"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
So what does "well regulated" mean in that context? What did he mean when he co-authored that phrase?
Right, but they did want well regulated militia, i.e. they wanted people to form organizations and regulate each other because having unregulated arms in the hands of untrained, unchecked individuals is dangerous.
GUNS ARE PROTECTION FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
So protection from criminals is just a side benefit and not a constitutional right. We are back to the well regulated militia, rather than the concerned home owner.
Most of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights were considered Self Evident. Most people naturally know they have a right to self-defense
Kinda. Anyone who understands the historical context will know that "self evident" means not derived from some authority such as god/the church or the government. That was the main concern, to give the rights legitimacy despite the lack of such an authority backing them.
The bigger issue is that, like almost all first attempts to create a document like that, it was sometimes vague and incomplete, and unevenly applied. The obvious example is that the Bill of Rights states that all men are considered equal... Except that some can be property and treated inhumanely, and it took another amendment to fix that. And yet more changes after that to extend full rights to women.
So it's perfectly legitimate to question the 2nd. The Bill of Rights was written with amendments being anticipated from the very start, and the judicial system was designed to interpret and clarify it.
Calling people cunts for doing so doesn't strengthen your argument, it just shows you up as an authoritarian who backs a law that happens to favour him and won't entertain any changes that might weaken his position.
Renewable sources like wind and solar don't synchronize to the grid that way. Solar is DC anyway, how could it? They use AC to DC and DC to AC conversion instead.
But they are not the only ones. Long distance transmission lines use DC now, so there is an AC to DC and a DC to AC converter on either end. They are solid state so the frequency is not dependent on anything mechanical.
Any recording can be accurately timestamped by comparing the variation in frequency of the mains hum against the recording held by the police.
They claim it can be accurately time-stamped, but at the moment it's at the level of pseudo-science since the method hasn't been published in any detail or rigorously reviewed and tested.
Since it's not publicly available it's also vulnerable to tampering - the police could stitch together multiple recordings and simply claim the hum proved they were all recorded sequentially and you would have little way of proving otherwise. It's also very likely that with knowledge of the algorithm used you could add your own fake hum to any recording.
It's just the latest bit of tech that the police like to wheel out CSI-style, as older ones like fingerprints and DNA samples get debunked.
Electrical grids in Europe use DC for transmission lines. Also wind isn't a DC source, it uses turbines that generate AC just like a steam one used on a coal/gas/nuclear plant. It's just that their AC output is not synchronized to the grid at all.
The main thing that changed was that DC to AC conversion became very efficient and possible to do on a very large scale thanks to solid state electronics. When the AC grid first started only AC to AC was practical, and even then changes in frequency were difficult to do without simply changing the frequency of the generator.
The issue here is that they claim to make very little profit due to having to pay crippling fees to the parent company (that is registered in a tax haven) to use the Amazon or Google branding. Starbucks does it too, they buy all their beans from the parent company and pay them licence fees to use the logo and green styling, and end up making near zero profit in EU countries despite having billions in revenue.
So the EU plan is to simply tax turnover, rather than profit. Easier than deciding what is legitimate profit and what isn't. Then they can carry on with their bullshit tax doge licencing fees but the EU still gets its tax take.
It's a nice solution to this problem, because it avoids trying to determine what is legitimate and what isn't, which is where the loopholes are found.
If by "a tad" you mean "billions of Euros profit from a market of 500m Europeans" then yes it would, and I really doubt they would throw that away over having to pay their fair share of tax.
My guess is that they found a way to bypass the usual limits on PIN guesses somehow, allowing them to try all possibilities quickly. And it sounds like they do it entirely in software.
Maybe something like they found a way to crash the secure processor, so they can reset it before it counts the attempt as failed. Timing reveals if it is going to accept it reject the pin early.
And the ones doing them cannot "retrain" upwards or they would not have been doping these bad jobs in the first place.
Experience suggests that isn't the case. A lot of the time the limiting factor is not something like innate intelligence or skill, but lack of opportunity. Particularly opportunity to learn skills, but also to access better jobs.
A lot of people seem to assume that when someone finishes school or university that's it, that's the limit of their learning capability and their career will be dictated by that. But in reality people learn in different ways, at different times in their lives. How many of us have switched careers mid-way through to something completely different?
The problem is that when Levi makes them redundant there won't necessarily be any new opportunities. And eventually, so many people will be replaced by robots that there won't be enough opportunity no matter what.
I don't buy Samsung phones any more, but I was really happy to see that the Galaxy S9 has a headphone socket, an SD card socket, USB C, is waterproof, has a fingerprint scanner and wireless charging.
If nothing else it debunks all the bullshit reasons for removing those things.
Some demo phones with fingerprint scanners under the screen have appeared, with release dates later this year. They are a bit slower than normal fingerprint readers. They only work with LCD screens as well, not OLED.
They look kinda cool actually. The screen under the sensor has to flash white to illuminate your finger, and on the demo I saw they made that into a nifty looking fingerprint scanning animation like in some Hollywood movie.
Personally though I'm happy with the fingerprint scanner on the back. It's in the perfect position when I pick the phone up and it's extremely fast. Would be even better if they made it into a scroll pad as well.
While access to education is a huge issue, I'd add that at the recruitment stage it can help to consider non-traditional backgrounds. What I mean is that not going to a prestigious school doesn't mean that person can't code.
In fact in low level embedded development where I work, a degree isn't all that relevant when interviewing. They don't teach this stuff on most courses and so we need to look at examples of work and talk to the candidate. We need to consider if we can teach them the necessary skills.
It's not that difficult to understand. It's about equality of opportunity, and from that the numbers will reach some kind of natural equilibrium that is close to the numbers in the wider population.
You don't need the numbers to show that there are issues. You only need to identify the issues themselves.
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"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
So what does "well regulated" mean in that context? What did he mean when he co-authored that phrase?
DID NOT WANT A GOVERNMENT RUN MILITIA.
Right, but they did want well regulated militia, i.e. they wanted people to form organizations and regulate each other because having unregulated arms in the hands of untrained, unchecked individuals is dangerous.
GUNS ARE PROTECTION FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
So protection from criminals is just a side benefit and not a constitutional right. We are back to the well regulated militia, rather than the concerned home owner.
Most of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights were considered Self Evident. Most people naturally know they have a right to self-defense
Kinda. Anyone who understands the historical context will know that "self evident" means not derived from some authority such as god/the church or the government. That was the main concern, to give the rights legitimacy despite the lack of such an authority backing them.
The bigger issue is that, like almost all first attempts to create a document like that, it was sometimes vague and incomplete, and unevenly applied. The obvious example is that the Bill of Rights states that all men are considered equal... Except that some can be property and treated inhumanely, and it took another amendment to fix that. And yet more changes after that to extend full rights to women.
So it's perfectly legitimate to question the 2nd. The Bill of Rights was written with amendments being anticipated from the very start, and the judicial system was designed to interpret and clarify it.
Calling people cunts for doing so doesn't strengthen your argument, it just shows you up as an authoritarian who backs a law that happens to favour him and won't entertain any changes that might weaken his position.
Renewable sources like wind and solar don't synchronize to the grid that way. Solar is DC anyway, how could it? They use AC to DC and DC to AC conversion instead.
But they are not the only ones. Long distance transmission lines use DC now, so there is an AC to DC and a DC to AC converter on either end. They are solid state so the frequency is not dependent on anything mechanical.
Any recording can be accurately timestamped by comparing the variation in frequency of the mains hum against the recording held by the police.
They claim it can be accurately time-stamped, but at the moment it's at the level of pseudo-science since the method hasn't been published in any detail or rigorously reviewed and tested.
Since it's not publicly available it's also vulnerable to tampering - the police could stitch together multiple recordings and simply claim the hum proved they were all recorded sequentially and you would have little way of proving otherwise. It's also very likely that with knowledge of the algorithm used you could add your own fake hum to any recording.
It's just the latest bit of tech that the police like to wheel out CSI-style, as older ones like fingerprints and DNA samples get debunked.
Electrical grids in Europe use DC for transmission lines. Also wind isn't a DC source, it uses turbines that generate AC just like a steam one used on a coal/gas/nuclear plant. It's just that their AC output is not synchronized to the grid at all.
The main thing that changed was that DC to AC conversion became very efficient and possible to do on a very large scale thanks to solid state electronics. When the AC grid first started only AC to AC was practical, and even then changes in frequency were difficult to do without simply changing the frequency of the generator.
The issue here is that they claim to make very little profit due to having to pay crippling fees to the parent company (that is registered in a tax haven) to use the Amazon or Google branding. Starbucks does it too, they buy all their beans from the parent company and pay them licence fees to use the logo and green styling, and end up making near zero profit in EU countries despite having billions in revenue.
So the EU plan is to simply tax turnover, rather than profit. Easier than deciding what is legitimate profit and what isn't. Then they can carry on with their bullshit tax doge licencing fees but the EU still gets its tax take.
It's a nice solution to this problem, because it avoids trying to determine what is legitimate and what isn't, which is where the loopholes are found.
Sure it might hurt their bottom line a tad.
If by "a tad" you mean "billions of Euros profit from a market of 500m Europeans" then yes it would, and I really doubt they would throw that away over having to pay their fair share of tax.
My guess is that they found a way to bypass the usual limits on PIN guesses somehow, allowing them to try all possibilities quickly. And it sounds like they do it entirely in software.
Maybe something like they found a way to crash the secure processor, so they can reset it before it counts the attempt as failed. Timing reveals if it is going to accept it reject the pin early.
The cinematography was good though.
And the books are even better than the TV series. I read all three as soon as they came out (first one by chance).
The Land Fit For Heroes trilogy isn't bad either, but the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy is my favourite sci-fi.
The Shape of Water is pretty good. A compete inversion of the monster movie trope. Not very PC at all, I mean interspecies sex...
No need for AI, just search Stack Exchange to see if the code was cooy/pasted from there. Throw in some heuristics to account for refactoring...
This sounds more like Clippy.
"I see you are trying to write a state machine..."
And the ones doing them cannot "retrain" upwards or they would not have been doping these bad jobs in the first place.
Experience suggests that isn't the case. A lot of the time the limiting factor is not something like innate intelligence or skill, but lack of opportunity. Particularly opportunity to learn skills, but also to access better jobs.
A lot of people seem to assume that when someone finishes school or university that's it, that's the limit of their learning capability and their career will be dictated by that. But in reality people learn in different ways, at different times in their lives. How many of us have switched careers mid-way through to something completely different?
The problem is that when Levi makes them redundant there won't necessarily be any new opportunities. And eventually, so many people will be replaced by robots that there won't be enough opportunity no matter what.
On the plus side I have a git history of all my to-dos and can compile statistics on how badly I fail to complete them.
Retro iPhone... Spiral bound notebook... Vintage mechanical pencil... Piano in your house....
I just realized that it's pretty hard to tell a nerd from a hipster now. Do you even own a TV?!?
I was joking. Maybe.
I don't buy Samsung phones any more, but I was really happy to see that the Galaxy S9 has a headphone socket, an SD card socket, USB C, is waterproof, has a fingerprint scanner and wireless charging.
If nothing else it debunks all the bullshit reasons for removing those things.
Some demo phones with fingerprint scanners under the screen have appeared, with release dates later this year. They are a bit slower than normal fingerprint readers. They only work with LCD screens as well, not OLED.
They look kinda cool actually. The screen under the sensor has to flash white to illuminate your finger, and on the demo I saw they made that into a nifty looking fingerprint scanning animation like in some Hollywood movie.
Personally though I'm happy with the fingerprint scanner on the back. It's in the perfect position when I pick the phone up and it's extremely fast. Would be even better if they made it into a scroll pad as well.
I have a much simpler solution that works with any text editor. I just leave TODO: comments in my source code and grep them later.
I meant literal Nazis. They kindly wear swastikas to make themselves more easily identifiable.
That's why I carefully avoided saying anything about guaranteeing numbers.
It doesn't matter how hard you want me to conform to your straw man, it won't change reality.
While access to education is a huge issue, I'd add that at the recruitment stage it can help to consider non-traditional backgrounds. What I mean is that not going to a prestigious school doesn't mean that person can't code.
In fact in low level embedded development where I work, a degree isn't all that relevant when interviewing. They don't teach this stuff on most courses and so we need to look at examples of work and talk to the candidate. We need to consider if we can teach them the necessary skills.
It's not that difficult to understand. It's about equality of opportunity, and from that the numbers will reach some kind of natural equilibrium that is close to the numbers in the wider population.
You don't need the numbers to show that there are issues. You only need to identify the issues themselves.
The actual lawsuit says it was one bad manager doing it, and when HR found out they shut it down.
The complaint is rather long but worth reading.