It is funny how Angry Atheists and Conservative Christians. Take a such a simplistic view of the Bible, and usually cannot get past the first chapter of the Bible. And keep going back to it to disprove each other.
Genisus isn't a blueprint on how God created a world. They needed to start the book so that is how they started it. It doesn't really give a moral lesson, other then saying universe is big and complicated So complicated that God needed a day off. 7 days and 7 nights bits 7 is because it is Prime number and Prime numbers have been sacred, and most of the cultures didn't have that advanced of a number scheme of the time of the story to express large numbers. However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge. Once we strive for knowledge we will know more pain and suffering, however after we get knowledge we as a culture can never go back to blissful ignorance.
Well there is sometimes a fine line. If the employee is not doing their job correctly, it is your bosses jobs to correct their actions or dismiss them. Now people don't like change and may see this corrective action as treating the employee poorly. If you have a good employee who gets their work done, and is helpful to other members, vs someone who doesn't get anything done and distracts other workers. The boss may allow the first to get by browsing the web, talking to their family during company time. Vs. the latter where he will make sure they follow the company rules to a tee.
Some bosses, really get out of the professional category. When the S**t hits the fan they just don't know what to do. They will just start yelling and making crazy threats and become insane. The things with middle managers is they are directly targeted. If they don't get promoted to upper management in a few years, they need to leave and find an other job, else when there is a company reorg they will be the first to go.
Business ethics gets very complicated very quickly.
Here is an example. Your job is to sell your product to a foreign country (You sell a good product at a good price). In this country offering bribes is common and legal, however it is considered immoral and illegal for you and your culture and country to offer the bribes. So you go to the business deal the the owner says, you are offering a fine offer however what is in it for me (wink, wink).
Do you. 1. Turn down the bribe and loose the business. 2. Offer the bribe and hope they don't find out. 3. Offer to close the deal near your headquarters in Orlando Florida, and give him prepaid tickets and cover expenses (and his family who should be leaving his side) to come to headquarters to fill out the deal.
The problem is the more diverse set of people you meet the more muddy ethics get.
Easier said then done. That said they should have company policies that would allow employees to record their boss with out them knowing... To keep them honest. What often happens some Middle Manager gets a big head, because he is charge of a unit without much oversight just as long the money comes in there won't be much complaining, it really doesn't matter if they could bring more in if they did a better job... Or they could bring in more money if they just wasn't there. So when given power and they get use to employees acting meek to them, they get use to the power and abuse it a little more. Not to say all bosses are this way. It really depends on the motivation of the boss. Some bosses are all about power, they like controlling others lives (Micro-manager/bully boss), others are in it for the prestige they just like people looking up to them (self promoter), and others like authority to implement their ideas (visionary, sometimes a bit too abstract). Normally there are mixture of those. For the most part people are a mixture of different degrees of these. However if a Boss is strong in power they will be more likely to be caught doing things they don't want posted. The self promoter will be doing less of these things but really doesn't want anything negative posted. The visionary is sometimes too out there to care either way.
I wish the media will focus on how idiotic Heal Insurance companies are, especially in their IT usage. I work for a hospital and previously I worked for a start-up that did cutting edge medical technology. And let me tell you the insurance companies IT is just pure insane and stupid.
The government pushed a new electronic Bill form called 5010 which is an upgrade of 4010. These billforms are sent via EDI (Kinda of a Star Deliminator with a Tilda line feed, a throw back to old punch card technology) the difference between 4010 and 5010 are for the most part minor, and these changes were due January 1st. We are now in April. Now most of the insurance companies are compliment but there are other who are not, their test environment and production are very different and the test will allow different rules then production. So when a Hospital goes live after testing and getting clean tests they get rejection after rejection because they are not sending the right rules to the insurance company. Then they stick to the lie (The electronic format has the same data as the paper form) this is a Lie and absolute Lie! You call them on the lie and they will flat out deny you. Until you send the data and they reject you claims because there is data that isn't on the paper form, and some filds are on the paper from you Cannot fill in the electronic. Their checking system is insane. If they don't need that field you better not send it or your claim will get rejected.
Now lets go over the transmission to the insurance companies... Method one. The old BBS. Yes thats right the old dial up BBS is still active. when writing scripts to automate connecting to the companies I see those old DOS base BBS's of the olden days, most of them have upgraded to allow ZMODEM transfer. Now the more modern one use Secure FTP. Secure FTP (not to be confused with sftp) as in you data channel is encrypted but not always your command channel. Or worse there are these VPN groups that many insurance companies get on where after you connect to the VPN then you normally FTP to the site... (where a rogue billing company can monitor the ports and see what goes on, because they happen to be in the VPN network)
Everyone worries about HIPAA violations from the Health Care organization. For the most part now health care organizations have fare more modern and secure systems then the Insurance companies do. And if there are going to be a hack it will be in the insurance companies.
Now you are going to say. This hack was with medicaid not a private insurance company. Well Medicare and Medicaid are operated by each state, and a lot of states in essence sold them off to an Insurance companies to do all the work. Because of the big numbers these companies often do it at a discount. However they will also cut corners to give more service to their higher paying premium customers. The reason why Medicaid and Medicare have the lowest percentage for administration costs, is because they are operated so lightly and push the work to the health care organization to do all the administration. Then they will pass the costs to their customers. And it make is that much more expensive because you have a bunch of smaller organization doing advanced administration who cannot do it as optimally as a larger company who can scale the administration costs.
Financial Analysis is ripe with ways of twisting the truth. It happens all the time. Companies make it so they look like they are poor to the government to not pay taxes and Rich to the share holders to raise stock price.
The first formula you get in accounting is A=L+E Assets = Liability + Share Holder Equity. So that means every risk you have is also part of an asset. Every Asset you have could be a liability. when you do your numbers for a news article you can either Press on the Asset to make it sound really good. Or focus on the Liability to make it sound bad.
Numbers don't lie. But you need all the numbers to get the truth... We don't normally get all the numbers. and if we do most of us are either to afraid of the math or are too lazy to look at them and interpret it. We look at percentages and summarized data. Where they have been neatly prepared to show us what they want to show.
You buy an iPhone you buy a Device made by Apple with Apple Software. When you buy an Android phone you get a device made by some other company and the OS made by Google. Google is getting $2.00 per user for use of the OS.
Now if we had good Journalism how much profit is does hardware manufacturer make on their phones+ Google. This story reeks of Apple hater to me.
I think the real issue were the dyer predictions that really help mess things up. With New York City under Water, and all the stuff where they did the measurements and used 4th or 5th standard deviations for their predictions, as to scare the masses.
I am under the notion if we didn't sensationalize global warming we wouldn't have so many people saying it is a myth, or bogus liberal science to get us to stop driving our cars. And we would have a more clear headed discussion and would have started to take steps earlier on. If you have booring science you may not get those big grants but you would probably have much politically safer papers that can evoke change more gradually.
When Ronald Reagan became president he basically blocked almost all environmental initiatives. Because these initiatives all loudly required citizens to abstain from their goods that they loved and replace them with less effective alternatives. If there was a more gentile approach like how we reduced smog, acid rain, and CFC putting a hole in the ozone layers. We were more effective because we took steps and found replacements and ways to help reduce these factors without making everyone feel guilty about having nice things. Because making people feel guilty for their stuff on a wide scale doesn't work for long, and there will be resistance when they loose their quality of life.
No geeks run it... They just got older wiser, and probably sold out a little. Back when Slashdot started, for the most part you were already a geek just because you were using the Internet outside of AOL keywords. Linux was just starting to get noticed as a viable alternative to Unix. and the height of the Tech boom where most of the posters where making 6 figure salaries in jobs that pay them to sit in been bags chairs and play pin ball most of the day with some time in the middle where you got some work done. So the average poster had money to waste on fun technology, and free time to tinker. Good Times... However unfortunately it wasn't a sustainable and us Techs have been humbled back to our lot in life as Middle class work, in the cube, not bad but not great either. So as time went on a lot of technology had became far more made for consumer market, and now small size is really popular making DIY projects less likely, DYI cell phone will look more like a Zack Moris 1980 cell phone. As the DYI do not have the resources to much such a densely packed system.
Even though there is less spam, I have found that most email clients Such as Gmail have gotten very good at filtering out Spam. We forget how much we suffered back in the early 2000's where once we get too much spam our only choice was to change your email address to a name that is more cryptic then a password and only give it to people who you want. And wait until someone gets a virus and starts spamming you again. The email address I have been using for a long time now is an easy email to give however Gmail captures almost all the spam.
I have to agree. We are in an Employers market, we have been in one for a while. You use the platform they recommend, or you work from the office.
Now the question is different if the company is exploring to offer telecommuting then you may be evaluating tools then you have more options. Skype, Is good, so is WebEx, WebEx give you more professional features. There are a slew of web based tools, most of them are OS independent.
With gas at $4.00 it is enough to start to change behavior. We go from a mindset, we want a Big Car because it is a status symbol. To a more fuel efficient car because the status and convince of having a large car isn't worth the extra money. Now if oil prices go up a lot more then we will find other replacements for oil. Oil is a good source of energy, fairly safe, a lot of energy per weight, and portable. We have alternatives but they cost more or are less effective... However if oil becomes too much of a hassle then the alternative will be more desirable.
Oil and Pork are more similar then you think. There is a lot of resources that goes into our meat. Beef and Pork takes a lot more energy then Poultry.
For the most part the "Gay Agenda" is just to be treated like a normal citizen. Usually when people who have exposure to LGBT people realize this. And that they are not some evil group of people trying to stop us "Heteros" doing what we feel is natural to us. Actually by making them outcasts in society you force them to go to locations and socialize with people that are less desirable. We Don't want you in our church. So they won't go to your church. Not going to church they will not be exposed to the other values that you find good. Being exposed to a diverse set of people is usually a good thing, you are not shocked at everything that goes on. And the fact that you lived in backwater area with no exposure to your people won't change their ways just because you think it is wrong.
Of course if you are childless when you get old, you may not have many allies to your aid. Having kids when the economy collapse you at least have family to fall back to. If you don't have any kids you may be on your own, especially if your spouse dies before you do.
Is they assume that we will go on like business is usual. As soon as scarcity of a resource gets past a point we go and find alternatives. The Prius came popular at US gas went over $4.00 a gallon back in 2008. Then when prices went down the Prius wasn't popular and now it is getting popular again at $4.00. For US consumers $4.00 a gallon is a price enough to evoke change in behavior and look for alternatives. We tend not to deplete a resource if possible, but when it gets scarce enough we go for alternatives. If pork or cattle get to expensive we go with less resource needed chickens or turkeys. Usually the things that us humans kill off forever, are things that at least in our short term mindset see are things that are not directly useful for us. We don't see a drop in cattle. But we see a drop in wolves, as they are in competition with us for our cattle... So we kill the wolves, they are not really a direct resource for us so they killed. As well as lot of bugs and other animals. I am not saying this is a good thing we should work hard to preserve nature for it is better in the long term. But as human nature when scarcity happens we change our behavior, and we wont change our behavior until we feel the effect of scarcity.
Firefox does have a stronger corporate support. Mostly because it is usually the default browser for Linux Systems (Software developers and Systems Admins often have Linux workstations) and the users will use similar stuff at home. Also Firefox was one of early popular replacements for IE when IE6 started to get much too old. So a lot of grandma's and companies when plagued with IE6 problems went to Firefox.
Chrome is a new player in the game. It takes companies a long time to change.
What people don't realize what is an easy no, risk solution for your home PC, is a complicated high risk solution for the enterprise, the bigger the organization, the tougher the job.
1. You have those non-IT supported apps that IT now has to support. Apps installed before IT had enough corporate strength to push down an edict. Each departments would have installed their own software with little if any consideration on if it will be scale or cross compatibility. Approved and purchased and installed without IT because IT would either say no to them to take too long. These apps get there... Then when an IT sponsored upgrade these apps show up, on the IT Radar as a roadblock that no one expect because it was installed behind IT backs. But now IT needs to figure out how to keep it running. They are already in a migration process they don't have the resources to start an other one to fix/upgrade/replace that legacy system that they didn't know about.
2. The old legacy system. Its old, it has a crummy interface, it costs a lot to support... However it does what it needs to do and has been tweeked for decades to do what it needs to do very well. Yes we can make fun of the developers who thought that Active X/Java Applet/Flash/Silverlight (All technologies we know now we should avoid like the plague) would be the next big thing so they added their GUI front ends with such tools, or make their Web Apps work with only IE, as that is the browser used by 95% of the population at the time, but that doesn't solve the problem that it is now there. We can't just toss it out the window and put in a new replacement over night, and it would cost millions to replace it not counting the problems that will reappear that has been fixed with decades of tweaks.
3. IE is pretty crappy as a browser. However it comes with a lot of features that make administrators happy. You can have different policies based on Intranet Sites and Internet Sites, allow some features to user and not. It allows a degree of control on what they can and cannot do. And that can happen remotely as part of the policy admin.
4. Other browsers compatibility issues. How often when something doesn't work they will call help desk. Help desk will try their best only to realize that they are using an unapproved browser. If the company was uniformed then they should be more likely be able to reproduce the problem.
For your home PC there isn't much risk. If you are IT for thousands of people you have a diverse set and most people know different pieces of the puzzle but often not the full thing. So by adding more complexity it doesn't help anyone.
The Linux name is well known It is just below... Windows iOS Android (yea it is Linux but they don't call it Linux) OS X DOS (it may have risen above DOS)
Saying Linux has won is kinda lame. Linux found it niche market and it isn't quite what the community 10 years expected it to be. 10-15 years ago. The Linux Community Wanted Linux for the Desktop. Today we still joke that Next year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop. We didn't get it. I doubt Linux will ever win the Desktop market until the day the the Desktop is irrelevant.
Linux has a strong niche in the Back End for Servers, and with Android a strong showing in mobile. However I don't like to count Android as due to the sucess of the Linux community but more to the success of Google. Google could have just as easily made Android off of BSD, however because they were using Linux for their Servers they just modified it to make the Android OS with a Linux kernel.
Even though he is a great guy. He isn't much of a public speaker. He isn't horrible but isn't that great, he should have put his commentary in texts and had us read it, I think we would have gotten more out of it.
I am sorry for sounding like an old phogie, but why is Slashdot doing these videos. I got 1 minute in and just stopped it because I got a choppy video and a gentleman while I am not judging him isn't that much of a public speaker. Who seems to be saying stuff that has been summarized over and over again.
Most of us have been taught this ability to read. It is a neat skill where we take symbols and without making any noise we can convert them into a method of exchanging ideas. Most of us has gotten so good at it that we can do it much faster then we can transmit the data by voice.
Sure some things are better with video. But an interview like this just sucks minutes from our lives. The speaker isn't really adding anything in Non-Verbal Communication, they are not using animated imagery to express a concept. We just have a guy talking about stuff. Which we could get just as well from reading it.
Exactly it really comes down to costs. I once had Digitial Cable with all the channels... And I ended up watching a few channels and the rest were repeats of the same freaking show at different time slots. I watched an interesting show on Discovery channel... Then it is available next week on Discovery 2 and Discovery 3... They will add 20 new shows I want to watch a season. Then it is repeats and repeats on all the other channels. It just isn't worth the money. Then to make it worse you get adds that are blasting loud every 10 minutes and they seem to get longer and longer every year. Often to a point where they cut out a critical scene in the story just to stuff more adds in it.
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It is funny how Angry Atheists and Conservative Christians. Take a such a simplistic view of the Bible, and usually cannot get past the first chapter of the Bible. And keep going back to it to disprove each other.
Genisus isn't a blueprint on how God created a world. They needed to start the book so that is how they started it. It doesn't really give a moral lesson, other then saying universe is big and complicated So complicated that God needed a day off. 7 days and 7 nights bits 7 is because it is Prime number and Prime numbers have been sacred, and most of the cultures didn't have that advanced of a number scheme of the time of the story to express large numbers.
However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge. Once we strive for knowledge we will know more pain and suffering, however after we get knowledge we as a culture can never go back to blissful ignorance.
Well there is sometimes a fine line.
If the employee is not doing their job correctly, it is your bosses jobs to correct their actions or dismiss them. Now people don't like change and may see this corrective action as treating the employee poorly. If you have a good employee who gets their work done, and is helpful to other members, vs someone who doesn't get anything done and distracts other workers. The boss may allow the first to get by browsing the web, talking to their family during company time. Vs. the latter where he will make sure they follow the company rules to a tee.
Yes. Good movies, are often too Complated for the general audience. The stuff they show targets average joe.
Some bosses, really get out of the professional category. When the S**t hits the fan they just don't know what to do. They will just start yelling and making crazy threats and become insane. The things with middle managers is they are directly targeted. If they don't get promoted to upper management in a few years, they need to leave and find an other job, else when there is a company reorg they will be the first to go.
Business ethics gets very complicated very quickly.
Here is an example. Your job is to sell your product to a foreign country (You sell a good product at a good price). In this country offering bribes is common and legal, however it is considered immoral and illegal for you and your culture and country to offer the bribes. So you go to the business deal the the owner says, you are offering a fine offer however what is in it for me (wink, wink).
Do you.
1. Turn down the bribe and loose the business.
2. Offer the bribe and hope they don't find out.
3. Offer to close the deal near your headquarters in Orlando Florida, and give him prepaid tickets and cover expenses (and his family who should be leaving his side) to come to headquarters to fill out the deal.
The problem is the more diverse set of people you meet the more muddy ethics get.
Easier said then done. That said they should have company policies that would allow employees to record their boss with out them knowing... To keep them honest. What often happens some Middle Manager gets a big head, because he is charge of a unit without much oversight just as long the money comes in there won't be much complaining, it really doesn't matter if they could bring more in if they did a better job... Or they could bring in more money if they just wasn't there. So when given power and they get use to employees acting meek to them, they get use to the power and abuse it a little more. Not to say all bosses are this way. It really depends on the motivation of the boss. Some bosses are all about power, they like controlling others lives (Micro-manager/bully boss), others are in it for the prestige they just like people looking up to them (self promoter), and others like authority to implement their ideas (visionary, sometimes a bit too abstract). Normally there are mixture of those. For the most part people are a mixture of different degrees of these. However if a Boss is strong in power they will be more likely to be caught doing things they don't want posted. The self promoter will be doing less of these things but really doesn't want anything negative posted. The visionary is sometimes too out there to care either way.
You could bring up many states farm out medicare and medicaid to private companies.
I wish the media will focus on how idiotic Heal Insurance companies are, especially in their IT usage.
I work for a hospital and previously I worked for a start-up that did cutting edge medical technology. And let me tell you the insurance companies IT is just pure insane and stupid.
The government pushed a new electronic Bill form called 5010 which is an upgrade of 4010. These billforms are sent via EDI (Kinda of a Star Deliminator with a Tilda line feed, a throw back to old punch card technology) the difference between 4010 and 5010 are for the most part minor, and these changes were due January 1st. We are now in April. Now most of the insurance companies are compliment but there are other who are not, their test environment and production are very different and the test will allow different rules then production. So when a Hospital goes live after testing and getting clean tests they get rejection after rejection because they are not sending the right rules to the insurance company.
Then they stick to the lie (The electronic format has the same data as the paper form) this is a Lie and absolute Lie! You call them on the lie and they will flat out deny you. Until you send the data and they reject you claims because there is data that isn't on the paper form, and some filds are on the paper from you Cannot fill in the electronic. Their checking system is insane. If they don't need that field you better not send it or your claim will get rejected.
Now lets go over the transmission to the insurance companies...
Method one. The old BBS. Yes thats right the old dial up BBS is still active. when writing scripts to automate connecting to the companies I see those old DOS base BBS's of the olden days, most of them have upgraded to allow ZMODEM transfer. Now the more modern one use Secure FTP. Secure FTP (not to be confused with sftp) as in you data channel is encrypted but not always your command channel. Or worse there are these VPN groups that many insurance companies get on where after you connect to the VPN then you normally FTP to the site... (where a rogue billing company can monitor the ports and see what goes on, because they happen to be in the VPN network)
Everyone worries about HIPAA violations from the Health Care organization. For the most part now health care organizations have fare more modern and secure systems then the Insurance companies do. And if there are going to be a hack it will be in the insurance companies.
Now you are going to say. This hack was with medicaid not a private insurance company. Well Medicare and Medicaid are operated by each state, and a lot of states in essence sold them off to an Insurance companies to do all the work. Because of the big numbers these companies often do it at a discount. However they will also cut corners to give more service to their higher paying premium customers. The reason why Medicaid and Medicare have the lowest percentage for administration costs, is because they are operated so lightly and push the work to the health care organization to do all the administration. Then they will pass the costs to their customers. And it make is that much more expensive because you have a bunch of smaller organization doing advanced administration who cannot do it as optimally as a larger company who can scale the administration costs.
Financial Analysis is ripe with ways of twisting the truth. It happens all the time.
Companies make it so they look like they are poor to the government to not pay taxes and Rich to the share holders to raise stock price.
The first formula you get in accounting is A=L+E Assets = Liability + Share Holder Equity.
So that means every risk you have is also part of an asset. Every Asset you have could be a liability.
when you do your numbers for a news article you can either Press on the Asset to make it sound really good. Or focus on the Liability to make it sound bad.
Numbers don't lie. But you need all the numbers to get the truth... We don't normally get all the numbers. and if we do most of us are either to afraid of the math or are too lazy to look at them and interpret it. We look at percentages and summarized data. Where they have been neatly prepared to show us what they want to show.
You buy an iPhone you buy a Device made by Apple with Apple Software. When you buy an Android phone you get a device made by some other company and the OS made by Google. Google is getting $2.00 per user for use of the OS.
Now if we had good Journalism how much profit is does hardware manufacturer make on their phones+ Google. This story reeks of Apple hater to me.
I think the real issue were the dyer predictions that really help mess things up. With New York City under Water, and all the stuff where they did the measurements and used 4th or 5th standard deviations for their predictions, as to scare the masses.
I am under the notion if we didn't sensationalize global warming we wouldn't have so many people saying it is a myth, or bogus liberal science to get us to stop driving our cars. And we would have a more clear headed discussion and would have started to take steps earlier on. If you have booring science you may not get those big grants but you would probably have much politically safer papers that can evoke change more gradually.
When Ronald Reagan became president he basically blocked almost all environmental initiatives. Because these initiatives all loudly required citizens to abstain from their goods that they loved and replace them with less effective alternatives. If there was a more gentile approach like how we reduced smog, acid rain, and CFC putting a hole in the ozone layers. We were more effective because we took steps and found replacements and ways to help reduce these factors without making everyone feel guilty about having nice things. Because making people feel guilty for their stuff on a wide scale doesn't work for long, and there will be resistance when they loose their quality of life.
No geeks run it... They just got older wiser, and probably sold out a little. Back when Slashdot started, for the most part you were already a geek just because you were using the Internet outside of AOL keywords.
Linux was just starting to get noticed as a viable alternative to Unix. and the height of the Tech boom where most of the posters where making 6 figure salaries in jobs that pay them to sit in been bags chairs and play pin ball most of the day with some time in the middle where you got some work done. So the average poster had money to waste on fun technology, and free time to tinker. Good Times... However unfortunately it wasn't a sustainable and us Techs have been humbled back to our lot in life as Middle class work, in the cube, not bad but not great either. So as time went on a lot of technology had became far more made for consumer market, and now small size is really popular making DIY projects less likely, DYI cell phone will look more like a Zack Moris 1980 cell phone. As the DYI do not have the resources to much such a densely packed system.
Even though there is less spam, I have found that most email clients Such as Gmail have gotten very good at filtering out Spam. We forget how much we suffered back in the early 2000's where once we get too much spam our only choice was to change your email address to a name that is more cryptic then a password and only give it to people who you want. And wait until someone gets a virus and starts spamming you again. The email address I have been using for a long time now is an easy email to give however Gmail captures almost all the spam.
I have to agree. We are in an Employers market, we have been in one for a while.
You use the platform they recommend, or you work from the office.
Now the question is different if the company is exploring to offer telecommuting then you may be evaluating tools then you have more options.
Skype, Is good, so is WebEx, WebEx give you more professional features.
There are a slew of web based tools, most of them are OS independent.
With gas at $4.00 it is enough to start to change behavior. We go from a mindset, we want a Big Car because it is a status symbol. To a more fuel efficient car because the status and convince of having a large car isn't worth the extra money. Now if oil prices go up a lot more then we will find other replacements for oil. Oil is a good source of energy, fairly safe, a lot of energy per weight, and portable. We have alternatives but they cost more or are less effective... However if oil becomes too much of a hassle then the alternative will be more desirable.
Oil and Pork are more similar then you think. There is a lot of resources that goes into our meat. Beef and Pork takes a lot more energy then Poultry.
For the most part the "Gay Agenda" is just to be treated like a normal citizen. Usually when people who have exposure to LGBT people realize this. And that they are not some evil group of people trying to stop us "Heteros" doing what we feel is natural to us. Actually by making them outcasts in society you force them to go to locations and socialize with people that are less desirable.
We Don't want you in our church. So they won't go to your church. Not going to church they will not be exposed to the other values that you find good.
Being exposed to a diverse set of people is usually a good thing, you are not shocked at everything that goes on. And the fact that you lived in backwater area with no exposure to your people won't change their ways just because you think it is wrong.
Of course if you are childless when you get old, you may not have many allies to your aid. Having kids when the economy collapse you at least have family to fall back to. If you don't have any kids you may be on your own, especially if your spouse dies before you do.
Is they assume that we will go on like business is usual. As soon as scarcity of a resource gets past a point we go and find alternatives. The Prius came popular at US gas went over $4.00 a gallon back in 2008. Then when prices went down the Prius wasn't popular and now it is getting popular again at $4.00. For US consumers $4.00 a gallon is a price enough to evoke change in behavior and look for alternatives.
We tend not to deplete a resource if possible, but when it gets scarce enough we go for alternatives. If pork or cattle get to expensive we go with less resource needed chickens or turkeys.
Usually the things that us humans kill off forever, are things that at least in our short term mindset see are things that are not directly useful for us. We don't see a drop in cattle. But we see a drop in wolves, as they are in competition with us for our cattle... So we kill the wolves, they are not really a direct resource for us so they killed. As well as lot of bugs and other animals. I am not saying this is a good thing we should work hard to preserve nature for it is better in the long term. But as human nature when scarcity happens we change our behavior, and we wont change our behavior until we feel the effect of scarcity.
Firefox does have a stronger corporate support. Mostly because it is usually the default browser for Linux Systems (Software developers and Systems Admins often have Linux workstations) and the users will use similar stuff at home. Also Firefox was one of early popular replacements for IE when IE6 started to get much too old. So a lot of grandma's and companies when plagued with IE6 problems went to Firefox.
Chrome is a new player in the game. It takes companies a long time to change.
What people don't realize what is an easy no, risk solution for your home PC, is a complicated high risk solution for the enterprise, the bigger the organization, the tougher the job.
1. You have those non-IT supported apps that IT now has to support. Apps installed before IT had enough corporate strength to push down an edict. Each departments would have installed their own software with little if any consideration on if it will be scale or cross compatibility. Approved and purchased and installed without IT because IT would either say no to them to take too long. These apps get there... Then when an IT sponsored upgrade these apps show up, on the IT Radar as a roadblock that no one expect because it was installed behind IT backs. But now IT needs to figure out how to keep it running. They are already in a migration process they don't have the resources to start an other one to fix/upgrade/replace that legacy system that they didn't know about.
2. The old legacy system. Its old, it has a crummy interface, it costs a lot to support... However it does what it needs to do and has been tweeked for decades to do what it needs to do very well. Yes we can make fun of the developers who thought that Active X/Java Applet/Flash/Silverlight (All technologies we know now we should avoid like the plague) would be the next big thing so they added their GUI front ends with such tools, or make their Web Apps work with only IE, as that is the browser used by 95% of the population at the time, but that doesn't solve the problem that it is now there. We can't just toss it out the window and put in a new replacement over night, and it would cost millions to replace it not counting the problems that will reappear that has been fixed with decades of tweaks.
3. IE is pretty crappy as a browser. However it comes with a lot of features that make administrators happy. You can have different policies based on Intranet Sites and Internet Sites, allow some features to user and not. It allows a degree of control on what they can and cannot do. And that can happen remotely as part of the policy admin.
4. Other browsers compatibility issues. How often when something doesn't work they will call help desk. Help desk will try their best only to realize that they are using an unapproved browser. If the company was uniformed then they should be more likely be able to reproduce the problem.
For your home PC there isn't much risk. If you are IT for thousands of people you have a diverse set and most people know different pieces of the puzzle but often not the full thing. So by adding more complexity it doesn't help anyone.
The Linux name is well known It is just below...
Windows
iOS
Android (yea it is Linux but they don't call it Linux)
OS X
DOS
(it may have risen above DOS)
Saying Linux has won is kinda lame. Linux found it niche market and it isn't quite what the community 10 years expected it to be. 10-15 years ago. The Linux Community Wanted Linux for the Desktop. Today we still joke that Next year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop. We didn't get it. I doubt Linux will ever win the Desktop market until the day the the Desktop is irrelevant.
Linux has a strong niche in the Back End for Servers, and with Android a strong showing in mobile. However I don't like to count Android as due to the sucess of the Linux community but more to the success of Google. Google could have just as easily made Android off of BSD, however because they were using Linux for their Servers they just modified it to make the Android OS with a Linux kernel.
You didn't miss much. I watched it on windows and there wasn't much going on and the video was choppy.
Even though he is a great guy. He isn't much of a public speaker. He isn't horrible but isn't that great, he should have put his commentary in texts and had us read it, I think we would have gotten more out of it.
I am sorry for sounding like an old phogie, but why is Slashdot doing these videos. I got 1 minute in and just stopped it because I got a choppy video and a gentleman while I am not judging him isn't that much of a public speaker. Who seems to be saying stuff that has been summarized over and over again.
Most of us have been taught this ability to read. It is a neat skill where we take symbols and without making any noise we can convert them into a method of exchanging ideas. Most of us has gotten so good at it that we can do it much faster then we can transmit the data by voice.
Sure some things are better with video. But an interview like this just sucks minutes from our lives. The speaker isn't really adding anything in Non-Verbal Communication, they are not using animated imagery to express a concept. We just have a guy talking about stuff. Which we could get just as well from reading it.
Exactly it really comes down to costs. I once had Digitial Cable with all the channels... And I ended up watching a few channels and the rest were repeats of the same freaking show at different time slots. I watched an interesting show on Discovery channel... Then it is available next week on Discovery 2 and Discovery 3... They will add 20 new shows I want to watch a season. Then it is repeats and repeats on all the other channels. It just isn't worth the money. Then to make it worse you get adds that are blasting loud every 10 minutes and they seem to get longer and longer every year. Often to a point where they cut out a critical scene in the story just to stuff more adds in it.