You're assuming the updated software exists, which isn't a given. That laser engraver may have a driver that doesn't run on anything past XP (Vista introduced new driver requirements, IIRC), and the manufacturer has a financial interest in getting you to replace a perfectly good engraver.
If you're driving, and you don't wear a seat belt, you're more likely to lose control of your vehicle in a minor accident. I approve of laws that aren't onerous and increase the safety of one-ton-plus objects moving at over 10 m/s.
In the US, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks often have FBI warnings about piracy, which are displayed if and only if the disk is legitimate, since anyone ripping it and distributing unlicensed copies will remove the crap before the content.
I really, really doubt the NSA buys sex slaves for contacts in Afghanistan. That sounds more like the CIA, who should be reined in hard. I'll support publicizing that sort of action, particularly if we can protect identities. US intelligence agencies are neither identical nor fungible.
The NSA has a job to spy on other countries, and publicizing that is not in the best interests of the USA.
I paid no attention to what you were trying to say, but suggested how you can argue more effectively and without offending people unnecessarily. I'm not going to get at all pissy about this, since you aren't being worth getting annoyed over, but I do suggest you rethink how you write.
It's not her campaign talking points, it's my own observation. When the Clintons have been accused of something seriously wrong, it's normally been a case of people who hate them, since they start rumors they can't prove. In some cases, it is a right-wing conspiracy, like the endless Benghazi hearings that established that a bunch of Republicans with subpoena powers and effectively unlimited resources couldn't find anything she did wrong.
Are you aware of any politicians who are scrupulously honest? Take a look at Politifact: they rate some of what Clinton has said as lies and IIRC even a "pants on fire" or two. She's still one of the most honest politicians of this campaign season (Sanders and Kasich are rated right up there, also).
She's not perfect, but she's one of the better Presidential candidates I've seen in my lifetime. You are free to think this is a sad commentary on Presidential candidates, but realistically she's competent and relatively honest.
Free speech is not speech without consequences. Eich angered too much of Mozilla's support base, and a CEO can't afford to do that. It directly affects the ability of the CEO to do his or her job.
Nor was it a matter of his opinions. Nobody would have complained about that. It was because he donated a large sum of money ($100K does qualify) to oppose a cause that many of Mozilla's support base strongly favored. If the CEO of a company donated massively to deprive you of rights you thought you were entitled to, would that affect your relations with the company? I'm not likely to walk into a Chick-Fil-A for lunch.
You're also greatly overestimating how much some companies care about turnover. I worked at one with over 100% turnover of their software developers in two years, and the company didn't show any sign of concern. (My manager also quoted the Peter Principle to me as company policy. I was very happy to get out of there.) I'm bringing this up because actual privacy is going down, and I think it would be a good idea to get some laws in place.
In other words, you're speculating that the FBI can set up fake companies with a lot less paperwork than I'd have to do, which I don't see as all that significant.
That wasn't the claim. The claim was (to put it in more specific terms) that my iPhone owns me. I'll admit I don't have full control, and if Apple ever did act way out of character I'd likely regret that, but it doesn't own me. I can ditch it any time I like, if I see fit, and get something else.
By test, it takes me 15-20 seconds to go from nothing up to getting the result of adding two more or less random 4-digit numbers. So, if I can do it in my head in 5 seconds, I'm using mental effort to save 10-15 seconds in an addition. The second one takes 5 seconds, and I'm not going to do that faster in my head. Therefore, by using mental arithmetic, I'm saving a maximum of 15 seconds, at the cost of some slight mental fatigue and a slight increase in the chance of error.
It isn't worth it to do it in my head. Seriously. the ability to add four-digit numbers in my head is of very limited usefulness. In any job where simple arithmetic like this is likely to be important, I'll have a calculator ready. The ability to get a quick approximate result for a computation is valuable, but that's not nearly the same thing.
I don't know any literate adult who can't sound out a word efficiently, and I encounter more new words by reading than by listening. This could be a problem with a second grader, but second graders are not normally judged for employability.
If it takes ten seconds to multiply two four-digit numbers in your head, you're wasting effort. Use a calculator. It's faster. It's very useful to get an approximate answer in your head, so you'll know if you did something wrong with the calculator, but precision is irrelevant. I don't optimize my own machine code either. Anything a computer can do nearly as well as I can, or better, is best left to the computer.
I've known no halfway intelligent people who can't learn words and sound them out. It isn't the most efficient way of reading, but it's always a technique.
I'm 62. I was laid off in 2002, and like pretty much every other software person without a job had problems getting employed. I got tired of getting the feeling that I was not being hired because of age, so I dyed my hair and had no additional problems once the economy picked up. I've been working at a great company for nearly nine years now.
Actually, the agreements don't allow the free movement of goods. People in the US often pay considerably higher prices for things than people in other countries do. Prescription drugs are an obvious example, but there's also things like textbooks. The free movement of goods is for stuff companies want, not consumer goods.
Because for the same skills, they're cheaper. That's all.
I'm going to suggest that they aren't, but that frequently top management don't really know what many of their employees are doing, and can't tell the difference between someone who is good at his or her job and someone who isn't. Therefore, since they haven't a clue about quality, they go by price.
There's a lot of pro-0.1% propaganda going around, including about unions. Unions are ways for workers to get together and negotiate on a more equal basis. Like all other organizations, they do have to be policed by their members.
What you seem to be saying is that giving the workers power is bad because they will want things like living wages and a safe working environment, and that makes US companies uncompetitive, and that the only solution is for workers to work for peanuts with few or no government services and a hellish environment. Pardon those of us who think that we should look for other options.
There's laws against hiring people without proper documentation. Enforcing these laws would solve a number of problems.
Of course, Democrats typically want the illegal immigrants to do well, and Republicans like the supply of near-slave labor, so it won't happen any time soon.
The college degrees I've seen recently are pretty rigorous and include a lot of learning. Do you hang out at the "prestigious unaccredited universities" I've seen mentioned on late night TV?
Interstellar travel is not going to solve anything about the economic system. If we can manage it on a large enough scale, it could be valuable for increasing the number of creative humans and spreading out the human race to reduce risk and putting people in different environments.
Nexus is the Google brand, and comes with less crapware than most Android devices. (Google doesn't manufacture them, AFAIK, but buys the equipment from companies that do and rebrands it.)
In what way does my iPhone own me? It mostly does what I want it to, as do my Android tablet, Windows 10 laptop, and Ubuntu desktop. Different devices for different purposes, not all of which require full control of the device.
Apple tries to give users a reliable and safe experience, at the cost of some freedom. This is a trade-off, and I don't blame people for choosing which they want.
Molds have to be a lot more durable than what's injected into them, and so parts made in 3D-printed ejection molds would be of lower quality than 3D-printed parts in general.
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You're assuming the updated software exists, which isn't a given. That laser engraver may have a driver that doesn't run on anything past XP (Vista introduced new driver requirements, IIRC), and the manufacturer has a financial interest in getting you to replace a perfectly good engraver.
If you're driving, and you don't wear a seat belt, you're more likely to lose control of your vehicle in a minor accident. I approve of laws that aren't onerous and increase the safety of one-ton-plus objects moving at over 10 m/s.
Which is why we try very hard to get benign governments. That's far more important than limiting the power of the government.
In the US, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks often have FBI warnings about piracy, which are displayed if and only if the disk is legitimate, since anyone ripping it and distributing unlicensed copies will remove the crap before the content.
Tautology futures are doing as well as tautology futures are doing.
I really, really doubt the NSA buys sex slaves for contacts in Afghanistan. That sounds more like the CIA, who should be reined in hard. I'll support publicizing that sort of action, particularly if we can protect identities. US intelligence agencies are neither identical nor fungible.
The NSA has a job to spy on other countries, and publicizing that is not in the best interests of the USA.
I paid no attention to what you were trying to say, but suggested how you can argue more effectively and without offending people unnecessarily. I'm not going to get at all pissy about this, since you aren't being worth getting annoyed over, but I do suggest you rethink how you write.
It's not her campaign talking points, it's my own observation. When the Clintons have been accused of something seriously wrong, it's normally been a case of people who hate them, since they start rumors they can't prove. In some cases, it is a right-wing conspiracy, like the endless Benghazi hearings that established that a bunch of Republicans with subpoena powers and effectively unlimited resources couldn't find anything she did wrong.
Are you aware of any politicians who are scrupulously honest? Take a look at Politifact: they rate some of what Clinton has said as lies and IIRC even a "pants on fire" or two. She's still one of the most honest politicians of this campaign season (Sanders and Kasich are rated right up there, also).
She's not perfect, but she's one of the better Presidential candidates I've seen in my lifetime. You are free to think this is a sad commentary on Presidential candidates, but realistically she's competent and relatively honest.
Free speech is not speech without consequences. Eich angered too much of Mozilla's support base, and a CEO can't afford to do that. It directly affects the ability of the CEO to do his or her job.
Nor was it a matter of his opinions. Nobody would have complained about that. It was because he donated a large sum of money ($100K does qualify) to oppose a cause that many of Mozilla's support base strongly favored. If the CEO of a company donated massively to deprive you of rights you thought you were entitled to, would that affect your relations with the company? I'm not likely to walk into a Chick-Fil-A for lunch.
You're also greatly overestimating how much some companies care about turnover. I worked at one with over 100% turnover of their software developers in two years, and the company didn't show any sign of concern. (My manager also quoted the Peter Principle to me as company policy. I was very happy to get out of there.) I'm bringing this up because actual privacy is going down, and I think it would be a good idea to get some laws in place.
In other words, you're speculating that the FBI can set up fake companies with a lot less paperwork than I'd have to do, which I don't see as all that significant.
That wasn't the claim. The claim was (to put it in more specific terms) that my iPhone owns me. I'll admit I don't have full control, and if Apple ever did act way out of character I'd likely regret that, but it doesn't own me. I can ditch it any time I like, if I see fit, and get something else.
By test, it takes me 15-20 seconds to go from nothing up to getting the result of adding two more or less random 4-digit numbers. So, if I can do it in my head in 5 seconds, I'm using mental effort to save 10-15 seconds in an addition. The second one takes 5 seconds, and I'm not going to do that faster in my head. Therefore, by using mental arithmetic, I'm saving a maximum of 15 seconds, at the cost of some slight mental fatigue and a slight increase in the chance of error.
It isn't worth it to do it in my head. Seriously. the ability to add four-digit numbers in my head is of very limited usefulness. In any job where simple arithmetic like this is likely to be important, I'll have a calculator ready. The ability to get a quick approximate result for a computation is valuable, but that's not nearly the same thing.
I don't know any literate adult who can't sound out a word efficiently, and I encounter more new words by reading than by listening. This could be a problem with a second grader, but second graders are not normally judged for employability.
If it takes ten seconds to multiply two four-digit numbers in your head, you're wasting effort. Use a calculator. It's faster. It's very useful to get an approximate answer in your head, so you'll know if you did something wrong with the calculator, but precision is irrelevant. I don't optimize my own machine code either. Anything a computer can do nearly as well as I can, or better, is best left to the computer.
I've known no halfway intelligent people who can't learn words and sound them out. It isn't the most efficient way of reading, but it's always a technique.
I'm 62. I was laid off in 2002, and like pretty much every other software person without a job had problems getting employed. I got tired of getting the feeling that I was not being hired because of age, so I dyed my hair and had no additional problems once the economy picked up. I've been working at a great company for nearly nine years now.
Actually, the agreements don't allow the free movement of goods. People in the US often pay considerably higher prices for things than people in other countries do. Prescription drugs are an obvious example, but there's also things like textbooks. The free movement of goods is for stuff companies want, not consumer goods.
I'm going to suggest that they aren't, but that frequently top management don't really know what many of their employees are doing, and can't tell the difference between someone who is good at his or her job and someone who isn't. Therefore, since they haven't a clue about quality, they go by price.
There's a lot of pro-0.1% propaganda going around, including about unions. Unions are ways for workers to get together and negotiate on a more equal basis. Like all other organizations, they do have to be policed by their members.
What you seem to be saying is that giving the workers power is bad because they will want things like living wages and a safe working environment, and that makes US companies uncompetitive, and that the only solution is for workers to work for peanuts with few or no government services and a hellish environment. Pardon those of us who think that we should look for other options.
There's laws against hiring people without proper documentation. Enforcing these laws would solve a number of problems.
Of course, Democrats typically want the illegal immigrants to do well, and Republicans like the supply of near-slave labor, so it won't happen any time soon.
The college degrees I've seen recently are pretty rigorous and include a lot of learning. Do you hang out at the "prestigious unaccredited universities" I've seen mentioned on late night TV?
Interstellar travel is not going to solve anything about the economic system. If we can manage it on a large enough scale, it could be valuable for increasing the number of creative humans and spreading out the human race to reduce risk and putting people in different environments.
You got that wrong. If your wife is lazy but not very intelligent, then high intelligence isn't a requirement for laziness.
I could go into that further, but I'm too lazy.
Nexus is the Google brand, and comes with less crapware than most Android devices. (Google doesn't manufacture them, AFAIK, but buys the equipment from companies that do and rebrands it.)
In what way does my iPhone own me? It mostly does what I want it to, as do my Android tablet, Windows 10 laptop, and Ubuntu desktop. Different devices for different purposes, not all of which require full control of the device.
Apple tries to give users a reliable and safe experience, at the cost of some freedom. This is a trade-off, and I don't blame people for choosing which they want.
Molds have to be a lot more durable than what's injected into them, and so parts made in 3D-printed ejection molds would be of lower quality than 3D-printed parts in general.