The question is not if you can accurately calculate how much that $7.99 shirt is going to be if it is taxed at 7%, but how to plug in the numbers for that.
To be fair, in Europe we do not need to do that. The taxes are included. If they are not, you pay the advertised price.
Understanding the logic behind it is much easier when done without the calculator. Otherwise for many it is just like using any other program: Mindless repetition, without understanding.
I have sen this in action when I wanted to rent a car. When looking online for prices, for one day and then for 10 days, in 50% of the few times I liked it up, it was 10x the day price. In the other 50% it was the week price plus 3 times the day price. This was lower (as expected) as the 10x day price.
So I phoned the company and asked them to quote me a price. Apparently they got the same wrong configured server and quoted me the 10x day price for 10 days. I asked them if a longer period was cheaper compared to a day price. i.e. if 10 days would not be cheaper then 10x 1 day. They said yes, but the computer told them that was the price. I asked them if they could calculate it by hand and they were unable (not unwilling) to do so. Even though the website clearly stated what the week price and what the day price was.
I have seen business presentations where there were serious errors in the Excel sheet and the person making them did not notice, because he had no idea that and increase of 25% in staffing could not mean a decrease of 10% in staffing budget.
This all happens, because people have not learned what numbers mean. They know how to type them in, but have no clue about the ballpark the outcome should be.
I knew that 10 days should be cheaper then 10x 1 day. I knew that +25% staffing would mean around +25% in budget and so I would know what ballpark we would be talking about.
Sure, for the specific numbers I use a calculator.
So by all means, please embrace the calculators and computers. But do this into addition to what we already do, not as a substitution.
and drop the whole Internet thing. You will notice that you are still fine.
As long as you made the choice yourself, you will be fine. Now tell, no, force others to do the same. Block all Flash at your router and see if the people you live with are also fine with it. Don't tell them anything. Just observe.
That would be interesting to see. Also do the same at your job and see if you are still fine.
There is only one solution: become rich or become poor.
People will argue that these are two solutions. But just like the two-party system where there is no real option and thus for all things real, this is only one option.
A bit like the option if you want your left knee or your right knee broken. The people doing it say you have a choice, but for those in real life there is no option.
If things do not change, there will be some sort of revolution. Not sure if it can be compared of trowing the red jackets out, beheading the aristocracy or by strikes. I know it will be bloody. I know it will be temporary as after a while you need to redo it.
Not so much a question about if, but about when. It could happen anytime now or 50 years in the future. The start could be somebody not wanting to sit in the back of the bus. It could be somebody trowing tea in the river. It could be one kid killed by the Fingerman, uh, TSA. It probably will be something else.
It will be a random act that will be the last drip, but it will happen.
The problem is that it is all nice on paper. But when I have to reset my password every 27 minutes (OK, every month.) I will not be able to remember a complicated one.
So I will use a weaker one. I will write it down. I will do anything, so I can do my job. If IT does not factor in the human way of thinking, then it is not looking at all the information.
Sure 18 x 70 is safer then 8 x 26 characters. But you need to divide by the human factor. You make things 10 times harder. I will cheat my way out of it.
People are lazy and as long as you don't count on that, all the rest of your counting is wrong.
For offices? Card reader/badge and pincode. Simple for all. Secure for almost anything. Way more secure then what we have now. And you can even use the same password for all I care.
Look at it from the positive side. I is a great example what happens if you do not have a due process. Or even the reason that there is a due process is to prevent this.
They would actually adjust and adapt their teaching as science advanced.
This alone should be the reason science and religion can not mix. If anything, it proves that religion is man-made. How many times has the religion already done this? Any religion? If you know that you might need to change or adapt your belief system, does it not mean that your believe system is flawed? Yet I still have to meet one religious person who really means it when he says: Well, I might be wrong. Perhaps my $DEITY does not exist.
That would be 3: 2 multiplied by itself is 4. No matter if you do it once or 57,885,160 times. Then minus one. Or it could be 4 if you only do it 57,885,159 times. But I think 4 is not a prime number.
Copyright is implied, unless you decide otherwise. The reason that people add the copyright sign or add the words and the year make it easier to proof, but that does not make it so.
The people do not want a grip of some companies on some devices.
The people want the US to get a grip on privacy. On all companies. Concerning all means, including paper ones. Your privacy should be the number one concern.
And the privacy should NOT be able to be taken away. Not by clicking on an OK button. Not by a contract. (Only if ordered by a judge as part of an investigation or part of a punishment). Just like you can not enslave somebody by letting them sign a contract, you should not be allowed to give away your privacy.
(This will unfortunately mean no more mug shots of famous people who have been arrested.)
Yes. If I know there is a camera, I will not risk adding a bit of speed at orange. I will stop. (No, that does not mean that I make a habit running red lights if there isn't.)
What they can do is add a lot more empty shells for camera's. Paint them bright orange, so everybody will see them. Now, at random, only put camera's in 1 out of 10 or out of 25 or whatever is a good number. Announce this to the public (not which shells are hot, but the number and even locations).
People will not take the risk of going through a red light, because there MIGHT be a camera in it. The city does not do it for the money, because not all are camera's and each one is clearly visible and identifiable.
That is what you would think. yet many people get shafted by selling things via ebay or buying from ebay. Yet seldom anybody gets caught.
Sure, this is much worse, because this is two people who something they both want against the law. Ebay scams are just between two people, so why go after those?
The real answer is that the people currently sitting in offices don't give a rats ass about their own Constitution.
This means that the public does not give a rats ass. If they would, they would change it. Politicians have not changed. They have been the same for thousands of years. And I understand why they do not give out any information. Because nobody does anything if they don't. What incentive do you provide for them to do what you want? Voting for the other one who also does not do it?
Not only does the government ignore its citizens. Its citizens ignore the government and that is scary..
When the US falls and the full extent to which its people have been oppressed is revealed, the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
First I thought it would be funny to do the above and just write "Fixed that for you" and then I started to think.
Well, what I do is add the folowing to my hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com facebook.com login.facebook.com www.login.facebook.com static.ak.connect.facebook.com www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com ads.ak.facebook.com creative.ak.facebook.com fb.com
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The one thing we learned is that medical research causes cancer in mice.
To be fair, in Europe we do not need to do that. The taxes are included. If they are not, you pay the advertised price.
Understanding the logic behind it is much easier when done without the calculator. Otherwise for many it is just like using any other program: Mindless repetition, without understanding.
I have sen this in action when I wanted to rent a car. When looking online for prices, for one day and then for 10 days, in 50% of the few times I liked it up, it was 10x the day price. In the other 50% it was the week price plus 3 times the day price. This was lower (as expected) as the 10x day price.
So I phoned the company and asked them to quote me a price. Apparently they got the same wrong configured server and quoted me the 10x day price for 10 days. I asked them if a longer period was cheaper compared to a day price. i.e. if 10 days would not be cheaper then 10x 1 day. They said yes, but the computer told them that was the price. I asked them if they could calculate it by hand and they were unable (not unwilling) to do so. Even though the website clearly stated what the week price and what the day price was.
I have seen business presentations where there were serious errors in the Excel sheet and the person making them did not notice, because he had no idea that and increase of 25% in staffing could not mean a decrease of 10% in staffing budget.
This all happens, because people have not learned what numbers mean. They know how to type them in, but have no clue about the ballpark the outcome should be.
I knew that 10 days should be cheaper then 10x 1 day.
I knew that +25% staffing would mean around +25% in budget and so I would know what ballpark we would be talking about.
Sure, for the specific numbers I use a calculator.
So by all means, please embrace the calculators and computers. But do this into addition to what we already do, not as a substitution.
PepsiCo is not the company I am interested in hearing this from. Please let me know when AB-InBev has a new beverage for breakfast.
Well, no matter how much money they got. This clearly means it wasn't enough and they should get more.
and drop the whole Internet thing. You will notice that you are still fine.
As long as you made the choice yourself, you will be fine. Now tell, no, force others to do the same. Block all Flash at your router and see if the people you live with are also fine with it. Don't tell them anything. Just observe.
That would be interesting to see. Also do the same at your job and see if you are still fine.
People will argue that these are two solutions. But just like the two-party system where there is no real option and thus for all things real, this is only one option.
A bit like the option if you want your left knee or your right knee broken. The people doing it say you have a choice, but for those in real life there is no option.
If things do not change, there will be some sort of revolution. Not sure if it can be compared of trowing the red jackets out, beheading the aristocracy or by strikes. I know it will be bloody. I know it will be temporary as after a while you need to redo it.
Not so much a question about if, but about when. It could happen anytime now or 50 years in the future. The start could be somebody not wanting to sit in the back of the bus. It could be somebody trowing tea in the river. It could be one kid killed by the Fingerman, uh, TSA. It probably will be something else.
It will be a random act that will be the last drip, but it will happen.
And not only the length helps this. Also the fact that you need to change your password each month (Worst I have seen was every week).
If you password is "password1234" I am pretty sure your next password will be "password1235".
The amount of password resets an IT department gets and the time they waste with it will grow the more complicated it gets.
And if in the past 8 characters was enough, but now we need 12. How much longer till we need 24, 48, 192, 7832 characters to have a safe password?
The problem by only looking at password is excluding the human. It is a technical solution for a social problem.
The problem is that it is all nice on paper. But when I have to reset my password every 27 minutes (OK, every month.) I will not be able to remember a complicated one.
So I will use a weaker one. I will write it down. I will do anything, so I can do my job. If IT does not factor in the human way of thinking, then it is not looking at all the information.
Sure 18 x 70 is safer then 8 x 26 characters. But you need to divide by the human factor. You make things 10 times harder. I will cheat my way out of it.
People are lazy and as long as you don't count on that, all the rest of your counting is wrong.
For offices? Card reader/badge and pincode. Simple for all. Secure for almost anything. Way more secure then what we have now. And you can even use the same password for all I care.
Your name, most likely.
I don't HAVE a facebook page. Good luck finding out what on my FB is real and what isn't.
Indie? What about individuals?
Look at it from the positive side. I is a great example what happens if you do not have a due process. Or even the reason that there is a due process is to prevent this.
This alone should be the reason science and religion can not mix.
If anything, it proves that religion is man-made. How many times has the religion already done this? Any religion?
If you know that you might need to change or adapt your belief system, does it not mean that your believe system is flawed? Yet I still have to meet one religious person who really means it when he says: Well, I might be wrong. Perhaps my $DEITY does not exist.
That would be 3:
2 multiplied by itself is 4. No matter if you do it once or 57,885,160 times. Then minus one.
Or it could be 4 if you only do it 57,885,159 times. But I think 4 is not a prime number.
XFCE is the new Gnome. I hate both KDE and GNOME. Luckily there is XFCE (and LXDE).
Copyright is implied, unless you decide otherwise. The reason that people add the copyright sign or add the words and the year make it easier to proof, but that does not make it so.
I lost The Game.
Legal and moral are two different things. It is legal what is happening. It is still wrong.
From Wikipedia: The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security.
So it isn't an organization that has the consumers interest at heart, And in this case, they have not.
The people do not want a grip of some companies on some devices.
The people want the US to get a grip on privacy. On all companies. Concerning all means, including paper ones. Your privacy should be the number one concern.
And the privacy should NOT be able to be taken away. Not by clicking on an OK button. Not by a contract. (Only if ordered by a judge as part of an investigation or part of a punishment). Just like you can not enslave somebody by letting them sign a contract, you should not be allowed to give away your privacy.
(This will unfortunately mean no more mug shots of famous people who have been arrested.)
Then use something else. I use Sygic that does not need a network connection as it is offline.
Then only if you want it to you make a connection.
I have no experience with e.g. Navfree or any others offline GPS Navigation App.
The only moment my phone is connected to the Internet is when I am at home and even then only once a week or so.
Yes. If I know there is a camera, I will not risk adding a bit of speed at orange. I will stop. (No, that does not mean that I make a habit running red lights if there isn't.)
What they can do is add a lot more empty shells for camera's. Paint them bright orange, so everybody will see them. Now, at random, only put camera's in 1 out of 10 or out of 25 or whatever is a good number.
Announce this to the public (not which shells are hot, but the number and even locations).
People will not take the risk of going through a red light, because there MIGHT be a camera in it. The city does not do it for the money, because not all are camera's and each one is clearly visible and identifiable.
That is what you would think. yet many people get shafted by selling things via ebay or buying from ebay. Yet seldom anybody gets caught.
Sure, this is much worse, because this is two people who something they both want against the law. Ebay scams are just between two people, so why go after those?
This means that the public does not give a rats ass. If they would, they would change it.
Politicians have not changed. They have been the same for thousands of years.
And I understand why they do not give out any information. Because nobody does anything if they don't. What incentive do you provide for them to do what you want? Voting for the other one who also does not do it?
Not only does the government ignore its citizens. Its citizens ignore the government and that is scary..
When the US falls and the full extent to which its people have been oppressed is revealed, the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
First I thought it would be funny to do the above and just write "Fixed that for you" and then I started to think.
Well, what I do is add the folowing to my hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1
www.facebook.com
facebook.com
login.facebook.com
www.login.facebook.com
static.ak.connect.facebook.com
www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
ads.ak.facebook.com
creative.ak.facebook.com
fb.com