In his book, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Heinlein had his lead character say the following regarding uncivilized behavior:
Gwen, my love, if one tolerates bad manners, they grow worse. Our pleasant habitat could decay into the sort of slum Elli-Five is, with crowding and unmannerly behavior and unnecessary noise and impolite language. I must find the oaf who did this thing, explain to him his offense, give him a chance to apologize, and kill him.
So what you're saying is fat people don't have to take any responsibility for themselves because they can now point to this study and say, "See! It's in my genes."
Then they sit on their couch and shovel a box of doughnut holes into their gullet while sucking down a two liter of soda as they watch tv.
"3 months," explains ReskillUSA's website, is "how long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs."
Now we know why there is so much shitty code being thrown out every day and why software from multi-billion dollar companies sucks so badly.
I read somewhere that it took roughly five years of training for a Roman to be considered a real soldier yet somehow these folks are claiming in only 3 months someone can be a qualified programmer.
That's like arguing that we should just accept obesity as human nature, and figure out how to adapt to it.
We are already doing that. People such as myself who are fit and trim have been shoved to the side in the clothing arena. About all you can find now are pants with a waist above 34 and the smallest shirts in medium with XL and XXL being very common.
Then you have the NHTSA moving to use fatter crash dummies in their tests, asking car manufacturers to use longer seat belts and airlines having to recalculate the weight of passengers because Americans (in particular) are getting fatter by the day.
The idea that people shouldn't waddle when they walk has been abandoned in favor of excuses (see the story further up for why the solutions to this problem are being ignored).
He got caught because he put his downloader in one of their closets. None of this should have been technically illegal,
So if I walk into your place of employment, install my equipment in their unlocked closet, try to hide the fact that my equipment is in their closet when I have no right to be there, and download all kinds of crap using their equipment, that's not illegal?
I tend to think your employer would say otherwise.
Better yet, I'll wait until you're at work, walk into your place and install my equipment on your network, hiding it under the pile of crap you have lying around, and pull down all your data from your network. Not illegal, right?
The amount of excuses people on here use to justify clearly illegal acts is akin to listening to the politicians in Washington come up with excuses for why they weren't really cheating on their wives or why they're not really taking bribes from companies and foreign governments.
In practice, the loss of a CEO, . . . at a critical moment can do a lot of damage.
No, not really. Study after study has shown a CEO has little impact on a company's performance. In fact, the higher the pay the CEO receives, the worse the company performs.
When it was found the captain attempted to destroy the evidence, as evidenced by the crew member(s) testifying, the captain should have been shot.
His catching, and keeping, of undersized fish was deliberate as was the destruction of the evidence. He knew what he was doing in both cases.
It's people like him who are destroying what little is left of the fisheries (along with fishermen from various Asian countries). Size restrictions and fishing limits are in place for a reason. People who deliberately go out of their way to subvert them don't deserve to kept around.
are the insurance companies who are raking in tens of millions of free dollars from all the people who are forced to hand over their money to a private company or have the government reach into their bank account and forcibly extract the money.
This had nothing to do with getting insurance for people because it started with a Republican governor who saw a way to pay back his political supporters and what better way then to have the public hand over their money whether they want to or not.
But this involves TECHNOLOGY so it must be evil because without TECHNOLOGY there would be other possible way for the folks at the airport to calculate how long you might be waiting in line.
No siree, no way at all. You standing there, in full view of every person, in a public space. No way to check. None at all.
deemed to have carried out an unauthorised act on a computer
I know this is a radical idea, and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the part about unauthorized act being done a computer should be a hint. If it's not your computer or your system, don't try to get into it.
Or are we going to use excuses as to why it's acceptable to try and get into someone else's equipment when you're not supposed to then whine about the penalty when you're found out?
I still don't understand what "problem" they are trying to solve.
You're missing the point. This isn't about solving a problem, it's about using technology. It doesn't have to solve a problem so long as technology is involved.
but it is the left's investment in ongoing hysteria.
Sort of like the right's hysteria over Ebola. Less than 5K deaths on the entire planet and they panic, completely ignoring the 50K+ deaths from flu or the 30K+ roadway deaths which occur in this country every year.
Since it's not your wife or husband, why do you care?
I don't.
Since it's not your dog, why do you care?
Since it's a living, breathing creature, unlike a blob of cells, mistreating it shows ones lack of civility, humanity and general lack of morals.
Since it's not your house, why do you care?
I don't, up to the point where your negligence in keeping your property maintained interferes with my property because critters from your area migrate to mine.
Why should the government be the main source for recall information?
One central point of information.
Shouldn't that come from the manufacturer/importer?
They do but most people ignore the mailings or emails. However, by pointing to a web site, that somehow triggers people into looking (considering how much people are online to begin with).
Besides, if you're buying a used car, this is an easy way to see if it is on a recalled list since you wouldn't have been notified by the manufacturer.
Yes, it is an insignificant figure considering they said they would get $184 million. Do the math, that's less than a quarter of what they said they would get (21.7% to be exact).
But thank you for playing and proving my point of people's hypocrisy when it comes to something they don't like (red light cameras) and things they do like (legalizing marijuana).
When something you don't like doesn't meet its expectation it's a complete and utter failure. When something you do like doesn't meet it's expectation it still got something.
Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.
This doesn't include the associated costs with the increase in crime or loss of productivity which have to be taken out of that amount.
So using the inevitable whining from people on here, Colorado's experiment is just as much a failure as Chicagos.
Considering Facebook vacuums every tidbit of information about a person (name, location, sites they visit, friends, etc), I don't think claiming the integrity of your community is at stake when law enforcement uses it to catch criminals is the way to go, especially considering the numerous times Facebook has already been caught manipulating results or running secret tests on users.
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In his book, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Heinlein had his lead character say the following regarding uncivilized behavior:
Gwen, my love, if one tolerates bad manners, they grow worse. Our pleasant habitat could decay into the sort of slum Elli-Five is, with crowding and unmannerly behavior and unnecessary noise and impolite language. I must find the oaf who did this thing, explain to him his offense, give him a chance to apologize, and kill him.
Problem solved.
So what you're saying is fat people don't have to take any responsibility for themselves because they can now point to this study and say, "See! It's in my genes."
Then they sit on their couch and shovel a box of doughnut holes into their gullet while sucking down a two liter of soda as they watch tv.
All those rednecks who go swimming in ponds and lakes get infected and become the dullards we see them as.
Of course this doesn't explain people such as the Kardashians, but at least it's a start.
"3 months," explains ReskillUSA's website, is "how long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs."
Now we know why there is so much shitty code being thrown out every day and why software from multi-billion dollar companies sucks so badly.
I read somewhere that it took roughly five years of training for a Roman to be considered a real soldier yet somehow these folks are claiming in only 3 months someone can be a qualified programmer.
That's like arguing that we should just accept obesity as human nature, and figure out how to adapt to it.
We are already doing that. People such as myself who are fit and trim have been shoved to the side in the clothing arena. About all you can find now are pants with a waist above 34 and the smallest shirts in medium with XL and XXL being very common.
Then you have the NHTSA moving to use fatter crash dummies in their tests, asking car manufacturers to use longer seat belts and airlines having to recalculate the weight of passengers because Americans (in particular) are getting fatter by the day.
The idea that people shouldn't waddle when they walk has been abandoned in favor of excuses (see the story further up for why the solutions to this problem are being ignored).
He got caught because he put his downloader in one of their closets. None of this should have been technically illegal,
So if I walk into your place of employment, install my equipment in their unlocked closet, try to hide the fact that my equipment is in their closet when I have no right to be there, and download all kinds of crap using their equipment, that's not illegal?
I tend to think your employer would say otherwise.
Better yet, I'll wait until you're at work, walk into your place and install my equipment on your network, hiding it under the pile of crap you have lying around, and pull down all your data from your network. Not illegal, right?
The amount of excuses people on here use to justify clearly illegal acts is akin to listening to the politicians in Washington come up with excuses for why they weren't really cheating on their wives or why they're not really taking bribes from companies and foreign governments.
In practice, the loss of a CEO, . . . at a critical moment can do a lot of damage.
No, not really. Study after study has shown a CEO has little impact on a company's performance. In fact, the higher the pay the CEO receives, the worse the company performs.
When it was found the captain attempted to destroy the evidence, as evidenced by the crew member(s) testifying, the captain should have been shot.
His catching, and keeping, of undersized fish was deliberate as was the destruction of the evidence. He knew what he was doing in both cases.
It's people like him who are destroying what little is left of the fisheries (along with fishermen from various Asian countries). Size restrictions and fishing limits are in place for a reason. People who deliberately go out of their way to subvert them don't deserve to kept around.
The fish ladders allow the Salmon to migrate and been the main concern, this news is just bad.
Except they don't. That's the problem.
While you're joking, the official name on legal documents is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations".
Providence is actually the "mainland" while Rhodes Island is, well, an island.
are the insurance companies who are raking in tens of millions of free dollars from all the people who are forced to hand over their money to a private company or have the government reach into their bank account and forcibly extract the money.
This had nothing to do with getting insurance for people because it started with a Republican governor who saw a way to pay back his political supporters and what better way then to have the public hand over their money whether they want to or not.
But this involves TECHNOLOGY so it must be evil because without TECHNOLOGY there would be other possible way for the folks at the airport to calculate how long you might be waiting in line.
No siree, no way at all. You standing there, in full view of every person, in a public space. No way to check. None at all.
deemed to have carried out an unauthorised act on a computer
I know this is a radical idea, and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the part about unauthorized act being done a computer should be a hint. If it's not your computer or your system, don't try to get into it.
Or are we going to use excuses as to why it's acceptable to try and get into someone else's equipment when you're not supposed to then whine about the penalty when you're found out?
Based solely on the description provided, this would make for a great setting in D&D.
Lich? Wight? Vampire? Evil mage? Jar Jar Binks?
I still don't understand what "problem" they are trying to solve.
You're missing the point. This isn't about solving a problem, it's about using technology. It doesn't have to solve a problem so long as technology is involved.
Even better, you get to use a laser!
but it is the left's investment in ongoing hysteria.
Sort of like the right's hysteria over Ebola. Less than 5K deaths on the entire planet and they panic, completely ignoring the 50K+ deaths from flu or the 30K+ roadway deaths which occur in this country every year.
Since it's not your money, why do you care?
I don't.
Since it's not your wife or husband, why do you care?
I don't.
Since it's not your dog, why do you care?
Since it's a living, breathing creature, unlike a blob of cells, mistreating it shows ones lack of civility, humanity and general lack of morals.
Since it's not your house, why do you care?
I don't, up to the point where your negligence in keeping your property maintained interferes with my property because critters from your area migrate to mine.
Since it's not your city, why do you care?
I don't.
Since it's not your book, why do you care?
I don't.
Since it's not your life, why do you care?
I don't. But then a blob of cells isn't a life.
It's almost as if some people just really want it to be legal to destroy human embryos.
Since they're not your embryos, why do you care?
Why should the government be the main source for recall information?
One central point of information.
Shouldn't that come from the manufacturer/importer?
They do but most people ignore the mailings or emails. However, by pointing to a web site, that somehow triggers people into looking (considering how much people are online to begin with).
Besides, if you're buying a used car, this is an easy way to see if it is on a recalled list since you wouldn't have been notified by the manufacturer.
No, crime did not go down.
Not to mention places being specifically targeted.
Yes, it is an insignificant figure considering they said they would get $184 million. Do the math, that's less than a quarter of what they said they would get (21.7% to be exact).
But thank you for playing and proving my point of people's hypocrisy when it comes to something they don't like (red light cameras) and things they do like (legalizing marijuana).
When something you don't like doesn't meet its expectation it's a complete and utter failure. When something you do like doesn't meet it's expectation it still got something.
Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.
This doesn't include the associated costs with the increase in crime or loss of productivity which have to be taken out of that amount.
So using the inevitable whining from people on here, Colorado's experiment is just as much a failure as Chicagos.
threaten the integrity of our community,"
Considering Facebook vacuums every tidbit of information about a person (name, location, sites they visit, friends, etc), I don't think claiming the integrity of your community is at stake when law enforcement uses it to catch criminals is the way to go, especially considering the numerous times Facebook has already been caught manipulating results or running secret tests on users.
It's Burning Man. The people who attend have fried their brains so the obvious dichotomy of the situation is lost on them.
Trader Joe's does the same thing. One big line, many registers.
Funny how efficient it is compared to many lines for many registers.