New Zealand has no other choice but to hand Dotcom over. If they don't . . . no more local economy boosting Hollywood films will be made in New Zealand.
I really don't give a rat's ass if Dotcom is convicted or not. However, I find the way that this is being done a bit disturbing. No full access to the evidence against him? This sounds rather like a Soviet denunciation legal procedure.
What do our "I am a Kiwi lawyer" readers have to say about the right of the accused to see the evidence against him in New Zealand? Maybe this is normal there, and nothing special they are doing to railroad Dotcom.
=== Would he have access to full evidence if he was in the American Court. If so, at what cost, and with the "volume" of supposed evidence, how long and how many lawyers would he need to sift through it all?
It's only fair game when China has the might and firepower of the US, which it does not.
So therefore the US tell others what to do and you will obey because otherwise we can own and destroy your ass. Case closed.
USA.
So when they do it will be fair?
=== Have you thought about what you respondied? China has the economic clout. If China blacklisted the USA, your IT world would quickly become wasteland. From the resister, capacitor, motherboard, to fully manuufactured routers, tablets etc, would be frozen in time. Suddenly you would be required to pay double for smuggled equipment to satisfy your needs. Why would they do that is the question to answer? They being USA and/or China
In total agreement. Anyone can shave 1 to 2 percent of a budget.. In fact as you so rightly point out, we all were asked to do this in 2013. The thing that gets me is how Obama got away with raising a regressive tax like the payroll tax and didn't get slaughtered in the media for raising taxes on the poor and middle class.
Obama is revered by Canadians and Europeans. Because he is trying to re-balance equality. The top 1% open businesses in the Bahamas, have those businesses respond to American purchase orders, and deliver next to nothing at a very very high billing rate. It is called tax avoidance.
Want a surprise. Sequestering will cause all managers to look at expenditures. They will cut out a few trips, perhaps a hardware upgrade, or do what is necessary to keep staff. No manager wants to lose staff and prestige.
Americans have no one to blame but themselves and their short sighted insistence that they be paid enough money to keep themselves in food, shelter, transportation and medical care here in America, rather than what it would take to do all of the above in Bangladesh.
I guess you mean that the standard of living is too high in the USA, and until you have starving population, and absolutely no collective benefits, then the USA could compete. Gee, Are you willing to support your parents and your in-laws? Would you build a second story on your home for them, assuming you could afford a home?
The problem is not social benefits, the problem is one of financing, and taxes on profits. The Romneys of the world would rather invest outside the USA to grow those companies who will in turn export to the USA. it is so, and quite legally, keep USA companies earning marginal profits. Someone called that vulture capitalism, as opposed to Venture capitalism.
This is typical political BS so prevalent in the US. When the Dems blame the Republicans for some issue, the Republicans say the Dems do it too. That's regardless of whether either statement was true or not. The point is to deflect blame and raise suspicion of the other side.
Further, since we can't trust the media to actually dig into the actual truth on this or any issue, the Chinese likely will be successful in their efforts.
You are naive is you think that the USA is sitting around with their hands in their pockets. Of course they are doing exactly what the Chinese are doing, as is every major power. I spy on a dozen countries, and each of them spies on their dozen. Somehow it seems to always be the same dozen.
The problem with TW and gigabyte service is how to charge. Currently they want to charge by gigabyte and speed. This is their problem,
Here is another experience. My son lived in what you would call backwards Riga Latvia. It is a beautiful city, with a great university. For his apartment he had 8 megabyte Download speed as standard, along with VOIP, and TV by fibre. If I recall, it was costing him about $30/mo. His Cell phone charges were around $10/mo.
If TW or others open up to supply gigabyte speed, they would have to price it reasonably, and that would mean that DSL or 1 megabit (not megabyte) would have to go for a tenth of the charges they can exert today. So who is living in lah-lah land. It is the TW executives who want to bs the public.
What a load of crap. Businessmen and startups take risks everyday. Not all risks are harmful to society. Sex is risky, you may cause the birth of an abnormal child.
Sex and hacking, is not sex and porn.
Why are we even looking at her presentations. What drivel and a waste of time
Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. It has some fringe elements who want to establish an independent country, perhaps like a few fringe elements in the American Southeast who want still want to secede in the Civil War fashion. Some people want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state, but this is also somewhat unlikely since it is an income tax haven for its wealthiest residents.
=== Sounds a little like Quebec, Canada, where the French want their own country, because they fear assimilation. Many Puerto Rico citizens fear losing the Spanish. Ergo, they look to independence. In fact, I prophesize that French will disappear through assimulation, intermarriage, schooling, and trade. 3.5 million vs 300 million is just not going to sustain them. It will happen over the next 150 years.
Canada, with the Harper government sucked up to this too. The budget is now double the pessimistic estimate. Opposition parties and we citizens are swearing at the Harper commitment to a super expensive toy.
I dont think the study is partialy flawed. How can you say that? I use the same bowl for my breakfast cereal every day, and after I breakfast, I put the bowl away for tomorrow, without washing it. And even though I dont get sick, I still do it to save the ecology. In effect I recycle my breakfast bowl, to save the environment by not washing it with soap or putting it into the dishwasher. Since I started doing this, I haven't become sick.
That politician's mouth is in Illinois. Can we get a kill switch for attention-seeking asshats who want to take away our rights?
=== What proof have you that the anonymous poster is telling the truth, or even half truths. These APs can spread lies, and the lies will be next to impossible to refute.
Post truth. Want to post rumors, then do so honestly.
And the only time I would accept an anonymous posting is for a whistle blower
Here's a solution - organize a neighborhood open wireless mesh network co-op.
It would be much more satisfying to make stone soup, than reinforce a stone wall.
Even better, contact Homeland Security or other branch that deals with terrorism. It is conceivable that the leech is doing illegal transmissions, or business, aside from piggybacking onto your wifi.
You have a point. But this is goes deeper. It's about keeping salaries down, and IT salaries have been stagnated. So it's working...
=== What you wrote is partially true, but there is another aspect. Many older programmers grew up with C, C++, Pascal, VBasic and some other languages. They did not grow up with event driven software (GUI or interrupt driven), and while they can code a backend solution better and faster than the beginner, many of my peers failed to learn to program GUI interfaces, or create appealing designs. We also are raising families, have aging parents to worry about, and are not able to do one shift of work and one shift of study.
I was able to keep up-to-date thanks to the Internet and all the free courses. I learned Graphical design, Database (SQL +) and Networking internals. I also kept in touch with peers. Networking, when the job disappears is the best way to find a replacement job. As well, knowing which head-hunters specialize in your field is important.
For some people, it is monkey see, monkey do. Their friends convince each other to vote one way, and then that individual votes the same way, for fear of making a mistake. Who wants to vote for the losing candidate? It is a kind of mob mentality.
But when I look at my personal practices, I vote, not for the party, but for the candidate who will best represent my community. I have switched several times in my life.
And no, I am not ambidextrous handed or ambidextrous in voting because I don't care. I usually choose the more proactive candidate, because I know s/he will do a better job.
Actually, within FOSS, there is a need for some applications to help a small or medium sized municipality to manage their operational responsibilities.
What are the responsibilities. a) Regular scheduled jobs (garbage collection, street cleaning, and anything of a repetitive nature. b) Emergency jobs -- water-main breaks, cleanup after car accident, traffic light bulb replacements c) Resident requests -- burned out street lights, repaving requests, and more d) Preventative maintainance.
If you visit a municipality, you will be able to augment my list.
A database would be used to setup a catalog of tasks, of initiating them etc.
Too much security is an invitation to break-ins. Thieves will ask "What is so precious that they need such heavy protection? Lets see what we can resell at a good profit!"
Locally, a security package with several cameras and the recording equipment are available in the $300 range. Some systems record to flash memory. There is no continuous recording, but only recording when there is an image change. When the image has not changed for several minutes, monitoring continues, but recording stops. Do your search and yee shall find.
When you cut funding, you have to expect that the university or college must make up the differences with huge enrollments These studens cant be thrown out because they are marginal, so the school carries them along to full graduation. The schools bar is lowered. The school, on the otherhand believes that once the student is employed in industry, he will polish up his skills.
Apprenticeship is what takes place for the first three years on the first job
When the only car you know is a floor shift standard, then your comparison is made based on a floor shift standard. When it graduates to column shift, there is a new learning curve. When the manual transitions to automatic transmission, there are diehards who will not give up on the manual transmission, And there are those who bless the provisioning of automatic transmission.
Telsa is not a production car. Therefore we have to stop comparing the telsa to a BMW or Corvette, but compare it to the equivalent car. It could be the Ford Epic, or the Toyota Echo or Yaris, or the Honda Civic . Compare the Tesla to what it is designed to replace. Compare the noise, required maintence, polution, and operating cost to the equivalent car.
Now, for the charging station. I would argue that he should have learned where it was before starting out. I used to do that when I took a work contract out of town in the boonies. Gasoline stations were few and far between.
The Tesla will improve over time, and that is without a doubt. But we should not compare it to the BMW, or the Honda or Full sized vehicle. If I drove my car with a heavy foot, a) the mileage will be half of what was epa rated,. b) the brakes would not last the projected miles of service, c) The engine or other breakdowns would be higher, and tires would wear more quickly. So, I drive a vehicle respecting it's design parameters. If I had the Tesla, I think I would do the same.
Why? If spending $1,000 makes you 5-10% more productive, then do it. If you can find a cheaper one, great, but don't screw yourself in the name of a false economy.
=== In my view, $200 is my budget for a monitor. I have a good Acer (1920x1200 LEd) and I do not think I will have less eyestrain with a more expensive monitor. The difference goes for the wife, kids and mortgage.
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New Zealand has no other choice but to hand Dotcom over. If they don't . . . no more local economy boosting Hollywood films will be made in New Zealand.
I really don't give a rat's ass if Dotcom is convicted or not. However, I find the way that this is being done a bit disturbing. No full access to the evidence against him? This sounds rather like a Soviet denunciation legal procedure.
What do our "I am a Kiwi lawyer" readers have to say about the right of the accused to see the evidence against him in New Zealand? Maybe this is normal there, and nothing special they are doing to railroad Dotcom.
===
Would he have access to full evidence if he was in the American Court. If so, at what cost, and with the "volume" of supposed evidence, how long and how many lawyers would he need to sift through it all?
It's only fair game when China has the might and firepower of the US, which it does not.
So therefore the US tell others what to do and you will obey because otherwise we can own and destroy your ass. Case closed.
USA.
So when they do it will be fair?
===
Have you thought about what you respondied? China has the economic clout. If China blacklisted the USA, your IT world would quickly become wasteland. From the resister, capacitor, motherboard, to fully manuufactured routers, tablets etc, would be frozen in time. Suddenly you would be required to pay double for smuggled equipment to satisfy your needs.
Why would they do that is the question to answer? They being USA and/or China
I've been boycotting all the games with DRM and DLC for over a decade and it hasn't done shit.
Also it's really too bad that there was nothing between the DLC Hell of the early 2010s and the Change-Muncher Hell of the 1980s...
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How can you write that? You saved years of money for other purposes.
In total agreement. Anyone can shave 1 to 2 percent of a budget .. In fact as you so rightly point out, we all were asked to do this in 2013. The thing that gets me is how Obama got away with raising a regressive tax like the payroll tax and didn't get slaughtered in the media for raising taxes on the poor and middle class.
Obama is revered by Canadians and Europeans. Because he is trying to re-balance equality. The top 1% open businesses in the Bahamas, have those businesses respond to American purchase orders, and deliver next to nothing at a very very high billing rate. It is called tax avoidance.
Want a surprise. Sequestering will cause all managers to look at expenditures. They will cut out a few trips, perhaps a hardware upgrade, or do what is necessary to keep staff. No manager wants to lose staff and prestige.
And the sun will continue to rise.
Americans have no one to blame but themselves and their short sighted insistence that they be paid enough money to keep themselves in food, shelter, transportation and medical care here in America, rather than what it would take to do all of the above in Bangladesh.
I guess you mean that the standard of living is too high in the USA, and until you have starving population, and absolutely no collective benefits, then the USA could compete. Gee, Are you willing to support your parents and your in-laws? Would you build a second story on your home for them, assuming you could afford a home?
The problem is not social benefits, the problem is one of financing, and taxes on profits. The Romneys of the world would rather invest outside the USA to grow those companies who will in turn export to the USA. it is so, and quite legally, keep USA companies earning marginal profits. Someone called that vulture capitalism, as opposed to Venture capitalism.
This is typical political BS so prevalent in the US. When the Dems blame the Republicans for some issue, the Republicans say the Dems do it too. That's regardless of whether either statement was true or not. The point is to deflect blame and raise suspicion of the other side.
Further, since we can't trust the media to actually dig into the actual truth on this or any issue, the Chinese likely will be successful in their efforts.
You are naive is you think that the USA is sitting around with their hands in their pockets. Of course they are doing exactly what the Chinese are doing, as is every major power.
I spy on a dozen countries, and each of them spies on their dozen. Somehow it seems to always be the same dozen.
The problem with TW and gigabyte service is how to charge. Currently they want to charge by gigabyte and speed. This is their problem,
Here is another experience.
My son lived in what you would call backwards Riga Latvia. It is a beautiful city, with a great university. For his apartment he had 8 megabyte Download speed as standard, along with VOIP, and TV by fibre. If I recall, it was costing him about $30/mo. His Cell phone charges were around $10/mo.
If TW or others open up to supply gigabyte speed, they would have to price it reasonably, and that would mean that DSL or 1 megabit (not megabyte) would have to go for a tenth of the charges they can exert today.
So who is living in lah-lah land. It is the TW executives who want to bs the public.
What a load of crap.
Businessmen and startups take risks everyday. Not all risks are harmful to society. Sex is risky, you may cause the birth of an abnormal child.
Sex and hacking, is not sex and porn.
Why are we even looking at her presentations. What drivel and a waste of time
Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. It has some fringe elements who want to establish an independent country, perhaps like a few fringe elements in the American Southeast who want still want to secede in the Civil War fashion. Some people want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state, but this is also somewhat unlikely since it is an income tax haven for its wealthiest residents.
===
Sounds a little like Quebec, Canada, where the French want their own country, because they fear assimilation. Many Puerto Rico
citizens fear losing the Spanish. Ergo, they look to independence.
In fact, I prophesize that French will disappear through assimulation, intermarriage, schooling, and trade. 3.5 million vs 300 million is just not going to sustain them. It will happen over the next 150 years.
Canada, with the Harper government sucked up to this too. The budget is now double the pessimistic estimate. Opposition parties and we citizens are swearing at the Harper commitment to a super expensive toy.
Perhaps the Customs agent had less than high-school education. Yes, she could do a job, if it was not complicated.
I dont think the study is partialy flawed. How can you say that? I use the same bowl for my breakfast cereal every day, and after I breakfast, I put the bowl away for tomorrow, without washing it. And even though I dont get sick, I still do it to save the ecology.
In effect I recycle my breakfast bowl, to save the environment by not washing it with soap or putting it into the dishwasher. Since I started doing this, I haven't become sick.
Fun time in my kitchen
That politician's mouth is in Illinois. Can we get a kill switch for attention-seeking asshats who want to take away our rights?
===
What proof have you that the anonymous poster is telling the truth, or even half truths. These APs can spread lies, and the lies will be next to impossible to refute.
Post truth. Want to post rumors, then do so honestly.
And the only time I would accept an anonymous posting is for a whistle blower
Anyone preparing to start a new company and name it "Perl" ?
Perl can do anything Python can do!
Is that to crash without posting an error message?
# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Do you not mean that the illama is full of ram.
Here's a solution - organize a neighborhood open wireless mesh network co-op.
It would be much more satisfying to make stone soup, than reinforce a stone wall.
Even better, contact Homeland Security or other branch that deals with terrorism. It is conceivable that the leech is doing illegal transmissions, or business, aside from piggybacking onto your wifi.
Nothing of value will be lost.
Think of all the women I could have seduced, and the wine, women and song I did not partake in because I thought that there will always be a tomorrow.
The benefit to my naivety about Higgs Bosen is faithfulness to loving wife and wonderful family.
You have a point. But this is goes deeper. It's about keeping salaries down, and IT salaries have been stagnated. So it's working...
===
What you wrote is partially true, but there is another aspect. Many older programmers grew up with C, C++, Pascal, VBasic and some other languages. They did not grow up with event driven software (GUI or interrupt driven), and while they can code a backend solution better and faster than the beginner, many of my peers failed to learn to program GUI interfaces, or create appealing designs. We also are raising families, have aging parents to worry about, and are not able to do one shift of work and one shift of study.
I was able to keep up-to-date thanks to the Internet and all the free courses. I learned Graphical design, Database (SQL +) and Networking internals. I also kept in touch with peers. Networking, when the job disappears is the best way to find a replacement job.
As well, knowing which head-hunters specialize in your field is important.
For some people, it is monkey see, monkey do. Their friends convince each other to vote one way, and then that individual votes the same way, for fear of making a mistake. Who wants to vote for the losing candidate? It is a kind of mob mentality.
But when I look at my personal practices, I vote, not for the party, but for the candidate who will best represent my community. I have switched several times in my life.
And no, I am not ambidextrous handed or ambidextrous in voting because I don't care. I usually choose the more proactive candidate, because I know s/he will do a better job.
Actually, within FOSS, there is a need for some applications to help a small or medium sized municipality to manage their operational responsibilities.
What are the responsibilities.
a) Regular scheduled jobs (garbage collection, street cleaning, and anything of a repetitive nature.
b) Emergency jobs -- water-main breaks, cleanup after car accident, traffic light bulb replacements
c) Resident requests -- burned out street lights, repaving requests, and more
d) Preventative maintainance.
If you visit a municipality, you will be able to augment my list.
A database would be used to setup a catalog of tasks, of initiating them etc.
Too much security is an invitation to break-ins. Thieves will ask "What is so precious that they need such heavy protection? Lets see what we can resell at a good profit!"
Locally, a security package with several cameras and the recording equipment are available in the $300 range. Some systems record to flash memory. There is no continuous recording, but only recording when there is an image change. When the image has not changed for several minutes, monitoring continues, but recording stops.
Do your search and yee shall find.
Was the glass half empty or half full.
It seems that JBs glass was half emtpy
When you cut funding, you have to expect that the university or college must make up the differences with huge enrollments These studens cant be thrown out because they are marginal, so the school carries them along to full graduation. The schools bar is lowered.
The school, on the otherhand believes that once the student is employed in industry, he will polish up his skills.
Apprenticeship is what takes place for the first three years on the first job
When the only car you know is a floor shift standard, then your comparison is made based on a floor shift standard.
When it graduates to column shift, there is a new learning curve.
When the manual transitions to automatic transmission, there are diehards who will not give up on the manual transmission, And there are those who bless the provisioning of automatic transmission.
Telsa is not a production car. Therefore we have to stop comparing the telsa to a BMW or Corvette, but compare it to the equivalent car. It could be the Ford Epic, or the Toyota Echo or Yaris, or the Honda Civic . Compare the Tesla to what it is designed to replace. Compare the noise, required maintence, polution, and operating cost to the equivalent car.
Now, for the charging station. I would argue that he should have learned where it was before starting out. I used to do that when I took a work contract out of town in the boonies. Gasoline stations were few and far between.
The Tesla will improve over time, and that is without a doubt. But we should not compare it to the BMW, or the Honda or Full sized vehicle.
If I drove my car with a heavy foot, a) the mileage will be half of what was epa rated,. b) the brakes would not last the projected miles of service, c) The engine or other breakdowns would be higher, and tires would wear more quickly. So, I drive a vehicle respecting it's design parameters. If I had the Tesla, I think I would do the same.
Bottom line, be fair in your evaluation.
I'm trying to keep the cost down reasonable,
Why? If spending $1,000 makes you 5-10% more productive, then do it. If you can find a cheaper one, great, but don't screw yourself in the name of a false economy.
===
In my view, $200 is my budget for a monitor. I have a good Acer (1920x1200 LEd) and I do not think I will have less eyestrain with a more expensive monitor. The difference goes for the wife, kids and mortgage.