Well bread and circuses are ok as long as there is enough of them. As soon as you have to send some of your citizens to the lions because catching the primitives became to difficult you are on the way to trouble.
self diagnosis is good, if you are informed then you can talk in more sensible way with your doctors too which is a benefit as this can avoid silly misunderstandings that can be lethal or at least painful. However if you consider that even cleaning your ear in an incorrect way may be dangerous one may thing additional motivation to do things you were not schooled to do may mean additional work for your physician.....
In any case I would not try iAnything to help my health. That may mean I lose what is left of my independent life.
I suppose that is what happens with planet of women - half of them become more hairy than the other half and they will then rule, marry/rape, behead etc this other less hairy half so in reality the only difference will be no penises around but I guess industry will provide for this rather non-vital loss
so how are you different from the rest of population? I mean you have seen at least one CSI or? It seems it is enough for you to even think about some place and they can find your DNA there (esp. if your thoughts were dirty).
indeed interesting. Reminds me of a discussions I had with a leftist/feminist friend of mine (who was all this but only on the surface as it sadly is most of the time with any conviction that is spoken loudly). His view was that men are evil and women are superior. He also had some ethnic views where white was evil and say Chinese superior. I made comments on this few times that he is not making things better by changing objects of prejudice and discrimination. The problem with his attitude is that it is everywhere these days and you are either left radical or a nazi. It pisses me off that no meaningful discussion is possible on number of important subjects because these subjects have been hijacked by radicals and bigots (or radical bigots). I guess that is always the case only in modern times you as a bigot were not able to socialize with huge numbers of other bigots now thanx to modern media you can.
the companies do not have to pay dividend to make buying its stock rational. You may want to have control of the company and get gains other than directly paid dividend or wait till company achieves certain investment goal and buy its stock back. Whatever the motivation you may decide to sell shares and move your money elsewhere. That is also a legitimate way of dealing with ownership of an enterprise. There is nothing wrong with buy/sell game only when it is becoming so detached from reality as it is the case with HFT it may start influencing financial markets in more ways than the ones that are beneficial for real economy. The sheer fact that we talk about real economy means we entered the world of trouble and virtual rights to money that does not exist (which is in a way funny as fiat currencies we all play with are already some kind of virtual beings). OC sticking money in the bank instead of investing is not a problem in itself but possibly a realization that there is nothing (or not enuff os something that) this money can buy? I exaggerate of course but it is a warring sign if many do that. Possibly we got hold of inflation problem by not allowing central banks to print w/o end only to find out that the govs smart as they are just used up money that could have been printed in the future i.e. borrowed it. Well it is a fancy word of financial innovation that economist readers seem to dislike
Not really true. The trade in stocks is a valid function of stock markets. This indeed provide liquidity and equalizes the prices between different market places. It is also not realistic to call people buying stock and selling it next day - speculators - this does not have to be the case and there may even be regulations forcing some of the actors to do so (pension funds or banks may be required to sell if certain things happen etc) . It is however not true that the frequent traders did decrease the price either. The price decreased after more actors started playing, market got deregulated etc. The frequent trading did change the character of the game though - especially as high volume frequent trading agents can see in 'the future' essentially ripping off everybody else. They are also indeed pure speculators that do not bring much to anybody else and instead bringing barriers into the trading for everybody not only with this 'looking in the future' thing but because of the weight of their trades everybody else is outsmarted or even the price is influenced in a way not having anything to do with real economy and possibly profits are made in such way too. It also must be remembered that albeit there are claims to contrary there is very little that frequent traders actually create. In general more frequency is not really needed there and some limits were in place. You may argue that either limits in frequency or tax on operations or some mix of both or some other feature. OC you are on the losing side of the argument if you claim such things as the HFTers have enough money to convince lawmakers of that their righst are god given and do not have to satisfy any need of a nation.
this is one of the subjects where already analysis of the situation is difficult and may vary significantly between different human beings as they grow with different speeds and achieve different levels (if there can be) of enlightenment. So this is already difficult if we were all from one culture and subject of one law but we are as you pointed out not. The fact that definitions are so difficult allowed many criminals do unspeakable things and walk free to (mostly unwilling or unknowing) young people who did not know better at the time but felt terribly afterward. That is I think t he reason why law is written in relatively straight manner as to exclude a possibility that unspeakable acts that we as a society do not want to have around are and stay forbidden. This leaves of course the problem of punishing stated minors for e.g. sending revealing pictures of themselves trough public communication networks (as was the case in US some time ago) or people that did thing that were in no way wrong but fell under the detailed prescription of illegal act in these contexts with associated harsh punishment (protect the children!) and putting into registry of such deviants. In short the problem is that clear distinction is impossible in a situation when it is needed to make a decision with dire consequences. This shows the limits of letter of law and importance of intelligent people making law as well as as intelligent people interpreting law. The bad thing is that this already is a stretch and even if we had those intelligent and informed and enlightened individuals at indicated places (do we?) we would still have a public that in its majority is ignorant and negligent and at the same time vicious, merciless and reckless. The associated hysteria in media (how otherwise explain that a photo of bare chested father with a small kid on his arm is perceived a depiction of a pervert in US and UK and of a loving father by especially southern Europeans) is not helping either.
Not that I care anyway and the reason is this:I will live approx 50 years still assuming all goes well. This means that most likely I will no be directly affected by any of next nuclear disasters. Still some people will.
Japanese people thought the same as you I guess. From your last sentences I also infer that you would not mind moving to Fukushima as radioactivity is such a good thing for health - I think property prices are quite good at he moment and as long as you get any ISP to bring connection there you can even work and post some stuff from there.
this of course only if you measure your progress by how much energy you consume. If so then I guess we should build as many power plants as possible and heat the oceans surrounding the continents. If you skip electricity producing facility of nuclear power plant you may even save on costs a little. OTOH maybe one should heat oceans with the electrical heaters that should provide some jobs for Chinese (producing the heaters) too. Good thinking.
no such thing as free market - it is like Yeti or santa claus, the rest may even be true. Your big corporations are not really yours and were never there to support society or democracy or anything of a kind, the hard rules and people on watch with their rules can force them to however I suppose that that is even what Adam SMith really meant in his wealth.. book.. The economist seems to think that this is what is happening in banking sector (see here. There are also some that believe that banking sector is guilty of problems of the real economy in ways not always apparent: by giving young talent a chance to earn w/o limits in almost no time you get these young people out of real economy so they do not make real money but virtual one. This is changing of course as finance seems to be cutting its workforce these days. Alas next 'nnovation' in finance may be beyond the corner so we will see whether situation will change. But of course the casino still works - we will see for how long.
that of course assuming that humans acts always on basis of reason and with all information available. Whether there is a case to defend here I do not know. There surely is a matter that needs to be addressed and I am not sure if we will like the outcome too much. Still if the cause is just but who knows anyway. The fact is she is on the receiving end of a stick and no amount of/. bickering is going to change that.
...And while there are some raging tools in the put here any religiously discussed world view community, I think most of us are pretty content to live and let live
You replace atheist with anything else or leave it there and it is true (or not in case of nut case splinter group). The reason is that bigotry seems to be a general faculty of man. Something humans love to hate religion or atheism makes no difference good thing is that it gives a good reason to blame others for anything or just for a sheer fun of hating others. Atheists or otherwise - they activists of each genre are bigots and love to hate. The reason is important only on the surface.
I knew it all along - Brits are more German than Germans. If they worship papers with big stamps (possibly eagle) then they can join German Federation as 17th Land.
At least they would get decent roads and at least partially working public transportation (along other aspects of civilization).
why hate? HR people are specialists and no different really from you. IN a (then) small company I worked in in 90ties we hired people ourselves with mandatory beer crate showing up after and sometimes instead of an exam. The exam itself was just to prove that candidate can read and think and communicate results to us. Especially first two characteristics are not certain even if candidates show 'certificates' issued by respected universities. There is a lot of tools HR support industry is marketing and the main purpose of those is to provide WFF (warm fuzzy feeling) still the tools, certificates and what not are proxies that give you clues. The actual capability of a candidate can only be shown in trenches. I actually met few hirers that knew this and were willing to take a conscious risk instead of taking a risk but having good feeling after checking some certificates. Even my hippy looks and attachment to booze (back then in 90ties I am too old for this now) did not stop them and from I know they never regretted well the ones I told are idiots and quit probably did but these happened to be also the people begging me later to come back.
Bottom line: HR people are as poor assholes as we coders/admins/testers/etc are. They base their decisions on guesses and clues and hope for the best and they have to sell their decisions to often ignorant and psychotic management so it must look scientific and what is better than a paper with stamp? IN other words they do what they can. We too.....
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There is this passage I memorized: "a rifle is only a tool, it is a hard heart that kills". I kind like it because it is so true and it provides me moments of joy with great frequency especially when our management tell us to use this new special shiny tool so that we do not have to be experts and just press a button and fix the shit later on. Similarly here - while I agree that tools like twitter do play a role it is interesting to note that regimes of a less democratic tick did use twitter even more than the protesters against their rule (Iran was one such example). It is unresolved issues that such regimes have with their own people that cause these people to go on the streets. They communicate with whatever is available and possible without too much of visible state control and yet they have to actually go out on the streets and possibly lose their lives first so that others get also angry and kill some of the basterds and this is just a beginning, Without actual will the uprisings will not go the way the naive sympathizers in the West hope they would. In any case the tools are just instrumental and are used massively by all sides. This does not make them less important but we should see it in a perspective it is not twitter that makes people risk their lives for some odd ideal.
You can have a look here for more detailed critique of 'with this new shiny tool we get rid of all the faults in software, in politics, we get rid of cancer and athletes foot and more.
As for IPO of FB - if you think that they increase their revenue so much as to justify their expected capitalization go on and buy stock. I am not going out of principle as I think Zuckerberg's idea of privacy is a nonsense that is damaging society. I hope this is stopped in some reasonably big places like Europe for instance. OC we may be on the wrong side of the pond but still big enough to matter and to stop the nonsense. If only we did. Other way of looking at FB is this: if the company grows as much as all those anal/ysts predict or even half way this then two things will happen: Govs of the earth will get busy regulating the Moloch and it will become a commodity. It will still mean he may have his buck but what profit this will bring is rather disputable and possibly very disappointing for those speculating on these few dozen billions.
it is copper all right and I just tested it with this results: Download: 5.796 kbit/s (725 kByte/s); Upload:494 kbit/s(62 kByte/s)
It is of course not enough for certain things but for my home use or vpn to my/my wive's corporate offices it is enough. ymmv
I mentioned that I have copper because there is a difference of course albeit not that important for the discussion. From what I know fiber has been laid out in parts of the country few years ago and did not prove to be good quality for money.
obviously you are a communist. I am too as I come from Europe. I mean get serious - the guys that want to become presidential candidates from GOP trhow abuse using the words like Europe, European - I laughed when I heard that they used command of French as an argument AGAINST a candidate. The country is ass backward. I only hope they wake up and get rid of trolls, maniacs and bigots that effectively poison any decision making and any discussion.
I live in Germany (the big communist country in communist Europe) and the last time I saw these cable guys working they did not dig trenches but made a whole once say 100m and use some funny equipment drilling vertical holes, pulling the cable trough it etc. It all works quite fine for lesser house densities and looking at the debacle in Kansas is probably cheaper then all these fashionable pols. In the cities most of residents have already the cables in their vicinity so it is not a problem.
Now I wonder how ass backward US actually is? I mean can it be that all that bickering and mud throwing and fear of commies eats up so much 'brain' energy that you cannot even think of anything that actually works and is relatively cheap because of economies of scale (for which we need standardized solutions for wide swaths of the country) ? Possibly the economies of scale require communism to work? BTW: we do not apparently need fiber that much here - the good old copper does it for us and I assure you pr0n is as crisp as it should be. I am also pretty sure that if a need arises (for instance we will have our police installing cameras in each corner of our houses to protect our freedoms and feeding this live to a bunker in Berlin) we will have fiber also.
Good that you mentioned this - I think naked gerbil and other pr0n industry representatives should leave our country and take their disease with them.
let us leave in peace (and vote republican).
I was convinced over the years of development, test, integration & maintenance jobs that comments are of utmost importance. When I had to write a few new modules all but myself I did indeed produced a series of descriptions in form of short module description, some comments to non obvious parts of code when after return another piece of code were to be executed when... and if... Well all this went out of window when I started to work with 5o other developers with a feeling taht all of them tried to work on the same piece of code that I was just to write. Inevitably the comments that I put for module description or TODOs were completely ignored. In a while I learned that making comments in such env. is a double. waste of time: first by writing and then by encountering my own not more valid comments that have not been updated by others. From this I learned that my comments are obviously not as desired as I thought and that I would do better to invest time in reading and analyzing code than reading comments.
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I think tea party is already full of criminals or criminal bigots so inviting more criminals would not change much or.....
well this with acceptable oppression works like this: if I oppress you it is acceptable, if you oppress me it is not acceptable at all.
Well bread and circuses are ok as long as there is enough of them. As soon as you have to send some of your citizens to the lions because catching the primitives became to difficult you are on the way to trouble.
self diagnosis is good, if you are informed then you can talk in more sensible way with your doctors too which is a benefit as this can avoid silly misunderstandings that can be lethal or at least painful. However if you consider that even cleaning your ear in an incorrect way may be dangerous one may thing additional motivation to do things you were not schooled to do may mean additional work for your physician..... In any case I would not try iAnything to help my health. That may mean I lose what is left of my independent life.
I suppose that is what happens with planet of women - half of them become more hairy than the other half and they will then rule, marry/rape, behead etc this other less hairy half so in reality the only difference will be no penises around but I guess industry will provide for this rather non-vital loss
so how are you different from the rest of population? I mean you have seen at least one CSI or? It seems it is enough for you to even think about some place and they can find your DNA there (esp. if your thoughts were dirty).
indeed interesting. Reminds me of a discussions I had with a leftist/feminist friend of mine (who was all this but only on the surface as it sadly is most of the time with any conviction that is spoken loudly). His view was that men are evil and women are superior. He also had some ethnic views where white was evil and say Chinese superior. I made comments on this few times that he is not making things better by changing objects of prejudice and discrimination. The problem with his attitude is that it is everywhere these days and you are either left radical or a nazi. It pisses me off that no meaningful discussion is possible on number of important subjects because these subjects have been hijacked by radicals and bigots (or radical bigots). I guess that is always the case only in modern times you as a bigot were not able to socialize with huge numbers of other bigots now thanx to modern media you can.
the companies do not have to pay dividend to make buying its stock rational. You may want to have control of the company and get gains other than directly paid dividend or wait till company achieves certain investment goal and buy its stock back. Whatever the motivation you may decide to sell shares and move your money elsewhere. That is also a legitimate way of dealing with ownership of an enterprise. There is nothing wrong with buy/sell game only when it is becoming so detached from reality as it is the case with HFT it may start influencing financial markets in more ways than the ones that are beneficial for real economy. The sheer fact that we talk about real economy means we entered the world of trouble and virtual rights to money that does not exist (which is in a way funny as fiat currencies we all play with are already some kind of virtual beings). OC sticking money in the bank instead of investing is not a problem in itself but possibly a realization that there is nothing (or not enuff os something that) this money can buy? I exaggerate of course but it is a warring sign if many do that. Possibly we got hold of inflation problem by not allowing central banks to print w/o end only to find out that the govs smart as they are just used up money that could have been printed in the future i.e. borrowed it. Well it is a fancy word of financial innovation that economist readers seem to dislike
Not really true. The trade in stocks is a valid function of stock markets. This indeed provide liquidity and equalizes the prices between different market places. It is also not realistic to call people buying stock and selling it next day - speculators - this does not have to be the case and there may even be regulations forcing some of the actors to do so (pension funds or banks may be required to sell if certain things happen etc) . It is however not true that the frequent traders did decrease the price either. The price decreased after more actors started playing, market got deregulated etc. The frequent trading did change the character of the game though - especially as high volume frequent trading agents can see in 'the future' essentially ripping off everybody else. They are also indeed pure speculators that do not bring much to anybody else and instead bringing barriers into the trading for everybody not only with this 'looking in the future' thing but because of the weight of their trades everybody else is outsmarted or even the price is influenced in a way not having anything to do with real economy and possibly profits are made in such way too. It also must be remembered that albeit there are claims to contrary there is very little that frequent traders actually create. In general more frequency is not really needed there and some limits were in place. You may argue that either limits in frequency or tax on operations or some mix of both or some other feature. OC you are on the losing side of the argument if you claim such things as the HFTers have enough money to convince lawmakers of that their righst are god given and do not have to satisfy any need of a nation.
this is one of the subjects where already analysis of the situation is difficult and may vary significantly between different human beings as they grow with different speeds and achieve different levels (if there can be) of enlightenment. So this is already difficult if we were all from one culture and subject of one law but we are as you pointed out not. The fact that definitions are so difficult allowed many criminals do unspeakable things and walk free to (mostly unwilling or unknowing) young people who did not know better at the time but felt terribly afterward. That is I think t he reason why law is written in relatively straight manner as to exclude a possibility that unspeakable acts that we as a society do not want to have around are and stay forbidden. This leaves of course the problem of punishing stated minors for e.g. sending revealing pictures of themselves trough public communication networks (as was the case in US some time ago) or people that did thing that were in no way wrong but fell under the detailed prescription of illegal act in these contexts with associated harsh punishment (protect the children!) and putting into registry of such deviants. In short the problem is that clear distinction is impossible in a situation when it is needed to make a decision with dire consequences. This shows the limits of letter of law and importance of intelligent people making law as well as as intelligent people interpreting law. The bad thing is that this already is a stretch and even if we had those intelligent and informed and enlightened individuals at indicated places (do we?) we would still have a public that in its majority is ignorant and negligent and at the same time vicious, merciless and reckless. The associated hysteria in media (how otherwise explain that a photo of bare chested father with a small kid on his arm is perceived a depiction of a pervert in US and UK and of a loving father by especially southern Europeans) is not helping either.
Not that I care anyway and the reason is this:I will live approx 50 years still assuming all goes well. This means that most likely I will no be directly affected by any of next nuclear disasters. Still some people will. Japanese people thought the same as you I guess. From your last sentences I also infer that you would not mind moving to Fukushima as radioactivity is such a good thing for health - I think property prices are quite good at he moment and as long as you get any ISP to bring connection there you can even work and post some stuff from there.
this of course only if you measure your progress by how much energy you consume. If so then I guess we should build as many power plants as possible and heat the oceans surrounding the continents. If you skip electricity producing facility of nuclear power plant you may even save on costs a little. OTOH maybe one should heat oceans with the electrical heaters that should provide some jobs for Chinese (producing the heaters) too. Good thinking.
no such thing as free market - it is like Yeti or santa claus, the rest may even be true. Your big corporations are not really yours and were never there to support society or democracy or anything of a kind, the hard rules and people on watch with their rules can force them to however I suppose that that is even what Adam SMith really meant in his wealth.. book.. The economist seems to think that this is what is happening in banking sector (see here. There are also some that believe that banking sector is guilty of problems of the real economy in ways not always apparent: by giving young talent a chance to earn w/o limits in almost no time you get these young people out of real economy so they do not make real money but virtual one. This is changing of course as finance seems to be cutting its workforce these days. Alas next 'nnovation' in finance may be beyond the corner so we will see whether situation will change. But of course the casino still works - we will see for how long.
that of course assuming that humans acts always on basis of reason and with all information available. Whether there is a case to defend here I do not know. There surely is a matter that needs to be addressed and I am not sure if we will like the outcome too much. Still if the cause is just but who knows anyway. The fact is she is on the receiving end of a stick and no amount of /. bickering is going to change that.
Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that.
...And while there are some raging tools in the put here any religiously discussed world view community, I think most of us are pretty content to live and let live
You replace atheist with anything else or leave it there and it is true (or not in case of nut case splinter group). The reason is that bigotry seems to be a general faculty of man. Something humans love to hate religion or atheism makes no difference good thing is that it gives a good reason to blame others for anything or just for a sheer fun of hating others. Atheists or otherwise - they activists of each genre are bigots and love to hate. The reason is important only on the surface.
I knew it all along - Brits are more German than Germans. If they worship papers with big stamps (possibly eagle) then they can join German Federation as 17th Land. At least they would get decent roads and at least partially working public transportation (along other aspects of civilization).
Bottom line: HR people are as poor assholes as we coders/admins/testers/etc are. They base their decisions on guesses and clues and hope for the best and they have to sell their decisions to often ignorant and psychotic management so it must look scientific and what is better than a paper with stamp? IN other words they do what they can. We too.....
. There is this passage I memorized: "a rifle is only a tool, it is a hard heart that kills". I kind like it because it is so true and it provides me moments of joy with great frequency especially when our management tell us to use this new special shiny tool so that we do not have to be experts and just press a button and fix the shit later on. Similarly here - while I agree that tools like twitter do play a role it is interesting to note that regimes of a less democratic tick did use twitter even more than the protesters against their rule (Iran was one such example). It is unresolved issues that such regimes have with their own people that cause these people to go on the streets. They communicate with whatever is available and possible without too much of visible state control and yet they have to actually go out on the streets and possibly lose their lives first so that others get also angry and kill some of the basterds and this is just a beginning, Without actual will the uprisings will not go the way the naive sympathizers in the West hope they would. In any case the tools are just instrumental and are used massively by all sides. This does not make them less important but we should see it in a perspective it is not twitter that makes people risk their lives for some odd ideal.
You can have a look here for more detailed critique of 'with this new shiny tool we get rid of all the faults in software, in politics, we get rid of cancer and athletes foot and more.
As for IPO of FB - if you think that they increase their revenue so much as to justify their expected capitalization go on and buy stock. I am not going out of principle as I think Zuckerberg's idea of privacy is a nonsense that is damaging society. I hope this is stopped in some reasonably big places like Europe for instance. OC we may be on the wrong side of the pond but still big enough to matter and to stop the nonsense. If only we did. Other way of looking at FB is this: if the company grows as much as all those anal/ysts predict or even half way this then two things will happen: Govs of the earth will get busy regulating the Moloch and it will become a commodity. It will still mean he may have his buck but what profit this will bring is rather disputable and possibly very disappointing for those speculating on these few dozen billions.
I think that is actually a good idea second only to dump them into the sun.
it is copper all right and I just tested it with this results: Download: 5.796 kbit/s (725 kByte/s); Upload:494 kbit/s(62 kByte/s) It is of course not enough for certain things but for my home use or vpn to my/my wive's corporate offices it is enough. ymmv I mentioned that I have copper because there is a difference of course albeit not that important for the discussion. From what I know fiber has been laid out in parts of the country few years ago and did not prove to be good quality for money.
obviously you are a communist. I am too as I come from Europe. I mean get serious - the guys that want to become presidential candidates from GOP trhow abuse using the words like Europe, European - I laughed when I heard that they used command of French as an argument AGAINST a candidate. The country is ass backward. I only hope they wake up and get rid of trolls, maniacs and bigots that effectively poison any decision making and any discussion.
Now I wonder how ass backward US actually is? I mean can it be that all that bickering and mud throwing and fear of commies eats up so much 'brain' energy that you cannot even think of anything that actually works and is relatively cheap because of economies of scale (for which we need standardized solutions for wide swaths of the country) ? Possibly the economies of scale require communism to work? BTW: we do not apparently need fiber that much here - the good old copper does it for us and I assure you pr0n is as crisp as it should be. I am also pretty sure that if a need arises (for instance we will have our police installing cameras in each corner of our houses to protect our freedoms and feeding this live to a bunker in Berlin) we will have fiber also.
Good that you mentioned this - I think naked gerbil and other pr0n industry representatives should leave our country and take their disease with them. let us leave in peace (and vote republican).
I was convinced over the years of development, test, integration & maintenance jobs that comments are of utmost importance. When I had to write a few new modules all but myself I did indeed produced a series of descriptions in form of short module description, some comments to non obvious parts of code when after return another piece of code were to be executed when... and if... Well all this went out of window when I started to work with 5o other developers with a feeling taht all of them tried to work on the same piece of code that I was just to write. Inevitably the comments that I put for module description or TODOs were completely ignored. In a while I learned that making comments in such env. is a double. waste of time: first by writing and then by encountering my own not more valid comments that have not been updated by others. From this I learned that my comments are obviously not as desired as I thought and that I would do better to invest time in reading and analyzing code than reading comments.