While I'm certainly as guilty as the next asshole when it comes to making stupid and often rude comments, I can't possibly picture what you hoped to accomplish with this comment?
And while people saying things like "interweb shooping sperience" causes my spine to stiffen and makes me want to write a 5 page dissertation on how this somewhat popular form of self aggrandizing makes the user sound far less intelligent for simply using it, I can honestly say that the AC's post didn't warrant your response.
Since he posted as a hit and run AC, it's likely he won't be back to read responses, but let's assume he does come back. He asked a fair question. And if you're correct and he's misinterpreting how the feature works, so be it. Please clarify.
He also contributed his opinion (though worded like an American who should focus more on lollipops than keyboards and mice) about a genuine aspect of UX.
Your response suggests you know something about coding or are acting as a social justice warrior on behalf of coders. If you're an SJW, please don't bother, feedback like his, no matter how poorly worded is somewhat interesting. He is right, UX would suggest that delays would be uncomfortable. Though, a good counter point would be that the delay doesn't need to be consistent, but instead injected in a means that would vary the delays to improve the experience.
If you're not an SJW, and consider yourself a coder... that's like considering yourself a janitor. Before self aggrandizing, please look into computer science. Coding is basically trial and error data entry.
I recently considered buying Googleâ€(TM)s wireless networking equipment. Itâ€(TM)s lovely and would make a great addition to my home... if it didnâ€(TM)t spy on me constantly by feeding back everything to google or at least have the potential to.
I probably will still buy it because itâ€(TM)s great stuff.
Yes... Iâ€(TM)m willing to buy it because I figure thereâ€(TM)s nothing Google doesnâ€(TM)t already know about me that it could learn.
Rule of thumb... we pretty much have given up all of our principles regarding privacy. Asking why we have is almost useless when weâ€(TM)ve already crossed the point of no return.
Maybe someone could mark the day that we decided that people like Theresa May would be able to pass highly invasive executive orders in the name of national security and we all just decided to say â€oeSure... why not?â€
Me neither... I checked out the deals and frankly realized I already have too much shit. Maybe I'll find something to ask my wife to get me for Christmas. Only thing I have my eye on now is a Sinterit Lisa 2 SLS printer. But I'll buy that in January.
I bought a BMW i3 (it's the cheapest car based on TCO in Norway right now by my calculation) and part of my purchasing decision was evaluating how it was built. With the exception of computers which are likely to fail because BMW is really bad at electronics, the physical build of the car should last about 30 years.
I expect :
- New tires every three years
- New windshield wipers once a year
- New brakes every three to five years
- Refurbished battery once every 8-10 years (though newer batteries may last longer)
- New motors every 15-20 years
- New computers... not sure how often.
This vehicle is built to last 30 years at substantially lower prices than replacing it. I will replace it when self-driving becomes a real option since I have no interest in driving.
That said, here in Norway, we used to buy a lot of GM cars... now we don't. Now we buy primarily Tesla, BMW i series, Nissan Leafs, Kia electrics. In fact as of October this year, 45% of all new car sales in Norway are electric and we're also buying a bunch of fuel cell cars.
We are ahead of the rest of the world on this because... well... we're western oil country and can afford it. It seems almost humorous that the massive amount of money we spent getting rid of internal combustion engine vehicles was paid for using oil money.
But, you're absolutely right... car sales are on a massive decline.
A few years back, I read an interview with the CEO of Ford at the time who said they need to learn to adapt to a market where instead of their biggest competition being other car companies, it was actually Apple. 18 year old American kids don't have the credit ratings needed to buy their own cars, after school jobs don't pay enough to buy one either. Kids these days would rather have an iPhone and either make their moms drive them or use Uber. They don't want to buy a brand new planet killing Mustang.
I think the market has shifted quite a bit. I've seen more and more one-car households over the years. If kids buy vehicles, they get hoverboards or electric kick bikes. They simply don't need or want the cost or hassle of owning a car. And unlike back in the 80's when I was young, you can't buy a used car and fix it up yourself like we used to. Back then, all you needed to fix a car could fit into a toolbox you kept in the trunk. These days, aftermarket service manuals for cars are borderline useless.
If GM shifts their business towards catering to large volume orders from companies like Uber who hope to run fleets of self driving taxis, it would make a great deal of sense.
Now... if GM would make a yellow, self-driving, electric Camaro with racing stripes... I'll actually consider buying a GM vehicle. But I won't buy the fucking thing if they write the software. I simply don't trust car companies to know how to run programming teams.
What makes China your enemy? I can appreciate if you don't consider them friends, but have they done anything which you would consider targeted against you?
If you want to blame someone for exporting American jobs, it wasn't China... it was Walmart.
Walmart actually forced their suppliers to move manufacturing to China and threatened that if they didn't, they would make a competing product themselves in China and undercut their prices. Walmart also bullied Chinese companies into working faster and cheaper. Walmart also manipulated oil subsidies by exporting small amounts of things to China on American tax payers money and used the fuel paid for by the Americans to transport massive chunks of cargo back from China on the return trip. Walmart also manipulated the American social services system to provide welfare to their employees to avoid paying them themselves... the savings are paid as dividends to their shareholders.
Pretty much every nasty thing in your head about China is actually Walmart. Walmart started it, now Amazon is continuing it, but Amazon will replace what few Americans are left in retail with robots instead allowing them to undercut Walmart and kill their business.
No... you're really hating in the wrong direction. You should be hating on opportunistic Americans who proactively destroy American lives in order to make a quick buck. And BTW... many of these great Americans who are exporting everything to China to make a buck... they are registered voters and supporters of the Republican party.
No China is not your enemy. They simply became rich while America became poor because American insisted on paying them to make stuff for them. Now that they're rich, they decided to buy the American dream but not export it back to the US.
P.S. My daughter and I take Chinese lessons every week and she's preparing to study in China instead of the U.S.. She wanted to go to MIT or Berkley, but is heading to Bejing instead because now China has built top notch universities.
What do you think it means when Europeans are looking east instead of west for... well pretty much everything?
I hope Trump's tariffs help you out. I know that I just working towards shifting one of Europe's oldest and biggest Cisco partners to being a Huawei partner too. The dollar is too high and Cisco just isn't that good anymore... their latest generation of.. well pretty much everything is about as good as what we used to call "Cheap Chinese Shit" and the so called "Cheap Chinese Shit" has gotten about as good as Cisco claims to be.
I'd be more than a little surprised with Kirstjen actually is able to pronounce her own name. And to be fair, she is the child of two parents who believed it was a good idea to name their child something which would cause her difficulties all through her life. This is an example of people who suffer extremely poor forward thinking and it is clear from many of their decisions that the people she learned from and set and example for her that she probably is quite short sighted. I'm laughing since I have a niece names Kjersti and even now that I speak that language "fluently", after 20 years, I still struggle with that name. Can you imagine poor Kirstjen's mother who is from Italian descent attempting to struggle through the Danish pronunciation of Kirstjen? And if you're not somewhat fluent in a Scandinavian language, then I promise you that you have no idea how to even start pronouncing either of those names.
Another major issue is that her family chose to move to Clearwater Florida (I had the misfortune to suffer the same as a child). During her youth (she is three years older almost to the day than I am) there were several schools in the Clearwater school district. All of these schools during the eras which she attended them are famously awful. I mean, any parent who would move their children to Clearwater, Florida during that time were idiots and should be considered abusive. Let me set an example. There was a "ghetto school" which was called Greenwood which was shut down in her Junior year of high school. The official reason was to foster desegregation... because in the 1990's, Clearwater was still so racist that it actually made sense. The unofficial reason was that the school district didn't want to pay for an extra school, so they bussed the ghetto kids to Clearwater, Dunedin and Countryside high schools and stationed full time, armed police officers on the campuses to "deal with the fallout". The police officers on all three campuses then began enforcement... yes enforcement of keeping all students on campus at all times because the people in wealthier areas didn't want the ghetto children roaming their neighborhoods. Almost all money that should have been used for education for the years which Kirtstjen attended was instead focused on enforcement, discipline and "feel good programs" to convince the people that things are so much better.
This is where Kirstjen learned to administer. She learned that enforcement is preferable to education. She learned that pretty white girls from middle class families are worth more than ghetto kids and immigrants (even today Clearwater is highly segregated). She learned that people who speak Spanish are the enemy. Clearwater is a place where people go batshit crazy when they hear these awful people teaching their children Spanish. I was attacked in a restaurant for speaking Norwegian with my children there.
I will say that many people from Clearwater are very good people but are just plain ignorant. Clearwater is a cesspool of anger, violence and hate. It's an aggregation point for people of low ambition. There are a lot of great people with golden hearts who move their kids there hoping to move them closer to Disney, the beach and all the wholesome nature experiences they can get. And they don't care much about how the schools are. They don't consider the cultural problems.
There's even a systematic hate issue in Clearwater since almost all children in Clearwater are raised near the headquarters of Scientology and are taught how evil those people are. Scientologists march like soldiers through the streets in uniforms. It becomes the war of the ignorant against the ignorant.
If you sit in a restaurant in Clearwater and you listen to all the chatter, it's almost non-stop negativity cloaked in other forms like pity. You'll always hear things like "I really wish that poor girl well... heavens knows she needs it... but she is horrible and I hope she gets run over by a truck". You hear parents almost everywhere aggrandizing themselv
By the American credit system (I am an American but left about 20 years ago) I'd be a "Don't touch... stay away" for any lender. This is because, I generally never pay bills. Unless the bills are setup on autopay, I wait for the collection agency to call me and ask me to pay. Then I say "how much" and they say "$10,000" and I say "Bill me 1/4 each month and I'll pay it" and then it's done.
What's funny is that I have amazing credit by Norwegian standards. I went to the store (not a shoddy one, a legitimate business) and was there just to stay warm a few weeks back. I had some financial problems this summer because my former employer screwed me without notice out of like $20,000 and I was scraping by for a little while. I realized they had a nice sale on Meile washer's and driers and my wife had been asking for one for ages. I told the guy "I won't buy anything for a few weeks because I'm waiting on my salary."... before you know it, I was waiting for them to be delivered later that day... a $3,000 purchase entirely on credit. I got amazing credit terms and it's mostly paid off now. I decided to pay half immediately and then pay down the rest over a few months.
Lenders love me. I generally never pay like they want me to... but they get to screw me on collection fees and they always end up making more money from me than they would have otherwise and it rarely costs them more than a phone call.
I've never once paid anything but interest payments on my mortgage in 20 years. I still owe pretty much the entire amount I borrowed. The bank loves me because I gladly pay the interest so I can have more money to play with.
I have an income large enough that even if I have to "scrape by" for a few months, that generally means that between me and my wife, we still have about $12,000 a month after taxes to work with. But in America, I would be black listed by the credit system as a "don't touch".
Of course, the reason I'm such a financial mess is because there's no real reason to act otherwise. It's not like they punish me for being a mess. So, I behave however they let me and hope they make out better for it than if I were a nice customer. I suppose that if I lived in the draconian American system, I'd probably hire someone to take care of everything and if I needed more cash to waste on more crap, I would just moonlight.
I much prefer the non-draconian systems. Norway is a great place to live.:)
Isn't it more likely that as soon as the board decides that a person who wears a tie and says Synergy is the best person to run the company the company will fail.
Look at Cisco. There's a moron at the head cranking up prices like crazy and bullying customers but showing amazing returns on the stocks. And yet, everyone in the rest of the world is starting to look elsewhere now. We can't afford Cisco anymore. Hell my company sold $2 billion of Cisco last year and our Cisco sales forecast is so bad the parent company is basically shutting us down. We just can't sell the shit anymore because Cisco treats their customers so unfairly now. But Chuck Robbins is a moron with a tie trying to rape his customers and then convince those same customers they should simply leave their pants down for a repeat action that won't be so bad next time.
Microsoft almost died because Bill Gates left the company to Steve Balmer. I mean how long did it take from Balmer's exit until Satya Nadella managed to make people trust Microsoft more now than they ever did before? Balmer was the board's true love, he wasn't a nerdy guy like Gates and he could listen to reason and focus only on the share like a good little CEO. And in the mean time, everyone basically ran for their lives. Then came Nadella who focused on product, customer and community and now even I like Microsoft. Shit, in the years Balmer ran it, not a single new product they made succeeded so far as I know.
Apple... Oh lordy lordy lordy... there he is... Tim Cooke. Yeh... a great guy... he's managed to turn Apple from a fashion company into some deranged money laundering company. He uses the massive financial power of Apple to buy money in on country and sell it in another. By exploiting the bonds market as it stands today because all nations need bonds to finance their own spending, Apple has become possibly the most powerful stock market force in history. So long as they can maintain trust, their tremendous cash stock piles will make them ever more powerful. They'll probably reach a point where any blip on their share price can have massive ripple effects throughout the world. We can't go after them, we can't attack them... they're a huge and fragile giant that controls so much of the world's money that they can now forcefully influence governments, they can bully political leaders, they can ignore court judgements... they're untouchable... but they are not a tech or fashion company... that's more of their "Oh yeh... no we aren't money launderers, we sell phones and stuff too"
Dell... haha what happened when Dell became a public company and the board took over?
Amazon will fail. But I honestly believe that, Amazon and Google will eventually be almost forced to merge into a single company. I also think that Walmart and Amazon will either merge or agree to share logistics. So Amazon and Walmart will basically become two web sites to the same thing.
The reason is this... we're past the point where the governments can break Amazon or Apple or Google up anymore. They can simply say no... we don't want to. And then the government can punish them... and they can sway the elections anywhere in the world to get what they want.
Amazon will optimize delivery. They'll kill off the warehouse worker. 90% or more of the entire logistical infrastructure of buying anything will be automated. They'll fight with Chinese companies to gain presence in each country around the world and eventually they will dominate the entire supply chain to the extent that even if you're running your own business, you'll have to buy your materials from Amazon or the Chinese company. There will always be nutjob purists, but to be fair, if Amazon sorts out automated delivery and all the logistics involved and then brings Amazon to Norway (where I am), I think I'll buy everything from them. I assume within a few years, they'll buy out the local companies in Scandinavia.
Amazon will achieve internationally far more than Walmart ever did in the U.S..
I think the problem with Oklahoma is fundamental... I mean fundamentalist.
A quick Google of "oklahoma religion in schools" brings somewhat horrifying results.
Oklahoma is a genuine and true heartland of America state. Tulsa is the heart of that heartland. Even if they were offering $100,000 plus all the other benefits to anyone who would bring a startup to the state, I could not in good faith consider bringing my children there.
"The racial diversity in the population of Oklahoma is currently at 72.9% Caucasian, 7.7% two or more races, 7.4% Native North American, 7.3% African American, 2.6% other races, and 2% Asian."
Notice that the demographics specifically show that the vast majority of the state is white as all hell, Native American, because the federal government didn't place enough value on the land in Oklahoma to try and ship the native Americans off of it, a whole bunch of people who are descended from slaves. I'm not going to suggest a black person never voluntarily chose to move to Oklahoma, but Oklahoma was VERY DEFINITELY a Klan state... and like other similar places I've visited, when the American civil war ended, Oklahoma proactively segregated. What this did was horrifying for the entire state population. It made the entire state dumber than before. Stupid begets stupid. And to be fair, Oklahoma may have changed since the 50's, though but there are both white hate and black hate groups across the state. Organized black hate groups happen because ignorant black people organize as a possibly violent herd to respond to perceived threats from ignorant white herds. You know racism and education are horrible when people choose to establish hate groups to combat hate groups.
Then there's Asian... there's 2% Asian and I can't possibly figure out how the hell that happened. There appears to be a small Muslim population... I'd suppose this must be due to some industrial relationship or possibly some effort by the immigration services to foster integration by refugees. There is also Buddhism which suggests that East Asian descendants, possibly rail workers for example settled. There's also a chance there was industrial reasons. And there's Hindu as well, that's not surprising, people from India seem to be willing to settle pretty much anywhere if it provides the opportunity for them to establish a better future for their families.
What's important about all of this is that Oklahoma makes it very clear from the demographics "You're not welcome here... unless you're white, christian, and a fan of both kinds of music."
Oklahoma also seems to have the absolute worst educational statistics in the entire U.S.. They have a low drop out rate which suggests the curriculum is too easy. High school curriculum's are specifically designed to promote a healthy drop-out rate. There's none of this "Participation Trophy" bullshit in high school. Either do your work and discipline yourself or learn how to use a shovel and get a good pair of boots. But it seems that Oklahoma has a very high rate of students staying in school. That means that while the work-place isn't being flooded by children, it also means that the top performers are punished by the bottom achievers.
The standardized testing results for Oklahoma clearly say that people from Oklahoma are systematically made stupid. Maybe it's the water or the air. I would suggest it's misallocation of limited government resources.
Oklahoma is the 40th worst ranking state by average income level. This program to get remote workers sounds great because the average person in Oklahoma doesn't have enough money to pay any real taxes. Most of the state is almost tax exempt on a federal level. A LOT of the state is on welfare... but this is true for much of the U.S. at the moment. Oklahoma has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Oklahoma is in the worst 10 states for higher educate either undergraduate or graduate. To me this means the state is generally apathetic or that people with education simply do go back
I'm what most people would refer to as a communist, I'm actually a pragmatist. I believe that everyone should do their part and the ecosystem of the economy should be built to facilitate that. This means that publicly funded medicine is required because people have to be healthy to work. This means publicly funded schooling because without an education, I might as well just replace a person with a machine. I also believe strongly that most jobs are simply not worth paying a proper salary for, so the government has to be in a position to subsidize those workers since in a free market, why would I waste my time and money to employ someone if there's no possibility of making a profit?
Also, I make a lot of money compared to most. I also pay 50% tax plus another 25% sales tax on most things I buy. I still have more disposable income that most.
I just came to work at 2am on a Monday morning. I worked Saturday, I worked Sunday, I work pretty much all the time. I'm certainly not work shy. I raise my children with three core beliefs.
- Treat other people the way you would want to be treated if you were them. (this is an enhanced version of do onto others since not everyone is the same)
- If there's work to be done, don't try to figure out who to put on the job. Do it. If that means standing in a pile of shit with a shovel to make fertilizer, start shoveling but make sure to have a few more shovels around. When people see you... a person they will hopefully see as being "above that station in life" with a shovel working, they'll ask "Why are YOU doing this, surely you can get someone else to" and they'll respond "The job needs to be done and I had a shovel." and some people will realize... if for no other reason than being embarrassed to do otherwise will grab a shovel and help.
- Nothing has ever been accomplished through competition that could not have been done better through cooperation. When we chose to go to the moon, it was a great achievement, but we would have done it faster and better if we combined the minds of the Americans and the Russians instead of having them work relentlessly in private from one another. If you absolutely must compete, try to outwork your competition and achieve more than they do. With competition as your motivation, we sent people to the moon... and we stopped because we won and said "screw it". With cooperation, we put a space station into orbit and it's been there A LONG TIME and keeps getting better. It has been a major contributor to further cooperation that will bring us back to the moon and further on to Mars because we've cooperated to find a common cause. Never use competition as a motivation. It's ok to measure your performance in comparison to someone else. It's also ok to be proud that you are doing well. But it is NEVER acceptable to compare yourself to someone else and consider yourself better than them because you have managed to achieve more. Instead, it makes it your duty to help them increase their capacity.
Economics are substantially more complex than "If this then that". Elderly can't retire because people don't die. That's a far accurate though grossly incorrect observation. We all need to work because we all need money. We all need money to become worth less to allow us to digest the high debt we incur to buy things which used to be much cheaper when people needed less money. Inflation is a necessity to allow people to prepare for retirement.
I bought a house 15 years ago for about $400K at today's exchange rate. My neighbor with precisely the same house (they're town houses) sold theirs for $900K this past week. The house hasn't doubled in size. The neighborhood didn't get an attraction to increase demand. The house simply increased in monetary value because the money has deflated in value by a considerable amount. In fact, the house is really worth less since we bought the houses brand new and now they're 15 years old with wear and tear on them. People paying $900K would have paid a million except they nee
I'm actually originally a New Yorker a long long time ago. I now live in Oslo, Norway. My parents live in Florida and I'm in perpetual shock by the enormous vehicles people drive. They're like land boats. I've wanted a Renault Twizzy for a while. If they ever upgrade the design to include real doors, heat and a better battery, I'll go straight to the dealer... it would also help if it weren't French.
And I can highly recommend against ever owning a BMW i3. It's a truly awful vehicle... but it's dirt cheap and it's only until self-driving taxis happen... so I won't get rid of it.
I started reading what you wrote... I think it's the first time in years I ever felt as if I honestly didn't understand something that wasn't gibberish. I believe everything you said would make a lot more sense to someone with a clue about trucks. I'm greatly thankful to you for using good punctuation and capitalization. I think the moment you write liftgate, I was already tempted to Google. By the time you made references to Hellwig and Timbren, I was wondering how Harry Potter's owl would wear canvas boots.
I really enjoy the rare occasions where someone clearly confuses the shit out of me when I know they're speaking perfectly clear.
Ok... I'm not even sure where to start on this one.
You missed the entire point. It was about the headline which is as far as most people will read. If you don't like the wording of the headline, offer an alternative. I was tired and didn't take the time to consider that people on Slashdot would actually go into a whole summary about scientific method.
I also am pretty damn sure that whoever wrote the headline was not the scientists performing the research. I could be wrong... but ok.
I'll happily yield and say "Cell phone radiation not dangerous enough to humans to bother with. Scientists have better proof than you do."
Dude... I'm not a journalist, I'm a sofa critic. The wording of the headline as it stands now will have a shitload of fruitcakes screaming "Look, I was right!!! Cell phone radiation IS HARMFUL"
And yes, you can prove something does no harm. I can prove that jumping off a cliff is harmful but not jumping isn't.
Medicine is a substitute for science until such time as we have the first damn clue how the body works and can explain how it functions. We can't even explain simple chemical reactions at this point and are still waiting on quantum computing to handle even basic chemistry problems. We sure as hell can't explain how anything interacts with something as complex as an amoeba, let's not even consider saying we know anything about the human body. It's all guess work. Like "If we nuke the shit out of this guy but not that guy... the first one seems to turn black and crumble to ash while the second one doesn't. From this we can conclude that the second subject must have applied sun cream properly when he was 11 years old". Now... since we have a pattern of you missing the point established, the point I was making is that medical research works almost by accident. I was making an exaggerated example of what most medical research looks like compared to someone that prefers science.
And before you start in on it... I know we depend on medicine now as a substitute to real science because we don't have a clue how a cell works. We need to make these "educated guesses" which are so impressively stupid that we still consider poisoning and nuking people a form of medicine because we simply don't understand how to do anything smarter. Instead of trying to solve fundamental problems in medicine like early detection, doctors spend all their time focusing on how to solve problems when they're already too late.
The whole "Health monitoring watch" thing is a huge improvement to medicine on many levels... consider this. If a person gets cancer (and we probably all have cancer at some point or another, but it disappears because of a cancelling out as a function of cellular growth and decay), we detect that cancer because we're waiting for cancer to grow to a scale which is detectable via symptoms or lumps. There are woman all over the world getting their breast groped in an attempt to find lumps that are big enough to detect. How many layers of stupid do we need on this planet? I mean honestly, some idiotic doctor is going to radiate, cut, poison, etc... the breast and prove he's a fucking genius by showing he can point, radiate or cut just enough to kill the cancer but not too much that he kills the patient. And the bitch of it is... he may not get enough of it in time.
And this is what counts as smart people performing medicine
Let's try something less stupid for a moment. We have technology used in airports to let a bunch of pervs in security get their rocks off on what people look like beneath their clothes. These systems are absolutely horrible at the job they were designed for... they do little more than let some pervs get all nasty in a quiet room whenever a teenage boy or girl gets scanned. That technology is based on almost exactly the same technology we use for taking pictures of babies in their mommies bellies when they're little more than a few hundred thousand cells. Hell, that technology can even do 3d now.
Now, all the morons that go on and on about cell phone radiation in the first place and wouldn't understand the vast majority of the article and therefore won't read it will have all the evidence they need to support their claims.
A better headline would have focused on saying "Cell phone radiation safe for humans".
But if you don't believe me... ask the Anti-vaxxers about scientific proof published as headlines.
Dude... you are the disease. Red pill, wrong side, the world is not binary. Right and wrong arenâ€(TM)t the only options. There are at least 50 shades of... well whatever.
Stop fucking polarizing. Polarization is the sickness of America. Itâ€(TM)s fucking toxic and you and any other asshole who votes red or blue is responsible for the downfall of the U.S.. I mean seriously, get a book and learn what happened to the Roman senate due to polarization.
When someone says â€oeI dislike Trump, but...†even if I disagree with their â€oeBut...â€, I still like to see when people start realizing that even the asshole kid in school can do something they like once in a while. Itâ€(TM)s called wisdom.
Do they still make cars with anything other than many element LED head lamps?
I live in Oslo, Norway where most cars are very very new and I don't really pay much attention to cars, so I honestly can't say I've seen anything other than LED for the past 2-3 years.
Wow!!! I just Googled that truck... that is one giant heap of metal.
What would you use a vehicle like that for? I drive a BMW i3 which is a gigantic family car and when my kids get older, I'm looking forward to hopefully switching to self-driving Uber as my main transport.
So back to that truck.
I can imagine that it's good for farming, but it's very high up, so without loading docks, it seems very impractical. I'm also guessing it has a huge engine (didn't check), so you're probably hauling car parts or other heavy materials?
Actually, my daughter plans on studying in China and then hoping to get a job with a western company and a western salary... then she can live in China, work at the world's top tech companies and live in a place where prices are cheap... at least until the Chinese decide to simply crash the world economy to further communism.
My son is 16 and already looking into micro-houses for when he gets older. We're considering buying a plot of land and populating it with 4-10 micro houses with parking for a single shared self driving car. We're hoping to be able to sell them for $25,000 a piece. We'll use a single centralized heater, have a single parking spot for cars, room for one electric moped per house, etc...
The idea is that at least until they have children (a LONG WAY OFF I hope) this would allow them to live with very little debt and spend the vast majority of their income on socializing and enjoying live while saving money for their eventual houses to raise children in... which may also be somewhat minimalist.
If food is readily accessible via delivery services and restaurants, and clothing can be washed by service (which will become increasingly more popular as the job market shrinks) and most forms of entertainment at home is computer rather than large sitting room oriented, what's the point of a big house or apartment?
I would move into one as well if I were single. I have an office where I spend most of my time (even recreational) and have little need for much space at home. I think 30m^2 would be far more than enough for me. I'm in a room about that big right now and can easily mentally design the room to meet all my needs.
So, yeh... cheaper housing would make perfect sense.
By the same logic as is presented would it not by extension also lack the authority to regulate television? After all, while television contains "tele" within its name, it is clear that it is an informational service as opposed to being a telecommunications service.
Then of course with the world abandoning classic telephony in favor of IP telephony we no longer have any real need for the FCC.
If we also consider that LTE is run or operated primarily over the IP network infrastructure, often employing GRE tunnels across the Internet where leased lines are unavailable, it is practical to say that LTE is also an informational service as opposed to a telecommunications service.
So, that by his definition, there is no reason for the FCC to exist. Instead, we should demand the government establish the FISC or federal information systems commission to properly regulate these information systems in the best interest of the voters.
If Wikipedia is truly a non-profit, then the contributions it gains above and beyond its normal revenue stream should produce a trust that if managed correctly will cover its expenses.
A million here and a million there by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc... as well as governments and such is very generous. I'm quite sure Amazon would also be very happy to contribute hosting, bandwidth, counter-DDoS, etc...
A major part of running a non-profit is long term ambitions. In other words, it's in the interest of the organization and the world as a whole to continuously improve wikipedia over the next 100+ years. As such, if each year Amazon and others contribute to them allowing their reserves to grow at a rate faster than inflation, then Wiki over time could be entirely self-sufficient to the point that they offer scholarships and more.
People are missing that you don't want to get a $50 million payment today if you can instead get $500 million over the next 100 years from Amazon or whoever beats them out. Also, graciously accepting the handout and spending some time publicizing how grateful you are for it would attract other businesses who would like to be seen as positive contributors to the organization.
Wikipedia is not a business, it's an organization. So long as this is true, it should operate as one.
Google is a global company who has interests in most countries of the world. They have an office 15 minutes from me here in Norway and they are certainly spread out pretty much everywhere.
Supporting the USA and supporting the US military are two different things. The US military is an organization that exists primarily to give the US government and excuse to dump money into the economy and to remove youths from lower income tax brackets from the national unemployment statistics while brainwashing them to have self respect and discipline through rigid structure which is something the tax payers are well aware wasn't provided in the homes of those children. The US military is an excellent program for many reasons. For example, if the US leadership is lucky, they can ship hundreds of thousands of children off to a battlefield where they will be shot, injured, killed, or at least be crippled by PTSD which allows them to be removed from the unemployment statistics when they get back home (or not). It's extremely important to convince as many Americans as possible that this cause is right and just because the currently, with generally the worst overall performing demographics in nearly every category in the western world, the US needs a reliable industry to maintain it's position in the 2nd world. Of course, the US is probably at the absolute top of the second world countries. So... don't worry... it's still #1.
Support the military and support the soldiers and support the war efforts, etc... this is something which every militarily dominate leader in the world has depended on in order to feed their economies. When the people of those countries stop working for greatness and instead depend on greatness instilled upon them based on the conditions which they exited a vagina, countries are left with a vastly lethargic population who believe that they have the right to greatness. The only way for leaders to keep feeding that is to take a "world leadership" role which means in all practical terms "World's police". And then some leader will go around and attempt to make all the other countries pay for their leadership... which means pay for the military.
Right now, the American leadership is at a serious loss. Southern Japan houses over 40,000 American sailors/soldiers... paid for by... well Japan. The infrastructure required to support 40,000 (mostly children with overpriced cars) is substantially larger.
All through the Pacific Rim, the US military as a corporate entity depends on the fear instilled by a bat shit crazy North Korean leader. Ten million or more Americans are fed based on being prepared to fight a war against North Korea. If peace is negotiated with North Korea, and it more than likely will be, then North Korea will receive funds, aid and support are favorable interest rates while North Korea is built into an international leader similar to South Korea. This was a stroke of brilliance by North Korea. Building a nuclear arsenal simply to use it as a bargaining chip to enter the world market without being a beggar.
Well once that happens and the big threat is gone, there's still China to fear. And American leadership keeps treating China as if they're a Western country. China has completely backed off of military domination. Sure, they have a military, but it's not for fighting wars with America. Beating America has never been interesting. The communist government is attempting to build a communist society. They are very quickly working towards simply collapsing the world market. The world market depends on money having value. For money to have value, it has to be able to be used in exchange for stuff. What gives the money real value is when it can be used in exchange for what we need as opposed to what we want. This means housing, food and energy. Other than that, we don't really need all that crap. Only three things actually have real, honest value. If we add medicine... it's really close to being a need.
Ok... I'm currently in the process of completely rebuilding the operations department of a company who manages networks for over a million users. I've been suffering through one argument on this topic or another in meeting rooms for a year.
"Some of the best SOAR products" followed by "I'm talking 6-digit packages here".
If you find a SOAR product that costs that much... they aren't good to begin with. Let me justify this clearly.
Security can only work in mass economy. That means that there must be as many sensors as possible in as many locations as possible to gather and identify actual security threats. So, if you're talking about things like IPS, e-mail security or anything else that needs to detect anything through finger printing, that means any product that costs more than maybe $5000 and doesn't have a free version as well will be utterly useless. Look at Cisco's FirePower... great products!!! Yeh!!! they have Snort and ClamAV and others which are truly amazingly good stuff.... too bad the charge so much for their products that they don't notice things like that they're running on Linux kernels that are compromised in the network stack and allow hackers to code inject to the kernel before the packet ever reached the Snort or ClamAV...
Don't worry, running most of your fancy security tools in a virtualized environment is meaningless as well as they also typically run on Linux or FreeBSD and run inside of VMware with VMXNET3 drivers which are so compromised they're like Christmas to hackers.
Let's also consider that "Best SOAR products" in general... I've evaluated many of them and have pockets deep enough to buy any of them that I consider useful. I then spend a massive amount of my budget in code review and performing line by line audits because those "best SOAR tools" almost always are coded to protect what's inside by have the worst security themselves.
Consider that most of these best SOAR products don't even have the option for client certificate authentication enforcement.
Making tools for security in Python can be fun... like "I found a security hole, let me write a small exploit to test it".
I just switched back to bash scripting after a failed Ansible project that just was absolutely shit because Ansible is designed for script kiddies who don't actually care whether their code breaks things by accident. Then you have Ansible crap code all over the place. Cisco has now released hundreds of Ansible tasks that completely lack idempotency. And they even have entire certification tracks on how to make Python and Ansible worse.
Ok, Python as a language can in fact be compiled... this is true. It can also be run through modern JITs. But
I have no idea what you mean by native speed... are you suggesting that Python can be compiled into native code? Ok... great...JIT is almost always faster than compiled code if the programmer understands the JIT and can optimize towards it. This is no different than how we used to sit with profilers and C code and shaving clock cycles off of compiled code. It's far more effective with a JIT so long as the execution time is greater enough to justify the extended startup time.
That said, No one with an education in computer science would ever suggest that Python can be fast. This is because we have this thing called Big-O which is a means of measuring and calculating the computational complexity of an algorithm.
Python for example is plagued with a data structure infrastructure that was designed entirely for functionality and completely disregards any aspect of reduction of computational complexity. I wouldn't care if you had the worlds most amazing compiler and language, when the underlying data structures don't consider performance at all, it simply doesn't matter.
Then there's PIP... oh no... yeh... I'm going to talk about the world's largest cesspool of code ever made. Python not only has a library to do just about anything you want... it has at least 10 that do everything you want.... none of them particularly well and almost none of them done by someone that knows the difference between a doubly linked list and an array.
Does this mean Python is bad?
No.. it's an amazing language for doing many things.... but
1) Don't use it if you need performance. 2) Don't use it if you want to keep your code clean 3) Don't use it if you're concerned about stability 4) Don't use it if you're concerned about security. The code audit costs would be mind boggling
Do use it if you need to do something now, quick and plan to toss the code after.
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While I'm certainly as guilty as the next asshole when it comes to making stupid and often rude comments, I can't possibly picture what you hoped to accomplish with this comment?
And while people saying things like "interweb shooping sperience" causes my spine to stiffen and makes me want to write a 5 page dissertation on how this somewhat popular form of self aggrandizing makes the user sound far less intelligent for simply using it, I can honestly say that the AC's post didn't warrant your response.
Since he posted as a hit and run AC, it's likely he won't be back to read responses, but let's assume he does come back. He asked a fair question. And if you're correct and he's misinterpreting how the feature works, so be it. Please clarify.
He also contributed his opinion (though worded like an American who should focus more on lollipops than keyboards and mice) about a genuine aspect of UX.
Your response suggests you know something about coding or are acting as a social justice warrior on behalf of coders. If you're an SJW, please don't bother, feedback like his, no matter how poorly worded is somewhat interesting. He is right, UX would suggest that delays would be uncomfortable. Though, a good counter point would be that the delay doesn't need to be consistent, but instead injected in a means that would vary the delays to improve the experience.
If you're not an SJW, and consider yourself a coder... that's like considering yourself a janitor. Before self aggrandizing, please look into computer science. Coding is basically trial and error data entry.
I recently considered buying Googleâ€(TM)s wireless networking equipment. Itâ€(TM)s lovely and would make a great addition to my home... if it didnâ€(TM)t spy on me constantly by feeding back everything to google or at least have the potential to.
I probably will still buy it because itâ€(TM)s great stuff.
Yes... Iâ€(TM)m willing to buy it because I figure thereâ€(TM)s nothing Google doesnâ€(TM)t already know about me that it could learn.
Rule of thumb... we pretty much have given up all of our principles regarding privacy. Asking why we have is almost useless when weâ€(TM)ve already crossed the point of no return.
Maybe someone could mark the day that we decided that people like Theresa May would be able to pass highly invasive executive orders in the name of national security and we all just decided to say â€oeSure... why not?â€
Unless we go back 500 generations, itâ€(TM)s unlikely she does. She as mentioned earlier is European.
Me neither... I checked out the deals and frankly realized I already have too much shit. Maybe I'll find something to ask my wife to get me for Christmas. Only thing I have my eye on now is a Sinterit Lisa 2 SLS printer. But I'll buy that in January.
Cars simply last longer now than they used to.
I bought a BMW i3 (it's the cheapest car based on TCO in Norway right now by my calculation) and part of my purchasing decision was evaluating how it was built. With the exception of computers which are likely to fail because BMW is really bad at electronics, the physical build of the car should last about 30 years.
I expect :
- New tires every three years
- New windshield wipers once a year
- New brakes every three to five years
- Refurbished battery once every 8-10 years (though newer batteries may last longer)
- New motors every 15-20 years
- New computers... not sure how often.
This vehicle is built to last 30 years at substantially lower prices than replacing it. I will replace it when self-driving becomes a real option since I have no interest in driving.
That said, here in Norway, we used to buy a lot of GM cars... now we don't. Now we buy primarily Tesla, BMW i series, Nissan Leafs, Kia electrics. In fact as of October this year, 45% of all new car sales in Norway are electric and we're also buying a bunch of fuel cell cars.
We are ahead of the rest of the world on this because... well... we're western oil country and can afford it. It seems almost humorous that the massive amount of money we spent getting rid of internal combustion engine vehicles was paid for using oil money.
But, you're absolutely right... car sales are on a massive decline.
A few years back, I read an interview with the CEO of Ford at the time who said they need to learn to adapt to a market where instead of their biggest competition being other car companies, it was actually Apple. 18 year old American kids don't have the credit ratings needed to buy their own cars, after school jobs don't pay enough to buy one either. Kids these days would rather have an iPhone and either make their moms drive them or use Uber. They don't want to buy a brand new planet killing Mustang.
I think the market has shifted quite a bit. I've seen more and more one-car households over the years. If kids buy vehicles, they get hoverboards or electric kick bikes. They simply don't need or want the cost or hassle of owning a car. And unlike back in the 80's when I was young, you can't buy a used car and fix it up yourself like we used to. Back then, all you needed to fix a car could fit into a toolbox you kept in the trunk. These days, aftermarket service manuals for cars are borderline useless.
If GM shifts their business towards catering to large volume orders from companies like Uber who hope to run fleets of self driving taxis, it would make a great deal of sense.
Now... if GM would make a yellow, self-driving, electric Camaro with racing stripes... I'll actually consider buying a GM vehicle. But I won't buy the fucking thing if they write the software. I simply don't trust car companies to know how to run programming teams.
Of course only a true fool would suggest that someone must be either liberal or conservative. Trust me my friend, there are 50 shades of stupid.
What makes China your enemy? I can appreciate if you don't consider them friends, but have they done anything which you would consider targeted against you?
... well pretty much everything?
If you want to blame someone for exporting American jobs, it wasn't China... it was Walmart.
Walmart actually forced their suppliers to move manufacturing to China and threatened that if they didn't, they would make a competing product themselves in China and undercut their prices. Walmart also bullied Chinese companies into working faster and cheaper. Walmart also manipulated oil subsidies by exporting small amounts of things to China on American tax payers money and used the fuel paid for by the Americans to transport massive chunks of cargo back from China on the return trip. Walmart also manipulated the American social services system to provide welfare to their employees to avoid paying them themselves... the savings are paid as dividends to their shareholders.
Pretty much every nasty thing in your head about China is actually Walmart. Walmart started it, now Amazon is continuing it, but Amazon will replace what few Americans are left in retail with robots instead allowing them to undercut Walmart and kill their business.
No... you're really hating in the wrong direction. You should be hating on opportunistic Americans who proactively destroy American lives in order to make a quick buck. And BTW... many of these great Americans who are exporting everything to China to make a buck... they are registered voters and supporters of the Republican party.
No China is not your enemy. They simply became rich while America became poor because American insisted on paying them to make stuff for them. Now that they're rich, they decided to buy the American dream but not export it back to the US.
P.S. My daughter and I take Chinese lessons every week and she's preparing to study in China instead of the U.S.. She wanted to go to MIT or Berkley, but is heading to Bejing instead because now China has built top notch universities.
What do you think it means when Europeans are looking east instead of west for
I hope Trump's tariffs help you out. I know that I just working towards shifting one of Europe's oldest and biggest Cisco partners to being a Huawei partner too. The dollar is too high and Cisco just isn't that good anymore... their latest generation of.. well pretty much everything is about as good as what we used to call "Cheap Chinese Shit" and the so called "Cheap Chinese Shit" has gotten about as good as Cisco claims to be.
I'd be more than a little surprised with Kirstjen actually is able to pronounce her own name. And to be fair, she is the child of two parents who believed it was a good idea to name their child something which would cause her difficulties all through her life. This is an example of people who suffer extremely poor forward thinking and it is clear from many of their decisions that the people she learned from and set and example for her that she probably is quite short sighted. I'm laughing since I have a niece names Kjersti and even now that I speak that language "fluently", after 20 years, I still struggle with that name. Can you imagine poor Kirstjen's mother who is from Italian descent attempting to struggle through the Danish pronunciation of Kirstjen? And if you're not somewhat fluent in a Scandinavian language, then I promise you that you have no idea how to even start pronouncing either of those names.
... because in the 1990's, Clearwater was still so racist that it actually made sense. The unofficial reason was that the school district didn't want to pay for an extra school, so they bussed the ghetto kids to Clearwater, Dunedin and Countryside high schools and stationed full time, armed police officers on the campuses to "deal with the fallout". The police officers on all three campuses then began enforcement... yes enforcement of keeping all students on campus at all times because the people in wealthier areas didn't want the ghetto children roaming their neighborhoods. Almost all money that should have been used for education for the years which Kirtstjen attended was instead focused on enforcement, discipline and "feel good programs" to convince the people that things are so much better.
Another major issue is that her family chose to move to Clearwater Florida (I had the misfortune to suffer the same as a child). During her youth (she is three years older almost to the day than I am) there were several schools in the Clearwater school district. All of these schools during the eras which she attended them are famously awful. I mean, any parent who would move their children to Clearwater, Florida during that time were idiots and should be considered abusive. Let me set an example. There was a "ghetto school" which was called Greenwood which was shut down in her Junior year of high school. The official reason was to foster desegregation
This is where Kirstjen learned to administer. She learned that enforcement is preferable to education. She learned that pretty white girls from middle class families are worth more than ghetto kids and immigrants (even today Clearwater is highly segregated). She learned that people who speak Spanish are the enemy. Clearwater is a place where people go batshit crazy when they hear these awful people teaching their children Spanish. I was attacked in a restaurant for speaking Norwegian with my children there.
I will say that many people from Clearwater are very good people but are just plain ignorant. Clearwater is a cesspool of anger, violence and hate. It's an aggregation point for people of low ambition. There are a lot of great people with golden hearts who move their kids there hoping to move them closer to Disney, the beach and all the wholesome nature experiences they can get. And they don't care much about how the schools are. They don't consider the cultural problems.
There's even a systematic hate issue in Clearwater since almost all children in Clearwater are raised near the headquarters of Scientology and are taught how evil those people are. Scientologists march like soldiers through the streets in uniforms. It becomes the war of the ignorant against the ignorant.
If you sit in a restaurant in Clearwater and you listen to all the chatter, it's almost non-stop negativity cloaked in other forms like pity. You'll always hear things like "I really wish that poor girl well... heavens knows she needs it... but she is horrible and I hope she gets run over by a truck". You hear parents almost everywhere aggrandizing themselv
By the American credit system (I am an American but left about 20 years ago) I'd be a "Don't touch ... stay away" for any lender. This is because, I generally never pay bills. Unless the bills are setup on autopay, I wait for the collection agency to call me and ask me to pay. Then I say "how much" and they say "$10,000" and I say "Bill me 1/4 each month and I'll pay it" and then it's done.
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What's funny is that I have amazing credit by Norwegian standards. I went to the store (not a shoddy one, a legitimate business) and was there just to stay warm a few weeks back. I had some financial problems this summer because my former employer screwed me without notice out of like $20,000 and I was scraping by for a little while. I realized they had a nice sale on Meile washer's and driers and my wife had been asking for one for ages. I told the guy "I won't buy anything for a few weeks because I'm waiting on my salary."... before you know it, I was waiting for them to be delivered later that day... a $3,000 purchase entirely on credit. I got amazing credit terms and it's mostly paid off now. I decided to pay half immediately and then pay down the rest over a few months.
Lenders love me. I generally never pay like they want me to... but they get to screw me on collection fees and they always end up making more money from me than they would have otherwise and it rarely costs them more than a phone call.
I've never once paid anything but interest payments on my mortgage in 20 years. I still owe pretty much the entire amount I borrowed. The bank loves me because I gladly pay the interest so I can have more money to play with.
I have an income large enough that even if I have to "scrape by" for a few months, that generally means that between me and my wife, we still have about $12,000 a month after taxes to work with. But in America, I would be black listed by the credit system as a "don't touch".
Of course, the reason I'm such a financial mess is because there's no real reason to act otherwise. It's not like they punish me for being a mess. So, I behave however they let me and hope they make out better for it than if I were a nice customer. I suppose that if I lived in the draconian American system, I'd probably hire someone to take care of everything and if I needed more cash to waste on more crap, I would just moonlight.
I much prefer the non-draconian systems. Norway is a great place to live.
Isn't it more likely that as soon as the board decides that a person who wears a tie and says Synergy is the best person to run the company the company will fail.
... Tim Cooke. Yeh... a great guy... he's managed to turn Apple from a fashion company into some deranged money laundering company. He uses the massive financial power of Apple to buy money in on country and sell it in another. By exploiting the bonds market as it stands today because all nations need bonds to finance their own spending, Apple has become possibly the most powerful stock market force in history. So long as they can maintain trust, their tremendous cash stock piles will make them ever more powerful. They'll probably reach a point where any blip on their share price can have massive ripple effects throughout the world. We can't go after them, we can't attack them... they're a huge and fragile giant that controls so much of the world's money that they can now forcefully influence governments, they can bully political leaders, they can ignore court judgements... they're untouchable... but they are not a tech or fashion company... that's more of their "Oh yeh... no we aren't money launderers, we sell phones and stuff too"
Look at Cisco. There's a moron at the head cranking up prices like crazy and bullying customers but showing amazing returns on the stocks. And yet, everyone in the rest of the world is starting to look elsewhere now. We can't afford Cisco anymore. Hell my company sold $2 billion of Cisco last year and our Cisco sales forecast is so bad the parent company is basically shutting us down. We just can't sell the shit anymore because Cisco treats their customers so unfairly now. But Chuck Robbins is a moron with a tie trying to rape his customers and then convince those same customers they should simply leave their pants down for a repeat action that won't be so bad next time.
Microsoft almost died because Bill Gates left the company to Steve Balmer. I mean how long did it take from Balmer's exit until Satya Nadella managed to make people trust Microsoft more now than they ever did before? Balmer was the board's true love, he wasn't a nerdy guy like Gates and he could listen to reason and focus only on the share like a good little CEO. And in the mean time, everyone basically ran for their lives. Then came Nadella who focused on product, customer and community and now even I like Microsoft. Shit, in the years Balmer ran it, not a single new product they made succeeded so far as I know.
Apple... Oh lordy lordy lordy... there he is
Dell... haha what happened when Dell became a public company and the board took over?
Amazon will fail. But I honestly believe that, Amazon and Google will eventually be almost forced to merge into a single company. I also think that Walmart and Amazon will either merge or agree to share logistics. So Amazon and Walmart will basically become two web sites to the same thing.
The reason is this... we're past the point where the governments can break Amazon or Apple or Google up anymore. They can simply say no... we don't want to. And then the government can punish them... and they can sway the elections anywhere in the world to get what they want.
Amazon will optimize delivery. They'll kill off the warehouse worker. 90% or more of the entire logistical infrastructure of buying anything will be automated. They'll fight with Chinese companies to gain presence in each country around the world and eventually they will dominate the entire supply chain to the extent that even if you're running your own business, you'll have to buy your materials from Amazon or the Chinese company. There will always be nutjob purists, but to be fair, if Amazon sorts out automated delivery and all the logistics involved and then brings Amazon to Norway (where I am), I think I'll buy everything from them. I assume within a few years, they'll buy out the local companies in Scandinavia.
Amazon will achieve internationally far more than Walmart ever did in the U.S..
I think the problem with Oklahoma is fundamental... I mean fundamentalist.
A quick Google of "oklahoma religion in schools" brings somewhat horrifying results.
Oklahoma is a genuine and true heartland of America state. Tulsa is the heart of that heartland. Even if they were offering $100,000 plus all the other benefits to anyone who would bring a startup to the state, I could not in good faith consider bringing my children there.
"The racial diversity in the population of Oklahoma is currently at 72.9% Caucasian, 7.7% two or more races, 7.4% Native North American, 7.3% African American, 2.6% other races, and 2% Asian."
Notice that the demographics specifically show that the vast majority of the state is white as all hell, Native American, because the federal government didn't place enough value on the land in Oklahoma to try and ship the native Americans off of it, a whole bunch of people who are descended from slaves. I'm not going to suggest a black person never voluntarily chose to move to Oklahoma, but Oklahoma was VERY DEFINITELY a Klan state... and like other similar places I've visited, when the American civil war ended, Oklahoma proactively segregated. What this did was horrifying for the entire state population. It made the entire state dumber than before. Stupid begets stupid. And to be fair, Oklahoma may have changed since the 50's, though but there are both white hate and black hate groups across the state. Organized black hate groups happen because ignorant black people organize as a possibly violent herd to respond to perceived threats from ignorant white herds. You know racism and education are horrible when people choose to establish hate groups to combat hate groups.
Then there's Asian... there's 2% Asian and I can't possibly figure out how the hell that happened. There appears to be a small Muslim population... I'd suppose this must be due to some industrial relationship or possibly some effort by the immigration services to foster integration by refugees. There is also Buddhism which suggests that East Asian descendants, possibly rail workers for example settled. There's also a chance there was industrial reasons. And there's Hindu as well, that's not surprising, people from India seem to be willing to settle pretty much anywhere if it provides the opportunity for them to establish a better future for their families.
What's important about all of this is that Oklahoma makes it very clear from the demographics "You're not welcome here... unless you're white, christian, and a fan of both kinds of music."
Oklahoma also seems to have the absolute worst educational statistics in the entire U.S.. They have a low drop out rate which suggests the curriculum is too easy. High school curriculum's are specifically designed to promote a healthy drop-out rate. There's none of this "Participation Trophy" bullshit in high school. Either do your work and discipline yourself or learn how to use a shovel and get a good pair of boots. But it seems that Oklahoma has a very high rate of students staying in school. That means that while the work-place isn't being flooded by children, it also means that the top performers are punished by the bottom achievers.
The standardized testing results for Oklahoma clearly say that people from Oklahoma are systematically made stupid. Maybe it's the water or the air. I would suggest it's misallocation of limited government resources.
Oklahoma is the 40th worst ranking state by average income level. This program to get remote workers sounds great because the average person in Oklahoma doesn't have enough money to pay any real taxes. Most of the state is almost tax exempt on a federal level. A LOT of the state is on welfare... but this is true for much of the U.S. at the moment. Oklahoma has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Oklahoma is in the worst 10 states for higher educate either undergraduate or graduate. To me this means the state is generally apathetic or that people with education simply do go back
I'll bite.
I'm what most people would refer to as a communist, I'm actually a pragmatist. I believe that everyone should do their part and the ecosystem of the economy should be built to facilitate that. This means that publicly funded medicine is required because people have to be healthy to work. This means publicly funded schooling because without an education, I might as well just replace a person with a machine. I also believe strongly that most jobs are simply not worth paying a proper salary for, so the government has to be in a position to subsidize those workers since in a free market, why would I waste my time and money to employ someone if there's no possibility of making a profit?
Also, I make a lot of money compared to most. I also pay 50% tax plus another 25% sales tax on most things I buy. I still have more disposable income that most.
I just came to work at 2am on a Monday morning. I worked Saturday, I worked Sunday, I work pretty much all the time. I'm certainly not work shy. I raise my children with three core beliefs.
- Treat other people the way you would want to be treated if you were them. (this is an enhanced version of do onto others since not everyone is the same)
- If there's work to be done, don't try to figure out who to put on the job. Do it. If that means standing in a pile of shit with a shovel to make fertilizer, start shoveling but make sure to have a few more shovels around. When people see you... a person they will hopefully see as being "above that station in life" with a shovel working, they'll ask "Why are YOU doing this, surely you can get someone else to" and they'll respond "The job needs to be done and I had a shovel." and some people will realize... if for no other reason than being embarrassed to do otherwise will grab a shovel and help.
- Nothing has ever been accomplished through competition that could not have been done better through cooperation. When we chose to go to the moon, it was a great achievement, but we would have done it faster and better if we combined the minds of the Americans and the Russians instead of having them work relentlessly in private from one another. If you absolutely must compete, try to outwork your competition and achieve more than they do. With competition as your motivation, we sent people to the moon... and we stopped because we won and said "screw it". With cooperation, we put a space station into orbit and it's been there A LONG TIME and keeps getting better. It has been a major contributor to further cooperation that will bring us back to the moon and further on to Mars because we've cooperated to find a common cause. Never use competition as a motivation. It's ok to measure your performance in comparison to someone else. It's also ok to be proud that you are doing well. But it is NEVER acceptable to compare yourself to someone else and consider yourself better than them because you have managed to achieve more. Instead, it makes it your duty to help them increase their capacity.
Economics are substantially more complex than "If this then that". Elderly can't retire because people don't die. That's a far accurate though grossly incorrect observation. We all need to work because we all need money. We all need money to become worth less to allow us to digest the high debt we incur to buy things which used to be much cheaper when people needed less money. Inflation is a necessity to allow people to prepare for retirement.
I bought a house 15 years ago for about $400K at today's exchange rate. My neighbor with precisely the same house (they're town houses) sold theirs for $900K this past week. The house hasn't doubled in size. The neighborhood didn't get an attraction to increase demand. The house simply increased in monetary value because the money has deflated in value by a considerable amount. In fact, the house is really worth less since we bought the houses brand new and now they're 15 years old with wear and tear on them. People paying $900K would have paid a million except they nee
I'm actually originally a New Yorker a long long time ago. I now live in Oslo, Norway. My parents live in Florida and I'm in perpetual shock by the enormous vehicles people drive. They're like land boats. I've wanted a Renault Twizzy for a while. If they ever upgrade the design to include real doors, heat and a better battery, I'll go straight to the dealer... it would also help if it weren't French.
And I can highly recommend against ever owning a BMW i3. It's a truly awful vehicle... but it's dirt cheap and it's only until self-driving taxis happen... so I won't get rid of it.
I started reading what you wrote... I think it's the first time in years I ever felt as if I honestly didn't understand something that wasn't gibberish. I believe everything you said would make a lot more sense to someone with a clue about trucks. I'm greatly thankful to you for using good punctuation and capitalization. I think the moment you write liftgate, I was already tempted to Google. By the time you made references to Hellwig and Timbren, I was wondering how Harry Potter's owl would wear canvas boots.
I really enjoy the rare occasions where someone clearly confuses the shit out of me when I know they're speaking perfectly clear.
Thanks... I'll smile all day because of this.
Ok... I'm not even sure where to start on this one.
You missed the entire point. It was about the headline which is as far as most people will read. If you don't like the wording of the headline, offer an alternative. I was tired and didn't take the time to consider that people on Slashdot would actually go into a whole summary about scientific method.
I also am pretty damn sure that whoever wrote the headline was not the scientists performing the research. I could be wrong... but ok.
I'll happily yield and say "Cell phone radiation not dangerous enough to humans to bother with. Scientists have better proof than you do."
Dude... I'm not a journalist, I'm a sofa critic. The wording of the headline as it stands now will have a shitload of fruitcakes screaming "Look, I was right!!! Cell phone radiation IS HARMFUL"
And yes, you can prove something does no harm. I can prove that jumping off a cliff is harmful but not jumping isn't.
Medicine is a substitute for science until such time as we have the first damn clue how the body works and can explain how it functions. We can't even explain simple chemical reactions at this point and are still waiting on quantum computing to handle even basic chemistry problems. We sure as hell can't explain how anything interacts with something as complex as an amoeba, let's not even consider saying we know anything about the human body. It's all guess work. Like "If we nuke the shit out of this guy but not that guy... the first one seems to turn black and crumble to ash while the second one doesn't. From this we can conclude that the second subject must have applied sun cream properly when he was 11 years old". Now... since we have a pattern of you missing the point established, the point I was making is that medical research works almost by accident. I was making an exaggerated example of what most medical research looks like compared to someone that prefers science.
And before you start in on it... I know we depend on medicine now as a substitute to real science because we don't have a clue how a cell works. We need to make these "educated guesses" which are so impressively stupid that we still consider poisoning and nuking people a form of medicine because we simply don't understand how to do anything smarter. Instead of trying to solve fundamental problems in medicine like early detection, doctors spend all their time focusing on how to solve problems when they're already too late.
The whole "Health monitoring watch" thing is a huge improvement to medicine on many levels... consider this. If a person gets cancer (and we probably all have cancer at some point or another, but it disappears because of a cancelling out as a function of cellular growth and decay), we detect that cancer because we're waiting for cancer to grow to a scale which is detectable via symptoms or lumps. There are woman all over the world getting their breast groped in an attempt to find lumps that are big enough to detect. How many layers of stupid do we need on this planet? I mean honestly, some idiotic doctor is going to radiate, cut, poison, etc... the breast and prove he's a fucking genius by showing he can point, radiate or cut just enough to kill the cancer but not too much that he kills the patient. And the bitch of it is... he may not get enough of it in time.
And this is what counts as smart people performing medicine
Let's try something less stupid for a moment. We have technology used in airports to let a bunch of pervs in security get their rocks off on what people look like beneath their clothes. These systems are absolutely horrible at the job they were designed for... they do little more than let some pervs get all nasty in a quiet room whenever a teenage boy or girl gets scanned. That technology is based on almost exactly the same technology we use for taking pictures of babies in their mommies bellies when they're little more than a few hundred thousand cells. Hell, that technology can even do 3d now.
Then there's machine lear
Now, all the morons that go on and on about cell phone radiation in the first place and wouldn't understand the vast majority of the article and therefore won't read it will have all the evidence they need to support their claims.
A better headline would have focused on saying "Cell phone radiation safe for humans".
But if you don't believe me... ask the Anti-vaxxers about scientific proof published as headlines.
You are so cute.
Helping the wrong side?
Dude... you are the disease. Red pill, wrong side, the world is not binary. Right and wrong arenâ€(TM)t the only options. There are at least 50 shades of... well whatever.
Stop fucking polarizing. Polarization is the sickness of America. Itâ€(TM)s fucking toxic and you and any other asshole who votes red or blue is responsible for the downfall of the U.S.. I mean seriously, get a book and learn what happened to the Roman senate due to polarization.
When someone says â€oeI dislike Trump, but...†even if I disagree with their â€oeBut...â€, I still like to see when people start realizing that even the asshole kid in school can do something they like once in a while. Itâ€(TM)s called wisdom.
Get some.
Do they still make cars with anything other than many element LED head lamps?
I live in Oslo, Norway where most cars are very very new and I don't really pay much attention to cars, so I honestly can't say I've seen anything other than LED for the past 2-3 years.
Wow!!! I just Googled that truck... that is one giant heap of metal.
What would you use a vehicle like that for? I drive a BMW i3 which is a gigantic family car and when my kids get older, I'm looking forward to hopefully switching to self-driving Uber as my main transport.
So back to that truck.
I can imagine that it's good for farming, but it's very high up, so without loading docks, it seems very impractical. I'm also guessing it has a huge engine (didn't check), so you're probably hauling car parts or other heavy materials?
Actually, my daughter plans on studying in China and then hoping to get a job with a western company and a western salary... then she can live in China, work at the world's top tech companies and live in a place where prices are cheap... at least until the Chinese decide to simply crash the world economy to further communism.
My son is 16 and already looking into micro-houses for when he gets older. We're considering buying a plot of land and populating it with 4-10 micro houses with parking for a single shared self driving car. We're hoping to be able to sell them for $25,000 a piece. We'll use a single centralized heater, have a single parking spot for cars, room for one electric moped per house, etc...
The idea is that at least until they have children (a LONG WAY OFF I hope) this would allow them to live with very little debt and spend the vast majority of their income on socializing and enjoying live while saving money for their eventual houses to raise children in... which may also be somewhat minimalist.
If food is readily accessible via delivery services and restaurants, and clothing can be washed by service (which will become increasingly more popular as the job market shrinks) and most forms of entertainment at home is computer rather than large sitting room oriented, what's the point of a big house or apartment?
I would move into one as well if I were single. I have an office where I spend most of my time (even recreational) and have little need for much space at home. I think 30m^2 would be far more than enough for me. I'm in a room about that big right now and can easily mentally design the room to meet all my needs.
So, yeh... cheaper housing would make perfect sense.
By the same logic as is presented would it not by extension also lack the authority to regulate television? After all, while television contains "tele" within its name, it is clear that it is an informational service as opposed to being a telecommunications service.
Then of course with the world abandoning classic telephony in favor of IP telephony we no longer have any real need for the FCC.
If we also consider that LTE is run or operated primarily over the IP network infrastructure, often employing GRE tunnels across the Internet where leased lines are unavailable, it is practical to say that LTE is also an informational service as opposed to a telecommunications service.
So, that by his definition, there is no reason for the FCC to exist. Instead, we should demand the government establish the FISC or federal information systems commission to properly regulate these information systems in the best interest of the voters.
If Wikipedia is truly a non-profit, then the contributions it gains above and beyond its normal revenue stream should produce a trust that if managed correctly will cover its expenses.
A million here and a million there by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc... as well as governments and such is very generous. I'm quite sure Amazon would also be very happy to contribute hosting, bandwidth, counter-DDoS, etc...
A major part of running a non-profit is long term ambitions. In other words, it's in the interest of the organization and the world as a whole to continuously improve wikipedia over the next 100+ years. As such, if each year Amazon and others contribute to them allowing their reserves to grow at a rate faster than inflation, then Wiki over time could be entirely self-sufficient to the point that they offer scholarships and more.
People are missing that you don't want to get a $50 million payment today if you can instead get $500 million over the next 100 years from Amazon or whoever beats them out. Also, graciously accepting the handout and spending some time publicizing how grateful you are for it would attract other businesses who would like to be seen as positive contributors to the organization.
Wikipedia is not a business, it's an organization. So long as this is true, it should operate as one.
Ok... time to move on here.
... well Japan. The infrastructure required to support 40,000 (mostly children with overpriced cars) is substantially larger.
Google is a global company who has interests in most countries of the world. They have an office 15 minutes from me here in Norway and they are certainly spread out pretty much everywhere.
Supporting the USA and supporting the US military are two different things. The US military is an organization that exists primarily to give the US government and excuse to dump money into the economy and to remove youths from lower income tax brackets from the national unemployment statistics while brainwashing them to have self respect and discipline through rigid structure which is something the tax payers are well aware wasn't provided in the homes of those children. The US military is an excellent program for many reasons. For example, if the US leadership is lucky, they can ship hundreds of thousands of children off to a battlefield where they will be shot, injured, killed, or at least be crippled by PTSD which allows them to be removed from the unemployment statistics when they get back home (or not). It's extremely important to convince as many Americans as possible that this cause is right and just because the currently, with generally the worst overall performing demographics in nearly every category in the western world, the US needs a reliable industry to maintain it's position in the 2nd world. Of course, the US is probably at the absolute top of the second world countries. So... don't worry... it's still #1.
Support the military and support the soldiers and support the war efforts, etc... this is something which every militarily dominate leader in the world has depended on in order to feed their economies. When the people of those countries stop working for greatness and instead depend on greatness instilled upon them based on the conditions which they exited a vagina, countries are left with a vastly lethargic population who believe that they have the right to greatness. The only way for leaders to keep feeding that is to take a "world leadership" role which means in all practical terms "World's police". And then some leader will go around and attempt to make all the other countries pay for their leadership... which means pay for the military.
Right now, the American leadership is at a serious loss. Southern Japan houses over 40,000 American sailors/soldiers... paid for by
All through the Pacific Rim, the US military as a corporate entity depends on the fear instilled by a bat shit crazy North Korean leader. Ten million or more Americans are fed based on being prepared to fight a war against North Korea. If peace is negotiated with North Korea, and it more than likely will be, then North Korea will receive funds, aid and support are favorable interest rates while North Korea is built into an international leader similar to South Korea. This was a stroke of brilliance by North Korea. Building a nuclear arsenal simply to use it as a bargaining chip to enter the world market without being a beggar.
Well once that happens and the big threat is gone, there's still China to fear. And American leadership keeps treating China as if they're a Western country. China has completely backed off of military domination. Sure, they have a military, but it's not for fighting wars with America. Beating America has never been interesting. The communist government is attempting to build a communist society. They are very quickly working towards simply collapsing the world market. The world market depends on money having value. For money to have value, it has to be able to be used in exchange for stuff. What gives the money real value is when it can be used in exchange for what we need as opposed to what we want. This means housing, food and energy. Other than that, we don't really need all that crap. Only three things actually have real, honest value. If we add medicine... it's really close to being a need.
If China can mak
Ok ... I'm currently in the process of completely rebuilding the operations department of a company who manages networks for over a million users. I've been suffering through one argument on this topic or another in meeting rooms for a year.
"Some of the best SOAR products" followed by "I'm talking 6-digit packages here".
If you find a SOAR product that costs that much... they aren't good to begin with. Let me justify this clearly.
Security can only work in mass economy. That means that there must be as many sensors as possible in as many locations as possible to gather and identify actual security threats. So, if you're talking about things like IPS, e-mail security or anything else that needs to detect anything through finger printing, that means any product that costs more than maybe $5000 and doesn't have a free version as well will be utterly useless. Look at Cisco's FirePower... great products!!! Yeh!!! they have Snort and ClamAV and others which are truly amazingly good stuff.... too bad the charge so much for their products that they don't notice things like that they're running on Linux kernels that are compromised in the network stack and allow hackers to code inject to the kernel before the packet ever reached the Snort or ClamAV...
Don't worry, running most of your fancy security tools in a virtualized environment is meaningless as well as they also typically run on Linux or FreeBSD and run inside of VMware with VMXNET3 drivers which are so compromised they're like Christmas to hackers.
Let's also consider that "Best SOAR products" in general... I've evaluated many of them and have pockets deep enough to buy any of them that I consider useful. I then spend a massive amount of my budget in code review and performing line by line audits because those "best SOAR tools" almost always are coded to protect what's inside by have the worst security themselves.
Consider that most of these best SOAR products don't even have the option for client certificate authentication enforcement.
Making tools for security in Python can be fun... like "I found a security hole, let me write a small exploit to test it".
I just switched back to bash scripting after a failed Ansible project that just was absolutely shit because Ansible is designed for script kiddies who don't actually care whether their code breaks things by accident. Then you have Ansible crap code all over the place. Cisco has now released hundreds of Ansible tasks that completely lack idempotency. And they even have entire certification tracks on how to make Python and Ansible worse.
Hmmm... I'll bite
Ok, Python as a language can in fact be compiled... this is true. It can also be run through modern JITs. But
I have no idea what you mean by native speed... are you suggesting that Python can be compiled into native code? Ok... great...JIT is almost always faster than compiled code if the programmer understands the JIT and can optimize towards it. This is no different than how we used to sit with profilers and C code and shaving clock cycles off of compiled code. It's far more effective with a JIT so long as the execution time is greater enough to justify the extended startup time.
That said, No one with an education in computer science would ever suggest that Python can be fast. This is because we have this thing called Big-O which is a means of measuring and calculating the computational complexity of an algorithm.
Python for example is plagued with a data structure infrastructure that was designed entirely for functionality and completely disregards any aspect of reduction of computational complexity. I wouldn't care if you had the worlds most amazing compiler and language, when the underlying data structures don't consider performance at all, it simply doesn't matter.
Then there's PIP... oh no... yeh... I'm going to talk about the world's largest cesspool of code ever made. Python not only has a library to do just about anything you want... it has at least 10 that do everything you want.... none of them particularly well and almost none of them done by someone that knows the difference between a doubly linked list and an array.
Does this mean Python is bad?
No.. it's an amazing language for doing many things.... but
1) Don't use it if you need performance.
2) Don't use it if you want to keep your code clean
3) Don't use it if you're concerned about stability
4) Don't use it if you're concerned about security. The code audit costs would be mind boggling
Do use it if you need to do something now, quick and plan to toss the code after.