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The Cloud Dwellers
Uncertainty and struggle are what we most often associate with poverty. Not knowing if you can still afford to pay next month's bills and worrying over how much more you can cut back when you're already barely getting by. This way of life has become more associated with the middle class than with those at the very bottom.
The statistic that shows that average black household worth is at $4,955 while average white household worth is at $110,729 is often quoted, but these numbers are not comparing similar things. Comparing the naked numbers is as misleading as comparing the average salaries in Tokyo and Bombay. What matters is not how much money you have, but how you live.
The $110,729 and $4,955 don't reflect different standards of living; but different ways of living. Much of that $110,729 is home equity. But why do you need to shoulder the burden of a mortgage, when the government will just give you housing for free?
It's misleading to think of the $110,729 families as privileged and of the $4,955 families as oppressed.
The $110,729 and $4,955 families both have large flat screen televisions, smartphones and the usual baseline consumer toys. They could both eat equally well, except that the $4,955 family doesn't bother watching its food budget. It just takes whatever it wants off the shelf and worries about prices later.
In terms of personal satisfaction, the $4,955 family is happier than the $110,729 family.
To understand this, think of the "Cloud". You can buy a laptop powerful enough to store all your programs and data. Or you can get by with a mobile device whose apps connect online to a "Cloud" of someone else's servers which store your data. The laptop is heavier to carry than the mobile device, but makes you more independent. Or you can just live in the "Cloud" confident that no matter how you mess up your device; your data will be backed up.
America is being divided between the workers and the dwellers in the government cloud.
The $110,729 families are independent while the $4,955 families are living in the cloud. Their cloud is "Social Capital". Social Capital is their support system within their extended families and the government. Instead of using real capital, they use the collective Social Capital of family resources and government aid.
The $110,729 family pays for everything. The $4,955 family pays for very little. The $110,729 family earns and saves money because that is its medium of exchange which it uses to obtain food, shelter and clothing. The $4,955 family uses money for luxury goods like televisions or sneakers. It doesn't need to save money because cash is just bonus points. Its necessities like food, medicine and shelter are covered by the social capital of the government.
The $4,955 family is single parent, but is built around a large extended family, mostly female, and mostly on various government benefits. That family is capable of providing valuable aid, not just in government money, but also by babysitting and helping out at home.
That extended family is one reason why Clan $4,955 has 5 to 8 kids, while the mother of the two-parent $110,729 household is tearing her hair out trying to figure out how to manage two kids and a full-time job. The $110,729 household doesn't have much of an extended family. Their grandparents live somewhere else and are enjoying their retirement. They pitch in sometimes, but not nearly as much as their own parents did, and they have their own financial problems.
The $110,729 family is isolated while the $4,955 family is part of a social network that extends through a dozen female relatives to the entire government. Is it any wonder that the $4,955 family also has much less worries and is living an existence more associated with 19th century fantasies about an indolent Polynesian paradise than the grim modern day struggles of the $110,729 family living in the house they don't own and worrying what will happen to their standard of living if they lose their jobs tomorrow?
The $4,955 family has a lot of kids. Its kids, in traditional Third World style, are disposable. If a few go down, there will be public tears and wailing, but there will be a bunch of others left. Clan $4,955 doesn't do helicopter parenting or hover over Shane Apple Buckbaum-Cleavens and worry about how he's going to get into Harvard when the waiting list for a private kindergarten is so long. The $4,955 family's kids are disposable. They bring in money to the family in the form of benefits, then they drop out of school, hang around causing trouble until they marry, drift to another city or go to jail.
Their parents cry over them, a lot, but they don't invest too much in them because no single child represents their future.
The offspring of the $4,955 family are more likely to be shot, stabbed, locked up or die of a drug overdose, but the $110,729 family is more likely to be left childless. It's almost completely certain that the $4,955 family will extend into the third generation and will be several times larger. Meanwhile the $110,729 family may not even have a third generation or its third generation may see the four grandparents shrink down to two or three grandchildren.
Since the $110,729 family is actually funding the lifestyle of the $4,955 family, that's a problem, but it's a problem that no one talks about. And when social capital gets tight, Medicare for the $110,729 family's grandpa is more likely to be cut than the endless community grants that help keep the $4,955 family and all their many kids comfortable and voting Democrat early and often.
The $110,729 family is responsible. It understands that money is finite and that the government can only do so much. The $4,955 family doesn't understand that and won't accept it and has a lot more free time and energy to do something about it. The $110,729 family looks at a variety of factors before voting. The $4,955 family is practical, it looks only at its own bottom line.
No money, no vote.
On paper, the $4,955 family is poor. But so were the Polynesian beach combers. Poverty is relative. From the perspective of a white male capitalist, the $4,955 family is ridiculously poor, but its life is actually comfortable and worry-free compared to the $110,729 family.
On paper, the $4,955 family is poor. But in a society where hundreds of billions of dollars go into funding social capital, the old dollar-and-cent household values no longer apply.
A 1913 family that had less than 5% of the net worth of the average household would have been living a grim existence complete with patched clothing, hungry children and a ramshackle hut that they were paying an outrageous weekly rent for. But a 2013 family with 5% of the net worth has just dropped out and is letting the average household carry it.
There are still plenty of working poor in America, but the broken families that pad out the bottom of that $4,955 statistic rarely work for a living. They work for extras. Social capital has freed them of the need to work for anything except luxuries. And when they work, they don't pay taxes, usually they get someone else's taxes back as Earned Income Credits.
On paper, the $110,729 family has an impressive household worth, but much of that worth comes from a mortgaged home that it is struggling to keep up the payments on. The $4,955 family lives in a housing project that they can't lose no matter how many payments they miss on their high interest credit cards. If the payments get too hard, they'll drop $199 on a hole-in-the-wall lawyer to declare bankruptcy.
The middle class has become the new poor. The old economic uncertainties of the households at the bottom of the ladder have fallen squarely on it-- with none of the sympathy, which is still reserved for their welfare wards.
The middle class is trapped by its own aspirations. Those aspirations are weighed down by a political system that exists for the benefit of the upper and lower classes. Though the middle class still has the majority of the vote, it has the least political influence because it has the least disposable time and wealth, and lacks a dedicated political class to represent its interests
The United States is no longer a middle class country. It is a country whose political establishment answers to the operatives of the very rich and the very poor, the donor class and the welfare class. Politicians have a vested interest in catering to very rich donors or welfare voters because they have the time, money and organizations to get their way. And what they want is wealth redistribution upward and downward from the middle class.
The middle class is being looted by crony capitalists and welfare clans. The liberal Robin Hoods who direct billions in stolen money to Green Energy companies and ghetto voters do their best to convince the middle class that it should vote for them because it's actually poor.
The middle class is poor, but it has all the disadvantages of poverty and none of the advantages.
Its workaholic efforts leave it at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with the idle rich and poor who launch Green Energy companies that are meant to fail and stand in line waiting to cash their latest government check every other week. The middle class just doesn't have the time or energy to do anything about the trap that's in. Unlike the rich and poor, it can't even get politically organized.
The Obama vision is a "Cloud" America where all the money is in the government cloud and each family is given support according to its needs and is taken for whatever its abilities earn. That vision is already true on the $4,955 scale and is coming true on the $110,729 level as well.
The government money "Cloud" works about as well as Healthcare.gov. Its brand of central planning has failed everywhere it's been tried. But the experiment won't completely crash until the middle class does. Margaret Thatcher famously said that Socialism works until it runs out of other people's money. The "other people" are the middle class who have the most money and the least ability to protect it from the cloud dwellers.
There are two Americas; the America of the working class and the Obamerica of the government class. Measuring poverty in net worth is relevant in only one of these Americas. To measure poverty across both nations, we must speak of the poverty of freedom, the poverty of family and marriage, the poverty of economic security and the poverty of leisure time.
These are the true measures of modern poverty in an America where some people are living in a postmodern government cloud that uses social capital instead of personal income and others are scratching out an uncertain living to support the "Cloud Dwellers" who manage the government bureaucracy, work at non-profits and squat in the $4,955 space.
Our postmodern economy punishes personal aspiration and rewards the surrender of economic independence to the government. More Americans are vanishing into the government cloud, going on disability, dropping out of the system and entering the cloud until the cloud is too heavy to keep on floating in the sky and sinks down to earth or until the New Poor get tired of living fearful lives to subsidize the utopian fantasies of the 1% and the Polynesian lifestyles of the $4,955.
An American workers' revolution will not be a Socialist revolution, it will be an Anti-Socialist revolution of the new poor of the middle class.
Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose) 4/11/13
Ouch says this mother of 12 children.
No, this is not right.
mindRider 4/11/13
Dear Daniel, once again a clear cut analysis of the factual situation in which however one thing is lacking: Most of those you describe as the American poor are black and what is happening is historic justice in the sense of what goes around comes around for the fact they where, once freed never compensated for having been dragged out of Africa to forcefully do the white man's heavy and dirty work. This is sort of their delayed Widergutmachung pay, to be payed for by the wrong class of Americans no doubt but had the black's back wages been payed right after the civil war and would they have been fully accepted as equals it would slowly but surely have created a black middle-class with values similar to the white middle-class and the lopsided destructiveness of the present situation could have been avoided.
BarryCuda 4/11/13
Please go back to salon or puffington post.
Nailhead meet hammer
As usual, I'm now depressed. This is my default reaction whenever I read this blog.
This piece offers us a bleak vision of America and thus the world. As goes America, so goes the world
So why do I continue to indulge this masochistic behaviour? Because it's true is why. The insight is jolting. It's also conveyed to us with compelling clarity and is therefore compulsive. I can't leave it alone.
Greenfield, I'm not sure whether your gift is a blessing or a curse. If it saddens me, what does it do to you?
Whatever the topic, you distill it to the pure, irreducible essence so reading is a mixture of wonder and discomfort. As the reader follows the unambiguous logic to its conclusion he can only believe that the dénouement will be apocalyptic. This will all end in tears. Let's hope, and pray, the the forces of good will prevail when inevitable conflict finally arrives.
The conflict will come. If it is now, it is not to come, if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
God bless you and keep you, sir.
Destroying the middle class IS part of a leftist strategy. Just as Obama destroying private insurance industry is the strategy to force Single Payer. The administration doesn't even try to hide that fact, even now in the midst of their shameless roll-out fiasco. America's middle class has had its head in the sand for far too long. In this piece, you are holding up a mirror for the middle class to see themselves but they've (we've) been warned for decades. I guess they were too busy watching American Idol (or in the south, college football). I'm dismayed by how many prefer to keep their heads in the sand for fear of being called racist. Or worse - conservative, Tea Party, capitalist, etc. Every American should read your blog, especially the middle class.
fsy 4/11/13
The $4,955 family has a lot of kids. Its kids, in traditional Third World style, are disposable.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the family size.
We had 9 children until 3 years ago when our oldest daughter, a 28-year-old mother of 3, was killed in a car accident. I probably don't go an hour without thinking of her. The other children can't "take her place" in any way.
I suspect that the large families who find one child of ten to be "disposable" would have the same attitude toward one out of one.
A very excellent article and I enjoyed reading it very much. But I am left with one question: why are the chldren of the "Cloud" families so angry? They should be blissfully happy living in their Nirvana without all the worries that producers must face day to day. Instead many of them have become packs of wild predators looking for prey to attack. Perhaps somewhere deep down they are aware that all this free cheese is being handed out by their do gooder benefactors not out of some sincere concern but out of a belief that like irresponsible children they do not have the capability to look after themselves. Can there be a greater "dis?" Ironic isn't it that the sons and daughters of Margaret Sanger and her fellow eugenicists can now feel good about caring for these unfortunate inferiors.
In the Road to Serfdom, Hayek defined Nazism as a middle class socialism and the conditions were what you describe in America. A middle class that can only better itself as a violent group instead of individual accomplishment and classes of the country that was already favored by socialism as its natural enemies. It was the breakdown of socialism into its natural conclusion. Violent tribes fighting over resources. I wish more people would read your column.
mrs adela bradley 4/11/13
Blacks were doing much better in America, mindRider, before slavery reparations, paid over the course of the past fifty years in the form of government checks, begot the welfare queen lifestyle. The quote-unquote civil rights movement was largely a ploy to justify federal government expansionism.
DenisO 4/11/13
mindRider, you disappoint me. Simple answers like reparations can be extended to almost everyone on the Planet, for everyone has a history of unfairness. Regardless, the average person will find it hard to refuse "free" money, food, shelter, if it is offered for nothing more than a vote. It's not just Blacks; it's anyone who can't see past their nose. A pampered slave is still a slave, who becomes permanently enslaved by the welfare life and no need for education or trade skill. Likewise, if there is no need for morality, there will be none.
The pendulum always moves too far, forcing it to reverse. Always, and the farther it goes the more forcefully it moves to the other extreme.
fodderwing 4/11/13
"An American worker's revolution ... will be an Anti-Socialist revolution of the new poor of the middle class."
And the revolution just may begin when enough Americans find themselves in need of a knee replacement or a new heart valve, only to have to wait in line behind some lifetime crack dealer in the same condition who never contributed anything for his healthcare and never intended to.
I don't favor reparations because it really means taking from those who did no wrong and giving to those who suffered no wrong. Slavery ended 160 years ago there is no one alive to "punish" or reward. However in the modern context in the last 5 years the federal government has given $3.7 trillion to the poor at the expense of the working class. So I will make an exception and agree with reparations paid by those who got the $3.7 trillion to be paid to the taxpayers that have been supporting them for too long.
mushroom 4/11/13
The middle class is being looted by crony capitalists and welfare clans.
Yes, the crony capitalists and corporate welfare system, the connections between Treasury, the Fed and the investment banking sector can't be ignored. Grandpa here can't afford to put the money I've saved into low-risk interest-bearing CDs or similar instruments because, at rates below 1%, I'm losing money every day to the stealth tax of inflation. Meanwhile welfare recipients get inflation adjustments.
I will have to sink some of my assets into longer term investments, which means I'll end up working another 8 years instead of another 3.
Slavery, in the US, ended 160 years ago, yes. And people always seem to skip right over the fact there was a horrendous civil war fought, or so the official narrative goes, to bring the institution to an end. If you want to talk about reparations, Massachusetts owes the American South big time.
Moriah 4/11/13
I guess Jews should be taken care of by most of the Arab, Russian and Western world if suffering is the criteria for reparations. And what of those who sold their brothers into slavery? The Irish were terribly abused by the English and in America too when they came here and of course the Chinese. The Japanese oppressed too, and the Russians. Everybody has a dog in this hunt but nobody makes society responsible like the Black man. In a way they're right. Democrats created a new slavery - a new set of chains for the Black man and his baby mama..Entitlements..
So where in scripture is it that one should seek to have few children and plan to slack for the last 30 years of life? Job, when faced with near annihilation (from a clan $110k viewpoint) continued to trust in The Almighty. He returned to full productivity, including producing another 12 offspring to the glory of G-d, all producers as well no doubt. Our sin is not honoring the original commandment to fill the earth and subdue it; we have created a new set of values which places personal comfort over the commands from Adoni.
100,000,000 killed by Communism in the last century. The discussion should be about how to prevent its killing more, not some red herring of 19th c slavery reparations.
Joan of Argghh! 4/11/13
Let's just say it out loud: the Conservative Middle Class is the ONLY disenfranchised voter class. Obama's pastor warned his congregants to avoid seeking out a middle class lifestyle, and for good reason. The plan has been, all along, to create a new slave class out of us. It's working, too.
No reparations? Trillions on social welfare programs?
Only 300,000 of the 12,000,000 slaves from Africa came the the USA. WE are now paying $1,000,000,000,000 a year for those 300,000 folks. Thanks southerners, what a deal!
So true and so sad. I work in community mental health and can tell you that my welfare/Medicaid clients have more "things" than I do. They get free or very low cost housing, free medical, food stamps, have big screen TV's with cable of course, free clothing, etc, etc. I work paycheck to paycheck which is getting more difficult. I'm ready to drop out and figure out a way to exist without being a slave to the gov't or "poor". I have always lived a responsible life and I clearly see the writing on the wall. There is definitely a war on responsibility and lots of empathy for the takers. Things are upside down and I'm just sick of it.
AG 5/11/13
What should be our motivation to stay out of the cloud? I am really running out of reasons to keep up working for essentially nothing. I am no where near the $110K family, and I deffinately do not live in the cloud. But the cloud is becoming very tempting. It is becoming disheatening to work two jobs, 60-70 hours a week and have nothing to show for it.
Rollory 5/11/13
Dis be raciss yo!
Oh yes Rollory, if we not be nice to da black man, den we mus be raciss! Word!
I applaud the truth that Mr. Greenfield writes. At first I thought you were treading on very thin ice but after reading the entire piece, your premise holds. The game is rigged. And while I agree with some readers that visiting your site can be disquieting, it also provides quite a learning opportunity. This article paints a portrait of a rigged game that I had not imagined, or had not put together the pieces into a "whole."
Before I left for the Philippines, I worked part time in property management for Section 8 housing in Las Vegas. It was not a pretty sight. While those on welfare, probably 90%+ black in Clark County, living conditions were anything but Polynesian. New homes were destroyed in a one year lease and residents simply moved to another new home at tax-payer expense. But it is not like these residents had big screen tv's, or even furniture. They had mattresses on the floor for beds and maybe some furniture and a cheap dining set. But they lived like they were in the stone age where no one knew how to clean up after themselves. Move out inspections were traumatic requiring hundreds of photos for insurance claims, and I was also concerned for my own health simply entering these domains for all the filth within. A shame. The economics of it all just did not make sense.
So while the middle class struggles for it's existence by working hard, the poor, from what I have personally observed may have a roof over their heads but "quality of life" still does not compare. However, the time to fight the good fight is drawing near because what is going on is too much. The system is broken and everything is out of control. Thanks for the great writing and observation.
Once more y'all equate slavery with southern and poor(and on welfare) with black. Well folks I am southern , from the poorest county in the USA (Owsley Co. Kentucky) . We have allways been poor by the standards set in New York and DC. There are no blacks in the county because there were never any slaves, we "hillbillies" were to poor and to Republican (as in union army). Most of Us only have one to three children (not six to ten) and would love to have a full time job (the nearest part time Wal-Mart type Mc Job is ten to 40 miles away over one lane switchback roads that are seldom maintained and NEVER plowed in winter) My family has held our family farm for 250 years , most families that live in eastern Kentucky have been there for over two hundred years. We really have no plans to move. So thanks for the little bite of New York ,but I don't think you know very much about life outside "big City" and you really don't know anything at all about poverty in "flyover country". (Having read your blog for a while now, I don't think you know very much about America past Cape May)
Allen 5/11/13
Reminded me very much of this, particularly the finale:
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2013/05/28/karl-marx-was-a-tea-partier/
And also, more generally in tone, this:
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Joseph-Schumpeter/dp/0061330086/ref=la_B000AP9F38_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383683189&sr=1-6
Elisandra 5/11/13
A lot of what you said here is true, but there's a huge gap in between the two extremes. I'm a white female living in Los Angeles, I work very hard at my job for $12,000/yr and support myself on it, barely, no money left after rent and utilities, with no government benefits at all. No car, no smartphone, no cable TV, and my television is the kind that sticks out in the back. For all I know I'm the only person left whose income is so dramatically low and isn't receiving government benefits of some kind. Instead, the government expects me to spend my utility money on forced-to-buy medical insurance, We working poor are in real dire circumstances these days. Before the economy collapsed about 5 years ago I was part of what I guess was the middle class, $50,000/yr household income.
Yes. The working poor have it worst of all. I know.
"The old economic uncertainties of the households at the bottom of the ladder have fallen squarely on it-- with none of the sympathy, which is still reserved for their welfare wards."
Or for the Identity Politics candidates. Reparations for the abuses endured by the transgenders and ESL immigrants etc. in the building of the country must now be paid in the form of employment preferences. My super-capable husband couldn't get a job for two years here on the Left Coast because he couldn't tick off none of them specialness boxes.
You use the term "crony capitalist." I think we on the right need to move firmly to ban this term from our vocabulary, because it explicitly associates the cronyists withe capitalism, as if they wouldn't be cronyists under a socialist system.
Their cronyism has nothing to do with capitalism. They would be crony Fascists, crony Marxists, crony collectivists. Under any system imaginable, they will use cronyism to try to advance their interests.
Free market capitalism is the greatest enabler of prosperity in history, to associate the evils of cronyism specifically with capitalism does it a great disservice.
B Nelson 7/11/13
I absolutely agree with cloud-buster. True Capitalism (with a capital "C") has no place for cronyism. Cronyism comes from a government's/bureaucrat's ability to grant favors, exemptions, etc. True Capitalism is laissez faire - separation of economics and state; there are no favors or exemptions to be granted. "Crony capitalism" is a leftist term used to attack Capitalism - we must stop using the terms leftists give to concepts (much like "liberals" and "progressives") so that we can protect those concepts from destruction.
True, capitalism has been maligned without being understood. But Daniel has done a great job of turning the leftist use of the term on its head; to wit, "Crony capitalism is a lot easier than actual capitalism."
this present system is Roman Catholic Welfare-ism
This is a generalization people. Sure there anr many exceptions, but this is broadly and largely accurate. Many of us know a large family that also has a mortgage and everyone of working age does work. Many of us know a family where nobody is working and on the so called dole, and I know both. The generalizations are useful as while the real world in not binary, it applies to enough to be accurate as a high level summary.
You're blaming the poor. All that is happening is globalisation and automation is doing to the middle classes what was done to the poor/working classes in 70's and 80's. There is no way of stopping it. Thinking that stopping a bit of welfare to the poorest will prevent the middle classes joining them is pure fantasy peddled by the right wing.
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package org.supercsv.cellprocessor.time;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.theories.DataPoints;
import org.junit.experimental.theories.Theories;
import org.junit.experimental.theories.Theory;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.supercsv.cellprocessor.time.mock.IdentityTransform;
import org.supercsv.exception.SuperCsvCellProcessorException;

/**
 * Tests the FmtDuration cell processor.
 */
@RunWith(Theories.class)
public class FmtDurationTest {

	@DataPoints public static final ZonedDateTime[] times = {
		ZonedDateTime.of(2013, 10, 25, 1, 2, 3, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC),
		ZonedDateTime.of(2014, 11, 26, 2, 3, 4, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC) };

	@DataPoints public static FmtDuration[] processors = { new FmtDuration(),
		new FmtDuration(new IdentityTransform()) };

	@Rule public ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();

	@Theory
	public void testValidDurationString(final FmtDuration p, final ZonedDateTime start, final ZonedDateTime end) {
		final Duration duration = Duration.between(start, end);
		assertEquals(duration.toString(), p.execute(duration, SuperCsvTestUtils.ANONYMOUS_CSVCONTEXT));
	}

	@Theory
	public void testNullInput(final FmtDuration p) {
		exception.expect(SuperCsvCellProcessorException.class);
		exception.expectMessage("this processor does not accept null input - "
			+ "if the column is optional then chain an Optional() processor before this one");
		p.execute(null, SuperCsvTestUtils.ANONYMOUS_CSVCONTEXT);
	}

	@Theory
	public void testNonDurationInput(final FmtDuration p) {
		exception.expect(SuperCsvCellProcessorException.class);
		exception.expectMessage("the input value should be of type java.time.Duration but is java.lang.Integer");
		p.execute(123, SuperCsvTestUtils.ANONYMOUS_CSVCONTEXT);
	}

	@Test
	public void testConstructor2WithNullNext() {
		exception.expect(NullPointerException.class);
		new FmtDuration(null);
	}

}

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Fiat believes its new Doblo is set to rival traditional MPVs, thanks to the level of technology it offers, combined with a cheaper price tag.
Prices range from the entry level £12,295 to £17,145.
There are eight versions and customers can choose from a 1.4-litre petrol engine, a 1.6-litre diesel (expected to be the top seller) or 2.0-litre diesel.
The outgoing Doblo has sold more than a million variants since 2000, with around 2,500 units sold in the UK last year. Fiat expects to exceed last year's sales with the new Doblo.
Fiat hopes sponsorship deals with the British Cycling Federation and FA will improve awareness of the Doblo and increase showroom footfall.
One of the major changes in the new model is that it is no longer van-derived. Instead it takes its under-pinnings from the Punto Evo.
Styling is much improved compared to the outgoing model, but its appearance is still likely to divide opinion.
Class-leading space is one of the key attractions. A longer wheelbase means there is more room for passengers and luggage.
There is a 790-litre boot, which extends to 3,200 litres with the rear seats folded flat.
Dealers have the option to sell an extra row of seats for £800. This takes the number of seats to seven, although boot space is severely compromised.
There are plenty of other options, including parking sensors and Blue&Me TomTom.
The Doblo also comes with Fiat's free eco:Drive technology, which ranks a driver's eco-driving ability and gives advice on how to improve.
Fiat claims it can boost fuel economy by up to 15%. Also standard is Start&Stop and a gearshift indicator.
The 1.6-litre diesel engine can achieve 54.3mpg and has CO2 emissions of 138g/km (compared to 39.2mpg and 166g/km for the 1.4-litre petrol).
On the safety front, a major plus is that every model features ESP, which isn't the case with rivals in this class.
Fiat also points out that insurance has dropped four groups resulting in a 50% saving on premiums.
Behind the wheel, the cabin feels spacious and there is great visibility, with a deep windscreen.
On the road, handling is good and there isn't much body roll.
But the 1.6-litre MultiJet diesel engine is noisy at low speeds and takes around 13 seconds to get from 0-62mph.
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Around 6 million quiz participants answered a number of personality trait questions using the myPersonality app. Half of those quiz participants agreed to share data from their profile. This data, along with quiz answers, were anonymised by the University of Cambridge academics and then placed on a website. Researchers could register to collaborate on the myPersonality project and gain access to the anonymised data on the website. According to New Scientist, more than 280 people from about 150 institutions (universities and companies) registered to access the website.
However, if you were not a researcher there were other ways to access the anonymised data. A username and password to access the website could be found online from a single web search.
On 7 April 2018, Facebook suspended the myPersonalty app from the Facebook platform as part of its clean up of third party applications and its investigation into misuse of user data.
This incident continues to shed light on Facebook's practice of allowing third parties, such as researchers to use the Facebook platform to gather users' data. However what is more revealing is the poor approach the academics took to protect the data by third parties with the means to re-identify the data. Providing access to anonymised data is not necessarily a problem per se. However, according to New Scientist the data could be easily re-identified.
Anonymised data will be considered personal information under the Australian Privacy Act if it can be de-anonymised and identify the personal information about an individual. Therefore, care must be taken when dealing with and creating "anonymised datasets" as that data will only fall outside the remit of the Australian Privacy Act if other data cannot be used with the anonymised data to reveal the personal information about an individual. If an anonymised dataset can be de-anonymised then it should be properly protected in accordance with the Australian Privacy Act.


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Are There Always Reasons To Be Cheerful?
by Rachel Anderson | 16 Mar 2016 | Coaching
When things happen that are beyond our control, it's easy to feel like a victim; angry, hurt, resentful. As I've often written in this blog, we can't always control what happens to us, or other people. We do have the choice how to respond – but it's not always easy.
So, when I was doing my Science of Happiness Course, I was fascinated to hear about the research into the impact gratitude can have on us. Grateful people, and people who train to be grateful, experience more happiness and pro-sociality and less negative emotions, stress and anti-social feelings.
Robert Emmons writes how gratitude comes from the perception of something good happening in your life, not necessarily deserved or earned, that is really due to the actions of other people.
There are two components to gratitude: it's a fundamentally positive mindset, where we recognise there is good in the world. And because it's always directed at something outside ourselves, it's also a recognition that we're dependent on others.
In contrast, ungrateful people see life as a burden, focussing on the negative and seeing everything they don't have, instead of what they do.
There's lots of data to support the benefits of gratitude, but I work off the more subjective evidence of my own experience.
I find it really helps when I notice I'm becoming stuck in a place of feeling martyred or 'done to' to step back and notice where the opposite is the case too. I don't deny, or brush over the apparent unfairness of what's happening, but I look for the balance or perspective.
I don't do this every day, or even every week, but I do keep a gratitude diary – an exercise that never fails to ground me and flood me with a sense of compassion.
Sometimes we become so focussed on the problem, we forget to see everything else that's not the problem. It doesn't mean the problem's not there, but it certainly drops it into perspective.
And when I'm feeling even more philosophical, I try to move away from labelling any of what's happening to me as either 'good' or 'bad', because when we add the dimension and perspective of time and what's still to come, who knows!
I'm reminded of the Taoist story of the farmer:
There was a farmer whose horse ran away. That evening the neighbours gathered to commiserate with him since this was such bad luck. He said, "May be."
The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wild horses, and the neighbours came exclaiming at his good fortune. He said, "May be."
And then, the following day, his son tried to saddle and ride one of the wild horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. Again the neighbours came to offer their sympathy for the misfortune. He said, "May be."
The day after that, conscription officers came to the village to seize young men for the army, but because of the broken leg the farmer's son was rejected. When the neighbours came in to say how fortunately everything had turned out, he said, "May be."


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Avery Hopwood, né à Cleveland (Ohio) le  et mort à Juan-les-Pins (Alpes-Maritimes) le , est un dramaturge américain.

Biographie
Avery Hopwood fut diplômé de l'université du Michigan, université qui décerne aux écrivains un prix littéraire Hopwood, remporté entre autres par Arthur Miller et Lawrence Kasdan. Nombre d'œuvres récompensées par ce prix ont été jouées à Broadway ou adaptées au cinéma.

Adaptations cinématographiques
Sauf indication contraire, ces informations proviennent de l'

1914 : Clothes réalisé par Francis Powers (pièce homonyme, coécrite par Channing Pollock)
1914 : Seven Days (Pièce homonyme)
1915 : Judy Forgot réalisé par T. Hayes Hunter
1918 : Our Little Wife réalisé par Edward Dillon
1919 : Sadie Love réalisé par John S. Robertson
1919 : Fair and Warmer réalisé par Henry Otto (pièce homonyme)
1920 : Guilty of Love réalisé par Harley Knoles (pièce This Woman, This Man)
1920 : Clothes réalisé par Fred Sittenham (pièce homonyme)
1921 : The Little Clown réalisé par Thomas N. Heffron
1923 : The Gold Diggers réalisé par Harry Beaumont (pièce homonyme)
1924 : The Girl in the Limousine réalisé par Larry Semon et Noel M. Smith (pièce homonyme)
1925 : Miss Bluebeard réalisé par Frank Tuttle (pièce Little Miss Bluebeard)
1925 : The Best People de Sidney Olcott
1926 : L'Oiseau de nuit (The Bat) réalisé par Roland West (pièce homonyme)
1927 : Nobody's Widow réalisé par Donald Crisp (pièce homonyme)
1927 : Getting Gertie's Garter réalisé par E. Mason Hopper
1928 : The Garden of Eden réalisé par Lewis Milestone (pièce homonyme)
1928 : Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath réalisé par Edward F. Cline
1929 : Gold Diggers of Broadway réalisé par Roy Del Ruth (pièce The Gold Digger)
1930 : Her Wedding Night réalisé par Frank Tuttle
1930 : Fast and Loose réalisé par Fred C. Newmeyer (pièce The Best People)
1930 : The Bat Whispers réalisé par Roland West (pièce The Bat)
1931 : Minha Noite de Núpcias réalisé par E. W. Emo
1931 : Marions-nous réalisé par Louis Mercanton
1931 : Su noche de bodas réalisé par Louis Mercanton et Florián Rey
1931 : Ich heirate meinen Mann réalisé par E. W. Emo
1932 : La Belle Nuit (This Is the Night) réalisé par Frank Tuttle (pièce Naughty Cinderella)
1933 : Night of the Garter réalisé par Jack Raymond
1933 : Chercheuses d'or de 1933 (Gold Diggers of 1933) réalisé par Mervyn LeRoy (pièce The Gold Digger)
1937 : Le Mari qu'il me faut (Der Mustergatte) réalisé par Wolfgang Liebeneiner (pièce Fair and Warner)
1938 : Unsere kleine Frau réalisé par Paul Verhoeven (pièce Our Little Wife)
1944 : Gröna hissen réalisé par Börje Larsson (pièce Fair and Warner)
1945 : Getting Gertie's Garter réalisé par Allan Dwan
1951 : Elle cherche un millionnaire (Painting the Clouds with Sunshine) réalisé par David Butler (pièce The Gold Diggers)
1952 : Oppåt med gröna hissen réalisé par Börje Larsson (pièce Fair and Warner)
1959 : Le Masque (The Bat) réalisé par Crane Wilbur (pièce The Bat)
1981 : Den Grønne heisen réalisé par Odd-Geir Sæther

Pièces présentées à Broadway
Sauf indication contraire, ces informations proviennent de l'

1898-1899 : A Runaway Girl (du   au )
1906-1968 : Clothes (du  à )
1909 : This Woman and This Man (du  à mars)
1909-1910 : Seven Days (du   à )
1910 : Judy Forgot (du  au )
1910-1911 : Nobody's Widow (du  à )
1913 : Somewhere Else (du  au )
1915 : Fair and Warmer (du 6 au )
1915-1916 : Sadie Love (du  à )
1916 : Our Little Wife (du  à décembre)
1918 : Double Exposure (du  à septembre)
1919 : Tumble In (du  au )
1919-1920 : The Gold Diggers (du  à )
1919-1920 : The Girl in the Limousine (du  à )
1920-1921 : Ladies' Night (du  à )
1920-1921 : Spanish Love (du  à )
1920-1922 : The Bat (du  à )
1921 : Getting Gertie's Garter (du  août à novembre)
1921-1922 : The Demi-Virgin (du  à )
1922-1923 : Why Men Leave Home (du  à )
1923-1924 : Little Miss Bluebeard (du  au )
1923-1924 : The Alarm Clock (du  à )
1924 : The Best People (du  à décembre)
1924-1925 : The Harem (du  à )
1925-1926 : Naughty Cinderella (du  au )
1927 : The Garden of Eden (du  à )
1933 : The Best People (du  à )
1937 : Sea Legs (du  au )
1937 : The Bat (du  à )
1945 : Good Night, Ladies (du  au )
1953 : The Bat (du  au )

Bibliographie
 Jack F. Sharrar, Avery Hopwood: His Life and Plays, 1988 .

Notes et références

Liens externes

Dramaturge américain du XXe siècle
Naissance en mai 1882
Naissance à Cleveland
Décès en juillet 1928
Décès à Juan-les-Pins
Décès à 46 ans

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Tjäderleksmossen är ett naturreservat i Uppsala kommun i Sverige. Tidigare försörjde man masugnarna på Länna bruk med kol från mossen. Myrarna i området skiftar från helt öppna till skogbeklädda. Bland de fåglar som förekommer i naturreservatet kan nämnas tjäder, trana, storlom och tretåig hackspett. Terrängen är på många ställen svårframkomlig, men det finns flera markerade stigar. Vid Skärsjön, i den norra delen av naturreservatet, finns även en raststuga.

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia's government will not approve the United Nations to regulate the treatment of migrants worldwide, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said on Sunday after the European Union summit.
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in July by all 193 member UN nations except the United States, which backed out last year.
It followed the biggest influx of migrants into Europe since World War Two, many fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and beyond.


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Q: Max/min attributes in bootstrap-ui timepicker I want to use the timepicker directive from bootstrap-ui. I need to use the min and max attributes, but I don't understand how to use them.
I tried to use it on the range from 0 to 1440.
<uib-timepicker ng-model="mytime" show-meridian="false" min="840" max="1020"></uib-timepicker>

I also tried to pass different date formats, but it doesn't solve my issue. For example, I need user can set timepicker from 14:00 to 17:00. How can I achieve this effect with these attributes?
You can find a plunker here.

A: You can set min and max values in controller itself:
var d = new Date();
d.setHours( 2 );
d.setMinutes( 0 );
$scope.min = d;

var d2 = new Date();
d2.setHours( 11 );
d2.setMinutes( 0 );
$scope.max = d2;

And use them,
<uib-timepicker ng-model="mytime" min="min" max="max" show-meridian="false"></uib-timepicker>

here is plunker

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Hello, I'm having a problem with threading and Httpwebrequests.
I have about ~150 requests I need to perform in parallel. A constraint is that I have to use threads (my boss prefers it this way). The threading is fine and works great. Create thread, make request within thread, loop list of threads and run them at the same time.
The problem is that a new "rogue" request might come in at any given time that is high priority. It can come in when the 150 other ones are going.
Right now, what happens is that the rogue request doesn't fire until the 150 are done. I've tried using ManualResetEvent, I've tried setting boolean flags, I've tried changing the default connection limit in the ServicePointManager…It's always the same behaviour.
Is there a way I can force this request to fire as soon as it comes in, then resume whatever the 150 threads were up to?
Sorry for the lack of code – this is a work problem so I can't post anything. It's proprietary enough that it wouldn't be that comprehensible on its own anyway.
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PolitiFact: In some days the good old days were pretty good
By Louis Jacobson
This article was edited for length. To see a complete version and its sources go to http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/08/facebook-posts/1978-someone-minimum-wage-could-earn-enough-summer/.
"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Facebook posts on Thursday, August 7th, 2014 in a meme on social media
Everything was better in the old days, apparently — including the chore of paying for college, at least according to a social media meme sent to us recently by a reader.
The meme — created by OurTime.org, an advocacy group for young Americans — said, "In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Really? We figured this was worth a look.
First, the minimum wage. Starting on Jan. 1, 1978, the minimum wage was $2.65. Someone working at the minimum wage for 13 weeks, and 40 hours per week, in the summer of 1978 would have ended up with $1,378 for their labors.
For the tuition they would have faced in the 1978-79 school year, we turned to figures from the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government's repository of education data.
The cost of tuition and fees (in that year's dollars, not adjusted for inflation) was $688 for in-state residents attending a four-year, public university.
So the meme's claim is correct except for a few caveats — two minor and one more significant:
• The cost of tuition and fees plus room and board was significantly higher that year — $2,145 — but the meme was careful to cite "tuition" only, so we'll ignore the impact of room and board.
• The tuition-and-fees figure we used is a national average, so some states may have had in-state tuition rates out of reach of minimum wage workers.
• The meme's only notable failing has to do with overly broad wording — specifically its use of the phrase "of their choice." The data we used refers to in-state tuition, meaning that the student would have access to this sweet tuition rate only at their home-state university. That's not the same thing as "of their choice."
The meme said that "in 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
If you use the national average the figure is correct. The only problem is the part about a university "of their choice." The data is correct for in-state tuition — not for any university in the country, where out-of-state rates may well have kicked up the tuition amount beyond a summer's minimum-wage haul.
On balance, we rate the claim Mostly True.
Louis Jacobson
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100penulis: I Give Blood, Will You?
1. The exalted feeling of saving someone's life.
If we donate the little excess blood in our body, it could save someone's life without creating any problem for us. Instead it would help to alleviate some major health problems like heart diseases. Blood donation is an excellent way to get rid of excess iron accumulated in our body due to its overconsumption. Excess iron in the body can stimulate the formation of free radicals which are responsible for causing damage to body cells and tissues. Free radicals are also associated with many diseases like heart diseases and cancer.
2. Burns the extra calories and reduces your cholesterol level.
Kalau tak silap, there are no major disadvantages of donating blood except that sometimes you might experience a drop in blood pressure, mild nausea or dizziness for a short while. But if you compare the health benefits and mental satisfaction that comes from saving a life, you will feel that benefits of this act of charity is not only restricted to the recipient, but also helps the donor immensely.
dh cukup 6 months kot after last derma darah, ada peluang nnti kita buat lgi.
kadang-kadang.. topik health ni bile ade, ramai yg malas baca. tapi bile ade yg sakit mesti mula la info/cerita pengalaman orang lain.
posting pasal health may not be the most famous topic, but it saves lives too.
I donate blood since many years. Everyone should do that!


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Q: ¿Qué significa el operador | en la declaración y asignacion de un entero en Java? ¿Qué significa el operador | en la declaración de un int?
Por ejemplo:
public class Main{
  public static void main (String... args){
        int c = 20|30|1000;
        int d = 20|30|20;
        int e = 1000|20|1;
        System.out.println(c+" "+d+" "+e);
  }
}

Genera:

1022 30 1021

A: El operador | corresponde mas exactamente al operador OR a nivel de operaciones con bits (bitwise operators).
En los lenguajes de programación, podemos trabajar con numero binarios (0, 1) y entre ellos se pueden hacer operaciones como en el sistema decimal (0...9). Suma, Resta, Multiplicación, División.
¿Pero entonces, que significa este operador?
Vamos por partes.
Analicemos este ejemplo
public class Ejemplo {

    public static void main(String... args) {

        int A = 8;
        int B = 4;

        int C = A | B;

        System.out.println("Resultado: " + C);
    }

}

Primero
Veamos nuestros dos números

*

*8

*4

Bien, ahora debemos convertirlos a binarios.

*

*8   (1000)

*4   (0100)

De acuerdo, ya están en binario, ahora a que corresponde la operación "|" (OR) a nivel de bit.

Si por lo menos uno de los dos bits comparados es 1, establece el resultado en 1. De lo contrario da como resultado 0.

¿Que quiere decir esto?
Si tomamos cada uno de los bits (0 ó 1) del resultado del números binarios y lo operamos con el que se encuentra debajo, si al menos uno de los dos bits es uno entonces sera un uno.
(1000)
(0100)
-----------------
(1100)

¿Ves?
Al realizar esta operación nos ha dado un nuevo numero binario 1100, pero ¿Que numero es este en binario?
(1100) -> 8 + 4 + 0 + 0 = 12

Y si realizamos la ejecución del programa:

run:
Resultado: 12

Actualización
Ahora, miremos tu ejemplo:

*

*20      (10100)

*30      (11110)

*1000    (1111101000)

Realicemos la operación sobre estos números:
(0000010100)
(0000011110)
(1111101000)
------------
 1111111110

Nos da como resultado este numero 1111111110, por lo cual concluimos que equivale a:
(1111111110) -> 512 + 256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 +2 = 1022

Espero que te quede un poco mas claro, al respecto del por que de esos resultados.
Actualización II
Para dejar un poco mas claro esta respuesta, y con el fin de satisfacer dudas a futuros usuarios, te explico un poco mas al respecto.
De donde nos basamos para entender el valor del OR?
Debemos recurrir a las tablas de verdad:
Hagamos de cuenta que 1 es Verdadero y 0 es Falso
P  Q   P ^ Q   P v Q
1  1     1       1
1  0     0       1
0  1     0       1
0  0     0       0

Recuerda que en las tablas de verdad:
^ Significa Y
v Significa O

Entonces de este punto podriamos hablar de otro de los operadores que podriamos encontrar en Java a nivel de operaciones de bits, el AND o &.
La explicacion respecto a este operador, es similar a la del operador OR salvo que este, funcionara asi:

Si cada uno de los dos bits comparados equivalen a 1, establece el resultado en 1. De lo contrario da como resultado 0.

Por lo tanto, si revisasemos el ejemplo de 8 y 4:
8 & 4

Al realizar esta operacion &:
(1000)
(0100)
-----------------
(0000)

Nos daria 0000, lo que en este caso equivale a:
(0000) -> 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0

Véase en: Operadores de bits allí podrás ver otros operadores de bits (&, |, <<, >>).

A: Este operador significa (o), en este contexto se utiliza para saber si la variable tiene el valor citado en diferentes sistemas numericos, en este caso Sistema decimal y Sistema binario

A: El operador | (or binario) es un operador que trabaja a nivel de bits, compara bit a bit los valores en cuestion, suponiendo que tenemos int a = 1 | 2; primero convierte 1 y 2 a binario, luego compara cada bit de ambos de la siguiente manera:
0 | 0 = 0
0 | 1 = 1
1 | 0 = 1
1 | 1 = 1

luego el resultado que esta en binario lo vuelve a convertir a decimal.
En tu ejemplo seria de la siguiente manera:

Los operadores de bit son muy utilizados cuando se quiere optimizar el tamaño de los recursos, por ejemplo si necesitas simular una matriz que almacenara solamente dos valores lo adecuado seria usar un objeto java tipo byte pero un byte nos permite almacenar valores hasta 255, lo cual es mucho desperdicio, peor aun si vas a usar millones de ellos.

A: El operador | significa or a nivel de bits.

Una operación OR de bit a bit, o bitwise, toma dos o más números enteros y
  realiza la operación OR inclusivo en cada par correspondiente de bits.

Para explicar usamos el primer caso que es:
int c = 20|30|1000;

Convertimos los valores a binario

20=00010100
30=00011110
1000=001111101000

Ahora hacemos un or entre cada uno de los bits
    000000010100
    000000011110
    001111101000
    _____________
    000001111001

000001111001 convertido a decimal nos da 121, que es lo que imprimes.

Aquí un ejemplo más breve de or a nivel de bits:
   0101
OR 0011
   ____
   0111

Hay que recordar lo que es la tabla de verdad para el or:
A   B   A OR B
0   0   0
0   1   1
1   0   1
1   1   1

A: Este operador se llama bitwise inclusive OR, en castellano sería: operador OR inclusivo bit a bit
¿Qué hace?
El operador OR inclusivo bit a bit ( | ) compara cada bit del primer operando con el bit correspondiente del segundo operando, produciendo un valor puro que es el OR de sus operandos. Si uno de los dos bits es 1, el bit del resultado correspondiente se establece en 1. De lo contrario, el bit del resultado correspondiente se establece en 0.
Lo podemos ver claramente en esta imagen. Vemos en los valores de la línea central cómo se va produciendo el resultado final.

Si queremos verlo en código Java, podemos ver los resultados de este pequeño programa:
Código: ver demo
class Rextester
{
    private static int i;
    private static int j;
    private static int k;

    public  static void main(String args[])
    {
         i=7;
         j=5;
         k=i|j;

         printResult(i,j,k);
         System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------------------------");

         i=141;
         j=154;
         k=i|j;

         printResult(i,j,k);

         System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------------------------");

         i=788;
         j=657;
         k=i|j;

         printResult(i,j,k);

         System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------------------------");

         i=10000;
         j=12000;
         k=i|j;

         printResult(i,j,k);

    }

        private static  void printResult(int i, int j, int k)
        {
                System.out.println("Variable i\tDecimal:\t"+i + "\tBinario:\t" + Integer.toBinaryString(i));
                System.out.println("Variable j\tDecimal:\t"+j + "\tBinario:\t" + Integer.toBinaryString(j));
                System.out.println("i | j = k \tDecimal:\t"+k + "\tBinario:\t" + Integer.toBinaryString(k));
        }

}

Resultado
Se han convertido los números en binario usando Integer.toBinaryString para poder analizar cómo se construye el resultado final.

Variable i    Decimal:    7       Binario:    111
Variable j    Decimal:    5       Binario:    101
i | j = k     Decimal:    7       Binario:    111
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Variable i    Decimal:    141     Binario:    10001101
Variable j    Decimal:    154     Binario:    10011010
i | j = k     Decimal:    159     Binario:    10011111
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Variable i    Decimal:    788     Binario:    1100010100
Variable j    Decimal:    657     Binario:    1010010001
i | j = k     Decimal:    917     Binario:    1110010101
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Variable i    Decimal:    10000   Binario:    10011100010000
Variable j    Decimal:    12000   Binario:    10111011100000
i | j = k     Decimal:    12272   Binario:    10111111110000

¿Cómo funciona?
El operador | se evalúa de izquierda a derecha. Y nunca produce una excepción.
Se puede usar por ejemplo con código como este en Java::
setFont("Helvetica", Font.BOLD | Font.ITALIC, 18);

Los operandos deben ser de tipo entero o de tipo booleano, de lo contrario habrá error de compilación.
Si ambos operandos son de tipos enteros, el operador realiza una operación OR inclusiva en el bit. El operador puede realizar conversiones de tipo en los operandos:

*

*Si cualquiera de los operandos es de tipo long, el otro operando se convierte en long  y la operación produce un valor long.

*De lo contrario, ambos operandos se convierten en int y la operación produce un valor int.

Si ambos operandos son de tipo booleano, el operador realiza una operación lógica OR inclusiva. La operación lógica inclusiva OR produce un valor puro de tipo booleano. Si uno o ambos operandos son verdaderos, la operación produce verdadero (true); de lo contrario la operación produce falso (false).
Este operador difiere del operador OR condicional (||) porque siempre evalúa ambos de sus operandos, incluso si su operando izquierdo se evalúa como verdadero.

Pero... esto suena a medio chino ¿no? ¿Para qué sirve tanto rollo?
Lo cierto es que para la mayoría de aplicaciones que desarrollamos en Java esto no tendría gran utilidad, pero cuando nos vamos a la programación de bajo nivel... Bajo nivel no se refiere a la calidad del programador, sino a que te sumerges más en el código, o sea, que te enfrentas cara a cara con la máquina ... y ahí te quiero ver :)
En programación de bajo nivel esto tiene una utilidad enorme, ya que podemos por ejemplo pasar múltiples opciones a una función usando un sólo número entero, lo cual repercute en un ahorro de memoria considerable.
Esto no es tan fácil de explicar, pero vamos a tomar un ejemplo que nos suene.
Pensemos en un Dialog Box en el cual nos aparecen varias opciones: SÍ, NO, OK, CANCEL.
Eso nos suena, ¿verdad?
Supongamos que tenemos que construir una clase para manejar nuestro cuadro de diálogo.
Un programador de alto nivel, es decir, uno que en realidad nunca se enfrenta cara a cara con la máquina, escribiría la clase de este modo:
public class PopupWindow extends Sprite
{
    // Variables, Constructor, etc...

    public static void showPopup(yesButton:Boolean, noButton:Boolean, okayButton:Boolean, cancelButton:Boolean)
    {
        if(yesButton)
        {
            // add YES button
        }

        if(noButton)
        {
            // add NO Button
        }
        // and so on for the rest of the buttons
    }
}

Este código tiene algunos problemas:

*

*Le estamos pasando cuatro parámetros al método

*Tienes que buscar el orden de los argumentos cada vez que llamas a la función.

*Si sólo deseas mostrar el botón Cancelar, debes configurar todos los demás booleanos como falsos.

¿Y que tal si aplicamos operadores bit a bit?
El código quedaría más o menos así:
public class PopupWindow extends Sprite
{
    public static const YES:int = 1;
    public static const NO:int = 2;
    public static const OKAY:int = 4;
    public static const CANCEL:int = 8;

    public static void showPopup(buttons:int)
    {
        if(buttons & YES)
        {
            // add YES button
        }

        if(buttons & NO)
        {
            // add NO button
        }
    }
}

¿Cómo podría un programador llamar a la función para que se muestren el botón Sí, el botón No y el botón Cancelar?
De este modo:
PopupWindow.show(PopupWindow.YES | PopupWindow.NO | PopupWindow.CANCEL);

¿Que esta pasando? Es importante notar que nuestras constantes en el segundo ejemplo son todas potencias de dos. Por lo tanto, si nos fijamos en sus formas binarias, notaremos que todos tienen un dígito igual a 1, y el resto igual a 0. De hecho, cada uno tiene un dígito diferente igual a 1. Esto significa que no importa cómo los combinemos, cuando usemos el operador |.
Para nuestro ejemplo actual tenemos:
PopupWindow.YES | PopupWindow.NO | PopupWindow.CANCEL
que es equivalente:
1 | 2 | 8
que reescrito en binario es:
00000001 | 00000010 | 00001000
que nos da un resultado de:
00001011
Ahora, si en nuestro método showPopup(), usamos el operador & para comprobar qué opciones fueron pasadas. Por ejemplo, cuando comprobamos los botones & YES, todos los bits en YES son iguales a 0 excepto el más a la derecha. Por lo tanto, estamos esencialmente comprobando si el bit más a la derecha en los botones es un 1 o no. Si lo es, los botones  YES no serán iguales a 0 y cualquier cosa en la sentencia if será ejecutada. Por el contrario, si el bit más a la derecha en los botones es 0, los botones & YES serán iguales a 0 y la sentencia if no se ejecutará.
Geeenial, ¿no?
Pero eso no es nada, comparado a operaciones más complicadas que pueden hacerse usando estos operadores y combinándolos.
Si queremos empezar a ser programadores de bajo nivel, podemos probar con algo parecido al ejemplo de más arriba... o con algo de mucho más bajo nivel, más complicado.
Cabe decir, que los números asignados son escogidos de forma inteligente por el programador, para que ocurra lo mencionado más arriba, de forma que no haya nunca coincidencia de resultados y el código se nos haga un lío, o la máquina explote o se funda. :)

Un ejemplo típico
Si nosotros analizamos la Clase SWT de Eclipse, podremos ver fácilmente que utiliza operaciones binarias para casi todo.
Por ejemplo, para un simple botón CANCEL, dice:

public static final int CANCEL

The MessageBox style constant for a CANCEL button;
valid combinations are OK|CANCEL, YES|NO|CANCEL, RETRY|CANCEL
(value is 1<<8).

Referencias:

*

*Especificaciones del Lenguaje Java (15.22.1)

*Documentación Java: Operadores

*Java Language References: Bitwise/Logical Operators

*Understanding Bitwise Operators


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