These are not migrants. Migrants come here, get jobs here, live here, rent homes here, buy goods here, pay taxes here. When they leave here, the job stays here for someone else to take.
In this case, however, the not-migrants are coming here only long enough to be trained to do the job. They are then returning to their home land, taking the job with them. Any benefit to the American economy is either transient (i.e. during their training) or restricted to the decision makers in the company carrying it out. In net, it is a loss to the American economy.
Arbitrage increases demand in the market that the arbitrageur is buying from, and increases supply in the market he is selling to. This has the effect of flattening prices and moving product to correct market imbalances. Over time, any remaining delta in the prices of that commodity on those two markets is going to be close to the arbitrageur's costs.
My Grandpa was very fond of one particular expression. From time to time, I would ask him what would happen if you did X, Y and Z, where such a combination was likely to result in a Bad Thing happening.
His response was usually, "Well, you just don't do that."
If someone were to figure out the MAC address of his cell phone's WiFi interface (assuming it isn't an Apple that scrambles MAC addresses), a volunteer-run network of consumer-grade routers scattered around the city could get a pretty good fix on his location. I'm using the term 'network' very loosely here, of course; it's a network in that they're affiliated, not in that they're functionally connected. It would be 100% legal and inexpensive to do.
I have to agree with you 100%, and it's a pity you posted AC, since some would not have seen the remark. No, refrigerators do not need to be networked. We do not need refrigerators with 21.5" 1080p displays and camers. Heaven help us if it also has a microphone.
Regardless. 802.11ah is interesting for range, not speed. You get better distance on 900 MHz than 2.4 GHz.
Either one can be proved the same way: Address a piece of mail to it, and then ask me to produce it in person a week or so later. That will suffice to prove that the address can lead content to me. Anything further, that can't be proved about the address, is outside of the scope of an address's purpose.
I'm not sure how the attempts to block websites is going to work. Given that most people have phones, and most phones have 3G or 4G access, if the school blocks websites on their LAN, the students just won't use it.
Like the AC pointed out . . . poorly . . . "diesel gas" is a bad term. Diesel and gasoline are two different fuels, and the terms are mutually exclusive.
That said, I agree with you about safety, even more so. Diesel is significantly safer to store than gasoline. It is significantly less volatile, and while the fumes from it can ignite, it is really difficult to get them to do so accidentally. Except in the presence of fertilizer, diesel is generally not explosive. While you can light a puddle of gasoline with a match easily and accidentally, you will need to take significant effort to light a puddle of diesel.
Obviously, a leak is still a potential problem, but the first concerns most people have are not going to be issues.
Maybe five to ten years ago or so. I think that bandwidth shot up around then, which left us with a brief respite before people started demanding more data with the more bandwidth that they then had. At least, that's the way it seems to me. I was pretty happy with my bandwidth around then. I know that bandwidth has gone up since then, but that the demand for content has gone up more.
That's just my perception, though. YMMV.
At the same time, it seems like some things don't move or don't move much. Video seems to have settled in at around 4-8 Mbit/sec, which even works on some of the lower tiers of Internet service.
That, however, naturally leads me to the next point: Most Internet access isn't symmetrical, and hasn't been since 33.6k modems. I bought the particular level of service I have because I mix audio and video as a side-gig, and I need the outbound bandwidth. This solution from Amazon provides just exactly that, just the latency is kind of high.
I propose the hypothesis that this is not feasible in the real world. If you are confident in your position, you can falsify this hypothesis by setting up such a system and documenting it such that the results are reproducible.
I think you have to be setting out to cause harm in order for it to count as malicious. As such, I would concede that GNOME made a mistake, but I would think it hyperbolic to say that they that GNOME 3 is malicious.
I think if you want to call something malicious, you have to have set out in the first case with intentions to subvert the user's sovereignty over their own property. Install something I didn't ask for and would have specifically rejected? Malicious. Make it difficult to opt out? Malicious. Report my local drive searches that are none of your business? Malicious. Lock me out of content I bought? Malicious. Bloat my phone with a bunch of apps I can't install? Malicious. Make a dumb-ass design mistake? Dumb-assed, but not malicious.
To conflate bad design with malice dilutes the discussion of things that genuinely are malicious -- that genuinely mean us harm.
First, I find it worrisome, but not as much as when it impacts the non-game software world, i.e. the world of operating systems and productivity software, stuff that either is something everyone uses, or people use to make money, or both. What do you do if your job depends on your computer booting, which it refuses to do?
Second, I don't know if you have noticed or not, but some software companies (Microsoft, for instance) don't even try to hide the fact that there is nothing in the box, because.; . . there is no box. If you buy software from a bricks-and-mortar these days, you often just get a card with a nonce printed on it under a scratch-off spot. You scratch off the spot, go to a specified website, enter the nonce, and your software downloads.
Truth. Interestingly enough, this makes it very easy to tell the official story from the unofficial, when there has been an incident of some sort. All you have to do to filter (or filter out) the official story is grep for a pattern like/tak(ing|es).* seriously/. Try it! It works surprisingly well.
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These are not migrants. Migrants come here, get jobs here, live here, rent homes here, buy goods here, pay taxes here. When they leave here, the job stays here for someone else to take.
In this case, however, the not-migrants are coming here only long enough to be trained to do the job. They are then returning to their home land, taking the job with them. Any benefit to the American economy is either transient (i.e. during their training) or restricted to the decision makers in the company carrying it out. In net, it is a loss to the American economy.
Would it make sense to buy it now, and then flip it in a year or two?
I disagree with this point.
Arbitrage increases demand in the market that the arbitrageur is buying from, and increases supply in the market he is selling to. This has the effect of flattening prices and moving product to correct market imbalances. Over time, any remaining delta in the prices of that commodity on those two markets is going to be close to the arbitrageur's costs.
Clearly your installer, like your UPS, sucks.
It was done properly in our location -- knock on door, and I was able to observe the process.
My Grandpa was very fond of one particular expression. From time to time, I would ask him what would happen if you did X, Y and Z, where such a combination was likely to result in a Bad Thing happening.
His response was usually, "Well, you just don't do that."
Your suggested interval is too much work, BUT...
If someone were to figure out the MAC address of his cell phone's WiFi interface (assuming it isn't an Apple that scrambles MAC addresses), a volunteer-run network of consumer-grade routers scattered around the city could get a pretty good fix on his location. I'm using the term 'network' very loosely here, of course; it's a network in that they're affiliated, not in that they're functionally connected. It would be 100% legal and inexpensive to do.
The subject may say it all . . . While the right to say "I told you so" is nice, it sucks to be in the situation to say it.
I have to agree with you 100%, and it's a pity you posted AC, since some would not have seen the remark. No, refrigerators do not need to be networked. We do not need refrigerators with 21.5" 1080p displays and camers. Heaven help us if it also has a microphone.
Regardless. 802.11ah is interesting for range, not speed. You get better distance on 900 MHz than 2.4 GHz.
Nobody would be stopping you from hiring a privately-owned commercial ISP, if you prefer.
Either one can be proved the same way: Address a piece of mail to it, and then ask me to produce it in person a week or so later. That will suffice to prove that the address can lead content to me. Anything further, that can't be proved about the address, is outside of the scope of an address's purpose.
No resistance. Never happens in the real world.
Here you go.
I'm not sure how the attempts to block websites is going to work. Given that most people have phones, and most phones have 3G or 4G access, if the school blocks websites on their LAN, the students just won't use it.
Liberals are all about freedom, expression, tolerance, etc. until you do or say something that they don't like.
And conservatives are all about small government until it's time to tell someone how to live their life.
The left/right bullshit is designed to take your eye off the ball. This is about control versus freedom.
Like the AC pointed out . . . poorly . . . "diesel gas" is a bad term. Diesel and gasoline are two different fuels, and the terms are mutually exclusive.
That said, I agree with you about safety, even more so. Diesel is significantly safer to store than gasoline. It is significantly less volatile, and while the fumes from it can ignite, it is really difficult to get them to do so accidentally. Except in the presence of fertilizer, diesel is generally not explosive. While you can light a puddle of gasoline with a match easily and accidentally, you will need to take significant effort to light a puddle of diesel.
Obviously, a leak is still a potential problem, but the first concerns most people have are not going to be issues.
I suspect that it is necessary to sign the agreement if you want to collect your severance package. Want to leave three months pay on the table?
That said, I would consider a duress defense.
Was there ever a time this wasn't true?
Maybe five to ten years ago or so. I think that bandwidth shot up around then, which left us with a brief respite before people started demanding more data with the more bandwidth that they then had. At least, that's the way it seems to me. I was pretty happy with my bandwidth around then. I know that bandwidth has gone up since then, but that the demand for content has gone up more.
That's just my perception, though. YMMV.
At the same time, it seems like some things don't move or don't move much. Video seems to have settled in at around 4-8 Mbit/sec, which even works on some of the lower tiers of Internet service.
That, however, naturally leads me to the next point: Most Internet access isn't symmetrical, and hasn't been since 33.6k modems. I bought the particular level of service I have because I mix audio and video as a side-gig, and I need the outbound bandwidth. This solution from Amazon provides just exactly that, just the latency is kind of high.
I propose the hypothesis that this is not feasible in the real world. If you are confident in your position, you can falsify this hypothesis by setting up such a system and documenting it such that the results are reproducible.
I think you have to be setting out to cause harm in order for it to count as malicious. As such, I would concede that GNOME made a mistake, but I would think it hyperbolic to say that they that GNOME 3 is malicious.
I think if you want to call something malicious, you have to have set out in the first case with intentions to subvert the user's sovereignty over their own property. Install something I didn't ask for and would have specifically rejected? Malicious. Make it difficult to opt out? Malicious. Report my local drive searches that are none of your business? Malicious. Lock me out of content I bought? Malicious. Bloat my phone with a bunch of apps I can't install? Malicious. Make a dumb-ass design mistake? Dumb-assed, but not malicious.
To conflate bad design with malice dilutes the discussion of things that genuinely are malicious -- that genuinely mean us harm.
And when you issue that command, what interprets it? Has that code that interprets the command been compromised? Are you sure?
Indeed. Making While Muslim seems to have joined Walking While Black in the litany of capital offenses.
Difference between factory reset and completely replacing the NVRAM, perhaps?
I have two thoughts about this:
First, I find it worrisome, but not as much as when it impacts the non-game software world, i.e. the world of operating systems and productivity software, stuff that either is something everyone uses, or people use to make money, or both. What do you do if your job depends on your computer booting, which it refuses to do?
Second, I don't know if you have noticed or not, but some software companies (Microsoft, for instance) don't even try to hide the fact that there is nothing in the box, because .; . . there is no box. If you buy software from a bricks-and-mortar these days, you often just get a card with a nonce printed on it under a scratch-off spot. You scratch off the spot, go to a specified website, enter the nonce, and your software downloads.
They agreed to it, presumably in order to keep the fines down to where they are. Here's a relevant excerpt from the article:
Truth. Interestingly enough, this makes it very easy to tell the official story from the unofficial, when there has been an incident of some sort. All you have to do to filter (or filter out) the official story is grep for a pattern like /tak(ing|es) .* seriously/. Try it! It works surprisingly well.