Well if voting were more efficient, it would enable the public to vote much more ofte , say on individual proposed acts of legislation, aka direct democracy. I think this will be the next evolution of democracies since it seems our governments are largely turning against us in regard to privacy and quality of life protection in favour of corporate interests.
Worse than the Japanese we are I reckon.. I travelled to get away from them but just found more of em! The truth is we are well educated and well travelled, intelligent as a whole. We just need to work out some cultural issues at home as in rampant alcoholism, overzealous feminism and over sexualized society and hypervanity. We just need to grow up a bit and get back to being good mates.
I hear ya mate, I am here right now, leaving to go home on Saturday:( but for me Canada just has a higher quality of living, uut will see for how long. I'm also concerned about drinking and sex culture in Australia and how it will affect my kids were I to raise them here. Ideally I will retire here and my kids can go to Uni under HECS which does not exist in Canada.
+1. Brisbane is Australia's best kept secret, in fact I would not live anywhere other than Queensland... New South Wales is grubby and poorly run, Victoria has the shittiest weather and is full of snobs, Tasmania, NT, SA and WA are too remote. Having said that, I still prefer to live in Canada and I am a dual citizen.
What about an ad-blocker that still downloads the ad but doesn't display it? I guess they can still track you somehow but they won't know if you're seeing the ads or not.
Yes, some value, but not $5. Hence pirated and not really watched anyway, looked at phone and chatted during it, lost interest and went to knock boots before it ended.. I think we have to agree to disagree but thanks for your valuable time.
You don't seem to get it. Time itself is a currency, I SPENT my time with the wife and it was worth it. But in addition to that, a movie production company thinks it is also worth my money, which is where I disagree, unless it is included in a subscription service I pay $7 a month for or part of a cable subscription etc. Im not going to pay $5 for every movie i watch because they just are not worth the money. I see you're making this argument about how much your time is worth elsewhere, but I don't like it. When we watch a movie or consume web content we are spending some of our time yes, but we are not necessarily in agreement that an additional monetary fee on top of our time spent is justified.
If I think its valuable, I will gladly pay. Went and watched star wars on Friday with my kid, and it was a memorable experience. But even $5 for a shitty formulaic rom-com? Not worth the money but worth the time with the wife. Torrent that shit. Delete it after, not worth the HDD space.
Its the same concept though.. Can also apply to music, software, anything that can be pirated really. I think people won't pay the asking price if the value isn't there to do so. The only other option is to pirate or use an ad blocker in the case of web ads. It works well to drive down the price to a level which is more inline with the value, such as has happened in the music industry and what is happening now to the video industry. The only reason we have been paying so much prior to this is because the distribution channels have been controlled, but now that there are other options the true value of the product is realized.
Not to mention all the tracking and JavaScript bullshit. The web sucks now, and tools like ABP, privacy badger and HTTPS everywhere are becoming an absolute necessity.
I think that's the point. People don't agree that the price is really what its worth. Hence the real value is much lower. People still go to the movies when there is a movie they actually like, but for most of the drivel that is produced it is simply not worth paying for and if it didn't exist people would find something else to do. Essentially but refusing to pay, we are saying it is worth $0.
This is why you should not rely on a VPN or any single layer solely as your entire security solution. Multiple layers of encryption and AAA and best practices are required. Its all about making it harder for the bad guys. No solution is fool proof.
Fair enough, but RHEL w/Satellite is what works for us, and we have a good support agreement (i.e. not as expensive as you might think). Also we're not using RHEL/KVM as the hypervisor, but VMware.. you're probably going to go ballistic now lol. Either way, I'm all for trailblazing but when it comes to what we do, well established is an imperative. Perhaps we'll look into SmartOS if it can manage to gather some traction in the future, and btw thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try one day soon.
Maybe its the right choice for what you are running.. I respect that. But I like simplicity and reliability as well as wide support for apps and virtualization. RH Satellite is a nice management tool as well. Its just easier for us to run with the sheep because everyone is familiar with it and it works. We are app driven, the OS is just an u derlying layer so we need it to be easy. Go ahead and trailblaze though.. That's how things end up getting included in mainstream Linux - albeit eventually.
Don't get me wrong, Solaris is better than AIX or HPUX but it still feels archaic compared to Linux. Dtrace - OK if you are debugging badly coded apps, or you could just open a support case with your vendor who wrote it; ZFS - I prefer to let the array handle all that stuff and use 'normal' filesystem like ext4; Zones - why bother, just run another VM. In my experience the tools provided by RHEL are sufficient and the apps we are running are more widely supported on RHEL. Because it is the more common choice in Enterprise envirinments makes it carry a lot of weight as well.
RHEL.. Because it is the best and most well supported choice. Is anyone really deploying Solaris in anything serious these days? Or anything other than RHEL? I don't see the point.
I disagree, if you're speaking about immigration vs tourism that is. Nationalism is closely tied to societal customs, and if you like your society the way it is then you have to protect it from groups of people who would seek to change it. This is exactly the concern of the naysayers.
To be fair I think most people don't oppose immigration so long as the immigrant groups allowed in have a history of integrating well with their current society. In other words, they don't like Muslim/Islamic culture. Go figure.
How about not even using one. Most of them suck anyway, they don't catch the clever malware and they hog resources and slow down your PC. Just be smart on the web, rely on the Windows built-in tools and you don't need one I find.
I understand your concerns however I feel we need to find a way to get past this mentality for productivity's sake. What about the idea of putting the responsibility of security in the hands of the end user, through policies, training, certification prior to being allowed to bring their device onto the network and disciplinary measures for those who fail to comply? BYO end user devices could flourish instead of every end user being expected to conform to the corporate OS image and be just as productive as the guy next to him. A good intrusion detection strategy and mandatory monitoring and control software installed on the devices? I know many will scoff at the idea but really, the user is the problem, not the permissions. Why don't we put the onus on the end user instead?
At least they collect revenue providing a tangible service u like the government and insurance industry who funnel money up to the 1% the cost of which gets handed down to the end user
I think the point to be taken here is that this regulatory racketeering is totally unnecessary and if I was given the option to sign a waiver to take the uber then why not? Its much more convenient and economical and cuts out all the middle men. Fuck the insurance industry and the government. What have either of them done for me?
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Well if voting were more efficient, it would enable the public to vote much more ofte , say on individual proposed acts of legislation, aka direct democracy. I think this will be the next evolution of democracies since it seems our governments are largely turning against us in regard to privacy and quality of life protection in favour of corporate interests.
My point was that its already here, pretty much. They can even land themselves now.
Or perhaps, a passenger jetliner that flies itself? Oh wait..
Worse than the Japanese we are I reckon.. I travelled to get away from them but just found more of em! The truth is we are well educated and well travelled, intelligent as a whole. We just need to work out some cultural issues at home as in rampant alcoholism, overzealous feminism and over sexualized society and hypervanity. We just need to grow up a bit and get back to being good mates.
I hear ya mate, I am here right now, leaving to go home on Saturday :( but for me Canada just has a higher quality of living, uut will see for how long. I'm also concerned about drinking and sex culture in Australia and how it will affect my kids were I to raise them here. Ideally I will retire here and my kids can go to Uni under HECS which does not exist in Canada.
+1. Brisbane is Australia's best kept secret, in fact I would not live anywhere other than Queensland... New South Wales is grubby and poorly run, Victoria has the shittiest weather and is full of snobs, Tasmania, NT, SA and WA are too remote. Having said that, I still prefer to live in Canada and I am a dual citizen.
What about an ad-blocker that still downloads the ad but doesn't display it? I guess they can still track you somehow but they won't know if you're seeing the ads or not.
Yes, some value, but not $5. Hence pirated and not really watched anyway, looked at phone and chatted during it, lost interest and went to knock boots before it ended.. I think we have to agree to disagree but thanks for your valuable time.
You don't seem to get it. Time itself is a currency, I SPENT my time with the wife and it was worth it. But in addition to that, a movie production company thinks it is also worth my money, which is where I disagree, unless it is included in a subscription service I pay $7 a month for or part of a cable subscription etc. Im not going to pay $5 for every movie i watch because they just are not worth the money. I see you're making this argument about how much your time is worth elsewhere, but I don't like it. When we watch a movie or consume web content we are spending some of our time yes, but we are not necessarily in agreement that an additional monetary fee on top of our time spent is justified.
If I think its valuable, I will gladly pay. Went and watched star wars on Friday with my kid, and it was a memorable experience. But even $5 for a shitty formulaic rom-com? Not worth the money but worth the time with the wife. Torrent that shit. Delete it after, not worth the HDD space.
Its the same concept though.. Can also apply to music, software, anything that can be pirated really. I think people won't pay the asking price if the value isn't there to do so. The only other option is to pirate or use an ad blocker in the case of web ads. It works well to drive down the price to a level which is more inline with the value, such as has happened in the music industry and what is happening now to the video industry. The only reason we have been paying so much prior to this is because the distribution channels have been controlled, but now that there are other options the true value of the product is realized.
Not to mention all the tracking and JavaScript bullshit. The web sucks now, and tools like ABP, privacy badger and HTTPS everywhere are becoming an absolute necessity.
I think that's the point. People don't agree that the price is really what its worth. Hence the real value is much lower. People still go to the movies when there is a movie they actually like, but for most of the drivel that is produced it is simply not worth paying for and if it didn't exist people would find something else to do. Essentially but refusing to pay, we are saying it is worth $0.
This is why you should not rely on a VPN or any single layer solely as your entire security solution. Multiple layers of encryption and AAA and best practices are required. Its all about making it harder for the bad guys. No solution is fool proof.
A better question is how the hell this vehicle somehow ended up being shipped to the middle east where it could be sold to ISIS?
Fair enough, but RHEL w/Satellite is what works for us, and we have a good support agreement (i.e. not as expensive as you might think). Also we're not using RHEL/KVM as the hypervisor, but VMware.. you're probably going to go ballistic now lol. Either way, I'm all for trailblazing but when it comes to what we do, well established is an imperative. Perhaps we'll look into SmartOS if it can manage to gather some traction in the future, and btw thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try one day soon.
Maybe its the right choice for what you are running.. I respect that. But I like simplicity and reliability as well as wide support for apps and virtualization. RH Satellite is a nice management tool as well. Its just easier for us to run with the sheep because everyone is familiar with it and it works. We are app driven, the OS is just an u derlying layer so we need it to be easy. Go ahead and trailblaze though.. That's how things end up getting included in mainstream Linux - albeit eventually.
Don't get me wrong, Solaris is better than AIX or HPUX but it still feels archaic compared to Linux. Dtrace - OK if you are debugging badly coded apps, or you could just open a support case with your vendor who wrote it; ZFS - I prefer to let the array handle all that stuff and use 'normal' filesystem like ext4; Zones - why bother, just run another VM. In my experience the tools provided by RHEL are sufficient and the apps we are running are more widely supported on RHEL. Because it is the more common choice in Enterprise envirinments makes it carry a lot of weight as well.
RHEL.. Because it is the best and most well supported choice. Is anyone really deploying Solaris in anything serious these days? Or anything other than RHEL? I don't see the point.
I disagree, if you're speaking about immigration vs tourism that is. Nationalism is closely tied to societal customs, and if you like your society the way it is then you have to protect it from groups of people who would seek to change it. This is exactly the concern of the naysayers. To be fair I think most people don't oppose immigration so long as the immigrant groups allowed in have a history of integrating well with their current society. In other words, they don't like Muslim/Islamic culture. Go figure.
How about not even using one. Most of them suck anyway, they don't catch the clever malware and they hog resources and slow down your PC. Just be smart on the web, rely on the Windows built-in tools and you don't need one I find.
I understand your concerns however I feel we need to find a way to get past this mentality for productivity's sake. What about the idea of putting the responsibility of security in the hands of the end user, through policies, training, certification prior to being allowed to bring their device onto the network and disciplinary measures for those who fail to comply? BYO end user devices could flourish instead of every end user being expected to conform to the corporate OS image and be just as productive as the guy next to him. A good intrusion detection strategy and mandatory monitoring and control software installed on the devices? I know many will scoff at the idea but really, the user is the problem, not the permissions. Why don't we put the onus on the end user instead?
Insurance as a tax? No thanks. Income taxes should be the only tax.
At least they collect revenue providing a tangible service u like the government and insurance industry who funnel money up to the 1% the cost of which gets handed down to the end user
I think the point to be taken here is that this regulatory racketeering is totally unnecessary and if I was given the option to sign a waiver to take the uber then why not? Its much more convenient and economical and cuts out all the middle men. Fuck the insurance industry and the government. What have either of them done for me?