So, let me ask the flip question – one that I have been struggling with. Should public officials have privacy while on duty? Probably not. But what about citizens? How do we protect their rights?
If I were Rodney King I would want my arrest to be videotaped. Check on the power of the police – that fine.
A good phone should be able to eavesdrop on the private interview between suspect and cop.
And, what if I did not want the tape to be posted? Maybe I did something shameful and don’t want it to be public? Maybe something that is implied to be shameful – like a false arrest. Let’s say you were pulled over for a moving violation in a red light district? A little careful editing and it could look very bad.
It tries to solve a mathematical problem. How can we maximize marital bliss – or at least one night stands - when the users have a heuristic basis which leads to a suboptimal selection process?
There are other sources of lead then from the pipes. I saw a study (sorry, can’t cite) that was looking at the lead pollution levels in the air. During Roman times high – during the dark ages low. To make that much lead pipe you have to smelt a lot of lead – which I would assume would have the same impact as leaded gasoline. Sorry, but I can’t cite if the concentrations where the same.
The collapse was a long, multi-stage affair. Assigning a single root cause is probably wrong. Personally I would give greater weight to destruction of the republic, imperial overreach, and climate change. My gut tells me lead was a second order cause – not a first order.
One of the best explanations of this I have heard comes from John Keegan. Basically, Rome was able to conquer settled, agriculture lands. There was enough civilization that Rome could coopt the local government to extract taxes to build roads, raise armies etc. With its forests Germany did not have the large densely populated settled areas that Rome needed for success.
Scotland with it’s cattle headers and it’s a different story. Each clan it’s own. Most of the wealth is on hoof – so it disappears into the wilderness. Less impressed with roads because cattle don’t need roads. Etc. Rome gave up and built a wall.
I would assume that the free, gimped, holiday version of angry birds is one download (remember kids, the first taste of crack is always free) and the full version would be another.
By the way, does the 7b included ”in app” ad revenue and purchases?
Choice #1 – give the board wide discretion on its action. Maybe it will take a wild long term risk that pays off big time. Or maybe it will line its own pockets.
Choice #2 – put the board on a tight leash. They will take less risks. They will focus on easily measurable metrics on a quarterly basis. Quivering little rabbits they will become.
Or it’s a false choice – you need to find a happy medium in-between – so please tell me exactly how we should tighten things up on the board?
Because sometimes Autonomy did is the right choice. Companies can either book the revenue upfront or over the lifespan of the contract. No matter which one you pick it can be abused, so the trick is to pick the right one for the situation – which is a subjective accounting decision – and these subjective accounting decisions can be influenced by upper management.
Software Licensing Deals = buy. You buy a car from Ford and finance it though Ford. Ford books the car as a sale up front. This is
Software as Service = Lease: You lease a car for 36months from for and finance it though Ford. Ford books the revenue 1/36 each month.
The accounting issue is that the client was buying software (recognize profit today) and maintenance / support (recognize profit over a period of time) as a single, lump sum. Allocating costs between the 2 is subjective – and open to abuse.
Take a look at Slashdot’s demographics. You have people with time on their hands and tend to be good at games. This is obviously a recruitment ad - thinly disguised as a news story.
But we have been doing just that for a very long time – their called juries – randomly selected citizens executing policy. Mind you – there in the judicial branch not the executive branch, but.
So here is one idea that I have been kicking around. We have the direct democracy in action with California’s petition system. Currently, anyone with sufficient motivation can get one onto the ballot. This can lead to a long confusing, and contradictory to vote on. I would like to see a citizen jury rationalize and condense what goes onto the ballot. In a world of wide choices and subtleties, sometimes you need to narrow it to a up/down vote.
In America, right now, we have a huge overhang in housing, bad debt, and underemployed people. Because of low prices these things have been pulled from the market – but when prices go up these things pop back on the market driving prices back down. So, if you are trying to sell your house or your labor (or even trying to get a raise) it’s tough.
Japan has been struggling with this for a better part of a decade now. The Fed, via QE, has been dumping massive amounts of currency (which is not the same thing as money) into the market should be causing inflation – but the overhang is absorbing it all.
While low inflation is a good thing today it indicating a anemic economy that is below it’s capacity.
It’s not the down time, it is the discrete objective action vs. continuous subjective actions.
For baseball you have 1 pitcher and 1 man on bat. The batter can either strike out or the ball could go someplace – left field, right field, etc. You can then measure the result – did he get on base – did he advance any runners, etc. One can break things down into actions.
Other games are harder. In football there is much more interaction with you teammates - didn’t George Carlin say a football’s huddle is like a business meeting? A running play success is based on the QB, the Running back, offensive and defensive blockers – so you have a dozen different people involved – how do you allocate success? And does it matter? In football rushing yards and/or passing yards only have a low prediction value.
Soccer – I don’t know enough to know where to begin on that one. The guy on the other side of the field – is he adding value? Maybe. As a creditable threat he could be pulling players off the striker – or maybe here’s there because they don’t have a clue. But from a coding point it looks awfully subjective. (Note, in baseball they are moving away from subjective scores. Fielding Errors at one point was a big statistic – now it’s almost gone.)
I would like to see a citation for that – it feels wrong – it feels like they are counting wrong – maybe they are counting political units. For example, Minneapolis-St. Paul as individual cities each have less hen 400 but the metro region has over 3m. So for our purposes it should be counted as 1 city – not 2. IIRC over 50% of American’s live in urban (counting suburbs) areas.
IIRC, to qualify for the credit the blades need to make 1 full rotation before the end of year. So you might invest in some overtime, focus on getting those near completion done, skip the cosmetics like paint or hooking it up to the grid until next year.
I bit off topic – but it’s spot on when it comes to global warming.
By subsiding green energy we will overinvest in politicians pet projects (I am thinking about corn ethanol) and underinvest in neat innovated projects like this – which offers great bang for the buck. A carbon tax would be much more rational.
You might want to check your facts. The Federalist Papers where written after Britain recognized America's independence about 10 years after IIRC. The papers where on adopting the Constitution over the older articles on confederation.
There are good examples out there - just get your facts straight.
I am going to have to disagree with you – the writers of the Federalist papers where widely known to support the constitution.
Back then, advertising your ideas were taken as sign of ego and hubris – signs that you coveted power and fame – implying that you wanted to set yourself as aristocracy. The time favored cool rotational thinking. The writers wrote anonymously to remove their personal interests from the debate so the focus would be on the ideas.
Maybe yes, maybe no. A carpenter as a sub-contractor is going to get his bids via Word documents attached to his e-mail (shudder) and the specs are going to be in Excel. I know of one “carpenter” (a small business or 4 to 5 employees that built custom cabinetry) that used a Word / Excel / Excel / VBA custom jobbie to manager orders, generate estimates, manage workflow, etc. This was back in the 90s.
It not the internal workings – Open Office would have the power – It’s being able to integrate with everybody else. (Darn for Microsoft getting there first and setting the standards.)
Returns are how you score the game. Or, to put it another way – is what you doing adding value or are you just blowing in the wind.
And if you have invested in things that don’t return returns I suggest that you are not investing – you’re doing something else. Doesn’t mean you doing things wrong – it’s just not investing.
You’re making the assumption that it is a bigger waste to carry excess fuel then it is to haul wings into space. I am not sure if that is true so I would like to see your calculations.
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes” – Mark Twain
Slandering with ½ truths, innuendos, and guilt by association is much easier than repairing the damage.
So, let me ask the flip question – one that I have been struggling with. Should public officials have privacy while on duty? Probably not. But what about citizens? How do we protect their rights?
If I were Rodney King I would want my arrest to be videotaped. Check on the power of the police – that fine.
A good phone should be able to eavesdrop on the private interview between suspect and cop.
And, what if I did not want the tape to be posted? Maybe I did something shameful and don’t want it to be public? Maybe something that is implied to be shameful – like a false arrest. Let’s say you were pulled over for a moving violation in a red light district? A little careful editing and it could look very bad.
It tries to solve a mathematical problem. How can we maximize marital bliss – or at least one night stands - when the users have a heuristic basis which leads to a suboptimal selection process?
There are other sources of lead then from the pipes. I saw a study (sorry, can’t cite) that was looking at the lead pollution levels in the air. During Roman times high – during the dark ages low. To make that much lead pipe you have to smelt a lot of lead – which I would assume would have the same impact as leaded gasoline. Sorry, but I can’t cite if the concentrations where the same.
The collapse was a long, multi-stage affair. Assigning a single root cause is probably wrong. Personally I would give greater weight to destruction of the republic, imperial overreach, and climate change. My gut tells me lead was a second order cause – not a first order.
One of the best explanations of this I have heard comes from John Keegan. Basically, Rome was able to conquer settled, agriculture lands. There was enough civilization that Rome could coopt the local government to extract taxes to build roads, raise armies etc. With its forests Germany did not have the large densely populated settled areas that Rome needed for success.
Scotland with it’s cattle headers and it’s a different story. Each clan it’s own. Most of the wealth is on hoof – so it disappears into the wilderness. Less impressed with roads because cattle don’t need roads. Etc. Rome gave up and built a wall.
You have to factor in free downloads.
I would assume that the free, gimped, holiday version of angry birds is one download (remember kids, the first taste of crack is always free) and the full version would be another.
By the way, does the 7b included ”in app” ad revenue and purchases?
From the article, for this model, you still need a button for your finger – so not at eye blinks yet.
Choice #1 – give the board wide discretion on its action. Maybe it will take a wild long term risk that pays off big time. Or maybe it will line its own pockets.
Choice #2 – put the board on a tight leash. They will take less risks. They will focus on easily measurable metrics on a quarterly basis. Quivering little rabbits they will become.
Or it’s a false choice – you need to find a happy medium in-between – so please tell me exactly how we should tighten things up on the board?
Because sometimes Autonomy did is the right choice. Companies can either book the revenue upfront or over the lifespan of the contract. No matter which one you pick it can be abused, so the trick is to pick the right one for the situation – which is a subjective accounting decision – and these subjective accounting decisions can be influenced by upper management.
Software Licensing Deals = buy. You buy a car from Ford and finance it though Ford. Ford books the car as a sale up front. This is
Software as Service = Lease: You lease a car for 36months from for and finance it though Ford. Ford books the revenue 1/36 each month.
The accounting issue is that the client was buying software (recognize profit today) and maintenance / support (recognize profit over a period of time) as a single, lump sum. Allocating costs between the 2 is subjective – and open to abuse.
Take a look at Slashdot’s demographics. You have people with time on their hands and tend to be good at games. This is obviously a recruitment ad - thinly disguised as a news story.
But we have been doing just that for a very long time – their called juries – randomly selected citizens executing policy. Mind you – there in the judicial branch not the executive branch, but.
So here is one idea that I have been kicking around. We have the direct democracy in action with California’s petition system. Currently, anyone with sufficient motivation can get one onto the ballot. This can lead to a long confusing, and contradictory to vote on. I would like to see a citizen jury rationalize and condense what goes onto the ballot. In a world of wide choices and subtleties, sometimes you need to narrow it to a up/down vote.
It depends on what is causing the low inflation.
In America, right now, we have a huge overhang in housing, bad debt, and underemployed people. Because of low prices these things have been pulled from the market – but when prices go up these things pop back on the market driving prices back down. So, if you are trying to sell your house or your labor (or even trying to get a raise) it’s tough.
Japan has been struggling with this for a better part of a decade now. The Fed, via QE, has been dumping massive amounts of currency (which is not the same thing as money) into the market should be causing inflation – but the overhang is absorbing it all.
While low inflation is a good thing today it indicating a anemic economy that is below it’s capacity.
Drone Strikes. It seems to work for Uncle Sam.
It’s not the down time, it is the discrete objective action vs. continuous subjective actions.
For baseball you have 1 pitcher and 1 man on bat. The batter can either strike out or the ball could go someplace – left field, right field, etc. You can then measure the result – did he get on base – did he advance any runners, etc. One can break things down into actions.
Other games are harder. In football there is much more interaction with you teammates - didn’t George Carlin say a football’s huddle is like a business meeting? A running play success is based on the QB, the Running back, offensive and defensive blockers – so you have a dozen different people involved – how do you allocate success? And does it matter? In football rushing yards and/or passing yards only have a low prediction value.
Soccer – I don’t know enough to know where to begin on that one. The guy on the other side of the field – is he adding value? Maybe. As a creditable threat he could be pulling players off the striker – or maybe here’s there because they don’t have a clue. But from a coding point it looks awfully subjective. (Note, in baseball they are moving away from subjective scores. Fielding Errors at one point was a big statistic – now it’s almost gone.)
I would like to see a citation for that – it feels wrong – it feels like they are counting wrong – maybe they are counting political units. For example, Minneapolis-St. Paul as individual cities each have less hen 400 but the metro region has over 3m. So for our purposes it should be counted as 1 city – not 2. IIRC over 50% of American’s live in urban (counting suburbs) areas.
Euphemistically, you could just send the pet to the farm(vile)
IIRC, to qualify for the credit the blades need to make 1 full rotation before the end of year. So you might invest in some overtime, focus on getting those near completion done, skip the cosmetics like paint or hooking it up to the grid until next year.
I bit off topic – but it’s spot on when it comes to global warming.
By subsiding green energy we will overinvest in politicians pet projects (I am thinking about corn ethanol) and underinvest in neat innovated projects like this – which offers great bang for the buck. A carbon tax would be much more rational.
You might want to check your facts. The Federalist Papers where written after Britain recognized America's independence about 10 years after IIRC. The papers where on adopting the Constitution over the older articles on confederation.
There are good examples out there - just get your facts straight.
I am going to have to disagree with you – the writers of the Federalist papers where widely known to support the constitution.
Back then, advertising your ideas were taken as sign of ego and hubris – signs that you coveted power and fame – implying that you wanted to set yourself as aristocracy. The time favored cool rotational thinking. The writers wrote anonymously to remove their personal interests from the debate so the focus would be on the ideas.
I head do by nominate Keanu Reeves to play John in the made for TV film.
Maybe yes, maybe no. A carpenter as a sub-contractor is going to get his bids via Word documents attached to his e-mail (shudder) and the specs are going to be in Excel. I know of one “carpenter” (a small business or 4 to 5 employees that built custom cabinetry) that used a Word / Excel / Excel / VBA custom jobbie to manager orders, generate estimates, manage workflow, etc. This was back in the 90s.
It not the internal workings – Open Office would have the power – It’s being able to integrate with everybody else. (Darn for Microsoft getting there first and setting the standards.)
Returns are how you score the game. Or, to put it another way – is what you doing adding value or are you just blowing in the wind.
And if you have invested in things that don’t return returns I suggest that you are not investing – you’re doing something else. Doesn’t mean you doing things wrong – it’s just not investing.
You’re making the assumption that it is a bigger waste to carry excess fuel then it is to haul wings into space. I am not sure if that is true so I would like to see your calculations.