On the other hand the Constitution specifically enumerates that Congress shall pass laws. Among those laws was the 1979 Department of Education Organization Act that established that entity.
It's stupid to call them "the dark matter of programming bugs". We were just accustomed to this being the way Microsoft did things, not a bug, a feature.
That stems from Microsoft, originally writing for IBM, being paid per thousand lines of code. As such it made sense that software was not written efficiently because the programmer was not rewarded for efficiency, it merely had to fit within available memory. Unfortunately it seems that this practice has not stopped given the sheer size of Microsoft operating systems relative to the amount of end-user functionality that has been added since the days of say, Windows 3.1.
No, but if I'm a depot selling only Sonos speakers, then can I not name the brand that I sell?
It tends to get a bit fuzzy when it comes to things like Right of First Sale. I'm perfectly allowed to sell something that I own and I'm allowed to prominently display the brand of the item and what model it is. I'm not allowed to claim an affiliation with the brand, but that doesn't mean that I am required to specifically disclose anything else either.
We should go for an outpost first. The difference between an outpost and a colony is that the outpost has no expectation of being self-supporting. We should also shoot for the Moon for that, and use the Mars mission to develop what it takes to send humans back and forth to Mars without killing them, maiming them, or driving them insane. Once we've proven the outpost concept on a body that's close enough that rescue is not necessarily impossible, then we proceed to place an outpost on Mars.
The country can not survive without defense and maintaining law-and-order. Everything else is unnecessary and should therefor be done by non-government entities.
Tax-supported public education predates the founding of the United States. It was not a Federal entity, but it was public-funded through taxes.
There's a lot more to the United States than the Constitution, and there was from Day 1, or if you want to be pedantic about it, Day -4361 as the nation was founded almost twelve years before the Constitution was ratified. The basic framework of society already existed even prior to that, the Constitution was not written to wipe the slate clean and start over.
I started out my career as a field service tech doing consulting work all over town. "Town," was a metro area of approximately 900 square miles. The city has a grid system with numbered streets running one direction and named streets running the other, and the numbered streets corresponded with the hundreds-digit of street address numbers on the named streets. If a business had the address 7501 W. Broadway, that meant it was on the South side of Broadway, just West of 75th Avenue.
It was a little bit harder for addresses on numbered streets, but every 800 address numbers is another mile, so if one knows where the initial origin road is and knows the names of all the one-mile major roads, one can figure out how far north or south an address is and know which major roads it is between.
It is also a little harder for the minor neighborhood streets, but if one asked someone at the destination which major named streets one's street was on, it was still easy to find.
There really isn't any reason to use navigation in this city if you live here, it's easy to navigate on your own and without the electronic distraction.
There becomes a difference between selling some products from a farm or a brewery and buying-into overseas businesses to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars. Buying/selling products does not necessarily mean partnerships, but foreign business stakes do.
Sure. We've had both public space agencies looking into what it'll take to go to Mars along with private entities studying it. We've seen concepts for both one-shot rockets from Earth to Mars, and for essentially an interplanetary shuttle that is assembled in space and departs for Mars and acts as a true habitat. We've seen concepts for several vehicles for both types, and undoubtedly some have done real design studies on at least some of these concepts.
You ramp-up the space program, you evaluate both the big concepts (ie, whole vehicle platforms) and the details (individual systems, requirements, how those systems affect other systems and ultimately lead to dependencies) and then you start development. Hell, pick a page from the X-Prize foundation and offer prizes to teams who demonstrate the best concepts.
Eventually you have built the whole program, one piece at a time.
But don't you dare to confiscate my money to do it...
Your attitude is exactly what's wrong these days. "Pay for what I want, but don't pay for what I don't want." Here's a tip, it's not all about you, and if you want things you need to capitulate to what others want too.
Otherwise why don't you go move to Somalia? They don't collect taxes there. That sounds like the society that you deserve.
Bank employees aren't usually the ones servicing the ATMs, there are crews that drive around and do that, usually with names like BRINKS on the side of the truck. As far as I am aware, the local bank employees have no access into the ATMs.
You probably wouldn't want your average teller to have access to the ATM anyway, tellers make terrible money compared to the standards to which they're held. They have all of the downsides of having to maintain some of the highest standards of grooming of any workplace (arguably to the point of "preening") but they make less than your average computer PC desktop support tech.
Because I've shopped at the various brick-and-mortar stores, known people that have worked in the various brick-and-mortar stores, and basically I'm not going to shop at Walmart. They treat their employees badly, treat their suppliers badly and force quality down in the name of price, and as a result it's a shitshow going into their stores.
I see no reason to reward Walmart with my business. I'm OK with being in the minority on this, but either way, I'll spend the extra dollar and not have that experience.
No President before Trump has pushed so many bald-faced lies so quickly either. Even if all dialogue prior to Inauguration Day is discounted, he literally got the ball rolling by lying about aspects of his inauguration itself, and has not relented since then, and he's even brought it up multiple times without being prompted to do so.
I was no fan of Clinton either, but I doubt that she would have been so incredibly blatant about her lies. I expect she would have operated more like the Patrician from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, which I would ascribe as being lawful evil to lawful neutral depending on the issue. Trump is more like chaotic evil to chaotic neutral, in the sense the he doesn't even understand how the power of the Presidency works and how those he chooses to associate with directly demonstrate his decision-making skills.
If they wanted to solve the card-skimmer problem then they'd install circuitry to detect a skimmer placed on the cardslot and they'd show a picture on the ATM screen of what the cardslot should look like. They could even go so far as to make a device that slips out through the cardslot and damages or destroys card skimmers, deploying it between however many uses of the ATM, or they could use a system that retracts the card reader and cardslot into the housing of the machine between uses and allows for automatic inspection and confiscation of skimmer mechanisms.
There are plenty of ways to solve the skimmer problem without resorting to using cell phones and pushing the security responsibility to the accountholder, but they all require effort and money.
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but the NASA budget during the Apollo years averaged over 3% of the federal budget from '63 to '69, and peaked at almost 4.5%.
NASA might have been doing other things besides Apollo, but from '64 to '70 Apollo was over 50% of NASA's budget, peaking at 70% in 1967. If we want to have that kind of space program again, but with Mars as the destination, it's going to cost a lot more than has been allocated.
Not really sure either. Most of those that I know who advocated for Trump during the primaries and the general election did so for the lulz. They wanted to see how screwed up it would get, literally one invoked the, "hold on, I'm making popcorn" trope.
These were not otherwise-unintelligent people either. While I find their particular choice distasteful, the concept of throwing the wrench into the works, especially with the seeming underhandedness of how the DNC and the Clintons worked to ensure her nomination was not without a certain appeal. Unfortunately the particulars in this instance may have made this worse.
I donno, that's basically what we have to do to buy things at work. We have to get a PO through the purchasing department to go shop for specific items, or else we go to a business that we have a pre-arranged open-PO with where we can shop in the retailer and "pay" by presenting the PO information to the clerk, who charges against the open-PO like one charges-against a credit card, or for those times where there are emergencies that need something purchased, a few staff members have a work-issued credit card associated with a specific budget that can be spent anywhere that the credit card is accepted.
The last method is pretty rarely used, but the middle method is pretty common with a half-dozen participating stores. It allows us to go buy driver bits and other small tools without having to get a fresh PO each time.
The last method isn't wholly dissimilar to how people that use their credit/debit cards exclusively operate. Maybe restricting to all purchasing power is excessive, but it may not be unreasonable to limit cash to petty-cash levels. I've shopped at businesses that cover the whole spectrum and it's pretty uncommon to find even places catering to the poorer classes that don't accept electronic payments. Hell, even the dented-can clearance grocery store that we shop at from time to time takes plastic.
While I agree that the TSA as we've seen it is not really making us safer, I don't think that the three items you've listed are entirely adequate. First, those only stop someone from commandeering the aircraft in the circumstances that we saw in 2001 and do not necessarily address destroying an aircraft, and second, those do not necessarily prevent access to the cockpit if conditions within the pressurized interior are changed sufficiently.
One of the concerns about the cockpit door is a rapid depressurization of passenger cabin might force that the door be opened. In the cacophony that results and the necessary steps that the flightcrew has to take to remain conscious it might be possible for those prepared for it to force themselves into the cockpit.
To isolate the cockpit from the passenger cabin sufficiently may require a more thorough redesign of the aircraft, rather than an inexpensive retrofit.
Really? When I look at the data from Sept 22 to March 21, I don't see anything that looks like a correlation. When I expand the graph to a year I see it remaining roughly the same other than an abberation around the 2016 presidential campaign when the Orange One became so prominent, falling back to norms in October when no one gave a damn, and then more recently falling again when Twitter has had news of problems with the company itself.
If the point is to spread terror, the destroying an aircraft seems to be more effective than blowing up a queue. Not only is the visual of an aircraft crashing to the earth more vivid, but it demonstrates that security itself is ineffective.
It also might be difficult to rack-up the body count in a queue. A 747 carries more than 500 passengers in a two-class layout and an A340 carries 350 in a two-class layout. It may be difficult to kill that many people with a single terrorist in a security line, especially when it seems that airport security staff have made efforts to avoid serpentine lines that switchback upon themselves when possible.
Lastly, your comment on TSA screening lines is predicated on the terrorist already being in the United States. I expect that the point of arrivals from foreign countries is that security at the airports those flights originate from might not be as good as from a domestic airport or an otherwise Western airport. Blowing up the security line in the originating overseas airport probably won't induce the kind of terror in the West that the terrorist wants to get, so they have to get to the destination country or on a flight bound to that country to drive-home the effect. That plane needs to be on its way for the terror tactic to be attributed as they want, instead of just as local terrorism at the originating airport.
So terrorist plays on the weakness of the security at the foreign airport where they have a greater chance of sneaking through their bomb, or else they've had a better chance of making inroads with the local security staff to smuggle their bomb through. This means airlines now have to take the step of their own security, prohibiting these kinds of devices and basically having airline staff declare an emergency if prohibited items are seen in the passenger cabln, or even to re-screen passengers at the gate prior to letting them board.
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On the other hand the Constitution specifically enumerates that Congress shall pass laws. Among those laws was the 1979 Department of Education Organization Act that established that entity.
It's stupid to call them "the dark matter of programming bugs". We were just accustomed to this being the way Microsoft did things, not a bug, a feature.
That stems from Microsoft, originally writing for IBM, being paid per thousand lines of code. As such it made sense that software was not written efficiently because the programmer was not rewarded for efficiency, it merely had to fit within available memory. Unfortunately it seems that this practice has not stopped given the sheer size of Microsoft operating systems relative to the amount of end-user functionality that has been added since the days of say, Windows 3.1.
No, but if I'm a depot selling only Sonos speakers, then can I not name the brand that I sell?
It tends to get a bit fuzzy when it comes to things like Right of First Sale. I'm perfectly allowed to sell something that I own and I'm allowed to prominently display the brand of the item and what model it is. I'm not allowed to claim an affiliation with the brand, but that doesn't mean that I am required to specifically disclose anything else either.
Ooh I like that... *laugh*
We should go for an outpost first. The difference between an outpost and a colony is that the outpost has no expectation of being self-supporting. We should also shoot for the Moon for that, and use the Mars mission to develop what it takes to send humans back and forth to Mars without killing them, maiming them, or driving them insane. Once we've proven the outpost concept on a body that's close enough that rescue is not necessarily impossible, then we proceed to place an outpost on Mars.
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The country can not survive without defense and maintaining law-and-order. Everything else is unnecessary and should therefor be done by non-government entities.
Tax-supported public education predates the founding of the United States. It was not a Federal entity, but it was public-funded through taxes.
There's a lot more to the United States than the Constitution, and there was from Day 1, or if you want to be pedantic about it, Day -4361 as the nation was founded almost twelve years before the Constitution was ratified. The basic framework of society already existed even prior to that, the Constitution was not written to wipe the slate clean and start over.
I started out my career as a field service tech doing consulting work all over town. "Town," was a metro area of approximately 900 square miles. The city has a grid system with numbered streets running one direction and named streets running the other, and the numbered streets corresponded with the hundreds-digit of street address numbers on the named streets. If a business had the address 7501 W. Broadway, that meant it was on the South side of Broadway, just West of 75th Avenue.
It was a little bit harder for addresses on numbered streets, but every 800 address numbers is another mile, so if one knows where the initial origin road is and knows the names of all the one-mile major roads, one can figure out how far north or south an address is and know which major roads it is between.
It is also a little harder for the minor neighborhood streets, but if one asked someone at the destination which major named streets one's street was on, it was still easy to find.
There really isn't any reason to use navigation in this city if you live here, it's easy to navigate on your own and without the electronic distraction.
Strange why it wasn't done that way since day 1.
Given the large number of aircraft built for the last hundred years, I'm inclined to let aircraft engineers weigh on that one.
There becomes a difference between selling some products from a farm or a brewery and buying-into overseas businesses to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars. Buying/selling products does not necessarily mean partnerships, but foreign business stakes do.
Sure. We've had both public space agencies looking into what it'll take to go to Mars along with private entities studying it. We've seen concepts for both one-shot rockets from Earth to Mars, and for essentially an interplanetary shuttle that is assembled in space and departs for Mars and acts as a true habitat. We've seen concepts for several vehicles for both types, and undoubtedly some have done real design studies on at least some of these concepts.
You ramp-up the space program, you evaluate both the big concepts (ie, whole vehicle platforms) and the details (individual systems, requirements, how those systems affect other systems and ultimately lead to dependencies) and then you start development. Hell, pick a page from the X-Prize foundation and offer prizes to teams who demonstrate the best concepts.
Eventually you have built the whole program, one piece at a time.
I don't know, why don't you tell me how this fiction works?
But don't you dare to confiscate my money to do it...
Your attitude is exactly what's wrong these days. "Pay for what I want, but don't pay for what I don't want." Here's a tip, it's not all about you, and if you want things you need to capitulate to what others want too.
Otherwise why don't you go move to Somalia? They don't collect taxes there. That sounds like the society that you deserve.
Bank employees aren't usually the ones servicing the ATMs, there are crews that drive around and do that, usually with names like BRINKS on the side of the truck. As far as I am aware, the local bank employees have no access into the ATMs.
You probably wouldn't want your average teller to have access to the ATM anyway, tellers make terrible money compared to the standards to which they're held. They have all of the downsides of having to maintain some of the highest standards of grooming of any workplace (arguably to the point of "preening") but they make less than your average computer PC desktop support tech.
Because I've shopped at the various brick-and-mortar stores, known people that have worked in the various brick-and-mortar stores, and basically I'm not going to shop at Walmart. They treat their employees badly, treat their suppliers badly and force quality down in the name of price, and as a result it's a shitshow going into their stores.
I see no reason to reward Walmart with my business. I'm OK with being in the minority on this, but either way, I'll spend the extra dollar and not have that experience.
No President before Trump has pushed so many bald-faced lies so quickly either. Even if all dialogue prior to Inauguration Day is discounted, he literally got the ball rolling by lying about aspects of his inauguration itself, and has not relented since then, and he's even brought it up multiple times without being prompted to do so.
I was no fan of Clinton either, but I doubt that she would have been so incredibly blatant about her lies. I expect she would have operated more like the Patrician from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, which I would ascribe as being lawful evil to lawful neutral depending on the issue. Trump is more like chaotic evil to chaotic neutral, in the sense the he doesn't even understand how the power of the Presidency works and how those he chooses to associate with directly demonstrate his decision-making skills.
If they wanted to solve the card-skimmer problem then they'd install circuitry to detect a skimmer placed on the cardslot and they'd show a picture on the ATM screen of what the cardslot should look like. They could even go so far as to make a device that slips out through the cardslot and damages or destroys card skimmers, deploying it between however many uses of the ATM, or they could use a system that retracts the card reader and cardslot into the housing of the machine between uses and allows for automatic inspection and confiscation of skimmer mechanisms.
There are plenty of ways to solve the skimmer problem without resorting to using cell phones and pushing the security responsibility to the accountholder, but they all require effort and money.
I can't wait to see how the whiny little Trump-hating bitches spin this.
"A broken clock is right twice a day?"
"It's not possible for someone to entirely wrong on everything."
"One good decision on-paper does not excuse dozens of terrible ones."
"Those boys at Orbital needed something to shore-up the old Thiokol plants in Utah."
"Bread and circuses."
"Relatively cheap way to distract techie-types from the NSA/CIA/Homeland Security issues."
I'm sure there are others, each with its own merits and problems.
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but the NASA budget during the Apollo years averaged over 3% of the federal budget from '63 to '69, and peaked at almost 4.5%.
NASA might have been doing other things besides Apollo, but from '64 to '70 Apollo was over 50% of NASA's budget, peaking at 70% in 1967. If we want to have that kind of space program again, but with Mars as the destination, it's going to cost a lot more than has been allocated.
Not really sure either. Most of those that I know who advocated for Trump during the primaries and the general election did so for the lulz. They wanted to see how screwed up it would get, literally one invoked the, "hold on, I'm making popcorn" trope.
These were not otherwise-unintelligent people either. While I find their particular choice distasteful, the concept of throwing the wrench into the works, especially with the seeming underhandedness of how the DNC and the Clintons worked to ensure her nomination was not without a certain appeal. Unfortunately the particulars in this instance may have made this worse.
So you're saying that Melania is the next Anna Chapman?
I donno, that's basically what we have to do to buy things at work. We have to get a PO through the purchasing department to go shop for specific items, or else we go to a business that we have a pre-arranged open-PO with where we can shop in the retailer and "pay" by presenting the PO information to the clerk, who charges against the open-PO like one charges-against a credit card, or for those times where there are emergencies that need something purchased, a few staff members have a work-issued credit card associated with a specific budget that can be spent anywhere that the credit card is accepted.
The last method is pretty rarely used, but the middle method is pretty common with a half-dozen participating stores. It allows us to go buy driver bits and other small tools without having to get a fresh PO each time.
The last method isn't wholly dissimilar to how people that use their credit/debit cards exclusively operate. Maybe restricting to all purchasing power is excessive, but it may not be unreasonable to limit cash to petty-cash levels. I've shopped at businesses that cover the whole spectrum and it's pretty uncommon to find even places catering to the poorer classes that don't accept electronic payments. Hell, even the dented-can clearance grocery store that we shop at from time to time takes plastic.
While I agree that the TSA as we've seen it is not really making us safer, I don't think that the three items you've listed are entirely adequate. First, those only stop someone from commandeering the aircraft in the circumstances that we saw in 2001 and do not necessarily address destroying an aircraft, and second, those do not necessarily prevent access to the cockpit if conditions within the pressurized interior are changed sufficiently.
One of the concerns about the cockpit door is a rapid depressurization of passenger cabin might force that the door be opened. In the cacophony that results and the necessary steps that the flightcrew has to take to remain conscious it might be possible for those prepared for it to force themselves into the cockpit.
To isolate the cockpit from the passenger cabin sufficiently may require a more thorough redesign of the aircraft, rather than an inexpensive retrofit.
Really? When I look at the data from Sept 22 to March 21, I don't see anything that looks like a correlation. When I expand the graph to a year I see it remaining roughly the same other than an abberation around the 2016 presidential campaign when the Orange One became so prominent, falling back to norms in October when no one gave a damn, and then more recently falling again when Twitter has had news of problems with the company itself.
If the point is to spread terror, the destroying an aircraft seems to be more effective than blowing up a queue. Not only is the visual of an aircraft crashing to the earth more vivid, but it demonstrates that security itself is ineffective.
It also might be difficult to rack-up the body count in a queue. A 747 carries more than 500 passengers in a two-class layout and an A340 carries 350 in a two-class layout. It may be difficult to kill that many people with a single terrorist in a security line, especially when it seems that airport security staff have made efforts to avoid serpentine lines that switchback upon themselves when possible.
Lastly, your comment on TSA screening lines is predicated on the terrorist already being in the United States. I expect that the point of arrivals from foreign countries is that security at the airports those flights originate from might not be as good as from a domestic airport or an otherwise Western airport. Blowing up the security line in the originating overseas airport probably won't induce the kind of terror in the West that the terrorist wants to get, so they have to get to the destination country or on a flight bound to that country to drive-home the effect. That plane needs to be on its way for the terror tactic to be attributed as they want, instead of just as local terrorism at the originating airport.
So terrorist plays on the weakness of the security at the foreign airport where they have a greater chance of sneaking through their bomb, or else they've had a better chance of making inroads with the local security staff to smuggle their bomb through. This means airlines now have to take the step of their own security, prohibiting these kinds of devices and basically having airline staff declare an emergency if prohibited items are seen in the passenger cabln, or even to re-screen passengers at the gate prior to letting them board.