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The article claims that they can hold you indefinitely if you do not turn over your password. What could happen if I smashed my phone?

To play Devil's Advocate, there is no downvote option so it's hard to gauge just how much folks care about a given article.

Well TFA says he was on a guided tour, so I imagine he wanted to get a better sense of what the support folks have to go through. We do something similar at work, where you can do a "ride along" to get a better idea of what folks using our internal tools needs are.

Can I get some further reading or a citation on that? That really runs counter to every thing I've been hearing. Insofar as I can tell, my prospects as a "millennial" are shit. I've definitely heard that expected lifetime is going down. I'm also not sure how "spending" is going up if "disposable income" is down. Especially when there was something posted the other day about how folks are earning less than their parents.

> Population growth has stalled in 1st world countries and living standards are continuing to rise.

For whom exactly? Insofar as I'm aware, the current situation seems to be the exact opposite. Things are trending downward.

Your schema might sit in code, but you've got to reinvent the wheel on all sorts of validations and guarantees your database would provide. Whether you have queues and APIs is irrelevant, your persistent store should be a strong one.

If we're telling DDR jokes, I always loved the joke from Das Leben der Anderen[0]:

Honecker walks into his office, looks out the window and says "Good morning, dear sun!" and the sun replies "Good morning Erich!"

At lunch Honecker walks to the window and says "Good afternoon, dear sun!", and the sun replies "Good afternoon Erich!"

Finally, at the end of the day Honecker walks to his window and says "Good evening, dear sun!". But the sun doesn't say anything, so he says once more "Good evening, dear sun! Is something wrong?". The sun finally replies, "Kiss my ass I'm in the west now!"

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg

So your theory is that lack of political buy-in from the populace, exacerbated by our access to technology and thus free information?

If that is the case, again, I contest that the real issue was fighting an unwinnable war for no real reason. Having a true, blue enemy to fight is an important difference. A war with China would be a Nazi Germany situation, whereas Iraq / Afghanistan were clearly a Vietnam.

> You're assuming that what made the Iraq/Afghanistan invasions different from previous wars was the opponent

Is that not the case? What does technology have to do with these cases?

America dealt with Germany in a conventional manner, and could have done so to Japan in a conventional manner. At the time America decided it would be expedient to use a brand new destructive device that the world has more or less collectively decided not to use in a first-strike capacity.

The intent in asking the question is why does the preceding commenter feel a war with China would look like an Afghanistan as opposed to a Germany?

My point is that a war with China would resemble a more traditional war as opposed to an insurgent conflict as in Iraq or Afghanistan. Why would we assume fighting a proper nation state would resemble fighting random lots of terrorists with varying agendas?

If we could deal with Japan and Germany, why not China? What makes China more comparable to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Edit: Since I'm getting downvoted there's obviously some issue with the question which I'd love to hear. What makes the situation more comparable to our recent quagmires and not more "traditional" and, in my mind comparable, situations with Germany and Japan?

I've had fresh Windows 10 (no crapware) installs on two different development machines at two different companies. Both times it was slower than hell, and I immediately asked for a Linux install.

Perhaps this is me finally getting old and curmedgeony at the ripe old age of twenty-three, but I'll be damned if I'm switching my personal computer away from Windows 7 anytime soon.

There are more ways to be predated on that do not involve being eaten.

< predated on, starve to death, and die from trivially preventable issues.

Sounds profound until you realize we are too.

Would it not be possible to have relevant domain experts as a part of the relevant organization working in tandem with the actual "force" of some sort of white label federal law enforcement? I realize police work involves more than kicking in doors and shooting bad guys, but surely most of these organizations do not need folks running around with guns.

I don't know what the criterion is for not leaving a package, but it typically seems that UPS or FedEx will leave a package whereas USPS will not. Even for trivial, cheap packages like a roll of posters, USPS will leave a dreaded pink slip requiring me to visit the post office. While I have had that happen with UPS, those incidents are few and far in between. For me leaving the package is often the difference between getting it or not.

I will say, I usually work from home if I'm expecting something important and that UPS often does not seem to knock or if they do they've hired the world's quietest knockers. Perhaps they think I'm not home since I have a concealed driveway and just don't bother, but it definitely seems their high expectations do have some drawbacks.

This accounts for our federal / state / local breakdown, but what is a legitimate question is why does the FDA or IRS need a law enforcement division? Why can't there be a federal law enforcement division that works on behalf of federal agencies with a need?

Lukas Eder, creator of jOOQ and a bit of a SQL wizard. Definitely upped my SQL reading things he's either written or retweeted. As a Hibernate refugee, jOOQ is a godsend.

I wouldn't mind having a cable package again if it weren't for all the ads. I'm simply not going to pay for a service for it to inject ads into my experience, and that includes cable television.

Or you pay a hefty tax penalty. Hardly "free"

> because they believed efforts to vaccinate against polio were in fact an attempt to poison Muslims

Or more likely a terrorist organization in those countries started such rumors to turn public sentiment against the west. Oh, and then the USG used a vaccination program to attempt to track down terrorists, which played a role in the take-down of Osama Bin Laden.

It's fair to say that there are compromised NGOs, based on the OBL incident alone.

No, it's unrealistic and doesn't happen so let's stop pretending it does.

Nice in theory, doesn't work in practice. At least growing up where I did, a lot of the "slow" kids weren't slow. They just didn't give a fuck and would disrupt the class. No one needs to "learn" to deal with that bullshit. I don't have to deal with disruptive assholes in the real world.

Except all rhetoric I see involving privilege is ultimately about me having to keep my mouth shut about real issues or concede benefit to another, all because I'm a white guy. In fact I didn't inherit wealth or any "privilege", but I'm meant to feel as though I did something wrong by virtue of my skin color. You may not say "feel bad" but the type to use that word sure are.

So what is the point? I have "privilege", now what?

> simply because they know nothing else.

So lemme get this straight, if my ancestors worked hard to provide for their families and I, down the line, inherit some land or money I should feel bad about this? Why?

I'm waiting for our local CECs to get shut down. Every six months or so it seems there's another dust up, and we've even had several(!) shootings[0][1] at our two local joints.

[0] - http://counton2.com/2016/05/28/one-person-injured-in-north-c...

[1] - http://www.postandcourier.com/archives/calls-reveal-panic-fe...

IntelliJ is free for the community edition, but that one is limited in it's features. If you're doing anything web, you'll want the paid-for edition. However if you're just working on some Java SE, you could use the free version.

The big drawback with C# is being handcuffed to a Microsoft ecosystem, and will still probably be for a while. I also wonder how the Java ecosystem of tooling and available libraries looks compared to C#.