It takes a lot of intelligence to repeatedly hit a small ball with a stick.
And hit that little ball into a little hole that you can't even see? You're fucking right it takes a lot of intelligence, if by intelligence you mean proprioception, patience, strategy, and the ability to think "over the horizon".
Maybe the reason you work in tech is that you lack imagination and creativity.
If you see it as a "hobby" then you're probably not the ones they're talking about.
The chair of the math department that my wife works in took up sculpture in his 50s. He's 72 now, and still working in math at a very high level, publishing constantly it seems. His work shows at galleries and exhibitions and he's getting known almost as much for his sculpture as for his math. There is a difference between a "hobby" and true amateurism.
Don't take it from me, take it from no less an eminence than the great Wayne Booth:
He has anger, and an apparent inability to filter his mouth, and I approve of the chaos he'd cause in DC. Like I said, random change is almost certainly an improvement.
Maybe. That chaos could also easily throw us into overt fascism. Remember, our civil institutions are becoming increasingly secondary to the corporate ones.
If government goes to hell, who do you think is going to step into the vacuum that creates? It ain't gonna be Thomas fucking Jefferson.
As I said, I've noticed an improvement in the quality of the people going into policing over the past years. I agree that people who come out of the military are often very well suited for jobs in the civilian world. But there's always been a problem with bullies gravitating to local policing. And because of the length of the current "wars" we've been fighting, there are a lot of people who've gone into policing who've done too many tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and could probably use a time out from carrying a weapon.
Fortunately, in many areas, police departments have become more enlightened about these issues. As it did in the military, diversity has had a positive effect on many police departments too.
I've seen it myself. Today's police officer has a gun (often 2 guns), a baton, a knife, a taser, pepper spray, steel-toed boots, a ballistic vest and a radio. And yet police today are the biggest pussies I've ever seen. They dress like extras from RoboCop and yet they're scared shitless and feel "threatened" by a teenager wearing a t-shirt and shorts. When did cops turn into such pants-wetting pussies? When did they become such chicken-shit cowards?
I believe it has something to do with the end of the draft.
When were younger, the police were made up mainly of people who had been in the military. But they had been drafted into the military so the chances were good that a lot of them were just regular people who needed a job and wanted to serve and protect. Today, an even higher percentage of police are ex-military, but these jackoffs volunteered to go to some third-world country to massacre brown people. They probably got turned down by the Blackwater/Xe/Academi type outfits where they could make some real money menacing people, and instead ended up on local police forces, thinking of themselves as some kind of liberating/occupying force in residential neighborhoods. They don't think of serving the public as much as they do fighting the public
There were always bad/brutal cops, but today, it's de rigueur to be bad/brutal.
Having said all that, I live near the Chicago Police Academy, and they're starting to get higher-quality recruits. But the bad/brutal jackoffs are now brass, trained in the First Gulf War, and think every policing issue requires the use of armored vehicles and snipers. So that's how they get trained. I'm hoping the next generation is a little better.
Proprietary hardware? There are patented pieces of hardware in Macs, but since the move to Intel people seem to have not had problems making Hackintoshes out of standard equipment. OSX is a proprietary software layer on an open source base, which would suggest it doesn't need patented hardware.
Apple specifically mentioned patents (as well as copyrights, violations of EULA, etc) in their legal filings when suing Psystar for making Hackintoshes.
Ah, we see how people dive in to defend the establishment by likening an anti-establishment candidate to the Nazis.
You think billionaire Donald Trump is the "anti-establishment candidate"? You believe he wants to upset the status quo? It never once occurred to you that a guy who's the product of an inheritance and expensive marketing might just be saying shit he thinks knuckleheads like you want to hear?
Trump and Sanders have the most important thing in common: they'll actually change something if elected.
You dummy. The only thing Donald Trump will change if he's elected is the name of the White House. For his entire career, he's given financial support to the most mainstream, establishment candidates from both parties. And now you believe he's some renegade who's going to upset the apple cart.
You really don't have the sense you were born with, do you?
Your gait may not be able to tell you anything about your emotional health, but it certainly can tell you something about how long you'll probably live.
Yeah, it should. I've been using KeePass 2.x for over a year and KeePassX won't import or access those databases. And, of course, KeePass 1.x won't read my 2.x database either, so I can't move it over.
I keep watching KeePassX for KeePass 2.x support. Then, I'm golden.
I hope there's not some serious vulnerability to KeePass that I haven't heard about. That little program is a lifesaver for me. Unfortunately, the Mac version is rekt so I can't run it on any of our Apple hardware.
You really think it was designed to increase inequality? Seriously? That is for to laugh. It was designed to make money without regard to equality, inequality, sustainability, or anything else.
You're probably right. The digital divide benefits those who benefit from inequality. For them, inequality is a feature, not a bug. They use the digital divide to enhance their position.
Dunno... back when I was young and poor, I paid $10/mo for a cheap dialup ISP account (with 200 whopping hours a month access time), and literally *built* my rigs from spare parts and carcasses at the local computer shops (to give you an idea, my very first VGA monitor needed a new capacitor and I still paid $75 for it). Sometimes I'd straight-up barter parts if I stumbled across something useful.
That's nothing. I used to hunt and skin neighborhood cats to make my own underwear and socks. I literally used their guts for garters.
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And hit that little ball into a little hole that you can't even see? You're fucking right it takes a lot of intelligence, if by intelligence you mean proprioception, patience, strategy, and the ability to think "over the horizon".
Maybe the reason you work in tech is that you lack imagination and creativity.
If you see it as a "hobby" then you're probably not the ones they're talking about.
The chair of the math department that my wife works in took up sculpture in his 50s. He's 72 now, and still working in math at a very high level, publishing constantly it seems. His work shows at galleries and exhibitions and he's getting known almost as much for his sculpture as for his math. There is a difference between a "hobby" and true amateurism.
Don't take it from me, take it from no less an eminence than the great Wayne Booth:
http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc...
Don't worry, it gets easier.
Remember: progress not perfection.
Maybe. That chaos could also easily throw us into overt fascism. Remember, our civil institutions are becoming increasingly secondary to the corporate ones.
If government goes to hell, who do you think is going to step into the vacuum that creates? It ain't gonna be Thomas fucking Jefferson.
As I said, I've noticed an improvement in the quality of the people going into policing over the past years. I agree that people who come out of the military are often very well suited for jobs in the civilian world. But there's always been a problem with bullies gravitating to local policing. And because of the length of the current "wars" we've been fighting, there are a lot of people who've gone into policing who've done too many tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and could probably use a time out from carrying a weapon.
Fortunately, in many areas, police departments have become more enlightened about these issues. As it did in the military, diversity has had a positive effect on many police departments too.
I believe it has something to do with the end of the draft.
When were younger, the police were made up mainly of people who had been in the military. But they had been drafted into the military so the chances were good that a lot of them were just regular people who needed a job and wanted to serve and protect. Today, an even higher percentage of police are ex-military, but these jackoffs volunteered to go to some third-world country to massacre brown people. They probably got turned down by the Blackwater/Xe/Academi type outfits where they could make some real money menacing people, and instead ended up on local police forces, thinking of themselves as some kind of liberating/occupying force in residential neighborhoods. They don't think of serving the public as much as they do fighting the public
There were always bad/brutal cops, but today, it's de rigueur to be bad/brutal.
Having said all that, I live near the Chicago Police Academy, and they're starting to get higher-quality recruits. But the bad/brutal jackoffs are now brass, trained in the First Gulf War, and think every policing issue requires the use of armored vehicles and snipers. So that's how they get trained. I'm hoping the next generation is a little better.
Bastard stole a pack of Philly Blunts. Clearly he deserved to die.
So, the man you claim isn't "bright enough" to be cunning is bright enough to have a coherent set of policies?
But it does explain why you'd support him.
Forget it, Jake. It's Texas.
Apple specifically mentioned patents (as well as copyrights, violations of EULA, etc) in their legal filings when suing Psystar for making Hackintoshes.
You think billionaire Donald Trump is the "anti-establishment candidate"? You believe he wants to upset the status quo? It never once occurred to you that a guy who's the product of an inheritance and expensive marketing might just be saying shit he thinks knuckleheads like you want to hear?
You dummy. The only thing Donald Trump will change if he's elected is the name of the White House. For his entire career, he's given financial support to the most mainstream, establishment candidates from both parties. And now you believe he's some renegade who's going to upset the apple cart.
You really don't have the sense you were born with, do you?
That's because he couldn't spell "extrajudicial".
It's looking more like Germany in the '30s every day.
http://www.slate.com/content/d...
https://prod01-cdn06.cdn.first...
https://markosun.files.wordpre...
No, it wasn't "middle America" that asked for a culture of fear.
It was our political and financial elite that forced one upon us.
Your gait may not be able to tell you anything about your emotional health, but it certainly can tell you something about how long you'll probably live.
http://www.livescience.com/104...
That's because MIT is trying to prepare students for the corporate environment. It's job training, really.
Yeah, it should. I've been using KeePass 2.x for over a year and KeePassX won't import or access those databases. And, of course, KeePass 1.x won't read my 2.x database either, so I can't move it over.
I keep watching KeePassX for KeePass 2.x support. Then, I'm golden.
I hope there's not some serious vulnerability to KeePass that I haven't heard about. That little program is a lifesaver for me. Unfortunately, the Mac version is rekt so I can't run it on any of our Apple hardware.
No, the worst mass shooting in US history was by the sons of farmers, ranchers and merchants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're probably right. The digital divide benefits those who benefit from inequality. For them, inequality is a feature, not a bug. They use the digital divide to enhance their position.
I do.
https://scholar.google.com/sch...
The digital divide is real.
How do you text someone in order to network for jobs from an old computer in the library? It's not the hardware, it's the milieu.
The digital divide is real.
There are patents on the proprietary hardware needed to make OSX run.
That's nothing. I used to hunt and skin neighborhood cats to make my own underwear and socks. I literally used their guts for garters.
Or, you know...
https://youtu.be/RD_44xEEDjU
That's called "income" and for most people, it's shrinking.