This probably means that a majority of them don't know what capitalism is. Their college professors taught them it was cronyism, fascism, patriarchy, etc., and K-12 probably didn't put it in a good light either. They're ripe with the kind of cognitive dissonance that buys a Che Guevera T-shirt from a vendor and doesn't put 2+2 together.
With advances in technology such that the bandwidth isn't even worth caring about. Just old enough here to remember the dire warning that some USENET servers used to display to us, admonishing us to post sparingly because the 10k of text we were submitting would be "duplicated across thousands of servers and cost thousands of dollars".
Savers. Giving everybody $20k/year would be very inflationary, destroying the value of savings. People who thought they would have the easy life would instead be "employed" in non-productive activities such as hurrying down to lock in the prices on essential goods as soon as they got their check, and doing other things to manage the inflation.
The economy might be able to tolerate some direct stimulus. It tolerated the stimulus checks during the '08 financial crisis and inflation remained tame. IIRC, those were $600 at the most to those who were in the lowest income brackets.
Cutting checks directly to the public might be an interesting new way for the Fed to manage inflation and stimulate the economy. It's worthwhile to consider authorizing such action by the Fed; but IMHO it can't be enough to provide basic needs, not currently, not without igniting too much inflation.
You had me right up until the Atlas Shrugged reference. That's pure fantasy, and when we came closest to that kind of world we had child labor, company stores, and toxic medicines.
In fact, the infatuation with tearing down governments is exactly what's gotten us into some serious problems lately, such as the end of Glass-Steagal contributing to the financial crisis.
Let's hear it for common sense--throw Marx and Rand *both* on the fire, metaphorically speaking, and piss off all the true believers, including yourself.
Oh yeah? robots can already smoke and that's just the prototype. If they put their minds to it, they'll have robots that smoke *all* the marijuana, then what are you going to do?
We just need a full face helmet with 3-d glasses built in, and a port to accept the most popular phones. The phone interfaces to the helmet and projects your texts, memes, etc. translucently onto what you see. It's a full-face helmet with advanced acoustic technology so that you can talk or even shout without disturbing other patrons. This might be dangerous though, because if you had an emergency nobody would hear you. Don't worry. The helmet will also incorporate a heart, BP, and body temperature monitor to make sure that you are, at the very least alive and not under too much stress. If you've got a fever it won't show you the movie. It will tell you that you've forfeited your deposit because the helmet needs extra sterilization now. Of course you'll have to sign some disclosure docs because of HIPAA. The helmet is, after all, technically a medical device which is covered by insurance. That's why you'll need to carefully document your movie-going expenditures and report them to the IRS, which will now be administrating the cinema experience.
Or you could just wait for it to come out on Netflix.
Well, of course there's a lot of nuance that can't be conveyed in one smart-aleck remark.
CUI and GUI exist side-by side on modern operating systems. I use both when it suits my purpose. The kind of people who I want to launch into the Sun are the ones who re-invent essential GUI components inside their web pages. For example, my web browser has a back button. That's a browser function. Don't disable that. Don't make me hunt on the page for your artiste's haute couture back button that looks like a dancing flower.
Otherwise known as the Job Security Application. Perl was the language of choice for that back in the day. You can write JSAs in most languages though. The JSA authors goal is achieved when he over-hears somebody saying, "We can't let him go. He's the only one who understands the code that glues our business together".
I don't know if it was the same AC who objected that crawling != API access. Technically true, but legally they might regard them in the same way for the purpose of a lawsuit against undesirable use of what they regard as their intellectual property.
I mentioned Creative Commons because it was in the ToS I linked, under a paragraph describing how you were permitted to use dumps of their content. If their content were public domain, they could not apply Creative Commons (or any other license) to their content.
This is becoming one of "those discussions" that doesn't play out too well on line, so I'm just going to evoke the standard escape clause here--there isn't a reasonable amount of time to bring this to a conclusion that we could both find satisfying.
Well, let's take a look at an example: http://stackexchange.com/legal and you'll see that first off MS would be mis-representing itself as a real person. They could access some data under Creative Commons. If there were no legal point to be made, why would Stack Exchange even have that in the ToS? Maybe that's a loaded question.
I know what you're getting at with crawlers--if certain types of scraping weren't allowed, then we couldn't even have Google. OTOH, I think there's a difference between presenting search results that obey robots.txt as opposed to snarfing down an entire web site's contents in violation of their ToS.
The legal basis isn't for me to decide; it's for lawyers, which I'm not. I'm just guessing how I think they'd respond so I guess my guess is as good as yours.
Sorry I'm still not seeing the tin foil. Microsoft wants to data mine. If I'm in the development side of MS, and I go to the legal team and say, "what if we scrape a bunch of sites for code?", they'll push back and say, "No. We'd have to square that with all the individual sites you want to scrape.". That's all I'm thinking. Nothing more. Show me the tin foil, and I'll wear it proudly; but there's none to wear.
It's snippets. I don't think that's much of an issue. The owners of the GPL'd code might argue, rightly or wrongly that the snippets aren't fair use; but if they get complaints about a piece of code they'll probably just yank it. If you're going to disrupt their service, you might as well just DDoS it; not that I support that kind of thing.
Not tin foily at all. If they scrub the Internet, they could be in violation of a bunch of ToSs on the sites they scrub. You can be sure that if anybody with lawyers found out MS was violating a ToS they'd be all in to those deep pockets. I think the well analogy is apt.
In the beginning was the word
and the word was buzz and it was bad.
Then Satan moved over the face of of the CIO and said:
"Let there be darkness"
And the evening was really dawn, and it was
already the fifth day because it was crunch time.
Then Satan said "let there be bugs"
and there were bugs. Boy were there bugs...
OK, googled around a bit more. There's no "hello world" because it's a CASE tool--design abstractly in the GUI, dump out in the language of your choice.
I've never heard of her. I got off on a bit of a googling tangent, and found the company she started, Hamilton Technologies. They claim to have this thing called Universal Systems Language that incorporates all the lessons learned from developing the Apollo software. Maybe it does, but it's a proprietary language. By no means am I a free software zealot; but this looks like a classic case of holding on too tightly. I could not even find a "hello world" example in that language. Does anybody use it? I suppose it's possible that it might be entrenched in some obscure corners of aerospace, military, top-secret projects. Does anybody here have experience with their systems? Can you tell us without killing us?
Wait, what? You're telling me that public school is pre-Vatican Two when it comes to diet?*
*Note, a quick googling revealed that the 2nd Vatican Council and fish Fridays has some subtlety to it. They didn't abolish fish fries, they just told Catholics to do some other penance if abstaining from meat was not a penance.
Anyway, unless you're sending your kids to private religious school, I don't know how you could have any kind of "God day" in public school in the US.
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This probably means that a majority of them don't know what capitalism is. Their college professors taught them it was cronyism, fascism, patriarchy, etc., and K-12 probably didn't put it in a good light either. They're ripe with the kind of cognitive dissonance that buys a Che Guevera T-shirt from a vendor and doesn't put 2+2 together.
With advances in technology such that the bandwidth isn't even worth caring about. Just old enough here to remember the dire warning that some USENET servers used to display to us, admonishing us to post sparingly because the 10k of text we were submitting would be "duplicated across thousands of servers and cost thousands of dollars".
Yeah, it's pretty sad. Everything has aligned, and the numbers add up. They're boxed in.
We have Indian casinos nearby. /sarc?
Savers. Giving everybody $20k/year would be very inflationary, destroying the value of savings. People who thought they would have the easy life would instead be "employed" in non-productive activities such as hurrying down to lock in the prices on essential goods as soon as they got their check, and doing other things to manage the inflation.
The economy might be able to tolerate some direct stimulus. It tolerated the stimulus checks during the '08 financial crisis and inflation remained tame. IIRC, those were $600 at the most to those who were in the lowest income brackets.
Cutting checks directly to the public might be an interesting new way for the Fed to manage inflation and stimulate the economy. It's worthwhile to consider authorizing such action by the Fed; but IMHO it can't be enough to provide basic needs, not currently, not without igniting too much inflation.
You had me right up until the Atlas Shrugged reference. That's pure fantasy, and when we came closest to that kind of world we had child labor, company stores, and toxic medicines.
In fact, the infatuation with tearing down governments is exactly what's gotten us into some serious problems lately, such as the end of Glass-Steagal contributing to the financial crisis.
Let's hear it for common sense--throw Marx and Rand *both* on the fire, metaphorically speaking, and piss off all the true believers, including yourself.
Oh yeah? robots can already smoke and that's just the prototype. If they put their minds to it, they'll have robots that smoke *all* the marijuana, then what are you going to do?
We just need a full face helmet with 3-d glasses built in, and a port to accept the most popular phones. The phone interfaces to the helmet and projects your texts, memes, etc. translucently onto what you see. It's a full-face helmet with advanced acoustic technology so that you can talk or even shout without disturbing other patrons. This might be dangerous though, because if you had an emergency nobody would hear you. Don't worry. The helmet will also incorporate a heart, BP, and body temperature monitor to make sure that you are, at the very least alive and not under too much stress. If you've got a fever it won't show you the movie. It will tell you that you've forfeited your deposit because the helmet needs extra sterilization now. Of course you'll have to sign some disclosure docs because of HIPAA. The helmet is, after all, technically a medical device which is covered by insurance. That's why you'll need to carefully document your movie-going expenditures and report them to the IRS, which will now be administrating the cinema experience.
Or you could just wait for it to come out on Netflix.
Woosh-diddly-oh-bop-a-dop, Yeeeeah! All you hep cats.
Well, of course there's a lot of nuance that can't be conveyed in one smart-aleck remark.
CUI and GUI exist side-by side on modern operating systems. I use both when it suits my purpose. The kind of people who I want to launch into the Sun are the ones who re-invent essential GUI components inside their web pages. For example, my web browser has a back button. That's a browser function. Don't disable that. Don't make me hunt on the page for your artiste's haute couture back button that looks like a dancing flower.
Awesome improvisational trolling. Biddly-bap-troll-a-bop-BOOM-BANG!
Blacks invented trolling. When the master's wife was on the rag, they'd hide under bridges.
They'd jam under there. Oppression doesn't stifle Slashdot. It enhances it.
Troll-a-boom ding,Ding,DING boom-diddly-bop-BANG!
Because people want desktop-like UI's in HTML browsers
Load those people on a rocket and fire it into the Sun.
Otherwise known as the Job Security Application. Perl was the language of choice for that back in the day. You can write JSAs in most languages though. The JSA authors goal is achieved when he over-hears somebody saying, "We can't let him go. He's the only one who understands the code that glues our business together".
NotInHere actually seemed to have the best, succinct explanation of what I'm going for here: https://slashdot.org/comments....
I don't know if it was the same AC who objected that crawling != API access. Technically true, but legally they might regard them in the same way for the purpose of a lawsuit against undesirable use of what they regard as their intellectual property.
I mentioned Creative Commons because it was in the ToS I linked, under a paragraph describing how you were permitted to use dumps of their content. If their content were public domain, they could not apply Creative Commons (or any other license) to their content.
We want a window. even if we don't have the right stuff. I think I'll pass on the explosive bolts though.
This is becoming one of "those discussions" that doesn't play out too well on line, so I'm just going to evoke the standard escape clause here--there isn't a reasonable amount of time to bring this to a conclusion that we could both find satisfying.
Well, let's take a look at an example: http://stackexchange.com/legal and you'll see that first off MS would be mis-representing itself as a real person. They could access some data under Creative Commons. If there were no legal point to be made, why would Stack Exchange even have that in the ToS? Maybe that's a loaded question.
I know what you're getting at with crawlers--if certain types of scraping weren't allowed, then we couldn't even have Google. OTOH, I think there's a difference between presenting search results that obey robots.txt as opposed to snarfing down an entire web site's contents in violation of their ToS.
The legal basis isn't for me to decide; it's for lawyers, which I'm not. I'm just guessing how I think they'd respond so I guess my guess is as good as yours.
Sorry I'm still not seeing the tin foil. Microsoft wants to data mine. If I'm in the development side of MS, and I go to the legal team and say, "what if we scrape a bunch of sites for code?", they'll push back and say, "No. We'd have to square that with all the individual sites you want to scrape.". That's all I'm thinking. Nothing more. Show me the tin foil, and I'll wear it proudly; but there's none to wear.
It's snippets. I don't think that's much of an issue. The owners of the GPL'd code might argue, rightly or wrongly that the snippets aren't fair use; but if they get complaints about a piece of code they'll probably just yank it. If you're going to disrupt their service, you might as well just DDoS it; not that I support that kind of thing.
Not tin foily at all. If they scrub the Internet, they could be in violation of a bunch of ToSs on the sites they scrub. You can be sure that if anybody with lawyers found out MS was violating a ToS they'd be all in to those deep pockets. I think the well analogy is apt.
I'm given to understand that he couldn't be broken. Plainly a threat. Lock him up.
In the beginning was the word
and the word was buzz and it was bad.
Then Satan moved over the face of of the CIO and said:
"Let there be darkness"
And the evening was really dawn, and it was already the fifth day because it was crunch time.
Then Satan said "let there be bugs"
and there were bugs. Boy were there bugs...
OK, googled around a bit more. There's no "hello world" because it's a CASE tool--design abstractly in the GUI, dump out in the language of your choice.
I've never heard of her. I got off on a bit of a googling tangent, and found the company she started, Hamilton Technologies. They claim to have this thing called Universal Systems Language that incorporates all the lessons learned from developing the Apollo software. Maybe it does, but it's a proprietary language. By no means am I a free software zealot; but this looks like a classic case of holding on too tightly. I could not even find a "hello world" example in that language. Does anybody use it? I suppose it's possible that it might be entrenched in some obscure corners of aerospace, military, top-secret projects. Does anybody here have experience with their systems? Can you tell us without killing us?
Wait, what? You're telling me that public school is pre-Vatican Two when it comes to diet?*
*Note, a quick googling revealed that the 2nd Vatican Council and fish Fridays has some subtlety to it. They didn't abolish fish fries, they just told Catholics to do some other penance if abstaining from meat was not a penance.
Anyway, unless you're sending your kids to private religious school, I don't know how you could have any kind of "God day" in public school in the US.