Comment Re:Beach houses (Score 1) 230
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At some point there very well may be a significant event.
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At some point there very well may be a significant event.
/me Eagerly awaits the article I should read this week.
Really? An average security employee probably costs $200k or more per year. If Target has 5 people working on network security they spend "millions" per year.
I would wager there are at least probably 1,000 developers actively working on corporate security every year. $200,000 * 1,000 people = $200m per year on security.
I've talked to security guys from two big name companies, they both work in large departments. I have absolutely no question that a department of > 5 people costs more than a million dollars per year.
I don't mean at the court house, but of even a florist or baker being able to say they do not agree with the union and cannot provide services for such an event.
Businesses may not discriminate based on how someone is born. If you discriminated based on haircolor we wouldn't be "forcing the blonde agenda" down your bigoted throat. Yes we force bakers to serve those who have disabilities, those who are black. We are long past the racism of the 60s where just because you're born black you won't be served at a restaurant. Skin color and sexual orientation are interchangeable. And yes the president realized that he was prejudiced and has since changed his mind. And yes before he changed his mind he was prejudiced.
It's perfectly easy to oppose polygamy without opposing gay marriage. It goes like this.
You may form partnerships with one other person. In the event that one person dies, all assets shift to your partner. If you wish to have 5 wives you need to form a corporation not a partnership due to an increase in complications of asset law.
Simple example. If a spouse dies, the other spouse gets all of the assets. If a polygamist spouse dies... there would need to be a completely different asset distribution system. If a single spouse is sick then one spouse is by default granted all rights to make medical decisions. If a polygamist gets stick and needs medical consent do you take a vote? Does it need to be unanimous? Just visitation is different. If you have a hospital room the spouse may stay. If you have 6 spouses, are they all entitled to visitation? If you give Social Security benefits... or a company gives out healthcare to spouses--are they obligated to pay for 6x spouses? That becomes a financial burden on any one company who can't anticipate if their healthcare will go from say a 3 person company to a 3 person company and 90 spouses. You would have to be allowed to discriminate on quantity at some number.
On the other hand there are no practical arguments against Gay Marriage that apply to regular marriages. If you cover one spouse--their gender is mostly irrelevant. If you need a medical consent signed it doesn't matter what gender signs. Etc.
You didn't mention which "60s" you're referring to, the 1860s or the 1960s. I have little doubt you're thinking of the 1960s, but the future is an uncertain thing. They may be seen like the people in the 1850s and 1860s that opposed the right of other Americans to own slaves, a right reflected in the Constitution itself, opposing a right that was popular in some areas but ultimately a bad idea. When you're referring to "prejudice," make sure to consider your own.
Somehow I feel safe believing that not discriminating against people due to the sexual orientation will fall on the side of not discriminating based on skin color.
I'm totally against the right to discriminate against slaves. I'm also totally against the right to discriminate against gays. You have to have a very convoluted worldview to equate those who ask for the same rights as everyone else with slave masters.
You're right it is unidirectional. Just like KKK members even though they lost the civil rights movement are still generally scorned and viewed as bad. The hate towards neo-nazis is generally unidirectional as well (don't hear about Neo-nazis being terribly discriminatory in workplaces).
I'm setting a goal of a $5 PC with modern tablet quality. My approach to achieving my goal is to do absolutely nothing but I will be happy to take credit when it I achieve all of my goals in 5 years.
Devalued content helps the consumer all the way up until the flow of new content stops, and there is no indication that it would, even in a world where all content was distributed for free
When shows cost tens of millions of dollars to produce (It's estimated that Game of Thrones costs $50-100m per season) you HAVE to make money to produce the content. Yeah if you enjoy watching shitty YouTube videos of people jump cutting multiple takes of a sentence into a spastic auctioneer rant then there will always be content. If you want high quality content like Game of Thrones or Sons of Anarchy then the only way you can continue that is if the producers can make at least $100 million off of their investment.
Otherwise Netflix will charge $1 per month for bandwidth and pay no-one for the content. Even Netflix's house of cards is only profitable because only Netflix can distribute it. If Netflix could just stream Game of Thrones for free without paying HBO then everyone would do it through Netflix and skip the $15 / month to HBO too.
The only reason that Intellectual Property has ANY value is because of the monopoly it's granted on sales. Without it, nobody will produce anything that can't be directly monetized or else another very large corporation with powerful distribution channels will destroy them.
It's not even that extreme these days, you can get 4TB drives now. So we're down to 5 drives stacked in a closet.
I have about 6TB now on backblaze and haven't received a complaint. I don't know who "Just Cloud" is but it sounds like a rather small organization who resells cloud storage. Backblaze prides themselves on being truly unlimited as well as their efficiency. They probably would see the cost of storage less than the cost of the PR nightmare from all their bragging being undone by a policy that only affects a handful of clients.
Having a 20TB backup would be a marketing win. It might cost them a couple dollars per month but that's cheaper than even a small Google ad campaign.
As my Civil engineering friend would always point out though, gas taxes barely cover a small fraction of a road's expenses. Most DOT construction budgets come out of the general funds.
One thing I'm waiting to happen is when this becomes an international incident. How long is it before a North Korean defected to the south doesn't put a blocks of C4 onto a drone and orchestrate a prison break?
One drone to fly to and from the prison. Determine where every guard post is. $100k for 20 drones to take out guard towers and blast a path through the fences/walls.
Or even milder forms of activism such as dropping leaflets on prisoners.
I'm sure there are quite a few people more than happy to donate heavily to such a cause. And a few years after that the price will drop even more. We might have nearly untraceable proxy wars on our hands carried out by terrorists/vigilantes.
Numerous studies show that illegal immigrants use less net government services than the average citizen. They might not be filling out W-4s but they are paying sales tax and numerous other taxes while taking no refunds and generally avoiding government services (less they be discovered and deported).
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