Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained,
Bullshit. I've yet to see a single person who does not (drastically) improve the start menu. Most people latch onto the "I can type what I want" concept almost immediately, once they understand it. You can make the Start menu function more-or-less as it did in XP, too. It was overall a huge step in the correct direction.
This android-esque thing? Absolutely horrible, and different. There's a reason why android, as it becomes more mature (past 2.3), is abandoning that scheme: it didn't work well, doesn't scale well, and conceptually limits the user. I've not seen a single person who thinks "wow, this is neat", not even younger people who aren't already biased against stupidity.
Is that Mercurius or Murkurius? Now, repeat that over the phone to one of your underlings or bosses when you're in a location with spotty cell reception and there's an outage.
This makes more work. "What did that thing do again?" Pitty on the poor fool who comes next.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurius
The term is not clear, at all. Now, what happens when someone (say, you) decides the scheme doesn't quite work for a given system, etc. and you need to redo/add to the convention? I've run into this. I've got two servers with one convention, a dozen with another, and then odds and sods with no real explanation or meaning.
Now, assume you've got everything on one subnet, or even carved up into multiple subnets with no distinction between them (per se). You've got workstations and servers on the same subnet/network. When you've got workstations named after simpsons characters,cars, food, and other random things, and then you've got servers with some of those same random things... it gets dicey.
People who have little experience in multiple environments do what you do, and they end up making a mess of it which the next guy who comes along has to fix. There's no good reason to do it, and it really doesn't make your job easier, so just don't.
Oh yeah, and I've found most people don't understand colloquial metaphors, nevermind obscure single-word metaphors which only make sense once you know the context.
* A mix of obscure Latin-based terminology (medical terms, mathematical/scientific terms - mitosis) and/or folklore references (ghandi, chiva). Eg. "sentinel" would be for monitoring * Anime characters. Seriously, what the fuck. You can barely get more obscure. * Any cryptic and useless naming convention: Simpsons is a good example. What does 'bart' do again, and is it an important system?
It's one thing if you're the sole administrator somewhere with a handful of servers. It's another if you've got a complex environment with many systems.
A better approach is a naming convention which matches and documents the environment. "ldap" is ldap, "ad1" for your primary AD server, and so on. You are a professional, not a cartoon animator: you are not creating characters with personalities, you are a professional maintaining machines which perform work.
Wow, that doesn't make sense at all, historically.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is why so many of our earliest leaps of technology came from desert lands like Syria and Egypt,
They did? As I understand it, they came from more fertile areas, like Iran, Turkey, and Iraq.
lots of desert plus nomadic tribes equals less chance to capture slaves and a lot more work to feed the ones you have.
Where do you think the slave trade was 'invented', exactly? Arabia and it's nomads taught the world how to make others do your bidding without their consent.
Well, the difference here is that 3.6 leaked more memory.
Firefox today uses more memory. It's dynamic to what is available on the system. If the system has less memory, the browser will use less, but absolutely and with no context to what the machine is doing. That's the problem today, more so than anything else.
As far as I'm concerned, using Firefox anymore is a joke. It's had multiprocess in development for years and years now, with no significant progress towards that end. They need to start from the ground up and reimplement the thing, or go with something else which works well (like, oh, Webkit).
For Cloud crap, most of them forget the single biggest factor: their internet connection.
You're not going to be doing much Cloud work on a 10Mbit connection, or even a 50Mbit connection with 5+ users. That will be quickly choked with concurrent MAPI connections, web browsing, and whatever else they've got going on. File transfers would damn the thing quickly...
Was it extreme / over the top? Probably, but news has been about sensationalism for a while
For a while? News has always been about sensationalism. In fact, it's quite tame today compared to 100 or so years ago. There was simply a short lull some decades ago when people actually wanted to be informed about what was going on.
You are right about the hype, though. If it hadn't been hyped, it would have been bad.
I've got latency under 200ms from a wifi connected laptop on one side of my house, over a VPN, to a friend's network 1800 miles away (probably closer to 3000 network miles) - to his laptop. 300ms is absurd.
300ms is usable, but not by much. Like in all things, it depends on what you're doing.
For an ssh connection, that's almost unusable. I'd not want to use it for much of anything.
For an AJAX web app, that will probably be unusable unless it was tested with such high latencies in mind and written by competent programmers.
For gaming, you can forget about it. 300ms is about 50% more than maximum for what was playable for network games, 15 years ago, and it'll probably prevent gaming outright on many modern platforms.
About the only thing that's acceptable for is casual internet browsing, chatting, and email. It'll probably make sites like Facebook unusable, but it's probably Enough for most.
Except, with IT, it is different. Fletchers, tanners, and pencil/paper draftsmen did one thing and did it well. IT? We're expected to know a lot about many different things, and do them flawlessly. Our MO is retraining. Problem being you can't really (easily) hop from one field to another completely while working in IT: IT takes too much time to do night at school, etc.
Guess what? There isn't much to retrain to anymore, either. And it won't be hapless hyuck hyuck helpdesk types who lose their jobs, it'll be the people who actually keep the backend systems running, maintain equipment, and so on. It won't make things any better for most new customers, either.
You'll still need that skilled person around, and in fact, they'll have to possess more skills than the "skilled" person they'll be hired to replace (6 months after the person they're replacing was terminated).
Why?
Because this person will have to deal with all the bullshit and problems that comes with pushing things to the Cloud. Those problems may be fewer, but they will be significantly more complex not only due to the nature of the networking involved and the different architecture, but also due to the inability to actually get in there and fix the core problem. Surprisingly, not many "Senior Windows Administrators" are even able to understand virtualization, let alone the Cloud.
Augmenting SMB networks with Cloud services for resilience and redundancy? Absolutely! But replacing them outright is a good way for a company to deep-six itself. Why Microsoft would sell their clients down the river to this degree is beyond me...
I'm sorry, but there really isn't a lack of good mathematics textbooks for students. Math at the secondary and elementary level (especially the elementary level) hasn't changed: they're the same subjects they were now as they were 50, 70 years ago (more or less). The only difference is that the topics aren't nearly as rigorous as they used to be for the same curricular subject - especially with math. All the efforts to make the books "more accessible" to students have resulted in quite the opposite: it's now harder to figure out what in the world the books are talking about, and you've got to read a literal book chapter until it becomes clear. (Contrast this to short explanations for each new concept, followed by examples and further explanation - like what I remember from my childhood.)
The problem is that these books have gotten dumbed down and rewritten by people who were raised on New Math for No Child Left Behind curriculum. I have no idea why academia and the education industry feels the need to rewrite things which work, and continue to do so after their efforts have been proven not only ineffective but counter-productive. Chalk it up to governmental bureaucratic 'intervention' and the unionized "equality despite excellence for everyone" mentality of state education in America, I suppose.
There are still publishers who do "just the math, ma'am" mathematics. Let me offer Saxon Math to those who are interested. They're not nearly as good as they used to be due to having fallen to the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt conglomerate, but they're still more than a cut above the rest and fairly true to their roots.
Since I'm guessing they included feature phones, like the Blackberry and iPhone, I'm going to guess the number of "actually know how to use device" people is slightly lower than the number of Android phones out there...
I live in East Bay and let me tell you... I'd never drive in San Francisco. They actively persecute (yes, persecute) people with vehicles. It's ironic, due to the historic destruction of public transit in preference for personal vehicles, but the city is like a tumor eating from the souls of drivers. The residents of the city, by and large, seem to get it: I don't think most of them drive. It's all the fools trying to get into SF who cause the problem.
I know that the fly over zones have a couple 'regional' hospitals which are, by far, preferred by veterans over private hospitals. Sioux Falls, South Dakota has veteran care which is good enough to drive 300 miles to get to, in preference over closer and supposedly "good" private care, regardless of cost.
My uncle lived in Tokyo for 10 years. I don't know where you went to the hospital, but here's my understanding of how it really works, based on what he's mentioned:
* You go to the doctor's office. They ask you what's wrong but don't really care. * More than likely, they subscribe antibiotics or pain killers for it. * If you need dental work done, it will more than likely result in a hasty tooth removal. * Any work done will likely require a full day of waiting in line at a clinic. * Even though it's state-funded, you still have to pay to see the doctor. * Doctor's offices and hospitals are crowded, and if you can do without going, you're better off not: you'll get a secondary infection while there, more than likely. * They spend almost twice as much per GDP as the US does on the military - 8.5% vs. 4.7%. Keep in mind that the US military funding also goes towards funding Veterans hospitals and free healthcare for veterans for life. * If you have something genuinely wrong with you, they'll probably shove you through a dozen multi-million dollar machines, but good luck actually getting treatment; there's a very long line.
Yet, when over 30% - a fucking third - of the adult population is obese - not just fat, but obese - the cost is much, much more highly distributed to people in a healthier weight class.
Sorry, but when you're overweight, you have health implications. They impact everyone, particularly with a socialist state-run healthcare system or one which has high regulatory control at every level, like the one we're in now. (And in case you want to jump on me for saying 'regulation is bad', fuck off, that wasn't what I said and isn't what I mean, so kindly look into how highly regulated and upward cost-controlled before accusing me of being one of those people.)
Obese people have more health problems than any other demographic: heart failure, diabetes, dermatology and orthopedic problems, you name it. It is massively, massively expensive. It isn't going to balance out: you're going to have people on health disability who sit at home, and on the other side you'll have people paying hundreds of dollars per pay period for what amounts to "oh shit" catastrophic life care, like an automotive accident or cancer.
Sorry: it's not going to 'balance out' when a third of your "large enough" population is obese. You've got to start denying people healthcare for what is, essentially, a terminal illness (if left uncorrected).
Smoking bans didn't catch on until it was "everyone's" business what you did. Now, people are no longer to smoke inside their own premises.
With something like this, they'll ban the skinny ads eventually. Of course, "skinny" will mean first what the demographers say it means, then later by popular media. It will hurt advertisers as well as the producers of products which sell to women, or use attractive, slender models to sell their products. Then you'll have people who are far from the then-current definition of skinny getting up in arms that the same non-skinny models are still discriminatory (blah de blathering blah) against them.
Why will it happen? Because the people in the majority are fat. Women are catty bitches, and they don't like to see competition or an idealized image of femininity which they do not fit. I will be the first to agree when someone says that the models have "unrealistic" imagery, but this is absurd. One of the "hottest women" right now is Christina Hendrix, a so-called "plus size" who has a vivacious smile and a healthy amount of padding all around. Are large breasts and blowjob lips going to be banned, too?
No, what these bemoaners need to do is stop eating so many fucking donuts. You're going to bitch about a late-teen, early-20s model looking good on a magazine? Go to the gym! If we're talking about magazine models and anorexic implications for health, why not address a much more health-related issue: obesity. It's much more prevalent. I believe it's now an official 'epidemic' - presumably called such to dissuade people from realizing it's something we can actually control. Here's a novel idea: why not actually take personal responsibility for things like over-eating, stop hating on (often, naturally) skinny attractive people, and
If you want to ban something regarding ads, why not ban wanton alteration of bodily dimensions and leave the models looking human? This would, naturally, mean making women look 'fatter' in certain areas would also be banned, to similar positive effect. Don't lower your expectations, just make them more reasonable.
What about those of us who have the same information on their resume as on LinkedIn?:D
As for why LinkedIn has a higher truthiness rating? Community. Your friends and acquaintances will keep you honest, and the embarrassment of not being who you say you are publicly will be enough to keep most people on the (relative) straight and narrow.
Making a ticket proportional to wealth is just discrimination. I hate it when people just want to penalize the rich for "being" rich. It's stupid and disingenuous to the debate over traffic safety.
In contrast, I had a cousin who's $700 car was impounded because he parked on the edge of a construction zone. He parked there, because it was the only visible parking spot close to the house: he was bringing his girlfriend's nephew "home", so he could die at home with hospice care (terminally ill).
It cost $550 to get the car out of impound the next day. The "community service" responsible for the towing was a for-profit company which the benevolent City of San Francisco outsourced the service to.
Not only is that obscenely expensive for the car, but it's obscene in general. To most people these days, that's abusive: it can literally set you back months, lead to the loss of jobs (no car? no work), and so on. To someone driving a newer $50,000 car, on the other hand, it's an inconvenience. $500 extra a month means they have to not go out for drinks for a couple weeks.
To be sure, but not to the degree you're thinking, I don't think. A friend of mine makes the best microbrew I've ever had (better than most sold microbrews). It's fairly consistent, but each batch is slightly different. He isn't 'careful', like you might be with eg. refinishing metal parts. He'll wash things thoroughly but mostly he just rinses them out, wipes them down, and boils water. It's not that much different than, say, cooking. If you want consistency between batches and to win awards, sure, you need consistent, scientific-level cleanliness. If you're going for "minute of angle" accuracy - ie, good enough for horseshoes (and for good beer consumption), all of that is extraneous, wasting valuable time and effort (which could be put into making more volume:P).
A muzzle break (eg. a flash hider) can cause the recoil to be diverted, as well. Eg. the muzzle break on an AK is historically angled to about 4 o'clock, channeling exhaust gases coming from the muzzle in that direction. This keeps the muzzle blast directed out of the shooter's field of vision, but also "opposite" typical right handed supporting stance, helping to reduce recoil.
Then you've got 'ported' guns which port to 12 o'clock, resulting in ruining both night and day vision after the first shot, but reducing felt recoil substantially.:) When the barrel axis is above the human 'holding' axis, it results in more muzzle flip.
The M16/M4 is said to have very little "felt recoil", in part due to the buffer tube in the stock but also because the barrel axis is the point of aim axis - there's no vertical offset. The recoil is then able to push straight back, instead of having a fulcrum on which to pivot (as a gun with a barrel point of aim offset which is raised above the shoulder).
Wrong. We used to have a republic. Today, we have a functioning federal constitutional democracy, albeit one where the Constitution is largely ignored by the democratically elected.
(Why no longer a republic? Because entirely too many parts of the country have been disenfranchised by voting district rezoning and the disproportionate vote that urban areas have, as well as the destruction of our once-many Representative house.)
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Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained,
Bullshit. I've yet to see a single person who does not (drastically) improve the start menu. Most people latch onto the "I can type what I want" concept almost immediately, once they understand it. You can make the Start menu function more-or-less as it did in XP, too. It was overall a huge step in the correct direction.
This android-esque thing? Absolutely horrible, and different. There's a reason why android, as it becomes more mature (past 2.3), is abandoning that scheme: it didn't work well, doesn't scale well, and conceptually limits the user. I've not seen a single person who thinks "wow, this is neat", not even younger people who aren't already biased against stupidity.
Is that Mercurius or Murkurius? Now, repeat that over the phone to one of your underlings or bosses when you're in a location with spotty cell reception and there's an outage.
This makes more work. "What did that thing do again?" Pitty on the poor fool who comes next.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurius
The term is not clear, at all. Now, what happens when someone (say, you) decides the scheme doesn't quite work for a given system, etc. and you need to redo/add to the convention? I've run into this. I've got two servers with one convention, a dozen with another, and then odds and sods with no real explanation or meaning.
Now, assume you've got everything on one subnet, or even carved up into multiple subnets with no distinction between them (per se). You've got workstations and servers on the same subnet/network. When you've got workstations named after simpsons characters,cars, food, and other random things, and then you've got servers with some of those same random things... it gets dicey.
People who have little experience in multiple environments do what you do, and they end up making a mess of it which the next guy who comes along has to fix. There's no good reason to do it, and it really doesn't make your job easier, so just don't.
Oh yeah, and I've found most people don't understand colloquial metaphors, nevermind obscure single-word metaphors which only make sense once you know the context.
I've run into some doozies:
* A mix of obscure Latin-based terminology (medical terms, mathematical/scientific terms - mitosis) and/or folklore references (ghandi, chiva). Eg. "sentinel" would be for monitoring
* Anime characters. Seriously, what the fuck. You can barely get more obscure.
* Any cryptic and useless naming convention: Simpsons is a good example. What does 'bart' do again, and is it an important system?
It's one thing if you're the sole administrator somewhere with a handful of servers. It's another if you've got a complex environment with many systems.
A better approach is a naming convention which matches and documents the environment. "ldap" is ldap, "ad1" for your primary AD server, and so on. You are a professional, not a cartoon animator: you are not creating characters with personalities, you are a professional maintaining machines which perform work.
Wow, that doesn't make sense at all, historically.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is why so many of our earliest leaps of technology came from desert lands like Syria and Egypt,
They did? As I understand it, they came from more fertile areas, like Iran, Turkey, and Iraq.
lots of desert plus nomadic tribes equals less chance to capture slaves and a lot more work to feed the ones you have.
Where do you think the slave trade was 'invented', exactly? Arabia and it's nomads taught the world how to make others do your bidding without their consent.
Well, the difference here is that 3.6 leaked more memory.
Firefox today uses more memory. It's dynamic to what is available on the system. If the system has less memory, the browser will use less, but absolutely and with no context to what the machine is doing. That's the problem today, more so than anything else.
As far as I'm concerned, using Firefox anymore is a joke. It's had multiprocess in development for years and years now, with no significant progress towards that end. They need to start from the ground up and reimplement the thing, or go with something else which works well (like, oh, Webkit).
For Cloud crap, most of them forget the single biggest factor: their internet connection.
You're not going to be doing much Cloud work on a 10Mbit connection, or even a 50Mbit connection with 5+ users. That will be quickly choked with concurrent MAPI connections, web browsing, and whatever else they've got going on. File transfers would damn the thing quickly...
Was it extreme / over the top? Probably, but news has been about sensationalism for a while
For a while? News has always been about sensationalism. In fact, it's quite tame today compared to 100 or so years ago. There was simply a short lull some decades ago when people actually wanted to be informed about what was going on.
You are right about the hype, though. If it hadn't been hyped, it would have been bad.
I've got latency under 200ms from a wifi connected laptop on one side of my house, over a VPN, to a friend's network 1800 miles away (probably closer to 3000 network miles) - to his laptop. 300ms is absurd.
300ms is usable, but not by much. Like in all things, it depends on what you're doing.
For an ssh connection, that's almost unusable. I'd not want to use it for much of anything.
For an AJAX web app, that will probably be unusable unless it was tested with such high latencies in mind and written by competent programmers.
For gaming, you can forget about it. 300ms is about 50% more than maximum for what was playable for network games, 15 years ago, and it'll probably prevent gaming outright on many modern platforms.
About the only thing that's acceptable for is casual internet browsing, chatting, and email. It'll probably make sites like Facebook unusable, but it's probably Enough for most.
Except, with IT, it is different. Fletchers, tanners, and pencil/paper draftsmen did one thing and did it well. IT? We're expected to know a lot about many different things, and do them flawlessly. Our MO is retraining. Problem being you can't really (easily) hop from one field to another completely while working in IT: IT takes too much time to do night at school, etc.
Guess what? There isn't much to retrain to anymore, either. And it won't be hapless hyuck hyuck helpdesk types who lose their jobs, it'll be the people who actually keep the backend systems running, maintain equipment, and so on. It won't make things any better for most new customers, either.
No, they won't.
You'll still need that skilled person around, and in fact, they'll have to possess more skills than the "skilled" person they'll be hired to replace (6 months after the person they're replacing was terminated).
Why?
Because this person will have to deal with all the bullshit and problems that comes with pushing things to the Cloud. Those problems may be fewer, but they will be significantly more complex not only due to the nature of the networking involved and the different architecture, but also due to the inability to actually get in there and fix the core problem. Surprisingly, not many "Senior Windows Administrators" are even able to understand virtualization, let alone the Cloud.
Augmenting SMB networks with Cloud services for resilience and redundancy? Absolutely! But replacing them outright is a good way for a company to deep-six itself. Why Microsoft would sell their clients down the river to this degree is beyond me...
I'm sorry, but there really isn't a lack of good mathematics textbooks for students. Math at the secondary and elementary level (especially the elementary level) hasn't changed: they're the same subjects they were now as they were 50, 70 years ago (more or less). The only difference is that the topics aren't nearly as rigorous as they used to be for the same curricular subject - especially with math. All the efforts to make the books "more accessible" to students have resulted in quite the opposite: it's now harder to figure out what in the world the books are talking about, and you've got to read a literal book chapter until it becomes clear. (Contrast this to short explanations for each new concept, followed by examples and further explanation - like what I remember from my childhood.)
The problem is that these books have gotten dumbed down and rewritten by people who were raised on New Math for No Child Left Behind curriculum. I have no idea why academia and the education industry feels the need to rewrite things which work, and continue to do so after their efforts have been proven not only ineffective but counter-productive. Chalk it up to governmental bureaucratic 'intervention' and the unionized "equality despite excellence for everyone" mentality of state education in America, I suppose.
There are still publishers who do "just the math, ma'am" mathematics. Let me offer Saxon Math to those who are interested. They're not nearly as good as they used to be due to having fallen to the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt conglomerate, but they're still more than a cut above the rest and fairly true to their roots.
My dumb phone would have been considered "smart" just 12 years ago
And my granddad had the latest, greatest, fastest car when he bought his Model A.
Since I'm guessing they included feature phones, like the Blackberry and iPhone, I'm going to guess the number of "actually know how to use device" people is slightly lower than the number of Android phones out there...
I live in East Bay and let me tell you... I'd never drive in San Francisco. They actively persecute (yes, persecute) people with vehicles. It's ironic, due to the historic destruction of public transit in preference for personal vehicles, but the city is like a tumor eating from the souls of drivers. The residents of the city, by and large, seem to get it: I don't think most of them drive. It's all the fools trying to get into SF who cause the problem.
I know that the fly over zones have a couple 'regional' hospitals which are, by far, preferred by veterans over private hospitals. Sioux Falls, South Dakota has veteran care which is good enough to drive 300 miles to get to, in preference over closer and supposedly "good" private care, regardless of cost.
1 in 100,000 people in Canada is 300 people.
1 in 100,000 people in the US is 3000 people.
Healthcare has is special maths magic in Canada? No wonder you've got free healthcare.
My uncle lived in Tokyo for 10 years. I don't know where you went to the hospital, but here's my understanding of how it really works, based on what he's mentioned:
* You go to the doctor's office. They ask you what's wrong but don't really care.
* More than likely, they subscribe antibiotics or pain killers for it.
* If you need dental work done, it will more than likely result in a hasty tooth removal.
* Any work done will likely require a full day of waiting in line at a clinic.
* Even though it's state-funded, you still have to pay to see the doctor.
* Doctor's offices and hospitals are crowded, and if you can do without going, you're better off not: you'll get a secondary infection while there, more than likely.
* They spend almost twice as much per GDP as the US does on the military - 8.5% vs. 4.7%. Keep in mind that the US military funding also goes towards funding Veterans hospitals and free healthcare for veterans for life.
* If you have something genuinely wrong with you, they'll probably shove you through a dozen multi-million dollar machines, but good luck actually getting treatment; there's a very long line.
Yet, when over 30% - a fucking third - of the adult population is obese - not just fat, but obese - the cost is much, much more highly distributed to people in a healthier weight class.
Sorry, but when you're overweight, you have health implications. They impact everyone, particularly with a socialist state-run healthcare system or one which has high regulatory control at every level, like the one we're in now. (And in case you want to jump on me for saying 'regulation is bad', fuck off, that wasn't what I said and isn't what I mean, so kindly look into how highly regulated and upward cost-controlled before accusing me of being one of those people.)
Obese people have more health problems than any other demographic: heart failure, diabetes, dermatology and orthopedic problems, you name it. It is massively, massively expensive. It isn't going to balance out: you're going to have people on health disability who sit at home, and on the other side you'll have people paying hundreds of dollars per pay period for what amounts to "oh shit" catastrophic life care, like an automotive accident or cancer.
Sorry: it's not going to 'balance out' when a third of your "large enough" population is obese. You've got to start denying people healthcare for what is, essentially, a terminal illness (if left uncorrected).
Yep, exactly.
Smoking bans didn't catch on until it was "everyone's" business what you did. Now, people are no longer to smoke inside their own premises.
With something like this, they'll ban the skinny ads eventually. Of course, "skinny" will mean first what the demographers say it means, then later by popular media. It will hurt advertisers as well as the producers of products which sell to women, or use attractive, slender models to sell their products. Then you'll have people who are far from the then-current definition of skinny getting up in arms that the same non-skinny models are still discriminatory (blah de blathering blah) against them.
Why will it happen? Because the people in the majority are fat. Women are catty bitches, and they don't like to see competition or an idealized image of femininity which they do not fit. I will be the first to agree when someone says that the models have "unrealistic" imagery, but this is absurd. One of the "hottest women" right now is Christina Hendrix, a so-called "plus size" who has a vivacious smile and a healthy amount of padding all around. Are large breasts and blowjob lips going to be banned, too?
No, what these bemoaners need to do is stop eating so many fucking donuts. You're going to bitch about a late-teen, early-20s model looking good on a magazine? Go to the gym! If we're talking about magazine models and anorexic implications for health, why not address a much more health-related issue: obesity. It's much more prevalent. I believe it's now an official 'epidemic' - presumably called such to dissuade people from realizing it's something we can actually control. Here's a novel idea: why not actually take personal responsibility for things like over-eating, stop hating on (often, naturally) skinny attractive people, and
If you want to ban something regarding ads, why not ban wanton alteration of bodily dimensions and leave the models looking human? This would, naturally, mean making women look 'fatter' in certain areas would also be banned, to similar positive effect. Don't lower your expectations, just make them more reasonable.
What about those of us who have the same information on their resume as on LinkedIn? :D
As for why LinkedIn has a higher truthiness rating? Community. Your friends and acquaintances will keep you honest, and the embarrassment of not being who you say you are publicly will be enough to keep most people on the (relative) straight and narrow.
Making a ticket proportional to wealth is just discrimination. I hate it when people just want to penalize the rich for "being" rich. It's stupid and disingenuous to the debate over traffic safety.
In contrast, I had a cousin who's $700 car was impounded because he parked on the edge of a construction zone. He parked there, because it was the only visible parking spot close to the house: he was bringing his girlfriend's nephew "home", so he could die at home with hospice care (terminally ill).
It cost $550 to get the car out of impound the next day. The "community service" responsible for the towing was a for-profit company which the benevolent City of San Francisco outsourced the service to.
Not only is that obscenely expensive for the car, but it's obscene in general. To most people these days, that's abusive: it can literally set you back months, lead to the loss of jobs (no car? no work), and so on. To someone driving a newer $50,000 car, on the other hand, it's an inconvenience. $500 extra a month means they have to not go out for drinks for a couple weeks.
To be sure, but not to the degree you're thinking, I don't think. A friend of mine makes the best microbrew I've ever had (better than most sold microbrews). It's fairly consistent, but each batch is slightly different. He isn't 'careful', like you might be with eg. refinishing metal parts. He'll wash things thoroughly but mostly he just rinses them out, wipes them down, and boils water. It's not that much different than, say, cooking. If you want consistency between batches and to win awards, sure, you need consistent, scientific-level cleanliness. If you're going for "minute of angle" accuracy - ie, good enough for horseshoes (and for good beer consumption), all of that is extraneous, wasting valuable time and effort (which could be put into making more volume :P).
A muzzle break (eg. a flash hider) can cause the recoil to be diverted, as well. Eg. the muzzle break on an AK is historically angled to about 4 o'clock, channeling exhaust gases coming from the muzzle in that direction. This keeps the muzzle blast directed out of the shooter's field of vision, but also "opposite" typical right handed supporting stance, helping to reduce recoil.
Then you've got 'ported' guns which port to 12 o'clock, resulting in ruining both night and day vision after the first shot, but reducing felt recoil substantially. :) When the barrel axis is above the human 'holding' axis, it results in more muzzle flip.
The M16/M4 is said to have very little "felt recoil", in part due to the buffer tube in the stock but also because the barrel axis is the point of aim axis - there's no vertical offset. The recoil is then able to push straight back, instead of having a fulcrum on which to pivot (as a gun with a barrel point of aim offset which is raised above the shoulder).
Wrong. We used to have a republic. Today, we have a functioning federal constitutional democracy, albeit one where the Constitution is largely ignored by the democratically elected.
(Why no longer a republic? Because entirely too many parts of the country have been disenfranchised by voting district rezoning and the disproportionate vote that urban areas have, as well as the destruction of our once-many Representative house.)