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Except it did.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703428604575419580947722558.html?KEYWORDS=julian+assange+rights+groups

Amnesty International went after Assange in 2010, a year after that award when they learned how he put civilians in danger. And yet in every interview on the matter, Assange insists he did nothing wrong. In this article, he blasts others for being lazy, when he was the lazy one who didn't bother redacting names. And if you bother taking two seconds to Google such matters, you'll find several quotes where he says he won't redact civilian names unless people give him $200,000.

Actually, per capita deaths by war were far less in the past ten years than in quite possibly all of recorded history.

People who deny science, like MIT professor Richard Linden? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html

Muller has changed his tune recently.

A couple of interesting and related things on the subject of hiring strategies appeared this week in the Wall Street Journal.

First, a fascinating review of the book "The Rare Find" by George Anders. The review beings with this interesting anecdote and gets better after that:

When Joanne Rowling, an unemployed single mother, showed her first fanciful manuscript to a dozen British publishing houses, all quickly passed on it. Eventually a single bid emerged—for about $2,500—from Bloomsbury, then a small London publisher. Wise move: Ms. Rowling's "Harry Potter" franchise is now worth billions.

Next, James Taranto theorizes that college degrees are proxy for IQ Tests, which it is illegal to use in hiring. It raises the question of whether FaceBook's Programming Challenges will not become the target of lawsuits on the basis of "differential impact" as in Griggs V. Duke Power Co.

A couple of interesting and related things on the subject of hiring strategies appeared this week in the Wall Street Journal.

First, a fascinating review of the book "The Rare Find" by George Anders. The review beings with this interesting anecdote and gets better after that:

When Joanne Rowling, an unemployed single mother, showed her first fanciful manuscript to a dozen British publishing houses, all quickly passed on it. Eventually a single bid emerged—for about $2,500—from Bloomsbury, then a small London publisher. Wise move: Ms. Rowling's "Harry Potter" franchise is now worth billions.

Next, James Taranto theorizes that college degrees are proxy for IQ Tests, which it is illegal to use in hiring. It raises the question of whether FaceBook's Programming Challenges will not become the target of lawsuits on the basis of "differential impact" as in Griggs V. Duke Power Co.

And there's the amounts of money involved: $100K to $200K or more.

Or, perhaps $22,900.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/10/19/who-is-occupying-wall-street-a-pollster-surveys-protester/

Successful, unchallenged capitalism makes the population so safe, so indolent, so comfortable, so well-off that it literally breeds away ambition, determination, and self-reliance.

Watching OWS protests, where we have largely a population of educated middle-class or higher kids (who are staggeringly wealthy by any world standard), who have spent their lives:
- getting everything they need, and pretty much everything they want
- have never known hunger
- have always been basically healthy
- have never seen war except as volunteers, which is pretty damn unlikely anyway (more importantly, have never faced the ravage of war across their homes)

For them, the idea that this gravy-train may stop or even be impaired is nearly inconceivable. No wonder the concept is nigh unto catastrophe. Of course, real people - people with some actual life under their belts - know that the bulk of their whinging is laughable.

Now, I'll credit them with saying (at least at first) publicly what normal people DO agree with: that the bankers and financiers whose shenanigans caused this financial crisis should NOT have been bailed out, and need to be punished to the extent of the damage they've caused. In fact, I'd love it if they were truly, biblically decimated.

Of COURSE, they also don't really understand what the real consequences of significant bank failures would have meant (see the points above), but ignorance is bliss, I guess.

I suppose it makes me a radical that I believe that the survival of the republic really required these failures. Like a forest where all fires are prevented, we've allowed socialist safety nets to suppress the normal consequences of failure so long that the next one that happens may truly be catastrophic (this one would have been borderline). But in the same sense that you can't forever prevent fires, you can't forever protect people from the consequences of their choices. That tension WILL COME OUT.

LOL @ the android fanboys who regale in the microscopic victories of having script-blocking software running on their Android phones. Time to pop the champagne!

Meanwhile, Apple and iOS are empowering users with devastatingly awesome features like Siri AI and an app store catalog that's now over 500,000. Oh yeah, Apple just sold 4.5 million iPhones 4s units during this weekend. When will the Android fanboys realize that it's not about hardware specs but overall integration between OS software, hardware, and 3rd-party apps? The iPhone empowers people (you, me, doctors, businessmen, engineers, scientists, etc.). Android distracts people with irrelevant details (is that 4.2" screen better than this 3.97" screen)?

So basically, you can continue wasting your days trying to hack your Android browser, or you can do something useful with your life.

Ask yourself, why would S&P give a AAA rating to bogus "mortgage backed securities"?

Because they were paid to rate them, and if they didn't rate them AAA, someone else would have. Or maybe they were just lied to.

Because those mortgage loans had the back of the Federal government.

Except for the "NINJA" loans and others that failed to meet the documentation standards required by freddie and fannie in order to qualify for insurance. Yes the debt standards were reduced (to allow for getting a second mortgage to pay the downpayment required by the first) but they weren't eliminated.

Freddie and Fannie didn't crash and burn strictly because of their insurance business, Freddie and Fannie crashed and burned because a bunch of idiots in charge of them decided they could pad their assets with a bunch of CDOs. In other words, like all the other banks playing with CDOs, they were getting filthy rich on paper until they went broke in the real world. Their collapse was their own fault for touching the toxic waste, just like everyone else's collapse was their own fault for touching the toxic waste.

This link worked for me: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116863379291775523-_EQCu93LyjSommsN6J7qiCozuu8_20070122.html

It's a solution for the people who want to work there and feed their families, and maybe earn some money to send their kids to college. But screw them, right? Let them eat cake.

It''s a solution to the single mother who wants to save a few dollars a year on gasoline. Maybe she can buy her kid the toy he wants for Christmas with the few extra dollars. But screw them, right?

It's a solution to the problem that the Trans-Alaska Pipeline will cease to be able to transport oil because the volume of oil is too low. When that fails, thousands more people will lose their jobs -- good jobs with decent pay. But screw them, right?

This is not newsworthy and it's not what you might think. It used small chunks of text and only kept ones that made sense. A better description of why this is complete bullshit can be found here.

Rival smartphone makers could exploit a rare letdown by Apple in the launch of its new iPhone 4S model, which failed to wow fans, and grab a bigger share of the most lucrative part of the phone market.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/apple-iphone-4s-opens-door-competitors-analyst-210516885.html

"It's certainly a disappointment given the fact that people were looking for a new iteration to be number 5 in this case," says David Garrity, principal at GVA Research.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204524604576610991978907616.html

"Underwhelming is the word that hit me," said Endpoint Technologies Associates analyst Roger Kay.

The letdown was echoed in the early performance of Apple's shares, which fell as much as 5% Tuesday and finished down 0.6% at $372.50 at 4 p.m. trading even as the broader market rose.

"Not really. Obama is shutting down oil extraction out of the gulf and is complicating extraction throughout the country."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904491704576571052525514860.html

If you're willing to fabricate this fact, why should we believe anything you say here?

These drones are so vulnerable, their use in combat is totally laughable. Iraqi insurgents could intercept their communications with $26 software! Two years ago! Their shit is apparently totally unencrypted, and as such, has now been exploited to the point where they are now able to infiltrate the control software.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read

Next thing you know, these guys will turn the whole damn fleet of drones against us. Just what I wanted my tax dollars going toward, free fucking aerial suicide bombers for al Qaeda, drug cartels, and script kiddies.

You were completely off base and the article you linked to proved you wrong in the first fucking sentence!

These drones are so vulnerable, their use in combat is totally laughable. Iraqi insurgents could intercept their communications with $26 software! Two years ago! Their shit is apparently totally unencrypted, and as such, has now been exploited to the point where they are now able to infiltrate the control software.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read

Next thing you know, these guys will turn the whole damn fleet of drones against us. Just what I wanted my tax dollars going toward, free fucking aerial suicide bombers for al Qaeda, drug cartels, and script kiddies.

Not refusing to comment.

Botched technology upgrade is the official response.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576612803222293510.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

that would be even scarier. Six days of spotty service for no good reason?

They have a reason. Its not a good one. I'm not aware of any GOOD reason for a 6 day outage.

Their reason according to the Wall Street Journal article is a botched upgrade.

Someone in IT is having a very bad week.

The culprits are:

  Jeffrey Klein

  Diane Savino

  David Carlucci

  David Valesky

They of a growing movement to end democracy. See, for example, North Carolina Governor Beverly Purdue's suggestion that federal elections be suspended. James Taranto provides other examples.

Nope. Try Again. Oil is just an (admittedly large) part of the overall picture.

The costs of health care for small businesses are disproportionately high, discouraging entrepreneurship.

You may be correct on the Chinese fire sale. However, your assertion that the taxpayers of the United States are going to see all that money recouped is patently false at this time. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703916004576271382418887092.html http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/21/report-fed-mulling-summer-sale-of-gm-stock-would-take-big-loss/ The stock owned by the government needed to be sold at $50/share to break even. But what's 11 billion dollars when you want to raise government spending by another 1.6 trillion? A rounding error, to be sure.

Apple nearly bankrupted before

See how successful Apple was after they got rid of Jobs? See how revenue declined after he came back went up again and declined again?

Nobody knows anything.

So they asked the weather bureau what the distance was?

Then they sent the neutrinos thru the earth (not in a tunnel, not in open air, but thru rock, and soil, and mountain ranges).

Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP58b5aed0a77c45ddb163d90951b36b35.html

Yeah? Then explain all those other random crackpots in the scientific world casting doubt:

Read this: http://online.wsj.com/article/AP58b5aed0a77c45ddb163d90951b36b35.html

Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.

These are real physicists, not armchair ones.

Well, the chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland appears to be skeptical too:

Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that there are measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.

I imagine Dr. Baden might be a little insulted to be referred to as an "armchair physicist"...

"Google is being scrutinized by the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee for supposedly "cooking" their search results"

Are these accusations coming from the same source that scrapes Google search results and posts it as their own?

`Mr. Singhal posted a detailed post on Google's official blog describing how the company came to the conclusion that Bing was copying the Google search engine .. Google wants to compete with "algorithms built on core innovation, and not on recycled search results from a competitor"' link

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It makes perfect sense.

Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard.

Let's play a game (but not global thermonuclear war if Apotheker might get involved). Try to guess what HP's next mega-blunder will be:

• Dispose of inkjet printer business (and maybe laser printer and scanner businesses, too)
• Reverse abandonment of WebOS devices, but after firing all the folk with know-how and pissing-off subcontractors
• Announce a new combined book and app-store for iOS/Android/Kindle/Nook/etc. which will be a global leader
• Declare that Jack Welch's "Destroy your business" is HP's new corporate slogan, but without the "Build your business" bit
• Decide that all HP calculators will be replaced by models which are also smartphones and unusable in schools
• Start work on a new desktop OS which is promised to obliterate Windows, OSX and Linux

Any other suggestions for batshit-crazy corporate directions to inspire Apotheker's next folly? Merely awarding grotesque bonuses and share options to the most destructive "leaders" does not count as stupid enough.

It's not a total media blackout. It's just not front page news.

It makes perfect sense.

Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard.

It seems to be a popular game. NetFlix and Mozilla are playing too.

It makes perfect sense.

Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard.

Sold out, I believe.

The trouble is that if you read between the lines carefully - and the Wall Street Journal article makes this more obvious - they had enough money to pay out players' balances, but can't access all of this money due to US government interference. Basically, the DoJ and the US government interfered with their banking to the point they didn't have enough money readily available to pay out all player balances at once, then accused Full Tilt Poker of running a Ponzi scheme because of this inability to pay everyone. It looks like players are probably going to lose out, but it's not going to be because Full Tilt Poker is a fraud or a scam, it'll be because the US government is going to take players' funds and keep them.

The US government is very much involved in this.

Corporate taxes are just that but it's not like just the corporation is a entity taking the burden of such taxes. There are people that are responsible for the tax and if they can't pay the tax then they and the corporation is not going to fend well.

I read a story about 2 month ago about Buffett and his statement and it was broken down like this: "Mr. Buffett owns about one-quarter of his investment company Berkshire Hathaway, and his shares are worth about $38 billion. This wealth is mostly stored in what are technically called "unrealized capital gains." Eventually when those gains are converted into income, he will pay a capital gains tax. Even so, in 2008 Berkshire paid $3 billion in corporate taxes. And since Mr. Buffett is the principal owner, he shoulders a big share of that tax."

Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal story about Buffett's comment. Call it bullshit if you want.

An article I keep bookmarked for these occasions:
Divided Government Is Best For the Market by Donald Luskin. He basically does the analysis and comes to the same conclusion you drew anecdotally. When government is divided and gridlocked, the economy does best.

"The city links the 1,500 cameras that police have placed in trouble spots with thousands more... Even home owners can contribute camera feeds....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704538404574539910412824756.html

If you link your camera to the city "highly trained crime surveillance specialists will have access" ...
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/oem/provdrs/tech/svcs/link_your_cameras.html

IBM press release about it's Chicago's video analysis software that "detects suspicious activity and potential public safety concerns " ...
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22385.wss

Oh really?

Nonsense, is it?

Nonsense?

Nonsense?

What about clear violation of their very policies on SAFETY? Nonsense?

But if you worked in "health insurance industry", you'd never want FDA to stop doing what they do, after all, any government involvement is beneficial for large corporations, who gain monopoly/oligopoly power by restricting access of small competitors, by forcing any innovator to seek sponsorship of large pharma company, by having government money in insurance, which is the reason that insurance premiums are as high as they are and climbing, having insurance attached to people's jobs, which is the reason there is a problem of "preexisting-conditions" in the first place, because once you change your job and if you have a "condition", it's that much harder to get coverage again.

In a free market an American would have been able to buy health insurance privately from any provider from ANYWHERE in the world.

Why can't an American buy health insurance from Singapore?

Except that's not what an inspector general does. They are responsible for investigating misconduct in a government agency (in this case, the Department of the Interior).

And that's where the problem lies. if you read the transcript, Monnett worked for the Minerals Management Service (MMS). Yes, that MMS.

So, when a government agency is working in the interests of the citizens of the United States, then yes, the inspector general preforms a valuable function. When the agency is in bed with the industry it is supposed to be regulating, then the office of the inspector general becomes a tool to stifle people who oppose the pro-industry narrative. Look at this case. If you read the transcript, the issue is that someone who can't do math reported Monnet to the OIG for scientific misconduct. Rather than checking the peer-review process or consulting with an expert, the investigators repeated the same flawed math and suspended him. You want to talk about "embedded biases"? Take a look at the OIG.

You think that's a joke, but it's been tried. The "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" has been around since the 80s, and strengthened several times. It is bad law.

In one case, a company set up a website whose terms of use prohibited visiting the website. When their competitor visited, they sued. In another case, someone put a fake profile picture on MySpace and was charged with a crime. You can be sued for checking personal email at work or visiting Facebook.This is law made by people who don't understand computers very well. It also applies to any computer, so if you don't follow the terms of service for a microwave, you can be sued.

That would be: Y93C1 - Activity, computer keyboarding

Also, posted anonymously for obvious reasons.

It's not legal, you can't put terms in a contract like that, there's no way that would ever stand up in court.

Sadly, I don't think there's enough established case-law and precedent to make that a guaranteed thing.

For example, SCOTUS has ruled that they can force you to arbitration ... so as long as SCOTUS figures the rights of companies trump yours, I fear what you say might not be true.

• W1811XA, Fall from or off toilet without subsequent striking against object, initial encounter
• W1811XD, Fall from or off toilet without subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter
• W1811XS, Fall from or off toilet without subsequent striking against object, sequela
• W1812XA, Fall from or off toilet with subsequent striking against object, initial encounter
• W1812XD, Fall from or off toilet with subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter
• W1812XS, Fall from or off toilet with subsequent striking against object, sequela

Water skis are treated as a type of boat, so they get all the standard code variations for boat-caused injuries. Compare the water-ski list to the beginning of http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=fishing_boat

Spacecraft: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=spacecraft
Nuclear Weapons: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=nuclear+weapon
3 pages of alcohol: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=alcohol including "Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more"
Primary Thunderclap Headache??? : http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=clap
Contact with hot toaster (as opposed to being hit over the head with a cold toaster, I aasume): http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=toast

"War operations involving destruction of aircraft due to accidental detonation of onboard munitions and explosives, civilian, subsequent encounter"
"Sexual harassment on the job"

The mind boggles...

Spacecraft: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=spacecraft
Nuclear Weapons: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=nuclear+weapon
3 pages of alcohol: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=alcohol including "Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more"
Primary Thunderclap Headache??? : http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=clap
Contact with hot toaster (as opposed to being hit over the head with a cold toaster, I aasume): http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=toast

"War operations involving destruction of aircraft due to accidental detonation of onboard munitions and explosives, civilian, subsequent encounter"
"Sexual harassment on the job"

The mind boggles...

Spacecraft: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=spacecraft
Nuclear Weapons: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=nuclear+weapon
3 pages of alcohol: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=alcohol including "Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more"
Primary Thunderclap Headache??? : http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=clap
Contact with hot toaster (as opposed to being hit over the head with a cold toaster, I aasume): http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=toast

"War operations involving destruction of aircraft due to accidental detonation of onboard munitions and explosives, civilian, subsequent encounter"
"Sexual harassment on the job"

The mind boggles...

Spacecraft: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=spacecraft
Nuclear Weapons: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=nuclear+weapon
3 pages of alcohol: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=alcohol including "Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more"
Primary Thunderclap Headache??? : http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=clap
Contact with hot toaster (as opposed to being hit over the head with a cold toaster, I aasume): http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=toast

"War operations involving destruction of aircraft due to accidental detonation of onboard munitions and explosives, civilian, subsequent encounter"
"Sexual harassment on the job"

The mind boggles...

Spacecraft: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=spacecraft
Nuclear Weapons: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=nuclear+weapon
3 pages of alcohol: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=alcohol including "Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more"
Primary Thunderclap Headache??? : http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=clap
Contact with hot toaster (as opposed to being hit over the head with a cold toaster, I aasume): http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=toast

"War operations involving destruction of aircraft due to accidental detonation of onboard munitions and explosives, civilian, subsequent encounter"
"Sexual harassment on the job"

The mind boggles...

I'm sure there will be a rush to file injuries incurred while using "burning water-skis".

WTF?

http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/MEDICALCODES0911/#term=Water-skis