English is pretty understandable to a person that understands French, German/Dutch, and Latin/Italian/Spanish. English is more a mix of other languages than anything other than Esperanto.
If anything, it'll be more like Joss Whedon's idea of the future. Where English has absorbed some Chinese, as it absorbed many words from other languages before. (at least based on his representation of the future in Firefly)
I'm hazy on the details. I read it once, when it came out (about 20 years ago). But there was a thing in it with a computer virus that infects people, and it's an STD. Some odd sexual practices revolve around that, but again, I don't remember the details.
I don't even remember the scene you are referring to.
Well, I find it hard to sympathize - when you have drunk any amount of alcohol, you shouldn't be behind the wheels for any reason. Precisely because of crap like this. Additionally, counting the drinks is moronic - depending on what you ate and your current bodily constitution, your tolerance for alcohol may vary wildly.
It's MADD and the others that *want* DUI-deaths (so they can continue their religious crusade) that push for those measures and tactics. The cost of a BAC sensor is under $100 now. But there's no move to push them into cars or keys or have them used in bars before getting your keys back, or including a BAC machine with every keg rental. MADD *wants* dead people, to keep pushing for prohibition.
The hotel was the site of the leak, not the hack. No details on the hack have been released, and from what I can tell, Sony may not have known about the hack until the release of the leak, from the Bangkok hotel.
If anyone has more details, please share. Especially the confirmed ones, not the rumors.
Because it's not our past, it could either be in the past or the future. Because they are more technologically advanced, "the future" is a reasonble place to file it.
It's precicely because it's in the future that the writer explicitly said "long ago", to set it in an alternate reality, neither strictly past or future.
Interesting and compelling aren't the same as entertaining. Many would object to "entertaining" being used to describe 1984, instead calling it "disturbing" or something else they mean to be contrary to "entertaining".
And, in the absence of evidence otherwise, why not make them just look like humans in bad makeup? Niven is one of the few that spend great detail on the non-humanoid aliens. Both anatomically and culturally.
If he says that there is a DNA element to
intelligence (and everyone knows there is) and that it varies by race (again, this is a no brainer) then what is
the big deal, he's speaking the truth.
Given the high levels of misogamy in IT, you could always say you were originally charged with killing your ex, but pled it down*
Not just IT.
Off topic story: So, I like to play with probabilities, and when something is about 60% or more, assert it like fact. It really creeps people out, and when you are wrong, it's usually close enough that people "understand" the error. A friend (coworker in IT) mentioned he was going to the prison to visit a friend. I responded back, "girlfriend or wife?" "Huh?" "The women he killed, girlfriend or wife"? "Oh,... wife."
For just beating a woman, you don't go to jail. They were probably asking for it (it's not just IT that's misogynist). And a man is much more likely to kill his partner than anyone else. So the only question was whether they were married at the time. All the other details were guessable just from the rest. Guesses: He was drunk at the time. They had a kid (otherwise, you just leave, not kill them). Anyone in prison long enough for a friend to visit regularly is there for a long time (ruling out drugs and other things), and thus, it was most likely a violent crime. And armed robberies are rare.
And I love the look on people's faces when you ask a question that assumes so much about the situation. If you just say "So, in for killing a woman, right?" then you sound unsure, guessing, and, oddly, more intrusive. But getting more information than that isn't intrusive. It's simply interested in the happenings of others. "How old is his daughter" or "does his kid stay with his family, or hers" would have also been valid questions, but the simple answer and dropping it was much easier. I didn't really care, beyond confirming my play at mentalist.
I had a misdemeanor speeding ticket (yes, they are crimes in Texas). And every time someone has asked the "Crimes" question in a way that requires a positive answer, I've never been called back. I've even had one clarify that when they have enough applicants, they screen everyone out on that question, without reading the reason.
Yeah, one felon I know was ruffied at a party. The "joke" was that the drinks (alcoholic), were spiked. People who have never drunk much wouldn't tell the difference between 10% vodka and 90% O.J. and 50/50. So make all the drinks extra strong. Oops, one of the people who counted his drinks and thought he was safe killed a family on the way home.
So, now not only does he have to live with that mistake the rest of his life, but he'll never be able to get a job, being a convicted felon.
The system is set up for maximum punishment, with no sympathy or empathy allowed. Anyone in office who tries to make the system work better is accused of protecting child molesters or other such extremes.
If you have past felony convictions for, say grand larceny or other similar crimes, and are hired, and then go on to commit a crime against a customer while working, it's very easy for that company to get sued for millions.
I have a misdemeanor conviction. I was charged with speeding (a misdemeanor in Texas at the time, not sure if they ever changed it). I was denied employment for answering truthfully to that question.
In Texas, the standard forms say "have you ever been convicted of a crime (other than a minor traffic offense)?" Or wording to that effect. But elsewhere, where the tickets are infractions, not crimes, they ask "have you ever been convicted of a crime?" To which the answer is "yes".
And that's enough to get large companies to not even consider you.
. In those days in some jurisdictions only landowners could vote.
And in practice, only white males could buy land. It wasn't an "open" marketplace for land with everyone bidding on land on an equal basis. If you were selling land, you'd not sell to the Chinese or Irish. Or your next home would be at risk of burning down accidentally.
Democracy means any government the people vote on. Republic and democracy are synonyms for some definitions of each. A constitutional representative democracy dilutes and weakens the vote, but it's still a democracy. It is not a "pure" democracy.
Funny. I can still find my name on the rolls in Texas as a convicted criminal. A speeding conviction, overturned on appeal (back when all traffic violations were misdemeanors, not infractions). So my record, according to the state of Texas is "clean", but at least one of the criminal background blackmail sites has me listed as a criminal in Texas (blackmail because they "inform" you and offer to get it removed, for a fee, the fee being larger than the fine I didn't have to pay after I won in court).
Yes, and back when speeding tickets in Texas were misdemeanors (changed in the early 2000s to the points "infraction" system used most other places), I got a conviction (overturned on appeal). I'm even on one of the blackmail criminal background sites.
But, answering truthfully on a FedEx application (have you ever been convicted of a crime, including any misdemeanors?) got me eliminated from contention for a job there. Apparently they only want lying criminals.
So yes, even a speeding ticket (going 35 mph in a 55 mph zone was the speed) can get you eliminated from consideration for jobs. The more applicants per position, the more it applies. When they can look at 1000 applications for one position, they'll eliminate all the people with a conviction of any kind and still be left with hundreds of people for the position. The chance of eliminating the only qualified person in that first step is near-zero, and if they don't find anyone in the remaining hundreds, they can always go back to the criminal pile. But in practice they never do.
My phone is roughly as powerful as a 15 year old computer. But it uses 1/10th to 1/100th the power. If nothing else, the power savings developed for mobile applications would make it worth considering. Speed is far from the only consideration.
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English is pretty understandable to a person that understands French, German/Dutch, and Latin/Italian/Spanish. English is more a mix of other languages than anything other than Esperanto.
If anything, it'll be more like Joss Whedon's idea of the future. Where English has absorbed some Chinese, as it absorbed many words from other languages before. (at least based on his representation of the future in Firefly)
I'm hazy on the details. I read it once, when it came out (about 20 years ago). But there was a thing in it with a computer virus that infects people, and it's an STD. Some odd sexual practices revolve around that, but again, I don't remember the details.
I don't even remember the scene you are referring to.
Well, I find it hard to sympathize - when you have drunk any amount of alcohol, you shouldn't be behind the wheels for any reason. Precisely because of crap like this. Additionally, counting the drinks is moronic - depending on what you ate and your current bodily constitution, your tolerance for alcohol may vary wildly.
It's MADD and the others that *want* DUI-deaths (so they can continue their religious crusade) that push for those measures and tactics. The cost of a BAC sensor is under $100 now. But there's no move to push them into cars or keys or have them used in bars before getting your keys back, or including a BAC machine with every keg rental. MADD *wants* dead people, to keep pushing for prohibition.
The hotel was the site of the leak, not the hack. No details on the hack have been released, and from what I can tell, Sony may not have known about the hack until the release of the leak, from the Bangkok hotel.
If anyone has more details, please share. Especially the confirmed ones, not the rumors.
Touchscreen vs mouse/keyboard for a laptop/tablet?
Because it's not our past, it could either be in the past or the future. Because they are more technologically advanced, "the future" is a reasonble place to file it.
It's precicely because it's in the future that the writer explicitly said "long ago", to set it in an alternate reality, neither strictly past or future.
Interesting and compelling aren't the same as entertaining. Many would object to "entertaining" being used to describe 1984, instead calling it "disturbing" or something else they mean to be contrary to "entertaining".
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd...
I'm older and heard of it many times.
I can understand 500 year old English. So why wouldn't I be able to understand English 500 years in the future?
Go read Diamond Age and tell me whether that qualifies.
And, in the absence of evidence otherwise, why not make them just look like humans in bad makeup? Niven is one of the few that spend great detail on the non-humanoid aliens. Both anatomically and culturally.
If he says that there is a DNA element to intelligence (and everyone knows there is) and that it varies by race (again, this is a no brainer) then what is the big deal, he's speaking the truth.
Or just confirmation bias by a racist old guy.
that's a "serious crime"??
As defined by the government, yes.
Given the high levels of misogamy in IT, you could always say you were originally charged with killing your ex, but pled it down*
Not just IT.
... wife."
Off topic story:
So, I like to play with probabilities, and when something is about 60% or more, assert it like fact. It really creeps people out, and when you are wrong, it's usually close enough that people "understand" the error. A friend (coworker in IT) mentioned he was going to the prison to visit a friend. I responded back, "girlfriend or wife?" "Huh?" "The women he killed, girlfriend or wife"? "Oh,
For just beating a woman, you don't go to jail. They were probably asking for it (it's not just IT that's misogynist). And a man is much more likely to kill his partner than anyone else. So the only question was whether they were married at the time. All the other details were guessable just from the rest. Guesses:
He was drunk at the time. They had a kid (otherwise, you just leave, not kill them). Anyone in prison long enough for a friend to visit regularly is there for a long time (ruling out drugs and other things), and thus, it was most likely a violent crime. And armed robberies are rare.
And I love the look on people's faces when you ask a question that assumes so much about the situation. If you just say "So, in for killing a woman, right?" then you sound unsure, guessing, and, oddly, more intrusive. But getting more information than that isn't intrusive. It's simply interested in the happenings of others. "How old is his daughter" or "does his kid stay with his family, or hers" would have also been valid questions, but the simple answer and dropping it was much easier. I didn't really care, beyond confirming my play at mentalist.
I had a misdemeanor speeding ticket (yes, they are crimes in Texas). And every time someone has asked the "Crimes" question in a way that requires a positive answer, I've never been called back. I've even had one clarify that when they have enough applicants, they screen everyone out on that question, without reading the reason.
Recidivism is low in those convicted who don't serve time. And high in those who serve time. Recidivism is desired to help demonize the convicted.
Yeah, one felon I know was ruffied at a party. The "joke" was that the drinks (alcoholic), were spiked. People who have never drunk much wouldn't tell the difference between 10% vodka and 90% O.J. and 50/50. So make all the drinks extra strong. Oops, one of the people who counted his drinks and thought he was safe killed a family on the way home.
So, now not only does he have to live with that mistake the rest of his life, but he'll never be able to get a job, being a convicted felon.
The system is set up for maximum punishment, with no sympathy or empathy allowed. Anyone in office who tries to make the system work better is accused of protecting child molesters or other such extremes.
If you have past felony convictions for, say grand larceny or other similar crimes, and are hired, and then go on to commit a crime against a customer while working, it's very easy for that company to get sued for millions.
I have a misdemeanor conviction. I was charged with speeding (a misdemeanor in Texas at the time, not sure if they ever changed it). I was denied employment for answering truthfully to that question.
In Texas, the standard forms say "have you ever been convicted of a crime (other than a minor traffic offense)?" Or wording to that effect. But elsewhere, where the tickets are infractions, not crimes, they ask "have you ever been convicted of a crime?" To which the answer is "yes".
And that's enough to get large companies to not even consider you.
. In those days in some jurisdictions only landowners could vote.
And in practice, only white males could buy land. It wasn't an "open" marketplace for land with everyone bidding on land on an equal basis. If you were selling land, you'd not sell to the Chinese or Irish. Or your next home would be at risk of burning down accidentally.
Democracy means any government the people vote on. Republic and democracy are synonyms for some definitions of each. A constitutional representative democracy dilutes and weakens the vote, but it's still a democracy. It is not a "pure" democracy.
And voting is a right. And a responsibility.
perhaps our laws incarcerating so many people need to be reconsidered.
You didn't need the other qualifiers on that statement.
Those felons are taxpayers, aren't they?
When nobody will hire them, Are they is a valid question.
Funny. I can still find my name on the rolls in Texas as a convicted criminal. A speeding conviction, overturned on appeal (back when all traffic violations were misdemeanors, not infractions). So my record, according to the state of Texas is "clean", but at least one of the criminal background blackmail sites has me listed as a criminal in Texas (blackmail because they "inform" you and offer to get it removed, for a fee, the fee being larger than the fine I didn't have to pay after I won in court).
Yes, and back when speeding tickets in Texas were misdemeanors (changed in the early 2000s to the points "infraction" system used most other places), I got a conviction (overturned on appeal). I'm even on one of the blackmail criminal background sites.
But, answering truthfully on a FedEx application (have you ever been convicted of a crime, including any misdemeanors?) got me eliminated from contention for a job there. Apparently they only want lying criminals.
So yes, even a speeding ticket (going 35 mph in a 55 mph zone was the speed) can get you eliminated from consideration for jobs. The more applicants per position, the more it applies. When they can look at 1000 applications for one position, they'll eliminate all the people with a conviction of any kind and still be left with hundreds of people for the position. The chance of eliminating the only qualified person in that first step is near-zero, and if they don't find anyone in the remaining hundreds, they can always go back to the criminal pile. But in practice they never do.
My phone is roughly as powerful as a 15 year old computer. But it uses 1/10th to 1/100th the power. If nothing else, the power savings developed for mobile applications would make it worth considering. Speed is far from the only consideration.