The western world is full of complaisant people like you who don't get it.
The umpire has to call the ball now. You're obviously an IDIOT.
Compliant like me? How compliant do you think I am? If people get locked up for speaking what do you think I'm going to do? Duck and cover?
No, fool. I'll be protecting YOUR ass and your right to speak.
I get it CLEARLY. The right to speak ultimately is secured by the people, and must be actively retained by the people. But that's not the situation right now. The original complainant was whining like a baby because nobody was listening to him. He wasn't locked up, he wasn't killed. He spoke, and everyone ignored him.
I think that video cameras on each car might be useful. Think of how many crimes occur within view of an automobile? Many, if not most, of certain crimes (store robberies, muggings, etc).
Each person would own the camera and control its use. If there was a crime, the police could ask volunteers to check their car cams to see if they got a video record of the incident. The owner would know if they were in the area of the crime or not, either with a GPS/time correlation computer, or just by remembering.
Or, the thing could be automated. The car owner would give permission to the police ahead of time to check their camera, or on a per-incident basis. The police would query the car cam network to find out which cars were near the crime scene at the right time, and be able to fetch the video remotely.
This would be a good thing, and avoid a big brother network. The owners of the cameras are private individuals. The police would have access to the cams only by permission.
The biggest thing is that there's no reason why cam owners have to give their permission to the police. They could give permission to someone else instead, like a citizen's watch group. That way, the cams would not only be looking at the criminals, they would be looking at the police as well. Just like any crime, police abuse happens in private, and these cams would allow ordinary citizens to monitor police and look for evidence of crime.
For me it's not Communism that I dislike, it's the fact that free speech is suppressed in China. If the gubment was Commy and people could speak freely, then I say no problem. But when a man or woman cannot speak and write in criticism of anything they wish, then that's wrong, and that government is wrong.
completely failed to consider the relevance of competition in broadband services coming from cable (and to a lesser extent satellite). We agree.
Cable is absolutely NO competition for DSL. My requirement was
1) static IP 2) low price 3) allows servers. I run mail and http servers.
My directtvdsl is $49 a month with a static IP. If they take this away, I'm screwed. I'll have to pay a bundle to get the same service from the phone company.
Imagine implants that can transmit thoughts. We would be able to have the unique experience of arguing with someone who disagrees completely, and tapping into their thoughts. At a single moment we would be able to look at the issue from two sides, and have passionate feelings that each side is the correct one.
I propose right now that we require all national presidents and diplomats to be fitted with these systems. We should start with the Israelis and Palestianians, and the Indians and Pakistanis first.
I just thought of something else to add to my comment:
Besides the owner requirement, there's also the issue of government requirements - TAXES! Yes, they are complicted to calculate.
I was in Michigan when I wrote that POS, and they had 4% sales tax (it's higher now). OK, no problem. Just multiply the dollar amount by.04 and add it on, right? NO! You've got to use a tax table.
The first penny is added at 12 cents. Something that costs a dollar has 4 cents tax. So, what tax does something that costs $1.12 have? 4 cents. The next penny is at $1.13. So, what might the tax be for something that costs $2.12? 9 cents. That's right, that next penny is added at the 12 cent break for something over $2.
This variation might continue in the same pattern for any amount, or the law might say that anything past $100 is just taxed with the same pattern as $1. Or, the law might specify that the pattern just starts over as if the amount was (amount - $100). Or the law might specify that the pattern above $100 is a flat percentage, with specific rounding rules. Or....
I haven't even gotten into the complex patterns that can arise when the tax is 6.125% or some other weird number. I would not be shocked to see a tax percentage of PI*2 somewhere.
There's 50 states. Probably thousands of cities across the country have their own taxes. Things get very scary, very quickly. No way can that be "whipped up" in a night of hacking.
Oh, and let me go on a moment on the joys of calculating prices with 3 figures after the decimal point. The smallest value we have is a penny, a hundreth of a dollar. So why would you need to calculate THREE places? Well, ever notice that gasoline is sold with that ubiquitous "nine tenths of a cent" tacked onto the end? $1.409 a gallon or some crap like that. And that's not bullshit - they really calculate that and you pay it, rounded up at the end.
God, I could go on for years about POS and how hard it is to write.
I agree that writing a POS is extremely difficult.
What most people don't understand is that this thing doesn't just ring up sales, it runs a BUSINESS. The business owner is going to expect that the thing is customized and tailored exactly to his specs.
That means the system has to support many different types of retailers, with full flexibility.
About 10 years ago I wrote a POS program (company out of business now) and we had immense difficulties with various things like:
-insane Pizza shops wanting the ability to invent coupons on the spot. They honored their competitors coupons, and if it was valid only on a large three topping pizza where one topping was sausage, then he had to have that same coupon in his system, with the same computer enforced restriction. Oh, and it had to be simple enough so that his 16 year old driver could program it in real time while the customer was on the phone with him
-dry cleaning has inventory, but not the way you think. They treat the clothes they are cleaning as inventory. This inventory isn't like any inventory you normally see. It moves.
-or how about this: Some dude runs a restaurant. Ok, no problem. We've got all the shit in there. But wait! He's opening a theater to make it a dinner theater. He wants his POS system to handle ticket reservations and scheduling! Ahhhhhhhh!
Ah, but you say "I'm a programming wizard. I will just whip that up in a night of programming." But it's not that simple. How robust is your code? Can it be crashed by a 16 year old hitting all the keys at once? Will that nifty routine that writes the data to the hard drive still work when the thing is sharing a 6 outlet strip with a hot dog warmer and a bun toaster? And 10 years ago, all we had was MS-DOG. No nice three-phase-commit databases. A convenience store couldn't afford the Oracle license anyway. So give up the silly notion that a POS system can be written by a 10 year old.
POS is literally the most difficult thing in the world to write. You can make everybody happy, in which case you have a program executable over 100 gigabytes in size.:-) Or, you can tell your customers that you can't help them, in which case they don't love you enough to send dollars your way.
I remember the Usenet waaaaay back in the late 1980's. Most everyone was a.edu,.mil or a.gov. One day I saw this funny address that ended in.com. It was a post from a Mitre employee.
Mitre is not stupid, and they've been around the block plenty of times. It's not surprising that they would prepare a report that contradicted Microsoft.
If you do get arrested, ask the police if they can recommend a lawyer for you. That will be the guy that the police are used to working with. The lawyer will set everything up, you'll pay his fees, the police's "fees", and you'll be ejected from the country.
If you've got a million in the bank, and I mean the BANK, with a shitty savings account, then you would get $100,000 in 5 years of interest.
If you're making 10% in the stock market, then you make that much in a year.
So, if you're 40 years old and in that situation, I'd say GO FOR IT. By the time retirement comes at 75 years of age, you'll have had 35 years to make back what you spent on the trip of your life.
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The western world is full of complaisant people like you who don't get it.
The umpire has to call the ball now. You're obviously an IDIOT.
Compliant like me? How compliant do you think I am? If people get locked up for speaking what do you think I'm going to do? Duck and cover?
No, fool. I'll be protecting YOUR ass and your right to speak.
I get it CLEARLY. The right to speak ultimately is secured by the people, and must be actively retained by the people. But that's not the situation right now. The original complainant was whining like a baby because nobody was listening to him. He wasn't locked up, he wasn't killed. He spoke, and everyone ignored him.
No problem with freedom of speech in his case.
You are as confused as you are deluded.
You've got your free speech, it wasn't supressed at all. Were you thrown in jail, charged with crimes of treason or some such thing?
No?
Then you had free speech. Just because others around you reacted badly to what you had to say, doesn't mean that you were oppressed.
You are free to speak, but you cannot make others listen.
I think that video cameras on each car might be useful. Think of how many crimes occur within view of an automobile? Many, if not most, of certain crimes (store robberies, muggings, etc).
Each person would own the camera and control its use. If there was a crime, the police could ask volunteers to check their car cams to see if they got a video record of the incident. The owner would know if they were in the area of the crime or not, either with a GPS/time correlation computer, or just by remembering.
Or, the thing could be automated. The car owner would give permission to the police ahead of time to check their camera, or on a per-incident basis. The police would query the car cam network to find out which cars were near the crime scene at the right time, and be able to fetch the video remotely.
This would be a good thing, and avoid a big brother network. The owners of the cameras are private individuals. The police would have access to the cams only by permission.
The biggest thing is that there's no reason why cam owners have to give their permission to the police. They could give permission to someone else instead, like a citizen's watch group. That way, the cams would not only be looking at the criminals, they would be looking at the police as well. Just like any crime, police abuse happens in private, and these cams would allow ordinary citizens to monitor police and look for evidence of crime.
For me it's not Communism that I dislike, it's the fact that free speech is suppressed in China. If the gubment was Commy and people could speak freely, then I say no problem. But when a man or woman cannot speak and write in criticism of anything they wish, then that's wrong, and that government is wrong.
Your other points are well taken, but I can address the "why" of running your own server:
:-)
I want to make (eventually) hundreds of megabytes of my snapshots available to friends on the web. Maybe gigabytes.
Colocating a server for my snapshots makes NO sense at all when my 128K up works just fine.
As for my own mail server...
I hate spam, and the best way I have found to fight it requires control of the server. Earthlink refused my request for a dedicated e-mail server.
completely failed to consider the relevance of competition in broadband services coming from cable (and to a lesser extent satellite). We agree.
Cable is absolutely NO competition for DSL. My requirement was
1) static IP
2) low price
3) allows servers. I run mail and http servers.
My directtvdsl is $49 a month with a static IP. If they take this away, I'm screwed. I'll have to pay a bundle to get the same service from the phone company.
I would liken the situation to be more like going through a datafile you're going to load and noticing that your primary key isn't unique.
Imagine implants that can transmit thoughts. We would be able to have the unique experience of arguing with someone who disagrees completely, and tapping into their thoughts. At a single moment we would be able to look at the issue from two sides, and have passionate feelings that each side is the correct one.
I propose right now that we require all national presidents and diplomats to be fitted with these systems. We should start with the Israelis and Palestianians, and the Indians and Pakistanis first.
I just thought of something else to add to my comment:
.04 and add it on, right? NO! You've got to use a tax table.
Besides the owner requirement, there's also the issue of government requirements - TAXES! Yes, they are complicted to calculate.
I was in Michigan when I wrote that POS, and they had 4% sales tax (it's higher now). OK, no problem. Just multiply the dollar amount by
The first penny is added at 12 cents. Something that costs a dollar has 4 cents tax. So, what tax does something that costs $1.12 have? 4 cents. The next penny is at $1.13. So, what might the tax be for something that costs $2.12? 9 cents. That's right, that next penny is added at the 12 cent break for something over $2.
This variation might continue in the same pattern for any amount, or the law might say that anything past $100 is just taxed with the same pattern as $1. Or, the law might specify that the pattern just starts over as if the amount was (amount - $100). Or the law might specify that the pattern above $100 is a flat percentage, with specific rounding rules. Or....
I haven't even gotten into the complex patterns that can arise when the tax is 6.125% or some other weird number. I would not be shocked to see a tax percentage of PI*2 somewhere.
There's 50 states. Probably thousands of cities across the country have their own taxes. Things get very scary, very quickly. No way can that be "whipped up" in a night of hacking.
Oh, and let me go on a moment on the joys of calculating prices with 3 figures after the decimal point. The smallest value we have is a penny, a hundreth of a dollar. So why would you need to calculate THREE places? Well, ever notice that gasoline is sold with that ubiquitous "nine tenths of a cent" tacked onto the end? $1.409 a gallon or some crap like that. And that's not bullshit - they really calculate that and you pay it, rounded up at the end.
God, I could go on for years about POS and how hard it is to write.
I agree that writing a POS is extremely difficult.
:-) Or, you can tell your customers that you can't help them, in which case they don't love you enough to send dollars your way.
What most people don't understand is that this thing doesn't just ring up sales, it runs a BUSINESS. The business owner is going to expect that the thing is customized and tailored exactly to his specs.
That means the system has to support many different types of retailers, with full flexibility.
About 10 years ago I wrote a POS program (company out of business now) and we had immense difficulties with various things like:
-insane Pizza shops wanting the ability to invent coupons on the spot. They honored their competitors coupons, and if it was valid only on a large three topping pizza where one topping was sausage, then he had to have that same coupon in his system, with the same computer enforced restriction. Oh, and it had to be simple enough so that his 16 year old driver could program it in real time while the customer was on the phone with him
-dry cleaning has inventory, but not the way you think. They treat the clothes they are cleaning as inventory. This inventory isn't like any inventory you normally see. It moves.
-or how about this: Some dude runs a restaurant. Ok, no problem. We've got all the shit in there. But wait! He's opening a theater to make it a dinner theater. He wants his POS system to handle ticket reservations and scheduling! Ahhhhhhhh!
Ah, but you say "I'm a programming wizard. I will just whip that up in a night of programming." But it's not that simple. How robust is your code? Can it be crashed by a 16 year old hitting all the keys at once? Will that nifty routine that writes the data to the hard drive still work when the thing is sharing a 6 outlet strip with a hot dog warmer and a bun toaster? And 10 years ago, all we had was MS-DOG. No nice three-phase-commit databases. A convenience store couldn't afford the Oracle license anyway. So give up the silly notion that a POS system can be written by a 10 year old.
POS is literally the most difficult thing in the world to write. You can make everybody happy, in which case you have a program executable over 100 gigabytes in size.
That redundant moderation betrays the festering pile of maggots between some moderators' ears. This wasn't redundant at all.
It was funny. Funny in a sophomoric way, true. But it ain't redundant.
Posted with my +2 cluestick.
I remember the Usenet waaaaay back in the late 1980's. Most everyone was a .edu, .mil or a .gov. One day I saw this funny address that ended in .com. It was a post from a Mitre employee.
Mitre is not stupid, and they've been around the block plenty of times. It's not surprising that they would prepare a report that contradicted Microsoft.
If you do get arrested, ask the police if they can recommend a lawyer for you. That will be the guy that the police are used to working with. The lawyer will set everything up, you'll pay his fees, the police's "fees", and you'll be ejected from the country.
It's always the last one you try (Assumiung sequential attack...)
Actually, if AAAAAAAAA worked, then THAT would be the last one I tried.
If you've got a million in the bank, and I mean the BANK, with a shitty savings account, then you would get $100,000 in 5 years of interest.
If you're making 10% in the stock market, then you make that much in a year.
So, if you're 40 years old and in that situation, I'd say GO FOR IT. By the time retirement comes at 75 years of age, you'll have had 35 years to make back what you spent on the trip of your life.
That is a great way of dealing with people who utilize a SYNCHRONOUS method of communication when all they really needed was an ASYNCHRONOUS method.
So what do you do in an emergency? AOL Instant Message?
right?
Did the trolls screw them up, or is it a bug in the code? It's a very interesting sort of hack.
There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!
Over 20,000 died, and up to 150,000 are still sick
A ship blew up in the port. Oops.
UR pedantic and evasive, and therefore unconvincing
Talk to your credit card company too. They may be able to help you return the thing, and get your refund. It's worth a shot
Did you try the "but my beard adds 10 pounds" defense?