No, the workers have little to do with why GM is dying. GM's problem is that they make crap cars and focus on how to nickel and dime their customers. If they actually tried to build a decent product, they'd do fine.
Black guy has no education and can't find anybody willing to pay him even minimum wages. His poor family is starving, and he feels like he is no use to them at all. One day a white guy walks up to him and sees that he looks reasonably strong, and that with a little training he might pay off as a construction worker. However, he doesn't want to invest all kinds of money in training just to have the guy get a job somewhere else.
Terrible example. Unskilled labor pays well above minimum wage, and for $40k, you can go to college. You could loan the black guy $40k and forgive $8k each year that he works for you after he finishes college - that works and is legal.
and all the folks in denial of any threat are doing their best to help the (foreign) bad guys.
"If you disagree with the government, you're helping terrorists (foreign ones, anyway)". Well fuck you, I don't think the threat is sufficient to warrant flushing our constitution. I would prefer we treat 9/11 as a national tragedy and move on with only minimal changes to how we live our lives. The terrorists can bloody well pound sand - they aren't a credible threat.
It is similar to a situation where a policeman stops you and tells you to run that stop sign so they can give you a ticket or they will arrest you, on some charge like failure to cooperate with an officer.
That's not actually illegal - you're only required to obey lawful orders. This is more like the cop asking to look in your trunk after pulling you over for speeding. You can refuse, but he'll hassle you a bit.
You'd probably think so, but I bet after the first few months of totally contradictory change requests, specification creep, and an utter lack of hard-and-fast acceptance criteria, that you'd throw up your hands, too.
Nah, I'd identify the core and implement the parts that people agree on, while slapping people around when they start demanding things that can't coexist. The real fun involves locked door meetings with the stakeholders and a large pot of coffee (no bathroom breaks) - people really can make decisions under pressure.
And the Boss will come down and take one look at the software, and immediately demand that something get changed.
The trick is to make them feel good, but not actually change things.
Yeah, well you test the software before it ships, and test all of it, too. If the bug count is in the hundreds and (rapidly?) growing, that implies that it's in Gamma testing and unsuitable for release.
This is modded funny but I seriously agree. What perfect world is this guy living in? I've seen software that doesn't even GET tested before it starts shipping.
This isn't a perfect world thing, it's how real software development is done. Just because you've seen it done that way doesn't make it a good idea.
here's no real world evidence to show America would be any different. If what you said was true, celebrity gossip would have died out as a business by now.
Yeah, I can really see total strangers hounding me for not picking up after my dog for a year and a half!
program apache running on the slashdot server configured to listen to address:port 66.35.250.150:80 and probably 66.35.250.150:8080, spawns a new process and attaches it to an unused port 66.35.250.150:56345 which sends the webpage to your computer at 10.168.10.254:45789;
No, Apache does not attach the process to a new port, it sends from port 80. A connection is defined by the host and port number of each host and whether it's TCP or UDP, so there's no reason to try weird shit with port 56345. If it sent from port 56345, how would your host ever know that that was the same connection as the one it originated.
After all I am sure anyone who owns/has access to a private jet (how many thousands of people is that?) can get 5000 lbs of diesiel into the air tomorow.
And do what with it? Set an office building on fire?
Well duh, you always have risk. The whole point is that my laptop is safer with me than in the cargo hold. No laptop/carryon = no flying for me. Business travellers are different - they'd kill the airline industry if this ban was made permanent.
the bad guy not be allowed to take control of a 3.3 terajoule aircraft (guided missile).
Where's the warhead? Sure, you can burn the fuel and set a building on fire, but it's not like you can release all that energy at once. More likely, it'll burn at 5-600C, which will at best soften steel.
Yes, you can blow up any building in the world but it's a lot easier to fly a Boeing 767 into a building than delivering explosives to a tightly secured area.
Just you try it. It's actually very hard.
Additionally, it is hard to match the power of a large plane crashing into a building.
You just don't get it - 30,000 people can connect to port 80 on one box. If that's too much, then make it.slashdot.org 10 boxes. Your 16k port limit only applies to the number of separate services you can connect to.
Who remembers, as a child, being able to get away from over-protective parents by simply walking away from a phone?
Hmm, walk out because you're tired of being yelled at, chill for a few hours, come back, get grounded. Ignore the grounding and get on with your life - ahh, memories.
No, the point is that there is no such limit. You can build a server farm that handles a million persistent connections if that's what you need. Images is just a DNS address. It doesn't have to be a single box.
After all, it could be argued that God started things up and then let them evolve after that. The Bible only says the beasts were created. It doesn't say exactly how.
Philosophy.
However, you can tell science is threatened because they scream to the heavens (pun intended) whenever someone wants to even mention in the classroom that there are alternate theories to evolution.
That's because they then trot out some crap about Creationism and pretend it's a theory instead of Dogma. Keep it in religious studies.
I remember learning that human embryos had gills and a tail during development--a blatent lie told to promote the evolution theory in the classroom.
I find it amusing that the more science finds out, the more it CONTRADICTS their theories.
It's not dogma - if you find something that contradicts your theory, then you fix the theory.
Especially when there are so many other animals that have changed very little over the same period of years, such as the crocodile.
They got a lot smaller, but otherwise, they're doing fine. Why change?
It makes absolutely no sense unless it's the only way you can explain how one animal disappeared and another appeared because you can't allow that some deity, or other being was involved.
That's because you can't deal with the timescales involved. None of this happened in less than a millenium by a log ways, except when we get involved. Humans are nasty creatures.
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And if you can convince the judge that this was his intent in the first place, you can probably get this debt retained.
No, the workers have little to do with why GM is dying. GM's problem is that they make crap cars and focus on how to nickel and dime their customers. If they actually tried to build a decent product, they'd do fine.
Black guy has no education and can't find anybody willing to pay him even minimum wages. His poor family is starving, and he feels like he is no use to them at all. One day a white guy walks up to him and sees that he looks reasonably strong, and that with a little training he might pay off as a construction worker. However, he doesn't want to invest all kinds of money in training just to have the guy get a job somewhere else.
Terrible example. Unskilled labor pays well above minimum wage, and for $40k, you can go to college. You could loan the black guy $40k and forgive $8k each year that he works for you after he finishes college - that works and is legal.
And they were smacked down for it. Never mind that they were operating in wartime, and we are not.
So you actually think that acting outside the constitution is Okay? That is never justified, and is the price we pay for being civilized.
A policeman actually has real authority and you're legally obligated to do as he says.
So if a cop showed up at my door and said "give me a beer", I'm obligated to do so? What if he demanded I let him park in my garage?
and all the folks in denial of any threat are doing their best to help the (foreign) bad guys.
"If you disagree with the government, you're helping terrorists (foreign ones, anyway)". Well fuck you, I don't think the threat is sufficient to warrant flushing our constitution. I would prefer we treat 9/11 as a national tragedy and move on with only minimal changes to how we live our lives. The terrorists can bloody well pound sand - they aren't a credible threat.
It is similar to a situation where a policeman stops you and tells you to run that stop sign so they can give you a ticket or they will arrest you, on some charge like failure to cooperate with an officer.
That's not actually illegal - you're only required to obey lawful orders. This is more like the cop asking to look in your trunk after pulling you over for speeding. You can refuse, but he'll hassle you a bit.
You'd probably think so, but I bet after the first few months of totally contradictory change requests, specification creep, and an utter lack of hard-and-fast acceptance criteria, that you'd throw up your hands, too.
Nah, I'd identify the core and implement the parts that people agree on, while slapping people around when they start demanding things that can't coexist. The real fun involves locked door meetings with the stakeholders and a large pot of coffee (no bathroom breaks) - people really can make decisions under pressure.
And the Boss will come down and take one look at the software, and immediately demand that something get changed.
The trick is to make them feel good, but not actually change things.
Yeah, well you test the software before it ships, and test all of it, too. If the bug count is in the hundreds and (rapidly?) growing, that implies that it's in Gamma testing and unsuitable for release.
This is modded funny but I seriously agree. What perfect world is this guy living in? I've seen software that doesn't even GET tested before it starts shipping.
This isn't a perfect world thing, it's how real software development is done. Just because you've seen it done that way doesn't make it a good idea.
here's no real world evidence to show America would be any different. If what you said was true, celebrity gossip would have died out as a business by now.
Yeah, I can really see total strangers hounding me for not picking up after my dog for a year and a half!
program apache running on the slashdot server configured to listen to address:port 66.35.250.150:80 and probably 66.35.250.150:8080, spawns a new process and attaches it to an unused port 66.35.250.150:56345 which sends the webpage to your computer at 10.168.10.254:45789;
No, Apache does not attach the process to a new port, it sends from port 80. A connection is defined by the host and port number of each host and whether it's TCP or UDP, so there's no reason to try weird shit with port 56345. If it sent from port 56345, how would your host ever know that that was the same connection as the one it originated.
Go read a book - you don't know how TCP/IP works.
After all I am sure anyone who owns/has access to a private jet (how many thousands of people is that?) can get 5000 lbs of diesiel into the air tomorow.
And do what with it? Set an office building on fire?
Well duh, you always have risk. The whole point is that my laptop is safer with me than in the cargo hold. No laptop/carryon = no flying for me. Business travellers are different - they'd kill the airline industry if this ban was made permanent.
the bad guy not be allowed to take control of a 3.3 terajoule aircraft (guided missile).
Where's the warhead? Sure, you can burn the fuel and set a building on fire, but it's not like you can release all that energy at once. More likely, it'll burn at 5-600C, which will at best soften steel.
Yes, you can blow up any building in the world but it's a lot easier to fly a Boeing 767 into a building than delivering explosives to a tightly secured area.
Just you try it. It's actually very hard.
Additionally, it is hard to match the power of a large plane crashing into a building.
So what. Shot placement beats power.
You just don't get it - 30,000 people can connect to port 80 on one box. If that's too much, then make it.slashdot.org 10 boxes. Your 16k port limit only applies to the number of separate services you can connect to.
Who remembers, as a child, being able to get away from over-protective parents by simply walking away from a phone?
Hmm, walk out because you're tired of being yelled at, chill for a few hours, come back, get grounded. Ignore the grounding and get on with your life - ahh, memories.
Razor thin margins, hehehe.
"Are you bleeding?"
"Are you on fire?"
"No? Then it isn't an emergency. See you tonight."
Drug dealing, duh...
No, the point is that there is no such limit. You can build a server farm that handles a million persistent connections if that's what you need. Images is just a DNS address. It doesn't have to be a single box.
Philosophy.
That's because they then trot out some crap about Creationism and pretend it's a theory instead of Dogma. Keep it in religious studies.
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It's not dogma - if you find something that contradicts your theory, then you fix the theory.
They got a lot smaller, but otherwise, they're doing fine. Why change?
That's because you can't deal with the timescales involved. None of this happened in less than a millenium by a log ways, except when we get involved. Humans are nasty creatures.
I've got a third option: because we don't like murderers, so we'll kick you out. See how long you last on your own.