Uh, no. Many of the rules, like speed limits, are there to limit the damage that bad drivers can do when they screw up. Some bad drivers break the rules. Some good drivers break the rules. Bad drivers get in accidents no matter if they obey the rules or not. They just kill fewer people if they happen to be driving slow at the time.
Obviously the latter. But it's still annoying when managers seriously ask questions like that just because they read a magazine article that said the cloud's the future without having a clue what that means.
"Radical" atheists, I gather, are the people who aren't afraid to piss off the religious by pointing out that their gods are indistinguishable from any other fairy tales. Others just keep their mouths shut.
Just because free speech in the US is threatened doesn't mean the point isn't still true. Free speech is threatened everywhere. In many countries you can be sued for libel even if what you write is 100% true. In Canada, you can be tried by a hate-crimes tribunal, without recourse to the regular justice system, if anyone considers what you write to be offensive.
I would say that the same factors that make people poor also make them lousy parents. Which has nothing to do with race, but a very great deal to do with culture.
I've never understood why religious folk have such a hard time with evolution
Because if you truly accept evolution and all its implications, you accept that:
1) Our remotest ancestor, ie. your own great-great-great grandmother times umpteen million, in direct line of descent, was something less complex than a bacteria. Intermediate grandmothers (necessarily incomplete) include fish, reptiles, tiny mammals and apes. This process took over 3 billion years.
2) All human form and function, including consciousness, is a product of evolution. ie. naturally occurring, essentially random.
I can completely understand how people who think that God literally created Adam and Eve in His image and placed them on the earth, somehow outside the natural process, in a timeframe that has some meaning to humans, and will somehow come along and resurrect them after death, have trouble with this. I don't agree with them, but I can understand how their brainwashing and/or wishful thinking would lead them to not accept it.
Definitely. I see questions from people setting up database servers, for example, and they don't even know how to add a user to their system. It makes me cry. And tell them to hire a sysadmin.
Because according to the marketing weenies, user friendly means GUI checkboxes. And GUI checkboxes are not compatible with automation. And Unix admins are all about automation. I setup a server by providing directives to Puppet, not playing with pretty GUIs. It couldn't be any easier or faster or more reliable to do... but it takes a huge knowledge base to make it work right in the first place. There is no shortcut to that knowledge. And pretty GUIs just make it harder to learn how to do it right.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of staff, even in supposed technology companies, are not in any way competent to run their own machines. They are, however, perfectly willing and able to download virus and adware-infested crap and install it for their own time-wasting exercises.
liad (userfriendly) might get to write off (his? her?) bandwidth as a legitimate expense
His. And if he's already making money off the comic, he can already write off the bandwidth as a legitimate expense.
The CRTC might be a huge bloated archaic corporation, but they're not complete morons.
No, they're worse. They're empire-expanding bureaucrats who don't have to earn my money, they can just steal it, just like every other government department.
Thousands of people are homeless and our medical system has 6-month waiting lists for surgery, but what we really need, clearly, is the government to pay for more horrible "content" on the freakin Internet.
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That's why US oil production has been declining since 1970 - too much oil!
Uh, no. Many of the rules, like speed limits, are there to limit the damage that bad drivers can do when they screw up. Some bad drivers break the rules. Some good drivers break the rules. Bad drivers get in accidents no matter if they obey the rules or not. They just kill fewer people if they happen to be driving slow at the time.
Obviously the latter. But it's still annoying when managers seriously ask questions like that just because they read a magazine article that said the cloud's the future without having a clue what that means.
To do so is authoritarian, certainly, and is a feature of both fascist and authoritarian left-wing systems, like all Communist governments.
Then the jury definitely won't mind.
You've clearly never attended law school.
Because his sleezebag lawyer figures Verizon has more money than the tech. Duh.
Why not find a good guild and finish Ulduar? And then start working on hard modes. Plenty of challenging fights in the game.
"Radical" atheists, I gather, are the people who aren't afraid to piss off the religious by pointing out that their gods are indistinguishable from any other fairy tales. Others just keep their mouths shut.
Just because free speech in the US is threatened doesn't mean the point isn't still true. Free speech is threatened everywhere. In many countries you can be sued for libel even if what you write is 100% true. In Canada, you can be tried by a hate-crimes tribunal, without recourse to the regular justice system, if anyone considers what you write to be offensive.
Giant fertile plains ... in a few thousand years after some soil has had a chance to develop.
I would've cuffed his stupid ass too
You're not a cop. Congratulations! You've just kidnapped a fellow citizen, while armed. That's like life in prison.
I would say that the same factors that make people poor also make them lousy parents. Which has nothing to do with race, but a very great deal to do with culture.
I think the answer explains why so much of the world's software is such crap.
I've never understood why religious folk have such a hard time with evolution
Because if you truly accept evolution and all its implications, you accept that:
1) Our remotest ancestor, ie. your own great-great-great grandmother times umpteen million, in direct line of descent, was something less complex than a bacteria. Intermediate grandmothers (necessarily incomplete) include fish, reptiles, tiny mammals and apes. This process took over 3 billion years.
2) All human form and function, including consciousness, is a product of evolution. ie. naturally occurring, essentially random.
I can completely understand how people who think that God literally created Adam and Eve in His image and placed them on the earth, somehow outside the natural process, in a timeframe that has some meaning to humans, and will somehow come along and resurrect them after death, have trouble with this. I don't agree with them, but I can understand how their brainwashing and/or wishful thinking would lead them to not accept it.
"evolutionists". wtf is an evolutionist? Someone with more than 2 brain cells?
Virtually all the waste produced to date in the US is being stored on site. That's how small it is.
Peak conventional oil was almost certainly 2005. Enjoy your Soylent Green.
Definitely. I see questions from people setting up database servers, for example, and they don't even know how to add a user to their system. It makes me cry. And tell them to hire a sysadmin.
Because according to the marketing weenies, user friendly means GUI checkboxes. And GUI checkboxes are not compatible with automation. And Unix admins are all about automation. I setup a server by providing directives to Puppet, not playing with pretty GUIs. It couldn't be any easier or faster or more reliable to do ... but it takes a huge knowledge base to make it work right in the first place. There is no shortcut to that knowledge. And pretty GUIs just make it harder to learn how to do it right.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of staff, even in supposed technology companies, are not in any way competent to run their own machines. They are, however, perfectly willing and able to download virus and adware-infested crap and install it for their own time-wasting exercises.
People can't choose to not be black. People can choose not to believe in fairy tales.
Just because the majority of people are actually stupid doesn't make calling them out a bad thing.
I'm pretty sure it was only 15% that flat out believed in evolution with no godly influence. Pretty shocking, really.
liad (userfriendly) might get to write off (his? her?) bandwidth as a legitimate expense
His. And if he's already making money off the comic, he can already write off the bandwidth as a legitimate expense.
The CRTC might be a huge bloated archaic corporation, but they're not complete morons.
No, they're worse. They're empire-expanding bureaucrats who don't have to earn my money, they can just steal it, just like every other government department.
Thousands of people are homeless and our medical system has 6-month waiting lists for surgery, but what we really need, clearly, is the government to pay for more horrible "content" on the freakin Internet.
Holy balls. Get out of my wallet.