their heads out of their asses and learn the language and methods of the underlying technology so they don't fuck up the performance of the system by always allowing endless layers of abstraction to in fact form a layer of cold molasses in the system.
This is the state with the creationist museum. I can seen them doing it... period.
Here is something on that creation museum page I posted that scares the hell out of me: "You'll also uncover the truth about antibiotic resistant bacteria."
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The op was talking about how snitches were bad. Blanket statement. Blanket answer applies. Get a grip yourself.
He mustn't have brooked himself then.
Oh anarchists are good guys and not just as self centred and ideologically driven as to rival any other fanatics out there. I didn't know that. Sure keep drinking the cool aid. Fanatics are fanatics. I have no use for any of them regardless of their stripe. And when these guys steal other people's credit cards, they are then felons as well. There needs to be some way to modify the castle doctrine to apply to people who steal credit card numbers online as well.
I'm sorry but as sad as it is, anyone who uses the phrase, "rules of war" should just stop taking right then and there. War is war. Once you get into the thick of it, there are no rules. And I hope there never really is. And I mean 'really', not the theoretical bullshit philosophy of arm chair quarterbacks who watch the late night news or play Medal of Honour. War is ugly, and evil. And it needs to stay that way so we get reminded of why we try for peace before bringing out the bang sticks. The reason the politicians don't give a shit and send people to war is they think of them abstractly as these engagements with rules. Every politician should have to serve in the military, and if there was conflict going on during their service time and they didn't show up in the line of fire for a tour of duty, they should be excluded from office. You want to stop or reduce war, start putting the retired soldiers in congress. I would bet cash money that you'll find most vets would rather see peace than war again. And as for this three blocks thing you are arguing about, it is about as stupid as thinking cops should just try to shoot to wound if a bad guy has a gun. Three blocks can be nothing really fast. And civilians who start running around outside when there are bullets and fighting around are responsible for their own selves. They can see when the teams are arriving before the fighting starts. If they weren't smart enough to leave then, sad as it is they are the authors of their own misfortune. I know many in America with the 'it's never my fault' view of life won't want to understand this (notice I didn't say can't... I think they are active about it and just don't want to understand). And to drag kids out into the street when they should be going to ground in the basement is the worst. I consider it that they got their own kids killed. And I am sad about that.
Yeah heaven forbid someone turn in a murderer or meth dealer. They'd just be fucking snitches. [end_of_sarcasm] What if someone turned in their friend who just murdered your mother? Would you still be pissed off at that person for being a snitch? IMO that was a dumb statement you just made. Or what in your opinion does it mean to do the right thing? Not so cut and dried is it?... or if you think it is, you either lack perspective or very well may be a sociopath. There are whole neighbourhoods filled with crime and squalor because they think being a snitch if worse than the criminals they turn. Those neighbourhoods deserve the shit they live in. The whole concept that you are a horrible snitch for turning in a law breaker is absurd. And to paint everyone who does it with the same brush is worse. It does a disservice to those who whistle blow and other forms of fighting for just causes (and even then calling someone a snitch or a whistle blower is just the perspective one has on whose cause they believe is just).
I'm glad I'm not the only one where Silverlock sprang to mind instantly when seeing this post. This is book is a trip and a half. Great fantasy anchored in some of the best literature written in the last 4000 years! Well written and wonderful denouncement of rampant cynicism applicable today (the book was written in 1949).
I'll shamelessly add another book written not long after in the late 1950s: A Canticle for Leibowitz. A classic of American literature, rich in texture, dark without being depressing; an achievement since the author, Miller, suffered from it and eventually committed suicide. But he does show that he still had hope at that point in time. He suffered what we would now call post traumatic stress disorder from his time flying in bomber missions in WWII. The bombing of the abbey in Italy did a number on him.
And for the politically incorrect, whatever happened to the Gor series by Norman. I guess a series of books where women where kept as sex slaves fell out of favour. Imagine that. They should have been kept in the B&D section of the book store at least. :)
Naw, this is just what happens when an Apple fanboy becomes a judge.
What the heck does it mean? Even the linked Wikipedia article is a mass of technobabble understandable only to subject matter experts. How about something to tell us what these changes to gene expression (whatever that is) mean in human readable terms.
Based on the birthrate in trailer parks and from anecdotal evidence while surfing past the Jerry Springer show, I'd say you are wrong and that it is the most successful trait of the ignorant. Second is filling up the pews at right wing creationist churches. Third is supporting right wing politicians who have no interest in supporting those poor ignorant people who support them. And then there is, maybe, that one skill they are good at. And don't bitch about Limbaugh having no children. That is a good thing. And it might be good fodder for a rumour to say he's really one of those closet gay right wing republicans. Hell, he had a good run with all the claims of drug addled liberals when it turned out he was a junkie himself.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election for Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Now that I think of it.... fuck Brown.... he is the one lying about shit and playing spin doctor. I have to learn not to be so nice. :p
Apologies to Brown then.
Bull shit has been called on the highest order, since he counters his own statement, calling himself a liar before the sentence is even finished. And then there is this:
And the final nail in the "This press release is to cover our asses and hopefully prevent me from losing my job like I should" horseshit parade:
Cloud solutions on their own premises. Riiiiight. Kind of like an "anti-cloud cloud," is that it? Yeah, that's the ticket. The next buzzword: The Anti-Cloud Cloud. This Brown guy sounds like all 'big thinkers' who don't have time for details: the old boys club who just happen to network really well. Heaven forbid they actually have to understand the core concepts around their business and what their potential customers actually need in order to make decisions. Instead he seems to be focusing on what he can sell them. Fire this buzzword-happy dipshit's ass and let him go back to the used car lot. Sigh... and even if they do, he'll still get a settlement package orders of magnitude more than what most people will earn in their lifetimes. Too bad there isn't a way to do more to offset that kind of crap too.
So let's look at the conversation. One person says when in conflict federal law in the U.S. prevails. Then some idiot says, oh yeah, well some states say marijuana is OK because they decriminalized it. What, as if that is some (erroneous) argument that there are states that can overrule federal laws and refute the first person's statement? Or maybe it was just meaningless drivel made by someone who is high and thinking they made a relevant and valid point (wrong on both counts). Then someone else says, look, a state can decriminalize it, but if the feds catch you with marijuana they will still arrest you if they want. Now if you can understand English then you would understand that it means you didn't say anything relevant. Then the idiot makes a personal attack thinking that this will somehow alter the fact that his first argument was essentially pointless to the whole conversation because it doesn't refute the fact that federal law still prevails when in conflict with state law. And for the record I lived in the U.S. for the better part of a decade and understand the laws there as well as any U.S. citizen. Never mind the fact that Canadians get all the same American news feeds that Americans get. Now you you can go back to the playground until you grow up. You do your name justice (and it doesn't mean you are cool, just a zero). I'll ignore the rest of your trolling now.
For example.
The state constitution thing is interesting. Now about the rest, I thought initially that it was silly but.... given tools for telecommuting, do we really need passenger plane travel? Aside from holidays, business travel makes up the majority of passenger flights. Cargo is a must have, and cargo doesn't have an issue with being groped. Maybe this could start a new heyday for rail travel. Or maybe not. I'm guessing not. But really, what would the impact of making people travel other than by air. The only time something like this happened was on and for several days after 9/11 when American airspace was closed.
Psssssst... hey buddy, the DEA doesn't care about state laws. They'll arrest you anyway if you find a way to get on their radar.
So what you're saying is that they are marketing something and now Slashdot is helping them. i.e. It is marketing like the OP thinks. Why does it matter if it is a product or art? (It's a rhetorical question.)
In these cases I move that this fake name be changed from here on to George W. Bush. This however does not include use at Radio Shack as it could change the nature of the name to mean 'one who is intelligent enough to be a nerd/geek' (and how the word for one who bites the heads off chickens came to mean uber nerd I'll never know) .
Exactly... can someone tag this 'shill'?
Which network does that and how do they enforce it?
An unelected bunch of twats who are appointed, to whom most today owe their allegiance to the PM. And the Senate rarely overrules the Commons anyway. It's happened maybe 10 times over the last 30 years. Being unelected they don't make it practice to oppose, just give sober second thought. If they voted to much they would certainly end up eventually voting against what the electorate wants. Then the public would be urging the Senate be abolished. There are a lot more people than you think who to get rid of it. I would rather they just be elected and have their election offset from federal elections. Sine they are supposed to be regionally representative, provincial elections would be a good time.
Funny, I thought you were disagreeing with me. You are right, SQL is a butt ugly construct. But I'm not sure if there is a more human readable AND understandable way to do it (you can't expect only math majors to query the database with nice neat set based mathematical constructs only understandable by math majors). And all I was trying to point out was that as ugly as the language is, my original points still stand: part of the problem with DB performance is programmers who think the closest they need to get to the DB is their ORM framework.
But it doesn't mean that if one of the main technologies in your stack is a database, that you shouldn't have to do it well. Or that most ORM programmers should get their heads out of their asses and learn the language and methods of the underlying technology so they don't fuck up the performance of the system by always allowing endless layers of abstraction to in fact form a layer of cold molasses in the system.
This is the state with the creationist museum. I can seen them doing it... period.
Here is something on that creation museum page I posted that scares the hell out of me: "You'll also uncover the truth about antibiotic resistant bacteria."