You never owned anything based on NavTeq maps have you.
Navteq map databases are the WORST in the world. bad data, really out of date roads, missing roads that have existed for decades. It's why the OEM Gps systems in many cars and bikes is a complete piece of crap.
The databases used by garmin and the others is based on the US Census data. And TomTom is whiny because the open guys can use the same database.
Anyone can build a tomtom for 1/3rd the price of their over priced stuff. And honestly, they have fallen way behind, even the china knockoffs have a better UI than tomtom has now.
The Eco- Anarchists are a bunch of pussy cowards. They refuse to target the hard targets like the people that club baby seals, oil companies, mines, etc.. I.E. people that are armed and have explosives.
They are nothing but a bunch of pussy thugs trying to harass people that are easy to harass.
I am all for protecting our allies, but Congress and the president has to have their children and grand children on the front line in the first wave of attacks.
No more of the rich assholes sending the poor to die for their desires. The rich fuckers need to put up their kids to die for any war first.
so then banks did not loan any money to people 15 years ago when I could file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and cancel all debts legally and NOT have to return the car and house.
Damn, I did not know that banks and lending did not exist before 1997.
Funny thing is I have proof that it existed, as I went through it in the early 90's Kept the Car and the house, told the bank to shove it up their butt with the signature of a Judge. Their fault for lending money to a person working for a unstable company called General Motors.
"But the reality is that if there were no bailiffs to repossess property bought on credit when you didn't pay up, then no-one would loan money."
So you support that big business should not have ANY risk then? the RISK for loaning money is that you loaned money to someone that cant pay it back, hello that is a risk of business, and problem is the credit industry has the responsibility to VET who they loan to.
If there were no baillifs or if we returned to where I could file for bankruptcy and tell the bank to stuff it in their ass. The banks would lend money smarter.
What I get from your example is that we need to remove all risk for companies, and this is completely and utterly a very dumb thing. Patents should expire quickly so that scumbag companies dont just sit on them.
I can pay for linux support as well. RedHat offers good paid support as well as other companies supporting Debian. Heck you can even pay for BSD support if you want to.
So that argument is/dev/null.
The problem is that those that make the decisions are not educated in the subject that they are in control of. I have yet to Meet a CTO that is capable of even maintaining his own laptop.
"-gravity is not a constant vector force downward. It is a radial force inward toward the center of the Earth, and its intensity varies with altitude."
for any calculations on a scale less than 10 miles, assuming a constant will give you the same answer within a margin of error that is outside the ability of any store bought calculator.
I was doing advanced Geometry and Algebra at age 8, yes I'm a slow fool compared to this kid. but it's mostly the quality of teachers (his dad) and the willingness to keep giving a kid what they want and challenging them.
The american school system is designed to DISCOURAGE this. Smart kids are told to be happy with the A they got without trying. If they challenge their teachers knowledge they are told they are wrong. Mostly because Grade-High-school education in the USA is simply following a lesson out of a book and not teaching it from an expert. the Gym teacher teaches computer class, The English teacher teaches Chemistry, and all of it creates a ho hum boring as hell experience for the children.
Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority.
yes I am jaded at the education system here. I was one of them that got bad grades because the teachers were idiots. I challenged my math teacher who could not believe that a kid can do multiplication and simple geometry in his head. I proved it on several occasions, but I was given failing grades for not doing the busywork of writing it all out. Plus I refused to learn his technique. It sucked and was harder than what I was using that came from college text books. So I ended up being a pissed off moody kid hating the education system because all I saw was idiots and morons trying to tell me they knew more than Me and I knew that they were wrong. I was reading at a 14th grade level when I was 12 years old. I read 1984 and understood the concepts and hidden meanings. I was devouring Vonnegut with a passion. I was told that the books were "too grown up for me" Everyone talked down to me and all it did was piss me off.
Sadly I did not have rich parents, so I had to suffer through the waste of time that the American Public School system is. College I slept through and aced it, at least they were not morons requiring me to turn in worthless busy work. It was in college where I ran into real education, educators that actually knew what they were talking about and would actually hold a discussion with me and help me learn more.
This is the problem here in the USA. If you are smart, you have a sack put over your head to slow you down to match the rest of the other students.
:"Why would any consumer want a third party to get between themselves and the merchants they buy from? All the third party does is aggregate and sell purchase information."
You may live in a fantasy world utopia, but those of us that live in the USA,Canada, and Europe have that third party shoved right in there all the time.
If you use anything but Cash, you are paying someone to use your plastic card. and most people use the plastic card and do not carry cash. It's exactly how the banks planned it.
He got ahold of it by using a square reader. It's not hard, but it's also not "DANGEROUS"
I am guessing you dont know how most card readers work. It's the exact same thing. the audio level signal from the reader head is sent to the chip to decode. All card readers have worked like this for decades.
Security audit? what is that? Is that like those mythical Pay raises I hear that used to happen?
I have not worked at Comcast for 5 years. I handed a friend my keyfob access card that still works there because he lost his and wanted a replacement. He was going to have security reprogram the system to use it for his access.
Mine Still WORKED! Which is scary as it had All access clearance at multiple locations, 5 Freaking years and they never removed me nor did a security audit to remove users.
I did not know that EA had a programming office in Inglewood, CA. and you got to sleep near rattlesnakes? Were you a lead on a project? The rest of us had to sleep WITH the rattlesnakes.
That IT manager having to use the following words for the rest of his career.....
"Welcome to burger king, can I take your order?"
Sadly that will not happen. The IT manager will get promoted after he blames it on the IT guy that for years was asking why they dont have real backups.
It sounds like the people running the place are I.T. morons.
Rsync to second server, both servers then have offline backup that is cycled to a safe onsite AND offsite. THAT is a backup, not what most idiot business owners think a backup is.
I recently had this discussion with our CEO. "We dont need to spend $12,500 on a backup system...."
Me: so all our data is worth less than $12,500? if we lost ot all right now it would not matter at all to the business? CEO: No, we would be devistated and out of business! Me: so the whole business is only worth $12,500??!? Why are you keeping this from everyone that we are about to go under! CEO: No! No! We are doing fine, well over $10million in sales last quarter...
Me: and you are unwilling to spend $12,500 to protect that money....... Really.....
CEO: go and order the backup server and tape Drive robot.
No thanks. They will make the seats tiny so they can fit 8-10 astronauts in there, plus charge $35.00 per bag. On top of that imagine 3 days in a capsule with only small bag of nuts, and not being able to use your ipad until you are above 150 miles.
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You never owned anything based on NavTeq maps have you.
Navteq map databases are the WORST in the world. bad data, really out of date roads, missing roads that have existed for decades.
It's why the OEM Gps systems in many cars and bikes is a complete piece of crap.
The databases used by garmin and the others is based on the US Census data. And TomTom is whiny because the open guys can use the same database.
Anyone can build a tomtom for 1/3rd the price of their over priced stuff. And honestly, they have fallen way behind, even the china knockoffs have a better UI than tomtom has now.
The Eco- Anarchists are a bunch of pussy cowards. They refuse to target the hard targets like the people that club baby seals, oil companies, mines, etc.. I.E. people that are armed and have explosives.
They are nothing but a bunch of pussy thugs trying to harass people that are easy to harass.
I am all for protecting our allies, but Congress and the president has to have their children and grand children on the front line in the first wave of attacks.
No more of the rich assholes sending the poor to die for their desires. The rich fuckers need to put up their kids to die for any war first.
so then banks did not loan any money to people 15 years ago when I could file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and cancel all debts legally and NOT have to return the car and house.
Damn, I did not know that banks and lending did not exist before 1997.
Funny thing is I have proof that it existed, as I went through it in the early 90's Kept the Car and the house, told the bank to shove it up their butt with the signature of a Judge. Their fault for lending money to a person working for a unstable company called General Motors.
"But the reality is that if there were no bailiffs to repossess property bought on credit when you didn't pay up, then no-one would loan money."
So you support that big business should not have ANY risk then? the RISK for loaning money is that you loaned money to someone that cant pay it back, hello that is a risk of business, and problem is the credit industry has the responsibility to VET who they loan to.
If there were no baillifs or if we returned to where I could file for bankruptcy and tell the bank to stuff it in their ass. The banks would lend money smarter.
What I get from your example is that we need to remove all risk for companies, and this is completely and utterly a very dumb thing. Patents should expire quickly so that scumbag companies dont just sit on them.
The White House will not TAX Intellectual Property, there is no way in hell they will tip the scales in the patent lawsuit nuttyness.
Their backers are the IP holders. All politicians care more about the money than the little guy.
The writer does 90% of the work, yet the publisher gets most of the profit.
Sounds like you have never written and had published a book before.
from a publisher? yes.
from a writer? no.
most authors wold KILL to get $2.00 per book sold. everything else goes to the publisher that is whoring the writers
Funny, I find anything on a Macro Scale to be boring and predictable.
The job market is full of Experienced Linux and BSD admins.
No you cant hire them for $45,000 a year, you have to pay an honest wage around $65,000-$85,000 (midwest pay rates)
so what you mean is you cant find Linux and BSD admins at the bargain basement rates of today.
I can pay for linux support as well. RedHat offers good paid support as well as other companies supporting Debian. Heck you can even pay for BSD support if you want to.
So that argument is /dev/null.
The problem is that those that make the decisions are not educated in the subject that they are in control of. I have yet to Meet a CTO that is capable of even maintaining his own laptop.
"-gravity is not a constant vector force downward. It is a radial force inward toward the center of the Earth, and its intensity varies with altitude."
for any calculations on a scale less than 10 miles, assuming a constant will give you the same answer within a margin of error that is outside the ability of any store bought calculator.
I was doing advanced Geometry and Algebra at age 8, yes I'm a slow fool compared to this kid. but it's mostly the quality of teachers (his dad) and the willingness to keep giving a kid what they want and challenging them.
The american school system is designed to DISCOURAGE this. Smart kids are told to be happy with the A they got without trying. If they challenge their teachers knowledge they are told they are wrong. Mostly because Grade-High-school education in the USA is simply following a lesson out of a book and not teaching it from an expert. the Gym teacher teaches computer class, The English teacher teaches Chemistry, and all of it creates a ho hum boring as hell experience for the children.
Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority.
yes I am jaded at the education system here. I was one of them that got bad grades because the teachers were idiots. I challenged my math teacher who could not believe that a kid can do multiplication and simple geometry in his head. I proved it on several occasions, but I was given failing grades for not doing the busywork of writing it all out. Plus I refused to learn his technique. It sucked and was harder than what I was using that came from college text books. So I ended up being a pissed off moody kid hating the education system because all I saw was idiots and morons trying to tell me they knew more than Me and I knew that they were wrong. I was reading at a 14th grade level when I was 12 years old. I read 1984 and understood the concepts and hidden meanings. I was devouring Vonnegut with a passion. I was told that the books were "too grown up for me" Everyone talked down to me and all it did was piss me off.
Sadly I did not have rich parents, so I had to suffer through the waste of time that the American Public School system is. College I slept through and aced it, at least they were not morons requiring me to turn in worthless busy work. It was in college where I ran into real education, educators that actually knew what they were talking about and would actually hold a discussion with me and help me learn more.
This is the problem here in the USA. If you are smart, you have a sack put over your head to slow you down to match the rest of the other students.
:"Why would any consumer want a third party to get between themselves and the merchants they buy from? All the third party does is aggregate and sell purchase information."
You may live in a fantasy world utopia, but those of us that live in the USA,Canada, and Europe have that third party shoved right in there all the time.
If you use anything but Cash, you are paying someone to use your plastic card. and most people use the plastic card and do not carry cash. It's exactly how the banks planned it.
He got ahold of it by using a square reader. It's not hard, but it's also not "DANGEROUS"
I am guessing you dont know how most card readers work. It's the exact same thing. the audio level signal from the reader head is sent to the chip to decode. All card readers have worked like this for decades.
they bought a junk one. Square can charge and swipe at the same time.
Duh, Did I say Rsync was a backup?
I still had my keyfob and my SecurID for logins. They never wanted them back. I use the SecurID for Paypal now.
Security audit? what is that? Is that like those mythical Pay raises I hear that used to happen?
I have not worked at Comcast for 5 years. I handed a friend my keyfob access card that still works there because he lost his and wanted a replacement. He was going to have security reprogram the system to use it for his access.
Mine Still WORKED! Which is scary as it had All access clearance at multiple locations, 5 Freaking years and they never removed me nor did a security audit to remove users.
I did not know that EA had a programming office in Inglewood, CA. and you got to sleep near rattlesnakes? Were you a lead on a project? The rest of us had to sleep WITH the rattlesnakes.
"Bitcoins are not currently money. They're more like arcade tokens, really. No value outside the venues honoring them.
Currency, on the other hand..."
Feel free to try and use North Korean currency in the United state or europe to buy something.
Currency has NO VALUE outside the venues honoring them.
" The cost of not being prepared is ..."
That IT manager having to use the following words for the rest of his career.....
"Welcome to burger king, can I take your order?"
Sadly that will not happen. The IT manager will get promoted after he blames it on the IT guy that for years was asking why they dont have real backups.
Bingo!
It sounds like the people running the place are I.T. morons.
Rsync to second server, both servers then have offline backup that is cycled to a safe onsite AND offsite. THAT is a backup, not what most idiot business owners think a backup is.
I recently had this discussion with our CEO. "We dont need to spend $12,500 on a backup system...."
Me: so all our data is worth less than $12,500? if we lost ot all right now it would not matter at all to the business?
CEO: No, we would be devistated and out of business!
Me: so the whole business is only worth $12,500??!? Why are you keeping this from everyone that we are about to go under!
CEO: No! No! We are doing fine, well over $10million in sales last quarter...
Me: and you are unwilling to spend $12,500 to protect that money....... Really.....
CEO: go and order the backup server and tape Drive robot.
Oh yes they do. The goggles are there to prevent....
S P A C E - M A D N E S S !
No thanks. They will make the seats tiny so they can fit 8-10 astronauts in there, plus charge $35.00 per bag. On top of that imagine 3 days in a capsule with only small bag of nuts, and not being able to use your ipad until you are above 150 miles.