I'd agree with you, except Assange doesn't have some intrinsic power to information. His "power" is that he's trusted to release this information with the wides disbursal. The moment he develops the appearance if cherry picking, he loses that power and whistleblowers will use other outlets.
The media doesn't like competition. When Assange started dropping major headlines he 1.) took eyeballs away from the latest Kim Kardashian sightings headlining in the MSM thus costing them money and forcing them to do real work, 2.) Made the MSM look trivial and incompetent since they obviously hadn't been paying much attention or care, 3.) endangered the cozy relationship media has with government by dsrupting their monopoly relationship.
Think about how many times some moron has shared information about a crime they committed on Facebook. I think they care, but they don't understand how quickly information spreads.
At first, I thought FaceBook users were a bunch of popularity whores looking for scores of friends and their own reality TV fix. Now, I simply think users just don't make the connection to a bunch of online connections and how quickly and easily their activity propagates to each other.
No only do they provide good instruction, but it'll also prepare him to learn skills on his own which is more aligned with what professional developers do on a daily basis.
As for languages, I always recommend HTML for new programmers. It's simple, you get immediate results, you can quickly build practical applications, and it set up a foundation for further learning; scripting, networking, style sheets, etal.
They've got their critics and the best thing anyone can say is their revenue looks to be trending downward. Call me when they've declared bankruptcy. They have a neat looking phone on the market and all I hear about it is "well they can't possibly compete with Apple or Androids."
Amen to that. In the DotCom era it seemed like the IPO was the goal. Maybe companies will start to see that sometimes running your business the way you see fit is better without a quarterly report monkey sitting on your back. My only concern is I see that Goldman Sachs was in on the deal, so I'm wondering how much blood they drained from Dell on the way out.
Another vote for the harassing marketing. When I bought my house, the first day I checked the mail box it was STUFFED with flyers, brochures, credit applications, etc. targeting a new home owner. I'm sure it was one or more of the 10-20 organizations you work with during the process, but it's an example of what happens when private personal data makes it to advertisers.
Unless something has changed, the credit bureaus give potential creditors access to credit summaries about you. I don't know what they include, but that's how you get unsolicited credit card offers.
People in 2 other states from me (ever) with the same names (I'm assuming from what I found on the internet that they're 2 different people) had some of their information posted on my credit report. It's an annoyance to get it removed, but it's possible. Find a good credit cleanup book, get all 3 of your reports, and make sure there's nothing jacked up in it.
That's a VERY ideal situation. More likely, the stock moves at the same pace as the economy, or lets say you tank the company. What then? You don't get docked pay. So, the whole point of a CEO's salary is that possible profit and the risk of possible losses are supposed to be baked in. Unless something unusually good or bad happens. And, with golden parachutes even if the company is all but destroyed the CEO still walks away with bags of money.
I know nothing about how publicly run companies deal with exec salaries, but it doesn't appear to be at the advantage of the stock holders.
Impeachment might be seen as a serious option if it hadn't been brought up about a 100 times by partisans since 2008. "Wolf" has been cried too many times.
I'd love to have something good enough to back up large amounts of data without burning through a stack of CDs or DVDs. Does the technology have to be driven by the entertainment industry?
Combat flying is probably quite a bit different. I'm just an air warfare buff, so I have no firsthand knowledge but fighter pilots are very focused on what's going on outside the cockpit. They have to learn to scan for aircraft w/ or w/o a radar cue, tactics that are all about your position in relation to other aircraft, and obviously using weapon systems.
A coworker interned with the military on some secret missile tech 15 years ago (I suspect he was working with HARM trajectories from what I could glean) and he said the guys who ran the simulators were far better at evading SAMs than actual pilots because of all the sim time they had. Come to think of it, he said the actual pilots were pretty abysmal at evading them which is a tactic best rehearsed on a simulator!
So, no one would see a problem with advertising for employment towards women being skewed to promote jobs as teachers and secretaries while reducing job advertisements for managers and doctors?
I think it's a little more subtle than that. It's not that we reward wrong behavior. We simply don't really punish people in these kinds of situations enough to deter doing wrong. And, that punishment scale is based on how much money or influence your parents might have.
Here in Kansas, we had a group of high school kids get busted a few years ago buying essays. The teacher flunked them all, but the parents went to the school board and pressured them into giving the kids passing grades. You can be assured it wasn't an inner city school. We've become a nation of cynics.
Years back I read that NASA uses older, battle tested chips rather than going with cutting edge hardware that might crap out on you from an obscure bug.
Business relationships color the news for all outlets; even NPR and PBS now have "sponsors." About 10 years ago I was watching I think CNBC when RFK Jr. started talking about poor environmental practices of GE, the parent company. The hosts actually shushed him and they immediately cut to commercial. When they came back, RFK Jr. was gone...
I'm in KC and when "lower end" fiber services in the 24 Mbps range started appearing, so many people started flocking to them that the entrenched service provider started offering better deals. Of course, this didn't happen until they were hammered with defections.
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I find that hard to believe, seeing as both the Flintstones and Rubbles have young children with young, attractive wives.
I'd agree with you, except Assange doesn't have some intrinsic power to information. His "power" is that he's trusted to release this information with the wides disbursal. The moment he develops the appearance if cherry picking, he loses that power and whistleblowers will use other outlets.
The media doesn't like competition. When Assange started dropping major headlines he 1.) took eyeballs away from the latest Kim Kardashian sightings headlining in the MSM thus costing them money and forcing them to do real work, 2.) Made the MSM look trivial and incompetent since they obviously hadn't been paying much attention or care, 3.) endangered the cozy relationship media has with government by dsrupting their monopoly relationship.
Think about how many times some moron has shared information about a crime they committed on Facebook. I think they care, but they don't understand how quickly information spreads.
At first, I thought FaceBook users were a bunch of popularity whores looking for scores of friends and their own reality TV fix. Now, I simply think users just don't make the connection to a bunch of online connections and how quickly and easily their activity propagates to each other.
No only do they provide good instruction, but it'll also prepare him to learn skills on his own which is more aligned with what professional developers do on a daily basis.
As for languages, I always recommend HTML for new programmers. It's simple, you get immediate results, you can quickly build practical applications, and it set up a foundation for further learning; scripting, networking, style sheets, etal.
They've got their critics and the best thing anyone can say is their revenue looks to be trending downward. Call me when they've declared bankruptcy. They have a neat looking phone on the market and all I hear about it is "well they can't possibly compete with Apple or Androids."
Amen to that. In the DotCom era it seemed like the IPO was the goal. Maybe companies will start to see that sometimes running your business the way you see fit is better without a quarterly report monkey sitting on your back. My only concern is I see that Goldman Sachs was in on the deal, so I'm wondering how much blood they drained from Dell on the way out.
Another vote for the harassing marketing. When I bought my house, the first day I checked the mail box it was STUFFED with flyers, brochures, credit applications, etc. targeting a new home owner. I'm sure it was one or more of the 10-20 organizations you work with during the process, but it's an example of what happens when private personal data makes it to advertisers.
Unless something has changed, the credit bureaus give potential creditors access to credit summaries about you. I don't know what they include, but that's how you get unsolicited credit card offers.
People in 2 other states from me (ever) with the same names (I'm assuming from what I found on the internet that they're 2 different people) had some of their information posted on my credit report. It's an annoyance to get it removed, but it's possible. Find a good credit cleanup book, get all 3 of your reports, and make sure there's nothing jacked up in it.
That's a VERY ideal situation. More likely, the stock moves at the same pace as the economy, or lets say you tank the company. What then? You don't get docked pay. So, the whole point of a CEO's salary is that possible profit and the risk of possible losses are supposed to be baked in. Unless something unusually good or bad happens. And, with golden parachutes even if the company is all but destroyed the CEO still walks away with bags of money.
I know nothing about how publicly run companies deal with exec salaries, but it doesn't appear to be at the advantage of the stock holders.
Impeachment might be seen as a serious option if it hadn't been brought up about a 100 times by partisans since 2008. "Wolf" has been cried too many times.
I'd love to have something good enough to back up large amounts of data without burning through a stack of CDs or DVDs. Does the technology have to be driven by the entertainment industry?
Combat flying is probably quite a bit different. I'm just an air warfare buff, so I have no firsthand knowledge but fighter pilots are very focused on what's going on outside the cockpit. They have to learn to scan for aircraft w/ or w/o a radar cue, tactics that are all about your position in relation to other aircraft, and obviously using weapon systems.
A coworker interned with the military on some secret missile tech 15 years ago (I suspect he was working with HARM trajectories from what I could glean) and he said the guys who ran the simulators were far better at evading SAMs than actual pilots because of all the sim time they had. Come to think of it, he said the actual pilots were pretty abysmal at evading them which is a tactic best rehearsed on a simulator!
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So, no one would see a problem with advertising for employment towards women being skewed to promote jobs as teachers and secretaries while reducing job advertisements for managers and doctors?
So, you're saying is the Feds could use a nice, piping hot cup of Java to get moving?
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How about regulating them?
I think it's a little more subtle than that. It's not that we reward wrong behavior. We simply don't really punish people in these kinds of situations enough to deter doing wrong. And, that punishment scale is based on how much money or influence your parents might have.
Here in Kansas, we had a group of high school kids get busted a few years ago buying essays. The teacher flunked them all, but the parents went to the school board and pressured them into giving the kids passing grades. You can be assured it wasn't an inner city school. We've become a nation of cynics.
Years back I read that NASA uses older, battle tested chips rather than going with cutting edge hardware that might crap out on you from an obscure bug.
Business relationships color the news for all outlets; even NPR and PBS now have "sponsors." About 10 years ago I was watching I think CNBC when RFK Jr. started talking about poor environmental practices of GE, the parent company. The hosts actually shushed him and they immediately cut to commercial. When they came back, RFK Jr. was gone...
I'm in KC and when "lower end" fiber services in the 24 Mbps range started appearing, so many people started flocking to them that the entrenched service provider started offering better deals. Of course, this didn't happen until they were hammered with defections.
Before we've got to deal with insurgent aliens in the future.