Bribery is well defined, the problem is that in many countries what we would consider bribes are legalized therefore no longer bribes legally speaking (you can't go to jail for giving/receiving them).
They are similar to 16th century pirates or 20th century war crimes; it is illegal as long as it is not your country doing it.
Transit systems in the US and large portions of EU are privatized, they are thus driven to make a profit. Even BART was promised to turn a profit at the initial rider capacity. Government subsidy typically comes in the form of transportation for certain groups (eg government employees, school children or poor people) and discounts on taxes, property acquisitions and permits.
The infrastructure is the most expensive part of it. A few trains and parking grounds are expensive but at that point it is a matter of scale, more typically costs less, not more. If you have 40x more cost because you increase your business income 30x, something is seriously wrong in your business model.
I'm not sure how it's even possible for projections to be under budget. I have worked with private-government symbiotic relationships, the government doesn't pay out for months but that's all calculated in by the contractor (and also why toilet seats cost $3000) and it has so much paperwork attached to it, it requires a dedicated person to be hired per contract (also calculated in).
If the government wanted they could simply not pay out until the contract is completed correctly. And if the contractor did lowball it, well then they're out millions of dollars and should fail.
So then they should have plenty of money to invest in their infrastructure. If the TCO of the system was designed to be sustainable for 10k/day and you're getting 430k/day, then you should have plenty of money to reinvest in upgrade or even outright replacements. It's not like other rail systems haven't done the same, in some countries you can see 3 rails on a track, one width for where they had the old system and one width for where they had the new system.
Design has nothing to do with code. A good coder can code any design as good or bad as it is. Designers should be programmers that are so good they can see the whole project but typically designers these days are the managerial types that have no idea what they want to begin with. They then outsource the design and get what they asked for, in those terms outsourcing to India is cheaper.
The problem comes in when what they want is not aligned with what they say they need or are so dense in what they work up that it is a bundle of generic ideas that change interpretation every week, for that you need coders or at least a leading team that knows what the business needs and that's what makes for "good" coders. There are as much good coders in India as the US, that has to do with inherent talent of an individual. But if bottom of the barrel is all your company pays for, they get that in either country, just cheaper over there.
An external company is tied to contracts and paperwork so design specifications can't just change without a lot of money changing hands every time, so in the end outsourcing will be cheaper because the shit ideas gets them just that. But in the long term as every change has to be paid for after the initial contract, they will spend increasing amounts until they either fail as a company or realize their mistake 5-10y down the line.
Manufacturing companies already learned that. They outsourced to China and got their ideas stolen and their products counterfeited. I worked for one of those companies during the time they realized a factory in the same city had hired all their staff and their production facility was left abandoned. A lot of them already (especially smaller ones) are now reverting production back to the US. It was an expensive mistake for a lot of them, they lost their talent and some even failed. But there is a resurgence in my area of smaller production facilities now taking orders from the bigger companies they once worked for.
I'm not saying they are the only compiler with bugs, it's just that VC++ is known (at least in academia that write shitty software to begin with) to generate a lot more errors/bugs for software that's not directly Win32 related than eg. GCC or Clang. Not sure what the rationale was behind going to a closed software compiler with possible patent issues/assertions.
Most developers know VC++ compilers are full of bugs and weird stuff. Why didn't they just stay with the compilers that are well supported across all platforms?
Although I do agree that there is way too much of a push lately to have everybody code, not everybody needs to understand everything about code. They should be exposed to logic and technology and some code but they need to know the more basic stuff. However the idea that AI is going to put together code for us is ludicrous at least for the foreseeable future (give it 50-100y or so)
At some point the people that know the 'basics' like how to bootstrap your computer to boot the OS to run the application to do something useful will be gone (retired or dead) and coding it in JavaScript and Python is probably not going to work well or any code for that matter if you don't know what interrupts or how DMA works.
How about putting together a computer that meets your needs instead of a one-size-fits-all power consumer? How about laying the electric wiring to the socket and soldering the boards or changing a fuse? How about the metalworking and mechanical, architectural and environmental engineering that supports your data centers?
Russia/USSR has never been part of Europe/EU or any of its precursors. They're part of Asia geographically and have always remained separate both economically and politically.
With OpenGL you have been able to do that as well. Back in the day, we could port OpenGL games just by changing the launcher (eg. Unreal Tournament ran under Linux so pretty much any Unreal-based game was able to run using said launcher).
The problem is so many devs using DirectBlah because it used to be easier to start with (and a lot harder to actually maintain/do something useful) than plain C/C++.
They are not just Syrian refugees. Plenty of them go back and forth to be trained by ISIS. In that sense a large portion of them are invaders. There is no way to make peace with Muslims unless you are willing to accept Sharia "law" for all.
And it's only Germany that has a brief history of packing up and executing their own people, not any immigrants. Europe and in particular Belgium is way too accepting of these refugees. For decades they have allowed them to come in and make use of the established social services without any prior economic input or benefits. Now they expect even more people to come in and not acclimate to the local culture?
1) most Americans don't even know their own country; plenty of people I talk to think Brussels is a country or encompasses Belgium. Even the (very sloppy) reporting seems to conflate the two. Looking into it, it's all of Belgium although this particular article says Brussels which means neither the "journalist" nor the editors seem to have a clue what the difference is.
2) it's anti-American to point out huge flaws in your education system? Muslims and Christians have the same mindset as you in that sense, if you point out a flaw, they're against you?
Brussels is not a country (as some Americans think) but a city. Not sure how they differentiate calls to 'Brussels' (old area code 02) from calls to Belgium (+32) since 'area codes' there have been portable for at least a decade and most of them are on mobile phones (area code 04).
I think this was white hat hacking, where a pen testing company got hired and asked "what does this widget on this public app/website do" and modified treatment parameters.
For all the examples given there is a massive oversupply of people for the jobs.
Back in the day, designer meant you were able to engineer, in the last 50 years the availability of complex compounds and small scale, custom manufacturing, you can bring to life any sort of design you want with minimal effort and minimal engineering knowledge because the internal structure of the compound you use will hold the design up whereas you can't do that with mass manufactured basic materials.
The same goes for camp leaders, back in the day, a scouts leader had military training and athletic-based camps had coaches and trainers. I remember my sports camp leadership had an olympic athlete. These days any pimply faced 16 year old is a camp leader and all they have to do is follow scripts and cater to the weakest.
The investment in the sciences in general have been in decline after the moon landing, all scientists regardless of their branch earn a lot less now than they did when America was a world power.
So tell me how does a human driver that never experienced a blowout (most drivers) respond? Most drivers are very bad at realizing what happened in the first 1-3 seconds and simply panic by slamming the brakes, swirving etc.
In a car you can at least code an appropriate response, cars don't care if it's foggy and already have countermeasures for wet roads or loss of traction.
There are plenty of computers in use (a lot of the better ones are running Linux or an RTOS and hell, even Windows NT/CE/XP) that people trust their lives to implicitly on a daily basis in a lot more delicate situations than driving a car. Commercial planes do most of the flying fully autonomous, most of both your debt and savings is being invested fully automated, any machine in a hospital parses a lot more data than a few dozen sensor and requires much more precision.
What would've been the difference? Organized laborers not only get laid off all the time, they get laid off even quicker due to the fact that they are more expensive and less productive than any other laborer. The IT would still go to India, the workers may suggest they would go on 'strike' which would give them reason to lay them off even faster.
Unions are no longer the organizations they were in the early 1900's, now they are just a dues-collecting layer of middle-management that will go along with whatever the company does. That and labor in the early 1900's was simply impossible to do overseas due to the lack of transport and communications between cheaper labor positions of the world.
Either way, if you can organize into unions, you can be easily replaced because unions only cater to those whose labor is easily replaced. If you as an IT worker can be easily replaced, you're not very good at your job. If your boss thinks you are easily replaceable while you're not, they will realize that soon enough and you probably don't want to work there anyway.
Gay men have it difficult anywhere, depending on the size of the party there may have been others but they typically don't complain, they k ow only 10% of the population is "available" to them but they can still socialize/dance with both colleagues and these girls. Heterosexual females or men regardless of religion of marital status wouldn't have had a problem at the party, they too can dance if they want to.
I seriously don't see the problem, the company hired some people so females wouldn't be at a ratio of 10:1. What's the problem? That they only hired females to offset the imbalance?
I can guarantee you that this was a stock phone with all the tick boxes checked and an assurance from earty 2000 Microsoft that it was as or more secure than their Desktop version of Windows. Any hacker worth their salt could've eaten that phone's content for breakfast as there was no such thing yet as native disk encryption for Windows phones (that has only been available for ~5y now and still doesn't work properly).
The toilet seat is a quote from a movie (Independence Day?) where the president becomes aware of a secret base (at Area 51 or something) and asks how they manage to keep it invisible to the presidents office and government budgets. The $5000 toilet seat is the answer.
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Bribery is well defined, the problem is that in many countries what we would consider bribes are legalized therefore no longer bribes legally speaking (you can't go to jail for giving/receiving them).
They are similar to 16th century pirates or 20th century war crimes; it is illegal as long as it is not your country doing it.
Transit systems in the US and large portions of EU are privatized, they are thus driven to make a profit. Even BART was promised to turn a profit at the initial rider capacity. Government subsidy typically comes in the form of transportation for certain groups (eg government employees, school children or poor people) and discounts on taxes, property acquisitions and permits.
That seems to be the solution for all Android problems, it's Windows 2000-2010 all over again.
"The rich" in law are people that make anywhere between 1-5x minimum wage. Anything before and beyond doesn't pay taxes.
The infrastructure is the most expensive part of it. A few trains and parking grounds are expensive but at that point it is a matter of scale, more typically costs less, not more. If you have 40x more cost because you increase your business income 30x, something is seriously wrong in your business model.
I'm not sure how it's even possible for projections to be under budget. I have worked with private-government symbiotic relationships, the government doesn't pay out for months but that's all calculated in by the contractor (and also why toilet seats cost $3000) and it has so much paperwork attached to it, it requires a dedicated person to be hired per contract (also calculated in).
If the government wanted they could simply not pay out until the contract is completed correctly. And if the contractor did lowball it, well then they're out millions of dollars and should fail.
So then they should have plenty of money to invest in their infrastructure. If the TCO of the system was designed to be sustainable for 10k/day and you're getting 430k/day, then you should have plenty of money to reinvest in upgrade or even outright replacements. It's not like other rail systems haven't done the same, in some countries you can see 3 rails on a track, one width for where they had the old system and one width for where they had the new system.
Design has nothing to do with code. A good coder can code any design as good or bad as it is. Designers should be programmers that are so good they can see the whole project but typically designers these days are the managerial types that have no idea what they want to begin with. They then outsource the design and get what they asked for, in those terms outsourcing to India is cheaper.
The problem comes in when what they want is not aligned with what they say they need or are so dense in what they work up that it is a bundle of generic ideas that change interpretation every week, for that you need coders or at least a leading team that knows what the business needs and that's what makes for "good" coders. There are as much good coders in India as the US, that has to do with inherent talent of an individual. But if bottom of the barrel is all your company pays for, they get that in either country, just cheaper over there.
An external company is tied to contracts and paperwork so design specifications can't just change without a lot of money changing hands every time, so in the end outsourcing will be cheaper because the shit ideas gets them just that. But in the long term as every change has to be paid for after the initial contract, they will spend increasing amounts until they either fail as a company or realize their mistake 5-10y down the line.
Manufacturing companies already learned that. They outsourced to China and got their ideas stolen and their products counterfeited. I worked for one of those companies during the time they realized a factory in the same city had hired all their staff and their production facility was left abandoned. A lot of them already (especially smaller ones) are now reverting production back to the US. It was an expensive mistake for a lot of them, they lost their talent and some even failed. But there is a resurgence in my area of smaller production facilities now taking orders from the bigger companies they once worked for.
Now that we have walking fish, what came between the walking fish and the non-walking fish and between the walking fish and salamanders?
I'm not saying they are the only compiler with bugs, it's just that VC++ is known (at least in academia that write shitty software to begin with) to generate a lot more errors/bugs for software that's not directly Win32 related than eg. GCC or Clang. Not sure what the rationale was behind going to a closed software compiler with possible patent issues/assertions.
Most developers know VC++ compilers are full of bugs and weird stuff. Why didn't they just stay with the compilers that are well supported across all platforms?
Although I do agree that there is way too much of a push lately to have everybody code, not everybody needs to understand everything about code. They should be exposed to logic and technology and some code but they need to know the more basic stuff. However the idea that AI is going to put together code for us is ludicrous at least for the foreseeable future (give it 50-100y or so)
At some point the people that know the 'basics' like how to bootstrap your computer to boot the OS to run the application to do something useful will be gone (retired or dead) and coding it in JavaScript and Python is probably not going to work well or any code for that matter if you don't know what interrupts or how DMA works.
How about putting together a computer that meets your needs instead of a one-size-fits-all power consumer? How about laying the electric wiring to the socket and soldering the boards or changing a fuse? How about the metalworking and mechanical, architectural and environmental engineering that supports your data centers?
Russia/USSR has never been part of Europe/EU or any of its precursors. They're part of Asia geographically and have always remained separate both economically and politically.
With OpenGL you have been able to do that as well. Back in the day, we could port OpenGL games just by changing the launcher (eg. Unreal Tournament ran under Linux so pretty much any Unreal-based game was able to run using said launcher).
The problem is so many devs using DirectBlah because it used to be easier to start with (and a lot harder to actually maintain/do something useful) than plain C/C++.
They are not just Syrian refugees. Plenty of them go back and forth to be trained by ISIS. In that sense a large portion of them are invaders. There is no way to make peace with Muslims unless you are willing to accept Sharia "law" for all.
And it's only Germany that has a brief history of packing up and executing their own people, not any immigrants. Europe and in particular Belgium is way too accepting of these refugees. For decades they have allowed them to come in and make use of the established social services without any prior economic input or benefits. Now they expect even more people to come in and not acclimate to the local culture?
1) most Americans don't even know their own country; plenty of people I talk to think Brussels is a country or encompasses Belgium. Even the (very sloppy) reporting seems to conflate the two. Looking into it, it's all of Belgium although this particular article says Brussels which means neither the "journalist" nor the editors seem to have a clue what the difference is.
2) it's anti-American to point out huge flaws in your education system? Muslims and Christians have the same mindset as you in that sense, if you point out a flaw, they're against you?
3) not sure what that has to do with anything
Brussels is not a country (as some Americans think) but a city. Not sure how they differentiate calls to 'Brussels' (old area code 02) from calls to Belgium (+32) since 'area codes' there have been portable for at least a decade and most of them are on mobile phones (area code 04).
I think this was white hat hacking, where a pen testing company got hired and asked "what does this widget on this public app/website do" and modified treatment parameters.
For all the examples given there is a massive oversupply of people for the jobs.
Back in the day, designer meant you were able to engineer, in the last 50 years the availability of complex compounds and small scale, custom manufacturing, you can bring to life any sort of design you want with minimal effort and minimal engineering knowledge because the internal structure of the compound you use will hold the design up whereas you can't do that with mass manufactured basic materials.
The same goes for camp leaders, back in the day, a scouts leader had military training and athletic-based camps had coaches and trainers. I remember my sports camp leadership had an olympic athlete. These days any pimply faced 16 year old is a camp leader and all they have to do is follow scripts and cater to the weakest.
The investment in the sciences in general have been in decline after the moon landing, all scientists regardless of their branch earn a lot less now than they did when America was a world power.
So tell me how does a human driver that never experienced a blowout (most drivers) respond? Most drivers are very bad at realizing what happened in the first 1-3 seconds and simply panic by slamming the brakes, swirving etc.
In a car you can at least code an appropriate response, cars don't care if it's foggy and already have countermeasures for wet roads or loss of traction.
There are plenty of computers in use (a lot of the better ones are running Linux or an RTOS and hell, even Windows NT/CE/XP) that people trust their lives to implicitly on a daily basis in a lot more delicate situations than driving a car. Commercial planes do most of the flying fully autonomous, most of both your debt and savings is being invested fully automated, any machine in a hospital parses a lot more data than a few dozen sensor and requires much more precision.
What would've been the difference? Organized laborers not only get laid off all the time, they get laid off even quicker due to the fact that they are more expensive and less productive than any other laborer. The IT would still go to India, the workers may suggest they would go on 'strike' which would give them reason to lay them off even faster.
Unions are no longer the organizations they were in the early 1900's, now they are just a dues-collecting layer of middle-management that will go along with whatever the company does. That and labor in the early 1900's was simply impossible to do overseas due to the lack of transport and communications between cheaper labor positions of the world.
Either way, if you can organize into unions, you can be easily replaced because unions only cater to those whose labor is easily replaced. If you as an IT worker can be easily replaced, you're not very good at your job. If your boss thinks you are easily replaceable while you're not, they will realize that soon enough and you probably don't want to work there anyway.
Gay men have it difficult anywhere, depending on the size of the party there may have been others but they typically don't complain, they k ow only 10% of the population is "available" to them but they can still socialize/dance with both colleagues and these girls. Heterosexual females or men regardless of religion of marital status wouldn't have had a problem at the party, they too can dance if they want to.
I seriously don't see the problem, the company hired some people so females wouldn't be at a ratio of 10:1. What's the problem? That they only hired females to offset the imbalance?
I can guarantee you that this was a stock phone with all the tick boxes checked and an assurance from earty 2000 Microsoft that it was as or more secure than their Desktop version of Windows. Any hacker worth their salt could've eaten that phone's content for breakfast as there was no such thing yet as native disk encryption for Windows phones (that has only been available for ~5y now and still doesn't work properly).
The toilet seat is a quote from a movie (Independence Day?) where the president becomes aware of a secret base (at Area 51 or something) and asks how they manage to keep it invisible to the presidents office and government budgets. The $5000 toilet seat is the answer.