I agree with you. A few other points I believe (but cannot prove) that may back up your post
1) Most drugs cost virtually nothing to produce. It is the illegality of them that drives up the price
2) Drug related crime is actually drug-cost related crime
3) Many drug-related medical conditions are due to the impurities cut into the drugs as much as the drugs themselves (see 1).
4) Having a criminal record seriously limits your ability to find work and contribute to society, thereby increasing the risk of further money related crime (or potentially self employment I suppose).
5) Having a criminal record for posession/indulgence in a few arbitary substances seems unfair and counter productive (see 4).
Sure test pilots, cops, drivers, heavy machinery operators, people at work or whatever but put it in the context of other things we tolerate, such as alcohol.
...the sort of people that take the bus... Ah. Gotcha. There's a bit of that here, but it's not as bad, especially during commuter times when the nutcases are substantially diluted by "regular" commuters.
Anyway - there is a difference between "close to" and "right outside". I wouldn't want right outside, especially a train station if only for the noise. But generally "close" is good.
....mentality that says "I don't want a bus stop near my home" and it has some merit
Interesting. Being close to public transport is considered a desirable thing where I live (Melbourne AU).
A similar one of the DOS era was to use Norton Disk Doctor to patch the name of a file or directory to *.* Amazingly people were known to do the old "what's this? I think I'll delete it routine" and ignore the warning....
Well apparently riding a bicycle is also obsolete so there is no need for your lamp anyway. I didn't realise the way I have been getting to work for the last 8 years was obsolete!
WFT?
The randy old bishop of Birmingham
Would bugger young boys while confirming 'em
As they knelt before god
He would whip out is rod
And pump his episcopal sperm in 'em
A friend of mine recently worked out the total cost of his car too. He has to have it for work - it is part of his package and is not optional so it's on a relatively tax efficient lease. It ends up costing AUD $1.10 per kilometer. We will go on a 700km round trip most weekends during the summer. If I thought it was going to cost $770 to do that I might well think again!
Admitedly because he does not get any cash back for not using up his full car allowance he goes for the top-end 4wd which suits his recreational use too, but that's fucking expensive.
dislaimer - his calcs, not mine and I wonder if he has not taken into account the resale after 3 years.
Price of groceries can and do vary throughout the day. Many markets, bakeries, sushi bars etc will reduce their prices towards the end of the day so they don't have to transport/store so much stuff or because the goods will have less or no value the next day.
You can pay less if you wish, if the circumstances and your wishes align, which I think is the point.
This is very similar to my own views. However I had not considered a 'test'. I am not convinced it is necessary but could be worth considering for some of the harder/more addictive/psycoactive types.
I'd also argue that rather than freeing up police to "battle drugs related crime" that type of crime would reduce significantly. Although I can't prove it, I believe that most theft/robbery that is drugs related is due to the exhorbitant prices commanded by the illegal market. A federally regulated system would (should) reduce the cost to something more reasonable. This stuff typically costs nothing to grow & produce. The cost comes from rewarding the risk of those people willing to get it into the country and onto the market.
A tenth of a second isn't that much of a big deal so long as the database can work well in parallel. Nobody is going to notice that. It's all about throughput and servicing requests rather than the speed of the individual queries. A proper database can service many requests at the same time.
It's actually most cost effective results that matter. The cost effectiveness of the various approaches usually determines how you get there and therefore the tools you should use. The prettyness or otherwise of your tools is unimportant, as you say. Sometimes ugly is good, sometimes pretty is good.
And sometimes pretty ugly is good too!
Interesting - my experience is the opposite. It's the managers see the need for DRP and the admins sulk and whinge when we (the managers) increase their workload by asking them to implement more resilient systems, move stuff around, produce documentation, actually test the DRP etc. etc.
Agree with your ideal solution. That's what we run here along with NLB & SQL Clusters (yeah - no Linux - gasp! Whatever...).
When I fclose() a file, I have a STRONG assurance that the file has been saved and wouldn't go away if the power failed
I'd like to see some kind of transactional model around this. I've always wanted to be able to (selectively) apply the ACID principal to objects/structures/whatever in memory so I can commit & rollback in-memory operations as well as or even combined with the database.
Do you live in Nigeria or something? Most civilised countries now have plenty of legislation requiring full disclosure of commission, justification of why a particular product was recommended and require that the adviser has a documented, comprehensive knowledge of the client's present position and financial goals. Should an investigation be required, there are compensation plans and the adviser can have their licence revoked if found guily of inappropriate advice or selling. All of that makes it relatively risky to sell the wrong product to get a commisssion. Of course it does depend where you live. Where I live, I have lots of investments schemes for you to chose from!
I'd add one - making me go through the same animation/cut screen every time with no way of skipping it. On a tricky level of Starsky & Hutch (ok - $5 game - what can I expect?) I probably spent over 1/3rd of it sitting through the loading and animations. I DO NOT CARE AFTER THE 300000th TIME!!! ARGH!
Assuming it was proved, I think they would still convict you. It's not about justice it's about upholding the law. The judge may well decide it was provocation and not impose a heavy sentence but to not convict in the face of evidence is slightly more serious. You're describing mob rule.
Slashdot Mirror
Why do you think there should be? It's not a military project (as far as I know).
I agree with you. A few other points I believe (but cannot prove) that may back up your post
1) Most drugs cost virtually nothing to produce. It is the illegality of them that drives up the price
2) Drug related crime is actually drug-cost related crime
3) Many drug-related medical conditions are due to the impurities cut into the drugs as much as the drugs themselves (see 1).
4) Having a criminal record seriously limits your ability to find work and contribute to society, thereby increasing the risk of further money related crime (or potentially self employment I suppose).
5) Having a criminal record for posession/indulgence in a few arbitary substances seems unfair and counter productive (see 4).
Sure test pilots, cops, drivers, heavy machinery operators, people at work or whatever but put it in the context of other things we tolerate, such as alcohol.
Indeed. You should judge your life not by the number of breaths you have taken, but by the number of times you have it taken away*.
*An unfortunate turn of phrase in the context of space exploration, but you get my point!
...the sort of people that take the busAnyway - there is a difference between "close to" and "right outside". I wouldn't want right outside, especially a train station if only for the noise. But generally "close" is good.
....mentality that says "I don't want a bus stop near my home" and it has some meritInteresting. Being close to public transport is considered a desirable thing where I live (Melbourne AU).
You've already got access to the 72 virgins who you're online with.
A similar one of the DOS era was to use Norton Disk Doctor to patch the name of a file or directory to *.* Amazingly people were known to do the old "what's this? I think I'll delete it routine" and ignore the warning....
Well apparently riding a bicycle is also obsolete so there is no need for your lamp anyway. I didn't realise the way I have been getting to work for the last 8 years was obsolete!
WFT?
The randy old bishop of Birmingham
Would bugger young boys while confirming 'em
As they knelt before god
He would whip out is rod
And pump his episcopal sperm in 'em
A friend of mine recently worked out the total cost of his car too. He has to have it for work - it is part of his package and is not optional so it's on a relatively tax efficient lease. It ends up costing AUD $1.10 per kilometer. We will go on a 700km round trip most weekends during the summer. If I thought it was going to cost $770 to do that I might well think again!
Admitedly because he does not get any cash back for not using up his full car allowance he goes for the top-end 4wd which suits his recreational use too, but that's fucking expensive.
dislaimer - his calcs, not mine and I wonder if he has not taken into account the resale after 3 years.
Price of groceries can and do vary throughout the day. Many markets, bakeries, sushi bars etc will reduce their prices towards the end of the day so they don't have to transport/store so much stuff or because the goods will have less or no value the next day. You can pay less if you wish, if the circumstances and your wishes align, which I think is the point.
This is very similar to my own views. However I had not considered a 'test'. I am not convinced it is necessary but could be worth considering for some of the harder/more addictive/psycoactive types.
I'd also argue that rather than freeing up police to "battle drugs related crime" that type of crime would reduce significantly. Although I can't prove it, I believe that most theft/robbery that is drugs related is due to the exhorbitant prices commanded by the illegal market. A federally regulated system would (should) reduce the cost to something more reasonable. This stuff typically costs nothing to grow & produce. The cost comes from rewarding the risk of those people willing to get it into the country and onto the market.
I'd get rid of the semicolon; nobody uses those anyway.
(From some Dilbert strip - can't find the link)
Carlton Draught.
A tenth of a second isn't that much of a big deal so long as the database can work well in parallel. Nobody is going to notice that. It's all about throughput and servicing requests rather than the speed of the individual queries. A proper database can service many requests at the same time.
It's actually most cost effective results that matter. The cost effectiveness of the various approaches usually determines how you get there and therefore the tools you should use. The prettyness or otherwise of your tools is unimportant, as you say. Sometimes ugly is good, sometimes pretty is good. And sometimes pretty ugly is good too!
Assuming you get to pick your seat which isn't always the case.
I think you mean 640K. (Sorry if I missed a sarcasm tag there).
Interesting - my experience is the opposite. It's the managers see the need for DRP and the admins sulk and whinge when we (the managers) increase their workload by asking them to implement more resilient systems, move stuff around, produce documentation, actually test the DRP etc. etc.
Agree with your ideal solution. That's what we run here along with NLB & SQL Clusters (yeah - no Linux - gasp! Whatever...).
Do you live in Nigeria or something? Most civilised countries now have plenty of legislation requiring full disclosure of commission, justification of why a particular product was recommended and require that the adviser has a documented, comprehensive knowledge of the client's present position and financial goals. Should an investigation be required, there are compensation plans and the adviser can have their licence revoked if found guily of inappropriate advice or selling. All of that makes it relatively risky to sell the wrong product to get a commisssion. Of course it does depend where you live. Where I live, I have lots of investments schemes for you to chose from!
LoztInSpace.
Financial Adviser, Bank of Nigeria.
I'd add one - making me go through the same animation/cut screen every time with no way of skipping it. On a tricky level of Starsky & Hutch (ok - $5 game - what can I expect?) I probably spent over 1/3rd of it sitting through the loading and animations. I DO NOT CARE AFTER THE 300000th TIME!!! ARGH!
Assuming it was proved, I think they would still convict you. It's not about justice it's about upholding the law. The judge may well decide it was provocation and not impose a heavy sentence but to not convict in the face of evidence is slightly more serious. You're describing mob rule.
Going to bed at nine != Drinking beer (probably need to be older than 7 to drink beer)
You'd end up with compile errors, unless of course Windows is written in an interpreted language.