If there was one global Insurance Company monopoly, sure.
There isn't one. And competition in insurance industry is one of the fiercest in the world. Especially for major projects that also need most insurance against weather issues.
They already are making tons of money on global warming. They can drill and maintain their oil platforms and tanker routes for far less money during winters, they're signing deals with Russia to develop Shtokman field and so on.
Get a debit card. You can pay with any funds directly in your bank account without any need for credit or associated charges.
Problem is, before everyone who isn't totally dependent on credit to live was penalized so people who can't manage their money and need credit got it slightly cheaper. As a result credit became massively prevalent.
Here's another one: obfuscation of credit charges is a form of socialism. Bad one. They increase prices on everyone to market a service need by few slightly cheaper.
First adaptation, as usual, will be by HQ rip groups and anime fansubbers. These people pride themselves in being on the cutting edge and implementing stuff that isn't implemented anywhere in hardware yet. They were the guys who moved from h.264 high profile to h.264 10 bit high profile when h.264 hardware support started to become prevalent. They were the ones who moved to h.264 when divx hardware support became prevalent. Etc.
Funnily enough, it was the same for h.264, divx/xvid and so on. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if many of the guys encoding that stuff actually work in the industry and use their "hobby" as a testbed for new encoding techniques and methods before they go to mass production.
The point is, that Iwo Jima was a battle they knew they lost, and they threw all of their soldiers under a proverbial bus. Those who survived mostly committed seppuku.
Microsoft is definitely not doing that. They're doing what GP said Mannerheim did, strategic retreats and attacks on vulnerabilities that show up. Sometimes they lose a battle, like they did in this case, but they keep on winning the war. I.e. the OS stays overall secure enough for most users even if some aspects of its security suffer defeats every once in a while.
This success was repeated in 1944 where Finns faced the single biggest offensive in the entire WW2 war European theatre. Soviets focused 20 artillery pieces per every kilometer of the front line. They could literally dig people out of trenches with this much artillery. In the end, finns held out and even pushed back in spite of being completely outnumbered and outgunned. Stalin remembered the lesson from Winter War and signed a peace treaty with Finland allowing it to stay independent again. It ended up going in history as the only country mentioned in Molotov-Ribbentrop that didn't get conquered by either Germany or USSR.
The main difference between these strategies is that Japanese viewed their empire as something holy and to be defended to the death, to the point where survivors should commit suicide if they failed. Finns viewed their country as something of theirs, and to be defended for as long as it remains defensible with as little losses as possible. Key difference was that finnish commanders valued lives of their soldiers very highly for the times. Japanese commanders treated their soldiers as completely disposable pawns. Difference could be explained by the fact that Japan is one of the most populated regions on the planet, while Finland is one of the least populated ones.
It's the advantage of not being a huge country with long and proud history. You learn that to stand between the giants and survive, you need to show humility to the giants in most things, but also show that when needed, you can sting them so painfully, that any potential attempts of capture will not be worth it. And most of all you learn that when you're losing, minimize your losses so you can fight another day.
If you seriously think NK is not under constant existential threat from US, SK and JP, I have land on the moon to sell you. That level of naivete is both endearing in a child and dangerous in someone of voting age in any relevant country. All of above would profit greatly from collapse, both directly and indirectly in countless ways.
That's the public propaganda bullshit. Real reasons include:
1. Significant reduction of China's control over its nearby region. North Korea makes for an excellent agent to act through in the region to implement dirtier and less publicly accepted regional politics.
2. Wide land border with direct access to Chinese heartland for NATO would be a massive existential threat. Remind yourself of US reaction to Russian missiles in Cuba. Now imagine if Cuba had direct land access to US. You get position of North Korea in China.
Neither side would last more then 24 hours. No one gives a damn if your subs and a few international bases are alive when all your big cities are smoldering craters. MAD is very much in effect.
That is also why if NK actually shot first, China would indeed walk away. But that is also why NK would never actually shoot first. US on the other hand would very much love to shoot first and the only thing stopping them is China.
Which is a scary thing for NK leadership, as it means that as the old Chinese leaders who have history with them keep retiring, they need a different deterrent as they likely won't be able to rely on China to protect them for much longer. Their artillery/short range missile deterrent on Soul is unlikely to survive long enough to matter in case of solid US/SK opener, hence rush to develop a nuclear deterrent and means of global delivery of their own.
Welcome to realpolitik beyond bullshit propaganda that you keep getting fed.
The original point however does stand. This is for people who were CAUGHT. It's widely researched and known that women are far better then men at social manipulation and subterfuge simply due to biological requirements. Weaker sex had to use underhanded means to get ahead of the stronger one that used brute force.
It would be strange if this particular stage would be an exception to this rule.
Look, this is often referred to juvenile, but this is basic human biology. You can deny it all you want, this won't change. There is a reason why almost all cultures on the planet, regardless of location have dominant males and subservient females. It's basic biology and the drive it forms. As a result, women had to use subterfuge to achieve what men typically achieved with force throughout history. We now live in a world where Jeanne D'arc would actually not likely get prosecuted after showing herself an excellent military leader. She would instead be praised and promoted. And while we have successfully fought this to extent where we are today in Western world, it's rather counter-productive to deny that men have very different drives than women. Just like its pointless to deny that women have very different drives than men.
Being desirable is the woman's version of being aggressive for a man. That is a biological reality. Both aim for the same goal - control of other sex through means where they are strong and opponent is weak.
Honestly, the knee-jerk reaction in this topic is pretty discouraging for someone who actually likes the idea of equality of sexes. Everyone, man and woman jumps into their pot holes and start sniping one another with daft talking points from cheap talk shows. Sexes are different, they have different drives and use different means to achieve their goals. That is a reality. One we can either accept or deny. but this ridiculous sniping just shoots the entire equality of sexes topic in the foot.
They're talking about wealthy EU countries. What you're saying is like including Latin America's drug death count in US numbers just because both are in "America".
I'd say the main reason it "sucks" is OS. It's still a horrifying chimera of desktop and tablet, and does neither thing well. Hardware itself actually looks good enough for what I would use it for, if a bit pricy. But I'm not into tablets anyway.
That said if I were, that actually looks good. Solid build, essentially a laptop inside the screen with attachable keyboard. I can see this replacing an ultrabook for those who want to replace one with a tablet, but need x86.
Actually, that is arguably one of the reasons we progressed. More often then not leading thinkers and inventors who drove the progress getting us from hunter cavemen to where we are today where ones who couldn't perform optimally and compete with others. So they had to innovate to survive.
Nowadays we get Stephen Hawking and other like him, who would likely never have made it as hunters in original, genetically and morphologically same but culturally different phase of caveman hunters.
It can indeed be argued that this kind of thinking is against the very purpose of evolutionary process. But that doesn't mean that it's bad from our race's point of view.
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If there was one global Insurance Company monopoly, sure.
There isn't one. And competition in insurance industry is one of the fiercest in the world. Especially for major projects that also need most insurance against weather issues.
They already are making tons of money on global warming. They can drill and maintain their oil platforms and tanker routes for far less money during winters, they're signing deals with Russia to develop Shtokman field and so on.
The money is already in motion.
Get a debit card. You can pay with any funds directly in your bank account without any need for credit or associated charges.
Problem is, before everyone who isn't totally dependent on credit to live was penalized so people who can't manage their money and need credit got it slightly cheaper. As a result credit became massively prevalent.
Here's another one: obfuscation of credit charges is a form of socialism. Bad one. They increase prices on everyone to market a service need by few slightly cheaper.
That says a lot about you actually. There's always been a surcharge to credit. It was just obfuscated from you before.
So it's not that you hate the surcharge. It's that you hate being informed about it.
Not at all. The problem is similar to that of USSR actually. Factory job pays far more. However there are no career chances in factory jobs.
Office job on the other hand pays shit at start, but offers good career chances.
First adaptation, as usual, will be by HQ rip groups and anime fansubbers. These people pride themselves in being on the cutting edge and implementing stuff that isn't implemented anywhere in hardware yet. They were the guys who moved from h.264 high profile to h.264 10 bit high profile when h.264 hardware support started to become prevalent. They were the ones who moved to h.264 when divx hardware support became prevalent. Etc.
Funnily enough, it was the same for h.264, divx/xvid and so on. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if many of the guys encoding that stuff actually work in the industry and use their "hobby" as a testbed for new encoding techniques and methods before they go to mass production.
The point is, that Iwo Jima was a battle they knew they lost, and they threw all of their soldiers under a proverbial bus. Those who survived mostly committed seppuku.
Microsoft is definitely not doing that. They're doing what GP said Mannerheim did, strategic retreats and attacks on vulnerabilities that show up. Sometimes they lose a battle, like they did in this case, but they keep on winning the war. I.e. the OS stays overall secure enough for most users even if some aspects of its security suffer defeats every once in a while.
ASLR lasted for years uncracked for example.
Japanese on Iwo Jima was "desperate defense with no hope of victory".
Finnish was "pre-planned defense in order to make enemy bleed so hard, that even Stalin would decide that gains aren't worth the cost".
It succeeded twice with quite possibly the single most insane-looking numbers in history. It was crazy enough to warrant wikipedia page screenshot becoming an internet meme:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://data.whicdn.com/images/18990146/finland-be-afraid-be-very-afraid_thumb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://weheartit.com/tag/soviet%2520russia&h=200&w=240&sz=11&tbnid=e8G9SZNgTBMY-M:&tbnh=87&tbnw=104&zoom=1&usg=__Tk2w1zc2NxuOzEu4OclPzzBZzVc=&sa=X&ei=RjoDUfekBYbKtAaMuYCwCQ&ved=0CCEQ9QEwAw
This success was repeated in 1944 where Finns faced the single biggest offensive in the entire WW2 war European theatre. Soviets focused 20 artillery pieces per every kilometer of the front line. They could literally dig people out of trenches with this much artillery. In the end, finns held out and even pushed back in spite of being completely outnumbered and outgunned. Stalin remembered the lesson from Winter War and signed a peace treaty with Finland allowing it to stay independent again. It ended up going in history as the only country mentioned in Molotov-Ribbentrop that didn't get conquered by either Germany or USSR.
The main difference between these strategies is that Japanese viewed their empire as something holy and to be defended to the death, to the point where survivors should commit suicide if they failed. Finns viewed their country as something of theirs, and to be defended for as long as it remains defensible with as little losses as possible. Key difference was that finnish commanders valued lives of their soldiers very highly for the times. Japanese commanders treated their soldiers as completely disposable pawns. Difference could be explained by the fact that Japan is one of the most populated regions on the planet, while Finland is one of the least populated ones.
It's the advantage of not being a huge country with long and proud history. You learn that to stand between the giants and survive, you need to show humility to the giants in most things, but also show that when needed, you can sting them so painfully, that any potential attempts of capture will not be worth it. And most of all you learn that when you're losing, minimize your losses so you can fight another day.
If you seriously think NK is not under constant existential threat from US, SK and JP, I have land on the moon to sell you. That level of naivete is both endearing in a child and dangerous in someone of voting age in any relevant country. All of above would profit greatly from collapse, both directly and indirectly in countless ways.
That's the public propaganda bullshit. Real reasons include:
1. Significant reduction of China's control over its nearby region. North Korea makes for an excellent agent to act through in the region to implement dirtier and less publicly accepted regional politics.
2. Wide land border with direct access to Chinese heartland for NATO would be a massive existential threat. Remind yourself of US reaction to Russian missiles in Cuba. Now imagine if Cuba had direct land access to US. You get position of North Korea in China.
3. Reduction of NATO influence in the region.
Neither side would last more then 24 hours. No one gives a damn if your subs and a few international bases are alive when all your big cities are smoldering craters. MAD is very much in effect.
That is also why if NK actually shot first, China would indeed walk away. But that is also why NK would never actually shoot first. US on the other hand would very much love to shoot first and the only thing stopping them is China.
Which is a scary thing for NK leadership, as it means that as the old Chinese leaders who have history with them keep retiring, they need a different deterrent as they likely won't be able to rely on China to protect them for much longer. Their artillery/short range missile deterrent on Soul is unlikely to survive long enough to matter in case of solid US/SK opener, hence rush to develop a nuclear deterrent and means of global delivery of their own.
Welcome to realpolitik beyond bullshit propaganda that you keep getting fed.
I don't think you quite understand the concept of subterfuge, nor the subject of the thread.
The original point however does stand. This is for people who were CAUGHT. It's widely researched and known that women are far better then men at social manipulation and subterfuge simply due to biological requirements. Weaker sex had to use underhanded means to get ahead of the stronger one that used brute force.
It would be strange if this particular stage would be an exception to this rule.
Look, this is often referred to juvenile, but this is basic human biology. You can deny it all you want, this won't change. There is a reason why almost all cultures on the planet, regardless of location have dominant males and subservient females. It's basic biology and the drive it forms. As a result, women had to use subterfuge to achieve what men typically achieved with force throughout history. We now live in a world where Jeanne D'arc would actually not likely get prosecuted after showing herself an excellent military leader. She would instead be praised and promoted. And while we have successfully fought this to extent where we are today in Western world, it's rather counter-productive to deny that men have very different drives than women. Just like its pointless to deny that women have very different drives than men.
Being desirable is the woman's version of being aggressive for a man. That is a biological reality. Both aim for the same goal - control of other sex through means where they are strong and opponent is weak.
Honestly, the knee-jerk reaction in this topic is pretty discouraging for someone who actually likes the idea of equality of sexes. Everyone, man and woman jumps into their pot holes and start sniping one another with daft talking points from cheap talk shows. Sexes are different, they have different drives and use different means to achieve their goals. That is a reality. One we can either accept or deny. but this ridiculous sniping just shoots the entire equality of sexes topic in the foot.
1/225.28 grams.
You're talking about WAR in the most unstable and bloody region in the world that started both world wars in comparison to GANG VIOLENCE.
Have you no sense of perspective at all?
They're talking about wealthy EU countries. What you're saying is like including Latin America's drug death count in US numbers just because both are in "America".
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You solved the entire problem for microsoft with its abysmal win8 sales and massive consumer rejection of the OS!
Congratulations!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4&feature=player_embedded
'em pissy small tanks.
You may consider just getting an USB thumb drive for external stuff. Not the most elegant solution, but functional nontheless.
And my E-450 laptop cost me 350 euros. But just like all the products you listed, they're aimed at different market segments.
Workplaces generally provide working tools.
I'd say the main reason it "sucks" is OS. It's still a horrifying chimera of desktop and tablet, and does neither thing well. Hardware itself actually looks good enough for what I would use it for, if a bit pricy. But I'm not into tablets anyway.
That said if I were, that actually looks good. Solid build, essentially a laptop inside the screen with attachable keyboard. I can see this replacing an ultrabook for those who want to replace one with a tablet, but need x86.
Actually, that is arguably one of the reasons we progressed. More often then not leading thinkers and inventors who drove the progress getting us from hunter cavemen to where we are today where ones who couldn't perform optimally and compete with others. So they had to innovate to survive.
Nowadays we get Stephen Hawking and other like him, who would likely never have made it as hunters in original, genetically and morphologically same but culturally different phase of caveman hunters.
It can indeed be argued that this kind of thinking is against the very purpose of evolutionary process. But that doesn't mean that it's bad from our race's point of view.