As opposed to posting your negative nothing of a comment on Slashdot? So insightful. What a hero you are.
If this is what passes for insightful it's no wonder my karma is so bad.
Screw it, I'll wear it as a badge of honor.
I attended both public and private schools, and I had the opposite experience. I felt I learned more in private school. The students there by and large wanted to learn, and were more respectful. The teachers were happier. Could be the public school I went to was an absolute zoo where most kids didn't want to be there, and made life so difficult for the teachers they didn't even want to bother anymore. Kids smoking pot in class, dropping LSD in the drivers ed instructor's coffee, librarian having sex with students, there were shootings, stabbings, fights, gang problems, general distain for all authority etc. I saw all of that in public school and none of it in private school. YMMV
Most of my friends who went to private school lean conservative. I'm pretty satisfied with what Trump is doing myself. I voted for him but he wasn't really my first choice. I think Hillary deserves to go to prison. People died because of her, she compromised national security, and she avoided consequence by abusing the power of her position. If a CEO did what she did she'd be in prison. I see no rational reason to impeach Trump. What impeachable offense has he committed?
The way I see education is there has to be a desire on the part of the individual. If that's not there it's like trying to feed an animal that refuses eat. I'd be in favor of getting rid of the education system all together and leave it up to the individual. You want to learn? Cool. Buy your own books, read them, and do your own homework until you understand. If you're motivated you'll go far. If you're not you're going to wind up in the same place you would have if someone forced you to go to school. The difference is we're not wasting a bunch of tax money on morons who aren't going to be any better for it.
It doesn't. It manages risk. Managers don't like being on the hook. For anything. Everything is negotiated through contracts, the upper level execs can be frustrated with the vendor rather than the manager, if anything goes wrong blame the vendor. From a management perspective it's perfect.
I can't think why. She took an oath to uphold our national security and compromised it to cause political mischief. Are we really any better off now that we've seen that document as a country? She committed treason, and regardless of how you feel about Trump you have to at least see the risk in leaking classified documents to the press. Imagine if someone had done this during the Obama administration. At least with Snowden you can argue there was significant public benefit to the disclosure. But with this? It's just one more thing for the media to speculate about which doesn't really mean much to any of us personally. It's a sideshow from real issues we face and gives our enemies ammunition against us. Way to go Reality. You really made a big difference.
People really need to better understand the business dichotomy in a capitalist society. The software is not the product. The stock is the product of any company. They care far more what shareholders think than what users think. Users are a dime a dozen. And what are you going to do? Go to Linux? Go ahead. Eventually you're going to run into an app you need that only runs on Microsoft and you'll be back eating whatever dog food they decide to serve you. Security be damned. Privacy be damned. Usability be damned. That's really how it is.
Ok undisclosed vulnerability (created by Microsoft's carelessness) leveraged by our intelligence agency vs Tiananmen Square. Please tell me about your governmental totalitarian equivalence in this regard. All countries have spies. Spying on our own people was hardly cool, but it's not executing our dissenters either. Let's not muddy the waters with false equivalence.
This thought crossed my mind. And if that were proven to be the case I'd be far less sympathetic. But at this point he found the back door, and he was doxxed by those who should have respected his privacy. That's all we know. Everything else is speculation. So I'm perfectly fine with calling out the dirt bags that publicized his personal info and that should really be the focus.
There are areas in the US that are this way as well. Particularly after the whole BLM movement. In Chicago crime has skyrocketed because the police have pulled back from certain areas and won't engage with criminals.
His list doesn't single anyone out by class, and he doesn't say how he intends to gage metrics. However, crime from the higher classes isn't as prevalent. Let's face it, when you've got something to lose you're a little bit more careful about what you do. When you've got the IDGAF attitude because "I'm poor anyway what ya gonna do put me in jail and feed me; give me a place to live?" then it's not as big of a deal to commit crime. I've seen this with my own eyes. That's not to say there aren't spoiled rich kids out there committing crime. There absolutely are, and because they can afford better representation to come up with nonsense like affluenza more of them get by with it. But it's still far less percentage wise.
I'm all for capitalism when you have an idea, invest your own money in that idea, market that idea, and succeed based on your own work. What I have a problem with is if they take something developed by a community of users for everyone and lock it up as though it were their own (like Red Hat did). In my eyes that's tantamount to theft. I've actually been moving away from Ubuntu anyway because I don't like a lot of the new stuff they've done. I've got a slackware install that's very functional and I love it. It was more work to set it up, but I'm learning a lot more about what's going on under the hood.
I hate to break it to you but it isn't just the right wing. The left wing is very good at pretending to help the poor. And those think tanks aren't entirely wrong. Look how much we pay in taxes now. The poor are still poor. Kids still live in poverty and are homeless. Even if you taxed everyone 100% these problems wouldn't go away. There is a segment of society who will be poor no matter what you do. They choose to get high and let their kids starve. Or make other bad life choices that no amount of money will mitigate. At some point personal responsibility has to kick in.
The summary is full of misinformation.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/a...
The reason wind and solar look cheaper is that they are subsidized by government tax credits. If you took those away they wouldn't even stand up on their own. And it's not just residential either. There are whole businesses built around creating these "green" projects with government money, the government pays them whether they generate or not, and the utilities have to buy the power from them at the market rate. So as a tax payer you're totally getting the shaft. You're paying for it in taxes and you're paying for it in ever increasing utility bills. Let's face it the utility doesn't absorb that cost, they pass it on.
This is simply inaccurate from a factual perspective. It takes no more time to stand up a Linux server than it does a Windows server. Both have exploits. Both are more insecure if not properly configured. The struggle I face in my organization is we want a company behind the software. It's management perception. For some reason they think because Microsoft is a company if something bad happens they can point back at Microsoft and say "hey, it's not our fault we took the defacto standard and got burned." Whereas if we use Linux it's "what dumbass manager approved that". It's not about one being better than the other. It's all corporate culture.
What's really humorous is that dispelling that bit of nonsense is only a google search away. The statistics show it's been getting progressively worse for years. Ironically coinciding with increasing gun control laws (not saying that's the only factor, just pointing out the irony). They were talking about how bad it was before Trump even took office. Yet how many people who watch CNN bother with that?
That was my thought as well. This brought to you by the same guy who thinks a valid encyclopedia is one that can be edited by anyone and yet remain factually accurate. And I think far more dangerous than fake news is biased news which is made up of actual facts, but leaves out key details to create a specific perception that is not representative of reality. Fake news is pretty easy to spot. Millions are duped by biased news every day.
I'm not sure why the elite would keep the average worker bee around once they cease to be useful. Just a drain on their beautiful utopia. They will find some way of getting rid of us whether it's war, infighting, starvation, exposure to pollution, etc. There are lots of ways.
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As opposed to posting your negative nothing of a comment on Slashdot? So insightful. What a hero you are. If this is what passes for insightful it's no wonder my karma is so bad. Screw it, I'll wear it as a badge of honor.
I attended both public and private schools, and I had the opposite experience. I felt I learned more in private school. The students there by and large wanted to learn, and were more respectful. The teachers were happier. Could be the public school I went to was an absolute zoo where most kids didn't want to be there, and made life so difficult for the teachers they didn't even want to bother anymore. Kids smoking pot in class, dropping LSD in the drivers ed instructor's coffee, librarian having sex with students, there were shootings, stabbings, fights, gang problems, general distain for all authority etc. I saw all of that in public school and none of it in private school. YMMV Most of my friends who went to private school lean conservative. I'm pretty satisfied with what Trump is doing myself. I voted for him but he wasn't really my first choice. I think Hillary deserves to go to prison. People died because of her, she compromised national security, and she avoided consequence by abusing the power of her position. If a CEO did what she did she'd be in prison. I see no rational reason to impeach Trump. What impeachable offense has he committed? The way I see education is there has to be a desire on the part of the individual. If that's not there it's like trying to feed an animal that refuses eat. I'd be in favor of getting rid of the education system all together and leave it up to the individual. You want to learn? Cool. Buy your own books, read them, and do your own homework until you understand. If you're motivated you'll go far. If you're not you're going to wind up in the same place you would have if someone forced you to go to school. The difference is we're not wasting a bunch of tax money on morons who aren't going to be any better for it.
It doesn't. It manages risk. Managers don't like being on the hook. For anything. Everything is negotiated through contracts, the upper level execs can be frustrated with the vendor rather than the manager, if anything goes wrong blame the vendor. From a management perspective it's perfect.
I can't think why. She took an oath to uphold our national security and compromised it to cause political mischief. Are we really any better off now that we've seen that document as a country? She committed treason, and regardless of how you feel about Trump you have to at least see the risk in leaking classified documents to the press. Imagine if someone had done this during the Obama administration. At least with Snowden you can argue there was significant public benefit to the disclosure. But with this? It's just one more thing for the media to speculate about which doesn't really mean much to any of us personally. It's a sideshow from real issues we face and gives our enemies ammunition against us. Way to go Reality. You really made a big difference.
Well said man!
Sounds like a management problem to me.
No they don't.
People really need to better understand the business dichotomy in a capitalist society. The software is not the product. The stock is the product of any company. They care far more what shareholders think than what users think. Users are a dime a dozen. And what are you going to do? Go to Linux? Go ahead. Eventually you're going to run into an app you need that only runs on Microsoft and you'll be back eating whatever dog food they decide to serve you. Security be damned. Privacy be damned. Usability be damned. That's really how it is.
Ok undisclosed vulnerability (created by Microsoft's carelessness) leveraged by our intelligence agency vs Tiananmen Square. Please tell me about your governmental totalitarian equivalence in this regard. All countries have spies. Spying on our own people was hardly cool, but it's not executing our dissenters either. Let's not muddy the waters with false equivalence.
This thought crossed my mind. And if that were proven to be the case I'd be far less sympathetic. But at this point he found the back door, and he was doxxed by those who should have respected his privacy. That's all we know. Everything else is speculation. So I'm perfectly fine with calling out the dirt bags that publicized his personal info and that should really be the focus.
There are areas in the US that are this way as well. Particularly after the whole BLM movement. In Chicago crime has skyrocketed because the police have pulled back from certain areas and won't engage with criminals.
His list doesn't single anyone out by class, and he doesn't say how he intends to gage metrics. However, crime from the higher classes isn't as prevalent. Let's face it, when you've got something to lose you're a little bit more careful about what you do. When you've got the IDGAF attitude because "I'm poor anyway what ya gonna do put me in jail and feed me; give me a place to live?" then it's not as big of a deal to commit crime. I've seen this with my own eyes. That's not to say there aren't spoiled rich kids out there committing crime. There absolutely are, and because they can afford better representation to come up with nonsense like affluenza more of them get by with it. But it's still far less percentage wise.
Still. Drunk still.
I'm all for capitalism when you have an idea, invest your own money in that idea, market that idea, and succeed based on your own work. What I have a problem with is if they take something developed by a community of users for everyone and lock it up as though it were their own (like Red Hat did). In my eyes that's tantamount to theft. I've actually been moving away from Ubuntu anyway because I don't like a lot of the new stuff they've done. I've got a slackware install that's very functional and I love it. It was more work to set it up, but I'm learning a lot more about what's going on under the hood.
I hate to break it to you but it isn't just the right wing. The left wing is very good at pretending to help the poor. And those think tanks aren't entirely wrong. Look how much we pay in taxes now. The poor are still poor. Kids still live in poverty and are homeless. Even if you taxed everyone 100% these problems wouldn't go away. There is a segment of society who will be poor no matter what you do. They choose to get high and let their kids starve. Or make other bad life choices that no amount of money will mitigate. At some point personal responsibility has to kick in.
The summary is full of misinformation. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/a... The reason wind and solar look cheaper is that they are subsidized by government tax credits. If you took those away they wouldn't even stand up on their own. And it's not just residential either. There are whole businesses built around creating these "green" projects with government money, the government pays them whether they generate or not, and the utilities have to buy the power from them at the market rate. So as a tax payer you're totally getting the shaft. You're paying for it in taxes and you're paying for it in ever increasing utility bills. Let's face it the utility doesn't absorb that cost, they pass it on.
Yes. But you also have to share data with other utilities in real time for regulatory and marketing purposes. It's more complex than you'd think.
I think he was directing that towards those with an interest in security.
This is simply inaccurate from a factual perspective. It takes no more time to stand up a Linux server than it does a Windows server. Both have exploits. Both are more insecure if not properly configured. The struggle I face in my organization is we want a company behind the software. It's management perception. For some reason they think because Microsoft is a company if something bad happens they can point back at Microsoft and say "hey, it's not our fault we took the defacto standard and got burned." Whereas if we use Linux it's "what dumbass manager approved that". It's not about one being better than the other. It's all corporate culture.
What's really humorous is that dispelling that bit of nonsense is only a google search away. The statistics show it's been getting progressively worse for years. Ironically coinciding with increasing gun control laws (not saying that's the only factor, just pointing out the irony). They were talking about how bad it was before Trump even took office. Yet how many people who watch CNN bother with that?
Very likely. It's not like his political leanings aren't common knowledge.
That was my thought as well. This brought to you by the same guy who thinks a valid encyclopedia is one that can be edited by anyone and yet remain factually accurate. And I think far more dangerous than fake news is biased news which is made up of actual facts, but leaves out key details to create a specific perception that is not representative of reality. Fake news is pretty easy to spot. Millions are duped by biased news every day.
I'm not sure why the elite would keep the average worker bee around once they cease to be useful. Just a drain on their beautiful utopia. They will find some way of getting rid of us whether it's war, infighting, starvation, exposure to pollution, etc. There are lots of ways.
Perhaps you could petition and get a government grant. God knows they give away gobs of money to study less important things.