>Everyone watching this video just witnessed felony child molestation.
I think this may be true, depending on where it happened. The child cannot consent. The parents cannot consent on the child's behalf. If there is some legal basis for immunity for the agent, I would love to see how it's worded. I want to know what written basis exists in law that even gives the federal government the ability to grant that kind of immunity to the agent, and I want to know how it's written that doesn't actually give the TSA agents a license to molest children, in general, while on the clock, if they wanted to.
I have yet to see anything specific that gives the TSA screener individual specific immunity against charges of sexual assault. An adult can consent, presumably, but a child cannot. If there is a definition that makes this action a crime, I don't see how the TSA agent personally has immunity from civil or criminal prosecution. I know that they don't have general immunity from any and all criminal charges, so there must be something that gives them immunity in the specific case of what they do in their line of duty. It would have to be tailored sufficiently to not give immunity for an agent who actually does purposely commit assault on someone while in uniform and on the clock, and I'd like to see the wording of that.
For the most part, the music publishing companies do so with the informed consent and in return for some consideration for the material they distribute, and they generally operate in a way that is consistent with the Berne Convention and other laws.
The example in TFA is has someone publishing the work of another, claiming it as their own, in a way that shows them to be clearly ignorant that there are laws against the very thing they did. The magazine's only saving grace is that they didn't accuse the original writer of copying *them.*
If the government takes your organs for the purpose of covering its ass, and in the process someone who could use an organ of yours doesn't get a transplant, harm is done.
>Part of WoW's fair play model is putting a level playing field for everybody.
You mean for everybody who can organize a team or who can tolerate being in a group of douchebags.
A lot of people can't do either, quickly reach the end of what can be done in the solo game, and get completely frustrated with the difficulty of actually playing the group content.
My problem was always with groups of people working together on tasks that were expressly required to be individual efforts. I have more respect for people who straight-up cheat than I do for that.
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I guess the first question would be "what kind of infrastructure requirements are needed for an online resource that will be of immediate and sudden newsworthy interest to Nerds?"
It's a state university. It has its own police. What's really interesting is when the campus police are at the *state* level, giving them *more* authority than the local town police. This is something I learned at a State University, and I'll tell you all about it once I'm sure the Statute of Limitations has expired.
>World of Warcraft has around 12 million subscribers
12 million subscribers, but if you don't have a raid group on Tuesday, or if you aren't one of the 40 or so guilds competing for the 1000 or so qualified end-game raiders on your realm, you're dead in the water. The aggregate numbers of WoW don't translate to a particularly massive playerbase from the point of view of a player who needs to assemble a group. That's why I stopped playing the game. The "world", as available to a given player, needed to be several orders of magnitude larger.
I had a '59 Impala. If I tweaked it daily, I could get 12MPG out of it. I knew that if I ever crashed it, I would either eat the STEEL DASHBOARD with its BIG POINTY PROTRUBERENCES. I knew that the 1950s "safety glass" would not keep people from being thrown out of the car. I knew it was plain stupid that the car didn't have seat belts, and that if it had them, they would be the kind to cause pelvic and spinal fractures.
Do you think I cared about any of this? Do you think I would have traded that car for a late model whatever?
Seeing the video just pisses me off. For one thing, that's not a very common crash mode. Show of hands: Who here that has been in an accident, has been in a direct head-on collision with another car? How often does that crash even happen?
But what really pisses me off is the destruction of a '59 Chevy. That windshield glass alone is worth a couple thousand bucks.
All I ever take from crash test videos is "don't crash your car." You tend to be pretty careful when you know you're driving a work of art you can't replace.
>think for a moment about driving your family car down a mountain road.
Ok. I want a good old dual channel hydraulic system.
What passenger car brakes are fly by wire now? I can accept some servo-assist to a hydraulic system, but the system should still work in an emergency mode even after a loss of a hydraulic circuit and electrical and vacuum power.
Electronics or no electronics, your braking system should be at least as safe as in a 1969 Volkswagen, no matter what fails.
>I've got a 15 year old PC that's not only used daily, it runs 24/7 to run a specific piece of software.
I recently did some housekeeping and got rid of a lot of machines from the 80s and 90s. Everything I tested still worked. I kept my Apple2 which runs perfectly. I got rid of all the PC hardware, and the only failures were drives. I've never seen an MFM drive fail, ever. The thing that surprised me was that *every* 3.5" floppy drive failed. I didn't test any SCSI devices because I couldn't find a controller, even though I must have ten of the things somewhere.
I've owned a handful of cars, all of which have been perfectly serviceable the entire time I've owned them. The car I drive now is 19 years old, and is the closest thing to a "new car" I've ever owned. I've always had cars that were 20-50 years old when I bought them. Some of them have had expensive problems, some haven't. I doubt I have ever come anywhere close, all told, to the $35,000+tax+interest that it would take to replace my current car with one that I like as much.
>So having skills in the enterprise version of Java and/or being a c++ wizard guarantees you a programming job for the next 20 years.
I think you're missing a big part of the point of the article. Plenty of us with Java Enterprise and C++ experience are finding actual job prospects to be pretty scarce, especially if you want to be choosy about location or salary.
>Other languages he's mentioned are all pretty much unused
SAP customization and integration is most often done in Java. That's a pretty essential thing it just about any company big enough to be called a "large enterprise."
Quite a lot of SAP customization and integration has been done in Java. I'm not allowed to say publicly whether SAP sucks or not, but that's beside the point.
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I want to hear his sworn testimony accusing a party to a copyright case of anything legally defined as "theft."
Because the USA is just like the peak of the Vietnam War, right?
Far fewer than 20% actually fly as often as once per year.
>Everyone watching this video just witnessed felony child molestation.
I think this may be true, depending on where it happened. The child cannot consent. The parents cannot consent on the child's behalf. If there is some legal basis for immunity for the agent, I would love to see how it's worded. I want to know what written basis exists in law that even gives the federal government the ability to grant that kind of immunity to the agent, and I want to know how it's written that doesn't actually give the TSA agents a license to molest children, in general, while on the clock, if they wanted to.
I have yet to see anything specific that gives the TSA screener individual specific immunity against charges of sexual assault.
An adult can consent, presumably, but a child cannot. If there is a definition that makes this action a crime, I don't see how the TSA agent personally has immunity from civil or criminal prosecution. I know that they don't have general immunity from any and all criminal charges, so there must be something that gives them immunity in the specific case of what they do in their line of duty. It would have to be tailored sufficiently to not give immunity for an agent who actually does purposely commit assault on someone while in uniform and on the clock, and I'd like to see the wording of that.
For the most part, the music publishing companies do so with the informed consent and in return for some consideration for the material they distribute, and they generally operate in a way that is consistent with the Berne Convention and other laws.
The example in TFA is has someone publishing the work of another, claiming it as their own, in a way that shows them to be clearly ignorant that there are laws against the very thing they did. The magazine's only saving grace is that they didn't accuse the original writer of copying *them.*
>Copyright law IS different in regards to recipes - they can't be copyrighted.
I dare you to lift something from Better Homes and Gardens or Julia Child and publish it as your own.
If the government takes your organs for the purpose of covering its ass, and in the process someone who could use an organ of yours doesn't get a transplant, harm is done.
>But these people are dead.
That wasn't clear from the summary.
>Part of WoW's fair play model is putting a level playing field for everybody.
You mean for everybody who can organize a team or who can tolerate being in a group of douchebags.
A lot of people can't do either, quickly reach the end of what can be done in the solo game, and get completely frustrated with the difficulty of actually playing the group content.
It doesn't matter, unless the cult has members who are also on the board of the USB-IF.
>I went to a college with a signed honor code that obligated you to turn in cheaters.
That's so the school can cover its ass while it buries its head.
My problem was always with groups of people working together on tasks that were expressly required to be individual efforts.
I have more respect for people who straight-up cheat than I do for that.
Interview question:
"Beatles or Stones?"
I guess the first question would be "what kind of infrastructure requirements are needed for an online resource that will be of immediate and sudden newsworthy interest to Nerds?"
I wonder if it will recommend Wild Turkey or Gentleman's Jack based on my face recognition.
It's a state university. It has its own police. What's really interesting is when the campus police are at the *state* level, giving them *more* authority than the local town police. This is something I learned at a State University, and I'll tell you all about it once I'm sure the Statute of Limitations has expired.
>World of Warcraft has around 12 million subscribers
12 million subscribers, but if you don't have a raid group on Tuesday, or if you aren't one of the 40 or so guilds competing for the 1000 or so qualified end-game raiders on your realm, you're dead in the water. The aggregate numbers of WoW don't translate to a particularly massive playerbase from the point of view of a player who needs to assemble a group. That's why I stopped playing the game. The "world", as available to a given player, needed to be several orders of magnitude larger.
I had a '59 Impala. If I tweaked it daily, I could get 12MPG out of it. I knew that if I ever crashed it, I would either eat the STEEL DASHBOARD with its BIG POINTY PROTRUBERENCES. I knew that the 1950s "safety glass" would not keep people from being thrown out of the car. I knew it was plain stupid that the car didn't have seat belts, and that if it had them, they would be the kind to cause pelvic and spinal fractures.
Do you think I cared about any of this? Do you think I would have traded that car for a late model whatever?
Seeing the video just pisses me off. For one thing, that's not a very common crash mode. Show of hands: Who here that has been in an accident, has been in a direct head-on collision with another car? How often does that crash even happen?
But what really pisses me off is the destruction of a '59 Chevy. That windshield glass alone is worth a couple thousand bucks.
All I ever take from crash test videos is "don't crash your car." You tend to be pretty careful when you know you're driving a work of art you can't replace.
>think for a moment about driving your family car down a mountain road.
Ok. I want a good old dual channel hydraulic system.
What passenger car brakes are fly by wire now? I can accept some servo-assist to a hydraulic system, but the system should still work in an emergency mode even after a loss of a hydraulic circuit and electrical and vacuum power.
Electronics or no electronics, your braking system should be at least as safe as in a 1969 Volkswagen, no matter what fails.
>I've got a 15 year old PC that's not only used daily, it runs 24/7 to run a specific piece of software.
I recently did some housekeeping and got rid of a lot of machines from the 80s and 90s. Everything I tested still worked.
I kept my Apple2 which runs perfectly. I got rid of all the PC hardware, and the only failures were drives. I've never seen an MFM drive fail, ever.
The thing that surprised me was that *every* 3.5" floppy drive failed. I didn't test any SCSI devices because I couldn't find a controller, even though I must have ten of the things somewhere.
I've owned a handful of cars, all of which have been perfectly serviceable the entire time I've owned them.
The car I drive now is 19 years old, and is the closest thing to a "new car" I've ever owned. I've always had cars that were 20-50 years old when I bought them. Some of them have had expensive problems, some haven't. I doubt I have ever come anywhere close, all told, to the $35,000+tax+interest that it would take to replace my current car with one that I like as much.
>So having skills in the enterprise version of Java and/or being a c++ wizard guarantees you a programming job for the next 20 years.
I think you're missing a big part of the point of the article. Plenty of us with Java Enterprise and C++ experience are finding actual job prospects to be pretty scarce, especially if you want to be choosy about location or salary.
>Other languages he's mentioned are all pretty much unused
SAP customization and integration is most often done in Java. That's a pretty essential thing it just about any company big enough to be called a "large enterprise."
Quite a lot of SAP customization and integration has been done in Java. I'm not allowed to say publicly whether SAP sucks or not, but that's beside the point.