norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK.
Australia should be somewhere on the LHS of your list, I believe it's between Norway and Sweden but maybe I'm mixing it up with our standard of living numbers? The US is 30 odd countries to the right in your list.
Don't know anything about the GP, but I do agree that his posts on this thread don't sound like they came from a mature adult. Having said that I'm over 50 with 3 grand-kids, family life takes up a lot less time than when the kids were at home. Yes I am slower than I used to be, some of that may be due to dead or dying neurons, but I like to think it's because I have accumulated a long list of answers to the proverbial question; "What could possibly go wrong?"
From the employers POV there are two main reasons to hire old farts like me.....
1. More industry experience.
2. More life experience.
Speaking from my own experience, Once the kids leave home the financial pressures dissipate, even if you have no kids your mortgage is now what your rent was 20yrs ago. I was a middle manager for a few years in the 90's, herding cats is a thankless job and I don't want to go back. I would much rather get slightly less pay, spend my work time training my future boss and go home at 5pm. It's hard to explain that to young people who's only measure of success are the rungs on the corporate ladder and the digits on their paycheck. It's even harder to explain why some of my co-workers still turn up every morning even though they are in a financial position that would allow them to comfortably retire.
As for Zuck and the other wizz-kids, they didn't get where they are by working for a boss, they got there by selling new ideas to a new generation. The keys to that kind of success are; the right place, and the right time.
Disclaimer: Age != Maturity. I'm also fortunate enough to work as a developer for a Japanese multinational, they have an entirely different POV wrt to age and loyalty.
Since the Irish are terrorist friendly, I'm surprised we haven't invaded yet.
I'm not surprised at all, IRA "freedom fighters" were heavily financed by US citizens, particluarly in Boston, so a US invasion would be unlikely (unless they want their money back). In the 1980's Bono was high on the IRA's hit list after a rant at a Boston concert where he famously urged Irish-Americans who "hadn't been home for 20yrs" to "fuck the revolution". There is a clip of Bono's rant somewhere on youtube and it'a also on the "rattle and hum" CD. No matter what you think of Bono, calling the IRA out in Boston in the way he did, and the times he did it in, was an extremely courageous act for an Irishman.
To sum up, you didn't get to pick the winner, so you're not going to play. Problem is, if you try to predict how much influence your single ballot will have on an election you will always come up with the same answer, zero. Following such "logic" misses the whole point of democracy.
A bet on a future price it's not a futures trade, with a futures trade someone actually ends up with a shed full of widgets in the future. The only thing they have in common is there is no gaurentee of profit. The "Feds problem" is they haven't worked out how to extract their pound of fleash.
One poor decision does not invalidate the entire system. Google will either get this decision overturned or the industry itself will get the law changed, it may take a few years but this decision won't stand the test of time.
Weathermen studying climate on distant planets will eventually be a growth industry.
Funny you should say that, a lot of what we know about climate came from studying Earth rocks and other planets atmosphere's, the main question in the first half of the 20th century was "what caused the ice ages", from there they have built up a good history of the inner planets climate and the mechanisms by which they evolved. Until very recently most people assumed god created and micro-managed the climate for our benefit, the only circumstantial evidence for that theory is that when the Texas Governor asked people to pray for rain recently, Texas burst into flames.
Depends on your job and your employer. I'm a software developer, in theory I'm supposed to provide a sick note, in practice I haven't done so since the early 90's because the Aussie software industry tends to treat it's professionals as adults. It's a stark contrast to the management mentality exemplified by the clock cards I punched on factory floors during the 70 and 80's. I have no doubt those sort of employers still exist, fortunately I had the good sense to take advantage of a government funded mature age student program in the late 80's and for the last 20yrs I have had the marketable skills ( in the form of a BSc ) and commercial experience that makes it possible to deliberately avoid clock cards, sick notes, and other dehumanizing management tools.
You don't have to build it yourself. Here in Australia it is the same price to get someone at a specialist PC shop to build the PC and install windows for you as it is to buy the parts and assemble it yourself, I've been buying PC's that way for at least 15yrs and never had a problem with crapware. One tip, the OEM windows CD that comes with the motherboard is about half the price of the retail version of windows, I have never found crapware on an OEM windows CD, which implies it must be installed separately at build time.
Of course if you go to a big department store where the PC's are pre-built and displayed alongside washing machines and fridges, your going to get crapware when you boot it up at home. This (along with price and service) is why I recommend to friends that they should avoid buying a PC from a department store, I always point them towards a local PC shop and tell them to do their own shopping.
At the same time though, conditions in China do seem on a path to improvement. I have seen articles...
I remeber as a kid watching nightly news reports of the last major Chinese famine (circa 1969), regardless of what anyone thinks of their system of government the fact is that since they booted out the gang of four in the 70's China has dragged more people out of abject poverty than the rest of the world combined. That's quite an achievement, the fact that their current living standards are considered a vast improvement is a poignent reminder of how trully fucked-up life was in Mao's utopia.
The only thing I don't understand is why people would become irate when it's explained to them, what have they lost other than a phone call? If the non-paying customer has gone off and built some mission critical system around the free code then they should have confirmed the support terms as part of their basic project risk assesment. If they didn't and they find they don't like the terms when they need them, then tough titties.
Bias is in the eye of the beholder. I think it's fine to show "biased" clips, provided the original source is also made available to those who are interested. There was plenty of bias in the reporting of "climategate", but I will give credit where it is due and point out the perpetrators made their source available to all.
Sorry context or no context there is no justification for beating a man who is already down, that's just plain thuggery. I have relatives who have been cops for 30yrs who are equally disgusted by that sort of behavior. The problem is that for young males in particular, a gang chasing then kicking the crap out of a lone "enemy" is an instinctive behavior that has to be suppressed with civilization. Male chimps do the same thing, when a gang of male chimps catches an enemy chimp they beat it to death, rip the genitals off and mutilate the face. Once all the adult males in the enemy group are dead their females join the attackers group (sounds like the new testament, right?).
If you, (the royal 'you'), don't understand that deep inside your own psyche there is an apeman just waiting for the right context to take charge and rip an enemy's balls off, then you have no hope of controlling it and are not suited to police work. I don't know about the US but here in Oz if you apply to be a cop at some point in the interview process they will try and provoke you, if you're judged to be too submissive/aggressive you are shown the door. Life is messy and subjective, people will behave very differently when the power roles are reversed, so there are still plenty of instances of police thuggery/heroics over here that go unpunished/unrewarded. At the end of the day they are a "necessary evil", that means they need to be kept on a strong leash. ie: "Big brother" is a legitimate and peaceful tool only when all sides have access. I know that when I've been totally wasted and deserved being thrown out of some establishment I have always preferred to stand under a CCTV camera when approached by the bouncers from all sides.
Yes, and what they are required to balance is evidence, they are not required to provide a soap-box for corporate and/or political propaganda, that's Rupert's job, he does it well and dislikes competition. The BBC is supposed to be the antithesis to "tabloid journalism" and everything I see says that it is the closest thing the western world has to that ideal that is also a household name on a global scale. The BBC employees involved in the McAlpine case who failed to correctly weigh the evidence before broadcasting have apologized on numerous occasions and are now out of a job due to their negligence, there was no evidence of malice just plain old incompetence.
Now let's look at who stirring the outrage pot, going by what I see in the Daily Fail, I would say their policy is to reward rather than punish journalistic incompetence. The reason I trust the BBC to be a good approximation to the "truth" is that I have seen it attacked by both sides of politics and subsequently vindicated by history. If McAlpine had been a left wing MP we would be hearing the same conspiratorial bullshit flowing from the other side of the house, left-wing partisans would be just as eager to make the exact same accusations you allude to in your post, and they would do it for the exact same reasons.
The BBC is rotten to the core.
It looks like that because your wearing your partisan goggles which are designed by their manufacturer to filter out uncomfortable ideas and events. What remains is gossip and innuendo, Eleanor Roosevelt described the phenomena much better than I can, she said; Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. The BBC discusses all three and heavily promotes the dissemination of ideas and factual information via subsidiaries such as BBC Earth, in this respect it is superior to every privately owned mass media organization on the planet and has a long history of political independence that most apolitical Brits are rightly proud of.
Disclaimer: Born in Manchester, spent the last 48yrs living in Australia where the equivalent of the BBC is ABC, sometimes called "Aunty" because of a strange but funny Aussie sitcom from the 70's revolving around a character called Aunty Jack.
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People like you banned weed, leave my smokes alone.
They are our grandparents' parties.
That whirring noise you hear is Reagan spinning in his grave.
norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK. Australia should be somewhere on the LHS of your list, I believe it's between Norway and Sweden but maybe I'm mixing it up with our standard of living numbers? The US is 30 odd countries to the right in your list.
Every engine room needs a Scottie, Scottie only shovels coal when it's absolutely vital.
Don't know anything about the GP, but I do agree that his posts on this thread don't sound like they came from a mature adult. Having said that I'm over 50 with 3 grand-kids, family life takes up a lot less time than when the kids were at home. Yes I am slower than I used to be, some of that may be due to dead or dying neurons, but I like to think it's because I have accumulated a long list of answers to the proverbial question; "What could possibly go wrong?"
From the employers POV there are two main reasons to hire old farts like me.....
1. More industry experience.
2. More life experience.
Speaking from my own experience, Once the kids leave home the financial pressures dissipate, even if you have no kids your mortgage is now what your rent was 20yrs ago. I was a middle manager for a few years in the 90's, herding cats is a thankless job and I don't want to go back. I would much rather get slightly less pay, spend my work time training my future boss and go home at 5pm. It's hard to explain that to young people who's only measure of success are the rungs on the corporate ladder and the digits on their paycheck. It's even harder to explain why some of my co-workers still turn up every morning even though they are in a financial position that would allow them to comfortably retire.
As for Zuck and the other wizz-kids, they didn't get where they are by working for a boss, they got there by selling new ideas to a new generation. The keys to that kind of success are; the right place, and the right time.
Disclaimer: Age != Maturity. I'm also fortunate enough to work as a developer for a Japanese multinational, they have an entirely different POV wrt to age and loyalty.
Since the Irish are terrorist friendly, I'm surprised we haven't invaded yet.
I'm not surprised at all, IRA "freedom fighters" were heavily financed by US citizens, particluarly in Boston, so a US invasion would be unlikely (unless they want their money back). In the 1980's Bono was high on the IRA's hit list after a rant at a Boston concert where he famously urged Irish-Americans who "hadn't been home for 20yrs" to "fuck the revolution". There is a clip of Bono's rant somewhere on youtube and it'a also on the "rattle and hum" CD. No matter what you think of Bono, calling the IRA out in Boston in the way he did, and the times he did it in, was an extremely courageous act for an Irishman.
To sum up, you didn't get to pick the winner, so you're not going to play. Problem is, if you try to predict how much influence your single ballot will have on an election you will always come up with the same answer, zero. Following such "logic" misses the whole point of democracy.
A bet on a future price it's not a futures trade, with a futures trade someone actually ends up with a shed full of widgets in the future. The only thing they have in common is there is no gaurentee of profit. The "Feds problem" is they haven't worked out how to extract their pound of fleash.
Soviet Republic of Australia
One poor decision does not invalidate the entire system. Google will either get this decision overturned or the industry itself will get the law changed, it may take a few years but this decision won't stand the test of time.
Weathermen studying climate on distant planets will eventually be a growth industry.
Funny you should say that, a lot of what we know about climate came from studying Earth rocks and other planets atmosphere's, the main question in the first half of the 20th century was "what caused the ice ages", from there they have built up a good history of the inner planets climate and the mechanisms by which they evolved. Until very recently most people assumed god created and micro-managed the climate for our benefit, the only circumstantial evidence for that theory is that when the Texas Governor asked people to pray for rain recently, Texas burst into flames.
That's correct, a test for CFC producing life can't detect non-CFC producing life. /thank_you_captain_obvious.
The fact you believe your boss can force you to do anything other than leave the premises is what makes you a wage slave.
Depends on your job and your employer. I'm a software developer, in theory I'm supposed to provide a sick note, in practice I haven't done so since the early 90's because the Aussie software industry tends to treat it's professionals as adults. It's a stark contrast to the management mentality exemplified by the clock cards I punched on factory floors during the 70 and 80's. I have no doubt those sort of employers still exist, fortunately I had the good sense to take advantage of a government funded mature age student program in the late 80's and for the last 20yrs I have had the marketable skills ( in the form of a BSc ) and commercial experience that makes it possible to deliberately avoid clock cards, sick notes, and other dehumanizing management tools.
How is this not GMO Humans?
Not a fan of cannibalisim, so I couldn't care less.
You don't have to build it yourself. Here in Australia it is the same price to get someone at a specialist PC shop to build the PC and install windows for you as it is to buy the parts and assemble it yourself, I've been buying PC's that way for at least 15yrs and never had a problem with crapware. One tip, the OEM windows CD that comes with the motherboard is about half the price of the retail version of windows, I have never found crapware on an OEM windows CD, which implies it must be installed separately at build time.
Of course if you go to a big department store where the PC's are pre-built and displayed alongside washing machines and fridges, your going to get crapware when you boot it up at home. This (along with price and service) is why I recommend to friends that they should avoid buying a PC from a department store, I always point them towards a local PC shop and tell them to do their own shopping.
Yep, and they are often the same people who deride the "X is too big to fail" claim made by some economists.
At the same time though, conditions in China do seem on a path to improvement. I have seen articles...
I remeber as a kid watching nightly news reports of the last major Chinese famine (circa 1969), regardless of what anyone thinks of their system of government the fact is that since they booted out the gang of four in the 70's China has dragged more people out of abject poverty than the rest of the world combined. That's quite an achievement, the fact that their current living standards are considered a vast improvement is a poignent reminder of how trully fucked-up life was in Mao's utopia.
How about going negative on them as well? It's worked for decades in the USA, (think politics).
I think that very much depends on your definition of "worked".
The only thing I don't understand is why people would become irate when it's explained to them, what have they lost other than a phone call? If the non-paying customer has gone off and built some mission critical system around the free code then they should have confirmed the support terms as part of their basic project risk assesment. If they didn't and they find they don't like the terms when they need them, then tough titties.
Bias is in the eye of the beholder. I think it's fine to show "biased" clips, provided the original source is also made available to those who are interested. There was plenty of bias in the reporting of "climategate", but I will give credit where it is due and point out the perpetrators made their source available to all.
Sorry context or no context there is no justification for beating a man who is already down, that's just plain thuggery. I have relatives who have been cops for 30yrs who are equally disgusted by that sort of behavior. The problem is that for young males in particular, a gang chasing then kicking the crap out of a lone "enemy" is an instinctive behavior that has to be suppressed with civilization. Male chimps do the same thing, when a gang of male chimps catches an enemy chimp they beat it to death, rip the genitals off and mutilate the face. Once all the adult males in the enemy group are dead their females join the attackers group (sounds like the new testament, right?).
If you, (the royal 'you'), don't understand that deep inside your own psyche there is an apeman just waiting for the right context to take charge and rip an enemy's balls off, then you have no hope of controlling it and are not suited to police work. I don't know about the US but here in Oz if you apply to be a cop at some point in the interview process they will try and provoke you, if you're judged to be too submissive/aggressive you are shown the door. Life is messy and subjective, people will behave very differently when the power roles are reversed, so there are still plenty of instances of police thuggery/heroics over here that go unpunished/unrewarded. At the end of the day they are a "necessary evil", that means they need to be kept on a strong leash. ie: "Big brother" is a legitimate and peaceful tool only when all sides have access. I know that when I've been totally wasted and deserved being thrown out of some establishment I have always preferred to stand under a CCTV camera when approached by the bouncers from all sides.
"The ocean is huge" - I get it now, the ocean is too big to fail, right?
This is why I still love slashdot, where else can you find a devestatingly rational post from someone with a name like "woofygoofy"?
[A] Royal Charter that Requires Balance
Yes, and what they are required to balance is evidence, they are not required to provide a soap-box for corporate and/or political propaganda, that's Rupert's job, he does it well and dislikes competition. The BBC is supposed to be the antithesis to "tabloid journalism" and everything I see says that it is the closest thing the western world has to that ideal that is also a household name on a global scale. The BBC employees involved in the McAlpine case who failed to correctly weigh the evidence before broadcasting have apologized on numerous occasions and are now out of a job due to their negligence, there was no evidence of malice just plain old incompetence.
Now let's look at who stirring the outrage pot, going by what I see in the Daily Fail, I would say their policy is to reward rather than punish journalistic incompetence. The reason I trust the BBC to be a good approximation to the "truth" is that I have seen it attacked by both sides of politics and subsequently vindicated by history. If McAlpine had been a left wing MP we would be hearing the same conspiratorial bullshit flowing from the other side of the house, left-wing partisans would be just as eager to make the exact same accusations you allude to in your post, and they would do it for the exact same reasons.
The BBC is rotten to the core.
It looks like that because your wearing your partisan goggles which are designed by their manufacturer to filter out uncomfortable ideas and events. What remains is gossip and innuendo, Eleanor Roosevelt described the phenomena much better than I can, she said; Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. The BBC discusses all three and heavily promotes the dissemination of ideas and factual information via subsidiaries such as BBC Earth, in this respect it is superior to every privately owned mass media organization on the planet and has a long history of political independence that most apolitical Brits are rightly proud of.
Disclaimer: Born in Manchester, spent the last 48yrs living in Australia where the equivalent of the BBC is ABC, sometimes called "Aunty" because of a strange but funny Aussie sitcom from the 70's revolving around a character called Aunty Jack.
If it can be said in 3 pages, it should be said in 3 pages. End of story.
Indeed! Einstein's famous 1905 paper was three pages long and had zero references.
The longer a paper is, the more likely it is, that it’s complete bullshit.
Reversing the "logic" does not make one jot of difference, judging the worth of a document by the number of words is just plain silly.