Except there is a thought for you network guys out there....
Every time you scale a network up in size the administrative overhead takes a rather large jump. The cost to coverage ratio is not linear. Finland may have the same average density as the US, but on a completely different geographic scale, thus comparing the two is really an apples/oranges comparison.
Not that I think that the carriers in US are forthright do-gooders... but they are probably no more crooked than the carriers in Europe.
1: You're not allowed to harass people, even if you do so by speaking.
3: You're not allowed to tell people lies in order to make them agree to things they otherwise would not ( i.e fraud ).
4: You are not allowed to print untrue stories that may damage somebody's reputation ( i.e libel ).
5: You're not allowed to damage people's reputation by spreading lies about them ( i.e slander )
Hrmmm... I think your understanding of the legal system is flawed. you are allowed to do all of those unless actual harm or the reasonable fear of harm can be proven.
1. Unless the person reasonable fear harm or you can demonstrate damages... Not quite a limit on speech. (Although this is the one where a sympathetic judge can help you a lot.)
2. The problem with fraud is the monetary damages. You are not being punished for lying to someone... that's beyond the court's purview. You are being punished for exchanging something that was not worth what you said it was. Not quite the same thing.
3. Again, monetary damages must be shown. I can print all I want about you that is untrue, your eyes are blue when they are brown, until you prove that I cost you money by doing so... You are shit out of luck.
4. Please see item three and apply to the spoken word.
Whether or not people think the laws protect you from lie is irrelevant. Research each of the above scenarios and you might be surprised about what the law actually does.
I actually think that the ability to lie and get away with it... Either to the govt or to anyone in a position of power is a pretty fair measure of how free a society truly is.
Maybe I've had too many beers... This imperial stout stuff is goood.
Interestingly sad and self-pitying tale of woe... but wholly anecdotal, short-sighted, and powerless.
I don't have a college degree, I grew up so poor we ate brown beans 3 meals a day for a year, and my dad used ShooGoo and bicycle tire to repair my undersized shoes. Eventually my parents dug their way out of the hole that they made for themselves while showing my brothers and I how to do so.
Guess what? After 15 yrs in the workforce I make a very healthy salary, I just bought a new car with cash (check really) and I can afford to support my stay-at-home wife in a nice neighborhood while she works on her writing career. We are expecting our first son next month.
None of these things were won easily. I held out for a good strong woman with values that mirrored my own. I worked relentlessly until my resume was enough to guarantee my employment, and I saved enough money to buy the construction and property management company that my father worked for. He has since bought it from me, and he is making good money working for himself.
Electronic toys? Hah! Unless they add a very large value to my work, they are rubbish. Nice car? Not until I can pay for it without a loan. (Did that the first time last year.) Nice house? Not until I can put a sizable down, get a good deal, and could afford the payment working at Home Depot if the feces hit the oscillating air mover. Did that 3 yrs ago.
Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
The beginning, the middle, and the end of your life is encompassed in those words.
However, from my years in the military working in G-6 and G-2 (Communications and Intelligence) I can tell you that the penalties are quite severe for handling classified materials in a manner inconsistent with control protocols. That was my main argument against outsourcing the data comm portion of our infrastructure. This (at the time) was to include portions of the SIPR net. Depending on the classification of the data it may not be able to be on any network that reaches outside the vault in a SCIF.
Most of the data that is leaked is sensitive in nature but not so much that it is immediately actionable or significantly changes the conclusions one could draw from information that would be much easier to garner.
The largest leaks that occur are usually with outsiders that are not inculcated into the culture of the military and it's purpose ie civilian contractors.
This website breach was something that a wee little hacker with a wee little ego can brag about because it has the US Army stamp on it, not because the data could cause harm to the Army or any of its operations.
Just about any animal that lives near humans and isn't toxic has been eaten at some point, and often comes to be a regular item on the menu.
Toxic is not a limitation either... Please refer to various rockfish, urchin(Japanese), or hakarl(Iceland). (The Basking Shark is poisonous before fermentation.)
Agreed. However, it's a matter of marketing... At some point investors are going to start looking at the large payouts with a jaundiced eye. An economic downturn is a good time for this.
It's no different than when a ton of geeks were getting overpaid for their skillset based on the false valuation of said skills. A correction will happen. It is not the place of the government to meddle in the compensation of private citizens or corporations.
Would you also argue that an actor making 500 times as much as the carpenter who built the set for the latest summer blockbuster is wrong? That's really how I see CEO's these days... they're the pretty face that attracts investors because the investors believe that something is extraordinary about them. Sometimes there is... Sometimes not.
If so, that's could be reason for your relative lack of wealth. People who make a crap-ton of money recognize where their bread is buttered. I could probably make more money doing something else... but I like what I do, and I make enough money for my wife to put up with me...
Wow. A person would get fired for even suggesting that a control system should be connected to the business network in the 2 of the top 5 oil companies that I have worked for...
As a matter of fact it does. At least with oil and gas industry companies. Most refineries(and gas plants) have two redundant network for the controls, a separate network for monitoring, and a network for business level stuff.
Actual Blend adjustments and stuff like that have to be sneaker net... virus scan etc.
I totally agree with you... but I totally agree with Bobby Jindal as well.
An increase in funding for volcanic research and monitoring would be something that would fall under the purview of the govt. However, it should be included in the general budget, not a 'stimulus' bill. By including it in a stimulus bill you trivialize the importance of the work and set the funding on more tenuous footing for future support.
IF you want to spend money on something for the foreseeable future it should be included in the general budget process so that prudent planning can occur. The stimulus package is supposed to be a one-off, and thus it should be used to support one-shot projects.
The govt has a great deal of inertia. It takes a lot of people sacrificing a lot of time to actually change course once the arc has been plotted.
Take education: The US is in the top ten spenders per child, but not a top ten educator by any means. There have been programs that have shown a decrease in cost AND an increase in performance on the part of students. (Some voucher programs.)
To be able to institute a voucher program you will need to overcome the teacher's unions and the voters that are too ignorant to know what they are voting about.
The cost of govt is always more onerous than that of a corporation... if only we could agree on what the govt should be doing.
That's interesting. UK has a gun ban... Currently, their version of the ATF suspects that the number of guns within the country has tripled since that ban. The Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College in London, which carried out the research, said the number of crimes in which a handgun was reported increased from 2,648 in 1997/98 to 3,685 in 1999/2000.
Now, they have moved on to a pointy or slashy object ban (knives) despite the fact that the gun crime is creeping upward. (Though prelimary numbers for last years showed a 3% decline in shotgun incidents.)
As a sometime voice actor (mostly dramatic narration for short films) who's married to a theatre and film actress... It's all about professionalism. If you're a professional it makes no difference as to where you perform. You produce the emotional and performance characteristics that elicit the desired response from the audience.
Dubbed or not dubbed... Your job is to make it flawless.
Krav Maga and (Russian)Sambo are often taught in most cities. Jiu-jitsu is also great for joint-locks and throws. However, the ground maneuvering is not suitable for a 'street' environment. When you choose the dojo ask the instructor(s) what there philosophy of teaching and sparring are. If all else fails... go to a boxing gym. The eye-gouging and what-not is self-explanatory. However, Shaolin Chin-Na has some interesting variations. You will need to add hand strength training to your complement of resources to make the small joint locks and gouging method effective.
Also... If you're credit stinks or your parents refuse to allow you to have a credit card (my little brother) there are companies that (netspend.com) allow for cash rechargeable cards that can be used for Internet purchases. (Also makes sending him money pretty damn easy ie bank transfer into his card account).
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Except there is a thought for you network guys out there....
Every time you scale a network up in size the administrative overhead takes a rather large jump. The cost to coverage ratio is not linear. Finland may have the same average density as the US, but on a completely different geographic scale, thus comparing the two is really an apples/oranges comparison.
Not that I think that the carriers in US are forthright do-gooders... but they are probably no more crooked than the carriers in Europe.
1: You're not allowed to harass people, even if you do so by speaking.
3: You're not allowed to tell people lies in order to make them agree to things they otherwise would not ( i.e fraud ).
4: You are not allowed to print untrue stories that may damage somebody's reputation ( i.e libel ).
5: You're not allowed to damage people's reputation by spreading lies about them ( i.e slander )
Hrmmm... I think your understanding of the legal system is flawed. you are allowed to do all of those unless actual harm or the reasonable fear of harm can be proven.
1. Unless the person reasonable fear harm or you can demonstrate damages... Not quite a limit on speech. (Although this is the one where a sympathetic judge can help you a lot.)
2. The problem with fraud is the monetary damages. You are not being punished for lying to someone... that's beyond the court's purview. You are being punished for exchanging something that was not worth what you said it was. Not quite the same thing.
3. Again, monetary damages must be shown. I can print all I want about you that is untrue, your eyes are blue when they are brown, until you prove that I cost you money by doing so... You are shit out of luck.
4. Please see item three and apply to the spoken word.
Whether or not people think the laws protect you from lie is irrelevant. Research each of the above scenarios and you might be surprised about what the law actually does.
I actually think that the ability to lie and get away with it... Either to the govt or to anyone in a position of power is a pretty fair measure of how free a society truly is.
Maybe I've had too many beers... This imperial stout stuff is goood.
Regional naming conventions with a simple map of the important nodes accomplishes this task easily in a network of 50,000+ nodes.
Sure you could... to a company in Oklahoma... Like another gov't agency does... FAA/DOT anyone?
Or he's a very experienced businessman who knows that hysteria can be exploited.
Stonyfield Farms makes a pretty decent, if high sugar, organic yogurt...
Other than that, I have no idea.
Interestingly sad and self-pitying tale of woe... but wholly anecdotal, short-sighted, and powerless.
I don't have a college degree, I grew up so poor we ate brown beans 3 meals a day for a year, and my dad used ShooGoo and bicycle tire to repair my undersized shoes. Eventually my parents dug their way out of the hole that they made for themselves while showing my brothers and I how to do so.
Guess what? After 15 yrs in the workforce I make a very healthy salary, I just bought a new car with cash (check really) and I can afford to support my stay-at-home wife in a nice neighborhood while she works on her writing career. We are expecting our first son next month.
None of these things were won easily. I held out for a good strong woman with values that mirrored my own. I worked relentlessly until my resume was enough to guarantee my employment, and I saved enough money to buy the construction and property management company that my father worked for. He has since bought it from me, and he is making good money working for himself.
Electronic toys? Hah! Unless they add a very large value to my work, they are rubbish. Nice car? Not until I can pay for it without a loan. (Did that the first time last year.) Nice house? Not until I can put a sizable down, get a good deal, and could afford the payment working at Home Depot if the feces hit the oscillating air mover. Did that 3 yrs ago.
Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
The beginning, the middle, and the end of your life is encompassed in those words.
Agreed.
However, from my years in the military working in G-6 and G-2 (Communications and Intelligence) I can tell you that the penalties are quite severe for handling classified materials in a manner inconsistent with control protocols. That was my main argument against outsourcing the data comm portion of our infrastructure. This (at the time) was to include portions of the SIPR net. Depending on the classification of the data it may not be able to be on any network that reaches outside the vault in a SCIF.
Most of the data that is leaked is sensitive in nature but not so much that it is immediately actionable or significantly changes the conclusions one could draw from information that would be much easier to garner.
The largest leaks that occur are usually with outsiders that are not inculcated into the culture of the military and it's purpose ie civilian contractors.
This website breach was something that a wee little hacker with a wee little ego can brag about because it has the US Army stamp on it, not because the data could cause harm to the Army or any of its operations.
I dunno, but around here the ground is moist and it gets fairly cold in the winter and you can tell after the first winter how much shift there is.
A highway two-blocks from my office was completely repoured last summer and now there are 3-4 inch elevation changes between some of the sections...
In this case it might be best to invest in cheap and easy to repair.
Just about any animal that lives near humans and isn't toxic has been eaten at some point, and often comes to be a regular item on the menu.
Toxic is not a limitation either... Please refer to various rockfish, urchin(Japanese), or hakarl(Iceland). (The Basking Shark is poisonous before fermentation.)
Yeah, but the buffering process to protect the Test from your digestive system creates problems for your liver... with extended use of course.
Agreed. However, it's a matter of marketing... At some point investors are going to start looking at the large payouts with a jaundiced eye. An economic downturn is a good time for this.
It's no different than when a ton of geeks were getting overpaid for their skillset based on the false valuation of said skills. A correction will happen. It is not the place of the government to meddle in the compensation of private citizens or corporations.
Really?
Would you also argue that an actor making 500 times as much as the carpenter who built the set for the latest summer blockbuster is wrong? That's really how I see CEO's these days... they're the pretty face that attracts investors because the investors believe that something is extraordinary about them. Sometimes there is... Sometimes not.
If so, that's could be reason for your relative lack of wealth. People who make a crap-ton of money recognize where their bread is buttered. I could probably make more money doing something else... but I like what I do, and I make enough money for my wife to put up with me...
Wow. A person would get fired for even suggesting that a control system should be connected to the business network in the 2 of the top 5 oil companies that I have worked for...
I'm sorry dude. God be with you.
As a matter of fact it does. At least with oil and gas industry companies. Most refineries(and gas plants) have two redundant network for the controls, a separate network for monitoring, and a network for business level stuff.
Actual Blend adjustments and stuff like that have to be sneaker net... virus scan etc.
I totally agree with you... but I totally agree with Bobby Jindal as well.
An increase in funding for volcanic research and monitoring would be something that would fall under the purview of the govt. However, it should be included in the general budget, not a 'stimulus' bill. By including it in a stimulus bill you trivialize the importance of the work and set the funding on more tenuous footing for future support.
IF you want to spend money on something for the foreseeable future it should be included in the general budget process so that prudent planning can occur. The stimulus package is supposed to be a one-off, and thus it should be used to support one-shot projects.
If you want the stimulus to be spent at all...
I dunno what the GP was thinking... Did he miss the news coverage of the underground nuke tests that NK carried out in 2006?
How the hell does such a completely erroneous statement get a mod up anyhow?
Sort of... but we caught the gent that he enabled enroute.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/16/millennium.plot.sentence/index.html
The govt has a great deal of inertia. It takes a lot of people sacrificing a lot of time to actually change course once the arc has been plotted.
Take education: The US is in the top ten spenders per child, but not a top ten educator by any means. There have been programs that have shown a decrease in cost AND an increase in performance on the part of students. (Some voucher programs.)
To be able to institute a voucher program you will need to overcome the teacher's unions and the voters that are too ignorant to know what they are voting about.
The cost of govt is always more onerous than that of a corporation... if only we could agree on what the govt should be doing.
My battalion commander in boot camp was Lt Col Woody. He had recently been promoted from being a Major Woody.
MCRD San Diego Summer 1995
That's interesting. UK has a gun ban... Currently, their version of the ATF suspects that the number of guns within the country has tripled since that ban. The Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College in London, which carried out the research, said the number of crimes in which a handgun was reported increased from 2,648 in 1997/98 to 3,685 in 1999/2000.
Now, they have moved on to a pointy or slashy object ban (knives) despite the fact that the gun crime is creeping upward. (Though prelimary numbers for last years showed a 3% decline in shotgun incidents.)
As a sometime voice actor (mostly dramatic narration for short films) who's married to a theatre and film actress... It's all about professionalism. If you're a professional it makes no difference as to where you perform. You produce the emotional and performance characteristics that elicit the desired response from the audience.
Dubbed or not dubbed... Your job is to make it flawless.
Krav Maga and (Russian)Sambo are often taught in most cities. Jiu-jitsu is also great for joint-locks and throws. However, the ground maneuvering is not suitable for a 'street' environment. When you choose the dojo ask the instructor(s) what there philosophy of teaching and sparring are. If all else fails... go to a boxing gym. The eye-gouging and what-not is self-explanatory. However, Shaolin Chin-Na has some interesting variations. You will need to add hand strength training to your complement of resources to make the small joint locks and gouging method effective.
labor costs == Taxes and regulations
Also... If you're credit stinks or your parents refuse to allow you to have a credit card (my little brother) there are companies that (netspend.com) allow for cash rechargeable cards that can be used for Internet purchases. (Also makes sending him money pretty damn easy ie bank transfer into his card account).