I thought less of him. But just for being stupid enough to let his picture get taken with a drug when he has tens of millions of endorsements that could go down the drain. Crap, if I had that much money in endorsements just for being the best at moving my arms back and forth really fast (oversimplification, but the point is that it is not a real social benefit to be able to swim fast), I sure as hell wouldn't do anything to risk it.
So while smoking a joint doesn't shock me, his stupidity does. He went through this before with a DUI, he should be smarter than that.
(And in its infinite wisdom, Slashdot is now making me wait at least five minutes between posts. in my prior experience, this will become ten and then fifteen. It happens as soon as I get one downmod. I love Slashdot where the GNAA can post as much as they want, but with positive karma, I get effectively censored.)
It would be nice if correlation implied causality, wouldn't it?
I think in this case it does. If you look at Geography, Utah is far below its neighbors. There may be other factors, but I'd be willing to bet that Mormonism plays a big part on this.
In fact, if you look, rape is actually above the national average. I'd bet this has something to do with Mormonism's views toward woman as well.
I checked out a database on violent crime broken down by state. Utah's overall violent crime rate is less than half that of the nation, and murder rate 1/3 of that of the nation as a whole.
So while I don't like the "big brother" mentality, the moral code does have concrete benefits.
Actually, I did post one other time anonymously because I wasn't logged in at the time. Why should I care if I ask this question under my real user account? Will you and the rest of the GNAA come after me?
This is offtopic. Mod accordingly. I was reading a story about how Google executives were going on trial in Italy over a you tube video. I refreshed to see what new comments were in the story. Suddenly, the story was not there any more.
I have never seen Slashdot pull down a story before, even if it turned out to be factually incorrect. Anyone know why this story got yanked off of the front page?
Wow. 99% of the time if I read a U.S. paper, I see how bad the U.S. is at everything. I see us slammed, mocked. I see how we rank behind every other country in just about everything. I am not sure where the "empty bravado" is coming from that offends you so much.
Nice selective metrics. A better metric might be that America has roughly 3 times the population of Germany. While it shows we are still behind the Germans, it certainly isn't as skewed as the land area would indicate.
How many developers want to put in the extra effort for a 0.1% wider audience? And consider the Linux crowd has the "free (as in beer) software mentality".... so I figure an even less percentage sales increase.
I wonder if a few of my "special jobs" as a concrete mixer will show up on these maps. If so, anyone got a list of countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.?
Thanks for assuming your access/habits/behaviors are the norm for everyone. This type of thinking is what makes the world such a wonderful, understanding place.
if I had to choose between the two extremes, I would choose this over the "lets remove all risk from a child's environment" philosophy. Fortunately, this is a false dichotomy.
I blame our crack editing team for this. This article is actually worth reading, but not because of this. Apparently this gym has a "boob aerobics" class designed to increase breast size. Now, I am sure most of you are wondering if CowboyNeal went to this class. But to the 2% of us with girlfriends or wives.... where do we get them signed up for this?!?!?!
Maybe it is a function of age. After having read the Onion online for years, you start to see the same formula applied to articles over and over. it almost becomes predictable. There are very few "original" ideas. I think the same thing with Saturday Night Live.
And if Slashdot is supposedly a techie site, why can't they fix the 1.5" wide comment box?
One thing I learned as a software developer, is you can create an application that conforms to specifications but is hated by the end users, even those who designed the spec. What I learned is that you need to take a lot of time up front, and talk with all of the users and other stakeholders. You need to listen to what they say and don't say and then you need to figure out what they really want. It is usually different than what they are expressly asking for. Part of that is respecting everyone in the process, regardless of their attitude. If you can demonstrate that you really want to give them what they need and will help them with that process, you will get very little of the backbiting that original poster expressed.
Where does this begin? Nothing technical. Nothing taught in school. You have to sincerely respect people from all areas, not just the IT minded. Not just the higher ups. Everyone. Once you start with that frame of mind, doors open. Granted, sometimes it takes a conscious effort to get to that frame of mind. Sometimes, people rub you the wrong way.... they have agendas, and you have to take a deep breath and step back. But calling your users Luddites and worse sure ain't the way to go. Frankly, the attitude disgusts me.
Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving. As a manager, I would NEVER have this type of attitude towards people or allow that type of attitude to germinate in my department. You think your point of view is the only valid ones and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. frankly, you are the type of person that gives IT workers a bad name.
However, the point remains: $30 Million of what? Gross Revenue? Profit? It makes no sense to not specify what it refers to. You can have revenue of $30 Million and still be losing money hand over fist. You can have small sales, but still be pulling in a $30 Million profit margin. The summary makes no sense without this info.
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I thought less of him. But just for being stupid enough to let his picture get taken with a drug when he has tens of millions of endorsements that could go down the drain. Crap, if I had that much money in endorsements just for being the best at moving my arms back and forth really fast (oversimplification, but the point is that it is not a real social benefit to be able to swim fast), I sure as hell wouldn't do anything to risk it.
So while smoking a joint doesn't shock me, his stupidity does. He went through this before with a DUI, he should be smarter than that.
Nevada is less dense population wise yet has twice the murder rate of the nation and violent crime as well.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/09s0297.pdf
(And in its infinite wisdom, Slashdot is now making me wait at least five minutes between posts. in my prior experience, this will become ten and then fifteen. It happens as soon as I get one downmod. I love Slashdot where the GNAA can post as much as they want, but with positive karma, I get effectively censored.)
It would be nice if correlation implied causality, wouldn't it?
I think in this case it does. If you look at Geography, Utah is far below its neighbors. There may be other factors, but I'd be willing to bet that Mormonism plays a big part on this.
In fact, if you look, rape is actually above the national average. I'd bet this has something to do with Mormonism's views toward woman as well.
I checked out a database on violent crime broken down by state. Utah's overall violent crime rate is less than half that of the nation, and murder rate 1/3 of that of the nation as a whole.
So while I don't like the "big brother" mentality, the moral code does have concrete benefits.
My unpatched Windows system can get rooted AT LEAST ten times faster than Ubuntu. Take that, Open Source!
It has subtracts too!
Actually, I did post one other time anonymously because I wasn't logged in at the time. Why should I care if I ask this question under my real user account? Will you and the rest of the GNAA come after me?
This is offtopic. Mod accordingly. I was reading a story about how Google executives were going on trial in Italy over a you tube video. I refreshed to see what new comments were in the story. Suddenly, the story was not there any more.
I have never seen Slashdot pull down a story before, even if it turned out to be factually incorrect. Anyone know why this story got yanked off of the front page?
Disappointingly? Heck, that makes it three times cooler, IMO :)
Wow. 99% of the time if I read a U.S. paper, I see how bad the U.S. is at everything. I see us slammed, mocked. I see how we rank behind every other country in just about everything. I am not sure where the "empty bravado" is coming from that offends you so much.
Nice selective metrics. A better metric might be that America has roughly 3 times the population of Germany. While it shows we are still behind the Germans, it certainly isn't as skewed as the land area would indicate.
How many developers want to put in the extra effort for a 0.1% wider audience? And consider the Linux crowd has the "free (as in beer) software mentality".... so I figure an even less percentage sales increase.
(ducks and covers)
We don't. However, we do advertise this as a potential side-effect to increase our funding.
I wonder if a few of my "special jobs" as a concrete mixer will show up on these maps. If so, anyone got a list of countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.?
Thanks for assuming your access/habits/behaviors are the norm for everyone. This type of thinking is what makes the world such a wonderful, understanding place.
if I had to choose between the two extremes, I would choose this over the "lets remove all risk from a child's environment" philosophy. Fortunately, this is a false dichotomy.
Yeah. But one of your wives is photographed here.
1. My Barber
2. My urologist during my vasectomy.
3. The LHC scientists during the first collisions.
I blame our crack editing team for this. This article is actually worth reading, but not because of this. Apparently this gym has a "boob aerobics" class designed to increase breast size. Now, I am sure most of you are wondering if CowboyNeal went to this class. But to the 2% of us with girlfriends or wives.... where do we get them signed up for this?!?!?!
Maybe it is a function of age. After having read the Onion online for years, you start to see the same formula applied to articles over and over. it almost becomes predictable. There are very few "original" ideas. I think the same thing with Saturday Night Live.
And if Slashdot is supposedly a techie site, why can't they fix the 1.5" wide comment box?
I saw KY, and thought it was some elaborate goatse troll.
One thing I learned as a software developer, is you can create an application that conforms to specifications but is hated by the end users, even those who designed the spec. What I learned is that you need to take a lot of time up front, and talk with all of the users and other stakeholders. You need to listen to what they say and don't say and then you need to figure out what they really want. It is usually different than what they are expressly asking for. Part of that is respecting everyone in the process, regardless of their attitude. If you can demonstrate that you really want to give them what they need and will help them with that process, you will get very little of the backbiting that original poster expressed.
Where does this begin? Nothing technical. Nothing taught in school. You have to sincerely respect people from all areas, not just the IT minded. Not just the higher ups. Everyone. Once you start with that frame of mind, doors open. Granted, sometimes it takes a conscious effort to get to that frame of mind. Sometimes, people rub you the wrong way.... they have agendas, and you have to take a deep breath and step back. But calling your users Luddites and worse sure ain't the way to go. Frankly, the attitude disgusts me.
Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving. As a manager, I would NEVER have this type of attitude towards people or allow that type of attitude to germinate in my department. You think your point of view is the only valid ones and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. frankly, you are the type of person that gives IT workers a bad name.
Okay, you got me on using a redundant dollar sign
However, the point remains: $30 Million of what? Gross Revenue? Profit? It makes no sense to not specify what it refers to. You can have revenue of $30 Million and still be losing money hand over fist. You can have small sales, but still be pulling in a $30 Million profit margin. The summary makes no sense without this info.
Can analogies are ALWAYS necessary. The only problem is this one made sense. Mod GP down.