Well taxes are your goddamn phone bill, you do not argue against paying your bills, do you?
Phone bill huh? I like this analogy, let's roll with it. Let's say that you're America and you're paying $100.00 a month for your phone bill. The phone itself sends and receives phone calls with an adequate level of service, holds a charge all day long and it's nothing that you can't afford so you should be happy with your service right? But now you look across the street to your neighbor who is paying $115.00 a month for a phone that does everything yours does plus high speed internet, video chat, free video games, unlimited talk time and a battery that lasts for a full week. You would obviously want to switch to his phone service but they don't service your side of the street. You could move, but that would be a huge financial investment, a great personal risk, an inconvenience to your family and you would miss your friends on this side of the street. So you call up your phone company and ask them what the big deal is, why are you getting ripped off and all you hear back is how great your call quality is and how your neighbor has such an inferior service that he is basically living in a mud shack. Despite the obvious bullshit you'd be wasting your time arguing with this drone, so you ask about their internet service only to to be told that your provider doesn't offer even basic service because somebodies grandma told them once that it was a sin. You ask about picture messages but they don't offer that either because it might offend some guy named Burt who never leaves his Mothers basement. You ask about the free video games and the phone company calls you a degenerate pirate with a false sense of entitlement who is just trying to get for free stuff. To top it all off, there is a group of people in the company who are trying to take away your phone charger because some jackass plugged it in wrong and it started a fire. The only other service on your side of the street is a subsidiary of your current provider. You could look for a way to change this but your Home Owners Association won't allow people to vote on it because they don't like change. So yes, I'm going to bitch about my "phone bill" because it's the only thing I can do.
I really like this analogy, I've basically explained what every American goes through politically between the ages of 18 to 25. Things could be better, but at the end of the day I'm still happy enough with the service to pay for it.
Quantum computing is next to useless if you're just computing elementary algebra because the answer is definitively known. As a matter of fact, I thought they still offload these kinds of operations to co-processors because they are still either incapable or dramatically inferior at doing them. On the other hand, if you're doing something more involved like mapping a function on a chart, then having the entire range of answers "instantly" available is far more useful. Imagine not having to worry about stack heap exhaustion, or recursion depth limit BS; you would have code that actually did what you tell it to without having to resort to hackish ad-hoc douche-baggary with a full paragraph of comments begging your successor for their forgiveness. Of course we're knocking our selves back to 1975 in terms of programming languages and destroying every advancement we've ever made in encryption by doing all of this, but quantum entanglement should make encryption obsolete anyway.
Well, maybe they should have anticipated encryption and devised a way to obtain the encryption keys (surveillance, keylogger, whatever).
That would require a warrant (because this isn't a three letter agency prosecuting the defendant). At the point that you have enough evidence for a warrant, you would have enough for a conviction so the only reason for going through that much trouble would be if the case was part of a larger operation which it doesn't appear to be. You're right though, one way or another they didn't have enough evidence to move on an arrest and they should have put more work into it. This case is a perfect example of what I've been saying about the American judicial system for years; our system works fairly well for its size, the trouble is that the people in charge of it right now are complete screw ups who think that they can half ass a case like this and get away with it. You can't be in contempt of court unless you're already in court to begin with, and the article says that the defendant (or victim at this point) was never formally charged with anything. So the most they could hit this guy with would be interfering with a judicial proceedings (even that would be a stretch) which doesn't carry the same potentially indefinite penalty. They clearly went this route so that they could circumvent the need for a jury and should be prosecuted for that.
I love how you Generation X and Baby Boomer monkeys always blame a lack of knowledge and motivation in millennial's for problems that are clearly a result of your generations unwillingness to pay for anything or care about anyone else. Your entire state has been on the verge of bankruptcy because for the past two generations your idea of financial planning has been to die before the bill is due. So now you fall back on this mantra about millennial's being useless and lazy because we won't bend over backwards to accommodate you worthless parasites. Go ahead and keep repeating it to yourself if it makes you feel better. But those kids you were preaching to ten years ago are old enough now to realize that your just a generation full of deadbeats and thieves trying to justify your own greed while downplaying the fact that every issue that we face for the next 50 years will be because of your apathy and outright nihilism. Where was this need for preparation 20 years ago when we were in school and the economy was riding on two or three bubbles at the same time? Let me guess, it was too expensive and too far away to worry about.
You want to talk about incompetence? It never occurred to anyone in either of your generations to use that precious sunlight of yours to desalinize any part of the giant body of water sitting south-west of your wonderful city. Just like any other vermin, instead of producing what you need with the resources on hand, your solution is to steal it away from another location. Because in your rodent like mind that's how the world has always worked.
Apple builds themselves a walled garden, then utterly failed to prevent a fire from breaking out on the inside. This my friends is sweet poetic justice. A modern OS cannot exist in isolation like these hipster wannabes like to think it can. Apple is not omnipotent and it does not know what is best for you. Every informed Mac user I have ever met bought their system for the same reason, they don't want to take responsibility for their own security. Well guess what, that isn't possible and it never actually was.
You're dead wrong on that account. My employer pays for my time. I still own the knowledge and skill that I utilize in order to make that time worth anything. Just like when you hire a plumber, you don't own the tools that he brings to the job even though they are intrinsic to his employment.
Have you ever seen those two overlapping diamonds at the end of the address bar when you visit a site like Gmail? That's the desktop push notification feature that they are talking about, or at least it's the predecessor of it. So, yes you are correct in the sense that if you are stupid enough to authorize an spam service to push notifications to your desktop then you will receive these advertisements. Let's call this digital evolution, if you can't be bothered to read something before agreeing to it, then either deal with the consequences of your own ineptitude or put down the computer and grab a coloring book.
Now from an effort standpoint, I fail to see how this has any kind of an advantage over a traditional RSS stream. What does this accomplish other than obfuscating the delivery mechanism and turning a web browser into something that it's not?
Although there is a facsimile of technical sub-reddits, most of that site is just mindless garbage so there really isn't a position to defend with any real facts. There used to be a very different definition for the "Reddit Effect"; it was that the fastest to digest and most pedestrian content would be promoted to the front page the fastest whereas any technically involved content will taper off into obscurity. Someone appears to have hijacked the term, but this hasn't changed at all. People on that site don't want to "discuss" anything, they want a place where they can go to feel popular or accepted, regardless of any actual social ability. So posts and comments are geared to what the hivemind will upvote, which if you apply the previously mentioned theory, is nothing ever thought provoking or informative.
Argh! Supercapacitors are special because of their resistance to leakage and a high energy density. They actually have a lower voltage so they discharge slower, are heavier AND more expensive than regular electrolytic or ceramic capacitors making them exactly the WRONG choice for the purpose of electrocuting someone based on every possible consideration. What you want is an electrolytic capacitor in series with the power supply and a pull-up resistor set in parallel with the resistor going to ground. Go back to the eighth grade you AC retard!
More cities should take a page from Buffalo New York's idea to reduce driving downtown. First, you take the world's most useless mass transit company and you populate it exclusively with degenerate idiots who don't know a schedule from the skid marks on their uniform. You then make it mandatory that they be constantly ever present as an impediment to traffic, yet always late picking up anyone at the designated bus stops by offsetting the actual bus pickup times from the published schedule by roughly fifteen minutes. Complement this with a train system that is a standalone joke all by itself: ( http://metro.nfta.com/Routes/p... ) That crooked line on the right side of page two is the entire transit line, it's less than ten miles total. Once you get downtown, you'll want to drop rotaries at every other intersection all of them bracketed by traffic lights and some of them with traffic lights actually inside them (I wish I was making that part up). Allow all commercial parking lots to collude and fix prices based on locally occurring events and make sure that every other street is a single lane one way only. Oh remember that transit company from before? We're going to allow them to hire a representative of these same parking companies as a C level employee because what the hell does "conflict of interest" really mean anyway? To top it all off, just in case some individual has the patience of a saint, you'll want to help yourself to a generous portion of government housing right in the middle of everything to make damn sure that the infrastructure is inadequate for the population for the population density. And to ensure a constant stream of harassment from cracked out bums at every corner, why not place two thirds of the cities methadone clinics right there next to your commercially viable property along the main traffic routes and within stumbling distance of everything that anyone might want to go to. This city needs a reset button.
Oh I completely agree. But what I was pointing out is that the idea of a moving goal post is flawed because it assumes that the free market has any interest in allowing existing entities to survive. Competition prevents the positive feedback loop that you had mentioned which in turn actually does allow us to set the minimum wage based on a living standard, at least at a small scale. You're right in that companies with hundreds of employees would see a much larger increase in labor costs. But if their market can't absorb the increase in cost then maybe several smaller businesses, which are easier to manage, should supply that market instead. The now displaced CEO will move on and either find a job at another large company that can support his demands, or they will take a job at one of the smaller entities at a significant pay cut. Demand begets supply and anything that is too important to lose and yet too expensive to support should be nationalized.
There is no efficiency to be gained with these megalithic corporations running everything, and in fact the exact opposite is demonstrably true. Small to medium business with cut-throat competition is the only stable way to go.
People who make the "Moving goal post" argument always ignore the huge wage discrepancy in the corporate world. Keep in mind that people are the most expensive part of running any business. At $10 an hour an employee is making just over $20K a year while the CEO is making $250K+ every year. Now you're thinking that the CEO isn't going to take a pay cut due to raising wages, he'll just raise the prices of his goods and services as he is free to do so. But now I come in and am willing to perform the same service at a competing company but I am only taking $100K a year salary. All other things being the same, this gives me a huge economic advantage over the established competition. Either I offer my services at a much lower rate, I hire more people and increase my capacity or I pay my employee's better and draw the competitions experienced talent away from them. Heck, I could to do all three with that much of a gap and I'd still win the market! The point is that the salary of the higher ups is also a component that drives the cost of doing business which drives up the costs of the goods and services that they provide but it does not drive up the value. Once the price of a good or service spills over a certain breaking point, competition moves in and corrects the discrepancy.
tl;dr: To answer your question, you temper inflation by encouraging competition and eliminating artificial barriers to entry in markets.
If you are wrong the best case scenario is that you go to jail for assault or worse and that an innocent person gets hurt or killed.
Assualt is the threat of violence. Discharging a firearm at someone is attempted murder whether or not you hit them if it can be reasonably assumed that your intent was to hit them. Hell, even pointing a firearm at someone can be seen as attempted murder if it can be assumed that a third party's intervention is why you never fired. Sorry for the pedantry but I agree with you and I think this rather important fact should be emphasised to people in order to prevent the "idiot cowboys" that you are criticising in your post.
Police officers who are experienced in dealing with hostile and sometimes armed people make that mistake rather often. You lack the training and experience they have so what makes you think you will be any more successful in differentiating a real threat from an imagined one?
Have you ever actually spoken to a police officer when they were out of uniform? I mean like sat down and had a beer with them? My guess would be no, because police don't do that with civilians. They don't like to leave their social echo chambers where they can be constantly reassured that their jaded outlook toward the rest of the human race is valid. Police are overworked and isolated from the rest of their community, they constantly deal with the worst parts of our society and that makes them see the worst in the people that they meet. This leaves them in a mental state that is no better equipped to deal with these situations then an untrained yet rational person. Normally I think of psychology as a psudo-science, but then papers like these make me think that there might be something there: http://www.apa.org/science/abo...
I'd like to point out that Net Neutrality is specifically NOT about an "internet fast-lane" because that already exists. Not being able to prioritise packets based on content would obliterate any ability to use VoIP and destroy the only reason to buy business class internet service. I don't care that some brain-dead dreg squatting around in his underwear wants to watch his cat videos and his hentai instantaneously. Being able to teleconference and colaborate with a client\coworker [b]IS[/b] more important in literally every way conceivable than their binge watching bullshit.
I'm all for Net Neutrality as it stands. You should not be able to charge content providers more for access to or the availability of their service (even though they do it anyway by tieing upload and download speed together in tiered bundles which was somehow missed by all of these slacktivist jokers). But can you even imagine what kind of shit storm would be caused if they broke RTP because of some sense of entitlement?
Again with the bird thing. The fact that birds die because of windmills isn't a design flaw of the mill. It's because these birds are dumber than a bag of hammers. These are the same animals that die from flying face first into windows on buildings. So we don't build them on nature preserves or around endangered species, that is a perfectly reasonable stance to take and it still leaves plenty of places on this planet where they could go. Meanwhile we can either work on making the blades more visible to birds (honestly who ever thought that making them "blend in with the skyline" would make them less of an eyesore needs to have his vision checked again), or we can consider this an experiment in evolution.
Regarding the alternatives to plastics; the increase in demand for the agricultural ingredient would cause an increase in its production. This would shift the demand for petroleum products from plastic production to fertilizer production and further contribute to soil depletion and groundwater contamination from runoff with the end result being an inferior plastic-like product. So no, there aren't any ways to produce plastic products that would yield a net positive result in the end. Not yet anyway.
Microsoft should adopt the same model.but it would require a herculean effort to get their products up to the same standard of quality.
What, you mean authenticating applications based on a central certification authority? Kind of like what this does: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . Or maybe you mean not allowing the installation of any applications that don't posses a preapproved certificate, in THAT case what you want is this feature over here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . God forbid you would have to learn how to manage your own certificate chains, afterall the documentation is so difficult to find: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . The only thing missing is the paywall, which isn't really missing since you can pay for a third party authority to verify your certificate. But as we can see by the premise of this article that isn't actually a deterrent is it?
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is the same as it has always been. Apple forces you to follow their policies, Microsoft forces you to live with the consequences of the policies you wrote yourself.
I was thinking a gimballed green gas jet at the bottom of the chassis for a nice vertical boost to get the vehicle out of the way. I wonder if you'd be able to recover a stable flight path after that though? This is fun, it's like a civilian arms race.
God damn that's myopic. Laptops were a niche market until about 10 years ago because the standard model for an office was built around a desktop with only a few edge cases receiving the portability of a laptop. Now that the prices have dropped and people have seen the flexibility that procuring laptops for everyone provides, always connected, being able to work from home when you took the day off to take care of your sick kid or spouse; offices and people are buying laptops more than desktops. Cell phones were a niche market until the price went down and people saw that it was stupid to own a landline. It's not simplicity or convenience that determines market success, at least not in America. It's utility, price and the appearance of productivity. Think "Guns and Butter" because unlike your sophomoric comment, someone didn't just make that up on the spot.
If Morocco is just across from Spain, why would Spain pay for the energy (i.e. cost of production, plus payoff of initial outlay, plus transportation, plus the company profits) rather than just build their own?
Firstly, Spain does have their own; one of their chief exports is renewable power into Europe. What Spain will probably do is take advantage of it's proximity to Morocco to establish a connection into their power grid for cheap. From there, let's say that Spain sells power to its own people for say 10 cents a KWH (completely made up figures) and it can buy power from Morocco for 8 cents a KWH (even if it's only during peak usage to keep their own equipment running at a higher efficiency) and sell to the rest of Europe for 12 cents a KWH, then it makes sense to buy from Morocco and increase their supply. With roughly 1/10th the per capita GDP of Spain and a similar GINI index rating, Morocco has an economic advantage over Spain in the labor market so it isn't hard to imagine that they can produce the same amount of power cheaper. Also, the only realistic route to sell power to Europe from Morocco will need to go through Spain, so if they wanted to be complete dicks about it Spain could leverage that in negotiations as well. Add into account any existing contracts\treaties that the other European countries have with Spain to buy power and it starts to look like the only outcome that makes any sense.
Both nations are part of Interpol which was established for exactly this purpose. If they have a problem with the established organization then they need to reform that intermediary body for the betterment of all nations involved. That way it's not just the US you gain better cooperation with, but the other 188 countries as well. If you can't get the other member nations to agree with your proposals, then maybe your ideas aren't that great after all. This "alternative" of sidestepping established practices and micromanaging jurisdictional treaties between every god damn nation under the sun, just because you can't stand criticism from your peers, is nothing short of ridiculous.
Or maybe this has more to do with Interpol's charter forbidding their intervention in political matters #tinfoilhat.
Bwhahahaha!!! You actually call your government is corrupt? Check out the Uber situation in the state of New York. Uber and Lyft are banned from the entire state of NY except for New York City.... I dare anyone to explain the logic of that situation. Hint: there is no logic. Cuomo is just a corrupt bastard who panders to NYC and sells out the rest of the state.
I do appreciate what you are trying to do, my lack of detail into the specific scenario is because I wasn't actually looking for tech support. The issue I was referring to in my rant is a sync issue with exchange that I have seen a thousand and one times on Scalix, Zimbra squirrelmail and a half a dozen other clients. A corrupted message gets pulled down and either has an invalid character in the worst possible place, or a section of code is larger than it reports to be or something else along those lines that essentially breaks the standard on that message. The end result is that the mail client stops syncing the rest of the mail for that user. The solution is universally to delete the corrupted message and restart the syncing process. But this goddamn platform doesn't give me the Emails message ID in a human readable format and every other mail client for these users works just fine (in other words ignores the problem) so I can't get that information from another vector. So as you can see the stack trace could have been useful if I knew what register was holding the message ID, or pointer to it, and how it was encoded and yadda yadda yadda. But since I have none of that information it only serves to tell me what I already know, that an exception was thrown for some reason and the thread was killed. This is the key difference between an error message and a crash report, the intended audience.
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Well taxes are your goddamn phone bill, you do not argue against paying your bills, do you?
Phone bill huh? I like this analogy, let's roll with it. Let's say that you're America and you're paying $100.00 a month for your phone bill. The phone itself sends and receives phone calls with an adequate level of service, holds a charge all day long and it's nothing that you can't afford so you should be happy with your service right? But now you look across the street to your neighbor who is paying $115.00 a month for a phone that does everything yours does plus high speed internet, video chat, free video games, unlimited talk time and a battery that lasts for a full week. You would obviously want to switch to his phone service but they don't service your side of the street. You could move, but that would be a huge financial investment, a great personal risk, an inconvenience to your family and you would miss your friends on this side of the street. So you call up your phone company and ask them what the big deal is, why are you getting ripped off and all you hear back is how great your call quality is and how your neighbor has such an inferior service that he is basically living in a mud shack. Despite the obvious bullshit you'd be wasting your time arguing with this drone, so you ask about their internet service only to to be told that your provider doesn't offer even basic service because somebodies grandma told them once that it was a sin. You ask about picture messages but they don't offer that either because it might offend some guy named Burt who never leaves his Mothers basement. You ask about the free video games and the phone company calls you a degenerate pirate with a false sense of entitlement who is just trying to get for free stuff. To top it all off, there is a group of people in the company who are trying to take away your phone charger because some jackass plugged it in wrong and it started a fire. The only other service on your side of the street is a subsidiary of your current provider. You could look for a way to change this but your Home Owners Association won't allow people to vote on it because they don't like change. So yes, I'm going to bitch about my "phone bill" because it's the only thing I can do.
I really like this analogy, I've basically explained what every American goes through politically between the ages of 18 to 25. Things could be better, but at the end of the day I'm still happy enough with the service to pay for it.
Quantum computing is next to useless if you're just computing elementary algebra because the answer is definitively known. As a matter of fact, I thought they still offload these kinds of operations to co-processors because they are still either incapable or dramatically inferior at doing them. On the other hand, if you're doing something more involved like mapping a function on a chart, then having the entire range of answers "instantly" available is far more useful. Imagine not having to worry about stack heap exhaustion, or recursion depth limit BS; you would have code that actually did what you tell it to without having to resort to hackish ad-hoc douche-baggary with a full paragraph of comments begging your successor for their forgiveness. Of course we're knocking our selves back to 1975 in terms of programming languages and destroying every advancement we've ever made in encryption by doing all of this, but quantum entanglement should make encryption obsolete anyway.
Well, maybe they should have anticipated encryption and devised a way to obtain the encryption keys (surveillance, keylogger, whatever).
That would require a warrant (because this isn't a three letter agency prosecuting the defendant). At the point that you have enough evidence for a warrant, you would have enough for a conviction so the only reason for going through that much trouble would be if the case was part of a larger operation which it doesn't appear to be. You're right though, one way or another they didn't have enough evidence to move on an arrest and they should have put more work into it. This case is a perfect example of what I've been saying about the American judicial system for years; our system works fairly well for its size, the trouble is that the people in charge of it right now are complete screw ups who think that they can half ass a case like this and get away with it. You can't be in contempt of court unless you're already in court to begin with, and the article says that the defendant (or victim at this point) was never formally charged with anything. So the most they could hit this guy with would be interfering with a judicial proceedings (even that would be a stretch) which doesn't carry the same potentially indefinite penalty. They clearly went this route so that they could circumvent the need for a jury and should be prosecuted for that.
I love how you Generation X and Baby Boomer monkeys always blame a lack of knowledge and motivation in millennial's for problems that are clearly a result of your generations unwillingness to pay for anything or care about anyone else. Your entire state has been on the verge of bankruptcy because for the past two generations your idea of financial planning has been to die before the bill is due. So now you fall back on this mantra about millennial's being useless and lazy because we won't bend over backwards to accommodate you worthless parasites. Go ahead and keep repeating it to yourself if it makes you feel better. But those kids you were preaching to ten years ago are old enough now to realize that your just a generation full of deadbeats and thieves trying to justify your own greed while downplaying the fact that every issue that we face for the next 50 years will be because of your apathy and outright nihilism. Where was this need for preparation 20 years ago when we were in school and the economy was riding on two or three bubbles at the same time? Let me guess, it was too expensive and too far away to worry about.
You want to talk about incompetence? It never occurred to anyone in either of your generations to use that precious sunlight of yours to desalinize any part of the giant body of water sitting south-west of your wonderful city. Just like any other vermin, instead of producing what you need with the resources on hand, your solution is to steal it away from another location. Because in your rodent like mind that's how the world has always worked.
Apple builds themselves a walled garden, then utterly failed to prevent a fire from breaking out on the inside. This my friends is sweet poetic justice. A modern OS cannot exist in isolation like these hipster wannabes like to think it can. Apple is not omnipotent and it does not know what is best for you. Every informed Mac user I have ever met bought their system for the same reason, they don't want to take responsibility for their own security. Well guess what, that isn't possible and it never actually was.
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Citation: https://rockhall.com/inductees...
You're dead wrong on that account. My employer pays for my time. I still own the knowledge and skill that I utilize in order to make that time worth anything. Just like when you hire a plumber, you don't own the tools that he brings to the job even though they are intrinsic to his employment.
Have you ever seen those two overlapping diamonds at the end of the address bar when you visit a site like Gmail? That's the desktop push notification feature that they are talking about, or at least it's the predecessor of it. So, yes you are correct in the sense that if you are stupid enough to authorize an spam service to push notifications to your desktop then you will receive these advertisements. Let's call this digital evolution, if you can't be bothered to read something before agreeing to it, then either deal with the consequences of your own ineptitude or put down the computer and grab a coloring book.
Now from an effort standpoint, I fail to see how this has any kind of an advantage over a traditional RSS stream. What does this accomplish other than obfuscating the delivery mechanism and turning a web browser into something that it's not?
Although there is a facsimile of technical sub-reddits, most of that site is just mindless garbage so there really isn't a position to defend with any real facts. There used to be a very different definition for the "Reddit Effect"; it was that the fastest to digest and most pedestrian content would be promoted to the front page the fastest whereas any technically involved content will taper off into obscurity. Someone appears to have hijacked the term, but this hasn't changed at all. People on that site don't want to "discuss" anything, they want a place where they can go to feel popular or accepted, regardless of any actual social ability. So posts and comments are geared to what the hivemind will upvote, which if you apply the previously mentioned theory, is nothing ever thought provoking or informative.
I would imagine demonstrating it scientifically would be hard to do because it's so subjective.
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Look up super capacitors.
Argh! Supercapacitors are special because of their resistance to leakage and a high energy density. They actually have a lower voltage so they discharge slower, are heavier AND more expensive than regular electrolytic or ceramic capacitors making them exactly the WRONG choice for the purpose of electrocuting someone based on every possible consideration. What you want is an electrolytic capacitor in series with the power supply and a pull-up resistor set in parallel with the resistor going to ground. Go back to the eighth grade you AC retard!
More cities should take a page from Buffalo New York's idea to reduce driving downtown. First, you take the world's most useless mass transit company and you populate it exclusively with degenerate idiots who don't know a schedule from the skid marks on their uniform. You then make it mandatory that they be constantly ever present as an impediment to traffic, yet always late picking up anyone at the designated bus stops by offsetting the actual bus pickup times from the published schedule by roughly fifteen minutes. Complement this with a train system that is a standalone joke all by itself: ( http://metro.nfta.com/Routes/p... ) That crooked line on the right side of page two is the entire transit line, it's less than ten miles total. Once you get downtown, you'll want to drop rotaries at every other intersection all of them bracketed by traffic lights and some of them with traffic lights actually inside them (I wish I was making that part up). Allow all commercial parking lots to collude and fix prices based on locally occurring events and make sure that every other street is a single lane one way only. Oh remember that transit company from before? We're going to allow them to hire a representative of these same parking companies as a C level employee because what the hell does "conflict of interest" really mean anyway? To top it all off, just in case some individual has the patience of a saint, you'll want to help yourself to a generous portion of government housing right in the middle of everything to make damn sure that the infrastructure is inadequate for the population for the population density. And to ensure a constant stream of harassment from cracked out bums at every corner, why not place two thirds of the cities methadone clinics right there next to your commercially viable property along the main traffic routes and within stumbling distance of everything that anyone might want to go to. This city needs a reset button.
Oh I completely agree. But what I was pointing out is that the idea of a moving goal post is flawed because it assumes that the free market has any interest in allowing existing entities to survive. Competition prevents the positive feedback loop that you had mentioned which in turn actually does allow us to set the minimum wage based on a living standard, at least at a small scale. You're right in that companies with hundreds of employees would see a much larger increase in labor costs. But if their market can't absorb the increase in cost then maybe several smaller businesses, which are easier to manage, should supply that market instead. The now displaced CEO will move on and either find a job at another large company that can support his demands, or they will take a job at one of the smaller entities at a significant pay cut. Demand begets supply and anything that is too important to lose and yet too expensive to support should be nationalized.
There is no efficiency to be gained with these megalithic corporations running everything, and in fact the exact opposite is demonstrably true. Small to medium business with cut-throat competition is the only stable way to go.
People who make the "Moving goal post" argument always ignore the huge wage discrepancy in the corporate world. Keep in mind that people are the most expensive part of running any business. At $10 an hour an employee is making just over $20K a year while the CEO is making $250K+ every year. Now you're thinking that the CEO isn't going to take a pay cut due to raising wages, he'll just raise the prices of his goods and services as he is free to do so. But now I come in and am willing to perform the same service at a competing company but I am only taking $100K a year salary. All other things being the same, this gives me a huge economic advantage over the established competition. Either I offer my services at a much lower rate, I hire more people and increase my capacity or I pay my employee's better and draw the competitions experienced talent away from them. Heck, I could to do all three with that much of a gap and I'd still win the market! The point is that the salary of the higher ups is also a component that drives the cost of doing business which drives up the costs of the goods and services that they provide but it does not drive up the value. Once the price of a good or service spills over a certain breaking point, competition moves in and corrects the discrepancy.
tl;dr: To answer your question, you temper inflation by encouraging competition and eliminating artificial barriers to entry in markets.
If you are wrong the best case scenario is that you go to jail for assault or worse and that an innocent person gets hurt or killed.
Assualt is the threat of violence. Discharging a firearm at someone is attempted murder whether or not you hit them if it can be reasonably assumed that your intent was to hit them. Hell, even pointing a firearm at someone can be seen as attempted murder if it can be assumed that a third party's intervention is why you never fired. Sorry for the pedantry but I agree with you and I think this rather important fact should be emphasised to people in order to prevent the "idiot cowboys" that you are criticising in your post.
Police officers who are experienced in dealing with hostile and sometimes armed people make that mistake rather often. You lack the training and experience they have so what makes you think you will be any more successful in differentiating a real threat from an imagined one?
Have you ever actually spoken to a police officer when they were out of uniform? I mean like sat down and had a beer with them? My guess would be no, because police don't do that with civilians. They don't like to leave their social echo chambers where they can be constantly reassured that their jaded outlook toward the rest of the human race is valid. Police are overworked and isolated from the rest of their community, they constantly deal with the worst parts of our society and that makes them see the worst in the people that they meet. This leaves them in a mental state that is no better equipped to deal with these situations then an untrained yet rational person. Normally I think of psychology as a psudo-science, but then papers like these make me think that there might be something there: http://www.apa.org/science/abo...
I'd like to point out that Net Neutrality is specifically NOT about an "internet fast-lane" because that already exists. Not being able to prioritise packets based on content would obliterate any ability to use VoIP and destroy the only reason to buy business class internet service. I don't care that some brain-dead dreg squatting around in his underwear wants to watch his cat videos and his hentai instantaneously. Being able to teleconference and colaborate with a client\coworker [b]IS[/b] more important in literally every way conceivable than their binge watching bullshit.
I'm all for Net Neutrality as it stands. You should not be able to charge content providers more for access to or the availability of their service (even though they do it anyway by tieing upload and download speed together in tiered bundles which was somehow missed by all of these slacktivist jokers). But can you even imagine what kind of shit storm would be caused if they broke RTP because of some sense of entitlement?
Again with the bird thing. The fact that birds die because of windmills isn't a design flaw of the mill. It's because these birds are dumber than a bag of hammers. These are the same animals that die from flying face first into windows on buildings. So we don't build them on nature preserves or around endangered species, that is a perfectly reasonable stance to take and it still leaves plenty of places on this planet where they could go. Meanwhile we can either work on making the blades more visible to birds (honestly who ever thought that making them "blend in with the skyline" would make them less of an eyesore needs to have his vision checked again), or we can consider this an experiment in evolution.
Regarding the alternatives to plastics; the increase in demand for the agricultural ingredient would cause an increase in its production. This would shift the demand for petroleum products from plastic production to fertilizer production and further contribute to soil depletion and groundwater contamination from runoff with the end result being an inferior plastic-like product. So no, there aren't any ways to produce plastic products that would yield a net positive result in the end. Not yet anyway.
Microsoft should adopt the same model.but it would require a herculean effort to get their products up to the same standard of quality.
What, you mean authenticating applications based on a central certification authority? Kind of like what this does: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . Or maybe you mean not allowing the installation of any applications that don't posses a preapproved certificate, in THAT case what you want is this feature over here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . God forbid you would have to learn how to manage your own certificate chains, afterall the documentation is so difficult to find: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . The only thing missing is the paywall, which isn't really missing since you can pay for a third party authority to verify your certificate. But as we can see by the premise of this article that isn't actually a deterrent is it?
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is the same as it has always been. Apple forces you to follow their policies, Microsoft forces you to live with the consequences of the policies you wrote yourself.
I was thinking a gimballed green gas jet at the bottom of the chassis for a nice vertical boost to get the vehicle out of the way. I wonder if you'd be able to recover a stable flight path after that though? This is fun, it's like a civilian arms race.
God damn that's myopic. Laptops were a niche market until about 10 years ago because the standard model for an office was built around a desktop with only a few edge cases receiving the portability of a laptop. Now that the prices have dropped and people have seen the flexibility that procuring laptops for everyone provides, always connected, being able to work from home when you took the day off to take care of your sick kid or spouse; offices and people are buying laptops more than desktops. Cell phones were a niche market until the price went down and people saw that it was stupid to own a landline. It's not simplicity or convenience that determines market success, at least not in America. It's utility, price and the appearance of productivity. Think "Guns and Butter" because unlike your sophomoric comment, someone didn't just make that up on the spot.
If Morocco is just across from Spain, why would Spain pay for the energy (i.e. cost of production, plus payoff of initial outlay, plus transportation, plus the company profits) rather than just build their own?
Firstly, Spain does have their own; one of their chief exports is renewable power into Europe. What Spain will probably do is take advantage of it's proximity to Morocco to establish a connection into their power grid for cheap. From there, let's say that Spain sells power to its own people for say 10 cents a KWH (completely made up figures) and it can buy power from Morocco for 8 cents a KWH (even if it's only during peak usage to keep their own equipment running at a higher efficiency) and sell to the rest of Europe for 12 cents a KWH, then it makes sense to buy from Morocco and increase their supply. With roughly 1/10th the per capita GDP of Spain and a similar GINI index rating, Morocco has an economic advantage over Spain in the labor market so it isn't hard to imagine that they can produce the same amount of power cheaper. Also, the only realistic route to sell power to Europe from Morocco will need to go through Spain, so if they wanted to be complete dicks about it Spain could leverage that in negotiations as well. Add into account any existing contracts\treaties that the other European countries have with Spain to buy power and it starts to look like the only outcome that makes any sense.
Both nations are part of Interpol which was established for exactly this purpose. If they have a problem with the established organization then they need to reform that intermediary body for the betterment of all nations involved. That way it's not just the US you gain better cooperation with, but the other 188 countries as well. If you can't get the other member nations to agree with your proposals, then maybe your ideas aren't that great after all. This "alternative" of sidestepping established practices and micromanaging jurisdictional treaties between every god damn nation under the sun, just because you can't stand criticism from your peers, is nothing short of ridiculous.
Or maybe this has more to do with Interpol's charter forbidding their intervention in political matters #tinfoilhat.
Bwhahahaha!!! You actually call your government is corrupt? Check out the Uber situation in the state of New York. Uber and Lyft are banned from the entire state of NY except for New York City.... I dare anyone to explain the logic of that situation. Hint: there is no logic. Cuomo is just a corrupt bastard who panders to NYC and sells out the rest of the state.
I do appreciate what you are trying to do, my lack of detail into the specific scenario is because I wasn't actually looking for tech support. The issue I was referring to in my rant is a sync issue with exchange that I have seen a thousand and one times on Scalix, Zimbra squirrelmail and a half a dozen other clients. A corrupted message gets pulled down and either has an invalid character in the worst possible place, or a section of code is larger than it reports to be or something else along those lines that essentially breaks the standard on that message. The end result is that the mail client stops syncing the rest of the mail for that user. The solution is universally to delete the corrupted message and restart the syncing process. But this goddamn platform doesn't give me the Emails message ID in a human readable format and every other mail client for these users works just fine (in other words ignores the problem) so I can't get that information from another vector. So as you can see the stack trace could have been useful if I knew what register was holding the message ID, or pointer to it, and how it was encoded and yadda yadda yadda. But since I have none of that information it only serves to tell me what I already know, that an exception was thrown for some reason and the thread was killed. This is the key difference between an error message and a crash report, the intended audience.