I respect they guy and find him amusing, but he has done nothing outside of his own endeavors to really advance Linux into a entity that users flock to.
Congratulations! That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read yet today.
Perhaps you work in Marketing. Such people have a tendency to think that everyone else should act like they work in Marketing, too.
Sad to say, I've become very wary of female managers and especially female executives. The process for selecting females for these positions appears to be very finely tuned for identifying and promoting only the most shallow, ambitious, and scheming ones. This is not the fault of these women, but rather of a mindset that views the occasional bit of compassionate behaviour as a sign of strength in males (see, you're in a position that's sufficiently secure so that you can afford to give the other guy a break) and as a sign of weakness in females (tsk, tsk, you're letting those female emotions get in the way and trying to mother them again, are you?).
The cultural lines are definitely there--even between countries speaking the same language.
I recall raising my eyebrows any number of times at the some of the language I heard on Australian radio and TV when I'd first moved there from the States.
Remember the infamous Seven Words You Can't Say On Television? Well, it turns out that six of these words are not on the Aussie version of that list... ANYhow...
Then I lived there for 6 years, got used to it, started speaking more freely myself, and now since moving to Sweden have to watch myself constantly when talking to Swedes and (other) Americans.
In any case, I don't find Linus' language particularly... exciting. I find it pretty ordinary, really.
And it's always a bit refreshing to see someone who's not afraid to use real, live, ordinary language to refer to something that stinks as "shit".
On an annual basis, about the same as my gross income was before I accepted this job and came to Sweden.
But why should that matter?
Yes, it costs to make sure sick folks get healthcare, folks with kids get daycare, unemployed folks can still pay their rent, old folks get their pensions and minibus rides to the doctors and shops, air-breathing and water-drinking folks get to breathe clean air and drink clean water, and so on.
Yes, I pay my share--and happily, since I get to take advantage of what the system offers, just like any other Swedish worker. (And I still get to live in a reasonably nice flat, eat what I like, make my child support payments, and still afford to fly overseas once or twice a year to visit the rellies.)
I gather that I am supposed to see a problem with this? Sorry to disappoint you, if that's the case.
BTW, dealing with Skatteverket is about 100 times less scary than dealing with the IRS. Taxes here are high compared with some places, true, but they are also very simple, straightforward, and unambiguous.
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
Bingo. I think we need to hear that again:
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
Third time's the charm:
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
The neighborhood watch suggestions are just that, suggestions. They are not legally enforcable. They are not law. You are trying to say that Zimmerman caused the death simply by ignoring the suggestions, something which is simply wrong.
Actually, it looks to me like you're assuming that following the law would been sufficient to guarantee a positive outcome.
And judges certainly can take facts into account, and instruct juries to do likewise (or to disregard them, as the case may be). They do it all the time. If a good many seemingly reputable neighbourhood watch organisations issue similar guidelines for their members, that is absolutely a salient fact that a court can take into account when determining whether or not an action committed by someone acting as a member of a neighbourhood watch was "reasonable", "usual", "normal", etc. And the court gets to decide what's relevant, BTW--not you.
Zimmerman is an adult who caused the death of a kid who'd committed no crime. His conduct may have been within the bounds of the law, but this is no way makes it any less irresponsible or any less reprehensible, and he should be shunned by society.
I should point out that, with the acquittal, he'll likely be turned into some kind of vigilante hero instead, which is why it is very difficult for me to feel any compassion for him, even though I know that I should.
Because RATIONAL people do not throw people to the ground and start beating them to death without ANY physical provocation.
Lots of people seem to forget that an adult shot and killed a child.
As the adult in this situation, Zimmerman should have been well aware that young perhaps-not-quite-adults are often known to be not completely rational. All the more so when they're frightened at being followed by a threatening-looking stranger.
Even "rational" adults are known sometimes to react to a threatening situation out of instinct or prior conditioning rather than logical contemplation.
As the supposedly mature adult in this situation who was so eager to play "cop", Zimmerman should have had sense enough to know that you don't provoke a suspect if you don't have backup on the scene: someone could get hurt, maybe even you.
This is one reason why real cops generally work in pairs.
Zimmerman's an idiot with a gun. A lucky one. Legally, he's probably in the clear. Nonetheless, there seems to be no disputing that, had he not (a) provoked this incident and (b) been carrying a firearm, there'd be a kid today who's not six feet under.
Zimmerman is an adult who caused the death of a kid who'd committed no crime. His conduct may have been within the bounds of the law, but this is no way makes it any less irresponsible or any less reprehensible, and he should be shunned by society.
Well, here in Sweden, my partner's emergency surgery a couple of years ago cost us a grand total of 4000 SEK (call it US$750). About a third of this was for cab fare to and from the hospital. Most of the rest was registration fees.
I heard this from some drunk Swede on the T-bana a while back, mixed in with some crap about nasty foreigners taking our women.
Me (nice and loud): Excuse me, sir, but I am a foreign worker in your country. My name is Zon. How do you do? Do you think that the 235,000 SEK I paid in income tax last year was enough? Should I ring up Skatteverket and volunteer to may some more? And--if you don't mind, I'm curious--was this more or less than you made from your job last year?
Him (mumbled): Um, not working lately.
Me: Didn't think so. Well, have a nice day, Sir, and keep enjoying (VERY loudly) that bottle that I paid for. Cheers.
And as to the KKK, they'd still exist. After all, they hate anyone that's different. Skin, Religion, Accent, whatever, they hate them all, it's just that they hate some more than others. Take away the ones they hate most, they'll just target the next on the list.
Typical primate behaviour... Looking for other primates to label as "no-good shits" and then dumping on them.
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I respect they guy and find him amusing, but he has done nothing outside of his own endeavors to really advance Linux into a entity that users flock to.
Congratulations! That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read yet today.
Perhaps you work in Marketing. Such people have a tendency to think that everyone else should act like they work in Marketing, too.
Sad to say, I've become very wary of female managers and especially female executives. The process for selecting females for these positions appears to be very finely tuned for identifying and promoting only the most shallow, ambitious, and scheming ones. This is not the fault of these women, but rather of a mindset that views the occasional bit of compassionate behaviour as a sign of strength in males (see, you're in a position that's sufficiently secure so that you can afford to give the other guy a break) and as a sign of weakness in females (tsk, tsk, you're letting those female emotions get in the way and trying to mother them again, are you?).
Who is Linus accountable to?
You're asking the wrong question. It's not who, but rather what.
He's accountable to the kernel.
(BTW, I love lops. Used to raise them back in the early '90s. Had about 20 of the little buggers running around my backyard at one point.)
The cultural lines are definitely there--even between countries speaking the same language.
I recall raising my eyebrows any number of times at the some of the language I heard on Australian radio and TV when I'd first moved there from the States.
Remember the infamous Seven Words You Can't Say On Television ? Well, it turns out that six of these words are not on the Aussie version of that list... ANYhow...
Then I lived there for 6 years, got used to it, started speaking more freely myself, and now since moving to Sweden have to watch myself constantly when talking to Swedes and (other) Americans.
In any case, I don't find Linus' language particularly... exciting. I find it pretty ordinary, really.
And it's always a bit refreshing to see someone who's not afraid to use real, live, ordinary language to refer to something that stinks as "shit".
The point being that it's the same country that's wiretapping the rest of the planet?
That's nuts. Nobody hits that many clinkers in a row.
Get yourself a good consumer-grade router and a surge protector, my good Sir/Ma'am/Fido.
How much have you paid in taxes?
On an annual basis, about the same as my gross income was before I accepted this job and came to Sweden.
But why should that matter?
Yes, it costs to make sure sick folks get healthcare, folks with kids get daycare, unemployed folks can still pay their rent, old folks get their pensions and minibus rides to the doctors and shops, air-breathing and water-drinking folks get to breathe clean air and drink clean water, and so on.
Yes, I pay my share--and happily, since I get to take advantage of what the system offers, just like any other Swedish worker. (And I still get to live in a reasonably nice flat, eat what I like, make my child support payments, and still afford to fly overseas once or twice a year to visit the rellies.)
I gather that I am supposed to see a problem with this? Sorry to disappoint you, if that's the case.
BTW, dealing with Skatteverket is about 100 times less scary than dealing with the IRS. Taxes here are high compared with some places, true, but they are also very simple, straightforward, and unambiguous.
Hi, Brett. :)
Not from this "indictment", since it appears to have been issued by an ad-hoc "Citizens' Grand Jury" with no legal standing.
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
Bingo. I think we need to hear that again:
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
Third time's the charm:
If you follow someone in the middle of the night, a reasonable person should expect a fight or flight response at some point from the person being followed.
Does anyone still not get this?
Why not just come right out and say that he deserved to die for these things?
Yes, you wrote down the plate number.
No, you did not walk across the street and try to jerk the guy out of his car.
That's supposed to "an eye for an eye", not "your life for my black eye".
The neighborhood watch suggestions are just that, suggestions. They are not legally enforcable. They are not law. You are trying to say that Zimmerman caused the death simply by ignoring the suggestions, something which is simply wrong.
Actually, it looks to me like you're assuming that following the law would been sufficient to guarantee a positive outcome.
And judges certainly can take facts into account, and instruct juries to do likewise (or to disregard them, as the case may be). They do it all the time. If a good many seemingly reputable neighbourhood watch organisations issue similar guidelines for their members, that is absolutely a salient fact that a court can take into account when determining whether or not an action committed by someone acting as a member of a neighbourhood watch was "reasonable", "usual", "normal", etc. And the court gets to decide what's relevant, BTW--not you.
Zimmerman is an adult who caused the death of a kid who'd committed no crime. His conduct may have been within the bounds of the law, but this is no way makes it any less irresponsible or any less reprehensible, and he should be shunned by society.
I should point out that, with the acquittal, he'll likely be turned into some kind of vigilante hero instead, which is why it is very difficult for me to feel any compassion for him, even though I know that I should.
Because RATIONAL people do not throw people to the ground and start beating them to death without ANY physical provocation.
Lots of people seem to forget that an adult shot and killed a child.
As the adult in this situation, Zimmerman should have been well aware that young perhaps-not-quite-adults are often known to be not completely rational. All the more so when they're frightened at being followed by a threatening-looking stranger.
Even "rational" adults are known sometimes to react to a threatening situation out of instinct or prior conditioning rather than logical contemplation.
As the supposedly mature adult in this situation who was so eager to play "cop", Zimmerman should have had sense enough to know that you don't provoke a suspect if you don't have backup on the scene: someone could get hurt, maybe even you.
This is one reason why real cops generally work in pairs.
Zimmerman's an idiot with a gun. A lucky one. Legally, he's probably in the clear. Nonetheless, there seems to be no disputing that, had he not (a) provoked this incident and (b) been carrying a firearm, there'd be a kid today who's not six feet under.
Zimmerman is an adult who caused the death of a kid who'd committed no crime. His conduct may have been within the bounds of the law, but this is no way makes it any less irresponsible or any less reprehensible, and he should be shunned by society.
You'll have to do better than that. Lots of things that aren't laws can have an impact on a court case.
"You have proven to be completely untrustworthy. Because of your deliberate, wilful and unscrupulous actions, you can never again be trusted..."
Already been done, it seems.
He is the holder of a very low UI.
Nah, not really.
Well, here in Sweden, my partner's emergency surgery a couple of years ago cost us a grand total of 4000 SEK (call it US$750). About a third of this was for cab fare to and from the hospital. Most of the rest was registration fees.
I heard this from some drunk Swede on the T-bana a while back, mixed in with some crap about nasty foreigners taking our women.
Me (nice and loud): Excuse me, sir, but I am a foreign worker in your country. My name is Zon. How do you do? Do you think that the 235,000 SEK I paid in income tax last year was enough? Should I ring up Skatteverket and volunteer to may some more? And--if you don't mind, I'm curious--was this more or less than you made from your job last year?
Him (mumbled): Um, not working lately.
Me: Didn't think so. Well, have a nice day, Sir, and keep enjoying (VERY loudly) that bottle that I paid for. Cheers.
Are you seriously trying to argue that calling a tail a leg is all it takes to turn it into one?
... both capitalists and socialists dislike labor unions...
Just. Stop. Right. There.
And as to the KKK, they'd still exist. After all, they hate anyone that's different. Skin, Religion, Accent, whatever, they hate them all, it's just that they hate some more than others. Take away the ones they hate most, they'll just target the next on the list.
Typical primate behaviour... Looking for other primates to label as "no-good shits" and then dumping on them.
The issue is not that Gladwell doesn't cite sources, the issue is that he cherry-picks from them, sometimes line by line.