Maybe it's different where you live, but in the handful of countries/states I've lived in (none of which are in the US), police tickets go into consolidated revenue, ie The Treasury, which is a completely different agency managed an run by completely different people from the Enforcement agencies.
Last MS Exchange deployment I did (years ago) ran about $4k for the server license and about $100 per user (from memory). And that server could run up to 1000 mailboxes. Expected life of an Exchange Server (software) can be well over 5 years, so you're talking peanuts per year. It isn't even worth arguing the license cost.
The biggest benefit is Exchange Admins are a dime a dozen, and if they go away I can get a guy from any of the millions of IT support companies to walk in off the street and maintain it with no issue. Good luck having that same business continuity with your home-brew flavour-of-the-day Linux distro that some neck beard has setup his own unique config that needs an equally ugly neck beard to try and decipher if he happens to leave the business. Never mind arguing the user interface issues from some flaky email client that doesn't do the half the stuff Outlook does seamlessly, and doesn't plug-in to all the cool cloud stuff everyone has these days (Salesforce, dropbox etc). Say what you want about everything else MS, but Exchange and Outlook are a best of breed product (ignoring your single use case and taking into account how real businesses use email/collab apps)
MS has 90% market share on the desktop. Whether you like it or not, that means 90% of the computer using population are already familiar with the interface. Now you may argue that French is a more romantic language than English, but if we already speak English then there has to be an enormous justification to get every single person to change.
FWIW, I worked in a place that had Lotus Notes. Everyone hated it and wanted to move to Exchange, even the mail admins. But it would never get approved because there was no justification for spending millions (large org) to get the same functionality with slightly improved interface. That is how life works. The incumbent has an advantage.
Different environments from most businesses which just need file, email, web and a few app servers. I'm sure you can find any special use case to suit your argument, but the fact remains, for most people, most of the time, walking into an MS shop requires the least amount of effort. Try not to let you religious beliefs stand in the way of reality.
Why don't you stop worrying about the state taking all your money and start asking why your wages have been in decline for 30 ever-lovin' years. Why don't you ask why it is your worse off than your parents? Why don't you ask why income inequality is at levels not seen since the 1920s?
Are we worse off than our parents? I mean sure house prices might have been relatively cheaper, and unskilled work more available, but given the choice of living in the 50's-70's or now I choose now every time.
I also have some bad news for you. Stop comparing now to the "golden years" of the 50's-70's. That period was an anomaly in history caused by the two largest wars ever fought and the largest financial crisis ever. Three of the most calamitous events in human history all with 3 decades of each other, it's no wonder that immediately after there was a period of unnatural equilibrium that is now passing. Get used to the real good old days of rich people owning everything and poor people getting dick, because that is the real natural state of things, and we are simply in the process of heading back there.
I always see people complaining about tax but have never seen anyone suggest what the appropriate amount of tax should be?
How much money do you think is the correct amount of tax to pay?
Sounds simple but you can't do that with public money. Same goes for teachers, why not sack the dummies and reward the performers? Who decides who the performers are? How do you ensure a level playing field (ie some schools are in better socioeconomic areas etc) in order to compare performance?
There is no magic bullet. One way leads to corruption, the other to bureaucracy. Somewher ein the middle is where we have landed, and although not perfect, it does work relatively well (relative to say Iran or Nigeria for example).
That's what the govt already does. You pay taxes and fines, and they decide on who needs it the most. You in turn get to decide who they are by voting. Introducing some privately run "charity" into the equation is just opening it up to confusion and corruption.
We already have a solution to this. Speed cameras, both fixed and mobile (run by private contractors) keep motorists on their toes. No cops required.
And Police here already have mobile radar and number plate recognition built-into their cars which can alert a cop to a traffic offender without them needing to dedicate any time or resources to it. They continue doing regular cop work and being visible in the community and only need to be distracted with traffic duty only when the need arises.
Yet these "heroes" seem to have plenty of time to sit idle on the freeway ALL DAY booking people for not aligning the number on their vehicle's speedometer with the number on a sign on the side of the road.
You know this is a movie right? I'll give you a few right here: Wormhole, time machine, mysterious fog, spin the earth backwards, slingshot around the sun, a negative reality inversion, who really cares right? It's a movie, you make some shit up. As long as its interesting most audiences will let it slide.
What if those well known anti-Govt types are double agents? What if those disparate people and orgs mostly have the same paymaster? I appreciate I'm venturing into tinfoil hat territory here, but prior to Edward Snowden if you told me what the NSA were capable of I would've have laughed in your face.
It's not that hard if you have the resources. Setup a few thousand high bandwidth TOR exit nodes and analyse everything that goes through them. Run a few BTC wallets/exchanges/mixers, and setup a few dealer accounts on Silk Road and collect all the transactions and addresses you are sending illegal contraband to.
Based on what I've seen the NSA have the capability to do this with their eyes closed. It's really only a matter of if they have the intent.
I'd like to see SW go completely left field and discover Earth during WW2 or something. Or maybe medieval times where the Jedis use their sword fighting skills against King Arthur or something? I mean the franchise is fucked already so we may as well have fun with it right?
You say that as if they aren't behind all of this already? Who's to say that Silk Road, Bit Coin, TOR etc aren't all just honeypot projects for the NSA?
I mean if I was in charge that's the way I'd do it. Let all the small players continue doing business on you Darknet until someone gets too big for their boots then you take them out. I know it sounds a bit Hollywood, but it would the most effective means of control.
Everytime the "circle" goes around LESS labor is needed.
Just where are those workers going to go because other industries are not absorbing them - the employment numbers proves it.
That's not true. Right now the US is in a slump so you use those short term skewed figures and blame that on whatever, but here in Australia we have relatively low unemployment (5-6%) over the at least the last 15 years. I've heard that 5% is the perfect amount of unemployment, since you always need some unemployed people around to fill demand.
Unemployment might be higher for you than the 90's, but it's lower than the 80's and still lower than the 30's. So it's a bit far fetched to blame this year/decade's unemployment situation on some sort of technological trend that has been in force for centuries.
What they need as a base instead of peas and plants is insects. If someone makes a meat substitute that smells and tastes like meat,and comes with the protein factor then I'm there. 30000 years of Australian Aborigines trumps your Eskimos:)
And the simple fact that a fake hand will always look like a poorer version of a real hand, whereas a robot hand can be made to look cool and superior to a human hand.
Remember when Oscar Pistorius made the Olympics, he generated buzz because was cooler than regular old sprinters with human feet. Some silly fake looking legs/feet wouldn't have had the same effect as the blades. Of course murdering his girlfriend ruined all the goodwill he had, but that's another story...
Maybe it is less about the size of the hole and more to do with the absurd amount of money and time is cost to play the sport? I had a few games once, the money I could probably afford, but I simply don't have the time to spend hours on a golf course every week...
Yeah and you ought to be able to walk anywhere without fear of violence or rape. But hey you can dream of utopia or deal with what's in front of you.
And no sensible doesn't mean being a dick. Most people can get by with sticking to branded websites (ie known news, classifieds, social media etc sites without having to venture into the den of free porn/warez/hacking which is where most of this malware lives. That and deleting email from unknown senders without opening solves 99% of the issues in my experience.
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Yes and the city of Munich is slightly less than "most of the people" right?
Maybe it's different where you live, but in the handful of countries/states I've lived in (none of which are in the US), police tickets go into consolidated revenue, ie The Treasury, which is a completely different agency managed an run by completely different people from the Enforcement agencies.
Last MS Exchange deployment I did (years ago) ran about $4k for the server license and about $100 per user (from memory). And that server could run up to 1000 mailboxes. Expected life of an Exchange Server (software) can be well over 5 years, so you're talking peanuts per year. It isn't even worth arguing the license cost. The biggest benefit is Exchange Admins are a dime a dozen, and if they go away I can get a guy from any of the millions of IT support companies to walk in off the street and maintain it with no issue. Good luck having that same business continuity with your home-brew flavour-of-the-day Linux distro that some neck beard has setup his own unique config that needs an equally ugly neck beard to try and decipher if he happens to leave the business. Never mind arguing the user interface issues from some flaky email client that doesn't do the half the stuff Outlook does seamlessly, and doesn't plug-in to all the cool cloud stuff everyone has these days (Salesforce, dropbox etc). Say what you want about everything else MS, but Exchange and Outlook are a best of breed product (ignoring your single use case and taking into account how real businesses use email/collab apps)
MS has 90% market share on the desktop. Whether you like it or not, that means 90% of the computer using population are already familiar with the interface. Now you may argue that French is a more romantic language than English, but if we already speak English then there has to be an enormous justification to get every single person to change. FWIW, I worked in a place that had Lotus Notes. Everyone hated it and wanted to move to Exchange, even the mail admins. But it would never get approved because there was no justification for spending millions (large org) to get the same functionality with slightly improved interface. That is how life works. The incumbent has an advantage.
Different environments from most businesses which just need file, email, web and a few app servers. I'm sure you can find any special use case to suit your argument, but the fact remains, for most people, most of the time, walking into an MS shop requires the least amount of effort. Try not to let you religious beliefs stand in the way of reality.
Why don't you stop worrying about the state taking all your money and start asking why your wages have been in decline for 30 ever-lovin' years. Why don't you ask why it is your worse off than your parents? Why don't you ask why income inequality is at levels not seen since the 1920s?
Are we worse off than our parents? I mean sure house prices might have been relatively cheaper, and unskilled work more available, but given the choice of living in the 50's-70's or now I choose now every time. I also have some bad news for you. Stop comparing now to the "golden years" of the 50's-70's. That period was an anomaly in history caused by the two largest wars ever fought and the largest financial crisis ever. Three of the most calamitous events in human history all with 3 decades of each other, it's no wonder that immediately after there was a period of unnatural equilibrium that is now passing. Get used to the real good old days of rich people owning everything and poor people getting dick, because that is the real natural state of things, and we are simply in the process of heading back there.
I always see people complaining about tax but have never seen anyone suggest what the appropriate amount of tax should be? How much money do you think is the correct amount of tax to pay?
Sounds simple but you can't do that with public money. Same goes for teachers, why not sack the dummies and reward the performers? Who decides who the performers are? How do you ensure a level playing field (ie some schools are in better socioeconomic areas etc) in order to compare performance? There is no magic bullet. One way leads to corruption, the other to bureaucracy. Somewher ein the middle is where we have landed, and although not perfect, it does work relatively well (relative to say Iran or Nigeria for example).
That's what the govt already does. You pay taxes and fines, and they decide on who needs it the most. You in turn get to decide who they are by voting. Introducing some privately run "charity" into the equation is just opening it up to confusion and corruption.
We already have a solution to this. Speed cameras, both fixed and mobile (run by private contractors) keep motorists on their toes. No cops required. And Police here already have mobile radar and number plate recognition built-into their cars which can alert a cop to a traffic offender without them needing to dedicate any time or resources to it. They continue doing regular cop work and being visible in the community and only need to be distracted with traffic duty only when the need arises.
Yet these "heroes" seem to have plenty of time to sit idle on the freeway ALL DAY booking people for not aligning the number on their vehicle's speedometer with the number on a sign on the side of the road.
Where is this profound change? It did not happen.
Clearly you haven't been on Tinder.
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How many kgs of cocaine will I need to smuggle with these to cover the cost?
You know this is a movie right? I'll give you a few right here: Wormhole, time machine, mysterious fog, spin the earth backwards, slingshot around the sun, a negative reality inversion, who really cares right? It's a movie, you make some shit up. As long as its interesting most audiences will let it slide.
What if those well known anti-Govt types are double agents? What if those disparate people and orgs mostly have the same paymaster? I appreciate I'm venturing into tinfoil hat territory here, but prior to Edward Snowden if you told me what the NSA were capable of I would've have laughed in your face. It's not that hard if you have the resources. Setup a few thousand high bandwidth TOR exit nodes and analyse everything that goes through them. Run a few BTC wallets/exchanges/mixers, and setup a few dealer accounts on Silk Road and collect all the transactions and addresses you are sending illegal contraband to. Based on what I've seen the NSA have the capability to do this with their eyes closed. It's really only a matter of if they have the intent.
I'd like to see SW go completely left field and discover Earth during WW2 or something. Or maybe medieval times where the Jedis use their sword fighting skills against King Arthur or something? I mean the franchise is fucked already so we may as well have fun with it right?
You say that as if they aren't behind all of this already? Who's to say that Silk Road, Bit Coin, TOR etc aren't all just honeypot projects for the NSA? I mean if I was in charge that's the way I'd do it. Let all the small players continue doing business on you Darknet until someone gets too big for their boots then you take them out. I know it sounds a bit Hollywood, but it would the most effective means of control.
Well?
Everytime the "circle" goes around LESS labor is needed.
Just where are those workers going to go because other industries are not absorbing them - the employment numbers proves it.
That's not true. Right now the US is in a slump so you use those short term skewed figures and blame that on whatever, but here in Australia we have relatively low unemployment (5-6%) over the at least the last 15 years. I've heard that 5% is the perfect amount of unemployment, since you always need some unemployed people around to fill demand. Unemployment might be higher for you than the 90's, but it's lower than the 80's and still lower than the 30's. So it's a bit far fetched to blame this year/decade's unemployment situation on some sort of technological trend that has been in force for centuries.
What they need as a base instead of peas and plants is insects. If someone makes a meat substitute that smells and tastes like meat,and comes with the protein factor then I'm there. 30000 years of Australian Aborigines trumps your Eskimos :)
And the simple fact that a fake hand will always look like a poorer version of a real hand, whereas a robot hand can be made to look cool and superior to a human hand. Remember when Oscar Pistorius made the Olympics, he generated buzz because was cooler than regular old sprinters with human feet. Some silly fake looking legs/feet wouldn't have had the same effect as the blades. Of course murdering his girlfriend ruined all the goodwill he had, but that's another story...
Also known as the uncanny valley effect
Maybe it is less about the size of the hole and more to do with the absurd amount of money and time is cost to play the sport? I had a few games once, the money I could probably afford, but I simply don't have the time to spend hours on a golf course every week...
Yeah and you ought to be able to walk anywhere without fear of violence or rape. But hey you can dream of utopia or deal with what's in front of you. And no sensible doesn't mean being a dick. Most people can get by with sticking to branded websites (ie known news, classifieds, social media etc sites without having to venture into the den of free porn/warez/hacking which is where most of this malware lives. That and deleting email from unknown senders without opening solves 99% of the issues in my experience.