26 karma · joined September 17, 2012
However for a startup to try to replicate the multibillion dollar infrastructure that is already in place there is silly, and the USPS won't do it because of federal laws that would need to change about opening mail.
Of course it would make the NSA happy as well ;)
All the media and reddit pictures are from the side of the protesters, a few pictures of people who get knocked in the head with a tear gas container != cops beating and shooting innocent people as they would have you believe.
Also from empirical evidence as an American who spent two weeks in Istanbul last year I've found the city and police to be totally welcoming and open ... to include bar crawls around taksim, walking 20 miles on foot through every nieghborhood in the city, to visiting some of the holiest artifacts in Islam at topkapi palace.
I'd like to see the other side of this... I understand the government has been culling the ranks of the top military to weaken their influence and push the Islamist agenda.. I do, but that said, turkey is not syria or iraq, it is a large cosmopolitan and wonderful country I would hate to see it destroyed.
Edit: I'll add for reference if it matters I'm a large, shaved headed and tattooed, obviously american man, who was a solo traveler.
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After six years of practicing, even a non specialized doctor will be at 200K with the lowest starting salaries around 140K. That is a fantastic amount of money when you consider that it is the lower end of the pay scale for doctors and that it will be a completely secure position in which you can work until death or retirement.
250K is a small price to entry into 8Million+ lifetime earnings.
Being highly successful in most fields is equated with 150K and beyond salary point, which comes with increased competition and no job security as you move up the ladder...I don't see this as being a bad deal at all, even for those totally self/debt funding.
Example a link to an article or PDF report of interest is Hijacked via this method (where the hover is correct but actual target is malicious) the user quickly hits the exploit site and is compromised/malware dropped while the exploit site displays a splash page of some sort briefly, it then forwards to the orig. destination.
I don't see the majority of non paranoid users detecting this, even if they are in the right mindset, as they end up at the proper site with nothing more than quick, and now ubiquitous, splash/ad page in between.
EDIT: I'm not necessarily advocating any change, this behavior can be tracked and blocked in a properly secured infrastructure, but this is where I see the potential for harm.
JSON is picky in this regard, and I don't want to convert the whole string to B64 etc encode/decode it going in and out, as I would like to retain regex search capability for the 99% of email titles and names which are not Chinese within mongo from my php application which lives on the front.
The add supported model is terrible for social networks and needs to go. If you can afford a computer, smartphone, etc. Then you can pay 5-20$/year for an account.
Free limited accounts for people <18 years old, which have limited access to adult content? (Idea, but may work to both hook future customers, and protect kids)
I can't be alone in this feeling, although I do feel a bit like the old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn..
I really can't stand this environment and