Good point. Henceforth, by decree of JustAnotherOldGuy, all civilian aircraft must have full armour hulls capable of withstanding direct impact from ground-to-air and air-to-air weapon systems, and pilots must be able to out-manoeuvre combat aircraft in a dog fight. Also, all civilian buildings must be defended by anti-aircraft guns installed on every corner of the roof, bullet-proof glass on all windows, anti-artillery armour on all walls, and must have underground bomb-proof bunkers large enough to house all building inhabitants, with sufficient supplies to last at least a year. It's the only way to be safe.
There has been a significant decrease in the proportion of young people holding a driver licence over the last decade. Part of the reason was put down to cost of owning and operating a vehicle.
How much did you say smart phones cost in the US? Let me see, US median house sales price as of April 30 2017 = $244,800. Therefore ($244,800 - $10,000 down payment) / 20 phones = $11,740 per phone. Holy shit that's expensive.
Inflation alone would mean $2.25 billion in 2000 is the equivalent of $3.2 billion in 2017. So in real terms, California State University earned about $200 million more in today’s money than they did 17 years ago. If they were listed on the stock exchange I would be quite disappointed with their performance. I wonder what happened to enrolment numbers and external research funding during that time?
To exploit a pacemaker, you will have to reverse engineer the communication protocol and API for a particular brand and model of pacemaker, then ghetto-hack your own portable pacemaker programmer, then find a victim who happens to have that exact brand and model inside their chest, and then hold your device right up against their chest for more than an awkward amount of time while your device reconfigures the victims pacemaker. There are cheaper, faster, and far more effective ways to mess people up, but go right ahead and hack a pacemaker if it's so easy.
Everything is lethal in Australia. Snakes, jellyfish, crocodiles, spiders, sharks, stingrays. Even birds will freakin disembowel people. I'm surprised anyone even lives past 16 over there.
I have the same problem with plums. The last time I bought plums from the supermarket I left them in the fruit bowl for a month waiting for them to ripen. They never did, or rather, that variety was bred to remain hard when ripe so they can stay in transit and on shop shelves longer. They bred the taste out too. I won't buy plums from the supermarket ever again. Luckily we have a really good farmers market here with real fruit.
Won't work. Companies will outsource generic low skill work to other companies through tenders, and then divides the rest of the company into wholly owned subsidiaries. The CEO and his buddies stay in the parent company. The CEO of the parent company, the 'CEO' of each subsidiary, only earns 4 or 5 time more than the lowest paid employee within that company. High fives all around the board room.
The role of college has become one of making as much profit as possible. As long as students want to study, and lending institutions are willing to lend, and employers pay a premium for certified candidates, then colleges have absolutely no incentive to fix the issue.
My city has enough sensors in strategic places to detect all those things you mention. It's quite impressive to watch traffic flow. The censors all feed into a central computer so the lights are coordinated. This causes traffic to naturally bunch up in some places, and stay sparse in other places, in a way that minimises wait times for most people. Lights start to change as a cluster of vehicles approaches an intersection. Vehicles in a cluster move through intersections in a tight group, usually without stopping, minimising wait times for other traffic. The lights change to orange again just as the last vehicle in the cluster reaches the intersection. If no other traffic is waiting, then the lights stay green. I'm a cyclist, so I don't trigger the sensors. If there are no cars waiting at an intersection with me then the lights simply stay red for me, even without traffic, until a car arrives or I get off and press the pedestrian cross button.
I don't think there is a realistic solution. If institutions such as universities uphold freedom of speech, all of it, including content which some people might consider wilfully uninformed (homoeopathy, anti-vaccine, hollow earth, global warming denial, smoking is good for your health, etc), then those institutions will be accused of endorsing such opinions, spreading misinformation, and bringing themselves into disrepute. If those same institutions don't allow some content to be expressed, then the other side accuses them of suppressing freedom of speech or even trying to hide something to support their vested interests. Both accusations are valid. You can't win either way. I guess everyone is free to express their ideas, and everyone else has the right to not listen.
That's venture capital for you though. Their modus operandi seems to be 'invest in many startups -> grow customer base as fast as possible -> sell for higher price to next investor'. VCs are trying to profit from capital gains made during the growth phase of a company. Therefore growth is the top priority. Most investments will be a write-off, some break even, and one or two may be the next Google or Tesla and make up for all the other losses. Another type of investor will take over once a company reaches break-even.
Fair enough, from a company perspective. But from a global economic perspective, who will buy your product or service if the majority of people don't have a job? And what happens to these people? Do we let them die because they can't afford the basic necessities of life? Or should the government care for these people? How do you think the government will afford that? They are going to raise tax of course. In societies without social safety nets, people tend to care for their family members anyway, rather than let them starve, so people with good jobs such as yourself end up supporting multiple family members. So if you want to benefit from the stability of a civil society, then you end up paying for the care of people who are unable to care for themselves one way or another.
It might help the Turks to feel less defensive about their history. And it might help the Armenians to move on from their history. Germany admit they fucked up in a really big way and they have done all they can to make amends and ensure it never happens again. For them, you truly can say that digging up historical grievances does not help anyone, because they have already dealt with their past. They have earned the right to not burden current generations with the sins of their ancestors. What has Turkey done?
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Dammit. If only there was some way to solve that problem... a file or something.
Lucky you didn't do a Cartesian join of those two. We'd all drown in crap.
Probably with pro-Trump Russian H1B hackers stealing webscale big data via app controlled drones.
Good point. Henceforth, by decree of JustAnotherOldGuy, all civilian aircraft must have full armour hulls capable of withstanding direct impact from ground-to-air and air-to-air weapon systems, and pilots must be able to out-manoeuvre combat aircraft in a dog fight. Also, all civilian buildings must be defended by anti-aircraft guns installed on every corner of the roof, bullet-proof glass on all windows, anti-artillery armour on all walls, and must have underground bomb-proof bunkers large enough to house all building inhabitants, with sufficient supplies to last at least a year. It's the only way to be safe.
There has been a significant decrease in the proportion of young people holding a driver licence over the last decade. Part of the reason was put down to cost of owning and operating a vehicle.
How much did you say smart phones cost in the US? Let me see, US median house sales price as of April 30 2017 = $244,800. Therefore ($244,800 - $10,000 down payment) / 20 phones = $11,740 per phone. Holy shit that's expensive.
Inflation alone would mean $2.25 billion in 2000 is the equivalent of $3.2 billion in 2017. So in real terms, California State University earned about $200 million more in today’s money than they did 17 years ago. If they were listed on the stock exchange I would be quite disappointed with their performance. I wonder what happened to enrolment numbers and external research funding during that time?
To exploit a pacemaker, you will have to reverse engineer the communication protocol and API for a particular brand and model of pacemaker, then ghetto-hack your own portable pacemaker programmer, then find a victim who happens to have that exact brand and model inside their chest, and then hold your device right up against their chest for more than an awkward amount of time while your device reconfigures the victims pacemaker. There are cheaper, faster, and far more effective ways to mess people up, but go right ahead and hack a pacemaker if it's so easy.
Everything is lethal in Australia. Snakes, jellyfish, crocodiles, spiders, sharks, stingrays. Even birds will freakin disembowel people. I'm surprised anyone even lives past 16 over there.
I have the same problem with plums. The last time I bought plums from the supermarket I left them in the fruit bowl for a month waiting for them to ripen. They never did, or rather, that variety was bred to remain hard when ripe so they can stay in transit and on shop shelves longer. They bred the taste out too. I won't buy plums from the supermarket ever again. Luckily we have a really good farmers market here with real fruit.
Can't do that, but I know some guy who can make the most luxurious soap.
This distro was code named 'Blowhard Linux' before the marketing department changed it.
Won't work. Companies will outsource generic low skill work to other companies through tenders, and then divides the rest of the company into wholly owned subsidiaries. The CEO and his buddies stay in the parent company. The CEO of the parent company, the 'CEO' of each subsidiary, only earns 4 or 5 time more than the lowest paid employee within that company. High fives all around the board room.
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The role of college has become one of making as much profit as possible. As long as students want to study, and lending institutions are willing to lend, and employers pay a premium for certified candidates, then colleges have absolutely no incentive to fix the issue.
I know panty sniffing humans. Show me one dog that sniffs panties better than they do. Maybe we are just optimised for different smells.
Yes there's issues with pedestrians
I think you mean 'there are issues with pedestrians', not 'there is issues with pedestrians'.
My city has enough sensors in strategic places to detect all those things you mention. It's quite impressive to watch traffic flow. The censors all feed into a central computer so the lights are coordinated. This causes traffic to naturally bunch up in some places, and stay sparse in other places, in a way that minimises wait times for most people. Lights start to change as a cluster of vehicles approaches an intersection. Vehicles in a cluster move through intersections in a tight group, usually without stopping, minimising wait times for other traffic. The lights change to orange again just as the last vehicle in the cluster reaches the intersection. If no other traffic is waiting, then the lights stay green. I'm a cyclist, so I don't trigger the sensors. If there are no cars waiting at an intersection with me then the lights simply stay red for me, even without traffic, until a car arrives or I get off and press the pedestrian cross button.
Joke's on you, suckers. This story was brought to you by "an anonymous reader" (signed APK).
Many thanks to a progressive Dutch primary education system.
I don't think there is a realistic solution. If institutions such as universities uphold freedom of speech, all of it, including content which some people might consider wilfully uninformed (homoeopathy, anti-vaccine, hollow earth, global warming denial, smoking is good for your health, etc), then those institutions will be accused of endorsing such opinions, spreading misinformation, and bringing themselves into disrepute. If those same institutions don't allow some content to be expressed, then the other side accuses them of suppressing freedom of speech or even trying to hide something to support their vested interests. Both accusations are valid. You can't win either way. I guess everyone is free to express their ideas, and everyone else has the right to not listen.
That's venture capital for you though. Their modus operandi seems to be 'invest in many startups -> grow customer base as fast as possible -> sell for higher price to next investor'. VCs are trying to profit from capital gains made during the growth phase of a company. Therefore growth is the top priority. Most investments will be a write-off, some break even, and one or two may be the next Google or Tesla and make up for all the other losses. Another type of investor will take over once a company reaches break-even.
Fair enough, from a company perspective. But from a global economic perspective, who will buy your product or service if the majority of people don't have a job? And what happens to these people? Do we let them die because they can't afford the basic necessities of life? Or should the government care for these people? How do you think the government will afford that? They are going to raise tax of course. In societies without social safety nets, people tend to care for their family members anyway, rather than let them starve, so people with good jobs such as yourself end up supporting multiple family members. So if you want to benefit from the stability of a civil society, then you end up paying for the care of people who are unable to care for themselves one way or another.
It might help the Turks to feel less defensive about their history. And it might help the Armenians to move on from their history. Germany admit they fucked up in a really big way and they have done all they can to make amends and ensure it never happens again. For them, you truly can say that digging up historical grievances does not help anyone, because they have already dealt with their past. They have earned the right to not burden current generations with the sins of their ancestors. What has Turkey done?
Are women allowed to vote now that Erdogan won?