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hmmm... what about slashdot?
hmmm... what about slashdot?
awhile ago
and i feel vindicated
reddit needs to pay its mods (say, a cut of ad revenue from their sub)
if they work for free, they have no real power over them. which is unstable as current developments indicate
also, if they pay them, they can fire them
you can say paying mods will change the tenor of reddit but this is bullshit: what motivates someone to mod for free is a sort of pathetic need for power, which is actually worse than any nefariousness due to filthy lucre as their motivation
bye bye reddit, you were fun. but you have a fatal flaw in your power structure:
uncaring admins and abusive mods
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your alternative method is inferior as the specific request is tech *skills*, which you find on resumes, people speaking to their merits to get hired
not "tech appearing together on message boards," which indicated a whole host of relationships, relationship by skillset being far down the list
the simple fact is there is no perfect methodology so criticizing the methodology for being imperfect is without merit. and in articulating a yet even more inferior methodology in your latest comment i have to assume you're just arguing for the sake of arguing, you're barely trying, you're not serious, and so this useless thread is over
i was joking!
are you joking?
the arnold schwarzenegger move "terminator genisys" is in theatres and hollywood wanted a really effective advertising stunt
are you saying there exists some implementation that analyzes every resume in existence perfectly? it's "incomplete" in the sense that any such effort is incomplete and imperfect by nature of the problem. your criticism is invalid, you don't understand the task if you expect completeness is possible
and i've seen my fair share of poor visualizations
but i think this is actually really well done, useful even
congratulations to Simon Hughes
it's just analyzing the appearance of words in listed skills
actual database pros would not put "database" as an enumerated skill
maybe the kind of person who lists "windows" "internet explorer" and "microsoft word" as tech skills would, but such people would not show up in the data set analyzed here: resumes from serious professionals working in the tech sector
so it makes sense "database" would only be a tiny little distant circle
hitler liked dogs and thought highly of investing in highway infrastructure
people can be the epitome of evil and still be right about something. your "thinking" on this topic is basically the same as saying you hate dogs because hitler liked them
yes, the right screams about iran's bomb program. that doesn't mean the right is suddenly correct about everything, they are warmongering douchebags. however, they are actually correct *in this one instance* about the fucking bomb program
it also doesn't mean we should go to war. "i agree with the right that iran has a bomb program therefore i have to do exactly what the right says we should do about that" does not actually logically follow genius. but most importantly, it doesn't mean the nuclear program magically does not exist just because neocons are poopyheads and we don't like warmongering neocons
believing iraq has a nuclear program because some iraqi went to niger once and niger had yellowcake is *exactly* as fucking stupid as believing iran does not have a bomb program because we don't like donald rumsfeld: a ridiculous erroneous connection for a stupid prejudicial reason
so: congratulations: you are what you hate. your "thinking" is the same quality as warmongering and propagandized american idiots. intelligence is not doing the opposite of who you hate. that's just the same idiocies in reverse. intelligence is about actually being fucking perceptive and observing reality, actual reality. guided by facts nor prejudices. which means every once in a while *gasp* you and your ideological foes agree on the observation before you. and it doesn't logically follow that you agree with them about what to do about it, right genius? you deny what they want to do about reality, you don't deny reality!
seriously, you are a fucking idiot on this topic. you are to me exactly the same kind of loser as the idiots who thought iraq had a nuclear program. you believe something obviously not real because of who you like/ dislike prejudicially who says the lie. fucking moronic
there's identifying and knowing your weaknesses, planning for them, and failing over swiftly and gracefully
then there's not doing a damn thing about the weaknesses, and using the same damn set up forever
also, we're not talking about exchanging product keys for cracked software. we're talking about a system used in a wold war where thousands of lives and the prestige of nations depended upon a good implementation plan
The article carries echoes of the "profit is evil and government is good" mantra so popular lately.
that's a false dichotomy that only appeals to a simpleton
profit taking cannot occur without the stability and security established by government. likewise, government cannot exist without tapping into the profits it makes possible. government without the individual pursuit of capital is hell. and the social darwinistic pursuit of capital be damned the externalities is a simply another flavor of hell
it's just ignorance to imagine that capitalism and government are enemies. one does not exist without the other
we're talking about nuclear
nuclear is great until something bad happens. and then the possibilities are so exceedingly horrendous that there's nothing insurance can effectively do to offset the damage. what's the going insurance rate on giving cancer to people for decades and rendering large swaths of land unlivable for generations?
insurance is only effective when the premiums paid cover the probability of damages possible. but the damages possible with nuclear are so stupefyingly huge that the insurance company would quickly go bankrupt instead of paying out
if enigma was such a great system, it would have protected from or gracefully readjusted after such an obvious and easily foreseeable failure. that no one foresaw such an obvious failure or didn't have any contingency for the fucking obvious simply means that enigma was extremely brittle and therefore a weak system
and even though it was broken, the breaking remained classified *exactly because* the brittle weak system could be sold to countries that uk, usa wanted to spy on easily. so yes: you need to re-learn your history, moron
who gives a fuck about netanyahu? if israel said russia is bullying ukraine would you automatically believe russia is being heroic? you base your opinion on the opposite of what netanyahu says? do you think?
and iraq 2003 is exactly what i am talking about: bush said they had nukes and american morons didn't think to look at actual facts and just trusted the lies. iran says they are not building nukes when they obviously have an advanced nuclear program. they're building it for energy? you believe that?
your braindead insistence on rejecting the fucking obvious about iran's pursuit of a bomb is EXACTLY the same as some moron braindead trusting gw bush about iraq in 2003. exactly the same moronic prejudice over actual facts. that's you. you blatantly disregarding obvious facts because of a prejudice. that's you on this topic 100%
it is not remotely possible to accept the very obvious basics of iran's nuclear program and conclude that they're not building a bomb. you're not a serious person. you are guided by gross prejudice, in spite of obvious facts, exactly like morons who wanted war with iraq in 2003
you can't claim a system is excellent while at the same time enumerating its major failures. of course an inside man or inside knowledge can do major damage to any system, but a truly robust system would safeguard against user carelessness and there would be ways to identify sabotage or major breaches and adjust around the damage. enigma was a brittle system where all of the failures you list were inevitable and foreseeable. and no plans, or weak late plans, were made for the inevitable and foreseeable
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John Kelsey (cryptanalyst)
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John Kelsey is a cryptographer who works at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, stream ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, MACs), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, side-channel attacks on cryptography implementations, and anonymizing communications systems. He previously worked at Certicom and Counterpane Internet Security.
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A big rig loaded with chocolate crashed and caught on fire along Interstate-30 in Grand Prairie early Wednesday morning, melting some of the chocolate onto the roadway.
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North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) crews are working non-stop on a drainage system along Interstate-30 in Fort Worth. Part of the interstate near the Chisholm Trail Parkway construction zone was covered in water after this past weekend's downpour.
Drivers Complain I-30 Construction Confusing & Dangerous
Orange barrels have taken over part of I-30 near University Drive in Fort Worth. The Chisholm Trail Parkway project is the latest hot spot, but some drivers say the curvy road and detours are confusing and dangerous.
Some Say Billboard Is "Advertising Prostitution"
The new billboard on Interstate-30 near Greenville is anything but subtle. The sign urges women to get out of prostitution and be a sugar baby, instead.
Milk Truck Overturns In Downtown Dallas
A truck carrying gallons of milk flipped over in downtown Dallas early Wednesday morning. The driver suffered only minor injuries while crawling out of the smashed vehicle.
2 People Killed In Arlington Single-Vehicle Crash
Two people were killed early Sunday morning after the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a concrete barrier in the westbound lanes of Interstate-30 in Arlington.
Naked Woman Seen Fleeing From Car Crash
Police in Fort Worth spent a part of Wednesday morning looking for a naked woman. A witness watched her flee from a car crash along Interstate-30 near Rosedale Street.
2 Adults & 1 Child Killed In Arlington Crash
Three people, two adults and one child, were killed early Wednesday morning in a three-car crash in Arlington.
Truck Full Of Chicken Crashes In Fort Worth
A big rig loaded with frozen chicken ran afoul of construction in Fort Worth on Tuesday morning. Police said that the driver clipped a retaining wall and lost control.
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I am asked a number of questions every day regarding what gift to buy for whom. I generally create a new page or post to answer that query with some gift buying etiquette advice and lots of gift ideas from various merchants including Amazon and Zazzle to name a few. You will see those questions and answers listed in the BLOG feed (left column). I find that providing real examples is the best way to ensure you have a wide view of what the options are.
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The main consideration when buying gifts is to know your audience. You need to know who you are buying for. This includes knowing the gift recipients age (not always necessary) their interests and in many cases their status and relationship to you and of course the gift should suit the occasion.
The gift recipients relationship to you is all important. You would not for example buy the same gift for your boss as you would your spouse. There are gifts that could be considered inappropriate for some and yet the same gift is highly desirable by others. This is why gift etiquette is important, you need to get it right.
A gift for a boss or a co-worker (assuming they are not family or close friends) would have an impersonal feel to it, perhaps a corporate edge. It would be formal and not too 'touchy feely'. You would not for example buy perfume and red roses for your female boss or a co-worker. They would get the wrong impression or the right impression if you are trying to tell them you love them.
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What gift to buy a work colleague or co-worker
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The man or woman retiring may be having conflicting emotions about retirement so if you're buying them a retirement gift make it sympathetic to how they feel and something that will lift them up and lighten the mood. Below are some ideas for suitable gifts. There are also some funny retirement gifts with a 'getting older' theme. Give these to those you know can take it! Read more …
Grandparents generally don't want for much in the way of material items as they have accumulated pretty much all they want and need by that stage of their life. What they do enjoy however are handmade gifts, personalized gifts, gifts that evoke special memories. They particularly like photographic gifts featuring the family members. If they have a much loved pet, any gift themed around that pet breed is generally very welcome. Read more …
Buying gifts for a teenage girl isn't hard as you may think, especially in today's world where clothes and gadgets are all important. I wouldn't advise buying clothes for a teenage girl as they're notoriously particular and fickle when it comes what they do and do not like at that point in time. A clothing gift voucher however to a store you know they visit would be very welcome by any teenage girl. Read more …
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It's tough to find the perfect gift for a geeky guy, as you know. Geeks are very cutting edge; they read and research all of the new gadgets well before their release dates, and geeky guys might even camp out for a day or two, in order to be the first to buy the latest gizmo. Read more …
Every year of marriage is something to celebrate, however traditionally we have anniversary milestones. These milestones are represented by various elements which I have set out for you below. I have also sourced a range of wedding anniversary gifts, cards, party invitations and so on to fit those milestones perfectly. Read more…
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From the article: How can I beat a gymnastics mental block?
Almost all gymnasts get mental blocks from time to time on skills. How have you gotten over the fear?
just do it
- I was afraid of cartwheels on bean and I found that I was scared on the floor break too. I found my favorite inspirational saying and it's just do it by Nike and it's true you need to believe have some pride and go
- —Guest Valerie
Male gymnast input
- I had done so many high level skills, to where I couldn't even do a fly away on h-bar but all you got to do is treat gymnastics like a Disney movie and believe you can do it. I used to have a skill called kovacs a couple of years ago but then I had no gym so after having no gym for a year and I half I got scared of doing the easiest of thing in the gym. So after I realized how easy it was since I had done it I thougj why not go for it and then I tried and made it. It's a Disney movie perspective.
- —Guest Rogue athlete
Mental block
- I experience these sometimes too. Just force yourself to do it. the more you do it the less scary it will be. Also think positive,trust your coach,and believe in yourself!
- —Guest Katelyn
Getting through mental blocks
- Usually i try not to think about the skill too much, because the more I think about it, the more I scare myself. I usually try to keep my mind on other things while I am doing the skill. I'm not saying I completely forget about the skill when I'm doing it, but I think less about what could go wrong. I just imagine myself doing the skill perfectly. To not completely think about the skill i play a song i really like in my head over and over agin and that usually helps to not concentrate on just the skill.
- —Guest Marissa
Mental block
- Tell yourself that you've done this before there's no difference. If your doing it for the first time without a spot tel yourself it's the same thing
- —Guest Julie
Getting past a meantal block
- It can be very scary learning a new skill! when i was working on my backhand spring tuck i was so scared i was shaking, but thgen i just remembered how many times i did it before and i was just fine! make sure that you visualize
- —Guest Guest
Over coming mental blocks
- I used to be a great tumbler, perfect form and great confidence until I got injured. I have so much trouble fighting my mind. I know I can do it and my mind just won't stop fighting against me. My coaches used to get so frustrated an would say, I know you can do it. You have done it before, why not know? But no one understands what your dealing with besides yourself. So here's how to fix the problem First clear your mind of negative thoughts. Tell your self you can do it!! Don't psych yourself ou, because you are too probably right. You can do it! Second, visualize yourself making the tumbling pass. This has helped me so much! Don't allow yourself to think too much, just do it!! You might not land Perfectly, but know you made it over and try again and again. It's such a difficult task to over come mental block, but just think positive and whatever you do, do not over analyze anything! If you have done it before, you can do it again!
- —Guest Amanda
Stay Positive
- Mental blocks suck but you can get over it by just staying positive and not getting frustrated. The more frustrated you get the worse it's gonna be. Take a step back, breathe tell yourself you CAN do it and then go for it. You can also have a coach stand there if they will. Lastly, remind yourself again that you got this you can do it and your not going to get hurt because you have the skill!!!!! What other reason is there to be scared of something besides getting hurt? But one thing NEVER back out even if a coach is there you can hurt yourself and the coaches, trust me I've learned from experience.
- —Guest Liv
Mental Blocks
- I have these all the time. It doesn't help when you have a coach that just says 'If you're scared, you're in the wrong sport.' I've been in this for 10 years, I think it's the right sport. So first things first, make sure you have a coach that believes in you more than you believe in yourself. Then do it repetedly with them spotting you, gradually with them spotting less until you're confident enough.
- —Guest Bailey
Getting past fear
- what i do is i play the i can't say i dont no game. I will ask myself a question about doing the skill and force myself to think hard and come up with an answer. If your coach asks you why cnat you stick a balkwalkover on beam ( for example) instead of saying I dont know. Come up with a answer. Like I am scared to go backwards. Have your coach help past this! it helps
- —Guest Calire
Mental Blocks
- I blast techno music and get myself in 'the zone' and then do the move without thinking about it. It really helps you not focus on what's scaring you.
- —Guest Guest Emily
Mental block
- This may not help too much but just remember you are young and have a very strong body and any old person would switch bodies in a blink of an eye. So do gymnastics while you still can.
- —Guest Former Gymnast
Mental block help
- My trick is to tell myself that I'm confident in this skill. Your body doesn't know whether you're lying to it or not! Just tell yourself, "I am totally confident and I rock." It really helps!
- —Guest Daria
Beat the Fear
- I get these ALL THE TIME. I used to be a gymnast, then I quit because I couldn't do tumbling because of my mental block. Now I do cheerleading, and the same thing happened to me today ; I couldn't do my standing. Then I tried it with a spot, and only sometimes I could. Then when it came time to preform, I made myself think that my spotter was there, and the adrenaline made me do it. I was SO relieved and happy that I did it!
- —Guest Kat
Getting Over Mental Blocks
- It can be hard to get over it sometimes. But just count to three and don't think at all! Have your brain empty and go on three. It helps me all the time with standing back handsprings!
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Henrik Lundqvist's secret to success? Balance in life
May 5, 2012, 10:57 AM EDT
Being a goalie in the NHL has to be one of, if not the most, stressful jobs on the ice. For Rangers superstar Henrik Lundqvist, the pressure and intensity that comes with the job used to be sky high.
Key phrase there is "used to be" as he's found an almost zen-like way of dialing things down. Larry Brooks of the New York Post hears from Lundqvist about how he's changed his focus compared to how he used to do things when he was younger.
"I'm able to handle things like this better because I think I've found a better balance in my life over the last couple of years," Lundqvist told The Post following Friday's practice. "Even this year, over the regular season I could feel the difference in the way I was able to put the game out of mind on the off-days.
"I'm a pretty intense guy when it comes to preparation, and with the amount of mental energy that goes into playing, I needed to be able to have a different approach away from the rink, and that took some time for me."
Taking a different approach has made life easier on Lundqvist and a lot tougher on opposing offenses. A locked in and focused Henrik Lundqvist is much scarier than a potentially overly fired up one. The real test today for Lundqvist will be to see how he shapes up after such a marathon game the other night. Another strong effort and victory will send the Rangers home with a shot of wrapping up the series.
- babar61 - May 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM
"I'm more relaxed….except when they miss a interference call in a game we win. Then I will rip someone's head off!"
- gmen4life33 - May 6, 2012 at 4:49 PM
away from the game, he said he is more relaxed awya from the game
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With the world mourning the death of the "most respected man in America," Walter Cronkite, most media outlets have focused on his contributions to the nation, its politics, and even the media itself. There's no denying the impact of the indelible images of Cronkite telling the nation about man walking on the moon or JFK's assassination; they are forever burned in the consciousness of America.
And while Cronkite is most definitely more than worthy of emulation as a newsman and statesman and pillar of integrity in an increasingly cynical world, we'd be happy just following in his steps as an endurance racing driver and lover of motorsports.
Thanks to AUTOBLOG, we're now even more in awe of Cronkite's awesomeness after learning of his days behind the wheel:
Although Cronkite was primarily known for his coverage of the JFK assassination, moon landing and the Vietnam war, he also enjoyed success in endurance racing with teammate and Volvo of Long Island dealer Art Riley.
When Riley died earlier this year at 93, his obit briefly mentions Cronkite's involvement with the team and its successes behind the wheel of a Volvo PV444. The team campaigned and won races at Lime Rock's "Little LeMans" in 1957, '58 and '61. Cronkite was the only finisher in a five-car team one year, taking a B-division win and placing third overall. The two also teamed up to compete in the Trans-Canada rally.
That, friends, is a real man's man. We've seen a little backlash about Cronkite bubbling up from the outer fringes of the internet; some of the more closed-minded rabble in the country seems to dislike Cronkite for speaking his mind about things and being steadfast in his convictions. While we were unaware that these were considered negative character traits, surely one thing we can all agree on is that it takes brass ones to race a Volvo across Canada in the 1950s.
In a combination of profession and passion that would have made Robert Frost proud*, Cronkite got behind the wheel of an Austin-Healey and in pits at the Monte Carlo for a special CBS News report about the thrills of sports car racing. "Why do they race?," he asks. Walter, you already knew the answer:
*My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
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God! Why did I let it all go?! I had it all! I had you and you matter to me... I should have never done what I have did... What did I do? I lied and broke the trust that I just began to rebuild with you. Why did I do it...?
I was weak. It was easy. It didn't seem like anyone would ever find out... But I was so wrong... I should have kept true to my feelings for you but I didn't. I wish I had stayed strong but I didn't...
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"Want to avoid paying half of your employees' Social Security tax? Reclassify them as 'independent contractors' so they pay it all themselves. Make them fill out a 1099. 'That's not a fulltime busboy, that's Juan Co., LLC. Don't forget to invoice us, Juan Co.'"
(John Stewart, The Daily Show, November, 2012)
As far back as 1989, a Government Accounting Office study found that 38 percent of the employers examined misclassified employees as independent contractors. As a labor lawyer for the past two decades, I've represented hundreds of bakery drivers who deliver and shelve bread and chips for grocery stores. In that industry, some companies use employees, some use independent contractors, and some use both, yet I have seen a steady shift away from employees. Why? By labeling workers "independent contractors," bakeries (and grocery stores), like the Port of Los Angeles, avoid dealing with unionization and such employee obligations as contributing to Social Security.
The bakeries call these workers independent contractors – even though they essentially perform the duties of a bakery driver employee. The companies have the drivers fill out IRS Form 1099s (used for non-employee compensation) and set up corporations – or LLCs as John Stewart joked. Yet, plainly, these bakery drivers are employees, not independent contractors. Many of these "independent contractors" become wage slaves controlled by the threat of losing their livelihood – without the wages, without protection against discrimination, access to vacations, rest breaks and paid lunches, or any other benefits associated with being an employee. Unfortunately, because of the profit in labeling employees as independent contractors, companies are increasingly following this course.
Recently, for example, after acquiring all of Sara Lee Corporation's baked good brands, Grupo Bimbo is laying off many of its unionized drivers (who delivered Oroweat, Roman Meal and Weber breads) and will apparently be shifting delivery of its new lines to "independent distributor" drivers. As part of the Sara Lee/Bimbo deal, the U.S. Justice Department had Bimbo spin off some of the Sara Lee brands to Flowers Foods (to avoid monopolizing the bread market).
Now, Flowers' "independent" drivers will carry products formerly delivered by Sara Lee's independent contractors and employees.
Meanwhile, as bakeries profit by shifting to nominally independent contractors, unionized bakeries such as Hostess Brands (makers of Twinkies and Wonder Bread), go bankrupt or are dissolved. The press covered Hostess blaming the unions (which dared to demand living wages), but it failed to look below the surface to see the detrimental effect of this industry's race to the bottom through misclassification of employee workers. Probably, Hostess Brands will be bought by their unfair competitors and its products delivered by non-union "independent distributors," driving a low-wage economy.
For nearly 20 years, I've won and lost cases based on whether bakery drivers are independent contractors or employees. The biggest difference has not been the drivers; it's been the judges. One, who decided in favor of Gruma Corporation (the world's largest tortilla maker), was a Club for Growth donor (though he never disclosed that fact). The law remains pliable and the companies profit – while the public loses billions of dollars to underpayment of taxes for workers misclassified as independent contractors.
Yet aggressive and imaginative unions do not have to surrender. California courts recognize that unions can include employee and independent contractor drivers. Particularly given the churning of brands and pressures in the industry, many of these so-called independent contractor drivers want group representation. A 1950's-era case pitting a bakery against a union working to raise drivers' wages acknowledged that, because all of the drivers essentially do the same work, a "union may take into membership 'businessmen-workers' who operate in an industry, field or trade in competition with organized workmen." (Los Angeles Pie Bakers Asso. v. Bakery Drivers Local (1953) 122 Cal.App.2d 237, 238-239.)
These are American jobs that cannot be offshored. It's imperative that the labor movement, politicians and progressives use all weapons at our disposal to keep them unionized and part of a more inclusive and fair economy.
Jonathan Weiss is a labor attorney. He started the ongoing Community Outreach Program at Southwestern Law School to engage Hoover Street Elementary School children with law students and faculty.


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Buried in a column about the Los Angeles Lakers and Dwight Howard was an interesting trade-based tidbit regarding the Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors center Andrea Bargnani. [Utah] has talked to the Raptors in the past about Andrea Bargnani, but since Utah is hoarding cap space, a deal is highly unlikely. Speaking of Bargnani, Chicago would love to have him, but the Raptors have no interest in taking on the mammoth contract of Carlos Boozer. The talk of Ben Gordon coming over from Charlotte is a non-starter, and another rumoured deal with Philadelphia is also mere chatter, according to sources. Spies here in Houston reveal that other teams have sniffed around on Bargnani, particularly Golden State and Cleveland. The Cavaliers currently have Tyler Zeller as their starting center and will continue to say that all of this experience is going to be critical for his long-term development. Would-be center Anderson Varejao continues to deal with a litany of injuries and will miss the rest of the regular season due to having been prescribed blood thinners following a clot. With the recent play of Tristan Thompson coupled with the fact that he is from Canada, it would make sense that the Raptors would start any discussions with the Cavaliers' power forward as a return price for the former first-overall draft selection. Given the Cavaliers' needs, however, it would not be surprising if this would be another case of general manager Chris Grant merely turning over every stone in his path. [Related: Kyrie Irving makes shots and a few more fans during All-Star weekend]
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In this drawing Duke Riley presents real and imagined accounts about the original residents as well as an imaginary group of contemporary inhabitants of Mill Rock Island, a small, inhospitable strip of land just north of Roosevelt Island in the East River of New York. Initially named Bright Passage or Hell Gate by Dutch explorers, the island and the river become a mythical place in Riley's densely rendered scenes. Influenced by tattoo art as well as woodcuts and nineteenth-century whaling art, this large-scale drawing invites the viewer to find hidden treasures and stories depicting tales of sexual exploits with pirates, mermaids and other mythical creatures. Part of Riley's vast multimedia project East River Incognita 1, The Bright Passage further evokes the ambiguous line between history and myth by including fragments and landmarks of contemporary life in New York.
- Artist: Duke Riley, American, born 1972
- Medium: Ink on Architectural Canary drafting paper
- Dates: 2006
- Dimensions: Frame: 2 1/4 x 77 1/2 x 124 in. (5.7 x 196.9 x 315 cm) Sheet: 71 x 118 in. (180.3 x 299.7 cm) (show scale)
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- Accession Number: 2006.27
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman and gift of Donald T. Johnson, by exchange
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- Caption: Duke Riley (American, born 1972). The Bright Passage, 2006. Ink on Architectural Canary drafting paper, Frame: 2 1/4 x 77 1/2 x 124 in. (5.7 x 196.9 x 315 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman and gift of Donald T. Johnson, by exchange, 2006.27. © Duke Riley
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I feel so at home here after looking at Beyond3D.....I was first introduced about overclocking through my Bf and you know what? beyond3d in my opinion is ATI bais because anyone that says anything "good about" nvidia is flamed by the flaming resident trolls. :retard:
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Nice that you found a new home :) I'm not too fond of B3d either.. :)
wait a minute... your a girl??? AND YOU OVERCLOCK??!! omg! :D :D Nice
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b3d is still one of the premier sites out there.... and you will find people with a very large bias one way or another on most sites :)
however it is a different atmosphere here and yes it is pleasant to see females participating on the forums... especially in the hardware section
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You'll hear tens of people say the reverse about this site. :D If you stick around long enough, however, and think for yourself you'll see that's not the case. Sure, this is an NVIDIA fan site. That does not mean that we flame those that favor ATI...there are plenty of them here. 99% of us are here to learn, discuss and have fun doing so. So, welcome to nV News. :)
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I can't stand B3D anymore. They'll sit there for a week arguing the technical parts of video cards without bothering to use a little common sense in how those technicalities translate to real world performance. There's a thread about how if you do your math right you'll come to the conclusion that the X800 is better suited for Doom3 over the 6800s. Ya...freaking...right.
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no need to bash b3d... every site has its own merits and its own forum etiquette and mannerisms...
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Hopefully you're just as diligent trying to stop the nvnews bashing that goes on there.
Edit: Oh, and welcome bluetracex.
Edit 2: Sorry Sazar. Just saw some of your posts at other sites and saw that you are indeed diligent about trying to stop the bickering between various sites.
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Right guys. Let's not stoop to the wonderful world of low-class site bashing. It makes us look incredibly lame and pathetic.
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My Bf is the one that got me looking "into" what my system has or what it needed,He plays Unreal alot/.
anyway one night I got some girls to play on lan with him and his buddies.....we won through some defaults..=p
But we are getting Ultra for our sytems.
Names to look for in Unreal are *Wild toxix,Wild 7,......love you guys.
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Heh i hold no punches when it comes to ATI but i have my own reasons. I come here not because i enjoy bashing ATI but because i like talking about the hardware i like. Notice i have no posts in the "other cards" forum. The only people that disturb me are the ones who come from the "other cards" forum to this one to try to inform us how much better their preference is and how everybody should only buy their card and how much ours sucks.
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As should be clear from my past writing, I have never been particularly impressed by the "reset." This does not mean that I am opposed to it, merely that I've long been aware that while it is more rational and well-considered than the previous administration's Russia policy, it suffers from the same ideological fixation on "values" that pollutes and corrupts most of American foreign policy.
Contrary to the increasingly hysterical complaints from many US conservatives, the "reset" is absolutely not a template for dastardly Bismark-style realism. I wish that the designers of the reset were cold hearted and clearheaded realists, but anyone who knows anything about the Russian studies community knows that if you were going to design and implement a totally amoral, value-free, foreign policy then Michael McFaul, the "commissar of transitology," a man who has spent most of his career writing exhaustively about supposedly all conquering power of democracy, is literally the last person you would pick to do so. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your view of the importance of "values" in foreign policy, the designers of the reset are not radically different from their predecessors but are merely slightly more rational and patient than the democracy promoters who occupied George W. Bush's administration.
The Obama administration has, in maintaining a hard and uncompromising line on foreign policy, been in broad continuity with the Bush administration. If you have any doubt about this, look at the piles of corpses that have been left behind in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the many other countries in which the United States has been militarily engaged (indeed, the Democrats now regularly brag about their toughness and resolve). The one major difference is that Obama's team has, in general, been far more adept at picking its battles because it has a far more perceptive understanding of America's real strengths, weaknesses, and interests. Rather than trying to do something thankless, dangerous, foolish, and expensive like invading and occupying Iraq, Obama has been far better at getting US allies on board for plans like sanctioning Iran and maneuvering militarily against China (the "pivot to the pacific," which has to be the most competently executed American foreign policy maneuver of the past two decades).
The Obama administration's far more adept diplomatic and political maneuvering is part of the reason that it has not been overly aggressive with Russia. Russia is a country in which the United States has little leverage: bilateral trade is tiny, economic cooperation has, until recently, been almost nonexistent, there is little history of cooperation between defense establishments, there are few cultural similarities, and there is the inescapable fact that for almost 50 years the two countries were sworn enemies that were often on the verge of nuclear war. Russia, then, is just not an easy place for America to influence and it makes perfect sense to focus, as the Obama administration has, on the very few areas of genuine common interest such as fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and reducing the number of nuclear weapons. Focusing on these areas is not, as is often stated, "weakness" but a prudent calculation of costs and benefits. The United States could pressure Moscow more aggressively than it has, but in order to do so it would have to spend resources that are far more desperately needed elsewhere.
Putin's re-election was met by the Obama administration as one would expect, with a not particularly polite but nonetheless diplomatic tone. The State department's press release emphasized not the importance of Putin's victory (Putin was, tellingly, not even mentioned by name) but the Obama administration's pleasure at increased citizen engagement.
Quite predictably, conservatives and Republicans seized on this press release as evidence of Obama's perfidy and cowardice but I think it's glaringly obvious that Obama adopted the appropriate tone: a more aggressively anti-Putin stance would have, obviously, escalated tensions with Russia at a time that the United States can ill afford them (tensions with Iran has been dramatically escalating, the war in Afghanistan continues to drag on, and the economy's growth has been slowing – even a country as wealthy and powerful as the United States can tackle only a few large problems at a time).
Jennifer Rubin, of the Washington Post, offered one of the most confusing and inaccurate analyses of the situation. She said:
No condemnation. No rejection of the results as invalid. No protest over the arrest of an opposition leader. This sort of mealy mouthed suggestion is all we get…
One 2012 presidential candidate is unwilling to dissemble and to ignore not only a gross violation of human rights, but also a slap in the face of the U.S. administration that has dispensed one benefit after another (e.g., removing missile site for Eastern Europe, letting Russia into the World Trade Organization) with the lame promise that Russia would reform. The president is living in a fantasy world in which his sole objective is to avoid confrontation in an election year.
In the meantime, both our foes and repressed people around the world see our lack of support for democracy, our unwillingness to stand up to bullies and our determination to dissemble in order to avoid tangling with aggressive regimes. No doubt the despots in China, Iran, North Korea and the rest are breathing easier; they don't even have to come up with their own propaganda anymore. Obama will do it for them.
Rubin seems to be arguing that the arrest of Alexei Navalny after the permit for his sanctioned rally expired is some sort of gross human rights violation. But as anyone who's been following the story knows, the Russian opposition itself is deeply conflicted and split over how to proceed. Additionally, reading Rubin you would have no idea that the Russian government, at least in this particular instance, acted much as a Western government would: it gave a permit for a huge march in the center of the capital, Pushkinskaya if filled could have held between 50 and 60 thousand people, allowed the march to proceed without interference or harassment, and only started to arrest people once they made clear that their intention was to "occupy" the square. Now I personally think that most restrictions on protests are absurd, so I actually don't think the Russian government should have "cleared" Pushkinskaya, but since Rubin has had some rather venomous and nasty things to say about Occupy Wall Street she hardly seems like the sort of person to be making a case in favor of radical freedom of assembly.
Rubin is also flatly inaccurate when she says that Obama "removed" missile sites from Eastern Europe. Obama did not "remove" ballistic missile defense from Eastern Europe, he simply repositioned it from East European NATO member (Poland) to another East European NATO member (Romania). One can make a semi-plausible case that this was not the appropriate court of action but one cannot suggest, as Rubin does, that Obama has cruelly stripped away missile defense since he has not done this and will not do it. Indeed Russian opposition to US ballistic missile defense, supposedly targeted at Iranian missiles that do not yet exist that will carry nuclear warheads that also do not yet exist, is part of the reason that relations between the two countries remain so testy despite the reset.
As for the World Trade Organization this is not a "gift" to Russia but a development that directly suits American interests. A Russia that is a WTO member will not only be more open to American exporters, well at least if there are any exporters still in business in our glorious post-industrial economy, but can finally be brought before an internationally recognized and respected forum in order to tackle tricky issues like copyright infringement and intellectual property.
What Rubin does not attempt to argue, largely because its impossible, is that confrontation with Russia will better serve American interests. You think the Russians are being insufficiently supportive of our war effort in Afghanistan? You think they should more fulsomely back our efforts to sanction Iran? You think they should stop arming Assad? Great, how are you going to get them to do so? Saying nasty things about Putin won't get them to change their policies as the man seems to truly revel in the hatred of Western hawks (recall his famous speech in Munich in 2007). The Russians have never been in the habit of giving up something for nothing, and while they are open to considering deals they will not simply fold in the face of angry Republican rhetoric.
The idea, embraced by people like Rubin, that there is no conflict between America's interests and its values is just flatly inaccurate – a country with a globe-spanning presence will always have to cut deals with some truly unsavory regimes (hello, Saudi Arabia!) and some truly nasty people. It's not pretty, but that's the way the world works. The alternative to the reset, then, is not a Russian policy that magically forces the Russians to do our bidding, but a policy that guarantees mutual suspicion and heightened tensions. In an environment in which the US' position is swiftly crumbling, it has to be very careful about whom it picks its fights with. Obama and the reset architects seem to understand this, Rubin and the Republicans absolutely do not.