The summary left out a little tidbit... whether or not this was an hour surveillance or several days. Police don't need a warrant to follow a car fitting a description of a car involved in a robbery or if they see something illegal, but they do to search it when stopped. Unless they can see a bag of cash sitting in the back seat. The article didn't mention why the police felt it necessary to tag the car in the first place.
Nowhere in the article did it mention if the data from the device was used to help convict. Placing a GPS device on a car so you can't lose sight of it is one thing, later downloading the data and using it to give out traffic tickets or proving the car was somewhere at a specific point it time is another.
I would love to see police officers get some type of 'spiderman tracking device' to tag cars that evade arrest. Follow from a couple of miles back and wait until they stop. Safer for everyone, the police, the public, and the driver.
Tagging cars in a bar and then stopping them at a check point later I would have an issue with.
Let's assume for a moment that this gets overturned. Would you support the development of technology to get 5 minute warrants? Why can't a police officer send an email with relevant information and pictures to a judge who reviews it and issues the warrant electronically??
Thank you for speaking up. I have lived almost 50 years and have heard the sky is falling crowd throughout my life. When I was 12, I was terrified because I read a story in a magazine like Popular Science about how a meteor might strike the Earth and destroy it in a few years and how we should immediately start spending millions on defense. I listened in the 70s about how we would run out of oil by the 90s. And on and on...
Countries have dealt with sea levels for hundreds of years. Holland mean anything?? We will deal with these. I am not saying we should turn a blind eye and pollute, pollute, pollute. People are generally reasonable and will deal with things as they come up. There are valid economic reasons to improve gas mileage in cars, I have faith that only a little government prodding will be needed. Creating mandates to cap emissions is a stupid and worthless idea since the models can't accurately predict what levels are acceptable. I believe that I have read about models that say NO levels are acceptable.
One of my favorite reads was talking about cutting down all of the old growth forests because new growth takes in more CO2 than old growth. I'm sure that one was kept quiet by the environmentalists....
Humans have dealt with changing agricultural conditions. Has anyone seen the Phoenix/Yuma area?? Look at how much agricultural products are grown there with less than 10 inches of rain a year. The Indians have been doing it for hundreds, if not thousands of years. I would think that we could continue that tradition.
Besides, if 90% of the population believe in global warming and change their lifestyle accordingly, I can keep mine!!!
Scientists are just as political as politicians. There is infighting and backstabbing all the time in the scientific community, and they can be just as unbiased and closed minded to someone else's ideas. Especially when it conflicts with many years of work and publications.
No group is capable of leading without checks and balances.
EVERYONE who wins something in the US pays taxes on it. Anyone who wins in a lottery or casino pays taxes on it. Anyone who wins a car on a game show pays taxes on it. That's the way it is and has been for DECADES.
If you want to get mad, get mad at the organizers. When I relocated a few years ago, my company not only gave me the money for the move, they also paid the taxes on it (at a flat rate). Sure, I still owed some money, but at least it wasn't on the total amount. Tag it as 'spending money while in training' and caution him not to spend it.
It would have been very easy for the organizers to do the same thing. They should have been fully aware of the tax implications of what they were doing and provided for it.
Of course all religions have a common beginning. Just look at Christmas. Pagans were calmly enjoying themselves during their winter solstice when Christians decided to get in on the act and book Christmas at the same time. Same is true of Easter. Spring holiday that follows the moon and is all about being reborn, just as nature is reborn. Not to mention fertility symbols like rabbits and eggs (ok... not really in the Bible, but it is in the holiday). It's easy to have common beginnings when religion A tries to convert people from religion B by providing close, but not quite the same, stories.
Looking through the Christian myths will find many similarities to other religions because they are all stories meant to placate, pacify, subjugate, or educate people.
Which version of the Garden of Eden myth are talking about so I know which one is the only true one?? It's hard to tell since there are many religions that claim similar stories. And don't give me that 'the Christian one', there are so many different versions of that one it's like arguing about the one true chili recipe.
Oh... I see...your argument indicates we need the metric system for stupid people who can't remember a few simple facts such as there are 4 cups in a quart (2 in a pint) or 5280 feet in a mile or 1760 yards in a mile. Or 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon. Or 16 ounces in a pound and 16 fluid ounces in a cup. Or that fluid ounces and dry ounces are different so you need to use different measuring cups. Seems most people can there are 365 days in 3 out of 4 years, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day?? One would think they could remember 4 or 5 more things.
Converting is easy... convert everything to the lowest common thing and then convert back when done. Or learn to borrow/carry 12 instead of 10. It's pretty easy once you get used to it. As a hack carpenter, I've been doing it for years. Same thing goes for adding fractions. (wow... sounds like the same argument metric people use, it's pretty easy once you get used to it.)
What system used is irrelevant. Very few people can accurately estimate Fahrenheit degrees, pounds, miles, inches, feet, or ounces to any degree of accuracy. I use my index finger joint to estimate an inch, my foot to estimate a foot, and two normal steps to estimate 5 feet. None of these are accurate enough for surveying or building a cabinet, but close enough for most things like building ethernet cables or laying out paving stones. I need a scale to determine if an envelop is overweight. I use tape measures when I build things, and odometers and GPS when I drive.
The same is probably true of meters, Celsius and kilograms. I seem to have lived my life in the US without them, so I guess they aren't that important in day to day living.
No thanks... I prefer to take care of things myself instead of having lying union stewards or fellow union workers stab me in the back. I've seen that happen enough times to feel that unionization is no magic bullet; I can trust only my own ability to tell my boss 'fuck you' and go elsewhere.
Know why I spent $120 on a toaster?? Because a $20 toaster, IMO, SUCKS!!! My $120 toaster is more complex because it makes my life easier. If I want a perfectly toasted bagel, I hit the bagel button and it only toasts one side. If bread is frozen, I hit the frozen button to toast it longer so I still get that perfect level 3 toast.
So, even though the toaster itself is more complex, it makes my life easier. No remembering several different settings for different items, just press the button and viola! My toast is perfect every time.
Why did I spend more on a complex microwave?? Because I love the reheat and beverage buttons. I can place a couple slices of pizza and 2 or 3 chicken wings on a plate and press reheat and when the microwave dings, they are done perfectly. No guessing about the number of seconds because the slices are bigger and I have one less chicken wing, just press the button. No more cardboard crusts. Want hot water? No guessing how much water is in the cup, just press the beverage button.
So, a better article would have mentioned that some people like me like complex items because it makes their lives easier. Sometimes, more complexity makes things simpler.
And I must disagree with people not paying more for less controls. I use one setting on my dryer... AUTOMATIC DRY and MEDIUM HEAT. Why?? It works 90% of the time. For the other 10%, I hit it again and it's done.
So yes, I would pay more for a washer or dryer that did things automatically IF IT WORKED. Maybe people like to be in control because those automated features rarely work as advertised. Or there is some fine print like 'please only insert 10lbs of cotton, color safe clothes when using this feature.'
We want incentives for people to be innovative and do wonderful things, but when they become successful we want to take it all away. Maybe other facts, such as what percentage of taxes the rich pay v/s the poor or what amount is given to charity should be presented so such articles are not biased towards proving a specific point instead of finding real solutions. In the US, the solution to everything is to throw money at it, yet it seldom works.
Maybe it's the brightest, most motivated people that get rich. Wealth today is no guarantee of wealth tomorrow, as many musicians and pro sports players discovered. How many people were able to flee poverty stricken areas by scrimping and saving for years to enter new countries and become model citizens simply because they are ethical and have drive. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are examples of very smart, average people becoming wealthy, whether it is based on technological innovation or business sense is irrelevant.
In how many years of recorded history have powerful people acquired wealth, whether measured in money or food? This is nothing new. How many instances where children are dying of hunger, is it a recent problem. Some of those areas people have lived without money for hundreds if not thousands of years. How many countries have either become overpopulated or the society has something basically wrong with it, such as many years of civil war? How many times have foreign aid packages been usurped by the government or revolutionary armies?
In the US, we have numerous programs to feed children, such as food stamps, free school lunches, state-supported child care. Most times the families use it for good. Yet I have personally seen one mother who was too selfish and instead sold the food stamps to purchase 'stuff', while feeding her child cereal for all his meals. Is the solution merely to give her more money? In this case, the grandmother convinced her daughter to give her custody. Maybe someday the daughter will grow up. Where is the family support system in the child hunger problem?
We all want the magic button to solve a problem, but child hunger isn't one problem, it's many. And each cause has to be examined for the proper solution, such as education, creating job opportunities, or sometimes creating a stable society.
That's an interesting opinion... I saw an idiot (possibly an asshole) refusing to leave when he wasn't following known rules and physically resisting and fighting. Someone who was given plenty of notice he was going to be tased yet continued to resist and then getting tased again.
When a project goes to production, the team must remain with it for a period of N days to handle the deployment problems. One would expect the majority of issues occur within the first couple of days, maybe weeks. Since it is fresh in their minds, they are the ones best suited to correcting issues. Other projects can be available, but fixing the prior one needs to be priority.
Then, find the developers who are good at maintenance programming. I hate working on long projects with the associated paperwork and spending long hours working with the customer trying to tweak a table. Even Scrum requires some process work outside of development. I prefer maintenance programming that gives me a chance to know many, many systems at a high level and then dig into them when there is a problem. This lets me contact Susie for a 5 minute discussion, and then her get back to her project. There are fewer processes because the fix is often smaller, and it has to be done now. It's amazing how many processes get circumvented when customers can't use an app.
The advantage is you get staff members who may not know the deep details of individual products, but have more information about multiple products and are not tied to specific resource timelines. Plus you get developers with timelines who get fewer interruptions. I agree that context switching is bad, whether you are a sys admin or developer. Finding ways to reduce it, even if the solutions means I spend four hours fixing it instead of two, can have other benefits. For instance, being able to say 'Hmm...we had a similar problem last month on this other application, I wonder if it is a similar problem.' then asking the developer a specific question.
It's a different mindset, and it's not for everyone. People who do it have to be able to juggle multiple priorities and handle context switching well. They also need to be able to 'see the big picture' more clearly and understand how product A works with product B in detail (since many issues often fall there and result in group A blaming group B and nothing getting fixed.)
They also have to contain their ego and find the challenges in maintenance programming that are just as rewarding as new development. I love being 'the hero' by solving production problems quickly when no one else can.
I noticed a few things about driving in India (Chennai) a few years ago (I spent a couple of months there outsourcing my IT skills... it sometimes works in reverse.)
What looks like chaos is more orderly than one thinks. Sure, lane markings and stop signs are only suggestions, but I rarely saw gridlock or accidents. Instead, drivers 'went with the flow'
I think Chennai drivers were more courteous than USA drivers. They rarely tried to change lanes suddenly, moved over far in advance of turns, and seemed to let people move over into lanes more easily.
The honking goes non-stop, but it seemed drivers paid attention to it instead of becoming aggressive or angry. The honk was more of a 'I need to change lanes' than 'get the fuck out of the way you moron'
Outside the city, it was a nightmare. Cars drove way too fast, often passing with little or no room and barely making it back in time. I saw trucks at night with few taillights and oxcarts without any reflective backing.
I would be very interested in a statistic that showed what areas had the highest rate of traffic fatalities. I wonder if it would be the roads outside the cities.
...how the hell are you supposed to stack anything on top of it?? Why can't engineers make something that is pretty AND functional. Including enough space for front-to-back air movement.
And don't forget about NPRs nasty habit of drowning us for a week 'please send us money' pleas while they finally play the good stuff that you won't hear again until next year.
The warrant was very specific. In order to prosecute, they need this little thing called evidence. They were looking for invoices showing he was the owner of the site and other associated material. Whether or not a judge and/or jury finds him guilty or not is irrelevant to the warrant. Some prosecutor someplace (which the FBI is not) needs evidence to prosecute. Whether or not he is guilty at this point is also irrelevant. This country has a concept called 'innocent until PROVEN guilty'. The prosecution will try to prove him guilty and needs evidence. The defense attorneys will be able to examine the same evidence for rebuttal.
What he did was very, very stupid. The stupid part was making it publicly available. I have wondered for several months if I could manipulate an HTML file and get through security so I could meet people at the gates.
I just never did anything about it because I don't have the balls and don't wish to get caught. Kudos for doing something about it. Takeback for being an idiot about it.
True story to support your point... My 16 year old son dislocated his shoulder riding a skate board at school (which he mother didn't allow him to do.) His mother was at work (she is a nurse) so I met him in the urgent care room. What a pussy, couldn't take shots to dull the pain, was fearful of the IV, and was almost in a panic. His first time in the hospital in his life.
I playfully teased him about it, joking him he needs to 'grow up and act like a man'. Not in a cruel way (although his mother would disagree), but making jokes about it in such a manner that he knew I was disappointed in how he acted. This was in balance to the support I gave him at the hospital to help him get through it and making sure he knew what was going on. In other words, dear ole dad will help you out when you do stupid things, but there is a price to pay.
One year later, he splits his shin open riding a skateboard so bad you could see the underlying tissue. I carried him into urgent care and we watched as the doctor injected him with anesthetic, cleaned the wound, and sewed him up. No whining, no bawling, no problem. I told him what a change I saw in him and that he handled it very well.
His dad, on the other hand, needed to use the bathroom. Seems the sight of the doctor sewing up a shin was a little more than dad could take:-)
The point?? Yes... kids get hurt, sometimes badly. When parents are there to help them through it and to encourage them, they grow up to be adults that can deal with such things. If a child never gets hurt, they probably won't be able to deal with it.
Statistics are meaningless unless given in the proper context. How much of that energy goes to producing food that is used around the world?? How much of that energy goes to producing goods sold around the world??
And, in a different note...
How much energy is used around the world to provide food for the US?? How much energy is used around the world to provide goods for the US??
Statistics can always be found to justify one persons point.....even if the point given has nothing to do with the article noted. Statistics that are in juxtaposition are conviently ignored from the article, such as the statistic that 40% of the growth comes from immigration (I guess lots of people want this crap) and the birth rate would barely keep the existing population at a stable rate.
Taking the article's statistics and the post's statistics, one could suggest that the best way to reduce all this oil consumption and consumerism is to stop all immigration and promote emigration. The population would gradually decrease and there would no longer be the problem.
Since I don't know you, I won't comment further on your personality. But I have met plenty of people who thought they themselves were very polite.
The TSA agent isn't the government, he is a person with a shitty job having to deal with lots of assholes all day long. He may even be an asshole himself. Our GOVERNMENT did not detain this person, some asshole did. I don't recall any law being made that said it was illegal to do what he did, or that this procedure was instituted.
Two assholes got into a confrontation because one of them did something stupid. I think that anything else is blowing way out of proportion.
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May I assume you turned the jerk down the hallway that was goofing off all day in then....
And could charge off-peak rates for peak hours. The number of hours for peak and non-peak will remain the same, only the start times will change.
Everyone wants a credit when they are over billed, but no offers to give money back if they are under billed.
The summary left out a little tidbit ... whether or not this was an hour surveillance or several days. Police don't need a warrant to follow a car fitting a description of a car involved in a robbery or if they see something illegal, but they do to search it when stopped. Unless they can see a bag of cash sitting in the back seat. The article didn't mention why the police felt it necessary to tag the car in the first place.
Nowhere in the article did it mention if the data from the device was used to help convict. Placing a GPS device on a car so you can't lose sight of it is one thing, later downloading the data and using it to give out traffic tickets or proving the car was somewhere at a specific point it time is another.
I would love to see police officers get some type of 'spiderman tracking device' to tag cars that evade arrest. Follow from a couple of miles back and wait until they stop. Safer for everyone, the police, the public, and the driver.
Tagging cars in a bar and then stopping them at a check point later I would have an issue with.
Let's assume for a moment that this gets overturned. Would you support the development of technology to get 5 minute warrants? Why can't a police officer send an email with relevant information and pictures to a judge who reviews it and issues the warrant electronically??
I'd support it.
Thank you for speaking up. I have lived almost 50 years and have heard the sky is falling crowd throughout my life. When I was 12, I was terrified because I read a story in a magazine like Popular Science about how a meteor might strike the Earth and destroy it in a few years and how we should immediately start spending millions on defense. I listened in the 70s about how we would run out of oil by the 90s. And on and on...
Countries have dealt with sea levels for hundreds of years. Holland mean anything?? We will deal with these. I am not saying we should turn a blind eye and pollute, pollute, pollute. People are generally reasonable and will deal with things as they come up. There are valid economic reasons to improve gas mileage in cars, I have faith that only a little government prodding will be needed. Creating mandates to cap emissions is a stupid and worthless idea since the models can't accurately predict what levels are acceptable. I believe that I have read about models that say NO levels are acceptable.
One of my favorite reads was talking about cutting down all of the old growth forests because new growth takes in more CO2 than old growth. I'm sure that one was kept quiet by the environmentalists....
Humans have dealt with changing agricultural conditions. Has anyone seen the Phoenix/Yuma area?? Look at how much agricultural products are grown there with less than 10 inches of rain a year. The Indians have been doing it for hundreds, if not thousands of years. I would think that we could continue that tradition.
Besides, if 90% of the population believe in global warming and change their lifestyle accordingly, I can keep mine!!!
Scientists are just as political as politicians. There is infighting and backstabbing all the time in the scientific community, and they can be just as unbiased and closed minded to someone else's ideas. Especially when it conflicts with many years of work and publications.
No group is capable of leading without checks and balances.
EVERYONE who wins something in the US pays taxes on it. Anyone who wins in a lottery or casino pays taxes on it. Anyone who wins a car on a game show pays taxes on it. That's the way it is and has been for DECADES.
If you want to get mad, get mad at the organizers. When I relocated a few years ago, my company not only gave me the money for the move, they also paid the taxes on it (at a flat rate). Sure, I still owed some money, but at least it wasn't on the total amount. Tag it as 'spending money while in training' and caution him not to spend it.
It would have been very easy for the organizers to do the same thing. They should have been fully aware of the tax implications of what they were doing and provided for it.
This is not news, this is a whine festival.....
Of course all religions have a common beginning. Just look at Christmas. Pagans were calmly enjoying themselves during their winter solstice when Christians decided to get in on the act and book Christmas at the same time. Same is true of Easter. Spring holiday that follows the moon and is all about being reborn, just as nature is reborn. Not to mention fertility symbols like rabbits and eggs (ok ... not really in the Bible, but it is in the holiday). It's easy to have common beginnings when religion A tries to convert people from religion B by providing close, but not quite the same, stories.
Looking through the Christian myths will find many similarities to other religions because they are all stories meant to placate, pacify, subjugate, or educate people.
Which version of the Garden of Eden myth are talking about so I know which one is the only true one?? It's hard to tell since there are many religions that claim similar stories. And don't give me that 'the Christian one', there are so many different versions of that one it's like arguing about the one true chili recipe.
Oh ... I see...your argument indicates we need the metric system for stupid people who can't remember a few simple facts such as there are 4 cups in a quart (2 in a pint) or 5280 feet in a mile or 1760 yards in a mile. Or 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon. Or 16 ounces in a pound and 16 fluid ounces in a cup. Or that fluid ounces and dry ounces are different so you need to use different measuring cups. Seems most people can there are 365 days in 3 out of 4 years, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day?? One would think they could remember 4 or 5 more things.
... convert everything to the lowest common thing and then convert back when done. Or learn to borrow/carry 12 instead of 10. It's pretty easy once you get used to it. As a hack carpenter, I've been doing it for years. Same thing goes for adding fractions. (wow ... sounds like the same argument metric people use, it's pretty easy once you get used to it.)
Converting is easy
What system used is irrelevant. Very few people can accurately estimate Fahrenheit degrees, pounds, miles, inches, feet, or ounces to any degree of accuracy. I use my index finger joint to estimate an inch, my foot to estimate a foot, and two normal steps to estimate 5 feet. None of these are accurate enough for surveying or building a cabinet, but close enough for most things like building ethernet cables or laying out paving stones. I need a scale to determine if an envelop is overweight. I use tape measures when I build things, and odometers and GPS when I drive.
The same is probably true of meters, Celsius and kilograms. I seem to have lived my life in the US without them, so I guess they aren't that important in day to day living.
No thanks ... I prefer to take care of things myself instead of having lying union stewards or fellow union workers stab me in the back. I've seen that happen enough times to feel that unionization is no magic bullet; I can trust only my own ability to tell my boss 'fuck you' and go elsewhere.
Know why I spent $120 on a toaster?? Because a $20 toaster, IMO, SUCKS!!! My $120 toaster is more complex because it makes my life easier. If I want a perfectly toasted bagel, I hit the bagel button and it only toasts one side. If bread is frozen, I hit the frozen button to toast it longer so I still get that perfect level 3 toast.
... AUTOMATIC DRY and MEDIUM HEAT. Why?? It works 90% of the time. For the other 10%, I hit it again and it's done.
So, even though the toaster itself is more complex, it makes my life easier. No remembering several different settings for different items, just press the button and viola! My toast is perfect every time.
Why did I spend more on a complex microwave?? Because I love the reheat and beverage buttons. I can place a couple slices of pizza and 2 or 3 chicken wings on a plate and press reheat and when the microwave dings, they are done perfectly. No guessing about the number of seconds because the slices are bigger and I have one less chicken wing, just press the button. No more cardboard crusts. Want hot water? No guessing how much water is in the cup, just press the beverage button.
So, a better article would have mentioned that some people like me like complex items because it makes their lives easier. Sometimes, more complexity makes things simpler.
And I must disagree with people not paying more for less controls. I use one setting on my dryer
So yes, I would pay more for a washer or dryer that did things automatically IF IT WORKED. Maybe people like to be in control because those automated features rarely work as advertised. Or there is some fine print like 'please only insert 10lbs of cotton, color safe clothes when using this feature.'
We want incentives for people to be innovative and do wonderful things, but when they become successful we want to take it all away. Maybe other facts, such as what percentage of taxes the rich pay v/s the poor or what amount is given to charity should be presented so such articles are not biased towards proving a specific point instead of finding real solutions. In the US, the solution to everything is to throw money at it, yet it seldom works.
Maybe it's the brightest, most motivated people that get rich. Wealth today is no guarantee of wealth tomorrow, as many musicians and pro sports players discovered. How many people were able to flee poverty stricken areas by scrimping and saving for years to enter new countries and become model citizens simply because they are ethical and have drive. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are examples of very smart, average people becoming wealthy, whether it is based on technological innovation or business sense is irrelevant.
In how many years of recorded history have powerful people acquired wealth, whether measured in money or food? This is nothing new. How many instances where children are dying of hunger, is it a recent problem. Some of those areas people have lived without money for hundreds if not thousands of years. How many countries have either become overpopulated or the society has something basically wrong with it, such as many years of civil war? How many times have foreign aid packages been usurped by the government or revolutionary armies?
In the US, we have numerous programs to feed children, such as food stamps, free school lunches, state-supported child care. Most times the families use it for good. Yet I have personally seen one mother who was too selfish and instead sold the food stamps to purchase 'stuff', while feeding her child cereal for all his meals. Is the solution merely to give her more money? In this case, the grandmother convinced her daughter to give her custody. Maybe someday the daughter will grow up. Where is the family support system in the child hunger problem?
We all want the magic button to solve a problem, but child hunger isn't one problem, it's many. And each cause has to be examined for the proper solution, such as education, creating job opportunities, or sometimes creating a stable society.
Yeah ... I can't think of any non-police officer who has gotten away with murder (cough cough OJ cough)
That's an interesting opinion ... I saw an idiot (possibly an asshole) refusing to leave when he wasn't following known rules and physically resisting and fighting. Someone who was given plenty of notice he was going to be tased yet continued to resist and then getting tased again.
When a project goes to production, the team must remain with it for a period of N days to handle the deployment problems. One would expect the majority of issues occur within the first couple of days, maybe weeks. Since it is fresh in their minds, they are the ones best suited to correcting issues. Other projects can be available, but fixing the prior one needs to be priority.
Then, find the developers who are good at maintenance programming. I hate working on long projects with the associated paperwork and spending long hours working with the customer trying to tweak a table. Even Scrum requires some process work outside of development. I prefer maintenance programming that gives me a chance to know many, many systems at a high level and then dig into them when there is a problem. This lets me contact Susie for a 5 minute discussion, and then her get back to her project. There are fewer processes because the fix is often smaller, and it has to be done now. It's amazing how many processes get circumvented when customers can't use an app.
The advantage is you get staff members who may not know the deep details of individual products, but have more information about multiple products and are not tied to specific resource timelines. Plus you get developers with timelines who get fewer interruptions. I agree that context switching is bad, whether you are a sys admin or developer. Finding ways to reduce it, even if the solutions means I spend four hours fixing it instead of two, can have other benefits. For instance, being able to say 'Hmm...we had a similar problem last month on this other application, I wonder if it is a similar problem.' then asking the developer a specific question.
It's a different mindset, and it's not for everyone. People who do it have to be able to juggle multiple priorities and handle context switching well. They also need to be able to 'see the big picture' more clearly and understand how product A works with product B in detail (since many issues often fall there and result in group A blaming group B and nothing getting fixed.)
They also have to contain their ego and find the challenges in maintenance programming that are just as rewarding as new development. I love being 'the hero' by solving production problems quickly when no one else can.
- What looks like chaos is more orderly than one thinks. Sure, lane markings and stop signs are only suggestions, but I rarely saw gridlock or accidents. Instead, drivers 'went with the flow'
- I think Chennai drivers were more courteous than USA drivers. They rarely tried to change lanes suddenly, moved over far in advance of turns, and seemed to let people move over into lanes more easily.
- The honking goes non-stop, but it seemed drivers paid attention to it instead of becoming aggressive or angry. The honk was more of a 'I need to change lanes' than 'get the fuck out of the way you moron'
- Outside the city, it was a nightmare. Cars drove way too fast, often passing with little or no room and barely making it back in time. I saw trucks at night with few taillights and oxcarts without any reflective backing.
I would be very interested in a statistic that showed what areas had the highest rate of traffic fatalities. I wonder if it would be the roads outside the cities.Oh
And don't forget about NPRs nasty habit of drowning us for a week 'please send us money' pleas while they finally play the good stuff that you won't hear again until next year.
The warrant was very specific. In order to prosecute, they need this little thing called evidence. They were looking for invoices showing he was the owner of the site and other associated material. Whether or not a judge and/or jury finds him guilty or not is irrelevant to the warrant. Some prosecutor someplace (which the FBI is not) needs evidence to prosecute. Whether or not he is guilty at this point is also irrelevant. This country has a concept called 'innocent until PROVEN guilty'. The prosecution will try to prove him guilty and needs evidence. The defense attorneys will be able to examine the same evidence for rebuttal.
What he did was very, very stupid. The stupid part was making it publicly available. I have wondered for several months if I could manipulate an HTML file and get through security so I could meet people at the gates.
I just never did anything about it because I don't have the balls and don't wish to get caught. Kudos for doing something about it. Takeback for being an idiot about it.
True story to support your point ... My 16 year old son dislocated his shoulder riding a skate board at school (which he mother didn't allow him to do.) His mother was at work (she is a nurse) so I met him in the urgent care room. What a pussy, couldn't take shots to dull the pain, was fearful of the IV, and was almost in a panic. His first time in the hospital in his life.
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... kids get hurt, sometimes badly. When parents are there to help them through it and to encourage them, they grow up to be adults that can deal with such things. If a child never gets hurt, they probably won't be able to deal with it.
I playfully teased him about it, joking him he needs to 'grow up and act like a man'. Not in a cruel way (although his mother would disagree), but making jokes about it in such a manner that he knew I was disappointed in how he acted. This was in balance to the support I gave him at the hospital to help him get through it and making sure he knew what was going on. In other words, dear ole dad will help you out when you do stupid things, but there is a price to pay.
One year later, he splits his shin open riding a skateboard so bad you could see the underlying tissue. I carried him into urgent care and we watched as the doctor injected him with anesthetic, cleaned the wound, and sewed him up. No whining, no bawling, no problem. I told him what a change I saw in him and that he handled it very well.
His dad, on the other hand, needed to use the bathroom. Seems the sight of the doctor sewing up a shin was a little more than dad could take
The point?? Yes
I pay significant taxes, therefore I contribute to society....
Statistics are meaningless unless given in the proper context. How much of that energy goes to producing food that is used around the world?? How much of that energy goes to producing goods sold around the world??
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And, in a different note
How much energy is used around the world to provide food for the US?? How much energy is used around the world to provide goods for the US??
Statistics can always be found to justify one persons point.....even if the point given has nothing to do with the article noted. Statistics that are in juxtaposition are conviently ignored from the article, such as the statistic that 40% of the growth comes from immigration (I guess lots of people want this crap) and the birth rate would barely keep the existing population at a stable rate.
Taking the article's statistics and the post's statistics, one could suggest that the best way to reduce all this oil consumption and consumerism is to stop all immigration and promote emigration. The population would gradually decrease and there would no longer be the problem.
Since I don't know you, I won't comment further on your personality. But I have met plenty of people who thought they themselves were very polite.
The TSA agent isn't the government, he is a person with a shitty job having to deal with lots of assholes all day long. He may even be an asshole himself. Our GOVERNMENT did not detain this person, some asshole did. I don't recall any law being made that said it was illegal to do what he did, or that this procedure was instituted.
Two assholes got into a confrontation because one of them did something stupid. I think that anything else is blowing way out of proportion.
Funny ... I've never met a rude cop or TSA person. Or many rude people at all.
Maybe the trick is to treat people you don't know the way you want to be treated.
What he did was just like putting an obnoxious message on your check to the IRS. He was looking for a confrontation, and he got it.
He started it with a juvenile prank and it blew up in his face.
Next worthless story please....