“The court has ordered that the named defendants [...] prepare their computers and storage devices for forensic evaluation, and refrain from taking any action that would obfuscate the location of said devices or the data contained therein.”
Isn’t that a contradiction? That’s like CSI calling you up and telling you “We’re coming over next week, so make sure you prepare the crime scene for our arrival.”
True, knowing how to type doesn’t prevent one from posting comments that say things like “I don’t need an artist because I learned how to use Inkscape.”
I’d mod you up Informative except I’ve already commented. I get text alerts from the USGS for earthquake activity above a certain threshold in the area, and at least half of them are from the vicinity of The Geysers.
Boring?! Long chemical names don’t inherently scare me (Calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, oh my!) but a lot of the shit on that list is pretty heinous. It’s telling that even a greenwashing industry shill site like Fracfocus can’t make their practices sound responsible.
For someone who is so finely particular about semantics (free vs. libre, etc) he sure lets his language get muddied when it comes to Apple. Unlike iOS or OS X or Apple hardware in general, a "jail" is not something you're free to walk away from whenever you like.
No, you get paid to perform your job responsibilities, not simply "to work." Unless you're a security guard or receptionist or in some similar "warm body" position, there's not necessarily any 1:1 relationship between "time spent working" and "work done." If at the end of the day you can't tell who got shit done and who was slacking, you fail at management.
If your metric for measuring employee productivity is "do they appear to be doing something directly work-related every second of the day," you are an incompetent manager. All you need to be concerned with is whether an employee is successfully getting the job responsibilities correctly taken care of in a timely manner. If the employee does that while making personal calls or going out for a cigarette or taking a 90 minute lunch or standing on his head, none of that should make the slightest difference. And if you can't tell whether employees are getting their jobs done without personally witnessing them stressing out at their desks for x hours a day, you are the problem.
Unintended consequences: The stricter you make the penalties, the more likely a driver will flee the scene after an accident. If he's already facing a felony attempted murder charge and lifetime license revocation, adding "leaving the scene" is small potatoes. Much the same as mandatory sentences for accomplices in armed robberies -- as soon as one of your crew kills someone, everyone is on the hook for murder, so you might as well kill all the witnesses.
I think there are exemptions for untagged ag vehicles driving short distances on public roads, like if they need to get from one field to another or drive into town for service. Road construction vehicles are also allowed to use red diesel, and they’re obviously on public roads.
And — I did not know this — the IRS allows licensed use of red diesel to public school districts, nonprofit educational organizations, and government agencies. You learn something every day.
Is it entirely impossible that Escobar was something other than a cackling two-dimensional B-movie villain? That he wanted to use his ill-gotten gains to do some good for the community he came from for the sake of doing good (with the nice side-effect of being beloved?)
The US has embargoed Cuba for almost as long, and while they're not exactly prosperous, Cubans aren't anywhere near as fucked as North Koreans. The blame lies entirely on the shoulders of their deranged leaders.
Capitalism doesn't, but our form of it does, debt aside. Companies that achieve some sort of equilibrium instead of posting ever-increased returns or at least expanding are considered to be "falling behind" and lose investor support. I have a vague notion that this has something to do with population growth (you have to grow to maintain your share of a growing market) and inflation (stuffing cash into a proverbial mattress is a money-losing proposition) but I'm not an economist so... *shrug.*
Once we get off the planet we can decide to adopt economic systems predicated on the infinite availability of natural resources. Until then we should work with what is available to us, which is decidedly finite.
The other areas of growth you mention all ultimately rest on natural resources, as they are the absolutely essential bedrock foundation of any economic system. Sure, you can invent ways to develop them more efficiently or extract them from previously-inaccessible areas or do build new things with them, but there's a limit. How well do you think a culture would fare with an economy based entirely on everyone trying to entertain each other? (Probably a lot like Los Angeles! Heyo!)
Oh, that was not meant to be my implication. My inference of your bringing up that statistic was that you were propagating the "The poors are buying fancy smartphones with my tax money!" trope from upthread. Apologies for misreading you.
An iPhone 3G that you couldn't give away for nothing on Craigslist counts as a "smartphone." What do you expect people to do, plunk quarters into increasingly nonexistent payphones to talk to their families or social services or arrange job interviews? Restrict themselves to some old-ass StarTac that isn't any cheaper, does much less, and can't talk to modern cell networks? For the same price you'd pay for a landline (which you can only use while you're at home) you can get a free smartphone with essentially unlimited talk & text, which you can use anywhere and also listen to music or play Angry Birds. I assure you that spending thirty-five bucks a month on mobile communications is far from extravagant living large.
Believing that infinite growth is possible in an infinite world is perfectly logical. The problem is that we live in a finite world, and our growth-oriented model of capitalism strongly resembles cancer.
"Have you seen the unemployment and welfare lines?"
I have, but you very obviously haven't, seeing as you're regurgitating 30 year old right-wing "welfare queen" bullshit. Only now it's iPads instead of Cadillacs. At least you're trending towards "somewhat plausible."
It occurs to me that my outlook is colored by never having lived in the sort of suburbs/exurbs where shopping means driving to the mall. When I say “local,” I don’t mean “the local branch of Buy N Large,” I mean “the hardware store owned by my neighbor Bob” or “Unbalanced Aunt Doris’ Bakery.” You’re not going to buy fresh donuts or half a dozen 2" deck screws online.
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“The court has ordered that the named defendants [...] prepare their computers and storage devices for forensic evaluation, and refrain from taking any action that would obfuscate the location of said devices or the data contained therein.”
Isn’t that a contradiction? That’s like CSI calling you up and telling you “We’re coming over next week, so make sure you prepare the crime scene for our arrival.”
It would be awesome if Girl Scouts sold samosas. Much better than those cookies.
True, knowing how to type doesn’t prevent one from posting comments that say things like “I don’t need an artist because I learned how to use Inkscape.”
Really, you put naphthalene, antifreeze, and rubbing alcohol in your coffee?
There's a lot more to art (and coding, for that matter) than knowing how to use the tools.
I’d mod you up Informative except I’ve already commented. I get text alerts from the USGS for earthquake activity above a certain threshold in the area, and at least half of them are from the vicinity of The Geysers.
Boring?! Long chemical names don’t inherently scare me (Calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, oh my!) but a lot of the shit on that list is pretty heinous. It’s telling that even a greenwashing industry shill site like Fracfocus can’t make their practices sound responsible.
For someone who is so finely particular about semantics (free vs. libre, etc) he sure lets his language get muddied when it comes to Apple. Unlike iOS or OS X or Apple hardware in general, a "jail" is not something you're free to walk away from whenever you like.
No, you get paid to perform your job responsibilities, not simply "to work." Unless you're a security guard or receptionist or in some similar "warm body" position, there's not necessarily any 1:1 relationship between "time spent working" and "work done." If at the end of the day you can't tell who got shit done and who was slacking, you fail at management.
"Instead of?" How about "in addition to?"
If your metric for measuring employee productivity is "do they appear to be doing something directly work-related every second of the day," you are an incompetent manager. All you need to be concerned with is whether an employee is successfully getting the job responsibilities correctly taken care of in a timely manner. If the employee does that while making personal calls or going out for a cigarette or taking a 90 minute lunch or standing on his head, none of that should make the slightest difference. And if you can't tell whether employees are getting their jobs done without personally witnessing them stressing out at their desks for x hours a day, you are the problem.
Unintended consequences: The stricter you make the penalties, the more likely a driver will flee the scene after an accident. If he's already facing a felony attempted murder charge and lifetime license revocation, adding "leaving the scene" is small potatoes. Much the same as mandatory sentences for accomplices in armed robberies -- as soon as one of your crew kills someone, everyone is on the hook for murder, so you might as well kill all the witnesses.
I think there are exemptions for untagged ag vehicles driving short distances on public roads, like if they need to get from one field to another or drive into town for service. Road construction vehicles are also allowed to use red diesel, and they’re obviously on public roads.
And — I did not know this — the IRS allows licensed use of red diesel to public school districts, nonprofit educational organizations, and government agencies. You learn something every day.
Is it entirely impossible that Escobar was something other than a cackling two-dimensional B-movie villain? That he wanted to use his ill-gotten gains to do some good for the community he came from for the sake of doing good (with the nice side-effect of being beloved?)
Yeah, I'm sure Apple was on the phone with the Nashua police commisioner.
The US has embargoed Cuba for almost as long, and while they're not exactly prosperous, Cubans aren't anywhere near as fucked as North Koreans. The blame lies entirely on the shoulders of their deranged leaders.
WTH? Is that true? Demanding conditions on aid is like a panhandler who'll only accept cashier's checks.
Everyone knows that when you explode something in space it just vaporizes. Haven't you ever watched a movie?
“People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges.”
Capitalism doesn't, but our form of it does, debt aside. Companies that achieve some sort of equilibrium instead of posting ever-increased returns or at least expanding are considered to be "falling behind" and lose investor support. I have a vague notion that this has something to do with population growth (you have to grow to maintain your share of a growing market) and inflation (stuffing cash into a proverbial mattress is a money-losing proposition) but I'm not an economist so... *shrug.*
Once we get off the planet we can decide to adopt economic systems predicated on the infinite availability of natural resources. Until then we should work with what is available to us, which is decidedly finite.
The other areas of growth you mention all ultimately rest on natural resources, as they are the absolutely essential bedrock foundation of any economic system. Sure, you can invent ways to develop them more efficiently or extract them from previously-inaccessible areas or do build new things with them, but there's a limit. How well do you think a culture would fare with an economy based entirely on everyone trying to entertain each other? (Probably a lot like Los Angeles! Heyo!)
Oh, that was not meant to be my implication. My inference of your bringing up that statistic was that you were propagating the "The poors are buying fancy smartphones with my tax money!" trope from upthread. Apologies for misreading you.
An iPhone 3G that you couldn't give away for nothing on Craigslist counts as a "smartphone." What do you expect people to do, plunk quarters into increasingly nonexistent payphones to talk to their families or social services or arrange job interviews? Restrict themselves to some old-ass StarTac that isn't any cheaper, does much less, and can't talk to modern cell networks? For the same price you'd pay for a landline (which you can only use while you're at home) you can get a free smartphone with essentially unlimited talk & text, which you can use anywhere and also listen to music or play Angry Birds. I assure you that spending thirty-five bucks a month on mobile communications is far from extravagant living large.
Believing that infinite growth is possible in an infinite world is perfectly logical. The problem is that we live in a finite world, and our growth-oriented model of capitalism strongly resembles cancer.
"Have you seen the unemployment and welfare lines?"
I have, but you very obviously haven't, seeing as you're regurgitating 30 year old right-wing "welfare queen" bullshit. Only now it's iPads instead of Cadillacs. At least you're trending towards "somewhat plausible."
It occurs to me that my outlook is colored by never having lived in the sort of suburbs/exurbs where shopping means driving to the mall. When I say “local,” I don’t mean “the local branch of Buy N Large,” I mean “the hardware store owned by my neighbor Bob” or “Unbalanced Aunt Doris’ Bakery.” You’re not going to buy fresh donuts or half a dozen 2" deck screws online.