"The second Model S car fire occurred outside Merida, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. In that case, the vehicle was traveling at 100 miles per hour before the accident. During Tesla's conference call on Tuesday to discuss quarterly results with analysts, CEO Elon Musk said "The car actually sheared something like 17 feet of concrete wall, then went through a concrete wall, then smashed into a tree." The passengers, who survived what could have been a fatal accident in a less safe car, were able to flee the scene."
If you can walk away from a collision that starts at 100 mph, you're both extremely lucky and the car was well-designed. Amazing.
Shorter: Dilbert's company got the contract, due to their extensive experience in the industry.
Do it in-house, instead. Career professionals are better than contractors.
You obviously never worked with government employees. The combination of protected work + low pay does not tend to attract the best and brightest, in my experience.
I've heard that with all the trials, appeals and lawyers the cost of the whole process up to an execution is actually higher than having someone spend a life sentence in jail.
And "risking parole"... you mean, risking the fact they were innocent to begin with? Because in several cases that's basically what happened. The issue with the death penalty is that it's both highly discriminatory towards poor people, and also makes it impossible to undo judicial errors. Good reasons to avoid it.
And if the USA didn't put such a large part of its population in prison, it wouldn't be so expensive either.
The same system is in use in The Netherlands with most banks. Some banks use their own remote cardreaders though. The Dutch banks were helped by the fact that they automated a looooong time ago.
Why would a halfway decent cloud storage provider botch up data integrity so badly? This isn't rocket science after all. I suspect this is FUD to keep people from using these encrypted storage solutions.
While it may not be rocket science, a lot of people underestimate the amount of corruption that files incur from bits flipping at random in storage or during transfer. It's one of the reasons many of those cloud services have checksums at EVERY step in the process. And if you use the wrong type of checksum you're going to get collisions once the number of customers goes up. Apart from that, you get sync issues if the clocks of all devices don't match up exactly, and you need to make sure you have a globally available checkpoint (a counter, or a good clock) that works.
It's a bit like cryptography. While the principles are well understood, a minor bug in the implementation can make the difference between a working solution and a subtly non-functional one.
You're talking Stalinists and social democrats, not Communists as Lenin would have defined them. Social democrats define class by wealth or education or whatever their latest sociological think tank found fashionable.
Communists, or revolutionary socialists as they're called nowadays, use Marx's definition: your class is determined by your relation to the power to produce goods: labour power. If you have to sell your labour power to create goods in order to survive, you're a worker. If you buy labour power and use it to create more goods, you're a capitalist. If you employ just a few workers, you're a small capitalist. There's a few subcategories for de-classed or yet un-classed folk (students, kids) or peasants, but that's basically it.
So saying that redistributing wealth moves us closer to Communism is going to be treated to howls of laugher by revolutionary socialists. At best, it diminishes a bit of the inequality under capitalism and therefore provides a much more stable form of capitalism. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but not a move towards communism.
I think you forgot to mention the part where poor girls had to be sexually available for everyone willing to pay for it, and the workhouse where the orphans were put up. You should really visit Ireland - they used this approach until a few decades ago. Just as many other countries did. Of course, such measures don't actually combat poverty - they intimidate the poor into servitude, which is the entire purpose of the measures.
To even discuss these things in the middle of an economic crisis shows how much you're out of touch with the lives of ordinary people. Nothing more.
While the USN has been slow to adapt, relying on more conventional aircraft carrier refit packages to add complements of drones, in reality the paradigm shift means that drone frigates make a lot more sense, in terms of force projection and our actual enemies faced.
I didn't know that that's where the term comes from. Not too shabby - his name lives on even after more than two millenia. His quotes read like Judge Dredd - I'm pretty sure I now know where that particular comic book hero came from:)
In The Netherlands it's illegal to use an SSN unless mandated by law. It's specifically banned for authentication purposes, and even if the person gives permission it's still illegal.
I'm pretty happy with the current privacy laws. Unfortunately the local secret service walks all over them.
I've used Google translate to watch the latest 50 entries but I couldn't see any outright problems. Although I'm pretty sure it's likely you're right, one or two examples would really help in this case.
Perhaps it's appropriate that the first commanding officer of the Zumwalt will be Captain James Kirk (yes, that's actually his name).
Come on US Navy, you can tell us: you saw the name and went for it:)
As for the article, very nice! I never did get what "DDG-1000" stand for, but I think it's ominous. The T-800 and T-1000 were not the best names for hardware, and anything close to it is suspect by default.
A commenter said: "Also of note: the ship has a totally electric propulsion system, and has an integrated power system that will support future weapons like railguns and laser/RF system" - pretty interesting.
Given that the "West was won" by, when you look at their behaviour, a bunch of raving psychopaths - starting with Columbus - I'm pretty sure "our" assholes fit right in with the already established ones:)
On a more serious note: you can't expect to keep promoting greed and selfishness forever (Ayn Rand "light" seems to be the mainstream political ideology in the USA) without having everyone become infected to some degree with the meme that "everyone is greedy and selfish (except me)". You're no more immune to consistent propaganda efforts than anyone else is, unless they are using outside controls (like books) on their own thoughts to re-calibrate them.
I agree. Also, Delphi is quite likely the better language for teaching. Pascal sure beats Java (or C++ - *shudder*) in that area.
And another thing: for some reason the fact "stuff costs money" is no problem when it comes to US schools (iPad schools, anyone?) but when it's about South Africa it suddenly has to be free of cost? Why? So the corrupt officials can actually drain off even MORE money whilst sticking it to the students?
Having expensive teaching materials as a mandatory requirement may do a lot to force parents into action against corrupt officials. It's one of the reasons that sending money to developing countries can kill off the economic prospects of that country just as effectively as an economic blockade: there is no incentive for anyone to actually stop the corruption, so it runs rampant until it's out of control.
A disgruntled U.S. citizen shooting at the capitol is a terrorist.
So you're saying someone who is exercising his or her freedom of expression AND second amendment rights at the same time is a terrorist? You're... un-American!
Union organizers have been shot at, lynched, run out of town, fired, blacklisted, locked up... it's not as if "harassment from the DNC" is worse than trying to organize a union in, say, Guatemala. Or Colombia. If people are serious about organizing, they will find a way.
Besides, the DNC has plenty of enemies. Behaviour like sketched would hand those enemies another box of ammo on a silver platter. It would also mean a dent in grassroots support - which they need to have any power. So while I'm sure that if they could hurt you without anyone seeing it, they could not afford to be too going about it in the open, in my opinion.
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Yeah. I was rather amazed by this quote:
"The second Model S car fire occurred outside Merida, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. In that case, the vehicle was traveling at 100 miles per hour before the accident. During Tesla's conference call on Tuesday to discuss quarterly results with analysts, CEO Elon Musk said "The car actually sheared something like 17 feet of concrete wall, then went through a concrete wall, then smashed into a tree." The passengers, who survived what could have been a fatal accident in a less safe car, were able to flee the scene."
If you can walk away from a collision that starts at 100 mph, you're both extremely lucky and the car was well-designed. Amazing.
It is made by fermenting small whole fish in brine and drawing off the liquid, which is then bottled. I've got no problem with that.
It was chosen, no-bid, to a political ally of Michelle Obama.
By the Bush administration. Before Obama was inaugurated.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html
Shorter: Dilbert's company got the contract, due to their extensive experience in the industry.
Do it in-house, instead. Career professionals are better than contractors.
You obviously never worked with government employees. The combination of protected work + low pay does not tend to attract the best and brightest, in my experience.
I was thinking more along the lines of "now they can fit more bodies on the screen in decent resolution" when I read that :)
I've heard that with all the trials, appeals and lawyers the cost of the whole process up to an execution is actually higher than having someone spend a life sentence in jail.
And "risking parole"... you mean, risking the fact they were innocent to begin with? Because in several cases that's basically what happened. The issue with the death penalty is that it's both highly discriminatory towards poor people, and also makes it impossible to undo judicial errors. Good reasons to avoid it.
And if the USA didn't put such a large part of its population in prison, it wouldn't be so expensive either.
But they've become like IBM used to be, and nobody got fired for going with IBM back in the day.
Microsoft is not *that* IBM. By a very large margin.
Don't get me wrong: I like a number of MS products. But comparing Microsoft to IBM on this point is incorrect IMO.
The same system is in use in The Netherlands with most banks. Some banks use their own remote cardreaders though. The Dutch banks were helped by the fact that they automated a looooong time ago.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. I think I'll go this route myself as well.
Why would a halfway decent cloud storage provider botch up data integrity so badly? This isn't rocket science after all. I suspect this is FUD to keep people from using these encrypted storage solutions.
While it may not be rocket science, a lot of people underestimate the amount of corruption that files incur from bits flipping at random in storage or during transfer. It's one of the reasons many of those cloud services have checksums at EVERY step in the process. And if you use the wrong type of checksum you're going to get collisions once the number of customers goes up. Apart from that, you get sync issues if the clocks of all devices don't match up exactly, and you need to make sure you have a globally available checkpoint (a counter, or a good clock) that works.
It's a bit like cryptography. While the principles are well understood, a minor bug in the implementation can make the difference between a working solution and a subtly non-functional one.
You're talking Stalinists and social democrats, not Communists as Lenin would have defined them. Social democrats define class by wealth or education or whatever their latest sociological think tank found fashionable.
Communists, or revolutionary socialists as they're called nowadays, use Marx's definition: your class is determined by your relation to the power to produce goods: labour power. If you have to sell your labour power to create goods in order to survive, you're a worker. If you buy labour power and use it to create more goods, you're a capitalist. If you employ just a few workers, you're a small capitalist. There's a few subcategories for de-classed or yet un-classed folk (students, kids) or peasants, but that's basically it.
So saying that redistributing wealth moves us closer to Communism is going to be treated to howls of laugher by revolutionary socialists. At best, it diminishes a bit of the inequality under capitalism and therefore provides a much more stable form of capitalism. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but not a move towards communism.
You really don't have a clue how insurance works, do you?
I think you forgot to mention the part where poor girls had to be sexually available for everyone willing to pay for it, and the workhouse where the orphans were put up. You should really visit Ireland - they used this approach until a few decades ago. Just as many other countries did. Of course, such measures don't actually combat poverty - they intimidate the poor into servitude, which is the entire purpose of the measures.
To even discuss these things in the middle of an economic crisis shows how much you're out of touch with the lives of ordinary people. Nothing more.
While the USN has been slow to adapt, relying on more conventional aircraft carrier refit packages to add complements of drones, in reality the paradigm shift means that drone frigates make a lot more sense, in terms of force projection and our actual enemies faced.
Here is more info on a drone frigate: http://voices.yahoo.com/eve-online-fitting-guide-imicus-6350588.html
Ps - look up Draco, who Draconian refers to.
I didn't know that that's where the term comes from. Not too shabby - his name lives on even after more than two millenia. His quotes read like Judge Dredd - I'm pretty sure I now know where that particular comic book hero came from :)
In The Netherlands it's illegal to use an SSN unless mandated by law. It's specifically banned for authentication purposes, and even if the person gives permission it's still illegal.
I'm pretty happy with the current privacy laws. Unfortunately the local secret service walks all over them.
I've used Google translate to watch the latest 50 entries but I couldn't see any outright problems. Although I'm pretty sure it's likely you're right, one or two examples would really help in this case.
Capitalism and Guillotines! Freedom of the press belongs to he who owns one!
How's that?
Perhaps it's appropriate that the first commanding officer of the Zumwalt will be Captain James Kirk (yes, that's actually his name).
Come on US Navy, you can tell us: you saw the name and went for it :)
As for the article, very nice! I never did get what "DDG-1000" stand for, but I think it's ominous. The T-800 and T-1000 were not the best names for hardware, and anything close to it is suspect by default.
A commenter said: "Also of note: the ship has a totally electric propulsion system, and has an integrated power system that will support future weapons like railguns and laser/RF system" - pretty interesting.
Lol.
Given that the "West was won" by, when you look at their behaviour, a bunch of raving psychopaths - starting with Columbus - I'm pretty sure "our" assholes fit right in with the already established ones :)
On a more serious note: you can't expect to keep promoting greed and selfishness forever (Ayn Rand "light" seems to be the mainstream political ideology in the USA) without having everyone become infected to some degree with the meme that "everyone is greedy and selfish (except me)". You're no more immune to consistent propaganda efforts than anyone else is, unless they are using outside controls (like books) on their own thoughts to re-calibrate them.
No-one actually buys Office 2013. You buy Office 365 and then you install Office Pro 2013 on 5 computers.
I agree. Also, Delphi is quite likely the better language for teaching. Pascal sure beats Java (or C++ - *shudder*) in that area.
And another thing: for some reason the fact "stuff costs money" is no problem when it comes to US schools (iPad schools, anyone?) but when it's about South Africa it suddenly has to be free of cost? Why? So the corrupt officials can actually drain off even MORE money whilst sticking it to the students?
Having expensive teaching materials as a mandatory requirement may do a lot to force parents into action against corrupt officials. It's one of the reasons that sending money to developing countries can kill off the economic prospects of that country just as effectively as an economic blockade: there is no incentive for anyone to actually stop the corruption, so it runs rampant until it's out of control.
A disgruntled U.S. citizen shooting at the capitol is a terrorist.
So you're saying someone who is exercising his or her freedom of expression AND second amendment rights at the same time is a terrorist? You're... un-American!
Breathing directly from a Helium canister will kill you if the canister holds enough pressure. A stupid idea in any case.
Union organizers have been shot at, lynched, run out of town, fired, blacklisted, locked up... it's not as if "harassment from the DNC" is worse than trying to organize a union in, say, Guatemala. Or Colombia. If people are serious about organizing, they will find a way.
Besides, the DNC has plenty of enemies. Behaviour like sketched would hand those enemies another box of ammo on a silver platter. It would also mean a dent in grassroots support - which they need to have any power. So while I'm sure that if they could hurt you without anyone seeing it, they could not afford to be too going about it in the open, in my opinion.