I'm an introvert but I also understand it goes both ways. Some of my extroverted friends may need me to swing the pendulum more their way as well. It may be uncomfortable and draining for me to be that outgoing or engaged, but I think back to the situations in which I made a conscious effort to do so -- I seem to have grown a little bit each time I did.
I'm not AT&T's "partner", I'm their customer. I pay them for service. I shouldn't have to find the optimal path through their system to get things done. Move to a different ISP, plain and simple. There's no reason the customer should be inconvenienced because they can't get their act together. It seems like a no-brainer to me, especially since some ISP's will give heavy discounts to jump ship from their competitors.
Then perhaps I'm missing something. Clarify for me, were you ever an employee there? The reason I ask is because it's on a website for employees to review their own company -- which is how most people interpret those reviews. Moreover, the review says it's from a Netflix employee -- specifically a Netflix Manager. I guess it's fine if you have an opinion and want to post it, but if none of the above is true, why not be honest in your review that it isn't based on experience?
Maybe I'm making a large assumption here, but since you're doing web development you presumably have access to their site. Why not just remove your code from the site until they pay you?
That 10% is the broader unemployment rate and includes all occupations. I believe the latest stats from the BLS peg unemployment among software developers at about 4%. Most good developers are gainfully employed, it's up to you to entice them away from what they're currently doing.
I think applying that degree of psychological analysis to such a trivial situation is a bit insulting to people who actually suffer from genuine rejection. What you're saying could be said about any closed beta that Google has done for any of their products. I have yet to meet or hear about anybody emotionally scarred from those experiences. Have you?
I think you're reading way to much into it. It's free. Nothing more, nothing less. People get excited at the thought of free stuff, especially something like a laptop. If someone is so emotionally unstable that they feel socially rejected because a complete stranger got picked for a beta test instead of them, they have bigger issues going on -- it's not because an application process exists.
The CIA / U.S. military have been involved with electronic warfare for a long time. I would disagree and say they're at least as innovative and perfectly capable of carrying out something like this. If it was a US operation though, I would probably add the NSA to the mix as well, since they likely would have had involvement at some point in the process. In either scenario though, it would likely involve contractors of some sort, if only for the specialized Siemens knowledge that would be required.
Dollar bills are actually made from more than just wood pulp, they also include cotton, silk and linen -- along with red/blue fibers inserted to create texture.
According to the federal reserve, bills have the following lifespan before they wear out:
That's a pretty harsh characterization of their motivation. I'm guessing when you're standing on the top of that summit you establish a connection with nature that you can't get from simply running a marathon. I'd absolutely celebrate anybody who achieves that. The world needs more people who are willing to step so far out of their comfort zone to achieve seemingly impossible things.
The text of the bill says you need to initiate the investment prior to December 31st, not realize the gains from it -- and from that point, they must be held for five years. Am I reading that wrong?
Interesting analogy. However, what if you're handing out a dollar bill to everyone as they enter your store, but then they're coming in and buying your product?
That's more how I view the Google situation. They make these profitless attempts at getting people on their sites, which then generates massive amounts of advertising profits for them.
One thing you have to understand about Google is that they're a technology company at their core, unlike Microsoft and Apple which have turned into product companies. Google is very much focused on creating the best technology, which they then apply in support of their single source of revenue right now, which is advertising.
So although YouTube does not generate revenue, perhaps that was never the goal. Perhaps YouTube provided them the opportunity to strengthen their technology that supports advertising. This can be said about many Google ventures right now including Android, Google Voice, and more. These other projects are unlikely to generate significant revenue in and of themselves, but so long as they draw people to the Google platform and the technology enhances their ability to generate more revenue for their core advertising, I think the company considers them a win.
As one example, if you read The Snowball (the biography about Warren Buffett), it's a really interesting look at the individual, specific decisions he made throughout his life. It's narrated as a timeline, so you can see how each decision he made impacted him 10 or 20 years down the road.
It would depend on how Wikileaks designed their AWS infrastructure. Amazon's policies are specific to the territory in which they operate. They obey the local laws for the data they will store on their hardware and will only comply with local laws. For example, if you provision your services in the EU-Ireland region, it is governed by the laws of the EU, not by the United States. That being said, I don't know the specifics of the laws with regards to each of the different AWS regions.
I'm not sure this is even realistic given the multitude of laws you would have to overcome. For starters, you would have to change state laws to make this work. Many states currently outlaw private lotteries, in an effort to maintain a monopoly on government run lotteries.
Although these are both turns off for someone using the API, I don't think it's the empty forums or the flex platform that are deterring people. It's the expensive pricing.
I think you're right with regards to US agencies. I'll be more interested to see what happens if he releases damaging information against less tolerant governments, i.e. the Russians.
I'm not suggesting they assassinate him. He's broken numerous laws and they have a pretty compelling case against him.
I can't imagine that the public relations fallout from his arrest would be any worse than the public relations disaster they have with the release of these cables.
What surprises me most is that Julian Assange has lasted this long. This isn't OBL, where he's living in a cave somewhere -- this guy is known to travel between first world countries. I can understand those countries may not be willing to hand him over, but the US has lots of experience with rendition and I'm surprised some three-letter agency hasn't snatched him up yet.