Comment Re:Who cares about the polygraph? (Score 1) 213
Really all you need to know about Polygraphs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhp2aS9pQU
Penn & Teller also did an episode of "Bullshit!" on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLf7XwLpyQ
Really all you need to know about Polygraphs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhp2aS9pQU
Penn & Teller also did an episode of "Bullshit!" on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLf7XwLpyQ
gimme a roomba, a broom stick and a pivoting webcam.
Pervert.
"Please put down your weapon! You have 20 seconds to comply!"
... but here's an exercise that will translate into the real world... Separate them into two groups, the "M" group, and the "E" group.
The Ms ties the Es group's hands up behind their backs. Then the Ms set themselves on fire, and have to coerce the Es to put the fire out with their hands tied up. If the Ms survive, they get more Es and go again. If the don't, they're replaced with a new M, preferably one from outside who has no idea what just happened.
If I had mod points today, I'd change this from "funny" to "insightful".
It pretty much describes the miserable conditions of the company I just quit.
I won't give any names, but the filthy rich CEO has a thing for sailboats.
That experience left such a bad taste in my mouth wrt IT, that I am looking into going back to college for an entirely different career.
Based on his overall personality, I strongly suspect that if Steve Ballmer hadn't just happened to be college buddies with BillG and Paul Allen, chances are pretty good he'd be selling used cars somewhere and enjoying the nearest football team. Instead, we're going to take him seriously for the rest of his natural life and possible beyond.
Exactly! I've long thought he is the perfect stereotype of the used-car salesman.
And there was another CEO who only got his position due to being a roommate, and who's cluelessness helped totally sink his company: Scott McNealy.
Now we know why.
You don't need to *cut* a submarine cable to listen to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
Have you looked at Facebook's stock recently? It's getting close to the IPO price.
It actually closed a little *over* the IPO price on several days last week.
Over the years I've seen 3 investigative reports on TV, and read many articles on the topic. It all comes down to the same thing: The polygraph is just a stage prop in an interrogation, for the purpose of scaring the ignorant into confessing. Here is Penn & Tellers report:
It trades one addiction for others: religion, caffeine, and nicotine.
It trades personal responsibility for not drinking, and thus drinking, to an imaginary higher power.
There is an athiest/agnostic sub-group of AA, but judging by things found on their FB page, they are having an uphill battle with the powers-that-be in AA.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Agnostics-and-Atheists-in-AA/168374259840358
FLEE TO MEXICO
Build private compound
Employ armed guards
Enjoy
If you chose Belize, you could pick up a pre-built compound, and some currently unemployed, (but experienced), guards.
Pictures show the aircraft sat on the ground with the tail missing and the forward roof burnt out but it certainly did NOT cartwheel...
I happened to check news just as this story was breaking. The word "cartwheel" came from the first eyewitness report. The next two eyewitnesses said it "spun". So I'm guessing that the guy who said "cartwheel" doesn't really know what the word means, and that instead it spun on its belly.
The aviation term for such a rotation is "ground loop": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_loop_(aviation)
Seriously, read it. It starts out by truly fixing some of the most egregious brain damage and expansiveness of DMCA, making it into a legitimate copyright law. The cellphone unlocking technicality is just one a thousand bugs this fixes; the bill would also legalize making/selling/using ink cartridges, legalize the playing the DVDs that you have bought, etc. If DMCA had passed originally in this form, it would be much less destructive and hated.
After the first part, then it looks like it does something benevolent related to phones specifically, but to some code I'm unfamiliar with. Then it takes a shot at WIPO.
Overall, this is a no-brainer, and anyone who opposes it, will be outed. That means they'll kill it in some committee, but just in case they don't, remember names and who votes for/against. Reward and punish, based on this one, right here.
Pssst! Jared Polis is already "out".
I had CL DSL for over 10 years.
I'm only 2600' from the CO, but the best they would sell me was 7mbs.
So I switched to Comcast and get 22mbs, *and* native IPv6, for less than I was paying CL.
And all I get is 1.5mbps DSL because they are still using ancient copper out in my neck of the woods. C'mon... PLEASE.
There's nothing wrong with copper or its age. You're too far from the CO.
I'm just 2500' from the CO, and the best they offer me is 7Mbs. So after having CenturyLink/Qwest DSL service for over 10 years, I switched to Comcast and now get 22Mbs *and* native IPv6 for less than I was paying 1.5 Mbs DSL.
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
