Compared to the bottom line of any retail outlet, what you pay at the cash register is probably considered a micro payment.
When you spend a billion dollars on R&D for the latest pharmaceutical, selling a billion pills for a few bucks each would be micro payment.
For MMO's that earn a few million dollars a year, the subscription fees are probably considered micro payments, with payments for in-game perks probably also being micro or even nano payments.
Is that the price of an education, or the price to have the privilege of going through the rote machine to get a special piece of paper that says you are favored?
I don't think degrees are any more than pieces of paper that your potential boss will see as making you more desirable.
Intrinsics mean squat. When your career is on the line, the only thing that matters is what your boss will say. In short, you are at the mercy of everyone else's prejudices and biases, so best to fall in line and not make waves.
The problem with intrinsic motivation is that in the real world, being smart and artsy doesn't earn you CRAP when the real "men" can claw their way to the top by sheer aggressiveness.
Our society rewards aggressive behavior and practically cheers when the good guy loses to a cheater.
except that the utopia of education makes students ill prepared to deal with the harsh reality of a dog-eat-dog, winner-take-all system that quite often is rigged by the people that play for keeps.
Provided they get "fined" (docked) if they get caught cheating or slacking off on chores, I have no problem.
The real world is dog-eat-dog where only the fittest survive (often by breaking the rules), and I think it would be good not to add to the problem by encouraging cheaters.
The real problem is that in the real world, it's dog eat dog and you will get screwed, cheated, defrauded, and otherwise given raw deals unless you fight for your life.
Lawyers, doctors, and other professions that hold your life in their palms get paid shitloads of money because you can't live without them. This reduces flexibility and allows them to demand top dollar.
The increase in energy demand caused by a boom in human population is probably what drives every other carbon emission.
However, cutting back on growth would probably leave one open to being outmanned by other countries, so like the two jailbirds in prison, it pays to defect and screw the other guy.
Since the first amendment was chronologically following the copyright clause, does that make copyrights superseded by the amendment?
In theory, I think so, but as long as humans sit on the bench or in the jury box, you will always have imperfect verdicts, and some of those are bound to have the hands of special interests in their pockets.
And without a judiciary to enforce the law by decree, the law becomes meaningless anyway.
If you want to risk having your network access revoked, or worse, getting expelled, be my guest.
You don't have to let them put crap on your machine. In turn, they don't have to let you chew up their bandwidth, which, btw, they are willing to let you burn at no charge. Generous of them isn't it?
My college blocks outbound DNS and forces you to use their nameserver, which filters out stuff they don't think students should be accessing, like IRC. I would whine, but then I remember the promise I made when I agreed to the AUP. I also remember that it's their network and they're the ones who bought all the routers, switches, cables, and are paying for internet access.
In short, quit your damn whining about it. IMO, anyone who wants to whine and mope about getting conditional access to free bandwidth is no better than a wardriver looking for hotspots to exploit and that don't give a rip that their "ISP" is the one on the hook for any of their misdeeds.
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Why not put bird barrier meshes in front of the intakes?
We already have cowcatchers for trains.
If angled properly, the sheer momentum of the birds shoudl cause them to roll off the fence.
I would like to see a pleo made out of one of these.
I prefer the HMAC.
Being ambushed with a surprise documentation project suggests to me one of two things:
1. Management has got its head up its behind and doesn't know crap about what they need you for.
2. You are being deliberately set up for failure and they're just trying to create a paper trail so they'll have an excuse to get you canned.
In case number 2, don't forget that being in IT doesn't insulate you from office politics.
My college is blocking outbound port 53
Compared to the bottom line of any retail outlet, what you pay at the cash register is probably considered a micro payment.
When you spend a billion dollars on R&D for the latest pharmaceutical, selling a billion pills for a few bucks each would be micro payment.
For MMO's that earn a few million dollars a year, the subscription fees are probably considered micro payments, with payments for in-game perks probably also being micro or even nano payments.
Is that the price of an education, or the price to have the privilege of going through the rote machine to get a special piece of paper that says you are favored?
I don't think degrees are any more than pieces of paper that your potential boss will see as making you more desirable.
Intrinsics mean squat. When your career is on the line, the only thing that matters is what your boss will say. In short, you are at the mercy of everyone else's prejudices and biases, so best to fall in line and not make waves.
Why should we expect differently? Grown ups act that way every day in the modern world.
The problem with intrinsic motivation is that in the real world, being smart and artsy doesn't earn you CRAP when the real "men" can claw their way to the top by sheer aggressiveness.
Our society rewards aggressive behavior and practically cheers when the good guy loses to a cheater.
except that the utopia of education makes students ill prepared to deal with the harsh reality of a dog-eat-dog, winner-take-all system that quite often is rigged by the people that play for keeps.
Provided they get "fined" (docked) if they get caught cheating or slacking off on chores, I have no problem.
The real world is dog-eat-dog where only the fittest survive (often by breaking the rules), and I think it would be good not to add to the problem by encouraging cheaters.
Drive down 's pay--
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Your position is fallacious in fault attribution if the mocking society is culpable for making the kids dumb in the first place.
It's like calling the kettle black after dunking it in a bucket of tar.
Grunt work and brain work are both valuable.
The problem is that we are teaching the grunt workers that their job is to shoulder the geniuses.
What needs to be done is to make labor and hard work honorable again.
The real problem is that in the real world, it's dog eat dog and you will get screwed, cheated, defrauded, and otherwise given raw deals unless you fight for your life.
Lawyers, doctors, and other professions that hold your life in their palms get paid shitloads of money because you can't live without them. This reduces flexibility and allows them to demand top dollar.
Or the chinese government could just mandate TPM and make it technologically impossible to bypass...
They probably already make it a serious offense to disable it anyway.
"digital works" also includes software.
Tis not just artists I'm talking about being on the payroll, but programmers too.
The increase in energy demand caused by a boom in human population is probably what drives every other carbon emission.
However, cutting back on growth would probably leave one open to being outmanned by other countries, so like the two jailbirds in prison, it pays to defect and screw the other guy.
Tragedy of the commons.
Since the first amendment was chronologically following the copyright clause, does that make copyrights superseded by the amendment?
In theory, I think so, but as long as humans sit on the bench or in the jury box, you will always have imperfect verdicts, and some of those are bound to have the hands of special interests in their pockets.
And without a judiciary to enforce the law by decree, the law becomes meaningless anyway.
Digital works are a lot like pharmeceuticals.
Massive capital expenditure, minimal marginal cost.
And if the RIAA gets its way, soon to be intertwined with government regulation.
Crab mentality is merely a lack of trust that the other guy will share.
It still produces no gain because one cannot battle the selfishness of others and expect to win.
If you want to risk having your network access revoked, or worse, getting expelled, be my guest.
You don't have to let them put crap on your machine. In turn, they don't have to let you chew up their bandwidth, which, btw, they are willing to let you burn at no charge. Generous of them isn't it?
My college blocks outbound DNS and forces you to use their nameserver, which filters out stuff they don't think students should be accessing, like IRC. I would whine, but then I remember the promise I made when I agreed to the AUP. I also remember that it's their network and they're the ones who bought all the routers, switches, cables, and are paying for internet access.
In short, quit your damn whining about it. IMO, anyone who wants to whine and mope about getting conditional access to free bandwidth is no better than a wardriver looking for hotspots to exploit and that don't give a rip that their "ISP" is the one on the hook for any of their misdeeds.
Microsoft is also infringing on your sig.
In order of preference
1. Chrome
2. Opera
3. Firefox
4. IE
I only use an alternate browser if every browser above it in the previous list is unavailable.
Who marked this flamebait?
With the exception of .gov, they should award contracts to the highest bidder to encourage competition.
As long as they have forfeiture clauses to use against miscreants who don't manage the TLD's correctly I would have no problem with it.
Having data properly transferred and signed by DNSSEC though would probably be an insurmountable hurdle.
So maybe a bad idea, but certainly not a dumb one. Using economics against a monopoly usually makes sense.