In general, Aussies don't fear their neighbours. Hell, even our prime minister walks around town and rides on public transport without a small army following him.
The net inherited neutrality from well established international treaties governing the global telephone system, not sure how the FCC can dump it without breaking those treaties and pissing off every other nation on earth? Regardless of who owns the wires, the telephone system is global public infrastructure (much of it was originally funded and built by various governments). If they want to stay hooked up to that global infrastructure then they should follow the established rules and stop pleading for special treatment for their lackluster regional networks.
The place to lobby for a change to the rules is somewhere like the WTO, or whatever organisation monitors the existing treaties, not a parochial bureaucracy such as the FCC. Problem for the US phone companies is that they cannot bully or bribe the WTO into doing their bidding for them.
I'm pushing 60, life has taught me to "never say never". Douglas Hofstadter makes a good argument that artificial consciousness is possible and provides the mathematical framework to back it up, I first read his book in the late 1980's while studying for my Math degree, probably before your time. Also most of my projects in the 30yrs since then have been on time and budget.;)
Enforcing trademarks is a civil matter and it's up to the trademark owner to police their own trademarks, failing to do so may result in the loss of said trademark.
BP's trademarked green and gold is a better example, doesn't matter where you are in the world if you see a green and gold petrol (gas) station you know it's BP. The problem with the cheerios claim is there are already heaps of direct competitors using a yellow box, which makes me think they were trying to create problems for competitors more than they were trying to protect their brand. Theoretically they could have trademarked it back in 1945 (if they were first) but since they didn't and have left it for over half a century before deciding to claim it, they miss out.
Do you really believe deregulated pixie dust will force Telco's to slit their own throats?
The douche pickles that don't hang up as soon as the robot puts them on hold are the problem. They ARE the target market and they're already free to fuck things up for the rest of us.
I stand corrected, I just checked a local Bunnings advert for dressed structural pine, they do advertise dressed timber in actual dimensions rather than undressed dimensions. I haven't done any handyman stuff for at least 15yrs and IIRC they were still using the old system back then. I'm now left wondering when the change happened and why?
I am Australian, I spent the 1980's working in Gippsland sawmills and Melbourne joineries. If what you say is true it must be a recent development. Also 2m and 2.2m are both non standard lengths, the 2M length would be sold as 1.8M and the 2.2M would be sold as 2.1M. 10mm dressed is 1/2 inch in old money, 1/2inch undressed is 12.5mm in the new money.
Every few years some ambulance chaser tries this bullshit in the US. All over the world timber is sold using the undressed dimensions, it's been that way since the dead sea caught the sniffles. IMO the court should declare the suit frivolous and force him to refund the money (with interest) to the people who have joined his class action con job.
I'm no fan of Trump but as to TFA - why is it assumed that people who search for racist memes must be racists? There's a guy here in Australia who boasts about being the most popular political commentator in the country and offers up the number of visitors to his blog as proof. My personal observation is that at least half the people who comment on his site do so to criticize his overt racism. It's well known that a strongly polarised audience/electorate/workforce is the hallmark of a sociopath in a position of power, both sides of the divide are going to be busy searching for jokes/insults that support their views.
There are a number of skeptic sites on FB and elsewhere that regularly post all manner of nonsense for their audience to debunk. It's a moral conundrum for them since posting/sharing the article inevitably funnels advertising dollars to the people who least deserve it based on the number of "hits", which totally ignores the intent of those hits. Giving advertisers the ability to fine tune programmatic advertising is the one place where social media companies could theoretically make a huge difference. However the Facebooks and Googles of this world constantly deflect away from their failings and point towards some kind of half arsed censorship or trust ranking to avoid losing revenue from the type of people that most advertisers wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. .
Having said that there are some recent signs of hope, a well organised campaign to inform advertisers their programmatic ads were appearing on Breitbart has seen a 90% reduction in advertising revenue for Breitbart in the past six months.
I don't think the problem here is necessarily the tools, but might be the process
Bingo, bug tracking is hard, you need a dedicated admin resource who understands the software to manage the open docket list for any non-trivial project. It the same as source control, you don't let everyone check in whatever the hell they want and stay in business. Also a customer facing tool is not a bug tracker, it's a customer complaint tracker.
Yep, when I was a builder's labourer back in the 70's, carpenters and framers used to buy 2 inch nails in 20 gallon drums. Now they buy nail gun ammo by the crate.
To be fair, the GP said "competent programmer" and "maintain" (not architect). The broad range of concepts you speak of are covered in any reputable computer science degree. When walking into a maintenance job you don't need to remember the details because the algorithms are already carved in legacy code.
As someone with 30yrs experience as a degree qualified coder, I'd say that system/application specific business "logic" is more important, and harder to come by, than language skills when maintaining old code. In my experience a new hire on a medium sized legacy project ( 20-30 ppl) will take at least six months just to come up to speed on what the system/application is supposed to do, and that's assuming he has the relevant domain knowledge and language skills
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In general, Aussies don't fear their neighbours. Hell, even our prime minister walks around town and rides on public transport without a small army following him.
The net inherited neutrality from well established international treaties governing the global telephone system, not sure how the FCC can dump it without breaking those treaties and pissing off every other nation on earth? Regardless of who owns the wires, the telephone system is global public infrastructure (much of it was originally funded and built by various governments). If they want to stay hooked up to that global infrastructure then they should follow the established rules and stop pleading for special treatment for their lackluster regional networks. The place to lobby for a change to the rules is somewhere like the WTO, or whatever organisation monitors the existing treaties, not a parochial bureaucracy such as the FCC. Problem for the US phone companies is that they cannot bully or bribe the WTO into doing their bidding for them.
I'm pushing 60, life has taught me to "never say never". Douglas Hofstadter makes a good argument that artificial consciousness is possible and provides the mathematical framework to back it up, I first read his book in the late 1980's while studying for my Math degree, probably before your time. Also most of my projects in the 30yrs since then have been on time and budget. ;)
Enforcing trademarks is a civil matter and it's up to the trademark owner to police their own trademarks, failing to do so may result in the loss of said trademark.
BP's trademarked green and gold is a better example, doesn't matter where you are in the world if you see a green and gold petrol (gas) station you know it's BP. The problem with the cheerios claim is there are already heaps of direct competitors using a yellow box, which makes me think they were trying to create problems for competitors more than they were trying to protect their brand. Theoretically they could have trademarked it back in 1945 (if they were first) but since they didn't and have left it for over half a century before deciding to claim it, they miss out.
Neil Armstrong was proud to be a nerd, long before it was popular to be one.
Joanna Lumley - yes, she would make a great Dr Who.
In find exploding heads extremely entertaining...
Nope, Doctor is an alien, not a man.
Do you really believe deregulated pixie dust will force Telco's to slit their own throats?
The douche pickles that don't hang up as soon as the robot puts them on hold are the problem. They ARE the target market and they're already free to fuck things up for the rest of us.
I stand corrected, I just checked a local Bunnings advert for dressed structural pine, they do advertise dressed timber in actual dimensions rather than undressed dimensions. I haven't done any handyman stuff for at least 15yrs and IIRC they were still using the old system back then. I'm now left wondering when the change happened and why?
I am Australian, I spent the 1980's working in Gippsland sawmills and Melbourne joineries. If what you say is true it must be a recent development. Also 2m and 2.2m are both non standard lengths, the 2M length would be sold as 1.8M and the 2.2M would be sold as 2.1M. 10mm dressed is 1/2 inch in old money, 1/2inch undressed is 12.5mm in the new money.
Beat me to it.
Every few years some ambulance chaser tries this bullshit in the US. All over the world timber is sold using the undressed dimensions, it's been that way since the dead sea caught the sniffles. IMO the court should declare the suit frivolous and force him to refund the money (with interest) to the people who have joined his class action con job.
I'm no fan of Trump but as to TFA - why is it assumed that people who search for racist memes must be racists? There's a guy here in Australia who boasts about being the most popular political commentator in the country and offers up the number of visitors to his blog as proof. My personal observation is that at least half the people who comment on his site do so to criticize his overt racism. It's well known that a strongly polarised audience/electorate/workforce is the hallmark of a sociopath in a position of power, both sides of the divide are going to be busy searching for jokes/insults that support their views.
There are a number of skeptic sites on FB and elsewhere that regularly post all manner of nonsense for their audience to debunk. It's a moral conundrum for them since posting/sharing the article inevitably funnels advertising dollars to the people who least deserve it based on the number of "hits", which totally ignores the intent of those hits. Giving advertisers the ability to fine tune programmatic advertising is the one place where social media companies could theoretically make a huge difference. However the Facebooks and Googles of this world constantly deflect away from their failings and point towards some kind of half arsed censorship or trust ranking to avoid losing revenue from the type of people that most advertisers wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. .
Having said that there are some recent signs of hope, a well organised campaign to inform advertisers their programmatic ads were appearing on Breitbart has seen a 90% reduction in advertising revenue for Breitbart in the past six months.
I don't think the problem here is necessarily the tools, but might be the process
Bingo, bug tracking is hard, you need a dedicated admin resource who understands the software to manage the open docket list for any non-trivial project. It the same as source control, you don't let everyone check in whatever the hell they want and stay in business. Also a customer facing tool is not a bug tracker, it's a customer complaint tracker.
Why do they need the phone to read the text messages he sent? Why can't they just get a warrant to pull his logs from the phone company?
It was sarcasm, ya wanker.
Yep, when I was a builder's labourer back in the 70's, carpenters and framers used to buy 2 inch nails in 20 gallon drums. Now they buy nail gun ammo by the crate.
Citation please
"Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" - Hitchen's razor
Betteridge has not failed you, Trump is above the law.
To be fair, the GP said "competent programmer" and "maintain" (not architect). The broad range of concepts you speak of are covered in any reputable computer science degree. When walking into a maintenance job you don't need to remember the details because the algorithms are already carved in legacy code.
As someone with 30yrs experience as a degree qualified coder, I'd say that system/application specific business "logic" is more important, and harder to come by, than language skills when maintaining old code. In my experience a new hire on a medium sized legacy project ( 20-30 ppl) will take at least six months just to come up to speed on what the system/application is supposed to do, and that's assuming he has the relevant domain knowledge and language skills
There is another sense of 'cleanness' that has to do with your diet
Clean diet? - C'mon, the guy eats his own toe jam. Face it, he has disgusting personal habits, so bad that it detracts from anything he has to say.
And can be cured with antibiotics if treated early.
Contractors can be out of luck
The victims in the article are classified as sub-contractors in Oz. The scenario in TFA is unusual. I did it for 12yrs, good money, no complaints.