Assuming the 4 asian applicants and the 17 non-asian were all equally competent, I get a cumulative binomial distribution probability of choosing 4 asians out of the 21 applicants as 0.0036, which is more than one in 300. Where do they get this "approximately one in a billion" statement?
I'm not sure DOJ hires a lot of mathematicians.
In fact, over the last 8 years, they seem to have mostly acted like well-armed SJW's.
I've usually found that getting my credit-card company involved gets the problem fixed quickly.
For better or worse, the credit-card companies seem to (often) provide mafia-level protection against unreasonable sellers.
I apologize if my point was unclear. Please let me clarify:
You had written:
But you are right, working hard is not the key, the key is working SMART. The difference between low/middle/upper class isn't how hard you work.
The fact that you transitioned from talking about "the good life" to talking about "low/middle/upper class", makes me think that you were implicitly equating living the "good life" with attaining membership in one of those [economic] classes. That was my main point.
But I see also that I thought you were directly equating one's level of effort with which economic class one attains. I realize now that that was not your point at all. My apologies.
Any any case, this case will shake up the legal situation and set things vibrating!
You can expect some tingling legal issues arousing in the near future that are sure to give us all satisfaction.
All puns aside, I think the SCOTUS and U.S. Congress have shown a shocking degree of unwillingness in protecting the public from unscrupulous click-wrap EULA's and other onerous contracts. Nothing gives me particular hope that this will change in the near future. My guess is that it won't change until if/when some kind of revolution occurs which interrupts the influence corporations have over politics.
I know a SJW like you hates America, but that isn't what America is about. The American dream is not to get rich, but to have a good life. But you are right, working hard is not the key, the key is working SMART. The difference between low/middle/upper class isn't how hard you work. In fact, the lower classes work much harder than the upper ones.
It's interesting that you define the "good life" in terms of economic prosperity and/or how hard one works towards that end.
it should make you happy that three times more children have peanut allergies now than in 1997
Nah, they're just faking it because they don't like the taste of vomit.
Peanuts taste like vomit. I demand flavour equity.
Seriously? When your mutation gives you delicious vomit??? Ingrate.
Obviously Cook is planning that taxes are lower for corporations next year, or that Apple will get a break for bringing back the taxes - either condition would meet his statement that Apple would not re-patriate because taxes are too high.
What large-corperation loving candidate is very likely to win the election and be in office next year to make that happen, hmm...
Both of them?
What really happened at the supposed miraculous moments which support the claims of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, etc.
I've heard that Amazon.com is a sweatshop.
If "40 hours/week" workers work much more than that, wouldn't we expect the same for "30 hours/week" workers?
The MS hate here is silly, Windows has issues, but so does Linux, neither are perfect...
Another two imperfect things: Adolf Hitler and Mother Theresa.
So what were you doing up until now? Reading each KB article? Vetting each update on a test system? I dont' really see that based on you response, so how on earth does THIS cumulative update model really change anything for YOU exactly?!!
Yes, that is approximately what I've been doing. Specifically, I've been leaving automatic updates disabled. Periodically I look for writeups about the current list of known-evil KB's, and allow the rest to get applied.
The cumulative updates prevent me from selectively installing only the updates I want.
So, what exactly is your plan?
I'm still considering my options.
Some people have recommended backing up the entire OS using non-free backup software designed for that very task. That would reduce my exposure to the risk of Microsoft pushing a bad update, and I might actually end up going that route.
OTOH, it doesn't help with the fact that Microsoft will undoubtedly be bundling spyware together with security patches starting in October. Running Windows in a VM would give me a relatively easy and cheap way to prevent Windows from phoning home. But as I mentioned elsewhere, it means having Windows as a guest VM, and that might make my color-calibration life more difficult.
Given the option, which OS would you rather use Photoshop on? Mac, linux, or windows 10?
Linux, hands down.
However, I still need to sort out the issue of monitor color calibration. The color-correction pipeline can be surprisingly complicated, because images, Photoshop/Lightroom, and Windows / OS X / Linux(?) are all ready to specify their own transforms. And I'm looking at adding yet another wrapper (Linux as a VM host OS) around that as well.
I can probably make it all work, it's just going to take some time and effort.
On the bright side, at least the color-calibration hardware is supported on Linux.
Its like you've never heard of backups.
We actually do have a pretty decent backup regimen for the photographs themselves, including online, nearline, and offsite tiers. The photographs are irreplaceable.
However, Windows is not my day-job OS, and I need to be economical with the time, energy, and number of neurons I spend babysitting that OS. I can institute such a backup policy if necessary, but the more Microsoft makes it necessary, that more likely I am to just switch to a platform that's more reliable and is easier to rebuild.
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
