Posts by Michael Thibault

Re: Just look at Uber's CEO

KW wrote:

"you forgot to include the quote in your rebuttal:

(SJF wrote:) 'On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string... He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with.'"

The last line is, in fact, unclear, as--wait for it--it doesn't include quote marks; you could read it as being the sum of what the new manager wrote (apart from the "he said"), or you could read it as "He was trying to stay out of trouble at work", he said, but he couldn't... If you account for the ambiguity about what is being described, and to whom what text is being attributed, it isn't possible to say that "There's no other way to read that except as a proposal for sex".

Even so, just mentioning to a new 'inferior' word one about the nature of his relationship with his 'intimate partner'/girlfriend was a step too far in the direction of uncomfortable.

>no justification in any way for Criminal activities.

I don't disagree. However, that this new institution (*) has arisen at all could be taken either: as a sign that the milking of the largest number of humanity for profit to the benefit of an ever-shrinking number of the club has gone too far, and wants remediation; or, an opportunity for capitalists to innovate around a little *market excess.

Re: Assuming makes an ass out of you and some guy named 'Ming'

>I will not lose myself again fixing other peoples [sic] stuff

I fear that you are missing the point.

We'll wait for the tide, then.

Re: Humanity fail.

@charles paul

Truckle isn't expressing attitudes. He's expressing opinions.

What, if any, is the implicit threat/menace/risk to you for speaking your mind? Any at all? Odd, then, that horrors (including 'limited sexual horizons') await heterosexual males for being forthright, no? Underneath your words is a particular flavour of gynocentrism...

In such a wide, diverse world as this, the prospects are vanishingly small of one's sexual prospects being absolutely limited for being forthright and outspoken--the behaviour you are (implicitly) calling out.

Opinions differ, in any case.

Re: So many problems on so many levels

>First MS should have asked for volunteers. Seeing the nightmare of depravity that some people are capable of is more than most people can take, let alone for long periods for time.

The point of the article seems to vary with the reader, but one aspect that gets short shrift is the effect on those doing the work over an extended period. It can't possibly be neutral. And, no, I don't believe that compulsion has to be overt; the threat, implicit or explicit, of losing you job, or having your chances of advancement coloured by whether or not you bolted the room when the subject of this particular task was raised is a real threat.

It seems to me that if anyone at all is going to (have to) do this kind of screening (and there are obvious issues with it happening at all, which I'll skip over for the moment), it seems to me that if volunteerism is to be considered, it's a small, advisable step to take further to make it a requirement of all employees (in this instance, at MS) to serve a hitch. A short one. Seems a bit draconian, but short stints for all would, I think, on balance, have a cohesing effect on the local culture, the humanity that is there already. I'm not advocating universality for that outcome as a pay-day, but to point out that hell is best understood if it's a shared experience. And, yes, I'm aware that there's one hell within the imagery, and one in its presence.

And, of course, knowledge being power and outrage being a strong motivator, iff the screening is to continue, then it would be very prudent to doubly-blind the screeners from any personally identifying information of onedrive users... (I catch the irony of double-blinding, btw, so no need for you to pivot on that term in any response.)

Re: Your Photo

Have you ever seen an empty shelf anywhere in a home? Shelving is where the real money is. And think of the possible applications! Shelves that search and inventory themselves is just the beginning. And don't forget cosy licensing deals with makers of things that fit on shelves. The mind boggles. Profit, here we come!

Re: Infection Vector

>disable wifi configuration of the router

Small problem: the mouth-breathers doing the side-loading of the Shiny Golden Software (tm) are not only very unlikely to inconvenience themselves in this way, they likely aren't even aware of the possibility of doing so. Another small problem: these Android thingies appear to be mobile--the implication being that you'd have to disable wifi config on every router any such infected peripatetic Android thingy might come across, before it does so. Extremely unlikely.

The router tech is neither the problem nor the solution; the meat seems to have only the expected intelligence for what it is.

Re: AI is as AI does

>odd and/or extraneous words that peppered the article

The first role for AI (Assistive Intelligence) will probably be spell-checking and grammar-checking. This world, the article, and this thread of comments, would all benefit immeasurably were that AI widely available. We're approaching that goal asymptotically, though; evidently, getting even there is a bit of a slog.

Re: 17 inch penis!!

It's a head-scratcher!

In-air re-fooling, perhaps?