The fair use concept also applies to trademarks. You seem to be laboring under the false "virtual property" notion that much of the current pro-corporate propaganda focuses on these days.
Yes. It's "government to the rescue" after the free market has already sorted things out already. Just enforce sane and useful labeling but otherwise butt the f*ck out.
It's useful to know that the anti-Snowden hysteria has reached this level. We've moved past the "traitor" and "terrorist" rhetoric and moved on to more serious "pedophile" rhetoric.
> Hey, it's not Linux on x86, so it must be a non-existent failure.
Linux on x86 is a big part of the reason that it is a non-existent failure. It also didn't help that Itanic was an engineering disaster in it's own right.
The autobahn has unlimited speed in areas that are marked as such. However, much of it is marked at speeds similar to or slower than what you would expect on American highways.
Plus a lot of those "unlimited" zones don't stretch on for very long.
Speed limits change on the autobahn with an annoying frequency.
Even if you are worried about invasions, keep the Navy and Air Force more or less intact and encourage more civilians to develop sound marksmanship skills. Don't discourage anyone from becoming proficient with either the standard infantry rifles or some high powered 50cal sniper rifle.
Make the US a hard target to get to and a nightmare to hold onto.
Quite so. You can flee to a less abusive bank but chances are that your less abusive bank will just get bought out by one of the oligarchs. I've had that happen on 3 separate occasions.
Also, in some ways the smaller banks are even WORSE. You think that the large banks are a bunch of incompetent crooks when it comes to administering a mortgage and then you see how bad one of these smaller outfits is.
It seems like the ENTIRE banking industry is either corrupt, incompetent, or both.
> You mean like Medicare (single-payer) or the VA (government-run?) Both have high satisfaction ratings.
You must be joking? The VA with high satisfaction ratings? And Medicare is an insurer of LAST RESORT, of course people are going to at least appreciate that aspect of it. It's that or NOTHING.
> You did it the poor mans way. Buy the real gear and it works just fine.
You would be better off just taking that money, putting it in a metal bowl and burning it. That's what you're doing with the "real gear": trying do demonstrate how much contempt you have for the money you've spent time and effort to earn (or borrow).
A solution has to be worth the problem it's solving or it's pointless.
H1Bs are an underclass. That's the real problem with H1Bs.
If someone is important enough and their skills important enough that you want to drag them half way across the planet then treat them like a real person and give them a green card or even instant citizenship.
No republic should tolerate the creation of an underclass. It's a threat to the liberties of everyone. It's also ultimately bad for business since the bottom line is entangled with individual liberty.
Also, the idea that corporations can poach talent from across the planet is also unequal. If they can do that then we should likewise be able to do the same (work where the cost of living is cheap).
> Are you sure you are a software engineer, and not some programmer with delusions of grandeur?
Perhaps he understands what all of those fancy sounding words means and is wondering how exactly they add up to "defects". I could certainly see how a lay jury might get bamboozled.
> These are all skilled professions that require a lot of training and experience.
Mostly, it requires practice. It's something that you can get competent at by merely repeating a physical process that doesn't require much thought (if any).
That's why a skilled trade is nothing like a profession.
Anyone that conflates programmers with bricklayers clearly hasn't done both of them.
The likely problem with the tools available to the finance department is the modern notion of ease of use. It's reduced to the ease of a total idiot to do something simple for the first time. This usually doesn't work well for the an experienced user working with a large data set or a task they do frequently.
"Ease of use" versus "automation".
Also, the relevant Unix tools have probably persisted while generations of other shinier and happier tools have come and gone.
If you understand coding at the most abstract level, then you understand how a computer works. You don't need to be able to "paint the Mona Lisa" or "build an engine", but you should at least have some grasp of how a key piece of technology works.
More than anything, it will give you some understanding of what a computer is not. That's as generally socially useful as any other "purely academic" subject we force students to learn about.
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You're the one that is confused.
The fair use concept also applies to trademarks. You seem to be laboring under the false "virtual property" notion that much of the current pro-corporate propaganda focuses on these days.
Being a J1 and being a soldier and getting shot at are worlds apart when it comes to risk and sacrifice. Not in the same league in the slightest.
Being a Freedom Rider came with some risk. Working a day job in the shabby part of town doesn't really.
> There is no scientifically sound reason to ban or specially label GMO foods - period.
"Roundup Ready"
GMO foods are engineered to tolerate more herbicide.
THAT is very much a "scientifically sound" reason to be interested in what seed variety of corn or soybeans I am ingesting.
Yes. It's "government to the rescue" after the free market has already sorted things out already. Just enforce sane and useful labeling but otherwise butt the f*ck out.
Perhaps something about sustainable fusion power.
It's useful to know that the anti-Snowden hysteria has reached this level. We've moved past the "traitor" and "terrorist" rhetoric and moved on to more serious "pedophile" rhetoric.
> To claim there is no need, no value, no "up side" to having a strong national intelligence organization
Equating Big Brother Survelliance with "strong national intelligence organization".
You can't get much more of a demagogue than that.
> Hey, it's not Linux on x86, so it must be a non-existent failure.
Linux on x86 is a big part of the reason that it is a non-existent failure. It also didn't help that Itanic was an engineering disaster in it's own right.
> the autobahn has unlimited speed,
The autobahn has unlimited speed in areas that are marked as such. However, much of it is marked at speeds similar to or slower than what you would expect on American highways.
Plus a lot of those "unlimited" zones don't stretch on for very long.
Speed limits change on the autobahn with an annoying frequency.
Never mind your "beast". ANY decent luxury sedan can cruise at 130MPG. I've done this myself on American roads.
The autobahn and BMWs are both overrated.
Details matter.
It doesn't matter if it's computing, or ethics, or the law.
Ignoring the details is a sure sign that your morals are bad.
> Got any examples of a system design that does NOT allow for a single authority?
This is a management issue. Not a technology issue. There never should have been a single password known only by a single person.
Even with the examples you've given, there are still technological means to insure that you aren't SOL if you lose the root password.
You're only vulnerable if you decide to make yourself vulnerable.
Even if you are worried about invasions, keep the Navy and Air Force more or less intact and encourage more civilians to develop sound marksmanship skills. Don't discourage anyone from becoming proficient with either the standard infantry rifles or some high powered 50cal sniper rifle.
Make the US a hard target to get to and a nightmare to hold onto.
Giffords is a Democrat.
Why would a crowd full of DEMOCRATS have concealed weapons? They hate guns. They're frightened of them and generally clueless about them too.
Republicans (demented or otherwise) are the ones likely to be armed.
I rather doubt you've actually confirmed this.
Quite so. You can flee to a less abusive bank but chances are that your less abusive bank will just get bought out by one of the oligarchs. I've had that happen on 3 separate occasions.
Also, in some ways the smaller banks are even WORSE. You think that the large banks are a bunch of incompetent crooks when it comes to administering a mortgage and then you see how bad one of these smaller outfits is.
It seems like the ENTIRE banking industry is either corrupt, incompetent, or both.
> You mean like Medicare (single-payer) or the VA (government-run?) Both have high satisfaction ratings.
You must be joking? The VA with high satisfaction ratings? And Medicare is an insurer of LAST RESORT, of course people are going to at least appreciate that aspect of it. It's that or NOTHING.
If you're assuming they have Windows, then RDP should be an option.
> You did it the poor mans way. Buy the real gear and it works just fine.
You would be better off just taking that money, putting it in a metal bowl and burning it. That's what you're doing with the "real gear": trying do demonstrate how much contempt you have for the money you've spent time and effort to earn (or borrow).
A solution has to be worth the problem it's solving or it's pointless.
> Are you a country, or are you a federation of states?
If you have to ask then you don't have enough of a clue to be a meaningful part of the conversation.
H1Bs are an underclass. That's the real problem with H1Bs.
If someone is important enough and their skills important enough that you want to drag them half way across the planet then treat them like a real person and give them a green card or even instant citizenship.
No republic should tolerate the creation of an underclass. It's a threat to the liberties of everyone. It's also ultimately bad for business since the bottom line is entangled with individual liberty.
Also, the idea that corporations can poach talent from across the planet is also unequal. If they can do that then we should likewise be able to do the same (work where the cost of living is cheap).
> Are you sure you are a software engineer, and not some programmer with delusions of grandeur?
Perhaps he understands what all of those fancy sounding words means and is wondering how exactly they add up to "defects". I could certainly see how a lay jury might get bamboozled.
Just "razzle dazzle" them.
You've not even done as much.
> These are all skilled professions that require a lot of training and experience.
Mostly, it requires practice. It's something that you can get competent at by merely repeating a physical process that doesn't require much thought (if any).
That's why a skilled trade is nothing like a profession.
Anyone that conflates programmers with bricklayers clearly hasn't done both of them.
The likely problem with the tools available to the finance department is the modern notion of ease of use. It's reduced to the ease of a total idiot to do something simple for the first time. This usually doesn't work well for the an experienced user working with a large data set or a task they do frequently.
"Ease of use" versus "automation".
Also, the relevant Unix tools have probably persisted while generations of other shinier and happier tools have come and gone.
If you understand coding at the most abstract level, then you understand how a computer works. You don't need to be able to "paint the Mona Lisa" or "build an engine", but you should at least have some grasp of how a key piece of technology works.
More than anything, it will give you some understanding of what a computer is not. That's as generally socially useful as any other "purely academic" subject we force students to learn about.