It's frightening just how much modern American government has become like the nightmare Statist government in Ayn Rand's novels, constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Regardless of what you may think of her personally, she was prescient.
There's a fatal flaw in your analysis: It is the oligarchy who are meddling with government, creating a corporatist state, lobbying for legislation to increase their advantage and funnelling public tax dollars into corporate coffers. Not at all like Rand's statist government.
amidst all this chatter about economics and models that what we're really talking about here is gambling. The wealthy made bets on red and black and then they bought insurance on their bets and the bets of others. Ultimately, they gambled that the Casino (America) and it's croupiers (AIG, Morgan Stanley, Citi, etc.) had assets sufficient to pay off the bets. They were wrong and they lost but refuse to hand over their chips. The real problem is that we don't have a couple of guys with baseball bats to do the collections.
Summer never really comes to Siberia. So not true. Siberia, in that region, is beautiful boreal forest (taiga) and the climate is sharp continental. It can easily reach +30C. I love Siberia!
I can't hold these jackasses completely responsible for their greed. We've all got some greed in us and corruption is a problem of opportunity, not of character.
Corruption is a problem of opportunity for those with no character.
There, fixed that for you.
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Or a database of all approved music? Maybe a database of all music they care to know about. Perhaps. Something important to keep in mind here is it's not just the issue of lost revenue from lost sales. With the advent of P2P sharing they no longer know what the opinion leaders want. Big Music wants to know what you listen to. Big Music NEEDS to know what you listen to. Big Music wants to sell their knowledge of your buying habits. Big Music is lost without it. That may be a good thing.
RCMP polite you to death?
Not any more, eh. They've become a modern police force, eh, trading their trusty steeds for Tasers!
"In November 2007 The Canadian Press reported that three out of four suspects stun-gunned by the RCMP were unarmed. A pattern suggested that Mounties use Tasers as a quick means to keep "relatively low-risk prisoners, drunks and unruly suspects in line."
Danger! Corrosive. Causes Burns To Skin, Eyes, And Respiratory Tract. May Be Fatal If Swallowed Or Inhaled. Harmful If Absorbed Through Skin. Affects The Kidneys And Central Nervous System. May Cause Allergic Skin Reaction.
DCS 3000, an FBI suite of systems for collecting and managing data from wiretaps for criminal investigations, was designed to meet those requirements. Recently released FBI documents reveal serious problems in the system's implementation. 22 Its auditing system was primitive, surprising for a system intended for evidence collection. The system has no unprivileged user IDs, relying on passwords rather than token-based or biometric authentication, and even uses an outdated hashing algorithm (MD5) appears in a 2007 "system security plan,"23 several years after Chinese researchers found serious problems with this already weak hashing algorithm). Most seriously, the system relied on a single shared login, rather than a login per authorized user. The system's ability to audit user behavior depended entirely on following proper processes, including using a manual log sheet to show who was using the system at a given time. Remote access--in an insecure fashion--is permitted from other DCS 3000 nodes, making the system vulnerable to insider attacks.
If you're under the gun then don't waste precious time learning a new app; improve your built-in analysis tool;
let the users teach you the app and the business domain - it's the world your software models;
use a pencil and paper and make your own diagrams. It's hard, challenging work and you'll do fine.
The U.S missile defense system in Europe is there to destroy those few Russian nuclear missiles that might get into the air after a U.S. nuclear first strike.
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It's only a tax on the stupid if you don't know what a tax is. Taxes are imposed.
It's frightening just how much modern American government has become like the nightmare Statist government in Ayn Rand's novels, constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Regardless of what you may think of her personally, she was prescient.
There's a fatal flaw in your analysis: It is the oligarchy who are meddling with government, creating a corporatist state, lobbying for legislation to increase their advantage and funnelling public tax dollars into corporate coffers. Not at all like Rand's statist government.
Oh, and by the way, fuck Ayn Rand
amidst all this chatter about economics and models that what we're really talking about here is gambling. The wealthy made bets on red and black and then they bought insurance on their bets and the bets of others. Ultimately, they gambled that the Casino (America) and it's croupiers (AIG, Morgan Stanley, Citi, etc.) had assets sufficient to pay off the bets. They were wrong and they lost but refuse to hand over their chips. The real problem is that we don't have a couple of guys with baseball bats to do the collections.
Fortunately, it's valid HTML.
Unfortunately...
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en
I can't hold these jackasses completely responsible for their greed. We've all got some greed in us and corruption is a problem of opportunity, not of character.
Corruption is a problem of opportunity for those with no character.
There, fixed that for you.
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<title>Wikipedia: China is wonderful!</title>
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China is wonderful! China can do no wrong. Those Tibetans are troublemakers.
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<input type="text" name="query" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="button">
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Or a database of all approved music?
Maybe a database of all music they care to know about.
Perhaps.
Something important to keep in mind here is it's not just the issue of lost revenue from lost sales.
With the advent of P2P sharing they no longer know what the opinion leaders want.
Big Music wants to know what you listen to.
Big Music NEEDS to know what you listen to.
Big Music wants to sell their knowledge of your buying habits.
Big Music is lost without it.
That may be a good thing.
RCMP polite you to death?
Not any more, eh. They've become a modern police force, eh, trading their trusty steeds for Tasers!
"In November 2007 The Canadian Press reported that three out of four suspects stun-gunned by the RCMP were unarmed. A pattern suggested that Mounties use Tasers as a quick means to keep "relatively low-risk prisoners, drunks and unruly suspects in line."
from the material safety data sheet
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m1599.htm
Danger! Corrosive. Causes Burns To Skin, Eyes, And Respiratory Tract. May Be Fatal If Swallowed Or Inhaled. Harmful If Absorbed Through Skin. Affects The Kidneys And Central Nervous System. May Cause Allergic Skin Reaction.
Waaaaaaaaaaay behind the curve on everything. Generic news for generic people.
from TFA:
They'll have an inherent understanding of where technology makes sense in an enterprise and implementing it.
Sure they do. $gaming_console and $web_20_site taught them all about the role of technology in the enterprise.
CIO: Which enterprise server software do you suggest?
GEN-Y employee: The one with the cool avatars!
DCS 3000, an FBI suite of systems for collecting and managing data from wiretaps for criminal investigations, was designed to meet those requirements. Recently released FBI documents reveal serious problems in the system's implementation. 22 Its auditing system was primitive, surprising for a system intended for evidence collection. The system has no unprivileged user IDs, relying on passwords rather than token-based or biometric authentication, and even uses an outdated hashing algorithm (MD5) appears in a 2007 "system security plan,"23 several years after Chinese researchers found serious problems with this already weak hashing algorithm). Most seriously, the system relied on a single shared login, rather than a login per authorized user. The system's ability to audit user behavior depended entirely on following proper processes, including using a manual log sheet to show who was using the system at a given time. Remote access--in an insecure fashion--is permitted from other DCS 3000 nodes, making the system vulnerable to insider attacks.
Working pretty well?
read all about it! Risking Communications Security
http://www.ipmt-hpm.ac.ru/SecondLaw/part1.en.html
Are we really so sure about the Laws of Physics?
If you're under the gun then don't waste precious time learning a new app; improve your built-in analysis tool; let the users teach you the app and the business domain - it's the world your software models; use a pencil and paper and make your own diagrams. It's hard, challenging work and you'll do fine.
The U.S missile defense system in Europe is there to destroy those few Russian nuclear missiles that might get into the air after a U.S. nuclear first strike.