Gold is also going up, and trust in currency is going way down.
I keep hearing about how trust in currency is going "way down." I'd really, honestly like to see a study showing how many people pay their mortgages, gas, and grocery bills entirely with Bitcoin (or gold bars). If those people (if they exist) truly don't trust the currency, then their day-to-day lives must be terrifying.
Have they seriously tried anything as far as legislative remedies? You'd think a totalitarian government could force people to comply with whatever regulations it wants.
California had a terrible smog problem in the 1970s and early 1980s. The entire Los Angeles area (including Disneyland, for example) had air that was smothered with a visible brown haze. Even the Bay Area was getting bad. We passed a bunch of laws, force people to comply with them e.g. by requiring catalytic converters in all new vehicles and refusing to register vehicles that haven't had their emissions checked. Today the air quality has improved immensely.
If any government can do the same, it's China. They just lack the will. Moreover, it may turn out that vehicles aren't even their biggest problem -- their crony-capitalist industries may be just as much to blame, and who wants to regulate them?
No, this move is far more likely to be about getting their hands on the technology so they can steal it.
As a sometime-cyclist myself, I have some sympathy for cyclists who think about what they're doing on the roads. There are some legitimate reasons why a cyclist might need to break traffic laws to ensure their own safety. But it's when you see a cyclist rear-end a vehicle that has been stationary at a stoplight for at least two minutes that you have to go, "Come. The. Fuck. On."
A while back, someone analyzed Oracle's financial reports and found that their licensing division, which also handles the support contracts, is responsible for nearly all of Oracle's profits.
Wait, you needed an analyst to figure this out? Oracle is a software company. Of course most of its profits come from software licensing. That is literally the single least insightful conclusion you could draw about Oracle's business.
There's a preparation of oysters called Oysters Moscow, and Anton Chekhov has a short story called "Oysters," but I can't think of any other connection.
I think he will sack entire agency, and you cannot find a better reason.
Sack the entire Department of Energy? Ridiculous. They're responsible for some of the most critical government research, including nuclear energy (including weapons), renewables, and even supercomputing. Trump isn't just going to replace a scientist with 30 years' experience working on laser energy sources with some college kid because he doesn't believe in climate change.
The end of year bonus is part of your compensation for your job. It's not a gift to you.
But unless the amount of the bonus was disclosed to you at the beginning of the year, it's hard to factor it into your compensation. Every job I've ever had, a bonus was completely optional -- hence, bonus.
When I've heard people talk about "ARM servers," the fine print tends to be that they're not really talking about ARM CPUs, they're talking about ARM SoCs... so however many ARM CPU cores paired with other components that tailor the SoC for specific workloads. The resulting ARM servers probably won't be general-purpose hardware for everybody to use, they will be marketed to people who know the specific thing they want to do and now they just want to hit the sweet spot on power consumption/cost/whatever.
That's not actually that big of a downside. With Microsoft Office, for example, Microsoft still recommends most users install the 32-bit version, even though almost everybody is running a 64-bit OS these days. The exception is people who need to run crazy big Access databases (or... shudder... Excel spreadsheets).
I acquired a MRSA soft tissue infection several years ago while in my local hospital. It wasn't pleasant. Now that I'm on the "MRSA list", though, I always get a single room when I'm hospitalized, and that's pretty sweet.
That's really interesting. I have a friend who recently told me that he contracted such an infection when he was injured once, and now he's at a high risk of getting infected again anytime his skin is breached. He just scraped his knee falling off a skateboard and ended up having to go in to the clinic for IV antibiotics. Seems he's colonized with the stuff. I never realized that's something that could happen.
First, this isn't the United States we're talking about. This is the State of California, proposing legislation for its own state jurisdiction.
Second, the United States has a thing you may have heard of called the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC does in fact have a list of notifiable diseases, which you can see here. Vancomycin-resistant infections are on that list, vancomycin being one of the "last resort" antibiotics used to treat severe, resistant staphylococcus aureus and clostridium difficile infections.
So it would appear that the California State Senator just wants to tighten up the requirements even further and ensure that the information is made available to the State of California.
Team movies have mostly failed until recently, which is why the success of the X-Men and the Avengers was such a surprise to everyone.
The success of movies based on some of the most popular young-adult fantasy properties in the world was a surprise... to everyone?
And where were you for Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven, the Italian Job, Heat, the entire Fast & Furious series, Power Rangers, all the Star Wars movies, Reservoir Dogs, just about any movie set in any real-life war, Team America and all the movies it was parodying, Ocean's 11 and pretty much any other heist movie ever made, etc etc...
Not really. Adam Sandler movies are basically massive scams where he makes huge profits by selling advertising into the movie, then writes up giant paychecks for himself and all his cronies. No matter how shitty his movies are, the Adam Sandler business is basically self-sustaining.
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No, because the number of good writers, directors, and producers is finite.
As is the number of bad ones. As is the number of meddling studio execs who wouldn't know shit from shinola .. etc
Gold is also going up, and trust in currency is going way down.
I keep hearing about how trust in currency is going "way down." I'd really, honestly like to see a study showing how many people pay their mortgages, gas, and grocery bills entirely with Bitcoin (or gold bars). If those people (if they exist) truly don't trust the currency, then their day-to-day lives must be terrifying.
Have they seriously tried anything as far as legislative remedies? You'd think a totalitarian government could force people to comply with whatever regulations it wants.
California had a terrible smog problem in the 1970s and early 1980s. The entire Los Angeles area (including Disneyland, for example) had air that was smothered with a visible brown haze. Even the Bay Area was getting bad. We passed a bunch of laws, force people to comply with them e.g. by requiring catalytic converters in all new vehicles and refusing to register vehicles that haven't had their emissions checked. Today the air quality has improved immensely.
If any government can do the same, it's China. They just lack the will. Moreover, it may turn out that vehicles aren't even their biggest problem -- their crony-capitalist industries may be just as much to blame, and who wants to regulate them?
No, this move is far more likely to be about getting their hands on the technology so they can steal it.
Nobody owes you employment!
No, but if they do offer you employment, it has to be under the terms of the law.
As a sometime-cyclist myself, I have some sympathy for cyclists who think about what they're doing on the roads. There are some legitimate reasons why a cyclist might need to break traffic laws to ensure their own safety. But it's when you see a cyclist rear-end a vehicle that has been stationary at a stoplight for at least two minutes that you have to go, "Come. The. Fuck. On."
It could be assault, yes.
FTFY.
But then, the actual answer would be up to a court to decide, so we agree: this action is appropriate.
A while back, someone analyzed Oracle's financial reports and found that their licensing division, which also handles the support contracts, is responsible for nearly all of Oracle's profits.
Wait, you needed an analyst to figure this out? Oracle is a software company. Of course most of its profits come from software licensing. That is literally the single least insightful conclusion you could draw about Oracle's business.
Seems like a lot of hubris is involved in thinking we KNOW what's really going on and why
And that supports a decision to defund climate research ... how?
Trump is over 35 and a citizen of the US. He's qualified
You missed one more qualification. Think reeeeaalll hard....
Russians.
There's a preparation of oysters called Oysters Moscow, and Anton Chekhov has a short story called "Oysters," but I can't think of any other connection.
Remember, you can't spell "cloud" without "could."
I think he will sack entire agency, and you cannot find a better reason.
Sack the entire Department of Energy? Ridiculous. They're responsible for some of the most critical government research, including nuclear energy (including weapons), renewables, and even supercomputing. Trump isn't just going to replace a scientist with 30 years' experience working on laser energy sources with some college kid because he doesn't believe in climate change.
Think of it this way, do art critics need to buy a licensed copy for their work? Film critics?
How about confidential financial document critics? Can they just grab anything they want?
I don't think you understand what makes people happy.
And from there, we can draw a further conclusion.
once people are compensated at 100k/year they are more likely to be motivated by ping-pong tables and free soda type perks than 101k/year
We have a ping-pong table at my office. I've never seen anyone play on it.
EVER.
The job market is about to be flooded with pissed off ex-Google employees.
Boy, won't it be a splash of cold water when they find out what the real world is like?
The end of year bonus is part of your compensation for your job. It's not a gift to you.
But unless the amount of the bonus was disclosed to you at the beginning of the year, it's hard to factor it into your compensation. Every job I've ever had, a bonus was completely optional -- hence, bonus.
When I've heard people talk about "ARM servers," the fine print tends to be that they're not really talking about ARM CPUs, they're talking about ARM SoCs ... so however many ARM CPU cores paired with other components that tailor the SoC for specific workloads. The resulting ARM servers probably won't be general-purpose hardware for everybody to use, they will be marketed to people who know the specific thing they want to do and now they just want to hit the sweet spot on power consumption/cost/whatever.
That's not actually that big of a downside. With Microsoft Office, for example, Microsoft still recommends most users install the 32-bit version, even though almost everybody is running a 64-bit OS these days. The exception is people who need to run crazy big Access databases (or ... shudder ... Excel spreadsheets).
Citation, please.
I acquired a MRSA soft tissue infection several years ago while in my local hospital. It wasn't pleasant. Now that I'm on the "MRSA list", though, I always get a single room when I'm hospitalized, and that's pretty sweet.
That's really interesting. I have a friend who recently told me that he contracted such an infection when he was injured once, and now he's at a high risk of getting infected again anytime his skin is breached. He just scraped his knee falling off a skateboard and ended up having to go in to the clinic for IV antibiotics. Seems he's colonized with the stuff. I never realized that's something that could happen.
First, this isn't the United States we're talking about. This is the State of California, proposing legislation for its own state jurisdiction.
Second, the United States has a thing you may have heard of called the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC does in fact have a list of notifiable diseases, which you can see here. Vancomycin-resistant infections are on that list, vancomycin being one of the "last resort" antibiotics used to treat severe, resistant staphylococcus aureus and clostridium difficile infections.
So it would appear that the California State Senator just wants to tighten up the requirements even further and ensure that the information is made available to the State of California.
What a horrible thing.
Team movies have mostly failed until recently, which is why the success of the X-Men and the Avengers was such a surprise to everyone.
The success of movies based on some of the most popular young-adult fantasy properties in the world was a surprise ... to everyone?
And where were you for Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven, the Italian Job, Heat, the entire Fast & Furious series, Power Rangers, all the Star Wars movies, Reservoir Dogs, just about any movie set in any real-life war, Team America and all the movies it was parodying, Ocean's 11 and pretty much any other heist movie ever made, etc etc ...
Not really. Adam Sandler movies are basically massive scams where he makes huge profits by selling advertising into the movie, then writes up giant paychecks for himself and all his cronies. No matter how shitty his movies are, the Adam Sandler business is basically self-sustaining.
Weird. Turns out I've rode a bike from San Francisco to Google's campus. Unless that was just an implanted false memory...