Congress should be doing one thing, and one thing only: working to end the shutdown. Those 800,000 employees need their paychecks to live their lives. Even if Congress wants to keep a "stop work" in place to show the President who's boss, the employees should not suffer. Imagine if GM or Walmart decided not to pay their employees because the CEO & BOD were having a spat. It's an utter embarrassment that the federal government isn't paying its employees.
Or, "I sit in a chair 8 hours a day staring at a screen & typing". My cushy tech job may beat digging ditches or working in a coal mine, but it has its own set of health hazards.
As the AC wrote, the key is to make exercise your "quality time". Biking, kayaking, hiking, running, surfing, falling trees, and construction are activities that require a high level of exertion. Exercise does not need to be done locked in a gym.
The entire population of the USA does not have a "first world" standard of living. Are we developing too?
What percentage of a country should be "first world" before they are no longer "developing"? China has a space program, aircraft carriers, huge modern cities, and also rice farmers living in mud huts. The population living at first world levels is probably as large or larger than the population of the USA. And that first-world population is actively competing with/against the USA. Why should the USA give that country any concessions?
I've been to China and they certainly have subsistence farmers who live in mud huts. They also have a huge population that lives in modern cities. When their population is 3x that of the USA, they have a much broader economic spread.
But as a nation, they left "developing" a long time ago.
When I upgraded to 10.13.4 my machine went into safe mode upon reboot. It said the OS failed to install. A look at the error logged showed complaints about some file missing from the installer directory. Sent me into quite a panic for a while. I finally did a fresh, complete install.
My parents (70ish) just bought a new Mac after having OS 9 & early OS X machines for many years. They called me to help get them set up. Wow! Explaining user interface elements over the phone was PAINFUL. Flat UI design has totally removed the visual identity of a button. A big rectangle with a word in it is not recognizable as a button. A circle is not a button. A word floating in space is not a button.
There were so many things that as a person who uses a computer daily & many different application, I just "knew" while they were lost.
And, hey, thanks to the genius at Apple who decided to make the scroll bars disappear. Wouldn't want a user to know there was more to view in a window.
I wish I could believe that this is more than partisan witch hunting. Party A comes into power and immediately starts investigations of actions taken when Party B was in power.
Personally, I believe there is a lot of smoke around Clinton's handling of classified material. If any average citizen did the same things they would probably be in jail or at the least lose their clearance. But I also understand the further up the food-chain one goes the squishier the rules become.
At this point I'd like to see the Clintons fade into the background and for the government to move forward with an agenda of "positive" action, not revenge-seeking for past actions.
is there any OTHER reason to be a slumlord with dangerous buildings & offering disingenuous accommodations to customers who you are legally & commercially responsible for?
Yes. You are an evil greedy bastard who cares more about lining your own pockets than the welfare of your fellow humans. There are plenty of people like that in the world.
And some people design businesses around breaking laws with penalties low enough that the endeavor is still profitable - and the laws keep out "honest" competitors. And some of these sorts of businesses get big enough and profitable enough that they can keep politicians from enacting laws with real teeth.
"Better" for the owner, not necessarily better for society at large.
Some people see breaking the law as inherently bad and avoid doing it on principle. Some see the penalties involved as a tax, on the off-chance you get caught.
Do you always drive the speed limit? 5 over? 10 over? 20 over? At some threshold - assuming there are police around to catch you - driving over the speed limit becomes more expensive than it is worth, below that threshold, most people speed. Same applies to business. Many business owners (some may call them unscrupulous, or criminals) will break whatever laws they want as long as the reward for doing so is greater than the penalty for being caught. Others may call them shrewd businesspeople.
The fines were $1000 per incident. Let's assume each unit rents for $1000/wk. And since there are multiple units in these buildings, a single ad could cover several units. I'll make a giant assumption of 10 units per building, and an occupancy rate of 50%. (10x52x1000)/2 = $260,000. A $17,000 fine may cut into profits a bit, but it is hardly punitive. At $5,000 a pop, that starts to be enough to discourage the behavior. But even then the venture appears, if not wildly profitable, still better than having the units sit empty.
Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, etc. don't make race cars and compete in things like 24 Hours of LeMans, WRC, etc. because those cars and those events make them money. They do it because 1) It provides a venue to show off cool new technology 2) It provides them marketing cachet, name recognition, and bragging rights.
Apple has lost sight of this. Apple is happily making Corollas & Caravans - which sell large volumes and make a profit. But it has forgotten the high-performance end of the bell curve where the bragging rights are earned and new tech is shown off.
"Earlier today, the US government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump's candidacy," said Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin. "We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton."
Interpretation: It's all true, but the people revealing it are mean and want to hurt us so you should ignore whatever it is they've revealed. See ad hominem attack.
The insurance liability for something like this would be astronomical. We already have roads and understand and accept the risks associated with them. With this you have the risk of running into buildings, trees, power lines, etc. Roads are at least well-defined travel ways, the sky not so much. Then you have the risks of falling out of the sky & damaging things below - and the occupants are pretty well dead, so add a few million for them.
Even if fuel & vehicle costs were negligible I could easily see $5 million liability insurance being reasonable for each flight.
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Congress should be doing one thing, and one thing only: working to end the shutdown. Those 800,000 employees need their paychecks to live their lives. Even if Congress wants to keep a "stop work" in place to show the President who's boss, the employees should not suffer.
Imagine if GM or Walmart decided not to pay their employees because the CEO & BOD were having a spat.
It's an utter embarrassment that the federal government isn't paying its employees.
Or, "I sit in a chair 8 hours a day staring at a screen & typing". My cushy tech job may beat digging ditches or working in a coal mine, but it has its own set of health hazards.
As the AC wrote, the key is to make exercise your "quality time". Biking, kayaking, hiking, running, surfing, falling trees, and construction are activities that require a high level of exertion. Exercise does not need to be done locked in a gym.
The entire population of the USA does not have a "first world" standard of living. Are we developing too?
What percentage of a country should be "first world" before they are no longer "developing"? China has a space program, aircraft carriers, huge modern cities, and also rice farmers living in mud huts. The population living at first world levels is probably as large or larger than the population of the USA. And that first-world population is actively competing with/against the USA. Why should the USA give that country any concessions?
1000 times this. Wish I had mod points.
I've been to China and they certainly have subsistence farmers who live in mud huts. They also have a huge population that lives in modern cities. When their population is 3x that of the USA, they have a much broader economic spread.
But as a nation, they left "developing" a long time ago.
When I upgraded to 10.13.4 my machine went into safe mode upon reboot. It said the OS failed to install. A look at the error logged showed complaints about some file missing from the installer directory. Sent me into quite a panic for a while. I finally did a fresh, complete install.
If you live in the USA, you are the 1% - globally speaking.
My parents (70ish) just bought a new Mac after having OS 9 & early OS X machines for many years. They called me to help get them set up. Wow! Explaining user interface elements over the phone was PAINFUL. Flat UI design has totally removed the visual identity of a button. A big rectangle with a word in it is not recognizable as a button. A circle is not a button. A word floating in space is not a button.
There were so many things that as a person who uses a computer daily & many different application, I just "knew" while they were lost.
And, hey, thanks to the genius at Apple who decided to make the scroll bars disappear. Wouldn't want a user to know there was more to view in a window.
ex-GEnie user here, too.
Discussion boards, online games - with graphics! Eventually access to Usenet.
The graphics have gotten prettier, and UIs fancier, but it's basically all still people having conversations and yammering on about this and that.
I wish I could believe that this is more than partisan witch hunting. Party A comes into power and immediately starts investigations of actions taken when Party B was in power.
Personally, I believe there is a lot of smoke around Clinton's handling of classified material. If any average citizen did the same things they would probably be in jail or at the least lose their clearance. But I also understand the further up the food-chain one goes the squishier the rules become.
At this point I'd like to see the Clintons fade into the background and for the government to move forward with an agenda of "positive" action, not revenge-seeking for past actions.
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I started with a TRS-80, but then we got a //e.
My early hacking was on Ultima IV. I used a sector editor to find the inventory and change it around.
Good times.
People are stupid.
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> Since there is not new territory,
Under the oceans? Space?
is there any OTHER reason to be a slumlord with dangerous buildings & offering disingenuous accommodations to customers who you are legally & commercially responsible for?
Yes. You are an evil greedy bastard who cares more about lining your own pockets than the welfare of your fellow humans. There are plenty of people like that in the world.
And some people design businesses around breaking laws with penalties low enough that the endeavor is still profitable - and the laws keep out "honest" competitors. And some of these sorts of businesses get big enough and profitable enough that they can keep politicians from enacting laws with real teeth.
"Better" for the owner, not necessarily better for society at large.
Some people see breaking the law as inherently bad and avoid doing it on principle. Some see the penalties involved as a tax, on the off-chance you get caught.
Do you always drive the speed limit? 5 over? 10 over? 20 over? At some threshold - assuming there are police around to catch you - driving over the speed limit becomes more expensive than it is worth, below that threshold, most people speed. Same applies to business. Many business owners (some may call them unscrupulous, or criminals) will break whatever laws they want as long as the reward for doing so is greater than the penalty for being caught. Others may call them shrewd businesspeople.
The fines were $1000 per incident. Let's assume each unit rents for $1000/wk. And since there are multiple units in these buildings, a single ad could cover several units. I'll make a giant assumption of 10 units per building, and an occupancy rate of 50%.
(10x52x1000)/2 = $260,000. A $17,000 fine may cut into profits a bit, but it is hardly punitive. At $5,000 a pop, that starts to be enough to discourage the behavior. But even then the venture appears, if not wildly profitable, still better than having the units sit empty.
Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, etc. don't make race cars and compete in things like 24 Hours of LeMans, WRC, etc. because those cars and those events make them money. They do it because 1) It provides a venue to show off cool new technology 2) It provides them marketing cachet, name recognition, and bragging rights.
Apple has lost sight of this. Apple is happily making Corollas & Caravans - which sell large volumes and make a profit. But it has forgotten the high-performance end of the bell curve where the bragging rights are earned and new tech is shown off.
Every tabloid web site picked up and ran with this story. What's it doing on /.? It's click-bait garbage.
Unfortunately, the Your Logical Fallacy Is site doesn't "two wrongs make a right" or "moral equivalence" as choices.
Sure he's a sexist scumbag but he's no worse than any of his predecessors or his opponent, both in context of his personality and history.
Your logical fallacy is... Bandwagon.
"Earlier today, the US government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump's candidacy," said Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin. "We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton."
Interpretation: It's all true, but the people revealing it are mean and want to hurt us so you should ignore whatever it is they've revealed. See ad hominem attack.
The insurance liability for something like this would be astronomical. We already have roads and understand and accept the risks associated with them. With this you have the risk of running into buildings, trees, power lines, etc. Roads are at least well-defined travel ways, the sky not so much. Then you have the risks of falling out of the sky & damaging things below - and the occupants are pretty well dead, so add a few million for them.
Even if fuel & vehicle costs were negligible I could easily see $5 million liability insurance being reasonable for each flight.
BBC America ran Seasons 1 & 2 of TOS starting at 8pm last night.