Not too many people, really. Most of them hang out by the train station. They don't pay anything for mixed reality. It just happens, and most of the time they didn't do anything to deserve it. You see a lot of other people doing this too, but they usually have to buy a plastic bag full of this funny dried up plant stuff. Then they--get this--smoke that crap. It smells funny, but it works. They're almost immediately living in "mixed reality".
Now tech companies are doing this? I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Mixed reality is a pretty old game. Priests and politicians have been doing it as long as civilization. They can do it just by talking at you. It's a pretty amazing skill. Sometimes they combine it with those funny plants I was telling you about. Sometimes they don't. There's all kinds of techniques.
Anyway, this doesn't sound like anything really new to me.
1. I obviously wouldn't screw over the remote workers if they're producing.
2. I'd order all existing pages to go into maintenance mode. No new features. Just maintain existing features and make sure they run in all current browsers.
3. For new spiffy pages, new spiffy URLs. Yes folks, you can have a DIFFERENT URL for new content. Funny how Mayer spent so much time in the biz and doesn't know that.
4. You wouldn't necessarily have to fire people, but at the same time if the people who are fucking up the current URLs are too much staff for the new URL project, then yes they should be let go. Too many web companies are unwilling to reduce staff in these cases. This results in long-time users getting broken pages because they add features to justify their jobs. This problem isn't unique to Yahoo.
OK, brief review of Wiki article on the SCOTUS case you cite -- abuse of the Commerce Clause. Now you too are engaging in a "perfect vs. good" kind of argument. I was thinking of FDR's attempt to pack the court, and the striking down of, IIRC, the National Recovery Act and perhaps some other New Deal programs.
Perfection? No; but we didn't end up with One Party, FDR as the chairman, a cult of personality, a packed court, etc.
Here is the end of the matter for me:
We're arguing about the social sciences, and social science is an oxymoron. We can't measure Libertarianism, Fascism, Communism, or any other ism in units. We can't measure outcome in any sane unit. Any attempt to formulate measures of stance or outcome (e.g, Gini index, happiness scale, life expectancy, press freedom scale) introduces its own inherent bias.
So. Neither one of us will ever be able to point to a study that says, "See, this country ran 4.352 quatloos of regulation and got 6.5 squikulons of frambulation per deltry. That proves my point".
Maybe some day; but not here, not now. There's no science. None.
How about comparing the 19th century US vs. the modern era? In the 19th century there was virtually no regulation; but anybody could sue. It was about as close to your Libertarian utopia as we are going to get. Kids worked in factories and got their arms hacked off, never mind what got dumped in streams.
Such a comparison is anything but "evidence-free Marxist cant" and I resent being classed with Marxists. A moderate Progressive stance with the framework of the Constitution is what made this country great. I consider the operation of checks against FDR (while Eurasia raged with Fascism and Communism) to be one of our greatest achievements. This is also why I'm equally upset by the notion that one cannot be both moderate and passionate; but that's another battle for another thread...
Ahhhh... so what you're saying is that fences have holes. It's even possible for a thief to steal a fence post, approach the house, smash the windows, knock me on the head and steal all my stuff.
Therefore, fences are evil and we should not build them. The logic is impeccable, and I don't know why I didn't see it before
(yes, that was sarcasm)
Aside from that, court means lawyers. Lawyers mean money, which poor people don't have. The poor can organize--if they aren't too tired from slaving in the rich man's fields just to survive. Their pool of money is no match for the rich man's pool which comes from their labor!
In other words, any appeal to civil court as the remedy is objectively pro oligarch. Aside from that, how do you put a price on the extinction of salmon that once sustained a town? There would have been, say, 1000 people sustained by the fishery indefinitely. Justice implies finding some other way to sustain the population indefinitely. Lots of luck getting such a ruling from any court, or with the shell corporation that did the polluting actually having any money on the balance sheet or even existing.
If a regulation falls in the forest, will anybody put down their "legal" pot long enough to comply with it? Will their buddy driving 10 mph over the speed limit get there in time? He's coming over to install a light fixture; but he was betting on sports in a bar. Did he file the proper permits with the county to install that fixture? Inquiring minds don't even really need to ask. We already know.
Don't worry. If you can't afford the fancy kitchen, you can pay somebody to cook in their fancy kitchen. If we become alientated from cutting food ourselves, using a manual egg beater, or using Actual Fire (TM) to cook, there's a solution to that too: the personal chef trainer. Yes, it will be difficult for middle-class people to afford, but they'll work extra hours behind the counter at the newly legalized brothels that were created to "help the local economy".
You see, machines can do just about everything; but they're not so good at vice. Nobody pays to see a robot poll dance... except a few Japanese guys who are, you know, "into that".
Anyway, see you in 50 years or so at the Kitchnasium. Only poor people use knives, which we're moving to ban. It's been too long for us not to catch up with the rest of the world and enact sane knife control measures.
Ahhh... OK, in real life that would be conveyed with a rhetorical enthusiasm and not taken so literally. It's not a literal call to some sort of Mendocino Mecca. Think, "you've gotta have the steak with mushrooms at that new restaurant!". Obviously you don't, since not everybody likes mushrooms or eats meat.
If that doesn't explain it, just remember that this standard disclaimer applies to all my posts.
Well, I think you partially answered your own question. First, there's a lot of ocean where the event is unlikely to be reported. Next, Russia (and the areas of the former USSR) comprise a huge land mass. Even though it's sparsely populated it's enough people for the events to get reported. Next, it's a civilization with ongoing contact with the West. There might be oral traditions in much of Africa recording such events; but they might be recorded in a way that we haven't interpreted properly (e.g., colorful language about the gods being angry and the Earth trembling). We don't have ongoing respectful contact with the rest of the world going back more than 100 years. Thus, even when we figure out what happened from looking at the archaeological record and match it up with local accounts, it doesn't have the same cultural impact (no pun intended). Finally, in the wonderfully weird world of statistics not only are random events permitted to cluster, they are actually expected to cluster.
There's no "California is the best at everything" attitude implied here. Read up on the coast redwoods and you'll see that they're among the largest trees in the world. I feel the same way about the Metropolitan museum in NYC after having visited that. I would probably have similar feelings about a number of other places on Earth if I could visit them. I'd love to see the Himalayas too; but it's out of my price range.
BTW, I'm happy to hear that they're growing redwoods in New Zealand. Unfortunately they've only been at it for 100 years. In 1000 years they could have the best redwood forest.
What??? No pod racing? You don't understand the Star Wars formula. Every movie has to have a vertigo inducing chase that forces some of us to turn away from the big screen.
IV -- trench run attack on the Death Star.
V -- attack on Hoth, cockpit views
VI -- speeders through the forest (actually redwoods in NorCal, which everyone should visit at least once)
Pod racing held true to the formula. Unfortunately, I was so turned off by everything *else* in that movie that I couldn't muster the interest to see the others. I don't know if they had good big screen freek-out chases or not. That was just part of the beauty of those movies though. They could give you the 3-d freakout without glasses.
Maybe it's different in the UK. In Virginia white cars stay cooler in the Sun. In the UK that probably doesn't matter as much, or it may simply be a matter of different taste.
Being able to look it up online shouldn't spoil the game for you. Used cars sold is not the same stat as cars on the road. A nationwide stat is not the same as a local one.
BTW, I screwed up in my original post on this. I didn't mean to say most cars are white, simply that it was the bin with the largest number of cars in it.
When I was an *intern* back in the 80s I had a space with a window. There wasn't much to do sometimes. On one particularly slow day, I decided to verify that most cars are white. I tracked the colors of cars going up an exit ramp, using good old paper-and-pencil. Sure enough, most cars were white. I was surprised. It just doesn't register until you actually track it.
Just verifying popular colors isn't all that interesting. Maybe if he took daily traffic statistics some more interesting patterns would emerge. I never went any further with it. Of course if he doesn't have a busy ramp outside his window, he'll have to find another hobby...
When Win8 was first described, I posted a comment along the lines of, "If I wanted an Apple product I'd already have one". At the time I got modded into oblivion though. Go figure.
I'd agree, except you need to keep reverse 911. It's incredibly handy for chemical spills and fires. Of course we'd like to get rid of chemical spills and uncontrolled fires altogether; but first things first...
Wouldn't you have to copy the exact dimensions though? Why doesn't Exxon-Mobile sue Chevron for their infringing gas station designs? Why doesn't $LaptopMaker1 sue $LaptopMaker2 over the clam shell? AFAICT it's because their designs are similar, but not the same. I doubt the Microsoft stores copy the Apple stores in every exacting detail and dimension. Maybe then they'd have a case.
can you explain to me how this windows store would not infringe
The same way a Surface tablet doesn't infringe: It's got the Microsoft logo on it. Ditto for any other generic item. AFAIK nobody enforces a generic design patent on clamshell-style laptops. You can tell who made it because of the trademarked logo on it.
Of course IANAL, but I always thought the test of a trademark violation was whether or not customers would be confused. Nobody in their right mind would be confused by these two stores. Apparently, that kind of environment is good for selling tech. Apparently, a store with a tall outdoor rain-shield and a convenience store is a good way to sell gasoline. Pretty much all gas stations follow that model. If Google opened a store, they'd probably follow the same model as Apple and Microsoft.
IMHO, it's bogus; but I'm sure that won't stop the suits from going to court. It's like our legal system is a live-action role playing game for billionaires...
We really love it when a customer pays by debit and gets cash back at the same time.
I sometimes do that as a substitute for the ATM. Now I feel good about it. I never really thought about how the cashier could effectively act as an out-of-network ATM that charged no service fee. Your description explains that. If they could get enough people to pull cash with their debit cards, they'd never have to have the armored truck haul away cash.
A bit hyperbolic perhaps; but the analogy is direct. As a developer, I wouldn't want an "app store". The PC inspired me to write software when I was younger. App stores just make me go, "meh!". Have fun jumping through proprietary hoops in the (usually) vain hope of some little morsel. The rest of us have already said so long and thanks for all the fish.
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Not too many people, really. Most of them hang out by the train station. They don't pay anything for mixed reality. It just happens, and most of the time they didn't do anything to deserve it. You see a lot of other people doing this too, but they usually have to buy a plastic bag full of this funny dried up plant stuff. Then they--get this--smoke that crap. It smells funny, but it works. They're almost immediately living in "mixed reality".
Now tech companies are doing this? I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Mixed reality is a pretty old game. Priests and politicians have been doing it as long as civilization. They can do it just by talking at you. It's a pretty amazing skill. Sometimes they combine it with those funny plants I was telling you about. Sometimes they don't. There's all kinds of techniques.
Anyway, this doesn't sound like anything really new to me.
1. I obviously wouldn't screw over the remote workers if they're producing.
2. I'd order all existing pages to go into maintenance mode. No new features. Just maintain existing features and make sure they run in all current browsers.
3. For new spiffy pages, new spiffy URLs. Yes folks, you can have a DIFFERENT URL for new content. Funny how Mayer spent so much time in the biz and doesn't know that.
4. You wouldn't necessarily have to fire people, but at the same time if the people who are fucking up the current URLs are too much staff for the new URL project, then yes they should be let go. Too many web companies are unwilling to reduce staff in these cases. This results in long-time users getting broken pages because they add features to justify their jobs. This problem isn't unique to Yahoo.
OK, brief review of Wiki article on the SCOTUS case you cite -- abuse of the Commerce Clause. Now you too are engaging in a "perfect vs. good" kind of argument. I was thinking of FDR's attempt to pack the court, and the striking down of, IIRC, the National Recovery Act and perhaps some other New Deal programs.
Perfection? No; but we didn't end up with One Party, FDR as the chairman, a cult of personality, a packed court, etc.
Here is the end of the matter for me:
We're arguing about the social sciences, and social science is an oxymoron. We can't measure Libertarianism, Fascism, Communism, or any other ism in units. We can't measure outcome in any sane unit. Any attempt to formulate measures of stance or outcome (e.g, Gini index, happiness scale, life expectancy, press freedom scale) introduces its own inherent bias.
So. Neither one of us will ever be able to point to a study that says, "See, this country ran 4.352 quatloos of regulation and got 6.5 squikulons of frambulation per deltry. That proves my point".
Maybe some day; but not here, not now. There's no science. None.
How about comparing the 19th century US vs. the modern era? In the 19th century there was virtually no regulation; but anybody could sue. It was about as close to your Libertarian utopia as we are going to get. Kids worked in factories and got their arms hacked off, never mind what got dumped in streams.
Such a comparison is anything but "evidence-free Marxist cant" and I resent being classed with Marxists. A moderate Progressive stance with the framework of the Constitution is what made this country great. I consider the operation of checks against FDR (while Eurasia raged with Fascism and Communism) to be one of our greatest achievements. This is also why I'm equally upset by the notion that one cannot be both moderate and passionate; but that's another battle for another thread...
So where should one obtain related work experience without already having related work experience?
Based on my 20 years of experience as an ethics consultant and 10 years as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you should just lie about it.
Ahhhh... so what you're saying is that fences have holes. It's even possible for a thief to steal a fence post, approach the house, smash the windows, knock me on the head and steal all my stuff.
Therefore, fences are evil and we should not build them. The logic is impeccable, and I don't know why I didn't see it before
(yes, that was sarcasm)
Aside from that, court means lawyers. Lawyers mean money, which poor people don't have. The poor can organize--if they aren't too tired from slaving in the rich man's fields just to survive. Their pool of money is no match for the rich man's pool which comes from their labor!
In other words, any appeal to civil court as the remedy is objectively pro oligarch. Aside from that, how do you put a price on the extinction of salmon that once sustained a town? There would have been, say, 1000 people sustained by the fishery indefinitely. Justice implies finding some other way to sustain the population indefinitely. Lots of luck getting such a ruling from any court, or with the shell corporation that did the polluting actually having any money on the balance sheet or even existing.
Try telling that to these guys
If a regulation falls in the forest, will anybody put down their "legal" pot long enough to comply with it? Will their buddy driving 10 mph over the speed limit get there in time? He's coming over to install a light fixture; but he was betting on sports in a bar. Did he file the proper permits with the county to install that fixture? Inquiring minds don't even really need to ask. We already know.
Literal LOL. Slashdot posting of the month candidate, maybe even the year; but we're only a few months in.
Don't worry. If you can't afford the fancy kitchen, you can pay somebody to cook in their fancy kitchen. If we become alientated from cutting food ourselves, using a manual egg beater, or using Actual Fire (TM) to cook, there's a solution to that too: the personal chef trainer. Yes, it will be difficult for middle-class people to afford, but they'll work extra hours behind the counter at the newly legalized brothels that were created to "help the local economy".
You see, machines can do just about everything; but they're not so good at vice. Nobody pays to see a robot poll dance... except a few Japanese guys who are, you know, "into that".
Anyway, see you in 50 years or so at the Kitchnasium. Only poor people use knives, which we're moving to ban. It's been too long for us not to catch up with the rest of the world and enact sane knife control measures.
I dare you to set C to zero.
Ahhh... OK, in real life that would be conveyed with a rhetorical enthusiasm and not taken so literally. It's not a literal call to some sort of Mendocino Mecca. Think, "you've gotta have the steak with mushrooms at that new restaurant!". Obviously you don't, since not everybody likes mushrooms or eats meat.
If that doesn't explain it, just remember that this standard disclaimer applies to all my posts.
Well, I think you partially answered your own question. First, there's a lot of ocean where the event is unlikely to be reported. Next, Russia (and the areas of the former USSR) comprise a huge land mass. Even though it's sparsely populated it's enough people for the events to get reported. Next, it's a civilization with ongoing contact with the West. There might be oral traditions in much of Africa recording such events; but they might be recorded in a way that we haven't interpreted properly (e.g., colorful language about the gods being angry and the Earth trembling). We don't have ongoing respectful contact with the rest of the world going back more than 100 years. Thus, even when we figure out what happened from looking at the archaeological record and match it up with local accounts, it doesn't have the same cultural impact (no pun intended). Finally, in the wonderfully weird world of statistics not only are random events permitted to cluster, they are actually expected to cluster.
There's no "California is the best at everything" attitude implied here. Read up on the coast redwoods and you'll see that they're among the largest trees in the world. I feel the same way about the Metropolitan museum in NYC after having visited that. I would probably have similar feelings about a number of other places on Earth if I could visit them. I'd love to see the Himalayas too; but it's out of my price range.
BTW, I'm happy to hear that they're growing redwoods in New Zealand. Unfortunately they've only been at it for 100 years. In 1000 years they could have the best redwood forest.
What??? No pod racing? You don't understand the Star Wars formula. Every movie has to have a vertigo inducing chase that forces some of us to turn away from the big screen.
IV -- trench run attack on the Death Star.
V -- attack on Hoth, cockpit views
VI -- speeders through the forest (actually redwoods in NorCal, which everyone should visit at least once)
Pod racing held true to the formula. Unfortunately, I was so turned off by everything *else* in that movie that I couldn't muster the interest to see the others. I don't know if they had good big screen freek-out chases or not. That was just part of the beauty of those movies though. They could give you the 3-d freakout without glasses.
Maybe it's different in the UK. In Virginia white cars stay cooler in the Sun. In the UK that probably doesn't matter as much, or it may simply be a matter of different taste.
Being able to look it up online shouldn't spoil the game for you. Used cars sold is not the same stat as cars on the road. A nationwide stat is not the same as a local one.
BTW, I screwed up in my original post on this. I didn't mean to say most cars are white, simply that it was the bin with the largest number of cars in it.
When I was an *intern* back in the 80s I had a space with a window. There wasn't much to do sometimes. On one particularly slow day, I decided to verify that most cars are white. I tracked the colors of cars going up an exit ramp, using good old paper-and-pencil. Sure enough, most cars were white. I was surprised. It just doesn't register until you actually track it.
Just verifying popular colors isn't all that interesting. Maybe if he took daily traffic statistics some more interesting patterns would emerge. I never went any further with it. Of course if he doesn't have a busy ramp outside his window, he'll have to find another hobby...
If the main story on the front pages is "Hacked by Chinese", was that supposed to be the main story or is it just script kiddies bragging?
When Win8 was first described, I posted a comment along the lines of, "If I wanted an Apple product I'd already have one". At the time I got modded into oblivion though. Go figure.
I'd agree, except you need to keep reverse 911. It's incredibly handy for chemical spills and fires. Of course we'd like to get rid of chemical spills and uncontrolled fires altogether; but first things first...
And if oil companies weren't providing you with power, you wouldn't be able to write self-righteous posts on the internet.
Given that petrolium is about 1% of the fuel for generating electricity in the US there is a good chance that oil companies aren't providing him with any power at all.
Of course coal is filthy and provides 44.9% of the power; but oil companies are the whipping-boy, so carry on!
Wouldn't you have to copy the exact dimensions though? Why doesn't Exxon-Mobile sue Chevron for their infringing gas station designs? Why doesn't $LaptopMaker1 sue $LaptopMaker2 over the clam shell? AFAICT it's because their designs are similar, but not the same. I doubt the Microsoft stores copy the Apple stores in every exacting detail and dimension. Maybe then they'd have a case.
can you explain to me how this windows store would not infringe
The same way a Surface tablet doesn't infringe: It's got the Microsoft logo on it. Ditto for any other generic item. AFAIK nobody enforces a generic design patent on clamshell-style laptops. You can tell who made it because of the trademarked logo on it.
Of course IANAL, but I always thought the test of a trademark violation was whether or not customers would be confused. Nobody in their right mind would be confused by these two stores. Apparently, that kind of environment is good for selling tech. Apparently, a store with a tall outdoor rain-shield and a convenience store is a good way to sell gasoline. Pretty much all gas stations follow that model. If Google opened a store, they'd probably follow the same model as Apple and Microsoft.
IMHO, it's bogus; but I'm sure that won't stop the suits from going to court. It's like our legal system is a live-action role playing game for billionaires...
We really love it when a customer pays by debit and gets cash back at the same time.
I sometimes do that as a substitute for the ATM. Now I feel good about it. I never really thought about how the cashier could effectively act as an out-of-network ATM that charged no service fee. Your description explains that. If they could get enough people to pull cash with their debit cards, they'd never have to have the armored truck haul away cash.
A bit hyperbolic perhaps; but the analogy is direct. As a developer, I wouldn't want an "app store". The PC inspired me to write software when I was younger. App stores just make me go, "meh!". Have fun jumping through proprietary hoops in the (usually) vain hope of some little morsel. The rest of us have already said so long and thanks for all the fish.