The scanning is not shown to be safe. Some of these are X-rays, proven to not be safe, maybe a tiny number of medical X-rays a year are ok, and doctors and dentists will keep track of how many they give you to avoid too much. The big concern here is that they're subjecting their security agents to tons of this every year and they're not wearing dosimeters to how how much exposure they get. With even one dental x-ray you are given a shielded cover over your chest and the technician leaves the room. I trust the medical professionals over the TSA. Some of these are not x-rays but high frequency electromagnetic radiation, over 30GHz. Medical effects of this are unknown. This is not about RF allergy fears but basically the effect of this technology has not been well studied and is being rolled out fast as a panicked reaction.
This scanning also shows no purpose. They are not finding weapons with these scanners, though they do find contraband. A real terrorist is going to get past these scanners. The only thing this does is provide security theater - fooling the gullible public into thinking that something is being done, and please keep voting for your clueless representatives to approved this. These agents are not highly trained, they're not the best of the best, this is a relatively low paying menial labor job. Other countries with actual threats do not have the style of security we have in the US, they prefer to have effective security instead.
There is also the very real matter of creeping expansion. TSA wants to expand to trains and buses if they can. They want a police state.
McCain *should* have spoken out. Terrorists blew up the world trade center, not Muslims. It is not due to Islam, it is due to some people who are muslim. Just like you can't blame the troubles in Northern Ireland on Christianity as a whole. Muslims in America are loyal, and they do speak out against terrorism when it happens, and trying to turn them into second class citizens is just as wrong headed as incarcerating Japanese citizens during WWII.
I agree that Trump isn't getting strong Christian Right support, because he's most obviously and clearly not the poster child for piety or repentance.
The group he's picking up are the discontented Republicans. What I wish that Republican-in-name-only really meant, because they don't know what Republican policies are and aren't true believers in the Republican cause. Ask them about their politics in detail and it will come out vague and contradictory. They're just strongly opposed to government, whether than be Democrats or the Republicans that they feel are screwing up too. These are essentially the core base of what was the Reform Party. They're angry and undirected and easily riled up by someone like Trump. They're like angry people at a bar shouting agreement to whoever is on a rant that night. They vote "none of the above" usually.
The other candidates haven't really figured out how to tap into that crowd, because you can't appeal to them with a well thought out policy or a 12 point plan.
Bernie gets a lot of press. If he didn't get press then no one would have heard of what his campaign is doing. He's a household name now even by those who don't pay attention to the senate, and you don't get to be a household name without the press. He's not "ignored" though he certainly wishes he had more press that covers his actual policies rather than just being treated as the also-ran.
You can be white and hispanic. You can be of 100% european conquistador descent and be hispanic.
I'd call Ted Cruz rich. He's got a 7 figure income. He's a lawyer. He's got a senator's salary. I'd call Marco Rubio rich. Only 6 figure income though, but he's scraping at the 7 figure level. He's got rental property. He's never going to worry about retirement. I'd call Ben Carson really rich. He and his wife are making over $9 million according to financial disclosure forms. He was a board member of some large companies. I don't begrudge him any of it though, he worked hard to get there. Ok, they're not Donald Trump rich, but they're never going to ever worry about having a basic retirement. They're at the upper end of the 1%.
Cruz may have hispanic ancestry (a word that is really vague) but he's as bleached white as is possible without being the Pillbury Doughboy. You most certainly can have a parent from Cuba while still being a Rich White Career Politician. Ok, so he's descended from the upper class who fled Cuba rather than the lower class who fled Mexico and Central America, but he's still hispanic. But man oh man is he ever white. And Southern Baptist white at that. He is what conservatives mean when they say that want descendants of immigrants to assimilate, unlike Rubio.
(Hispanic is not a racial term, since it covers both people with pure European ancestry, pure African ancestry, pure Native American ancestry, and all sorts of complex mixes in between.)
And besides, the earlier poster said "most" not "all" republican candidates.
The concept seems wrong. The country is already full of people hidden in bubbles, refusing to hear or even acknowledge contrary views. Then they walk around thinking the entire country has the same views they do, or else they split the country into those who they agree with and the enemy. People need to hear contrary views.
Blocking Trump, Hillary, or Bernie is counter productive (though see the Christmas special of Black Mirror). What happens if Trump wins the election and all these people say "Trump, but I never even saw his name in any of the news, if I had known he was so popular I'd have gotten out and voted"?
Windows 8 made it seem lik you had to have Microsoft account. The option to use a local login only was hidden. If you didn't do the research you wouldn't know it was an option. So with Windows 10 you do the same thing: do the research before installing, and don't just click "next" over and over until you're done.
Even on Windows 8 I made sure never to create a Microsoft account, even though it goes out of its way to make it seem like it's mandatory. On OSX I have never created an Apple account either. And for a lot of other services I have to be proactive and disable all cloud services, and periodically check that they weren't turned back on during an update (which Steam did).
There's a hard drive on the computer, so use it and not the cloud. Duh.
Microsoft loves entry level technicians, yup. A few years later those people may lack the ability to learn more and advance beyond grunt level IT work. Node.js will be unfashionable in a decade, knowing subnetting is not needed for most people already and hopefully will be obsolete (when IPv6 takes off, probably the same year as the year of Linux on the desktop...), msce is a joke and is used to turn candidates into interchangeable cogs in a machine. All that stuff is good for technicians, great for outsourcing, but are not long term paths to growth.
The reason I keep shouting that theory is important is because there's a majority of people in somewhat computer science related jobs who claim it's useless and quite a lot who advocate skipping college altogether. Theory is used in every CS job, yes, absolutely. Theory helps you THINK. We have a huge gap in the number of programmers who can think and even a lot of engineers who can't do it either. Instead what we have are people who glue together frameworks and libraries; like the difference between the people who assemble prefab houses versus those who can actually build a house to code. So you know what subnetting is but if you know queueing theory you're going to be vastly better at understanding networking and adapting to new technologies. Sure you can churn out apps but can you figure out why it runs so slow so that you don't tell the customer to just get a faster PC?
The reason people think CS is obsolete is that they're not thinking about careers but instead are thinking about next week's paycheck at a random corporation where they're a fungible entity.
Most of the politicians do. They don't understand the math, or the economics, or any other of the concepts. What they do know is that they have to respond to accusations that they're being weak on fighting terrorists. There's no left or right ideology here other than to look like you're being useful to the voters.
Law enforcement if left unchecked will assume more and more power, and the government is being lax in its duties by not saying "no" to those grabbing hands more often. If their only goal is to stop all crime then the logical end result is to remove all freedoms from all citizens; prevent crime by incarcerating or separating everyone. The rule in law enforcement is to assume guilt until innocence is proven, and if innocence is proven then submit a press release that objects vigorously to letting the suspect go. And so they are lobbying the politicians trying to get their way, "it's easy" they say, "just let us have a back door!"
"True free market" is one of those religious notions I think. In the absence of a government there can't be a well functioning market, so perhaps a "true" free market means a dysfunctional one? Trying to learn economics from libertarian pamphlets is not a good idea.
Wow, what propaganda have you been reading? Historical monopolies arise all the time without governments forming them. Standard Oil, the robber baron railroads, De Beers, U.S. Steel, Microsoft. That doesn't mean all those monopolies were bad, because Standard Oil's monopoly provided benefits and the government didn't want to intervene there.
The free market if left on its own without regulation has nothing that prevents monopolies. That's why there are things called "natural monopolies" where the resources are scarce so that barriers to entry are formidable.
The first definition has proven time and time again to lead to abuses in the market, abuses against rights of citizens, abuses against its own workers, cheating against its own shareholders even.
Too many have a theology that essentially says "the worst corporation is better then the best government". That is, evil done by a corporation is fine and good because the free market fairies will fix it, but no good can possibly come from a government which exists only to create a military market and provide a means to sue those you disagree with. The problem is that there really is not a free market without government, much like there are no personal freedoms either without a government to defend them, as there's always someone or other who will drag it all down in the absence of all rules.
I have found out that often by the time jocks are adults they end up being more polite than nerds. This is because the jocks had coaches that kept teaching about sportsmanship. Many nerds on the other hand had no mature mentors and so they think that teabagging your opponent is the height of wit.
I use Adblock Plus, and have never seen an advertisement with them. Not even acceptable ads. I'm perfectly fine with advertisers paying to be on a list and still not being viewed by anyone.
Yes, but Kraft's is better when you need comfort food to eat in a dark corner along with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a fifth of scotch while watching Titanic.
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The scanning is not shown to be safe.
Some of these are X-rays, proven to not be safe, maybe a tiny number of medical X-rays a year are ok, and doctors and dentists will keep track of how many they give you to avoid too much. The big concern here is that they're subjecting their security agents to tons of this every year and they're not wearing dosimeters to how how much exposure they get. With even one dental x-ray you are given a shielded cover over your chest and the technician leaves the room. I trust the medical professionals over the TSA.
Some of these are not x-rays but high frequency electromagnetic radiation, over 30GHz. Medical effects of this are unknown. This is not about RF allergy fears but basically the effect of this technology has not been well studied and is being rolled out fast as a panicked reaction.
This scanning also shows no purpose. They are not finding weapons with these scanners, though they do find contraband. A real terrorist is going to get past these scanners. The only thing this does is provide security theater - fooling the gullible public into thinking that something is being done, and please keep voting for your clueless representatives to approved this. These agents are not highly trained, they're not the best of the best, this is a relatively low paying menial labor job. Other countries with actual threats do not have the style of security we have in the US, they prefer to have effective security instead.
There is also the very real matter of creeping expansion. TSA wants to expand to trains and buses if they can. They want a police state.
McCain *should* have spoken out. Terrorists blew up the world trade center, not Muslims. It is not due to Islam, it is due to some people who are muslim. Just like you can't blame the troubles in Northern Ireland on Christianity as a whole. Muslims in America are loyal, and they do speak out against terrorism when it happens, and trying to turn them into second class citizens is just as wrong headed as incarcerating Japanese citizens during WWII.
Ask the people in Rwanda if that's true or not.
I agree that Trump isn't getting strong Christian Right support, because he's most obviously and clearly not the poster child for piety or repentance.
The group he's picking up are the discontented Republicans. What I wish that Republican-in-name-only really meant, because they don't know what Republican policies are and aren't true believers in the Republican cause. Ask them about their politics in detail and it will come out vague and contradictory. They're just strongly opposed to government, whether than be Democrats or the Republicans that they feel are screwing up too. These are essentially the core base of what was the Reform Party. They're angry and undirected and easily riled up by someone like Trump. They're like angry people at a bar shouting agreement to whoever is on a rant that night. They vote "none of the above" usually.
The other candidates haven't really figured out how to tap into that crowd, because you can't appeal to them with a well thought out policy or a 12 point plan.
Bernie gets a lot of press. If he didn't get press then no one would have heard of what his campaign is doing. He's a household name now even by those who don't pay attention to the senate, and you don't get to be a household name without the press. He's not "ignored" though he certainly wishes he had more press that covers his actual policies rather than just being treated as the also-ran.
You can be white and hispanic. You can be of 100% european conquistador descent and be hispanic.
I'd call Ted Cruz rich. He's got a 7 figure income. He's a lawyer. He's got a senator's salary.
I'd call Marco Rubio rich. Only 6 figure income though, but he's scraping at the 7 figure level. He's got rental property. He's never going to worry about retirement.
I'd call Ben Carson really rich. He and his wife are making over $9 million according to financial disclosure forms. He was a board member of some large companies. I don't begrudge him any of it though, he worked hard to get there.
Ok, they're not Donald Trump rich, but they're never going to ever worry about having a basic retirement. They're at the upper end of the 1%.
Cruz may have hispanic ancestry (a word that is really vague) but he's as bleached white as is possible without being the Pillbury Doughboy. You most certainly can have a parent from Cuba while still being a Rich White Career Politician. Ok, so he's descended from the upper class who fled Cuba rather than the lower class who fled Mexico and Central America, but he's still hispanic. But man oh man is he ever white. And Southern Baptist white at that. He is what conservatives mean when they say that want descendants of immigrants to assimilate, unlike Rubio.
(Hispanic is not a racial term, since it covers both people with pure European ancestry, pure African ancestry, pure Native American ancestry, and all sorts of complex mixes in between.)
And besides, the earlier poster said "most" not "all" republican candidates.
The concept seems wrong. The country is already full of people hidden in bubbles, refusing to hear or even acknowledge contrary views. Then they walk around thinking the entire country has the same views they do, or else they split the country into those who they agree with and the enemy. People need to hear contrary views.
Blocking Trump, Hillary, or Bernie is counter productive (though see the Christmas special of Black Mirror). What happens if Trump wins the election and all these people say "Trump, but I never even saw his name in any of the news, if I had known he was so popular I'd have gotten out and voted"?
The property owner has a duty to honor the leases and return deposits.
Vote goat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Windows 8 made it seem lik you had to have Microsoft account. The option to use a local login only was hidden. If you didn't do the research you wouldn't know it was an option. So with Windows 10 you do the same thing: do the research before installing, and don't just click "next" over and over until you're done.
Even on Windows 8 I made sure never to create a Microsoft account, even though it goes out of its way to make it seem like it's mandatory. On OSX I have never created an Apple account either. And for a lot of other services I have to be proactive and disable all cloud services, and periodically check that they weren't turned back on during an update (which Steam did).
There's a hard drive on the computer, so use it and not the cloud. Duh.
Microsoft loves entry level technicians, yup. A few years later those people may lack the ability to learn more and advance beyond grunt level IT work. Node.js will be unfashionable in a decade, knowing subnetting is not needed for most people already and hopefully will be obsolete (when IPv6 takes off, probably the same year as the year of Linux on the desktop...), msce is a joke and is used to turn candidates into interchangeable cogs in a machine. All that stuff is good for technicians, great for outsourcing, but are not long term paths to growth.
The reason I keep shouting that theory is important is because there's a majority of people in somewhat computer science related jobs who claim it's useless and quite a lot who advocate skipping college altogether. Theory is used in every CS job, yes, absolutely. Theory helps you THINK. We have a huge gap in the number of programmers who can think and even a lot of engineers who can't do it either. Instead what we have are people who glue together frameworks and libraries; like the difference between the people who assemble prefab houses versus those who can actually build a house to code. So you know what subnetting is but if you know queueing theory you're going to be vastly better at understanding networking and adapting to new technologies. Sure you can churn out apps but can you figure out why it runs so slow so that you don't tell the customer to just get a faster PC?
The reason people think CS is obsolete is that they're not thinking about careers but instead are thinking about next week's paycheck at a random corporation where they're a fungible entity.
Forth would be best I think.
Ad blockers are about all of it. Privacy, malware prevention, reclaiming bandwidth, and sometimes just to block ads.
Most of the politicians do. They don't understand the math, or the economics, or any other of the concepts. What they do know is that they have to respond to accusations that they're being weak on fighting terrorists. There's no left or right ideology here other than to look like you're being useful to the voters.
Law enforcement if left unchecked will assume more and more power, and the government is being lax in its duties by not saying "no" to those grabbing hands more often. If their only goal is to stop all crime then the logical end result is to remove all freedoms from all citizens; prevent crime by incarcerating or separating everyone. The rule in law enforcement is to assume guilt until innocence is proven, and if innocence is proven then submit a press release that objects vigorously to letting the suspect go. And so they are lobbying the politicians trying to get their way, "it's easy" they say, "just let us have a back door!"
"True free market" is one of those religious notions I think. In the absence of a government there can't be a well functioning market, so perhaps a "true" free market means a dysfunctional one? Trying to learn economics from libertarian pamphlets is not a good idea.
Wow, what propaganda have you been reading? Historical monopolies arise all the time without governments forming them. Standard Oil, the robber baron railroads, De Beers, U.S. Steel, Microsoft. That doesn't mean all those monopolies were bad, because Standard Oil's monopoly provided benefits and the government didn't want to intervene there.
The free market if left on its own without regulation has nothing that prevents monopolies. That's why there are things called "natural monopolies" where the resources are scarce so that barriers to entry are formidable.
The first definition has proven time and time again to lead to abuses in the market, abuses against rights of citizens, abuses against its own workers, cheating against its own shareholders even.
Too many have a theology that essentially says "the worst corporation is better then the best government". That is, evil done by a corporation is fine and good because the free market fairies will fix it, but no good can possibly come from a government which exists only to create a military market and provide a means to sue those you disagree with. The problem is that there really is not a free market without government, much like there are no personal freedoms either without a government to defend them, as there's always someone or other who will drag it all down in the absence of all rules.
I have found out that often by the time jocks are adults they end up being more polite than nerds. This is because the jocks had coaches that kept teaching about sportsmanship. Many nerds on the other hand had no mature mentors and so they think that teabagging your opponent is the height of wit.
I use Adblock Plus, and have never seen an advertisement with them. Not even acceptable ads. I'm perfectly fine with advertisers paying to be on a list and still not being viewed by anyone.
What about widdershins?
Yes, but Kraft's is better when you need comfort food to eat in a dark corner along with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a fifth of scotch while watching Titanic.
Democrats today ignore Nixon because he was Republican. Republicans today ignore Nixon because he was too liberal and made compromises.