Um, the EU DOES have a free media, and last time I have checked, not a single airline in China is currently banned from EU skies, while a number of other countries who also lack free media have been banned. This shows that overall the system in China is relatively safe and that more than likely the jackasses in the picture are just that, jackasses. I'm not defending China by any means, but if you are going to level an accusation such as that, it damn well better be more compelling than "I have seen jackasses in country A, but none in b, therefore there must be only jackasses in country A and none in B"
I think that Perry, Bachman, and Santorum have already assumed that either Romney or Gingrich is going to win and they are basically designing their campaigns around that fact. Since Gingrich, and esp. Romney is seen as being weak on the "culture warrior" front, those 3 have essentially made being the culture shogun their one and only campaign message.
Um, China has the same regulations, as does the US, as does Japan. I can almost guarantee in every one of those places you can find people doing something that breaks regulations. The real issues are the degree to which violations are systemic and regulations that almost completely ensure that there are enough checks that if someone does something stupid, it will be caught before people get hurt. Again, if the guy can prove that such violations are systemic then he has some proof, but a photo of a couple of jackasses proves nothing more than there are jackasses on the planet, hardly newsworthy.
There certainly was the motive to cover it up, probably the most embarrassing part of this whole fiasco for the Japanese government has been the fact that in February the whole site supposedly underwent an extensive safety evaluation by the government. The government obviously didn't report any problems and the plant was granted a 10 year extension to operate, as it was originally scheduled to shut down in March of 2011....
That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen, the guy somehow evaluates the behavior of an entire populace based on what a couple of jackasses were doing? The way the Japanese were filling up the plane is the way you would find most people in most countries filling up the plane. Guess what, you can find idiots in Japan too, that would pretty much invalidate his whole point.
If they weren't doing illegal shit and bothering other people then I wouldn't care. I can turn around and ask you the exact same question, why does the small amount of time Japan spends whaling bother them so much?
I don't get the opposition to hunting non-endangered whales. The whales being hunted(mostly minke whales), are nowhere near endangered, so why is there just so much opposition to the whaling? Do these people really have nothing better to do with their time and money than harassing fishing boats? Maybe they should just get into Magic the Gathering instead, eats time and money like nothing else....
Also have these people actually tried whale meat? It's delicious.
Actually you are more right than you realize. For the most part the DoD doesn't actually go out and look for stuff to approve, the companies themselves have to submit their products to be "Common Criteria" certified. After which the DoD evaluates and either approves or declines the submitted hw/sw... this is all done on the companies dime. So in all likelihood Dell actually paid a decent chunk of change to get this thing certified in hopes that they can sell a lot of units to the DoD.
Policy and implementation are very different animals. The GPs policy on cheating may say something similar, but that doesn't mean that the school is willing to implement it out of fear of a lawsuit. Have you actually seen anyone actually get punished in accordance with the policy?
I also attended one of the biggest schools on the eastern seaboard who had a very similar policy, but guess what, what the GP says is absolutely true. Cheating was so rampant, esp. on homework(which is why homework shouldn't be graded, but thats another discussion entirely), that you were putting yourself at a huge competitive disadvantage if you didn't cheat. Hell my friend as part of his PhD student duties was proctoring an ethics exam for first year grad students and he caught a girl cheating(I'll repeat that, she was cheating on her ethics exam), and the school basically said, "drop it". The fear of getting sued is just too great for schools to enforce their cheating policy in any meaningful fashion.
I guess I should add that in the US, it might not be *as* bad as there is a huge, interconnected grid available to draw power from, whereas in Fukushima they did not have that luxury as for historical reasons very little power could be sent from the Kansai, Kyushu, and Shikoku regions and for geographical reasons(the center of Honshu is incredibly mountainous) very little power could be sent from the Sea of Japan area to Fukushima as there aren't a lot of power lines that link the two areas.
If reactor construction had not stopped after the Chernobyl disaster, very few of these old, crappy designs would still be in use
Except for reactor construction did not stop after Chernobyl, a significant amount of reactors were built in Japan, but that didn't stop them from using the much older Fukushima plant.... One of the key issues with nuclear power that very few people seem to address is essentially the concentration of power generation that nuclear entails. For example the Fukushima plants provided almost 10% of the electricity consumed in the entire Tohoku region. Before the earthquake there was significant resistance towards transitioning away from the plant because of potential disruptions to factories, businesses, and homes. This dependence on one facility makes it incredibly difficult to shut down nuclear power plants, even if there may be valid safety concerns.
Now compare this to say coal fired plants. In the USA, there are 1436 plants providing 42% of the power, i.e. each plant provides an average of.03% of the country's total electricity use. On the other hand, there are 65 nuclear power plants providing 19.6% of the total electric power generation, or.287% of total electricity generation per plant, roughly 10x that of coal, and if you look at the regions that have nuclear power, I'm sure the % of total output for the region per plant is much, much higher.
In order for nuclear power to be practical, we have to come up with ways of seamlessly making up for this lost output in case a plant has to undergo an emergency shutdown. In Japan, the transition was not seamless, in Ibaraki prefecture where I live there were rolling blackouts, coupled with severe power rationing measures(it ironically helped that the earthquake put a lot of the factories out of commission for a while, significantly reducing power demand), and a mad dash to get coal and oil into the region ASAP so those plants could increase production. There has to be a better way.
Which is why Microsoft needs a shakeup starting at the top, the senior execs at Microsoft still seem to be under the impression that it is still 1997 and the only real competition for them are the other execs at Microsoft, not other companies/entities. You can see this reflected not only in their product lines which often feature competing products in the same industry, but also within individual products. The interfaces for different parts of the Windows GUI are different, and of course the GUI for office is different than anything in Windows. Funny thing is that this kind of splintering seems almost inevitable in these behemoth corporations. Microsoft just seems to be following the path blazed by Sony where the company gets too big to manage effectively and constant infighting makes the company incredibly sluggish. Look at the personal music player market, Sony used to be synonymous with portable music, but thanks to their music wing they refused to adapt and not only did they lose the market abroad, they barely have any inroads in the Japanese portable music player market. Microsoft would be wise to read Steve Jobs comments on Sony in his biography, they apply to Microsoft as well.
CONSUMER tech wasn't necessarily affected( and as others point out automotive and camera production was adversely affected), as the only PC parts still produced in Japan are a small % of hard disks, a significant though not overwhelming amount of SSDs, and some batteries and screens for notebooks. However to say the computer industry wasn't affected isn't true at all. Japan still makes a very large % of the world's embedded chips, used in everything from portable media players to factory control systems. And some of those factories were in Sendai and other areas affected by the quake.
Um, you do realize this isn't the first vaccine to be tested right? It's not, not by a long shot. There have been a massive number of HIV vaccines that have been tested, with at least one reaching Phase III(the last, and biggest phase) trials before being abandoned. So while it's good to see a new approach, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Slightly off-topic, but the whole juche thing is a very good example of how not to react to a recession. From the Korean war to about the first oil shock in the 70s, North Korea had the 2nd highest per capita GDP in east Asia, only Japan's was higher. But after the oil shock caused a mild recession in North Korea Kim Il Sung decided(the sino soviet split also helped) to become totally "self-sufficient" in a country with very few resources. The result was North Korea going from 2nd richest to pretty much the poorest country in the region in less than a decade. Now fast forward and look at China, seems familiar, communist country with a booming economy.... The fact that we don't know how China will react to a recession(and one will come, I see nothing "magic" in the Chinese economy that would make them recession-proof) is the main reason I think it's too early to say whether or not China will become the worlds biggest economy. If they handle their first big recession as well as the South Koreans handled theirs, then they will almost certainly advance to #1, but if they go all juche, then the US will stay #1 for a while, eventually being passed by India, but not until 2020 at the earliest.
But on the flip side is there anyone else who has a better quality of life than the Korean elite? I mean look how Kim Jong Il lived, . He had a group of people dedicated to finding him beautiful young women to sleep with, he had an armada of fast cars and a country in which there were no other motorists to to get in the way, not to mention the best booze and food that the planet had to offer, not even the rich in the west lived it up like him, people tend not to give up such lifestyles without a fight.....
This is actually not a welcome event, the heir apparent is only 29 years old and hasn't really integrated himself into the communist party and army power structures. Compare that to his father who was 52 when Kim Il Sung died and had been filling various senior posts for at least a few decades by that point. A power struggle within the army/party could be bad as it could destabilize the country and/or convince the struggling powers to do something rash with the military in an attempt to curry favor. Guess we will have to wait and see.
. Partly that's because anybody who does anything contrary to what police, prosecutors, judges, and the private prison system wants are immediately subjected to a well-financed publicity barrage calling them "soft on crime"
Ultimately a lot of the blame rests on the shoulders of the American people. One thing I could never understand about Americans, esp. the rabid Republicans, is this whole law and order fantasy. That somehow making anything you don't like illegal will mean it will magically go away(pick your poison, drugs, homosexuality, abortion, the list goes on). And it's not like it's just the for profit prisons that are pushing this, a lot of this is self-inflicted by the American people.
Take for instance child molestation, obviously a hideous crime and one that should be prosecuted(including the pope, but I digress). In an effort to try to impose "law and order", the American people have decided that if a guy walks in to a psychiatrists office and admits he is a pedophile(note, not that he has actually committed a crime, merely that he has sexual thoughts about children), the therapist by LAW has to report the guy. Whereas in the past the therapist could offer him therapy as well as medication, up to and including chemical castration if the person feels they cannot control their urges, now the therapist can do almost nothing for the guy without risking losing his license. He won't' be arrested, but it's pretty much guaranteed that word will get out about this guy ruining his life. Since very few people are going to risk being outed and have their entire lives ruined, they go without any sort of help and some of them end up not being able to control themselves. While I am certainly not advocating we let child rapists go free, we should NOT be punishing those who merely have thoughts, thoughts that they often cannot control, and instead be encouraging them to get help. A lot of child rapists who get out of prison and attend the mandatory counseling sessions and take the medication have said that it works wonders for them, and had they had this BEFORE they committed their crimes, they probably would have been much less likely to do so. But in America we cannot tolerate anyone that might hold any "unsavory" thoughts and instead think that shaming them, arresting them, and keeping them in jail, where they cost the taxpayer massive amounts of cash is somehow a better way of doing business.......
Um, 2006 called, they want their stereotypes back. The PSP did get off to a rough start, and a lot of early adopters bought it to play pirated games, but overall game sales are around 300 million for roughly 70 million sold, or about 4 games/console, and I don't think that includes downloadable sales, which would push the total higher. Plus I'm sure that even though 70 million consoles were sold, they weren't sold to 70 million different people, due to the huge # of hardware variations there are probably a significant number of people who bought more than 1 version of the console, pushing the games per gamer up even higher.
Hell if you consider TCO, even macs are cheaper than Windows as it takes* considerably less effort to keep them up and running, not to mention a complete Unix toolset that blows away anything Microsoft has ever offered in terms of automation and being able to fix problems. Does Microsoft still not ship their OS with an ssh client out of the box? Yes I know there are 3rd party solutions, but guess what, those 3rd party solutions become just another package you have to handle and becomes just another thing Microsoft can break with an update...
*This is only true if your company has a lot of XServes, ever since Apple so stupidly killed off the line without offering a *REAL* replacement, the TCO of Macs in the corporate world has risen a bit, probably still not as bad as Windows, but nowhere near where it used to be.
Congrats, you're an idiot. You obviously didn't even bother to read the first fucking sentence of the article, saves MONEY but costs lives. IE the drug is really cheap and not patented, and surprise! It isn't. Actually a lot of drugs in the list(all but oxycontin, and thats sort of up in the air right now, and will be expiring soon anyway). But don't let facts get in the way of your vapid statement.
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Um, the EU DOES have a free media, and last time I have checked, not a single airline in China is currently banned from EU skies, while a number of other countries who also lack free media have been banned. This shows that overall the system in China is relatively safe and that more than likely the jackasses in the picture are just that, jackasses. I'm not defending China by any means, but if you are going to level an accusation such as that, it damn well better be more compelling than "I have seen jackasses in country A, but none in b, therefore there must be only jackasses in country A and none in B"
I think that Perry, Bachman, and Santorum have already assumed that either Romney or Gingrich is going to win and they are basically designing their campaigns around that fact. Since Gingrich, and esp. Romney is seen as being weak on the "culture warrior" front, those 3 have essentially made being the culture shogun their one and only campaign message.
Um, China has the same regulations, as does the US, as does Japan. I can almost guarantee in every one of those places you can find people doing something that breaks regulations. The real issues are the degree to which violations are systemic and regulations that almost completely ensure that there are enough checks that if someone does something stupid, it will be caught before people get hurt. Again, if the guy can prove that such violations are systemic then he has some proof, but a photo of a couple of jackasses proves nothing more than there are jackasses on the planet, hardly newsworthy.
There certainly was the motive to cover it up, probably the most embarrassing part of this whole fiasco for the Japanese government has been the fact that in February the whole site supposedly underwent an extensive safety evaluation by the government. The government obviously didn't report any problems and the plant was granted a 10 year extension to operate, as it was originally scheduled to shut down in March of 2011....
That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen, the guy somehow evaluates the behavior of an entire populace based on what a couple of jackasses were doing? The way the Japanese were filling up the plane is the way you would find most people in most countries filling up the plane. Guess what, you can find idiots in Japan too, that would pretty much invalidate his whole point.
If they weren't doing illegal shit and bothering other people then I wouldn't care. I can turn around and ask you the exact same question, why does the small amount of time Japan spends whaling bother them so much?
I don't get the opposition to hunting non-endangered whales. The whales being hunted(mostly minke whales), are nowhere near endangered, so why is there just so much opposition to the whaling? Do these people really have nothing better to do with their time and money than harassing fishing boats? Maybe they should just get into Magic the Gathering instead, eats time and money like nothing else....
Also have these people actually tried whale meat? It's delicious.
Actually you are more right than you realize. For the most part the DoD doesn't actually go out and look for stuff to approve, the companies themselves have to submit their products to be "Common Criteria" certified. After which the DoD evaluates and either approves or declines the submitted hw/sw... this is all done on the companies dime. So in all likelihood Dell actually paid a decent chunk of change to get this thing certified in hopes that they can sell a lot of units to the DoD.
If I have said it once I have said it a million times, those damn alpha-centurion kids need to keep their damn glorpball off our lawn!
Policy and implementation are very different animals. The GPs policy on cheating may say something similar, but that doesn't mean that the school is willing to implement it out of fear of a lawsuit. Have you actually seen anyone actually get punished in accordance with the policy?
I also attended one of the biggest schools on the eastern seaboard who had a very similar policy, but guess what, what the GP says is absolutely true. Cheating was so rampant, esp. on homework(which is why homework shouldn't be graded, but thats another discussion entirely), that you were putting yourself at a huge competitive disadvantage if you didn't cheat. Hell my friend as part of his PhD student duties was proctoring an ethics exam for first year grad students and he caught a girl cheating(I'll repeat that, she was cheating on her ethics exam), and the school basically said, "drop it". The fear of getting sued is just too great for schools to enforce their cheating policy in any meaningful fashion.
I guess I should add that in the US, it might not be *as* bad as there is a huge, interconnected grid available to draw power from, whereas in Fukushima they did not have that luxury as for historical reasons very little power could be sent from the Kansai, Kyushu, and Shikoku regions and for geographical reasons(the center of Honshu is incredibly mountainous) very little power could be sent from the Sea of Japan area to Fukushima as there aren't a lot of power lines that link the two areas.
If reactor construction had not stopped after the Chernobyl disaster, very few of these old, crappy designs would still be in use
.03% of the country's total electricity use. On the other hand, there are 65 nuclear power plants providing 19.6% of the total electric power generation, or .287% of total electricity generation per plant, roughly 10x that of coal, and if you look at the regions that have nuclear power, I'm sure the % of total output for the region per plant is much, much higher.
Except for reactor construction did not stop after Chernobyl, a significant amount of reactors were built in Japan, but that didn't stop them from using the much older Fukushima plant.... One of the key issues with nuclear power that very few people seem to address is essentially the concentration of power generation that nuclear entails. For example the Fukushima plants provided almost 10% of the electricity consumed in the entire Tohoku region. Before the earthquake there was significant resistance towards transitioning away from the plant because of potential disruptions to factories, businesses, and homes. This dependence on one facility makes it incredibly difficult to shut down nuclear power plants, even if there may be valid safety concerns.
Now compare this to say coal fired plants. In the USA, there are 1436 plants providing 42% of the power, i.e. each plant provides an average of
In order for nuclear power to be practical, we have to come up with ways of seamlessly making up for this lost output in case a plant has to undergo an emergency shutdown. In Japan, the transition was not seamless, in Ibaraki prefecture where I live there were rolling blackouts, coupled with severe power rationing measures(it ironically helped that the earthquake put a lot of the factories out of commission for a while, significantly reducing power demand), and a mad dash to get coal and oil into the region ASAP so those plants could increase production. There has to be a better way.
Which is why Microsoft needs a shakeup starting at the top, the senior execs at Microsoft still seem to be under the impression that it is still 1997 and the only real competition for them are the other execs at Microsoft, not other companies/entities. You can see this reflected not only in their product lines which often feature competing products in the same industry, but also within individual products. The interfaces for different parts of the Windows GUI are different, and of course the GUI for office is different than anything in Windows. Funny thing is that this kind of splintering seems almost inevitable in these behemoth corporations. Microsoft just seems to be following the path blazed by Sony where the company gets too big to manage effectively and constant infighting makes the company incredibly sluggish. Look at the personal music player market, Sony used to be synonymous with portable music, but thanks to their music wing they refused to adapt and not only did they lose the market abroad, they barely have any inroads in the Japanese portable music player market. Microsoft would be wise to read Steve Jobs comments on Sony in his biography, they apply to Microsoft as well.
CONSUMER tech wasn't necessarily affected( and as others point out automotive and camera production was adversely affected), as the only PC parts still produced in Japan are a small % of hard disks, a significant though not overwhelming amount of SSDs, and some batteries and screens for notebooks. However to say the computer industry wasn't affected isn't true at all. Japan still makes a very large % of the world's embedded chips, used in everything from portable media players to factory control systems. And some of those factories were in Sendai and other areas affected by the quake.
Um, you do realize this isn't the first vaccine to be tested right? It's not, not by a long shot. There have been a massive number of HIV vaccines that have been tested, with at least one reaching Phase III(the last, and biggest phase) trials before being abandoned. So while it's good to see a new approach, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Part of the problem is that no one knows how to use PHP
While that's true, I don't see how it relates to email encryption
Slightly off-topic, but the whole juche thing is a very good example of how not to react to a recession. From the Korean war to about the first oil shock in the 70s, North Korea had the 2nd highest per capita GDP in east Asia, only Japan's was higher. But after the oil shock caused a mild recession in North Korea Kim Il Sung decided(the sino soviet split also helped) to become totally "self-sufficient" in a country with very few resources. The result was North Korea going from 2nd richest to pretty much the poorest country in the region in less than a decade. Now fast forward and look at China, seems familiar, communist country with a booming economy.... The fact that we don't know how China will react to a recession(and one will come, I see nothing "magic" in the Chinese economy that would make them recession-proof) is the main reason I think it's too early to say whether or not China will become the worlds biggest economy. If they handle their first big recession as well as the South Koreans handled theirs, then they will almost certainly advance to #1, but if they go all juche, then the US will stay #1 for a while, eventually being passed by India, but not until 2020 at the earliest.
But on the flip side is there anyone else who has a better quality of life than the Korean elite? I mean look how Kim Jong Il lived, . He had a group of people dedicated to finding him beautiful young women to sleep with, he had an armada of fast cars and a country in which there were no other motorists to to get in the way, not to mention the best booze and food that the planet had to offer, not even the rich in the west lived it up like him, people tend not to give up such lifestyles without a fight.....
This is actually not a welcome event, the heir apparent is only 29 years old and hasn't really integrated himself into the communist party and army power structures. Compare that to his father who was 52 when Kim Il Sung died and had been filling various senior posts for at least a few decades by that point. A power struggle within the army/party could be bad as it could destabilize the country and/or convince the struggling powers to do something rash with the military in an attempt to curry favor. Guess we will have to wait and see.
. Partly that's because anybody who does anything contrary to what police, prosecutors, judges, and the private prison system wants are immediately subjected to a well-financed publicity barrage calling them "soft on crime"
Ultimately a lot of the blame rests on the shoulders of the American people. One thing I could never understand about Americans, esp. the rabid Republicans, is this whole law and order fantasy. That somehow making anything you don't like illegal will mean it will magically go away(pick your poison, drugs, homosexuality, abortion, the list goes on). And it's not like it's just the for profit prisons that are pushing this, a lot of this is self-inflicted by the American people.
Take for instance child molestation, obviously a hideous crime and one that should be prosecuted(including the pope, but I digress). In an effort to try to impose "law and order", the American people have decided that if a guy walks in to a psychiatrists office and admits he is a pedophile(note, not that he has actually committed a crime, merely that he has sexual thoughts about children), the therapist by LAW has to report the guy. Whereas in the past the therapist could offer him therapy as well as medication, up to and including chemical castration if the person feels they cannot control their urges, now the therapist can do almost nothing for the guy without risking losing his license. He won't' be arrested, but it's pretty much guaranteed that word will get out about this guy ruining his life. Since very few people are going to risk being outed and have their entire lives ruined, they go without any sort of help and some of them end up not being able to control themselves. While I am certainly not advocating we let child rapists go free, we should NOT be punishing those who merely have thoughts, thoughts that they often cannot control, and instead be encouraging them to get help. A lot of child rapists who get out of prison and attend the mandatory counseling sessions and take the medication have said that it works wonders for them, and had they had this BEFORE they committed their crimes, they probably would have been much less likely to do so. But in America we cannot tolerate anyone that might hold any "unsavory" thoughts and instead think that shaming them, arresting them, and keeping them in jail, where they cost the taxpayer massive amounts of cash is somehow a better way of doing business.......
I dunno, she probably sat there and pooped while he applied for the account, which is maybe her way of expressing her opinion towards the EULA.
Um, 2006 called, they want their stereotypes back. The PSP did get off to a rough start, and a lot of early adopters bought it to play pirated games, but overall game sales are around 300 million for roughly 70 million sold, or about 4 games/console, and I don't think that includes downloadable sales, which would push the total higher. Plus I'm sure that even though 70 million consoles were sold, they weren't sold to 70 million different people, due to the huge # of hardware variations there are probably a significant number of people who bought more than 1 version of the console, pushing the games per gamer up even higher.
Hell if you consider TCO, even macs are cheaper than Windows as it takes* considerably less effort to keep them up and running, not to mention a complete Unix toolset that blows away anything Microsoft has ever offered in terms of automation and being able to fix problems. Does Microsoft still not ship their OS with an ssh client out of the box? Yes I know there are 3rd party solutions, but guess what, those 3rd party solutions become just another package you have to handle and becomes just another thing Microsoft can break with an update...
*This is only true if your company has a lot of XServes, ever since Apple so stupidly killed off the line without offering a *REAL* replacement, the TCO of Macs in the corporate world has risen a bit, probably still not as bad as Windows, but nowhere near where it used to be.
Congrats, you're an idiot. You obviously didn't even bother to read the first fucking sentence of the article, saves MONEY but costs lives. IE the drug is really cheap and not patented, and surprise! It isn't. Actually a lot of drugs in the list(all but oxycontin, and thats sort of up in the air right now, and will be expiring soon anyway). But don't let facts get in the way of your vapid statement.
I was expecting the parent to be goatse, but no, it's actually Ballmer, which is probably more offending to the eye than goatse.