Comment In Bed (Score 3, Insightful) 256
In bed by 10:00p! Staying up until midnight, the most overrated tradition ever.
In bed by 10:00p! Staying up until midnight, the most overrated tradition ever.
For being a skilled developer, I can't believe he would not think that Dev/Test/Prod build environments not running the same version of the compiler was not an issue (Obviously, until it was an issue).
That's Development Cycle 101.
"Michigan lawmakers just approved a right-to-work law in an effort to dismantle union power, but humans are already becoming irrelevant."
There, fixed that for you.
No, paying the benefit when you promise it is one thing, paying it 75 years in advance is another. Yes, they are paying for retirement benefits for people who are not even born yet.
Look deeper into this problem instead of yelling "OMG, GUBER'MENT IS BAD".
Because Predator Drones are made in San Diego, California.
I just looked this up, but Amazon EC2 does not charge for INCOMING traffic. With a properly configured Webserver with security modules, the traffic comes in, but never goes out.
And no one is going to flood Amazon.com off the 'net.
I will also agree, Rabtech pretty much nailed it.
When you have a really determined foe against you and they have a shit ton of computers in a Botnet and you are not a company willing to invest in it, forget it, you are screwed. However, if you have guy renting a part of a botnet from a criminal gang, then you can survive a small or medium sized DDoS and they will go away once their cost exceeds the amount of money they will get from you.
Guys, the UN has no power whatsoever, it cannot dictate laws to member states, much less enforce them.
There are tons of bad treaties that come out of the UN and that are nearly impossible for member nations to leave. For example, the US couldn't legalize drugs however much it may want to. These treaties often represent policy laundering and are imposed undemocratically by the executive branch. Furthermore, the UN has something much stronger than military, namely the power to punish states through trade penalties, and those penalties are imposed on any nation that steps out of line, including the US.
Huh? How is the UN suppose to enforce anything on any country without the cooperation of other countries. If the UN decided to launch an embargo against the US, it would find that no one would follow along and its notice would be a worthless as the paper it is written on. If the UN says, "Drugs are bad, mmkay?", and bans them, they have no way to enforce their rules. None. Nadda. Zilch. If California legalizes it, how is the UN going to force California to decriminalize drugs? Without a standing army, the ruling of the UN is as worthless as, well, the UN.
The UN isn't all powerful, but it is also far from powerless. And we should never forget that the UN is not a democracy and has no moral authority; the majority of its members are undemocratic or worse. The UN is merely a body where states can try to work out their differences, nothing more.
The UN is powerless and since we (The US) pays a good chunk of their bills, they will do what we tell them.
Do you actually carry multiple batteries?
Serious question. I hear people gripe about this all the time, but I don't know ANYONE who actually carries extra batteries. I only hear of people either carrying a charging cable or asking to borrow one.
No, but I want to replace the small battery with a large on. I used my Nexus Galaxy with the standard battery for 2 months before replacing it with battery that would last 2 days, which is what I need.
I have been trying to get my local postal carrier to deliver my mail to my balcony via Ultra Light, but she keeps pointing out that that would expensive, dangerous and I only live on the 2nd floor. Some people just can't see the future.
Well, if I can be blunt, what you state are the words of a simpleton.
The fact is, there are nuclear weapons in the world. They are here and they are not leaving until something more powerful comes along and to decry their existence is pointless and left for debating by simpletons who live in a dream world.
Permeant peace is an unachievable dream since every State has their own goals and many of those goals go against another States goals. In a sense, nuclear weapons create a temporary peace that is very very very long. Creating a balance where if one nuclear actor strikes another, they will strike back with nuclear weapons. This creates a very balanced, and I will admit, frightening peace.
Iran and North Korea, with all of their bluster, are never going to strike their nuclear neighbors since the neighbors will strike back with nuclear weapons. The balance being; anything they have to gain will be lost in the mushroom clouds that soon form over their own cities. Their leaders might be crazy, but they know the day they strike with nuclear weapons, is the last day they are in power and power is all they care about.
>>>So basically, it'd be a disaster with a non-functional economy where no one would dare take risks?
The U.S. economy functioned just fine before the limited-liability incorporation license was invented. Plenty of people took risks. The present condition where we give managers immunity when they produce exploding Ford Pintos, or steal customer funds like MF global, is NOT a good solution.
Actually, no.
You are confusing LLC with Corporation. LLC's are a late 19th century invention but the Corporation, in its basic and well known form, has been around since the Roman times.
By allowing people to create Corporations, people can create an entity that protects them from losing everything if the Corporation goes out of business. It also allows people to invest, knowing that they will not be held liable or lose everything if the Corporation fails.
I'll throw in that on the other end, consumers must be protected from Corporations and their activities so they don't get ripped off or die because of known faulty goods or services. The Libertarian idea that the consumers will protect themselves is faulty since consumers can't research that every good or service won't kill or harm them.
By telling poor people: "tough luck, organs are awarded based on ability to pay and nothing else"?
Why not? That is the way we distribute food, clothing and housing. Why should organs be different? What you are missing, is that if there were no artificial restrictions on organs, they would be far more plentiful. Most people don't check the donor box, because there is no incentive to do so. If they were prepaid $100, many more would do so.
Because Capitalism should not be applied to EVERYTHING since Capitalism is not a cure all for all problems.
If you are not willing to put the money into the infrastructure, you are not going to get the infrastructure that you would have if you had put the money into it. There is no magic secret sauce that IT people have that turns low budget implementations that operate the same as well thought out, planned, paid for and implemented infrastructure. In other words, baring any greatness or incompetence of IT skills, you get what you pay for.
Plus, when you look at these infrastructure problems, don't look at it as how much money are you willing to spend, but how much you are not going to lose if your infrastructure is down. Make sure to be honest with how much it costs you if you are down and how often is it down? Through all of this, unless you are using low quality hardware, I am willing to bet that any downtime is caused by lack of power or the software failing.
This is just not true, Unemployment Benefits rarely come close to the salary you were making. In fact, they barely cover 1/3 of what you were making and it has always been that way.
I can use myself as an example, when I pulled California Unemployment Benefits about 8 years ago, I got $440 (gross) a week. My salary at the time was just about 4x time that. Unemployment barely holds that fiscal line and California Unemployment are also on a sliding scale. So, if you don't make much, you don't get much in Unemployment Benefits.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
