I was really quite surprised that wasn't followed by massive buying up of airhogs stock by Tea Partiers, to find out which model planes hold the largest payload.
In a war of attrition, he who has the largest force *after* force multipliers and natural resources are taken into account, wins. Destruction is NOT mutually assured, unless you are talking about 100% equal forces.
For a war of attrition, the United States is almost unbeatable. Our force multiplying technology plus our natural resources means that in any given war of attrition, we could beat the rest of the planet combined.
That last is incorrect- they did find some old gas canisters, labeled in cyrilic, manufactured in Germany, with an expiration date of 1986. So something that could have been misinterpreted as WMDs, WAS found.
Heck, given the so-called "visa applications" of the original 9-11 hijackers, I'd say a review of *domestic* customs and visitor visa policy and procedures would be my first action- something NEITHER the Obama nor the Bush administrations undertook. Not a single one of the 20 should ever have gotten a student visa to begin with.
To me the line between self-defense, and self-offense, is reactive vs proactive. From that standpoint, Afghanistan is self-defense (though arguably, using drones *way out of proportion* to the original attack) and Iraq was a pre-emptive offensive war- and that's even IF you believe the government really believed in what they were saying about Iraq to begin with.
I personally agree with Augustine of Hippo- that wars should not only be limited to self defense- but should be limited to fighting on your own territory against an invasion. From that standpoint, the only legal use of drones would be as automated security guards on the border in an area where there are no checkpoints- and limited by GPS programming to that area.
If we can make it until 2060, the 66% of the human population currently alive who are over the age of 55 will be dead, and since the remaining generations haven't had enough children to replace them, we'll see each person owning six houses after the market correction.
Even there, among certain subcultures (cough, Catholics) the transmission rate is at or near zero. Eventually, the other subcultures, haven proven themselves unable to survive, won't.
Hard to admit- but I think in delta quality of life, the Great Recession has been WORSE. It's one thing to go from living in a sod house suffering from dust related tuberculosis to wandering the country sleeping in your car (Grapes of Wrath). It's quite another thing entirely to go from a 4000 square foot McMansion with six TV sets and air conditioning and central heating, to wandering your neighborhood sleeping in your car, to losing the car when you can no longer afford gas for it and your neighbors have it towed as an eyesore.
I work on the board of directors for an organization serving the homeless- and our volunteers report the streets are getting MEAN from the anger- to the point of homeless people beating each other up over not having cigarettes.
I'm surprised nobody challenged the 10 billion prediction- since current demographic trends say we'll be unlikely to finish the century with more than 4 billion human beings (Huge dyeoffs of humans are currently scheduled for the 2040-2060 range, as 2/3rds of humanity right now is over the age of 55, and while the third world has helped us keep up, huge numbers of people under the age of 30 simply are no longer breeding).
Yeah, that's pretty much been my career- to tell the truth, I haven't had the time in any one position to learn more than "just enough to get the job done". But a big question is, why would you expect your employer to pay you for learning MORE than just getting the job done?
In depth is great for academics, but in the real world, it's the guy with the breadth of knowledge that actually gets the job done. And as for learning frameworks? I find google (or really http://goosh.org/ because I like command lines) to be indispensable.
I agree with the parent and disagree strongly with the grandparent- but the grandparent does have ONE big point- SQL is different from HTML is different from Javascript is different from any Object Oriented language is different from any LISP Variant is different from Forth is different from Assembly. But once you've been exposed to the big 7 methodologies- jumping to a new language *within* any methodology you've been exposed to is cake.
And I got exposed to all 7 in the Programming Languages Series at OIT back in 1991. In a year (well, Programming Languages I, II, and III taken Fall, Winter, and Spring Term) a new language every two weeks, NONE of which I've used since. But what I learned programming LISP, translated easily to Scheme. What I learned in Fortran and Cobol, translated easily to Visual Basic. What I learned in ADA and Smalltalk, translated easily to C# and Visual C++. What I learned in assembly on the PDP-11 (despite being in OCTAL instead of HEX) translated easily to 386x MASM. What I learned in Oracle SQL, with a few syntax changes, works just fine in Transact SQL, or even in mySQL.
The rest is just "what framework am I on and what objects do I have available?"
My belated opinion on the original article- coding is a hell of a lot easier today than when I started. Almost all the common patterns and algorithms are in the framework libraries, no matter which framework you're programming in. I wouldn't hire somebody with this experience as a senior developer- but as a first year initial hire, no problem.
It's only under Canon Law- but the law they're trying to get him on is "To use the word Catholic in your organization, you must have permission of the Bishop". Indiana isn't in the Diocese of Detroit (though the maker of the videos is) and they had permission of the Bishop in Indiana. So it's a jurisdictional problem born from the lack of understanding of who owns a domain name.
Actually, the one country that has had the best response to the AIDS crisis has been Cuba- their solution? Send entire families into internal, if very comfortable, exile, and make sure they have the best comfort and symptom drugs available in the world. They effectively limited the spread of AIDS to the 3% of returning soldiers lent to the USSR for 1970s and 1980s adventures in Africa- and NO other group, not even homosexuals, have gotten AIDS. Complete segregation *works* when it comes to disease prevention.
I just got a huge example of why Santorum is probably the wrong candidate from this point of view, but it came from the Archdiocese of Detraoit- which just said that a right-wing website whose owner is in Indiana never asked the Archdiocese of Detroit if they could use the name Catholic for a series of online Youtube videos filmed in Michigan, none of which individually use the name Catholic at all, but are promoted on RealCatholicTV.org.
Somebody in the AoD doesn't have any clue how DNS works. And Canon Law will need 600 years worth of updating before it's competent to tackle the Internet.
"Be an educated citizen who can identify politicians that support the things you support, now that you understand the issues facing our society"
Politicians who support the things I support are in violation of Article I Section 10 of the US Constitution, which prevents this republic from becoming a distributed democracy entirely.
What a scary thought. It occurs to me that cyrosleep before death for artists would be a way to have their copyrights- and therefore their recording contracts- last nearly forever.
Because STEM workers are treated like commodities, and there's no stability in being a STEM worker. I tell that to every kid who wants to study computer programming- to go into some other field because as a STEM worker you're just a cog in a machine competing with cogs in the third world who earn 1/4th of what you need to survive.
1% of the world is a couple of DINKS earning a combined household income of $68,000/year. I used to work in a very liberal environment that was full of 'em.
2011- Intel/MS create the parts in Bangalore, stamp them out in Taiwan, sell them to China, who assembles them into computers which come back to the US.
Fixed that for you. Implication- the only exportable commodity the United States has any more is MBAs and capital investment.
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I was really quite surprised that wasn't followed by massive buying up of airhogs stock by Tea Partiers, to find out which model planes hold the largest payload.
You forgot the "nuclear weapon" that Reagan dropped on Tripoli, but I guess Obama and the UN recently finished that one off.
In a war of attrition, he who has the largest force *after* force multipliers and natural resources are taken into account, wins. Destruction is NOT mutually assured, unless you are talking about 100% equal forces.
For a war of attrition, the United States is almost unbeatable. Our force multiplying technology plus our natural resources means that in any given war of attrition, we could beat the rest of the planet combined.
No, Kill those who have *already tried* to kill you is self defense. Anything more is speculation.
That last is incorrect- they did find some old gas canisters, labeled in cyrilic, manufactured in Germany, with an expiration date of 1986. So something that could have been misinterpreted as WMDs, WAS found.
Just nothing very active or deadly.
Heck, given the so-called "visa applications" of the original 9-11 hijackers, I'd say a review of *domestic* customs and visitor visa policy and procedures would be my first action- something NEITHER the Obama nor the Bush administrations undertook. Not a single one of the 20 should ever have gotten a student visa to begin with.
To me the line between self-defense, and self-offense, is reactive vs proactive. From that standpoint, Afghanistan is self-defense (though arguably, using drones *way out of proportion* to the original attack) and Iraq was a pre-emptive offensive war- and that's even IF you believe the government really believed in what they were saying about Iraq to begin with.
I personally agree with Augustine of Hippo- that wars should not only be limited to self defense- but should be limited to fighting on your own territory against an invasion. From that standpoint, the only legal use of drones would be as automated security guards on the border in an area where there are no checkpoints- and limited by GPS programming to that area.
If we can make it until 2060, the 66% of the human population currently alive who are over the age of 55 will be dead, and since the remaining generations haven't had enough children to replace them, we'll see each person owning six houses after the market correction.
Even there, among certain subcultures (cough, Catholics) the transmission rate is at or near zero. Eventually, the other subcultures, haven proven themselves unable to survive, won't.
Hard to admit- but I think in delta quality of life, the Great Recession has been WORSE. It's one thing to go from living in a sod house suffering from dust related tuberculosis to wandering the country sleeping in your car (Grapes of Wrath). It's quite another thing entirely to go from a 4000 square foot McMansion with six TV sets and air conditioning and central heating, to wandering your neighborhood sleeping in your car, to losing the car when you can no longer afford gas for it and your neighbors have it towed as an eyesore.
I work on the board of directors for an organization serving the homeless- and our volunteers report the streets are getting MEAN from the anger- to the point of homeless people beating each other up over not having cigarettes.
I'm surprised nobody challenged the 10 billion prediction- since current demographic trends say we'll be unlikely to finish the century with more than 4 billion human beings (Huge dyeoffs of humans are currently scheduled for the 2040-2060 range, as 2/3rds of humanity right now is over the age of 55, and while the third world has helped us keep up, huge numbers of people under the age of 30 simply are no longer breeding).
Yeah, that's pretty much been my career- to tell the truth, I haven't had the time in any one position to learn more than "just enough to get the job done". But a big question is, why would you expect your employer to pay you for learning MORE than just getting the job done?
In depth is great for academics, but in the real world, it's the guy with the breadth of knowledge that actually gets the job done. And as for learning frameworks? I find google (or really http://goosh.org/ because I like command lines) to be indispensable.
I agree with the parent and disagree strongly with the grandparent- but the grandparent does have ONE big point- SQL is different from HTML is different from Javascript is different from any Object Oriented language is different from any LISP Variant is different from Forth is different from Assembly. But once you've been exposed to the big 7 methodologies- jumping to a new language *within* any methodology you've been exposed to is cake.
And I got exposed to all 7 in the Programming Languages Series at OIT back in 1991. In a year (well, Programming Languages I, II, and III taken Fall, Winter, and Spring Term) a new language every two weeks, NONE of which I've used since. But what I learned programming LISP, translated easily to Scheme. What I learned in Fortran and Cobol, translated easily to Visual Basic. What I learned in ADA and Smalltalk, translated easily to C# and Visual C++. What I learned in assembly on the PDP-11 (despite being in OCTAL instead of HEX) translated easily to 386x MASM. What I learned in Oracle SQL, with a few syntax changes, works just fine in Transact SQL, or even in mySQL.
The rest is just "what framework am I on and what objects do I have available?"
Since syntax checking. :-)
My belated opinion on the original article- coding is a hell of a lot easier today than when I started. Almost all the common patterns and algorithms are in the framework libraries, no matter which framework you're programming in. I wouldn't hire somebody with this experience as a senior developer- but as a first year initial hire, no problem.
It's only under Canon Law- but the law they're trying to get him on is "To use the word Catholic in your organization, you must have permission of the Bishop". Indiana isn't in the Diocese of Detroit (though the maker of the videos is) and they had permission of the Bishop in Indiana. So it's a jurisdictional problem born from the lack of understanding of who owns a domain name.
Actually, the one country that has had the best response to the AIDS crisis has been Cuba- their solution? Send entire families into internal, if very comfortable, exile, and make sure they have the best comfort and symptom drugs available in the world. They effectively limited the spread of AIDS to the 3% of returning soldiers lent to the USSR for 1970s and 1980s adventures in Africa- and NO other group, not even homosexuals, have gotten AIDS. Complete segregation *works* when it comes to disease prevention.
The Democratic Senators from Oregon are both opposed to SOPA- and Ron Wyden has offered his services to Fillibuster it.
I just got a huge example of why Santorum is probably the wrong candidate from this point of view, but it came from the Archdiocese of Detraoit- which just said that a right-wing website whose owner is in Indiana never asked the Archdiocese of Detroit if they could use the name Catholic for a series of online Youtube videos filmed in Michigan, none of which individually use the name Catholic at all, but are promoted on RealCatholicTV.org.
Somebody in the AoD doesn't have any clue how DNS works. And Canon Law will need 600 years worth of updating before it's competent to tackle the Internet.
"Be an educated citizen who can identify politicians that support the things you support, now that you understand the issues facing our society"
Politicians who support the things I support are in violation of Article I Section 10 of the US Constitution, which prevents this republic from becoming a distributed democracy entirely.
What a scary thought. It occurs to me that cyrosleep before death for artists would be a way to have their copyrights- and therefore their recording contracts- last nearly forever.
Because STEM workers are treated like commodities, and there's no stability in being a STEM worker. I tell that to every kid who wants to study computer programming- to go into some other field because as a STEM worker you're just a cog in a machine competing with cogs in the third world who earn 1/4th of what you need to survive.
"A grim prospect. But ... this should make US a fertile ground for moving back into, in theory."
Why? Why would anybody give up the cheaper wages offshore, to bring work back here?
1% of the world is a couple of DINKS earning a combined household income of $68,000/year. I used to work in a very liberal environment that was full of 'em.
2011- Intel/MS create the parts in Bangalore, stamp them out in Taiwan, sell them to China, who assembles them into computers which come back to the US.
Fixed that for you. Implication- the only exportable commodity the United States has any more is MBAs and capital investment.
And, given the new idea for a Pacific Free Trade Agreement, quite a bit hypocritical.