I just don't get the third-party script libraries thing. Seems like an AWFUL idea for anything beyond a read-only bulletin board for a club or group to post their agenda and interests on such that it's not directly affiliated with Facebook or another 'social networking' site.
If you're running a business using a site, or are using forums or other interactive, feedback-driven system, trusting your libraries and passing data to third parties seems like a terrible idea. Bad enough for your own server to be penetrated and your libraries or scripts messed with, but much worse now that those with malicious intent have one-stop shopping to screw over loads of users and sites.
The police are still free to enforce the speed limit though. The defense in court that everyone was doing it doesn't hold any weight with the judge, and in in jury trials where the odds of finding people more sympathetic to the herd argument it might not work. Also in this analogy, if the police are letting speed infractions slide, they might still pull over tailgaters and other aggressive drivers that are making the road more dangerous irrespective of speed, or they might cite the speed limit infraction along with the reckless driving infraction.
I find it most ironic when I watch people chase technology like phones. They have a smartphone. It has X features and does Y things. They only use it for 10%X and 15%Y, but immediately upgrade to the new phone that has 150%X and 140%Y capabilities when they're still only going to use ten to fifteen percent of the capabilities.
We're probably going to upgrade our phones in the next couple of months. Our carrier has acquired more spectrum that will give us better connectivity so we can get calls deeper into buildings, and will give us better battery life as the phone won't be stretching to communicate so much. If it weren't for those improvements we'd wait, as there's no benefit to spending money on something that we won't get more use of or a better experience from compared to what we have now.
I remember when I installed my first 3.5" floppy diskette drive in my 8088. It wouldn't read 1.44MB disks. It would try, it would start to format, but it would fail partially through a format or partially through an attempt to read an existing filesystem. I had to figure out why that was the case, and if I'm remembering right it took a trip to the library to read about the addressing limits of the 8088 processor. For an eleven year old, the best solution was to tape over the corner of the disk and reformat it to 720K. Not an ideal solution, but back then it was still common to get new software capable of running on an 8088 on 720K disks, so I didn't lose out as much as one might initially assume.
I'm not expecting this exact piece of knowledge to be known by everyone, but given that the OS (DOS at the time) was really of no help to actually figuring out what the problem was, understanding how the technology works top-to-bottom is essential in being versatile in all situations. This particular problem was so abstract that not only was no dialogue box to use to figure it out, but there were no logs and only a few vague error messages. Even categorizing the nature of the error required learning how the processor worked, much lower level than most people are willing to go.
I've visited California several times. I enjoyed San Diego and the northern end of the state around San Francisco, but with the prices I'd have to make an awful lot of money to enjoy living there, enough that I'd be worried about money the whole time.
Besides, technically-minded people that actually engage in technical hobbies can usually do those hobbies just about anywhere. They don't have to live in 'cultural' places, whatever that means, in order to enjoy their lives. Depending on the hobby it might actually be a disadvantage to live in a high-density area; I certainly wouldn't have the space to restore cars, do woodworking, and play the drums if I lived someplace high-density unless I was independently wealthy and could afford the expensive space to buffer myself from my neighbors.
What I find funny about "Digital Native" only applying to young people is that there was at least one generation of computing professionals that had to make it work without any of this handholding technology that we have today. I remember my father having to get out the suitcase of a portable computer that work had assigned him, set it up on the dining room table, and dial-in to the mainframe to fix broken batch jobs on weekends occasionally. Since there was no access to the Internet and no vast array of resources on-hand, he had to actually know how to fix the problem without looking at forums or howtos or any other guides.
"Digital Native" is great if you want someone that can do the job when at least some functionality remains, but if things are really broken and one can't reach the Internet, I don't see the Googlers of the world being able to prop the technology back up when it fails.
I'm a little confused. Are you arguing a hypothetical, that taxi rates could jump orders of magnitude in price, or are you arguing that taxi upstarts would get destroyed, or are you arguing something else?
The GOP is like the Red Skins, relatively few like the brand but the individual players all find their fans, the DNC is like the Starts & Stripes, more people have a favorable view of the team just don't ask them to try and name any players.
This is exactly what's wrong in politics these days. Politics is not a spectator sport. There aren't simply two teams vying for the prize of being elected and using that as the trophy to put in one's case. Treating it like a spectator sport completely ignores the whole point of the exercise, which is to effectively govern the wealthiest nation in the world, and to see to the interests of both the nation and the persons in that nation.
As for Mrs. Clinton, before she was First Lady she obtained a Doctorate in Law from Yale and worked as a lawyer, as well as having served on corporate boards. My guess is that her time as First Lady was probably frustrating since First Ladies generally cannot continue their professions after their husbands take office. The friction when she attempted to work toward Universal Healthcare the first time around is proof enough of that.
I'm no fan of Hilary Clinton, and she definitely failed on-style when she was First Lady, but I can look at her academic and professional records and see that she has experience in several different areas that might make her a successful President.
Yes, they escort the cameras out first, then they start arresting the crowd from the edges and driving them away, proceeding in toward the center. As they make arrests they determine who's of high-value and who's small-fry, and let the small-fry go with a note on their record so when they get out of line in the future they know to be harsher, while they punish the high-value prisoners.
All governments do it this way. The various governments within the United States did this during the Occupy movement. The Canadians did this during the G# summit. They don't pull a Blade Runner and bomb the rioters, that's stupid. They tie them down with red-tape instead.
Passenger livery laws exist for a reason, and it's not simply to make taxi companies richer. It's to ensure the safety and well being of the passengers both during normal, mundane fares, and when something like an automobile accident happens.
If Uber was being used as a real ride-sharing service, where the driver happened to be going to a destination near the passenger's destination, such that the passenger's fare offset there driver's costs somewhat, I might be inclined to let Uber slide on the regs a bit, as that's not a lot different than getting gas money from the drunk friend for the trip home from the bar. Instead Uber is operating as a taxi service, where the driver acknowledges requests for pickup, drives to the location of the fare, collects them, drives them to their destination, and then looks for another request for pickup. Uber is a taxi. As such it needs to abide by passenger livery laws. If it doesn't like the laws, and if the passengers in a given area also feel that there's a problem, they should work to change the laws, not to break them while claiming that the laws do not apply.
This isn't the universe of Harrison Bergeron. I actually want our elected officials to have experience successfully doing important things before getting the top job. That doesn't mean that I want to restrict politicians to only a trained political elite, but I want people with a proven track record of their own success, not someone that has simply ridden the coat-tails of others or made it on name recognition.
Fiorina's biggest fault is that the thing she's best known for, the thing which built her reputation, is a failure. Clinton is more of a mixed bag. Her tenure as a Senator and as Secretary of State have no glaring failures that define her time in those roles. She has some scandal building lately, but I'm not really sure how much of that is scandal, and how much of that is mudslinging now that the next political season is brewing.
I tend to stop paying attention to the media regarding political candidates once the campaigning begins, short of comparing their statements pre-candidacy with their statements after they've announced. Typically this is just to look for hypocracy as if a candidate is changing their platform simply to get elected then perhaps they should be passed over.
So, what do you say to the high school teacher that I'm acquainted with that was in a Playboy Girls of the PAC10 issue in the late ninetes? Works with troubled students and manages to motivate them, without resorting to prurient interests. It's not exactly kept secret that she posed.
It's probably more accurate to say that Presidents look haggard and appear to be older than they are while in office. Probably something to do with the responsibility and the stress. Thing is in this Microsoft software, if it doesn't have a means to address the difference then it probably will err on the side of older.
Someone did a faces of pornography shoot where they took headshots of pornographic actresses before and after their makeup was applied. I wonder how substantial the differences there would be with the subject at the same age.
The most advanced silicon chip manufacturing plant in the world is in Chandler, Arizona, and the wafers made there are packaged into processors in Malaysia and Ireland. Many materials scientists work at the Chandler plant, not in Sunnyvale, because it's so much less expensive to live there.
The cracks in the armor of the American automobile industry were already appearing in the early sixties. At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom, before auto consolidation and quality failure broke the back of the British auto industry.
Before you argue that these are paintings or statues and that you're not supposed to feel anything, that would be completely wrong. These works are intended to stir feelings, that's the whole point in their having been created. The artists that created these kinds of works often based them on women that they had intimate knowledge of as well, and had the medium of photography existed or been appropriate at the time the works were created, I suspect it would have been employed, exactly the same way that Playboy operated for most of its existence.
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How Rome Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
Nothing involving active processes, continued development, and people is permanent. Its longevity is always dictated by its continued management and the ability to keep pushing without growing complacent such that disruptive technologies or hungry competitors don't surpass it or make it irrelevant.
Machines in every form benefit the owners of the means of production, not the worker that works for someone else. This has been a fact since cottage industry gave way to centralized production at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Machines allow less humans to do more work. That is true of the use of the water-powered forging hammer that replaces a half-dozen men swinging sledge hammers, or of the automated alignment and welding assembly that puts car bodies together without using humans for the bulk of the job.
I'm really surprised that fast food and other low-skill, low-wage work hasn't been replaced by robots already. Companies that sell these products have already figured out exactly how hot the grille and deep-fry oil needs to be, how long the meat needs to be in each and when to flip or remove, and given the crap job that the no-skill worker does of stacking the condiments, a machine probably could apply a slice of lettuce, two slices of tomato, meat, and cheese between two slices of bread to make a hamburger before wrapping it in paper.
Fast food isn't a skill. It doesn't even come close to coffee shop barista, where the customer is already paying a luxury price for a human's touch when making a product that could come out of a machine just about as well. If it costs $200,000 per year to pay employees to work a fast food restaurant, and that cost can be reduced to $60,000 per year by the introduction of a half a million dollars of machinery that will last for a decade, these companies would be nuts to not replace workers with robots.
The pose is a face, a little bit of bare shoulder, hair, and a hat. That kind of exposure (ie, the shoulder) is common throughout the United States anywhere that's warm enough to dress that way. There are entire fashions dedicated to off-shoulder blouses and dresses for women. Women of all ages, including minors, are free to dress that way, and men and women of all ages, including minors, need to learn how to control themselves when something as sexual as a shoulder is displayed.
You want to not be tantalized or enticed? Move to a country that requires women to cover themselves. Otherwise learn to control your base instincts, you animal. If she's not displaying her sexual characteristics then your being excited is definitely your problem, not anyone else's.
Argentina already went through this headache when the US Dollar became the defacto standard for awhile while the Argentine Peso was pegged by law to the US Dollar and contracts were drafted using the Dollar, not the Peso, as the unit of currency. This became a problem when Argentina wanted to decouple from the Dollar; it meant that Argentines, earning money in Pesos, would be entirely dependent on the exchange rate at the moment to pay back their debts. I expect that's why the currency exchange laws were passed, to make the transition back to their own currency and thus their own monetary policy possible.
Bitcoin, if it gets too big, destabilizes this again, as now people do not look to their own national currency, and their already weak national currency grows even weaker. If you want an example of the effects of a nation not being able to control monetary policy, look at Greece as a constituent of the EU; they can't control monetary policy through the usual means (ie, controlling access to new money) so they can't devalue the currency when necessary to keep the economy flowing.
I expect that the laws will be interpreted to mean that Bitcoin users are in violation, or else new laws will be written to force Bitcoin exchange to follow the same rules as any other currency exchange. Argentina has struggled with their money for too long to let something destabilize the government like this.
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I just don't get the third-party script libraries thing. Seems like an AWFUL idea for anything beyond a read-only bulletin board for a club or group to post their agenda and interests on such that it's not directly affiliated with Facebook or another 'social networking' site.
If you're running a business using a site, or are using forums or other interactive, feedback-driven system, trusting your libraries and passing data to third parties seems like a terrible idea. Bad enough for your own server to be penetrated and your libraries or scripts messed with, but much worse now that those with malicious intent have one-stop shopping to screw over loads of users and sites.
The police are still free to enforce the speed limit though. The defense in court that everyone was doing it doesn't hold any weight with the judge, and in in jury trials where the odds of finding people more sympathetic to the herd argument it might not work. Also in this analogy, if the police are letting speed infractions slide, they might still pull over tailgaters and other aggressive drivers that are making the road more dangerous irrespective of speed, or they might cite the speed limit infraction along with the reckless driving infraction.
I find it most ironic when I watch people chase technology like phones. They have a smartphone. It has X features and does Y things. They only use it for 10%X and 15%Y, but immediately upgrade to the new phone that has 150%X and 140%Y capabilities when they're still only going to use ten to fifteen percent of the capabilities.
We're probably going to upgrade our phones in the next couple of months. Our carrier has acquired more spectrum that will give us better connectivity so we can get calls deeper into buildings, and will give us better battery life as the phone won't be stretching to communicate so much. If it weren't for those improvements we'd wait, as there's no benefit to spending money on something that we won't get more use of or a better experience from compared to what we have now.
I remember when I installed my first 3.5" floppy diskette drive in my 8088. It wouldn't read 1.44MB disks. It would try, it would start to format, but it would fail partially through a format or partially through an attempt to read an existing filesystem. I had to figure out why that was the case, and if I'm remembering right it took a trip to the library to read about the addressing limits of the 8088 processor. For an eleven year old, the best solution was to tape over the corner of the disk and reformat it to 720K. Not an ideal solution, but back then it was still common to get new software capable of running on an 8088 on 720K disks, so I didn't lose out as much as one might initially assume.
I'm not expecting this exact piece of knowledge to be known by everyone, but given that the OS (DOS at the time) was really of no help to actually figuring out what the problem was, understanding how the technology works top-to-bottom is essential in being versatile in all situations. This particular problem was so abstract that not only was no dialogue box to use to figure it out, but there were no logs and only a few vague error messages. Even categorizing the nature of the error required learning how the processor worked, much lower level than most people are willing to go.
I've visited California several times. I enjoyed San Diego and the northern end of the state around San Francisco, but with the prices I'd have to make an awful lot of money to enjoy living there, enough that I'd be worried about money the whole time.
Besides, technically-minded people that actually engage in technical hobbies can usually do those hobbies just about anywhere. They don't have to live in 'cultural' places, whatever that means, in order to enjoy their lives. Depending on the hobby it might actually be a disadvantage to live in a high-density area; I certainly wouldn't have the space to restore cars, do woodworking, and play the drums if I lived someplace high-density unless I was independently wealthy and could afford the expensive space to buffer myself from my neighbors.
What I find funny about "Digital Native" only applying to young people is that there was at least one generation of computing professionals that had to make it work without any of this handholding technology that we have today. I remember my father having to get out the suitcase of a portable computer that work had assigned him, set it up on the dining room table, and dial-in to the mainframe to fix broken batch jobs on weekends occasionally. Since there was no access to the Internet and no vast array of resources on-hand, he had to actually know how to fix the problem without looking at forums or howtos or any other guides.
"Digital Native" is great if you want someone that can do the job when at least some functionality remains, but if things are really broken and one can't reach the Internet, I don't see the Googlers of the world being able to prop the technology back up when it fails.
I'm a little confused. Are you arguing a hypothetical, that taxi rates could jump orders of magnitude in price, or are you arguing that taxi upstarts would get destroyed, or are you arguing something else?
The GOP is like the Red Skins, relatively few like the brand but the individual players all find their fans, the DNC is like the Starts & Stripes, more people have a favorable view of the team just don't ask them to try and name any players.
This is exactly what's wrong in politics these days. Politics is not a spectator sport. There aren't simply two teams vying for the prize of being elected and using that as the trophy to put in one's case. Treating it like a spectator sport completely ignores the whole point of the exercise, which is to effectively govern the wealthiest nation in the world, and to see to the interests of both the nation and the persons in that nation.
As for Mrs. Clinton, before she was First Lady she obtained a Doctorate in Law from Yale and worked as a lawyer, as well as having served on corporate boards. My guess is that her time as First Lady was probably frustrating since First Ladies generally cannot continue their professions after their husbands take office. The friction when she attempted to work toward Universal Healthcare the first time around is proof enough of that.
I'm no fan of Hilary Clinton, and she definitely failed on-style when she was First Lady, but I can look at her academic and professional records and see that she has experience in several different areas that might make her a successful President.
I've taken taxis before. I don't feel that the rides I took, which are the culmination of the laws and policies and rules, were hurting me.
Yes, they escort the cameras out first, then they start arresting the crowd from the edges and driving them away, proceeding in toward the center. As they make arrests they determine who's of high-value and who's small-fry, and let the small-fry go with a note on their record so when they get out of line in the future they know to be harsher, while they punish the high-value prisoners.
All governments do it this way. The various governments within the United States did this during the Occupy movement. The Canadians did this during the G# summit. They don't pull a Blade Runner and bomb the rioters, that's stupid. They tie them down with red-tape instead.
Passenger livery laws exist for a reason, and it's not simply to make taxi companies richer. It's to ensure the safety and well being of the passengers both during normal, mundane fares, and when something like an automobile accident happens.
If Uber was being used as a real ride-sharing service, where the driver happened to be going to a destination near the passenger's destination, such that the passenger's fare offset there driver's costs somewhat, I might be inclined to let Uber slide on the regs a bit, as that's not a lot different than getting gas money from the drunk friend for the trip home from the bar. Instead Uber is operating as a taxi service, where the driver acknowledges requests for pickup, drives to the location of the fare, collects them, drives them to their destination, and then looks for another request for pickup. Uber is a taxi. As such it needs to abide by passenger livery laws. If it doesn't like the laws, and if the passengers in a given area also feel that there's a problem, they should work to change the laws, not to break them while claiming that the laws do not apply.
GOOD LUCK at your next performance of MACBETH!
You don't, by chance, write for the UNIX Fortune program, do you?
This isn't the universe of Harrison Bergeron. I actually want our elected officials to have experience successfully doing important things before getting the top job. That doesn't mean that I want to restrict politicians to only a trained political elite, but I want people with a proven track record of their own success, not someone that has simply ridden the coat-tails of others or made it on name recognition.
Plain mass-produced bread is around $1 per loaf, which is something like 30 slices. Fancier breads are more like $2.50 and have around 20 slices.
So, the baseline good, if it suffered inflation to meet the $1 for 12 slices, would mean approaching a 300% jump in inflation.
If her standards are that the guy can hammer a six inch spike through a board with his penis, then I think we can give GP a pass...
Fiorina's biggest fault is that the thing she's best known for, the thing which built her reputation, is a failure. Clinton is more of a mixed bag. Her tenure as a Senator and as Secretary of State have no glaring failures that define her time in those roles. She has some scandal building lately, but I'm not really sure how much of that is scandal, and how much of that is mudslinging now that the next political season is brewing.
I tend to stop paying attention to the media regarding political candidates once the campaigning begins, short of comparing their statements pre-candidacy with their statements after they've announced. Typically this is just to look for hypocracy as if a candidate is changing their platform simply to get elected then perhaps they should be passed over.
So, what do you say to the high school teacher that I'm acquainted with that was in a Playboy Girls of the PAC10 issue in the late ninetes? Works with troubled students and manages to motivate them, without resorting to prurient interests. It's not exactly kept secret that she posed.
It's probably more accurate to say that Presidents look haggard and appear to be older than they are while in office. Probably something to do with the responsibility and the stress. Thing is in this Microsoft software, if it doesn't have a means to address the difference then it probably will err on the side of older.
Someone did a faces of pornography shoot where they took headshots of pornographic actresses before and after their makeup was applied. I wonder how substantial the differences there would be with the subject at the same age.
The most advanced silicon chip manufacturing plant in the world is in Chandler, Arizona, and the wafers made there are packaged into processors in Malaysia and Ireland. Many materials scientists work at the Chandler plant, not in Sunnyvale, because it's so much less expensive to live there.
The cracks in the armor of the American automobile industry were already appearing in the early sixties. At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom, before auto consolidation and quality failure broke the back of the British auto industry.
Is this wrong? I saw this displayed in public in an all-ages museum, to be seen by children, adolescents, and adults:
A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros
Or these, on display literally in the hallowed halls of one of the departments of our federal government:
Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Justice
Or this famous painting, representing sentiment and struggle in the French Revolution:
La liberté guidant le peuple
Before you argue that these are paintings or statues and that you're not supposed to feel anything, that would be completely wrong. These works are intended to stir feelings, that's the whole point in their having been created. The artists that created these kinds of works often based them on women that they had intimate knowledge of as well, and had the medium of photography existed or been appropriate at the time the works were created, I suspect it would have been employed, exactly the same way that Playboy operated for most of its existence.
How Switzerland Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
How Japan Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
How England Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
How Rome Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
Nothing involving active processes, continued development, and people is permanent. Its longevity is always dictated by its continued management and the ability to keep pushing without growing complacent such that disruptive technologies or hungry competitors don't surpass it or make it irrelevant.
Machines in every form benefit the owners of the means of production, not the worker that works for someone else. This has been a fact since cottage industry gave way to centralized production at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Machines allow less humans to do more work. That is true of the use of the water-powered forging hammer that replaces a half-dozen men swinging sledge hammers, or of the automated alignment and welding assembly that puts car bodies together without using humans for the bulk of the job.
I'm really surprised that fast food and other low-skill, low-wage work hasn't been replaced by robots already. Companies that sell these products have already figured out exactly how hot the grille and deep-fry oil needs to be, how long the meat needs to be in each and when to flip or remove, and given the crap job that the no-skill worker does of stacking the condiments, a machine probably could apply a slice of lettuce, two slices of tomato, meat, and cheese between two slices of bread to make a hamburger before wrapping it in paper.
Fast food isn't a skill. It doesn't even come close to coffee shop barista, where the customer is already paying a luxury price for a human's touch when making a product that could come out of a machine just about as well. If it costs $200,000 per year to pay employees to work a fast food restaurant, and that cost can be reduced to $60,000 per year by the introduction of a half a million dollars of machinery that will last for a decade, these companies would be nuts to not replace workers with robots.
The pose is a face, a little bit of bare shoulder, hair, and a hat. That kind of exposure (ie, the shoulder) is common throughout the United States anywhere that's warm enough to dress that way. There are entire fashions dedicated to off-shoulder blouses and dresses for women. Women of all ages, including minors, are free to dress that way, and men and women of all ages, including minors, need to learn how to control themselves when something as sexual as a shoulder is displayed.
You want to not be tantalized or enticed? Move to a country that requires women to cover themselves. Otherwise learn to control your base instincts, you animal. If she's not displaying her sexual characteristics then your being excited is definitely your problem, not anyone else's.
Argentina already went through this headache when the US Dollar became the defacto standard for awhile while the Argentine Peso was pegged by law to the US Dollar and contracts were drafted using the Dollar, not the Peso, as the unit of currency. This became a problem when Argentina wanted to decouple from the Dollar; it meant that Argentines, earning money in Pesos, would be entirely dependent on the exchange rate at the moment to pay back their debts. I expect that's why the currency exchange laws were passed, to make the transition back to their own currency and thus their own monetary policy possible.
Bitcoin, if it gets too big, destabilizes this again, as now people do not look to their own national currency, and their already weak national currency grows even weaker. If you want an example of the effects of a nation not being able to control monetary policy, look at Greece as a constituent of the EU; they can't control monetary policy through the usual means (ie, controlling access to new money) so they can't devalue the currency when necessary to keep the economy flowing.
I expect that the laws will be interpreted to mean that Bitcoin users are in violation, or else new laws will be written to force Bitcoin exchange to follow the same rules as any other currency exchange. Argentina has struggled with their money for too long to let something destabilize the government like this.