I know everybody is hung up on 'oh noes, that tsa screener is going to see a blue image of my naked body'. Am I the only one that feels sorry for the guy/gal that actually has to sit all day and watch naked blue bodies? for every swedish bikini model that passes, i you have at least 10 overweight slobs. How can the screener ever have sex again after staring at these blobs going by day in, day out?
Meh. I was always told the EU was originally set up to stop Germany ever becoming too powerful again.
Well, that worked well didn't it.
The fear being that Germany (or anybody that got too powerful) would start another war. Considering that we are in the longest time of European peace in recorded history... yeah, i would say it worked pretty well...
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space..... if you send a rocket into space, make sure to deorbit the spent stages immediately. If your satellite is EOL, then deorbit that too.
By who's authority would you outlaw something like that? how would you assign penalties to a chinese satellite that didn't deorbit properly? What about the thousands of objects already there? I think you need to head back to the drawing board. At least come up w/ sharks w/ laser beams or something cool..
I always wondered why someone wasn't clearing unsold seats at the last second. as the flight time approaches, the value of a ticket on a still-empty seat starts to approach 0. Why doesn't somebody allow me to say, i want to fly somewhere tomorrow, where is the cheapest place to go. Or send me an alert when a ticket to NYC drops to under 30$. Even if it means I have 2 hours to catch the flight.
if you don't think it was primarily trade, I would think you are being naive. Trade trumps all. As I recall, France was the only western power to recognize the Taliban (before 9/11). Even the news briefs of the time had france saying ''yeah, their treatment of women and other cultures is abhorrent but we really want to pipe oil through that region'.
Russia's stonewalling of the nuclear monitoring in Iran had everything to do w/ their trade. France/Germany may have had some concern about being drawn into a land war in asia but that would be more about the impact on trade as well.
I agree w/ the GP, so I will quote him
Mutually Beneficial Trades makes more effective, profitable and longterm alliances than indiscriminant handouts ever will.
Because all of that shit is going to make my ISP want to charge me more money for the same services.
that may be an excuse the ISPs use to raise prices but that is not the primary problem. The primary problem is that I don't want the free and open internet subject to the current whims of government.
this is a good post. I am an american living/working in europe as well and went through trying to get somebody out of an EU position with cause. Even with a pretty good paper trail, we ended up having to pay him several months salary to go away or deal w/ unfair dismissal claims. terjeber put it well so I will only add my qualitative feeling.
In the US, i feel like the burden is on me to show my employer why i should receive a paycheck in the EU, it feels like the burden is on my employer to show why I shouldn't receive a paycheck
it feels drastically different and alien to my US way of thinking. As terjeber points out, making it easy to fire someone makes it easier to hire someone and the 'creative destruction' is beneficial for an economy.
seconded... but part of their value prop is that they give strong security to corp IT. if this was just an app on another os, they may not be able to engender the same level of trust. (yes they could just encrypt the damn contents and offer short term keys over the network)
the other problem bb has is that they had a long time to 'perfect' their phones. before the smart phone explosion, bb came out w/ a new phone every 9 mths or so that was a bit better than the last. with no competition they had time to slowly address usability issues and come out w/ a really good mobile email device. (my old bb bold is still far better than any smartphone for this). when the competition (iphone) came out, bb was not able to respond quickly. the 'quick' responses they did were crap. their only strength is as a work tool but we all want toys that can do work too. i don't see any hope for them at this point, really.
Microsoft claims you can get to the camera app real fast.
Its just not a convincing argument.
The new crop of android phones are android phones are in a serious pissing match over this very stat. I will say that i will be weighing this in my decision. my phone is my primary camera and I have missed several camera worthy moment by phone lag of getting to the camera (yes I have set the camera to be able to launch from lock )
Rupert Murdoch does not control Fox News. Fox News is controlled only by the sincerest desire to provide fair, balanced, truthful reporting. How could you possibly believe otherwise?
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand Faux News. But I've known many brilliant people who are just wrong. To go around calling people who don't agree with you stupid isn't helping anything.
There is a difference between calling conservatives or republicans stupid and calling fox news watchers stupid. there may be a large intersection between the two groups but I have met/debated w/ a few conservative republicans with well thought through arguments and reasoned convictions. the rest watch fox news (and can't/don't see through it).
Sure, MS software and hardware is more widespread internally even for personal use, which makes sense - many people use it because it's better (for them), many because they really believe in what they're doing, and many do it because they can get it cheaper than the alternatives.
all of those points are true, don't get me wrong, i don't think it is a bad thing. i left about 6 years ago and it was definitely frowned upon in redwest. This was before the astronomical apple explosion of the last few years. There was still thought of windows phone 6 (6.5?) being a competitor, zune had a shot vs ipod. and come on guys, we should really be supporting bing and not using 'evil search giant'. (Do they still have the internal google vs bing search results page?) The landscape has changed in those areas considerably and not to MS's favor.
I think that culture came more from the 'we believe in what we are doing' and 'eat your own dogfood' side of the aisle (and the cost, as you noted) but there was an undercurrent of don't help the competition, in my experience.
While this is about using company money (and therefore completely a non issue), there is also a strong corporate culture to not use (or at least be ashamed aobut using) these other products. (apple, google come to mind) Several people still do, but you keep it on the downlow.
My understanding is apple takes a 30% cut of sales through the app store. if they cannot make money on what is effectively storage and credit card processing @ 30% they should hire dropbox.
This is a good post. mod it up. i do think much of the problem could be solved w/ a little more applied crytpography. see effs https everywhere campaign. if we encyrpt 95% of the traffic going across the wire, sniffing the remain becomes close to pointless.
what does that have to do w/ his question? Seeing how the current batch of primates sleeps in the wild could be relevant. ie a family member that didn't industrialize. i don't know the answer but i would be interested.
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there are some studies that point towards the idea that kids are really not ready to absorb math until around 6th grade. languages, on the other hand, seem to be best absorbed before 5. and if you get an extra language in by then, you have better facility with others down the road (and music, supposedly). so one might argue that we should do it hte other way around.
you say it sarcastically "Because once most of the money is gone, they will all just stop killing and go get real jobs....." and then you step on your argument "The reason so many people go to the drug gangs is because they money is good". if you stop the money and the guns pouring from the US to mexico, the gangs will have far less money. less money = less people involved.
there is not the same money in human trafficking. There just is not the same demand in the US for that service. without the demand the money (largely shipped as guns in my understanding) won't be heading south.
There is some demand for human trafficking from within mexico but i don't see the demand really going up, they are already in a warzone, anybody that could (and wants to) pay their way out probably will anyway.
i guess I could see a possible rise in the violence as the currently powerful gangs go all out to secure what little commerce would be left. That is not an argument to continue w/ the status quo
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about the supposed Chinese hackers? Since they're doing the same thing themselves against people they don't like?
But of course they won't. The West can't help but be sanctimonious and hypocritical.
why would we think this is the US rather than Israel?
I know everybody is hung up on 'oh noes, that tsa screener is going to see a blue image of my naked body'. Am I the only one that feels sorry for the guy/gal that actually has to sit all day and watch naked blue bodies? for every swedish bikini model that passes, i you have at least 10 overweight slobs. How can the screener ever have sex again after staring at these blobs going by day in, day out?
Meh. I was always told the EU was originally set up to stop Germany ever becoming too powerful again.
Well, that worked well didn't it.
The fear being that Germany (or anybody that got too powerful) would start another war. Considering that we are in the longest time of European peace in recorded history... yeah, i would say it worked pretty well...
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space..... if you send a rocket into space, make sure to deorbit the spent stages immediately. If your satellite is EOL, then deorbit that too.
By who's authority would you outlaw something like that? how would you assign penalties to a chinese satellite that didn't deorbit properly? What about the thousands of objects already there? I think you need to head back to the drawing board. At least come up w/ sharks w/ laser beams or something cool..
I always wondered why someone wasn't clearing unsold seats at the last second. as the flight time approaches, the value of a ticket on a still-empty seat starts to approach 0. Why doesn't somebody allow me to say, i want to fly somewhere tomorrow, where is the cheapest place to go. Or send me an alert when a ticket to NYC drops to under 30$. Even if it means I have 2 hours to catch the flight.
time for an extension to Godwin's Law?
if you don't think it was primarily trade, I would think you are being naive. Trade trumps all. As I recall, France was the only western power to recognize the Taliban (before 9/11). Even the news briefs of the time had france saying ''yeah, their treatment of women and other cultures is abhorrent but we really want to pipe oil through that region'.
Russia's stonewalling of the nuclear monitoring in Iran had everything to do w/ their trade. France/Germany may have had some concern about being drawn into a land war in asia but that would be more about the impact on trade as well.
I agree w/ the GP, so I will quote him
Mutually Beneficial Trades makes more effective, profitable and longterm alliances than indiscriminant handouts ever will.
I don't want a Great British Firewall
Because all of that shit is going to make my ISP want to charge me more money for the same services.
that may be an excuse the ISPs use to raise prices but that is not the primary problem. The primary problem is that I don't want the free and open internet subject to the current whims of government.
IMHO WINE will need a few more years to become a reliable (as in everything runs) Windows replacement
i feel like i have been hearing exactly that sentence since i started building linux systems in 96.
this is a good post. I am an american living/working in europe as well and went through trying to get somebody out of an EU position with cause. Even with a pretty good paper trail, we ended up having to pay him several months salary to go away or deal w/ unfair dismissal claims. terjeber put it well so I will only add my qualitative feeling.
In the US, i feel like the burden is on me to show my employer why i should receive a paycheck
in the EU, it feels like the burden is on my employer to show why I shouldn't receive a paycheck
it feels drastically different and alien to my US way of thinking. As terjeber points out, making it easy to fire someone makes it easier to hire someone and the 'creative destruction' is beneficial for an economy.
seconded... but part of their value prop is that they give strong security to corp IT. if this was just an app on another os, they may not be able to engender the same level of trust. (yes they could just encrypt the damn contents and offer short term keys over the network)
the other problem bb has is that they had a long time to 'perfect' their phones. before the smart phone explosion, bb came out w/ a new phone every 9 mths or so that was a bit better than the last. with no competition they had time to slowly address usability issues and come out w/ a really good mobile email device. (my old bb bold is still far better than any smartphone for this). when the competition (iphone) came out, bb was not able to respond quickly. the 'quick' responses they did were crap. their only strength is as a work tool but we all want toys that can do work too. i don't see any hope for them at this point, really.
Microsoft claims you can get to the camera app real fast.
Its just not a convincing argument.
The new crop of android phones are android phones are in a serious pissing match over this very stat. I will say that i will be weighing this in my decision. my phone is my primary camera and I have missed several camera worthy moment by phone lag of getting to the camera (yes I have set the camera to be able to launch from lock )
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Rupert Murdoch does not control Fox News. Fox News is controlled only by the sincerest desire to provide fair, balanced, truthful reporting. How could you possibly believe otherwise?
i love that this is already maxed out as funny
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand Faux News. But I've known many brilliant people who are just wrong. To go around calling people who don't agree with you stupid isn't helping anything.
There is a difference between calling conservatives or republicans stupid and calling fox news watchers stupid. there may be a large intersection between the two groups but I have met/debated w/ a few conservative republicans with well thought through arguments and reasoned convictions. the rest watch fox news (and can't/don't see through it).
Sure, MS software and hardware is more widespread internally even for personal use, which makes sense - many people use it because it's better (for them), many because they really believe in what they're doing, and many do it because they can get it cheaper than the alternatives.
all of those points are true, don't get me wrong, i don't think it is a bad thing. i left about 6 years ago and it was definitely frowned upon in redwest. This was before the astronomical apple explosion of the last few years. There was still thought of windows phone 6 (6.5?) being a competitor, zune had a shot vs ipod. and come on guys, we should really be supporting bing and not using 'evil search giant'. (Do they still have the internal google vs bing search results page?) The landscape has changed in those areas considerably and not to MS's favor.
I think that culture came more from the 'we believe in what we are doing' and 'eat your own dogfood' side of the aisle (and the cost, as you noted) but there was an undercurrent of don't help the competition, in my experience.
heh, anon fail. good thing i didn't say anything really bad.
posting anon as I am a former MSer.
While this is about using company money (and therefore completely a non issue), there is also a strong corporate culture to not use (or at least be ashamed aobut using) these other products. (apple, google come to mind) Several people still do, but you keep it on the downlow.
My understanding is apple takes a 30% cut of sales through the app store. if they cannot make money on what is effectively storage and credit card processing @ 30% they should hire dropbox.
This is a good post. mod it up.
i do think much of the problem could be solved w/ a little more applied crytpography. see effs https everywhere campaign. if we encyrpt 95% of the traffic going across the wire, sniffing the remain becomes close to pointless.
what does that have to do w/ his question? Seeing how the current batch of primates sleeps in the wild could be relevant. ie a family member that didn't industrialize. i don't know the answer but i would be interested.
this should be modded up
there are some studies that point towards the idea that kids are really not ready to absorb math until around 6th grade. languages, on the other hand, seem to be best absorbed before 5. and if you get an extra language in by then, you have better facility with others down the road (and music, supposedly). so one might argue that we should do it hte other way around.
it isn't 'bad' economics unless we lost more during the rebuild time than we saved by not having overbuilt...
you say it sarcastically "Because once most of the money is gone, they will all just stop killing and go get real jobs....." and then you step on your argument "The reason so many people go to the drug gangs is because they money is good". if you stop the money and the guns pouring from the US to mexico, the gangs will have far less money. less money = less people involved.
there is not the same money in human trafficking. There just is not the same demand in the US for that service. without the demand the money (largely shipped as guns in my understanding) won't be heading south.
There is some demand for human trafficking from within mexico but i don't see the demand really going up, they are already in a warzone, anybody that could (and wants to) pay their way out probably will anyway.
i guess I could see a possible rise in the violence as the currently powerful gangs go all out to secure what little commerce would be left. That is not an argument to continue w/ the status quo