Android: Cerberus.
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I remember a couple of years ago the guy that came to the Bay Area for the google interview and stopped in to see someone in Oakland the night before and was shot dead. Or, the old man that was killed by someone on the street hitting him so hard. Or, the kid that was paralyzed while getting a music lesson because some shot off a gun during a robbery.
In the past, the crime in the bad areas of Oakland didn't bleed out to the nicer areas. I predicted this after the 2008 crash. I knew once the economy crashed, it wouldn't take long for the very large numbers of uneducated, jobless, young men in the bad parts of Oakland to realize their meal ticket was walking around in the nicer areas of town. Piedmont, surrounded on all sides by Oakland, has been hit by an increase in robberies, many of which are home invasion style. I was talking with a friend the other day who knows a lawyer that is defending some of the people in the gang (Easy Money Team... what a name, but it gives you insight into their thinking). They're all 14-20ish, with parents about 14 yrs or so older than them.
There is a lack of opportunity, but the black community needs to address some of their problems, at least one of which is cultural: it is uncool for kids to succeed through academics, it is very cool for kids to succeed via sports or rap music or dancing. Until it is cool to do well in school, and that starts with the parents, this problem will only get worse.
For those that want to label me a racist: there are studies that back up what I said. There was a prominent researcher that died recently, but not before writing a scathing article about this problem. There was an article about him and his research in the East Bay Express. I forget his name. It was eye opening.
When we have visitors we always walk them by there, if it's sunny, to show them the effect. I don't think, in this case, it's enough to melt car parts, but it's a good 30+F over the ambient temperature.
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I will never buy an electronic copy for more than a paperback. Ever. I've actually written to published to complain about it.
Not an arrest, but pretty fucked up. You seem to lack a lot of historical context.
But it is certainly a precondition. Just like "free speech zones" after the Iraq war and during the run up to the 2004 presidential election.
Let's not kid ourselves: we won't awaken in a fascist state. It will be like the frog boiled alive, the ratchet will be turned ever so slowly, but the march is definitely in the direction of fascism. How long will it take? Will it ever happen? We can't say now, but the last 12 years have had an alarming number of movements in the wrong direction.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend this route, either. I read an article in The New Yorker about body parts harvested from cadavers that were used in transplants. The parts were way past their harvest-by date. This was discovered, at least partially, by someone having an ACL transplant from one of this bad parts, and the recipient of the bad part died from bad infection due to a mold on the tendon.
The lack of controls on that business forever made me wary of using cadaver parts for transplants.
This can also be an indicator of rampant abuse. That is, too many people work at home and don't work much. In my experience, even in small companies, there's a lot of me-too-ism with WFH, which leads to people asking for and being approved to work at home, when they really shouldn't be. Over time, this can lead to a measurable drop in productivity.
I installed Classic Shell pretty soon after upgrading from Windows 7. It was either that or destroy my computer in frustration.
I still get the odd "ooops, what key combo did I press that activated tablet mode!?!?!" It usually takes me a minute or two to get back to a "normal" situation (where I can see the windows on my desktop).
I do have this very annoying bug, though: about once a month, the Z order gets completely messed up. Alt-tab doesn't go to the previous window and goes to "show the desktop". The only fix: logout and login again. Very frustrating.