Agent Smith-Oracle: Wait... I've seen this. This is it, this is the liver bud one. Yes, you were laying right there, like that, I... I... I stand here, right here, the OP says something about drinking college students...I'm supposed to say something. I say... 'This Bud's for you!'
What ? What did I just say ? No... No, this isn't right, this can't be right. Get away from me!
Union leaders want to increase their power, which means increasing membership for both voting and dues.
One of the reasons Hostess went bankrupt was to get out of ridiculous featherbedding, where, say, if Twinkies and Wonderbread were to be delivered to the same store, union contracts. required separate trucks.
UAW required there to be many extea sweepers rather than every toolmaker spend the last 5 minutes sweeping his area. They also required separate hires for each position even if a particular position AKA machine to be operated was not a full time job.
Just like when a government is forced to cut, the first thing they scream is why do you wanna take away firemen masks, so to do unions scream why do you want people to die in accidents.
George Will's been bitching about the Imperial Presidency for 30 years now, as Congress rolls over, ever more supine to presidents declaring this or that.
Remember all the feigned outrage over Bush's innumerable "signing statements"? Same symptom. Hell, even the losening of constraints on warrntless spying is handing over still more power to the executive branch.
"5 Year Plans" are nothing new, where the hard choices are put off until after the next election, where they probably won't happen anyway. Or pushed into the next guy's term, same thing.
That's why I laughed at all these deficit reduction "negotiations". Let's increase taxes now. In exchange, we agree to cut spending in 3 years.
Which. Won't. Happen.
It's a lie for domestic consumption. It's been going on for a hundred years.
Most systems in cars nowadays accept Bluetooth phone and audio music streams. Most have a USB so you can dump songs on the radio.
But general iPhone or Android units themselves might be more time coming. Radios have safety ratings with respect to touching the vehicle electronics and in-car networks. Even if a giant OS could be reasonably proven crash-free, every dinky app you might want won't be.
And who gets sued because a 3rd party app crashed, distracting the driver? Ford, GM, or Chrysler.
All of this doesn't even address legal issues like you can't play video where the driver can see it while the car is moving.
These super-radio nav systems and instrument panel clusters have massive constraints from legal and liability issues. Don't think an iRadio is going to be radically different and "open". Even the idea of pre-qualifying apps is fearsome. Who pays for the recall? Maybe Angry Birds could afford it. Maybe, but that's it.
Your post is insightful. There were two earlier insights:
1. Someone in government realized they could offer to call off antitrust dogs if MS gave them early access.
2. Someone at MS realized they should take them up on this offer.
If MS wanted to give government early access to a patch so they could patch ahead of public disclosure (as some entities would have the desire and resources to reverse-engineer patches almost instantly and try to exploit them) well how nice of them.
When you generate a key you downloaf a program. They can do the same and set massive banks of computers to pre-generating them.
They could have quadrillions of them by now. What's the random input? Seeding with time of day? Covered. Any 32-bit number? Got it covered. Anyone done detailed analysis for chaotic attractors to winnow down larger random seeding?
I wonder is a secret Swiss bank account number just got handed to Putin. How much do you suspect was in it? Regardless it sure as hell wouldn't be rubles. That's for the domestic serfs.
Inertia. The center of empire, always building on the outskirts of the old collapsing one, had shifted from Europe to the Us and is now shifting to China. The world is learning a terrible lesson that there's more to freedom than freedom of speech. What good is it if every economic action is contained, proscribed, and approaching a corrupt state where you must get on bended knee to do anything?
officials from the US Embassy in Russia could travel to the airport, use diplomatic powers to pass into where Snowden rests, issue him temporary travel documents to escort him out of the airport and to the embassy, and arrange for travel home.
Umm, I.
Ummm.
Ya. Go find an Orange Julius. They're pretty good.
Not such a stretched argument, either. These are the same people who took the Constitution's commerce clause, designed to give Congress power to smooth interstate trade, and turned it into a rationalizer for all kinds of power Congress was specifically denied. Any Rube Goldberg-style argument is acceptable.
Some arguments have about as much influence as a fifth differential.
These are incredibly weak influences that require unimaginable distances to have a cumulative effect. Like gas clouds that are essentially 99.9999% the same as "empty" space, but over tens of millions of miles you build up a black wall like a pointillist painting.
We are ants with a theory of 10 foot waves, and then are shocked to see one isn't glass smooth to the widh of our little foot.
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They just posted this a few months ago.
Agent Smith-Oracle: Wait ... I've seen this. This is it, this is the liver bud one. Yes, you were laying right there, like that, I ... I ... I stand here, right here, the OP says something about drinking college students...I'm supposed to say something. I say ... 'This Bud's for you!'
What ? What did I just say ? No... No, this isn't right, this can't be right. Get away from me!
And yet that's exactly what happens.
Union leaders want to increase their power, which means increasing membership for both voting and dues.
One of the reasons Hostess went bankrupt was to get out of ridiculous featherbedding, where, say, if Twinkies and Wonderbread were to be delivered to the same store, union contracts. required separate trucks.
UAW required there to be many extea sweepers rather than every toolmaker spend the last 5 minutes sweeping his area. They also required separate hires for each position even if a particular position AKA machine to be operated was not a full time job.
Just like when a government is forced to cut, the first thing they scream is why do you wanna take away firemen masks, so to do unions scream why do you want people to die in accidents.
Object-oriented code, not structured code.
For all I know every cell is an instantiated object held in a giant linked list, with every property another object.
It may be a fantastical design, but with real-world efficiency problems.
tl;dr. Waaaaah bleeding edge bleeds!!!
Fear? Well, I suppose they left out girls because that goes without saying.
"So. Are you incompetent as a manager tracking core, major aspects of your organization, or should you be going to jail for contempt of Congress?
George Will's been bitching about the Imperial Presidency for 30 years now, as Congress rolls over, ever more supine to presidents declaring this or that.
Remember all the feigned outrage over Bush's innumerable "signing statements"? Same symptom. Hell, even the losening of constraints on warrntless spying is handing over still more power to the executive branch.
"5 Year Plans" are nothing new, where the hard choices are put off until after the next election, where they probably won't happen anyway. Or pushed into the next guy's term, same thing.
That's why I laughed at all these deficit reduction "negotiations". Let's increase taxes now. In exchange, we agree to cut spending in 3 years.
Which. Won't. Happen.
It's a lie for domestic consumption. It's been going on for a hundred years.
Most systems in cars nowadays accept Bluetooth phone and audio music streams. Most have a USB so you can dump songs on the radio.
But general iPhone or Android units themselves might be more time coming. Radios have safety ratings with respect to touching the vehicle electronics and in-car networks. Even if a giant OS could be reasonably proven crash-free, every dinky app you might want won't be.
And who gets sued because a 3rd party app crashed, distracting the driver? Ford, GM, or Chrysler.
All of this doesn't even address legal issues like you can't play video where the driver can see it while the car is moving.
These super-radio nav systems and instrument panel clusters have massive constraints from legal and liability issues. Don't think an iRadio is going to be radically different and "open". Even the idea of pre-qualifying apps is fearsome. Who pays for the recall? Maybe Angry Birds could afford it. Maybe, but that's it.
Idiot. You should be designing wiener implants.
In Soviet Russia, humans rocket from launch pad!
Bureaucrat: How's your new encryption coming? "Skipjack" is it?
Computer guy: Ya. It seems ok. I don't know though, only been working on it 20 minutes.
Bureaucrat: Good enough! Let's go get 20 million more dollars from Congress.
Your post is insightful. There were two earlier insights:
1. Someone in government realized they could offer to call off antitrust dogs if MS gave them early access.
2. Someone at MS realized they should take them up on this offer.
If MS wanted to give government early access to a patch so they could patch ahead of public disclosure (as some entities would have the desire and resources to reverse-engineer patches almost instantly and try to exploit them) well how nice of them.
Pre-computed numbers?
When you generate a key you downloaf a program. They can do the same and set massive banks of computers to pre-generating them.
They could have quadrillions of them by now. What's the random input? Seeding with time of day? Covered. Any 32-bit number? Got it covered. Anyone done detailed analysis for chaotic attractors to winnow down larger random seeding?
I wonder is a secret Swiss bank account number just got handed to Putin. How much do you suspect was in it? Regardless it sure as hell wouldn't be rubles. That's for the domestic serfs.
Inertia. The center of empire, always building on the outskirts of the old collapsing one, had shifted from Europe to the Us and is now shifting to China. The world is learning a terrible lesson that there's more to freedom than freedom of speech. What good is it if every economic action is contained, proscribed, and approaching a corrupt state where you must get on bended knee to do anything?
Umm, I.
Ummm.
Ya. Go find an Orange Julius. They're pretty good.
On the other hand: "Hi. I've just invented roads and cars. They will kill about 22,000 people a year in the US alone."
Congressman looking to get paid to get ot of the way: "WHOA NELLIE! I can't allow that!"
When people invent things, it's not suddenly scarce to you because there's something else you don't have.
All measurements show increasing quality and length of life. We live in ever-increasing plentitude.
What godawful meme got lodged in that brain of yours?
I've been paid monthly, 1/12 of my annual salary regardless of month length.
Currently I am paid biweekly, hourly actually, as I am currently a contractor, though the rate is my annual salary / 2080.
What are "friends with benefits"? Friends fucking each other. QED
Not such a stretched argument, either. These are the same people who took the Constitution's commerce clause, designed to give Congress power to smooth interstate trade, and turned it into a rationalizer for all kinds of power Congress was specifically denied. Any Rube Goldberg-style argument is acceptable.
Some arguments have about as much influence as a fifth differential.
Spiderman only has pretty good power. Hulk and Thor have great power.
> The decaying wasteland
For a second I thought they were talking about the location of Bond's family home in Scotland.
These are incredibly weak influences that require unimaginable distances to have a cumulative effect. Like gas clouds that are essentially 99.9999% the same as "empty" space, but over tens of millions of miles you build up a black wall like a pointillist painting.
We are ants with a theory of 10 foot waves, and then are shocked to see one isn't glass smooth to the widh of our little foot.
tl;dr Shit be swirlin yo.