The american way is shoot first and keep shooting until there is nobody left to ask questions to. If that is the impression people get from the news, there surely there must be a problem somewhere.
About the difference: "there is something social at play here". That is such a polite way to put it.
There is so much you can say about this, but I'd rather stay silent. I don't want to be shot 85 times over a small remark about a terminally ill system. Not that that is going to help. We all have heard about mister Dotcom
Common solution for computers: remove malware, install patches and protection and reboot.
Last time I checked the 300M people are insignificant compared to the world population, but they use 25% of the energy. And since "we" includes the whole world "we the superior people" are also part of the problem. Sure "we the superior people" can buy whatever the "we the superior people" want, but not caring about the sustainability rest of the world is.. quite ignorant.
Every nation has their own arguments to justify their action, but no government wants to look an the bigger picture because that is painful. It does require less consumption. It's about everybody and the long term and not only the US. If we're out of resources, we're out of resources. Game over.
They enhanced existing broccoli and patented the enhanced properties of it, but that is done in such a way that even existing types of open source broccoli could/would fall under that patent prohibiting (or pay licence fees) farmers to grow the broccoli that they grew before without licence.
Patent Trolling is one thing. Food Trolling is the part that really pisses me off. Also Cotton Trolling (trolling the farmers in India). Farmers start to realize Monsanto cotton is not a good solution for them (the seeds are four time as expensive as normal seeds). They want out, but by now there normal cotton seeds are hardly available.
It was the first source I could find. There are many others if you don't like this one.
What Monsanto did here, is take an existing crop and cross-breed (?) it so it is easy to harvest. What they patented is the properties, size of the crown and the stem of the broccoli that make it easy to harvest.. The problem is that broccoli like that already is grown. Suddenly that is not allowed any more. The other problem is they also patented hybrids. So if their broccoli pollutes your open source broccoli, you're fucked. You can be sure you have to pay up. They have done that before.
If you use a "hard drug" and become addicted to it and can afford your habit, that's your problem.
No. I totally agree, but how often does that happen?
Having something in your pocket that other people disapprove of is not a crime and has no victim.
I see your point, but my point is that there are so many ifs and buts that the discussion about "consenting adults" is mainly a theoretical discussion. Reality is different. In daily life people are just not free to do what they want. In general, yes, but not as a rule. Take gay marriage between two consenting adults.
Most drug users are not able to support their need by them selves and cause many problems for society. Or to put it, they're not able to behave along the line of consenting adults so no freedom of drug use.
Apart from that, the war on drugs is a waste of money. Is that money was spent on prevention, drugs related crime and taking care (basic shelter, clean needles, some medical care) of the drug user. there would probably even be a lot of money left for these people: http://www.infowars.com/101m-americans-get-food-aid-from-federal-govt/
It is great to say consenting adults should be a allowed to take drugs (somewhere in the beginning of this thread), but the people affected by using hard drugs, alcohol abuse or texting while driving hardly were consenting. In general others will always be affected by it so as a rule of thumb many actions will fail the status of consenting. So "consenting adults" is a very hypothetical concept that is meaningless in daily life. Well. Maybe not totally. There is the law and by law we consent to that. As for "land of the free". The rest of the world did not consent to the consequences of that fiction either.
Don't push back the deadline. A new requirement / feature is given a priority and added to the product backlog. It's not added to the sprint backlog.
I'm sure the customer can wait one week longer for a proper release with the new functionality. If the feature request is so important that it ABSOLUTELY has to be in THIS release, restart the sprint from the beginning. But that should be an exception, since it disrupts the production cycle.
Of course you explain these procedures with the customer and make sure he knows why it is important to stick to the production cycle (quality, productivity).
Also work on you Definition of Done. Make sure you put "all unit tests passed" on that.
What I'm really shocked about is that you need a university to figure this out. Or rather do research on this. Companies figured this out quite some time ago and anyone with a functioning brain can see why. What I'm more interested in is that king of people spend their time in participating in programs like this. The chances that you find a bug are not that big. The financial reward, given the amount of time you will spend on finding a bug is probably also relatively small. From a company's point of view on the other hand, it's great. Many people working for you. For free. A job well done:)
As a further measure to prevent escapes, the patrol patterns of the Grenztruppen were carefully arranged to reduce any chance of a border guard defecting. Patrols, watchtowers and observation posts were always manned by two or three soldiers at a time. They were not allowed to go out of each other's sight in any circumstances. When changing the guard in watchtowers, they were under orders to enter and exit the buildings in such a way that there were never fewer than two people on the ground. Duty rosters were organised to prevent friends and roommates being assigned to the same patrols. The pairings were switched (though not randomly) to ensure that the same people did not repeatedly carry out duty together. Individual border guards did not know until the start of their shift with whom they would be working that day. If a guard attempted to escape, his colleagues were under instructions to shoot him without hesitation or prior warning.
"According to the report, which scrutinized the approval of security clearances, more than 483,000 government contractors had "top secret" clearance as of last October. On top of that, another 582,000 have "confidential" or "secret" clearance."
That is... WELL OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE with access to sensitive information. More or less 1 in every 300 citizens of 'murica. If you don't see a potential data breach here, I really don't know what you're looking for.
Snowden made the information public, but who knows how many others sent information to foreign agencies? With one million people with access I bet data breaches happen quite more often than this one case.
It's called speculation for a reason. A long term investment in a company that you believe has a bright future: yes, please. Speculation to make some quick money: die die die.
Dark pools? I don't even want to know what kind of shady way THIS is to ruin the already corrupt financial system.
And while I have the undivided attention of the NSA: Banks and stock markets. That's where you will find terrorists that ruin whole societies.
"medical support" in this case sort of includes the other expenses as well... War on drugs is indeed a waste of money.
My reaction was mainly about "finally recognizing that anything consenting adults want to do is NOT a crime" and then referring to the zombie on you tube. As consenting adult you're simply not free to do whatever you want.
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The american way is shoot first and keep shooting until there is nobody left to ask questions to.
If that is the impression people get from the news, there surely there must be a problem somewhere.
About the difference: "there is something social at play here". That is such a polite way to put it.
There is so much you can say about this, but I'd rather stay silent.
I don't want to be shot 85 times over a small remark about a terminally ill system.
Not that that is going to help. We all have heard about mister Dotcom
Common solution for computers: remove malware, install patches and protection and reboot.
Last time I checked the 300M people are insignificant compared to the world population, but they use 25% of the energy. And since "we" includes the whole world "we the superior people" are also part of the problem.
Sure "we the superior people" can buy whatever the "we the superior people" want, but not caring about the sustainability rest of the world is.. quite ignorant.
Every nation has their own arguments to justify their action, but no government wants to look an the bigger picture because that is painful. It does require less consumption. It's about everybody and the long term and not only the US. If we're out of resources, we're out of resources. Game over.
4 billion people is more than enough. It solves a lot of problems in areas like water, food, energy, pollution.
I find the situation where a government treats the whole world as suspect quite objectionable.
Real problem: Not taking responsibility for own actions; blaming others
Verdict: Grow up; get a life.
And I bet that 50 page complaint was written left-handed.
No. Source: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/14/some-volcanoes-scream-at-ever-higher-pitches-until-they-blow-their-tops/
Shoot first, drone first, water board first and THEN ask questions.
Who needs theatre?
They enhanced existing broccoli and patented the enhanced properties of it, but that is done in such a way that even existing types of open source broccoli could/would fall under that patent prohibiting (or pay licence fees) farmers to grow the broccoli that they grew before without licence.
Patent Trolling is one thing. Food Trolling is the part that really pisses me off.
Also Cotton Trolling (trolling the farmers in India). Farmers start to realize Monsanto cotton is not a good solution for them (the seeds are four time as expensive as normal seeds). They want out, but by now there normal cotton seeds are hardly available.
It was the first source I could find. There are many others if you don't like this one.
What Monsanto did here, is take an existing crop and cross-breed (?) it so it is easy to harvest. What they patented is the properties, size of the crown and the stem of the broccoli that make it easy to harvest.. The problem is that broccoli like that already is grown. Suddenly that is not allowed any more. The other problem is they also patented hybrids. So if their broccoli pollutes your open source broccoli, you're fucked. You can be sure you have to pay up. They have done that before.
Broccoli is already patented by Monsanto.
We're not talking about a genetically mutilated Monsanto broccoli, but they patented open source broccoli.
http://www.realfarmacy.com/monsanto-patent-on-natural-broccoli-seeds/
Saying you did it is something different than actually having done that something.
No matter how great it is to have a confession.
If you use a "hard drug" and become addicted to it and can afford your habit, that's your problem.
No. I totally agree, but how often does that happen?
Having something in your pocket that other people disapprove of is not a crime and has no victim.
I see your point, but my point is that there are so many ifs and buts that the discussion about "consenting adults" is mainly a theoretical discussion. Reality is different. In daily life people are just not free to do what they want. In general, yes, but not as a rule. Take gay marriage between two consenting adults.
Most drug users are not able to support their need by them selves and cause many problems for society. Or to put it, they're not able to behave along the line of consenting adults so no freedom of drug use.
Apart from that, the war on drugs is a waste of money. Is that money was spent on prevention, drugs related crime and taking care (basic shelter, clean needles, some medical care) of the drug user. there would probably even be a lot of money left for these people: http://www.infowars.com/101m-americans-get-food-aid-from-federal-govt/
It is great to say consenting adults should be a allowed to take drugs (somewhere in the beginning of this thread), but the people affected by using hard drugs, alcohol abuse or texting while driving hardly were consenting.
In general others will always be affected by it so as a rule of thumb many actions will fail the status of consenting.
So "consenting adults" is a very hypothetical concept that is meaningless in daily life.
Well. Maybe not totally. There is the law and by law we consent to that.
As for "land of the free". The rest of the world did not consent to the consequences of that fiction either.
Interesting. Let's see what will happen.
Don't push back the deadline.
A new requirement / feature is given a priority and added to the product backlog.
It's not added to the sprint backlog.
I'm sure the customer can wait one week longer for a proper release with the new functionality.
If the feature request is so important that it ABSOLUTELY has to be in THIS release, restart the sprint from the beginning.
But that should be an exception, since it disrupts the production cycle.
Of course you explain these procedures with the customer and make sure he knows why it is important to stick to the production cycle (quality, productivity).
Also work on you Definition of Done.
Make sure you put "all unit tests passed" on that.
What I'm really shocked about is that you need a university to figure this out. Or rather do research on this. Companies figured this out quite some time ago and anyone with a functioning brain can see why. :)
What I'm more interested in is that king of people spend their time in participating in programs like this. The chances that you find a bug are not that big. The financial reward, given the amount of time you will spend on finding a bug is probably also relatively small.
From a company's point of view on the other hand, it's great. Many people working for you. For free. A job well done
Good point :)
Like when the world is being spied upon. That is an American matter.
But when you spy on diplomats. Suddenly Obama gets phone calls.
In addition to what you wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_guards_of_the_inner_German_border
As a further measure to prevent escapes, the patrol patterns of the Grenztruppen were carefully arranged to reduce any chance of a border guard defecting. Patrols, watchtowers and observation posts were always manned by two or three soldiers at a time. They were not allowed to go out of each other's sight in any circumstances. When changing the guard in watchtowers, they were under orders to enter and exit the buildings in such a way that there were never fewer than two people on the ground. Duty rosters were organised to prevent friends and roommates being assigned to the same patrols. The pairings were switched (though not randomly) to ensure that the same people did not repeatedly carry out duty together. Individual border guards did not know until the start of their shift with whom they would be working that day. If a guard attempted to escape, his colleagues were under instructions to shoot him without hesitation or prior warning.
"According to the report, which scrutinized the approval of security clearances, more than 483,000 government contractors had "top secret" clearance as of last October. On top of that, another 582,000 have "confidential" or "secret" clearance."
That is... WELL OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE with access to sensitive information. More or less 1 in every 300 citizens of 'murica.
If you don't see a potential data breach here, I really don't know what you're looking for.
Snowden made the information public, but who knows how many others sent information to foreign agencies? With one million people with access I bet data breaches happen quite more often than this one case.
It's called speculation for a reason.
A long term investment in a company that you believe has a bright future: yes, please.
Speculation to make some quick money: die die die.
Dark pools? I don't even want to know what kind of shady way THIS is to ruin the already corrupt financial system.
And while I have the undivided attention of the NSA: Banks and stock markets. That's where you will find terrorists that ruin whole societies.
... that the effect of the ChemTrails are finally kicking in? That took quite some time then. I always thought they were more effective than this.
"medical support" in this case sort of includes the other expenses as well...
War on drugs is indeed a waste of money.
My reaction was mainly about "finally recognizing that anything consenting adults want to do is NOT a crime" and then referring to the zombie on you tube.
As consenting adult you're simply not free to do whatever you want.