They could then threaten to move the distribution centers to other states, and fire everyone there unless they relocate. Yes it's cold-blooded and etc.
But, it would make most states (esp. states where jobs and money are tight) stand up and take notice that you're about to cut a chunk of jobs (and income tax revenue, property tax revenue, injection of money into the local and state economy, etc) out from under them. Call the state next door and say "I'd like to build a large distribution center and hire (n*1000) employees for it in your state... we'll pay all the other taxes, but please don't charge us for sales tax. If the benefits outweigh the loss of sales tax, I'm willing to bet the state (esp. hard-hit or not-so-large states like Mississippi and etc.) would happily take the deal.
IIRC, Wal-Mart does this all the time (at least with local governments) - getting sweetheart tax waivers in exchange for the locality getting jobs and other economic benefits.
Now sure, it wouldn't be easy to just pull up stakes and move, but distribution centers are warehouses, which means that it's not a very complex infrastructure to move... the hardest part would be shifting the logistics.
...as many as needed to give it a sufficient Earth-like mass, so that Mars would have a gravity high enough to hold an atmosphere of sufficient pressure.
Otherwise it'd all boil off into space in (IIRC) fairly short order.
Depends - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising held off a German battalion for nearly a month, and they were very poorly armed in comparison to what the average small US town likely has stashed.
You also forget one other factor - US troops are... US citizens. There is no guarantee that they would simply and blindly obey orders and start smashing their own citizens down. It would take one hell of a propaganda machine to convince them otherwise.
'course not - but ostensibly you should have been educated enough about the world at large to stand a reasonable chance of surviving in it unassisted, and is usually the age when (most) kids have graduated High School in any fully industrialized nation. It is also a (well still) typical age when you are officially capable of being On Your Own.
You gotta set the number somewhere (for legal reasons anyway)... Before 18, doing something stupid will (with a few very obvious exceptions) likely mean very little in the way of any larger legal or social consequence. At or after 18, you get to eat the whole thing, without Mommy and/or Daddy being forced by law to help soften the blow for you.
Unless you're hopelessly brainwashed by some cult (religion and/or political) then theres absolutely nothing wrong with kids seeing porn.
So if you went to your local park and started showing the local kids your pr0n stash, or your own kids (if you had any) started bragging loud and wide at school about how 'dad' let's them look at dirty pix all the time, how long would it take before your face and a mugshot card got plastered on the evening news, d'ya figure?
Hell, there was a time when fathers kept playboys in the Den in a basket next to the recliner (well, okay, not a perfect analogue since Playboy is pretty soft-core and it did have articles worth reading). Nowadays that would likely get you jailed.
One nitpick though: equipping a child to deal with sexual subjects upon maturity doesn't necessarily involve pornography, especially the stuff that is pretty commonly found online.
I mean, it's one thing to discuss the emotions and mechanics of the subject to the kids in a way that shows love and tenderness between 'mommy' and 'daddy'. It's another ballpark entirely to have to explain why there's a popup showing someone with a ball-gag in her mouth while being urinated on (or something else just as "WTF!?"-inducing).
Well, it depends - is dad doing the surfing discreetly after the kids have gone to bed, or is he trolling for pr0n in the living room at midday when the kids are sitting only a few meters away?
The latter would be pretty indicative of a problem, y'know?
Dude... what? Any computer language (and pretty much most operating systems written in any language for that matter) have a million gotchas.
The trick is to fit the best tools to the job at hand. If C++ can't do it, find a language that does - it's not like there's a shortage of 'em or anything.
As an owner of two Macs (well, one's a Hackintosh), I'm just not going to move to be afraid - at least until I see something that doesn't require me to tie half my brain behind my back first.
It's one thing to have something out there that can get into your machine without your knowledge or consent - those are to be respected.
It's another entirely to have trojans (which are present for any OS in active use, really) - these require you to willfully participate in their propagation.
Anyone pushing for fear against the latter are spreading FUD, pure and simple.
While the last one died off in ~2001 or so, yes, there were worms created with the intention of targeting Linux.
Also, I wouldn't be so quick to say that all Linux machinery are looked after by professional, competent admins, either - between the expanding desktop user base and the fact that I've seen a disturbing number of incompetent admins (even where I work)? It's not that easy to dismiss.
That said, on balance Linux is a hell of a lot harder to bust into (not PHP, Linux) than a typical Windows box of any type.
...err, what is Microsoft doing to fix their end of the problem? I mean, this (IIRC) only works if the victim has Microsoft Windows as their OS.
I mean, this isn't specifically to slam MSFT, but the guy who discovered this works... for Microsoft. The attack vector stops cold if the user is on OSX and/or Linux, but does work in Windows.
So, umm... what's Microsoft doing about this (assuming they can), Mr. Rios?
Store the media on whatever the current standard is. Think about it, what if you had a closet full of tape reals that had all of your old sweet groovy 60's music? What would you do with that now?
Err, play it on the reel-to-reel tape player I have sitting in the large box next to the reels?
Guess I should qualify it a bit: I inherited a rather respectable pile of my father's old reel-to-reel bootleg recordings, mostly from his days of hanging around in San Francisco and LA during the mid-to-late 1960's. I tend to test the reels every two years or so, and keep them in a somewhat safe and temperature-friendly place. OTOH, it'd be kinda cool to rip them to.mp3 (in as lossless a fashion as I can given the obvious constraints with connecting a relatively ancient R2R player to computer)... not really for safe-keeping, but more for the chance to hear (for instance) The Doors live, the way he heard 'em... goofs, profanity, and all.
Given that the (by now) majority of new Linux users don't even know about such things as kernel-tainting, I sincerely doubt that it would make a dent in NVIDIA's share of the Linux market... at least not by itself.
Now once games-makers get hold of it, things may/might change.
It's bad enough when the infraction is minor like a cop doing 20 over the speed limit but when we're talking about the crimes committed in this case, it's the sort of thing that erodes faith in our very society.
Err, that ideal died in 1997 or so when Congress basically said "oh, he only committed perjury about a blowjob - everyone does that..."
Sorry - once the genie gets out, you can't shove it back in the bottle.
Shallow, perhaps - but as true and cold as the ice water in your gut when you clicked "Post Anonymously", my dear fellow.
See also the far more heavily censored and intrusive setups in places that have no real services that outside folks would be interested in. Places like - oh - Syria, Pakistan, and similar... you just don't see too awful much hand-wringing and front-page news concerning those places, d'ya?
Man... reason # 10,297,668 why I primarily use Linux as my desktop @ work.
Not that Linux (or OSX, or any of 'em for that matter) are 100% crack-proof, but putting one's career at the mercy of common malware and the only safety net is a sharp eye at the IT department?
OTOH, I suspect this guy (if he plays his cards right and has a sharp lawyer on retainer) may never have to work another day in his life.
Swedish Chef muppet jokes aside (damn, I'm old)...
There would likely be a lot less outrage from folks outside of Sweden, except for The Pirate Bay, Relakks, and a whole flock of other Swedish-related services that most of the entire Internet-using planet has an interest in.
RIAA/MPAA (esp. the Swedish equivalent) coming up with some sort of legal-sounding excuse to set up ongoing packet-sniffers inbound/outbound of TPB.org in 3... 2... 1...
On points one and two: For Windows, my response is usually "I'd really love to, but it's been insanely busy out here. I'm not sure when I can get to it... maybe you can just re-install Windows?" For Linux, the answer is "sure - let me pop by and see what's up."
Point Three? Nope- at least not yet. There is project MakeHuman, which comes close, but isn't compatible at all with the somewhat massive (~48GB) library of files that I have collected/built/bought for Poser over the years.
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
...as much free tech support for it (Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, really) as my friends and relatives can stand.
...time and effort in teaching others (including random strangers) how to use it if they ask.
...time and effort in explaining in detail how I manage to get neat stuff to happen on it (e.g. getting the Windows version of the 3D app Poser to work in OpenSuSE).
...any and all code modifications that I make to customize and/or bugfix any open-source component of it - even if I don't distribute the binaries or project source code myself.
(there are many more ways, but yeah - it's worth paying-back that way, if not in other ways as well).
How much would they add as a surcharge to ship any model I choose WITHOUT a Microsoft operating system on it?
As in: "...can you just send me the laptop with nothing at all installed on the hard disk? I intend to install (Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuSE) on it. No, I really don't want anything in the way of tech support outside of parts and labor."
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...or any other state that has no sales tax.
(just random thoughts here.)
They could then threaten to move the distribution centers to other states, and fire everyone there unless they relocate. Yes it's cold-blooded and etc.
But, it would make most states (esp. states where jobs and money are tight) stand up and take notice that you're about to cut a chunk of jobs (and income tax revenue, property tax revenue, injection of money into the local and state economy, etc) out from under them. Call the state next door and say "I'd like to build a large distribution center and hire (n*1000) employees for it in your state... we'll pay all the other taxes, but please don't charge us for sales tax. If the benefits outweigh the loss of sales tax, I'm willing to bet the state (esp. hard-hit or not-so-large states like Mississippi and etc.) would happily take the deal.
IIRC, Wal-Mart does this all the time (at least with local governments) - getting sweetheart tax waivers in exchange for the locality getting jobs and other economic benefits.
Now sure, it wouldn't be easy to just pull up stakes and move, but distribution centers are warehouses, which means that it's not a very complex infrastructure to move... the hardest part would be shifting the logistics.
...as many as needed to give it a sufficient Earth-like mass, so that Mars would have a gravity high enough to hold an atmosphere of sufficient pressure.
Otherwise it'd all boil off into space in (IIRC) fairly short order.
Depends - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising held off a German battalion for nearly a month, and they were very poorly armed in comparison to what the average small US town likely has stashed.
You also forget one other factor - US troops are... US citizens. There is no guarantee that they would simply and blindly obey orders and start smashing their own citizens down. It would take one hell of a propaganda machine to convince them otherwise.
'course not - but ostensibly you should have been educated enough about the world at large to stand a reasonable chance of surviving in it unassisted, and is usually the age when (most) kids have graduated High School in any fully industrialized nation. It is also a (well still) typical age when you are officially capable of being On Your Own.
You gotta set the number somewhere (for legal reasons anyway)... Before 18, doing something stupid will (with a few very obvious exceptions) likely mean very little in the way of any larger legal or social consequence. At or after 18, you get to eat the whole thing, without Mommy and/or Daddy being forced by law to help soften the blow for you.
So if you went to your local park and started showing the local kids your pr0n stash, or your own kids (if you had any) started bragging loud and wide at school about how 'dad' let's them look at dirty pix all the time, how long would it take before your face and a mugshot card got plastered on the evening news, d'ya figure?
If only I had mod points...
Hell, there was a time when fathers kept playboys in the Den in a basket next to the recliner (well, okay, not a perfect analogue since Playboy is pretty soft-core and it did have articles worth reading). Nowadays that would likely get you jailed.
One nitpick though: equipping a child to deal with sexual subjects upon maturity doesn't necessarily involve pornography, especially the stuff that is pretty commonly found online.
I mean, it's one thing to discuss the emotions and mechanics of the subject to the kids in a way that shows love and tenderness between 'mommy' and 'daddy'. It's another ballpark entirely to have to explain why there's a popup showing someone with a ball-gag in her mouth while being urinated on (or something else just as "WTF!?"-inducing).
Well, it depends - is dad doing the surfing discreetly after the kids have gone to bed, or is he trolling for pr0n in the living room at midday when the kids are sitting only a few meters away?
The latter would be pretty indicative of a problem, y'know?
Dude... what? Any computer language (and pretty much most operating systems written in any language for that matter) have a million gotchas.
The trick is to fit the best tools to the job at hand. If C++ can't do it, find a language that does - it's not like there's a shortage of 'em or anything.
Knowing my luck, Bill Gates would win this region (Pacific Northwest)...
As an owner of two Macs (well, one's a Hackintosh), I'm just not going to move to be afraid - at least until I see something that doesn't require me to tie half my brain behind my back first.
It's one thing to have something out there that can get into your machine without your knowledge or consent - those are to be respected.
It's another entirely to have trojans (which are present for any OS in active use, really) - these require you to willfully participate in their propagation.
Anyone pushing for fear against the latter are spreading FUD, pure and simple.
While the last one died off in ~2001 or so, yes, there were worms created with the intention of targeting Linux.
Also, I wouldn't be so quick to say that all Linux machinery are looked after by professional, competent admins, either - between the expanding desktop user base and the fact that I've seen a disturbing number of incompetent admins (even where I work)? It's not that easy to dismiss.
That said, on balance Linux is a hell of a lot harder to bust into (not PHP, Linux) than a typical Windows box of any type.
Err, you do realize that all that bragging about Vista, executable controls, and sandboxing is supposed to actually mean something, right?
...err, what is Microsoft doing to fix their end of the problem? I mean, this (IIRC) only works if the victim has Microsoft Windows as their OS.
I mean, this isn't specifically to slam MSFT, but the guy who discovered this works... for Microsoft. The attack vector stops cold if the user is on OSX and/or Linux, but does work in Windows.
So, umm... what's Microsoft doing about this (assuming they can), Mr. Rios?
Err, play it on the reel-to-reel tape player I have sitting in the large box next to the reels?
Guess I should qualify it a bit: I inherited a rather respectable pile of my father's old reel-to-reel bootleg recordings, mostly from his days of hanging around in San Francisco and LA during the mid-to-late 1960's. I tend to test the reels every two years or so, and keep them in a somewhat safe and temperature-friendly place. OTOH, it'd be kinda cool to rip them to
Now once games-makers get hold of it, things may/might change.
The other signs include, among other things, chairs flying at a respectable altitude over Seattle.
Err, that ideal died in 1997 or so when Congress basically said "oh, he only committed perjury about a blowjob - everyone does that..."
Sorry - once the genie gets out, you can't shove it back in the bottle.
(Taco, FFS, fix it already!)
See also the far more heavily censored and intrusive setups in places that have no real services that outside folks would be interested in. Places like - oh - Syria, Pakistan, and similar... you just don't see too awful much hand-wringing and front-page news concerning those places, d'ya?
Didn't think so.
Not that Linux (or OSX, or any of 'em for that matter) are 100% crack-proof, but putting one's career at the mercy of common malware and the only safety net is a sharp eye at the IT department?
OTOH, I suspect this guy (if he plays his cards right and has a sharp lawyer on retainer) may never have to work another day in his life.
There would likely be a lot less outrage from folks outside of Sweden, except for The Pirate Bay, Relakks, and a whole flock of other Swedish-related services that most of the entire Internet-using planet has an interest in.
Point Three? Nope- at least not yet. There is project MakeHuman, which comes close, but isn't compatible at all with the somewhat massive (~48GB) library of files that I have collected/built/bought for Poser over the years.
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
(there are many more ways, but yeah - it's worth paying-back that way, if not in other ways as well).
As in: "...can you just send me the laptop with nothing at all installed on the hard disk? I intend to install (Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuSE) on it. No, I really don't want anything in the way of tech support outside of parts and labor."