The point is that your situation is unlike most, especially small businesses who will generally run on a "How much will i cost to do it right? OK, you get half that," budget.
Pinnacle of irresponsibility to leave a 9 year old unsupervised for any length of time? Wow. I'd give it to you when we were talking about 4 year olds, but 9? I, and basically everyone I know, was able to spend some amount of time unsupervised by the age of 9. Hell, just a couple years older than that and we're talking about overnight or maybe even for a weekend.
By 9 we could generally feed and bathe ourselves, knew who to call in emergencies, and were generally responsible enough to not burn the house down.
Since I'm not a major political figure or high ranking corporate officer who can pay off those watching to not look at me, no, it's entirely reasonable to assume that anything I say at any time might be recorded by the government or private interests for future use against me. My only saving grace is that I'm generally pretty boring, so it's not likely anyone is really watching (though remember: if you have brown skin and are a friend of anyone with political opinions, the government will consider you a potential terrorist threat and put a tracker on your car).
...and all it will take to completely destroy the rail travel industry in the US (as small as it is) is a single "security flag" event. After all, we're ready to line up our wives and daughters to be groped and have naked photos taken because planes were used as missiles once nearly a decade ago. The best part is that proponents of the groping et cetera will argue that "it hasn't happened again, so clearly ridiculous security theatre is fixing it!"
I'd love to sell tiger repellent stones to some of these people.
You pretty much explained why my employer doesn't require company-issued cell phones be used only for company business -- the primary reason we have them is so they can call us off hours, on vacation, etc if there's something that comes up (as in "where is material X/paperwork Y hiding at"), or if they need an emergency call in. We also use them effectively like walkie-talkies even when both parties are at the same general site.
Got my current kitty when he was tiny, didn't even have to "paw" the litter, or even set him in the box. We set him near the box and he went straight for it. He did fail to use it twice, but one of those was the first time he'd ever been upstairs (I think he just got lost, seriously) and the other was when we accidentally locked him in the wrong room (at which point he did his business on a small fuzzy rug, and "buried" it with the edge of the rug.
If I recall, it's an instinct thing, they instinctually want to hide their waste, and it's the only place in the house that has loose "ground".
Yeah, mine knows his name, but doesn't necessarily respond to it as much as you'd like. About half the time there's a yawn and a turning of the head, and then back to sleep. Always got the "What? Oh, it's just you" vibe from that.
Mine tries to choke me if I sleep too late and either the alarm is aggravating him or he's hungry. He stands on my chest, puts his paws together on my throat, and shifts his weight onto them.
That, and every now and then you catch one trying to reverse the conditioning on you. Have a friend who "trained" his cat to do a stupid trick in response for a treat. It did it on command on a few occasions, and then started using the trick as a "give me a treat" request, not responding on que but independently performing the trick whenever it wants the treat. It's not worried about making him happy to get a treat, it's worried about communicating it's desire for a treat.
You are right though, the trick to communicating with a cat is to communicate with the cat, rather than expecting everyone and everything to speak English.
Cheer them, of course. DRM is evil, it's selling you an intentionally damaged product on the assumption that if they didn't damage it before they sold it to you then someone might steal it. Piracy is certainly a lesser evil, but a company forgoing a greater evil in exchange for aggressively fighting a lesser one is all good.
They have an increased risk that you might potentially be a person who has, or has family who have, a given condition. Therefore you should pay more for insurance, because you (or someone who could be mistaken for you) presented some interest in Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography, for example.
Actually, you did. Something about how not being able to gather a bunch of people together under a single legal entity and have it spend funds costs you your freedom of speech?
Really, net neutrality is about preventing corporations from using their leverage to prevent you from making using their competitors. For example, say degrading Vonage traffic to the point it's unusable so you'll use you cable company's VOIP instead, or making Google unreachable because Microsoft is paying your ISP to give them a good connection and Google isn't. Or even better for this crowd, causing all connections to download the ISOs of the dozen or so largest linux distros to simply drop out 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the file because Microsoft is paying them to not let you download Linux (and letting you get most of the file means you use more bandwidth towards your cap).
In many areas, you don't have a real choice as far as a broadband internet connection.
I've always thought that there's a simple solution to net neutrality that doesn't involve too much possibility of government interference -- give each ISP a choice.
You can choose to be a common carrier and have the same protections that the phone company does regarding content -- being content agnostic (aside from basic QoS) makes you immune to concerns over what that content is.
If you choose not to be a common carrier you get to do all the "evil" types of filtering that people use as examples of why we need net neutrality, however since you are filtering in a content/destination-sensitive way, you are also assuming legal responsibility for all content going across the line, and are a distributor of such. As in that makes you a target for all the **AA lawsuits and distribution of child pornography investigations, as because you are filtering for content, you are aware of content and thus responsible for content.
Any sane ISP would of course choose the common carrier option, but then that's rather the point, isn't it?.
...silly mods, that's not offtopic. It's just somone trying to pretend that laws are used for what they claim they're for, and don't get abused at every turn. On it's face, the purpose of the law is to stop online counterfeit goods, it just claims that the way to do that is to give the feds the abilitiy to arbitrarily shut down any website at any time, without even the need for a proper injunction against them first, or even a copyright claim (I would have thought DMCA letters would be sufficient for the "shut down a website at any time on request" thing, but I'm guessing some people fight them?)
Mine used to do that kind of thing when he was a kitten. He also used to sleep on or around my head every night. I kind of miss the latter -- having a fuzzy purring earmuff was kind of nice, though not so much when he'd lay across my airways.
It's not entirely deluded paranoia, it's more a matter of examining the short vs the long game. In the short haul, there are much better uses of resources. In the very long term however, it's something we will eventually need to do (many generations down the line) and it's not an entirely stupid idea to start working on solutions to the most obvious problems with a space colonization program. If nothing else, there's all kinds of room for tangential benefits of research, especially in materials and medicine.
One of the reasons I like my cat -- he's got a better attitude then that. Most he does is go somewhere visible and start knocking things over when he doesn't get the attention he wants (he literally finds the nearest place a few feet off the ground that someone is looking at and starts pushing stuff off the edge to make a mess as a bid for attention)...so he's more like a teenaged girl than anything, just with less cutting. =p
Thankfully most of the attention he asks for is of the "I want to sleep somewhere soft and warm, I demand your lap" variety.
I've put a near moratorium on buying more games, because I have a ridiculous collection amassed that I haven't really played through yet, and I'm into RPGs, which eat a big chunk of time each anyways. Losing a HD and with it my Arcania, Dragon Age, and ME2 saves doesn't help either.
I have a piece of hardware that could potentially bludgeon someone or knock them into other equipment that could cut something off (it's a pipe bender, to be specific), and it's connected to a network because our management decided that the operator shouldn't need to be able to read blueprints, but rather a different personnel will read blueprints and create part files that instruct it what to bend, which will be moved to that machine over the network./sigh
Something I've noticed -- for whatever reason, techies have a tendency to thrive in the cold. Not sure what it is, but it seems like half the people I know who are "geeks" or "techies" are more comfortable in the 55-65 range for whatever reason than what most people consider "room" temperature. My office has it's own private AC, and it's set to 60. I am in heaven, the sales/purchasing guy freezes his nuts off. =p
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The point is that your situation is unlike most, especially small businesses who will generally run on a "How much will i cost to do it right? OK, you get half that," budget.
I'm sorry, I'm only taking a $1 salary this year, instead I will be paid in stock. =)
Pinnacle of irresponsibility to leave a 9 year old unsupervised for any length of time? Wow. I'd give it to you when we were talking about 4 year olds, but 9? I, and basically everyone I know, was able to spend some amount of time unsupervised by the age of 9. Hell, just a couple years older than that and we're talking about overnight or maybe even for a weekend.
By 9 we could generally feed and bathe ourselves, knew who to call in emergencies, and were generally responsible enough to not burn the house down.
Since I'm not a major political figure or high ranking corporate officer who can pay off those watching to not look at me, no, it's entirely reasonable to assume that anything I say at any time might be recorded by the government or private interests for future use against me. My only saving grace is that I'm generally pretty boring, so it's not likely anyone is really watching (though remember: if you have brown skin and are a friend of anyone with political opinions, the government will consider you a potential terrorist threat and put a tracker on your car).
...and all it will take to completely destroy the rail travel industry in the US (as small as it is) is a single "security flag" event. After all, we're ready to line up our wives and daughters to be groped and have naked photos taken because planes were used as missiles once nearly a decade ago. The best part is that proponents of the groping et cetera will argue that "it hasn't happened again, so clearly ridiculous security theatre is fixing it!"
I'd love to sell tiger repellent stones to some of these people.
That can't be! We're the unequivocably good guys, remember! Maybe you need some reeducation... =p
...but it does require track access, which the post you replied to started with "and if you can't reach the tracks."
You pretty much explained why my employer doesn't require company-issued cell phones be used only for company business -- the primary reason we have them is so they can call us off hours, on vacation, etc if there's something that comes up (as in "where is material X/paperwork Y hiding at"), or if they need an emergency call in. We also use them effectively like walkie-talkies even when both parties are at the same general site.
Got my current kitty when he was tiny, didn't even have to "paw" the litter, or even set him in the box. We set him near the box and he went straight for it. He did fail to use it twice, but one of those was the first time he'd ever been upstairs (I think he just got lost, seriously) and the other was when we accidentally locked him in the wrong room (at which point he did his business on a small fuzzy rug, and "buried" it with the edge of the rug.
If I recall, it's an instinct thing, they instinctually want to hide their waste, and it's the only place in the house that has loose "ground".
Yeah, mine knows his name, but doesn't necessarily respond to it as much as you'd like. About half the time there's a yawn and a turning of the head, and then back to sleep. Always got the "What? Oh, it's just you" vibe from that.
Mine tries to choke me if I sleep too late and either the alarm is aggravating him or he's hungry. He stands on my chest, puts his paws together on my throat, and shifts his weight onto them.
That, and every now and then you catch one trying to reverse the conditioning on you. Have a friend who "trained" his cat to do a stupid trick in response for a treat. It did it on command on a few occasions, and then started using the trick as a "give me a treat" request, not responding on que but independently performing the trick whenever it wants the treat. It's not worried about making him happy to get a treat, it's worried about communicating it's desire for a treat.
You are right though, the trick to communicating with a cat is to communicate with the cat, rather than expecting everyone and everything to speak English.
Cheer them, of course. DRM is evil, it's selling you an intentionally damaged product on the assumption that if they didn't damage it before they sold it to you then someone might steal it. Piracy is certainly a lesser evil, but a company forgoing a greater evil in exchange for aggressively fighting a lesser one is all good.
They have an increased risk that you might potentially be a person who has, or has family who have, a given condition. Therefore you should pay more for insurance, because you (or someone who could be mistaken for you) presented some interest in Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography, for example.
Actually, you did. Something about how not being able to gather a bunch of people together under a single legal entity and have it spend funds costs you your freedom of speech?
Really, net neutrality is about preventing corporations from using their leverage to prevent you from making using their competitors. For example, say degrading Vonage traffic to the point it's unusable so you'll use you cable company's VOIP instead, or making Google unreachable because Microsoft is paying your ISP to give them a good connection and Google isn't. Or even better for this crowd, causing all connections to download the ISOs of the dozen or so largest linux distros to simply drop out 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the file because Microsoft is paying them to not let you download Linux (and letting you get most of the file means you use more bandwidth towards your cap).
In many areas, you don't have a real choice as far as a broadband internet connection.
I've always thought that there's a simple solution to net neutrality that doesn't involve too much possibility of government interference -- give each ISP a choice.
You can choose to be a common carrier and have the same protections that the phone company does regarding content -- being content agnostic (aside from basic QoS) makes you immune to concerns over what that content is.
If you choose not to be a common carrier you get to do all the "evil" types of filtering that people use as examples of why we need net neutrality, however since you are filtering in a content/destination-sensitive way, you are also assuming legal responsibility for all content going across the line, and are a distributor of such. As in that makes you a target for all the **AA lawsuits and distribution of child pornography investigations, as because you are filtering for content, you are aware of content and thus responsible for content.
Any sane ISP would of course choose the common carrier option, but then that's rather the point, isn't it?.
...silly mods, that's not offtopic. It's just somone trying to pretend that laws are used for what they claim they're for, and don't get abused at every turn. On it's face, the purpose of the law is to stop online counterfeit goods, it just claims that the way to do that is to give the feds the abilitiy to arbitrarily shut down any website at any time, without even the need for a proper injunction against them first, or even a copyright claim (I would have thought DMCA letters would be sufficient for the "shut down a website at any time on request" thing, but I'm guessing some people fight them?)
Mine used to do that kind of thing when he was a kitten. He also used to sleep on or around my head every night. I kind of miss the latter -- having a fuzzy purring earmuff was kind of nice, though not so much when he'd lay across my airways.
It's not entirely deluded paranoia, it's more a matter of examining the short vs the long game. In the short haul, there are much better uses of resources. In the very long term however, it's something we will eventually need to do (many generations down the line) and it's not an entirely stupid idea to start working on solutions to the most obvious problems with a space colonization program. If nothing else, there's all kinds of room for tangential benefits of research, especially in materials and medicine.
One of the reasons I like my cat -- he's got a better attitude then that. Most he does is go somewhere visible and start knocking things over when he doesn't get the attention he wants (he literally finds the nearest place a few feet off the ground that someone is looking at and starts pushing stuff off the edge to make a mess as a bid for attention)...so he's more like a teenaged girl than anything, just with less cutting. =p
Thankfully most of the attention he asks for is of the "I want to sleep somewhere soft and warm, I demand your lap" variety.
Hey now, this is a *pipe* bender, only girder benders are notorious for being surly. =p
Yeah, time is a bitch, isn't it?
I've put a near moratorium on buying more games, because I have a ridiculous collection amassed that I haven't really played through yet, and I'm into RPGs, which eat a big chunk of time each anyways. Losing a HD and with it my Arcania, Dragon Age, and ME2 saves doesn't help either.
Is it "not quite as good as 3" or "not quite as good as 3 after all the DLC for 3"?
I have a piece of hardware that could potentially bludgeon someone or knock them into other equipment that could cut something off (it's a pipe bender, to be specific), and it's connected to a network because our management decided that the operator shouldn't need to be able to read blueprints, but rather a different personnel will read blueprints and create part files that instruct it what to bend, which will be moved to that machine over the network. /sigh
Something I've noticed -- for whatever reason, techies have a tendency to thrive in the cold. Not sure what it is, but it seems like half the people I know who are "geeks" or "techies" are more comfortable in the 55-65 range for whatever reason than what most people consider "room" temperature. My office has it's own private AC, and it's set to 60. I am in heaven, the sales/purchasing guy freezes his nuts off. =p