I'd call having sex with your own daughter pedophilia if she's under the age of consent.
It's rather naughty even when she isn't.
Being attracted to a 10 year old girl because of who she is I'll agree isn't pedophilia. Fucking her is. If you're that much in love, wait ten years and if she's still interested, and you are, go for it.
If the foreign soldiers don't want shooting with the arms being allegedly bought with that money then
A : Get the fuck out of the country they have no right to be in anyway
B : Stop shooting innocent civilians for no good reason at all
It's not just coincidence that British forces suffer far fewer incidents and casualties than American forces, while also killing fewer innocent civilians.
American soldiers are badly trained, badly disciplined and quite frankly often deserve to die.
That's funny. I live in the very country upon which America's common law legal system is based, and our common law legal system doesn't have anything like the issues that America's does.
Don't blame the underlying legal basis for how you're using it.
>> IT employees contribute absolutely nothing to an organization. They produce nothing, they transport nothing, they collect nothing. They're an expense.
Can you please explain to my CEO why he's about to lose 40% of his revenue and 60% of his profit because his IT employees have just decided to switch off the websites?
Can you also explain to him that he's about to lose the other 60% of his revenue because we're also switching off the inventory, reservation and financial systems?
Good luck to him in 18 months after he's put together the paper trail to find out who he owes money to.
Trees are great when you're on them. However, the root of a tree for multiple documents is going to have to effectively be an index.
This might be why many books have a contents page and an index. Two alternate navigation routes, maximising the flexibility and accommodating imperfect initial information (i.e. what it is that you're looking for).
Obviously the answer is online documentation, in a fully indexed form, because your tree isn't as efficient as my google..
The single biggest mistake most design documents make is that they document the design.
That's nice, to a small extent, but generally of relatively little use.
It falls down completely when - the designer made bad assumptions that subsequently don't hold - the users change the requirements - someone actually writes the system - the system goes through years of maintenance
So what is of use in these circumstances? The ideas, concepts, approaches and general thrust of the design.
Where did this design come from? Why has this approach been taken. What are the concepts embodied here?
Don't tell me that the Widget is round and talks to the Doodah.
Tell me _why_ the Widget is round (and why square wans't good enough), explain what the Doodah does and why the Widget needs to talk to it, what the contract (informal or formal) between the two is.
If the Doodah works with hexagonal Thingamies then explain that. If there aren't any Thingamies yet but it's possible they may be added give the guidance on where they'll be added.
A good piece of software design is a vision, a pure and beautiful concept in the mind of its creator. What gets written on paper has to share that vision with others, so that they can understand it, and share it going forwards.
Then you have design documentation that makes sense, that outlives the initial implementation, that's useful to people in years to come.
I went out on a date with a 17yo last year. I was 31 at the time.
Of course, we didn't call it a 'date'. I was merely the kind, affluent older man welcoming a young girl to a new neighbourhood.
We'd met over the 'net, she was moving into the town that I live, seemed the least I could do was give her a warm welcome.
I'm an adult. I knew the choices I was making. She was 17, and knew exactly which choices she was making. And we both enjoyed dinner and spent a few weeks repeating the experience.
You may say that's inappropriate. I personally think it's perfectly acceptable. She thought it was perfectly acceptable. She's now going out with a man who's about the same age as her, and is not psychologically traumatised by having dinner with me.
So do you think I should be charged as a deviant? A danger to minors? Think very fucking carefully before you answer, because I'm based in the UK, we have joyfully strict libel laws, and the age of consent is 16.
Your shorter examples are saying something different.
The Plain English sentences are offering recommendations and suggestions. Your shorter sentences are prescriptive and mandate certain solutions.
If a long sentence can not be sensibly reduced in size then the Plain English guidance still holds. Yours however insists that the sentence be broken, even if that would actually reduce its readability.
I have no problem with the quality of the English you used, or its simplicity and readability. It just isn't conveying the same intent and message as the English you are attempting to replace. That makes it unfit for purpose.
~Cederic admits he got a shite grade in GCSE English
>> Free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts, in my view.
If my free speech prevents the ability to hold a fair trial, would you rather 1 - hold an unfair trial 2 - let the accused go free 3 - ask me to hold from exercising my right to free speech until after the trial
Option 1 is a clear no-no. You're risking somebody's life and liberty just so you can open your mouth. Don't even try and defend that one.
Option 2 leads to anarchy. Give everybody a defense of "My trial is unfair due to media coverage" and there'll be no more convictions. Do you really want everybody currently in prison back on the streets?
Option 3 is the Canadian approach. They're saying "feel free to come along and watch" but they're also saying "don't prejudice a criminal trial". This is in my view a correct approach. They aren't preventing anybody from telling their neighbour, they're asking people to delay publication. This ensures that the issues in options 1 and 2 don't occur.
Free speech may well be free speech. A free and fair justice system is however also rather important, and I rather dislike your selfish suggestion that your free speech overrides it.
If there's a snap election, and the Liberty party wins it, so be it. There can be another subsequent election where the populace can vote in full knowledge. No, it's not perfect; it's just better than the alternative.
>> It's slow, bloated, and has no redeeming qualities to make up for it. It even failed at its goal of "write once, run anywhere"
With all respect, there are a lot of very professional programmers proving you wrong daily.
It's pretty standard practice in the enterprise computing world to - develop in java - develop on Windows and deploy on Unix
People wouldn't be developing in java if there were no redeeming features. Perhaps it's not suited to your purposes, but it is very definitely very good at enough things to be useful.
Its cross platform capability does exist, and is useful, and is used. Just because some programmers fail to use it doesn't mean it isn't possible.
As for the 256M RAM usage for the Java AIM client: I can write you a C client for AIM that uses 768MB of RAM if you like? Don't judge a language by the code of an individual.
Personally I don't know Python. I have however recommended it to several people as a language to learn to program with. If they can get a job using it, so much the better; if not, it'll at least give them the grounding they need to learn other language skills that are more employable - such as java.
So why are you still working there? Actually, why is he? Don't you have a HR department? Are you completely ignorant of the law on sexual equality? Or do you live in Saudi Arabia or some other woman-hating country?
Don't call him a jerk, get him removed from his position - he's clearly incapable of working within the constraints of normal human decency. ~Cederic
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>> I'm not going to refuse if somebody throws money at me for having a vagina
there's a word for that..
However, to avoid trolling: I'm male, technically capable, working in a technical job because of a rational decision to do something I enjoy. I have a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis; I could be earning 60% more as an accountant right now..
The current IT department I'm in has something around a 50% male/female split. However: Less than five of the women are in what I'd call a technical role. The rest are testers, or managers, or doing administrative roles.
This may be due to prejudice in our hiring procedures; I personally don't believe so, but either way it's not relevant to my point: Women ARE in the minority in technical roles in IT.
So you may be afronted by being treated as a minority; from where I'm sat, you ARE a minority.
Why that is, how we reached this situation, what we need to do to move away from it is a separate discussion entirely.
I hadn't realised it hurt you that bad. I was addicted, and I felt the pain when I wasn't mudding, but when I left uni and got a job, I was several months away from muds and didn't any real issues with it.
These days I'm playing WoW and if the servers died tomorrow, I'd just go back to Battlefield Vietnam or some other 'hot game of the day'.
Sorry it made you miserable, hope you're over it now, ~ced ps: addicted to the 'net. fuck yes. _that_ would cause much misery if I couldn't get my fix
>> It was terrible journalism. A single unsubstantiated source apparently made a specific false allegation. The reporter (Gilligan) went live on air with no notes, no corroboration and no evidence [...] The BBC deserved to be hung for that.
It was terrible leadership. A single unsubstantiated source apparently made a specific false allegation. The Prime Minister (Blair) went live in Pariliament with no notes, no corroboration and no evidence [...] The Governmnet deserved to be hung for that.
Lets face it - Gilligan was far more accurate that Blair.
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I must admit, the US border controls at San Diego did remind me very very much of one thing: The border controls between East and West Germany.
The landmines were missing, but that's about all..
sod that, go for the kids. They wont slow you down too much and the blood'll wash off.
I'd call having sex with your own daughter pedophilia if she's under the age of consent.
It's rather naughty even when she isn't.
Being attracted to a 10 year old girl because of who she is I'll agree isn't pedophilia. Fucking her is. If you're that much in love, wait ten years and if she's still interested, and you are, go for it.
If the foreign soldiers don't want shooting with the arms being allegedly bought with that money then
A : Get the fuck out of the country they have no right to be in anyway
B : Stop shooting innocent civilians for no good reason at all
It's not just coincidence that British forces suffer far fewer incidents and casualties than American forces, while also killing fewer innocent civilians.
American soldiers are badly trained, badly disciplined and quite frankly often deserve to die.
~Cederic
That's funny. I live in the very country upon which America's common law legal system is based, and our common law legal system doesn't have anything like the issues that America's does.
Don't blame the underlying legal basis for how you're using it.
>> IT employees contribute absolutely nothing to an organization. They produce nothing, they transport nothing, they collect nothing. They're an expense.
Can you please explain to my CEO why he's about to lose 40% of his revenue and 60% of his profit because his IT employees have just decided to switch off the websites?
Can you also explain to him that he's about to lose the other 60% of his revenue because we're also switching off the inventory, reservation and financial systems?
Good luck to him in 18 months after he's put together the paper trail to find out who he owes money to.
~Cederic
I've worked for businesses where $550 is two days turnover.
Sure, that business had problems too, but was sustainable with that level of turnover - if you don't spend it all on consultants to setup systems.
~Cederic
Trees are great when you're on them. However, the root of a tree for multiple documents is going to have to effectively be an index.
This might be why many books have a contents page and an index. Two alternate navigation routes, maximising the flexibility and accommodating imperfect initial information (i.e. what it is that you're looking for).
Obviously the answer is online documentation, in a fully indexed form, because your tree isn't as efficient as my google..
~cederic
Your approach would leave you with approximately 327 documents for MS Office.
To find anything at all in them you'll need another document: An index. Good luck getting that down to 20 pages.
And 300 documents, 1 index? I know.. lets consolidate them all into a single bound volume.
No, don't call it a book!
~cederic
To be honest I've no real interest in shagging anybody under the age of about 23 anyway, so not too much of a concern.
Even that young she's going to have to be mature for her age. I just can't be bothered with the idiocy of youth any more...
~ced
The single biggest mistake most design documents make is that they document the design.
That's nice, to a small extent, but generally of relatively little use.
It falls down completely when
- the designer made bad assumptions that subsequently don't hold
- the users change the requirements
- someone actually writes the system
- the system goes through years of maintenance
So what is of use in these circumstances? The ideas, concepts, approaches and general thrust of the design.
Where did this design come from? Why has this approach been taken. What are the concepts embodied here?
Don't tell me that the Widget is round and talks to the Doodah.
Tell me _why_ the Widget is round (and why square wans't good enough), explain what the Doodah does and why the Widget needs to talk to it, what the contract (informal or formal) between the two is.
If the Doodah works with hexagonal Thingamies then explain that. If there aren't any Thingamies yet but it's possible they may be added give the guidance on where they'll be added.
A good piece of software design is a vision, a pure and beautiful concept in the mind of its creator. What gets written on paper has to share that vision with others, so that they can understand it, and share it going forwards.
Then you have design documentation that makes sense, that outlives the initial implementation, that's useful to people in years to come.
~Cederic
I went out on a date with a 17yo last year. I was 31 at the time.
Of course, we didn't call it a 'date'. I was merely the kind, affluent older man welcoming a young girl to a new neighbourhood.
We'd met over the 'net, she was moving into the town that I live, seemed the least I could do was give her a warm welcome.
I'm an adult. I knew the choices I was making. She was 17, and knew exactly which choices she was making. And we both enjoyed dinner and spent a few weeks repeating the experience.
You may say that's inappropriate. I personally think it's perfectly acceptable. She thought it was perfectly acceptable. She's now going out with a man who's about the same age as her, and is not psychologically traumatised by having dinner with me.
So do you think I should be charged as a deviant? A danger to minors? Think very fucking carefully before you answer, because I'm based in the UK, we have joyfully strict libel laws, and the age of consent is 16.
~Cederic
Your shorter examples are saying something different.
The Plain English sentences are offering recommendations and suggestions. Your shorter sentences are prescriptive and mandate certain solutions.
If a long sentence can not be sensibly reduced in size then the Plain English guidance still holds. Yours however insists that the sentence be broken, even if that would actually reduce its readability.
I have no problem with the quality of the English you used, or its simplicity and readability. It just isn't conveying the same intent and message as the English you are attempting to replace. That makes it unfit for purpose.
~Cederic admits he got a shite grade in GCSE English
Anybody takig points off me for handwriting better expect a good (verbal) slapping.
I want my calculus graded by how well I know calculus, not my ability to coordinate hand movements.
>> Free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts, in my view.
If my free speech prevents the ability to hold a fair trial, would you rather
1 - hold an unfair trial
2 - let the accused go free
3 - ask me to hold from exercising my right to free speech until after the trial
Option 1 is a clear no-no. You're risking somebody's life and liberty just so you can open your mouth. Don't even try and defend that one.
Option 2 leads to anarchy. Give everybody a defense of "My trial is unfair due to media coverage" and there'll be no more convictions. Do you really want everybody currently in prison back on the streets?
Option 3 is the Canadian approach. They're saying "feel free to come along and watch" but they're also saying "don't prejudice a criminal trial". This is in my view a correct approach. They aren't preventing anybody from telling their neighbour, they're asking people to delay publication. This ensures that the issues in options 1 and 2 don't occur.
Free speech may well be free speech. A free and fair justice system is however also rather important, and I rather dislike your selfish suggestion that your free speech overrides it.
If there's a snap election, and the Liberty party wins it, so be it. There can be another subsequent election where the populace can vote in full knowledge. No, it's not perfect; it's just better than the alternative.
~Cederic
>> It's slow, bloated, and has no redeeming qualities to make up for it. It even failed at its goal of "write once, run anywhere"
With all respect, there are a lot of very professional programmers proving you wrong daily.
It's pretty standard practice in the enterprise computing world to
- develop in java
- develop on Windows and deploy on Unix
People wouldn't be developing in java if there were no redeeming features. Perhaps it's not suited to your purposes, but it is very definitely very good at enough things to be useful.
Its cross platform capability does exist, and is useful, and is used. Just because some programmers fail to use it doesn't mean it isn't possible.
As for the 256M RAM usage for the Java AIM client: I can write you a C client for AIM that uses 768MB of RAM if you like? Don't judge a language by the code of an individual.
Personally I don't know Python. I have however recommended it to several people as a language to learn to program with. If they can get a job using it, so much the better; if not, it'll at least give them the grounding they need to learn other language skills that are more employable - such as java.
~Cederic
Regretably that's not actually safe at all.
>> BTW, for a good book on the social implications of cheap universal constructors, I suggest the Stephenson's book Diamond Age.
Interesting book, certainly. I'd hesitate to suggest "good".
Some great ideas, some interesting social thought experiments, but as a novel, basically lucky to get published.
So walk out. Ring the lady he interviewed and promise to back her up if she takes him to tribunal.
Don't post to Slashdot and feel you've done your bit by having a rant.
~Cederic
So why are you still working there? Actually, why is he? Don't you have a HR department? Are you completely ignorant of the law on sexual equality? Or do you live in Saudi Arabia or some other woman-hating country?
Don't call him a jerk, get him removed from his position - he's clearly incapable of working within the constraints of normal human decency.
~Cederic
>> I'm not going to refuse if somebody throws money at me for having a vagina
there's a word for that..
However, to avoid trolling: I'm male, technically capable, working in a technical job because of a rational decision to do something I enjoy. I have a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis; I could be earning 60% more as an accountant right now..
The current IT department I'm in has something around a 50% male/female split. However: Less than five of the women are in what I'd call a technical role. The rest are testers, or managers, or doing administrative roles.
This may be due to prejudice in our hiring procedures; I personally don't believe so, but either way it's not relevant to my point: Women ARE in the minority in technical roles in IT.
So you may be afronted by being treated as a minority; from where I'm sat, you ARE a minority.
Why that is, how we reached this situation, what we need to do to move away from it is a separate discussion entirely.
~Cederic
>> his mom (who should clearly kiss his a*s out, but that's another story...)
and one we don't need to hear, thank you.
I hadn't realised it hurt you that bad. I was addicted, and I felt the pain when I wasn't mudding, but when I left uni and got a job, I was several months away from muds and didn't any real issues with it.
These days I'm playing WoW and if the servers died tomorrow, I'd just go back to Battlefield Vietnam or some other 'hot game of the day'.
Sorry it made you miserable, hope you're over it now,
~ced
ps: addicted to the 'net. fuck yes. _that_ would cause much misery if I couldn't get my fix
His post is also naive - he seems to think the Marines will give him a chance to defend the freedoms he has.
So yes, he does need to be lectured.
~Cederic
>> It was terrible journalism. A single unsubstantiated source apparently made a specific false allegation. The reporter (Gilligan) went live on air with no notes, no corroboration and no evidence [...] The BBC deserved to be hung for that.
It was terrible leadership. A single unsubstantiated source apparently made a specific false allegation. The Prime Minister (Blair) went live in Pariliament with no notes, no corroboration and no evidence [...] The Governmnet deserved to be hung for that.
Lets face it - Gilligan was far more accurate that Blair.