Another problem is that personality traits like "selfishness" are a. hard to define and b. have some degree, maybe 100 percent, of a social, not genetic basis. Hack DNA to eliminate, for example, something like an alleged "propensity to violence"? They'll start with the slaves, of course.
The scientific solutions already exist. The problem is political--how to get them implemented. "Scientific solutions" don't implement themselves no matter how clever they are.
"It's better to vote for what you want, and not get it, than to vote for what you don't want, and get it"--Eugene V. Debs. In other words, drop the "realistic chance of winning" criterion or you will never ever ever get what you want. Also drop the idea that this issue is going to be settled by elections.
You should familiarize yourself with recent court decisions that state that "new evidence" per se is not automatically cause for a re-trial. Also with who actually gets executed.
The "problem" isn't "corporations" trying to find a new way to screw musicians. Corporations--no quotation marks--already screw musicians and everyone else. What technology has done is give regular people a way to screw the corporations. Trying to give an anti-corporate slant to anti-file sharing propaganda is standing reality on its head.
Wrong. NEVER carry your passport on you. Leave it in the safe in your hotel room, or in the hotel front desk safe if there isn't one in your room. Carry a photocopy of the data page. As to the other stuff, don't let your bag out of your hand. This is true wherever you are in the world--1st world, 3rd world, 12th world, whatever.
Yes, and despite their lack of modern-ness, there was no nuclear disaster. There was a social disaster that usually gets overlooked--20,000 people died, but none of them from a nuclear cause (unless you count nuclear hysteria). And the most pessimistic estimates (and these are themselves quite open to challenge) are for 1,000 additional cancer deaths. But meanwhile 20,000 people are *already* dead as a result of the near total lack of planning and preparedness for the tsunami and its aftermath.
Capitalism used to be based on producing value through the manufacture of commodities (or mining coal and similar processes). Now what do we have? Buying and selling of useless paper. It's over.
Gandhi didn't think so. And was it worth fighting to keep Indochina a French colony? Or to keep the KKK in power in the US South? A lot of Afro-Americans didn't think so either.
It is not correct to say "You can go there without a license," if you mean legally. Legal travel requires a license. You may be thinking of the General License, which does not have to be solicited from the feds in advance of your travel. The conditions you describe cover the General License. If you do not meet these conditions you are not permitted (again, legally) to travel to Cuba, even if you go through a third country. These rules apply to all US citizens, regardless of where they live (eg, in the UK) and regardless of whether you hold a second passport, and everyone resident in the US, citizen or not. Note that I am not talking about enforceability, only what the rules are.
On the OP, I have no doubt the US will use the agreement of the UK and Canadian governments to block some travel to Cuba.
More likely it's a policy handed down from well above IT--few if any IT departments can get away with enforcing such unpopular policies if they set them up on their own. If it came from IT and not from senior administration the policy would fall apart the first time the provost's office got a complaint about it. Everyone please stop badmouthing the IT people. I was one such once. We didn't make policy and I'd bet these guys don't either.
It's illegal for anyone covered by US law to travel to Cuba without permission of the US government. "Covered by US law" includes legally-resident non-citizens as well as US citizens living in other countries, as well as dual citizens. Cuba will welcome you with open arms--Washington not so much. You are liable for a fine up to $250,000 and ten years in jail (OK, that's never happened, but that's what the law says).
I think the most important factor in what gets into the newspapers is the political/social biases of editors and their bosses. For example, there's been a fair amount of coverage of the US government agent Alan Gross's imprisonment in Cuba, but practically zero about the imprisonment of five Cubans (known as the Cuban Five).
Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that a $244 million warplane can be crippled by a 10-cent (or whatever) plug? Proving once again that in war humans properly organized and led beat machines every time. Like in Vietnam.
States don't have any "rights" against the federal government. Unless there's a state that didn't ratify the constitution. "States rights" was an invention to keep from having to de-segregate schools (and before that to protect slavery). You won't find any mention of it in any other context.
Get over the idea that Congress does what it does because members get more or less "campaign donations." They do what they do because they believe in their system (it's called capitalism). If they got no salary, and no "campaign donations" either, they'd vote exactly the same way.
Selling the laptop business to Lenovo was probably a good investment--note the word "investment." An investment is a bet, not a sale. You can't measure its success by short-term results. Developing a good relationship with the Chinese government is intelligent. Developing a good relationship with the US government (ie, through doing business with them) is intelligent. They're your customers, or potential customers. Of course you want to cultivate them. Small businesses send customers a case of Scotch at Christmas. No immediate return on that investment, is there?
this has nothing to do with government blocking internet access. Alan Gross was an agent of the US govt sent to work on the overthrow of the Cuban government. He smuggled in satellite phones for individuals who want to overthrow the government. Satellite phones are illegal in Cuba; he knew this, or his bosses did. He admits what he was doing, the US admits it, they're just trying to make it into some kind of "internet freedom" case so as to cover up the truth. What country in the world allows agents of foreign governments to organize their overthrow? Would the US?
15 percent in the local elections is not "massive," it's about the same as the fascist-minded Patrick Buchanan got in the US when he ran. There are members of US Congress whose politics=National Front. French society is having deep problems and just like US, UK, etc they are trying to find a scapegoat.
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Another problem is that personality traits like "selfishness" are a. hard to define and b. have some degree, maybe 100 percent, of a social, not genetic basis. Hack DNA to eliminate, for example, something like an alleged "propensity to violence"? They'll start with the slaves, of course.
Unless you were African-American, or female. In any case, you're talking about all of 15 years.
None of this will help Yahoo. It's doomed. "Make everything better and copy Google": this is a strategy?
The scientific solutions already exist. The problem is political--how to get them implemented. "Scientific solutions" don't implement themselves no matter how clever they are.
If you don't like it don't have one. Otherwise none of your business.
Couldn't have been, Kaczynski went to Harvard.
"It's better to vote for what you want, and not get it, than to vote for what you don't want, and get it"--Eugene V. Debs. In other words, drop the "realistic chance of winning" criterion or you will never ever ever get what you want. Also drop the idea that this issue is going to be settled by elections.
You should familiarize yourself with recent court decisions that state that "new evidence" per se is not automatically cause for a re-trial. Also with who actually gets executed.
The "problem" isn't "corporations" trying to find a new way to screw musicians. Corporations--no quotation marks--already screw musicians and everyone else. What technology has done is give regular people a way to screw the corporations. Trying to give an anti-corporate slant to anti-file sharing propaganda is standing reality on its head.
Wrong. NEVER carry your passport on you. Leave it in the safe in your hotel room, or in the hotel front desk safe if there isn't one in your room. Carry a photocopy of the data page. As to the other stuff, don't let your bag out of your hand. This is true wherever you are in the world--1st world, 3rd world, 12th world, whatever.
Yes, and despite their lack of modern-ness, there was no nuclear disaster. There was a social disaster that usually gets overlooked--20,000 people died, but none of them from a nuclear cause (unless you count nuclear hysteria). And the most pessimistic estimates (and these are themselves quite open to challenge) are for 1,000 additional cancer deaths. But meanwhile 20,000 people are *already* dead as a result of the near total lack of planning and preparedness for the tsunami and its aftermath.
Capitalism used to be based on producing value through the manufacture of commodities (or mining coal and similar processes). Now what do we have? Buying and selling of useless paper. It's over.
Gandhi didn't think so. And was it worth fighting to keep Indochina a French colony? Or to keep the KKK in power in the US South? A lot of Afro-Americans didn't think so either.
It is not correct to say "You can go there without a license," if you mean legally. Legal travel requires a license. You may be thinking of the General License, which does not have to be solicited from the feds in advance of your travel. The conditions you describe cover the General License. If you do not meet these conditions you are not permitted (again, legally) to travel to Cuba, even if you go through a third country. These rules apply to all US citizens, regardless of where they live (eg, in the UK) and regardless of whether you hold a second passport, and everyone resident in the US, citizen or not. Note that I am not talking about enforceability, only what the rules are. On the OP, I have no doubt the US will use the agreement of the UK and Canadian governments to block some travel to Cuba.
More likely it's a policy handed down from well above IT--few if any IT departments can get away with enforcing such unpopular policies if they set them up on their own. If it came from IT and not from senior administration the policy would fall apart the first time the provost's office got a complaint about it. Everyone please stop badmouthing the IT people. I was one such once. We didn't make policy and I'd bet these guys don't either.
It's illegal for anyone covered by US law to travel to Cuba without permission of the US government. "Covered by US law" includes legally-resident non-citizens as well as US citizens living in other countries, as well as dual citizens. Cuba will welcome you with open arms--Washington not so much. You are liable for a fine up to $250,000 and ten years in jail (OK, that's never happened, but that's what the law says).
"It's better to vote for what you want, and not get it, than to vote for what you don't want, and get it" --Eugene Debs
I think the most important factor in what gets into the newspapers is the political/social biases of editors and their bosses. For example, there's been a fair amount of coverage of the US government agent Alan Gross's imprisonment in Cuba, but practically zero about the imprisonment of five Cubans (known as the Cuban Five).
Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that a $244 million warplane can be crippled by a 10-cent (or whatever) plug? Proving once again that in war humans properly organized and led beat machines every time. Like in Vietnam.
States don't have any "rights" against the federal government. Unless there's a state that didn't ratify the constitution. "States rights" was an invention to keep from having to de-segregate schools (and before that to protect slavery). You won't find any mention of it in any other context.
Get over the idea that Congress does what it does because members get more or less "campaign donations." They do what they do because they believe in their system (it's called capitalism). If they got no salary, and no "campaign donations" either, they'd vote exactly the same way.
Selling the laptop business to Lenovo was probably a good investment--note the word "investment." An investment is a bet, not a sale. You can't measure its success by short-term results. Developing a good relationship with the Chinese government is intelligent. Developing a good relationship with the US government (ie, through doing business with them) is intelligent. They're your customers, or potential customers. Of course you want to cultivate them. Small businesses send customers a case of Scotch at Christmas. No immediate return on that investment, is there?
this has nothing to do with government blocking internet access. Alan Gross was an agent of the US govt sent to work on the overthrow of the Cuban government. He smuggled in satellite phones for individuals who want to overthrow the government. Satellite phones are illegal in Cuba; he knew this, or his bosses did. He admits what he was doing, the US admits it, they're just trying to make it into some kind of "internet freedom" case so as to cover up the truth. What country in the world allows agents of foreign governments to organize their overthrow? Would the US?
15 percent in the local elections is not "massive," it's about the same as the fascist-minded Patrick Buchanan got in the US when he ran. There are members of US Congress whose politics=National Front. French society is having deep problems and just like US, UK, etc they are trying to find a scapegoat.
what are the firefox addons you're talking about?