If your local DMV has an online appointment system, it's way better than it used to be with the old show-up-and-wait system. Was in and out within 15 minutes last time.

Nothing is stopping you from choosing to pay for your own healthcare in cash, out of pocket, ye olde free-market way.

Welcome to Enterprise IT.

Digging around, they do also seem to be working on a transport-level protocol with some of the main features of SPDY (fast multiplexed encrypted streams), called QUIC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC

That feels like a better solution than shoving it into HTTP. But I guess if they want quick adoption, it's a lot easier to upgrade the application layer than the transport layer. Especially if you're Google and control both ends of the application (several widely used servers and a widely used browser), but not the networking equipment in between. So I can see why, pragmatically, they would be pushing HTTP/2.0.

Sure, I did not mean to suggest Confucianism always provides optimal results (for whatever optimum one may be seeking). I only meant that misunderstanding deference to one's elders may not be an issue of hate.

That said, my experience with this aspect of Confucianism--of being deferential to one's elders--has little to do with wisdom. It's simply the way hierarchy is established and observed among Koreans. Many times, younger Koreans will complain to their same-age peers when selfish, greedy, and foolish elders are not present to be offended.

For example, when an elder asks juniors to work with little to no compensation, the younger group may (will!) grouse about how greedy and insufferable the elder is (a direct confrontation is likely to cause drama and this, too, happens very frequently). Confucianism can "prescribe" roles for both inter- and intragenerational behavior, in this case bonding members of one group while enabling the "superior" to extract a profit.

Not to say such roles are good or bad. My take is that Confucianism produces a different set of cultural effects than, say, Western Individualism. Declaring one approach to be "better" than the other is not the same as trying to understand and describe how different ideologies condition cultural behavior.

Impeachment is basically political; if Congress impeaches and convicts the President, the courts won't hear an appeal even on the grounds that it was baseless and certainly wouldn't try to reseat the former President.

Morality of the person taking the data, very possibly. But clearly I was responding to the claim that if the *organization* is moral that will simply solve the problem, which is obviously untrue in the case of an immoral (and/or greedy, etc) employee/insider.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons that could be the fault of the organization (shady immoral/practices, poor treatment of employees, etc) but for every one of those I could also provide an example that is not (or mostly not) their fault: industrial espionage (there are people out there who would just have no problem stealing from their employer for a large payoff if they don't think they will be caught), political differences (also plenty of insiders/double agents/what have you on ALL sides who have been stealing secrets from governments and businesses for ideology as much as money), or just plain sociopathic behavior (unfortunate hiring decision, I suppose, but it happens - but watch out when trying to *justifiably* fire that person...).

I think you drastically underestimate the number of data leaks due to just plain greed or other personal motivation vs. "whistleblowing" - I would bet the former is much more common.

It reads almost like they reimplemented all of TCP inside of HTTP, complete with stream set-up and teardown, queuing, congestion control, etc. Why not just use... TCP to manage multiple streams?

Not particularly bloated or slow to parse, especially on modern hardware. HTTP/2.0, which is basically a minorly tweaked version of Google SPDY, doesn't even claim speedups more than about 10%.

You're right that Confucianism is not the only ideology that inculcates hierarchical deferentiality. However, the types of behavior that prevail in hierarchies in the (general) US context are distinct from the deference to one's elders that prevails among Koreans (and Korean Americans) who have been raised with Confucian principles.

I can't speak to whether Confucianism contributed to any human error for Asiana Flight 214, but I do know that Confucianism will frequently allow poor judgements rendered by elder persons to carry over the (often unexpressed) better judgements of younger people.

According to MetaFilter user backseatpilot:

According to the recorded meteorological reports (METARs), the weather was good and the airport was conducting visual operations, which means the pilots use their view out the cockpit window to approach and land. However, the NTSB is probably going to be investing [sic] this Notice to Airmen (NOTAM):

06/005 (A1056/13) - NAV ILS RWY 28L GP U/S. 01 JUN 14:00 2013 UNTIL 22 AUG 23:59 2013. CREATED: 01 JUN 13:40 2013

The Instrument Landing System (ILS) for runway 28L has been out of service since June 1. What that means for a pilot flying is unclear right now; if the pilots were trying to use the ILS as supplementary guidance for their visual approach it may have simply not worked (red flag shows up on the panel and no information is given), or it may give erroneous information with no indication that the system is not working. I can see a situation (and this is PURE SPECULATION) with a flight crew with little experience flying into SFO, not checking the NOTAMs or forgetting them, flying the approach with an ILS giving false readings, getting distracted in the cockpit for one reason or another, and suddenly half the plane is floating in the bay.

My sense (IANAP) is an automatic landing would not have been possible given that the Instrument Landing System for runway 28L has been out os service since 1 June.

As someone who is half Korean and was raised in an household where respect for one's elders was taught, I would not necessarily say the GP is expressing a racist opinion as much as an ethnocentric opinion.

Both racism and ethnocentrism can have negative effects, but ethnocentrism is not always coupled with hate.

Also, at any one time, there can only be two evil game developers allowed.

I'm not advocating being an asshole for no cause. I have sympathy for the poor bastard on the phone -- I've been on that side of the line. But because I've been on that side of the line, I know when he's trying to blow me off, which is ALWAYS. That guy is there to make you go away. The only way to get anything done is to escalate past him as fast as you can. And the quickest way to do that is to be angry at him. His script says if you're clearly pissed off and demand to talk to a manager, he sends you to a manager.

Sure you're taking a big crap in the middle of a day of a guy whose life involves 6-10 people an hour taking a big crap on him, but his stats demand that he answer 6-10 calls an hour. If you really need something fixed you could argue with him for 20 minutes or you could get pissed off with him in the first three and let him get on to the next guy in line to take a crap on him. Sure you're being an asshole, but it really is best for everyone involved. You get to someone with the power to fix your thing, he gets to keep his shitty ass job for another day. Hooray!

This map doesn't have any force of law, though, unlike the sex offender registry. You are not required to register yourself on the map each time you move, for example.