Brief your management on the situation. Explain what condition things are in and what is needed to get them into a manageable state. Give them a list of projects / tasks that you have to deal with and get them to prioritize.
Considering the condition Social Security is in, it seems to wise to plan ahead like that. Social security as we know it will be gone, or severely neutered by the time I reach retirement age. There's nothing wrong with making long term plans; you can't put everything on the national credit card forever.
So then Congress should require the US Govt. to pre-fund all social security for the next 75 years as well. Fair is fair after all.
They don't because this move wasn't about fiscal responsibility at all.
The USPS is incredibly cheap compared to the commercial alternatives. The USPS goes to EVERY mailbox each day (6 days a week). Nearly everyone gets mail every day and even if there is none to deliver there might be some to pick up. This is particularly important outside of big cities. There are MILLIONS of people living outside UPS/Fedex delivery zones.
What are you going to do for the farmers and ranchers who live 50 miles away from the nearest FedEx drop box? Remeber they don't get internet out there either. So you are going to let them swing? Really? Nothing for the people growing your food? It is not wise to SHIT on the people who feed you.
Government operations like the post office is just one of the many "costs of doing business" in a large society. Change the funding model so that the postal service can raise its rates and fire those that need firing and you'll see that it can work.
I find it highly unlikely that the authorities allowed themselves to look like idiots by not stopping the activists...not by shooting them necessarily, but by taking them down in some non-lethal way.
Seems to me that Greenpeace made their point as even alerted to the presence of other activists the authorities needed time to find them.
From an English version of a French newspaper:
"Later on Monday, Greenpeace revealed to FRANCE 24 that there were several other activists still holed up in another unnamed power station, waiting to see how long it would take security guards to track them down. Two were reportedly arrested late in the evening."
...in the 21st century, you will not be arrested because some office drone in the ministry of truth read through all your e-mails and decided you're a bad person. No, in the 21st century you get put on the No Fly List and nobody can friggin' explain to you why...
I really wish I could mod this your post up higher than 5.
When they sniff your encryption they'll automatically red flag you. Next time you communicate with any Suspect Entity for Any Reason (ie donating to Unicef) you'll be on a black flight to Guantanamo with no notification to anyone that you've been taken, no right to a lawyer to defend you and all the other lovely security increasing powers from the Patriot Act(s).
Did your mother and your friend buy during the bubble or did they buy before the bubble and thus haven't actually lost value vs. the original purchase?
I don't blame anyone who bought and lost regardless. I blame the politicians who killed the Glass-Steagall Act and the banks that made and then sold loans that should never have happened, inflating and then crashing the entire market.
The equity accrual might be interesting - no idea how that would compare against a loan from a bank. The developers appear to take the risk or property values decreasing instead of the renters taking the risk but what happens to the accrued equity if the developer goes out of business?
I'm on IOS version 4.3.3 and I don't have this option. Might be that I bought it in France where presumably the EU laws on data collection might be providing some level of protection.
First off 'evolve a bit' would require that they reproduce. The whole point of this is that it breaks the reproductive cycle. Second 'target other species'... How? The way this works is that they breed with the targeted mosquitoes. If it's another species, they don't breed with each other. By definition.
The most likely failure mode of this is that the targeted mosquitoes evolve a bit and start to recognize and avoid the GM mosquitoes. But that would take several generations at minimum, and that might be enough to wipe out malaria in the area anyway. (By allowing the infected population to fall below the minimum for sustainability.)
You're assuming 100% accuracy in the design of the GM mosquitoes. IANAGeneticist but it seems to me that there is room for error on both sides. On the side of the GM mosquitoes, if the manipulation is imperfect, and on the side of the extremely large quantity of other mosquitoes out there.
I don't know what the probabilities are but when dealing with such large numbers it doesn't have to be a large imperfection before you get mutations. And yes I am talking about over several generations.
Overall I agree though, it should be enough to make an impact on malaria that it's worth doing.
1. Houses aren't actually that much of a money-maker if you actually consider all of the additional taxes, upkeep costs and market volatility. Their main benefit is freedom to modify and protection from eviction. 2. He said unsecured. Houses are not unsecured. 3. The debt you're accruing interest on accrues faster than inflation stacks up, gaining more negative value.
1) I'll accept what you're saying if you give me some concrete examples to work with and not just opinions. My experience has been that buying is better than renting.
2) The post that I was replying to didn't say unsecured. You're referring to a different post earlier in this branch of posts.
3) You're looking only at interest vs. inflation and you have to look at the entire equation.
At the end of the day what it comes down to is that if you are paying rent you don't have anything to show for it over time whereas the money that I am paying for debt+interest is decreasing the debt+interest over time which, when coupled with property values increasing over time (again as I said in my post with the exceptions of temporary downturns due to market fluctuations), gives me an increased net worth over time.
So do you advocate doing nothing? Contrary to what you believe some parts of our security services do work quite well. Of more concern is the apparent declaration of a cyber cold war. I makes me wonder who they intend to target, as presumably there is little point in hacking Chinese companies since they stole all their designs from us in the first place. Actually thinking about it that makes sense, why try to hack your allies for commercial intel when you can hack the Chinese and steal the stuff they already stole from them?
...could hack the Chinese, Russians or whoever to find out what they're doing and how they're doing it in order to better defend against it or to assist in tracking attacks back to their sources for public and political exposure should that prove useful.
...could find out who is already compromised and either help them close the hole(s) or use them to plant misinformation.
...could infiltrate defense infrastructure to be able to disrupt or assume control in the event of a cyber or non-cyber war.
Your comment is difficult to understand, but I'm pretty sure you are implying that the GM mosquitoes will mutate and become some kind of super-bug.
However it is a non-problem. The modified flies have defective offspring, who also have defective offspring. The population will soon go extinct, long before there have been enough generations to mutate into something else. That whole extinction thing is the whole point of releasing these bugs!
-d
You're assuming 100% accuracy in the GM mosquitoes reproductive defectiveness.
So, for instance, we could create a way to selectively wipe out just the one species of mosquitoes that carry these diseases, while leaving other closely related species unharmed. Perhaps we could make it so that their females can't feed or flee from predators.
Which will work fine until the GM mosquitoes evolve a bit and start to target other species of mosquito.
I agree with you for the most part but at least for most people it is not practical to save up the money to buy a house for cash.
Even if you can do so it doesn't mean that it makes the best financial sense to do so: 1) The money that you're paying in rent is enriching the landlord and not going towards your own capital investment 2) You're losing the capital gains of buying your own property (temporary financial crisis excepted real property goes up in value over time) 3) The money that you're keeping in the bank or under the mattress doing nothing is losing value over time due to inflation
By investing in such strong and well known companies as AIG and Lehman Brothers perhaps? (for example)
Ratings agencies are inaccurate and biased (they get paid by the very financial entities that they analyze) and cannot be counted on.
All stock purchases are gambles and bond purchases for western governments are becoming less certain as well now with even the US credit rating to be possibly downgraded.
There are many other possible vectors, consider: Operating system and other software updates imply that the providers are as secure as you need to be Zero day vulns that might be in pdf or some other file that has been scanned and is thought to be secure Printers can be vectors for attacks Disgruntled or careless workers who deliberately or accidentally compromise the air gap Network hardware sourced from vendors or manufacturers that might have hidden backdoors in hardware/firmware/software
How much stock do you have to own before it generates enough revenue to actually live on (never mind getting rich on)? What are the currently unemployed and / or in debt going to buy that stock with? How many companies / governments with excellent ratings have tanked, taking the investor's money with them? How much of that investment then goes towards exorbitant executive pay?
Most people don't want to gamble on making a living. They want to work and make a living.
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Depends on which country you're talking about. 14 an hour in India is not at all the same as 14 an hour in the US.
Brief your management on the situation. Explain what condition things are in and what is needed to get them into a manageable state. Give them a list of projects / tasks that you have to deal with and get them to prioritize.
Considering the condition Social Security is in, it seems to wise to plan ahead like that. Social security as we know it will be gone, or severely neutered by the time I reach retirement age. There's nothing wrong with making long term plans; you can't put everything on the national credit card forever.
So then Congress should require the US Govt. to pre-fund all social security for the next 75 years as well. Fair is fair after all.
They don't because this move wasn't about fiscal responsibility at all.
UPS/Fedex? Ridiculous!
The USPS is incredibly cheap compared to the commercial alternatives. The USPS goes to EVERY mailbox each day (6 days a week). Nearly everyone gets mail every day and even if there is none to deliver there might be some to pick up. This is particularly important outside of big cities. There are MILLIONS of people living outside UPS/Fedex delivery zones.
What are you going to do for the farmers and ranchers who live 50 miles away from the nearest FedEx drop box? Remeber they don't get internet out there either. So you are going to let them swing? Really? Nothing for the people growing your food? It is not wise to SHIT on the people who feed you.
Government operations like the post office is just one of the many "costs of doing business" in a large society. Change the funding model so that the postal service can raise its rates and fire those that need firing and you'll see that it can work.
They are the 99%
What's your source for this?
I find it highly unlikely that the authorities allowed themselves to look like idiots by not stopping the activists...not by shooting them necessarily, but by taking them down in some non-lethal way.
Seems to me that Greenpeace made their point as even alerted to the presence of other activists the authorities needed time to find them.
From an English version of a French newspaper:
"Later on Monday, Greenpeace revealed to FRANCE 24 that there were several other activists still holed up in another unnamed power station, waiting to see how long it would take security guards to track them down. Two were reportedly arrested late in the evening."
http://www.france24.com/en/20111205-security-breach-nuclear-debate-greenpeace-sarkozy-hollande-fukushima
Suppose you did. This is a 100psi+ containment building you're talking about. What would you expect to accomplish... maybe scratch the paint?
There is no man-portable weapon that is a real threat to a nuclear facility.
C4 charges on the cooling and electrical systems?
...in the 21st century, you will not be arrested because some office drone in the ministry of truth read through all your e-mails and decided you're a bad person. No, in the 21st century you get put on the No Fly List and nobody can friggin' explain to you why ...
I really wish I could mod this your post up higher than 5.
When they sniff your encryption they'll automatically red flag you. Next time you communicate with any Suspect Entity for Any Reason (ie donating to Unicef) you'll be on a black flight to Guantanamo with no notification to anyone that you've been taken, no right to a lawyer to defend you and all the other lovely security increasing powers from the Patriot Act(s).
The key words in your statement are "right now"
If you look at values over time you have an increase over time even taking the bubble into account:
http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/
Did your mother and your friend buy during the bubble or did they buy before the bubble and thus haven't actually lost value vs. the original purchase?
I don't blame anyone who bought and lost regardless. I blame the politicians who killed the Glass-Steagall Act and the banks that made and then sold loans that should never have happened, inflating and then crashing the entire market.
The equity accrual might be interesting - no idea how that would compare against a loan from a bank. The developers appear to take the risk or property values decreasing instead of the renters taking the risk but what happens to the accrued equity if the developer goes out of business?
Agreed but it seems to me that the EU is more serious about consumer protection than the US, perhaps from being less controlled by corporations.
I'm American but living in the EU so I have a bit of both perspectives, if no hard data to hand to back up my feeling on this...
Hi JimFive - I agree with you for the most part but I believe there is still somewhat of a relative gain over time even when adjusting for inflation:
http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/
Agreed that it's linked to demand and then it gets highly geographical. Overall though the population is increasing...
...Android version is more akin to a rootkit, complete with backdoor and key logger.
Has this been conclusively determined? References?
I'm on IOS version 4.3.3 and I don't have this option. Might be that I bought it in France where presumably the EU laws on data collection might be providing some level of protection.
Ok, there's two problems with your scenario...
First off 'evolve a bit' would require that they reproduce. The whole point of this is that it breaks the reproductive cycle. Second 'target other species'... How? The way this works is that they breed with the targeted mosquitoes. If it's another species, they don't breed with each other. By definition.
The most likely failure mode of this is that the targeted mosquitoes evolve a bit and start to recognize and avoid the GM mosquitoes. But that would take several generations at minimum, and that might be enough to wipe out malaria in the area anyway. (By allowing the infected population to fall below the minimum for sustainability.)
You're assuming 100% accuracy in the design of the GM mosquitoes. IANAGeneticist but it seems to me that there is room for error on both sides. On the side of the GM mosquitoes, if the manipulation is imperfect, and on the side of the extremely large quantity of other mosquitoes out there.
I don't know what the probabilities are but when dealing with such large numbers it doesn't have to be a large imperfection before you get mutations. And yes I am talking about over several generations.
Overall I agree though, it should be enough to make an impact on malaria that it's worth doing.
1. Houses aren't actually that much of a money-maker if you actually consider all of the additional taxes, upkeep costs and market volatility. Their main benefit is freedom to modify and protection from eviction.
2. He said unsecured. Houses are not unsecured.
3. The debt you're accruing interest on accrues faster than inflation stacks up, gaining more negative value.
1) I'll accept what you're saying if you give me some concrete examples to work with and not just opinions. My experience has been that buying is better than renting.
Here is a good tool for evaluating a buy vs. rent situation: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html
2) The post that I was replying to didn't say unsecured. You're referring to a different post earlier in this branch of posts.
3) You're looking only at interest vs. inflation and you have to look at the entire equation.
At the end of the day what it comes down to is that if you are paying rent you don't have anything to show for it over time whereas the money that I am paying for debt+interest is decreasing the debt+interest over time which, when coupled with property values increasing over time (again as I said in my post with the exceptions of temporary downturns due to market fluctuations), gives me an increased net worth over time.
So do you advocate doing nothing? Contrary to what you believe some parts of our security services do work quite well. Of more concern is the apparent declaration of a cyber cold war. I makes me wonder who they intend to target, as presumably there is little point in hacking Chinese companies since they stole all their designs from us in the first place. Actually thinking about it that makes sense, why try to hack your allies for commercial intel when you can hack the Chinese and steal the stuff they already stole from them?
Your comment is difficult to understand, but I'm pretty sure you are implying that the GM mosquitoes will mutate and become some kind of super-bug.
However it is a non-problem. The modified flies have defective offspring, who also have defective offspring. The population will soon go extinct, long before there have been enough generations to mutate into something else. That whole extinction thing is the whole point of releasing these bugs!
-d
You're assuming 100% accuracy in the GM mosquitoes reproductive defectiveness.
So, for instance, we could create a way to selectively wipe out just the one species of mosquitoes that carry these diseases, while leaving other closely related species unharmed. Perhaps we could make it so that their females can't feed or flee from predators.
Which will work fine until the GM mosquitoes evolve a bit and start to target other species of mosquito.
I agree with you for the most part but at least for most people it is not practical to save up the money to buy a house for cash.
Even if you can do so it doesn't mean that it makes the best financial sense to do so:
1) The money that you're paying in rent is enriching the landlord and not going towards your own capital investment
2) You're losing the capital gains of buying your own property (temporary financial crisis excepted real property goes up in value over time)
3) The money that you're keeping in the bank or under the mattress doing nothing is losing value over time due to inflation
By investing in such strong and well known companies as AIG and Lehman Brothers perhaps? (for example)
Ratings agencies are inaccurate and biased (they get paid by the very financial entities that they analyze) and cannot be counted on.
All stock purchases are gambles and bond purchases for western governments are becoming less certain as well now with even the US credit rating to be possibly downgraded.
There are many other possible vectors, consider:
Operating system and other software updates imply that the providers are as secure as you need to be
Zero day vulns that might be in pdf or some other file that has been scanned and is thought to be secure
Printers can be vectors for attacks
Disgruntled or careless workers who deliberately or accidentally compromise the air gap
Network hardware sourced from vendors or manufacturers that might have hidden backdoors in hardware/firmware/software
...and your enemies closer."
Sun-tzu. Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)
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How much stock do you have to own before it generates enough revenue to actually live on (never mind getting rich on)?
What are the currently unemployed and / or in debt going to buy that stock with?
How many companies / governments with excellent ratings have tanked, taking the investor's money with them?
How much of that investment then goes towards exorbitant executive pay?
Most people don't want to gamble on making a living. They want to work and make a living.