While it may be broadly popular in the electorate across party lines, it's definitely a righty policy, since having lots of old, ambiguous laws on the books increases the discretion of police and prosecutors to deal with "troublemakers" as they see fit.
Also, under the US system, many broadly popular policies (marijuana legalization, public health care option) have no realistic path to enactment, so that's far from a guarantee.
If you don't chase ratings, you're not chasing viewers, and you're not having much impact on discourse. The current toxic sludge of cable news sprouted up decades after public broadcasting had been around.
Perl almost does this. Various CPAN packages have different "use" lines where they can declare themselves to be written in a particular version. These can all live together on an interpreter recent enough to know all the dialects. This is at the module level, rather than the function level though.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. To me it's obvious that performance reviews aren't and cannot be objective. You may disagree, but this will inevitably lead to dissonance when you your boss's assessment of your performance doesn't line up with what you think your "objective" performance is. This will eventually happen if it hasn't already. If you get a bad review while you think you're knocking it out of the park, the attitude I've outlined here has two benefits. First, it helps you realize that this supposedly objective review of your worth to the company is in fact largely bullshit. Second, it helps you realize that you need to spend some time learning whatever it is that your boss thinks is valuable and optimizing for that instead of whatever you're optimizing for now.
Yes, I was mirroring your own use of the word "truth." My point is that performance reviews are simply the result of management's opinions. You asked the question "Why do you assume the manager always know the truth?" and the answer is that truth is irrelevant (or perhaps even nonsense as a concept) in this context. Only opinions matter, specifically the opinions that make up your performance review, which are the opinions of management. There is no objective way to measure your performance or, if there is, management likely is not doing so unless you work in a field with very easily measurable output (billable hours or something like that).
As in many or most aspects of social activities like work, objective reality effectively does not exist. Only the consensus reality matters.
Management effectively does know the truth, for the trivial reason that they get to decide what the truth is. They are the ones who get to decide what counts as performing and underperforming. It's not as though there is some objective way to determine who is and isn't a desirable employee.
My job is definitely not essential (I work in ops for a category of app where nobody dies even if it is unavailable for years at a time). "Essential workers" are the flipside of "bullshit jobs". If grocery stores aren't stocked, if docks aren't open, if crops aren't planted and harvested, people die. It actually matters. Nobody dies if the marketing department for a craft brewery can't work for a year, or if the design team for free-to-play RPG #20,345 fails to release a new kind of in-game currency.
I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value of the Accept-Language request header regardless of what IP address a request is coming from.
I assume you're asking because people around you tend to smoke spliffs rolled from hash and tobacco. I know this is common in Europe at least, but in the US (and probably elsewhere) it's relatively uncommon and smoking just cannabis flower is overwhelmingly more popular.
Thanks, this does look interesting! I find any old ITS-related technical discussions like this (despite it being ostensibly OS-neutral standards language) to be very difficult to pore over. Sometimes I wonder if I'm computer-literate or just Unix-literate! Maybe one of these days I will get ITS running in an emulator and see what I've been missing.