Were you also calling the FBI "SS" when the Clintons used it to discredit the people in charge of travel at the White House since Kennedy to replace them with family members and friends?
It's all rhetoric but the fact is that walls work. Always have.
Remember how it was a daily thing to have bus bombs or market bombs in Israel? Then they built a wall and that stopped, the terrorists had to go hide with civilians in Lebanon to shoot rockets.
Same thing earlier in 20th century when the Italians had problems in Libya because weapons and fighters were coming in from neighboring countries. They built walls (well fences) and the problem went away.
There's also the wall of China that worked pretty well.
Sometimes you don't need complex socio-economic theories to solve a problem, you just need a wall.
At this rate, I'm glad I woke up. I'll go get my passport, pack my bags, get in line early to withdraw all my savings from the bank, and drive north.
Sure, then: - you’ll see what's left of your paycheck after the tax man takes his share to pay for "free" healthcare and other social services for which you usually end up on a waiting list - you'll see people waiting for 14h at the hospital before seeing a doctor - you'll see there's no free speech and you can go to jail for your opinions and police can beat you up because you didn't give them your itinerary in advance for a demonstration - you'll see the lousy deals for Netflix or Amazon prime Canadian customers - you find out that there's a 9-hour drive between major cities - you'll have to choose between -40 degrees in winter or paying HongKong prices for real estate in the only non freezing part of the country (Vancouver) - you'll have shitty postal service, shitty overpriced internet access wih low caps, shitty overpriced mobile data plans - you'll see that in almost every major city except for Montreal and Toronto your only food or entertainment options after 9pm are pubs and bars where you'll frequently encounter welfare leeches and drunk natives - you'll see that grocery stores have limited hours on Sunday - you'll see that natives can get away with killing cops, selling drugs and weapons, abusing their children, blocking highways and bridges but white people get fined for taking their trash out too early or for neglecting to sort recyclable materials properly
1. Barbra Streisand 2. Bryan Cranston 3. Miley Cyrus 4. Lena Dunham 5. Amy Schumer 6. Jon Stewart 7. Cher 8. Chelsea Handler 9. Samuel L. Jackson 10. Whoopi Goldberg 11. Neve Campbell 12. Keegan-Michael Key 13. George Lopez 14. Ne-Yo 15. Rev. Al Sharpton 16. Raven-Symoné
Don't let the door hit your rears on the way out you babies!
This election was just like the Arab spring. Take the information monopoly out of the hands of the biased elites and use social media to reach everyone with the real message.
They did their best to sabotage him but Twitter and Facebook are the main reasons for the Trump victory.
That's not voter disullisionment, that's a landslide. An overwhelming message. Presidency, house, congress.
When Obama got a similar result in his first election you probably called it a watershed moment and cried in your living room while screaming "yes we can". Now that Trump wiped the floor with the democratic party, for the same numbers you come out calling him a clown and claiming the election is not representative of the people's true wish.
You're shocked tonight because you've been listening to the big time liberal media propaganda for 18 months. But if there's one thing they can't lie about or misrepresent it's the results of the election, so right here tonight you've got the real truth for the first time about what people think of Trump.
Clinton was unable to face her own partisans when it became obvious that she lost. You really want that kind of wimp at the head of the country, making tough calls in a political landscape where half the citizens are opposed to her from day 1?
If you ask me, the country dodged a bullet tonight.
I'm sorry, but what part of "It's Her Turn" don't you understand? You sexists are all alike.
This kind of patronizing attitude is the most pervasive form of sexism. Women don't need "their turn" they're perfectly capable of competing for top jobs.
apple is not thriving at the moment, with iphone with dwindling market share in a mature market, making most of its profits, its only past momentum that keeps it afloat.
You're funny. 5th richest company in the world. $177.7b in cash. 107% of smart phone profits (that's right, the competition as a whole had a loss). With $177.7b in the bank, they can take a decade off for R&D if they want.
Wrong. Apple has about 6% of their money in the USA, everything else is abroad and essentially useless because if they bring it back half of it goes to the tax man. Apple is rich on paper but cash poor and has heavy debt.
As for "a decade of R&D": this is exactly what they have NOT done. The first iPhone is now almost a decade old and they've done nothing but surf on that since then. They can't even be bothered to do proper QA on their software or secure their friggin cloud. Idiots with billions.
Wonder why the economy is bad? Companies like Apple are a financial cancer.
70% of Twitter accounts follow less than 10 people, 80% are followed by less than 10 people. How do you monetize that with ads? It's essentially millions of people posting crap nobody cares about and not reading what oher people post. And a fair chunk of it all is notifications from Facebook or Wordpress.
Your assumptions about Twitter are wrong. You can't monetize data mining because the vast majority of people post content, they don't consume content from other people.
That's a thing Twitter has in common with perl code... it's "write only".
I hope Facebook will learn from LinkedIn how to make a decent API. The Facebook APi is awful, almost as bad as the Twitter one.
I understand that when a company experiences explosive growth there is usually no time to design a perfect architecture, but some organizations like LinkedIn, Amazon and to some extent Google managed to do it. I guess Facebook is too busy spying on people.
The Facebook API is a tapestry of bad designs that are not even consistent across the various namespaces. The developer console looks like something that was designed by people who have never heard of UX principles, and the documentation is awful. I'd rather work with Yahoo CSV API than with Facebook "methods".
Yes I just checked and there's an exciting new feature released a week ago:
Tuned appearance of progress bar in transfer queue
I know, I know, it's all done by volunteers, but why would someone spend time changing progress bars on a FTP client when basic security features (like encrypting passwords) are missing and when a significant problem with a mainstream FTP server has been reported for 7 years. If one's goal is improving a FTP client, this makes no sense, and if one is thrilled to do some fancy GUI stuff why on earth would that person contribute to a FTP client instead of a window manager or similar thing.
It's not surprising that they sucked. The typical business model for vendors is to show their skilled employees during the pre-sales phase and hide the dead wood that will end up doing the bulk of the work. But with the Indians it's not a mere bait & switch; in my experience this is more like a cultural thing, where people who get a good job are expected by their extended family to try and provide work to less skilled family members. That's how you end up with near-illiterate tech support workers.
This is very common, and not just in large multinationals. I remember being in a meeting when someone was requesting more funding for the customer service department because the wait time and volume of complaints were through the roof, and it was denied because there was no clear link to churn rate.
There's a perception that may or may not be correct that a fair proportion of calls to customer service are from deadbeats. It's cynical but maybe money is better spent on improving products.
Thanks for posting that link, that ticket is pure gold. 7 years of arrogance make for a fascinating 5 minute read.
The amount of time that developer spent arguing and reclosing that ticket could have been spent solving the problem, but instead he was proud of "making a stand" against a mainstream server product (IIS) that doesn't follow the standard. All he did was alienate users, including potentially me - I don't use Filezilla but moving forward if the need arises I'll choose anything else, I don't want code written by that aspie on my machine.
It's always a red flag when someone starts using metaphors in a tech discussion, like this guy and his "bridge". Inevitably it leads to a metaphor contest ("no, the river is the protocol", "then the pillars are the implementation", "no, IIS is the truck crossing the river" etc etc). I have a policy of leaving meetings when the discussion gets to metaphors.
People like that guy are not representative of open source developers, they're representative of *bad* open source developers.
Yes this is a common misconception that IT is a commodity that can be easily outsourced like payroll or janitorial services. At first it was all "let s bring IBM in" then when companies realized that vendors don't care and are not effective on the long run, they've turned to cheap labor, thinking that they could replace the pawns without handing things over to a vendor.
The fun part is that the people who made those decisions cashed in their bonuses and laughed all their way to the bank.
your head is normally in very close proximity to the top of a washer as you open the lid.
My apologies, my comment was based on the incorrect assumption that everyone has arms and this shows a lack of empathy for armless people. Hang in there, buddy!
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Were you also calling the FBI "SS" when the Clintons used it to discredit the people in charge of travel at the White House since Kennedy to replace them with family members and friends?
It's all rhetoric but the fact is that walls work. Always have.
Remember how it was a daily thing to have bus bombs or market bombs in Israel? Then they built a wall and that stopped, the terrorists had to go hide with civilians in Lebanon to shoot rockets.
Same thing earlier in 20th century when the Italians had problems in Libya because weapons and fighters were coming in from neighboring countries. They built walls (well fences) and the problem went away.
There's also the wall of China that worked pretty well.
Sometimes you don't need complex socio-economic theories to solve a problem, you just need a wall.
You misspelled "Bilderberg group".
At this rate, I'm glad I woke up. I'll go get my passport, pack my bags, get in line early to withdraw all my savings from the bank, and drive north.
Sure, then:
- you’ll see what's left of your paycheck after the tax man takes his share to pay for "free" healthcare and other social services for which you usually end up on a waiting list
- you'll see people waiting for 14h at the hospital before seeing a doctor
- you'll see there's no free speech and you can go to jail for your opinions and police can beat you up because you didn't give them your itinerary in advance for a demonstration
- you'll see the lousy deals for Netflix or Amazon prime Canadian customers
- you find out that there's a 9-hour drive between major cities
- you'll have to choose between -40 degrees in winter or paying HongKong prices for real estate in the only non freezing part of the country (Vancouver)
- you'll have shitty postal service, shitty overpriced internet access wih low caps, shitty overpriced mobile data plans
- you'll see that in almost every major city except for Montreal and Toronto your only food or entertainment options after 9pm are pubs and bars where you'll frequently encounter welfare leeches and drunk natives
- you'll see that grocery stores have limited hours on Sunday
- you'll see that natives can get away with killing cops, selling drugs and weapons, abusing their children, blocking highways and bridges but white people get fined for taking their trash out too early or for neglecting to sort recyclable materials properly
and then you'll crawl back to Trumpland.
People said they were terrified for Obama's safety 8 years ago... Most of the people with guns like this guy a lot better. :)
Guns don't kill presidents, Democrats do.
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1. Barbra Streisand 2. Bryan Cranston 3. Miley Cyrus 4. Lena Dunham 5. Amy Schumer 6. Jon Stewart 7. Cher 8. Chelsea Handler 9. Samuel L. Jackson 10. Whoopi Goldberg 11. Neve Campbell 12. Keegan-Michael Key 13. George Lopez 14. Ne-Yo 15. Rev. Al Sharpton 16. Raven-Symoné
Don't let the door hit your rears on the way out you babies!
Hopefully Ellen Pao will join them.
This election was just like the Arab spring. Take the information monopoly out of the hands of the biased elites and use social media to reach everyone with the real message.
They did their best to sabotage him but Twitter and Facebook are the main reasons for the Trump victory.
That's not voter disullisionment, that's a landslide. An overwhelming message. Presidency, house, congress.
When Obama got a similar result in his first election you probably called it a watershed moment and cried in your living room while screaming "yes we can". Now that Trump wiped the floor with the democratic party, for the same numbers you come out calling him a clown and claiming the election is not representative of the people's true wish.
You're shocked tonight because you've been listening to the big time liberal media propaganda for 18 months. But if there's one thing they can't lie about or misrepresent it's the results of the election, so right here tonight you've got the real truth for the first time about what people think of Trump.
the last 2 digits are 99.
Clinton was unable to face her own partisans when it became obvious that she lost. You really want that kind of wimp at the head of the country, making tough calls in a political landscape where half the citizens are opposed to her from day 1?
If you ask me, the country dodged a bullet tonight.
I'm sorry, but what part of "It's Her Turn" don't you understand? You sexists are all alike.
This kind of patronizing attitude is the most pervasive form of sexism. Women don't need "their turn" they're perfectly capable of competing for top jobs.
apple is not thriving at the moment, with iphone with dwindling market share in a mature market, making most of its profits, its only past momentum that keeps it afloat.
You're funny. 5th richest company in the world. $177.7b in cash. 107% of smart phone profits (that's right, the competition as a whole had a loss). With $177.7b in the bank, they can take a decade off for R&D if they want.
Wrong. Apple has about 6% of their money in the USA, everything else is abroad and essentially useless because if they bring it back half of it goes to the tax man. Apple is rich on paper but cash poor and has heavy debt.
As for "a decade of R&D": this is exactly what they have NOT done. The first iPhone is now almost a decade old and they've done nothing but surf on that since then. They can't even be bothered to do proper QA on their software or secure their friggin cloud. Idiots with billions.
Wonder why the economy is bad? Companies like Apple are a financial cancer.
And how is this backwards?
70% of Twitter accounts follow less than 10 people, 80% are followed by less than 10 people. How do you monetize that with ads? It's essentially millions of people posting crap nobody cares about and not reading what oher people post. And a fair chunk of it all is notifications from Facebook or Wordpress.
Your assumptions about Twitter are wrong. You can't monetize data mining because the vast majority of people post content, they don't consume content from other people.
That's a thing Twitter has in common with perl code... it's "write only".
one can't thrive by merely pandering to the weak minded herd.
*cough* Apple
I hope Facebook will learn from LinkedIn how to make a decent API. The Facebook APi is awful, almost as bad as the Twitter one.
I understand that when a company experiences explosive growth there is usually no time to design a perfect architecture, but some organizations like LinkedIn, Amazon and to some extent Google managed to do it. I guess Facebook is too busy spying on people.
The Facebook API is a tapestry of bad designs that are not even consistent across the various namespaces. The developer console looks like something that was designed by people who have never heard of UX principles, and the documentation is awful. I'd rather work with Yahoo CSV API than with Facebook "methods".
That would make an amazing t-shirt.
I DROVE CODESQUID TRUCK ON A 7.5% BRIDGE AND I SURVIVED
And if we all paid tax on it, that would make up for Trump not paying taxes for the last umpteen years
Or it would make up for a single day of taxes not paid by Apple.
Yes I just checked and there's an exciting new feature released a week ago:
Tuned appearance of progress bar in transfer queue
I know, I know, it's all done by volunteers, but why would someone spend time changing progress bars on a FTP client when basic security features (like encrypting passwords) are missing and when a significant problem with a mainstream FTP server has been reported for 7 years. If one's goal is improving a FTP client, this makes no sense, and if one is thrilled to do some fancy GUI stuff why on earth would that person contribute to a FTP client instead of a window manager or similar thing.
It's not surprising that they sucked. The typical business model for vendors is to show their skilled employees during the pre-sales phase and hide the dead wood that will end up doing the bulk of the work. But with the Indians it's not a mere bait & switch; in my experience this is more like a cultural thing, where people who get a good job are expected by their extended family to try and provide work to less skilled family members. That's how you end up with near-illiterate tech support workers.
This is very common, and not just in large multinationals. I remember being in a meeting when someone was requesting more funding for the customer service department because the wait time and volume of complaints were through the roof, and it was denied because there was no clear link to churn rate.
There's a perception that may or may not be correct that a fair proportion of calls to customer service are from deadbeats. It's cynical but maybe money is better spent on improving products.
Thanks for posting that link, that ticket is pure gold. 7 years of arrogance make for a fascinating 5 minute read.
The amount of time that developer spent arguing and reclosing that ticket could have been spent solving the problem, but instead he was proud of "making a stand" against a mainstream server product (IIS) that doesn't follow the standard. All he did was alienate users, including potentially me - I don't use Filezilla but moving forward if the need arises I'll choose anything else, I don't want code written by that aspie on my machine.
It's always a red flag when someone starts using metaphors in a tech discussion, like this guy and his "bridge". Inevitably it leads to a metaphor contest ("no, the river is the protocol", "then the pillars are the implementation", "no, IIS is the truck crossing the river" etc etc). I have a policy of leaving meetings when the discussion gets to metaphors.
People like that guy are not representative of open source developers, they're representative of *bad* open source developers.
Yes this is a common misconception that IT is a commodity that can be easily outsourced like payroll or janitorial services. At first it was all "let s bring IBM in" then when companies realized that vendors don't care and are not effective on the long run, they've turned to cheap labor, thinking that they could replace the pawns without handing things over to a vendor.
The fun part is that the people who made those decisions cashed in their bonuses and laughed all their way to the bank.
your head is normally in very close proximity to the top of a washer as you open the lid.
My apologies, my comment was based on the incorrect assumption that everyone has arms and this shows a lack of empathy for armless people. Hang in there, buddy!
it seems reasonable to assume the lid won't fly off at you while you do that.
Famous last words.