Very interesting gossip, thanks! It's worth observing that Free only blocks cross site adds, meaning self hosted ads still work. In particular google's ads on google searches should still work.
If a company shows employees no loyalty then the employees should show the company less than no loyalty.
In Texas, employees can quit at any time and for any reason. I'd hope HP could even fall afoul of "malicious use of process" laws if they pursue any action against their ex-employees.
That said, there are reasonable chances that GM signed a contract not to steal HP employees when they outsourced IT services to HP. I'd expect HP lawyers want to depose ex-HP employees to find out if their contract with GM was violated. I'd hope they fail to achieve even that much, but that's less problematic than going after ex-employees.
Are you familiar with the fact that Georgia Tech costs nothing*?
Imho, American students should simply learn another language like French, German, or Spanish and go study in Europe. Ain't free, but it's crazy cheap compared with most U.S. schools. Also, you might learn how to avoid growing up a fat ass bastard.
* Hope Scholarship Offer valid only for Georgia High School diploma and/or residency holders who maintain at least a 3.0 GPA. Please observe that Georgia Tech does intake selection mostly through weed out courses that take place your freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year, and has amongst the lowest grade inflation in the country, meaning 3.0s don't grow on trees there.
Israel will die within 100 years. An average increase of 4 degrees C translates into a much greater increase over land because the earth is 70% covered by water and the temperature won't change as much over water. In the Mediterranean, that average 4C increase should translate into a 9C overland increase. Israel routinely hangs out above 36C during the summer. Israel routinely has 98% humidity in the summer. Humans cannot survive 100% humidity at 45C. I'd therefore expect that Israel will be effectively uninhabitable by humans in 2100, although obviously their humidity might change before then.
I donno if they present exactly what the author might consider a third option though, well certainly they can present other options, like with the Either monad, but that's no simpler really.
I detest Safari, talk about unstable badly written garbage. It crashes about every two days with maybe 100 tabs open, but no flash and javascript restricted. It's worse than the crashes, roughly ten times per day, it'll ask to restart it's javascript engine, fucking piece of shit.
Jar jar is the character that defined a generation of Americans, not my generation mind you, but a generation. I suppose that Bella defines the current youth.
Amazon is fairly ubiquitous now, ditto Walmart, etc. Imho, one should avoid all these companies for numerous reasons. But how?
Enter the numerous Chinese online retailers. End consumers cannot shop at alibaba.com, but anyone can buy those large minimum orders and resell on ebay. One should therefore always search ebay when shopping.
In many product type, there are large scale specialized online retailers that ship direct from China, like dx.com. Now dx.com's prices aren't necessarily better than amazon's across the board, but they commonly obliterate more U.S. resellers when you find your way into some niche products, like electronics components. I always check prices there now as well. Yes, merchandise shipped from China takes bloody ages to arrive, plan ahead man.
We should let congress drive over the fiscal cliff so that republicans take the blame for their intransigence on perpetuating the untenable Bush tax cuts.
You're angling towards what's called deliberative democracy. It takes many forms, including the Open Mic discussion form invented by the Spanish protestors and popularized by OWS. There is a jury duty based approach that's practical form for large governments :
You simply replace the presidential veto with the requirement that all legislation must pass a jury trial with 300 jurors randomly selected from amongst the voters---you need a couple hundred for any real statistical significance. Advocates selected by any 2% of congress as well as the president conduct a debate on the bill, after which the jurors vote. There is of course still a presidential veto of sorts in that the president himself can come himself and deliver a good speech about why the bill should be scrapped.
There is considerable evidence that such a jury trial scheme would improve governance. On contentious issues, people vote much more sensibly after watching a debate on that issue. Also, people are usually quite hostile to unfairness and corruption, meaning pork barrel legislation should take a nose dive.
Samsung will never be Microsoft because (a) Apple would never become the old Apple, NeXT, etc. again, (b) Google shall keep Motorola running just fine, and (c) Samsung is not an American company.
I'll personally support Samsung simply because they are not an American company and Korea lacks the political muscle to impose their companies' will around the world.
Also, I'm exceedingly happy with Samsung for making the Galaxy Note, which does double duty as a phone and table. Apple created a new market that basically doubled consumers gadget expenses, but Samsung reduced that price tag.
If you aren't worried about the radiation, then I'll replace my radiation hazard comment with :
You should always refuse the nuddy scanner and accept the pat down instead, if only to discourage the corrupt decision making processes that bought them.
There is simply no reason to go through the nuddy scanner and plenty of reasons to avoid it.
At this point, there aren't enough non-standard apps running on tablets to make the software matter. I'll happily use one program under Mac OS X and another under Android. And Android might eventually save the desktop linux application space, well maybe.
Imho, there is a much bigger question around form factor here, but that's not the same for everybody. I'm thrilled with the Note myself, big enough, but never too big.
As an aside, there are occasions where you'll find the Note too big, but only if you wear women's clothing. I'd never worn any women's clothing when I bought it, but then I went to Burning Man for the first time this year, and started going to burner parties. Invariably burner dress necessitates a little gender bending, like say tights, sarong, skirt, or wearing only body paint. I therefore now own clothing with pockets too small for my phone, notably my hippie raver belt was designed for women. It's okay though since I've never wear that stuff during a normal night out where I might need my phone. Anyways, I'm completely happy with the Note when I'm not wearing women's clothing.
We could certainly employ dogs 24-7 by buying enough trained dogs for all airports an sea ports. Expensive? Yes. More expensive than TSA nudy scanners? Hell no.
Dogs are dirt cheap compared with high tech stuff, but that's their problem : DHS doesn't care one iota about security. DHS cares only about the kick backs. And good kick backs require pumping serious money into something that's basically fake, exploitive, etc.
You can buy a new jet ski for around $8000 and a new ATV for around $2000, meaning you could buy both for 1/4th the price.
There is another issue that jet skis probably suck at dragging huge wheels through the water, meaning that even if this guy isn't nearly as cool at that jet ski for doing jet ski stuff. I'd imagine it's not quite as cool for doing ATV stuff either
If you must travel on both land and water, then you should look into hovercraft instead. I believe most hovercrafts cost more than $40k, but this personal hovercraft costs $22000.
You could therefore buy a jet ski, an ATV, and a hovercraft, all brand new, and save $8k off this critter's price tag.
Also, there are hovercraft kits that cost maybe only $7k, not exactly sure, but not much worse than a jet ski.
I'd agree the economy should be one component, but also the U.K. has been making the A levels easier and easier. I've found that U.K. math majors were amongst the weakest math students I've ever taught. And so so many unqualified MSc students doing mathematics.
There aren't merely "signs of saturation" in academia. Academia was already fully saturated in the mid 70s. We've actually been shrinking the academic job market for the last decade using adjuncts.
In fact, we've recently started shrinking it by creating really good online courses. There are open courseware guys at MIT who suggest there should only be 6 real universities within 20 years. In other words, all professors not at elite institutions like MIT and Stanford should become TAs who help the students do exercises, but all students would watch video lectures by elite professors. It'll probably happen more-or-less that way, except with an awful lot more AI.
I'd planned on saying the only companies I've worked at that were more efficient than academic research labs were small start ups. I then realized the small start ups were less efficient than the labs I know too.
Anything big wastes money by the boatload. Avoid bigness unless absolutely necessary. In science, we usually avoid bigness whenever possible, just ain't always possible. In the corporate world, they try achieving bigness though stock value destroying mergers simply to justify a higher salary for the CEO.
If the U.S. doesn't do the science, someone else will. And someone else will reap the rewards. American PhD who wish to actually *do* science are already moving to places like China. America is done.
I'm hoping for gas price shocks high enough to halt importation for a while.. or perhaps China could start invading neighboring countries. Talk about excitement!
I've never stayed in a shady hostel in Paris. I've stayed with friends in the shady-but-not-bad neighborhoods, like the 11th.
Afaik, American cities usually have murder rates around or over 20 per 100,0000, but Paris has only 2-2.5 per 100,000 overall and around 5 in the bad St Denis neighborhood.
Yes, you should avoid the neighborhood with double the murder rate of the rest of the city anywhere, but it's probably no worse than the neighborhood where you go clubbing in your home town, assuming you're American.
If you read my comment, you'll notice that I blamed the French for creating the problem originally. Yet, today France makes extensive effort to integrate their immigrants subcultures, meaning these subcultures should take the blame for not integrating.
McDonalds is very probably responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to this incident, probably not the U.S. based McDonalds corporation, but certainly the specific franchise created the fear of journalists that caused this, and McDonalds France is ultimately responsible for that.
Huge corporations should be fined huge sums when their employees commit violence on the corporation's behalf because otherwise you'll create subtle incentives to use violence to protect corporate interests.
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Very interesting gossip, thanks! It's worth observing that Free only blocks cross site adds, meaning self hosted ads still work. In particular google's ads on google searches should still work.
If a company shows employees no loyalty then the employees should show the company less than no loyalty.
In Texas, employees can quit at any time and for any reason. I'd hope HP could even fall afoul of "malicious use of process" laws if they pursue any action against their ex-employees.
That said, there are reasonable chances that GM signed a contract not to steal HP employees when they outsourced IT services to HP. I'd expect HP lawyers want to depose ex-HP employees to find out if their contract with GM was violated. I'd hope they fail to achieve even that much, but that's less problematic than going after ex-employees.
Are you familiar with the fact that Georgia Tech costs nothing*?
Imho, American students should simply learn another language like French, German, or Spanish and go study in Europe. Ain't free, but it's crazy cheap compared with most U.S. schools. Also, you might learn how to avoid growing up a fat ass bastard.
* Hope Scholarship Offer valid only for Georgia High School diploma and/or residency holders who maintain at least a 3.0 GPA. Please observe that Georgia Tech does intake selection mostly through weed out courses that take place your freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year, and has amongst the lowest grade inflation in the country, meaning 3.0s don't grow on trees there.
Israel will die within 100 years. An average increase of 4 degrees C translates into a much greater increase over land because the earth is 70% covered by water and the temperature won't change as much over water. In the Mediterranean, that average 4C increase should translate into a 9C overland increase. Israel routinely hangs out above 36C during the summer. Israel routinely has 98% humidity in the summer. Humans cannot survive 100% humidity at 45C. I'd therefore expect that Israel will be effectively uninhabitable by humans in 2100, although obviously their humidity might change before then.
Monads are fun for error handling. :)
I donno if they present exactly what the author might consider a third option though, well certainly they can present other options, like with the Either monad, but that's no simpler really.
I detest Safari, talk about unstable badly written garbage. It crashes about every two days with maybe 100 tabs open, but no flash and javascript restricted. It's worse than the crashes, roughly ten times per day, it'll ask to restart it's javascript engine, fucking piece of shit.
Jar jar is the character that defined a generation of Americans, not my generation mind you, but a generation. I suppose that Bella defines the current youth.
Amazon is fairly ubiquitous now, ditto Walmart, etc. Imho, one should avoid all these companies for numerous reasons. But how?
Enter the numerous Chinese online retailers. End consumers cannot shop at alibaba.com, but anyone can buy those large minimum orders and resell on ebay. One should therefore always search ebay when shopping.
In many product type, there are large scale specialized online retailers that ship direct from China, like dx.com. Now dx.com's prices aren't necessarily better than amazon's across the board, but they commonly obliterate more U.S. resellers when you find your way into some niche products, like electronics components. I always check prices there now as well. Yes, merchandise shipped from China takes bloody ages to arrive, plan ahead man.
We should let congress drive over the fiscal cliff so that republicans take the blame for their intransigence on perpetuating the untenable Bush tax cuts.
I'm happy if we tax the rich more, but our real problems are :
(1) Spending money on wasteful harmful shit, i.e. warfare (DoD, CIA, etc.), police state (FBI, NSA, etc.), drug war (DEA, etc.), etc.
(2) Permitting the financial industry to extract such insane rents on everything by not regulating them.
(3) Subsidizing established industries, especially oil, nuclear, and agricultural subsidies.
We could cut taxes by massive amounts if we halted all that waste, corruption, and exploitation.
You're angling towards what's called deliberative democracy. It takes many forms, including the Open Mic discussion form invented by the Spanish protestors and popularized by OWS. There is a jury duty based approach that's practical form for large governments :
You simply replace the presidential veto with the requirement that all legislation must pass a jury trial with 300 jurors randomly selected from amongst the voters---you need a couple hundred for any real statistical significance. Advocates selected by any 2% of congress as well as the president conduct a debate on the bill, after which the jurors vote. There is of course still a presidential veto of sorts in that the president himself can come himself and deliver a good speech about why the bill should be scrapped.
There is considerable evidence that such a jury trial scheme would improve governance. On contentious issues, people vote much more sensibly after watching a debate on that issue. Also, people are usually quite hostile to unfairness and corruption, meaning pork barrel legislation should take a nose dive.
Agreed, we should restrict imports from the biggest polluters, especially America.
Samsung will never be Microsoft because
(a) Apple would never become the old Apple, NeXT, etc. again,
(b) Google shall keep Motorola running just fine, and
(c) Samsung is not an American company.
I'll personally support Samsung simply because they are not an American company and Korea lacks the political muscle to impose their companies' will around the world.
Also, I'm exceedingly happy with Samsung for making the Galaxy Note, which does double duty as a phone and table. Apple created a new market that basically doubled consumers gadget expenses, but Samsung reduced that price tag.
If you aren't worried about the radiation, then I'll replace my radiation hazard comment with :
You should always refuse the nuddy scanner and accept the pat down instead, if only to discourage the corrupt decision making processes that bought them.
There is simply no reason to go through the nuddy scanner and plenty of reasons to avoid it.
Did Obama order DHS to comply with the court order requiring the TSA to publish various statistics that'd make the nuddy scanners look bad? No
Anyways, you should always refuse the nuddy scanner and accept the pat down instead, if only for the radiation hazard.
At this point, there aren't enough non-standard apps running on tablets to make the software matter. I'll happily use one program under Mac OS X and another under Android. And Android might eventually save the desktop linux application space, well maybe.
Imho, there is a much bigger question around form factor here, but that's not the same for everybody. I'm thrilled with the Note myself, big enough, but never too big.
As an aside, there are occasions where you'll find the Note too big, but only if you wear women's clothing. I'd never worn any women's clothing when I bought it, but then I went to Burning Man for the first time this year, and started going to burner parties. Invariably burner dress necessitates a little gender bending, like say tights, sarong, skirt, or wearing only body paint. I therefore now own clothing with pockets too small for my phone, notably my hippie raver belt was designed for women. It's okay though since I've never wear that stuff during a normal night out where I might need my phone. Anyways, I'm completely happy with the Note when I'm not wearing women's clothing.
We could certainly employ dogs 24-7 by buying enough trained dogs for all airports an sea ports. Expensive? Yes. More expensive than TSA nudy scanners? Hell no.
Dogs are dirt cheap compared with high tech stuff, but that's their problem : DHS doesn't care one iota about security. DHS cares only about the kick backs. And good kick backs require pumping serious money into something that's basically fake, exploitive, etc.
Is there a tor hidden service TPB hosted from an undisclosed location?
You can buy a new jet ski for around $8000 and a new ATV for around $2000, meaning you could buy both for 1/4th the price.
There is another issue that jet skis probably suck at dragging huge wheels through the water, meaning that even if this guy isn't nearly as cool at that jet ski for doing jet ski stuff. I'd imagine it's not quite as cool for doing ATV stuff either
If you must travel on both land and water, then you should look into hovercraft instead. I believe most hovercrafts cost more than $40k, but this personal hovercraft costs $22000.
You could therefore buy a jet ski, an ATV, and a hovercraft, all brand new, and save $8k off this critter's price tag.
Also, there are hovercraft kits that cost maybe only $7k, not exactly sure, but not much worse than a jet ski.
I'd agree the economy should be one component, but also the U.K. has been making the A levels easier and easier. I've found that U.K. math majors were amongst the weakest math students I've ever taught. And so so many unqualified MSc students doing mathematics.
There aren't merely "signs of saturation" in academia. Academia was already fully saturated in the mid 70s. We've actually been shrinking the academic job market for the last decade using adjuncts.
In fact, we've recently started shrinking it by creating really good online courses. There are open courseware guys at MIT who suggest there should only be 6 real universities within 20 years. In other words, all professors not at elite institutions like MIT and Stanford should become TAs who help the students do exercises, but all students would watch video lectures by elite professors. It'll probably happen more-or-less that way, except with an awful lot more AI.
I'd planned on saying the only companies I've worked at that were more efficient than academic research labs were small start ups. I then realized the small start ups were less efficient than the labs I know too.
Anything big wastes money by the boatload. Avoid bigness unless absolutely necessary. In science, we usually avoid bigness whenever possible, just ain't always possible. In the corporate world, they try achieving bigness though stock value destroying mergers simply to justify a higher salary for the CEO.
If the U.S. doesn't do the science, someone else will. And someone else will reap the rewards. American PhD who wish to actually *do* science are already moving to places like China. America is done.
I'm hoping for gas price shocks high enough to halt importation for a while.. or perhaps China could start invading neighboring countries. Talk about excitement!
I've never stayed in a shady hostel in Paris. I've stayed with friends in the shady-but-not-bad neighborhoods, like the 11th.
Afaik, American cities usually have murder rates around or over 20 per 100,0000, but Paris has only 2-2.5 per 100,000 overall and around 5 in the bad St Denis neighborhood.
Yes, you should avoid the neighborhood with double the murder rate of the rest of the city anywhere, but it's probably no worse than the neighborhood where you go clubbing in your home town, assuming you're American.
If you read my comment, you'll notice that I blamed the French for creating the problem originally. Yet, today France makes extensive effort to integrate their immigrants subcultures, meaning these subcultures should take the blame for not integrating.
McDonalds is very probably responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to this incident, probably not the U.S. based McDonalds corporation, but certainly the specific franchise created the fear of journalists that caused this, and McDonalds France is ultimately responsible for that.
Huge corporations should be fined huge sums when their employees commit violence on the corporation's behalf because otherwise you'll create subtle incentives to use violence to protect corporate interests.