Ok, its a stupid law, and I'm not going to defend it.
But if the Quebec based store is maintaining a website, it needs to have a french translation, and a company's facebook page is little different than a geocities site from 1998, and is just another form of advertising for the company so this is entirely consistent with how the law has been enforced in the past.
Yes, USD has gone down then up again, but not by 450%.
Yeah the price spiked due stock market panic.That's because the gold market is too small and couldn't effectively absorb the entire us economy without itself being distorted.
Take the most stable country in the world, I don't know, like Canada or some of the Nordic countries that weathered that particular storm fairly well. Stable economies with sane banking regulations, whatever.
If a massive sell off from the US stock market was channeled as panic buys into those economies, that's going to create a big buble on the chart, not because they are unstable or anything, just that nothing but an economy 100s of times the size of the USAs could absorb that much without being distorted.
And gold is a smaller market, so the distortion was pretty great. However the money fled there because despite the distortion the currency itself is believed safe; and reliable enough to survive and hold value even if the us economy collapsed.
Yes, people lost money buying gold at the peak of the distortion. But they were buying insurance (and at the peak, very overpriced insurance)... but still thinking (rightfully) that no matter WHAT happened, they would still have something of value coming out the other end, at a time when the possibility of the US economy collapsing like it was a badly run 3rd world country instead of the strongest economy in the world was now widely beleived (rightfully or wrongfully) as merely "improbable" instead of "utter ridiculous nonsense".
Censorship automatically makes this a free speech issue, and censorship is intolerable 100% of the time.
So I come to your home, install a camera in your pre-teen daughters room, stream it to a web cam somewhere and sell access, along with all the archived footage.
And you'll be ok with that, because any attempt to take it offline would be "government thugs ordering a video to be removed", and that's censorship and that's 100% intolerable 100% of the time.
I mean sure you might get me put in prison for a while, but the site can stay up right?
the price of gold has dropped in the last 12 months from $1750/oz to $1300. In the last decade its gone from $400 to a peak of $1850.
It's less stable that USD.
Since the prices you mentioned are IN us dollars, one could just as easily infer the instability you are observing is that OF the US dollar.
After all if the USD dollar halves the price of gold in us dollars doubles. That's not instability in the value of gold, that's instability in the usd you are measuring.
Using your logic, the person allowing the search is also incriminating themselves.
There is no law preventing you from incriminating yourself. There is only a law preventing the police from compelling you to incriminate yourself with testimony.
If you choose to incriminate yourself, that's entirely fine. If you are worried allowing the search will incriminate yourself, don't allow the search.
I think we'd probably be horrified to see z/OS implode if you installed it on a billion desktops, put billions of regular users browsing the web with it, and then unleashed malware writers on it.
In the event that an IBM System Integrity problem is reported, IBM will always take action to resolve it
I'm sure they'd be overwhelmed if the amount of exploit research activity was unleashed against it that is 'just another day' for windows.
Assuming of course, that z/OS is used by billions of people to browse the web etc, and an exploit only needs to get arbitrary code to run in the users shell to be devastating... it doesn't even need to gain root.
In general I think your kids should expect that if they ask you for money/things the answer will be "no - that's what your allowance is for"
Except that is not what their allowance is for. If they used their allowance for overpriced ice cream, they would certainly be allowed to, but they'd probably regret it; that small instantaneous bit of ice cream is not worth waiting weeks for and they'd likely decide against it.
They've learned that they can buy an occasional candy bar without it impacting their long term goals significantly, but $5 for one Popsicle from the ice cream man, they've learned that even if they have enough money, that they cannot really 'afford' it.
That is one of the lessons we're trying to teach, and encouraging them to use their allowance to buy it would run counter to the lesson.
We'd be more inclined to say, "No, its too expensive. You can use your allowance if you want, but do you want an ice cream that badly that you are willing to add a couple weeks to get the X you are saving for."
When the X is a long way out either way that doesn't have much impact, but when they've been savign a while and its just about within reach, watching it slip further away is a lot harder. (and for this reason we try to steer them towards saving for reasonable goals... my son intially wanted to save for his first home. He thought, quite reasonably for a 7 year old, that if he saved his allowance he could buy a home as an adult.:(
We explained to him that his allowance would not be enough even if saved over years to come close to what he'd need, and to use his allowance for short and medium term goals, things he could either afford outright, or within a few months. There would be time enough to start saving for a home, when he gets his first real job.
in fact them asking for things is probably a sign that you're overdoing it
I don't think is any harm in asking. If I say no and I get a shocked/entitled look back, then I'm overdoing it, but that's not the case.
Really what should have happened, is that THE TWO OF THEM should have agreed on some reasonable allowance, then if I wanted an ice cream, I would be expected to pay for it out of my allowance.
Agreed and disagreed at the same time. I have kids, and they have a modest allowance; and its amazing to see them save up for a few months and buy things like a pokemon game for the DS or whatever. So I agree with you about the importance and value of that end of things.
But it's modest enough that if the ice cream man comes up the street, and they buy an ice cream that would blow the majority of their biweekly allowance. They know that... and thus don't blow their allowance on ice cream... which is great. They've learned something.
But at the same time, as parents, we want our kids childhoods experiences to include things like 'spontaneous ice cream on a hot summer day' so we buy the overpriced ice cream once in a while, and don't expect our kids to pay for it.
Thusly, I wonder how politically neutral this implementation is...
personal finances courses tend to be:
how to make a budget how to balance a checkbook (even though nobody uses them) how credit card interest works how car loan interest works how leasing works how home mortgages work how bank interest works (or in today's banks doesn't)
some very introductory stuff on investments (ie what are bonds, gics, stocks, dividends, mutual funds, etc).
And I would hope in today's versions they talk a bit about things like payday loans.
Its pretty practical stuff largely divorced from any economic theory.
Strangely enough, I can use the debugger associated with my IDE of choice to debug a separately running process.
Mine too. The point remains that comparatively few people actually know how to do this or are comfortable with it, loading symbol tables, etc. If they didn't start the program from within the IDE they're boned.
Of course, your analogy is no better. Using Maple, matlab, etc. makes you *faster* at calculus by doing the calculus for you.
Nobody in the real world ever does calculus for the sake of the math itself, its always in the context of solving a problem.
Whether you are using Maple or a notepad the hard part has always been solving the problem, not doing the arithmetic.
An IDE which doesn't require you to jump into a different paradigm to debug your code, and which provides language/API hints so that you don't have to manually dig through a printed document, speed up development by keeping you *in* the development mindset.
Just as using Maple/matlab/R etc lets you stay in the fluid modelling mindset or whatever it is you are really working on; rather than getting bogged down remember whether the integral of -sin(x) is cos(x) or -cos(x)...
That's why I don't get Coke at McDonalds. Bottle of water, please.
Paying for tap water at bottled water prices is a bigger scam than soft drinks. But at least its healthier. CocaCola gets your money either way.
Many wineries sell their wares on-site, in addition to providing tastings.
Yeah, sorry, a winery isn't a place to "go to eat", even if you can bring food. Several of my favorite wines are from Portugal, Argentina, and South Africa... so going to the local wineries isn't exactly a solution.
And that's why I'm ranting. Because so many entrepreneurs have discovered that you can assrape a captive market.
I agree its a "rip off"; but you know going in what the deal is. You factor it in as part of the price of the event. And if the rave were legally prevented from charging $10 for water, they'd raise the 'cover' charge instead. They aren't going to simply "make less money".
If the market wouldn't "bear it" then some restaurants wouldn't charge large fees, and the wine would be reasonable. There's no artificial factor forcing prices to those levels, so that's genuinely the hand of the free market. There's lots of real competition between restaurants... its not Comcast.
I realize how much time I wasted trying to debug things with many calls to system.out.println
The point of your university course was not to maximize your output productivity, but to teach you how to program.
For example -- For my first calculus course in university I had to manually evaluate derivatives and integrals. Now that I know how to use Maple, and matlab, and R I realize how much time I wasted.
Right?
Well, sure, but the goal of the calculus course was to teach me the math, with no eye whatsoever toward generating the answers as quickly as possible.
Writing code manually in a text file, compiling it to object, linking it to an executable, and debugging it with println teaches you how things work under the hood. Picking up an IDE later on lets you leverage all the power that tool gives you, but still, in the back of your head, you know what's going on. That's valuable.
While the IDE can be a little overwhelming at first, programming without a proper step-through debugger is painful.
Ironically, a debugger "originally" is a separate thing, you can attach it to a running process, load a symbol table, set breakpoints etc. Its great that they are part of IDEs, but this invaluable skill of working with a debugger separately is frequently overlooked.
Right. A restaurant, an establishment to serve meals. A meal, of course, is comprised of food and drinks.
not a winery.
A winery is a farm that grows grapes, and ferments them into wine. Why would I go to a winery for a glass of wine? What if I -gasp- want a glass of wine WITH food?
Of course, many restaurants have decided that it's very lucrative to get a liquor license and start selling absurdly overpriced wine on-premises, netting huge margins.
You do realize mcdonalds charges ~1250% on Coca Cola too right? It costs them ~16 cents for a large coke (and half of that is the paper cup). Why does 250% on a bottle of wine offend you?
The fries are marked up several hundred percent as well; and for what? They open a bag of fries (which are just potatoes) and put them in a deep frier for 3 minutes, and then salt them. Done.
Yet paying triple for them to open a bottle of wine? That is worthy of a rant?
But you are fine with this, despite there being no rational explanation for any of it
Yes, I am fine with it. Because I really don't expect a restaurant to outside food and drink at all. And the corking fee is a reasonable compromise.
You get to drink the wine you want; and usually for less than it would have cost you to buy the wine you didn't want, and they still make money.
Is it greed? Sure, in part, yes. But where would you draw the line? Should I be able to walk into a restaurant with my extended family, sit down taking up half the seats in the place, and then pull out a picnic basket? Of course not.
I fully understand this. That is why i am paying my ISP a premium for 100Mb access.
It's rather fun to see people who wand to have those with high income pay more tax, but not having big bandwidth consumer pay more for the pipe access.
What are you on about? I do pay more for 100mbit bandwidth than my brother pays for 10mbit. I am not complaining about this, nobody is.
I, for one, would be happy to subscribe to a cheaper basic service I don't mind to have youtube (or youporn) in 144p if at the end that saves me money.
Be my guest, pay the ISP less for less speed. Lots of people do that.
What does that have to do with the ISP deciding to charge netflix to provide me the high speed access to the content that I am paying them to provide me high speed access to?
This is the equivalent of me going into a restaurant with a bottle of wine. (The wine is netflix, the restaurant is my ISP.)
Now, the rules here are that I can do this, I can bring in my own bottle of wine, but have to pay a corking fee for them to serve it to me in the restaurant. I am fine with this. So I've paid for the wine (netflix), and I've paid for the corking (ISP). So that's all there is too it.
Suddenly the restaurant phones the liquor store and demands money from THEM to serve me the wine. The wine that I've already paid for myself, and which I've already paid the restaurant to serve me.
WTF
I am the ISPs customer. I am already paying the ISP a lot of money to transmit data over their network to me, from any source on the internet at high speed. Why on EARTH should netflix have to pay them as well for what I am already paying them for?
It is better because it has not changed a lot in the last 20 years.
Which will change the moment it becomes 'important' again. And seeing as its under Microsofts proprietary control, if it were adopted as standard, the next version of Office would start throwing all kinds of new crap into it.
Also, simply because of its age, you can be sure that RTF does not infringe any patents...
I predict most of the new crap they jam in it will be directly from OOXML and we're back at square one here too.
"Since when as ANYBODY has ever invoked 'living ones life taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment' as 'committing suicide' it until you die."
Should be:
""Since when has ANYBODY ever invoked 'living ones life, taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong it, while in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, until you die' as 'committing suicide'?"
With that logic you're committing a suicide no matter what you do
Only for definitions of 'suicide' so loose as to be meaningless.
Since when as ANYBODY has ever invoked 'living ones life taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment' as 'committing suicide' it until you die.
Suicide is a deliberate and reckless endangerment of ones own life with life. And we're not talking "I like skydiving" or "learning to fly a fighter jet", no, the current state of the 'mars mission' is more on par with Russian roulette except all the chambers are loaded and your 'plan' is that when you pull the trigger maybe it'll jam.
Peering arrangements are private contracts that don't have anything to do with end users.
And if you demand your ISP gives their peering partners anything they want
I don't demand that at all.
There is a middle ground where the ISP can figure out how to deliver traffic to me without having to deliver every other ISPs traffic for free. Those peering contracts can be arbitrarily detailed.
A failing memory means that you are not suitable for the job and should find something else, like working in a retirement home.
Yeah, how many passwords like: R;3m|/|iv%{^B$ do you have memorized? I have several passwords on that scale of arbitrary, that I did not pick, that I cannot change, that are changed on someone else's schedule, cannot be re-used, and that I tend to need to actually enter maybe once a quarter, if that.
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Ok, its a stupid law, and I'm not going to defend it.
But if the Quebec based store is maintaining a website, it needs to have a french translation, and a company's facebook page is little different than a geocities site from 1998, and is just another form of advertising for the company so this is entirely consistent with how the law has been enforced in the past.
Yes, USD has gone down then up again, but not by 450%.
Yeah the price spiked due stock market panic.That's because the gold market is too small and couldn't effectively absorb the entire us economy without itself being distorted.
Take the most stable country in the world, I don't know, like Canada or some of the Nordic countries that weathered that particular storm fairly well. Stable economies with sane banking regulations, whatever.
If a massive sell off from the US stock market was channeled as panic buys into those economies, that's going to create a big buble on the chart, not because they are unstable or anything, just that nothing but an economy 100s of times the size of the USAs could absorb that much without being distorted.
And gold is a smaller market, so the distortion was pretty great. However the money fled there because despite the distortion the currency itself is believed safe; and reliable enough to survive and hold value even if the us economy collapsed.
Yes, people lost money buying gold at the peak of the distortion. But they were buying insurance (and at the peak, very overpriced insurance)... but still thinking (rightfully) that no matter WHAT happened, they would still have something of value coming out the other end, at a time when the possibility of the US economy collapsing like it was a badly run 3rd world country instead of the strongest economy in the world was now widely beleived (rightfully or wrongfully) as merely "improbable" instead of "utter ridiculous nonsense".
Censorship is not only pointless, but intolerable. Look, if you don't like freedom of speech, then just say so.
If you don't want the government thugs taking down your child porn site, then just say so.
Censorship automatically makes this a free speech issue, and censorship is intolerable 100% of the time.
So I come to your home, install a camera in your pre-teen daughters room, stream it to a web cam somewhere and sell access, along with all the archived footage.
And you'll be ok with that, because any attempt to take it offline would be "government thugs ordering a video to be removed", and that's censorship and that's 100% intolerable 100% of the time.
I mean sure you might get me put in prison for a while, but the site can stay up right?
the price of gold has dropped in the last 12 months from $1750/oz to $1300.
In the last decade its gone from $400 to a peak of $1850.
It's less stable that USD.
Since the prices you mentioned are IN us dollars, one could just as easily infer the instability you are observing is that OF the US dollar.
After all if the USD dollar halves the price of gold in us dollars doubles. That's not instability in the value of gold, that's instability in the usd you are measuring.
Using your logic, the person allowing the search is also incriminating themselves.
There is no law preventing you from incriminating yourself. There is only a law preventing the police from compelling you to incriminate yourself with testimony.
If you choose to incriminate yourself, that's entirely fine. If you are worried allowing the search will incriminate yourself, don't allow the search.
Interestingly wold does not trigger a spelling error indicator.
Because its not a spelling error. 'wold' is a word.
I think we'd probably be horrified to see z/OS implode if you installed it on a billion desktops, put billions of regular users browsing the web with it, and then unleashed malware writers on it.
In the event that an IBM System Integrity problem is reported, IBM will always take action to resolve it
I'm sure they'd be overwhelmed if the amount of exploit research activity was unleashed against it that is 'just another day' for windows.
Assuming of course, that z/OS is used by billions of people to browse the web etc, and an exploit only needs to get arbitrary code to run in the users shell to be devastating... it doesn't even need to gain root.
In general I think your kids should expect that if they ask you for money/things the answer will be "no - that's what your allowance is for"
Except that is not what their allowance is for. If they used their allowance for overpriced ice cream, they would certainly be allowed to, but they'd probably regret it; that small instantaneous bit of ice cream is not worth waiting weeks for and they'd likely decide against it.
They've learned that they can buy an occasional candy bar without it impacting their long term goals significantly, but $5 for one Popsicle from the ice cream man, they've learned that even if they have enough money, that they cannot really 'afford' it.
That is one of the lessons we're trying to teach, and encouraging them to use their allowance to buy it would run counter to the lesson.
We'd be more inclined to say, "No, its too expensive. You can use your allowance if you want, but do you want an ice cream that badly that you are willing to add a couple weeks to get the X you are saving for."
When the X is a long way out either way that doesn't have much impact, but when they've been savign a while and its just about within reach, watching it slip further away is a lot harder. (and for this reason we try to steer them towards saving for reasonable goals... my son intially wanted to save for his first home. He thought, quite reasonably for a 7 year old, that if he saved his allowance he could buy a home as an adult. :(
We explained to him that his allowance would not be enough even if saved over years to come close to what he'd need, and to use his allowance for short and medium term goals, things he could either afford outright, or within a few months. There would be time enough to start saving for a home, when he gets his first real job.
in fact them asking for things is probably a sign that you're overdoing it
I don't think is any harm in asking. If I say no and I get a shocked/entitled look back, then I'm overdoing it, but that's not the case.
Really what should have happened, is that THE TWO OF THEM should have agreed on some reasonable allowance, then if I wanted an ice cream, I would be expected to pay for it out of my allowance.
Agreed and disagreed at the same time. I have kids, and they have a modest allowance; and its amazing to see them save up for a few months and buy things like a pokemon game for the DS or whatever. So I agree with you about the importance and value of that end of things.
But it's modest enough that if the ice cream man comes up the street, and they buy an ice cream that would blow the majority of their biweekly allowance. They know that... and thus don't blow their allowance on ice cream... which is great. They've learned something.
But at the same time, as parents, we want our kids childhoods experiences to include things like 'spontaneous ice cream on a hot summer day' so we buy the overpriced ice cream once in a while, and don't expect our kids to pay for it.
Thusly, I wonder how politically neutral this implementation is...
personal finances courses tend to be:
how to make a budget
how to balance a checkbook (even though nobody uses them)
how credit card interest works
how car loan interest works
how leasing works
how home mortgages work
how bank interest works (or in today's banks doesn't)
some very introductory stuff on investments (ie what are bonds, gics, stocks, dividends, mutual funds, etc).
And I would hope in today's versions they talk a bit about things like payday loans.
Its pretty practical stuff largely divorced from any economic theory.
Strangely enough, I can use the debugger associated with my IDE of choice to debug a separately running process.
Mine too. The point remains that comparatively few people actually know how to do this or are comfortable with it, loading symbol tables, etc. If they didn't start the program from within the IDE they're boned.
Of course, your analogy is no better. Using Maple, matlab, etc. makes you *faster* at calculus by doing the calculus for you.
Nobody in the real world ever does calculus for the sake of the math itself, its always in the context of solving a problem.
Whether you are using Maple or a notepad the hard part has always been solving the problem, not doing the arithmetic.
An IDE which doesn't require you to jump into a different paradigm to debug your code, and which provides language/API hints so that you don't have to manually dig through a printed document, speed up development by keeping you *in* the development mindset.
Just as using Maple/matlab/R etc lets you stay in the fluid modelling mindset or whatever it is you are really working on; rather than getting bogged down remember whether the integral of -sin(x) is cos(x) or -cos(x)...
That's why I don't get Coke at McDonalds. Bottle of water, please.
Paying for tap water at bottled water prices is a bigger scam than soft drinks. But at least its healthier. CocaCola gets your money either way.
Many wineries sell their wares on-site, in addition to providing tastings.
Yeah, sorry, a winery isn't a place to "go to eat", even if you can bring food. Several of my favorite wines are from Portugal, Argentina, and South Africa... so going to the local wineries isn't exactly a solution.
And that's why I'm ranting. Because so many entrepreneurs have discovered that you can assrape a captive market.
I agree its a "rip off"; but you know going in what the deal is. You factor it in as part of the price of the event. And if the rave were legally prevented from charging $10 for water, they'd raise the 'cover' charge instead. They aren't going to simply "make less money".
If the market wouldn't "bear it" then some restaurants wouldn't charge large fees, and the wine would be reasonable. There's no artificial factor forcing prices to those levels, so that's genuinely the hand of the free market. There's lots of real competition between restaurants... its not Comcast.
I realize how much time I wasted trying to debug things with many calls to system.out.println
The point of your university course was not to maximize your output productivity, but to teach you how to program.
For example --
For my first calculus course in university I had to manually evaluate derivatives and integrals. Now that I know how to use Maple, and matlab, and R I realize how much time I wasted.
Right?
Well, sure, but the goal of the calculus course was to teach me the math, with no eye whatsoever toward generating the answers as quickly as possible.
Writing code manually in a text file, compiling it to object, linking it to an executable, and debugging it with println teaches you how things work under the hood. Picking up an IDE later on lets you leverage all the power that tool gives you, but still, in the back of your head, you know what's going on. That's valuable.
While the IDE can be a little overwhelming at first, programming without a proper step-through debugger is painful.
Ironically, a debugger "originally" is a separate thing, you can attach it to a running process, load a symbol table, set breakpoints etc. Its great that they are part of IDEs, but this invaluable skill of working with a debugger separately is frequently overlooked.
-sigh- </em>
It's a restaurant,
Right. A restaurant, an establishment to serve meals. A meal, of course, is comprised of food and drinks.
not a winery.
A winery is a farm that grows grapes, and ferments them into wine. Why would I go to a winery for a glass of wine? What if I -gasp- want a glass of wine WITH food?
Of course, many restaurants have decided that it's very lucrative to get a liquor license and start selling absurdly overpriced wine on-premises, netting huge margins.
You do realize mcdonalds charges ~1250% on Coca Cola too right? It costs them ~16 cents for a large coke (and half of that is the paper cup). Why does 250% on a bottle of wine offend you?
The fries are marked up several hundred percent as well; and for what? They open a bag of fries (which are just potatoes) and put them in a deep frier for 3 minutes, and then salt them. Done.
Yet paying triple for them to open a bottle of wine? That is worthy of a rant?
But you are fine with this, despite there being no rational explanation for any of it
Yes, I am fine with it. Because I really don't expect a restaurant to outside food and drink at all. And the corking fee is a reasonable compromise.
You get to drink the wine you want; and usually for less than it would have cost you to buy the wine you didn't want, and they still make money.
Is it greed? Sure, in part, yes. But where would you draw the line? Should I be able to walk into a restaurant with my extended family, sit down taking up half the seats in the place, and then pull out a picnic basket? Of course not.
Bandwidth is neither unlimited or free.
I fully understand this. That is why i am paying my ISP a premium for 100Mb access.
It's rather fun to see people who wand to have those with high income pay more tax, but not having big bandwidth consumer pay more for the pipe access.
What are you on about? I do pay more for 100mbit bandwidth than my brother pays for 10mbit. I am not complaining about this, nobody is.
I, for one, would be happy to subscribe to a cheaper basic service I don't mind to have youtube (or youporn) in 144p if at the end that saves me money.
Be my guest, pay the ISP less for less speed. Lots of people do that.
What does that have to do with the ISP deciding to charge netflix to provide me the high speed access to the content that I am paying them to provide me high speed access to?
This is the equivalent of me going into a restaurant with a bottle of wine. (The wine is netflix, the restaurant is my ISP.)
Now, the rules here are that I can do this, I can bring in my own bottle of wine, but have to pay a corking fee for them to serve it to me in the restaurant. I am fine with this. So I've paid for the wine (netflix), and I've paid for the corking (ISP). So that's all there is too it.
Suddenly the restaurant phones the liquor store and demands money from THEM to serve me the wine. The wine that I've already paid for myself, and which I've already paid the restaurant to serve me.
WTF
I am the ISPs customer. I am already paying the ISP a lot of money to transmit data over their network to me, from any source on the internet at high speed. Why on EARTH should netflix have to pay them as well for what I am already paying them for?
It is better because it has not changed a lot in the last 20 years.
Which will change the moment it becomes 'important' again. And seeing as its under Microsofts proprietary control, if it were adopted as standard, the next version of Office would start throwing all kinds of new crap into it.
Also, simply because of its age, you can be sure that RTF does not infringe any patents...
I predict most of the new crap they jam in it will be directly from OOXML and we're back at square one here too.
"Since when as ANYBODY has ever invoked 'living ones life taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment' as 'committing suicide' it until you die."
Should be:
""Since when has ANYBODY ever invoked 'living ones life, taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong it, while in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, until you die' as 'committing suicide'?"
With that logic you're committing a suicide no matter what you do
Only for definitions of 'suicide' so loose as to be meaningless.
Since when as ANYBODY has ever invoked 'living ones life taking reasonable steps to preserve and prolong in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment' as 'committing suicide' it until you die.
Suicide is a deliberate and reckless endangerment of ones own life with life. And we're not talking "I like skydiving" or "learning to fly a fighter jet", no, the current state of the 'mars mission' is more on par with Russian roulette except all the chambers are loaded and your 'plan' is that when you pull the trigger maybe it'll jam.
I interpreted the completed and polished parts of DNF as a brilliant satire on modern FPS games,
I did too, sort of "intuitively" but never really analyzed it as such. Now that I think about it, I agree completely.
The commentary on the role of NPCs was particularly excellent.
LOL, agreed.
Still, I think they could have achieved the same effect without being quite so low brow at times.
I have 26 like that.
So if I generate 26 more, you'll have no trouble memorize them all? Assuming that is the case, good for you, you are a special flower.
To suggest that anyone else is unfit to work in any field requiring security is absurd.
I also have a generic "Password123" password for sites that are use once and forget.
I agree this is sensible.
Peering arrangements are private contracts that don't have anything to do with end users.
And if you demand your ISP gives their peering partners anything they want
I don't demand that at all.
There is a middle ground where the ISP can figure out how to deliver traffic to me without having to deliver every other ISPs traffic for free. Those peering contracts can be arbitrarily detailed.
A failing memory means that you are not suitable for the job and should find something else, like working in a retirement home.
Yeah, how many passwords like: R;3m|/|iv%{^B$
do you have memorized? I have several passwords on that scale of arbitrary, that I did not pick, that I cannot change, that are changed on someone else's schedule, cannot be re-used, and that I tend to need to actually enter maybe once a quarter, if that.