Euros != dollars. The current rate is like 1.5/1. People working on the SF peninsula and on the Island of Manhattan earn about twice the national average, and the prices of everything (housing, child care) are double also.
That makes your multiplier 3:1. So now imagine paying ~400 euro for excellent child care.
Or maybe just to give you ideas of the prices: broken down house in worst part of town: $450,000 decent house in tolerable neighborhood: $800,000 3br/2ba in good school system neighborhood: $1,200,000 rent 2br/2ba, 1200sf over train tracks: $1800 monthly rent 2br/2ba, 1200sf nice area: $2800 monthly Food is around $500 per person per month (depends on how you like to eat of course, this assumes mostly grocery shopping/self prep food and a purchased lunch, if you prefer a restaurant for dinner, a decent one sets you back about $30/person per meal).
single-earner income for a software engineer with 5 years experience starts at about $90,000 / year. No experience is around $60,000. 10 years $130,000.
I would guess that the uid sensitive people are content with a 5-digit uid response, yes. And once you have one in 5-digit land, it starts becoming much more likely you'll see a 4 or 3 digit response.
I think you qualify the first time someone responds to one of your posts with 'wow, low uid, how long have you been around'. That first happened to me a couple of years back.
I think there's a general acceptance of 3 digits, widespread acceptance of 4 digits, and some acceptance of 5 digits currently.
It's not hard to make that obvious. You elevate the cameras to a position that requires a step to get at them, and don't leave such a step in place. Then someone trying to steal your cameras becomes very, very obvious.
It's just statistics. There are probably 30K active accounts with UIDs low enough to qualify as 'graybeards'. If even one sees the comment, you get a satisfactory reply. Also, most people have the filter set to promote comments from long term users, so again, once you get one low uid post, you drastically increase the odds of getting another.
Post signs saying you will record video. And do it (assuming you have a large rectangular space, 4 cameras to get a 360 degree view should be easy to set up, and relatively cheap). Record video capturing the face and ID of each person attending, at a bottlenecked entrance. If you have a venue with a parking lot, notify everyone that there will be videotaping of the parking lot, and again, do it. If you have the budget, hire a professional to do the ID checking. This should pretty much make any theft a non issue to prosecute. Be sure to post a disclaimer that you're not responsible for items lost/stolen though.
Obviously, after the nuclear attack you'd want to follow up with a nice pogrom in the civilized countries. The goal of the nuclear strike would just be to get the overall muslim count down to a manageable number.
I know dittohead is a Rush Limbaugh fan... but since I don't listen to him, I honestly don't know: has he advocated the use of nuclear weapons as a solution to militant Islam? I wasn't able to find a reference to any such position with a brief search, but I might have chose the wrong terms, or perhaps you meant something else by dittohead.
Can you provide links for any of those, and to clarify, did he fail to stop it with knowledge it was happening, fail to stop it without knowledge, or did he actively encourage it?
Having read up on Extraordinary rendition for an hour or so, I'm stuck with the conclusion that while Clinton should have yanked the reins, Bush broke out the whip. I know which one I'd rather have leading the country. Granted, neither would be best, but I know which I prefer, morally (hint: not Bush).
A pretty narrow range nuclear bombing would dispose of the problem, permanently. Of course it would require nuking countries outside of the middle east. My goal was not to be geographically accurate, merely to point out that it is trivially accomplished, and I stand by that.
I believe the stated goal was to be rid of militant Islam. Wiping out Georgia isn't necessary for that. Wiping out terrorism completely is a whole other ball of wax.
Certainly anyone who authorizes torture is evil. However, I've seen no evidence that Clinton authorized torture, but I have seen that for Bush. It certainly doesn't matter whether that is with US citizens or any other human beings. If Clinton did those things, then I think you would have to agree that both are evil.
The authorization of the attack on Iraq wasn't necessarily immoral on its face, likewise intevening in Bosnia. It's the stuff surrounding it that's so awful. Frankly, Clinton should have intervened sooner in Bosnia. Bush should have intervened at all in Darfur. Which is worse?
We could easily win the war against militant Islamic fundamentalism with nuclear bombs. Wiping out the middle east would end that threat permanently. It's much harder to see how you could win the war on drugs, frankly.
Not very. He had affairs. He abused his power with an intern. But he didn't commit war crimes, torture, etc. I'd rather have Clinton any day than bush. Clinton's wrongs were much more social than evil. Please tell me that as a human being, you would also prefer Clinton's wrongs to those of Bush?
I'm sure you were just trolling, but the obvious follow on would be to say that since China has nothing ethically against cyborgs, they could go ahead and implant gas powered motors in their runner's legs. Actually, why not just let them use dragsters? It could be the 'mostly runners and a couple of chinese cars' 100m dash.
It's women's gymnastics. For the purpose of defining the sport, we decided that women starts at 16. Younger than that is children's gymnastics, and there isn't medal competition for that. They could petition to create such an event.
You might as well suggest that if they could get away with poisoning the competing athletes before the events by putting something in their grip powder that it would be ok, as long as they feel ok with it.
A sport is defined by the rules. Without them, surely there is no point (and note: I think we are long past the line where there is no point, but obviously others disagree... I mean who seriously thinks phelps has not done serious amounts of drugs)?
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Yes, that is art. Horrible, horrible art.
Video games are art. They may be terrible, terrible art, but they are art.
Wow ... I have to agree ... the offtopic moderation is ridiculous.
Sorry, to clarify: my numbers were for the SF peninsula where the aforementioned google is located.
Video games are art. It is long settled. No one of consequence is disputing this.
Euros != dollars. The current rate is like 1.5/1.
People working on the SF peninsula and on the Island of Manhattan earn about twice the national average, and the prices of everything (housing, child care) are double also.
That makes your multiplier 3:1.
So now imagine paying ~400 euro for excellent child care.
Or maybe just to give you ideas of the prices:
broken down house in worst part of town: $450,000
decent house in tolerable neighborhood: $800,000
3br/2ba in good school system neighborhood: $1,200,000
rent 2br/2ba, 1200sf over train tracks: $1800 monthly
rent 2br/2ba, 1200sf nice area: $2800 monthly
Food is around $500 per person per month (depends on how you like to eat of course, this assumes mostly grocery shopping/self prep food and a purchased lunch, if you prefer a restaurant for dinner, a decent one sets you back about $30/person per meal).
single-earner income for a software engineer with 5 years experience starts at about $90,000 / year. No experience is around $60,000. 10 years $130,000.
This guy needs to learn how to ask for a raise, apparently. Moving from job to job is such a hassle.
I would guess that the uid sensitive people are content with a 5-digit uid response, yes. And once you have one in 5-digit land, it starts becoming much more likely you'll see a 4 or 3 digit response.
So write a botnet script to beat the password and recover it. What are you, lazy? ;-)
Yeah, I think you probably qualify as a graybeard if your beard in its natural color would be gray, sorry. :-)
I think you qualify the first time someone responds to one of your posts with 'wow, low uid, how long have you been around'. That first happened to me a couple of years back.
I think there's a general acceptance of 3 digits, widespread acceptance of 4 digits, and some acceptance of 5 digits currently.
It's not hard to make that obvious. You elevate the cameras to a position that requires a step to get at them, and don't leave such a step in place. Then someone trying to steal your cameras becomes very, very obvious.
It's just statistics. There are probably 30K active accounts with UIDs low enough to qualify as 'graybeards'. If even one sees the comment, you get a satisfactory reply. Also, most people have the filter set to promote comments from long term users, so again, once you get one low uid post, you drastically increase the odds of getting another.
Post signs saying you will record video. And do it (assuming you have a large rectangular space, 4 cameras to get a 360 degree view should be easy to set up, and relatively cheap). Record video capturing the face and ID of each person attending, at a bottlenecked entrance. If you have a venue with a parking lot, notify everyone that there will be videotaping of the parking lot, and again, do it. If you have the budget, hire a professional to do the ID checking. This should pretty much make any theft a non issue to prosecute. Be sure to post a disclaimer that you're not responsible for items lost/stolen though.
Obviously, after the nuclear attack you'd want to follow up with a nice pogrom in the civilized countries. The goal of the nuclear strike would just be to get the overall muslim count down to a manageable number.
You did just read that, however that was also a false rumor.
I know dittohead is a Rush Limbaugh fan ... but since I don't listen to him, I honestly don't know: has he advocated the use of nuclear weapons as a solution to militant Islam? I wasn't able to find a reference to any such position with a brief search, but I might have chose the wrong terms, or perhaps you meant something else by dittohead.
Can you provide links for any of those, and to clarify, did he fail to stop it with knowledge it was happening, fail to stop it without knowledge, or did he actively encourage it?
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/22203res20051206.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/rendition701/timeline/timeline_1.html#
Having read up on Extraordinary rendition for an hour or so, I'm stuck with the conclusion that while Clinton should have yanked the reins, Bush broke out the whip. I know which one I'd rather have leading the country. Granted, neither would be best, but I know which I prefer, morally (hint: not Bush).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muslim_distribution.png
A pretty narrow range nuclear bombing would dispose of the problem, permanently. Of course it would require nuking countries outside of the middle east. My goal was not to be geographically accurate, merely to point out that it is trivially accomplished, and I stand by that.
I believe the stated goal was to be rid of militant Islam. Wiping out Georgia isn't necessary for that. Wiping out terrorism completely is a whole other ball of wax.
Certainly anyone who authorizes torture is evil. However, I've seen no evidence that Clinton authorized torture, but I have seen that for Bush. It certainly doesn't matter whether that is with US citizens or any other human beings. If Clinton did those things, then I think you would have to agree that both are evil.
The authorization of the attack on Iraq wasn't necessarily immoral on its face, likewise intevening in Bosnia. It's the stuff surrounding it that's so awful. Frankly, Clinton should have intervened sooner in Bosnia. Bush should have intervened at all in Darfur. Which is worse?
We could easily win the war against militant Islamic fundamentalism with nuclear bombs. Wiping out the middle east would end that threat permanently. It's much harder to see how you could win the war on drugs, frankly.
Not very. He had affairs. He abused his power with an intern. But he didn't commit war crimes, torture, etc. I'd rather have Clinton any day than bush. Clinton's wrongs were much more social than evil. Please tell me that as a human being, you would also prefer Clinton's wrongs to those of Bush?
I'm sure you were just trolling, but the obvious follow on would be to say that since China has nothing ethically against cyborgs, they could go ahead and implant gas powered motors in their runner's legs. Actually, why not just let them use dragsters? It could be the 'mostly runners and a couple of chinese cars' 100m dash.
It's women's gymnastics. For the purpose of defining the sport, we decided that women starts at 16. Younger than that is children's gymnastics, and there isn't medal competition for that. They could petition to create such an event.
You might as well suggest that if they could get away with poisoning the competing athletes before the events by putting something in their grip powder that it would be ok, as long as they feel ok with it.
A sport is defined by the rules. Without them, surely there is no point (and note: I think we are long past the line where there is no point, but obviously others disagree ... I mean who seriously thinks phelps has not done serious amounts of drugs)?
Redundant? Who else complained about the moderation?
This one is even more deserving of harsh metamoderation.