The summary very clearly states that the AC who wrote it thought that Sad Puppies was a response to last years winners of Hugo awards. So yes it is relevant that Sad Puppies has been around for longer than the summary stated. Sad Puppies is all about exposing an ideology.
Discounting the movies which are vary from bad to downright horrible, I do find Starship Troopers a dystopian future. In the first handful of pages you have terror weapons being used on Skinnies, something to the effect of "I'm a bomb and will explode in 30 seconds". Tactical nuclear weapons being shot off left and right. Just with the opening I don't want a future where these are valid military tactics.
One of the core concepts of the book is the franchise is only available through Federal service. So in order to vote you must be indoctrinated into the government and there is no concept of loyal opposition. I don't recall the exact name, but everyone was required to take a class along the lines of History and Moral practices. One thing that has always stood out for me in those sections is the concept of total war. Again I may have the specifics wrong, but the teachers makes a comment about "ask the leading fathers of Carthage how war never solves anything" Implying that wiping out your enemies is not only a valid tactic but is the best one.
At the end with the last drop of Rico's Roughnecks, humanity is appearing to win. But I would say it is at the cost of what makes humans in general good and noble.
A key message throughout the book is that the ends justify the means, that to me is bleak.
Let's see your sources for calling his assertions lies. All my research says what he posted is truthful. The only thing that can be argued is Scalzi gaming the system, he has definitely encouraged nominations and voting trends. He just hasn't been as open about it.
Heck you don't have to give Baen your money. For a very long time they have run their free library with quite a few books available in multiple eReader formats. For a long time Baen held out against Amazon and Barnes & Noble by only selling eBooks through their site in order to keep the cost to readers down.
As opposed to the Tor dominated Hugo's that had a blacklist of authors. The Hugo's have been political for a long time, but it was an unopposed political bias. Now the politics have been challenged.
Have you seen the numerous reviewers and authors who have stated that they will not read any Sad Puppies related work because it is was part of the slate? They have already come to the conclusion that anything Sad Puppies related is not worthy of winning a Hugo. Some have said they will read the Sad Puppies works but regardless of merit will rank them below No Award because of politics.
Your selections from Science Fiction may have been the more Utopian style that Star Trek popularized, but post-apocalyptic and dystopian Science Fiction has long been popular. Some of Heinlein's works were very bleak, have you ever read Starship Troopers? Jerry Pournelle's chronicled the downfall of human society over a long period. Authors like Larry Niven contributed to the War World novels which again take place in a dystopian universe.
I can't agree with you more. The current cliche that has held a lock on the Hugo awards is so biased and hateful. Just go read any comments from the main editors of Tor to see what illogical hatred is.
You've got this backwards. John Scalzi has pushed his own slate in the past. It is constantly down played because he is a "right" author instead of a "wrong fan". This sort of gaming is nothing new to the Hugo's, what is new is that a conservative / middle of the road political group has published a slate and encouraged new blood to get involved with the Hugo's.
I don't think I've ever seen a/. summary that is so utterly wrong and biased. I've now started following the Hugo's and when I get home tonight I'm buying a supporting membership.
First off this is Sad Puppies campaign #3, so it wasn't a sudden reaction to the winners of last year's Hugo's. The first two campaigns worked on verifying the integrity of the awards with Larry Correia, a former accountant, leading the verification. The conclusion was an unqualified opinion that the awards are indeed fairly voted on.
This year the Sad Puppies campaign chose to publish a list of their nominations and encourage fans who had never been part of the Hugo process to nominate works, the Sad Puppies encouraged critical thinking and said nominate books you think are worthy. This is very much like what John Scalzi and other authors have done in the past.
Well with the introduction of new blood into the process the Sad Puppies slate pretty much swept the nomination process. Larry Correia even turned down a nomination because of his involvement with running the Sad Puppies campaigns.
Now we see the backlash from the so called progressives who are willing to burn the awards to the ground by telling everyone to vote No Award for the majority of categories. The sure hatred and virulence since the nominations have been announced are shocking.
I'm now proud to carry the label "Wrong Fan", I've been reading Science Fiction since elementary with some of the earliest books I remember being a bunch of the Tom Swift novels. Yet because I like the works by authors such as Tom Kratman (even if he is very heavy handed with the politics), Larry Correia, David Weber, and pretty much anything published by Baen, I'm not worthy of being involved with the Hugo process.
The main people behind Tor publishing are some of the most reprehensibly in the whole process. The sheer hatred amazes me, for them it is also ego since Tor has dominated the Hugo's for 20+ years.
Several reviewers and authors I've never heard of have gone so far as to state that they will either not read the Sad Puppies related works, or if they do read them won't consider them on their worth. I've seen one blog that some author stated she will rank every Sad Puppies related work below No Award just because it was nominated and on the Sad Puppies recommended list.
Where is the progressive ideas of tolerance here? This is blacklisting in the worst way and I can tell you it is firing up fans who have never cared about the Hugo's in the past.
Fast is something that will be a major selling point of autonomous cars. With great computer controlled precision I'd want highway speeds to be much higher in good conditions. The point on good looking was already addressed, and I can only state that a good looking car will be a major concern for the majority of the buyers.
We have long gone past sensible gun restrictions. Background checks at gun shows and for business sales are sensible. I don't even have a problem with the tax stamp system for short barreled rifles/shotguns, machine guns, and Any Other Weapons. But the ban on adding new machine guns to the transferable pool is asinine. Arbitrary bans on how many rounds a magazine can hold are just plain ineffective, here in Colorado it is being proven once again how such a ban does nothing.
As far as your hysteria of non-metal-detectable guns, that is a fairy tale just like the fear of blood in the streets over the last 20ish years as concealed carry laws became the norm. Barrels for a good long time are going to be metal. All these defenders of the 2nd Amendment are doing is printing receivers, which don't have to handle high pressures. In addition it has long been legal to make your own firearms, I can legally buy an 80% finished receiver and finish it myself. In this case I don't have to put a serial number on it, as long as I don't have a business I can even sell the occasional one. For an AK you just need a jig to bend and drill the sheet metal and some rivets, for an AR-15 it requires machining which can be done with typical home equipment.
Go look up English style from about 240 years ago. You'll find that in modern English the 2nd Amendment would have a . instead of a period because it is two separate clauses. Best thing is the Supreme Court has started to agree that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right and force repressive States to follow the law of the land.
The only problem is most card issuers aren't going to chip and pin in the US. They are going to chip and signature, which isn't a huge improvement over pain magstripe and signature that we have now.
Except the point of the article wasn't to dump on German scientific advancements. The Fine Article is showing that the political actions of Germany caused German scientist to be ostracized from the new mainstream science community. Politics impact scientist for good and bad and this is one example.
The Bush Defense has gone beyond beating a dead horse, now people like you are beating a smear that might be the remnants of the horse. Obama and Holder have gone so far past the transgressions that Bush started that it isn't funny. Yet the biggest defense I hear is either "Bush did it" or "At least it isn't Bush doing it".
I used http://www.gotthejob.com/ last time. I'm debating about using them to re-write my current resume or look for a company that specializes in senior manager / director level resumes.
Since you didn't mention these two things, they are my suggestion. First pay a professional company to re-write your resume, I did this 3 years ago and it was night and day difference. I think I spent about $800, they also wrote a linkedin profile for me to paste there. Next research and find a good recruiting company and let them do some of the searching for you. Just know that these days the best recruiters don't charge you, they make their money from the company that hires you.
I've got almost 20 years in IT, mostly in various aspects of security. I don't consider myself complacent at all, but at the same time I'd much rather work the 9-5 M-F then put in lots of hours. In my 20's I thought that the more hours you worked, the more it showed the company that you were valuable. Sure I got top ratings but I was only focused on my career. These days I consider it a source of pride that my overtime for last year was less than 10%. I'd rather spend time with my wife, with my friends, doing things that are fun. I stopped working to work and now work to enjoy life. I'm so much happier and the hours I put in our more productive, after about 10 hours pretty much everyone is better off calling it a day.
For quite some time my gateway game has been Ticket to Ride. Easy to learn how to play. Doesn't take hours to finish and the game has a good visual aspect. For a more fun party time, I would say Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. Just taking a quick look at my collection http://boardgamegeek.com/colle... , another good one to have is Acquire, plays quick and easy rules. I also like to pull out 7 Wonders for light gaming. For more involved games my go to's are either Eclipse or Twilight Imperium. Just depends, 2-3 hours or 10+ available?
This is almost a philosophy question. While I haven't been directly involved with the implementation of an ERP, I have been at clients that were implementing large scale ERP systems. There are two main ways to deal with this. The first is to take the ERP system and make minimal changes to it and instead perform business process transformation to align the business with the ERP system. The second is to take the ERP system and use existing business processes with minimal modifications and instead modify the ERP and/or put in place interfaces/API's to make the ERP work with the business processes. The answer is not always easy. Many places can benefit from business process transformation because processes have been used for a long time and don't take into account the current environment, they haven't been changed because "this is the way we've always done it". Sometimes the business processes are optimized and your better off changing the ERP and/or putting in the interfaces.
Samsung Galaxy S5 has this and more. I've set mine up so at 20% it goes into first level of reduced power consumption, turns screen into grey scale, restricts background data usage and a couple other things I don't remember right now. Then at 10% it turns into pretty much a late 90's phone with bare bones functions, supposedly it will go 4 or 5 days in that mode.
While I don't know if the Doctor was telling me the truth. I was told that the smell was not my eye being burned but instead it was a side effect of how the laser was generated and I want to say he said something about ozone. I'm likely not right on the details, but on the general statement that is what the place that did my eyes told me.
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The summary very clearly states that the AC who wrote it thought that Sad Puppies was a response to last years winners of Hugo awards. So yes it is relevant that Sad Puppies has been around for longer than the summary stated. Sad Puppies is all about exposing an ideology.
One of the core concepts of the book is the franchise is only available through Federal service. So in order to vote you must be indoctrinated into the government and there is no concept of loyal opposition. I don't recall the exact name, but everyone was required to take a class along the lines of History and Moral practices. One thing that has always stood out for me in those sections is the concept of total war. Again I may have the specifics wrong, but the teachers makes a comment about "ask the leading fathers of Carthage how war never solves anything" Implying that wiping out your enemies is not only a valid tactic but is the best one.
At the end with the last drop of Rico's Roughnecks, humanity is appearing to win. But I would say it is at the cost of what makes humans in general good and noble.
A key message throughout the book is that the ends justify the means, that to me is bleak.
Let's see your sources for calling his assertions lies. All my research says what he posted is truthful. The only thing that can be argued is Scalzi gaming the system, he has definitely encouraged nominations and voting trends. He just hasn't been as open about it.
Heck you don't have to give Baen your money. For a very long time they have run their free library with quite a few books available in multiple eReader formats. For a long time Baen held out against Amazon and Barnes & Noble by only selling eBooks through their site in order to keep the cost to readers down.
Have you seen the numerous reviewers and authors who have stated that they will not read any Sad Puppies related work because it is was part of the slate? They have already come to the conclusion that anything Sad Puppies related is not worthy of winning a Hugo. Some have said they will read the Sad Puppies works but regardless of merit will rank them below No Award because of politics.
Your selections from Science Fiction may have been the more Utopian style that Star Trek popularized, but post-apocalyptic and dystopian Science Fiction has long been popular. Some of Heinlein's works were very bleak, have you ever read Starship Troopers? Jerry Pournelle's chronicled the downfall of human society over a long period. Authors like Larry Niven contributed to the War World novels which again take place in a dystopian universe.
I can't agree with you more. The current cliche that has held a lock on the Hugo awards is so biased and hateful. Just go read any comments from the main editors of Tor to see what illogical hatred is.
You've got this backwards. John Scalzi has pushed his own slate in the past. It is constantly down played because he is a "right" author instead of a "wrong fan". This sort of gaming is nothing new to the Hugo's, what is new is that a conservative / middle of the road political group has published a slate and encouraged new blood to get involved with the Hugo's.
First off this is Sad Puppies campaign #3, so it wasn't a sudden reaction to the winners of last year's Hugo's. The first two campaigns worked on verifying the integrity of the awards with Larry Correia, a former accountant, leading the verification. The conclusion was an unqualified opinion that the awards are indeed fairly voted on.
This year the Sad Puppies campaign chose to publish a list of their nominations and encourage fans who had never been part of the Hugo process to nominate works, the Sad Puppies encouraged critical thinking and said nominate books you think are worthy. This is very much like what John Scalzi and other authors have done in the past.
Well with the introduction of new blood into the process the Sad Puppies slate pretty much swept the nomination process. Larry Correia even turned down a nomination because of his involvement with running the Sad Puppies campaigns.
Now we see the backlash from the so called progressives who are willing to burn the awards to the ground by telling everyone to vote No Award for the majority of categories. The sure hatred and virulence since the nominations have been announced are shocking.
I'm now proud to carry the label "Wrong Fan", I've been reading Science Fiction since elementary with some of the earliest books I remember being a bunch of the Tom Swift novels. Yet because I like the works by authors such as Tom Kratman (even if he is very heavy handed with the politics), Larry Correia, David Weber, and pretty much anything published by Baen, I'm not worthy of being involved with the Hugo process.
The main people behind Tor publishing are some of the most reprehensibly in the whole process. The sheer hatred amazes me, for them it is also ego since Tor has dominated the Hugo's for 20+ years.
Several reviewers and authors I've never heard of have gone so far as to state that they will either not read the Sad Puppies related works, or if they do read them won't consider them on their worth. I've seen one blog that some author stated she will rank every Sad Puppies related work below No Award just because it was nominated and on the Sad Puppies recommended list.
Where is the progressive ideas of tolerance here? This is blacklisting in the worst way and I can tell you it is firing up fans who have never cared about the Hugo's in the past.
That's what you get for using a bleeding edge process.
Fast is something that will be a major selling point of autonomous cars. With great computer controlled precision I'd want highway speeds to be much higher in good conditions. The point on good looking was already addressed, and I can only state that a good looking car will be a major concern for the majority of the buyers.
We have long gone past sensible gun restrictions. Background checks at gun shows and for business sales are sensible. I don't even have a problem with the tax stamp system for short barreled rifles/shotguns, machine guns, and Any Other Weapons. But the ban on adding new machine guns to the transferable pool is asinine. Arbitrary bans on how many rounds a magazine can hold are just plain ineffective, here in Colorado it is being proven once again how such a ban does nothing. As far as your hysteria of non-metal-detectable guns, that is a fairy tale just like the fear of blood in the streets over the last 20ish years as concealed carry laws became the norm. Barrels for a good long time are going to be metal. All these defenders of the 2nd Amendment are doing is printing receivers, which don't have to handle high pressures. In addition it has long been legal to make your own firearms, I can legally buy an 80% finished receiver and finish it myself. In this case I don't have to put a serial number on it, as long as I don't have a business I can even sell the occasional one. For an AK you just need a jig to bend and drill the sheet metal and some rivets, for an AR-15 it requires machining which can be done with typical home equipment.
Go look up English style from about 240 years ago. You'll find that in modern English the 2nd Amendment would have a . instead of a period because it is two separate clauses. Best thing is the Supreme Court has started to agree that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right and force repressive States to follow the law of the land.
The only problem is most card issuers aren't going to chip and pin in the US. They are going to chip and signature, which isn't a huge improvement over pain magstripe and signature that we have now.
Except the point of the article wasn't to dump on German scientific advancements. The Fine Article is showing that the political actions of Germany caused German scientist to be ostracized from the new mainstream science community. Politics impact scientist for good and bad and this is one example.
The Bush Defense has gone beyond beating a dead horse, now people like you are beating a smear that might be the remnants of the horse. Obama and Holder have gone so far past the transgressions that Bush started that it isn't funny. Yet the biggest defense I hear is either "Bush did it" or "At least it isn't Bush doing it".
May your soul rest in peace now that you have angered 4chan. Sincerely The Internet
I used http://www.gotthejob.com/ last time. I'm debating about using them to re-write my current resume or look for a company that specializes in senior manager / director level resumes.
Since you didn't mention these two things, they are my suggestion. First pay a professional company to re-write your resume, I did this 3 years ago and it was night and day difference. I think I spent about $800, they also wrote a linkedin profile for me to paste there. Next research and find a good recruiting company and let them do some of the searching for you. Just know that these days the best recruiters don't charge you, they make their money from the company that hires you.
I've got almost 20 years in IT, mostly in various aspects of security. I don't consider myself complacent at all, but at the same time I'd much rather work the 9-5 M-F then put in lots of hours. In my 20's I thought that the more hours you worked, the more it showed the company that you were valuable. Sure I got top ratings but I was only focused on my career. These days I consider it a source of pride that my overtime for last year was less than 10%. I'd rather spend time with my wife, with my friends, doing things that are fun. I stopped working to work and now work to enjoy life. I'm so much happier and the hours I put in our more productive, after about 10 hours pretty much everyone is better off calling it a day.
For quite some time my gateway game has been Ticket to Ride. Easy to learn how to play. Doesn't take hours to finish and the game has a good visual aspect. For a more fun party time, I would say Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. Just taking a quick look at my collection http://boardgamegeek.com/colle... , another good one to have is Acquire, plays quick and easy rules. I also like to pull out 7 Wonders for light gaming. For more involved games my go to's are either Eclipse or Twilight Imperium. Just depends, 2-3 hours or 10+ available?
This is almost a philosophy question. While I haven't been directly involved with the implementation of an ERP, I have been at clients that were implementing large scale ERP systems. There are two main ways to deal with this. The first is to take the ERP system and make minimal changes to it and instead perform business process transformation to align the business with the ERP system. The second is to take the ERP system and use existing business processes with minimal modifications and instead modify the ERP and/or put in place interfaces/API's to make the ERP work with the business processes. The answer is not always easy. Many places can benefit from business process transformation because processes have been used for a long time and don't take into account the current environment, they haven't been changed because "this is the way we've always done it". Sometimes the business processes are optimized and your better off changing the ERP and/or putting in the interfaces.
galaxy s5 power saving mode or galaxy s5 ultra power saving mode
Samsung Galaxy S5 has this and more. I've set mine up so at 20% it goes into first level of reduced power consumption, turns screen into grey scale, restricts background data usage and a couple other things I don't remember right now. Then at 10% it turns into pretty much a late 90's phone with bare bones functions, supposedly it will go 4 or 5 days in that mode.
While I don't know if the Doctor was telling me the truth. I was told that the smell was not my eye being burned but instead it was a side effect of how the laser was generated and I want to say he said something about ozone. I'm likely not right on the details, but on the general statement that is what the place that did my eyes told me.