Seems to me all they'd need to do is match up address books to make a reasonable guess as to which old and new accounts are whom. Not much different from what Facebook and LinkedIn already do, albeit for "who knows whom". Same principle, tho.
I believe this study came out of Florida after concealed carry became legal there; you can probably find it easily enough -- the gist was that tho lawful carrying of weapons had greatly increased, there were NO resulting cases of either escalations or shootings.
I agree (tho Philip is right about the definition of "well-regulated"). And it occurs to me that were the 2nd Amendment allowed full scope and force, a great deal of what the ACLU decries and has moved to defend against would never have happened in the first place.
Which to my mind throws their ACLU's entire premise into a suspect light; how can you have civil liberties if you're prohibited from defending those liberties, and must rely on others to do so for you? (Not can, but must.)
âoeThere is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs â" partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.â
-- Booker T Washington, UP FROM SLAVERY (written in 1911)
IOW, 'upgrades' required to justify their jobs. Because if it doesn't 'need' changing, the company doesn't need *them*.
I see this all the time on other websites (banks, utility companies, etc), which after a period of being functional, are suddenly 'improved' to some new state of WTFery where only some stuff works anymore and the rest either looks kewler than before but doesn't work, or is entirely absent.
The other downside of an overly hot fire is that what does come back is often mostly weeds and brush, invasive rather than native... and it grows into a mat of fuel.
Remember that fast-moving brushfire that burned about 700 sq.miles of eastern Oregon, about a year ago? I drove through it both during and right after the fire, and the next spring. Right after, it looked like a blackened moonscape, but come spring the native grass was taking over again and the sagebrush (which is an invasive weed, not native) had been at least temporarily exterminated. Grass likewise evolved to be burned (by a fast-moving, not-too-intense fire; it needs to be grazed or burned regularly, and doesn't matter which), and the sagebrush... well, being it was fuel in clumps, it burned hot enough to kill itself off.
Forests evolved to be burned, a sort of regular natural cleanup. It can be simulated by judicious logging. But one or the other needs to happen, or you wind up with destructive fires like in California... where fires have been suppressed and logging is a thing of the past. The current overgrowth is about 5 times what a healthy forest can support, especially in an arid climate... meaning 4 out of 5 trees are dead or dying, and ripe to be fuel.
I've seen CA wildfires up close... before, during, and after. Clearcutting is less destructive.
And they forget overhead. I'm often asked why I charge $$$ for my product, when each unit only costs $$ to produce? Because the real cost, for all the overhead, is actually $$$. The cost of a facility, of raw materials, of support units, taxes, labor, etc, etc, etc. far exceed the cost to produce the individual unit (by roughly a factor of 15). And I'm out that investment whether I sell the product or not.
As I've said before, there's a difference between being poor, and having no money. The poor person indeed squanders whatever they get; give him $5 and he goes to McDonald's. The person with no money does not; give him $5 and he buys enough groceries for several meals. That's why poor people stay poor, and people with no money usually improve their situation over time.
[I grew up with no money, but we were NEVER poor.]
Actually, in areas where broadband is not yet available, the phone lines usually don't support better than 26kbit, and in real terms a bit less than that due to overhead. So, about half as fast as standard dialup is a far more realistic test setting.
"The future where Corporations put their core infrastructure into the Cloud is not one I ever recall anyone talking about."
Microsoft tried to push that very concept during the Windows 2000 launch tour, back in 1999. At the presentation I went to in Los Angeles, the audience, ~1000 professional IT types, all developed identical angry scowls.
I think you are right. And not only, probably *leadst* the fun of being in charge in a bad regime. What if local police departments could stop any car they wished, any time they wanted? No way to avoid that checkpoint. And wait until it's hacked (as it will be) and carjacking becomes simple and easy.
I knew for sure he was blathering when I came to this line:
"The problem with diets that are heavy in meat, fat or sugar... "
Er.... everything you eat is protein (meat), fat, or sugar (carbs are just complex sugars). So according to him, there's no such thing as good food, it's ALL at fault.
Well, I suppose that's literally true, if you eat too much of it.
Craving sweets all the time can also indicate a hypothyroid condition, even if your TSH tests in the 'normal' range. (Normal per current thought, tho from what I've read in the Journal of Endocrinology, I suspect the *real* 'normal' is very close to suppressed. TSH levels have never been studied in normal persons, only in hypothyroid patients.)
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Yeah, because what's interpreted one way today could be interpreted another tomorrow. So... good sig.
Seems to me all they'd need to do is match up address books to make a reasonable guess as to which old and new accounts are whom. Not much different from what Facebook and LinkedIn already do, albeit for "who knows whom". Same principle, tho.
I believe this study came out of Florida after concealed carry became legal there; you can probably find it easily enough -- the gist was that tho lawful carrying of weapons had greatly increased, there were NO resulting cases of either escalations or shootings.
There have been at least a few cases of SWAT operations against people who've committed the 'crime' of owning too many animals.
I think that's an insighful interpretation, yep. Going into my Useful Quotes file. :)
I agree (tho Philip is right about the definition of "well-regulated"). And it occurs to me that were the 2nd Amendment allowed full scope and force, a great deal of what the ACLU decries and has moved to defend against would never have happened in the first place.
Which to my mind throws their ACLU's entire premise into a suspect light; how can you have civil liberties if you're prohibited from defending those liberties, and must rely on others to do so for you? (Not can, but must.)
âoeThere is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs â" partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.â
-- Booker T Washington, UP FROM SLAVERY (written in 1911)
IOW, 'upgrades' required to justify their jobs. Because if it doesn't 'need' changing, the company doesn't need *them*.
I see this all the time on other websites (banks, utility companies, etc), which after a period of being functional, are suddenly 'improved' to some new state of WTFery where only some stuff works anymore and the rest either looks kewler than before but doesn't work, or is entirely absent.
A fine example of the Peter Principle in action. ;)
The other downside of an overly hot fire is that what does come back is often mostly weeds and brush, invasive rather than native... and it grows into a mat of fuel.
Remember that fast-moving brushfire that burned about 700 sq.miles of eastern Oregon, about a year ago? I drove through it both during and right after the fire, and the next spring. Right after, it looked like a blackened moonscape, but come spring the native grass was taking over again and the sagebrush (which is an invasive weed, not native) had been at least temporarily exterminated. Grass likewise evolved to be burned (by a fast-moving, not-too-intense fire; it needs to be grazed or burned regularly, and doesn't matter which), and the sagebrush... well, being it was fuel in clumps, it burned hot enough to kill itself off.
Forests evolved to be burned, a sort of regular natural cleanup. It can be simulated by judicious logging. But one or the other needs to happen, or you wind up with destructive fires like in California... where fires have been suppressed and logging is a thing of the past. The current overgrowth is about 5 times what a healthy forest can support, especially in an arid climate... meaning 4 out of 5 trees are dead or dying, and ripe to be fuel.
I've seen CA wildfires up close... before, during, and after. Clearcutting is less destructive.
Line up five mob bosses and five district attorneys, and see if you can tell them apart.
And they forget overhead. I'm often asked why I charge $$$ for my product, when each unit only costs $$ to produce? Because the real cost, for all the overhead, is actually $$$. The cost of a facility, of raw materials, of support units, taxes, labor, etc, etc, etc. far exceed the cost to produce the individual unit (by roughly a factor of 15). And I'm out that investment whether I sell the product or not.
Or maybe the short-term attitude prevents you from getting off the bread line, even when opportunity arises.
As I've said before, there's a difference between being poor, and having no money. The poor person indeed squanders whatever they get; give him $5 and he goes to McDonald's. The person with no money does not; give him $5 and he buys enough groceries for several meals. That's why poor people stay poor, and people with no money usually improve their situation over time.
[I grew up with no money, but we were NEVER poor.]
I keep my Earthlink dialup account for the same reason -- sometimes it's all I've got, and it beats nothing. (Also, their email is VERY reliable.)
Actually, in areas where broadband is not yet available, the phone lines usually don't support better than 26kbit, and in real terms a bit less than that due to overhead. So, about half as fast as standard dialup is a far more realistic test setting.
Hmmm... how long before that becomes 'fencing' and is declared illegal??
Nah, he was just posting from a projected body.
"The future where Corporations put their core infrastructure into the Cloud is not one I ever recall anyone talking about."
Microsoft tried to push that very concept during the Windows 2000 launch tour, back in 1999. At the presentation I went to in Los Angeles, the audience, ~1000 professional IT types, all developed identical angry scowls.
I couldn't get the site to play nice, but the red blob looks like a dead whale to me.
I think you are right. And not only, probably *leadst* the fun of being in charge in a bad regime. What if local police departments could stop any car they wished, any time they wanted? No way to avoid that checkpoint. And wait until it's hacked (as it will be) and carjacking becomes simple and easy.
I knew for sure he was blathering when I came to this line:
"The problem with diets that are heavy in meat, fat or sugar... "
Er.... everything you eat is protein (meat), fat, or sugar (carbs are just complex sugars). So according to him, there's no such thing as good food, it's ALL at fault.
Well, I suppose that's literally true, if you eat too much of it.
Craving sweets all the time can also indicate a hypothyroid condition, even if your TSH tests in the 'normal' range. (Normal per current thought, tho from what I've read in the Journal of Endocrinology, I suspect the *real* 'normal' is very close to suppressed. TSH levels have never been studied in normal persons, only in hypothyroid patients.)