I have to laugh at the people who whine about Cuba's embargo. Cuba is free to trade with every other country on earth. Fiat attempted to build cars there and couldn't make a go of it under Castro's policies. Canadians can fly to Cuba any time they like. What kept Cuba from imploding during the Soviet era was the fact that the CCCP paid Cuba four times the market rate for their sugar exports. When the CCCP collapsed so did their sugar subsidies and what little industry existed in Cuba ground to a halt. No less stupid than Castro is his next door neighbor El Hefe Presidente for Life of the Bolivarian Socialist People's Republic of Venezuela, Hugo "il Duce" Chavez. With 30% unemployment and 30% inflation, Chavez raids the oil sector to hand out plumb cash awards to his supporters while the country plummets into anarchy and is now the most violent country in the world not actually at war.
And HIS best friend, Bolivia's Morales, who happens to be the largest cocoa grower in the country and probably richest Bolivian, walks around in a pancho like he's a man of the people and demands that cocoa leaf chewing be legalized across South America. His Reign of Stupid has been marked by the nationalization of all electric companies which of course, now can't operate very well and there are national rolling blackouts.
Iran began their atomic weapons program in the early 1980's, stopped in the late 80's and began again in earnest in 1994. Since then, their 'peaceful program' has absorbed billion of dollars they don't have to spend generating, by their own estimates, zero megawatts of electricity where they could have easily spent a fraction of that money and had nuclear power plants on line years and years ago by simply importing nuclear fuel from other nations under the regime that Iran currently claims to follow per the NPT of which they are signatory.
The DPRK (North Korea) has kept 5 or 6 different nuclear reactors on and off line intermittently since 1975. It attempted to threaten to withdraw from the NPT as early as 1993. During this era it created enough plutonium for about a dozen atomic weapons.
My recommendation would be to stop reading Howard Zinn and other Stalin adoring Marxist historians, stop attending "Nuke the Jews" rallies and either do more or less drugs, whichever you're not doing now.
I know they swear up and down "No caps no limits" but how do you actually know that. And how does anyone distinguish that from what carriers claim is just a coverage problem or a local congestion? Because I swear that in Raleigh NC Sprint caps me. I know they do. Either that or '4G' is really 0.001G because speed test on 4G yields maybe 400Kbps the best ever but usually half that and 3G is barely 90Kbps. When I talk to Sprint all I get is 'who knows? we don't show any technical problems in your area."
Because as anyone who's ever had to engage the government on any outsourcing or code maintenance deal knows that the government's list of security 'requirements', application testing criteria, security and encryption demands, documentation standards, SLA's and standards compliance stretches from here to the fucking moon making regulatory and audit compliance insanely expensive and almost guaranteed to fail.
Seeing how the BBC has Iran's cock so deep down their throat it's coming out the other end like a tail. Wait wait I know the answer to this one.....they both blame the Jews......
Cut costs to near zero. Quality doesn't matter. Output matters. Companies should even have to bear any costs of rent and utilities either. Steal those things or simply do without. The chairman of IBM, Sam Palmisano slashed human resources costs to the bone for years and for his noble sacrifice awarded himself 10's of millions of dollars in bonuses for efficient cost cutting. His weakness is he didn't go far enough. Outsourcing? I say concentration camps are the future.
This year's Ford takes about 2 years to get going, down from 3 or 4 or more in years past. MS OS 'versions' are just this years' model. And if it fails, like the Fiat 500 in the US, oh well, they'll just roll out something else next time around.
In Victorian England no more than 10-15% of the populace could vote. When 'everybody' votes you get populism which eventually mutates into fascism. Because everyone wants to be part of an angry mob lynching someone, anyone. Or at the least they want to be brutally lead. It's not about brainpower it's about the nature of why people think they want a voice in the process. Mostly it's to scream and complain and talk shit. And in a generation blogging or whatever social media turns into, will take the place of participatory governance. And as long as everyone gets to shriek like monkeys they'll be happy with that.
Is that 99% of the noise that absolutely positively the Dreaded Zionist Menace (tm) is going to bomb the peaceful peace loving Persians of peace are a) the same people who want to see Israel wiped off the map and b) have been promising us this every single day for the last 15 years.
Is mandate that the driverless car must have a driver and that it will of course require several hundred dollars more in fees and taxes. And to say nothing of the necessity of doubling the cost of all moving violation tickets - one for the required 'driver' and one for the owner.
And likely never will. I suspect that's so far out of normal that they simply won't believe me. So I'll create an account that's simply never used. Maybe they won't believe that either. Who knows.
Is that these same companies use that information to turn right around and give it organizations like the MPAA/RIAA or the police who then use it to sue you or arrest you or worse. We here think of privacy as a convenience but in most of the world, it's a matter of life and death. Evident Wikileaks moral monster Julian Assange and his factotum Israel Shamir (not his real name, he's in reality a Swedish neo Nazi named Jöran Jermas) who freely shared names of political dissidents with the secret service of Belarus, commonly called Europe's last dictatorship, in order to 'disappear' people. BTW if you're not convinced that Julian Assange works for Russian FSB you're delusional.
Ostensibly I vote for the county sheriff. But that's it. He hires whomever he likes for his workforce. And that's just the county. Where I live there's multiple overlapping police forces: City of Raleigh, City-County BI, Capital District, Capital-District Federal, County, State Police, Highway Patrol, SBI. And I get precisely zero say in what they do or how they do it or who they use to do it. I don't see how privatizing it is materially worse.
Sorry but don't need engineers or scientists. We need more insurance salesmen and bankers. America isn't a 'make stuff' country so we don't need people who make stuff.
The one for 1.5 million dollars on my $15/hr paycheck with zero down and $200/month for 5 years until the whole balloon comes due? I knew me some numbers I coulda avoided that debacle. Who knew?
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I have to laugh at the people who whine about Cuba's embargo. Cuba is free to trade with every other country on earth. Fiat attempted to build cars there and couldn't make a go of it under Castro's policies. Canadians can fly to Cuba any time they like. What kept Cuba from imploding during the Soviet era was the fact that the CCCP paid Cuba four times the market rate for their sugar exports. When the CCCP collapsed so did their sugar subsidies and what little industry existed in Cuba ground to a halt. No less stupid than Castro is his next door neighbor El Hefe Presidente for Life of the Bolivarian Socialist People's Republic of Venezuela, Hugo "il Duce" Chavez. With 30% unemployment and 30% inflation, Chavez raids the oil sector to hand out plumb cash awards to his supporters while the country plummets into anarchy and is now the most violent country in the world not actually at war.
And HIS best friend, Bolivia's Morales, who happens to be the largest cocoa grower in the country and probably richest Bolivian, walks around in a pancho like he's a man of the people and demands that cocoa leaf chewing be legalized across South America. His Reign of Stupid has been marked by the nationalization of all electric companies which of course, now can't operate very well and there are national rolling blackouts.
So....good job?
Iran began their atomic weapons program in the early 1980's, stopped in the late 80's and began again in earnest in 1994. Since then, their 'peaceful program' has absorbed billion of dollars they don't have to spend generating, by their own estimates, zero megawatts of electricity where they could have easily spent a fraction of that money and had nuclear power plants on line years and years ago by simply importing nuclear fuel from other nations under the regime that Iran currently claims to follow per the NPT of which they are signatory.
The DPRK (North Korea) has kept 5 or 6 different nuclear reactors on and off line intermittently since 1975. It attempted to threaten to withdraw from the NPT as early as 1993. During this era it created enough plutonium for about a dozen atomic weapons.
My recommendation would be to stop reading Howard Zinn and other Stalin adoring Marxist historians, stop attending "Nuke the Jews" rallies and either do more or less drugs, whichever you're not doing now.
So stay the hell out of Europa.
I know they swear up and down "No caps no limits" but how do you actually know that. And how does anyone distinguish that from what carriers claim is just a coverage problem or a local congestion? Because I swear that in Raleigh NC Sprint caps me. I know they do. Either that or '4G' is really 0.001G because speed test on 4G yields maybe 400Kbps the best ever but usually half that and 3G is barely 90Kbps. When I talk to Sprint all I get is 'who knows? we don't show any technical problems in your area."
Because as anyone who's ever had to engage the government on any outsourcing or code maintenance deal knows that the government's list of security 'requirements', application testing criteria, security and encryption demands, documentation standards, SLA's and standards compliance stretches from here to the fucking moon making regulatory and audit compliance insanely expensive and almost guaranteed to fail.
Seeing how the BBC has Iran's cock so deep down their throat it's coming out the other end like a tail. Wait wait I know the answer to this one .....they both blame the Jews......
how much of that 49% is Reddit and 4chan?
Cut costs to near zero. Quality doesn't matter. Output matters. Companies should even have to bear any costs of rent and utilities either. Steal those things or simply do without. The chairman of IBM, Sam Palmisano slashed human resources costs to the bone for years and for his noble sacrifice awarded himself 10's of millions of dollars in bonuses for efficient cost cutting. His weakness is he didn't go far enough. Outsourcing? I say concentration camps are the future.
This year's Ford takes about 2 years to get going, down from 3 or 4 or more in years past. MS OS 'versions' are just this years' model. And if it fails, like the Fiat 500 in the US, oh well, they'll just roll out something else next time around.
Who's the guy who saw a gigantic aquatic insectoid and said "I'm gonna eat that!" The rest as they, is history.
For sufficiently large values of nerd.
In Victorian England no more than 10-15% of the populace could vote. When 'everybody' votes you get populism which eventually mutates into fascism. Because everyone wants to be part of an angry mob lynching someone, anyone. Or at the least they want to be brutally lead. It's not about brainpower it's about the nature of why people think they want a voice in the process. Mostly it's to scream and complain and talk shit. And in a generation blogging or whatever social media turns into, will take the place of participatory governance. And as long as everyone gets to shriek like monkeys they'll be happy with that.
Is that 99% of the noise that absolutely positively the Dreaded Zionist Menace (tm) is going to bomb the peaceful peace loving Persians of peace are a) the same people who want to see Israel wiped off the map and b) have been promising us this every single day for the last 15 years.
Because a) it's a do nothing job and b) it's impossible to accomplish anything when procurement runs the world.
Too small for useful use and too large to be portable. Awesome.
Will charge the same $1000 for all devices regardless.
Is mandate that the driverless car must have a driver and that it will of course require several hundred dollars more in fees and taxes. And to say nothing of the necessity of doubling the cost of all moving violation tickets - one for the required 'driver' and one for the owner.
That a police department would use questionable tools and tactics to secure large numbers of convictions that also result in large fines.
Next we need to outlaw all fossil fuels and unwind the clock 200 years.
And likely never will. I suspect that's so far out of normal that they simply won't believe me. So I'll create an account that's simply never used. Maybe they won't believe that either. Who knows.
Is that these same companies use that information to turn right around and give it organizations like the MPAA/RIAA or the police who then use it to sue you or arrest you or worse. We here think of privacy as a convenience but in most of the world, it's a matter of life and death. Evident Wikileaks moral monster Julian Assange and his factotum Israel Shamir (not his real name, he's in reality a Swedish neo Nazi named Jöran Jermas) who freely shared names of political dissidents with the secret service of Belarus, commonly called Europe's last dictatorship, in order to 'disappear' people. BTW if you're not convinced that Julian Assange works for Russian FSB you're delusional.
Long live freedom.
Ostensibly I vote for the county sheriff. But that's it. He hires whomever he likes for his workforce. And that's just the county. Where I live there's multiple overlapping police forces: City of Raleigh, City-County BI, Capital District, Capital-District Federal, County, State Police, Highway Patrol, SBI. And I get precisely zero say in what they do or how they do it or who they use to do it. I don't see how privatizing it is materially worse.
Sorry but don't need engineers or scientists. We need more insurance salesmen and bankers. America isn't a 'make stuff' country so we don't need people who make stuff.
you damn kids get off my solar system.
The one for 1.5 million dollars on my $15/hr paycheck with zero down and $200/month for 5 years until the whole balloon comes due? I knew me some numbers I coulda avoided that debacle. Who knew?