You mean as long as the government keeps letting them re-insure their property (flood insurance) that's not gonna happen. Next time it happens it's time to say "Ok here's the payout for the house you lost. Now go build the new one somewhere else because we aren't going to let you insure a house in a sinking swamp again. "
Uhh, that isn't how flood insurance works. If you are living in a designated flood zone you pay tons extra, to cover for the disasters that are bound to happen. In fact if you are in a flood zone, you MUST buy the insurance, lenders will not lend to you otherwise. (and are likely not allowed to) It isn't a free handout from the government, the people living in the flood zone are paying for it. However, if the area you live in is not a flood zone, but you get a flood anyhow (usually due to extraordinary flooding), then you are screwed and get nothing from insurance. This is when people beg for free money.
This is why people who live in a "border line" flood zone are desperate not to be declared be in the flood zone, so they are not forced to pay the coverage. If their house gets destroyed, and it inevitably will, they can either walk away from the mortgage or get free money. The flood insurance system was supposed to encourage people to pay the insurance, but it ends up doing the opposite.
So, what is he saying here? Everyone who works in an industry that produces only luxury items should feel sorry for those that dont and devote a portion of their income? That we should immedially stop producing all luxury items until everyone that desires to be employed is? All sports franchises are immeditly disbanded. All Television and Media production is halted. All motor vehicles greater than 20k USD will be discontinued. Yeah, I am sure that will help unemployment.... Yeah, it sucks that the economy is crap and people are unemployed, but does that mean everyone that does have a job needs to start living in a cardboard box? Our social services are designed to keep people afloat until they can find useful work. It may not be just and it may not be efficient, but its better than tossing everyone that missing a mortgage payment out on the street, surely?
I know how they can keep the hardware out of the hands of hackers. They should just sell an empty shell with the apple logo on it. It will still sell great!
If Valve wanted to stop that they could make installing the game on multiple computers a massive pain in the ass. But they don't. I think they know that lending doesn't kill the market.
The fact is that shipping through the mail is just really expensive compared to streaming. Netflix needed to make this decision sooner or later, and I don't blame them for doing it. They've been talking about how expensive the mailings are for a long time now.
If that was the only reason they increased prices, they would have upped the price on the disk shipping only. Instead they raised the prices across the board, and it seemed like they intended to gouge their largest userbase the most. To most users it just seems needlessly greedy.
Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.
You've never met my neighbors.
So are they the sociopaths willing to randomly kill people, or are you willing to randomly kill them?
Ahh, you have a good point. Rehab isn't necessarily punishment though. I think most drug offenders that go through rehab elect to go through it at the suggestion of the court (usually in lieu of tougher sentencing). I believe in most states someone could opt out of rehab and simply go to prison. Though I am not sure why anyone would...
Though in the American justice system, there is not really any effort to rehab sexual offenders, anyhow.
In the pedophilia case, I would suspect that simply digging around for this material is an indication of some some bigger problem than simply trying to plant evidence on someone. As the article states, he sent threatening letters to politicians, why not leave it at that? It probably came up in the case that the guy was already hoarding the images anyhow.
I can totally see a company form up that takes nuclear waste (and other waste) and hurls it into the sun.
Not if you know anything about orbital mechanics.
Anything launched from Earth is in Earth's orbit of the sun. Which means unless your rocket is astoundingly powerful, it is going to keep crossing Earth's orbit over and over to get a gravity assist to slingshot it to the sun. Look at the orbit for MESSENGER, and that diddnt even go all the way to the sun.
Besides with as much uranium as coal power puts into the atmosphere it probably doesn't matter.
WPA2 is probably adequate, MAC address filtering would probably stop only very incompetent hackers, it's pretty useless in my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong)
You may be right about that. Can you find the MAC addresses of systems connected to a network you are passively sniffing? Then it is a matter of waiting for that system to go offline (such as the case for a laptop or phone), then steal its MAC. In this case the hard part is getting past the WPA2.
I was looking for the report from Gen. McMaster, and found this site. pptclasses I want to say this is not serious, but it seems satire gets harder to detect all the time. If the site is real, and an indication of reality, I weep for our boys in the field.
The best I could do is find news stories about the report, but not the report itself. It is a fantastic read for anyone in the military or the corporate world. One could change a few words and it would be just as insightful when applied to software engineering or a number of fields. (amusingly enough, while lots of media outlets reported on it, msnbc is silent)
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Do you speak Slovak? No? Good. I suggest you name your next project "Kretén".
Europe too has its history and we're certainly learned from that.. well, the nordic countries at least. And we were originally vikings
We're in Afghanistan, fighting side by side with the bigger "liberators" and when our young die there, headlines proclaim "HEROES".
We are buying in to the terrorism scare and we are latching onto one side of the sides that one must be for or against, inviting zealots to blow shit up here too.
Whatever we may have learned, we are forgetting how to properly quote a post.
And thus we find the real reason for the wars. American companies don't care where we get oil from, since any cost increases are passed directly to the customer. Any cost decreases are pocketed by the executives.
The real reason is to get American companies involved in the extraction of resource, and the creation of new infrastructure. Those lucrative no-bid contracts are wroth untold billions for the companies involved.
But like the summary and article note, that requires rewriting the whole codebase.
Why? While dbms platforms are not usually an easy thing (unless you are using some super-high level framework that sucks the life out of your performance anyhow), why should this be an insurmountable task requiring every line to be rewritten? Its not like the thing is such a giant pile of shit that it would have to be recreated from the ground up....
If you are too good for code reviews, you should still do it. It will teach your reviewers how to write better code. Yeah, that's why you should.
In my experience the people who really are too good to need code reviews are the ones that insist upon them. Managers will insist upon them so that more than one person has seen all of the code in the system. It just makes sense.
I agree about the overly OCD pedantism and arguments. This is why I prefer online-based review tools and not review meetings. This way people can review code at their own pace, and there and any disagreements are documented and forwarded up the chain of command to a moderator or decision maker for resolution. Also people tend to be less dickwadish when there is direct documentation of the discussions.
But to a bigger concern over "what is ok to bitch about", there should be a group concensus and documentation on what the style should be and direction to the reviewers on what they should be looking for.
And sometimes the code is ok and doesn't need discussion. People need to learn not to find nits to pick when the code is good enough.
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You mean as long as the government keeps letting them re-insure their property (flood insurance) that's not gonna happen. Next time it happens it's time to say "Ok here's the payout for the house you lost. Now go build the new one somewhere else because we aren't going to let you insure a house in a sinking swamp again. "
Uhh, that isn't how flood insurance works. If you are living in a designated flood zone you pay tons extra, to cover for the disasters that are bound to happen. In fact if you are in a flood zone, you MUST buy the insurance, lenders will not lend to you otherwise. (and are likely not allowed to) It isn't a free handout from the government, the people living in the flood zone are paying for it. However, if the area you live in is not a flood zone, but you get a flood anyhow (usually due to extraordinary flooding), then you are screwed and get nothing from insurance. This is when people beg for free money.
This is why people who live in a "border line" flood zone are desperate not to be declared be in the flood zone, so they are not forced to pay the coverage. If their house gets destroyed, and it inevitably will, they can either walk away from the mortgage or get free money. The flood insurance system was supposed to encourage people to pay the insurance, but it ends up doing the opposite.
So, what is he saying here? Everyone who works in an industry that produces only luxury items should feel sorry for those that dont and devote a portion of their income? That we should immedially stop producing all luxury items until everyone that desires to be employed is? All sports franchises are immeditly disbanded. All Television and Media production is halted. All motor vehicles greater than 20k USD will be discontinued. Yeah, I am sure that will help unemployment.... Yeah, it sucks that the economy is crap and people are unemployed, but does that mean everyone that does have a job needs to start living in a cardboard box? Our social services are designed to keep people afloat until they can find useful work. It may not be just and it may not be efficient, but its better than tossing everyone that missing a mortgage payment out on the street, surely?
I know how they can keep the hardware out of the hands of hackers. They should just sell an empty shell with the apple logo on it. It will still sell great!
If Valve wanted to stop that they could make installing the game on multiple computers a massive pain in the ass. But they don't. I think they know that lending doesn't kill the market.
The fact is that shipping through the mail is just really expensive compared to streaming. Netflix needed to make this decision sooner or later, and I don't blame them for doing it. They've been talking about how expensive the mailings are for a long time now.
If that was the only reason they increased prices, they would have upped the price on the disk shipping only. Instead they raised the prices across the board, and it seemed like they intended to gouge their largest userbase the most. To most users it just seems needlessly greedy.
Its similar to the Oracle 9i to the Oracle 10g upgrade. What does the i and g stand for? Nothing its just marketing bs to confuse customers.
Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.
You've never met my neighbors.
So are they the sociopaths willing to randomly kill people, or are you willing to randomly kill them?
Don't worry I am following you, and that is all you need.
Mod parent +1 Creepy.
Ahh, you have a good point. Rehab isn't necessarily punishment though. I think most drug offenders that go through rehab elect to go through it at the suggestion of the court (usually in lieu of tougher sentencing). I believe in most states someone could opt out of rehab and simply go to prison. Though I am not sure why anyone would...
Though in the American justice system, there is not really any effort to rehab sexual offenders, anyhow.
In the pedophilia case, I would suspect that simply digging around for this material is an indication of some some bigger problem than simply trying to plant evidence on someone. As the article states, he sent threatening letters to politicians, why not leave it at that? It probably came up in the case that the guy was already hoarding the images anyhow.
I can totally see a company form up that takes nuclear waste (and other waste) and hurls it into the sun.
Not if you know anything about orbital mechanics.
Anything launched from Earth is in Earth's orbit of the sun. Which means unless your rocket is astoundingly powerful, it is going to keep crossing Earth's orbit over and over to get a gravity assist to slingshot it to the sun. Look at the orbit for MESSENGER, and that diddnt even go all the way to the sun.
Besides with as much uranium as coal power puts into the atmosphere it probably doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. If I obtain some heroin and plant it on you to frame you, I am still guilty of a drug offense.
WPA2 is probably adequate, MAC address filtering would probably stop only very incompetent hackers, it's pretty useless in my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong)
You may be right about that. Can you find the MAC addresses of systems connected to a network you are passively sniffing? Then it is a matter of waiting for that system to go offline (such as the case for a laptop or phone), then steal its MAC. In this case the hard part is getting past the WPA2.
I guess this makes me feel a little better? It still applies equally well to the business world though.
I was looking for the report from Gen. McMaster, and found this site. pptclasses I want to say this is not serious, but it seems satire gets harder to detect all the time. If the site is real, and an indication of reality, I weep for our boys in the field.
The best I could do is find news stories about the report, but not the report itself. It is a fantastic read for anyone in the military or the corporate world. One could change a few words and it would be just as insightful when applied to software engineering or a number of fields. (amusingly enough, while lots of media outlets reported on it, msnbc is silent)
Do you speak Slovak? No? Good. I suggest you name your next project "Kretén".
This is the core issue here.
I like Panetta and think that his chain of restaurants/bakeries makes some of the finest bread that I've tasted.
http://www.panerabread.com/
Pancetta is delicious.
And thus we find the real reason for the wars. American companies don't care where we get oil from, since any cost increases are passed directly to the customer. Any cost decreases are pocketed by the executives.
The real reason is to get American companies involved in the extraction of resource, and the creation of new infrastructure. Those lucrative no-bid contracts are wroth untold billions for the companies involved.
But like the summary and article note, that requires rewriting the whole codebase.
Why? While dbms platforms are not usually an easy thing (unless you are using some super-high level framework that sucks the life out of your performance anyhow), why should this be an insurmountable task requiring every line to be rewritten? Its not like the thing is such a giant pile of shit that it would have to be recreated from the ground up....
Wait.
But since nobody in the public could possibly make use of something so useless; you had better not use any of our tax money to fund it.
Wrong article. Sorry. Please delete this comment.
It very easily could have fit with this article.
If you are too good for code reviews, you should still do it. It will teach your reviewers how to write better code. Yeah, that's why you should.
In my experience the people who really are too good to need code reviews are the ones that insist upon them. Managers will insist upon them so that more than one person has seen all of the code in the system. It just makes sense.
I agree about the overly OCD pedantism and arguments. This is why I prefer online-based review tools and not review meetings. This way people can review code at their own pace, and there and any disagreements are documented and forwarded up the chain of command to a moderator or decision maker for resolution. Also people tend to be less dickwadish when there is direct documentation of the discussions.
But to a bigger concern over "what is ok to bitch about", there should be a group concensus and documentation on what the style should be and direction to the reviewers on what they should be looking for.
And sometimes the code is ok and doesn't need discussion. People need to learn not to find nits to pick when the code is good enough.
"Social Experiment", I don't think that term means what you think it means.
"Social Networking Experiment", would be a very accurate term for Google+, but "Social Experiment" makes it sound like they are just trolling.
This was from some B movie? any have a name?
There was a surgically implanted bomb in The Hurt Locker which was hardly a B movie.
Fine C+.