You're an ignorant idiot. I heard, on the radio, the morning in '93, hours *before* Bill was inaugurated for his first term, a Reptilian Congresscritter saying in so many words we're going to impeach him. Before he'd ever done anything.
The Gross Oligarchic Party seems to not have the ability to understand that not everyone agrees with them 110%, and are shocked, shocked I tell you, when they lose. They think they *own* it, and it MUST BE SOME KIND OF FRAUD when they lose.
Did you go to public school? And/or a state university? Do you drive on *public* roads? Do you have safe tap water? Sewer?
No, not paying taxes means *YOU* are a thief, stealing from the rest of us who pay for what we get.
You don't like it, find leave the country, whatever country you're in, and go claim an island and be Free! (tm) You aren't a human being, since humans evolved as *social* animals, not lone hunters.
Sounds like both Cook and Apple. They're on overpriced commodity hardware, and playing international games to avoid paying local taxes.
From the US IRS website:
1972: 16.67% of the federal revenue stream from individual income taxes, 25% from corporate taxes
Now: 44+% from income taxes, and 10+% from corporate taxes.
We pay more, so he doesn't have to. Let's go back to the 1972 tax structure, and see how you like *that*, Cook - you'd be in the 72% tax bracket....
Who could have imagined that idiots who ABSOLUTELY MUST RESPOND TO EVERYTHING, OR LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING THE INSTANT THEY DO IT, could have lower productivity....
I wore a pager at one job, and was paged, heavily. (Except for the two months there when I wore two pagers.) I would NEVER TAKE ANOTHER JOB that wouldn't pay me time and a half, at least, to be on call.
a) What do your friends pay you to be on call 24x7x365.25? Nothing? Then WHY do you have to respond *instantly*? (And if you're driving and doing this, I hope you run into a bridge abutment, and soon, before you kill someone else.) b) This is the same as bosses telling you to multitask. That kind of multitasking, along with you idiots on your mobile devices, is also known as "thrashing", and no, you *ain't* up to snuff.
mark "why, yes, I have a flip phone. Why? So people can *talk* to me...."
Yeah, everyone who works for the government is incompetent, and business is *always* competent, and libertidiots are *sure* of this.
Btw, I work for a federal contractor, and I know as a matter of fact, not opinion, that my salary and benefits are comparable to the GS level I'd be at (well... except for, say, if the government shuts down, for Republicans, or snow, or whatever, I either have to make it up, burn vacation time, or take it without pay)... AND our tax dollars are not only being spent to pay me, but also my direct manager, and his manager, and so on up, and, oh, yes, however could I have forgotten, for my company to make a good profit.
See? So much saved money..... At least, I, and the folks I work with, actually know what we're doing.
This is the GOVERNMENT's data. For that reason, for you who's attention span is 15 minutes, a year or two ago, the UK government decided against the cloud, because they could not be assured that UK government data would remain on UK government soil.
You disagree? Really? So it's ok if all of the personal and economic data, including your tax returns, winds up in a data center in China, or Russia, or, for those outside the US, in the US? And you're going to tell me that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has login or physical access to *all* the servers and their storage has at least some minimal security clearance from your country?
And if you're "struggling" with "moderately complex" programs, perhaps what you learned about programming wasn't adequate. Maybe you're trying to make it be java.
Of course, I'm old school, and when I work on a moderately complex program, I flow chart it... and I can code directly from that.
If we can get past the racists, and the 16-yr-olds who want to be "bad", and most of whom would like to get laid by an attractive black woman, but can't get laid at all because they're all losers...
Early reports of the hack said that they though the hackers had been there since perhaps December. Ok... when they sent in security during the breach that opened both sides databases up to Hillary and Bernie... what the *hell* were the security people *doing*? WHY DIDN'T THEY FIND ANY TRACES OF THE HACKERS? Were they actually *that* incompetent as "cybersecurity"?
Why did NASA offshore it? Why not build it *here*... or are they saying that "we're not good enough any more", or was it, "they're cheaper, so we'll give them our tax dollars and technology".
Just like Jim Crow. Even when they couldn't even show 0.01% of the votes were fraud. Even when they only had 17 cases the previous year out of several million votes.
Maybe the Carter Foundation will send out observers.
For decades, I've been trying to start a serious conversation on what I call Post-Adamic Society (where you no longer have to earn your bread by the sweat of your brow).
We've all read how some manufacturing has come back to the US... and employs an order of magnitude fewer people, due to automation. Mining - the "war on coal", for example, was really run by the coal companies, and won by going from tunnel mining to mountaintop removal, where they can use giant shovels into giant trucks, and have cut the number of miners in the last 40 years by an order of magnitude.
So, when so much of it all is done by automation and robots, including some of what we call "intellectual" work, how *do* the other 80% live? Will you give them makework jobs, where they push papers (or.pdfs) to each other, and don't actually add any value?
Where's all the jobs the billionaire "job creators" created? If they're not *here*, why *not* tax the shit out of them, and give everyone a basic income, and healthcare. *Then*, if you want better, find or make a job, and you'll *always* earn more, since it would be on top of your basic income.
And if you disagree, give at least one *workable* and *achievable* alternative plan. And just handwaving doesn't count.
Oh, duh, you all live in Silicon Valley, and *everything* comes from there... Jezuz H. Christ on a crutch! Every big and most medium sized companies have teams ranging from small to huge, ON SITE. Mid-nineties, when I worked for Ameritech (former Baby Bell swallowed by SBC), we had hundreds of us, just on one big startup subdivision. And when I had a short contract with Lowe's (not Home Despot) in Nowhere, NC, they'd taken over, literally, and entire *mall*, and there might have been a thousand cubes, and dozens at least, more, in the main office. And then there's government.
Talk about a complete media illusion, mostly by "journalists" who don't know a phone from a server....
I read that appointing BoJo as Foreign Minister is like appointing Dan Quayle as US Sec'y of State... or maybe worse.
I remember an Atlantic? NatRev? cover in the late eighties, that was a map of the world, divided into "ok to send VP Dan Quayle, not ok, and deep do-do if he goes there...."
Uber, if not its drivers, are making a mint, and they can't afford human guards?
And then there's the bit about alarms if something happens: how will the cops respond, after the 12th time that week that someone hits it with a paintball gun, covering all its fancy sensors? (The 13th time, of course, they'll do it, then go in and steal cars.)
1. How *big* will they be? And then, how much smaller will the 2nd gen be? And the 3rd? A coffin, or would I have to fold up my legs to get in? 2. People with claustraphobia won't be able to fly in them, and so the airlines will, of course, with great humanity, charge them multiples of the base price. 3. Get in at a bus station? Oh, *great*, so you're trapped in that all the way for *hours* through the traffic jam to the airport, and when does TSA have their way with you?
Anybody who said that, esp. when they're offering a cloud solution, should be instantly classified in the same category as that Nigerian prince who wants to make you rich helping him.
So, provider, tell me: how much more likely is it that the paper forms or their copies could be stolen - that's how many hundreds or thousands of pounds of paper - or that somebody or some group cracks the cloud security and d/l *all* of them? 100k times more likely the latter? A million times more likely?
Bull. Nothing wrong with computerized records... and local records d/l with security from the central repository, and that should *NOT* be a cloud. And SPEND THE DAMN MONEY AND HIRE A REAL SECURITY PROFESSIONAL TO LOCK IT ALL UP.
Alternatively, how big is your budget when it gets cracked, and all the parents file a class-action lawsuit for $100M US...?
I mean, does it, or does it not, still do the job they need it to do? Is there something that's a show-stopper that they absolutely *have* to have, and so need to upgrade.
And they *can* always run it under wine on a real operating system....
For that matter, none of all the C I used to write ever had buffer overflows, or memory out of bounds, etc. Of course, I wasn't right out of school when I wrote it, nor was I lazy... so, for example, I almost *never* used while/wend - overwhelmingly, it was for/next, with *LIMITS*. After some early C programming bugs that I fixed, I started, more and more, using strncpy.. And I *checked* the return from malloc.
mark "remember, half of the programmers out there are the bottom half"
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You're an ignorant idiot. I heard, on the radio, the morning in '93, hours *before* Bill was inaugurated for his first term, a Reptilian Congresscritter saying in so many words we're going to impeach him. Before he'd ever done anything.
The Gross Oligarchic Party seems to not have the ability to understand that not everyone agrees with them 110%, and are shocked, shocked I tell you, when they lose. They think they *own* it, and it MUST BE SOME KIND OF FRAUD when they lose.
mark
their culpability for the 2008 economic meltdown?
mark
You are, in fact, a liar.
Did you go to public school? And/or a state university?
Do you drive on *public* roads?
Do you have safe tap water? Sewer?
No, not paying taxes means *YOU* are a thief, stealing from the rest of us who pay for what we get.
You don't like it, find leave the country, whatever country you're in, and go claim an island and be Free! (tm) You aren't a human being, since humans evolved as *social* animals, not lone hunters.
You're an idiot, too.
mark
Sounds like both Cook and Apple. They're on overpriced commodity hardware, and playing international games to avoid paying local taxes.
From the US IRS website:
1972: 16.67% of the federal revenue stream from individual income taxes, 25% from corporate taxes
Now: 44+% from income taxes, and 10+% from corporate taxes.
We pay more, so he doesn't have to. Let's go back to the 1972 tax structure, and see how you like *that*, Cook - you'd be in the 72% tax bracket....
mark
Who could have imagined that idiots who ABSOLUTELY MUST RESPOND TO EVERYTHING, OR LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING THE INSTANT THEY DO IT, could have lower productivity....
I wore a pager at one job, and was paged, heavily. (Except for the two months there when I wore two pagers.) I would NEVER TAKE ANOTHER JOB that wouldn't pay me time and a half, at least, to be on call.
a) What do your friends pay you to be on call 24x7x365.25? Nothing? Then WHY do you have to respond *instantly*? (And if you're driving and doing this, I hope you run into a bridge abutment, and soon, before you kill someone else.)
b) This is the same as bosses telling you to multitask. That kind of multitasking, along with you idiots on your mobile devices, is also known as "thrashing", and no, you *ain't* up to snuff.
mark "why, yes, I have a flip phone. Why? So people can *talk* to me...."
Yeah, everyone who works for the government is incompetent, and business is *always* competent, and libertidiots are *sure* of this.
Btw, I work for a federal contractor, and I know as a matter of fact, not opinion, that my salary and benefits are comparable to the GS level I'd be at (well... except for, say, if the government shuts down, for Republicans, or snow, or whatever, I either have to make it up, burn vacation time, or take it without pay)... AND our tax dollars are not only being spent to pay me, but also my direct manager, and his manager, and so on up, and, oh, yes, however could I have forgotten, for my company to make a good profit.
See? So much saved money..... At least, I, and the folks I work with, actually know what we're doing.
mark
It's name is Rann.
Paging Adam Strange, Adam Strange, zeta beam for you from Rann....
mark
My power company called, last year, to offer me one. I told them not under any circumstances.
mark, who remembers when the 'Net was civilized
This is the GOVERNMENT's data. For that reason, for you who's attention span is 15 minutes, a year or two ago, the UK government decided against the cloud, because they could not be assured that UK government data would remain on UK government soil.
You disagree? Really? So it's ok if all of the personal and economic data, including your tax returns, winds up in a data center in China, or Russia, or, for those outside the US, in the US? And you're going to tell me that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has login or physical access to *all* the servers and their storage has at least some minimal security clearance from your country?
Give me a break.
mark
The end of Battle Beyond the Stars:
Sador: I'm going to live FOREVER!!!!
BOOOMMMMM! (as his ship blows up)
mark
And if you're "struggling" with "moderately complex" programs, perhaps what you learned about programming wasn't adequate. Maybe you're trying to make it be java.
Of course, I'm old school, and when I work on a moderately complex program, I flow chart it... and I can code directly from that.
mark
If we can get past the racists, and the 16-yr-olds who want to be "bad", and most of whom would like to get laid by an attractive black woman, but can't get laid at all because they're all losers...
Early reports of the hack said that they though the hackers had been there since perhaps December. Ok... when they sent in security during the breach that opened both sides databases up to Hillary and Bernie... what the *hell* were the security people *doing*? WHY DIDN'T THEY FIND ANY TRACES OF THE HACKERS? Were they actually *that* incompetent as "cybersecurity"?
mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
mark
Why did NASA offshore it? Why not build it *here*... or are they saying that "we're not good enough any more", or was it, "they're cheaper, so we'll give them our tax dollars and technology".
Just like Jim Crow. Even when they couldn't even show 0.01% of the votes were fraud. Even when they only had 17 cases the previous year out of several million votes.
Maybe the Carter Foundation will send out observers.
mark
For decades, I've been trying to start a serious conversation on what I call Post-Adamic Society (where you no longer have to earn your bread by the sweat of your brow).
We've all read how some manufacturing has come back to the US... and employs an order of magnitude fewer people, due to automation. Mining - the "war on coal", for example, was really run by the coal companies, and won by going from tunnel mining to mountaintop removal, where they can use giant shovels into giant trucks, and have cut the number of miners in the last 40 years by an order of magnitude.
So, when so much of it all is done by automation and robots, including some of what we call "intellectual" work, how *do* the other 80% live? Will you give them makework jobs, where they push papers (or .pdfs) to each other, and don't actually add any value?
Where's all the jobs the billionaire "job creators" created? If they're not *here*, why *not* tax the shit out of them, and give everyone a basic income, and healthcare. *Then*, if you want better, find or make a job, and you'll *always* earn more, since it would be on top of your basic income.
And if you disagree, give at least one *workable* and *achievable* alternative plan. And just handwaving doesn't count.
mark
So, he's going to order ssh banned from the UK? Really?
Wonder how their MoD will respond to that. Or *any* large company.....
mark
Oh, duh, you all live in Silicon Valley, and *everything* comes from there... Jezuz H. Christ on a crutch! Every big and most medium sized companies have teams ranging from small to huge, ON SITE. Mid-nineties, when I worked for Ameritech (former Baby Bell swallowed by SBC), we had hundreds of us, just on one big startup subdivision. And when I had a short contract with Lowe's (not Home Despot) in Nowhere, NC, they'd taken over, literally, and entire *mall*, and there might have been a thousand cubes, and dozens at least, more, in the main office. And then there's government.
Talk about a complete media illusion, mostly by "journalists" who don't know a phone from a server....
mark
I read that appointing BoJo as Foreign Minister is like appointing Dan Quayle as US Sec'y of State... or maybe worse.
I remember an Atlantic? NatRev? cover in the late eighties, that was a map of the world, divided into "ok to send VP Dan Quayle, not ok, and deep do-do if he goes there...."
mark
Ceres is almost twice that size, *almost* the size of our Moon.
Meanwhile, for many decades, the books for kids and teens always said that the Earth and Moon could be considered a double-planet system.
Pluto is almost half again the size of our Moon.
"Equal rights for Pluto! Pluto is a planet!" - young Plutonian alien in Worldcon masquerade, 2008
Uber, if not its drivers, are making a mint, and they can't afford human guards?
And then there's the bit about alarms if something happens: how will the cops respond, after the 12th time that week that someone hits it with a paintball gun, covering all its fancy sensors? (The 13th time, of course, they'll do it, then go in and steal cars.)
mark
1. How *big* will they be? And then, how much smaller will the 2nd gen be? And the 3rd? A coffin, or would I have to fold up my legs to get in?
2. People with claustraphobia won't be able to fly in them, and so the airlines will, of course, with great humanity, charge them multiples of the base price.
3. Get in at a bus station? Oh, *great*, so you're trapped in that all the way for *hours* through the traffic jam to the airport, and when does TSA have their way with you?
mark "in a word, no"
Anybody who said that, esp. when they're offering a cloud solution, should be instantly classified in the same category as that Nigerian prince who wants to make you rich helping him.
So, provider, tell me: how much more likely is it that the paper forms or their copies could be stolen - that's how many hundreds or thousands of pounds of paper - or that somebody or some group cracks the cloud security and d/l *all* of them? 100k times more likely the latter? A million times more likely?
Bull. Nothing wrong with computerized records... and local records d/l with security from the central repository, and that should *NOT* be a cloud. And SPEND THE DAMN MONEY AND HIRE A REAL SECURITY PROFESSIONAL TO LOCK IT ALL UP.
Alternatively, how big is your budget when it gets cracked, and all the parents file a class-action lawsuit for $100M US...?
mark
I mean, does it, or does it not, still do the job they need it to do? Is there something that's a show-stopper that they absolutely *have* to have, and so need to upgrade.
And they *can* always run it under wine on a real operating system....
mark
And, so, how is this different from lint?
For that matter, none of all the C I used to write ever had buffer overflows, or memory out of bounds, etc. Of course, I wasn't right out of school when I wrote it, nor was I lazy... so, for example, I almost *never* used while/wend - overwhelmingly, it was for/next, with *LIMITS*. After some early C programming bugs that I fixed, I started, more and more, using strncpy.. And I *checked* the return from malloc.
mark "remember, half of the programmers out there are the bottom half"