Ford Explorer roof pillars were initially spec'd with a fairly high-grade steel. Citing costs, management refused to use the high-grade steel and instead used a weaker steel.
Result? Lots of roof-cave-ins on a vehicle that was prone to roll over.
http://shameproject.com/report...
http://mikethemadbiologist.com...
Malcom Gladwell is the product of conservative institutes and think tanks; he has worked for racists, the tobacco industry, oil companies, big pharma, and more. His books popularize the kind of thinking that said industries have used to defend their practices.
Cloudfare blocks Tor exit nodes heavily; you have to fill out a captcha almost every other page refresh. It makes it almost impossible to navigate a website.
That seems incompatible with your distaste for "kowtowing to the enemies of freedom" and trying to allow customers access to your books even if a government doesn't want them to have access.
The thing is, I won't buy a desktop or laptop that doesn't have a stylus --- I find the stylus essential to my way of working / interacting w/ a computer. I need to be able to:
- draw / paint / sketch
- markup / annotate
- use the machine as a reference device w/o a keyboard being in the way (this is esp. important when using it as a map reader when driving --- need a daylight viewable display for that though, and I can't replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121)
If I can fulfill my text input needs w/ a stylus, why do I need to schlep a keyboard around?
Actually, I rather liked the black Packard Bell-branded Apple II which we had at the school (it was in the office though, so students only got to use it when it needed to have a new spreadsheet created).
Unless your first experience was buying an Asus Vivotab Note 8, my first new machine since college and it dies in less than a month due to a widespread problem w/ the digitizer cables going out:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.co...
What does it say about your brand and QC when that's a top hit for one of your models.
Guess I'll try a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 next --- at least the T1200XE I had was a solid and reliable machine which lasted quite a while.
Gatekeeper also isn't "all MacOS X security". There's separate malware detection, and in order to do much of anything the user has to enter their computer account password.
It's a minor part of OS X security, mostly designed to keep casual users from installing stuff outside the apple store.
35 years was the combined maximum possible sentence. There is no such thing as "street value" of sentences.
During sentencing (if he was found guilty and accountable) is when the judge or jury decides on what punishment is dealt, CAPPED by the maximum. In white collar crimes, it is rarely if ever give the maximum sentence.
He was caught doing a similar stunt prior to the JSTOR incident, warned that what he was doing was illegal.
He trespassed onto MIT campus (he was not a member of the MIT community), trespassed into a building, trespassed into a network closet, installed unauthorized equipment on the network, subverted their access systems, subverted blocking/tracking attempts by MIT network operations, downloaded documents at a rate so great it made JSTOR servers inaccessible, subverted JSTOR's attempts to block him to the extent that JSTOR had to block large sections of the MIT campus, and then installed a second laptop when he wasn't getting documents as fast as he wanted.
JSTOR's fee pays for archiving, indexing, and data transmission. Bandwidth, power, servers, and administrators do not grow on trees. They are not "paywalling free research."
He killed himself because he had a history of mental health issues, proven by among other things publicly discussing the appeal of suicide.
And why would that be?
Not everyone is wired the same way, and some of the greatest contributors to science did it out of curiosity rather than goodwill.
Personally, I think the H.L. Mencken quote sums it all up rather well.
I wish I could mod this comment up. There is nothing more joyful than giving your children the opportunities that you never had, and helping them accomplish their own success.
You can get a buff body with a reasonable workout regimen in less than a year, and many elements of your "looks" can easily be fixed (better hair, wearing contacts, getting teeth fixed, dressing more stylishly).
If you have game, then your dick size doesn't matter, because history is rife with examples of men with questionable looks and stunning women.
Ultimately, having good social skills is much more important than any of those things in getting laid.
Nothing like releasing your review the day after units start shipping, ie when it's too late to find out the unit's faults.
Goddammit I hate embargos...the only reason they exist is to hide flaws and problems from people who could get a refund. Ray, stop being the industry's bitch. You have a ton of readers, tell gadget makers to pound sand if they tell you that you can't release a review before it ships.
They have a strict limit set to their ``pay slope'':
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
They're a great company and I'm always pleased to buy stuff from them.
I wish more companies would pay attention to the studies which note that greater than 22--1 creates a lousy corporate culture.
There needs to absolutely be a mechanism in place for a woman to:
- safely be transported to a hospital in a fashion which maintains chain of evidence
- be examined by a sympathetic, but impartial medical professional using a rape kit to collect evidence
- make a formal statement, and if it includes an accusation, that to be duly sworn out in a reasonable fashion
There needs to be in place mechanisms for the hospital, police and other social structures to take the above seriously. If there aren't, that needs to change.
You're conflating the movie (injecting paint) w/ the real life court case (it was determined that they had sprayed the exterior of the ping pong balls w/ fixative).
"Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers." -- Chip Salzenberg
