Actually, since the post described Putin's role as an autocrat, it was focused on the definition of his role, and so describing a reasonable, rational set of goals that could be expected pursuant to those goals.
Not, as seems so popular, ignoring long-standing, historical experience, and pleading his motives to be something else, more to the apologist's liking.
Keeping the door closed seems simple. cables out for power and display, and USB for peripherals. Bluetooth transceiver outside if desired.
This, and and cheap dorm fridges are cheaper than top line water cooling rigs. making a PC rack for a small fridge seems simple. Just keep the door closed.
0. In most cases, open plan is a real estate play. More workers in less space. They already are distracted, the cause is changed. Workers adapt or fail.
1. Open plan isn't really new. read up on the offices of the mid-late 50s and early 60s. Now add a cloud of cigarette smoke, clattering typewriters, and trips to the water cooler to yuck it up about the Yankees, that new girl in the pool, and why the new guy won't talk to anyone. Oh, and the boss sucks, the industry sucks, your pay sucks, management sucks, and the Mets suck. Then go home. None of this is new, nor even inventive. Same plot, different era.
My team collaborates on a minute by minute basis. The Skype equivalent is an open, continuous Skype for Business Call. Background noises and all.
For me to work at home 100% I would also lose the drop-in abilities of related teams, and face-to-face with several at once. For some of us, actual real-time collaboration is enhanced by a physical presence.
My Mexico, India, Philippines, England, New York, Florida, and Australian teams wouldn't know the difference. True.
I would also have to bar the door, reschedule a call around piano lessons, and suffer through the intersection rebuild that prevents left turns to the better Starbucks, OR start doing cold brew at home. And a better chair, third monitor, and even faster Internet service. It would save me an 80 mile round-trip commute 4 days a week, and yes, the money is that good. And I would lose 2 hours of alone time, audio books, and salesman tan.
I've heard this discussed a multitude of ways, and one that worries me concerns the difference between discovery and production. And tampering/destroying evidence.
One theory is that refusing to give a passcode/password/key is the equivalent of refusing to produce, pursuant to a warrant or subpoena, but the 5th should still apply. The authorities can come get your phone, as they could come take a safe from your home or office, but are you required to open that container?
On the other hand, if you've forgotten how to open the safe, or phone, how do they prove you are in fact able? I've got a few passwords I know, but to tell you them I have to think through typing them. I could forget them, or more accurately be unable to remember them, under stress. Maybe.
And God forbid I have an accomplice that, for an iPhone, would enter iCloud and change credentials, perhaps making it really really hard for me to access my phone and data. What if they wiped my phone remotely, and could not be found? I'm in jail throughout all this, how could I be held to account if they could not prove a conspiracy?
The US is possibly the biggest consumer of copper in history, possibly I think because we started using it in quantity first. Wiring. Telephones, electricity, you know, stuff we adopted pretty early on.
I do for 8-9 hours a day - the usual concentration is 300-1000 ppm.
Te rest of the time the concentrations are much less. But then I'm always getting a lot of nitrogen, around 780000 ppm typically. And 9000 ppm of argon, which isn't good for me either.
Your point was not lost on me, but your criteria for defining a substance as a pollutant was...
Even before your self-driving Lyft car left the curb, it knew you were;
- headed home - would stop on the way to pick up the makings for dinner
and it booked a charger at the grocery for 15 minutes to top off. Your 'phone' was charging wirelessly the moment you touched the car door handle.
When it could calculate arrival accurately, Lyft notified your net, and things started...
- A/C came on, high speed first to rapid cool. - No oven, you bought a steak. - Downloading today's viewing package; old Babylon Five episode, Blindspot, Walking Dead III, and news feeds. No one buffers or streams any more. - Triggered the security system to fall back to monitor mode as you approach.
When you've come within WiFi range, everything in the house switches from mesh to your 'phone'. Which is running gigabit LTE+. Your door was waiting for your handprint. Inside the door, your deck switches to the video screen. It was in your pocket, nothing to cast there, but the home page comes up.
And of course you've given it voice commands galore. Everything but the outdoor grill is responding. No, you can't quite let that be connected, imagine the hilarity of running the gas for 15 minutes and THEN igniting it... the neighbor kids are such little gomers.
Your 'phone' has been charging here since you touched the front door handle.
If we rely on gigabit LTE-whatever, our 'phones' (think 'deck' here) have enough computing power to do what we want always, and can cast the display wherever we are, even to a PiP at work, we really have little need for a dedicated PC at home. Lots of IoT gadgets do what they need to. Even a gaming console could be in the deck. SoC development is going here, a gigabit LTE modem, Wifi, Google Cast, it's almost possible now. Add in some minimal but expensive battery improvements, OR ubiquitous wireless charging. We are within a few years of this being commonplace. Next year some of this will be in the Galaxy S9, or a competitor. And the above scenario isn't too far behind that.
But the alternative is a flood of 'news' I cannot tolerate. It's been at least 40 years, maybe 44, since the 'mainstream media' has been anything close to fair or honest. They have favored one political ideology over the other since then, for whatever reason, and both the intensity and breadth of that favoritism has only increased over time, so that now I see an overwhelming amount of 'news' favoring that one ideology, and only Internet blogs, activist group outlets, and a very free (one?) mass media outlet offering even minimal amounts of information fairly presented, not slanted against the other ideology.
I cannot easily stomach anything from the Washington Bleep, both because it is predictably slanted, and they paywall mercilessly - so I have been stripping off feeds that reference that recently, unwilling to read 1.5 paragraphs and get the 'pay up' message. They can get their money elsewhere.
The Times and a variety of former print behemoths similarly, I just can't justify the time to get more of the same bias. I want more.
And I avoid as best I can the outlets that parrot each other. Bleagh.
This morning,though, hitting my aggregator/reader page, I saw AdBlocker nailed 696 ad instances. On one page. Really? It reads up 16 sites, only 9 of which are active. I need a new page. One of the news sites I hit gave me 86 ads for opening the home page. thanks, boyz./. only gave me 30-something. Oh, 31.
SO I really have a hard time finding reliable, honest news sites. Even the ones that come close end up publishing self-aggrandizing articles of no value regularly, and some repeat the news over and over (Wired, I'm lookin at ya), hoping I'll open it a month later. I know they need the clicks cause they finally priced me out of the paper version last winter, and my collection ended then. No one cares about having every issue of anything Wired any more. And I was getting their web articles before they could get me the paper in the mail. I still can read everything, and now it's for free ish.
Since I'm a political radical, I won't offer any specific sites. You can figure those out. But the popular stuff is a wasteland, and has been for a long time. I can now only read it for hilarity.
Beyond that, however, you should find meaning in leading a productive life. That includes supporting yourself and your family (or others), giving so that others unable to do so for themselves can survive if not recover and thrive, and being mindful that you should ahve life outside work, and it should be good for you and others.
If merely supporting yourself and family dependent on you isn't enough, perhaps you are missing what is indeed important - you are important to yourself insofar as you cannot thrive unless you are well, and your family similarly needs you as a positive, not a negative.
It's OK to be part of someone else's dream. Even more OK if you merely prepare others to find their dreams and try.
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Neither is civility.
"Before that, the Democrats and Republicans may have not gotten along, but they had the the "common enemy" of the USSR."
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Actually, since the post described Putin's role as an autocrat, it was focused on the definition of his role, and so describing a reasonable, rational set of goals that could be expected pursuant to those goals.
Not, as seems so popular, ignoring long-standing, historical experience, and pleading his motives to be something else, more to the apologist's liking.
The penalty for poor management is death.
Keeping the door closed seems simple. cables out for power and display, and USB for peripherals. Bluetooth transceiver outside if desired.
This, and and cheap dorm fridges are cheaper than top line water cooling rigs. making a PC rack for a small fridge seems simple. Just keep the door closed.
That wasn't envy. I'm not doing six figures, but between me and my wife we are well off. You mistake that for envy?
Your real estate needs and your employer's real estate needs are fundamentally incompatible. One of you has to compromise more than the other.
Guess which.
0. In most cases, open plan is a real estate play. More workers in less space. They already are distracted, the cause is changed. Workers adapt or fail.
1. Open plan isn't really new. read up on the offices of the mid-late 50s and early 60s. Now add a cloud of cigarette smoke, clattering typewriters, and trips to the water cooler to yuck it up about the Yankees, that new girl in the pool, and why the new guy won't talk to anyone. Oh, and the boss sucks, the industry sucks, your pay sucks, management sucks, and the Mets suck. Then go home. None of this is new, nor even inventive. Same plot, different era.
Or, succinctly, work sucks.
And kindly, if at all.
Seems to me you consider a six-figure salary the baseline.
Do not, under any circumstances, wake from your dream. It's working for you. Only you. Don't crash this for the rest of us, ok.
My team collaborates on a minute by minute basis. The Skype equivalent is an open, continuous Skype for Business Call. Background noises and all.
For me to work at home 100% I would also lose the drop-in abilities of related teams, and face-to-face with several at once. For some of us, actual real-time collaboration is enhanced by a physical presence.
My Mexico, India, Philippines, England, New York, Florida, and Australian teams wouldn't know the difference. True.
I would also have to bar the door, reschedule a call around piano lessons, and suffer through the intersection rebuild that prevents left turns to the better Starbucks, OR start doing cold brew at home. And a better chair, third monitor, and even faster Internet service. It would save me an 80 mile round-trip commute 4 days a week, and yes, the money is that good. And I would lose 2 hours of alone time, audio books, and salesman tan.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Go back to 1969. Nothing will be lost. They refused you back then also.
Or, to put it simply, it doesn't matter WHY the power went out...
More to the point, imagine you have a floor safe in your home, it is found during a lawful search, can you refuse to open it?
And if the authorities do force it open, and that triggers the destruction of the contents, are you guilty of destroying evidence? OR something else?
I've heard this discussed a multitude of ways, and one that worries me concerns the difference between discovery and production. And tampering/destroying evidence.
One theory is that refusing to give a passcode/password/key is the equivalent of refusing to produce, pursuant to a warrant or subpoena, but the 5th should still apply. The authorities can come get your phone, as they could come take a safe from your home or office, but are you required to open that container?
On the other hand, if you've forgotten how to open the safe, or phone, how do they prove you are in fact able? I've got a few passwords I know, but to tell you them I have to think through typing them. I could forget them, or more accurately be unable to remember them, under stress. Maybe.
And God forbid I have an accomplice that, for an iPhone, would enter iCloud and change credentials, perhaps making it really really hard for me to access my phone and data. What if they wiped my phone remotely, and could not be found? I'm in jail throughout all this, how could I be held to account if they could not prove a conspiracy?
The 5th Amendment is being wiped away. Not good.
The US is possibly the biggest consumer of copper in history, possibly I think because we started using it in quantity first. Wiring. Telephones, electricity, you know, stuff we adopted pretty early on.
Oh whatever, any negative is celebrated.
I do for 8-9 hours a day - the usual concentration is 300-1000 ppm.
Te rest of the time the concentrations are much less. But then I'm always getting a lot of nitrogen, around 780000 ppm typically. And 9000 ppm of argon, which isn't good for me either.
Your point was not lost on me, but your criteria for defining a substance as a pollutant was...
No she didn't. She inherited what Obama would give the campaign. And I'll bet he gave little.
After all this (Obama) is the man whose campaign claimed it couldn't report to the FEC on small donors because there was too much data.
Even before your self-driving Lyft car left the curb, it knew you were;
- headed home
- would stop on the way to pick up the makings for dinner
and it booked a charger at the grocery for 15 minutes to top off. Your 'phone' was charging wirelessly the moment you touched the car door handle.
When it could calculate arrival accurately, Lyft notified your net, and things started...
- A/C came on, high speed first to rapid cool.
- No oven, you bought a steak.
- Downloading today's viewing package; old Babylon Five episode, Blindspot, Walking Dead III, and news feeds. No one buffers or streams any more.
- Triggered the security system to fall back to monitor mode as you approach.
When you've come within WiFi range, everything in the house switches from mesh to your 'phone'. Which is running gigabit LTE+. Your door was waiting for your handprint. Inside the door, your deck switches to the video screen. It was in your pocket, nothing to cast there, but the home page comes up.
And of course you've given it voice commands galore. Everything but the outdoor grill is responding. No, you can't quite let that be connected, imagine the hilarity of running the gas for 15 minutes and THEN igniting it... the neighbor kids are such little gomers.
Your 'phone' has been charging here since you touched the front door handle.
If we rely on gigabit LTE-whatever, our 'phones' (think 'deck' here) have enough computing power to do what we want always, and can cast the display wherever we are, even to a PiP at work, we really have little need for a dedicated PC at home. Lots of IoT gadgets do what they need to. Even a gaming console could be in the deck. SoC development is going here, a gigabit LTE modem, Wifi, Google Cast, it's almost possible now. Add in some minimal but expensive battery improvements, OR ubiquitous wireless charging. We are within a few years of this being commonplace. Next year some of this will be in the Galaxy S9, or a competitor. And the above scenario isn't too far behind that.
Your future network will be LTE everywhere.
But the alternative is a flood of 'news' I cannot tolerate. It's been at least 40 years, maybe 44, since the 'mainstream media' has been anything close to fair or honest. They have favored one political ideology over the other since then, for whatever reason, and both the intensity and breadth of that favoritism has only increased over time, so that now I see an overwhelming amount of 'news' favoring that one ideology, and only Internet blogs, activist group outlets, and a very free (one?) mass media outlet offering even minimal amounts of information fairly presented, not slanted against the other ideology.
I cannot easily stomach anything from the Washington Bleep, both because it is predictably slanted, and they paywall mercilessly - so I have been stripping off feeds that reference that recently, unwilling to read 1.5 paragraphs and get the 'pay up' message. They can get their money elsewhere.
The Times and a variety of former print behemoths similarly, I just can't justify the time to get more of the same bias. I want more.
And I avoid as best I can the outlets that parrot each other. Bleagh.
This morning,though, hitting my aggregator/reader page, I saw AdBlocker nailed 696 ad instances. On one page. Really? It reads up 16 sites, only 9 of which are active. I need a new page. One of the news sites I hit gave me 86 ads for opening the home page. thanks, boyz. /. only gave me 30-something. Oh, 31.
SO I really have a hard time finding reliable, honest news sites. Even the ones that come close end up publishing self-aggrandizing articles of no value regularly, and some repeat the news over and over (Wired, I'm lookin at ya), hoping I'll open it a month later. I know they need the clicks cause they finally priced me out of the paper version last winter, and my collection ended then. No one cares about having every issue of anything Wired any more. And I was getting their web articles before they could get me the paper in the mail. I still can read everything, and now it's for free ish.
Since I'm a political radical, I won't offer any specific sites. You can figure those out. But the popular stuff is a wasteland, and has been for a long time. I can now only read it for hilarity.
Our former President used it.
When the company changes these innovation teams (usually making them too big), they fail.
Changing the process will change the results...
Beyond that, however, you should find meaning in leading a productive life. That includes supporting yourself and your family (or others), giving so that others unable to do so for themselves can survive if not recover and thrive, and being mindful that you should ahve life outside work, and it should be good for you and others.
If merely supporting yourself and family dependent on you isn't enough, perhaps you are missing what is indeed important - you are important to yourself insofar as you cannot thrive unless you are well, and your family similarly needs you as a positive, not a negative.
It's OK to be part of someone else's dream. Even more OK if you merely prepare others to find their dreams and try.