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It does say something about his judgement that he wears that thing in public and thinks it looks OK. I mean, there are expensive rugs that look really good and you can't tell.

I really miss the Shatner Turbo 2000. There are many pictures available at the William Shatner School of Toupological Studies (found at shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com), and on rare occasions they will convene a full sitting of their Grand Toupular Assembly (GTA) to analyze a particular hairpiece, but my favorite was his Wrath of Khan hairpiece. Magnificent.

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Seriously, what kind of head injuries do the people at Microsoft have??

It's called "product management." It results in diminished quality everywhere it is used, because it relieves the developers from the responsibility of thinking about the quality of what they are building.

Here's an example of the special Microsoft version of this disease:

So just on my team, these are the people who came to every single planning meeting about this feature:

1 program manager
1 developer
1 developer lead
2 testers
1 test lead
1 UI designer
1 user experience expert
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8 people total

These planning meetings happened every week, for the entire year I worked on Windows.

The advantages of this system are: better top-down control, and you can hire less competent developers (who have not the skillset of thinking about what they are building).

I don't know about "recent", but you can see Google's latest here.

I may be mistaken (and please tell me if so) but that sure looks like a couple of dredge ships and floating pipes to build a new pile of dry land. Other Chinese-claimed islands show large piles of dirt and earth-moving equipment. One island does not appear quite so dry or quite so developed in older pictures.

This is who is voting for her:

Why 85% of Black Female Voters Support Hillary Clinton (And Its Not for the Reasons You Think)

I had not taken the time to parse my fealty and that of my friends to Hillary, until a few weeks ago. Sitting in the swivel chair at a friend’s beauty salon, I followed the election news coverage on a small television screen atop the counter. Suddenly, my beautician friend leaned over me and asked: “Do you know why ‘they’ hate Hillary so much.” I shook my head, more out of curiosity than an inability to supply a host of reasons recycled from media reports. “She’s a ‘n*gger-lover’” my friend said with a loving vehemence that took me aback. And within that instant, it all fell into place. By “all”, I mean, the feelings of intimacy that I too felt for this rich, white woman.

Her beautician tells her that Sanders and his supporters hate Hillary because she's a "n*gger lover", and she suddenly realizes why she loves Hillary.

Apparently, Hillary's attempt to erase Sanders' civil rights record has succeeded with her supporters.

How Clinton Media Machine Blocked Sanders Civil Rights Play

I've been wondering how Clinton, of "bring them to heel" and "super predators" fame, had managed to get most of the black vote, and I now see it's through disinformation.

Either way, I'm ready.

So, basically what you just said is that I was ignoring your points, so in return, you will ignore mine.

Basically what I said is your points are wrong and invalid. You essentially said something akin to "more people with cancer die in this hospital, thus it is a bad hospital" without recognizing that the hospital has 100 times more beds and 300 times more cancer patients than the "better" hospital (getting into some Simpson's Paradox material).

Again: I'm talking about whole populations and their observable behaviors in response to environmental stimulus; you're talking about population demographics and their general average behavior across all environmental stimulus, and extrapolating that by analogizing their demographic to a certain type of stimulus and claiming that describes a population's reaction to the stimulus.

What I had said is that the rate of population growth decreases as prosperity increases.

Yet each reduction in scarcity across all of human history has caused a boom in population. Human population has been shown directly tied to prosperity in a causal manner: societies capable of producing more per population achieve higher populations, and developments of new technology which raises that ceiling causes an increase in population growth rate.

Hell, quick google finds things

The greatest single factor in the history of human population growth has been developments in technology and the associated social changes arising from it. From the first development of tools to the development of agriculture and the later rise of industry, technology has expanded the resources available for the support of large populations.

The first important fact to consider is that technological growth helps drive population which itself helps drive technological progress. This is due to the ability of technological improvements to increase the agricultural productivity of both individuals and societies, and thus allowed for a boom in available resources which provided sustenance for a larger population.

This is the subject of a lot of economic study, forming the basis of many further arguments about what affects technical progress and, thus, further drives population growth.

So, again: you're talking about sociology and demographics; I'm talking about economy and populations.

Get used to it, it's the inevitable future of TV.

Unofficial official policy for Nexus devices is a minimum two years of major OS updates, 3 years of security updates. Since the Nexus 5 was released in Oct 2013 (I got mine Jan 2014), there is a chance it will not get the Android N update. It hasn't been included in the betas so far.

An update policy that short would upset me in most industries. But the smartphone industry is moving so quickly right now it doesn't really bother me. I've been meaning to update to a newer phone anyway.

There have been 66 cases reported according to the first link. 66. Out of tens of millions of devices.

This is just a typical case of control freaks in government looking for something else to get their fingers in.

Actually, they are trying to drum up public fear so they can win the lawsuits against their crazy new regulations. Which will basically cause all e-cigs to vanish from the market. Except the ones sold by the big tobacco conglomerates.

The new FDA regulations on e-cigs did NOT ban flavors. It will, however, effectively put every manufacturer out of business with the exception of the big tobacco conglomerates.

You won't see any more innovation or options in e-cigs either. Every component is regulated and banned without a long and expensive approval process. In fact, it will probably be the end of refillable e-cigs and the sale of e-juice. It's going to be too expensive as each and every blend will require a separate application and set of laboratory testing.

This is arguably the worst part of the FDA's new regulations on e-cigs. Even if there are still manufacturers making e-cig batteries, ALL changes will be frozen. So even if the manufacturer discovers a flaw and wants to fix it, they can't without a long and expensive approval process that will delay the update, possibly for years.

If you have to choose between SJW's and Nazis, take the Nazis.

no where did I find them agreeing with your 89% figure

The article cites the figure and then proceeds to explain, why it is acceptable — without disputing the number. In other words, they accept it. The article (known as Watts 2009) is thus entered into evidence.

no where does it say that primary raw temperature data has been lost, just that the CRU does not have it any more

Had a copy still existed somewhere, they would've procured one to avoid the embarrassment. And it was a major scandal — two months later NY Times ran a "rebuttal" (the dishonest newspaper's first mention of the problem, apparently), which still would not say, other copies exist. You are grasping at straws — and drowning anyway.

80 mm is right at the top of the uncertainty range in the graph

You wrote yourself, that the prediction was 50-60 mm, while the actual values — according to, once again, you — was 80mm. That's a fail... You may recall, that one of the rules I put down was that the cited predictions, if quantifiable, be correct within 20% of the predicted figure(s).

Don't you consider it significant that real world observations have been greater than predictions?

It may be significant, but it is unclear, of what. That the seas are rising may be observable and measurable (preferably without "weighting" and "adjusting" the observed figures, of course). That they are rising because SUVs — that is not clear at all.

10 thousand years ago Tasmania — already home to some humans — was cut off of mainland Australia by rising seas. A few thousand years earlier ancestors of Kodiak bears became separated from mainland grizzlies — by rising seas (or, maybe, the melting ice — another phenomenon blamed on humans today). Kodiaks are now a distinct subspecies... Humans crossed into Americas over what is now a straights, but was a land bridge until seas rose .

Were all those calamities due to the crime of Prometheus, perhaps?

Climate scientists today blame humanity with the intensity of ancient shamans. But, to establish their scientific bona-fides to people actually familiar with scientific process, they need to make scientific predictions — verifiable, falsifiable, as well as verified and not falsified. And that's where my challenge and your (so far — failing) attempts to answer it come in...

I am collaborating with no one.

I'll take your word for it. Most comforting, thanks.

End times like Legion

Also, apps for the Legion would be nice Beta invitation

Good thing banks never lose money.

Agree here. I have no idea why larger ships dont look into say thorium reactors, etc.

http://yottawattsthorium.blogs...

TV viewing skews heavily female. Check out TV by the numbers some time for gender skews for popular shows. Unless its sports, or fox's sunday nite lineup, men don't watch much tv at all.

The following link from 2010 has a breakdown and its pretty sobering.

http://whiskeys-place.blogspot...

There's more information at Wyden's press release.

In addition to Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., the original cosponsors are Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Jon Tester, D-Mont. I would hope Bernie Sanders would support the bill but I don't personally know how much one can read into him not being an original cosponsor.

The above press release includes a link to a readable (warning, PDF) 1-page summary. The last sentence lists other supporters/commenters of the bill:

For more information, see comments by ACLU, Google, EFF/Access, OTI, CDT, NACDL, the security researchers Bellovin, Blaze, and Landau, and the Agenda Books from the U.S. Courts.

I like the ideea, i would like to see more games too, like Smite Promotion Gems

Didn't YT already address this (recently) by holding onto the revenue while a complaint is being resolved, and then sending the accrued revenue to the winning party when the complaint is actually resolved?

http://youtubecreator.blogspot...

In Québec our "white label" products are actually "yellow label", called "no name" ("sans nom" in french).

Not sure if they're available in the rest of Canada.

As as with any generic products, some of them are excellent and better than known brands, some of them are just okay and some of them you just need to stay away from.

You may want to check out Bee's blog at http://backreaction.blogspot.c...

She is an outstanding theoretical physicist with a nag to explain things in plain English, without dumbing them down too much (at least I think so, then again I may not be the best person to judge that).

Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.

You can see their fall back business when the Windows OS declines right?

They have been setting themselves up for it many years and more than likely become major patent trolls.

Remember they have the patent on the smiliey face; you yourself can end up owing over a post to your sweetie.

" allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication." In other words, Microsoft now owns the idea of emoticons." http://how-toadopt.blogspot.co...

They got the patent, this even though it had been caught (earlier by a volunteer who assisted the patent company for just this thing) as weasel words for prior art.

Cell phones? They get $5:00 (US) for every one sold, by refusing incenses could intimidate other avenues of income.

No matter their life boat, they are and will constantly prove themselves as "we are evil".

Were stuck with them meddling in every facet of your life.

Pretty sure BAE did the analysis and it's a lot more interesting than you give it credit for... They speculate it's the NORKs and while I have my reservations about the analysis, it's certainly interesting.

There are some terribly cool parts of the attack that include intercepting and modifying PCL hard-copy audit logs before the printing to cover tracks, among other pieces...

Regardless of the actor, there are some pretty neat aspects of the attack that don't involve kittens...

people who clean tables

The fast food places I eat at - including Wendy's - don't have people who are employed only for this purpose, or even primarily for this purpose. Table cleaning is something that they do as "busywork" when customer traffic is low. If you're at a place where there are people who are primarily cleaning tables you are likely not at a fast food place.

It is also worth recalling that tipping is not universally expected in Australia as it is in the states. Hence they do need to pay their workers a respectable wage as they can't count on customers to supplement it the way they do here.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bP6k...

You might want to look at the LBJ quote regarding certain minority voting DNC for the next 200 years.

You might want to look it up yourself.

It's widely discredited, and there's a matching quote in the reverse sentiment. Namely that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a Generation.

So which is it? Well, I will quote Abe Lincoln, and say, you should not believe everything you read on the Internet just because it has a picture next to a quote.

Or in this case, because somebody printed it in a book. I get it, you want to take a side. It's exactly what you want to believe. It makes you feel better at night.

Take a look at who ran on the GOP vs DNC for the ticket this year, four old white people vs a diverse group of 17, black, white and hispanic. But the GOP is racist!

Good idea, use the list of Presidential candidates to completely understand the political parties, man, your analysis is so deep and probing it can't possibly be questioned.

Why don' t you just pass around the chain letter where Charles Guiteau and John Wilikes Booth are both called liberals? Trow in a slice of whining about Robert Byrd, while never mentioning Strom Thurmond to make it really apparent.

I honestly don't get it, do Fauxbitarians like you fail to realize you're actually sucking the partisan teat, or are you just false-flagging to make your professed side look bad?

Depends on how you count achievement. If it's by your standard, maybe not, but what about by the standard of the individual? How successful was he or she in attaining personal goals vs money. I scored in the top 99.8% and found making a lot of money to be easy and lost interest in it at a young age, so pursued something else. Maybe I set my goals too low but have rarely failed at anything I've attempted.
You can have reports like this, but there's also the bus driver at my school who had three masters degrees. When asked why instead of why he drove a shuttle bus instead of a real job with a lot of money, his response was that he liked it. From talking with him for 30 seconds, you'd realize that he was _very_ smart, but would he be considered successful? Not objectively, but personally he loved his life. My dad used to tell me about one of his classmate who after getting a Phd in chemistry became a hobo because that' what he wanted to do (this was back in the 50's and 60's). Come to think of it, I know very few objectively successful people, but most of them are doing whatever they feel like doing at the time with few cares. No one is going to go hungry or be without shelter or not be able to get anything they want out of life.

Show of hands: Who knew the Italians had a military?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Pk...

Now if we only had a plane that could carry a gun the size of a car.... oh wait.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J0Li...

A-10.

Many? Try 2 so far. That would be diacetyl and a related flavoring. Both are butter flavoring (not popcorn). Most vendors (read, not Chinese) got rid of it fast or sharply reduced the amount used. Years before OSHA reacted BTW. Note that one consumer was affected due to his extreme love of microwave popcorn (another case where it is heated to the point that it vaporizes). I haven't heard of any vapers affected.

The part that wasn't blared over the media in 40 foot tall letters is that cigarettes give you 18 times the amount found in the most risky ecig flavors, so it still represents a substantially reduced risk vs. cigarettes. Cigarettes contain 600 times the amount found in the most risky flavors after the warning went out. All of those are lower level exposures compared to what the popcorn workers got.

It does go to show that nothing is absolutely without risk. It was a surprise to everyone involved including the regulators. However, the e-cig industry was the fastest responder to the bad news even though it was entirely unregulated. The next fastest was a food flavorings manufacturer's association.

You may find these references interesting: Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn’t Want to Know, New Study Finds that Average Diacetyl Exposure from Vaping is 750 Times Lower than from Smoking, Media Bias Exposed: ‘Popcorn Lung’ Chemical 750 Times Greater In Tobacco Vs. E-Cigarettes

Or you could be wrong: if-you-sell-your-daughter-as-slave

Thank you for answering my question.

My understanding is that LibreSSL was intended to be a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL. The LibreSSL guys grumbled a lot about some of the quirks in the OpenSSL API, but they had to implement the same API to be a drop-in replacement. Also writing this sort of software can be tricky to get right, and for all its faults OpenSSL does have a lot of stuff done right. Overall I think forking was a sane choice.

Within the limits of my own knowledge, and what I know about OpenSSL and LibreSSL, I agree with this blog posting. And note that it is now 2016 and LibreSSL is available for Linux and other major platforms. (And it's standard on Mac OS X!)

I do not however believe LibreSSL in its current form goes far enough to really be effective as a "secure" alternative to OpenSSL in my view.

If you have the expertise to understand these issues, you might want to start your own project that goes further than LibreSSL. Start by making the API more sane.

I need TLS-SRP support. I need heartbeat to work as designed with DTLS.

I am not qualified to comment upon any of this.

I need native compatibility with a number of platforms.

I'm curious: what platforms are you missing from this list?

http://www.libressl.org/releases.html

• Linux (kernel 3.17 or later preferred)
• FreeBSD (tested with 9.2 and later)
• NetBSD (7.0 and later preferred)
• HP-UX (11i)
• Solaris (11 and later preferred)
• Mac OS X (tested with 10.8 and later)
• AIX (5.3 and later)
• Microsoft Windows (XP or higher, x86 and x64)
• Wine (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Builds with Visual Studio 2013 or newer, Mingw-w64 and Cygwin

P.S. I used HTML markup to get a bulleted list (the <ul> tag), but it doesn't display properly for me. Is there a trick to getting a bulleted list on Slashdot?

2) The wide usage of insurance shifts the bulk of the medical market into an insurance focused market, Rather than having an interest in having a patient with a positive and improved outcome, the physician has the two incentives of 1) not being sued (see above) and 2) placating the beancounters at the insurance company. The actual happiness of the patient ranks a distant third.

The focus on the ACA and the nominal dollars being thrown around is one of the examples of mass naivete that harm most Americans medically. see: http://sti2.blogspot.com/

The fundamental problem is that most of the so-called Republican Party now stands for "government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%" ...

If this is in comparison to the Democrats, then you have it very wrong. From http://commentarama.blogspot.c...:

"...the Democrats are the party of lawyers. Not only were lawyers their largest contributors in 2010, giving 81% of their donations to Democrats, but Democratic ranks are crawling with lawyers. In the last Senate, 35 of the 54 lawyers in the Senate were Democrats. In the last House, 106 of the 162 lawyers were Democrats."

And the 0.1%-ers give to the Democrats as much or more than they give to the Republicans. From: http://www.ijreview.com/2014/0...

"... prepare to see a lot of blue donkeys, because 20 of the top 32 donors lean Democrat, while only 6 lean Republican. The rest are on the fence.
Not only that, if you factor in all the indirect benefits the Democrat Party gets from the non-profit sector, left-wing activism, public and private sector unions, Wall Street banks, universities, and superfund contributors, it has been estimated by Dr. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin in their book The New Leviathan that the Republican Party is outspent in politics by a factor of 7-to-1."

I use Foxit Reader as there's probably a reason why Google chose to use it in Chrome for PDFs rather than any of the open source PDF viewers. http://googlesystem.blogspot.c...

http://www.inquisitr.com/15484...
http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2014...
http://gamergateharassment.tum...
https://angelwitchpaganheart.w...

You can ignore the problem and act like it doesn't exist, but that doesn't make it stop happening.

I don't call GG a movement against feminism, as they literally only espouse one opinion, that gaming journalism is corrupt. The side that is anti-gg I would describe as peopled with a bunch of feminists who try to make everything about them. After all, the original incident was about Zoe Quinn getting a positive review from a journalist who was sleeping with her, and what did Anti-GG focus on, but that it was mean to drag Zoe into it, even though it wasn't about her, but about the journalist being unethical.

Alternative Right writer here. From where most of us on the altright stand, Cruz looks like The Establishment Candidate: strong defense, protection of corporate interests, and nominal attention to irrelevant social issues. The GOP likes him because he will not rock the boat, and they can keep playing Little Red Riding Hood to the big bad wolf of the Democrats. That way, the donations can continue to roll in and yet they do not have to take any risky stances. Everyone in Washington is keeping everyone else there employed, and the consequences to America and her people are entirely irrelevant.

which brings me to my next point.jpg

And why looking at individual data points can mislead you.

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/...

It's interesting that you called those "Disney" movies, since, except for The Lion King, all of those stories pre-dated Walt Disney's birth.

Of course, the Lion King (originated in 1988) also post-dated Walt Disney's death, but was worked during Roy Jr. tenure.

That being said...

Pocahontas (in production at the same time) is arguably a fictional adaptation of a real story...

To be fair, the Snow White silent-live-action film made in 1916 was Walt's inspiration for the Disney Snow White animated feature film. Of course, the live-action film was based on the Broadway play from 1912***, which was based on the Grimm's tale, which was likely inspired by fictionalized version of an actual German countess who lived circa 1730. (yes there is a really talking mirror)

On the other hand, the fairy tale story Cendrillon from 1697 (predating the Grimm collection) was the inspiration for Disney's Cinderella. But, The Jungle Book (inspired by the book) wasn't really the same as the book at all.

For the record, I don't think Disney is really any better or worse than other block-buster movie makers out there when it comes to recycling plot/stories (they all do it), but since they are arguably better at making money at it than most they draw themselves a bigger target for more criticism...

*** As for adaptations, personally, I like the "original" (the Grimm version did not name the dwarves) names Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, better than Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. On the other hand, just think of the potential uproar if they instead had picked these names from the "short" list Flabby, Deafy, Tubby, Slutty, Hicky, Hotsy, and Chesty. ;^)

Google this

graph labor participation 16 to 50 year old

and you'll see labor participation by 16 to 50 year olds has been declining since 2001.

And that it's declining for various subgroups (like 40 year old males,

25-35, 30-40, 35-45, etc. etc.

Here's one of the many graphs showing this.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5_k...

Meanwhile 65+ employment rate is creeping up.

I think there are several factors :

1) social security changes are driving people to work longer-- which is crushing employment for young people- which will affect our societies ability to pay for social securty.

2) the rate of change is very high plus it's very expensive to train. When i was being educated- it cost $180 per semester for a full load.

3) Massive age discrimination starts at 40 and protection against age discrimination has been gutted by the supreme court.

4) Offshoring and H1B destroy the prospects of local labor. (white collar & professional)

5) Automation and robotics destroy the prospects of local labor (manual) AND are destroying jobs (temporarily) faster than new jobs can be created. (and new jobs created are mostly easy to automate or replace with robots).

a cross-plattform unique identifier

The NSA calls that a strong selector. Telephone numbers are great selectors because they're already broken down into countries and even region-codes, so you know right away whether you can freely hoover the account or need to send it to FBI/DEA for parallel construction or a foreign intelligence agency for inspection by non-nationals to get around pesky laws about the NSA looking at domestic data. Telephone numbers also often get tied to credit cards and cell-phone tower pings, so you get a really good lock on the subject, as opposed to e-mail addresses, which can be checked through proxies and TOR or through corporate networks that don't give you a good idea of who you're dealing with.

I read an excellent explanation of why we should have some pause with trans rights, at least some of the ideas presented by the radical feminist view made sense to me. I don't think discrimination is cool and the NC law seems like a terrible idea for everyone. But if the discussion around trans rights is that one must accept wholly that "transwomen are women" and the implication that women have vaginas and men have penises being offensive, then it's not really a useful discussion. The bit which made me remember that as always people are awful was that some transwomen insist that their penises are in fact female. http://thenewbacklash.blogspot...

Are changing rooms considered bathrooms, I think in most cases they would be. I don't have an answer but to dismiss any concern about it as unnecessary misses the fact that male violence continues to be a significant issue in society. That transwomen are threatened (much as women are) by male violence perhaps we should stop that, then there wouldn't be an issue. That blog expresses things better than I, and shows that in any argument you get awful people who misuse things for abusive reasons. There should be room for discussion and not defining anyone who doesn't agree as a hater.

Fecking computerworld keeps eating my comment....

I've seen this design somewhere: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cdoc...

A silo shaped datacenter does make more sense for natural ventilation, but is much more expensive to build. They build them like warehouses instead, because it's the best way to save on upfront costs.

A silo full of detachable pods, and elevators capable of moving them is impractical. That's a lot of weight and infrastructure for so little utility. These servers don't need to be replaced often. Plus, you'd have to take a whole pod offline to move it. It makes far more sense to have a cherry-picker for techs to ride up in.

I would design a silo-shaped datacenter in two layers. Cold air would be forced/drawn up inside of a central duct. Servers would be arranged in a ring around the inner tube, with motherboards in vertical orientation. Fine metal screen-mesh, not sheetmetal, will keep EM noise down. Cool air would be drawn from the central tube to flow across the server's components. Warmed air would expand outward to the airgap between servers and outer wall, and continue to rise on their own from there, through transoms leading outside. It is important to maintain stable temperatures, which would be impossible in such a large vertical space. The tower would therefore be horizontally partitioned and have multiple air inlets and outlets at different elevations. Airflow would be passively managed using motorized baffles, and have active cooling fans when needed.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D1u...

Yes, they are. Otherwise the percentage of the "middle class" would have grown. And BLS has a lot more statistics than weekly income. Anyway, see here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

You're just rattling off an endless stream of progressive talking points and apparently can't decide what point you are trying to argue. I can tell you this: as an immigrant, I have had much greater economic mobility in the US than in Europe. And the belly-aching from people like you just strikes me as laughable.

No, and it actually can be proven. There is no correlation between US state GDP and income growth and the amount of regulations.

Actually, there is, and numerous studies have shown that, both at the country and at the state level. http://politicalcalculations.b...

If your goal is to return good old 60-s when rivers were catching fire from deregulated dumping, then I suggest you move to China.

Environmental disasters in the US and elsewhere have been due to government protecting big industries from liability in the past. That kind of environmental protectionism has been reduced over the last few decades, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, environmental regulations still provide cover for industry to harm people.