Indeed. I own several dozen guns - almost all of which I shoot regularly and none of which have ever killed someone.
What is the purpose of owning them? Why are you shooting them? It's not because you really love to put holes in pieces of paper from 50 feet away. It's because you are practicing to KILL PEOPLE WITH THE GUN. I'd love to hear any other explanation. Just because you haven't been in a situation that merited that you use your practiced skill and tool doesn't mean that it's for a different purpose.
According to Logical Fallacy Bingo your argument is an example of a Ludic Fallacy. I can mark that one off now.
This is exactly right. Modern companies are NOT modern companies, they are generally companies as companies have always been. I think in smaller companies we are seeing experiments that show tiny examples of truly different ways to run a company, but I don't know of any that have been able to scale that to thousands of people yet.
Most small company plans are to run up the value as quickly as they can, and then sell out to a bigger company, rinse and repeat. Even those that go public see that only as an intermediate step. Very few become stable companies selling their own home-grown products. Apple was one of those companies, although they've had to become just like any other old style company to get there and stay there.
they're your ruling class silly. Your masters. They own you. Sure, you could do something about that. But you'd need a lot of power. Somethin' like a government body. And that'd be socialism (cue dramatic music).
There is another solution. It was all the rage about 250 years ago. But people need to be dragged down even further until they are willing to risk their cushy livelihoods for a real change of the guard.
Oracle is going to need to come up with a new game to make waves with the new processor. Simply improving a processor isn't going to change the fact that what people want are low cost processors without vendor lock in.
What individual users want is low cost without vendor lock in. What ENTERPRISE wants, and the market for Oracle, is a rock solid platform with excellent support and maintenance. Sun provided that at a reasonable cost. Oracle is simply charging too much for the same product. For example, they've completely overhauled their support costs to ream their existing Sun customers, and they (read we) are looking for other solutions. The company I work for has probably bought its last Sun/Oracle server.
There is no argument pro or con on this issue, since right now no one checks to make sure that devices are actually off. How many cell phones are still in pockets, turned on and accepting connections? How any iPads have their covers on but still powered up? Since no one does an RF sweep, then right now, as far as I'm concerned, all devices have been on and running during take off and landing the whole time. There is only an annoying show of compliance. Should they be on, or not? It doesn't matter. They've been on the whole time.
The Chinese have a lot of soldiers, but no where near the best military.
All three of those are under the protection of the actual best military in the world. China will not risk a shift ass kicking by the USA and her allies.
While antibiotics won't stop a viral infection, one thing they can help with when infected is to prevent other infections.
If the doctor has diagnosed such an infection, then of course you should get antibiotics. But it is completely wrong to prescribe them because you *might* have an undiagnosed infection.
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos.
Oh yes they do. Happened to me just a couple years ago. The doctor said that it was just a really bad flu, and here's a prescription for antibiotics. When I called her on it, she did a lot of back peddling, and said basically that her senior doctors make her do it. Not in so many words.
you would think that they would at least make copies available. What good are the photos if they are locked away in a vault where nobody can ever look at them?
Monetization and protection of IP. It's a sad day for everyone.
Unfortunately, doctors are generally woefully unequipped to treat pain, particularly long-term pain. Plenty of addicts are made by the medical profession, something they don't like to admit.
Sadly, you are completely wrong. Our problem is not the occasional addict, it's the reluctance to give pain killers to people who need them because of the chance that an addict might possible get his hands on them. You know that food poisoning, or burn, or sprained ankle that you gritted your teeth and suffered through? That's because mild pain killers like vicodin are restricted in the US. Yes I have a personal grudge in this matter. I spent an hour suffering in an emergency room because I was shaking and so wracked with pain that they were convinced that I was an addict just looking for a free fix. When they finally took my blood and saw a complete lack of narcotics in my system that they immediately got me morphine. Later I find out that is standard operating procedure for emergency rooms. Make patients in pain wait to weed out the addicts. That is beyond wrong.
Gallup does a "well-being" poll (the factors they use to determine "well-being" correlate pretty well with happiness). While the Gallup poll agrees that Hawaii is the "happiest", the rest of their poll comes out significantly different. For example, the Twit survey from this article has Florida as above the median for happiness, the Gallup poll has them third from the bottom.
This is a study of the happiness of technically savvy people. As cheap and ubiquitous as cell phones are, Florida is full of people who live outside the cities and couldn't care less about twitter. The Gallup poll would, in theory, include those people. And from the sound of it, they are not very happy individuals.:-)
If MS is going to a continuious update cycle then they really need to reduce the number of reboots required after applying patches. If they don't they are going to piss off a lot of users with the increased reboot frequency.
not that hard really is it?
There are a lot of "shoulds" when it comes to Windows. The issue isn't that simple. The underlying structure is still apps running on a PC for a single user. Unix was designed from the ground up as a multiuser system, with multiple layers of separation between kernel, drivers, hardware, windowing, network, etc. With Unix you can patch a part of the system, and not touch the kernel directly. With Windows, you have to patch libraries and executables that can be used by multiple layers. So basically you need a complete conceptual rebuild, instead of the slow decoupling that they've been trying over the years. In other words, to quote MST3K, "They just didn't care."
It's not that SF is really all that extreme, it's that its politics are so far left that the place is run like a circus.
Special interest groups run the city.
Thank you for that diatribe from someone who has obviously never been to SF. I grew up in Chicago, have lived in the big cities and the suburbs, and now I work in SF. It's no different from any other big city. It's just a big target for homophobes and other mud slingers. Do you think people spend so much money to live there because it sucks? Get a clue.
They are not getting killed because they had WMDs, they are getting killed because they were fuckheads. They had WMDs also because they were fuckheads.
If they want to stop getting killed, perhaps they should stop being fuckheads?
Actually, since we are usually responsible for putting them in power and selling them the weapons, I think the real fuckheads are closer to home.
Like a classic car it's more interesting if it is vintage. Run vintage solaris.
You mean Solaris 8? This is not vintage. It's just one generation EOL, hardly "dusting off." It's just expensive to maintain. We threw one off the loading dock a few months back after replacing it with a M4000.
I don't care if you're a democrat or republican, that's extremely poor handling of our money.
Maybe, but what it really shows is that we are not spending enough. This technology is not cheap. A few million here and there is just a drop in the bucket. We as a planet (not nation) need to get off our collective asses and get serious about the future prospects of the human race. Of course a cheaper solution would be to limit population growth, but that argument is not going anywhere.
Mega cannot see the contents of files. The DMCA notices are simply based on the filenames when linked through search engines.
I created an 80 byte text file that contained the words "star" and "wars" in the FILE NAME, with the actual content being "This is a text file..." with no internal links or other content. Using the mega-&&&.me search engine, I posted the link NAME.
Not surprisingly, I received a DMCA notice within 10 hours of uploading, SOLEY based on the file name.
No big surprise here. I expected the result from the test.
So are we going back to the age of search engine misspellings, for those who actually remember the pre-web FTP based internet? Ah, pron, gfi, those were the days.
Last september/october it was around $6-$7 a share, now it is more than doubled.
Based purely on "press," not on the product. The stock market became a game of stealing every penny that you can from the small investor, and not about anything in the realm of reality quite a while ago. Think of professional poker players. No different.
2. A college education is more than just job training, and the perspective and growth it provides are only allocated to a small portion of the populace. We need to be talking about making college as universal, free, and affordable (for society) as high school. Then we'll see some real progress.
I think that's the main problem. College in the US has become the trade school for high tech jobs and professional sports players. There are still a few universities that emphasize intellectual pursuits above practical ones, but they are usually the most expensive. I don't think I'm the only one seeing the trend that is leading us to the new dark ages. Bread and circuses, as Rome burned.
What kind of self respecting soldier went on this mission without protesting it?
That's a confusing concept. Soldiers are trained from day one to obey orders without questioning them. If your officer commands you to shoot, you shoot. Not that that's a good thing. It's actually quite disgusting. But it's the commanding officers who order their troops to perform unspeakable acts who usually get raked over the coals, e.g. massacring whole villages in Viet Nam.
If I get a few thousand of my friends together to do that, I've done a DDOS. So why should that be illegal?
That's a poor analogy. To follow your narrative, it's more like a thousand friends standing in front of the door and not allowing any other customers from entering the store. That, I fear, is illegal in the real world.
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Indeed. I own several dozen guns - almost all of which I shoot regularly and none of which have ever killed someone.
What is the purpose of owning them? Why are you shooting them? It's not because you really love to put holes in pieces of paper from 50 feet away. It's because you are practicing to KILL PEOPLE WITH THE GUN. I'd love to hear any other explanation. Just because you haven't been in a situation that merited that you use your practiced skill and tool doesn't mean that it's for a different purpose.
According to Logical Fallacy Bingo your argument is an example of a Ludic Fallacy. I can mark that one off now.
This is exactly right. Modern companies are NOT modern companies, they are generally companies as companies have always been. I think in smaller companies we are seeing experiments that show tiny examples of truly different ways to run a company, but I don't know of any that have been able to scale that to thousands of people yet.
Most small company plans are to run up the value as quickly as they can, and then sell out to a bigger company, rinse and repeat. Even those that go public see that only as an intermediate step. Very few become stable companies selling their own home-grown products. Apple was one of those companies, although they've had to become just like any other old style company to get there and stay there.
they're your ruling class silly. Your masters. They own you. Sure, you could do something about that. But you'd need a lot of power. Somethin' like a government body. And that'd be socialism (cue dramatic music).
There is another solution. It was all the rage about 250 years ago. But people need to be dragged down even further until they are willing to risk their cushy livelihoods for a real change of the guard.
Fuck it. I probably already have an FBI file.
Oracle is going to need to come up with a new game to make waves with the new processor. Simply improving a processor isn't going to change the fact that what people want are low cost processors without vendor lock in.
What individual users want is low cost without vendor lock in. What ENTERPRISE wants, and the market for Oracle, is a rock solid platform with excellent support and maintenance. Sun provided that at a reasonable cost. Oracle is simply charging too much for the same product. For example, they've completely overhauled their support costs to ream their existing Sun customers, and they (read we) are looking for other solutions. The company I work for has probably bought its last Sun/Oracle server.
There is no argument pro or con on this issue, since right now no one checks to make sure that devices are actually off. How many cell phones are still in pockets, turned on and accepting connections? How any iPads have their covers on but still powered up? Since no one does an RF sweep, then right now, as far as I'm concerned, all devices have been on and running during take off and landing the whole time. There is only an annoying show of compliance. Should they be on, or not? It doesn't matter. They've been on the whole time.
The Chinese have a lot of soldiers, but no where near the best military.
All three of those are under the protection of the actual best military in the world. China will not risk a shift ass kicking by the USA and her allies.
Just like the Korean War. Oh wait.
While antibiotics won't stop a viral infection, one thing they can help with when infected is to prevent other infections.
If the doctor has diagnosed such an infection, then of course you should get antibiotics. But it is completely wrong to prescribe them because you *might* have an undiagnosed infection.
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos.
Oh yes they do. Happened to me just a couple years ago. The doctor said that it was just a really bad flu, and here's a prescription for antibiotics. When I called her on it, she did a lot of back peddling, and said basically that her senior doctors make her do it. Not in so many words.
you would think that they would at least make copies available. What good are the photos if they are locked away in a vault where nobody can ever look at them?
Monetization and protection of IP. It's a sad day for everyone.
Unfortunately, doctors are generally woefully unequipped to treat pain, particularly long-term pain. Plenty of addicts are made by the medical profession, something they don't like to admit.
Sadly, you are completely wrong. Our problem is not the occasional addict, it's the reluctance to give pain killers to people who need them because of the chance that an addict might possible get his hands on them. You know that food poisoning, or burn, or sprained ankle that you gritted your teeth and suffered through? That's because mild pain killers like vicodin are restricted in the US. Yes I have a personal grudge in this matter. I spent an hour suffering in an emergency room because I was shaking and so wracked with pain that they were convinced that I was an addict just looking for a free fix. When they finally took my blood and saw a complete lack of narcotics in my system that they immediately got me morphine. Later I find out that is standard operating procedure for emergency rooms. Make patients in pain wait to weed out the addicts. That is beyond wrong.
How about we levy a $10,000 "tax" for politicians that introduce stupid legislation.
They would raise their salaries to cover the expenses.
I think in congress you might want to melt the occupants after 8 uses, not the chair.
Don't give them more excuses to not show up for the sessions.
Gallup does a "well-being" poll (the factors they use to determine "well-being" correlate pretty well with happiness). While the Gallup poll agrees that Hawaii is the "happiest", the rest of their poll comes out significantly different. For example, the Twit survey from this article has Florida as above the median for happiness, the Gallup poll has them third from the bottom.
This is a study of the happiness of technically savvy people. As cheap and ubiquitous as cell phones are, Florida is full of people who live outside the cities and couldn't care less about twitter. The Gallup poll would, in theory, include those people. And from the sound of it, they are not very happy individuals. :-)
"Often times the market can sort it out"
I stopped reading right there.
If MS is going to a continuious update cycle then they really need to reduce the number of reboots required after applying patches.
If they don't they are going to piss off a lot of users with the increased reboot frequency.
not that hard really is it?
There are a lot of "shoulds" when it comes to Windows. The issue isn't that simple. The underlying structure is still apps running on a PC for a single user. Unix was designed from the ground up as a multiuser system, with multiple layers of separation between kernel, drivers, hardware, windowing, network, etc. With Unix you can patch a part of the system, and not touch the kernel directly. With Windows, you have to patch libraries and executables that can be used by multiple layers. So basically you need a complete conceptual rebuild, instead of the slow decoupling that they've been trying over the years. In other words, to quote MST3K, "They just didn't care."
I can't find any reference to what the attack actually does. Does it crash the machine? Erase the hard drive? Cause ugly pop-ups? Spam email?
It's not that SF is really all that extreme, it's that its politics are so far left that the place is run like a circus.
Special interest groups run the city.
Thank you for that diatribe from someone who has obviously never been to SF. I grew up in Chicago, have lived in the big cities and the suburbs, and now I work in SF. It's no different from any other big city. It's just a big target for homophobes and other mud slingers. Do you think people spend so much money to live there because it sucks? Get a clue.
They are not getting killed because they had WMDs, they are getting killed because they were fuckheads. They had WMDs also because they were fuckheads.
If they want to stop getting killed, perhaps they should stop being fuckheads?
Actually, since we are usually responsible for putting them in power and selling them the weapons, I think the real fuckheads are closer to home.
Like a classic car it's more interesting if it is vintage. Run vintage solaris.
You mean Solaris 8? This is not vintage. It's just one generation EOL, hardly "dusting off." It's just expensive to maintain. We threw one off the loading dock a few months back after replacing it with a M4000.
I don't care if you're a democrat or republican, that's extremely poor handling of our money.
Maybe, but what it really shows is that we are not spending enough. This technology is not cheap. A few million here and there is just a drop in the bucket. We as a planet (not nation) need to get off our collective asses and get serious about the future prospects of the human race. Of course a cheaper solution would be to limit population growth, but that argument is not going anywhere.
Mega cannot see the contents of files. The DMCA notices are simply based on the filenames when linked through search engines.
I created an 80 byte text file that contained the words "star" and "wars" in the FILE NAME, with the actual content being "This is a text file..." with no internal links or other content. Using the mega-&&&.me search engine, I posted the link NAME.
Not surprisingly, I received a DMCA notice within 10 hours of uploading, SOLEY based on the file name.
No big surprise here. I expected the result from the test.
So are we going back to the age of search engine misspellings, for those who actually remember the pre-web FTP based internet? Ah, pron, gfi, those were the days.
Their stock price says it all.
Last september/october it was around $6-$7 a share, now it is more than doubled.
Based purely on "press," not on the product. The stock market became a game of stealing every penny that you can from the small investor, and not about anything in the realm of reality quite a while ago. Think of professional poker players. No different.
2. A college education is more than just job training, and the perspective and growth it provides are only allocated to a small portion of the populace. We need to be talking about making college as universal, free, and affordable (for society) as high school. Then we'll see some real progress.
I think that's the main problem. College in the US has become the trade school for high tech jobs and professional sports players. There are still a few universities that emphasize intellectual pursuits above practical ones, but they are usually the most expensive. I don't think I'm the only one seeing the trend that is leading us to the new dark ages. Bread and circuses, as Rome burned.
What kind of self respecting soldier went on this mission without protesting it?
That's a confusing concept. Soldiers are trained from day one to obey orders without questioning them. If your officer commands you to shoot, you shoot. Not that that's a good thing. It's actually quite disgusting. But it's the commanding officers who order their troops to perform unspeakable acts who usually get raked over the coals, e.g. massacring whole villages in Viet Nam.
If I get a few thousand of my friends together to do that, I've done a DDOS. So why should that be illegal?
That's a poor analogy. To follow your narrative, it's more like a thousand friends standing in front of the door and not allowing any other customers from entering the store. That, I fear, is illegal in the real world.