Yes, birds love shiny metal. That isn't what they meant when they said "find some chics and get a life." But if you add some color, copper maybe, you can probably attract corvids.
Because the youngest end of their date range is less than 100 years BCE, and off-by-one is close-enough. Likely it 200 years older, but that isn't certain. 350 to 50 BCE is the range given.
I'm still using ICQ to talk to my Bulgarian pen pal. It is still popular there, I hear. I can confirm that I stopped getting unsolicited friend requests over 10 years ago though...
re: Kuwait, it wasn't actors, they went with the lie because they had a female member of the ruling family who had escaped to the US and was pushing convenient propaganda. Another more forgiving perspective is that she was phrasing in the first person things she had been told but didn't actually see. Maybe, but it appears it was just propaganda premised on being spoken by a known semi-public figure. Did Congress know? Some of them probably did. Did they care about the details of that event? No, they cared if similar things were really happening. But they certainly didn't hire actors. The reason for the "actors" part is the counter-propaganda trying to blame the US for having created the Kuwaiti propaganda. They didn't do that, but they did make use of the sound bites.
I thought Scotland was still part of the UK because they voted No...
The depravity of the lowland lords is not limited to selling out the highlands in every war. They refused to admit they're not English even when they were asked politely.
In any case, I say we airdrop Mel Gibson into Syria with a body cam and just see how he does it. No spoilers needed!
Do not just assume that religious nuts demand secrecy and are willing to hide their words.
It is like encryption in WWII. We had to hide from the Germans that we had cracked their code, but the Japanese would never have noticed because their command structure didn't push known bugs upwards. A whistleblower would be seen as lacking faith in the emperor's judgement; insulting him even.
How can those who proclaim they are doing God's work then hide in the shadows? These nutcases regularly blow themselves up with suicide bombs, even when a regular car bomb would do the same job. It is "insane" to question the depth of their commitment. Sure, they're committed to evil stuff that their own religious book tells them not to do, but they have Established Dogma that they're following, and they've proven their commitment. They don't try to hide their communication, they try to trumpet it from the hilltops!
There is a reason why governments want more people to learn certain languages to work as analysts.
So, wait, did you just claim that MIT released a tool to create fake apps out of screenshots of other apps? Or am I reading too much into your statement?
That's easy, just check the opinions of those of us who don't watch television!
Also... the internet DID precede Fox News! The fall of the Soviet Union was live-streamed on IRC. (true story)
You could also find old BBS archives and check the complaint threads. Tinfoil has always been a major driving force of communication technology. They may not always understand the science behind their postings, but they were always able and willing to find money for long distance calls to the FIDO gateway...
Way back when, Don McLean wrote a song called American Pie that he recently admitted was about the death of American culture because of hippies. People declare us dead and gone over and over, but it hasn't stopped us yet.
I understand wanting the cheap one, I do. I don't understand wanting the cheap one to be precise. Fast, good, cheap; choose two. Accepting very slow can only get you to average precision if you already chose cheap.
He should probably make do with making larger, not-lego-format blocks that have a similar usage style but need a little clear tape on the outside to keep it snug. That is more doable next to "cheap." Or, plan to spend up to mid-range.
I didn't say anything about forgiveness. You can't forgive people that haven't even been accused other than by a mob. Forgive them for what? For somebody falsely claiming they were convicted, or equivalent? For somebody else claiming they somehow need forgiveness for a mob having formed? Sounds like history class in Salem, MA to me.
The whole idea that forgiveness is involved is the same offensive immoral unethical bullshit as the rest of the mob. And you even try to push it off on me, claiming I talked about forgiveness. No, you did not understand my words; even though they were literal.
And if Steve Jobs murdered a unicorn or something, I'm sure the whole mob would be blaming this guy, or some other random employee who had to write an email promising to kiss his ass. iPhones in hand. I'll bet over 50% of the whiny editors are still actively paying money to the companies responsible for the crimes they believe took place. I guess it helps to resolve their cognitive dissonance to blame this guy, since he doesn't work there anymore. Or maybe, he isn't to blame for the sins of Jobs. And BTW, a mob doesn't form if you say the name Steve Jobs. A crowd of groupies and well-wishers is all that forms. Hmmmm, curious, isn't it?
Just last week a guy insisted that I'm a complete idiot because I was claiming that computer software can be run by humans using 3x5 cards, without the computer. (That was first year CS at my school...)
When I was in middle school I would write BASIC code on lined paper. I didn't have a computer at home. Usually a program would be mostly complete before I even started typing it in. Works fine if you remember not to write any bugs.;)
A person who can read code has a good start, of course they wouldn't be able to write useful code yet. Has nothing to do with if they've been doing it on a computer, it has to do with if they've been writing code, or just reading it. Different things. Like listening to music and being an educated listener, and learning to read music, then trying to play an instrument. It helps to learn to read music, but it isn't the same thing as playing it and it isn't practice at playing.
If a person did all their robotics programming using a 3d graphics library to simulate gears... they'd get really good at programming control loops. If they read circuit diagrams of control loops for years... they be ready to learn to program a pick and place machine.;)
I did reply to what you said; you didn't address the response, or even begin to. You did not show that you understood my position, and yet you seem to be requesting that I change my view, or claiming my position is incorrect.
It is clear you cannot comprehend the words that I have said, and are not willing to even consider the ethical issues involved in the situation. Too bad.
No, the summary says it is an ethics violation punishable by his civilian professional association. Crimes are punished by the government and have different consequences.
You uncover a key flaw in Cook's reasoning; if they're not bringing those foreign dollars home, then they've no reason to convert them to dollars, and this isn't money they're losing at all. It is just the imaginary "if we brought it home" ticker in his office that is showing a reduced high score.
Ahhh, how cute, the little newbie learned how to call names.
Yes, Mr Genius, people with lower user-id numbers than you are the reason why/. is what it is, for good or bad. If you didn't like it, you shouldn't have stayed. Deal with it somewhere other than on my lawn.
Obviously establishing a boundary wouldn't be the same thing as measuring actual usage. Local tinfoil hats have been protesting about this issue for decades; the electrical meters aren't even accurate!
Your comment reminds me of the wag who asked Edison how many engineering formulas he had memorized. I encourage you to consider your own comments in the context of Edison's well-known answer.
The experiment was verified, sorry you understood incorrectly. What is not correct is the breathless overstatement in the media. All sorts of idiotic things have been said, like that it doesn't use "fuel," even though it claims to be using electricity, which is a real physical thing, and a known energy carrier. Others, even people with letters next to their names, claimed it violates Newton's Third Law, primarily because they forgot how electrons maintain an orbit (photon exchange) and that General Relativity states that it is no violation at all to convert between electricity and momentum.
A lot of stupid things have been said on the subject, and I'm sure a lot more stupid things will be said on it. The lack of veracity in statements by lettered speakers should give a person pause before accepting dismissive proclamations by lettered mobs.
Even when they're pointing at snake oil, they have a hard time not tripping over their own feet and citing the wrong reasons why it isn't what people think.
No, this isn't a vote that anybody is entitled to participate in. They're using/abusing the wikipedia RFC process. It isn't a real vote, nobody is entitled to vote, nobody is authorized or tasked even with counting the votes. It is a protest letter with n signatures, not an actual vote of any kind. Nor was there enough participation to count as any sort of quorum had it been a real vote.
You disbelieve that we won't agree to what you say, but you offer no reason for me to change my view. Seems highly irrational to me. Please look up "theory of mind."
You're not going to convince the majority of educated modern humans that unproven accusations of something horrible counts as a proof of something horrible. And when that type of accusation exists, it is irrational to expect people who demand a trial before the sentencing to suddenly drop their demand.
The mob is just screaming and wailing, and won't stop soon, but wikipedia's board has to respond in a way that is actually ethical, using the ethical principles that human societies agree to. That includes things like being innocent until proven guilty. Ultimately, there is no ethical dilemma in letting editors quit over it; they have that right. But giving the protesters what they ask for in this case would be illegal; and ironically it would violate employment ethics in a well-established way. Serious analysis does not land this protest on the side of supporting workers rights. It is where you want to be, but it isn't where you are.
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Yes, birds love shiny metal. That isn't what they meant when they said "find some chics and get a life." But if you add some color, copper maybe, you can probably attract corvids.
Click the link to their website, and you can understand where things stand. The Age of Slashvertisement hasn't even begun yet....
They also announced the focus will move from technology to Japanese Girl Bands.
3B Junior Rocks!
Oh good, about time they improved things around here.
Domo Arigato Mr Roboto!
Because the youngest end of their date range is less than 100 years BCE, and off-by-one is close-enough. Likely it 200 years older, but that isn't certain. 350 to 50 BCE is the range given.
I'm still using ICQ to talk to my Bulgarian pen pal. It is still popular there, I hear. I can confirm that I stopped getting unsolicited friend requests over 10 years ago though...
re: Kuwait, it wasn't actors, they went with the lie because they had a female member of the ruling family who had escaped to the US and was pushing convenient propaganda. Another more forgiving perspective is that she was phrasing in the first person things she had been told but didn't actually see. Maybe, but it appears it was just propaganda premised on being spoken by a known semi-public figure. Did Congress know? Some of them probably did. Did they care about the details of that event? No, they cared if similar things were really happening. But they certainly didn't hire actors. The reason for the "actors" part is the counter-propaganda trying to blame the US for having created the Kuwaiti propaganda. They didn't do that, but they did make use of the sound bites.
I thought Scotland was still part of the UK because they voted No...
The depravity of the lowland lords is not limited to selling out the highlands in every war. They refused to admit they're not English even when they were asked politely.
In any case, I say we airdrop Mel Gibson into Syria with a body cam and just see how he does it. No spoilers needed!
Do not just assume that religious nuts demand secrecy and are willing to hide their words.
It is like encryption in WWII. We had to hide from the Germans that we had cracked their code, but the Japanese would never have noticed because their command structure didn't push known bugs upwards. A whistleblower would be seen as lacking faith in the emperor's judgement; insulting him even.
How can those who proclaim they are doing God's work then hide in the shadows? These nutcases regularly blow themselves up with suicide bombs, even when a regular car bomb would do the same job. It is "insane" to question the depth of their commitment. Sure, they're committed to evil stuff that their own religious book tells them not to do, but they have Established Dogma that they're following, and they've proven their commitment. They don't try to hide their communication, they try to trumpet it from the hilltops!
There is a reason why governments want more people to learn certain languages to work as analysts.
So, wait, did you just claim that MIT released a tool to create fake apps out of screenshots of other apps? Or am I reading too much into your statement?
That's easy, just check the opinions of those of us who don't watch television!
Also... the internet DID precede Fox News! The fall of the Soviet Union was live-streamed on IRC. (true story)
You could also find old BBS archives and check the complaint threads. Tinfoil has always been a major driving force of communication technology. They may not always understand the science behind their postings, but they were always able and willing to find money for long distance calls to the FIDO gateway...
You mistaken believe him that his right wing isn't the ones pushing it. LOL
Pop quiz, EFF and ACLU are considered right wing, or left wing?
Don't waste your enriched uranium on the bunker power, you won't get much and you need that for armor plating on the blast door.
What you need is 14,000 smoke alarms to make a real reactor out of non-depleted fuel. 20k if you want to be able to run LED hydroponics.
Unfortunately, the shielding requires a fortune in aluminum foil.
News flash, we're still here. Not destroyed.
Way back when, Don McLean wrote a song called American Pie that he recently admitted was about the death of American culture because of hippies. People declare us dead and gone over and over, but it hasn't stopped us yet.
Half a unicorn mane hair width.
I understand wanting the cheap one, I do. I don't understand wanting the cheap one to be precise. Fast, good, cheap; choose two. Accepting very slow can only get you to average precision if you already chose cheap.
He should probably make do with making larger, not-lego-format blocks that have a similar usage style but need a little clear tape on the outside to keep it snug. That is more doable next to "cheap." Or, plan to spend up to mid-range.
I didn't say anything about forgiveness. You can't forgive people that haven't even been accused other than by a mob. Forgive them for what? For somebody falsely claiming they were convicted, or equivalent? For somebody else claiming they somehow need forgiveness for a mob having formed? Sounds like history class in Salem, MA to me.
The whole idea that forgiveness is involved is the same offensive immoral unethical bullshit as the rest of the mob. And you even try to push it off on me, claiming I talked about forgiveness. No, you did not understand my words; even though they were literal.
And if Steve Jobs murdered a unicorn or something, I'm sure the whole mob would be blaming this guy, or some other random employee who had to write an email promising to kiss his ass. iPhones in hand. I'll bet over 50% of the whiny editors are still actively paying money to the companies responsible for the crimes they believe took place. I guess it helps to resolve their cognitive dissonance to blame this guy, since he doesn't work there anymore. Or maybe, he isn't to blame for the sins of Jobs. And BTW, a mob doesn't form if you say the name Steve Jobs. A crowd of groupies and well-wishers is all that forms. Hmmmm, curious, isn't it?
Just last week a guy insisted that I'm a complete idiot because I was claiming that computer software can be run by humans using 3x5 cards, without the computer. (That was first year CS at my school...)
When I was in middle school I would write BASIC code on lined paper. I didn't have a computer at home. Usually a program would be mostly complete before I even started typing it in. Works fine if you remember not to write any bugs. ;)
A person who can read code has a good start, of course they wouldn't be able to write useful code yet. Has nothing to do with if they've been doing it on a computer, it has to do with if they've been writing code, or just reading it. Different things. Like listening to music and being an educated listener, and learning to read music, then trying to play an instrument. It helps to learn to read music, but it isn't the same thing as playing it and it isn't practice at playing.
If a person did all their robotics programming using a 3d graphics library to simulate gears... they'd get really good at programming control loops. If they read circuit diagrams of control loops for years... they be ready to learn to program a pick and place machine. ;)
Often they will not have any stepper motors, only DC motors with optical speed or position sensors.
I did reply to what you said; you didn't address the response, or even begin to. You did not show that you understood my position, and yet you seem to be requesting that I change my view, or claiming my position is incorrect.
It is clear you cannot comprehend the words that I have said, and are not willing to even consider the ethical issues involved in the situation. Too bad.
No, the summary says it is an ethics violation punishable by his civilian professional association. Crimes are punished by the government and have different consequences.
You uncover a key flaw in Cook's reasoning; if they're not bringing those foreign dollars home, then they've no reason to convert them to dollars, and this isn't money they're losing at all. It is just the imaginary "if we brought it home" ticker in his office that is showing a reduced high score.
Ahhh, how cute, the little newbie learned how to call names.
Yes, Mr Genius, people with lower user-id numbers than you are the reason why /. is what it is, for good or bad. If you didn't like it, you shouldn't have stayed. Deal with it somewhere other than on my lawn.
Obviously establishing a boundary wouldn't be the same thing as measuring actual usage. Local tinfoil hats have been protesting about this issue for decades; the electrical meters aren't even accurate!
Your comment reminds me of the wag who asked Edison how many engineering formulas he had memorized. I encourage you to consider your own comments in the context of Edison's well-known answer.
The experiment was verified, sorry you understood incorrectly. What is not correct is the breathless overstatement in the media. All sorts of idiotic things have been said, like that it doesn't use "fuel," even though it claims to be using electricity, which is a real physical thing, and a known energy carrier. Others, even people with letters next to their names, claimed it violates Newton's Third Law, primarily because they forgot how electrons maintain an orbit (photon exchange) and that General Relativity states that it is no violation at all to convert between electricity and momentum.
A lot of stupid things have been said on the subject, and I'm sure a lot more stupid things will be said on it. The lack of veracity in statements by lettered speakers should give a person pause before accepting dismissive proclamations by lettered mobs.
Even when they're pointing at snake oil, they have a hard time not tripping over their own feet and citing the wrong reasons why it isn't what people think.
No, this isn't a vote that anybody is entitled to participate in. They're using/abusing the wikipedia RFC process. It isn't a real vote, nobody is entitled to vote, nobody is authorized or tasked even with counting the votes. It is a protest letter with n signatures, not an actual vote of any kind. Nor was there enough participation to count as any sort of quorum had it been a real vote.
You disbelieve that we won't agree to what you say, but you offer no reason for me to change my view. Seems highly irrational to me. Please look up "theory of mind."
You're not going to convince the majority of educated modern humans that unproven accusations of something horrible counts as a proof of something horrible. And when that type of accusation exists, it is irrational to expect people who demand a trial before the sentencing to suddenly drop their demand.
The mob is just screaming and wailing, and won't stop soon, but wikipedia's board has to respond in a way that is actually ethical, using the ethical principles that human societies agree to. That includes things like being innocent until proven guilty. Ultimately, there is no ethical dilemma in letting editors quit over it; they have that right. But giving the protesters what they ask for in this case would be illegal; and ironically it would violate employment ethics in a well-established way. Serious analysis does not land this protest on the side of supporting workers rights. It is where you want to be, but it isn't where you are.