If guns were licensed like cars, almost everyone would be able to get a license;
In my state there is no license requirement. Everyone over 18 with the exception of the 6% of adults who are felons, may purchase a handgun, rifle or shotgun without restriction. That means 94% of people are eligible to own a gun.
and you would be able to own and fire a gun on private property without a license.
This is currently legal.
And there would be almost no limits on selling guns.
I believe it is called a Gun-Show
Almost everyone can get a license for concealed carry, but as I pointed out above, you don't need a license to own a gun. Only around 75% of adults have drivers licenses. So, using guns seems to have fewer restrictions than driving cars. A concealed carry course even takes less time than a drivers ed course, but you can kill far more people with a gun than with a car.
In experiments in petri dishes, and sometimes unintended experiments with islands & ecosystems, life has always followed a common trend. Every living thing reproduces until it runs out of resources, and then has a population crash. This has happened over & over & over again. Do you think humans are too smart, and immune to this? It has happened repeatedly in human history.
We have enough resources currently to feed the planet. However, we have reached a position where we know for a fact, that we are causing changes to our environment. These changes are, thus far, causing reduced food production.
I can go out and get some freshly cooked, healthy food for a few bucks.
Where? Close to 70% of American Adults are overweight. 35% are obese. This trend is linked pretty strongly with the growth of processed foods versus foods prepared at home. I'm very curious as to where you can find healthy food anywhere other than a grocery store, because in my city of several million people, I only see unhealthy fast food, and unhealthy restaurant food. Even the salads and "heart healthy" meals nearly everywhere go way over suggested daily calorie intake in a single meal.
To be fair, you don't need to be a master at every skill to be proficient. It doesn't take 40 hours a week for 5 years to learn how to fry an egg, or cook a decent dinner. Most skills can be self taught thanks to the wonder of internet video. Not just a few skills, but almost all. There are thousands of hours of video on youtube that teach carpentry. If you want to build a window frame find the videos on it, and read a bit. It only takes a few hours of study, and a few hours of practice, and a few general tools. If you want to be a master of a musical instrument it will take 10k hours. But if you want to be good enough to entertain yourself and friends, it only takes a few hundred hours of practice.
OP is correct. The problem with WYSIWYG editors is that they don't operate well with dynamic content. They can work for dynamic content if you jump through enough hoops. But you are in constant danger of basically clicking the wrong button and destroying the flow of any logic you've put in, and having to rebuild . It costs more time to work with a wysiwig editor than it saves by helping in generating the design, unless you are doing an extremely simple page with no logic, and lots of design elements.
If the architect only wants static pages, or is using embedded Flash, for instance, to run the logic, then I imagine a WYSIWIG editor could work. But overall, I don't think there is a whole lot of value in him learning how to use those tools. To be fair I haven't invested a ton of time to be proficient in them, especially recent versions. As others have said, I think there are better IDE's than Notepad++, but thats definitely a matter of personal preference. I'd take Notepad++ over Dreamweaver any day.
Spending time learning a CMS, and how to integrate his code into that, has a lot more value than learning a WYSIWYG editor.
Appreciate the info. Apparently men and women are equal in math, and women still outrank men in language skills. But seems those same studies show the notion that women are wired differently is still correct, since they are inherently better at language skills.
Is there something about programming that's inherently gender-oriented?
I believe there is. Why do men consistently score higher in math on SAT's than women? Why do women consistently score higher on language? Men and women aren't indentical, and their brains don't work in identical ways. I believe this is far more relevant as to why there are large differences in tech employment than sexist jokes.
Why should she have to dig through dumb juvenile jokes to learn about something like programming?
Exactly what field of study do you think is immune to dumb juvenile jokes? Do you think Doctors never make sexist jokes about body parts? Lawyers? Advertising agencies? (Hell, most of them make their living off the idea of either selling sex or comedy)
There aren't many women in tech fields. There aren't many male librarians or other jobs in the language arts field. Do we blame women for driving men away from being librarians?
Yes actually. Ford, Mercedes, and BMW are forced to acknowledge that aftermarket car parts made by other manufacturers will work in their vehicles, allowing a competitive market for replacement parts to exist.
The purpose was absolutely to give a leg up to Microsoft's business rivals and competitors. Because Microsoft was convicted of suppressing its business rivals through monopoly abuse. And having a robust marketplace is definitely in the interests of the people when compared to having no choice.
The gadgets still work, but when I click on the "Get more gadgets online", it brings me to a webpage that says Microsoft doesn't host gadgets anymore because they are too busy making Windows 8.
Instead if gives me the really helpful advice to not download gadgets from untrusted sources. This strikes me as unusual, since I was hoping Microsoft would be a trusted source where I could get safe gadgets. Apparently they aren't interested in doing that.
As part of my normal day to day job, my cell phone gets occasional calls from 150+ coworkers/clients, and with turnover I often have no way of knowing who is calling me. I can't simply ignore them if I don't recognize the number. I currently get about 5 calls a week from scammers, it used to be about 50. Every single time they would post a random number in the caller id, that did not trace back to them, but was some kind of hacked number. I've probably been called by spammers using hundreds of different phone numbers.
I hate them, and they hate me. I've answered and had them instantly start cussing me out on more than one occasion. I play games to keep them on the phone and find out information on the company, and personal information of the people working there. Most of the calls originate from a call center in Pensacola, Florida. They are definitely breaking the law, and they know it. I've filed dozens of complaints with the FTC & the FCC. I welcome this robo-summit.
A colonist is someone who goes some place where they have never been. Jews have been continually in Israel since before the time of King David and most of their holy sites are in Israel.
So... my family lived in an area hundreds of years ago, but moved away, and then a few generations ago several immigrants moved into an area that is now a neighboring village.
Therefore, it is completely fair to bulldoze that neighboring village of immigrant descendants, and build my own new house there?
We had the physical resources to make the buildings and products, and had the labor to provide the services, yet the bankers and money-brokers in their infinite wisdom decided that the "money" simply didn't exist so had to be loaned out in order for society to continue at it's current pace. Then this money needed to be returned to the bankers with interest, elevating their power and status in society. No matter how much money exists, more money is always owed to the central banks. It is an obvious ponzi scheme, yet also the entire basis of economic theory. It is important to remember that money is an imaginary number, whose value is entirely based upon our collective agreement. We collectively decided that the imaginary number was more important than the physical world of goods and services, and this is why we as a nation, are in debt.
Does this 140k number change the amount of iron and concrete? Does it change the amount of coal and oil? Does that imaginary number impact the amount of work a person can do in a day? Most of the debt is owned by the same people who owe the debt, yet if it isn't kept "under control", those same people will stop agreeing to loan themselves money? Yes, I know I'm simplifying an extremely concept topic, but people tend to forget that money is imaginary. Current debt levels are unprecedented because money used to be physical. It used to be (mostly) actual coins and gold bullion, and has in the past couple generations been converted to an electronic number that has almost no basis in reality. Is it any surprise the number has grown to a new record high when the amount of "money" in the world has exploded?
Currently I have a couple dozen sites around the US. Despite every one of them having service level agreements / commercial tier internet connections, it seems inevitable that at least one of the sites will lose their internet connection every few weeks for a few hours. The cloud definitely has better connectivity than a restaurant, but that doesn't mean much since your restaurant has to connect to that cloud site to run. If that meant shutting the business down, then that is potentially thousands of dollars lost. Maybe that is enough money saved by hosting to be worth it, but I just don't like the loss of control involved.
The other, far more important reason is PCI compliance for credit cards. I see now with a quick search that there are PCI compliant hosts so I geuss that reason is no longer valid. The last time I looked it up it was more of a gray area.
I'm a big linux advocate, but it doesn't necesarily mean postgres can be swapped in for MSSQL, it all depends very heavily on the POS software.
I administrate POS systems, the systems I built have served 2 million+ people so far this year. In general as some other people have said, I don't think you are asking the right question. It would help to know which POS software you're using.
If your SQL server is currently having downtime, WHY is it having downtime?
Is it hardware? Buy a newer system, nothing very fancy is needed, preferably a dual-raid system, for OS and data, but one raid to rule them all can work too.
Is it software? This is what seems likely to me. A newer system may not help. Restaurant POS systems aren't the most reliable in my experience. If the database is crashing or slow, it might have too much data in it for the POS software to cope with. Archiving the old data, or getting a fresh start & rebuilding all of the items might give you a much smoother system. (And yes, its a painful thought to break with sales history)
Failover is a good thing, but you need to know why the first system fails before you can be a second system will help. Vendors like to blame other systems and say things like "the database crashed", rather than their own product. Yet it was their product that fed bad data into the database, and then pulled bad data back out and crashed as a result.
Do you have a pen & paper system that your staff know how to write a ticket, and way to take manual imprints of credit cards? A high tech solution isn't always the most cost effective or even necessary depending on how many outages you have had and what their impact has been.
I would not push your main server to the cloud. Just make sure it is in a safe cold place, that stays inacessible to most people and is nowhere near the kitchen. Overall I think you'll get more reliability from 1 good server than trying to make 2 mediocre servers failover smoothly.
Second, students who study six years but ultimately drop out receive more financial aid than the diligent "A" student graduating in three years: We reward mediocrity and punish excellence.
How is getting something done in half the time a punishment?
Worth pointing out that in my state (Texas), a student going to a state school gets a financial reward if they finish ahead of schedule, without taking too many elective courses. It is a win-win situation. The state saves money overall, and the student has extra incentive to finish sooner. And the school has zero incentive to hold the student back since they have plenty of other applicants to fill the seat.
That decision is made for them by the school when they set their tuition rate.
Nobody is forcing the student to go to a particular school. If a family (or student) CAN toss in $5k, or can find a school that cost $0 and is covered by grants and scholarships, they don't automatically go to the one that costs more. Despite what everyone seems to think, more expensive != better, and students won't automatically gravitate to the most expensive option. I personally opted to go to a place where I had a full scholarship and stipend, specifically because the cost was much cheaper than my original first choice and I didn't want to go into debt.
Its like mistakenly thinking individual home buyers set the price of homes. Not so... They've got a out of pocket budget of (for example) $1000K/month and the govt sets the interest rate which sets the amount they can borrow which sets the price of the house.
I'm not sure what country you live in. In mine, the government does not set housing prices. The seller sets the price of their house based on comparables in the neighborhood plus any unique features which raise or lower their specific value. This has been inflated by varying degrees in different parts of the country. In my state, there was no real estate bubble. Individual buyers choose how much to pay for the house, or negotiate a better price, or don't buy the house. Each and every buyer made the decision to go along with the increased price because they thought it was the right decision for them. If people don't like high prices for homes, all they have to do is not buy them and the prices fall. Buyers absolutely set the price they want to pay.
There are plenty of students who won't borrow 60k just because they can. They might in fact shop around for a cheaper institution, so they don't have to borrow money. Not everyone is eager to go into massive debt.
Question: IF, for whatever hypothetical reasons, there was no way for any artist to make money with music. Would people stop making music?
Getting paid isn't the only incentive for making music. I know hundreds of people who have devoting tens of thousands of hours to the task of learning instruments, practicing their art, and playing for the enjoyment of others who knew they wouldn't get paid for it ever in their lives. Yet still they play their instruments, and they sing. Why are they doing this for free? I know plenty of accountants and programmers who studied their craft with the sole incentive of getting paid. I don't know a single musician who dedicated their life to music with the primary goal of getting paid.
People like to make music so much, that virtually everyone on the planet sings or plays an instrument at some point in their lives. The barrier to entry is incredibly low, and as such, competition to make any kind of profit is incredibly high. I do think artists should be compensated, but the vast majority of musicians aren't extraordinarily talented. It isn't a unique skill to play an instrument, it isn't rare. If nobody ever got paid again for making music, I have no doubt that there would still be wonderful music being made that I would enjoy listening to.
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The dropping crime rate is strongly linked to two things: Abortion and Birth Control
Gun ownership is linked to the number of people who get shot, whether suicidal, accidental or otherwise.
If guns were licensed like cars, almost everyone would be able to get a license;
In my state there is no license requirement. Everyone over 18 with the exception of the 6% of adults who are felons, may purchase a handgun, rifle or shotgun without restriction. That means 94% of people are eligible to own a gun.
and you would be able to own and fire a gun on private property without a license.
This is currently legal.
And there would be almost no limits on selling guns.
I believe it is called a Gun-Show
Almost everyone can get a license for concealed carry, but as I pointed out above, you don't need a license to own a gun. Only around 75% of adults have drivers licenses. So, using guns seems to have fewer restrictions than driving cars. A concealed carry course even takes less time than a drivers ed course, but you can kill far more people with a gun than with a car.
"Military Grade" is a political fiction, the civilian AR-15 is functionally identical to popular hunting rifles.
Except he managed to shoot 79 people within the span of a couple minutes. Do you think that is even remotely possible with a regular hunting rifle?
In experiments in petri dishes, and sometimes unintended experiments with islands & ecosystems, life has always followed a common trend. Every living thing reproduces until it runs out of resources, and then has a population crash. This has happened over & over & over again. Do you think humans are too smart, and immune to this? It has happened repeatedly in human history.
We have enough resources currently to feed the planet. However, we have reached a position where we know for a fact, that we are causing changes to our environment. These changes are, thus far, causing reduced food production.
I can go out and get some freshly cooked, healthy food for a few bucks.
Where? Close to 70% of American Adults are overweight. 35% are obese. This trend is linked pretty strongly with the growth of processed foods versus foods prepared at home. I'm very curious as to where you can find healthy food anywhere other than a grocery store, because in my city of several million people, I only see unhealthy fast food, and unhealthy restaurant food. Even the salads and "heart healthy" meals nearly everywhere go way over suggested daily calorie intake in a single meal.
To be fair, you don't need to be a master at every skill to be proficient. It doesn't take 40 hours a week for 5 years to learn how to fry an egg, or cook a decent dinner. Most skills can be self taught thanks to the wonder of internet video. Not just a few skills, but almost all. There are thousands of hours of video on youtube that teach carpentry. If you want to build a window frame find the videos on it, and read a bit. It only takes a few hours of study, and a few hours of practice, and a few general tools. If you want to be a master of a musical instrument it will take 10k hours. But if you want to be good enough to entertain yourself and friends, it only takes a few hundred hours of practice.
OP is correct. The problem with WYSIWYG editors is that they don't operate well with dynamic content. They can work for dynamic content if you jump through enough hoops. But you are in constant danger of basically clicking the wrong button and destroying the flow of any logic you've put in, and having to rebuild . It costs more time to work with a wysiwig editor than it saves by helping in generating the design, unless you are doing an extremely simple page with no logic, and lots of design elements.
If the architect only wants static pages, or is using embedded Flash, for instance, to run the logic, then I imagine a WYSIWIG editor could work. But overall, I don't think there is a whole lot of value in him learning how to use those tools. To be fair I haven't invested a ton of time to be proficient in them, especially recent versions. As others have said, I think there are better IDE's than Notepad++, but thats definitely a matter of personal preference. I'd take Notepad++ over Dreamweaver any day.
Spending time learning a CMS, and how to integrate his code into that, has a lot more value than learning a WYSIWYG editor.
Appreciate the info. Apparently men and women are equal in math, and women still outrank men in language skills. But seems those same studies show the notion that women are wired differently is still correct, since they are inherently better at language skills.
Is there something about programming that's inherently gender-oriented?
I believe there is. Why do men consistently score higher in math on SAT's than women? Why do women consistently score higher on language? Men and women aren't indentical, and their brains don't work in identical ways. I believe this is far more relevant as to why there are large differences in tech employment than sexist jokes.
Why should she have to dig through dumb juvenile jokes to learn about something like programming?
Exactly what field of study do you think is immune to dumb juvenile jokes? Do you think Doctors never make sexist jokes about body parts? Lawyers? Advertising agencies? (Hell, most of them make their living off the idea of either selling sex or comedy)
There aren't many women in tech fields. There aren't many male librarians or other jobs in the language arts field. Do we blame women for driving men away from being librarians?
I think 0xB16BA115 would be the most appropriate analogy
Yes actually. Ford, Mercedes, and BMW are forced to acknowledge that aftermarket car parts made by other manufacturers will work in their vehicles, allowing a competitive market for replacement parts to exist.
The purpose was absolutely to give a leg up to Microsoft's business rivals and competitors. Because Microsoft was convicted of suppressing its business rivals through monopoly abuse. And having a robust marketplace is definitely in the interests of the people when compared to having no choice.
Many women can't get some jobs because companies are concerned about them getting pregnant and not being there for them.
She is currently 6 months pregnant. I guess Yahoo doesn't mind if she phones it in for the next 6 months.
The gadgets still work, but when I click on the "Get more gadgets online", it brings me to a webpage that says Microsoft doesn't host gadgets anymore because they are too busy making Windows 8.
Instead if gives me the really helpful advice to not download gadgets from untrusted sources. This strikes me as unusual, since I was hoping Microsoft would be a trusted source where I could get safe gadgets. Apparently they aren't interested in doing that.
When we're back in full force of the 90s boom, then we can elevate its priority accordingly.
Absolutely. Any research into making sure the planet stays habitable for humans should play second fiddle to the creation of widgets!
As part of my normal day to day job, my cell phone gets occasional calls from 150+ coworkers/clients, and with turnover I often have no way of knowing who is calling me. I can't simply ignore them if I don't recognize the number. I currently get about 5 calls a week from scammers, it used to be about 50. Every single time they would post a random number in the caller id, that did not trace back to them, but was some kind of hacked number. I've probably been called by spammers using hundreds of different phone numbers.
I hate them, and they hate me. I've answered and had them instantly start cussing me out on more than one occasion. I play games to keep them on the phone and find out information on the company, and personal information of the people working there. Most of the calls originate from a call center in Pensacola, Florida. They are definitely breaking the law, and they know it. I've filed dozens of complaints with the FTC & the FCC. I welcome this robo-summit.
A colonist is someone who goes some place where they have never been. Jews have been continually in Israel since before the time of King David and most of their holy sites are in Israel.
So... my family lived in an area hundreds of years ago, but moved away, and then a few generations ago several immigrants moved into an area that is now a neighboring village.
Therefore, it is completely fair to bulldoze that neighboring village of immigrant descendants, and build my own new house there?
We had the physical resources to make the buildings and products, and had the labor to provide the services, yet the bankers and money-brokers in their infinite wisdom decided that the "money" simply didn't exist so had to be loaned out in order for society to continue at it's current pace. Then this money needed to be returned to the bankers with interest, elevating their power and status in society. No matter how much money exists, more money is always owed to the central banks. It is an obvious ponzi scheme, yet also the entire basis of economic theory. It is important to remember that money is an imaginary number, whose value is entirely based upon our collective agreement. We collectively decided that the imaginary number was more important than the physical world of goods and services, and this is why we as a nation, are in debt.
Does this 140k number change the amount of iron and concrete? Does it change the amount of coal and oil? Does that imaginary number impact the amount of work a person can do in a day? Most of the debt is owned by the same people who owe the debt, yet if it isn't kept "under control", those same people will stop agreeing to loan themselves money? Yes, I know I'm simplifying an extremely concept topic, but people tend to forget that money is imaginary. Current debt levels are unprecedented because money used to be physical. It used to be (mostly) actual coins and gold bullion, and has in the past couple generations been converted to an electronic number that has almost no basis in reality. Is it any surprise the number has grown to a new record high when the amount of "money" in the world has exploded?
Currently I have a couple dozen sites around the US. Despite every one of them having service level agreements / commercial tier internet connections, it seems inevitable that at least one of the sites will lose their internet connection every few weeks for a few hours. The cloud definitely has better connectivity than a restaurant, but that doesn't mean much since your restaurant has to connect to that cloud site to run. If that meant shutting the business down, then that is potentially thousands of dollars lost. Maybe that is enough money saved by hosting to be worth it, but I just don't like the loss of control involved.
The other, far more important reason is PCI compliance for credit cards. I see now with a quick search that there are PCI compliant hosts so I geuss that reason is no longer valid. The last time I looked it up it was more of a gray area.
I'm a big linux advocate, but it doesn't necesarily mean postgres can be swapped in for MSSQL, it all depends very heavily on the POS software.
I administrate POS systems, the systems I built have served 2 million+ people so far this year. In general as some other people have said, I don't think you are asking the right question. It would help to know which POS software you're using.
If your SQL server is currently having downtime, WHY is it having downtime?
Is it hardware? Buy a newer system, nothing very fancy is needed, preferably a dual-raid system, for OS and data, but one raid to rule them all can work too.
Is it software? This is what seems likely to me. A newer system may not help. Restaurant POS systems aren't the most reliable in my experience. If the database is crashing or slow, it might have too much data in it for the POS software to cope with. Archiving the old data, or getting a fresh start & rebuilding all of the items might give you a much smoother system. (And yes, its a painful thought to break with sales history)
Failover is a good thing, but you need to know why the first system fails before you can be a second system will help. Vendors like to blame other systems and say things like "the database crashed", rather than their own product. Yet it was their product that fed bad data into the database, and then pulled bad data back out and crashed as a result.
Do you have a pen & paper system that your staff know how to write a ticket, and way to take manual imprints of credit cards? A high tech solution isn't always the most cost effective or even necessary depending on how many outages you have had and what their impact has been.
I would not push your main server to the cloud. Just make sure it is in a safe cold place, that stays inacessible to most people and is nowhere near the kitchen. Overall I think you'll get more reliability from 1 good server than trying to make 2 mediocre servers failover smoothly.
How is getting something done in half the time a punishment?
Worth pointing out that in my state (Texas), a student going to a state school gets a financial reward if they finish ahead of schedule, without taking too many elective courses. It is a win-win situation. The state saves money overall, and the student has extra incentive to finish sooner. And the school has zero incentive to hold the student back since they have plenty of other applicants to fill the seat.
That decision is made for them by the school when they set their tuition rate.
Nobody is forcing the student to go to a particular school. If a family (or student) CAN toss in $5k, or can find a school that cost $0 and is covered by grants and scholarships, they don't automatically go to the one that costs more. Despite what everyone seems to think, more expensive != better, and students won't automatically gravitate to the most expensive option. I personally opted to go to a place where I had a full scholarship and stipend, specifically because the cost was much cheaper than my original first choice and I didn't want to go into debt.
Its like mistakenly thinking individual home buyers set the price of homes. Not so... They've got a out of pocket budget of (for example) $1000K/month and the govt sets the interest rate which sets the amount they can borrow which sets the price of the house.
I'm not sure what country you live in. In mine, the government does not set housing prices. The seller sets the price of their house based on comparables in the neighborhood plus any unique features which raise or lower their specific value. This has been inflated by varying degrees in different parts of the country. In my state, there was no real estate bubble. Individual buyers choose how much to pay for the house, or negotiate a better price, or don't buy the house. Each and every buyer made the decision to go along with the increased price because they thought it was the right decision for them. If people don't like high prices for homes, all they have to do is not buy them and the prices fall. Buyers absolutely set the price they want to pay.
There are plenty of students who won't borrow 60k just because they can. They might in fact shop around for a cheaper institution, so they don't have to borrow money. Not everyone is eager to go into massive debt.
Question: IF, for whatever hypothetical reasons, there was no way for any artist to make money with music. Would people stop making music?
Getting paid isn't the only incentive for making music. I know hundreds of people who have devoting tens of thousands of hours to the task of learning instruments, practicing their art, and playing for the enjoyment of others who knew they wouldn't get paid for it ever in their lives. Yet still they play their instruments, and they sing. Why are they doing this for free? I know plenty of accountants and programmers who studied their craft with the sole incentive of getting paid. I don't know a single musician who dedicated their life to music with the primary goal of getting paid.
People like to make music so much, that virtually everyone on the planet sings or plays an instrument at some point in their lives. The barrier to entry is incredibly low, and as such, competition to make any kind of profit is incredibly high. I do think artists should be compensated, but the vast majority of musicians aren't extraordinarily talented. It isn't a unique skill to play an instrument, it isn't rare. If nobody ever got paid again for making music, I have no doubt that there would still be wonderful music being made that I would enjoy listening to.