, Musk and his ilk (Gore, Clinton, and yes even Sanders) fly around to their various mansions instead of doing what they tell us we have to do.
The above is entirely unfair. His net worth is something like half a million bucks, which is at the level of "moderately successful professional" as opposed to "Fuck You Money" which is what the other two on your list have (in the hundreds of millions each). Frankly, I respect the man far less than I did before he went into full on "shill for Hillary" mode, but I respect him for living the way his ideals dictate rather than being the hypocrite you're accusing him of being--and I say this as someone who is NOT at all in favor of his politics.
One thing you completely missed in the above is the rise of the administrative class in education. They cost more than teachers do, and is a large part of why college is so expensive.
With regard to "screaming conservatives" I think you'll find that most of them object to basket weaving 101, gender studies, etc, rather than education in general. Tennessee (even our democrats are usually on the conservative side of various debates) offers two years of community college for no cost. We pay for that mostly through lottery revenue. Republican legislature, Republican governor.
A law to the extent that "no autonomous vehicle shall be used to transport passengers or cargo for hire within the limits of the city. Violators shall forfeit the vehicle and pay a $250,000 fine" still supports the autonomous car, and would make the unions happy. Most big cities are deeply blue, and deep blue areas are the places where unions still have any kind of foothold and still exercise power.
Again, I think you're just being unrealistic in your assessment of how easy it will be to displace things like taxi unions.
If I were building a giant fleet of autonomous robot cars, guess which markets I would absolutely flood with them as soon as they were ready? Any markets that tried to block my human driver efforts today...
There's a gaping hole in your logic: governments that can block your human driver efforts could (would) also block your autonomous vehicles.
ATT is gone, the company bearing the name today is southern bell company, SBC. ATT split itself up and sold all the pieces, SBC bought the name.
Someone else noted that you got the particular baby bell wrong, but seriously, how can you say "this isn't AT&T." It's a bunch of AT&T successor companies that merged back together.
"It's not the Empire, it's the First Order. Sure they've got stormtroopers, and TIE fighters, and Star Destroyers, and evil jedi/sith with their red lightsaber blades, and yeah, they've got an even bigger death star and they're blowing up planets, their Vader analog is running around with Vader's fucking head in his sock drawer, but they don't have Bell Labs and Verizon, so it's obviously not AT&T."
The above is how things SHOULD work, though the sad truth is that it usually does not. That said, kudos for being part of the solution rather than part of the problem, and thanks for giving me some hope that we (humanity) are not totally screwed.:)
For example, I worked for a company that was growing 80% per year, becoming a leader in a new business segment. They would quickly duct tape together some software that would allow them to expand into another chunk of the market, a chunk that will be worth $20 million in four years. Later, they can spend $1 million to go back and fix the duct tape mess. They net $19 million that way, incurring $1 million in technical debt to quickly grab $20 million of the market before competitors do.
While I agree the above is completely logical, the difference between technical debt and financial debt is that there is no one holding you accountable for paying back the former. There's also the problem that technical debt has its own interest expenses... you'll find that your initial shortcuts have been built upon, and those things have themselves been built upon, and you can't simply fix the original problem without incurring FAR more cost. Even if the costs to fix the problem haven't ballooned, the money people have no desire to "waste" that million dollars to retire technical debt. They'd rather spend by investing in another new market, or paying bonuses, or dividends.
Werner von Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding. The state trooper looks at him and says, "Dr. Heisenberg, do you have any idea how fast your were going?" Heisenberg says, "No, but I know exactly where I am."
Sure, if you ignore the fact that: 3) Waco and Ruby Ridge happened under Clinton's DOJ, which led to the further rise of insane right-wing militias. Those incidents also led directly to the Oklahoma City Bombing.
I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was already in office in 1992.
The narrative is that Ashcroft lost to Mel Carnahan, but Ashcroft was really running against Jean Carnahan, Mel's wife (who the governor announced would be appointed in the event that Carnahan won). There's really no effective campaign strategy against a recent widow whose name isn't even on the ballot.
Not that I think Ashcroft should have won, or that he was a good AG, but the "haha, he lost to a dead guy" bit really irritates me given that the actual situation was much more complicated than that. When it's followed up by the suggestion that he was unqualified for an appointed office for that reason, it's hard to take someone seriously.
The GOP has solved this. They took from Obama the power to pass budgets or appoint justices (particularly supreme count justices).
While the Republicans absolutely failed in their responsibility wrt giving the president's nominee a fair hearing, the idea that the president has the power to "pass budgets" that they somehow stole is just plain incorrect.
The congress has that responsibility, period. The House of Representatives, specifically, has the constitutional authority to initiate spending bills, and no one else.
There's actually not much difference between the two. It's pretty easy to retrofit a plant to use the other fuel source for generation.
Relatively "easy" to convert a coal plant to gas (you're boiling water to make steam, so you can "just" change the heat source. This ignores that some coal plants are designed with temperatures you couldn't really achieve with gas).
However, it's impossible to convert a gas turbine to run on coal, unless you turn your coal into syngas first.
it kind of amazes me that I have to defend the NSA. Do you really believe that NSA has done anything else than what they were told? The NSA is a military organization with a chain of command. I don't know how US politicians managed to deflect guilt so well from themselves, but must say that they did a pretty job bullshitting and brainwashing people like you.
First off, OP's suggestion that the NSA guys need to be murdered is a bit over the top. The ammo box is the LAST of the four boxes, not the first.
That said, we settled the question you raise in 1946. "I was only following orders" is not a lawful defense, even with a military chain of command, even in a totalitarian society where one would likely themselves be imprisoned or even executed for their failure to follow orders. To be sure, the politicians bear their responsibility and should be held accountable, but the machine of thousands of people that was used to carry out those orders must also be held accountable.
It could be that their customers require NDAs (up to and including who they are working for). Of course, it could also be that they have a giant honking vsphere cluster that they run all manner of SAP instances on that are totally unlicensed.:)
Fair question where the authors got the software if they didn't have a license. Just because you're a security researcher doesn't give you carte blanche to pirate.
The publishers appear to be focused on SAP environments, and the PWC software appears to be implemented as a module in SAP. If I had to guess, I'd say they were auditing one of their customers and found the vulnerability that way. If so, there are no license issues here.
I don't disagree that this is how "everyone refers to it" or that it's a convenient shorthand to use for purposes of conversation. That doesn't change the fact that it's not an accurate description of what is actually taking place, hence my statement "the confusion most people seem to have."
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, Musk and his ilk (Gore, Clinton, and yes even Sanders) fly around to their various mansions instead of doing what they tell us we have to do.
The above is entirely unfair. His net worth is something like half a million bucks, which is at the level of "moderately successful professional" as opposed to "Fuck You Money" which is what the other two on your list have (in the hundreds of millions each). Frankly, I respect the man far less than I did before he went into full on "shill for Hillary" mode, but I respect him for living the way his ideals dictate rather than being the hypocrite you're accusing him of being--and I say this as someone who is NOT at all in favor of his politics.
One thing you completely missed in the above is the rise of the administrative class in education. They cost more than teachers do, and is a large part of why college is so expensive.
With regard to "screaming conservatives" I think you'll find that most of them object to basket weaving 101, gender studies, etc, rather than education in general. Tennessee (even our democrats are usually on the conservative side of various debates) offers two years of community college for no cost. We pay for that mostly through lottery revenue. Republican legislature, Republican governor.
Deep red Tennessee has two years of free community college for all. We also don't have an income tax.
idiots with VHS radios have occasionally caused nuisance.
To be fair, the replacement radios are in Beta.
You missed his sarcasm, he was joking about your incorrect use of percentages (i.e. 2/3rds is 100% more than 1/3rd).
Would you imagine the pain trying to talk to one of these things (if they had an AI), or using one through a touch interface ?
Mr Toilet banishes waste with the power of wind and ghosts!
A law to the extent that "no autonomous vehicle shall be used to transport passengers or cargo for hire within the limits of the city. Violators shall forfeit the vehicle and pay a $250,000 fine" still supports the autonomous car, and would make the unions happy. Most big cities are deeply blue, and deep blue areas are the places where unions still have any kind of foothold and still exercise power.
Again, I think you're just being unrealistic in your assessment of how easy it will be to displace things like taxi unions.
If I were building a giant fleet of autonomous robot cars, guess which markets I would absolutely flood with them as soon as they were ready? Any markets that tried to block my human driver efforts today...
There's a gaping hole in your logic: governments that can block your human driver efforts could (would) also block your autonomous vehicles.
ATT is gone, the company bearing the name today is southern bell company, SBC. ATT split itself up and sold all the pieces, SBC bought the name.
Someone else noted that you got the particular baby bell wrong, but seriously, how can you say "this isn't AT&T." It's a bunch of AT&T successor companies that merged back together.
"It's not the Empire, it's the First Order. Sure they've got stormtroopers, and TIE fighters, and Star Destroyers, and evil jedi/sith with their red lightsaber blades, and yeah, they've got an even bigger death star and they're blowing up planets, their Vader analog is running around with Vader's fucking head in his sock drawer, but they don't have Bell Labs and Verizon, so it's obviously not AT&T."
The above is how things SHOULD work, though the sad truth is that it usually does not. That said, kudos for being part of the solution rather than part of the problem, and thanks for giving me some hope that we (humanity) are not totally screwed. :)
For example, I worked for a company that was growing 80% per year, becoming a leader in a new business segment. They would quickly duct tape together some software that would allow them to expand into another chunk of the market, a chunk that will be worth $20 million in four years. Later, they can spend $1 million to go back and fix the duct tape mess. They net $19 million that way, incurring $1 million in technical debt to quickly grab $20 million of the market before competitors do.
While I agree the above is completely logical, the difference between technical debt and financial debt is that there is no one holding you accountable for paying back the former. There's also the problem that technical debt has its own interest expenses... you'll find that your initial shortcuts have been built upon, and those things have themselves been built upon, and you can't simply fix the original problem without incurring FAR more cost. Even if the costs to fix the problem haven't ballooned, the money people have no desire to "waste" that million dollars to retire technical debt. They'd rather spend by investing in another new market, or paying bonuses, or dividends.
Q: What is a photon's favorite song?
A: The Smiths; 'How Soon Is Now?"
Werner von Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding. The state trooper looks at him and says, "Dr. Heisenberg, do you have any idea how fast your were going?" Heisenberg says, "No, but I know exactly where I am."
Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Russia is the country which created this mess.
Since we're being pedantic, the country that created the mess was USSR, of which Russia and Ukraine were both part.
"Excellent president"
Sure, if you ignore the fact that:
3) Waco and Ruby Ridge happened under Clinton's DOJ, which led to the further rise of insane right-wing militias. Those incidents also led directly to the Oklahoma City Bombing.
I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was already in office in 1992.
They seem to prefer to take credit for other people's creations like the internet which was developed in Switzerland by a British guy.
You have a 4-digit uid and don't know the different between the internet and http? Really?
The narrative is that Ashcroft lost to Mel Carnahan, but Ashcroft was really running against Jean Carnahan, Mel's wife (who the governor announced would be appointed in the event that Carnahan won). There's really no effective campaign strategy against a recent widow whose name isn't even on the ballot.
Not that I think Ashcroft should have won, or that he was a good AG, but the "haha, he lost to a dead guy" bit really irritates me given that the actual situation was much more complicated than that. When it's followed up by the suggestion that he was unqualified for an appointed office for that reason, it's hard to take someone seriously.
I'm thinking he's saying something along the lines of, "The Matrix was a great movie, it's a shame they never made any sequels."
The GOP has solved this. They took from Obama the power to pass budgets or appoint justices (particularly supreme count justices).
While the Republicans absolutely failed in their responsibility wrt giving the president's nominee a fair hearing, the idea that the president has the power to "pass budgets" that they somehow stole is just plain incorrect.
The congress has that responsibility, period. The House of Representatives, specifically, has the constitutional authority to initiate spending bills, and no one else.
Not only did you miss his joke entirely, you're attacking someone who appears to be nominally on your side.
There's actually not much difference between the two. It's pretty easy to retrofit a plant to use the other fuel source for generation.
Relatively "easy" to convert a coal plant to gas (you're boiling water to make steam, so you can "just" change the heat source. This ignores that some coal plants are designed with temperatures you couldn't really achieve with gas).
However, it's impossible to convert a gas turbine to run on coal, unless you turn your coal into syngas first.
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it kind of amazes me that I have to defend the NSA. Do you really believe that NSA has done anything else than what they were told? The NSA is a military organization with a chain of command. I don't know how US politicians managed to deflect guilt so well from themselves, but must say that they did a pretty job bullshitting and brainwashing people like you.
First off, OP's suggestion that the NSA guys need to be murdered is a bit over the top. The ammo box is the LAST of the four boxes, not the first.
That said, we settled the question you raise in 1946. "I was only following orders" is not a lawful defense, even with a military chain of command, even in a totalitarian society where one would likely themselves be imprisoned or even executed for their failure to follow orders. To be sure, the politicians bear their responsibility and should be held accountable, but the machine of thousands of people that was used to carry out those orders must also be held accountable.
It could be that their customers require NDAs (up to and including who they are working for). Of course, it could also be that they have a giant honking vsphere cluster that they run all manner of SAP instances on that are totally unlicensed. :)
Fair question where the authors got the software if they didn't have a license. Just because you're a security researcher doesn't give you carte blanche to pirate.
The publishers appear to be focused on SAP environments, and the PWC software appears to be implemented as a module in SAP. If I had to guess, I'd say they were auditing one of their customers and found the vulnerability that way. If so, there are no license issues here.
I don't disagree that this is how "everyone refers to it" or that it's a convenient shorthand to use for purposes of conversation. That doesn't change the fact that it's not an accurate description of what is actually taking place, hence my statement "the confusion most people seem to have."