You better have a damn good lawyer if you shoot and unarmed teen in the dark and just tell them to take your word for it that you thought you saw a knife or gun or something. You can only shoot someone in almost any state if they're threatening you, not just because they broke into your property. I
Depends on your state, but most everyone I know of and have lived in, if someone has broken into your house, especially in the middle of the night, you can readily assume they mean to do you and your family bodily harm.
I know of stories here, where the suspect was shot by home owner, and made it outside the house...and the cops would help drag the body back inside before pictures and all were taken, just to make it easier on the homeowner.
If you're in my house in the middle of the night, I'll be changing magazines before I even bother seeing who the stupid fuck was......NO ONE has a reason to break into my house, and therefore I can rightly assume the worst, because, getting up and asking the criminal what their intentions are, is a quick way to get yourself shot and killed by the criminal....or maybe get you a session of being forced to watch the home invaders take turns raping your wife and kids in front of you.....
I'm one to argue, because their goal is to use their money to force competition (public transit) out of business, then bend you over a barrel. Don't play their game.
Like most anyone I've ever known, I"m not likely to ever willingly take any form of public transportation in most cities, it simply isn't a viable option for most peoples' lives.
I occasionally ride the street cars here in New Orleans, mostly out of novelty, but Uber to most folks isn't competing with public transport, it is competing with people driving their own private cars.
Uber keeps you from needing to drive your car home after a night of drinking, it is door-to-door, so you can not have to park your car and walk to final destination (often having to pay for parking too if downtown)...etc.
Not that many people wanna wait on a bus in the middle of sweltering heat or rain storms, and sit by some smelly bum, and have to carry groceries, or whatever you may be going out for.....it simply isn't convenient or efficient for most peoples' daily lifestyles.
You do realise that some of these contracts are for things like warehouse jobs. Good luck "negotiating a billing rate blah fucking blah" with that.
Not everyone is as totally awesome as you. Or rather as awesome as you think you are.
I have never claimed to be "awesome"...just putting out facts as I see them, and arguing against those I disagree with, hopefully with my clear reasoning behind it.
Again I say, if the gig isn't paying you well, find ANOTHER job!!
And, you may need to move to get to better work. If you can't afford to live in CA....move to the middle of the US, cost of living is cheaper, and there are jobs all over the USA.
Some times you need to grow up, and leave the nest....leave Mommy and Daddy behind and move to where work is.
I've done it before, may have to do it again...but that is life, you can't count on it staying the same, and you can't count on opportunity coming to find YOU, you have to go out after opportunity.
What happened to showing a little self determination and drive?
I disagree. I think you should set up the AI to always produce false positives and probably hide the percentage of the match as well. Just like a lineup it should always return the top 10 results sorted randomly regardless of how closely they match. That way the cops don't start relying on it as something that it isn't.
Being in a line up is voluntary.
Here's the thing about the cop. They are there under pressure to get a conviction, especially if the crime is public, and heinous.
They hope it is the correct person, but that doesn't always happen, and innocent people go to jail and get executed.
Ok, so scenario, my face gets pulled up false positive. I was never there, but I don't have a real valid alibi.
Witnesses, who are often very unreliable, especially if it was a violent, dangerous fast acting crime...ID's me as the suspect.
Public opinion goes against me...social media goes against me, and I get convicted on circumstantial evidence.
That is not a far fetched thing to happen, granted, hopefully rare, but not far fetched at ALL.
Now, if my name had never come up as a false positive, I would have never been on the police radar, and would have never even remotely been on the radar for a crime I didn't commit.
Look, I'm gung ho for criminals to get caught and judged. But I'm willing to let a few go free, to ensure that as close to zero innocents get convicted and have their lives ruined.
The AI in this case would likely be setup to tend to produce false positives rather than outright missing matches because not being able to find anything is worrysome compared to finding a few false positives.
That is VERY WORRISOME for the general public at large.
The mere fact that innocent citizens show up on the radar at ALL for police trying to solve a crime is very troublesome.
It isn't like we've never had wrongful convictions of innocent people, putting an innocent person's profile in front of an investigating officer is dangerous.
Yeah, that's awesome when the client will let you work on a 1099 or if you can go corp-to-corp.
Well, first thing to do, is incorporate yourself, so you can more easily do 1099 corp-to-corp.....
And I've done the W2 contracting thing too....but even with that, you need to know how to negotiate your salary, just like any other job.
Both of those opportunties are out there.....you gotta look for them.
Again, why take a job that is bad for you and doesn't fit your needs? Especially today, it is becoming more and more of an employees market with the unemployment rate doing down....
You're talking about a different kind of "contractor". These aren't the kind that set their own billing rate - they're the kind that work for a contracting company for peanuts (aka outsourcing). They're W2 employees of the actual contractor.
If that is the case, then they are getting their "benefits" from their W2 contracting house employer...who is their real employer, not Google.
This can also extend towards creating a second class citizen system where said contractors despite being with the same company for many years will be excluded from free or reduced price lunches, snacks, drinks, activities or even having their display names on emails, chats, or whatever else saying (Contractor) at the end. This is offset by said contractors receiving higher base salaries than they could if they were direct employees.
Yep.
Frankly, I'll take the extra $$$ over a free coke any day of the week.
I work for one thing...to earn money. Period.
If I didn't have to make money, say if I won the lottery, I'd not be wasting my life on a job working, I'd be out having fun doing what "I" want to do.
It is quite rare that people get paid to do exactly what they want to do, when and where they want to do it, fact of life.
No, they also have a responsibility to obey Federal labor laws.
It's quite possible they likely are, otherwise, we'd have heard about it.
I see these articles all the time now and somehow, people think it is inherently BAD to be a contractor for some reason.
It is not.
There are many out there, that make a comfortable living contracting. It can be VERY lucrative. But you have to put your big boy pants on, know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc.
But it isn't rocket surgery, and if you are going to contract, well, you have to be prepared to decline some jobs, as that they may not be worth your time.
No one holds a gun to your head forcing you to take a gig.
Contracting isn't for everyone, hence, W2 jobs are great for many if not most people who don't want the extra responsibilties. But it is not a bad thing if others want to do this.
I'm not sure where this new groupthink that contracting is evil and should be done away with came from? In the past, it was the govt that didn't seem to like it, as that they didn't get their tax money straight off the top immediately...but now, we have the general public starting to try to tear down what has been a good thing for MANY people.
If there's one thing I have liked about contracting...it is that I don't have to "earn hours" for vacation or sick time. It is built into my bill rate. I tell them I'm taking off....and I do.
There is more responsibility you have to take as a contractor, but it does offer you a bit more freedom.
And one last time....often if there is overtime to be had, they'll hit the W2 employees first, who get salary and no OT...if they want the contractor there, they have to pay. You may not get paid when you're not working, but you get paid EVERY hour you do work and often that makes them think twice whether they really need you that weekend or not...
Or rather your events are not the target market. I too have a large bulky FF DSLR that I use for "events" (In my case weddings and racing photography). But boy am I looking for something else to avoid having to take that with me on holidays.
FF mirrorless cameras are not there for your battle. They are there for those who actually prefer having something small without sacraficing quality to get it.
Well, while I agree largely with your full post, the part above I'm not so sure about.
I would posit, that these first FF mirrorless cameras, are not going to be coming out cheap for "the masses".
I'm guessing these initial offerings will at least come out at the prosumer market, and in the $3K or so range.
You're common, every day shooter as you describe, isn't likely to be buying these, but people that WORK and earn with this level of equipment will be the ones Canon/Nikon will need to be pleasing, and get them on board with the new systems.
I would think they'd start with flagship type units, and then, get the masses interested (who mainly don't know first thing about FF vs crop sensors and the like), and see that "the pros" use these and I want one too.
After that, then they put out the Rebel level type mirrorless in full swing.
I wonder if it would make sense for Nikon/Canon to put out at least 2 different form factors of the bodies...one for more point and shoot with high quality (like you described) and one with a larger body that is more suited to take on an even shoot?
And too...I'm not sure what the market for the smaller, easier point and shoot will be when these all come out, I mean look how the cell phone cameras are improving and are "good enough" for the masses, who don't want to be bothered by carrying around extra detachable lenses, or bother learning about ISO/Shutter speed/Aperture...?
Do you even live in a moderately-sized city? 1:45AM is last-call for most barflies in most states. Guess what you usually want to do after a lot of drinking come 2AM?
Some bars in New Orleans don't even close at all.....
You just order your last drink to go, and order a pizza when you do eventually go home....etc.
Unless the cable ISP for your area charges more for a 50 Mbps business connection than for a 100 Mbps residential connection. Or unless the cable ISP for your area doesn't offer business connections at all to customers in residential neighborhoods.
Hmm...I'd never heard of it not being offered....have those ISP's you mention never heard of "home businesses"?
And what would you rather have (mostly for streaming)....50 Mbps with no caps, or 100Mbps with caps?
50 is MORE than plenty for streaming a whole house full of tvs.
I know that both Nikon and Canon are working on their versions of a FF mirrorless camera.
I have 2 main concerns....
1. What's the form factor of the camera?
2. Current lenses to work with new camera
The first one, is that coming out with a FF mirrorless camera that is tiny as an iPhone is not going to do well for me.
I have a Canon 5D3, and the form factor and ergonomics of this size and form of camera works when shooting most events I shoot. A concert for example, using larger lenses, you need this to get a good grip on it, and also to be able to hit the manual controls as needed quickly during a shoot like that where you may have to quickly change ISO/Shutter Speed/Aperture.
Having a tiny body on a camera with tiny controls or basic things buried in menus just won't work in the heat of battle.
And for lenses....well, I guess an adaptor would work, but not the optimum choice.
I've read discussions about flange distances, sensor/lens distances, etc.
But my main thing is, aside from substantial investment in good L glass....is that IMHO, for the most part, you're not going to change the laws of physics any time soon...and not reduce the size significantly for the lens types out there, so, why come up with a new mount?
Why not make a mount that accepts your current lenses natively (in my case, EF), but if you have new features, have maybe new connect pads that the new lenses will use, but would be ignored by the current lenses, etc.
I'm looking forward to seeing what FF mirrorless offers, but I hope they do it right for the pro level or prosumer level needs.
So if your existing application is designed for ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server, and you lack the time==money to migrate the application's database layer to PostgreSQL, you'd still be running Windows in a virtual machine on those Linux boxes.
AGain...if talking performance , something in a server room with a heavy load, you're going to be using a real database, not MS SQL server running on windows.
And if you are running Linux, you're not going to be running MS SQL server either.
Not if you want to continue earning a paycheck for a well kept, 24/7 system that has real loads upon it.
Windows has its place...as does MS SQL server, it just isn't in the server room of a performance system.
Because with mediacom there's a data cap and the 50 Mb down only has 200Gb cap. Which with a family watching Netflix, Amazon, Hulu we hit that in less than two weeks. The 100 Mb down has a 1Tb cap.
That's why I mentioned the business connection, those don't have data caps.....otherwise it would not be good for a business.
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Depends on your state, but most everyone I know of and have lived in, if someone has broken into your house, especially in the middle of the night, you can readily assume they mean to do you and your family bodily harm.
I know of stories here, where the suspect was shot by home owner, and made it outside the house...and the cops would help drag the body back inside before pictures and all were taken, just to make it easier on the homeowner.
If you're in my house in the middle of the night, I'll be changing magazines before I even bother seeing who the stupid fuck was......NO ONE has a reason to break into my house, and therefore I can rightly assume the worst, because, getting up and asking the criminal what their intentions are, is a quick way to get yourself shot and killed by the criminal....or maybe get you a session of being forced to watch the home invaders take turns raping your wife and kids in front of you.....
Oh, right...this is CA, where you can't really own a gun much anymore.
Well, most anywhere else in the US, breaking in and waking the folks up is just asking for a bad case of lead poisoning.
How fucking stupid are people getting these days?
I wouldn't say that, I love living here.
I like to visit other parts of the world, but I'm ALWAYS glad to come back home.
I've heard the old saying "The US sucks, but it sucks a whole lot less than the rest of the world....".
I"m happy to call it home.
I like my way of life.
I enjoy all the people around me...neighbors, friends, family.....my town is friendly and there's always something fun going on down here.
Well, then you enjoy that in the 4-5 major US cities where that is even a remotely viable option.
Like most anyone I've ever known, I"m not likely to ever willingly take any form of public transportation in most cities, it simply isn't a viable option for most peoples' lives.
I occasionally ride the street cars here in New Orleans, mostly out of novelty, but Uber to most folks isn't competing with public transport, it is competing with people driving their own private cars.
Uber keeps you from needing to drive your car home after a night of drinking, it is door-to-door, so you can not have to park your car and walk to final destination (often having to pay for parking too if downtown)...etc.
Not that many people wanna wait on a bus in the middle of sweltering heat or rain storms, and sit by some smelly bum, and have to carry groceries, or whatever you may be going out for.....it simply isn't convenient or efficient for most peoples' daily lifestyles.
Err...isn't that precisely what city streets (and streets in general) were built for in the first place???
I have never claimed to be "awesome"...just putting out facts as I see them, and arguing against those I disagree with, hopefully with my clear reasoning behind it.
Again I say, if the gig isn't paying you well, find ANOTHER job!!
And, you may need to move to get to better work. If you can't afford to live in CA....move to the middle of the US, cost of living is cheaper, and there are jobs all over the USA.
Some times you need to grow up, and leave the nest....leave Mommy and Daddy behind and move to where work is.
I've done it before, may have to do it again...but that is life, you can't count on it staying the same, and you can't count on opportunity coming to find YOU, you have to go out after opportunity.
What happened to showing a little self determination and drive?
Being in a line up is voluntary.
Here's the thing about the cop. They are there under pressure to get a conviction, especially if the crime is public, and heinous.
They hope it is the correct person, but that doesn't always happen, and innocent people go to jail and get executed.
Ok, so scenario, my face gets pulled up false positive. I was never there, but I don't have a real valid alibi.
Witnesses, who are often very unreliable, especially if it was a violent, dangerous fast acting crime...ID's me as the suspect.
Public opinion goes against me...social media goes against me, and I get convicted on circumstantial evidence.
That is not a far fetched thing to happen, granted, hopefully rare, but not far fetched at ALL.
Now, if my name had never come up as a false positive, I would have never been on the police radar, and would have never even remotely been on the radar for a crime I didn't commit.
Look, I'm gung ho for criminals to get caught and judged. But I'm willing to let a few go free, to ensure that as close to zero innocents get convicted and have their lives ruined.
That is VERY WORRISOME for the general public at large.
The mere fact that innocent citizens show up on the radar at ALL for police trying to solve a crime is very troublesome.
It isn't like we've never had wrongful convictions of innocent people, putting an innocent person's profile in front of an investigating officer is dangerous.
You want to absolutely minimize false positives.
Well, first thing to do, is incorporate yourself, so you can more easily do 1099 corp-to-corp.....
And I've done the W2 contracting thing too....but even with that, you need to know how to negotiate your salary, just like any other job.
Both of those opportunties are out there.....you gotta look for them.
Again, why take a job that is bad for you and doesn't fit your needs? Especially today, it is becoming more and more of an employees market with the unemployment rate doing down....
If that is the case, then they are getting their "benefits" from their W2 contracting house employer...who is their real employer, not Google.
If you are a grown adult, over age 18yrs...you need to grow up and be responsible and learn how the world works and what your worth is, etc.
No one is there to take care of this for you....it is up to the individual to learn how to take care of themselves.
Yep.
Frankly, I'll take the extra $$$ over a free coke any day of the week.
I work for one thing...to earn money. Period.
If I didn't have to make money, say if I won the lottery, I'd not be wasting my life on a job working, I'd be out having fun doing what "I" want to do.
It is quite rare that people get paid to do exactly what they want to do, when and where they want to do it, fact of life.
It's quite possible they likely are, otherwise, we'd have heard about it.
I see these articles all the time now and somehow, people think it is inherently BAD to be a contractor for some reason.
It is not.
There are many out there, that make a comfortable living contracting. It can be VERY lucrative. But you have to put your big boy pants on, know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc.
But it isn't rocket surgery, and if you are going to contract, well, you have to be prepared to decline some jobs, as that they may not be worth your time.
No one holds a gun to your head forcing you to take a gig.
Contracting isn't for everyone, hence, W2 jobs are great for many if not most people who don't want the extra responsibilties. But it is not a bad thing if others want to do this.
I'm not sure where this new groupthink that contracting is evil and should be done away with came from? In the past, it was the govt that didn't seem to like it, as that they didn't get their tax money straight off the top immediately...but now, we have the general public starting to try to tear down what has been a good thing for MANY people.
If there's one thing I have liked about contracting...it is that I don't have to "earn hours" for vacation or sick time. It is built into my bill rate. I tell them I'm taking off....and I do.
There is more responsibility you have to take as a contractor, but it does offer you a bit more freedom.
And one last time....often if there is overtime to be had, they'll hit the W2 employees first, who get salary and no OT...if they want the contractor there, they have to pay. You may not get paid when you're not working, but you get paid EVERY hour you do work and often that makes them think twice whether they really need you that weekend or not...
Well, while I agree largely with your full post, the part above I'm not so sure about.
I would posit, that these first FF mirrorless cameras, are not going to be coming out cheap for "the masses".
I'm guessing these initial offerings will at least come out at the prosumer market, and in the $3K or so range.
You're common, every day shooter as you describe, isn't likely to be buying these, but people that WORK and earn with this level of equipment will be the ones Canon/Nikon will need to be pleasing, and get them on board with the new systems.
I would think they'd start with flagship type units, and then, get the masses interested (who mainly don't know first thing about FF vs crop sensors and the like), and see that "the pros" use these and I want one too.
After that, then they put out the Rebel level type mirrorless in full swing.
I wonder if it would make sense for Nikon/Canon to put out at least 2 different form factors of the bodies...one for more point and shoot with high quality (like you described) and one with a larger body that is more suited to take on an even shoot?
And too...I'm not sure what the market for the smaller, easier point and shoot will be when these all come out, I mean look how the cell phone cameras are improving and are "good enough" for the masses, who don't want to be bothered by carrying around extra detachable lenses, or bother learning about ISO/Shutter speed/Aperture...?
Some bars in New Orleans don't even close at all.....
You just order your last drink to go, and order a pizza when you do eventually go home....etc.
It is the drunks and stoners that are ORDERING the pizzas at 2am....
Yeah...you might as well get it out of a gas station....
Hmm...I'd never heard of it not being offered....have those ISP's you mention never heard of "home businesses"?
And what would you rather have (mostly for streaming)....50 Mbps with no caps, or 100Mbps with caps?
50 is MORE than plenty for streaming a whole house full of tvs.
Remote GUI use is so rarely needed, tho....
For the occasional need, I find that X is just fine, say for example, installing something Oracle that has a GUI installer.
But for most things, CLI works great.
I have 2 main concerns....
1. What's the form factor of the camera?
2. Current lenses to work with new camera
The first one, is that coming out with a FF mirrorless camera that is tiny as an iPhone is not going to do well for me.
I have a Canon 5D3, and the form factor and ergonomics of this size and form of camera works when shooting most events I shoot. A concert for example, using larger lenses, you need this to get a good grip on it, and also to be able to hit the manual controls as needed quickly during a shoot like that where you may have to quickly change ISO/Shutter Speed/Aperture.
Having a tiny body on a camera with tiny controls or basic things buried in menus just won't work in the heat of battle.
And for lenses....well, I guess an adaptor would work, but not the optimum choice.
I've read discussions about flange distances, sensor/lens distances, etc.
But my main thing is, aside from substantial investment in good L glass....is that IMHO, for the most part, you're not going to change the laws of physics any time soon...and not reduce the size significantly for the lens types out there, so, why come up with a new mount?
Why not make a mount that accepts your current lenses natively (in my case, EF), but if you have new features, have maybe new connect pads that the new lenses will use, but would be ignored by the current lenses, etc.
I'm looking forward to seeing what FF mirrorless offers, but I hope they do it right for the pro level or prosumer level needs.
AGain...if talking performance , something in a server room with a heavy load, you're going to be using a real database, not MS SQL server running on windows.
And if you are running Linux, you're not going to be running MS SQL server either.
Not if you want to continue earning a paycheck for a well kept, 24/7 system that has real loads upon it.
Windows has its place...as does MS SQL server, it just isn't in the server room of a performance system.
That's why I mentioned the business connection, those don't have data caps.....otherwise it would not be good for a business.