Behavior over time. Once discovered, they are terminated, put in chains and sent to an island with fellow monsters where they will hopefully eat each other alive.
And this is what sociopath does; concocts elaborate, vile and usually illegal schemes, convinces a bunch of underlings to execute them, and then, when caught, tries to throw them under the bus.
It's why sociopaths should be outlawed from all management positions of any kind, right down to crew shift chief at McDonald's.
So long as companies have an easy route to cheaper labor, I can't see how any union/professional association is going to make a difference. Unless laws give such groups teeth, whether that's through some sort of enforced collective bargaining process, or through certification requirements, all this IT union would do is stand outside the gates and watch replacement workers from India flowing in.
Mind you, the minute you do have a professional association, that does mean certifications, which means that a lot of self-taught workers (like myself) could be screwed pretty badly unless some sort of a grandfathering mechanism is put in place.
My understanding is that yes, suicides would probably decrease, simply because other forms of suicide tend to be at least moderately harder to accomplish, and thus the suicidal individual is more likely to reconsider.
The majority? Really? We know that of the last few public shootings, it's pretty damned clear the perps involved were lunatics. The closest I can think of to a sane mass shooter is Anders Brevik, and while obviously sane by any legal definition, was clearly a ideologically nutty narcissistic nutbar who had been sending out signals for years that he was a dangerous extremist.
That may be so, but considering the number of threats I've seen over the years that never lead to any action, how are we supposed to know when some kook is being serious or just being a macho man on the Intertubes?
For instance, I've been threatened with legal action about five times since I first went on the Internet in the early 1990s (well, Usenet really). I've had a couple of people threaten to come beat the shit out of me, one of them back in the mid-90s when I was actually using my real name and posted my phone number on email and Usenet posts!
Considering the US has over 300 million people, I'd suggest that several thousand probably make some sort of wild-assed threat every month, but of those thousands, we're talking only a handful ever act on those threats.
I bought my Chromecast directly from Google Play. Came in the mail three or four days later. A week later, they had a whole rack of them at Walmart.
Other than a sort of "no Pepsi in the Coca Cola bottling facility" sort of way, I can't see how this would have any measurable impact on Amazon's competitors. It is typical of the kind of behavior that miserable piece of shit Bezos is known for. A grade A sociopathic prick.
That may all be true, but the fact is, at least at the moment, that whereas a year ago I was paying over a hundred bucks a month for TV, currently I'm paying about $20 for two streaming services, and my old DVD rentals have been replaced by the odd iTunes or Google Play streaming rental. I live in Canada, so at the moment I don't have access to Amazon, Hulu or HBO, but so far as I can tell, even if I did and subscribed to them all, I'd still be paying only 50% to 60% of what I was paying before. And, quite frankly, I'm actually watching a lot less TV now that I've cut the cord, so I'm not chewing through entire five or six season series' in the space of a couple of weeks, so I doubt I'll ever regularly subscribe to anything more than Netflix ever again.
If these are actually human genes (whatever their origin) being expressed, I can't see how antivirals would have any significant effect. Antivirals, so far as I understand it, act on the viral replication machinery. In other words, they interfere with viruses ability to harness cellular replication machinery. Once the genes are in the genome, there is no longer actually a virus to interfere with.
My scepticism derives from the notion that just because some disease may be caused by the expression of ERV genes, that anti-virals would have any effect. A bit gene sequence is not an actual virus.
So long as the evil sociopaths who run the company are able to evade any meaningful censure, all is well! Doubtless some simpering worthless patsies will be found to take the blame while the real instigators are not only allowed to go free, but doubtless profit immeasurably.
But that makes you a vile thief who should be tortured and executed. It is markets' God-given right to force us to consume maximum levels of advertising, and if you try to evade it, it makes a traitor to capitalism, and Baby Jesus wants to shove sharp metal objects up your ass.
There was indirect evidence of flowing water (those river beds that have been photographed many times). My understanding is that while briny water was the best explanation even for those observations, there were other possible gas outflows that could have theoretically produced similar results, so what we have here appears to be the first direct observation of surface flows of water.
They've had strong suggestions of flowing water (all those small geological remnants of rivers), and even some suggestion that water was flowing at this period in time, but this is the first time they've been able to definitely demonstrate seasonal flows of water. Previously, so far as I understand it, the "river beds" they've shown could have been explained by CO2 outflows or something similar.
What makes this exciting isn't so much surface flows, because frankly I think any life would be wiped out by the pretty extreme radiation on Mars' surface, but rather that where there is flowing water on the surface, there is likely to be liquid water under the surface; dozens, hundreds or even thousands of feet below, and that raises the possibility of life on Mars that is able to withstand the fairly nasty surface conditions.
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Fuck you! It was a fully armed and operational battle station!
Except Mono sucks.
Behavior over time. Once discovered, they are terminated, put in chains and sent to an island with fellow monsters where they will hopefully eat each other alive.
And this is what sociopath does; concocts elaborate, vile and usually illegal schemes, convinces a bunch of underlings to execute them, and then, when caught, tries to throw them under the bus.
It's why sociopaths should be outlawed from all management positions of any kind, right down to crew shift chief at McDonald's.
I've got a high power pressure washer ready. No need for bullets, and the effect will be the same.
Property insurers are already factoring climate change into their actuary tables.
I do agree that if you're looking for assessments of risk and calculations of cost, actuaries are the guys you ask.
Keep your toy away from my property and away from planes. Quit trying to cast your fucking hobby as some sort of virtuous enterprise.
And no one is better at phrasing reckless behavior as innocent-sounding activities than drone operators.
Another guy whose wasting his efforts on a project that will never be picked up by a mainstream distro and thus will die a slow, quiet death.
So long as companies have an easy route to cheaper labor, I can't see how any union/professional association is going to make a difference. Unless laws give such groups teeth, whether that's through some sort of enforced collective bargaining process, or through certification requirements, all this IT union would do is stand outside the gates and watch replacement workers from India flowing in.
Mind you, the minute you do have a professional association, that does mean certifications, which means that a lot of self-taught workers (like myself) could be screwed pretty badly unless some sort of a grandfathering mechanism is put in place.
Without some sort of protection, how precisely would a union hope to survive?
Don't be silly. No one would every bribe a judge with money.
Hookers and blow on the other hand. I guess they gave the judge a used crack pipe.
It was the only way they could defend themselves from being talked to death by a serial con-artist.
My understanding is that yes, suicides would probably decrease, simply because other forms of suicide tend to be at least moderately harder to accomplish, and thus the suicidal individual is more likely to reconsider.
The majority? Really? We know that of the last few public shootings, it's pretty damned clear the perps involved were lunatics. The closest I can think of to a sane mass shooter is Anders Brevik, and while obviously sane by any legal definition, was clearly a ideologically nutty narcissistic nutbar who had been sending out signals for years that he was a dangerous extremist.
That may be so, but considering the number of threats I've seen over the years that never lead to any action, how are we supposed to know when some kook is being serious or just being a macho man on the Intertubes?
For instance, I've been threatened with legal action about five times since I first went on the Internet in the early 1990s (well, Usenet really). I've had a couple of people threaten to come beat the shit out of me, one of them back in the mid-90s when I was actually using my real name and posted my phone number on email and Usenet posts!
Considering the US has over 300 million people, I'd suggest that several thousand probably make some sort of wild-assed threat every month, but of those thousands, we're talking only a handful ever act on those threats.
I bought my Chromecast directly from Google Play. Came in the mail three or four days later. A week later, they had a whole rack of them at Walmart.
Other than a sort of "no Pepsi in the Coca Cola bottling facility" sort of way, I can't see how this would have any measurable impact on Amazon's competitors. It is typical of the kind of behavior that miserable piece of shit Bezos is known for. A grade A sociopathic prick.
That may all be true, but the fact is, at least at the moment, that whereas a year ago I was paying over a hundred bucks a month for TV, currently I'm paying about $20 for two streaming services, and my old DVD rentals have been replaced by the odd iTunes or Google Play streaming rental. I live in Canada, so at the moment I don't have access to Amazon, Hulu or HBO, but so far as I can tell, even if I did and subscribed to them all, I'd still be paying only 50% to 60% of what I was paying before. And, quite frankly, I'm actually watching a lot less TV now that I've cut the cord, so I'm not chewing through entire five or six season series' in the space of a couple of weeks, so I doubt I'll ever regularly subscribe to anything more than Netflix ever again.
If these are actually human genes (whatever their origin) being expressed, I can't see how antivirals would have any significant effect. Antivirals, so far as I understand it, act on the viral replication machinery. In other words, they interfere with viruses ability to harness cellular replication machinery. Once the genes are in the genome, there is no longer actually a virus to interfere with.
My scepticism derives from the notion that just because some disease may be caused by the expression of ERV genes, that anti-virals would have any effect. A bit gene sequence is not an actual virus.
So long as the evil sociopaths who run the company are able to evade any meaningful censure, all is well! Doubtless some simpering worthless patsies will be found to take the blame while the real instigators are not only allowed to go free, but doubtless profit immeasurably.
But that makes you a vile thief who should be tortured and executed. It is markets' God-given right to force us to consume maximum levels of advertising, and if you try to evade it, it makes a traitor to capitalism, and Baby Jesus wants to shove sharp metal objects up your ass.
Good old Samuel Johnson, he sure understood Fiorina's type very well indeed.
There was indirect evidence of flowing water (those river beds that have been photographed many times). My understanding is that while briny water was the best explanation even for those observations, there were other possible gas outflows that could have theoretically produced similar results, so what we have here appears to be the first direct observation of surface flows of water.
They've had strong suggestions of flowing water (all those small geological remnants of rivers), and even some suggestion that water was flowing at this period in time, but this is the first time they've been able to definitely demonstrate seasonal flows of water. Previously, so far as I understand it, the "river beds" they've shown could have been explained by CO2 outflows or something similar.
What makes this exciting isn't so much surface flows, because frankly I think any life would be wiped out by the pretty extreme radiation on Mars' surface, but rather that where there is flowing water on the surface, there is likely to be liquid water under the surface; dozens, hundreds or even thousands of feet below, and that raises the possibility of life on Mars that is able to withstand the fairly nasty surface conditions.