This is a massive conspiracy. The IRS is hopelessly corrupt. We need a special prosecutor and get people under oath. There needs to be a lot of jail time handed out, starting with the vile Lois Lerner.
For everyone that wants to jump to protect Obama... keep in mind republicans are likely to win the next election, and they'll have the opportunity to use the IRS in the same way if this doesn't get fixed. I personally think they're all scum.
Anyone want to make any bets on how long they're being sold here in the U.S. before someone dies in an accident because it was made with sub-standard parts, or poor quality control?
Don't mod me down as a troll or flamebait, either, because it's not like there isn't a history of low-quality crap coming out of China.
There's just as much of a history of crap coming out of the United States. Everything in your car was made over seas... EVERYTHING. Most of it in China. They just ship the parts back here to be assembled. The US doesn't do manufacturing anymore. We were once a powerhouse but we've lost our expertise and skilled labor. Weather you can tell the difference in these cars or not will depend on Volvo, not china. If they hire a bunch of migrant workers strait off the farm for 50 cents a day then yes, the cars will suck. If they build them in a major manufacturing hub and hire skilled labor at a decent wage for China) then they will be great. You get what you pay for.
Read the arcticle so you don't have to: This is about removing artists from Youtube, not from the Google search engine.
It's not even about that. It's about removing artists that refuse to sign the License agreement from YouTube, which makes perfect sense. The agreement protects google against legal action arising from hosting copywriter content. If the Labels don't like the terms, there are plenty of other free video websites out there. When you download music or buy a CD you're agreeing to a licensing agreement you have no choice over, how is it less evil for Google to apply the same to them?
They have to move a lot of data to those local cable providers. They need a substantial backend to do it, tons of bandwidth running between cities. That's what Level 3 (http://www.level3.com) would be interested in. Bandwidth, access points, colos / generators. That is the core of a telecom business.
You're talking about a tier1 network, and as far as I know, Time Warner doesn't have one. They likely pay Level3 for that kind of service because that's what Level3 does. According to the article this is Time Warners business lines. So these are T1s, T3s, Managed services like VOIP, etc...
Bullshit. These people are just trying to avoid paying taxes. Kill this 501(c) bullshit now. Or are you going to try to tell me that would violates everybody's "rights"?
You're right, they are. And you're also right that the 501(c) nonsense is bullshit. The point is, however, that the IRS decided it was only a bad thing if you had the words "Tea Party" or "Israel" in the name of your organization. This is called Selective Enforcement
Historically, selective enforcement is recognized as a sign of tyranny, and an abuse of power, because it violates rule of law, allowing men to apply justice only when they choose. Aside from this being inherently unjust, it almost inevitably must lead to favoritism and extortion, with those empowered to choose being able to help their friends, take bribes, and threaten those from whom they desire favors.
A good example of this is when Chicago tried to make being in a "Gang" illegal. There are plenty of white groups in Chicago that were not illegal. The difference being that most people in the gang were black. Basically law enforcement were selectively targeting black men in groups. This is clearly discriminatory. http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup...
The targeting of Right Wing groups was also clearly discriminatory. The IRS may very well have "Felt" that these right-wing groups were more likely to be circumventing the law. But even if that were true, it's still a violation of the constitution to target them solely based on their political beliefs.
if they actually had that information... they can't possibly... and even if they do I'm pretty sure they'll deny it. The feds are in full blown police state at this point as regards due process. But still imagine if they actually had that information. That would be pretty incredible.
What on earth are you talking about? Of course they have it. It's a federal agency. It's the IRS! It's probably some of the most desirable, easiest to get info out there.
As stupid as this is, it will save more lives than any firearms regulation ever will. Keep in mind how you feel about this regulation, then re-evaluate your stance on gun control. You don't have to change your mind, just think about it long and hard. Cars kill far far more people every year than guns ever could. Why allow people to have cars? There's no constitutional right to drive... Banning them would significantly reduce global warming pollutants... Ban cars, force public transport and foot traffic.
Well, growing up I was a victim of it. As a child I survived on poached deer and small game and the occasional splurge at KFC on Fridays. I still like squirrel but KFC is gross to me now.
But if you don't want to take my word for it, ask some of these places:
Every city over 30k people in this country has a food bank. You think these organizations do all this work for the hell of it? I grow and can large amounts of produce myself to donate. It shouldn't be possible to starve in this country, but it happens every day.
Blame trademark law. They have to go after everybody or lose the mark.
The right way:
Dear Ikeahackers.com,
What a great site! We love what you're doing with our product! Keep it up. However, we've noticed that you're using our name and logo without license. That just wont work for various reasons it's not worth getting into. Nevertheless we need to address it to prevent future headaches. Please see the attached licensing agreement. It's for a period of 1 year with the condition that we can withdraw the agreement at anytime and it must be renewed yearly (this is just in case you sell the site to someone with less noble intentions, we'll be able to yank the license.) Please have a lawyer review the agreement, and if you agree, sign and mail it to the mailing address provided.
Steve Jobs was not creative. At all. Name one thing he ever invented.
Name me one thing you ever invented.
A formula for calculating binder group colors in telecom plant records. It's only 1 line of code, but it's industry standard now. Probably the biggest effect I'll ever have on the world other than my son.
The majority of Starvation and poverty happen in areas where adults can't report the problem. Immigrant families and those with warrants. They'd rather starve than get sent to jail, so they starve. It happens far more often than you think it does because it goes almost totally unreported.
Been watching a little too much Penn and Teller? Starving Africans? In which country are Africans starving?
I've been there... all of them. Your life totally changes when there are hundreds of people standing in front of you starving to death and there's nothing you can do about it despite knowing you have boxes of crackers back home going stale that could literally save a life. I watched people eat garbage.
Here on Earth we think of Oceans of water, but way out at Pluto's orbit it could be something esle (ammonia, methane, hydrogen, nitrogen...
Given the makeup of the moon, they're looking for water. It's mostly water with some methane ices mixed in. Also, the article specifically mentions its a water ocean they're trying to prove existed.
Every1 knoes that the earth is 6000 years old! U MAD BRO?! Butthurt!
As someone that's now considered "Middle aged" let me help you with your "young people" speech. "BRO" was a term that was cool, only to people in highschool about 5yrs ago. It was never cool to 99.9% of the world, but now, 5yrs later, it's not even cool to the people you used to say it to. After you left highschool it moved into the state of "Lets make fun of how we used to talk" but it's even past that now. It's not moved into the same territory as "Righteous" and "Square" you just don't even mention the word without sounding like an idiot.
Jobs was a right-brain leader. Creativity and creative genius cannot be emulated or duplicated. People should stop thinking that someone can just come in and do the same things he did, think the way he thought. It's impossible. Find another, equally brilliant right-brain thinker and maybe you have a shot at a new era of Apple that is reminiscent of building things around sacred geometry, art and magic - but new and different on its own merits.
In 2003, a thorough analysis of the incidence and available mortality statistics among Inuit populations in Greenland, Canada and Alaska by Bjerregaard et al, also concluded that the totality of evidence from various Northern areas makes a strong argument for high presence of CVD in Eskimos (Appendix A in Supplementary Materials).
Is the current Eskimo diet the same as the traditional Eskimo diet?
Do the Inuits in Greenland still eat blubber and not eat pizza, sugary drinks, hamburgers and chocolate whatsoever.
If saturated fat CVD theory were right, the Eskimo diet would have significantly more CVD than the general population. However, it seems about the same. So, the saturated fats is bad for you part is still questionable even. Now, the whole Omega-3 is heart healthy is the one being put on question.
And this is the problem with Doctors doing these studies. They don't believe in the low carb diet so they try to apply standard dietary rules to it. They think "A little pizza doesn't count" As anyone on a low carb diet knows... you can be on low carb and lose 30lbs. Eat pizza for one meal and you're gaining at least 10lbs back almost immediately. The carbs trigger some kind of storage reaction in our bodies that I dont think anyone understands yet.
There are thousands of variables that can affect the bandwidth available between points A and B across the internet, many of which beyond the end-users and the ISPs' control, which makes any sort of bandwidth guarantees with "best-effort" transit impossible to actually guarantee in any remotely meaningful way. Throwing W&M, NIST or whatever else at this is not going to do anyone any good.
If you want everyone's internet service to effectively be covered by an end-to-end bandwidth SLA of some sort, things are likely going to get a fair bit more expensive if the minimum guarantee is to be remotely usable.
I work for a major ISP and one of my jobs is to maintain a provisioning system that, when you call in to order service, tests the remote you'd be operating off of and returns the max speed of the equipment. The "5mb/60%" thing is an industry standard way of measurement already for data lines. We do it all the time for businesses, and we already have the software in place to do it for residential. We usually take the aggregate number from the remote to flag it as "undeserved" when it starts capping out. Then an order gets put in to add more equipment or trench a new line. The ISP KNOWS if you're going to have a problem when you order. You should know to. There are probably quite a few small town ISPs (under 30k customers) whos equipment is too old to do this, but it's time they upgraded anyway.
It's not that I'm saying "Force the ISP to provide this speed!" What I'm saying is the ISP should disclose exactly what the speed will be max, and what percentage of the time you'll be able to get that speed. Currently the ISPs market "Up to 50mb!" but thats only if no one else out of your remote is currently online. So the chances you'll actually get that speed for any real length of time are pretty slim. You should know that before you sign a 2yr contract.
LinkedIn has been my nemesis for years. 80% of my companies spam came form them and reeked havoc on the systems I maintain. I tried blocking their standard email addresses and then found that they were rotating email accounts to get around that very thing. They were acting just like any other spam troll I've dealt with. Finally I just blocked their entire domain. You can't even go to their site from inside our building anymore. Fuck em.
I've noticed that both Amazon and Netflix seem to make navigating streaming kind of murky, never wanting you to have a good grasp of what is or isn't available besides what they show you as featured titles. I've always suspected that this was done to mask the relatively thin and lame streaming titles that weren't on their short list of high-profile titles.
I've also been surprised at how hard it is to browse the web site for DVDs on the iPad. The web site works, but its so Javascript laden that it makes it hard to use. Third party queue management apps were a salvation. Maybe they're trying to make finding DVDs annoying, too, so that all we'll do is watch the featured streams.
Because they want to "Guide" you to choices that are more profitable. Basic website marketing.
They keep saying that additional regulation will degrade service, raise prices and reduce healthy competition, yet the United States has some of the worst prices, service and competition with the little regulation that already exists. I don't see how adding additional regulation at this point is going to make things any worse unless modems and routers will start spontaneously catching on fire or service technicians are going to start shooting people's dogs.
In the case of the Cable companies (not telecoms) they are basically not regulated at all. So yes, some regulation would have little impact and improve service. In regards to Telecoms, regulation is VERY heavy. It's a significant portion of their operating costs and a lot of it is just plain stupid. It could probably use more regulation in 'some' areas but needs a significant reduction in others.
The biggest problem in the US is our government and the FCC are completely incompetent. Rudimentary basic reforms would solve a lot of our problems. We're still operating under regulation that was, for the most part, developed prior to the Internet. It's literally a completely different industry now. It's unrecognizable compared to what we had in the 80s. So why are we still using that same regulation?
We need what we buy defined, in law. i.e. "You'll have 5mb/s service 60% of the time, minimum degraded level of 500k/s" or whatever. So you know what you're getting. This should be enforced by weights and measures. Content providers need to be regulated. Netflix in particular has been operating in a completely irresponsible way. Don't regulate what they can provide. Regulate how they provide it. You can't move a 10gig peer overnight without telling anyone. All ISPs need to operate under the same regulatory framework. No more pretending Cable and Telephone provide different products. They don't. Get rid of all the nonsense like regional laws that require working pots lines in abandon homes. Most state and federal buildings dont even have pay-phones anymore, why should an abandon home? If the states not willing to pay for it, why should the ISP have to?
Common sense rule changes would do us all a lot of good.
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Haven't we all watched enough James Bond and Super Man films to know that Elon Musks true goal is to build a Giant Robot and/or Start WW3?
Like Typhoid Mary was "kind of badass"?
If the disease I'm spreading is "Cool" then I don't want to be healthy.
This is a massive conspiracy. The IRS is hopelessly corrupt. We need a special prosecutor and get people under oath. There needs to be a lot of jail time handed out, starting with the vile Lois Lerner.
For everyone that wants to jump to protect Obama... keep in mind republicans are likely to win the next election, and they'll have the opportunity to use the IRS in the same way if this doesn't get fixed. I personally think they're all scum.
Anyone want to make any bets on how long they're being sold here in the U.S. before someone dies in an accident because it was made with sub-standard parts, or poor quality control?
Don't mod me down as a troll or flamebait, either, because it's not like there isn't a history of low-quality crap coming out of China.
There's just as much of a history of crap coming out of the United States.
Everything in your car was made over seas... EVERYTHING. Most of it in China. They just ship the parts back here to be assembled. The US doesn't do manufacturing anymore. We were once a powerhouse but we've lost our expertise and skilled labor. Weather you can tell the difference in these cars or not will depend on Volvo, not china. If they hire a bunch of migrant workers strait off the farm for 50 cents a day then yes, the cars will suck. If they build them in a major manufacturing hub and hire skilled labor at a decent wage for China) then they will be great. You get what you pay for.
Read the arcticle so you don't have to:
This is about removing artists from Youtube, not from the Google search engine.
It's not even about that. It's about removing artists that refuse to sign the License agreement from YouTube, which makes perfect sense. The agreement protects google against legal action arising from hosting copywriter content. If the Labels don't like the terms, there are plenty of other free video websites out there. When you download music or buy a CD you're agreeing to a licensing agreement you have no choice over, how is it less evil for Google to apply the same to them?
They have to move a lot of data to those local cable providers. They need a substantial backend to do it, tons of bandwidth running between cities. That's what Level 3 (http://www.level3.com) would be interested in. Bandwidth, access points, colos / generators. That is the core of a telecom business.
You're talking about a tier1 network, and as far as I know, Time Warner doesn't have one. They likely pay Level3 for that kind of service because that's what Level3 does. According to the article this is Time Warners business lines. So these are T1s, T3s, Managed services like VOIP, etc...
Bullshit. These people are just trying to avoid paying taxes. Kill this 501(c) bullshit now. Or are you going to try to tell me that would violates everybody's "rights"?
You're right, they are. And you're also right that the 501(c) nonsense is bullshit.
The point is, however, that the IRS decided it was only a bad thing if you had the words "Tea Party" or "Israel" in the name of your organization.
This is called Selective Enforcement
Historically, selective enforcement is recognized as a sign of tyranny, and an abuse of power, because it violates rule of law, allowing men to apply justice only when they choose. Aside from this being inherently unjust, it almost inevitably must lead to favoritism and extortion, with those empowered to choose being able to help their friends, take bribes, and threaten those from whom they desire favors.
A good example of this is when Chicago tried to make being in a "Gang" illegal.
There are plenty of white groups in Chicago that were not illegal. The difference being that most people in the gang were black. Basically law enforcement were selectively targeting black men in groups. This is clearly discriminatory.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup...
The targeting of Right Wing groups was also clearly discriminatory. The IRS may very well have "Felt" that these right-wing groups were more likely to be circumventing the law. But even if that were true, it's still a violation of the constitution to target them solely based on their political beliefs.
if they actually had that information... they can't possibly... and even if they do I'm pretty sure they'll deny it. The feds are in full blown police state at this point as regards due process. But still imagine if they actually had that information. That would be pretty incredible.
What on earth are you talking about? Of course they have it. It's a federal agency. It's the IRS! It's probably some of the most desirable, easiest to get info out there.
As stupid as this is, it will save more lives than any firearms regulation ever will.
Keep in mind how you feel about this regulation, then re-evaluate your stance on gun control. You don't have to change your mind, just think about it long and hard. Cars kill far far more people every year than guns ever could. Why allow people to have cars? There's no constitutional right to drive... Banning them would significantly reduce global warming pollutants... Ban cars, force public transport and foot traffic.
Well, growing up I was a victim of it. As a child I survived on poached deer and small game and the occasional splurge at KFC on Fridays. I still like squirrel but KFC is gross to me now.
But if you don't want to take my word for it, ask some of these places:
http://www.foodbanknyc.org/
http://www.chicagosfoodbank.or...
https://www.lafoodbank.org/
http://www.austinfoodbank.org/
Every city over 30k people in this country has a food bank.
You think these organizations do all this work for the hell of it?
I grow and can large amounts of produce myself to donate.
It shouldn't be possible to starve in this country, but it happens every day.
Blame trademark law. They have to go after everybody or lose the mark.
The right way:
Dear Ikeahackers.com,
What a great site! We love what you're doing with our product! Keep it up. However, we've noticed that you're using our name and logo without license. That just wont work for various reasons it's not worth getting into. Nevertheless we need to address it to prevent future headaches. Please see the attached licensing agreement. It's for a period of 1 year with the condition that we can withdraw the agreement at anytime and it must be renewed yearly (this is just in case you sell the site to someone with less noble intentions, we'll be able to yank the license.) Please have a lawyer review the agreement, and if you agree, sign and mail it to the mailing address provided.
Thanks and have a great day!
The Ikea team
Now, how hard was that?
Steve Jobs was not creative. At all. Name one thing he ever invented.
Name me one thing you ever invented.
A formula for calculating binder group colors in telecom plant records. It's only 1 line of code, but it's industry standard now. Probably the biggest effect I'll ever have on the world other than my son.
And you?
Getting starving people to pay for vitamins is hard. Getting them to pay for food is not.
The majority of Starvation and poverty happen in areas where adults can't report the problem. Immigrant families and those with warrants. They'd rather starve than get sent to jail, so they starve. It happens far more often than you think it does because it goes almost totally unreported.
Been watching a little too much Penn and Teller? Starving Africans? In which country are Africans starving?
I've been there... all of them. Your life totally changes when there are hundreds of people standing in front of you starving to death and there's nothing you can do about it despite knowing you have boxes of crackers back home going stale that could literally save a life. I watched people eat garbage.
Here on Earth we think of Oceans of water, but way out at Pluto's orbit it could be something esle (ammonia, methane, hydrogen, nitrogen...
Given the makeup of the moon, they're looking for water. It's mostly water with some methane ices mixed in. Also, the article specifically mentions its a water ocean they're trying to prove existed.
Every1 knoes that the earth is 6000 years old! U MAD BRO?! Butthurt!
As someone that's now considered "Middle aged" let me help you with your "young people" speech. "BRO" was a term that was cool, only to people in highschool about 5yrs ago. It was never cool to 99.9% of the world, but now, 5yrs later, it's not even cool to the people you used to say it to. After you left highschool it moved into the state of "Lets make fun of how we used to talk" but it's even past that now. It's not moved into the same territory as "Righteous" and "Square" you just don't even mention the word without sounding like an idiot.
Jobs was a right-brain leader. Creativity and creative genius cannot be emulated or duplicated. People should stop thinking that someone can just come in and do the same things he did, think the way he thought. It's impossible. Find another, equally brilliant right-brain thinker and maybe you have a shot at a new era of Apple that is reminiscent of building things around sacred geometry, art and magic - but new and different on its own merits.
Lateralization of the brain is pseudoscience bullshit.
http://www.plosone.org/article...
Steve Jobs was not creative. At all. Name one thing he ever invented.
There's also video of them successfully deflecting the asteroid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In 2003, a thorough analysis of the incidence and available mortality statistics among Inuit populations in Greenland, Canada and Alaska by Bjerregaard et al, also concluded that the totality of evidence from various Northern areas makes a strong argument for high presence of CVD in Eskimos (Appendix A in Supplementary Materials).
Is the current Eskimo diet the same as the traditional Eskimo diet?
Do the Inuits in Greenland still eat blubber and not eat pizza, sugary drinks, hamburgers and chocolate whatsoever.
If saturated fat CVD theory were right, the Eskimo diet would have significantly more CVD than the general population. However, it seems about the same. So, the saturated fats is bad for you part is still questionable even. Now, the whole Omega-3 is heart healthy is the one being put on question.
And this is the problem with Doctors doing these studies. They don't believe in the low carb diet so they try to apply standard dietary rules to it. They think "A little pizza doesn't count" As anyone on a low carb diet knows... you can be on low carb and lose 30lbs. Eat pizza for one meal and you're gaining at least 10lbs back almost immediately. The carbs trigger some kind of storage reaction in our bodies that I dont think anyone understands yet.
This should be enforced by weights and measures.
Good luck with that.
There are thousands of variables that can affect the bandwidth available between points A and B across the internet, many of which beyond the end-users and the ISPs' control, which makes any sort of bandwidth guarantees with "best-effort" transit impossible to actually guarantee in any remotely meaningful way. Throwing W&M, NIST or whatever else at this is not going to do anyone any good.
If you want everyone's internet service to effectively be covered by an end-to-end bandwidth SLA of some sort, things are likely going to get a fair bit more expensive if the minimum guarantee is to be remotely usable.
I work for a major ISP and one of my jobs is to maintain a provisioning system that, when you call in to order service, tests the remote you'd be operating off of and returns the max speed of the equipment. The "5mb/60%" thing is an industry standard way of measurement already for data lines. We do it all the time for businesses, and we already have the software in place to do it for residential. We usually take the aggregate number from the remote to flag it as "undeserved" when it starts capping out. Then an order gets put in to add more equipment or trench a new line. The ISP KNOWS if you're going to have a problem when you order. You should know to. There are probably quite a few small town ISPs (under 30k customers) whos equipment is too old to do this, but it's time they upgraded anyway.
It's not that I'm saying "Force the ISP to provide this speed!" What I'm saying is the ISP should disclose exactly what the speed will be max, and what percentage of the time you'll be able to get that speed. Currently the ISPs market "Up to 50mb!" but thats only if no one else out of your remote is currently online. So the chances you'll actually get that speed for any real length of time are pretty slim. You should know that before you sign a 2yr contract.
btw, LinkedIn is the ONLY domain we blacklist. We don't even block porn sites. Just linkedin... that should tell you something.
LinkedIn has been my nemesis for years. 80% of my companies spam came form them and reeked havoc on the systems I maintain. I tried blocking their standard email addresses and then found that they were rotating email accounts to get around that very thing. They were acting just like any other spam troll I've dealt with. Finally I just blocked their entire domain. You can't even go to their site from inside our building anymore. Fuck em.
I've noticed that both Amazon and Netflix seem to make navigating streaming kind of murky, never wanting you to have a good grasp of what is or isn't available besides what they show you as featured titles. I've always suspected that this was done to mask the relatively thin and lame streaming titles that weren't on their short list of high-profile titles.
I've also been surprised at how hard it is to browse the web site for DVDs on the iPad. The web site works, but its so Javascript laden that it makes it hard to use. Third party queue management apps were a salvation. Maybe they're trying to make finding DVDs annoying, too, so that all we'll do is watch the featured streams.
Because they want to "Guide" you to choices that are more profitable. Basic website marketing.
They keep saying that additional regulation will degrade service, raise prices and reduce healthy competition, yet the United States has some of the worst prices, service and competition with the little regulation that already exists. I don't see how adding additional regulation at this point is going to make things any worse unless modems and routers will start spontaneously catching on fire or service technicians are going to start shooting people's dogs.
In the case of the Cable companies (not telecoms) they are basically not regulated at all. So yes, some regulation would have little impact and improve service. In regards to Telecoms, regulation is VERY heavy. It's a significant portion of their operating costs and a lot of it is just plain stupid. It could probably use more regulation in 'some' areas but needs a significant reduction in others.
The biggest problem in the US is our government and the FCC are completely incompetent. Rudimentary basic reforms would solve a lot of our problems. We're still operating under regulation that was, for the most part, developed prior to the Internet. It's literally a completely different industry now. It's unrecognizable compared to what we had in the 80s. So why are we still using that same regulation?
We need what we buy defined, in law. i.e. "You'll have 5mb/s service 60% of the time, minimum degraded level of 500k/s" or whatever. So you know what you're getting. This should be enforced by weights and measures.
Content providers need to be regulated. Netflix in particular has been operating in a completely irresponsible way. Don't regulate what they can provide. Regulate how they provide it. You can't move a 10gig peer overnight without telling anyone.
All ISPs need to operate under the same regulatory framework. No more pretending Cable and Telephone provide different products. They don't.
Get rid of all the nonsense like regional laws that require working pots lines in abandon homes. Most state and federal buildings dont even have pay-phones anymore, why should an abandon home? If the states not willing to pay for it, why should the ISP have to?
Common sense rule changes would do us all a lot of good.