You mean when there is a larger supply of something, and demand stays even, the price of that thing goes down? That's crazy talk, it's almost as if this were a field of study or something. It may even involve charts.
but bird shit from above should really not be able to affect any power generation infrastructure, and if it can, it's poorly designed.
Problem is, with electrical equipment at least, that a lot of that gear gets really hot, so it's kept exposed to the air, as insulating it would mean lots of expensive and failure-prone cooling equipment. So it's exposed to the elements, which means other possible points of failure. The other benefit is, since it's all exposed, it's really easy to work on.
Supply and demand only works in a free market. Are you taking the position that there is adequate competition to Disney?
Amusement parks are "substitutable goods". You don't have to go to Disney World for vacation. You can go to the beach, or a museum, or a water park, or a national park. There are tons of options.
Disney spends, and has spent, *boatloads* of money on Disney World. People have shown they are willing to pay premium prices for a premium experience, so Disney get to charge premium prices. That doesn't mean you can't go anywhere else for vacation.
The POTUS ordering the assassination of a terrorist suspect vs. the czar of Russia ordering the assassination of a political dissient.
Cool, we'll assume the government had loads of info that Al-Awlaki was actively engaged in terrorism. We'll have to take their word on it, 'cause the only publicly available information showed he agreed with what the terrorists were doing, but not actively supporting them.
So, why was his son killed again? An American citizen was blown up by the CIA. Nobody has been held accountable.
All that being said, the Russian government is quite a bit worse than the US. Read up on Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was thrown in jail and his assets seized for, basically, buying shares of Russian mining companies that were being privatized. It was perfectly legal, until they passed a law saying it wasn't, then he was arrested. Even the judge thought it was a bogus trial.
The feds can seize funds if they can prove a suspect is using them for ongoing criminal activity. Not sure if they can do that with Snowden.
Besides that, how exactly do you "cancel" a passport? I mean, when you are being put on trial, they make you give up your passport, right? There isn't some central clearinghouse of passport information - each country has it's own system. So if the state department does revoke someone's passport somehow, how does Hungary know not to let someone in?
If the US, or South Korea, is attacked by North Korea, China would care less what we do to them. The only reason they support North Korea is they don't want a mob of refugees flooding into their country. China has a fenced-off, secured border with North Korea to keep them out.
Otherwise, North Korea is only nominally useful to China as an annoyance to the US. Once they are anything other than an annoyance, they have outlived their usefulness.
This is now a federal crime, and the post office inspectors office, and probably the FBI, gets involved. Since this is in the news, they will probably be very interested in this case, as well.
Thanks for these headlines - reminds me of how good I got it. My manager is a former developer. I have, maybe, two or three hours of meetings a week. The issue list is planned out every Monday - if something high priority comes in, something gets taken off the list. If anyone starts monopolizing my time he fends them off or clears the schedule.
I have an acquaintance who went to work for a huge web company (not that one, the other one.) He's a pretty experienced developer, so he grilled them on their development process during the job interview. All the right things were said. They were all lies. He quit after two weeks.
In that case wouldn't it be a hypothesis? It's untested and, beyond filling some gaps in quantum theory and relativity, it hasn't been mathematically proven.
Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal (spent jail time on an insider trading rap) which means she's automatically banned from entry to a variety of countries including Britain.
It wasn't even insider trading, it was lying to shareholders about being investigated for insider trading. She was never tried for insider trading. The conspiracy theory is the investigation was bungled from the start, and they wanted to get her on SOMETHING.
Savage is a right-wing shlock jock ala Rush Limbaugh. AFAIK he has never been convicted of anything, nor told anyone to do anything illegal.
My favorites on the list are Robert Mugabe (OK I could maybe see that) AND his main political dissident (What?). Don't want to seem biased, I guess?
Note that the UK bans people from entry for no other reason than that they voice unpopular political views, so the UK government is hardly in a position to criticize other nations over arbitrary exclusions.
Wasn't there a story a few years ago about the home office denying someone entry after they had arrived at Heathrow, simply because he was visiting London and had no concrete plans of what he was going to do?
Groove was sweet. Basically a private dropbox/cloud sync app, but you could tweak it to do other stuff as well. Microsoft bought it, killed off most of the cool stuff, then bolted the rest onto SharePoint.
They could have made it a totally kickass, lightweight private cloud sync platform. Instead, we have SharePoint. Ugh.
Well, for one, ex-pat critics of Russia have a nasty habit of dying from polonium poisoning. Also, oligarchs who speak out against the government tend to be thrown in jail and have all of their assets permanently seized. The oligarchs who back the regime tend to be left alone.
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You mean when there is a larger supply of something, and demand stays even, the price of that thing goes down? That's crazy talk, it's almost as if this were a field of study or something. It may even involve charts.
San Francisco got too expensive in the 90's so the hippies moved to Seattle. In the 2000's Seattle got too expensive so they moved to Portland.
but bird shit from above should really not be able to affect any power generation infrastructure, and if it can, it's poorly designed.
Problem is, with electrical equipment at least, that a lot of that gear gets really hot, so it's kept exposed to the air, as insulating it would mean lots of expensive and failure-prone cooling equipment. So it's exposed to the elements, which means other possible points of failure. The other benefit is, since it's all exposed, it's really easy to work on.
A decent statistics class isn't any less difficult than an algebra class.
Supply and demand only works in a free market. Are you taking the position that there is adequate competition to Disney?
Amusement parks are "substitutable goods". You don't have to go to Disney World for vacation. You can go to the beach, or a museum, or a water park, or a national park. There are tons of options.
Disney spends, and has spent, *boatloads* of money on Disney World. People have shown they are willing to pay premium prices for a premium experience, so Disney get to charge premium prices. That doesn't mean you can't go anywhere else for vacation.
Disney is doing this, not because of supply and demand, but to gouge even more profits.
Because supply and demand doesn't affect prices? What?
FTFY. In the software world there's almost never improvement in subsequent releases, just new features to keep the marketing people happy.
That comment is so off the mark, I'm not sure that you actually use software. How did you type this sentence into a web page?
The POTUS ordering the assassination of a terrorist suspect vs. the czar of Russia ordering the assassination of a political dissient.
Cool, we'll assume the government had loads of info that Al-Awlaki was actively engaged in terrorism. We'll have to take their word on it, 'cause the only publicly available information showed he agreed with what the terrorists were doing, but not actively supporting them.
So, why was his son killed again? An American citizen was blown up by the CIA. Nobody has been held accountable.
All that being said, the Russian government is quite a bit worse than the US. Read up on Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was thrown in jail and his assets seized for, basically, buying shares of Russian mining companies that were being privatized. It was perfectly legal, until they passed a law saying it wasn't, then he was arrested. Even the judge thought it was a bogus trial.
The feds can seize funds if they can prove a suspect is using them for ongoing criminal activity. Not sure if they can do that with Snowden.
Besides that, how exactly do you "cancel" a passport? I mean, when you are being put on trial, they make you give up your passport, right? There isn't some central clearinghouse of passport information - each country has it's own system. So if the state department does revoke someone's passport somehow, how does Hungary know not to let someone in?
They won't ban private companies collecting your data to protect your privacy, they'll ban it 'cause they don't want the competition.
The price will go up for IT stuff in Russia, too. Brazil tried to do the same thing in the 1980's, and they wound up with $1000 Commodore 64 clones.
If the US, or South Korea, is attacked by North Korea, China would care less what we do to them. The only reason they support North Korea is they don't want a mob of refugees flooding into their country. China has a fenced-off, secured border with North Korea to keep them out.
Otherwise, North Korea is only nominally useful to China as an annoyance to the US. Once they are anything other than an annoyance, they have outlived their usefulness.
You don't send blackmail letters IN THE MAIL.
This is now a federal crime, and the post office inspectors office, and probably the FBI, gets involved. Since this is in the news, they will probably be very interested in this case, as well.
Die Hard. Galaxy Quest. Harry Potter. Dogma. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?
News for *nerds* ?
Thanks for these headlines - reminds me of how good I got it. My manager is a former developer. I have, maybe, two or three hours of meetings a week. The issue list is planned out every Monday - if something high priority comes in, something gets taken off the list. If anyone starts monopolizing my time he fends them off or clears the schedule.
I have an acquaintance who went to work for a huge web company (not that one, the other one.) He's a pretty experienced developer, so he grilled them on their development process during the job interview. All the right things were said. They were all lies. He quit after two weeks.
Worry about today. After today, you can worry about tomorrow.
In that case wouldn't it be a hypothesis? It's untested and, beyond filling some gaps in quantum theory and relativity, it hasn't been mathematically proven.
So it's a hypothesis, right?
Relevant to the discussion :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal (spent jail time on an insider trading rap) which means she's automatically banned from entry to a variety of countries including Britain.
It wasn't even insider trading, it was lying to shareholders about being investigated for insider trading. She was never tried for insider trading. The conspiracy theory is the investigation was bungled from the start, and they wanted to get her on SOMETHING.
Savage is a right-wing shlock jock ala Rush Limbaugh. AFAIK he has never been convicted of anything, nor told anyone to do anything illegal.
My favorites on the list are Robert Mugabe (OK I could maybe see that) AND his main political dissident (What?). Don't want to seem biased, I guess?
Note that the UK bans people from entry for no other reason than that they voice unpopular political views, so the UK government is hardly in a position to criticize other nations over arbitrary exclusions.
Wasn't there a story a few years ago about the home office denying someone entry after they had arrived at Heathrow, simply because he was visiting London and had no concrete plans of what he was going to do?
The list of people barred from entry to the UK reads pretty bizarre, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Martha Stewart? Busta Rhymes? Michael Savage?
Groove was sweet. Basically a private dropbox/cloud sync app, but you could tweak it to do other stuff as well. Microsoft bought it, killed off most of the cool stuff, then bolted the rest onto SharePoint.
They could have made it a totally kickass, lightweight private cloud sync platform. Instead, we have SharePoint. Ugh.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/...
Know how you knew Windows phone was going to fail? The banner that called it "Windows Phone 7 OS Platform"
"What kinda phone is that?"
"Windows Phone 7 OS Platform"
"What?"
Well, for one, ex-pat critics of Russia have a nasty habit of dying from polonium poisoning. Also, oligarchs who speak out against the government tend to be thrown in jail and have all of their assets permanently seized. The oligarchs who back the regime tend to be left alone.
Dear rest of the world,
America is a very, very large place with a wide variety of people, culture, geography, and ideologies.
Look at where you are now, draw a two thousand kilometer circle around you, and tell me someone in that circle hasn't done something crazy.
That is all.
The goal should be to hit every platform CKermit supports. Terminal support through aalib or libcaca thank you very much.