The FBI is institutionally one of the least efficient and bureaucratic law enforcement agencies in the country.
While simultaneously being one of the best law enforcement agencies in the world. Seriously - who would you compare to them?
They're pumping billions into "modernization" efforts, but they still file their cases largely in paper format, use fax machines instead of e-mail, and "IT" is what they say happens in the men's room after 5pm.
No doubt you thought that was a cute quote and copy-pasted it. But alas, it's completely wrong. The recent Sentinel problems were an upgrade/modernization of the existing electronic case files. The Bureau is computerized. Not as sleekly or as efficiently as they'd like (which is why there's a big government contract working on it), but you make it sound like they're still thumbing through index cards. And yes, they use email.
In the 60s, the FBI was busy snapping pictures of protesters... and at the same time devoting forensic resources to finding out who (or rather, what) crapped on J. Edgar Hoover's front porch. You might have heard of him--he had a real temper, hated communists, and had a garter belt and fishnet fetish.
Please provide some proof that Hoover was a cross-dresser other than Anthony Summers' discredited book. That's the only source for this accusation.
....and the pink tights and boa? Its no fun to be freaky jiggy with the hoes and bros in the light of day, ya know! Can't a G-man enjoy a G-string without diluting the oppressive regime's value system with blatant hypocrisy? Whats the fun in that? Its like Halloween in the light with pants on - no tricks or treats...
Yawn. Is the "crossdressing Hoover" nonsense dead yet? There is zero factual basis for this. One guy's sensational book and since then everyone takes it as gospel...
I wasn't talking about third world. There are plenty of cheaper places in the USA.
You don't see Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, etc. building factories in the Bay Area, which has to be some of the most expensive real estate. If you want to maximize the economic benefit, why not build in someplace like Michigan - lots of laid off autoworkers ready to work there. Or the Southeast, which is where the foreign autoworkers (and Saturn) chose to build. Or in the midwest, or...gosh, just about anywhere else would be cheaper. Cheaper labor, cheaper real estate, cheaper power, lower taxes, probably a gajillion local incentives for the asking...
$100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area
How on earth can that be the cheapest place to manufacture something?
I suspect the factory location is more political than practical ("I've love to help you get that loan, but you know, it'd sure be nice if you located that factory in my state").
Obviously this is all speculation, and doesn't matter much when you're comparing it to a real timeline... Yes, the United States developed an atomic bomb... But the Germans were also working on one. So if you extend the timeline to allow the Germans to develop this stealth jet, would they have had time to develop their own atomic bomb as well?
Albert Speer (who as minister of armaments after '43 was in a position to know) wrote that the Nazi atomic program was in its infancy in 1943. When Hitler was informed that an atomic bomb would probably not be produced until the 1950s, he downgraded the priority of the research.
The Nazis' were hampered by Hitler's view of technology. The Me-262 (first jet fighter) was outfitted as a light bomber, for instance, because Hitler saw more value in bombing than in defending airspace (in 1945!). The V-2 rocket was pushed hard, even though a single B-17 raid carried more explosives than the entire V-2 production. Anti-aircraft missiles were ignored and naval armaments were always given a low priority.
I should go complain that nobody wants to pay me to hand-deliver milk in glass bottles door-to-door anymore, and see if I can get them to tax milk and give me the proceeds!
Milk is already heavily taxed in the USA. We call it "price supports for dairy farmers".
Classifieds? Classifieds are gone. The revenue is down to 10% of what it used to be, and it's never coming back. Free online classifieds are superior to 15 columns of unsearchable text so small you need a fricking magnifying glass.
I think your overall point is valid. However, the Nickel Ads and similar free classifieds-only newspapers still do ripping business. The local Nickel Ads outfit has four offices in Portland and distributes a dozen editions. Something is propping them up. My guess is that there is still a large segment of the populace that doesn't look online for classifieds, consisting mostly of tradition-bound older people and nondigital poor. Put those together and that's a sizeable nimber of people.
However, the former category is obviously shrinking and the latter category is not going to spend 75 cents for access to a newspaper when they can instead get something like the Nickel Ads for free. And of course, today's digital poor are tomorrows "I just searched through Craigslist on my phone" shoppers.
With respect to ringtones, ASCAP seeks to license the wireless carriers' transmissions of your music. ASCAP is not seeking to charge consumers. In fact, ASCAP has been licensing wireless carriers and ringtone content providers since 2001.
So they charge the carriers, but not consumers. I think it's real sweet that the carriers pass the hat around the office every year to pay for these charges, rather than passing them on to consumers.
These days, any phone or cell phone technically is a credit account with absolutely no limits due to being able to rack up hours and hours calling "premium" numbers.
I could have done this in 1984 by calling 1-900 numbers. At $2 a minute, that's almost $90,000 a month. And those aren't just internal charges, but mostly hard dollars the telco must pay out to the service provider.
Every ordinary phone plan can rack up the monetary equivalent of several expensive sports cars within one month, that's why we get credit checks equivalent to buying a house and a mortgage for that phone plan.
True, but what is special about a cell phone? I can do plenty of damage with an old school landline phone and there's no need for a credit check to get one of those.
Users can become developers... very easily, if they want to and have the time to learn things properly.
The languages themselves aren't hard, but to explain exactly what you want to do in a programming language in an efficient manner, can be depending on the task
If you think the typical user can pickup C++, then you are confining Linux to a very small universe.
99%+ of the desktop users in the world (all OSes) have zero interest in becoming programmers. They want to do their own thing with their machines - run apps. Approaching them with the attitude that they can "easily" learn languages that "aren't hard" is absurd.
...and frankly typical of how most Linux developers think about users.
The Wall Street Journal articles have problems with lack of attribution and stated lack of verification of this info. If the story true (and I think it probably is), the authors of the articles need to elaborate.
Do you whack off reading Wikipedia policies or something?
...a person editing a Wikipedia.... allowing her to search for video...
Strange, apparently a "person" can only be female.
I know, I know, if it said "he" no one would notice, but obviously this person was going out of their way to say "her", so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.
Anyway, it just annoys me when someone goes out of their way to try to end the male gender bias only to throw in female gender bias instead of making it gender neutral.
-Taylor
Usually, they're college males hoping to get laid by progressive chicks.
The irony lies in the fact that modprobe - in fact the whole, loading unloading kernal modules on the fly - is nothing short of amazing.
I can't think of anything more impressive (in context) than being able to dynamically modify the core OS behaviour through a simple set of command line tools.
It's a neat feature. But hardly novel or really that amazing. Other Unices offered this, and I'd be surprised if mainframe systems going back 30 years didn't. Heck, SunOS (the predecessor to Solaris) offered this, and it was end-of-life'd before Linux 0.1 was a gleam in any Finn's eye.
And really, it's not like you can swap out ANY component of the kernel - I think 90%+ of kernel modules are device drivers.
Not to say it isn't a cool feature, but you really don't need to have an orgasm about it.
Good thing you don't then. GP is a troll; has made the same post elsewhere on this topic, as well as several previous Iranian topics. Was soundly refuted last time. (Hint: The US's deserves a lot of blame.)
I'm sorry, but I don't speak redneckese. The US's what?
I find it amusing how many people wrote and commented before you pointed this out. Why even bother having articles? All we need are paragraph-sized opinions posted and then people can argue. Administration of the site could be entirely automated. Then again, given how little the "editors" do, perhaps it already is...
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The FBI is institutionally one of the least efficient and bureaucratic law enforcement agencies in the country.
While simultaneously being one of the best law enforcement agencies in the world. Seriously - who would you compare to them?
They're pumping billions into "modernization" efforts, but they still file their cases largely in paper format, use fax machines instead of e-mail, and "IT" is what they say happens in the men's room after 5pm.
No doubt you thought that was a cute quote and copy-pasted it. But alas, it's completely wrong. The recent Sentinel problems were an upgrade/modernization of the existing electronic case files. The Bureau is computerized. Not as sleekly or as efficiently as they'd like (which is why there's a big government contract working on it), but you make it sound like they're still thumbing through index cards. And yes, they use email.
In the 60s, the FBI was busy snapping pictures of protesters... and at the same time devoting forensic resources to finding out who (or rather, what) crapped on J. Edgar Hoover's front porch. You might have heard of him--he had a real temper, hated communists, and had a garter belt and fishnet fetish.
Please provide some proof that Hoover was a cross-dresser other than Anthony Summers' discredited book. That's the only source for this accusation.
As to hating communists - God bless the man.
....and the pink tights and boa? Its no fun to be freaky jiggy with the hoes and bros in the light of day, ya know! Can't a G-man enjoy a G-string without diluting the oppressive regime's value system with blatant hypocrisy? Whats the fun in that? Its like Halloween in the light with pants on - no tricks or treats...
Yawn. Is the "crossdressing Hoover" nonsense dead yet? There is zero factual basis for this. One guy's sensational book and since then everyone takes it as gospel...
If the telomeres in fast-dividing cells are staying long, then she really will live for ever.
As discussed here back in 2005, there are actually seven significant hurdles to stopping aging. Telomeres are only one of them.
I hold the phone to my left ear, and I'm right-handed.
Perhaps you just want to be prepared in case you have to write something down.
I wasn't talking about third world. There are plenty of cheaper places in the USA.
You don't see Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, etc. building factories in the Bay Area, which has to be some of the most expensive real estate. If you want to maximize the economic benefit, why not build in someplace like Michigan - lots of laid off autoworkers ready to work there. Or the Southeast, which is where the foreign autoworkers (and Saturn) chose to build. Or in the midwest, or...gosh, just about anywhere else would be cheaper. Cheaper labor, cheaper real estate, cheaper power, lower taxes, probably a gajillion local incentives for the asking...
$100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area
How on earth can that be the cheapest place to manufacture something?
I suspect the factory location is more political than practical ("I've love to help you get that loan, but you know, it'd sure be nice if you located that factory in my state").
since slashdot isn't a hive mind
Try posting something positive about Microsoft here...
Meanwhile, the entire scientific world sighs at the gringos... again!
In aerospace, we're a pretty big part of the "entire" scientific world.
Maybe, maybe not.
Obviously this is all speculation, and doesn't matter much when you're comparing it to a real timeline... Yes, the United States developed an atomic bomb... But the Germans were also working on one. So if you extend the timeline to allow the Germans to develop this stealth jet, would they have had time to develop their own atomic bomb as well?
Albert Speer (who as minister of armaments after '43 was in a position to know) wrote that the Nazi atomic program was in its infancy in 1943. When Hitler was informed that an atomic bomb would probably not be produced until the 1950s, he downgraded the priority of the research.
The Nazis' were hampered by Hitler's view of technology. The Me-262 (first jet fighter) was outfitted as a light bomber, for instance, because Hitler saw more value in bombing than in defending airspace (in 1945!). The V-2 rocket was pushed hard, even though a single B-17 raid carried more explosives than the entire V-2 production. Anti-aircraft missiles were ignored and naval armaments were always given a low priority.
I should go complain that nobody wants to pay me to hand-deliver milk in glass bottles door-to-door anymore, and see if I can get them to tax milk and give me the proceeds!
Milk is already heavily taxed in the USA. We call it "price supports for dairy farmers".
Classifieds? Classifieds are gone. The revenue is down to 10% of what it used to be, and it's never coming back. Free online classifieds are superior to 15 columns of unsearchable text so small you need a fricking magnifying glass.
I think your overall point is valid. However, the Nickel Ads and similar free classifieds-only newspapers still do ripping business. The local Nickel Ads outfit has four offices in Portland and distributes a dozen editions. Something is propping them up. My guess is that there is still a large segment of the populace that doesn't look online for classifieds, consisting mostly of tradition-bound older people and nondigital poor. Put those together and that's a sizeable nimber of people.
However, the former category is obviously shrinking and the latter category is not going to spend 75 cents for access to a newspaper when they can instead get something like the Nickel Ads for free. And of course, today's digital poor are tomorrows "I just searched through Craigslist on my phone" shoppers.
The Amazon thanks
They planted spruce, fir, and pine in the Amazon rainforest?
...use it for porn.
With respect to ringtones, ASCAP seeks to license the wireless carriers' transmissions of your music. ASCAP is not seeking to charge consumers. In fact, ASCAP has been licensing wireless carriers and ringtone content providers since 2001.
So they charge the carriers, but not consumers. I think it's real sweet that the carriers pass the hat around the office every year to pay for these charges, rather than passing them on to consumers.
These days, any phone or cell phone technically is a credit account with absolutely no limits due to being able to rack up hours and hours calling "premium" numbers.
I could have done this in 1984 by calling 1-900 numbers. At $2 a minute, that's almost $90,000 a month. And those aren't just internal charges, but mostly hard dollars the telco must pay out to the service provider.
Every ordinary phone plan can rack up the monetary equivalent of several expensive sports cars within one month, that's why we get credit checks equivalent to buying a house and a mortgage for that phone plan.
True, but what is special about a cell phone? I can do plenty of damage with an old school landline phone and there's no need for a credit check to get one of those.
Users can become developers... very easily, if they want to and have the time to learn things properly.
The languages themselves aren't hard, but to explain exactly what you want to do in a programming language in an efficient manner, can be depending on the task
If you think the typical user can pickup C++, then you are confining Linux to a very small universe.
99%+ of the desktop users in the world (all OSes) have zero interest in becoming programmers. They want to do their own thing with their machines - run apps. Approaching them with the attitude that they can "easily" learn languages that "aren't hard" is absurd.
...and frankly typical of how most Linux developers think about users.
How old are you? The answer will be different depending on if you're 15 or 30 or 50...
Where do you live? Rural USA? Manhattan? Iran?
The Wall Street Journal articles have problems with lack of attribution and stated lack of verification of this info. If the story true (and I think it probably is), the authors of the articles need to elaborate.
Do you whack off reading Wikipedia policies or something?
Strange, apparently a "person" can only be female.
I know, I know, if it said "he" no one would notice, but obviously this person was going out of their way to say "her", so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.
Anyway, it just annoys me when someone goes out of their way to try to end the male gender bias only to throw in female gender bias instead of making it gender neutral. -Taylor
Usually, they're college males hoping to get laid by progressive chicks.
It never works that way, btw.
The irony lies in the fact that modprobe - in fact the whole, loading unloading kernal modules on the fly - is nothing short of amazing.
I can't think of anything more impressive (in context) than being able to dynamically modify the core OS behaviour through a simple set of command line tools.
It's a neat feature. But hardly novel or really that amazing. Other Unices offered this, and I'd be surprised if mainframe systems going back 30 years didn't. Heck, SunOS (the predecessor to Solaris) offered this, and it was end-of-life'd before Linux 0.1 was a gleam in any Finn's eye.
And really, it's not like you can swap out ANY component of the kernel - I think 90%+ of kernel modules are device drivers.
Not to say it isn't a cool feature, but you really don't need to have an orgasm about it.
Condemn an entire country's culture?
*cough* Nazi Germany *cough*
Good thing you don't then. GP is a troll; has made the same post elsewhere on this topic, as well as several previous Iranian topics. Was soundly refuted last time. (Hint: The US's deserves a lot of blame.)
I'm sorry, but I don't speak redneckese. The US's what?
All together now: "The religion of peace".
That might be funny, but of course George W. Bush wasn't born in Crawford, so you point is probably accurate.
But still...Bush jibes? Got any Ike jokes? Or haven't you retooled your programming for the new Fool-in-Chief?
Geez, do the "editors" do anything here?
I find it amusing how many people wrote and commented before you pointed this out. Why even bother having articles? All we need are paragraph-sized opinions posted and then people can argue. Administration of the site could be entirely automated. Then again, given how little the "editors" do, perhaps it already is...