Says the person who wants all the content they can grab for free.
Nothing costs $0. Do you want ads or a paywall?
I think what most of us want is "no malware". Do I block ads on parents', friends', in-laws' browsers so they get stuff for free without distraction? No, I block them to minimize the number of malware infections I have to clean up.
This isn't odd at all. People staying at budget and midscale hotel chains are more price sensitive, so they're going to not come to your hotel if you don't have free wifi. The people staying a luxury hotels are not as price sensitive and are more likely to be worried about other things beside a charge for internet access when selecting a hotel.
Weird thing is, the nicer hotels aren't necessarily that much pricier than the cheap ones. For the best of both worlds, stay at a fancy hotel near the Super 8 and leach the economy WiFi. Sometimes you can't help but do that, signal in the better hotels can be pretty crappy. Absorbed by the pillow mints or something.
Seriously, though. The pillow itself doesn't cost that much more at the Clarion than the Econolodge*, it's the extras that get you.
*Two brands owned by the same parent company, but at opposite ends of the scale.
So why would I bother trying to counterfeit the newer more difficult bills instead of just doing the older easier ones since they remain legal tender?
Because it'll only work so long. They collect and destroy the old bills and replace them with new ones. About 15 years ago, I tried to "pass" some real 20-year-old dollar bills I inherited. They'd been sitting unused in a desk. Since they were a little different from the then-current design, they occasionally got some extra scrutiny.
Pedant note: I'm not claiming that this is foolproof or anything. Just noting something I experienced using new old stock bills.
Richard Nixon, the former President? No, I don't. He testified before a grand jury, and later Ford testified to Congress regarding the pardon of Nixon.
So say someone kills your mother and there is a witness who out of spite lies about what they saw (I didn't see anything). And their excuse is that they don't trust the police, won't talk to them without a lawyer, but can't afford one and because they aren't being arrested won't be appointed one.
If we're gonna go with the appeal to emotion -- "suppose it was your mother/wife/daughter?" -- here, suppose it's your mother . . . who is falsely accused of murder. You would want your own mother to have a lawyer, wouldn't you? Really now, doesn't the woman who gave you life at least deserve that?
So it's legal for a bunch of people to tell the Police that they saw someone commit a crime? There won't be any repercussions if it's found out that it was all just a lie?
I'm not from the Netherlands. I'm not an expert in their laws. The total time I've spend in the country is less that 48 hours.
However, I'm pretty sure that someone there has thought of your example already, and even if it's legal to lie to the police, there is surely some sanction for "punking" the cops in order to deliberately waste their time, get innocent people arrested or otherwise cause willful mischief. PIDOOMA, for sure, but I can't imagine that everyone in the country was born yesterday.
Back when I worked IT for a state office I had to report all missing property (usually computer equipment/parts) to the cops. Why? I wondered about it until the first couple times I did it, then I knew why: The cops ALWAYS assume whoever reports the crime was the one who committed the crime.
Can you blame them? That would be the easiest way for it to go: Guy reports crime. Assume he did it. Question guy. Conclude he did it. File a report, hand if off to a prosecutor. They didn't even have to leave the office.
I know I didn't invent it, but I'll call it Rob's Razor anyway (because it's easier than trying to find earlier examples): "Everyone does what's easiest for them."
Don't talk to the police if you believe yourself to be the target of an investigation because it is your right and you're a rank amateur in the law, police and DA's are not.
If it progresses past a certain point of trying to get you to catch yourself in a lie, hire a lawyer/PD.
OTOH, you don't necessarily know enough to know or believe you're the target of an investigation. Especially if you haven't committed a crime. I've seen enough Columbo episodes to know they don't always lead with, "So, we think you might have offed your neighbor . ..". By the time you figure out you're a suspect, it's too late to take back what you said.
And now we have a potentially very angry man who has the strength and agility to lift 70 lb barrels into the truck and hang on for dear life at speed. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
No worries there. When you suddenly go from a pretty high metabolic rate to largely sedentary, the appetite and eating habits don't immediately adjust to the new requirements. I think he put on like 60 lbs. Rather than strong and angry, he's just fat and disappointed.
Also, the reason we 'need' so many telemarketers is because we can't use autodialers for telemarketing. Government regulations stop robots from taking that field.
Regulations or not, I still get autodialed regularly. And human-dialed, if that's the phrase for it.
In my area, we now have garbage trucks that pick up (standardized) trash cans. Presumably, this leads to fewer "garbage men" - who used to be the archetypal unskilled laborers. But the few garbage men that remain now must be skilled as truck drivers.
I actually know a guy who worked as a garbageman who got replaced by automation. It paid good money, because he had qualifications that most people didn't. He had the strength and agility to lift 70 lb barrels into the truck, hang on for dear life at speed, tolerate a "variety" of weather conditions and a living situation that allowed him to go to work at 4 or 5 AM. Unfortunately, when the demand for those skills and qualifications evaporated overnight, there weren't that many package handling jobs to absorb the influx, and his earning ability dropped just as quickly. Kinda sucks to be forced into a 6-12 month unpaid vacation while trying to find money to get trained for something else at wages that will never match what he made before. No way around it, of course, those jobs are just gone and he understands that. He's got another job, so I guess you could say his job wasn't "killed," it just became something else that didn't pay as well even after becoming proficient.
For example, telephone operators have largely gone by the wayside, but a (brave) new world of telemarketing and call center support jobs have opened up because of advances in technology
If I had my druthers -- and we don't, because time and tech marches on -- I'd rather be an AT&T operator in 1973 than a telemarketer in 2013.
That said, I think it's worth asking: if machines are going to replace all our fast food workers, are we going to start paying our gourmet chefs minimum wage just because we can?
Yes. If the "market" can set wages below minimum for gourmet chefs due to an infusion of newly retrained fast food employees so they bottom out at that limit, then it will. That's just what happens. Whether or not that entire scenario occurs -- laid off McDonald's cashiers going to culinary programs and flooding the upscale restaurant and hospitality business letting wages be depressed rather than trying to find other more immediately available jobs -- that's really the question to be asking. (I would answer "no" to that question.)
You might be surprised. I have a few things that i thought were common as dirt but it turned out they were not and quite rare.
You're kinda leaving us hanging, here, like when a DVR cuts off the last part of an Antiques Roadshow segment when the give the appraisal value. What sort of trash turned out to be treasure?
As such, no U.S. company that relies on SSL encryption can be trusted with sensitive data.
When/if the national healthcare is implemented — despite our fiercest opposition — medical history will be similarly "safe".
I doubt that your health insurer right now would ask for anything more than a polite request from law enforcement to voluntarily turn over anything requested. Same with your bank. It doesn't benefit them in any way to spend money protecting your privacy from the government, going to court and demanding and challenging a real subpoena . I doubt any big business would refuse that kind of request on principle, and I doubt any small business that might like to could afford it.
The other murder. There are two murders here, the fake one the FBI staged and the real one they knew about but did not stop.
Okay. Do you know how you can put this to rest? Show us all where the second -- supposedly real -- murder is cited somewhere. The murder of someone other than the man known as "FreindlyChemist". Then we'd have to say, "Yup, you're right, there was a real murder," and we'd be done here.
I haven't seen a good argument that flowers and pollen are closely related. It could be argued that flowers were an adaptation to flying pollen collectors, as crawling pollen-collecting insects don't need visual assistance to find the pollen end of a plant.
TFA (actually, TFAbstract) says "Angiosperm-like pollen," and "angiosperm" is a term for "flowering plant." I don't think they're implying that flowers and pollen are the same thing, but that they infer the presence of flowering plants from the discovery of pollen that resembles the pollen of other flowering plants.
Wire the most affluent neighborhoods (a few 10s of thousands) from which Google would getting the greatest profit margins in terms of profile building and actual fiber revenue, spoil the proposition for the entire city.
OTOH, the more affluent areas also require more plant -- fiber and other hardware needed on a per-foot basis -- per user. Not that I've worked out what it costs or have a handle on revenue per user vs. household AGI -- any guess there would be PIDOOMA . . . I do know that google started their buildout in KC in denser, more urban areas. But among those areas, they only hooked up neighborhoods where a certain percentage of residents put down a deposit -- $300 payable in installments.
ATT has supposedly been "upgrading" their network in KC with more fiber to the home in more neighborhoods. But their offering is pretty much the same speed, same price as Time-Warner's cable service -- they just promise better download speeds than TWC during peak neighborhood demand periods. Not that that would be bad, TWC does bog down something awful in the evenings. Both ATT and TWC have representatives going door-to-door trying to sign up new customers and glad-hand existing ones, even in areas that google hasn't announced any fiber plans.
Please slashdot, direct me to the 200$ camera that makes good shots, and video (this is 2013, cameras should do video without too much moire or sensor overheat) of low light theater settings.
In the interview, Grotto says: "I don’t relate to video well at all. I am very much a still photographer." So I don't think her $200 number applies for something that has the good low-light video performance that you're looking for.
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Says the person who wants all the content they can grab for free.
Nothing costs $0. Do you want ads or a paywall?
I think what most of us want is "no malware". Do I block ads on parents', friends', in-laws' browsers so they get stuff for free without distraction? No, I block them to minimize the number of malware infections I have to clean up.
You're forgetting the three Napoleons.
The Napoleons had the title "Emperor". And the second of those was a child who only had it for a few days.
This isn't odd at all. People staying at budget and midscale hotel chains are more price sensitive, so they're going to not come to your hotel if you don't have free wifi. The people staying a luxury hotels are not as price sensitive and are more likely to be worried about other things beside a charge for internet access when selecting a hotel.
Weird thing is, the nicer hotels aren't necessarily that much pricier than the cheap ones. For the best of both worlds, stay at a fancy hotel near the Super 8 and leach the economy WiFi. Sometimes you can't help but do that, signal in the better hotels can be pretty crappy. Absorbed by the pillow mints or something.
Seriously, though. The pillow itself doesn't cost that much more at the Clarion than the Econolodge*, it's the extras that get you.
*Two brands owned by the same parent company, but at opposite ends of the scale.
Read my lips. There are 30 rounds in this magazine. Problem solved.
You must be American, there are 29 rounds in the magazine, 1 in the chamber.
The "cocking" sound you heard was thrown in by the Foley guy for effect . . .
Newsflash!
Larger sample sets trend toward average, smaller ones to extremes. Film at eleven!
Also, breathless headlines are flamebait from many angles! More on this after weather and sports.
So why would I bother trying to counterfeit the newer more difficult bills instead of just doing the older easier ones since they remain legal tender?
Because it'll only work so long. They collect and destroy the old bills and replace them with new ones. About 15 years ago, I tried to "pass" some real 20-year-old dollar bills I inherited. They'd been sitting unused in a desk. Since they were a little different from the then-current design, they occasionally got some extra scrutiny.
Pedant note: I'm not claiming that this is foolproof or anything. Just noting something I experienced using new old stock bills.
feeling sore because you weren't invited?
He has a point. The first rule of having loud, wild parties is to invite all the neighbors.
Remember Nixon . . . testifying to congress . . .
Richard Nixon, the former President? No, I don't. He testified before a grand jury, and later Ford testified to Congress regarding the pardon of Nixon.
So say someone kills your mother and there is a witness who out of spite lies about what they saw (I didn't see anything). And their excuse is that they don't trust the police, won't talk to them without a lawyer, but can't afford one and because they aren't being arrested won't be appointed one.
If we're gonna go with the appeal to emotion -- "suppose it was your mother/wife/daughter?" -- here, suppose it's your mother . . . who is falsely accused of murder. You would want your own mother to have a lawyer, wouldn't you? Really now, doesn't the woman who gave you life at least deserve that?
So it's legal for a bunch of people to tell the Police that they saw someone commit a crime? There won't be any repercussions if it's found out that it was all just a lie?
I'm not from the Netherlands. I'm not an expert in their laws. The total time I've spend in the country is less that 48 hours.
However, I'm pretty sure that someone there has thought of your example already, and even if it's legal to lie to the police, there is surely some sanction for "punking" the cops in order to deliberately waste their time, get innocent people arrested or otherwise cause willful mischief. PIDOOMA, for sure, but I can't imagine that everyone in the country was born yesterday.
Back when I worked IT for a state office I had to report all missing property (usually computer equipment/parts) to the cops. Why? I wondered about it until the first couple times I did it, then I knew why: The cops ALWAYS assume whoever reports the crime was the one who committed the crime.
Can you blame them? That would be the easiest way for it to go: Guy reports crime. Assume he did it. Question guy. Conclude he did it. File a report, hand if off to a prosecutor. They didn't even have to leave the office.
I know I didn't invent it, but I'll call it Rob's Razor anyway (because it's easier than trying to find earlier examples): "Everyone does what's easiest for them."
Don't talk to the police if you believe yourself to be the target of an investigation because it is your right and you're a rank amateur in the law, police and DA's are not. If it progresses past a certain point of trying to get you to catch yourself in a lie, hire a lawyer/PD.
OTOH, you don't necessarily know enough to know or believe you're the target of an investigation. Especially if you haven't committed a crime. I've seen enough Columbo episodes to know they don't always lead with, "So, we think you might have offed your neighbor . . .". By the time you figure out you're a suspect, it's too late to take back what you said.
And now we have a potentially very angry man who has the strength and agility to lift 70 lb barrels into the truck and hang on for dear life at speed. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
No worries there. When you suddenly go from a pretty high metabolic rate to largely sedentary, the appetite and eating habits don't immediately adjust to the new requirements. I think he put on like 60 lbs. Rather than strong and angry, he's just fat and disappointed.
Also, the reason we 'need' so many telemarketers is because we can't use autodialers for telemarketing. Government regulations stop robots from taking that field.
Regulations or not, I still get autodialed regularly. And human-dialed, if that's the phrase for it.
Very simply our standard of living = (production - consumption)/(numbers of citizens) Robots increase production, which is good.
Mean standard of living going up may be cold comfort to those whose personal living standard went down.
In my area, we now have garbage trucks that pick up (standardized) trash cans. Presumably, this leads to fewer "garbage men" - who used to be the archetypal unskilled laborers. But the few garbage men that remain now must be skilled as truck drivers.
I actually know a guy who worked as a garbageman who got replaced by automation. It paid good money, because he had qualifications that most people didn't. He had the strength and agility to lift 70 lb barrels into the truck, hang on for dear life at speed, tolerate a "variety" of weather conditions and a living situation that allowed him to go to work at 4 or 5 AM. Unfortunately, when the demand for those skills and qualifications evaporated overnight, there weren't that many package handling jobs to absorb the influx, and his earning ability dropped just as quickly. Kinda sucks to be forced into a 6-12 month unpaid vacation while trying to find money to get trained for something else at wages that will never match what he made before. No way around it, of course, those jobs are just gone and he understands that. He's got another job, so I guess you could say his job wasn't "killed," it just became something else that didn't pay as well even after becoming proficient.
For example, telephone operators have largely gone by the wayside, but a (brave) new world of telemarketing and call center support jobs have opened up because of advances in technology
If I had my druthers -- and we don't, because time and tech marches on -- I'd rather be an AT&T operator in 1973 than a telemarketer in 2013.
That said, I think it's worth asking: if machines are going to replace all our fast food workers, are we going to start paying our gourmet chefs minimum wage just because we can?
Yes. If the "market" can set wages below minimum for gourmet chefs due to an infusion of newly retrained fast food employees so they bottom out at that limit, then it will. That's just what happens. Whether or not that entire scenario occurs -- laid off McDonald's cashiers going to culinary programs and flooding the upscale restaurant and hospitality business letting wages be depressed rather than trying to find other more immediately available jobs -- that's really the question to be asking. (I would answer "no" to that question.)
You might be surprised. I have a few things that i thought were common as dirt but it turned out they were not and quite rare.
You're kinda leaving us hanging, here, like when a DVR cuts off the last part of an Antiques Roadshow segment when the give the appraisal value. What sort of trash turned out to be treasure?
When/if the national healthcare is implemented — despite our fiercest opposition — medical history will be similarly "safe".
I doubt that your health insurer right now would ask for anything more than a polite request from law enforcement to voluntarily turn over anything requested. Same with your bank. It doesn't benefit them in any way to spend money protecting your privacy from the government, going to court and demanding and challenging a real subpoena . I doubt any big business would refuse that kind of request on principle, and I doubt any small business that might like to could afford it.
The other murder. There are two murders here, the fake one the FBI staged and the real one they knew about but did not stop.
Okay. Do you know how you can put this to rest? Show us all where the second -- supposedly real -- murder is cited somewhere. The murder of someone other than the man known as "FreindlyChemist". Then we'd have to say, "Yup, you're right, there was a real murder," and we'd be done here.
I haven't seen a good argument that flowers and pollen are closely related. It could be argued that flowers were an adaptation to flying pollen collectors, as crawling pollen-collecting insects don't need visual assistance to find the pollen end of a plant.
TFA (actually, TFAbstract) says "Angiosperm-like pollen," and "angiosperm" is a term for "flowering plant." I don't think they're implying that flowers and pollen are the same thing, but that they infer the presence of flowering plants from the discovery of pollen that resembles the pollen of other flowering plants.
Yep, keeping those Trojans out is a vital security measure, as discovered the hard way by King Menelaus of Sparta.
This reminds me of that (probably fictitious) fractured history essay that claimed 'Martin Luther died a horrible death, excommunicated by a bull.'
Diabolically genius!
Wire the most affluent neighborhoods (a few 10s of thousands) from which Google would getting the greatest profit margins in terms of profile building and actual fiber revenue, spoil the proposition for the entire city.
OTOH, the more affluent areas also require more plant -- fiber and other hardware needed on a per-foot basis -- per user. Not that I've worked out what it costs or have a handle on revenue per user vs. household AGI -- any guess there would be PIDOOMA . . . I do know that google started their buildout in KC in denser, more urban areas. But among those areas, they only hooked up neighborhoods where a certain percentage of residents put down a deposit -- $300 payable in installments.
ATT has supposedly been "upgrading" their network in KC with more fiber to the home in more neighborhoods. But their offering is pretty much the same speed, same price as Time-Warner's cable service -- they just promise better download speeds than TWC during peak neighborhood demand periods. Not that that would be bad, TWC does bog down something awful in the evenings. Both ATT and TWC have representatives going door-to-door trying to sign up new customers and glad-hand existing ones, even in areas that google hasn't announced any fiber plans.
Please slashdot, direct me to the 200$ camera that makes good shots, and video (this is 2013, cameras should do video without too much moire or sensor overheat) of low light theater settings.
In the interview, Grotto says: "I don’t relate to video well at all. I am very much a still photographer." So I don't think her $200 number applies for something that has the good low-light video performance that you're looking for.
I thought LinkedIn was just a job search tool for recruiters and the unemployed. Do people blog on that thing?
Your former blowhard colleagues will be found there still blowing their own horns about promotions and accomplishments, real or exaggerated.