Why should you want to "go dark"? And why should you teach others? Europe is peaceful and democratic. Anyone who wants to hide is a malfeasant and should be prosecuted. End of debate.
Well, St. Louis is a bit bigger than South Fuck, Minnesota, but maybe not as big a place as where you live. (Sorry.) But there are some big companies here.
Regardless, it has been said more than once that the IT community in St. Louis is like a small town. Word does get around. Just not by passing lists back and forth between HR departments, or by talking with Floyd the barber as he sits and whittles at the town square.
A few people who used to work at Aerospace Firm might now work together at Pharmacy Benefit Manger Firm or Electronic Medical Claim Company One, or a bunch of people who used to work at Electronic Medical Claim Company Two now work for Running Shoe Firm. People talk.
If Mr. B.O.F. Hell is being considered for a position at Agribusiness Giant, his former co-workers from his Megabrewery days might advise against it. But they might be eager to work again with A.J. Bitwrangler, who they saw do wonderful things at Gobblin' Bancorporation before it was bought by Gobblingest Bank. And if they don't happen to know Mr. Hell or Ms. Wrangler, they may talk to their former co-workers, now at Car Rental Company, who do.
(All employer names changed. I have worked at some of them, and know at least one person who has worked at each of them.)
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to learn that the same sort of thing happens in a lot of cities, big and small, where bits are wrangled, sliced, diced, reconstituted, concentrated, matched, filtered, shipped, and trans-shipped. Even in Smug Valley and The Big Smug, or wherever CoolDiscoRex lives.
your either ignorant of the type of "advertising" they were doing or you are being disingenuous about it. either way, stfu and fuck off.;)
Thank you for the advice, but no thanks. (Also, brief pretend paranoiac interlude: George Soros didn't get his money's worth from you today. Or were the spelling and punctuation errors deliberate, as part of your on-line persona?)
The kind of weird-ass stuff TDS suffers would post for free? Yeah. I'm aware. (The TDS-R strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome.) At least, I think it was sincere. I meet equally deranged people IRL, so it's certainly possible.
So, what's your point?
I don't expect beer or pickup truck or shampoo commercials to give a thoughtful fact-based analysis of why someone should choose their product rather than another one. And I don't expect if of political commercials.
Frankly, if I got conflicting stories from Emperor Kim and the NSA, equally plausible, and one (and only one) of them could be true, I'm not sure which I'd believe. Probably the one from His Rotund Highness.
Can someone please tell me what form that "Russian meddling" took? All I've seen is that they've advertised. Which is what the candidates and various pressure groups and special interest groups also did.
Is advertising magical? Does advertising somehow exert mind-control on voters? When done by Russians, I mean.
Not when done by agribusinesses or political parties or the AFL-CIO or the U.S. Army or any of the many siblings of the Military-Industrial Complex. That advertising is completely non-magical.
But that Russian advertising appeals to the prejudices and uses the voters' unacknowledged assumptions to hoodwink, bamboozle and just outright fool voters.
Because -- except when being advertised at by Rooooskis -- American voters can't be fooled into voting badly. But when advertised at by foreign Roooskie B.S. artists -- rather than domestic B.S. artists -- they get fooled every time.
Getting rid of that sales tax seems like the opposite of what eBay would want. A small business -- especially a very small business -- would have a hard time justifying selling out of state, unless they went through an intermediary who would calculate the sales tax. A company like eBay would be well suited for this.
Maybe they don't want to do it.
After all, it would mean the calculating sales tax of several dollars or several dimes or several cents, and then cutting a quarterly check to, say, the state of Missouri and some large and some dinky municipalities in St. Louis County and/or the Kansas City metro area counties, plus the county itself. The cost of sending the funds with supporting documentation might be many times the amount of the tax. Not for the county or state payments -- there would likely be quite a chunk of change for them, dwarfing the cost of making the payment -- but there might be only a handful of taxable transactions for some of the dinkier municipalities. And low-population counties. There are some with fewer people than a medium-sized StL municipality.
There might be ways to reduce that cost -- perhaps the counties can or always handle the money for some or all municipalities.
Is there a tax accountant or tax lawyer in the house?
But the good news is, the money will be spent in congressional districts, just in time for incumbents to brag about how they brought jobs to their communities.
Popular Science is even better. Remember how the Rolamite was going revolutionize a bunch of stuff, due to its low-friction operation? Or how the Rovac was going to make the need for refrigerant fluids go away, in air conditioners?
I was already partway there, as a CDC 6000 assembly language programmer.
Because the words were wide and jumps were expensive and the instruction set included many boolean and integer arithmetic instructions, things that seemed to call for a loop could often be done faster without one. Deleting trailing blanks from a string (provided it fit into a word) could be done by masking selected bits, shifting temporary results, masking temporary results, adding/subtracting, and then doing a final mask to trim the trailing blanks off. (I do NOT recall any of the details.)
Turning trailing nulls into blanks was done much the same way.
Or perhaps there was only one "COMMON DECK" for this. (A paleolithic "include" file.) If you needed to do the other operation, just XOR the bits with a word of blanks, do the provided operation, then XOR the result again with the word of blanks. Ta da!
APL is like that, only more so. And with other odd things.
There is a huge difference between a luxury item and an item needed for survival.
The price of an item needed for survival that doesn't exist (yet) is infinity. It's more expensive than every luxury you could name.
Is it a terrible thing if the price drops from infinity to a price more than 99.99% of the people in the world can afford, before it drops to a lot less, and then a lot less than that?
And even if it is, is it worse than being impossibly for anyone to obtain?
Really? Hope you never have to deal with healthcare. Then tell me if corporations can't take away your life.
They can decline to pay for treatment of an illness or injury, if it's not covered by your insurance. (Or even if it is, if they're dishonest or incompetent.)
But it's the illness or injury that will take away your life. Obviously. If the insurer were to magically disappear, you wouldn't suddenly get better.
Whereas, if the cop who was choking you to death for selling untaxed cigarettes were to magically disappear (or a passing Good Samaritan were to apply a 2x4 to the cop's head with an appropriate degree of vigor), you would get better, if it happened soon enough.
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Am I the only one who wonders what FB's "curated" news will be like?
"I've got a bad feeling about this."
Why should you want to "go dark"? And why should you teach others? Europe is peaceful and democratic. Anyone who wants to hide is a malfeasant and should be prosecuted. End of debate.
Sarcasm, right?
Well, St. Louis is a bit bigger than South Fuck, Minnesota, but maybe not as big a place as where you live. (Sorry.) But there are some big companies here.
Regardless, it has been said more than once that the IT community in St. Louis is like a small town. Word does get around. Just not by passing lists back and forth between HR departments, or by talking with Floyd the barber as he sits and whittles at the town square.
A few people who used to work at Aerospace Firm might now work together at Pharmacy Benefit Manger Firm or Electronic Medical Claim Company One, or a bunch of people who used to work at Electronic Medical Claim Company Two now work for Running Shoe Firm. People talk.
If Mr. B.O.F. Hell is being considered for a position at Agribusiness Giant, his former co-workers from his Megabrewery days might advise against it. But they might be eager to work again with A.J. Bitwrangler, who they saw do wonderful things at Gobblin' Bancorporation before it was bought by Gobblingest Bank. And if they don't happen to know Mr. Hell or Ms. Wrangler, they may talk to their former co-workers, now at Car Rental Company, who do.
(All employer names changed. I have worked at some of them, and know at least one person who has worked at each of them.)
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to learn that the same sort of thing happens in a lot of cities, big and small, where bits are wrangled, sliced, diced, reconstituted, concentrated, matched, filtered, shipped, and trans-shipped. Even in Smug Valley and The Big Smug, or wherever CoolDiscoRex lives.
your either ignorant of the type of "advertising" they were doing or you are being disingenuous about it. either way, stfu and fuck off. ;)
Thank you for the advice, but no thanks. (Also, brief pretend paranoiac interlude: George Soros didn't get his money's worth from you today. Or were the spelling and punctuation errors deliberate, as part of your on-line persona?)
The kind of weird-ass stuff TDS suffers would post for free? Yeah. I'm aware. (The TDS-R strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome.) At least, I think it was sincere. I meet equally deranged people IRL, so it's certainly possible.
So, what's your point?
I don't expect beer or pickup truck or shampoo commercials to give a thoughtful fact-based analysis of why someone should choose their product rather than another one. And I don't expect if of political commercials.
Does anyone?
They absolutely can and are regularly. The entire republican platform is built on that concept.
Advertising works, well enough. Well enough to pay for it, at least sometimes, for some advertisers. Is anyone surprised?
As for political parties fooling people, it's not like the Republicans (FTFY) have a lock on it. Have you heard of the Democrats?
He said "only more so". That how insidious it is.
Frankly, if I got conflicting stories from Emperor Kim and the NSA, equally plausible, and one (and only one) of them could be true, I'm not sure which I'd believe. Probably the one from His Rotund Highness.
Can someone please tell me what form that "Russian meddling" took? All I've seen is that they've advertised. Which is what the candidates and various pressure groups and special interest groups also did.
Is advertising magical? Does advertising somehow exert mind-control on voters? When done by Russians, I mean.
Not when done by agribusinesses or political parties or the AFL-CIO or the U.S. Army or any of the many siblings of the Military-Industrial Complex. That advertising is completely non-magical.
But that Russian advertising appeals to the prejudices and uses the voters' unacknowledged assumptions to hoodwink, bamboozle and just outright fool voters.
Because -- except when being advertised at by Rooooskis -- American voters can't be fooled into voting badly. But when advertised at by foreign Roooskie B.S. artists -- rather than domestic B.S. artists -- they get fooled every time.
At least that seems to be the argument.
Which of course makes no sense.
Did I miss something?
For me, especially _The Terminal Man_. That one worked out badly, as a therapeutic device.
The most noteworthy appalling thing about him is his appearance?
This is not dates April First. Is it months early, or months late?
Getting rid of that sales tax seems like the opposite of what eBay would want. A small business -- especially a very small business -- would have a hard time justifying selling out of state, unless they went through an intermediary who would calculate the sales tax. A company like eBay would be well suited for this.
Maybe they don't want to do it.
After all, it would mean the calculating sales tax of several dollars or several dimes or several cents, and then cutting a quarterly check to, say, the state of Missouri and some large and some dinky municipalities in St. Louis County and/or the Kansas City metro area counties, plus the county itself. The cost of sending the funds with supporting documentation might be many times the amount of the tax. Not for the county or state payments -- there would likely be quite a chunk of change for them, dwarfing the cost of making the payment -- but there might be only a handful of taxable transactions for some of the dinkier municipalities. And low-population counties. There are some with fewer people than a medium-sized StL municipality.
There might be ways to reduce that cost -- perhaps the counties can or always handle the money for some or all municipalities.
Is there a tax accountant or tax lawyer in the house?
Was this the same guy who unloaded a bunch of Intel stock right before the announcement of the CPU problems?
We're going to die of anthrax by the millions! Just like in the pre-Net Neutrality days, before Net Neutrality saved us all!
What's this "international cities"? Places like Detroit-Windsor, McAllen-Reynosa? El Paso-Juarez?
They can be rather efficient. They can't be 100% efficient.
But the good news is, the money will be spent in congressional districts, just in time for incumbents to brag about how they brought jobs to their communities.
Oh. Maybe that's not good news, after all.
Popular Science is even better. Remember how the Rolamite was going revolutionize a bunch of stuff, due to its low-friction operation? Or how the Rovac was going to make the need for refrigerant fluids go away, in air conditioners?
Not so much, as it turns out.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=popular.science+rolamite
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=popular.science+rovac
If the free market decided about Amtrak, it wouldn't be. It is hugely subsidized, you know.
Maybe if I RTFA, I'd know if that was taken into consideration, and this post would clearly be nonsense..
Even so, it's probably raised the average nonsense level of what appears here, so I'm probably OK.
Well, it does require a certain mindset.
I was already partway there, as a CDC 6000 assembly language programmer.
Because the words were wide and jumps were expensive and the instruction set included many boolean and integer arithmetic instructions, things that seemed to call for a loop could often be done faster without one. Deleting trailing blanks from a string (provided it fit into a word) could be done by masking selected bits, shifting temporary results, masking temporary results, adding/subtracting, and then doing a final mask to trim the trailing blanks off. (I do NOT recall any of the details.)
Turning trailing nulls into blanks was done much the same way.
Or perhaps there was only one "COMMON DECK" for this. (A paleolithic "include" file.) If you needed to do the other operation, just XOR the bits with a word of blanks, do the provided operation, then XOR the result again with the word of blanks. Ta da!
APL is like that, only more so. And with other odd things.
Well, I've really been missing the obsessions of the birthers.
Glad to see that, with the change in administrations, the other team has unleashed its own obsessives.
There is a huge difference between a luxury item and an item needed for survival.
The price of an item needed for survival that doesn't exist (yet) is infinity. It's more expensive than every luxury you could name.
Is it a terrible thing if the price drops from infinity to a price more than 99.99% of the people in the world can afford, before it drops to a lot less, and then a lot less than that?
And even if it is, is it worse than being impossibly for anyone to obtain?
Really? Hope you never have to deal with healthcare. Then tell me if corporations can't take away your life.
They can decline to pay for treatment of an illness or injury, if it's not covered by your insurance. (Or even if it is, if they're dishonest or incompetent.)
But it's the illness or injury that will take away your life. Obviously. If the insurer were to magically disappear, you wouldn't suddenly get better.
Whereas, if the cop who was choking you to death for selling untaxed cigarettes were to magically disappear (or a passing Good Samaritan were to apply a 2x4 to the cop's head with an appropriate degree of vigor), you would get better, if it happened soon enough.
If the electric car companies were footing the entire bill for this, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
But they aren't, so I do.
Others are only offended by corporate welfare when it benefits a company or industry they have no emotional investment in.