The main reason they get left alone is because of China. China protects NK even when they get completely out of pocket for reasons that are only vaguely comprehensible to us. Honestly if China wasn't involved I think NK would have been curb stomped by either the US or one of their neighbors some time ago.
It's very comprehensible to us. It's that any post-regime verison of North Korea is pretty much worse for China than the current situation, even if they don't like how things are currently. If NK goes to SK, then they have somebody outside of their control on their border with the US right there also. Even if it goes with China, NK, is generally worse off than China and they don't want to be saddled with that loadstone, and once again, SK and the USA are on their borders. Their only real option is to stick it out and hope that eventually one of the new leaders of NK will be more favorable to their advise (which has been to become more like China in opening up their economy even if they do control it). And yes, if it wasn't for China, this would have all be solved years ago during the Korean War.
Damn, that's pretty expensive. A print + online subscription for the magazine is only $19.99, AND a free hat (!). Did someone in their marketing department just fail at basic math, or is this some experiment in psychological marketing?
Nope, that's pretty standard. It's $52/yr for a subscription, but if you give them your name and home address and let them mail you the ads, they'll give you a $33 discount. Numbers of dead tree subscribers are the old standard for selling ads that has been replaced with page hits and tracking, and probably still worth a lot more to them.
It's not all pointless. The nutjobs need to be dealt with. Look at Syria.
I think you misspelled "It's not pointless. The USA needed to go in and establish gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East to gain control of the oil market, keep oil prices high, and flow money into our economic sponsors through government contracts."
"Testimony at a hearing before the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Space suggested that NASA's Journey to Mars has produced exactly what Congress has allocated funds for, almost twelve years after President Bush announced the goal on Jan 14, 2004"
Why? Mars is much easier. Moon is only slightly closer (energetically speaking).
Naw, the moon would be much easier. Energetically, there might not be a big difference, but timewise there is. Both in radiation exposure and return ability in case of an emergency, the moon is far more favorable for initial experimentation travel outside of LEO. The gravity is also less which makes it easier to land and get off of. Mars has an atmosphere which is too thin to help land and too thick to ignore. Combined with the higher gravity, the moon is much more easier once again. From there, you get trade offs. Mars has perchlorates and the moon as sharp regolith. I'd like to see a manned Mars trip, but it is by no means easier than the moon. I suspect that any serious plan for Mars will probably include moon trips to test.
Not a Clinton supporter but my 2 cents: Her supporters like progressivism and are willing to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans. They aren't principled. At least not in a moral sense.
The most common answer that I hear: "It's time for a woman to be president."
I didn't know that genitals were a qualification for any job other than porn.
I'm not a Clinton supporter either, not even a Democrat, but my 2 cents: All the shenanigans really do seem to be mostly Republican bluster with no substance. While I personally am not happy with the entire email thing, that she's a lawyer acting with the power of the Secretary of State before the laws that made what she did illegal, I bet what she did was probably ethical, as in adhering to the letter of the law, at least enough to argue in court and show reasonable doubt. As for her supporters, I know plenty of Democrats and few Hillary supporters, but still they will vote for her if Bernie doesn't get the nomination because she is the lesser of two evils in our two party system, and while they are not happy with her, they sure as hell don't want Trump or Cruz to be President.
"Forbes shill"?
BusinessWeek called Ballmer "Monkey Boy". (See the link.) In comparison, Forbes saying Ballmer was the "worst" is somewhat mild.
Ya, but regardless of what Forbes says, all links to Forbes on/. for the last year are to articles submitted by startswithabang to his own blog, and besides, I stopped going to Forbes because of their lousy click bait site even before their site started choking on adblock.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a
doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company
today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft
when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Good try, but I'm still not clicking on the link, you Forbes shill.:-P
Microsoft has a subscription model. You buy a new version of Windows every one or two years. Except they blew that one up by constantly changing the GUI layout rather than simply polishing the fonts and theme to take advantage of higher resolutions.
They have a subscription model, it's called Enterprise Licensing. Technically, the company I work for has bought the thousands upon thousands of Win10 licenses for all of our machines and rebuy them yearly, but we have the ability to downgrade to Win7 which we do and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
Where the hell did Beta go? Everyone here seemed on board and then whoosh, nothing. Like a giant vacuum where no one can hear you compliment the web 3.0 interface. It's a wasted opportunity.
That... that goes beyond the pale, even for Slashdot trolling. You might as well be reading out load from the Necronomicon.
Well, Beta is one of the foretold signs of the coming of Nyarlathotep, the Faceless God and messenger of the Old Ones.
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
As a moderator, I'd be happy if posters could make some sarcasm, humor, or make a valid point without coming across as troll / flamebait. Of course that would require actually require something having wit, being funny, or containing supported arguments, while most are just posting reactionary near non-sequitors. Or just use some emoticons or other common internet notations for marking such efforts, as what is bare type on a page often does not convey the same meaning as what it is sounding like in somebody's head when they are typing it as they lose tone and other inflections that the English language uses to denote intention. [Note: I'm not holding my breath.]
Does anyone seriously have an IP protocol printer that isn't behind a NAT and a firewall to boot? Is this really a thing? Listening printer IP ports sitting out in the DMZ? (*boggle*)
(I guess, or he wouldn't have written the blog.):/
Doesn't matter. Seems printers these days all have Bluetooth and wireless printing as features and turned on by default with things like Bonjour happily asking outsiders to come in.
People need to understand that a more technologically advanced Iran means the world will deal with a more advanced country, and a more advanced government, period. Iran has a lot of extremely smart people who's voices are not heard because they are drowned by the voices of the mentally insane.
The sooner Iran values knowledge and science more than it values blind belief in fairy tales, the better for the rest of the world.
The real issue here is that we are dealing with an authoritarian government. It's hardly a blind belief, but belief in a control mechanism over society used to justify their authoritarian stance. Becoming more technologically advanced won't help them any more than Germany being on of the most technologically advanced countries during WW2 helped overthrow the Nazis. Speaking out against their blind beliefs will just single people out long before they become a threat to the government. Sure, I do think that becoming more technologically advanced will help, buy you are speaking on a scale of generations that will most likely come to a head due to other reasons first.
And then it became greedy bastards like Wizards of the Coast who tried to decree like they'd invented the whole damned thing in a vacuum, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Where are all the WoTC apologists to counter such an inflammatory statement?!?
Here I am! Or at least, I have no idea what they're talking about.WoTC bought TSR and keep D&D alive basically as a pet project because they love the game. It certainly doesn't make enough money to keep their Hasbro masters happy, but they are allowed to have such pet projects as long as Magic does bring in the money.
We get it. Commercial is bad. Everything should be non-profit. We should all make the same wage. We should all have the same stuff.
Not sure where you're getting it from. Statement is pretty obviously about Gygax's habit of rewriting stuff to cut others out of the credit and royalties. Dave Arneson being the big one. Just from reading the linked articles, it turns out the rules for thieves were supposedly borrowed from other people's published articles too.
Sure it's not such a terrible energy saving measure...unless the cost to build the damn thing was eleventy bazillion dollars, sending your ROI into fucking orbit.
Don't give a shit who you are or what your currency is. Space shit ain't cheap.
Some quick Googleing and I see that Boston, as an example, spends 8 million annually just on street lights and space X costs $100 to 260 million for a launch. Assuming a 20 year lifespan of the satellite, you end up with $160 million to mess around with. So it's not completely absurd that such a plan might pay for itself if it can be done with a single satellite that is cheap enough and lasts long enough. If doing multiple cities, there might be some savings in manufacture of satellites as they aren't all one offs.
I have friends who work and who have worked there.... the job climate is basically ridiculous. Lots of hours, the pay not as great as their neighbor in Seattle (Microsoft), the advancement not very good either.
I have friend who have worked there too, dating all the way back to being hired by Bezos himself. It's always been like that. Most people going into it now know about it. Some departments are better than others, but typical employment is understood to be 18 months on the average before laid off or moving on to a different job. Amazon is the resume builder and that's what most people are using it for. Put in your time with Amazon, put it on your resume, then go to Microsoft or some other business.
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SJW is mainly a straw man.
I would think it's an ad hominem as you are attacking the person rather than the person's argument.
The main reason they get left alone is because of China. China protects NK even when they get completely out of pocket for reasons that are only vaguely comprehensible to us. Honestly if China wasn't involved I think NK would have been curb stomped by either the US or one of their neighbors some time ago.
It's very comprehensible to us. It's that any post-regime verison of North Korea is pretty much worse for China than the current situation, even if they don't like how things are currently. If NK goes to SK, then they have somebody outside of their control on their border with the US right there also. Even if it goes with China, NK, is generally worse off than China and they don't want to be saddled with that loadstone, and once again, SK and the USA are on their borders. Their only real option is to stick it out and hope that eventually one of the new leaders of NK will be more favorable to their advise (which has been to become more like China in opening up their economy even if they do control it). And yes, if it wasn't for China, this would have all be solved years ago during the Korean War.
... badly designed, poorly implemented, over budget, behind schedule, and ultimately ineffective.
Sounds like every other IT project I've ever seen.
Damn, that's pretty expensive. A print + online subscription for the magazine is only $19.99, AND a free hat (!). Did someone in their marketing department just fail at basic math, or is this some experiment in psychological marketing?
Nope, that's pretty standard. It's $52/yr for a subscription, but if you give them your name and home address and let them mail you the ads, they'll give you a $33 discount. Numbers of dead tree subscribers are the old standard for selling ads that has been replaced with page hits and tracking, and probably still worth a lot more to them.
It's not all pointless. The nutjobs need to be dealt with. Look at Syria.
I think you misspelled "It's not pointless. The USA needed to go in and establish gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East to gain control of the oil market, keep oil prices high, and flow money into our economic sponsors through government contracts."
"Testimony at a hearing before the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Space suggested that NASA's Journey to Mars has produced exactly what Congress has allocated funds for, almost twelve years after President Bush announced the goal on Jan 14, 2004"
Why? Mars is much easier. Moon is only slightly closer (energetically speaking).
Naw, the moon would be much easier. Energetically, there might not be a big difference, but timewise there is. Both in radiation exposure and return ability in case of an emergency, the moon is far more favorable for initial experimentation travel outside of LEO. The gravity is also less which makes it easier to land and get off of. Mars has an atmosphere which is too thin to help land and too thick to ignore. Combined with the higher gravity, the moon is much more easier once again. From there, you get trade offs. Mars has perchlorates and the moon as sharp regolith. I'd like to see a manned Mars trip, but it is by no means easier than the moon. I suspect that any serious plan for Mars will probably include moon trips to test.
Why on Earth would anyone ever actually vote for Hillary Clinton?
Well, she is one of the more experienced people running. Lawyer, Senator, Secretary of State beats most of the other candidates.
Not a Clinton supporter but my 2 cents: Her supporters like progressivism and are willing to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans. They aren't principled. At least not in a moral sense. The most common answer that I hear: "It's time for a woman to be president." I didn't know that genitals were a qualification for any job other than porn.
I'm not a Clinton supporter either, not even a Democrat, but my 2 cents: All the shenanigans really do seem to be mostly Republican bluster with no substance. While I personally am not happy with the entire email thing, that she's a lawyer acting with the power of the Secretary of State before the laws that made what she did illegal, I bet what she did was probably ethical, as in adhering to the letter of the law, at least enough to argue in court and show reasonable doubt. As for her supporters, I know plenty of Democrats and few Hillary supporters, but still they will vote for her if Bernie doesn't get the nomination because she is the lesser of two evils in our two party system, and while they are not happy with her, they sure as hell don't want Trump or Cruz to be President.
"Forbes shill"? BusinessWeek called Ballmer "Monkey Boy". (See the link.) In comparison, Forbes saying Ballmer was the "worst" is somewhat mild.
Ya, but regardless of what Forbes says, all links to Forbes on /. for the last year are to articles submitted by startswithabang to his own blog, and besides, I stopped going to Forbes because of their lousy click bait site even before their site started choking on adblock.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Good try, but I'm still not clicking on the link, you Forbes shill. :-P
Microsoft has a subscription model. You buy a new version of Windows every one or two years. Except they blew that one up by constantly changing the GUI layout rather than simply polishing the fonts and theme to take advantage of higher resolutions.
They have a subscription model, it's called Enterprise Licensing. Technically, the company I work for has bought the thousands upon thousands of Win10 licenses for all of our machines and rebuy them yearly, but we have the ability to downgrade to Win7 which we do and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
Where the hell did Beta go? Everyone here seemed on board and then whoosh, nothing. Like a giant vacuum where no one can hear you compliment the web 3.0 interface. It's a wasted opportunity.
That ... that goes beyond the pale, even for Slashdot trolling. You might as well be reading out load from the Necronomicon.
Well, Beta is one of the foretold signs of the coming of Nyarlathotep, the Faceless God and messenger of the Old Ones.
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
As a moderator, I'd be happy if posters could make some sarcasm, humor, or make a valid point without coming across as troll / flamebait. Of course that would require actually require something having wit, being funny, or containing supported arguments, while most are just posting reactionary near non-sequitors. Or just use some emoticons or other common internet notations for marking such efforts, as what is bare type on a page often does not convey the same meaning as what it is sounding like in somebody's head when they are typing it as they lose tone and other inflections that the English language uses to denote intention. [Note: I'm not holding my breath.]
Does anyone seriously have an IP protocol printer that isn't behind a NAT and a firewall to boot? Is this really a thing? Listening printer IP ports sitting out in the DMZ? (*boggle*)
(I guess, or he wouldn't have written the blog.) :/
Doesn't matter. Seems printers these days all have Bluetooth and wireless printing as features and turned on by default with things like Bonjour happily asking outsiders to come in.
People need to understand that a more technologically advanced Iran means the world will deal with a more advanced country, and a more advanced government, period. Iran has a lot of extremely smart people who's voices are not heard because they are drowned by the voices of the mentally insane.
The sooner Iran values knowledge and science more than it values blind belief in fairy tales, the better for the rest of the world.
The real issue here is that we are dealing with an authoritarian government. It's hardly a blind belief, but belief in a control mechanism over society used to justify their authoritarian stance. Becoming more technologically advanced won't help them any more than Germany being on of the most technologically advanced countries during WW2 helped overthrow the Nazis. Speaking out against their blind beliefs will just single people out long before they become a threat to the government. Sure, I do think that becoming more technologically advanced will help, buy you are speaking on a scale of generations that will most likely come to a head due to other reasons first.
And then it became greedy bastards like Wizards of the Coast who tried to decree like they'd invented the whole damned thing in a vacuum, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Where are all the WoTC apologists to counter such an inflammatory statement?!?
Here I am! Or at least, I have no idea what they're talking about.WoTC bought TSR and keep D&D alive basically as a pet project because they love the game. It certainly doesn't make enough money to keep their Hasbro masters happy, but they are allowed to have such pet projects as long as Magic does bring in the money.
We get it. Commercial is bad. Everything should be non-profit. We should all make the same wage. We should all have the same stuff.
Not sure where you're getting it from. Statement is pretty obviously about Gygax's habit of rewriting stuff to cut others out of the credit and royalties. Dave Arneson being the big one. Just from reading the linked articles, it turns out the rules for thieves were supposedly borrowed from other people's published articles too.
WTF is NEWA? I googled it, look on the wiki of D&D influences, not a fucking clue.
If you look in the linked sections of TFS, you'll see one to the New England Wargamers Association.
Star Wars is a space opera. Star Trek is more real sci-fi.
*Walks away whistling to myself after casting disturbing glances at the speaker*
Sure it's not such a terrible energy saving measure...unless the cost to build the damn thing was eleventy bazillion dollars, sending your ROI into fucking orbit.
Don't give a shit who you are or what your currency is. Space shit ain't cheap.
Some quick Googleing and I see that Boston, as an example, spends 8 million annually just on street lights and space X costs $100 to 260 million for a launch. Assuming a 20 year lifespan of the satellite, you end up with $160 million to mess around with. So it's not completely absurd that such a plan might pay for itself if it can be done with a single satellite that is cheap enough and lasts long enough. If doing multiple cities, there might be some savings in manufacture of satellites as they aren't all one offs.
Can you not even read TFS?
Ya, but I just assume that it was wrong from the get go.
I have friends who work and who have worked there.... the job climate is basically ridiculous. Lots of hours, the pay not as great as their neighbor in Seattle (Microsoft), the advancement not very good either.
I have friend who have worked there too, dating all the way back to being hired by Bezos himself. It's always been like that. Most people going into it now know about it. Some departments are better than others, but typical employment is understood to be 18 months on the average before laid off or moving on to a different job. Amazon is the resume builder and that's what most people are using it for. Put in your time with Amazon, put it on your resume, then go to Microsoft or some other business.
6) We implement "Logan's Run" and everybody who's 30 or older gets zapped at festival.
You mean Carousel.
You mean Sleepshop.
Nope, nevermind. 30 is the movie. 21 is the book. My bad.
6) We implement "Logan's Run" and everybody who's 30 or older gets zapped at festival.
You mean Carousel.
You mean Sleepshop.