Yes, the Cover Your Ass reaction. I see the exact same thing in school discipline cases; everyone needs, as their highest priority, to CYA. We live in a blame-oriented society; there are no accidents, there are no mistakes, someone has to be punished for every negative outcome. Zero tolerance. Our legal system has made us like this. Every TSA agent or school principal who irrationally hassles someone, starts doing that so they're not the one who Let Something Bad Happen.
Of course many people, who've already been made to feel powerless in their own lives, discover this authority allowing them push people around feels good. So they do more of it...
So basically this guy is just giving away free money since the majority of biblical references have already been scientifically proven to be false, an exaggeration of the truth, or misunderstandings due to the lack of intellect in that era. Someone should revoke this fools Ph.D.
Uh, no. HE'S expecting free money. You may present scientifically factual evidence, but he expects the written word to be accepted as a higher authority:
"The world was created in six days." "No, it wasn't. Here's a detailed timeline of its formation, with the evidence." "You're still wrong. The bible says so."
Or, more likely: "You're not a biblical scholar, so you can't see the subtle, non-literal meaning of 'six days'".
I manage a computer service department. We get a few computers every month suffering from nothing more than the thermal effects of dust build-up inside. Almost all of them come back fine after cleaning. However, we get a greater number of computers damaged by inept cleaning (though most of that is liquid damage). I personally have several pet parrots, and the dander spreads enough that I clean out my computers every six months.
Take them apart, clean them, but ONLY if you are sure you can safely do so.
The routers themselves did not cost 22k each. The cost of buying all 1,064 routers and installing them came out to be 24 million but that does not mean that each router costs 22k. It cost 22k per router to buy it, to pay techs to install it, to pay for gas to transport techs to install it, and no doubt to pay Verizon some middle-man cut.
In other words, the routers, as installed, were $22k.
How do you resurrect a species learnt abilities and knowledge ? Okay birds look like pre-programmed robots, but saying things like "extinction is forever is just nonsense" is wrong. Numerous species pass their hunting, social, swimming or hiding knowledge from parents to children. In fact, even birds learn singing from listening to those of their kind. Actually, i think when you resurrect a species, you just engineer a new one using pieces of stuff drawn from existing material ; lost knowledge is lost forever.
This has proven to be a problem, even (perhaps especially) with birds. Great efforts have been made to captive-breed Thick-Billed parrots, and reintroduce them to their former, southern USA habitat. The released birds typically starve. They have a very specific diet, and they don't have other birds in the wild to show them how to find it.
And so little of it touches the only salient point: This politician wants more money to go into the states coffers where he can play with it. He will make any statement, create any mind-bending rationalization, to do that. There's no need to go further in your evaluation of his statements.
Government contracts don't work like that, You bid to meet the requirements, if you can not tick off every box as requested it is good by!
If you handed in a contract and it said "we can do as you requested and it will cost $15m, but if you do this it will only cost $2m" your submission may be thrown out, as its not your job to tell the government what to do. Government contracts are made to sound fair, but in reality it usually means the little guys got 0% and the big guys going to *have* to mark up to cover what the government thinks they need.
THIS. I spent many years bidding equipment into the Education marketplace, and many, many, MANY times I had to meet bid specs that made no technical or financial expense. The mechanism for asking to have the spec revised is nonexistent or dangerous (as in, your company is dropped from consideration for trying to tamper with the bidding process). All through coverage of this story, I've never seen enough of the actually bidding process to make a determination - I've have to read the paperwork. But I strongly suspect Cisco did absolutely nothing wrong. They simply made the decision to make money for the company (however much), rather than making nothing.
They state as fact the blimps will be deployed, but they're still "trying to determine" how they can be integrated into the air defense system? Isn't that kinda backwards?
And thus, with nine words, a company dies. They clearly have no manufacturing capability, little-or-no software development capability, and have done no market research. The have a half-baked idea, and a part of a marketing plan. Probably saw a piece of existing hardware, and figured they could customize it to do something different - and were wrong. There have been successful products that launched way too soon, but not with THAT kind of press. Done for, now.
(GRIN) At one time, I had dial-in access to the Apple corporate network; back then AppleTalk and PAP were still supported. When I was having trouble getting an employee to answer his email, I'd just print the message to the printer in his office. That would usually get his or her attention.
(Sigh...) Some people or groups - well, a LOT of people or groups - either have massive inferiority complexes, or too much time on their hands. They spend their lives looking for things to be offended by. I'm tempted to say we should live up to their expectations; if they think they're having "whatever" done to them, we should go ahead do it. Why take the heat for nothing?
Or, shut the heck up and forget you ever saw it. I've done EXACTLY the kind of "hacking" they're talking about; sometimes out of curiosity, more often just trying to get past a broken link. I recall about 10 years ago I came across a list of USN ballistic missile sub deployments... don't know if it was classified, but I backed out of there fast, wiped the browser history and cache, and kept my mouth shut (well, until now).
Not to offend anyone (or, sorry that I WILL) basically every organized religion is wacky. Since they're all based on things that have to be taken on faith, the only difference is how much disbelief the adherents are willing to suspend. Granted, to THIS observer, Scientology (and Mormonism, close behind) are at the far end of the spectrum, but it's a quantitative rather than qualitative difference. Now, practically, the Scientologists appear to present an ongoing danger to society; the Mormons no longer appear harmful.
Anyone with an interest in history, technology, mathematics, and honoring under-recognized individuals who made a crucial contribution to society. Clearly not you.
I dislike the whole mechanism of the stock market as much as the next guy; but theoretically, at least, it DOES serve a social purpose: The shareholder invests in a company, giving it the capital to expand its business. This is presumably good for the economy, and society as a whole.
In practice, of course, the "day trader phenomenon" does make the whole thing look like money for nothing. I've been told I'm completely insane by people active in the stock market, but I think it would be worth experimenting with a minimum holding time for stocks you "invest in". If you had to hold your shares for six months, you'd be more interested in the usefulness of the company and its products, and less in how some stupid statement on the morning news made them dip 2%.
My Significant Other can afford the best of everything; not stupid but not a computer/internet specialist. She has a high-end internet-enabled TV, an internet-enabled BluRay player, and a TiVo (with internet features). All have the ability to access, say, YouTube, but each component has a slightly different interface and capabilities. She's gotten lost and frustrated in the interface(s) so many times (Was it the YouTube viewer accessed through the TV, or the other one? What interface on the receiver do I use?) that she no longer uses ANY of the features. She's locked all the remotes but the one for the TiVo in the closet; she doesn't even play DVD's anymore, because if she switches to that input she's afraid she won't find her way back.
I disagree. I think the word is out; 3D doesn't enhance the viewing experience in the vast majority of cases. However, it DOES raise costs; and if those costs aren't rewarded with higher ticket prices, current 3D technology will die a quick death. It's already essentially dead as far as the home TV market is concerned. Further, the current offering has polluted the 3D well for a long time to come.
Now, LAST time 3D came around, I was a reasonably accomplished stereoscopic photographer, to the point of owning the specialized projector and glasses to show my efforts. You know what? The novelty wore off. It was, is, and will be, a gimmick. Even with a completely different and perfect 3D system, holography or not, it doesn't enhance visual storytelling. And hopefully, telling a story will continue to be a significant consideration in filmmaking.
(GRIN) I remember telling customers at the dawn of the (generally available) internet age, that standard TCP/IP was inherently unsuitable for time-dependent video (or audio!) content. They didn't believe me... "But it works! And it's cheeeper!"
Been there done that. I now actively avoid video content on the internet. For instance, if I'm on Google news or some such, some of the news links lead to video content. Back when I clicked them, 80% - 90% of the time I'd have to watch an ad, or dismiss a banner at the bottom, or have another unrelated window automatically open. OR, the video would require some obscure codec, would freeze or fail to load, or the link would be dead - whatever. Maybe a tenth of the time I'd actually get the news story I wanted, as I expected.
Now, it's text stories for me, exclusively. If I accidentally click a video link, I close it as soon as ANY of the above begins.
Wow. PreCrime is here. Apparently, you don't even have to be open for business or host any files to be a 'cyber criminal' who violates 'intellectual property rights.' Once you're accused by the US governments masters, you're done for, worldwide.
Not hyperbole. I believe they already may have some registers like that. Certainly there is an optional picture menu (picture of sandwich, picture of necessary bills) for the illiterate.
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Yes, the Cover Your Ass reaction. I see the exact same thing in school discipline cases; everyone needs, as their highest priority, to CYA. We live in a blame-oriented society; there are no accidents, there are no mistakes, someone has to be punished for every negative outcome. Zero tolerance. Our legal system has made us like this. Every TSA agent or school principal who irrationally hassles someone, starts doing that so they're not the one who Let Something Bad Happen.
Of course many people, who've already been made to feel powerless in their own lives, discover this authority allowing them push people around feels good. So they do more of it...
So basically this guy is just giving away free money since the majority of biblical references have already been scientifically proven to be false, an exaggeration of the truth, or misunderstandings due to the lack of intellect in that era. Someone should revoke this fools Ph.D.
Uh, no. HE'S expecting free money. You may present scientifically factual evidence, but he expects the written word to be accepted as a higher authority:
"The world was created in six days."
"No, it wasn't. Here's a detailed timeline of its formation, with the evidence."
"You're still wrong. The bible says so."
Or, more likely: "You're not a biblical scholar, so you can't see the subtle, non-literal meaning of 'six days'".
I manage a computer service department. We get a few computers every month suffering from nothing more than the thermal effects of dust build-up inside. Almost all of them come back fine after cleaning. However, we get a greater number of computers damaged by inept cleaning (though most of that is liquid damage). I personally have several pet parrots, and the dander spreads enough that I clean out my computers every six months.
Take them apart, clean them, but ONLY if you are sure you can safely do so.
The routers themselves did not cost 22k each. The cost of buying all 1,064 routers and installing them came out to be 24 million but that does not mean that each router costs 22k. It cost 22k per router to buy it, to pay techs to install it, to pay for gas to transport techs to install it, and no doubt to pay Verizon some middle-man cut.
In other words, the routers, as installed, were $22k.
How do you resurrect a species learnt abilities and knowledge ? Okay birds look like pre-programmed robots, but saying things like "extinction is forever is just nonsense" is wrong. Numerous species pass their hunting, social, swimming or hiding knowledge from parents to children. In fact, even birds learn singing from listening to those of their kind.
Actually, i think when you resurrect a species, you just engineer a new one using pieces of stuff drawn from existing material ; lost knowledge is lost forever.
This has proven to be a problem, even (perhaps especially) with birds. Great efforts have been made to captive-breed Thick-Billed parrots, and reintroduce them to their former, southern USA habitat. The released birds typically starve. They have a very specific diet, and they don't have other birds in the wild to show them how to find it.
And so little of it touches the only salient point: This politician wants more money to go into the states coffers where he can play with it. He will make any statement, create any mind-bending rationalization, to do that. There's no need to go further in your evaluation of his statements.
Government contracts don't work like that, You bid to meet the requirements, if you can not tick off every box as requested it is good by!
If you handed in a contract and it said "we can do as you requested and it will cost $15m, but if you do this it will only cost $2m" your submission may be thrown out, as its not your job to tell the government what to do. Government contracts are made to sound fair, but in reality it usually means the little guys got 0% and the big guys going to *have* to mark up to cover what the government thinks they need.
THIS. I spent many years bidding equipment into the Education marketplace, and many, many, MANY times I had to meet bid specs that made no technical or financial expense. The mechanism for asking to have the spec revised is nonexistent or dangerous (as in, your company is dropped from consideration for trying to tamper with the bidding process). All through coverage of this story, I've never seen enough of the actually bidding process to make a determination - I've have to read the paperwork. But I strongly suspect Cisco did absolutely nothing wrong. They simply made the decision to make money for the company (however much), rather than making nothing.
"...wantonly violated the DPRK's legitimate right to launch satellite for peaceful purposes"
I'm sorry, I must have missed where we were shooting down their satellites. What the hell are they talking about?
Hah hah! No.
They state as fact the blimps will be deployed, but they're still "trying to determine" how they can be integrated into the air defense system? Isn't that kinda backwards?
"Did you hear me? I’m done talking to you."
And thus, with nine words, a company dies. They clearly have no manufacturing capability, little-or-no software development capability, and have done no market research. The have a half-baked idea, and a part of a marketing plan. Probably saw a piece of existing hardware, and figured they could customize it to do something different - and were wrong. There have been successful products that launched way too soon, but not with THAT kind of press. Done for, now.
(GRIN) At one time, I had dial-in access to the Apple corporate network; back then AppleTalk and PAP were still supported. When I was having trouble getting an employee to answer his email, I'd just print the message to the printer in his office. That would usually get his or her attention.
(Sigh...) Some people or groups - well, a LOT of people or groups - either have massive inferiority complexes, or too much time on their hands. They spend their lives looking for things to be offended by. I'm tempted to say we should live up to their expectations; if they think they're having "whatever" done to them, we should go ahead do it. Why take the heat for nothing?
"Lego Turkish Terrorist Playset"
Or, shut the heck up and forget you ever saw it. I've done EXACTLY the kind of "hacking" they're talking about; sometimes out of curiosity, more often just trying to get past a broken link. I recall about 10 years ago I came across a list of USN ballistic missile sub deployments... don't know if it was classified, but I backed out of there fast, wiped the browser history and cache, and kept my mouth shut (well, until now).
Not to offend anyone (or, sorry that I WILL) basically every organized religion is wacky. Since they're all based on things that have to be taken on faith, the only difference is how much disbelief the adherents are willing to suspend. Granted, to THIS observer, Scientology (and Mormonism, close behind) are at the far end of the spectrum, but it's a quantitative rather than qualitative difference. Now, practically, the Scientologists appear to present an ongoing danger to society; the Mormons no longer appear harmful.
Who gives a fuck?
Anyone with an interest in history, technology, mathematics, and honoring under-recognized individuals who made a crucial contribution to society. Clearly not you.
I dislike the whole mechanism of the stock market as much as the next guy; but theoretically, at least, it DOES serve a social purpose: The shareholder invests in a company, giving it the capital to expand its business. This is presumably good for the economy, and society as a whole.
In practice, of course, the "day trader phenomenon" does make the whole thing look like money for nothing. I've been told I'm completely insane by people active in the stock market, but I think it would be worth experimenting with a minimum holding time for stocks you "invest in". If you had to hold your shares for six months, you'd be more interested in the usefulness of the company and its products, and less in how some stupid statement on the morning news made them dip 2%.
My Significant Other can afford the best of everything; not stupid but not a computer/internet specialist. She has a high-end internet-enabled TV, an internet-enabled BluRay player, and a TiVo (with internet features). All have the ability to access, say, YouTube, but each component has a slightly different interface and capabilities. She's gotten lost and frustrated in the interface(s) so many times (Was it the YouTube viewer accessed through the TV, or the other one? What interface on the receiver do I use?) that she no longer uses ANY of the features. She's locked all the remotes but the one for the TiVo in the closet; she doesn't even play DVD's anymore, because if she switches to that input she's afraid she won't find her way back.
Thanks, consumer electronics industry.
I disagree. I think the word is out; 3D doesn't enhance the viewing experience in the vast majority of cases. However, it DOES raise costs; and if those costs aren't rewarded with higher ticket prices, current 3D technology will die a quick death. It's already essentially dead as far as the home TV market is concerned. Further, the current offering has polluted the 3D well for a long time to come.
Now, LAST time 3D came around, I was a reasonably accomplished stereoscopic photographer, to the point of owning the specialized projector and glasses to show my efforts. You know what? The novelty wore off. It was, is, and will be, a gimmick. Even with a completely different and perfect 3D system, holography or not, it doesn't enhance visual storytelling. And hopefully, telling a story will continue to be a significant consideration in filmmaking.
That was 86, not 99.
Yeah, but I'd much rather listen to 99's voice...
(GRIN) I remember telling customers at the dawn of the (generally available) internet age, that standard TCP/IP was inherently unsuitable for time-dependent video (or audio!) content. They didn't believe me... "But it works! And it's cheeeper!"
Been there done that. I now actively avoid video content on the internet. For instance, if I'm on Google news or some such, some of the news links lead to video content. Back when I clicked them, 80% - 90% of the time I'd have to watch an ad, or dismiss a banner at the bottom, or have another unrelated window automatically open. OR, the video would require some obscure codec, would freeze or fail to load, or the link would be dead - whatever. Maybe a tenth of the time I'd actually get the news story I wanted, as I expected.
Now, it's text stories for me, exclusively. If I accidentally click a video link, I close it as soon as ANY of the above begins.
Wow. PreCrime is here. Apparently, you don't even have to be open for business or host any files to be a 'cyber criminal' who violates 'intellectual property rights.' Once you're accused by the US governments masters, you're done for, worldwide.
Wrong bomb. Fission, not fusion. They're called "A-bombs."
Not hyperbole. I believe they already may have some registers like that. Certainly there is an optional picture menu (picture of sandwich, picture of necessary bills) for the illiterate.