I'm curious... I've never needed a gun for anything... if I were to buy a gun... would that add me to another category... being a tool?
What is the obsession with these metal objects which have many applications but are most often owned by people who seem to first buy one and then look for a reason to own one. I did this with a toy robot I have. He can now dance and sing and welcomes me when I walk into the office.
I wonder... would a dildo have the same effect? In other words... if you didn't really need one but you bought one anyway, simply because you have the right to buy one of course. Would you run around wearing one in a holster? Would you fight for legal rights to have a vibrator on display, clipped safely to your belt while at Chuck'E Cheese during a children's birthday? Currently, so far as I know, you can be arrested for this type of behavior, though within the right context it's clear to me that a large enough or odd enough dildo or vibrator could be classified as baring arms.
If you had one which was gigantic and shaped like a fist, I'm positive it would classify as "baring arms". So... would you fight for your legal right to carry a large object capable of stroking, fisting and otherwise just beating the shit out of someone with when used as a club? Would you carry it across your back? In your belt? Or would you insist that you be allowed to keep it "Cocked" at all times?
You could suggest that a large fist shaped vibrating dildo would not be in the same category as a hand gun... I would disagree... I'm 100% convinced that it would have a far higher likelihood of scaring off the bad guys than a gun. If you break out a gun, most bad guys would likely respond violently. Break our a gigantic vibrating dildo and chase a guy with it, it's almost absolutely certain to cause the other guy to panic and run.
I'm also pretty convinced that if you wanted to topple a tyrant... a creative person with such a fantastic dildo would have much more of a chance against armored soldiers with tanks and such than a redneck with a pile of guns. Paint it rainbow and you would conquer half of North Carolina with one swing.
I think we both agree that like your guns, such amazing and versatile fist shaped, vibrating "massage items" are best kept locked away from children in your bedroom than on display for everyone to see. You can take them out when the time is appropriate. You can rub them and touch them and clean them and keep them oiled and shiny. I simply don't need to know your expertise level with such items... it's ok if you keep that to yourself.
I honestly swear, I really really really don't want you using either your gun or your love toy around me even in extreme circumstances. I am perfectly ok with taking my risks and dieing instead.
Frankly, I'm anti-nationalism and I don't really feel that I need to be superior to animals. I am quite sure that my humanity is something that enables me to do many things and thankfully keeps me at the top of the food chain. I honestly have no ethical issues with what they're attempting to accomplish beyond this...
1) How many animals would they need to raise, maintain, etc... to build a "warehouse" of organs to ensure that when they are needed a "match" can be found? Wouldn't this require insanely massive populations of animals for even relatively simple to match organs? Then there's supply and demand... I could easily imagine needing a million+ having to be breed and fed, etc...
2) What about sterility and mating them? If you have a million+ farm animals, do you snip-snip them all the males? How do you keep them from breeding so you can maintain an accurate database of organ characteristics?
3) How long would it take to raise a farm animal to an age where the organ would be beneficial? Would a one year old pig have a heart that would match a 40 year old adult human? Would it have to be 5 or 10 years old? If so, then how many more animals would we need to farm to have a supply?
4) Tissue printing instead? Aren't we doing pretty good things so far with research to print organs? Isn't this more likely to yield the desired results?
The fact is, like most research these days, it's half-assed. They apparently wrote a survey and paid someone to make calls but the survey didn't adapt to the reality. Like "If the user's accounts have been jacked... why?"
I have passwords I print out and hang up like wireless access and netflix accounts. I have passwords which I use for banking. Passwords I use for servers, etc...
There's the other issue as well... how about who jacked their accounts?
Ex-girl/boy friend? Ex-BFF? Etc... Why did the person jack their accounts? Older people like myself could probably print half my passwords out and hang them up at work and never worry about them being taken. The reason is, the people I surround myself with aren't really into drama and such. The only password you can't share is Facebook because you don't want to leave that where your colleagues can be too tempted to make some entertaining postings in good fun. On the other hand, young people tend to still have some growing up to do.
Hmm... American website, American company, American Press Release.. etc...
You know that if it said "5/6/16" it could be confusing which is the month and which is the day. If it says "5/13/16", you'd have to be severely mentally handicapped to be confused by this.
I'll be kind enough to translate for you... 5/13/16 in American format translates to 2016-05-13 in a relatively sane format or 13-05-2016 in yet another fantastically stupid format or 2016-May-13 for a good human readable format.
You get confused by that whole fancy left and right thing too?
Pretty sure that's what killed it. The entire Hololens infrastructure appears to be the Project Spark GUI without the backgrounds. When I saw Hololens, it took about 1/4 of a second to realize that the reason Microsoft invested so heavily into Project Spark was to design the user interface for Hololens. They even got wide spread testing of usability by making it a game engine for people to try out and experiment with "VR style" manipulation of the environment.
I kinda knew Spark would die sooner than later as it was obvious where those developers would be placed.
While I have never written "Would of" instead of "Would have". Certainly, I would have never written "Would've"... as it seems just sloppy.
But my use of the "Would of" in spoken language is definitely clear and excessive. I believe I'll make a genuine effort to correct this in the future. I am an American living in another country and regularly make conscience efforts to refine my speech in order to both improve clarity as well as set a good example for those around me, especially my children's friends.
At some point, I should attempt to find a list of "Stupid abuses of the English language that confuse foreigners". I can honestly say that there are many dialects of English that have evolved to borderline stupidity. "Queen's English" is so full of crap and nonsense now it's nearly as bad as Cajun. The language itself is doomed when the Queen herself can't be bothered to say "Football" but instead uses the term "Fudty" with a very special and specific pronunciation of U as well as the DT which sounds wrong and uncomfortably unless a coal miner with no teeth say it.
Over the past few decades a clear decline of the "Queens English" occurred as all words had to either end with a "y" or just be cute. Instead of sausages, there's bangers, instead of "mashed potatoes", there is simple "mash". It's become a language for people to abuse primarily through "cutsiness" and laziness.
The many other dialects of English around the world are equally bad. But as there's a specific dialect which is even named, it's far easier to focus on its shortcomings.
Agreed... besides, I never really was on board with the whole retained graphics mode APIs (abusing the term) from Microsoft themselves. Truth be told, we waited a long time for good cross platform game engines to come around and they have made awesome progress now. The underlying APIs are there for tweaking and stuff. I would say that for the most part, shader languages are more important than anything else. Write your game using a game engine and then make it rock with shaders.
So, these days, it's far more important to use game engines with game development tools. The loss of things like XNA while sad isn't really such a big blow. I've been waiting for Microsoft to buy out Unity for a while now... they've been consuming some pretty cool companies and I think that if you put the mono team and the unity team in the same building, magic will happen
Hmm... last I checked....NET is their core platform these days and works pretty nicely. Silverlight is more or less replaced by HTML 5 now, so while Microsoft still supports it, it's kinda on the way out... after all... with no plugin support in browsers, what's the alternative. Plays for sure was kind of a marketing thing with some DRM on top.
So, I'm a little lost.
As for lock-in, these days, C# and.NET are practically the only cross platform development toolkit with support. C and C++ for application development are basically dead. It's not that as languages they're bad, they're just not that good anymore. Almost every half decent C project out there is written by more or less by using an object model which almost precisely recreates C++ in structures. C++ was the best language for application development (especially cross platform) for like 20-30 years but that was more of "by default" since there weren't any other well supported languages on multiple platforms. Java just never really happened. The reason for this is that Sun kinda screwed everything up with AWT and 5 generations of shit before SWT happened which no one really caught onto. I addition, there's no real support for mobile devices.
So, that leaves us with C#, Objective-C (and maybe soon Swift).
Objective-C was an amazing language due the the really awesome way it was possible to compile all function calls into MPI since the function declarations clearly spelled out everything needed to serialize data and there was this sort of implied async functional call interface to begin with. Add to that the NextSTEP libraries almost religious enforcement of MVC, lovely. The problem was programming Objective-C was that writing Objective-C code felt like flossing your teeth through your ass. It was just an infuriatingly ugly programming language. It was designed for the computer, not the programmer.
Then came Swift which says "Let's get all the goodies of Objective-C and make it usable" and then Apple released what might be one of the worst compilers I've ever encountered in my life to support it in the open source. The parser is so incredibly shitty that when warnings and errors are generated due to syntax, an error on line 1026 will report as being on line 1 since the compiler just failed and since it seems to be tokenizing the entire file before parsing it (feels that way, probably isn't) it has no idea which context it's in at the time and just pukes. The entire front end of Swift needs a rewrite by proper compiler engineers. And oh... Swift still grabs hold of "let the programmer manage the memory and processes" because they figured they couldn't get the purists to adopt it.
So, that leaves us with C# which just works... it's probably the prettiest language at the moment. Microsoft has a bit of feature sprawl, but they manage it nicely. Developer documentation is pretty good and covers all versions... unlike Java which no matter how bad the screw up is will never remove anything (no matter how bad it fucks up the whole Java architecture),.NET evolves and both adds and removes features. At this time C# is fully supported on all desktop operating systems with tools. In addition, it's supported on all phone platforms and I've even gotten it working on a TI DSP running SYSBIOS. So I'm pretty damn sure C# is not only here to stay but unless you're counting clock cycles, it's probably the most versatile compilable language.
So.. in the end, I can't imagine what you're ranting about. I've never had a problem with support for Microsoft technologies (maybe FoxPro, but it was time for that to go).
So... basically make it so that the organizations who profited off of the big bucks of beating the shit out of the entire city and economy of Rio can take their cash and run in exchange for a TV show and all the people who have suffered up until now through years of chaos and construction etc... should be totally screwed because their businesses selling food and newspapers and such won't be able to have anyone to sell to?
The ONLY good thing about the Olympics is that the local shop owners will have 2-3 weeks of opportunity to increase their prices 400% and increase their volumes 500% and with some good managing of the profits catch that lucky break they were looking for.
While I agree with your sentiment... they way you present it leads me to say that the answer is clearly no.
"Shouldn't we have a say?"... the world doesn't work that way. If you want a say, you simply have to say it. If you need to ask it first, then your opinion is too passive and is utterly irrelevant and carries no power.
Are you seriously suggesting that when voicing your opinion in what would be perceived as opposition to an event focused entirely on measure of strength and physical prowess that your passive voice will mean anything? You will be simply unrepresented which you simply always are. Do not feel bad, so am I. I haven't been represented in government since shortly after I was born.
You can choose to live in fear and anger. You can feel bitter about it and whine and say things like "Shouldn't we have a say?" as if you're trying to rouse the rabble to your passive voice. Or you can simply live your life each day.
I have no interest in religion beyond personal entertainment in the same way I like The Three Stooges but I've always had a warm spot for the Serenity Prayer which goes something like this :
Pizza Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
I'll add :
And the intelligence to live my life without the fear Fox, CNN and NBC are trying to force down my throat 24/7
P.S. Thank you Pizza Lord for giving us Elon Musk. He's a fucking asshole but at least the "Doom New Networks" will take an occasional break from their broadcasts of "Hell and damnation is here" long enough to share one of his Shitter Twitters with us.
I was obsessed with the Olympics last year... it ends up my city (Oslo, Norway) was bidding to host the Olympics.
We just spend 5-6 years building seven 10 story buildings and some other stuff around it. They're still not done. I think we used only one legged construction workers and took away their walking sticks for safety reasons.
Some dimwitted buffoon seemed to think it was a good idea to through this entire city into 6-8 years of sheer devastation and disaster on a scale that could only be considered criminal to host a few weeks of people playing games. This city would never be able to build that infrastructure in that time... we simply don't know how. In additional, we would never recover from it. 30 years (I think) later and this country still has trash from the Olympics laying around.
I was obsessed with convincing people to make sure the vote went against the Olympics. I don't mind people getting their rocks off on watching people (usually of their own gender) getting hot and sweaty. If they're into that, it's really not my problem. But I sure as hell don't want to spend an extra hour getting to work for 8 years so they can do so.
It's not entirely FUD... certainly in its current form of presentation, it's been blown up into something fantastic and WOW worthy.
The truth is, every time people travel, there will be illness associated. I can't get anywhere near most South American countries without spending at least one day close to a toilet. This is mostly due to having been forced to grow up in the anti-bacterial country called the USA. It took me over 10 years after leaving America to build an immune system which works fairly well in Europe and a chunk of Asia. Africa and South America are still a problem for me.
The fact is... it's far more likely that simply letting 500,000 adrenaline/testosterone junkies travel someplace where they can all be stupid together will result in something far worse than a Zika outbreak.
Actually... it has absolutely nothing to do with physical fitness. People in general like to fuck.
It's more a connection like this.
People who like sports tend to have some sort of a need to gain an adrenaline rush of some type. Men who watch sports are generally testosterone addicted as well. These people find their entertainment through generally primal and highly physical forms. Women who watch sports are generally highly competitive in nature and are more likely to revert to primal states as well. Even my almost best buddy, she's a Ph.D. in DSP... her brain fails to function when exposed to any form of competition... physical or verbal.
Spectators of sports seem to have some sort of illness that makes them irrationally believe that other people doing something more or less benign like kicking a ball around has something to do with them. They seem to believe at both an emotional and physical level that if some hairy tattooed guy with limited cognitive capacity jumps over a stick... this persons action effects them somehow. It's probably a similar mental disorder to the one which causes many people to feel a need to invent or at least believe in invisible sky gods and magical places you go to just be happy after you die.
As such... these peoples hormone levels increase drastically causing people to revert to something closer to a primal state which obviously is expressed in primal behavior.
I honestly an less concerned about Zika and far more concerned about the cleanliness of the prostitutes who will be in Rio during this event. Based on statistics published by PornHub during the world cup a few years back (was that Rio too?). People who get their rocks off on sports rush to porn sites during commercial breaks. If people are this horny over watching players (generally of their own gender) getting hot and sweaty... I can only imagine that even the meanest of the prostitutes is likely to receive some business from spectators not bright enough to realize "You do not wish to place anything in there".
I lost interest in much of what he said when I saw the school he goes to and that he says things like "host them in another city".
He's absolutely without a doubt correct about the possibility of the virus spread. He is kinda down to earth regarding "let's not be extremist". But in reality, unless the transcription is terrible, he seems to lack the ability to put his separate thoughts into something logical and coherent. Therefore, it's difficult for me to be overly interested in his perspective.
So... as you mention, the moral of the story is... shoot anyone you know who might be going to the olympics or may have been around someone who has before they get close enough.
Here's a thought....
- The Olympics will be in the southern hemisphere during mosquito low season.
- People who attend the games will be at a risk of being infected with Zika, though not as high of a risk as at other times since it will be a low season.
- The population of the city will be a minimum for 500,000 people greater during this event than normal.
- The life span of a mosquito at the expected temperatures should be approximately 14 days, 10 if it warms up... which simply increasing population by 500,000 may contribute to.
- There will be a much higher amount of trash and dirt in the city as well as viable food sources for mosquitoes
- By the end of the events, the mosquito population should have grown... maybe even a lot.
- More people will be at risk of infection due to simple population growth
- More people will be infected... even if the infection rate is as little as 1 in 500, that's still 1,000 infected individuals
- The people will travel home during summer in the northern hemisphere
- The mosquito population following summer should be near it's apex at the time.
It seems to me that there's more to consider on this topic.
1) Identify whether early detection is possible and require tests followed by possible isolation before boarding airplanes.
2) Offer quarantine at indoor spas in arriving countries for people who have been to the Olympics.
3) As seems most logical and has been suggested... suggest to people to simply not go. I can't imagine why anyone would want to go to the Olympics anyway. It seems an overpriced way to drag your knuckles.
4) How to exploit the American news networks to turn a profit on this... after all, in America's current "Fear Economy", the fear propaganda mills run almost 24/7 to ensure people keep their jobs. Zika is a great way to scare people... especially with the possible (even likely) link with birth related issues. There must be a way to turn a profit on this. Maybe a new fashion trend of veils and long gloves to reduce exposed body surface mosquitoes would find attractive?
I used to very successfully know when my friends were stoned by their pupils.
Ann ipad with a front facing camera capturing and analyzing eye movement and pupil dilation during a series of flashes and moving objects should be perfectly suitable for calculating fitness to drive.
It would work for testing whether people who may be in shock should drive too. I am pretty sure it would block most politicians from driving though. Has anyone noticed how many politicians are a bit slow to focus their eyes... as if things like sound are confusing?
Just like job markets are substantially different from state to state, in Europe it's different country by country.
As for IT salaries, are they higher or lower relative to the cost of living? I think you'll find that it's actually about equal. I am an IT guy in Norway and I make a lot more than Americans but my cost of living is higher... it balances.
I think that there's somewhere in-between. America is the biggest and wealthiest socialist country in the world. Has been for a long time. When the unemployment rate goes up, they find something new like scaring the shit out of people which currently employs nearly 20% of the working population of America directly or indirectly using government funds.
The thriving American economy is based almost entirely on providing work for millions and millions of people through more or less unnecessary programs. Even if it means giving a guy 20 years in prison for smoking weed... it creates jobs and without the constant fear of all these evil criminals, a million jobs at least would be lost and another million jobs would be needed for the people who are in prison if they were out.
There are many shades of gray here.... whether it's militaries, DHS, NSA, FBI, police forces, CIA, TSA, prison systems, arms dealers, etc... the US has a massive protectionist market for employees. Bush senior started it, Clinton tried to screw the whole thing up.. Bush Jr got the ball really rolling and Obama thrived by building the most impressive FUD economy the world has ever imagined. Americans are so scared shitless now that the government can spend anything they want and create jobs a million at a time because some American-born professor of middle eastern descent is calculating a differential equation on the plane and the crazy assed woman next to him thinks he must be a terrorist because she can't tell the difference between Greek and Arabic writing so the plane is grounded and 500+ people are needed in different jobs to do everything from write policies to investigating it to providing PR etc...
Your awesome and prosperous thriving economy is how the national deficit happens. Every country in the world prints a certain amount of new money each year and needs some legitimate method of feeding it into the economy so that everyone will have more to go around. Norway who doesn't even need to do it still does it because if everyone else did it and they didn't it would screw everything up. So they all make new fake money, run up deficits and feed that money into government funded jobs which eventually circulates to the gas station or fruit stand or restaurants. The deficit is a great thing if all countries can agree to go into debt at an approximately even rate. Thankfully, China is finally playing the game properly.
Now, higher quality of life, standards of living, etc... that comes from rigid labor markets. As an American in such a country... I can tell you the standard of living in the lower, middle and upper class in Norway is substantially higher than in the US. The reason is because the standard of living is higher in all three classes due to protectionism. The rich don't surround their houses with walls like freaky scared people. The middle class send their kids to public schools because we all have a higher standard of living thanks to the rigid labor markets.
Nonsense.... the highest paid are the highest paid because they are skilled negotiators who understand how to market themselves and convince the people who are approving their raises and those higher sums that it is reasonable to do so.
The lowest paid are the lowest paid because they lack the ability to represent themselves and build their network to increase their perceived value to others. They don't place themselves in the right places with the right people at the right times. As a result, they are overlooked or aren't given their higher pay.
There is absolutely nothing out there that says that if an employer wants to keep more money for himself and believes that he can continue operating his company and holding onto his employees without giving raises that he is obligated to give raises anyway. It would be like you going to the more expensive car shop to buy the exact same car with the exact same terms at a higher price because it just feels right to do so. You don't even feel shy telling the car sales person you really want the car but it's a little out of my price range when you know perfectly well you can pay the extra $20 a month without even thinking about it. And he doesn't feel shy telling you that he can't really afford to come down any further on the price.
If you don't know how to be a dirty whore... or you think it's beneath you to make jokes about your secret of your success is related to wearing knee pads, you will be paid based on what the market will bare. If I can convince you to work for me and earn me lots of money while I pay you a wage that says "If the government would legally permit me to pay you less, I would" why the hell should I pay a guy willing to work on those terms more?
That being said, I refuse to hire anyone at all that would be willing to work for someone like that. If you don't understand your own self worth well enough to come straight out and say "Listen, you and I both know that I'm worth more than that. Let's for the moment suggest that I'm asking you to pay me X+$10,000 a year, you want to pay me X - $10,000 a year and we'll settle on X which will make us both feel as if we didn't quite get exactly what we wanted but walked away better off than we would have otherwise".
Also... what I find amazing is that most people don't realize that when you apply for a job which is listed as $80,000-$100,000 a year, that's not the number the company can afford, that's the number which the company believes that can hire the person for the position for. In reality, if they publish a budget of $80-$100, they can easily pay $120-$160 if you can convince them that you think you're worth it.
This is where the problem arises, convincing yourself you're worth it. First of all, do you think that your presence at the company is worth their outlay of about $250,000 a year which is what that $160,000 salary will cost them? Is there any profit in the company hiring your for that price? Understand you would never want to work for an idiot who can't figure out whether you're actually worth that much. Now... it's irrelevant whether you are in fact worth that much. What is important is, will your employment at the company generate enough value for the company that either you'll bring in the $250,000 for them (hopefully some profit as well) or that the services you're providing the company will provide that much in value. For example, would it cost more or less to hire a consultancy who also provides insurance and service etc... Does your knowledge have the opportunity that simply having you present to spout words of wisdom will make money or save money?
If that's the case, then think to yourself as those guys do... If I try to start with a price which I believe I'm worth and then justify it based on how much value I bring to the company, then why not instead identify what I believe the company can afford to pay and instead of asking for the sum that I wanted, I can instead say "If my presence is worth $5,000,000 a year to the company, then I surely can ask
The FBI is called any time a local law enforcement team is unable to handle their own processes. Consider it to be something like a two tier support system. Cops first, Feds next.
When it comes to technology related issues, the FBI very likely is contacted for use of their forensics labs almost constantly. As telephones become more difficult for law enforcement to crack, the FBI will be contacted more often, establish a longer backlog and especially in the case of police departments with less funding, will have to perform work with little or no recompense.
When a terrorist's telephone became available to push the issue with, the FBI saw this as an opportunity to simplify the process of unlocking telephones more rapidly since Apple would of course be reasonable and finally see that law enforcement needs more effective ways of accessing such data without the FBI always needing to be called. If nothing else, they should be able to disable the 10 failure bomb and manually type 10000 or 1000000 values in by hand.
Apple didn't play with this game. If they were to publish a method to the FBI to make the phones vulnerable, all it would take is some cop showing off for his nephew to leak the information into the public and it would quickly become widespread.
Whatever the underlying issues with the case is, law enforcement at times requires access to data on telephones. But this issue is much wider spread than just America. As such, Apple is trying to have some control over the unlocking of the phones, not because they want to screw the FBI (which these days they might want to) but because they don't want to be responsible for supporting less ethical governments.
Both sides have valid points and valid concerns.
If Apple manages to make an iPhone which can't be easily hack (hasn't happened yet) then the problem will be somewhat solved by removing the possibility of unlocking the phone to begin with.
$1700 a month child support!?!?!?! Holy shit!!! I pay that much per child and then also have to spend time with them and raise them and stuff too. That sounds like a fucking great deal. I'm calling my wife and asking for a divorce and making her take the kids.
Me and the two brats are taking a trip (just the three of us) from Norway to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, to London and back this summer... just the business class tickets and hotels in Tokyo and London have cost me about $14,000 so far. By the time I pay for the beach house in New York, the rental car, food, taxis, etc... I expect to be well over $20,000. That's $10,000 per kid burned in 2 weeks just to give them a nice summer vacation. And worst of all.. they'll probably want me to spend time with them and talk with them and bring them all over to see stuff. So... add the pain and suffering on top of the financial cost.
Dude... you've got a sweet deal. I've been threatening them for years to dress them in paper bags and duct tape... then to "stuff me", I came home and found them both sitting around dressed in paper bags and bunny rabbit print duct tape... smiling!!! BRATS!!!
I'm 40 which I can't decide if it's old or not in this industry. I generally feel quite young among my peers.
To be honest, I agree with you with the exception of with my Asbergers "friends". I have worked with some of the most exceptional minds in computational mathematics and physics over the years and to be fair, these guys are genuinely unmarketable. They are the best people at what they do and they work extremely hard and for the most part diligently and make miracles happen in code. Companies around the world are desperate for their skills and talents. But they need to work the job they got when they graduated the university until they retire or they're screwed.
I know of at least three of these guys living on unemployment (maybe for the rest of their lives) because they are utterly unable to communicate with anyone with an IQ under 170 (I use the term IQ just to have some numerical reference... I just mean really really good at solving puzzles). It's not because they check IQ cards or they black list people because their IQs are too low. It's because they actually are medically incapable of being interested in holding an interest in communicating with anyone who doesn't provide "valuable input" to solving their puzzles. They have absolute focus on problem solving and have absolutely no interest in the outside world. These are real life Sheldons x10. I had a conversation with one the other night who displayed a very unusual level of emotion and excitement since his roommate (a girl with severe communication issues... crippled by fear of other people) had taught him to use a vacuum cleaner properly. He'll probably vacuum that apartment 16 times a day for three weeks.
I honestly never have any problems finding work in this business and my age has had absolutely no impact other than positive. I do recall having major problems with age when I was in my teens and early 20's. At 40, people simply assume that I know what I'm doing.
Having measured soap consumption during stadium events for the purpose of planning logistics for the next event, we learned that the ladies bathroom used on average 72 times the soap per person than the men's bathroom. This is not an exaggeration and is based on statistics gathered across 10 events held over 10 years with 5500 attendees over a period of 5 days per event.
We tried to explain the discrepancy without simply saying "guys are pigs" and the best we came up with was that we believe that women on average used the bathrooms over this time twice as often as guys... though unless we started scanning people entering and exiting, we can't be 100% sure about the accuracy of that.
The end result is, no matter how we twist it, the average woman consumes 36 times as much soap in the bathroom than a man.
As such... I wouldn't worry about the hand dryers in the ladies bathroom, but I would in the men's.
So... then consider, men are terrible at washing their hands. They shake your hand, touch the door knobs, use your tools, etc... They will spread it EVERYWHERE!!!
The obvious follow up is that it really doesn't make a difference and since American germiphobia is famous worldwide for Americans' terrible immune systems, maybe it's more important whether a hand dryer dries your hands than whether it spreads germs. European doctors sit in groups laughing about how American doctors can't travel to seminars because their immune systems are so damaged by anti-bacterial soaps that they spend the whole week sick in the hotel rooms.
I'm an old bugger as well and frankly, I avoid listening to anyone in the modern medical profession beyond "You're skull is bleeding, maybe we should give you stitches".
I also have normal blood pressure and cholesterol and such... guess what... there's a bunch of us who can eat ANYTHING and never have a problem with those things. I went to the doctor after eating a 250gm bacon cheese burger with extra russian dressing ever morning for 6 years.. went to the doctor... perfect levels. I was a fat ass bastard, but perfect cholesterol.
After losing more than 25% of my personal mass (no divorce required) and keeping the weight off long enough for my skin to regenerate and no longer sag, I have some old man advice as well.
1) Exercise is how you avoid making muscles ache. You need to do it once in a while... like every second year for a few weeks just to strengthen them a little bit. 2) You can eat absolutely anything you want... as long as you burn as many calories as you consume. For weight loss, the best thing is... eat less more move. For maintaining low weight... same principle, find the balance. 3) Stress kills faster than anything else. If you're 40 and you're stressed about your diet and health and such... you probably won't last much longer. More people die young from trying to live longer than any other thing. If you live long enough to see your kids grow up awesome.. if you get to walk your daughter down the isle... even better... if you get to feel your grandchild's hand wrapped around your finger.. amazing... if you don't... shit happens... you'll be dead it won't matter. Relax and enjoy yourself. There's no point living to 100 if that means you have to go to a gym and skip cheeseburgers to get there.
I'm not convinced "Studying the interaction of a molecule with bacteria under a microscope is certainly science"
To me, this is a scientific like thing, but I think disassembling the bacteria into its individual atoms and understanding how the bacteria is built well enough to reassemble it is science.
This is about as much science as running up to a 300kg gorilla and smacking it in the nose to see if you can get away from him before he rips your arms from your body is.
Simply poking something with something else IS NOT SCIENCE... it's an episode of Jackass under a microscope.
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Free men own guns. Slaves don't.
... would that add me to another category... being a tool?
I'm curious... I've never needed a gun for anything... if I were to buy a gun
What is the obsession with these metal objects which have many applications but are most often owned by people who seem to first buy one and then look for a reason to own one. I did this with a toy robot I have. He can now dance and sing and welcomes me when I walk into the office.
I wonder... would a dildo have the same effect? In other words... if you didn't really need one but you bought one anyway, simply because you have the right to buy one of course. Would you run around wearing one in a holster? Would you fight for legal rights to have a vibrator on display, clipped safely to your belt while at Chuck'E Cheese during a children's birthday? Currently, so far as I know, you can be arrested for this type of behavior, though within the right context it's clear to me that a large enough or odd enough dildo or vibrator could be classified as baring arms.
If you had one which was gigantic and shaped like a fist, I'm positive it would classify as "baring arms". So... would you fight for your legal right to carry a large object capable of stroking, fisting and otherwise just beating the shit out of someone with when used as a club? Would you carry it across your back? In your belt? Or would you insist that you be allowed to keep it "Cocked" at all times?
You could suggest that a large fist shaped vibrating dildo would not be in the same category as a hand gun... I would disagree... I'm 100% convinced that it would have a far higher likelihood of scaring off the bad guys than a gun. If you break out a gun, most bad guys would likely respond violently. Break our a gigantic vibrating dildo and chase a guy with it, it's almost absolutely certain to cause the other guy to panic and run.
I'm also pretty convinced that if you wanted to topple a tyrant... a creative person with such a fantastic dildo would have much more of a chance against armored soldiers with tanks and such than a redneck with a pile of guns. Paint it rainbow and you would conquer half of North Carolina with one swing.
I think we both agree that like your guns, such amazing and versatile fist shaped, vibrating "massage items" are best kept locked away from children in your bedroom than on display for everyone to see. You can take them out when the time is appropriate. You can rub them and touch them and clean them and keep them oiled and shiny. I simply don't need to know your expertise level with such items... it's ok if you keep that to yourself.
I honestly swear, I really really really don't want you using either your gun or your love toy around me even in extreme circumstances. I am perfectly ok with taking my risks and dieing instead.
Frankly, I'm anti-nationalism and I don't really feel that I need to be superior to animals. I am quite sure that my humanity is something that enables me to do many things and thankfully keeps me at the top of the food chain. I honestly have no ethical issues with what they're attempting to accomplish beyond this...
1) How many animals would they need to raise, maintain, etc... to build a "warehouse" of organs to ensure that when they are needed a "match" can be found? Wouldn't this require insanely massive populations of animals for even relatively simple to match organs? Then there's supply and demand... I could easily imagine needing a million+ having to be breed and fed, etc...
2) What about sterility and mating them? If you have a million+ farm animals, do you snip-snip them all the males? How do you keep them from breeding so you can maintain an accurate database of organ characteristics?
3) How long would it take to raise a farm animal to an age where the organ would be beneficial? Would a one year old pig have a heart that would match a 40 year old adult human? Would it have to be 5 or 10 years old? If so, then how many more animals would we need to farm to have a supply?
4) Tissue printing instead? Aren't we doing pretty good things so far with research to print organs? Isn't this more likely to yield the desired results?
I was looking for this one.
The fact is, like most research these days, it's half-assed. They apparently wrote a survey and paid someone to make calls but the survey didn't adapt to the reality. Like "If the user's accounts have been jacked... why?"
I have passwords I print out and hang up like wireless access and netflix accounts. I have passwords which I use for banking. Passwords I use for servers, etc...
There's the other issue as well... how about who jacked their accounts?
Ex-girl/boy friend? Ex-BFF? Etc... Why did the person jack their accounts? Older people like myself could probably print half my passwords out and hang them up at work and never worry about them being taken. The reason is, the people I surround myself with aren't really into drama and such. The only password you can't share is Facebook because you don't want to leave that where your colleagues can be too tempted to make some entertaining postings in good fun. On the other hand, young people tend to still have some growing up to do.
Hmm... American website, American company, American Press Release.. etc...
You know that if it said "5/6/16" it could be confusing which is the month and which is the day. If it says "5/13/16", you'd have to be severely mentally handicapped to be confused by this.
I'll be kind enough to translate for you... 5/13/16 in American format translates to 2016-05-13 in a relatively sane format or 13-05-2016 in yet another fantastically stupid format or 2016-May-13 for a good human readable format.
You get confused by that whole fancy left and right thing too?
Pretty sure that's what killed it. The entire Hololens infrastructure appears to be the Project Spark GUI without the backgrounds. When I saw Hololens, it took about 1/4 of a second to realize that the reason Microsoft invested so heavily into Project Spark was to design the user interface for Hololens. They even got wide spread testing of usability by making it a game engine for people to try out and experiment with "VR style" manipulation of the environment.
I kinda knew Spark would die sooner than later as it was obvious where those developers would be placed.
Every recent Microsoft project is a failure?
Exaggerate much?
While I have never written "Would of" instead of "Would have". Certainly, I would have never written "Would've"... as it seems just sloppy.
But my use of the "Would of" in spoken language is definitely clear and excessive. I believe I'll make a genuine effort to correct this in the future. I am an American living in another country and regularly make conscience efforts to refine my speech in order to both improve clarity as well as set a good example for those around me, especially my children's friends.
At some point, I should attempt to find a list of "Stupid abuses of the English language that confuse foreigners". I can honestly say that there are many dialects of English that have evolved to borderline stupidity. "Queen's English" is so full of crap and nonsense now it's nearly as bad as Cajun. The language itself is doomed when the Queen herself can't be bothered to say "Football" but instead uses the term "Fudty" with a very special and specific pronunciation of U as well as the DT which sounds wrong and uncomfortably unless a coal miner with no teeth say it.
Over the past few decades a clear decline of the "Queens English" occurred as all words had to either end with a "y" or just be cute. Instead of sausages, there's bangers, instead of "mashed potatoes", there is simple "mash". It's become a language for people to abuse primarily through "cutsiness" and laziness.
The many other dialects of English around the world are equally bad. But as there's a specific dialect which is even named, it's far easier to focus on its shortcomings.
Agreed... besides, I never really was on board with the whole retained graphics mode APIs (abusing the term) from Microsoft themselves. Truth be told, we waited a long time for good cross platform game engines to come around and they have made awesome progress now. The underlying APIs are there for tweaking and stuff. I would say that for the most part, shader languages are more important than anything else. Write your game using a game engine and then make it rock with shaders.
So, these days, it's far more important to use game engines with game development tools. The loss of things like XNA while sad isn't really such a big blow. I've been waiting for Microsoft to buy out Unity for a while now... they've been consuming some pretty cool companies and I think that if you put the mono team and the unity team in the same building, magic will happen
Hmm... last I checked... .NET is their core platform these days and works pretty nicely. Silverlight is more or less replaced by HTML 5 now, so while Microsoft still supports it, it's kinda on the way out... after all... with no plugin support in browsers, what's the alternative. Plays for sure was kind of a marketing thing with some DRM on top.
.NET are practically the only cross platform development toolkit with support. C and C++ for application development are basically dead. It's not that as languages they're bad, they're just not that good anymore. Almost every half decent C project out there is written by more or less by using an object model which almost precisely recreates C++ in structures. C++ was the best language for application development (especially cross platform) for like 20-30 years but that was more of "by default" since there weren't any other well supported languages on multiple platforms. Java just never really happened. The reason for this is that Sun kinda screwed everything up with AWT and 5 generations of shit before SWT happened which no one really caught onto. I addition, there's no real support for mobile devices.
.NET evolves and both adds and removes features. At this time C# is fully supported on all desktop operating systems with tools. In addition, it's supported on all phone platforms and I've even gotten it working on a TI DSP running SYSBIOS. So I'm pretty damn sure C# is not only here to stay but unless you're counting clock cycles, it's probably the most versatile compilable language.
So, I'm a little lost.
As for lock-in, these days, C# and
So, that leaves us with C#, Objective-C (and maybe soon Swift).
Objective-C was an amazing language due the the really awesome way it was possible to compile all function calls into MPI since the function declarations clearly spelled out everything needed to serialize data and there was this sort of implied async functional call interface to begin with. Add to that the NextSTEP libraries almost religious enforcement of MVC, lovely. The problem was programming Objective-C was that writing Objective-C code felt like flossing your teeth through your ass. It was just an infuriatingly ugly programming language. It was designed for the computer, not the programmer.
Then came Swift which says "Let's get all the goodies of Objective-C and make it usable" and then Apple released what might be one of the worst compilers I've ever encountered in my life to support it in the open source. The parser is so incredibly shitty that when warnings and errors are generated due to syntax, an error on line 1026 will report as being on line 1 since the compiler just failed and since it seems to be tokenizing the entire file before parsing it (feels that way, probably isn't) it has no idea which context it's in at the time and just pukes. The entire front end of Swift needs a rewrite by proper compiler engineers. And oh... Swift still grabs hold of "let the programmer manage the memory and processes" because they figured they couldn't get the purists to adopt it.
So, that leaves us with C# which just works... it's probably the prettiest language at the moment. Microsoft has a bit of feature sprawl, but they manage it nicely. Developer documentation is pretty good and covers all versions... unlike Java which no matter how bad the screw up is will never remove anything (no matter how bad it fucks up the whole Java architecture),
So.. in the end, I can't imagine what you're ranting about. I've never had a problem with support for Microsoft technologies (maybe FoxPro, but it was time for that to go).
So... basically make it so that the organizations who profited off of the big bucks of beating the shit out of the entire city and economy of Rio can take their cash and run in exchange for a TV show and all the people who have suffered up until now through years of chaos and construction etc... should be totally screwed because their businesses selling food and newspapers and such won't be able to have anyone to sell to?
The ONLY good thing about the Olympics is that the local shop owners will have 2-3 weeks of opportunity to increase their prices 400% and increase their volumes 500% and with some good managing of the profits catch that lucky break they were looking for.
While I agree with your sentiment... they way you present it leads me to say that the answer is clearly no.
"Shouldn't we have a say?"... the world doesn't work that way. If you want a say, you simply have to say it. If you need to ask it first, then your opinion is too passive and is utterly irrelevant and carries no power.
Are you seriously suggesting that when voicing your opinion in what would be perceived as opposition to an event focused entirely on measure of strength and physical prowess that your passive voice will mean anything? You will be simply unrepresented which you simply always are. Do not feel bad, so am I. I haven't been represented in government since shortly after I was born.
You can choose to live in fear and anger. You can feel bitter about it and whine and say things like "Shouldn't we have a say?" as if you're trying to rouse the rabble to your passive voice. Or you can simply live your life each day.
I have no interest in religion beyond personal entertainment in the same way I like The Three Stooges but I've always had a warm spot for the Serenity Prayer which goes something like this :
Pizza Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
I'll add :
And the intelligence to live my life without the fear Fox, CNN and NBC are trying to force down my throat 24/7
P.S. Thank you Pizza Lord for giving us Elon Musk. He's a fucking asshole but at least the "Doom New Networks" will take an occasional break from their broadcasts of "Hell and damnation is here" long enough to share one of his Shitter Twitters with us.
I was obsessed with the Olympics last year... it ends up my city (Oslo, Norway) was bidding to host the Olympics.
We just spend 5-6 years building seven 10 story buildings and some other stuff around it. They're still not done. I think we used only one legged construction workers and took away their walking sticks for safety reasons.
Some dimwitted buffoon seemed to think it was a good idea to through this entire city into 6-8 years of sheer devastation and disaster on a scale that could only be considered criminal to host a few weeks of people playing games. This city would never be able to build that infrastructure in that time... we simply don't know how. In additional, we would never recover from it. 30 years (I think) later and this country still has trash from the Olympics laying around.
I was obsessed with convincing people to make sure the vote went against the Olympics. I don't mind people getting their rocks off on watching people (usually of their own gender) getting hot and sweaty. If they're into that, it's really not my problem. But I sure as hell don't want to spend an extra hour getting to work for 8 years so they can do so.
It's not entirely FUD... certainly in its current form of presentation, it's been blown up into something fantastic and WOW worthy.
The truth is, every time people travel, there will be illness associated. I can't get anywhere near most South American countries without spending at least one day close to a toilet. This is mostly due to having been forced to grow up in the anti-bacterial country called the USA. It took me over 10 years after leaving America to build an immune system which works fairly well in Europe and a chunk of Asia. Africa and South America are still a problem for me.
The fact is... it's far more likely that simply letting 500,000 adrenaline/testosterone junkies travel someplace where they can all be stupid together will result in something far worse than a Zika outbreak.
Actually... it has absolutely nothing to do with physical fitness. People in general like to fuck.
It's more a connection like this.
People who like sports tend to have some sort of a need to gain an adrenaline rush of some type.
Men who watch sports are generally testosterone addicted as well. These people find their entertainment through generally primal and highly physical forms.
Women who watch sports are generally highly competitive in nature and are more likely to revert to primal states as well. Even my almost best buddy, she's a Ph.D. in DSP... her brain fails to function when exposed to any form of competition... physical or verbal.
Spectators of sports seem to have some sort of illness that makes them irrationally believe that other people doing something more or less benign like kicking a ball around has something to do with them. They seem to believe at both an emotional and physical level that if some hairy tattooed guy with limited cognitive capacity jumps over a stick... this persons action effects them somehow. It's probably a similar mental disorder to the one which causes many people to feel a need to invent or at least believe in invisible sky gods and magical places you go to just be happy after you die.
As such... these peoples hormone levels increase drastically causing people to revert to something closer to a primal state which obviously is expressed in primal behavior.
I honestly an less concerned about Zika and far more concerned about the cleanliness of the prostitutes who will be in Rio during this event. Based on statistics published by PornHub during the world cup a few years back (was that Rio too?). People who get their rocks off on sports rush to porn sites during commercial breaks. If people are this horny over watching players (generally of their own gender) getting hot and sweaty... I can only imagine that even the meanest of the prostitutes is likely to receive some business from spectators not bright enough to realize "You do not wish to place anything in there".
I lost interest in much of what he said when I saw the school he goes to and that he says things like "host them in another city".
He's absolutely without a doubt correct about the possibility of the virus spread. He is kinda down to earth regarding "let's not be extremist". But in reality, unless the transcription is terrible, he seems to lack the ability to put his separate thoughts into something logical and coherent. Therefore, it's difficult for me to be overly interested in his perspective.
So... as you mention, the moral of the story is... shoot anyone you know who might be going to the olympics or may have been around someone who has before they get close enough.
Here's a thought....
- The Olympics will be in the southern hemisphere during mosquito low season.
- People who attend the games will be at a risk of being infected with Zika, though not as high of a risk as at other times since it will be a low season.
- The population of the city will be a minimum for 500,000 people greater during this event than normal.
- The life span of a mosquito at the expected temperatures should be approximately 14 days, 10 if it warms up... which simply increasing population by 500,000 may contribute to.
- There will be a much higher amount of trash and dirt in the city as well as viable food sources for mosquitoes
- By the end of the events, the mosquito population should have grown... maybe even a lot.
- More people will be at risk of infection due to simple population growth
- More people will be infected... even if the infection rate is as little as 1 in 500, that's still 1,000 infected individuals
- The people will travel home during summer in the northern hemisphere
- The mosquito population following summer should be near it's apex at the time.
It seems to me that there's more to consider on this topic.
1) Identify whether early detection is possible and require tests followed by possible isolation before boarding airplanes.
2) Offer quarantine at indoor spas in arriving countries for people who have been to the Olympics.
3) As seems most logical and has been suggested... suggest to people to simply not go. I can't imagine why anyone would want to go to the Olympics anyway. It seems an overpriced way to drag your knuckles.
4) How to exploit the American news networks to turn a profit on this... after all, in America's current "Fear Economy", the fear propaganda mills run almost 24/7 to ensure people keep their jobs. Zika is a great way to scare people... especially with the possible (even likely) link with birth related issues. There must be a way to turn a profit on this. Maybe a new fashion trend of veils and long gloves to reduce exposed body surface mosquitoes would find attractive?
I used to very successfully know when my friends were stoned by their pupils.
Ann ipad with a front facing camera capturing and analyzing eye movement and pupil dilation during a series of flashes and moving objects should be perfectly suitable for calculating fitness to drive.
It would work for testing whether people who may be in shock should drive too. I am pretty sure it would block most politicians from driving though. Has anyone noticed how many politicians are a bit slow to focus their eyes... as if things like sound are confusing?
Just like job markets are substantially different from state to state, in Europe it's different country by country.
As for IT salaries, are they higher or lower relative to the cost of living? I think you'll find that it's actually about equal. I am an IT guy in Norway and I make a lot more than Americans but my cost of living is higher... it balances.
I think that there's somewhere in-between. America is the biggest and wealthiest socialist country in the world. Has been for a long time. When the unemployment rate goes up, they find something new like scaring the shit out of people which currently employs nearly 20% of the working population of America directly or indirectly using government funds.
The thriving American economy is based almost entirely on providing work for millions and millions of people through more or less unnecessary programs. Even if it means giving a guy 20 years in prison for smoking weed... it creates jobs and without the constant fear of all these evil criminals, a million jobs at least would be lost and another million jobs would be needed for the people who are in prison if they were out.
There are many shades of gray here.... whether it's militaries, DHS, NSA, FBI, police forces, CIA, TSA, prison systems, arms dealers, etc... the US has a massive protectionist market for employees. Bush senior started it, Clinton tried to screw the whole thing up.. Bush Jr got the ball really rolling and Obama thrived by building the most impressive FUD economy the world has ever imagined. Americans are so scared shitless now that the government can spend anything they want and create jobs a million at a time because some American-born professor of middle eastern descent is calculating a differential equation on the plane and the crazy assed woman next to him thinks he must be a terrorist because she can't tell the difference between Greek and Arabic writing so the plane is grounded and 500+ people are needed in different jobs to do everything from write policies to investigating it to providing PR etc...
Your awesome and prosperous thriving economy is how the national deficit happens. Every country in the world prints a certain amount of new money each year and needs some legitimate method of feeding it into the economy so that everyone will have more to go around. Norway who doesn't even need to do it still does it because if everyone else did it and they didn't it would screw everything up. So they all make new fake money, run up deficits and feed that money into government funded jobs which eventually circulates to the gas station or fruit stand or restaurants. The deficit is a great thing if all countries can agree to go into debt at an approximately even rate. Thankfully, China is finally playing the game properly.
Now, higher quality of life, standards of living, etc... that comes from rigid labor markets. As an American in such a country... I can tell you the standard of living in the lower, middle and upper class in Norway is substantially higher than in the US. The reason is because the standard of living is higher in all three classes due to protectionism. The rich don't surround their houses with walls like freaky scared people. The middle class send their kids to public schools because we all have a higher standard of living thanks to the rigid labor markets.
Nonsense.... the highest paid are the highest paid because they are skilled negotiators who understand how to market themselves and convince the people who are approving their raises and those higher sums that it is reasonable to do so.
The lowest paid are the lowest paid because they lack the ability to represent themselves and build their network to increase their perceived value to others. They don't place themselves in the right places with the right people at the right times. As a result, they are overlooked or aren't given their higher pay.
There is absolutely nothing out there that says that if an employer wants to keep more money for himself and believes that he can continue operating his company and holding onto his employees without giving raises that he is obligated to give raises anyway. It would be like you going to the more expensive car shop to buy the exact same car with the exact same terms at a higher price because it just feels right to do so. You don't even feel shy telling the car sales person you really want the car but it's a little out of my price range when you know perfectly well you can pay the extra $20 a month without even thinking about it. And he doesn't feel shy telling you that he can't really afford to come down any further on the price.
If you don't know how to be a dirty whore... or you think it's beneath you to make jokes about your secret of your success is related to wearing knee pads, you will be paid based on what the market will bare. If I can convince you to work for me and earn me lots of money while I pay you a wage that says "If the government would legally permit me to pay you less, I would" why the hell should I pay a guy willing to work on those terms more?
That being said, I refuse to hire anyone at all that would be willing to work for someone like that. If you don't understand your own self worth well enough to come straight out and say "Listen, you and I both know that I'm worth more than that. Let's for the moment suggest that I'm asking you to pay me X+$10,000 a year, you want to pay me X - $10,000 a year and we'll settle on X which will make us both feel as if we didn't quite get exactly what we wanted but walked away better off than we would have otherwise".
Also... what I find amazing is that most people don't realize that when you apply for a job which is listed as $80,000-$100,000 a year, that's not the number the company can afford, that's the number which the company believes that can hire the person for the position for. In reality, if they publish a budget of $80-$100, they can easily pay $120-$160 if you can convince them that you think you're worth it.
This is where the problem arises, convincing yourself you're worth it. First of all, do you think that your presence at the company is worth their outlay of about $250,000 a year which is what that $160,000 salary will cost them? Is there any profit in the company hiring your for that price? Understand you would never want to work for an idiot who can't figure out whether you're actually worth that much. Now... it's irrelevant whether you are in fact worth that much. What is important is, will your employment at the company generate enough value for the company that either you'll bring in the $250,000 for them (hopefully some profit as well) or that the services you're providing the company will provide that much in value. For example, would it cost more or less to hire a consultancy who also provides insurance and service etc... Does your knowledge have the opportunity that simply having you present to spout words of wisdom will make money or save money?
If that's the case, then think to yourself as those guys do... If I try to start with a price which I believe I'm worth and then justify it based on how much value I bring to the company, then why not instead identify what I believe the company can afford to pay and instead of asking for the sum that I wanted, I can instead say "If my presence is worth $5,000,000 a year to the company, then I surely can ask
The FBI is called any time a local law enforcement team is unable to handle their own processes. Consider it to be something like a two tier support system. Cops first, Feds next.
When it comes to technology related issues, the FBI very likely is contacted for use of their forensics labs almost constantly. As telephones become more difficult for law enforcement to crack, the FBI will be contacted more often, establish a longer backlog and especially in the case of police departments with less funding, will have to perform work with little or no recompense.
When a terrorist's telephone became available to push the issue with, the FBI saw this as an opportunity to simplify the process of unlocking telephones more rapidly since Apple would of course be reasonable and finally see that law enforcement needs more effective ways of accessing such data without the FBI always needing to be called. If nothing else, they should be able to disable the 10 failure bomb and manually type 10000 or 1000000 values in by hand.
Apple didn't play with this game. If they were to publish a method to the FBI to make the phones vulnerable, all it would take is some cop showing off for his nephew to leak the information into the public and it would quickly become widespread.
Whatever the underlying issues with the case is, law enforcement at times requires access to data on telephones. But this issue is much wider spread than just America. As such, Apple is trying to have some control over the unlocking of the phones, not because they want to screw the FBI (which these days they might want to) but because they don't want to be responsible for supporting less ethical governments.
Both sides have valid points and valid concerns.
If Apple manages to make an iPhone which can't be easily hack (hasn't happened yet) then the problem will be somewhat solved by removing the possibility of unlocking the phone to begin with.
I'll bite... what's the association?
$1700 a month child support!?!?!?! Holy shit!!! I pay that much per child and then also have to spend time with them and raise them and stuff too. That sounds like a fucking great deal. I'm calling my wife and asking for a divorce and making her take the kids.
Me and the two brats are taking a trip (just the three of us) from Norway to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, to London and back this summer... just the business class tickets and hotels in Tokyo and London have cost me about $14,000 so far. By the time I pay for the beach house in New York, the rental car, food, taxis, etc... I expect to be well over $20,000. That's $10,000 per kid burned in 2 weeks just to give them a nice summer vacation. And worst of all.. they'll probably want me to spend time with them and talk with them and bring them all over to see stuff. So... add the pain and suffering on top of the financial cost.
Dude... you've got a sweet deal. I've been threatening them for years to dress them in paper bags and duct tape... then to "stuff me", I came home and found them both sitting around dressed in paper bags and bunny rabbit print duct tape... smiling!!! BRATS!!!
I'm 40 which I can't decide if it's old or not in this industry. I generally feel quite young among my peers.
To be honest, I agree with you with the exception of with my Asbergers "friends". I have worked with some of the most exceptional minds in computational mathematics and physics over the years and to be fair, these guys are genuinely unmarketable. They are the best people at what they do and they work extremely hard and for the most part diligently and make miracles happen in code. Companies around the world are desperate for their skills and talents. But they need to work the job they got when they graduated the university until they retire or they're screwed.
I know of at least three of these guys living on unemployment (maybe for the rest of their lives) because they are utterly unable to communicate with anyone with an IQ under 170 (I use the term IQ just to have some numerical reference... I just mean really really good at solving puzzles). It's not because they check IQ cards or they black list people because their IQs are too low. It's because they actually are medically incapable of being interested in holding an interest in communicating with anyone who doesn't provide "valuable input" to solving their puzzles. They have absolute focus on problem solving and have absolutely no interest in the outside world. These are real life Sheldons x10. I had a conversation with one the other night who displayed a very unusual level of emotion and excitement since his roommate (a girl with severe communication issues... crippled by fear of other people) had taught him to use a vacuum cleaner properly. He'll probably vacuum that apartment 16 times a day for three weeks.
I honestly never have any problems finding work in this business and my age has had absolutely no impact other than positive. I do recall having major problems with age when I was in my teens and early 20's. At 40, people simply assume that I know what I'm doing.
Having measured soap consumption during stadium events for the purpose of planning logistics for the next event, we learned that the ladies bathroom used on average 72 times the soap per person than the men's bathroom. This is not an exaggeration and is based on statistics gathered across 10 events held over 10 years with 5500 attendees over a period of 5 days per event.
We tried to explain the discrepancy without simply saying "guys are pigs" and the best we came up with was that we believe that women on average used the bathrooms over this time twice as often as guys... though unless we started scanning people entering and exiting, we can't be 100% sure about the accuracy of that.
The end result is, no matter how we twist it, the average woman consumes 36 times as much soap in the bathroom than a man.
As such... I wouldn't worry about the hand dryers in the ladies bathroom, but I would in the men's.
So... then consider, men are terrible at washing their hands. They shake your hand, touch the door knobs, use your tools, etc... They will spread it EVERYWHERE!!!
The obvious follow up is that it really doesn't make a difference and since American germiphobia is famous worldwide for Americans' terrible immune systems, maybe it's more important whether a hand dryer dries your hands than whether it spreads germs. European doctors sit in groups laughing about how American doctors can't travel to seminars because their immune systems are so damaged by anti-bacterial soaps that they spend the whole week sick in the hotel rooms.
I'm an old bugger as well and frankly, I avoid listening to anyone in the modern medical profession beyond "You're skull is bleeding, maybe we should give you stitches".
I also have normal blood pressure and cholesterol and such... guess what... there's a bunch of us who can eat ANYTHING and never have a problem with those things. I went to the doctor after eating a 250gm bacon cheese burger with extra russian dressing ever morning for 6 years.. went to the doctor... perfect levels. I was a fat ass bastard, but perfect cholesterol.
After losing more than 25% of my personal mass (no divorce required) and keeping the weight off long enough for my skin to regenerate and no longer sag, I have some old man advice as well.
1) Exercise is how you avoid making muscles ache. You need to do it once in a while... like every second year for a few weeks just to strengthen them a little bit.
2) You can eat absolutely anything you want... as long as you burn as many calories as you consume. For weight loss, the best thing is... eat less more move. For maintaining low weight... same principle, find the balance.
3) Stress kills faster than anything else. If you're 40 and you're stressed about your diet and health and such... you probably won't last much longer. More people die young from trying to live longer than any other thing. If you live long enough to see your kids grow up awesome.. if you get to walk your daughter down the isle... even better... if you get to feel your grandchild's hand wrapped around your finger.. amazing... if you don't... shit happens... you'll be dead it won't matter. Relax and enjoy yourself. There's no point living to 100 if that means you have to go to a gym and skip cheeseburgers to get there.
I'm not convinced "Studying the interaction of a molecule with bacteria under a microscope is certainly science"
To me, this is a scientific like thing, but I think disassembling the bacteria into its individual atoms and understanding how the bacteria is built well enough to reassemble it is science.
This is about as much science as running up to a 300kg gorilla and smacking it in the nose to see if you can get away from him before he rips your arms from your body is.
Simply poking something with something else IS NOT SCIENCE... it's an episode of Jackass under a microscope.