I hadn't even thought of *that*. Let's ignore the blue screen of house death in the middle of winter, let's consider that your wifi and tv all have static, because those idiot things that were supposed to clean your ducts broke down in there, with so much dust, and two years later, they're still online complaining. And they've been hacked by the 16 on the other side of the block....
When I drive, I frequently take one street home. It's hilly. On it, for maybe half a mile, there's no center line. It is two way, and there are cars parked on one side; the other side has a barrier, with park beyond it.
Oh, and did I mention that a city bus line runs on it, and the space for two vehicles is somewhat narrow?
mark
PS: I challenge Google's self-driving car to master *that*. They can contact me, if they wish, and I'll show them the street on google maps.
Another demonstration that, at least until the last year, overwhelmingly, what Americans know about socialism is identical to what Good Germans knew about Jews in 1938.
I knew someone down on Merrit Island a few years ago. He had *worked* as a tech on the Cape during the Moon Race. Or, well, he did, until Apollo 1. The astronauts were coming for the tests, and he argued with... I think it was Grissom, he told me, and that he told them it wasn't safe, and they wanted to do some more work on the capsule, and Grissom went all macho on him... and he punched Grissom.
My acquaintance was asked to resign.... Now, if they'd listened to the freakin' techs....
I am *sick* and tired of these self-proclaimed patriots... who want to take down the federal government, In the real world, as opposed to the la-la land they live in, that's called ->TREASON-.
Or, for a funny commentary, the last few days of the comic strip Non Sequitur.
mark
PS: the gov't can't own land? So, we don't own the Louisiana Purchase, or Seward's Folly (aka Alaska) (I doubt Putin would take back Palin's home porch....)?
Programming, when my manager and another programmer walked by my cube, and told me they were going to what I jokingly referred to as the "accessory meeting room" (the bar next door). They told me Challenger had exploded, I joined them, and we all had drinks as we watched the reruns on the tv over the bar.
*shit*
Fucking "launch it anyway, the President wants to mention it in his State of the Union speech tonight".
One, as it notes in the article, it's also the logo of SPECTRE.
The other... there's an attitude among folks of a certain, ahh, bent. They want to be the BADDEST DUDES.
The earliest example that I read about was during 'Nam. Lord of the Rings had, by the late sixties, been translated into 27? 57? languages... including Vietnamese. So, one division, I think it was, of the "South Vietnamese" army took as its logo... the Lidless Eye of Sauron.
Right, and against them, little guys in black pj's, with furry feet, no doubt....
Let's see, in the eighties, Prodigy (which I was never on) decided to Stop Rude Talk, so they blocked a number of words... one of them was "breast", and variants. Which, of course, knocked offline breast cancer survivors, and the European port of Brest, and....
And then... so, is this idiot willing to be personally liable as an accessory to murder when, say, a child abuse survivor posts to a list on that subject, or a battered woman posts to a support group, and her scumbag abuser finds her and kills her?
The EU birthrate has been below replacement rate for at least 10 years, if not twice that.
The usual suspects:
1. Birth control
2. The cost of raising children.
The unmentioned one: overpopulation. (I mean, you want to raise too many kids, like those sickos the Duggars? Fine... then don't come crying to me about the cost of housing, the cost of food (all the local farms forced out by developers building overpriced crap), and that you can't find a parking space.
Dump the $4G into public transit, starting in the Washington, DC metro area, where the Metro, decades newer than Philly, NYC, and Chicago's subway/el systems, is so vastly worse than any of them. Cheap crap, and bad management, too.
Having started programming before a lot of you were born, I'd say that's called management too cheap to hire a testing group, and the programmers are trying something out, see if it works for them, and pushing it out.
In other words, sounds like M$ std. development system....
is obvious. Lessee, cut the top income tax rate, to help "Job Creators", who then ship jobs offshore. Then undersize, er, "downsize", and have two people do the job of one.
Meanwhile, starting with Raygun's attack on the Air Traffic Controllers' Union (who was dead right about needing more computerization to deal with the massive increase in air travel), the attack by corporations and the wealthy on unions... and then making us part of management (so we couldn't unionize)[1], and *then* designating us "independent contractors", and so offloading all benefit costs to us, who, of course, can't get anywhere near as good a deal as a large company can.
And too many people here hear the phrase "whatever it takes", and think that means they're Important, rather than what their grandparents would have called it, overworked... and who had unions to fight it.[2]
1. Tell me the difference between an "administrative assistant" and a secretary... other than the former
is "salaried", and can be told to work till it's done, where the secretary got paid overtime. 2. How many here haven't used up their paid time off, because work's been so busy?
Too many folks in the US are suckers. The great Green Card scam of Canter and Siegel, in '94, was when they spammed every single one of the nearly 1000 usenet newsgroups (yes, the 'Net existed before the Web). Many of us in those newsgroups were part of a community. The spammers "defense" was that there were no such communities, it was just a marketing opportunity.
And too many of you believe it now. Do you *have* a community, or family, a place you call home? Are you ready to pick up and relocate to somewhere else, that you don't know, because jobs got moved and are thin at the place you call home? (Five times here).
No, you don't have "leverage". If you're posting here, you're not a millionaire, just a pee-on.
It's *full* of moronic CEOs who want Everything Internet Enabled!!!.. and some not only do not have air gaps between the grid controls and the 'Net, but don't even know what the words "air gap" means.
There's far fewer problems if:
a) management requires buy-in from the programmers
b) management requires new scheduling and budget for enhancements and changes (other than
show stoppers)
c) management puts all enhancement requests in a "next release", not "put it in, whatever it takes".
d) management puts its money where it's mouth is, and hires a good percentage (>> 1 person) of
programmers with experience, and not just out of school in the last year.
e) management is willing to say "I'm sorry, we can't, or won't do that enhancement".
Who's ever heard of such a condition...oh, other than all the boomers who saw the sixties tv show about father and son lawyers in practice together, and the father defended a guy who had it. He got the judge's ok, and had him eating crackers in the courtroom, and proved, by the time he called him up, that he was drunk.
BS. All the studies that I've read say that when the private/charter schools are required to take *anyone*, not cherry-pick, they do NO BETTER, and frequently worse, than the public schools.
And it's this kind of send 'em to private school crap that's helping destabilize the US. Without most kids going to public schools, they never meet kids from other backgrounds, other ethnicities, and so they're all "them", soon to be trashed by Faux "News" and Donald Trump.
When I was growing up, we were *proud* to be "the melting pot". Norman Corwin, in "On a Note of Triumph", written for the end of WWII in Europe, couldn't have put it better when he said, "His Aryan supermen beaten by a mongrel race".
But you think you're going to be a billionaire any day now.... sucker.
Come on, why haven't we seen one diesel hybrid car? Then there's zero issues about start, stop, and low-speed. Even with the price-gouging of the gas companies, that would really give you a high milage/gallon.
And don't tell me that would be "new" technology. Go down to the railroad tracks, and watch all the ->diesel-electric- locomotives, which have worked this way since the thirties....
So, how many of you making the jokes about the walking skyrocket, who didn't understand it immediately, are reading this on your mobile device? Wonder if I can annoy you enough so that you walk into a wall while reading my post on a mobile....
You're idiots. And I'm just waiting for the studies any time now showing an epidemic of carpal tunnel from thumb-typing on virtual keyboards.
My old friend Bro. Guy Consolmagno (now Director of the Vatican Observatories) used to teach at different Catholic colleges around the US. One of the courses he taught was "Science for Non-Science Majors", and years ago, he gave us the rundown on the majors who used to take that course: next to the bottom were the business majors, who didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them. The very bottom of the food chain, the worst of all, were the communications majors, who didn't get it, and didn't *know* that they didn't get it.
Those are the folks who go into journalism, and PR, and HR... and you wonder why they're all so bad?
As I said when the first story was posted... go look at the Senate of the Old Republic. Even assuming two Senators, instead of just one... how many *thousands* of boxes, one for each planet, in the OR did you count?
So, this estimate's wrong, also, because they scale is off of the *sources* of the Empire's revenue. I'd guess their revenue is orders of magnitude larger than either economist is estimating. I'd put the cost of a Death Star at about the cost of maybe two of the next generation of nuclear aircraft carriers. *Maybe* even a battle groups (that's a carrier, and its supply and defence ships).
Economic collapse... hell, maybe the planets Wall St. I, II, and IV, as well as Planet Bank America, but in the economy of the entire Empire, none of them are "too big to fail".
Well, no, I think you don't. Did you understand that it was intended, explicitly, as a Greek tragedy, complete with chorus, and as stylized as one, or like a Noh play?
Most folks these days aren't happy with tragedies.
mark "and the US can't even get *anyone* to orbit"
I think it plays well.. but I saw it when it *first* opened in Philly, as an adult, who'd read tons of sf & fantasy. And had seen the old serials. This writer's still missing a lot of the movie.
But then, I really liked Episode 3, which was the episode 3 I'd been waiting for, and apparently 90% of you, at least, still don't understand.
Nor did the utter and complete MORONS who brought their 9 yr olds to see it; that clearly did not understand PC-13, nor much of anything else....
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I hadn't even thought of *that*. Let's ignore the blue screen of house death in the middle of winter, let's consider that your wifi and tv all have static, because those idiot things that were supposed to clean your ducts broke down in there, with so much dust, and two years later, they're still online complaining. And they've been hacked by the 16 on the other side of the block....
mark
When I drive, I frequently take one street home. It's hilly. On it, for maybe half a mile, there's no center line. It is two way, and there are cars parked on one side; the other side has a barrier, with park beyond it.
Oh, and did I mention that a city bus line runs on it, and the space for two vehicles is somewhat narrow?
mark
PS: I challenge Google's self-driving car to master *that*. They can contact me, if they wish, and I'll show them the street on google maps.
Another demonstration that, at least until the last year, overwhelmingly, what Americans know about socialism is identical to what Good Germans knew about Jews in 1938.
mark
...live with my wife when she wakes up PERKY and CONVERSATIONAL at 06:00....
mark
I knew someone down on Merrit Island a few years ago. He had *worked* as a tech on the Cape during the Moon Race. Or, well, he did, until Apollo 1. The astronauts were coming for the tests, and he argued with... I think it was Grissom, he told me, and that he told them it wasn't safe, and they wanted to do some more work on the capsule, and Grissom went all macho on him... and he punched Grissom.
My acquaintance was asked to resign.... Now, if they'd listened to the freakin' techs....
mark
I am *sick* and tired of these self-proclaimed patriots... who want to take down the federal government, In the real world, as opposed to the la-la land they live in, that's called ->TREASON-.
Or, for a funny commentary, the last few days of the comic strip Non Sequitur.
mark
PS: the gov't can't own land? So, we don't own the Louisiana Purchase, or Seward's Folly (aka Alaska) (I doubt Putin would take back Palin's home porch....)?
Programming, when my manager and another programmer walked by my cube, and told me they were going to what I jokingly referred to as the "accessory meeting room" (the bar next door). They told me Challenger had exploded, I joined them, and we all had drinks as we watched the reruns on the tv over the bar.
*shit*
Fucking "launch it anyway, the President wants to mention it in his State of the Union speech tonight".
mark
One, as it notes in the article, it's also the logo of SPECTRE.
The other... there's an attitude among folks of a certain, ahh, bent. They want to be the BADDEST DUDES.
The earliest example that I read about was during 'Nam. Lord of the Rings had, by the late sixties, been translated into 27? 57? languages... including Vietnamese. So, one division, I think it was, of the "South Vietnamese" army took as its logo... the Lidless Eye of Sauron.
Right, and against them, little guys in black pj's, with furry feet, no doubt....
mark
Let's see, in the eighties, Prodigy (which I was never on) decided to Stop Rude Talk, so they blocked a number of words... one of them was "breast", and variants. Which, of course, knocked offline breast cancer survivors, and the European port of Brest, and....
And then... so, is this idiot willing to be personally liable as an accessory to murder when, say, a child abuse survivor posts to a list on that subject, or a battered woman posts to a support group, and her scumbag abuser finds her and kills her?
mark
The EU birthrate has been below replacement rate for at least 10 years, if not twice that.
The usual suspects:
1. Birth control
2. The cost of raising children.
The unmentioned one: overpopulation. (I mean, you want to raise too many kids, like those sickos the Duggars? Fine... then don't come crying to me about the cost of housing, the cost of food (all the local farms forced out by developers building overpriced crap), and that you can't find a parking space.
mark
Dump the $4G into public transit, starting in the Washington, DC metro area, where the Metro, decades newer than Philly, NYC, and Chicago's subway/el systems, is so vastly worse than any of them. Cheap crap, and bad management, too.
mark
How about, "not imprisoned", or maybe "not under parental police state control"?
mark, who a few times walked home from school, uphill, both ways, in the snow, by himself
Having started programming before a lot of you were born, I'd say that's called management too cheap to hire a testing group, and the programmers are trying something out, see if it works for them, and pushing it out.
In other words, sounds like M$ std. development system....
mark
is obvious. Lessee, cut the top income tax rate, to help "Job Creators", who then ship jobs offshore. Then undersize, er, "downsize", and have two people do the job of one.
Meanwhile, starting with Raygun's attack on the Air Traffic Controllers' Union (who was dead right about needing more computerization to deal with the massive increase in air travel), the attack by corporations and the wealthy on unions... and then making us part of management (so we couldn't unionize)[1], and *then* designating us "independent contractors", and so offloading all benefit costs to us, who, of course, can't get anywhere near as good a deal as a large company can.
And too many people here hear the phrase "whatever it takes", and think that means they're Important, rather than what their grandparents would have called it, overworked... and who had unions to fight it.[2]
1. Tell me the difference between an "administrative assistant" and a secretary... other than the former
is "salaried", and can be told to work till it's done, where the secretary got paid overtime.
2. How many here haven't used up their paid time off, because work's been so busy?
Too many folks in the US are suckers. The great Green Card scam of Canter and Siegel, in '94, was when they spammed every single one of the nearly 1000 usenet newsgroups (yes, the 'Net existed before the Web). Many of us in those newsgroups were part of a community. The spammers "defense" was that there were no such communities, it was just a marketing opportunity.
And too many of you believe it now. Do you *have* a community, or family, a place you call home? Are you ready to pick up and relocate to somewhere else, that you don't know, because jobs got moved and are thin at the place you call home? (Five times here).
No, you don't have "leverage". If you're posting here, you're not a millionaire, just a pee-on.
mark
It's *full* of moronic CEOs who want Everything Internet Enabled!!!.. and some not only do not have air gaps between the grid controls and the 'Net, but don't even know what the words "air gap" means.
mark
Like the old line, it's hard to have a war of wits with an unarmed man. What will we do when the guns are smarter than the gun-crazy idiots?
Guess the idiots will mod them to make them stupider (which may be illegal soon, one hopes).
mark "and you need HUUUUGE magazines for what reason?"
There's far fewer problems if:
a) management requires buy-in from the programmers
b) management requires new scheduling and budget for enhancements and changes (other than
show stoppers)
c) management puts all enhancement requests in a "next release", not "put it in, whatever it takes".
d) management puts its money where it's mouth is, and hires a good percentage (>> 1 person) of
programmers with experience, and not just out of school in the last year.
e) management is willing to say "I'm sorry, we can't, or won't do that enhancement".
mark
Who's ever heard of such a condition...oh, other than all the boomers who saw the sixties tv show about father and son lawyers in practice together, and the father defended a guy who had it. He got the judge's ok, and had him eating crackers in the courtroom, and proved, by the time he called him up, that he was drunk.
mark
BS. All the studies that I've read say that when the private/charter schools are required to take *anyone*, not cherry-pick, they do NO BETTER, and frequently worse, than the public schools.
And it's this kind of send 'em to private school crap that's helping destabilize the US. Without most kids going to public schools, they never meet kids from other backgrounds, other ethnicities, and so they're all "them", soon to be trashed by Faux "News" and Donald Trump.
When I was growing up, we were *proud* to be "the melting pot". Norman Corwin, in "On a Note of Triumph", written for the end of WWII in Europe, couldn't have put it better when he said, "His Aryan supermen beaten by a mongrel race".
But you think you're going to be a billionaire any day now.... sucker.
mark
Come on, why haven't we seen one diesel hybrid car? Then there's zero issues about start, stop, and low-speed. Even with the price-gouging of the gas companies, that would really give you a high milage/gallon.
And don't tell me that would be "new" technology. Go down to the railroad tracks, and watch all the ->diesel-electric- locomotives, which have worked this way since the thirties....
mark
So, how many of you making the jokes about the walking skyrocket, who didn't understand it immediately, are reading this on your mobile device? Wonder if I can annoy you enough so that you walk into a wall while reading my post on a mobile....
You're idiots. And I'm just waiting for the studies any time now showing an epidemic of carpal tunnel from thumb-typing on virtual keyboards.
mark "no idiot annoyaphone here"
My old friend Bro. Guy Consolmagno (now Director of the Vatican Observatories) used to teach at different Catholic colleges around the US. One of the courses he taught was "Science for Non-Science Majors", and years ago, he gave us the rundown on the majors who used to take that course: next to the bottom were the business majors, who didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them. The very bottom of the food chain, the worst of all, were the communications majors, who didn't get it, and didn't *know* that they didn't get it.
Those are the folks who go into journalism, and PR, and HR... and you wonder why they're all so bad?
mark
As I said when the first story was posted... go look at the Senate of the Old Republic. Even assuming two Senators, instead of just one... how many *thousands* of boxes, one for each planet, in the OR did you count?
So, this estimate's wrong, also, because they scale is off of the *sources* of the Empire's revenue. I'd guess their revenue is orders of magnitude larger than either economist is estimating. I'd put the cost of a Death Star at about the cost of maybe two of the next generation of nuclear aircraft carriers. *Maybe* even a battle groups (that's a carrier, and its supply and defence ships).
Economic collapse... hell, maybe the planets Wall St. I, II, and IV, as well as Planet Bank America, but in the economy of the entire Empire, none of them are "too big to fail".
mark
Well, no, I think you don't. Did you understand that it was intended, explicitly, as a Greek tragedy, complete with chorus, and as stylized as one, or like a Noh play?
Most folks these days aren't happy with tragedies.
mark "and the US can't even get *anyone* to orbit"
I think it plays well.. but I saw it when it *first* opened in Philly, as an adult, who'd read tons of sf & fantasy. And had seen the old serials. This writer's still missing a lot of the movie.
But then, I really liked Episode 3, which was the episode 3 I'd been waiting for, and apparently 90% of you, at least, still don't understand.
Nor did the utter and complete MORONS who brought their 9 yr olds to see it; that clearly did not understand PC-13, nor much of anything else....
mark "clue: Oedipus Rex"