Only because their level of development is offset by a couple centuries. Christianity was every bit as backward and oppressive when it was still Islam's age.
If you can identify patient zero and prove that it was someone whose parents willingly failed to immunize, you could probably also sue them for wrongful death.
That's not quite true. Anyone could put themselves up for candidacy at the appropriate points in the election process by filling out the right paperwork and paying the (rather small) fees. The problem is that the public at large overwhelmingly avoids voting for candidates outside the two major parties under the assumption that it is a wasted vote, which is a nice, self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Republicans would get less flak for the fringe elements of their side if the reins weren't handed over to them.
Increasingly, you see the Republican party as a whole kowtowing to its fringe elements rather than taking the more sensible, moderate road. It has been this way for years, most notably since Obama first started campaigning, but it has been especially bad since the 2010 elections.
I keep waiting for a responsible adult to stand up and tell the Tea Party fanatics to calm down.
That serves as a good thing to keep in mind moving forward, but the article is about the (now unavoidable) radiation level in the area. The "hot spots" are 1/3 the radiation level that your average Denver resident experiences. The point is that people should stop going into hysterics about the radiation, not that they should ignore the lessons learned by the reactor failure.
That map would be useful if there were any units or legend presented to demonstrate what kinda scale the heatmap is attempting to display. Without knowing this, the map is good for nothing more than to scare people.
Your example is a counterpoint to your argument. In the case where an entrepreneur patents something new, the big boys simply buy the patent or buy out the entrepreneur. The big companies get it cheap because entrepreneurs lack the patent war chest to enter the market with their patents, so it is absolutely worthless to them unless they sell it off... to a big company. The end result is the same - only big boys can play in the market.
Many of the complaints are from people who make the argument that anyone could follow you around all day and keep track of where you are. This ignores the fact that you could easily take action and get a restraining order against an individual who did so.
I'm not sure how, but you apparently missed the standoff over the debt ceiling. The GOP chest-beating that went on made it sound like they were perfectly willing to let the US default rather than compromise on anything in the budget. The below-AAA rating is well deserved. With the debt ceiling now a chip in the pot of political brinkmanship gambling, it is not impossible for the US to default at some point in the future, if only because of party squabbling that gets out of hand.
Take money entirely out of the equation. Make the field completely even. What is all the money for? It's for campaigning. So, take out the middle man.
A condition of renewing a broadcast license could be that you have to donate X hours near election time for campaign-related material, with strict rules on providing equal access. You could even go so far as to designate certain times when the broadcasts are allowed, distribute time evenly among running parties, and designate when each party gets to send out their message. Then, make it illegal to campaign outside the freely-given broadcast time so a given group cannot do an end-run around the system by supplementing their campaign with outside resources..
It would never happen, of course, because we're too far down the slope of corruption. We're only a few steps shy of big corporations directly writing checks for politicians.
It isn't just about propping up weaker programmers with stronger ones, though. Pair programming can serve to combat information consolidation, better insulating a team against the loss of individuals. It can also aid in training new team members, helping junior hires to grow as developers or simply getting a newly-hired senior developer up to speed.
The system also includes the people using it. A piece of software can be of excellent quality and have nearly zero defects in it when run against the environment it was designed for, but it is hardly a rare scenario where the very same program is then run against something completely different.
For example, it is commonplace to see a piece of software run in an environment which is at least one (if not several) order(s) of magnitude larger than what it was designed to handle. Sometimes this is because the customer was cheap and decided to save money. Sometimes this is because the vendor's sales department was itching for a new car/yacht and decided to stretch the truth about the product's capabilities. Sometimes it's both.
Part of the problem is that people don't understand software, and part of it is a fundamental disconnect between the guy causing the problem and the guy getting blamed for it. If someone entered a race against high-powered sports cars with their riding lawnmower, he'd get laughed at. The manager or C-level exec who purchases Billy Bob's Desktop WebHost for a company that needs 24/7 uptime with millions of transactions a day gets a bonus and moves on before the software is finally rolled-out 6+ months later. If someone tried to sell a sports car with a lawn mower engine, at best he'd be laughed at and at worst he'd be jailed for fraud. But, the salesman who inks the deal for a multi-million dollar contract to deploy a system designed for 10 machines against a site with 1000 machines is going to be cashing his commission check and moving on to his next sale long before the roll-out happens and everyone realizes it won't work, and there's no one who's going to connect the problem to the individual salesman who lied through his teeth to get the deal. His company may suffer for it, but his next employer will only see that he was making high-dollar deals.
The de facto reality is that fair use died with the DMCA. All it takes is some harassment via take down notices to scare someone away from fair use of a snippet that the copyright holder doesn't like.
If the child is old enough and responsible enough to save up money and pay for their own toys, he/she is not within the group of children likely to die by these magnets. In any other case, the parents (or some other presumably responsible adult) are purchasing the magnets.
It isn't limited to the public. You went to work the day they were taking company photos? You're probably in a photo database somewhere. Go to a small party at a friend's house? See that person taking pictures on their phone? You probably just ended up in multiple photo databases.
Anymore, the only way to not end up in a database is to shut yourself inside your apartment/house, never have any guests, and never leave.
The US government may not be openly using the photos for nefarious ends, but prospective employers make no effort to hide the fact that pictures of you they find online can and will impact whether you get hired.
Its not feasable for more than one company to run more lines
That doesn't prevent them from doing it on occasion. Amusingly, my house has cable TV drops from both providers here. They were both installed before I moved in, so I could not give you specifics as to why they are installed, but there you have it. When I chose one provider, the guy who came out to activate the lines informed me that neither carrier would run to the other's lines, so only half my cable drops could be activated.
Agreed. That's why I ended up snagging the Quest for Glory and Space Quest series games over at gog.com. It's dirt cheap to get the older games - definitely worth the money if you aren't particularly stuck on state-of-the-art graphics.
That depends on the area. My city council organizes electronics recycling events several times a year, which takes in an increasing amount of old equipment. The last event net somewhere between 3-4 semi truck trailers full. The city does it to slow our landfill growth, and the business they partner with does it precisely because the large concentration of electronics collected in one, short event makes it profitable for them.
Yes, no methodology is going to be a magic bullet that turns a loser team into a superstar team. Agile was never intended to do so.
What agile processes attempt to address is the transient nature of requirements. Large, monolithic processes do not respond well in cases where the client doesn't know exactly what they want up front.
The reality is that clients often times add things during the process, and just as often as not, they do not realize that what they said they wanted wasn't really what they wanted. Providing continuous feedback and re-adjustment helps to mitigate this problem.
One of the main things you should be doing when practicing agile is continuous integration. The point is that you should be able to release at the drop of a hat. It has been a long time since I have had to worry about long-delayed integration woes.
It probably contributes, but it's very difficult to argue the contribution of Murdoch's media empire in eliminating honest discourse isn't the true initiator. Everything has snowballed from there.
While on that topic, I am a little surprised that no one so much as questioned the possibility that the WSJ made no real effort to promote this article. They were purchased by NewsCorp, and this is an article critical of Romney. I'm surprised the article was even released.
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Only because their level of development is offset by a couple centuries. Christianity was every bit as backward and oppressive when it was still Islam's age.
If you can identify patient zero and prove that it was someone whose parents willingly failed to immunize, you could probably also sue them for wrongful death.
That's not quite true. Anyone could put themselves up for candidacy at the appropriate points in the election process by filling out the right paperwork and paying the (rather small) fees. The problem is that the public at large overwhelmingly avoids voting for candidates outside the two major parties under the assumption that it is a wasted vote, which is a nice, self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Republicans would get less flak for the fringe elements of their side if the reins weren't handed over to them.
Increasingly, you see the Republican party as a whole kowtowing to its fringe elements rather than taking the more sensible, moderate road. It has been this way for years, most notably since Obama first started campaigning, but it has been especially bad since the 2010 elections.
I keep waiting for a responsible adult to stand up and tell the Tea Party fanatics to calm down.
That serves as a good thing to keep in mind moving forward, but the article is about the (now unavoidable) radiation level in the area. The "hot spots" are 1/3 the radiation level that your average Denver resident experiences. The point is that people should stop going into hysterics about the radiation, not that they should ignore the lessons learned by the reactor failure.
That map would be useful if there were any units or legend presented to demonstrate what kinda scale the heatmap is attempting to display. Without knowing this, the map is good for nothing more than to scare people.
Your example is a counterpoint to your argument. In the case where an entrepreneur patents something new, the big boys simply buy the patent or buy out the entrepreneur. The big companies get it cheap because entrepreneurs lack the patent war chest to enter the market with their patents, so it is absolutely worthless to them unless they sell it off... to a big company. The end result is the same - only big boys can play in the market.
Many of the complaints are from people who make the argument that anyone could follow you around all day and keep track of where you are. This ignores the fact that you could easily take action and get a restraining order against an individual who did so.
I'm not sure how, but you apparently missed the standoff over the debt ceiling. The GOP chest-beating that went on made it sound like they were perfectly willing to let the US default rather than compromise on anything in the budget. The below-AAA rating is well deserved. With the debt ceiling now a chip in the pot of political brinkmanship gambling, it is not impossible for the US to default at some point in the future, if only because of party squabbling that gets out of hand.
Take money entirely out of the equation. Make the field completely even. What is all the money for? It's for campaigning. So, take out the middle man.
A condition of renewing a broadcast license could be that you have to donate X hours near election time for campaign-related material, with strict rules on providing equal access. You could even go so far as to designate certain times when the broadcasts are allowed, distribute time evenly among running parties, and designate when each party gets to send out their message. Then, make it illegal to campaign outside the freely-given broadcast time so a given group cannot do an end-run around the system by supplementing their campaign with outside resources..
It would never happen, of course, because we're too far down the slope of corruption. We're only a few steps shy of big corporations directly writing checks for politicians.
It isn't just about propping up weaker programmers with stronger ones, though. Pair programming can serve to combat information consolidation, better insulating a team against the loss of individuals. It can also aid in training new team members, helping junior hires to grow as developers or simply getting a newly-hired senior developer up to speed.
The system also includes the people using it. A piece of software can be of excellent quality and have nearly zero defects in it when run against the environment it was designed for, but it is hardly a rare scenario where the very same program is then run against something completely different.
For example, it is commonplace to see a piece of software run in an environment which is at least one (if not several) order(s) of magnitude larger than what it was designed to handle. Sometimes this is because the customer was cheap and decided to save money. Sometimes this is because the vendor's sales department was itching for a new car/yacht and decided to stretch the truth about the product's capabilities. Sometimes it's both.
Part of the problem is that people don't understand software, and part of it is a fundamental disconnect between the guy causing the problem and the guy getting blamed for it. If someone entered a race against high-powered sports cars with their riding lawnmower, he'd get laughed at. The manager or C-level exec who purchases Billy Bob's Desktop WebHost for a company that needs 24/7 uptime with millions of transactions a day gets a bonus and moves on before the software is finally rolled-out 6+ months later. If someone tried to sell a sports car with a lawn mower engine, at best he'd be laughed at and at worst he'd be jailed for fraud. But, the salesman who inks the deal for a multi-million dollar contract to deploy a system designed for 10 machines against a site with 1000 machines is going to be cashing his commission check and moving on to his next sale long before the roll-out happens and everyone realizes it won't work, and there's no one who's going to connect the problem to the individual salesman who lied through his teeth to get the deal. His company may suffer for it, but his next employer will only see that he was making high-dollar deals.
There was a time when it didn't. That's the point.
Instead, we live in a reality where our great-great-grandchildren *might* be able to freely copy that file from their deathbeds
The de facto reality is that fair use died with the DMCA. All it takes is some harassment via take down notices to scare someone away from fair use of a snippet that the copyright holder doesn't like.
That's industry jargon for customer. It's used because there are fewer syllables.
Responsibility begins before purchase.
If the child is old enough and responsible enough to save up money and pay for their own toys, he/she is not within the group of children likely to die by these magnets. In any other case, the parents (or some other presumably responsible adult) are purchasing the magnets.
It isn't limited to the public. You went to work the day they were taking company photos? You're probably in a photo database somewhere. Go to a small party at a friend's house? See that person taking pictures on their phone? You probably just ended up in multiple photo databases.
Anymore, the only way to not end up in a database is to shut yourself inside your apartment/house, never have any guests, and never leave.
The US government may not be openly using the photos for nefarious ends, but prospective employers make no effort to hide the fact that pictures of you they find online can and will impact whether you get hired.
Its not feasable for more than one company to run more lines
That doesn't prevent them from doing it on occasion. Amusingly, my house has cable TV drops from both providers here. They were both installed before I moved in, so I could not give you specifics as to why they are installed, but there you have it. When I chose one provider, the guy who came out to activate the lines informed me that neither carrier would run to the other's lines, so only half my cable drops could be activated.
Agreed. That's why I ended up snagging the Quest for Glory and Space Quest series games over at gog.com. It's dirt cheap to get the older games - definitely worth the money if you aren't particularly stuck on state-of-the-art graphics.
If only some form of energy could fall out of the sky :(
That depends on the area. My city council organizes electronics recycling events several times a year, which takes in an increasing amount of old equipment. The last event net somewhere between 3-4 semi truck trailers full. The city does it to slow our landfill growth, and the business they partner with does it precisely because the large concentration of electronics collected in one, short event makes it profitable for them.
Yes, no methodology is going to be a magic bullet that turns a loser team into a superstar team. Agile was never intended to do so.
What agile processes attempt to address is the transient nature of requirements. Large, monolithic processes do not respond well in cases where the client doesn't know exactly what they want up front.
The reality is that clients often times add things during the process, and just as often as not, they do not realize that what they said they wanted wasn't really what they wanted. Providing continuous feedback and re-adjustment helps to mitigate this problem.
One of the main things you should be doing when practicing agile is continuous integration. The point is that you should be able to release at the drop of a hat. It has been a long time since I have had to worry about long-delayed integration woes.
Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism
Link courtesy of Bruce Schneier's blog.
It probably contributes, but it's very difficult to argue the contribution of Murdoch's media empire in eliminating honest discourse isn't the true initiator. Everything has snowballed from there.
While on that topic, I am a little surprised that no one so much as questioned the possibility that the WSJ made no real effort to promote this article. They were purchased by NewsCorp, and this is an article critical of Romney. I'm surprised the article was even released.