Again, everybody pulls out the "war criminal" reply...
READ: If you're keen on blowing up GPS jammers, then that will be used against you. Jammers are plausibly cheaper than hightech missiles (which was actually the message in my first post - deploy shitloads of them!) READ: Being a war criminal and/or putting your citizenry at risk, is something some individuals don't care about. Look at just about every armed conflict in the last few decades.
Dunno (thinking I'll get modded to oblivion for this one..)
It would still be the attacker, that chose to bomb the target - simply blowing shit up without checking what is there first, makes the attacker the "criminal" in my opinion. Is same reason why we disallow anti-personnel mines and clusterbombs: you're not in control of who you hurt, but instead just blowing shit up because you can.
If it was an offensive technology (rockets/turrets/AA guns), then I might accept it, but jammers? Find a different way around it; March in and take them out, don't just blow shit up randomly.
Now, do I agree that schools and hospitals should be used this way? No. Do I expect that certain leaders wouldn't think twice before doing this? Yes Would I get royally pissed if my leaders did? Yes, but I'd get at LEAST as pissed off if they used anti-personnel mines, clusterbombs OR bombed a school.
Observation: I'm from a "first world country", and I think we have obligations in how we go about attacking other countries (seem to be almost a world-leader hobby these days). It might not be easy, safe or quick - but war never is. And saying you're there on "Operation Shoving Freedom Down Their Throat", you have an obligation to the citizenry of country you just invaded, even if it will cost you some more Freedom Delivery Boys.
Note to self: When becoming Leader of oil-rich country, put up thousands of GPS jammers in sparsely populated areas, and schools, hospitals and embassies.
Wow - handheld 30W-5KW... seriously, handheld lasers in that handheld category is way cool and handheld and stuff. What kind of handheld batteries do they come with?
Mine was also Windows Mobile, but if HTC has no qualms selling obviously unstable phones running Windows Mobile, I expect the same holds for Android or whatever other software platform they may choose. Root cause may be Windows Mobile, or it may be the hardware - either way, I've written off HTC due to the very poor experience.
I've tried HTC* - only thing less stable are the 3 blackberries** the bosses insisted I use.
As far as I can tell, the need for HTX phones to be open is to let users fix the software.
*: It would crash every 2-3 days **: Generally, they've all crashed daily, forcing me at least weekly to pull the battery and the find that while crashing they ate half the charge somehow. Customers cannot call me, as 66% of the time my phone is waiting for my PIN after crashing.
Good treatment, and the ability to keep a bed empty, does not make a person perfect for running an organization the size of modern hospitals. I think that assuming ONLY doctors can sanely run a hospital is wrong, and is part of why hospitals in Denmark are insanely inefficient.
Now, nowhere did I advocate having beancounters and asskissers and other subsections of MBAs running hospital - only noting that having exclusively medical staff act as managers on all levels is stupid beyond belief. I should also think that if doctors can be taught basic financial skills, people from a non-medical background can be made to understand, or at least appreciate, the unique requirements that comes with the care of humans. Admittedly, observing how the elderly are treated in Denmark makes me doubt that to some degree, but then at least we can look at mixing the two: Having trained medical professionals be part of executive management, but also having trained organizational professionals be part of the daily management.
Note: My own background is one of IT, and I am now part of middle-management. My primary tasks include ensuring that consultants working for me (who are far from all with an IT background, or position), are listened to and their input included when making assessments. I am also responsible for ensuring that the business-specific needs of my customers are met optimally. None of this qualifies me for running a hospital, but if I manage to understand the needs of a Romanian assembly line providing parts to an American OEM, others can manage to understand the relative needs of hospitals, without being having been elbow deep in intestines.
Hospitals, at least in Denmark, are run by doctors, because supposedly only doctors knows how to run them. Apparently, your skill with a scalpel is directly proportional to your skill at organizational management.
I have been trying this on Windows 2008 servers the last few weeks to copy-paste files in Explorer - CTRL+c and CTRL+v doesn't seem to work reliably.
Then there is the headache that various specialty programs seemingly implement CRTL+f differently (Outlook? - Forward instead of Find) or simply not at all.
So "Study finds people have not heard of CTRL+f" could just as well be "Study finds people stop relying on unreliable keyboard short-cuts due to developer inconsistencies".
Honestly, experienced drivers know what the safe speed for a road is, and generally drive it - speed limits be damned.
I do not agree with that assessment, simply based on pure experience, but assuming it holds true: Issue is not the experienced drivers - it is usually the in-experienced drivers, especially those who consider themselves competent drivers. They will not know when it is safe to go fast, and are too likely to go too fast. Now, if auto-accidents were 100% solo-accidents, I'd be OK with this (see strange post above about natural selection), but since they will inflict damage on others, as society, we have to set limits that everybody can handle.
Thats not to say that the old geezer in your example shouldn't have pulled in and cleared the road for you to pass the truck, if there was nothing in front of him...
Nice winding roads and an unlimited speed limit would get rid of much of that monotony.
That is a very good idea. Not, of course, for reducing car crashes, but for accelerating the process of natural selection.
German autobahns disagree with you.
ALL of the Autobahn is limited to 130 kph - on SOME of it, you are allowed to exceed this, with the observation that you are absolutely guilty of any incident, if going faster than 130 (80.7 antiquated units per hour).
The rules relating to the layout and quality of the Autobahn are also more strict that anywhere, so before you apply observations about the Autobahn to any other stretch of road, first apply the rules.
In an "open forum" several things can happen as a result. First, someone who doesn't represent the company can respond and give advice which is incorrect and not based in medical fact, but the doctor could act on that advice, worsening the patient's condition.
So, we're worried that a doctor goes hunting on an open forum on facebook for medical advise? I think we have to worry about whether this is an actual doctor... or human with an IQ over 17.
Second, the event could be very time critical, and the report could potentially not be seen right away, or could get missed in a deluge of other noise (sometimes the writings of these doctors is not any better than average Internet noise, and even if you're looking for it, you might miss that this is an adverse event report). In the mean time the patient needs medical care, and their doctor is waiting on a response.
Again, we're thinking doctors would be stupid enough to consult Facebook (or whatever open forum) instead of the pharmaceutical company???
Note: Patients might go looking at open forums for medical advise - which is generally a bad idea - and any forum, Facebook walls or whatever, that deals with such notions must put up big signs insisting patients go see a trained professional (and not the baffoon looking for medical knowledge on a facebook wall!)
Would it be possibly to build a Dyson Sphere around a single star in a binary system? Really, I'd like to know:) Am thinking it would be an order of magnitude harder (gravitational shear being 1 possible impediment), but could be? Then covering it is something to absorb sunlight from the other star could make sense....
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[...]Danish Peoples Party[..] When I think about the names, they are hilarious, but nobody thinks about what they mean in normal conversation[...]
Dunno, when I hear "Dansk Folkeparti" I think of it being an insult to everything Danish....
don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
Does not apply in the world of ISPs
FTFY
Again, everybody pulls out the "war criminal" reply...
READ: If you're keen on blowing up GPS jammers, then that will be used against you. Jammers are plausibly cheaper than hightech missiles (which was actually the message in my first post - deploy shitloads of them!)
READ: Being a war criminal and/or putting your citizenry at risk, is something some individuals don't care about. Look at just about every armed conflict in the last few decades.
Dunno
(thinking I'll get modded to oblivion for this one..)
It would still be the attacker, that chose to bomb the target - simply blowing shit up without checking what is there first, makes the attacker the "criminal" in my opinion. Is same reason why we disallow anti-personnel mines and clusterbombs: you're not in control of who you hurt, but instead just blowing shit up because you can.
If it was an offensive technology (rockets/turrets/AA guns), then I might accept it, but jammers? Find a different way around it; March in and take them out, don't just blow shit up randomly.
Now, do I agree that schools and hospitals should be used this way? No.
Do I expect that certain leaders wouldn't think twice before doing this? Yes
Would I get royally pissed if my leaders did? Yes, but I'd get at LEAST as pissed off if they used anti-personnel mines, clusterbombs OR bombed a school.
Observation: I'm from a "first world country", and I think we have obligations in how we go about attacking other countries (seem to be almost a world-leader hobby these days). It might not be easy, safe or quick - but war never is. And saying you're there on "Operation Shoving Freedom Down Their Throat", you have an obligation to the citizenry of country you just invaded, even if it will cost you some more Freedom Delivery Boys.
Note to self: When becoming Leader of oil-rich country, put up thousands of GPS jammers in sparsely populated areas, and schools, hospitals and embassies.
Those laws have to REALLY annoy GMail and News International
Wow - handheld 30W-5KW ... seriously, handheld lasers in that handheld category is way cool and handheld and stuff.
What kind of handheld batteries do they come with?
Mine was also Windows Mobile, but if HTC has no qualms selling obviously unstable phones running Windows Mobile, I expect the same holds for Android or whatever other software platform they may choose.
Root cause may be Windows Mobile, or it may be the hardware - either way, I've written off HTC due to the very poor experience.
I've tried HTC* - only thing less stable are the 3 blackberries** the bosses insisted I use.
As far as I can tell, the need for HTX phones to be open is to let users fix the software.
*: It would crash every 2-3 days
**: Generally, they've all crashed daily, forcing me at least weekly to pull the battery and the find that while crashing they ate half the charge somehow. Customers cannot call me, as 66% of the time my phone is waiting for my PIN after crashing.
Get fucked, anti-vaxxers.
Considering theirs might be a set of genes we want to get out of the gene-pool, I'm not sure that is the correct request.
+1 Insightful - or: Matches what my driving instructor told me :)
In all fairness, Estonia is a lot more "wired" than the US, so should pose a more difficult target.
Disclaimer: Married to an Estonian
Somehow I think it must be REALLY boring watching a sun-rise with you.
(hint: in your world, they already happened 8 minutes ago)
+1 Interesting!
Good treatment, and the ability to keep a bed empty, does not make a person perfect for running an organization the size of modern hospitals.
I think that assuming ONLY doctors can sanely run a hospital is wrong, and is part of why hospitals in Denmark are insanely inefficient.
Now, nowhere did I advocate having beancounters and asskissers and other subsections of MBAs running hospital - only noting that having exclusively medical staff act as managers on all levels is stupid beyond belief.
I should also think that if doctors can be taught basic financial skills, people from a non-medical background can be made to understand, or at least appreciate, the unique requirements that comes with the care of humans. Admittedly, observing how the elderly are treated in Denmark makes me doubt that to some degree, but then at least we can look at mixing the two: Having trained medical professionals be part of executive management, but also having trained organizational professionals be part of the daily management.
Note: My own background is one of IT, and I am now part of middle-management. My primary tasks include ensuring that consultants working for me (who are far from all with an IT background, or position), are listened to and their input included when making assessments. I am also responsible for ensuring that the business-specific needs of my customers are met optimally. None of this qualifies me for running a hospital, but if I manage to understand the needs of a Romanian assembly line providing parts to an American OEM, others can manage to understand the relative needs of hospitals, without being having been elbow deep in intestines.
Hospitals, at least in Denmark, are run by doctors, because supposedly only doctors knows how to run them.
Apparently, your skill with a scalpel is directly proportional to your skill at organizational management.
I have been trying this on Windows 2008 servers the last few weeks to copy-paste files in Explorer - CTRL+c and CTRL+v doesn't seem to work reliably.
Then there is the headache that various specialty programs seemingly implement CRTL+f differently (Outlook? - Forward instead of Find) or simply not at all.
So "Study finds people have not heard of CTRL+f" could just as well be "Study finds people stop relying on unreliable keyboard short-cuts due to developer inconsistencies".
Honestly, experienced drivers know what the safe speed for a road is, and generally drive it - speed limits be damned.
I do not agree with that assessment, simply based on pure experience, but assuming it holds true: Issue is not the experienced drivers - it is usually the in-experienced drivers, especially those who consider themselves competent drivers. They will not know when it is safe to go fast, and are too likely to go too fast.
Now, if auto-accidents were 100% solo-accidents, I'd be OK with this (see strange post above about natural selection), but since they will inflict damage on others, as society, we have to set limits that everybody can handle.
Thats not to say that the old geezer in your example shouldn't have pulled in and cleared the road for you to pass the truck, if there was nothing in front of him...
Wanted: Citizenship in a Nation not about to go bankrupt...
I can recommend Belgium - but we don't really have a government....
Disclaimer: My actual citizenship is not Belgian - I loathe French too much for that.
Nice winding roads and an unlimited speed limit would get rid of much of that monotony.
That is a very good idea. Not, of course, for reducing car crashes, but for accelerating the process of natural selection.
German autobahns disagree with you.
ALL of the Autobahn is limited to 130 kph - on SOME of it, you are allowed to exceed this, with the observation that you are absolutely guilty of any incident, if going faster than 130 (80.7 antiquated units per hour).
The rules relating to the layout and quality of the Autobahn are also more strict that anywhere, so before you apply observations about the Autobahn to any other stretch of road, first apply the rules.
In an "open forum" several things can happen as a result. First, someone who doesn't represent the company can respond and give advice which is incorrect and not based in medical fact, but the doctor could act on that advice, worsening the patient's condition.
So, we're worried that a doctor goes hunting on an open forum on facebook for medical advise? I think we have to worry about whether this is an actual doctor ... or human with an IQ over 17.
Second, the event could be very time critical, and the report could potentially not be seen right away, or could get missed in a deluge of other noise (sometimes the writings of these doctors is not any better than average Internet noise, and even if you're looking for it, you might miss that this is an adverse event report). In the mean time the patient needs medical care, and their doctor is waiting on a response.
Again, we're thinking doctors would be stupid enough to consult Facebook (or whatever open forum) instead of the pharmaceutical company???
Note: Patients might go looking at open forums for medical advise - which is generally a bad idea - and any forum, Facebook walls or whatever, that deals with such notions must put up big signs insisting patients go see a trained professional (and not the baffoon looking for medical knowledge on a facebook wall!)
Would it be possibly to build a Dyson Sphere around a single star in a binary system? :) Am thinking it would be an order of magnitude harder (gravitational shear being 1 possible impediment), but could be? Then covering it is something to absorb sunlight from the other star could make sense ....
Really, I'd like to know
Alright, then they should hire 5,000 people instead of 100.
Think we could talk them into hiring 5000 people for the purpose of reviewing software patents and attempt to disqualify as many as possible? :D
I doubt that the ISP I use (Belgacom) is doing Evil Stuff(tm) - They are simply too incompetent to manage basic things, let alone Evil Things.
5000 USD per kilo - http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_costs/thorium_costs.php
I'll leave the USD-per-gram calculation to your good selves.