the man that makes a lot of money isn't any more self reliant than any other average schmo, the system that he built his wealth on only exists because of everyone else, he is just in the right place at the right time. If he is earning an in-proportional amount of money because of this, then that implies there is a missing equilibrium
Think of it this way, when there is a labor shortage, the government encourages overseas labor forces to migrate to the country, instead of allowing current citizens that are in the right place at the right time (ie laborers) to earn a disproportionate amount of money for less effort due to the high demand. Not a perfect analogy but highlights the effort that the government will go to reduce the average persons opportunity to make a fortune at the general populaces expense while making an exception for the financial sector. obviously the analogy falls down when you can't fix the equilibrium as easily.
note: I'm not American so i don't know if your government has a similar migration policy.
How about that? Same engine displacement, same fuel economy. And the Impala is the heavier car, which would account for the 1MPG difference between the two of them for city economy.
I guess "jaw-droppingly inefficient" isn't really a good description then, is it?
it is when you look a little closer.
Impala Output is 211hp
The Camry has 268hp.
using the same amount of fuel with only 4/5ths the power is what I'd call inefficient.
The impalas 3.9lt engine even produces less horse power than the 3.5lt Camry while consuming even more fuel.
the fallout from a nuclear powered rocket would cause a massive amount of fallout sprayed from the ground to the upper atmosphere, the fear is far from irrational.
there is talk however of using a nuclear powered rocket as a means of interplanetary / interstellar travel where fallout isn't such an issue.
This isn't really bribery because I can't be expected to earn my own karma for my own slash dot moderation campaign. and it doesn't give me an unfair advantage because all other Slashdot moderators are entitled to take contributions from lobbyists too.
because the problem isn't a sustained lack of power for the pumps, the problem was a brief interruption of power which was long enough for the plant to go into melt down. i doubt they would have had the time.
If for some reason you do think that should mark you forever then let me ask you have you ever pirated any software, music, or movies? How about accessed a computer without permission, even if it was due to a weak password or unpatched hole? Those are crimes, should the be chosen to be prosecuted as such. That you weren't caught is of no relevance. Unless you feel such a thing should mark you for life, then reconsider.
first off.. good, that means more jobs for honest people who don't need to carjack for fun.
If i get fired because of PR for the company through no action i performed during my employment (especially if the bank knew about it), then I'd expect a nice hand out from the company, If I didn't receive one I'd sue the company that fired me for unfair dismissal. If my history means i shouldn't have been hired in the first place, then it would need to be dictated in the contract for me to have no grounds for unfair dismissal. if its not in the policy then why wouldn't i be able to sue for the knee jerk reaction?
However you're essentially defending a conscious decision to break the law and put yourself above others in which there are real consequences for the victim, but its unfair if your poor decisions affect the rest of your life? when a poor decision like "i can make that light" can kill someone else or drastically effect the rest of their life, why should we defend people who don't wish to be persecuted because of past conscious decision to do something bad?
also, your argument is flawed. the banks(at least in my country) don't hire anyone with a criminal history. so regardless if some one has a bone to pick with you, you won't be working for the bank anyway.
When did the internet become so serious? i was brought up with a great distrust of any information on the internet. Everything on the web was considered a lie unless verified, i grew up with goatse traps behind every link and trolling was never a form of "bullying". now everything i post has to be safe for a 4 year old to browse because someone might take something i said on the internet seriously.
2 out of 3 in a civil case is apparently enough for a conviction.
if this guy was a pedophile that lost his job at school because someone informed the public of his past crimes, there is no difference in having the pedophile sue for damages in the same way?
the only ambiguous information in the summery is "had been involved in a fraudulent mortgage himself;" involved means he could have just been investigated, but then its hardly the fault of the person that brought this to attention and more the employers for a knee jerk reaction.
Instead so far he is merely being told he has to pay for that which he already said. So even if you consider a court order following a decision by a group of our peers to be the government acting, it is not shutting him up.
if you get a $60,000 fine for informing people of a potential conflict of interest for a research case, then yeah, I'd say doesn't matter how the lawyers or PR word it, its still shutting him up. also, wouldn't it be appropriate for someone who was convicted of mortgage fraud being part of a research team in the same way hackers(or crackers if you want to get your nerdy panties in a twist) make good security consultants?
ah k, that's the confusion, in Australia its "Defacto / married". so if your Defacto in my country you're treated as if you were married... its how the gays here gain a lot of rights by allowing "defacto" relationships without touching the politically destructive "gay's right to marriage" argument.
Just to clarify: the argument behind this is that companys say "its not my fault they don't know our policy, its in the EULA" while knowing full well that the EULA is used to selectively enforce popular policy depending on who's in charge at the time, and is therefor written in a confusing and overreaching manner to give as much power to those who are in charge as possible. I would like to use the same argument saying "its not my fault they don't know my policy, its re-sent to them every time i refresh their webpage".
Obviously, my system falls short on several requirements for being a legal binding document, but similarly if "someone" hit "i accept" on a webpage that should fall short of a legally binding document giving them permission to profiteer at my expense.
I would argue that a human is equally unlikely to read an EULA than a sysadmin to read an anomaly with the browser analytical. Especially if a company like Sony like to update their EULA every firmware update which happens at least once a week.
so... because your computer sends a response to the server that indicates to the server that a particular routine on the local computer executed or ran (by whom or what is not covered obviously), they are legally entitled to do what they want with the information the PC has given them.
using that logic: i guess i should make a browser that sends an EULA... or perhaps a SCLA (server communication) in the meta data it sends to the server along the lines of "by transmitting information to this computer you have released your rights to the information you have transmitted, continual transmission will be taken as an agreement to that condition". now its legal for me to use facebook's logos etc for my own financial gain without cutting them in. if they can obfuscate their "entitlements" deep in an obscure, excessively legalized document in which is supposedly applicable to even 13 year olds. then the same logic applies to my "agreement".
(they rely on GPS time stamps for transaction codes, and may use encryption dependent on timestamps obtained by GPS).
i don't think this is true. ATMs often sit on the bottom level of a multistory building in which they can't get GPS signal. so i doubt its a requirement for most ATMs.
My network is a cable modem plugged in to a switch. That's it. It's a consumer network, there ain't shit to administer son
you can recognize the difference between a network cable, a modem, a switch, you know and admit to calling the required technicians to get "the light turned back on". obviously all very simple tasks for some elite network manager like yourself... just like fixing a leaking tap is a simple task for a plumber, turn off water supply, unscrew tap handle bracket, resurface the washer recess and replace washer, re-assemble and turn water supply back on.
I suppose I did more than him with it since I paid the bills and made the calls but that's called "being a homeowner" and is why I get to charge rent for someone to live here, if I so choose. I take care of all the services, and just charge them their share.
then you gain more from the repairs he does to your house then, which i addressed in my argument as the only way that he didn't bone you.
Notice the hostile attitude, the "People owe me," mentality and so on.
i guess giving out my highly valuable time to people who don't return the favor has left me a little jaded, (i've spent weeks fixing a mates car, when i asked if he could give me a hand fixing mine... "yeah, don't really feel like it today", at least he was honest) but yes, people do owe me when i use my professional abilities that has cost me thousands of dollars and years to develop in a way that benefits them so they don't have to pay someone else. It's called a favor.
if the plumber didn't return the favor would you help them again? just because you didn't enter into a formal agreement doesn't mean you don't feel like you're owed something for your time. you have just undervalued your work by calling it square after a couple of 10 min plumbing fixes.
if you feel its square however then i guess the agreement is mutually beneficial and not really the focus of the thread at all. yes we all know accruing favors with people who have separate skill sets can mean that the favor would be returned, this has nothing to do with manners and most geeks are no less socially inept most other standard professionals.
and MUST learn why that's so bad and to never do it again.
ideally without ruining their future.
instead the police should investigate making sure the teacher will never get the stink of pedophilia off of himself guilty or not?
or, if he is found innocent then nothing more would happen? i doubt the police would have even have been required to speak to the teacher after talking to their parents and the students in question. also just because the public over-react to certain labels doesn't mean the company should handle things internally.
What actually happened: principal found accusations (regardless of how meaningless he thought they were) towards one of his teachers and then removed the accusations and punished the accusers.
Everyone i knew started this way too.. and use it to build up your customer base! free work for family etc when your not sure enough in your abilities and still learning.
but then when all the new exciting things you learn with each fix becomes - "same old shit, different machine", it gets tedious. also consider that your own projects of re-installing windows etc you can go at your pace, and if you fail you can just "try again tomorrow" or whenever you feel like it, and when you are done you get to use a nice fresh machine.
when your working on someone else computer the only reward is when you finish working on it you get to not work on it anymore.
to be fair, mac is good for mom and pop because its harder for them to break. but the same could be said about Ubuntu etc. once set up properly it should be fine.
windows is the only OS i know of that have made it harder to manage in an attempt to make things easier to manage.
"thanks son, you sound like you know what your talking about, but as i have no idea wtf you just said I'm going to continue to jab this screwdriver into the network port because i saw on TV this is how you fix a computer glitch".
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the man that makes a lot of money isn't any more self reliant than any other average schmo, the system that he built his wealth on only exists because of everyone else, he is just in the right place at the right time. If he is earning an in-proportional amount of money because of this, then that implies there is a missing equilibrium
Think of it this way, when there is a labor shortage, the government encourages overseas labor forces to migrate to the country, instead of allowing current citizens that are in the right place at the right time (ie laborers) to earn a disproportionate amount of money for less effort due to the high demand. Not a perfect analogy but highlights the effort that the government will go to reduce the average persons opportunity to make a fortune at the general populaces expense while making an exception for the financial sector. obviously the analogy falls down when you can't fix the equilibrium as easily.
note: I'm not American so i don't know if your government has a similar migration policy.
How about that? Same engine displacement, same fuel economy. And the Impala is the heavier car, which would account for the 1MPG difference between the two of them for city economy. I guess "jaw-droppingly inefficient" isn't really a good description then, is it?
it is when you look a little closer.
Impala Output is 211hp
The Camry has 268hp.
using the same amount of fuel with only 4/5ths the power is what I'd call inefficient.
The impalas 3.9lt engine even produces less horse power than the 3.5lt Camry while consuming even more fuel.
the fallout from a nuclear powered rocket would cause a massive amount of fallout sprayed from the ground to the upper atmosphere, the fear is far from irrational. there is talk however of using a nuclear powered rocket as a means of interplanetary / interstellar travel where fallout isn't such an issue.
Not to us, but to Microsoft it is.
This isn't really bribery because I can't be expected to earn my own karma for my own slash dot moderation campaign. and it doesn't give me an unfair advantage because all other Slashdot moderators are entitled to take contributions from lobbyists too.
because the problem isn't a sustained lack of power for the pumps, the problem was a brief interruption of power which was long enough for the plant to go into melt down. i doubt they would have had the time.
You're safe in death...
barcode?
If for some reason you do think that should mark you forever then let me ask you have you ever pirated any software, music, or movies? How about accessed a computer without permission, even if it was due to a weak password or unpatched hole? Those are crimes, should the be chosen to be prosecuted as such. That you weren't caught is of no relevance. Unless you feel such a thing should mark you for life, then reconsider.
first off.. good, that means more jobs for honest people who don't need to carjack for fun.
If i get fired because of PR for the company through no action i performed during my employment (especially if the bank knew about it), then I'd expect a nice hand out from the company, If I didn't receive one I'd sue the company that fired me for unfair dismissal. If my history means i shouldn't have been hired in the first place, then it would need to be dictated in the contract for me to have no grounds for unfair dismissal. if its not in the policy then why wouldn't i be able to sue for the knee jerk reaction?
However you're essentially defending a conscious decision to break the law and put yourself above others in which there are real consequences for the victim, but its unfair if your poor decisions affect the rest of your life? when a poor decision like "i can make that light" can kill someone else or drastically effect the rest of their life, why should we defend people who don't wish to be persecuted because of past conscious decision to do something bad?
also, your argument is flawed. the banks(at least in my country) don't hire anyone with a criminal history. so regardless if some one has a bone to pick with you, you won't be working for the bank anyway.
When did the internet become so serious? i was brought up with a great distrust of any information on the internet. Everything on the web was considered a lie unless verified, i grew up with goatse traps behind every link and trolling was never a form of "bullying". now everything i post has to be safe for a 4 year old to browse because someone might take something i said on the internet seriously.
2 out of 3 in a civil case is apparently enough for a conviction. if this guy was a pedophile that lost his job at school because someone informed the public of his past crimes, there is no difference in having the pedophile sue for damages in the same way? the only ambiguous information in the summery is "had been involved in a fraudulent mortgage himself;" involved means he could have just been investigated, but then its hardly the fault of the person that brought this to attention and more the employers for a knee jerk reaction.
Instead so far he is merely being told he has to pay for that which he already said. So even if you consider a court order following a decision by a group of our peers to be the government acting, it is not shutting him up.
if you get a $60,000 fine for informing people of a potential conflict of interest for a research case, then yeah, I'd say doesn't matter how the lawyers or PR word it, its still shutting him up. also, wouldn't it be appropriate for someone who was convicted of mortgage fraud being part of a research team in the same way hackers(or crackers if you want to get your nerdy panties in a twist) make good security consultants?
ah k, that's the confusion, in Australia its "Defacto / married". so if your Defacto in my country you're treated as if you were married... its how the gays here gain a lot of rights by allowing "defacto" relationships without touching the politically destructive "gay's right to marriage" argument.
Just to clarify: the argument behind this is that companys say "its not my fault they don't know our policy, its in the EULA" while knowing full well that the EULA is used to selectively enforce popular policy depending on who's in charge at the time, and is therefor written in a confusing and overreaching manner to give as much power to those who are in charge as possible. I would like to use the same argument saying "its not my fault they don't know my policy, its re-sent to them every time i refresh their webpage".
Obviously, my system falls short on several requirements for being a legal binding document, but similarly if "someone" hit "i accept" on a webpage that should fall short of a legally binding document giving them permission to profiteer at my expense.
I would argue that a human is equally unlikely to read an EULA than a sysadmin to read an anomaly with the browser analytical. Especially if a company like Sony like to update their EULA every firmware update which happens at least once a week.
isn't she constitutionally protected against incriminating her partner? or am I thinking of a different country?
so... because your computer sends a response to the server that indicates to the server that a particular routine on the local computer executed or ran (by whom or what is not covered obviously), they are legally entitled to do what they want with the information the PC has given them.
using that logic: i guess i should make a browser that sends an EULA... or perhaps a SCLA (server communication) in the meta data it sends to the server along the lines of "by transmitting information to this computer you have released your rights to the information you have transmitted, continual transmission will be taken as an agreement to that condition". now its legal for me to use facebook's logos etc for my own financial gain without cutting them in. if they can obfuscate their "entitlements" deep in an obscure, excessively legalized document in which is supposedly applicable to even 13 year olds. then the same logic applies to my "agreement".
so wait, its a surprise that big companies use fine print and legal loopholes to do whatever they want to improve profits.
(they rely on GPS time stamps for transaction codes, and may use encryption dependent on timestamps obtained by GPS).
i don't think this is true. ATMs often sit on the bottom level of a multistory building in which they can't get GPS signal. so i doubt its a requirement for most ATMs.
Compass? we used a magnetized pin pushed into a cork floating on water to navigate!
My network is a cable modem plugged in to a switch. That's it. It's a consumer network, there ain't shit to administer son
you can recognize the difference between a network cable, a modem, a switch, you know and admit to calling the required technicians to get "the light turned back on". obviously all very simple tasks for some elite network manager like yourself... just like fixing a leaking tap is a simple task for a plumber, turn off water supply, unscrew tap handle bracket, resurface the washer recess and replace washer, re-assemble and turn water supply back on.
I suppose I did more than him with it since I paid the bills and made the calls but that's called "being a homeowner" and is why I get to charge rent for someone to live here, if I so choose. I take care of all the services, and just charge them their share.
then you gain more from the repairs he does to your house then, which i addressed in my argument as the only way that he didn't bone you.
Notice the hostile attitude, the "People owe me," mentality and so on.
i guess giving out my highly valuable time to people who don't return the favor has left me a little jaded, (i've spent weeks fixing a mates car, when i asked if he could give me a hand fixing mine... "yeah, don't really feel like it today", at least he was honest) but yes, people do owe me when i use my professional abilities that has cost me thousands of dollars and years to develop in a way that benefits them so they don't have to pay someone else. It's called a favor.
if the plumber didn't return the favor would you help them again? just because you didn't enter into a formal agreement doesn't mean you don't feel like you're owed something for your time. you have just undervalued your work by calling it square after a couple of 10 min plumbing fixes. if you feel its square however then i guess the agreement is mutually beneficial and not really the focus of the thread at all. yes we all know accruing favors with people who have separate skill sets can mean that the favor would be returned, this has nothing to do with manners and most geeks are no less socially inept most other standard professionals.
and MUST learn why that's so bad and to never do it again.
ideally without ruining their future.
instead the police should investigate making sure the teacher will never get the stink of pedophilia off of himself guilty or not?
or, if he is found innocent then nothing more would happen? i doubt the police would have even have been required to speak to the teacher after talking to their parents and the students in question. also just because the public over-react to certain labels doesn't mean the company should handle things internally.
What actually happened: principal found accusations (regardless of how meaningless he thought they were) towards one of his teachers and then removed the accusations and punished the accusers.
does it matter? the moochers stopped asking who cares what they think?
Everyone i knew started this way too.. and use it to build up your customer base! free work for family etc when your not sure enough in your abilities and still learning.
but then when all the new exciting things you learn with each fix becomes - "same old shit, different machine", it gets tedious. also consider that your own projects of re-installing windows etc you can go at your pace, and if you fail you can just "try again tomorrow" or whenever you feel like it, and when you are done you get to use a nice fresh machine.
when your working on someone else computer the only reward is when you finish working on it you get to not work on it anymore.
to be fair, mac is good for mom and pop because its harder for them to break. but the same could be said about Ubuntu etc. once set up properly it should be fine. windows is the only OS i know of that have made it harder to manage in an attempt to make things easier to manage.
"thanks son, you sound like you know what your talking about, but as i have no idea wtf you just said I'm going to continue to jab this screwdriver into the network port because i saw on TV this is how you fix a computer glitch".