The USA should already have started a massive water engineering project on the scale of the interstate highway system. We need to be able to reclaim much more water for regions that get too much in quick bursts and move it around the country as need arises. Clean drinking water is already starting to become one of our top concerns, and it's only going to get worse. We should be planning for it now and investing in our future, but no one is even talking about it.
I kind of like the low turn-out. Increases the value of my vote. As an independent voter in a swing state, all the candidates are trying to get me to vote for them. The keep knocking on my door, asking me if I want my lawn mowed or my car washed for free. They love it when I play hard to get, and pretend to be interested when I ask them about freeing Hat Mccoulough, who was improsioend for murdering 23 babies. They nod understandingly when I explain how it was entirely in self defense. Then I go to the polls and vote for that one guy who didn't have the budget to make it 'round to our state.
Does nothing if all hardware is compromised prior to shipping. Would they be allowed to tell you if it were? Would they even be aware if it was? Has the government ever looked at their code or received a report from them about potential security vulnerabilities as part of a disclosure required for a government contract or security certification? I'm guessing if they did, that report was sent directly to the NSA.
We need a US Pirate Party. They're kind of a one-platform party, but at least it seems to be a rational platform that you can actually explain to someone. I'm guessing the average Pirate Party candidate is much less likely to be a hypocrite than some of the other parties' candidates.
That was always the advantage of owning your own company, though I've heard the IRS has started cracking down on it in recent years. My first boss owned the company, and the company basically owned all his shit. His house, his cars, his boat, everything. Car needed a repair or oil change? Business expense! Trip to Atlanta? Business expense! IRS came in and audited the shit out of him for two weeks one time. IIRC they found that they owed him $1000. He had a VERY good accountant (Business expense!)
Statistically the man in the middle is most likely to be The Man. If you're talking to The Man, he doesn't even need to be in the middle, but he probably will be anyway. If you're a government employee using one of those, you'll be The Man, talking to The Man while being spied on by The Man! Delicious!
EA fucked up SimCity. Because they're EA, I'd guess. You know how everything King Midas touched turned to gold? Everything EA touches turns to shit. I'm still holding a grudge about them turning UO into a WoW-style grindfest, and that was nearly a couple decades ago. It's kind of nice that they put "EA" at the front of a lot of their video game commercials so I know to just stop looking then.
So yeah, someone came along and did SimCity better than EA. Big surprise. Look for EA to acquire the company and turn it into shit within a couple of years.
By the way, if you work for EA and want the company to get back in my good graces, all they have to do is prove that they understand what makes a game "fun" and actually make one that is. I don't think they're capable, though. That would require "risk", and there are plenty of suckers out there who will gladly drop $60 on a "Madden" rehash. More and more people have been burned by AAA titles are are starting to buy indy games, though. I've sunk more time into a single sub-$20 indy game than I have the last three AAA titles combined. And if I drop $5 or $10 on an indy game, I don't have super high expectations for it and can only be happily surprised.
The big publishers talk about how piracy is destroying the industry, but there are plenty of people willing to pay for good games. The big publishers are just incapable of recognizing what makes a game good and expect consumers to just buy into every $60 turd they drop. It's not pirates killing the AAA industry, it's the publishers. And I for one will be happy to see them go.
Yeah, I'd think administering a personality test to see if you're a passive little bitch would be better at improving turnover than choice of browser. For one thing you'd weed out people who refuse to take personality tests because they're not passive little bitches. If you take the test and answer all the questions the way a psychopath would, you might get a fast-tracked to management, though.
Yeah, I replaced the locks on a couple of doors a couple of years ago and was surprised to find the new key worked just as well on a couple of the other locks that I hadn't replaced. Actually not that surprised, really. There aren't that many tumblers and not that many combinations of them. The keys to your house would probably work on a lot more than 28,000 doors across the country, if you tried them. I wouldn't suggest trying them, though. That'll get you shot in a lot of places.
Fact of the matter is, locks aren't much of a discouragement at all. A criminal is just as likely to break a window or kick a door down to get in. My parents have been robbed a couple of times over the years. The first time, the robbers came in through a bedroom window that I believe was not locked. It wasn't broken, in any event. The second time, more recently, the robbers just kicked their door down.
The best thing to do is make your house a less inviting target than your neighbor's house. But lock and home security is a whole other slashdot story!
Um, yeah, those unwarranted searches of persons and property are also big money. See also, Civil Forfeiture. Which should also be unconstitutional but somehow keeps happening (Probably because it's big money.)
Yeah, I've known a couple of people who've been sucked into pyramid scams. And I mean classic, textbook examples of pyramid scams. In both cases they told me about this amazing new investment opportunity they're taking part in. I listened for a minute and then told them it was a pyramid scam, and they got hostile and defensive. I think they didn't like thinking they could be fooled into something like that. I never did hear how either of these turned out, though neither of the people involved did get to retire a year later as they'd hoped they'd be able to.
There are tons of ways to make them more effective, none of which we use. We could set up speed cameras to ticket everyone who's speeding. We don't. We could just mandate in-car GPS tracking and not even allow speeding in the first place. Even the shittiest car you can buy likely has a speedometer that tops out somewhere past 100 mph. The car might not be able to actually get to that speed, but by God they're putting it on the speedometer! Hit any portion of any interstate that has a speed limit of 55 mph when it's not backed up from rush hour traffic and just TRY to do 55 mph there! You'll get a lot of hate from the rest of the traffic, which is going to be doing 70-75.
Nope, tickets are all about revenue. The speed limits are enforced almost entirely arbitrarily, although every so often they do actually pull over someone who's being very reckless. If they were enforced much more stringently, people would start demanding that limits be raised and revenue would dry up. If you used some technical means to prevent people from speeding, revenue would dry up (As would sales of overpowered sports cars.) Of course we can't say that, because arbitrary enforcement of a law would be unconstitutional.
That's certainly an aspect of it. Also, I've found it takes about a year to come up to speed on a code base and business process. I mean, really knowing it inside and out. If you come onto a project already knowing the problem that's being solved, the reasons it's being solved and how the team works, that's a huge advantage. You're much more likely to do that on an open source project. Companies hiring short term contractors are never going to see that level of productivity or design insight because they're turning people over too quickly for those people to learn how the company and software operates. People who don't really know how everything fits together will start fixing bugs, and the design of the software will start to suffer. If it was ever designed in the first place, which it usually wasn't.
Too bad he's not in a position where he could write some sort of law about it. If you can't fix the problem from there, the problem's not fixable. I'm guessing the majority of the American public either approves or doesn't care. I guess in which case, is the problem even a problem? I mean clearly some people here and this guy seems to think it's a problem, but if the vast majority doesn't agree, are you going to tell them they're wrong? I'm pretty sure that's the definition of fascism. Just sayin'...
1. As long as the clone is healthy and able to live as long a life as the original without complications from the cloning, it ought not to be a problem. I haven't been following the state of the art with cloning, so I'm not sure if we can make a clone able to survive as well as the original yet. I'd be surprised if this task is insurmountable. Maybe in a couple hundred years you just go to the DNA bank and 3D print a new horse from its DNA.
2. There's an element of "follow the money" here. Breeding in those industries is big money. Will the ones who make the most from breeding be opposed to cloning, or would they want to be able to copy their best animals for perpetual breeding income long after the original died? Of course, the species can't improve through cloning, so even if the process is perfect it really shouldn't have a huge impact. Couple three generations later, the breeding competition should be able to come along with a much better animal than that copy some breeder has been hoarding for a few decades.
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Pretty much. No one cares about nuclear weapons since the cold war ended. Well, no one but old, irrelevant people.
The USA should already have started a massive water engineering project on the scale of the interstate highway system. We need to be able to reclaim much more water for regions that get too much in quick bursts and move it around the country as need arises. Clean drinking water is already starting to become one of our top concerns, and it's only going to get worse. We should be planning for it now and investing in our future, but no one is even talking about it.
Maybe we do have something in common with India, after all!
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You mean soon the computer will be a match for me in chess AND kickboxing?!
We could put it back. It'd be easier to build a store and forward network now than it was back in the day. Hell, you can still put your hands on uucp.
Just as I was planning to move to France and buy a house with a roof made entirely of stinky cheese! Guess I'm going to have to rethink my plans!
So you see, I'm totally against this.
Does nothing if all hardware is compromised prior to shipping. Would they be allowed to tell you if it were? Would they even be aware if it was? Has the government ever looked at their code or received a report from them about potential security vulnerabilities as part of a disclosure required for a government contract or security certification? I'm guessing if they did, that report was sent directly to the NSA.
We need a US Pirate Party. They're kind of a one-platform party, but at least it seems to be a rational platform that you can actually explain to someone. I'm guessing the average Pirate Party candidate is much less likely to be a hypocrite than some of the other parties' candidates.
That was always the advantage of owning your own company, though I've heard the IRS has started cracking down on it in recent years. My first boss owned the company, and the company basically owned all his shit. His house, his cars, his boat, everything. Car needed a repair or oil change? Business expense! Trip to Atlanta? Business expense! IRS came in and audited the shit out of him for two weeks one time. IIRC they found that they owed him $1000. He had a VERY good accountant (Business expense!)
You keep saying "quality". I'm guessing you're not talking about the $20 three-pack you can get down at the local hardware store?
Statistically the man in the middle is most likely to be The Man. If you're talking to The Man, he doesn't even need to be in the middle, but he probably will be anyway. If you're a government employee using one of those, you'll be The Man, talking to The Man while being spied on by The Man! Delicious!
So yeah, someone came along and did SimCity better than EA. Big surprise. Look for EA to acquire the company and turn it into shit within a couple of years.
By the way, if you work for EA and want the company to get back in my good graces, all they have to do is prove that they understand what makes a game "fun" and actually make one that is. I don't think they're capable, though. That would require "risk", and there are plenty of suckers out there who will gladly drop $60 on a "Madden" rehash. More and more people have been burned by AAA titles are are starting to buy indy games, though. I've sunk more time into a single sub-$20 indy game than I have the last three AAA titles combined. And if I drop $5 or $10 on an indy game, I don't have super high expectations for it and can only be happily surprised.
The big publishers talk about how piracy is destroying the industry, but there are plenty of people willing to pay for good games. The big publishers are just incapable of recognizing what makes a game good and expect consumers to just buy into every $60 turd they drop. It's not pirates killing the AAA industry, it's the publishers. And I for one will be happy to see them go.
Yeah, I'd think administering a personality test to see if you're a passive little bitch would be better at improving turnover than choice of browser. For one thing you'd weed out people who refuse to take personality tests because they're not passive little bitches. If you take the test and answer all the questions the way a psychopath would, you might get a fast-tracked to management, though.
Fact of the matter is, locks aren't much of a discouragement at all. A criminal is just as likely to break a window or kick a door down to get in. My parents have been robbed a couple of times over the years. The first time, the robbers came in through a bedroom window that I believe was not locked. It wasn't broken, in any event. The second time, more recently, the robbers just kicked their door down.
The best thing to do is make your house a less inviting target than your neighbor's house. But lock and home security is a whole other slashdot story!
Um, yeah, those unwarranted searches of persons and property are also big money. See also, Civil Forfeiture. Which should also be unconstitutional but somehow keeps happening (Probably because it's big money.)
Yeah, I've known a couple of people who've been sucked into pyramid scams. And I mean classic, textbook examples of pyramid scams. In both cases they told me about this amazing new investment opportunity they're taking part in. I listened for a minute and then told them it was a pyramid scam, and they got hostile and defensive. I think they didn't like thinking they could be fooled into something like that. I never did hear how either of these turned out, though neither of the people involved did get to retire a year later as they'd hoped they'd be able to.
Nope, tickets are all about revenue. The speed limits are enforced almost entirely arbitrarily, although every so often they do actually pull over someone who's being very reckless. If they were enforced much more stringently, people would start demanding that limits be raised and revenue would dry up. If you used some technical means to prevent people from speeding, revenue would dry up (As would sales of overpowered sports cars.) Of course we can't say that, because arbitrary enforcement of a law would be unconstitutional.
Just leave it in the glove box for the next customer.
Hillary Clinton in Gold Nipple Rings
These are some of my favorite things!
There may not be such a thing as proper English, but yours is still bad!
That's certainly an aspect of it. Also, I've found it takes about a year to come up to speed on a code base and business process. I mean, really knowing it inside and out. If you come onto a project already knowing the problem that's being solved, the reasons it's being solved and how the team works, that's a huge advantage. You're much more likely to do that on an open source project. Companies hiring short term contractors are never going to see that level of productivity or design insight because they're turning people over too quickly for those people to learn how the company and software operates. People who don't really know how everything fits together will start fixing bugs, and the design of the software will start to suffer. If it was ever designed in the first place, which it usually wasn't.
Too bad he's not in a position where he could write some sort of law about it. If you can't fix the problem from there, the problem's not fixable. I'm guessing the majority of the American public either approves or doesn't care. I guess in which case, is the problem even a problem? I mean clearly some people here and this guy seems to think it's a problem, but if the vast majority doesn't agree, are you going to tell them they're wrong? I'm pretty sure that's the definition of fascism. Just sayin'...
2. There's an element of "follow the money" here. Breeding in those industries is big money. Will the ones who make the most from breeding be opposed to cloning, or would they want to be able to copy their best animals for perpetual breeding income long after the original died? Of course, the species can't improve through cloning, so even if the process is perfect it really shouldn't have a huge impact. Couple three generations later, the breeding competition should be able to come along with a much better animal than that copy some breeder has been hoarding for a few decades.