You can call it whatever you want, but the reality is money flows uphill a lot faster than it flows downhill. The end result is that eventually there will be very little money at all flowing downhill. Whatever you'd like to believe, this problem is a direct result of capitalism.
I think Capitalism is an effective way to kickstart a nation's economy. It worked well for the US. The problem is it has an expiration date, as you've pointed out.
Consider the size of US debts to China. Consider that we could seize and keep Chinese assets for the crime of cyber espionage. Or as an alternative we could try a hack that destroys the economic system of China. Maybe China needs a formal warning that we make make them howl, gnash their teeth and cast them into darkness for eternity.
IMHO wrecking the Chinese economy would have significant negative impact on our own.
For what it's worth, this paragraph makes a ton of sense to me. The biggest problem with Linux, both on the desktop and to a lesser extent on the server, was the fact that you got a basically half-baked set of components that were hardly integrated at all.
Lack of integration is what makes these things flexible. As soon as we codify One True Way of integration that flexibility will be gone.
I'm an insane person though. I use Gentoo and Slackware in production.
If so, that's who you should be talking to about this. As soon as you even mention involving a lawyer this kind of crap tends to get fixed very quickly.
For me it's more about "am I hungry?" and "is it tasty"? I don't consider much else. If an octopus has a problem with me eating it then it's welcome to try to stop me.
Hedging our bets would be sending high speed one-way generational ships out of this solar system.
Mars is not much of a hedge. Even if mars was fully self sufficient, many of the most likely killers
like nuclear war probably wouldn't spare a colony on mars. I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it though.
I think one of the greatest benefits would be learning to run a full blown biosphere so when we finally
damage our current biosphere beyond repair at least we know how to create glass cities to live in.
One step at a time. Mars will teach us a lot of what we'll need to do something like that.
Nash is a schizophrenic who ended up in a psychiatric hospital and is at least partially responsible for the Cold War paranoia of the 70's. Could've picked a better example there bud.
He also practically invented Game Theory which revolutionized science, sociology, and mathematics. Sometimes it takes someone with extremely abnormal thinking to see what others can't. John Nash recovered from his problems and was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1994 and a Double Helix medal in 2010. I don't think I could have picked a better example.
That's what people said about Tesla and just about every real thinker of the past. It doesn't mean he isn't at least a little crazy. Crazy can be good. Take John Nash for example.
Each Tomahawk missile costs about 1.41 million. The cost of a 16 in artillery shell is about $500. If we are going to waste money can we at least do it a little more efficiently?
A Tomahawk is (ideally) less likely to go off target than an artillery shell. When a Tomahawk happens to hit non-combatants it's called a malfunction. When a Tomahawk is working correctly it will always hit the correct target, no matter where that target may be, and inflict minimal collateral damage. Collateral damage is also a malfunction. Only barbarians would use cheap artillery and take responsibility for harming those inclined to be anywhere near the intended target.
Right... So, people have stopped buying monitors from Dell simply because they can buy similar Korean monitors direct on eBay? No? Oh, right, because people like to have warranties and have the ability to get stuff replaced in a timely manner when it fails.
I have stopped buying electronics from US companies because I can get the same quality (sometimes better) buying directly from Chinese factories. The prices are better and they offer 6 month warranties on just about anything (and I have tested these warranties).
Creativity is one important skill children need to develop. I think this kind of effusive praise willfully ignores that sometimes these activities can and do take the place of other important childhood activities in some cases.
And that brings me to how I kind of lament the lack of textual information in modern games. I learned a rather large amount of reading(and vocabulary) skills by trying to understand what games were saying as a child.
The universality of voice acting harms how much children can develop by reading.
100% this. I hated reading as a child until I came across Final Fantasy 6.
Mom, you cannot know whether I've saw my brother doing bad things while I hid in the closet and watched... Otherwise he will know someone was watching from the closet and never again will forget to check if someone is in there.
It will wreck the whole tattling mission so I cannot ever spy on him again. There's just no other way except the ONE way I chose and since I think I'm so clever it's just better to never tell anyone what my brother is doing since my ability to spy on him from the closet is actually more important than whatever wrong I'm catching him doing.
I'm totally against spying on our own populace, especially by the NSA which wasn't created with that intent at all. There is some reason they are doing it and we need to find out why and who is having them do it. Are they acting outside of government authority or is someone in government endorsing what they're doing? If the NSA is acting on it's own abolishing the NSA might be a solution. If what they're doing is being authorized behind closed doors getting rid of them won't change a thing, it'll just put a different label on it.
What I was getting at is we don't know the full extent of what they are doing. We know they are spying on us. We don't know what they are doing for us, if anything. They probably can't tell us exactly what they are doing to benefit us because it would wreck that part of their mission. We're in a Catch-22. We need to find out whether they work for the people or someone else, and go from there.
The NSA is (theoretically) in a position where it cannot tell us what it has done for us. There may be all sorts of things the NSA has done to protect our nation. Publicly disclosing those actions could wreck their whole mission. We should consider, as IT professionals, that we're in a similar boat. We can't always tell the customer/client exactly what is going on, and even if we do tell them they're unlikely to fully understand. We definitely don't tell our customer's competitors what we are doing.
The real issue with the NSA is this: who is the customer?
Answer A: Yes, the judge can issue a warrant. On the other hand, the Irish guardia will tell any US police officer turning up at the house in Ireland with that warrant to piss off, possibly arresting them for trespassing or burglary.
Answer B: In my opinion, yes. It will be difficult if the person has debtors in Ireland. Mortgage, unpaid bills etc. will likely come first.
I agree with A, it makes sense. B, not so much. I don't see how the US could seize real estate on foreign soil through a court action. They could try, but I don't see Ireland (in this example) agreeing to let them have the land.
Or consider this: I am in Ireland and I steal a phone from someone at the pub. I fly back home to the US. The Irish authorities are able to determine who I am. Can an Irish judge issue a warrant to search my house in the US?
Microsoft is headquartered and incorporated in the US and thus subject to US law. QED.
Consider this scenario: I am a US citizen who owns a house in Ireland. I commit a crime (in the US), say selling drugs. Can a US judge issue a warrant to search my house in Ireland? Let's say I am convicted. Part of the ruling is to have all of my property connected to the crime seized (by the US DOJ). Can they seize my house in Ireland?
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75 million / 50,000 = $1500 per camera. I can't seem to find body cameras anywhere near that price range.
You can call it whatever you want, but the reality is money flows uphill a lot faster than it flows downhill. The end result is that eventually there will be very little money at all flowing downhill. Whatever you'd like to believe, this problem is a direct result of capitalism.
I think Capitalism is an effective way to kickstart a nation's economy. It worked well for the US. The problem is it has an expiration date, as you've pointed out.
Consider the size of US debts to China. Consider that we could seize and keep Chinese assets for the crime of cyber espionage. Or as an alternative we could try a hack that destroys the economic system of China. Maybe China needs a formal warning that we make make them howl, gnash their teeth and cast them into darkness for eternity.
IMHO wrecking the Chinese economy would have significant negative impact on our own.
Joke's on you--next they'll merge vi into systemd.
No they won't. systemd is really just a fork of emacs.
For what it's worth, this paragraph makes a ton of sense to me. The biggest problem with Linux, both on the desktop and to a lesser extent on the server, was the fact that you got a basically half-baked set of components that were hardly integrated at all.
Lack of integration is what makes these things flexible. As soon as we codify One True Way of integration that flexibility will be gone.
I'm an insane person though. I use Gentoo and Slackware in production.
If so, that's who you should be talking to about this. As soon as you even mention involving a lawyer this kind of crap tends to get fixed very quickly.
For me it's more about "am I hungry?" and "is it tasty"? I don't consider much else. If an octopus has a problem with me eating it then it's welcome to try to stop me.
That's what he says, at least. Of course, men in those positions have usually made it a habit to twist the truth to their advantage.
True enough, but we have to consider that behavior is a product of our way of life. Our society doesn't adapt well to truly radical ideas or altruism.
Hedging our bets would be sending high speed one-way generational ships out of this solar system. Mars is not much of a hedge. Even if mars was fully self sufficient, many of the most likely killers like nuclear war probably wouldn't spare a colony on mars. I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it though. I think one of the greatest benefits would be learning to run a full blown biosphere so when we finally damage our current biosphere beyond repair at least we know how to create glass cities to live in.
One step at a time. Mars will teach us a lot of what we'll need to do something like that.
Nash is a schizophrenic who ended up in a psychiatric hospital and is at least partially responsible for the Cold War paranoia of the 70's. Could've picked a better example there bud.
He also practically invented Game Theory which revolutionized science, sociology, and mathematics. Sometimes it takes someone with extremely abnormal thinking to see what others can't. John Nash recovered from his problems and was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1994 and a Double Helix medal in 2010. I don't think I could have picked a better example.
There is no way to "safeguard humanity" (at least in a physical sense). It's called "entropy".
We can hedge our bets, though.
I think Musk just jumped the shark.
That's what people said about Tesla and just about every real thinker of the past. It doesn't mean he isn't at least a little crazy. Crazy can be good. Take John Nash for example.
This is serious. The ice bucket challenge solved ALS. Obama is just applying the same tactic to pollution. It can't fail.
Each Tomahawk missile costs about 1.41 million. The cost of a 16 in artillery shell is about $500. If we are going to waste money can we at least do it a little more efficiently?
A Tomahawk is (ideally) less likely to go off target than an artillery shell. When a Tomahawk happens to hit non-combatants it's called a malfunction. When a Tomahawk is working correctly it will always hit the correct target, no matter where that target may be, and inflict minimal collateral damage. Collateral damage is also a malfunction. Only barbarians would use cheap artillery and take responsibility for harming those inclined to be anywhere near the intended target.
Right... So, people have stopped buying monitors from Dell simply because they can buy similar Korean monitors direct on eBay? No? Oh, right, because people like to have warranties and have the ability to get stuff replaced in a timely manner when it fails.
I have stopped buying electronics from US companies because I can get the same quality (sometimes better) buying directly from Chinese factories. The prices are better and they offer 6 month warranties on just about anything (and I have tested these warranties).
Creativity is one important skill children need to develop. I think this kind of effusive praise willfully ignores that sometimes these activities can and do take the place of other important childhood activities in some cases.
And that brings me to how I kind of lament the lack of textual information in modern games. I learned a rather large amount of reading(and vocabulary) skills by trying to understand what games were saying as a child.
The universality of voice acting harms how much children can develop by reading.
100% this. I hated reading as a child until I came across Final Fantasy 6.
This is about your sig. Ever notice people remember Gatorade by the color and not the flavor?
Those would be called "antivirals"
No, we're calling them magnets now. The next step is finding out how magnets work.
Translation:
Mom, you cannot know whether I've saw my brother doing bad things while I hid in the closet and watched... Otherwise he will know someone was watching from the closet and never again will forget to check if someone is in there.
It will wreck the whole tattling mission so I cannot ever spy on him again. There's just no other way except the ONE way I chose and since I think I'm so clever it's just better to never tell anyone what my brother is doing since my ability to spy on him from the closet is actually more important than whatever wrong I'm catching him doing.
I'm totally against spying on our own populace, especially by the NSA which wasn't created with that intent at all. There is some reason they are doing it and we need to find out why and who is having them do it. Are they acting outside of government authority or is someone in government endorsing what they're doing? If the NSA is acting on it's own abolishing the NSA might be a solution. If what they're doing is being authorized behind closed doors getting rid of them won't change a thing, it'll just put a different label on it.
What I was getting at is we don't know the full extent of what they are doing. We know they are spying on us. We don't know what they are doing for us, if anything. They probably can't tell us exactly what they are doing to benefit us because it would wreck that part of their mission. We're in a Catch-22. We need to find out whether they work for the people or someone else, and go from there.
Are you honestly expecting an agency with license to lie to give honest testimony?
This may destroy my karma...
The NSA is (theoretically) in a position where it cannot tell us what it has done for us. There may be all sorts of things the NSA has done to protect our nation. Publicly disclosing those actions could wreck their whole mission. We should consider, as IT professionals, that we're in a similar boat. We can't always tell the customer/client exactly what is going on, and even if we do tell them they're unlikely to fully understand. We definitely don't tell our customer's competitors what we are doing.
The real issue with the NSA is this: who is the customer?
Finally! A government admits it's policy is intended as satire! Kafka is doing the Green Back Boogie in his grave.
Answer A: Yes, the judge can issue a warrant. On the other hand, the Irish guardia will tell any US police officer turning up at the house in Ireland with that warrant to piss off, possibly arresting them for trespassing or burglary. Answer B: In my opinion, yes. It will be difficult if the person has debtors in Ireland. Mortgage, unpaid bills etc. will likely come first.
I agree with A, it makes sense. B, not so much. I don't see how the US could seize real estate on foreign soil through a court action. They could try, but I don't see Ireland (in this example) agreeing to let them have the land.
Or consider this: I am in Ireland and I steal a phone from someone at the pub. I fly back home to the US. The Irish authorities are able to determine who I am. Can an Irish judge issue a warrant to search my house in the US?
Microsoft is headquartered and incorporated in the US and thus subject to US law. QED.
Consider this scenario: I am a US citizen who owns a house in Ireland. I commit a crime (in the US), say selling drugs. Can a US judge issue a warrant to search my house in Ireland? Let's say I am convicted. Part of the ruling is to have all of my property connected to the crime seized (by the US DOJ). Can they seize my house in Ireland?