While not that far from the truth, AT&T is being pretty misleading about their "special offers" gigabit plan. Basically, if you want gigabit service it'll cost you twice as much to not have 3rd party marketers not having access to all of your browsing history.
The worst part is, there is no way for the customer to verify that paying double is actually protecting your data. If AT&T can spy on you with your consent, they can do it secretly without your consent.
My eee 701 (yeah, an original Surf, eat that one Chromebooks!) is still perfectly serviceable with an SD card for storage. It's just too small of a screen and keyboard for me to want to use on a regular basis. My primary laptop is a 7 year old Asus laptop that I decided to replace the screen on instead of replacing the whole laptop because it's plenty fast for what I use it for, the battery is still in good shape, and I don't want Windows 10.
No, reasonable people can disagree on whether Edward Snowden acted ethically. You don't get to determine morals for other people. In his view, he broke the law for his morals. You can't disagree with that statement unless you think he thinks he did a horrible thing and is lying about it. But based on pretty much every interview he's done he believes that he sacrificed his freedom to protect ours and is a whistle blower. Whether society agrees with him is an ethical issue, not a moral one.
Morals are what you think is right. Ethics are what society thinks is right. The law is what the government thinks is right.
What Snowden did was moral to him, questionable ethically, and illegal.
And I'm sure there were people who would have lynched Rosa Parks if given the chance too. Just because you side with the bad guys on bad laws doesn't change the fact that civil disobedience can be a positive trait.
I do agree on this. Generally the self checkouts don't have space for a huge amount of items...
I miss being back in Ohio because Meijer actually had two classes of self checkouts. There were the regular kiosks that were limited to I think it was 20 items, and then they had full self-serve lanes that were unlimited, but they actually had a belt that would feed items that worked much better for a whole cart full of stuff.
Yeah about that... Applebees has new touchscreen things that they put at our table. You can order from it, pay your bill from it, and request server assistance. Except the server assistance request never worked. Worst service I've ever gotten... If the digital screen is doing 80% of the serving, is it acceptable to reduce the tip by 80%?
The digital screens also show you ads for their stupid games during your meal as well. Luckily the screen is portable so you can just turn it around. What marketing idiot decided that people would pay $3 to play a cell phone game during a meal? If I wanted to pay $3 for a cell phone game, I'd do it on my cell phone where I would be able to play it later as well...
My biggest problem is the opposite... People using the self checkouts who have no business interacting with a machine. I was at Wal-Mart yesterday and there were only 2 lines open with human cashiers. There were 3 self checkout lanes open (one was out of service). One woman had a huge cart full of items and was slowly looking up items of produce, weighing them, carefully bagging them, and then repeating. She didn't even make it through 4 items in the time it took me to scan my 8 or so and get out of there. It probably took her 20 minutes wasting the time of everyone else when a human cashier who wasn't functionally useless in the modern world could have gotten her through the line in 3 minutes.
There need to be rules for the self checkout. No coupons, no coins, and no one over the age of 60.
1) Hurricanes have actually been at a record minimum for the last several years with very few severe hurricanes developing. 2) Not acknowledging extreme weather might be caused by climate change is just as wrong as blaming all extreme weather on climate change 3) In the US we buy gasoline by the gallon, not by the liter, and $1.40 sounds like a good price to me (we aren't far from it).
That's my biggest problem with making college available to everyone. If college is available for everyone, a 4 year degree is the new high school diploma... Just more expensive and 4 years of not-working later. We already make a high school education available for free to everyone. And we had to lower the standards for graduation to the point where a high school diploma is worthless. How low will we make the college degree standards until everyone can get one and one will be required for minimum wage jobs?
First, some stuff is nuanced I am sure. Some stuff, like SAP level material that the FBI has said was in the contents of some of the emails is obvious even to someone like me with no classification training. I am just some civilian who works in a desk job, but I would probably assume that spy satellite photos, names and locations of moles, and other such material probably shouldn't get out. In my job, I'm expected to protect "company secrets" which aren't well defined and aren't marked. I'd be an idiot if I sent any company processes or procedures to a personal email address and I could get fired on the spot and potentially litigated for damages if I released them or caused them to fall into the wrong hands.
She may not be a detective, she's the head of a department that deals with classified information. She had training on the classification requirements and probably had to sign something where she accepted the responsibility for identifying classified materials. Assuming she was incompetent in that regard, she was apparently also incompetently putting incompetent people on her staff. The staff that was sending her materials that were classified.
Remember that HR people and recruiters are the ones who didn't pass the tests and want to take it out on you. If they knew how to do that shit they'd be too valuable to waste time on hiring.
Hydropower is not exceedingly safe. I don't know where statistics on deaths due to power station failures might be collected, but I'd be willing to bet that this one incident dwarfs all non-hydropower plant disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, maybe 1 death in 30 or 40 years for the nuclear "disaster" vs the earthquake and tsunami that killed 15,894 with another 2,562 people missing (probably dead too) in minutes, hours, or days.
The answers as the FBI will consider: 1) Probably multiple people 2) Likely yes as reports indicate information that is classified when it is created was in the emails on her server. 3) If the Secretary of State can't identify classified information when she sees it, then she is incompetent to handle classified information. If she couldn't identify it and didn't bother to ask government agents whose job is specifically to rule whether or not information should be classified, she is incompetent to handle any sensitive written material at all. 4) Probably, but the better question is if she gave specific orders to remove classification markings or migrate classified materials to an insecure location. 5) Yes, beyond a doubt, yes. There is a specific secure system for discussing classified materials. Even using the regular government email to pass along classified information is against policy and probably illegal to some degree. 6) No, a home server is not illegal. What is sent to that server may be illegal depending on content. If it was at all related to the work she was doing as Secretary of State, for it to be legal she should have submitted a copy of all communications to the National Archives when she left office.
It depends. If Powell and Rice were also sending classified information using private email, then yes, they should also go to jail. If they used personal email for non-classified correspondence then they violated retention policy, not the law.
Wow, solar thermal is so bad... Also, not to discount nuclear power (I totally support it), but something tells me the cleanup costs aren't included. Then again, the cleanup costs are a clusterfuck thanks to the government. Killing Yucca Mountain and having made little progress on cleaning up the worst contamination sites (like Hanford for example) are entirely to blame on Congress. But by all means, let's make college education "free" instead of using money to clean up the environmental disasters our parents and grandparents left for us.
How about we clear off the list of superfund cleanup sites before we start working on global warming?
Exactly, regardless of crimes at this point, I don't know how anyone can support Hillary. Either A) she intentionally was mishandling classified information or B) she was completely ignorant of the security sensitive aspects of holding a public office after being in that position for 4 years.
Are either of these possibilities really someone a rational being can support? A criminal or a buffoon?
Well I guess if Donald Trump is the alternative... Then fucking vote for a 3rd party candidate! Batshit insane is better than criminal or incompetent!
But officer, I didn't see any MARKED speed limit... I don't deny going 150mph, but how was I to know that was not within the law?
Since when is ignorance of the law an excuse? Even more so when the person being investigated is the head of an organization that deals in classified materials... I have no government or military experience. Even I understand that spy satellite photos and the names of operatives within the government intelligence community are probably things I shouldn't share using my personal email account.
Hey, realizing you made a mistake is something 95% of the internet population wouldn't notice, care, or apologize for. You're ok in my book! Now if we could somehow ban people who use apostrophes to make things plural...
But pennies can be covered in germs! Well maybe not pennies... Whatever little copper is remaining in the plating might kill them off. But nickels perhaps?
People who abuse free samples are equivalent to thieves, people who test drive cars excessively are car jackers, and those taking more pennies than they leave are bank robbers!
I haven't had a salesman come by, but they just installed Gigapower (or whatever it is) here because Google Fiber is rolling out in Atlanta. It's probably awesome, but I'm not paying over twice as much for gigabit over the Comcast service that works well enough to stream what I want. Oh, they have a special deal that looks good until you read the fine print that AT&T gets to track all your internet usage and use it to sell things to you (and probably sell you to marketers).
Umm, you don't understand how pricing works do you? Increasing the price reduces the demand. Gouging generally refers to a price hike on necessities during an emergency. Disney is not something essential, nor would there ever be an emergency that reduced the supply of Disney. I don't know why you are so angry at Disney, but charging more money to reduce crowds seems pretty reasonable to me.
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While not that far from the truth, AT&T is being pretty misleading about their "special offers" gigabit plan. Basically, if you want gigabit service it'll cost you twice as much to not have 3rd party marketers not having access to all of your browsing history.
The worst part is, there is no way for the customer to verify that paying double is actually protecting your data. If AT&T can spy on you with your consent, they can do it secretly without your consent.
My eee 701 (yeah, an original Surf, eat that one Chromebooks!) is still perfectly serviceable with an SD card for storage. It's just too small of a screen and keyboard for me to want to use on a regular basis. My primary laptop is a 7 year old Asus laptop that I decided to replace the screen on instead of replacing the whole laptop because it's plenty fast for what I use it for, the battery is still in good shape, and I don't want Windows 10.
No, reasonable people can disagree on whether Edward Snowden acted ethically. You don't get to determine morals for other people. In his view, he broke the law for his morals. You can't disagree with that statement unless you think he thinks he did a horrible thing and is lying about it. But based on pretty much every interview he's done he believes that he sacrificed his freedom to protect ours and is a whistle blower. Whether society agrees with him is an ethical issue, not a moral one.
Morals are what you think is right.
Ethics are what society thinks is right.
The law is what the government thinks is right.
What Snowden did was moral to him, questionable ethically, and illegal.
And I'm sure there were people who would have lynched Rosa Parks if given the chance too. Just because you side with the bad guys on bad laws doesn't change the fact that civil disobedience can be a positive trait.
I do agree on this. Generally the self checkouts don't have space for a huge amount of items...
I miss being back in Ohio because Meijer actually had two classes of self checkouts. There were the regular kiosks that were limited to I think it was 20 items, and then they had full self-serve lanes that were unlimited, but they actually had a belt that would feed items that worked much better for a whole cart full of stuff.
At least we'd have chicken...
Yeah about that... Applebees has new touchscreen things that they put at our table. You can order from it, pay your bill from it, and request server assistance. Except the server assistance request never worked. Worst service I've ever gotten... If the digital screen is doing 80% of the serving, is it acceptable to reduce the tip by 80%?
The digital screens also show you ads for their stupid games during your meal as well. Luckily the screen is portable so you can just turn it around. What marketing idiot decided that people would pay $3 to play a cell phone game during a meal? If I wanted to pay $3 for a cell phone game, I'd do it on my cell phone where I would be able to play it later as well...
My biggest problem is the opposite... People using the self checkouts who have no business interacting with a machine. I was at Wal-Mart yesterday and there were only 2 lines open with human cashiers. There were 3 self checkout lanes open (one was out of service). One woman had a huge cart full of items and was slowly looking up items of produce, weighing them, carefully bagging them, and then repeating. She didn't even make it through 4 items in the time it took me to scan my 8 or so and get out of there. It probably took her 20 minutes wasting the time of everyone else when a human cashier who wasn't functionally useless in the modern world could have gotten her through the line in 3 minutes.
There need to be rules for the self checkout. No coupons, no coins, and no one over the age of 60.
1) Hurricanes have actually been at a record minimum for the last several years with very few severe hurricanes developing.
2) Not acknowledging extreme weather might be caused by climate change is just as wrong as blaming all extreme weather on climate change
3) In the US we buy gasoline by the gallon, not by the liter, and $1.40 sounds like a good price to me (we aren't far from it).
That's my biggest problem with making college available to everyone. If college is available for everyone, a 4 year degree is the new high school diploma... Just more expensive and 4 years of not-working later. We already make a high school education available for free to everyone. And we had to lower the standards for graduation to the point where a high school diploma is worthless. How low will we make the college degree standards until everyone can get one and one will be required for minimum wage jobs?
First, some stuff is nuanced I am sure. Some stuff, like SAP level material that the FBI has said was in the contents of some of the emails is obvious even to someone like me with no classification training. I am just some civilian who works in a desk job, but I would probably assume that spy satellite photos, names and locations of moles, and other such material probably shouldn't get out. In my job, I'm expected to protect "company secrets" which aren't well defined and aren't marked. I'd be an idiot if I sent any company processes or procedures to a personal email address and I could get fired on the spot and potentially litigated for damages if I released them or caused them to fall into the wrong hands.
She may not be a detective, she's the head of a department that deals with classified information. She had training on the classification requirements and probably had to sign something where she accepted the responsibility for identifying classified materials. Assuming she was incompetent in that regard, she was apparently also incompetently putting incompetent people on her staff. The staff that was sending her materials that were classified.
Remember that HR people and recruiters are the ones who didn't pass the tests and want to take it out on you. If they knew how to do that shit they'd be too valuable to waste time on hiring.
Hydropower is not exceedingly safe. I don't know where statistics on deaths due to power station failures might be collected, but I'd be willing to bet that this one incident dwarfs all non-hydropower plant disasters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sadly, it's not an isolated incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nor is it something that isn't a risk in modern times:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Yes, maybe 1 death in 30 or 40 years for the nuclear "disaster" vs the earthquake and tsunami that killed 15,894 with another 2,562 people missing (probably dead too) in minutes, hours, or days.
The answers as the FBI will consider:
1) Probably multiple people
2) Likely yes as reports indicate information that is classified when it is created was in the emails on her server.
3) If the Secretary of State can't identify classified information when she sees it, then she is incompetent to handle classified information. If she couldn't identify it and didn't bother to ask government agents whose job is specifically to rule whether or not information should be classified, she is incompetent to handle any sensitive written material at all.
4) Probably, but the better question is if she gave specific orders to remove classification markings or migrate classified materials to an insecure location.
5) Yes, beyond a doubt, yes. There is a specific secure system for discussing classified materials. Even using the regular government email to pass along classified information is against policy and probably illegal to some degree.
6) No, a home server is not illegal. What is sent to that server may be illegal depending on content. If it was at all related to the work she was doing as Secretary of State, for it to be legal she should have submitted a copy of all communications to the National Archives when she left office.
It depends. If Powell and Rice were also sending classified information using private email, then yes, they should also go to jail. If they used personal email for non-classified correspondence then they violated retention policy, not the law.
Wow, solar thermal is so bad... Also, not to discount nuclear power (I totally support it), but something tells me the cleanup costs aren't included. Then again, the cleanup costs are a clusterfuck thanks to the government. Killing Yucca Mountain and having made little progress on cleaning up the worst contamination sites (like Hanford for example) are entirely to blame on Congress. But by all means, let's make college education "free" instead of using money to clean up the environmental disasters our parents and grandparents left for us.
How about we clear off the list of superfund cleanup sites before we start working on global warming?
Exactly, regardless of crimes at this point, I don't know how anyone can support Hillary. Either A) she intentionally was mishandling classified information or B) she was completely ignorant of the security sensitive aspects of holding a public office after being in that position for 4 years.
Are either of these possibilities really someone a rational being can support? A criminal or a buffoon?
Well I guess if Donald Trump is the alternative... Then fucking vote for a 3rd party candidate! Batshit insane is better than criminal or incompetent!
But officer, I didn't see any MARKED speed limit... I don't deny going 150mph, but how was I to know that was not within the law?
Since when is ignorance of the law an excuse? Even more so when the person being investigated is the head of an organization that deals in classified materials... I have no government or military experience. Even I understand that spy satellite photos and the names of operatives within the government intelligence community are probably things I shouldn't share using my personal email account.
Hey, realizing you made a mistake is something 95% of the internet population wouldn't notice, care, or apologize for. You're ok in my book! Now if we could somehow ban people who use apostrophes to make things plural...
But pennies can be covered in germs! Well maybe not pennies... Whatever little copper is remaining in the plating might kill them off. But nickels perhaps?
People who abuse free samples are equivalent to thieves, people who test drive cars excessively are car jackers, and those taking more pennies than they leave are bank robbers!
I haven't had a salesman come by, but they just installed Gigapower (or whatever it is) here because Google Fiber is rolling out in Atlanta. It's probably awesome, but I'm not paying over twice as much for gigabit over the Comcast service that works well enough to stream what I want. Oh, they have a special deal that looks good until you read the fine print that AT&T gets to track all your internet usage and use it to sell things to you (and probably sell you to marketers).
Umm, you don't understand how pricing works do you? Increasing the price reduces the demand. Gouging generally refers to a price hike on necessities during an emergency. Disney is not something essential, nor would there ever be an emergency that reduced the supply of Disney. I don't know why you are so angry at Disney, but charging more money to reduce crowds seems pretty reasonable to me.
I loved Ellen's Energy Adventure... Seeing a young Bill Nye extolling the virtues of fossil fuels brought a tear to my eye.