Isn't it amazing that you're in all the racist threads.
Oh yes, I'm sure you have so much interesting stuff to tell us about why you're a racist. Here I was thinking you're a normal immigrant-hater but you're a Jew-hater as well. You're like a master racist. A true virtuoso of vitriol.
Do you primarily hate Jews because they steal Christian babies, or because they conspire to keep the white man down? Do you hate foreigners for their swarthy good looks and their large ... hands, or do you hate them because they took your job? I'm sure the biggest thing you fear isn't your sister being hurt by an immigrant, it's her being seduced by an immigrant. When you get violent with the immigrant prostitutes you solicit, is it fear that you aren't really that different that causes the rage? Or is the rage always there because they're keeping you from achieving your white destiny?
You're so complex, with so much to share. A font of limitless wisdom.
Working in a cloud company all of us are pretty conscious of the cycles we consume in our architecture and the resources we consume on our client's machines. If we accidentally ran our debug code fleet-wide I'm sure we'd single-handedly bring more than a few coal peaker-plants online to handle the surge.
But our motivation is our customer's happiness and our pocketbook. For an advertiser you aren't the customer, you're the cattle.
So your adblocker is actually saving the world. One drop of oil at a time.
If that's the case it's your responsibility to go over their head, all the way if necessary - as it would be for an engineer whose boss said to use Balsa wood for a support instead of steel.
It can be 67 years at the whim of the DA. The maximum punishment is very real and they're just itching to use it.
If it was an unbiased roll of the dice that would be one thing, and the average and the distribution would be meaningful. But when it's arbitrary it doesn't matter what anyone else got, only what you'll get. And if you have any complaints about your treatment, etc, you're immediately in the full-penalty group.
Everything I've read says the judge is the one who applies the sentencing guidelines. Prosecuting attorneys don't sentence people, as far as I'm aware.
So what happens when someone who's actually informed about sentencing guidelines tells a DA they don't believe the whole "if you don't plead you're facing ten million years in prison" thing?
You're the one who thinks you're informed, and that a judge would overrule the DA if they got out of hand, so I suggest you go find out.
I'm pretty much in the camp that the DA would fuck you up and the police and judge would all be in on it. Try telling a cop what the law is, especially if you're right...
The managers of this hypothetical software company would surely complain if their cars were remotely disabled because the manufacturer wanted to sell a new model. Similarly their customers should complain (via the courts) when the product they bought is remotely disabled to force them to upgrade.
As a sibling poster points out, running a license server is a trivial expense and if you require it for your product you should budget to keep it running. It's roughly $400 for a perpetuity paying $20/y to run the server indefinitely.
I completely agree - but hopefully if the management knows what they are doing in 2002 they don't sell a license that gives the buyer perpetual right to use the software (they can't guarantee that so long as the maintenance of license servers is required. Having a perpetual license is basically an infinite future expense even if the cost is trivial.)
> Having a perpetual license is basically an infinite future expense even if the cost is trivial.
It's a one-time expense if budgeted properly. Buy a perpetuity to cover it. If you ever discontinue the service you can release an unlimited copy of the software and recover the value of the perpetuity.
No, this isn't. If that was your worry you especially wouldn't use proprietary software where the issue is much more prevalent. As others point out, you could pay FOSS maintainers if you wanted to.
Instead, people who don't use X make up excuses as to why not, rather than simply saying they like Y. If you like AutoCAD, use it.
In taking customer feedback it's important to only ask potential customers, not people who'd never use your product anyways. Even if their feedback is honest it won't help with what you're doing.
It's not a religious question - the same thing would come up if you wanted to setup a large electric train set, or hold a dance class, or anything, and then refused to return the space to its original state.
There are no (few) formal rules, just the weight on inconvenience. By physical necessity only one person can work with a tool at once so as long as you share nobody minds being temporarily without, but if you do something like take all the tools at once you're inconveniencing everyone and people will complain.
If you box up all the tools and move them out of the room you're inconveniencing all others who'd work in that area. If there are less of you than them, or if you're doing things you could do in any other space, you'll rightly be asked to move because it inconveniences you less than the people trying to do hacky things with the tools.
And leaving the space setup in your way is rude unless you're coming right back. Nobody minds if you run to the washroom but if you go to 7-11 for snacks you'll come back to find your tools in use at another station. If you go home for the night, you'll get complained to when you come back in the morning.
> In other words: these meditation practices hack the mind.
Sure sure, but to they need the whole room to be left unusable by other hobbies to do so? Can't they hack the mind in the corner and clean up after themselves?
> The Bodhisattva ideal has this streak of radical inclusiveness too. There's something here that might benefit both groups.
In the monks refusing to cleanup? "Oh, I don't do my dishes because it radically includes others in my cycle of life, peace brother."
> How effective are they? Can you measure happiness? To what extent can technology help or hinder this? Wouldn't you want to know?
Oh god no, just do the bloody dishes and quit trying to dodge the issue.
This is all just being thrown out as some weird excuse for space-dominating actions and making the space less comfortable for everyone.
That's addressing a very different issue. May I assume you were there back then when this happened, and this was one of the issues that came up within the community?
I've been around NB a fair bit, but never seen the monks.
> > "When the dishes are clean, we can talk."
> That's addressing a very different issue.
That's the generic answer to people who won't cleanup after themselves. Room setup and tool positions are a bit abstract but everyone understands dirty dishes. And everyone recognizes the type of person who always tries to play the X-card (religion in this case) to avoid cleaning up after themselves.
There's always some esoteric reason why they and their activities are special, but relating it to dishes usually cuts through the special and gets to the mundane - nobody wants to pick up after you to use the space.
