Clearly this guy knows as much about wireless technology as do the lawmakers demanding higher fuel economy without knowing if it's even possible. What's he going to do when people whine that they're not getting the posted data rates because Lulzsec fired a denial-of-service attack? Simple answer: class-action lawsuit followed by more government regulation. In other words, the lawyers will be getting rich and the consumers will be getting coupons for discounts on phone accessories.
This just confirms to me the claim that government regulation is ubiquitous and expensive. According to numerous sources e.g. http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jhammerton/the-hidden-cost-of-regulation compliance with regulation costs businesses more that corporate taxes, roughly 12% of GDP. IMHO, not only is the U.S. economy dangerously heading down the road of selling far more in services than it does in tangible product, but the government is feeding itself through runaway regulation.
Taking that a step further, curtailing the tort system will go a long way to reducing the cost of everything. Take the latest example of plastering grotesque images on cigarettes. Was this necessary? These days, if you still haven't figured out that cigarettes are dangerous, something's seriously wrong with you. Of course, there are those who promote the nanny state concept who say that everything must be regulated to the nth degree to avoid a future class-action lawsuit. These days, medicine is conducted in a cover-your-ass manner. Order every frigging test in the book just so that no lawyer can sue down the road saying that his client would still be alive if you had performed test XYZ. CYA is what's fueling the meteoric rise of healthcare costs. Nothing in Obamacare has addressed this. Of course, part of the problem is that much of Congress is made up of lawyers so they're well placed to protect their own. Furthermore, elected officials are rarely held accountable for the efficacy of the laws they right. It's all about "I wrote/passed/voted-for a law. Reelect me." Nevermind the unintended consequences.
IMHO, the people who are leaving Facebook have realized that it's not just another blog where they can post semi-anonymous inflammatory political rhetoric. Their Facebook friends will come down on their bogus opinions hard and people don't like to be told that they're full of sh*t by people they know. Just one aspect, IMHO. For me, living far away from most of my long-time friends, it's nice to be able to passively catch up with them. If you disagree with me, then you are a heartless bastard.;-)
IMHO, the reason it's in all military hospitals is because when an order is given, it is obeyed promptly. In the civilian world, it's more like "Yeah, we'll get to it eventually but we're going to need a lot more funding and people and equipment and time off and perks and...."
Not everybody has a unique IP address (IPv6 notwithstanding) let alone access to the net and how easy would it be to write software to filter out votes from a red state (or a blue state)? How easy would it be to write software to change just enough votes to ensure a particular outcome without raising eyebrows. What you need is a way to generate a large enough unique number (to prevent brute force hacking or such that would take far longer to crack it than it would to certify the vote), and this number would work into a one-way encryption system such that it's validity is ensured yet anonymity is maintained and also the result of that person's vote can't be pre-determined and filtered out.
But how do you ensure that each persons gets one vote and nobody can steal your vote? And how do you check that the results weren't tainted or pre-determined like Honduras almost had? And then there's the issue of privacy. Lots of people don't want any kind of national ID card.
It's funny that back when I was in high school in the early 80s and we were one of the few schools that had a PDP-11/44, an IMSAI 8080, and some TRS-80s, the head of the computer program got all pissy if he saw us writing game programs let alone playing games and now game software is a multi-billion dollar industry.
"Obfuscated coding" is another way of saying "Job Security". I can remember working for a Fortune 500 company in the early 90s where they had to pay a small fortune to get retired Cobol programs to recode for Y2K. I also remember buying someone else's code sight-unseen thinking that the guy was talented only to discover that the guy had the sloppiest code I'd ever seen.
That pretty much sums up local TV news. If it bleeds, it leads. That being said, local news isn't really local once you live 25-50 miles from the broadcaster. I grew up less than 25 miles from Manhattan and it seemed like anything that was on the local news might as well have been happening in a foreign country. These days, Internet media and local talk radio will have local stories plus, with the Internet, you can search for a story rather than being forced to accept what the anchor is saying, when they are saying it. You don't have to sit through 25 minutes of a 30 minute broadcast to get the story they promoted at the start of the show.
As for mainstream media bias, it's clearly there and can be proven with basic statistics. John Lott's book "Bias" is a great, exhaustively researched treatise on the subject. Accountability? What a joke! A newspaper can publish a false story on page one above the fold for a week before somebody calls them on it and they publish a correction on page 14 two weeks later in smaller type at which point most people have already accepted the falsehood as truth. IMHO, the mainstream media's loss of control over the people is what they're really whining about.
This should also be combined with an Asimo so you can see what stuff looks like on you while you walk because after all, who just stands there waiting to be admired?
1) How is it that school administrators had the time to look at this drek? Is this what we're paying them unhealthy sums of money to do? 2) I dare say that if this happened in the good old U.S. of A., the ACLU would be all over the school like stink on sh*t bleating about First Amendment rights.
Instead of trying to reclassify (or whatever the correct term is) schools as prisons, why not do the opposite? Reclassify prisons as schools and require inmates to attend regular classes. Who would teach these classes? Well, the Teacher's Unions/School Districts have "rubber rooms" where teachers who have been removed from the classroom are sent (along with full salary and benefits, btw). NYC has some 650 teachers in rubber rooms as of a year ago. These teachers could be reassigned to teach inmates.
Don't tax you. Don't tax me. Tax that man behind the tree.
Bah! "Relating to the human condition" What a crock. Go ahead and ignore the billions of dollars that these evil, greedy rich people voluntarily donate to charities. Oh, no, you'd prefer that the government take it by force and do with it whatever they please. That, sir (spelled with a 'c' and a 'u') is called stealing.
This is a classic case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. I'll bet these ecoterrorists will turn right around and bitch about how people are dying of starvation in sub-Saharan countries. They are NIMBYs. They have the same warped moral compass as those yelling and screaming for "green" energy but will fight tooth and nail to keep a wind farm or solar plant from going up in their neighborhood. These are the same people who demand that we all buy from local farmers but will file lawsuits to stop the same farmers from drilling new water wells. These are the same people that claim Cuba has the best healthcare system or that North Korea is a "worker's paradise" yet won't emigrate there to prove it to the rest of us.
I know people who have these relatively low-paying liberal arts jobs who have the balls to say that because THEY will never see $250,000 a year salary in their lifetime, it's okay to heavily tax those that do. Of course, they are assuming that someone who makes that much is a greedy Wall Street trader and not the owner of a Quizno's (yes, a Quizno's in a good location can take in that much in a year).
Just think, the marketing flakes will all be able to say "Our new product uses Linux 3.0! Everyone else is using that old, outdated 2.6 stuff."
I had always subscribed to the methodology that the third digit was for bug fixes. The second was for minor features and the first for a major new version. As I learn (or attempt to learn) about Linux development I see that there are so many little esoteric changes and/or new features every time a new version comes out that I have no idea if upgrading is really worth the effort.
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This reminds me of one of Kai Krause's products that would only unlock features after you've played with the product long enough. Goofy.
Clearly this guy knows as much about wireless technology as do the lawmakers demanding higher fuel economy without knowing if it's even possible. What's he going to do when people whine that they're not getting the posted data rates because Lulzsec fired a denial-of-service attack? Simple answer: class-action lawsuit followed by more government regulation. In other words, the lawyers will be getting rich and the consumers will be getting coupons for discounts on phone accessories.
This just confirms to me the claim that government regulation is ubiquitous and expensive. According to numerous sources e.g. http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jhammerton/the-hidden-cost-of-regulation compliance with regulation costs businesses more that corporate taxes, roughly 12% of GDP. IMHO, not only is the U.S. economy dangerously heading down the road of selling far more in services than it does in tangible product, but the government is feeding itself through runaway regulation.
Taking that a step further, curtailing the tort system will go a long way to reducing the cost of everything. Take the latest example of plastering grotesque images on cigarettes. Was this necessary? These days, if you still haven't figured out that cigarettes are dangerous, something's seriously wrong with you. Of course, there are those who promote the nanny state concept who say that everything must be regulated to the nth degree to avoid a future class-action lawsuit. These days, medicine is conducted in a cover-your-ass manner. Order every frigging test in the book just so that no lawyer can sue down the road saying that his client would still be alive if you had performed test XYZ. CYA is what's fueling the meteoric rise of healthcare costs. Nothing in Obamacare has addressed this. Of course, part of the problem is that much of Congress is made up of lawyers so they're well placed to protect their own. Furthermore, elected officials are rarely held accountable for the efficacy of the laws they right. It's all about "I wrote/passed/voted-for a law. Reelect me." Nevermind the unintended consequences.
Okay, that sounded dirty but it's true. And quite frankly, they're good at it and girls who are good at FPS are super hot.
IMHO, the people who are leaving Facebook have realized that it's not just another blog where they can post semi-anonymous inflammatory political rhetoric. Their Facebook friends will come down on their bogus opinions hard and people don't like to be told that they're full of sh*t by people they know. Just one aspect, IMHO. For me, living far away from most of my long-time friends, it's nice to be able to passively catch up with them. If you disagree with me, then you are a heartless bastard. ;-)
IMHO, the reason it's in all military hospitals is because when an order is given, it is obeyed promptly. In the civilian world, it's more like "Yeah, we'll get to it eventually but we're going to need a lot more funding and people and equipment and time off and perks and...."
Not everybody has a unique IP address (IPv6 notwithstanding) let alone access to the net and how easy would it be to write software to filter out votes from a red state (or a blue state)? How easy would it be to write software to change just enough votes to ensure a particular outcome without raising eyebrows. What you need is a way to generate a large enough unique number (to prevent brute force hacking or such that would take far longer to crack it than it would to certify the vote), and this number would work into a one-way encryption system such that it's validity is ensured yet anonymity is maintained and also the result of that person's vote can't be pre-determined and filtered out.
But how do you ensure that each persons gets one vote and nobody can steal your vote? And how do you check that the results weren't tainted or pre-determined like Honduras almost had? And then there's the issue of privacy. Lots of people don't want any kind of national ID card.
It's funny that back when I was in high school in the early 80s and we were one of the few schools that had a PDP-11/44, an IMSAI 8080, and some TRS-80s, the head of the computer program got all pissy if he saw us writing game programs let alone playing games and now game software is a multi-billion dollar industry.
"Obfuscated coding" is another way of saying "Job Security". I can remember working for a Fortune 500 company in the early 90s where they had to pay a small fortune to get retired Cobol programs to recode for Y2K. I also remember buying someone else's code sight-unseen thinking that the guy was talented only to discover that the guy had the sloppiest code I'd ever seen.
How do we know that this other detector is working properly?
That pretty much sums up local TV news. If it bleeds, it leads. That being said, local news isn't really local once you live 25-50 miles from the broadcaster. I grew up less than 25 miles from Manhattan and it seemed like anything that was on the local news might as well have been happening in a foreign country. These days, Internet media and local talk radio will have local stories plus, with the Internet, you can search for a story rather than being forced to accept what the anchor is saying, when they are saying it. You don't have to sit through 25 minutes of a 30 minute broadcast to get the story they promoted at the start of the show.
As for mainstream media bias, it's clearly there and can be proven with basic statistics. John Lott's book "Bias" is a great, exhaustively researched treatise on the subject. Accountability? What a joke! A newspaper can publish a false story on page one above the fold for a week before somebody calls them on it and they publish a correction on page 14 two weeks later in smaller type at which point most people have already accepted the falsehood as truth. IMHO, the mainstream media's loss of control over the people is what they're really whining about.
You missed the point, obviously. If the movie is really good, you wouldn't be distracted by some insensitive clod texting or talking. Got it?
Perhaps if the movies didn't suck ass, you would be totally absorbed by it and forget that you're in a theater.
This should also be combined with an Asimo so you can see what stuff looks like on you while you walk because after all, who just stands there waiting to be admired?
1) How is it that school administrators had the time to look at this drek? Is this what we're paying them unhealthy sums of money to do?
2) I dare say that if this happened in the good old U.S. of A., the ACLU would be all over the school like stink on sh*t bleating about First Amendment rights.
Instead of trying to reclassify (or whatever the correct term is) schools as prisons, why not do the opposite? Reclassify prisons as schools and require inmates to attend regular classes. Who would teach these classes? Well, the Teacher's Unions/School Districts have "rubber rooms" where teachers who have been removed from the classroom are sent (along with full salary and benefits, btw). NYC has some 650 teachers in rubber rooms as of a year ago. These teachers could be reassigned to teach inmates.
I blame Google translations. :-)
Don't tax you.
Don't tax me.
Tax that man behind the tree.
Bah! "Relating to the human condition" What a crock. Go ahead and ignore the billions of dollars that these evil, greedy rich people voluntarily donate to charities. Oh, no, you'd prefer that the government take it by force and do with it whatever they please. That, sir (spelled with a 'c' and a 'u') is called stealing.
Yes...but it loses something in translation. ;-)
This is a classic case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. I'll bet these ecoterrorists will turn right around and bitch about how people are dying of starvation in sub-Saharan countries. They are NIMBYs. They have the same warped moral compass as those yelling and screaming for "green" energy but will fight tooth and nail to keep a wind farm or solar plant from going up in their neighborhood. These are the same people who demand that we all buy from local farmers but will file lawsuits to stop the same farmers from drilling new water wells. These are the same people that claim Cuba has the best healthcare system or that North Korea is a "worker's paradise" yet won't emigrate there to prove it to the rest of us.
I know people who have these relatively low-paying liberal arts jobs who have the balls to say that because THEY will never see $250,000 a year salary in their lifetime, it's okay to heavily tax those that do. Of course, they are assuming that someone who makes that much is a greedy Wall Street trader and not the owner of a Quizno's (yes, a Quizno's in a good location can take in that much in a year).
Ah yes. Now contrast that with the French expression "Mon aéroglisseur est plein des anguilles." Doesn't have quite that same pizazz to it.
Just think, the marketing flakes will all be able to say "Our new product uses Linux 3.0! Everyone else is using that old, outdated 2.6 stuff."
I had always subscribed to the methodology that the third digit was for bug fixes. The second was for minor features and the first for a major new version. As I learn (or attempt to learn) about Linux development I see that there are so many little esoteric changes and/or new features every time a new version comes out that I have no idea if upgrading is really worth the effort.
"Well what the hell are we supposed to use? Harsh language?"