I have to wonder why they are not just simply chaining you to your desk. That will definitely ensure productivity since you can not wander off to the bathroom or the water cooler any time you want. Yowsa.
You simply can not have a healthy economy or country without healthy _motivated_ individuals. Sure, a large chunk of people in any given country are about as productive at the point of a gun as they are when motivated by money or freedom but it is the people who can do 10, 100, or even a 1,000 times or more than the normal person that really drive an economy to excellence/superiority. They are the ones who are creating and innovating. YOU CAN NOT MOTIVATE THOSE PEOPLE AT THE POINT OF A GUN.
And that is why America is/was so great. All of those productive people were out there giving it their all. Take away their motivation and you end up with the productivity of slaves which no amount of beating or killing will improve.
15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid rock bands website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all.
Here, let's change out a single word and see how it all fits: "15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid poor person's website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all."
or this: "15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid nigger's website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all."
I think that your argument is incorrect even if I agree with your general point:
A fair and reasonable society and justice system would meter punishment proportionate to the offense, such that, no side of the equation is imbalanced.
or you know, they could just give up on 32 bit. i have been waiting a decade for 64 bit in the regular world. let the past go. 32 bit is like using 2 digit year codes.
Women are people. Men are people. People should not be pushed towards certain actions because of their gender. People should not be denied things based on their gender.
Applying stereotypes that may be generally true of a particular gender is not helpful when dealing with a specific individual. We have been through all of this with racism. I am unsure why this crap keeps coming up all across the world.
Words like "equality" and such have been twisted badly. Let's forget those words and concentrate on people without respect to gender.
Jesus Christ dude, chill with the anti-American sentiment already. America is not special in its foibles... or actually, maybe it is since it seems to do LESS damage to the world than other countries try to do. Think about how different the world would be if China were actually in America's position or to make the point even more plain, think about what the world would be like if North Korea were in America's position.
I am not trying to excuse any poor behavior. I am merely pointing out that your view (and apparent hatred) are seriously skewed. (and you are modded to +5 inciteful? WTF?)
Saif Al Islam was Western Educated. Why don't you ask him how that worked out for him. What is the saying? Something like: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Many (most?) people would do ANYTHING to be in a position of power. Sell their souls? How trite. They would sell their souls, your soul, and everyone else's soul without a moment of hesitation or thought. Hell, when it comes to getting what you want, lots of people would brutally murder every single person in the world... even though it would defeat the whole purpose. Can't be powerful all by yourself. Who would you boss around?
I worked in the Middle East as a contractor for six years. Two and a half of those years I was under fire in Iraq. Here is some advice:
Be prepared to live well outside your comfort zone. If you are working in a nice place, you will have shower trailers and restroom trailers... but most places are not nice.
Temperatures are extreme. I saw multiple thermometers claim a temp of 142F one day (July 2005 Baghdad). None of the official reports mention temps that high. Afghanistan is not so hot but it gets MUCH colder.
Be prepared to keep your wits about you as the explosive devices start flying over barriers and blowing shit (and humans) up nearby. I was able to put up with it for two and half years at which point I knew that if I stayed longer, I was going to change (permanently?) mentally in ways that were not desirable. You can only ignore the possibility of getting shredded for only so long... One of my coworkers died in Fallujah in... 2006 I think. He was the only employee from my company to die. A mortar round essentially landed on his head. His coworkers had to clean his brains and bone fragments out of the equipment to get it operational again. Could you do that?
You will not really be making that much money even if it seems like a lot compared to what you are used to. Do NOT spend all of your money. There will be some surprises down the road and you want the cash to be available.
More about money: You will not be making that much money forever. I knew several people who bought $600,000+ houses and then were not offered to be recontracted (either due to the company losing the contract or that person was just not wanted). Live a lifestyle like you have now and when everything is done, you will be well off. If you choose to live the high life, expect a harsh period of... ahem... "lifestyle readjustment".
Take a durable laptop with you. If you do not play 3D video games, see if you can find one without a fan (dust buildup). Bring lots of large capacity laptop style external drives with you.
I am sure there is more. If you want, I can even refer you if you send me your resume. I have done that with two people from Slashdot already. One died (statistically very very unlikely but the real world does not care about statistics).:(
Consider the definition of work from physics. If you push against a wall but the wall has not changed, you have expended energy but no work is done.
Measuring activity is measuring the wrong thing... unless they are paying you for activity (which a robot would be better at!). I suspect they really want work though. That means they should be measuring how far the wall is moving, not how much effort was expended to push it.
The first thing you put on the table is "This is not an acceptable situation. Your risks are.".
You said some good stuff; however, the line above should be considered an absolute mistake.
The mistake is here: "This is not an acceptable situation."
That is a judgement. It puts the listening party into a "battle mode" as they determine what it is that is unacceptable and who is at fault and according to whose standards.
There is the other obvious question too: Who is the situation not acceptable to?
If it is you, then they can say, "Walk. Nobody is forcing you to stay."
If it is them then you are presupposing their judgements. Some people can get very upset over this.
TL;DR, Don't use language like that as it can cause problems.
No. Steam is not DRM done right. It may be the best DRM so far, but it has interfered with me playing my games.
I have mentioned offline mode issues before and was essentially told that offline mode is only meant for minor interruptions. This mean vacations and/or remote work assignments mean no gaming.
Oddly, I just experienced another issue where I could not play my games (Tuesday night!). The Steam client GUI said it needed to update itself. It would download 30 out of 36 megabytes and then claim that it needed to be online to finish updating... And again and again.
I ended up solving the problem with some hints from some forum posts about how to view what the GUI was hiding. Three hours wasted... to DRM.:(
I have only ever given a negative mod once in the past decade. I believe negative modding is a necessary capability.
I have glanced at user names when deciding if a post warranted a positive mod. It can be difficult to ascertain intent when reading text. Tone does not carry through well. If I recognize a name, I assume the "troll" post has a purpose that is useful or that despite sounding like flame bait, perhaps they are trying to illustrate something useful.
Of course, when there is not any real ambiguity, the name means nothing to how I mod.
But how else is the plant manager or a supervisor going to get to read his favorite blogs and news sites, or see that email with the newest picture of a cute kitten doing something funny?
By using the computer system sitting right next to the computer system (on an isolated network) monitoring the SCADA stuff? I am sure a water company can afford the extra thousand dollars that it could cost.
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It is not panty waist. It is panty waste... as in the egg that started you would have been better off getting discarded rather than having you grow in to an actual person.
I like your suggestion: How about everyone just enjoy the new features...
Okay, I am enjoying them. Now can we deal with the problems that the new versioning schemes causes?
Many people, including myself, do not like the constant GUI changes. Where is the home button? I don't know. It keeps changing each week on each browser, not just Firefox. Ah, so I can forget about using the home button now. Fair enough. I go to google enough to where I should be able to use the drop down in the history bar and have it be one of the more recent sites that I have visited... Oh. It is not a history bar anymore. Google no longer shows up in the drop down despite it being the site I go to most often. What URLs are there? No idea. They are not human readable, just some deeply nested directory structure along with some parameters to make things look really messy.
Okay, so they took away the home button and the history bar (actually, they are kind of there, just totally useless now) what else is gone? Ah. The status bar. Can't have people inspecting the URLs of links before they click on them, after all, it is not the user who is supposed to be in control, it is the "content creators" who are supposed to be in control.
So why does all of this matter? It has nothing to do with version numbers does it? Hm. Ah! I know. When the little numbers change, then nothing in the UI changes but when the big numbers change, all bets are off... But wait. It does not work like that anymore.
Fuck it. This shit sucks. Can someone ask the noscript guy to make an addon for Internet explorer please since the Mozilla people are fucked in the head (but at least they are competing with Chrome. That is why everyone uses Mozilla because it can beat Chrome at it's own game!).
Parent is insightfully addressing the misleading question in the summary:
"should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the idea of providing a pension system to state employees without providing any evidence that those employees haven't earned that pension.
I think you might be misunderstanding the question and the assertions surrounding it: It seems that the idea they are trying to convey is that the State probably should not be paying (salary and pensions) an institution to educate out of state students. Furthermore, paying a million (State) dollars a year to the president of such an institution is an extravagance bordering on, or crossing in to, criminality.
Forgive me if I have misinterpreted the preceding discussion. I have no stake in any particular interpretation.
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I have to wonder why they are not just simply chaining you to your desk. That will definitely ensure productivity since you can not wander off to the bathroom or the water cooler any time you want. Yowsa.
You simply can not have a healthy economy or country without healthy _motivated_ individuals. Sure, a large chunk of people in any given country are about as productive at the point of a gun as they are when motivated by money or freedom but it is the people who can do 10, 100, or even a 1,000 times or more than the normal person that really drive an economy to excellence/superiority. They are the ones who are creating and innovating. YOU CAN NOT MOTIVATE THOSE PEOPLE AT THE POINT OF A GUN.
And that is why America is/was so great. All of those productive people were out there giving it their all. Take away their motivation and you end up with the productivity of slaves which no amount of beating or killing will improve.
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Something struck me when you said:
15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid rock bands website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all.
Here, let's change out a single word and see how it all fits:
"15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid poor person's website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all."
or this:
"15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances. In fact, since its just some stupid nigger's website, I wouldn't expect justice to include any jail time at all."
I think that your argument is incorrect even if I agree with your general point:
A fair and reasonable society and justice system would meter punishment proportionate to the offense, such that, no side of the equation is imbalanced.
or you know, they could just give up on 32 bit. i have been waiting a decade for 64 bit in the regular world. let the past go. 32 bit is like using 2 digit year codes.
Women are people. Men are people. People should not be pushed towards certain actions because of their gender. People should not be denied things based on their gender.
Applying stereotypes that may be generally true of a particular gender is not helpful when dealing with a specific individual. We have been through all of this with racism. I am unsure why this crap keeps coming up all across the world.
Words like "equality" and such have been twisted badly. Let's forget those words and concentrate on people without respect to gender.
Jesus Christ dude, chill with the anti-American sentiment already. America is not special in its foibles... or actually, maybe it is since it seems to do LESS damage to the world than other countries try to do. Think about how different the world would be if China were actually in America's position or to make the point even more plain, think about what the world would be like if North Korea were in America's position.
I am not trying to excuse any poor behavior. I am merely pointing out that your view (and apparent hatred) are seriously skewed. (and you are modded to +5 inciteful? WTF?)
Data coherence may not be easy but it is a SOLVED problem. When a deletion happens, it should be real which is not what we have today.
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I did not notice any difference in hard drive behavior between here and there. An SSD is nicer because it is lighter and less power hungry.
I never met a single person who routinely worked more (or less) than 12 hours a day. Other than that, your point still more or less stands.
Saif Al Islam was Western Educated. Why don't you ask him how that worked out for him. What is the saying? Something like: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Many (most?) people would do ANYTHING to be in a position of power. Sell their souls? How trite. They would sell their souls, your soul, and everyone else's soul without a moment of hesitation or thought. Hell, when it comes to getting what you want, lots of people would brutally murder every single person in the world... even though it would defeat the whole purpose. Can't be powerful all by yourself. Who would you boss around?
Sent.
I was hoping he was going for something a bit more esoteric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence
Wow. Your quote fits perfectly for the War on Drugs (TM) too.
I worked in the Middle East as a contractor for six years. Two and a half of those years I was under fire in Iraq. Here is some advice:
Be prepared to live well outside your comfort zone. If you are working in a nice place, you will have shower trailers and restroom trailers... but most places are not nice.
Temperatures are extreme. I saw multiple thermometers claim a temp of 142F one day (July 2005 Baghdad). None of the official reports mention temps that high. Afghanistan is not so hot but it gets MUCH colder.
Be prepared to keep your wits about you as the explosive devices start flying over barriers and blowing shit (and humans) up nearby. I was able to put up with it for two and half years at which point I knew that if I stayed longer, I was going to change (permanently?) mentally in ways that were not desirable. You can only ignore the possibility of getting shredded for only so long... One of my coworkers died in Fallujah in... 2006 I think. He was the only employee from my company to die. A mortar round essentially landed on his head. His coworkers had to clean his brains and bone fragments out of the equipment to get it operational again. Could you do that?
You will not really be making that much money even if it seems like a lot compared to what you are used to. Do NOT spend all of your money. There will be some surprises down the road and you want the cash to be available.
More about money: You will not be making that much money forever. I knew several people who bought $600,000+ houses and then were not offered to be recontracted (either due to the company losing the contract or that person was just not wanted). Live a lifestyle like you have now and when everything is done, you will be well off. If you choose to live the high life, expect a harsh period of ... ahem... "lifestyle readjustment".
Take a durable laptop with you. If you do not play 3D video games, see if you can find one without a fan (dust buildup). Bring lots of large capacity laptop style external drives with you.
I am sure there is more. If you want, I can even refer you if you send me your resume. I have done that with two people from Slashdot already. One died (statistically very very unlikely but the real world does not care about statistics). :(
Consider the definition of work from physics. If you push against a wall but the wall has not changed, you have expended energy but no work is done.
Measuring activity is measuring the wrong thing... unless they are paying you for activity (which a robot would be better at!). I suspect they really want work though. That means they should be measuring how far the wall is moving, not how much effort was expended to push it.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
The first thing you put on the table is "This is not an acceptable situation. Your risks are .".
You said some good stuff; however, the line above should be considered an absolute mistake.
The mistake is here: "This is not an acceptable situation."
That is a judgement. It puts the listening party into a "battle mode" as they determine what it is that is unacceptable and who is at fault and according to whose standards.
There is the other obvious question too: Who is the situation not acceptable to?
If it is you, then they can say, "Walk. Nobody is forcing you to stay."
If it is them then you are presupposing their judgements. Some people can get very upset over this.
TL;DR, Don't use language like that as it can cause problems.
No. Steam is not DRM done right. It may be the best DRM so far, but it has interfered with me playing my games.
I have mentioned offline mode issues before and was essentially told that offline mode is only meant for minor interruptions. This mean vacations and/or remote work assignments mean no gaming.
Oddly, I just experienced another issue where I could not play my games (Tuesday night!). The Steam client GUI said it needed to update itself. It would download 30 out of 36 megabytes and then claim that it needed to be online to finish updating... And again and again.
I ended up solving the problem with some hints from some forum posts about how to view what the GUI was hiding. Three hours wasted... to DRM. :(
No DRM is the right DRM.
I have only ever given a negative mod once in the past decade. I believe negative modding is a necessary capability.
I have glanced at user names when deciding if a post warranted a positive mod. It can be difficult to ascertain intent when reading text. Tone does not carry through well. If I recognize a name, I assume the "troll" post has a purpose that is useful or that despite sounding like flame bait, perhaps they are trying to illustrate something useful.
Of course, when there is not any real ambiguity, the name means nothing to how I mod.
You can't have an inalienable right to someone else's property.
"Somebody else's property"?
Who owns the internet, genius?
Lots of different people. You might even own part of it. Shall we write a law granting me access to the part you own? :)
But how else is the plant manager or a supervisor going to get to read his favorite blogs and news sites, or see that email with the newest picture of a cute kitten doing something funny?
By using the computer system sitting right next to the computer system (on an isolated network) monitoring the SCADA stuff? I am sure a water company can afford the extra thousand dollars that it could cost.
It is not panty waist. It is panty waste... as in the egg that started you would have been better off getting discarded rather than having you grow in to an actual person.
Cheers ;)
I like your suggestion: How about everyone just enjoy the new features...
Okay, I am enjoying them. Now can we deal with the problems that the new versioning schemes causes?
Many people, including myself, do not like the constant GUI changes. Where is the home button? I don't know. It keeps changing each week on each browser, not just Firefox. Ah, so I can forget about using the home button now. Fair enough. I go to google enough to where I should be able to use the drop down in the history bar and have it be one of the more recent sites that I have visited... Oh. It is not a history bar anymore. Google no longer shows up in the drop down despite it being the site I go to most often. What URLs are there? No idea. They are not human readable, just some deeply nested directory structure along with some parameters to make things look really messy.
Okay, so they took away the home button and the history bar (actually, they are kind of there, just totally useless now) what else is gone? Ah. The status bar. Can't have people inspecting the URLs of links before they click on them, after all, it is not the user who is supposed to be in control, it is the "content creators" who are supposed to be in control.
So why does all of this matter? It has nothing to do with version numbers does it? Hm. Ah! I know. When the little numbers change, then nothing in the UI changes but when the big numbers change, all bets are off... But wait. It does not work like that anymore.
Fuck it. This shit sucks. Can someone ask the noscript guy to make an addon for Internet explorer please since the Mozilla people are fucked in the head (but at least they are competing with Chrome. That is why everyone uses Mozilla because it can beat Chrome at it's own game!).
Parent is insightfully addressing the misleading question in the summary:
"should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the idea of providing a pension system to state employees without providing any evidence that those employees haven't earned that pension.
I think you might be misunderstanding the question and the assertions surrounding it: It seems that the idea they are trying to convey is that the State probably should not be paying (salary and pensions) an institution to educate out of state students. Furthermore, paying a million (State) dollars a year to the president of such an institution is an extravagance bordering on, or crossing in to, criminality.
Forgive me if I have misinterpreted the preceding discussion. I have no stake in any particular interpretation.
Plus, they allow tethering for no extra charge
They offer a tethering charge of $17.99/mo. I know, I just added data to my phone.