How did these people become ex-employees? Were they fired or did they leave on their own accord?
I've been browsing some of their early entires (and the one guy's profile that's not empty) but that detail of their google experience is never addressed. I would think that if you wanted attention for being an ex-anything, you'd at least be upfront about what brought about that "ex-" status.
So I'll reserve my trust regarding this site... for the same reason that I can't imagine a blog site of my ex-wives to be perfectly honest about me.
I'm a big movie buff, and watch at least 3 a week... so I've seen a lot that were originally labeled NC-17 at the box office. My general impression of these movies is not favorable though, as most seem interested in just exploiting the shock value of sexual or violent actions. Can anyone think of any NC-17 (or greater!) movies that are on par with some of the classics (story-wise) out there? I know movie tastes are very subjective, but I'd like some suggestions as I travel the lesser-known roads of the movie landscape.
Democracy is basically 51% of the citizens deciding together to give up certain personal rights and powers to an elected official.
You're complicating the process with your own opinions. First of all, a pure democratic process means that laws/regulations are created-by and voted-on by everyone everytime. That's currently not efficient at this time, so most societies have a representative democracy where a few representatives are elected and they in-turn vote in laws/regulations. It's also not currently desireable to have a pure democratic process because most people are not educated enough on the subjects that might need law/regulations imposed on it (due to time constraints, poor education, and the fact that all men can't know-it-all all the time). So, at the moment, delagation (via electing representatives) is the most efficient way to govern societies... now whether or not you're losing "personal rights" by electing an official is a matter of both one's opinion on what constitutes a "personal right" and the specific actions of a specific representative.
This is the flaw with voting and the power of the free market. In a free market you can change your mind constantly, and the market will provide for what you want. Democracy only lets you change your mind once every 4 years or so, and you can never fix past errors in judgement, as they are now law.
Naa, the flaw is in your logic... First of all, laws are not set in stone, they can be disabled/revoked by new laws. The specifics on how is usually defined by that government's constitution, unless the government is a dictatorship of some kind, in which case, it's all determined by the will of a few. Also, in response to your free market analogy, if elections were held everyday that would render the government representative completely useless because he/she would have to be constantly campaining (if they want to keep their job) and nothing of substance would get done if they were replaced so frequently.
Seriously, I dislike most politicians myself, but to blame the system (instead of them and the people that keep voting for them) is just plain stupid.
All I know is, MS Office is almost physically painful to use for anything more complex than the simplest tasks. -- Daniel Dvorkin
Ok troll...
I recently worked on a Powerpoint presentation that imported both Excel numbers and data which was originally (and easily) imported from a MySQL database... part of which was hosted for preview as HTML pages on a company web server (all automated via VBScript so that changes were immediately reflected online)... guess that's a pretty simple task according to your imaginary standards.
I hate having to defend myself by saying this... but I love open-source software, as evident by some of my most popularly used software: vlc, eclipse, azureus, shareaza, firefox... still, MS Office is powerfully good stuff, so much so that I find myself defending it against ignorant comments such as yours.
So until OpenOffice catches up (and I'm cheering that they will because it would be FREE) it's well worth the price if you have tasks that demand such complex interactions of data.
I worry about the courts these days - more and more, they show they are on the side of corporations over people (emminent domain, anyone?)
That's a bad example. The eminent domain case you're referring too was decided by judges and not by a jury of peers that this Mom vs RIAA civil case will most likely face. Also, in the eminent domain case, the winning side was a town and not a corporation... sure, you can claim that a corporation was indirectly involved too, but a town run by publicly elected officials is a different* beast than a corporation.
I teach robotics with Lego products. Kids from three through High School love them! They even have First Lego League, where kids (and adults)compete by building robots to solve problems. Where are the next generation of engineers going to come from if American companies "greed out" all the opportunities to attract young people?
If you'd put your toys down for a second and stop with your doomsday tantrum, you'd find out that the Lego Group is actually a privately owned company based in Denmark.
Why is it that the US, one of the most advanced countries in the world cannot get their $#!^ together, pun intended:-) when it comes to plumbing issues that most of the rest of the world seems to have solved years ago?
Your loaded question implies there's a serious problem with the current system in the U.S, and that's just not the case. Fresh water is cheap and plentiful in the majority of the U.S. and that's not about to change any time soon. Plus the "old" way just plain works so there's no major incentive to change things.
Also, what effect will a more concentrated (less dilluted with water) waste have on the environment? Seems like a total no-flush solution would require an overall change in the entire waster-water-management system. Such an expensive undertaking would be hard to justify giving how relatively cheap the current system is.
Why do we constantly need a remake of everything? For the same reason some genres of music get recycled... a proven successful formula and a fresh new audience. It's a lot cheaper repackaging the past then developing new stuff. I've never seen the original Prisoner so I might catch the new series... although I doubt it, the premise is kind of stale by today's standards.
That's complete bullshit. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to play video games in class.
Yes, if you count being an asshole a legitimate reason.
You think nobody notices you tapping away on you laptop? Do you even contribute? Whether you care or not, you're a distraction (to some degree) to the others in the classroom including the teacher.. who would notice your lack of attention. If you want to skip classes and play games then more power to you, but do it elsewhere..and not in an environment designated soley for teacher/student-related interactions.
You're like the guy that stands in line talking on his cellphone. It's bad enough to have to stand around waiting for a turn, but then some jerk right next to you feels the need to fill everybody in on his irrelevant mundane life.
These students are paying for the priviledge of wasting thier class time. No, mostly their parents paid, and they don't want their kids pissing away class time "surfing the net". As for the few students that had to save up for college on their own, they would probably be more responsible with their class time. There's a place for everything, and playing games in a class that you (or someone close to you) paid for is just plain stupid.
To be fair, one has to make a distinction between a channel's news programs and it's commentary-style shows. I find the news report shows on NBC, FOX, and CNN to be mostly fair as far as covering the major political sides. One can easily test that by looking at each story and measuring the range of political opinions that get reported with it. It's their commentary-style shows that are heavily biased, but that's by design since those shows center around the opinions of their host(s) which naturally will lean towards one end of the political spectrum.
I just spent the last 10 years, since I was forced to switch from WriteNow, learning to make fair looking documents in that horrible piece of shit that is WORD
Good grief, 10 years?
People are trained to be brain surgeons in less time than that. What's wrong with you...
Even anonymity is being shunned on the net. For example, even the leftist hypocritical website moveon.org takes comments but they dont want you to be anonymous or use a pseudonym./. does a similar thing when scoring anonymous posters lower than registered ones. I never understood how "slashdotnickname" made me any less anonymous, but then again it's all about keeping track of one's history in order to appraise your worth as a poster.. which is understandle if you ever set their filter to -1 and see all the garbage that gets posted. Even wikipedia has been recently talking about controlling page editors somewhat.
Absolute freedom sounds great at the beginning, but it has its good and bad sides like any other amoral thing in this world... and like any evolutionary mechanism, a natural progression will always be made to choose one side over the other.
Its the parent's fault. Politicians didn't just create this legislation for the fun of it. Their constituents, "concerned" parents, demanded it. The politicians are just doing the usual whatever it takes to get re-elected. So yes, ultimately it's the parent's fault if their kid gets out of control but it's also the parent's fault for demanding such legislation.
The real problem is that most parents are unsure of their own parenting skills and are scared that their kids could get easily influenced away from their disciplining. So parents are grasping for any kind of re-assuring help regardless of how illogical it may be.
This would not be a problem if spanking was more accepted today, both at home and at school. The minute parents started swaying away from a physical dominant role to one more concerned about a child's feelings, they broke the natural parent-child bond. Parents should not strive to be their kid's friend, their main role should be to instill in their kids the disciplines necessary to succeed in life.
It would be more efficient to build it in space. Perhaps even on or orbiting the moon, using lunar material. This could then justify creating a permanent lunar base, which could have other uses besides saving the Earth.
It's easy for somebody who never struggled with their weight to accuse fat people of some moral shortcoming, never mind that they themselves don't always lead perfectly healthy lives either.
By your same flawed logic, I shouldn't tell my kids not to smoke if I myself smoke. Sure I should set a better example, but the lack (or presence) of moral authority does not make one's argument any less (or more) valid. Smoking is still wrong, regardless whether a smoker or a non-smoker tells you that. Plus, in this weight case, there's a difference between a non-perfect health lifestyle and being so obese that you're sitting in your own waste for years.
The internet is an extreme communist network. You need to work together so everything works. If someone stops doing their share they get cut off and end up having to rejoin and work twice as hard or they die. It's that simple.
Your anology is wrong. The Internet is far more free and robust that you give it credit for. Not everything as to work together fine for everything else to work. If designed right, a network can have one of its routers stop "doing its share" and still reach other networks with only minor disturbance. And what's this having to work twice as hard when a node rejoins? You need a networking primer my dear commrade.
Java 1.5 introduced the two things that make me willing to consider Java as a practical language for real work. Those two things are collections and generics.
Hah! Java generics are laughable, especially if you ever used C++ templates. Java generics are nothing more than syntactic sugar for type-casts, except type-casts are performed at runtime whereas generics are a compile time thing. The consequence of this is that, at runtime, an ArrrayList of integers is indistinguishable from an ArrayList of strings (they'd both show up as an ArrayList of objects).
The question is not whether the freshly-fertilised egg is 'alive', but whether it can be considered human.
It's always human, the combination of all 46 chromosomes upon fertilization establishes that. I've heard some, when arguing for the right of arbortion, call the very early stages of development a "pile of goo" which always struck me as a derogatory understanding of the life. The real question is when does a human gain its basic rights, and specifically the right to life (i.e the right not to be killed). Certainly a 8 1/2 month unborn child has that right, maybe a 6 month old fetus... but at conception?
I tried to turn him on to coding, but he went out and got Visual Studio, and went off on his own. He came back and proudly demonstrated his various creations. While I liked his creativity, it was evident his depth of grasp of the workings of programming were as deep as VS allowed him. Cute screens with cute input buttons and cute input boxes. But nothing in the sense of real code.
So you blame Visual Studio for having him build a pretty GUI instead of coding an intricate algorithm?!
Good programmers begin with a love of solving mathematical and/or logical puzzles. This is not something you can just instill into someone by tossing them an expensive IDE. Of course he was going to create pretty looking GUIs. VS is just a tool designed to help with some of the more laborious (i.e. brainless) parts of programming.
Maybe you're projecting yourself onto him, and he's not much of an analytical thinker... sounds like his love of shinny, pretty things might lead to a more promising career on Broadway.
Ah yes, the good old days of gaming. Back when games had to be fun rather than bloody.
What is it with old people and their constant condescention when comparing eras of time? I, and a lot of others, find today's bloody games to be fun and exciting. Sure the market's flooded now with 3D FPSs, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any gems out there. Doom3 had me on the edge of my seat for hours, I can't say the same thing about some chubby plumber busting rocks...
This illustrates the mistake they made in not choosing a Windows platform.
An unscheduled event such as that would of easily blue-screened a Windows milker. The robust Linux version, on the other hand, would continue milking. And with a horny bull in the stall, this might get messy... fast.
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How did these people become ex-employees? Were they fired or did they leave on their own accord?
I've been browsing some of their early entires (and the one guy's profile that's not empty) but that detail of their google experience is never addressed. I would think that if you wanted attention for being an ex-anything, you'd at least be upfront about what brought about that "ex-" status.
So I'll reserve my trust regarding this site... for the same reason that I can't imagine a blog site of my ex-wives to be perfectly honest about me.
I'm a big movie buff, and watch at least 3 a week... so I've seen a lot that were originally labeled NC-17 at the box office. My general impression of these movies is not favorable though, as most seem interested in just exploiting the shock value of sexual or violent actions. Can anyone think of any NC-17 (or greater!) movies that are on par with some of the classics (story-wise) out there? I know movie tastes are very subjective, but I'd like some suggestions as I travel the lesser-known roads of the movie landscape.
Democracy is basically 51% of the citizens deciding together to give up certain personal rights and powers to an elected official.
You're complicating the process with your own opinions. First of all, a pure democratic process means that laws/regulations are created-by and voted-on by everyone everytime. That's currently not efficient at this time, so most societies have a representative democracy where a few representatives are elected and they in-turn vote in laws/regulations. It's also not currently desireable to have a pure democratic process because most people are not educated enough on the subjects that might need law/regulations imposed on it (due to time constraints, poor education, and the fact that all men can't know-it-all all the time). So, at the moment, delagation (via electing representatives) is the most efficient way to govern societies... now whether or not you're losing "personal rights" by electing an official is a matter of both one's opinion on what constitutes a "personal right" and the specific actions of a specific representative.
This is the flaw with voting and the power of the free market. In a free market you can change your mind constantly, and the market will provide for what you want. Democracy only lets you change your mind once every 4 years or so, and you can never fix past errors in judgement, as they are now law.
Naa, the flaw is in your logic... First of all, laws are not set in stone, they can be disabled/revoked by new laws. The specifics on how is usually defined by that government's constitution, unless the government is a dictatorship of some kind, in which case, it's all determined by the will of a few. Also, in response to your free market analogy, if elections were held everyday that would render the government representative completely useless because he/she would have to be constantly campaining (if they want to keep their job) and nothing of substance would get done if they were replaced so frequently.
Seriously, I dislike most politicians myself, but to blame the system (instead of them and the people that keep voting for them) is just plain stupid.
All I know is, MS Office is almost physically painful to use for anything more complex than the simplest tasks. -- Daniel Dvorkin
Ok troll...
I recently worked on a Powerpoint presentation that imported both Excel numbers and data which was originally (and easily) imported from a MySQL database... part of which was hosted for preview as HTML pages on a company web server (all automated via VBScript so that changes were immediately reflected online)... guess that's a pretty simple task according to your imaginary standards.
I hate having to defend myself by saying this... but I love open-source software, as evident by some of my most popularly used software: vlc, eclipse, azureus, shareaza, firefox... still, MS Office is powerfully good stuff, so much so that I find myself defending it against ignorant comments such as yours.
So until OpenOffice catches up (and I'm cheering that they will because it would be FREE) it's well worth the price if you have tasks that demand such complex interactions of data.
I worry about the courts these days - more and more, they show they are on the side of corporations over people (emminent domain, anyone?)
That's a bad example. The eminent domain case you're referring too was decided by judges and not by a jury of peers that this Mom vs RIAA civil case will most likely face. Also, in the eminent domain case, the winning side was a town and not a corporation... sure, you can claim that a corporation was indirectly involved too, but a town run by publicly elected officials is a different* beast than a corporation.
* different does not mean better or worse
I teach robotics with Lego products. Kids from three through High School love them! They even have First Lego League, where kids (and adults)compete by building robots to solve problems. Where are the next generation of engineers going to come from if American companies "greed out" all the opportunities to attract young people?
If you'd put your toys down for a second and stop with your doomsday tantrum, you'd find out that the Lego Group is actually a privately owned company based in Denmark.
Why is it that the US, one of the most advanced countries in the world cannot get their $#!^ together, pun intended :-) when it comes to plumbing issues that most of the rest of the world seems to have solved years ago?
Your loaded question implies there's a serious problem with the current system in the U.S, and that's just not the case. Fresh water is cheap and plentiful in the majority of the U.S. and that's not about to change any time soon. Plus the "old" way just plain works so there's no major incentive to change things.
Also, what effect will a more concentrated (less dilluted with water) waste have on the environment? Seems like a total no-flush solution would require an overall change in the entire waster-water-management system. Such an expensive undertaking would be hard to justify giving how relatively cheap the current system is.
Why do we constantly need a remake of everything?
For the same reason some genres of music get recycled... a proven successful formula and a fresh new audience. It's a lot cheaper repackaging the past then developing new stuff. I've never seen the original Prisoner so I might catch the new series... although I doubt it, the premise is kind of stale by today's standards.
That's complete bullshit. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to play video games in class.
..and not in an environment designated soley for teacher/student-related interactions.
Yes, if you count being an asshole a legitimate reason.
You think nobody notices you tapping away on you laptop? Do you even contribute? Whether you care or not, you're a distraction (to some degree) to the others in the classroom including the teacher.. who would notice your lack of attention. If you want to skip classes and play games then more power to you, but do it elsewhere
You're like the guy that stands in line talking on his cellphone. It's bad enough to have to stand around waiting for a turn, but then some jerk right next to you feels the need to fill everybody in on his irrelevant mundane life.
If we hired smart security people, overall we'd be more secure.
And also broke. Smart people can get better paying jobs.
This tin foil guy was looking for attention, and he got it.
These students are paying for the priviledge of wasting thier class time.
No, mostly their parents paid, and they don't want their kids pissing away class time "surfing the net". As for the few students that had to save up for college on their own, they would probably be more responsible with their class time. There's a place for everything, and playing games in a class that you (or someone close to you) paid for is just plain stupid.
To be fair, one has to make a distinction between a channel's news programs and it's commentary-style shows. I find the news report shows on NBC, FOX, and CNN to be mostly fair as far as covering the major political sides. One can easily test that by looking at each story and measuring the range of political opinions that get reported with it. It's their commentary-style shows that are heavily biased, but that's by design since those shows center around the opinions of their host(s) which naturally will lean towards one end of the political spectrum.
I just spent the last 10 years, since I was forced to switch from WriteNow, learning to make fair looking documents in that horrible piece of shit that is WORD
Good grief, 10 years?
People are trained to be brain surgeons in less time than that. What's wrong with you...
Even anonymity is being shunned on the net. For example, even the leftist hypocritical website moveon.org takes comments but they dont want you to be anonymous or use a pseudonym. /. does a similar thing when scoring anonymous posters lower than registered ones. I never understood how "slashdotnickname" made me any less anonymous, but then again it's all about keeping track of one's history in order to appraise your worth as a poster.. which is understandle if you ever set their filter to -1 and see all the garbage that gets posted. Even wikipedia has been recently talking about controlling page editors somewhat.
Absolute freedom sounds great at the beginning, but it has its good and bad sides like any other amoral thing in this world... and like any evolutionary mechanism, a natural progression will always be made to choose one side over the other.
Its the parent's fault.
Politicians didn't just create this legislation for the fun of it. Their constituents, "concerned" parents, demanded it. The politicians are just doing the usual whatever it takes to get re-elected. So yes, ultimately it's the parent's fault if their kid gets out of control but it's also the parent's fault for demanding such legislation.
The real problem is that most parents are unsure of their own parenting skills and are scared that their kids could get easily influenced away from their disciplining. So parents are grasping for any kind of re-assuring help regardless of how illogical it may be.
This would not be a problem if spanking was more accepted today, both at home and at school. The minute parents started swaying away from a physical dominant role to one more concerned about a child's feelings, they broke the natural parent-child bond. Parents should not strive to be their kid's friend, their main role should be to instill in their kids the disciplines necessary to succeed in life.
It would be more efficient to build it in space. Perhaps even on or orbiting the moon, using lunar material. This could then justify creating a permanent lunar base, which could have other uses besides saving the Earth.
It's easy for somebody who never struggled with their weight to accuse fat people of some moral shortcoming, never mind that they themselves don't always lead perfectly healthy lives either.
By your same flawed logic, I shouldn't tell my kids not to smoke if I myself smoke. Sure I should set a better example, but the lack (or presence) of moral authority does not make one's argument any less (or more) valid. Smoking is still wrong, regardless whether a smoker or a non-smoker tells you that. Plus, in this weight case, there's a difference between a non-perfect health lifestyle and being so obese that you're sitting in your own waste for years.
The internet is an extreme communist network. You need to work together so everything works. If someone stops doing their share they get cut off and end up having to rejoin and work twice as hard or they die. It's that simple.
Your anology is wrong. The Internet is far more free and robust that you give it credit for. Not everything as to work together fine for everything else to work. If designed right, a network can have one of its routers stop "doing its share" and still reach other networks with only minor disturbance. And what's this having to work twice as hard when a node rejoins? You need a networking primer my dear commrade.
Java 1.5 introduced the two things that make me willing to consider Java as a practical language for real work. Those two things are collections and generics.
Hah! Java generics are laughable, especially if you ever used C++ templates. Java generics are nothing more than syntactic sugar for type-casts, except type-casts are performed at runtime whereas generics are a compile time thing. The consequence of this is that, at runtime, an ArrrayList of integers is indistinguishable from an ArrayList of strings (they'd both show up as an ArrayList of objects).
The question is not whether the freshly-fertilised egg is 'alive', but whether it can be considered human.
It's always human, the combination of all 46 chromosomes upon fertilization establishes that. I've heard some, when arguing for the right of arbortion, call the very early stages of development a "pile of goo" which always struck me as a derogatory understanding of the life. The real question is when does a human gain its basic rights, and specifically the right to life (i.e the right not to be killed). Certainly a 8 1/2 month unborn child has that right, maybe a 6 month old fetus... but at conception?
Heaven forbid we cut corporate welfare to the most profitable corporations in the country.
Translation, successful people should be taxed more than the rest of us lazy slobs.
I tried to turn him on to coding, but he went out and got Visual Studio, and went off on his own. He came back and proudly demonstrated his various creations. While I liked his creativity, it was evident his depth of grasp of the workings of programming were as deep as VS allowed him. Cute screens with cute input buttons and cute input boxes. But nothing in the sense of real code.
So you blame Visual Studio for having him build a pretty GUI instead of coding an intricate algorithm?!
Good programmers begin with a love of solving mathematical and/or logical puzzles. This is not something you can just instill into someone by tossing them an expensive IDE. Of course he was going to create pretty looking GUIs. VS is just a tool designed to help with some of the more laborious (i.e. brainless) parts of programming.
Maybe you're projecting yourself onto him, and he's not much of an analytical thinker... sounds like his love of shinny, pretty things might lead to a more promising career on Broadway.
Ah yes, the good old days of gaming. Back when games had to be fun rather than bloody.
What is it with old people and their constant condescention when comparing eras of time? I, and a lot of others, find today's bloody games to be fun and exciting. Sure the market's flooded now with 3D FPSs, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any gems out there. Doom3 had me on the edge of my seat for hours, I can't say the same thing about some chubby plumber busting rocks...
What happens when a bull accidently wanders in?
This illustrates the mistake they made in not choosing a Windows platform.
An unscheduled event such as that would of easily blue-screened a Windows milker. The robust Linux version, on the other hand, would continue milking. And with a horny bull in the stall, this might get messy... fast.
Though there's legitimate ethical debate on abortions, I don't think this is much different than having your organs donated after you die.
Except, in the case of an abortion, the fetus' death is purposely induced... as opposed to dying in an accident or of natural causes.