The other is the US. We're not a big software house, and we can't afford the PI insurance to sell products in America.
Professional Indemnity insurance?? What type of hellish software are you writing that you need protection frm bodily injury r property dmg due t r company’s negligence? I hope you are not selling in the UK either!
Way back when I was a freshman in college I was considering a carrier in astronomy and physics, but I opted for the more flashy and showy job of application development. Is there room for hobby astronomers to contribute in a meaningful way to the global community, or should I stick with the crowd-sourcing projects on https://www.zooniverse.org/ ?
While everyone is still lamenting the "legalize mary jane and the problems go away", let's not forget the other choice activities that generate about half the cartel's income:
- - includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin.
- - kidnapping has become their second-most-lucrative venture, with the targets ranging from businessmen to migrants.
- - Another new source of cartel revenue is oil theft
- - Cartels are also moving into the market in pirated goods in Latin America.
- - cartels are also moving into extortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/opinion/19longmire.html
Sure the cartels will take hit initially, but those intervening months between legalizing and having RJ Reynolds start churning out cig packs of pot (or even for local growers to have enough to deal with the increased demand) the cartels would be shifting. Already the cartels operate near slave farm operations in the US national forests - what makes you think they would stop? The price might be a bit less but what's the cost to people who do not care for human life? Labor is cheap at the end of a gun barrel.
Per the OP's article these guys are no joke. They are not just some street thug but freaking trained troops. They have gone far, far up the Nung River, and I doubt they will go away any time soon.
They were formed by former special forces soldiers who deserted from the Mexican Army and joined the Gulf Cartel.
It's been a good run man, and I am glad you have weathered the years in style. I can't wait for my coffee table "tell all" book to come out... complete with glossy photos of slashdot over the years.
The best of luck and keep the world up to date with your existence!
Not so much an arduino killer as a BugLabs competitor. Lets gloss, more bare boards.
Maybe even a nerdkit++
http://www.nerdkits.com/kits/
This seems like pretty flawed international politics. Nation secrets are kept to because politics is not built to be a zero sum game with complete knowledge. Players are not of an equal background with complementary needs and abilities. Some player's needs may run contrary to another. Competition occurs as each player wants to preserve their people from destruction thus presenting imperfect or altered information helps a player achieve their goal (in a disharmonious environment). Thus secrets are required by definition of the imbalance in the system.
Until nations can operate on "self sacrifice" to the extent that some of their own may die to assist player b's people to live we will have a problem with the system.
I was going to comment that you are looking slim and very healthy the other day, but you were busy on the phone. Kudos to the new iPod Shuffle free diet! Jumping high five!
Sounds like this is more of a larger issue of information versus knowledge. The internet is pushing for information to be everywhere and open to be modified by other individuals. Right now I have a crazy amount of information at my fingertips - stuff I would never have access to if it was fifteen years ago. Sure - the databases can act like a "collective memory", but the problem comes to applying deep concepts. I might have a breadth of knowledge available but if my depth is only an inch deep how does that better you?
At once point there was a good balance of depth and breadth; an understanding that it is important for you, the individual, to still consume the information to formulate an opinion, thought, or just to *create* from it. Relying on copies of copies of quick cliff notes degraded this.
Accelerando, by Charles Stross, deals with this in part. The main character had his "external memory" pouch swiped and he complains of feeling lost and incomplete. Basically the sum of his being was book marks and meta tags... take away that and effectively cripple the person.
Wow.. the OP makes it sound like there is nothing else left on SyFy with all the space opera gone. What about Eureka and Warehouse 13 starting up another season? Both enjoyable shows. Sanctuary's been pretty fun as well. Kudos to all three shows!
Sure the wrestling and the ghost shows are annoying, but I can work around it. I finally caught a few episodes of 'Sarah Conner Chronicles' because it seems SyFy has picked up the license. Awesome! what about all the other classic shows they dredge up: Sliders, StNG, First Wave, Earth 2, and so on?
Regarding what BBC America is doing - I could care less. I don't have the channel, never was a fan of Dr. Who, and I am a well adjusted person.
All I hear is a large squawk from the Stargate fans. Is that what this is all about?
It turns out the Nelson guy quoted did his dissertation on this. Well *OBVIOUSLY* an education major would find results that indicate his field should pay less.
Educational Administration, Department of Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research
"Differential Tuition by Undergraduate Major: Its Use, Amount, and Impact at Public Research Universities"
by Glen R. Nelson
I was about to spaz on UNL doing this (I am a UNO grad), but as I was reading it is just a case of jumping on the band wagon. My concern is the reasoning. If it was to fund up to date and more expensive equipment sure. Then again I thought that was what the mandated lab fees were going to when I was in school.
No.. they used the rational that "engineering kids will be making more money in the future so they can take on more debt". Ah, what? There are plenty of folk I know who were in an engineer program that are doing something totally unrelated after the fact. Teaching, legal, and so on. That makes about as much sense as doing a background check on the kid's parents to see if they are wealthy enough to get a higher tuition regardless of the program.
I would be curious to see what this sliding scale of tuition has done to the school programs. Has it killed engineering, or made it thrive with awesome equipment?
According to research by Glen Nelson, senior vice president of finance and administration for the Arizona Board of Regents, only five institutions used the practice for undergraduate students before 1988.
As of this year, 57 percent of 162 public research institutions did so, including the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.
According to Nelson, 18 institutions have adopted differential tuition based on academic programs in the past three years. Nelson, then a financial officer for the Oregon University System, studied the issue while earning his doctorate from UNL in 2008.
High-five your English teachers for me, bro! I hope this was an ironicly misspelled post. If not I weep.
Are these "major issues hear" crucial flaws inherent to the system - masked by years of government corruption and avoidance, or are they simple things like "employees unable to find jobs because they cannot spell search terms right"?
Well I am torn. See I recently picked up a Viewsonic G-Tablet. A nifty little bugger (odd viewing angles, but hey - I don't care that some schmuck next to me on an airplane can watch my Angry Bird Marathon in full crisp color) and all sorts of snappy hardware. The problem is Viewsonic's OS flavor is poop. A giant pile of poop. Their half-assed "market place" is crippled and broken. Lacking 99% of everything. Why?! why smear good hardware with da poo-poo? Thankfully I educated myself a head of time, found a nice group of folk who have rooted the bastard device and developed their own ROMs (think OS). I had to root mine just so I had access to Android Market Place. While dinking with it I did soft-brick it for about an hour until I found out what combination of ROMS were going to work. Fun fun for three hundred bones, right?
Personally I have no problem if these manufactures want to 'theme' their devices or add specific apps to it, but for god sakes most are not in the "OS making business" and there's a reason for that!
"Change the world"? Hardly - it's all about ruling it baby!
"All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world"
- Tears for Fears
Ugh! Noooooo! I bumped up to the 30gb gen 1 Zune (black to my dismay instead of the chocolate) from a 10gb Toshiba Gigabeat. A tremendous leap forward. I was alaways impressed by the durability of the hardware, succinct interface, and the software on my PC. Their iterations were right on the nose. My only gripe was the usb/wall charger thing was brutal on the cord. I have had this Zune for about four years now and I have been eyeballing jumping to the HD. It seems the HDs will be a bit cheaper (or spike in price due to collector's items?). So kudos there.
Man what a waste. Hopefully my Zune HD last for ever!
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!
