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MarkTJohnson wrote: the left
The request is coming from Native Americans. They are mad at what happened in their past. The topic is far more nuanced than a 'left-right' dichotomy.
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Not really. I can almost guarantee this organization donates entirely to socialist and other leftist causes.
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So you can also guarantee that Native Americans aren't mad about what happened in their past, and their treatment today? I've driven across reservations. I would not want to live on them. Your point doesn't make it a pure 'left' issue. It is far more nuanced.
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They have every right to be mad, but the Apache Foundation isn't to blame for actions of previous generations. Taking their anger out on the innocent is the best way to continue the hatred.
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Thank you for acknowledging it isn't a left/right issue.
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Not having read the story ... this is my guess of the viewpoint that wants the name change.
It is using a culture's / race's identifying name for something that has absolutely nothing to do with that group. It distorts and weakens the meaning and significance of the identifier when it is used for something other than the group. When you say "Apache", there shouldn't be any question or much thought needed to know that you are referring to the Native American nation and its culture; you shouldn't have to use the surrounding context to determine tribal nation versus software. When you says Irish, you immediately know that whatever you're talking about has some connection to the Irish culture. It should be the same when you say Apache.
I make no statement either way on whether I personally agree with this position. I do understand it, though.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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Officials are still trying to figure out exactly what led to the Federal Aviation Administration system outage on Wednesday but have traced it to a corrupt file I guess the good news is that the backups are working?
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As in:
if distance(plane1, plane2) < 1000 garbled unit of measurement) {Emergency();} ???
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I did have a quiet smile at the redefinition of the acronym NOTAM.
In the 20+ years I have been reading them it was always "NOTice to AirMen" (and still is, according to the Australian Government[^])
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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yeah that was the current admin's upgrade to NOTAM. The system is antiquated and needs re-work.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The tech site has been publishing articles written by AI and edited by humans since November, following other news outlets. Or maybe their previous authors just wrote like an AI?
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Apple could release a MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen as soon as 2025, according to a report from Bloomberg. "We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out touchscreens don't work."
Slightly paraphrased, but that was His Steve's opinion.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but that was His Steve's opinion.
But he is not there anymore and the new guy in marketing might be too young to have known him in his teen / adult life 
M.D.V. 
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an interesting recent short piece (Bloomberg, Gurman) that touches on this: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Microsoft will no longer require US employees to formally record vacation thanks to a new Discretionary Time Off policy. That should help clear up the bug backlog
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That should help clear up the bug backlog
It could actually be important for that, the ones working will be the ones willing to do it and probably the ones actually being able to solve things.
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i guess mickey soft found a way to get rid of it excess cash problem
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Veracode, provider of modern application security testing solutions, today released the results of the Veracode State of Software Security 2023 report, revealing that flaw build up overtime poses a real issue for many businesses. I'm sure if you look again, you'll see that's probably more like 100%
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I think the software they used to determine this has a flaw - it can't count to 100%
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LHS 475 b is just 41 light years away. I see one 100% the size of Earth
It's an exoplanet somewhere
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So, 1 variable (and not even a really important one)... what about all other?
- Atmosphere composition
- Distance to sun
- Class of sun radiation
- Water presence
- ...
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Baby steps, I guess. All I get out of this is that the "fraction of stars that have planets" factor in the Drake equation seems to be quite high after all.
The "people talking to us" still does seem rather low. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The "people talking to us" still does seem rather low.
Seriously, if you were so advanced that you could come to say "hi"... looking how we behave, would you come? I wouldn't
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'struth! 
TTFN - Kent
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