It does seem like there was a person the Jesus character was based upon, however the evidence points more towards an offshoot or composite of contemporary cult leaders. There is more acceptable evidence for other, more charismatic cult leaders that era by name if you try to pinpoint a particular person, Jesus the individual not so much.
However the Jesus as described in the bible is total fiction most of it cooked up by Paul but there were other Christian sects at that point which Paul references in his letters as well as many of the so-called apocryphal texts that were later cut and/or destroyed and some of the extant scriptures were conflicting on many of Jesus' "life facts" (including birth, parents, family, adulthood, miracles and death) and not in the official biblical canon. Remember most of the biblical text was written centuries later and adjusted to fit a narrative and even then they couldn't get all the "facts" straight with conflicts of narrative between verses in Matthew, Mark, John and Luke.
There is not much to see there. It didn't list any downloads for me even though I use public torrent trackers continuously (for legitimate purposes). I live in a large city and the most some of my 'neighbors' had was a music video and some asian tv show, I'm pretty sure there is a LOT of things this thing is missing.
The question is how you would turn off items on the grid by hacking a meter? These meters do not contain any relays or controllable switches, the most that you can do with some advanced meters is perhaps control a side load (a 15A circuit) there is just too much that could go wrong and it would be way too expensive to have these things contain 200A/400V relays, if they did, a few switches on and off and the contacts weld themselves shut.
Synchronization does not rely on accurate date/time representations. You may use a synchronized clock signal and for audio you also need to know location/distance so you can insert appropriate delays but you're not converting time stamps back and forth, even if you had an accurate NTP source, you're going to be skewing way too fast for NTP to accurately correct.
I highly doubt the meters have a relay to control the load, controlling relays for 100-200A loads would be a major failure mode, you have a HUGE spark every time you turn it on and off, these relays alone would cost at least $250 if not more and they're large, very, very large.
IF they had these relays, you could turn it on and off quickly, that may cause major malfunctions in devices and perhaps even start fires but again, such relay is not practical nor necessary. On the other hand, relays sometimes malfunction with that exact problem so no sane engineer would make a meter with such relay.
Insecurity of these devices is not something the language used to program can fix. Whether it's in Rust or in C, you can write very insecure code on any platform, Rust just tries to prevent common mistakes in C so buffer overflows are 'caught', Java or Objective C has similar safeguards as Rust resulting in similar problems.
Both Perl and Ruby have very strict tainted variable constructs for example, it's almost impossible to not clean the data received from outside the program but that doesn't make your code invincible to SQL injection.
There are plenty of libraries available that have worked pretty much all the date-time functions out. They are open source too, so you can freely use them in your projects.
CR is kind of like Gartner and all the other 'benchmark' companies. Whoever subscribes the most to their 'services' gets the top spot. Look at their car lineups, recommending Chevy, Subaru and Ford as "best" in their respective classes. Same for their small electronics department, only recommending big brand names like Linksys, D-Link and Netgear, actually their recommendations are the same routers that have obvious back doors yet they rate them high for security. On the other hand there are a lot of smaller manufacturers that actually have way better products, they don't get reviewed.
Actually, the US taxpayer has paid for a lot of that research, the only reason it sits behind a paywall is because of the big name publishers that want to make money, not from you, the average joe that wants to read an article, they charge hefty fees so peer researchers have to pay in order to continue or verify their work. Some times researchers are even forced to pay for their own work when they move institutions.
They put up 2 names according to some news reports as being responsible, namely the people responsible for the Zeus trojan. Besides the fact that they neither have ties to the Russian government, been on the FBI Most Wanted since 2005 and most likely not even living in Russia, well there is your "evidence", they found a Zeus trojan lingering on someone's computer.
Really? Log files are classified? That's all the "evidence" there is in computer systems, it's not like there's an informant on the other end of the world smuggling messages by pigeon about who did what.
In simpleton: someone visited a web page that they shouldn't have been able to because someone our-side failed to do their job or the Russians tricked someone else in visiting a web page they shouldn't have visited because someone our-side is a moron. That describes the 'attacks' on the DNC
High number of users/low bandwidth is what every provider does. TWC, Comcast, they oversubscribe their bandwidth 100:1.
Transmitters these days are very cheap for really long range, you can easily get 10 km transmitters and a number of receivers sub-$5k. Sprint bought enough bandwidth and can even convert some old analog systems to increase bandwidth.
A good WISP is often better than the traditional cable/DSL providers, you get better bandwidth, better customer service and often don't have any transfer rate.
The ACA doesn't work because it was written by and for the general profit of insurance companies.
Either health care has to be fully subsidized by the government (which should be possible through existing taxes) or it has to be mandated with a free and open market for both insurance companies and medical providers to compete.
As you said, you found doctors that give large discounts for cash, you could find good discount insurance across state lines if you rates went up significantly, I just threatened to move and they instantly went down. I never had $20 insurance, that's not realistic unless it was subsidized but my rates were relatively flat for ~5 years. We used to be protected from medical debt collection by state law, an expensive operation could be placed on a 0% credit forever if you didn't have insurance, ACA erased that provision since now they are allowed to have medical debt collection anywhere in the US but you're not allowed to shop insurance across state lines anymore.
Finally someone who understands why ObamaCare fucked the US.
When I came to the US, I had the best health care and insurance options, better than Europe's which I was forced to pay into and cheaper too. There are obviously retards that spent their money on drugs and alcohol over insurance but even at minimum wage you were always able to afford insurance if you *chose* to do so. Sure you would have to not spend money on frivolities or perhaps you'd even have to *gasp* cancel your cable bill. And yes, there are always people that fall through the cracks, happened in Europe too.
Now my insurance premiums and copays have risen 3-fold in the last 4 years to the point even with a decent income I can no longer comfortably afford going to the doctor if I'm not sick because I have to absorb the $10k out of pocket costs for the rest of my family. All ObamaCare has done is make the numbers look good. 2M people (10% of the population) now have insurance... except they still can't afford to go to a doctor and at this point there are many in 2017 that will rather pay the fine than the new premiums.
Actually Cap Gemini charges ~$120k for a $80k (US-based) engineer to the company, then goes and gives the contract to an oversees contractor.
The 'benefits' for a company that wants to outsource are not wages, those are typically higher, it's the regulations and taxes they avoid. If you pay an employee, you pay employer's taxes, you have to buy into social security, unemployment, provide vacation time, sick time, pensions, 401k and it gets really bad if your employee breaks his neck in a ski accident and now needs to be on disability for the rest of his life. With Obamacare now your insurance rates as an employer have doubled recently, you're paying 70% of the wages for those 3 people that never have to show up to work due to disability, you may even have to deal with a number of lawsuits because someone thought they were being discriminated when they didn't get the job they weren't qualified for and your city inspector's office found out your space between the elevator and the door is 2cm too narrow for the 'convenient passage' of a wheelchair.
An outsourced engineer is an 'asset' on the other hand. It's similar to the computer you buy, an expense, a commodity, you have lowered your head counts (which is beneficial for all sorts of regulatory reasons, pretty much every agency in the government bases fees and regulation on how many people you employ from SEC to FDA) and your expenses, unlike 'real people' affect your tax deductible in a major way. Your contractor company deals with all the headaches, HR isn't your primary business anyway and who cares what they do with it, it's just running a computer system, my computer runs fine and something always changes when we upgrade it, so fuck it.
Outsourcing thus makes sense to large companies for a variety of reasons, it doesn't work well until you have a few hundred to thousands of employees.
Or you agree on a reasonable contract before you start working there.
- Put in a contract that you write all code under your own name and license it to them in exchange for wages and only release it when terms are agreed upon. - Put in a contract that you need at least 4 weeks notice and you're not going to be required to train your replacement or get a severance package in lieu of the notice
It's fairly simple once you work your way out of a helpdesk. If your position can be taken on by just about anyone with a week training, you're a glorified helpdesk jockey, not a seasoned IT person.
Carrier got $7M in tax benefits over the next 10 years in return for them investing $16M into upgrading the plant and keeping 300 jobs.
300 jobs * 40k median salary = 12M with an effective tax rate of ~25% = 3M/y between state and federal through income taxes, not talking about the sales taxes when those salaries get spent. Spending $700k/y to gain $3M/y seems a reasonable business deal for a government to take. Even if you just focus on state taxes, you're at least going to break even.
If you can replicate this model 10x, then yes, that is a good thing.
It's what governments have been doing all along and it's what has been promised for the short term, changes to the business climate in the US will take at least 3 presidency cycles if not longer, regardless of what any candidate promises, you can't just change all that is wrong that quickly nor efficiently.
It does still happen, especially on smaller commuter flights. Happened to one of my co-workers, the airway wouldn't reimburse her, gave her a $50 voucher initially (they claimed she would only need reimbursing for the leg she was bumped on), later on $300 in vouchers (half the cost of the ticket), they went to court, my co-worker won, she got $2400 and got to keep the $300 in vouchers.
120Hz is the 3rd harmonic of 40 so most monitors these days should be fine? If you read the summary, it seems only the neurons responsible for the vision part of the brain were 'affected' in a somewhat positive way and that's typically not the area that Alzheimer's affects.
For 'succesful' light therapy, my intuition would be that it would require skull removal/drilling (on mice at first) or perhaps a very high intensity light source would be needed to affect other parts of the brain.
You should be able to get Windows 95/98/ME running on it. You may have to substitute some of the MS-DOS stacks for 98 and beyond, Microsoft started blocking other DOS systems on Win98+, I guess because they were too memory efficient.
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It does seem like there was a person the Jesus character was based upon, however the evidence points more towards an offshoot or composite of contemporary cult leaders. There is more acceptable evidence for other, more charismatic cult leaders that era by name if you try to pinpoint a particular person, Jesus the individual not so much.
However the Jesus as described in the bible is total fiction most of it cooked up by Paul but there were other Christian sects at that point which Paul references in his letters as well as many of the so-called apocryphal texts that were later cut and/or destroyed and some of the extant scriptures were conflicting on many of Jesus' "life facts" (including birth, parents, family, adulthood, miracles and death) and not in the official biblical canon. Remember most of the biblical text was written centuries later and adjusted to fit a narrative and even then they couldn't get all the "facts" straight with conflicts of narrative between verses in Matthew, Mark, John and Luke.
Hack? You can just pay Google to get that information you know.
There is not much to see there. It didn't list any downloads for me even though I use public torrent trackers continuously (for legitimate purposes). I live in a large city and the most some of my 'neighbors' had was a music video and some asian tv show, I'm pretty sure there is a LOT of things this thing is missing.
The question is how you would turn off items on the grid by hacking a meter? These meters do not contain any relays or controllable switches, the most that you can do with some advanced meters is perhaps control a side load (a 15A circuit) there is just too much that could go wrong and it would be way too expensive to have these things contain 200A/400V relays, if they did, a few switches on and off and the contacts weld themselves shut.
Yes, 15 or so amps is do-able, that's a single circuit. But the OP was talking about turning an entire house on and off.
Synchronization does not rely on accurate date/time representations. You may use a synchronized clock signal and for audio you also need to know location/distance so you can insert appropriate delays but you're not converting time stamps back and forth, even if you had an accurate NTP source, you're going to be skewing way too fast for NTP to accurately correct.
I highly doubt the meters have a relay to control the load, controlling relays for 100-200A loads would be a major failure mode, you have a HUGE spark every time you turn it on and off, these relays alone would cost at least $250 if not more and they're large, very, very large.
IF they had these relays, you could turn it on and off quickly, that may cause major malfunctions in devices and perhaps even start fires but again, such relay is not practical nor necessary. On the other hand, relays sometimes malfunction with that exact problem so no sane engineer would make a meter with such relay.
Insecurity of these devices is not something the language used to program can fix. Whether it's in Rust or in C, you can write very insecure code on any platform, Rust just tries to prevent common mistakes in C so buffer overflows are 'caught', Java or Objective C has similar safeguards as Rust resulting in similar problems.
Both Perl and Ruby have very strict tainted variable constructs for example, it's almost impossible to not clean the data received from outside the program but that doesn't make your code invincible to SQL injection.
There are plenty of libraries available that have worked pretty much all the date-time functions out. They are open source too, so you can freely use them in your projects.
I don't know how people still fail at this.
CR is kind of like Gartner and all the other 'benchmark' companies. Whoever subscribes the most to their 'services' gets the top spot. Look at their car lineups, recommending Chevy, Subaru and Ford as "best" in their respective classes. Same for their small electronics department, only recommending big brand names like Linksys, D-Link and Netgear, actually their recommendations are the same routers that have obvious back doors yet they rate them high for security. On the other hand there are a lot of smaller manufacturers that actually have way better products, they don't get reviewed.
Actually, the US taxpayer has paid for a lot of that research, the only reason it sits behind a paywall is because of the big name publishers that want to make money, not from you, the average joe that wants to read an article, they charge hefty fees so peer researchers have to pay in order to continue or verify their work. Some times researchers are even forced to pay for their own work when they move institutions.
They put up 2 names according to some news reports as being responsible, namely the people responsible for the Zeus trojan. Besides the fact that they neither have ties to the Russian government, been on the FBI Most Wanted since 2005 and most likely not even living in Russia, well there is your "evidence", they found a Zeus trojan lingering on someone's computer.
Really? Log files are classified? That's all the "evidence" there is in computer systems, it's not like there's an informant on the other end of the world smuggling messages by pigeon about who did what.
In simpleton: someone visited a web page that they shouldn't have been able to because someone our-side failed to do their job or the Russians tricked someone else in visiting a web page they shouldn't have visited because someone our-side is a moron. That describes the 'attacks' on the DNC
High number of users/low bandwidth is what every provider does. TWC, Comcast, they oversubscribe their bandwidth 100:1.
Transmitters these days are very cheap for really long range, you can easily get 10 km transmitters and a number of receivers sub-$5k. Sprint bought enough bandwidth and can even convert some old analog systems to increase bandwidth.
A good WISP is often better than the traditional cable/DSL providers, you get better bandwidth, better customer service and often don't have any transfer rate.
The ACA doesn't work because it was written by and for the general profit of insurance companies.
Either health care has to be fully subsidized by the government (which should be possible through existing taxes) or it has to be mandated with a free and open market for both insurance companies and medical providers to compete.
As you said, you found doctors that give large discounts for cash, you could find good discount insurance across state lines if you rates went up significantly, I just threatened to move and they instantly went down. I never had $20 insurance, that's not realistic unless it was subsidized but my rates were relatively flat for ~5 years. We used to be protected from medical debt collection by state law, an expensive operation could be placed on a 0% credit forever if you didn't have insurance, ACA erased that provision since now they are allowed to have medical debt collection anywhere in the US but you're not allowed to shop insurance across state lines anymore.
You live in broke-ass California, your care is heavily subsidized by both state and federal taxes.
Finally someone who understands why ObamaCare fucked the US.
When I came to the US, I had the best health care and insurance options, better than Europe's which I was forced to pay into and cheaper too. There are obviously retards that spent their money on drugs and alcohol over insurance but even at minimum wage you were always able to afford insurance if you *chose* to do so. Sure you would have to not spend money on frivolities or perhaps you'd even have to *gasp* cancel your cable bill. And yes, there are always people that fall through the cracks, happened in Europe too.
Now my insurance premiums and copays have risen 3-fold in the last 4 years to the point even with a decent income I can no longer comfortably afford going to the doctor if I'm not sick because I have to absorb the $10k out of pocket costs for the rest of my family. All ObamaCare has done is make the numbers look good. 2M people (10% of the population) now have insurance... except they still can't afford to go to a doctor and at this point there are many in 2017 that will rather pay the fine than the new premiums.
Actually Cap Gemini charges ~$120k for a $80k (US-based) engineer to the company, then goes and gives the contract to an oversees contractor.
The 'benefits' for a company that wants to outsource are not wages, those are typically higher, it's the regulations and taxes they avoid. If you pay an employee, you pay employer's taxes, you have to buy into social security, unemployment, provide vacation time, sick time, pensions, 401k and it gets really bad if your employee breaks his neck in a ski accident and now needs to be on disability for the rest of his life. With Obamacare now your insurance rates as an employer have doubled recently, you're paying 70% of the wages for those 3 people that never have to show up to work due to disability, you may even have to deal with a number of lawsuits because someone thought they were being discriminated when they didn't get the job they weren't qualified for and your city inspector's office found out your space between the elevator and the door is 2cm too narrow for the 'convenient passage' of a wheelchair.
An outsourced engineer is an 'asset' on the other hand. It's similar to the computer you buy, an expense, a commodity, you have lowered your head counts (which is beneficial for all sorts of regulatory reasons, pretty much every agency in the government bases fees and regulation on how many people you employ from SEC to FDA) and your expenses, unlike 'real people' affect your tax deductible in a major way. Your contractor company deals with all the headaches, HR isn't your primary business anyway and who cares what they do with it, it's just running a computer system, my computer runs fine and something always changes when we upgrade it, so fuck it.
Outsourcing thus makes sense to large companies for a variety of reasons, it doesn't work well until you have a few hundred to thousands of employees.
Or you agree on a reasonable contract before you start working there.
- Put in a contract that you write all code under your own name and license it to them in exchange for wages and only release it when terms are agreed upon.
- Put in a contract that you need at least 4 weeks notice and you're not going to be required to train your replacement or get a severance package in lieu of the notice
It's fairly simple once you work your way out of a helpdesk. If your position can be taken on by just about anyone with a week training, you're a glorified helpdesk jockey, not a seasoned IT person.
Carrier got $7M in tax benefits over the next 10 years in return for them investing $16M into upgrading the plant and keeping 300 jobs.
300 jobs * 40k median salary = 12M with an effective tax rate of ~25% = 3M/y between state and federal through income taxes, not talking about the sales taxes when those salaries get spent. Spending $700k/y to gain $3M/y seems a reasonable business deal for a government to take. Even if you just focus on state taxes, you're at least going to break even.
If you can replicate this model 10x, then yes, that is a good thing.
It's what governments have been doing all along and it's what has been promised for the short term, changes to the business climate in the US will take at least 3 presidency cycles if not longer, regardless of what any candidate promises, you can't just change all that is wrong that quickly nor efficiently.
It does still happen, especially on smaller commuter flights. Happened to one of my co-workers, the airway wouldn't reimburse her, gave her a $50 voucher initially (they claimed she would only need reimbursing for the leg she was bumped on), later on $300 in vouchers (half the cost of the ticket), they went to court, my co-worker won, she got $2400 and got to keep the $300 in vouchers.
120Hz is the 3rd harmonic of 40 so most monitors these days should be fine? If you read the summary, it seems only the neurons responsible for the vision part of the brain were 'affected' in a somewhat positive way and that's typically not the area that Alzheimer's affects.
For 'succesful' light therapy, my intuition would be that it would require skull removal/drilling (on mice at first) or perhaps a very high intensity light source would be needed to affect other parts of the brain.
700,000 years ago Homo Erectus WAS present so not only was macro-evolved life present, it doesn't seem humanoids were all that badly affected.
You should be able to get Windows 95/98/ME running on it. You may have to substitute some of the MS-DOS stacks for 98 and beyond, Microsoft started blocking other DOS systems on Win98+, I guess because they were too memory efficient.