We try to be less overt. Marijuana was explicitly called a "Black drug" in the congressional hearings that started the first regulations against it, and it's the only drug on any schedule at all (let alone the "worst" schedule, 1) that has known medical uses and zero ODs. It's 100% safe in all current and previous distribution methods, and has valid known medical uses, yet is one of the most tightly controlled substances under federal law.
Pure racism is the only logical explanation for that.
But today, we are being "tough on crime" not "tough on minorities", though the actions have the same results.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.
Funny how the loonitarians argue with me when I quote loonitarians and explore the statements given, yet don't bother to correct other loonitarians with obviously wrong generalizations.
So, you agree that it's too late to wait until the harm has occurred when the harm is imminent. Now all that's left is to disagree about where to set the line.
In the old days, the Old White Men in charge would literally sit around and look at things used by minorities, then make them illegal. Sure, the law against Marijuana affects all people the same, but at the time it was passed, it was believed, by those who passed it, to be a Black drug.
Just because a law applies the same to a white person as a Black person doesn't mean the law is necessarily non-racist.
Remember. Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.
So an incompetent driver should be able to drive on the sidewalk, so long as they don't actually hit anyone. Or fire a gun into a crowd, so long as they miss.
Same thing goes for breaking the rules about when and how you may drive.
What "harm" does an uninsured driver cause your nose when they are on the other side of the city and never interact with you?
It's not anti-science, and mostly correct. A person with a good diet doesn't need vitamins. Many vitamins don't absorb well from a pill. So for the vast majority of people, vitamins (as in pills) will do nothing for them.
If that's wrong, correct it. Just saying "that fact is wrong because it conflicts with my opinion" is absurd anti-science.
just make sure the backups don't get stolen/destroyed with the machine.
That's why backups you want available are stored in the cloud. And backups you want secret are stored on an encrypted USB drive. Lose the computer, the data you want is around. And the stuff you'd rather have destroyed than leaked is inaccessible. Best of both worlds.
Yes, the end computer's time off will cause YouTube to fail, as YouTube defaults to HTTPS, which uses encryption, and dates on the client and server further apart than the certificate length will necessarily cause a failure to work.
An intermediate router with no call-home features that's not doing certificate authentication will not be affected.
The 1:1 chargeback is common in my experience to prevent IT budget cuts. IT has a $0 budget. Everyone else has IT in their budget. Some amount for "office management" (printers, Internet, and other shared services paid for like the rent), plus services as provided. You can cut HR's new computers by cutting the HR budget, but there is no IT budget to cut.
And that works some places, and is horrible in other situations.
A good general analogy would be government taxing itself, or changing fees for service...
Like SS running as a "surplus" and the General Fund borrowing from SS, then the Republicans trying to cut SS so the general fund doesn't have to pay back SS. Shell games are popular in government and private companies.
The different frequencies are a non-issue. The chips just do more channels. Like 802.11, the chips do 1-14, but turn off 12-14 in the US, when set to US region. My non-US phone works fine in Europe and US. This was an issue in 1998, when the cost of chips was higher, and GSM was not popular in the US, so the foreign phones weren't physically capable of the US channels.
Today, almost every phone does do everywhere. Apple is an exception, where they claim a cost savings to cut $0.10, but in reality lock regions in hardware. So you have to pay extra for the "international" version to get the phone that isn't region locked.
My phone, bought in Singapore, as a Singapore-local phone, works fine in the US on AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia, though I didn't try it in Africa when I was passing through. That's how phones actually work these days. There may be some issues with newer 4G channels, but for 3G speeds, 100% coverage is available in most unlocked phones.
While in startup mode, they'll pass the old companies. But then, once they are big and do an IPO, they'll return to the same bad habits. The equilibrium is incompetent management.
iTunes is still thriving, against Spotify and the like. Wonder Woman made $100M in a single weekend, and is over $400M world-wide so far, and not dropping off too fast. Though, that's an exception.
Disks are doing fine, when priced in the bargain bin. Or when they do something you can't get on the subscriptions - special editions, commentary, 3D, 4k, or other features not on the subscription service.
Nope. The current management recognizes the problem, and doesn't care. So I expect the problem will continue forever. It's too hard to hire technically competent managers. So nobody with the ability to see the problem will be given the authority to fix it.
Nope. I was imagining 9 m^2, a square of ground 3m on each side, which corresponds to the 100 sq. ft. that TFA mentions. That's a "garden" size. Though "garden" outside the US corresponds to "lawn" or "yard" inside the US. So I think much of the confusion is on the definition of "garden" where it's a smaller patch of land within a larger yard/lawn, that holds flowers or vegetables, and no other live ground cover (as other plants compete). At least by the definition used by the maker of the device in question.
Movies work fine at $10 per viewing. Then, after time, $10 to "own". On that model, the industry can get $1B for a single work. That recoups the cost of large productions. Lower cost pricing works fine for most (almost all) mass-media industries.
The garden size can be larger, but the performance may degrade with larger gardens. And 9 square meters is pretty large. It's not for a lawn, but the flower garden in front or the vegetable garden in back.
Then fire your IT director/manager/CIO and hire someone competent. Done right, contractors are always more expensive.
How can it cost more for the IT department to buy a Dell than someone with a credit card and no business account? How long does it take a programmer to build a server to a good standard? Will it be properly patched and supported after? If your IT department is actually more expensive than paying a programmer to buy and build his own server, then you are doing something wrong.
Though, I've seen it done even when more expensive. The programmer bought a mac mini, tuned it into a docker server, and built docker containers. He did it that way to POC docker without having to get any permissions for something new. But that's a different IT problem than cost. He was praised for pointing public web services through a server sitting under his desk. Lots of bad choices. And praised for it.
Shang-Hai and Beijing are exceptions, not the rule.
And Guangzhou, Hongkong, and others are the exceptions as well. There are many many exceptions. So many so, that there are more exceptions than non-exceptions. About 60% live in conditions better than you'd find in Michigan.
They also know that the most effective thing to prevent piracy is to make content available in a timely and convenient manner. If you can buy it for market prices, people don't pirate. It is that simple. They are still playing games with distribution channels and such, and losing the war to win specific battles.
Goes with #4. Internal Chargebacks. If you do internal chargebacks, make sure they are lower than what it'd take a consultant to do the same job. I've seen the chargeback rate so high, it was easier for the developers drive to the store and pick up a Dell Server (or whatever), and install that instead of buying the IT Server Service. Then you have piles of "rogue servers" running around and a valid business reason to undermine your own IT department.
When you spend $1M on IT and IT collects $5M on chargeback, making the "Service" profitable, at the expense of logic and reason, and leading to outsourcing.
If chargebacks reflect the cost of providing the service, and are lower than can be obtained elsewhere, then it will only be a good thing. It demonstrates the value, and prevents budget squeezing.
And once the 10x more expensive OTS app is customized for them, they are hostage to their consulting company that set up their system.
They are hostage to their developers when they hire 20 to build the thing in half the time, then lay off 90% when done, rather than hiring a team of 5, taking 4 times longer, and having a small core of good people, kept around forever, working on updates, upgrades, and continuous improvement on what they built.
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We try to be less overt. Marijuana was explicitly called a "Black drug" in the congressional hearings that started the first regulations against it, and it's the only drug on any schedule at all (let alone the "worst" schedule, 1) that has known medical uses and zero ODs. It's 100% safe in all current and previous distribution methods, and has valid known medical uses, yet is one of the most tightly controlled substances under federal law.
Pure racism is the only logical explanation for that.
But today, we are being "tough on crime" not "tough on minorities", though the actions have the same results.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.
Funny how the loonitarians argue with me when I quote loonitarians and explore the statements given, yet don't bother to correct other loonitarians with obviously wrong generalizations.
So, you agree that it's too late to wait until the harm has occurred when the harm is imminent. Now all that's left is to disagree about where to set the line.
In the old days, the Old White Men in charge would literally sit around and look at things used by minorities, then make them illegal. Sure, the law against Marijuana affects all people the same, but at the time it was passed, it was believed, by those who passed it, to be a Black drug.
Just because a law applies the same to a white person as a Black person doesn't mean the law is necessarily non-racist.
Remember. Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.
So an incompetent driver should be able to drive on the sidewalk, so long as they don't actually hit anyone. Or fire a gun into a crowd, so long as they miss.
Same thing goes for breaking the rules about when and how you may drive.
What "harm" does an uninsured driver cause your nose when they are on the other side of the city and never interact with you?
In addition to that, a lot of stuff on Ebay is still used/secondhand, sold by small-time sellers
It used to be mostly that. Now, it's much much harder to find used things by small sellers.
Nobody is saying that people are rational, just that the effects of those items is greatly overstated, at best. And apparently overpriced as well.
It's not anti-science, and mostly correct. A person with a good diet doesn't need vitamins. Many vitamins don't absorb well from a pill. So for the vast majority of people, vitamins (as in pills) will do nothing for them.
If that's wrong, correct it. Just saying "that fact is wrong because it conflicts with my opinion" is absurd anti-science.
just make sure the backups don't get stolen/destroyed with the machine.
That's why backups you want available are stored in the cloud. And backups you want secret are stored on an encrypted USB drive. Lose the computer, the data you want is around. And the stuff you'd rather have destroyed than leaked is inaccessible. Best of both worlds.
Yes, the end computer's time off will cause YouTube to fail, as YouTube defaults to HTTPS, which uses encryption, and dates on the client and server further apart than the certificate length will necessarily cause a failure to work.
An intermediate router with no call-home features that's not doing certificate authentication will not be affected.
My linux router will have logs that have a bad timestamp. *yawn*.
And that works some places, and is horrible in other situations.
A good general analogy would be government taxing itself, or changing fees for service...
Like SS running as a "surplus" and the General Fund borrowing from SS, then the Republicans trying to cut SS so the general fund doesn't have to pay back SS. Shell games are popular in government and private companies.
The different frequencies are a non-issue. The chips just do more channels. Like 802.11, the chips do 1-14, but turn off 12-14 in the US, when set to US region. My non-US phone works fine in Europe and US. This was an issue in 1998, when the cost of chips was higher, and GSM was not popular in the US, so the foreign phones weren't physically capable of the US channels.
Today, almost every phone does do everywhere. Apple is an exception, where they claim a cost savings to cut $0.10, but in reality lock regions in hardware. So you have to pay extra for the "international" version to get the phone that isn't region locked.
My phone, bought in Singapore, as a Singapore-local phone, works fine in the US on AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia, though I didn't try it in Africa when I was passing through. That's how phones actually work these days. There may be some issues with newer 4G channels, but for 3G speeds, 100% coverage is available in most unlocked phones.
Roaming is easy.
While in startup mode, they'll pass the old companies. But then, once they are big and do an IPO, they'll return to the same bad habits. The equilibrium is incompetent management.
iTunes is still thriving, against Spotify and the like. Wonder Woman made $100M in a single weekend, and is over $400M world-wide so far, and not dropping off too fast. Though, that's an exception.
Disks are doing fine, when priced in the bargain bin. Or when they do something you can't get on the subscriptions - special editions, commentary, 3D, 4k, or other features not on the subscription service.
Nope. The current management recognizes the problem, and doesn't care. So I expect the problem will continue forever. It's too hard to hire technically competent managers. So nobody with the ability to see the problem will be given the authority to fix it.
Nope. I was imagining 9 m^2, a square of ground 3m on each side, which corresponds to the 100 sq. ft. that TFA mentions. That's a "garden" size. Though "garden" outside the US corresponds to "lawn" or "yard" inside the US. So I think much of the confusion is on the definition of "garden" where it's a smaller patch of land within a larger yard/lawn, that holds flowers or vegetables, and no other live ground cover (as other plants compete). At least by the definition used by the maker of the device in question.
Movies work fine at $10 per viewing. Then, after time, $10 to "own". On that model, the industry can get $1B for a single work. That recoups the cost of large productions. Lower cost pricing works fine for most (almost all) mass-media industries.
The garden size can be larger, but the performance may degrade with larger gardens. And 9 square meters is pretty large. It's not for a lawn, but the flower garden in front or the vegetable garden in back.
$1 per song, $10 per album is non-zero and a market value. Note, I didn't say market "cost" but market "price". They are different.
I don't care about the initial number. I had no hand in that. I'm replying to the lie that Shanghai and Beijing are the exceptions, not the rule.
What if the chargeback rate is the real IT cost?
Then fire your IT director/manager/CIO and hire someone competent. Done right, contractors are always more expensive.
How can it cost more for the IT department to buy a Dell than someone with a credit card and no business account? How long does it take a programmer to build a server to a good standard? Will it be properly patched and supported after? If your IT department is actually more expensive than paying a programmer to buy and build his own server, then you are doing something wrong.
Though, I've seen it done even when more expensive. The programmer bought a mac mini, tuned it into a docker server, and built docker containers. He did it that way to POC docker without having to get any permissions for something new. But that's a different IT problem than cost. He was praised for pointing public web services through a server sitting under his desk. Lots of bad choices. And praised for it.
Shang-Hai and Beijing are exceptions, not the rule.
And Guangzhou, Hongkong, and others are the exceptions as well. There are many many exceptions. So many so, that there are more exceptions than non-exceptions. About 60% live in conditions better than you'd find in Michigan.
They also know that the most effective thing to prevent piracy is to make content available in a timely and convenient manner. If you can buy it for market prices, people don't pirate. It is that simple. They are still playing games with distribution channels and such, and losing the war to win specific battles.
Goes with #4. Internal Chargebacks. If you do internal chargebacks, make sure they are lower than what it'd take a consultant to do the same job. I've seen the chargeback rate so high, it was easier for the developers drive to the store and pick up a Dell Server (or whatever), and install that instead of buying the IT Server Service. Then you have piles of "rogue servers" running around and a valid business reason to undermine your own IT department.
When you spend $1M on IT and IT collects $5M on chargeback, making the "Service" profitable, at the expense of logic and reason, and leading to outsourcing.
If chargebacks reflect the cost of providing the service, and are lower than can be obtained elsewhere, then it will only be a good thing. It demonstrates the value, and prevents budget squeezing.
And once the 10x more expensive OTS app is customized for them, they are hostage to their consulting company that set up their system.
They are hostage to their developers when they hire 20 to build the thing in half the time, then lay off 90% when done, rather than hiring a team of 5, taking 4 times longer, and having a small core of good people, kept around forever, working on updates, upgrades, and continuous improvement on what they built.
Faster, cheaper always win over quality.