The same can be said about the leaders of most terrorist groups though. When you get down to it, when something goes that far off course from the established norms for a religion, it is about someone wanting power and willing to use whatever means necessary to get that power. That makes the connection to Mao and Stalin perfectly credible as they used an absence of god just as others use a god for controlling people. You can use just about any differentiators for this, though some do lend themselves to it more readily than others.
Whales do in fact go from the Arctic to Hawaii and the peak season is around now. I'm sure they also go down the coast, but I would have expected them to have made it past San Francisco by now. I admittedly only know about what the peak season is in Hawaii though (since I was there a few weeks ago) and don't know when they peak for central California. I just figured it would be before the peak in Hawaii since Hawaii is further to go.
Agreed, I will certainly buy one if the price is at all affordable. I've been waiting for a good, motion tracking headset since the old iGlasses display that came out and worked with MechWarrior 2 in DOS. Resolution has been my main stopper since then, but this has not only the resolution, but a giant leap forward in tracking.
Hmm, good point. There might be a way to get around it with duress codes, though that then makes the counting an issue again. I guess it depends on if you expect duress by the politician himself or by people who want the politician elected. If the politicians themselves can be trusted, simply putting in a mechanism for making it say a candidate rather than the real vote would be sufficient. If we are worried about the candidates themselves being in on it and sharing the actual lists with those doing the intimidation, then we have bigger problems, however, it would also deal with the accountability issue.
The main reason that it was hard to make allegations of fraud stick is because there was no way to prove that the politician was involved. If only their office can tell if the vote wasn't for him though, then if the fraudsters know the actual vote, then they must have gotten the information from the politician himself.
A far simpler solution is to have a one to one accounting of voter GUIDs to voters. Store the vote tied to each GUID and store a list of people who went to each location. Each voter gets their token and can check that their vote was properly counted after the fact. This prevents vote tampering since the full set of votes would be disclosed to each candidate for verification of the counts and you could verify your vote was properly recorded with your candidate by giving them your token. It maintains anonymity since you can choose who knows about your vote, but also ensures accurate accounting.
That is also to say that my ideal would be far more than two parties. I'd like to see parties where anyone could find someone that agrees closely with them and get a voice proportionate to the number of people who share that view. As it is now, I basically always vote third party simply because I have irreconcilable issues with the right and the left's inability to be moderate and responsible.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting a two party system, but there is a difference between intentionally trying to create extremists and to inflame people towards extremes vs having two sides with different values that try to work together to find a middle ground. Until relatively recently the system worked great because we had the us vs them in the US vs Russia, but since that fell apart, they've made it a cold war between the parties instead and it will eventually destroy our ability to function (as it is already doing).
In fairness, the Bible, even almost completely literally interpreted (except for days of creation being actual days) matches up with evolution quite well. There is even Biblical evidence that suggests that Adam and Eve were not the first homo-sapiens or at least the first humanoids. Also in fairness, Rome was the largest civilization at the time and it makes sense that if God was going to take on a human form, his ministry would take place there. Also, it isn't spoken or written like the words of a bunch of like minded crazies. They were either power hungry, manipulative bastards, were telling the truth or were extremely consistent and well reasoned in their delusion. I'd posit that the first and third are the only realistic options since current conditions would also seem to support that and people don't really change much over time.
I share your frustration that people are so unwilling to consider that their particular views and interpretations may be incorrect and to look at how to resolve differences where differences may not actually need to exist. I also agree that some people will use anything, true or false to try to accumulate power. Sadly, even in a religion such as Christianity that warned against this, many people don't see how it's been twisted in to a means of accumulating power in many situations.
So I may disagree about the truthfulness of the Bible, but I agree with you on many of your concerns and frustrations with the state of the world.
It's a little more insidious when you realize that is intentional and that both media and politicians fight to keep it that way. They intentionally use the most divisive issues possible and make their careers by making people as extreme as possible. It's horrible for the country, but great for accumulating power and wealth.
While the suspension really does seem unnecessary, my guess is that it came because it appears he was doing it on company time from some of the shots used. Technically it's a misappropriation of the companies resources. It's a bit of a bone headed thing to do since they were closing the shop anyway, but they were probably just following a standard procedure and could have gotten in to more trouble with previous people they had suspended if they didn't bother to do it, since people could claim that he was treated preferentially.
The entire situation is stupid, but that's unfortunately where getting employers forced in to mindlessly following written policy for fear of being sued for unequal treatment has gotten us. You have to document the penalty for everything and follow it to the letter no matter how stupidly it doesn't fit the situation or someone will sue.
That's a nice theory but the expertise doesn't exist outside it. A good leadership house cleaning would send a clear message though. The vast majority of people don't want to violate anyone's rights, but culture needs to prioritize protecting our values over our safety. Unfortunately that isn't just a government problem, it's a US citizen problem. If politicians weren't scared of a terrorist attack on their watch then they wouldn't make management nervous about being the scape goat if something is missed and that wouldn't be pushed down to too much pressure on the grunts to get answers NOW! We've gotten what we asked for as a people.
Unfortunately, the NSA is kind of an important organization. Sure people are upset with them over the phone meta-data thing, but they are also the ones responsible for defending the country against electronic threats and the ones responsible for signals and systems intelligence gathering on the rest of the world.
I'm sure some people don't think we should be spying on our enemies, let alone our allies, but the fact is that that is how the game has been played for all time. Nation states play by weird rules and spying is a part of the way the game is played. You have the ways that each country publicly postures, the things they actually say to each other behind closed doors and then the spies that get the details on what actually matters but they don't want to admit to each other. Sometimes it gives one nation an advantage over the other, sometimes it just allows for nations to co-exist peacefully. There is always a display of anger when the hidden becomes public, because it is supposed to be done discreetly to avoid embarrassing each other, but this is how it has been forever.
I would personally agree that we need more oversight on what is going on and need to right the ship in terms of protecting not only the physical nation, but also the ideals, but it isn't as simple as just shutting down any organization that has ever made a misstep. Otherwise there would be no government because every person currently alive has made a misstep at some point in their life. It's easy to get caught up in what you wish you had (even for good purposes) and be blinded to the potential harm it could do down the road.
There is an SSH server for Windows, though it is pretty limited. Do note that I'm not saying a CLI doesn't have any use either. For some things they are still the best way to do things, but the importance of knowing them very strongly is not nearly the same as it was before the advent of modern, powerful, well designed GUI controls.
This I absolutely agree with. It is critical to understand how we got to where we are. I also am not saying there aren't times a command line is better. My point is much the same as yours. Technology evolves and improves. Early versions of things are much more limited than later versions. CLI predates the GUI and so it was much, much better than early GUIs (and a well designed CLI is still better than a poorly designed GUI), however there are many, many cases where a well developed GUI can exceed the usefulness of a CLI, yet many UNIX aficionados are stuck in their CLI ways and don't bother to find the good GUI tools or learn to use them.
Maybe this is because developers in Linux assume that low level stuff will be done with a CLI, so they don't write GUI functionality that can handle it, and thus it becomes self fulfilling in the realm that most CLI fans spend there time. There are also certain situations like repeatable installations where scriptable systems are ideal, though in some cases, GUIs even exist to do some of that stuff. You still have to understand how the GUI accomplishes what it is doing though if you want to understand why it works the way it does and want to be able to use it properly.
Ease of technology is not an excuse to not understand how and why it works, at least for those who want to actually build it. The same also goes for any other field.
If they did that, how would they harvest people's personal information by making them associate their Facebook or Google account with their application? Why have a cost center (paying someone to moderate) when you could have a profit center (farming people's info). It's also worth noting that in the vast majority of cases, all this does is make it so that I don't participate in their comments and the comments sections on most sites that do this seem to be much more dead than the sites that do not.
This is bad GUI design. A good GUI should allow you to hit one button to export those settings and another one button to import them. It should also save out to almost an identical file to what the Command Line tool did.
Did you ever learn a good GUI interface? It supports stringing together the same kinds of general purpose tools as the command line. I'm not questioning the power of the command line, I'm saying that a good GUI can do the vast majority, if not all, the stuff that can be done with a command line if you know all the tricks of how to best use it. There are a few things command lines do better and there are a few things GUIs do better, but one isn't inherently better than the other. They are both tool sets.
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The same can be said about the leaders of most terrorist groups though. When you get down to it, when something goes that far off course from the established norms for a religion, it is about someone wanting power and willing to use whatever means necessary to get that power. That makes the connection to Mao and Stalin perfectly credible as they used an absence of god just as others use a god for controlling people. You can use just about any differentiators for this, though some do lend themselves to it more readily than others.
Whales do in fact go from the Arctic to Hawaii and the peak season is around now. I'm sure they also go down the coast, but I would have expected them to have made it past San Francisco by now. I admittedly only know about what the peak season is in Hawaii though (since I was there a few weeks ago) and don't know when they peak for central California. I just figured it would be before the peak in Hawaii since Hawaii is further to go.
Wait, if the whales got to move to Hawaii by getting unemployed and poor, then I've been doing it wrong this whole time...
Though, seeing as it was an African swallow, wouldn't a Monty Python reference be more fitting?
Particularly since they are using it in the off-season to keep the boat in use year round. Whales are in Hawaii now.
When he's ready, he won't have to.
And they are also the ones more likely to be willing to admit it without fear of reprisal.
Not that hard, simply sue (or more directly, convict) the guys that run the server until they are compliant or out of business.
Getting unlimited moneys is easy, just make a big enough bank, take all the money and then tell the government you need more.
Agreed, I will certainly buy one if the price is at all affordable. I've been waiting for a good, motion tracking headset since the old iGlasses display that came out and worked with MechWarrior 2 in DOS. Resolution has been my main stopper since then, but this has not only the resolution, but a giant leap forward in tracking.
Hmm, good point. There might be a way to get around it with duress codes, though that then makes the counting an issue again. I guess it depends on if you expect duress by the politician himself or by people who want the politician elected. If the politicians themselves can be trusted, simply putting in a mechanism for making it say a candidate rather than the real vote would be sufficient. If we are worried about the candidates themselves being in on it and sharing the actual lists with those doing the intimidation, then we have bigger problems, however, it would also deal with the accountability issue.
The main reason that it was hard to make allegations of fraud stick is because there was no way to prove that the politician was involved. If only their office can tell if the vote wasn't for him though, then if the fraudsters know the actual vote, then they must have gotten the information from the politician himself.
A far simpler solution is to have a one to one accounting of voter GUIDs to voters. Store the vote tied to each GUID and store a list of people who went to each location. Each voter gets their token and can check that their vote was properly counted after the fact. This prevents vote tampering since the full set of votes would be disclosed to each candidate for verification of the counts and you could verify your vote was properly recorded with your candidate by giving them your token. It maintains anonymity since you can choose who knows about your vote, but also ensures accurate accounting.
That is also to say that my ideal would be far more than two parties. I'd like to see parties where anyone could find someone that agrees closely with them and get a voice proportionate to the number of people who share that view. As it is now, I basically always vote third party simply because I have irreconcilable issues with the right and the left's inability to be moderate and responsible.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting a two party system, but there is a difference between intentionally trying to create extremists and to inflame people towards extremes vs having two sides with different values that try to work together to find a middle ground. Until relatively recently the system worked great because we had the us vs them in the US vs Russia, but since that fell apart, they've made it a cold war between the parties instead and it will eventually destroy our ability to function (as it is already doing).
I'm glad you spelled that one out for me. I'm not sure if I could have figured out what the T meant otherwise.
In fairness, the Bible, even almost completely literally interpreted (except for days of creation being actual days) matches up with evolution quite well. There is even Biblical evidence that suggests that Adam and Eve were not the first homo-sapiens or at least the first humanoids. Also in fairness, Rome was the largest civilization at the time and it makes sense that if God was going to take on a human form, his ministry would take place there. Also, it isn't spoken or written like the words of a bunch of like minded crazies. They were either power hungry, manipulative bastards, were telling the truth or were extremely consistent and well reasoned in their delusion. I'd posit that the first and third are the only realistic options since current conditions would also seem to support that and people don't really change much over time.
I share your frustration that people are so unwilling to consider that their particular views and interpretations may be incorrect and to look at how to resolve differences where differences may not actually need to exist. I also agree that some people will use anything, true or false to try to accumulate power. Sadly, even in a religion such as Christianity that warned against this, many people don't see how it's been twisted in to a means of accumulating power in many situations.
So I may disagree about the truthfulness of the Bible, but I agree with you on many of your concerns and frustrations with the state of the world.
It's a little more insidious when you realize that is intentional and that both media and politicians fight to keep it that way. They intentionally use the most divisive issues possible and make their careers by making people as extreme as possible. It's horrible for the country, but great for accumulating power and wealth.
While the suspension really does seem unnecessary, my guess is that it came because it appears he was doing it on company time from some of the shots used. Technically it's a misappropriation of the companies resources. It's a bit of a bone headed thing to do since they were closing the shop anyway, but they were probably just following a standard procedure and could have gotten in to more trouble with previous people they had suspended if they didn't bother to do it, since people could claim that he was treated preferentially.
The entire situation is stupid, but that's unfortunately where getting employers forced in to mindlessly following written policy for fear of being sued for unequal treatment has gotten us. You have to document the penalty for everything and follow it to the letter no matter how stupidly it doesn't fit the situation or someone will sue.
That's a nice theory but the expertise doesn't exist outside it. A good leadership house cleaning would send a clear message though. The vast majority of people don't want to violate anyone's rights, but culture needs to prioritize protecting our values over our safety. Unfortunately that isn't just a government problem, it's a US citizen problem. If politicians weren't scared of a terrorist attack on their watch then they wouldn't make management nervous about being the scape goat if something is missed and that wouldn't be pushed down to too much pressure on the grunts to get answers NOW! We've gotten what we asked for as a people.
Unfortunately, the NSA is kind of an important organization. Sure people are upset with them over the phone meta-data thing, but they are also the ones responsible for defending the country against electronic threats and the ones responsible for signals and systems intelligence gathering on the rest of the world.
I'm sure some people don't think we should be spying on our enemies, let alone our allies, but the fact is that that is how the game has been played for all time. Nation states play by weird rules and spying is a part of the way the game is played. You have the ways that each country publicly postures, the things they actually say to each other behind closed doors and then the spies that get the details on what actually matters but they don't want to admit to each other. Sometimes it gives one nation an advantage over the other, sometimes it just allows for nations to co-exist peacefully. There is always a display of anger when the hidden becomes public, because it is supposed to be done discreetly to avoid embarrassing each other, but this is how it has been forever.
I would personally agree that we need more oversight on what is going on and need to right the ship in terms of protecting not only the physical nation, but also the ideals, but it isn't as simple as just shutting down any organization that has ever made a misstep. Otherwise there would be no government because every person currently alive has made a misstep at some point in their life. It's easy to get caught up in what you wish you had (even for good purposes) and be blinded to the potential harm it could do down the road.
There is an SSH server for Windows, though it is pretty limited. Do note that I'm not saying a CLI doesn't have any use either. For some things they are still the best way to do things, but the importance of knowing them very strongly is not nearly the same as it was before the advent of modern, powerful, well designed GUI controls.
This I absolutely agree with. It is critical to understand how we got to where we are. I also am not saying there aren't times a command line is better. My point is much the same as yours. Technology evolves and improves. Early versions of things are much more limited than later versions. CLI predates the GUI and so it was much, much better than early GUIs (and a well designed CLI is still better than a poorly designed GUI), however there are many, many cases where a well developed GUI can exceed the usefulness of a CLI, yet many UNIX aficionados are stuck in their CLI ways and don't bother to find the good GUI tools or learn to use them.
Maybe this is because developers in Linux assume that low level stuff will be done with a CLI, so they don't write GUI functionality that can handle it, and thus it becomes self fulfilling in the realm that most CLI fans spend there time. There are also certain situations like repeatable installations where scriptable systems are ideal, though in some cases, GUIs even exist to do some of that stuff. You still have to understand how the GUI accomplishes what it is doing though if you want to understand why it works the way it does and want to be able to use it properly.
Ease of technology is not an excuse to not understand how and why it works, at least for those who want to actually build it. The same also goes for any other field.
If they did that, how would they harvest people's personal information by making them associate their Facebook or Google account with their application? Why have a cost center (paying someone to moderate) when you could have a profit center (farming people's info). It's also worth noting that in the vast majority of cases, all this does is make it so that I don't participate in their comments and the comments sections on most sites that do this seem to be much more dead than the sites that do not.
This is bad GUI design. A good GUI should allow you to hit one button to export those settings and another one button to import them. It should also save out to almost an identical file to what the Command Line tool did.
Did you ever learn a good GUI interface? It supports stringing together the same kinds of general purpose tools as the command line. I'm not questioning the power of the command line, I'm saying that a good GUI can do the vast majority, if not all, the stuff that can be done with a command line if you know all the tricks of how to best use it. There are a few things command lines do better and there are a few things GUIs do better, but one isn't inherently better than the other. They are both tool sets.