Caldari might make peace with Gallente too...... they'll ruin all the game stories with that law... how are we going to set up gatecamps in Maila (security status 0.4) after gatecamping together in Bruxelles (sec. status 0.0 around the railway station after 9PM)?
Indeed. I dread the moment when Silicium (Si), a vital component of electronics, will become scarce, and we'll be at the mercy of guys like al-Gaddafi, who will control a huge share of the Silicium market.
We should start recycling all electronics right now: set up centers to disassemble and sort old computers, calculators and mp3 players, confiscate all unused electronics, and impose stiff penalties on all that hoard them.
Iron (Fe) is almost depleted, too: it has been exploited and we abused of it for more than three thousand years, while oil is being used intensively only for a hundred years, and iron will be much tougher to replace. We're still lucky that the deposits in Sweden debase the price of Fe... if the Swedes will decide to do the logical thing and start extracting it sparingly, the prices will jump through the roof, though I believe the Swedes will not dare to antagonize the military-industrial conglomerate, and suffer the fate of the oil producing Iraq, until it will be too late and all the remaining iron in the world will be turned to rust and thus unusable.
In fact, almost all of the 105 elements from the periodic table are either in short supply, or were polluted with radioactive isotopes during the subterranean nuclear tests.
We're doomed, I tell you. Better start learning how to make spear heads out of baked mud, 'cause we're going to be left only with mud (mostly Mo, atomic mass 42).
So, you do know why Maya "civilization" collapsed, do you ? How about announcing Nature, New Scientist... even the Nobel Price committee will be interested to know that you solved this problem. And no, Gibson's movie is no proof, it's just neo-neo-gothic fantasy.
Just got out of college and not very skilled with programming ? He might be just honest... who was a wizard when just out of college ?
Get a programming job if you find... then you'll see if you really like it, and you'll learn too. You won't know if you like it or not and if you're cut to do it or not until you get do it for a few months (ok, maybe a year) in a team, with managers breathing down your neck, deadlines, wtf moments etc.
There will be only a lot of false positives: dangerous terrorists already know how to fake being benign tourists...
Anyway, this is not about collecting data about EU citizen: it's just about mobilization, negotiations and scoring brownie points. US gov-t wants EU to send more troops in A. and I. or lower their export subsidies, EU gov-ts don't want to pay for sending the troops or something else, etc. etc. so they started a righteousness contest: EU began investigating "torture camps" (while western European gov-ts collaborated quite openly in "renditions", so what's there that they don't already know ?), and US asks for info on EU citizen traveling to US, as if they don't already share info on people with higher risk...
The EU bureaucrats only attempt to appear righteous, and US bureaucrats want to show that they care about security and play favorites with no one.
This is the oldest trick in the book: to control your subjects you need to keep them on their toes, and give them something to feel superior to, and something to hate.
We had a long vacation... Americans moving to Europe or Canada and feeling at home and not missing the apple pie, French, English, German etc. moving to US and not being bothered much by "consumerism", Eastern Europeans moving everywhere and maybe raising a few eyebrows, but not because they were weird, but because they were unexpectedly normal and unentertaining... Now mobilization is back in fashion: a Russian bodyguard gets poisoned, and suddenly becomes a brave KGB defector involved in a life and death strife with terrible enemies, plans to install a useless and untested "missile shield" in Europe (probably only a bit of pork - think construction contracts) becomes the best argument that the Russian government can use to prove to it's own people that innostrantsi want to harm them etc.
While the bureaucrats from both sides of the Atlantic play their charade, we bite the hook, swallow it whole, then go be heroes on internet forums... that until we get ourselves persuaded that indeed Oceania was always at war with Eurasia.
Oh, you can: it's art, not shoes or leather or steel or cement. It's art, understand ? Priceless, art is... and probably brought enough income at some time to justify creative accounting.
anyway, I have no idea how are the record studios, printing houses or movie studios keeping their books as far as "not in print" titles are concerned [ so, please, Copyright Holders' Syndicate, don't sue me ! ]
A tax on the declared value of intellectual property ?
Not a bad idea... 5 minutes after the law gets passed we'll see IP lawyers (dressed as Hindi helpdesk operators) throwing caskets of patent records and roles of painfully dull 1920s' cartoons into the bay...
The long copyright term is not for the one-hit wonder bands, or the b-movie produced during the war to sell bonds. It's for the cream. It's for the Beatles. Cindella. The one in a thousand quality movie or band that people still think have meaning to them even now, 40, 50, 60 years later.
... or maybe it's for accounting: you own the copyright for a 2000 titles nobody bought for 50 years, but you can write them as being worth 2,000,000$ each, and then claim, in front of your shareholders, that the company is worth at least 4,000,000,000$. In fact, the company might be worth nothing, but who is to contradict you, since we all know that artists become famous and bring in money only after they die.
Yes, tell that to a PhD that is looking for a job after his chosen subject went out of fashion while he was writing the thesis. That's only one example.
Where I live (not US) the "minimum wage" used to be very low until last year, then the gov-t decided to raise it, and the result was having youth gangs back in the streets beating each other and innocent bystanders silly, after some 10 years of peace and quiet.
Minimum wage laws make sense when there is collusion between employers to cap the wages. If the labor market is free, it leads to either unemployment or to the increase in undocumented workers.
Minimum wage law only raise the barrier for entry in the labor market: those that cannot be fired due to agreements with the union or because they have skills that are in demand stand to gain from minimum wage laws. All the others lose.
That was what made the Socialist of the 1900s so perplexed: while the leadership (made of middle-class people) wanted to improve the welfare of all the working class, when it came to coordinating their actions with the unions they discovered that the unions were more interested in denying employment to non-unionized workers. Around that time the unions fought ("fought" as in "beat up", not as in "debate") more often with non-unionized workers than with the police. The "non-unionized" workers were immigrants (from other countries, other cities or impoverished farmers) or members of weaker unions. Creative history writings by leftist historians tell about "pinkertons", "strike breakers" and other enemies of the working class, but those "enemies" were themselves of the working class, just not lucky enough to get accepted into a strong union, so had to appear to side with the employers: if employers managed to bring in enough strike breakers to replace their existing unionized workers, it means there were about as many non-unionized workers as there were members of labor unions.
My high school physics teacher showed us once, with practical examples, that he knows a lot more ways to cheat than we do. Even showed us a few very effective ways we did not know and could not have imagined without special technical knowledge. That day was the last time I attempted to cheat in school... was 13 at that time.
You got an education ? Lucky you, I only became an expert at passing exams, even after some 3 years of postgrad studies. At the end of that I quit the academia (used to have a job as "research assistant", arround here it's a permanent job you can retire from if you're unlucky or dumb enough) and switched to something else that I learned in my free time.
"Have you ever visited a textile mill? People were dying in sweatshop housing going further and further into debt while trying to get ahead. They were fed the bare minimum and endured extremely dangerous conditions."
Do you have any idea what the work in a textile mill, or in a mine, entailed ? Do you think starving and tired people were able to do that work ? Do you know that all those "starving" people were eating pretty good, owned or leased a home with more than one room, and were able to send their children to school even during the 1850s ? You read way too much Dickens.
"Why do you think minimum wage laws and unions were formed in the first place?"
Unions were formed in the first place to deny the right to get a job to those not in the unions. Since those in strong unions could not be fired that easily, the minimum wage laws worked fine for them, but not for those in weaker unions or not union members. This happened the same in Europe and US.
"Losing minimum wage has shown itself to send a whole populous down into poverty." -- care to give an example ?
"minimum wage" is not "minimum guaranteed income" to be paid by the government if you can't find work at a higher wage. Minimum wage laws say only this: "employers are forbidden to pay their employees wages below `minimum wage'". If the greedy employer can not afford, decides it's not worth or simply does not want to pay the minimum wage, those whose skills are not worth paying a wage above that minimum don't get jobs.
The declared reason for which "minimum wage" exist might be the same as for "usury laws", but the effect is that those without enough skills to justify a higher wage are denied the opportunity to work and acquire those skills.
but surely you can find out which records were not added ?... like by checking the last_modified timestamps and finding out for which teachers there are no records during a particular day?
Availability is important, but IMHO being able to identify corrupted data is at least as important as availability, if not more...
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Caldari might make peace with Gallente too ... ... they'll ruin all the game stories with that law ... how are we going to set up gatecamps in Maila (security status 0.4) after gatecamping together in Bruxelles (sec. status 0.0 around the railway station after 9PM)?
You already have a yotabyte switch. All you need is an upgrade to the BS detector ROM.
Indeed. I dread the moment when Silicium (Si), a vital component of electronics, will become scarce, and we'll be at the mercy of guys like al-Gaddafi, who will control a huge share of the Silicium market.
We should start recycling all electronics right now: set up centers to disassemble and sort old computers, calculators and mp3 players, confiscate all unused electronics, and impose stiff penalties on all that hoard them.
Iron (Fe) is almost depleted, too: it has been exploited and we abused of it for more than three thousand years, while oil is being used intensively only for a hundred years, and iron will be much tougher to replace. We're still lucky that the deposits in Sweden debase the price of Fe ... if the Swedes will decide to do the logical thing and start extracting it sparingly, the prices will jump through the roof, though I believe the Swedes will not dare to antagonize the military-industrial conglomerate, and suffer the fate of the oil producing Iraq, until it will be too late and all the remaining iron in the world will be turned to rust and thus unusable.
In fact, almost all of the 105 elements from the periodic table are either in short supply, or were polluted with radioactive isotopes during the subterranean nuclear tests.
We're doomed, I tell you. Better start learning how to make spear heads out of baked mud, 'cause we're going to be left only with mud (mostly Mo, atomic mass 42).
"They disappear in a usable format for electronics though."
So, you really believe Zn, Ga, In etc. were found somewhere in the ground as nice ingots of pure metal ?
So, you do know why Maya "civilization" collapsed, do you ? How about announcing Nature, New Scientist ... even the Nobel Price committee will be interested to know that you solved this problem. And no, Gibson's movie is no proof, it's just neo-neo-gothic fantasy.
Just got out of college and not very skilled with programming ? He might be just honest ... who was a wizard when just out of college ?
Get a programming job if you find ... then you'll see if you really like it, and you'll learn too. You won't know if you like it or not and if you're cut to do it or not until you get do it for a few months (ok, maybe a year) in a team, with managers breathing down your neck, deadlines, wtf moments etc.
There will be only a lot of false positives: dangerous terrorists already know how to fake being benign tourists ...
Anyway, this is not about collecting data about EU citizen: it's just about mobilization, negotiations and scoring brownie points. US gov-t wants EU to send more troops in A. and I. or lower their export subsidies, EU gov-ts don't want to pay for sending the troops or something else, etc. etc. so they started a righteousness contest: EU began investigating "torture camps" (while western European gov-ts collaborated quite openly in "renditions", so what's there that they don't already know ?), and US asks for info on EU citizen traveling to US, as if they don't already share info on people with higher risk ...
The EU bureaucrats only attempt to appear righteous, and US bureaucrats want to show that they care about security and play favorites with no one.
This is the oldest trick in the book: to control your subjects you need to keep them on their toes, and give them something to feel superior to, and something to hate.
We had a long vacation ... Americans moving to Europe or Canada and feeling at home and not missing the apple pie, French, English, German etc. moving to US and not being bothered much by "consumerism", Eastern Europeans moving everywhere and maybe raising a few eyebrows, but not because they were weird, but because they were unexpectedly normal and unentertaining ... Now mobilization is back in fashion: a Russian bodyguard gets poisoned, and suddenly becomes a brave KGB defector involved in a life and death strife with terrible enemies, plans to install a useless and untested "missile shield" in Europe (probably only a bit of pork - think construction contracts) becomes the best argument that the Russian government can use to prove to it's own people that innostrantsi want to harm them etc.
While the bureaucrats from both sides of the Atlantic play their charade, we bite the hook, swallow it whole, then go be heroes on internet forums ... that until we get ourselves persuaded that indeed Oceania was always at war with Eurasia.
how about counting the number of wars in Europe before and after the US occupation ? :-P
Oh, you can: it's art, not shoes or leather or steel or cement. It's art, understand ? Priceless, art is ... and probably brought enough income at some time to justify creative accounting.
anyway, I have no idea how are the record studios, printing houses or movie studios keeping their books as far as "not in print" titles are concerned [ so, please, Copyright Holders' Syndicate, don't sue me ! ]
A tax on the declared value of intellectual property ?
Not a bad idea ... 5 minutes after the law gets passed we'll see IP lawyers (dressed as Hindi helpdesk operators) throwing caskets of patent records and roles of painfully dull 1920s' cartoons into the bay ...
Yes, tell that to a PhD that is looking for a job after his chosen subject went out of fashion while he was writing the thesis. That's only one example.
Where I live (not US) the "minimum wage" used to be very low until last year, then the gov-t decided to raise it, and the result was having youth gangs back in the streets beating each other and innocent bystanders silly, after some 10 years of peace and quiet.
Minimum wage laws make sense when there is collusion between employers to cap the wages. If the labor market is free, it leads to either unemployment or to the increase in undocumented workers.
Minimum wage law only raise the barrier for entry in the labor market: those that cannot be fired due to agreements with the union or because they have skills that are in demand stand to gain from minimum wage laws. All the others lose.
That was what made the Socialist of the 1900s so perplexed: while the leadership (made of middle-class people) wanted to improve the welfare of all the working class, when it came to coordinating their actions with the unions they discovered that the unions were more interested in denying employment to non-unionized workers. Around that time the unions fought ("fought" as in "beat up", not as in "debate") more often with non-unionized workers than with the police. The "non-unionized" workers were immigrants (from other countries, other cities or impoverished farmers) or members of weaker unions. Creative history writings by leftist historians tell about "pinkertons", "strike breakers" and other enemies of the working class, but those "enemies" were themselves of the working class, just not lucky enough to get accepted into a strong union, so had to appear to side with the employers: if employers managed to bring in enough strike breakers to replace their existing unionized workers, it means there were about as many non-unionized workers as there were members of labor unions.
oh, right
mmm ... what school did you go to ?
My high school physics teacher showed us once, with practical examples, that he knows a lot more ways to cheat than we do. Even showed us a few very effective ways we did not know and could not have imagined without special technical knowledge. That day was the last time I attempted to cheat in school ... was 13 at that time.
You got an education ? Lucky you, I only became an expert at passing exams, even after some 3 years of postgrad studies. At the end of that I quit the academia (used to have a job as "research assistant", arround here it's a permanent job you can retire from if you're unlucky or dumb enough) and switched to something else that I learned in my free time.
there should be a once in a lifetime opportunity to mod somebody higher than 5 ... I would have used it now, for a +1 Damn' True
India is already outsourcing to Rumania (or at least trying, since wages are bigger in .ro), and China is outsourcing to Vietnam.
heavy metals buried somewhere ? Can you tell me the address so I can buy that chunk of land ? Those nasty heavy metals must be worth a fortune now ...
160 years ago having petroleum close to the surface made that piece of land worthless. Not so now ...
"Have you ever visited a textile mill? People were dying in sweatshop housing going further and further into debt while trying to get ahead. They were fed the bare minimum and endured extremely dangerous conditions."
Do you have any idea what the work in a textile mill, or in a mine, entailed ? Do you think starving and tired people were able to do that work ? Do you know that all those "starving" people were eating pretty good, owned or leased a home with more than one room, and were able to send their children to school even during the 1850s ? You read way too much Dickens.
"Why do you think minimum wage laws and unions were formed in the first place?"
Unions were formed in the first place to deny the right to get a job to those not in the unions. Since those in strong unions could not be fired that easily, the minimum wage laws worked fine for them, but not for those in weaker unions or not union members. This happened the same in Europe and US.
"Losing minimum wage has shown itself to send a whole populous down into poverty." -- care to give an example ?
"minimum wage" is not "minimum guaranteed income" to be paid by the government if you can't find work at a higher wage. Minimum wage laws say only this: "employers are forbidden to pay their employees wages below `minimum wage'". If the greedy employer can not afford, decides it's not worth or simply does not want to pay the minimum wage, those whose skills are not worth paying a wage above that minimum don't get jobs.
The declared reason for which "minimum wage" exist might be the same as for "usury laws", but the effect is that those without enough skills to justify a higher wage are denied the opportunity to work and acquire those skills.
"Minimum wage laws" => high youth unemployment
Right ... your allowance is halved as of now. Time for me to become responsible.
Signed,
Pa'
but surely you can find out which records were not added ? ... like by checking the last_modified timestamps and finding out for which teachers there are no records during a particular day?
Availability is important, but IMHO being able to identify corrupted data is at least as important as availability, if not more ...