Re: Tools of convenience
BOHICA
8156 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
I think studying transactions was moved off the curriculum at some point to make place for JavaScript hacking and social meedja.
Destroy All Monsters, I do believe you are right as well. Just look at the structure of your average website these days. Why the fuck is it so complicated? Talk about "unclear on the concept" and defeating the purpose!
But I see this mindset in almost all endeavors these days, not just IT.
Thumbs down? Not letting facts get in your way I see.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104
There is plenty of proof of premeditation and it's right at your fingertips, but they really were/are to big to jail and there is also no shortage of sleazy sycophants apologizing for them.
Start here http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104 and read the entire series by Matt Taibbi.
^^ Cause>Threat>Trump card.
That's why we bailed out the banks. All else is smoke, mirrors and crack pipe smoking.
The US and British financial industry literally brought us to the brink of WW3 and the repercussions are still far from assured or safely assumed.
"They are totally unsecure in the first place (and this is as it should be: they are just a form of catalog number, not something for identification and certainly not for authentication). "
You don't actually live in America do you, because you would know you can't do shit these days without giving out your SS number.
Contrary to popular belief, there is also no opt out.
Corporate America has made the SS number the default ID number. So has most government departments.
Just another day in the life of IT world.
You should see the project I'm working on now. Same old same old. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and the client is up to the same old trick of trying to sabotage the SLA.
Many days I wish I'd become a forest ranger.
This is the class of politicians we've had for the last few decades and it is pervasive from the federal government down to the local councils and even the HOAs.
It's why America is now running almost last in every standard of living of the industrialized counties... except for the number of nuclear weapons.
"Finally, I couldn’t help thinking that for a society that’s low on gasoline, water and bullets, everyone seemed as keen as mustard to waste as much as possible of each one. Firing live weapons at fuel tankers they hoped to capture, throwing water over themselves when they barely have enough to drink and punctuating their rage with random machine gun fire into the sky."
Sounds like normal human nature to me.
All in all, this movie sounds like fun!
Unless Artik can make more water, it's total bullshit.
Either farming is reduced or seriously, seriously advanced or more water is found. Period. Less people would be nice as well, but I don't think anyone is going to voluntarily off themselves, do you?
There already exists FAR better farming techniques. Maybe now they will use them. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129524.100-vertical-farms-sprouting-all-over-the-world.html
http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/farm-box-produces-acres-worth-crops-shipping-container.html
But the easiest thing is make low power desalination plants. Again, technology that already exists.
This type of thinking is so gimmicky it is pathetic. What should be done with the radio devices? Tag drops of water?
Hydro science is much older than computer science and throwing "Internet 'cause Internet" at it, is last century thinking.
1980s coder nails it. Cattle and supporting industries are NOT industries that should be operating under these conditions.
AC, you have guessed correctly. The wide range of rules at different companies can be confusing, but most large US companies are pretty strict about porn at work.
My personal opinion of porn is that it's a security threat and not very professional at work. That's as far as I care about it. I have also just given warnings even thought it was within my power to report them and probably have them fired. Quite warnings were usually sufficient. I've also been on the wrong end of some seriously anal security admins as well.