While technically true, you are being at least a little disingenuous. When talking about a self-hosted cloud, I've never once heard someone refer to it with the generic "the cloud" label - they always add the "private" qualifier to it, calling it a "private cloud". When people say "the cloud", they mean hosting services.
It's both. We have already seen stories about media self-censoring due to the surveillance. In addition, there's a chilling effect on association when people know they are always being watched.
So true. There are plenty of places with a cost of living far below a place like DC or Silicon Valley which pay decently enough that you end up way ahead.
TFA is bullshit. Equality isn't 50% men vs 50% women. Equality is equal opportunity, and proportional representation. If 30% of applicants are female, and 50% of accepted applicants are female, then that's not equality it's sexism.
Things are a little more complex than that. It could very well be that there is suddenly gender parity because that's how the pool of qualified individuals panned out, despite the gender ratio of applicants. It could even be that there would have been more women if not for some of the qualified women being turned away due to sexism. Similarly, if the ratio of accepted applicants was 90% men and 10% women, it could be because the vast majority of women candidates were terrible and the 10% was due to accepting sub-par women candidates.
You can't really tell by looking at gender ratios. They're OK as a warning indicator, but gender ratios alone are not proof of sexism in one direction or the other.
The reason we know there is widespread pro-male or pro-female sexism in many industries is because we have other facts in addition to the final ratios, from compensation numbers to steering women and men into particular job paths during school to societal stigmas about which genders are expected to perform which jobs.
Wrong.. It is saying person X cannot make more then Y amount. There is the possibility of making more if they raise the salaries of others but economics would/could forbid that. No amount of wrangling the terms can get around that.
Citation needed. I don't see why anyone would simply accept the assertion that it is impossible to re-distribute the incomes of a company such that the highest-paid individuals make less and the lowest-paid individuals make more.
If a company makes 2x profit, there is little economic difference in distributing x to the CEO and dividing x among the rest than there is in dividing 2x evenly among everyone. If a competitor could sweep in and lower prices, there is nothing stopping it from doing so when the profits are distributed unevenly that wouldn't do so when they were distributed evenly. Arguably, it would be better to distribute things more evenly, as it makes the original company more competitive at hiring good employees.
Exactly. You aren't going to successfully withdraw all $150k in one go. Withdraw $100 once or twice a week, and there's a decent chance the owner may not notice for some time.
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That last line accurately sums up every infant I've ever had in my charge. Not sure what pattern you could discern from graphing
all of this data, if my experiences are any guide it would make for one hell of a random number generator. I doubt one can find a
better entropy source than a newborns sleeping "schedule".;)
The only pattern you can discern is that of the parent's OCD need to gather data and a strong belief that individuals are merely the sum of their data points.
It's cause for celebration for another reason: when it becomes clear that US corporations are going to be seriously hurt by the NSA's activities, it provides some serious incentive to lobby against NSA surveillance.
Police officers themselves rarely receive personal bonuses based upon tickets, but police departments absolutely obtain revenue from tickets. This, of course, leads to wonderfully corrupt practices like institutingticketquotas and larger fines/stricter enforcement to control their revenue.
However, not all departments fall to abuse, and the quotas (when they exist) are never made public intentionally, so this issue usually flies under the radar.
That's only part of the equation. You can still be tracked by the pings your phone sends to local cell towers. If you are concerned about tracking, you may as well leave the phone at home. The alternatives - setting the phone to airplane mode, powering it off, or removing its battery effectively render it useless for most things anyways.
The assumption (correct or not) is that if someone were willing to set aside their keys to use a bus on a regular basis, they would be doing so already. A large part of the problem is that many (most?) cities in the US simply do not have good public transportation available. For example, I could not take a bus to work if I wanted to.
And with a driverless car, you could spend that 11.5 hours doing something else. Perhaps you start the drive earlier and sleep most of the way. You would save far more time than the 1.5 hours.
This is America under Bush.
This is America under Clinton. ...and so on...
If you really think that a particular party is responsible for this, I have a multi-million dollar inheritance I need help moving out of Nigeria, and I just need your bank account number to make the transfer.
A contractor with questionable work history walked off with a mountain of classified data he never should have had access to, and no one knew what was going on until the press release. Why do you trust their security so much?
My experience was the opposite. VS2012 was night-and-day faster than VS2010 on my work machine, if only because it was much better at multi-threading. My peers had a similar experience. Perhaps my experience was different due to the fact that I don't run that many plug-ins.
VS2013 is an improvement as well, so I am curious to see how quickly I can get an upgrade approved.
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While technically true, you are being at least a little disingenuous. When talking about a self-hosted cloud, I've never once heard someone refer to it with the generic "the cloud" label - they always add the "private" qualifier to it, calling it a "private cloud". When people say "the cloud", they mean hosting services.
Why write the SLA on paper when you can store it in the cloud?
Among the top of the three branches, the supreme court is probably the least fucked up at the moment.
Citizens United shows that they're still a contender.
It's both. We have already seen stories about media self-censoring due to the surveillance. In addition, there's a chilling effect on association when people know they are always being watched.
With ubiquitous surveillance, you can nip rebellion in the bud before it grows to a point where it could be a threat.
It's difficult to pin down an exact date.
So true. There are plenty of places with a cost of living far below a place like DC or Silicon Valley which pay decently enough that you end up way ahead.
For comparison, CNN's site has a cost of living calculator, and the US census site has several pages about cost of living worth looking at.
TFA is bullshit. Equality isn't 50% men vs 50% women. Equality is equal opportunity, and proportional representation. If 30% of applicants are female, and 50% of accepted applicants are female, then that's not equality it's sexism.
Things are a little more complex than that. It could very well be that there is suddenly gender parity because that's how the pool of qualified individuals panned out, despite the gender ratio of applicants. It could even be that there would have been more women if not for some of the qualified women being turned away due to sexism. Similarly, if the ratio of accepted applicants was 90% men and 10% women, it could be because the vast majority of women candidates were terrible and the 10% was due to accepting sub-par women candidates.
You can't really tell by looking at gender ratios. They're OK as a warning indicator, but gender ratios alone are not proof of sexism in one direction or the other.
The reason we know there is widespread pro-male or pro-female sexism in many industries is because we have other facts in addition to the final ratios, from compensation numbers to steering women and men into particular job paths during school to societal stigmas about which genders are expected to perform which jobs.
Wrong.. It is saying person X cannot make more then Y amount. There is the possibility of making more if they raise the salaries of others but economics would/could forbid that. No amount of wrangling the terms can get around that.
Citation needed. I don't see why anyone would simply accept the assertion that it is impossible to re-distribute the incomes of a company such that the highest-paid individuals make less and the lowest-paid individuals make more.
If a company makes 2x profit, there is little economic difference in distributing x to the CEO and dividing x among the rest than there is in dividing 2x evenly among everyone. If a competitor could sweep in and lower prices, there is nothing stopping it from doing so when the profits are distributed unevenly that wouldn't do so when they were distributed evenly. Arguably, it would be better to distribute things more evenly, as it makes the original company more competitive at hiring good employees.
Exactly. You aren't going to successfully withdraw all $150k in one go. Withdraw $100 once or twice a week, and there's a decent chance the owner may not notice for some time.
That last line accurately sums up every infant I've ever had in my charge. Not sure what pattern you could discern from graphing all of this data, if my experiences are any guide it would make for one hell of a random number generator. I doubt one can find a better entropy source than a newborns sleeping "schedule". ;)
The only pattern you can discern is that of the parent's OCD need to gather data and a strong belief that individuals are merely the sum of their data points.
It's cause for celebration for another reason: when it becomes clear that US corporations are going to be seriously hurt by the NSA's activities, it provides some serious incentive to lobby against NSA surveillance.
Police officers themselves rarely receive personal bonuses based upon tickets, but police departments absolutely obtain revenue from tickets. This, of course, leads to wonderfully corrupt practices like instituting ticket quotas and larger fines/stricter enforcement to control their revenue.
However, not all departments fall to abuse, and the quotas (when they exist) are never made public intentionally, so this issue usually flies under the radar.
That's only part of the equation. You can still be tracked by the pings your phone sends to local cell towers. If you are concerned about tracking, you may as well leave the phone at home. The alternatives - setting the phone to airplane mode, powering it off, or removing its battery effectively render it useless for most things anyways.
The assumption (correct or not) is that if someone were willing to set aside their keys to use a bus on a regular basis, they would be doing so already. A large part of the problem is that many (most?) cities in the US simply do not have good public transportation available. For example, I could not take a bus to work if I wanted to.
And with a driverless car, you could spend that 11.5 hours doing something else. Perhaps you start the drive earlier and sleep most of the way. You would save far more time than the 1.5 hours.
This is America.
This is America under Obama.
This is America under Bush.
...and so on...
This is America under Clinton.
If you really think that a particular party is responsible for this, I have a multi-million dollar inheritance I need help moving out of Nigeria, and I just need your bank account number to make the transfer.
That seems high, but it's lower than average.
A contractor with questionable work history walked off with a mountain of classified data he never should have had access to, and no one knew what was going on until the press release. Why do you trust their security so much?
That only makes it retro, which is even *more* hip.
An agreement *was* reached back in July. By his own admission, Boehner reneged on it (page 2 if you just want to read).
My experience was the opposite. VS2012 was night-and-day faster than VS2010 on my work machine, if only because it was much better at multi-threading. My peers had a similar experience. Perhaps my experience was different due to the fact that I don't run that many plug-ins.
VS2013 is an improvement as well, so I am curious to see how quickly I can get an upgrade approved.
That's what I get for posting at 2AM. I swear the 5 in 15 was an 8 when I wrote the post :)
It's true. Here is the latest MSNBC poll. Check page 18 for the results on ACA.
Ironically, ACA got a boost in popularity, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the shutdown fiasco.