> found out to their chagrin when they tried to cash in 10 years late
One doesn't usually purchase diamond jewelry to make a direct profit. One purchases diamond jewelry to hide the assets and keep its ownership and sale out of official record keeping. It was the economic salvation of many immigrant families to have at least a few stones secreted in their luggage, and in some cases even inside their own bodies.
> Core beliefs of the Tea Party movement have long been advertised
> The Tea Party is not a reenactment of the Handmaiden's Tale [wikipedia.org].
I'm afraid that in local elections and in their public practices, they do seem to be trying _very hard_. The only female candidate I've seen willing to work with them is Sarah Palin, and the strong conservative religious core of their membership is clear in their handling of birth control rights and funding.
In the real world, this happens all the time. Spectators are willing to pay a premium for last-minute tickets. And they don't have to make a _lot_ of money, nor do they have to be consistently profitable. Much like spammers, they only have to _believe_ that they will make money. And like most spammers, and much like the original "Cyberpromo" business by Sanford Wallace, and Canter & Siegel's original spamming business, they can cause a great deal of damage to legitimate businesses before they fall.
> define the use of bots to buy tickets as an 'unfair and deceptive practice'
If they would eliminate the purchase of _stock_ with bots, It would help stabilize our economy. High speed trading has all but eliminated the possibility of profit for small traders. Also, the extremely tight coupling of instant sale and purchase must _inevitably_ cause positive feedback loops. That is not because any one high frequency trader's algorithms lack negative feedback, but because if the phase lag between two high speeds is at all significant, they will eventually get roughly 180 degrees out of phase and form positive feedback loops. There is a reasonable article about it, in understandable English, at http://www.surlytrader.com/the...,
>> Most "christian extremists" do things like build churches in third world countries and/or pray in front of abortion clinics.
> No, they do more than that. They go to 3rd-world countries in Africa and build churches and then teach people how "evil" gay people are, and encourage them to pass laws legalizing the murder of gay people.
John Stewart did a frightening but very insightful sketch drawing direct comparisons between the American Tea Party and the Taliban. It was funny and chilling at the same time.
If we establish the technologies to harvest He-3 from raw lunar rock and ship it to Earth for use as fuel, you've established large scale space flight. You may as well use a known technology, with much safer handling, than the amazingly high pressures and temperatures needed for He-3 fusion. He-3 fusion is _much_ harder than H-2 and H-3 fusion, it takes far more pressure and/or temperature.
Moreover, it's not clean. Straight from Wikipedia:
Therefore fusion using D-3He fuel may produce a somewhat lower neutron flux than D-T fusion, but is by no means clean, negating some of its main attraction.
If we achieve bulk space flight, it's vastly safer, simpler, and requires no fundamentally new technologies to deploy solar sails as power collection mirrors. At over 1 KWatt/square meter, solar reflectors are easily deployed with very flimsy films and focused as desired on units to focus or re-transmit the energy as desired elsewhere. able to beam down power at night since satellites in skewed orbits can transmit to arbitrary ground locations from outside the Earth's shadow, and without being blocked by clouds. It's all based on existing, tested technologies: it needs a great deal of scaling up, but requires no fundamentally new technologies.
I'm afraid that there are hospitals, especially Christian ones, where the surgeons are not permitted to perform such surgeries by the owners of the hospital. There are, similarly, hospitals that will not aid with medical suicide in "right to die" cases.
There were long periods since the authorship of "Happy Birthday" when copyrights required renewal to remain valid. Given that there were no such renewals, it lapsed into public domain decades ago.
> I think it was a good system when it started out.
A great deal of the difficulty is software patents. They overwhelm the patent offices resources, they're proven very difficult to differentiate, and they've been wildly abused both to harass legitimate developers and to develop overwhelming and impenetrable patent suites to protect patent violating companies from legitimate lawsuits.
> Why don't you list the fucking real atrocities that are going in Syria, or in Africa, or in 100 other places where there is conflict in the world.
Because they're not lobbying Google to censor Youtube uploads of their atrocities. Also, after the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people, we should expect better from Israel. And also, because don't give Syria privileged access to US funding, military hardware, and intelligence reports.
> Or tell terrorists to stop dressing up like Israeli Soldiers and staging 'execution style killings' for the camera.
It's one of the problems with cellphone videos of police stops in the USA. They're invaluable, especially the raw footage. But it takes very little manipulation to creatively edit them to tell a very different story than the actual events.
> I must be getting old but this has started to bother me more and more. Median is an average.
In well defined math, "median" is not an average. It is a midpoint. Where income is strongly skewed by particular categores, such as a few practicioners at the top of the income range making far, far more than the ordinary worker, the "average" is quite misleading about the field as a whole And I'm afraid we see this for teachers: the administrators, the top of the school bureaucracies, often make several times the income of the part time staff or the non-tenured who form the majority of teaching staff.
Without Wikileaks, which Julian Assange helped found and maintain despite various forms of illegal political and economic abuse, many people like Edward Snowden would have far less safety reporting abuse and criminal activity. Snowden is a hero, but he's a one-shot hero. He's very unlikely to have another opportunity to reveal such abuses. As much as I may detest Assange's personal habits, and especially his treatment of women, Wikileaks has earned its reputation for verifying stories, protecting sources like Edward Snowden, and publishing genuinely shocking material that deserves exposition. And it is an ongoing effort.
Assange is a flawed hero, but Wikileaks has been a heroic enterprise.
I haven't seen an announcement about systemd doing it yet, but there are a few hours left in this week's release cycle. And i'm sure it will be incompatible with all other bookmark managers and, in fact, all browsers.
>> "Masking one's origin is often the entire purpose of a VPN, at least from a consumer standpoint."
> Uhhh... nope, why should that be the case?
To avoid a subpoena for the records of the connecting IP address, or to fool geo-IP based content restrictions from blocking people outside the UK from watching BBC programs, or to evade the "Great Firewall" of China, or to avoid tracking a command control center for a botnet, or to avoid detection of the "amazing offer" as coming from Nigeria, or simply to send spam from IP addresses which are not in public blacklists.
> No relation to encryption isn't an issue. He attacked his country's intelligence services, at a bad time it turns out.
He exposed criminal behavior, both in the US and worldwide, and the waste of millions if not billions of dollars of intelligence efforts aimed at completely innocent people. Because it's proven so very fruitless, it was and remains a good idea to expose it.
> Recently a nursing home was pushed by an advocate to hire a woman from a halfway house.
That's a problem. Nursing facilities are _desperate_ for staff as the baby boomers are retiring or getting more medical issues as they age. The pay in many facilities is very low and good staff tend to burn out very quickly.
> Without being able to get a detailed history of the applicant
That's what references are for. If the HR person cannot be bothered to look anywhere but online, then there is a very different problem in that nursing home's staffing practices.
I'm afraid that there is also a profound danger in high staff turnover in nursing care, child care, and other service work with long shifts. Staff who commit abuses are very, very rarely criminally charged. They are usually given a chance to resign, even for sexual or physical abuse, in order to protect the care facility from lawsuit or loss of funding or accreditation. It is also usually _much_ faster to tell someone to resign or face firing for reasons that such a business may prefer not to have to put in writing or in any public document. The result is high turnover among abusive staff, but it also leaves a clean employment record. And it can be very difficult to separate from normal burnout or turnover, or normal layoffs in nursing care as funding changes.
The key to detecting this seems to be checking personal contacts, outside the list of references an applicant may provide. But that takes far more time than a simple Google search. It often takes getting your own staff to reach out to private contacts at the other facilities, and _that_ leads to HR being concerned about their own jobs, and about staff asking questions or judging candidates based on ethnicity, sexuality, race, or religion which HR personnel are specifically forbidden from using to evaluate candidates.
For hiring technology people, or providing references, _of course_ I reach out to acquaintances who may know a contact to get information that is not on their resume. I'll also have to admit that I've evaluated candidates in the basis of age, gender, marital status, and medical status in ways that are specifically prohibited by law but are nonetheless valid for work performance. The most interesting such case I ran into was someone changing gender: it wasn't on their resume, and they hadn't realized that I'd been present when their parents first met. While gender was not a legal basis for job discrimination, their medical needs for the next few years made them a poor candidate for the role, and they were quite surprised when I discussed it with them. I encouraged them to apply for, and helped them get an offer for, a role better suited to their needs for scheduled hormonal treatment and expected surgery. They were quite alarmed when I brought up their gender change myself in their interview, and a new employee in HR tried to raise concerns about my mentioning it.
Saturn used to be like this. I had very positive experiences with them, for new car sales and used car sales, and for vehicle service. They did try to upsell, but gracefully, and took "no, thank you" for an answer. I found it sad that GM elected to sell off this division, rather than their other divisions, and the division closed when the sale fell through.
In 1990, in the Usenet group rec.arts.sf-lovers, Nicoll wrote the following epigram on the English language:
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary
> Yes, it is too hard for the actual whiners we have, but it would be easy, beyond simply "trivial," for any Jr Sysadmin or even a Jr Software Developer if they've ever used make
I'm afraid that's not true. Take a look at the Fedora work going on right now to try to segregate systemd components, described at http://news.softpedia.com/news....These are components that should never have been integrated into an over sized and aggressive systemd in the first place. I've taken a few stabs at segregating systemd components myself, and it's a very large octopus of dependent code.
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> found out to their chagrin when they tried to cash in 10 years late
One doesn't usually purchase diamond jewelry to make a direct profit. One purchases diamond jewelry to hide the assets and keep its ownership and sale out of official record keeping. It was the economic salvation of many immigrant families to have at least a few stones secreted in their luggage, and in some cases even inside their own bodies.
I thought it took tequila.
http://news.nationalgeographic...
> Core beliefs of the Tea Party movement have long been advertised
> The Tea Party is not a reenactment of the Handmaiden's Tale [wikipedia.org].
I'm afraid that in local elections and in their public practices, they do seem to be trying _very hard_. The only female candidate I've seen willing to work with them is Sarah Palin, and the strong conservative religious core of their membership is clear in their handling of birth control rights and funding.
In the real world, this happens all the time. Spectators are willing to pay a premium for last-minute tickets. And they don't have to make a _lot_ of money, nor do they have to be consistently profitable. Much like spammers, they only have to _believe_ that they will make money. And like most spammers, and much like the original "Cyberpromo" business by Sanford Wallace, and Canter & Siegel's original spamming business, they can cause a great deal of damage to legitimate businesses before they fall.
> define the use of bots to buy tickets as an 'unfair and deceptive practice'
If they would eliminate the purchase of _stock_ with bots, It would help stabilize our economy. High speed trading has all but eliminated the possibility of profit for small traders. Also, the extremely tight coupling of instant sale and purchase must _inevitably_ cause positive feedback loops. That is not because any one high frequency trader's algorithms lack negative feedback, but because if the phase lag between two high speeds is at all significant, they will eventually get roughly 180 degrees out of phase and form positive feedback loops. There is a reasonable article about it, in understandable English, at http://www.surlytrader.com/the...,
>> Most "christian extremists" do things like build churches in third world countries and/or pray in front of abortion clinics.
> No, they do more than that. They go to 3rd-world countries in Africa and build churches and then teach people how "evil" gay people are, and encourage them to pass laws legalizing the murder of gay people.
John Stewart did a frightening but very insightful sketch drawing direct comparisons between the American Tea Party and the Taliban. It was funny and chilling at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If we establish the technologies to harvest He-3 from raw lunar rock and ship it to Earth for use as fuel, you've established large scale space flight. You may as well use a known technology, with much safer handling, than the amazingly high pressures and temperatures needed for He-3 fusion. He-3 fusion is _much_ harder than H-2 and H-3 fusion, it takes far more pressure and/or temperature.
Moreover, it's not clean. Straight from Wikipedia:
Therefore fusion using D-3He fuel may produce a somewhat lower neutron flux than D-T fusion, but is by no means clean, negating some of its main attraction.
If we achieve bulk space flight, it's vastly safer, simpler, and requires no fundamentally new technologies to deploy solar sails as power collection mirrors. At over 1 KWatt/square meter, solar reflectors are easily deployed with very flimsy films and focused as desired on units to focus or re-transmit the energy as desired elsewhere. able to beam down power at night since satellites in skewed orbits can transmit to arbitrary ground locations from outside the Earth's shadow, and without being blocked by clouds. It's all based on existing, tested technologies: it needs a great deal of scaling up, but requires no fundamentally new technologies.
I'm afraid that there are hospitals, especially Christian ones, where the surgeons are not permitted to perform such surgeries by the owners of the hospital. There are, similarly, hospitals that will not aid with medical suicide in "right to die" cases.
There were long periods since the authorship of "Happy Birthday" when copyrights required renewal to remain valid. Given that there were no such renewals, it lapsed into public domain decades ago.
> I think it was a good system when it started out.
A great deal of the difficulty is software patents. They overwhelm the patent offices resources, they're proven very difficult to differentiate, and they've been wildly abused both to harass legitimate developers and to develop overwhelming and impenetrable patent suites to protect patent violating companies from legitimate lawsuits.
> Why don't you list the fucking real atrocities that are going in Syria, or in Africa, or in 100 other places where there is conflict in the world.
Because they're not lobbying Google to censor Youtube uploads of their atrocities. Also, after the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people, we should expect better from Israel. And also, because don't give Syria privileged access to US funding, military hardware, and intelligence reports.
> Or tell terrorists to stop dressing up like Israeli Soldiers and staging 'execution style killings' for the camera.
It's one of the problems with cellphone videos of police stops in the USA. They're invaluable, especially the raw footage. But it takes very little manipulation to creatively edit them to tell a very different story than the actual events.
> Israeli Arabs are the most educated Arabs in the world, with the best living standards and opportunities in the region.
If you count Arabic speaking Muslims as "Arabs" this way, I suspect you've not included Kuwait.
To employ the teachers who teach teachers, and reduce competition to those who've been "guided" to contemporary educational philosophy.
> I must be getting old but this has started to bother me more and more. Median is an average.
In well defined math, "median" is not an average. It is a midpoint. Where income is strongly skewed by particular categores, such as a few practicioners at the top of the income range making far, far more than the ordinary worker, the "average" is quite misleading about the field as a whole And I'm afraid we see this for teachers: the administrators, the top of the school bureaucracies, often make several times the income of the part time staff or the non-tenured who form the majority of teaching staff.
Without Wikileaks, which Julian Assange helped found and maintain despite various forms of illegal political and economic abuse, many people like Edward Snowden would have far less safety reporting abuse and criminal activity. Snowden is a hero, but he's a one-shot hero. He's very unlikely to have another opportunity to reveal such abuses. As much as I may detest Assange's personal habits, and especially his treatment of women, Wikileaks has earned its reputation for verifying stories, protecting sources like Edward Snowden, and publishing genuinely shocking material that deserves exposition. And it is an ongoing effort.
Assange is a flawed hero, but Wikileaks has been a heroic enterprise.
I haven't seen an announcement about systemd doing it yet, but there are a few hours left in this week's release cycle. And i'm sure it will be incompatible with all other bookmark managers and, in fact, all browsers.
>> "Masking one's origin is often the entire purpose of a VPN, at least from a consumer standpoint."
> Uhhh... nope, why should that be the case?
To avoid a subpoena for the records of the connecting IP address, or to fool geo-IP based content restrictions from blocking people outside the UK from watching BBC programs, or to evade the "Great Firewall" of China, or to avoid tracking a command control center for a botnet, or to avoid detection of the "amazing offer" as coming from Nigeria, or simply to send spam from IP addresses which are not in public blacklists.
There is, of course, a relevant XKCD cartoon.
https://xkcd.com/378/
> No relation to encryption isn't an issue. He attacked his country's intelligence services, at a bad time it turns out.
He exposed criminal behavior, both in the US and worldwide, and the waste of millions if not billions of dollars of intelligence efforts aimed at completely innocent people. Because it's proven so very fruitless, it was and remains a good idea to expose it.
> Recently a nursing home was pushed by an advocate to hire a woman from a halfway house.
That's a problem. Nursing facilities are _desperate_ for staff as the baby boomers are retiring or getting more medical issues as they age. The pay in many facilities is very low and good staff tend to burn out very quickly.
> Without being able to get a detailed history of the applicant
That's what references are for. If the HR person cannot be bothered to look anywhere but online, then there is a very different problem in that nursing home's staffing practices.
I'm afraid that there is also a profound danger in high staff turnover in nursing care, child care, and other service work with long shifts. Staff who commit abuses are very, very rarely criminally charged. They are usually given a chance to resign, even for sexual or physical abuse, in order to protect the care facility from lawsuit or loss of funding or accreditation. It is also usually _much_ faster to tell someone to resign or face firing for reasons that such a business may prefer not to have to put in writing or in any public document. The result is high turnover among abusive staff, but it also leaves a clean employment record. And it can be very difficult to separate from normal burnout or turnover, or normal layoffs in nursing care as funding changes.
The key to detecting this seems to be checking personal contacts, outside the list of references an applicant may provide. But that takes far more time than a simple Google search. It often takes getting your own staff to reach out to private contacts at the other facilities, and _that_ leads to HR being concerned about their own jobs, and about staff asking questions or judging candidates based on ethnicity, sexuality, race, or religion which HR personnel are specifically forbidden from using to evaluate candidates.
For hiring technology people, or providing references, _of course_ I reach out to acquaintances who may know a contact to get information that is not on their resume. I'll also have to admit that I've evaluated candidates in the basis of age, gender, marital status, and medical status in ways that are specifically prohibited by law but are nonetheless valid for work performance. The most interesting such case I ran into was someone changing gender: it wasn't on their resume, and they hadn't realized that I'd been present when their parents first met. While gender was not a legal basis for job discrimination, their medical needs for the next few years made them a poor candidate for the role, and they were quite surprised when I discussed it with them. I encouraged them to apply for, and helped them get an offer for, a role better suited to their needs for scheduled hormonal treatment and expected surgery. They were quite alarmed when I brought up their gender change myself in their interview, and a new employee in HR tried to raise concerns about my mentioning it.
From the source tree's README.tmp, I don't see anything to handle the actual init scripts.
> https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/git...
It could turn out well, and I wish the authors well with their work.
> i had a great experience at a mazda dealership.
Saturn used to be like this. I had very positive experiences with them, for new car sales and used car sales, and for vehicle service. They did try to upsell, but gracefully, and took "no, thank you" for an answer. I found it sad that GM elected to sell off this division, rather than their other divisions, and the division closed when the sale fell through.
> English is a natural language,
From Wikipedia:
In 1990, in the Usenet group rec.arts.sf-lovers, Nicoll wrote the following epigram on the English language:
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary
> Yes, it is too hard for the actual whiners we have, but it would be easy, beyond simply "trivial," for any Jr Sysadmin or even a Jr Software Developer if they've ever used make
I'm afraid that's not true. Take a look at the Fedora work going on right now to try to segregate systemd components, described at http://news.softpedia.com/news... .These are components that should never have been integrated into an over sized and aggressive systemd in the first place. I've taken a few stabs at segregating systemd components myself, and it's a very large octopus of dependent code.