All bureaucracies are inherently corrupt, which is why you need regular change. A bureaucrat's first and primary goal is to keep their job and benefits. There is no requirement or reward to be efficient, effective, considerate or frugal. After all, it isn't their money they are spending.
All kinds of people enjoy waste and freewheeling. Government money is the largest source. But boss, compnay, NGO and even family money gets abused all the time too. There is really only one place for decency or lack thereof. In minds are hearts. And only one way to really reduce it from there, education. Prosecution makes people think twice sometimes, but doesn't really change who they are. Legislation and lawsuits and punishment just create even more social confusion, just visit some courts and lawsuits and you will see it offerts no real decency and solutions to society.
When you can store energy as densely as liquid hydrocarbon, you'll have a successful electric car.
There is the option of running power to the vehicles, instead of storing in on-vehicle. Electric trains, trams, and new similar vehicles are all widely used for transport.
Well those proportions I posted are related to cost - not energy efficiency. However fuel costs are a pretty big component in total costs for transportation. Trains are generally electric, while boats are petroleum fuels, which is more expensive.
They do have to legally outwit millions of "businesspeople" who are just constantly scheming on how to get a ton of contracts with no saleswork, and delivering as little product and labor as possible. Patriotism and ideology and help-your-country-and-community usually goes out the window fast, when people are talking about work, bills, responsibilities, profits, money, etc.
Copying exact menu stuctures however is not too pretty, but just allowing anyone to create a customized menu structure in any way they want would allow people to download some ms-clone skin.
In NYC? Oh when I lived there there was this super advanced nuclear-electric vehicle over there that goes all over town. It was "subway". Actually it's over over 100 years old, not so new, but still quite efficient
http://www.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=NY
"Although New York’s total energy consumption is among the highest in the United States, energy intensity and per capita energy consumption are among the lowest, due in part to the region’s widely used mass transportation systems."
Boats move rather slowly. So friction is very low. Plus there is no contact with anything but a lubricating element, no hard-element on hard-element friction, which is very wasteful. It always moves at the same level also, no hills, going uphill is an incredibly power intensive thing, no inertia energy whatsoever can be used. And going downhill doesn't generate it back, so it's all wasted.
The robot has to be using the wrong encoding, or perhaps some scriped speech in a confusing language. It sounds like the proper name should be DTUR, or hmm, actually, I think it's FU2 or SHV-IT
They would most likely enjoy having their own Office alternative which millions of people run, with an entry-level min Oracle database built in, to compete with ms Access, plus clients for all their other products.
Perhaps making it skinnable, with menus and buttons that can be rearranged to whaever order or similar to whatever program the user is most accustomed to would help a lot. Actually what I am most concerned with is the salaries of the programmers, I have no idea how are all these coders for such an important project paid.
Plenty of brands with names that sound odd in numerous languages do fine internationally. Yes having dozens of languages is a bit complex for marketing. Haagen Dasz, Odebrecht, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi. Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese, Chinese, Arabic etc to know how things sound to those languages, but I can assure you people all over the world get used to brands in other languages. Americans included.
Some frenzy of automated of negative-publicity for sites detected that don't work right without IE, for activeX or whatever reason, would be great. I have met more than a few users who simply stick to IE just because "it works with all sites".
Does anyone have any numbers on energy and efficiency and financial costs in the various forms of transport? A cousin owning a medium sized fuel transport company told me transport costs can more less be compared as follows:
waterway transport cost - 1
railway transport cost - 10
road transport cost - 100
air transport cost - 1000
Thinking about the physics involved in each mode, especially with friction and inertia, it tends to seem quite true. In any case this is for cargo, but I assume some formulas for energy or dollars per passenger-mile exists as well.
Does the term 'vendor lock-in' mean anything to you?
Indeed at the time I was paying lists of "fees" on each and every of my bills, there was no number portability, changing companies meant changing numbers. Prices on all companies were high, and all had contracts upon sign-up. And all kinds of companies had these fees. I suppose they still exist in some companies.
I wonder if Tor coders could find some way to give more protection to people running it as exit nodes. I've used it a lot, the lack of exit nodes seems to be a big problem. Would it be possible to have multiple exit nodes access servers simultaneously, server logs record source IP from many places, and distibute and obfuscate the legal responsibility, reducing it?
Yes, there is malware. But lets not censor people because their computer may be insecure. We do need to encourage people to produce and publish more. Too much of the web is becoming filler "content" for selling commercials, the same as television and magazines. They don't really care what content is or says, as long as it's attention grabbing it sells ads.
So what cam people do to have business people and politicians "caught"? The only thing I have seen, is when their data leaks. Investigations and few and sparse, and with severe legal limits.
I think it's completely intentional. I remember seeing some business articles a few years back recommending companies to increase revenue though random fees attached to invoices, and seeing these lists of small fees added on to all my bills, feeling really helpless.
I would probably be stupidly arrogant enough to run Tor with exits enabled within the US, just to see if the FBI would actually come down to call me up. In the US, where there is a solid law for free speech *and* for anonymity *and* the courts work *somewhat*. I have a lawsuit as it is, just because someone used my network here to send email offending someone. Defamation. I stand to be punished as the "anonymity enabling agent", or for running a cybercafe and thumbing my nose at the law, not collecting ID, name phone etc from each and every person. Hell I would never imagine it, I was used to US laws.
Not true. Crime rates where much higher at times when capital punishment was more popular.
Yes, but nobody knows that. We need some way to accuse and kill our enemies cleanly. Accuse them of crime, then execute them. They won't ever complain of injustice, therefore -- JUSTICE WAS DONE! **
** Any similarity to vengeance or other random violence purely coincidental.
The number of excuses to spy on your computer communications has just gained another powerful argument. I would rather have it that the population had an excuse to monitor the government communications.
If he had used the botnet to collect data on corruption, high-level money laundering, torturers, government and corporate espionage, drug and people trafficking, and leak the data to the proper channels, would you still hate him? Do you know another way of doing that?
Repairing what you have broken, in double, seems fair to me. So, have him repair twice as many computers as he has broken, clean twice the amount of spam he sent, etc.
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All bureaucracies are inherently corrupt, which is why you need regular change. A bureaucrat's first and primary goal is to keep their job and benefits. There is no requirement or reward to be efficient, effective, considerate or frugal. After all, it isn't their money they are spending.
All kinds of people enjoy waste and freewheeling. Government money is the largest source. But boss, compnay, NGO and even family money gets abused all the time too. There is really only one place for decency or lack thereof. In minds are hearts. And only one way to really reduce it from there, education. Prosecution makes people think twice sometimes, but doesn't really change who they are. Legislation and lawsuits and punishment just create even more social confusion, just visit some courts and lawsuits and you will see it offerts no real decency and solutions to society.
When you can store energy as densely as liquid hydrocarbon, you'll have a successful electric car.
There is the option of running power to the vehicles, instead of storing in on-vehicle. Electric trains, trams, and new similar vehicles are all widely used for transport.
Well those proportions I posted are related to cost - not energy efficiency. However fuel costs are a pretty big component in total costs for transportation. Trains are generally electric, while boats are petroleum fuels, which is more expensive.
They do have to legally outwit millions of "businesspeople" who are just constantly scheming on how to get a ton of contracts with no saleswork, and delivering as little product and labor as possible. Patriotism and ideology and help-your-country-and-community usually goes out the window fast, when people are talking about work, bills, responsibilities, profits, money, etc.
Copying exact menu stuctures however is not too pretty, but just allowing anyone to create a customized menu structure in any way they want would allow people to download some ms-clone skin.
i'm in NYC
In NYC? Oh when I lived there there was this super advanced nuclear-electric vehicle over there that goes all over town. It was "subway". Actually it's over over 100 years old, not so new, but still quite efficient
http://www.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=NY
"Although New York’s total energy consumption is among the highest in the United States, energy intensity and per capita energy consumption are among the lowest, due in part to the region’s widely used mass transportation systems."
Boats move rather slowly. So friction is very low. Plus there is no contact with anything but a lubricating element, no hard-element on hard-element friction, which is very wasteful. It always moves at the same level also, no hills, going uphill is an incredibly power intensive thing, no inertia energy whatsoever can be used. And going downhill doesn't generate it back, so it's all wasted.
I believe the opinion is perfects valid, expressed well, and there is no justification for being labeled trolling
His name is 4Q2. Yeah, 4Q2, buddy.
The robot has to be using the wrong encoding, or perhaps some scriped speech in a confusing language. It sounds like the proper name should be DTUR, or hmm, actually, I think it's FU2 or SHV-IT
They would most likely enjoy having their own Office alternative which millions of people run, with an entry-level min Oracle database built in, to compete with ms Access, plus clients for all their other products.
Perhaps making it skinnable, with menus and buttons that can be rearranged to whaever order or similar to whatever program the user is most accustomed to would help a lot. Actually what I am most concerned with is the salaries of the programmers, I have no idea how are all these coders for such an important project paid.
Plenty of brands with names that sound odd in numerous languages do fine internationally. Yes having dozens of languages is a bit complex for marketing. Haagen Dasz, Odebrecht, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi. Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese, Chinese, Arabic etc to know how things sound to those languages, but I can assure you people all over the world get used to brands in other languages. Americans included.
Some frenzy of automated of negative-publicity for sites detected that don't work right without IE, for activeX or whatever reason, would be great. I have met more than a few users who simply stick to IE just because "it works with all sites".
Does anyone have any numbers on energy and efficiency and financial costs in the various forms of transport? A cousin owning a medium sized fuel transport company told me transport costs can more less be compared as follows:
waterway transport cost - 1
railway transport cost - 10
road transport cost - 100
air transport cost - 1000
Thinking about the physics involved in each mode, especially with friction and inertia, it tends to seem quite true. In any case this is for cargo, but I assume some formulas for energy or dollars per passenger-mile exists as well.
Does the term 'vendor lock-in' mean anything to you?
Indeed at the time I was paying lists of "fees" on each and every of my bills, there was no number portability, changing companies meant changing numbers. Prices on all companies were high, and all had contracts upon sign-up. And all kinds of companies had these fees. I suppose they still exist in some companies.
I wonder if Tor coders could find some way to give more protection to people running it as exit nodes. I've used it a lot, the lack of exit nodes seems to be a big problem. Would it be possible to have multiple exit nodes access servers simultaneously, server logs record source IP from many places, and distibute and obfuscate the legal responsibility, reducing it?
Yes, there is malware. But lets not censor people because their computer may be insecure. We do need to encourage people to produce and publish more. Too much of the web is becoming filler "content" for selling commercials, the same as television and magazines. They don't really care what content is or says, as long as it's attention grabbing it sells ads.
So what cam people do to have business people and politicians "caught"? The only thing I have seen, is when their data leaks. Investigations and few and sparse, and with severe legal limits.
I think it's completely intentional. I remember seeing some business articles a few years back recommending companies to increase revenue though random fees attached to invoices, and seeing these lists of small fees added on to all my bills, feeling really helpless.
I would probably be stupidly arrogant enough to run Tor with exits enabled within the US, just to see if the FBI would actually come down to call me up. In the US, where there is a solid law for free speech *and* for anonymity *and* the courts work *somewhat*. I have a lawsuit as it is, just because someone used my network here to send email offending someone. Defamation. I stand to be punished as the "anonymity enabling agent", or for running a cybercafe and thumbing my nose at the law, not collecting ID, name phone etc from each and every person. Hell I would never imagine it, I was used to US laws.
However changing your mac address will do nothing. Your IP, name and address remain, and are sufficient evidence.
Not true. Crime rates where much higher at times when capital punishment was more popular.
Yes, but nobody knows that. We need some way to accuse and kill our enemies cleanly. Accuse them of crime, then execute them. They won't ever complain of injustice, therefore -- JUSTICE WAS DONE! **
** Any similarity to vengeance or other random violence purely coincidental.
The number of excuses to spy on your computer communications has just gained another powerful argument. I would rather have it that the population had an excuse to monitor the government communications.
If he had used the botnet to collect data on corruption, high-level money laundering, torturers, government and corporate espionage, drug and people trafficking, and leak the data to the proper channels, would you still hate him? Do you know another way of doing that?
Repairing what you have broken, in double, seems fair to me. So, have him repair twice as many computers as he has broken, clean twice the amount of spam he sent, etc.