An example of something truly black would be a black hole, as it absorbs all light, matter and energy around it, meaning that it is truly the only surface in the universe we are aware of that can truly be known as black.
"the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under lighting conditions when color vision is not normally impaired", since now he perceives some black colors as violet.
Not quite. Black is not a color.
Sure it is. Just not any color that you can see. A black surface absorbs all wavelengths of the relatively tiny visible spectrum.
Have you tried, paying like $50 for a good DVD ripping software and then ripping out all the annoying commercials and interactive menus by burning to a DVD that you don't mind getting all scratched up or lending to friends or family with the chance you will never see it again in the next 5 years?
Besides, I can fit hundreds more movies in my bookshelf through slim alphabetized jewel cases than I can with the waste of space cases that the DVD's and Blu-Rays come in.
Pray tell any good revenue generating models for a content based site business on the Internet? Don't even say paywall, that has never worked and likely never will. Not only do most Internet users refuse to support content behind a paywall, their are entire groups of free information fundamentalists who actively devote their lives to bringing down paywalls and companies that host them.
Just saying "Evolve or die" is intellectually lazy. It would be akin to saying that long distance space travel will occur eventually to save the human race from an extinction event, somebody just has to figure out that whole "create a wormhole" thing. There. My job is done here. Your welcome humanity.
In more than anyway imaginable, advertisements and targeted advertisements helped to fund and thus build the internet as we know it today. Taking targeted ads out as a possible revenue stream will lead to a string of bankruptcies and site shutdowns across the Internet. It will stifle new innovation and content that can't get adequate funding.
Startups will struggle and fail too. Ultimately, the only content generators that will matter at that point will be hobbyists who spend their own time and money to partake in the internet just to be noticed.
I don't think people truly realize how much money will dry up without targeted advertising.
And that is the heart of the problem. Something similar happened to my brother, the dad of the girl was close friends with the police and the magistrate and my brother mouthed off to the policeman who was very aggressively interrogating the girl and her sister without parental supervision. THANK GOD he had a good lawyer that got him out of that mess (eventually) but the judge took a misdemeanor allegation of inappropriate contact with a minor (kissing) and gave him the hammer for it and brought forth baseless felony charges as a punishment.
The laws, interpretations and punishments for these types of crimes have holes in them so big that you can drive a bus through it, or a vengeful policeman and a judge that abuses her power is able to really put the screws to somebody just because they don't like how they carry themselves in court, or how they dress, or some other completely irrelevant detail that has nothing to do with the allegations and the evidence.
On one note I understand why sexual misconduct with minors is treated the way it is in our legal system, because of the gravity of the case, the confusing and conflicting testimonies, the heavy reliance upon testimony by minors, and the fact that the vast majority of these cases were without direct witness, just the accuser and the accused.
If one were to conduct such a case with the same stringent guidelines as one would a murder trial, then virutally nobody would ever be convicted for such crimes, and you run the risk of justice not being served.
On the other hand, it is a very slippery slope and can be used as a VERY dangerous weapon to ruin somebodies life, like what happened to my brother for instance. I am not him, and I can't say for sure what had REALLY happened between him and the 14 year old girl, but I do know the father wasn't sure either, he had completely unrelated issues with him regarding money that he despised him for, he was close friends with both the head of the police department and magistrate where his pre-trial began, and the only evidence was the constantly changing stories of the older sister which I highly suspected she was being coerced into saying by the father. Everything eventually worked itself out but only after the finanical ruin of court costs and a GOOD lawyer (a good lawyer is so critically important). He is not a registered sex offender and he had to do some community service which he took to be a positive experience.
When people discuss the punishment of conviction they almost always seem to forget the financial and emotional punishment that comes simply with being accused, and how those who wrongfully accuse rarely get punished. The police invested a hell of a lot of time in bringing the case to trial, so even if they know they don't have a case, they will try their hardest to get some kind of punishment to the defendant. As someone who lived through this witch hunt before I can say that it falters your faith in the legal system and this country.
Our economy doesn't need to grow, and that is the fundamental problem. Modern economics is basically a pyramid scheme based on the false notion of infinite growth and expansion. This is an archaic world view that served us well when their were unexplored frontiers and new opportunities everywhere.
I don't know if you noticed this but the world is getting awfully smaller and there are just too many people for capitalism as it is practiced in its current form to result in healthy wealth gaps and thus a healthy society.
But US workers think it's their "right" to earn $25/hour for labor jobs that don't require a college degree or any advanced vocational training - and they use Unions to enforce this.
Bull. Several of my friends are unskilled factory laborers in the US and they are happy to do it for $11/hr and cheap 80/20 health insurance. Any temp agency for unskilled work has plenty of these jobs lined up and a lot of people work them. Even saying the word "union" in one of these factories will result in you being fired and possibly blacklisted.
Frankly, you don't know what you are talking about. There is more to American manufacturing than a few spoiled workers at General Motors, and anybody who thinks that ANY of these big electronics companies couldn't pay a little more to keep their factories here is being disingenuous.
In the US I can make more than $20/month by begging or digging through trash for aluminum cans to take to the recycle center. There is the free market competition for you.
It seems we are seeing a lot more of these extraordinary claims and studies become challenged recently ranging from cancer research to climate change denialists skirting the peer review process:
I think money plays a huge part in some of this. Think of the falsified research on the health benefits of Resveratrol and how those studies helped form a legitimacy around diet fad drugs that account for a billion dollar industry. It is an extremely lucrative industry and some of that money may end up funding future studies.
The same thing can be said about the corrupting influence of corporate money in funding climate change denial studies. If as a scientist, my research is being funded by oil companies who clearly want the studies to find a certain conclusion, you would be driving a stake in the heart of your career if you come to any other conclusion than climate change being unclear.
Other times there is enormous competition in research and a successful groundbreaking study will sometimes launch a lucrative career. The temptation can be great to make grandoise claims to jumpstart a career because by the time peer review trashes it, you may have already secured a cushy grant.
No one works an Indian IT job where they are "literally starving in the streets", because they'll DIE.
You misunderstood me so I will try again. I am saying that there are millions of educated Indians who do not have work right now. Do you think they made a rational choice to become educated and just fucking DECIDE to be a slumdog? You know very little about India don't you?
I have an IT job and I don't worry about "exploiting" the third world because my job has nothing to do with what happens in the third world.
That may be true, but I bet you their jobs, expertise and ability to provide cheap IT services may have something to do with what happens in the first world. If your companies competitor figures out how to offshore and cuts their costs because of it, then yours is at a competitive disadvantage. I would hope you don't eventually lose your job. Even if you don't, many venture capitalists are springing up in these regions are starting to realize just how little these hollow international corps are really bringing to the table. Why not just sell them their IT services with one hand, and on the other cut them out for a lower cost and provide a cheaper alternative to the traditional customers of the hollow corp. You think this isn't happening across all industries, then you are saddly mistaken. They realize that increasingly more talent is springing up in their own backyard and even in booming urban areas the cost and quality of lving is just insanely low.
Bottom line is that it is remarkably shortsighted of you to think that this won't affect you.
I feel like the code-related ones have helped me be a better programmer by being a constant reminder to read things carefully, sanitize inputs, and ensure that it makes sense to someone not up to their ears in this section of code.
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I could probably make the same argument for a salary of around $55k for a guy doing any kind of IT when there are 50 million college educated IT professionals in India who are quite literally starving on the streets. Even if they only do half as good a job, they are willing to work for a tenth of the first world guy, and a company will spring up over there that will exploit that person and turn around and sell his services for a quarter of what it costs to keep the American employed. Even at 50% efficiency they are still double ahead.
Face it, the only reason you have a first world lifestyle is because the idiot PHB type managers making 100k + are not intelligent enough to figure out how to replace you. The only reason any of you have a comfortable living salary is because the first world exploits the third world.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
I'd say it's a little more complicated than that. In the short term, the pipeline would save on emissions, but making it easier to transport oil into the country is obviously going to lower prices and increase usage in the long run.
Parent here... I am not so sure about that though. The traditional effects of supply and demand that would take place in a normal market don't really pertain when it comes to gasoline, because in reality there hasn't been a true grand scale shortage of supply in over 30 years. I cannot recall a single time where I had difficulty locating a supply of gasoline. In a free market, as a buyer I negotiate with a seller for a mutally agreeable price on gasoline, and if the terms are not agreeable to me, I can do without for now and look for another supplier. I can't do that with gasoline because I NEED it to go to the store, get to work, etc... It is a commodity. In reality if every supplier had unlimited supply, which they mostly do for all intents and purposes, and if those prices were set across the board then I would eventually be forced to pay whatever is being asked.
The buyer has no real power here so econ 101 rules don't apply to this situation. Commodity trading of crude oil sets the price such that across the board, all gas stations are going to pay the same for gasoline across the country, barring federal and regional taxes. True they have some control on their markup, but there are a lot of gas stations to pick from so their is enormous competitive pressure to keep the markup at minuscule levels and depend on profit by volume, because sure as the sun rises, the gasoline truck will come to refill the tanks once a week. Unlimited Supply.
The wild price fluctations are not a result of increased demand or decreased supply, despite what the media reports. Market fluctuations are almost exclusively the acts of Wall Street speculation of commodity futures. So where does Demand come into play then? The demand while it has gone down slightly for frivolous waste of gasoline and more fuel efficient vehicles, has not really affected the driving habits of Americans at any significant level. Demand grows organically with population growth as it would if you looked at other necessary commodities like corn (adjusted of course for ethanol fuel demand). Unlimited Demand.
It is a fallacy to assume that in an environment of Unlimited Supply and Unlimited and easily predictable Demand that lower costs in transporting crude will result in increased Demand for crude. The only thing this guarantees is that oil companies have cut their transportation costs significantly and increased their bottom line.
The only people who did not like SOX are CEO types who know of fraud in their companies.
Thats not true at all, most CEO types do not like SOX because of how complicated and expensive it is for them to be compliant. In principle they like the idea that corporations are having their books more tightly scrutinized but they tend not to like anything that increases their costs.
Obama shut down the keystone pipeline as a reelection ploy to entice environmentalists. This was a terrible idea that only hurts everyone. Pissing off Canada, increasing fuel costs in the US. China will now buy the oil from Canada, and sell it back to the US, so environmentalists lose too. No one has any idea why this happened. It boggles the mind. (everyone loses this one)
Surely it was a strategic move to rally up support from the ever dissatisfied and under represented left, but in reality this was not a terrible idea that hurt everyone. The biggest losers here are oil companies because they actually have to spend money now to transport crude oil from Canada to refineries in the lower part of the state. The refineries are already there and have no shortage of work, you can't count those as "new jobs" as those are people already working. The jobs created to build the damn pipeline would be about 10k and all of it temporary. After that no more jobs, just a giant friggin pipe cutting across the country. On the other hand, a good number of permanent jobs are built up around the fact that crude has to make it from point A to point B, which would result in a net increase of permanent jobs in Rail and Trucking. So essentially building the pipeline creates more jobs, efficient approaches KILL jobs while inefficient approaches CREATE more jobs.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
Set up a self signed SSL certificate and as far as your ISP goes it is just normal encrypted traffic between a russian server and your house. This is how a lot of the spammers seem to do it.
Why even pay $10/month for a VPS when you can pay $5/month for a shared web hosting environment, then put an.htpasswd file at root context and an.htaccess file at folder levels you wish to password protect?
Nobody will be able to download your files without the username and password that you can control, and combine that with an SSL certificate, nobody could snoop on your credentials or password.
I agree with you, but let me play devils advocate... Are they really colluding as competitors though? They may or may not be actual competitors in SELLING their products and are not colluding on that front, however labor is something they are in BUYING competition on.
In other words, does collusion between corporations who are in BUYING competition with apply to current anti-trust laws?
Please mod parent up for this perfectly fitting Adam Smith quote... Perhaps one should post some juicy exercepts about his thoughts on why corporations are a perversion of the free market... Conservatives always seem to skip that chapter:)
while in the long run the increased regulations they can inflict will hit their real enemy - small corporations that haven't yet grown into viable threats.
Just stop... my brain cannot repel trolling of this magnitude...
You are right... us liberals are just using this perfect example of the perfect free market at work as an excuse to destroy through regulation those dastardly small business job creators, the final opponent in our grand diabolical scheme of one world government. Yes.... yes... it is all going according to plan!
I would rather live outside and retain what shreds of dignity I have remaining than subject myself to the humiliation of living in a cage like a fucking animal.
What a load of bullshit. If you get violently ill, how well will you have to know the doctor in the emergency room before you allow him to treat you?
Unless the doctor is getting paid by somebody, he will not treat you. Society has decided that we care enough for those we do not know that we will not allow money to determine who receives emergency care. Somebody however has to pay the doctor. If the doctor was in your tribe he will treat you because you are a peer and the tribe works together for communal survival. A tribe has no need for money. This is the point I was trying to convey. Money is only necessary when the size of a society is such that you cannot possibly know everybody. This is an affront to the natural state of humanity.
My argument about dependence is that any dependence in society is unreliable without a sufficient amount of money. I can't depend on anybody if I run out of money. I am worthless without it. My wife however finds me worth life itself and I didn't have to pay for her. These teens seem to do stupid things because they are acting trusting and tribally out of instinct, but ultimately they haven't yet learned the unnatural realities of a cold society.
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An example of something truly black would be a black hole, as it absorbs all light, matter and energy around it, meaning that it is truly the only surface in the universe we are aware of that can truly be known as black.
Well, that and Don Cheadle
"the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under lighting conditions when color vision is not normally impaired", since now he perceives some black colors as violet.
Not quite. Black is not a color.
Sure it is. Just not any color that you can see. A black surface absorbs all wavelengths of the relatively tiny visible spectrum.
Have you tried, paying like $50 for a good DVD ripping software and then ripping out all the annoying commercials and interactive menus by burning to a DVD that you don't mind getting all scratched up or lending to friends or family with the chance you will never see it again in the next 5 years?
Besides, I can fit hundreds more movies in my bookshelf through slim alphabetized jewel cases than I can with the waste of space cases that the DVD's and Blu-Rays come in.
Pray tell any good revenue generating models for a content based site business on the Internet? Don't even say paywall, that has never worked and likely never will. Not only do most Internet users refuse to support content behind a paywall, their are entire groups of free information fundamentalists who actively devote their lives to bringing down paywalls and companies that host them.
Just saying "Evolve or die" is intellectually lazy. It would be akin to saying that long distance space travel will occur eventually to save the human race from an extinction event, somebody just has to figure out that whole "create a wormhole" thing. There. My job is done here. Your welcome humanity.
In more than anyway imaginable, advertisements and targeted advertisements helped to fund and thus build the internet as we know it today. Taking targeted ads out as a possible revenue stream will lead to a string of bankruptcies and site shutdowns across the Internet. It will stifle new innovation and content that can't get adequate funding.
Startups will struggle and fail too. Ultimately, the only content generators that will matter at that point will be hobbyists who spend their own time and money to partake in the internet just to be noticed.
I don't think people truly realize how much money will dry up without targeted advertising.
And that is the heart of the problem. Something similar happened to my brother, the dad of the girl was close friends with the police and the magistrate and my brother mouthed off to the policeman who was very aggressively interrogating the girl and her sister without parental supervision. THANK GOD he had a good lawyer that got him out of that mess (eventually) but the judge took a misdemeanor allegation of inappropriate contact with a minor (kissing) and gave him the hammer for it and brought forth baseless felony charges as a punishment.
The laws, interpretations and punishments for these types of crimes have holes in them so big that you can drive a bus through it, or a vengeful policeman and a judge that abuses her power is able to really put the screws to somebody just because they don't like how they carry themselves in court, or how they dress, or some other completely irrelevant detail that has nothing to do with the allegations and the evidence.
On one note I understand why sexual misconduct with minors is treated the way it is in our legal system, because of the gravity of the case, the confusing and conflicting testimonies, the heavy reliance upon testimony by minors, and the fact that the vast majority of these cases were without direct witness, just the accuser and the accused.
If one were to conduct such a case with the same stringent guidelines as one would a murder trial, then virutally nobody would ever be convicted for such crimes, and you run the risk of justice not being served.
On the other hand, it is a very slippery slope and can be used as a VERY dangerous weapon to ruin somebodies life, like what happened to my brother for instance. I am not him, and I can't say for sure what had REALLY happened between him and the 14 year old girl, but I do know the father wasn't sure either, he had completely unrelated issues with him regarding money that he despised him for, he was close friends with both the head of the police department and magistrate where his pre-trial began, and the only evidence was the constantly changing stories of the older sister which I highly suspected she was being coerced into saying by the father. Everything eventually worked itself out but only after the finanical ruin of court costs and a GOOD lawyer (a good lawyer is so critically important). He is not a registered sex offender and he had to do some community service which he took to be a positive experience.
When people discuss the punishment of conviction they almost always seem to forget the financial and emotional punishment that comes simply with being accused, and how those who wrongfully accuse rarely get punished. The police invested a hell of a lot of time in bringing the case to trial, so even if they know they don't have a case, they will try their hardest to get some kind of punishment to the defendant. As someone who lived through this witch hunt before I can say that it falters your faith in the legal system and this country.
Joel Spolsky, co-founder of StackExchange had probably the best answer to this question that I had read anywhere. http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-st/20136#20136
An economy cannot grow without trading partners.
Our economy doesn't need to grow, and that is the fundamental problem. Modern economics is basically a pyramid scheme based on the false notion of infinite growth and expansion. This is an archaic world view that served us well when their were unexplored frontiers and new opportunities everywhere.
I don't know if you noticed this but the world is getting awfully smaller and there are just too many people for capitalism as it is practiced in its current form to result in healthy wealth gaps and thus a healthy society.
But US workers think it's their "right" to earn $25/hour for labor jobs that don't require a college degree or any advanced vocational training - and they use Unions to enforce this.
Bull. Several of my friends are unskilled factory laborers in the US and they are happy to do it for $11/hr and cheap 80/20 health insurance. Any temp agency for unskilled work has plenty of these jobs lined up and a lot of people work them. Even saying the word "union" in one of these factories will result in you being fired and possibly blacklisted.
Frankly, you don't know what you are talking about. There is more to American manufacturing than a few spoiled workers at General Motors, and anybody who thinks that ANY of these big electronics companies couldn't pay a little more to keep their factories here is being disingenuous.
In the US I can make more than $20/month by begging or digging through trash for aluminum cans to take to the recycle center. There is the free market competition for you.
It seems we are seeing a lot more of these extraordinary claims and studies become challenged recently ranging from cancer research to climate change denialists skirting the peer review process:
I think money plays a huge part in some of this. Think of the falsified research on the health benefits of Resveratrol and how those studies helped form a legitimacy around diet fad drugs that account for a billion dollar industry. It is an extremely lucrative industry and some of that money may end up funding future studies.
The same thing can be said about the corrupting influence of corporate money in funding climate change denial studies. If as a scientist, my research is being funded by oil companies who clearly want the studies to find a certain conclusion, you would be driving a stake in the heart of your career if you come to any other conclusion than climate change being unclear.
Other times there is enormous competition in research and a successful groundbreaking study will sometimes launch a lucrative career. The temptation can be great to make grandoise claims to jumpstart a career because by the time peer review trashes it, you may have already secured a cushy grant.
No one works an Indian IT job where they are "literally starving in the streets", because they'll DIE.
You misunderstood me so I will try again. I am saying that there are millions of educated Indians who do not have work right now. Do you think they made a rational choice to become educated and just fucking DECIDE to be a slumdog? You know very little about India don't you?
I have an IT job and I don't worry about "exploiting" the third world because my job has nothing to do with what happens in the third world.
That may be true, but I bet you their jobs, expertise and ability to provide cheap IT services may have something to do with what happens in the first world. If your companies competitor figures out how to offshore and cuts their costs because of it, then yours is at a competitive disadvantage. I would hope you don't eventually lose your job. Even if you don't, many venture capitalists are springing up in these regions are starting to realize just how little these hollow international corps are really bringing to the table. Why not just sell them their IT services with one hand, and on the other cut them out for a lower cost and provide a cheaper alternative to the traditional customers of the hollow corp. You think this isn't happening across all industries, then you are saddly mistaken. They realize that increasingly more talent is springing up in their own backyard and even in booming urban areas the cost and quality of lving is just insanely low.
Bottom line is that it is remarkably shortsighted of you to think that this won't affect you.
I feel like the code-related ones have helped me be a better programmer by being a constant reminder to read things carefully, sanitize inputs, and ensure that it makes sense to someone not up to their ears in this section of code.
Obligatory XKCD sanitize inputs classic...
I could probably make the same argument for a salary of around $55k for a guy doing any kind of IT when there are 50 million college educated IT professionals in India who are quite literally starving on the streets. Even if they only do half as good a job, they are willing to work for a tenth of the first world guy, and a company will spring up over there that will exploit that person and turn around and sell his services for a quarter of what it costs to keep the American employed. Even at 50% efficiency they are still double ahead.
Face it, the only reason you have a first world lifestyle is because the idiot PHB type managers making 100k + are not intelligent enough to figure out how to replace you. The only reason any of you have a comfortable living salary is because the first world exploits the third world.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
I'd say it's a little more complicated than that. In the short term, the pipeline would save on emissions, but making it easier to transport oil into the country is obviously going to lower prices and increase usage in the long run.
Parent here... I am not so sure about that though. The traditional effects of supply and demand that would take place in a normal market don't really pertain when it comes to gasoline, because in reality there hasn't been a true grand scale shortage of supply in over 30 years. I cannot recall a single time where I had difficulty locating a supply of gasoline. In a free market, as a buyer I negotiate with a seller for a mutally agreeable price on gasoline, and if the terms are not agreeable to me, I can do without for now and look for another supplier. I can't do that with gasoline because I NEED it to go to the store, get to work, etc... It is a commodity. In reality if every supplier had unlimited supply, which they mostly do for all intents and purposes, and if those prices were set across the board then I would eventually be forced to pay whatever is being asked.
The buyer has no real power here so econ 101 rules don't apply to this situation. Commodity trading of crude oil sets the price such that across the board, all gas stations are going to pay the same for gasoline across the country, barring federal and regional taxes. True they have some control on their markup, but there are a lot of gas stations to pick from so their is enormous competitive pressure to keep the markup at minuscule levels and depend on profit by volume, because sure as the sun rises, the gasoline truck will come to refill the tanks once a week. Unlimited Supply.
The wild price fluctations are not a result of increased demand or decreased supply, despite what the media reports. Market fluctuations are almost exclusively the acts of Wall Street speculation of commodity futures. So where does Demand come into play then? The demand while it has gone down slightly for frivolous waste of gasoline and more fuel efficient vehicles, has not really affected the driving habits of Americans at any significant level. Demand grows organically with population growth as it would if you looked at other necessary commodities like corn (adjusted of course for ethanol fuel demand). Unlimited Demand.
It is a fallacy to assume that in an environment of Unlimited Supply and Unlimited and easily predictable Demand that lower costs in transporting crude will result in increased Demand for crude. The only thing this guarantees is that oil companies have cut their transportation costs significantly and increased their bottom line.
The only people who did not like SOX are CEO types who know of fraud in their companies.
Thats not true at all, most CEO types do not like SOX because of how complicated and expensive it is for them to be compliant. In principle they like the idea that corporations are having their books more tightly scrutinized but they tend not to like anything that increases their costs.
Obama shut down the keystone pipeline as a reelection ploy to entice environmentalists. This was a terrible idea that only hurts everyone. Pissing off Canada, increasing fuel costs in the US. China will now buy the oil from Canada, and sell it back to the US, so environmentalists lose too. No one has any idea why this happened. It boggles the mind. (everyone loses this one)
Surely it was a strategic move to rally up support from the ever dissatisfied and under represented left, but in reality this was not a terrible idea that hurt everyone. The biggest losers here are oil companies because they actually have to spend money now to transport crude oil from Canada to refineries in the lower part of the state. The refineries are already there and have no shortage of work, you can't count those as "new jobs" as those are people already working. The jobs created to build the damn pipeline would be about 10k and all of it temporary. After that no more jobs, just a giant friggin pipe cutting across the country. On the other hand, a good number of permanent jobs are built up around the fact that crude has to make it from point A to point B, which would result in a net increase of permanent jobs in Rail and Trucking. So essentially building the pipeline creates more jobs, efficient approaches KILL jobs while inefficient approaches CREATE more jobs.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
Isn't it still easy to lease a VPS hosted in a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the US (yet)?
I am looking at you Russia. Extradition law in the United States
Set up a self signed SSL certificate and as far as your ISP goes it is just normal encrypted traffic between a russian server and your house. This is how a lot of the spammers seem to do it.
EDIT: sorry, I meant to say nobody could snoop on your credentials or files.
Why even pay $10/month for a VPS when you can pay $5/month for a shared web hosting environment, then put an .htpasswd file at root context and an .htaccess file at folder levels you wish to password protect?
Nobody will be able to download your files without the username and password that you can control, and combine that with an SSL certificate, nobody could snoop on your credentials or password.
I agree with you, but let me play devils advocate... Are they really colluding as competitors though? They may or may not be actual competitors in SELLING their products and are not colluding on that front, however labor is something they are in BUYING competition on.
In other words, does collusion between corporations who are in BUYING competition with apply to current anti-trust laws?
Please mod parent up for this perfectly fitting Adam Smith quote... Perhaps one should post some juicy exercepts about his thoughts on why corporations are a perversion of the free market... Conservatives always seem to skip that chapter :)
while in the long run the increased regulations they can inflict will hit their real enemy - small corporations that haven't yet grown into viable threats.
Just stop... my brain cannot repel trolling of this magnitude...
You are right... us liberals are just using this perfect example of the perfect free market at work as an excuse to destroy through regulation those dastardly small business job creators, the final opponent in our grand diabolical scheme of one world government. Yes .... yes... it is all going according to plan!
I would rather live outside and retain what shreds of dignity I have remaining than subject myself to the humiliation of living in a cage like a fucking animal.
What a load of bullshit. If you get violently ill, how well will you have to know the doctor in the emergency room before you allow him to treat you?
Unless the doctor is getting paid by somebody, he will not treat you. Society has decided that we care enough for those we do not know that we will not allow money to determine who receives emergency care. Somebody however has to pay the doctor. If the doctor was in your tribe he will treat you because you are a peer and the tribe works together for communal survival. A tribe has no need for money. This is the point I was trying to convey. Money is only necessary when the size of a society is such that you cannot possibly know everybody. This is an affront to the natural state of humanity.
My argument about dependence is that any dependence in society is unreliable without a sufficient amount of money. I can't depend on anybody if I run out of money. I am worthless without it. My wife however finds me worth life itself and I didn't have to pay for her. These teens seem to do stupid things because they are acting trusting and tribally out of instinct, but ultimately they haven't yet learned the unnatural realities of a cold society.