I think the whole issue is not to love, but to beware that strong emotions can used against you: either to manipulate in a subtle descent towards evil, or more directly. Unfortunately, this got pushed into the extreme in the prequels and just became silly (nice boy suddenly goes insane and kills are his friends after a few subtle pushes from the poorly disguised "emperor").
But the overall concept isn't too bad. If you love something, it can be used against you, held hostage or whatever. Similarly, being over-emotional leads to being out of control. In the originals, we see this when Luke leaves his Dagobah training to rescue Leah/Han, and ends up short a hand with threepio in pieces & Han in carbonite.
What would you rather happen? Would you prefer that the idiot was put down, or allowed to starve homeless on the street?
Well that really depends on how he/she got there. There are people around here who are genuinely down on their luck, but trying hard to bounce-back. There are others who would rather stick to their vices or "independence" (even if it means being homeless) than try to change.
The latter often take away resources that would allow the former to improve their live-situation. If not saving unrepentant addict X meant I got to save attempting-to-help-self Y, then perhaps we should do so. Part of the problem is that we often want to "save" everyone which results in a lower quality index for a larger amount of people.
Im not clear here, unlocking is specifically for joining a new carrier, correct?
Incorrect, or at least partially so. When travelling internationally, it's not uncommon (for smart people) to hook up with a local carrier in the country they're visiting. This allows the visitor to get a country-local phone # as well as avoid issues with obscene international roaming fees.
The contract with the original carrier would still be intact (they're still getting paid), you're just temporarily using a local carrier until returning home.
A locked down phone doesn't give you that option, which leads to bill shock issues while roaming. As most contracts already have a hefty fee built-in for early cancellation - often based on the amount of time left in the contract - there's no legitimate need to load down phones.
It's not the most effective way of managing "people", but it IS the most effective way of managing SOME people. Some people will work harder for perks. Others are just coasting to begin with, and the only thing that may motivate them is a firm foot in the ass. Sometimes even that doesn't work, but often it helps.
A manager that rides "everyone" isn't doing a good job. By the same standard, there's a type for the carrot and a time for the stick (or, a time to be nice and a time to be an asshole). Sometimes you've gotta be an asshole.
Indeed. I've worked with some people who pretty much *had* to play the a**hole in their job-role at times. It was great when they were on your side, but if you ever had them come at you, heaven help you. That being said, if said person was in your face, it was usually for a reason. One might feel that the dictator was being an a**hole, but really they're just pushing you to get things done in a way that (they see) benefits the project/team as a whole.
I believe there were some cases of curing HIV through spinal (fluid) transplants with some people who have an inbuilt immunity. IIRC, the remnants of the disease was eventually eradicated by the immune system.
I'd imagine that if we can bottle it up more and more, eventually it will be cured from progression and transmission. If the body never suffers the effects of AIDS, perhaps they'll have more success giving it a way to kill off HIV.
Can't find an article on it, but I seem to remember a case where some terrorists suffered from "premature detonation" because their bomb was set to the wrong time-zone when they crossed into a neighbouring country/province (or they missed DST)
such as the ability of recent versions of PDF to embed javascript
And this is totally part of the problem. Unnecessary feature-creep. Originally, PDF was a secure way of sending read-only documents to other. Then they started adding stupid stuff like this, and - blammo - vulnerabilities.
Companies seem to think they *need* to add all this extra crap in order to continue the viability of a product, but in the end you just make the product a bloated mess full of vulnerabilities.
There have been plenty of cases of 3d printers used to print out things that violate copyright etc (figurines or whatever). In that case it's not really difference from what gets done at cheap overseas factories in a slightly bigger-scale.
It's still illegal, just not criminally so (and less likely to attract attention depending on scale).
Germans generally seem a bit verklemmt when it comes to sex
I don't know if you mean "unprotected with many partners", but Germans are in many ways very open towards sex. Certainly they seem to have less taboos about nudity and the human body than Americans, and also have legal "Red Light" districts.
I wouldn't say that lower STD's is due to being inhibited about sex, but rather than they're more open to rational discussion/thought around the topic of sex.
For #7 and #8... I would stress the word reported, especially for #7. In some countries a lot of stuff doesn't get reported because, well, nobody gives a sh** when it happens to somebody who isn't rich.
So if you want Bing maps, go there and use that mapping service. How is Google supposed to determine who has the most relevant results on a map system?
Ever looked back at code you wrote a few years ago, and gone "ick!" ?
I know I've had a few moments like this. I've learned new tricks, found new issues, and generally gone back to find that my old code just wasn't up-to-standard several years later.
If the junior guy can point out stuff that can be updated, and a good reason why, then let him demonstrate a solid case and take the advice.
However, "code" is one thing, and "coding style" is another. You can get into huge flamewars about just stuff like indentation (spaces VS tabs) etc. Over time, styles will change. In that case you need to balance necessity against time. Sometimes a style change can make an important difference. Other times it's just not worth the time. If the new guy is arguing that variable names $a, $b, and $c are less readable than say $sAccountName (string), $iAccountID (integer), etc... he would be right. Maybe you don't need the data-type (s/i) prefix, but at least having descriptive variables is an important improvement.
Actually, you might be surprised but sometimes these "charitable" types of organizations are the most ripe for fraud/abuse.
My grandmother almost never uses her credit-card, but the last time she had it compromised was shortly after calling in a donation via telephone (the recipient org was legit, but the temp call-centre employees were likely not well vetted). Soon after that she had to cancel the card because somebody in the US was using her CC # to buy body-building supplements.
Just because an organization does something good doesn't mean it can't have people who do bad things under its umbrella, so hence the rules should be enforced for everyone.
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One wonders if it was "terminal" or just "terminal on the medical plan I have and what I can afford"
I always kinda figured that the whole Jedi thing was vaguely samurai-ish...
Any luck running Netflix on it?
That's about the only thing other than games I run Windows for.
I think the whole issue is not to love, but to beware that strong emotions can used against you: either to manipulate in a subtle descent towards evil, or more directly.
Unfortunately, this got pushed into the extreme in the prequels and just became silly (nice boy suddenly goes insane and kills are his friends after a few subtle pushes from the poorly disguised "emperor").
But the overall concept isn't too bad. If you love something, it can be used against you, held hostage or whatever. Similarly, being over-emotional leads to being out of control. In the originals, we see this when Luke leaves his Dagobah training to rescue Leah/Han, and ends up short a hand with threepio in pieces & Han in carbonite.
Star Trek IV was pretty good as well.
What would you rather happen? Would you prefer that the idiot was put down, or allowed to starve homeless on the street?
Well that really depends on how he/she got there. There are people around here who are genuinely down on their luck, but trying hard to bounce-back. There are others who would rather stick to their vices or "independence" (even if it means being homeless) than try to change.
The latter often take away resources that would allow the former to improve their live-situation. If not saving unrepentant addict X meant I got to save attempting-to-help-self Y, then perhaps we should do so. Part of the problem is that we often want to "save" everyone which results in a lower quality index for a larger amount of people.
Allow the US to screw them over as much as possible, because the US can possibly screw them over even more.
Im not clear here, unlocking is specifically for joining a new carrier, correct?
Incorrect, or at least partially so. When travelling internationally, it's not uncommon (for smart people) to hook up with a local carrier in the country they're visiting. This allows the visitor to get a country-local phone # as well as avoid issues with obscene international roaming fees.
The contract with the original carrier would still be intact (they're still getting paid), you're just temporarily using a local carrier until returning home.
A locked down phone doesn't give you that option, which leads to bill shock issues while roaming. As most contracts already have a hefty fee built-in for early cancellation - often based on the amount of time left in the contract - there's no legitimate need to load down phones.
It's not the most effective way of managing "people", but it IS the most effective way of managing SOME people.
Some people will work harder for perks. Others are just coasting to begin with, and the only thing that may motivate them is a firm foot in the ass. Sometimes even that doesn't work, but often it helps.
A manager that rides "everyone" isn't doing a good job. By the same standard, there's a type for the carrot and a time for the stick (or, a time to be nice and a time to be an asshole). Sometimes you've gotta be an asshole.
Indeed. I've worked with some people who pretty much *had* to play the a**hole in their job-role at times. It was great when they were on your side, but if you ever had them come at you, heaven help you. That being said, if said person was in your face, it was usually for a reason. One might feel that the dictator was being an a**hole, but really they're just pushing you to get things done in a way that (they see) benefits the project/team as a whole.
What wrong with crocheting?
Reminds me of the cancer cure for (much of) cancer. This one was even on The news
I believe there were some cases of curing HIV through spinal (fluid) transplants with some people who have an inbuilt immunity.
IIRC, the remnants of the disease was eventually eradicated by the immune system.
I'd imagine that if we can bottle it up more and more, eventually it will be cured from progression and transmission. If the body never suffers the effects of AIDS, perhaps they'll have more success giving it a way to kill off HIV.
Consumer grade network connections do not run servers.
Really? I know plenty of people who do. Perhaps not web-servers or mail-servers, or "big iron" servers, but game-server daemons, sure!
Can't find an article on it, but I seem to remember a case where some terrorists suffered from "premature detonation" because their bomb was set to the wrong time-zone when they crossed into a neighbouring country/province (or they missed DST)
such as the ability of recent versions of PDF to embed javascript
And this is totally part of the problem. Unnecessary feature-creep. Originally, PDF was a secure way of sending read-only documents to other. Then they started adding stupid stuff like this, and - blammo - vulnerabilities.
Companies seem to think they *need* to add all this extra crap in order to continue the viability of a product, but in the end you just make the product a bloated mess full of vulnerabilities.
There have been plenty of cases of 3d printers used to print out things that violate copyright etc (figurines or whatever). In that case it's not really difference from what gets done at cheap overseas factories in a slightly bigger-scale.
It's still illegal, just not criminally so (and less likely to attract attention depending on scale).
But with modern CG and video-editing, you can't just trust any video on the internet.
For example, see the recent Eagle Baby Attack video.
A bit of good ol'-fashioned jail-time would be nice too. Unfortunately other things such as flogging etc aren't allowed these days.
Germans generally seem a bit verklemmt when it comes to sex
I don't know if you mean "unprotected with many partners", but Germans are in many ways very open towards sex.
Certainly they seem to have less taboos about nudity and the human body than Americans, and also have legal "Red Light" districts.
I wouldn't say that lower STD's is due to being inhibited about sex, but rather than they're more open to rational discussion/thought around the topic of sex.
For #7 and #8...
I would stress the word reported, especially for #7. In some countries a lot of stuff doesn't get reported because, well, nobody gives a sh** when it happens to somebody who isn't rich.
So if you want Bing maps, go there and use that mapping service. How is Google supposed to determine who has the most relevant results on a map system?
Ever looked back at code you wrote a few years ago, and gone "ick!" ?
I know I've had a few moments like this. I've learned new tricks, found new issues, and generally gone back to find that my old code just wasn't up-to-standard several years later.
If the junior guy can point out stuff that can be updated, and a good reason why, then let him demonstrate a solid case and take the advice.
However, "code" is one thing, and "coding style" is another. You can get into huge flamewars about just stuff like indentation (spaces VS tabs) etc. Over time, styles will change. In that case you need to balance necessity against time. Sometimes a style change can make an important difference. Other times it's just not worth the time. If the new guy is arguing that variable names $a, $b, and $c are less readable than say $sAccountName (string), $iAccountID (integer), etc... he would be right. Maybe you don't need the data-type (s/i) prefix, but at least having descriptive variables is an important improvement.
That depends on the tag. The tech for longer-range passive RFID has been out for awhile, with read distances of ~ 1 meter (possibly more)
Actually, you might be surprised but sometimes these "charitable" types of organizations are the most ripe for fraud/abuse.
My grandmother almost never uses her credit-card, but the last time she had it compromised was shortly after calling in a donation via telephone (the recipient org was legit, but the temp call-centre employees were likely not well vetted). Soon after that she had to cancel the card because somebody in the US was using her CC # to buy body-building supplements.
Just because an organization does something good doesn't mean it can't have people who do bad things under its umbrella, so hence the rules should be enforced for everyone.