Yeah, but then you raise the oxygen levels, and everybody spontaneously combusts!
The amount we are capable of changing the atmosphere composition is surprisingly small. The current makeup of the atmosphere is:
Nitrogen: 79%
Oxygen: 21%
Water vapor:.4%
Carbon dioxide: 0.04%
Look how little CO2 there is in the atmosphere. After 200 years of pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, burning as much coal and oil as we can find, the change is smaller than a rounding error in the overall composition of the atmosphere. If we did the same thing with oxygen for decades, trying to put as much oxygen into the atmosphere as we can, after decades we'd still have 21% Oxygen in the atmosphere.
Humanity's capability to change the atmospheric composition is remarkably small (remember that when people talk about geoengineering Mars). The only reason Global Warming is even a thing is because CO2 has an outsized effect on a certain important part of the light spectrum.
After 12 months of security awareness training, end users are 70 percent less likely to fall for a phishing attempt.
If I'd spent 12 months training users, and only saw a 70% reduction(?), I would not be bragging about my course. I would be revamping my curriculum to figure out where I went wrong.
You don't need to subscribe to all of them. Subscribe to one, watch everything interesting, then cancel. Subscribe to another, watch everything interesting, then cancel. Eventually the first one will have new content, so you can subscribe to that one again.
Ah yes, the old "vote with yer wallet!" mantra. Seems to be working with Comcast, AT&T, et. cet. Yeah? They've collectively been in the fucking dustbin for satisfaction surveys almost my whole life.
I agree with the main point of your post, but people HAVE been voting with their wallet here. Americans in general are not willing to pay for support. We choose our internet based on price, and maybe speed/bandwidth/coverage. Most people aren't willing to pay an extra dollar a month for good service, so lousy service is what we get.
If you want to argue the spirit of the law, you should look into the intentions of the people who created the law, not the final words that came out. There is an entire philosophy section on the GNU website that you should look into. We already agree that the GPL allows them to do this, Amazon has followed the letter of the law.
Secondly, it's as if you didn't even read the GPL. Why did you ignore the stated intentions? Right at the top, the intentions are stated:
the GNU General Public
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.
The stated intention is to make sure the users can share and change free software. MariaSQL/MySQL is free software, and so are the changes Amazon made, changes which they've hidden. The intention is clearly that Amazon's users could share and make changes to this hidden code. Therefore you must admit that Amazon is not following the stated intention of the license, they are not following the spirit of the law.
Yet another person who fails to understand the First Amendment. It protects you and me from the government. It does not protect you and me from each other -- or in this case, Amazon.
Yeah, legal or not, people who don't respect freedom of speech still suck. That's the 79th amendment.
Example 2: It is illegal in the United States to track people who are less than 13 years old, without explicit parental consent. Yet not only to Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this on a massive scale, they don't care about the law and don't even try to abide by it.
.. all states and their respective corporate elites.....All states are preparing for the political awakening
There is almost certainly a state somewhere that is not preparing for that. When someone tells you "All" whatever, they are usually being intellectually lazy, and don't deeply understand the topic they are talking about.
Sure, terms of service could be more explicit, but most people wouldn't bother to read them or would just click through like they did when they signed up for a Facebook account or half of the other shit they use online.
They tell you that they will record all your data, and you agree to it. That's why it's legal.
Over time all wages increase following an increase in the minimum.
I don't think that's true, but if you have data to support it, I'd be interested to see it.
Wages are determined by how many companies want someone to do X, and how many people want to do X. If more companies want X, the salary will go up. If more people want to do X, the salaries will go down. That is why programmer salaries are so high right now (despite only needing a bachelor's degree, or less): many companies want programmers, and relatively few people can do it.
Admins definitely get paid more. We've had HR, we've had janitors, but I think they've all gotten paid more than minimum wage. I honestly have never looked in the mailroom, so I can't comment on that.
I am not sure if I've worked at a place where anyone got paid minimum wage in a while. The last time that happened was when I worked construction in college.
On the west coast here. If I didn't get three weeks of vacation at a job, I would start looking for another job. Of course, in Europe they often get six weeks of vacation. But my last job I managed to negotiate 13 weeks of vacation every year (although at a lower salary).
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That's what happens when you round.
How many nukes would you need to melt enough CO2 to where the change in atmospheric CO2 becomes significant?
Yeah, but then you raise the oxygen levels, and everybody spontaneously combusts!
The amount we are capable of changing the atmosphere composition is surprisingly small. The current makeup of the atmosphere is:
.4%
Nitrogen: 79%
Oxygen: 21%
Water vapor:
Carbon dioxide: 0.04%
Look how little CO2 there is in the atmosphere. After 200 years of pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, burning as much coal and oil as we can find, the change is smaller than a rounding error in the overall composition of the atmosphere. If we did the same thing with oxygen for decades, trying to put as much oxygen into the atmosphere as we can, after decades we'd still have 21% Oxygen in the atmosphere.
Humanity's capability to change the atmospheric composition is remarkably small (remember that when people talk about geoengineering Mars). The only reason Global Warming is even a thing is because CO2 has an outsized effect on a certain important part of the light spectrum.
After 12 months of security awareness training, end users are 70 percent less likely to fall for a phishing attempt.
If I'd spent 12 months training users, and only saw a 70% reduction(?), I would not be bragging about my course. I would be revamping my curriculum to figure out where I went wrong.
You don't need to subscribe to all of them. Subscribe to one, watch everything interesting, then cancel. Subscribe to another, watch everything interesting, then cancel. Eventually the first one will have new content, so you can subscribe to that one again.
Ah yes, the old "vote with yer wallet!" mantra. Seems to be working with Comcast, AT&T, et. cet. Yeah? They've collectively been in the fucking dustbin for satisfaction surveys almost my whole life.
I agree with the main point of your post, but people HAVE been voting with their wallet here. Americans in general are not willing to pay for support. We choose our internet based on price, and maybe speed/bandwidth/coverage. Most people aren't willing to pay an extra dollar a month for good service, so lousy service is what we get.
Then go through AWS.
I seriously doubt you could hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun.
I assure you I can, drunk.
Secondly, it's as if you didn't even read the GPL. Why did you ignore the stated intentions? Right at the top, the intentions are stated:
the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.
The stated intention is to make sure the users can share and change free software. MariaSQL/MySQL is free software, and so are the changes Amazon made, changes which they've hidden. The intention is clearly that Amazon's users could share and make changes to this hidden code. Therefore you must admit that Amazon is not following the stated intention of the license, they are not following the spirit of the law.
Yet another person who fails to understand the First Amendment. It protects you and me from the government. It does not protect you and me from each other -- or in this case, Amazon.
Yeah, legal or not, people who don't respect freedom of speech still suck. That's the 79th amendment.
Example 2: It is illegal in the United States to track people who are less than 13 years old, without explicit parental consent. Yet not only to Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this on a massive scale, they don't care about the law and don't even try to abide by it.
Well I don't care if they go out of business.
For most American soldiers I have gratitude. For you, I'd spit on your grave.
You don't scare me at all.
Oh. I hope you're not a marine.
Where are these high wages for programmers you speak of? Granted it's been a while since I've been in Silicon Valley.
A couple weeks ago in SV a recruiter told me he could match my required salary (total compensation) of $250k.
.. all states and their respective corporate elites.....All states are preparing for the political awakening
There is almost certainly a state somewhere that is not preparing for that. When someone tells you "All" whatever, they are usually being intellectually lazy, and don't deeply understand the topic they are talking about.
Yeah.. good luck with that.. I'm one of those evil conservatives who owns a fuckload of guns..
I'm a better shot.
DuPont is American, founded in Delaware.
Sure, terms of service could be more explicit, but most people wouldn't bother to read them or would just click through like they did when they signed up for a Facebook account or half of the other shit they use online.
They tell you that they will record all your data, and you agree to it. That's why it's legal.
Anyone who is so poor that they need to steal pens to survive should learn how to clean houses, because you can make a lot more money doing that.
Over time all wages increase following an increase in the minimum.
I don't think that's true, but if you have data to support it, I'd be interested to see it.
Wages are determined by how many companies want someone to do X, and how many people want to do X. If more companies want X, the salary will go up. If more people want to do X, the salaries will go down. That is why programmer salaries are so high right now (despite only needing a bachelor's degree, or less): many companies want programmers, and relatively few people can do it.
So, no admins, mail room, etc?
Admins definitely get paid more. We've had HR, we've had janitors, but I think they've all gotten paid more than minimum wage. I honestly have never looked in the mailroom, so I can't comment on that.
I am not sure if I've worked at a place where anyone got paid minimum wage in a while. The last time that happened was when I worked construction in college.
Because if DNA is the only way to do life, then anywhere life exists, it will have DNA. They've shown that there's at least one potential alternative.
No, but if I entered your house I might smash some things and laugh.
On the west coast here. If I didn't get three weeks of vacation at a job, I would start looking for another job. Of course, in Europe they often get six weeks of vacation. But my last job I managed to negotiate 13 weeks of vacation every year (although at a lower salary).