I do like looking at pretty women. Pretty women in skimpy outfits serving me food will get me to visit their establishment more often than an establishment where buff (or for that matter overweight) guys do the same job.
You can say that the "environment is more pleasant". I say that I like to look at boos and asses.
Thus, they sell me more than they would otherwise.
They don't have to charge more than the competition because on same prices they have more customers and very, very likely higher tips.
Sex sells. If whoever is doing the selling is not forced into it and doesn't feel demeaned, I have absolutely nothing against it.
There are lots of women that will gladly go and see a Chippendale gig. There are lots of women that wouldn't. While we men are mostly (I use myself as an example and my friends) fairly shallow when it comes to observing the female physique, I believe that women are slightly less so.
And just a note to any guys, who may think that they will have an easy time scoring with a chick that's all hot-and-bothered after a Chippendale show: If you think that after what she's just seen on a stage, looking at you is a turn-on, you should BE on that stage instead:-)
You do realize that the majority of mass killings and other terrorist incidents in the U.S. have been the result of the actions of right-wing white male Christians, right?
So try to keep THEM out of the country and keep the ones there under close supervision:-)
Should I have to know how to construct a bank vault from scratch just to keep my house locked?
No you shouldn't. But you pay someone to secure your house for you, don't you? That is the business model that works most of the time in the real world. Either you pay someone, whatever the two of you agree upon, or you do it yourself if you have skills, time and resources to do it. If you pay someone, it's usually a pretty good idea that you understand beforehand what the payment is. That's why money so well liked. Money payment typically means that you for over whatever quantity you have agreed upon and that's it. Your obligations to the provider are satisfied and they have no more claims against you. On the other hand if the service/product is "free" you should be aware that there has to be a way for the provider to recoup their expenditure in some way.
It's simply common sense. Like the saying I've heard a lot: "you're not so pretty that someone would give you something for free." And even if you would be as pretty as that, they probably just give you stuff, because they want to fuck you.
Let's not pretend that your suggestion is not fiction.
Everyone uses Google because they have free services. They have free services because they provide advertising based on your data (email contents and such). They cannot provide advertising based on your data if they have no access to it.
No access to your data = no free service.
If you believe that anything you store on a public provider location that "gives" their service for free you're insane. Even providers that charge for their service can be guilty of same, but there at least you have a bit more leverage in forcing them not to have access to your data.
Honestly, in this day and age it's not a difficult thing to host your own web server if you would want to. Buying a small box with 8-16GB RAM, a decent CPU, 2TB of disk space and putting some open-source virtualization solution on it should not cost you more than about 500$. If you think that's too much, then for sure, use Google (I do). But don't for a moment think that anything there is considered truly private.
I think that it's pretty much a given that no home router can ROUTE traffic anywhere beyond 100Mb/s. You may get high throughput between two 1Gb/s ports, but that won't be routing. It will be switching.
It may depend what you're talking about. For research, fun and bragging purposes you're right. Things get upgraded because someone wants them to. For business purposes, on the other hand, things get upgraded because they need to be. I'll upgrade my company network if one of two things happen: a) Because there is a business benefit in the future that can be enabled by a faster network b) Because the network has too much traffic on it now and I need something faster (which sort of goes back to point a) just means that I'm not so good with monitoring and planning). In either of the two cases I don't think there are any reasonable business cases to have end-user connections 10Gb-capable. Even your average server is only now getting up to 10Gb/s and lots of times those 10Gb/s are being shared between IP and storage data. I haven't seen any content whatsoever that would demand anything above 1Gb/s on user side for any kind of normal work or media consumption.
Having said all that, I don't think that 1Gb/s will be enough for all eternity. It may be too slow in three years, but it's not today. Hell, I bet that most of business scenarios still do not require more than 100Mb/s for normal work.
Sure, go ahead. Upgrade all of your network switches, routers (I dare you to find one with 10Gb/s port that you can afford for home use) and end devices. And then what?
Connect couple of gamepads to it and you have the same experience as on a console. Even better - you can play some split-screen games on individual monitors. Really the only reason to have a console would be for a game that's not on a PC. But there's not that many of those available that would be important to me.
Carriers do not make money on the phones they sell you. They make money on the monthly fees. Thus, every additional phone on their network is an additional subscriber, paying additional fee.
Stolen phones expand network use-base and provide them with more customers.
I friend of mine got her Samsung smartphone stolen. She reported it to the police and to the service provider. Later on she got notified by the service provider that her phone is being used. She reported that back to the police. Guess what happened? Absolutely nothing! Police basically said it's a waste of money and resources to go after the person. Mobile provider hasn't shut off (blocked) the IMEI. So we have a situation where we have a reported theft, a reported activity of the stolen device with the ability to both locate and/or block it. And the only response is: sorry, we can't be bothered.
The thing is, I always want to be available on my own mobile number. I don't use voicemail (have it turned off). Amongst other things, because it's expensive to check it, when roaming. Also, I simply don't like it. When I travel I use my phone pretty much in the same way like I use it when I don't travel.
Dual-SIM phone is not a bad idea. But then you're fairly limited with your choice of phones. I haven't seen any top-end devices with dual-SIM support yet.
My SIM works in pretty much every country in the world, that I've been to, so far (and I've been to over 30 just in the last two years). And while my plan allows for almost free incoming calls worldwide, I've yet to see a plan from ANY mobile provider that wouldn't be (at the very least) 10 times as expensive for roaming data as a locally purchased SIM.
And if we get back to the whole "luggage" thing, I have to say that the mobile hotspot that I have is somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 the size of my mobile phone. So far it hasn't been an inconvenience to me in any way.
Tell me something then: how do all the websites survive? How does the e-banking survive? It's designed on BYOD concept from the get-go.
And before you say anything about web apps, I don't expect every application to be web-enabled. But I DO expect it to work for me from everywhere and on pretty much any device that I have available to me, at any given time.
I work in company that has a majority of users who travel globally on a daily basis. We're expected to both consume and produce intellectual property securely and constantly (even while we travel). Our work devices have to be our private devices as well, otherwise we would die of boredom on long trips or would have to carry two of each.
In my particular branch office we have zero IT support/admin guys. At the same time we have pretty much zero IT support issues that are not actually caused BY the IT department (email server going offline 2 or 3 times a year). And we're not all IT pros. We have our share of office administrators and so on who are proficient in Excel, Word and web-app usage but no more. But guess what: they don't have problems. Things work, because they're set-up so that they work.
And yes: our network is not 100% secure. It's secure enough. But on the other hand, no network is 100% secure. Just the other day there was report here about Chinese hackers stealing F-16, Aegis and whatnot blueprints from "secure" governmental networks. The thing is that we make sure that the due-diligence is observed. Employees understand which data is important and secure it additionally to prevent it's leakage in a reasonable way. At the same time we don't get our panties in a bunch about security being more important than the work that we have to do.
Agreed, but then you don't have your mobile number anymore. I find it a bother to constantly have a different number. And if you're going to have an extra phone just for wifi hotspot capabilities you already have extra luggage...
I completely agree with the above, but would add an option which for me works even better than a cheap Android phone.
Get a portable WiFi HotSpot device, like the ZTE MF60. I have one of those. I travel a lot and everywhere I come I simply buy a prepaid SIM, pop it inside and I have wireless on all my devices. Usually it's way cheaper than cybercaffe/hotel/other on-the-go payable options. And the hotspot has a built-in battery that's good for at least 4 hours of unconnected browsing. Of course you can attach it via USB to your PC and it will power it as well.
There's also a 4G version available now, but it's more expensive and for normal use not really that much better.
Why wouldn't someone else be able to play at your place on a Steambox? Sign-out-sign-in works quite OK on a standard Steam. I believe it won't be much different there.
It's not a question of taking over. It's a question of overthrowing. And, more to the point, violently overthrowing. You're completely entitled to overthrow the government with valid tools that the very constitution, that you mention, has foreseen. I.e. elections. Needing arms for doing something along similar lines is nothing short of a coup. And while I don't say that a coup is not needed from time to time in one country or another, making public calls to do it is generally considered treason. And I don't see anything wrong with that either, since a coup is generally considered to be an act that is done outside of the law and only becomes "legal" if it actually succeeds. And to maybe drive the point a bit further: wouldn't advocating a violent overthrow of US government imply threatening violence against the president? As far as I'm aware such threats are generally frowned upon by a certain section of the Department of Treasury...
If you want to make a statement about something, have the balls to do it directly and without apologizing if you KNOW that what you advocate isn't legal. This targets the NRA, by the way.
Standard poker (not the video version) is the only game that I know of in casinos, where the house doesn't care who wins. The reason is that the house gets cut from all the players. So as long as the game keeps going, the house is happy.
So you're right. Poker isn't (only) about luck, if you know what you're doing. On the other hand your post is not related to the issue being discussed.
Local admin station downloads the test before you take it and serves it to the test stations where you take it. This prevents connectivity issues from affecting you when you're already taking the exam. In such scenario you could complete exam, be scored however your results wouldn't be submitted to the VUE servers until connectivity is restored.
However if the admin station is unable to download the exams in the first place, then you cannot even start the exam.
Depending on the car make and model the blinker/windscreen wiper levers can be mirrored or not. In my opinion whether they are mirrored or not shows how cheap the car vendor is.
My hypothesis is like this: Since majority of cars are manufactured for driving on the right side of the road, the "native" car designs are also made for those versions. This means blinker lever on the left and windscreen wiper lever on the right of the steering wheel. This kind of layout helps you to operate the blinkers while shifting gears with your other hand (for instance when overtaking). If car manufacturer is cheap, then they will simply take the whole dashboard/steering wheel assembly and move it from left side of the car to the right and NOT reverse the blinkers/windscreen wipers. If that happens, then you'll have to be slightly more inventive with gear changes and direction indication, than you would have to be otherwise. If car manufacturer can be bothered with a bit of extra expense, though, the wipers lever will be on the left and the blinkers lever will be on the right. This may be a bit disconcerting initially, but will eventually make it more intuitive to use blinkers while shifting at the same time.
I consider myself a fairly technically and savvy user of pretty much all there is in current gadgetry. I constantly keep updated on things that are happening and am usually a point of reference for my friends that need technical advice.
I do not use Linux on my PC and I seriously doubt that I will in a foreseeable future. Why?
At the moment I have a single laptop PC that I use for pretty much everything. Private and business related. For business purposes Linux won't do. I need to run MS office because I cannot work without MS Powerpoint. And no. Open Office, Libre Office or other such is not a suitable replacement, since compatibility issues simply are not worth my time. Other than that there are some other apps that I need which do not have their Linux alternatives. So business usage pretty much negates ability to run Linux. For home use, the largest problem are games. This may dicrease soon, with Steam kicking in proper direction, but for now, we're still not there.
So call it stigma or something else. As far as I can see it, Linux simply doesn't work right now for me, for most of my needs.
It's similar to countries that have legalised prostitution. It happens, but to similar extent like the rest of the world. It's just regulated and kept out of the slums (for the most part).
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I do like looking at pretty women. Pretty women in skimpy outfits serving me food will get me to visit their establishment more often than an establishment where buff (or for that matter overweight) guys do the same job.
You can say that the "environment is more pleasant". I say that I like to look at boos and asses.
Thus, they sell me more than they would otherwise.
They don't have to charge more than the competition because on same prices they have more customers and very, very likely higher tips.
Sex sells. If whoever is doing the selling is not forced into it and doesn't feel demeaned, I have absolutely nothing against it.
There are lots of women that will gladly go and see a Chippendale gig. There are lots of women that wouldn't.
While we men are mostly (I use myself as an example and my friends) fairly shallow when it comes to observing the female physique, I believe that women are slightly less so.
And just a note to any guys, who may think that they will have an easy time scoring with a chick that's all hot-and-bothered after a Chippendale show: If you think that after what she's just seen on a stage, looking at you is a turn-on, you should BE on that stage instead :-)
You do realize that the majority of mass killings and other terrorist incidents in the U.S. have been the result of the actions of right-wing white male Christians, right?
So try to keep THEM out of the country and keep the ones there under close supervision :-)
Should I have to know how to construct a bank vault from scratch just to keep my house locked?
No you shouldn't. But you pay someone to secure your house for you, don't you?
That is the business model that works most of the time in the real world. Either you pay someone, whatever the two of you agree upon, or you do it yourself if you have skills, time and resources to do it.
If you pay someone, it's usually a pretty good idea that you understand beforehand what the payment is. That's why money so well liked. Money payment typically means that you for over whatever quantity you have agreed upon and that's it. Your obligations to the provider are satisfied and they have no more claims against you.
On the other hand if the service/product is "free" you should be aware that there has to be a way for the provider to recoup their expenditure in some way.
It's simply common sense. Like the saying I've heard a lot: "you're not so pretty that someone would give you something for free." And even if you would be as pretty as that, they probably just give you stuff, because they want to fuck you.
Let's not pretend that your suggestion is not fiction.
Everyone uses Google because they have free services.
They have free services because they provide advertising based on your data (email contents and such).
They cannot provide advertising based on your data if they have no access to it.
No access to your data = no free service.
If you believe that anything you store on a public provider location that "gives" their service for free you're insane. Even providers that charge for their service can be guilty of same, but there at least you have a bit more leverage in forcing them not to have access to your data.
Honestly, in this day and age it's not a difficult thing to host your own web server if you would want to. Buying a small box with 8-16GB RAM, a decent CPU, 2TB of disk space and putting some open-source virtualization solution on it should not cost you more than about 500$.
If you think that's too much, then for sure, use Google (I do). But don't for a moment think that anything there is considered truly private.
I think that it's pretty much a given that no home router can ROUTE traffic anywhere beyond 100Mb/s. You may get high throughput between two 1Gb/s ports, but that won't be routing. It will be switching.
Really?
It may depend what you're talking about.
For research, fun and bragging purposes you're right. Things get upgraded because someone wants them to.
For business purposes, on the other hand, things get upgraded because they need to be. I'll upgrade my company network if one of two things happen:
a) Because there is a business benefit in the future that can be enabled by a faster network
b) Because the network has too much traffic on it now and I need something faster (which sort of goes back to point a) just means that I'm not so good with monitoring and planning).
In either of the two cases I don't think there are any reasonable business cases to have end-user connections 10Gb-capable. Even your average server is only now getting up to 10Gb/s and lots of times those 10Gb/s are being shared between IP and storage data. I haven't seen any content whatsoever that would demand anything above 1Gb/s on user side for any kind of normal work or media consumption.
Having said all that, I don't think that 1Gb/s will be enough for all eternity. It may be too slow in three years, but it's not today. Hell, I bet that most of business scenarios still do not require more than 100Mb/s for normal work.
Sure, go ahead. Upgrade all of your network switches, routers (I dare you to find one with 10Gb/s port that you can afford for home use) and end devices. And then what?
Why exactly couldn't friends play games on my PC?
Connect couple of gamepads to it and you have the same experience as on a console. Even better - you can play some split-screen games on individual monitors.
Really the only reason to have a console would be for a game that's not on a PC. But there's not that many of those available that would be important to me.
Carriers do not make money on the phones they sell you. They make money on the monthly fees.
Thus, every additional phone on their network is an additional subscriber, paying additional fee.
Stolen phones expand network use-base and provide them with more customers.
Nope, not right.
I friend of mine got her Samsung smartphone stolen. She reported it to the police and to the service provider.
Later on she got notified by the service provider that her phone is being used. She reported that back to the police.
Guess what happened? Absolutely nothing! Police basically said it's a waste of money and resources to go after the person. Mobile provider hasn't shut off (blocked) the IMEI.
So we have a situation where we have a reported theft, a reported activity of the stolen device with the ability to both locate and/or block it. And the only response is: sorry, we can't be bothered.
We live in an EU country...
The thing is, I always want to be available on my own mobile number. I don't use voicemail (have it turned off). Amongst other things, because it's expensive to check it, when roaming. Also, I simply don't like it. When I travel I use my phone pretty much in the same way like I use it when I don't travel.
Dual-SIM phone is not a bad idea. But then you're fairly limited with your choice of phones. I haven't seen any top-end devices with dual-SIM support yet.
My SIM works in pretty much every country in the world, that I've been to, so far (and I've been to over 30 just in the last two years). And while my plan allows for almost free incoming calls worldwide, I've yet to see a plan from ANY mobile provider that wouldn't be (at the very least) 10 times as expensive for roaming data as a locally purchased SIM.
And if we get back to the whole "luggage" thing, I have to say that the mobile hotspot that I have is somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 the size of my mobile phone. So far it hasn't been an inconvenience to me in any way.
BYOD is a stupid idea?
No IT support experience?
Tell me something then: how do all the websites survive? How does the e-banking survive? It's designed on BYOD concept from the get-go.
And before you say anything about web apps, I don't expect every application to be web-enabled. But I DO expect it to work for me from everywhere and on pretty much any device that I have available to me, at any given time.
I work in company that has a majority of users who travel globally on a daily basis. We're expected to both consume and produce intellectual property securely and constantly (even while we travel). Our work devices have to be our private devices as well, otherwise we would die of boredom on long trips or would have to carry two of each.
In my particular branch office we have zero IT support/admin guys. At the same time we have pretty much zero IT support issues that are not actually caused BY the IT department (email server going offline 2 or 3 times a year). And we're not all IT pros. We have our share of office administrators and so on who are proficient in Excel, Word and web-app usage but no more. But guess what: they don't have problems. Things work, because they're set-up so that they work.
And yes: our network is not 100% secure. It's secure enough. But on the other hand, no network is 100% secure. Just the other day there was report here about Chinese hackers stealing F-16, Aegis and whatnot blueprints from "secure" governmental networks. The thing is that we make sure that the due-diligence is observed. Employees understand which data is important and secure it additionally to prevent it's leakage in a reasonable way. At the same time we don't get our panties in a bunch about security being more important than the work that we have to do.
BYOD rocks!
Agreed, but then you don't have your mobile number anymore. I find it a bother to constantly have a different number. And if you're going to have an extra phone just for wifi hotspot capabilities you already have extra luggage...
I completely agree with the above, but would add an option which for me works even better than a cheap Android phone.
Get a portable WiFi HotSpot device, like the ZTE MF60.
I have one of those. I travel a lot and everywhere I come I simply buy a prepaid SIM, pop it inside and I have wireless on all my devices. Usually it's way cheaper than cybercaffe/hotel/other on-the-go payable options. And the hotspot has a built-in battery that's good for at least 4 hours of unconnected browsing. Of course you can attach it via USB to your PC and it will power it as well.
There's also a 4G version available now, but it's more expensive and for normal use not really that much better.
Why wouldn't someone else be able to play at your place on a Steambox?
Sign-out-sign-in works quite OK on a standard Steam. I believe it won't be much different there.
It's not a question of taking over. It's a question of overthrowing. And, more to the point, violently overthrowing. You're completely entitled to overthrow the government with valid tools that the very constitution, that you mention, has foreseen. I.e. elections.
Needing arms for doing something along similar lines is nothing short of a coup. And while I don't say that a coup is not needed from time to time in one country or another, making public calls to do it is generally considered treason. And I don't see anything wrong with that either, since a coup is generally considered to be an act that is done outside of the law and only becomes "legal" if it actually succeeds.
And to maybe drive the point a bit further: wouldn't advocating a violent overthrow of US government imply threatening violence against the president? As far as I'm aware such threats are generally frowned upon by a certain section of the Department of Treasury...
If you want to make a statement about something, have the balls to do it directly and without apologizing if you KNOW that what you advocate isn't legal. This targets the NRA, by the way.
Standard poker (not the video version) is the only game that I know of in casinos, where the house doesn't care who wins.
The reason is that the house gets cut from all the players. So as long as the game keeps going, the house is happy.
So you're right. Poker isn't (only) about luck, if you know what you're doing. On the other hand your post is not related to the issue being discussed.
It must have been a shitty exam center. They were supposed to report the issue on your behalf and arrange a re-schedule for you for free.
It is partially local and partially remote.
Local admin station downloads the test before you take it and serves it to the test stations where you take it. This prevents connectivity issues from affecting you when you're already taking the exam. In such scenario you could complete exam, be scored however your results wouldn't be submitted to the VUE servers until connectivity is restored.
However if the admin station is unable to download the exams in the first place, then you cannot even start the exam.
And Ireland
Depending on the car make and model the blinker/windscreen wiper levers can be mirrored or not.
In my opinion whether they are mirrored or not shows how cheap the car vendor is.
My hypothesis is like this:
Since majority of cars are manufactured for driving on the right side of the road, the "native" car designs are also made for those versions. This means blinker lever on the left and windscreen wiper lever on the right of the steering wheel. This kind of layout helps you to operate the blinkers while shifting gears with your other hand (for instance when overtaking).
If car manufacturer is cheap, then they will simply take the whole dashboard/steering wheel assembly and move it from left side of the car to the right and NOT reverse the blinkers/windscreen wipers. If that happens, then you'll have to be slightly more inventive with gear changes and direction indication, than you would have to be otherwise.
If car manufacturer can be bothered with a bit of extra expense, though, the wipers lever will be on the left and the blinkers lever will be on the right. This may be a bit disconcerting initially, but will eventually make it more intuitive to use blinkers while shifting at the same time.
Linux stigma very much does exist.
I consider myself a fairly technically and savvy user of pretty much all there is in current gadgetry. I constantly keep updated on things that are happening and am usually a point of reference for my friends that need technical advice.
I do not use Linux on my PC and I seriously doubt that I will in a foreseeable future.
Why?
At the moment I have a single laptop PC that I use for pretty much everything. Private and business related.
For business purposes Linux won't do. I need to run MS office because I cannot work without MS Powerpoint. And no. Open Office, Libre Office or other such is not a suitable replacement, since compatibility issues simply are not worth my time. Other than that there are some other apps that I need which do not have their Linux alternatives. So business usage pretty much negates ability to run Linux.
For home use, the largest problem are games. This may dicrease soon, with Steam kicking in proper direction, but for now, we're still not there.
So call it stigma or something else. As far as I can see it, Linux simply doesn't work right now for me, for most of my needs.
Domestic violence all but disappeared. Crime in general dropped dramatically.
Really? So one quarter of all women are all but nothing then? And your crime comment is just ridiculous...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_the_United_States
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00492/Crime.htm
Do you think that by legalising drugs, people would immediately jump at the chance and start using?
Look at the countries like Netherlands. Here's an interesting statistics for you: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/netherlands_v_us#sthash.JwgR5Pg9.dpbs
It's similar to countries that have legalised prostitution. It happens, but to similar extent like the rest of the world. It's just regulated and kept out of the slums (for the most part).
You mean something like this:
http://vimeo.com/46304267
?