Cars can go outside all year, unless you live farther south where 0.5cm of snow is a state of emergency.
I live even farther up north where it is impossible to drive bikes all but about 3 months in the year and distances involved make it largely impractical except for semi-professional bikers. We still get them painted on the road even though they're largely used to allow cars to pass.
Affordable? MS Office for businesses was $700-1200/user depending on your licensing model and often you didn't even get CAL's for your Exchange and other servers, even the home edition was like $100-200. Even if you had 10,000 licenses or more, you still were on the hook for ~$2-3M/year for Microsoft licensing.
I'm against (gay) marriage as well but not because I'm anti-gay, I'm just against the involvement of religious tenets in government and government involvement in personal life.
Plenty of services use VoIP. If you have "digital telephone" with your cable or dsl provider, you have VoIP. If you have true 4G/5G (Europe and Japan only, not the US 2.5G that is sold as 4G) your calls are probably packet based.
Many people use Vonage or a number of other VoIP providers, anytime you need a little box to talk to your POTS or if your phone line goes dead during a power outage, you have VoIP.
The nice thing about VoIP is that you don't need to have a physical line, any SIP phone can talk to any SIP gateway, given 911 is supposed to be free of charge and foolproof you don't even need to have an active account to call it.
I have about a dozen old cell phones in my basement from friends, family and "recycling" that can all call 911 and that aren't tied at all to myself other than location.
Licensing is a contract where you agree to not sell the license. If you were free to resell licenses you've obtained then licensing would be pointless.
Licenses are not tangible, it would be similar to selling ideas, you can't divest yourself of an idea, hence you cannot sell it because even if you could, you wouldn't lose access to it.
Forgers have known about this just as long. And even if you get it to work eventually, the encryption on the chips themselves have been proven easy to crack for many years.
At the distance, the larger angle the gun deflects, the wider your pattern is going to spread. You can hit one, maybe two people before your gun is spraying bullets in the air or ground around the target.
We don't give military snipers a machine gun either.
Most people think Rambo mowing down the enemy when they hear about machine guns but the freaking things are very difficult to aim especially if you're not experienced and trained on the weapon.
One of last years' shootings also had an automatic weapon, many people would have died if they had a short burst or single action rifle and in close combat range the thing is completely unwieldy.
The question is why 3 keeps happening. I'm pretty sure that if you levied taxes on owning guns, the IRS would instantly get a very accurate list of all gun owners in the US, legal and illegal imports etc.
The fact that the FBI continues to admit "proper procedures weren't followed" at every single shooting indicate either unwillingness or malice. The fact that there is more pressure to abolish basic rights to protect against an oppressive government than abolishing the ineffective agencies that are a result of it shows that nobody wants to solve the problem constiutionally.
In Windows you can indeed change boot file permissions and the system won't care a bit because everything ignores or is capable of ignoring it. That is wrong.
Also, recovery is easy for Linux, you can chroot and apt reinstall everything or manually recover permissions. Windows has no package manager much less repair installed applications.
Yes, hence why this whole debate is largely overblown.
With the Obama NN rules, providers got to legally zero rate traffic (eg TMobile/Netflix fast lane) which was effectively at the expense of smaller data generators that couldn't afford the fees, the customer would get charged more for using non-Netflix services.
Now the carriers have to once again choose between prioritizing paid traffic and losing common carrier status.
The fact that TWC/Charter/Verizon let their POP at the IX run at 100% capacity hasn't changed before or after any NN rules.
You've never worked with PowerPC I see. Those things never failed and you could commit a murder with the Alu Powerbook and it wouldn't get a dent. I still have a G4 roaming around for some ancient software at work.
Anti-trust laws, pretty much any laws the DOJ prosecutes (or not) has politics involved. Microsoft donated enough money to get theirs to disappear, if TW or AT&T hadn't bet on the establishment horses in the last election they too would be at the big boys table.
This is a good thing. The decision is also a good thing - private corporations should not be able to see into private/classified communications just because they throw enough money around.
If and when this communication gets declassified and released (which will happen some time in the next 100 years) then all of us can see what went on that day.
I don't think you understand the difference between a license and a tangible item. You can indeed resell a CD or book or whatever, you cannot necessarily sell the license if you have agreed to it.
The case has been seen in various courts and the contract you 'agreed' to has been upheld (eg. Vernor v. Autodesk) and although the SCOTUS has so far not necessarily agreed but simply left lower court rulings stand.
The stuff has been down there for millions if not billions of life. Even if the star stuff was originally Cobalt-60, it's been more than 5 years.
Unless you're a creationist of course, then Chernobyl wouldn't even measure against the background radiation from all the elements that haven't decayed yet.
Private schools? There may be some of those, but truly private education nearly doesn't exist in the US. All of it, even the "private" Universities are largely tax funded. Running the numbers for a couple of nearby Universities and State colleges, the "true cost" of running a place seems to be ~$300k/year/student with the tuition generally being about 10-20% of that number and that's before tax funded scholarships, financial aid and sub-inflationary loans.
Even a top place like Harvard: $4B operating costs, 22000 students averaging $43k tuition per year (63k with room and board) or about 25% revenue from tuition.
And this sort of response is exactly the problem. I'm a fucking minority asshole. I worked my way up, I'm still a minority. I am relatively well-off, I'm still a minority. I get to have a modicum of political power in my community but I'm still a minority. I don't aspire to be governor or senator or anything, but I could if I wanted to, I would still be a minority.
White people (which I assume you mean American citizen blue collar white people), in my opinion, get tired of being held back in order to fill a quota, seeing their jobs evaporate to both Mexico proper and illegals from Mexico and being laughed at when they complain when their communities get wrecked by violence and drugs even though the relative numbers are much more affecting white blue collars right now than it is protected classes because of the quotas. They get tired of continuing to fund education to get smart boards and iPads for every student in the inner city when their own schools can't even stay open. They are tired of continuing to get blamed for black-on-black violence. THAT'S the current American reality.
How does 72 hours of pay for teachers cover 4 years of education? You paid for a fake degree? Even $5k/year or $50k/year doesn't cover the cost of running an educational establishment.
I would say that the "we had to learn to program because we only had BASIC" trope has been largely disproven. There were at least 10x as much computers sold that booted into "just BASIC" to the number of computer professionals that era spawned, not to speak about the number of people that were exposed to computers in that time through friends, schools, libraries etc.
Everyone that could afford a computer back then knew just enough to load the game, it was treated like a password in that way, most people now that owned that computer would have a vague recollection of what it is they had to do.
I remember learning programming in classes going from first grade (LOGO) through the end of my education (Turbo Pascal and C) - yet there is no glut of programmers my age.
It depends on what you need to do. JS and DOM are complex but most if not all of the complexity is hidden and you can easily find a way of doing what you need to do. Most of my experience with BASIC was (and still is) peek and poke of memory values and convoluted language workarounds. It was by and large not nearly close to being as cross platform as C or Fortran was in that era.
BASIC was bad, we remember it as being a 'good thing' but having it as a requirement would've hamstringed the 90s computer revolutions. I don't know if you realized but home computers of that era were only available to the well-off and were mostly used for games. As far as promoting programming, it failed, with millions of computers sold between 1985 and 1995, we currently only have ~3M programmers in the US, about half than just the number of C64 sold.
Regardless of matching ages, the issue stands. Even OKC admitted it years ago when they did the first analysis of data: men with higher salary ranges on their profile got more responses and more dates.
The raw data is there, you CAN craft the perfect profile, it won't be PC but it's very well known what both men and women want from their first impressions in order to get a first date. I don't know if OKC still publishes the data, they used to when they first started and with some data mining you can make a good profile, initial message etc and your success rate skyrockets. I think my 'success rate' was like 40-50% in terms of responses and I would say about 10% in terms of dates, I still didn't meet my current partner there but I did a number of my previous partners, sometimes simultaneous.
This is the continuation of this effort. They've destroyed the atheist movement, largely destroyed many 'level-headed' green, anti-capitalist and other liberal movements, all feminist and most if not all sex-positive communities, working hard on the movie and comic book communities and now we see inroads in tech, FreeBSD communities will soon be a wasteland of self-righteous bullshit.
We're creating a generation of fascists with these kind of actions. Mark my words, when you can't see that hating white men is the same as hating male Jews, or female blacks, you are creating a power vacuum for people like Hitler on either side of the spectrum.
So if pseudoscience is not protected, what is Google basing its decision on? If you're going to say that he's scientifically been disproven, please provide the biological axiom that keeps women out of tech?
I think the claim is that by refusing him to state his opinions in the same way other employees do, Google is creating a hostile work environment. If you allow a political agenda drive the company, then any opposition to it is creating a hostile environment in both environments. Basically Google said "we're all liberals here" and Damore said "no I'm not". The case surrounds the issue that Damore was creating a hostile environment for all the liberals and vice versa.
How about we keep politics of any kind (gender, race, government etc) out of the workplace. Also, replace all your workers with robots to achieve that goal.
The idea is that SJW's can say nasty things and make the workplace hostile because they are (or have to be) 'protected'. It's like that family member you don't talk to because they are so self-centered and sensitive you can't say anything right to them.
If I have to write and rewrite every e-mail just not to offend that single person, I find that a hostile environment to work in. If I can't call out someone's bullshit in a meeting, then how is that not creating a hostile work environment?
If you don't recognize that behavior, you're probably "that person".
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Cars can go outside all year, unless you live farther south where 0.5cm of snow is a state of emergency.
I live even farther up north where it is impossible to drive bikes all but about 3 months in the year and distances involved make it largely impractical except for semi-professional bikers. We still get them painted on the road even though they're largely used to allow cars to pass.
Affordable? MS Office for businesses was $700-1200/user depending on your licensing model and often you didn't even get CAL's for your Exchange and other servers, even the home edition was like $100-200. Even if you had 10,000 licenses or more, you still were on the hook for ~$2-3M/year for Microsoft licensing.
I'm against (gay) marriage as well but not because I'm anti-gay, I'm just against the involvement of religious tenets in government and government involvement in personal life.
Plenty of services use VoIP. If you have "digital telephone" with your cable or dsl provider, you have VoIP. If you have true 4G/5G (Europe and Japan only, not the US 2.5G that is sold as 4G) your calls are probably packet based.
Many people use Vonage or a number of other VoIP providers, anytime you need a little box to talk to your POTS or if your phone line goes dead during a power outage, you have VoIP.
The nice thing about VoIP is that you don't need to have a physical line, any SIP phone can talk to any SIP gateway, given 911 is supposed to be free of charge and foolproof you don't even need to have an active account to call it.
I have about a dozen old cell phones in my basement from friends, family and "recycling" that can all call 911 and that aren't tied at all to myself other than location.
Licensing is a contract where you agree to not sell the license. If you were free to resell licenses you've obtained then licensing would be pointless.
Licenses are not tangible, it would be similar to selling ideas, you can't divest yourself of an idea, hence you cannot sell it because even if you could, you wouldn't lose access to it.
Forgers have known about this just as long. And even if you get it to work eventually, the encryption on the chips themselves have been proven easy to crack for many years.
At the distance, the larger angle the gun deflects, the wider your pattern is going to spread. You can hit one, maybe two people before your gun is spraying bullets in the air or ground around the target.
We don't give military snipers a machine gun either.
Most people think Rambo mowing down the enemy when they hear about machine guns but the freaking things are very difficult to aim especially if you're not experienced and trained on the weapon.
One of last years' shootings also had an automatic weapon, many people would have died if they had a short burst or single action rifle and in close combat range the thing is completely unwieldy.
The question is why 3 keeps happening. I'm pretty sure that if you levied taxes on owning guns, the IRS would instantly get a very accurate list of all gun owners in the US, legal and illegal imports etc.
The fact that the FBI continues to admit "proper procedures weren't followed" at every single shooting indicate either unwillingness or malice. The fact that there is more pressure to abolish basic rights to protect against an oppressive government than abolishing the ineffective agencies that are a result of it shows that nobody wants to solve the problem constiutionally.
Haha, hahahahaha, haaaahahahahaha.
In Windows you can indeed change boot file permissions and the system won't care a bit because everything ignores or is capable of ignoring it. That is wrong.
Also, recovery is easy for Linux, you can chroot and apt reinstall everything or manually recover permissions. Windows has no package manager much less repair installed applications.
Yes, hence why this whole debate is largely overblown.
With the Obama NN rules, providers got to legally zero rate traffic (eg TMobile/Netflix fast lane) which was effectively at the expense of smaller data generators that couldn't afford the fees, the customer would get charged more for using non-Netflix services.
Now the carriers have to once again choose between prioritizing paid traffic and losing common carrier status.
The fact that TWC/Charter/Verizon let their POP at the IX run at 100% capacity hasn't changed before or after any NN rules.
You've never worked with PowerPC I see. Those things never failed and you could commit a murder with the Alu Powerbook and it wouldn't get a dent. I still have a G4 roaming around for some ancient software at work.
Anti-trust laws, pretty much any laws the DOJ prosecutes (or not) has politics involved. Microsoft donated enough money to get theirs to disappear, if TW or AT&T hadn't bet on the establishment horses in the last election they too would be at the big boys table.
This is a good thing. The decision is also a good thing - private corporations should not be able to see into private/classified communications just because they throw enough money around.
If and when this communication gets declassified and released (which will happen some time in the next 100 years) then all of us can see what went on that day.
I don't think you understand the difference between a license and a tangible item. You can indeed resell a CD or book or whatever, you cannot necessarily sell the license if you have agreed to it.
The case has been seen in various courts and the contract you 'agreed' to has been upheld (eg. Vernor v. Autodesk) and although the SCOTUS has so far not necessarily agreed but simply left lower court rulings stand.
The stuff has been down there for millions if not billions of life. Even if the star stuff was originally Cobalt-60, it's been more than 5 years.
Unless you're a creationist of course, then Chernobyl wouldn't even measure against the background radiation from all the elements that haven't decayed yet.
Private schools? There may be some of those, but truly private education nearly doesn't exist in the US. All of it, even the "private" Universities are largely tax funded. Running the numbers for a couple of nearby Universities and State colleges, the "true cost" of running a place seems to be ~$300k/year/student with the tuition generally being about 10-20% of that number and that's before tax funded scholarships, financial aid and sub-inflationary loans.
Even a top place like Harvard: $4B operating costs, 22000 students averaging $43k tuition per year (63k with room and board) or about 25% revenue from tuition.
And this sort of response is exactly the problem. I'm a fucking minority asshole. I worked my way up, I'm still a minority. I am relatively well-off, I'm still a minority. I get to have a modicum of political power in my community but I'm still a minority. I don't aspire to be governor or senator or anything, but I could if I wanted to, I would still be a minority.
White people (which I assume you mean American citizen blue collar white people), in my opinion, get tired of being held back in order to fill a quota, seeing their jobs evaporate to both Mexico proper and illegals from Mexico and being laughed at when they complain when their communities get wrecked by violence and drugs even though the relative numbers are much more affecting white blue collars right now than it is protected classes because of the quotas. They get tired of continuing to fund education to get smart boards and iPads for every student in the inner city when their own schools can't even stay open. They are tired of continuing to get blamed for black-on-black violence. THAT'S the current American reality.
How does 72 hours of pay for teachers cover 4 years of education? You paid for a fake degree? Even $5k/year or $50k/year doesn't cover the cost of running an educational establishment.
That's the way it currently is. Rich people and their kids fund colleges. Then they go about bitching that it's too expensive.
I would say that the "we had to learn to program because we only had BASIC" trope has been largely disproven. There were at least 10x as much computers sold that booted into "just BASIC" to the number of computer professionals that era spawned, not to speak about the number of people that were exposed to computers in that time through friends, schools, libraries etc.
Everyone that could afford a computer back then knew just enough to load the game, it was treated like a password in that way, most people now that owned that computer would have a vague recollection of what it is they had to do.
I remember learning programming in classes going from first grade (LOGO) through the end of my education (Turbo Pascal and C) - yet there is no glut of programmers my age.
It depends on what you need to do. JS and DOM are complex but most if not all of the complexity is hidden and you can easily find a way of doing what you need to do. Most of my experience with BASIC was (and still is) peek and poke of memory values and convoluted language workarounds. It was by and large not nearly close to being as cross platform as C or Fortran was in that era.
BASIC was bad, we remember it as being a 'good thing' but having it as a requirement would've hamstringed the 90s computer revolutions. I don't know if you realized but home computers of that era were only available to the well-off and were mostly used for games. As far as promoting programming, it failed, with millions of computers sold between 1985 and 1995, we currently only have ~3M programmers in the US, about half than just the number of C64 sold.
Regardless of matching ages, the issue stands. Even OKC admitted it years ago when they did the first analysis of data: men with higher salary ranges on their profile got more responses and more dates.
The raw data is there, you CAN craft the perfect profile, it won't be PC but it's very well known what both men and women want from their first impressions in order to get a first date. I don't know if OKC still publishes the data, they used to when they first started and with some data mining you can make a good profile, initial message etc and your success rate skyrockets. I think my 'success rate' was like 40-50% in terms of responses and I would say about 10% in terms of dates, I still didn't meet my current partner there but I did a number of my previous partners, sometimes simultaneous.
This is the continuation of this effort. They've destroyed the atheist movement, largely destroyed many 'level-headed' green, anti-capitalist and other liberal movements, all feminist and most if not all sex-positive communities, working hard on the movie and comic book communities and now we see inroads in tech, FreeBSD communities will soon be a wasteland of self-righteous bullshit.
We're creating a generation of fascists with these kind of actions. Mark my words, when you can't see that hating white men is the same as hating male Jews, or female blacks, you are creating a power vacuum for people like Hitler on either side of the spectrum.
So if pseudoscience is not protected, what is Google basing its decision on? If you're going to say that he's scientifically been disproven, please provide the biological axiom that keeps women out of tech?
I think the claim is that by refusing him to state his opinions in the same way other employees do, Google is creating a hostile work environment. If you allow a political agenda drive the company, then any opposition to it is creating a hostile environment in both environments. Basically Google said "we're all liberals here" and Damore said "no I'm not". The case surrounds the issue that Damore was creating a hostile environment for all the liberals and vice versa.
How about we keep politics of any kind (gender, race, government etc) out of the workplace. Also, replace all your workers with robots to achieve that goal.
The idea is that SJW's can say nasty things and make the workplace hostile because they are (or have to be) 'protected'. It's like that family member you don't talk to because they are so self-centered and sensitive you can't say anything right to them.
If I have to write and rewrite every e-mail just not to offend that single person, I find that a hostile environment to work in. If I can't call out someone's bullshit in a meeting, then how is that not creating a hostile work environment?
If you don't recognize that behavior, you're probably "that person".