Some companies outsource their network admin roles. So the number of engineers might be just the employees and not counting contract people who manage the infrastructure.
Well, who are you to tell someone else that they have to stay alive and suffer? Do you watch movies where the heroes friend is getting eaten by zombies or has his entire body shredded with just a head and chest left in a puddle of goo and scream murder when the hero shoots them to put them out of their misery? It's done in movies all the time, why do we force real people to continue to suffer when they would rather not?
It's also forcing other to live by your rules. If you want to live your way, fine. When you start forcing others to follow your beliefs you are no longer expressing freedom, but slavery. If I say you should not drink soda because it is bad for you, you can choose to listen or not. That is freedom of speech and freedom for you to choose your life. If I make it law that you cannot drink soda, that I have taken freedom from you. That is imposing my will upon you, that's the difference between these two actions.
What the pigs can do next to make even more money is auction off the car without removing the compartment or telling the buyer it is there. Then they pull them over the next day for the same crime and confiscate the car again for another auction. You make money auctioning off the same car over and over and your arrests for drug offenses go up making your department look good.
It's stories like these that make me rejoice when I read about someone shooting an officer. They are part of a criminal gang and they should be dealt with in the harshest manner possible. Since this criminal gang is sponsored by the government, you cannot use the law to clean it up. Our only recourse is to start killing them and their families off one at a time. Perhaps after enough of them and their loved ones were killed they may have trouble recruiting new gang members.
I think you have some good points. It will be hard to fix, and people will probably look for the answer to the wrong problem. And I can even see how you can say it's their own fault that they abandoned an interest just because peer pressure. But I find it hard to believe that you are some sort of non-human that has never been influenced in your life. Sure, you're probably a nerd like most of us here that played with computers rather than friends. So you didn't have to have worry about peer pressure stopping you from doing the computer thing or playing D&D with your fellow outcasts (or whatever it was). But you have still been influenced by people around you. The toys you were given when you were 5 had an impact on what you found interesting. Hearing your family members degrade "Fags!" made you repress your true self. (I'm not trying to be mean to you, just throwing out examples.) Or even not playing with girls because they have "cooties". Sure, if they find science interesting they should stick with it. But not everyone can be so self confident at a young age to buck tradition and what everyone else does and thinks.
It is one more aspect that makes me want to home school my daughter when she is school aged. If she doesn't have the teachers and other students to give the impression that she can't do it, then she will not even know about that possibility. And if she finds science and technology interesting I will certainly encourage it. Hopefully I won't push it on to her if she doesn't like it, but I do hope she finds it fun because I can't wait to get into those robotic competitions like the FIRST challenge or something. Building robots is just so awesome, who wouldn't love to do that!
Part of it seems to be the self fulfilling prophecy of the "Girls are not good at math and science" stereotype thing. Even though they start out doing better than boys, they stop trying because that thought creeps in from what their peers or others in the community say. Another part is having role models in the community that show young girls that they can enter that field if the want to. In communities where there are women that work in science and tech fields there is a much higher ratio of girls that stay in those classes. There was a good story on NPR a while back that covered this topic pretty well. The toys you get your children make a difference also. Boys get legos while girls get dolls. I don't think you can push it at the CS level. It seems to be happening before high school. Their interest in science field is high before then, but they still think of it as only a hobby because they don't think they can go into it as a career. By high school they are exiting the STEM fields in large numbers. It seems you need to stop the stereotype and show better women tech role models. Two things that seem pretty difficult to do quickly. Especially as it's hard to have plenty of role models when there is a lack of the women to be the role models.
Didn't the computer industry start out with a lot of women involved? I am thinking of Grace Hopper who basically invented the COBAL language and the term computer bug. In fact, the word computer originally referred to the people (almost exclusively women) that operated the machine and not the machine itself. There is a shortage now, but I don't think saying there has always been one is completely accurate.
Are you calling for the ending of the oil subsidies then? That certainly helps make fossil fuels cheaper doesn't it?
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My Wii's disk reader broke. Rather than pay to have the drive fixed we got the Wii U. Still waiting for more games, but it is nice to be able to play the old ones I had that I couldn't play for a while. I will say that Rayman Legends is pretty fun and I like ZombieU a lot, but they definately need more games. And I have come to like the screen on the controller ever in a game like Assassin's creed where it isn't integrated very much. Just having the map right there and not taking screen space with a much smaller map view is pretty nice.
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If it is a choice of 8-track player or a player that has nothing available for it then I'm not so sure I would want the plays-nothing option.
We just have to wait for the human race to evolve resistance to the anti-bacterial resistant super-bugs. See, evolution will save us in the end. Many people may die while we are going through the adjustment phase though.
Is this supposed to be a sarcastic remark or what? I do see stop signs on bike paths. They are smaller that the regular street ones and they face the direction the path comes from, in the woods, where there are no cars driving. So they do exist.
No, we have to keep them. Getting rid of the phone sanitisers is what lead to the death of the whole civilization. Rampant infection killed everyone off. Didn't you pay attention when you read the book?
It may be used differently now, but originally -- even before it meant "a hole to shoot arrows through" -- it was a hole in a wall people used for spying.
So in the original legal sense of the word, things that are intentionally put in a law are not "loopholes".
Your first example gives a hole in the wall intentionally put there for arrows, and then another hole intentionally made in a wall to spy through. And then you say the word loophole doesn't apply if it was intentional? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
the world could see the man to be who they claim he was. Now it all looks like a lie.
We never even got to see the dead body. They dumped that into the ocean pretty darn quick. The cover-up of the whole thing make it all look like a lie. Either he is still alive somewhere in a CIA sponsored resort in a tropical location or he was killed years before during a regular bombing of caves he was in or died from standard medical condition. Since the government gets to pass more oppressive laws and cowardly people let them get away with much more abuse when there is a big bad enemy to be afraid of they kept the death a secret until they felt they could not keep it up any longer or no longer needed that boogie-man any more. Then you do a false operation where you kill some innocent similar looking man, dump him into the ocean, then kill off the entire seal team that did the operation. You did know the whole seal team died soon after that operation, right? Yeah, I don't believe anything the US government say anymore.
To leave the Earth, the thrown out matter has to have a speed of at least 11.2 meters per second, and this means that air friction will heat the matter, making charcoal out of about every organic matter that happens to be thrown into space.
Ahhh! So that's why we have not been able to get any organic matter into space yet. It keeps burning up in the rockets we send! Maybe someday we can put enough material around it to form some sort of heat sheild? What do you think, would that work?
Yeah, but show me someone who does that and gets 10 years in prison. You only get the big out of proportion sentences when it is a crime against a corporation or a government official.
But your gunning someone down would only hurt individual citizens. Hacking hurts a corporation. Corporations are the owners of the government as they bought the politicians and wrote the laws that got passed. See the difference.
Actually I'm talking about a cosmic ray hitting the DNA in the egg or sperm cell of the individual. Or if it was a pure cloning species, then the clone formed from the mutated cells. Both of these would still be considered evolution. Mutation is a cause of evolution isn't it? Evolution just needs changes in the individuals and a selection pressure.
I just think it is crazy to say that evolution can evolve. That's like saying change can change. It's meaningless. The rate that the species can evolve might vary depending on different factors. But it is always evolving to some extant. Unless it's the sole individual in the species and no clones or copies are ever made. Then it would not be evolving and only be mutating.
And you don't see how that could mess with coral reef spawning times? And I could very well see that large mining operations could change the look of the full moon also. I do see the point that letting commercial ownership of the moon will help to spur the innovation to get us there. I am just pointing out that it has a big impact on life for everyone down here on Earth. We might just end up having to take out those lunar cities to reclaim our dark night skies during the new moon. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure! But that would leave a mark also.
Any and all inherited traits can evolve, including the capacity for evolution, itself.
Wouldn't that imply that there could possibly be creatures that don't have the capacity for evolution? That does not seem correct to me as even a clone can evolve through cosmic rays hitting the DNA directly. Still counts as evolution.
My brother uses offline mode as his internet is unreliable out in the country. The big problem is if you don't put Steam into offline mode before logging off when you do have internet, it will come up trying to login and does not let you play your games when the internet is down. Steam DRM may be better than all other forms of DRM that I have seen, and has features that actually give the customer new functionality, but it isn't fool-proof and perfect.
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Some companies outsource their network admin roles. So the number of engineers might be just the employees and not counting contract people who manage the infrastructure.
Well, who are you to tell someone else that they have to stay alive and suffer? Do you watch movies where the heroes friend is getting eaten by zombies or has his entire body shredded with just a head and chest left in a puddle of goo and scream murder when the hero shoots them to put them out of their misery? It's done in movies all the time, why do we force real people to continue to suffer when they would rather not?
It's also forcing other to live by your rules. If you want to live your way, fine. When you start forcing others to follow your beliefs you are no longer expressing freedom, but slavery. If I say you should not drink soda because it is bad for you, you can choose to listen or not. That is freedom of speech and freedom for you to choose your life. If I make it law that you cannot drink soda, that I have taken freedom from you. That is imposing my will upon you, that's the difference between these two actions.
What the pigs can do next to make even more money is auction off the car without removing the compartment or telling the buyer it is there. Then they pull them over the next day for the same crime and confiscate the car again for another auction. You make money auctioning off the same car over and over and your arrests for drug offenses go up making your department look good.
It's stories like these that make me rejoice when I read about someone shooting an officer. They are part of a criminal gang and they should be dealt with in the harshest manner possible. Since this criminal gang is sponsored by the government, you cannot use the law to clean it up. Our only recourse is to start killing them and their families off one at a time. Perhaps after enough of them and their loved ones were killed they may have trouble recruiting new gang members.
I think you have some good points. It will be hard to fix, and people will probably look for the answer to the wrong problem. And I can even see how you can say it's their own fault that they abandoned an interest just because peer pressure. But I find it hard to believe that you are some sort of non-human that has never been influenced in your life. Sure, you're probably a nerd like most of us here that played with computers rather than friends. So you didn't have to have worry about peer pressure stopping you from doing the computer thing or playing D&D with your fellow outcasts (or whatever it was). But you have still been influenced by people around you. The toys you were given when you were 5 had an impact on what you found interesting. Hearing your family members degrade "Fags!" made you repress your true self. (I'm not trying to be mean to you, just throwing out examples.) Or even not playing with girls because they have "cooties". Sure, if they find science interesting they should stick with it. But not everyone can be so self confident at a young age to buck tradition and what everyone else does and thinks.
It is one more aspect that makes me want to home school my daughter when she is school aged. If she doesn't have the teachers and other students to give the impression that she can't do it, then she will not even know about that possibility. And if she finds science and technology interesting I will certainly encourage it. Hopefully I won't push it on to her if she doesn't like it, but I do hope she finds it fun because I can't wait to get into those robotic competitions like the FIRST challenge or something. Building robots is just so awesome, who wouldn't love to do that!
Part of it seems to be the self fulfilling prophecy of the "Girls are not good at math and science" stereotype thing. Even though they start out doing better than boys, they stop trying because that thought creeps in from what their peers or others in the community say. Another part is having role models in the community that show young girls that they can enter that field if the want to. In communities where there are women that work in science and tech fields there is a much higher ratio of girls that stay in those classes. There was a good story on NPR a while back that covered this topic pretty well. The toys you get your children make a difference also. Boys get legos while girls get dolls. I don't think you can push it at the CS level. It seems to be happening before high school. Their interest in science field is high before then, but they still think of it as only a hobby because they don't think they can go into it as a career. By high school they are exiting the STEM fields in large numbers. It seems you need to stop the stereotype and show better women tech role models. Two things that seem pretty difficult to do quickly. Especially as it's hard to have plenty of role models when there is a lack of the women to be the role models.
Didn't the computer industry start out with a lot of women involved? I am thinking of Grace Hopper who basically invented the COBAL language and the term computer bug. In fact, the word computer originally referred to the people (almost exclusively women) that operated the machine and not the machine itself. There is a shortage now, but I don't think saying there has always been one is completely accurate.
So we should stop the oil subsidies also. If they can't make a profit without subsidies then they should cease to exist.
Are you calling for the ending of the oil subsidies then? That certainly helps make fossil fuels cheaper doesn't it?
My Wii's disk reader broke. Rather than pay to have the drive fixed we got the Wii U. Still waiting for more games, but it is nice to be able to play the old ones I had that I couldn't play for a while. I will say that Rayman Legends is pretty fun and I like ZombieU a lot, but they definately need more games. And I have come to like the screen on the controller ever in a game like Assassin's creed where it isn't integrated very much. Just having the map right there and not taking screen space with a much smaller map view is pretty nice.
If it is a choice of 8-track player or a player that has nothing available for it then I'm not so sure I would want the plays-nothing option.
We just have to wait for the human race to evolve resistance to the anti-bacterial resistant super-bugs. See, evolution will save us in the end. Many people may die while we are going through the adjustment phase though.
Well, a drowned in warm beer phone will prevent you from dialing the number and embarrassing yourself. So it did work anyway.
Is this supposed to be a sarcastic remark or what? I do see stop signs on bike paths. They are smaller that the regular street ones and they face the direction the path comes from, in the woods, where there are no cars driving. So they do exist.
No, we have to keep them. Getting rid of the phone sanitisers is what lead to the death of the whole civilization. Rampant infection killed everyone off. Didn't you pay attention when you read the book?
It may be used differently now, but originally -- even before it meant "a hole to shoot arrows through" -- it was a hole in a wall people used for spying. So in the original legal sense of the word, things that are intentionally put in a law are not "loopholes".
Your first example gives a hole in the wall intentionally put there for arrows, and then another hole intentionally made in a wall to spy through. And then you say the word loophole doesn't apply if it was intentional? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
the world could see the man to be who they claim he was. Now it all looks like a lie.
We never even got to see the dead body. They dumped that into the ocean pretty darn quick. The cover-up of the whole thing make it all look like a lie. Either he is still alive somewhere in a CIA sponsored resort in a tropical location or he was killed years before during a regular bombing of caves he was in or died from standard medical condition. Since the government gets to pass more oppressive laws and cowardly people let them get away with much more abuse when there is a big bad enemy to be afraid of they kept the death a secret until they felt they could not keep it up any longer or no longer needed that boogie-man any more. Then you do a false operation where you kill some innocent similar looking man, dump him into the ocean, then kill off the entire seal team that did the operation. You did know the whole seal team died soon after that operation, right? Yeah, I don't believe anything the US government say anymore.
To leave the Earth, the thrown out matter has to have a speed of at least 11.2 meters per second, and this means that air friction will heat the matter, making charcoal out of about every organic matter that happens to be thrown into space.
Ahhh! So that's why we have not been able to get any organic matter into space yet. It keeps burning up in the rockets we send! Maybe someday we can put enough material around it to form some sort of heat sheild? What do you think, would that work?
No. What we really need is a new law that makes it illegal to break the law. Then everything will be perfect!
Yeah, but show me someone who does that and gets 10 years in prison. You only get the big out of proportion sentences when it is a crime against a corporation or a government official.
But your gunning someone down would only hurt individual citizens. Hacking hurts a corporation. Corporations are the owners of the government as they bought the politicians and wrote the laws that got passed. See the difference.
Actually I'm talking about a cosmic ray hitting the DNA in the egg or sperm cell of the individual. Or if it was a pure cloning species, then the clone formed from the mutated cells. Both of these would still be considered evolution. Mutation is a cause of evolution isn't it? Evolution just needs changes in the individuals and a selection pressure.
I just think it is crazy to say that evolution can evolve. That's like saying change can change. It's meaningless. The rate that the species can evolve might vary depending on different factors. But it is always evolving to some extant. Unless it's the sole individual in the species and no clones or copies are ever made. Then it would not be evolving and only be mutating.
And you don't see how that could mess with coral reef spawning times? And I could very well see that large mining operations could change the look of the full moon also. I do see the point that letting commercial ownership of the moon will help to spur the innovation to get us there. I am just pointing out that it has a big impact on life for everyone down here on Earth. We might just end up having to take out those lunar cities to reclaim our dark night skies during the new moon. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure! But that would leave a mark also.
Any and all inherited traits can evolve, including the capacity for evolution, itself.
Wouldn't that imply that there could possibly be creatures that don't have the capacity for evolution? That does not seem correct to me as even a clone can evolve through cosmic rays hitting the DNA directly. Still counts as evolution.
My brother uses offline mode as his internet is unreliable out in the country. The big problem is if you don't put Steam into offline mode before logging off when you do have internet, it will come up trying to login and does not let you play your games when the internet is down. Steam DRM may be better than all other forms of DRM that I have seen, and has features that actually give the customer new functionality, but it isn't fool-proof and perfect.