The GPL and LGPL aren't exactly hard to understand. I think the issue in most cases is that people don't read the license that allows them to use the software they use. In which case they just make random assumptions and move on.
Such irresponsibility would lead to BSD violations too.
THIS!! Throw them to the curb. This BS is why they do stuff like this. Tell them their incompetence is fine and a few competitors will take care of them.
Governments need to stop sucking up to these types of companies and basically encouraging their bad behavior. This was a bad deal for these citizens. They should have taken the short term costlier road for the long term benefit. Take the infrastructure, bid out an upgrade, own it, and sue Verizon to recoup some costs. Don't settle, drag them to court even if it is costlier. Set the damn precedent so it is easier in the future for you and others. Then charge the players who want to play on YOUR network and move on!!
Put a solar cell that casts a shadow on the earth and mirrors all around. When it's "sun up" we flip the switch and the mirrors rotate giving everyone a waxing sun in the sky. No more time zones, no more odd sleep cycles, etc. 9PM means 9PM activities everywhere!
Think of the secondary benefits! Asteroid deflection, global warming solved, unlimited power, world peace, alien invasion deterred, safe tanning locations, and no more Slashdot discussions on DST!!!
Ok, maybe that last one is far fetched, but we can dream!
Canada, Mexico, China, & Japan.. order of biggest buyers of US goods. Japan buys 1/2 as much as China. China buys 1/2 as much as CA & MX.
US, Hong Kong, Japan, S Korea... order of biggest buyers of Chinese goods. The US buys 2.5x SK.
The only winners when two partners who are highly reliant on each other, wage war.... is no one; not even everyone else.
Believe it or not, even with the unemployment where it was in 2010, the US does not have the labor force to produce at the level of the Chinese. We would basically go without many of those goods. The Chinese can not keep floating their currency, make all those infrastructure investments, nor keep the people content without the US demand for labor units.
The US is bitching and complaining about two of its three biggest trading partners. That is stupid and a disaster in the making.
Compared to most languages, python was stable. You should look up the histories of C, C++, COBOL, ABAP, etc. Even today, look at Java, & Powershell. You will see people doing version checks for _minor_ releases in their code because even simple stuff has deprecated or came online.
It's a nightmare to read anyone's code! I do this quite a lot in many languages. Python is just less so than others. And if you think legibility is only from the white space, you haven't seen enough complex code. Python doesn't make it easy to write long strings of calculations. It's statements are purposely kept limited in their calculations capacity. So it's easy for people's minds to gawk as the steps of the algorithm are small and simple.
And back on white space, MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, GaTech.... all disagree with you. Do you know that each of these actually taught pseudocode for their beginning classes? And proper white space was part of the grading. It's not about the language or code but properly planning and designing your algorithm that matters. You can do that in ANY language, but python is one that has already chosen your coding style for you rather than leave it to you learn & pick from one of the few very best standards.
Not to harp on white space, but here is an actual example I have seen. Imagine an algorithm that is 20 blocks in. In most languages, it can look fine and legible. But would be horrible to update 10 years later. In python, it would look disgusting to write in the first place and would be refactored by most programmers. The language's preselected coding standard influences the programmer's design toward the verbose & simplicity.
Now this language may not be your cup of tea... that is OK! It appears to certainly be for a majority! Unlike Ruby, it's not a recent popularity; it's been around for a while.
-it is old and stable -very easy to learn, install, & expand -very easy to read other's code!! -good documentation & tutorials -easy conceptualizations (int, list, dict, string, method, class, generator) -hugh library that addresses 90% of common problems -pretty big, stable, & open community -good leadership; similar to Linux, but more dictator-like and less foul language. -you can start small and slowly build & expand your knowledge. -takes a good middle road in terms of hiding vs exposing complexity -easy to prototype solutions
There are shortcomings of course. Most other languages do some of the above better. Perl for example is fairly good at most of the above but it comparibly falls short in terms of code maintenance & legibility.
The leap to Python 3 was pretty bad for the community. I just switched 2 months ago. But it's not that hard (nor easy) to switch.
Really?!? The stay at home mom and the after school 17 year old didn't have a need for their own car? They just waited for the Dad to drive home? No one wanted to replace their car every 5 years even though the advancement curve was steeper in auto tech than today? Reality was that they couldn't afford another car even if they wanted to.
And we are just talking about the average 3rd+ generation _white_ family. If you looked in the other ethnic groups or recent arrivals, you would have seen more mass transit use. It wasn't that the family was more "wealthy" and wanted to stay prudent; it was that most of the world was poorer due to WW1 and WW2 so the American family appeared richer.
Today's average family is a lot better off than then.
How many families have more than 1 car, 1 phone, 1 computer, 1 tv, washer/dryer, and how big are their homes... compared to the 70's? People forget that as recently as the 90s most families not only had ONE car, but pretty much had that car for decades.
Automation and good-enough AI is targeting educated jobs
This was _always_ true. You think relative-to-then-society speaking cotton/corn pickers, textile workers, horse buggy drivers, train drivers, etc were uneducated? Relatively speaking, they were probably as educated as the average Facebook user is to today's society's level of education.
ignorant assumptions
"Ignorant: lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated". On one side we have people looking in terms of historical context and the knowledge gathered over multiple examples and millennia... and on the other is "But THIS time it is different. It won't be like the 100 times before!" I don't think "ignorant" is the right word here... maybe "unempathetic"?
Just replacing cashiers... targets 3 million jobs just in the US
That's less than 2% of our current workforce. A single checkout machine at the store will replace... what 2 workers? A single cotton gin took out 49 workers! Wake me when you got a 1-10+ ratio example.
Mental capacity is often the reason a LOT of humans are employed in tedious, boring, easily automated jobs.
Relatively speaking, this has always been the case historically. If anything, the less tedious, decision making, high profit jobs were relegated to a much much smaller part of society. Just through the centuries of automation alone, we have far less of the jobs you speak up. So historically, automation did a LOT of replacement and destruction of those kinds of jobs; more than it can ever do today or tomorrow.
Unless you want to argue that the centuries of automation somehow created more tedious jobs then before... in which case, OK, I guess we got nothing to worry about this time around.
Worst case scenario: Lets setup a system where we hire people to dig a holes for a week, fill holes for a week, and take care of their room, board, & meals. The cost to society would be more than offset by the increased health and thus reduced healthcare costs.
But we did this thou, many times in history. From farming & fishing automation to goods transportation.
People don't realize just how many labor units of society farming, fishing, and moving an oil tanker's worth of crude it took a 100 years ago. A majority of those jobs were all replaced by "human level AI". A combine that can drive itself around the acreage while keeping pace with the truck. A ship that can sense the best pod of fish, sail over there, and haul in a few Galleons' worth of catch? A train that hauls two weeks worth of fruits & vegetables across the country every week?
On the whole, the more things change, the more they are the same.
We got to that point. Then I wanted my own universe. I got that. Now I watch you people, my AI, run around worrying about your AI. Then I get bored and go watch Family Guy.
I think in almost all the group superhero movies, the story telling is kind of shit. And that's what movies, & comics should really be about... the story _telling_. The story has been here for decades, yet repeatedly they can't seem to properly tell it. Every time they just overpower the single bad guy, under power the heroes, and have a gang bang (really Aquaman couldn't hold a candle against Stephenwolf... underwater?!? I think Alfred & Gordon were more useful than Flash, Cyborg, & Aquaman combined.)
Maybe the formula shouldn't be "some guy's vision of the hero".... because outside of Wonder Women's movie, and Iron Man 1; they been shit. Maybe the directors should pick some older comic nerds and incorporate their opinions into the scripts. Also, why are the theater versions of these movies less than the Blueray? Isn't that a spiral of encouring less people to go to theaters and thus poorer theater versions?
Side Rant: Dear Apple, in what stupid universe does "...in almost..." autocorrect to "...I'm almost..."? Autocorrects the first word multiple times after the second as if Siri is absolutely sure I am wrong and doesn't want to offend me by correcting!! Seriously, are you guys that lost without Jobs QAing this garbage?
If the use case and knowledge domains were wide enough, that would be a cornerstone of AI... but we don't even have those yet.
The very best "AI" we have are a rudimentary version of those that basically selects a forecast curve on a very large dataset... and then come up with excuses for wrong answers that the dataset wasn't large enough.
I am not saying these things are worthless, far from it, they are highly useful in providing insights to levels of planning and decision making that has never existed in our history... but it's a really long stretch to call them AI. It's like saying basic human intelligence is fully formed at the point of conception...
Our most advanced "AI" are at the kernels of their development. I love the ones that can learn to walk/hop, or build bridges. That I find to be more advanced in AI terms than IBM Watson... but their use case is nonexistent because their domain of knowledge is pinpoint size.
Ok, saying germ free is an exaggeration. But it is a pretty pristine environment. No one physically touches the eggs from truck load to shelf placement. The temperature after packing is required to be less than 40F from pack to display. UK that is under 68F. And US eggs are pasteurized and sanitatized (steril was the wrong word).
UK doesn't even recommend refrigeration, nor do stores do it for the display. They are left at store temperature (normally less than 70F). Refrigeration is also looked down upon by consumers because it changes the taste (personally, I think it is the 90C US pasteurization).
So while a US egg lasts 5 weeks after packing (regs wise); UK eggs last 3 weeks. 4th if you refrigerate at home. UK supply chain is designed for egg consumption in 2-3 weeks from packing. US is designed for 2-5 weeks from packing.
Part of what you say is true, a US treated egg going through a UK supply chain probably won't make the one week journey to the store. It will also probably break. Both of these are due to the loss of that protective coat and thinner shell. Our eggs won't stack in wire baskets like the rest of the world.
Also, our washing may seem expensive to others around the world, but keep in mind that at the end of the day, the prices are about the same with UK eggs just a percent or three higher.
On the eggs thing, that is completely false. I don't know if you meant it jokingly but in case others think it is real... you cant eliminate e-coli... without killing off the chicken.
Eggs are heavily cleaned in the US. This makes them smooth and "Disney perfect" eggy. EU... regulations don't allow eggs to be cleaned. Because there is a protective natural coating that prevents the e-coli and other nasties from the parent's waste from getting in.
In the US, the entire supply chain from post clean to shopping cart has to be germ free. Since the EU doesn't want to regulate to that level ($$), they prevent premature cleaning. I think the store is allowed to clean and of course end user should (we don't in the US).
Now the US egg lasts a lot longer because it's been sterilized and sits in a sterile environment. Even on the consumer end, eggs can sit for 6 weeks with no problems. But this isn't a requirement in the EU, as they purchase in smaller batches and more frequently.
Neither. That animosity is not how the real world works. Americans aren't that much different than anyone else in the world. Just like the majority of the world's population, they just do not have the time nor luxury to think about the big picture you describe. They just go about their day-to-day trying to make ends meet, being good, and thinking it is normal just like anyone else.
Can we do more? Of course! But that takes a concerted effort of the few to rally the many for a cause. Outside that, it is difficult to blame the masses, let alone assign a perceived sense of animosity to them.
No, I haven't been to Spain, but have been to France and Germany. My point isn't that the US has good roads and the rest of the world has bad ones. No, even Indian and China have pretty good major roads. And technically, the AutoBahn is way better than the American interstate roads.
But lets stick with your example. In the US, for insurance purposes, if a person made that trip (one way) once a month... they would still be considered a low mileage driver. Most drivers are not low mileage in the US. That trip in a Honda CR-V would cost $7 more than in a Fiat 300... basically the Fiat will buy you a single fast food meal. I know consulting friends who cover that distance every week; 47 weeks of the year.
Look at Google maps at the same zoom level (ie: 20mi) and take any place in the US East coast... look at the web of roads compared to Spain. These are all comparably big roads. Except for Madrid & Barcelona, there is a lot of white space. My point isn't that Spain has fewer roads. They probably have more roads than the US. Its just that the US has many big roads that go in all directions.
Other factors:, our road lanes are 20% wider, planes don't go everywhere, and we have a horrible rail system. All of the above just makes it that much easier, and stress free to cover large distances in any direction via an Automobile. So why not have a bigger car for the journey.
I want to clarify this up a bit for the rest of the world because this "big car" topic is something I hear all over. In the US, it simply does not make sense to buy cars smaller than a Toyota Corolla. As a primary vehicle, that market is as niche as buying a sports car. But such cars are considered for a secondary or the "kids" car.
Anyway, a "mini" SUV here would be a Honda CR-V. It has 2x the space of a Fiat 300 and loses a mere 10% in fuel economy (+0.7 L per 100km). The continental US is BIG. But more importantly, almost all of it accessible via high speed roads (very few countries have this). The driving rules are the same across the stretch. Everyone follows the rules of the road (stays in their lanes). There are fuel stations every hour of travel and gasoline is cheap. The lanes are standard & huge though out the country. If France, Spain, or Germany were designed like the US, one would be able to get to/from any point in country within 10 hours.
Because of the ease and environment setup, people here tend to travel very long distances via automobile. Considering all the factors, it makes sense for anyone to get the vehicle size that is appropriate for the largest 10% of our travel. True, we put out more emissions than anyone else, but with these factors, it won't change soon.
First, I don't think most large corporate environments these days are castle & moat systems. If it is, it usually means that the company doesn't have more than one production facility, never did an M&A, no joint ventures, has no testing or R&D labs, hasn't been around for long, etc. Fragmentation naturally happens and it takes a lot of investment to keep things standardized.
So the largest security hole in these systems has always been the methane production units. Most corporations have all the latest jargon, policies, and governance document repositories. The problem is that almost none of them follow the spirit of the policy or even read said documents.
Examples: User access reviews are done but its basically a checklist of 1. Is this user with company. 2. Did they appear on last list. 3. Do I recognize it as someone who shouldn't be on this list. There is no validation of if person needs the access or have they been using it recently, etc.
Many times, rather than take the 2 hours extra in onboarding,companies just copy a co-workers security profile; giving the new hire access to random stuff that they know nothing about.
How many companies do security minded training for employees? Most appear to just explain their policies, enforcement rules, and repercussions.
How many companies have a process to patch a distributed information system (ie: laptops) against something like WannaCry (and no patch management isn't the solution)?
Why is the HR tech running around with real confidential information on his encrypted laptop?
Most of the above is the human component taking the easy road to compensate for the poorly funded tech component (lack of training, proper network bandwidth, lack of documentation, lack of testing info etc). But its not about lack of money, because we spend tons of money on all this technology with new labels. We spends tons of money on repairing and rebuilding stuff that got lost or hosed. We spend tons on writing the legal contracts and policy documents.
The problem is that no one really cares about security. Or else we would invest in hardening the weakest link: the human. The game is about passing the dice around and making it easier & quicker. Eventually someone has to roll and eventually one of them will roll bad. At which point the rest of us feel good because it was THEIR fault, not ours. We remove the unlucky one and start the game again.
Automakers not hyping things up is actually new to the industry. One they learned from Honda & Toyota. It wasn't until "car salesman" became worse than "snake oil salesman" that they started toning down. And it took 10 years of being beat the shit out of by Japanese car makers that they really became humble.
When Ford made their first few years worth of mass assembled cars, they were sold with missing windows, door locks, horns, etc. They just told the buyer to bring it back later for repair. Again it took the Japanese to show that proper QA paid for itself and left customers happier.
Car makers no longer over promise because there is nothing but the cars to talk about. And if they say something out of line, it could lead to lawsuits. But look at the PR spin they do like any other company when looking for concessions for a new factory or closing one.
I want to add that has pretty much been it since WW2. All that has changed is geographically where our funding has gone and how much deeper our influence has pervaded into countries.
Also the US is the world leader in many other industries from agriculture (outside genetics too), software, entertainment, shipping & logistics, fishing, and of course weapons & defense.
A few industries that the US has fallen behind on is things like virtual social environments, flood control, and factory automation (thou Japan, China, & Germany don't build them at home;).
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The GPL and LGPL aren't exactly hard to understand. I think the issue in most cases is that people don't read the license that allows them to use the software they use. In which case they just make random assumptions and move on.
Such irresponsibility would lead to BSD violations too.
THIS!! Throw them to the curb. This BS is why they do stuff like this. Tell them their incompetence is fine and a few competitors will take care of them.
Governments need to stop sucking up to these types of companies and basically encouraging their bad behavior. This was a bad deal for these citizens. They should have taken the short term costlier road for the long term benefit. Take the infrastructure, bid out an upgrade, own it, and sue Verizon to recoup some costs. Don't settle, drag them to court even if it is costlier. Set the damn precedent so it is easier in the future for you and others. Then charge the players who want to play on YOUR network and move on!!
Let's address the REAL problem. THE SUN.
Put a solar cell that casts a shadow on the earth and mirrors all around. When it's "sun up" we flip the switch and the mirrors rotate giving everyone a waxing sun in the sky. No more time zones, no more odd sleep cycles, etc. 9PM means 9PM activities everywhere!
Think of the secondary benefits! Asteroid deflection, global warming solved, unlimited power, world peace, alien invasion deterred, safe tanning locations, and no more Slashdot discussions on DST!!!
Ok, maybe that last one is far fetched, but we can dream!
Canada, Mexico, China, & Japan.. order of biggest buyers of US goods. Japan buys 1/2 as much as China. China buys 1/2 as much as CA & MX.
US, Hong Kong, Japan, S Korea... order of biggest buyers of Chinese goods. The US buys 2.5x SK.
The only winners when two partners who are highly reliant on each other, wage war.... is no one; not even everyone else.
Believe it or not, even with the unemployment where it was in 2010, the US does not have the labor force to produce at the level of the Chinese. We would basically go without many of those goods. The Chinese can not keep floating their currency, make all those infrastructure investments, nor keep the people content without the US demand for labor units.
The US is bitching and complaining about two of its three biggest trading partners. That is stupid and a disaster in the making.
Compared to most languages, python was stable. You should look up the histories of C, C++, COBOL, ABAP, etc. Even today, look at Java, & Powershell. You will see people doing version checks for _minor_ releases in their code because even simple stuff has deprecated or came online.
It's a nightmare to read anyone's code! I do this quite a lot in many languages. Python is just less so than others. And if you think legibility is only from the white space, you haven't seen enough complex code. Python doesn't make it easy to write long strings of calculations. It's statements are purposely kept limited in their calculations capacity. So it's easy for people's minds to gawk as the steps of the algorithm are small and simple.
And back on white space, MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, GaTech.... all disagree with you. Do you know that each of these actually taught pseudocode for their beginning classes? And proper white space was part of the grading. It's not about the language or code but properly planning and designing your algorithm that matters. You can do that in ANY language, but python is one that has already chosen your coding style for you rather than leave it to you learn & pick from one of the few very best standards.
Not to harp on white space, but here is an actual example I have seen. Imagine an algorithm that is 20 blocks in. In most languages, it can look fine and legible. But would be horrible to update 10 years later. In python, it would look disgusting to write in the first place and would be refactored by most programmers. The language's preselected coding standard influences the programmer's design toward the verbose & simplicity.
Now this language may not be your cup of tea... that is OK! It appears to certainly be for a majority! Unlike Ruby, it's not a recent popularity; it's been around for a while.
Python has a lot of strengths:
-it is old and stable
-very easy to learn, install, & expand
-very easy to read other's code!!
-good documentation & tutorials
-easy conceptualizations (int, list, dict, string, method, class, generator)
-hugh library that addresses 90% of common problems
-pretty big, stable, & open community
-good leadership; similar to Linux, but more dictator-like and less foul language.
-you can start small and slowly build & expand your knowledge.
-takes a good middle road in terms of hiding vs exposing complexity
-easy to prototype solutions
There are shortcomings of course. Most other languages do some of the above better. Perl for example is fairly good at most of the above but it comparibly falls short in terms of code maintenance & legibility.
The leap to Python 3 was pretty bad for the community. I just switched 2 months ago. But it's not that hard (nor easy) to switch.
Really?!? The stay at home mom and the after school 17 year old didn't have a need for their own car? They just waited for the Dad to drive home? No one wanted to replace their car every 5 years even though the advancement curve was steeper in auto tech than today? Reality was that they couldn't afford another car even if they wanted to.
And we are just talking about the average 3rd+ generation _white_ family. If you looked in the other ethnic groups or recent arrivals, you would have seen more mass transit use. It wasn't that the family was more "wealthy" and wanted to stay prudent; it was that most of the world was poorer due to WW1 and WW2 so the American family appeared richer.
Today's average family is a lot better off than then.
How many families have more than 1 car, 1 phone, 1 computer, 1 tv, washer/dryer, and how big are their homes... compared to the 70's? People forget that as recently as the 90s most families not only had ONE car, but pretty much had that car for decades.
Automation and good-enough AI is targeting educated jobs
This was _always_ true. You think relative-to-then-society speaking cotton/corn pickers, textile workers, horse buggy drivers, train drivers, etc were uneducated? Relatively speaking, they were probably as educated as the average Facebook user is to today's society's level of education.
ignorant assumptions
"Ignorant: lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated". On one side we have people looking in terms of historical context and the knowledge gathered over multiple examples and millennia... and on the other is "But THIS time it is different. It won't be like the 100 times before!" I don't think "ignorant" is the right word here... maybe "unempathetic"?
Just replacing cashiers... targets 3 million jobs just in the US
That's less than 2% of our current workforce. A single checkout machine at the store will replace... what 2 workers? A single cotton gin took out 49 workers! Wake me when you got a 1-10+ ratio example.
Mental capacity is often the reason a LOT of humans are employed in tedious, boring, easily automated jobs.
Relatively speaking, this has always been the case historically. If anything, the less tedious, decision making, high profit jobs were relegated to a much much smaller part of society. Just through the centuries of automation alone, we have far less of the jobs you speak up. So historically, automation did a LOT of replacement and destruction of those kinds of jobs; more than it can ever do today or tomorrow.
Unless you want to argue that the centuries of automation somehow created more tedious jobs then before... in which case, OK, I guess we got nothing to worry about this time around.
Worst case scenario: Lets setup a system where we hire people to dig a holes for a week, fill holes for a week, and take care of their room, board, & meals. The cost to society would be more than offset by the increased health and thus reduced healthcare costs.
With human level AI robots, though
But we did this thou, many times in history. From farming & fishing automation to goods transportation.
People don't realize just how many labor units of society farming, fishing, and moving an oil tanker's worth of crude it took a 100 years ago. A majority of those jobs were all replaced by "human level AI". A combine that can drive itself around the acreage while keeping pace with the truck. A ship that can sense the best pod of fish, sail over there, and haul in a few Galleons' worth of catch? A train that hauls two weeks worth of fruits & vegetables across the country every week?
On the whole, the more things change, the more they are the same.
We got to that point. Then I wanted my own universe. I got that. Now I watch you people, my AI, run around worrying about your AI. Then I get bored and go watch Family Guy.
I think in almost all the group superhero movies, the story telling is kind of shit. And that's what movies, & comics should really be about... the story _telling_. The story has been here for decades, yet repeatedly they can't seem to properly tell it. Every time they just overpower the single bad guy, under power the heroes, and have a gang bang (really Aquaman couldn't hold a candle against Stephenwolf... underwater?!? I think Alfred & Gordon were more useful than Flash, Cyborg, & Aquaman combined.)
Maybe the formula shouldn't be "some guy's vision of the hero".... because outside of Wonder Women's movie, and Iron Man 1; they been shit. Maybe the directors should pick some older comic nerds and incorporate their opinions into the scripts. Also, why are the theater versions of these movies less than the Blueray? Isn't that a spiral of encouring less people to go to theaters and thus poorer theater versions?
Side Rant: Dear Apple, in what stupid universe does "...in almost..." autocorrect to "...I'm almost..."? Autocorrects the first word multiple times after the second as if Siri is absolutely sure I am wrong and doesn't want to offend me by correcting!! Seriously, are you guys that lost without Jobs QAing this garbage?
If the use case and knowledge domains were wide enough, that would be a cornerstone of AI... but we don't even have those yet.
The very best "AI" we have are a rudimentary version of those that basically selects a forecast curve on a very large dataset... and then come up with excuses for wrong answers that the dataset wasn't large enough.
I am not saying these things are worthless, far from it, they are highly useful in providing insights to levels of planning and decision making that has never existed in our history... but it's a really long stretch to call them AI. It's like saying basic human intelligence is fully formed at the point of conception...
Our most advanced "AI" are at the kernels of their development. I love the ones that can learn to walk/hop, or build bridges. That I find to be more advanced in AI terms than IBM Watson... but their use case is nonexistent because their domain of knowledge is pinpoint size.
Ok, saying germ free is an exaggeration. But it is a pretty pristine environment. No one physically touches the eggs from truck load to shelf placement. The temperature after packing is required to be less than 40F from pack to display. UK that is under 68F. And US eggs are pasteurized and sanitatized (steril was the wrong word).
UK doesn't even recommend refrigeration, nor do stores do it for the display. They are left at store temperature (normally less than 70F). Refrigeration is also looked down upon by consumers because it changes the taste (personally, I think it is the 90C US pasteurization).
So while a US egg lasts 5 weeks after packing (regs wise); UK eggs last 3 weeks. 4th if you refrigerate at home. UK supply chain is designed for egg consumption in 2-3 weeks from packing. US is designed for 2-5 weeks from packing.
Part of what you say is true, a US treated egg going through a UK supply chain probably won't make the one week journey to the store. It will also probably break. Both of these are due to the loss of that protective coat and thinner shell. Our eggs won't stack in wire baskets like the rest of the world.
Also, our washing may seem expensive to others around the world, but keep in mind that at the end of the day, the prices are about the same with UK eggs just a percent or three higher.
The majority of the consumers in the US do not have the same opinion. Thus our regulations.
On the eggs thing, that is completely false. I don't know if you meant it jokingly but in case others think it is real... you cant eliminate e-coli... without killing off the chicken.
Eggs are heavily cleaned in the US. This makes them smooth and "Disney perfect" eggy. EU... regulations don't allow eggs to be cleaned. Because there is a protective natural coating that prevents the e-coli and other nasties from the parent's waste from getting in.
In the US, the entire supply chain from post clean to shopping cart has to be germ free. Since the EU doesn't want to regulate to that level ($$), they prevent premature cleaning. I think the store is allowed to clean and of course end user should (we don't in the US).
Now the US egg lasts a lot longer because it's been sterilized and sits in a sterile environment. Even on the consumer end, eggs can sit for 6 weeks with no problems. But this isn't a requirement in the EU, as they purchase in smaller batches and more frequently.
I think the whole world would have noticed the sudden influx of coins from a single wallet.
Neither. That animosity is not how the real world works. Americans aren't that much different than anyone else in the world. Just like the majority of the world's population, they just do not have the time nor luxury to think about the big picture you describe. They just go about their day-to-day trying to make ends meet, being good, and thinking it is normal just like anyone else.
Can we do more? Of course! But that takes a concerted effort of the few to rally the many for a cause. Outside that, it is difficult to blame the masses, let alone assign a perceived sense of animosity to them.
No, I haven't been to Spain, but have been to France and Germany. My point isn't that the US has good roads and the rest of the world has bad ones. No, even Indian and China have pretty good major roads. And technically, the AutoBahn is way better than the American interstate roads.
But lets stick with your example. In the US, for insurance purposes, if a person made that trip (one way) once a month... they would still be considered a low mileage driver. Most drivers are not low mileage in the US. That trip in a Honda CR-V would cost $7 more than in a Fiat 300... basically the Fiat will buy you a single fast food meal. I know consulting friends who cover that distance every week; 47 weeks of the year.
Look at Google maps at the same zoom level (ie: 20mi) and take any place in the US East coast... look at the web of roads compared to Spain. These are all comparably big roads. Except for Madrid & Barcelona, there is a lot of white space. My point isn't that Spain has fewer roads. They probably have more roads than the US. Its just that the US has many big roads that go in all directions.
Other factors:, our road lanes are 20% wider, planes don't go everywhere, and we have a horrible rail system. All of the above just makes it that much easier, and stress free to cover large distances in any direction via an Automobile. So why not have a bigger car for the journey.
I want to clarify this up a bit for the rest of the world because this "big car" topic is something I hear all over. In the US, it simply does not make sense to buy cars smaller than a Toyota Corolla. As a primary vehicle, that market is as niche as buying a sports car. But such cars are considered for a secondary or the "kids" car.
Anyway, a "mini" SUV here would be a Honda CR-V. It has 2x the space of a Fiat 300 and loses a mere 10% in fuel economy (+0.7 L per 100km). The continental US is BIG. But more importantly, almost all of it accessible via high speed roads (very few countries have this). The driving rules are the same across the stretch. Everyone follows the rules of the road (stays in their lanes). There are fuel stations every hour of travel and gasoline is cheap. The lanes are standard & huge though out the country. If France, Spain, or Germany were designed like the US, one would be able to get to/from any point in country within 10 hours.
Because of the ease and environment setup, people here tend to travel very long distances via automobile. Considering all the factors, it makes sense for anyone to get the vehicle size that is appropriate for the largest 10% of our travel. True, we put out more emissions than anyone else, but with these factors, it won't change soon.
First, I don't think most large corporate environments these days are castle & moat systems. If it is, it usually means that the company doesn't have more than one production facility, never did an M&A, no joint ventures, has no testing or R&D labs, hasn't been around for long, etc. Fragmentation naturally happens and it takes a lot of investment to keep things standardized.
So the largest security hole in these systems has always been the methane production units. Most corporations have all the latest jargon, policies, and governance document repositories. The problem is that almost none of them follow the spirit of the policy or even read said documents.
Examples: User access reviews are done but its basically a checklist of 1. Is this user with company. 2. Did they appear on last list. 3. Do I recognize it as someone who shouldn't be on this list. There is no validation of if person needs the access or have they been using it recently, etc.
Many times, rather than take the 2 hours extra in onboarding,companies just copy a co-workers security profile; giving the new hire access to random stuff that they know nothing about.
How many companies do security minded training for employees? Most appear to just explain their policies, enforcement rules, and repercussions.
How many companies have a process to patch a distributed information system (ie: laptops) against something like WannaCry (and no patch management isn't the solution)?
Why is the HR tech running around with real confidential information on his encrypted laptop?
Most of the above is the human component taking the easy road to compensate for the poorly funded tech component (lack of training, proper network bandwidth, lack of documentation, lack of testing info etc). But its not about lack of money, because we spend tons of money on all this technology with new labels. We spends tons of money on repairing and rebuilding stuff that got lost or hosed. We spend tons on writing the legal contracts and policy documents.
The problem is that no one really cares about security. Or else we would invest in hardening the weakest link: the human. The game is about passing the dice around and making it easier & quicker. Eventually someone has to roll and eventually one of them will roll bad. At which point the rest of us feel good because it was THEIR fault, not ours. We remove the unlucky one and start the game again.
Automakers not hyping things up is actually new to the industry. One they learned from Honda & Toyota. It wasn't until "car salesman" became worse than "snake oil salesman" that they started toning down. And it took 10 years of being beat the shit out of by Japanese car makers that they really became humble.
When Ford made their first few years worth of mass assembled cars, they were sold with missing windows, door locks, horns, etc. They just told the buyer to bring it back later for repair. Again it took the Japanese to show that proper QA paid for itself and left customers happier.
Car makers no longer over promise because there is nothing but the cars to talk about. And if they say something out of line, it could lead to lawsuits. But look at the PR spin they do like any other company when looking for concessions for a new factory or closing one.
Mod parent up! Well said!
I want to add that has pretty much been it since WW2. All that has changed is geographically where our funding has gone and how much deeper our influence has pervaded into countries.
Also the US is the world leader in many other industries from agriculture (outside genetics too), software, entertainment, shipping & logistics, fishing, and of course weapons & defense.
A few industries that the US has fallen behind on is things like virtual social environments, flood control, and factory automation (thou Japan, China, & Germany don't build them at home ;).
I think it is a typo. It is HP. Even the original Microsoft post says JP but then goes on to reference HP laptops as other regular offerings.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality nor its intent. Stop adding confusion to that topic, there are enough people who don't know what that is.