From TFA:
"People say that's not private: It's public on Facebook. I say that's just semantics. The question is what is the school doing? It's not stumbling into students -- like a teacher running across a student on the street. This is the school sending someone to watch them..."
And anybody who believes even for a second the company doesn't go deeper than they admit to going is probably ready to take advantage of that amazing opportunity extended by a Nigerian bank president.
The situations aren't even remotely the same. Do I really have to explain why, or can you work it out for yourself?
Teensy hint: consider the difference between publicly accusing a teacher of sexual misconduct and telling a friend "privately", along with something like, "And if anybody tries to make me tell, I'll just deny everything".
How long will it take for the students to find out this is going on? My bet is that they already know.
So how long will it be before a student who isn't thrilled with having adults e-stalk them decides to leave a "private" comment about how Principal Lovegood is just a bit too handsy?
Great move, when you're a guest in another country. Remarks like this remove all doubt about why Americans have to wear Canadian flags when they're traveling.
Of course, they don't act any different, so now they're giving Canadians a bad name, too.
First, take all the unemployed grads and divide them into two teams. Then, rent an Olympic track. Start the two teams running in opposite directions around the track, with one team taking the inside lanes and one team taking the outside ones. Half way through the race, you make them change from outside to inside and vice versa right at the start/finish line.
The results should produce interesting, previously-unknown kinds of employees, perhaps with unusual or exotic skills.
Religion, by the way, is a system of delusions, no matter what kind of silly word games you try to play. If you can bring me hard, physical proof that some kind of supreme deity exists, I'll consider it. Until you do that...quit inflicting nonsense on rational people.
Flagellants (religious fanatics who liked to whip themselves) traveling from town to town helped to spread the disease.
And then, there's this:
In the early thirteenth century Pope Gregory IX (1145â"1241) declared that a sect in southern France had been caught worshipping the devil. He claimed the devil had appeared in the form of a black cat. Cats became the official symbol of heresy (or religious beliefs not advocated by the church). Anyone who showed any compassion or feeling for a cat came under the church's suspicion. By the beginning of the fourteenth century, Europe's cat population had been severely depleted. Only semi-wild cats survived in many areas.
In 1347 the bubonic plague swept across Europe. Called the Black Death, it killed twenty-five million people (nearly a third of Europe's population) in only three years. Thousands of farm animals died as well, either from the plague or from lack of care. The death rate peaked in the warm summer months and dropped dramatically in the wintertime because the plague was being spread to humans by fleas on infected rodents. The plague revisited Europe several more times over the next few centuries. In addition, millions of people are thought to have suffered from food poisoning during the Middle Ages because of the presence of rat droppings in the grain supply. Centuries of cat slaughter had allowed the rodent population to surge out of control.
Dumbass religious fanatics spreading disease. Even the Black Death wasn't enough to convince these cretins they should quit inflicting the consequences of their ignorance on rational people.
This reminds me of an old Popular Science story about how an LED watch (the first) cost $10,000 to buy. The technology to make perfect copies of your artwork of choice is only a year or two away. And the cost will by minimal.
"El Reg would like to save The Guardian a few bob, and reduce the jet-setting lefty paper's carbon footprint, by suggesting some handy tips â" most of them based on the NSA's own guidance".
Since the NSA gets a lot more information from metadata than from the message itself, I imagine they'd be delighted to have journalists encrypting everything important (lazy buggers that they are, they probably wouldn't bother with anything that wasn't).
By jumping through all the hoops in the NSA guidelines, you just sorted yourself into a tiny minority that has something to hide. You can guarantee you'll have spooks from every spy agency in the free world tracking where you go, who you talk to, who THEY talk to and what all of you do all day, where you keep your money, where you spend it, and who makes your morning coffee when the wife's out of town.
I'm in exactly the same situation. As far as I know, there's two people on the planet with my name, and I'm one of 'em. And my job is such that I really can't express my opinion publicly on some subjects, even outside of work. Even if I could, the raving conservative hate-monkeys would give me no peace if I spoke my mind. I found that out once, already.
I wonder if Ms. Huffington is aware that many jobs, including those involving the Canadian government, are very picky about what you can say on-line. This extends far past criticizing the boss or bad-mouthing your employer's hiring policies. It can involve political issues, matters of faith and personal opinions. I am one of the people who is not able to comment freely here, there, or anywhere else under my own name. So if AOL (the real owner of Huffington Post) insists on this, I'll terminate my long-time, high fan base account immediately.
TFA says, "...may be at greater risk of an early death. And not just death from heart problems, but death from all causes..."
This is obviously because people who drink more than four cups of coffee a day are awake and actually doing things. People who don't are sleeping their lives away, all safe and tucked away in bed. And except for that poor bastard in Florida who got eaten by the sink hole, remarkably few healthy people die while they're peacefully snoring away in their own bed.
The logical reasons behind this statement have been laid out very well already by others. I just thought a little outraged cynicism with respect to these lying, user-abusing creeps was in order.
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From TFA: "People say that's not private: It's public on Facebook. I say that's just semantics. The question is what is the school doing? It's not stumbling into students -- like a teacher running across a student on the street. This is the school sending someone to watch them..."
And anybody who believes even for a second the company doesn't go deeper than they admit to going is probably ready to take advantage of that amazing opportunity extended by a Nigerian bank president.
The situations aren't even remotely the same. Do I really have to explain why, or can you work it out for yourself?
Teensy hint: consider the difference between publicly accusing a teacher of sexual misconduct and telling a friend "privately", along with something like, "And if anybody tries to make me tell, I'll just deny everything".
What's a poor eavesdropper to do?
How long will it take for the students to find out this is going on? My bet is that they already know.
So how long will it be before a student who isn't thrilled with having adults e-stalk them decides to leave a "private" comment about how Principal Lovegood is just a bit too handsy?
Got mod points. Can't put you up any higher. Yes, at some point the sheeple will have to start protesting about the level of predation.
I wish I had even the slightest confidence that it would happen.
Great move, when you're a guest in another country. Remarks like this remove all doubt about why Americans have to wear Canadian flags when they're traveling.
Of course, they don't act any different, so now they're giving Canadians a bad name, too.
Big business is risk-averse. And in America today, big business runs everything.
First, take all the unemployed grads and divide them into two teams. Then, rent an Olympic track. Start the two teams running in opposite directions around the track, with one team taking the inside lanes and one team taking the outside ones. Half way through the race, you make them change from outside to inside and vice versa right at the start/finish line.
The results should produce interesting, previously-unknown kinds of employees, perhaps with unusual or exotic skills.
Just a thought...
So much ignorance, and so little interest in remedying it. You're 100% wrong, Wonderdunce. Here...educate yourself:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
Religion, by the way, is a system of delusions, no matter what kind of silly word games you try to play. If you can bring me hard, physical proof that some kind of supreme deity exists, I'll consider it. Until you do that...quit inflicting nonsense on rational people.
Their delusions are not my problem. Nor should the state attempt to make them so.
Flagellants (religious fanatics who liked to whip themselves) traveling from town to town helped to spread the disease.
And then, there's this:
In the early thirteenth century Pope Gregory IX (1145â"1241) declared that a sect in southern France had been caught worshipping the devil. He claimed the devil had appeared in the form of a black cat. Cats became the official symbol of heresy (or religious beliefs not advocated by the church). Anyone who showed any compassion or feeling for a cat came under the church's suspicion. By the beginning of the fourteenth century, Europe's cat population had been severely depleted. Only semi-wild cats survived in many areas. In 1347 the bubonic plague swept across Europe. Called the Black Death, it killed twenty-five million people (nearly a third of Europe's population) in only three years. Thousands of farm animals died as well, either from the plague or from lack of care. The death rate peaked in the warm summer months and dropped dramatically in the wintertime because the plague was being spread to humans by fleas on infected rodents. The plague revisited Europe several more times over the next few centuries. In addition, millions of people are thought to have suffered from food poisoning during the Middle Ages because of the presence of rat droppings in the grain supply. Centuries of cat slaughter had allowed the rodent population to surge out of control.
http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2149/History-Human-Animal-Interaction-MEDIEVAL-PERIOD.html?ModPagespeed=noscript
Anything else I can help you with?
You raise an excellent point.
Dumbass religious fanatics spreading disease. Even the Black Death wasn't enough to convince these cretins they should quit inflicting the consequences of their ignorance on rational people.
This reminds me of an old Popular Science story about how an LED watch (the first) cost $10,000 to buy. The technology to make perfect copies of your artwork of choice is only a year or two away. And the cost will by minimal.
Somebody mod this cunt down into oblivion, please.
You're right about that, my friend. The Guardian is one of the few papers left in the entire world that still deserves the title. They do good work.
From TFA:
"El Reg would like to save The Guardian a few bob, and reduce the jet-setting lefty paper's carbon footprint, by suggesting some handy tips â" most of them based on the NSA's own guidance".
Since the NSA gets a lot more information from metadata than from the message itself, I imagine they'd be delighted to have journalists encrypting everything important (lazy buggers that they are, they probably wouldn't bother with anything that wasn't).
By jumping through all the hoops in the NSA guidelines, you just sorted yourself into a tiny minority that has something to hide. You can guarantee you'll have spooks from every spy agency in the free world tracking where you go, who you talk to, who THEY talk to and what all of you do all day, where you keep your money, where you spend it, and who makes your morning coffee when the wife's out of town.
And laughing. You just KNOW they'll be laughing.
I'm in exactly the same situation. As far as I know, there's two people on the planet with my name, and I'm one of 'em. And my job is such that I really can't express my opinion publicly on some subjects, even outside of work. Even if I could, the raving conservative hate-monkeys would give me no peace if I spoke my mind. I found that out once, already.
I wonder if Ms. Huffington is aware that many jobs, including those involving the Canadian government, are very picky about what you can say on-line. This extends far past criticizing the boss or bad-mouthing your employer's hiring policies. It can involve political issues, matters of faith and personal opinions. I am one of the people who is not able to comment freely here, there, or anywhere else under my own name. So if AOL (the real owner of Huffington Post) insists on this, I'll terminate my long-time, high fan base account immediately.
I don't imagine I'll be the only one.
I believe there's a couple of buildings in Toronto that have been saving energy this way for years.
If I had even a single moderator point, I swear it would be yours.
TFA says, "...may be at greater risk of an early death. And not just death from heart problems, but death from all causes..."
This is obviously because people who drink more than four cups of coffee a day are awake and actually doing things. People who don't are sleeping their lives away, all safe and tucked away in bed. And except for that poor bastard in Florida who got eaten by the sink hole, remarkably few healthy people die while they're peacefully snoring away in their own bed.
QE-frickin'-D.
I gotcher cookie right here.
The logical reasons behind this statement have been laid out very well already by others. I just thought a little outraged cynicism with respect to these lying, user-abusing creeps was in order.