ARE YOU SAYING MY INFALLIBLE LOGIC IS WRONG? HOW DARE YOU SIR!
This little body of text is to get around the caps filter. Please ignore it, and continue to read with the same amount of rage as above, until I say stop.
I initially wrote this off as "oh he's sort of trying to implement perfect price discrimination", which is great in theory, impossible in practice.
But if you ignore his "one price for everyone is a bug" idea, which is fucking stupid. Then supplant it with a, you get micro payments over time, to your account, for playing a lot and being a good player. Then it's just "incentivise people to play nice". That would mean some sort of mechanism of ranking players (based on fun), and giving them targeted discounts based on new games.
This seems fine and dandy... in theory. Once again, how would such a mechanism be implemented? Admin's would suddenly have a lot of power, or other players would, where they could actually do monetary damage to someone. You'd need a dispute resolution system, which is going to cost you overhead. Suddenly you've invented an elaborate system, which might make less profit, and the inventive structure might deter people from getting into these games because "well if I'm not good at it, I might end up paying more for other games I'm more interested in/better at".
At which point, you realize BOTH of these ideas, and likely everything this man has ever said, everything his grandparents ever said, and that his spawn will ever say, is wrong!
It doesn't look bad... right now. Though everything's a bit scrunched up, it's okay, and works. The other day everything was layering over everything else, and the preview button didn't work. It seems as though it's been changing quite often of late, and everything's been going to shit. Obviously it's not as bad as it has been right now... you can tell, because I was actually able to click preview. It's one thing to tell a schmuck off the street that the problems are client side, it's another to tell a developer that it's client side!
I don't mind this more scrunched up layout, but I do want the "replying to a nested comment means every time you click, it expands the comments above it" problem fixed.
It's about time they got an article on here like this!
I know most Slashdotters certainly can't build or fix their own shit. That's why it's "Slashdot... news for nerds".
P.S. Slashdot, FIX THIS FUCKING CSS/JS/etc, half the time things are layered over one another, other times I can't post! In Win 7 running Chrome, not using noscript or similar.
Just checked my repository, I have 157 different sites, all with different passwords, most are completely random, 30+ characters, using all possible type-able characters.
You think you can remember those? If so, you should compete in those memory challenges, because I think you're the only one in the world who could do that.
I once tried to price Oracle licenses... I eventually gave up. The rules were insane.
Now they're charging for MySQL? Is this like Oracle Linux, where you are paying for the "support" or are they properly charging you?
"It's brilliant engineering and they are under the GPL license, completely open source, fantastically built, a low number of bugs, well tested and QA'd. All of that is fantastic," Mickos said. "But where you see it already changing is that in community engagement, discussion forums, bug databases, online documentation, you see how they are moving MySQL into the same mode as other Oracle products. Many in the community will react against it and feel that it's not as open and open source as it used to be and that's true. That's why you see new companies springing up and catering to that need. But the core product, the actual code, is in better shape than ever. And I think they will keep it that way."
So, the code is still open, and may be actually improving, that's good. But the support/forums/etc are changing, well that's okay, the community can always run that by itself if Oracle sucks.
LOL Yeah, I did get flame-baity at the end. I tend to get worked up over this stuff... Hi, my name is definate, and I'm a nerd.
Mainly because I see so many people who don't understand economics, but they feel they do, so they comment on it. Not an excuse though.
Now, as for China. While it isn't an extremely communistic country, it is still very much a communist country. The company I work for does a lot of business there. There are heavy restrictions on what can and can't be imported. The country regularly nationalizes businesses that they see of strategic importance (and this isn't just your GM tax payer funded Fox News branded nationalization, it's proper nationalization). The government has a huge say in which internal businesses get loans. The media is completely state owned, and extremely communist oriented. There is a lot of regulation and beaurocracy when dealing there. Lastly, while it has increased its citizens freedom in recent times, every now and then it takes them back, jailing reporters, arresting industries contra to the sexual revolution, and similar. It is one of the countries in the world, where you definitely do not have free speech.
So, I understand that many communists would reject it, however many communists would reject Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and similar. However these countries defined themselves as communist, and followed the ideas of communism to some extent. This is similar to the United States saying it has free markets, when it has somewhat free markets, but they are still a far cry from completely free markets. It's a problem inherent in any significantly complex definition, where you attempt to compare things. The best book that I've read which deals with this topic is Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, it's an awesome read, reasonably priced, and I highly recommend it.
First of all, you're quoting one government departments debt, where as the GP is refering to the entire countries, which is estimated at around $7 trillion by some.
Second of all, you're relying on numbers produced by the Chinese government, which are often largely fiction. Many estimate that there is up to $1.5 trillion of debt hidden in local investment vehicles.
Lastly, you're forgetting that the amount of debt doesn't matter, it's your ability to service that debt, that matters. If you have income of $75,000 per year, which situation is worse, having debt of $ $72,954, or having debt of $78,500? The former is the same ratio as the US, the latter is the same ratio as China.
Have you seen these Ghost Cities? They aren't "in good fit". They are falling into disrepair. Nobody moves there because the commute to ANYWHERE you can work, is relatively extreme, and most of the country can't afford to live there for the prices they're charging. Now, when these prices come down, people will move in, however their value will drop extremely, resulting in their debt burden growing even larger, while their assets are even smaller.
In comparison with Detroit, which had its use and is falling into obsolescence, primarily due to the mess the US auto industry is in, combined with the regulatory hell imposed on it. Detroit is a much more complex situation, but it's nothing like these Chinese problem. Has the US forcibly built many giant new cities which are completely unoccupied?
First of all, don't trust numbers that come out of China. They go through a significant editing before being released, such that many economists dealing with the region, discard China's numbers, and instead attempt to estimate the true values.
Second of all, that $40 of assets and $39 of debt, doesn't mean shit. Depending on how that's recorded/valued, that value can change extremely and make it $1 of assets and $100 of debt. If you're interested in how valuable those assets are, Google "China's Ghost Cities".
More so, you should be sighing at the fact that if China goes through a significant recession, they will likely bring every other country down with them, with differing levels of effect. Though, countries like Australia, will be hit extremely hard.
The funniest thing about this post...
'I think it is more serious than your subprime mortgage crisis. You can always leave a house or use it. The rail system is there. It's a burden. You must operate the rail system, and when you operate it, the cost is very high.'
It may be more serious than the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, but what about China's own housing crisis, which is like the U.S. but way more extreme as it's pushed through by their Government.
Also, your rant is the least insightful post I've seen. "Inflationary capitalistic expansion", done by a communist country? An obscure reference to Reganomics in a country where it doesn't apply in the slightest?
The up and coming haven't learnt? I think they have, if China hadn't made in roads towards providing their citizens with freer markets, China would have gone the way of Russia, quite some time ago.
All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers, all those financial instruments, the money printing, the interest rate hikes, the depletion of old-guard natural energy resources, the cost-cutting, the parasitic leeches of banks and speculative investment..they will kill the host before they kill themselves.
Okay, now you're just listing random things which people infer bad things about. More so, you're listing contradictory "bad ideas". "the money printing" is the OPPOSITE of "the interest rate hikes" which is counteracted by "all those financial instruments" but increases "speculative investment".
"All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers" okay, you need to say something more than this? I don't even know what the fuck "the parasitic leeches of banks" is referring to.
I immediately thought you were an arts student, because this is the most retarded, least well thought out shit I've read in a long time. But then I notice that your writing is exceptionally bad, and it's hard to understand what you're actually trying to say. So, I'm guessing you're NOT an arts student then.
Save us some time, and please stick to... whatever you specialize in.
I have setup a lot of machines for a lot of people over the years. I have found most users really confused by the current Task Manager, especially if it's something that isn't a window. I've tried setting up setup Sysinternals Process Explorer for many of these users, especially the ones who just don't understand anything, and I have found that they find it easier, or just as hard. The Process Explorer shows nesting well, doesn't obscure things, doesn't jump around in the list, and is more self-explanatory.
The learning curve on the Process Explorer, because it shows us the data in a more logical way, is MUCH smaller.
Listen here you, we're nothing like that! However, social sciences suck! Global warming isn't real! All politicans suck! I'm masturbating to Ron Paul! Nuclear power is safe! We must colonize space! Poor people suck! The man is out to get us! China sucks! Look, I can quote Thomas Jefferson! Everyone who's not an engineer sucks!
You left out, religion is for morons!
I don't know how long you've been around here, but the comments on here, are often quite good. Sure, there are some shit slinging matches, but I've had similarly well thought out response threads.
However, from your point, I'd take it that you take offence at us seeing someone's background, and not necessarily taking an interest in what they're saying.
Would you say that EVERYONE's opinion is equally valid? I wouldn't, few would. Would you say that a persons background, often suggest fields they would be an expert in? I would.
Then, why would you be averse to people seeing someone's background, and weighing their information based on it? I tend to rate the ranting crack head's opinion on the street quite low, I tend to rate people who don't have a background in the field their talking about opinions above the crack heads, and I rate people who do have a background in their field even higher.
So, in this instance, while the wiki has listed "theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences", having read the briefs on the books of his I could find online, I notice that, the first two are the only "honest" topics he can claim. While he does talk about the other topics, they are from the perspective of the first two.
As such, I don't see those as a particularly valid background to be arguing from, besides his own experience in that system.
Yes it's biased, but if I treated everyone as being equal, I'd never get to the worthwhile stuff, and would be stuck attempting to process the sheer amount of crap that is out there.
I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.
I don't trust that you could do that job. Why would the directors and shareholders trust that "mrnobo1024" would do that job? He obviously isn't able to get other jobs of a similar calibre, he'll he'd do it for 1% of what the other people applying for that job would. These other candidates that require more money, come from similar backgrounds and already earn this amount, so to attract them, we must pay more.
Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here.
To use your same sarcastic tone... No, clearly it's the Chinese and Indians fault for doing the work you could do, for less than your rent costs.
It's at this point that you either introduce some argument about quality/etc, which is obviously false, as the quality is "good enough" else we wouldn't be arguing. Then you say something like "this sort of thing should be regulated", the consequences of which would be to take food from these desperate countries, just so that you can live your comparatively lavish lifestyle.
Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?
I see you're not used to dealing with formal systems. The relationship is not one such that "a worker" gets to set the price of "all" the things he "needs to live", but more so that the "workers" (of a certain class) get to set the price of their labour. No one said "Oh, you're a worker in the auto-industry? Then you may set the price which I sell milk for". That would be fucking stupid.
The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice.
You actually think that someone controls the country? The government/companies/etc can hardly control themselves, as controlling a giant amorphous group of people is fucking hard, let alone in the context of them somehow affecting a market on this scale. If you believe an entity could do this, then you're fucking deluded, even communists with essentially unlimited control, couldn't achieve this.
So, if you can't negotiate the salary that you would like, then you better retrain, and find a job which attracts that salary, or you better be partially compensated via other benefits such as "doing a job you love".
I DO secure my wireless, because I come from a country which does not have a "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine.
As such, ANY reason you give police to enter and search your premises, can result in MANY other convictions, other than the one they came to investigate.
This happens regularly. In fact, if the police come to your house, or stop your car, you're going to get something. If the original reason doesn't fit, they'll find another reason.
For instance, when I was younger, I was suspected of driving dangerously, so they pulled me over, and decided to scrutinize my vehicle. In the end they marked my car as "un-road worthy" (meaning I had to drive it home, and never drive it on the road again, or fix it), and gave me a generic $140 fine.
Another instance was a friend of the family who was raided over importing laser pointers. When the particular lasers he got turned out to be JUST legal, and their information was wrong, he got done for piracy (had some burned DVD's lying around), and a few other minor offences.
So while I understand the defence point, I instead go to extreme measures to not attract any attention.
MS 13 know they are criminals and so they are lawyered up. This means if they conduct a raid like this on MS 13, then they might go free. They need to be cautious and make sure they respect MS 13's liberty and due process! With us, luckily they don't need to worry about that.
Also, MS 13 have weapons and might use them. They don't want to go after someone who might fight back. They could break a nail, get injured, or killed.
Nope, Police resources are better spent going after us, so they can be seen to be doing something, without actually doing something.
Weird, I setup my privacy settings, quite strictly, and I've never had a problem with this. I occasionally get asked to use an app, which I then block, and never have to see it again. Also, when an app asks for permissions, I just click cancel/deny.
Done.
Really hasn't been a problem. Have you been through ALL of your privacy settings? Some are nested inside others, and may seem quite hidden.
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ARE YOU SAYING MY INFALLIBLE LOGIC IS WRONG? HOW DARE YOU SIR!
This little body of text is to get around the caps filter. Please ignore it, and continue to read with the same amount of rage as above, until I say stop.
I initially wrote this off as "oh he's sort of trying to implement perfect price discrimination", which is great in theory, impossible in practice.
But if you ignore his "one price for everyone is a bug" idea, which is fucking stupid. Then supplant it with a, you get micro payments over time, to your account, for playing a lot and being a good player. Then it's just "incentivise people to play nice". That would mean some sort of mechanism of ranking players (based on fun), and giving them targeted discounts based on new games.
This seems fine and dandy... in theory. Once again, how would such a mechanism be implemented? Admin's would suddenly have a lot of power, or other players would, where they could actually do monetary damage to someone. You'd need a dispute resolution system, which is going to cost you overhead. Suddenly you've invented an elaborate system, which might make less profit, and the inventive structure might deter people from getting into these games because "well if I'm not good at it, I might end up paying more for other games I'm more interested in/better at".
At which point, you realize BOTH of these ideas, and likely everything this man has ever said, everything his grandparents ever said, and that his spawn will ever say, is wrong!
Thanks for the advert (xy)^2
This was a test of inference, to see whether or not you have aspergers.
You tested positive. I'm so sorry.
It doesn't look bad... right now. Though everything's a bit scrunched up, it's okay, and works. The other day everything was layering over everything else, and the preview button didn't work. It seems as though it's been changing quite often of late, and everything's been going to shit. Obviously it's not as bad as it has been right now... you can tell, because I was actually able to click preview. It's one thing to tell a schmuck off the street that the problems are client side, it's another to tell a developer that it's client side!
I don't mind this more scrunched up layout, but I do want the "replying to a nested comment means every time you click, it expands the comments above it" problem fixed.
I see you ran into the problem of not reading to the end of the line. Good effort, since it's not even long.
I'm running Chrome in Windows 7 64bit.
It's been changing heaps of late, and is regularly fucking up. When I posted this, many things were layered on top of each other.
The other day I couldn't post at all, as the preview button didn't work.
It's about time they got an article on here like this!
I know most Slashdotters certainly can't build or fix their own shit. That's why it's "Slashdot... news for nerds".
P.S. Slashdot, FIX THIS FUCKING CSS/JS/etc, half the time things are layered over one another, other times I can't post! In Win 7 running Chrome, not using noscript or similar.
Just checked my repository, I have 157 different sites, all with different passwords, most are completely random, 30+ characters, using all possible type-able characters.
You think you can remember those? If so, you should compete in those memory challenges, because I think you're the only one in the world who could do that.
I once tried to price Oracle licenses... I eventually gave up. The rules were insane.
Now they're charging for MySQL? Is this like Oracle Linux, where you are paying for the "support" or are they properly charging you?
"It's brilliant engineering and they are under the GPL license, completely open source, fantastically built, a low number of bugs, well tested and QA'd. All of that is fantastic," Mickos said. "But where you see it already changing is that in community engagement, discussion forums, bug databases, online documentation, you see how they are moving MySQL into the same mode as other Oracle products. Many in the community will react against it and feel that it's not as open and open source as it used to be and that's true. That's why you see new companies springing up and catering to that need. But the core product, the actual code, is in better shape than ever. And I think they will keep it that way."
So, the code is still open, and may be actually improving, that's good. But the support/forums/etc are changing, well that's okay, the community can always run that by itself if Oracle sucks.
Either way, there's always PostgreSQL!
LOL Yeah, I did get flame-baity at the end. I tend to get worked up over this stuff...
Hi, my name is definate, and I'm a nerd.
Mainly because I see so many people who don't understand economics, but they feel they do, so they comment on it. Not an excuse though.
Now, as for China. While it isn't an extremely communistic country, it is still very much a communist country. The company I work for does a lot of business there. There are heavy restrictions on what can and can't be imported. The country regularly nationalizes businesses that they see of strategic importance (and this isn't just your GM tax payer funded Fox News branded nationalization, it's proper nationalization). The government has a huge say in which internal businesses get loans. The media is completely state owned, and extremely communist oriented. There is a lot of regulation and beaurocracy when dealing there. Lastly, while it has increased its citizens freedom in recent times, every now and then it takes them back, jailing reporters, arresting industries contra to the sexual revolution, and similar. It is one of the countries in the world, where you definitely do not have free speech.
So, I understand that many communists would reject it, however many communists would reject Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and similar. However these countries defined themselves as communist, and followed the ideas of communism to some extent. This is similar to the United States saying it has free markets, when it has somewhat free markets, but they are still a far cry from completely free markets. It's a problem inherent in any significantly complex definition, where you attempt to compare things. The best book that I've read which deals with this topic is Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, it's an awesome read, reasonably priced, and I highly recommend it.
LOL!
You've really got no idea.
First of all, you're quoting one government departments debt, where as the GP is refering to the entire countries, which is estimated at around $7 trillion by some.
Second of all, you're relying on numbers produced by the Chinese government, which are often largely fiction. Many estimate that there is up to $1.5 trillion of debt hidden in local investment vehicles.
Lastly, you're forgetting that the amount of debt doesn't matter, it's your ability to service that debt, that matters. If you have income of $75,000 per year, which situation is worse, having debt of $ $72,954, or having debt of $78,500? The former is the same ratio as the US, the latter is the same ratio as China.
Have you seen these Ghost Cities? They aren't "in good fit". They are falling into disrepair. Nobody moves there because the commute to ANYWHERE you can work, is relatively extreme, and most of the country can't afford to live there for the prices they're charging. Now, when these prices come down, people will move in, however their value will drop extremely, resulting in their debt burden growing even larger, while their assets are even smaller.
In comparison with Detroit, which had its use and is falling into obsolescence, primarily due to the mess the US auto industry is in, combined with the regulatory hell imposed on it. Detroit is a much more complex situation, but it's nothing like these Chinese problem. Has the US forcibly built many giant new cities which are completely unoccupied?
First of all, don't trust numbers that come out of China. They go through a significant editing before being released, such that many economists dealing with the region, discard China's numbers, and instead attempt to estimate the true values.
Second of all, that $40 of assets and $39 of debt, doesn't mean shit. Depending on how that's recorded/valued, that value can change extremely and make it $1 of assets and $100 of debt. If you're interested in how valuable those assets are, Google "China's Ghost Cities".
More so, you should be sighing at the fact that if China goes through a significant recession, they will likely bring every other country down with them, with differing levels of effect. Though, countries like Australia, will be hit extremely hard.
The funniest thing about this post...
'I think it is more serious than your subprime mortgage crisis. You can always leave a house or use it. The rail system is there. It's a burden. You must operate the rail system, and when you operate it, the cost is very high.'
It may be more serious than the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, but what about China's own housing crisis, which is like the U.S. but way more extreme as it's pushed through by their Government.
Also, your rant is the least insightful post I've seen. "Inflationary capitalistic expansion", done by a communist country? An obscure reference to Reganomics in a country where it doesn't apply in the slightest?
The up and coming haven't learnt? I think they have, if China hadn't made in roads towards providing their citizens with freer markets, China would have gone the way of Russia, quite some time ago.
All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers, all those financial instruments, the money printing, the interest rate hikes, the depletion of old-guard natural energy resources, the cost-cutting, the parasitic leeches of banks and speculative investment..they will kill the host before they kill themselves.
Okay, now you're just listing random things which people infer bad things about. More so, you're listing contradictory "bad ideas".
"the money printing" is the OPPOSITE of "the interest rate hikes" which is counteracted by "all those financial instruments" but increases "speculative investment" .
"All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers" okay, you need to say something more than this?
I don't even know what the fuck "the parasitic leeches of banks" is referring to.
I immediately thought you were an arts student, because this is the most retarded, least well thought out shit I've read in a long time. But then I notice that your writing is exceptionally bad, and it's hard to understand what you're actually trying to say. So, I'm guessing you're NOT an arts student then.
Save us some time, and please stick to... whatever you specialize in.
Sincerely,
Society
The world IS full of those, if you're considering the WHOLE WORLD.
However, I still am not too much of a fan of ribbons, though I have found that once you get used to them, they really are quite good.
Poppy cock!
I have setup a lot of machines for a lot of people over the years. I have found most users really confused by the current Task Manager, especially if it's something that isn't a window. I've tried setting up setup Sysinternals Process Explorer for many of these users, especially the ones who just don't understand anything, and I have found that they find it easier, or just as hard. The Process Explorer shows nesting well, doesn't obscure things, doesn't jump around in the list, and is more self-explanatory.
The learning curve on the Process Explorer, because it shows us the data in a more logical way, is MUCH smaller.
Listen here you, we're nothing like that! However, social sciences suck! Global warming isn't real! All politicans suck! I'm masturbating to Ron Paul! Nuclear power is safe! We must colonize space! Poor people suck! The man is out to get us! China sucks! Look, I can quote Thomas Jefferson! Everyone who's not an engineer sucks!
You left out, religion is for morons!
I don't know how long you've been around here, but the comments on here, are often quite good. Sure, there are some shit slinging matches, but I've had similarly well thought out response threads.
However, from your point, I'd take it that you take offence at us seeing someone's background, and not necessarily taking an interest in what they're saying.
Would you say that EVERYONE's opinion is equally valid? I wouldn't, few would.
Would you say that a persons background, often suggest fields they would be an expert in? I would.
Then, why would you be averse to people seeing someone's background, and weighing their information based on it? I tend to rate the ranting crack head's opinion on the street quite low, I tend to rate people who don't have a background in the field their talking about opinions above the crack heads, and I rate people who do have a background in their field even higher.
So, in this instance, while the wiki has listed "theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences", having read the briefs on the books of his I could find online, I notice that, the first two are the only "honest" topics he can claim. While he does talk about the other topics, they are from the perspective of the first two.
As such, I don't see those as a particularly valid background to be arguing from, besides his own experience in that system.
Yes it's biased, but if I treated everyone as being equal, I'd never get to the worthwhile stuff, and would be stuck attempting to process the sheer amount of crap that is out there.
Your argument is invalid, please try another one.
Now, now, lets not jump to conclusions. Perhaps this is article is his way of saying we should eliminate "Religion" (theology?) PhD's?
I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.
I don't trust that you could do that job. Why would the directors and shareholders trust that "mrnobo1024" would do that job? He obviously isn't able to get other jobs of a similar calibre, he'll he'd do it for 1% of what the other people applying for that job would. These other candidates that require more money, come from similar backgrounds and already earn this amount, so to attract them, we must pay more.
Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here.
To use your same sarcastic tone... No, clearly it's the Chinese and Indians fault for doing the work you could do, for less than your rent costs.
It's at this point that you either introduce some argument about quality/etc, which is obviously false, as the quality is "good enough" else we wouldn't be arguing. Then you say something like "this sort of thing should be regulated", the consequences of which would be to take food from these desperate countries, just so that you can live your comparatively lavish lifestyle.
Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?
I see you're not used to dealing with formal systems. The relationship is not one such that "a worker" gets to set the price of "all" the things he "needs to live", but more so that the "workers" (of a certain class) get to set the price of their labour. No one said "Oh, you're a worker in the auto-industry? Then you may set the price which I sell milk for". That would be fucking stupid.
The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice.
You actually think that someone controls the country? The government/companies/etc can hardly control themselves, as controlling a giant amorphous group of people is fucking hard, let alone in the context of them somehow affecting a market on this scale. If you believe an entity could do this, then you're fucking deluded, even communists with essentially unlimited control, couldn't achieve this.
So, if you can't negotiate the salary that you would like, then you better retrain, and find a job which attracts that salary, or you better be partially compensated via other benefits such as "doing a job you love".
I DO secure my wireless, because I come from a country which does not have a "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine.
As such, ANY reason you give police to enter and search your premises, can result in MANY other convictions, other than the one they came to investigate.
This happens regularly. In fact, if the police come to your house, or stop your car, you're going to get something. If the original reason doesn't fit, they'll find another reason.
For instance, when I was younger, I was suspected of driving dangerously, so they pulled me over, and decided to scrutinize my vehicle. In the end they marked my car as "un-road worthy" (meaning I had to drive it home, and never drive it on the road again, or fix it), and gave me a generic $140 fine.
Another instance was a friend of the family who was raided over importing laser pointers. When the particular lasers he got turned out to be JUST legal, and their information was wrong, he got done for piracy (had some burned DVD's lying around), and a few other minor offences.
So while I understand the defence point, I instead go to extreme measures to not attract any attention.
Hey, hey, hey. Whoooah. Slow down there, nelly!
MS 13 know they are criminals and so they are lawyered up. This means if they conduct a raid like this on MS 13, then they might go free. They need to be cautious and make sure they respect MS 13's liberty and due process! With us, luckily they don't need to worry about that.
Also, MS 13 have weapons and might use them. They don't want to go after someone who might fight back. They could break a nail, get injured, or killed.
Nope, Police resources are better spent going after us, so they can be seen to be doing something, without actually doing something.
At which point you then quote your OS, Architecture, Version, and Plugins, else the "oblig" hasn't really been satisfied.
Instead you've just added more uncertainty... though perhaps elaborate troll is elaborate... hrmmm.
Then you haven't been on the internet very long.
Can one read oneself?
Weird, I setup my privacy settings, quite strictly, and I've never had a problem with this. I occasionally get asked to use an app, which I then block, and never have to see it again. Also, when an app asks for permissions, I just click cancel/deny.
Done.
Really hasn't been a problem. Have you been through ALL of your privacy settings? Some are nested inside others, and may seem quite hidden.