But nobody here has to worry about it since there are exactly zero Diesel X-types in the US.
Not everybody here is from the US.
Very true, and I could have been more clear on that. However many Americans will use this recall to bash Jaguar, when the recall involves only cars that they could not buy from their local Jaguar dealer for any amount of money.
Jaguar doesn't sell Diesels here. Like many other manufacturers, they assume that Americans are either too stupid to handle a Diesel, or they assume that Americans still think that all Diesels are the same as the terrible examples our big three produced in the 70s and 80s in response to the oil crisis.
So yeah, it sucks that Jag has a software glitch. But nobody here has to worry about it since there are exactly zero Diesel X-types in the US.
I know the MN higher education system first hand an I can tell you much of what you said is based in fiction not reality.
You start as a PSEO student in HS and the state pays your way through many of your first two years of college undergraduate credit without your taking out any loans. They count towards your HS diploma AND your college degree.
I did PSEO. It is hard to get approval to do it full-time for one year (your senior year), nearly impossible to get approval for it for two (junior + senior). And even then you'll end up taking some classes to meet your HS requirements that won't be useful for your college degree.
And of course you're also ignoring the indirect costs; students are responsible for their own transportation and food, at least the former of which is generally covered in high school.
In other words, PSEO is a great program - I high recommend it - but it isn't the mythical free ride to half of a four-year degree you want to sell it as.
you can enter the state's community college system and live at home (working part time hopefully) while taking college courses at costs far lower than you'd spend elsewhere--especially out of state.
Here you are making the assumption that community college credits will transfer 100% to a four-year university. The system simply doesn't work that way. I knew plenty of people who were lead to believe that and ended up retaking large numbers of credits once they started at a four-year school, even when they met regularly with counselors at both institutions to ensure credit transferability.
Then you move on to an in-state four year institution, preferably close to home so you don't have to pay many boarding expenses and ride mass transit or carpool to save on driving costs.
That has enormous indirect costs. I tried that for a couple years, living in the suburbs with my parents, commuting to school, working in the suburbs to pay for everything. It was a disaster. My GPA landed me on probation more than once. Class schedules are chaotic and rarely coincide with mass transit schedules. Rush hour traffic is murder when you're already stressed out over how to pay your bills and pass your classes. Then your vehicle breaks down, you blow a tire, or the parking lots are all full, and you miss a test. All that money you saved just went straight down the toilet.
How many 18 year olds do you know with good enough credit to buy a car, let alone a house?
When I graduated high school, I and my peers were inundated with credit card applications. Granted some of them were really terrible offers, but some of them were quite good. Getting enough credit to buy a nice used car on the spot was no problem.
Of course, some people couldn't handle it. A friend of mine had ~$20k in debt by the time he was a year out of high school and still hasn't paid it off. A lot of people were getting credit cards who treated them as free money instead of the loans that they are. Some people spent the money on... who the hell knows what, really.
So perhaps the credit market made the adjustment back towards sanity. However based on the last time I walked through a college campus shortly after labor day I'm not sure.
Bin Laden is no longer able to plan any attacks or proselytize new terrorist recruits.
So of course that means that as a result terrorism the world over is no more, never to attack anyone, anywhere, ever, right? Sure.
On planet earth, we saw plenty of others in Al-Qaeda vying for power. Their factions are still doing the same things they were doing when he was alive.
The death of Bin Laden meant less to Al-Qaeda than the death of Reagan did to the GOP.
He was "the decider" and deserves credit for that.
So what? We've had special forces and intelligence operatives in Pakistan for decades. He didn't plan the mission, he didn't set up the networks and the surveillance.
Bin Laden is dead. That's change enough for me. Jr, Sr, Slick Willy all couldn't get him. Obama did what all those Presidents should've done: just do the job.
So what? What changed as a result? And did I miss the news headline about Obama personally murdering Bin Laden?
If you are trying to show that Obama has done something that in some way represents a diversion from the existing trajectory towards an ever-more-conservative and corporate-married government, you failed miserably. Everything he has done so far is directly in line with what his predecessor was doing.
how do you 'prove you wrong' when you just make a bunch of shit up?
You could try to prove me wrong by disproving any of the statements I just made. But apparently such a challenge is too much for you, so you opt for sarcasm and nonsense instead. If you disagree with what I said, or you feel it is not factual, then it should be easy for you to disprove it.
But when you instead insist that all is did was
make a bunch of shit up
Then you are indicating you don't actually want to have a discussion.
those "peace-keeping", "training", "support" forces (ie: Blackwater/Xe contractors) won't be counted as troops...
My point exactly.
But they WILL be subject to that countries laws.
We already showed that our mercenaries can act without consequence; we pulled out some blackwater guys who were suspected of murder and they never faced anything.
Too bad nothing is changed on the other side. We can put all the fancy clothes we want on this matter, but in the end we will still see the same thing we've seen for a long time. The guy in the oval office changes, but the policies stay the same.
In other words, petition all you want. It won't make a difference.
I seem to recall one way that our beloved leaders have gotten around it is by sending in more "peace-keeping", "training", or "support" forces instead. And of course our dear friends from Blackwater as contractors can be there forever shooting up the place without being counted as troops.
In other words we probably won't see any meaningful change from this, just as we haven't seen any meaningful change from anything else that has actually been done by Obama since taking office.
Go ahead, mod me down now. But I dare you to try to prove me wrong.
I've often wondered what happens with all the ammo that is shot up in celebration when something like this occurs. I know the mythbusters did something on the matter some time ago, and I don't recall what they found. You would think that when people are shooting off their AK's into the air in a city that something would get hit, even if it was just lead falling onto building rooftops.
There are plenty of students who majored in very reasonable and marketable courses of study and came out with a mountain of debt and dramatically worse job prospects than what were available when they began their studies. These people have a very real complaint.
However there are also people out there who went to college and majored in drama, or comparative literature, or film studies, or any of a number of other fields that have very marginal job prospects even in a good economy. They are carrying debt because they took a foolish risk with 4 years of their lives. Of course, some of them may have been poorly informed by their college with regards to what they could do with their degree. Others didn't give a damn and set off determined to "study what I want" or whatever. This latter group dug their own hole and I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.
In short, if you majored in engineering and then couldn't find a job after the economy went down the toilet while you were in school working your ass off, I feel for you. But if you spent four years in a field with ordinarily terrible job prospects and now you are shocked that you have no job prospects, I don't have much sympathy for you as you took a great opportunity and managed to squander it.
However, those who excel at taking great opportunities and squandering them may yet have a future in American politics.
It would be something if, after invading at least one country for oil, we started running so terribly low on oil in spite of the invasion that we had to put up solar panels on the bases we built in the invaded country.
And since they have a number of original 1980s chassis, they can sell them as "reconstructed" 1980s cars, and they don't need to worry about modern safety and environmental requirements.
ICANN is the same group of idiots who decided in spite of numerous objections that selling gTLDs - and giving away all the rights and responsibilities for them - was a good idea. These guys don't have the best interest of anyone other than themselves in mind, and will probably sell this off to the highest bidder in a matter of months.
I didn't see a list of the free apps in the linked article. Odd that I actually bother to RTFA and I get no useful information on it. In other words, good summary by slashdot of a terrible article.
When did Vancouver become part of the US? Did I miss some recent war between the US and Canada?
There is also Vancouver Washington. The article summary doesn't specify which Vancouver this person was visiting; both are reasonably close to Seattle Washington.
How is it that whenever an organization chooses to "innovate out of a crisis" it never results in creation of more jobs? The phrase seems to be the new feel-good expression for "restructuring" or layoffs. Why can't they just call it what it is and say they are looking to release some employees to reduce costs?
I'm all for well-paid educators, but I have no use for the dead weight whose focus is their research and paper-writing. If you want to do pure research, find a lab some where, don't drain the university and college systems. With the many thousands of dollars students pay for their education, they deserve better.
The faculty involved in research are not even close to being the "dead weight" you claim. They bring money in to the university, as well as prestige.
However you are also missing the value of being taught by a researcher. Sure you could take some of your courses from someone who hasn't acquired any new knowledge on the topic in the past decade, but you'll finish those courses with that level of knowledge yourself. It is important to have educators who are well versed in the topic and aware of where that topic is going. That is a big part of why faculty who teach also do research.
The spammers will find a way around it, no matter what you do. It isn't any better than filtering in terms of a real long-term solution.
And the reason why both suck and fail to bring a long-term solution is they are both reactionary measures to an economic problem. They are both rooted at least partially in the notion that spam is sent out to piss you off and waste your time, which could hardly be a less accurate analysis of the situation.
Spam is sent out to make money, period. It will continue to be sent as long as money can be made by sending it out.
Hence the solution is to disconnect the spammers from the people who pay them. Work has been done to do this already and it has been shown very effective because there is no incentive for spammers to send spam if they aren't getting paid for it. Anything else just encourages them to find ways to get around anti-spam measures and will inevitably make spam a more costly situation for everyone.
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But nobody here has to worry about it since there are exactly zero Diesel X-types in the US.
Not everybody here is from the US.
Very true, and I could have been more clear on that. However many Americans will use this recall to bash Jaguar, when the recall involves only cars that they could not buy from their local Jaguar dealer for any amount of money.
I see that the page for this cipher was just created today. I also see that credit for cracking it goes to a retired soccer player...
Jaguar doesn't sell Diesels here. Like many other manufacturers, they assume that Americans are either too stupid to handle a Diesel, or they assume that Americans still think that all Diesels are the same as the terrible examples our big three produced in the 70s and 80s in response to the oil crisis.
So yeah, it sucks that Jag has a software glitch. But nobody here has to worry about it since there are exactly zero Diesel X-types in the US.
You start as a PSEO student in HS and the state pays your way through many of your first two years of college undergraduate credit without your taking out any loans. They count towards your HS diploma AND your college degree.
I did PSEO. It is hard to get approval to do it full-time for one year (your senior year), nearly impossible to get approval for it for two (junior + senior). And even then you'll end up taking some classes to meet your HS requirements that won't be useful for your college degree.
And of course you're also ignoring the indirect costs; students are responsible for their own transportation and food, at least the former of which is generally covered in high school.
In other words, PSEO is a great program - I high recommend it - but it isn't the mythical free ride to half of a four-year degree you want to sell it as.
you can enter the state's community college system and live at home (working part time hopefully) while taking college courses at costs far lower than you'd spend elsewhere--especially out of state.
Here you are making the assumption that community college credits will transfer 100% to a four-year university. The system simply doesn't work that way. I knew plenty of people who were lead to believe that and ended up retaking large numbers of credits once they started at a four-year school, even when they met regularly with counselors at both institutions to ensure credit transferability.
Then you move on to an in-state four year institution, preferably close to home so you don't have to pay many boarding expenses and ride mass transit or carpool to save on driving costs.
That has enormous indirect costs. I tried that for a couple years, living in the suburbs with my parents, commuting to school, working in the suburbs to pay for everything. It was a disaster. My GPA landed me on probation more than once. Class schedules are chaotic and rarely coincide with mass transit schedules. Rush hour traffic is murder when you're already stressed out over how to pay your bills and pass your classes. Then your vehicle breaks down, you blow a tire, or the parking lots are all full, and you miss a test. All that money you saved just went straight down the toilet.
How many 18 year olds do you know with good enough credit to buy a car, let alone a house?
When I graduated high school, I and my peers were inundated with credit card applications. Granted some of them were really terrible offers, but some of them were quite good. Getting enough credit to buy a nice used car on the spot was no problem.
... who the hell knows what, really.
Of course, some people couldn't handle it. A friend of mine had ~$20k in debt by the time he was a year out of high school and still hasn't paid it off. A lot of people were getting credit cards who treated them as free money instead of the loans that they are. Some people spent the money on
So perhaps the credit market made the adjustment back towards sanity. However based on the last time I walked through a college campus shortly after labor day I'm not sure.
I was looking for something else to do on my old 16-cpu Itanium cluster with 64gbs of shared ram. I think I just found it...
In the end it will likely end up a "special edition" Dell laptop with nothing special other than the price.
... to actually find a less effective long-term response to spam than filtering.
So what? What changed as a result?
Bin Laden is no longer able to plan any attacks or proselytize new terrorist recruits.
So of course that means that as a result terrorism the world over is no more, never to attack anyone, anywhere, ever, right? Sure.
On planet earth, we saw plenty of others in Al-Qaeda vying for power. Their factions are still doing the same things they were doing when he was alive.
The death of Bin Laden meant less to Al-Qaeda than the death of Reagan did to the GOP.
He was "the decider" and deserves credit for that.
So what? We've had special forces and intelligence operatives in Pakistan for decades. He didn't plan the mission, he didn't set up the networks and the surveillance.
Bin Laden is dead. That's change enough for me. Jr, Sr, Slick Willy all couldn't get him. Obama did what all those Presidents should've done: just do the job.
So what? What changed as a result? And did I miss the news headline about Obama personally murdering Bin Laden?
He's done a thing or two
If you are trying to show that Obama has done something that in some way represents a diversion from the existing trajectory towards an ever-more-conservative and corporate-married government, you failed miserably. Everything he has done so far is directly in line with what his predecessor was doing.
Every. Last. Thing.
how do you 'prove you wrong' when you just make a bunch of shit up?
You could try to prove me wrong by disproving any of the statements I just made. But apparently such a challenge is too much for you, so you opt for sarcasm and nonsense instead. If you disagree with what I said, or you feel it is not factual, then it should be easy for you to disprove it.
But when you instead insist that all is did was
make a bunch of shit up
Then you are indicating you don't actually want to have a discussion.
those "peace-keeping", "training", "support" forces (ie: Blackwater/Xe contractors) won't be counted as troops...
My point exactly.
But they WILL be subject to that countries laws.
We already showed that our mercenaries can act without consequence; we pulled out some blackwater guys who were suspected of murder and they never faced anything.
Too bad nothing is changed on the other side. We can put all the fancy clothes we want on this matter, but in the end we will still see the same thing we've seen for a long time. The guy in the oval office changes, but the policies stay the same.
In other words, petition all you want. It won't make a difference.
I seem to recall one way that our beloved leaders have gotten around it is by sending in more "peace-keeping", "training", or "support" forces instead. And of course our dear friends from Blackwater as contractors can be there forever shooting up the place without being counted as troops.
In other words we probably won't see any meaningful change from this, just as we haven't seen any meaningful change from anything else that has actually been done by Obama since taking office.
Go ahead, mod me down now. But I dare you to try to prove me wrong.
I've often wondered what happens with all the ammo that is shot up in celebration when something like this occurs. I know the mythbusters did something on the matter some time ago, and I don't recall what they found. You would think that when people are shooting off their AK's into the air in a city that something would get hit, even if it was just lead falling onto building rooftops.
There are plenty of students who majored in very reasonable and marketable courses of study and came out with a mountain of debt and dramatically worse job prospects than what were available when they began their studies. These people have a very real complaint.
However there are also people out there who went to college and majored in drama, or comparative literature, or film studies, or any of a number of other fields that have very marginal job prospects even in a good economy. They are carrying debt because they took a foolish risk with 4 years of their lives. Of course, some of them may have been poorly informed by their college with regards to what they could do with their degree. Others didn't give a damn and set off determined to "study what I want" or whatever. This latter group dug their own hole and I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.
In short, if you majored in engineering and then couldn't find a job after the economy went down the toilet while you were in school working your ass off, I feel for you. But if you spent four years in a field with ordinarily terrible job prospects and now you are shocked that you have no job prospects, I don't have much sympathy for you as you took a great opportunity and managed to squander it.
However, those who excel at taking great opportunities and squandering them may yet have a future in American politics.
It would be something if, after invading at least one country for oil, we started running so terribly low on oil in spite of the invasion that we had to put up solar panels on the bases we built in the invaded country.
This is not the DeLorean Motor Company that we knew in the 1980s. This is a resurrection of the name, by a . Which is how they are able to take the original car, put whatever they want into it, and still call it the DMC-12.
And since they have a number of original 1980s chassis, they can sell them as "reconstructed" 1980s cars, and they don't need to worry about modern safety and environmental requirements.
ICANN is the same group of idiots who decided in spite of numerous objections that selling gTLDs - and giving away all the rights and responsibilities for them - was a good idea. These guys don't have the best interest of anyone other than themselves in mind, and will probably sell this off to the highest bidder in a matter of months.
I didn't see a list of the free apps in the linked article. Odd that I actually bother to RTFA and I get no useful information on it. In other words, good summary by slashdot of a terrible article.
When did Vancouver become part of the US? Did I miss some recent war between the US and Canada?
There is also Vancouver Washington. The article summary doesn't specify which Vancouver this person was visiting; both are reasonably close to Seattle Washington.
How is it that whenever an organization chooses to "innovate out of a crisis" it never results in creation of more jobs? The phrase seems to be the new feel-good expression for "restructuring" or layoffs. Why can't they just call it what it is and say they are looking to release some employees to reduce costs?
I'm all for well-paid educators, but I have no use for the dead weight whose focus is their research and paper-writing. If you want to do pure research, find a lab some where, don't drain the university and college systems. With the many thousands of dollars students pay for their education, they deserve better.
The faculty involved in research are not even close to being the "dead weight" you claim. They bring money in to the university, as well as prestige.
However you are also missing the value of being taught by a researcher. Sure you could take some of your courses from someone who hasn't acquired any new knowledge on the topic in the past decade, but you'll finish those courses with that level of knowledge yourself. It is important to have educators who are well versed in the topic and aware of where that topic is going. That is a big part of why faculty who teach also do research.
The spammers will find a way around it, no matter what you do. It isn't any better than filtering in terms of a real long-term solution.
And the reason why both suck and fail to bring a long-term solution is they are both reactionary measures to an economic problem. They are both rooted at least partially in the notion that spam is sent out to piss you off and waste your time, which could hardly be a less accurate analysis of the situation.
Spam is sent out to make money, period. It will continue to be sent as long as money can be made by sending it out.
Hence the solution is to disconnect the spammers from the people who pay them. Work has been done to do this already and it has been shown very effective because there is no incentive for spammers to send spam if they aren't getting paid for it. Anything else just encourages them to find ways to get around anti-spam measures and will inevitably make spam a more costly situation for everyone.