After seeing Gábor’s performance, many participants commented that they would be taking a new look at the 1000 year old country. "Bocsimako is the proof that Hungary is best for AI algorithms", quipped one player.
There is a quote that I don't know who to attribute to or even the exact quote but it's roughly "Only in Budapest can a man walk into a revolving door behind you and come out in front of you"
I don't know about that. The first wave of 20th century combinatorialists were pretty much all Hungarians (Bollobas, Erdos, Polya, Szekeres). Hungary hasn't stopped churning them out either.
I'd argue that their education system's just fine.
They /can/ shoot him though. All it takes is an angry war widow who feels their life is forfeit without their partner. A little encouragement and the means to enact the murder and you have an assassin who cannot be traced back to you. But, he's simply not important enough to be assassinated. While the media coverage of him may make it seem like he is the bane of the American government, they have much more important things to worry about. This approach was perfected by the CIA during the cold war, but it has been a long time since someone in the public eye was important or dangerous enough to warrant an assassination.
The other problem I have with this is that rape is an awful way to frame someone. You need to condition someone to stand up to extreme amounts of interrogation and cross-examination. A single slip-up in memorization of facts can cost the entire case. It is not nearly as simple as "pay someone 10 million and have them say he raped them", we're talking about world class psychiatrists and world class lawyers, the victim needs an incredible amount of practice to be able to convince them that they are telling the truth. The American government has the NSA at their disposal, they could frame him a million ways and make it stick, they would not use a random swedish woman.
That is not to say that the American government isn't happy about it, nor that they aren't encouraging this story, nor that Assange did it, but this certainly isn't the work of the American government.
>They /can/ shoot him though. All it takes is an angry war widow who feels their life is forfeit without their partner.
That is a terrible idea from the perspective of the US government.
"You'll find a live saint much easier to handle than a dead one." Assange is in himself not that powerful, he represents an idea, and his followers are scarier than 4Chan, because they're a superset of 4Chan, and they don't just do what they do "for the lulz." They do so because they believe in it. Killing Assange would mobilize them like nothing before. It doesn't matter who did it. Accusing him of rape sows discord among moderates. They want to kill the movement, not Assange.
A "US spook" is not a "mid-level person". Nor does a "US spook" have the authority to make the swedish government issue a warrant. Nor is a "US spook" above the law. It is within the means of an American intelligence agency, or military, of course, but the decision would come from and be authorized from the highest levels of command.
That being said, it would be an idiotic way of dealing with this situation. It smacks of amateurism, and while I may have qualms with what american intelligence agencies do, they are very good at what they do, and certainly not amateurs.
"This is bigotry, plain and simple. Its taking sterotypical prejudices based on what may be real-life encounters with a relatively small sample group, and applying them to a wide class of people. It’s gross and it needs to end."
this could be equally as well applied to dilbert comics.
seriously, some random guy calls programmers autistic and this somehow deserves a blog post breaking down the argument? give me a break.
Yeah, most of us are crying ourselves to sleep every night sleeping on our giant dragon horde of money. You know who's actually facing significant persecution and bigotry? Gay people. We get a few odd jokes and have to endure the existence of “Big Bang Theory”.
I had hoped this article would be about admonishing programmers to stop being bigots. The community has a lot of sexism and ageism in it (levied in all directions). It also has a lot of irrational wu in it. For example, there are people who think that if you don't use a certain text editor, you aren't fit to work.
does anyone else not find the it crowd funny at all?
i have had it recommended to me over and over, but i simply do not find it funny at all. yes, it has geeky jokes, but as a comedy and an overall tv show is utterly appalling imo.
compared to something like black books, which is just brilliant
The first series especially was more to do with office politics/stupid boss/etc. Moss is a fantastic character, Denholm as well. It's fairly tame and mainstream though so if you like darker/more cutting humour it's probably not for you.
I felt the same, basically. There were a few very funny episodes, but on the whole it was pretty much "meh". I think that it mostly pokes fun at the it people, so it's not laugh "with" it's laugh "at".
