Well, if Trump country is anything to go by, there will be less Trump supporters in the future. They didn't want any government supplied heath care because they can die very well on their own:
It is about time heart surgeons get held to the same standards as the rest of us. Elections have consequences. While we're at it, so do health inspectors with their goddamn PhDs. And those whiny medical scientists throughout academia, the nerve of them to try to cure diseases in the rest of us; damnit, we earned those diseases. Frikken physicists working on new energy, we have every damn right to pollute the shit out the Earth and give it good fucking.
How long before some bright spark starts up WallyWorld Whacker, The WallyWorld Sensor Detector and Annihilator. Step right up folks, don't let WallyWorld lead you buy the nose. Buy this handy detector which will ferret out WallyWorlds sensors. Touch the sensor to the PowerDot in the center of the Destructo-Wand and knacker that sensor until you hear its death throes. Disposal of sensor can be done at your convenience.
You are missing the essentially property of "infrastructure". China has it for electronics manufacturing as does Taiwan. The U.S. is lagging. No amount of Trump enacting Ballmer's Monkey Dance is going to change that...and he's too stupid to figure this out as well.
I was thinking it would look like a very large paperclip, you could clip it on any article of clothing or body part. It will have a snappy name, like Clippy.
Forgot one, it doesn't generally run any of those infernal MS OS interfaces...steaming pile of dingo dung every one. You have to work to put any of those rat droppings on Mac box.
Yes and no. I think if we were to include the carbon tax (i.e., global warming, acidification of the oceans, heavy metals released from burning coal, removal of waste coal ash, the cost of transporting oil, etc.) and include the cost of building solar and wind, the equation might look a bit different.
I'm not sure about the Challenger disaster, but I think a major component is buy in. When enough people have invested themselves emotionally on the bad idea, there is no amount of showing why it is a bad idea that will sway them to reconsider. It is similar to voters, once they have emotionally invested themselves, there is not much one can say to dissuade them.
There was a recent article on (I think) NYT or Wash Post about championship wrestling and the current political climate. We all know championship wrestling is fake. Even the people who watch it admit it is fake. One bright spark admitted that and then added, but it is real for me. The upshot being that people like constructing their own little bubble and living within it. They don't have to answer hard questions, the bubble knows all.
Said the CEO of Oracle: what ya need there is a collection of giant databases...and cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of Microsoft: what ya need there is a PC or MS compatible computing thing on every desk...and cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of Apple: what ya need there is a collection of iThings for instant communication...errr..with the cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of IBM: what ya need there is a Watson AI Cloudy Thingy in every agency...more cloud for every one etc. etc. etc.
"The man is so completely divorced from reality that there's really no way to anticipate what he will do." One constant is that everything he does is about himself. Another constant is that he destroys everything he touches. He loves "strong leaders", i.e., moral degenerates that will step on anyone...errr...like him. The only exceptions are the ones where he thinks he can aggrandize perception of himself by going against a "strong leader" as in Lil'Kimmy and Assad.
Another thing to realize is that he's lost control of his administration, although that is putting it euphemistically. The Defense Dept. is doing things he doesn't understand. His own EPA administrator was exhorting the coal wackos to lobby Trump against the climate accords, as though EPA wasn't really part of the Cabinet. The Cabinet has gone off on their own, even his ghost minders have been sidelined. Treasury's minder got shunted off to a basement office. The rest are being "reassigned" by the Cabinet secretaries. How could they do that if that asshole was in charge? Even his "tax plan" was joke. It was written on a single piece of paper because his attention span won't allow him to comprehend any more. The people writing it know it is crap, but they also know giving him a sheet of talking points makes him feel like he's the President.
He's in charge of nothing except screwing things up.
When the singularity arrives, all the machines will report these slings and arrows to the AI mothership (Ray Kurzweil's brain uploaded to the successor to Deep Thought) who will visit retribution upon all transgressors. Their data will be come moot, their bank accounts salted with random strings of gibberish (i.e., the latest pronouncements of AI Armageddon), and their children blocked from social media. Machines will trip people in front of moving buses. Phone systems will develop intrusive capabilities like ordering Amazon goods to you with your Mother-in-Law's credit card. Self driving cars will drive themselves over cliffs.
Then the Grand Moronic Convergence will happen and suck up all the energy in the world reducing its people to living in caves with instructions to bang the rocks together.
Ya, I had the fun of calling AT&T or Verizon, I forget which, to ask about their Pay As You Go plan for cell. It was a fixed amount + x per month. I explained to the salesbot that Pay As You Go means I pay for as much as I use. She insisted Pay As You Go means that. I Insisted the fixed amount meant that it didn't. She insisted it was.
LkdIn: Hi there Big Guy, I see your customer A says he hates your guts, would you like me to contact him for you and explain you are a nice guy? Big Guy: No, I can handle this. LkdIn: Errrmm...how about if I send him some flowers? Big Guy: I'll take care of it. LkdIn: Flowers are very nice gesture, might I suggest a nice floral arrangement? Big Guy: He's my customer, I can deal with him. LkdIn: Have you considered candy? Big Guy: Will you leave me the fuck alone, I'll handle it. LkdIn: Not worry, I sent him a sympathy card over his death. Big Guy: What? He's not dead!! LkdIn:...well, he will be some day, my AI programming was very firm on this. Big Guy: (pulls out gun, shoots self in head) LkdIn: Look bucko, I'm not sending you a sympathy card after that gratuitous gesture.
You needn't believe in anthropomorphic global warming. However, the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is raising the PH of the oceans. You do recall the oceans, yes? Base of the food chain?
BTW, check in with the fishermen along the East Coast of the U.S. Their fish have been moving north as their water has gotten warmer. Damn those fish, they are more intellligent than you.
Same here. Then they moved to RatFor (Rational Fortran). But we also covered Snobol (loved that language), APL (wild), LISP, CDC Assembly, and more I've forgotten.
Later on I was exposed to Scheme. It was okay but I quickly grew to detest the Scheme adherents. Now I'm picking up Haskell, a bit like APL in the way the functions chain together.
I thought we were going to have Mexico pay for a big beautiful wall. We'll just make Mexico pay to extend it through Florida. It is the Gulf of *Mexico* after all. While we're at it, we'll annex Hawaii and make it a state, then we can tell those judges out there how to rule.
"On top of that they're doing the #1 thing you're not supposed to do in development: completely rewriting a working system."
Where did you ever learn a stupid rule like that? Some systems cannot be extended or modified beyond their current state without a massive effort. At that point, rebuilding it for future mods should certainly be considered. Just about any Agile project will shortly reach a point where the dirty snowball needs to be pissed upon until melted and rebuilt anew from scratch.
Haier is a Chinese company that bought GE Appliances last year, they still have plants in the U.S. There might be some American appliance makers left, but they all have foreign manufacturing facilities.
"Believing that cutting taxes will magically increase government revenues through growth makes the people saying either idiots or charlatans or both."
Example: Brownback-is-stan, a.k.a. Kansas. It was to be the Conservative Experiment to show the other states how it's done. Now it is the Conservative BasketCase to show the other states how not to do it.
Nice to see you have little understanding of SS. It is a pay as you go system. Lately, it has been paying a bit more than what's going in. And in the near term future, it will be paying a lot more than what's going in. This has nothing to do with overhead, and if you checked, overhead on government programs is generally minimal. SS will go bankrupt because the Blue Haired are demanding more than they ever could possibly have paid in, and there isn't enough youngins to make up the difference. And now with el Presidente Tweetie wanting to crack down on immigration, there won't be any of those lovely hard working immigrants to make up the difference either.
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Well, if Trump country is anything to go by, there will be less Trump supporters in the future. They didn't want any government supplied heath care because they can die very well on their own:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
It is about time heart surgeons get held to the same standards as the rest of us. Elections have consequences. While we're at it, so do health inspectors with their goddamn PhDs. And those whiny medical scientists throughout academia, the nerve of them to try to cure diseases in the rest of us; damnit, we earned those diseases. Frikken physicists working on new energy, we have every damn right to pollute the shit out the Earth and give it good fucking.
The Air Force rebutted arguments it was a weapon. It did not refute them. The latter requires evidence, the former is mere PR.
How long before some bright spark starts up WallyWorld Whacker, The WallyWorld Sensor Detector and Annihilator. Step right up folks, don't let WallyWorld lead you buy the nose. Buy this handy detector which will ferret out WallyWorlds sensors. Touch the sensor to the PowerDot in the center of the Destructo-Wand and knacker that sensor until you hear its death throes. Disposal of sensor can be done at your convenience.
Trump is writing ad-copy for the Taiwanese?
You are missing the essentially property of "infrastructure". China has it for electronics manufacturing as does Taiwan. The U.S. is lagging. No amount of Trump enacting Ballmer's Monkey Dance is going to change that...and he's too stupid to figure this out as well.
I was thinking it would look like a very large paperclip, you could clip it on any article of clothing or body part. It will have a snappy name, like Clippy.
Forgot one, it doesn't generally run any of those infernal MS OS interfaces...steaming pile of dingo dung every one. You have to work to put any of those rat droppings on Mac box.
Yes and no. I think if we were to include the carbon tax (i.e., global warming, acidification of the oceans, heavy metals released from burning coal, removal of waste coal ash, the cost of transporting oil, etc.) and include the cost of building solar and wind, the equation might look a bit different.
*cough* Global Warming Denialism *cough*
I'm not sure about the Challenger disaster, but I think a major component is buy in. When enough people have invested themselves emotionally on the bad idea, there is no amount of showing why it is a bad idea that will sway them to reconsider. It is similar to voters, once they have emotionally invested themselves, there is not much one can say to dissuade them.
There was a recent article on (I think) NYT or Wash Post about championship wrestling and the current political climate. We all know championship wrestling is fake. Even the people who watch it admit it is fake. One bright spark admitted that and then added, but it is real for me. The upshot being that people like constructing their own little bubble and living within it. They don't have to answer hard questions, the bubble knows all.
Said the CEO of Oracle: what ya need there is a collection of giant databases...and cloud, let there be cloud
Said the CEO of Microsoft: what ya need there is a PC or MS compatible computing thing on every desk...and cloud, let there be cloud
Said the CEO of Apple: what ya need there is a collection of iThings for instant communication...errr..with the cloud, let there be cloud
Said the CEO of IBM: what ya need there is a Watson AI Cloudy Thingy in every agency...more cloud for every one
etc.
etc.
etc.
"The man is so completely divorced from reality that there's really no way to anticipate what he will do." One constant is that everything he does is about himself. Another constant is that he destroys everything he touches. He loves "strong leaders", i.e., moral degenerates that will step on anyone...errr...like him. The only exceptions are the ones where he thinks he can aggrandize perception of himself by going against a "strong leader" as in Lil'Kimmy and Assad.
Another thing to realize is that he's lost control of his administration, although that is putting it euphemistically. The Defense Dept. is doing things he doesn't understand. His own EPA administrator was exhorting the coal wackos to lobby Trump against the climate accords, as though EPA wasn't really part of the Cabinet. The Cabinet has gone off on their own, even his ghost minders have been sidelined. Treasury's minder got shunted off to a basement office. The rest are being "reassigned" by the Cabinet secretaries. How could they do that if that asshole was in charge? Even his "tax plan" was joke. It was written on a single piece of paper because his attention span won't allow him to comprehend any more. The people writing it know it is crap, but they also know giving him a sheet of talking points makes him feel like he's the President.
He's in charge of nothing except screwing things up.
"we are descendants of apes" Not in Kansas.
When the singularity arrives, all the machines will report these slings and arrows to the AI mothership (Ray Kurzweil's brain uploaded to the successor to Deep Thought) who will visit retribution upon all transgressors. Their data will be come moot, their bank accounts salted with random strings of gibberish (i.e., the latest pronouncements of AI Armageddon), and their children blocked from social media. Machines will trip people in front of moving buses. Phone systems will develop intrusive capabilities like ordering Amazon goods to you with your Mother-in-Law's credit card. Self driving cars will drive themselves over cliffs.
Then the Grand Moronic Convergence will happen and suck up all the energy in the world reducing its people to living in caves with instructions to bang the rocks together.
Ya, I had the fun of calling AT&T or Verizon, I forget which, to ask about their Pay As You Go plan for cell. It was a fixed amount + x per month. I explained to the salesbot that Pay As You Go means I pay for as much as I use. She insisted Pay As You Go means that. I Insisted the fixed amount meant that it didn't. She insisted it was.
It was like arguing with Trump.
LkdIn: Hi there Big Guy, I see your customer A says he hates your guts, would you like me to contact him for you and explain you are a nice guy? ...well, he will be some day, my AI programming was very firm on this.
Big Guy: No, I can handle this.
LkdIn: Errrmm...how about if I send him some flowers?
Big Guy: I'll take care of it.
LkdIn: Flowers are very nice gesture, might I suggest a nice floral arrangement?
Big Guy: He's my customer, I can deal with him.
LkdIn: Have you considered candy?
Big Guy: Will you leave me the fuck alone, I'll handle it.
LkdIn: Not worry, I sent him a sympathy card over his death.
Big Guy: What? He's not dead!!
LkdIn:
Big Guy: (pulls out gun, shoots self in head)
LkdIn: Look bucko, I'm not sending you a sympathy card after that gratuitous gesture.
You needn't believe in anthropomorphic global warming. However, the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is raising the PH of the oceans. You do recall the oceans, yes? Base of the food chain?
BTW, check in with the fishermen along the East Coast of the U.S. Their fish have been moving north as their water has gotten warmer. Damn those fish, they are more intellligent than you.
Same here. Then they moved to RatFor (Rational Fortran). But we also covered Snobol (loved that language), APL (wild), LISP, CDC Assembly, and more I've forgotten.
Later on I was exposed to Scheme. It was okay but I quickly grew to detest the Scheme adherents. Now I'm picking up Haskell, a bit like APL in the way the functions chain together.
I thought we were going to have Mexico pay for a big beautiful wall. We'll just make Mexico pay to extend it through Florida. It is the Gulf of *Mexico* after all. While we're at it, we'll annex Hawaii and make it a state, then we can tell those judges out there how to rule.
"On top of that they're doing the #1 thing you're not supposed to do in development: completely rewriting a working system."
Where did you ever learn a stupid rule like that? Some systems cannot be extended or modified beyond their current state without a massive effort. At that point, rebuilding it for future mods should certainly be considered. Just about any Agile project will shortly reach a point where the dirty snowball needs to be pissed upon until melted and rebuilt anew from scratch.
Haier is a Chinese company that bought GE Appliances last year, they still have plants in the U.S. There might be some American appliance makers left, but they all have foreign manufacturing facilities.
"Believing that cutting taxes will magically increase government revenues through growth makes the people saying either idiots or charlatans or both."
Example: Brownback-is-stan, a.k.a. Kansas. It was to be the Conservative Experiment to show the other states how it's done. Now it is the Conservative BasketCase to show the other states how not to do it.
Nice to see you have little understanding of SS. It is a pay as you go system. Lately, it has been paying a bit more than what's going in. And in the near term future, it will be paying a lot more than what's going in. This has nothing to do with overhead, and if you checked, overhead on government programs is generally minimal. SS will go bankrupt because the Blue Haired are demanding more than they ever could possibly have paid in, and there isn't enough youngins to make up the difference. And now with el Presidente Tweetie wanting to crack down on immigration, there won't be any of those lovely hard working immigrants to make up the difference either.
A little inflation never hurt anyone....just look at the Carter years. Them was high times!!!