They should get less credit, if you consider the entire "starting WW2 by signing a treaty with the Nazis to invade and partition Poland" thing. I have no idea why people always seem to forget that when crediting Russia's heavy casualties. They wanted to be a Nazi ally, and got stabbed in the back. They only did the right thing in self-defense. They did do the heavy lifting, with American supplies. But they should not get a huge amount of moral credit for it.
First thing to remember about the Constitution, it is entirely a reaction to British colonialism. Basically imagine if your government had just thrown out British soldiers who were running around burning things and killing people. Who could come back at any second to burn more things and kill more people. Which they did. So, you can probably imagine why Americans might look Brits a bit funny when they make 'helpful' suggestions on the Constitution. Your government's whole occupation and murdering thing is why some of the thornier parts exist. Such as removing bits from the Constitution is made intentionally difficult so only extremely broadly acceptable amendments are passed.
Besides that... the financial nature of the US system is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution. Most of the election stuff mentioned in the Constitution is either technical (Prez gets two terms) or delegative (how to elect folks is decided by states). It's a reflection of the culture. We have an extremely powerful government and an insanely large economy. It's economically viable to attempt to buy power. There is strong incentive to do so, as the returns on investment can be very high. So people do. So many people trying to buy power raises the prices, supply and demand.
There are no easy ways to curb this. Many of the alternatives are far worse. The other thing to ponder when folks discuss major Constitutional changes... Why do you think YOUR viewpoint will automatically win? What happens if you somehow prompt such a major change and the exact opposite to want you want occurs?
Every utopia is a dystopia to someone else. Because you can only enforce a utopia on either a mono culture, or by oppressing the hell out of everyone who disagrees. Better a messy compromise that represents everyone, even if only partially.
Electric cars don't directly cause pollution from their operation. That is not the case with their manufacturing, disposal and electricity generation. I'm not decrying electric cars. Just that those other factors (two out of three apply to ICE vehicles as well) should be taken into account.
US still burns a lot of coal, and that still counts towards AGW. Until or unless we switch to near complete nuclear/solar/wind, it will continue to be a factor.
Outsourcing pollution is not the same thing as no pollution.
Pocket Cast is what I use. It has an optional account so you can tie info across multiple devices, which I like for both optional and good functionality.
You can set auto-downloads. Mine is set up to warn me if I'm downloading off WiFi, which I also appreciate. It's not free, but at $4, just pay up. Extremely rarely have audio issues, and I near always have suspected it was the origin audio file rather than the player. It has an widget that works well enough. You can queue podcasts, which could be better but works well enough.
Russian mercenaries were sent to try to take oil fields near US forces. Said Russians had tanks and armored personnel carriers. They shelled at or near US forces.
US forces ripped them to pieces with drone strikes, Apache helicopter gunships, airstrikes from F15E's, capped with a JDAM bombing from passing B52's. I have heard that they also used counterbattery artillery and A10's as well, but haven't seen that confirmed. All of their armored vehicles were destroyed or damaged, hundreds of Russian mercs were killed.
There isn't a widely comparable enterprise level Linux solution like Active Directory. AD, AD integration and Office is why every major business runs on Windows and will for the next two decades even if perfect replacements came out tomorrow. It's an entirely valid to do so. Microsoft OS might be weak, but they host things stronger for businesses than the OS advantages.
Also, while I love Linux for web servers, it has its own disadvantages. Niche players can force disproportionate change to benefit themselves at the cost of everyone else. See systemd.
For a minimum of a decade or decade and a half. Draper extensively hit on a friend of mine, who at the time was 18 or 19.
Apparently, not all the teenagers were above 18. That's the part not being mentioned. He wasn't exclusively hitting on dudes under 18, but he just wasn't remotely cautious about the age of the folks he was hitting on. Usually people were NOT interested.
Hardcore History unfortunately ruined podcasts for me because it was the first one I listened to. And so far, nothing else compares within several standard deviations. Stuff You Should Know, Radiolab, Freakonomics, 99% Invisible, Stuff You Missed in History and Tested are the bulk of the rest.
Why would some American politician bailout a Japanese company?
Not saying that we shouldn't have jailed folks instead of bailing them out in the last financial crisis, but I'd also point out communism "bailed out" state companies as well.
While I don't disagree with any of your comments, any time someone uses the term "late-stage capitalism"... Every origin story of the term I'm familiar with has roots in Marxism. Mostly I've seen it used by people angry at modern economics, but zero practical suggestions on how to correct it. Marxism as a fashion fad kind of thing, like wearing Che shirts that they bought with a credit card from a chain store, I suppose.
I'm far from a knee-jerk reactionary capitalist, but those guys didn't come up with a better solution. Private property and some form of capitalism has always existed whenever not outlawed by whoever was in power. While our modern economic situation has absolutely tons of problems, systemic ones at that, I've so far never heard of a remotely realistic large scale alternative.
Hard work - Don't discount this. Yes, connections and money make things easier, but it still takes work. A lot of it.
Intelligence - Hardest work on the planet won't always get you further.
Sheer flat out luck - Being the hardest working smart person doesn't help if you get a crippling illness or just at the wrong time. Being born wealthy or with connections is genetic lottery.
You pretty much need a lot of all three to get super wealthy. Two will get you into a decent place and you'll do fine.
Absolutely. It has always been that way. I mean, in a totalitarian state, even the rich are shot for voicing dissent. But in relatively free and open nations, you had to be rich enough to avoid to weather pressure or dirt poor enough that no one care a toss what you said.
Within the past six months? IT saved a hundred million dollar contract because we made an incredibly simple reporting portal. Think web version of Excel. Customer loved it. They did not want random Excel files with literally ten thousand VLOOKUPs every morning, which was the previous 'solution'. IT engineered a last minute audio-visual display for a very high name project. We bought and built something for a fraction the cost of leasing, and ended up using the very nice TVs afterwards to upgrade our conference rooms. We not only saved the company money on replacement, we turned a profit. IT facilitated selling stuff the company used to throw out. More money.
If your IT department is a financial black hole, either you don't get what they do or their head needs to be fired. They should always be earning their keep.
Let's see... Over the years...
Cameras. Makes a bit of sense. It uses wired infrastructure. With IP cameras, network video recorders and POE switches, it makes more sense. Building environmental conditions. I just soldered up a bunch of Particle.io Photons with some sensors and throw them around the various parts of the building relating to IT. Door access systems and badges. I've helped build portals and webapps for customers. Which was a primary save on a hundred million dollar customer who was very unhappy with our reporting previously. We helped out our manufacturing folks with technical assistance with the more high tech ends of assembly. We've helped fix multi million dollar CNC machines. We assisted our engineering staff with better workflows to get work from the designers to engineers to the manufacturing folks to the actual CNC devices themselves. Writing policies is always fun.
It's not just PCs, servers and whatnot. It's information and technology. That covers a lot of diverse legitimate things in any business.
On the less legitimate side. I've had VPs call the help desk asking why their desk light didn't work. People have put in help desk tickets about clogged toilets. When a bird connected with three phase power run, exploded while catching fire, and started a couple acre burn... Yep. IT was responsible for calling cops, fire, power company and asking accounting to call insurance. We set up the mass notification system for HR because they didn't want to do so.
I just use a GPS attachment. Well, GPS, GLONASS and Galileo. With a tiny bit of code to verify location checks out, math wise it'd be tricky to spoof. If my building moves by any significant amount, I'm fairly sure there's a problem of some sort that needs my attention. Spoofing the time and getting the locational data from all three providers to match would be kinda an impressive mathematical exercise. Plus, any domestic GPS spoofing will bring the anger of the FCC on someone and never underestimate interdepartment bureaucracy fury. It's kinda unlikely unless you're in a very high security environment.
Very simple to code. Cost me $50, and pretty much only because I wanted one that could handle multiple constellations. Or buy one off the shelf. More expensive, less work.
Yep. Putting Snowden and Manning in the same catagory is a bit of a disservice.
Manning, regardless of one's opinions on the whole trans thing or whatnot, clearly had mental issues and should not have been given a clearance. When Private Manning leaked the material, it was out of anger at the military and the desire to cause it harm. Nothing showed clear cut criminal behavior of the US government, State Department or US military. Just lots of sensitive or embarrassing material.
Snowden showed care in the release of the information. He was specifically disclosing illegal activity of the US government and had no other way of getting that information to the people who could stop it. You can only safely whistleblower lines in the intel and classified community is only for minor stuff. Entire programs being illegal? Yeah, you try to work within the system on that, at best your career is destroyed.
Drill sergeants should unilaterally be able to cut anyone from military service for any reason whatsoever. Manning showed mental instability from day one.
Pricing isn't terrible and I expect they'll sell. I like my loss-leader Fire 7 inch tablet, which I put the play store on with exactly two commands. I prefer dumb TVs with separate media player boxes (I have a Roku) but some people like one unit.
Amazon would be hard pressed to do a work job than many other 'smart TVs'.
Still under 40 and concur. The more of the stack you know, the better you will be at programming. It's not essential to master all or any in particular, but every area of knowledge significantly helps.
Worked for DISA. Can confirm, we had massive tape silos and entire teams that loaded/unloaded bulk lots of tapes in the LTO3/LTO4 days. Usually everything worked fine with the load time to snag the proper tape, load it to a free drive and start reading. Lot of that was done by mainframes using COBOL. Fun stuff.
The new Samsung 16TB SSDs will be substantial game changers in... oh, five years. They're shipping now, but if the price drops to a grand or two per SSD, it'll be really interesting for bulk storage. Petabyte level SSD storage in 5U, for a hundred grand, will be very nifty.
They also open source their software, which is interesting. Somewhat their hardware as well. I've learned quite a bit about building scaling web sites from watching what they do. Vastly smaller scale, obviously. Still very educational.
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They should get less credit, if you consider the entire "starting WW2 by signing a treaty with the Nazis to invade and partition Poland" thing. I have no idea why people always seem to forget that when crediting Russia's heavy casualties. They wanted to be a Nazi ally, and got stabbed in the back. They only did the right thing in self-defense. They did do the heavy lifting, with American supplies. But they should not get a huge amount of moral credit for it.
First thing to remember about the Constitution, it is entirely a reaction to British colonialism. Basically imagine if your government had just thrown out British soldiers who were running around burning things and killing people. Who could come back at any second to burn more things and kill more people. Which they did. So, you can probably imagine why Americans might look Brits a bit funny when they make 'helpful' suggestions on the Constitution. Your government's whole occupation and murdering thing is why some of the thornier parts exist. Such as removing bits from the Constitution is made intentionally difficult so only extremely broadly acceptable amendments are passed.
Besides that... the financial nature of the US system is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution. Most of the election stuff mentioned in the Constitution is either technical (Prez gets two terms) or delegative (how to elect folks is decided by states). It's a reflection of the culture. We have an extremely powerful government and an insanely large economy. It's economically viable to attempt to buy power. There is strong incentive to do so, as the returns on investment can be very high. So people do. So many people trying to buy power raises the prices, supply and demand.
There are no easy ways to curb this. Many of the alternatives are far worse. The other thing to ponder when folks discuss major Constitutional changes... Why do you think YOUR viewpoint will automatically win? What happens if you somehow prompt such a major change and the exact opposite to want you want occurs?
Every utopia is a dystopia to someone else. Because you can only enforce a utopia on either a mono culture, or by oppressing the hell out of everyone who disagrees. Better a messy compromise that represents everyone, even if only partially.
I'm extremely interested in a BOM. Or hell, purchasing.
Electric cars don't directly cause pollution from their operation. That is not the case with their manufacturing, disposal and electricity generation. I'm not decrying electric cars. Just that those other factors (two out of three apply to ICE vehicles as well) should be taken into account.
US still burns a lot of coal, and that still counts towards AGW. Until or unless we switch to near complete nuclear/solar/wind, it will continue to be a factor.
Outsourcing pollution is not the same thing as no pollution.
Pocket Cast is what I use. It has an optional account so you can tie info across multiple devices, which I like for both optional and good functionality.
You can set auto-downloads. Mine is set up to warn me if I'm downloading off WiFi, which I also appreciate. It's not free, but at $4, just pay up. Extremely rarely have audio issues, and I near always have suspected it was the origin audio file rather than the player. It has an widget that works well enough. You can queue podcasts, which could be better but works well enough.
Honestly, no real complaints.
Russian mercenaries were sent to try to take oil fields near US forces. Said Russians had tanks and armored personnel carriers. They shelled at or near US forces.
US forces ripped them to pieces with drone strikes, Apache helicopter gunships, airstrikes from F15E's, capped with a JDAM bombing from passing B52's. I have heard that they also used counterbattery artillery and A10's as well, but haven't seen that confirmed. All of their armored vehicles were destroyed or damaged, hundreds of Russian mercs were killed.
There isn't a widely comparable enterprise level Linux solution like Active Directory. AD, AD integration and Office is why every major business runs on Windows and will for the next two decades even if perfect replacements came out tomorrow. It's an entirely valid to do so. Microsoft OS might be weak, but they host things stronger for businesses than the OS advantages.
Also, while I love Linux for web servers, it has its own disadvantages. Niche players can force disproportionate change to benefit themselves at the cost of everyone else. See systemd.
For a minimum of a decade or decade and a half. Draper extensively hit on a friend of mine, who at the time was 18 or 19.
Apparently, not all the teenagers were above 18. That's the part not being mentioned. He wasn't exclusively hitting on dudes under 18, but he just wasn't remotely cautious about the age of the folks he was hitting on. Usually people were NOT interested.
Which podcasts?
Hardcore History unfortunately ruined podcasts for me because it was the first one I listened to. And so far, nothing else compares within several standard deviations. Stuff You Should Know, Radiolab, Freakonomics, 99% Invisible, Stuff You Missed in History and Tested are the bulk of the rest.
Why would some American politician bailout a Japanese company?
Not saying that we shouldn't have jailed folks instead of bailing them out in the last financial crisis, but I'd also point out communism "bailed out" state companies as well.
While I don't disagree with any of your comments, any time someone uses the term "late-stage capitalism"... Every origin story of the term I'm familiar with has roots in Marxism. Mostly I've seen it used by people angry at modern economics, but zero practical suggestions on how to correct it. Marxism as a fashion fad kind of thing, like wearing Che shirts that they bought with a credit card from a chain store, I suppose.
I'm far from a knee-jerk reactionary capitalist, but those guys didn't come up with a better solution. Private property and some form of capitalism has always existed whenever not outlawed by whoever was in power. While our modern economic situation has absolutely tons of problems, systemic ones at that, I've so far never heard of a remotely realistic large scale alternative.
Can't tell if serious or trolling.
To get rich you need three things.
Hard work - Don't discount this. Yes, connections and money make things easier, but it still takes work. A lot of it.
Intelligence - Hardest work on the planet won't always get you further.
Sheer flat out luck - Being the hardest working smart person doesn't help if you get a crippling illness or just at the wrong time. Being born wealthy or with connections is genetic lottery.
You pretty much need a lot of all three to get super wealthy. Two will get you into a decent place and you'll do fine.
Absolutely. It has always been that way. I mean, in a totalitarian state, even the rich are shot for voicing dissent. But in relatively free and open nations, you had to be rich enough to avoid to weather pressure or dirt poor enough that no one care a toss what you said.
Your wise friend isn't very wise.
Within the past six months? IT saved a hundred million dollar contract because we made an incredibly simple reporting portal. Think web version of Excel. Customer loved it. They did not want random Excel files with literally ten thousand VLOOKUPs every morning, which was the previous 'solution'. IT engineered a last minute audio-visual display for a very high name project. We bought and built something for a fraction the cost of leasing, and ended up using the very nice TVs afterwards to upgrade our conference rooms. We not only saved the company money on replacement, we turned a profit. IT facilitated selling stuff the company used to throw out. More money.
If your IT department is a financial black hole, either you don't get what they do or their head needs to be fired. They should always be earning their keep.
Let's see... Over the years... Cameras. Makes a bit of sense. It uses wired infrastructure. With IP cameras, network video recorders and POE switches, it makes more sense. Building environmental conditions. I just soldered up a bunch of Particle.io Photons with some sensors and throw them around the various parts of the building relating to IT. Door access systems and badges. I've helped build portals and webapps for customers. Which was a primary save on a hundred million dollar customer who was very unhappy with our reporting previously. We helped out our manufacturing folks with technical assistance with the more high tech ends of assembly. We've helped fix multi million dollar CNC machines. We assisted our engineering staff with better workflows to get work from the designers to engineers to the manufacturing folks to the actual CNC devices themselves. Writing policies is always fun.
It's not just PCs, servers and whatnot. It's information and technology. That covers a lot of diverse legitimate things in any business.
On the less legitimate side. I've had VPs call the help desk asking why their desk light didn't work. People have put in help desk tickets about clogged toilets. When a bird connected with three phase power run, exploded while catching fire, and started a couple acre burn... Yep. IT was responsible for calling cops, fire, power company and asking accounting to call insurance. We set up the mass notification system for HR because they didn't want to do so.
If the antenna position moves more than 10 feet, I have other concerns. ;)
I just use a GPS attachment. Well, GPS, GLONASS and Galileo. With a tiny bit of code to verify location checks out, math wise it'd be tricky to spoof. If my building moves by any significant amount, I'm fairly sure there's a problem of some sort that needs my attention. Spoofing the time and getting the locational data from all three providers to match would be kinda an impressive mathematical exercise. Plus, any domestic GPS spoofing will bring the anger of the FCC on someone and never underestimate interdepartment bureaucracy fury. It's kinda unlikely unless you're in a very high security environment.
Very simple to code. Cost me $50, and pretty much only because I wanted one that could handle multiple constellations. Or buy one off the shelf. More expensive, less work.
Yep. Putting Snowden and Manning in the same catagory is a bit of a disservice.
Manning, regardless of one's opinions on the whole trans thing or whatnot, clearly had mental issues and should not have been given a clearance. When Private Manning leaked the material, it was out of anger at the military and the desire to cause it harm. Nothing showed clear cut criminal behavior of the US government, State Department or US military. Just lots of sensitive or embarrassing material.
Snowden showed care in the release of the information. He was specifically disclosing illegal activity of the US government and had no other way of getting that information to the people who could stop it. You can only safely whistleblower lines in the intel and classified community is only for minor stuff. Entire programs being illegal? Yeah, you try to work within the system on that, at best your career is destroyed.
Drill sergeants should unilaterally be able to cut anyone from military service for any reason whatsoever. Manning showed mental instability from day one.
$65 model, eh?
Pricing isn't terrible and I expect they'll sell. I like my loss-leader Fire 7 inch tablet, which I put the play store on with exactly two commands. I prefer dumb TVs with separate media player boxes (I have a Roku) but some people like one unit.
Amazon would be hard pressed to do a work job than many other 'smart TVs'.
We moved all of our "pros" to Surface Pros or Surface Books. They love them for the decent SSDs, processors and RAM. Expensive, but good productivity.
Still under 40 and concur. The more of the stack you know, the better you will be at programming. It's not essential to master all or any in particular, but every area of knowledge significantly helps.
Worked for DISA. Can confirm, we had massive tape silos and entire teams that loaded/unloaded bulk lots of tapes in the LTO3/LTO4 days. Usually everything worked fine with the load time to snag the proper tape, load it to a free drive and start reading. Lot of that was done by mainframes using COBOL. Fun stuff.
The new Samsung 16TB SSDs will be substantial game changers in... oh, five years. They're shipping now, but if the price drops to a grand or two per SSD, it'll be really interesting for bulk storage. Petabyte level SSD storage in 5U, for a hundred grand, will be very nifty.
They also open source their software, which is interesting. Somewhat their hardware as well. I've learned quite a bit about building scaling web sites from watching what they do. Vastly smaller scale, obviously. Still very educational.
Could we get a full list of those books?