Because people aren't good at math and normalizing data for comparisons. Verizon offers a tack on plan that lets you essentially do the same thing as before, it is just that you can now see the actual impact on your bill. Back in the olden days, if you didn't upgrade your phone at the end of two years, you were getting ripped off because your monthly bill didn't drop. Now it does.
Lets not be deluded. Killing 80 000 civilians in one go (and many many more because in the aftermath of the bomb ) is a war crime.
So the American war crimes started way before the atomic bomb was dropped then? Let's be consistent, the commanding generals of most of the air forces in WWII were war criminals is, I believe, what you are trying to say. The type of weapon is a red herring, the cities would have been burned to the ground anyway, with probably similar loss of life (see the firebombing of Tokyo). Most of the Japanese cities were already bombed or burned out, the only difference is with the weapons used. The only reason those cities remained at all was because they were slated for the atomic bombs. And make no mistake, the type of weapon used saved American lives on those two days, probably a few hundred in those raids alone. Prior bombing campaigns were conducted with massive numbers of bombers and some were always lost. This was done with just a few B-29s and no American airmen were lost.
Also note that in Japan war manufacturing was located in civilian population centers, much of which was distributed into the residential areas in mom and pop shops with only a few employees mostly to make small components that would feed the major factories. Japan knew full well what it was doing when it set up that way, they were trying to hide war production behind civilians.
Curtis LeMay was man enough to recognise that strategic bombing, that is the indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets to break the will of the enemy was a war crime.
That is not what strategic bombing is. That is terror bombing. Strategic bombing is trying to destroy the economy, infrastructure, sources of raw material, and industry used to wage war. Civilian impact is incidental and caused by the intentional placement of war production in civilian areas. I'm not saying there wasn't some terror bombing going on from both sides, but there is a difference.
And he would have ended as a criminal had he not been on the victorious side. History and law is written by the victors always. And many times this skews the moral analysis of the events.
Of course he would have, so would a lot of other allied leaders.
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I agree about the quote mining. I was, probably too hastily, trying to illustrate that point to the AC above.
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The conditions that were eventually applied to keeping the emperor were more restrictive than previously expected. He remained as a figurehead with little power.
The Emperor referred specifically to the atomic bombs, stating if they continued to fight it would result in "...an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation..."
One of Emperor Hirohito's closest advisers, stated, "We of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war"
Now you are being deluded, put the KoolAid down for a minute and get past the raw numbers. The Japanese not only put war material production in the center of civilian populations, it actually spread it into the surrounding residential areas using mom and pop shops to create lower level components and assemblies that were forwarded to the big factories for inclusion in final assembly. War production is a legitimate target. But none of this is specific to the nuclear bombings. The firebombings and other area bombing attacks that were taking place throughout 1945 killed more people than the nuclear attacks did.
I am assuming they mean above ground, because otherwise it would be a stupid idea (I'm not saying that's impossible). Do you require drones to be equipped with laser or radar altimeters? Do you require them to use DTED?
The defined benefit pension is great if you make it to retirement with a company you've been at for 20 years. Typically the benefit curve starts going up rapidly once you hit 15 or 20 years and 55 years old. If you are 55 and want to change jobs, you are kinda screwing yourself on your pension. You keep what you previously earned for your pension, but your first 5 - 10 years at your new company (when they did have a defined benefit pension) you will not come close to making up what you would have received at during those years at your old company. There is always a risk with pensions. If they freeze it before you hit the knee in the curve you are likewise screwed; you would have been better off with that 401K. The only downside I see with the 401K is that you are in control of your destiny as far as investments. That will work out great for some, not so well for others.
Mr. Stallman,
I just want to be clear on one point. In your opinion, is open source software a good thing or a bad thing. Feel free to elaborate on your answer.
Don't be obtuse. Irresponsible people can't afford it because they crash a lot and have to buy a new, expensive aircraft and/or components over and over. The only irresponsible persons that could have afforded it would be the irresponsible rich kids who seem to have other priorities like crashing their BMWs while driving drunk or stoned.
There should be a penalty for companies making claims that are obviously false. Doesn't have to be huge, maybe $100 to the up-loader and another $100 to the web site owner. That would be enough to stop the claim spam but not so much that it deters real claims. The weak point is that "obvious" would have to be determined by some arbiter, hopefully someone who isn't an idiot or in the pockets of big media and the trolls.
I wholeheartedly agree. As an S-Corp I negotiate a contract to perform a specific body of work. This does include attending and presenting at reviews so I don't get to work from home 100%, only ~98%. I do bill by the hour at a rate significantly higher than I pay myself, in fact I try to minimize my salary (more on that in a minute). This is to cover all the normal expenses for both employer and employee, such as maxing out my 401K, interesting that the employer can contribute more than the employee above a certain salary range. Also, anything I don't pay out in taxes or salary I keep as a profit distribution (or there are a couple other ways to do it) that I get at the end of the year. Sure I pay income tax on it, but not payroll tax which is a significant chunk if doing both employee and employer sides.
Of course none of this matters if you don't have skills that are in demand relative to availability, or don't have the luxury of passing on the first offer that comes by. Or just don't know how to negotiate. Don't take that as being dismissive, negotiation can be a difficult skill to obtain for those that are used to being straight employees. But even there it can help during the hiring process or annual reviews. So if you don't feel confident with it, go find a class to take. Seriously, that isn't snark.
JFC. All we have done in the last 15 year, and probably before that, is try to encourage women and minorities to enter the field. Everywhere I've worked since college has had targeted recruiting for women and minorities. One company would spend a lot of money on recruiting trips to HBCUs and HWCUs and the only other university they visit is the local state school because it's only a day trip. We have had outreach programs at all levels of education, even driving down into elementary schools, to make STEM look "cool" particularly for women and minorities, whatever that means. My current company even set up a program for several of the local elementary schools that was girl only. It went on for two years until the local school board said they couldn't exclude students based on gender.
IF there is a problem, and I stress IF, then it isn't that we aren't doing enough.
We have a ton of monopolies in place: the electric company, the gas, the water. No one complains about any of those. But those services are regulated much better and are much easier to deal with. I've found that the power company does a great job getting stuff fixed as soon as they can.
Now consider the cable company. You want to add service? No problem--you can do that by yourself online. Want to cancel something or downgrade it?
Actually, where I live the electric company is NOT a monopoly. Once company maintains the infrastructure, but several companies compete on rates and features (free nights or weekends, fixed monthly rates, etc...) to be your actual provider. It is much the way DSL used to be when the phone companies had to allow third party providers. I can pick the plan that's best for my usage patterns and we get great customer service. Where I lived before the garbage company was NOT a monopoly and they were falling all over themselves to pick up customers. The water company in both places was municipal so not much to be done there. I'd take real competition over over-regulation any day. Unfortunately I don't think we will get to make that choice.
You need the buyers to stand up to that kind of crap. These guys screwed (sorry) you once, black list them. I had a frustrated guy in procurement say "You could make tons of money in x business by just doing what you say you are going to do." When it came down to it, he was not always allowed to make the smart decision and go with a reliable company's bid if it wasn't close to the bottom.
Part of the problem we see in China is that they spawn new companies like rabbits. One will eventually go under doing shady stuff only for the same people to come back, selling the exact same crap under a different name. We had this happen and you could look at the product and see that they were using the exact same molds, same defects.
Really? You been living in a cave or something? Try Starbucks and McDonald's for starters. Now, if you're working 16 hour days and still can't afford even dial up internet, you're doing something wrong.
Don't act impulsively, but when things start turning bad, just move on. I was placed under a manager that was trying to build an empire. Unfortunately he wasn't a good leader, or a good engineer, or good at cost and schedule management, or good with suppliers. He had 45 minute "stand up meetings." It became the running joke that the only reason he remained is that he had compromising photos of someone high up. My blood pressure would start to increase as soon as he came into the room. But I had good work to do, so I let it ride. He had asked me to do some business development work to generate some leads. I did the work and found, in particular, one great lead that would be perfect for us. I put the package together and tried to get approval to continue the pursuit... crickets. Several months later and I'm in a meeting regarding staffing new business and this comes up and everyone is saying how great it is and how my boss is so good at this sort of thing. No attribution for me at all, and no recognition at annual review time. I worked for him for two years. I should have bailed much sooner.
You miss the point entirely. There are multiple free sources for internet access that can be had multiple times a day. Just not from the comfort of your home 24/7.
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Wasn't there a TV show about open source pharma? I think it starred Bryan Cranston.
Just stop keeping data on average citizens for which you don't really have any justification.
Because people aren't good at math and normalizing data for comparisons. Verizon offers a tack on plan that lets you essentially do the same thing as before, it is just that you can now see the actual impact on your bill. Back in the olden days, if you didn't upgrade your phone at the end of two years, you were getting ripped off because your monthly bill didn't drop. Now it does.
Is this being used on lakes? I thought it was just water supply reservoirs that don't have any fish anyway.
Lets not be deluded. Killing 80 000 civilians in one go (and many many more because in the aftermath of the bomb ) is a war crime.
So the American war crimes started way before the atomic bomb was dropped then? Let's be consistent, the commanding generals of most of the air forces in WWII were war criminals is, I believe, what you are trying to say. The type of weapon is a red herring, the cities would have been burned to the ground anyway, with probably similar loss of life (see the firebombing of Tokyo). Most of the Japanese cities were already bombed or burned out, the only difference is with the weapons used. The only reason those cities remained at all was because they were slated for the atomic bombs. And make no mistake, the type of weapon used saved American lives on those two days, probably a few hundred in those raids alone. Prior bombing campaigns were conducted with massive numbers of bombers and some were always lost. This was done with just a few B-29s and no American airmen were lost.
Also note that in Japan war manufacturing was located in civilian population centers, much of which was distributed into the residential areas in mom and pop shops with only a few employees mostly to make small components that would feed the major factories. Japan knew full well what it was doing when it set up that way, they were trying to hide war production behind civilians.
Curtis LeMay was man enough to recognise that strategic bombing, that is the indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets to break the will of the enemy was a war crime.
That is not what strategic bombing is. That is terror bombing. Strategic bombing is trying to destroy the economy, infrastructure, sources of raw material, and industry used to wage war. Civilian impact is incidental and caused by the intentional placement of war production in civilian areas. I'm not saying there wasn't some terror bombing going on from both sides, but there is a difference.
And he would have ended as a criminal had he not been on the victorious side. History and law is written by the victors always. And many times this skews the moral analysis of the events.
Of course he would have, so would a lot of other allied leaders.
I agree about the quote mining. I was, probably too hastily, trying to illustrate that point to the AC above.
The conditions that were eventually applied to keeping the emperor were more restrictive than previously expected. He remained as a figurehead with little power.
The Emperor referred specifically to the atomic bombs, stating if they continued to fight it would result in "...an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation..."
One of Emperor Hirohito's closest advisers, stated, "We of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war"
Now you are being deluded, put the KoolAid down for a minute and get past the raw numbers. The Japanese not only put war material production in the center of civilian populations, it actually spread it into the surrounding residential areas using mom and pop shops to create lower level components and assemblies that were forwarded to the big factories for inclusion in final assembly. War production is a legitimate target. But none of this is specific to the nuclear bombings. The firebombings and other area bombing attacks that were taking place throughout 1945 killed more people than the nuclear attacks did.
I am assuming they mean above ground, because otherwise it would be a stupid idea (I'm not saying that's impossible). Do you require drones to be equipped with laser or radar altimeters? Do you require them to use DTED?
The defined benefit pension is great if you make it to retirement with a company you've been at for 20 years. Typically the benefit curve starts going up rapidly once you hit 15 or 20 years and 55 years old. If you are 55 and want to change jobs, you are kinda screwing yourself on your pension. You keep what you previously earned for your pension, but your first 5 - 10 years at your new company (when they did have a defined benefit pension) you will not come close to making up what you would have received at during those years at your old company. There is always a risk with pensions. If they freeze it before you hit the knee in the curve you are likewise screwed; you would have been better off with that 401K. The only downside I see with the 401K is that you are in control of your destiny as far as investments. That will work out great for some, not so well for others.
Mr. Stallman, I just want to be clear on one point. In your opinion, is open source software a good thing or a bad thing. Feel free to elaborate on your answer.
Don't be obtuse. Irresponsible people can't afford it because they crash a lot and have to buy a new, expensive aircraft and/or components over and over. The only irresponsible persons that could have afforded it would be the irresponsible rich kids who seem to have other priorities like crashing their BMWs while driving drunk or stoned.
How do you expect to get any useful information out of a subjective survey given to one of the most biased groups of people I've ever seen?
There should be a penalty for companies making claims that are obviously false. Doesn't have to be huge, maybe $100 to the up-loader and another $100 to the web site owner. That would be enough to stop the claim spam but not so much that it deters real claims. The weak point is that "obvious" would have to be determined by some arbiter, hopefully someone who isn't an idiot or in the pockets of big media and the trolls.
I wholeheartedly agree. As an S-Corp I negotiate a contract to perform a specific body of work. This does include attending and presenting at reviews so I don't get to work from home 100%, only ~98%. I do bill by the hour at a rate significantly higher than I pay myself, in fact I try to minimize my salary (more on that in a minute). This is to cover all the normal expenses for both employer and employee, such as maxing out my 401K, interesting that the employer can contribute more than the employee above a certain salary range. Also, anything I don't pay out in taxes or salary I keep as a profit distribution (or there are a couple other ways to do it) that I get at the end of the year. Sure I pay income tax on it, but not payroll tax which is a significant chunk if doing both employee and employer sides.
Of course none of this matters if you don't have skills that are in demand relative to availability, or don't have the luxury of passing on the first offer that comes by. Or just don't know how to negotiate. Don't take that as being dismissive, negotiation can be a difficult skill to obtain for those that are used to being straight employees. But even there it can help during the hiring process or annual reviews. So if you don't feel confident with it, go find a class to take. Seriously, that isn't snark.
Did MI6 really blow sources in both China and Russia just so they could make Snowden look bad? Why would they do that?
If the sources were already burned by the encrypted data?
I'd be with you except that what he did, he did indiscriminately. As it is I would reserve "highest order" in this case.
JFC. All we have done in the last 15 year, and probably before that, is try to encourage women and minorities to enter the field. Everywhere I've worked since college has had targeted recruiting for women and minorities. One company would spend a lot of money on recruiting trips to HBCUs and HWCUs and the only other university they visit is the local state school because it's only a day trip. We have had outreach programs at all levels of education, even driving down into elementary schools, to make STEM look "cool" particularly for women and minorities, whatever that means. My current company even set up a program for several of the local elementary schools that was girl only. It went on for two years until the local school board said they couldn't exclude students based on gender.
IF there is a problem, and I stress IF, then it isn't that we aren't doing enough.
We have a ton of monopolies in place: the electric company, the gas, the water. No one complains about any of those. But those services are regulated much better and are much easier to deal with. I've found that the power company does a great job getting stuff fixed as soon as they can.
Now consider the cable company. You want to add service? No problem--you can do that by yourself online. Want to cancel something or downgrade it?
Actually, where I live the electric company is NOT a monopoly. Once company maintains the infrastructure, but several companies compete on rates and features (free nights or weekends, fixed monthly rates, etc...) to be your actual provider. It is much the way DSL used to be when the phone companies had to allow third party providers. I can pick the plan that's best for my usage patterns and we get great customer service. Where I lived before the garbage company was NOT a monopoly and they were falling all over themselves to pick up customers. The water company in both places was municipal so not much to be done there. I'd take real competition over over-regulation any day. Unfortunately I don't think we will get to make that choice.
You need the buyers to stand up to that kind of crap. These guys screwed (sorry) you once, black list them. I had a frustrated guy in procurement say "You could make tons of money in x business by just doing what you say you are going to do." When it came down to it, he was not always allowed to make the smart decision and go with a reliable company's bid if it wasn't close to the bottom.
Part of the problem we see in China is that they spawn new companies like rabbits. One will eventually go under doing shady stuff only for the same people to come back, selling the exact same crap under a different name. We had this happen and you could look at the product and see that they were using the exact same molds, same defects.
Really? You been living in a cave or something? Try Starbucks and McDonald's for starters. Now, if you're working 16 hour days and still can't afford even dial up internet, you're doing something wrong.
Don't act impulsively, but when things start turning bad, just move on. I was placed under a manager that was trying to build an empire. Unfortunately he wasn't a good leader, or a good engineer, or good at cost and schedule management, or good with suppliers. He had 45 minute "stand up meetings." It became the running joke that the only reason he remained is that he had compromising photos of someone high up. My blood pressure would start to increase as soon as he came into the room. But I had good work to do, so I let it ride. He had asked me to do some business development work to generate some leads. I did the work and found, in particular, one great lead that would be perfect for us. I put the package together and tried to get approval to continue the pursuit... crickets. Several months later and I'm in a meeting regarding staffing new business and this comes up and everyone is saying how great it is and how my boss is so good at this sort of thing. No attribution for me at all, and no recognition at annual review time. I worked for him for two years. I should have bailed much sooner.
That's why there are libraries, McDonald's, Starbucks, etc... you don't need it in the comfort of your home 24/7.
You miss the point entirely. There are multiple free sources for internet access that can be had multiple times a day. Just not from the comfort of your home 24/7.
Maybe, but there are numerous free sources available that can be accessed multiple times a day, just not 24/7 from the comfort of your home.