Comment Re:Too bad so much Creative Commons is poisoned. (Score 2) 39
Due Dilligence was never a part of the Creative Commons License.
Due Dilligence was never a part of the Creative Commons License.
>No cab company charges $30 for a 1-2 mile trip.
Get Uber at the wrong time, and you can pay far more than that.
In cities with mandatory minimum zone charges, crossing the wrong zones can result in a twenty dollar charge, even though one is only going one mile.
Scratch that. In some places, the effective rate is fifteen dollars per mile, or part thereof.
Aopparently you failed remedial investing 099:
* Appreciation of the asset;
* Income by leasing the asset out;
* A virtually indestructable asset;
* An asset whose costs are 100% tax deductable;
* Low risk;
The only reason Uber and similar firms are a threat to taxis, is becuase they (Uber) currently offer a very rare quality --- good customer service.
>Diamonds are expensive because diamond mining is expensive,
One of the best times of my life was the week at the bay, where the stones were diamonds. Skipping diamonds into the ocean waves is fun.
The first rule of security is:
_Do not do anything on a computer that has network capability_.
I've been told that Windows2000 was the last version of Windows that did not require calling home at least once a year, in order to function correctly.
I know that Windows7 point blank refuses to run if it hasn't called home in the last 180 days.
If China pulls a Ukraine in Asia, it is because the Red Army walked there. This is the only contemporary army that is built on the principle of walking to the battlefield, even if it is on the other side of the world.
If China had a good blue water navy, they would be more likely to pull a Ukraine in Africa, or South America, than Asia.
The business case is that the drone will fly across campus, and manually restart a server that can't be RSSd into.
Nobody sees a Roomba crossing a road, and hence they get destroyed when run over. Drones aren't seen, but since they are above ground level, don't get hit quite so often.
If the United States calculated the unemployment rate today, the same way they did in 1960, the unemployment rate would be over 25%.
If the United States stays on its current track, by 2050, 70% of the population will be permanently unemployed. A further 21% of the population will spend more than half of their life unemployed.
The CIA has operated a communication intercept station in Mongolia since the early sixties. Whilst its focus is on Russian and Chinese communications, it does pickup, and analyze Mongolian signals.
How can you ensure that those ponies don't pass through the CIA communications intercept station?
Amber
But with a written custody agreement in CA, he should have called the FBI in CA and reported a parental kidnapping.
You obviously aren't aware of the divorces, where one set of states have awarded custody of the child to one parent, and a different collection of states have awarded custody to the other parent, and a third group of states have awarded custody to one of the grandparents.
Then, just to make things complicated, the custody battle gets extended through the legal system of two or three different countries, preferably on different continents.
Amber
Take a look at Utah State Law on adoptions.
The mother need not:
The father need not:
The adoptive parent, or parents:
For the father, imagine the following sequence of events
That scenario is fairly close to standard operating procedure, for adoptions in the State of Utah. Especially the point that none of the parties --- adoptee parents, biological father, biological mother --- have any nexus within the state of Utah, or to the state of Utah. Not even members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or any of its splinter groups.
This is the reason why mothers-to-be that want to be especially nasty to the father of their child, have the child adopted in Utah.
Amber
Short of the US being invaded, I can't imagine a draft being put in place. Even then, there could likely be enough volunteers that a draft would not be necessary.
In the United States, the draft was installed during WW2, precisely because there were too many volunteers.
If you can read Japanese, I strongly recommend reading the history of the invasion of the West Coast of the United States, by the Japanese Army. Then ponder on why their chosen strategy would not fail today.
Amber
I'm not sure accepting that creating needy children who have no ability to be patient is a good thing; It will, and is, creating a slave generation.
There is a difference between creating slaves, and creating people who are patient.
I know this is an incredibly unpopular thing to say right now, but consider that the first thing we do to a new child born into this world is to slap them in the face. Why would we do that?
FWIW, in traditional cultures --- the one's where the woman is working, and takes an hour off to give birth to the child, and then goes back to working --- the newborn infant is not slapped.
And when I told them that in spite of these achievements, we mostly use these capabilities to entertain instead of educate, and have so ingrained them into daily life that we have created children incapable of functioning without continuous access to these devices, they would likely be equally shocked.
Jerry Mander
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
New York, NY: Harper Collins: 1978
ISBN-13 978-0-688-08274-1.
Our technology has created an unparalleled degree of dysfunction in the everyday person.
In the history of religion, technological advances have always been treated as creating a dystopian future. The standard prediction is that at the end of the world: Dystopia fights Utopia.
Amber
There is *NO* reason a four year old "needs" a cell phone. None, zip, zero.
If a cell phone is a safety device for an adult, then it is a safety device for a child.
Cell phone ownership amongst the homeless population is close to 100%, because it is viewed by that population as a safety device. As such, homeless parents try to get cell phones, with limited minute plans, for all of their children. They also teach their children how to use the phone. The cost of the minutes is not the only issue to be to be concerned about.
Whilst that does not appear to be the situation here, it is a legitimate reason for a four year old to have a cell phone.
Amber
The simple solution is to terminate all existing brick and mortar employees.
Install touchscreen kiosks, that are nothing but a wiki of the products that the store offers for sale. Let users browse that wiki. If they have specific questions, let them touch something that connects to a call center in, say, Walvis Bay. (A call center there costs roughly half the price of a call center in India.)
Hire one person, whose function is to ensure that the self-checkout registers are working correctly. Make that five employees, so the store can be open 7/24. Add five more employees, whose sole function is to clean the store every shift. (One person per shift to control the cleaning bots.)
If the local Walmart did that, their customer service would go up several orders of magnitude. That store would also be several orders of magnitude cleaner.
If Pennys did that, customer service would go up by several thousand orders of magnitude.
If Radio Shack did that, customer service would go up several million orders of magnitude.
Amber
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
