That tends to be how it goes when the government takes over an industry. Not because it has to be but because there's a lot of pro business politicians that can't stand the idea of making their constituents pay for anything.
Don't be stupid. The solution is to require everybody else to give up their rights so that you can feel safe, duh. I'm somewhat less than enthused that the local airport is going to be getting those horrible scanners next month. Whatever happened to a person having the right to control access to their body?
Indeed, even in the US, I'd rather take a train than any other mass transit option. Amtrack does tend to suck compared to trains in other parts of the world, but you can stretch your legs, book a pullman if you like and they'll pretty much all have a restaurant car with decent food stuffs. The only problem with it is that it's typically priced similarly to air travel and can take a few days to get places. But in my experience almost everything about it is less aggravating than cars and plans for travel.
Because it's California, trust me if anybody can blow it they can. The Swedes and Germans have the benefit of not having Californian voters picking their politicians. They lack balance, they've been vastly overspending for many years and thanks to one of their propositions they can't just raise taxes to cover shortfalls and the voters won't let them cut services typically either. Which leads to all sorts of havoc. Worse still they have to do their budgets every year and frequently they'll end up with a new budget just before the end of the year that it was supposed to represent.
When I used to work downtown, I always took the bus. Because of where I lived it would've taken just about exactly as much time for me to drive as take the bus, but I wouldn't end up having to pay the $300+ a month parking fee. On top of the probably $400 or so cost of car ownership. But it did have its downsides, if I wanted to do anything after work it was a real pain in the ass.
Taxes on gas are a part of the solution, not the entire solution. Taxing parking and requiring employers in densely packed areas to put up for congestion relief is also a part of the solution. But ultimately the only way you solve traffic is by getting cars off the road.
That's mostly for ISPs and larger networks, for folks at home it's a lot easier. I'm sure there's modems and routers out there as we speak that translate between the two as a stop gap measure. I mean it hasn't been that long that using ipv6 has even been an option outside of ones own private network.
It implies that trying to screw over employees at every opportunity has consequences. HR or Human Resources is a good example. Humans are not capital, nor have they been capital since slavery was abolished, so why on Earth do we call it Human Resources? Everywhere I've worked, their main job has been to see that the company pays out as little as possible in terms of benefits, even if it requires engaging in activities that would get anybody else fired.
But, what it mostly implies is that the businesses involved are not well run and that the workers are clearly not being given what they need to do their jobs, and definitely not compensated fairly.
Indeed, which is why you should be documenting anything like that well before you're in danger of being fired. The party with the documentation is much more likely to win.
Indeed, when I quit my last job I more or less just walked off the job and told pretty much everybody I ran into what prompted it. There wasn't much the company could do about it because my complaints were well documented and they pretty much just had to take the hit to their reputation. Personally I would've preferred to have handled it in a more professional way, but after all the theft and dishonesty by the company I had just lost all interest in manners.
They weren't a generation behind. I've tried the competition and quite frankly the competition isn't presently as advanced as you're suggesting. Chrome's fast, but it's basically pure spyware and the extensions don't really have anywhere near the reliability or variety of what's available for Firefox. There've been gripes, but as far as I can tell it's mostly just a squeaky wheel minority of trolls that seems to be having huge problems.
Your stepson is clearly fortunate that somebody knows what's going on. I didn't have that luck, I was reading highschool physics books for comprehension by age 9. The educational system isn't as bad now as it was then, back then they didn't believe in letting kids skip grades. Consequently kids ended up in the situation where they were neither socially nor intellectually in the right grade and subject to all kinds of problems.
That last bit depends a great deal on the individual, unfortunately at this point it's not predictable what the appropriate dose is. I take a minimal dose and am round about 200lbs., with symptoms that aren't particularly severe. I take less than many kids do just because that's where the effective dosage range ended up.
I disagree with you on that. The medications serve their purpose, I have them and take them from time to time, but they do have their place. While you are correct, that the primary focus should be finding a productive output for the sake of both individuals and society, that's hardly the whole picture. There's other factors like the ability for us to go out and cope which dictate these things. My life would likely have been completely different had I taken medications on just a few key testing days. I knew the information I just couldn't focus well enough to do well and compensating for a medical condition is an appropriate use of medication.
That's true, however there's a tendency for people to take the fallacy of composition route and declare ADHD to be a non-illness. The bigger problem tends to be that certain problems like PTSD and anxiety tend to be completely ignored and a lot of those sorts of cases end up making up the false diagnoses.
Yes and no, Ritalin was originally a diet pill then a bit later abused by truckers to keep awake and in general it is a stimulant. But the observation that the GP has is correct. I've taken Ritalin and even at small doses it tends to render me extremely calm, not stoned calm, but very relaxed and motivated to finish things. At higher doses I get the same effect out of it that everybody else does, which is indeed one of stimulation. What you're confusing is the effect the medication has neurologically with the effect it has on the rest of the body. Because it does kick the metabolism up a notch and can be problematic during hot weather for that reason.
The biggest reason why is that it always happens with a diagnosis that becomes the illness de jour. It was like that back in the 90s with carpal tunnel syndrome. But in this case it gets a lot more complicated because PTSD looks a lot like ADHD and there's a tendency to lump other anxieties into that category inadvertently. It's part of the problem with dealing with kids is that they don't necessarily know what is and is not normal which leads to a much larger challenge when it comes to diagnosing anything neurological.
It would be nice to do better, but at this point there isn't AFAIK a litmus test for ADHD which makes it to some extent up to the doctor to figure out and a lot of the time the parents and school officials are pushing for medication as the solution. Medication does work, but it definitely has drawbacks which should be sufficient to warrant being a bit more careful about who it is that gets the pills.
If you don't have the expertise and technology to keep an eye on the status of the network then how on earth can you maintain it? I think the point is that you can't. The biggest difference between when my folks switched to DirecTV from Comcrap was that DirecTV has the luxury of being able to monitor the connections that people have on a regular basis and often times step in before the customer calls to complain about it. Comcast on the other hand, wasn't able to even ensure that we got a signal most of the time.
If it's so unreasonable to expect that ISPs make a reasonable guarantee of speed, then how on earth is it that some manage to actually do so reliably? I don't think anybody expects ISPs to provide a completely steady connection at precisely the advertised rate, but I do think that it's reasonable to expect that if they're going to charge us for say 5mbps that we get at least 4 mbps on a routine basis.
Actually, you're not right. People pay on the basis that you get that up to number most of the time, because the advertisements from the ISPs imply that to be the case. And given the difficulties of actually measure bandwidth for most people, the ISPs just expect to get away with it. The up to figure is there because they can't provide completely uniform speed at all times and some things that the end user does will impact performance. It is not however a license to opt not to provide the promised bandwidth.
I haven't been car shopping in Germany, but around here we don't expect to get to drive our cars that fast. I can't recall the last time Ford or Toyota advertised that their cars could go X mph. Consequently nobody expects to be able to drive that much faster than the speed limit of the local freeways. There is a well understood constraint that the highway patrol will pull you over for speeding and that during rush hour you going to be constrained by traffic. However this is a completely different matter. ISPs are advertising and charging for bandwidth and then claiming they don't have to provide it because they only promised up to that number and since most ISPs don't provide the tools to actually measure it most people don't know whether or not they're getting what they were promised.
The reason for the up to figure is that things get congested at times and things like latency conspire to drop it somewhat from the peak, not we don't feel like investing in the infrastructure necessary to provide what we're promising. Worse still they'll lie about the actual speed they're providing you if you bother to ask. If in a given month you aren't spending significant periods at or near the number they quoted you then they're doing something wrong. If they can't provide you the service they're promising at the price they're charging that's a business model that needs to be fixed. Other wise this really ought to be called what it is fraud and handled by the FCC or local AG's office.
It's the largest number they could get away with. They could've used up to 4 gbps as well. This isn't math, if you're claiming up to that amount, then you damn well better be able to provide it. The assumption being that at some point during a given month that you've got that much bandwidth. What's going on is simply a matter of fraudulently selling people less bandwidth than they're advertising to make more money.
That's not true. My mother is an instructor at the local community college and I can assure you that she knows what they cost. For a while she's been having them printed up custom, costs less than $30 a piece costs a bit more if you're having to pay the author rather than using an open textbook, but not that much more.
That's actually typical. While I've only gone to 3 colleges, all of them were like that. The idea was that the people who could shop elsewhere would and the people on financial aid would spend the money at the campus bookstore. It's just a way of getting a cut of the scholarship money. What got absurd was that sometimes all you'd have to do is literally walk across the street and the prices would drop substantially.
But that thing you replace Flash with should be run in a dedicated VM for security reasons as well. Now I'm not a fan of Flash and would love to see it on the way out, but the reality is that executable code is executable and is always going to be a risk for exploitation.
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That tends to be how it goes when the government takes over an industry. Not because it has to be but because there's a lot of pro business politicians that can't stand the idea of making their constituents pay for anything.
Don't be stupid. The solution is to require everybody else to give up their rights so that you can feel safe, duh. I'm somewhat less than enthused that the local airport is going to be getting those horrible scanners next month. Whatever happened to a person having the right to control access to their body?
Indeed, even in the US, I'd rather take a train than any other mass transit option. Amtrack does tend to suck compared to trains in other parts of the world, but you can stretch your legs, book a pullman if you like and they'll pretty much all have a restaurant car with decent food stuffs. The only problem with it is that it's typically priced similarly to air travel and can take a few days to get places. But in my experience almost everything about it is less aggravating than cars and plans for travel.
Because it's California, trust me if anybody can blow it they can. The Swedes and Germans have the benefit of not having Californian voters picking their politicians. They lack balance, they've been vastly overspending for many years and thanks to one of their propositions they can't just raise taxes to cover shortfalls and the voters won't let them cut services typically either. Which leads to all sorts of havoc. Worse still they have to do their budgets every year and frequently they'll end up with a new budget just before the end of the year that it was supposed to represent.
When I used to work downtown, I always took the bus. Because of where I lived it would've taken just about exactly as much time for me to drive as take the bus, but I wouldn't end up having to pay the $300+ a month parking fee. On top of the probably $400 or so cost of car ownership. But it did have its downsides, if I wanted to do anything after work it was a real pain in the ass.
Taxes on gas are a part of the solution, not the entire solution. Taxing parking and requiring employers in densely packed areas to put up for congestion relief is also a part of the solution. But ultimately the only way you solve traffic is by getting cars off the road.
That's mostly for ISPs and larger networks, for folks at home it's a lot easier. I'm sure there's modems and routers out there as we speak that translate between the two as a stop gap measure. I mean it hasn't been that long that using ipv6 has even been an option outside of ones own private network.
It implies that trying to screw over employees at every opportunity has consequences. HR or Human Resources is a good example. Humans are not capital, nor have they been capital since slavery was abolished, so why on Earth do we call it Human Resources? Everywhere I've worked, their main job has been to see that the company pays out as little as possible in terms of benefits, even if it requires engaging in activities that would get anybody else fired.
But, what it mostly implies is that the businesses involved are not well run and that the workers are clearly not being given what they need to do their jobs, and definitely not compensated fairly.
It's normally referred to as unfair competition. Using an employers resources against them.
Indeed, which is why you should be documenting anything like that well before you're in danger of being fired. The party with the documentation is much more likely to win.
Indeed, when I quit my last job I more or less just walked off the job and told pretty much everybody I ran into what prompted it. There wasn't much the company could do about it because my complaints were well documented and they pretty much just had to take the hit to their reputation. Personally I would've preferred to have handled it in a more professional way, but after all the theft and dishonesty by the company I had just lost all interest in manners.
What about the ones caused by homosexuality? Or does our influence only extend to terrorist attacks?
They weren't a generation behind. I've tried the competition and quite frankly the competition isn't presently as advanced as you're suggesting. Chrome's fast, but it's basically pure spyware and the extensions don't really have anywhere near the reliability or variety of what's available for Firefox. There've been gripes, but as far as I can tell it's mostly just a squeaky wheel minority of trolls that seems to be having huge problems.
Your stepson is clearly fortunate that somebody knows what's going on. I didn't have that luck, I was reading highschool physics books for comprehension by age 9. The educational system isn't as bad now as it was then, back then they didn't believe in letting kids skip grades. Consequently kids ended up in the situation where they were neither socially nor intellectually in the right grade and subject to all kinds of problems.
That last bit depends a great deal on the individual, unfortunately at this point it's not predictable what the appropriate dose is. I take a minimal dose and am round about 200lbs., with symptoms that aren't particularly severe. I take less than many kids do just because that's where the effective dosage range ended up.
I disagree with you on that. The medications serve their purpose, I have them and take them from time to time, but they do have their place. While you are correct, that the primary focus should be finding a productive output for the sake of both individuals and society, that's hardly the whole picture. There's other factors like the ability for us to go out and cope which dictate these things. My life would likely have been completely different had I taken medications on just a few key testing days. I knew the information I just couldn't focus well enough to do well and compensating for a medical condition is an appropriate use of medication.
That's true, however there's a tendency for people to take the fallacy of composition route and declare ADHD to be a non-illness. The bigger problem tends to be that certain problems like PTSD and anxiety tend to be completely ignored and a lot of those sorts of cases end up making up the false diagnoses.
Yes and no, Ritalin was originally a diet pill then a bit later abused by truckers to keep awake and in general it is a stimulant. But the observation that the GP has is correct. I've taken Ritalin and even at small doses it tends to render me extremely calm, not stoned calm, but very relaxed and motivated to finish things. At higher doses I get the same effect out of it that everybody else does, which is indeed one of stimulation. What you're confusing is the effect the medication has neurologically with the effect it has on the rest of the body. Because it does kick the metabolism up a notch and can be problematic during hot weather for that reason.
The biggest reason why is that it always happens with a diagnosis that becomes the illness de jour. It was like that back in the 90s with carpal tunnel syndrome. But in this case it gets a lot more complicated because PTSD looks a lot like ADHD and there's a tendency to lump other anxieties into that category inadvertently. It's part of the problem with dealing with kids is that they don't necessarily know what is and is not normal which leads to a much larger challenge when it comes to diagnosing anything neurological.
It would be nice to do better, but at this point there isn't AFAIK a litmus test for ADHD which makes it to some extent up to the doctor to figure out and a lot of the time the parents and school officials are pushing for medication as the solution. Medication does work, but it definitely has drawbacks which should be sufficient to warrant being a bit more careful about who it is that gets the pills.
If you don't have the expertise and technology to keep an eye on the status of the network then how on earth can you maintain it? I think the point is that you can't. The biggest difference between when my folks switched to DirecTV from Comcrap was that DirecTV has the luxury of being able to monitor the connections that people have on a regular basis and often times step in before the customer calls to complain about it. Comcast on the other hand, wasn't able to even ensure that we got a signal most of the time.
If it's so unreasonable to expect that ISPs make a reasonable guarantee of speed, then how on earth is it that some manage to actually do so reliably? I don't think anybody expects ISPs to provide a completely steady connection at precisely the advertised rate, but I do think that it's reasonable to expect that if they're going to charge us for say 5mbps that we get at least 4 mbps on a routine basis.
Actually, you're not right. People pay on the basis that you get that up to number most of the time, because the advertisements from the ISPs imply that to be the case. And given the difficulties of actually measure bandwidth for most people, the ISPs just expect to get away with it. The up to figure is there because they can't provide completely uniform speed at all times and some things that the end user does will impact performance. It is not however a license to opt not to provide the promised bandwidth.
I haven't been car shopping in Germany, but around here we don't expect to get to drive our cars that fast. I can't recall the last time Ford or Toyota advertised that their cars could go X mph. Consequently nobody expects to be able to drive that much faster than the speed limit of the local freeways. There is a well understood constraint that the highway patrol will pull you over for speeding and that during rush hour you going to be constrained by traffic. However this is a completely different matter. ISPs are advertising and charging for bandwidth and then claiming they don't have to provide it because they only promised up to that number and since most ISPs don't provide the tools to actually measure it most people don't know whether or not they're getting what they were promised.
The reason for the up to figure is that things get congested at times and things like latency conspire to drop it somewhat from the peak, not we don't feel like investing in the infrastructure necessary to provide what we're promising. Worse still they'll lie about the actual speed they're providing you if you bother to ask. If in a given month you aren't spending significant periods at or near the number they quoted you then they're doing something wrong. If they can't provide you the service they're promising at the price they're charging that's a business model that needs to be fixed. Other wise this really ought to be called what it is fraud and handled by the FCC or local AG's office.
It's the largest number they could get away with. They could've used up to 4 gbps as well. This isn't math, if you're claiming up to that amount, then you damn well better be able to provide it. The assumption being that at some point during a given month that you've got that much bandwidth. What's going on is simply a matter of fraudulently selling people less bandwidth than they're advertising to make more money.
That's not true. My mother is an instructor at the local community college and I can assure you that she knows what they cost. For a while she's been having them printed up custom, costs less than $30 a piece costs a bit more if you're having to pay the author rather than using an open textbook, but not that much more.
That's actually typical. While I've only gone to 3 colleges, all of them were like that. The idea was that the people who could shop elsewhere would and the people on financial aid would spend the money at the campus bookstore. It's just a way of getting a cut of the scholarship money. What got absurd was that sometimes all you'd have to do is literally walk across the street and the prices would drop substantially.
But that thing you replace Flash with should be run in a dedicated VM for security reasons as well. Now I'm not a fan of Flash and would love to see it on the way out, but the reality is that executable code is executable and is always going to be a risk for exploitation.