If we ever want to get to a point where space flight is common, it has to become not crazy dangerous. Should not each successive system designed become safer than the last?
A CS degree is not about making you a monkey that can program only one language. It is about learning how to think. The multi-language approach will ensure that you are exposed to many ways of representation.
The "real" world will train you how to be a monkey well enough.
If knowing one language well enough to get a job, a certification in Java, C# or whatever will serve your simian side better. Use the knowledge in the diversity in languages to tell potential employer that you can quickly learn to program in whatever environment is required.
Unfortunately photos are always copyrighted, even if they are just an attempt at reproducing something not currently covered. You can always copy the text of something out of copyright, photo reproduction should be no different. If the photos are taken in a way to represent more than just the original image, then they should be considered original work. But when they are an attempt to represent just the original image, they should not be copyrightable. It is after all, the original image that was the creative work.
The more people that have this attitude, the more trouble we'll all be in.
The people that protest are very rarely ones seeking security clearances. They do not give their secrets to people who do not agree with them unless they have to. So if they have a large enough pool of people who willingly conform, they will just pick from those.
We are not yet in an Orwellian nightmare, but we may be if we are unwilling to express our dissent. They will always attempt to take away freedom. If a security clearance is more important than freedom, we are doomed.
It is more control, being able to monitor anybody and especially the perception that anyone can be monitored. All regimes fear change, some more than others.
More government interference means more enforcement and a more sophisticated and much more expensive black market. This means far fewer sales of the banned product.
Black markets are large for items that are banned but have weak enforcement and small penalties.
Additionally, Apple highly controls the sale of iPhones, so a black marketer cannot just buy a bunch in one locale and sell them in another.
An iPhone is expensive to begin with. A large premium will skyrocket the price of black market iPhone. The vast majority of the Chinese iPhone purchasers will not pay this premium for a single feature.
A large part of having an iPhone is that it is a status symbol. Except for a few rich geeks, that does not change much by having wifi enabled.
What keeps Apple and Microsoft on top is marketing and momentum. We live in a society driven by mass media. For the most part open-source does not have a sufficient marketing budget. Most people do not even know about alternatives.
Age may mean nothing from an ability aspect, but there is a lot of age discrimination in hiring.
There is less age discrimination in consulting because the engagement period is shorter and limited in scope. Also the rate is set by the contract (i.e. no health care, vacation expectations etc.). In most consulting gigs, the contract can be terminated with a short notice.
Most "modern" companies do include a technical career path these days, but in the long run, its potential in regard to salary is almost universally lower than management. The technical career path can also be viewed as a glass ceiling as well: you are promoted to a pay scale higher than a low end manager, but substantially lower than upper level management. You cannot move into management because for your pay scale you do not make enough. Also, perception is incredibly important, you will not be viewed as management material. Note that none of this has anything to do with your value to the company. It is about politics.
Managers are the insiders in a corporation. They (as a group) pay others well only when they have to. There are exceptions when the technological knowledge is key to the bottom line, but there are usually very few of these positions and they are often tailored to or even defined by the employee.
The weakness in FARC has little to do with coca eradication and more to do with their loss of support among parts of the population (i.e. disillusion with their lack of results). Besides, the right wing government supported factions produced far more coca than FARC which has always been a small time player.
The Taliban will exist (and be strong) as long as there is foreign occupation of Afghanistan. They will most likely retain substantial power after the U.S. leaves until the Afghanis decide to remove them. But this will not happen until they no longer fear western meddling in their affairs. You can see this in Iran now that the population feels less threatened by the west, true dissent has emerged. The local bully gets the support when the outside bully is the threat. The Iranians dissenters may not win this round, but the current leaders will be weakened and will eventually fall unless they can raise the specter of an outside threat. (BTW, mutual fear between Iran and the U.S. helps conservatives on both sides)
In Columbia without the massive U.S. drug war, the two sides would probably have come to some sort of compromise a long time ago. U.S. meddling in Columbian affairs keeps the right wing in power and thus FARC keeps up business as usual. Without the oppression, they would either become a regular political party or fade away as some other more moderate group filled their role. (There is extreme political oppression against any labor organization in Columbia, these include right wing death squads).
The government only gives these companies "perks" because these companies have undue influence in government (especially in Washington DC)
We see what the unregulated financial industry has brought.
Before regulation, the economy when through extreme cycles of boom-bust (i.e. prosperity and deep recessions/depressions). The depth of our current recession is due to the extreme deregulation that has occurred from the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bushette legacy. (Although Clinton did not do that badly with economy, he signed in a lot of financial deregulation.)
Regulation is necessary because industry and the "market" will not sufficiently regulate itself concerning things that are important to society. These include pollution, safe products, privacy and competition.
It is not communist vs. capitalist but totalitarian vs. democracy. With democracy you get at least some degree of necessity to answer to the people.
What is so green about starting WW2? Perhaps Hitler was "green" in the old fatherland, but he spread environmental disaster everywhere else.
Germany at that time certainly was a collaboration of capitalists with fascists, but the economy was highly controlled and regulated and could in no way be consider a market economy
Energy is so "cheap" because they suppliers and users of the energy do not have to pay for its entire cost including,
destruction of environment during extraction, including large areas of land destroyed or damaged due to spillage and strip mining
destruction of environment after usage including smog and greenhouse gases
massive military and human costs required in wars and other "police actions" necessary to provide consistent access to "cheap" energy
Concerning most electrical production in the US, we do not pay for recovery of land strip mined for the coal we use for most electrical production. We do not consider the health effects of millions of tons of particulate matter dumped into the atmosphere. We do not consider the long term costs of global climate change in the US or worldwide.
Current "cheap" energy is unsustainable and is actually expensive. The costs are just not paid by the immediate user.
Note, in the US, we pay sales tax on top of the purchase price, but it is usually less than 10%. You can usually avoid it by ordering over the internet from another (US) state.
It is unfortunate that the exchange rates substantially undervalue labor in Eastern Europe.
They are required to make repair parts available for a certain amount of time after the initial sale regardless of who owns the product. There is nothing in the consumer protection act that gives them the right to refuse the sale. They do so because they can get away with it and there is no way outside of suing them in the US to get appropriate redress. They are breaking the law but they know that it is not worth it to an individual to fight it.
There is no "supply" for digital music, it is effectively infinite. But the supply for a particular song is a monopoly (from the record company). There is not really a substitute.
The other problem with demand is that it is dependent on so many factors, like popularity. On Ebay, people will pay way more than an item is worth to them just because someone else is bidding. Demand goes up temporarily based on their perceptions, most of the time of which they are unaware.
The "law" of supply and demand describe things simplistic curves and that often do not fit reality.
The economic laws referred to are not simply the the spot price of a restricted supply good will go up in the short term because demand went up. Supply and demand do not explain the economic situation because they are volatile and can often be controlled.
The law of supply and demand says that the in the short run, increased demand will drive the price up, but in the longer term, this will cause more competition and thus more production and the price will be brought back in line with costs, even go down because of increased production efficiency. The price of music on iTunes has less to do with costs than control.
China cannot "call in" all US debt. The debt is primarily in treasury bonds. To "call in" the debt they would have to dump (i.e. sell) them on the market. The price would drop some, but since China only holds about 700 billion (6.3%) of a total of 11 trillion, it can probably be handled by the market. It would probably take them at least a year to liquidate their position. As they would have an interest in preserving their foreign reserves, they would have to move them slowly into another strong currency, i.e. yen or euros.
Since the US seems to have no problem writing 700 billion dollar checks these days, I suppose it could handle one more if it wanted to actually buy them back directly and immediately.
Hardly anything would happen (except a small rise in yields which are absurdly low anyways) if China decided to sell its US securities quickly. In fact a good percentage of them are of less than a year in duration and have to be renewed regularly, otherwise they would be payed back.
Furthermore, a quick dumping of U.S. treasuries would probably cause the stock market to go down again, causing a flight to quality, i.e. moving other money into treasuries, stabilizing treasury prices.
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If we ever want to get to a point where space flight is common, it has to become not crazy dangerous. Should not each successive system designed become safer than the last?
The solution is to stop trying to find a way to keep your customers from learning about competitors and start making your product better and cheaper.
That is downright Un-American. Here we make money the proper way, by suing someone.
A CS degree is not about making you a monkey that can program only one language. It is about learning how to think. The multi-language approach will ensure that you are exposed to many ways of representation.
The "real" world will train you how to be a monkey well enough.
If knowing one language well enough to get a job, a certification in Java, C# or whatever will serve your simian side better. Use the knowledge in the diversity in languages to tell potential employer that you can quickly learn to program in whatever environment is required.
They should not have realized that they were late until the delivery date.
Unfortunately photos are always copyrighted, even if they are just an attempt at reproducing something not currently covered. You can always copy the text of something out of copyright, photo reproduction should be no different. If the photos are taken in a way to represent more than just the original image, then they should be considered original work. But when they are an attempt to represent just the original image, they should not be copyrightable. It is after all, the original image that was the creative work.
I wouldn't go to a protest.
The more people that have this attitude, the more trouble we'll all be in.
The people that protest are very rarely ones seeking security clearances. They do not give their secrets to people who do not agree with them unless they have to. So if they have a large enough pool of people who willingly conform, they will just pick from those.
We are not yet in an Orwellian nightmare, but we may be if we are unwilling to express our dissent. They will always attempt to take away freedom. If a security clearance is more important than freedom, we are doomed.
It is more control, being able to monitor anybody and especially the perception that anyone can be monitored. All regimes fear change, some more than others.
More government interference means more enforcement and a more sophisticated and much more expensive black market. This means far fewer sales of the banned product.
Black markets are large for items that are banned but have weak enforcement and small penalties.
Additionally, Apple highly controls the sale of iPhones, so a black marketer cannot just buy a bunch in one locale and sell them in another.
An iPhone is expensive to begin with. A large premium will skyrocket the price of black market iPhone. The vast majority of the Chinese iPhone purchasers will not pay this premium for a single feature.
A large part of having an iPhone is that it is a status symbol. Except for a few rich geeks, that does not change much by having wifi enabled.
The market will be miniscule.
What keeps Apple and Microsoft on top is marketing and momentum. We live in a society driven by mass media. For the most part open-source does not have a sufficient marketing budget. Most people do not even know about alternatives.
Virtual albino mice are useful for viral assessments.
in a place where a dup can go unnoticed 8 hours later, "earlier this year" is an eternity
Age may mean nothing from an ability aspect, but there is a lot of age discrimination in hiring.
There is less age discrimination in consulting because the engagement period is shorter and limited in scope. Also the rate is set by the contract (i.e. no health care, vacation expectations etc.). In most consulting gigs, the contract can be terminated with a short notice.
Most "modern" companies do include a technical career path these days, but in the long run, its potential in regard to salary is almost universally lower than management. The technical career path can also be viewed as a glass ceiling as well: you are promoted to a pay scale higher than a low end manager, but substantially lower than upper level management. You cannot move into management because for your pay scale you do not make enough. Also, perception is incredibly important, you will not be viewed as management material. Note that none of this has anything to do with your value to the company. It is about politics.
Managers are the insiders in a corporation. They (as a group) pay others well only when they have to. There are exceptions when the technological knowledge is key to the bottom line, but there are usually very few of these positions and they are often tailored to or even defined by the employee.
The weakness in FARC has little to do with coca eradication and more to do with their loss of support among parts of the population (i.e. disillusion with their lack of results). Besides, the right wing government supported factions produced far more coca than FARC which has always been a small time player.
The Taliban will exist (and be strong) as long as there is foreign occupation of Afghanistan. They will most likely retain substantial power after the U.S. leaves until the Afghanis decide to remove them. But this will not happen until they no longer fear western meddling in their affairs. You can see this in Iran now that the population feels less threatened by the west, true dissent has emerged. The local bully gets the support when the outside bully is the threat. The Iranians dissenters may not win this round, but the current leaders will be weakened and will eventually fall unless they can raise the specter of an outside threat. (BTW, mutual fear between Iran and the U.S. helps conservatives on both sides)
In Columbia without the massive U.S. drug war, the two sides would probably have come to some sort of compromise a long time ago. U.S. meddling in Columbian affairs keeps the right wing in power and thus FARC keeps up business as usual. Without the oppression, they would either become a regular political party or fade away as some other more moderate group filled their role. (There is extreme political oppression against any labor organization in Columbia, these include right wing death squads).
shut up, car analogies always work
The government only gives these companies "perks" because these companies have undue influence in government (especially in Washington DC)
We see what the unregulated financial industry has brought.
Before regulation, the economy when through extreme cycles of boom-bust (i.e. prosperity and deep recessions/depressions). The depth of our current recession is due to the extreme deregulation that has occurred from the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bushette legacy. (Although Clinton did not do that badly with economy, he signed in a lot of financial deregulation.)
Regulation is necessary because industry and the "market" will not sufficiently regulate itself concerning things that are important to society. These include pollution, safe products, privacy and competition.
It is not communist vs. capitalist but totalitarian vs. democracy. With democracy you get at least some degree of necessity to answer to the people.
What is so green about starting WW2? Perhaps Hitler was "green" in the old fatherland, but he spread environmental disaster everywhere else.
Germany at that time certainly was a collaboration of capitalists with fascists, but the economy was highly controlled and regulated and could in no way be consider a market economy
Energy is so "cheap" because they suppliers and users of the energy do not have to pay for its entire cost including,
Concerning most electrical production in the US, we do not pay for recovery of land strip mined for the coal we use for most electrical production. We do not consider the health effects of millions of tons of particulate matter dumped into the atmosphere. We do not consider the long term costs of global climate change in the US or worldwide.
Current "cheap" energy is unsustainable and is actually expensive. The costs are just not paid by the immediate user.
they are also afraid of public displays of sexuality because they do not respond to the "appropriate" signals
it is much easier to live a lie if that lie is beneath the surface
This is more expensive than in the US, but not as much as you think.
Polish VAT is 22%, so 384USD after VAT is removed would be 384 * 0.78 = 299.
In the US, the price is actually about 249 for the console alone. (mail order prices)
Also after doing a search (see http://www.nokaut.pl/konsole/konsola-nintendo-wii.html), the typical price seems to about 1080, i.e. 1080 * 0.307579 = 332 and 332 *0.78 = 259
So there is really not much difference.
Note, in the US, we pay sales tax on top of the purchase price, but it is usually less than 10%. You can usually avoid it by ordering over the internet from another (US) state.
It is unfortunate that the exchange rates substantially undervalue labor in Eastern Europe.
The company does NOT know it was stolen. If they did, they would be required by law to report it to the police.
They are required to make repair parts available for a certain amount of time after the initial sale regardless of who owns the product. There is nothing in the consumer protection act that gives them the right to refuse the sale. They do so because they can get away with it and there is no way outside of suing them in the US to get appropriate redress. They are breaking the law but they know that it is not worth it to an individual to fight it.
And, unless your seller can provide original receipt, you should assume it is a stolen machine.
Most people are not going to be able to find a receipt for something they bought some time ago. To assume it's stolen is absurd.
The other problem with demand is that it is dependent on so many factors, like popularity. On Ebay, people will pay way more than an item is worth to them just because someone else is bidding. Demand goes up temporarily based on their perceptions, most of the time of which they are unaware.
The "law" of supply and demand describe things simplistic curves and that often do not fit reality.
The economic laws referred to are not simply the the spot price of a restricted supply good will go up in the short term because demand went up. Supply and demand do not explain the economic situation because they are volatile and can often be controlled.
The law of supply and demand says that the in the short run, increased demand will drive the price up, but in the longer term, this will cause more competition and thus more production and the price will be brought back in line with costs, even go down because of increased production efficiency. The price of music on iTunes has less to do with costs than control.
China cannot "call in" all US debt. The debt is primarily in treasury bonds. To "call in" the debt they would have to dump (i.e. sell) them on the market. The price would drop some, but since China only holds about 700 billion (6.3%) of a total of 11 trillion, it can probably be handled by the market. It would probably take them at least a year to liquidate their position. As they would have an interest in preserving their foreign reserves, they would have to move them slowly into another strong currency, i.e. yen or euros.
Since the US seems to have no problem writing 700 billion dollar checks these days, I suppose it could handle one more if it wanted to actually buy them back directly and immediately.
Hardly anything would happen (except a small rise in yields which are absurdly low anyways) if China decided to sell its US securities quickly. In fact a good percentage of them are of less than a year in duration and have to be renewed regularly, otherwise they would be payed back.
Furthermore, a quick dumping of U.S. treasuries would probably cause the stock market to go down again, causing a flight to quality, i.e. moving other money into treasuries, stabilizing treasury prices.
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