You missed the fact that Carter is the only President, next to Clinton, who didn't pay lip-service to peace in the Middle East. He is the only one to get Israel and a neighbor to sign a peace treaty and formal recognition which exists to this day without issue.
The Clinton issue was a failure by Arafat to pull the trigger and sign the deal for various reasons.
As an aside, Bush 1 did stick it to Israel by stopping the U.S. backing loan guarantees when Israel kept thumbing its nose at the U.S. by illegally confiscating Palestinian land and settling its own people there. He did eventually reinstate the U.S taxpayer being on the hook but only after Israel backed down (for a time. They're back it with a vengeance as we speak).
Ditto. Like you, I can explain most technical ideas to non-technical people (*cough* parents *cough*) using examples or analogies and they grasp the basics.
As to your PM, for as much as I would like to get into project management, the more I see the folks in the industry the less it becomes viable. They appear to be more interested in following PMBOC and tossing around terms than getting results.
"The project failed, but here are all the timelines, statements of work and change requests!"
No he doesn't. He lied to Sheldon to win the Magic competition then manipulated Penny into leaving Leonard then used his stardom(?) to jump the line in front of everyone else who was waiting for the re-release of the movie.
Sorry, that's just soulless on many levels and borders on sociopathic.
Being too scientific for the sake of science is turning lots of interested people away.
Alan Alda (yes, Hawkeye Pierce) has said almost the exact same thing in this article. Essentially, he wants the science folks to be more clear when describing something without the technical terms.
This does not mean dumb down the science, just explain more clearly what is taking place.
Yet based on his current rant, he would rather get paid than you get to listen to it.
Which was my point all along which everyone, including folks who modded me Funny, missed. Artists want to get paid, regardless of what they claim. In this case it's even more funny because he was being paid BUT, according to him, he wasn't getting paid enough.
Also, the line about not being able to afford it is completely bullshit. You can find used CDs at yard sales for $1 a piece. You can download individual songs for less than a dollar.
People use every excuse for why they shouldn't have to pay for something someone else produced but they are all just excuses. If you don't want to get paid for what you do, fine, that's your right. That does not mean you get to apply this to someone else. As Yorke so clearly shows, he does want to get paid for his work and going to TPB or elsewhere and getting his work for free is not what he's about.
To an outsider it just looks like there's no difference at all between the parties, and that everything is set up to try to force people to think "well if I don't vote [Republican|Democrat], then those damn [Democrats|Republicans] will get in!"
There are many of us on the inside who have the same opinion.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Microsoft has never bothered to fix the flaw in Outlook where opening attachments directly from an email rather than saving them first will eventually fill a temp directory and prevent you from opening any more attachments. This has been in existence since Outlook came out.
Once the number of temp files reaches about 100 you're screwed until you root through the system and find the directory and clear it.
Sort of like Windows itself. Witness how much is hidden from the user in Vista/W7 (W7 is essentially the service pack for Vista) compared to XP, then even more so in W8. Sure, W8.1 gave you back the Start button, but as Penny Arcade pointed out, it only brings you back to the tiles in a big "Fuck You!" from the UI folks.
Naw, it was developers and web designers who co-made the discovery when they promised everything would be better when they used the latest and greatest shiny.
Especially the spammers. While looking up a product I came across a WordPress site whose name was only a series of random characters and whose title belied the crap it was trying to push.
Doing the responsible thing, I tried to contact WordPress to have that site, and apparently related sites, shut down. No email, because email is so yesterday, so following the multiple links to finally get to a reporting page, I found the form wouldn't submit using two different browsers. In Fx the Continue button was never active and in IE it simply said Validating for ever and a day.
So yeah, anyone can start a WordPress, but good luck getting them to take down obvious spam.
as long as there's money to be made in selling the treatment you can be sure there won't be a cure.
Such as with smallpox and rinderpest, right? Might as well include polio on the list as well since except for some pockets in Afghanistan and Pakistan, thanks to the Taliban and their distrust of modern medicine (like you apparently), polio is essentially gone from this planet.
Just think how much money these companies have lost by finding a cure for these afflictions rather than just treating them. Potentially hundreds of billions of dollars. How horrible that they found a cheap cure rather than sticking it to people with high priced treatments.
Sorry, can't do that. One of our Supreme Court Justices decided to become an activist judge and read something into the law which wasn't there.
So now, if I don't go out and buy insurance, the government will confiscate my money as a penalty for not buying something. Fortunately the penalty is smaller than not buying so the effect will be minimal, but I'm still being forced to pay for my neighbor's bad activities.
What I should do is claim conscientious objector, similar to what the religious folks claim, and say my beliefs do not allow me to condone or support someone else's bad activities.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion. The fact remains these people, like drug users, have made a choice to do something which is known to cause health issues. Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect them from their own choice?
Also, there are contradictory studies on how much smokers cost, to wit:
Further, the following article talks about not only smokers, but the obese. In both cases the response from people is, "It's my life, I can do with it as I want." Which is correct. With few exceptions, one is free to live as they choose.
However, that does not mean your actions don't have consequences to the rest of us. In this case, their actions cost me money.
Sure, business gets a reprieve but the rest of us still get the shaft by having to pay for our neighbor's healthcare despite them smoking a pack a week.
Nothing like having to spend money on something useless because the government tells us we have to do so.
For me, a non-programmer, it's having to deal with programmers who think:
A) they need to have admin rights on their machine so they can install every piece of software known to mankind just to see if it can help them do their work, without any comprehension of where things get installed to, what options to turn on/off and what it does to their system because that's my job to fix the mess they created
B) programmers who think the answer to every software problem is to have the user run as an administrator on their machine.
C) programmers who refuse to admit their code is defective despite the (literal) piles of paperwork I present to them showing the steps I've taken to diagnose the issue(s) the person is having
Exactly. Why try to get the most out of something that's already bought and paid for when you can get something completely new and force people to either pay nearly usurious rates for slow speeds or go without.
I found an interesting way to get them to stop calling. I happened to be around when they called one time and so I followed the prompts.
When I got a live person I started asking questions and finally the guy hung up on me. They didn't call back for months and when they did, I hit 1 to get a live person then put the phone down and walked away.
Haven't gotten a call from them since.
Don't know if my actions were specific in getting them to stop calling, but it can't hurt to try.
Moderate in the sense that I fall somewhere between liberal and conservative political views. For instance, I'm pro death penalty (conservative), anti-illegal immigration free pass (conservative), actually believe what I say about free markets (unlike folks such as Kudlow and Cramer who give lip service [conservative]) and so on.
On the other side I'm pro-abortion (liberal), somewhat pro-environment (qualified liberal in that I'm not a tree hugger but I do like clean air and water), anti-one religion for the nation (liberal), decent wages for jobs (qualified liberal in that I don't think unions should force people to pay to get a job or their wages), pro-science (liberal) and so on.
Thus, I fall in between the two political leanings.
I was only pointing out what the 3 sites initially had to say about the impending news on the verdict AND how they presented it. Two presented big and bold headlines, "Impending Supreme Court decision on DOMA", while the third had this little, bitty blurb off to the side in small print.
Now that time has passed, of course the sites will say something differently.
Just for the sake of shits and giggles, I took screenshots of the three big cable networks (CNN, Fox and MSNBC) about half an hour ago when the first notice came out. I wanted to see how each would report on the announcement.
As predicted, CNN and NBC had nice big, red banners claiming the Supreme Court had a ruling and results would be forthcoming.
Fox, on the other hand, had no notice except for a small box on the right side of their web site which, if you didn't know what to look for, you would have missed.
Now, half an hour later, the Fox headline rules the decision is a victory for gay marriage, NOT that the law was ruled unconstitutional.
So the next time someone whines about the liberal bias in the media, kindly remind them of the twisting of facts by the conservative media.
NOTE: I have a moderate leaning though I do have positions which some might consider on the far side of both political spectrums so this isn't about one or the other. Just the hypocrisy of those who claim bias.
I mean, who would prefer that the IRS hand out tax-exemptions willy-nilly without any judgement?
That's what I've been telling people since the beginning. The IRS is/was in an impossible position. If it didn't investigate every group which applied for a tax exempt status, then people would whine about them not doing their job.
Now, during the height of a frenzied presidential election, they go the extra mile to make sure those who are applying are truly worthy of the tax exemption, and they're accused of playing partisan politics even though we now know they looked at groups from both sides and apparently even folks wanting to work on free software.
Make your mind up folks: either you want the IRS to do its job, even if that means taking a bit more time and extra scrutiny, or you want them to rubber-stamp whatever comes through.
Slashdot Mirror
You missed the fact that Carter is the only President, next to Clinton, who didn't pay lip-service to peace in the Middle East. He is the only one to get Israel and a neighbor to sign a peace treaty and formal recognition which exists to this day without issue.
The Clinton issue was a failure by Arafat to pull the trigger and sign the deal for various reasons.
As an aside, Bush 1 did stick it to Israel by stopping the U.S. backing loan guarantees when Israel kept thumbing its nose at the U.S. by illegally confiscating Palestinian land and settling its own people there. He did eventually reinstate the U.S taxpayer being on the hook but only after Israel backed down (for a time. They're back it with a vengeance as we speak).
So death by snu snu?
Ditto. Like you, I can explain most technical ideas to non-technical people (*cough* parents *cough*) using examples or analogies and they grasp the basics.
As to your PM, for as much as I would like to get into project management, the more I see the folks in the industry the less it becomes viable. They appear to be more interested in following PMBOC and tossing around terms than getting results.
"The project failed, but here are all the timelines, statements of work and change requests!"
He HAS A SOUL
No he doesn't. He lied to Sheldon to win the Magic competition then manipulated Penny into leaving Leonard then used his stardom(?) to jump the line in front of everyone else who was waiting for the re-release of the movie.
Sorry, that's just soulless on many levels and borders on sociopathic.
Being too scientific for the sake of science is turning lots of interested people away.
Alan Alda (yes, Hawkeye Pierce) has said almost the exact same thing in this article. Essentially, he wants the science folks to be more clear when describing something without the technical terms.
This does not mean dumb down the science, just explain more clearly what is taking place.
Yet based on his current rant, he would rather get paid than you get to listen to it.
Which was my point all along which everyone, including folks who modded me Funny, missed. Artists want to get paid, regardless of what they claim. In this case it's even more funny because he was being paid BUT, according to him, he wasn't getting paid enough.
Also, the line about not being able to afford it is completely bullshit. You can find used CDs at yard sales for $1 a piece. You can download individual songs for less than a dollar.
People use every excuse for why they shouldn't have to pay for something someone else produced but they are all just excuses. If you don't want to get paid for what you do, fine, that's your right. That does not mean you get to apply this to someone else. As Yorke so clearly shows, he does want to get paid for his work and going to TPB or elsewhere and getting his work for free is not what he's about.
Is this guy nuts? Who gets paid for their work? Just steal it from TPB or someplace else.
Pfft. Getting paid for their work. How quaint. Move into the 21st century!
To an outsider it just looks like there's no difference at all between the parties, and that everything is set up to try to force people to think "well if I don't vote [Republican|Democrat], then those damn [Democrats|Republicans] will get in!"
There are many of us on the inside who have the same opinion.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Microsoft has never bothered to fix the flaw in Outlook where opening attachments directly from an email rather than saving them first will eventually fill a temp directory and prevent you from opening any more attachments. This has been in existence since Outlook came out.
Once the number of temp files reaches about 100 you're screwed until you root through the system and find the directory and clear it.
The issue, its symptoms and recommendations:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm
It became less customizable each release,
Sort of like Windows itself. Witness how much is hidden from the user in Vista/W7 (W7 is essentially the service pack for Vista) compared to XP, then even more so in W8. Sure, W8.1 gave you back the Start button, but as Penny Arcade pointed out, it only brings you back to the tiles in a big "Fuck You!" from the UI folks.
Naw, it was developers and web designers who co-made the discovery when they promised everything would be better when they used the latest and greatest shiny.
Anyone can start a Wordpress site,
Especially the spammers. While looking up a product I came across a WordPress site whose name was only a series of random characters and whose title belied the crap it was trying to push.
Doing the responsible thing, I tried to contact WordPress to have that site, and apparently related sites, shut down. No email, because email is so yesterday, so following the multiple links to finally get to a reporting page, I found the form wouldn't submit using two different browsers. In Fx the Continue button was never active and in IE it simply said Validating for ever and a day.
So yeah, anyone can start a WordPress, but good luck getting them to take down obvious spam.
as long as there's money to be made in selling the treatment you can be sure there won't be a cure.
Such as with smallpox and rinderpest, right? Might as well include polio on the list as well since except for some pockets in Afghanistan and Pakistan, thanks to the Taliban and their distrust of modern medicine (like you apparently), polio is essentially gone from this planet.
Just think how much money these companies have lost by finding a cure for these afflictions rather than just treating them. Potentially hundreds of billions of dollars. How horrible that they found a cheap cure rather than sticking it to people with high priced treatments.
Sorry, can't do that. One of our Supreme Court Justices decided to become an activist judge and read something into the law which wasn't there.
So now, if I don't go out and buy insurance, the government will confiscate my money as a penalty for not buying something. Fortunately the penalty is smaller than not buying so the effect will be minimal, but I'm still being forced to pay for my neighbor's bad activities.
What I should do is claim conscientious objector, similar to what the religious folks claim, and say my beliefs do not allow me to condone or support someone else's bad activities.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion. The fact remains these people, like drug users, have made a choice to do something which is known to cause health issues. Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect them from their own choice?
Also, there are contradictory studies on how much smokers cost, to wit:
Abstract
However, more recent studies show smokers DO cost more in healthcare than non-smokers:
NBCnews
Further, the following article talks about not only smokers, but the obese. In both cases the response from people is, "It's my life, I can do with it as I want." Which is correct. With few exceptions, one is free to live as they choose.
However, that does not mean your actions don't have consequences to the rest of us. In this case, their actions cost me money.
The Ledger
Sure, business gets a reprieve but the rest of us still get the shaft by having to pay for our neighbor's healthcare despite them smoking a pack a week.
Nothing like having to spend money on something useless because the government tells us we have to do so.
For me, a non-programmer, it's having to deal with programmers who think:
A) they need to have admin rights on their machine so they can install every piece of software known to mankind just to see if it can help them do their work, without any comprehension of where things get installed to, what options to turn on/off and what it does to their system because that's my job to fix the mess they created
B) programmers who think the answer to every software problem is to have the user run as an administrator on their machine.
C) programmers who refuse to admit their code is defective despite the (literal) piles of paperwork I present to them showing the steps I've taken to diagnose the issue(s) the person is having
They can try to push ads all they want, but until they get their search "feature" to work, it will be moot.
It's faster to go to Google and do a search than it is trying to find the answer through their, supposedly, integrated search.
Exactly. Why try to get the most out of something that's already bought and paid for when you can get something completely new and force people to either pay nearly usurious rates for slow speeds or go without.
I found an interesting way to get them to stop calling. I happened to be around when they called one time and so I followed the prompts.
When I got a live person I started asking questions and finally the guy hung up on me. They didn't call back for months and when they did, I hit 1 to get a live person then put the phone down and walked away.
Haven't gotten a call from them since.
Don't know if my actions were specific in getting them to stop calling, but it can't hurt to try.
Moderate in the sense that I fall somewhere between liberal and conservative political views. For instance, I'm pro death penalty (conservative), anti-illegal immigration free pass (conservative), actually believe what I say about free markets (unlike folks such as Kudlow and Cramer who give lip service [conservative]) and so on.
On the other side I'm pro-abortion (liberal), somewhat pro-environment (qualified liberal in that I'm not a tree hugger but I do like clean air and water), anti-one religion for the nation (liberal), decent wages for jobs (qualified liberal in that I don't think unions should force people to pay to get a job or their wages), pro-science (liberal) and so on.
Thus, I fall in between the two political leanings.
I was only pointing out what the 3 sites initially had to say about the impending news on the verdict AND how they presented it. Two presented big and bold headlines, "Impending Supreme Court decision on DOMA", while the third had this little, bitty blurb off to the side in small print.
Now that time has passed, of course the sites will say something differently.
Just for the sake of shits and giggles, I took screenshots of the three big cable networks (CNN, Fox and MSNBC) about half an hour ago when the first notice came out. I wanted to see how each would report on the announcement.
As predicted, CNN and NBC had nice big, red banners claiming the Supreme Court had a ruling and results would be forthcoming.
Fox, on the other hand, had no notice except for a small box on the right side of their web site which, if you didn't know what to look for, you would have missed.
Now, half an hour later, the Fox headline rules the decision is a victory for gay marriage, NOT that the law was ruled unconstitutional.
So the next time someone whines about the liberal bias in the media, kindly remind them of the twisting of facts by the conservative media.
NOTE: I have a moderate leaning though I do have positions which some might consider on the far side of both political spectrums so this isn't about one or the other. Just the hypocrisy of those who claim bias.
And they also taught me that people in a minority view are often right
I have a comic from Randy Glasbergen on my wall which has the following comment:
Nine out of 10 people disagree with my idea which sends a very clear message -- nine out of 10 people are idiots!
Sadly, that sentiment is a large part of my day but it goes directly to your statement.
I mean, who would prefer that the IRS hand out tax-exemptions willy-nilly without any judgement?
That's what I've been telling people since the beginning. The IRS is/was in an impossible position. If it didn't investigate every group which applied for a tax exempt status, then people would whine about them not doing their job.
Now, during the height of a frenzied presidential election, they go the extra mile to make sure those who are applying are truly worthy of the tax exemption, and they're accused of playing partisan politics even though we now know they looked at groups from both sides and apparently even folks wanting to work on free software.
Make your mind up folks: either you want the IRS to do its job, even if that means taking a bit more time and extra scrutiny, or you want them to rubber-stamp whatever comes through.