Every time some politician gets a brainwave for a law, it needs to be tested in the real world. Laws are the programs for social order. To make them and roll them out without testing is as mad as writing a computer program and rolling it out without testing.
Anywhere. In almost every country, politicians are purchased by local business interests and serve as little more than "useful idiots" in the service of the wealthy. That's the world as it is, not as you learned it in civics class.
Which of course matters not at all. It's about having electricity and potable water in case of emergency. If it ever pays for itself, that's just gravy.
A pox on all their houses. My greatest wish is that all of them pull their collective heads out and look at real world examples. Too much communal and you've got North Korea. Too little "regulation" and you've got Somalia. In between is Sweden, Finland, Chile, Canada, etc. Perfection exists nowhere, of course, but there's no shortage of examples of good governance and functioning countries.
and preparation for unpleasantness in general, but I have no taste for right-wing politics or christianity. Fortunately, preparation for the unexpected (i.e. EMPs, social unrest, the spanish inquisition...) does not require a right wing belief system, only a healthy paranoia and distrust of all institutions, over-complexified fragile, interdependent, energy-dependent supply chain ecologies and anything that comes over the mass media.
Too bad. They used to be better than the rest. Those were the days. It's unfortunate that they're such dimwits too. Yes, capacity is a problem, until up put a mini-switch/router on every 12th telephone and power pole and then it isn't. The technical problem is solvable, but they'd have to spend some money renting space, placing and maintaining equipment and getting easements. Stock prices would fall for a quarter and some exec wouldn't waddle away with the bonus he truly believes he deserves.
And yet, there you sit, probably throwing off 70-90 watts of thermal. Perhaps if you'd just wear the perfectly insulated clothing made of 100% efficient heat to electricity conversion material, all would be well.
When California passed laws limiting property taxes, local funds for schools decreased. They were never fully replaced with state funds. The problem is, sadly, democracy driven by greed. In California, laws can be made by referendum - direct voting by the people, who voted to keep their money and to hell with the school systems. I don't blame them. I have no children and don't particularly want to pay to school any, but this is the result.
That appears to be the underlying message, but wait, what's that on Monster.com? Aren't most well paying developer jobs for, dare I say it, "Windows?"
FYI, I made my Window laptop adequate for development. I put in 16GB of DDR3 RAM and run two or three dedicated virtual machines to which I can quickly switch via the magic of "Alt-TAB." It's reasonably fast and the VMs act as different desktops. The new laptop and memory came in under $600.
It's not going to translate to my tablet particularly well. I want that big screen, big sound experience. A recorded pirate version, even plugged into my wall TV's HDMI isn't going to cut it.
Now, if it was one of those indie movies, top-heavy with facial expression reaction shots, written by an film major, about self-obsessed pseudo-intellectuals obsessing about how they feel about some petty personal circumstance so banal, trivial and uninteresting that they could bore a rhino to sleep at 10 paces, yeah, I'd probably torrent it, assuming my girlfriend nagged me enough.
Seriously. If I want an extra strong foot cream, I have to take the time off work, go the physician, pay the physician, and then pay for the foot cream. Tell me again how this isn't a racket?
Slightly lower power consumption. Slightly faster memory. Sorry, but it's looking to me like just another way of obsoleting my portable faster, without significant performance improvement.
Mod parent up! The sad truth is that if you teach fundamentalist [insert favorite religion here] to a person, you've automatically taught that person to think irrationally, opening them up to belief in anti-AGW, creationism, flat earth, a permanently growing economy and so on.
This is convenient for politicians and those who profit from the sale of religion or other belief systems. It is inconvenient, and may be fatal in the long term, for humanity.
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On the Microsoft blogs, the vast majority of users, by *far* have asked for the Start button to remain as is. Guess what Microsoft is going to do?
Microsoft, because you *needed* more unthinking, unaware, 20-something arrogance in your life. Daily.
Thank goodness for Linux and Wine, that's all I have to say. The Zorin distribution of Ubuntu particularly.
Better late than never, I suppose. Of course, it's probably been on the design boards, and possible, for 105 of those years.
Every time some politician gets a brainwave for a law, it needs to be tested in the real world. Laws are the programs for social order. To make them and roll them out without testing is as mad as writing a computer program and rolling it out without testing.
Anywhere. In almost every country, politicians are purchased by local business interests and serve as little more than "useful idiots" in the service of the wealthy. That's the world as it is, not as you learned it in civics class.
that strategy has always worked for me.
Which of course matters not at all. It's about having electricity and potable water in case of emergency. If it ever pays for itself, that's just gravy.
A pox on all their houses. My greatest wish is that all of them pull their collective heads out and look at real world examples. Too much communal and you've got North Korea. Too little "regulation" and you've got Somalia. In between is Sweden, Finland, Chile, Canada, etc. Perfection exists nowhere, of course, but there's no shortage of examples of good governance and functioning countries.
Engineer tea-billies?
The correct term is "hickster."
and preparation for unpleasantness in general, but I have no taste for right-wing politics or christianity. Fortunately, preparation for the unexpected (i.e. EMPs, social unrest, the spanish inquisition...) does not require a right wing belief system, only a healthy paranoia and distrust of all institutions, over-complexified fragile, interdependent, energy-dependent supply chain ecologies and anything that comes over the mass media.
Too bad. They used to be better than the rest. Those were the days. It's unfortunate that they're such dimwits too. Yes, capacity is a problem, until up put a mini-switch/router on every 12th telephone and power pole and then it isn't. The technical problem is solvable, but they'd have to spend some money renting space, placing and maintaining equipment and getting easements. Stock prices would fall for a quarter and some exec wouldn't waddle away with the bonus he truly believes he deserves.
And yet, there you sit, probably throwing off 70-90 watts of thermal. Perhaps if you'd just wear the perfectly insulated clothing made of 100% efficient heat to electricity conversion material, all would be well.
Corporations not governments? Haven't been paying attention much, have we?
I mean, that's the simple explanation. If Apple wasn't having a resurgence, would anyone be paying attention to Ojective-C?
When California passed laws limiting property taxes, local funds for schools decreased. They were never fully replaced with state funds. The problem is, sadly, democracy driven by greed. In California, laws can be made by referendum - direct voting by the people, who voted to keep their money and to hell with the school systems. I don't blame them. I have no children and don't particularly want to pay to school any, but this is the result.
being condescended to at home wasn't *enough*
And what surer sign of intelligence do we have?
Except we call his relative's cages "cubes."
Now, excuse me, I need to go have my banana for lunch.
So we can get around Microsoft's managerial convulsions.
...when the bomb is swallowed and explodes while in the large intestine.
And yes, as a matter of fact, I *do* think that's funny.
Because after this latest underwear-related threat to our national security, I predict searches will get a LOT more annoying.
That appears to be the underlying message, but wait, what's that on Monster.com? Aren't most well paying developer jobs for, dare I say it, "Windows?"
FYI, I made my Window laptop adequate for development. I put in 16GB of DDR3 RAM and run two or three dedicated virtual machines to which I can quickly switch via the magic of "Alt-TAB." It's reasonably fast and the VMs act as different desktops. The new laptop and memory came in under $600.
Thanks Dell, but I'll keep my HP.
It's not going to translate to my tablet particularly well. I want that big screen, big sound experience. A recorded pirate version, even plugged into my wall TV's HDMI isn't going to cut it.
Now, if it was one of those indie movies, top-heavy with facial expression reaction shots, written by an film major, about self-obsessed pseudo-intellectuals obsessing about how they feel about some petty personal circumstance so banal, trivial and uninteresting that they could bore a rhino to sleep at 10 paces, yeah, I'd probably torrent it, assuming my girlfriend nagged me enough.
Seriously. If I want an extra strong foot cream, I have to take the time off work, go the physician, pay the physician, and then pay for the foot cream. Tell me again how this isn't a racket?
Slightly lower power consumption. Slightly faster memory. Sorry, but it's looking to me like just another way of obsoleting my portable faster, without significant performance improvement.
Mod parent up! The sad truth is that if you teach fundamentalist [insert favorite religion here] to a person, you've automatically taught that person to think irrationally, opening them up to belief in anti-AGW, creationism, flat earth, a permanently growing economy and so on.
This is convenient for politicians and those who profit from the sale of religion or other belief systems. It is inconvenient, and may be fatal in the long term, for humanity.