If it's acceptable for one country, or two or three, to claim the right of self defense to go after someone who they think might be a threat to them, that country has no right to complain when another country, or group, does the same.
You can't claim you're always being picked on when you're the one doing the bullying.
Chelsea is much larger than what the article relates. It encompasses the area (roughly) from 9th St (and that weird triangle area with Gansevoort) up to about 28th and from 5th Avenue to 12th (there is a 13th Ave but it's no longer accessible).
I've been half-heartedly following this story once I heard the initial reports and what took place was almost, but not quite, as bad as the Indian student who was attacked, raped and beaten on a bus in India and later died.
This girl was, apparently, passed out drunk (she was 16) and while passed out, was raped by at least 2 members of the football. Her limp, violated, body was carried by her arms and legs, all while being recorded and while others stood by and did nothing.
Some people present tweeted what was taking place, some took pictures and one shining example of the human race was recorded for a length of time bragging about how much she was fucked (worse than in the movie Pulp Fiction according to him). No one called the police.
Further, when asked about how he would feel if his daughter was raped (he apparently at the ripe of a late teenager had a daughter) in 10 years, he pontificated that in ten years his daughter would be raped and dead. What a wonderful guy.
While the death penalty cannot undo what was done to someone, we as a society can no longer continue to coddle people who refuse to live with the basic bounds of society. There isn't something new in not raping, murdering, shooting, tealing from, beating or otherwise doing something to someone, and people such as this who have no regard for others do not deserve any sympathy or regard from the rest of society.
then skimmed the extract. Pretty much what I thought, the usual, "Increase your skills, talk to people, make yourself indispensable."
If I wanted that job, I'll stay where I'm at. Considering what I get paid and the amount of work I do, you'd think I should be the one behind the big desk making the decisions.
Instead, because I'm so "valuable" and have so many "skillsets", I get more and more cruft dumped on me, can never get promoted because I'm good at what I do and private employers wouldn't touch me if I was last person on the planet because I speak the truth and want to accomplish something.
I tell everyone I meet, when it comes up in conversation, if you need someone to solve your problems, give me a shout or, if you have a job opening, keep me in mind. So far, after years and years of this, not one single person has ever come back to me.
I continually tell people where I work about needing to clearly and concisely communicate, how projects are failing left and right because of the lack of communication and organization, how the drive to constantly "innovate" and be "on the cutting edge" is making us look more and more incompetent every day because we can't do the simple things, let alone shoot for the moon, but no one listens.
If people aren't listening to me now, people who know me and what a great job I do, what makes you think someone who doesn't know me will listen to what I say?
There was an episode where Howard came up with a set of lips which two people could use to virtually kiss. How you kissed and tongued the lips would correspond to the other person.
They do not feel a thing. Insects lack a central nervous system, which is needed to have ability to feel what is happening to remote parts of your body.
Not so fast. You might want to reconsider that thought, especially when the dance of bees were studied and how it relates to their central nervous system.
Then there is the anatomy of a bee which shows its nervous system.
Obviously bees feel pain. The question is to what extent compared to mammals.
except in the case of an incompetent shooter (i.e. poor aim).
Right, because when someone walks into your store and you grab your gun to defend yourself, you are going to be perfectly calm and stable and hit the robber with all 3 of your rounds.
This is the same nonsense I hear from people who say they carry and they'll shoot anyone that tries to rob them. As if the robber is going to wait for them to pull out their gun instead of telling them to empty their pockets and getting a second gun.
I was thinking, "Why couldn't they have used cows or hippos?" but then I realized, potatoes don't whine about not being able to fit into a seat because they're too fat.
to keep fighting for digital rights however they can
When they speak of digital rights they mean the ability to get any piece of software without compensating the person/people who created the software, and who are not giving that software away.
After all, it doesn't cost someone a single dime to create the software in the first place so why should they have to pay for it? Everything's free, right?
of the extra fee or increase in prices that companies such as FedEx imposed when gas prices were around $4. They claimed it was in response to the increase in fuel prices.
Now that prices have fallen by 50-70 cents, I don't see those fees being revoked.
Same thing with hard drive prices. Initially, with limited supply, a price increase was justified. Now that production is back to normal, I don't see the prices coming down.
at what point is enough, enough. When are people going to quit Facebook/Instagram/whatever en masse as these deliberate and calculated abuses continue?
These are your pictures. You own them. No corporation has the right to use them without your permission just because they are holding them.
Sure, one can always not put up pictures, but that defeats the whole point of Instagram, doesn't it?
There are options. One could always upload the picture with a big watermark on it or plaster a copyright symbol and your name on it, but knowing these shysters, they would just remove those things and still claim it's theirs.
Just another reason why I don't use any of these "services".
I contemplated advertising that for those who were/are truly serious in their belief that the world will end on the 21st, I would have them sign a legal contract which gives me all of the assets in all their bank accounts.
This would be signed and executed on the 20th so there would be time for the money to transfer that day. Once the money had been transferred, I would give them $100 to spend during their last hours. Can't be that coldhearted.
Since the contract was not signed under duress and they were truly serious in their belief that there would be nothing after the 21st, there wouldn't be any excuse for them to come back to me on the 22nd asking for their money back.
After all, if you're truly of the opinion that nothing will be here on the 22nd, there shouldn't be a problem with you giving your money away.
At least it will be practical, even if it's not pretty.
I can assure you, a UI designed by a programmer will be neither practical nor pretty. One need only look at ITIM (IBM Tivoli Information Manager) to see what a horrific pile of aardvark shit the programmers created. Multiple screens to do the simplest of tasks, hidden dropdowns so you can't see what the selection is, no rhyme or reason to why one piece of information is in one location but not another, etc.
Then of course we have anything from Oracle or SAP, current McAfee products (I'd be running too if my name was associated with that product), the bloat and nonsense that has become Firefox, and the list goes on.
The longer I have had to work with software the more I am convinced we are regressing in terms of usability and convenience. As I have said elsewhere, a large part of my day involves fixing problems created by software (and another large part spent fixing problems created by users) or finding ways to work around the problems created by software.
A large part of software today just plain sucks and it can be tied directly back to programmers who want to show off shiny rather than accomplishing something useful.
As soon as the first screenshots came out and I read the description of how 8 was supposed to work, I knew it would be crap. It's an abomination of the highest order designed by programmers who have no clue of what they're doing and violating the first rule of IT that should never be broken: Never let programmers design your applications.
This is just the continuation of the crap that is 7 and it's insistence on hiding things from the user, forcing them to take the longest, most convoluted path to accomplish the simplest of tasks and forcing "features" on people which do nothing but get in the way.
I have repeatedly told people, "Sorry, but I'm being forced to downgrade you to Windows 7."
The only reason people think 7 is so great is because it's the service pack for Vista. Similarly, the only people who will think 8 is so great are the same ones who bought a Zune.
So like Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Hillary, Wright, Gagarin, Armstrong and a whole host of other people who volunteered or took on the adventure of going somewhere where no one else had been.
Yeah, those are the last type of people we want to go to Mars.:eyeroll:
I don't use Verizon for my television but in my parents case, they don't have a cell phone from Verizon so there can't be any listening in on conversations.
As to the set top box, the article mentions infrared sensors. Electrical tape works wonders. If Verizon complains about "hacking" their hardware, put the set top box in a closed tv stand. It's your property, not theirs, so they can't complain.
As to a mic in the set top box, same thing. Inside a a closed tv stand what little sound they can pick up will be muffled and not worth their effort to figure out.
If they still have a problem, cancel your service. Problem solved.
race cars (and wannabe race cars) have used fiberglass hoods for years.
They have? Funny, I don't remember seeing fiberglass shards spewing across the track at a NASCAR race whenever they wreck. While Formula 1, and it's siblings, use carbon fiber, it's not fiberglass.
Same with the Australian V8 Super Cars, rally cars, midgets, modifieds (though they may not have a hood to begin with), sprint, or a whole host of other race cars.
Even the drag racers don't use fiberglass. They use carbon fiber.
where you can learn to write code in 8 to 10 weeks for about $10,000
Just what we need, more shitty code for someone else to figure out how to work around the problems created by said code.
Considering the amount of work I spend every day fixing issues or trying to resolve problems due to bad coding from multi-million dollar companies, the last thing we need is more people shoveling out more shit when there is enough shit already out there.
We don't need the latest and greatest shiny. We need code that works.
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If it's acceptable for one country, or two or three, to claim the right of self defense to go after someone who they think might be a threat to them, that country has no right to complain when another country, or group, does the same.
You can't claim you're always being picked on when you're the one doing the bullying.
has to be one of the top 10 dumbest items to come out this year, and we're only a week and a half in.
That said, because I consider it such a stupid idea, people will buy it in the millions. Better invest in the company now before it goes public.
I have a comic from Randy Glasbergen I printed out and stuck on my cube wall which reads:
Nine out of 10 people disagree with my idea, which sends a very clear message -- nine out of 10 people are idiots!
The sad part is that sentiment is very similar to my normal day.
I'm sure it does. Only being a pedantic snit as others are on here when other subjects come up.
Chelsea is much larger than what the article relates. It encompasses the area (roughly) from 9th St (and that weird triangle area with Gansevoort) up to about 28th and from 5th Avenue to 12th (there is a 13th Ave but it's no longer accessible).
As someone further up suggested, Hipster Web.
I've been half-heartedly following this story once I heard the initial reports and what took place was almost, but not quite, as bad as the Indian student who was attacked, raped and beaten on a bus in India and later died.
This girl was, apparently, passed out drunk (she was 16) and while passed out, was raped by at least 2 members of the football. Her limp, violated, body was carried by her arms and legs, all while being recorded and while others stood by and did nothing.
Some people present tweeted what was taking place, some took pictures and one shining example of the human race was recorded for a length of time bragging about how much she was fucked (worse than in the movie Pulp Fiction according to him). No one called the police.
Further, when asked about how he would feel if his daughter was raped (he apparently at the ripe of a late teenager had a daughter) in 10 years, he pontificated that in ten years his daughter would be raped and dead. What a wonderful guy.
While the death penalty cannot undo what was done to someone, we as a society can no longer continue to coddle people who refuse to live with the basic bounds of society. There isn't something new in not raping, murdering, shooting, tealing from, beating or otherwise doing something to someone, and people such as this who have no regard for others do not deserve any sympathy or regard from the rest of society.
then skimmed the extract. Pretty much what I thought, the usual, "Increase your skills, talk to people, make yourself indispensable."
If I wanted that job, I'll stay where I'm at. Considering what I get paid and the amount of work I do, you'd think I should be the one behind the big desk making the decisions.
Instead, because I'm so "valuable" and have so many "skillsets", I get more and more cruft dumped on me, can never get promoted because I'm good at what I do and private employers wouldn't touch me if I was last person on the planet because I speak the truth and want to accomplish something.
I tell everyone I meet, when it comes up in conversation, if you need someone to solve your problems, give me a shout or, if you have a job opening, keep me in mind. So far, after years and years of this, not one single person has ever come back to me.
I continually tell people where I work about needing to clearly and concisely communicate, how projects are failing left and right because of the lack of communication and organization, how the drive to constantly "innovate" and be "on the cutting edge" is making us look more and more incompetent every day because we can't do the simple things, let alone shoot for the moon, but no one listens.
If people aren't listening to me now, people who know me and what a great job I do, what makes you think someone who doesn't know me will listen to what I say?
There was an episode where Howard came up with a set of lips which two people could use to virtually kiss. How you kissed and tongued the lips would correspond to the other person.
I think there' prior art for this.
They do not feel a thing. Insects lack a central nervous system, which is needed to have ability to feel what is happening to remote parts of your body.
Not so fast. You might want to reconsider that thought, especially when the dance of bees were studied and how it relates to their central nervous system.
Then there is the anatomy of a bee which shows its nervous system.
Obviously bees feel pain. The question is to what extent compared to mammals.
Dear Bradley
What part of communication isn't understood in Federal Communications Commission?
Try this one.
except in the case of an incompetent shooter (i.e. poor aim).
Right, because when someone walks into your store and you grab your gun to defend yourself, you are going to be perfectly calm and stable and hit the robber with all 3 of your rounds.
This is the same nonsense I hear from people who say they carry and they'll shoot anyone that tries to rob them. As if the robber is going to wait for them to pull out their gun instead of telling them to empty their pockets and getting a second gun.
I was thinking, "Why couldn't they have used cows or hippos?" but then I realized, potatoes don't whine about not being able to fit into a seat because they're too fat.
to keep fighting for digital rights however they can
When they speak of digital rights they mean the ability to get any piece of software without compensating the person/people who created the software, and who are not giving that software away.
After all, it doesn't cost someone a single dime to create the software in the first place so why should they have to pay for it? Everything's free, right?
True, but if we can get to 1/10 C, the trip will only be, roughly, 120 years (allowing for time to get to speed then decelerate).
So that's only 1, maybe 2 generations. The line should still be pretty long even after that wait.
But giving a million of your "friends" your entire music collection, without compensating the artists for their efforts, is still ok, right?
of the extra fee or increase in prices that companies such as FedEx imposed when gas prices were around $4. They claimed it was in response to the increase in fuel prices.
Now that prices have fallen by 50-70 cents, I don't see those fees being revoked.
Same thing with hard drive prices. Initially, with limited supply, a price increase was justified. Now that production is back to normal, I don't see the prices coming down.
at what point is enough, enough. When are people going to quit Facebook/Instagram/whatever en masse as these deliberate and calculated abuses continue?
These are your pictures. You own them. No corporation has the right to use them without your permission just because they are holding them.
Sure, one can always not put up pictures, but that defeats the whole point of Instagram, doesn't it?
There are options. One could always upload the picture with a big watermark on it or plaster a copyright symbol and your name on it, but knowing these shysters, they would just remove those things and still claim it's theirs.
Just another reason why I don't use any of these "services".
I contemplated advertising that for those who were/are truly serious in their belief that the world will end on the 21st, I would have them sign a legal contract which gives me all of the assets in all their bank accounts.
This would be signed and executed on the 20th so there would be time for the money to transfer that day. Once the money had been transferred, I would give them $100 to spend during their last hours. Can't be that coldhearted.
Since the contract was not signed under duress and they were truly serious in their belief that there would be nothing after the 21st, there wouldn't be any excuse for them to come back to me on the 22nd asking for their money back.
After all, if you're truly of the opinion that nothing will be here on the 22nd, there shouldn't be a problem with you giving your money away.
At least it will be practical, even if it's not pretty.
I can assure you, a UI designed by a programmer will be neither practical nor pretty. One need only look at ITIM (IBM Tivoli Information Manager) to see what a horrific pile of aardvark shit the programmers created. Multiple screens to do the simplest of tasks, hidden dropdowns so you can't see what the selection is, no rhyme or reason to why one piece of information is in one location but not another, etc.
Then of course we have anything from Oracle or SAP, current McAfee products (I'd be running too if my name was associated with that product), the bloat and nonsense that has become Firefox, and the list goes on.
The longer I have had to work with software the more I am convinced we are regressing in terms of usability and convenience. As I have said elsewhere, a large part of my day involves fixing problems created by software (and another large part spent fixing problems created by users) or finding ways to work around the problems created by software.
A large part of software today just plain sucks and it can be tied directly back to programmers who want to show off shiny rather than accomplishing something useful.
As soon as the first screenshots came out and I read the description of how 8 was supposed to work, I knew it would be crap. It's an abomination of the highest order designed by programmers who have no clue of what they're doing and violating the first rule of IT that should never be broken: Never let programmers design your applications.
This is just the continuation of the crap that is 7 and it's insistence on hiding things from the user, forcing them to take the longest, most convoluted path to accomplish the simplest of tasks and forcing "features" on people which do nothing but get in the way.
I have repeatedly told people, "Sorry, but I'm being forced to downgrade you to Windows 7."
The only reason people think 7 is so great is because it's the service pack for Vista. Similarly, the only people who will think 8 is so great are the same ones who bought a Zune.
So like Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Hillary, Wright, Gagarin, Armstrong and a whole host of other people who volunteered or took on the adventure of going somewhere where no one else had been.
Yeah, those are the last type of people we want to go to Mars. :eyeroll:
I don't use Verizon for my television but in my parents case, they don't have a cell phone from Verizon so there can't be any listening in on conversations.
As to the set top box, the article mentions infrared sensors. Electrical tape works wonders. If Verizon complains about "hacking" their hardware, put the set top box in a closed tv stand. It's your property, not theirs, so they can't complain.
As to a mic in the set top box, same thing. Inside a a closed tv stand what little sound they can pick up will be muffled and not worth their effort to figure out.
If they still have a problem, cancel your service. Problem solved.
race cars (and wannabe race cars) have used fiberglass hoods for years.
They have? Funny, I don't remember seeing fiberglass shards spewing across the track at a NASCAR race whenever they wreck. While Formula 1, and it's siblings, use carbon fiber, it's not fiberglass.
Same with the Australian V8 Super Cars, rally cars, midgets, modifieds (though they may not have a hood to begin with), sprint, or a whole host of other race cars.
Even the drag racers don't use fiberglass. They use carbon fiber.
where you can learn to write code in 8 to 10 weeks for about $10,000
Just what we need, more shitty code for someone else to figure out how to work around the problems created by said code.
Considering the amount of work I spend every day fixing issues or trying to resolve problems due to bad coding from multi-million dollar companies, the last thing we need is more people shoveling out more shit when there is enough shit already out there.
We don't need the latest and greatest shiny. We need code that works.