I was thinking that too. Standard Silicon Valley procedure. The other big one is "We're combining these two sites, even though some of you already commute over an hour and this will make it longer, but we promise there will be synergy with you all working together."
I know you were joking. And I was tacking on, jokingly as well, that both parties listen to corporate "persons" that pay their campaign funds. It's part of how we got in this mess (not just the current shutdown).
I agree with that part. My reservations have more to with "gang" being a nebulous term where laws tend to be concerned, and actual youth street gangs being more of a symptom of a bigger problem than anything else.
Technological solutions to social problems don't always go so well.
Until it works so successfully that it starts getting used against a wider and wider net of people that are called "gangs" by whoever's currently in power.
G20 Protestors - Gang. Unions - Gang. The Catholic Church - Gang. Pro or Anti Abortion ralliers - Gang. Anonymous - Gang. Scientologists - Gang. Gay Marriage Activists - Gang. Gay Marriage Protestors - Gang. Occupy - Gang. KKK - Gang. Marijuana legalization advocates - Gang. Your college alumni network - Gang. War Protestors - Gang. Westboro Baptist Church - Gang. NAACP - Gang. Tea Partiers - Gang. American Communist Party - Gang. NAMBLA - Gang. Libertarian Party - Gang. Republican Party - Gang. Democratic Party - Gang.
Note that not all of the above tend to fit in the same Venn diagrams. Some have a lot of followers, some not many. Some are varied internally and big, others small. Some are downright horrible to most people. All of them fit into various forms of social groups that could be twisted into some definition of gang if you really wanted them gone and had power to do it.
Point being, if it's used for "good" now, it may not be later.
UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application for "Places to Steal Guns"
Seriously, if this is using any kind of legitimate records, it's not going to register many people who might actually pose a threat. It's going to be the people who may or may not have their house secured, but are known to have guns. And probably a lot of false positives, just like sex offender registries and other items of this nature.
>>but have you actually witnessed people being afraid?> in practice the majority of the people that you actually know are against being spied on?
Not a majority for me. Many are ambivalent, some actually buy the Kool-Aid, or don't like the practice but also go apeshit over Manning and Snowden calling them traitors.
I know it's crap. I try to convince people it's crap. I think part of the problem is that the Americans who are in the audience of the news actually do somewhat fit the profile. People posting on Slashdot and other more saavy places are somewhat removed. The down side of the internet is that's easier for us to segregate ourselves into groups, and those left behind don't have anyone to challenge them.
-- Movie tie ins to an Avatar sequel, the Smurfs, etc. -- Blueberry flavored coffee! With anti-oxidants! -- Starbucks now sponsors [insert cause with blue bracelets] with bracelets and blue coffee -- Blue Man Group: The Coffee
THIS! I grew up in the Midwest and had no idea what an actual fulfilling dinner salad could look like until I left. I thought it was all either a tiny bit of iceberg lettuce and limp looking veggies or a "chef's salad", which is more meat, eggs, dressing, cheese, and general crap than anything else, with just enough iceberg to make it "healthy".
That said, maybe it will work. Where I'm from, wild game is popular due to hunting culture, and in more rural areas there's still people eating even the small mammals. Bugs isn't THAT weird of an extension compared to those elitist, Left Coast hippy veggies like arugula. And you can deep fry them.
And if you have a neighborhood association or even just neighbors, they'll shut you down in a second. And then there's the zoning laws, any number of animal rights groups, Monsanto, etc.
Now, I'm with you on the garden part, where allowed, and fight for it where it's not. Chickens are loud and stinky, though, and unless you have a bunch of neighbors who are in on it, then it won't go so well.
Maybe it's because I've never worked in a purely dev. shop and have always been sitting with not just developers, but about the only regular perk I get is free coffee and tea. I sat for six weeks at a shop that had free sodas and bagels and crap in the breakroom. It was handy because I was living in a hotel the whole time.
I learned that I'd have cared a lot about that at 22 or so coming out of college. Now that I'm 34, I don't care. Free coffee is nice as it saves me time in the afternoon if I want some and don't want to take time to seek it out and buy it or get stuck with instant. Outside of that, I found that having all the sodas and bagels and crap didn't save me time so much as make me gain 10 lbs. in that time and made me groggy and never leave the building. Not leaving the building as often made my thinking (and therefore my coding) crap, because I didn't get a breather and ultimately spun my wheels on stupid crap for too long instead of having a fresh start.
Know what perks I want? Good management. The right tools to do my job. A kitchen area to heat up the food I bring and maybe some plastic silverware to eat with. Coworkers who aren't assholes. Educational opportunities. Good benefits. European style vacation. Telecommuting options.
The whole "keep the coders in the building" thing doesn't really work for me. I need breaks and to interact with people or non-tech stuff. Otherwise, at best I get groggy and slow, and at worst, I totally lose perspective about what the actual users want and start churning out very powerful code that's essentially useless.
Depends on where in the DC area. In some parts, it's as much suburban sprawl as LA, and you'd basically end up dead on a bike or walking, as it involves playing Frogger on major roads.
Maybe that's the point. Perhaps the whole idea is that they want anyone who'd legally own a gun to simply be pulled out of the gene pool or too scared to buy a gun.
Just wait until the govt. mandates that all new guns are smartguns.
Google is just following in the footsteps of Metallica: Bootlegs made us popular, but if you want to share music, then F**k you!
Or Disney for that matter: We blew up making cartoons out of fair use content. Now that we're huge, we'll continue to buy copyright into eternity so that nobody else can do this ever.
And they still won't want it. I think part of the appeal is that this is a novelty that's really hard to produce, and therefore expensive. It's another way to show how much better you are then everyone else because you have money. And it tastes better because it's expensive (or so your mind tells you).
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Didn't I just see this movie in the theater? Is this a viral ad for Gravity?
I was thinking that too. Standard Silicon Valley procedure. The other big one is "We're combining these two sites, even though some of you already commute over an hour and this will make it longer, but we promise there will be synergy with you all working together."
Technically, beer is food, and alcohol is a waste product of yeast.
So you could say the poo to food kid did win. ;)
I know you were joking. And I was tacking on, jokingly as well, that both parties listen to corporate "persons" that pay their campaign funds. It's part of how we got in this mess (not just the current shutdown).
No, all wrong. They're all listening to people.
Remember, the Supreme Court tells us that corporations are people.
Screw that, I'm waiting until this turns into Futurama style blasting commercials into your dreams.
Because you know that's next.
I agree with that part. My reservations have more to with "gang" being a nebulous term where laws tend to be concerned, and actual youth street gangs being more of a symptom of a bigger problem than anything else.
Technological solutions to social problems don't always go so well.
You keep saying that word, but I don't think you know what it means.
Until it works so successfully that it starts getting used against a wider and wider net of people that are called "gangs" by whoever's currently in power.
G20 Protestors - Gang.
Unions - Gang.
The Catholic Church - Gang.
Pro or Anti Abortion ralliers - Gang.
Anonymous - Gang.
Scientologists - Gang.
Gay Marriage Activists - Gang.
Gay Marriage Protestors - Gang.
Occupy - Gang.
KKK - Gang.
Marijuana legalization advocates - Gang.
Your college alumni network - Gang.
War Protestors - Gang.
Westboro Baptist Church - Gang.
NAACP - Gang.
Tea Partiers - Gang.
American Communist Party - Gang.
NAMBLA - Gang.
Libertarian Party - Gang.
Republican Party - Gang.
Democratic Party - Gang.
Note that not all of the above tend to fit in the same Venn diagrams. Some have a lot of followers, some not many. Some are varied internally and big, others small. Some are downright horrible to most people. All of them fit into various forms of social groups that could be twisted into some definition of gang if you really wanted them gone and had power to do it.
Point being, if it's used for "good" now, it may not be later.
UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application for "Places to Steal Guns"
Seriously, if this is using any kind of legitimate records, it's not going to register many people who might actually pose a threat. It's going to be the people who may or may not have their house secured, but are known to have guns. And probably a lot of false positives, just like sex offender registries and other items of this nature.
Completely ridiculous.
> man woman
No manual entry for woman.
>>but have you actually witnessed people being afraid?> in practice the majority of the people that you actually know are against being spied on?
Not a majority for me. Many are ambivalent, some actually buy the Kool-Aid, or don't like the practice but also go apeshit over Manning and Snowden calling them traitors.
I know it's crap. I try to convince people it's crap. I think part of the problem is that the Americans who are in the audience of the news actually do somewhat fit the profile. People posting on Slashdot and other more saavy places are somewhat removed. The down side of the internet is that's easier for us to segregate ourselves into groups, and those left behind don't have anyone to challenge them.
Are you kidding? This is a selling point:
-- Movie tie ins to an Avatar sequel, the Smurfs, etc.
-- Blueberry flavored coffee! With anti-oxidants!
-- Starbucks now sponsors [insert cause with blue bracelets] with bracelets and blue coffee
-- Blue Man Group: The Coffee
THIS! I grew up in the Midwest and had no idea what an actual fulfilling dinner salad could look like until I left. I thought it was all either a tiny bit of iceberg lettuce and limp looking veggies or a "chef's salad", which is more meat, eggs, dressing, cheese, and general crap than anything else, with just enough iceberg to make it "healthy".
That said, maybe it will work. Where I'm from, wild game is popular due to hunting culture, and in more rural areas there's still people eating even the small mammals. Bugs isn't THAT weird of an extension compared to those elitist, Left Coast hippy veggies like arugula. And you can deep fry them.
And if you have a neighborhood association or even just neighbors, they'll shut you down in a second. And then there's the zoning laws, any number of animal rights groups, Monsanto, etc.
Now, I'm with you on the garden part, where allowed, and fight for it where it's not. Chickens are loud and stinky, though, and unless you have a bunch of neighbors who are in on it, then it won't go so well.
Thank you for reminding me about Scorched Earth. I know what I'll be doing this afternoon when I get tired of working.
That's all I have to add to this post.
Maybe it's because I've never worked in a purely dev. shop and have always been sitting with not just developers, but about the only regular perk I get is free coffee and tea. I sat for six weeks at a shop that had free sodas and bagels and crap in the breakroom. It was handy because I was living in a hotel the whole time.
I learned that I'd have cared a lot about that at 22 or so coming out of college. Now that I'm 34, I don't care. Free coffee is nice as it saves me time in the afternoon if I want some and don't want to take time to seek it out and buy it or get stuck with instant. Outside of that, I found that having all the sodas and bagels and crap didn't save me time so much as make me gain 10 lbs. in that time and made me groggy and never leave the building. Not leaving the building as often made my thinking (and therefore my coding) crap, because I didn't get a breather and ultimately spun my wheels on stupid crap for too long instead of having a fresh start.
Know what perks I want? Good management. The right tools to do my job. A kitchen area to heat up the food I bring and maybe some plastic silverware to eat with. Coworkers who aren't assholes. Educational opportunities. Good benefits. European style vacation. Telecommuting options.
The whole "keep the coders in the building" thing doesn't really work for me. I need breaks and to interact with people or non-tech stuff. Otherwise, at best I get groggy and slow, and at worst, I totally lose perspective about what the actual users want and start churning out very powerful code that's essentially useless.
I know kung fu! And linear algebra!
If they install these in the pillows at Holiday Inn Express, it'd be truth in advertising.
Depends on where in the DC area. In some parts, it's as much suburban sprawl as LA, and you'd basically end up dead on a bike or walking, as it involves playing Frogger on major roads.
Shoot them first, ask questions later. If they get back up, shoot them in the head, because they're clearly zombie coders.
If that still doesn't work, put them on help desk.
Maybe that's the point. Perhaps the whole idea is that they want anyone who'd legally own a gun to simply be pulled out of the gene pool or too scared to buy a gun.
Just wait until the govt. mandates that all new guns are smartguns.
So, if you use this thing to simulate downloading music and get caught by the RIAA goon squad, does it lead to a CARDIAC arrest?
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress!
Google is just following in the footsteps of Metallica: Bootlegs made us popular, but if you want to share music, then F**k you!
Or Disney for that matter: We blew up making cartoons out of fair use content. Now that we're huge, we'll continue to buy copyright into eternity so that nobody else can do this ever.
If I had mod points, I'd mod the f**king sh*t out of this post so many times that you'd be the next editor of Slashdot.
There should be a whole damn college curriculum around this post. So, so true.
And they still won't want it. I think part of the appeal is that this is a novelty that's really hard to produce, and therefore expensive. It's another way to show how much better you are then everyone else because you have money. And it tastes better because it's expensive (or so your mind tells you).
Conspicuous consumption sucks.