There's no glut of skilled workers. Unskilled? Oh, hell yes. But sorry, kids, but you can't take Joe Factory Worker and teach him Python
Nice strawman there. A better example would be a geeky computer programmer with a tested IQ above 135 and a bachelors degree in computer science and a deep passion and love for all kinds of coding (including assembly) from a good US university who can spend literally years searching for a code monkey job but who has to settle for bagging groceries at a supermarket instead. It's not just a cliche. It's very real. At least that is the world I grew up in. Way way way more qualified job candidates than there were jobs and every year there are more and more graduates from all over the world. And being smart and hard working and loving the work has absolutely no effect whatsoever on whether or not you get hired by anyone. In the real world it's more about who you know and how charming you are than it is how smart you are or how good you are at writing clean, beautiful, and efficient code. AFAICT that is still the world we live in and maybe you've just been damn lucky and so haven't noticed.
Maybe it's a different world now. Although it's hard to see why. We now have the entire mega-country of India competing for a fixed number of coding jobs. It seems entirely hopeless to me. Especially if you are a geek without people skills who has little chance to charm a job interviewer. In reality getting a job was always more about being likeable than being skilled. Most interviewers don't even test your skills. Maybe now that has changed and no one goes to an interview without hundreds of pages of their code for the interviewer to read, but that would kind of surprise me. It would be too logical and make too much sense for our corporate overlords.Why anyone would hire someone for a coding job without spending at least an hour reading their code I will never know.
Again, afaict, the problem of no one wanting to hire recent graduates with no real world work experience has not changed. There is just too big of a pool of already employed programmers for the corporate HR drones to hire. Of course the employers tend to want someone with 7-10 years of experience doing exactly the same thing that they want to do so there is no learning curve at all. If I had to guess they probably end up hiring liars who just put whatever is needed in their resume. Whether Indian or American.
You rich people talking about 'ethics' and how employees are being mistreated make me laugh. Only rich people care about such things. The poor people that actually have to work at such shit jobs will be happy that they can buy products cheaply no matter where they come from because otherwise they could not buy them at all. It is amusing to see the astroturfers going to war with each other here. Does anyone else really care about this? It's a good thing and lets hope it continues without either side winning. That would be a win for everyone else. A race to the bottom is really a race to the top for everyone else.
I think it depends on your psychology. Some people just can't deal with being confined like that. I was in a holding cell for only 12-15 hours and it was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me. I used to keep birds in cages sometimes, but now I would NEVER do that. Never. I really consider locking someone in a cage or bare room to be a form of torture. It certainly was for me. I paced/limped back and forth in my cell for pretty much the entire time I was there. I could only stop moving briefly. And that was on a badly injured leg and with broken ribs and a bloody battered face. The psychological effect of being confined was actually more powerful than all of my injuries were and my injuries were pretty bad.
propose a solution that doesn't bounce us into the dark ages please.
For first world countries? How about copying France? Gradual changeover to nuclear power generation + electrified highways and cheaper more practical electric vehiicles. The only problem is that currently this is a rich person solution and only first world countries can do it. Maybe if nuclear becomes more ubiquitous it will get cheaper but currently nuclear generated electricity is kind of expensive. The real real problem is it's hard to imagine a lot of poor/primitive countries getting up to speed in the next century or two.
In 1972 you would have been taught that the Looming-Ice-Age warnings were loony
Is this coming from your own memory? At what grade/level were you taught about climate change stuff? I remember all the ice age stuff being in the popular press in the late 70s but was too young to have been 'taught' anything on the subject. I wasn't aware that it was considered loony. Unproven or speculative maybe, but not loony.
All I can vouch for is that at the end of the 80s and start of the 90s the current paradigm of anthropogenic warming + armageddon wasn't yet being universally taught at university level as if it were a slamdunk: just one possible theory in need of more data. I would imagine that textbooks have changed since then. The Truth has moved on I guess.
Why would anyone want to be a professional programmer if that is what it is all about? It doesn't sound particularly fun or challenging. It sounds like more like something out of 1984 or Brazil. I like to code because it is fun to build a machine--a sort of intricate wind up toy--that you actually get to run eventually. What you describe sounds more like being a slave. I guess I can see why they have to pay so much or go to India. That's not how I would want to live my life. Do these 'professional' programmers have high rates of suicide?
More like trying to make a monkey walk like a human. Education is overrated. There are lots of dummies who get degrees, especially bachelors degrees. Find an intelligent person and they can learn whatever they need in a matter of days or weeks. Writing good code isn't really that hard. It's just machine building--an exercise in simple logic. Be smart enough to recognize other smart people to hire. Unfortunately this requires that you are intelligent yourself. Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need. Then pay them fairly so they stick around. I don't think money is typically the problem though. The problem is usually that the person doing the hiring is stupid themselves and hires the worst candidates based on traditional metrics like charisma and paper certifications.
When they are talking about the economy 'as a whole' they may be referring to the world economy and indeed free trade is good for that. However if what you are worried about is your own piece of the pie as a highly privileged elite who benefits greatly from artificial borders and the resulting income inequality then that is not necessarily a good thing for you personally.
Maybe someone who will be happy to work for $1/hour can do your job as well as you can. Would that be good for the world economy? How could it not be? But it won't help you specifically if you want to live a good life. I think there is clearly at least some zero sum game aspect to the current world economy. What is good for Indian and Chinese people is not necessarily good for North Americans and Western Europeans and in fact may often be very bad indeed. But for the planetary economy and overall human progress it's great.
Eventually the people accepting the $1/hour wages will demand a raise and the market will stabilize at a higher level, but that level will probably be a lot lower than it is now. Probably the current mega-corporation wage-slave-worker-drone model is partly to blame for all this. It's really not a very good model for the majority of humans. Corporations have way too much power compared to individuals and behave like sociopaths.
Nevertheless I'd be interested to see what would really happen in a world entirely without borders where everyone was allowed to physically live and work anywhere they wanted. It would be an interesting experiment. I'm not sure such a world would really be that different though because most poor people don't have the money for airline tickets or other international moving expenses and don't have good enough educations to really compete with people educated in first world countries. Although presumably some of the HR drones may not be able to distinguish between well educated and badly educated applicants. And it's not like the whole world would suddenly get better at speaking English.
At which point they stop sending money back to their home country, and start spending it here in the U.S.
Well...not exactly. I mean why should they stop sending money home just because they have some new piece of paper that says they are American citizens? Although it depends on the culture to some extent and how poor their families back home are, probably they will still send money home. I suppose you could try to stop them from doing that by making such money transfers illegal, but immigrants from poor countries are usually going to send at least some money home to their poor relatives if they can. That's just part of being an immigrant country. Again...unless you want to try to specifically stop them from doing that.
A PhD from *any* university is available for a price. Unless someone checks and I think most companies don't bother especially for foreign universities it's just a piece of paper and that can be forged. In India the real version of that piece of paper may be worth something especially from say IIT, but in many third world countries even a real university degree can mean very little.
In the country where I am currently living a so called 'IT' degree includes very little exposure to what is taught in US and other first world universities on the subject. Javascript is considered advanced programming and not much else core material is covered in 4 years. I kid you not. Go check out some of the curriculums yourself. Educationally it is most definitely *not* a level playing field. A 3-4 year degree in "Computer Science" or "IT" may not be at all comparable. In India or China things may be a lot more rigorous, but in many other countries that is simply not the case. This idea that 'a degree is a degree' is just silly.
It is a lot like blackmail to try to force the US to give visa waivers to poor countries like Romania, Bulgaria, and The Ukraine with so many English students who would love to permanently 'visit' the US for higher wages now that the UK is no longer an option. Although to be fair I don't really see it as a problem because immigration can still basically default deny entry to anyone from a poor country just like they always do. It's basically impossible to enter the country as a tourist from many poor countries.
I mean c'mon how many Romanians really want to visit the US to see 'our beautiful country'. Romanian girls are hot though. So I say we should let all the pretty girls in in as long as their boyfriends and husbands are denied entry. The US is hardly the only country that does this to citizens of poor countries. It's a common policy all over the world. It's not hard to see the logic. Regardless of what they say maybe 7 out of 10 probably won't leave once they arrive. Or at least not until they've made a lot of money working illegally.
How could anyone possibly spin this as a bad thing? If Trump does nothing else this would be a win for the American people and the rest of the world as well.
If by 'everybody' you mean sociopathic and evil corporations then yes you are correct. Corporations should be abolished. Their behavior is indistinguishable from the worst sorts of human beings.
Price gouging is not necessary and what's to stop consumers from voting for laws that make it illegal? After all if there are no rules then why should the public not follow the same logic that the corporations do and follow their own self-interest? If their is no fairness and only self-interest and it is every man for himself then fuck the corporations. Am i right?
If they have shown that they cannot and will not behave in an honorable manner then why shouldn't society force them to do so? If they themselves do not believe in any sort of principle other than self-interest they certainly cannot complain about it when the rest of us do the same. How about a law making any profit margin greater than 5% illegal and punishable by prison time?
Index finger fingerprint = open phone. Middle finger fingerprint = delete or randomize encryption key. Maybe require a second fingerprint (middle finger on other hand) just to be sure.
Is there like a switch? An "Admin Rights" checkbox somewhere? Maybe not a bad idea but I haven't seen anything like that. Did I just miss it? I'm still using Windows 7 so maybe this switch is a new feature in Windows 10. If the author meant that a user should run as Standard (unprivileged) User and not as an Administrator then maybe he should have said that. It is not as simple as just turning something on or off. If you are running as an Administrator you would probably want to actually create a new standard user account and start using that and that may require reinstalling some of your applications.
I'm guessing the guy who wrote that article doesn't use Windows and so does not realize that it just doesn't work that way. One of the greatest advantages of Windows 7 over XP was the relative ease of running as non-admin and a lot of software had to be changed to allow for the possibility that a user might be running it without full admin rights. I'm sure there is still some older software (games for instance) that require full admin privileges to run, but you can just switch to an admin account to run those.
Unfortunately for me the VPN that I use has software that appears to run only from a full admin account. "Run As Admin" doesn't even work with it. So there is still some (bad) software out there that expects full admin rights unfortunately.
I guess it shouldn't need to be pointed out that Microsoft is one of the worst software companies out there and pretty much everything they do is wrong/stupid. Their attempt at getting Windows to work hassle free as a standard user was not a complete success. That people running as Admin is still a problem just highlights this.
Where does the constitution specifically call out a right to breathe or to eat? The constitution is not a list of human rights. It's a list of things the government is allowed to do. If it isn't in the constitution it is the government and not the citizen that is prevented from acting.
In this case a police officer is the government. If the constitution does not specifically allow the police to confiscate cameras and harass citizens using them then they are not allowed to do so. But that is just theory. In practice they will often just beat you bloody, toss you in jail, and throw some false charges at you (cover charges). Or if you get particularly unlucky and the cop is having a bad day he might just shoot you or choke you to death or both.
American police are usually themselves dangerous criminals and fucking with them in any way is indistinguishable from doing the same to an armed and pissed off gang member except that the gang member knows he could end up going to jail if he kills you. The cop knows he will at worst get a short paid vacation. The police are basically a gang themselves but one that is immune to all prosecution.
This is why everyone should be running Noscript. Javascript is a major security risk and should only be run on sites you completely trust 100%. Even then it is the most likely vector for viruses and malware.
Zenimax games are so bad they are not even worth pirating. Robert Altman is a cunt. Once he took over the company from Chris Weaver it all went to shit. Arena and Daggerfall were good games, but the rest were just a race to the bottom LCD-fest whose only purpose was to make money.
Yes I am sure they considered the expensive babysitter in their pricing discussions. It's people like you these guys were thinking of. I'm half surprised they didn't price it at $100. Or $500. I'll continue with just downloading the movie for free when available until I make my first billion and those rich studio execs can go fuck themselves.
Orion was actually designed to take off from the ground, so no, you don't need to build it in space unless you're worried about radioactive fallout, which could potentially kill a handful of people across the globe by ever so slightly increasing cancer rates.
Well why shouldn't we be worried about nuclear fallout? It is simply never going to happen and not just because of the nuclear test ban treaty. NASA can barely manage to launch RTGs into space without the public freaking out about it. It will be hard enough to get support for the billions or even trillions of dollars necessary for a pulsed nuke starship that launches outside the atmosphere.
Freeman Dyson was doing small scale engineering/testing for an interplanetary mission not an interstellar one. The size and mass of the craft would have to be scaled up significantly and even if it could be launched from the ground I don't think that would be a very efficient way to do it and would require a lot more nuclear bombs detonating in the atmosphere. We should be thinking in terms of permanent lunar and Lagrange point stations anyway.
You did not even click on my links, did you? Damn Millennials. Why are you so lazy? You have a great Oracle that our generation never had. We had to go to a fucking library or call a university professor or something and all you have to do is type a keyword and hit enter but you cannot be bothered. Incidentally in this post you have made even more easily checkable errors. Slashdot has really gone to shit.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Skype. This is the sort of megacorp retardo-logic that is fucking over the world. We figured out how to make our app more data efficient, but our users don't care and don't want data efficiency. We cannot figure out a situation where it might be helpful because we are morons who only live in areas where LTE is ubiquitous and everyone has an LTE capable phone and everyone is so rich that they all have unlimited data plans. So lets release our more efficient app only for Indians and take precautions to be sure no one else in the entire world can use it instead of our slow, bloated data-hog. Got news for you guys. Most people in the world don't have or use LTE and are lucky if/when they have 3G. To be fair though most of those people don't seem to use Skype very much. Viber and Whatsapp and other more phone centric software seems to be more popular.
This sort of logic is what makes Windows 7+ bloat to 50 GB of hard drive space because Microsoft retards cannot even imagine a situation where someone is not using at least a 1 TB hard drive with a single partition to install Windows on and they hate hate hate having to consider the idea of efficiency in any way. I'm guessing that just bringing up the idea at Microsoft is enough to get you fired on the spot. Their view is that bandwidth is as infinite as hard drive space. No need to optimize or ever to consider the idea of efficiency.
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There's no glut of skilled workers. Unskilled? Oh, hell yes. But sorry, kids, but you can't take Joe Factory Worker and teach him Python
Nice strawman there. A better example would be a geeky computer programmer with a tested IQ above 135 and a bachelors degree in computer science and a deep passion and love for all kinds of coding (including assembly) from a good US university who can spend literally years searching for a code monkey job but who has to settle for bagging groceries at a supermarket instead. It's not just a cliche. It's very real. At least that is the world I grew up in. Way way way more qualified job candidates than there were jobs and every year there are more and more graduates from all over the world. And being smart and hard working and loving the work has absolutely no effect whatsoever on whether or not you get hired by anyone. In the real world it's more about who you know and how charming you are than it is how smart you are or how good you are at writing clean, beautiful, and efficient code. AFAICT that is still the world we live in and maybe you've just been damn lucky and so haven't noticed.
Maybe it's a different world now. Although it's hard to see why. We now have the entire mega-country of India competing for a fixed number of coding jobs. It seems entirely hopeless to me. Especially if you are a geek without people skills who has little chance to charm a job interviewer. In reality getting a job was always more about being likeable than being skilled. Most interviewers don't even test your skills. Maybe now that has changed and no one goes to an interview without hundreds of pages of their code for the interviewer to read, but that would kind of surprise me. It would be too logical and make too much sense for our corporate overlords.Why anyone would hire someone for a coding job without spending at least an hour reading their code I will never know.
Again, afaict, the problem of no one wanting to hire recent graduates with no real world work experience has not changed. There is just too big of a pool of already employed programmers for the corporate HR drones to hire. Of course the employers tend to want someone with 7-10 years of experience doing exactly the same thing that they want to do so there is no learning curve at all. If I had to guess they probably end up hiring liars who just put whatever is needed in their resume. Whether Indian or American.
I know some like to present the US as a fascist boogieman, however many nations wishing to preserve their sovereignty take similar measures
You haven't done much international travel have you?
The Queen is not just the Head of State, she is also the "Defender of the Faith"
So sort of like a Paladin or Inquisitor?
You rich people talking about 'ethics' and how employees are being mistreated make me laugh. Only rich people care about such things. The poor people that actually have to work at such shit jobs will be happy that they can buy products cheaply no matter where they come from because otherwise they could not buy them at all. It is amusing to see the astroturfers going to war with each other here. Does anyone else really care about this? It's a good thing and lets hope it continues without either side winning. That would be a win for everyone else. A race to the bottom is really a race to the top for everyone else.
I think it depends on your psychology. Some people just can't deal with being confined like that. I was in a holding cell for only 12-15 hours and it was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me. I used to keep birds in cages sometimes, but now I would NEVER do that. Never. I really consider locking someone in a cage or bare room to be a form of torture. It certainly was for me. I paced/limped back and forth in my cell for pretty much the entire time I was there. I could only stop moving briefly. And that was on a badly injured leg and with broken ribs and a bloody battered face. The psychological effect of being confined was actually more powerful than all of my injuries were and my injuries were pretty bad.
propose a solution that doesn't bounce us into the dark ages please.
For first world countries? How about copying France? Gradual changeover to nuclear power generation + electrified highways and cheaper more practical electric vehiicles. The only problem is that currently this is a rich person solution and only first world countries can do it. Maybe if nuclear becomes more ubiquitous it will get cheaper but currently nuclear generated electricity is kind of expensive. The real real problem is it's hard to imagine a lot of poor/primitive countries getting up to speed in the next century or two.
In 1972 you would have been taught that the Looming-Ice-Age warnings were loony
Is this coming from your own memory? At what grade/level were you taught about climate change stuff? I remember all the ice age stuff being in the popular press in the late 70s but was too young to have been 'taught' anything on the subject. I wasn't aware that it was considered loony. Unproven or speculative maybe, but not loony.
All I can vouch for is that at the end of the 80s and start of the 90s the current paradigm of anthropogenic warming + armageddon wasn't yet being universally taught at university level as if it were a slamdunk: just one possible theory in need of more data. I would imagine that textbooks have changed since then. The Truth has moved on I guess.
Why would anyone want to be a professional programmer if that is what it is all about? It doesn't sound particularly fun or challenging. It sounds like more like something out of 1984 or Brazil. I like to code because it is fun to build a machine--a sort of intricate wind up toy--that you actually get to run eventually. What you describe sounds more like being a slave. I guess I can see why they have to pay so much or go to India. That's not how I would want to live my life. Do these 'professional' programmers have high rates of suicide?
More like trying to make a monkey walk like a human. Education is overrated. There are lots of dummies who get degrees, especially bachelors degrees. Find an intelligent person and they can learn whatever they need in a matter of days or weeks. Writing good code isn't really that hard. It's just machine building--an exercise in simple logic. Be smart enough to recognize other smart people to hire. Unfortunately this requires that you are intelligent yourself. Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need. Then pay them fairly so they stick around. I don't think money is typically the problem though. The problem is usually that the person doing the hiring is stupid themselves and hires the worst candidates based on traditional metrics like charisma and paper certifications.
When they are talking about the economy 'as a whole' they may be referring to the world economy and indeed free trade is good for that. However if what you are worried about is your own piece of the pie as a highly privileged elite who benefits greatly from artificial borders and the resulting income inequality then that is not necessarily a good thing for you personally.
Maybe someone who will be happy to work for $1/hour can do your job as well as you can. Would that be good for the world economy? How could it not be? But it won't help you specifically if you want to live a good life. I think there is clearly at least some zero sum game aspect to the current world economy. What is good for Indian and Chinese people is not necessarily good for North Americans and Western Europeans and in fact may often be very bad indeed. But for the planetary economy and overall human progress it's great.
Eventually the people accepting the $1/hour wages will demand a raise and the market will stabilize at a higher level, but that level will probably be a lot lower than it is now. Probably the current mega-corporation wage-slave-worker-drone model is partly to blame for all this. It's really not a very good model for the majority of humans. Corporations have way too much power compared to individuals and behave like sociopaths.
Nevertheless I'd be interested to see what would really happen in a world entirely without borders where everyone was allowed to physically live and work anywhere they wanted. It would be an interesting experiment. I'm not sure such a world would really be that different though because most poor people don't have the money for airline tickets or other international moving expenses and don't have good enough educations to really compete with people educated in first world countries. Although presumably some of the HR drones may not be able to distinguish between well educated and badly educated applicants. And it's not like the whole world would suddenly get better at speaking English.
At which point they stop sending money back to their home country, and start spending it here in the U.S.
Well...not exactly. I mean why should they stop sending money home just because they have some new piece of paper that says they are American citizens? Although it depends on the culture to some extent and how poor their families back home are, probably they will still send money home. I suppose you could try to stop them from doing that by making such money transfers illegal, but immigrants from poor countries are usually going to send at least some money home to their poor relatives if they can. That's just part of being an immigrant country. Again...unless you want to try to specifically stop them from doing that.
A PhD from *any* university is available for a price. Unless someone checks and I think most companies don't bother especially for foreign universities it's just a piece of paper and that can be forged. In India the real version of that piece of paper may be worth something especially from say IIT, but in many third world countries even a real university degree can mean very little.
In the country where I am currently living a so called 'IT' degree includes very little exposure to what is taught in US and other first world universities on the subject. Javascript is considered advanced programming and not much else core material is covered in 4 years. I kid you not. Go check out some of the curriculums yourself. Educationally it is most definitely *not* a level playing field. A 3-4 year degree in "Computer Science" or "IT" may not be at all comparable. In India or China things may be a lot more rigorous, but in many other countries that is simply not the case. This idea that 'a degree is a degree' is just silly.
It is a lot like blackmail to try to force the US to give visa waivers to poor countries like Romania, Bulgaria, and The Ukraine with so many English students who would love to permanently 'visit' the US for higher wages now that the UK is no longer an option. Although to be fair I don't really see it as a problem because immigration can still basically default deny entry to anyone from a poor country just like they always do. It's basically impossible to enter the country as a tourist from many poor countries.
I mean c'mon how many Romanians really want to visit the US to see 'our beautiful country'. Romanian girls are hot though. So I say we should let all the pretty girls in in as long as their boyfriends and husbands are denied entry. The US is hardly the only country that does this to citizens of poor countries. It's a common policy all over the world. It's not hard to see the logic. Regardless of what they say maybe 7 out of 10 probably won't leave once they arrive. Or at least not until they've made a lot of money working illegally.
How could anyone possibly spin this as a bad thing? If Trump does nothing else this would be a win for the American people and the rest of the world as well.
If the only reason you are in business is to make money then you do not deserve to make money.
Every company does this
If by 'everybody' you mean sociopathic and evil corporations then yes you are correct. Corporations should be abolished. Their behavior is indistinguishable from the worst sorts of human beings.
Price gouging is not necessary and what's to stop consumers from voting for laws that make it illegal? After all if there are no rules then why should the public not follow the same logic that the corporations do and follow their own self-interest? If their is no fairness and only self-interest and it is every man for himself then fuck the corporations. Am i right?
If they have shown that they cannot and will not behave in an honorable manner then why shouldn't society force them to do so? If they themselves do not believe in any sort of principle other than self-interest they certainly cannot complain about it when the rest of us do the same. How about a law making any profit margin greater than 5% illegal and punishable by prison time?
Index finger fingerprint = open phone. Middle finger fingerprint = delete or randomize encryption key. Maybe require a second fingerprint (middle finger on other hand) just to be sure.
Is there like a switch? An "Admin Rights" checkbox somewhere? Maybe not a bad idea but I haven't seen anything like that. Did I just miss it? I'm still using Windows 7 so maybe this switch is a new feature in Windows 10. If the author meant that a user should run as Standard (unprivileged) User and not as an Administrator then maybe he should have said that. It is not as simple as just turning something on or off. If you are running as an Administrator you would probably want to actually create a new standard user account and start using that and that may require reinstalling some of your applications.
I'm guessing the guy who wrote that article doesn't use Windows and so does not realize that it just doesn't work that way. One of the greatest advantages of Windows 7 over XP was the relative ease of running as non-admin and a lot of software had to be changed to allow for the possibility that a user might be running it without full admin rights. I'm sure there is still some older software (games for instance) that require full admin privileges to run, but you can just switch to an admin account to run those.
Unfortunately for me the VPN that I use has software that appears to run only from a full admin account. "Run As Admin" doesn't even work with it. So there is still some (bad) software out there that expects full admin rights unfortunately.
I guess it shouldn't need to be pointed out that Microsoft is one of the worst software companies out there and pretty much everything they do is wrong/stupid. Their attempt at getting Windows to work hassle free as a standard user was not a complete success. That people running as Admin is still a problem just highlights this.
Where does the constitution specifically call out a right to breathe or to eat? The constitution is not a list of human rights. It's a list of things the government is allowed to do. If it isn't in the constitution it is the government and not the citizen that is prevented from acting.
In this case a police officer is the government. If the constitution does not specifically allow the police to confiscate cameras and harass citizens using them then they are not allowed to do so. But that is just theory. In practice they will often just beat you bloody, toss you in jail, and throw some false charges at you (cover charges). Or if you get particularly unlucky and the cop is having a bad day he might just shoot you or choke you to death or both.
American police are usually themselves dangerous criminals and fucking with them in any way is indistinguishable from doing the same to an armed and pissed off gang member except that the gang member knows he could end up going to jail if he kills you. The cop knows he will at worst get a short paid vacation. The police are basically a gang themselves but one that is immune to all prosecution.
This is why everyone should be running Noscript. Javascript is a major security risk and should only be run on sites you completely trust 100%. Even then it is the most likely vector for viruses and malware.
Zenimax games are so bad they are not even worth pirating. Robert Altman is a cunt. Once he took over the company from Chris Weaver it all went to shit. Arena and Daggerfall were good games, but the rest were just a race to the bottom LCD-fest whose only purpose was to make money.
Yes I am sure they considered the expensive babysitter in their pricing discussions. It's people like you these guys were thinking of. I'm half surprised they didn't price it at $100. Or $500. I'll continue with just downloading the movie for free when available until I make my first billion and those rich studio execs can go fuck themselves.
Orion was actually designed to take off from the ground, so no, you don't need to build it in space unless you're worried about radioactive fallout, which could potentially kill a handful of people across the globe by ever so slightly increasing cancer rates.
Well why shouldn't we be worried about nuclear fallout? It is simply never going to happen and not just because of the nuclear test ban treaty. NASA can barely manage to launch RTGs into space without the public freaking out about it. It will be hard enough to get support for the billions or even trillions of dollars necessary for a pulsed nuke starship that launches outside the atmosphere.
Freeman Dyson was doing small scale engineering/testing for an interplanetary mission not an interstellar one. The size and mass of the craft would have to be scaled up significantly and even if it could be launched from the ground I don't think that would be a very efficient way to do it and would require a lot more nuclear bombs detonating in the atmosphere. We should be thinking in terms of permanent lunar and Lagrange point stations anyway.
You did not even click on my links, did you? Damn Millennials. Why are you so lazy? You have a great Oracle that our generation never had. We had to go to a fucking library or call a university professor or something and all you have to do is type a keyword and hit enter but you cannot be bothered. Incidentally in this post you have made even more easily checkable errors. Slashdot has really gone to shit.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Skype. This is the sort of megacorp retardo-logic that is fucking over the world. We figured out how to make our app more data efficient, but our users don't care and don't want data efficiency. We cannot figure out a situation where it might be helpful because we are morons who only live in areas where LTE is ubiquitous and everyone has an LTE capable phone and everyone is so rich that they all have unlimited data plans. So lets release our more efficient app only for Indians and take precautions to be sure no one else in the entire world can use it instead of our slow, bloated data-hog. Got news for you guys. Most people in the world don't have or use LTE and are lucky if/when they have 3G. To be fair though most of those people don't seem to use Skype very much. Viber and Whatsapp and other more phone centric software seems to be more popular.
This sort of logic is what makes Windows 7+ bloat to 50 GB of hard drive space because Microsoft retards cannot even imagine a situation where someone is not using at least a 1 TB hard drive with a single partition to install Windows on and they hate hate hate having to consider the idea of efficiency in any way. I'm guessing that just bringing up the idea at Microsoft is enough to get you fired on the spot. Their view is that bandwidth is as infinite as hard drive space. No need to optimize or ever to consider the idea of efficiency.