No, we have a bad economy because Mr. Moron at the bank and Mr. A. Hole Politician bent over backwards to bend the rules and get Joe Six-pack a home when his credit wouldn't normally allow it. Then Mr. Shady at the investment firm bundled them in a way to sell them off w/o disclosing the actual risk factor. Toss in a few extra taxes to skim a little more off the top of businesses, and things go to hell in a handbasket. Big picture has nothing to do with it.
Yes but considering most of the observable universe appears to be hydrogen that's a SHIT LOAD of mass to burn through.
I'll add to this that if the light is 13 billion years old, the galaxies might have burned through everything by now but we wouldn't know because the light carrying the information to witness the change hasn't physically reached us yet.
The CEO brings a sense of business and circle of high-profile contacts which benefit the company immensely. This is a semi-rare attribute, and thus companies pay for access to this. Programmers, janitors, and project managers bring a common skill and a circle of contacts with mediocre comparative value.
Once the worker bees have the unique connections and skills to bring contracts to a company that have enough value to employ half of all the other worker bees, then they'll be worth 1/4 to 1/2 the salary of the CEO. Until then, the common company viewpoint will be that since average CEO has skills and/or contacts that are 200-400 times more rare and thousands of times more valuable to the company, they should get paid 200-400 times what the average worker makes.
Actually, I'd bank more on the idea that it's an engineering thing. Think about it, if you design a system that needs specific inputs do you want a battery that is designed to efficiently deliver power at that voltage, or do you want a battery that provides a higher voltage and then you get to waste energy (via heat) to bring it down to the appropriate level? When it comes to laptops, battery life and heat levels are key. Converting voltage levels would make things worse on both counts. Add the fact that each laptop has a slightly different form-factor and you need custom shapes too.
Now, if you want an awkwardly shaped, warmer than usual, and loud laptop that has a shorter than average battery life for the given energy capacity, by all means don't let me stand in your way protesting against the manufacturers for standardized batteries. I'll deal with swapping out a $200 battery every two years or so or not bother so I can upgrade performance, then donate the old laptop so it can be used as a desktop for someone who can't generally afford a new computer in general (they don't care that it only has 2 hours of battery life instead of the original 5).
What most people don't realize is ANY "unwanted" contact with any officer or agent of a government entity is assault. Tapping them on the shoulder when they're yelling at your friend would constitute assault on an officer. Something as innocent as brushing the agent's hand away would provoke that charge, which I suspect is the case here.
Hey, given some people live upwards of 110+ years of age there is no reason he can't continue to increase his fame for the next 20 as long as he's in good health. It's not the norm, but neither is running a marathon at 70; people still want to do it on occasion.
They've been doing that for years. The trick is to disassemble them fast enough that the bot writers can't adapt the net to avoid your code. The other problem is it's actually illegal to do that because then you're hacking the infected machine to install your code: which is criminal computer trespass (not that charges are filed often, but the threat is there).
Healthcare isn't the problem. The problem is most of my fellow Americans are fat lazy-asses. That's why costs are higher and lifespan is lower on average. Think about it, if your fellow countrymen were not at all concerned about their health and you were in shape with minimal healthcare costs, would you want someone to mandate that you help pay for everyone else?
He's right. The European Union (established by the Treaty of Maastricht on November 1, 1993) hasn't existed as long as the United States (July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence).
Far more countries than just the US declined to participate in the Climate Change issues. As for healthcare and the US climate policy, perhaps the US' view of these topics is different from your own? Just because their policies are different from what you'd want doesn't mean they don't make sense from a different perspective.
It doesn't bust it any more than having companies running their own domain DNS does. It puts more load on the root servers, but custom TLDs don't bust DNS any more than domains running custom DNS servers to host subdomains.
Btw, good job on posting that opinion appropriately: as a coward.:D
I disagree. The US put the majority of the work into establishing it, so why should they share control with anyone else? The tech has been spread world-wide, so there is absolutely no reason other communities can't develop their own network and route DNS requests accordingly similar to how the phone system works. It's just that everyone wants to piggy-back into the original system because it's the default, there's already so many people using it, and it'd be a ton of work to setup another system.
So, you want to tax those people that make a meager living doing real labor like construction, landscaping, farming, and the like, all of which require heavy-duty vehicles? You stupid weanies think things through about as well as the politicians do. "We'll solve the world's problems by imposing our mindset and way of life on everyone" doesn't fix the world because too much relies on others who are willing and able to do things you can't or won't (dirty labor, violence, etc). Take your narrow view and fuck off.
And yes, I AM a tech-minded 1st worlder that programs for living. I still realize the need for blue-collar.
I believe foobsr is referring to the number of people that feel entitled to one because they don't bother investing minimum maintenance to keep themselves from becoming a fat ass. If your "disability" is something like that, you don't "need" one and are not entitled to government assistance to get one.
And you have the right to your house, but not the right to use the parking on the public street. It's nice, yes, but it's not a right. Strangers have the same claim to park there that you do.
Except, despite all of this, they still exist in a trackable world. They live and have stuff delivered to addresses, they access information that leaves a data trail, and use identifiers which do the same. If they share anything, or a field observer notices a meeting then it gets tagged as a meeting and connection; then any activity at all is tracked back to a single node (bank account, address, person, phone number, etc) then you can link ALL connected nodes to that activity. Cash, disposables, and other "untrackables" still have temporary information: GPS on phone calls, messages intercepted with keywords or names, or phone numbers used for a material order. The info might not be permanently valid, but the connections it makes between nodes are.
Never had it, or never experienced symptoms due to an immune system that squashes the bug before a symptom-causing response is necessary? unless you live in a bubble, I highly doubt you've never been immunized one way or the other.
No, he solved the middle class problem. The rich will be taxed to pay for the poor, but middle class will fall between the ability to afford it and the government program eligibility.
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No, we have a bad economy because Mr. Moron at the bank and Mr. A. Hole Politician bent over backwards to bend the rules and get Joe Six-pack a home when his credit wouldn't normally allow it. Then Mr. Shady at the investment firm bundled them in a way to sell them off w/o disclosing the actual risk factor. Toss in a few extra taxes to skim a little more off the top of businesses, and things go to hell in a handbasket. Big picture has nothing to do with it.
Have been doing this for years in video games, prior art anyone?
Yes but considering most of the observable universe appears to be hydrogen that's a SHIT LOAD of mass to burn through.
I'll add to this that if the light is 13 billion years old, the galaxies might have burned through everything by now but we wouldn't know because the light carrying the information to witness the change hasn't physically reached us yet.
The CEO brings a sense of business and circle of high-profile contacts which benefit the company immensely. This is a semi-rare attribute, and thus companies pay for access to this. Programmers, janitors, and project managers bring a common skill and a circle of contacts with mediocre comparative value.
Once the worker bees have the unique connections and skills to bring contracts to a company that have enough value to employ half of all the other worker bees, then they'll be worth 1/4 to 1/2 the salary of the CEO. Until then, the common company viewpoint will be that since average CEO has skills and/or contacts that are 200-400 times more rare and thousands of times more valuable to the company, they should get paid 200-400 times what the average worker makes.
Actually, I'd bank more on the idea that it's an engineering thing. Think about it, if you design a system that needs specific inputs do you want a battery that is designed to efficiently deliver power at that voltage, or do you want a battery that provides a higher voltage and then you get to waste energy (via heat) to bring it down to the appropriate level? When it comes to laptops, battery life and heat levels are key. Converting voltage levels would make things worse on both counts. Add the fact that each laptop has a slightly different form-factor and you need custom shapes too.
Now, if you want an awkwardly shaped, warmer than usual, and loud laptop that has a shorter than average battery life for the given energy capacity, by all means don't let me stand in your way protesting against the manufacturers for standardized batteries. I'll deal with swapping out a $200 battery every two years or so or not bother so I can upgrade performance, then donate the old laptop so it can be used as a desktop for someone who can't generally afford a new computer in general (they don't care that it only has 2 hours of battery life instead of the original 5).
What most people don't realize is ANY "unwanted" contact with any officer or agent of a government entity is assault. Tapping them on the shoulder when they're yelling at your friend would constitute assault on an officer. Something as innocent as brushing the agent's hand away would provoke that charge, which I suspect is the case here.
Wake up people, our laws are broken.
What's scary is that you got a 404 and not a NXDOMAIN.
Hey, given some people live upwards of 110+ years of age there is no reason he can't continue to increase his fame for the next 20 as long as he's in good health. It's not the norm, but neither is running a marathon at 70; people still want to do it on occasion.
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reference: http://xkcd.com/353/
They've been doing that for years. The trick is to disassemble them fast enough that the bot writers can't adapt the net to avoid your code. The other problem is it's actually illegal to do that because then you're hacking the infected machine to install your code: which is criminal computer trespass (not that charges are filed often, but the threat is there).
Healthcare isn't the problem. The problem is most of my fellow Americans are fat lazy-asses. That's why costs are higher and lifespan is lower on average. Think about it, if your fellow countrymen were not at all concerned about their health and you were in shape with minimal healthcare costs, would you want someone to mandate that you help pay for everyone else?
He's right. The European Union (established by the Treaty of Maastricht on November 1, 1993) hasn't existed as long as the United States (July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence).
Far more countries than just the US declined to participate in the Climate Change issues. As for healthcare and the US climate policy, perhaps the US' view of these topics is different from your own? Just because their policies are different from what you'd want doesn't mean they don't make sense from a different perspective.
It doesn't bust it any more than having companies running their own domain DNS does. It puts more load on the root servers, but custom TLDs don't bust DNS any more than domains running custom DNS servers to host subdomains.
Btw, good job on posting that opinion appropriately: as a coward. :D
I disagree. The US put the majority of the work into establishing it, so why should they share control with anyone else? The tech has been spread world-wide, so there is absolutely no reason other communities can't develop their own network and route DNS requests accordingly similar to how the phone system works. It's just that everyone wants to piggy-back into the original system because it's the default, there's already so many people using it, and it'd be a ton of work to setup another system.
Nah, only part of every day. Too hard to check Slashdot while playing beer pong.
That was the case in 2005-2006, but that's not the case anymore. World breaking patches are the exception, not the rule, these days.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to help break the addiction, buddy.
So, you want to tax those people that make a meager living doing real labor like construction, landscaping, farming, and the like, all of which require heavy-duty vehicles? You stupid weanies think things through about as well as the politicians do. "We'll solve the world's problems by imposing our mindset and way of life on everyone" doesn't fix the world because too much relies on others who are willing and able to do things you can't or won't (dirty labor, violence, etc). Take your narrow view and fuck off.
And yes, I AM a tech-minded 1st worlder that programs for living. I still realize the need for blue-collar.
Link? ...or as the meme requires:
[Citation Needed]
I believe foobsr is referring to the number of people that feel entitled to one because they don't bother investing minimum maintenance to keep themselves from becoming a fat ass. If your "disability" is something like that, you don't "need" one and are not entitled to government assistance to get one.
And you have the right to your house, but not the right to use the parking on the public street. It's nice, yes, but it's not a right. Strangers have the same claim to park there that you do.
Except, despite all of this, they still exist in a trackable world. They live and have stuff delivered to addresses, they access information that leaves a data trail, and use identifiers which do the same. If they share anything, or a field observer notices a meeting then it gets tagged as a meeting and connection; then any activity at all is tracked back to a single node (bank account, address, person, phone number, etc) then you can link ALL connected nodes to that activity. Cash, disposables, and other "untrackables" still have temporary information: GPS on phone calls, messages intercepted with keywords or names, or phone numbers used for a material order. The info might not be permanently valid, but the connections it makes between nodes are.
As a white male it's not possible to claim "Hate Speech" in the US. It's a one-way street.
Never had it, or never experienced symptoms due to an immune system that squashes the bug before a symptom-causing response is necessary? unless you live in a bubble, I highly doubt you've never been immunized one way or the other.
No, he solved the middle class problem. The rich will be taxed to pay for the poor, but middle class will fall between the ability to afford it and the government program eligibility.