And all of this would go away if we mentioned that "ability" doesn't mean "rights". The ability to do something does not (or at least, should not) imbue more or less "rights". The problem, with typical PC thinking, is that modern liberalism equates equal outcome with equal rights. Outcomes are both ability (talent, skill) and effort (practice, dedication), but rights are self evident, and do not rely upon either.
I don't have a problem with people having different abilities/skills based on inherited traits. And inherited traits are NOT racist if they primarily fall along skin color or ethnic lines.
If you have known neither "Insulin" nor "BMW", then you cannot miss either. You cannot "miss" something you never had. WE can look in from the outside and pass all sorts of judgements about people, but that doesn't mean anything other that we (outsiders) are showing our own myopic view of the world.
In the deepest part of the Amazon, where people have lived quite simply for thousands and thousands of years, and we say they live in poverty, is extremely elitist. We are actually guilty of placing our value system (money) on them, when they do not have even the faintest concept of that. The moment you bring in something they haven't had before, you create the very thing you despise... envy.
Of course it is easy to sit in ivory towers looking down at all the idiots of the world, and judge them on their ignorance.
The problem isn't the Terrorists. It i the people who do not want to look like terrorists when they are fighting terrorists. And there in lies the problem. To combat evil, you must also take on the appearances of evil. To stop people from killing you, you must sometimes kill them. And the stupid people of the world cannot tell the difference between good people acting on self preservation from evil people acting on their own view of self preservation.
So, the issue is with good people who just want to be left alone, they must be pushed to the point violating their own normal sensibilities. And it is usually too late when that happens.
Specifically on your comments, you are pointing to the symptoms, not the problems. The only way to defeat Radical Islam, is for "peaceful" Islam to defeat it, radically (violently). At which point, it looks exactly like what it is trying to defeat. If every time a radical cries out in a Mosque "Kill the Infidels" the congregation took up stones and stoned them to death, you'd see the end of Radical Islam in very short order. Silence is consent.
Poor is in the eye of the beholder, and doesn't breed anything. Consumerism breeds envy, and envy breeds desperation (keeping up with the Jones'). If someone has what they have always known, there is NO envy, no desire to steal.
I have been to conferences that were "sales" and those that were "user based". Even "sales' conventions can be good, if you're wanting exposure to a variety of Tech that you may not be aware of . But User based (centered) Conferences usually have a ton of breakout sessions for learning how to use particular tech, and meeting people who use the tech, often in ways you may can employ that you haven't considered.
There are plenty of lawyers that would take this on Pro Bono or Counter Suit Contingency. And it is perfectly acceptable to simply say, "Go Ahead! Have you never heard of the Streisand Effect" and then sit back and grab a bucket of popcorn as the exact opposite of what they want happens.
The point being, it is easy to be a coward, until everyone is a coward, then bullies win. The hardest thing to do, is to stand up to bullies, but those that do, aren't going to see much in the way of bullying.
Personally, if I were a lawyer advising my client, I would love to get them the publicity by advising my client to give a big "EFF YU" to take down notices.
My suggestion would be "counter" to yours, which is, go to conferences for stuff you are or are already about to implement. It is usually a much better option to make use of the technology you have fully, before adding in more "Stuff" to manage. I've seen enough halfway implemented technology that ends up being an albatross later to need more than two hands and two feet to count.
As supervisor, your job is to make sure the technology and people you have are adequate, and manage the transition if they aren't.
All the laws on the books regarding Fraud, and yet it is perpetrated on such a massive scale and then goes generally unpunished. There may be a fall guy or two, but the main players get rich, hide their ill-gotten gains inside trusts that become untouchable, and their wealth is passed on to their heirs before the law can grab any of it.
Want to fix the problem, get harsh. Make a law that hiding money in trusts and other means after perpetrating fraud is also an act of fraud and thus, confiscate the wealth from the heirs, and their estates/trusts until they are left completely broke. The reason they pull this shit, is because even if they don't get away with it, they have already passed the wealth on to the next generation of fraudsters.
There are three basic levels (bunch of gray in between): Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.
Basic usage (80%) can be simple easy to follow instructions. The next 15% is Intermediate use, which requires Proficiency at Basic Level, followed by Advanced, which requires proficiency at Intermediate levels.
Most documentation is designed for Intermediate/Advanced users OR basic only.
"If you can't figure out how to use the program then how can you write documentation?"
Yes, exactly this. This is the exact location of the issue. The coder cannot write documentation, because he lacks empathy for the people who are using his program. He knows this, which is why he asks for help in documentation. The help arrives, but he lacks empathy for the documentation people equally. A little introspection by a developer goes a long way towards solving this problem. However coding in Mom's Basement (tm) doesn't lead one to that kind of response.
Rose Tinted glasses do not help any more than "Abrahamic Religious Nonsense" does.
Reality is, some people are just wired wrong, and need to be purged from society, be it prison, desert island or lethal injection. Caring for them doesn't solve anything, and doesn't stop them from doing what they do. If "caring" for them makes you feel good, you should probably spend more time caring for their victims instead.
Sorry, but I will not ever understand the need of some to side with criminals over victims.
Or which happens to be a valid image but has the same hash.
Possible doesn't mean likely. Hashes are very hard to randomly duplicate. And if it is a duplicate hash, it is very likely to be a cat or something equally tame. And as libertarian as I am (very), and understanding the trade off of security for liberty, this is one case where taking known hashes of known child porn, and stopping it, is actually good.
So they got the warrant based on google reading his email? Guess all the cops need for a warrant is for some throwaway email address to send a pic to your account.
I guess you missed the part about him being a convicted child abuser and all that. Or are you just being pedantic? As for this particular scenario you depicted, I would hope that we could expose the cops framing a suspect, and prosecute them appropriately. BUT I also realize that is very unlikely, which says more about our lousy policing than just about anything else.
I am a Libertarian. I haven't voted for a "winning" candidate in a very very long time. You talk about the "one party" yet vote for them. You are the problem because you're a hypocrite.
Economy Recovering (For Wall Street, mainstreet still at unacceptable unemployment) Debt Going down (Sequestration, in spite of horrors by Liberals about "government shutdown') Pulling out of wars (while Russia invades multiple countries annexing them at will, Hamas/Israel, Syria, Libya, Iraq..... ) Health Care for all (Not watching the news about Federal Case regarding Fed Exchange...)
How about Open Boarder Invasion from the south, causing massive harm to the environmentally threatened South West? (Check) IRS Lying in attacks against conservatives (check, check, check and... "Not a smidgeon of corruption".. check) Support of Islam at every step, while ignoring the plight of Christians (and others) world wide. (check) Golfing and fundraising instead of actually doing his job (Check) Another Multimillion dollar Vacation (check)
And the "other guy" (Romney) was mocked for saying exactly what is happening today in Ukraine. Obama is the pigeon on the chessboard of the world, strutting around knocking pieces over.
It may have been necessary to break the barriers, but at some point, the barriers are gone, and the only thing holding people back are the people themselves. There is NO REASON why black people can't succeed in America. After all, we have an unqualified "black" (half) man as President, simply because we're still threatened by "Racist" reverse slur being tossed out. After six years in office, he still can't seem to figure out when it is his fault when the shit hits the fan. I mean, still holding "race" or "GWB" or those "evil Republicans" is pretty lame leadership technique.
Theory and Practice. In theory, you are correct. In practice, you are not.
IMHO, there will be a nominal number of widely accepted crypto-currencies. I fathom perhaps 4-6 "standard" coins will be adopted, and another 6-10 in secondary/limited adoption. The 4-6 "adopted" will have "regional" flair being accepted widely in some geographic locations, and might not be accepted everywhere. There will likely be 2-3 Dominant currencies accepted most places, making them "default".
I'd go even one step further. It is not Person A, nor Person B's car audio system that is at fault for this. It is Person B who doesn't have legal right to permanent access to Person A's property. They should sue the people actually doing the crime, not the tool maker for making a useful tool.
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And all of this would go away if we mentioned that "ability" doesn't mean "rights". The ability to do something does not (or at least, should not) imbue more or less "rights". The problem, with typical PC thinking, is that modern liberalism equates equal outcome with equal rights. Outcomes are both ability (talent, skill) and effort (practice, dedication), but rights are self evident, and do not rely upon either.
I don't have a problem with people having different abilities/skills based on inherited traits. And inherited traits are NOT racist if they primarily fall along skin color or ethnic lines.
I"m not opposed to LGTB marriage, as long as I can have multiple wives. If we are re-defining marriage, I want my version legalized too.
If you have known neither "Insulin" nor "BMW", then you cannot miss either. You cannot "miss" something you never had. WE can look in from the outside and pass all sorts of judgements about people, but that doesn't mean anything other that we (outsiders) are showing our own myopic view of the world.
In the deepest part of the Amazon, where people have lived quite simply for thousands and thousands of years, and we say they live in poverty, is extremely elitist. We are actually guilty of placing our value system (money) on them, when they do not have even the faintest concept of that. The moment you bring in something they haven't had before, you create the very thing you despise ... envy.
Of course it is easy to sit in ivory towers looking down at all the idiots of the world, and judge them on their ignorance.
The problem isn't the Terrorists. It i the people who do not want to look like terrorists when they are fighting terrorists. And there in lies the problem. To combat evil, you must also take on the appearances of evil. To stop people from killing you, you must sometimes kill them. And the stupid people of the world cannot tell the difference between good people acting on self preservation from evil people acting on their own view of self preservation.
So, the issue is with good people who just want to be left alone, they must be pushed to the point violating their own normal sensibilities. And it is usually too late when that happens.
Specifically on your comments, you are pointing to the symptoms, not the problems. The only way to defeat Radical Islam, is for "peaceful" Islam to defeat it, radically (violently). At which point, it looks exactly like what it is trying to defeat. If every time a radical cries out in a Mosque "Kill the Infidels" the congregation took up stones and stoned them to death, you'd see the end of Radical Islam in very short order. Silence is consent.
Relevant XKCD http://xkcd.com/1205/
We actually use that chart to represent time gain efficiencies to automation.
I only heard of Steely Dan ...
Poor is in the eye of the beholder, and doesn't breed anything. Consumerism breeds envy, and envy breeds desperation (keeping up with the Jones'). If someone has what they have always known, there is NO envy, no desire to steal.
Good job Racist Elitist .
I have been to conferences that were "sales" and those that were "user based". Even "sales' conventions can be good, if you're wanting exposure to a variety of Tech that you may not be aware of . But User based (centered) Conferences usually have a ton of breakout sessions for learning how to use particular tech, and meeting people who use the tech, often in ways you may can employ that you haven't considered.
There are plenty of lawyers that would take this on Pro Bono or Counter Suit Contingency. And it is perfectly acceptable to simply say, "Go Ahead! Have you never heard of the Streisand Effect" and then sit back and grab a bucket of popcorn as the exact opposite of what they want happens.
The point being, it is easy to be a coward, until everyone is a coward, then bullies win. The hardest thing to do, is to stand up to bullies, but those that do, aren't going to see much in the way of bullying.
Personally, if I were a lawyer advising my client, I would love to get them the publicity by advising my client to give a big "EFF YU" to take down notices.
My suggestion would be "counter" to yours, which is, go to conferences for stuff you are or are already about to implement. It is usually a much better option to make use of the technology you have fully, before adding in more "Stuff" to manage. I've seen enough halfway implemented technology that ends up being an albatross later to need more than two hands and two feet to count.
As supervisor, your job is to make sure the technology and people you have are adequate, and manage the transition if they aren't.
All the laws on the books regarding Fraud, and yet it is perpetrated on such a massive scale and then goes generally unpunished. There may be a fall guy or two, but the main players get rich, hide their ill-gotten gains inside trusts that become untouchable, and their wealth is passed on to their heirs before the law can grab any of it.
Want to fix the problem, get harsh. Make a law that hiding money in trusts and other means after perpetrating fraud is also an act of fraud and thus, confiscate the wealth from the heirs, and their estates/trusts until they are left completely broke. The reason they pull this shit, is because even if they don't get away with it, they have already passed the wealth on to the next generation of fraudsters.
Yeah, the problem with 42, is you have to stop off at 34, and as every man knows, all work stops at 34. Physics Porn FTW!
Wanting something that is impossible, or at least very unlikely, is "rose tinted", and doesn't help. Good luck with that.
There are three basic levels (bunch of gray in between): Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.
Basic usage (80%) can be simple easy to follow instructions. The next 15% is Intermediate use, which requires Proficiency at Basic Level, followed by Advanced, which requires proficiency at Intermediate levels.
Most documentation is designed for Intermediate/Advanced users OR basic only.
"If you can't figure out how to use the program then how can you write documentation?"
Yes, exactly this. This is the exact location of the issue. The coder cannot write documentation, because he lacks empathy for the people who are using his program. He knows this, which is why he asks for help in documentation. The help arrives, but he lacks empathy for the documentation people equally. A little introspection by a developer goes a long way towards solving this problem. However coding in Mom's Basement (tm) doesn't lead one to that kind of response.
Rose Tinted glasses do not help any more than "Abrahamic Religious Nonsense" does.
Reality is, some people are just wired wrong, and need to be purged from society, be it prison, desert island or lethal injection. Caring for them doesn't solve anything, and doesn't stop them from doing what they do. If "caring" for them makes you feel good, you should probably spend more time caring for their victims instead.
Sorry, but I will not ever understand the need of some to side with criminals over victims.
It isn't what happens to appear in your email box, it is what appears in email you're sending. Yes, there is a difference.
Or which happens to be a valid image but has the same hash.
Possible doesn't mean likely. Hashes are very hard to randomly duplicate. And if it is a duplicate hash, it is very likely to be a cat or something equally tame. And as libertarian as I am (very), and understanding the trade off of security for liberty, this is one case where taking known hashes of known child porn, and stopping it, is actually good.
So they got the warrant based on google reading his email? Guess all the cops need for a warrant is for some throwaway email address to send a pic to your account.
I guess you missed the part about him being a convicted child abuser and all that. Or are you just being pedantic? As for this particular scenario you depicted, I would hope that we could expose the cops framing a suspect, and prosecute them appropriately. BUT I also realize that is very unlikely, which says more about our lousy policing than just about anything else.
It was that. Sorry.
I am a Libertarian. I haven't voted for a "winning" candidate in a very very long time. You talk about the "one party" yet vote for them. You are the problem because you're a hypocrite.
Economy Recovering (For Wall Street, mainstreet still at unacceptable unemployment) ..... ) ...)
Debt Going down (Sequestration, in spite of horrors by Liberals about "government shutdown')
Pulling out of wars (while Russia invades multiple countries annexing them at will, Hamas/Israel, Syria, Libya, Iraq
Health Care for all (Not watching the news about Federal Case regarding Fed Exchange
How about Open Boarder Invasion from the south, causing massive harm to the environmentally threatened South West? (Check) ... "Not a smidgeon of corruption" .. check)
IRS Lying in attacks against conservatives (check, check, check and
Support of Islam at every step, while ignoring the plight of Christians (and others) world wide. (check)
Golfing and fundraising instead of actually doing his job (Check)
Another Multimillion dollar Vacation (check)
And the "other guy" (Romney) was mocked for saying exactly what is happening today in Ukraine. Obama is the pigeon on the chessboard of the world, strutting around knocking pieces over.
Yes.
It may have been necessary to break the barriers, but at some point, the barriers are gone, and the only thing holding people back are the people themselves. There is NO REASON why black people can't succeed in America. After all, we have an unqualified "black" (half) man as President, simply because we're still threatened by "Racist" reverse slur being tossed out. After six years in office, he still can't seem to figure out when it is his fault when the shit hits the fan. I mean, still holding "race" or "GWB" or those "evil Republicans" is pretty lame leadership technique.
Theory and Practice. In theory, you are correct. In practice, you are not.
IMHO, there will be a nominal number of widely accepted crypto-currencies. I fathom perhaps 4-6 "standard" coins will be adopted, and another 6-10 in secondary/limited adoption. The 4-6 "adopted" will have "regional" flair being accepted widely in some geographic locations, and might not be accepted everywhere. There will likely be 2-3 Dominant currencies accepted most places, making them "default".
Only if people follow the complete chain through.
I'd go even one step further. It is not Person A, nor Person B's car audio system that is at fault for this. It is Person B who doesn't have legal right to permanent access to Person A's property. They should sue the people actually doing the crime, not the tool maker for making a useful tool.