Where is "over here", that you can easily get your hands on C4?
Russia. In the same way all those Russian soldiers who keep getting "lost" while on vaction in Ukraine take their guns, artillery pieces, IFVs, and tanks with them.
Back when Bill Clinton was president, the U.S. government provided ISPs with billions of taxpayer dollars to build out the internet infrastructure in this country. ISPs promised that within a decade, consumers would have 45/45 Mbps network speeds for a low price (can't remember the figure).
Almost three decades later, the vast majority of people either can't get 45Mbps (download only), let alone 45 up, or the cost is not low.
Now we're being told if we hand over more billions of our dollars, private industry will do what they said they would do those three decades ago.
There's nothing illegal about compensating someone else for sharing a ride
What sharing? The people driving aren't going to the same place the people contacting them. The driver is going out of their way to explicitly pick up someone. Further, that driver wasn't going anywhere in the first place. They were waiting somewhere for someone to contact them. You know what that's called? A taxi.
or renting out a spare room in your house
Yes, there is. It is guaranteed the homeowner's insurance does not cover running a business out of their home, especially one involving the housing of other people. Also, people doing the "renting" aren't following the same rules that real landlords have to do when renting.
Don't tell anyone about garage sales those might be illegal to.
Selling your odds and ends one day a year is in no way comparable to running a business out of your car or home.
Awwww. Would you like a new set of diapers to go with your tantrum?
That you have to put down a woman who was instrumental in this magnificent feat of scientific endeavor says volumes about your insignificance on this planet. As Chael himself said:
"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored."...
"While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life," Chael wrote.
Also, Chael is gay so I'm sure he appreciates your support, no matter how ill-founded.
Another scared white guy who can't handle the truth. Chael's own words:
"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored."
Also:
(3/7) the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data. With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper (https://t.co/hgJrv3gOE5);
But congratulations on supporting a gay guy in his efforts. I'm sure he's very pleased with your support. Now go scurry back to your white supremacist site with your tail between your legs because you played yourself.
"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored."
. . .
"While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life," Chael wrote.
BTW, Chael is gay. So congratulations on supporting him.
As to Bouman herself, she isn't the one taking credit. She has said repeatedly it was a collaborative effort:
"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds."
So yeah it seems a lot of political science was involved here.
Sure was, it came from only one group who was so incensed a woman could do anything remarkable it had to jump up and down, wave its hands, and put out fake information to make itself feel better.
False, comrade. Manning's sentence was commuted which means the length of prison time was reduced. The conviction itself still stands untouched. From the article:
A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but it does not change the fact of conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.
Marsh v Alabama doesn't apply because a) YouTube set up rules of conduct regarding comments from the beginning. It did not single out one specific type of speech it would ban over another and b) YouTube also limits what can be posted as far as videos, and has done so from the beginning. Neither is an abridgement of free speech.
The only ones outsourcing totalitarianism are Republicans who keep claiming the free market will fix everything, then turn around and use taxpayer money to prop up the free market and businesses. Or, in the current case, crawl into their holes while the corrupt con artist rides roughshod over them because they're too stupid and cowardly to do their duties as members of Congress to reign in his dictatorial ways.
And for the record, I do agree that free speech should be defended. If nothing else, it reveals to the world the true nature of an individual. That said, there are limits, and a company has every right to censor speech on their site if that speech bumps up against their rules.
As usual, the dullards miss the teeny, tiny caveat to the First Amendment. It only applies to the government.
As has been stated who knows how many times, a company is free to limit free speech if it so chooses. This is no different than if a casino doesn't want to provide service to someone. It's their property, their rules. Same with YouTube.
It has nothing to do with being an "enemy" of the U.S. It has to do with a company doing what it wants on its platform. Don't like it? Don't frequent YouTube.
Repeat it until you believe it: Trump won because he was a better candidate.
The con artist won because Russia helped him and he only got the electoral votes. Hillary got the popular vote.
The con artist was not and is not a better candidate. He got the uneducateds to be so worried about voting for a liberal from New York City, he got them to vote for a liberal from New York City.
The problem is, the vast majority of people don't look at their receipts. They put in their card, pay the amount, and walk out the door. I at least stop while still in the store and check the charges. I also keep a running tally in my head (sometimes use a calculator) so when the total comes up, if it's wide of the mark I know something isn't right.
As for people overspending, they do it now and still don't care even if they have the receipt.
For cash transactions, again, they're like my credit card charges. I'm paying at that moment and know what my cost is. There is no issue. And I do like cash transactions for small purchases rather than carrying around a card.
There was an article on NPR several years back talking with the head of the U.S. Printing Office, now called the U.S. Publishing Office.
The guy talked about all the efficiencies that had taken place over the previous twenty years or so, how they had reduced head count while still doing their service. One of the points he mentioned was the change from paper forms (IRS and the budget in particular) and how much money the taxpayers were being saved because of the reduced spending on paper.
Guess who whined about this saving and reduced waste. Exactly. The paper industry was "concerned" citizens wouldn't be served if they didn't have a paper form, that the government was moving too fast to go digital.
Same thing here. While I don't own a "smart" phone, the only time I really want a paper receipt is when I'm grocery shopping so I can verify what I was charged for each item. It doesn't happen often, but there have been times the charges are wrong so by having the receipt I can get my money back.
For everything else, when I'm buying one item on credit card, it's easy to see the cost and know it's correct.
Funny how the very countries which are suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of religion are being supported in their efforts by a country which Christians support without reservation. It's almost as if they're blind to their support of this repression while at the same time complaining about the repression.
And don't forget, your tax dollars are going to a country which has its own version of apartheid.
I guess for a few pieces of silver it's easy to abandon ones principles.
Coders hate inefficiency? Then who the hell has been programming all the shitty software we have to deal with every day? The software whose every iteration gets more and more bloated (Firefox, Office, etc)? Software which takes longer and longer to load each time a new version comes out, yet is no more useful than what was produced a decade ago? Why does it take 90 scripts to load one web page, including a simple picture?
Where are these mythical beings who want to kill inefficiency? Are they hanging out with Big Foot?
Within the last hour I've received a few emails from our overarching IT group indicating some people have clicked a link in a fake email going around. One of the user's accounts has been disabled.
Like you, we all receive yearly training on what type of emails not to open or click links in yet people still do it.
Here's the best part. This email was quarantined by default (Microsoft Exchange) and the user still went ahead and released it so they could read it.
Tumblr, like many such sites, had two big problems they were unwilling to solve. Child pornography and rape videos.
Their first thought was to force people to sign up to access the NSFW parts. That of course didn't remove this illegal content, it only hid from the general public who didn't have a Tumblr account.
When that didn't work, and because of their new owners, they said they would ban any NSFW content. Which only moved the same content to a different source but also crushed their views.
They'll still survive, but with the more artsy pics being predominate. Which isn't a bad thing. I see many pics which have a timeless, classic, sexy look without being "Here's my open legs!" which are a dime a hundred nowadays.
As to bombings, the early 80s had many bombings, many in the Beirut area and Ireland. In the U.S. there were protest bombings. In the 18 months between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 documented bombings in this country. The deadliest year for underground violence was 1981, when eleven people were killed in bombings and bank robberies gone bad.
This is the same bullshit when people say New York lost 25,000 jobs because they didn't want to subsidize Amazon. The jobs were never created so nothing was lost.
Just like these people would never have paid for the content so nothing is lost, right?
This is why you spay and neuter dogs and cats (among other reasons). Unfortunately, cultural reasons in many countries prevent this from happening, along with ignorance.
Of course if the smartest animal on the planet wouldn't simply toss dogs and cats, and puppies and kittens, into the wild because it didn't want to care for them, this wouldn't be an issue.
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Where is "over here", that you can easily get your hands on C4?
Russia. In the same way all those Russian soldiers who keep getting "lost" while on vaction in Ukraine take their guns, artillery pieces, IFVs, and tanks with them.
Back when Bill Clinton was president, the U.S. government provided ISPs with billions of taxpayer dollars to build out the internet infrastructure in this country. ISPs promised that within a decade, consumers would have 45/45 Mbps network speeds for a low price (can't remember the figure).
Almost three decades later, the vast majority of people either can't get 45Mbps (download only), let alone 45 up, or the cost is not low.
Now we're being told if we hand over more billions of our dollars, private industry will do what they said they would do those three decades ago.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
There's nothing illegal about compensating someone else for sharing a ride
What sharing? The people driving aren't going to the same place the people contacting them. The driver is going out of their way to explicitly pick up someone. Further, that driver wasn't going anywhere in the first place. They were waiting somewhere for someone to contact them. You know what that's called? A taxi.
or renting out a spare room in your house
Yes, there is. It is guaranteed the homeowner's insurance does not cover running a business out of their home, especially one involving the housing of other people. Also, people doing the "renting" aren't following the same rules that real landlords have to do when renting.
Don't tell anyone about garage sales those might be illegal to.
Selling your odds and ends one day a year is in no way comparable to running a business out of your car or home.
That you have to put down a woman who was instrumental in this magnificent feat of scientific endeavor says volumes about your insignificance on this planet. As Chael himself said:
Also, Chael is gay so I'm sure he appreciates your support, no matter how ill-founded.
Also:
But congratulations on supporting a gay guy in his efforts. I'm sure he's very pleased with your support. Now go scurry back to your white supremacist site with your tail between your legs because you played yourself.
Completely false. From Chael's own words:
BTW, Chael is gay. So congratulations on supporting him.
As to Bouman herself, she isn't the one taking credit. She has said repeatedly it was a collaborative effort:
So yeah it seems a lot of political science was involved here.
Sure was, it came from only one group who was so incensed a woman could do anything remarkable it had to jump up and down, wave its hands, and put out fake information to make itself feel better.
False, comrade. Manning's sentence was commuted which means the length of prison time was reduced. The conviction itself still stands untouched. From the article:
Marsh v Alabama doesn't apply because a) YouTube set up rules of conduct regarding comments from the beginning. It did not single out one specific type of speech it would ban over another and b) YouTube also limits what can be posted as far as videos, and has done so from the beginning. Neither is an abridgement of free speech.
The only ones outsourcing totalitarianism are Republicans who keep claiming the free market will fix everything, then turn around and use taxpayer money to prop up the free market and businesses. Or, in the current case, crawl into their holes while the corrupt con artist rides roughshod over them because they're too stupid and cowardly to do their duties as members of Congress to reign in his dictatorial ways.
And for the record, I do agree that free speech should be defended. If nothing else, it reveals to the world the true nature of an individual. That said, there are limits, and a company has every right to censor speech on their site if that speech bumps up against their rules.
As usual, the dullards miss the teeny, tiny caveat to the First Amendment. It only applies to the government.
As has been stated who knows how many times, a company is free to limit free speech if it so chooses. This is no different than if a casino doesn't want to provide service to someone. It's their property, their rules. Same with YouTube.
It has nothing to do with being an "enemy" of the U.S. It has to do with a company doing what it wants on its platform. Don't like it? Don't frequent YouTube.
Repeat it until you believe it: Trump won because he was a better candidate.
The con artist won because Russia helped him and he only got the electoral votes. Hillary got the popular vote.
The con artist was not and is not a better candidate. He got the uneducateds to be so worried about voting for a liberal from New York City, he got them to vote for a liberal from New York City.
I never see any of these pop-ups and I'm running FF 50 (I think) at home. Never had any problems.
I guess I'm not one checking out Bob's House of Free Software every day.
Or a Ford Mustang.
The problem is, the vast majority of people don't look at their receipts. They put in their card, pay the amount, and walk out the door. I at least stop while still in the store and check the charges. I also keep a running tally in my head (sometimes use a calculator) so when the total comes up, if it's wide of the mark I know something isn't right.
As for people overspending, they do it now and still don't care even if they have the receipt.
For cash transactions, again, they're like my credit card charges. I'm paying at that moment and know what my cost is. There is no issue. And I do like cash transactions for small purchases rather than carrying around a card.
There was an article on NPR several years back talking with the head of the U.S. Printing Office, now called the U.S. Publishing Office.
The guy talked about all the efficiencies that had taken place over the previous twenty years or so, how they had reduced head count while still doing their service. One of the points he mentioned was the change from paper forms (IRS and the budget in particular) and how much money the taxpayers were being saved because of the reduced spending on paper.
Guess who whined about this saving and reduced waste. Exactly. The paper industry was "concerned" citizens wouldn't be served if they didn't have a paper form, that the government was moving too fast to go digital.
Same thing here. While I don't own a "smart" phone, the only time I really want a paper receipt is when I'm grocery shopping so I can verify what I was charged for each item. It doesn't happen often, but there have been times the charges are wrong so by having the receipt I can get my money back.
For everything else, when I'm buying one item on credit card, it's easy to see the cost and know it's correct.
Funny how the very countries which are suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of religion are being supported in their efforts by a country which Christians support without reservation. It's almost as if they're blind to their support of this repression while at the same time complaining about the repression.
And don't forget, your tax dollars are going to a country which has its own version of apartheid.
I guess for a few pieces of silver it's easy to abandon ones principles.
Coders hate inefficiency? Then who the hell has been programming all the shitty software we have to deal with every day? The software whose every iteration gets more and more bloated (Firefox, Office, etc)? Software which takes longer and longer to load each time a new version comes out, yet is no more useful than what was produced a decade ago? Why does it take 90 scripts to load one web page, including a simple picture?
Where are these mythical beings who want to kill inefficiency? Are they hanging out with Big Foot?
They might as well just pirate the stuff until/unless the industry starts selling standard files.
Yup, just steal what you want because you're entitled to it. No need to pay the people who produced the content, it's yours because you deserve it.
Within the last hour I've received a few emails from our overarching IT group indicating some people have clicked a link in a fake email going around. One of the user's accounts has been disabled.
Like you, we all receive yearly training on what type of emails not to open or click links in yet people still do it.
Here's the best part. This email was quarantined by default (Microsoft Exchange) and the user still went ahead and released it so they could read it.
One day you can enjoy a spring day, the next, you get 3 feet of snow dumped on you.
Our temperatures are going from 72/73 F today (3/15/19) to possibly 42 F tomorrow. That's a 30 degree swing of temperature in one day.
No snow, but definitely a wild swing.
Tumblr, like many such sites, had two big problems they were unwilling to solve. Child pornography and rape videos.
Their first thought was to force people to sign up to access the NSFW parts. That of course didn't remove this illegal content, it only hid from the general public who didn't have a Tumblr account.
When that didn't work, and because of their new owners, they said they would ban any NSFW content. Which only moved the same content to a different source but also crushed their views.
They'll still survive, but with the more artsy pics being predominate. Which isn't a bad thing. I see many pics which have a timeless, classic, sexy look without being "Here's my open legs!" which are a dime a hundred nowadays.
No. Bombings and hijackings were not common in any way in the 1970s or 1980s.
Between 1968 and 1972, there were 130 plane hijackings in the U.S. alone, which is more than one per week.
As to bombings, the early 80s had many bombings, many in the Beirut area and Ireland. In the U.S. there were protest bombings. In the 18 months between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 documented bombings in this country. The deadliest year for underground violence was 1981, when eleven people were killed in bombings and bank robberies gone bad.
This is the same bullshit when people say New York lost 25,000 jobs because they didn't want to subsidize Amazon. The jobs were never created so nothing was lost.
Just like these people would never have paid for the content so nothing is lost, right?
Sometimes you have to completely rewrite everything from the beginning.
Other times, changing a few words here and there, or a paragraph or two is all that is needed.
Please stop using the feel-good propaganda word "sharing" to describe the practice of stalking, spying, profiling, and selling personal data.
It's no different than when people claim they're "sharing" music and videos.
If you're not going to pay the producers for the items you're using, why should these companies not be able to use your data for free?
This is why you spay and neuter dogs and cats (among other reasons). Unfortunately, cultural reasons in many countries prevent this from happening, along with ignorance.
Of course if the smartest animal on the planet wouldn't simply toss dogs and cats, and puppies and kittens, into the wild because it didn't want to care for them, this wouldn't be an issue.