Scripture makes it very clear how you are supposed to feel about infidels and heretics
Depends on which scripture. I've always 'enjoyed' a good philosophical debate when the person opposing my religion has no clue what my religion even is.
I don't care what religious fundamentalists have to offer. I don't want it. Their ability to make contribute to modern society doesn't undo the harm they cause.
I'd offer to lend you a hand so we could build a wall between the two, but you wouldn't take it, and I wouldn't accept it. In the end, I think we can be unhappy in shouting at each other from across the yard.
This invariably means the person has no evidence for the following statement, isn't looking for evidence and doesn't want to hear any evidence and is sticking his fingers in his ears and going "LALALALALA" against anyone trying to argue his point.
Not always. It could also mean that the person does have 'no doubt' but doesn't feel the need to provide immediate evidence for every single statement in a post on a very informal internet forum.
How about this, Iran is a country which is actively seeking to establish a successful nuclear program. Since they do not have immediate access to all the information and technology to accomplish this, it would not be unreasonable to suspect that they are attempting to recreate that information independently. In such an environment, the fact that they would be conducting experiments in non-identical conditions, they may come to different conclusions, or observe the results from a different light. Because of the limitations on information transfer to Iran, this situation is not limited to nuclear technology.
Or he could keep that paragraph to himself, proving TO HIMSELF that he really does 'have no doubts' that Iran would be making discoveries, and that it would be interesting to hear about them in the West.
Having the ability to do very basic (computer related) things is not, in my experience, related to gender. Even (male) friends who are mechanically inclined are not necessarily computer literate. Part of this is training, part is inclination, but I think there really is something to having "The Knack".
A perfect example would be my father. He IS a mechanic, and if there is some sort of problem that could possibly be solved physically, he will rush off to his workshop, and the next day present his solution. He couldn't use a computer to save his life. Getting him to use googlemaps was a herculean effort that I doubt we could repeat. I can't even get him to know to open firefox and type in the URL.
Yet he built his own bass boat. Designed a latch/hinge system so that his motor could be snapped on the back and manipulated from the front of the boat via pulleys and wire. He incorporated a sonar sensor into the keel, an anchor system, lighting, insulated compartments, and every pintel-mount you could imagine for his poles, tackle, etc. Aside from the electronics, everything on that boat was built from scratch by hand. The bearings and pulley for the anchor system, the articulated arms for holding the poles, even his seat cushions. Some were fashioned from salvaged teflon rollers, crazy stuff. Same thing with his hunting stands, and our patio.
If something can be built with mechanical knowledge and dexterous hands, he can do it. I left him alone at my house for a day and came home to find that he had ROTATED 90 degrees, a slab of concrete ( >1ton) that used to be my parking space so that it would be level and look nicer without cracking it.. He did it in 8 hours, by himself, using nothing but ropes, several steel pipes and some flat steel plates, and rocks. (I don't know how he did it, even to this day and I saw the aparatus that he had made to accomplish it.)
But ask him to google something... and there isn't a chance in hell.
2. Never use, or even think of, the word "goddess" in reference to yourself or other women.
But... the webcomics taught me that a woman can just say 'boobies' and turn a room full of men into gibbering drooling drones willing to go along with whatever the woman's demands are? I suppose the only thing more unfunny after the first 3 iterations of that joke are the women that actually buy into that idea. You know that you've seen/heard them on your message boards or in-game voice-chat.
Fine, you're a goddess, now if you don't mind, the rest of us are actually trying to play the game.
Correction, a very bad LAST day. I for one am damned glad we are looking at that thing from the angle we are. And I hope it or we don't move so that when it does blow, we are looking down the gun barrel. The GRB will be here from that distance, probably within a few days of seeing it go supernova. The question that runs in the back of my alleged mind is: Are these GRB's beamed, or isotopic. If beamed, and we are in the beam...
Not much we can do but make our peace.
Wouldn't the GRB be here at the exact same moment we see it go supernova? Depends on how long it takes a supernova to generate the burst. Of course, assuming that it hasn't yet gone supernova, the instant it does, we would have several thousand years of 'making our peace'.
The good news is that we tend to know fairly accurately (in astronomical scales) when such an event would occur depending on what the star is currently using as fuel. The other good news is that we are moving away from the star as well.
"A" doesn't work. "B" doesn't work. Oh, I know! Let's try "A+B"!
Twit.
My tires won't get me to work, and my car won't work w/o tires.
I'm actually FOR cops with cameras, and streetcorners without cameras. I've never been arrested by a camera, and wish that when I was, there was one there.
Are you saying that we should remove the photos from our IDs? Card + Code + fingerprint = a very hard nut to crack. Biometrics can be faked, but so can every other singular security precaution. That's why you couple them with other security features and never rely on one aspect alone.
My ISP locks me out of the fiber-to-ethernet device they installed in my utility room...
Admittedly it's a cheap lock and the case is plastic, so if I cared I could open it, but that's beside the point.
In that case, the ISP still owns the fiber-to-ethernet device. If you cancel, they may come and take it back. However, if you bought the fiber-to-ethernet device and THEN the ISP put a lock on it, I would have an issue with that.
A friend was checking for job opportunities once that had a really interesting experience requirement. Six months after a particular version of Oracle came out this company wanted to hire people with 2+ years of experience with that specific version of Oracle.
My friend called for more info just to see what they'd say when he mentioned that. I believe at the end they said he had too much experience for the position.;)
I've recently decided to ignore all of the 'experience required' aspects of the job posting. I've seen my own position go up with a '12 years experience in xyz' after I left the position (and I was only working for 5 years)
What I want to know, is who do these companies think they can get with 15+years experience while offering a 60k/yr job in DC.
Let's say you're correct and they do use it. How do you prove it? They can always find a reason not to hire you. My favourite: your skills don't match.
I've had that happen, even within my current company.
Example: I've worked on widget X for 5 years, the job posting was looking for people with 5 years experience, at least 50% of which was on widget X or similar technologies.
I applied for the position and was denied with a nearly automated response: "Related work experience insufficient." Within the same company. After discussions with management and my HR, and reviewing my resume, they came to the conclusion "They probably had someone pre-picked for the job and just posted the position because its policy".
(I'm about to take a new job because someone actively sought me out because of my reputation with widget x, but getting that first denial code was pretty infuriating)
It's my understanding from some friends in the Scranton area that the judges are now open to civil lawsuits. So they have 5000 potential plaintiffs who can sue them for damages.
They also lose their state pensions, and I believe Pennsylvania has a law on the books preventing them from earning any profit from a book deal.
I hope they end up without a penny.
As do I, what they did offends me on almost every level. Corruption and greed that funded itself based on sending people into incarceration sickens me.
However, my post was made on the premise of stashed money. What civil suit can keep them from going overseas and cracking open their hidden savings?
Sure they lose their career, but they lose very little freedom. And lets face it, they were pulling in millions of dollars. 3 years in prison isn't much deterrent when the payout reaches millions of dollars.
What if they stashed the money away (It doesn't sound like they are paying it back). I'd LOVE to be fired and still be sitting on 500k-1million dollars.
Third, it's the story that makes films great. Without a good script, a film is meaningless. I mean look how much effort the storytellers of the game put in to tell a great story in an fps shooter. I don't think it's a wise thing to boast that one has no script.
If the build it up episodic, then they may mean that they have no idea where the story will take them. Which isn't so bad if you think about it. With proper acting (which at some points, this was lacking) this type of genre can work without much of an overall script. Improvisation works well with a 'escape from the city while fighting zombies and aliens' type story.
Like you said, those computer generated effects take time, so while one guy works on that, another can work on the next scene's story.
Nope. I like my analogy the way it is. Thanks though. If I want to fix it, I'll fix it myself. Kind of like how I don't want Microsoft 'fixing' my DLLs.;)
Who's to say that Microsoft is just protecting installed DLL files, not necessarily per any vendor's request? Locking down the OS to make it more secure and all that stuff people rag on them for. Just sayin.
I don't administer linux so I don't know, but is this how Linux protects its DLL files?
So continuous treatment might be required? Side effects of prop. can be worse than the memories maybe?
Really, what's wrong with spending money on counselling instead?
Sometimes counseling doesn't or won't work. 10+ years is enough for me to say that another 10 years won't work. And those side effects that you listed? I'd consider them minor, others might not, but that's their decision to make.
No it does not. It merely means that some vague online identity/identities, (which may in fact be the same person), are saying that the person in this picture is called 'x'. Quite different from real verification.
I could create a 100 sockpuppets on Facebook and say that it was 'me' in a picture kissing Heidi Klum; would not make it true. Damn
In the world of politics, it wouldn't matter if it was true or not. You would be associated with that picture, it WOULD be you, because 100 'people' said it was, and 1 (you) said it wasn't. This isn't a court of law, it is the court of public opinion, and if you get tagged in a picture, it will run through the media outlets until it IS 'true'.
A retraction might be mentioned 2 months later. But you would have already lost the election by then.
RTFM. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's a good habit to get into. I do all sorts of web stuff for my flatmates' band, and you have to read stuff very carefully to make sure you're OK with the T&C.
Harsh and ignorant. A lot of us did read the terms of service and decided that it was ok, based on the clause that they have now removed.
I felt comfortable posting pictures there, based on the idea that I could remove them at a later date should I decide to exploit them commercially. However, without that clause, I would not have uploaded the pictures.
Why not try NOT having them sign a contract that says the company owns every idea that they have for the rest of their lives? Instead, any an all ideas should belong to the creator of the idea, unless they sell the rights to the company (this should be the employee's choise). The company can then evaluate the idea and if they use it, they have to pay a fee to the employee, plus 10% of any profits (if any) generated.
As someone who hates that clause in his contract, I do see the need for it.
W/ your model you run the risk of having a serious amount of litigation should there be some employee who feels that they worked on something that their company took from them. What constitutes the profits for your invention of a new door handle on a line of cars? Where do you calculate that percentage?
Why is it, that the people, who criticize the cameras from two opposing angles: They aren't effective for identifying people. They invade privacy (by letting cops identify people).
are never seen arguing with one another?
When you take those two viewpoints, it initially seems that they are in conflict, but in fact, they support each other. Allow me to explain.
They are indeed not very effective, they are often angled in such a manner that a simple baseball cap and hoodie will conceal a persons identity. If you were to improve them, or change their angles so that they were effective, then you would further increase the amount by which they invade your privacy.
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selling myself into indentured servitude
I do wonder how that differs from today's concept of debt.
Scripture makes it very clear how you are supposed to feel about infidels and heretics
Depends on which scripture. I've always 'enjoyed' a good philosophical debate when the person opposing my religion has no clue what my religion even is.
I don't care what religious fundamentalists have to offer. I don't want it. Their ability to make contribute to modern society doesn't undo the harm they cause.
I'd offer to lend you a hand so we could build a wall between the two, but you wouldn't take it, and I wouldn't accept it. In the end, I think we can be unhappy in shouting at each other from across the yard.
That'll show em.
This invariably means the person has no evidence for the following statement, isn't looking for evidence and doesn't want to hear any evidence and is sticking his fingers in his ears and going "LALALALALA" against anyone trying to argue his point.
Not always. It could also mean that the person does have 'no doubt' but doesn't feel the need to provide immediate evidence for every single statement in a post on a very informal internet forum.
How about this, Iran is a country which is actively seeking to establish a successful nuclear program. Since they do not have immediate access to all the information and technology to accomplish this, it would not be unreasonable to suspect that they are attempting to recreate that information independently. In such an environment, the fact that they would be conducting experiments in non-identical conditions, they may come to different conclusions, or observe the results from a different light. Because of the limitations on information transfer to Iran, this situation is not limited to nuclear technology.
Or he could keep that paragraph to himself, proving TO HIMSELF that he really does 'have no doubts' that Iran would be making discoveries, and that it would be interesting to hear about them in the West.
This is Slashdot, not a science journal.
Having the ability to do very basic (computer related) things is not, in my experience, related to gender. Even (male) friends who are mechanically inclined are not necessarily computer literate. Part of this is training, part is inclination, but I think there really is something to having "The Knack".
A perfect example would be my father. He IS a mechanic, and if there is some sort of problem that could possibly be solved physically, he will rush off to his workshop, and the next day present his solution. He couldn't use a computer to save his life. Getting him to use googlemaps was a herculean effort that I doubt we could repeat. I can't even get him to know to open firefox and type in the URL.
Yet he built his own bass boat. Designed a latch/hinge system so that his motor could be snapped on the back and manipulated from the front of the boat via pulleys and wire. He incorporated a sonar sensor into the keel, an anchor system, lighting, insulated compartments, and every pintel-mount you could imagine for his poles, tackle, etc. Aside from the electronics, everything on that boat was built from scratch by hand. The bearings and pulley for the anchor system, the articulated arms for holding the poles, even his seat cushions. Some were fashioned from salvaged teflon rollers, crazy stuff. Same thing with his hunting stands, and our patio.
If something can be built with mechanical knowledge and dexterous hands, he can do it. I left him alone at my house for a day and came home to find that he had ROTATED 90 degrees, a slab of concrete ( >1ton) that used to be my parking space so that it would be level and look nicer without cracking it.. He did it in 8 hours, by himself, using nothing but ropes, several steel pipes and some flat steel plates, and rocks. (I don't know how he did it, even to this day and I saw the aparatus that he had made to accomplish it.)
But ask him to google something... and there isn't a chance in hell.
2. Never use, or even think of, the word "goddess" in reference to yourself or other women.
But... the webcomics taught me that a woman can just say 'boobies' and turn a room full of men into gibbering drooling drones willing to go along with whatever the woman's demands are? I suppose the only thing more unfunny after the first 3 iterations of that joke are the women that actually buy into that idea. You know that you've seen/heard them on your message boards or in-game voice-chat.
Fine, you're a goddess, now if you don't mind, the rest of us are actually trying to play the game.
Correction, a very bad LAST day. I for one am damned glad we are looking at that thing from the angle we are. And I hope it or we don't move so that when it does blow, we are looking down the gun barrel. The GRB will be here from that distance, probably within a few days of seeing it go supernova. The question that runs in the back of my alleged mind is: Are these GRB's beamed, or isotopic. If beamed, and we are in the beam...
Not much we can do but make our peace.
Wouldn't the GRB be here at the exact same moment we see it go supernova? Depends on how long it takes a supernova to generate the burst. Of course, assuming that it hasn't yet gone supernova, the instant it does, we would have several thousand years of 'making our peace'.
The good news is that we tend to know fairly accurately (in astronomical scales) when such an event would occur depending on what the star is currently using as fuel. The other good news is that we are moving away from the star as well.
"A" doesn't work.
"B" doesn't work.
Oh, I know! Let's try "A+B"!
Twit.
My tires won't get me to work, and my car won't work w/o tires.
I'm actually FOR cops with cameras, and streetcorners without cameras. I've never been arrested by a camera, and wish that when I was, there was one there.
I remember a time when content ripping and P2P downloading required an "expert". Not anymore.
I don't remember a time when either of those were mandated by law.
The challenge is not to find a google search that returns illegal torrents, but to find a TPB search that doesn't.
Yeah, yeah, I know, linux, etc, but you have to admit that TPB is primarily about the copyright infringement. Google is not.
Glad that you proved your own rhetorical statement wrong in your own post.
Yeah, yeah, I know, not what you were intending, but you have to admit that.
That is where biometrics really falls flat.
Are you saying that we should remove the photos from our IDs?
Card + Code + fingerprint = a very hard nut to crack. Biometrics can be faked, but so can every other singular security precaution. That's why you couple them with other security features and never rely on one aspect alone.
Besides, which fingerprint did you plan on using?
My ISP locks me out of the fiber-to-ethernet device they installed in my utility room...
Admittedly it's a cheap lock and the case is plastic, so if I cared I could open it, but that's beside the point.
In that case, the ISP still owns the fiber-to-ethernet device. If you cancel, they may come and take it back. However, if you bought the fiber-to-ethernet device and THEN the ISP put a lock on it, I would have an issue with that.
A friend was checking for job opportunities once that had a really interesting experience requirement. Six months after a particular version of Oracle came out this company wanted to hire people with 2+ years of experience with that specific version of Oracle.
My friend called for more info just to see what they'd say when he mentioned that. I believe at the end they said he had too much experience for the position. ;)
I've recently decided to ignore all of the 'experience required' aspects of the job posting. I've seen my own position go up with a '12 years experience in xyz' after I left the position (and I was only working for 5 years)
What I want to know, is who do these companies think they can get with 15+years experience while offering a 60k/yr job in DC.
Let's say you're correct and they do use it. How do you prove it? They can always find a reason not to hire you. My favourite: your skills don't match.
I've had that happen, even within my current company.
Example: I've worked on widget X for 5 years, the job posting was looking for people with 5 years experience, at least 50% of which was on widget X or similar technologies.
I applied for the position and was denied with a nearly automated response: "Related work experience insufficient." Within the same company. After discussions with management and my HR, and reviewing my resume, they came to the conclusion "They probably had someone pre-picked for the job and just posted the position because its policy".
(I'm about to take a new job because someone actively sought me out because of my reputation with widget x, but getting that first denial code was pretty infuriating)
It's my understanding from some friends in the Scranton area that the judges are now open to civil lawsuits. So they have 5000 potential plaintiffs who can sue them for damages.
They also lose their state pensions, and I believe Pennsylvania has a law on the books preventing them from earning any profit from a book deal.
I hope they end up without a penny.
As do I, what they did offends me on almost every level. Corruption and greed that funded itself based on sending people into incarceration sickens me.
However, my post was made on the premise of stashed money. What civil suit can keep them from going overseas and cracking open their hidden savings?
Sure they lose their career, but they lose very little freedom. And lets face it, they were pulling in millions of dollars. 3 years in prison isn't much deterrent when the payout reaches millions of dollars.
What if they stashed the money away (It doesn't sound like they are paying it back). I'd LOVE to be fired and still be sitting on 500k-1million dollars.
Third, it's the story that makes films great. Without a good script, a film is meaningless. I mean look how much effort the storytellers of the game put in to tell a great story in an fps shooter. I don't think it's a wise thing to boast that one has no script.
If the build it up episodic, then they may mean that they have no idea where the story will take them. Which isn't so bad if you think about it. With proper acting (which at some points, this was lacking) this type of genre can work without much of an overall script. Improvisation works well with a 'escape from the city while fighting zombies and aliens' type story.
Like you said, those computer generated effects take time, so while one guy works on that, another can work on the next scene's story.
Nope. I like my analogy the way it is. Thanks though. If I want to fix it, I'll fix it myself. Kind of like how I don't want Microsoft 'fixing' my DLLs. ;)
Who's to say that Microsoft is just protecting installed DLL files, not necessarily per any vendor's request? Locking down the OS to make it more secure and all that stuff people rag on them for. Just sayin.
I don't administer linux so I don't know, but is this how Linux protects its DLL files?
So continuous treatment might be required? Side effects of prop. can be worse than the memories maybe?
Really, what's wrong with spending money on counselling instead?
Sometimes counseling doesn't or won't work. 10+ years is enough for me to say that another 10 years won't work. And those side effects that you listed? I'd consider them minor, others might not, but that's their decision to make.
i'm not seeing how MS has done you wrong. use the app as licensed. this is like criminals whining about people putting better locks on their houses.
No, this is like me buying a bicycle from you, and you putting proprietary locks on the axles to prevent me from switching them w/o your permission.
No it does not. It merely means that some vague online identity/identities, (which may in fact be the same person), are saying that the person in this picture is called 'x'. Quite different from real verification.
I could create a 100 sockpuppets on Facebook and say that it was 'me' in a picture kissing Heidi Klum; would not make it true. Damn
In the world of politics, it wouldn't matter if it was true or not. You would be associated with that picture, it WOULD be you, because 100 'people' said it was, and 1 (you) said it wasn't. This isn't a court of law, it is the court of public opinion, and if you get tagged in a picture, it will run through the media outlets until it IS 'true'.
A retraction might be mentioned 2 months later. But you would have already lost the election by then.
RTFM. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's a good habit to get into. I do all sorts of web stuff for my flatmates' band, and you have to read stuff very carefully to make sure you're OK with the T&C.
Harsh and ignorant. A lot of us did read the terms of service and decided that it was ok, based on the clause that they have now removed.
I felt comfortable posting pictures there, based on the idea that I could remove them at a later date should I decide to exploit them commercially. However, without that clause, I would not have uploaded the pictures.
Why not try NOT having them sign a contract that says the company owns every idea that they have for the rest of their lives? Instead, any an all ideas should belong to the creator of the idea, unless they sell the rights to the company (this should be the employee's choise). The company can then evaluate the idea and if they use it, they have to pay a fee to the employee, plus 10% of any profits (if any) generated.
As someone who hates that clause in his contract, I do see the need for it.
W/ your model you run the risk of having a serious amount of litigation should there be some employee who feels that they worked on something that their company took from them. What constitutes the profits for your invention of a new door handle on a line of cars? Where do you calculate that percentage?
Why is it, that the people, who criticize the cameras from two opposing angles:
They aren't effective for identifying people.
They invade privacy (by letting cops identify people).
are never seen arguing with one another?
When you take those two viewpoints, it initially seems that they are in conflict, but in fact, they support each other. Allow me to explain.
They are indeed not very effective, they are often angled in such a manner that a simple baseball cap and hoodie will conceal a persons identity. If you were to improve them, or change their angles so that they were effective, then you would further increase the amount by which they invade your privacy.
See why they don't argue now?