When I'm interviewing people for a sysadmin position one of my primary concerns is honesty and integrity. The problem is that everyone asked to their face will claim to have high integrity. I try to approach the issue indirectly with neutral questions as, "Where do you draw the line on observing user activity?" Several times I've had them answer very vaguely or ask me questions about the question - apparently in an attempt to ferret out what kind of answer I am looking for. This type of error-prone and subtle indication seems the only way to find out. The human API is very poorly documented. Is there a better way?;)
A Baath group of 6 including Saddam - with CIA help - try to assassinate Qasim and fail - he flees the country - also with CIA help, and eventually goes back.
A different Baath group successfully performs a coup a few years later - also with CIA help. Arif becomes president. Saddam put in jail.
Saddam escapes and joins yet another coup by a Baath group - this one resulting in the Al-Bakr as president and Saddam as deputy.
Saddam becomes power behind the throne - seizes western-owned oil companies and uses money to develop modern Iraq infrastructure.
He becomes a general, eventually forces Al-Bakr to resign. Saddam takes over and does his famous video-taped "weeding" of the Baath leadership - calling out names and leading them away one by one(22 eventually executed)
You might want to look "internet troll" up in wikipedia. You might want to learn that they do it *because* they want the attention from the pissed off replies. The best way to deal with trolls is not to become one yourself but to simply ignore them or at least reply in a civil manner. If you're going to post flamebait you should expect to get flamed. Then the flame response should be moderated as flamebait as well - and not "insightful". My point is that we shouldn't be moderating up people personally insulting other posters - it just results in internet superhighway road rage.;)
I think the majority of fights and arguments I witnessed - or took part in, heh - in school were about someone taking someone else's seat or desk. Once someone has decided a certain piece of property is "theirs" they will go to absurd lengths to defend or claim it from others.
Even as adults I often notice our territorial instincts in action in less obvious ways such as everyone taking the same seat in the conference room for a meeting as they all took the first time or using the same stall or sink in the public bathroom.:)
A single person's experience contrary to the norm is not a valid statistical sample. Just count yourself lucky and stop insulting people and trolling. Why do people mod up posts like this calling people assholes and the like? This is not what/. should be about.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet that the Red Wings just won the Stanley Cup. On the other hand, in ice hockey, players intentionally try to make their opponents angry.:)
We tell them something that isn't true and let them eventually figure out that the adults were lying to them the whole time. That should learn 'em some skepticism.;)
Actually I'm surprised this strategy works as poorly as it does - even with the quite obvious Santa/Jesus correlation.:D
You forget to mention that he is one of the 5 referred to in the Keating 5 corruption scandal. I guess that's what they mean when they say he has experience.;)
Yeah, after I posted that I realized I was being a bit dismissive. I guess the rate of advance has actually slowed a bit and 5 year old cards are not so terribly different from more recent cards. I upgraded from a 6 year old 128MB nvidia ti4200 just last year myself to play Oblivion at high settings and mods that increase texture resolutions.:)
pixel shader 2.0 == directX 9 == 128MB video cards from 2003
I suppose this is due to the long development. Hopefully the creative gameplay will overcome the lack of shiny and high res texture graphics.:)
AoC was developed by Funcom, a company based in Norway. Europeans do not have the silly obsession over breasts that we repressed americans do.:) (I won't even go down the road of the hypocritical lack of objection to the violent aspects of the game giving it its M rating such as the ability to decapitate people with blood spattering everywhere and whatnot)
Same here. We mostly had a lot of fun camping, hiking, canoeing, community service projects like food collection etc. and religion was not much a part of it at all unless you specifically went out for the religious awards. I think the accusations of discrimination are a bit far-fetched. That being said, you still had to profess belief in god in order to obtain Eagle - consequently I remained at Life rank even though my local troop leaders offered to lie about my church attendance.:) Well, to be fair. I suppose our experiences could have been unusual - different troops in different parts of the country could be quite different depending on the local leadership.
There is also a mirror of wikileaks residing in freenet. One of the few useful uses of freenet I discovered after poking around a bit after the recent new release.:)
This is how the human psyche works, thank god, or we'd do nothing but sob ourselves to death - what matters is what happens to our respective tribes. Everything outside of that is merely fodder for the rest of humanity to go into phony mourning in a display to everyone of how sensitive they are.
Have you considered that those instincts to care about those genetically similar to ourselves (our tribe) vary in magnitude and focus quite a bit? Some people extend them to caring about all humans, some to their race, some to fellow geeks, and others to only themselves. So it's not necessarily a phony display - they are just following their instincts like you are.
Words our stored in our brain related by sound in addition to semantics; especially when it is our first language. When you are speaking out loud and you retrieve a word from your brain and say it out loud it doesn't matter if you retrieved the wrong homonym because people can't tell. If you are typing, however, this mistake shows up quite often. And spell checking software doesn't catch it because we are typing real words, simply the wrong words.:)
Furthermore, certain types of people - namely, a lot of us computer programming geeks - are more detail oriented than most so the incorrect words stands out to us even more than most people. That's a useful quirk when finding a single semi-colon or comma out of place can fix a bug in your program, but it makes reading normal written speech with all its warts and blemishes a bit annoying. 8^) The one that most annoys me is when people type "your" instead of "you're" or "you are".
Just last week I saw a police officer take polaroids of a car in a handicap spot before writing the ticket. I was surprised for a bit until I realized that using the old technology must be a defense against digital image manipulation charges in court. So I was thinking it was neat, but then the woman who had parked there came out and was in tears so I felt bad and then also worried since she was driving a bit erratically as she left.
And your total score is 4 now. The system is working fine. Don't pay so much attention to individual moderations and just look at the end result. That's the way the system is supposed to work. (And we should self-mod by removing our karma bonus from posts like this.:)
//for some reason criticizing PA writing always garners troll mods
Or maybe these whiny little preemptive attempts to influence the mods have the reverse effect. Personally, I tend to skip over posts that starts with any mention of moderation whether I have mod points or not.
Don't mod him down. I was going to say the exact same thing. The people saying things like, "but I don't know exactly what his positions on the issues are or what he plans to change" are just being ignorant and too lazy to correct their ignorance. Or maybe they actually do know and are just trying to spread this meme that there is no substance behinds his words in order to hurt the candidate.
That's interesting. I thought the whole point of a tattoo was to draw attention. I never understood the whole concept of getting the tattoos places where they can be hidden. I guess this harks back to days when having a tattoo only meant you were a criminal or a sailor?
As for the Naruto games, are they actually any good or just made to bilk the fans of money like most game versions of tv/movies?
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When I'm interviewing people for a sysadmin position one of my primary concerns is honesty and integrity. The problem is that everyone asked to their face will claim to have high integrity. I try to approach the issue indirectly with neutral questions as, "Where do you draw the line on observing user activity?" Several times I've had them answer very vaguely or ask me questions about the question - apparently in an attempt to ferret out what kind of answer I am looking for. This type of error-prone and subtle indication seems the only way to find out. ;)
The human API is very poorly documented. Is there a better way?
So we didn't put him there, but we helped his party to power.
You might want to look "internet troll" up in wikipedia. ;)
You might want to learn that they do it *because* they want the attention from the pissed off replies. The best way to deal with trolls is not to become one yourself but to simply ignore them or at least reply in a civil manner.
If you're going to post flamebait you should expect to get flamed.
Then the flame response should be moderated as flamebait as well - and not "insightful". My point is that we shouldn't be moderating up people personally insulting other posters - it just results in internet superhighway road rage.
I think the majority of fights and arguments I witnessed - or took part in, heh - in school were about someone taking someone else's seat or desk. Once someone has decided a certain piece of property is "theirs" they will go to absurd lengths to defend or claim it from others.
:)
Even as adults I often notice our territorial instincts in action in less obvious ways such as everyone taking the same seat in the conference room for a meeting as they all took the first time or using the same stall or sink in the public bathroom.
A single person's experience contrary to the norm is not a valid statistical sample. Just count yourself lucky and stop insulting people and trolling. Why do people mod up posts like this calling people assholes and the like? This is not what /. should be about.
I also include a link to the relevant snopes.org article which explains why that particular e-mail is a hoax. ;)
If they try to access the records under the presidential records act then they will be considered an independent agency; like Cheney's VP office. :)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet that the Red Wings just won the Stanley Cup. On the other hand, in ice hockey, players intentionally try to make their opponents angry. :)
We tell them something that isn't true and let them eventually figure out that the adults were lying to them the whole time. That should learn 'em some skepticism. ;)
:D
Actually I'm surprised this strategy works as poorly as it does - even with the quite obvious Santa/Jesus correlation.
You forget to mention that he is one of the 5 referred to in the Keating 5 corruption scandal. I guess that's what they mean when they say he has experience. ;)
Yeah, after I posted that I realized I was being a bit dismissive. I guess the rate of advance has actually slowed a bit and 5 year old cards are not so terribly different from more recent cards. I upgraded from a 6 year old 128MB nvidia ti4200 just last year myself to play Oblivion at high settings and mods that increase texture resolutions. :)
pixel shader 2.0 == directX 9 == 128MB video cards from 2003 :)
I suppose this is due to the long development. Hopefully the creative gameplay will overcome the lack of shiny and high res texture graphics.
AoC was developed by Funcom, a company based in Norway. Europeans do not have the silly obsession over breasts that we repressed americans do. :) (I won't even go down the road of the hypocritical lack of objection to the violent aspects of the game giving it its M rating such as the ability to decapitate people with blood spattering everywhere and whatnot)
Same here. We mostly had a lot of fun camping, hiking, canoeing, community service projects like food collection etc. and religion was not much a part of it at all unless you specifically went out for the religious awards. I think the accusations of discrimination are a bit far-fetched. That being said, you still had to profess belief in god in order to obtain Eagle - consequently I remained at Life rank even though my local troop leaders offered to lie about my church attendance. :)
Well, to be fair. I suppose our experiences could have been unusual - different troops in different parts of the country could be quite different depending on the local leadership.
I think resistance to authority is just another part of the geek personality like enjoying science fiction and forgetting to wash our cars. ;)
There is also a mirror of wikileaks residing in freenet. One of the few useful uses of freenet I discovered after poking around a bit after the recent new release. :)
No. I didn't type "our" instead of "are" on purpose. But let's just pretend I did, ok. :)
Words our stored in our brain related by sound in addition to semantics; especially when it is our first language. When you are speaking out loud and you retrieve a word from your brain and say it out loud it doesn't matter if you retrieved the wrong homonym because people can't tell. If you are typing, however, this mistake shows up quite often. And spell checking software doesn't catch it because we are typing real words, simply the wrong words. :)
Furthermore, certain types of people - namely, a lot of us computer programming geeks - are more detail oriented than most so the incorrect words stands out to us even more than most people. That's a useful quirk when finding a single semi-colon or comma out of place can fix a bug in your program, but it makes reading normal written speech with all its warts and blemishes a bit annoying. 8^) The one that most annoys me is when people type "your" instead of "you're" or "you are".
Just last week I saw a police officer take polaroids of a car in a handicap spot before writing the ticket. I was surprised for a bit until I realized that using the old technology must be a defense against digital image manipulation charges in court.
So I was thinking it was neat, but then the woman who had parked there came out and was in tears so I felt bad and then also worried since she was driving a bit erratically as she left.
And your total score is 4 now. The system is working fine. Don't pay so much attention to individual moderations and just look at the end result. That's the way the system is supposed to work. (And we should self-mod by removing our karma bonus from posts like this. :)
//for some reason criticizing PA writing always garners troll mods
Or maybe these whiny little preemptive attempts to influence the mods have the reverse effect. Personally, I tend to skip over posts that starts with any mention of moderation whether I have mod points or not.
Don't mod him down. I was going to say the exact same thing. The people saying things like, "but I don't know exactly what his positions on the issues are or what he plans to change" are just being ignorant and too lazy to correct their ignorance. Or maybe they actually do know and are just trying to spread this meme that there is no substance behinds his words in order to hurt the candidate.
That's interesting. I thought the whole point of a tattoo was to draw attention. I never understood the whole concept of getting the tattoos places where they can be hidden. I guess this harks back to days when having a tattoo only meant you were a criminal or a sailor?
As for the Naruto games, are they actually any good or just made to bilk the fans of money like most game versions of tv/movies?