I don't recall a single protest of that size in recent years either. That 5m figure is rather unlikely seeing as even the million man march which pretty well filled the capital mall, and was still rather less than that in size. Finding a place large enough to fit 5m people is something that I find hard to believe.
And if you're rafting together many smaller protests, that's bullshit.
There was never any evidence that Saddam had WMDs after they were destroyed following the first Gulf War, what's more, the program that they allegedly had later on would have had to be tiny if it was going to slip unnoticed.
The US opted to go in before the UN Inspector had finished his inspection concluding that there were WMDs despite a complete lack of evidence. In the years since the only WMDs found were ones that existed prior to disarmament and were in a completely unusable state. Even President Bush didn't consider those to be teh WMDs that people were looking for.
Bullshit on the '60s though, the war in Afghanistan has been going on longer than the war in Vietnam did, and the Iraq war itself was more than half the length. There was plenty of time for them to build up a huge set of protests, there just weren't the people at risk of conscription.
I'm pretty sure that's not actually true. The protests during the '60s and 70s related to the war in Vietnam were substantially larger. Mostly because of the draft, one of the reasons why it was relatively easy to get us into Iraq was that we have an all volunteer military, so the people didn't have the kind of dog in the fight that they did during Vietnam.
Valve doesn't prove that. The GPL has never applied to the interface. Now, if Valve includes GPL source into their client and doesn't have to license the whole client as GPL, then you'll have a point.
This is just plain ignorant. The GPL has never applied to the Linux API, doing so would make absolutely no sense. It applies to the source files, if Valve isn't changing any of those files, then there's no point in releasing that source code as they can just point to the place where they got it from, as it's the exact same source they're using.
Now, were they to include actual Linux source into the Steam Linux client, that would be a completely different matter, they would have to provide all that source to anybody that wants it. But, that's a completely different matter.
Then again, you're a troll, so who really cares what you think about it.
And with good reason. The only way these practices stop is if companies stop doing business like that. As American companies, they generally have options of where to take their business that local companies don't.
The only problem here is that there aren't enough countries signing on to these sorts of initiatives. Corruption has no place in civilized society and ultimately, foreign companies usually have a lot more money and influence over them than domestic companies would.
Your post is exactly why the US bars people from bribing foreign officials. You won't be in the kind of position where a bribe will save the lives of loved ones if they aren't expecting to be paid off. Chances are good that if they were wanting to just kill the people that they'd do it, if they're asking for bribe money to help, chances are good that money is the motivating factor.
The US is one of the better countries in terms of prosecuting their own citizens for bribing foreign officials. The main hope we have for eliminating third world poverty is eliminating bribery as an acceptable means of getting things done. It's no coincidence that the worst countries for bribery are also the ones with the worst economies over all. Compared with that, the US has no corruption worth mentioning.
Which works fine for accounts where you log in, but most of the sites that are tracking me are sites where I don't log in. And where the tracking is done by 3rd parties where I'm being tracked before I'm presented with a ToS.
What do Syrians have to do with this? Or are you just an asshole by nature. This is a usability thing that a website developer ought to care about and no, it takes me longer than that, this computer isn't the fastest out there, not with all the larding up of this web 2.0 stuff.
If he's a contractor and it isn't already in a contract, then he shouldn't be doing it and doing it would likely be illegal. You cannot work for profit entities for free in any state I'm aware of.
So, it's a good bet that he will be paid. I'd say that if the person asking this question has already turned over the code, and thinks that the cost savings for the company are going to be insufficient to replace him, to just go along with it. Take whatever money the company is offering knowing that the good will is likely to pay returns if he needs to ask for more money in the future. If he can point out that it wasn't cost effective for them to do it in house, he'd be more likely to get the money he asks for.
But, without knowing specifics it's really hard to say how wise of a move this is going to be or how much the good will would be worth it. Ultimately if they're dead set on replacing him with in house talent, he might as well take the money and look for more work elsewhere.
The battery gauge has known limitations when the batteries are cold and registering less range than what there really is. Or at least that's what Tesla's own techs told him and this is consistent with batteries of this type in general. Plus, ultimately, the car had plenty of charge left to drive a few more miles, it's just that the parking brake was connected to the 12v battery which had died.
I'm not sure how your average Joe would handle that other than being pissed about Tesla's incompetence.
According to Tesla's own figures, that driving in circles at the charging station was about 5 minutes, or roughly one circuit around the complex, something which somebody unfamiliar with the location could reasonably wind up doing. And if you took a look at the map of the charging stations, the one of the other side that he had used previously, was not layed out the way that the one he was lost in was.
Um, no it hasn't, have you actually been reading the news? Tesla put up a lot of lovely charts that contradict their own version of events. And like with the Top Gear nontroversy, ultimately, they're tilting at windmills. I mean, WTF Tesla, if my car won't go because one of the brakes has seized up, I don't give a damn if it's a fuse problem or a brake problem, I would call that a brake problem either way.
A considerable portion of the Netherlands is below sea level. And because of the way that the laws of physics work, you can't just make the dikes taller, you have to ultimately replace them with ones that are stronger at the bottom as well, otherwise you start getting cracks. And I doubt the EU would be too fond of having numerous children skipping school to plug the holes with their fingers.
You're saying a former Soviet block nation which is about the size of West Virginia has newer things than the US? Of course they do, most of the Soviet crap was garbage and it's really easy to get new stuff if the old stuff isn't still viable for use. Just buying the average or below average gear would do it. It's a lot tougher to justify getting a lot of that stuff if the stuff you have is working fine.
As for electronic everything, is that really desirable? We have most of that stuff available over the internet here as well, it's just not all that it's cracked up to be.
What's more, you're ignoring the fact that things like this don't scale very well. Look at China, as an example, the government is reforming their educational system, but it's probably going to take 40 years or more for it to really take effect as they have about 1/3 of the teachers and schools necessary to get the job done. What's more, you're talking about a country which has about half as many students as the US has total people.
I know it's really popular to bad mouth the US, but try and exercise at least some common sense, will you. Managing a tiny country like Estonia is several orders of magnitude easier than managing one the size of the US and managing the US is considerably easier than managing one the size of India or China.
The real question is why the Asian market texts were in English. I used to teach in China and all the books they were using were in Chinese, except the numbers and units of measure which were mostly in Arabic numerals with normal SI units using the normal alphabet used in Europe.
I'm really surprised that they're printing enough international edition textbooks in English for this to be a real problem for them.
Yes, the pharmaceutical industry does gouge whenever they can, but the assumption that if every country limits the price of individual prescriptions that things will be just peachy is rather naive. Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the unprofitable medication lines like antibiotics with more profitable lines of product. What's more, pharmaceutical lines are risky, it's relatively common to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on a line only to find out that it can't be approved, and if it does get approved and then yanked, you can be on the hook for huge sums of money from people who suffered ill effects.
The real injustice here is that you have the Canadians and much of the developed world freeriding on US funding.
Guise of convenience? I'm pretty sure they really are more convenient, my room is rather small and I do a lot of traveling, I can easily break the DRM on my books so that I have backups, but with paperbooks, I'd never be able to keep as many of them.
It's easy to say greedy publishers, and to an extent they are, but unless you're in the habit of buying used books or live in a huge house, you're going to have to get rid of them over time anyways, but with ebooks, you won't likely ever hit that point.
The difference is that the liberal arts majors have a better chance of getting and keeping a job than the STEM majors do. Considering that you really need a masters minimum to do much in those fields and the degree of specialization involved, you had better hope that the company you work for isn't interested in importing workers to fill those jobs and that you're not downsized. Otherwise, you're going to be at a significant disadvantage to liberal arts majors that didn't specialize to any meaningful extent and are more suited to changing careers on short notice.
I know that it's popular to bad mouth liberal arts majors, but the fact of the matter is, that specialization leads to rigidity and a harder time adapting as you haven't taken the course materials necessary to get a leg up on the competition.
Back then you really didn't need to. My dad got a job as a carpenter because at the time it was paying about 4x what he would have been making working his way up at an architectural firm.
These days, we've shipped most of the high paying jobs that don't require a college degree off shore and been importing college graduates to ensure the ones that do go to college can't make enough money to pay off their loans. Until labor laws and regulations are reformed to punish businesses that do that, it's going to be a real problem.
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I don't recall a single protest of that size in recent years either. That 5m figure is rather unlikely seeing as even the million man march which pretty well filled the capital mall, and was still rather less than that in size. Finding a place large enough to fit 5m people is something that I find hard to believe.
And if you're rafting together many smaller protests, that's bullshit.
There was never any evidence that Saddam had WMDs after they were destroyed following the first Gulf War, what's more, the program that they allegedly had later on would have had to be tiny if it was going to slip unnoticed.
The US opted to go in before the UN Inspector had finished his inspection concluding that there were WMDs despite a complete lack of evidence. In the years since the only WMDs found were ones that existed prior to disarmament and were in a completely unusable state. Even President Bush didn't consider those to be teh WMDs that people were looking for.
Bullshit on the '60s though, the war in Afghanistan has been going on longer than the war in Vietnam did, and the Iraq war itself was more than half the length. There was plenty of time for them to build up a huge set of protests, there just weren't the people at risk of conscription.
I'm pretty sure that's not actually true. The protests during the '60s and 70s related to the war in Vietnam were substantially larger. Mostly because of the draft, one of the reasons why it was relatively easy to get us into Iraq was that we have an all volunteer military, so the people didn't have the kind of dog in the fight that they did during Vietnam.
Valve doesn't prove that. The GPL has never applied to the interface. Now, if Valve includes GPL source into their client and doesn't have to license the whole client as GPL, then you'll have a point.
This is just plain ignorant. The GPL has never applied to the Linux API, doing so would make absolutely no sense. It applies to the source files, if Valve isn't changing any of those files, then there's no point in releasing that source code as they can just point to the place where they got it from, as it's the exact same source they're using.
Now, were they to include actual Linux source into the Steam Linux client, that would be a completely different matter, they would have to provide all that source to anybody that wants it. But, that's a completely different matter.
Then again, you're a troll, so who really cares what you think about it.
And with good reason. The only way these practices stop is if companies stop doing business like that. As American companies, they generally have options of where to take their business that local companies don't.
The only problem here is that there aren't enough countries signing on to these sorts of initiatives. Corruption has no place in civilized society and ultimately, foreign companies usually have a lot more money and influence over them than domestic companies would.
Your post is exactly why the US bars people from bribing foreign officials. You won't be in the kind of position where a bribe will save the lives of loved ones if they aren't expecting to be paid off. Chances are good that if they were wanting to just kill the people that they'd do it, if they're asking for bribe money to help, chances are good that money is the motivating factor.
The US is one of the better countries in terms of prosecuting their own citizens for bribing foreign officials. The main hope we have for eliminating third world poverty is eliminating bribery as an acceptable means of getting things done. It's no coincidence that the worst countries for bribery are also the ones with the worst economies over all. Compared with that, the US has no corruption worth mentioning.
Which works fine for accounts where you log in, but most of the sites that are tracking me are sites where I don't log in. And where the tracking is done by 3rd parties where I'm being tracked before I'm presented with a ToS.
What do Syrians have to do with this? Or are you just an asshole by nature. This is a usability thing that a website developer ought to care about and no, it takes me longer than that, this computer isn't the fastest out there, not with all the larding up of this web 2.0 stuff.
I was wondering about that. If we don't enter our information to sites, how do they know that we're old enough to be legally tracked?
I'm nearly twice that age and I lie about my age on those things.
If he's a contractor and it isn't already in a contract, then he shouldn't be doing it and doing it would likely be illegal. You cannot work for profit entities for free in any state I'm aware of.
So, it's a good bet that he will be paid. I'd say that if the person asking this question has already turned over the code, and thinks that the cost savings for the company are going to be insufficient to replace him, to just go along with it. Take whatever money the company is offering knowing that the good will is likely to pay returns if he needs to ask for more money in the future. If he can point out that it wasn't cost effective for them to do it in house, he'd be more likely to get the money he asks for.
But, without knowing specifics it's really hard to say how wise of a move this is going to be or how much the good will would be worth it. Ultimately if they're dead set on replacing him with in house talent, he might as well take the money and look for more work elsewhere.
The battery gauge has known limitations when the batteries are cold and registering less range than what there really is. Or at least that's what Tesla's own techs told him and this is consistent with batteries of this type in general. Plus, ultimately, the car had plenty of charge left to drive a few more miles, it's just that the parking brake was connected to the 12v battery which had died.
I'm not sure how your average Joe would handle that other than being pissed about Tesla's incompetence.
Or permit us to just collapse these sorts of long posts. I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
According to Tesla's own figures, that driving in circles at the charging station was about 5 minutes, or roughly one circuit around the complex, something which somebody unfamiliar with the location could reasonably wind up doing. And if you took a look at the map of the charging stations, the one of the other side that he had used previously, was not layed out the way that the one he was lost in was.
Um, no it hasn't, have you actually been reading the news? Tesla put up a lot of lovely charts that contradict their own version of events. And like with the Top Gear nontroversy, ultimately, they're tilting at windmills. I mean, WTF Tesla, if my car won't go because one of the brakes has seized up, I don't give a damn if it's a fuse problem or a brake problem, I would call that a brake problem either way.
A considerable portion of the Netherlands is below sea level. And because of the way that the laws of physics work, you can't just make the dikes taller, you have to ultimately replace them with ones that are stronger at the bottom as well, otherwise you start getting cracks. And I doubt the EU would be too fond of having numerous children skipping school to plug the holes with their fingers.
You're saying a former Soviet block nation which is about the size of West Virginia has newer things than the US? Of course they do, most of the Soviet crap was garbage and it's really easy to get new stuff if the old stuff isn't still viable for use. Just buying the average or below average gear would do it. It's a lot tougher to justify getting a lot of that stuff if the stuff you have is working fine.
As for electronic everything, is that really desirable? We have most of that stuff available over the internet here as well, it's just not all that it's cracked up to be.
What's more, you're ignoring the fact that things like this don't scale very well. Look at China, as an example, the government is reforming their educational system, but it's probably going to take 40 years or more for it to really take effect as they have about 1/3 of the teachers and schools necessary to get the job done. What's more, you're talking about a country which has about half as many students as the US has total people.
I know it's really popular to bad mouth the US, but try and exercise at least some common sense, will you. Managing a tiny country like Estonia is several orders of magnitude easier than managing one the size of the US and managing the US is considerably easier than managing one the size of India or China.
As opposed to the current system where they push things for reasons that are completely above the board?
The real question is why the Asian market texts were in English. I used to teach in China and all the books they were using were in Chinese, except the numbers and units of measure which were mostly in Arabic numerals with normal SI units using the normal alphabet used in Europe.
I'm really surprised that they're printing enough international edition textbooks in English for this to be a real problem for them.
Yes, the pharmaceutical industry does gouge whenever they can, but the assumption that if every country limits the price of individual prescriptions that things will be just peachy is rather naive. Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the unprofitable medication lines like antibiotics with more profitable lines of product. What's more, pharmaceutical lines are risky, it's relatively common to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on a line only to find out that it can't be approved, and if it does get approved and then yanked, you can be on the hook for huge sums of money from people who suffered ill effects.
The real injustice here is that you have the Canadians and much of the developed world freeriding on US funding.
Guise of convenience? I'm pretty sure they really are more convenient, my room is rather small and I do a lot of traveling, I can easily break the DRM on my books so that I have backups, but with paperbooks, I'd never be able to keep as many of them.
It's easy to say greedy publishers, and to an extent they are, but unless you're in the habit of buying used books or live in a huge house, you're going to have to get rid of them over time anyways, but with ebooks, you won't likely ever hit that point.
Well, it's not a couple seconds, it's a couple seconds per person and in some cases that adds up to a rather large number.
The difference is that the liberal arts majors have a better chance of getting and keeping a job than the STEM majors do. Considering that you really need a masters minimum to do much in those fields and the degree of specialization involved, you had better hope that the company you work for isn't interested in importing workers to fill those jobs and that you're not downsized. Otherwise, you're going to be at a significant disadvantage to liberal arts majors that didn't specialize to any meaningful extent and are more suited to changing careers on short notice.
I know that it's popular to bad mouth liberal arts majors, but the fact of the matter is, that specialization leads to rigidity and a harder time adapting as you haven't taken the course materials necessary to get a leg up on the competition.
Back then you really didn't need to. My dad got a job as a carpenter because at the time it was paying about 4x what he would have been making working his way up at an architectural firm.
These days, we've shipped most of the high paying jobs that don't require a college degree off shore and been importing college graduates to ensure the ones that do go to college can't make enough money to pay off their loans. Until labor laws and regulations are reformed to punish businesses that do that, it's going to be a real problem.