I bought a BMW for $15,000 (top end of your range) with 50,000 miles on it and drove it until it had 250,000 miles at which point it died. Got $1800 for it as a parts/repair car too. So in 1974 the average POS for sale back then was about DONE at 50,000 miles and 250,000 miles was a miracle car.
This, right here. Back in the 70's and 80's, a car was only expected to be usable for maybe an average of 5 years - 10 if you nursed it along and was handy with a wrench.
In 2007, I bought a used car that was 4 year-old car with 52,000 miles on it - cost me a grand total of $7200. It still gets 32mpg and does very well on the freeway. This morning, the odometer showed 144,500 miles on it, it still runs just fine, and the repair expenses I laid out for it totaled maybe $300 in parts so far (not counting consumables like tires, oil changes, etc). With regular maintenance, I fully expect this vehicle to last at least another 7-10 years before I junk it.
Meanwhile, my wife's brand-new car (a Kia Soul) cost me $14,200 cash when I bought it in the middle of last year. It came with a 10 year/100k mile warranty.
Growth is possible in the overall economy - it is certainly NOT a zero-sum game (otherwise we'd all still be living an 1870's style technology and lifestyle.) Disruptions and innovations happen quite often which changes the game, and opens up new opportunities for growth and greater economic expansion.
That said, the problem lies in depending on a certain minimum rate of growth, and making no allowances for contractions and plateaus. A related problem arises from unrealistic expectations, which tends to cause nasty repercussions when they're not met. As a microcosm of this, take Apple - they show consistent and phenomenal growth over the past decade, but every time they don't hit or exceed some imaginary goalpost set every fiscal quarter by a bunch of so-called "analysts", their stock price takes a pounding, in spite of the company showing solid (and sometimes industry-beating) growth for that quarter/year/whatever.
Personally, I can see (and history proves) the economy at large, if it isn't interfered with, growing at a decent rate over the long-term, interspersed with occasional contractions and periodic plateaus, with the underlying engine of growth being those innovations and disruptions.
The real plot problem is that not enough effort goes into game plot development.
I dunno - sometimes they over-do it, taking themselves way the hell too seriously.
I think the coolest game I ever played is still an old-assed text-based game. The game came with a scratch-n-sniff card, a 3D comic book (with glasses), and just enough 'plot' to get you started. The plot is is scare quotes because, quite frankly, it's intentionally stupid, silly, risque - but hellishly funny. The game itself required a ton of imagination on your part (because it was all text-based), and a lot of mental recall to avoid getting lost, killed, etc.
Even now, 2+ decades later, I still get a smile when I think of the so-called "plot" (it begins in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, then instantly puts you on Mars, etc...)
That aside, here's something else to consider: one of the absolute most popular games of the '90s was the Doom/Quake franchise, right? The 'plot' for Doom and Quakes I, II and III were thin at best, and let's be honest - it only got in the way of the real reason we all played Quake: Kill shit in realtime 3D and watch the gibs fly. The big 'plot' in the CTF/Team Foretress/WeaponsFactory MODs, and in CounterStrike and suchlike? Really - what plot?
I guess what I'm getting at is this: a plot is only useful sometimes - not all games need one, and if a game really needs a heavy, complex plot, then maybe it's just trying to cover for crappy gameplay?
Of course - but now they're getting enough money to push that colonoscope all the way up to your teeth
(...or did you not know why it is that they charge so damned much for such piddly little bandwidth caps, while you're just-as-able to get unlimited data/voice/text on a Net10-style or similar carrier, using the *same* phones and towers, but for a fraction of the price?)
1. Most hospitals are operating at a loss, thus do not have money to maintain a strong infrastructure. Meaning that website could be on the same pipe as the rest of the organization.
One would think that HIPAA would nix that idea. I could be wrong, but patient records on the same direct wiring as the public Internet? I'd not only fire the architect, I'd have the SOB castrated to insure that his stupidity didn't pass on to any future progeny. It ain't that expensive to buy a decent pair of firewalls and segment things out.
2. The web sites now offer more services to patients and other providers. Such as logging in and able to send their Medical Records, Book and Appointment, or securely send a message to your doctor.
So do banking sites (money transfers, billpay, etc), which often run even leaner than hospitals (at least the smaller banks and credit unions do) - they also know enough that a breach on their site could send them to insolvency, so they plan and spend appropriately. You;d think that a hospital, who stands to literally kill people if their stuff is breached, would do the same. Please let me know which ones do not, so I can avoid ever using their services.
3. If you kill the Router (That devices that will need to direct you to the website) as the device wouldn't expect that type of load, it causes problems with other places it is trying to work with.
As the software will often need to talk to other locations. For example Lab work is often done at different locations then sent over to your Dr. for review. If the network goes down the Dr. may not get the results.
...which is why the humble fax machine and telephone still exists: Call lab, lab sends fax, etc...
Long story short - even on a budget, if it's important, there are workarounds.
So like when a woman is drunk and she gets raped, it's her fault. Gotcha.
Your analogy isn't perfectly correct: It's more like 'If some woman walks into the bad part of town and gets drunk, then proceeds to wander through the streets wearing only a negligee and waving around a bag of condoms while screaming "somebody fuck me!", then she bears some of the liability.
Before you react - allow me to clarify what GP did not: She gets none of the legal blame (and should never bear any), but reality dictates that you don't go wandering into a pit of starving bears wearing only a loincloth made of steaks.
Similarly, setting up services in a shared datacenter means you should know up-front the risks of doing so (accidentally cut fiber, datacenter management fuckup, FBI ICE seizure, DDoS, carrier fuckups, etc), and if your services are critical, you damned sure need to plan/mitigate accordingly.
Essentially what you're saying is asshats like Anonymous don't have to take personal responsibility for their actions because their victims were asking for it.
No, GP did not. What he did say was that if you don't know the (pretty damned obvious) risks and mitigations of going into something, then you shouldn't be considered competent enough to do it, and therefore should not do it.
I got your point, but one person does not the whole collective make in this case.
The whole point of Anonymous is that you can be some 'ub3r-1337!' hacking-type dude, or you can be a housewife who reposts facebook postings to friends about whatever the group posts onto YouTube. Or, you can be anything in-between. With no official leadership and no official dogma/coda/ruleset/philosophy (outside of a few ultra-generic statements that most who act under such a name generally agree on)? That kind of pushes the context of representation onto the membership at large, but that's a problem too: It can be anyone, everyone, or no one, with any skillset or from any walk of life, which means no one person is the "face" (that is, representative) of the organization. Anyone can be, but in reality no one is.
So, ma & pa down on the farm, are suppose to pay for overprice 4G service? Might as well give up trying to watch netflix, amazon or do anything useful!
There is some (relatively) good news on the rural front... there's enough competition among Sat providers to give Verizon and such a very hard incentive to drop their costs. Even though most sat providers (Dish, HughesNet, etc) only provide around 7-10Mbps, they've started bringing down the prices just to keep ahead of the competition (for example, not even a year ago, it used to cost around $100+/mo just to get a 5Mbps connection from HughesNet with a ridiculously low bandwidth cap. - own it's dropped to $60/mo for 10Mbps and no cap, $45/mo for the same from Dish ($30/mo if you already have their TV service), etc.
Now consider that in the some rural areas, *if you could get DSL*, you would pay a mint to get DSL installed plus $70/mo for 3Mbps from CenturyStink. If you were really lucky, you could get cable Internet (but you had to live in a small-to-mid-sized town to get that). The only advantage DSL had was that you could game on it, but that was about it.
I suspect that as more players get into the rural broadband game, the costs will drop even more while services go up... Sat/wireless ISP service is one of the few places where you can get a decent deal, and since there's no monopoly, they have to compete.
As for Verizon? I just saw their rural 4G offerings/plans, and quite frankly, Verizon can go eat a dick - 4G and Sat are almost equally laggy for gaming, so no advantage there. Maybe someday they'll figure out that they can't run the same scam as they do in the smartphone arena, but that day isn't today.
The problem is all trade jobs are basically salary capped at lower middle class barely above poverty levels. You really don't have a chance at earning more than 50k a year.
Well you actually do... if you're willing to risk your life or your health. Underwater welders and tradesmen make obscene gobs of money, but they usually don't live very long past the age to 50 due to the pounding their bodies take. Same with welders, fitters and etc who perch atop very tall or dangerous structures without the ability to use sufficient safety gear.
I recall a long time ago as an apprentice ironworker (I basically fixed the eletrical/electronic gear) that the folks who worked high steel made a decent amount of money for the time. Hell - I made fairly good bank at the time for a 22-year-old.
On the other hand, there was (and is) a very true saying that no ironworker stays in the job more than 10 years without losing an appendage in the process (and quite a few guys lost a hell of a lot more than that.) Hell, I almost lost my left index finger, in spite of my being fully diligent about safety - shit just happens when not everyone is paying attention (I now tote around a little artificial joint - apparently it was cheaper than amputation, since that meant paying me $50k in accident benefits). It was enough to get me towards better pursuits after just three years at it, in spite of the money.
I'm thinking that he sort of misstated his objections, but aren;t too tough to decipher... perhaps it's because the evidences and observations are more easily reproducible (and more easily modeled) with Plate Tectonics than it is with the Big Bang? That's my best stab at it anyway.
I don't think that's even the point. If people doubted the big bang because they carefully considered the arguments and found some flaws that made them doubt it, that would be fine. They doubt it because they can't imagine the terms involved, because a religious book says it isn't true, or mainly just because they don't want to think about it.
Point of order: Before anyone drags the eevil Xtians into the argument, the "Big Bang" theory was originally formed and promoted by not only scientists, but one of its pioneers (who reconciled Einstein's theories to it) was a Catholic Priest (who happened to also be a physicist and professor of same).
Why do I mention this? Well, given that the largest single Christian denomination on the planet (by far) involves Rome, and has *zero* problems with established and credible science (and has historically often led the way in it), let's not start tagging all Christians with what some heretic sect in Outer West Bumblefrig preaches, mm'kay?
Leads to an honest question that cropped up... does the federal government have to abide by any sort of data-breach reporting laws (be they state or federal)?
(maybe they have their own, maybe they're exempt... I'm not a lawyer, but it'd be worth looking up...)
...which in turn gives them enough elbow-room to become a bit more belligerent, which in turn de-stabilizes the region. This in turn causes the US and Japan to have to spend their time doing something about it (China couldn't really give a frig, to be honest).
Speculative end result? Putin can take the rest of the Ukraine and any of the other former Soviet states with less attention being paid to it.
As somebody in his mid forties and is still successfully in the game, I can tell you authoritatively that you think you are winning, but you are not.
Agreed.
Dear GP:
* Wait until you're 35+, and start having a hard time getting up in the morning.
* As time progresses, you get to choose between family and your 50+ hour workweek (anything else leads to divorce, which even $100k/yr won't ameliorate.) Otherwise, you end up old, childless, and alone. You do not want that fate.
* In your 20's, burn-out is relatively unheard-of. In your 40's, it is something you'll spend a very huge chunk of your time trying to avoid at all costs.
* $100k/yr in Alabama might be nice, but $100k/yr in California ain't shit.
* Once you do reach your 40's, you'll start looking back a little.. and you may not like what you see. At nearly 45, I generally like the parts I see that didn't involve a cubicle (or desk). The only parts of my work history that I actually enjoy looking back at was either the USAF stint, or the teaching/professorial stint - not for the management (they mostly sucked ass), but for the feeling of awesomeness I get whenever I leaf through many of my former students' LinkedIn pages (or in the case of the USAF, times like whenever I stood on the flightline after fixing up a multi-million-dollar jet and gazed at the mountains nearby).
Long story short - you only get so much time to spend on this earth - do you want to spend it slaving away for some parade of uncaring asshats who think you're ultimately disposable, or do you want to actually do something you can look back on and go "holy shit that was cool!"?
They bought an oil-company spin-off called Shell Solar. In their Washington (state) site, the Machinists' Union decided that it would be a great time to ask for a raise, since things had been stagnant there for awhile wage-wise. The company said no. The Union threatened to strike, and it made a bit of noise in the local papers.. The company quickly agreed to the wage increases.
Not a handful of months later, the company decided to turn the WA production site into a warehouse, and gave the workers a choice: Either re-apply for jobs at lower wages in nearby right-to-work Oregon, or be out of a job. Two years later, the site was shuttered entirely.
US v. Maxwell is a different story - it described a user/subscriber relationship with an ISP.
Otherwise as a general rule, corporations and similar entities (like publicly-funded universities) which provide email POP3 and IMAP service says far, far different: http://www.nolo.com/legal-ency...
Not so. For example here is the privacy statement from a well-known university:
Privacy of Information Information stored on a computer system or sent electronically over a network is the property of the individual who created it. Examination, collection, or dissemination of that information without authorization from the owner is a violation of the ownerâ(TM)s rights to control his or her own property. Systems administrators, however, may gain access to usersâ(TM) data or programs when it is necessary to maintain or prevent damage to systems or to ensure compliance with other University rules.
Which Uni is that? I understand that they cannot claim copyright, but legally the Uni can do whatever else it wants to with it.
If I write a scathing article about my local mayor, I won't get killed in a dark alley. I'm in Portland. Scathing articles about Sam Adams were a party trick for a little bit. Poor bastard.
As a fellow PDX resident, I can second that... hell, Adams even starred in a few Portlandia episodes in what has to be the coolest self-parodies ever (he was the Mayor's assistant).
I can't stand Adams' politics or ideology, but I damned sure admire the guy for being able to take a joke (and even to actively be a part of it.)
...unless either you or Mann (prolly not both) are lying, which is more than possible given that no one can actually use that data to reproduce the results he originally presented.
But the kicker is that you don't seem to understand that this is just a fishing expedition, to find something, *anything*, to take out of context and shit-coat Mann's career.
You mean like Mann did when he sued Tim Ball, then watched as the case collapsed because he wouldn't, you know, hand over the research documents that would prove Ball was somehow committing libel?
In Europe, yes. In the US, not so much. Nearly every IT department has standard boilerplate that includes the fact that whatever you send in company/school email is company/school property, and can be searched and seized at any time for any legitimate reason.
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I bought a BMW for $15,000 (top end of your range) with 50,000 miles on it and drove it until it had 250,000 miles at which point it died. Got $1800 for it as a parts/repair car too. So in 1974 the average POS for sale back then was about DONE at 50,000 miles and 250,000 miles was a miracle car.
This, right here. Back in the 70's and 80's, a car was only expected to be usable for maybe an average of 5 years - 10 if you nursed it along and was handy with a wrench.
In 2007, I bought a used car that was 4 year-old car with 52,000 miles on it - cost me a grand total of $7200. It still gets 32mpg and does very well on the freeway. This morning, the odometer showed 144,500 miles on it, it still runs just fine, and the repair expenses I laid out for it totaled maybe $300 in parts so far (not counting consumables like tires, oil changes, etc). With regular maintenance, I fully expect this vehicle to last at least another 7-10 years before I junk it.
Meanwhile, my wife's brand-new car (a Kia Soul) cost me $14,200 cash when I bought it in the middle of last year. It came with a 10 year/100k mile warranty.
Growth is possible in the overall economy - it is certainly NOT a zero-sum game (otherwise we'd all still be living an 1870's style technology and lifestyle.) Disruptions and innovations happen quite often which changes the game, and opens up new opportunities for growth and greater economic expansion.
That said, the problem lies in depending on a certain minimum rate of growth, and making no allowances for contractions and plateaus. A related problem arises from unrealistic expectations, which tends to cause nasty repercussions when they're not met. As a microcosm of this, take Apple - they show consistent and phenomenal growth over the past decade, but every time they don't hit or exceed some imaginary goalpost set every fiscal quarter by a bunch of so-called "analysts", their stock price takes a pounding, in spite of the company showing solid (and sometimes industry-beating) growth for that quarter/year/whatever.
Personally, I can see (and history proves) the economy at large, if it isn't interfered with, growing at a decent rate over the long-term, interspersed with occasional contractions and periodic plateaus, with the underlying engine of growth being those innovations and disruptions.
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing at all to do with the fact that the last wave have until April 30th to pay...
...nor does it consider shenanigans like signing up jail inmates whether they want it or not, counting medicaid enrollees as obamacare signups, and similar.
The real plot problem is that not enough effort goes into game plot development.
I dunno - sometimes they over-do it, taking themselves way the hell too seriously.
I think the coolest game I ever played is still an old-assed text-based game. The game came with a scratch-n-sniff card, a 3D comic book (with glasses), and just enough 'plot' to get you started. The plot is is scare quotes because, quite frankly, it's intentionally stupid, silly, risque - but hellishly funny. The game itself required a ton of imagination on your part (because it was all text-based), and a lot of mental recall to avoid getting lost, killed, etc.
Even now, 2+ decades later, I still get a smile when I think of the so-called "plot" (it begins in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, then instantly puts you on Mars, etc...)
That aside, here's something else to consider: one of the absolute most popular games of the '90s was the Doom/Quake franchise, right? The 'plot' for Doom and Quakes I, II and III were thin at best, and let's be honest - it only got in the way of the real reason we all played Quake: Kill shit in realtime 3D and watch the gibs fly. The big 'plot' in the CTF/Team Foretress/WeaponsFactory MODs, and in CounterStrike and suchlike? Really - what plot?
I guess what I'm getting at is this: a plot is only useful sometimes - not all games need one, and if a game really needs a heavy, complex plot, then maybe it's just trying to cover for crappy gameplay?
They haven't been doing that all along anyway?
Of course - but now they're getting enough money to push that colonoscope all the way up to your teeth
(...or did you not know why it is that they charge so damned much for such piddly little bandwidth caps, while you're just-as-able to get unlimited data/voice/text on a Net10-style or similar carrier, using the *same* phones and towers, but for a fraction of the price?)
Yes, it could.
1. Most hospitals are operating at a loss, thus do not have money to maintain a strong infrastructure. Meaning that website could be on the same pipe as the rest of the organization.
One would think that HIPAA would nix that idea. I could be wrong, but patient records on the same direct wiring as the public Internet? I'd not only fire the architect, I'd have the SOB castrated to insure that his stupidity didn't pass on to any future progeny. It ain't that expensive to buy a decent pair of firewalls and segment things out.
2. The web sites now offer more services to patients and other providers. Such as logging in and able to send their Medical Records, Book and Appointment, or securely send a message to your doctor.
So do banking sites (money transfers, billpay, etc), which often run even leaner than hospitals (at least the smaller banks and credit unions do) - they also know enough that a breach on their site could send them to insolvency, so they plan and spend appropriately. You;d think that a hospital, who stands to literally kill people if their stuff is breached, would do the same. Please let me know which ones do not, so I can avoid ever using their services.
3. If you kill the Router (That devices that will need to direct you to the website) as the device wouldn't expect that type of load, it causes problems with other places it is trying to work with.
*cough*port channels*cough*vlans*cough*ACLs*cough*...
As the software will often need to talk to other locations. For example Lab work is often done at different locations then sent over to your Dr. for review. If the network goes down the Dr. may not get the results.
...which is why the humble fax machine and telephone still exists: Call lab, lab sends fax, etc...
Long story short - even on a budget, if it's important, there are workarounds.
So like when a woman is drunk and she gets raped, it's her fault. Gotcha.
Your analogy isn't perfectly correct: It's more like 'If some woman walks into the bad part of town and gets drunk, then proceeds to wander through the streets wearing only a negligee and waving around a bag of condoms while screaming "somebody fuck me!", then she bears some of the liability.
Before you react - allow me to clarify what GP did not: She gets none of the legal blame (and should never bear any), but reality dictates that you don't go wandering into a pit of starving bears wearing only a loincloth made of steaks.
Similarly, setting up services in a shared datacenter means you should know up-front the risks of doing so (accidentally cut fiber, datacenter management fuckup, FBI ICE seizure, DDoS, carrier fuckups, etc), and if your services are critical, you damned sure need to plan/mitigate accordingly.
Essentially what you're saying is asshats like Anonymous don't have to take personal responsibility for their actions because their victims were asking for it.
No, GP did not. What he did say was that if you don't know the (pretty damned obvious) risks and mitigations of going into something, then you shouldn't be considered competent enough to do it, and therefore should not do it.
I got your point, but one person does not the whole collective make in this case.
The whole point of Anonymous is that you can be some 'ub3r-1337!' hacking-type dude, or you can be a housewife who reposts facebook postings to friends about whatever the group posts onto YouTube. Or, you can be anything in-between. With no official leadership and no official dogma/coda/ruleset/philosophy (outside of a few ultra-generic statements that most who act under such a name generally agree on)? That kind of pushes the context of representation onto the membership at large, but that's a problem too: It can be anyone, everyone, or no one, with any skillset or from any walk of life, which means no one person is the "face" (that is, representative) of the organization. Anyone can be, but in reality no one is.
So, ma & pa down on the farm, are suppose to pay for overprice 4G service?
Might as well give up trying to watch netflix, amazon or do anything useful!
There is some (relatively) good news on the rural front... there's enough competition among Sat providers to give Verizon and such a very hard incentive to drop their costs. Even though most sat providers (Dish, HughesNet, etc) only provide around 7-10Mbps, they've started bringing down the prices just to keep ahead of the competition (for example, not even a year ago, it used to cost around $100+/mo just to get a 5Mbps connection from HughesNet with a ridiculously low bandwidth cap. - own it's dropped to $60/mo for 10Mbps and no cap, $45/mo for the same from Dish ($30/mo if you already have their TV service), etc.
Now consider that in the some rural areas, *if you could get DSL*, you would pay a mint to get DSL installed plus $70/mo for 3Mbps from CenturyStink. If you were really lucky, you could get cable Internet (but you had to live in a small-to-mid-sized town to get that). The only advantage DSL had was that you could game on it, but that was about it.
I suspect that as more players get into the rural broadband game, the costs will drop even more while services go up... Sat/wireless ISP service is one of the few places where you can get a decent deal, and since there's no monopoly, they have to compete.
As for Verizon? I just saw their rural 4G offerings/plans, and quite frankly, Verizon can go eat a dick - 4G and Sat are almost equally laggy for gaming, so no advantage there. Maybe someday they'll figure out that they can't run the same scam as they do in the smartphone arena, but that day isn't today.
...increased spending for prescriptions and silly wars and decreased tax revenues per legislation starting around 2001.
I didn't realize that Vietnam began in 2001... ;)
The problem is all trade jobs are basically salary capped at lower middle class barely above poverty levels. You really don't have a chance at earning more than 50k a year.
Well you actually do... if you're willing to risk your life or your health. Underwater welders and tradesmen make obscene gobs of money, but they usually don't live very long past the age to 50 due to the pounding their bodies take. Same with welders, fitters and etc who perch atop very tall or dangerous structures without the ability to use sufficient safety gear.
I recall a long time ago as an apprentice ironworker (I basically fixed the eletrical/electronic gear) that the folks who worked high steel made a decent amount of money for the time. Hell - I made fairly good bank at the time for a 22-year-old.
On the other hand, there was (and is) a very true saying that no ironworker stays in the job more than 10 years without losing an appendage in the process (and quite a few guys lost a hell of a lot more than that.) Hell, I almost lost my left index finger, in spite of my being fully diligent about safety - shit just happens when not everyone is paying attention (I now tote around a little artificial joint - apparently it was cheaper than amputation, since that meant paying me $50k in accident benefits). It was enough to get me towards better pursuits after just three years at it, in spite of the money.
Yay - a blind political ideologue!
Here's let me help guide you a bit...
What does every presidential administration in the past 100 years have to do with Welding?
(...or did you think that the national debt magically came 'poof' into being sometime in 2001?)
You can use another partition for the beta.
VMWare also supports OSX now (at least vSphere/ESX does), so if you have Workstation/Fusion, it may well work as-is...
I'm thinking that he sort of misstated his objections, but aren;t too tough to decipher... perhaps it's because the evidences and observations are more easily reproducible (and more easily modeled) with Plate Tectonics than it is with the Big Bang? That's my best stab at it anyway.
I don't think that's even the point. If people doubted the big bang because they carefully considered the arguments and found some flaws that made them doubt it, that would be fine. They doubt it because they can't imagine the terms involved, because a religious book says it isn't true, or mainly just because they don't want to think about it.
Point of order: Before anyone drags the eevil Xtians into the argument, the "Big Bang" theory was originally formed and promoted by not only scientists, but one of its pioneers (who reconciled Einstein's theories to it) was a Catholic Priest (who happened to also be a physicist and professor of same).
Why do I mention this? Well, given that the largest single Christian denomination on the planet (by far) involves Rome, and has *zero* problems with established and credible science (and has historically often led the way in it), let's not start tagging all Christians with what some heretic sect in Outer West Bumblefrig preaches, mm'kay?
Thx in advance.
Leads to an honest question that cropped up... does the federal government have to abide by any sort of data-breach reporting laws (be they state or federal)?
(maybe they have their own, maybe they're exempt... I'm not a lawyer, but it'd be worth looking up...)
They're a poor enough nation to notice it.
...which in turn gives them enough elbow-room to become a bit more belligerent, which in turn de-stabilizes the region. This in turn causes the US and Japan to have to spend their time doing something about it (China couldn't really give a frig, to be honest).
Speculative end result? Putin can take the rest of the Ukraine and any of the other former Soviet states with less attention being paid to it.
As somebody in his mid forties and is still successfully in the game, I can tell you authoritatively that you think you are winning, but you are not.
Agreed.
Dear GP:
* Wait until you're 35+, and start having a hard time getting up in the morning.
* As time progresses, you get to choose between family and your 50+ hour workweek (anything else leads to divorce, which even $100k/yr won't ameliorate.) Otherwise, you end up old, childless, and alone. You do not want that fate.
* In your 20's, burn-out is relatively unheard-of. In your 40's, it is something you'll spend a very huge chunk of your time trying to avoid at all costs.
* $100k/yr in Alabama might be nice, but $100k/yr in California ain't shit.
* Once you do reach your 40's, you'll start looking back a little.. and you may not like what you see. At nearly 45, I generally like the parts I see that didn't involve a cubicle (or desk). The only parts of my work history that I actually enjoy looking back at was either the USAF stint, or the teaching/professorial stint - not for the management (they mostly sucked ass), but for the feeling of awesomeness I get whenever I leaf through many of my former students' LinkedIn pages (or in the case of the USAF, times like whenever I stood on the flightline after fixing up a multi-million-dollar jet and gazed at the mountains nearby).
Long story short - you only get so much time to spend on this earth - do you want to spend it slaving away for some parade of uncaring asshats who think you're ultimately disposable, or do you want to actually do something you can look back on and go "holy shit that was cool!"?
hey fuck-wad, it WORKED about 100 yrs ago...
This isn't 100 years ago - the companies have gotten smarter (and far more PR-savvy) since then.
Let me tell you how a certain progressive German company handled their union troubles here in the US...
They bought an oil-company spin-off called Shell Solar. In their Washington (state) site, the Machinists' Union decided that it would be a great time to ask for a raise, since things had been stagnant there for awhile wage-wise. The company said no. The Union threatened to strike, and it made a bit of noise in the local papers.. The company quickly agreed to the wage increases.
Not a handful of months later, the company decided to turn the WA production site into a warehouse, and gave the workers a choice: Either re-apply for jobs at lower wages in nearby right-to-work Oregon, or be out of a job. Two years later, the site was shuttered entirely.
So - still think unions are the way to go?
No, really... this is getting nuts.
I get the whole general protection of the average citizen from crimes, but we really need to shrink the reach and scope of these bastards.
US v. Maxwell is a different story - it described a user/subscriber relationship with an ISP.
Otherwise as a general rule, corporations and similar entities (like publicly-funded universities) which provide email POP3 and IMAP service says far, far different:
http://www.nolo.com/legal-ency...
Not so. For example here is the privacy statement from a well-known university:
Privacy of Information
Information stored on a computer system or sent electronically over a network is the property of the individual who created it. Examination, collection, or dissemination of that information without authorization from the owner is a violation of the ownerâ(TM)s rights to control his or her own property. Systems administrators, however, may gain access to usersâ(TM) data or programs when it is necessary to maintain or prevent damage to systems or to ensure compliance with other University rules.
Which Uni is that? I understand that they cannot claim copyright, but legally the Uni can do whatever else it wants to with it.
If I write a scathing article about my local mayor, I won't get killed in a dark alley. I'm in Portland. Scathing articles about Sam Adams were a party trick for a little bit. Poor bastard.
As a fellow PDX resident, I can second that... hell, Adams even starred in a few Portlandia episodes in what has to be the coolest self-parodies ever (he was the Mayor's assistant).
I can't stand Adams' politics or ideology, but I damned sure admire the guy for being able to take a joke (and even to actively be a part of it.)
Everything the tax payer paid for is available.
...unless either you or Mann (prolly not both) are lying, which is more than possible given that no one can actually use that data to reproduce the results he originally presented.
But the kicker is that you don't seem to understand that this is just a fishing expedition, to find something, *anything*, to take out of context and shit-coat Mann's career.
You mean like Mann did when he sued Tim Ball, then watched as the case collapsed because he wouldn't, you know, hand over the research documents that would prove Ball was somehow committing libel?
Oh, wait... ;)
People have an expectation of privacy in email.
In Europe, yes. In the US, not so much. Nearly every IT department has standard boilerplate that includes the fact that whatever you send in company/school email is company/school property, and can be searched and seized at any time for any legitimate reason.