Well it would be like buying Advil at a crackhouse or a meth lab. Advil might be legal, but you are hanging around with people doing plenty of things that are not and it won't be good to have some money in your hand when the DEA/FBI come busting in.
What is it with all the negativity?
This sounds like about the coolest hack ever. Who cares if the data is duplicated elsewhere? Are any of you selling your mother's kidneys to fund this or robbing banks?
That car cost $52,000 new, so it was a little above median income. I drove an old Porsche about 300,000 miles too, but was kind of like George Washington's axe. (handle replaced 9 times, head replaced 7 times, but still the same axe LOL )
I bought a BMW for $15,000 (top end of your range) with 50,000 miles on it and drove it until it had 250,000 miles at which point it died. Got $1800 for it as a parts/repair car too. So in 1974 the average POS for sale back then was about DONE at 50,000 miles and 250,000 miles was a miracle car.
Well it does bear thinking about. Global warming is a planet-problem, not a country-problem;) If we are realy serious about it not only will we not burn coal, we will not EXPORT it EITHER. THAT is the only way the CO2 is staying underground. I think if we (USA) actually do this, despite all the whinging from all over the world, we will be the only country leaving money in the ground.
THEY want all the coal we can mine. So do we make coal mining illegal or what? Seriously? Someho we can't seem to get anyone to skip the step we went through from say 1850-1950 where you pollute the shit out of everything in a headlong rush to get rich and THEN worry about cleaning it up.
*I* sure would. Modern coal mines are about 4 feet tall. You can't even stand up in a lot of sections. That said, coal miners have pay and benefits many a/.er would envy: Average wage for all U.S. coal miners: $81,462 Average wage for all U.S. workers : $49,200. Obviously many of them do not have steady work and don't make that and many of them do not survive a career without injury or even survive it at all:( Installing solar panels is NOT going to keep them all busy out in inbred-hollow.
Why would anyone want to out in the hills in Butt-F***-Egypt if there wasn't something to mine, cut down, or dig up? Ending coal mining would be a huge plus for the environment. It will kill any number of coal towns. I would hope we would have some compassion for these people and a transition plan. We have done the *exact opposite* with strip mining the tops off of mountains by using way less people (lost jobs!) and causing way more damage (more pollution!).
I am well aware. I have spent time in coal towns in Virginia and West Virginia. Coal mining is a dirty and dangerous business for the miners and it is a dirty business for everyone. I am not saying this should all be preverved just to keep people in obsolete jobs. I just want you all - whom I suspect are about 1,000,000 miles away from any connection to coal mining for the most part - to realize ending coal mining will be utter economic devastation for people and towns and many of them will NEVER recover from it.
It may be very good for the planet, but the miners that now have no jobs, have cars being repossesed, houses in foreclosure, and kids no longer able to go to college are not likely to be cheering you on. Hint: coal miners are not slaves. They WANT their jobs;)
Just FYI - PG County in Maryland had famously violent and racist cops. They did a big affermative action push and now the Blacks are getting beat and abused by Black cops instead of white cops
It is entirely likely the hispanic cops give you the same preference as the white cops. OTOH if I was a cop and I saw someone running at night with a computer, I might ask what was going on too;)
I had a bank robber come in line behind me. I deposited my paycheck and left. He robbed the teller and made off with my check.
ME: Where is my paycheck?
BANK: We got robbed and the robber took it.
ME" Who is "we"? YOU got robbed, you have insurance. I saw the FDIC sticker on the door.
BANK: The funds will be in your account tomorrow.
ME: Thanks
AFAIK in 1972 we could launch a Saturn 5 to the moon. I think we regressed back to maybe the 1950s watching Soviet cosmonauts and wishing we could be up there.
Actually back in the 80s some Fords were considered pretty hot cars in the UK. I had UK friends move here, buy a Ford Escort, and be puzzled as to why the car sucked and no one was impressed by it LOL. Ford is now very much doing the "world car" thing. Even the "gasp" Mustang is being EU-ified.
It sounded like you said Americans are unfamiliar with European cars, which is not the case.
BTW, driving a Mazda now because I got tired of BMW "quality". All 4 window regulators let loose, the sunroof shade broke, had to replace the ignition coils, 2 water pumps, a radiator, and an expansion tank. ALL of them very well known and never fixed flaws. So far at 140,00o miles the Mazda is tires/brakes/and a battery;)
WTF?
I have owned 2 VWs, 2 Mercedes, 1 Porsche, 1 Volvo, and 1 BMW. I live in the USA and these cars were not unusual. No one came up to me and said "Wow - WHAT is that car with the blue and white thing on it?" European cars and their "quality" are hardly an unknown in most of the USA. I am sure some beat coal mining town has only old pickup trucks, but outside of that........
BTW, "quality" is in quotes because exactly NONE of those cars was anything close to a Lexus in build quality.
We are a 100,000+ user operation. Our patch tracking and approval process is a giant paperwork nightmare that does nothing useful.
I would get Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer, run the report after Patch Tuesday, and send it to the management types. Say look at this nice list of required patches. If there are no objections, we will roll them out:D
Not all at once.
You have heard of workplace violence and "going postal", right? These workers also go to malls and bowling alleys. The shooters want to take their revenge at the site of their humiliation, not at some random place.
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Besides for that, they have ULA taking out full page ads in the Washington Post about how great they are - complete with spelling errors LOL.
So why doesn't the EU get a good head start and quit NATO? Oh wait.............
Well it would be like buying Advil at a crackhouse or a meth lab. Advil might be legal, but you are hanging around with people doing plenty of things that are not and it won't be good to have some money in your hand when the DEA/FBI come busting in.
But .but........they never arrived! Damn that UPS tracking system......
What is it with all the negativity? This sounds like about the coolest hack ever. Who cares if the data is duplicated elsewhere? Are any of you selling your mother's kidneys to fund this or robbing banks?
That car cost $52,000 new, so it was a little above median income. I drove an old Porsche about 300,000 miles too, but was kind of like George Washington's axe. (handle replaced 9 times, head replaced 7 times, but still the same axe LOL )
I bought a BMW for $15,000 (top end of your range) with 50,000 miles on it and drove it until it had 250,000 miles at which point it died. Got $1800 for it as a parts/repair car too. So in 1974 the average POS for sale back then was about DONE at 50,000 miles and 250,000 miles was a miracle car.
Well it does bear thinking about. Global warming is a planet-problem, not a country-problem ;) If we are realy serious about it not only will we not burn coal, we will not EXPORT it EITHER. THAT is the only way the CO2 is staying underground. I think if we (USA) actually do this, despite all the whinging from all over the world, we will be the only country leaving money in the ground.
THEY want all the coal we can mine. So do we make coal mining illegal or what? Seriously? Someho we can't seem to get anyone to skip the step we went through from say 1850-1950 where you pollute the shit out of everything in a headlong rush to get rich and THEN worry about cleaning it up.
*I* sure would. Modern coal mines are about 4 feet tall. You can't even stand up in a lot of sections. That said, coal miners have pay and benefits many a /.er would envy: Average wage for all U.S. coal miners: $81,462 Average wage for all U.S. workers : $49,200. Obviously many of them do not have steady work and don't make that and many of them do not survive a career without injury or even survive it at all :( Installing solar panels is NOT going to keep them all busy out in inbred-hollow.
Why would anyone want to out in the hills in Butt-F***-Egypt if there wasn't something to mine, cut down, or dig up? Ending coal mining would be a huge plus for the environment. It will kill any number of coal towns. I would hope we would have some compassion for these people and a transition plan. We have done the *exact opposite* with strip mining the tops off of mountains by using way less people (lost jobs!) and causing way more damage (more pollution!).
I am well aware. I have spent time in coal towns in Virginia and West Virginia. Coal mining is a dirty and dangerous business for the miners and it is a dirty business for everyone. I am not saying this should all be preverved just to keep people in obsolete jobs. I just want you all - whom I suspect are about 1,000,000 miles away from any connection to coal mining for the most part - to realize ending coal mining will be utter economic devastation for people and towns and many of them will NEVER recover from it.
It may be very good for the planet, but the miners that now have no jobs, have cars being repossesed, houses in foreclosure, and kids no longer able to go to college are not likely to be cheering you on. Hint: coal miners are not slaves. They WANT their jobs ;)
Just FYI - PG County in Maryland had famously violent and racist cops. They did a big affermative action push and now the Blacks are getting beat and abused by Black cops instead of white cops It is entirely likely the hispanic cops give you the same preference as the white cops. OTOH if I was a cop and I saw someone running at night with a computer, I might ask what was going on too ;)
I had a bank robber come in line behind me. I deposited my paycheck and left. He robbed the teller and made off with my check. ME: Where is my paycheck? BANK: We got robbed and the robber took it. ME" Who is "we"? YOU got robbed, you have insurance. I saw the FDIC sticker on the door. BANK: The funds will be in your account tomorrow. ME: Thanks
I just happen to sell asteroid repellent and giant lizard repellent. If you order before midnight, you can get some ginsu knives too.
AFAIK in 1972 we could launch a Saturn 5 to the moon. I think we regressed back to maybe the 1950s watching Soviet cosmonauts and wishing we could be up there.
Well they got us into TWO world wars, so we can do WW III and WW IV and just be EVEN.
Actually back in the 80s some Fords were considered pretty hot cars in the UK. I had UK friends move here, buy a Ford Escort, and be puzzled as to why the car sucked and no one was impressed by it LOL. Ford is now very much doing the "world car" thing. Even the "gasp" Mustang is being EU-ified.
It sounded like you said Americans are unfamiliar with European cars, which is not the case. BTW, driving a Mazda now because I got tired of BMW "quality". All 4 window regulators let loose, the sunroof shade broke, had to replace the ignition coils, 2 water pumps, a radiator, and an expansion tank. ALL of them very well known and never fixed flaws. So far at 140,00o miles the Mazda is tires/brakes/and a battery ;)
California prison-guard unions are/were well known for lobbying for stricter drug laws to increase their client base ;)
WTF? I have owned 2 VWs, 2 Mercedes, 1 Porsche, 1 Volvo, and 1 BMW. I live in the USA and these cars were not unusual. No one came up to me and said "Wow - WHAT is that car with the blue and white thing on it?" European cars and their "quality" are hardly an unknown in most of the USA. I am sure some beat coal mining town has only old pickup trucks, but outside of that........ BTW, "quality" is in quotes because exactly NONE of those cars was anything close to a Lexus in build quality.
We are a 100,000+ user operation. Our patch tracking and approval process is a giant paperwork nightmare that does nothing useful. I would get Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer, run the report after Patch Tuesday, and send it to the management types. Say look at this nice list of required patches. If there are no objections, we will roll them out :D
Not all at once. You have heard of workplace violence and "going postal", right? These workers also go to malls and bowling alleys. The shooters want to take their revenge at the site of their humiliation, not at some random place.
In my experience a significant number of bullies think being a school administrator is a *perfect* way to extend their bullying lifestyle for decades.