The US military is an excellent program for many reasons. For example, if the US leadership is lucky, they can ship hundreds of thousands of children off to a battlefield where they will be shot, injured, killed, or at least be crippled by PTSD which allows them to be removed from the unemployment statistics when they get back home (or not). It's extremely important to convince as many Americans as possible that this cause is right and just because the currently, with generally the worst overall performing demographics in nearly every category in the western world, the US needs a reliable industry to maintain it's position in the 2nd world. Of course, the US is probably at the absolute top of the second world countries. So... don't worry... it's still #1.
I am an American, and I can't even begin to provide a good starting point for just how full of bullshit you are here. We had congressional inquiries when a handful of soldiers were killed in Nigeria, FFS. A handful. The only real socialized medicine we have is for veterans. If our political branches supported a genuine meat-grinder for our military, and it wasn't based unequivocally in defending us from a devastating attack that would kill millions of civilians, our veterans would rise up and burn Washington DC with the support of most of our police forces.
This sounds like a typical stupid fascist statement. The company doesn't wish to support the military in this endeavour and that makes them unpatriotic?
Son, you cannot pick this out of context and scream "muh Fascist" without looking like a fool. The full context is Google's broad behavior which includes being unwilling to bend to employee demands that they give up on China and its demands. Funny how that works. They won't help the USAF build better drones that might be able to better avoid civilian casualties, but they'll actively help identify and punish political "criminals" in China.
Consider how much AWS and Apple touch. AWS powers 1% of the Internet. It is critical infrastructure now. Apple is the go-to laptop for so many people in positions of power in industry.
A large segment of the public is growing restless and backing Trump on issues like social media. This goes a step further, it's like finding out that SV companies were so greedy and cavalier that they told no one to notice that homes and corporate offices were being bugged (or being rigged for bugging). All for maximizing profits.
Look at 2016. What do you see? If you see "muh raycisss, muh sexisss" instead of a class revolt by the Republican party that is a little closer to Jacobin than Ayn Rand, you need to put down the Kool Aid. If this turns out to be true, Trump will have all but a mandate to nationalize much of SV and flip corporate control into a "patriotic direction" that puts the nation before profit.
Why not just do a CALEA-like law where you have to build wiretapping into communication services? There's no good reason why an Australian company couldn't just make communication software that can route a copy of the traffic to an office in the corporate office, where police and a company lawyer can listen in when a valid court order is issued. It shouldn't have to be more complicated than that.
No soldered-on memory, storage, battery, etc. I am tempted to get an Alienware for that reason. I cynically expected them to have no replaceable battery, but they do. All you have to do is take a few screws off the bottom and there you go. Battery can be popped out and replaced.
Millennials are also the first generation where bullshit like "I should be able to walk down the street naked and have nothing happen to me" is considered neither a joke nor a statement of "why yes, I am bat shit crazy, just wanted to get that out there while breaking the ice." Or girls just leaving their apartments unlocked and then wondering why they had problems with creeps.
I'm an older Millennial, and I grew up in smaller towns in the South. When I went to college, I actually heard garbage like that from other Millennials. Coming from a law enforcement family in small southern towns, I was stunned at how so many of the middle and upper class Millennials acted like they were born last night in a cabbage patch.
I mean, fuck me, if I had said "I should be able to walk anywhere at 2AM covered in bling and not be hurt" my dad would have looked outside and said "oh I'm sorry, did I miss the news cast where Jesus returned in triumph and put all of the evil in the world into Hell? No? Then use your damn head."
They're now well on their way to ensuring that you keep paying for the music you like from the time you're old enough to have a credit card to the time you're dead. Congratulations, lemmings.
Too pure to help shape the DoD drone program so that AI might have "don't be evil" coded into its framework, but not too pure to help the PRC identify, track and persecute people out of favor with the regime.
This isn't hypocrisy on the level of "pastor caught in bed with the church secretary one time." This is hypocrisy along the lines of "pastor caught running a child sex trafficking network."
Culture has fuck all to do with it. It's because in nature, males of most species want to knock up as many females as possible. It's hard-wired into our brains. Religion and science agree that the world works this way, so you can take your "social sciences" and cry in a dark corner with the Flat Earthers.
If you want to argue culture here, let's rock and roll. I'll see you that and raise you "homosexuality is a choice people make." You want to play?
Women are more easily shamed into submission. Why do you think "slut shaming" works, while "cad shaming" doesn't? Testosterone makes men more likely to fight back and even kill in the face of abuse. It's pure biology.
This is also why women in combat and combat-like situations is problematic. Aside from the weaker musculature and bone structure, the aggression from testosterone is often what makes men able and willing to fight hard.
You can please some of the people, all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you simply cannot please all the people all the time. Wise people don't waste effort trying.
That was before the age of Codes of Conduct. Now the squeaky wheel not only gets the grease, but gets the presumption of wrongdoing on your part because they were ever squeaking in the first place.
Plenty of people out there see any sort of strong self-confidence as "jerk behavior." In fact the more insecure the individual, the more hopelessly assholeish your confidence will appear to them.
It's possible to be blunt without being offensive:
What part of this are you not getting?
* Using welcoming and inclusive language
Being blunt, no matter how civil, is not "welcoming and inclusive." As I said: welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can.
You are reading this through your "reasonable person" glasses, not through the glasses of the sort of person that actively pushes codes of conduct on every project bigger than a 1000 LOC and 1 maintainer.
As it stands, I agree with you, but that's not relevant here because your normal, sane reading is not what the activists intend to use.
berating minorities who are showing interest in technology
95% of the berating about race is people like you bemoaning the presence of so many white people in the space. The reason why a non-white getting berated and abused by a white person in these spaces makes headlines is because it's a "man bites dog story" compared to the other way around.
The absolute requirement to address people with welcoming and inclusive language means that even this is not possible:
Mauro, I have reviewed your code and have determined that you broke user space. You know, from previous conversations, that we consider that to be a bug no matter what reasoning you have. I also reviewed your submission and in addition to violating our well-established policy on not breaking user space, your submission was also not up to the standards we expect from someone in your position. You will fix this and stop dissembling about your role in causing grief to downstream users or we will have to reconsider your position on the team. -Linus
This is going to be what is used most of the time:
* Using welcoming and inclusive language
What that actually means in practice is that you cannot safely go through someone's code review and leave honest comments that demonstrate that the product is fundamentally bad. Welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can. Well, a lot of the time you can't do that.
What they want is to create for FOSS the same space they have in corporate America where HR, not line management, deals with things like personality conflicts that blow up. It's not going to make people polite, it's going to make people afraid to just be blunt with active, thin-skinned people who cannot stand to hear that their contribution is not good enough.
Every collectible card game like Magic is the same deal. You can't drop $20 on Magic and walk right into a tournament and not get hopelessly slaughtered unless you are a step short of Ender Wiggin come to life. It's all "gambling" on some level if you use that logic.
The tools that came out of the DevOps revolution are now going enterprise-wide. It's only a matter of time before most SA jobs become dead-end and then are eliminated. Organizations no longer need a bunch of Unix or Windows admins who are basically power users who can follow instructions. We've circled back a generation to where to be a SA who gets paid well and has job security you'll need to be able to script that system like a boss.
* Lump all black socio economic groups together as simply "African-American." * Break whites down, somewhat, by socio-economic group.
That's how they skew the results and make it look like being a minority is intrinsically a doomed position. It is guaranteed to drown out the story of the black middle class.
Of course, none of that is pertinent because this is a UK based divorce solicitor
All your wife has to do in the UK, 2018 to get rid of you is pay someone to photoshop you Nazi LARPing and posting a bunch of racist stuff on your FB account. Then once the police nab them another "bigot" she can probably divorce you for cause. So don't get too cocky with us Americans, mate.
Depending on the source, women initiate between 70 and 80% of all divorces in the US. Most of them are "no fault."
Now women are starting to notice more and more that there aren't as many eligible bachelors around as there "should be."
Well, it's quite simple: the opposite sex responds to the way they're treated in the aggregate both consciously and unconsciously.
The whole system is FUBAR because it is the worst combination of conservative white knighting and feminism. It maintains the rules on who pays what and allows women to say "well, I'm just not in lurrrvv with you anymore, so bye--and thanks for half of the shit your bigger paycheck paid for."
New York City also announced that its pension fund would invest $4 billion in companies offering climate change solution over the next three years.
$4B worth of virtue-signaling. Political games are why most pensions are going bust. From over-promising via shameless lies to this sort of blatant virtue-signaling instead of seeking the best (in value and risk) return on investment to keep the pension solvent and able to meet obligations.
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I am an American, and I can't even begin to provide a good starting point for just how full of bullshit you are here. We had congressional inquiries when a handful of soldiers were killed in Nigeria, FFS. A handful. The only real socialized medicine we have is for veterans. If our political branches supported a genuine meat-grinder for our military, and it wasn't based unequivocally in defending us from a devastating attack that would kill millions of civilians, our veterans would rise up and burn Washington DC with the support of most of our police forces.
Son, you cannot pick this out of context and scream "muh Fascist" without looking like a fool. The full context is Google's broad behavior which includes being unwilling to bend to employee demands that they give up on China and its demands. Funny how that works. They won't help the USAF build better drones that might be able to better avoid civilian casualties, but they'll actively help identify and punish political "criminals" in China.
Consider how much AWS and Apple touch. AWS powers 1% of the Internet. It is critical infrastructure now. Apple is the go-to laptop for so many people in positions of power in industry.
A large segment of the public is growing restless and backing Trump on issues like social media. This goes a step further, it's like finding out that SV companies were so greedy and cavalier that they told no one to notice that homes and corporate offices were being bugged (or being rigged for bugging). All for maximizing profits.
Look at 2016. What do you see? If you see "muh raycisss, muh sexisss" instead of a class revolt by the Republican party that is a little closer to Jacobin than Ayn Rand, you need to put down the Kool Aid. If this turns out to be true, Trump will have all but a mandate to nationalize much of SV and flip corporate control into a "patriotic direction" that puts the nation before profit.
Why not just do a CALEA-like law where you have to build wiretapping into communication services? There's no good reason why an Australian company couldn't just make communication software that can route a copy of the traffic to an office in the corporate office, where police and a company lawyer can listen in when a valid court order is issued. It shouldn't have to be more complicated than that.
No soldered-on memory, storage, battery, etc. I am tempted to get an Alienware for that reason. I cynically expected them to have no replaceable battery, but they do. All you have to do is take a few screws off the bottom and there you go. Battery can be popped out and replaced.
Millennials are also the first generation where bullshit like "I should be able to walk down the street naked and have nothing happen to me" is considered neither a joke nor a statement of "why yes, I am bat shit crazy, just wanted to get that out there while breaking the ice." Or girls just leaving their apartments unlocked and then wondering why they had problems with creeps.
I'm an older Millennial, and I grew up in smaller towns in the South. When I went to college, I actually heard garbage like that from other Millennials. Coming from a law enforcement family in small southern towns, I was stunned at how so many of the middle and upper class Millennials acted like they were born last night in a cabbage patch.
I mean, fuck me, if I had said "I should be able to walk anywhere at 2AM covered in bling and not be hurt" my dad would have looked outside and said "oh I'm sorry, did I miss the news cast where Jesus returned in triumph and put all of the evil in the world into Hell? No? Then use your damn head."
They're now well on their way to ensuring that you keep paying for the music you like from the time you're old enough to have a credit card to the time you're dead. Congratulations, lemmings.
Too pure to help shape the DoD drone program so that AI might have "don't be evil" coded into its framework, but not too pure to help the PRC identify, track and persecute people out of favor with the regime.
This isn't hypocrisy on the level of "pastor caught in bed with the church secretary one time." This is hypocrisy along the lines of "pastor caught running a child sex trafficking network."
You have to hate women to compare their anatomy to Poettering.
Culture has fuck all to do with it. It's because in nature, males of most species want to knock up as many females as possible. It's hard-wired into our brains. Religion and science agree that the world works this way, so you can take your "social sciences" and cry in a dark corner with the Flat Earthers.
If you want to argue culture here, let's rock and roll. I'll see you that and raise you "homosexuality is a choice people make." You want to play?
Women are more easily shamed into submission. Why do you think "slut shaming" works, while "cad shaming" doesn't? Testosterone makes men more likely to fight back and even kill in the face of abuse. It's pure biology.
This is also why women in combat and combat-like situations is problematic. Aside from the weaker musculature and bone structure, the aggression from testosterone is often what makes men able and willing to fight hard.
That was before the age of Codes of Conduct. Now the squeaky wheel not only gets the grease, but gets the presumption of wrongdoing on your part because they were ever squeaking in the first place.
Plenty of people out there see any sort of strong self-confidence as "jerk behavior." In fact the more insecure the individual, the more hopelessly assholeish your confidence will appear to them.
What part of this are you not getting?
Being blunt, no matter how civil, is not "welcoming and inclusive." As I said: welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can.
You are reading this through your "reasonable person" glasses, not through the glasses of the sort of person that actively pushes codes of conduct on every project bigger than a 1000 LOC and 1 maintainer.
As it stands, I agree with you, but that's not relevant here because your normal, sane reading is not what the activists intend to use.
95% of the berating about race is people like you bemoaning the presence of so many white people in the space. The reason why a non-white getting berated and abused by a white person in these spaces makes headlines is because it's a "man bites dog story" compared to the other way around.
The absolute requirement to address people with welcoming and inclusive language means that even this is not possible:
This is going to be what is used most of the time:
What that actually means in practice is that you cannot safely go through someone's code review and leave honest comments that demonstrate that the product is fundamentally bad. Welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can. Well, a lot of the time you can't do that.
What they want is to create for FOSS the same space they have in corporate America where HR, not line management, deals with things like personality conflicts that blow up. It's not going to make people polite, it's going to make people afraid to just be blunt with active, thin-skinned people who cannot stand to hear that their contribution is not good enough.
Every collectible card game like Magic is the same deal. You can't drop $20 on Magic and walk right into a tournament and not get hopelessly slaughtered unless you are a step short of Ender Wiggin come to life. It's all "gambling" on some level if you use that logic.
The tools that came out of the DevOps revolution are now going enterprise-wide. It's only a matter of time before most SA jobs become dead-end and then are eliminated. Organizations no longer need a bunch of Unix or Windows admins who are basically power users who can follow instructions. We've circled back a generation to where to be a SA who gets paid well and has job security you'll need to be able to script that system like a boss.
* Lump all black socio economic groups together as simply "African-American."
* Break whites down, somewhat, by socio-economic group.
That's how they skew the results and make it look like being a minority is intrinsically a doomed position. It is guaranteed to drown out the story of the black middle class.
All your wife has to do in the UK, 2018 to get rid of you is pay someone to photoshop you Nazi LARPing and posting a bunch of racist stuff on your FB account. Then once the police nab them another "bigot" she can probably divorce you for cause. So don't get too cocky with us Americans, mate.
Depending on the source, women initiate between 70 and 80% of all divorces in the US. Most of them are "no fault."
Now women are starting to notice more and more that there aren't as many eligible bachelors around as there "should be."
Well, it's quite simple: the opposite sex responds to the way they're treated in the aggregate both consciously and unconsciously.
The whole system is FUBAR because it is the worst combination of conservative white knighting and feminism. It maintains the rules on who pays what and allows women to say "well, I'm just not in lurrrvv with you anymore, so bye--and thanks for half of the shit your bigger paycheck paid for."
$4B worth of virtue-signaling. Political games are why most pensions are going bust. From over-promising via shameless lies to this sort of blatant virtue-signaling instead of seeking the best (in value and risk) return on investment to keep the pension solvent and able to meet obligations.
Because people tend to get very mad when someone accuses them of stealing.
And give them $100 worth of food and the dictator just bought a good meal for his army. That's how it works.