When does revolution happen? Not because of politics; it is because of economics. When your future looks less rosy than it used to (relative perspective not absolute), then you want to change something and that means throw the bums out--regardless of who the bums are. Revolution happens _via_ politics just like all things social.
Best recent example is the Arab spring. Those protests were "against the dictator" (who else) but they weren't "because" of the dictators who had been in power for decades. It was because of the global recession.
Jurassic Park probably worked better because females are XX so there is no possible chance of males being accidentally created (although there are instances of self-impregnation).
The problem I see with trying to ensure only males show up is that they are XY which means there is an X chromosome that might be able to "easily" become an XX.
Microsoft moved a department to Munich. That's what happened. From the article:
Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich to meet the mayor. More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.
Conversely, if I let the cops take my phone and then later it detonates inside the police station, then it has become a terrorist IED. And I have become a terrorist instead of a private citizen wishing to maintain privacy.
I could easily see folks setting a timer if they don't log in every day or week and given any bureaucracy (unavoidable when tracking items) and given on-going current investigations, the phone isn't going to be examined withn 72 hours.
A free market isn't free. If we want a free market to persist thru generations, we need to outlaw monopolies and make sure the playing field is level for everyone. For those who wish to do their own analysis of how economies actually work, here's a koan to cogitate on.
Either billionaires produce a robust economy OR billionaires are a product of a robust economy.
The Libertarians had this idea that we could all buy insurance to protect each other, but they didn't actually explain how we can guarantee the insurance company stays in business AND stays profitable AND meets its obligations.
Myth #2. Rich people don't build factories because they are rich. Rich people build factories in order to sell stuff in a market. You cannot force the creation of a market by allowing the majority of the money the economy produces go to people who are already so rich they have no need to buy anything else. In terms of economists, you can't push on a string.
Example #3. How can we invest in America? If private roads were as profitable as the Libertarians believed, corporations would be building them and making money hand over fist. Since private companies cannot make roads and bridges profitable, how does a community invest in itself? America in the 1950s had a 90% tax rate.
If you've never programmed before, the first thing I'd recommend is learning html and write a basic web page. Play around with the formatting and css. None of that is programming but if you can't do that sort of stuff, you can't program. If you can do that sort of stuff, you'll enjoy doing it, especially the immediate response.
Then build some javascript functions to run in your web page. That's actual honest-to-god programming and you can easily find tutorials on html, css and javascript. Once you've got yourself started on that, then you might want to look at learning a "real" language like C or C++ or Java but there are reasons you'd use one and not the other and those are why folks study computer science, not programming languages.
By the way, everybody hates javascript, but everyone uses it because it works. In fact, the latest open source web stack is built entirely in javascript.
Same old same old. I call it the usenet phenomenon because that's where I first noticed it. Any group that had been together for more than 3 years was extremely cliquish and derogatory. That happened later on with wikipedia and many of the other hangout areas. And it doesn't have anything to do with computers. It's a mean girls phenomenon that happens anyplace lots of conversations are going on and certain folks take charge. In economics, a similar phenomenon is called "regulatory capture." The only people that know anything about the business are people actually in the business.
On trolled-up sites like IMDB, Usenet and/., the only folks who get all the inside jokes and will tolerate the foul language and idiotic comments are long-term users and their antics and pointlessness turn off newbies so the site becomes incestual. mooooooooooooooooooo
Two ways to think about economics.
1. Billionaires produce a robust economy (Reagonomics rising tide and standard Libertarian perspective).
2. Billionaires are the product of a robust economy.
Do your own analysis and be prepared to be disappointed.
Opium has been illegal for thousands of years so "obviously" that's a solved problem (sarcasm).
Read a history of opium and it's an expensive drug to produce by hand without technology. The reason it's been around for so long is because it actually works on many used-to-be-common diseases such as TB. With the rise of new anitbiotic-resistant superbugs, perhaps a resurgence in opium is to be expected.
On a political note, I wonder how much money Afghanistan could make if opium were legal and they were allowed to grow it there instead of having Tasmania be the only place they grow legal opium poppies.
Most of the laws against _smoking_ are for the folks who don't use tobacco. Waiters, co-workers, kids on playgrounds, shoppers entering stores. Granted, the high cost of cigarettes is aimed directly at smokers, but not the laws that regulate smoking in public around other people. Non-smokers have rights too.
We have a database we can actually export and import in less than 2 hours. So every night, we export production, drop our test database, and import the latest and greatest data. And that version is what we use for testing and what our power users use to modify data experimentally to see if they like the changes.
We know fairly quickly if we have a bad "backup." I've been burned many times by files that won't open, won't load, won't whatever.
Eighty Percent of students switch majors at least once in the United States. The more of an obstacle you create to that, the less likely you are to have people studying what they want to study. Also, the more expensive you make it to teach chemistry or computer science, the fewer kids will take a side class in chemistry or computer science.
I think that's one aspect to logic. Here's another one folks currently use. Why not take the easiest courses, especially if they all cost the same amount of money, and especially if I'm a naive 20-year-old not really that concerned with the future?
Pricing courses by value/cost lets the student _know_ more about values and costs. We don't sell a sedan and a sports car for the same price, but we really do sell university degrees for the same list price (all credit hours cost the same and fees are not displayed on the menu).
I completely disagree. If we're talking about economics, the universites pay engineering profs more than lit profs already. They know what the difference in value of degrees is. They ought to let the naive 18-year-olds also know it.
The cost of providing the service ought to show up in the service. Student loans for a medical or Stem degree are often worth it, but the same exact amount of money loaned for a philosophy degree, not worth it.
Life becomes a lot simpler once you learn that most things you see/hear/read aren't important and you're able to filter them out.
Exactly. Babies have to learn to ignore the million nerves sending signals about the cloth touching their skin. There's a lot of stuff our eyeballs see but only so much stuff our brains can process. Winnowing is crucial.
Useful semi-automatic winnowing is probably developed via evolution over generations, the Darwin Award winners not paying attention to something crucial.
We need a new web browser because people have finally figured out that apps are too tricky to deal with. Apple is pita and android is 14,000 different versions. They need a phone-sized broswer that looks and sort of acts like an app.
Main problem with this economic analysis is that solar is only half the equation.
Solar requires batteries, unlike coal, gas. (There are "pump batteries" which refill dams during daylight hours and thus act as a battery to store power for nighttime use).
I like solar energy but there are additional issues besides mere production.
"The company told him to visit one of their service centers, where one of its employees could reset his TV."
funny, that seems like a legit offer of help.
That's my take on it, especially with a tv that is old, no longer being produced, and with on-line instructions (probably completely standard) tried that didn't work. A support person on the phone would only walk him thru the same procedure. It's infected with ransomware. If a reboot solved that problem, it wouldn't be a problem.
When our new-fangled computer room lost all power to the air conditioning and fried a whole mess of servers, the IT group got mad because our Linux server was taking 5 minutes to boot up. The main lady complained saying their windows servers booted up in 30 seconds. I said they'd better since they have to reboot for every single update, or to install software, or to remove sofware. Whe nit "finally" came up, our log said the box hadn't been rebooted in 4 years.
It didn't get fried either. Had an automatic shutoff. And this was a few years ago.
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When does revolution happen? Not because of politics; it is because of economics. When your future looks less rosy than it used to (relative perspective not absolute), then you want to change something and that means throw the bums out--regardless of who the bums are. Revolution happens _via_ politics just like all things social.
Best recent example is the Arab spring. Those protests were "against the dictator" (who else) but they weren't "because" of the dictators who had been in power for decades. It was because of the global recession.
Jurassic Park probably worked better because females are XX so there is no possible chance of males being accidentally created (although there are instances of self-impregnation).
The problem I see with trying to ensure only males show up is that they are XY which means there is an X chromosome that might be able to "easily" become an XX.
Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich to meet the mayor. More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.
That's what I was thinking. A million emails is what percentage of the current number of spams? Maybe .000000000000000000000001%
Conversely, if I let the cops take my phone and then later it detonates inside the police station, then it has become a terrorist IED. And I have become a terrorist instead of a private citizen wishing to maintain privacy.
I could easily see folks setting a timer if they don't log in every day or week and given any bureaucracy (unavoidable when tracking items) and given on-going current investigations, the phone isn't going to be examined withn 72 hours.
A free market isn't free. If we want a free market to persist thru generations, we need to outlaw monopolies and make sure the playing field is level for everyone. For those who wish to do their own analysis of how economies actually work, here's a koan to cogitate on.
Either billionaires produce a robust economy OR billionaires are a product of a robust economy.
The Libertarians had this idea that we could all buy insurance to protect each other, but they didn't actually explain how we can guarantee the insurance company stays in business AND stays profitable AND meets its obligations.
Myth #2. Rich people don't build factories because they are rich. Rich people build factories in order to sell stuff in a market. You cannot force the creation of a market by allowing the majority of the money the economy produces go to people who are already so rich they have no need to buy anything else. In terms of economists, you can't push on a string.
Example #3. How can we invest in America? If private roads were as profitable as the Libertarians believed, corporations would be building them and making money hand over fist. Since private companies cannot make roads and bridges profitable, how does a community invest in itself? America in the 1950s had a 90% tax rate.
If you've never programmed before, the first thing I'd recommend is learning html and write a basic web page. Play around with the formatting and css. None of that is programming but if you can't do that sort of stuff, you can't program. If you can do that sort of stuff, you'll enjoy doing it, especially the immediate response.
Then build some javascript functions to run in your web page. That's actual honest-to-god programming and you can easily find tutorials on html, css and javascript. Once you've got yourself started on that, then you might want to look at learning a "real" language like C or C++ or Java but there are reasons you'd use one and not the other and those are why folks study computer science, not programming languages.
By the way, everybody hates javascript, but everyone uses it because it works. In fact, the latest open source web stack is built entirely in javascript.
Same old same old. I call it the usenet phenomenon because that's where I first noticed it. Any group that had been together for more than 3 years was extremely cliquish and derogatory. That happened later on with wikipedia and many of the other hangout areas. And it doesn't have anything to do with computers. It's a mean girls phenomenon that happens anyplace lots of conversations are going on and certain folks take charge. In economics, a similar phenomenon is called "regulatory capture." The only people that know anything about the business are people actually in the business.
/., the only folks who get all the inside jokes and will tolerate the foul language and idiotic comments are long-term users and their antics and pointlessness turn off newbies so the site becomes incestual. mooooooooooooooooooo
On trolled-up sites like IMDB, Usenet and
Two ways to think about economics.
1. Billionaires produce a robust economy (Reagonomics rising tide and standard Libertarian perspective).
2. Billionaires are the product of a robust economy.
Do your own analysis and be prepared to be disappointed.
Opium has been illegal for thousands of years so "obviously" that's a solved problem (sarcasm).
Read a history of opium and it's an expensive drug to produce by hand without technology. The reason it's been around for so long is because it actually works on many used-to-be-common diseases such as TB. With the rise of new anitbiotic-resistant superbugs, perhaps a resurgence in opium is to be expected.
On a political note, I wonder how much money Afghanistan could make if opium were legal and they were allowed to grow it there instead of having Tasmania be the only place they grow legal opium poppies.
Why the hell would you "self-host" a cloud service?
Because in today's modern world, it pays to be fully buzzword-compliant.
It doesn't matter either way. It wouldn't change our reality.
How would you know?
Haven't scientists the world over have known since Sir Isaac Newton that gravity is a one way force? Does this guy even know what he is talking about?
There is no push and pull of gravity.
or possibility B. We've learned something new in the last 300 years.
Most of the laws against _smoking_ are for the folks who don't use tobacco. Waiters, co-workers, kids on playgrounds, shoppers entering stores. Granted, the high cost of cigarettes is aimed directly at smokers, but not the laws that regulate smoking in public around other people. Non-smokers have rights too.
I've heard good things about version control. I use the stuff they have on GitHub. It's incredible.
We have a database we can actually export and import in less than 2 hours. So every night, we export production, drop our test database, and import the latest and greatest data. And that version is what we use for testing and what our power users use to modify data experimentally to see if they like the changes.
We know fairly quickly if we have a bad "backup." I've been burned many times by files that won't open, won't load, won't whatever.
Eighty Percent of students switch majors at least once in the United States. The more of an obstacle you create to that, the less likely you are to have people studying what they want to study. Also, the more expensive you make it to teach chemistry or computer science, the fewer kids will take a side class in chemistry or computer science.
I think that's one aspect to logic. Here's another one folks currently use. Why not take the easiest courses, especially if they all cost the same amount of money, and especially if I'm a naive 20-year-old not really that concerned with the future?
Pricing courses by value/cost lets the student _know_ more about values and costs. We don't sell a sedan and a sports car for the same price, but we really do sell university degrees for the same list price (all credit hours cost the same and fees are not displayed on the menu).
I completely disagree. If we're talking about economics, the universites pay engineering profs more than lit profs already. They know what the difference in value of degrees is. They ought to let the naive 18-year-olds also know it.
The cost of providing the service ought to show up in the service. Student loans for a medical or Stem degree are often worth it, but the same exact amount of money loaned for a philosophy degree, not worth it.
I have a wife that tells me what is important and what is not.
In a nutshell, that's one way evolution works ( "choosing" what is important) within each generation ;-)
Life becomes a lot simpler once you learn that most things you see/hear/read aren't important and you're able to filter them out.
Exactly. Babies have to learn to ignore the million nerves sending signals about the cloth touching their skin. There's a lot of stuff our eyeballs see but only so much stuff our brains can process. Winnowing is crucial.
Useful semi-automatic winnowing is probably developed via evolution over generations, the Darwin Award winners not paying attention to something crucial.
We need a new web browser because people have finally figured out that apps are too tricky to deal with. Apple is pita and android is 14,000 different versions. They need a phone-sized broswer that looks and sort of acts like an app.
Main problem with this economic analysis is that solar is only half the equation.
Solar requires batteries, unlike coal, gas. (There are "pump batteries" which refill dams during daylight hours and thus act as a battery to store power for nighttime use).
I like solar energy but there are additional issues besides mere production.
"The company told him to visit one of their service centers, where one of its employees could reset his TV."
funny, that seems like a legit offer of help.
That's my take on it, especially with a tv that is old, no longer being produced, and with on-line instructions (probably completely standard) tried that didn't work. A support person on the phone would only walk him thru the same procedure. It's infected with ransomware. If a reboot solved that problem, it wouldn't be a problem.
You couldn't get an ip from an encrypted wifi connection. Probly a security update of some sort.
When our new-fangled computer room lost all power to the air conditioning and fried a whole mess of servers, the IT group got mad because our Linux server was taking 5 minutes to boot up. The main lady complained saying their windows servers booted up in 30 seconds. I said they'd better since they have to reboot for every single update, or to install software, or to remove sofware. Whe nit "finally" came up, our log said the box hadn't been rebooted in 4 years.
It didn't get fried either. Had an automatic shutoff. And this was a few years ago.