You're assuming that there's no cost to providing both, there is. Maintenance is still a thing. Worse it doesn't scale linearly.
If you have 1 tool, you maintain 1 tool and 1 dependency tree. If you have 2 tools, you maintain 2 tools, 2 dependency trees, a method of choosing which of the 2 get installed, and an effort to clarify the standard tool chain to use as a policy in your distro lest it becomes a horrible mess.
Easy enough for the cases of ifconfig. But just don't apply that thinking universally to things like audio subsystems, desktops, init systems etc.
I didn't forget about anything. From your own link: "However, economic conditions did not satisfy the common shorthand definition of recession, which is "a fall of a country's real gross domestic product in two or more successive quarters""
To put that in perspective you're talking about economic conditions on the back of one of the dot-com bubble collapse,... and it still doesn't fit the traditional definition of a recession. Even if it was technically classed as a recession by the group that classifies them, it's so borderline as to be completely irrelevant given what we're talking about and the economic conditions of the time.
Indeed. Like I said, puts people off owning animals. Most people aren't in it for the challenge.
I had a feral cat too growing up (mum decided to feed it, thought it belonged to someone else), well it had babies. That first generation of cat was our house cat. Absolute bitch of a cat. Nice enough but just a plain grumpy cat. After 14 years the old senile thing thought it knew better than my mother who moved it from under the shade of her car, and climbed back under the car to its own demise (not a horrible demise, but the vet suggested we put her down).
Fast forward a few years we have 2 pure breads in the house. A Burmese and a Burman. Incredibly lovely creates with very distinct and loving personalities. When I hear about dog people saying that cats don't love their owners, all I hear is people who have experienced only ferals. The Burman is sitting on my lap right now, the Burmese is snuggling against the wife.
Why not sue the citizens of its own city for actually burning oil and pumping the gas right out their tailpipes and into the atmosphere. Seems to make far more sense than a bunch of companies legally operating under their licensed permits.
oooh oooh oooh. The government should sue itself twice. The first time for being lax on emissions regulations, and then the second time for being made up of stupid people. Stupid people with power contribute a lot to global warming.
They should sue cows. They produce more detrimental compounds on a larger scale.
Not even remotely. Cows aren't the biggest contributor of their gas type. Their gas type isn't the biggest contributor to global warming, and above all their gas type actually doesn't stay resident in the atmosphere very long which is precisely why the world is more concerned about CO2 than Methane.
What kind of a silly response is that. The question was whether you could sue, not whether you could win. The answer is obviously yes, to this example and to every single one you listed. I could sue you for the stupidity of your post.
Everyone knew. We've been researching this link since the 70s. You have switch to an electric car right, and get all of your power from solar? Or did you post this on your Macbook Pro milled from a solid chunk of aluminium smelted in a plant that uses 10x the electricity of an averaged sized oil refinery?
That's the amazing thing about climate change. It's always someone else's fault.
And David doesn't win. The oil companies have revenue that is larger than the GDP of some countries. They have infinitely more legal power as well. I doubt this will go anywhere and the only folks that suffer are the tax payers of Richmond, CA. Their tax dollars are going to get wasted on a folley.
David vs Goliath is hardly meaningful in this legal battle, and I can't find myself cheering for the underdog. Poor over powered David here is fighting a legal battle against someone who did everything they were asked of. Oil production is nothing in the grand scheme of climate change. Nothing at all compared to burning it.
So I wonder, did Levar Stoney the honourable mayor walk to work this morning? Or did he drive a big American gas guzzler?
No I don't. Bubbles conceptually are irregularities when perceived value and investments massively deviate from actual value. The result is usually a correction when the bubble pops and reality sets in, often triggered by some financial or civil event.
House prices in Australian cities aren't the result of market speculation, they are just supply and demand based. Yes they are high at the moment, and yes they may drop going forward but this will be the result of natural economics and not some realisation that everyone has been paying too much and the entire market comes crashing down.
Australia has a strong economy. Australia has skilled migration almost double the OECD average. When that stops, or when we massively start building in cities to accommodate the population, then expect the house prices to drop. The other more immediate thing affecting house prices is the access to capital. Banks made it all to easy to borrow money which further skewed the demand on housing. This has been reigned in (and will be further with the current inquiries on banking) already and is a good driver for the current plateu in growth.
Will the rest of the country follow? I would say it already has. Brisbane was one of the best performing capital cities last year and the final quarter growth was close to 0%
But I keep my cats inside my apartment. Theyâ(TM)re efficient murderers and itâ(TM)s wholly irresponsible to let your cats roam
Proper house cats don't tend to roam far, don't tend to climb to the tops of trees and as such don't tend to do much killing in the residential neighbourhoods. I would wager our cat made a kill maybe once every 6 months, and it was usually mice though on one occasion she did destroy a bird in the neighbours yard. Quite tame compared to her murderous owner (me) who called the council for a mouse inspection and then proceeded to commit genocide on the population that was eating its way through shed walls in the back yard.
They are also nothing like feral cats. I'm a cat lover myself, I have 2. Yet I wholly support shooting feral cats. It is also a dumb idea to try and home a feral cat. That word "feral" is there for a reason. People who have bad experiences with cats (disobedient, wreaking things, getting scratched and attacked) typically have them from feral cats or poorly looked after accidental pregnancies, the latter rarely happening from a proper breed either.
After years of driving German cars, when I drive an American car, the steering and seats seem "mushy".
Oh I agree with you. I didn't say American cars were any better. In fact the German cars are still wonderfully engineered, handle well, and are a dream to drive. The modern ones just unfortunately don't deserve their reputation as reliable one little bit. It used to be a tossup between German an Japanese. Now it's not even a contest anymore.
If you decide to bring another life into this world, then fail to raise it not to be a dead beat, or give it the life skills necessary to get and keep a job
Yeah just as well life turns out perfect for everyone and everything is exclusively the fault of the people who raised you.
But houses? Houses/Condos and the property are generally expected to keep their value and go up.
Houses need to be maintained to keep their value. Their value goes up with population increases. This isn't a given, but it is a general trend in growing population centres where demand constantly outstrips supply.
A house (and its land) is like any asset. The difference between it and the ones you list is supply demand, finite life expectancy, and useful life. If you buy a house now, don't live in it, don't touch it. Except it to be worth nothing in 100 years as it will likely need to be bulldozed for being a health hazard. On the flip side if you bought a 1960s era Ferrari 250 GTO for $18000 ($150k in today's money) and it's in perfect condition then you made more of a profit than you would have on any house given these things sell for in excess of $30m now.
But back to houses. When I bought a house in Australia in a city many years ago, armchair investors though I was mad. The city was growing at a slow rate, the house values were stagnant and we were on the back of a financial crisis. They all suggested I invest in mining towns, and gave anecdotes of 10-20% value growth per year. Well fast forward to 2018, my own house value is up 20% above inflation from 10 years ago, and those get rich quickers found out what happens when you hold on to a short term investment too long and all filed for bankruptcy.
Houses in cities, in popular countries, with a good economy are like bluechip stocks. They aren't immune from going down in value but unless the entire country goes down the toilet they are generally expected to inflate in value with the economy if looked after.
Even the best voice recognition systems I've ever used get my commands wrong at least 1 out of 4 times or so.
Since you work in IT I want to clarify, are you talking about systems like Alexa or are you using "voice recognition systems" as a euphemism for users?:-) Jokes aside there's been a few people replying here saying that Alexa and similar systems won't be ready for prime time until they can manage these situations as well as humans. From that we can conclude that they should go out and talk to humans some more so they realise just how good these systems are and just how much humans (myself included) suck at hearing, conversations and following instructions.
If you chop up a lot of your sentences into individual thoughts then they all make sense. But honestly your post isn't coherent at all. Nothing in this story is about harvesting of personal data. Facebook and Google are not Amazon. Your similar story of having the police dispatched has nothing to do with personal data or privacy. Your family's comments don't seem to be related to any of the above either.
Individually all valid points, but I don't understand why you strung them together in those sentences.
Suppose the electronic systems were down for a couple of weeks. How is one without cash going to buy food
If electronic systems are down for a couple of weeks then you're not getting food even if you have cash. The back side of a businesses haven't worked with cash for a long time.
Speaking of, they also don't work on a payment on transfer of goods basis either. There are plenty of alternatives if your payment processor goes down that doesn't involve having to deal with cash.
Your emergency supplies - which you surely have - should include some cash.
No. The lesson here is your business should have a business continuity plan. That may involve cash, it may not.
I remember a few years ago when Commbank's payment system went down. I found out about it after I had filled my car and went to pay. I didn't have cash. What I did do was hand over my drivers license, the store clerk took down my details as well as a receipt and basically said if I don't settle the debt in 48 hours he'll forward my details to the police.
Done. Simple. No cash required.
Why is this even relevant when cash is an alternative? Because there are plenty of places in the world moving to cashless businesses.
Cash is a promise of value. There are alternatives even when the power goes out.
Neither do doctors, actually, since the primary mechanism of 'curing' depression in the 1st world is to pump patients full of poorly-understood pharmaceuticals with negative side effects.
And yet the people suffering from chronic depression turn into functioning members of society when they do take those pills. So I'll take the non-understanding doctors thank you. They do a better job than the "just enjoy life more" happy hippies who convince people with serious problems that drugs aren't helping and they just need to absorb positive energy from unicorn farts.
I used to know someone like this. We cut ties after she convinced someone to not take anti-depressants anymore and doctors were just poisoning her. 2 months later the found that someone dead with her head in an old school oven.
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You're assuming that there's no cost to providing both, there is. Maintenance is still a thing. Worse it doesn't scale linearly.
If you have 1 tool, you maintain 1 tool and 1 dependency tree.
If you have 2 tools, you maintain 2 tools, 2 dependency trees, a method of choosing which of the 2 get installed, and an effort to clarify the standard tool chain to use as a policy in your distro lest it becomes a horrible mess.
Easy enough for the cases of ifconfig. But just don't apply that thinking universally to things like audio subsystems, desktops, init systems etc.
Since when is obscurity security
I agree which is why I write my passwords on post it notes that I leave on my screen.
I didn't forget about anything. From your own link: "However, economic conditions did not satisfy the common shorthand definition of recession, which is "a fall of a country's real gross domestic product in two or more successive quarters""
To put that in perspective you're talking about economic conditions on the back of one of the dot-com bubble collapse, ... and it still doesn't fit the traditional definition of a recession. Even if it was technically classed as a recession by the group that classifies them, it's so borderline as to be completely irrelevant given what we're talking about and the economic conditions of the time.
A person has the right to end their own life.
A person has a right to make a decision. If you think anti-depressants take away that right then you have no fucking clue.
there is no proof that everything is NOT sent back and recorded
Sure there is, it is called network analysis, and even the tinfoiliest mad hatter would see the bandwidth that uses.
Indeed. Like I said, puts people off owning animals. Most people aren't in it for the challenge.
I had a feral cat too growing up (mum decided to feed it, thought it belonged to someone else), well it had babies. That first generation of cat was our house cat. Absolute bitch of a cat. Nice enough but just a plain grumpy cat. After 14 years the old senile thing thought it knew better than my mother who moved it from under the shade of her car, and climbed back under the car to its own demise (not a horrible demise, but the vet suggested we put her down).
Fast forward a few years we have 2 pure breads in the house. A Burmese and a Burman. Incredibly lovely creates with very distinct and loving personalities. When I hear about dog people saying that cats don't love their owners, all I hear is people who have experienced only ferals. The Burman is sitting on my lap right now, the Burmese is snuggling against the wife.
Why not sue the citizens of its own city for actually burning oil and pumping the gas right out their tailpipes and into the atmosphere. Seems to make far more sense than a bunch of companies legally operating under their licensed permits.
oooh oooh oooh. The government should sue itself twice. The first time for being lax on emissions regulations, and then the second time for being made up of stupid people. Stupid people with power contribute a lot to global warming.
They should sue cows. They produce more detrimental compounds on a larger scale.
Not even remotely. Cows aren't the biggest contributor of their gas type. Their gas type isn't the biggest contributor to global warming, and above all their gas type actually doesn't stay resident in the atmosphere very long which is precisely why the world is more concerned about CO2 than Methane.
What kind of a silly response is that. The question was whether you could sue, not whether you could win. The answer is obviously yes, to this example and to every single one you listed. I could sue you for the stupidity of your post.
You answered a question that wasn't asked.
However, the oil companies that KNEW
Everyone knew. We've been researching this link since the 70s. You have switch to an electric car right, and get all of your power from solar? Or did you post this on your Macbook Pro milled from a solid chunk of aluminium smelted in a plant that uses 10x the electricity of an averaged sized oil refinery?
That's the amazing thing about climate change. It's always someone else's fault.
And David doesn't win. The oil companies have revenue that is larger than the GDP of some countries. They have infinitely more legal power as well. I doubt this will go anywhere and the only folks that suffer are the tax payers of Richmond, CA. Their tax dollars are going to get wasted on a folley.
David vs Goliath is hardly meaningful in this legal battle, and I can't find myself cheering for the underdog. Poor over powered David here is fighting a legal battle against someone who did everything they were asked of. Oil production is nothing in the grand scheme of climate change. Nothing at all compared to burning it.
So I wonder, did Levar Stoney the honourable mayor walk to work this morning? Or did he drive a big American gas guzzler?
No I don't. Bubbles conceptually are irregularities when perceived value and investments massively deviate from actual value. The result is usually a correction when the bubble pops and reality sets in, often triggered by some financial or civil event.
House prices in Australian cities aren't the result of market speculation, they are just supply and demand based. Yes they are high at the moment, and yes they may drop going forward but this will be the result of natural economics and not some realisation that everyone has been paying too much and the entire market comes crashing down.
Australia has a strong economy. Australia has skilled migration almost double the OECD average. When that stops, or when we massively start building in cities to accommodate the population, then expect the house prices to drop. The other more immediate thing affecting house prices is the access to capital. Banks made it all to easy to borrow money which further skewed the demand on housing. This has been reigned in (and will be further with the current inquiries on banking) already and is a good driver for the current plateu in growth.
Will the rest of the country follow? I would say it already has. Brisbane was one of the best performing capital cities last year and the final quarter growth was close to 0%
100 poor families now have to put up with a godless feral cat. 100 families won't ever get another cat after that bad experience.
Finally, these volunteers are doing exactly the best possible thing- capturing and neutering them all and trying to home those cats they can.
Second best. Capturing and shooting them would be the best. Rehoming feral cats is a great way of turning people off cats in general.
But I keep my cats inside my apartment. Theyâ(TM)re efficient murderers and itâ(TM)s wholly irresponsible to let your cats roam
Proper house cats don't tend to roam far, don't tend to climb to the tops of trees and as such don't tend to do much killing in the residential neighbourhoods. I would wager our cat made a kill maybe once every 6 months, and it was usually mice though on one occasion she did destroy a bird in the neighbours yard. Quite tame compared to her murderous owner (me) who called the council for a mouse inspection and then proceeded to commit genocide on the population that was eating its way through shed walls in the back yard.
They are also nothing like feral cats. I'm a cat lover myself, I have 2. Yet I wholly support shooting feral cats. It is also a dumb idea to try and home a feral cat. That word "feral" is there for a reason. People who have bad experiences with cats (disobedient, wreaking things, getting scratched and attacked) typically have them from feral cats or poorly looked after accidental pregnancies, the latter rarely happening from a proper breed either.
After years of driving German cars, when I drive an American car, the steering and seats seem "mushy".
Oh I agree with you. I didn't say American cars were any better. In fact the German cars are still wonderfully engineered, handle well, and are a dream to drive. The modern ones just unfortunately don't deserve their reputation as reliable one little bit. It used to be a tossup between German an Japanese. Now it's not even a contest anymore.
If you decide to bring another life into this world, then fail to raise it not to be a dead beat, or give it the life skills necessary to get and keep a job
Yeah just as well life turns out perfect for everyone and everything is exclusively the fault of the people who raised you.
But houses? Houses/Condos and the property are generally expected to keep their value and go up.
Houses need to be maintained to keep their value. Their value goes up with population increases. This isn't a given, but it is a general trend in growing population centres where demand constantly outstrips supply.
A house (and its land) is like any asset. The difference between it and the ones you list is supply demand, finite life expectancy, and useful life. If you buy a house now, don't live in it, don't touch it. Except it to be worth nothing in 100 years as it will likely need to be bulldozed for being a health hazard. On the flip side if you bought a 1960s era Ferrari 250 GTO for $18000 ($150k in today's money) and it's in perfect condition then you made more of a profit than you would have on any house given these things sell for in excess of $30m now.
But back to houses. When I bought a house in Australia in a city many years ago, armchair investors though I was mad. The city was growing at a slow rate, the house values were stagnant and we were on the back of a financial crisis. They all suggested I invest in mining towns, and gave anecdotes of 10-20% value growth per year. Well fast forward to 2018, my own house value is up 20% above inflation from 10 years ago, and those get rich quickers found out what happens when you hold on to a short term investment too long and all filed for bankruptcy.
Houses in cities, in popular countries, with a good economy are like bluechip stocks. They aren't immune from going down in value but unless the entire country goes down the toilet they are generally expected to inflate in value with the economy if looked after.
Even the best voice recognition systems I've ever used get my commands wrong at least 1 out of 4 times or so.
Since you work in IT I want to clarify, are you talking about systems like Alexa or are you using "voice recognition systems" as a euphemism for users? :-) Jokes aside there's been a few people replying here saying that Alexa and similar systems won't be ready for prime time until they can manage these situations as well as humans. From that we can conclude that they should go out and talk to humans some more so they realise just how good these systems are and just how much humans (myself included) suck at hearing, conversations and following instructions.
Until the AI can rival human intelligence then this device can not be relied upon.
Based on this and the conclusion you have reached I can only assume that you have never ... met humans.
If you chop up a lot of your sentences into individual thoughts then they all make sense. But honestly your post isn't coherent at all.
Nothing in this story is about harvesting of personal data.
Facebook and Google are not Amazon.
Your similar story of having the police dispatched has nothing to do with personal data or privacy.
Your family's comments don't seem to be related to any of the above either.
Individually all valid points, but I don't understand why you strung them together in those sentences.
Suppose the electronic systems were down for a couple of weeks. How is one without cash going to buy food
If electronic systems are down for a couple of weeks then you're not getting food even if you have cash. The back side of a businesses haven't worked with cash for a long time.
Speaking of, they also don't work on a payment on transfer of goods basis either. There are plenty of alternatives if your payment processor goes down that doesn't involve having to deal with cash.
Your emergency supplies - which you surely have - should include some cash.
No. The lesson here is your business should have a business continuity plan. That may involve cash, it may not.
I remember a few years ago when Commbank's payment system went down. I found out about it after I had filled my car and went to pay. I didn't have cash. What I did do was hand over my drivers license, the store clerk took down my details as well as a receipt and basically said if I don't settle the debt in 48 hours he'll forward my details to the police.
Done. Simple. No cash required.
Why is this even relevant when cash is an alternative? Because there are plenty of places in the world moving to cashless businesses.
Cash is a promise of value. There are alternatives even when the power goes out.
2. Vote for a third party
In America that is a waste of a trip to a polling booth.
Neither do doctors, actually, since the primary mechanism of 'curing' depression in the 1st world is to pump patients full of poorly-understood pharmaceuticals with negative side effects.
And yet the people suffering from chronic depression turn into functioning members of society when they do take those pills. So I'll take the non-understanding doctors thank you. They do a better job than the "just enjoy life more" happy hippies who convince people with serious problems that drugs aren't helping and they just need to absorb positive energy from unicorn farts.
I used to know someone like this. We cut ties after she convinced someone to not take anti-depressants anymore and doctors were just poisoning her. 2 months later the found that someone dead with her head in an old school oven.