This is borderline control freak territory on Apples part
I'm guessing you haven't much about Steve Jobs... here's what Larry Tesler had to say (regarding Steve Jobs temporary departure from Apple):
People in the company had very mixed feelings about it, everyone had been terrorized by Steve Jobs at some point or another, and so there was a certain relief that the terrorist would be gone.
The only thing borderline about this fellow is his personality. On the other hand, the man HAS vision and can make things happen.
A surveillance society is not about helping to catch criminals. It is all about making the populace terrified to do anything that might offend the powers-in-charge.
Typically they are "sold" to the public under the guise of fighting crime, as nobody wants to stand in the way of a murderer being subjected to justice of the people.
The real reason though is that government's largest risk of being put out of power is not criminals or foreign enemies, but their own people. By making the people feel their every move is cataloged and noted by the government, they are (by and large) made afraid to do anything their government may see as problematic, reducing government's risk of the people demonstrating, peacefully or not.
The cameras were never about fighting crime, they are there both as a panacea for the people and more importantly, a means of control.
I may sound like a tin-foil hat wearing libertarian here... but, dang it, the tin-foil hat wearing libertarians have it right.
You may not have noticed, but hospitals make far more off of the uninsured than they do off those who are insured.
Look at an explanation of benefits for hospital treatment. If you have "good insurance", anywhere from 20-60% of the hospital bill is written off when insurance declares the amount charged to be higher than the industry established norm, then insurance pays their portion, and you pay whatever is left over. That "written off" portion neither you nor insurance pays for, the hospital just has to absorb the loss of income.
The uninsured can't look at their bill and declare a big portion of it as "too high", so they pay whatever rate the hospital wants to charge, or go bankrupt trying.
Maybe you don't remember his name because HE didn't understand HIS duties. The referenced quote is how old-school business works. Places like Apple, Google, and others don't conform to these old stigmas. Quite frankly, Jobs probably get a thousand of these emails a day and probably has a PA who's sole task is to sift threw them and cherry pick a couple for him to "Take action" on. It generates good will and and is good press, when the public actually heres about it, to the tune of, 'look, Steve really cares, buy Apple! F- Microsoft'.
Agreed. By taking action on the matter, it is setting an example to all the employees of how an issue like this should be handled. It is "leadership by example" and lets the employees know that such customer issues are important to the organization all the way to the top level.
You do realize that most of Europe DOES do reprocessing (as an example France is hugely into reprocessing), it is mostly just the "not in my backyard" politics of the US that has prevented fuel reprocessing from being done there?
Apparently you didn't read the article... there was no "self-selection".
The researchers took a group of people, split them up at random. One group was shown racing game footage. Another group was shown non-racing game footage. Then the people were put into what amounted to driving simulators and response time to hazardous situations was assessed.
The group that had been watching racing games drove further "into" hazardous situations before acting to avoid, and other behaviors associated with taking more risks.
It isn't just that some people see no need for broadband in rural areas... there are no options for those people in rural areas. The family farm is in Kansas, 7 miles from the nearest town and major highway. The only available option is dial-up internet access, just like nearly all of the state, geographically speaking. There is no cable service to the area, there is no telephone C.O. within range for DSL, and the population is too sparsely scattered to make even mesh wi-fi possible.
Hmmm, evocation school of magic... sounds like D&D... which in all of the common character classes across the last decade of D&D, Fireball is a 3rd level spell and the caster gains access to upon reaching character level 5. Damage from a Fireball is (caster level)d6, so it would be pretty unusual to have a 4d6 fireball since almost all characters would have a minimum of a 5d6 fireball.
Yes, I have now proven I'm a geek-extraordinaire for even noticing this.
I'm betting that "bridges" includes all of those overpasses in towns and for cloverleaf exchanges (which can often include several overpasses just for one exchange in an urban area).
As does my LG PM225 model phone (purchased for Sprint service), running software version PM225V10.
Settings > Location > Off
The warning is much longer and mentions specifically that this will disable GPS location information (except for e911 service, which is always GPS-enabled where supported).
Nearly everything you mention is fixed by authentication - hopefully slapping big red flashing letters and sirens across a message saying "SENDER FALSIFIED" or "SENDER NOT ON APPROVED CONTACT LIST" (depending on which is appropriate) would not be ignored... although I will agree this is an iffy assumption. People click through warnings all the time.
The snail mail side isn't a problem, as snail mail costs money... which is why spammers don't use it.
Looking at raw numbers, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of things you should be more worried about killing you than a terrorist. Statistically I'd be more worried about being killed by a shark in the US.
I too am more worried about being killed by a shark than a terrorist. Which says a lot, since I live in freakin' KANSAS (for the geographically challenged: That's one of the big rectangular states right smack in the middle of the country... hundreds and hundreds of miles from an ocean).
Every gamer I know buys from Amazon, EB Games, Gamestop, Best Buy, CompUSA, etc... but NONE of them go to Wal-Mart for their games. Cheap furniture, office supplies, food, automotive products, maybe. But not games. Wal-Mart in this area doesn't even begin to compete on game selection, price, or in any other way with the more specialized stores.
I use Visual BASIC (I choose to honor BASIC by capitalizing VB as I did), SQL, Fortran, C, Python, and Perl every week. I've written assembler for various CPUs, JCL, Smalltalk, various shell scripts, Pascal, Modula-2, MUMPS, and probably several others I'm forgetting in the past.
Every language I've learned has been useful on the various projects I've worked on and provided a perspective for evaluating what methods to use for new development.
Learn every language you can. You'll probably be surprised to find that you don't just get broad shallow experience, but each language actually gives you more in-depth knowledge of the others (and what they may do behind the scenes).
VB(A) is the scripting language built into many Microsoft products. Whether or not you harbor loathing for Microsoft, knowing VB(A) will be very helpful for many tasks and may be necessary to get a paycheck from many places.
I find it ludicrous that these supposedly recalled CDs are still on store shelves available for purchase. I bought my daughter a CD of teeny-bopper music the other day and she put it in her computer... ACK!
On the plus side, on the front of the application it silently installed was a notice of how to download the uninstaller... but I thought these CDs were supposed to be recalled and no longer sold?
"The evidence is compelling that body-on-frame light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars..."
Well, that settles it then. It's obvious we need to outlaw passenger cars.
This is more accurate than funny.
Cars USED to be constructed using body-on-frame techniques similar to current light trucks.
Their bumpers heights also were similar to light trucks. The "problem" didn't exist then (1970s and earlier).
The "problem" came about because car construction was shifted to unibody (less costly and lighter) and car front ends were lowered (better aerodynamics and "style").
Driving a typical car is sacrificing safety, durability, and vehicle capability to save a few bucks.
I believe certain disciplines agree with your findings that cursive can be harder to read.
Back when I picked up my engineering degree (eighties), cursive writing was forbidden in engineering classes (not just drafting, but circuit theory, electronics labs, etc). Depending on the instructor, you might receive a warning, a penalty to your score, or a zero (100% penalty - most common) for work turned in which was not written in an approved manner.
I know of suspicious/vindictive/controlling/abusive people who if they had the power to see where their spouse/ex-spouse/SO would certainly abuse the priviledge by doing so.
I find it hard to believe that buddies of buddies wouldn't use something like this to say "hey, keep an eye on my SO, I've got to be on stake-out for the next few nights"
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Given that the most recent patch was about 200MB in size and distributed via a torrent ... I wonder if COMCAST would agree (wankers).
I'm guessing you haven't much about Steve Jobs ... here's what Larry Tesler had to say (regarding Steve Jobs temporary departure from Apple):
The only thing borderline about this fellow is his personality. On the other hand, the man HAS vision and can make things happen.
A surveillance society is not about helping to catch criminals. It is all about making the populace terrified to do anything that might offend the powers-in-charge.
... but, dang it, the tin-foil hat wearing libertarians have it right.
Typically they are "sold" to the public under the guise of fighting crime, as nobody wants to stand in the way of a murderer being subjected to justice of the people.
The real reason though is that government's largest risk of being put out of power is not criminals or foreign enemies, but their own people. By making the people feel their every move is cataloged and noted by the government, they are (by and large) made afraid to do anything their government may see as problematic, reducing government's risk of the people demonstrating, peacefully or not.
The cameras were never about fighting crime, they are there both as a panacea for the people and more importantly, a means of control.
I may sound like a tin-foil hat wearing libertarian here
You may not have noticed, but hospitals make far more off of the uninsured than they do off those who are insured.
Look at an explanation of benefits for hospital treatment. If you have "good insurance", anywhere from 20-60% of the hospital bill is written off when insurance declares the amount charged to be higher than the industry established norm, then insurance pays their portion, and you pay whatever is left over. That "written off" portion neither you nor insurance pays for, the hospital just has to absorb the loss of income.
The uninsured can't look at their bill and declare a big portion of it as "too high", so they pay whatever rate the hospital wants to charge, or go bankrupt trying.
Agreed. By taking action on the matter, it is setting an example to all the employees of how an issue like this should be handled. It is "leadership by example" and lets the employees know that such customer issues are important to the organization all the way to the top level.
You do realize that most of Europe DOES do reprocessing (as an example France is hugely into reprocessing), it is mostly just the "not in my backyard" politics of the US that has prevented fuel reprocessing from being done there?
Apparently you didn't read the article ... there was no "self-selection".
The researchers took a group of people, split them up at random. One group was shown racing game footage. Another group was shown non-racing game footage. Then the people were put into what amounted to driving simulators and response time to hazardous situations was assessed.
The group that had been watching racing games drove further "into" hazardous situations before acting to avoid, and other behaviors associated with taking more risks.
It isn't just that some people see no need for broadband in rural areas ... there are no options for those people in rural areas. The family farm is in Kansas, 7 miles from the nearest town and major highway. The only available option is dial-up internet access, just like nearly all of the state, geographically speaking. There is no cable service to the area, there is no telephone C.O. within range for DSL, and the population is too sparsely scattered to make even mesh wi-fi possible.
Hmmm, evocation school of magic ... sounds like D&D ... which in all of the common character classes across the last decade of D&D, Fireball is a 3rd level spell and the caster gains access to upon reaching character level 5. Damage from a Fireball is (caster level)d6, so it would be pretty unusual to have a 4d6 fireball since almost all characters would have a minimum of a 5d6 fireball.
Yes, I have now proven I'm a geek-extraordinaire for even noticing this.
Pity I can't moderate this post as "rational".
And the original article as "irrational person who thinks he knows more than the rocket scientists".
I think most women are pretty disbelieving at claims of:
"It gets hard, I promise!"
I'm betting that "bridges" includes all of those overpasses in towns and for cloverleaf exchanges (which can often include several overpasses just for one exchange in an urban area).
Inertia's a bitch.
As does my LG PM225 model phone (purchased for Sprint service), running software version PM225V10.
Settings > Location > Off
The warning is much longer and mentions specifically that this will disable GPS location information (except for e911 service, which is always GPS-enabled where supported).
Nearly everything you mention is fixed by authentication - hopefully slapping big red flashing letters and sirens across a message saying "SENDER FALSIFIED" or "SENDER NOT ON APPROVED CONTACT LIST" (depending on which is appropriate) would not be ignored ... although I will agree this is an iffy assumption. People click through warnings all the time.
... which is why spammers don't use it.
The snail mail side isn't a problem, as snail mail costs money
I too am more worried about being killed by a shark than a terrorist. Which says a lot, since I live in freakin' KANSAS (for the geographically challenged: That's one of the big rectangular states right smack in the middle of the country
Every gamer I know buys from Amazon, EB Games, Gamestop, Best Buy, CompUSA, etc ... but NONE of them go to Wal-Mart for their games. Cheap furniture, office supplies, food, automotive products, maybe. But not games. Wal-Mart in this area doesn't even begin to compete on game selection, price, or in any other way with the more specialized stores.
Apparently the Intelligent Designer that came up with the "eye that could not possibly have randomly evolved" forgot about this beastie.
I use Visual BASIC (I choose to honor BASIC by capitalizing VB as I did), SQL, Fortran, C, Python, and Perl every week. I've written assembler for various CPUs, JCL, Smalltalk, various shell scripts, Pascal, Modula-2, MUMPS, and probably several others I'm forgetting in the past.
Every language I've learned has been useful on the various projects I've worked on and provided a perspective for evaluating what methods to use for new development.
Learn every language you can. You'll probably be surprised to find that you don't just get broad shallow experience, but each language actually gives you more in-depth knowledge of the others (and what they may do behind the scenes).
VB(A) is the scripting language built into many Microsoft products. Whether or not you harbor loathing for Microsoft, knowing VB(A) will be very helpful for many tasks and may be necessary to get a paycheck from many places.
Power transmission lines have been aluminum since practically forever ... pound-for-pound, aluminum is a better conductor than copper.
I find it ludicrous that these supposedly recalled CDs are still on store shelves available for purchase. I bought my daughter a CD of teeny-bopper music the other day and she put it in her computer ... ACK!
... but I thought these CDs were supposed to be recalled and no longer sold?
On the plus side, on the front of the application it silently installed was a notice of how to download the uninstaller
"The evidence is compelling that body-on-frame light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars..."
Well, that settles it then. It's obvious we need to outlaw passenger cars.
This is more accurate than funny.
Cars USED to be constructed using body-on-frame techniques similar to current light trucks.
Their bumpers heights also were similar to light trucks. The "problem" didn't exist then (1970s and earlier).
The "problem" came about because car construction was shifted to unibody (less costly and lighter) and car front ends were lowered (better aerodynamics and "style").
Driving a typical car is sacrificing safety, durability, and vehicle capability to save a few bucks.
I believe certain disciplines agree with your findings that cursive can be harder to read.
Back when I picked up my engineering degree (eighties), cursive writing was forbidden in engineering classes (not just drafting, but circuit theory, electronics labs, etc). Depending on the instructor, you might receive a warning, a penalty to your score, or a zero (100% penalty - most common) for work turned in which was not written in an approved manner.
Who watches the watchers?
I know of suspicious/vindictive/controlling/abusive people who if they had the power to see where their spouse/ex-spouse/SO would certainly abuse the priviledge by doing so.
I find it hard to believe that buddies of buddies wouldn't use something like this to say "hey, keep an eye on my SO, I've got to be on stake-out for the next few nights"
Great, the asteroids miss the earth, but damage from falling 20-ton spacecraft becomes an issue.