So.... there is a bunch of information now available, that anyone can see, but that the government does not want the members of military to see. Our military is therefore expected to blindly kill and destroy without having access to what is now public information on the regime they are supporting. Seems like every new step that my government takes lately raises more red flags and sets off new alarms.
Wait a sec... he's been in jail for months, and didn't have a trial? What did the jury rule? Or have we disposed with yet another inconvenient Constitutional Amendment?
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense." --- sixth amendment to the US Constitution, a.k.a. The Bill of Rights
Get into linux instead, and all the awesome free tech in that world. MySql, Hadoop, Cassandra, all these nosql databases are where it's at. That tech is on the upswing, MicroSoft's tech is on the downswing.
Do you trust the government to just use this information to protect us from scary terrorists?
The FBI wiretapped and recorded Martin Luther King's phone calls, and amassed a bunch of evidence around his extramarital affairs. Then they sent him a letter telling him to stop his civil rights activism, and even commit suicide, or they would publish all the material. I'm not making this up. Check wikipedia's sources on the subject.
If I browse to a website that executes proprietary code in my browser, non-free code is executed. But is this really any different than if I browse to a website that executes proprietary code on the SERVER? Does it matter which CPU runs the code?
The answer is simple. Just use the latest version of Ubuntu. Ignore anyone who recommends otherwise. And get onto freenode on IRC (install xchat), and the nice folks in #ubuntu will help you if you ask politely and are patient. There are currently 1775 users in that channel right now, so it can get busy.
Whenever one person (or company, or whatever) is punished with a fine, such as a traffic violation, or punitive damages by the court system, that money should NEVER be used to help anyone else. Otherwise, there will be incentives to punish. Instead, the money should be destroyed. The fine, no matter how large, should be converted to currency in the form of older, worn-out bills. These bills would then be publicly incinerated.
Nobody must get any benefit by punishing someone else. This also solves the problem of windfall lawsuits; most of the windfall is in the form of punitive damages. (Compensation is a different story; of course the perpetrator must pay to compensate victims.)
Anyone see any flaws with this logic? Or am I a freaking genius?;)
Forget the magnetic levitation, just put it on wheels, or on a track, and push air through the tube at 500 MpH. Wind resistance problem solved. You can generate the hurricane wherever you have a good source of kinetic energy, if you like. The tube doesn't have to be air-tight, or even powered. It just needs to hold in the wind. Stations would be places where the diameter of the tube becomes larger, and the train can dock outside of the main wind flow. When it's in the tube, it can put up little mini "sails" to help it keep up with the wind better.
By privatizing the security, there is now a feedback loop between the customers and the providers. If you hate how one airline does it, choose a different one. This empowers the customers.
Public Education is run by the government. What incentive do government employees have to be innovative, to try new things? Quite the opposite. Just stay with what has worked in the past, and you won't lose your job. If you take a risk with something new, you're likely to screw up, and that could cost you your job.
The solution: Get the government out of the education industry. They don't add any value. Private schools are expensive because they have to compete with the public "free because you are forced to pay for it anyway" schools. I'd like to see private schools competing for students, driving qualitty up and costs down. They would pay the teachers what they deserve, based on merit, instead of on tenure. Superstar teachers could theoretically pull down million-dollar salaries.
Private schools will deliver to the market what the parents want, which is often increased transparency. This also solves the bias issue; there is always bias, but when the school is funded with tax money, someone is always offended by the bias. With private schools, let the parents choose their bias, and they can counter it or go along with it.
"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies." --- Milton Friedman
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Now you get floods with your earthquakes!
So.... there is a bunch of information now available, that anyone can see, but that the government does not want the members of military to see. Our military is therefore expected to blindly kill and destroy without having access to what is now public information on the regime they are supporting. Seems like every new step that my government takes lately raises more red flags and sets off new alarms.
Wait a sec... he's been in jail for months, and didn't have a trial? What did the jury rule? Or have we disposed with yet another inconvenient Constitutional Amendment?
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense." --- sixth amendment to the US Constitution, a.k.a. The Bill of Rights
Get into linux instead, and all the awesome free tech in that world. MySql, Hadoop, Cassandra, all these nosql databases are where it's at. That tech is on the upswing, MicroSoft's tech is on the downswing.
Do you trust the government to just use this information to protect us from scary terrorists?
The FBI wiretapped and recorded Martin Luther King's phone calls, and amassed a bunch of evidence around his extramarital affairs. Then they sent him a letter telling him to stop his civil rights activism, and even commit suicide, or they would publish all the material. I'm not making this up. Check wikipedia's sources on the subject.
If I browse to a website that executes proprietary code in my browser, non-free code is executed. But is this really any different than if I browse to a website that executes proprietary code on the SERVER? Does it matter which CPU runs the code?
The answer is simple. Just use the latest version of Ubuntu. Ignore anyone who recommends otherwise. And get onto freenode on IRC (install xchat), and the nice folks in #ubuntu will help you if you ask politely and are patient. There are currently 1775 users in that channel right now, so it can get busy.
Whenever one person (or company, or whatever) is punished with a fine, such as a traffic violation, or punitive damages by the court system, that money should NEVER be used to help anyone else. Otherwise, there will be incentives to punish. Instead, the money should be destroyed. The fine, no matter how large, should be converted to currency in the form of older, worn-out bills. These bills would then be publicly incinerated.
Nobody must get any benefit by punishing someone else. This also solves the problem of windfall lawsuits; most of the windfall is in the form of punitive damages. (Compensation is a different story; of course the perpetrator must pay to compensate victims.)
Anyone see any flaws with this logic? Or am I a freaking genius? ;)
You don't have to shut the lid. Just let it sit, and all of a sudden, it will lock up. It doesn't seem to happen when I'm using my docking station.
Seriously, just install fail2ban, use decent passwords, and you'll be fine. Security by obscurity is a big fail.
Forget the magnetic levitation, just put it on wheels, or on a track, and push air through the tube at 500 MpH. Wind resistance problem solved. You can generate the hurricane wherever you have a good source of kinetic energy, if you like. The tube doesn't have to be air-tight, or even powered. It just needs to hold in the wind. Stations would be places where the diameter of the tube becomes larger, and the train can dock outside of the main wind flow. When it's in the tube, it can put up little mini "sails" to help it keep up with the wind better.
By privatizing the security, there is now a feedback loop between the customers and the providers. If you hate how one airline does it, choose a different one. This empowers the customers.
+1
--- wad
Public Education is run by the government. What incentive do government employees have to be innovative, to try new things? Quite the opposite. Just stay with what has worked in the past, and you won't lose your job. If you take a risk with something new, you're likely to screw up, and that could cost you your job.
The solution: Get the government out of the education industry. They don't add any value. Private schools are expensive because they have to compete with the public "free because you are forced to pay for it anyway" schools. I'd like to see private schools competing for students, driving qualitty up and costs down. They would pay the teachers what they deserve, based on merit, instead of on tenure. Superstar teachers could theoretically pull down million-dollar salaries.
Private schools will deliver to the market what the parents want, which is often increased transparency. This also solves the bias issue; there is always bias, but when the school is funded with tax money, someone is always offended by the bias. With private schools, let the parents choose their bias, and they can counter it or go along with it.
"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies." --- Milton Friedman
How funny! I just did the same thing!