There are things which are protected as a matter of law and you cannot discriminate based on these things. Then there are things which you CAN discriminate on. I say we let the free market decide on everything not currently enshrined in our laws about how to do business..
Allowing people to express their sincere religious belief in how and who they choose to do business with SHOULD be allowed regardless, as a matter of law. If you don't like how a business is run or who it does or refuses service to, you are free to take your business elsewhere and share your views with your friends, neighbors or even the random person on the street if they will listen.
Let the market decide and if the majority of people think like you and take their business some other place, so be it. Just live your life and do your business and let others do the same. Seems like freedom to me.
Forcing people to do business with people in situations where they object, does NOT seem like freedom to me.
Precision guided bombs are much more effective and cheaper.
Somehow saying, "I'm going to precision bomb you back into the stone age if you do that!" just doesn't carry the same ring as "I can turn your sand into blue glowing glass for miles around if you do that!"
Precision guided weapons have the distinct advantage of hitting what you aim at and almost nothing else but present a more serious problem of KNOWING exactly when and where to put that bomb.
Nuclear weapons are like huge hand grenades where being within a few thousand feet is usually just fine so the targeting issue is easier to handle, only now you have the collateral damage problem to deal with.
1. arXiv paper - not peer reviewed
2. authors never mention caching, buffers, any kind of actual technical details
3. for the Java code they use 'BufferedWriter'... oh I wonder where their 1MB of data is going to
4. plots done in MS Office
=> the paper is complete and utter crap and would not pass muster with any reviewer on any C-rated conference or workshop
You forget to add that two of the three contributors are BIOLOGY majors... What are they doing writing Java code for an academic paper?
Of course not, it's just their program was so much of a turd that the plugged up the plumbing and the bowl overflowed before they could get the plunger. I'll bet they don't even realize that their "write to disk" likely didn't actually happen until long after the OS cached it and the program got told the write was completed.
What they're saying is if you write bad code, it performs like shit. Did someone get a PhD from this?
Well, two biology majors did comprise 2/3rds of the contributors to this madness... I sure hope the Electrical and Computer engineer didn't get a PHD for this.. There's no way to defend this with a straight face if you ask me.
They have nothing better to do with their time than benchmarking bogus string operations?
In JAVA and Python nonetheless. Anybody who tries to draw conclusions about HARDWARE performance who uses JAVA and Python are off their rockers out of the gate. Testing the speed difference between memory and disk in Java is problematic and Python is not much better. In this case the problem really is their programming skills though. But what do you expect... Out of the three authors, only ONE isn't a biology major...
No it's not ridiculous. If you don't choose to vote, that is your choice. Of course, if you don't vote, there is not much you can complain about when others do and elect people that don't do what you wanted...
Of course, what IS ridiculous is this idea that we can somehow force people to exercise their right to vote in a country where we cannot universally require photo ID's. How on earth would you enforce this idea that everybody votes? Fines? Prison time? How? Would you allow people to hire proxy services to cast their vote when they cannot be present for some reason that comes up on election day?
The real problem here is folks don't get taught that it is their civil duty to vote. Really, all they get taught is that it is their civil duty to protest and riot and junk like that. Most are so disillusioned by politics that they feel OUTSIDE the system, when in fact the PRIMARY way to get change is to VOTE. Most cannot be bothered, most think their vote doesn't count, when the truth is that only a vote not cast is the one that doesn't count. So your solution is to pass a new law? Yea, that's the absolute wrong move.
I don't see why Taxi companies don't arrange with Uber and Lyft to do their dispatching anyway. The Taxi company could then dump the bulk of their office staff needed to answer the phone and dispatch cabs, then arrange with the online service for a volume discount...
Where I live, if you get paid to drive over public roads, it requires a commercial driver's license. CDL's require you to pass additional testing and medical evaluations which are not required for your average private driver. Taxi services also must be licensed and are regulated by both the state and federal laws.
My understanding of Uber and Lyft are that they allow private citizens to arrange for ride "sharing" with other private individuals. Where nothing prevents such drivers from being properly licensed for getting paid, or for Taxi companies from using the online services to find customers, that's not the point and you are likely to end up with just some plain Joe out driving for some spare change on their free time in his private vehicle.
Personally I HAVE a class B CDL with passenger endorsements because I used to drive busses so I know something about what the rules are. Uber and Lyft make no attempt to validate that the law is followed (unless they've started requiring CDL's from their drivers since last time I checked), they don't require CDL's, they don't require medical certificates, nothing. They don't enforce the rules about how long you can be on duty, or how much rest a driver is required to have. So tell me again how they protect you?
Oh that's right, they know where the money came from and where it went after they take their cut... Which *might* be of some use AFTER a crime takes place, but it's not going to protect your safety like all the CDL rules are designed too... So I suppose there is a minor deterrent to crime, but somehow I doubt that it's going to be of much help for anything else.
Look, why are you complaining about being "strong armed" by the USA? You didn't like their tactics? They where playing fast pitch hard ball and you wanted to play slow pitch softball?
IF you wish to play ball on the intelligence front, play ball. If you don't like how the USA plays, don't play with them. If you don't like the rules used by the USA, you don't have to play with them, just start your own game.
After all, it's not as if you where being threatened with violations of your sovereignty. The USA wasn't going to invade your country and just take anything and everything they wanted. They where not even threatening you with anything but withholding information.
My advice to Germany (and any other country who is in on this game) is to step up your game. Develop your own intelligence assets, do your own home work, don't be dependent on the USA for your intelligence. Put yourself into a better position so you can tell the USA to take a hike if you like. Until then, stop complaining about feeling pressured to play the game by somebody else's rules.
Yes, but this guy/gal claims to have *purchased* software and development stuff is usually free, or part of a development kit that you buy as part of your support agreements. Licensing costs are not an issue...
You bought a Windows LAPTOP to run database software???? Please tell me this is for a portable development and test environment and not for actually doing something?
Also, why bother with the big named SQL database offerings on a laptop? It's got to be insanely expensive to have all three of those licensed for all your cores on a laptop. Why not just use a cheaper stand in like MySQL or something that's free? Unless of course you are just doing development work and your production environment requires all these vendors.... In which case, you need to be working on getting rid of one or two of these products...
If I hail a cab, no-one knows where I am or who I am with.
It's not like cab drivers have never harmed anyone.
How American of you. I can tell you that in some countries, standing on the street corner and hailing a cab is just plain STUPID. You ALWAYS call or use a designated dispatcher. You may feel safe just finding a cab on the street here in the USA, but be careful when you leave here.
Uber/Lyft are perhaps a bit safer concerning the people involved, but there ARE risks. Drivers are NOT trained or licensed, equipment is NOT inspected and you don't know if that driver that picks you up isn't some serial killer looking for the next victim, just drank a 5th, or just is out looking for a few bucks. You don't know if you will be lost for the next hour or if the driver has slept in the last 24 hours. Not that Taxi services have the best equipment or hire the cleanest drivers, but they do at least care enough to meet the regulations and keep things reasonably safe and orderly.
Forcing people to vote in a FREE country? Um, not showing up to the polls is effectively saying "NONE OF THE ABOVE" and/or "I DON'T CARE" which is an opinion which we should be free to express. You can't force people to vote. That's nuts.
What we need are TERM LIMITS.
I suggest 12 years in elected Federal office (House, Senate, or combination of both) be the maximum any one person can serve in Congress. Of course a person could still run for president or serve in appointed positions beyond that.
Yes, this would take a constitutional amendment.... But it fixes the incumbent money advantage by forcing turnover, which also disrupts the possible corruption and influence peddling.
Apple had the most profitable quarter ever recently and is the most profitable company in the world. How do you do that without heavy markup?
You make products that people actually want to by.
People only buy android phones by mistake.
I purchased mine on purpose. I also purchased my wife's I-Phone on purpose too... So there ARE people out there that know what they are buying....
Now, if you really intended to say "Windows Phone" I might be inclined to agree with you, but they are so horrible, I don't see anybody mistaking them for an I-Phone, much less a "smart" phone.
Seriously, I KNOW that "SCO Unix" was a licensed product. I actually used this platform at 3 past employers and we spent a lot of cash paying SCO for the right to install and use it in literally thousands of locations world wide.
All this "We own UNIX and you owe us for running Linux" stuff was bunk, but they did have a licensed product which they DID legally own, it just so happened that the stuff they owned didn't include Linux.
Come on dude, all that money you paid just went directly to the lawyers who now are using it to file another pathetic round of "legal actions". PLEASE just stop buying their stuff. If you need help porting your legacy application off of their platform let me know, I'm sure we can arrange to get it done for you. Not to mention that the hardware you are using has to be nearly 20 years old now... Time to let this garbage go..
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No, I don't see a flaw. Except in YOUR logic.
There are things which are protected as a matter of law and you cannot discriminate based on these things. Then there are things which you CAN discriminate on. I say we let the free market decide on everything not currently enshrined in our laws about how to do business..
Allowing people to express their sincere religious belief in how and who they choose to do business with SHOULD be allowed regardless, as a matter of law. If you don't like how a business is run or who it does or refuses service to, you are free to take your business elsewhere and share your views with your friends, neighbors or even the random person on the street if they will listen.
Let the market decide and if the majority of people think like you and take their business some other place, so be it. Just live your life and do your business and let others do the same. Seems like freedom to me.
Forcing people to do business with people in situations where they object, does NOT seem like freedom to me.
Precision guided bombs are much more effective and cheaper.
Somehow saying, "I'm going to precision bomb you back into the stone age if you do that!" just doesn't carry the same ring as "I can turn your sand into blue glowing glass for miles around if you do that!"
Precision guided weapons have the distinct advantage of hitting what you aim at and almost nothing else but present a more serious problem of KNOWING exactly when and where to put that bomb.
Nuclear weapons are like huge hand grenades where being within a few thousand feet is usually just fine so the targeting issue is easier to handle, only now you have the collateral damage problem to deal with.
Both weapons have their place...
1. arXiv paper - not peer reviewed 2. authors never mention caching, buffers, any kind of actual technical details 3. for the Java code they use 'BufferedWriter' ... oh I wonder where their 1MB of data is going to
4. plots done in MS Office
=> the paper is complete and utter crap and would not pass muster with any reviewer on any C-rated conference or workshop
You forget to add that two of the three contributors are BIOLOGY majors... What are they doing writing Java code for an academic paper?
Did they forget to flush it?
Of course not, it's just their program was so much of a turd that the plugged up the plumbing and the bowl overflowed before they could get the plunger. I'll bet they don't even realize that their "write to disk" likely didn't actually happen until long after the OS cached it and the program got told the write was completed.
What they're saying is if you write bad code, it performs like shit. Did someone get a PhD from this?
Well, two biology majors did comprise 2/3rds of the contributors to this madness... I sure hope the Electrical and Computer engineer didn't get a PHD for this.. There's no way to defend this with a straight face if you ask me.
They have nothing better to do with their time than benchmarking bogus string operations?
In JAVA and Python nonetheless. Anybody who tries to draw conclusions about HARDWARE performance who uses JAVA and Python are off their rockers out of the gate. Testing the speed difference between memory and disk in Java is problematic and Python is not much better. In this case the problem really is their programming skills though. But what do you expect... Out of the three authors, only ONE isn't a biology major...
... you're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins....
No it's not ridiculous. If you don't choose to vote, that is your choice. Of course, if you don't vote, there is not much you can complain about when others do and elect people that don't do what you wanted...
Of course, what IS ridiculous is this idea that we can somehow force people to exercise their right to vote in a country where we cannot universally require photo ID's. How on earth would you enforce this idea that everybody votes? Fines? Prison time? How? Would you allow people to hire proxy services to cast their vote when they cannot be present for some reason that comes up on election day?
The real problem here is folks don't get taught that it is their civil duty to vote. Really, all they get taught is that it is their civil duty to protest and riot and junk like that. Most are so disillusioned by politics that they feel OUTSIDE the system, when in fact the PRIMARY way to get change is to VOTE. Most cannot be bothered, most think their vote doesn't count, when the truth is that only a vote not cast is the one that doesn't count. So your solution is to pass a new law? Yea, that's the absolute wrong move.
I don't see why Taxi companies don't arrange with Uber and Lyft to do their dispatching anyway. The Taxi company could then dump the bulk of their office staff needed to answer the phone and dispatch cabs, then arrange with the online service for a volume discount...
Where I live, if you get paid to drive over public roads, it requires a commercial driver's license. CDL's require you to pass additional testing and medical evaluations which are not required for your average private driver. Taxi services also must be licensed and are regulated by both the state and federal laws.
My understanding of Uber and Lyft are that they allow private citizens to arrange for ride "sharing" with other private individuals. Where nothing prevents such drivers from being properly licensed for getting paid, or for Taxi companies from using the online services to find customers, that's not the point and you are likely to end up with just some plain Joe out driving for some spare change on their free time in his private vehicle.
Personally I HAVE a class B CDL with passenger endorsements because I used to drive busses so I know something about what the rules are. Uber and Lyft make no attempt to validate that the law is followed (unless they've started requiring CDL's from their drivers since last time I checked), they don't require CDL's, they don't require medical certificates, nothing. They don't enforce the rules about how long you can be on duty, or how much rest a driver is required to have. So tell me again how they protect you?
Oh that's right, they know where the money came from and where it went after they take their cut... Which *might* be of some use AFTER a crime takes place, but it's not going to protect your safety like all the CDL rules are designed too... So I suppose there is a minor deterrent to crime, but somehow I doubt that it's going to be of much help for anything else.
Look, why are you complaining about being "strong armed" by the USA? You didn't like their tactics? They where playing fast pitch hard ball and you wanted to play slow pitch softball?
IF you wish to play ball on the intelligence front, play ball. If you don't like how the USA plays, don't play with them. If you don't like the rules used by the USA, you don't have to play with them, just start your own game.
After all, it's not as if you where being threatened with violations of your sovereignty. The USA wasn't going to invade your country and just take anything and everything they wanted. They where not even threatening you with anything but withholding information.
My advice to Germany (and any other country who is in on this game) is to step up your game. Develop your own intelligence assets, do your own home work, don't be dependent on the USA for your intelligence. Put yourself into a better position so you can tell the USA to take a hike if you like. Until then, stop complaining about feeling pressured to play the game by somebody else's rules.
Yes, but this guy/gal claims to have *purchased* software and development stuff is usually free, or part of a development kit that you buy as part of your support agreements. Licensing costs are not an issue...
I feel "prompt neutron blue" all over after that day at work...
You bought a Windows LAPTOP to run database software???? Please tell me this is for a portable development and test environment and not for actually doing something?
Also, why bother with the big named SQL database offerings on a laptop? It's got to be insanely expensive to have all three of those licensed for all your cores on a laptop. Why not just use a cheaper stand in like MySQL or something that's free? Unless of course you are just doing development work and your production environment requires all these vendors.... In which case, you need to be working on getting rid of one or two of these products...
Or really good copy protection and a small customer base who doesn't mind paying you.
If I hail a cab, no-one knows where I am or who I am with.
It's not like cab drivers have never harmed anyone.
How American of you. I can tell you that in some countries, standing on the street corner and hailing a cab is just plain STUPID. You ALWAYS call or use a designated dispatcher. You may feel safe just finding a cab on the street here in the USA, but be careful when you leave here.
Uber/Lyft are perhaps a bit safer concerning the people involved, but there ARE risks. Drivers are NOT trained or licensed, equipment is NOT inspected and you don't know if that driver that picks you up isn't some serial killer looking for the next victim, just drank a 5th, or just is out looking for a few bucks. You don't know if you will be lost for the next hour or if the driver has slept in the last 24 hours. Not that Taxi services have the best equipment or hire the cleanest drivers, but they do at least care enough to meet the regulations and keep things reasonably safe and orderly.
Forcing people to vote in a FREE country? Um, not showing up to the polls is effectively saying "NONE OF THE ABOVE" and/or "I DON'T CARE" which is an opinion which we should be free to express. You can't force people to vote. That's nuts.
What we need are TERM LIMITS.
I suggest 12 years in elected Federal office (House, Senate, or combination of both) be the maximum any one person can serve in Congress. Of course a person could still run for president or serve in appointed positions beyond that.
Yes, this would take a constitutional amendment.... But it fixes the incumbent money advantage by forcing turnover, which also disrupts the possible corruption and influence peddling.
But it "is" a lifetime job."
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger eh?
Is that a lifetime of work or the last job of your lifetime? I got to know before I take the job, It matters to me...
The vast majority of people that bought android phones bought them by mistake.
No no.. You mean "Windows phone".....
Apple had the most profitable quarter ever recently and is the most profitable company in the world. How do you do that without heavy markup?
You make products that people actually want to by.
People only buy android phones by mistake.
I purchased mine on purpose. I also purchased my wife's I-Phone on purpose too... So there ARE people out there that know what they are buying....
Now, if you really intended to say "Windows Phone" I might be inclined to agree with you, but they are so horrible, I don't see anybody mistaking them for an I-Phone, much less a "smart" phone.
Car keys and house keys are there only to keep your neighbors honest.
On that we fully agree... Locks only keep honest people honest, in all their various forms.
Seriously, I KNOW that "SCO Unix" was a licensed product. I actually used this platform at 3 past employers and we spent a lot of cash paying SCO for the right to install and use it in literally thousands of locations world wide.
All this "We own UNIX and you owe us for running Linux" stuff was bunk, but they did have a licensed product which they DID legally own, it just so happened that the stuff they owned didn't include Linux.
Patience Iago.....
A license from SCO?
Come on dude, all that money you paid just went directly to the lawyers who now are using it to file another pathetic round of "legal actions". PLEASE just stop buying their stuff. If you need help porting your legacy application off of their platform let me know, I'm sure we can arrange to get it done for you. Not to mention that the hardware you are using has to be nearly 20 years old now... Time to let this garbage go..
I think I'm going to have a heart attack and DIE from that surprise.