Why's that? I know John Denver died in a plane crash, but the report I read said it was due to a combination of issues: his first flight in this plane (it was a test flight), combined with a lack of fuel and a handlebar for the reserve tank in a difficult to reach non-standard position (behind his left shoulder or something).
Was there any reason to suspect him from flying while drunk or high?
While I exaggerated slightly in one way, you go overboard in the other direction...
The stab in the back legend was coined by Ludendorff who blamed all sorts of things, including strikes at munition factories, but mostly the social democrat and communist parties(SPD/KPD). During the twenties this turned more and more in an anti-semitic direction, but that didn't prevent the assassination of many leaders of the Weimar republic by extreme rightwing forces (like Rathenau and Erzberger) based on a general sentiment that they were to blame for the loss of the war and the Versailles treaty. Ludendorff and others claimed this.
The nazis jumped on it and gave it their own twist. Adolf Hitler wrote about it in Mein Kampf, claiming the existence of an alliance between Bolsheviks, center-left Weimar politicians, and Jews in a conspiracy to defeat Germany from within. Strikes in munition factories were just a part of it - uprisings, large scale mutiny, Jewish and Bolshevik agitation were a part of it as well. And so was the press. The term "lügenpresse" comes from this era, meaning "lying press" and targeted the press specifically. This was a part of the whole conspiracy theory, although not the main part.
*some* left wing social economic policies. And true, they never would have gotten anywhere otherwise. However, after the Night of the Long Knives any lingering sympathies for left wing social economic policies was effectively purged from the party in a long and bloody night of murder.
The fact they used the name "socialist" because of the positive connotations at the time, is hardly unsurprising. What surprises me every time is that so many people who should have read Null-A, fail to appreciate the difference between the map and the territory, or the word and the thing itself, or the flag and the reality. Not aiming at GP btw, it's just a general observation that as soon as someone applies a label, everyone applies a world of meaning to it. But labels like "centrum", "democrat", "nationalist", "socialist" and "communist" have all been used by political parties that in reality implemented none of the policies associated with the label.
According to the NSDAP it was a bit before that: the "stab-in-the-back" legend is pretty infamous and basically claimed the same thing: the first world war was actually going pretty well for Germany, apart from minor setbacks, and if only the left hadn't risen up in revolt against the emperor and the papers hadn't claimed defeat, they still could have managed to salvage the whole thing.
This legend works best on people who have no idea about the historical situation at the time.
It's also quite funny how army leaderships always keep telling the rest of the world it wasn't their fault they lost the war. I'm pretty sure the Carthago Press Corps had the same problems in the Punic wars.
That, and in my city all the buses (busses?) run on LNG if they don't run on electricity. Not quite carbon-neutral (ahem) but at least it's not diesel or gasoline.
Yeah, I really liked them. And I say that if you're dumb enough to fall off one, it's your own damn fault. They should make that into a law in the USA, but over here it's sort of assumed that people act at least *slightly* adult.
Given some of the weird regulations described in the article that I've never seen implemented elsewhere (stopping at railroad crossings with open doors? wut?) it's more a question of doing away with some of the crud, and streamlining stuff so busses are normal transport options and not ultrasafe armored contraptions that might someday end up at a destination.
I once parked my car outside the city, then took the express bus into the city - it had its own lane. The alternative was to cross the bridge into the city by car, which took 20 minutes more during rush hour than the bus, *and* cost money for parking (about 3 euro per hour IIRC) as opposed to the price of bus fare and parking being only 2 euro total.
It was one of the few instances were it worked pretty well.
You always have room for a bus lane. However, it may mean there is no longer any room for a car lane.
It's a matter of priorities.
That said, if we can create bus lanes in medieval European towns and cities, I'm sure the wide open lanes of US cities are quite suited to narrowing them all a bit and adding a bus lane. And yes, sometimes a lane becomes one-directional.
Another thing though: what's with the stopping at railroads? I never heard of that one before.
Depends on how small your business is. Dropbox is pretty cheap and effective as off-site collaboration spaces go, across multiple operating systems. It can double as an off-site backup for non-critical stuff as well. I don't see why you should pay a premium for off-site storage that will rarely be critical. If it ever becomes critical you can backup the files to another area *shrug*.
My administration has a local backup, copied to a NAS not directly connected to the laptop I run it on, and replicated to a dropbox as well. Having them all taken out at the same time seems unlikely, and in that event I have a backup at the office of my accountant, which is completely decoupled: i mail the invoices and they have their own version of the administration.
THis is easily doable for about $100 dollar per year for dropbox, $200 for NAS and local storage, and $600 for the accountant.
As for why it takes so long to discover you have a problem when 1 bit in a few million is flipping... why don't you simulate it and see what happens? I've had entire files truncated without S/FTP or other software giving even a minor warning. Losing a bit here and there is pretty hard to catch. Especially on audio or video.
When I studied CompSci we had some real fun when a professor once tried to demonstrate a modem connection. He had loads of arcane option screens that all had to be set in the same settings as the guy on the other end had. The guy in the building next door, I might add. After 30 minutes he gave up:)
Even acknowledging (some of) your points, the fact remains that the whole bank transfer system in the USA is extremely fragmented, and quite outdated in several areas. With or without a pull system, you should still be able to transfer money pretty fast nowadays. The fact noone is investing in it, means you're going to be looking at substantial banking costs for a long period. This is a private tax on enterprise that most companies can do without, and is lethal to high-volume, micro-transactional types of services.
Moving to faster and cheaper transaction processing will open up a whole host of opportunities for smaller micro-services. Bitcoins could have filled that gap, had it taken off. But the problems with bitcoin seem to be increasing instead of decreasing, so I fear the worst there.
Bitcoin has way too many issues to be acceptable. Apart from that, a central bank already *has* a currency, no need for another one.
No, the issue that causes central banks to research these things is the interesting blockchain technology. Almost every CB has a coin just to play with the blockchain. For instance, the Dutch Central Bank has "dogecoins". The purpose isn't to create new coins, however. The purpose is to examine ways to make transaction processing cheaper, more reliable and more distributed. And blockchain technology can help with this.
Paying someone on the other side of the country $1000 in cash is not easy to do.
Why, Backward Cousin, do and come visit us in Europe sometimes! It takes about 3 seconds to transfer cash to anyone I know straight into their account, and takes at most a day to show up on their account if they have some weird small bank that only processes transactions once a day. Once PTSD2 goes live in the EU, it will all be realtime across the entire EU.
Now, in countries that are a bit backward, like those colonies you live in, I understand that bitcoins are preferable to the alternative. But come on, it's 2016... surely your banks can come up with something better?:P:)
Either you really don't understand the complexity involved (you're a back-end developer) or you work with extremely competent graphic designers who understand YOUR job and just spoon-feed you ready-to-slice graphics, separate from the website photoshop file.
Well, I guess it's obvious then. The graphics designers that can't provide input to the new AI programmers will cease to have jobs, or hire someone who can do that work for them - I guess that will be the one we currently call "front end programmer".
I was wondering the same thing. How sudden *is* a glacier melt, actually? Are we talking a decade? A century? Or more? Seems like even pregnant women could find the time to crawl to a safe place, even at a... glacial speed.
Somehow, this whole thing reminds me of Fire and Ice.
Well, we're just upgrading our SAS VA installation to 2TB of ram, and upgrading our SQL Server production db to 768GB of ram - it's pretty cheap nowadays and certainly much cheaper than optimizing a lot of queries - and we have better things to do than optimize queries.
That 16 TB SSD would be pretty neat too - I can already see how that would benefit the logs and tempdb on our installation. And 16TB is a bit too large for just tempdb and logs, but the 10Gbps is cool and I would certainly like the 15TB when we need to partition things or migrate tables, or build indexes. Our SAN is usually a bit faster than that (with 2 fibrechannel connectors) but it's cheaper to just plug this in for non-critical stuff and our SAN tends to be rather heavily used so sometimes it's a bit slower - I would like something that has no other users so I can get reliable performance metrics apart from outside influence.
The Mafia only bothers you when you're really succesful, or when you (like Derek Sauer) control media that politicians actively dislike or want to control. If you're unsuccessful, you just starve. It's a fine line between the two. Oh, and don't even think about migrating if you don't speak the language or are busy learning it - that goes for almost every country but Russia more than some others.
I agree - it is by far the most idiotic idea of the day. Except I haven't watched the news so I don't know what the US presidential candidates have been saying - it may be that it's topped by something worse.
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Why's that? I know John Denver died in a plane crash, but the report I read said it was due to a combination of issues: his first flight in this plane (it was a test flight), combined with a lack of fuel and a handlebar for the reserve tank in a difficult to reach non-standard position (behind his left shoulder or something).
Was there any reason to suspect him from flying while drunk or high?
While I exaggerated slightly in one way, you go overboard in the other direction...
The stab in the back legend was coined by Ludendorff who blamed all sorts of things, including strikes at munition factories, but mostly the social democrat and communist parties(SPD/KPD). During the twenties this turned more and more in an anti-semitic direction, but that didn't prevent the assassination of many leaders of the Weimar republic by extreme rightwing forces (like Rathenau and Erzberger) based on a general sentiment that they were to blame for the loss of the war and the Versailles treaty. Ludendorff and others claimed this.
The nazis jumped on it and gave it their own twist. Adolf Hitler wrote about it in Mein Kampf, claiming the existence of an alliance between Bolsheviks, center-left Weimar politicians, and Jews in a conspiracy to defeat Germany from within. Strikes in munition factories were just a part of it - uprisings, large scale mutiny, Jewish and Bolshevik agitation were a part of it as well. And so was the press. The term "lügenpresse" comes from this era, meaning "lying press" and targeted the press specifically. This was a part of the whole conspiracy theory, although not the main part.
Sources (in German):
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapite...
The latter one is the site of the German History Museum.
*some* left wing social economic policies. And true, they never would have gotten anywhere otherwise. However, after the Night of the Long Knives any lingering sympathies for left wing social economic policies was effectively purged from the party in a long and bloody night of murder.
The fact they used the name "socialist" because of the positive connotations at the time, is hardly unsurprising. What surprises me every time is that so many people who should have read Null-A, fail to appreciate the difference between the map and the territory, or the word and the thing itself, or the flag and the reality. Not aiming at GP btw, it's just a general observation that as soon as someone applies a label, everyone applies a world of meaning to it. But labels like "centrum", "democrat", "nationalist", "socialist" and "communist" have all been used by political parties that in reality implemented none of the policies associated with the label.
According to the NSDAP it was a bit before that: the "stab-in-the-back" legend is pretty infamous and basically claimed the same thing: the first world war was actually going pretty well for Germany, apart from minor setbacks, and if only the left hadn't risen up in revolt against the emperor and the papers hadn't claimed defeat, they still could have managed to salvage the whole thing.
This legend works best on people who have no idea about the historical situation at the time.
It's also quite funny how army leaderships always keep telling the rest of the world it wasn't their fault they lost the war. I'm pretty sure the Carthago Press Corps had the same problems in the Punic wars.
That, and in my city all the buses (busses?) run on LNG if they don't run on electricity. Not quite carbon-neutral (ahem) but at least it's not diesel or gasoline.
Yeah, I really liked them. And I say that if you're dumb enough to fall off one, it's your own damn fault. They should make that into a law in the USA, but over here it's sort of assumed that people act at least *slightly* adult.
Given some of the weird regulations described in the article that I've never seen implemented elsewhere (stopping at railroad crossings with open doors? wut?) it's more a question of doing away with some of the crud, and streamlining stuff so busses are normal transport options and not ultrasafe armored contraptions that might someday end up at a destination.
I once parked my car outside the city, then took the express bus into the city - it had its own lane. The alternative was to cross the bridge into the city by car, which took 20 minutes more during rush hour than the bus, *and* cost money for parking (about 3 euro per hour IIRC) as opposed to the price of bus fare and parking being only 2 euro total.
It was one of the few instances were it worked pretty well.
You always have room for a bus lane. However, it may mean there is no longer any room for a car lane.
It's a matter of priorities.
That said, if we can create bus lanes in medieval European towns and cities, I'm sure the wide open lanes of US cities are quite suited to narrowing them all a bit and adding a bus lane. And yes, sometimes a lane becomes one-directional.
Another thing though: what's with the stopping at railroads? I never heard of that one before.
Depends on how small your business is. Dropbox is pretty cheap and effective as off-site collaboration spaces go, across multiple operating systems. It can double as an off-site backup for non-critical stuff as well. I don't see why you should pay a premium for off-site storage that will rarely be critical. If it ever becomes critical you can backup the files to another area *shrug*.
My administration has a local backup, copied to a NAS not directly connected to the laptop I run it on, and replicated to a dropbox as well. Having them all taken out at the same time seems unlikely, and in that event I have a backup at the office of my accountant, which is completely decoupled: i mail the invoices and they have their own version of the administration.
THis is easily doable for about $100 dollar per year for dropbox, $200 for NAS and local storage, and $600 for the accountant.
As for why it takes so long to discover you have a problem when 1 bit in a few million is flipping... why don't you simulate it and see what happens? I've had entire files truncated without S/FTP or other software giving even a minor warning. Losing a bit here and there is pretty hard to catch. Especially on audio or video.
We're talking the year 2000 here, buddy :) That was some good hard cash going over the counter.
When I studied CompSci we had some real fun when a professor once tried to demonstrate a modem connection. He had loads of arcane option screens that all had to be set in the same settings as the guy on the other end had. The guy in the building next door, I might add. After 30 minutes he gave up :)
Things certainly have improved a lot.
Also fun to watch: Teens react to Windows 95.
I was wondering at the end if I wasn't overdoing it, so I decided to add hints. Sorry!
Even acknowledging (some of) your points, the fact remains that the whole bank transfer system in the USA is extremely fragmented, and quite outdated in several areas. With or without a pull system, you should still be able to transfer money pretty fast nowadays. The fact noone is investing in it, means you're going to be looking at substantial banking costs for a long period. This is a private tax on enterprise that most companies can do without, and is lethal to high-volume, micro-transactional types of services.
Moving to faster and cheaper transaction processing will open up a whole host of opportunities for smaller micro-services. Bitcoins could have filled that gap, had it taken off. But the problems with bitcoin seem to be increasing instead of decreasing, so I fear the worst there.
Bitcoin has way too many issues to be acceptable. Apart from that, a central bank already *has* a currency, no need for another one.
No, the issue that causes central banks to research these things is the interesting blockchain technology. Almost every CB has a coin just to play with the blockchain. For instance, the Dutch Central Bank has "dogecoins". The purpose isn't to create new coins, however. The purpose is to examine ways to make transaction processing cheaper, more reliable and more distributed. And blockchain technology can help with this.
Paying someone on the other side of the country $1000 in cash is not easy to do.
Why, Backward Cousin, do and come visit us in Europe sometimes! It takes about 3 seconds to transfer cash to anyone I know straight into their account, and takes at most a day to show up on their account if they have some weird small bank that only processes transactions once a day. Once PTSD2 goes live in the EU, it will all be realtime across the entire EU.
Now, in countries that are a bit backward, like those colonies you live in, I understand that bitcoins are preferable to the alternative. But come on, it's 2016... surely your banks can come up with something better? :P :)
You need less death camps later on?
Either you really don't understand the complexity involved (you're a back-end developer) or you work with extremely competent graphic designers who understand YOUR job and just spoon-feed you ready-to-slice graphics, separate from the website photoshop file.
Well, I guess it's obvious then. The graphics designers that can't provide input to the new AI programmers will cease to have jobs, or hire someone who can do that work for them - I guess that will be the one we currently call "front end programmer".
You obviously never saw Fire and Ice :)
I was wondering the same thing. How sudden *is* a glacier melt, actually? Are we talking a decade? A century? Or more? Seems like even pregnant women could find the time to crawl to a safe place, even at a... glacial speed.
Somehow, this whole thing reminds me of Fire and Ice.
Well, we're just upgrading our SAS VA installation to 2TB of ram, and upgrading our SQL Server production db to 768GB of ram - it's pretty cheap nowadays and certainly much cheaper than optimizing a lot of queries - and we have better things to do than optimize queries.
That 16 TB SSD would be pretty neat too - I can already see how that would benefit the logs and tempdb on our installation. And 16TB is a bit too large for just tempdb and logs, but the 10Gbps is cool and I would certainly like the 15TB when we need to partition things or migrate tables, or build indexes. Our SAN is usually a bit faster than that (with 2 fibrechannel connectors) but it's cheaper to just plug this in for non-critical stuff and our SAN tends to be rather heavily used so sometimes it's a bit slower - I would like something that has no other users so I can get reliable performance metrics apart from outside influence.
The Mafia only bothers you when you're really succesful, or when you (like Derek Sauer) control media that politicians actively dislike or want to control.
If you're unsuccessful, you just starve. It's a fine line between the two. Oh, and don't even think about migrating if you don't speak the language or are busy learning it - that goes for almost every country but Russia more than some others.
I agree - it is by far the most idiotic idea of the day. Except I haven't watched the news so I don't know what the US presidential candidates have been saying - it may be that it's topped by something worse.
You've either not seen it, or you're trolling. Why don't you try it first? I really don't want to go back to text messages when I have whatsapp.
1 billion users beg to differ.
While that's not always a good sign, I recommend you give it a try. It's MUCH better than SMS.