I suppose the idea that someone in IT somehow is graced with command of subjects as varied as the law or climatology must certainly be at least a corollary to the Salem Hypothesis, or perhaps it's a sign that the Salem Hypothesis is merely itself part of a larger principle where technicians of all sorts believe themselves so intelligent that foreign fields of expertise just by the nature of their genius are assimilated.
The whole idea that tech people have some sort special knowledge of the law is utterly fallacious, a sort of appeal to authority where the poster tries to assert they are an authority in a field quite distinct from software development.
There really are some people posting here who suffer delusions of grandeur.
News flash: You're a fucking idiot inventing conspiracy theories because your either a) a childlike mind incapable of accepting reality or b) a paid shill or c) both.
AGW is happening. The insurance companies know it. The oil producing nations know it. Every fucking physicist in the last hundred years knows that CO2 absorbs IR and emits it as UV, and that means CO2 traps heat. Now, fucking halfwit, unless you have some magic fucking heat sink that makes trapped heat go back into space, stop trying to deny simple fucking physics. Grow the fuck up. The universe doesn't owe your fucking SUV any fucking favors.
Yes, the defendant screwed up a little bit, but any court that allows a plaintiff to play this kind of game is still broken. What you have here is an apparently well known vexatious litigant, and the solution is to remove his ability to file suits or use the court system at all without prior approval.
Yes there are rules, but the vary state to state, and thus it can get to be very expensive even to get to the point where you can smash the abusive litigant. Perhaps if there massive fines and jail time for abuse of the courts, it might make a difference, but in most cases, all that happens is the litigant has to get a judge's approval before starting a lawsuit, and there are 49 other states in which the litigant can pursue these vexatious suits. In other words, a determined vexatious litigant can get away with a shitload of bad lawsuits before he can finally be stopped.
A good auditor can often sniff out profit or expense inflation schemes. Inevitably, somewhere, there is actually a proper record of sales, because the senior management are going to want to know how well or how poorly the company is actually doing.
Now now, that doesn't fit into the fossil fuel industry's narrative, where Jesus Christ takes baths in oil and Jehovah has made it so CO2 emissions from oil magically don't absorb UV and emit IR, or do anything at all. Remember folks, Jesus loves oil, and is going to send all developers of alternatives energies to Hell for being vile communists!
They're doing what the Saudis are doing, laying the groundwork for the post-fossil fuel age. The Koch Brothers may be funding psuedoskepticism, and there may be lots of people who believe AGW is an evil lie designed by Satan and/or Communists, but countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, major oil producers that they are, know very well that sooner or later, and likely sometime after the middle of this century, the Age of Oil is going to come to an end.
Norway is also one of those smarter states who has been stowing away oil revenues, unlike, say Venezuela and Alberta, and the Saudis are following suit with their own sovereign wealth fund, the largest in history.
Actually, I think Kim Jong Un is eminently rational; cold, probably sociopathic, but incredibly rational. Think about it. When he first took over from Kim Jong Il, the regime put minders in place, most prominently his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek. Kim Jong Un seems to have understood that the first few years of his reign were going to be with training wheels, but when he decided it was time to come off, he took out anyone in the regime that had a significant power base, or any close ties with China. Stalin and Mao both did the same sort of thing in their time, taking out rivals, usually brutally, and with show trials to make it clear to anyone else who had any designs that opposed the Supreme Leader that he could dispense with them just as easily.
While there are nutcases like Idi Amin out there, for whom power leads to a sort of megalomaniacal madness. But there are rulers like Stalin and Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong-un, who may be megalomaniacs, but who are most definitely very rational actors.
Mainly they've been reliant on old Soviet technology. Actually even China is still very reliant on Soviet technology. Their first aircraft carrier was largely built during the late Soviet era and sat in a Ukraine drydock for many years before being sold to them where they finished outfitting it.
I would think any laser powerful enough to take out a missile would so heavily ionize the atmosphere around it that it would be irrelevant whether the laser itself was made out of visible frequencies or not.
We're dealing with a lunatic here. It's possible the professor did nothing wrong at all. I knew someone who was convinced a teacher was stealing his work because the college he went to uses Google Drive. Once people have a psychotic break of some kind and start down the road to paranoia and persecution, reality simply takes a back seat, if it even exists for them at all.
So there is at least one anecdotal story here that the account that was hacked was passworded, which means TV's claim it was unsecured TV accounts that were hacked seem a little less believable. If you mind me asking, was it a reasonably complex password?
We have an RDP server, and other than some pain with the licensing server getting our RDP CALs installed correctly, the sole operation on our gateway router was opening up port 3389. But if you're ultra-paranoid, just use PuTTY to set up an SSH tunnel. That's what I have on my laptop so I can administer the internal Windows servers.
What's it like being a fucking idiot? I'm just curious. Because your attempt at an analogy looks more like a fucking retard trying to string words together in some bizarre facsimile of a rejoinder.
I have no common cause with the Libertarian neanderthals around here that clearly despise and fear women, but in this case, Theranos looks like little more than a scam. But I wouldn't like that to the CEO being a female, since there are no lack of male-run scam outfits who are briefly market darlings before it's revealed that the company's core technology is a load of unmitigated bullshit.
Surely if you don't want the smart features, you just don't connect it on to your home network. I have a smart TV and a smart DVD player, neither of which has had wifi configured. I have a Chromecast and regularly use one of our laptops for video, so if I need access to online content, I have far better systems in place than what most Smart TVs can provide.
Alberta has known for decades that its economy needs to diversify. This is hardly the first time oil prices have dropped, though this one will likely have much longer-last effects, and if there is a recovery to the highs of a few years ago, it's likely to be oil's last great rally. Albertans are completely resistant to change, refusing even to contemplate bringing in a sales tax so the government can at least find alternative revenue streams to oil and gas royalties. Until Alberta, and several other petro-jurisdictions around the world accept that oil is likely going to fade in importance throughout the rest of this century, these jurisdictions face serious economic decline.
As to Alberta lording it over everyone, there's no denying that. Even as their own "conservative" government was throwing money everywhere, they were demanding the rest of the country show incredible fiscal restraint. There's still some cognitive dissonance, even with the NDP in charge of the province, and now that Ontario plans to ween the province off of fossil fuels, the Alberta government is acting like this is some sort of revenge. Sooner or later, they will get it, but likely too late to fund the economic changes themselves, and the rest of the country will have to partially fund the economic transformation.
Exactly. If fossil fuels were actually priced based on environmental and climactic impacts, renewables would look a lot better, but because almost every government on the planet is allowing fossil fuel companies to evade pricing in those impacts, they give those companies and their shareholders a vast subsidy.
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It's rather sad Reiser still has his defenders.
I suppose the idea that someone in IT somehow is graced with command of subjects as varied as the law or climatology must certainly be at least a corollary to the Salem Hypothesis, or perhaps it's a sign that the Salem Hypothesis is merely itself part of a larger principle where technicians of all sorts believe themselves so intelligent that foreign fields of expertise just by the nature of their genius are assimilated.
The whole idea that tech people have some sort special knowledge of the law is utterly fallacious, a sort of appeal to authority where the poster tries to assert they are an authority in a field quite distinct from software development.
There really are some people posting here who suffer delusions of grandeur.
News flash: You're a fucking idiot inventing conspiracy theories because your either a) a childlike mind incapable of accepting reality or b) a paid shill or c) both.
AGW is happening. The insurance companies know it. The oil producing nations know it. Every fucking physicist in the last hundred years knows that CO2 absorbs IR and emits it as UV, and that means CO2 traps heat. Now, fucking halfwit, unless you have some magic fucking heat sink that makes trapped heat go back into space, stop trying to deny simple fucking physics. Grow the fuck up. The universe doesn't owe your fucking SUV any fucking favors.
Fucking moron.
Yes, the defendant screwed up a little bit, but any court that allows a plaintiff to play this kind of game is still broken. What you have here is an apparently well known vexatious litigant, and the solution is to remove his ability to file suits or use the court system at all without prior approval.
Yes there are rules, but the vary state to state, and thus it can get to be very expensive even to get to the point where you can smash the abusive litigant. Perhaps if there massive fines and jail time for abuse of the courts, it might make a difference, but in most cases, all that happens is the litigant has to get a judge's approval before starting a lawsuit, and there are 49 other states in which the litigant can pursue these vexatious suits. In other words, a determined vexatious litigant can get away with a shitload of bad lawsuits before he can finally be stopped.
A good auditor can often sniff out profit or expense inflation schemes. Inevitably, somewhere, there is actually a proper record of sales, because the senior management are going to want to know how well or how poorly the company is actually doing.
Now now, that doesn't fit into the fossil fuel industry's narrative, where Jesus Christ takes baths in oil and Jehovah has made it so CO2 emissions from oil magically don't absorb UV and emit IR, or do anything at all. Remember folks, Jesus loves oil, and is going to send all developers of alternatives energies to Hell for being vile communists!
In parts of Canada. I'm on Vancouver Island and I think there might have been a couple of days this winter when it dropped below -3.
They're doing what the Saudis are doing, laying the groundwork for the post-fossil fuel age. The Koch Brothers may be funding psuedoskepticism, and there may be lots of people who believe AGW is an evil lie designed by Satan and/or Communists, but countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, major oil producers that they are, know very well that sooner or later, and likely sometime after the middle of this century, the Age of Oil is going to come to an end.
Norway is also one of those smarter states who has been stowing away oil revenues, unlike, say Venezuela and Alberta, and the Saudis are following suit with their own sovereign wealth fund, the largest in history.
First of all, not everyone that suffers a struck is 80 years old.
Second of all, you're a repugnant human being.
Actually, I think Kim Jong Un is eminently rational; cold, probably sociopathic, but incredibly rational. Think about it. When he first took over from Kim Jong Il, the regime put minders in place, most prominently his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek. Kim Jong Un seems to have understood that the first few years of his reign were going to be with training wheels, but when he decided it was time to come off, he took out anyone in the regime that had a significant power base, or any close ties with China. Stalin and Mao both did the same sort of thing in their time, taking out rivals, usually brutally, and with show trials to make it clear to anyone else who had any designs that opposed the Supreme Leader that he could dispense with them just as easily.
While there are nutcases like Idi Amin out there, for whom power leads to a sort of megalomaniacal madness. But there are rulers like Stalin and Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong-un, who may be megalomaniacs, but who are most definitely very rational actors.
Mainly they've been reliant on old Soviet technology. Actually even China is still very reliant on Soviet technology. Their first aircraft carrier was largely built during the late Soviet era and sat in a Ukraine drydock for many years before being sold to them where they finished outfitting it.
I would think any laser powerful enough to take out a missile would so heavily ionize the atmosphere around it that it would be irrelevant whether the laser itself was made out of visible frequencies or not.
We're dealing with a lunatic here. It's possible the professor did nothing wrong at all. I knew someone who was convinced a teacher was stealing his work because the college he went to uses Google Drive. Once people have a psychotic break of some kind and start down the road to paranoia and persecution, reality simply takes a back seat, if it even exists for them at all.
So there is at least one anecdotal story here that the account that was hacked was passworded, which means TV's claim it was unsecured TV accounts that were hacked seem a little less believable. If you mind me asking, was it a reasonably complex password?
We have an RDP server, and other than some pain with the licensing server getting our RDP CALs installed correctly, the sole operation on our gateway router was opening up port 3389. But if you're ultra-paranoid, just use PuTTY to set up an SSH tunnel. That's what I have on my laptop so I can administer the internal Windows servers.
What's it like being a fucking idiot? I'm just curious. Because your attempt at an analogy looks more like a fucking retard trying to string words together in some bizarre facsimile of a rejoinder.
I have no common cause with the Libertarian neanderthals around here that clearly despise and fear women, but in this case, Theranos looks like little more than a scam. But I wouldn't like that to the CEO being a female, since there are no lack of male-run scam outfits who are briefly market darlings before it's revealed that the company's core technology is a load of unmitigated bullshit.
Surely if you don't want the smart features, you just don't connect it on to your home network. I have a smart TV and a smart DVD player, neither of which has had wifi configured. I have a Chromecast and regularly use one of our laptops for video, so if I need access to online content, I have far better systems in place than what most Smart TVs can provide.
But everyone know Jesus loves oil and would never make CO2 harmful, and anyone who says otherwise is an evil Communist out to destroy capitalism.
Or Australia
Alberta has known for decades that its economy needs to diversify. This is hardly the first time oil prices have dropped, though this one will likely have much longer-last effects, and if there is a recovery to the highs of a few years ago, it's likely to be oil's last great rally. Albertans are completely resistant to change, refusing even to contemplate bringing in a sales tax so the government can at least find alternative revenue streams to oil and gas royalties. Until Alberta, and several other petro-jurisdictions around the world accept that oil is likely going to fade in importance throughout the rest of this century, these jurisdictions face serious economic decline.
As to Alberta lording it over everyone, there's no denying that. Even as their own "conservative" government was throwing money everywhere, they were demanding the rest of the country show incredible fiscal restraint. There's still some cognitive dissonance, even with the NDP in charge of the province, and now that Ontario plans to ween the province off of fossil fuels, the Alberta government is acting like this is some sort of revenge. Sooner or later, they will get it, but likely too late to fund the economic changes themselves, and the rest of the country will have to partially fund the economic transformation.
Exactly. If fossil fuels were actually priced based on environmental and climactic impacts, renewables would look a lot better, but because almost every government on the planet is allowing fossil fuel companies to evade pricing in those impacts, they give those companies and their shareholders a vast subsidy.
Which is why in both Europe and North America renewables are growing supplier of electricity.