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As a complete outsider to Leftpondian racial malarkey, this is yet another USian racial knee-jerk that I don't get.
If that's what people call him (and I presume they do, as it doesn't look like a name that one would pull out of the air), then it's not a racial slur; it's a nickname.
You're all weird, over there, with your taboo-word selection; e.g. "Chinaman" is another one that I've never understood.
As an Englishman -- i.e. someone who comes from south of the Scotsmen, north of the Frenchmen, east of the Irishmen, and West of the Dutchmen -- I honestly don't see what the problem is with that word.
The formula seems to be that if you treat a people badly, it's their name that becomes the dirty word.
That's kinda f'd up, y'know? And since you're running out of race names that can be used in polite society, maybe it's "American" that should be excluded.
Mind you, a pal of mine who worked at a UK car factory (making the mini metro -- oh, the shame of it!) told me that he was once chastised for saying that the colour of a seat-belt was "brown", rather than "chocolate", because that was the flavour-of-the-month you're-racist-if-you-use-it word, so we're not that much better in Rightpond.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You're all weird, over there,
Oh, I totally agree. I've been going to a couple race relationship meetings here in the area to learn more about the different perspectives blacks/African Americans/people of color (they themselves can't seem to figure it out) have, and it really is quite astounding actually. There's the psychological issues, but then there's hard objective accounts of prejudiced treatment by "whites." However, the thing that really is an eye opener is what I saw as an unconscious reverse discrimination / self-victimization that perpetuates the problem rather than solving it. Like I said, it's eye opening to even minimally start to comprehend the perspective of someone who considers themselves a minority and also has a history of being brutalized by another race.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: it's eye opening to even minimally start to comprehend the perspective of someone who considers themselves a minority and also has a history of being brutalized by another race.
I'm a red-head. There's nothing they can teach me.
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Borderline racist comment made by a 12 year old troll.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Because bad people are afraid that if bad things are said about them, people will notice how bad they are.
You can say what you like about good people. They're secure in their knowledge of themselves.
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Disclaimer: I've never used FaceBook, Twitter, Linked-In, etc, and don't intend to.
Also of interest to me was the comment on Meyer's original post [^] ... which is the post to which the post you link to is a reaction ... by a site visitor:
"This year I went through divorce. A few months after my separation, Facebook suggested via a push message to my phone that I befriend my ex-wife’s lover. Thanks, Facebook!"
FaceBook the Healer ? ... Not !
While I feel empathy, as any human being would, for Meyer's loss of a daughter, I see no real "point" in considering the obvious artifacts of algorithms as reflective of the human natures and intents of the programmers who created them. It is my belief that Meyer's intent in this second essay is to show that he feels that way also, and, imho, he is expressing regret that his words in the first essay were interpreted by many as having an ad hominem intent.
That the widespread use of FaceBook, Twitter, etc., may result in a very large number of persons attributing "personality," or human emotions, to the internet, or to computer programs ... well, such has always been the specialty of homo sap: to attribute personal meaning and intentionality to the random, to interpret every phenomenon perceived in consciousness as a confirmation of whatever emotional agendas are cooking [1] ...
I reflect on the fact that several times, at least, today, I have sworn out loud at my computer while programming, using the curse "b*%ch," putting a southern California surfer's spin [2] on the accent ... is it "heartless" I never say to my computer: "I love you" ? 
like gnarly, dude, Bill
[1] Of course this statement is an infinite regression since most of what is perceived in consciousness is itself generated by selective attention, and inattention, shaped by emotional agendas, and primary drives.
[2] I've body-surfed, but never board-surfed, and I never lived in that evil-empire centered around L.A., in that "other fascist state" that dares to masquerade as a part of blessed California.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
modified 29-Dec-14 12:24pm.
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BillWoodruff wrote: I've never used FaceBook, Twitter, Linked-In, etc, and don't intend to.
Perhaps proving that if one looks hard enough one may find some good in anyone.
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That's a damned fine riposte with a deliciously sarcastic backhand-spin on it that demonstrates that even a mind that most often manifests (here) as a grandiosely content-free zone can ... have style 
So, of course, I had to vote that up !
Happy New Year, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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Indeed, Facebook needs a "Commiserate" button. 
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Meyer is talking about a contingency plan, not what I'd define as use cases, but your contigency plan could be filled with use cases.
Meyer thinks he is a programmer, but he's more of a designer/artist with scripting skills that happens to be a guru with CSS, but he is not an application programmer and has no use for use cases, use case diagrams, or use case realization diagrams.
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Joe Gakenheimer wrote: Meyer is talking about a contingency plan, not what I'd define as use cases, but your contigency plan could be filled with use cases.
That's acceptable terminology, if it helps you structure the product and prioritise the work, but it's hardly required terminology.
A use case nested under other terms is still a use case.
Joe Gakenheimer wrote: Meyer thinks he is a programmer, but he's more of a designer/artist with scripting skills that happens to be a guru with CSS, but he is not an application programmer and has no use for use cases, use case diagrams, or use case realization diagrams.
I think that that may be somewhat of a misapprehension. Design and art are all about use cases; use cases are what drives them.
It's just that the people who do designing and produce art don't always need to write the use cases down in use-case forms to ensure that they'll be remembered, because they're the ones who think up the use cases, so they're less likely to forget them.
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Malaysian airplanes need to learn something from these planes. They go out for a long walk, and never come back. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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How could it be bound for Las Vegas and flying in from Los Angeles at the same time, but landing in Gatwick UK? Or was the LA flight being referred to in the previous paragraph, regarding the 1997 landing gear problem?
What a poorly written article.
Marc
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I'm guessing it was flying from LA to LV and got seriously lost en route? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pro tip: the Airliners.net forums are great when these sort of incidents happen.
I just lurk obviously (I don't want to bother them with my ignorance) but those guys really know their stuff, way more informative than the news.
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I have a little mantra I always pass to the cockpit crew upon debarking a flight:
A Good landing is one you can walk away from, but a great landing is one where you can use the plane again.
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And then there is an excellent landing.
I was on a trip to Miami for a business meeting. The meeting ended on Friday, so the wife and I decided to see Disney World on Saturday. We booked a flight for early in the morning (6 AM takeoff) and arrived at Orlando about 6:30 AM. It was a beautiful, calm, cool day, with no weather problems. The pilot "greased it in" and you could not tell exactly when the wheels touched the runway, it was that smooth. At the gate, absolutely no one left their seat until the pilot opened the cockpit door, then he got a "Standing O" from all of the passengers.
I have had a few "good" landings (to use you definition) as well - a student pilot pranging in a B52 and bouncing 5 times down the runway before he got it under control. Thank you very, very much, Boeing, for such a beautiful and safe aircraft that can take such punishment. To the student pilot's credit, the subsequent touch and go was very good, but that was partly because of what the student navigator said after the first touch and go. The navigator was responsible for logging in all touch and gos and reporting the total to the pilots after each touch and go, so, as we climbed back up for the next landing, he reported "5". The whole crew, students and instructors, broke out in laughter. That broke the ice.
Dave.
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Yes, things have indeed improved since autopilots took over landing the birds.
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My worst was landing in Gib.
On approach, the (RN) pilot off-handedly announced "We've got a bit of a crosswind".
"A bit!" It felt like the plane was in a Gerry Anderson show, the way it was bouncing around in the air. God only knows how he got it on the deck.
There wasn't a dry barf-bag in the house.
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Likewise, years ago, the "official" term used for a catastrophic failure of a rotor in an ultracentrifuge (think: 10-15 kg of titanium spinning at 100 kRPM in a vacuum, generating about 800 kG's of acceleration):
Spontaneous rotor disassembly
It almost sounds pleasant.
This explosion (yes, that's what it is ... conservation of angular momentum!) is contained by a ring of 6cm thick armor steel!
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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i qm developing multiDB developer in this i buid query builder and query editor.Based on query builder in that tables i have to generate sql query.but i am struggling inner joins how to build it.
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