I wonder what other hallucinogen cause everyone to have the same basic hallucination.
I've never tried it myself, but from what I've read DMT causes a number of specific visual hallucinations that are remarkably similar among most users.
Also it should be noted, the most widely used drugs classified as "hallucinogens" (LSD, psilocybe mushrooms, peyote/mescaline, MDMA) do not really produce proper hallucinations, and are often now referred to as entheogens.
I don't see this too much in the tech industry, but I saw a lot of it going on in the entertainment industry. Los Angeles is a really creepy city that exploits innocent and not-so-wise young people who want to make it big. This is going to hit that city like a brick in the face.
Most "normal" industries/professions like tech have paid internships to perform good functions (at least on paper) for that business, to develop a future labor pool while giving an employer cheap yet motivated temporary help.
It is generally "elitist professions" like government/politics and media where the *unpaid* internships are prevalent, and they are definitely a "paying your dues" process. And as is touched on briefly in the article, this system gives the wealthier kids a distinct edge in these fields, as they are far more likely to be in a position to be able to afford working for no pay.
Never underestimate the willingness of ambitious prosecutors to railroad an innocent person if a case gets huge publicity. And never underestimate the American people's capacity for moral panic.
Didn't some company in Neveda try selling titles/deeds to the Moon years back? You know, I don't think any of those titles/deeds are going to be worth anything. I think true ownership will be when someone actually takes up residence or makes use of a given property on the Moon. No pointing and saying, "Hey, that there, it's mine!"
I'm not a lawyer, but common sense sort of dictates this, doesn't it? I mean, under whose authority will those titles/deeds be enforced? We're all here back on Earth afterall.
If you google "moon property" there are several such charlatans out there. I had the same question the first time I saw that..."under whose authority?" The websites I looked at were very vague on the topic.
I guess the "common sense dictate" is this: if you buy "property on the moon" and think that it's anything other than a joke/novelty, you deserve to get ripped off.
However, farts contain methane, methane is also a greenhouse gas, so you may very well be offsetting your bubble contribution. O cursed bubbles, we never know if you're good or evil!!
There already is such a "switch", the user in the example above just failed to use it...don't leave the USB drive connected. Whoever can't be trusted to remove the drive also can't be trusted to toggle a switch. Nice try, though.
When my company paid for my cell phone. I left it in my desk at work.
Now that they canceled that policy to save $$, they can go to hell if they want my personal cell number.
If I'm not at my desk or on Sametime, good luck finding me.
Heh, I did the same thing a dozen years ago when they required me to have a pager for times I wasn't at my desk. Fine, I'll carry it during working hours, but it goes in the desk drawer when I leave.
If an employer wants me perpetually on call, not only should they provide the device, but it should be explicitly stated in my employment agreement up front and duly compensated. I've seen so many co-workers get used this way simply because they don't know how to say "no".
As far as I understand, the law simply asks if you (or any ordinary person in your place) could reasonably have known that you were helping with fraud. If you were, you're guilty.
Actually, shouldn't that be: if there is no reasonable doubt that they knew they were abetting fraud, then they're guilty? Or did they do away with the whole "presumption of innocence" thing when I wasn't looking?
It's a Big Red O! There's no stopping the Big Red O once it gets rolling. It'll roll right over your lowercase blue e. It'll roll right over your rat clinging to the blue egg. It won't even acknowledge Safari, because it doesn't remember what its icon is. Beware the Big Red O! It's the Future!
That just made me think of a great idea for ad campaign for Opera: Morpheus opens his hands to Neo with the Red 'O' in one hand and the Blue 'e' in the other.
Pro tip: if you want to be taken seriously, especially when posting as AC, try refraining from (a) calling someone "asshole" and "fuckface", and (b) attributing positions never expressed to those "like you".
No, you're absolutely right. It's not the government's job to create jobs.
IT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO PATROL THE FUCKING BORDER
It's also the gov't's job to seek out and prosecute the employers of illegal immigrants, and not turn a blind eye to it because that cheap immigrant labor helps its corporate sponsors keep labor costs down.
What disturbs me most about the anti-immigrant backlash of the last few years is that so much vitriol is directed at the illegal immigrants while little is said about those who employ them. Is all this illegal immigration a conspiracy of poor migrant workers from Mexico who hoodwink innocent US employers into hiring them, or do US employers have the clout to lobby/bribe gov't into lax enforcement because it is in their economic interest to keep labor costs low? Does anyone believe these people would risk so much to cross the border if US employers faced any real risk in hiring them?
But no, let's focus the blame on the poor Mexicans, because, well, they're just so much easier to hate. But it's not racism or xenophobia, no sirree!!
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I think that 2K-10 is even better. 2K-10=(1024*2)-10=2048-10=2038=(2^11)-10
Of course, you should specify that you're using kibiyears.
That's where the Chinese cartridge comes in...
Sure, if you want skin with melamine in place of melanin.
Some decades after a maternity ward Scrabble game:
"Sir, could please give your full name for the court?"
"Qfuhbix Triplewordscore Inyourface Jones"
I wonder what other hallucinogen cause everyone to have the same basic hallucination.
I've never tried it myself, but from what I've read DMT causes a number of specific visual hallucinations that are remarkably similar among most users.
Also it should be noted, the most widely used drugs classified as "hallucinogens" (LSD, psilocybe mushrooms, peyote/mescaline, MDMA) do not really produce proper hallucinations, and are often now referred to as entheogens.
I don't see this too much in the tech industry, but I saw a lot of it going on in the entertainment industry. Los Angeles is a really creepy city that exploits innocent and not-so-wise young people who want to make it big. This is going to hit that city like a brick in the face.
Most "normal" industries/professions like tech have paid internships to perform good functions (at least on paper) for that business, to develop a future labor pool while giving an employer cheap yet motivated temporary help.
It is generally "elitist professions" like government/politics and media where the *unpaid* internships are prevalent, and they are definitely a "paying your dues" process. And as is touched on briefly in the article, this system gives the wealthier kids a distinct edge in these fields, as they are far more likely to be in a position to be able to afford working for no pay.
Even for an AC, mod parent up.
The McMartins weren't the only ones.
Day care sex abuse hysteria
Never underestimate the willingness of ambitious prosecutors to railroad an innocent person if a case gets huge publicity. And never underestimate the American people's capacity for moral panic.
Try:
guest@xkcd:/$ whoami
What is a shell without tab complete?!? Even Windows supports it.
However, I was impressed that it implemented up-down arrow command history, and even "ls".
I tried "rm -rf /" but permission was denied. :-)
Those of us with burnt hemostats in our closets didn't need to google for the giggle.
Both sides of this debate stopped caring about the facts a long time ago.
Yep, as we all know, all points of view are equally valid...and that's why we all need to hear both sides!!
...I was thinking PoC meant Piece of Crap which I thought was redundant when referring to a PDF.
In my experience, the proper industry acronym is BFPoC, for Big Fat Piece of Crap, a term allegedly coined by one Artemus Clyde Frog.
yeah! neither does article embiggen our knowledge on the subject!
Oh pipe down and eat your rootmarm!!
How do you say "fuck off" in Canadian?
Fuddle Duddle
Didn't some company in Neveda try selling titles/deeds to the Moon years back? You know, I don't think any of those titles/deeds are going to be worth anything. I think true ownership will be when someone actually takes up residence or makes use of a given property on the Moon. No pointing and saying, "Hey, that there, it's mine!"
I'm not a lawyer, but common sense sort of dictates this, doesn't it? I mean, under whose authority will those titles/deeds be enforced? We're all here back on Earth afterall.
If you google "moon property" there are several such charlatans out there. I had the same question the first time I saw that..."under whose authority?" The websites I looked at were very vague on the topic.
I guess the "common sense dictate" is this: if you buy "property on the moon" and think that it's anything other than a joke/novelty, you deserve to get ripped off.
However, farts contain methane, methane is also a greenhouse gas, so you may very well be offsetting your bubble contribution. O cursed bubbles, we never know if you're good or evil!!
should read Difference between Funny and Redundant < 1 minute.
Difference between Funny and Redundant 1 minute. Duly noted.
There already is such a "switch", the user in the example above just failed to use it...don't leave the USB drive connected. Whoever can't be trusted to remove the drive also can't be trusted to toggle a switch. Nice try, though.
Who pays/paid for it?
When my company paid for my cell phone. I left it in my desk at work.
Now that they canceled that policy to save $$, they can go to hell if they want my personal cell number.
If I'm not at my desk or on Sametime, good luck finding me.
Heh, I did the same thing a dozen years ago when they required me to have a pager for times I wasn't at my desk. Fine, I'll carry it during working hours, but it goes in the desk drawer when I leave.
If an employer wants me perpetually on call, not only should they provide the device, but it should be explicitly stated in my employment agreement up front and duly compensated. I've seen so many co-workers get used this way simply because they don't know how to say "no".
I sure gives "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new dimension.
Sure does...the Blue Mushroom Cloud of Death (yes, I know the joke's been made umpteen times downthread) is 3D compared to ol' BSOD's 2D.
This in turn gives more sinister implications to the term "Cloud Computing".
As far as I understand, the law simply asks if you (or any ordinary person in your place) could reasonably have known that you were helping with fraud. If you were, you're guilty.
Actually, shouldn't that be: if there is no reasonable doubt that they knew they were abetting fraud, then they're guilty? Or did they do away with the whole "presumption of innocence" thing when I wasn't looking?
And the government is liable for not having whatever relevant regulatory body require all saws to have the patented Saw Stop technology.
It's a Big Red O! There's no stopping the Big Red O once it gets rolling. It'll roll right over your lowercase blue e. It'll roll right over your rat clinging to the blue egg. It won't even acknowledge Safari, because it doesn't remember what its icon is. Beware the Big Red O! It's the Future!
That just made me think of a great idea for ad campaign for Opera: Morpheus opens his hands to Neo with the Red 'O' in one hand and the Blue 'e' in the other.
Pro tip: if you want to be taken seriously, especially when posting as AC, try refraining from (a) calling someone "asshole" and "fuckface", and (b) attributing positions never expressed to those "like you".
No, you're absolutely right. It's not the government's job to create jobs.
IT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO PATROL THE FUCKING BORDER
It's also the gov't's job to seek out and prosecute the employers of illegal immigrants, and not turn a blind eye to it because that cheap immigrant labor helps its corporate sponsors keep labor costs down.
What disturbs me most about the anti-immigrant backlash of the last few years is that so much vitriol is directed at the illegal immigrants while little is said about those who employ them. Is all this illegal immigration a conspiracy of poor migrant workers from Mexico who hoodwink innocent US employers into hiring them, or do US employers have the clout to lobby/bribe gov't into lax enforcement because it is in their economic interest to keep labor costs low? Does anyone believe these people would risk so much to cross the border if US employers faced any real risk in hiring them?
But no, let's focus the blame on the poor Mexicans, because, well, they're just so much easier to hate. But it's not racism or xenophobia, no sirree!!