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  1. Re:Another auction linked at the Marshall's site on US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of that money was stolen near the end, with 30M of the thefts occuring in six years. Somehow, she convinced the town that the problem was in the state stiffing the city of monies owed to them. The theft started small (comparitively) with a first theft of 25,000. She convinced them to fire half the street maintence workers, etc.

    The city has since recovered about $50 M of the money, from teh auditors and the auctions.

  2. Re:For some of us, it works on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you handle things like health insurance? Periods with no work?

  3. Re: At what point do we reevaluate the position on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, there was a... Godwin-breaking major minority. And there was, according to the index, the anti-immigrent resolution passed in some town a few decades ago forbidding refuges.

    I'm not syaing that's representative of Sweden, either then or now. But then again, I'm not sure that the anti-refugee people are representative of the US.

  4. Re:15 years old? on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Four out of the last 11 (YTD) months have been the hottest on record (in the US). The ocean's temperature is rising. The ocean's acidity is rising.

  5. Re:Translation: People are Getting Desperate on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The people I actually know in the "gig economy" are doing it out of some combination of insecurity and desperation

    Just like in the 1930's... great times

  6. Re:Change is inevitable on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not being taken advantage of. It's called being a freelancer

    Being a freelancer is fine. Almost certainly, instead, it's being a freelancer through a standardizing interface. Which means that everyone is competing on price, with no ability to apply skill, etc.. Which is a race to the bottom.

  7. Re:What the hell is a "smart city"? on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    completely arbitrary, restrictive laws

    Except, they are not laws. They are TOS of various corporations.

  8. Re:IMHO that's good on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    So you think instead of having two different options (small town/city) we should instead only have one option?

  9. Re:the main legit use i can see on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Which isn't really relevant when talking about the legal status of flying.

    .

  10. Re:Time to invest in hard hats on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    And earlier this year, a private airplane crash landed on the belt around Atlanta, so it does happen. There will be more drones flights than airplanes. Airplanes have extensive and expensive maintenance between flights. Airports are not in downtown areas. Airplanes also have high costs of construction, extensive backups, independent reivew and assessment of their construction and huge deisge budgets.

  11. Re:Has to be better than USPS on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    best chance to stay relevant and possibly get out of the red. Nope, they're sticking to their old ways

    Well, according to most accounting standards and GAPP, they're in the black now. It's only a way of accounting for pensions that no other entity, public or private, uses that makes them look in the red. Congress forces them to use this bizarre method.

    THey also saved some tens of billions of dollars for a modernization effort. Congress literally took it away, and used it to finance the Bush tax cuts.

  12. Re:the main legit use i can see on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    each of those airports has a six-mile no-fly zone

    Which IIRC only applies above 400ft. There's a reason Amazon is aiming for below 400 ft travel.

  13. Re:Denied! on Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games til the Vatican pollutes the world with their heavy industrial sector.

  14. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Is it really true that a small town factory is the only employer possible for their employees?

    Uh, yeah, sometimes.

    Did jobs exist before that business opened?

    Sometimes no, the town got built around the factory. Sometimes yes, but those businesses are gone.

    Are there roads connecting this remote village to other villages with different employers?

    So what, walk to the next town over and be a homeless person?

  15. Re:Best fuels on the planet on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Irreplaceable natural resources in a capitalistic society are often squandered.

  16. Re:Things are looking up on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 1

    One major difference is that we now have the power to have a human-initiated ELE.

  17. Re:Holy crap people!!! on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't really looked at the common core math section. What's so horrible about it?

  18. Re:Bill Gates failed elementary statistics on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why you wouldn't want unified decision making on, e.g. the optimal size of a classroom. There's some right answer. More reach leads to more statistical power to a answer questions in a more correct/realistic way. More reach means the right answer can be distributed to all the interested parties once its complete.

  19. Re:Book misses major points on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    To say nothing of the spillover effects of granting wishes. The most common wish is apparently for a clubhouse of some kind, which of course ebenefits other children. Then you have great productions (like BatKid day) that make all of a city or the whole country feel good. And then there are teh "meeting celebrity" type wishes, which seem good for the celebrities as well as the child.

  20. Re:Book misses major points on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    . Obesity and other problems don't go away permanently.

    It depends on how you get rid of obesity. Through diet and exercise at an individual level, sure. But if it's through some form of microbiological change, then maybe.

  21. Re:It's their money... on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool, so if I do the Superman... III and Office Space thing and steal one cent from everyone in America each day, no one cares right? I mean, it'd make me really really happy, and if no one else cares, it's a utiliarianly justified action.

  22. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    RTFM

    I quoted party of the treaty explaining that the is not need to wait. You did not quote any contradicting part..

    Article 6 wrote:
    For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in whicH occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

    Even the simplified en wikipedia article mentions the question if/when/why the US/NATO would be involved

    The Simple Wiki article does not. The en.wikipedia article says the US was thinking of getting involved, but there was no mention of NATO. The news may have suggested that NATO countries would help if asked, and indeed team-NATO has deployed outside of the treaty region as exceptions. For instance, in the former Yugoslavia and in the Gulf of Aden. In those cases, there is a a request to have a supplemental tasking. But, if France was invaded tomorrow by Russia, each NATO country is supposed to respond as they deem necessary to help ensure France's integrity, whether individually or in concert.

  23. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No it was not. And we are not talking about the "treaty" but geographical terms. 95% + of Turkey is not in Europe. Period.

    When discussing whether there is a requirement to respond, the treaty matters. Who cares what the geography is. It's not relevant, it's only relevant what was decided. Period. And all of Turkey counts. Although I am corrected that "and the Territory of Turkey" was technically added to list of "North Atlantic Territory", not to the description of Europe which is a part of the North Atlantic Territory. So you're right in detail, but wrong on whether my interpertation would have been relevant.

    Nevertheless the "call for defence" needs to be issued by the attacked member

    The words "call for defence" don't appear in the treaty. The treaty explicitly requires uniltateral action by any member in defence of any other if considers it necessary. Article 5: "[each country reacts by] taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary,"

    read up about the falkland wa

    At 57S, it's literally quarter of a world away from 23.5N, the lowest point anyone gives a shit about.

    The treaty applies to any attack on any nation in the treaty regardless of position on the globe.

    Articles 6 disagree with you. Like, entirely. Since it defines in detail the areas it applies

    Or do you think if a Russian sub sinks a USA ship in front of Australia the treaty would not apply?

    Correct, it would not apply. Just like it didn't apply to the French colony uprisings, the Falklands, and many other things.

  24. Re: Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Entrapment is when the illegal act would not have occurred but for the influence of the officer. We don't know if he influenced a harsher response, similar to how we don't often know if the cop was beating someone who wasn't resisting or if the criminal was resisting arrest.

    We only allow temptations to a degree.

    We have no clue if this kid did anything wrong. It depends on what was said inside the room. Arresting him seems over the top, but they arrest kids for using cellphones in class too. If he was disrupting the class with an electronic device, I don't see how the school necessarily fucked up in trying to get it away from him.

  25. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Turkey is (a) not in Europe.

    This should be a duh point, but when Greece and Turkey were invited into NATO, the definition of Europe for the purpose of the treaty was clarified to include all the territory of those nations. Otherwise, why would they join a mutual defense pact? The boundary lines is always subject to negotiation

    The treaty to come to aid, only works when the attacked nation calls for support.

    Flat out wrong. An attack on Turkey is supposed to be considered by each member state as an attack on that state, and will take actions individually and/or in concert with each other/the primary victim. Now, de facto they can take a cue from Turkey in following their lead.

    hint: Falkland War. The UK handled that alone, without calling NATO members for aid.

    In the Atlantic, not north of the Tropic Of Cancer. North Atlantic Treat doesn't apply