Curiously, they're all content producers who would directly benefit from the regulation, and not content "distributor"... I wonder why...
Except that the distributors also produce content (Comcast/Xfinity owns NBC/Universal, Time-Warner owns Warner Brothers, etc). As such the "distributors" want to prioritize their own content.
If Apple could get their head out of the sand and create a unified protocol with Google and whoever is left in the smartphone OS field (BlackBerry?, Mozilla?), it would be fantastic.
I don't know about Blackberry or Mozilla, but Google supports XMPP messaging with at least several different messaging apps (and Linux/OSX/Windows programs). But even Google has some features that only work with its messaging app.
If employers want to claim it costs $17,000 to provide an employee a healthcare benefit, then the employer should have to pay that amount to the employee when employees decline that benefit.
Employers are not claiming that is their cost, they are reporting what the insurance company claims would be the "retail price" of an equivalent individual policy. Employers also report the actual cost as part of their business expenses. The IRS has a set of formulae for deciding if the employee owes more tax.
the oculus rift comes with a big 'ol "not for kids" warning
Interesting. What's different about the Oculus that makes it less safe than a Viewmaster? (FWIW, it seems that Fisher-Price still markets Viewmaster to young children)
People have done that and the answer is often "because society repeatedly told me it wasn't a job for women."
Both my girlfriend and our daughter were told that - repeatedly - by teachers, school counselors and "career advisers". Both replied "BS. I'm going to be an engineer."
HINT: Plato didn't speak English, so the likelihood of him coming up with a cute turn of phrase like that in Classical Greek, and then having it translate to something so erudite in English is... small.
Translated literally, I agree that something said/written by the Plato of ancient Greek fame would not be so erudite in English.
I once could read ancient Latin, which was heavily influenced by ancient Greek. To anyone who had not learned to read ancient Latin, a literal translation of stories (and other documents) written in the Latin of that era would be difficult to read. An easily readable "translation" is often actually a kind of collaboration between the original author and the translator (even when the original author is not involved in the translation, as would be the case when said author is dead).
So, if the ancient Plato actually said/wrote a phrase like that, the often quoted English version would have gotten its English erudicity from the translator.
Why do you need a way to reverse charges on something you explicitly authorized and sent?
It's not that reversing charges on explicitly authorized transmissions require that, but rather that some one who has your account number can withdrawn from your account without authorization.
Looking through CurrentC it does everything for Merchants, and nothing for customers.
- Requires to be tied to checking account or debit card
- Customer assumes 100% of liability for fraud (?!)
- Retailer can gather all purchase data on a customer
- Requires multistep actions including scanning QR codes
What benefit is in there for the customer? You know people are going to freak out around the liability part.
Target's Red Card program has an option for tieing the card to the customer's bank account. From what I've heard, many customers do take that option. Perhaps they didn't/don't understand the liability part?
Many retailers offer "loyalty" cards, so are already gathering all purchase data on those customers. No different for Red Card.
Where Target's Red Card program differs from CurrentC, at checkout, it works just like a credit/debit card and doesn't require an app.
In the US, Target has an option for customers to link the store issued "Red Card" to their bank account. From what I've heard, a lot of customers do this - even after the data breach.
If CurrentC is what merchants want, I'd be surprised if they don't get it. And from the banks' side, they can respond to fraud complaints with "Unless you can prove that you PIN was stolen, there is nothing we can do." And they will just figure out a way to make up for the transaction fees.
US banks still have very thick, bulletproof glass. They also have armed security guards. Very few have more than one entrance/exit for customers (Last one I saw with multiple customer entries/exits was 5 years ago. Not even customer accessible emergency exits.)
I assume that you mean that US vendors are extremely happy to accept the cost of potential fraudulent behaviour from non -US credit cards
Last I knew, US merchants are not allowed to accept credit (or debit) cards issued by non-US banks. One workaround is to buy (US bank issued) prepaid debit cards. Of course, the price is based on the current exchange rate plus a large markup. And even when the customer has a US bank account, there are other fees involved.
usually, they're just rote memorization drones, since that's pretty much the only skill the schools recognize anyway
The public school I might have gone to and the one my daughter might have gone certainly only truly recognized rote memorization.
Was not the case with the school I went to, my girlfriend went to nor my daughter went to. In many ways, it was like being turned loose in a library. We were given assignments, some individual, some group (usually assigned groups, but not always), then expected to get them done. There were also demonstrations and organized lab activities. And we were expected to do well in the arts as well as in math, science and social studies. Also, we were expected to participate in various social activities of our choice.
One of my more creative clients summarizes their employment requirements like this:
Junior Engineer
At least 5 years experience in product development with involvement in all phases from requirements analysis through hand-off to manufacturing.
Associate Engineer
Jedi Knight
Engineer
Jedi Master
Senior Engineer
Jedi Elder
Lead Engineer
Yoda
The real problem IMO is "how can you create a standardized test to measure critical thinking"
The tests I always did best on were the ones like a "reading comprehension test." Each section would start with a paragraph or 2 describing some problem. Then several questions about solving the problem. They required real thinking, not regurgitating piles of stuff you memorized. If you were actually learning from the lectures, demos, lab work and homework, answering the questions was easy.
have the purpose of challenging the studentÃ(TM)s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority
I am reasonably sure none of my teachers purposefully challenged my "fixed beliefs" or undermined my parents' authority. Their purpose was to help me to enhance my ability to think for myself and investigate the world around me.
A former coworker of mine, who is an immigrant from India, used to work for an India-base company. They assigned her to one of their US offices under an 'L' visa, paying her what she would have been paid in India. This was very common practice by her (now former) employer and many others she knew about. I suspect it still is.
FWIW, while in the US, she met and married a US citizen. She asked to have her assignment be permanent. but the company declined. She quit and quickly found a job offering 5x what her previous employer paid. Maybe should could have sued her previous employer for back pay, but didn't think about that at the time.
Jailing the executives would probably be the only effective strategy. Any fines just get passed along to customers - and the companies likely have ways to deduct the amount of the fines on their tax returns.
(No doubt, however, if executives realistically faced jail time for the illegal behavior of the companies they manage, they would demand even higher pay - and probably "hazardous duty" pay for any time spent in jail.)
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Curiously, they're all content producers who would directly benefit from the regulation, and not content "distributor"... I wonder why...
Except that the distributors also produce content (Comcast/Xfinity owns NBC/Universal, Time-Warner owns Warner Brothers, etc). As such the "distributors" want to prioritize their own content.
If Apple could get their head out of the sand and create a unified protocol with Google and whoever is left in the smartphone OS field (BlackBerry?, Mozilla?), it would be fantastic.
I don't know about Blackberry or Mozilla, but Google supports XMPP messaging with at least several different messaging apps (and Linux/OSX/Windows programs). But even Google has some features that only work with its messaging app.
This group has flown an "airship" to 95,000 feet (over 28.5 km or over 17.9 miles): http://www.jpaerospace.com/Tan...
Also, what happens if one of these quantum fluctuations happens inside our universe and reaches the threshold of viability?
If employers want to claim it costs $17,000 to provide an employee a healthcare benefit, then the employer should have to pay that amount to the employee when employees decline that benefit.
Employers are not claiming that is their cost, they are reporting what the insurance company claims would be the "retail price" of an equivalent individual policy. Employers also report the actual cost as part of their business expenses. The IRS has a set of formulae for deciding if the employee owes more tax.
the oculus rift comes with a big 'ol "not for kids" warning
Interesting. What's different about the Oculus that makes it less safe than a Viewmaster? (FWIW, it seems that Fisher-Price still markets Viewmaster to young children)
People have done that and the answer is often "because society repeatedly told me it wasn't a job for women."
Both my girlfriend and our daughter were told that - repeatedly - by teachers, school counselors and "career advisers". Both replied "BS. I'm going to be an engineer."
without needing to learn how things are done in the "real world"
And that is the catch. One company's "real world" is another company's "fantasy land".
HINT: Plato didn't speak English, so the likelihood of him coming up with a cute turn of phrase like that in Classical Greek, and then having it translate to something so erudite in English is... small.
Translated literally, I agree that something said/written by the Plato of ancient Greek fame would not be so erudite in English.
I once could read ancient Latin, which was heavily influenced by ancient Greek. To anyone who had not learned to read ancient Latin, a literal translation of stories (and other documents) written in the Latin of that era would be difficult to read. An easily readable "translation" is often actually a kind of collaboration between the original author and the translator (even when the original author is not involved in the translation, as would be the case when said author is dead).
So, if the ancient Plato actually said/wrote a phrase like that, the often quoted English version would have gotten its English erudicity from the translator.
Why do you need a way to reverse charges on something you explicitly authorized and sent?
It's not that reversing charges on explicitly authorized transmissions require that, but rather that some one who has your account number can withdrawn from your account without authorization.
Was not my experience, nor of friends of mine, but I haven't tried recently, nor have asked my friends.
Looking through CurrentC it does everything for Merchants, and nothing for customers.
- Requires to be tied to checking account or debit card
- Customer assumes 100% of liability for fraud (?!)
- Retailer can gather all purchase data on a customer
- Requires multistep actions including scanning QR codes
What benefit is in there for the customer? You know people are going to freak out around the liability part.
Target's Red Card program has an option for tieing the card to the customer's bank account. From what I've heard, many customers do take that option. Perhaps they didn't/don't understand the liability part?
Many retailers offer "loyalty" cards, so are already gathering all purchase data on those customers. No different for Red Card.
Where Target's Red Card program differs from CurrentC, at checkout, it works just like a credit/debit card and doesn't require an app.
In the US, Target has an option for customers to link the store issued "Red Card" to their bank account. From what I've heard, a lot of customers do this - even after the data breach.
If CurrentC is what merchants want, I'd be surprised if they don't get it. And from the banks' side, they can respond to fraud complaints with "Unless you can prove that you PIN was stolen, there is nothing we can do." And they will just figure out a way to make up for the transaction fees.
US banks still have very thick, bulletproof glass. They also have armed security guards. Very few have more than one entrance/exit for customers (Last one I saw with multiple customer entries/exits was 5 years ago. Not even customer accessible emergency exits.)
I assume that you mean that US vendors are extremely happy to accept the cost of potential fraudulent behaviour from non -US credit cards
Last I knew, US merchants are not allowed to accept credit (or debit) cards issued by non-US banks. One workaround is to buy (US bank issued) prepaid debit cards. Of course, the price is based on the current exchange rate plus a large markup. And even when the customer has a US bank account, there are other fees involved.
Another effect of No Child Left Behind was that schools near/at the top were penalized for "inadequate improvement."
usually, they're just rote memorization drones, since that's pretty much the only skill the schools recognize anyway
The public school I might have gone to and the one my daughter might have gone certainly only truly recognized rote memorization.
Was not the case with the school I went to, my girlfriend went to nor my daughter went to. In many ways, it was like being turned loose in a library. We were given assignments, some individual, some group (usually assigned groups, but not always), then expected to get them done. There were also demonstrations and organized lab activities. And we were expected to do well in the arts as well as in math, science and social studies. Also, we were expected to participate in various social activities of our choice.
We learned a lot. And we had a lot of fun.
Sounds like a lot of my clients.
One of my more creative clients summarizes their employment requirements like this:
Junior Engineer At least 5 years experience in product development with involvement in all phases from requirements analysis through hand-off to manufacturing. Associate Engineer Jedi Knight Engineer Jedi Master Senior Engineer Jedi Elder Lead Engineer YodaSounds like a lot of conservatives I know.
The real problem IMO is "how can you create a standardized test to measure critical thinking"
The tests I always did best on were the ones like a "reading comprehension test." Each section would start with a paragraph or 2 describing some problem. Then several questions about solving the problem. They required real thinking, not regurgitating piles of stuff you memorized. If you were actually learning from the lectures, demos, lab work and homework, answering the questions was easy.
which focus on behavior modification
All education is a form of behavior modification. Either we are taught to actually learn, or we are taught to do tricks.
have the purpose of challenging the studentÃ(TM)s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority
I am reasonably sure none of my teachers purposefully challenged my "fixed beliefs" or undermined my parents' authority. Their purpose was to help me to enhance my ability to think for myself and investigate the world around me.
I did my own challenging and undermining.
A former coworker of mine, who is an immigrant from India, used to work for an India-base company. They assigned her to one of their US offices under an 'L' visa, paying her what she would have been paid in India. This was very common practice by her (now former) employer and many others she knew about. I suspect it still is.
FWIW, while in the US, she met and married a US citizen. She asked to have her assignment be permanent. but the company declined. She quit and quickly found a job offering 5x what her previous employer paid. Maybe should could have sued her previous employer for back pay, but didn't think about that at the time.
Jailing the executives would probably be the only effective strategy. Any fines just get passed along to customers - and the companies likely have ways to deduct the amount of the fines on their tax returns.
(No doubt, however, if executives realistically faced jail time for the illegal behavior of the companies they manage, they would demand even higher pay - and probably "hazardous duty" pay for any time spent in jail.)
Since the tickets issued are "civil infractions", not criminal, the owner of the camera is generally considered sufficient legal proxy.