That's not true at all - saving drives the economy just as much as consuming.
Quite the opposite. Saving takes money out of circulation. You're thinking of investing, which even then isn't as effective.
Lets say you are given $1 that you must spend and the recipient of that $1 must spend that as well. To the laws of physics, there was only one dollar bill. To the laws of economics, $2 were created. Saving that $1 in a mattress (yes, it's still done especially when people are afraid of banks) removes it from circulation. Even putting $1 in a savings account (due to good FDIC rules) has a limited effect on how much a bank can lend out.
But, everyone who's every interacted with Federal IT and Support Services knows they're some of the least cost-effective organizations on the planet. They have a responsibility to get their act together.
For those of you that say "Why didn't they put it out when the guy pleaded to pay the $75?" Sorry, that's SOP. If they agreed to this EVERYONE would fail to pay the $75/year and they'd just offer to pay after the fire dept came. You have to realize that it costs a lot more than $75 to pay for FD services. The $75 is effectively an insurance, $75 alone doesn't come anywhere NEAR the cost of putting out a single fire.
You make an excellent point (which is also made by others). What if the FD offered a $500 fee for coming out when the insurance hasn't been paid? $1,000? I'd pay or scrape together $5,000 to get them to come out rather than letting the place burn down.
Thank you for making this clarification. All to frequently people take one verse and ignore the context (both Christian and non-Christian).
My memory is fuzzy on the details, but there was something also about "pulling out" (either in this story or a similar one). It came down to that he was cheating her (by not letting her get pregnant), so she dressed like a prostitute, he didn't recognize her, ???, and profit... er baby.
In fact, if they are really good at arts, they should do only arts, with a tools like 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc. Again, arts only, no programming.
This is pretty narrow pigeon-holing. There is no reason why an artist who may one day work with those tools shouldn't also know game-design principles (especially if they will one day be a key member on a game project).
Should I as a software engineer not touch Apache configuration because I am best at writing code? What about database scripts?
While an interesting idea, many algorithms behave unpredictably on multiple processors (depending on how much communication would be required). Some will even be slower!
The affect that extra CPUs will have is too dependent on the hardware implementation to be able to formalize like this.
... I do not make up the rules. Whether or not the rule is flawed here is not the point, until said rule is changed people will have to abide by it.
I wholeheartedly agree. If you don't like a law, you should fight to change it rather than break it.
As always, there are exceptions to this such as great injustice such as the civil rights movement. No, the Superbowl half-time show incident doesn't count.
There are many myths about taxes that are used by people to justify not paying them. You can bet all those walmart employees are paying taxes, so $20,000 fails the sniff test.
If the criteria is the woman is near or completely unconscious, your points are dead on.
But that's not the criteria discussed back when I was on campus. It was about drunk, conscious, girls that may or may not have been acting flirty but were considered unable to give consent.
So knowing that guys were accused and charged at this level of intoxication, the scenario stands as relevant.
All good points, but what about the 3rd case where neither are able to give consent? Does the lack of ability to give consent mean they also aren't capable of seeing consent can't be given by the other? When both were drunk, can a man counter-charge rape on the girl if the girl charges rape against him?
Philosophically, this is a more interesting scenario.
To be fair, at one point it was pretty standard to put the accuser in a case like that more on trial than the accused.
Things have swung too far in the opposite direction, now, but you have to understand these things in context -- society's trying to find an appropriate equilibrium.
I was thinking about something related to this the other day. If a guy sleeps with a drunk girl, he can be charged with rape. If a girl sleeps with a drunk guy, she never would be. If a drunk guy sleeps with a drunk girl, she can claim she was unable to give consent. But where does that leave the drunk guy (who wasn't able to... ask for consent?).
Something is off about the last example, but I haven't narrow it down yet.
Whether its known for being full of Hippies or apparent Lemonade Stand Nazi's (aka puppy/children haters) the state is known by others as very liberal. I thought there were protected jobs that minors could do freely, mow lawns, newspaper routes, and lemonade stands. Lemonade stands are practically an iconic image of American children living the American dream. Now some communists want to "put the public's health first." I'd like to know how much a 7 year old can screw up with a can of lemonade concentrate diluted with 3 parts water, chilled with ice cubes.
They can sneeze on their hands or be picking their noes while preping it.
But in all seriousness, yeah this is pretty lame. This happened in Minnesota a long time ago. A neighbor complained about it and so the mom went out and paid the $30-40 to get the license so the kids could have their stand.
Re:I've Heard of It a Few Times
on
Why Wave Failed
·
· Score: 1
Read that aloud in your best Shatneresque cadence:-)
I'm not sure... what you're talking... about we've covered... it a few... times.
I think he was attacking the FBI copyright warning at the start of movies. Although I suspect that it is at the consent of the FBI. I wonder what started the FBI to go after Wikipedia though?
I don't know, but the solution is simple enough. If Congress represented us, they'd say: "Oh, I see what you're saying. You can afford to worry about this because you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and VShael can get a pony and after one year we'll re-evaluate how this affects your choice of priorities. Who said federal bureaus can't learn to be more efficient?"
If the burn even works. I have a Compaq laptop that came preloaded with Windows Vista. Tried burning the recovery because I wanted to wipe the drive, reclaim my 8 gigs by deleting the recovery partition, and install Ubuntu. It would get through 99% of the burn and then just fail randomly. After going through half a dozen DVD-R's, I just gave up.
I had this happen with an HP too.
On a side note, I ended up giving it away. It overheated too much and would freeze or shutdown. I had to use external cooling from an over-sized fan with everything placed next to the window on a cold night. The recipient placed in on two ice packs for setting up Windows.
Backup and redundancy can get awfully expensive, particularly if an online backup product like Evault is used. I don't know if its worth 30 dollars, but it's a pretty fucking good milkshake.
Don't forget salary costs in IT to support it all.
That said, if IT is really using $30 per Gig then they aren't necessarily using the right online backups or tools. Redundancy doesn't cost that much. Geographical redundancy doesn't cost that much. Off-site "vaults" can be pricey, but not that expensive. If I were in the OPs shoes, I'd ask the IT department to share with me how they came up with that number. It's simple and not too confrontational. If their math is fuzzy or their numbers don't make sense, I'd follow up with them justifying that cost. It could just be that there is no IT budget, it all comes out of other budgets through this sort of thing. It could also be that someone has built a very good empire.
You're referencing an old scam (not the product, but sending the refund using an embarrassing name). If I recall, the court said that they couldn't use that tactic to prevent cashing of checks.
"Thou shalt remove thine shoes from thine feet, for thee art in a place of holy security, and also we want it to look like we learned something from that shoe bomber incident."
Thank God that the US are prude or they would have learned something from the underwear bomber too.
I always thought pre-installed crap was called "shovelware." As in, it's shoveled on there not for functionality's sake, but so some programmer can get a bonus.
Shovelware can also include bad software in general. They shovel it out the door, so to speak.
Slashdot Mirror
That's not true at all - saving drives the economy just as much as consuming.
Quite the opposite. Saving takes money out of circulation. You're thinking of investing, which even then isn't as effective.
Lets say you are given $1 that you must spend and the recipient of that $1 must spend that as well. To the laws of physics, there was only one dollar bill. To the laws of economics, $2 were created. Saving that $1 in a mattress (yes, it's still done especially when people are afraid of banks) removes it from circulation. Even putting $1 in a savings account (due to good FDIC rules) has a limited effect on how much a bank can lend out.
I don't even know if I'm joking.
You missed a requirement: easy for the students to remove by hand
But, everyone who's every interacted with Federal IT and Support Services knows they're some of the least cost-effective organizations on the planet. They have a responsibility to get their act together.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...
For those of you that say "Why didn't they put it out when the guy pleaded to pay the $75?" Sorry, that's SOP. If they agreed to this EVERYONE would fail to pay the $75/year and they'd just offer to pay after the fire dept came. You have to realize that it costs a lot more than $75 to pay for FD services. The $75 is effectively an insurance, $75 alone doesn't come anywhere NEAR the cost of putting out a single fire.
You make an excellent point (which is also made by others). What if the FD offered a $500 fee for coming out when the insurance hasn't been paid? $1,000? I'd pay or scrape together $5,000 to get them to come out rather than letting the place burn down.
Thank you for making this clarification. All to frequently people take one verse and ignore the context (both Christian and non-Christian).
My memory is fuzzy on the details, but there was something also about "pulling out" (either in this story or a similar one). It came down to that he was cheating her (by not letting her get pregnant), so she dressed like a prostitute, he didn't recognize her, ???, and profit... er baby.
In fact, if they are really good at arts, they should do only arts, with a tools like 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc. Again, arts only, no programming.
This is pretty narrow pigeon-holing. There is no reason why an artist who may one day work with those tools shouldn't also know game-design principles (especially if they will one day be a key member on a game project).
Should I as a software engineer not touch Apache configuration because I am best at writing code? What about database scripts?
It's so much easier to say "Kids, don't try this at home."
While an interesting idea, many algorithms behave unpredictably on multiple processors (depending on how much communication would be required). Some will even be slower!
The affect that extra CPUs will have is too dependent on the hardware implementation to be able to formalize like this.
That's pretty awesome. And I can't think of a more deserving company who bypasses minimum wages like that.
... I do not make up the rules. Whether or not the rule is flawed here is not the point, until said rule is changed people will have to abide by it.
I wholeheartedly agree. If you don't like a law, you should fight to change it rather than break it.
As always, there are exceptions to this such as great injustice such as the civil rights movement. No, the Superbowl half-time show incident doesn't count.
+1 informative.
There are many myths about taxes that are used by people to justify not paying them. You can bet all those walmart employees are paying taxes, so $20,000 fails the sniff test.
If the criteria is the woman is near or completely unconscious, your points are dead on.
But that's not the criteria discussed back when I was on campus. It was about drunk, conscious, girls that may or may not have been acting flirty but were considered unable to give consent.
So knowing that guys were accused and charged at this level of intoxication, the scenario stands as relevant.
All good points, but what about the 3rd case where neither are able to give consent? Does the lack of ability to give consent mean they also aren't capable of seeing consent can't be given by the other? When both were drunk, can a man counter-charge rape on the girl if the girl charges rape against him?
Philosophically, this is a more interesting scenario.
To be fair, at one point it was pretty standard to put the accuser in a case like that more on trial than the accused.
Things have swung too far in the opposite direction, now, but you have to understand these things in context -- society's trying to find an appropriate equilibrium.
I was thinking about something related to this the other day. If a guy sleeps with a drunk girl, he can be charged with rape. If a girl sleeps with a drunk guy, she never would be. If a drunk guy sleeps with a drunk girl, she can claim she was unable to give consent. But where does that leave the drunk guy (who wasn't able to... ask for consent?).
Something is off about the last example, but I haven't narrow it down yet.
Whether its known for being full of Hippies or apparent Lemonade Stand Nazi's (aka puppy/children haters) the state is known by others as very liberal. I thought there were protected jobs that minors could do freely, mow lawns, newspaper routes, and lemonade stands. Lemonade stands are practically an iconic image of American children living the American dream. Now some communists want to "put the public's health first." I'd like to know how much a 7 year old can screw up with a can of lemonade concentrate diluted with 3 parts water, chilled with ice cubes.
They can sneeze on their hands or be picking their noes while preping it.
But in all seriousness, yeah this is pretty lame. This happened in Minnesota a long time ago. A neighbor complained about it and so the mom went out and paid the $30-40 to get the license so the kids could have their stand.
Read that aloud in your best Shatneresque cadence :-)
I'm not sure... what you're talking... about we've covered... it a few... times.
I think he was attacking the FBI copyright warning at the start of movies. Although I suspect that it is at the consent of the FBI. I wonder what started the FBI to go after Wikipedia though?
I don't know, but the solution is simple enough. If Congress represented us, they'd say: "Oh, I see what you're saying. You can afford to worry about this because you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and VShael can get a pony and after one year we'll re-evaluate how this affects your choice of priorities. Who said federal bureaus can't learn to be more efficient?"
If the burn even works. I have a Compaq laptop that came preloaded with Windows Vista. Tried burning the recovery because I wanted to wipe the drive, reclaim my 8 gigs by deleting the recovery partition, and install Ubuntu. It would get through 99% of the burn and then just fail randomly. After going through half a dozen DVD-R's, I just gave up.
I had this happen with an HP too.
On a side note, I ended up giving it away. It overheated too much and would freeze or shutdown. I had to use external cooling from an over-sized fan with everything placed next to the window on a cold night. The recipient placed in on two ice packs for setting up Windows.
I came to post something like this. I'm glad someone did it already (and did it well).
Backup and redundancy can get awfully expensive, particularly if an online backup product like Evault is used. I don't know if its worth 30 dollars, but it's a pretty fucking good milkshake.
Don't forget salary costs in IT to support it all.
That said, if IT is really using $30 per Gig then they aren't necessarily using the right online backups or tools. Redundancy doesn't cost that much. Geographical redundancy doesn't cost that much. Off-site "vaults" can be pricey, but not that expensive. If I were in the OPs shoes, I'd ask the IT department to share with me how they came up with that number. It's simple and not too confrontational. If their math is fuzzy or their numbers don't make sense, I'd follow up with them justifying that cost. It could just be that there is no IT budget, it all comes out of other budgets through this sort of thing. It could also be that someone has built a very good empire.
You're referencing an old scam (not the product, but sending the refund using an embarrassing name). If I recall, the court said that they couldn't use that tactic to prevent cashing of checks.
People should also focus on how unnecessarily dangerous that traffic stop was.
Why did off-duty officer feel it was necessary to endanger his own life, the motorcyclist and the life of the motorists in the nearby vehicles?
The "victim" was driving 127mph on a public road with other traffic around. Who was placing whom in danger again?
Unintended accelera...
(and he wasn't driving a Toyota, either)
oh.
"Thou shalt remove thine shoes from thine feet, for thee art in a place of holy security, and also we want it to look like we learned something from that shoe bomber incident."
Thank God that the US are prude or they would have learned something from the underwear bomber too.
Umm... virtual strip search anyone?
I always thought pre-installed crap was called "shovelware." As in, it's shoveled on there not for functionality's sake, but so some programmer can get a bonus.
Shovelware can also include bad software in general. They shovel it out the door, so to speak.
Who. Are. These. People?
And what's their contact info?