Programming is easy. Many people can pick up programming, put them on a computer with logo and have them move the turtle. Et voila many people will pick up quickly how to move the turtle. And bam you are a programmer. But see the difference between a programmer and a developper is that there are certain more complex you have to understand to make something, e.g. security, how memory function for your framework, GUI concept, HMI concept, what is the difference beetween n.log n and n^2 , and is it relevant to your application, scalling, maintainability, normalisation and when to use it and so forth. The difference between programmer is the same as knowing how to apply cpr , and how to be a heart surgeon. Everybody can do the one, but it need training and understanding to do the second. I have 30 years of developpment training and often i think I feel I am still at the programmer level, butchering stuff rather than do good development. But at least those 30 years gave me to see that not everybody can do development and a lot of folk don't understand those important concept. I have had many *programmer* not understand the concept of maintainability and shit code which long run make us lose hard cash. Or use normalization haphazardly.
Making programming easier does not help one understand the more complicated concept, and thus it will not enhance the quality of our software. Just like not everybody has it to be pilot or heart surgeon, sorry, but many of us are not really developper, we are code butcher.
That is how they come to such number, assume every soil is transformed into agricultural soil, protein comes from algae and insects (assume no meat), ignore the phosphorus and other similar elements problems, then assume everybody will agree to dump their way of life to a minimum. And that's not counting the one relying on magic technology not yet there. Basically that earth can support more people is true, but the hidden detail is that our way of life would be *significantly* lower than the western standard. Looking at the detail I would say that would be highly dystopian at best.
Virgin forest etc... The overshoot day is calculated by looking at the ground resource we use, then comparing to a set measurement sustainable (e.g. we consume as much forest as we replant and let top soil regenerate, e.g. by fallow and similar methods, and the ratio give a number. For example if we destroy 2500 Hectare forest, but replant 1250 we are effectively not sustainable long term and the overshoot for this measurement point is 2.0 meaning by half the year we overshoot sustaining point - there are various factors they take into accounts but this is the basic principle). I disagree with that publicity stunt for various reason, but if it brings people to inform themselves on sustainability , why not.
"Do no evil" is only good as far as you are a privately owner 100% company. As soon as shareholder enter in play , then forget it, only one rule is permissible : "do no illegal stuff" the rest is potentially a way to get sued if you demonstrably dropped profit and/or shareholder suffered through it, and yes "do no evil" is a ground to get sued if it can be demonstrated company would have been able to do more money by being legally evil, e.g. bowing down to governmental censorship in other countries. It does not matter what a company says about moral In the very end their only duty is toward fiduciary responsibility toward shareholder.
Guaranteed job mean more or less many people will have to dig hole to fill back them again. With automation there won't be many job left in a few decades that people without high level education can do without being easily replaceable. that leave "keep busy" guaranteed job. And you know what's worst ? Having a job you know is USELESS but given to you to a pittance to keep you busy. That is why UBI is better. Then it is your choice of what you do. Many people would simply wallow in their sweat before a tube box (being old tv or youtube). But many (and I do belong to that group) would rather do something creative and productive on their own rather than get a "keep busy" occupation.
"They refused. Why? Because I hadn't been there this quarter and to do ANYTHING for me they need a new referral from my doctor."
Actually no they can't do anything if it is not an emergency/enduring disease, because first you have to be referred by A doctor. They count as specialist and before you go to a specialist baring emergency & chronicle disease, you have to got to a doctor. This actually avoid abuses and flooding specialist when not needed. But note that I said *a* doctor. Not *your* doctor. Doctor hoping is not illegal, and if you have a previous prescription and a good reason (e.g. anti rejection drug, or need a referral for a previous operation) and your doc is in holiday, then they won't bat an eye to do you a referral. I know that because I have done it more than once during doctor holidays.
And yes you can directly go to a specialist in case of emergency or chronicle disease. The fact you are neither , and you could get an easy referral by another doc is WHY they did not accept you.
I have dealt with German bureaucracy for more than 20 years now. They are way better than most bureaucracy around the world. And they do indeed get shit done, the problem is that they are stickler for rules, and many people dislike that and feel it is a waste of time. No offense but you seem to belong to that category...
Weight and balance system which helps stating how to make the take off taking into account cargo, and then the staff programming those , or the staff entering data for those which would have to be silent on this (as somebody being in that industry that would make me part of the conspiracy). And then take into account the fact that those chemtrail in summer would be bombarded to heavy UV, not a good thing for most chemicals, a lot would decompose, and then from 30000 foot the amount diluting and coming onto the ground would be ridiculously small per square meter.
If you can't have some sort of planning (and make no mistake auctioning of the slot would make some airline unavailable some days) would be utterly nightmare stuff for traveler. Sometimes what you call friction *do* actually provide stability which is required for societies to function, while "friction-less" leaves you , just like physical items, in a state of unstable equilibrium at best, in constant disequilibrium at worst.
because as i said I buy (books/game) or license/subscribe (film/serie) whatever I watch. if i watch something I *already* am subscribed for the month therefore it does not remove any money from netflix, crunchyrolls or amazon if i watch something else. In fact by your own argument if I don't watch that grey film/episode/anime/whatever then I am stealing money from them. So if I watch twitch instead ? Or free youtube ? Or one of the other video I have as dvd ? Your argument fail as a devil advocate.
More victims among buyers than among sellers
Reported by 2.7 percent of the population, fraud connected with an online purchase â" non-delivery of goods or services which have been paid for â" is significantly more common than fraudulent sales transactions, where goods or services are delivered but not paid for (0.2 percent).
it is from nl, but I heard similar statistic in germany. Basically company are more friendly to buyer because statistically there is far more probability to get scammed by a seller than being not paid by buyer. It is definitively right to be more friendly by buyer too, increase of buyer number would attract seller, but a bad rep for buyer and chasing away sink the palteform.
Since 100% of the stuff I get from grey source are *not* available at ALL in my country due to geolocation market restriction, the argument of lost sale does not even hold. I normal buy/license anything i watch, but company which decide my region should not be allowed to buy it ? Fuck them.
Seeing how many of them were springing up to defend price, and seeing how easy it is for anybody, male, female, whichever , to set up a fake email campaign and make it look like a badly organized MRA thing, and we know that both side at some point not only boasted they were doxing the other side, but some troll also boasted he made both side fight harder... I am watching such pretend campaign with a wary eye. It could be male incel idiot trully wanting to fire female, it could be troll seeing the great way to shit everywhere and make people reacts, or it could be feminist seeing a great occasion to muck things up by pretending being MRA sending letter. Who knows ? Nobody unless you really catch the one doing it and check what was their reason for it.
If you give NO instruction to destroy documents, then the "landlord" here facebook, has no right to state he won't give the docs due to privacy of the deceased. Which is exactly why german judge told them "nope, it is part of the inheritance(Erbe) jsut like any other document".
"We empathize with the family. At the same time, Facebook accounts are used for a personal exchange between individuals which we have a duty to protect. "
A diary, a paper letters, and an email account would all fall under the germany law as "Erbe". You have no right to privacy once you are dead, and the still live individual sending you the email has no right to the message once sent. just because it is facebook does not mean it suddenly get more right to hide/refuse to give to the living memeber access. Don't like it facebook ? Don't allow german account, don't do financial transaction in germany (so no german advertiser). That can only german privacy a notch, and potentially make people think of meeting people as alternative. Win-win.
Government can be toppled by the general public at election , or in some rare case by protests. The general public has no influence whatsoever over private corporation, if you set aside laws, only the small private owner or share holder have influence. And that again is a factor.
A government is not beholden to a limited "private club" third party to get "profit". It is beholden to the whole of the public. And while some part clearly are co-opted or even corrupted by industry lobbyist (from the exact same corporation you seem so fond of) and while clearly some government are more democratic than other, in your average western government the public HAS an influence on laws. The public has NO influence on corporation, only those of that private club (the share holder, the board). The end result is that the corporation by large are far more sociopathic than the government on average. Corporation have no qualm polluting the environment if it means sparring a few greenbacks for example. That is why most democratic country have the equivalent of the EPA. Most corporation do not care if a few kids get mangled in the machinery (or at least used to) or do not care if kids get an education, this is why we have labor laws , education laws and no child work allowed. Corporation do care to abuse worker and pay the least possible, which is why there was script currency and people making no money back in the 19th. Don't get me started on the whole finance system. And I pass many other shenanigan corporation would immediately be back to do if enabled. Yet you do not see most government or most civil servant do that. Why ? Because since government are not beholden to short term profit, while they DO attract people who want power and not care about consequence, the mass of civil servant and the hierarchy is not beholden to short term profit and that small private subset of civilian and thus far less likely do sociopathic stuff.
That is a short summary , with caveat, but the bottom line is , if there was no law against grinding live puppy into paste , and it would bring money, a corporation WOULD do it.
Each time I bought an AMD CPU , I got plagued by reboot, blue screens, complete hand up, and various other CPU related shenanigan. *each and every time*, although I will admit the impact was different the last time and hang up rarer. After the 3rd time, I decided to concentrate on intel. My last 2 PC were intel and fine. Now while this class of bug are very bad, this may make me carefully reconsider AMD, but I would still rather be hit by the bug, than have again system so unstable as to be nigh unusable.
Mine are as follow : "In actual practice - the FCC logs complaints to a database , company ignore the complaint and forward it , and FCC DO NOT acts when there are many similar complaints against a company, or similar companies and will now ONLY start to act when there is a formal $225 paid complaint".
The US has the distinct disadvantage it is very very wide. Sure , on the surface, one could believe it means a lot more army would be needed to invade, but the reality is that it means only a few soft target would be needed to cripple the US : if you target refinery, fuel depot, and energy infrastructure you cripple the US because of the distance it needs to travel. So your AR15 guys would face the problem they may have as many ar15 as they want, but they would be quickly isolated unable to travel far as an invading army would lock down fuel supply/energy supply. After a week or two the civilian would be unable to travel far , by fact that the US all places are far from each other.
So basically you would be screwed.
If somebody was going to invade the US, the people having an AR15 are going to do jack shit against it. If only because of the number of tank, jet fighter/bomber, drone and other military material, then a similarly composed army would need to take over the US. You think you could with the AR15 fight agaisnt that ? nope. Best you could do is the partisan fighting, IED, and ambush or lightly armored/lightly protected target. And hope the other guy don't have high caliber or precise weapon. And hope there is no swift retribution with a drone run on the local house from which the attack started , because by that point any civilian attacking an enemy with weapon would immediately qualify as armed force, and their house armed force headquarter with potentially "collateral damage" like the US army name them. Your fantasy of resisting a modern army with AR15 is just that. Look how well the latest conflict the locals resisted with their IED and AK47.
What matter to the law is that there is an "Inheritance". You get this inheritance by default. It is up to YOU to check whether this comes up as a positive inheritance or negative. And you can hardly do that without checking yourself carefully. Imagine the legal nightmare if the inheritance was "optional" if negative after a while, but automatic if positive ? That would make it difficult to everybody and generate a lot of work for the judge to check whether an opt out or opt in was justified. No, a standard either "opt in always" or "optional always" is justified. In this case, it is better to have always inheritance and let the person decide to reject it. The other way around people could lose inheritance they would otherwise want.
You can always refuse an inheritance, the trick is , you have to refuse it *wholesale*. Meaning you can't pick and chose. Furthermore if the debt was cosigned by *both* spouse then in some cases the other signatory still continue to hold the debt.
The practice of OS forced bundling and the practice of using one's OS to force lower competition in other non-OS market in favor of one's product is exactely what brought microsoft in hot water. If Android was not an OS sold/licensed/used by other carrier, but only by google like iphone they would be safe. But it isn't and as a monopoly on OS sold to phone carrier, they are not allowed to use that monopoly to enforce their own non-OS app like "maps", or use their OS to gain and force their "map" app over competitive "map" app. This is the SAME SHIT microsoft was stomped upon. And yes there was an apple equivalent at the time the OS Mac were using. Exact same situation god dammit. I am getting old and crotchety to see people of younger generation know-it-all falling into the same trap.
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Programming is easy. Many people can pick up programming, put them on a computer with logo and have them move the turtle. Et voila many people will pick up quickly how to move the turtle. And bam you are a programmer. But see the difference between a programmer and a developper is that there are certain more complex you have to understand to make something, e.g. security, how memory function for your framework, GUI concept, HMI concept, what is the difference beetween n.log n and n^2 , and is it relevant to your application, scalling, maintainability, normalisation and when to use it and so forth. The difference between programmer is the same as knowing how to apply cpr , and how to be a heart surgeon. Everybody can do the one, but it need training and understanding to do the second. I have 30 years of developpment training and often i think I feel I am still at the programmer level, butchering stuff rather than do good development. But at least those 30 years gave me to see that not everybody can do development and a lot of folk don't understand those important concept. I have had many *programmer* not understand the concept of maintainability and shit code which long run make us lose hard cash. Or use normalization haphazardly.
Making programming easier does not help one understand the more complicated concept, and thus it will not enhance the quality of our software. Just like not everybody has it to be pilot or heart surgeon, sorry, but many of us are not really developper, we are code butcher.
That is how they come to such number, assume every soil is transformed into agricultural soil, protein comes from algae and insects (assume no meat), ignore the phosphorus and other similar elements problems, then assume everybody will agree to dump their way of life to a minimum. And that's not counting the one relying on magic technology not yet there. Basically that earth can support more people is true, but the hidden detail is that our way of life would be *significantly* lower than the western standard. Looking at the detail I would say that would be highly dystopian at best.
Virgin forest etc... The overshoot day is calculated by looking at the ground resource we use, then comparing to a set measurement sustainable (e.g. we consume as much forest as we replant and let top soil regenerate, e.g. by fallow and similar methods, and the ratio give a number. For example if we destroy 2500 Hectare forest, but replant 1250 we are effectively not sustainable long term and the overshoot for this measurement point is 2.0 meaning by half the year we overshoot sustaining point - there are various factors they take into accounts but this is the basic principle). I disagree with that publicity stunt for various reason, but if it brings people to inform themselves on sustainability , why not.
"Do no evil" is only good as far as you are a privately owner 100% company. As soon as shareholder enter in play , then forget it, only one rule is permissible : "do no illegal stuff" the rest is potentially a way to get sued if you demonstrably dropped profit and/or shareholder suffered through it, and yes "do no evil" is a ground to get sued if it can be demonstrated company would have been able to do more money by being legally evil, e.g. bowing down to governmental censorship in other countries. It does not matter what a company says about moral In the very end their only duty is toward fiduciary responsibility toward shareholder.
So yes this step surprised nobody whatsoever.
Guaranteed job mean more or less many people will have to dig hole to fill back them again. With automation there won't be many job left in a few decades that people without high level education can do without being easily replaceable. that leave "keep busy" guaranteed job. And you know what's worst ? Having a job you know is USELESS but given to you to a pittance to keep you busy. That is why UBI is better. Then it is your choice of what you do. Many people would simply wallow in their sweat before a tube box (being old tv or youtube). But many (and I do belong to that group) would rather do something creative and productive on their own rather than get a "keep busy" occupation.
"They refused. Why? Because I hadn't been there this quarter and to do ANYTHING for me they need a new referral from my doctor."
Actually no they can't do anything if it is not an emergency/enduring disease, because first you have to be referred by A doctor. They count as specialist and before you go to a specialist baring emergency & chronicle disease, you have to got to a doctor. This actually avoid abuses and flooding specialist when not needed. But note that I said *a* doctor. Not *your* doctor. Doctor hoping is not illegal, and if you have a previous prescription and a good reason (e.g. anti rejection drug, or need a referral for a previous operation) and your doc is in holiday, then they won't bat an eye to do you a referral. I know that because I have done it more than once during doctor holidays.
And yes you can directly go to a specialist in case of emergency or chronicle disease. The fact you are neither , and you could get an easy referral by another doc is WHY they did not accept you.
I have dealt with German bureaucracy for more than 20 years now. They are way better than most bureaucracy around the world. And they do indeed get shit done, the problem is that they are stickler for rules, and many people dislike that and feel it is a waste of time. No offense but you seem to belong to that category...
He could have used another way to show the vulnerability without having people named and shamed. But nooooo. let us name and shame. Anti social idiot.
Weight and balance system which helps stating how to make the take off taking into account cargo, and then the staff programming those , or the staff entering data for those which would have to be silent on this (as somebody being in that industry that would make me part of the conspiracy). And then take into account the fact that those chemtrail in summer would be bombarded to heavy UV, not a good thing for most chemicals, a lot would decompose, and then from 30000 foot the amount diluting and coming onto the ground would be ridiculously small per square meter.
If you can't have some sort of planning (and make no mistake auctioning of the slot would make some airline unavailable some days) would be utterly nightmare stuff for traveler. Sometimes what you call friction *do* actually provide stability which is required for societies to function, while "friction-less" leaves you , just like physical items, in a state of unstable equilibrium at best, in constant disequilibrium at worst.
because as i said I buy (books/game) or license/subscribe (film/serie) whatever I watch. if i watch something I *already* am subscribed for the month therefore it does not remove any money from netflix, crunchyrolls or amazon if i watch something else. In fact by your own argument if I don't watch that grey film/episode/anime/whatever then I am stealing money from them. So if I watch twitch instead ? Or free youtube ? Or one of the other video I have as dvd ? Your argument fail as a devil advocate.
https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2013/43/three-percent-of-online-buyers-and-sellers-victims-of-fraud
it is from nl, but I heard similar statistic in germany. Basically company are more friendly to buyer because statistically there is far more probability to get scammed by a seller than being not paid by buyer. It is definitively right to be more friendly by buyer too, increase of buyer number would attract seller, but a bad rep for buyer and chasing away sink the palteform.
Since 100% of the stuff I get from grey source are *not* available at ALL in my country due to geolocation market restriction, the argument of lost sale does not even hold. I normal buy/license anything i watch, but company which decide my region should not be allowed to buy it ? Fuck them.
Seeing how many of them were springing up to defend price, and seeing how easy it is for anybody, male, female, whichever , to set up a fake email campaign and make it look like a badly organized MRA thing, and we know that both side at some point not only boasted they were doxing the other side, but some troll also boasted he made both side fight harder... I am watching such pretend campaign with a wary eye. It could be male incel idiot trully wanting to fire female, it could be troll seeing the great way to shit everywhere and make people reacts, or it could be feminist seeing a great occasion to muck things up by pretending being MRA sending letter. Who knows ? Nobody unless you really catch the one doing it and check what was their reason for it.
If you give NO instruction to destroy documents, then the "landlord" here facebook, has no right to state he won't give the docs due to privacy of the deceased. Which is exactly why german judge told them "nope, it is part of the inheritance(Erbe) jsut like any other document".
"We empathize with the family. At the same time, Facebook accounts are used for a personal exchange between individuals which we have a duty to protect. "
A diary, a paper letters, and an email account would all fall under the germany law as "Erbe". You have no right to privacy once you are dead, and the still live individual sending you the email has no right to the message once sent. just because it is facebook does not mean it suddenly get more right to hide/refuse to give to the living memeber access. Don't like it facebook ? Don't allow german account, don't do financial transaction in germany (so no german advertiser). That can only german privacy a notch, and potentially make people think of meeting people as alternative. Win-win.
Government can be toppled by the general public at election , or in some rare case by protests. The general public has no influence whatsoever over private corporation, if you set aside laws, only the small private owner or share holder have influence. And that again is a factor.
A government is not beholden to a limited "private club" third party to get "profit". It is beholden to the whole of the public. And while some part clearly are co-opted or even corrupted by industry lobbyist (from the exact same corporation you seem so fond of) and while clearly some government are more democratic than other, in your average western government the public HAS an influence on laws. The public has NO influence on corporation, only those of that private club (the share holder, the board). The end result is that the corporation by large are far more sociopathic than the government on average. Corporation have no qualm polluting the environment if it means sparring a few greenbacks for example. That is why most democratic country have the equivalent of the EPA. Most corporation do not care if a few kids get mangled in the machinery (or at least used to) or do not care if kids get an education, this is why we have labor laws , education laws and no child work allowed. Corporation do care to abuse worker and pay the least possible, which is why there was script currency and people making no money back in the 19th. Don't get me started on the whole finance system. And I pass many other shenanigan corporation would immediately be back to do if enabled. Yet you do not see most government or most civil servant do that. Why ? Because since government are not beholden to short term profit, while they DO attract people who want power and not care about consequence, the mass of civil servant and the hierarchy is not beholden to short term profit and that small private subset of civilian and thus far less likely do sociopathic stuff.
That is a short summary , with caveat, but the bottom line is , if there was no law against grinding live puppy into paste , and it would bring money, a corporation WOULD do it.
Each time I bought an AMD CPU , I got plagued by reboot, blue screens, complete hand up, and various other CPU related shenanigan. *each and every time*, although I will admit the impact was different the last time and hang up rarer. After the 3rd time, I decided to concentrate on intel. My last 2 PC were intel and fine. Now while this class of bug are very bad, this may make me carefully reconsider AMD, but I would still rather be hit by the bug, than have again system so unstable as to be nigh unusable.
Mine are as follow : "In actual practice - the FCC logs complaints to a database , company ignore the complaint and forward it , and FCC DO NOT acts when there are many similar complaints against a company, or similar companies and will now ONLY start to act when there is a formal $225 paid complaint".
The US has the distinct disadvantage it is very very wide. Sure , on the surface, one could believe it means a lot more army would be needed to invade, but the reality is that it means only a few soft target would be needed to cripple the US : if you target refinery, fuel depot, and energy infrastructure you cripple the US because of the distance it needs to travel. So your AR15 guys would face the problem they may have as many ar15 as they want, but they would be quickly isolated unable to travel far as an invading army would lock down fuel supply/energy supply. After a week or two the civilian would be unable to travel far , by fact that the US all places are far from each other. So basically you would be screwed.
If somebody was going to invade the US, the people having an AR15 are going to do jack shit against it. If only because of the number of tank, jet fighter/bomber, drone and other military material, then a similarly composed army would need to take over the US. You think you could with the AR15 fight agaisnt that ? nope. Best you could do is the partisan fighting, IED, and ambush or lightly armored/lightly protected target. And hope the other guy don't have high caliber or precise weapon. And hope there is no swift retribution with a drone run on the local house from which the attack started , because by that point any civilian attacking an enemy with weapon would immediately qualify as armed force, and their house armed force headquarter with potentially "collateral damage" like the US army name them. Your fantasy of resisting a modern army with AR15 is just that. Look how well the latest conflict the locals resisted with their IED and AK47.
What matter to the law is that there is an "Inheritance". You get this inheritance by default. It is up to YOU to check whether this comes up as a positive inheritance or negative. And you can hardly do that without checking yourself carefully. Imagine the legal nightmare if the inheritance was "optional" if negative after a while, but automatic if positive ? That would make it difficult to everybody and generate a lot of work for the judge to check whether an opt out or opt in was justified. No, a standard either "opt in always" or "optional always" is justified. In this case, it is better to have always inheritance and let the person decide to reject it. The other way around people could lose inheritance they would otherwise want.
You can always refuse an inheritance, the trick is , you have to refuse it *wholesale*. Meaning you can't pick and chose. Furthermore if the debt was cosigned by *both* spouse then in some cases the other signatory still continue to hold the debt.
The practice of OS forced bundling and the practice of using one's OS to force lower competition in other non-OS market in favor of one's product is exactely what brought microsoft in hot water. If Android was not an OS sold/licensed/used by other carrier, but only by google like iphone they would be safe. But it isn't and as a monopoly on OS sold to phone carrier, they are not allowed to use that monopoly to enforce their own non-OS app like "maps", or use their OS to gain and force their "map" app over competitive "map" app. This is the SAME SHIT microsoft was stomped upon. And yes there was an apple equivalent at the time the OS Mac were using. Exact same situation god dammit. I am getting old and crotchety to see people of younger generation know-it-all falling into the same trap.