Sooo...the Ukrainians were willing to risk world condemnation on a crap shoot of discrediting the rebels and getting international support? Putin isn't paying you enough.
Well, given the rebels are the brightest lights on the tree, they could easily assume that the transponder signal was a Ukrainian trick. Just look at all the conspiracy nuts on this page attempting shift blame to the West for some unmentioned, devious plot to discredit the Russians. Geeze, given Russian behavior over the last several years, they don't need any help in discrediting themselves.
Why would soldiers know what they were shooting at, the plane was at 33,000 feet. The plane was probably over the war zone because the previous shoot down occurred at about 20,000 feet (Ukraine transport plane). Also, it cost money for more fuel to route around the zone. Given the expense and the tacit acceptance that it was safe, it's very likely Malaysian Airlines though it would be okay.
So, it probably wasn't terrorism (not definitely). It was probably an accident given the quality of the rebel troops and certainly their behavior after the fact.
The problem remains that the Kremlin send advanced weapons, and this we know from sat images), to the rebels. The Kremlin in general and Putin in particular thought it would be neat idea. Now that the rebels have gone and done something extraordinarily stupid, the Kremlin is scrambling to push blame on everyone except themselves.
I've watched Jeff Sessions several times in hearings on CSPAN. My impression of him is that he's first class dolt. It's very likely he cannot figure out the consequences of the various stands he takes. He's almost, but not quite, as dim as Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Yes, well, in the U.S. the Obama administration is doing exactly that. However, coal state Republicans are arguing the climate change issue isn't settled science because they can find a few whack job scientists that disagree about either its cause and certainly a few more about what to do about it. It isn't that the Republicans don't care about climate change, they just think that doing something about it will get them unelected and contribute to Big Government. The latter they are opposed to because it impacts their lifestyle of Do What You Want and Damn the Externalities.
Coal state Democrats want to have their cake and eat it too. They want carbon emission caps but they don't want it to impact jobs.
What both groups fail to understand is that it isn't Obama that is wiping out the coal industry in the U.S., it is natural gas and fracking. Meanwhile, the world plays Russian Roulette with carbon emissions. They feel lucky.
According to Wikipedia, there are "174,000 blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S." Personally, I think the U.S. should just buy them out and tell the Republicans to STFU.
Sooo... they know how to do software development now that they've adopted Agile. I think rather that Agile has more or less codified how they've always done software development, and with it, Agile's sins. The most egregious is that your product will look like a dirty snowball that, if it is of decent size, no one will understand.
And if they are jerking developers off the project to address every single bug as it comes in, they've already shot themselves in the foot. No defect backlog means no bug backlog. Reallyy? how are they tracking those things? How do they know which bugs are related to other bugs? How do they know which bugs got fixed?
My experience with Agile is only a single point, others may have other points. However, my impression is that it was simply a tool management could use to micro-manage a project and jerk the developers around due to whatever wind was tussling their coif that week.
Phlogiston gets a bad rap as a failed theory. However, at the time, we were attempting to make sense out a very confusing physical world. Science always makes shit up, it is called creativity. However, Science also cleaves off the parts that do not hold up.
Einstein made up his entire gravitational theory. The equations did not exist in some Platonic universe waiting for him to trip over them. He created a mathematical world that could be tested against reality.
Quantum theory is an interesting case. It doesn't really explain anything, but it has damn good numbers and predictive value. It's something we made up. It is well-made, but in a philosophical sense, it isn't really a theory if the intent of a theory it to help explain the inner workings of some phenomenon.
While that comment is true about some of today's companies, a bigger complaint I have is that every company wants to turn you into an annuity. I bought a light switch from Lowe's and Lowe's wanted to sell me an "owners agreement".
Customers have become Processed Cheese Food of Business School Product. BSP are the managers who graduated with their MBA and somehow believe this enables them to manage anything. So all the cookie cutter strategies to "retain customer loyalty" look the same because they are the same. BSP has a stock menu of options all directed at separating customers from their money, not providing something compelling customers would want to buy. To do that, they need to stop the high school sports long enough to take the courses that would get them into an engineering or a science school, then finish school, then work in industry until they can be productive. Right now, many companies are run by the moral equivalent of used car salesmen.
Yep, let's trust private companies with research into anthrax. You do realize that anthrax occurs naturally and can be weaponized?
And the healthcare system we have is considered the most expensive in the world with outcome behind other systems. This is the healthcare private industry has provided you. And if you manage to catch something that doesn't turn a profit, the only ones with any research on it are likely to be the CDC. So I'll be expecting you to reject any help from them when the Grim Reaper makes a call at your house (by the way, he likes his feet tickled).
Ah, yes, someone fucked up, let the lawsuits begin. Woe betide the poor SOB who screws something up not by malice or incompetence but simply because s/he wasn't perfect all the time.
Let's turn the entire American economy and government into a sclerotic clusterfuck mimicking the patent mess that only lawyers can disentangle...for high hourly fees and changes that will benefit them to keep the gravy train rolling. All aboard!!
One time I was watching Gen. Patraeus give a press conference by first giving a brief involving a lot of slides. One slide particularly stood out because it was so incomprehensible. It had arrows flying every which way, some pointing indistinctly at nothing in particular. Different kinds of arrows, blobs in clouds, starbursts, etc. The general was stumbling a bit in his words and he looks up, eyeballs the audience, and thanks the help he got from Microsoft employees in constructing that slide. That answers why it was incomprehensible but not why MS employees were helping him.
Pooperpoint slides encourage a sort of mindless creativity that has no real purpose. This has stupefied many an organization via flows of information that start down in the trenches as being real information. By the time it reaches bullet points for the generals, it has been morphed into disinformation. It actually makes the organization dumber by encouraging the sort of people who demand bullet pointed idiocy to rise to a position they should never hold. At that point, they are merely bullet point consumers and producers, a sort of mutual recursive backscratching moron class that do their best job when they do nothing.
Hmmm...so we are to attribute some sort of ethereal "values" to encouraging your kids to whacked on the basis that someone wrote down in a book over 1000 years ago that they'd go to Heaven for it? Sooooo...what's the point of the kiddies being here in the first place. How come Allah doesn't just whack their asses at birth and cut right to the chase?
I think at this point the Palestinians are rather like the Black Knight of Monty Python. There's nothing you can do short of killing every last one that won't result in the remainders claiming "we was robbed" and declaring Holy Jihad in the name of Muhammed and Allah.
This Allah character is a weird dude in Islam. He is supposed to be so other that he only communicates to humans through angels and them mostly in dreams...which of course is only tailor made for every two-bit Imam and Mullah to declare a visitation in a dream in which all the Jews were seen to be dead by the hand of...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Personally, I think if Allah had any balls he write in clear Arabic over the entire sky what the hell he's after. Short of that, he's just a figment of imagination.
...unless we manage to tip the Earth into a much higher temp and a positive feedback loop where we all burn in Hell of our own creation. Sometimes there's just no engineering your way out of a problem.
Errrmmm....like the EPA and Los Angles smog? Or say, the EPA and Love Canal? Please explain how the government mandating cleaner emissions from autos hasn't made a big difference.
Just out of curiosity, how do you get from the data on the doctor's clipboard to the government is watching you? Was there some identifying information that only the government could collect that was populating the clipboard?
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Sooo...the Ukrainians were willing to risk world condemnation on a crap shoot of discrediting the rebels and getting international support? Putin isn't paying you enough.
Well, given the rebels are the brightest lights on the tree, they could easily assume that the transponder signal was a Ukrainian trick. Just look at all the conspiracy nuts on this page attempting shift blame to the West for some unmentioned, devious plot to discredit the Russians. Geeze, given Russian behavior over the last several years, they don't need any help in discrediting themselves.
Why would soldiers know what they were shooting at, the plane was at 33,000 feet. The plane was probably over the war zone because the previous shoot down occurred at about 20,000 feet (Ukraine transport plane). Also, it cost money for more fuel to route around the zone. Given the expense and the tacit acceptance that it was safe, it's very likely Malaysian Airlines though it would be okay.
So, it probably wasn't terrorism (not definitely). It was probably an accident given the quality of the rebel troops and certainly their behavior after the fact.
The problem remains that the Kremlin send advanced weapons, and this we know from sat images), to the rebels. The Kremlin in general and Putin in particular thought it would be neat idea. Now that the rebels have gone and done something extraordinarily stupid, the Kremlin is scrambling to push blame on everyone except themselves.
I've watched Jeff Sessions several times in hearings on CSPAN. My impression of him is that he's first class dolt. It's very likely he cannot figure out the consequences of the various stands he takes. He's almost, but not quite, as dim as Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Yes, well, in the U.S. the Obama administration is doing exactly that. However, coal state Republicans are arguing the climate change issue isn't settled science because they can find a few whack job scientists that disagree about either its cause and certainly a few more about what to do about it. It isn't that the Republicans don't care about climate change, they just think that doing something about it will get them unelected and contribute to Big Government. The latter they are opposed to because it impacts their lifestyle of Do What You Want and Damn the Externalities.
Coal state Democrats want to have their cake and eat it too. They want carbon emission caps but they don't want it to impact jobs.
What both groups fail to understand is that it isn't Obama that is wiping out the coal industry in the U.S., it is natural gas and fracking. Meanwhile, the world plays Russian Roulette with carbon emissions. They feel lucky.
According to Wikipedia, there are "174,000 blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S." Personally, I think the U.S. should just buy them out and tell the Republicans to STFU.
Sooo... they know how to do software development now that they've adopted Agile. I think rather that Agile has more or less codified how they've always done software development, and with it, Agile's sins. The most egregious is that your product will look like a dirty snowball that, if it is of decent size, no one will understand.
And if they are jerking developers off the project to address every single bug as it comes in, they've already shot themselves in the foot. No defect backlog means no bug backlog. Reallyy? how are they tracking those things? How do they know which bugs are related to other bugs? How do they know which bugs got fixed?
My experience with Agile is only a single point, others may have other points. However, my impression is that it was simply a tool management could use to micro-manage a project and jerk the developers around due to whatever wind was tussling their coif that week.
Errr...can Palin find Russia on the map yet?
At that height, they'd have had to use a telescope. More likely the separatists were trigger happy and they had a handy missile.
Can Wolf be far behind in the Situation Room or whatever the hell they are calling it now. How does world manage to turn without Wolf on the beat?
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Putin, will you STFU.
So this self-loathing you are afflicted with, is it something you are attempting to spread around?
Phlogiston gets a bad rap as a failed theory. However, at the time, we were attempting to make sense out a very confusing physical world. Science always makes shit up, it is called creativity. However, Science also cleaves off the parts that do not hold up.
Einstein made up his entire gravitational theory. The equations did not exist in some Platonic universe waiting for him to trip over them. He created a mathematical world that could be tested against reality.
Quantum theory is an interesting case. It doesn't really explain anything, but it has damn good numbers and predictive value. It's something we made up. It is well-made, but in a philosophical sense, it isn't really a theory if the intent of a theory it to help explain the inner workings of some phenomenon.
C'mon, this Giorgio, he KNOWS it was aliens.
So what you are saying is that the natives have been eating too many beans? It seems this valuable energy source should be harvested.
While that comment is true about some of today's companies, a bigger complaint I have is that every company wants to turn you into an annuity. I bought a light switch from Lowe's and Lowe's wanted to sell me an "owners agreement".
Customers have become Processed Cheese Food of Business School Product. BSP are the managers who graduated with their MBA and somehow believe this enables them to manage anything. So all the cookie cutter strategies to "retain customer loyalty" look the same because they are the same. BSP has a stock menu of options all directed at separating customers from their money, not providing something compelling customers would want to buy. To do that, they need to stop the high school sports long enough to take the courses that would get them into an engineering or a science school, then finish school, then work in industry until they can be productive. Right now, many companies are run by the moral equivalent of used car salesmen.
Yep. There is a difference between "refute" and "rebut". The former is frequently used when the latter is more accurate.
Yep, let's trust private companies with research into anthrax. You do realize that anthrax occurs naturally and can be weaponized?
And the healthcare system we have is considered the most expensive in the world with outcome behind other systems. This is the healthcare private industry has provided you. And if you manage to catch something that doesn't turn a profit, the only ones with any research on it are likely to be the CDC. So I'll be expecting you to reject any help from them when the Grim Reaper makes a call at your house (by the way, he likes his feet tickled).
Ah, yes, someone fucked up, let the lawsuits begin. Woe betide the poor SOB who screws something up not by malice or incompetence but simply because s/he wasn't perfect all the time.
Let's turn the entire American economy and government into a sclerotic clusterfuck mimicking the patent mess that only lawyers can disentangle...for high hourly fees and changes that will benefit them to keep the gravy train rolling. All aboard!!
One time I was watching Gen. Patraeus give a press conference by first giving a brief involving a lot of slides. One slide particularly stood out because it was so incomprehensible. It had arrows flying every which way, some pointing indistinctly at nothing in particular. Different kinds of arrows, blobs in clouds, starbursts, etc. The general was stumbling a bit in his words and he looks up, eyeballs the audience, and thanks the help he got from Microsoft employees in constructing that slide. That answers why it was incomprehensible but not why MS employees were helping him.
Pooperpoint slides encourage a sort of mindless creativity that has no real purpose. This has stupefied many an organization via flows of information that start down in the trenches as being real information. By the time it reaches bullet points for the generals, it has been morphed into disinformation. It actually makes the organization dumber by encouraging the sort of people who demand bullet pointed idiocy to rise to a position they should never hold. At that point, they are merely bullet point consumers and producers, a sort of mutual recursive backscratching moron class that do their best job when they do nothing.
Hmmm...so we are to attribute some sort of ethereal "values" to encouraging your kids to whacked on the basis that someone wrote down in a book over 1000 years ago that they'd go to Heaven for it? Sooooo...what's the point of the kiddies being here in the first place. How come Allah doesn't just whack their asses at birth and cut right to the chase?
I think at this point the Palestinians are rather like the Black Knight of Monty Python. There's nothing you can do short of killing every last one that won't result in the remainders claiming "we was robbed" and declaring Holy Jihad in the name of Muhammed and Allah.
This Allah character is a weird dude in Islam. He is supposed to be so other that he only communicates to humans through angels and them mostly in dreams...which of course is only tailor made for every two-bit Imam and Mullah to declare a visitation in a dream in which all the Jews were seen to be dead by the hand of...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Personally, I think if Allah had any balls he write in clear Arabic over the entire sky what the hell he's after. Short of that, he's just a figment of imagination.
...unless we manage to tip the Earth into a much higher temp and a positive feedback loop where we all burn in Hell of our own creation. Sometimes there's just no engineering your way out of a problem.
Errrmmm....like the EPA and Los Angles smog? Or say, the EPA and Love Canal? Please explain how the government mandating cleaner emissions from autos hasn't made a big difference.
Just out of curiosity, how do you get from the data on the doctor's clipboard to the government is watching you? Was there some identifying information that only the government could collect that was populating the clipboard?