3.1% of the US adult population is in Jail, Prison, Probation or parole. 22% of those for drug offenses and over 50% for non violent crimes. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Double or even triple the rate of any other industrialized nation and dwarfing even totalitarian regimes like North Korea or Iran. We have some of the longest prison terms in the world for non-violent offenses. Or current prison population is the highest its been in US history and is over 5x the second highest peek in our history during the great depression. No, we're Nazi Germany... in the US the justice system is blind to your race... just not your wallet.
I have... and worse. My uncle was paralyzed from the neck down. He wasn't a pussy like the lot of you seem to be. He figured out how to light his cigarettes using a lighter from a grill, and would chain smoke while watching nascar. He was in all kinds of pain, in and out of the hospital for years. Grow a pair, you're supposed to try and LIVE. So fucking what if it hurts... LIFE hurts, every day... we work our way through it and go on. I might get some horrible disease... so what, fuck that disease. I'm not rolling over, I'm not dieing just because lifes not worth living in your opinion. Life is worth living, even in pain, and I'll do it.
#1. They don't want people hosting websites on their broadband connection #2. They don't want people hosting FTP servers on their broadband connection #3. Because service areas expand and shrink all the time. New subdivisions go in, routers get moved, equipment gets replaced. Static IPs make all this a pain. With Dynamic, they just unplug stuff, plug in new stuff, customers modem goes down for about 5seconds, comes back up and pulls a new IP. No call required. #4. Fragmentation. This is something that phone companies are very very used to. Say you own a block of phone numbers 555-555-0000 through 9999, if you're not using a certain amount of any 1000 block, another phone comapny can come in and buy it. It's a law or something. So if you have people that request specific numbers (everyone wants 1000, 1111, 1212, etc...) you end up with 5 customers in each thousand block... now another phone company wants that block and you have a mess... Same with IP blocks. Say you're handing otu static IPs... say an area gets a new competitor in it and you want to sell it off... but there are 5000 customers in there all with random IP addresses inside blocks that you own. Now you have to call them all and change them... yadda yadda...
Dynamic is best for just about every situation unless the user wants to host servers and webpages.
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When it's time for you to go, it's time for you to go. When it's time for me to go, I'm going out kicking and screaming with every bionic body part science has to offer. I don't care if it's "Natural" to die. I'm going to do my very best not to. We do not have to perish, science has the answers. Maybe it's a bit too early for us, but my kid... or my grand kid will likely live for a very... very long time... Yes, we're running out of room, but there's always room in the rest of the solar system. The meek shall inherit the earth, the brave shall inherit the stars. Have fun dieing.
That's actually a fact. There was a lawsuit, federal investigation, etc... happened in California, I forgot the name of the bank. It was on 60min some time back.
It's called scope creep. IT isn't all that much smarter than most of the workers in an organization, they're just a lot smarter than management. Management, for some odd reason, are the stupidest people in most companies. I think it must take a special kind of idiot to "go along" with upper management, so the best idiots get the best management positions. You mention to an idiot that it's "possible" to get their most favorite software onto a smartphone and the next thing you know you're the project lead on the next doomsday project: "In Q2 everything will change!!!" And you curse yourself for ever opening your mouth as you hear the iceberg scraping down the side of your career.
It's often argued (correctly in my opinion) that socialism inevitably leads to a totalitarian state. Read "The road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek for further info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
I am you. My company never hires the people it needs. Then people like me come along that have a lot of skills on the side but no certs... I get bored and write what they need. The problem is, people like us ARE the problem. We allow them to continue to not hire the right people and never get compensated ourselves. Not only that, if something goes wrong with it, it's YOUR fault. You'll end up supporting it forever, they'll never hire anyone that knows what they're doing and they'll be exasperated that you don't have the time to support the application you wrote 4 years ago in your off time and never got paid for.
Recently the company I work for implemented a new system that auto-archives your email after 2 weeks. You can go to the archive to view the mail, for up to 6 months. At 6 months it deletes the email. It may be saved elsewhere for a period before permanent deletion, I'm not sure. But I do know it gets irrecoverably destroyed at some point. You can not create a PST, and they've got services scanning the network and local hard drives for PSTs, then deleting them. Saving email in any way is a violation of our code of conduct. There's even a faq that poses the question "I found a print out of an email that is over 6 months old, I feel it is important, can I keep it? Answer: No, shred the document immediately."
The company didn't try to hide their reasons. They told us flat out it was for legal liability. People are a tad too cavalier in what they'll put in an email, and later, in court, email is treated like formal marching orders rather than the casual conversation it often is. There is even talk of doing away with work email all together, again for liability reasons. All "Marching orders" should come in the form of formal documentation. We have a chat system that can not be set to archive conversations that we're to use for the types of casual work talk we used to use email for.
From what the lawyers were telling me, industry wide legal advise is to get rid of email all together. They said a lot of companies are starting pilot projects to see how well their workers can do their jobs without it, and to get them used to the idea of not having it.
All your worries can be solved with the right enclosure. The USB connector will be as sturdy as you make it. For example, encase this entire board in resin... nothings coming off it. That's the simplest solution, and it might cause overheating, but if you sit down and think about it, there are a lot of other ways of making that connector more secure.
There is a difference, a very obvious difference. But your television most likely runs at 30fps, and your monitor at 60, if you're lucky. Get an old CRT capable of 200hrz, run some old 3D game like decent that a modern card would make easy work of so you can hit 200fps and marvel at the difference. It really does make a huge difference.
"ot to mention that bullets, shot or slugs shot into the sky will fall back to earth with approximately the same velocity they had when they left the muzzle of your gun"
No they wont. They leave the gun, travel upwards until gravity stops them... then gravity returns them to earth at their terminal velocity which is barely enough to leave a bruise if they hit you in just the right spot.
Now, if you fire the gun bellow a 45 degree angle so that it hits the ground before it's lost its forward momentum, then yes, you could kill someone. But that's not shooting it "up in the air" is it?
And finally, I was talking about a shotgun... with bird shot in it. You can catch it in your hand as it comes down. I've done it. It doesn't even sting.
How far above my property do I own? Because, as of right now, any "Flying machinery" within reach of my 12 gauge is fair game imo. I suspect DIY auto-turrents for under $100 will become more common additions to rooftops as well.
At a certain point the "atmosphere" has the density of lead... so you could literally stand on it. So your distinction is purely academic. You're the type of person that would, at a party, argue with everyone about weather a tomato were a fruit.
They recently raised our water bill by 30%. Their excuse was the success of water conservation efforts. They bill based on usage, and since usage went down and yet they had the same infrastructure to support they had to raise rates. I'm not shitting you, that really happened. I'd also like to mention at this point that I live next to one of the largest freshwater seas in the world. So the need for water conservation was rather questionable in the first place.
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Stop spreading your right-wing, capitalist 1% lies. iPhones work 30% better off of solar power and organic tomatoes cure cancer. It's a fact.
3.1% of the US adult population is in Jail, Prison, Probation or parole. 22% of those for drug offenses and over 50% for non violent crimes. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Double or even triple the rate of any other industrialized nation and dwarfing even totalitarian regimes like North Korea or Iran. We have some of the longest prison terms in the world for non-violent offenses. Or current prison population is the highest its been in US history and is over 5x the second highest peek in our history during the great depression. No, we're Nazi Germany... in the US the justice system is blind to your race... just not your wallet.
Taxes now, or taxes 10 years from now, it's really irrelevant. It gets paid for, by me, eventually.
OR... The US could just stay the hell out of it and cut taxes by $500billion. Why does everyone always forget that option?
I have... and worse. My uncle was paralyzed from the neck down. He wasn't a pussy like the lot of you seem to be. He figured out how to light his cigarettes using a lighter from a grill, and would chain smoke while watching nascar. He was in all kinds of pain, in and out of the hospital for years. Grow a pair, you're supposed to try and LIVE. So fucking what if it hurts... LIFE hurts, every day... we work our way through it and go on. I might get some horrible disease... so what, fuck that disease. I'm not rolling over, I'm not dieing just because lifes not worth living in your opinion. Life is worth living, even in pain, and I'll do it.
I play fantasy rpgs all time, yet, for some reason I feel unprepared for a sword fight...
#1. They don't want people hosting websites on their broadband connection
#2. They don't want people hosting FTP servers on their broadband connection
#3. Because service areas expand and shrink all the time. New subdivisions go in, routers get moved, equipment gets replaced. Static IPs make all this a pain. With Dynamic, they just unplug stuff, plug in new stuff, customers modem goes down for about 5seconds, comes back up and pulls a new IP. No call required.
#4. Fragmentation. This is something that phone companies are very very used to. Say you own a block of phone numbers 555-555-0000 through 9999, if you're not using a certain amount of any 1000 block, another phone comapny can come in and buy it. It's a law or something. So if you have people that request specific numbers (everyone wants 1000, 1111, 1212, etc...) you end up with 5 customers in each thousand block... now another phone company wants that block and you have a mess... Same with IP blocks. Say you're handing otu static IPs... say an area gets a new competitor in it and you want to sell it off... but there are 5000 customers in there all with random IP addresses inside blocks that you own. Now you have to call them all and change them... yadda yadda...
Dynamic is best for just about every situation unless the user wants to host servers and webpages.
When it's time for you to go, it's time for you to go. When it's time for me to go, I'm going out kicking and screaming with every bionic body part science has to offer. I don't care if it's "Natural" to die. I'm going to do my very best not to. We do not have to perish, science has the answers. Maybe it's a bit too early for us, but my kid... or my grand kid will likely live for a very... very long time... Yes, we're running out of room, but there's always room in the rest of the solar system. The meek shall inherit the earth, the brave shall inherit the stars. Have fun dieing.
Um... I don't think Monsanto is in the least bit worried about Organic food.
That's actually a fact. There was a lawsuit, federal investigation, etc... happened in California, I forgot the name of the bank. It was on 60min some time back.
I think the more apt comparison would be, vegetables get pesticides. And yes, even organic food get pesticides.
It's called scope creep. IT isn't all that much smarter than most of the workers in an organization, they're just a lot smarter than management. Management, for some odd reason, are the stupidest people in most companies. I think it must take a special kind of idiot to "go along" with upper management, so the best idiots get the best management positions. You mention to an idiot that it's "possible" to get their most favorite software onto a smartphone and the next thing you know you're the project lead on the next doomsday project: "In Q2 everything will change!!!" And you curse yourself for ever opening your mouth as you hear the iceberg scraping down the side of your career.
It's often argued (correctly in my opinion) that socialism inevitably leads to a totalitarian state. Read "The road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek for further info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
I am you. My company never hires the people it needs. Then people like me come along that have a lot of skills on the side but no certs... I get bored and write what they need. The problem is, people like us ARE the problem. We allow them to continue to not hire the right people and never get compensated ourselves. Not only that, if something goes wrong with it, it's YOUR fault. You'll end up supporting it forever, they'll never hire anyone that knows what they're doing and they'll be exasperated that you don't have the time to support the application you wrote 4 years ago in your off time and never got paid for.
Recently the company I work for implemented a new system that auto-archives your email after 2 weeks. You can go to the archive to view the mail, for up to 6 months. At 6 months it deletes the email. It may be saved elsewhere for a period before permanent deletion, I'm not sure. But I do know it gets irrecoverably destroyed at some point. You can not create a PST, and they've got services scanning the network and local hard drives for PSTs, then deleting them. Saving email in any way is a violation of our code of conduct. There's even a faq that poses the question "I found a print out of an email that is over 6 months old, I feel it is important, can I keep it? Answer: No, shred the document immediately."
The company didn't try to hide their reasons. They told us flat out it was for legal liability. People are a tad too cavalier in what they'll put in an email, and later, in court, email is treated like formal marching orders rather than the casual conversation it often is. There is even talk of doing away with work email all together, again for liability reasons. All "Marching orders" should come in the form of formal documentation. We have a chat system that can not be set to archive conversations that we're to use for the types of casual work talk we used to use email for.
From what the lawyers were telling me, industry wide legal advise is to get rid of email all together. They said a lot of companies are starting pilot projects to see how well their workers can do their jobs without it, and to get them used to the idea of not having it.
All your worries can be solved with the right enclosure. The USB connector will be as sturdy as you make it. For example, encase this entire board in resin... nothings coming off it. That's the simplest solution, and it might cause overheating, but if you sit down and think about it, there are a lot of other ways of making that connector more secure.
Yes you can. I've seen a machine that does it.
There is a difference, a very obvious difference. But your television most likely runs at 30fps, and your monitor at 60, if you're lucky. Get an old CRT capable of 200hrz, run some old 3D game like decent that a modern card would make easy work of so you can hit 200fps and marvel at the difference. It really does make a huge difference.
"ot to mention that bullets, shot or slugs shot into the sky will fall back to earth with approximately the same velocity they had when they left the muzzle of your gun"
No they wont. They leave the gun, travel upwards until gravity stops them... then gravity returns them to earth at their terminal velocity which is barely enough to leave a bruise if they hit you in just the right spot.
Now, if you fire the gun bellow a 45 degree angle so that it hits the ground before it's lost its forward momentum, then yes, you could kill someone. But that's not shooting it "up in the air" is it?
And finally, I was talking about a shotgun... with bird shot in it. You can catch it in your hand as it comes down. I've done it. It doesn't even sting.
I'd argue that point.
You cant fire a gun inside city limits unless its at an intruder... So I'd say a surveillance drone would count as an intruder.
How far above my property do I own? Because, as of right now, any "Flying machinery" within reach of my 12 gauge is fair game imo. I suspect DIY auto-turrents for under $100 will become more common additions to rooftops as well.
At a certain point the "atmosphere" has the density of lead... so you could literally stand on it. So your distinction is purely academic. You're the type of person that would, at a party, argue with everyone about weather a tomato were a fruit.
They recently raised our water bill by 30%. Their excuse was the success of water conservation efforts. They bill based on usage, and since usage went down and yet they had the same infrastructure to support they had to raise rates. I'm not shitting you, that really happened. I'd also like to mention at this point that I live next to one of the largest freshwater seas in the world. So the need for water conservation was rather questionable in the first place.
Some bigots said that, not God. Unfortunately for us, God lets us be jerks... free will and all.