I think you missed the point of the OP. That was precisely what he was saying.
This is a government backed monopoly (in my opinion, the only true use of the word "monopoly"). It needs to be shut down. The same way utility providers currently get to exercise monopolies, enforced by government. Tesla ought to succeed or fail on their own merit (and I think they will fail, but they deserve the chance).
Maybe we could add a GPS tracker that way we could track the weapons and know exactly where and how they are used...I know! We need a good name for this operation...hmm...missiles go fast, so maybe we could call it "Operation Fast and Furious!"...oh wait...
This could be a fantastic thing for the Opensource Community.
Providing the OpenOffice (OO) and the LibreOffice(LO) developers can get past the bad blood of the past, they could merge their to projects back together and focus their efforts.
Corn prices go up because of ethanol subsidies which drive an otherwise failed alternative energy source. Ethanol makes no economic sense, unless you happen to be a corn farmer and in bed with big government.
So in a "perfect socialist (substitute communism or whatever other "planned economy" belief you hold)" all the dogs in your cage would starve because there isn't enough food for any of them when it gets equally portioned out? This assumes that capitalism has anything to do with crony capitalism which it doesn't (other than a similarity of name). It also assumes that capitalism is a zero-sum game, which it isn't and never has been. Putting aside all of these gross generalizations. Lets take your analogy at face value. You allege that it would be better for every dog to starve to death equally instead of half of the dogs to survive. How is that any more moral, or right, than the best and brightest dogs surviving while the slower and dumber dogs perish. I thought we believed in evolution and survival of the fittest, or doesn't that count in the social-economic world?
There are different types of rockstar coders. One type will get shit done under ridiculous deadlines. The other will write great code quickly and meet sane deadlines. Most of the time you want the later. Sometimes, you need to bring in your pinch hitter (the first group) and get stuff done. Most of the really bad spaghetti code can be mitigated by having good requirements and not wasting your rockstars on stupid, simple projects, and of course, strong helpful management.
I think rockstars get a bad wrap precisely because they are called in to fix things when projects are getting over deadline for the exact reason that the requirements suck. You really can't hold them accountable for spaghetti code or not exact solutions when the project requirements were the reason they had to step into the mess in the first place.
Yes, I do work in the US. I get paid hourly, and OT is the same rate as regular hourly, but at least my OT isn't for free. It's one of the reasons, I haven't taken a higher paying salary position elsewhere.
It's called mutually beneficial relationships. Normally I work four ten's a week. My boss is very good about not regularly pushing me to do overtime. Once in a while, crunch time hits, and there is no one to step up and get the extra work load done. When that happens, I don't mind pitching in and pulling some crazy hours. As long as I get paid for them, and as long as it doesn't become a regular event, it is fine. It makes me look like a great employee, it makes my boss look good to the customer, and most importantly: it is beneficial to my boss to make sure that it DOESN'T become a regular event, as I would cease to make myself available when real emergencies happen.
I find that occasional long days of 14-16 hours can be just fine. Doing it on a regular basis would kill my productivity after about hour 11. There is also an important element of engagement, which must be considered. If the project is interesting to me, and I am engaged, the long hours don't matter near as much as if I am doing something I hate.
I have over 20 different firearms, some of which I've had for over ten years. I have never used any of them on anything other than targets.
I have, on three different occasions used them to save my self in self defense situations:
1) A guy tried to break into my house after I was in bed (ostensibly he didn't know I was home). I scared him off with a shotgun, and the police picked him up shortly after.
2) A guy tried to break into my residence while I was there, and after I twice warned him that I was armed. I held him at gun point until the police arrived.
3) A gang banger tried to mug me at knife point. Luckily, I was concealed carrying, legally, and I scared him off with the gun.
Never had to fire a shot in any of the above cases, but the gun saved my life.
If you are ever in such a situation, at least be mentally secure in the smug knowledge that you aren't "compensating", as your body probably won't be.
Even if I felt the company had screwed me, I wouldn't take anything of true value to the company. However, if I thought I could get away with it, I'd grab several of the little libraries and code routines I've written over the years to make my like easier. I'd hate to have to code them from scratch the next time I needed them.
And your point? Your statement, is emotional response that in no way combats my argument.
Furthermore, guns are not designed to "kill". They are designed to shoot a piece of metal at high velocities.
Whether the owner turns that on an innocent person, an attacker, an animal, or an inanimate target is solely the discretion of the owner, just the same as if I took a bat and decided to beat innocent people to death instead of playing baseball.
First let's get some perspective: Cars, Swimming Pools, and Ladders all cause more deaths than guns each year, and that is before you remove suicides from your violent gun crime statistics.
Micro-stamping the firing pin won't be any use in the following cases
Pin gets filed
Revolver
Brass Catcher
Normal wear and tear (I can look at the pin of any gun I've shot more than 500 rounds through, and see that the tip of the firing pin is slightly blunted. A micro-stamp is only going to cause faster wear to the firing pin).
There are literally millions of guns without the micro-stamping, so even if it were viable as an identifier, how would it help with the current gun market? You wouldn't even know if the round came from an old gun, or a gun where someone had intentionally filed the firing pin
Most firing pins are incredibly simple in design, and can easily be created with no metal working equipment or skills
Ultimately, the only thing this law will do is lead to increased manufacturing costs for gun manufacturing companies, which raises the price of firearms. This, I suspect, is the ultimate end goal of this type of legislation. Since SCOTUS has decreed that the 2nd Amendment does allow all citizens to own firearms, anti-gun nuts are resorting to bureaucracy and cost inflation in an attempt to prevent Americans from owning firearms.
I'd like to know if his conviction is based on the tools he created or the fact that he specifically marketed, advocated, and provided support for stealing cable internet. The later would make sense.
If he was just providing the tools, I don't know if they would have had a case.
Unfortunately this entire "outrage" is an example of your typical American Latte drinker peering out from their ivory tower and all agreeing that "something should be done" without understanding the basic market principles or the context of that which they judge. Are the conditions are Foxconn bad? Compared to American standards, yes. Compared to Chinese standards the workers at Foxconn are privileged and it is an amazing job to have. Before you start punishing companies that rise above the average in working conditions, you should go after the sub par and average companies if you really want to exercise your heart-bleed.
Half of my contract work came from re-writing crappy website applications that were written in India.
A lot of companies go for the cheap first, but they eventually learn the hard way and come back for local talent if for no other reason than the language and cultural barrier.
Without a college degree or much previous job experience, your best bet is to have two or three gorgeous looking websites which are diverse enough to show some skill. Spend a couple months creating these sites. You will be able to quickly demonstrate your coding skill to an interested company.
Brush up your resume. Make it look clean and professional. Don't lie, but remember that it is advertising. You are allowed to exaggerate a bit.
Learn to interview well. This will make or break you. It's a crap shoot of luck until you get to a human interview. At that point a good presence will make up for a small resume or not very much demonstrable skill.
Hit sites like Monster or Dice. Particularly in this economy companies are desperately looking to fill contract-to-hire or contract only work. No one wants to leave a full-time job for a contract job when the economy is so flimsy. Capitalize on this. Get a bunch of contract work. You'll make good money, and you'll be building your resume and experience.
All my Apple fanboy friends are so excited about how "amazing" Siri is. Yet every time they try to demo this "amazing" technology, it falls flat on its face in terms of practicality. You can ask it very specific, pre-canned items and it works marvelously. Anything actually useful, and it fails, or returns a Google hit. The only new part of this technology is the fact that it is running on a phone (and it really isn't, it's sending the voice-to-text off to a server). There is nothing new or particularly innovated about this technology. It's practically worthless for real use.
All my Apple friends think that Siri is the coolest thing since sliced bread, yet it doesn't provide them with any valuable service. In the end, I guess that's what's important. If people like the novelty or believe that this is "cool" and "new" then that's just as financially successful as actually making a real technical breakthrough. I'd love to have a phone that could almost perfectly understand and respond to my voice commands, but Siri isn't it, yet. Furthermore, until we get a lot more processing power, and better grammar parsing and lexical analysis of English, this technology can only hope to remain a joke.
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I think you missed the point of the OP. That was precisely what he was saying.
This is a government backed monopoly (in my opinion, the only true use of the word "monopoly"). It needs to be shut down. The same way utility providers currently get to exercise monopolies, enforced by government. Tesla ought to succeed or fail on their own merit (and I think they will fail, but they deserve the chance).
Maybe we could add a GPS tracker that way we could track the weapons and know exactly where and how they are used...I know! We need a good name for this operation...hmm...missiles go fast, so maybe we could call it "Operation Fast and Furious!"...oh wait...
This could be a fantastic thing for the Opensource Community.
Providing the OpenOffice (OO) and the LibreOffice(LO) developers can get past the bad blood of the past, they could merge their to projects back together and focus their efforts.
Corn prices go up because of ethanol subsidies which drive an otherwise failed alternative energy source. Ethanol makes no economic sense, unless you happen to be a corn farmer and in bed with big government.
So in a "perfect socialist (substitute communism or whatever other "planned economy" belief you hold)" all the dogs in your cage would starve because there isn't enough food for any of them when it gets equally portioned out? This assumes that capitalism has anything to do with crony capitalism which it doesn't (other than a similarity of name). It also assumes that capitalism is a zero-sum game, which it isn't and never has been. Putting aside all of these gross generalizations. Lets take your analogy at face value. You allege that it would be better for every dog to starve to death equally instead of half of the dogs to survive. How is that any more moral, or right, than the best and brightest dogs surviving while the slower and dumber dogs perish. I thought we believed in evolution and survival of the fittest, or doesn't that count in the social-economic world?
There are different types of rockstar coders. One type will get shit done under ridiculous deadlines. The other will write great code quickly and meet sane deadlines. Most of the time you want the later. Sometimes, you need to bring in your pinch hitter (the first group) and get stuff done. Most of the really bad spaghetti code can be mitigated by having good requirements and not wasting your rockstars on stupid, simple projects, and of course, strong helpful management.
I think rockstars get a bad wrap precisely because they are called in to fix things when projects are getting over deadline for the exact reason that the requirements suck. You really can't hold them accountable for spaghetti code or not exact solutions when the project requirements were the reason they had to step into the mess in the first place.
Yes, I do work in the US. I get paid hourly, and OT is the same rate as regular hourly, but at least my OT isn't for free. It's one of the reasons, I haven't taken a higher paying salary position elsewhere.
It's called mutually beneficial relationships. Normally I work four ten's a week. My boss is very good about not regularly pushing me to do overtime. Once in a while, crunch time hits, and there is no one to step up and get the extra work load done. When that happens, I don't mind pitching in and pulling some crazy hours. As long as I get paid for them, and as long as it doesn't become a regular event, it is fine. It makes me look like a great employee, it makes my boss look good to the customer, and most importantly: it is beneficial to my boss to make sure that it DOESN'T become a regular event, as I would cease to make myself available when real emergencies happen.
I find that occasional long days of 14-16 hours can be just fine. Doing it on a regular basis would kill my productivity after about hour 11. There is also an important element of engagement, which must be considered. If the project is interesting to me, and I am engaged, the long hours don't matter near as much as if I am doing something I hate.
Um yes?
I have over 20 different firearms, some of which I've had for over ten years. I have never used any of them on anything other than targets.
I have, on three different occasions used them to save my self in self defense situations:
1) A guy tried to break into my house after I was in bed (ostensibly he didn't know I was home). I scared him off with a shotgun, and the police picked him up shortly after.
2) A guy tried to break into my residence while I was there, and after I twice warned him that I was armed. I held him at gun point until the police arrived.
3) A gang banger tried to mug me at knife point. Luckily, I was concealed carrying, legally, and I scared him off with the gun.
Never had to fire a shot in any of the above cases, but the gun saved my life.
If you are ever in such a situation, at least be mentally secure in the smug knowledge that you aren't "compensating", as your body probably won't be.
Even if I felt the company had screwed me, I wouldn't take anything of true value to the company. However, if I thought I could get away with it, I'd grab several of the little libraries and code routines I've written over the years to make my like easier. I'd hate to have to code them from scratch the next time I needed them.
And your point? Your statement, is emotional response that in no way combats my argument.
Furthermore, guns are not designed to "kill". They are designed to shoot a piece of metal at high velocities.
Whether the owner turns that on an innocent person, an attacker, an animal, or an inanimate target is solely the discretion of the owner, just the same as if I took a bat and decided to beat innocent people to death instead of playing baseball.
Micro-stamping the firing pin won't be any use in the following cases
Ultimately, the only thing this law will do is lead to increased manufacturing costs for gun manufacturing companies, which raises the price of firearms. This, I suspect, is the ultimate end goal of this type of legislation. Since SCOTUS has decreed that the 2nd Amendment does allow all citizens to own firearms, anti-gun nuts are resorting to bureaucracy and cost inflation in an attempt to prevent Americans from owning firearms.
I second the CrashPlan option. I've done the manual backing up to HDD's and USB Drives, but that way leads to madness.
Unfortunately this case isn't that cut and dried.
I'd like to know if his conviction is based on the tools he created or the fact that he specifically marketed, advocated, and provided support for stealing cable internet. The later would make sense.
If he was just providing the tools, I don't know if they would have had a case.
There isn't a problem with the ridiculous security requirements, we just need to add another layer of bureaucracy!
Unfortunately this entire "outrage" is an example of your typical American Latte drinker peering out from their ivory tower and all agreeing that "something should be done" without understanding the basic market principles or the context of that which they judge. Are the conditions are Foxconn bad? Compared to American standards, yes. Compared to Chinese standards the workers at Foxconn are privileged and it is an amazing job to have. Before you start punishing companies that rise above the average in working conditions, you should go after the sub par and average companies if you really want to exercise your heart-bleed.
What idiot marked this "insightful"?
Still, how would they know if some sort of stenography was being implemented, or if I had a Truecrypt volume called "ProgramA.bin"?
How would they know if it had been encrypted by something like Truecrypt which is designed to be invisible to prying eyes?
Half of my contract work came from re-writing crappy website applications that were written in India.
A lot of companies go for the cheap first, but they eventually learn the hard way and come back for local talent if for no other reason than the language and cultural barrier.
Without a college degree or much previous job experience, your best bet is to have two or three gorgeous looking websites which are diverse enough to show some skill. Spend a couple months creating these sites. You will be able to quickly demonstrate your coding skill to an interested company.
Brush up your resume. Make it look clean and professional. Don't lie, but remember that it is advertising. You are allowed to exaggerate a bit.
Learn to interview well. This will make or break you. It's a crap shoot of luck until you get to a human interview. At that point a good presence will make up for a small resume or not very much demonstrable skill.
Hit sites like Monster or Dice. Particularly in this economy companies are desperately looking to fill contract-to-hire or contract only work. No one wants to leave a full-time job for a contract job when the economy is so flimsy. Capitalize on this. Get a bunch of contract work. You'll make good money, and you'll be building your resume and experience.
Which the government will immediately decide, with no congressional oversight, that they have the right to control and regulate.
I swear I thought laptops could fly!
All my Apple fanboy friends are so excited about how "amazing" Siri is. Yet every time they try to demo this "amazing" technology, it falls flat on its face in terms of practicality. You can ask it very specific, pre-canned items and it works marvelously. Anything actually useful, and it fails, or returns a Google hit. The only new part of this technology is the fact that it is running on a phone (and it really isn't, it's sending the voice-to-text off to a server). There is nothing new or particularly innovated about this technology. It's practically worthless for real use.
All my Apple friends think that Siri is the coolest thing since sliced bread, yet it doesn't provide them with any valuable service. In the end, I guess that's what's important. If people like the novelty or believe that this is "cool" and "new" then that's just as financially successful as actually making a real technical breakthrough. I'd love to have a phone that could almost perfectly understand and respond to my voice commands, but Siri isn't it, yet. Furthermore, until we get a lot more processing power, and better grammar parsing and lexical analysis of English, this technology can only hope to remain a joke.