That's funny, here I thought there were laws against that, if you're a public accommodation.
Or maybe I'm wrong, and the Civil Rights Movement never happened, and Blacks, Jews, or anyone else can be turned away in, say, a public restaurant, or a motel, or....
mark "if you don't like an open society, and want to be a bigot, you can leave and start your own country;
I recommend Iran for your tastes...."
Go look it up. I don't remember if that was the article that told you how to build one at home. The really hard part of that was the centrifuging, where you put the solvent and uranium in a bucket, and spun around as fast as you could in your living room for half an hour....
And for all the brainwashed suckers (aka libertarians), who say they're all the same, and nothing ever changes:
unemployment insurance
Medicare (or don't you have parents?)
Medicaid
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
NASA puts a man on the Moon, 1969
Oh, that's right, if it doesn't involve you getting rich, and screw everyone else, it's not changing, and they're all the same....
And we keep reading of countries where they finally get to vote, and stand in line for a day or more, and then there was the in-all-the-media disgrace in France 10 years or so ago, when they didn't even have 72% turnout.... and you little shits think that tweeting's all you need to do, and not put your body where it matters....
Why, yes, I *do* vote, so if you don't, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, and listen to me - if you don't vote, you ain't got no right to open your mouth. Voting is my license to bitch.
Vint Cerf, when he gave a presentation where I work, mentioned that the latest version of Google's self-driving car didn't even have a steering wheel.
Allow me to present my two arguments that they're complete idiots:
1) It's now a few years from now, and half the self-driving cars on the road are 5-10 years old. Many, if not most, were purchased used.
How do you feel knowing that many of those cars' owners have never seen a safety recall, much less had one done?
2) Pull 11705 Dewey Rd, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD up in google maps, go to street view, and rotate to the left, to look at the road. One two
parking lane, directions, no lane markings, and, oh, yes, the bus uses this road, and if I drive to work, I usually drive on this
road. Tell me a self driving car's going to handle it...
Oh, and argument 3: I can go most places without driving. I use this thing called "public transit". If I really, really need to get somewhere faster, there are these things called "taxis". Consider how much a self-driving car costs, and how long you'll own it, and how much maintenance will cost, and then how much you'd spend on public transit, with or without taxis, and tell me which is a *hell* of a lot more money.
I've been complaining for a few years now - the last five or so, google search returns a much worse signal-to-noise ratio. And they keep taking away search tools, *and* theyve begun ignoring search criteria. Just last year, I was looking for high leather men's boots, with criteria of -"ladies" -"womens"... and among other things, saw a sponsored ad (a *complete* waste of the advertiser's money) that had "womens/bold" in the text.
So much technical computer info is buried in rubble....
Mostly, our laptops are Dell Precisions or Lattitudes. NOTE:: DO NOT BUY A CONSUMER-GRADE LAPTOP.. Spend more, buy the "business grade". They'll last longer and have better support and warranties.
I'm not happy with HP warranties. Don't even *think* about Sun....
Does she want to work on computers, or physics? And how knowledgeable is she? A Windows box is a bad joke, spending most of it's CPU cycles on eye candy. Ditto with Macs. For real work, run Linux, which will use the system much more effectively. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but if she does go with it, she should *only* use the LTS (long-term support) stable releases. Here - and we're mostly on workstations and servers, we run CentOS (same as RHEL, but free). System software and libraries are "older"... but *VERY* stable. You don't have to debug the o/s....
mark
PS: Dell's OMSA, their maintenance disk, boots... CentOS, so if a saledroid says "huh?", ask for someone who knows something. I believe Dell also offers RHEL as an alternative o/s.
And one of these days, I'll take a picture of a road I use going to or from my home on the occasions when I drive: 3 lanes wide, parked cars in one lane, no center stripe, oh, and did I mention that buses use this street? No, a self-driving car will have smoke coming out of its ears....
On the other hand, self-driving. They're going to be *really* expensive. For less money than that, couldn't you use existing methods of getting somewhere without having to drive? There is this thing called "public transportation", as well as this business called "taxis", and all your fares, over the estimated lifetime of a self-driving car are probably a *lot* less than you'd spend on the car.
Oh, and how safe will you feel knowing there are 5 and 10 year old self-driving cars, some years from now, many bought used, whose owners may, or may not have had the recall upgrades applied?
No, you didn't read it correctly. Did you read the *article*?
Fine, I really do want NASA to look outwards... but I also want it to look down. Excerpt: Throughout the session, Cruz downplayed Earth science, claiming that NASA has lost focus on exploring space. It’s clear everything he was saying came from his stance of global warming denial.
And that is utter nonsense, to be incredibly polite. Pure and simple.
Bolden shot back, saying, “We can't go anywhere if the Kennedy Space Center goes underwater and we don't know it—and that's understanding our environment.” In other words, we must study the Earth and its changing climate. Studying our planet is at least as important as studying others. --- end excerpt ---
In other words, Cruz, who has openly denied global warming (or "climate change", if warming gets your knickers in a twist), doesn't want NASA to even try to look for data.
The real answer, as the article notes, is GIVE NASA MORE MONEY. They've been cut over and over again, just like everything except the vastly bloated US military.
As an American, let me say this about that: you got that right. Freakin' winner in the "Most Hypocritical Country In The History Of The World" contest, more Victorian than Queen Victoria (who was known to run around the Palace in the altogether).
Just from what's in the another post I read, I'd say that they were not "merely" racist, but threatening. I mean, that is the South, home to the KKK that murdered a hell of a lot for the "crime" of being black. That makes them dangerous.
And, of course, it's the kind of crap I'd expect from the majority of Greeks - classiism, racism, you-have-to-be-worth-money-to-get-in.... They've never had much of a rep beyond party, drinking, etc, and this goes back to my first time in college, long before most of you were born.
I see no reason to make Greeks part of the official college landscape. Most of 'em have nothing to do with actual learning... which is, allegedly, what you're paying that money for.
Letting Krebs know is a good idea... but email support at the bank, or even send the bank snail mail, with the info. Send it with delivery confirmation. And, at the bottom, add cc: SEC so they know you're serious. And really and truly, contact the SEC, which regulates banks, and esp. with all the bank problems lately, I'll wager they're really, really interested in this.
Oh, call them back, and ask for "their legal service address". That will get someone attention, for real.
Last option: get a lawyer to write a lawyer letter to the bank. This will also get their attention.
Congress cutting funding for non-military basic science.
ObDisclosure: I work for a federal contractor, civilian sector, doing that, and we keep seeing budget cuts. So do other folks I know who work in the civilian sector, so I have direct evidence of my suggestion. I can also email friends who have friends who work there.
mark "but the Free Market really, really wants F-35's, they're *so* much more important than space, or
biomedical research, or basic physics...."
Let's see, it *is* a crime to lie under oath, esp. to Congress.
Next, it's a "witch hunt" or McCarthyism, when it's discovered that someone testified under oath to Congress and didn't tell them that his "deliverables" were funded by the climate-change deniers whose wealth - oil, coal - needs it denied.
So the anti-global warming crowd here is defending biased results based on income... oh, that's right, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (tm) will show that global warming's not happening, and so it's hunky-dory to build new oil and coal-fired power plants, and prevent solar, wind etc technologies from helping change the field... and take money away from the companies. Presumably, they're investors in those companies, too.
Too bad the Real World doesn't see that Invisible Hand. And how many of them live right next to coal-fired power plants?
Here I was afraid they were analyzing the webserver logs. This makes it look like my habit of *NEVER* even temporarily allowing google analytics in noscript is a good one.
Let's start out by saying I have grown children. 15 or so years ago, you could meet people. Now.... not so much.
Half a dozen years or so ago, I went on several sites, including craiglist and match. I said that I was looking for someone *over* 40.
And I got... a bunch of responses, claiming to be from women who were allegedly between 21 and 26. And claiming they'd read my profile.
Right. I think I found *one* woman who actually existed, and went on a date or two. The rest... as I said, in annoyance, to several, "no, you're not; you're a fat 47 yr old guy claiming to be a hot woman, the kind you'd like to date, but who will never give you a first glance, and you're trying to make money out of this. Unfuck off.
First, the company that replaces you with automation pays your unemployment until you get another job, not just for 20 weeks. If that means you're still looking when you retire, that's how many years they pay. Certainly, unemployment is *vastly* cheaper than salaries (and all you asshole libertarians that wouldn't touch it, let me tell you that a dozen years ago, I was getting the max in IL... which was about $400/wk.; before getting laid off, I'd been making a *lot* more than that).
Second, how 'bout, since stocks and dividends are *so* great... how 'bout the company, along with their taxes, signs over to the government voting shares, and pays dividends; enough of that, and we can have a reverse income tax.
THAT would solve the problem in a real long-term manner.
Now, what you'd do with all that free time, other than play video games and couch potato, is another story.
Or, lack thereof. We only have three Suns left, and we do our best to convince people not to buy any more. Their default warranties are short, as opposed to Dell's and HP's; dealing with their tech support I refer to as self-abuse (I once spent a month to get a tech out to replace a motherboard, and that includes being assigned an engineer in Chile (I'm in the States), an engineer in the States... who was third shift *only*, and, oh, yes, three days in a row, three separate managers "taking ownership" when I escalated the issue.
As a comparison, Dell, after me running tests for them, had a tech out in 2 weeks, and the *one* manager who took ownership... about three or four months later, we had an issue on another system, and that *same* manager still felt ownership, and contacted *me* to see if I needed more help.
Overpriced, and not worth paying for Larry's fighter jet and Hawaiian island.
It's been about five years since I've noticed google going downhill - more and more, rather than signal, I get noise in the search results, and that is what it's all about.
1. The companies who pay for sponsored ads are clearly wasting money, when I search for one thing, and explicitly try to filter out
some of the alternatives that they put in... and get, both in search results and sponsored ads the thing I'm filtering. For example,
I look for, linux parted -windows, and the third or fourth hit, in the visible paragraph, is talking explicitly about windows. Or the
time, about a year and a half ago, I was looking for men's high leather boots -womens -ladies, and saw a sponsored ad where
the text read real leather women's boots....
2. They've taken away some of the search tools - I assume you have to be logged in just to use them? - and still ignore
things I say I don't want. Why, for example, if I want English results, do I see *anything* that is, presumably, either
Asian or Hindi?
3. Finally, when I add quotes - and they respect them (which is not always the case), I simply don't believe that I get no results
for some searches
mark, trying to find something as good as google was five years ago
I have a friend. Back when he was building a house, he was fighting the bank for the mortgage. His mom was co-signing... and some moron at the bank (can't remember if it was Wells Fargo or BoA) emailed ALL THEIR DEPOSIT records, with account info, to them in an email.
They got a lawyer. The bank paid 100% to a) change all of their accounts, b) all costs incurred by them to make changes elsewhere.
Call a lawyer. I mean, do you actually *trust* banks (look up "Great Recession", 2008, subpriime lending....)
Since the GOP wants to unbalance the budget anyway, to "shrink" government, and won't raise taxes for what the government is *supposed* to be doing, why not do it right, and make it a permanent tax. Certainly, we've needed massive infrastructure work since St. Ronnie - a report from engineers, back in the '80's, said half our bridges and dams needed work, and damn little's been done since - and this would help, as well as giving people steady, decent incomes (which helps both government revenue in taxes, and the rest of the economy).
But the unenlightened self-interested libertarians here will freak out....
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That's funny, here I thought there were laws against that, if you're a public accommodation.
Or maybe I'm wrong, and the Civil Rights Movement never happened, and Blacks, Jews, or anyone else can be turned away in, say, a public restaurant, or a motel, or....
mark "if you don't like an open society, and want to be a bigot, you can leave and start your own country;
I recommend Iran for your tastes...."
Sorry, not their job.
HOWEVER, there's this other three-letter organization whose job it *is*, and who are likely to be all over this one: the FBI.
mark "let them do what they're *supposed* to be doing"
Go look it up. I don't remember if that was the article that told you how to build one at home. The really hard part of that was the centrifuging, where you put the solvent and uranium in a bucket, and spun around as fast as you could in your living room for half an hour....
mark
And for all the brainwashed suckers (aka libertarians), who say they're all the same, and nothing ever changes:
unemployment insurance
Medicare (or don't you have parents?)
Medicaid
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
NASA puts a man on the Moon, 1969
Oh, that's right, if it doesn't involve you getting rich, and screw everyone else, it's not changing, and they're all the same....
And we keep reading of countries where they finally get to vote, and stand in line for a day or more, and then there was the in-all-the-media disgrace in France 10 years or so ago, when they didn't even have 72% turnout.... and you little shits think that tweeting's all you need to do, and not put your body where it matters....
Why, yes, I *do* vote, so if you don't, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, and listen to me - if you don't vote, you ain't got no right to open your mouth. Voting is my license to bitch.
mark
Vint Cerf, when he gave a presentation where I work, mentioned that the latest version of Google's self-driving car didn't even have a steering wheel.
Allow me to present my two arguments that they're complete idiots:
1) It's now a few years from now, and half the self-driving cars on the road are 5-10 years old. Many, if not most, were purchased used.
How do you feel knowing that many of those cars' owners have never seen a safety recall, much less had one done?
2) Pull 11705 Dewey Rd, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD up in google maps, go to street view, and rotate to the left, to look at the road. One two
parking lane, directions, no lane markings, and, oh, yes, the bus uses this road, and if I drive to work, I usually drive on this
road. Tell me a self driving car's going to handle it...
Oh, and argument 3: I can go most places without driving. I use this thing called "public transit". If I really, really need to get somewhere faster, there are these things called "taxis". Consider how much a self-driving car costs, and how long you'll own it, and how much maintenance will cost, and then how much you'd spend on public transit, with or without taxis, and tell me which is a *hell* of a lot more money.
mark
I've been complaining for a few years now - the last five or so, google search returns a much worse signal-to-noise ratio. And they keep taking away search tools, *and* theyve begun ignoring search criteria. Just last year, I was looking for high leather men's boots, with criteria of -"ladies" -"womens"... and among other things, saw a sponsored ad (a *complete* waste of the advertiser's money) that had "womens/bold" in the text.
So much technical computer info is buried in rubble....
mark
Mostly, our laptops are Dell Precisions or Lattitudes. NOTE:: DO NOT BUY A CONSUMER-GRADE LAPTOP.. Spend more, buy the "business grade". They'll last longer and have better support and warranties.
I'm not happy with HP warranties. Don't even *think* about Sun....
Does she want to work on computers, or physics? And how knowledgeable is she? A Windows box is a bad joke, spending most of it's CPU cycles on eye candy. Ditto with Macs. For real work, run Linux, which will use the system much more effectively. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but if she does go with it, she should *only* use the LTS (long-term support) stable releases. Here - and we're mostly on workstations and servers, we run CentOS (same as RHEL, but free). System software and libraries are "older"... but *VERY* stable. You don't have to debug the o/s....
mark
PS: Dell's OMSA, their maintenance disk, boots... CentOS, so if a saledroid says "huh?", ask for someone who knows something. I believe Dell also offers RHEL as an alternative o/s.
And one of these days, I'll take a picture of a road I use going to or from my home on the occasions when I drive: 3 lanes wide, parked cars in one lane, no center stripe, oh, and did I mention that buses use this street? No, a self-driving car will have smoke coming out of its ears....
On the other hand, self-driving. They're going to be *really* expensive. For less money than that, couldn't you use existing methods of getting somewhere without having to drive? There is this thing called "public transportation", as well as this business called "taxis", and all your fares, over the estimated lifetime of a self-driving car are probably a *lot* less than you'd spend on the car.
Oh, and how safe will you feel knowing there are 5 and 10 year old self-driving cars, some years from now, many bought used, whose owners may, or may not have had the recall upgrades applied?
mark
No, you didn't read it correctly. Did you read the *article*?
Fine, I really do want NASA to look outwards... but I also want it to look down.
Excerpt:
Throughout the session, Cruz downplayed Earth science, claiming that NASA has lost focus on exploring space. It’s clear everything he was saying came from his stance of global warming denial.
And that is utter nonsense, to be incredibly polite. Pure and simple.
Bolden shot back, saying, “We can't go anywhere if the Kennedy Space Center goes underwater and we don't know it—and that's understanding our environment.” In other words, we must study the Earth and its changing climate. Studying our planet is at least as important as studying others.
--- end excerpt ---
In other words, Cruz, who has openly denied global warming (or "climate change", if warming gets your knickers in a twist), doesn't want NASA to even try to look for data.
The real answer, as the article notes, is GIVE NASA MORE MONEY. They've been cut over and over again, just like everything except the vastly bloated US military.
mark
As an American, let me say this about that: you got that right. Freakin' winner in the "Most Hypocritical Country In The History Of The World" contest, more Victorian than Queen Victoria (who was known to run around the Palace in the altogether).
mark
I'll have a necromantic ritual, bring up the shade of my late ex, and let her go kill them messily wherever they're hiding.
And if you think that's extreme, go find a fire ant nest and investigate it, preferably with bare feet.
mark
Just from what's in the another post I read, I'd say that they were not "merely" racist, but threatening. I mean, that is the South, home to the KKK that murdered a hell of a lot for the "crime" of being black. That makes them dangerous.
And, of course, it's the kind of crap I'd expect from the majority of Greeks - classiism, racism, you-have-to-be-worth-money-to-get-in.... They've never had much of a rep beyond party, drinking, etc, and this goes back to my first time in college, long before most of you were born.
I see no reason to make Greeks part of the official college landscape. Most of 'em have nothing to do with actual learning... which is, allegedly, what you're paying that money for.
mark
For all of you 20-yr-olds...
Bush & co did it first.
mark
Letting Krebs know is a good idea... but email support at the bank, or even send the bank snail mail, with the info. Send it with delivery confirmation. And, at the bottom, add
cc: SEC
so they know you're serious. And really and truly, contact the SEC, which regulates banks, and esp. with all the bank problems lately, I'll wager they're really, really interested in this.
Oh, call them back, and ask for "their legal service address". That will get someone attention, for real.
Last option: get a lawyer to write a lawyer letter to the bank. This will also get their attention.
mark
Congress cutting funding for non-military basic science.
ObDisclosure: I work for a federal contractor, civilian sector, doing that, and we keep seeing budget cuts. So do other folks I know who work in the civilian sector, so I have direct evidence of my suggestion. I can also email friends who have friends who work there.
mark "but the Free Market really, really wants F-35's, they're *so* much more important than space, or
biomedical research, or basic physics...."
Let's see, it *is* a crime to lie under oath, esp. to Congress.
Next, it's a "witch hunt" or McCarthyism, when it's discovered that someone testified under oath to Congress and didn't tell them that his "deliverables" were funded by the climate-change deniers whose wealth - oil, coal - needs it denied.
So the anti-global warming crowd here is defending biased results based on income... oh, that's right, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (tm) will show that global warming's not happening, and so it's hunky-dory to build new oil and coal-fired power plants, and prevent solar, wind etc technologies from helping change the field... and take money away from the companies. Presumably, they're investors in those companies, too.
Too bad the Real World doesn't see that Invisible Hand. And how many of them live right next to coal-fired power plants?
mark
St. Vidicon of Cathode (go look it up, kiddies).
mark
Here I was afraid they were analyzing the webserver logs. This makes it look like my habit of *NEVER* even temporarily allowing google analytics in noscript is a good one.
mark
Let's start out by saying I have grown children. 15 or so years ago, you could meet people. Now.... not so much.
Half a dozen years or so ago, I went on several sites, including craiglist and match. I said that I was looking for someone *over* 40.
And I got... a bunch of responses, claiming to be from women who were allegedly between 21 and 26. And claiming they'd read my profile.
Right. I think I found *one* woman who actually existed, and went on a date or two. The rest... as I said, in annoyance, to several, "no, you're not; you're a fat 47 yr old guy claiming to be a hot woman, the kind you'd like to date, but who will never give you a first glance, and you're trying to make money out of this. Unfuck off.
mark "and added them to my killfile"
The Castle that's in the logo of every Disney picture. And then the Fortress of Solitude, and....
mark
First, the company that replaces you with automation pays your unemployment until you get another job, not just for 20 weeks. If that means you're still looking when you retire, that's how many years they pay. Certainly, unemployment is *vastly* cheaper than salaries (and all you asshole libertarians that wouldn't touch it, let me tell you that a dozen years ago, I was getting the max in IL... which was about $400/wk.; before getting laid off, I'd been making a *lot* more than that).
Second, how 'bout, since stocks and dividends are *so* great... how 'bout the company, along with their taxes, signs over to the government voting shares, and pays dividends; enough of that, and we can have a reverse income tax.
THAT would solve the problem in a real long-term manner.
Now, what you'd do with all that free time, other than play video games and couch potato, is another story.
mark
Or, lack thereof. We only have three Suns left, and we do our best to convince people not to buy any more. Their default warranties are short, as opposed to Dell's and HP's; dealing with their tech support I refer to as self-abuse (I once spent a month to get a tech out to replace a motherboard, and that includes being assigned an engineer in Chile (I'm in the States), an engineer in the States... who was third shift *only*, and, oh, yes, three days in a row, three separate managers "taking ownership" when I escalated the issue.
As a comparison, Dell, after me running tests for them, had a tech out in 2 weeks, and the *one* manager who took ownership... about three or four months later, we had an issue on another system, and that *same* manager still felt ownership, and contacted *me* to see if I needed more help.
Overpriced, and not worth paying for Larry's fighter jet and Hawaiian island.
mark
It's been about five years since I've noticed google going downhill - more and more, rather than signal, I get noise in the search results, and that is what it's all about.
1. The companies who pay for sponsored ads are clearly wasting money, when I search for one thing, and explicitly try to filter out
some of the alternatives that they put in... and get, both in search results and sponsored ads the thing I'm filtering. For example,
I look for, linux parted -windows, and the third or fourth hit, in the visible paragraph, is talking explicitly about windows. Or the
time, about a year and a half ago, I was looking for men's high leather boots -womens -ladies, and saw a sponsored ad where
the text read real leather women's boots....
2. They've taken away some of the search tools - I assume you have to be logged in just to use them? - and still ignore
things I say I don't want. Why, for example, if I want English results, do I see *anything* that is, presumably, either
Asian or Hindi?
3. Finally, when I add quotes - and they respect them (which is not always the case), I simply don't believe that I get no results
for some searches
mark, trying to find something as good as google was five years ago
I have a friend. Back when he was building a house, he was fighting the bank for the mortgage. His mom was co-signing... and some moron at the bank (can't remember if it was Wells Fargo or BoA) emailed ALL THEIR DEPOSIT records, with account info, to them in an email.
They got a lawyer. The bank paid 100% to a) change all of their accounts, b) all costs incurred by them to make changes elsewhere.
Call a lawyer. I mean, do you actually *trust* banks (look up "Great Recession", 2008, subpriime lending....)
mark
Since the GOP wants to unbalance the budget anyway, to "shrink" government, and won't raise taxes for what the government is *supposed* to be doing, why not do it right, and make it a permanent tax. Certainly, we've needed massive infrastructure work since St. Ronnie - a report from engineers, back in the '80's, said half our bridges and dams needed work, and damn little's been done since - and this would help, as well as giving people steady, decent incomes (which helps both government revenue in taxes, and the rest of the economy).
But the unenlightened self-interested libertarians here will freak out....
mark