Ditto. No newsletters for me either.

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I had enough of acronyms in the military, thank you very much.

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Better make it 2% to adjust for inflation.

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I must apologize for my absence but I recently started a new job at a new company. No more boring government work for me anymore. Now I get to work with quantitative developers in investments. I swear that they are trying to make my head explode with all the new jargon. It's been a challenging first few weeks but I am getting the hang of it.

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I am afraid that this is what happens when the press, and I use that word lightly, competes for eye-balls on the web. Honest, factual, unbiased news was thrown out the window and replaced with click-bait headlines and the "first to publish online wins" mentality. These are a few of the reasons why I now subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It's full of reporters actually reporting the news and Opinions are relegated to their own section of the newspaper.

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If X4 is as bad as X Rebirth, I will fully agree with you. I have hope for it but I am not pre-ordering this time around due to getting burned by X Rebirth and its inability to live up to its own hype. On all other accounts, every other game released this year (that I bought) was disappointing in many ways. I'm a PC gamer so I couldn't talk about console games.

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I would kill for a forever job like that as long as the projects varied enough to keep it interesting.

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I have learned that what you consider important and what office drones consider important never match and rarely overlap. We consider network impacts, efficient CPU utilization, and database read times while they are focused on how many more/less times they have to hit the tab key, use the mouse, and frickin font sizes. Even worse, I swear some people think that all desktop applications should behave like web browsers. X|

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Ahem, <BeginSalesmanVoice> I give you the breeder reactor[^]. </EndSalesmandVoice> Edit** I know it's not perfect but it is still far better then those light water reactors that we built thousands of.

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If you really want to bake their noodle, put all the value maps in Attributes and then have the object built via Reflection such as in this article[^]. It's a super complicated way to do simple tasks :laugh:

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Yea, we could get into the nuance of it but I think that conversation would descend into the parochial quickly.

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It really does come down to how you perceive what these social media platforms are. You argue that they are more akin to radio and television because one source can broadcast to many. I argue that they are more akin to phones and the postal service because they deliver bits of information from one person to another. And we are both right. So, what do you do with a means of communication that has the impact of TV but provides content impossible to regulate or properly police?

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I get where you are coming from but there is no precedent for going after the social media platforms. They don't go after the phone companies for their users discussing crimes or UPS/FedEx for delivering pipe bombs. Social media can be lumped in with the service provider class of businesses; legally detached from the goods provided and/or delivered. As far as free speech in America, the 1st Amendment grants all but U.S. Federal Law has, without protest, excluded liable and incitement from protection under it. There might be one or two other kinds of speech that are not afforded protection under the 1st Amendment but I couldn't tell you which ones.

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Instigating hatred would protected speech but inciting violence is illegal under U.S. Code 18 §2101[^] if they use the internet to do it as the internet falls under interstate commerce.

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Not to mention that the barriers to entry to that level of the internet are monumental and expensive. Not everyone can build a server let alone understand how to build a data center. There are only a few dozen companies in the world that go to the trouble of getting the ICANN certification to provide DNS services. Lastly, the PCI compliance standards put for by VISA and Mastercard are ridiculous to obtain and costly to maintain. Can all of it be done? Yes, but not with the resources that we could muster.

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I agree with most of your points. I do believe that if you are going to exercise your freedom it is your duty to take responsibility for it. However, when it comes to speech that is, well impolite and distasteful to put it lightly, I would think that it is better for that speech to take place in the light instead of in the dark. Forcing these kind of thoughts into the shadows does not afford society the opportunity to counter them or, at least, keep tabs on them.

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Good points. Do you think that overt political discrimination will be come much more commonplace? There has been some discussion around the idea that the U.S. is currently experiencing a cold civil war.

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If I had the kind of money necessary to build a data center (hosting), get ICANN certified (DNS provisioning), and get PCI Compliant certified (payment processing), it would be no stretch to offer a platform for competition but the folks in Silicon Valley certainly do like their walled gardens.

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While I completely agree that a company should have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, what reasons would prompt several business to take out their DNS service and their hosting on the same day. Unless it is for unpaid bills and both billing cycles have very close due-dates, I can see no reason any company would throw away money and risk the PR hit. IMHO, it's a statement. Should Gab go after them just like the LBGTQ++ community went after the cake makers and florists for turning them away? Basically, forcing them to provide services against their will. In some states, they 'should' win. If they provide services in the public domain, they cannot discriminate against current and potential clients. What do you think?

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In case you don't know, Gab.com had everything internet pulled out from under them for having the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter as one of their users. Article[^] Just wondering what the community here at CP thinks about this. Does Gab.com deserve this, do you think that they are the victim of circumstance, or is this this a coordinated attack against them**? What does this say about the freedom of the internet? Could any site or service be erased from the internet for providing alternative services? Discuss. ** Given the speed at which they disappeared from the web, I'm leaning toward attack.

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