Why is anyone expecting this to change? It's fairly obvious that overwhelming majority of people with these passwords have little to no contact with people who can tell them why it's wrong. It's also fairly obvious that they're not very interested in the issue either.
It's worth noting that this particular issue is getting worse. Drugs with reduced effective compound content or even without any are surprisingly common in today's pharmaceutical market and even trusted chains tend to have problems with fake labels and such.
That's why pharma as industry is a pioneer of various ways of marking and labelling packages to ensure that they're the real deal.
That is the official line. I've seen several pieces of research that disagree, showing that feeding antibiotics to animals significantly helps fattening them up. Factory farms overusing antibiotics appear to agree with those conclusions - otherwise they'd be saving a ton of money on reducing dosage.
Comparison is silly. Terrorism is a joke in comparison to bacterial drug resistance, and sheer lethality of latter today is already at least an order of magnitude more lethal. And most of our antibiotics still work today, as initial versions of bacteria that adapted are merely resistant and adaptations often reduce bacteria's ability to infect and damage us.
But that is just the initial adaptation. It's going to get much worse.
In the best way to maximize profit. If fines are less than profits, then action will be taken. If fines can be routed around by corrupting monitors or government that makes the laws, than those actions will be taken.
Many tend to forget that free market sees any kind of governance, especially good governance as inefficiency blocking maximum profiteering and routes around it, often in a way that is extremely damaging to society.
That is exactly the point. TB is becoming more and more nasty again. Pneumonia is quite a solid killer even in the age of antibiotics still working.
And there's always a danger of something like bubonic plague showing up with no antibiotics that can fight it. While modern sanitation will ensure that we likely won't have a 1/3 of the population dead, you'll still be looking at death toll in double digits in terms of percentage. Bacterial diseases are very lethal, we just tend to forget that well over half the children didn't make it to adulthood mainly because of infectious diseases before antibiotics and vaccines were invented.
And it's impossible to argue with someone who moved the goal posts at the start of the discussion, while remaining in direct conflict with both US and Soviet engineers who worked on the very engines at the time.
Translation: "we had this thing used for low thrust and we'll pretend really, REALLY hard that it's the same thing as first stage high thrust engine".
Because you know, when you have horses, that's totally the same thing as invention of internal combustion engines because both use burning process to power the movement.
Kindly point me towards evidence of this, as I have seen LM engineers admit to not thinking this engine was possible on camera until they got to test fire it.
I've heard some rather pointless attempts to pretend that US had something like it, when in reality the only things that come even close are a couple of test projects that have started recently in attempt to reverse-engineer the Russian engine. You suggestion is one of those lame white washing attempts which amounts to "well we have closed circuit system that doesn't work as an engine because it has no meaningful thrust, but we had a closed circuit so we're not 40 years behind, nosiree".
Money. It's much cheaper to convict through plea bargain, and therefore more prisoners can be convicted allowing for money transfer from state to private prisons.
Normal rocket engine uses a turbine to power all systems.
That is also why Russian engines are considered to be so much better than anyone else's. They have a unique technology that allows them to dump the turbine exhaust into the combustion chamber and gain additional thrust from it (closed circuit rocket engine), where everyone else has to dump the turbine exhaust out of the circuit without gaining any thrust (open circuit rocket engine). Issue is extreme complexity required in closed circuit, which is so difficult to implement that Lockheed Martin engineers did not believe Russians that a working closed circuit engine even existed until Russians test fired one of their engines in Lockheed Martin's own lab.
In general, in rocketry you have to make a choice between closed circuit systems that are more complex and difficult to implement to work correctly because of extreme system environment and absolutely tiny problem tolerance levels before system suffers a critical failure under load and wasteful but simpler system with less points of failure.
And then there's the option number three (continuing my previous post). Parents went full asshole on the worker. That is also known to happen. Doesn't justify the threats but these kinds of cases are rarely black and white.
Issue is that in many of those cases, child protection services do have that option. This is far more likely a case of either front line investigator having a really bad day, or having seen so much terrible parenting that (s)he projected it onto this case. Both are known to happen in that particular profession, as they have to handle very awful parenting on daily basis.
A very interesting long term analysis on relationship of oil prices and costs of production. Essentially the argument is that we're now off the monopolist market which oil was for last decade and a half due to growth of China and back to the competitive market where the ceiling of the costs is the costs of shale extraction operations + reasonable profit margins while floor is the extraction costs in conventional oil fields in more expensive points of extraction like Siberia and Arctic Sea.
This is correct. MS forced OEMs to sell 7 only on business side as a "pro" version that is noticeably more expensive. "Home" versions of the license were only available as 8.
That is the period in which PC sales crashed. OEMs put massive pressure on MS after it and eventually MS relented and allowed sales of 7's "home" versions.
It did not. There was a while, when PC sales crashed that Microsoft forbade OEMs that had deals with it from selling any 7 home licenses. Only noticeably more expensive pro version was available.
OEMs put massive pressure on Microsoft to go back on that requirement and eventually Microsoft relented. That's when PC market started to rebound from the crash.
The issue is that of popularity. 1080p is the sweet spot for desktop. Base sized fonts are just big enough to be readable without taking too much room, and monitors are just big enough to sit at a comfortable distance from the user without making him turn his head around to see the entire screen.
Larger monitors require either more distance from the user, which requires more desk space or head turning to view the entire monitor. As a result, advantage of going over 1080p is pretty low in comparison to going to 1080p from lower resolutions.
Surprisingly many adults grew into being gamers though. That is why there are so many "gamer grade" hardware peripherals sold that are not making massive losses.
Imagine trying to sell 200EUR keyboards, 100EUR mice to the masses and being successful. That wouldn't happen. No wealthy adults willing to spend the money, and gamers like us were still in university or starting our careers. But there are now.
P.S. Nothing wrong with being in anime either imho. Whatever floats your boat. I know for a fact I enjoy it far more than hollywood trash that comes out these days.
You continue to wave the same red herring after it has been debunked in what appears to be a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the issue of net neutrality. Specifically, by tying net neutrality as something that creates and sustains monopolies when in fact net neutrality is the exact opposite - by its definition it makes monopolistic action harder by prohibiting certain types of monopolistic leveraging across the industries, something that current telecommunications companies in US are widely known for.
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Why is anyone expecting this to change? It's fairly obvious that overwhelming majority of people with these passwords have little to no contact with people who can tell them why it's wrong. It's also fairly obvious that they're not very interested in the issue either.
So why expect change?
It's worth noting that this particular issue is getting worse. Drugs with reduced effective compound content or even without any are surprisingly common in today's pharmaceutical market and even trusted chains tend to have problems with fake labels and such.
That's why pharma as industry is a pioneer of various ways of marking and labelling packages to ensure that they're the real deal.
That is the official line. I've seen several pieces of research that disagree, showing that feeding antibiotics to animals significantly helps fattening them up. Factory farms overusing antibiotics appear to agree with those conclusions - otherwise they'd be saving a ton of money on reducing dosage.
Comparison is silly. Terrorism is a joke in comparison to bacterial drug resistance, and sheer lethality of latter today is already at least an order of magnitude more lethal. And most of our antibiotics still work today, as initial versions of bacteria that adapted are merely resistant and adaptations often reduce bacteria's ability to infect and damage us.
But that is just the initial adaptation. It's going to get much worse.
In the best way to maximize profit. If fines are less than profits, then action will be taken. If fines can be routed around by corrupting monitors or government that makes the laws, than those actions will be taken.
Many tend to forget that free market sees any kind of governance, especially good governance as inefficiency blocking maximum profiteering and routes around it, often in a way that is extremely damaging to society.
That is exactly the point. TB is becoming more and more nasty again. Pneumonia is quite a solid killer even in the age of antibiotics still working.
And there's always a danger of something like bubonic plague showing up with no antibiotics that can fight it. While modern sanitation will ensure that we likely won't have a 1/3 of the population dead, you'll still be looking at death toll in double digits in terms of percentage. Bacterial diseases are very lethal, we just tend to forget that well over half the children didn't make it to adulthood mainly because of infectious diseases before antibiotics and vaccines were invented.
Newsflash: dead animals and fish float down the rivers around here as well.
What, you thought fish gets out of the river to die? Or for that matter to piss and shit?
That depends. If you already have a lot of hardware, you're locked in by vendor.
But if you don't, you get another option. That's not a bad thing.
And it's impossible to argue with someone who moved the goal posts at the start of the discussion, while remaining in direct conflict with both US and Soviet engineers who worked on the very engines at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Those fucking liars. Clearly slashdot used K.S. Kyosuke knows better than relevant people at Aerojet.
Ditto. You're like those people who suggest that USSR was democratic because it held elections.
Translation: "we had this thing used for low thrust and we'll pretend really, REALLY hard that it's the same thing as first stage high thrust engine".
Because you know, when you have horses, that's totally the same thing as invention of internal combustion engines because both use burning process to power the movement.
Kindly point me towards evidence of this, as I have seen LM engineers admit to not thinking this engine was possible on camera until they got to test fire it.
I've heard some rather pointless attempts to pretend that US had something like it, when in reality the only things that come even close are a couple of test projects that have started recently in attempt to reverse-engineer the Russian engine. You suggestion is one of those lame white washing attempts which amounts to "well we have closed circuit system that doesn't work as an engine because it has no meaningful thrust, but we had a closed circuit so we're not 40 years behind, nosiree".
Money. It's much cheaper to convict through plea bargain, and therefore more prisoners can be convicted allowing for money transfer from state to private prisons.
Typically it's flammable and dumped into combustion chamber to be burned off to generate thrust.
Normal rocket engine uses a turbine to power all systems.
That is also why Russian engines are considered to be so much better than anyone else's. They have a unique technology that allows them to dump the turbine exhaust into the combustion chamber and gain additional thrust from it (closed circuit rocket engine), where everyone else has to dump the turbine exhaust out of the circuit without gaining any thrust (open circuit rocket engine). Issue is extreme complexity required in closed circuit, which is so difficult to implement that Lockheed Martin engineers did not believe Russians that a working closed circuit engine even existed until Russians test fired one of their engines in Lockheed Martin's own lab.
In general, in rocketry you have to make a choice between closed circuit systems that are more complex and difficult to implement to work correctly because of extreme system environment and absolutely tiny problem tolerance levels before system suffers a critical failure under load and wasteful but simpler system with less points of failure.
And then there's the option number three (continuing my previous post). Parents went full asshole on the worker. That is also known to happen. Doesn't justify the threats but these kinds of cases are rarely black and white.
Issue is that in many of those cases, child protection services do have that option. This is far more likely a case of either front line investigator having a really bad day, or having seen so much terrible parenting that (s)he projected it onto this case. Both are known to happen in that particular profession, as they have to handle very awful parenting on daily basis.
http://www.project-syndicate.o...
A very interesting long term analysis on relationship of oil prices and costs of production. Essentially the argument is that we're now off the monopolist market which oil was for last decade and a half due to growth of China and back to the competitive market where the ceiling of the costs is the costs of shale extraction operations + reasonable profit margins while floor is the extraction costs in conventional oil fields in more expensive points of extraction like Siberia and Arctic Sea.
This is correct. MS forced OEMs to sell 7 only on business side as a "pro" version that is noticeably more expensive. "Home" versions of the license were only available as 8.
That is the period in which PC sales crashed. OEMs put massive pressure on MS after it and eventually MS relented and allowed sales of 7's "home" versions.
It did not. There was a while, when PC sales crashed that Microsoft forbade OEMs that had deals with it from selling any 7 home licenses. Only noticeably more expensive pro version was available.
OEMs put massive pressure on Microsoft to go back on that requirement and eventually Microsoft relented. That's when PC market started to rebound from the crash.
The issue is that of popularity. 1080p is the sweet spot for desktop. Base sized fonts are just big enough to be readable without taking too much room, and monitors are just big enough to sit at a comfortable distance from the user without making him turn his head around to see the entire screen.
Larger monitors require either more distance from the user, which requires more desk space or head turning to view the entire monitor. As a result, advantage of going over 1080p is pretty low in comparison to going to 1080p from lower resolutions.
Surprisingly many adults grew into being gamers though. That is why there are so many "gamer grade" hardware peripherals sold that are not making massive losses.
Imagine trying to sell 200EUR keyboards, 100EUR mice to the masses and being successful. That wouldn't happen. No wealthy adults willing to spend the money, and gamers like us were still in university or starting our careers. But there are now.
P.S. Nothing wrong with being in anime either imho. Whatever floats your boat. I know for a fact I enjoy it far more than hollywood trash that comes out these days.
Microsoft made 7 available again, reversing earlier decision not to sell it.
That was the result.
8 is still pretty much a consumer repellent.
I would be careful about getting the income they offer. As Wincapita case showed, early adopters in pyramid schemes are liable for damages.
You continue to wave the same red herring after it has been debunked in what appears to be a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the issue of net neutrality. Specifically, by tying net neutrality as something that creates and sustains monopolies when in fact net neutrality is the exact opposite - by its definition it makes monopolistic action harder by prohibiting certain types of monopolistic leveraging across the industries, something that current telecommunications companies in US are widely known for.