That's only a very small part of it since casinos all around the Pacific have been seeing a lot less Chinese "high-rollers" since a corruption crackdown started. Maybe the crackdown is working or maybe the perps are worried about being seen going to casinos and getting caught when they get home? Either way the political get rich quick scheme for a city of building a casino is looking a bit stupid at the moment. Why go to the back of beyond when Vegas and Macau are not filled to capacity?
One of the metrics they use to evaluate stock is profit (or EBITA) per employee, to show efficiency
Yes, I used to work at a steelworks that did that. Within five years of using that metric and gaming it by using contractors the previously profitable place in real terms was shut down and the seagull management flew off to shit all over something else. Funny thing is it terms out that using unskilled staff that cost three times as much as skilled ones reduces efficiency, and the unskilled staff tend to die more often in workplaces with a lot of hazards to look out for. Who would have thought - apart from EVERYONE?
You would lose the bet for many reasons. First, they don't cut back. Second, it's an insanely common situation for such contracts to be handed out as rewards to cronies. At best it's a retirement gift to funnel money into the ex-employees small business. I'll leave the many others as an exercise - remember we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts and who came in via the political fast track instead of being promoted from within intelligence.
Yes that's the complete and utter insane desire to just hurt "perverts" by expanding laws that are meant to protect children that I was referring to. I was following the topic in the press and seem to recall a lot of fuss about photos of a model who was 26 at the time before it all blew over, but it's been five years so I could be wrong and I'm not sure where to find a link to that story.
but I think some of them even ended up mounted on tripods to be used as anti-aircraft weapons
Huge things with the load split over several camels so the story went. Unfortunately that's about the only story my great uncle told me about WWII, and that gun, plus my grandfathers hidden collection of WWII pistols packed in grease are long gone. I don't even have the 1920s 303 and 22 that seemed to be able to hit anything in the right hands but a nephew with good eyesight has those now.
Considering the shrill cries of treason instead of shrill cries of liar it's a certain bet that what he released was real. Also if he was holding anything back to do some sort of deal would he have run away twice?
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself?
I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
And for some reason the middlemen are all very well connected politically when they get the contracts, sometimes as very obvious rewards for helping with political campaigns. That among other things is why the Chinese are too busy laughing to reply when we accuse them of corruption - very similar over there but maybe on a different scale but they have been making enough of an effort to cut back on it that casinos are taking a hit due to less money to launder.
Which is all utterly insane when it could all be handled more professionally and cheaper by real military instead of a gravy train to the Booz whatever toy soldiers taking a massive cut from the taxpayer. If the Russians didn't already know everything an external contractor in Hawaii could get then they were not trying.
Are we still stretching definitions so drawings count?
People have already been jailed for that despite that sounding insane and nothing at all to do with protecting children. I believe one case was Simpsons fan art. That's getting pretty close to stick figure. One nasty group of vindictive idiots even pushed for a law that would have made it illegal to have naked images of short and petite women in their twenties and thirties - they stressed that the age of the subject was immaterial and the thought crime was what matters. It's not about protecting it's been extended as an excuse to hurt people in the name of justice.
Meanwhile many high profile real child molesters got away with it for years, I'm sure some still are.
Enough ranting and back on topic - discrediting political obstacles with dirty pictures is a very old trick.
The well is dry, he gave it all to an American journalist. Blame the press if you want to play the card of leaking to the world. The Russians are keeping him fed merely because it's a cheap way to piss off Hillary et al.
Meanwhile all the locals around here are all up in arms over our coal plant shutting and whining how the EPA 'ruins' Murica
Reality is probably that it's thirty years old and has been run like a car stolen by a teenage speed freak. Any sort of failure you can think of happening in a conventional thermal power station has happened in an American power plant somewhere due to sheer neglect - but it does provide good case studies into how bad things can get. At least one place had everything on the boiler and turbine side corrode in six units to the point of uselessness just because they didn't hire anyone to consider the water. They may have thrown away hundreds of millions in gear but they did save paying the wages of a recent chemistry graduate or an even cheaper technician.
Is this a bitcoin puff piece or just stupid? In terms of getting things done, do blockchains even show up on people's radar to make it to a top 50 of useful things in IT?
but I think we're in for 10 or 20 years of Exploit du Jour headlines.
Ten year in embedded space maybe but we've already had that and more in desktop space - it's a malware swamp. Cryptolocker should be science fiction but utter stupidity on the security front made it possible just by people clicking on an email at which point MS Outlook and IE work together to carry out the will of the malware distributors.
Anyways, I think I should be able to buy a howitzer, a new one, and all the ammo I want so long as I pay the taxes
My great uncle had most if not all of a lewis gun, not quite the same but just as illegal, and probably quietly thrown away in the end which is a pity since there can't be many still around. A funny thing recently was a big hue and cry over "rocket launchers" (and a biker having one), meaning the part left behind after a single use rocket is fired. It turns out that model was just the right size and shape to neatly hold several cans of beer so they made good souveneers, and since they were going to be thrown away anyway a blind eye was sometimes turned to those who wanted to take them away from the firing range. A baseball bat is more dangerous.
Another thing - Rand Paul I can sort of understand people listening to even though he can't get anything done, but tollbooth guy? Why is Christie being considered for anything other than being thrown out the door and never put in a position of trust ever again? Why should we care that he supports a backdoor when we already know he's not fit for office?
Except we have substantial oil resources (and our no-so-liberal governor has had no interest in killing fracking)
Don't worry, the Saudis are killing that off by pushing the price down far enough to drive out anybody doing anything more expensive than drilling a hole in the sand.
He has the advantage, for the sake of celebrity but nothing else, that he can say anything that he likes because he will never be in a position to implement any of his ideas. His own party will not let him.
It's stating problems to be popular but never offering solutions that will be carried out - an old political trick. It's easy to make sense when you say something is wrong and it genuinely is a problem. But that's not a solution. All he's done lately is make a lot of noise, get attention and delay bills for a few hours without actually stopping them.
Typically the (R) platform is supposed to be against doing specific shitty things so when they do the opposite it's news. They push "small government" and extra freedom, unless it's about what people get up to in bedrooms or with reproduction then it's vastly reduced freedom. That and being "strong" by picking on the weak, which is not what the (R) party used to be about. I don't have a dog in the fight so don't blame me. I just find it utterly strange, among other things, that an icon of crony capitalism is being put forward as being the answer to crony capitalism. It would all make far more sense if Trump was on Hillary's payroll to fuck up the (R) chances but of course reality is far weirder than that.
That's extremely kind of you though I'll probably never get up that way and a reminder that there's some pretty nice human beings on this site. In return I can't currently offer in return anything better than somewhere to put a tent, but it is a place where it will be 93F in the shade tomorrow:)
That's probably a good reason for such courses. At least warn them of the utter newbie mistakes that a competent software developer and starting sysadmin knows not to make. I keep on bumping into "developers" that keep on making swarms of WiFi things all on the same IPv4 subnet as everyone else and all trying to talk to the same access point instead of having a mesh - and they keep assuming they can have thousands of the things so long as they have routing hacks. They want to know how to deal with fifteen things having an IP address of 10.0.0.25 instead of doing the absolute obvious of not having lots of things on the same IP address. Even worse are the things that sit and collect critical data offline until it's time to dump what they have so the network is turned on, just in time to find out that they have been sitting there for a week collecting nothing. Such devices could have a function to allow waking them up to do some sort of check but the software developer never thought of it. The field is full of utter newbie mistakes, rush jobs and functions added as an afterthought.
The people to talk to at the moment appear to be the radio astronomers who have networked astonishing numbers of devices and are doing it well.
This is ridiculous. You can't patent game mechanics and you can't get copyright on something as general as 'Fireball'. This is how the sharing of ideas was intended to work not some illicit theft of ideas.
True, it's based on the ancient invention of greek fire - or should that be geek fire?
We don't need any. All this stuff happened long before WoTC came in and bought it out so the assertion that they are pretending that they invented it is nonsensical. Whatever they've done since, good or bad, is building on something that only people going by blind guesswork would assume did not come from somewhere else long before that company existed.
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That's only a very small part of it since casinos all around the Pacific have been seeing a lot less Chinese "high-rollers" since a corruption crackdown started. Maybe the crackdown is working or maybe the perps are worried about being seen going to casinos and getting caught when they get home?
Either way the political get rich quick scheme for a city of building a casino is looking a bit stupid at the moment. Why go to the back of beyond when Vegas and Macau are not filled to capacity?
Yes, I used to work at a steelworks that did that. Within five years of using that metric and gaming it by using contractors the previously profitable place in real terms was shut down and the seagull management flew off to shit all over something else. Funny thing is it terms out that using unskilled staff that cost three times as much as skilled ones reduces efficiency, and the unskilled staff tend to die more often in workplaces with a lot of hazards to look out for. Who would have thought - apart from EVERYONE?
You would lose the bet for many reasons.
First, they don't cut back.
Second, it's an insanely common situation for such contracts to be handed out as rewards to cronies. At best it's a retirement gift to funnel money into the ex-employees small business.
I'll leave the many others as an exercise - remember we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts and who came in via the political fast track instead of being promoted from within intelligence.
Yes that's the complete and utter insane desire to just hurt "perverts" by expanding laws that are meant to protect children that I was referring to.
I was following the topic in the press and seem to recall a lot of fuss about photos of a model who was 26 at the time before it all blew over, but it's been five years so I could be wrong and I'm not sure where to find a link to that story.
Huge things with the load split over several camels so the story went. Unfortunately that's about the only story my great uncle told me about WWII, and that gun, plus my grandfathers hidden collection of WWII pistols packed in grease are long gone. I don't even have the 1920s 303 and 22 that seemed to be able to hit anything in the right hands but a nephew with good eyesight has those now.
Considering the shrill cries of treason instead of shrill cries of liar it's a certain bet that what he released was real.
Also if he was holding anything back to do some sort of deal would he have run away twice?
And for some reason the middlemen are all very well connected politically when they get the contracts, sometimes as very obvious rewards for helping with political campaigns. That among other things is why the Chinese are too busy laughing to reply when we accuse them of corruption - very similar over there but maybe on a different scale but they have been making enough of an effort to cut back on it that casinos are taking a hit due to less money to launder.
Which is all utterly insane when it could all be handled more professionally and cheaper by real military instead of a gravy train to the Booz whatever toy soldiers taking a massive cut from the taxpayer.
If the Russians didn't already know everything an external contractor in Hawaii could get then they were not trying.
People have already been jailed for that despite that sounding insane and nothing at all to do with protecting children. I believe one case was Simpsons fan art. That's getting pretty close to stick figure.
One nasty group of vindictive idiots even pushed for a law that would have made it illegal to have naked images of short and petite women in their twenties and thirties - they stressed that the age of the subject was immaterial and the thought crime was what matters. It's not about protecting it's been extended as an excuse to hurt people in the name of justice.
Meanwhile many high profile real child molesters got away with it for years, I'm sure some still are.
Enough ranting and back on topic - discrediting political obstacles with dirty pictures is a very old trick.
The well is dry, he gave it all to an American journalist. Blame the press if you want to play the card of leaking to the world.
The Russians are keeping him fed merely because it's a cheap way to piss off Hillary et al.
Reality is probably that it's thirty years old and has been run like a car stolen by a teenage speed freak. Any sort of failure you can think of happening in a conventional thermal power station has happened in an American power plant somewhere due to sheer neglect - but it does provide good case studies into how bad things can get. At least one place had everything on the boiler and turbine side corrode in six units to the point of uselessness just because they didn't hire anyone to consider the water. They may have thrown away hundreds of millions in gear but they did save paying the wages of a recent chemistry graduate or an even cheaper technician.
Is this a bitcoin puff piece or just stupid? In terms of getting things done, do blockchains even show up on people's radar to make it to a top 50 of useful things in IT?
Ten year in embedded space maybe but we've already had that and more in desktop space - it's a malware swamp. Cryptolocker should be science fiction but utter stupidity on the security front made it possible just by people clicking on an email at which point MS Outlook and IE work together to carry out the will of the malware distributors.
My great uncle had most if not all of a lewis gun, not quite the same but just as illegal, and probably quietly thrown away in the end which is a pity since there can't be many still around.
A funny thing recently was a big hue and cry over "rocket launchers" (and a biker having one), meaning the part left behind after a single use rocket is fired. It turns out that model was just the right size and shape to neatly hold several cans of beer so they made good souveneers, and since they were going to be thrown away anyway a blind eye was sometimes turned to those who wanted to take them away from the firing range. A baseball bat is more dangerous.
Another thing - Rand Paul I can sort of understand people listening to even though he can't get anything done, but tollbooth guy? Why is Christie being considered for anything other than being thrown out the door and never put in a position of trust ever again? Why should we care that he supports a backdoor when we already know he's not fit for office?
Don't worry, the Saudis are killing that off by pushing the price down far enough to drive out anybody doing anything more expensive than drilling a hole in the sand.
I'm disappointed.
I thought those California girls were supposed to be DD.
He has the advantage, for the sake of celebrity but nothing else, that he can say anything that he likes because he will never be in a position to implement any of his ideas. His own party will not let him.
It's stating problems to be popular but never offering solutions that will be carried out - an old political trick.
It's easy to make sense when you say something is wrong and it genuinely is a problem. But that's not a solution. All he's done lately is make a lot of noise, get attention and delay bills for a few hours without actually stopping them.
Typically the (R) platform is supposed to be against doing specific shitty things so when they do the opposite it's news. They push "small government" and extra freedom, unless it's about what people get up to in bedrooms or with reproduction then it's vastly reduced freedom. That and being "strong" by picking on the weak, which is not what the (R) party used to be about.
I don't have a dog in the fight so don't blame me. I just find it utterly strange, among other things, that an icon of crony capitalism is being put forward as being the answer to crony capitalism. It would all make far more sense if Trump was on Hillary's payroll to fuck up the (R) chances but of course reality is far weirder than that.
Neither is anything.
"A.I." means lookup tables now just like "nanotechnology" ended up being little bits of powder in toothpaste.
That's extremely kind of you though I'll probably never get up that way and a reminder that there's some pretty nice human beings on this site. In return I can't currently offer in return anything better than somewhere to put a tent, but it is a place where it will be 93F in the shade tomorrow :)
That's probably a good reason for such courses. At least warn them of the utter newbie mistakes that a competent software developer and starting sysadmin knows not to make.
I keep on bumping into "developers" that keep on making swarms of WiFi things all on the same IPv4 subnet as everyone else and all trying to talk to the same access point instead of having a mesh - and they keep assuming they can have thousands of the things so long as they have routing hacks. They want to know how to deal with fifteen things having an IP address of 10.0.0.25 instead of doing the absolute obvious of not having lots of things on the same IP address. Even worse are the things that sit and collect critical data offline until it's time to dump what they have so the network is turned on, just in time to find out that they have been sitting there for a week collecting nothing. Such devices could have a function to allow waking them up to do some sort of check but the software developer never thought of it. The field is full of utter newbie mistakes, rush jobs and functions added as an afterthought.
The people to talk to at the moment appear to be the radio astronomers who have networked astonishing numbers of devices and are doing it well.
This is ridiculous. You can't patent game mechanics and you can't get copyright on something as general as 'Fireball'. This is how the sharing of ideas was intended to work not some illicit theft of ideas.
True, it's based on the ancient invention of greek fire - or should that be geek fire?
We don't need any. All this stuff happened long before WoTC came in and bought it out so the assertion that they are pretending that they invented it is nonsensical. Whatever they've done since, good or bad, is building on something that only people going by blind guesswork would assume did not come from somewhere else long before that company existed.
Best of luck, a friend got over that a couple of months back.