The problem is the people in general. They do not want to be inconvenienced, burdened, overly taxed, or told they have to go without something they are already taking for granted while wealthy and rich people gets to still enjoy it. It is a step backwards in society from any rational sense of reality.

This is why the governments who are concerned should not be trying to force more expensive tech onto people, they should not be trying to tax them in hopes that someone will get fed up and create a better alternative before replacing the government and ignoring their concerns. The governments, the UN, all those concerned, should be investing in direct research to make cleaner alternatives and perhaps even cleaner fossil energy sources that are both cost competitive and safe which could be implemented by any country at little to no royalty costs. If instead of Kyoto requiring countries to tax energy use in excess of so much emissions or penalizing some countries while ignoring others (Seriously, out of 157 or so countries, only 37 had limits on carbon emissions and of those 2 had limits they would reach in the future) and instead put as much effort and attention into researching and developing energy sources that would effectively meet those goals while being cost competitive, we would likely not be talking about this right now. We would likely either realize there isn't good alternatives or be instituting them as they are more productive and profitable.

But it would seem that everything done is for some other agenda. You can see those agendas if you look around enough.

You are correct, poorly trained admins will net poorly secured systems with the same or similar horrible mistakes.

However, you are glossing over what was actually said in order to make those statements as if it was some overriding truth. The problem is that windows exposes to much of the underlying systems to programs running so exploits in power point or outlook can infect the entire machine kernel and spread to the servers via internal network support infrastructure (domain controller functions). Now much has been done in more recent versions to limit this but it still remains true for the most part.

Part of this is because programmers write bad code to sell cheap software to people who are familiar with the ease of use of windows. In fact, this is likely why it is the most common OS out there- because it is so easy to write software and do things in that people see it as just working. Its that layer of ease which makes it easy to be exploited. Almost every anti-virus company out there worth a salt, will have complex (and sometimes simple) methods of virus removal you can look up and follow for when a virus gets past their products. It is simply impossible to completely secure windows or linux and still have a usable machine but it is easier to limit vulnerabilities on a linux or Mac system currently. This could change if they get more popular or do something stupid in the future or if malware writers decide to focus more and more on these smaller platforms. This is also why Adobe and Java was such a target for the longest of times. Cross platform and complete access.

I'm not sure a 16 year old driver is the best driver out there and I think that was his point. They can get the job done, but have accidents and close calls because they are inexperienced. In a lot of areas, a 16 year old driver is also limited in how many people can be in the vehicle with them and when they can drive (night verses day and so on).

This is so true. I do a lot of driving and do not know how many times I have come across road crews that closed a lane down for something. Sometimes there is another lane in the same direction and it is just a matter of merging but sometimes you have to go into oncoming traffic lanes while they stop and meter the flow. Also, we still hear reports of people driving into lakes or on to parks and pedestrian paths because their GPS said to turn here or had to recalculate.

And I also agree with the ABS. I was unfortunate enough to have one of those early cars and I had to pull the fuse to the ABS unit if it was slick at all out. I live in a northern area which means quite a bit of winter snow and ice as well as grit and sand at intersections to remedy the snow and ice. When you would brake, if one tire slipped or the sensors were dirty or something and it just thought it slipped just a little, it would increase your stopping distance by about 15-30 foot. Imagine your dismay when approaching an intersection and the car's computer causes you to stop on the other side of it after appearing to being able to stop before the intersection. And good luck parking, it could actually allow you to roll past your space and into some obstacle like another parked car or a cement parking block or wall or iron pipes filled with concrete to stop people from driving further or something because it would release your brakes to regain traction even at 3mph if it thought one tire was slipping.

The ABS systems are much better now. But at one time, you were better off without it at all if you knew how to drive in slick conditions. The early versions basically pumped your brakes for you, the newer versions can do it per wheel and just enough to remedy the slipping on the affected wheel(s).

As is often the case, it's a little more complicated than that.

The French appreciate standardization and conformity more that Americans. Where Americans would care about getting a job done, the French care about doing the job correctly. Along with that, there is a distaste for frivolity and absurdity when those aren't the matter at hand.

> China didn't receive any fucking foreign aid from nobody

They actually received billions in foreign aid, cash from the US and subsidized loans from Japan. Aid to China has dropped dramatically over the last 30 years, but USAID is still sending taxpayer money to China to subsidize their green energy industry. At the same time, the US is suing China for illegal subsidies to their solar industry, which violate trade agreements.

So the current standard operating procedure in the US is:

Make a trade deal woth China agreeing to no subsidies to companies engaged in international trade.
Borrow money from China.
Give that money back to China, on the condition that they use it to subsidize green energy companies.
Sue them for subsidizing the green energy companies.

It usually doesn't work that way. Typically thos old men are willing to kill and oppress for those ideals. Blood will run in the streets before they loose their jobs.

I agree with one exception....

The police should have less rights than an ordinary citizen when acting in their official capacity. Our rights guaranteed in the constitution are protections from government intrusions and the police are government plain and clear. The people however have more leeway in some matters that government is expressly prohibited in or limited unless certain hoops are cleared first.

That's what I've always done, grown each business slowly, organically. I've since learned that there are two types of companies that work well - tiny ones that basically provide the owner with a job, and larger ones run by a management team.

    What I did for far too long was deal with payroll, unemployment taxes, health insurance, sick leave, etc for two employees. That was a mistake. I should have chosen to either stick with just me and a part time helper, or make the jump to six or eight employees. That jump requires a leap of faith, some investment and a marketing campaign. Not making that leap meant that the business was dependent on one or two long -term employees who occasionally get sick, leave the company, etc.

Be tiny for a while until you figure out what you're doing. That may mean doing your business and a day job for a little while until the business provides you with a full-time income. Once it pays you $60,000 / year, then decide to either stay at that level or increase revenue by 500% quickly. Especially after the changes in the last six years, being an employer takes a lot of time and effort. Make it worthwhile. Do a POC by working it by yourself first, though.

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No script tag there.

How about if I enter scrscriptipt? When you remove "script" from the middle, you end up with - script.

Removing stuff will pretty much never work. You have to htmlencode the output.

> searching the whole site, I was unable to find a single example of a successful "assembly." Not good after "a year of operation."

I saw two of four projects were turning a profit, which would mean paying dividends to contributors.

Even if you're going to pick a common word, it is another mistake to pick a word that has a commonly understood meaning specific to that industry. If the had picked any random word, such as Donkey, they could defend a trademark for Donkey programming or Donkey software. Can't quite claim a trademark for assembly programming - assembly programming has been around for decades.

Gays can't have kids?

I'm pretty sure they can. Here is a hint. love means nothing in this context as child birth is a utility or tool to achieve an end- not the natural progression of opposite sexes mating.

"critical thinking skills", I do not think that means what you think it means. You have brought it up several times now seemingly to indicate you do not agree with something that someone has said or done. That would be completely wrong. You further seem to suggest that a lack of critical thinking skills would lead someone to actually applying them "internalize Republican nonsense" as if being dismissive without using your critical thinking skills was in and of itself critical thinking skills.

That may float in your little circle but everyone else is seeing the failure in logic you seem to be suffering.

I could do that. Of course I already have both Firefox and Chrome installed anyway, but there is no "install a separate browser for one plugin".

In this particular case, either way is probably fine. For security I tend to think in terms of principles, though. Which is a better principle
a) Open a hole, and put a bandaid over the hole
b) Don't open a hole

Hint - Windows does a lot of choice a).