No. They're angling for government swag. After all, if I can blame climate change for my poor business choices, then maybe I can get a piece of the several hundred billion dollars of public funds being spent over the next few years.
So it's really good to get someone who knows. Care to debunk the insurance companies numbers? I'm pretty certain it will be a breeze for you.
The actuary tables don't lie. Insurance companies have accepted AGW for years now, no matter how much Big Oil and the Koch's try to deny it.
Around 10 years ago, I sat in on a presentation by an insurance company exec who made an incredibly compelling case for the monetary cost of the global warming. Complete with facts and figures. Oddly enough, I haven't heard a lot of deniers cherry picking those numbers.
We could make life much harder on criminals by requiring everybody to get an RFID implant and placing readers all over, too... do we really need to go there to "stay safe"?
Well, that certainly escalated. Who's staying safe? Having evidence that I was at a certain place, like a gas station, was just something I agreed to when I decided to use a credit card for everything. Got one for fuel only, and another for all other purchases.
But I don't know when was the last time I couldn't handle anyone knowing of my whereabouts, or what I buy or sell. Probably never.
If your privacy is so sacred to you, or you have a very good reason to hide your finances or activities - by all means, live on cash or barter. I'm not judging. You have the choice. So do I. This isn't remotely equivalent to RFID chip implants.
Windows 10 does send information back to Microsoft, but nothing personal aside from anonymous telemetry data. It's not stealing documents, it's not stealing photos, it's doing the same thing OS X does, it's doing the same thing Android does, it's doing the same thing Ubuntu did.
Oh fucking bullshit.
If you can actually read, Microsoft very plainly and explicitly says that they scrub your identifying data after thy get your telemetry. So why would they tell you they scrub it if they do not have it?
Seriously, how much to you get paid to lie about this shit? It's to the hpoint where the shilss are denying What Microsoft says they do.
I don't worry about connecting to public hotspots. My knapsack laptop is a $50 used Chromebook. Good luck "hacking" that, since there is basically nothing on it.
Exactly this! I'm at breakfast now, using my cheap Chromebook. Altogether too many people seem to think you should only have one device. And nothing of interest on it at all. just a gmail address specifically for the chromebook, and slashdot use.
However, it is certainly not conjecture that most large retail outfits are actually multi-nationals. Which, by and large, centralise their IT, purchase and logistics operations across countries to some degree. It is also pretty much both logical and normal that said multi-nationals routinely store and analyse data about customer behaviour.
Do you really think that the likes of Rewe and Tesco would bother to exempt Belgium from these analyses?
Agreed. I think that simply because all we see on our CC bill is a total amount, it doesn't mean that the CC and everything bought aren't well connected. Every item that is purchased is tracked for inventory purposes, and it is so trivial to connect a purchase history to a person, that i'm very surprised that someone thinks that buying their booze on a credit card is a hidden transaction.
Hell, I just went on vacation down south, and since I live on a credit card, it is trivial to tell the travel days, where I stayed, and where and mostly what I ate.
It's just about unavoidable, and been that way for a long long time, so I don't worry about it. Then again, this sort of thing has been used to validate alibis.
I'd imagine the only way to achieve the level of untraceability some slashdotters demand would be a total barter economy. Just make certain no one in the chain went outside the system.
In either case they have no right whatsoever to refuse. Their right is to either do their damn job or quit. The government is not forcing them to keep the job. If they took the job knowing that it conflicted with their beliefs then they have absolutely no ground to stand on and should be immediately fired from that job.
That's right, but I suspect that people who stood up for the woman, believing their religion trumps government, would go batshit crazy if someone were to do the same with their gun permits.
When did you download Mint? Hope it wasn't in the middle of their website compromise!
However, that's just me being petty. Linux is fine as a desktop. Windows is fine as a desktop. The thing that ruins either is removing control from the user (e.g. forced Windows Updates on one platform, things like systemd / window manager "upgrades" on the other with no easy way back).
Oh, yes, Systemd is the equivalent of forced updates, Yes ledow, thaou art petty in more ways than one. Tell me, what is the Linux equivalent of forcing Windows 10 OS onto an iMac running W7 in bootcamp that doesn't even have bootcamp software capable of running W10, and won't. (mid 2011 i5)
The problem is, whose history will they be reading? What would be best would be for the code to be provided competing versions of history.
Unfortunately, that invariably leads one (and I assume an AI robot as well) to the conclusion that humans are batshit insane, and an evolutionary failure, ready for the dustbin of the 99+ pecent of species that go extinct.
No one on any side goes into our endless warfare thinking that they are wrong. And on a few forays into the kookier parts of Youtube, it is easy to find there are dozens of competing versions of most bits of history.
I am inclined to agree with Goethe: "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
It might even decide that since humans are so fixated on killing each other, there is no moral issue with killing us for the health of the planet.
Do you actually have any examples of Capitalism doing exactly this?
19th and 20th century, western world, immense progress to a degree never seen before in human history.
I meant successful. The abuses the capitalists performed are what led to the anti monopoly laws. Also, they pretty much insured a 2 year cycle of boom and bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I couldn't find th ecompletely non sexist nature of capitalism, in your uncited words, which is what I asked for.
Try again. The Poster Archangel Michael noted that Capitalism was the only true colorblind system in the world.
my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site.
First off, calm down. Bait and switch - I do not think it means what I think you think it means. And given that the folks who make those decisions have been catching a load of bad feedback from references to Forbes.com, they did think your story was interesting enough to search out an alternative link.
That's all. I do suspect that you will never again have to worry about them "plagiarizing" any submission of yours in the future.
i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.
I'll never know, because I won't ever see that article, because I won't disable my adblocker. By the way, this isn't just petulance upon the part of many Slashdotters
http://www.tripwire.com/state-...
Befause Forbes is such a noted provider of these malware exploits, and demand you enable the mechanism to allow them installed on your computer in order to see their content - Naaahhh ain't happening.
Regardless - you cured your own problem with your outrage.
I dared to speculate recently that some women have a problem with "banter" essentially because they don't like other women, so a group of men casually interacting while ripping on each other without it being some sort of complicated group-exclusion / kin selection ritual is utterly incomprehensible to them.
I believe you are correct. She can trade the "insults" back and forth with the best of them. The nastiest ladies she and I worked around were incredibly easy to insult -
Rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous. They don't lay eggs.
Do you think AC will even know what that means?
Not only knows what it means, but, like all of us, except you, knows that ovoviviparous animals don't have placentas, but develop eggs with yolks that hatch internally, like he said.
Idiot.
Oh, so you looked at Wikipedia after being bitch slapped, eh?
I've always wondered why the perfect economic model never survives the first round of successes.
And which one has fared better than capitalism so far?
Capitalism with enough control that it doesn't destroy itself.
The problem - especially with Libertrians - is their child like insistence that if we only completely unfetter business from any regulation, that only good will come from it. That human nature will not ever assert itself, and that all capitalists will somehow use a system based on greed, yet miraculously, all will be altruistic at the same time.
Well right there is the problem. Malware enabling site Forbes.com insists that before we see anything there, we have to disable our adblockers and allow them to serve us up a nice stew of malware.
was replaced with the australian geographic link. honestly, the australian geographic story pales compared to the story that i shared.
Too bad. Since I can't see it, unless I agree to the malware, I just don't bother going there any more. Forbes is the internet version of unsafe sex.
Every reputable expert on geologic evidence I can find suggest that geologic evidence actually indicates that current climate change is overwhelmingly from human activity, and unusually rapid.
Well there's your problem. Getting your science information from Scientists, instead of Politicians and the industries that own them. Whooooeeeee! what next? Gettin' healthcare from Doctors? That's crazy thinkin'!
As for gay marriage, if you want to say that the State has every right to define something like Civil Marriage, then I think you're on very solid ground constitutionally.
Marriage is indeed a a civil issue. Because there are rights and privileges attached to it. Inheritance, social security, taxes, spousal employment benefits. There are others.
If it starts moving towards forcing people to have to be happy about it... it starts to become more like the state telling you what to believe.
Personally where on earth did you get the idea that you are ordered to love gay marriage? I don't care if you have dreams of killing every gay person you see. Just don't act on them.
But let us take social conservative hero Kim Davis. In order to do a job she was elected to do, she would have been required to issue marriage licenses to couples regardless of gender. But she did not believe in this, as she had a moral qualm based on the Abrahamic Bible. As is her right.
Now a person who does not believe in Gay marriage in an elected office does have a quandary. But one easily settled by having her subordinates issue the licenses. Problem solved.
But in a world where some people believe their religion rights trump other's civil rights, you have to step very carefully.
But tell me - at least in my state, there are concealed carry permits that you go to the courthouse or sheriff to apply for. An elected person dispenses them, in either case. So what happens if the elected person is reborn into a version of Christianity that is pacifistic, and thereafter claims it is their right to refuse all concealed carry permits?
Tell me, does that person have any less right to refuse concealed carry permits based on religion, than a county clerk does - based on religion?
Slashdot Mirror
But it's the free market right?
No. They're angling for government swag. After all, if I can blame climate change for my poor business choices, then maybe I can get a piece of the several hundred billion dollars of public funds being spent over the next few years.
So it's really good to get someone who knows. Care to debunk the insurance companies numbers? I'm pretty certain it will be a breeze for you.
The actuary tables don't lie. Insurance companies have accepted AGW for years now, no matter how much Big Oil and the Koch's try to deny it.
Around 10 years ago, I sat in on a presentation by an insurance company exec who made an incredibly compelling case for the monetary cost of the global warming. Complete with facts and figures. Oddly enough, I haven't heard a lot of deniers cherry picking those numbers.
We could make life much harder on criminals by requiring everybody to get an RFID implant and placing readers all over, too... do we really need to go there to "stay safe"?
Well, that certainly escalated. Who's staying safe? Having evidence that I was at a certain place, like a gas station, was just something I agreed to when I decided to use a credit card for everything. Got one for fuel only, and another for all other purchases.
But I don't know when was the last time I couldn't handle anyone knowing of my whereabouts, or what I buy or sell. Probably never.
If your privacy is so sacred to you, or you have a very good reason to hide your finances or activities - by all means, live on cash or barter. I'm not judging. You have the choice. So do I. This isn't remotely equivalent to RFID chip implants.
Windows 10 does send information back to Microsoft, but nothing personal aside from anonymous telemetry data. It's not stealing documents, it's not stealing photos, it's doing the same thing OS X does, it's doing the same thing Android does, it's doing the same thing Ubuntu did.
Oh fucking bullshit.
If you can actually read, Microsoft very plainly and explicitly says that they scrub your identifying data after thy get your telemetry. So why would they tell you they scrub it if they do not have it?
Seriously, how much to you get paid to lie about this shit? It's to the hpoint where the shilss are denying What Microsoft says they do.
I don't worry about connecting to public hotspots. My knapsack laptop is a $50 used Chromebook. Good luck "hacking" that, since there is basically nothing on it.
Exactly this! I'm at breakfast now, using my cheap Chromebook. Altogether too many people seem to think you should only have one device. And nothing of interest on it at all. just a gmail address specifically for the chromebook, and slashdot use.
Err....since when do 13yr olds have checking accounts??
I never had one, nor needed one till I was about 16yrs and got my first job....
I had one in 3rd grade, when I first started learning about money.
Guilty as accused, at least up to a point.
However, it is certainly not conjecture that most large retail outfits are actually multi-nationals. Which, by and large, centralise their IT, purchase and logistics operations across countries to some degree. It is also pretty much both logical and normal that said multi-nationals routinely store and analyse data about customer behaviour.
Do you really think that the likes of Rewe and Tesco would bother to exempt Belgium from these analyses?
Agreed. I think that simply because all we see on our CC bill is a total amount, it doesn't mean that the CC and everything bought aren't well connected. Every item that is purchased is tracked for inventory purposes, and it is so trivial to connect a purchase history to a person, that i'm very surprised that someone thinks that buying their booze on a credit card is a hidden transaction.
Hell, I just went on vacation down south, and since I live on a credit card, it is trivial to tell the travel days, where I stayed, and where and mostly what I ate.
It's just about unavoidable, and been that way for a long long time, so I don't worry about it. Then again, this sort of thing has been used to validate alibis.
I'd imagine the only way to achieve the level of untraceability some slashdotters demand would be a total barter economy. Just make certain no one in the chain went outside the system.
Your outrage in comparison to the harm you've "suffered" is truly remarkable.
In either case they have no right whatsoever to refuse. Their right is to either do their damn job or quit. The government is not forcing them to keep the job. If they took the job knowing that it conflicted with their beliefs then they have absolutely no ground to stand on and should be immediately fired from that job.
That's right, but I suspect that people who stood up for the woman, believing their religion trumps government, would go batshit crazy if someone were to do the same with their gun permits.
When did you download Mint? Hope it wasn't in the middle of their website compromise!
However, that's just me being petty. Linux is fine as a desktop. Windows is fine as a desktop. The thing that ruins either is removing control from the user (e.g. forced Windows Updates on one platform, things like systemd / window manager "upgrades" on the other with no easy way back).
Oh, yes, Systemd is the equivalent of forced updates, Yes ledow, thaou art petty in more ways than one. Tell me, what is the Linux equivalent of forcing Windows 10 OS onto an iMac running W7 in bootcamp that doesn't even have bootcamp software capable of running W10, and won't. (mid 2011 i5)
And this is no bug, it is completely intentional. Microsoift finds th e customer to be inconvenient, and always wrong.
Have at me shills
With the WE NEED TO BAN (guns) (Uber) (???) speech
Here we go with the:
With the WE NEED TO BAN (guns) (Uber) (???) speech
The problem is, whose history will they be reading? What would be best would be for the code to be provided competing versions of history.
Unfortunately, that invariably leads one (and I assume an AI robot as well) to the conclusion that humans are batshit insane, and an evolutionary failure, ready for the dustbin of the 99+ pecent of species that go extinct.
No one on any side goes into our endless warfare thinking that they are wrong. And on a few forays into the kookier parts of Youtube, it is easy to find there are dozens of competing versions of most bits of history.
I am inclined to agree with Goethe: "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." It might even decide that since humans are so fixated on killing each other, there is no moral issue with killing us for the health of the planet.
Do you actually have any examples of Capitalism doing exactly this? 19th and 20th century, western world, immense progress to a degree never seen before in human history.
I meant successful. The abuses the capitalists performed are what led to the anti monopoly laws. Also, they pretty much insured a 2 year cycle of boom and bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I couldn't find th ecompletely non sexist nature of capitalism, in your uncited words, which is what I asked for.
Try again. The Poster Archangel Michael noted that Capitalism was the only true colorblind system in the world.
my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site.
First off, calm down. Bait and switch - I do not think it means what I think you think it means. And given that the folks who make those decisions have been catching a load of bad feedback from references to Forbes.com, they did think your story was interesting enough to search out an alternative link.
That's all. I do suspect that you will never again have to worry about them "plagiarizing" any submission of yours in the future.
FYI: here's the link to the story that i shared: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr...
i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.
I'll never know, because I won't ever see that article, because I won't disable my adblocker. By the way, this isn't just petulance upon the part of many Slashdotters http://www.tripwire.com/state-...
https://adland.tv/adnews/forbe...
http://www.networkworld.com/ar...
Angler Exploit Kit and CryptoWall ransomware https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
Befause Forbes is such a noted provider of these malware exploits, and demand you enable the mechanism to allow them installed on your computer in order to see their content - Naaahhh ain't happening.
Regardless - you cured your own problem with your outrage.
I dared to speculate recently that some women have a problem with "banter" essentially because they don't like other women, so a group of men casually interacting while ripping on each other without it being some sort of complicated group-exclusion / kin selection ritual is utterly incomprehensible to them.
I believe you are correct. She can trade the "insults" back and forth with the best of them. The nastiest ladies she and I worked around were incredibly easy to insult -
Rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous. They don't lay eggs.
Do you think AC will even know what that means?
Not only knows what it means, but, like all of us, except you, knows that ovoviviparous animals don't have placentas, but develop eggs with yolks that hatch internally, like he said.
Idiot.
Oh, so you looked at Wikipedia after being bitch slapped, eh?
I've always wondered why the perfect economic model never survives the first round of successes.
And which one has fared better than capitalism so far?
Capitalism with enough control that it doesn't destroy itself.
The problem - especially with Libertrians - is their child like insistence that if we only completely unfetter business from any regulation, that only good will come from it. That human nature will not ever assert itself, and that all capitalists will somehow use a system based on greed, yet miraculously, all will be altruistic at the same time.
So birds in their wisdom can adapt to climate change but the weeping willies say humans can't.
Of course we can. Those adaptations might not be all that much fun for some of us though.
You are in serious need of a better blocker. Try NoScript.
You don't use both?
forbes.com
Well right there is the problem. Malware enabling site Forbes.com insists that before we see anything there, we have to disable our adblockers and allow them to serve us up a nice stew of malware.
was replaced with the australian geographic link. honestly, the australian geographic story pales compared to the story that i shared.
Too bad. Since I can't see it, unless I agree to the malware, I just don't bother going there any more. Forbes is the internet version of unsafe sex.
You are suggesting war on carbon will reduce carbon?
Facepalm - Please tell me you didn't take his post seriously.
Every reputable expert on geologic evidence I can find suggest that geologic evidence actually indicates that current climate change is overwhelmingly from human activity, and unusually rapid.
Well there's your problem. Getting your science information from Scientists, instead of Politicians and the industries that own them. Whooooeeeee! what next? Gettin' healthcare from Doctors? That's crazy thinkin'!
Rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous. They don't lay eggs.
Do you think AC will even know what that means?
As for gay marriage, if you want to say that the State has every right to define something like Civil Marriage, then I think you're on very solid ground constitutionally.
Marriage is indeed a a civil issue. Because there are rights and privileges attached to it. Inheritance, social security, taxes, spousal employment benefits. There are others.
If it starts moving towards forcing people to have to be happy about it... it starts to become more like the state telling you what to believe.
Personally where on earth did you get the idea that you are ordered to love gay marriage? I don't care if you have dreams of killing every gay person you see. Just don't act on them.
But let us take social conservative hero Kim Davis. In order to do a job she was elected to do, she would have been required to issue marriage licenses to couples regardless of gender. But she did not believe in this, as she had a moral qualm based on the Abrahamic Bible. As is her right.
Now a person who does not believe in Gay marriage in an elected office does have a quandary. But one easily settled by having her subordinates issue the licenses. Problem solved.
But in a world where some people believe their religion rights trump other's civil rights, you have to step very carefully.
But tell me - at least in my state, there are concealed carry permits that you go to the courthouse or sheriff to apply for. An elected person dispenses them, in either case. So what happens if the elected person is reborn into a version of Christianity that is pacifistic, and thereafter claims it is their right to refuse all concealed carry permits?
Tell me, does that person have any less right to refuse concealed carry permits based on religion, than a county clerk does - based on religion?