If they let the home owner pay the $75 when his home was on fire then no one would pay it until their house was on fire and they would go out of business.
What would have been reasonable would be if the owner could sign a contract on the spot to pay for the entire cost of the incident, which is probably in the thousands of dollars.
In that way the owner has the choice, and the responsibility:
(a)Pay the fee as an insurance,
(b)Don't pay the fee and take your chances
(c)Don't pay the fee and pay through the nose if you actually get hit.
I agree with your statement that in a perfect world communism would work quite well. But, in a perfect world, where everyone is wise and good, wouldn't capitalism or socialism also work?
I think one of the brilliant things done by the founding fathers was that they recognized how the English system had become corrupt.
(As told by a tour guide at Williamsburg.)
The government was headed by King George.
The church was headed by King George, the courts were headed by King George.
So they set up a system which, for lack of a better word, has built in conflicts.
The president is the commander in chief, but the Congress allocates funds.
As for politics, I think that GWB kept us safe, but he also did significant damage to our civil liberties.
Warrantless wiretaps and redention come to mind.
FISA was specifically set up to handle foreign wiretaps and should be used.
As for rendention, if we don't have the balls to do it ourselves, we should not be asking others to do it for us.
I despised them under GWB, and I despise them under Obama.
I agree that one difference between facism and communism is that facism (at least under Hitler) took over the dominant religion, and the communists wanted to abolish religion (was it Lenin that called religion a drug?).
As for communist countries not having money, I have never been to one, but I have met people who say they have, and according to them there is definitely money and a barter system going on.
One guy sold several of his blue jeans and his rock and roll cassette tapes (this was the 70's).
So in practice, I'm still not sure what the difference is between totalism as practiced by the Facists and the Communists.
Communists ban religion, Facists take it over, so effectively you have the state either way.
Communists should axe the leadership, but in practice they don't.
The communists should ban money, but they don't.
One difference is that Facists seem to kill everyone not identical to themselves.
But didn't the Kumor Rouge in Cambodia also do that?
Would they really be called Facist instead of Communist?
Well they do vote every 5 years (According to Wikipedia). And they appear to have more than one political party, although only one makes the rules. That was news to me as well.
Its not USSR style socialism where the companies are run by the state.
But it is Nazi Germany style socialism where the government tells the companies what to do or else.
Hm, now that I think of it, that is kind of like present day China.
Rulers?!
Unless they are being used by a nun they are not lethal.
Paper clips? Heaven forbid we give these kids staplers.
Rubber bands? Tie enough around the neck and you can strangle someone.
Erasers? Stuff a hundred or so in your nose and mouth and you could suffocate.
Paper? What better to write bomb threats on?
Shoes? We could kill someone with those, eventually.
Magnifying glass? EVIL EVIL.
A pencil? The horrors of millions of children going around without eyes.
A desk? Well you could push one out the window and kill someone with those.
Clothing? Can't have that, you could strangle someone with it.
Books? PORNOGRAPHERS USE BOOKS.
Computer? Same as books.
Sunshine: causes skin cancer.
Water: you could drown in it.
Air: can't have that, its injected into bloodstreams by MURDERS.
Years ago someone had a signature that I am going to paraphrase: A risk free society is for those who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
And I think it was a lady that said that.
As someone who admires ladies in corsets, I've known about the waist to hip ratio for years:-)
What is interesting is this may be inbred, because that ratio has been found to indicate the most fertile women.
Sounds like an episode from the old Mission Impossible TV series.
They drilled a big hole in the bottom of a safe and then vacuumed all the money out.
I've always wondered if this would really work
(Sounds like a request to Myth Busters)
But now I know.
I totally agree, defense in depth, because with large networks, you can never lock down everything without annoying the hell out of everyone. You have to assume that some defenses will be breached by malicious or just plain "I didn't think of that" changes. Things like:
"Yes I know that printer is wireless accessible, but no one will ever find it." (So how did I find it?)
"Yes the server has a dial in modem with direct admin access, but it is only turned on when they are diagnosing a problem." (But they only remember to turn it off when I flag it in my periodic scans)
"The web site said to disable anti-virus because it interferes with the web search optimization for the plugin. Its amazing how many e-commerce and banking sites use IP addresses in their url's for security".
"I don't need to run anti-virus because we have a firewall".
I've personally seen people running IIS on their home system so that their friends can see the latest pictures of their kids. While running VPN to the corporate environment. With proxy mode enabled.
And I can hit either side and be proxied through to the other side.
I've traced malware scans coming from vendors plugging in a laptop to do a presentation. Can you say really bad way to make an impression?
"We don't need patches because we bought an appliance from the vendor. Appliances don't need patches". I don't remember how many vulnerabilities Nessus found, it was just astounding.
One variation of this proposal that I have seen is a bit more technical.
It heats the agricultural waste in a reduced oxygen atmosphere to generate syngas and charcoal. The syngas you can burn to generate power. The charcoal you bury in old mines. The advantages were that you burn less fossil fuel and the the charcoal was less smelly than rotting waste. Disadvantage is that its more complicated.
Ticket for not taking out trash, ticket for taking out trash too early, ticket for not taking containers in early enough, ticket for too much weight in trash. Is this really helping out the environment or just a hidden way to increase taxes?
I do note that their metric of success is how many tickets they issue.
If it was real you would think we would pick better targets such as:
Iran
North Korea
Yemen
Venezuela
Oh but I guess picking bad targets must be part of the conspiracy because that would hide the conspiracy.
But then, knowing that I know that they know that I know then they would pick good targets.
Have multiple copies, home, relative, safe deposit. Once in a life time things are too important to keep in one place.
Use error correction programs like "par". Media gets errors. Hard disks go bad, recordable DVD's as well. Without going through every single file, you cant tell if some of them have gone bad.
And even if you do, how do you recover?
By periodically running something like par in a script, you can do some periodic error checking and recovery.
Note: if you have videos, the par processes can run for hours.
I wonder how long it will take before malware is written that will "trip the fuse" on purpose. Talk about a denial of service attack.
If you want to make money off of it, short sell Motorola stock and then release the malware.
When will companies learn that treating their customers badly is bad for business?
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Where did you read that he received a bill and a phone call? I'm not seeing that in any article I have read on this, except here.
So if you try to do someone a favor, you could still end up getting screwed in the process? How sad.
If they let the home owner pay the $75 when his home was on fire then no one would pay it until their house was on fire and they would go out of business. What would have been reasonable would be if the owner could sign a contract on the spot to pay for the entire cost of the incident, which is probably in the thousands of dollars. In that way the owner has the choice, and the responsibility: (a)Pay the fee as an insurance, (b)Don't pay the fee and take your chances (c)Don't pay the fee and pay through the nose if you actually get hit.
I agree with your statement that in a perfect world communism would work quite well. But, in a perfect world, where everyone is wise and good, wouldn't capitalism or socialism also work? I think one of the brilliant things done by the founding fathers was that they recognized how the English system had become corrupt. (As told by a tour guide at Williamsburg.) The government was headed by King George. The church was headed by King George, the courts were headed by King George. So they set up a system which, for lack of a better word, has built in conflicts. The president is the commander in chief, but the Congress allocates funds.
As for politics, I think that GWB kept us safe, but he also did significant damage to our civil liberties. Warrantless wiretaps and redention come to mind. FISA was specifically set up to handle foreign wiretaps and should be used. As for rendention, if we don't have the balls to do it ourselves, we should not be asking others to do it for us. I despised them under GWB, and I despise them under Obama.
I agree that one difference between facism and communism is that facism (at least under Hitler) took over the dominant religion, and the communists wanted to abolish religion (was it Lenin that called religion a drug?).
As for communist countries not having money, I have never been to one, but I have met people who say they have, and according to them there is definitely money and a barter system going on. One guy sold several of his blue jeans and his rock and roll cassette tapes (this was the 70's).
So in practice, I'm still not sure what the difference is between totalism as practiced by the Facists and the Communists. Communists ban religion, Facists take it over, so effectively you have the state either way. Communists should axe the leadership, but in practice they don't. The communists should ban money, but they don't. One difference is that Facists seem to kill everyone not identical to themselves. But didn't the Kumor Rouge in Cambodia also do that? Would they really be called Facist instead of Communist?
Thanks, now can you explain the difference between the Soviet totalitarian-communist and the Nazi totalitarian-fascist?
Well they do vote every 5 years (According to Wikipedia). And they appear to have more than one political party, although only one makes the rules. That was news to me as well.
Do you recall where you got that from? I'd really like to see a dispassionate factual comparison of Nazi vs communism.
Not just communists, but liberals, democracy, and anything that did not support the racial purity of the German people.
Yes education is your friend: NAZI in English becomes NSDAP in Germany: National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Its not USSR style socialism where the companies are run by the state. But it is Nazi Germany style socialism where the government tells the companies what to do or else. Hm, now that I think of it, that is kind of like present day China.
Rulers?! Unless they are being used by a nun they are not lethal. Paper clips? Heaven forbid we give these kids staplers. Rubber bands? Tie enough around the neck and you can strangle someone. Erasers? Stuff a hundred or so in your nose and mouth and you could suffocate. Paper? What better to write bomb threats on? Shoes? We could kill someone with those, eventually. Magnifying glass? EVIL EVIL. A pencil? The horrors of millions of children going around without eyes. A desk? Well you could push one out the window and kill someone with those. Clothing? Can't have that, you could strangle someone with it. Books? PORNOGRAPHERS USE BOOKS. Computer? Same as books. Sunshine: causes skin cancer. Water: you could drown in it. Air: can't have that, its injected into bloodstreams by MURDERS.
Years ago someone had a signature that I am going to paraphrase: A risk free society is for those who don't have the balls to live in the real world. And I think it was a lady that said that.
As someone who admires ladies in corsets, I've known about the waist to hip ratio for years :-)
What is interesting is this may be inbred, because that ratio has been found to indicate the most fertile women.
Can you imagine the commercials if its a Dyson? :-)
Sounds like an episode from the old Mission Impossible TV series. They drilled a big hole in the bottom of a safe and then vacuumed all the money out. I've always wondered if this would really work (Sounds like a request to Myth Busters) But now I know.
I totally agree, defense in depth, because with large networks, you can never lock down everything without annoying the hell out of everyone. You have to assume that some defenses will be breached by malicious or just plain "I didn't think of that" changes. Things like:
One variation of this proposal that I have seen is a bit more technical. It heats the agricultural waste in a reduced oxygen atmosphere to generate syngas and charcoal. The syngas you can burn to generate power. The charcoal you bury in old mines. The advantages were that you burn less fossil fuel and the the charcoal was less smelly than rotting waste. Disadvantage is that its more complicated.
Go to a mall, remove it from yours and attach it to the car next to you.
Good point, it doesn't have to be a vehicle, it could be:
Ticket for not taking out trash, ticket for taking out trash too early, ticket for not taking containers in early enough, ticket for too much weight in trash. Is this really helping out the environment or just a hidden way to increase taxes? I do note that their metric of success is how many tickets they issue.
If it was real you would think we would pick better targets such as:
Oh but I guess picking bad targets must be part of the conspiracy because that would hide the conspiracy. But then, knowing that I know that they know that I know then they would pick good targets.
So we are approaching the intensity at which light turns into matter. One step (of many) to building a transporter?
I'd settle for a Kendo stick if he really new how to use it.
I wonder how long it will take before malware is written that will "trip the fuse" on purpose. Talk about a denial of service attack. If you want to make money off of it, short sell Motorola stock and then release the malware.
When will companies learn that treating their customers badly is bad for business?