I believe in democracy. I believe in limits to democracy. It's well known that "democracy" doesn't really scale well past the tribal level (150 or so peeps). I have various bloodlines in me that were/are oppressed in various places. And, go back far enough, all of us have slave blood in us from somewhere/somewhen. I believe in democracy but prefer to avoid or mitigate its failure modes.
AFAIK Ca. has always had serious financial problems. Reading through the PDF, it looks like Ca. has a lot of the same problems as other states regarding pensions and stuff. A low financial rating is not good. Still, with the 8th largest economy in the world (if it were a country), it has good possibilities.
Yeah, I always wondered if that was a mistake, making the senate go to pop vote. I can remember reading about it once, and reasons given had to do with corruption, as usual. I don't remember the details.
It reminds me of one of the earlier buzzwords, "database". In the tech journals, the word "database" had specific properties (though those were still being argued about, so yeah). Then the marketing folks and PHB's heard enough techs saying the word, and soon the trade journals were full of copy, describing pretty much any collection of files used by a program as "their database", whether it was related to a DBMS or not.
And don't get me started on when programs became apps.
...doing brain dead stuff like uploading and trying to run x86 programs on a mips computer, and when it failed, trying it again as if it would magically work the second or third time...
Well, it's an x86 program. It often *does* magically work the second time.
In this day and age you're a fool if you honestly believe that.
Work would be harder. That's where I first used it and found it very useful. Communication would slow down. People would have to actually talk to each other about what they had for lunch. Gossip will have to go back to audio as you won't be able to talk about someone when they're right there in front of you. No more cat videos. No more cat videos!
You, sir, win the internet today. In that one statement one could argue that you deserve a +1 in a number of categories: insightful, funny, interesting. It's a strange simulation that we live in.
Fwiw, Long Beach was sinking due to the oil & gas removal until they started injecting water back underground. Several feet if I remember right (erp, just checked, 29 feet at its max "bowl of subsidence"). This would be part of "...oil drilling practices in the L.A. Basin have changed dramatically since the years when oil was first discovered in this region".
What's new is that they're selling the data to law enforcement you ridiculous twat.
Yeah, I thought "read fail" when I read the GP. I was waiting for the technical description of routine system logging and routing to come to the point of TFA, and it just ended. I did appreciate the caps on the holyshit, though.
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Just a reminder that, despite foodstuffs not being the highest rate of return economically, we'd be somewhat worse off without them.
What happened to this place?
Russkiy hax0rs.
I believe in democracy. I believe in limits to democracy. It's well known that "democracy" doesn't really scale well past the tribal level (150 or so peeps). I have various bloodlines in me that were/are oppressed in various places. And, go back far enough, all of us have slave blood in us from somewhere/somewhen. I believe in democracy but prefer to avoid or mitigate its failure modes.
AFAIK Ca. has always had serious financial problems. Reading through the PDF, it looks like Ca. has a lot of the same problems as other states regarding pensions and stuff. A low financial rating is not good. Still, with the 8th largest economy in the world (if it were a country), it has good possibilities.
Yeah, I always wondered if that was a mistake, making the senate go to pop vote. I can remember reading about it once, and reasons given had to do with corruption, as usual. I don't remember the details.
"If not Clinton or Trump then who?"
Pat Paulsen, of course.
Er, he's still alive, isn't he? Nvrmnd, just dating myself.
Yes, I remember reading that there was a lot of thought and effort to avoid parties, as they create "partisan politics".
That's a pretty interesting stat there.
Exactly right. And to do it any other way would cause civil war.
Straw man alert. He never said he was an expert, only that he has an opinion and he has many recent observations.
It reminds me of one of the earlier buzzwords, "database". In the tech journals, the word "database" had specific properties (though those were still being argued about, so yeah). Then the marketing folks and PHB's heard enough techs saying the word, and soon the trade journals were full of copy, describing pretty much any collection of files used by a program as "their database", whether it was related to a DBMS or not.
And don't get me started on when programs became apps.
Got it. The cool kids use the cloud, the rest of us are stuck using the internet.
...doing brain dead stuff like uploading and trying to run x86 programs on a mips computer, and when it failed, trying it again as if it would magically work the second or third time...
Well, it's an x86 program. It often *does* magically work the second time.
First past the post makes for some great horse races, doesn't it?
Just to be clear when you put the word fag in your post everyone with and IQ higher then 30 decided to tune you out.
Lol! Wishful thinking from an anonymous fag.
...sez the guy modded into oblivion. Which label do you prefer: moron, idiot, or imbecile?
If the native population of North America had had a strict immigration policy, that would have saved them a lot of trouble...
I'm not sure why you are modded troll. This should be modded insightful, if not informative.
...Hunger is a Political Greed issue and Socialist use it to exploit the weak, elderly, and poor.
As compared to TRAP (The Rich and Powerful), who would never do that. The poor are screwed: news at 11.
Those insane amounts are paid by people who have outrageous amounts.
Hmm. I wonder at what point a service economy falls to the Broken Window?
No, Internet access is not a necessity.
In this day and age you're a fool if you honestly believe that.
Work would be harder. That's where I first used it and found it very useful. Communication would slow down. People would have to actually talk to each other about what they had for lunch. Gossip will have to go back to audio as you won't be able to talk about someone when they're right there in front of you. No more cat videos. No more cat videos!
You, sir, win the internet today. In that one statement one could argue that you deserve a +1 in a number of categories: insightful, funny, interesting. It's a strange simulation that we live in.
Fwiw, Long Beach was sinking due to the oil & gas removal until they started injecting water back underground. Several feet if I remember right (erp, just checked, 29 feet at its max "bowl of subsidence"). This would be part of "...oil drilling practices in the L.A. Basin have changed dramatically since the years when oil was first discovered in this region".
I've been bemused by the fact that, while systems all around her were falling, hers wasn't hacked.
What's new is that they're selling the data to law enforcement you ridiculous twat.
Yeah, I thought "read fail" when I read the GP. I was waiting for the technical description of routine system logging and routing to come to the point of TFA, and it just ended. I did appreciate the caps on the holyshit, though.
Outstanding answer.