You said "The crime is breaking sanctions". It doesn't matter if Trump is thinking of ending them, they were the sanctions in place at the time, and the company violated the various ITAR conditions on buying technology. Trump ignores contracts, so maybe he thinks it's OK that ZTE ignored its contracts, but Americans get punished severely if they pass technology on to sanctioned countries. (I sit through ITAR seminars and videos every year as part of compliance where I work.) And the Republicans seem to think that the letter of the law is crucial for lots of other things, which would mean that "breaking sanctions" should be punished as the rules in effect at the time were written; but again, Trump seems to think that words don't matter - it's the thought that counts - so the letter of the law doesn't matter if he doesn't think so. I submit that if a Democrat did exactly the same thing, he would be pilloried as weak, and spineless, and failing to enforce the law, and suspiciously forgiving of America's enemies.
"Fox News's hosts and guests contradictorily blasting former President Barack Obama for saying he would meet with dictators and enemies of the United States, but effusively praising current President Donald Trump for agreeing to sit down face-to-face with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un."
http://www.newsweek.com/fox-ne...
Interstate highways aren't free; they are SOCIALIST! I'm sorry, they are communally paid for through taxes. And the densely populated states tend to be paying for the huge amounts of roads in the sparsely populated states, which amounts to taxation without equal representation since the sparse states get the same number of senators as the 60-times-as-many-people states.
Scandinavian Peninsula countries Norway and Sweden have similar geographic problems, so they made it a national defense priority, and made sure they had hardware companies in-country too. If the US weren't so religiously dedicated to competition, we could have better coverage instead of having 3 or 4 companies covering the same narrow densely-populated bands and the highways connecting them.
I agree with you - and it doesn't matter, because Americans know how the American police SWAT teams operate. If someone pulls the pin on a hand grenade, it is not a surprise when the grenade explodes. If someone calls in a report meeting various "imminent danger" criteria, it is not a surprise that the SWAT team goes in expecting the worst.
Nothing wrong with "profit". What's wrong is that they were ALREADY making a profit, and would CONTINUE making a profit, and instead of trying to make more profit by encouraging more use (through more people being able to afford the smaller doses if it's enough for them), they blatantly profiteered on the existing sales. Keeping prices the same, many people win; instead the company insisted on one-winner-take-all.
Maybe t-R-u's demise will help along some mom and pop toy stores that have gone out of their way to stock things that you might not find elsewhere...
Problem is, just like A&P in the old days, the advent of TrU killed off a lot of the little local stores, and online shopping killed off the rest. The reason TrU was saddled with debt was that it already almost went under.
So the books are public domain in US, and available in the US, but *not* available in Germany. What's the problem? Different states in the US have different liquor laws, with different permissions for selling on Sunday; when you walk into a store you are subject to whichever laws cover the location you are in. This is no different.
this++. EEs are trained to instantiate rather than abstract; if they need two UARTs, then they need to put two chips on the board, so they expect to cut-and-paste-and-modify two copies of the UART code for the two devices. If they understand the concept of a subroutine, they pass in "1" or "2" and have a zillion "if" statements choosing between the two UARTS. They do *not* understand the idea of one subroutine using a pointer parameter with all of the code being identical - even though that's pretty much how the chips work (that is, they're identical parts, just addressed differently).
And don't get me started on global variables vs. power/ground planes. EEs think global availability is a *good* thing.
Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" saved me from a high school English paper. His opening thesis also turns out to be prescient regarding software design, if one replaces "personages" in a "tale" with the variables or objects in a software system.
There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction -- some say twenty-two. In "Deerslayer," Cooper violated eighteen of them. These eighteen require:
1. That a tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere....
2. They require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it....
3. They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others....
4. They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there....
6. They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in the tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description.
9. They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable....
10. They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones....
11. They require that the characters in a tale shall be so clearly defined that the reader can tell beforehand what each will do in a given emergency....
In addition to these large rules, there are some little ones. These require that the author shall:
12. Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.
13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.
14. Eschew surplusage.
15. Not omit necessary details.
16. Avoid slovenliness of form.
17. Use good grammar.
18. Employ a simple and straightforward style.
+1 (no mod points right now) I was one of those "50 lbs more muscle" back in college, and had to be extra-nice *not* to scare away nice girls. Having a sister made a difference in my attitude to start with, plus the inverse Golden Rule: Don't do unto others what you wouldn't want done to you.
Unfortunately there are plenty of achievers and contributors who were also shitheads. If we refused to use all of their achievements and contributions because we rejected them for being shitheads, society would be poorer. Our entire world is based on the results of past shitheads, e.g., which side won various wars in part because of various non-PC generals (even for the comparatively lower PC standards of the time) (let's see a general slap a soldier *today*). So while I agree completely that we should be teaching people to NOT be shitheads, and we should prefer non-shitheads given an even choice, we have the societal problem of utilizing outstanding ability or achievement when it happens to be unfortunately packaged in a shithead.
Wording is so important; Apple's wording in this is terrible; they shouldn't ever have mentioned "driving upgrades" at all. Apple should have maintained that it was in their self-interest to make the phones operate as well as possible at all times, and that it was a *policy* decision that "at all times" meant tipping the balance towards stretching the battery life. And that their only mistake was not making this an explicit setting, so that even people with NEW batteries could adjust their performance to extend battery life. ( I wish I could reference the SIGPLAN article in the 1980s that said "This limitation was removed by renaming it as a feature . . ")
:-) I think it was 1968 or 1970 when the idea was revived with more support from new ground penetrating radar and other new geophysical information gathering techniques. Computer graphics helped make illustrative animations that sold the idea.
When I was in grade school, Continental Drift was a hot new theory - well, not really new, a revived theory recently given prominence thanks in part due to advances in computer graphics that made it much easier to visualize the moving puzzle-pieces and experiment with differing arrangements.
As an American who has visited Port Douglas and Cairns (and Heron Island), I can completely understand a piece of America falling in love with, and attaching itself to, God's Own Country.
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You said "The crime is breaking sanctions". It doesn't matter if Trump is thinking of ending them, they were the sanctions in place at the time, and the company violated the various ITAR conditions on buying technology. Trump ignores contracts, so maybe he thinks it's OK that ZTE ignored its contracts, but Americans get punished severely if they pass technology on to sanctioned countries. (I sit through ITAR seminars and videos every year as part of compliance where I work.) And the Republicans seem to think that the letter of the law is crucial for lots of other things, which would mean that "breaking sanctions" should be punished as the rules in effect at the time were written; but again, Trump seems to think that words don't matter - it's the thought that counts - so the letter of the law doesn't matter if he doesn't think so. I submit that if a Democrat did exactly the same thing, he would be pilloried as weak, and spineless, and failing to enforce the law, and suspiciously forgiving of America's enemies.
Maybe when the Republicans aren't controlling Congress . . . .
"Fox News's hosts and guests contradictorily blasting former President Barack Obama for saying he would meet with dictators and enemies of the United States, but effusively praising current President Donald Trump for agreeing to sit down face-to-face with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un." http://www.newsweek.com/fox-ne...
Would you say the same thing if a Democrat were doing this?
Interstate highways aren't free; they are SOCIALIST! I'm sorry, they are communally paid for through taxes. And the densely populated states tend to be paying for the huge amounts of roads in the sparsely populated states, which amounts to taxation without equal representation since the sparse states get the same number of senators as the 60-times-as-many-people states.
Scandinavian Peninsula countries Norway and Sweden have similar geographic problems, so they made it a national defense priority, and made sure they had hardware companies in-country too. If the US weren't so religiously dedicated to competition, we could have better coverage instead of having 3 or 4 companies covering the same narrow densely-populated bands and the highways connecting them.
This was already done YEARS ago. And the telcos delayed and deferred and never got it done.
Terry Pratchett said something about most of human speech essentially meaning "Hello, I'm alive, and so are you."
I agree with you - and it doesn't matter, because Americans know how the American police SWAT teams operate. If someone pulls the pin on a hand grenade, it is not a surprise when the grenade explodes. If someone calls in a report meeting various "imminent danger" criteria, it is not a surprise that the SWAT team goes in expecting the worst.
I used to give blood 5 or 6 times a year. I got juice *and* a cookie.
Nothing wrong with "profit". What's wrong is that they were ALREADY making a profit, and would CONTINUE making a profit, and instead of trying to make more profit by encouraging more use (through more people being able to afford the smaller doses if it's enough for them), they blatantly profiteered on the existing sales. Keeping prices the same, many people win; instead the company insisted on one-winner-take-all.
You left out: 4. The music is just TOO LOUD!
Maybe t-R-u's demise will help along some mom and pop toy stores that have gone out of their way to stock things that you might not find elsewhere ...
Problem is, just like A&P in the old days, the advent of TrU killed off a lot of the little local stores, and online shopping killed off the rest. The reason TrU was saddled with debt was that it already almost went under.
So the books are public domain in US, and available in the US, but *not* available in Germany. What's the problem? Different states in the US have different liquor laws, with different permissions for selling on Sunday; when you walk into a store you are subject to whichever laws cover the location you are in. This is no different.
this++. EEs are trained to instantiate rather than abstract; if they need two UARTs, then they need to put two chips on the board, so they expect to cut-and-paste-and-modify two copies of the UART code for the two devices. If they understand the concept of a subroutine, they pass in "1" or "2" and have a zillion "if" statements choosing between the two UARTS. They do *not* understand the idea of one subroutine using a pointer parameter with all of the code being identical - even though that's pretty much how the chips work (that is, they're identical parts, just addressed differently).
And don't get me started on global variables vs. power/ground planes. EEs think global availability is a *good* thing.
Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" saved me from a high school English paper. His opening thesis also turns out to be prescient regarding software design, if one replaces "personages" in a "tale" with the variables or objects in a software system.
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
In addition to these large rules, there are some little ones. These require that the author shall:
There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction -- some say twenty-two. In "Deerslayer," Cooper violated eighteen of them. These eighteen require:
1. That a tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere.
2. They require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.
3. They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.
4. They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there.
6. They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in the tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description.
9. They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable.
10. They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones.
11. They require that the characters in a tale shall be so clearly defined that the reader can tell beforehand what each will do in a given emergency.
12. Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.
13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.
14. Eschew surplusage.
15. Not omit necessary details.
16. Avoid slovenliness of form.
17. Use good grammar.
18. Employ a simple and straightforward style.
I encourage perusal of the original: http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/...
Oddly enough, the BBC and other news services have been eschewing all-caps for acronyms. OTOH I agree with you that IMHO should be all-caps.
Business meetings in hot tubs were not standard behavior.
+1 (no mod points right now) I was one of those "50 lbs more muscle" back in college, and had to be extra-nice *not* to scare away nice girls. Having a sister made a difference in my attitude to start with, plus the inverse Golden Rule: Don't do unto others what you wouldn't want done to you.
Unfortunately there are plenty of achievers and contributors who were also shitheads. If we refused to use all of their achievements and contributions because we rejected them for being shitheads, society would be poorer. Our entire world is based on the results of past shitheads, e.g., which side won various wars in part because of various non-PC generals (even for the comparatively lower PC standards of the time) (let's see a general slap a soldier *today*). So while I agree completely that we should be teaching people to NOT be shitheads, and we should prefer non-shitheads given an even choice, we have the societal problem of utilizing outstanding ability or achievement when it happens to be unfortunately packaged in a shithead.
Wording is so important; Apple's wording in this is terrible; they shouldn't ever have mentioned "driving upgrades" at all. Apple should have maintained that it was in their self-interest to make the phones operate as well as possible at all times, and that it was a *policy* decision that "at all times" meant tipping the balance towards stretching the battery life. And that their only mistake was not making this an explicit setting, so that even people with NEW batteries could adjust their performance to extend battery life. ( I wish I could reference the SIGPLAN article in the 1980s that said "This limitation was removed by renaming it as a feature . . ")
:-) I think it was 1968 or 1970 when the idea was revived with more support from new ground penetrating radar and other new geophysical information gathering techniques. Computer graphics helped make illustrative animations that sold the idea.
Yes, I saw that. I stand by my statement. :-)
When I was in grade school, Continental Drift was a hot new theory - well, not really new, a revived theory recently given prominence thanks in part due to advances in computer graphics that made it much easier to visualize the moving puzzle-pieces and experiment with differing arrangements.
As an American who has visited Port Douglas and Cairns (and Heron Island), I can completely understand a piece of America falling in love with, and attaching itself to, God's Own Country.