The gold standard isn't some magic that makes currency have 'real' value. Gold itself has very little intrinsic value. Its rarity doesn't justify its price--that's due to speculators who know there are people like you around and can keep the price high.
Gold's only got a high value because there are a lot of people who hold (not use) it because of its high value. If it had to be valued on its use (like most other commodities), it'd be valued by rarity and would be worth a couple of bucks a brick.
In short, gold is just like poker chips--it has value because someone else said it does.
probably most drug dealers wouldn't pay off the cops
Last time I checked the biggest drug dealers in the world have indeed paid for laws that say their mood elevators are legal (xanax, zoloft, prozac) and yours are not (weed, chronic, kine).
So not only would they pay, they have paid already. And now the cops enforce laws that work against the stability of society instead of promoting it.
Yeah, just remove admin privileges from the user. That seems reasonable.
Then call the vendor who supplied the Emergency Room Management System and ask why the users can't run the program correctly. "Oh, they have to be administrator for that to work."
Then call the vendor who supplied the Scheduling module to the PACS system. "Oh, they have to be administrator for that to work."
Then call the vendor.... Repeat until you want to get a gun.
Maybe the real answer is to not buy software that works that way, but that assumes that buying decisions are based on obscure technical details like this. Not bloody likely.
What, you think they're all guilty? You think Americans are just that much more sinful?
Yes, Americans ARE more guilty. That's due, of course, to having enough laws on the books to guarantee you are always guilty of SOME crime. How many laws do we have? Just enough so you can reasonably be charged AT ANY TIME.
Don't change your name. Change how it appears on your resume. If you are John Q. Smith, list it as J. Quincy Smith. Once you are through the hiring procedure and are working at your desk in your new department, simply say to the first person who calls you Quincy: "Just call me John." Problem solved.
Just repeal the law and let anyone count with anything that doesn't slow down play. Heck, you could have a display above the dealer showing all cards played so far.
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You'd instantly see that the casinos all protect themselves by dealing only 3 decks into a 10 deck shoe, then going to the next shoe. That eliminates pretty much all the advantage you could glean from card counting.
Why does every problem require a fucking lawyer? Some just need a mathematician.
With anonimity, you cannot have useful end-user QoS services. The ISP might do some QoS from known video servers, but it cannot allow the end user to fire up QoS services on their own. In the first day, someone would write a client that uses whatever high QoS protocol is available even if the client shouldn't do that. Because then I get great response time for my (fill in the blank) client.
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QoS, if available to the end user, is exploitable by bad actors. How is it "feasible" to stop them from making your QoS useless? Oh I see, inspect every packet for legal content! And punish the miscreants! And make sure we can tell who they are! Oh wait, that's right, can't do that with current mechanisms.
He tapes stuff. The police end up with it. That's pretty much the definition of taping stuff for the police.
Why he tapes stuff does little to change this fact.
So no government in history has ever subjugated its populace?
And if you agree it can happen, why would you think it will NEVER happen again? Because if it can ever happen again, remember the data collected today will still exist then!
I agree that this should be completely legal. I also agree that you're just an unbelievable dick. Maybe you should seek therapy to rid yourself of your insecurities.
Rats and stoolies are usually not held in high regard by anyone.
Yes, I would prefer they get away. The only way to insure 100% retribution is with 0% freedom. I'd rather walk amongst killers than be treated like one.
Obesity is easily blamed for every bad thing that has increased over time. But why has obesity increased? Much of the increase is due to a redefining of obesity. And why is a person who used to be above normal now obese? Because then we can justify medical intervention at the cost of thousands of dollars. And that's profit, baby!
This is important work because now when you are caught (forever) in an embarrassing position by Street View, you can claim it was an art project.
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Just getting people to look at street view and think "Maybe they did this on purpose because they saw the van coming" is great. Don't trust everything you see is a good lesson for those who would use this technology against you.
Daily Show and Colbert in a move that should be applauded, actually ADDED dynamic range by allowing the average dB level to range all the way down to -8 to -12. However, all modern commercials are as close to 0dB as possible (which removes all dynamic range--that is, loud is loud and quiet is loud). So they seem much louder.
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Whenever there's not much difference between the show and the commercial, it's because the show has been cranked to horrible levels so the 0dB commercials don't stand out. Not a great solution.
I am a network administrator at a hospital, so I know a few things about HIPAA. HIPAA has the mother of all loopholes: Namely, if the state asks for information then the hospital provides it--period. If the agency is rogue or has one rogue member, they will use that loophole to run roughshod over your privacy WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.
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It's perfectly legal to violate your HIPAA-guaranteed privacy as long as some scumbag low-level agency fuck with an axe to grind decides he feels like doing it.
I think you are trying to show that my script idea would be bad because it could be used against me. And then I couldn't rely on google maps to track my wife. However, if you think I believe having the ability to track my wife is a good thing (or, indeed, anybody being able to track anybody), you are wrong. In fact, wanting that ability is surely the sign of some mental defect.
Google claims that the tracking client has the ability to lie--that is, report your location as an address you type in. Problem is, if your boss is tracking you to an address, he'll know you're lying because you instantly appear at the destination.
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So the first thing we need is a google application that can update this "lie" info in real time. I want to type in a start address, an end address and have it automatically update the lie with intermediate locations that correspond to a realistic speed. Then even if your boss is watching you, it'll look like you are following instructions (even though you are at the bar).
That way, when it is inevitably used by assholes, we can salute and chime "Sure thing, boss!" then ignore him with impunity.
The story makes reference to Will Forte's very funny SNL skits as MacGruber. There were no MacGruber skits during SNL on Saturday night. However, there were 3 different and unrepeated pepsi ads aired during SNL where Forte reprises his MacGruber role. THESE WERE ADS.
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The ads (or at least one of them) were repeated during the superbowl.
My poly-layered ectoplasmic analysis software measures 22 parameters of ESP in real-time for psychics. It's accuracy is not proven, but it lets psychics more quickly pinpoint where there are problems in psychic emanations. Officiating psychics can zero in much more quickly with their traditional testing techniques.
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Hey, look! I can blast buzzwords and pretend my software works too!
So how much would you pay? Wait, don't answer because this can flash the overall value for each parameter in a separate window! Now how much would you pay?
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The gold standard isn't some magic that makes currency have 'real' value. Gold itself has very little intrinsic value. Its rarity doesn't justify its price--that's due to speculators who know there are people like you around and can keep the price high.
Gold's only got a high value because there are a lot of people who hold (not use) it because of its high value. If it had to be valued on its use (like most other commodities), it'd be valued by rarity and would be worth a couple of bucks a brick.
In short, gold is just like poker chips--it has value because someone else said it does.
probably most drug dealers wouldn't pay off the cops
Last time I checked the biggest drug dealers in the world have indeed paid for laws that say their mood elevators are legal (xanax, zoloft, prozac) and yours are not (weed, chronic, kine).
So not only would they pay, they have paid already. And now the cops enforce laws that work against the stability of society instead of promoting it.
Yeah, just remove admin privileges from the user. That seems reasonable.
Then call the vendor who supplied the Emergency Room Management System and ask why the users can't run the program correctly. "Oh, they have to be administrator for that to work."
Then call the vendor who supplied the Scheduling module to the PACS system. "Oh, they have to be administrator for that to work."
Then call the vendor.... Repeat until you want to get a gun.
Maybe the real answer is to not buy software that works that way, but that assumes that buying decisions are based on obscure technical details like this. Not bloody likely.
That'll teach them to nail innocent admins for things managers with admin or root access have done
I'm pretty sure all that'll teach them is that you're too hotheaded to have any real responsibility.
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Instead, do the exact opposite:
#1 Make sure all the equipment is in perfect working order.
#2 Give competent co-workers all the information they need to do your job.
#3 Then take a week off to hold a sign up outside the SF courthouse.
And don't expect me to take down my hospital for ANY reason.
What, you think they're all guilty? You think Americans are just that much more sinful?
Yes, Americans ARE more guilty. That's due, of course, to having enough laws on the books to guarantee you are always guilty of SOME crime. How many laws do we have? Just enough so you can reasonably be charged AT ANY TIME.
Don't change your name. Change how it appears on your resume. If you are John Q. Smith, list it as J. Quincy Smith. Once you are through the hiring procedure and are working at your desk in your new department, simply say to the first person who calls you Quincy: "Just call me John." Problem solved.
Now that's a response that'll shut 'em up. Right comes not only from correct analysis, but also requires a refusal to live in fear! Nice job.
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You'd instantly see that the casinos all protect themselves by dealing only 3 decks into a 10 deck shoe, then going to the next shoe. That eliminates pretty much all the advantage you could glean from card counting.
Why does every problem require a fucking lawyer? Some just need a mathematician.
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QoS, if available to the end user, is exploitable by bad actors. How is it "feasible" to stop them from making your QoS useless? Oh I see, inspect every packet for legal content! And punish the miscreants! And make sure we can tell who they are! Oh wait, that's right, can't do that with current mechanisms.
Me and da boys is gonna take ya's for a little e-ride.
He tapes stuff. The police end up with it. That's pretty much the definition of taping stuff for the police. Why he tapes stuff does little to change this fact.
So no government in history has ever subjugated its populace? And if you agree it can happen, why would you think it will NEVER happen again? Because if it can ever happen again, remember the data collected today will still exist then!
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I agree that this should be completely legal. I also agree that you're just an unbelievable dick. Maybe you should seek therapy to rid yourself of your insecurities.
Rats and stoolies are usually not held in high regard by anyone.
Yes, I would prefer they get away. The only way to insure 100% retribution is with 0% freedom. I'd rather walk amongst killers than be treated like one.
Obesity is easily blamed for every bad thing that has increased over time. But why has obesity increased? Much of the increase is due to a redefining of obesity. And why is a person who used to be above normal now obese? Because then we can justify medical intervention at the cost of thousands of dollars. And that's profit, baby!
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Just getting people to look at street view and think "Maybe they did this on purpose because they saw the van coming" is great. Don't trust everything you see is a good lesson for those who would use this technology against you.
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Whenever there's not much difference between the show and the commercial, it's because the show has been cranked to horrible levels so the 0dB commercials don't stand out. Not a great solution.
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It's perfectly legal to violate your HIPAA-guaranteed privacy as long as some scumbag low-level agency fuck with an axe to grind decides he feels like doing it.
This database will exist FOREVER. So these uses will be available when the technology comes along.
we really don't have the knowledge and technology to read it all
But we WILL. And this database will still exist then.
we need to regulate it in a way so it is tamper-proof
I agree. Of course, that means it cannot be done.
I think you are trying to show that my script idea would be bad because it could be used against me. And then I couldn't rely on google maps to track my wife. However, if you think I believe having the ability to track my wife is a good thing (or, indeed, anybody being able to track anybody), you are wrong. In fact, wanting that ability is surely the sign of some mental defect.
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So the first thing we need is a google application that can update this "lie" info in real time. I want to type in a start address, an end address and have it automatically update the lie with intermediate locations that correspond to a realistic speed. Then even if your boss is watching you, it'll look like you are following instructions (even though you are at the bar).
That way, when it is inevitably used by assholes, we can salute and chime "Sure thing, boss!" then ignore him with impunity.
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The ads (or at least one of them) were repeated during the superbowl.
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Hey, look! I can blast buzzwords and pretend my software works too!
So how much would you pay? Wait, don't answer because this can flash the overall value for each parameter in a separate window! Now how much would you pay?