> What have you ever published, that you think you deserve to deny professional writers and musicians a chance to make a decent living? Don't tell me about sysadmin perl scripts.
No one else has the right to make a living in a particular manner.
Certainly no one else gets to sponge off of work they did 20 years ago.
Welcome to the reality the rest of us get to face.
What fiasco? Any insurance is a shared risk pool. That includes the careless jack*sses. It doesn't matter if this is a government imposed system or one from the allegedly free market. You still have to account for the people that make poor choices.
Piling on "consequences" completely defeats the entire point of government meddling to begin with.
We don't need to add yet another layer of inefficiency if the final result is going to be that some class of insured is told "tough luck". The free market can do that all by itself.
The fact that the system avoids punishing poor choices should be a surprise to NO ONE.
...in other words, you believe that handing off something to a large government beaurocracy is going to magically make that thing more efficient and cheaper.
Do you fall for telemarketers and Nigerian scams too?
Except going broke is not something that should be feared in a civilized country. It shouldn't even be terribly shocking. Business entities do it all the time.
Of course we all know that there's 2 different standards for real people and corporations.
Yes. You get to see for yourself just disorganized and undisciplined the Italians are. I can just imagine them engaging in some sort of freeloader feeding frenzy. It does put the Spanish and Greeks into perspective. It's a nice contrast to the English and Germans.
The whole thing makes it easy to imagine the disaster that would ensue with a social welfare system that has to govern a mixture of both.
The Germans themselves seem doubtful about the prospect of them being able to bail everyone else out.
You don't point a weapon at something unless you are prepared to destroy that something.It's something that should be basic common sense but a lot of people are really stupid. They need to be told these things.
This has nothing to do with recent history. Peasants have had no rights pretty much forever in Europe. That is why people have fled to the other side of the pond. They wanted to get away from being owned by a King or a local robber baron.
Being systematically disarmed is just part of that.
Mass shootings don't occur in the inner city. Gang shootings do. The conditions that lead to such shootings also make it very unlikely that any attempt at a mass shooting would succeed.
> "Great Recession" leaves the impression the only way you can interpret current events is by franchising them out to old historic dramas.
Your remarks do nothing to indicate otherwise really.
The Great Depression isn't just a ugly soundbite. It also marks a fundemental shift in the economic regulatory regime. If you want to get into gruesome, just start talking about what happened BEFORE the Great Depression and how frequent the shenanigans were.
Some idiots want to dismantle that stuff while ignoring the historic context in which it was created to begin with.
> Afraid is the correct word. If you find out someone doesn't work out after a month or two on the job, you will have to fork out some serious severance to make sure they sign a document that says they won't sue you - otherwise, they will sue you for something.
That's just mindless "Trailer Trash for Romney" nonsense.
Are you kidding? "Job Creators" will be the first people to whine about the corresponding tax increases to cover that kind of scheme.
People like to think money for this kind of stuff just comes from some magical pocket universe somewhere. That's not the case. Spain and Greece are great examples of this.
> What would be a better word then? He copied information that was not his to copy, accessed by a means not known to the common person.
What he did was actually much simpler than picking a lock.
Attempting to use the "average idiot" standard isn't terribly compelling because that's a moving target. Your claim about the difficulty of this task likely does not hold true across generations.
This "l33t hack" probably a non-Herculean task for many young people just as it seems pretty trivial to any computing professional or hobbyist.
It's not discrimination if you reject people for being feeble.
There's just a higher likelihood of some old person being feeble.
I younger person is just not going to try and cry age discrimination if they are rejected for the same reasons.
The real problem with the Valley and coastal California in general is that the economics doesn't make much sense. It's just too expensive to live there and the seemingly better salaries don't make up for it.
> Because we can train the right people to give them the skill set needed for the task at hand. It's a lot more difficult to train for the soft skills.
Sounds entirely too good to be true. Corporations gave up on that kind of thinking a long time ago.
Theoretically, even Kings are not above the law in the anglo-saxon tradition. What you are seeing right now is frustration being vented over the fact that highly placed public officials seem to be above the law.
If this were France, they might be setting your car on fire right about now.
The problem with your bad attempt at an analogy is that none of those crimes really represent anything personal. The kinds of people that commit those crimes don't care who their victim are. Even a rapist doesn't have any strong preference. It's not personal. You're just unlucky.
On the other hand, terrorism and any other kind of warfare is a form of vendetta.
We use different words for different things because they are distinct.
You are trying to split hairs and make this seem more complicated that it really is when it's really simple and just boils down to how much power we choose to invest in government.
Politics and economics are interrelated. One depends on the other.
I dunno. How long before the idiots wise up and realize that they don't have to buy new material anymore? You can just get the old stuff for cheap and watch that instead.
Greedo initiated the classical "quick draw" from a Western.
Han responded in kind.
If you want to get all modern about it, Greedo was also guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. That's a legally valid reason for defending yourself (or others) in most sane jurisdictions.
Nothing remotely evil on Han's part.
Although it did say something about the kind of people he associated with.
Anakin is just a talented idiot raised by monks that could not relate to the fact that he had a little personality left in him. There's very little that's heroic about Anakin on the large screen.
They've done him much more justice in cartoons produced by 3rd parties.
That said, we've already been here before. Like anything with this deep space franchise, its' already been done before. So this really should not be a difficult thing to deal with.
You may have suppressed it from your memories, but this has been done before.
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> What have you ever published, that you think you deserve to deny professional writers and musicians a chance to make a decent living? Don't tell me about sysadmin perl scripts.
No one else has the right to make a living in a particular manner.
Certainly no one else gets to sponge off of work they did 20 years ago.
Welcome to the reality the rest of us get to face.
I can't imagine it making much difference really.
Not that I would expect the overhead here to be a whole ms.
I can get results from an RDBMS in a ms.
What fiasco? Any insurance is a shared risk pool. That includes the careless jack*sses. It doesn't matter if this is a government imposed system or one from the allegedly free market. You still have to account for the people that make poor choices.
Piling on "consequences" completely defeats the entire point of government meddling to begin with.
We don't need to add yet another layer of inefficiency if the final result is going to be that some class of insured is told "tough luck". The free market can do that all by itself.
The fact that the system avoids punishing poor choices should be a surprise to NO ONE.
It's an obvious design requirement.
...in other words, you believe that handing off something to a large government beaurocracy is going to magically make that thing more efficient and cheaper.
Do you fall for telemarketers and Nigerian scams too?
Except going broke is not something that should be feared in a civilized country. It shouldn't even be terribly shocking. Business entities do it all the time.
Of course we all know that there's 2 different standards for real people and corporations.
Yes. You get to see for yourself just disorganized and undisciplined the Italians are. I can just imagine them engaging in some sort of freeloader feeding frenzy. It does put the Spanish and Greeks into perspective. It's a nice contrast to the English and Germans.
The whole thing makes it easy to imagine the disaster that would ensue with a social welfare system that has to govern a mixture of both.
The Germans themselves seem doubtful about the prospect of them being able to bail everyone else out.
Nope.
You don't point a weapon at something unless you are prepared to destroy that something.It's something that should be basic common sense but a lot of people are really stupid. They need to be told these things.
Most people who get shot in America are ultimately the victim of the illegal drug trade which is fueled by primarily economic factors.
If you are some white,clueless,middle-class spooner, then you have about as much chance of being shot as some Eurotrash.
This has nothing to do with recent history. Peasants have had no rights pretty much forever in Europe. That is why people have fled to the other side of the pond. They wanted to get away from being owned by a King or a local robber baron.
Being systematically disarmed is just part of that.
Mass shootings don't occur in the inner city. Gang shootings do. The conditions that lead to such shootings also make it very unlikely that any attempt at a mass shooting would succeed.
> "Great Recession" leaves the impression the only way you can interpret current events is by franchising them out to old historic dramas.
Your remarks do nothing to indicate otherwise really.
The Great Depression isn't just a ugly soundbite. It also marks a fundemental shift in the economic regulatory regime. If you want to get into gruesome, just start talking about what happened BEFORE the Great Depression and how frequent the shenanigans were.
Some idiots want to dismantle that stuff while ignoring the historic context in which it was created to begin with.
So "Great Recession" is not such a bad term.
> Afraid is the correct word. If you find out someone doesn't work out after a month or two on the job, you will have to fork out some serious severance to make sure they sign a document that says they won't sue you - otherwise, they will sue you for something.
That's just mindless "Trailer Trash for Romney" nonsense.
Are you kidding? "Job Creators" will be the first people to whine about the corresponding tax increases to cover that kind of scheme.
People like to think money for this kind of stuff just comes from some magical pocket universe somewhere. That's not the case. Spain and Greece are great examples of this.
> I'm finding trouble having sympathy for this guy.
>
> He manipulated URLs to access areas that were not publicly visible.
Which really only puts him at the "not suffering from downs syndrome" level of intelligence.
It's a public server. Permission is implicit in the fact that something is world readable. That is what those permissions are for.
Abusing trespass laws to prosecute people that enter public places is just Fascist nonsense.
> What would be a better word then? He copied information that was not his to copy, accessed by a means not known to the common person.
What he did was actually much simpler than picking a lock.
Attempting to use the "average idiot" standard isn't terribly compelling because that's a moving target. Your claim about the difficulty of this task likely does not hold true across generations.
This "l33t hack" probably a non-Herculean task for many young people just as it seems pretty trivial to any computing professional or hobbyist.
It's not discrimination if you reject people for being feeble.
There's just a higher likelihood of some old person being feeble.
I younger person is just not going to try and cry age discrimination if they are rejected for the same reasons.
The real problem with the Valley and coastal California in general is that the economics doesn't make much sense. It's just too expensive to live there and the seemingly better salaries don't make up for it.
> Because we can train the right people to give them the skill set needed for the task at hand. It's a lot more difficult to train for the soft skills.
Sounds entirely too good to be true. Corporations gave up on that kind of thinking a long time ago.
The NSA is building the machine that our version of the Nazi's will take advantage of.
This is why some things should never be done in a Republic. The current regime might be "nice". However, the next regime might not be so nice.
Once a tool is available, someone can decide to abuse it.
The NSA doesn't make totalitarian regimes, they just make them possible.
If the jackboot fits...
Theoretically, even Kings are not above the law in the anglo-saxon tradition. What you are seeing right now is frustration being vented over the fact that highly placed public officials seem to be above the law.
If this were France, they might be setting your car on fire right about now.
The problem with your bad attempt at an analogy is that none of those crimes really represent anything personal. The kinds of people that commit those crimes don't care who their victim are. Even a rapist doesn't have any strong preference. It's not personal. You're just unlucky.
On the other hand, terrorism and any other kind of warfare is a form of vendetta.
We use different words for different things because they are distinct.
You are trying to split hairs and make this seem more complicated that it really is when it's really simple and just boils down to how much power we choose to invest in government.
Politics and economics are interrelated. One depends on the other.
Make those space wizards derive their power from technology and suddenly it's not just fantasy anymore.
Even just calling them the Psi Corps would de-fantasy them.
I dunno. How long before the idiots wise up and realize that they don't have to buy new material anymore? You can just get the old stuff for cheap and watch that instead.
Greedo initiated the classical "quick draw" from a Western.
Han responded in kind.
If you want to get all modern about it, Greedo was also guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. That's a legally valid reason for defending yourself (or others) in most sane jurisdictions.
Nothing remotely evil on Han's part.
Although it did say something about the kind of people he associated with.
Anakin is just a talented idiot raised by monks that could not relate to the fact that he had a little personality left in him. There's very little that's heroic about Anakin on the large screen.
They've done him much more justice in cartoons produced by 3rd parties.
That said, we've already been here before. Like anything with this deep space franchise, its' already been done before. So this really should not be a difficult thing to deal with.
You may have suppressed it from your memories, but this has been done before.