Meh, they were authoritarian/corporatist. They tended to support corporate interests in favour of the state. They officially advocated for private charities to provide the bulk of social assistance, though they dared not get rid of the Weimar-established social net (which was pretty minimal).
In 1934, Hitler even had all of the "socialist" leaders in the Nazi party executed by the SS, because he didn't like their particular brand of anti-corporate socialism, (and the fact they opposed his views on some things.
That's fair, in the 1800s, the Democrats were a conservative party and the Republicans emerged as the new liberal/neo-liberal party, replacing the broken Whig party of the early 19th centry.
That changed gradually through Nixon and now they've basically swapped sides.
Of course, the Nazi's were called "socialist" even though they supported nothing of the sort.
Then again, Stalin called his government a "republic" when it was also nothing of the sort.
It is very salient to point out that the primary NON RELIGIOUS arguments against gay marriage are actually simply arguments against state-sponsored marriage.
But i don't think there are any cultures in the world that don't have both institutional marriage (the church) and civil marriage (the state) as one-in-the-same.
I do think it is socially and economically beneficial to encourage people to cohabitate, especially those with children. I don't have a problem offering tax breaks to encourage good behaviour. We do this in many things from gas to cigarettes to luxury goods.
However, this "cohabitation contract" is odd that the state would restrict it to only "conjugal relationships" and even more strange that this contract would specify how many partners and what sex they must be...
Very strange indeed... unless you consider the religious implications.
There is a high demand for toilet cleaners, there is also, however, a very high supply, especially when unemployment is high.
Anyone who can qualify as sentient and has two hands can clean a toilet, or at least be trained to do so in a short amount of time.
Building a multithreaded application database parsing engine, on the other hand, is not something very many people can do quickly or well, no matter how much training is provided.
See, learning new skills should improve your pay, but even without it your pay should be going up steadily just to account for increases in the cost of living.
And TFA *CLEARLY* stated "adjusted for inflation", which means (by definition) "increases in the cost of living".
Hell you should be beating that for a while just because of the additional value you gain simply through experience.
This is not analyzing ONE workers pay over a career, but the industry average. Old timers retire, youth enters the fray. Having "stagnant" wages isn't an entirely bad thing unless the supply vs demand for a specific skill set is increasing dramatically.
One in five people in the world get angry, drink, abuse drugs and die young.
Is there actual studies that compare these people with controls?
I mean, I know a guy who was an Engineer who was an alcoholic and shot himself, but he never bashed his head on anything, unless you count a chess board...
Maybe heh as this illness and it's unrelated?
Honestly haven't seen a study that didn't *only* analyze athletes, though I will admit I haven't looked hard and will probably do some research before bed...
To be fair, the NASA press releases are usually pretty accurate.
They did announce that they confirmed entering the heliosheath a few years ago. They confirmed to have crossed the Heliopause last year.
Now the journalists who write these articles write them as "Voyager entering interstellar space", which isn't entirely inaccurate, since it's a pretty vague concept.
At least it's still working, and generating discussion...
Agreed, that does seem like it may take 3 or 4 years to get there.... Not sure anyone has ever spent that long in space.... It seems maybe with some artificial gravity (spinning disc?) it could be done, but then you have the problem of building a pretty massive ship that's still micrometeor and radiation shielded. It would probably involved something about 20x more complicated than the ISS and that's still not counting all the fuel. Rocket fuel is a diminishing returns problem, where carrying thousands of tons makes you burn a pretty substantial portion of it just getting that much fuel into motion in the first place...
Daunting problem trying to figure out how to have enough to return.
OK, maybe not impossible, but would require a substantial portion of GDP to make it happen.
Well, honestly, the local deli purchases his cheese and meat from a local butcher and cheese shop (seriously). That cheese shop buys milk from a farm just outside of town. They get their labels printed by a shop down the road, as well. The label shop probably buys ink from outside of town, to be honest, but they also sell a local photographer's work on postcards and gift cards, rather than spending the same ($3) on a Hallmark card. That photographer has his prints printed at the local photography store, who probably also buys some supplies from out of town, but offers popular photography classes that several people I know have attended.
You see how easily this goes 6 or 8 levels deep in the community.
I can go to the local Supermarket, where they have national brands, imported by truck or train from some farm in a different time zone (the factory isn't even nearby). It was packed by some worker on the plains and put in a box likely manufactured on the opposite coast. The owners of all of these companies live in Florida or Texas, so other than the trucking company and the local stockboy and assistant manager, NOTHING stays in the community. Hell, even the person who makes decisions about what to sell (district manager) at these big stores doesn't live in town.
This is a pretty salient comment, although it's certainly possible to go to Saturn and back, the technical hurdles are pretty astounding and would require some substantial developments in a number of areas.
However, if there's no intention to make the return trip, humans could go as far as Saturn with existing technology.
Like someone else said, I specificly frequent local establishments in my neighbourhood, because I know the owners, they live down the street and I see them at the pub on weekends and on my sports teams.
There is value in community. These people, living in the neigbourhood make substantially more money than the assistant manager at "SomeBig MegaStore", and the a huge chunk of that money doesn't end up in some gated community in Arkansas. Then they turn that money back to the community, bringing up home values, allowing other people the chance to open local businesses. In the end, it may not benefit me directly as much as shopping at "SuperCheap MegaStore", but I feel better about it.
As far as I'm concerned, the macroeconomic value of mega-stores promotes a huge class of "factory floor" worker and a tiny fraction of Billionaires, whereas buying local ensures a large group of upper-middle class.
I can tell you that I've known a few Billionaires and a lot of factory workers, and neither of them deserve what they have. Sure the Billionaires work hard and are smart, but often not substantially more than the local shop owner. Sure the factory workers may lack education, intelligence, drive, etc, but are much more gainfully employed at local shops, where they are subject to community standards of behaviour, living, etc.
Other than to the Billionaire class, and people with no concern for their local community, and for the fact that I have no idea how one might equitably do it, I'm a huge proponent of preventing businesses from becoming multinational, and encouraging local investment in small business.
How one does that, other than just one purchase at a time, I have no idea.
Of course, you can choose to be a cog in the machine as well..... Faceless suburbs make me sad.
If you place someone in a major intersection in the suburbs of most major cities in the USA, you simply can't tell where you are, without considering weather and what little vegetation might be visible.... and I find that a bit sad. This is absolutely not the case in most other places in the world.... I think it's a cultural deficit, honestly.
Dictatorship is WHAT HAPPENS when people are simply left alone without rules.
If there is no police and no civic authority, the man who is willing to buy the most guns tells everyone else what to do.
This is NOT GOOD. It has happened HUNDREDS of times throughout human history. It ALMOST ALWAYS turns out bad, with a few VERY unique exceptions (perhaps early Roman Emperors, for example).
Human nature is not such that you can just eliminate government. Because some faction of the population loves power and will take it with force. So we implement a system where we vote.
I don't live in the US, but the US voted, and they chose Obama, I guess. He got 53% of the vote in the US. In mock elections throughout the rest of the world, he got closer to 90%.
Some substantial fraction of the people in the world think this is the right approach.
You don't use roads, you drink from a stream, grow your own food using your own shit for fertilizer (because clearly you don't have a waste processing facility on your property). You generate your own electricity from that stream on your property, too, I guess, since most electrical grids were initially built by the government.
I presume you don't mind Iraqi bombs landing on your house, while Chinese steal the IP that keeps your company going where you collect... you know.. money, whos value is protected and guaranteed by the government (regardless of your view on fiat currency, this is fact). Presumably, you expect to be taken care of if you get sick and your company goes out of business, or you are too old to work? I guess there isn't much to worry about when you get old though, because you'll die of scarlet fever or dysentery or polio or malaria or....
You know what, nevermind....
If you want to see what it's like without government, go visit in Mogadishu or South Sudan.
It may not benefit them, but they STILL MAKE 7-figure salaries, even when they perform dismally poorly.
So if one regards millions of dollars as sufficient, it really doesn't matter WHAT they do. They could (if they wanted to) simply use their job to carry out a bunch of personal vendettas, or political aims (like utterly destroying a local union). Especially if they don't feel like there is much of a chance to meet a specific performance bonus target, due to long-term structural or economic problems, there seems little incentive for them not to just shrug and move on.
Now this CEO has a reputation as a Union-buster and is likely to be hired again by a company seeking to prevent unions from having control, even if he did nothing his entire tenure but thumb his nose at the unions. Unions at companies he runs in the future will be forced to respect him because he's clearly willing to sack the whole company, close hundreds of facilities and put entire towns into recession to prove a point about corporate economics.
Wait, are you seriously arguing that a CEO, leading a company into the ground would be treated unfairly by ONLY being paid $1 million per year? You're arguing that the handful of executives taking a pay cut to pay fully 1/4 of the other 18,000 salaries is a silly idea?
Any vendor who accepts a substantial number of credit card transactions is required to meet PCI-DSS standards which requires internal and external vulnerability assessments quarterly, as well as annual penetration testing exercises.
It's not perfect, because the requirements are a bit odd in some areas, but it's a good start down that road.
With all due respect, WhiteHat Security is the Denny's of web application testing shops.
Sure, they're one step above TrustWave (who are just "checklist compliance" shills and would qualify as the McDonalds of testing), but it's hardly what many places would call a proper "red team" approach.
The run automated tools and do a basic level of validation against those tools. The problem is that with web applications, the automated tools only get about 40% of issues and have a 50% false positive rate (or higher) in my experience. Their tools are pretty fancy compared even to the commercial scanning bits, but they aren't perfect.
There are plenty of boutique shops (and even some larger ones) that do more in-depth testing with more experienced testers. I'm not claiming that Mr Jones here isn't experienced, but more pointing out the general trend within some of the testing shops like WhiteHat.
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Meh, they were authoritarian/corporatist. They tended to support corporate interests in favour of the state. They officially advocated for private charities to provide the bulk of social assistance, though they dared not get rid of the Weimar-established social net (which was pretty minimal).
In 1934, Hitler even had all of the "socialist" leaders in the Nazi party executed by the SS, because he didn't like their particular brand of anti-corporate socialism, (and the fact they opposed his views on some things.
That's fair, in the 1800s, the Democrats were a conservative party and the Republicans emerged as the new liberal/neo-liberal party, replacing the broken Whig party of the early 19th centry.
That changed gradually through Nixon and now they've basically swapped sides.
Of course, the Nazi's were called "socialist" even though they supported nothing of the sort.
Then again, Stalin called his government a "republic" when it was also nothing of the sort.
Neat now the names of things can be misused...
Ahahahaha
Really? Is that because they had an R by their name? :-o :-D
haahahahaha
Wait, the 'old school republicans" were federalists who supported executive power and opposed discrimination... As in Abraham Lincoln.
Or are you talking about old school as in the 1960s? Because I'm not sure Nixon was better.
Which old school are you referring to?
It is very salient to point out that the primary NON RELIGIOUS arguments against gay marriage are actually simply arguments against state-sponsored marriage.
But i don't think there are any cultures in the world that don't have both institutional marriage (the church) and civil marriage (the state) as one-in-the-same.
I do think it is socially and economically beneficial to encourage people to cohabitate, especially those with children. I don't have a problem offering tax breaks to encourage good behaviour. We do this in many things from gas to cigarettes to luxury goods.
However, this "cohabitation contract" is odd that the state would restrict it to only "conjugal relationships" and even more strange that this contract would specify how many partners and what sex they must be...
Very strange indeed... unless you consider the religious implications.
There is both supply AND demand in the equation.
There is a high demand for toilet cleaners, there is also, however, a very high supply, especially when unemployment is high.
Anyone who can qualify as sentient and has two hands can clean a toilet, or at least be trained to do so in a short amount of time.
Building a multithreaded application database parsing engine, on the other hand, is not something very many people can do quickly or well, no matter how much training is provided.
You don't need workers when you have robots....
See, learning new skills should improve your pay, but even without it your pay should be going up steadily just to account for increases in the cost of living.
And TFA *CLEARLY* stated "adjusted for inflation", which means (by definition) "increases in the cost of living".
Hell you should be beating that for a while just because of the additional value you gain simply through experience.
This is not analyzing ONE workers pay over a career, but the industry average. Old timers retire, youth enters the fray. Having "stagnant" wages isn't an entirely bad thing unless the supply vs demand for a specific skill set is increasing dramatically.
One in five people in the world get angry, drink, abuse drugs and die young.
Is there actual studies that compare these people with controls?
I mean, I know a guy who was an Engineer who was an alcoholic and shot himself, but he never bashed his head on anything, unless you count a chess board...
Maybe heh as this illness and it's unrelated?
Honestly haven't seen a study that didn't *only* analyze athletes, though I will admit I haven't looked hard and will probably do some research before bed...
Just pointing out the obvious...
To be fair, the NASA press releases are usually pretty accurate.
They did announce that they confirmed entering the heliosheath a few years ago. They confirmed to have crossed the Heliopause last year.
Now the journalists who write these articles write them as "Voyager entering interstellar space", which isn't entirely inaccurate, since it's a pretty vague concept.
At least it's still working, and generating discussion...
Agreed, that does seem like it may take 3 or 4 years to get there.... Not sure anyone has ever spent that long in space.... It seems maybe with some artificial gravity (spinning disc?) it could be done, but then you have the problem of building a pretty massive ship that's still micrometeor and radiation shielded. It would probably involved something about 20x more complicated than the ISS and that's still not counting all the fuel. Rocket fuel is a diminishing returns problem, where carrying thousands of tons makes you burn a pretty substantial portion of it just getting that much fuel into motion in the first place...
Daunting problem trying to figure out how to have enough to return.
OK, maybe not impossible, but would require a substantial portion of GDP to make it happen.
Well, honestly, the local deli purchases his cheese and meat from a local butcher and cheese shop (seriously). That cheese shop buys milk from a farm just outside of town. They get their labels printed by a shop down the road, as well. The label shop probably buys ink from outside of town, to be honest, but they also sell a local photographer's work on postcards and gift cards, rather than spending the same ($3) on a Hallmark card. That photographer has his prints printed at the local photography store, who probably also buys some supplies from out of town, but offers popular photography classes that several people I know have attended.
You see how easily this goes 6 or 8 levels deep in the community.
I can go to the local Supermarket, where they have national brands, imported by truck or train from some farm in a different time zone (the factory isn't even nearby). It was packed by some worker on the plains and put in a box likely manufactured on the opposite coast. The owners of all of these companies live in Florida or Texas, so other than the trucking company and the local stockboy and assistant manager, NOTHING stays in the community. Hell, even the person who makes decisions about what to sell (district manager) at these big stores doesn't live in town.
Yuk.
Arguing with the guy who says taxes are "theft by gunpoint".
Name one government that operates without taxes...
And explain how they might stop a local warlord from implementing their own taxes....
This is a pretty salient comment, although it's certainly possible to go to Saturn and back, the technical hurdles are pretty astounding and would require some substantial developments in a number of areas.
However, if there's no intention to make the return trip, humans could go as far as Saturn with existing technology.
Like someone else said, I specificly frequent local establishments in my neighbourhood, because I know the owners, they live down the street and I see them at the pub on weekends and on my sports teams.
There is value in community. These people, living in the neigbourhood make substantially more money than the assistant manager at "SomeBig MegaStore", and the a huge chunk of that money doesn't end up in some gated community in Arkansas. Then they turn that money back to the community, bringing up home values, allowing other people the chance to open local businesses. In the end, it may not benefit me directly as much as shopping at "SuperCheap MegaStore", but I feel better about it.
As far as I'm concerned, the macroeconomic value of mega-stores promotes a huge class of "factory floor" worker and a tiny fraction of Billionaires, whereas buying local ensures a large group of upper-middle class.
I can tell you that I've known a few Billionaires and a lot of factory workers, and neither of them deserve what they have. Sure the Billionaires work hard and are smart, but often not substantially more than the local shop owner. Sure the factory workers may lack education, intelligence, drive, etc, but are much more gainfully employed at local shops, where they are subject to community standards of behaviour, living, etc.
Other than to the Billionaire class, and people with no concern for their local community, and for the fact that I have no idea how one might equitably do it, I'm a huge proponent of preventing businesses from becoming multinational, and encouraging local investment in small business.
How one does that, other than just one purchase at a time, I have no idea.
Of course, you can choose to be a cog in the machine as well..... Faceless suburbs make me sad.
If you place someone in a major intersection in the suburbs of most major cities in the USA, you simply can't tell where you are, without considering weather and what little vegetation might be visible.... and I find that a bit sad. This is absolutely not the case in most other places in the world.... I think it's a cultural deficit, honestly.
And if you "eliminate" government, somebody else, with guns, will take power and demand your money.
If you're lucky, it's another George Washington.
If you're not, it's another Stalin.
Feel like rolling the dice?
Dictatorship is WHAT HAPPENS when people are simply left alone without rules.
If there is no police and no civic authority, the man who is willing to buy the most guns tells everyone else what to do.
This is NOT GOOD. It has happened HUNDREDS of times throughout human history. It ALMOST ALWAYS turns out bad, with a few VERY unique exceptions (perhaps early Roman Emperors, for example).
Human nature is not such that you can just eliminate government. Because some faction of the population loves power and will take it with force. So we implement a system where we vote.
I don't live in the US, but the US voted, and they chose Obama, I guess. He got 53% of the vote in the US. In mock elections throughout the rest of the world, he got closer to 90%.
Some substantial fraction of the people in the world think this is the right approach.
You don't use roads, you drink from a stream, grow your own food using your own shit for fertilizer (because clearly you don't have a waste processing facility on your property). You generate your own electricity from that stream on your property, too, I guess, since most electrical grids were initially built by the government.
I presume you don't mind Iraqi bombs landing on your house, while Chinese steal the IP that keeps your company going where you collect... you know.. money, whos value is protected and guaranteed by the government (regardless of your view on fiat currency, this is fact). Presumably, you expect to be taken care of if you get sick and your company goes out of business, or you are too old to work? I guess there isn't much to worry about when you get old though, because you'll die of scarlet fever or dysentery or polio or malaria or....
You know what, nevermind....
If you want to see what it's like without government, go visit in Mogadishu or South Sudan.
Enjoy.
WHERE do you live? Remind me not to visit. :-)
I think he was complaining that slashdot simply liked to a pseudo-summary instead of the original article.
He was wishing they DID link to TorrentFreak.
I'm surprised it was already brought up so many times.
The problem is that the particles collect in a "shock wave" at the front of the gravity field. It's not like they're just floating there to collect.
It's the FTL equivalent of a sonic boom.
It may not benefit them, but they STILL MAKE 7-figure salaries, even when they perform dismally poorly.
So if one regards millions of dollars as sufficient, it really doesn't matter WHAT they do. They could (if they wanted to) simply use their job to carry out a bunch of personal vendettas, or political aims (like utterly destroying a local union). Especially if they don't feel like there is much of a chance to meet a specific performance bonus target, due to long-term structural or economic problems, there seems little incentive for them not to just shrug and move on.
Now this CEO has a reputation as a Union-buster and is likely to be hired again by a company seeking to prevent unions from having control, even if he did nothing his entire tenure but thumb his nose at the unions. Unions at companies he runs in the future will be forced to respect him because he's clearly willing to sack the whole company, close hundreds of facilities and put entire towns into recession to prove a point about corporate economics.
meh... CEOs are totally treated fairly... heh
Wait, are you seriously arguing that a CEO, leading a company into the ground would be treated unfairly by ONLY being paid $1 million per year? You're arguing that the handful of executives taking a pay cut to pay fully 1/4 of the other 18,000 salaries is a silly idea?
Yeesh...
Any vendor who accepts a substantial number of credit card transactions is required to meet PCI-DSS standards which requires internal and external vulnerability assessments quarterly, as well as annual penetration testing exercises.
It's not perfect, because the requirements are a bit odd in some areas, but it's a good start down that road.
With all due respect, WhiteHat Security is the Denny's of web application testing shops.
Sure, they're one step above TrustWave (who are just "checklist compliance" shills and would qualify as the McDonalds of testing), but it's hardly what many places would call a proper "red team" approach.
The run automated tools and do a basic level of validation against those tools. The problem is that with web applications, the automated tools only get about 40% of issues and have a 50% false positive rate (or higher) in my experience. Their tools are pretty fancy compared even to the commercial scanning bits, but they aren't perfect.
There are plenty of boutique shops (and even some larger ones) that do more in-depth testing with more experienced testers. I'm not claiming that Mr Jones here isn't experienced, but more pointing out the general trend within some of the testing shops like WhiteHat.