The way I read it, Systemd is mainly a hail mary from the gnome cabal to try to jumpstart a stalled heart.
You mean, they think they're going to ride systemd's dick back into our hearts? That would truly be a first-class delusion.
Gandalf is explicitly using magic. He needs no machine. He is tapping into some force that needs no physical model to work.
Sure, from his point of view. But what's happening behind the scenes?
Scotty on Star Trek is not casting spells when he beams someone up, he's using a machine. That's very different from Gandalf casting a spell.
The only potential fundamental difference between a plot object like a crystal ball and a plot object like a transporter is whether there's a theoretical physical explanation for their function. If there is, then it's science fiction. If not, it's just fiction, and you may as well call it fantasy. It might not be witches-and-wizards fantasy, but it sure-as-hell ain't science fiction. You don't have to actually spell out the explanation, or even allude to it, but you should have one which works consistently with the idea of physics throughout your story if you want to be all sciency and stuff.
Whatever the topic of the conference, it is it already 90% related to his current job, then it isn't going to be anything like the "buggy whip/automobile" leap that you made.
Wait, this is what this is all about? You don't understand hyperbole? Do you even English, bro?
when your people are dying and people are coming in, risking their own lives to try and help you, and your response is to attack and kill them, trying to use the injustices of the past to justify the mass deaths of the present won't win you any friends
This isn't about justifying deaths or winning friends. This is about if you want to try to help people, you have to craft your message in a way that they are ready to receive.
Yes, we do know what kind of conference this is because the OP told us.
What. No, no they have not. They said it was specific to a technology, that's it. You then concluded that it was more along the line of "C# or Java: Haskell to the Rescue!". but it could easily be technology-related, for example automation controls. There's lots of reasons why someone in the public sector might have something to gain by visiting a conference being held in Vegas. It's just a common place to hold them for a broad variety of reasons. You don't know what the subject matter is, but you're sure you do. Why? The provided evidence is insufficient to jump to the conclusion you're now standing upon.
My site is not particularly safe. I'm using specious hosting and the most I do is occasionally log in and run updates.
However, my site is safer than my site plus some other sites, too.
People get upset when you call them incompetent for sourcing stuff out to foreign CDNs, but stuff like this happens all the time. It's not safe to pull stuff in from other sites for reasons which are obvious to anyone competent.
Right. So when any of the normal annual changes take place (the way they handle certain experimental drugs or therapies, the way they handle certain hospital scenarios, etc), the insurer can no longer provide the plan - the ACA shuts it down because it doesn't provide post-menopausal women maternity care, etc.
So I am a bit confused about why that is a problem. The cost to the insurer of offering maternity care to post-menopausal women should be about zero. Why not tack that onto an otherwise good plan if that's what the law requires? Wouldn't that make more sense than scrapping the plan for such a flimsy reason?
You're equating the "buggy whip/automobile" quantum leap with the "C/C#/C++/Ruby/Perl/python/haskell/lisp/whatever" language wars? Or "cloud/client/distributed/centralized"? Or even "sql/nosql"?
Straw man. We don't know what kind of conference this is.
nVidia technology fell into the past through a wormhole.
Luckily it was properly static-bagged, because it actually went back to 1912 and had to be stored until a computer could be developed to interface to it
This is really pretty simple. If the funding isn't available to send you to a conference in Vegas -- You don't go.
If it's so simple, why did you make such a sophomoric error? This is about the funding being available, but the decision not being made to spend it in this fashion.
It seems that you can't afford to go and your employer doesn't see value in sending you.
So which is it, do you understand that the funding is available, or don't you?
You're employer is under no requirement to pay for training unless they have asked you to job which requires that training and they hired you knowing that you did not have those skills.
Ignorance, you're displaying it freely. Every job pretty much demands that you take on other duties as required. The world is a changing place, and jobs change with it or companies go away. As the world changes, training is needed.
Your (note lack of apostrophe) employer is under no requirement to pay for training unless they want to stay in business. Then they should probably think about paying for people to have the skills they need to succeed.
If your company is laying stone or something, this may not apply to you. But if you are doing anything technical, then it does. If you think it doesn't, you are on the road to destruction.
CEO: "What happens if we don't, and they stay?"
CFO: "We get to keep a productive employee doing the things he's been doing well,
CTO: Unfortunately, the world is changing, and we need to change with it.
Oh, no CTO? Too bad, so sad. Thou shalt fail, o maker of buggy-whips. Enjoy this moment while it lasts.
While your statement is surely true in many (and I daresay most) cases, the reality is that companies make money making cuts and not investments.
False. That is the opposite of reality. Companies save money by making cuts, but they make money by making investments.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
