Easily going to be the most controversial election in the history of our country and we're going to further limit the ability to catch any bullshit that is likely to happen. Not that it matters, no matter who wins, ( Ego A or Ego B ) we all lose anyway.
I think it would shock folks more if the election happened without any sneaky, underhanded bullshit.
Quit trying to bend half the planet to your will through the use of military tech and might, and we can easily afford a Universal Basic Income.
Hell, it would be shocking what we can afford to do if we weren't buying billion dollar bombers or trying to overthrow some non-Us friendly government this week.
The media likes to throw around the term A.I. a lot these days and, unless I'm gravely mistaken, we have nothing even close to resembling one. I'm probably wrong, but I'm of the opinion that a full blown A.I. is a fully sentient being capable of making its own decisions and rivaling / exceeding its creators in just about everything we're capable of.
Writing scripts and programs are fine. Just call them out for what they are.
this time around, those funds will come with some concrete conditions before they get paid out.
I will provide you with X amount of funding IFF you can show you have added Y amount of coverage over Z amount of time. Fail to meet those obligations will require you to pay back any funding you receive.
While we're at it, perhaps we could add some riders on there as well.
BEFORE we give you any additional funding, you need to demonstrate why we should give a Telecom who makes Billions of dollars every quarter any taxpayer money at all. ( Considering what you did with the previous funds we provided for you )
In addition, we should talk about those silly data caps, high prices, throttling and your reluctance to embrace Network Neutrality before writing you that check.
The MPAA / RIAA and various overzealous governments have a tendency to erode privacy efforts in an effort to sustain their current methods of doing things.
Thus, it should come as no surprise to anyone that new technology / ideas are used to help regain some of what was lost.
Instead of trying to buy laws via your local corrupt politician, perhaps you should put some effort into figuring out WHY folks resort to such measures instead.
Had this event happened in the US instead of France, our elected idiots would be running around in little circles because they can't blame it on guns this time.
I suppose we would see legislation along the lines of No Fly No Drive or something equally stupid.
The only thing positive to come out of this is the fact this provides irrefutable evidence that no matter how hard you try to ban a thing, folks will find ways to kill one another en masse.
They effectively used a suicide bomber with an IED to get the job done.
Something that we, as America, have a tendency to denounce whenever it's used against us. We're not going to shoot them anymore, we're going to blow them up . . . . . . lol ... outstanding.
What's next ? We going to strap a suicide vest on the K9's, let them run the suspects down ? Maybe fill a police car with explosives and drive it into the house the bad guys are holed up in ?:|
Here's a thought, maybe someone should take a step back and figure out what the problem is here. ( Hint: Police keep killing folks. Many of them unarmed, in handcuffs, and mostly black )
Of all the people killed by police under questionable circumstances, how many times were the police prosecuted for it ?
Exactly.
Once enough folks lose faith in the system, they will cease to rely upon it. The results can be quite devastating. The police love to tell everyone " This is a war ! ". Though now that folks are no longer playing by their rules, the game becomes a little more difficult to play doesn't it ?
I suppose the same argument can be made for the Government's behavior as of late. ( I'm looking at you FBI ) When the rich and powerful get a free pass to do whatever they want, the rest take notice. When that system pisses enough people off, I would expect the reaction will be very similar.
As a manager in my company, you get no say so whatsoever in what employees make up your team. HR / LR makes those decisions and if you don't like them, too bad. This means, you don't get to filter out the idiots. You get what you're given. If you can't handle that, then you're a terrible manager in the eyes of HR / LR.
Having said that, my team is made up of maybe 20% rockstars, 30% hard workers, 40% leeches and 10% lost causes.
In setups like this, if you start losing folks from the wrong end of the equation, the whole thing just implodes.
There isn't any accountability nor motivation. The lost causes make the same pay as the rockstars do. Which causes two problems:
1) The rockstars eventually burn out because their efforts result in the same pay and benefits as the idiots of the group. 2) The idiots have no motivation nor incentive to put forth any effort for the same reasons. The pay is the same.
So, while I absolutely loathe my job, the pay is decent enough and retirement is now the target. Decent pay, a 401k AND a pension are still on the table here. Tough to throw that away for greener pastures ( which are usually a myth anyway ) since it would impact when I can retire.
( Though the silliness at work will probably cause a heart attack or stroke anyway )
Would you be ok with a mandated video and audio device you must carry with you at all times just to make sure you'll never say anything that is questionable ?
If enough crime happens on your buses to warrant the installation of audio or video surveillance, I think I would find another means of transportation instead.
Much like the airport, free speech will go right out the window and it will be illegal to say much of anything that might be taken out of context. This isn't about terrorism, it's about control.
Yes, yes, " Fire " in a movie theater and all that. Toss in the " No expectation of privacy in a public place " BS while we're at it. Doesn't mean I want a camera and / or microphone recording every moment of my life for me, looking for any excuse at all to arrest me. Seems to fall under the " We'll just grab everything " mentality the government is fond of these days. Courts aren't fond of that when it comes to electronic communications, though the government doesn't seem to give a shit.
Imagine becoming a person of interest and investigation for saying silly things like:
Bomb, Allah, ( hell anything that isn't English ) terror{ist}{ism}, any name of any known terror group, and eventually, vocalizing your displeasure towards City, State, Federal governments or any elected official with power to make your life a living hell.
We all know the government is far too honorable to ever worry about them abusing this ability right ?:|
... and write accordingly. I do it for as long I can remember.
Anyway... who in their right mind would write 'I loathe this job' in a corporate mail?
* * * *
Those who do not grovel or worship those in charge for the opportunity to work for them. Those whose skills could transfer to any number of companies if push came to shove.
These are your " go-to " people. They get shit done. Quickly and efficiently. They do not deal with stupidity or bureaucracy well. Give them a task, however, and it gets done.
You could fire them, but then you're left with the special snowflakes all of which rely on the " answer guy " you just fired to get things done.
Once your top talent is gone, how does this reflect overall on the manager in charge going forward when shit no longer gets done like it used to. Pretty soon guess whose head is on the chopping block ?
All because X doesn't hide their thoughts about how they feel about the company in general ?
This stuff falls into pseudo-science much like a polygraph does. The first time they fire someone based on what amounts to ' digital profiling ' it will likely be quite a costly mistake.
Besides, there is nothing in my contract that states I have to like my job. I just have to do it.
I would think that if folks were not afraid of the fallout, any given company would find that a rather significant percentage of their workforce thinks less than positive thoughts about their job in general.
not to point out the obvious, but no one is going to use a giant password they have to put in via the tiny little keyboard on the phone everytime they want to use it.
Great from a security standpoint, not so much from a convenience one.
It sucks if what you need to do resides within that other 10%:|
Let me know when Gimp can read and manipulate the raw files of modern camera bodies and I'll give it a look. ( Same problem for CS6, does Adobe still update that version with the newest iterations of camera raw ? )
Pen and paper notes are available to me instantly. No booting anything up, no need for power. No worries about who is going to hack what app or corrupt everything for bitcoin ransom.
I also typically tend to draw diagrams with my notes ( network infrastructure ) so the same pen and paper works just fine for that as well.
Someone else mentioned " rolling around a filing cabinet " but I'm typically not taking notes on THAT much information at any given time.
Besides, you tend to recall it easier once you've written it down. Not so much when typing it. ( YMMV )
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is most amusing.
Easily going to be the most controversial election in the history of our country and we're going to further limit the ability to catch any bullshit that is likely to happen.
Not that it matters, no matter who wins, ( Ego A or Ego B ) we all lose anyway.
I think it would shock folks more if the election happened without any sneaky, underhanded bullshit.
Quit trying to bend half the planet to your will through the use of military tech and might, and we can easily afford a Universal Basic Income.
Hell, it would be shocking what we can afford to do if we weren't buying billion dollar bombers or trying to overthrow some non-Us friendly government this week.
The media likes to throw around the term A.I. a lot these days and, unless I'm gravely mistaken, we have nothing even close to resembling one.
I'm probably wrong, but I'm of the opinion that a full blown A.I. is a fully sentient being capable of making its own decisions and rivaling / exceeding its creators in just about everything we're capable of.
Writing scripts and programs are fine. Just call them out for what they are.
Artificial Intelligence it is not.
That is all.
The US and the EU have a bet going to see who can pass the dumbest ideas on Earth :|
I'll see your ban on encryption and raise you a felony just to look upon words ! :|
this time around, those funds will come with some concrete conditions before they get paid out.
I will provide you with X amount of funding IFF you can show you have added Y amount of coverage over Z amount of time. Fail to meet those
obligations will require you to pay back any funding you receive.
While we're at it, perhaps we could add some riders on there as well.
BEFORE we give you any additional funding, you need to demonstrate why we should give a Telecom who makes Billions of dollars every quarter any taxpayer money at all. ( Considering what you did with the previous funds we provided for you )
In addition, we should talk about those silly data caps, high prices, throttling and your reluctance to embrace Network Neutrality before writing you that check.
The MPAA / RIAA and various overzealous governments have a tendency to erode privacy efforts in an effort to sustain their current methods of doing things.
Thus, it should come as no surprise to anyone that new technology / ideas are used to help regain some of what was lost.
Instead of trying to buy laws via your local corrupt politician, perhaps you should put some effort into figuring out WHY folks resort to such measures instead.
Had this event happened in the US instead of France, our elected idiots would be running around in little circles because they can't blame it on guns this time.
I suppose we would see legislation along the lines of No Fly No Drive or something equally stupid.
The only thing positive to come out of this is the fact this provides irrefutable evidence that no matter how hard you try to ban a thing, folks will find ways to kill one another en masse.
The problem is, and always will be, people.
They were gonna go with " Justice League " but the name was already taken :D
is for ONE of the Telcos to break ranks with the rest and start offering a 5g network for public use. ( Investor pressure will force this eventually )
The others will panic over the loss of customers / revenue and will follow suit rather quickly. They'll have to.
Their investors will not tolerate sitting on the sidelines.
They effectively used a suicide bomber with an IED to get the job done.
Something that we, as America, have a tendency to denounce whenever it's used against us. .. outstanding.
We're not going to shoot them anymore, we're going to blow them up . . . . . . lol .
What's next ? We going to strap a suicide vest on the K9's, let them run the suspects down ? :|
Maybe fill a police car with explosives and drive it into the house the bad guys are holed up in ?
Here's a thought, maybe someone should take a step back and figure out what the problem is
here. ( Hint: Police keep killing folks. Many of them unarmed, in handcuffs, and mostly black )
Of all the people killed by police under questionable circumstances, how many times were the police
prosecuted for it ?
Exactly.
Once enough folks lose faith in the system, they will cease to rely upon it. The results can be quite
devastating. The police love to tell everyone " This is a war ! ". Though now that folks are no longer playing
by their rules, the game becomes a little more difficult to play doesn't it ?
I suppose the same argument can be made for the Government's behavior as of late. ( I'm looking at you
FBI ) When the rich and powerful get a free pass to do whatever they want, the rest take notice. When
that system pisses enough people off, I would expect the reaction will be very similar.
Depends on what company you work for.
As a manager in my company, you get no say so whatsoever in what employees make up your team. HR / LR makes those decisions and if you don't like them, too bad. This means, you don't get to filter out the idiots. You get what you're given. If you can't handle that, then you're a terrible manager in the eyes of HR / LR.
Having said that, my team is made up of maybe 20% rockstars, 30% hard workers, 40% leeches and 10% lost causes.
In setups like this, if you start losing folks from the wrong end of the equation, the whole thing just implodes.
There isn't any accountability nor motivation. The lost causes make the same pay as the rockstars do.
Which causes two problems:
1) The rockstars eventually burn out because their efforts result in the same pay and benefits as the idiots of the group.
2) The idiots have no motivation nor incentive to put forth any effort for the same reasons. The pay is the same.
So, while I absolutely loathe my job, the pay is decent enough and retirement is now the target. Decent pay, a 401k AND
a pension are still on the table here. Tough to throw that away for greener pastures ( which are usually a myth anyway ) since
it would impact when I can retire.
( Though the silliness at work will probably cause a heart attack or stroke anyway )
that need any evidence to show laws are only in place for the masses and not the rulers, this should fit the bill quite nicely.
The corruption of our government is so engrained now it will be impossible to remove without destroying its host.
It's become a cancer you no longer wish to fight because you've realized you're only prolonging the inevitable.
Hopefully, the end comes quickly.
Pfff. Not everyone plays Alpha / Beta for the same reasons. Many are looking for bugs they can turn into $ via their "cheat" program post launch.
So put some servers in Germany and let them do as they will. Ban German networks from hitting any other servers and done.
The problem will solve itself, no lawyers needed.
-Don't even say VPN. Works great for Netflix and the like, not so much for low latency requirements.
Would you be ok with a mandated video and audio device you must carry with you at all times just to make sure you'll never say anything that is questionable ?
Your cellphone notwithstanding . . .
The police who lose their shit when they spot you video taping them would violently disagree with you.
If enough crime happens on your buses to warrant the installation of audio or video surveillance, I think I would find another means of transportation instead.
Much like the airport, free speech will go right out the window and it will be illegal to say much of anything that might be taken out of context. This isn't about terrorism, it's about control.
Yes, yes, " Fire " in a movie theater and all that. Toss in the " No expectation of privacy in a public place " BS while we're at it. Doesn't mean I want a camera and / or microphone recording every moment of my life for me, looking for any excuse at all to arrest me. Seems to fall under the " We'll just grab everything " mentality the government is fond of these days. Courts aren't fond of that when it comes to electronic communications, though the government doesn't seem to give a shit.
Imagine becoming a person of interest and investigation for saying silly things like:
Bomb, Allah, ( hell anything that isn't English ) terror{ist}{ism}, any name of any known terror group, and eventually, vocalizing your displeasure towards City, State, Federal governments or any elected official with power to make your life a living hell.
We all know the government is far too honorable to ever worry about them abusing this ability right ? :|
... and write accordingly. I do it for as long I can remember.
Anyway... who in their right mind would write 'I loathe this job' in a corporate mail?
* * * *
Those who do not grovel or worship those in charge for the opportunity to work for them. Those whose skills could transfer to any number of companies if push came to shove.
These are your " go-to " people. They get shit done. Quickly and efficiently. They do not deal with stupidity or bureaucracy well. Give them a task, however, and it gets done.
You could fire them, but then you're left with the special snowflakes all of which rely on the " answer guy " you just fired to get things done.
Once your top talent is gone, how does this reflect overall on the manager in charge going forward when shit no longer gets done like it used to. Pretty soon guess whose head is on the chopping block ?
All because X doesn't hide their thoughts about how they feel about the company in general ?
Choose wisely.
This stuff falls into pseudo-science much like a polygraph does. The first time they fire someone based on what amounts to ' digital profiling ' it will likely be quite a costly mistake.
Besides, there is nothing in my contract that states I have to like my job. I just have to do it.
I would think that if folks were not afraid of the fallout, any given company would find that a rather significant percentage of their workforce thinks less than positive thoughts about their job in general.
not to point out the obvious, but no one is going to use a giant password they have to put in via the tiny little keyboard on the phone everytime they want to use it.
Great from a security standpoint, not so much from a convenience one.
this was made public knowledge before the FBI could classify it as a National Security secret.
It sucks if what you need to do resides within that other 10% :|
Let me know when Gimp can read and manipulate the raw files of modern camera bodies and I'll give it a look.
( Same problem for CS6, does Adobe still update that version with the newest iterations of camera raw ? )
Until then, it's CC for Photoshop and Lightroom.
Because it's probably the only reason this router still exists :D
Absolutely.
Pen and paper notes are available to me instantly. No booting anything up, no need for power. No worries about who is going to hack what app or corrupt everything for bitcoin ransom.
I also typically tend to draw diagrams with my notes ( network infrastructure ) so the same pen and paper works just fine for that as well.
Someone else mentioned " rolling around a filing cabinet " but I'm typically not taking notes on THAT much information at any given time.
Besides, you tend to recall it easier once you've written it down. Not so much when typing it. ( YMMV )