My V8 may only be 5.6L, but it will still leave a patch if I let it (realistically, it probably has more power than any of the 60s muscle cars, given the way that measuring power has changed over the decades). I've dione it by accident before in reverse (there's no traction control in reverse).
Most of those rules are the basis of the legal system in most place: don't kill, don't steal, etc. This is the primary reason the Ten Commandments was in so many courthouses: it's important historically to our legal system.
And, seriously, every damn belief system has been used as the basis for mass killing by government. The content of belief systems rarely has anything to do with the killing - it's just the most convenient excuse.
The 4th commandment can be understood in an invisible-unicorn-free way, and it's good advice. For the workaholic: don't spend 7 days a week working, take one day to de-stress, connect with community and family, and think about stuff other than work. Even God rested on the 7th day.
Sounds like good advice to me.
The 2nd commandment was about putting the business of idolaters out of work. If it were modernized to "that shalt not be a televangelist" I'd get behind it as well.
Marriage makes just as much sense as a formal business partnership does, and the same body of law should really apply to both. Once you decide to live together and mingle funds, you need a way to sort that all out when it ends.
Don't confuse the reason with the explanation. The reason that almost every surviving religion tries to focus sex exclusively on reproduction is because that's why they're the surviving religions. Those who bred faster overcame those who bred slower, and over the centuries pro-breeding religions/cultures won out. Different religions have different moral justifications for that, but the explanation's don't matter much.
The Bible of course has next to nothing to say about homosexuality, because it just wasn't relevant until recently: your duty to the tribe was to form a stable breeding relationship, and who (or what) you had sex with (or wanted to) for fun on the side just wasn't important.
Mars is less certain, but I'd assume it went through the same cycle, and had at least a couple hundred million years with stable liquid water before its core solidified and stopped spinning.
And so what's your point? The entire tech stack has thousands of eyeballs on every layer, more former employees than current, and still no reason to think anything fishy wouldn't have leaked by now.
Now, new closed-source technology I can understand being leery of (e.g., Intel's new-ish onboard RNG silicon, which basically no crypto-geek trusts right now), but would you really thing a company like MS or Intel is better at keeping secrets than the NSA?
What's their nuclear option? What's their post-nuclear strategy? It's doubtful the NSA is going to change their ways.
This may come as a surprise to you, but major corporations with money to burn have some minor influence over the US government. Why, sometimes it almost seems like some laws were written by the corporations themselves. Shocking, I know.
The "Windows code" is in fact something that you can audit fix and install for many thousands of current and former MS employees. Do you really think nothing would have leaked over all these years?
Intentions never matter. Results always matter. All the chatter and groupthink on/. is that the big corporations really run the government. Well, these big corporations want to change how the government is run, in a way that benefits us. I wish them the best of luck.
It's a subset, though: plenty of atheists go to church, for social reasons. Very few people believe in some vague idea of God not associated with any religious system, again for social reasons.
To me, the fact that a Doctor can refuse to perform a service because they don't like their profit margin on it even though the AGREED to accept that amount in their contract, is BS. This is akin to a retailer advertising a model of TV for a cheap price, but not having ever even purchased any of said model to be sold.
I suspect you'll find the doctor didn't agree to perform the service at that price, but instead they agreed that if they were to perform the service, they would only get paid $X. They might well give vaccinations to people with different insurance, where the insurance pays enough.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
Was there a spike in the 70s or something? Not as I recall. Quoth Wikipedia
At some points in the 1950s, almost all Americans identified themselves with a particular religion. In recent years, more than 1 in 10 Americans tell survey interviewers they have no formal religious identity.[35]
I'm OK with corporations owning "work for hire" work - if you do the work as an employee, IMO it's OK for the employer to own the copywrite. It would be vastly harder to get a job otherwise. If you want to ban anyone ("corporations" is a distraction) from acquiring copyright from an individual (not work for hire), I'd be OK with that, but I'm not sure what the difference between "copyright" and "exclusive distribution license" would be in practice.
But it's just nuts that that applies in any way to academia.
What, exactly, has convinced you that you can actually trust Microsoft? Has MS invited you to personally examine their code, to satisfy yourself that there are no exploits in their system? No? I didn't think so
Microsoft has many thousands of former employees who once had access to the source, with little to lose from anonymous whistleblowing. There are likely as many eyes on any important bit of MS code as open source code, given the size of the company. The backlash for getting caught lying is huge. That's why all the "big lie" companies are so pissed at the gag orders that accompanied their demands for information.
Let's not forget than open source vendors are just as vulnerable to this sort of arm twisting - and again I just hope for whistleblowers willing to take the risk. Other than Theo de Ranter, who I'm fairly confident would instantly disobey any gag order, if just to have something new to complain about, I'm not sure most open source software really has an advantage here.
But even if you do run Open BSD, what do you run on it? It's the "browsing the web" part that I care about exploits in, not my home file server, and no one anywhere seems capable of writing a web browser small and simple enough to take any claims of being exploit-free seriously, even without JavaScript (well, a browser more functional than Lynx).
The government running the presses through the night is a vastly better system than the government sending out the troops to collect all the gold it can find, rule of law be damned. That seems to happen with every government.
As much as QE is messing with the economy, it's far better than the government going after the big vulnerable targets: 401Ks, university endowments, and insurance company floats. Any big pool of money, really, is vulnerable, and constitutional protections against property taxes would only matter if we had a SCOTUS who gave a shit about constitutionality.
Chase is very fee happy, but I pay none of those fees since they're all voluntary.
I despise WF because they would keep losing my records. They'd "forget" they shouldn't charge me a monthly fee for my checking account because I also had a CD with them, and so on. Something would go wrong every month, always "accidentally" resulting in them charging me some fee inappropriately.
Chase so far hasn't done any of that BS, and the people I've talked to at branches when I needed help were all cheerful and, well, helpful. They don't pay interest worth caring about on anything they offer, of course, but I have better places to put real money.
Widely successful bands will make good money on a tipjar model. The problem is how to let good, second-tier bands make enough to do their music full time. Hopefully the new industry can figure something out - with 1000 fans it's too much to expect, but a band with 10000 fans should be able to scrape by and make music full time.
The problem with live performances for money is it only lets bands with local fans make it, and the internet/social media isn't great for that. If your advertising is internet-based, it's easier to find 10000 fans worldwide than in your city.
When I read the access request for any Android app, I end up declining. SD card, network, contacts, and location access, for a kitchen timer? No thanks. That's why I have no apps on my phone and why I miss my Startac.
I'm looking for a feature phone to replace my smartphone now. There just are no apps I'm willing to install, plus I want physical buttons.
Where building a studio takes skill is lowering the noise floor.
Not really a problem with modern music. After the loudness wars music has a typical dynamic range of roughly 0db, so recording in a construction zone with a car alarm going off should be fine. And why do you need an expensive mic when you're just going to auto-tune?
Oh, wait, did you mean good music? Right, I see your point, but who records that these days, outside of jazz bands?
Social whatnow? No wonder I can't find new music - apparently you have to give up all expectation of privacy in order to find new bands.
Normal, old-school advertising is also available as a service. Instead of paying 95% of sales to a studio for a little ad spend, a band could pay 20% and hire the ad company themselves.
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Yup, that's the difference between a sports car and a GT cruiser.
For all that, you'll still be in a ricer.
Most cars can't get out of a snow drift with the traction control on. Sometimes you need wheelspin.
My V8 may only be 5.6L, but it will still leave a patch if I let it (realistically, it probably has more power than any of the 60s muscle cars, given the way that measuring power has changed over the decades). I've dione it by accident before in reverse (there's no traction control in reverse).
Most of those rules are the basis of the legal system in most place: don't kill, don't steal, etc. This is the primary reason the Ten Commandments was in so many courthouses: it's important historically to our legal system.
And, seriously, every damn belief system has been used as the basis for mass killing by government. The content of belief systems rarely has anything to do with the killing - it's just the most convenient excuse.
The 4th commandment can be understood in an invisible-unicorn-free way, and it's good advice. For the workaholic: don't spend 7 days a week working, take one day to de-stress, connect with community and family, and think about stuff other than work. Even God rested on the 7th day.
Sounds like good advice to me.
The 2nd commandment was about putting the business of idolaters out of work. If it were modernized to "that shalt not be a televangelist" I'd get behind it as well.
Marriage makes just as much sense as a formal business partnership does, and the same body of law should really apply to both. Once you decide to live together and mingle funds, you need a way to sort that all out when it ends.
Don't confuse the reason with the explanation. The reason that almost every surviving religion tries to focus sex exclusively on reproduction is because that's why they're the surviving religions. Those who bred faster overcame those who bred slower, and over the centuries pro-breeding religions/cultures won out. Different religions have different moral justifications for that, but the explanation's don't matter much.
The Bible of course has next to nothing to say about homosexuality, because it just wasn't relevant until recently: your duty to the tribe was to form a stable breeding relationship, and who (or what) you had sex with (or wanted to) for fun on the side just wasn't important.
There was no real chance for life on Earth before the Iron Catastrophe, which melted the crust and likely was the first time the crust was anything like a smooth layer. Life may have formed as "quickly" as a hundred million years after the crust cooled enough to have liquid water pooling.
Mars is less certain, but I'd assume it went through the same cycle, and had at least a couple hundred million years with stable liquid water before its core solidified and stopped spinning.
And so what's your point? The entire tech stack has thousands of eyeballs on every layer, more former employees than current, and still no reason to think anything fishy wouldn't have leaked by now.
Now, new closed-source technology I can understand being leery of (e.g., Intel's new-ish onboard RNG silicon, which basically no crypto-geek trusts right now), but would you really thing a company like MS or Intel is better at keeping secrets than the NSA?
What's their nuclear option? What's their post-nuclear strategy? It's doubtful the NSA is going to change their ways.
This may come as a surprise to you, but major corporations with money to burn have some minor influence over the US government. Why, sometimes it almost seems like some laws were written by the corporations themselves. Shocking, I know.
The "Windows code" is in fact something that you can audit fix and install for many thousands of current and former MS employees. Do you really think nothing would have leaked over all these years?
Intentions never matter. Results always matter. All the chatter and groupthink on /. is that the big corporations really run the government. Well, these big corporations want to change how the government is run, in a way that benefits us. I wish them the best of luck.
It's a subset, though: plenty of atheists go to church, for social reasons. Very few people believe in some vague idea of God not associated with any religious system, again for social reasons.
To me, the fact that a Doctor can refuse to perform a service because they don't like their profit margin on it even though the AGREED to accept that amount in their contract, is BS. This is akin to a retailer advertising a model of TV for a cheap price, but not having ever even purchased any of said model to be sold.
I suspect you'll find the doctor didn't agree to perform the service at that price, but instead they agreed that if they were to perform the service, they would only get paid $X. They might well give vaccinations to people with different insurance, where the insurance pays enough.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
Was there a spike in the 70s or something? Not as I recall. Quoth Wikipedia
At some points in the 1950s, almost all Americans identified themselves with a particular religion. In recent years, more than 1 in 10 Americans tell survey interviewers they have no formal religious identity.[35]
I'm OK with corporations owning "work for hire" work - if you do the work as an employee, IMO it's OK for the employer to own the copywrite. It would be vastly harder to get a job otherwise. If you want to ban anyone ("corporations" is a distraction) from acquiring copyright from an individual (not work for hire), I'd be OK with that, but I'm not sure what the difference between "copyright" and "exclusive distribution license" would be in practice.
But it's just nuts that that applies in any way to academia.
What, exactly, has convinced you that you can actually trust Microsoft? Has MS invited you to personally examine their code, to satisfy yourself that there are no exploits in their system? No? I didn't think so
Microsoft has many thousands of former employees who once had access to the source, with little to lose from anonymous whistleblowing. There are likely as many eyes on any important bit of MS code as open source code, given the size of the company. The backlash for getting caught lying is huge. That's why all the "big lie" companies are so pissed at the gag orders that accompanied their demands for information.
Let's not forget than open source vendors are just as vulnerable to this sort of arm twisting - and again I just hope for whistleblowers willing to take the risk. Other than Theo de Ranter, who I'm fairly confident would instantly disobey any gag order, if just to have something new to complain about, I'm not sure most open source software really has an advantage here.
But even if you do run Open BSD, what do you run on it? It's the "browsing the web" part that I care about exploits in, not my home file server, and no one anywhere seems capable of writing a web browser small and simple enough to take any claims of being exploit-free seriously, even without JavaScript (well, a browser more functional than Lynx).
Aren't you a little old to be a hipster? There's nothing sadder ...
The government running the presses through the night is a vastly better system than the government sending out the troops to collect all the gold it can find, rule of law be damned. That seems to happen with every government.
As much as QE is messing with the economy, it's far better than the government going after the big vulnerable targets: 401Ks, university endowments, and insurance company floats. Any big pool of money, really, is vulnerable, and constitutional protections against property taxes would only matter if we had a SCOTUS who gave a shit about constitutionality.
Chase is very fee happy, but I pay none of those fees since they're all voluntary.
I despise WF because they would keep losing my records. They'd "forget" they shouldn't charge me a monthly fee for my checking account because I also had a CD with them, and so on. Something would go wrong every month, always "accidentally" resulting in them charging me some fee inappropriately.
Chase so far hasn't done any of that BS, and the people I've talked to at branches when I needed help were all cheerful and, well, helpful. They don't pay interest worth caring about on anything they offer, of course, but I have better places to put real money.
Widely successful bands will make good money on a tipjar model. The problem is how to let good, second-tier bands make enough to do their music full time. Hopefully the new industry can figure something out - with 1000 fans it's too much to expect, but a band with 10000 fans should be able to scrape by and make music full time.
The problem with live performances for money is it only lets bands with local fans make it, and the internet/social media isn't great for that. If your advertising is internet-based, it's easier to find 10000 fans worldwide than in your city.
When I read the access request for any Android app, I end up declining. SD card, network, contacts, and location access, for a kitchen timer? No thanks. That's why I have no apps on my phone and why I miss my Startac.
I'm looking for a feature phone to replace my smartphone now. There just are no apps I'm willing to install, plus I want physical buttons.
Where building a studio takes skill is lowering the noise floor.
Not really a problem with modern music. After the loudness wars music has a typical dynamic range of roughly 0db, so recording in a construction zone with a car alarm going off should be fine. And why do you need an expensive mic when you're just going to auto-tune?
Oh, wait, did you mean good music? Right, I see your point, but who records that these days, outside of jazz bands?
Did I say social media already?
Social media.
Social whatnow? No wonder I can't find new music - apparently you have to give up all expectation of privacy in order to find new bands.
Normal, old-school advertising is also available as a service. Instead of paying 95% of sales to a studio for a little ad spend, a band could pay 20% and hire the ad company themselves.