No one wants to see a poor, single mother be unable to feed her children, but there are as many people collecting food stamps undeservedly as legitimately.
No one wants to see a hard working man injured on the job and thus unable to care for his family.... but there are many abusers of the system who collect monthly disability checks to augment a lifestyle that clashes with making it to work every morning.
Bottom line for me (and YMMV) is that though charity and paying it forward can be abused, that's no reason to punish the well deserving recipient.
Great reference, wrong thread. The problem you've highlighted is exactly what this "$100,000,000" thread is about. I recommend reading the OP before commenting:
What does that amount to? A month? A week's worth of revenue? Show some teeth dammit! Revoke their charter...
Punishment theatre is a meme that describes the faux appearance of a severe penalty.
I don't have to be correct. I just don't want you to be mistaken.
AT&T assumed that their advertising was fine until told otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It doesn't matter how long they evaded law enforcement with double-speak. They were violating the law and should be held accountable for the full magnitude of the crime they've committed. That's how justice works in this country.
"If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." Fight Club narrator
Fines like this are a calculated cost of doing business, to be sure, but they are also an important part of punishment theatre. Companies of this size negotiate fine amounts and punishments as forms of appeasement when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, every Wall Street banker ever, etc.
Never underestimate stupidity, people will always surpass expectations.
I can tell you firsthand that you are incorrect in your assumption that they wouldn't be looking for copper. At my job, we've had one particular 24-count fiber cut by idiot copper thieves multiple times over the past few years (at least that line is only a 24).
They usually gravitate to our cross-country runs that are out in the woods or in huge, out-of-the-way fields where they won't be noticed. The problem is that the morons just automatically assume that any large black phone cable on the pole is going to be copper. Once they cut into it, if it is fiber, they just leave it laying there and we end up having to track the cut down using an OTDR. If it is copper, they'll take a span or two of it with them before bugging out.
Right. Originally, I was considering a play on ascribing malice where stupidity explained the result, but I thought this was essentially a clever mix of both.
Copper's advantages appear to be minor. Legacy (it's already there) and installation cost are often cited as the two chief advantages. Which is easier to repair once vandalized in the field?
My young kids don't even ask for the TV - they only want the tablets. We sometimes reflexively put something on TV for them, and they often ask if they can't watch it on the tablets instead.
It 's a different fockingWorld.
I used to imagine how my own version of "two miles to school uphill both ways barefoot in the snow"" might go. I used to think it would be, "We had to get up out of our seat to change the channel."
Now I realize that it may well be, "We had to watch a program at a regularly scheduled day and time to see it each week."
I would be willing to present the extenuating circumstances for your perusal.
Since I was defending the Firstposter, rather than seeking the self-gratifying adulation of a crafty original posit, I submit the punishment be mitigated to a stern look and a frown of short duration.
Although shark-spotting may be a novel use of UAV's (technically, not drones), there are perhaps thousands of as yet unexploited uses for these little technological wonders.
This is great news for the proponents of more widespread FAA approval of the UAV's commercial applications, because for all their potential helpfulness, there is any number of illegal and ill-advised uses that opponents will rail against.
If they could become ubiquitous protectors of human safety, it is more likely the occasional malevolent use would be tolerated.
One of the most difficult things to get your head around at a proud, faltering, legacy company is that the things that use to work for you are no longer selling. The idea of an OS that is more secure than iOS or Android has some appeal in circles such as this, but market share is driven by the Muggles.
Have an open mind. Embrace a new strategy. The Blackberry OS was 1% of market share in 2014. (Android >75%)
Take care of your greatest remaining asset: your people. That priority can be best accomplished with a return to solvency.
Agreed, but these private schools are only available at a premium in many locales, placing them outside the budget of many poor Southern families, ironically where the Creationist belief set is most prevalent.
Look, this is not an argument for the presence of any god in the classroom. It just seems clear there are going to be pockets of the population in some school districts where belief in the almighty approaches 100%.
90% of everything is doing something instead of doing nothing.
Some of the time, when you do something to avert what you perceive is an impending negative consequence, it doesn't help. Doing nothing in response to external stimuli meant to conjure up angst in you helps an alarmingly smallish to infinitesimal percentage of the time.
Doing is statistically likely to elicit a better outcome for you than not doing.
This is a really unfortunate, yet predictable, fallout from the revelations that the tinhatters were right about some things after all.
But. Unless we develop into a World where each nation makes all of their own tech, which seems unlikely, somebody, somewhere else, will still be using exported tech as surveillance machinery.
Slashdot Mirror
Timing, it seems, isn't everything after all.
Posting the first inane thing that comes into your head doesn't deserve the top of the page automagically. This is Slashdot. Post smart or go home.
No one wants to see a hard working man injured on the job and thus unable to care for his family.... but there are many abusers of the system who collect monthly disability checks to augment a lifestyle that clashes with making it to work every morning.
Bottom line for me (and YMMV) is that though charity and paying it forward can be abused, that's no reason to punish the well deserving recipient.
Great reference, wrong thread. The problem you've highlighted is exactly what this "$100,000,000" thread is about. I recommend reading the OP before commenting:
Punishment theatre is a meme that describes the faux appearance of a severe penalty.
I don't have to be correct. I just don't want you to be mistaken.
The most incredible thing about the filming from that height and orbital speed is that we're really not that surprised. Barely impressed, perhaps.
Poor science... we've set the bar so high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It doesn't matter how long they evaded law enforcement with double-speak. They were violating the law and should be held accountable for the full magnitude of the crime they've committed. That's how justice works in this country.
"If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." Fight Club narrator
Fines like this are a calculated cost of doing business, to be sure, but they are also an important part of punishment theatre. Companies of this size negotiate fine amounts and punishments as forms of appeasement when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, every Wall Street banker ever, etc.
so I have a sneaking suspicion the military has also worked this one out.
Buried several paragraphs into the link is the real reason for faltering numbers of UAV pilots:
Never underestimate stupidity, people will always surpass expectations.
I can tell you firsthand that you are incorrect in your assumption that they wouldn't be looking for copper. At my job, we've had one particular 24-count fiber cut by idiot copper thieves multiple times over the past few years (at least that line is only a 24).
They usually gravitate to our cross-country runs that are out in the woods or in huge, out-of-the-way fields where they won't be noticed. The problem is that the morons just automatically assume that any large black phone cable on the pole is going to be copper. Once they cut into it, if it is fiber, they just leave it laying there and we end up having to track the cut down using an OTDR. If it is copper, they'll take a span or two of it with them before bugging out.
Right. Originally, I was considering a play on ascribing malice where stupidity explained the result, but I thought this was essentially a clever mix of both.
Copper's advantages appear to be minor. Legacy (it's already there) and installation cost are often cited as the two chief advantages. Which is easier to repair once vandalized in the field?
Other than forfeited assets, perhaps.
Nope. Fiber optic, not copper comm lines, so this incident cannot be ascribed to greed rather than mischief.
It's rather ironic that no one's default scapegoat is the ungodly atheist.
Hawkeye point is the tallest summit in Iowa at 510 meters (1670').
Prevaricator.
My young kids don't even ask for the TV - they only want the tablets. We sometimes reflexively put something on TV for them, and they often ask if they can't watch it on the tablets instead.
It 's a different focking World.
I used to imagine how my own version of "two miles to school uphill both ways barefoot in the snow"" might go. I used to think it would be, "We had to get up out of our seat to change the channel."
Now I realize that it may well be, "We had to watch a program at a regularly scheduled day and time to see it each week."
I would be willing to present the extenuating circumstances for your perusal.
Since I was defending the Firstposter, rather than seeking the self-gratifying adulation of a crafty original posit, I submit the punishment be mitigated to a stern look and a frown of short duration.
I believe the grandonymous one was executing a clever parody of global war..., er, climate change.
This is great news for the proponents of more widespread FAA approval of the UAV's commercial applications, because for all their potential helpfulness, there is any number of illegal and ill-advised uses that opponents will rail against.
If they could become ubiquitous protectors of human safety, it is more likely the occasional malevolent use would be tolerated.
Have an open mind. Embrace a new strategy. The Blackberry OS was 1% of market share in 2014. (Android >75%)
Take care of your greatest remaining asset: your people. That priority can be best accomplished with a return to solvency.
Directly after the first incident. Don't kid yourself, if it can be used malevolently, it certainly will be.
In other news, the US is incensed with the latest Chinese spying allegations.
parochial schools
Agreed, but these private schools are only available at a premium in many locales, placing them outside the budget of many poor Southern families, ironically where the Creationist belief set is most prevalent.
Look, this is not an argument for the presence of any god in the classroom. It just seems clear there are going to be pockets of the population in some school districts where belief in the almighty approaches 100%.
Unfortunate, yet not unexpected.
are found to sponsoring that belief set for the education of their children.
Some of the time, when you do something to avert what you perceive is an impending negative consequence, it doesn't help. Doing nothing in response to external stimuli meant to conjure up angst in you helps an alarmingly smallish to infinitesimal percentage of the time.
Doing is statistically likely to elicit a better outcome for you than not doing.
But. Unless we develop into a World where each nation makes all of their own tech, which seems unlikely, somebody, somewhere else, will still be using exported tech as surveillance machinery.
It just won't be the US as much.
To be fair, I suspect much of this is the general dumbing down of our leaders combined with the increasingly technical World they are asked to govern.
The Congressman need not understand (or employ someone who understands) with all those helpful lobbyists at their beck and call.