Though in Germany it goes both way. You are by law allowed to get the ID off of everyone, even the police, and they HAVE to provide it.
The minimum age for IDs is 16. Though you should ALWAYS get an ID (passport) for your children so that you can prove they are yours.
On a lighter note: When we made the passport for our then 6 month old son, the person at the passport office said, and this is !true!, that the picture is ok for Europe, but it is not bio-metrically correct enough for the US and we might get problems if we want to enter.
Sorry, how can you study the moon by avoiding it? That is like saying you will study Africa by sailing to South America.
Plus I get the feeling this is ONLY about being able to say you did something f1rst.
I agree that manned missions are needed in the long run, but we should use the possibility of unmanned missions to collect as much data as possible before risking not only the massively more amount of money but also the lives of people.
Learn to walk before you can run. We are still crawling on mommy's lap.
When riding a bike you take it step by step. You don't sit your daughter on a bike and after the first few attempts go to the next biggest mountain and push her down the steepest slope.
Or you could say that after you have swam across the Hudson, you just skip crossing one of the Great Lakes and go for an Atlantic crossing.
You just don't throw a crap load of money and time out the window on a mission you know has a high chance of failing. Especially not when people's lives are on the line!
So we can throw some hardware at Mars. Great. But who would really volunteer on a suicide mission like a trip to Mars?
The moon would be the next logical step. We build a base, do R&D in creating habitats on the Moon. From there we can leap on.
Not to mention if something happens on the Moon, you can still escape and get back in reasonable time. Mars? To roughly quote Douglas Adams: 'no need for panic or haste, you're not going to make it anyway'
Asteroid mining I can understand. (IMHO one of THE things we should invest in, both for mining as for science) But why do we even want to fly to Mars? What does Mars have to offer that we could not do on the Moon. At least base research wise?
He is a black liberal. Double-bad to the reptiles.
But I was wondering the same thing. Where were all these people when the drunk coke-sniffing draft-dodging Village-Idiot-In-Chief and Darth Vader's bastard son were running the show?
Yep, and iirc there are multiple forms. From the slight twitching head over the screaming foul langauge to the uncontrollable movements causing self injury.
Tests are redundant because either it won't work, it will work, it will work but she is faking it, it won't work because [insert ridiculous justification].
I wonder why this stuff only pops up when there is someone to sue near by.
Ever notice how this stuff will only happen in the the countries where the chances of a suit succeeding/getting settled is high?
How many people will go to a company with pre-existing conditions and then have an 'accident' and sue the company? Well the proof is there!
I fear you are missing the underlying issue: it is utter and total BS!
It is like saying someone can go blind from looking at a white t-shirt!
This is just another attempt to bribe money out of companies. They know the suite does not stand a chance, but the bad publicity that forces the company to pay up so it will go away, makes right or wrong redundant. They should be held responsible for the damages!
You did read the part where they say 'even when the attacker's identity is unknown', or? They don't know who it is, but they want to drop bombs on them.
Do you really think that would stop the US military? They won't let all them details stand in the way of bombing something... better then letting the terrorists win. If someone dies, they must have been guilty. If all else fails, cover it up.
I dunno. I think they see that they can get a lot more money off of people if they sue them. At least it is a better alternative then down-pricing their stuff.
If you look at MAFIAA vs. Thompson and how they wanted to price the damages. Say you provide a song and 100 people download it. They will sue you for _LOSS_ * 100. But then they will go to the other 100 people and do the same. Thus it would be _LOSS_* 10000. So instead of 101 people paying for one song, they can get the equivalent of 10000 people paying for one song (actually the damages are a lot higher, but for simplicities sake lets assume this amount).
Who cannot see the potential there? You can get tons of money in a 'clean' way.
Not to mention the lawyers also benefit from this. Where can I sign up to sue people for the MAFIAA?
You can bet your bum on it, though they do not do it officially.
Kinda like the MAFIAA's 'war on drugs/terror'.
Think about it, the more supply they create, the higher the chances of success. The more traps you set, the more rats you can potentially catch. The more you can leech from them.
But any smart rat cacher will, once they see the potential, start mass breeding the rats. Thus assuring that they will have enough rats to keep their pockets full.
It IS a new business model, but not one you can really public relations guy can announce. I mean you are not really fighting piracy like this, just like you are not fighting drug trade by having the drug dealers pay fines.
Basically it is an informal payment for something you do not want to officially support.
What is even worse is that they are not trying to fight piracy, just cash in on the people doing it.
Kinda like if a cop baits people to commit crimes and then arrests them for doing the crime. IIRC this is illegal. I even remember a FBI guy who basically created a terrorist cell, recruited people and then busted them to further his own career.
In Germany the rights holders cannot get to the IP info, thus they press charges so that the police will have to get the IP info. Since the people pressing the charges are allowed to get the info from the police, they do so and then DROP the charges. (costing the state money) With the IP info they they drag the people through private court to squeeze money out of them.
This is NOT about fighting piracy but trying to leech off of it without acknowledging that it (p2p, or online accessible media) might be a valid business case.
True, though the space used by an ITX is smaller then those for your typical blade. You can get about 2-3 in per u.
I also think you have to calculate the power needed. Some of the systems I have seen are designed for the worst-case, yet that hardly ever happens. But the system has to have all the bling and whatnot.
Or, if you need the power, the system has been nerfed because each node costs so much.
Also not to dismiss is the cooling requirements. I have seen nodes you could use to keep your coffee/tea warm (on the outside!).
Naturally moving the datacenters around will benefit you to a certain degree. But those are often just short term solutions. Like any other 'outsourcing' they often depend on lower wages and/or subsidies which, once they are depleted, forces the datacenter to move.
But I agree with you, we need more data and experience.
Actually I have seen pictures of server farms using massive amounts of ITX boards.
One of the added benefits is to have a RAID style set-up aka RAIN : 'Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes' where you just have added hardware you might not need now, but since they are cheap, you just add more and power wise it also won't hurt much.
I have to still fight with 'old-timers' who still think in 'big and powerful monolithic' systems. If I can get 2x the power with 1/2 the costs, what will the customer take?
I bet the terrorists that used fake British passes would have had no problems getting a hold of these ID cards. Then they are not only using your name, they BECOME you! Then try to prove you did not do something.
I agree to a limit, but developers really have become wasteful as ram became more freely available and even moreso with the introduction of garbage collectors in languages. You can often tell someone who comes from a more '(near-the-)boiler-plate' side of development then others, as they do tend to write more (possibly unneeded) optimised code and (possibly also unneeded) extra cleaning up. Though I must say, even if it is sometimes unneeded, if I see such code I tend to trust the code (and thus the developer) more, unless I see other signs that the developer might have just switched the language but not adapted to it (I often see it in developers that switch between C/VB to Java).
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Though in Germany it goes both way.
You are by law allowed to get the ID off of everyone, even the police, and they HAVE to provide it.
The minimum age for IDs is 16. Though you should ALWAYS get an ID (passport) for your children so that you can prove they are yours.
On a lighter note:
When we made the passport for our then 6 month old son, the person at the passport office said, and this is !true!, that the picture is ok for Europe, but it is not bio-metrically correct enough for the US and we might get problems if we want to enter.
Always a good story for parties.
Sorry, how can you study the moon by avoiding it? That is like saying you will study Africa by sailing to South America.
Plus I get the feeling this is ONLY about being able to say you did something f1rst.
I agree that manned missions are needed in the long run, but we should use the possibility of unmanned missions to collect as much data as possible before risking not only the massively more amount of money but also the lives of people.
Learn to walk before you can run. We are still crawling on mommy's lap.
Bad analogy.
When riding a bike you take it step by step. You don't sit your daughter on a bike and after the first few attempts go to the next biggest mountain and push her down the steepest slope.
Or you could say that after you have swam across the Hudson, you just skip crossing one of the Great Lakes and go for an Atlantic crossing.
You just don't throw a crap load of money and time out the window on a mission you know has a high chance of failing.
Especially not when people's lives are on the line!
So we can throw some hardware at Mars. Great.
But who would really volunteer on a suicide mission like a trip to Mars?
The moon would be the next logical step.
We build a base, do R&D in creating habitats on the Moon.
From there we can leap on.
Not to mention if something happens on the Moon, you can still escape and get back in reasonable time. Mars?
To roughly quote Douglas Adams: 'no need for panic or haste, you're not going to make it anyway'
Asteroid mining I can understand. (IMHO one of THE things we should invest in, both for mining as for science)
But why do we even want to fly to Mars?
What does Mars have to offer that we could not do on the Moon. At least base research wise?
He is a black liberal. Double-bad to the reptiles.
But I was wondering the same thing. Where were all these people when the drunk coke-sniffing draft-dodging Village-Idiot-In-Chief and Darth Vader's bastard son were running the show?
Yep, and iirc there are multiple forms.
From the slight twitching head over the screaming foul langauge to the uncontrollable movements causing self injury.
Luckily my little sis only has the first form.
Tests are redundant because either it won't work, it will work, it will work but she is faking it, it won't work because [insert ridiculous justification].
I wonder why this stuff only pops up when there is someone to sue near by.
Ever notice how this stuff will only happen in the the countries where the chances of a suit succeeding/getting settled is high?
How many people will go to a company with pre-existing conditions and then have an 'accident' and sue the company? Well the proof is there!
I fear you are missing the underlying issue: it is utter and total BS!
It is like saying someone can go blind from looking at a white t-shirt!
This is just another attempt to bribe money out of companies.
They know the suite does not stand a chance, but the bad publicity that forces the company to pay up so it will go away, makes right or wrong redundant.
They should be held responsible for the damages!
You did read the part where they say 'even when the attacker's identity is unknown', or?
They don't know who it is, but they want to drop bombs on them.
Do you really think that would stop the US military? ... better then letting the terrorists win.
They won't let all them details stand in the way of bombing something
If someone dies, they must have been guilty.
If all else fails, cover it up.
Not to mention being labelled as a 'sex offender', which is a scarlet letter that you can never shake and will destroy ANYONE's future.
I dunno.
I think they see that they can get a lot more money off of people if they sue them.
At least it is a better alternative then down-pricing their stuff.
If you look at MAFIAA vs. Thompson and how they wanted to price the damages.
Say you provide a song and 100 people download it. They will sue you for _LOSS_ * 100.
But then they will go to the other 100 people and do the same.
Thus it would be _LOSS_* 10000.
So instead of 101 people paying for one song, they can get the equivalent of 10000 people paying for one song (actually the damages are a lot higher, but for simplicities sake lets assume this amount).
Who cannot see the potential there?
You can get tons of money in a 'clean' way.
Not to mention the lawyers also benefit from this.
Where can I sign up to sue people for the MAFIAA?
You can bet your bum on it, though they do not do it officially.
Kinda like the MAFIAA's 'war on drugs/terror'.
Think about it, the more supply they create, the higher the chances of success.
The more traps you set, the more rats you can potentially catch. The more you can leech from them.
But any smart rat cacher will, once they see the potential, start mass breeding the rats.
Thus assuring that they will have enough rats to keep their pockets full.
It IS a new business model, but not one you can really public relations guy can announce.
I mean you are not really fighting piracy like this, just like you are not fighting drug trade by having the drug dealers pay fines.
Basically it is an informal payment for something you do not want to officially support.
What is even worse is that they are not trying to fight piracy, just cash in on the people doing it.
Kinda like if a cop baits people to commit crimes and then arrests them for doing the crime.
IIRC this is illegal.
I even remember a FBI guy who basically created a terrorist cell, recruited people and then busted them to further his own career.
In Germany the rights holders cannot get to the IP info, thus they press charges so that the police will have to get the IP info. Since the people pressing the charges are allowed to get the info from the police, they do so and then DROP the charges. (costing the state money)
With the IP info they they drag the people through private court to squeeze money out of them.
This is NOT about fighting piracy but trying to leech off of it without acknowledging that it (p2p, or online accessible media) might be a valid business case.
True, though the space used by an ITX is smaller then those for your typical blade.
You can get about 2-3 in per u.
I also think you have to calculate the power needed. Some of the systems I have seen are designed for the worst-case, yet that hardly ever happens. But the system has to have all the bling and whatnot.
Or, if you need the power, the system has been nerfed because each node costs so much.
Also not to dismiss is the cooling requirements.
I have seen nodes you could use to keep your coffee/tea warm (on the outside!).
Naturally moving the datacenters around will benefit you to a certain degree. But those are often just short term solutions. Like any other 'outsourcing' they often depend on lower wages and/or subsidies which, once they are depleted, forces the datacenter to move.
But I agree with you, we need more data and experience.
Actually I have seen pictures of server farms using massive amounts of ITX boards.
One of the added benefits is to have a RAID style set-up aka RAIN : 'Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes' where you just have added hardware you might not need now, but since they are cheap, you just add more and power wise it also won't hurt much.
I have to still fight with 'old-timers' who still think in 'big and powerful monolithic' systems.
If I can get 2x the power with 1/2 the costs, what will the customer take?
Personally I was a HUGE MoO2 fan, but I agree that this type of game should be mentioned.
Though I also find it strange they will list WoW but not the vitally important Ultima Online.
Actually Freelancer and the X series would be my candidates for Elite follow-ups.
'Am I being paranoid? My wife would say so.' .. but then time and again I get to say 'I TOLD YOU SO!!!'
My wife says the same as well
Who says the cola seller is JUST a cola seller?
Who says they won't PASS your info on?
Who says THEIR system has not been compromised?
I bet the terrorists that used fake British passes would have had no problems getting a hold of these ID cards.
Then they are not only using your name, they BECOME you!
Then try to prove you did not do something.
I agree to a limit, but developers really have become wasteful as ram became more freely available and even moreso with the introduction of garbage collectors in languages.
You can often tell someone who comes from a more '(near-the-)boiler-plate' side of development then others, as they do tend to write more (possibly unneeded) optimised code and (possibly also unneeded) extra cleaning up.
Though I must say, even if it is sometimes unneeded, if I see such code I tend to trust the code (and thus the developer) more, unless I see other signs that the developer might have just switched the language but not adapted to it (I often see it in developers that switch between C/VB to Java).
If I had mod points I'd give all of them to you! ... and that from a lefty Buddhist.
Beautiful
So if I read you correctly, being born in the wrong part of town and you are a 'lost cause'?
Here is a wild idea: Instead of wasting time and money with all the Orwellian crap actually spend the money to help them out of their little dirt-pit?
But that would mean your children might come in contact with 'them', huh?
Really? Name some!
Hells Grannies!
Not to mention many forms of communism exist in the US, just named differently.
Volunteer work f.i. or charity groups.