From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around, draining resources and hogging housing. In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place. It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings. The government pays fair market price for the dwelling, evicts the occupant into more suitably sized housing, and society benefits. The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age. The best thing for society as a whole is for people to pass on just after they cease contributing taxes to the system. That way, much money is saved on pensions, social welfare, hospital care, and so on. In fact, in many cases, euthanasia is a preferable solution to old age, as is done routinely in The Netherlands.
Given all this, why is increasing longevity a good thing? How does it help society? Taxes cannot be paid by people who don't work.
Before you click that "-1 Troll" button, think about it for a moment. Attempt to formulate a thinking response. This isn't a troll, this is how many rational, educated people in government think about the elderly problem. Let's have some real discussion instead of burying real-world opinions with which we disagree.
Let's see how you personally feel about what you just stated... when you get to be in your 70s. I'm there and I have neither health problems nor the desire to kill myself.
You don't suppose that perhaps the decline has something to do with the decline in the economy? You don't have to be a Rocket Scientist or an IT Engineer to realize that if you have less money in your pocket and the future looks gray then perhaps you aren't going to do impulse buying like you did five years ago.
When I received my first voter card I had to produce a birth certificate. I needed it again to get a driver's license. In my humble opinion, these schemes are just an easy way to facilitate voter fraud.
The biggest problem I see is that America's credit cards are already maxed out. We can't keep spending money we don't have. First we need to get the economy moving.
Indeed. I don't get the article at all, what is there to improve on? The layout works, there are images when needed to be informative. The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.
I have always felt that there needed to be more images to more clearly explain content. I always thought the images were not included because of fear of copyright infringement.
You can't? How much does it cost to if you get caught downloading a song these days? If individual fines for each instance of the infraction were levied on Google, then the fine would indeed be massive. Only us little guys get individual, massive fines.
I remember a country called the United States of America. It never really lived up to its boasted promise or potential, but hey! It was something at one time, you know?
Now it's gone. So it really doesn't matter, I guess.
its not even political. its a scam. 'we would like to take your poll on some issues. oh, and stay online so we can tell you about our CRUISE PACKAGE!'
its all a scam.
one thing I'm working on is a hardware device that will use a caller id modem, get the # string and check things like mrnumber.com (which is easy to script/call). the spam number is easy to get and I can basically NOT let the call ring thru if its on the spam list. if its not, the relay will click, the 2 wires will pass thru to the actual phone system in my house and I'll hear the ring.
best way to avoid them is to not even give them an answer. they think there's no one ever there. best way to deal with them (since killing them is illegal. I think?)
I have "invested" in two Digitone Call blockers. The call blocker will block 80 numbers/area codes. I have two because the first one is now full. The device works great, which the FTC doesn't. The "Do Not Call List" is a 100% joke. If you hook the call blocker up where the phone line comes into your home, and connect all the phones in your house to the "Tel" side of the blocker, the phones will never ring for a blocked call. The caller ID comes between the 1st and second ring so if you connect the call blocker to the line parallel with your phones the phones will ring one time if it's a blocked number and then it hangs up on the blocked caller. It blocks Unknown, Anonymous, Unavailable and Out of Area Callers. I have mine set up to block all 800 and 877 numbers. It's bad news when 80 numbers aren't enough. A large part of the problem right now is political calls. I have the 202, Washington D.C. area code completely blocked. Had two calls yesterday from there.
I worked for a large electric utility in IT. We had to submit competitive bids against private companies to provide IT service. We usually were under bid and the IT contract was awarded to an outside company. Usually the service the utility received from the IT people they hired was good at first but soon the response started to slow. Now, when you have customers coming in the front door trying to pay bills and the customer service rep's computer is down, that is the worst of the worst scenarios. I makes an unhappy customer and no way to easily collect payment from the customer. Five or more customer service reps without the tools to do their job is not good. A few times like this while having to wait for the contract IT guys to show up, usually underscores to management the value of having in house people who are able to respond immediately. So like someone said, it went in cycles. In house - contract - in house - etc. They figure when times get tough that they'll take the savings, until the service just gets too bad and the the multivibrator of management flips again.
What else could it POSSIBLY see? Good lord. It's connected to the power line, not your wifi network or phone or anything else. It measures power and sends the reading.
What they can see besides your actual monthly power usage is the daily activity at your home. They could assume that you were on vacation sometime last month when your normal monthly consumption went down. Now they can see what exact days you were gone because the meter updates hourly. They can tell if you had company by increases caused by water heaters etc. Subtle things but the patterns can be analyzed and behavior can be surmised. I'm sure someone will pay for this data. It like the article yesterday about your eBook reader collecting data about how and what you read. Just one more piece of your life laid out there to be analyzed.
Even with that, I watch TV using mythbuntu. I record first and watch later. I also skip the adds. No adds in my own time. Marketing companies are not allowed to provide me with their opinions on how my life shlid be like
That's the way I feel too. When I was young we had radio. Then we got a TV when I was in school. At first TV had five minutes per hour of commercials. Now it's 40 minutes. I am quite frankly filled to overflowing with TV commercials. The same crap repeated multiple times in the same hour. Sometimes two times in a row. If I couldn't skip those brainless annoying infantile wastes of my time I would quit watching TV completely. I seriously mean that. I am, at my age, commercialed out. I get really annoyed when someone calls my "Do not call listed" phone. If I want something, I'll buy it. I have never had a good experience with buying anything sold to me over the phone, or door to door, with the sole exception of Girl Scout Cookies. Leave me alone! You reach an age where you can no longer tolerate people coming into your home by way of your TV, selling condoms, Viagra, feminine hygiene products and car insurance that is $200.00 cheaper than any other insurance company. I'm filled to overflowing with their sales crap and I don't have room for one more 8th grade level commercial selling some medication that they don't even bother to tell me what it's for but I should ask my Doctor if it's right for me. Screw them all. I'll watch movies or TV series on DVD. That said, end of rant and... "Get off my lawn."
Thanks causality for stating how most of us here in Arizona feel. The Media portrays us all as racist bigots where all we want is to stop the invasion. Thousands of people daily flooding over our borders. I understand their goal to better the lives of themselves and their families however especially in these tough economic times we do not need more uneducated people. The low level jobs are the only ones some people can find, even if they're educated. Having to compete with illegals for these positions is wrong. It appears that frequently employers will choose the illegal over the citizen because they can save money. Lower wages and because they are paid under the table, no Social Security or Medicare payments. We should welcome educated immigrants but we don't need any more uneducated people.
And they'll only adhere once the settings are legally enforceable.
The trick to actually being the first post is to not spend any time being cute about it. FAIL.
I wouldn't bee too sure of that. Look at that farce they named "Do Not Call". The teleslimeballs aren't afraid and the government doesn't even react to complaints. Government mandates about privacy are a farce.
Jesus christ if they dropped a family pack version to $100 I'd buy it in a heartbeat! I've got three personal machines running Windows and I haven't bought a single license because Home Premium is $200. Never mind that I occasionally use something like XP Mode so having Ultimate was helpful. Actually right now a new Win7 HP license on Newegg is $100, presumably due a price drop in the wake of Win8. On the other hand, Win7 HP upgrade (from Vista or XP) is still $120.
I always thought that the way capitalism was supposed to work was the more copies you sell the lower the selling price. Win win. Why doe MS who owns 80% of the market have to sell their software at $100+ dollars and Apple who has a tiny part of the market is happy with $20.00? Greed?
After digging around a little I did not find much useful knowledge about the accuracy and how it works.
I just put one of my domains online yesterday. It's OK now but the first couple of time I tried to access it I got one of those "This site could be dangerous to your computer" banners. I wonder if Google needs to crawl the site before it blesses it as safe.
Wrong! I was in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast West Africa where I taught at the University of Abidjan. My English friend Donard, taught English. I taught American. They considered them to be two separate and distinct languages.
Congratulations on growing up middle class. Many kids, especially inner city kids, don't have responsible parents to pack their lunch for them, let alone the money to buy twinkies or fruit-roll-ups. Many schools in the US also serve breakfast, and many kids qualify to receive both for free.
I hate to tell you this but there is no such thing as "free". When I was young you were supposed to support your family and that meant feeding them. I fed my kids and I resent having to feed other people kids. There used to be a thing in society called responsibility. That meant you were responsible for you and your's. That free healthcare and free meals you allude to are paid for by taking money away from me and mine.
My wife used to work for a well known map company. She was told that it was common practice to deliberately insert errors so the company could tell if its maps were being copied (I guess they could easily release the lawyers that way).
I wonder how many errors there are in the maps used by GPS. Maybe since it is more controlled, there are less errors... maybe.
That is interesting. One of my Garmin GPS units sometimes identifies business locations as being on the wrong side of the street. This in spite of the fact that it lists the proper address number and that the number, odd or even, indicates the proper side of the street. I often wondered if Garmin did this to watermark their map.
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From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around, draining resources and hogging housing. In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place. It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings. The government pays fair market price for the dwelling, evicts the occupant into more suitably sized housing, and society benefits. The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age. The best thing for society as a whole is for people to pass on just after they cease contributing taxes to the system. That way, much money is saved on pensions, social welfare, hospital care, and so on. In fact, in many cases, euthanasia is a preferable solution to old age, as is done routinely in The Netherlands.
Given all this, why is increasing longevity a good thing? How does it help society? Taxes cannot be paid by people who don't work.
Before you click that "-1 Troll" button, think about it for a moment. Attempt to formulate a thinking response. This isn't a troll, this is how many rational, educated people in government think about the elderly problem. Let's have some real discussion instead of burying real-world opinions with which we disagree.
Let's see how you personally feel about what you just stated... when you get to be in your 70s. I'm there and I have neither health problems nor the desire to kill myself.
You don't suppose that perhaps the decline has something to do with the decline in the economy? You don't have to be a Rocket Scientist or an IT Engineer to realize that if you have less money in your pocket and the future looks gray then perhaps you aren't going to do impulse buying like you did five years ago.
When I received my first voter card I had to produce a birth certificate. I needed it again to get a driver's license. In my humble opinion, these schemes are just an easy way to facilitate voter fraud.
The biggest problem I see is that America's credit cards are already maxed out. We can't keep spending money we don't have. First we need to get the economy moving.
Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler
Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson
Wish I had points because I found these links really interesting. Thanks.
Indeed. I don't get the article at all, what is there to improve on? The layout works, there are images when needed to be informative. The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.
I have always felt that there needed to be more images to more clearly explain content. I always thought the images were not included because of fear of copyright infringement.
You can't just make up a number for a fine.
You can't? How much does it cost to if you get caught downloading a song these days? If individual fines for each instance of the infraction were levied on Google, then the fine would indeed be massive. Only us little guys get individual, massive fines.
I remember a country called the United States of America. It never really lived up to its boasted promise or potential, but hey! It was something at one time, you know?
Now it's gone. So it really doesn't matter, I guess.
Too bad you can't be modded up to 100.
Long live TrueCrypt!
its not even political. its a scam. 'we would like to take your poll on some issues. oh, and stay online so we can tell you about our CRUISE PACKAGE!'
its all a scam.
one thing I'm working on is a hardware device that will use a caller id modem, get the # string and check things like mrnumber.com (which is easy to script/call). the spam number is easy to get and I can basically NOT let the call ring thru if its on the spam list. if its not, the relay will click, the 2 wires will pass thru to the actual phone system in my house and I'll hear the ring.
best way to avoid them is to not even give them an answer. they think there's no one ever there. best way to deal with them (since killing them is illegal. I think?)
I have "invested" in two Digitone Call blockers. The call blocker will block 80 numbers/area codes. I have two because the first one is now full. The device works great, which the FTC doesn't. The "Do Not Call List" is a 100% joke. If you hook the call blocker up where the phone line comes into your home, and connect all the phones in your house to the "Tel" side of the blocker, the phones will never ring for a blocked call. The caller ID comes between the 1st and second ring so if you connect the call blocker to the line parallel with your phones the phones will ring one time if it's a blocked number and then it hangs up on the blocked caller. It blocks Unknown, Anonymous, Unavailable and Out of Area Callers. I have mine set up to block all 800 and 877 numbers. It's bad news when 80 numbers aren't enough. A large part of the problem right now is political calls. I have the 202, Washington D.C. area code completely blocked. Had two calls yesterday from there.
I worked for a large electric utility in IT. We had to submit competitive bids against private companies to provide IT service. We usually were under bid and the IT contract was awarded to an outside company. Usually the service the utility received from the IT people they hired was good at first but soon the response started to slow. Now, when you have customers coming in the front door trying to pay bills and the customer service rep's computer is down, that is the worst of the worst scenarios. I makes an unhappy customer and no way to easily collect payment from the customer. Five or more customer service reps without the tools to do their job is not good. A few times like this while having to wait for the contract IT guys to show up, usually underscores to management the value of having in house people who are able to respond immediately. So like someone said, it went in cycles. In house - contract - in house - etc. They figure when times get tough that they'll take the savings, until the service just gets too bad and the the multivibrator of management flips again.
What else could it POSSIBLY see? Good lord. It's connected to the power line, not your wifi network or phone or anything else. It measures power and sends the reading.
What they can see besides your actual monthly power usage is the daily activity at your home. They could assume that you were on vacation sometime last month when your normal monthly consumption went down. Now they can see what exact days you were gone because the meter updates hourly. They can tell if you had company by increases caused by water heaters etc. Subtle things but the patterns can be analyzed and behavior can be surmised. I'm sure someone will pay for this data. It like the article yesterday about your eBook reader collecting data about how and what you read. Just one more piece of your life laid out there to be analyzed.
Even with that, I watch TV using mythbuntu. I record first and watch later. I also skip the adds. No adds in my own time. Marketing companies are not allowed to provide me with their opinions on how my life shlid be like
That's the way I feel too. When I was young we had radio. Then we got a TV when I was in school. At first TV had five minutes per hour of commercials. Now it's 40 minutes. I am quite frankly filled to overflowing with TV commercials. The same crap repeated multiple times in the same hour. Sometimes two times in a row. If I couldn't skip those brainless annoying infantile wastes of my time I would quit watching TV completely. I seriously mean that. I am, at my age, commercialed out. I get really annoyed when someone calls my "Do not call listed" phone. If I want something, I'll buy it. I have never had a good experience with buying anything sold to me over the phone, or door to door, with the sole exception of Girl Scout Cookies. Leave me alone! You reach an age where you can no longer tolerate people coming into your home by way of your TV, selling condoms, Viagra, feminine hygiene products and car insurance that is $200.00 cheaper than any other insurance company. I'm filled to overflowing with their sales crap and I don't have room for one more 8th grade level commercial selling some medication that they don't even bother to tell me what it's for but I should ask my Doctor if it's right for me. Screw them all. I'll watch movies or TV series on DVD. That said, end of rant and... "Get off my lawn."
Thanks causality for stating how most of us here in Arizona feel. The Media portrays us all as racist bigots where all we want is to stop the invasion. Thousands of people daily flooding over our borders. I understand their goal to better the lives of themselves and their families however especially in these tough economic times we do not need more uneducated people. The low level jobs are the only ones some people can find, even if they're educated. Having to compete with illegals for these positions is wrong. It appears that frequently employers will choose the illegal over the citizen because they can save money. Lower wages and because they are paid under the table, no Social Security or Medicare payments. We should welcome educated immigrants but we don't need any more uneducated people.
And they'll only adhere once the settings are legally enforceable.
The trick to actually being the first post is to not spend any time being cute about it. FAIL.
I wouldn't bee too sure of that. Look at that farce they named "Do Not Call". The teleslimeballs aren't afraid and the government doesn't even react to complaints. Government mandates about privacy are a farce.
Jesus christ if they dropped a family pack version to $100 I'd buy it in a heartbeat! I've got three personal machines running Windows and I haven't bought a single license because Home Premium is $200. Never mind that I occasionally use something like XP Mode so having Ultimate was helpful. Actually right now a new Win7 HP license on Newegg is $100, presumably due a price drop in the wake of Win8. On the other hand, Win7 HP upgrade (from Vista or XP) is still $120.
I always thought that the way capitalism was supposed to work was the more copies you sell the lower the selling price. Win win. Why doe MS who owns 80% of the market have to sell their software at $100+ dollars and Apple who has a tiny part of the market is happy with $20.00? Greed?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs calls them that too. Shocking.
In Arizona Native Americans call their gambling properties "Indian Casinos".
After digging around a little I did not find much useful knowledge about the accuracy and how it works.
I just put one of my domains online yesterday. It's OK now but the first couple of time I tried to access it I got one of those "This site could be dangerous to your computer" banners. I wonder if Google needs to crawl the site before it blesses it as safe.
The condom breaking mechanism is stupidity. If you don't know how to use the condom correctly then it breaks and you pass you genetic material
Smart persons know appropriate condom usage and do not pass on their lineage. Seems like evolutionary pressure as been applied.
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That's why God created bananas. So you could practice proper application of a condom. Just ask any American school kid. It's part of their curriculum.
I have two domains. If you go to whois on GoDaddy it lists everything about me. Name, address and phone number. Is this supposed to be private?
Actually, it's English everywhere.
Wrong! I was in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast West Africa where I taught at the University of Abidjan. My English friend Donard, taught English. I taught American. They considered them to be two separate and distinct languages.
Congratulations on growing up middle class. Many kids, especially inner city kids, don't have responsible parents to pack their lunch for them, let alone the money to buy twinkies or fruit-roll-ups. Many schools in the US also serve breakfast, and many kids qualify to receive both for free.
I hate to tell you this but there is no such thing as "free". When I was young you were supposed to support your family and that meant feeding them. I fed my kids and I resent having to feed other people kids. There used to be a thing in society called responsibility. That meant you were responsible for you and your's. That free healthcare and free meals you allude to are paid for by taking money away from me and mine.
Is there any way to filter this annoying asshole?
Anyone else find this difficult to read because it is one huge sentence? I like the message but the structure sux.
My wife used to work for a well known map company. She was told that it was common practice to deliberately insert errors so the company could tell if its maps were being copied (I guess they could easily release the lawyers that way).
I wonder how many errors there are in the maps used by GPS. Maybe since it is more controlled, there are less errors ... maybe.
That is interesting. One of my Garmin GPS units sometimes identifies business locations as being on the wrong side of the street. This in spite of the fact that it lists the proper address number and that the number, odd or even, indicates the proper side of the street. I often wondered if Garmin did this to watermark their map.