It won't be long before we're all wearing TSA-issued paper hospital gowns and subject to full rectal probe and drugged interrogation before we can board a plane... but we'll finally be "safe."
Why stop at the hospital gowns. You might be hiding something in there... somewhere. I see the future of flight in our puritan-rooted country to be naked. Because then we're safe.
Seriously (and I tread carefully not to Godwin), before someone was killed in a concentration camp, they had their pride and clothes taken away. With the roll out of these new scanners, the terrorists have tricked us into doing it to ourselves.
My point is that if this priest had gotten up on Sunday and said,"We should be better to the poor," I doubt even the parishioners would have noticed. But since he said, "You know what? Frack 'em, go take what you need from the greedy buggers and the Lord will let it slide..." and suddenly we're talking about it half a world away...
I understand that completely. However, after he is found guilty of using excessive force or unlawfully using his weapon or whatever, is he going to pay back the wages he 'earned' while he was on desk duty?
That doesn't matter, really. Whatever pay he might receive while on desk duty before (possibly) being found guilty and let go is a drop in the bucket compared to how expensive it is to fire someone, especially if the organization goes out of its way to make sure it doesn't get sued (severance, legal costs).
They don't discuss it, but I wonder if they don't just fire up 400 Amazon instances, do the work, then shut them off. For $34 (an oddly specific number), they can't afford to have 400 CPUs around. However, if they allocate on a job-by-job basis, then their overhead is very low.
This kind of work (high computation, high parallelization, infrequent request) might be the most brilliant and non-obvious use of cloud computing. Low overhead due to using someone else's hardware (rather than having 400 CPUs laying around). If this is truely what they are doing, I am very impressed.
More importantly, racing is about car control. A mass-marketed sim like Grand Turismo does not approach the levels of realism required to be an adequate sim for learning this.
I think you underestimate the realism of the GT series. While the abstract some of the car characteristics, they do depict the handling of the cars pretty well.
While not a proof, one of the parts shops hosted a GT tournament for the local autox people. The racers were able to apply what they learned while pushing their cars to the limit back to the video game. I had thought I was good, and then I saw what the others could do.
But Craig is actually leveraging tech in the appropriate way if the goal is to do as much as possible with as little as possible.
That's the thing so many companies just don't get. They feel they need big teams. They think they need to spend this or that and have Flash and Flex and AJAX and all sorts of stuff. But sometimes simplicity, lightweight, and a small team can do amazing things.
Just shoot the fuckers already. Pretty soon there won't be any more of them.
From now on, whenever you think "lethal weapons on civilian ships would stop piracy", I want you to consider that this is the same as "lots of armed Chinese marines in Los Angeles Harbor would stop piracy". Then put yourself in the shoes of a President trying to push some kind of international convention permitting that.
Thank you.
Close but not the same. These are (mostly) ships traveling in international waters, some hundreds or a thousand miles away from the country in question.
I don't know where you hire your trained soldiers, they aren't any good. Some deer were taken from 800+ yards, and a deer is about human size. Maybe you are talking about grunts who are running *and* firing their assault rifles on full auto, but that's not applicable to this scenario.
You're examples don't directly apply because they are focused on scopes and laser sights on binoculars. Most assault rifles don't have scopes and AKs used by pirates definitely won't have scopes. Laser sights are only used in close quarters. Binoculars are a lot easier to hold steady than a 10 lb (give or take, plus ammo) rifle. Also, hunters tend to be far better shots than the average soldier due to more experience (and at longer range). There was a platoon of volksgrenediers ("old men and young boys") in WWII who happened to be old hunters. They ripped the Allies a new one because of their experience shooting deer.
Standard marksmanship training for US Marines goes up to 500m using the iron sights and from the prone position (I tried to verify this, but I'm not able to freely google).
I do agree that a 12 man squad on each ship would be more effective than what we have now. Even if they were out-of-practice reservists (no offense intended to anyone), they should be able to effectively defend a ship against an organized attack.
Of course it's a formality. They have hopefully already been told by their commanding officer that this is joke and if anything the extra publicity regarding this will help their careers. This way they can be removed from the front line on full pay while someone drags their feet deciding the charges are a joke.
They have done their bit, let them see their families stateside for a while.
Hooah.
Even if this ended up in front of a jury of their military peers, can anyone imagine a conviction? I can't and I would be very surprised if the prosecutor fancies his chances or actually wants to argue this one on the courtroom floor.
The military is in the business of killing people. When capturing, they are to subdue the enemy to not put themselves at risk. They are not police officers. They don't read writes, say "come out with your hands up" or carry (normal) handcuffs. If something goes wrong and the target gets killed, it's just another day.
Honestly, it sounds to me like your problem wasn't unions in general but rather the teachers' union in the US.
While that might have been part of his experience, this matches a lot of what I've heard and not just from teacher's unions.
In short, the people who feel they have the most to lose get involved in union leadership. Also, if all of the union leadership are, say, Java programmers, then I bet they might negotiate harder for the benefits of Java programmers over networking engineers (which is pretty close to the "suppress wages" part of the teacher's union example).
Which probably also means that you'll still be near the cannon when they are 400m close or less which is nice rifle range.
I'd just like to point out that 400m is not "nice rifle range" even on dry land. A trained soldier has a hard time hitting a man-sized target at 400m on the rifle range. You're talking about irregulars who can't hit someone at 50m in a city, then putting them in a skiff that's traveling 15 - 20 knots (to catch the ship) and in 3-5 foot seas on a calm day.
Either that, or the Video Game Bogeyman has been replaced by the Terrorism Bogeyman, and people are simply concentrating on that instead.
Sad but true.
This touches on another trend. If you want power over a man, don't make him feel secure. Instead, instill a fear of a great evil and position yourself as his protector. Then he will willingly give you his wealth, servitude, and even family.
Here in the US, we tend to not care about such trivial things as which languages someone opts to teach their child.
I'm sorry, you sure you're from the same US I'm from? Where growing up learning only Spanish becomes a serious barrier in life? And many people are xenophobic and arrogant when it comes to languages?
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For double occupancy, there's plenty of "love hotels" to be found. :)
Although at probably a higher price.
It won't be long before we're all wearing TSA-issued paper hospital gowns and subject to full rectal probe and drugged interrogation before we can board a plane ... but we'll finally be "safe."
Why stop at the hospital gowns. You might be hiding something in there... somewhere. I see the future of flight in our puritan-rooted country to be naked. Because then we're safe.
Seriously (and I tread carefully not to Godwin), before someone was killed in a concentration camp, they had their pride and clothes taken away. With the roll out of these new scanners, the terrorists have tricked us into doing it to ourselves.
I think 2001-2008 America proved this isn't the case.
(I know I'll be burned by the mods, but soooo worth it).
My point is that if this priest had gotten up on Sunday and said,"We should be better to the poor," I doubt even the parishioners would have noticed. But since he said, "You know what? Frack 'em, go take what you need from the greedy buggers and the Lord will let it slide..." and suddenly we're talking about it half a world away...
Ah, for want of a mod point. +1 Insightful.
True in a lot of ways. Perhaps a _brief_ outage would put people's lives in perspective.
Or make them actually spend Christmas with their families rather than faking it.
Dell has NOTHING on Packard Bell. I'm not sure what happened to them,
Packard Bell was bought by Compaq (which became crap). Compaq was bought by HP (which became crap). It's like a virus.
9/11 is a date. 911 is a phone number.
Go easy on him. He's from a Red state.
I understand that completely. However, after he is found guilty of using excessive force or unlawfully using his weapon or whatever, is he going to pay back the wages he 'earned' while he was on desk duty?
That doesn't matter, really. Whatever pay he might receive while on desk duty before (possibly) being found guilty and let go is a drop in the bucket compared to how expensive it is to fire someone, especially if the organization goes out of its way to make sure it doesn't get sued (severance, legal costs).
They don't discuss it, but I wonder if they don't just fire up 400 Amazon instances, do the work, then shut them off. For $34 (an oddly specific number), they can't afford to have 400 CPUs around. However, if they allocate on a job-by-job basis, then their overhead is very low.
This kind of work (high computation, high parallelization, infrequent request) might be the most brilliant and non-obvious use of cloud computing. Low overhead due to using someone else's hardware (rather than having 400 CPUs laying around). If this is truely what they are doing, I am very impressed.
Get the FCC approve your devices for use.
Get any sort of decent battery life out of a mesh network with no towers while still maintaining access to the PSTN and emergency services.
Hahahahahaha.... that's funny.
More importantly, racing is about car control. A mass-marketed sim like Grand Turismo does not approach the levels of realism required to be an adequate sim for learning this.
I think you underestimate the realism of the GT series. While the abstract some of the car characteristics, they do depict the handling of the cars pretty well.
While not a proof, one of the parts shops hosted a GT tournament for the local autox people. The racers were able to apply what they learned while pushing their cars to the limit back to the video game. I had thought I was good, and then I saw what the others could do.
"Le go of me!"
What could possibly be bad in a code base that contains functions such as "void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void)"?
That it's not written in CamelCase.
Depends on the language if that's a good thing or not.
But Craig is actually leveraging tech in the appropriate way if the goal is to do as much as possible with as little as possible.
That's the thing so many companies just don't get. They feel they need big teams. They think they need to spend this or that and have Flash and Flex and AJAX and all sorts of stuff. But sometimes simplicity, lightweight, and a small team can do amazing things.
From now on, whenever you think "lethal weapons on civilian ships would stop piracy", I want you to consider that this is the same as "lots of armed Chinese marines in Los Angeles Harbor would stop piracy". Then put yourself in the shoes of a President trying to push some kind of international convention permitting that. Thank you.
Close but not the same. These are (mostly) ships traveling in international waters, some hundreds or a thousand miles away from the country in question.
Fortunately he found the only found the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles and was sailing to it to ask for help.
With a rocket launcher?
He ran out of flairs?
I don't know where you hire your trained soldiers, they aren't any good. Some deer were taken from 800+ yards, and a deer is about human size. Maybe you are talking about grunts who are running *and* firing their assault rifles on full auto, but that's not applicable to this scenario.
You're examples don't directly apply because they are focused on scopes and laser sights on binoculars. Most assault rifles don't have scopes and AKs used by pirates definitely won't have scopes. Laser sights are only used in close quarters. Binoculars are a lot easier to hold steady than a 10 lb (give or take, plus ammo) rifle. Also, hunters tend to be far better shots than the average soldier due to more experience (and at longer range). There was a platoon of volksgrenediers ("old men and young boys") in WWII who happened to be old hunters. They ripped the Allies a new one because of their experience shooting deer.
Standard marksmanship training for US Marines goes up to 500m using the iron sights and from the prone position (I tried to verify this, but I'm not able to freely google).
I do agree that a 12 man squad on each ship would be more effective than what we have now. Even if they were out-of-practice reservists (no offense intended to anyone), they should be able to effectively defend a ship against an organized attack.
Of course it's a formality. They have hopefully already been told by their commanding officer that this is joke and if anything the extra publicity regarding this will help their careers. This way they can be removed from the front line on full pay while someone drags their feet deciding the charges are a joke.
They have done their bit, let them see their families stateside for a while.
Hooah.
Even if this ended up in front of a jury of their military peers, can anyone imagine a conviction? I can't and I would be very surprised if the prosecutor fancies his chances or actually wants to argue this one on the courtroom floor.
The military is in the business of killing people. When capturing, they are to subdue the enemy to not put themselves at risk. They are not police officers. They don't read writes, say "come out with your hands up" or carry (normal) handcuffs. If something goes wrong and the target gets killed, it's just another day.
Honestly, it sounds to me like your problem wasn't unions in general but rather the teachers' union in the US.
While that might have been part of his experience, this matches a lot of what I've heard and not just from teacher's unions.
In short, the people who feel they have the most to lose get involved in union leadership. Also, if all of the union leadership are, say, Java programmers, then I bet they might negotiate harder for the benefits of Java programmers over networking engineers (which is pretty close to the "suppress wages" part of the teacher's union example).
Which probably also means that you'll still be near the cannon when they are 400m close or less which is nice rifle range.
I'd just like to point out that 400m is not "nice rifle range" even on dry land. A trained soldier has a hard time hitting a man-sized target at 400m on the rifle range. You're talking about irregulars who can't hit someone at 50m in a city, then putting them in a skiff that's traveling 15 - 20 knots (to catch the ship) and in 3-5 foot seas on a calm day.
Yeah... right...
I have to agree. Teachers on a whole are good, but teachers unions seem to be run by the ones more interested in themselves than teaching.
Either that, or the Video Game Bogeyman has been replaced by the Terrorism Bogeyman, and people are simply concentrating on that instead.
Sad but true.
This touches on another trend. If you want power over a man, don't make him feel secure. Instead, instill a fear of a great evil and position yourself as his protector. Then he will willingly give you his wealth, servitude, and even family.
Let's not forget the environmental damage and/or cost associated with disposing/recycling CRT's.
Lets not. This is the age of "Cash For Clunkers". :-)
Here in the US, we tend to not care about such trivial things as which languages someone opts to teach their child.
I'm sorry, you sure you're from the same US I'm from? Where growing up learning only Spanish becomes a serious barrier in life? And many people are xenophobic and arrogant when it comes to languages?
Personally, I think the parents should have just started homeschooling.
This was about time, not principles. They still need someone to babysit their kids during the day.