Canada has the same law. Its why we're both on the list. The RIAA and Co. agreed to it years ago but now they think they can force through a better deal for them.
20%? Citation? Most of what I've seen is in the 30-40% range...
Hmm, while I was fact checking, I found your 20%(18% for last year actually) but I also found all of the "extra" defense spending. I guess special projects etc for which the DoD requests additional funding outside of normal budgetary means, and that puts it into where I thought it was.
Regardless, the DoD could take some cuts and still do its job if the US were not acting as world police, which they honestly shouldn't be.
However, over half of the "Discretionary" Spending listed on the graph goes directly to the DoD. bumping them up to 30%, and becoming by far the largest single spending sink in the entire budget.
Now, I'm not saying medicare/medicaid and Social Security programs shouldn't take a cut, but those require some major internal restructuring that doesn't seem likely to happen with your current political atmosphere.
Um, honestly, its pretty much that bad in the US and Canada right now already. Why would sweden be any different?
I know a man that was charged with rape by his WIFE after he left her. He was even provably out of town at the time she said it occurred and he was still found guilty based on the fact that he wasn't far enough out of town, and he could have driven 4 hours in the middle of the night, raped her, and driven 4 hours back to where he was, all without anyone else(he was staying with family) noticing I might add. It was a light sentence but he's still on the sex offenders registry because of it.
Its sadly not urban legend. It happened to me a few years ago, I specifically found out because it was a management position at an electronics store. Being a geek I had things in common with some of the staff there and befriended one that had been working there for quite some time and he informed me of what had happened, it was just conversation at the time, I was already in a better job, though it was working more outside of my experience at that time.
The Manager there at the time was looking for a replacement for herself and apparently I was the best candidate but she vented her frustration that she couldn't find anything on me by Googling my name and searching for me on Facebook.
She ended up hiring someone else that spends 50%+ of the time he spends at work on his phone checking Facebook etc. He does a good job with stock levels and to an extent customer service, but you always feel like you're interrupting him if you have to talk to him for something.
I know at least some employers are now taking the slant that if you don't have a Facebook account you automatically either "have something to hide" or "are anti-social to the extreme". I'm neither of those, but am honestly too busy to check a stupid web site 3-4x a day.
I had a facebook account but had people getting pissy with me because I wasn't checking it often enough, so now I no longer have one.
Maybe this will get me out of jury duty as well as helping me avoid pretentious asshole bosses that I wouldn't want to work for anyways some day too? One can always hope.
Troll? Really? What he said is a fair comparison, AND the situation is similar. The folks throwing the tea overboard were arguing against unfair taxation without representation. These guys, however potentially misguided at times, are fighting for what they believe is the protection of free speech, which is one of the CORE ideals of the same people that threw the damned tea overboard.
Some people around here need to grow a damned backbone, and a set of common sense. Regardless of that however, -1 Troll is not a replacement for -1 disagree.
Yes I realize that I'm in the minority here on/. and that the same people that modded our AC here troll are going to attempt to mod me into oblivion. But go nuts, I've got Karma to burn.
I really have mostly supported AMD over the years. A lot times it comes down to the fact that they generally have the best price/performance in my/others budget range(most computers I build are in the $1000-1500 range) when I'm building computers and I also have a certain comfort level with them in that I've scrapped a lot fewer AMD cpus than Intel ones.
However, I have to say. I'm really impressed with how Intel is handling this. There must be a nice bit of extra support for board vendors as well, especially with the huge loss numbers they're predicting and how good the board manufacturers are being with this situation.
This could have been a really bad PR event. Instead I think I might be buying Intel when its time to upgrade again in 6-12 months.
A lot of ISP's used to register your mac, this was from a mentality back in the early 90s that they thought you should be paying a fee for each internet connected device in the home, similar to how a lot of cable companies wanted to charge you by number of TV's(and still do in a lot of cases). Some Comcast areas still have the old default configuration and it will take up to 48 hours for the remote end to actually forget the MAC. Some areas never had this implemented at all. Mostly its where there is old infrastructure that hasn't had anything important break in the last 10+ years so no tech has actually looked at it. So you will still get the odd person reporting that "This is the way it is" and for them, they are correct.
The VAST majority(99.99%) of Comcast customers however should require just a modem reboot.
I don't usually respond to AC's... but Mac market share is not increasing. MacBook market share is a bit, but not at any sort of alarming rate, and the iPhone is barely big enough to be considered a contender for top spot and isn't moving upwards.
I can't remember who started it, but some enterprising rap artist I think it was started slapping those on his records, and not because he was forced to. Guess what? Kids couldn't get enough. Probably was also good music, but I'm certain that the sticker helped. I've seen kids whose CD collections barely have anything without that sticker on it.
You seem to completely miss the point. You also can't be working in the telecommunications industry in Canada or you would be aware of the large chunk of rural/out of the way people that have no internet access beyond dial-up, and not even dial-up in some cases. These are situations where they're comparing apples to apples, you're comparing apples to oranges. If they truly have a better service and are reliable, plus the price isn't totally out of this world.
That was the problem with Iridium btw, I did use their service for business purposes a few times, but a $2000 phone and $150/month plus $3/minute usage, they couldn't compete against anyone, and anywhere that there was a permanent station it was/is much cheaper to set up your own sat-coms than try to use them. They priced themselves out of their market and had a very poorly executed market plan. The service was also bad. It was just barely use-able at the best of times.
Sure its a long shot for a company to actually DO what they say they can. However if these guys do what they say they can and do it at a semi-reasonable price... They'll definitely succeed. There's still a lot of IF's left on their end... and a lot of cliffs for them to fall off of, but its still a good idea.
Also: Northwestel IS the biggest player in Canadas North, which is the entire bit I was talking about.
There are MUCH bigger players in Canada, like Bell, Rogers, etc. You are however getting into major centers before most of those are generally available, so your argument totally fails on lack of knowledge of service coverage for those "bigger players".
Bell and Co. won't even lay out the cash to get 20-30 miles of copper out to a community of 1500 homes most of the time. They're in their entrenched markets and making their huge piles of money and don't really care to expand or risk anything.
For starters, a company in Eastern Canada named Aliant ran more fibre and connected more new homes to broadband in a single year than Bell has in the entire 5 years since they bought Aliant.
Big companies with fairly secure profit margins are lazy and fat. Don't look at them for any sort of 'new' venture, let alone one with some risk involved.
I wouldn't deem it impossible, and would likely deem it probable.
I used to work for a large american ISP whom I am not at liberty to name. However I worked in support. We had everything from a call from a guy whose wife was in his bed at the time banging our technician to a call about a tech that took a shit while he was in the customers attic fixing some wiring.
After having worked inside one of those companies where these things get reported... I'll believe damn near anything I hear about them at this point.
You should check out a company called Northwestel. They're not even in a monopoly position and they've made over 25 million a year in PROFIT on average for the last 10 fucking years in ONE town of 6-9 thousand(population has been growing obviously). At peak pop thats around 3k per person per year. Given that they're charging and making similar profits, all across the north, and that population is somewhere in the quarter to half a million range for just the Canadian territories, not counting Alaska... yeah... you're right, no money to be made here.
So yeah, you know everything. The huge company that is about to sink billions into the scheme hasn't done their market research at ALL.
The big tell however, will be service and reliability. Those are kings. The problem with a lot of these other start-ups is they failed badly on one or both counts with a price point higher than the crap that is already in place. Plus zero local advertising. If people don't know you exist and that you work up here, you're screwed.
The existing competition leaves a LOT to be desired however. Any company deploying new technology should have zero problems ousting them almost completely. At least if they don't, the existing will be forced to dump some of their profits back into upgrading their own infrastructure.
I'm from Canada as well, and while the law states one thing, the reality is something else. Basically as long as you don't kill the guy there isn't a cop in the country that will testify or press charges against you, and that guy really needs the police officers testimony to get anywhere with any sort of charges.
Re:Glad I play games just to have fun
on
Diablo 3 Hands-On
·
· Score: 1
The problem is that Blizzard thought this would be a good idea to begin with honestly. Do they really think there are people out there playing as Lucinda the Troll because they actually want to talk to people from their real lives?
This has happened to so many people its ridiculous. Its actually gone to the point where Governments should start writing extra tariff and tax laws into moving positions overseas for work that needs to be done in-country.
That said, I do have a hard time finding qualified people but thats more a factor of geography than any real limiter. No one wants to move here, haha.
If you read some of the other comments on the story(I don't have time to dig it up right now) MIT proved that what you describe can happen already. 127 Mirrors and 10 minutes of clear sky, even with 3 of the mirrors still out of position. Plus they were all sitting on stands and manually adjusted by about 10 people rather than an army holding 127 of these, who would adjust it much faster. They lit the partial boat hull on fire. Apparently between the time it ignited and the time they put it out it had burned a hole in the plank already.
The building is massive of course, and the phenomena is described as a minor inconvenience but a dedicated building team could have made something at least 1/2 the size back in those days and many times as powerful since this is just accidental and not on purpose, and also not using windows. Something purpose made for it could be a lot smaller with a lot more punch.
Citation needed for that entire post. Heres some stats with citation.
About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent.
It also states that several other countries are just as bad, but the US is very very far from leading the pack, which is where it would claim to be. Many young people also place the US as being the largest country in the world based on both population and land mass which is very wrong. Not being able to find the Pacific Ocean??
He already has a point, even by your own definition the US is getting dangerously close to becoming a fascist state. Far far right? Check. Even their liberals are right, leaning towards center-right but not by much.
"Fascists reject and resist the autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the fascists' nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated."
A lot of US Americans can't even point out Canada on a map, and don't care to be able to, largely because they think that anything outside the US isn't worth thinking much about. I'd say that behavior is leaning towards the definition.
Given that this is happening now and Obama is trying to combine a lot of right and left views(albeit in the US its more like the right and far-right views)
"Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong."
Go read a history book covering the last 30-40 years, they've had this one covered for awhile.
"They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus they reject individualism."
Christian religion by default does this and its so embedded in your politics that its not even funny. Its also becoming more and more bold and seen as a way to relate to the people. Sure there are parts of the US that don't feel that way but there were parts of Germany that didn't as well.
"They advocate the creation of a single-party state.[18] "
This is covered by the far right, so its still a bit of a minority opinion, but its there nonetheless.
How does any of this scream to you "We shouldn't be worried at all!"
The pure unadulterated fanaticism I saw in many church gatherings was what made me turn away from the church to begin with. The higher up the line you go the crazier the people get. After I met one zealot in particular I actually bothered to read the bible, after I got through that it was a no-brainer. Half the thing is actively promoting that kind of behavior, which isn't helping anyone.
Slashdot Mirror
Canada has the same law. Its why we're both on the list. The RIAA and Co. agreed to it years ago but now they think they can force through a better deal for them.
20%? Citation? Most of what I've seen is in the 30-40% range...
Hmm, while I was fact checking, I found your 20%(18% for last year actually) but I also found all of the "extra" defense spending. I guess special projects etc for which the DoD requests additional funding outside of normal budgetary means, and that puts it into where I thought it was.
Regardless, the DoD could take some cuts and still do its job if the US were not acting as world police, which they honestly shouldn't be.
This is a nicely biased graph here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png
However, over half of the "Discretionary" Spending listed on the graph goes directly to the DoD. bumping them up to 30%, and becoming by far the largest single spending sink in the entire budget.
Now, I'm not saying medicare/medicaid and Social Security programs shouldn't take a cut, but those require some major internal restructuring that doesn't seem likely to happen with your current political atmosphere.
Have a look at all those spending cuts to defense that are definitely needed.... oh wait...
Oh how I wish I could crucify you for speaking lies about a wonderful show....
Sadly, you speak truth.
Um, honestly, its pretty much that bad in the US and Canada right now already. Why would sweden be any different?
I know a man that was charged with rape by his WIFE after he left her. He was even provably out of town at the time she said it occurred and he was still found guilty based on the fact that he wasn't far enough out of town, and he could have driven 4 hours in the middle of the night, raped her, and driven 4 hours back to where he was, all without anyone else(he was staying with family) noticing I might add. It was a light sentence but he's still on the sex offenders registry because of it.
Its sadly not urban legend. It happened to me a few years ago, I specifically found out because it was a management position at an electronics store. Being a geek I had things in common with some of the staff there and befriended one that had been working there for quite some time and he informed me of what had happened, it was just conversation at the time, I was already in a better job, though it was working more outside of my experience at that time.
The Manager there at the time was looking for a replacement for herself and apparently I was the best candidate but she vented her frustration that she couldn't find anything on me by Googling my name and searching for me on Facebook.
She ended up hiring someone else that spends 50%+ of the time he spends at work on his phone checking Facebook etc. He does a good job with stock levels and to an extent customer service, but you always feel like you're interrupting him if you have to talk to him for something.
I know at least some employers are now taking the slant that if you don't have a Facebook account you automatically either "have something to hide" or "are anti-social to the extreme". I'm neither of those, but am honestly too busy to check a stupid web site 3-4x a day.
I had a facebook account but had people getting pissy with me because I wasn't checking it often enough, so now I no longer have one.
Maybe this will get me out of jury duty as well as helping me avoid pretentious asshole bosses that I wouldn't want to work for anyways some day too? One can always hope.
Troll? Really? What he said is a fair comparison, AND the situation is similar. The folks throwing the tea overboard were arguing against unfair taxation without representation. These guys, however potentially misguided at times, are fighting for what they believe is the protection of free speech, which is one of the CORE ideals of the same people that threw the damned tea overboard.
Some people around here need to grow a damned backbone, and a set of common sense. Regardless of that however, -1 Troll is not a replacement for -1 disagree.
Yes I realize that I'm in the minority here on /. and that the same people that modded our AC here troll are going to attempt to mod me into oblivion. But go nuts, I've got Karma to burn.
I really have mostly supported AMD over the years. A lot times it comes down to the fact that they generally have the best price/performance in my/others budget range(most computers I build are in the $1000-1500 range) when I'm building computers and I also have a certain comfort level with them in that I've scrapped a lot fewer AMD cpus than Intel ones.
However, I have to say. I'm really impressed with how Intel is handling this. There must be a nice bit of extra support for board vendors as well, especially with the huge loss numbers they're predicting and how good the board manufacturers are being with this situation.
This could have been a really bad PR event. Instead I think I might be buying Intel when its time to upgrade again in 6-12 months.
Just to clear up some confusion here:
A lot of ISP's used to register your mac, this was from a mentality back in the early 90s that they thought you should be paying a fee for each internet connected device in the home, similar to how a lot of cable companies wanted to charge you by number of TV's(and still do in a lot of cases). Some Comcast areas still have the old default configuration and it will take up to 48 hours for the remote end to actually forget the MAC. Some areas never had this implemented at all. Mostly its where there is old infrastructure that hasn't had anything important break in the last 10+ years so no tech has actually looked at it. So you will still get the odd person reporting that "This is the way it is" and for them, they are correct.
The VAST majority(99.99%) of Comcast customers however should require just a modem reboot.
I don't usually respond to AC's... but Mac market share is not increasing. MacBook market share is a bit, but not at any sort of alarming rate, and the iPhone is barely big enough to be considered a contender for top spot and isn't moving upwards.
Sorry, I forgot to put a past tense on that... I don't anymore.
Its an Ad.
I can't remember who started it, but some enterprising rap artist I think it was started slapping those on his records, and not because he was forced to. Guess what? Kids couldn't get enough. Probably was also good music, but I'm certain that the sticker helped. I've seen kids whose CD collections barely have anything without that sticker on it.
You seem to completely miss the point. You also can't be working in the telecommunications industry in Canada or you would be aware of the large chunk of rural/out of the way people that have no internet access beyond dial-up, and not even dial-up in some cases. These are situations where they're comparing apples to apples, you're comparing apples to oranges. If they truly have a better service and are reliable, plus the price isn't totally out of this world.
That was the problem with Iridium btw, I did use their service for business purposes a few times, but a $2000 phone and $150/month plus $3/minute usage, they couldn't compete against anyone, and anywhere that there was a permanent station it was/is much cheaper to set up your own sat-coms than try to use them. They priced themselves out of their market and had a very poorly executed market plan. The service was also bad. It was just barely use-able at the best of times.
Sure its a long shot for a company to actually DO what they say they can. However if these guys do what they say they can and do it at a semi-reasonable price... They'll definitely succeed. There's still a lot of IF's left on their end... and a lot of cliffs for them to fall off of, but its still a good idea.
Also: Northwestel IS the biggest player in Canadas North, which is the entire bit I was talking about.
There are MUCH bigger players in Canada, like Bell, Rogers, etc. You are however getting into major centers before most of those are generally available, so your argument totally fails on lack of knowledge of service coverage for those "bigger players".
Bell and Co. won't even lay out the cash to get 20-30 miles of copper out to a community of 1500 homes most of the time. They're in their entrenched markets and making their huge piles of money and don't really care to expand or risk anything.
For starters, a company in Eastern Canada named Aliant ran more fibre and connected more new homes to broadband in a single year than Bell has in the entire 5 years since they bought Aliant.
Big companies with fairly secure profit margins are lazy and fat. Don't look at them for any sort of 'new' venture, let alone one with some risk involved.
I wouldn't deem it impossible, and would likely deem it probable.
I used to work for a large american ISP whom I am not at liberty to name. However I worked in support. We had everything from a call from a guy whose wife was in his bed at the time banging our technician to a call about a tech that took a shit while he was in the customers attic fixing some wiring.
After having worked inside one of those companies where these things get reported... I'll believe damn near anything I hear about them at this point.
Seriously?
Learn the market before you talk.
You should check out a company called Northwestel. They're not even in a monopoly position and they've made over 25 million a year in PROFIT on average for the last 10 fucking years in ONE town of 6-9 thousand(population has been growing obviously). At peak pop thats around 3k per person per year. Given that they're charging and making similar profits, all across the north, and that population is somewhere in the quarter to half a million range for just the Canadian territories, not counting Alaska... yeah... you're right, no money to be made here.
So yeah, you know everything. The huge company that is about to sink billions into the scheme hasn't done their market research at ALL.
The big tell however, will be service and reliability. Those are kings. The problem with a lot of these other start-ups is they failed badly on one or both counts with a price point higher than the crap that is already in place. Plus zero local advertising. If people don't know you exist and that you work up here, you're screwed.
The existing competition leaves a LOT to be desired however. Any company deploying new technology should have zero problems ousting them almost completely. At least if they don't, the existing will be forced to dump some of their profits back into upgrading their own infrastructure.
Jury rigging a good desktop card in there, if you try to get everything to keep up to the pace of the card, yes you will guaranteed fry things.
I'm from Canada as well, and while the law states one thing, the reality is something else. Basically as long as you don't kill the guy there isn't a cop in the country that will testify or press charges against you, and that guy really needs the police officers testimony to get anywhere with any sort of charges.
The problem is that Blizzard thought this would be a good idea to begin with honestly. Do they really think there are people out there playing as Lucinda the Troll because they actually want to talk to people from their real lives?
Mod parent up.
This has happened to so many people its ridiculous. Its actually gone to the point where Governments should start writing extra tariff and tax laws into moving positions overseas for work that needs to be done in-country.
That said, I do have a hard time finding qualified people but thats more a factor of geography than any real limiter. No one wants to move here, haha.
If you read some of the other comments on the story(I don't have time to dig it up right now) MIT proved that what you describe can happen already. 127 Mirrors and 10 minutes of clear sky, even with 3 of the mirrors still out of position. Plus they were all sitting on stands and manually adjusted by about 10 people rather than an army holding 127 of these, who would adjust it much faster. They lit the partial boat hull on fire. Apparently between the time it ignited and the time they put it out it had burned a hole in the plank already.
Their original conclusion is wrong. Theres even a building to prove it http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/las-vegas-hotel-knew-pool-death-ray-back/story?id=11760093
The building is massive of course, and the phenomena is described as a minor inconvenience but a dedicated building team could have made something at least 1/2 the size back in those days and many times as powerful since this is just accidental and not on purpose, and also not using windows. Something purpose made for it could be a lot smaller with a lot more punch.
Citation needed for that entire post. Heres some stats with citation.
About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1120_021120_GeoRoperSurvey.html
It also states that several other countries are just as bad, but the US is very very far from leading the pack, which is where it would claim to be. Many young people also place the US as being the largest country in the world based on both population and land mass which is very wrong. Not being able to find the Pacific Ocean??
Who is living in Fantasy Land again?
He already has a point, even by your own definition the US is getting dangerously close to becoming a fascist state. Far far right? Check. Even their liberals are right, leaning towards center-right but not by much.
"Fascists reject and resist the autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the fascists' nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated."
A lot of US Americans can't even point out Canada on a map, and don't care to be able to, largely because they think that anything outside the US isn't worth thinking much about. I'd say that behavior is leaning towards the definition.
Given that this is happening now and Obama is trying to combine a lot of right and left views(albeit in the US its more like the right and far-right views)
"Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong."
Go read a history book covering the last 30-40 years, they've had this one covered for awhile.
"They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus they reject individualism."
Christian religion by default does this and its so embedded in your politics that its not even funny. Its also becoming more and more bold and seen as a way to relate to the people. Sure there are parts of the US that don't feel that way but there were parts of Germany that didn't as well.
"They advocate the creation of a single-party state.[18] "
This is covered by the far right, so its still a bit of a minority opinion, but its there nonetheless.
How does any of this scream to you "We shouldn't be worried at all!"
The pure unadulterated fanaticism I saw in many church gatherings was what made me turn away from the church to begin with. The higher up the line you go the crazier the people get. After I met one zealot in particular I actually bothered to read the bible, after I got through that it was a no-brainer. Half the thing is actively promoting that kind of behavior, which isn't helping anyone.