indeed with some brains you can get the ideas from any place. That is what actually makes out a good manager or group leader or what else they are called.
I even find some use in new buzzwords now and then as they refresh the focus and increase motivation. If you take them for what they are they are not even this annoying anymore. Gurus are annoying tho albeit there is an entertaining value there too. From all the gurus I find the ones mumbling about agile & water fall the most entertaining - I never know what the outcome of the proceeds would be. I laugh every time I see a workshop in which some management consultant is attempting to fix problems of others but cannot get around to organize own workshops in such a way as to make at least one person leave them with added value besides entertainment.
As for movies I liked Starship Troopers with their fascist social structure etc - you could see what properly done PR campaign can do and that sometimes throwing more people at it is just as good waste of resources as anything else:)
how true. It must really hurt their business line or else they would not be doing this. I hope there is no reverse. I think it is enough power that few companies have. I also think if there is no institutionally enforced barrier to help restrict their movements a little then the economy will actually suffer as is usually the case when monopolies or almost monopolies control almost every aspect of reality. The problem in borderless business is exactly the disparity between how it can move around and how we humans can. OC raising the barriers is also not a complete and only solution and one has to take care not to build them too high.
The point is - till Snowden nobody (except tin foil hat nut cases) cared because for an average Joe that is already too complicated to understand that when he sends a message to Jane the message does not automagically teleports between their mobiles but is routed trough a massive infrastructure complex enough to make even a genius to get a headache while attempting to see trough. Now the big players around the world noticed while Joe still does not give a shit. But the CEOs of big IT firms do notice and do see their cash flow jeopardized - they would not complain otherwise. This means to me that the pain must be really big and cash flow problems really hurt. Which is good. It is a mistake to think that citizens (well organized militia is just a joke) can do something on their own in direct opposition to the government. Only if they are supported by big money in some form they can succeed. It seems big money has noticed. It is a sad state of affairs but it is better than if they all were happy working with NSA. I suppose maybe the cooperation of industry with nutcases in 1930s is still clearly visible for the better educated among us. I prefer to see it this way as this give us a glimmer of hope for the future.
Well maybe the judges did not use this paticular pr0n site specially as the names have not been used - the papers provided by a lawyers ensured that it was a file sharing case. The lawyer is under investigation and court is checking now how to improve the process. Obviously the wave of angry pr0n loving Germans made authorities do something with it.
I think Urmann und Collegen (that is the law firm in question) do it on purpose. I am actually surprised that they are still allowed to practice law but we will see what happens. Probably they made a 'mistake'. I wonder tho if they are going to proceed or are the monies earned from scared users w/o court proceedings enough? I suppose the later because there is no good way to force people to pay for streaming in this case. This could break their neck if they try.
Apparently they had list of IP addresses and that is what they presented to the court to get ISPs to hand over the actual user data. How they got in possession of IP addresses is unclear. Apparently the lawyers doing this are known from other great achievements but this time they also misinformed the court about what the IP abuse really was as streaming is not illegal in Germany which means after the first wave the next one will have to wait a little till they find a way around this problem. Still even if data was obtained incorrectly it can be used in court in Germany. Only as said the sharing of content as claimed by the lawyers did not take place as the content was streamed. I guess the lawyers in Germany have a field day as users of redtube are storming. This means a lots of angry people actually will go to court if they are forced to pay - this may eventually put Urmann und Collegen out of service.
I suppose what they mean is these mythical beings that are coders 10x better than anybody else? When one gets at that, what exactly does 'better than' mean in this context? Faster so more code per day? more maintainable or just good enough code? After answering these questions it would be also good to look at whether these beings i.e. talent we talk about can code the shit completely themselves or if not, whether they can actually work in teams. Seems like some major explaining to be done before we go the major buslhitter and asshole (MBA) route and start looking for mythical beings called talent
There was an interesting article on BBC site about the referendum in Switzerland. It ended :
Switzerland's system of democracy means citizens can call nationwide votes on issues that concern them.(*)
I considered that interesting because such explanation means also that all other citizens in old democracies in the West cannot really do anything on issues that concern them - such concept is foreign to them i.e. requires an additional comment. Seems like the whole concept about letting people decide is gone from Western democracy - the only thing we directly decide is what asshole is holding office and in US even this does not hold true as many presidential campaigns show and gerrymandering in lower layers of democracy ensure.
that confirms my experience in all languages that I know well enough (that would be 3.5) - high language (as high German) tends to be correct logically whereas the low and/or less formal language is allowing for freedom of expression and letting you deduce the meaning of say double negation (by using the context usually). I would even go as far as to claim that if a language is big enough (big enough meaning: number of speakers, universities and literature also scientific etc) it develops into different dialects one of which is high language where negation is formally what it is i.e. if you negate things twice you just made a full turn (something that some claim is a 180degrees turn.....).
I think all the trouble we have with expressing our thought and understanding them come from how inadequate any language is - I think Goedle did have some funny ideas on this.
in these places where there is no much meat consumed it is indeed not much meat consumed per person which because these places are crowded means that they consume quite a lot of meat. There is also another factor at work there - the poor people on the way to become middle income increase their meat consumption much more than their income hike would indicate. The proof of that may be in their waist lines.
Other than that I'd say that this practice of Norwegian army is going only to help their warriors keep healthy. Unless of course they go to nearby mcdonalds (admit almost no wesern army goes anywhere where there are no mcdonalds nearby) to supply 'missing' 'vitamins'.
these were not US Mandated as the equipment vendors implement such techniques because operators are obliged by local law to only use eq. that have such features. So if at all it was US inspired law that made such actions easy.
there is a point at which a thing is small enough to cause problem with transport as you have to attach it tosomething so that the flow of air does not bring the fucker away.
You can chose whatever technicality you want and this does not change the fact that in reality if it is not moving then it is not driving. For some people (like me sometimes) it is annoying to the point that driving is impossible when the phone is for instance doing incoming call noises. I have to stop and press go away. Technically I am committing a crime as I use phone while driving at least in some jurisdictions. Practically I am avoiding endangering others by driving in distracted and angered state. The law makers had their reasons to make particular definition of driving and I do not think that had something to do with driving itself but rather with things like driving while intoxicated etc. and all lengthy arguments that lack of such definition caused.
I do not trust all the conspiracy theories even tho I believe more than a year ago (thanx Snowden) still when I recall times I worked with a radio stack maker for one of the big mobile phones maker I realized these people have no control of what they do - the mess there was so big that I can imagine a consultant implanting big piece of spy software and nobody would have noticed. OTOH the general level of competence in this area was such that I would not trust this spying consultant to do the job properly so this piece of junk would not start or cause the phone crashing etc. These were good times back then - good wages a lots of bugs. Good times for QA guy.
the whole concept is a bull. Unless someone tinkered with your phone in such a way that it looks like it is off but it in fact still sends some data over the waves then you can see that with your battery load level. Other than modified phone software I cannot imagine any phone makers would let the battery be drained while off.
For your personal entertainment you can compare battery drainage in following situations: after a day out of the phone (this of course if maker of the device allowed that), in switched off state, in switched-on state but with switched-off all radio interfaces and then with all on without making calls (can be done - just put a new sim card in which nobody used before). I can assure you that in first two situations you will see no difference and in the following situation you will see increasing drainage. If you did not that means you are an important person and somebody bugged your phone - go buy another one.
It is maybe a common practice in certain organisations to not have your phone in certain areas. That is because you can fake the switching off a phone on purpose or it may be done because somebody bugged the phone which means you are a subject of a dedicated attack - congratulations. Other than that it is all easier for 3 and 4 letter agencies to listen and spy with other means. BTW: swapping simcards is no help really.
Having male hetero brain I read that and before even finishing reading properly I had a phantasy with these different sizes and forms, all shaking invitingly or being squeezed etc Then I thought - wait - the phone in this positions cannot bring any interesting stuff unless the bra is taken off with the phone and you get some perspective from which you can watch properly or the breasts are so flat that perspective is possible from the bra which however is not needed in such situation. Then I read again and realized this sentence was written by a weasel - it is not interesting what the phone in bra is seeing and passing over but the ladies themselves doing all these things with their toys that are interesting! While I agree with all the excitement the memory of the letter from the divorce judge (with court costs etc) keeps me cold these days better than a load of ice cubes in the pants.
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I even find some use in new buzzwords now and then as they refresh the focus and increase motivation. If you take them for what they are they are not even this annoying anymore. Gurus are annoying tho albeit there is an entertaining value there too. From all the gurus I find the ones mumbling about agile & water fall the most entertaining - I never know what the outcome of the proceeds would be. I laugh every time I see a workshop in which some management consultant is attempting to fix problems of others but cannot get around to organize own workshops in such a way as to make at least one person leave them with added value besides entertainment.
As for movies I liked Starship Troopers with their fascist social structure etc - you could see what properly done PR campaign can do and that sometimes throwing more people at it is just as good waste of resources as anything else :)
this is true some do not. Until they get sick that is...
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who wins the office deserves nothing but a noose.
me thinks
The point is - till Snowden nobody (except tin foil hat nut cases) cared because for an average Joe that is already too complicated to understand that when he sends a message to Jane the message does not automagically teleports between their mobiles but is routed trough a massive infrastructure complex enough to make even a genius to get a headache while attempting to see trough. Now the big players around the world noticed while Joe still does not give a shit. But the CEOs of big IT firms do notice and do see their cash flow jeopardized - they would not complain otherwise. This means to me that the pain must be really big and cash flow problems really hurt. Which is good. It is a mistake to think that citizens (well organized militia is just a joke) can do something on their own in direct opposition to the government. Only if they are supported by big money in some form they can succeed. It seems big money has noticed. It is a sad state of affairs but it is better than if they all were happy working with NSA. I suppose maybe the cooperation of industry with nutcases in 1930s is still clearly visible for the better educated among us. I prefer to see it this way as this give us a glimmer of hope for the future.
Yes at it usually hangs at the top of your room which means you are not really heating the stuff that you want to
it is and there is already an investigation against lawyer in question.
Well maybe the judges did not use this paticular pr0n site specially as the names have not been used - the papers provided by a lawyers ensured that it was a file sharing case. The lawyer is under investigation and court is checking now how to improve the process. Obviously the wave of angry pr0n loving Germans made authorities do something with it.
I think Urmann und Collegen (that is the law firm in question) do it on purpose. I am actually surprised that they are still allowed to practice law but we will see what happens. Probably they made a 'mistake'. I wonder tho if they are going to proceed or are the monies earned from scared users w/o court proceedings enough? I suppose the later because there is no good way to force people to pay for streaming in this case. This could break their neck if they try.
Apparently they had list of IP addresses and that is what they presented to the court to get ISPs to hand over the actual user data. How they got in possession of IP addresses is unclear. Apparently the lawyers doing this are known from other great achievements but this time they also misinformed the court about what the IP abuse really was as streaming is not illegal in Germany which means after the first wave the next one will have to wait a little till they find a way around this problem. Still even if data was obtained incorrectly it can be used in court in Germany. Only as said the sharing of content as claimed by the lawyers did not take place as the content was streamed. I guess the lawyers in Germany have a field day as users of redtube are storming. This means a lots of angry people actually will go to court if they are forced to pay - this may eventually put Urmann und Collegen out of service.
my 2c.
If a party having something against USoA is to kill Snowden then this sounds like a good motivation.
so how come this can become a patent if there is clear prior art?
There was an interesting article on BBC site about the referendum in Switzerland. It ended :
Switzerland's system of democracy means citizens can call nationwide votes on issues that concern them.(*)
I considered that interesting because such explanation means also that all other citizens in old democracies in the West cannot really do anything on issues that concern them - such concept is foreign to them i.e. requires an additional comment. Seems like the whole concept about letting people decide is gone from Western democracy - the only thing we directly decide is what asshole is holding office and in US even this does not hold true as many presidential campaigns show and gerrymandering in lower layers of democracy ensure.
* - The full article is here.
I think all the trouble we have with expressing our thought and understanding them come from how inadequate any language is - I think Goedle did have some funny ideas on this.
Other than that I'd say that this practice of Norwegian army is going only to help their warriors keep healthy. Unless of course they go to nearby mcdonalds (admit almost no wesern army goes anywhere where there are no mcdonalds nearby) to supply 'missing' 'vitamins'.
not sure why people so upset - it is all for our own good
as for ocean disposal of nuclear waste Russians or specifically Russian navy gave example how to do it. The savings would be enormous....
In UK this is 4 letter agency you insensitive clod
these were not US Mandated as the equipment vendors implement such techniques because operators are obliged by local law to only use eq. that have such features. So if at all it was US inspired law that made such actions easy.
there is a point at which a thing is small enough to cause problem with transport as you have to attach it tosomething so that the flow of air does not bring the fucker away.
You can chose whatever technicality you want and this does not change the fact that in reality if it is not moving then it is not driving. For some people (like me sometimes) it is annoying to the point that driving is impossible when the phone is for instance doing incoming call noises. I have to stop and press go away. Technically I am committing a crime as I use phone while driving at least in some jurisdictions. Practically I am avoiding endangering others by driving in distracted and angered state. The law makers had their reasons to make particular definition of driving and I do not think that had something to do with driving itself but rather with things like driving while intoxicated etc. and all lengthy arguments that lack of such definition caused.
I do not trust all the conspiracy theories even tho I believe more than a year ago (thanx Snowden) still when I recall times I worked with a radio stack maker for one of the big mobile phones maker I realized these people have no control of what they do - the mess there was so big that I can imagine a consultant implanting big piece of spy software and nobody would have noticed. OTOH the general level of competence in this area was such that I would not trust this spying consultant to do the job properly so this piece of junk would not start or cause the phone crashing etc. These were good times back then - good wages a lots of bugs. Good times for QA guy.
It is maybe a common practice in certain organisations to not have your phone in certain areas. That is because you can fake the switching off a phone on purpose or it may be done because somebody bugged the phone which means you are a subject of a dedicated attack - congratulations. Other than that it is all easier for 3 and 4 letter agencies to listen and spy with other means. BTW: swapping simcards is no help really.
Having male hetero brain I read that and before even finishing reading properly I had a phantasy with these different sizes and forms, all shaking invitingly or being squeezed etc Then I thought - wait - the phone in this positions cannot bring any interesting stuff unless the bra is taken off with the phone and you get some perspective from which you can watch properly or the breasts are so flat that perspective is possible from the bra which however is not needed in such situation. Then I read again and realized this sentence was written by a weasel - it is not interesting what the phone in bra is seeing and passing over but the ladies themselves doing all these things with their toys that are interesting! While I agree with all the excitement the memory of the letter from the divorce judge (with court costs etc) keeps me cold these days better than a load of ice cubes in the pants.