having the players drive the economy, which means that you don't need to code much AI to handle this as the players will tend to make intelligent decisions and create a functional economy
oh, there's that invisible hand again. no, it doesn't work in games either.
That's why there's a role for lobbyists, but of course there's tonnes of room to improve how the system works (who gets access, etc.).
there would be a role for 'expert groups', given these were transparent enough to guarantee neutrality, and given their expertise is confirmed by peers.
free roaming lobbies could be useful too but only if you make sure that that their prominence is proportional to social demand, not the money they can hand out. then again lobbies would be of course targeting voters and the media instead of congressmen, but this at least would be more transparent.
anyway, i fully agree: the fundamental issue is close monitoring of politicians. the fact that this so obvious and necessary feature isn't implemented already just means it's not wanted at all.
the subject already scared the shit out of me. the abstract made me feel just sad. then i realized this is just surreptitious advertising and everything's ok again. sort of...
If Germany starts forgiving debts for everybody, then the Germans are paying for someone else's prosperity
the debts europeans (not only germans) are paying were originally from private european banks who made big money investing in greece. europeans (and germans) should some day ask their respective governments why they made them responsible for those private debts.
The money that was loaned to Greece has been lost.
It's not like they put it all in a big pile and set fire to it. (Or did they?) Where is all that money now, anyway?
according to a chief economist at the imf, about two thirds went directly to foreign banks. the remaining third went to greek banks. http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/...
banks were mostly saved in 2010 already. the debt is since then public and will be repayed with european tax money, one way or the other.
plus a bit of greek blood, i guess, since they have no money left. this show right now isn't about banks anymore, it's just political. it's about destroying syriza, sending a strong message throughout europe and, well, try to make this failed system last a little longer. doesn't look good.
I don't know the original poster, and I have no reason to accept what he's telling me is accurate - or even true.
he could not even exist, it could be a machine generated article, and it wouldn't make a difference. people just discuss the content, which happens to be the perspective of this imaginary guy, the perfect internet stranger. whether he's telling the truth or not isn't relevant in the discussion, unless you want that to be the topic.
Citizen of Belgium here. That is totally cool with me. Please pay back the 660 euro per person that you owe us on your way out, though (in Euro, not Drachma)
sorry to disappoint you, that money was 'owed' mostly to private german and french banks, who knew the risk all too well, and busted. it was them who managed governments to buying that into public debt and bailing them out, so you now get to pay for their foolish screw up with your tax money. have fun with your euros, now, and go cry a river to your own puppet government. good luck.
My site, on account creation, generates a password and sends it to you in email in cleartext before putting it in the DB. In that email is a link to reset the password; you can't log into the rest of the site until you've done so. The updated password (and the original) are stored encrypted in the DB.
If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
my better suggestion is don't do that. i don't even need to know the reasons, because there can't possibly exist any valid one.
oh and if you built that site yourself... a very good suggestion would be stop building sites, now. this isn't about skill, it's about basic understanding of network fundamentals.
get a professional, you can retain absolute control about how the site looks and what it does but considerably reduce the odds of screwing up that massively or damaging other people.
plus, considering you current status, a very good suggestion would be to take the site down and get it fully audited.
just wanted to add one thing to the police story, in case you wondered: i was born in barcelona but have german name and surnames, and absolutely look like a guiri.:)
Exactly. So there are thousands of drunk people setting off fireworks in the street all night, and no visible police presence. No wonder a small minority of tourists think you can do whatever you want in Barcelona with no repercussions.
I'm not saying the police should stop Sant Joan, I'm saying that there should be a police presence in places where there are a lot of drunk people, and there isn't.
you're mixing things here. drunks get drunk, fireworks are set off mainly by kids with their families and these things happen in separate environments. none of this is a crime so police presence is not needed at all. accidents do happen, though, and even occasional vandalism. i've seen many waste containers light up on sant joan. firefighters tend to show up promptly. no big deal.
if you love this city it's a pity you didn't get a glimpse into the magic and the exceptionality that imbues this very special night. this pagan celebration dressed with a catholic 'cover' for political reasons is (was?) pretty unique and pretty deep in the roots of collective conscience. and although it has been very much 'globalized' and lost much of its charm there is still a lot going on for many. you should have seen it when i was a kid, with bonfires on every beach, on almost every crossing in the eixample, a freaking wonderful... warzone of fire, love, happiness and magic. you could literally breath it. it was that very special night when you were allowed to do all things usually prohibited, literally play with fire, where generations of catalans have gotten laid for the first time. if you are alive... what's fucking not to like??:D it's sant joan!
of course it isn't the same now, partly taken over by the party-till-you-drop industry. the same one that is absorbing new year's revetlla and the festes de gràcia with their top quality product: cheap booze, extremely loud music and a license to piss on the streets. aaaand tourists, of course. you did know that you were coming into an underdeveloped country, did you?:)
but it's still sant joan and i'm afraid you just haven't experienced it in an appropriate environment. it's actually a family/neighboor thing, you won't find it in mass parties, which are just the standard screw up. as a lone stranger you need to be hooked up by some friend into his/her circles. people honoring these traditions are dwindling but should not be hard to find yet. and catalans have nothing against foreigners, you will be welcome, i guarantee you.
Escudellers is where the worst tourists seem to end up
escudillers would be the last place i would choose for sant joan! it's probably fine for any other night if you're ok with lumpen and it's sort of burlesque and dissonant ambient. i liked it a lot for much of my youth, i don't go down there much lately but it still is pretty much the same... in a different way.
people selling drugs quite openly
i honestly can't see a problem with that. were you forced to buy?:)
Try getting a NIE (even as an EU citizen) since the hostility got ramped up last year. Now you need a work contract, padrón, and more. And try getting a work contract or a lease on a flat (to get the empadronamiento) without a NIE. Possible, but hard. And you won't be able to get your utilities connected without a NIE (and you have to wait weeks for a cita previa)
hold on. every local is subject to exactly the same process to obtain his dni (the equivalent of your dnie), which is mandatory from age 16. and yes, bureaucracy is nuts. now listen: i once lost my dni. first of all, it had already expired 15 years ago and i never had the slighest trouble (apart from some bank clerk being a jerk and having to call up the director, occasio
Nit de Sant Joan on Tuesday until dawn: tens of thousands of people (mainly local) dancing, drinking, pissing in the street, vomiting; I didn't see a single policeman all night.
come on, it's sant joan...
I love this city, but the hostility from a lot of people to everyone who isn't catalan gets me down.
this is, of course, bullshit.
and how does this bs match with you admitting ' like 7.5 million tourists a year in Barcelona. The vast, vast majority are well behaved'? care to support it with some facts, apart from the obvious one that bulls do bully?
do not apply for a permit, fail to pay insurance and tourist tax, and ignore Catalonian law that forbids short-term rentals of rooms in private homes
Phew... Malum prohibitum crimes: it is only wrong because it is illegal. Screw you, Statists, get back to enforcing the malum in se — you know, the kind of thing, that is illegal because it is wrong.
there's a reason. barcelona is a dense city and living places are scarce. for several years there's been a trend of people buying out flats for short time rentals during touristic seasons, specially in the most sought after quarters. that's good business for some but makes home scarcity worse for locals.
i'm assuming those airbnb listings aren't actually from people sharing a room, but from such 'entrepreneurs'. (this is my speculation, no first hand information here)
and the running naked thing can be a real nuisance for some, too. again, it's a tight city and drunks shouting on the streets at night won't let you sleep, plus you might find out in the morning that they have also urinated on your building's front door. not nice. that's probably exaggerated a bit in the media. however, it's still undesirable tourism.
funny thing is... local authorities now could just scan those airbnb lists and start dusting off those houses. wanna bet?
Google Asks Android Developers To Show Sensitivity To Disasters and Atrocity
lol! iphone, eat this!
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well, why i can see the value for society of kids going to school (kind of), i can't see any in promoting crazy consumerism just because we're ready to solidarily pay extra for disposal. that's not a benefit, but a disgrace (and a shitty education btw).
my (somewhat stretched) point tried to respond to someone seemingly 'refusing to pay'. the reason for a public service is not for someone getting to dump fridges for free, but to ensure a proper disposal process everywhere.
this of course has a cost which should not be invisible, and it shouldn't mean that just because society pays for you are free to buy and dump whatever you want. in fact, it would be just fair that the very moment a manufactured product exited the production chain the manufacturer had already paid for its disposal as part of the production cost.
are they on the hook to support it against all future attack vectors until the hardware rots?
they should, within reasonable limits. 2 years seems way too short, imo. it's also not that much to ask to backport bugfixes and roll updates, these are no small business with no small profit. they should be responsible.
I certainly would be unwilling commit to that, which means I too am part of the problem.
there's probably another way inbetween, we should definitely make companies responsible for the stuff they throw out, with regulations, customer associations and above all educating people on responsible shopping (and manufacturing, disposal,...). once there is a majority demanding that with enough political backing industry will be eager to comply.
"Lush" is a well known brand. If people go to www.youtube.com/lush they would expect to see Lush cosmetics, not some random guy.
sorry but this is utter nonsense. what if i'd expect that blogger, or the music band, and not some random cosmetics shop?
this problem is usually addressed with a "first come first serve" policy, as in domain names or trade marks. any conflicts are dealt through an arbitrer with the implicated parts knowing. youtube just grabbing peoples' channel names as they see fit is just... wow.
Not sure what the issue is here. He doesn't own the site.
the real issue here is that youtube is a service and mr.lush is not the customer, he's the product. that's why he has to suck it up.
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It's unbelievable that these costs aren't part of the public budget. I'm trying to be a responsible citizen by hauling my large or toxic waste to the proper disposal facility and you won't let me dump it until I pay some hefty fee?
that's actually fair. if you consume/dispose more volume than me, why should i pay for recycling your stuff?
however, i still prefer having this as a regulated public service. most big cities do, afaik.
The next time I'm getting rid of a refrigerator, air conditioner, or other electronics, I'll just leave it in a ditch somewhere.
Why do you need a newer Android? Perhaps you are part of the problem.
security, the old one isn't updated anymore.
industry shoves the responsibility of having compromised devices infecting the net on to the customer, with exactly two alternatives: buy the new phone, or stop using phones altogether. clever business.
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Every waste disposal stream has costs. The choice is what we're willing to pay to deal with it
we? the cost of disposal should be part of the manufacturing cost. what we are doing wrong is letting corps get away with simply not paying it, albeit making millions in profit.
I think their idea may be that the OS is no longer relevant (you know, thanks to Docker or similar)?
yes, node is available on several platforms. (but docker is linux only for the time being:D)
BTW, the "A" in LAMP is allegedly to be replaced by the "N"
actually, this whole silver bullet 'stack' approach is nonsense. back in the days of lamp there were far fewer options, there was also little expertise with 'modern' webapps and high availability, it could make sense branding something like 'lamp' and have it distributed to developers and almost preinstalled on private servers. those days are gone, today there are many tools you can combine in different ways to suit any kind of project.
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having the players drive the economy, which means that you don't need to code much AI to handle this as the players will tend to make intelligent decisions and create a functional economy
oh, there's that invisible hand again. no, it doesn't work in games either.
didn't you watch the comercial? it's *beautiful* freedom, you insensitive clod!
That's why there's a role for lobbyists, but of course there's tonnes of room to improve how the system works (who gets access, etc.).
there would be a role for 'expert groups', given these were transparent enough to guarantee neutrality, and given their expertise is confirmed by peers.
free roaming lobbies could be useful too but only if you make sure that that their prominence is proportional to social demand, not the money they can hand out. then again lobbies would be of course targeting voters and the media instead of congressmen, but this at least would be more transparent.
anyway, i fully agree: the fundamental issue is close monitoring of politicians. the fact that this so obvious and necessary feature isn't implemented already just means it's not wanted at all.
the subject already scared the shit out of me. ...
the abstract made me feel just sad.
then i realized this is just surreptitious advertising and everything's ok again. sort of
tech writer spends a week using a desktop and solves decades-long imaginary desktop dilemma with conclusive analysis: 'it feels like ...'
aaaand /. is raising the bar again!
If Germany starts forgiving debts for everybody, then the Germans are paying for someone else's prosperity
the debts europeans (not only germans) are paying were originally from private european banks who made big money investing in greece. europeans (and germans) should some day ask their respective governments why they made them responsible for those private debts.
people are right, it's not a loan. it's a scam.
The money that was loaned to Greece has been lost.
It's not like they put it all in a big pile and set fire to it. (Or did they?) Where is all that money now, anyway?
according to a chief economist at the imf, about two thirds went directly to foreign banks. the remaining third went to greek banks.
http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/...
banks were mostly saved in 2010 already. the debt is since then public and will be repayed with european tax money, one way or the other.
plus a bit of greek blood, i guess, since they have no money left. this show right now isn't about banks anymore, it's just political. it's about destroying syriza, sending a strong message throughout europe and, well, try to make this failed system last a little longer. doesn't look good.
I don't know the original poster, and I have no reason to accept what he's telling me is accurate - or even true.
he could not even exist, it could be a machine generated article, and it wouldn't make a difference. people just discuss the content, which happens to be the perspective of this imaginary guy, the perfect internet stranger. whether he's telling the truth or not isn't relevant in the discussion, unless you want that to be the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hasn't it been proven that austerity measures don't work anyways?
funny thing is, if their aim was to destroy economies one would have to say that they have worked very well ...
Citizen of Belgium here. That is totally cool with me. Please pay back the 660 euro per person that you owe us on your way out, though (in Euro, not Drachma)
sorry to disappoint you, that money was 'owed' mostly to private german and french banks, who knew the risk all too well, and busted. it was them who managed governments to buying that into public debt and bailing them out, so you now get to pay for their foolish screw up with your tax money. have fun with your euros, now, and go cry a river to your own puppet government. good luck.
My site, on account creation, generates a password and sends it to you in email in cleartext before putting it in the DB. In that email is a link to reset the password; you can't log into the rest of the site until you've done so. The updated password (and the original) are stored encrypted in the DB.
If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
my better suggestion is don't do that. i don't even need to know the reasons, because there can't possibly exist any valid one.
oh and if you built that site yourself ... a very good suggestion would be stop building sites, now. this isn't about skill, it's about basic understanding of network fundamentals.
get a professional, you can retain absolute control about how the site looks and what it does but considerably reduce the odds of screwing up that massively or damaging other people.
plus, considering you current status, a very good suggestion would be to take the site down and get it fully audited.
just wanted to add one thing to the police story, in case you wondered: i was born in barcelona but have german name and surnames, and absolutely look like a guiri. :)
Exactly. So there are thousands of drunk people setting off fireworks in the street all night, and no visible police presence. No wonder a small minority of tourists think you can do whatever you want in Barcelona with no repercussions.
I'm not saying the police should stop Sant Joan, I'm saying that there should be a police presence in places where there are a lot of drunk people, and there isn't.
you're mixing things here. drunks get drunk, fireworks are set off mainly by kids with their families and these things happen in separate environments. none of this is a crime so police presence is not needed at all. accidents do happen, though, and even occasional vandalism. i've seen many waste containers light up on sant joan. firefighters tend to show up promptly. no big deal.
if you love this city it's a pity you didn't get a glimpse into the magic and the exceptionality that imbues this very special night. this pagan celebration dressed with a catholic 'cover' for political reasons is (was?) pretty unique and pretty deep in the roots of collective conscience. and although it has been very much 'globalized' and lost much of its charm there is still a lot going on for many. you should have seen it when i was a kid, with bonfires on every beach, on almost every crossing in the eixample, a freaking wonderful ... warzone of fire, love, happiness and magic. you could literally breath it. it was that very special night when you were allowed to do all things usually prohibited, literally play with fire, where generations of catalans have gotten laid for the first time. if you are alive ... what's fucking not to like?? :D it's sant joan!
of course it isn't the same now, partly taken over by the party-till-you-drop industry. the same one that is absorbing new year's revetlla and the festes de gràcia with their top quality product: cheap booze, extremely loud music and a license to piss on the streets. aaaand tourists, of course. you did know that you were coming into an underdeveloped country, did you? :)
but it's still sant joan and i'm afraid you just haven't experienced it in an appropriate environment. it's actually a family/neighboor thing, you won't find it in mass parties, which are just the standard screw up. as a lone stranger you need to be hooked up by some friend into his/her circles. people honoring these traditions are dwindling but should not be hard to find yet. and catalans have nothing against foreigners, you will be welcome, i guarantee you.
Escudellers is where the worst tourists seem to end up
escudillers would be the last place i would choose for sant joan! it's probably fine for any other night if you're ok with lumpen and it's sort of burlesque and dissonant ambient. i liked it a lot for much of my youth, i don't go down there much lately but it still is pretty much the same ... in a different way.
people selling drugs quite openly
i honestly can't see a problem with that. were you forced to buy? :)
Try getting a NIE (even as an EU citizen) since the hostility got ramped up last year. Now you need a work contract, padrón, and more. And try getting a work contract or a lease on a flat (to get the empadronamiento) without a NIE. Possible, but hard. And you won't be able to get your utilities connected without a NIE (and you have to wait weeks for a cita previa)
hold on. every local is subject to exactly the same process to obtain his dni (the equivalent of your dnie), which is mandatory from age 16. and yes, bureaucracy is nuts. now listen: i once lost my dni. first of all, it had already expired 15 years ago and i never had the slighest trouble (apart from some bank clerk being a jerk and having to call up the director, occasio
Nit de Sant Joan on Tuesday until dawn: tens of thousands of people (mainly local) dancing, drinking, pissing in the street, vomiting; I didn't see a single policeman all night.
come on, it's sant joan ...
I love this city, but the hostility from a lot of people to everyone who isn't catalan gets me down.
this is, of course, bullshit.
and how does this bs match with you admitting ' like 7.5 million tourists a year in Barcelona. The vast, vast majority are well behaved'? care to support it with some facts, apart from the obvious one that bulls do bully?
Which is it?
Phew... Malum prohibitum crimes: it is only wrong because it is illegal. Screw you, Statists, get back to enforcing the malum in se — you know, the kind of thing, that is illegal because it is wrong.
there's a reason. barcelona is a dense city and living places are scarce. for several years there's been a trend of people buying out flats for short time rentals during touristic seasons, specially in the most sought after quarters. that's good business for some but makes home scarcity worse for locals.
i'm assuming those airbnb listings aren't actually from people sharing a room, but from such 'entrepreneurs'. (this is my speculation, no first hand information here)
and the running naked thing can be a real nuisance for some, too. again, it's a tight city and drunks shouting on the streets at night won't let you sleep, plus you might find out in the morning that they have also urinated on your building's front door. not nice. that's probably exaggerated a bit in the media. however, it's still undesirable tourism.
funny thing is ... local authorities now could just scan those airbnb lists and start dusting off those houses. wanna bet?
Google Asks Android Developers To Show Sensitivity To Disasters and Atrocity
lol! iphone, eat this!
well, why i can see the value for society of kids going to school (kind of), i can't see any in promoting crazy consumerism just because we're ready to solidarily pay extra for disposal. that's not a benefit, but a disgrace (and a shitty education btw).
my (somewhat stretched) point tried to respond to someone seemingly 'refusing to pay'. the reason for a public service is not for someone getting to dump fridges for free, but to ensure a proper disposal process everywhere.
this of course has a cost which should not be invisible, and it shouldn't mean that just because society pays for you are free to buy and dump whatever you want. in fact, it would be just fair that the very moment a manufactured product exited the production chain the manufacturer had already paid for its disposal as part of the production cost.
are they on the hook to support it against all future attack vectors until the hardware rots?
they should, within reasonable limits. 2 years seems way too short, imo. it's also not that much to ask to backport bugfixes and roll updates, these are no small business with no small profit. they should be responsible.
I certainly would be unwilling commit to that, which means I too am part of the problem.
there's probably another way inbetween, we should definitely make companies responsible for the stuff they throw out, with regulations, customer associations and above all educating people on responsible shopping (and manufacturing, disposal, ...). once there is a majority demanding that with enough political backing industry will be eager to comply.
"Lush" is a well known brand. If people go to www.youtube.com/lush they would expect to see Lush cosmetics, not some random guy.
sorry but this is utter nonsense. what if i'd expect that blogger, or the music band, and not some random cosmetics shop?
this problem is usually addressed with a "first come first serve" policy, as in domain names or trade marks. any conflicts are dealt through an arbitrer with the implicated parts knowing. youtube just grabbing peoples' channel names as they see fit is just ... wow.
Not sure what the issue is here. He doesn't own the site.
the real issue here is that youtube is a service and mr.lush is not the customer, he's the product. that's why he has to suck it up.
It's unbelievable that these costs aren't part of the public budget. I'm trying to be a responsible citizen by hauling my large or toxic waste to the proper disposal facility and you won't let me dump it until I pay some hefty fee?
that's actually fair. if you consume/dispose more volume than me, why should i pay for recycling your stuff?
however, i still prefer having this as a regulated public service. most big cities do, afaik.
The next time I'm getting rid of a refrigerator, air conditioner, or other electronics, I'll just leave it in a ditch somewhere.
try harder (to be a responsible citizen) :-)
Why do you need a newer Android? Perhaps you are part of the problem.
security, the old one isn't updated anymore.
industry shoves the responsibility of having compromised devices infecting the net on to the customer, with exactly two alternatives: buy the new phone, or stop using phones altogether. clever business.
Every waste disposal stream has costs. The choice is what we're willing to pay to deal with it
we? the cost of disposal should be part of the manufacturing cost. what we are doing wrong is letting corps get away with simply not paying it, albeit making millions in profit.
I think their idea may be that the OS is no longer relevant (you know, thanks to Docker or similar)?
yes, node is available on several platforms. :D)
(but docker is linux only for the time being
BTW, the "A" in LAMP is allegedly to be replaced by the "N"
actually, this whole silver bullet 'stack' approach is nonsense. back in the days of lamp there were far fewer options, there was also little expertise with 'modern' webapps and high availability, it could make sense branding something like 'lamp' and have it distributed to developers and almost preinstalled on private servers. those days are gone, today there are many tools you can combine in different ways to suit any kind of project.