I don't disagree with you, but the Koch brothers directly stated (in 2008?) that their oil speculation earned them $0.20 to $0.40 per gallon of gasoline in the US that year. That's every gallon of gas sold, they were able to calculate their average earnings from being speculators.
Oil speculators aren't the primary driver of oil prices, but they are a major factor.
You conveniently ignore the reasons why the energy secretary says that. He doesn't want each of us to spend more. He wants higher efficiency. To make us more efficient and less dependent on oil, the prices must go up. It doesn't mean "us peasants" spend more in the long run.
Not only that, but these people who love the free market are complaining that the president isn't playing dictator and directly controlling gas prices. They want an open market for oil, which is exactly what we have today, yet blame the president for how that open market acts. I'm not shocked at their own hypocrisy, I'm just always surprised at how many people fall for it.
Of the 4 examples in this post, "flu", "agent", and "cops drill" aren't inappropriate things to monitor (if it's appropriate to monitor at all, which is another story). "Flu" tracking is important for epidemics. Discussions of the location of cops and agents seems to make sense too. Again, I think it's silly they're trying to monitor social networks to this level, but if they're going to do it those aren't the worst keywords.
Also, I guess now I'm going to be tracked for discussing the keywords. How very meta.
That's how OS X works now. We've gone through a bunch of printers at my office, and a variety of brands. Each one just needs a wifi password set, then the desktop lets us print to it with no question. It just appears in the list of available printers.
OS X comes with a long list of drivers installed. Apple would love to drop those, partly because it involves a lot of coordination with printer manufacturers. Little from the customer perspective would likely change.
If you're "pretty much the IT systems guy" this company doesn't care about IT
One IT guy for an organization of 30 is totally reasonable. Unless their company's focus is in something IT-related (web services, hosting, etc.), one person should definitely be able to manage the IT of a very small company.
I use PHP for 90% of my work because it's the right tool for the job. We can also bring other developers up to speed on our own framework and projects pretty fast.
There are times when Python is a better fit. The fact that it remains running across page loads can be very handy (as opposed to every request to PHP being completely distinct, which has its own advantages). A continuously running app is often better for backend processing, especially when interacting with third party systems.
Credit card charges will probably cost them as much as mailing that paper
I doubt it. With their volume and fraud prevention they get an extremely low rate. Paper adds employees, postal fees, office space, printers, etc. Just the fact they can have less employees without paper makes their public financial statements looks better (higher revenue per employee, lower capital expenditures, etc.).
The difference now is that soldiers and citizens are dying every day and it's being reported in the news. It's very easy for a politician to say something is necessary for the current war while we all know people are dying. The USSR was the perpetual boogie man who was most scary for what they didn't do. But the "war on terror" has hit US soil and soldiers are on the ground. One thing they have in common is politicians will the use the situation to their advantage.
I think what gets declassified now is great. What I'm talking about is the future. Only in the last 10 years have we been in what the government calls a permanent war on terror. In 30 years we could still be in perpetual war, based on the current crop of politicians we elect. So they'll surely redact more of the information from 2000 on if we're still in the exact same "war".
I know this is just one person's opinion, but I've been using 1&1 for years and I've been very happy with them. I have about 20 domains there and never had a single problem.
I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the like.
I wouldn't be surprised if little or nothing is declassified in the future. Given the never ending "war on terror" they can come up with excuses to redact just about everything.
I just priced it out last week for enterprise level at $10k. It's absurd to pay per processor when you get the same exact features, functionality, and support.
Microsoft currently charges about $10,000 per processor for SQL Server. They've had this pricing model for over a decade and still companies shell out the cash. Always amazes me.
I only block ads because the majority are intrusive and many sites are over saturated. If ads were all friendly I wouldn't block any of them. I think many (most?) people probably feel the same way.
I have to disagree with the Cake recommendation. I've tried many frameworks and watched presentations from some of their creators. Using Cake you'll often end up writing just as much code as if you didn't use a framework at all, which defeats one of the reasons for using a framework in the first place.
At my company we use a custom PHP framework. But if your backend is Python anyway, I recommend Django. It's especially good if your front-end is just a CMS. Even if it's much more than that, Django leaves you open to do as much custom code on top of it as necessary without getting in your way.
I can't find any examples online at the moment. They were basically political caricatures that people at the time would consider extremely offensive. Of course, to say they'd be the equivalent of "terrorism" today is very subjective, but I think if they had YouTube back then they would have been taken down:)
Ben Franklin himself spread propaganda in London that today we'd consider terrorism. You'll need to read up on attacks aimed at citizens, particularly loyalists, to understand more of what I'm talking about.
Well of course not. The definition of terrorism is to instill fear in the general population. Bombing a British military supply depot would not be terrorism. But bombing public docks and scaring loyalists was most certainly meant to intimidate the public.
Agreed. Unfortunately there are no consequences for contradicting their sworn oath. At best they could be impeached by an ethics committee, but their coworkers wouldn't do that. They could be voted out of office but citizens are more concerned about the immediate threats to their pocket books and security. Plus anyone moral and intelligent enough to run against them doesn't want to deal with the BS.
Not true. Subversives did things like blow up shipping docks to intimidate British merchants and military. Bombings and such were relatively rare because they were so hard to successfully carry out at the time, but they certainly did happen. Americans also spread propaganda in London and other cities to try to change public opinion (while I don't consider this terrorism, it falls under what we label as "terrorism" today).
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I don't disagree with you, but the Koch brothers directly stated (in 2008?) that their oil speculation earned them $0.20 to $0.40 per gallon of gasoline in the US that year. That's every gallon of gas sold, they were able to calculate their average earnings from being speculators.
Oil speculators aren't the primary driver of oil prices, but they are a major factor.
Gingrich has directly stated he plans to invade Iran and take their oil. He's not dancing around the idea, he's very blunt.
You conveniently ignore the reasons why the energy secretary says that. He doesn't want each of us to spend more. He wants higher efficiency. To make us more efficient and less dependent on oil, the prices must go up. It doesn't mean "us peasants" spend more in the long run.
Not only that, but these people who love the free market are complaining that the president isn't playing dictator and directly controlling gas prices. They want an open market for oil, which is exactly what we have today, yet blame the president for how that open market acts. I'm not shocked at their own hypocrisy, I'm just always surprised at how many people fall for it.
Of the 4 examples in this post, "flu", "agent", and "cops drill" aren't inappropriate things to monitor (if it's appropriate to monitor at all, which is another story). "Flu" tracking is important for epidemics. Discussions of the location of cops and agents seems to make sense too. Again, I think it's silly they're trying to monitor social networks to this level, but if they're going to do it those aren't the worst keywords.
Also, I guess now I'm going to be tracked for discussing the keywords. How very meta.
That's how OS X works now. We've gone through a bunch of printers at my office, and a variety of brands. Each one just needs a wifi password set, then the desktop lets us print to it with no question. It just appears in the list of available printers.
OS X comes with a long list of drivers installed. Apple would love to drop those, partly because it involves a lot of coordination with printer manufacturers. Little from the customer perspective would likely change.
If you're "pretty much the IT systems guy" this company doesn't care about IT
One IT guy for an organization of 30 is totally reasonable. Unless their company's focus is in something IT-related (web services, hosting, etc.), one person should definitely be able to manage the IT of a very small company.
I use PHP for 90% of my work because it's the right tool for the job. We can also bring other developers up to speed on our own framework and projects pretty fast.
There are times when Python is a better fit. The fact that it remains running across page loads can be very handy (as opposed to every request to PHP being completely distinct, which has its own advantages). A continuously running app is often better for backend processing, especially when interacting with third party systems.
Credit card charges will probably cost them as much as mailing that paper
I doubt it. With their volume and fraud prevention they get an extremely low rate. Paper adds employees, postal fees, office space, printers, etc. Just the fact they can have less employees without paper makes their public financial statements looks better (higher revenue per employee, lower capital expenditures, etc.).
Interesting theory, but you could easily look at my comment history and sig link and see I'm a software developer. No PR spin here.
The difference now is that soldiers and citizens are dying every day and it's being reported in the news. It's very easy for a politician to say something is necessary for the current war while we all know people are dying. The USSR was the perpetual boogie man who was most scary for what they didn't do. But the "war on terror" has hit US soil and soldiers are on the ground. One thing they have in common is politicians will the use the situation to their advantage.
I think what gets declassified now is great. What I'm talking about is the future. Only in the last 10 years have we been in what the government calls a permanent war on terror. In 30 years we could still be in perpetual war, based on the current crop of politicians we elect. So they'll surely redact more of the information from 2000 on if we're still in the exact same "war".
the only provider that is FAR worse, is 1&1
I know this is just one person's opinion, but I've been using 1&1 for years and I've been very happy with them. I have about 20 domains there and never had a single problem.
I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the like.
I wouldn't be surprised if little or nothing is declassified in the future. Given the never ending "war on terror" they can come up with excuses to redact just about everything.
I just priced it out last week for enterprise level at $10k. It's absurd to pay per processor when you get the same exact features, functionality, and support.
Microsoft currently charges about $10,000 per processor for SQL Server. They've had this pricing model for over a decade and still companies shell out the cash. Always amazes me.
it makes it easy to write huge spaghetti projects that are expensive to maintain
What language doesn't? Blaming PHP for poorly written code is like blaming a car for having a bad driver.
I only block ads because the majority are intrusive and many sites are over saturated. If ads were all friendly I wouldn't block any of them. I think many (most?) people probably feel the same way.
I have to disagree with the Cake recommendation. I've tried many frameworks and watched presentations from some of their creators. Using Cake you'll often end up writing just as much code as if you didn't use a framework at all, which defeats one of the reasons for using a framework in the first place.
At my company we use a custom PHP framework. But if your backend is Python anyway, I recommend Django. It's especially good if your front-end is just a CMS. Even if it's much more than that, Django leaves you open to do as much custom code on top of it as necessary without getting in your way.
I can't find any examples online at the moment. They were basically political caricatures that people at the time would consider extremely offensive. Of course, to say they'd be the equivalent of "terrorism" today is very subjective, but I think if they had YouTube back then they would have been taken down :)
Ben Franklin himself spread propaganda in London that today we'd consider terrorism. You'll need to read up on attacks aimed at citizens, particularly loyalists, to understand more of what I'm talking about.
Well of course not. The definition of terrorism is to instill fear in the general population. Bombing a British military supply depot would not be terrorism. But bombing public docks and scaring loyalists was most certainly meant to intimidate the public.
Agreed. Unfortunately there are no consequences for contradicting their sworn oath. At best they could be impeached by an ethics committee, but their coworkers wouldn't do that. They could be voted out of office but citizens are more concerned about the immediate threats to their pocket books and security. Plus anyone moral and intelligent enough to run against them doesn't want to deal with the BS.
Not true. Subversives did things like blow up shipping docks to intimidate British merchants and military. Bombings and such were relatively rare because they were so hard to successfully carry out at the time, but they certainly did happen. Americans also spread propaganda in London and other cities to try to change public opinion (while I don't consider this terrorism, it falls under what we label as "terrorism" today).
He read and understood it. He's not an idiot, he just doesn't give a shit.