Ive come to find in my scientific research that black people have a tremendous underrepresentation in the STEM fields. My proposal im sure youll find unique and enriching, is of course to create a special school. This school, for blacks only of course, would focus on fostering STEM education. Ideally this school, while entirely ignoring existing structural inequality and systemic racism in society predicating everything from wage to employment discrimination, will serve as a beacon for for 21st century STEM future.
However should it become too cost prohibitive, or should quarterly market revenue predictions indicate the inability to fellate shareholders with ever glorious profits increasing in an unsustainably linear fashion, I'll close the school and turn it into an H1B visa advocacy think tank. Should this fail too, I'll renovate the first floor into an Urban Outfitters and the second floor will become a janitorial company entirely unrelated to race, class, or capitalist striafication in america. Failing these remarkable endeavors I have another project my stakeholders have approved which involves grinding human bone to a fine powder, then amalgamating this dust with adhesives manufactured from endangered birds and creating a final product suitable to paint road lines.
Scientist 1: nature is wonderous in its mystery, its complexity and its form. But rarely have any of us asked the question where does the dog, the canine, come from? Scientist 2: thats not what we should be asking at all. theres no scientific inquiry to be had and the topic just distracts from serious and important issues like... Scientist 1: Like the origin of dog! how long have dogs been here?! how did they evolve? have the always been mans best friend? Scientist 2: Im getting real sick of your shit, jerry, we both know its your dog thats crapping all over my yard. Scientist 1: but we cannot be certain until we delve into the scientific nature of dog! Scientist 2: oh for christsake.
Good business practice? Silly boosterism? Enlightened self-interest?
how about a lack of understanding of exactly how millionaires and the wealthy operate in society. The fact that this CEO took more than a tenfold pay decrease is irrelevant. hes paid for homes and invested heavily in stocks to such a degree that he, like other rich people, lives off dividends and interest from investment. These forms of income, as our plutocrats have decreed, are taxed much less than wage income, what the average dirt-riddled peasant earns. While his salary might be paltry it also misrepresents what C level pay really represents as a token of corporate esteem and establishment. in other words, C level pay is a mark of status for a company.
the sad fact is by reducing his pay to the level of commoners, hes done an excellent job of reducing the amount of taxes he pays. the good news is Hes also given free publicity to the company and likely reduced turnover. Ultimately Dans private college attendance infers hes quite a bit more well-to-do than one might think. A trust fund does wonders to the average business owners outlook on the world.
some argue that having the ability to report someone with just the click of a button may not be a good thing.
No, you dont understand. This is the internet, but more importantly, its 4chan. I want you to envision a storm of millions of reports, hundreds of millions even, of the same perpetrator, Mooty McMootykins. He stands 21 inches tall and shoots cookies from his arse. The student attends $university and is majoring in hitler-did-nothing-wrong. Students should beware of a man dressed as a watermelon who propositions victims with "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" Students have reported that mcmootykins cannot be stopped because you cannot flim flam the zim zam. he also evades approach because you cant corner the dorner. each report ends confirming the students suspicion that the perpetrator suffers from gender ptsd caused by his planetkin alignment and inability to remove kebab.
Having worked on this problem for a while, ive found exactly 5 total hoaxes on wikipedia (no more.) Please remove the following articles:
1. Edward Snowden: is not actually a person, this is an old wives tale. E. Snowden is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Aechmea in the Bromeliad family.
2. 9/11: Although commonly thought of as a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of several thousand americans, this too is just a silly rumour. 9/11 is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
3. Barack Obama: This fools several laymen and scholars alike! Obama isnt a president, but was a motor race set to Formula One rules, held on 30 July 1950. The race was won by Argentinean driver Juan Manuel Fangio after a distance of 68 laps.
4. Christmas: Again, not a holiday at all. He was actually a Polish Air Force Captain and Allied double agent during World War II, using the codename Brutus. After having been offered safety by the Germans, he was sent to England as an agent. However, he made himself known to the British authorities. He was de-briefed by the British (MI6) and Polish authorities about the security lapses of his organization in France. And thats why we have Christmas trees today!
5. Computers: could NEVER have been real, and most of us know this one to be true. The computer is actually a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. As of 2009, he works as an assistant coach with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
I love inventors, hackers, and the like, but as an automotive envineer for a large manufacturer that rhymes with Wanda, this has some serious flaws:
it has a camera pointed at me from the corner of the windshield recording my every eye movement
Unless you're looking over your shoulder to execute a reverse maneuver from a parking space or driveway, which is generally good form in driving and encouraged in DMV training, then its useless.
it can predict what I'm going to do behind the wheel seconds before I do it.
Unless the collision is due to a preventable combination of excessive speed, poor visibility and road conditions, and insufficient vehicle maintenance in which case the system isnt helpful. youll also find a high rate of false positives for the following:
1. glancing toward the radio and climate controls.
2. large vehicles. Trucks, semis, and even imposing suv's can cause subconscious distraction from the road and unpredictable eye movement.
3. rain, snow, anything that hits the windshield in general, causes strange eye movement. squinting, blinking, you name it. There is an entire physiology to why we subconsciously act the way we do when something hits a windscreen.
4. Your phone. buzzing, beeping, will cause subconscious visual abberation and deviation.
5. entering and exiting tunnels causes pupil tracking issues, eye movement, and a range of other light sensitive problems for most tracking rigs. you actively have to compensate for a pulsing, somewhat unpredictable level of cockpit light. how the human eye does this is amazing to me.
So in terms of production automobiles, we've gotten exceedingly good at keeping soft, warm, impact prone parts of the human body from being badly injured or damaged. 8-12 airbags are fairly standard on most cars these days. Autobraking is a fairly simple technology as well, so expect to see that on more models. But the number one reason why safety in a car continues to decline is speed. Drivers routinely make false assumptions that roads are 'rated for' speeds higher than the limit, or that its casual and normal to go faster, or that their car is 'capable' of faster speeds when they dont realize the limiting factor in he equation is the human. human reaction times are fine for anything less than 9.8m/s^2, but above that we're horrible. speed limits factor in surviveability for both vehicles as well, not just your Canyonero SUV. Inattentive drivers? sure, but the technology has existed in Mercedes for 10 years, and lane assit warning tech helps catch the glaring problems with most drivers. Disclaimer: the company i work for has tried optical tracking in the past.
Blame Austria for their baseless breech of the immunity and inviolability of a president and their aircraft. Diplomatic protocol is widely known and respected across Europe.
Blame Spain, Portugal, and France for falling lock-step in line with Washingtons witch hunt, instead of championing their own sovreignity and autonomy.
Blame the United States for violating diplomatic protocol, strong-arming foreign nations, and once again doing it all without so much as a shred of concrete evidence.
but dont blame Snowden. If anything he simply exposed the cowardice of European member states and the desparate measures to which a broken superpower would go to readily secure their latest antihero in preparation for kangaroo court.
If we were to analyze the situation another way, Imagine Bolivia were so desperate to bring George Bush to trial for Iraqi warcrimes that it forced the presidents jet to land in Lithuania and be forcibly searched for 9/11 documents.
AGM-129 cruise missile Hey guise! i found your target and ill be there in about 7 minutes:) USS Rosevelt OK cool.....er...hang on a second that target might not be legitimate...it might be friendly? AGM-129 o...k...guise im going 500 miles per hour here so i kind of need an answer... USS Rosevelt: so heres the thing, we supported the guy in 1991, but then we invaded in 2002 and we thought he had chemical weapons, see...but...its complicated AGM-129 How complicated, complicated like Jeopardy or like my INERTIAL GUIDANCE GPS TRACKING thats about to intercept the target you told me to find. because its coming up REAL QUICK. I just passed that starbucks the other AGM mentioned... USS Rosevelt:OK OK new story. this is about freedom...patriotism... AGM-129: for the last time IM NOT A PATRIOT hes still on the ship im an AGM-129 dear lord please make a decision USS Rosevelt: You know what? screw it. we'll just tell people we're bringing democracy, or quarter pounders, or something. whatever. AGM-129 so is that a yes or what because I har3@$T(^&*[CARRIER LOST] USS Rosevelt: Yep. Democracy.
wayback machine trips to old soviet satellites are always a thrill until you realized what these states were: Speed bumps. Most satellites had to be gobbled up as part of soviet expansionist communisms ethos, but they were actually a substantial economic drain on Moscow. the education was poor, most societies were agrarian, and infrastructure was infantile compared to the motherland. Capitalizing on them meant shoveling nuclear and civil works projects into them, pumping billions rubles into their coffers while doing so. Education was immediately improved, but the focus on mathematics and sciences was dwarfed by the local politburo members to ensure they had enough cobblers, welders, masons, and mechanics to forge what the USSR had ultimately envisioned. Personal computing was a distant third in a lot of ways and by the time the Afghan war had metasticized into a full-blown proxy war with the US, many satellite states were simply human fodder for a meat-grinder campaign that saw heavy casualties on all sides.
So if youre old enough to remember your first mouse, dont take that for granted. your duly assigned Glorious Leader for the region was under immense pressure to turn it into a socket wrench, or a kalashnikov.
I'll admit i was originally apprehensive of getting out of bed at all today until i remembered, with the help of my scheduling butler, the arrival of apples newest wristwatch. Perusing my collection of rare finds from Rolex this morning in the yachts liesure room, as I certainly couldnt bare the shame of being seen in public without a standard timepiece, I chose to dress down as I'd be among the city folk today. Stepping off my yacht and into my helicopter, I could hardly contain my anticipation and as soon as I arrived and my driver was upon the tarmac, I made haste toward the perignon and reclined albeit only subtly in the hand stitched leater seating of the Bentley (im told the city people mostly confine themselves to Bentley and i shouldnt wish to casue a stir.) Finally, after what seemed an eternity of film and caviar I arrived at the Apple store, gazed longingly at the line, and tool delivery of my very own Apple watch from my travel liason. And wouldnt you know, theyre quite a steal at only ten thousand dollars.
now ive heard tell of people saying theyre quite a bit more after "tax" but I assure you ive no concept of what that may be in relation to the product. Perhaps some unsavoury orientals have swindled you good folk, and purloined your earned cash for the song of this "tax."
with budgets within many school districts running dry
Primary and secondary public education coffers have been moth riddled and bare for more than 30 years.
most districs charge for class books, even if its only 5-10 dollars each. Sports facilities get facelifts only from local franchise fast food franchise moguls and the system routinely finds itself ardently justifying lunches that consist of pizza and french fries every day of the week. History class is a hodgepodge of bill nye reruns and just enough basics to get you through standardized testing, while biology and science classes casually cover balancing chemical equations and photosynthesis at a pace slow enough at which they can intentionally avoid the sociopolitical shit-storm of teaching evolution in an american school. Math, or what we refer to as math, is simple arithmetic by any international standard, avoids too much homework, and keeps it easy enough that the football team can pass.
comparing american and asian education systems is foolish. We once put an MTV owned project called Channel One TV, in nearly every school in the country with the promise of video learning but it eventually bore its true colours as a targeted advertising platform. When we're not packing hallways with vending machines and hustling kids into not-so-voluntary asvab military testing, we occasionally find time for asbestos abatement or the ever growing swath of parents that simply refuse to take part in their childs education from even the most cursory standpoint. So even if we did have 3d printers we wouldnt know how to use them, where to install them, or how to interface them with our 10 year Dell hand-me-down PC's.
As a sysadmin this brings me to tears of anger because this isnt the kids fault and instead of learning about the system or security, theyre just learning what it feels like to be incarcerated without due process.
a competent IT department for the education system has likely determined a best-practices for passwords but been overruled by administrators and staff citing computers, their difficulty, and their ironic unwillingness to themselves learn. Result: easy passwords. Instead of paperwork, meetings with staff, meetings with IT, and a documented record of a potential lapse in workplace best practises the educators have decided to railroad some poor kid into a trial offer of the prison pipeline and continue with school, business as usual.
Im sure an easy algorythm can be generated for when management is about to push a valuable employee out the door:
1. have you turned every change or alteration into a mindless bureaucratic rats nest of meetings and superfluous documentation that could best be handled through email?
2. Have you allowed the most vocal customers and users to continuously abuse his talent and divert his attention to helpdesk issues that make you look good at his expense?
3. Have you refused to consider his technical opinion on the design or development of a product or solution and instead just done what the sales rep told you or what would cause the least number of meetings or beurocratic effort?
4. Have you placed overwhelming reliance on him to micromanage his coworkers changes and projects instead of working to ensure they properly document and communicate instead? did he receive a silent promotion to assitant management?
Its easy to sweep this under the rug of 'religious plebs hate science' but there are other reasons to reconsider the telescope. The principle fresh water aquifer for Hawaii
Island is on Mauna Kea, and there have been mercury spills on the
summit; toxins such as Ethylene Glycol and Diesel are used there;
chemicals used to clean telescope mirrors drain into the septic
system, along with half a million gallons a year of human sewage that
goes into septic tanks, cesspools and leach fields. theres not been talk of a plan on how to deal with this at all. Its also home to endangered species, such as
the palila bird, which is endangered in part because of the damage to
its critical habitat, which includes the mamane tree.
If you're outside the united states, it may or may not be common knowledge but our news media at the behest of our corporate interests have invested a considerable amount of time and effort into insisting climate change is a "controversy" with no clear proof of existance or scientific concensus. So our scientific institutions embarked on a bold quest to insist upon the public that it is a big deal and is being caused by human activity. That didnt go so well, and after considerably more campaign investment and push from large corporations our congressmen and senators as well as random members of state legal communities such as district attorneys began to directly target researchers and agencies conducting research into climate change in a break neck attempt to keep anyone from knowing about this or attempting to understand it. Florida for example has an unspoken rule by the legislature that climate change isnt to be so much as used as a phrase in reports, or media events. people have lost their jobs for it and researchers have come under prosecution for it.
So Americans arent stupid about this, but we are easily influenced as our news agencies operate for-profit, and corporations know this. The important thing to remember is that this president, Barack Obama, is the first in a lineage of nearly a dozen to openly come out and say that Climate change is man-made, and is actually hurting people. He can do this partly because he cant run for another term, but also because its always been his position and for us, its kind of a big deal. Its hard to refute fox news or cnn, they'll always have their fanboys, but when the president says hes relying on NASA and science to make these statements, there arent many of us that have a problem with it.
Gone are the days of entering a country with a false passport and wearing a wig and a mustache to hide your true identity.
And here are the days when you cross into the United States through our old proxy-war torn neighbours in south and central america, or our drug-war torn border buddy Mexico. Or how about just not coming at all, and hacking from abroad. Most corporate targets will gladly sweep your efforts and activities under the rug for you, as it could have dire consequences for their stock or earnings. Our government on the other hand, the institution we intentionally shut down twice and lost two credit ratings over along with 24 billion dollars, could care less. If youre an $evil_country for us, we'll insist you did it anyway, and if you arent, we'll find a reason to implicate you in a race to divert attention from our massive domestic surveillance program and illegal prison camp in cuba.
A senior Defense Department official said the policies have changed decisions about who can travel where â" and how often. âoeIt limits your movement,â said the official, who was not authorized to be named in discussing tradecraft and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Yes, yes it does limit your movement and thats the intention. For Occupy, planned parenthood, tea party, and second amendment protestors to be part of a massive biometric dragnet means they dont get to openly speak out against the government as is their first amendment right. For you to be so frightened to tell the public this as to insist anonymity in a public office is tantamount to treason.
Dev: we moved to new Gentoo servers over the weekend and the script that exports builds is broken. it dies trying to get to the compliance server Ops: we shut that thing down, its ancient and would take too much time to patch for heartbleed. besides it only hosted an FTP server with some open source code. use the new server, USCMPSRV013435 to sync the GPL code outside the firewall PHB: NO DONT i read an article on how GPL code is viral and also Edward Snowden stole Wikileaks 6 months ago from chinese hackers in the presidents internet. Ops: er...okay...sooo....the last data up there is what we restored from old sparky... Dev: oh dear thats ancient....we had to patch new GPL'd code into the product to get ipv6 to stop crashing
Speaking on behalf of the NSA, no, we cannot as youve asked, "see" your "junk." We have collected so much vast knowledge of your human anatomy from the comfort of our underground high security facilities that it would be difficult to explain to the lay-citizen how we experience their reproductive organs. In our patented high security JunkChamber the bits and pieces as you call them of nearly every human being who has ever entered or lived in the united states for more than 70 years is experienced at our leisure. Junk from the mid 19th century as well as african american junk which was at the time deemed 3/5ths junk, is painstakingly simulated and recreated in our private parts simulator.
now you may be asking, "what does this do? how does this keep me safe?" but let me assure you the details of which are so complex your poor mind would hardly have the fortitude to endure even a cursory explanation. Whats important is that you remember thanks to this compendium of human evolutionary anatomy (in 3d and projected oftentimes 6 stories tall) has kept us safe from terrorism for eons. Now return to the television, for the idols of america will begin soon and you'll not want to miss the opportunity to tweet and text your friends and ours about the events as they unfold, and the products you aspire to consume.
Ah the halcyon days of autonomous vehicles in 1995; i remember them well. Myself? I owned a self-driving Chevrolet caprice that could automatically shift from park by deleting a piece of transmission. Once it performed this feat it could transport itself directly into a parking lot bollard. My friend even owned a prototype Ford Taurus that could gracefully enter reverse and slide down a hillside into the waiting embrace of a large mailbox and come to rest in a fast food parking lot. At the time you might imagine most drivers were shocked by such amazing mechanics and computing prowess and of course this meant constant explanation. Most witnesses had a tough time comprehending such wildly futuristic transportation, and honestly my biggest complaint was trying to explain such an exotic feature to police who seemed absolutely incapable of understanding.
the argumentative logic for BSD vs GPL is what i suppose TFA is batting around, and yes its still a very real argument for many. BSD being the license many concede is for a perfect world, but GPL being the only stick with which to ostensibly beat the far-too-often occurance of a corporation with its hand too far in the cookie jar. those kinds of arguments will never change, and in many ways they help define our character and shape our resolution as projects.
So lets tackle the argument, which is basically "openstack is a crazy project full of argument." Openstack is a hodgepodge of various contributors because it works, its an escape from the traditional hegemony of vmware and storage vendors, and those same vmware and mass storage vendors are clawing tooth and nail into the project to at least be part of it, as opposed to die quietly as theyre being instructed to do after having their software as a license cashcow model sidestepped entirely. Samsung and netapp are pushing blobs upstream, diligent open source project managers are kicking them back, and the cycle begins anew each time. The pedantic argument that open source is free to use but not free to build is one we've heard countless times, but plenty of non-corporate sponsored projects exist because hackers want them. Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 created LUKS, Roy Marples wrote OpenRC, and Timo Sirainen wrote Dovecot and IRSSI because hackers wanted them and so did he. Corporations will always throw resources at software they use, the difference today is that softwares intrinsic value as open source is finally being realized.
Im quite familiar with Hyundai's semi-autonymous technology as they pioneered it 30 some years ago. The vehicle was capable of fully automatic shutdowns. Headlights, turn signals, brakes, you name it and this car would take care of it. At one point the vehicle, obviously sensing some mortal danger or impending disaster, pro-actively jetissoned the clutch into a stream of highway traffic in what I can only assume to this day saved my life from a bond villains clutches.
The Internet Association -- which counts tech giants like Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter among its members...
Because these companies have no interest in internet freedom as it pertains to their cattle but as it pertains to fourth quarter earnings. The internet based on these companies is a cash-in-hand libertarian pelvic thrust of states that dont see a red-cent of sales tax on anything from a website, keep their warrantless surveillance quiet, and rubberstamp their patents with a smile. This isnt an award, so much as a dollop of warm grease on an open republican wheel. this group quietly gave an award to McCarthy, the second most powerful House Republican after Speaker John Boehner, because they have a PAC that hasnt donated yet and are making it known to anyone looking for upcoming election year bucks.
Swatting is our warm colloquialism for the unintended consequences of the slow but progressive militarization of our local and regional police forces. forty years ago, the war on drugs and whats known in our nation as 'tough on crime' policies began to take the form of whatever our politicians fever-dreamed the nature of crime to be. California came out with 3 strike laws that relegated everything from bounced checks to jaywalking third offences to a minimum life sentence in prison, and the idea of civil forfeiture became a smart way to enact real-world consequences for movie-screen criminal caricatures. In america as it stands, thanks to the policies of carter, reagan, nixon, bush, and johnson, police officers can now purchase surplus military equipment for free, less shipping. And since america's chief export is war these days, we have a lot of surplus military equipment waiting to be used. This program ramped up after 9/11 and before we knew it, sleepy towns like Dothan Alabama owned tanks, mine resistent personnel vehicles, and millions of dollars in tactical military hardware such as night vision and machine guns with no realistic opportunity or purpose to utilize them.
So without real use, these systems degrade and deteriorate and the cost to maintain them is, well, very expensive. as a result, police departments found themselves shoehorning equipment requesitioned from hand-me-down government transfer projects and knee-jerk terrorism overfunding into everything. Warrant service for taxes? SWAT and a 40 ton tank can handle that. peaceful parade against planned parenthood? sounds like a job for machineguns and nightvision. And finally, the SWATting. Its an innocuous situation where some crank-yanker calls in an odious situation that requires immediate action. Hostage situations and school shootings arent oustide the american experience, but our response is nothing short of lethal interception no matter how far fetched it seems that a hostage situation in the Dugal county truck stop mens room is taking place.
Cops are baked in it. Theyve spend 30 years growing into this nonsense, that everything that isnt pulling over minorities in classic cars should be handled like a van damme movie. Their defense is often pretty good, noting that america is relatively unique in that citizenry can openly and easily procure weapons capable of quickly defeating both their body armor and their general defensive capability. But municipalities have no excuse for continuing to perpetuate this police-state response other than the obvious: theyre run by boomers and the elderly. People who have direct influence over the tactics and policy used by our police are obviously easily frightened. 24 hour news and internet forwards from grandma have reduced what should be a responsible, level-headed committee to a clamouring rats nest of assholes hovering somewhere between religious nationalism and dictatorial rule of law. the bottom line: cops arent soldiers, but we liketo pretend they are to make sure theyre ready to fight our boogeymen.
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Ive come to find in my scientific research that black people have a tremendous underrepresentation in the STEM fields. My proposal im sure youll find unique and enriching, is of course to create a special school. This school, for blacks only of course, would focus on fostering STEM education. Ideally this school, while entirely ignoring existing structural inequality and systemic racism in society predicating everything from wage to employment discrimination, will serve as a beacon for for 21st century STEM future.
However should it become too cost prohibitive, or should quarterly market revenue predictions indicate the inability to fellate shareholders with ever glorious profits increasing in an unsustainably linear fashion, I'll close the school and turn it into an H1B visa advocacy think tank. Should this fail too, I'll renovate the first floor into an Urban Outfitters and the second floor will become a janitorial company entirely unrelated to race, class, or capitalist striafication in america. Failing these remarkable endeavors I have another project my stakeholders have approved which involves grinding human bone to a fine powder, then amalgamating this dust with adhesives manufactured from endangered birds and creating a final product suitable to paint road lines.
Scientist 1: nature is wonderous in its mystery, its complexity and its form. But rarely have any of us asked the question where does the dog, the canine, come from?
Scientist 2: thats not what we should be asking at all. theres no scientific inquiry to be had and the topic just distracts from serious and important issues like...
Scientist 1: Like the origin of dog! how long have dogs been here?! how did they evolve? have the always been mans best friend?
Scientist 2: Im getting real sick of your shit, jerry, we both know its your dog thats crapping all over my yard.
Scientist 1: but we cannot be certain until we delve into the scientific nature of dog!
Scientist 2: oh for christsake.
Good business practice? Silly boosterism? Enlightened self-interest?
how about a lack of understanding of exactly how millionaires and the wealthy operate in society. The fact that this CEO took more than a tenfold pay decrease is irrelevant. hes paid for homes and invested heavily in stocks to such a degree that he, like other rich people, lives off dividends and interest from investment. These forms of income, as our plutocrats have decreed, are taxed much less than wage income, what the average dirt-riddled peasant earns. While his salary might be paltry it also misrepresents what C level pay really represents as a token of corporate esteem and establishment. in other words, C level pay is a mark of status for a company.
the sad fact is by reducing his pay to the level of commoners, hes done an excellent job of reducing the amount of taxes he pays. the good news is Hes also given free publicity to the company and likely reduced turnover. Ultimately Dans private college attendance infers hes quite a bit more well-to-do than one might think. A trust fund does wonders to the average business owners outlook on the world.
some argue that having the ability to report someone with just the click of a button may not be a good thing.
No, you dont understand. This is the internet, but more importantly, its 4chan. I want you to envision a storm of millions of reports, hundreds of millions even, of the same perpetrator, Mooty McMootykins. He stands 21 inches tall and shoots cookies from his arse. The student attends $university and is majoring in hitler-did-nothing-wrong. Students should beware of a man dressed as a watermelon who propositions victims with "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" Students have reported that mcmootykins cannot be stopped because you cannot flim flam the zim zam. he also evades approach because you cant corner the dorner. each report ends confirming the students suspicion that the perpetrator suffers from gender ptsd caused by his planetkin alignment and inability to remove kebab.
Having worked on this problem for a while, ive found exactly 5 total hoaxes on wikipedia (no more.) Please remove the following articles:
1. Edward Snowden: is not actually a person, this is an old wives tale. E. Snowden is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Aechmea in the Bromeliad family.
2. 9/11: Although commonly thought of as a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of several thousand americans, this too is just a silly rumour. 9/11 is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
3. Barack Obama: This fools several laymen and scholars alike! Obama isnt a president, but was a motor race set to Formula One rules, held on 30 July 1950. The race was won by Argentinean driver Juan Manuel Fangio after a distance of 68 laps.
4. Christmas: Again, not a holiday at all. He was actually a Polish Air Force Captain and Allied double agent during World War II, using the codename Brutus. After having been offered safety by the Germans, he was sent to England as an agent. However, he made himself known to the British authorities. He was de-briefed by the British (MI6) and Polish authorities about the security lapses of his organization in France. And thats why we have Christmas trees today!
5. Computers: could NEVER have been real, and most of us know this one to be true. The computer is actually a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. As of 2009, he works as an assistant coach with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
it has a camera pointed at me from the corner of the windshield recording my every eye movement
Unless you're looking over your shoulder to execute a reverse maneuver from a parking space or driveway, which is generally good form in driving and encouraged in DMV training, then its useless.
it can predict what I'm going to do behind the wheel seconds before I do it.
Unless the collision is due to a preventable combination of excessive speed, poor visibility and road conditions, and insufficient vehicle maintenance in which case the system isnt helpful. youll also find a high rate of false positives for the following:
1. glancing toward the radio and climate controls.
2. large vehicles. Trucks, semis, and even imposing suv's can cause subconscious distraction from the road and unpredictable eye movement.
3. rain, snow, anything that hits the windshield in general, causes strange eye movement. squinting, blinking, you name it. There is an entire physiology to why we subconsciously act the way we do when something hits a windscreen.
4. Your phone. buzzing, beeping, will cause subconscious visual abberation and deviation. 5. entering and exiting tunnels causes pupil tracking issues, eye movement, and a range of other light sensitive problems for most tracking rigs. you actively have to compensate for a pulsing, somewhat unpredictable level of cockpit light. how the human eye does this is amazing to me.
So in terms of production automobiles, we've gotten exceedingly good at keeping soft, warm, impact prone parts of the human body from being badly injured or damaged. 8-12 airbags are fairly standard on most cars these days. Autobraking is a fairly simple technology as well, so expect to see that on more models. But the number one reason why safety in a car continues to decline is speed. Drivers routinely make false assumptions that roads are 'rated for' speeds higher than the limit, or that its casual and normal to go faster, or that their car is 'capable' of faster speeds when they dont realize the limiting factor in he equation is the human. human reaction times are fine for anything less than 9.8m/s^2, but above that we're horrible. speed limits factor in surviveability for both vehicles as well, not just your Canyonero SUV. Inattentive drivers? sure, but the technology has existed in Mercedes for 10 years, and lane assit warning tech helps catch the glaring problems with most drivers. Disclaimer: the company i work for has tried optical tracking in the past.
Sure beats my screwdriver that reads 'made in East Germany'
Blame Austria for their baseless breech of the immunity and inviolability of a president and their aircraft. Diplomatic protocol is widely known and respected across Europe.
Blame Spain, Portugal, and France for falling lock-step in line with Washingtons witch hunt, instead of championing their own sovreignity and autonomy.
Blame the United States for violating diplomatic protocol, strong-arming foreign nations, and once again doing it all without so much as a shred of concrete evidence.
but dont blame Snowden. If anything he simply exposed the cowardice of European member states and the desparate measures to which a broken superpower would go to readily secure their latest antihero in preparation for kangaroo court.
If we were to analyze the situation another way, Imagine Bolivia were so desperate to bring George Bush to trial for Iraqi warcrimes that it forced the presidents jet to land in Lithuania and be forcibly searched for 9/11 documents.
AGM-129 cruise missile Hey guise! i found your target and ill be there in about 7 minutes :)
USS Rosevelt OK cool.....er...hang on a second that target might not be legitimate...it might be friendly?
AGM-129 o...k...guise im going 500 miles per hour here so i kind of need an answer...
USS Rosevelt: so heres the thing, we supported the guy in 1991, but then we invaded in 2002 and we thought he had chemical weapons, see...but...its complicated
AGM-129 How complicated, complicated like Jeopardy or like my INERTIAL GUIDANCE GPS TRACKING thats about to intercept the target you told me to find. because its coming up REAL QUICK. I just passed that starbucks the other AGM mentioned...
USS Rosevelt:OK OK new story. this is about freedom...patriotism...
AGM-129: for the last time IM NOT A PATRIOT hes still on the ship im an AGM-129 dear lord please make a decision
USS Rosevelt: You know what? screw it. we'll just tell people we're bringing democracy, or quarter pounders, or something. whatever.
AGM-129 so is that a yes or what because I har3@$T(^&*[CARRIER LOST]
USS Rosevelt: Yep. Democracy.
wayback machine trips to old soviet satellites are always a thrill until you realized what these states were: Speed bumps. Most satellites had to be gobbled up as part of soviet expansionist communisms ethos, but they were actually a substantial economic drain on Moscow. the education was poor, most societies were agrarian, and infrastructure was infantile compared to the motherland. Capitalizing on them meant shoveling nuclear and civil works projects into them, pumping billions rubles into their coffers while doing so. Education was immediately improved, but the focus on mathematics and sciences was dwarfed by the local politburo members to ensure they had enough cobblers, welders, masons, and mechanics to forge what the USSR had ultimately envisioned. Personal computing was a distant third in a lot of ways and by the time the Afghan war had metasticized into a full-blown proxy war with the US, many satellite states were simply human fodder for a meat-grinder campaign that saw heavy casualties on all sides.
So if youre old enough to remember your first mouse, dont take that for granted. your duly assigned Glorious Leader for the region was under immense pressure to turn it into a socket wrench, or a kalashnikov.
Something feebles watching over you
Comin' from the pipe!
And there's no way it can move
Prepare to gripe!
There'll be no place to run
When your caught in checkpoint 14
Of the evil PCV
Transformers! (moves a bit, then dies)
Transformers! (leave the probe inside)
I'll admit i was originally apprehensive of getting out of bed at all today until i remembered, with the help of my scheduling butler, the arrival of apples newest wristwatch. Perusing my collection of rare finds from Rolex this morning in the yachts liesure room, as I certainly couldnt bare the shame of being seen in public without a standard timepiece, I chose to dress down as I'd be among the city folk today. Stepping off my yacht and into my helicopter, I could hardly contain my anticipation and as soon as I arrived and my driver was upon the tarmac, I made haste toward the perignon and reclined albeit only subtly in the hand stitched leater seating of the Bentley (im told the city people mostly confine themselves to Bentley and i shouldnt wish to casue a stir.) Finally, after what seemed an eternity of film and caviar I arrived at the Apple store, gazed longingly at the line, and tool delivery of my very own Apple watch from my travel liason. And wouldnt you know, theyre quite a steal at only ten thousand dollars.
now ive heard tell of people saying theyre quite a bit more after "tax" but I assure you ive no concept of what that may be in relation to the product. Perhaps some unsavoury orientals have swindled you good folk, and purloined your earned cash for the song of this "tax."
with budgets within many school districts running dry
Primary and secondary public education coffers have been moth riddled and bare for more than 30 years. most districs charge for class books, even if its only 5-10 dollars each. Sports facilities get facelifts only from local franchise fast food franchise moguls and the system routinely finds itself ardently justifying lunches that consist of pizza and french fries every day of the week. History class is a hodgepodge of bill nye reruns and just enough basics to get you through standardized testing, while biology and science classes casually cover balancing chemical equations and photosynthesis at a pace slow enough at which they can intentionally avoid the sociopolitical shit-storm of teaching evolution in an american school. Math, or what we refer to as math, is simple arithmetic by any international standard, avoids too much homework, and keeps it easy enough that the football team can pass.
comparing american and asian education systems is foolish. We once put an MTV owned project called Channel One TV, in nearly every school in the country with the promise of video learning but it eventually bore its true colours as a targeted advertising platform. When we're not packing hallways with vending machines and hustling kids into not-so-voluntary asvab military testing, we occasionally find time for asbestos abatement or the ever growing swath of parents that simply refuse to take part in their childs education from even the most cursory standpoint. So even if we did have 3d printers we wouldnt know how to use them, where to install them, or how to interface them with our 10 year Dell hand-me-down PC's.
As a sysadmin this brings me to tears of anger because this isnt the kids fault and instead of learning about the system or security, theyre just learning what it feels like to be incarcerated without due process.
a competent IT department for the education system has likely determined a best-practices for passwords but been overruled by administrators and staff citing computers, their difficulty, and their ironic unwillingness to themselves learn. Result: easy passwords. Instead of paperwork, meetings with staff, meetings with IT, and a documented record of a potential lapse in workplace best practises the educators have decided to railroad some poor kid into a trial offer of the prison pipeline and continue with school, business as usual.
Im sure an easy algorythm can be generated for when management is about to push a valuable employee out the door:
1. have you turned every change or alteration into a mindless bureaucratic rats nest of meetings and superfluous documentation that could best be handled through email?
2. Have you allowed the most vocal customers and users to continuously abuse his talent and divert his attention to helpdesk issues that make you look good at his expense?
3. Have you refused to consider his technical opinion on the design or development of a product or solution and instead just done what the sales rep told you or what would cause the least number of meetings or beurocratic effort?
4. Have you placed overwhelming reliance on him to micromanage his coworkers changes and projects instead of working to ensure they properly document and communicate instead? did he receive a silent promotion to assitant management?
Its easy to sweep this under the rug of 'religious plebs hate science' but there are other reasons to reconsider the telescope. The principle fresh water aquifer for Hawaii Island is on Mauna Kea, and there have been mercury spills on the summit; toxins such as Ethylene Glycol and Diesel are used there; chemicals used to clean telescope mirrors drain into the septic system, along with half a million gallons a year of human sewage that goes into septic tanks, cesspools and leach fields. theres not been talk of a plan on how to deal with this at all. Its also home to endangered species, such as the palila bird, which is endangered in part because of the damage to its critical habitat, which includes the mamane tree.
If you're outside the united states, it may or may not be common knowledge but our news media at the behest of our corporate interests have invested a considerable amount of time and effort into insisting climate change is a "controversy" with no clear proof of existance or scientific concensus. So our scientific institutions embarked on a bold quest to insist upon the public that it is a big deal and is being caused by human activity. That didnt go so well, and after considerably more campaign investment and push from large corporations our congressmen and senators as well as random members of state legal communities such as district attorneys began to directly target researchers and agencies conducting research into climate change in a break neck attempt to keep anyone from knowing about this or attempting to understand it. Florida for example has an unspoken rule by the legislature that climate change isnt to be so much as used as a phrase in reports, or media events. people have lost their jobs for it and researchers have come under prosecution for it.
So Americans arent stupid about this, but we are easily influenced as our news agencies operate for-profit, and corporations know this. The important thing to remember is that this president, Barack Obama, is the first in a lineage of nearly a dozen to openly come out and say that Climate change is man-made, and is actually hurting people. He can do this partly because he cant run for another term, but also because its always been his position and for us, its kind of a big deal. Its hard to refute fox news or cnn, they'll always have their fanboys, but when the president says hes relying on NASA and science to make these statements, there arent many of us that have a problem with it.
Gone are the days of entering a country with a false passport and wearing a wig and a mustache to hide your true identity.
And here are the days when you cross into the United States through our old proxy-war torn neighbours in south and central america, or our drug-war torn border buddy Mexico. Or how about just not coming at all, and hacking from abroad. Most corporate targets will gladly sweep your efforts and activities under the rug for you, as it could have dire consequences for their stock or earnings. Our government on the other hand, the institution we intentionally shut down twice and lost two credit ratings over along with 24 billion dollars, could care less. If youre an $evil_country for us, we'll insist you did it anyway, and if you arent, we'll find a reason to implicate you in a race to divert attention from our massive domestic surveillance program and illegal prison camp in cuba.
A senior Defense Department official said the policies have changed decisions about who can travel where â" and how often. âoeIt limits your movement,â said the official, who was not authorized to be named in discussing tradecraft and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Yes, yes it does limit your movement and thats the intention. For Occupy, planned parenthood, tea party, and second amendment protestors to be part of a massive biometric dragnet means they dont get to openly speak out against the government as is their first amendment right. For you to be so frightened to tell the public this as to insist anonymity in a public office is tantamount to treason.
Dev: we moved to new Gentoo servers over the weekend and the script that exports builds is broken. it dies trying to get to the compliance server
Ops: we shut that thing down, its ancient and would take too much time to patch for heartbleed. besides it only hosted an FTP server with some open source code. use the new server, USCMPSRV013435 to sync the GPL code outside the firewall
PHB: NO DONT i read an article on how GPL code is viral and also Edward Snowden stole Wikileaks 6 months ago from chinese hackers in the presidents internet.
Ops: er...okay...sooo....the last data up there is what we restored from old sparky...
Dev: oh dear thats ancient....we had to patch new GPL'd code into the product to get ipv6 to stop crashing
Speaking on behalf of the NSA, no, we cannot as youve asked, "see" your "junk." We have collected so much vast knowledge of your human anatomy from the comfort of our underground high security facilities that it would be difficult to explain to the lay-citizen how we experience their reproductive organs. In our patented high security JunkChamber the bits and pieces as you call them of nearly every human being who has ever entered or lived in the united states for more than 70 years is experienced at our leisure. Junk from the mid 19th century as well as african american junk which was at the time deemed 3/5ths junk, is painstakingly simulated and recreated in our private parts simulator.
now you may be asking, "what does this do? how does this keep me safe?" but let me assure you the details of which are so complex your poor mind would hardly have the fortitude to endure even a cursory explanation. Whats important is that you remember thanks to this compendium of human evolutionary anatomy (in 3d and projected oftentimes 6 stories tall) has kept us safe from terrorism for eons. Now return to the television, for the idols of america will begin soon and you'll not want to miss the opportunity to tweet and text your friends and ours about the events as they unfold, and the products you aspire to consume.
Ah the halcyon days of autonomous vehicles in 1995; i remember them well. Myself? I owned a self-driving Chevrolet caprice that could automatically shift from park by deleting a piece of transmission. Once it performed this feat it could transport itself directly into a parking lot bollard. My friend even owned a prototype Ford Taurus that could gracefully enter reverse and slide down a hillside into the waiting embrace of a large mailbox and come to rest in a fast food parking lot. At the time you might imagine most drivers were shocked by such amazing mechanics and computing prowess and of course this meant constant explanation. Most witnesses had a tough time comprehending such wildly futuristic transportation, and honestly my biggest complaint was trying to explain such an exotic feature to police who seemed absolutely incapable of understanding.
the argumentative logic for BSD vs GPL is what i suppose TFA is batting around, and yes its still a very real argument for many. BSD being the license many concede is for a perfect world, but GPL being the only stick with which to ostensibly beat the far-too-often occurance of a corporation with its hand too far in the cookie jar. those kinds of arguments will never change, and in many ways they help define our character and shape our resolution as projects.
So lets tackle the argument, which is basically "openstack is a crazy project full of argument." Openstack is a hodgepodge of various contributors because it works, its an escape from the traditional hegemony of vmware and storage vendors, and those same vmware and mass storage vendors are clawing tooth and nail into the project to at least be part of it, as opposed to die quietly as theyre being instructed to do after having their software as a license cashcow model sidestepped entirely. Samsung and netapp are pushing blobs upstream, diligent open source project managers are kicking them back, and the cycle begins anew each time. The pedantic argument that open source is free to use but not free to build is one we've heard countless times, but plenty of non-corporate sponsored projects exist because hackers want them. Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 created LUKS, Roy Marples wrote OpenRC, and Timo Sirainen wrote Dovecot and IRSSI because hackers wanted them and so did he. Corporations will always throw resources at software they use, the difference today is that softwares intrinsic value as open source is finally being realized.
Im quite familiar with Hyundai's semi-autonymous technology as they pioneered it 30 some years ago. The vehicle was capable of fully automatic shutdowns. Headlights, turn signals, brakes, you name it and this car would take care of it. At one point the vehicle, obviously sensing some mortal danger or impending disaster, pro-actively jetissoned the clutch into a stream of highway traffic in what I can only assume to this day saved my life from a bond villains clutches.
The Internet Association -- which counts tech giants like Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter among its members...
Because these companies have no interest in internet freedom as it pertains to their cattle but as it pertains to fourth quarter earnings. The internet based on these companies is a cash-in-hand libertarian pelvic thrust of states that dont see a red-cent of sales tax on anything from a website, keep their warrantless surveillance quiet, and rubberstamp their patents with a smile. This isnt an award, so much as a dollop of warm grease on an open republican wheel. this group quietly gave an award to McCarthy, the second most powerful House Republican after Speaker John Boehner, because they have a PAC that hasnt donated yet and are making it known to anyone looking for upcoming election year bucks.
Swatting is our warm colloquialism for the unintended consequences of the slow but progressive militarization of our local and regional police forces. forty years ago, the war on drugs and whats known in our nation as 'tough on crime' policies began to take the form of whatever our politicians fever-dreamed the nature of crime to be. California came out with 3 strike laws that relegated everything from bounced checks to jaywalking third offences to a minimum life sentence in prison, and the idea of civil forfeiture became a smart way to enact real-world consequences for movie-screen criminal caricatures. In america as it stands, thanks to the policies of carter, reagan, nixon, bush, and johnson, police officers can now purchase surplus military equipment for free, less shipping. And since america's chief export is war these days, we have a lot of surplus military equipment waiting to be used. This program ramped up after 9/11 and before we knew it, sleepy towns like Dothan Alabama owned tanks, mine resistent personnel vehicles, and millions of dollars in tactical military hardware such as night vision and machine guns with no realistic opportunity or purpose to utilize them.
So without real use, these systems degrade and deteriorate and the cost to maintain them is, well, very expensive. as a result, police departments found themselves shoehorning equipment requesitioned from hand-me-down government transfer projects and knee-jerk terrorism overfunding into everything. Warrant service for taxes? SWAT and a 40 ton tank can handle that. peaceful parade against planned parenthood? sounds like a job for machineguns and nightvision. And finally, the SWATting. Its an innocuous situation where some crank-yanker calls in an odious situation that requires immediate action. Hostage situations and school shootings arent oustide the american experience, but our response is nothing short of lethal interception no matter how far fetched it seems that a hostage situation in the Dugal county truck stop mens room is taking place.
Cops are baked in it. Theyve spend 30 years growing into this nonsense, that everything that isnt pulling over minorities in classic cars should be handled like a van damme movie. Their defense is often pretty good, noting that america is relatively unique in that citizenry can openly and easily procure weapons capable of quickly defeating both their body armor and their general defensive capability. But municipalities have no excuse for continuing to perpetuate this police-state response other than the obvious: theyre run by boomers and the elderly. People who have direct influence over the tactics and policy used by our police are obviously easily frightened. 24 hour news and internet forwards from grandma have reduced what should be a responsible, level-headed committee to a clamouring rats nest of assholes hovering somewhere between religious nationalism and dictatorial rule of law. the bottom line: cops arent soldiers, but we liketo pretend they are to make sure theyre ready to fight our boogeymen.