In the coming weeks and months, we might well find some sort of "smoking gun" memo that details known flaws in the power grid system. It might be a flaw that could have been fixed with a small investment of capital... or it could be an obselete system entirely. Without more information, it is impossible to tell. I agree, it seems like it's too soon to begin pointing fingers - but knowing the cause of this event will go a long way toward preventing it elsewhere.
So, in essence, sellers on Ebay are as easy to track down as sellers in brick & mortar stores or otuer public places of business, with business licenses, vendor's licenses, or other government checks and controls... I fail to see a problem with that.
Of course, this opens them up for identity theft, just as much as it would normal businesspeople.
Agent Smith states clearly and specifically what his goals are in the first film, when he is interrogating Morpheus. Smith is disgusted by the matrix and its humans. He feels infected by their stink, and is repulsed by the thought of living out his existence in a zoo. His goal is not the preservation of the matrix, or of humanity. His goal is the destruction of the matrix.
Consider. If Zion does indeed fall, with no council of 23 men and women to rebuild (note, too, that the council was composed of the oldest people of zion, and it had 23 or so members...), then the anomolous 1% of the population remains in the matrix, thus wreaking havoc and buggering it all to hell. This, the matrix collapses, and Smith is indeed free.
If the one must visit the Architect to complete the circle, then stopping him would be a pretty effective way of wrecking the whole works.
The line I got when I toured the cathedral several years ago is that the architects of future expansions were planning to incorporate icons and images from americana into the design of the cathedral. Darth Vader is distinctly American, I suppose.
The woman who gave the tour also said that there were other modern images and characters on the exterior of the structure, though I forget what they were.
Compare this problem to that of the NCAA Basketall tournament. The vast majority of First round games were easy to predict. But for every game where you chose incorrectly, the predictions you made after that round would also be inaccurate.
With Psychohistory, mathematics were used to predict events hundreds of years into the future. So long as the basic data and assumptions on which each decision is made remain the same, each decision has your 95% chance of being correct. If that 1 in 20 is wrong, however, every prediction after it is almost worthless. How can Dayton win the tournament (as I predicted) if they lost in the first round? My chances of being correct go from 95% to 0%.
In order to be 100% accurate, you'd almost have to make each prediction immediately once the previous prediction comes to fruition. This limits the number of points at which your predictions can be buggered all to hell.
The chances of a given outcome remain the same only if one outcome does not influence the next. If, for instance, you are throwing darts at balloons, your chances of hitting a baloon are based on the area of the board, size of the balloons, etc. Once you hit one and pop it, however, your chances go down - now there's more board to hit and less balloon.
Interestingly enough, this is a true story. Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio, late of Federal Prison) was acquitted in 1982 of taking bribes as a county sherrif. The IRS then charged him with evading taxes on the bribes he legally didn't take. They don't care where the funds come from - they just want their cut.
I work for a municipal government in Southern Ohio. We are not required to consent to any sort of credit check at all - unless we work for the finance department. If we are involved in the Finance or Tax divisions of the City Administration - even if as a secretary - we have to demonstrate good credit. City Law sets forth standards, intended to protect the "Health, Safety, and General Welfare" of the city by promoting "Fiscal Responsibility in City Administrative Staff."
I'd say it's illegal, except that we write the laws.
With all due respect, presenting a site that is comparable to the site under discussion seems to be a valid use of a comment.
Penny Arcade is a different site as well, and thus the post itself is offtopic.
"Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
And I thought there was a 42 in there somewhere...
It sounds like the actual script and plot will have very little to do with any of the stories in the book. Rather, Fox is using Asimov's name to sell what is likely to be a mediocre movie. Will Smith can be entertaining, but Crap made from crap is still crap.
Boy I hope this isn't as bad as I think it will be.
They who know me, know me. They who do not shall.
That is, after all, the whole intent of having lawyers in the first place. That is why those who cannot afford legal representation are assigned a public defender for free. Lawyers know the system, inside and out, so that they can better represent the interests of their client. That is their only function.
The intent of having lawyers is so that a court cannot throw some legal jargon at the accused and confuse them into confessing/giving up/pleading guilty. Though the law does not account for quality (or cost or affordability) of legal representation, it does guarantee access to it.
When figuring the cost, you must take your own time spent on the project into account. Time spent building and configuring your systems is time not spent filling other roles (sysadmin, etc). The other side to that coin is that 60 systems will take a good amount of time to build - moreso if you're interrupted every so often with a question or a tech issue. If you get an assistant to run the business operations while you build computers, or vice versa, that's still a tangible cost which must be accounted for.
The time saved by getting 60 systems ready to rock out of the box seems considerable - particularly if you're on a tight schedule for this roll-out.
Randomly, Phased rollouts might not be a bad idea to start off with - maybe 50/50 or 60/40, as needed - let the hardware that's working well continue to do so for another budget cycle.
This might indeed bring viewers to the channel. If they wanted to alienate the viewing public, they'd run a week-long Daikatana marathon.
Heh... Daikatana...
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In the coming weeks and months, we might well find some sort of "smoking gun" memo that details known flaws in the power grid system. It might be a flaw that could have been fixed with a small investment of capital... or it could be an obselete system entirely. Without more information, it is impossible to tell. I agree, it seems like it's too soon to begin pointing fingers - but knowing the cause of this event will go a long way toward preventing it elsewhere.
So, in essence, sellers on Ebay are as easy to track down as sellers in brick & mortar stores or otuer public places of business, with business licenses, vendor's licenses, or other government checks and controls... I fail to see a problem with that.
Of course, this opens them up for identity theft, just as much as it would normal businesspeople.
Agent Smith states clearly and specifically what his goals are in the first film, when he is interrogating Morpheus. Smith is disgusted by the matrix and its humans. He feels infected by their stink, and is repulsed by the thought of living out his existence in a zoo. His goal is not the preservation of the matrix, or of humanity. His goal is the destruction of the matrix.
Consider. If Zion does indeed fall, with no council of 23 men and women to rebuild (note, too, that the council was composed of the oldest people of zion, and it had 23 or so members...), then the anomolous 1% of the population remains in the matrix, thus wreaking havoc and buggering it all to hell. This, the matrix collapses, and Smith is indeed free.
If the one must visit the Architect to complete the circle, then stopping him would be a pretty effective way of wrecking the whole works.
it would probably be more like this:
back up brain
reformat head
uh . . . what was step 3 again?
Step 3: Profit!
The line I got when I toured the cathedral several years ago is that the architects of future expansions were planning to incorporate icons and images from americana into the design of the cathedral. Darth Vader is distinctly American, I suppose.
The woman who gave the tour also said that there were other modern images and characters on the exterior of the structure, though I forget what they were.
Compare this problem to that of the NCAA Basketall tournament. The vast majority of First round games were easy to predict. But for every game where you chose incorrectly, the predictions you made after that round would also be inaccurate.
With Psychohistory, mathematics were used to predict events hundreds of years into the future. So long as the basic data and assumptions on which each decision is made remain the same, each decision has your 95% chance of being correct. If that 1 in 20 is wrong, however, every prediction after it is almost worthless. How can Dayton win the tournament (as I predicted) if they lost in the first round? My chances of being correct go from 95% to 0%.
In order to be 100% accurate, you'd almost have to make each prediction immediately once the previous prediction comes to fruition. This limits the number of points at which your predictions can be buggered all to hell.
The chances of a given outcome remain the same only if one outcome does not influence the next. If, for instance, you are throwing darts at balloons, your chances of hitting a baloon are based on the area of the board, size of the balloons, etc. Once you hit one and pop it, however, your chances go down - now there's more board to hit and less balloon.
Interestingly enough, this is a true story. Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio, late of Federal Prison) was acquitted in 1982 of taking bribes as a county sherrif. The IRS then charged him with evading taxes on the bribes he legally didn't take. They don't care where the funds come from - they just want their cut.
Ask the American and British soldiers currently risking their lives if this isn't "stuff that matters."
...It can tuck your children in at night, make a killer caeser salad, and can divide by zero.
Hey, if SBC will put another DirecTV satellite in the Northern sky, so I can actually GET direcTV, I'm down with it.
I work for a municipal government in Southern Ohio. We are not required to consent to any sort of credit check at all - unless we work for the finance department. If we are involved in the Finance or Tax divisions of the City Administration - even if as a secretary - we have to demonstrate good credit. City Law sets forth standards, intended to protect the "Health, Safety, and General Welfare" of the city by promoting "Fiscal Responsibility in City Administrative Staff." I'd say it's illegal, except that we write the laws.
With all due respect, presenting a site that is comparable to the site under discussion seems to be a valid use of a comment. Penny Arcade is a different site as well, and thus the post itself is offtopic.
"Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
And I thought there was a 42 in there somewhere...
You might give Moonbase Commander a look. It's decidedly New-School, but it really has a classic strategy feel.
It sounds like the actual script and plot will have very little to do with any of the stories in the book. Rather, Fox is using Asimov's name to sell what is likely to be a mediocre movie. Will Smith can be entertaining, but Crap made from crap is still crap. Boy I hope this isn't as bad as I think it will be. They who know me, know me. They who do not shall.
That is, after all, the whole intent of having lawyers in the first place. That is why those who cannot afford legal representation are assigned a public defender for free. Lawyers know the system, inside and out, so that they can better represent the interests of their client. That is their only function. The intent of having lawyers is so that a court cannot throw some legal jargon at the accused and confuse them into confessing/giving up/pleading guilty. Though the law does not account for quality (or cost or affordability) of legal representation, it does guarantee access to it.
When figuring the cost, you must take your own time spent on the project into account. Time spent building and configuring your systems is time not spent filling other roles (sysadmin, etc). The other side to that coin is that 60 systems will take a good amount of time to build - moreso if you're interrupted every so often with a question or a tech issue. If you get an assistant to run the business operations while you build computers, or vice versa, that's still a tangible cost which must be accounted for. The time saved by getting 60 systems ready to rock out of the box seems considerable - particularly if you're on a tight schedule for this roll-out. Randomly, Phased rollouts might not be a bad idea to start off with - maybe 50/50 or 60/40, as needed - let the hardware that's working well continue to do so for another budget cycle.
This might indeed bring viewers to the channel. If they wanted to alienate the viewing public, they'd run a week-long Daikatana marathon. Heh... Daikatana...