And the next job was in a manufacturing plant, where there was a set of steel steps with a light at the top. The sign said "Do Not go down the steps until the light goes out". The one who did not learn from the class, made a terrible mess. But they never actually found the body.
Too much effort. Just let her grow up a Hitler loving, Trump voting racists. At least she won't be some strange minority which appears to be what "normal" is becoming.
Very few people are anywhere near normal. Think about it...
A ten year old desktop, that has been upgraded once in a while, is faster than your low-power portable stuff. And probably more reliable. If not, then it gets replaced.
These days the computer tech advance has slowed down a bit, so that is not actually that old. Except for the phone tech, but that started more recently and is farther behind.
Science is how the universe works. Markets are actually pretty flexible - they've existed in a great variety of legal environments.
Science is a way of finding out how things work. Markets are what people do when they have to deal with economics. You can change markets by making laws, but you can't change economics by making laws. 8-)
True. I was using the phrase "in common" in a more general sense.
The point is that England, and Europe to a certain extent, is a different condition from many other countries. The United States and many other countries on the American continent have much less difference between the owners and the renters. And it was not at all unusual for them to effectively "switch places" occasionally.
The idea of "shooting the landlords" sounds really crazy to us, much worse than "shoot all of the lawyers".
More likely the whole place will burn down because the last fireman had to move or be homeless.
Other places have volunteer fire departments, or with a core of paid and the rest volunteer. There is a pretty good range of people, rich to poor.
But then, other places don't screw up the housing that bad by making dumb laws.
Maybe part of the problem is that, in SanFran, very few people have sufficient technical training to understand feedback systems and dynamic stability? Except that the arts types I have known did understand some of that, just "from the other direction".
Democracy is a way to decide what to do. Economics is the way the universe works. Deciding to go against the universe is not going to work. If you decide to do something that doesn't work, it fails.
Just because you vote for something, doesn't mean you can make it happen. Like voting to make the value of Pi equal to 3.0 !!
But just imagine being paid to live in the mountains somewhere, not having to slave away for a faceless corporation. The true american dream.
There are already plenty of people living there, and they are not interested in getting anything from the government. Or even telling the government that they are there...
But you are welcome, as long as you don't bring the government with you. 8-)
You know that comic strip "Snuffy Smith"? Well he "lives down the road" about 30 miles from me!
Actually, being poor doesn't suck as much as rich people think it does. Particularly if you don't have to live in a city. But some poor prefer the cities anyway because they are less work.
When the lower-income people move away, the rich will have to pay a lot more for help. When it rises enough the people will start to move back, some.
Normally developers would build more low cost housing, but if they are prevented then costs just keep going up. When it gets bad enough even the rich move away. Finally prices drop and people start to move back, sometime in the next century. But it might have turned into a wreck before that...
Making laws based on wishful thinking will not stop natural forces, but it might divert them into places that you definitely do not want.
Our whole society is founded on the way that the universe works. It is not just a thought people had or a law they made. If that is not recognised, then any laws made ignoring the universe and the laws of thermodynamics, are going to fail. The founders of this country knew this, but a lot of the world does not know it...
Economics is not just a law people made, it's Mother Nature's laws and you break them at your peril!
That doesn't mean that people can't be good to each other, it just means that they can't always afford it.
... Ask those same breathless progressives if they think that, say, the people in a Kentucky coal mining town have a "right" to things staying exactly as they are.
How about this?: ==== The people in Kentucky coal mining towns do have a right to stay there! There should be a federal law requiring California to use the Coal, so the miners can make a good wage! ====
Actually, the phrase "Rich People" is defined by the democrat party as "anyone who gets a paycheck". They don't consider the independently wealthy as part of that, because they get donations from them.
Historically, having the State own the land is worse than having individuals own the land.
The problem that England has, is that it has been a conquered country since the year 1066, and has been owned and run by the invaders ever since. So the renters are English/Welsh but the landlords are Norman/Saxon invaders. Bad situation.
Actually, in general land that is not owned by individuals is ruined. So having land "in common" is not a good idea.
The guy on Office Space was right, though. Have you ever tried letting the customers give requirements directly to the engineers? You're setting yourself up for a world of hurt. That sort of stuff absolutely needs translation.
This is true. I spend half my working time translating between Customers, Marketing and Engineering. People in different fields literally use words for different meanings.
But just because a person is Sales or A People Person does not mean they can translate technish! ( And yes, non-technical fields have their own dialects of technish.)
I suspect that SF has a long history of pretending that economics don't apply to its housing, based on the little I've read about it.
Bingo. This is just basic supply and demand economics. San Francisco restricts the supply of rental housing. 95% of all building permit requests were denied last year. Rent control laws discourage landlords from entering the market. Then when the inevitable shortage occurs, they blame tech.
And that is not because of the Tech industry, it is because of the local government people. Beauracrats and Politicians always think they can control the world by making laws, but they don't actually have the power to argue with Mother Nature! And economics is based on the laws of thermodynamics, not any human law.
Making laws to force things that are not under our control, results in many unforseen side effects, as evidenced by this situation.
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Your example (thequickbrownFox) by simple virtue of the single character being uppercase actually doubles the character pool from 26 to 52...
Are you assuming that the crackers test all of the lower case patterns before they check upper case? How likely is that?
The odds depend on the algorithms the cracker uses, not so much the password. Unless it is something like "12345", that they check first.
Breaking human rules is one thing, it will only get you in trouble.
Breaking Mother Nature's rules is different. Most of her punishments are death, and Mother Nature has no pity.
Be sure you know the difference!
And the next job was in a manufacturing plant, where there was a set of steel steps with a light at the top. The sign said "Do Not go down the steps until the light goes out". The one who did not learn from the class, made a terrible mess. But they never actually found the body.
The rest lived! 8-)
I think that it tells us more about the Microsoft people than about the AI.
Absolute power corrupts absolutly. If you work for Microsoft, be on your guard, lest you too fall victim...
Too much effort. Just let her grow up a Hitler loving, Trump voting racists. At least she won't be some strange minority which appears to be what "normal" is becoming.
Very few people are anywhere near normal. Think about it...
Jolt Cola. Probably before your time.
I have an empty Jolt Cola can sitting on my equipment shelf. I did rinse it out, though.
With all of the "Energy Drinks" around, they should make a new run of it, the "yuppies" would love it!
All women are crazy, but then so are all men! 8-P
Except me, I am discustingly sane. But when I say that my wife giggles. I love it when she giggles!
Anybody else here old enough to remember Eliza? Did any of you not try to have a conversation with her that was heavy on sex?
Did anyone wonder if Microsoft's bot was any more intellegent than Elisa? Which was not much... 8-P
The programmer of Elisa was appalled, when a few people mistook it for a person.
Yes, Azimov's three laws of robotics. Your parents discussed all of this before you were born, in detail. Look it up.
I know, because I was there. 8-}
But don't forget the "zero'th law", it must be included too.
Whiskey, Guinness, and red-heads
That right there describes my wasted youth... and also explains why my kids are red heads.
Not so wasted then, was it? ;-)
Very Good Point! 8-)
A ten year old desktop, that has been upgraded once in a while, is faster than your low-power portable stuff. And probably more reliable. If not, then it gets replaced.
These days the computer tech advance has slowed down a bit, so that is not actually that old. Except for the phone tech, but that started more recently and is farther behind.
What? You think Trump did it to himself?
On second thought, I wouldn't put it past him...
Science is how the universe works. Markets are actually pretty flexible - they've existed in a great variety of legal environments.
Science is a way of finding out how things work.
Markets are what people do when they have to deal with economics.
You can change markets by making laws, but you can't change economics by making laws. 8-)
True. I was using the phrase "in common" in a more general sense.
The point is that England, and Europe to a certain extent, is a different condition from many other countries. The United States and many other countries on the American continent have much less difference between the owners and the renters. And it was not at all unusual for them to effectively "switch places" occasionally.
The idea of "shooting the landlords" sounds really crazy to us, much worse than "shoot all of the lawyers".
... But, you cannot say that voters who feel the same as you are somehow "disenfranchised", because that's simply not true.
Actually, talk about "disenfranchised" and "vote doesn't matter" is often spread by the -other side-, in order to discourage people from voting!
More likely the whole place will burn down because the last fireman had to move or be homeless.
Other places have volunteer fire departments, or with a core of paid and the rest volunteer. There is a pretty good range of people, rich to poor.
But then, other places don't screw up the housing that bad by making dumb laws.
Maybe part of the problem is that, in SanFran, very few people have sufficient technical training to understand feedback systems and dynamic stability?
Except that the arts types I have known did understand some of that, just "from the other direction".
Democracy is a way to decide what to do. Economics is the way the universe works. Deciding to go against the universe is not going to work. If you decide to do something that doesn't work, it fails.
Just because you vote for something, doesn't mean you can make it happen.
Like voting to make the value of Pi equal to 3.0 !!
But just imagine being paid to live in the mountains somewhere, not having to slave away for a faceless corporation.
The true american dream.
There are already plenty of people living there, and they are not interested in getting anything from the government. Or even telling the government that they are there...
But you are welcome, as long as you don't bring the government with you. 8-)
You know that comic strip "Snuffy Smith"? Well he "lives down the road" about 30 miles from me!
Actually, being poor doesn't suck as much as rich people think it does. Particularly if you don't have to live in a city. But some poor prefer the cities anyway because they are less work.
When the lower-income people move away, the rich will have to pay a lot more for help. When it rises enough the people will start to move back, some.
Normally developers would build more low cost housing, but if they are prevented then costs just keep going up. When it gets bad enough even the rich move away. Finally prices drop and people start to move back, sometime in the next century. But it might have turned into a wreck before that...
Making laws based on wishful thinking will not stop natural forces, but it might divert them into places that you definitely do not want.
Our whole society is founded on the way that the universe works. It is not just a thought people had or a law they made. If that is not recognised, then any laws made ignoring the universe and the laws of thermodynamics, are going to fail. The founders of this country knew this, but a lot of the world does not know it...
Economics is not just a law people made, it's Mother Nature's laws and you break them at your peril!
That doesn't mean that people can't be good to each other, it just means that they can't always afford it.
... Ask those same breathless progressives if they think that, say, the people in a Kentucky coal mining town have a "right" to things staying exactly as they are.
How about this?:
====
The people in Kentucky coal mining towns do have a right to stay there! There should be a federal law requiring California to use the Coal, so the miners can make a good wage!
====
Actually, the phrase "Rich People" is defined by the democrat party as "anyone who gets a paycheck".
They don't consider the independently wealthy as part of that, because they get donations from them.
Historically, having the State own the land is worse than having individuals own the land.
The problem that England has, is that it has been a conquered country since the year 1066, and has been owned and run by the invaders ever since.
So the renters are English/Welsh but the landlords are Norman/Saxon invaders. Bad situation.
Actually, in general land that is not owned by individuals is ruined. So having land "in common" is not a good idea.
The guy on Office Space was right, though. Have you ever tried letting the customers give requirements directly to the engineers? You're setting yourself up for a world of hurt. That sort of stuff absolutely needs translation.
This is true. I spend half my working time translating between Customers, Marketing and Engineering. People in different fields literally use words for different meanings.
But just because a person is Sales or A People Person does not mean they can translate technish!
( And yes, non-technical fields have their own dialects of technish.)
I suspect that SF has a long history of pretending that economics don't apply to its housing, based on the little I've read about it.
Bingo. This is just basic supply and demand economics. San Francisco restricts the supply of rental housing. 95% of all building permit requests were denied last year. Rent control laws discourage landlords from entering the market. Then when the inevitable shortage occurs, they blame tech.
And that is not because of the Tech industry, it is because of the local government people. Beauracrats and Politicians always think they can control the world by making laws, but they don't actually have the power to argue with Mother Nature! And economics is based on the laws of thermodynamics, not any human law.
Making laws to force things that are not under our control, results in many unforseen side effects, as evidenced by this situation.