And they'd have a harder time figuring out who you were, since a security camera photograph doesn't correspond to a home address like an IP typically does.
These people need to learn what actual violence against them and their property is, so that proportionate responses have value.
If your entire life is going to be ruined for any sort of protest, the natural incentive is to go in for intimidation, murder, arson, whatever to make their lives really hell instead.
Nope. If you think that, that just means you haven't had enough exposure to different people. There are a lot of people in the world, and nothing, even the completely obvious secondary sex characteristics break this rule.
..is still dwarfed by the differences between individuals of a gender. None of these articles about statistical differences will ever justify the prejudices and social roles some people want to enforce on others to make things simpler.
Yes, so you have to get tested and meet compliance. At a certain point it becomes about the owner complying by means of registration, and not the sale. You can meet the requirements without being sold in-state. I think the distinction is an important one.
Baloney...well, mostly baloney. There are times when it makes sense to do things in house and there are times where it very much does not make sense. Why hire full time employees for project management, development, QA, etc for an 12 month project?
Yes, because you end up paying for their HR overhead and downtime and hiring/firing expense that the contractor needs anyways. That's before owner profit. It substantially raises the cost while you are working on the project, costs you the value of having developers who understand your organization, and the vast majority of the time you end up needing contractors again for another project shortly.
Yes, you will want your own technical staff to be part of the process. Yes, it may make sense to do the maintenance / support in house. Yes, you should never do time and materials but instead fixed bid with penalties (this does mean you will need to have a very good spec up front). Yes, you should get several bids and do your homework on the companies providing the bids. However, none of this precludes using an outside contractor.
That didn't happen here, and it's not the MO of government privatization. You can make lots of quite plausible arguments for "balanced approaches" and I can't offer certainty of that approach being necessarily wrong.
You can buy it, then get it registered and tested yourself. Full-faith-and-credit means the registration from another state would stand until you did so.
Car dealerships practically own(and frequently are) local politicians, in a way mega-corporations wish they could do to the U.S. federal government. Being a local petty millionaire who can throw a "fund-raiser" is all it takes for the smaller offices.
Outsourcing and privatization of coding is a disaster waiting to happen for any company or government of sufficient size. When you lack the wherewithal in your own organization to make the project you're planning, you also lack the wherewithal to judge how much time/money/manpower it would take someone else.
That in-and-of-itself is a problem, but it also, as you noted, injects a middle-man whose biggest incentive is to keep on earning money past the deadline for the project, not finishing it. When you hire your own coders, their biggest concerns tend to be keeping a manageable workload for themselves and keeping their jobs. Humans are (usually) much more reliable than corporations.
The so-called cost savings of outsourcing projects are a lie too, but that's another rant.
There's nothing "over my head" about throwing out a string of vaguely scientific terms in a way that's frequently semantically meaningless and pretending you said something. It's a cheap mechanic for sci-fi writers who can't write.
I know what "Neutrino flux" means(because both of these concepts are dead simple, in actual physics), and that means understanding why it's a bullshit explanation for why "luck gets reversed"(guess which technobabble laden sci-fi that's from). It's about the difference between lazy, poorly communicated writing that relies on a thousand deus-ex-machinas to get through its premise and science fiction that raises interesting questions.
I'm sorry your taste is poor and your level of ignorance is sufficient that you're impressed by people talking about arbitrary combinations of sub-atomic particles in conjunction with arbitrary measurement systems, but I felt better about you when I thought you were a troll, and not an oblivious moron.
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And they'd have a harder time figuring out who you were, since a security camera photograph doesn't correspond to a home address like an IP typically does.
That's totally what anyone at all was saying.
It was hyperbole, and intended as such. Sorry.
Okay, I got the sarcastic spelling quibble out of my system. Let me reply a little more seriously to something you said.
Actions that will ruin my entire life do not "incent" me to act worse, they in fact very much incent me not to ruin my life
And yet evidence clearly shows people do it anyways. If the consequences are dramatic either way, what really holds them back?
How much does "police officer or prison inmate" cost?
Not that I'm endorsing DDOSing, just reacting to disproportionate responses.
These people need to learn what actual violence against them and their property is, so that proportionate responses have value.
If your entire life is going to be ruined for any sort of protest, the natural incentive is to go in for intimidation, murder, arson, whatever to make their lives really hell instead.
Youtube videos aren't academic citations, FYI.
Nope. If you think that, that just means you haven't had enough exposure to different people. There are a lot of people in the world, and nothing, even the completely obvious secondary sex characteristics break this rule.
..is still dwarfed by the differences between individuals of a gender. None of these articles about statistical differences will ever justify the prejudices and social roles some people want to enforce on others to make things simpler.
Your stupid mind control techniques don't need more information from spying on us, they need to go away forever.
Yes, so you have to get tested and meet compliance. At a certain point it becomes about the owner complying by means of registration, and not the sale. You can meet the requirements without being sold in-state. I think the distinction is an important one.
That job sounds like eternal misery made manifest. I hope it wasn't as bad as it sounds.
Baloney...well, mostly baloney. There are times when it makes sense to do things in house and there are times where it very much does not make sense. Why hire full time employees for project management, development, QA, etc for an 12 month project?
Yes, because you end up paying for their HR overhead and downtime and hiring/firing expense that the contractor needs anyways. That's before owner profit. It substantially raises the cost while you are working on the project, costs you the value of having developers who understand your organization, and the vast majority of the time you end up needing contractors again for another project shortly.
Yes, you will want your own technical staff to be part of the process. Yes, it may make sense to do the maintenance / support in house. Yes, you should never do time and materials but instead fixed bid with penalties (this does mean you will need to have a very good spec up front). Yes, you should get several bids and do your homework on the companies providing the bids. However, none of this precludes using an outside contractor.
That didn't happen here, and it's not the MO of government privatization. You can make lots of quite plausible arguments for "balanced approaches" and I can't offer certainty of that approach being necessarily wrong.
You can buy it, then get it registered and tested yourself. Full-faith-and-credit means the registration from another state would stand until you did so.
Not inherently wrong, I agree, but it is unconstitutional. Interstate trade is the exclusive regulatory domain of the feds.
Car dealerships practically own(and frequently are) local politicians, in a way mega-corporations wish they could do to the U.S. federal government. Being a local petty millionaire who can throw a "fund-raiser" is all it takes for the smaller offices.
It's a new business model, and it's coming right at us! Shoot it! Shoot it now! Don't check if it's friendly! SHOOOT IT!!!!
Outsourcing and privatization of coding is a disaster waiting to happen for any company or government of sufficient size. When you lack the wherewithal in your own organization to make the project you're planning, you also lack the wherewithal to judge how much time/money/manpower it would take someone else.
That in-and-of-itself is a problem, but it also, as you noted, injects a middle-man whose biggest incentive is to keep on earning money past the deadline for the project, not finishing it. When you hire your own coders, their biggest concerns tend to be keeping a manageable workload for themselves and keeping their jobs. Humans are (usually) much more reliable than corporations.
The so-called cost savings of outsourcing projects are a lie too, but that's another rant.
There's nothing "over my head" about throwing out a string of vaguely scientific terms in a way that's frequently semantically meaningless and pretending you said something. It's a cheap mechanic for sci-fi writers who can't write.
I know what "Neutrino flux" means(because both of these concepts are dead simple, in actual physics), and that means understanding why it's a bullshit explanation for why "luck gets reversed"(guess which technobabble laden sci-fi that's from). It's about the difference between lazy, poorly communicated writing that relies on a thousand deus-ex-machinas to get through its premise and science fiction that raises interesting questions.
I'm sorry your taste is poor and your level of ignorance is sufficient that you're impressed by people talking about arbitrary combinations of sub-atomic particles in conjunction with arbitrary measurement systems, but I felt better about you when I thought you were a troll, and not an oblivious moron.
No, no it's not, you damned troll.
Yeah, story-justifying techno-babble actually meets reality. Maybe there was some sort of elaborate conspiracy to keep this from us.
Surgical scrubs include shoe coverings that cover laces. Someone, somewhere, thought of that.
Then all the feces is helpfully contained to your bed and inside your shoes.
Non-sequitur there. It doesn't relate to your original premise that there's a cap on how much you can consume.