There was more outrage by the Afghans over the burning of the Qurans at that military base than the soldier who went on the rampage killing all those woman and children.
Mostly because they felt the former was supported by the administration and the army as a whole, while very few believe that the latter was anything other than one man who snapped and went crazy. If he's given anything other than a guilty + harsh punishment sentence, expect that quietness to change.
We HAVE to blame the the government, because it's the only entity large enough to hold the corporations accountable. Voting with your dollars doesn't work for any corporation larger than a few dozen people.
It does work, but the problem is that not enough people actually CARE and feel it's a big enough issue to do it.
If they're only saving a 20% advantage over their US BoM, why even DO it in the first place?
Because the US has already destroyed its manufacturing infrastructure, and is not even capable of making them here any longer. It's not just the 20% savings on labor. It's the advantage of being located close to the glass plant. It's the advantage of being close to the chip fabrication plants. It's the advantage of being able to go into the barracks your workers sleep in, waking them up on a Friday evening, and getting them all to work because you just got a new design that has to be ready by next week. They can do in a few days what would take over a week (or couldn't be done) in the US.
Actually, the US lags behind other Western democracies in the things you enumerate as being overly costly.
Yeah, but in those respects the US is still miles ahead of the nations who are the beneficiaries of those jobs exports. For the most part, other Western democracies are 'too cost' or 'too regulated' to make off-shoring to them worth it.
FTFY. This is really the issue at hand. It's not that the people proposing the law don't want to see porn, it's that they don't want anyone else seeing it
Actually, they don't want anyone seeing websites that are on a list (which is often kept secret), many of which are porn sites, but some of which are political sites, anti-abortion sites, sites which might accept user content and so are part-porn, part not, etc.
And that's just what HP did for me when it was determined that my Compaq laptop was a lemon.
That's what they did for some models of HP laptops that used the shoddy 8600M that overheated and burned themselves out, but not all of them, despite there being a 96-page thread of HP dv9600 laptop owners complaining of video burnouts that HP refused to do anything about.
The people he is "protesting" to have nothing to do with the policies they are forced to implement.
Last I checked, involuntary servitude was unconstitutional.
There are those with power, and those without power. Those without are "free" to choose between especially shitty jobs, or sitting out on the street and in lines at the soup kitchen. But of course that's not much of a choice, is it?
You have to be smart about it though. If you're given 500 flyers and you come back in half an hour and say "all done," a smart boss won't assume you actually handed out all those flyers. He'll assume that you just threw them all in the trash and did something else in the meantime.
TOR doesn't provide anonymity or security, that's the real problem. Sympathizers like yourself can continue to blame the end user all you like, still doesn't change the fact that TOR doesn't do what it advertises. At best it's a quick way for a troll to get around an IP ban, that's about all.
And you know that how?
The story doesn't give any details about how the criminals were caught -- for all you know it might not have had anything to do with TOR at all. What we do know is that the trafficers used TOR, Western Union, Paypal, Bitcoin, and real-world physical delivery. All of those other options are significantly less secure than TOR, and the whole chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Once you combine TOR with other systems, you're no longer secure.
As far as I'm concerned, any "industry qualification" should just be called what they really are: Brand indoctrination
In my case, it was "qualification for jobs I wouldn't have qualified for" and "continuing education that lets me get a higher salary." I was a contractor, so this widened the field of possible places to get placed at.
I will admit, the cert books -forced- me to learn the nitty gritty details of a lot of the OS. There were a few brand "gotchas," but I could generally see through those.
Ironically (and annoyingly), the Solaris certification exam was the last time I dealt with anything Solaris-related.
As I had mentioned elsewhere, this was the case with my Sun Solaris Certification Exam as well. Not "what gets the job done," or "what gets the job done in the cleanest or best way," but "how would Sun like the job to be done?"
One question had 3 out of 4 answers that were scientifically true
This was the case in quite a few multiple choice questions on my Solaris certification exam awhile back -- a problem with several choices, but some problems had several choices that solved the question correctly, but you had to choose which of the answers was the "most" right one. And in some cases, had to guess or theorize "how would Sun -want- this problem solved?" and answer based on that. Those cert exams were more frustrating than any of my college tests.
The anti-vax movement doesn't have the obvious economic or religious angle that some other anti-science movements have.
In some ways it does. It heavily relies on a sort of "New Age" religion that rejects science and scientific solutions. Jenny McCarthy, one of the more prominent anti-vaxers, believed that she was an "indigo mom" and that her son (later misdiagnosed as autistic) was an "indigo child,": "The idea was later popularized by the 1998 book The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by husband and wife self-help lecturers Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. They describe the goal of indigo children to be a remaking of the world into one lacking war, trash, and processed food. One of the main background ideas about the origin of Indigo children, as described by Jan Tober, is that they are spiritually highly mature "old souls", who had usually incarnated on Earth many times before and have lots of sub-conscious experience and deeper intuitive understanding of the nature of life than their current parents and teachers." Etcetc.
Religious, but not the religions we may have blamed in the past.
1. ) It would be really hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which person gave your kid a communicable disease
True but the bar for proof in a civil case is lower than it is in a criminal case. Yes it would be difficult but not impossible.
To what end, though? Do you think you'd get money from them? My experience with the court system is that you'd better not go expecting to actually make more money than you put in, especially civil courts.
Seriously? You would choose early death by a stupidly, retardedly preventable and quite deadly disease over autism?
This is a false dilemma, since that's not actually what's happening... but if I had to choose between the two? It's an extremely difficult choice. Yes, I might choose risk of death over a full lifetime of abject, unavoidable misery.
This disagreement is really just a quibble. What is usually meant by "creationism" is the belief in the historical truth of Genesis. By that definition the Catholic is certainly not creationist. I once knew a guy at MIT who joined the Jesuits and became the head of the Vatican observatory. I've followed his career over the years and he's often invited by the press and media to comment on a variety of science questions, and creationism.
Now if you choose to re-define "creationism" as believing that the universe was created by God, then the Catholic Church's beliefs would certainly qualify.
In fact, Stephen Hawking remarked that the introduction of the Big Bang Theory and the scientific evidence to support it was met with elation by religious scholars because they felt that this was scientific evidence for the moment of creation.
Converting because someone you like prays is like believing in a scientific theory because the professor has a nice bow tie. People swayed by such an irrelevance are of no loss or gain to either side,
They certainly are if there are enough of them, and numbers matters.
How widespread was the Age of Reason, really? As Westerners, we like to think that Northern and Western Europe is the only thing that counts, and what happens there is reflective of the global situation.
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There was more outrage by the Afghans over the burning of the Qurans at that military base than the soldier who went on the rampage killing all those woman and children.
Mostly because they felt the former was supported by the administration and the army as a whole, while very few believe that the latter was anything other than one man who snapped and went crazy. If he's given anything other than a guilty + harsh punishment sentence, expect that quietness to change.
We HAVE to blame the the government, because it's the only entity large enough to hold the corporations accountable. Voting with your dollars doesn't work for any corporation larger than a few dozen people.
It does work, but the problem is that not enough people actually CARE and feel it's a big enough issue to do it.
If they're only saving a 20% advantage over their US BoM, why even DO it in the first place?
Because the US has already destroyed its manufacturing infrastructure, and is not even capable of making them here any longer. It's not just the 20% savings on labor. It's the advantage of being located close to the glass plant. It's the advantage of being close to the chip fabrication plants. It's the advantage of being able to go into the barracks your workers sleep in, waking them up on a Friday evening, and getting them all to work because you just got a new design that has to be ready by next week. They can do in a few days what would take over a week (or couldn't be done) in the US.
That's why they export work to Asia.
Actually, the US lags behind other Western democracies in the things you enumerate as being overly costly.
Yeah, but in those respects the US is still miles ahead of the nations who are the beneficiaries of those jobs exports. For the most part, other Western democracies are 'too cost' or 'too regulated' to make off-shoring to them worth it.
He didn't say anything about race. He said a lot about culture. Don't throw the R-word around so much.
FTFY. This is really the issue at hand. It's not that the people proposing the law don't want to see porn, it's that they don't want anyone else seeing it
Actually, they don't want anyone seeing websites that are on a list (which is often kept secret), many of which are porn sites, but some of which are political sites, anti-abortion sites, sites which might accept user content and so are part-porn, part not, etc.
Dude, it's about children watching porn. Sheesh.
Oh yeah, and Wikileaks, because that stuff's dangerous.
Oh right, add the Pirate Bay, it only facilitates criminal activity. Maybe add a few web sites that link to it..
xs4all was found defending copyright violations, if they're publicly flouting the law, maybe they should be added to the blacklist too..
And that's just what HP did for me when it was determined that my Compaq laptop was a lemon.
That's what they did for some models of HP laptops that used the shoddy 8600M that overheated and burned themselves out, but not all of them, despite there being a 96-page thread of HP dv9600 laptop owners complaining of video burnouts that HP refused to do anything about.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
The people he is "protesting" to have nothing to do with the policies they are forced to implement.
Last I checked, involuntary servitude was unconstitutional.
There are those with power, and those without power.
Those without are "free" to choose between especially shitty jobs, or sitting out on the street and in lines at the soup kitchen. But of course that's not much of a choice, is it?
You have to be smart about it though. If you're given 500 flyers and you come back in half an hour and say "all done," a smart boss won't assume you actually handed out all those flyers. He'll assume that you just threw them all in the trash and did something else in the meantime.
I'm pretty sure there's a group of naked joggers in San Francisco who don't normally get arrested.
So I'd like to know where you hire, because I'd love to make some quick cash suing your idiot ass after you reject my application on false grounds.
And you're a fool if you think you'll get anywhere with that.
A far greater fool if you think you won't be much poorer for it.
TOR doesn't provide anonymity or security, that's the real problem. Sympathizers like yourself can continue to blame the end user all you like, still doesn't change the fact that TOR doesn't do what it advertises. At best it's a quick way for a troll to get around an IP ban, that's about all.
And you know that how?
The story doesn't give any details about how the criminals were caught -- for all you know it might not have had anything to do with TOR at all. What we do know is that the trafficers used TOR, Western Union, Paypal, Bitcoin, and real-world physical delivery. All of those other options are significantly less secure than TOR, and the whole chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Once you combine TOR with other systems, you're no longer secure.
As far as I'm concerned, any "industry qualification" should just be called what they really are: Brand indoctrination
In my case, it was "qualification for jobs I wouldn't have qualified for" and "continuing education that lets me get a higher salary." I was a contractor, so this widened the field of possible places to get placed at.
I will admit, the cert books -forced- me to learn the nitty gritty details of a lot of the OS. There were a few brand "gotchas," but I could generally see through those.
Ironically (and annoyingly), the Solaris certification exam was the last time I dealt with anything Solaris-related.
As I had mentioned elsewhere, this was the case with my Sun Solaris Certification Exam as well. Not "what gets the job done," or "what gets the job done in the cleanest or best way," but "how would Sun like the job to be done?"
One question had 3 out of 4 answers that were scientifically true
This was the case in quite a few multiple choice questions on my Solaris certification exam awhile back -- a problem with several choices, but some problems had several choices that solved the question correctly, but you had to choose which of the answers was the "most" right one. And in some cases, had to guess or theorize "how would Sun -want- this problem solved?" and answer based on that. Those cert exams were more frustrating than any of my college tests.
The anti-vax movement doesn't have the obvious economic or religious angle that some other anti-science movements have.
In some ways it does. It heavily relies on a sort of "New Age" religion that rejects science and scientific solutions. Jenny McCarthy, one of the more prominent anti-vaxers, believed that she was an "indigo mom" and that her son (later misdiagnosed as autistic) was an "indigo child,": "The idea was later popularized by the 1998 book The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by husband and wife self-help lecturers Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. They describe the goal of indigo children to be a remaking of the world into one lacking war, trash, and processed food. One of the main background ideas about the origin of Indigo children, as described by Jan Tober, is that they are spiritually highly mature "old souls", who had usually incarnated on Earth many times before and have lots of sub-conscious experience and deeper intuitive understanding of the nature of life than their current parents and teachers." Etcetc.
Religious, but not the religions we may have blamed in the past.
1. ) It would be really hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which person gave your kid a communicable disease
True but the bar for proof in a civil case is lower than it is in a criminal case. Yes it would be difficult but not impossible.
To what end, though? Do you think you'd get money from them? My experience with the court system is that you'd better not go expecting to actually make more money than you put in, especially civil courts.
You can vaccinate yourself against unicorn abduction by getting laid.
With the unicorn, I assume.
Seriously? You would choose early death by a stupidly, retardedly preventable and quite deadly disease over autism?
This is a false dilemma, since that's not actually what's happening... but if I had to choose between the two? It's an extremely difficult choice. Yes, I might choose risk of death over a full lifetime of abject, unavoidable misery.
You counter religious believe with science, by definition an all knowing, all mighty god can fake the age of those fossils
Which would mean that God is a liar and a faker, contrary to what the Bible claims.
This disagreement is really just a quibble. What is usually meant by "creationism" is the belief in the historical truth of Genesis. By that definition the Catholic is certainly not creationist. I once knew a guy at MIT who joined the Jesuits and became the head of the Vatican observatory. I've followed his career over the years and he's often invited by the press and media to comment on a variety of science questions, and creationism.
Now if you choose to re-define "creationism" as believing that the universe was created by God, then the Catholic Church's beliefs would certainly qualify.
In fact, Stephen Hawking remarked that the introduction of the Big Bang Theory and the scientific evidence to support it was met with elation by religious scholars because they felt that this was scientific evidence for the moment of creation.
They have become a lot louder in the last 40 years. a lot louder. It's gone from a general murmer to yelling.
Do you think we are more or less religiously free and tolerant now, or, say, the 1950s?
Converting because someone you like prays is like believing in a scientific theory because the professor has a nice bow tie. People swayed by such an irrelevance are of no loss or gain to either side,
They certainly are if there are enough of them, and numbers matters.
How widespread was the Age of Reason, really? As Westerners, we like to think that Northern and Western Europe is the only thing that counts, and what happens there is reflective of the global situation.