Take the money you were going to spend on this smart gun and take a basic gun safety class.
If it's priced like the existing smart guns (Armatix, etc.), you'll likely be able to buy a week at Gunsite or similar training program, where you'll also learn important stuff like identifying/using cover, off-hand shooting, clearing malfunctions, retention, and tons of other skills that will be far more useful than an electronic lock.
Where does it say that its purpose is to allow the people to violently overthrow a corrupt government?
It's mentioned several times in the Federalist Papers. From Federalist #28: "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo."
And then on top of that, if it's a codeshare flight, you're at the mercy of the actual carrier for any equipment changes, not the airline that sold you passage. In that situation, who knows what aircraft configuration you'll find yourself with.
I doubt that the lawyers company will be looked upon favorably by the tech giants anymore either
I wouldn't be so sure. If they're like most employment lawyers that I'm familiar with, they work both sides of the table, so odds are they've helped other companies screw over their people in the past.
Businesses making more money don't lead to more hiring. It leads to higher profit for the business. Nothing else.
It does when they need those people to make more money. If I own a store, and am making good money, I might want to expand and open new stores so I can make even more money. Those stores won't run themselves.
that's a completely made up statement. i have worked in lots of IT shops and the only place to find folks w/o a college degree is in the help desk/desktop support.
With the exception of my first job back in the late 80's, every IT shop I've worked had at least one senior dev without a degree - me. Fortunately, my resume and documented and verifiable accomplishments tend to make the degree issue moot in my case, and questions about my educational status are few and far between.
That's not to say that I don't think that a college education is a valuable thing, but there *are* a lot of us out there that took the time on our own to learn what we needed to be successful in the field. My copies of Knuth and Sedgewick are just as dog-eared as anyone else's.
I have two computers, two cell phones that default to 802.11 for data, two tablets. Between all of those, I'm at 303 GB for August thus far, according to my router. I'm guessing 2/3 of it was split between Netflix, Amazon Video, and YouTube.
MacOSX is a desktop system, who cares how complex Apple makes it to be easy for non-admin to use? not relevant to this discussion of a bloated complex thing for servers.
Except nobody actually does that. The whole JVM thing was done to make browser "applets" work. Nobody uses those any more. Most Java is server-side, running on farms of x86 machines.
Those farms of x86 boxes aren't necessarily running the same OS on each, necessitating different JVMs. I've personally worked in server environments where the same code had to run on x86 machines under Windows, Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris simultaneously.
An alt-az mount almost has to be motorized to be useful, and it drives up cost.
Something like a Meade ETX-80 isn't terribly expensive, the alignment procedure is easier, plus you get the benefit of go-to functionality with automatic tracking which really helps those that don't know the sky yet. German equatorials really are only necessary for photography, IMO, and are a royal pain in the butt to deal with when the optical tube is of any appreciable size.
My 10" Dob works just fine with an equatorial platform, and the platform costs a LOT less than a decent German mount that can deal with a 30 pound tube.
Want to know why? Because the victims know they don't have the resources to fight it out and big corporations love debt collection companies.
In the U.S., I would argue it's more because victims aren't familiar with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the (rather effective) remedies available to them at no cost. Debt collection companies do hinky shit all the time, but a lot of it is trivial to shut down if you're aware of what your options are instead of just taking the collector at their word.
You can ask a technical person to achieve a very specific, tightly scoped technical task during an interview and if you know the question well quickly get a feel for how good they really are.
Along with that, with techies it's a lot easier to weed out the bullshit and outright lies on their resumes. I wish I had a dime for every candidate that listed something obscure on their resume to puff it up, and then couldn't answer basic questions that anyone familiar with it should know.
"I see here you've got some extensive VMS system administration experience and show it as an area of expertise."
"Yes."
"That was a really cool OS - I liked how DEC implemented file versioning. Can you tell me how one would distinguish different versions of the same file?"
"Umm...it was a long time ago, I don't really remember...."
"Okay, can you give me one of the hardware platforms supported by VMS?"
"I'm pretty sure the system I worked on was a 486."
After 30 seconds you can tell the guy doesn't have a clue, and the entire resume is now suspect.
You're comparing your salary to one at a fucking bank, companies so famous for absurd compensation packages that it triggered street protests....
None of the compensation packages I've read about involved IT staff - it was all executives and brokers. My experience with banks is that they'll screw their own non-executive employees just like they will anyone else, but if you have cites otherwise I'll read them with great interest. The only IT folks in the financial sector that I've ever seen willingly get offered noticeably above-average money are HFT architects and coders.
Furthermore the per-capita US income is in the top 5 in the world. How sustainable do you think that is? I suggest you learn about regression toward the mean.
Or, as it's better known, "the race to the bottom". Domestic workers demand more because it's substantially more expensive to live here than it is in India and other countries popular with outsourcers. A well-paid programmer in India will do work sent to him for $15K/year and live quite well - here, that's approximately the federally mandated minimum wage, which isn't enough to do much more than meet one's essential needs, and often isn't even enough to do that. Are you seriously arguing that skilled workers with years of experience should be working for minimum wage?
Manufacturing in the US is alive and well and anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.
Really? Tell me where I can buy an American-made DIMM or LCD panel. Just because we still do make things in the U.S. doesn't mean that it hasn't completely destroyed other manufacturing centers here.
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Take the money you were going to spend on this smart gun and take a basic gun safety class.
If it's priced like the existing smart guns (Armatix, etc.), you'll likely be able to buy a week at Gunsite or similar training program, where you'll also learn important stuff like identifying/using cover, off-hand shooting, clearing malfunctions, retention, and tons of other skills that will be far more useful than an electronic lock.
A jammed gun is about as useful as an electronicallty controlled gun that has its electronics fried.
Most people with any experience can clear a jam in less than a second. Tap, rack, bang.
Where does it say that its purpose is to allow the people to violently overthrow a corrupt government?
It's mentioned several times in the Federalist Papers. From Federalist #28: "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo."
This made me think of Steve Martin in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels":
Passenger: "Miss, may I go to the bathroom now?"
Flight Attendant: "Of course, sir."
Passenger: [pause, then contented facial expression] "Thank you."
(yeah, yeah, I know that's not how catheters work...)
A lot of airlines are now charging extra for bulkhead and exit row seating. This started with Northwest back in 2005 AFAIK.
And then on top of that, if it's a codeshare flight, you're at the mercy of the actual carrier for any equipment changes, not the airline that sold you passage. In that situation, who knows what aircraft configuration you'll find yourself with.
Both sides of the aisle possess those attributes.
I doubt that the lawyers company will be looked upon favorably by the tech giants anymore either
I wouldn't be so sure. If they're like most employment lawyers that I'm familiar with, they work both sides of the table, so odds are they've helped other companies screw over their people in the past.
Businesses making more money don't lead to more hiring. It leads to higher profit for the business. Nothing else.
It does when they need those people to make more money. If I own a store, and am making good money, I might want to expand and open new stores so I can make even more money. Those stores won't run themselves.
And the blacks? "None more black."
"paystherentpic.com" is still available...
that's a completely made up statement. i have worked in lots of IT shops and the only place to find folks w/o a college degree is in the help desk/desktop support.
With the exception of my first job back in the late 80's, every IT shop I've worked had at least one senior dev without a degree - me. Fortunately, my resume and documented and verifiable accomplishments tend to make the degree issue moot in my case, and questions about my educational status are few and far between.
That's not to say that I don't think that a college education is a valuable thing, but there *are* a lot of us out there that took the time on our own to learn what we needed to be successful in the field. My copies of Knuth and Sedgewick are just as dog-eared as anyone else's.
I have two computers, two cell phones that default to 802.11 for data, two tablets. Between all of those, I'm at 303 GB for August thus far, according to my router. I'm guessing 2/3 of it was split between Netflix, Amazon Video, and YouTube.
So I'm assuming the IAU will be naming it "REI-128717"? ;-)
Why must people hang on so much to the old when there are so many clear advantages
Because the new is often outweighed by disadvantages, perceived or real.
MacOSX is a desktop system, who cares how complex Apple makes it to be easy for non-admin to use? not relevant to this discussion of a bloated complex thing for servers.
Apple offers a server variant of OS X as well.
Ten years later, XML has been largely superseded by REST and Web Services is basically gone
I think you might have meant SOAP, not XML. There are plenty of people writing REST services that speak XML.
Except nobody actually does that. The whole JVM thing was done to make browser "applets" work. Nobody uses those any more. Most Java is server-side, running on farms of x86 machines.
Those farms of x86 boxes aren't necessarily running the same OS on each, necessitating different JVMs. I've personally worked in server environments where the same code had to run on x86 machines under Windows, Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris simultaneously.
An alt-az mount almost has to be motorized to be useful, and it drives up cost.
Something like a Meade ETX-80 isn't terribly expensive, the alignment procedure is easier, plus you get the benefit of go-to functionality with automatic tracking which really helps those that don't know the sky yet. German equatorials really are only necessary for photography, IMO, and are a royal pain in the butt to deal with when the optical tube is of any appreciable size.
My 10" Dob works just fine with an equatorial platform, and the platform costs a LOT less than a decent German mount that can deal with a 30 pound tube.
"maybe we don't need to be militarily great, and can learn to live humbly, and trade freely with people without having a huge *@#(ing military"
It's a nice thing to aspire to, but without said military, what happens when one of your trading partners decides to just take what you have by force?
Want to know why? Because the victims know they don't have the resources to fight it out and big corporations love debt collection companies.
In the U.S., I would argue it's more because victims aren't familiar with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the (rather effective) remedies available to them at no cost. Debt collection companies do hinky shit all the time, but a lot of it is trivial to shut down if you're aware of what your options are instead of just taking the collector at their word.
Or you could run SheepShaver, as long as you don't mind being limited to System 9.0.4 or earlier.
You can ask a technical person to achieve a very specific, tightly scoped technical task during an interview and if you know the question well quickly get a feel for how good they really are.
Along with that, with techies it's a lot easier to weed out the bullshit and outright lies on their resumes. I wish I had a dime for every candidate that listed something obscure on their resume to puff it up, and then couldn't answer basic questions that anyone familiar with it should know.
"I see here you've got some extensive VMS system administration experience and show it as an area of expertise."
"Yes."
"That was a really cool OS - I liked how DEC implemented file versioning. Can you tell me how one would distinguish different versions of the same file?"
"Umm...it was a long time ago, I don't really remember...."
"Okay, can you give me one of the hardware platforms supported by VMS?"
"I'm pretty sure the system I worked on was a 486."
After 30 seconds you can tell the guy doesn't have a clue, and the entire resume is now suspect.
You're comparing your salary to one at a fucking bank, companies so famous for absurd compensation packages that it triggered street protests ....
None of the compensation packages I've read about involved IT staff - it was all executives and brokers. My experience with banks is that they'll screw their own non-executive employees just like they will anyone else, but if you have cites otherwise I'll read them with great interest. The only IT folks in the financial sector that I've ever seen willingly get offered noticeably above-average money are HFT architects and coders.
Furthermore the per-capita US income is in the top 5 in the world. How sustainable do you think that is? I suggest you learn about regression toward the mean.
Or, as it's better known, "the race to the bottom". Domestic workers demand more because it's substantially more expensive to live here than it is in India and other countries popular with outsourcers. A well-paid programmer in India will do work sent to him for $15K/year and live quite well - here, that's approximately the federally mandated minimum wage, which isn't enough to do much more than meet one's essential needs, and often isn't even enough to do that. Are you seriously arguing that skilled workers with years of experience should be working for minimum wage?
Manufacturing in the US is alive and well and anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.
Really? Tell me where I can buy an American-made DIMM or LCD panel. Just because we still do make things in the U.S. doesn't mean that it hasn't completely destroyed other manufacturing centers here.