Why else would any bank ever invent or accept "no-doc" or "low-doc" loans?
The original point of those was to service clients evading large income taxes. They show the loan officer visually documentation of all sorts of income and assets, but it didn't go in to the formal record. The propaganda was that it was for "independent contractors" who got paid intermittently, blah blah blah.
If Mars had been significantly more massive and could retain a substantial atmosphere with greenhouse effect larger than Earth's, then it might have been habitable.
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Are apps in WinRT, ChromeOS, and "FirefoxOS" good? Anything people want so far?
Generally the "apps" which seem to be good quality are written in Objective-C on Mac and iOS. Of course much of this relates to libraries, but are we entirely sure there's no relation?
One is trying to stop a religious dicatorship from making nuclear weapons.
The other is trying to intimidate people (and imprison them) who look into and talk about the corrupt financial shenanigans of a secular dictatorship.
If Stuxnet were directed at a German newspaper which printed a story about Dick Cheney's purloined billions, then it would be pretty comparable, but the U.S. government isn't actually going to do something like that, because, believe or not, some of the people in charge of doing the operation might believe it to be immoral.
"What could they possibly want with the newspapers? They don't control anything of value. Most of the news is bullshit and propaganda.(probably less than in China, tho) Are they trying to insert their own journalism?( as if anyone would notice)"
Think.
They are attempting to find and punish---extremely severely---any sources who gave information to the reporters. They are threatening the reporters. They are threatening the newspapers who publish information critical of the regime's power.
Just because it was open doesn't mean that cloning was legal. Neither Apple nor IBM approved cloning in any way, any more than a playwright who publishes a play approves unauthorized productions with no royalties.
Now, when people search for Guy Hingston they will find articles saying that he is suing Google. They will think that odd, and when they go to the article they will find out that his bankruptcy was a business venture unrelated to his medical practice, and he was not actually personally bankrupt.
Slashdot is helping to solve his problem. I feel happy already.
Why fine the shareholders who had no input into this? Fine the actual humans who made illegal decisions. Because if corporations are people, they are mind-controlled zombies.
Employees aren't owned property. Surely businesses in the US greatly enjoy their "at-will" hire privileges, as opposed to EU where there are general government-required employment contracts.
At-will hire and fire also means employees right to take a new job, also at-will.
It is borrowed from the company they are going to acquire! They borrow it, and make it an obligation of the company they are about to acquire!
As a result of course to meet the cash flow demands it is all about short-term cost cuts, abandoning R&D and new initiatives, oursourcing, etc.
"Or, is it borrowed by the private equity firms selling new shares in their own companies?"
What? you think the private equity firms risk Their OWN Money? Silly rabbit, risk is what Other People's Money is for. (Well, they do risk some capital, but only what they put in, not wipe-the-whole-firm-out bankruptcy risk)
| "Alarmists" tend to claim runaway positive feedback loops will cause a dramatic rise in temperature in the near future, while "denialists" tend to argue that these positive feedback loops are counteracted by negative feedback loops that tend to keep the temperature within a reasonable range.
The best scientific evidence today shows that the climate sensitivity is right where mainstream climatologists believed it would be, and not where the scientific water carriers for the denialists have attempted to peg it.
Scientifically accurate: climate change is the consequence of global warming from increased greenhouse forcing.
What is called 'global warming' scientifically is not how it would be perceived in an ordinary person's sense, slightly warming all around all the time.
It's too expensive not to fix. But the problem is that some people don't want to pay.
People have come up with plenty of goddamned and blessed solutions, like a global greenhouse tax enforced by treaty, with sharp penalties for evasion.
That is considered "shoving government totalitarian enforcement down peoples' throats" by the people who don't want to pay and don't care enough about the future.
"What I see is people screaming that we have to do something about global warming and then the very same people refusing nuclear, this makes me think that most of them don't actually believe that global warming is a problem and just tries to push a political agenda."
The first set is larger than the second set, and is generally composed of those with higher scientific understanding.
"at the cost of reducing CO2 warming by 1 degree C over the course of 100 years is about the same that it would cost to completely end world hunger." That's actually pretty small. The cost of not reducing CO2 will of course include substantial destruction of highly economically valuable coastal infrastructure which supplies jobs and creates wealth, as well as lowering agricultural productiivty and increasing food costs.
The error is computing the "cost of hunger" using today's data.
1 degree C is huge as a long-term global average (including all seasons, latitudes, and the 70% of the planet which is ocean, the common way to calculate it). The problem with world hunger is lack of money in hungry people---since we aren't giving them money now we won't be doing so in the future.
| I do think it will be similar with Sappeur - at some point there will be a major memory-safe language without a VM and GC.
How about Fortran? Compile with run-time array checks on (which can often be abstracted outside loops thanks to Fortran's strict semantics and minimal use of unconstrained pointers).
| Most Software Engineers are actually very, very far from being enlightened.
Or there are more constraints practically than commonly appreciated. Do you want to propose a complete alternative to HTML and HTTP and get everybody on the planet to use it? Good luck with that.
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Have shareholders be required to vote publicly on specifics of executive compensation. THey do this in the U.K. to some degree.
In the USA they've been lobbying very hard against it and won.
In the USA it's expensive, but still inexpensive compared to outrageously expensive medicine.
In other words, CEO's are a property tax. They make what they can take, not what they earn.
Why else would any bank ever invent or accept "no-doc" or "low-doc" loans?
The original point of those was to service clients evading large income taxes. They show the loan officer visually documentation of all sorts of income and assets, but it didn't go in to the formal record. The propaganda was that it was for "independent contractors" who got paid intermittently, blah blah blah.
If Mars had been significantly more massive and could retain a substantial atmosphere with greenhouse effect larger than Earth's, then it might have been habitable.
Are apps in WinRT, ChromeOS, and "FirefoxOS" good? Anything people want so far?
Generally the "apps" which seem to be good quality are written in Objective-C on Mac and iOS. Of course much of this relates to libraries, but are we entirely sure there's no relation?
One is trying to stop a religious dicatorship from making nuclear weapons.
The other is trying to intimidate people (and imprison them) who look into and talk about the corrupt financial shenanigans of a secular dictatorship.
If Stuxnet were directed at a German newspaper which printed a story about Dick Cheney's purloined billions, then it would be pretty comparable, but the U.S. government isn't actually going to do something like that, because, believe or not, some of the people in charge of doing the operation might believe it to be immoral.
Why is obscuring the origin of their attacks their intent? Perhaps being tracked to China is one of the points of it.
It's like poisoning a dissident with polonium: the unmistakable message of "don't fuck with Putin".
"What could they possibly want with the newspapers?
They don't control anything of value.
Most of the news is bullshit and propaganda.(probably less than in China, tho)
Are they trying to insert their own journalism?( as if anyone would notice)"
Think.
They are attempting to find and punish---extremely severely---any sources who gave information to the reporters. They are threatening the reporters. They are threatening the newspapers who publish information critical of the regime's power.
SpaceX's rockets don't carry people, and it doesn't fly powered for 12 hours.
I lived in LA 20 years ago. The smog was worse than today, but nothing as bad as Beijing. Bejing is off-the charts bad.
Just because it was open doesn't mean that cloning was legal. Neither Apple nor IBM approved cloning in any way, any more than a playwright who publishes a play approves unauthorized productions with no royalties.
Now, when people search for Guy Hingston they will find articles saying that he is suing Google. They will think that odd, and when they go to the article they will find out that his bankruptcy was a business venture unrelated to his medical practice, and he was not actually personally bankrupt.
Slashdot is helping to solve his problem. I feel happy already.
Why fine the shareholders who had no input into this? Fine the actual humans who made illegal decisions. Because if corporations are people, they are mind-controlled zombies.
| There is no shareholder value in companies fighting over employees. This only artificially raises labor costs and is a threat to profit.
Why is this "artificial", as opposed to completely expected market phenomenon? Sounds like a very natural free market response.
| It is much better to agree between companies that the lowest possible compensation will be offered to a agreed upon pool of labor.
That number is zero.
| Now, obviously whiny labor who wants a great deal of money for no work is not going to like this
Whiny plantation owners who wanted a great deal of cotton for no wages didn't like the 13th amendment either.
Oh, this must be a troll. Sorry I didn't get it before, fundamentalist libertarians are indistinguishable from any parody thereof.
Some people think "Free market" means honest market with unimpeded competitive substitutability and transparency.
Other people think "free market" means "nobody can stop me from wielding my power however I like it, because FREEDOM!"
"poaching" is illegal hunting and theft.
Employees aren't owned property. Surely businesses in the US greatly enjoy their "at-will" hire privileges, as opposed to EU where there are general government-required employment contracts.
At-will hire and fire also means employees right to take a new job, also at-will.
It is borrowed from the company they are going to acquire! They borrow it, and make it an obligation of the company they are about to acquire!
As a result of course to meet the cash flow demands it is all about short-term cost cuts, abandoning R&D and new initiatives, oursourcing, etc.
"Or, is it borrowed by the private equity firms selling new shares in their own companies?"
What? you think the private equity firms risk Their OWN Money? Silly rabbit, risk is what Other People's Money is for.
(Well, they do risk some capital, but only what they put in, not wipe-the-whole-firm-out bankruptcy risk)
| "Alarmists" tend to claim runaway positive feedback loops will cause a dramatic rise in temperature in the near future, while "denialists" tend to argue that these positive feedback loops are counteracted by negative feedback loops that tend to keep the temperature within a reasonable range.
The best scientific evidence today shows that the climate sensitivity is right where mainstream climatologists believed it would be, and not where the scientific water carriers for the denialists have attempted to peg it.
This position is labeled "alarmist".
Scientifically accurate: climate change is the consequence of global warming from increased greenhouse forcing.
What is called 'global warming' scientifically is not how it would be perceived in an ordinary person's sense, slightly warming all around all the time.
It's too expensive not to fix. But the problem is that some people don't want to pay.
People have come up with plenty of goddamned and blessed solutions, like a global greenhouse tax enforced by treaty, with sharp penalties for evasion.
That is considered "shoving government totalitarian enforcement down peoples' throats" by the people who don't want to pay and don't care enough about the future.
"What I see is people screaming that we have to do something about global warming and then the very same people refusing nuclear, this makes me think that most of them don't actually believe that global warming is a problem and just tries to push a political agenda."
The first set is larger than the second set, and is generally composed of those with higher scientific understanding.
It's the local ISP which would have to block Google.
"at the cost of reducing CO2 warming by 1 degree C over the course of 100 years is about the same that it would cost to completely end world hunger."
That's actually pretty small. The cost of not reducing CO2 will of course include substantial destruction of highly economically valuable coastal infrastructure which supplies jobs and creates wealth, as well as lowering agricultural productiivty and increasing food costs.
The error is computing the "cost of hunger" using today's data.
1 degree C is huge as a long-term global average (including all seasons, latitudes, and the 70% of the planet which is ocean, the common way to calculate it).
The problem with world hunger is lack of money in hungry people---since we aren't giving them money now we won't be doing so in the future.
| I do think it will be similar with Sappeur - at some point there will be a major memory-safe language without a VM and GC.
How about Fortran?
Compile with run-time array checks on (which can often be abstracted outside loops thanks to Fortran's strict semantics and minimal use of unconstrained pointers).
| Most Software Engineers are actually very, very far from being enlightened.
Or there are more constraints practically than commonly appreciated. Do you want to propose a complete alternative to HTML and HTTP and get everybody on the planet to use it? Good luck with that.