I do agree we need to scale our military way back, but people will find it just as easy to complain about any other cuts. Maybe even easier. "We're already saving $X from the military cuts, why can't we use that for this program I like???"
Over 5000 employees, and over a billion dollar annual budget. 248 jobs is a 5% reduction in staffing overall. $75 million is less that 7.5% of their budget. And these numbers were bandied about with the expectation that they'd be lowered after push back. When most of the work in forecasting is increasingly automated and computerized, it makes sense to trim the fat.
But of course the labor union is going to get upset. That's what labor unions do when told the truth.
I had the "pleasure" today of navigating a very modern, very important site for some work shit on my 1920x1080 monitor.
The site used about 300 horizontal pixels. Maybe it was 320 exactly, but I was too disgusted to check. It was about one sixth the width of my full screen browser, and I had to spend ages scrolling vertically to get shit done.
If reviewers are being honest and accurate, the (formerly) 3* phone becomes better than the 4* phone after the price drop and rise to 4.5*. Value is always a part of the rating.
It's gonna be hilarious in 9 months when the DNC loses, loses, loses. They're still trying to lie and spin and pretend it's all nothing. Most people are smarter than that, however, and they're not gonna have anything but the most zealous and rabid of supporters left when the midterms roll around.
Eighty percent of the program's $50 billion would be "provided to the governor of each state." Governors would take the lead in deciding how the money would be spent in their states. The other 20 percent would pay for grants that could be used for any of the above project categories. Separately, broadband would be eligible for funding from a proposed $20 billion Transformative Projects Program, along with transportation, clean water, drinking water, energy, and commercial space. Trump's plan would also add rural broadband facilities to the list of eligible categories for Private Activity Bonds, which allow private projects to "benefit from the lower financing costs of tax-exempt municipal bonds." The plan would also let carriers install small cells and Wi-Fi attachments without going through the same environmental and historical preservation reviews required for large towers.
States get to decide how the bulk of the money is spent. Work with your state's government to make your voice heard. The rest of the money is available for grants for a wide range of shit.
No, it's just ungood, not double plus ungood. HTTPS within the VPN tunnel will still prevent the VPN operator from reading your traffic. They'll see where you're going and when, of course, but not what you're doing.
Mt. Gox was surely an inside job. They saw the $$$ and took the first excuse they could to bail with it. Last I heard, the Japanese authorities were going after the main guy running it. No idea what happened after that or what they may have charged him with.
Every single ICO is a scam. You're investing money into a a shitty alt coin or a shitty fake coin running on a shitty alt coin (Ethereum), with the promise that you can take the shitty alt coin or shitty fake coin and resell it to some other investor later down the line, exchange it for a decent coin, and then exchange it for regular currency.
There's not even the pretense of investing in an actual platform or currency, you're investing on a do-nothing proxy built on top of one, and you're subject to the dangers of both.
If the person running the ICO bolts, you're screwed. If the person running the ICO somehow isn't an outright scammer, but nonetheless fails to get their honest attempt at a project off the ground and into profitability, you're screwed. If the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to declines in value, the ICO itself has just declined in value (they keep their coins in the blockchain as a sign of good faith to potential investors - until they abscond / quit). If the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to increases in value, you've lost out on that increase since you traded one type of coin for a proxy running on top of it. If the ICO's coin never gets picked up by a major exchange, you won't every be able to profit from it even if you're way up on paper. If the ICO's coin or the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to get banned by governments, exchanges, or payment processors, you're screwed.
I hate Comcast, but in this case, they are right. Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist, not to mention dictate how it must grow it's business and get a bunch of free kickbacks on those government entities?
Because Vermont is a sovereign state and can do what it wants as long as it's not in violation of federal law?
We'll need full access to read (and decrypt) every packet (and all embedded data) it sends out.
Then, prove it can't.
We'll need the same access as above, then unfettered root and physical access to the device to ensure that its code cannot be changed without our consent, that the device is secure against at least remote hacks, etc.
Here's how these devices can spy on you.
1: Always listen - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase. 2: Analyze everything said - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase. 3: Filter what it picks up to eliminate silence, reduce noise, etc. - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase, reduce power demands, etc. 4: Record everything after filtering and store it. This can be the audio (Opus is quite good even down to 6 kbps), or a text-based version based on the speech it was able to detect. 5: Upload it later, when the device is supposed to be sending data after the activation word/phrase is detected. It's all in an encrypted stream, so the user will never know.
All these devices are literally 2 steps away from 24/7 spying, and that's if you believe that they aren't there already. Further, even if you trust the companies (you fool), they're one national security letter away from remotely updating your device and spying on you for the government.
Except when I typed "earth fl" I got "earth fleas", "earth flag", "earth flow", etc. Flat Earth Society turned up somewhere in there too, but any clicking around would tell you that you're wrong to think Earth is flat.
Further, the Flat Earth Society is a joke. I love that you used it as your example because it shows how dumb you are. No one seriously believes in a flat Earth. It's clear and obvious satire, with some amusing exercises thrown in (trying to explain various phenomena starting with the assumption that Earth is flat). The fact that people like you point to it as some sort of example of ignorance is hilarious, because you're the ones who don't get it. It's a troll.
The Karman line is just a round figure (100 km) near the point where Karman noted that flight via aerodynamic lift would be basically impossible.
The ISS is about 250 miles up. The thermosphere goes up to 440 miles. The radius of the Earth is about 3,960 miles. The moon is about 240,000 miles away.
The ISS is well within the comfy, cozy protection of our Magnetosphere. 40-50 years ago when we did actual space travel.
Huh? Yankee here. I get 12 sick / family leave days, 24 vacation days, and 13 or so holidays, all paid. And I've never had an issue using them. If I were to have a child or ailing parent or whatever medical issue of my own I'd get more time off for that as well. I don't think it's paid beyond my accrued sick/vacation days, but I'm not gonna lose my job or be held back because of it.
This may not be a great condition, well working space station but the thought of privatizing a space station just reeks of laying the ground work for an Elysium (2013) (movie) type situation.
Nah, to get to Elysium you have to climb the world tree.
the US government gets to turn the handle and create dollars out of thin air.
The FED isn't apart of the US government and can do what they want. The government nominates the chair and there are expectations of transparency (publication of FED minutes, etc) but by in large the FED isn't part of the government. They have a mandate and they carry out that mandate regardless of the government.
The US government issues the nation's currency, the US Dollar. The US Dollar was backed by physical gold until it wasn't. The US Dollar is backed by nothing but faith now. Why are you talking about "the FED"? Are you referring to the federal reserve bank? That is most certainly part of the US government. It just operates without needing direct approval from any other branch for each action. It is still absolutely beholden to Congress, the constitution, etc. It's not even as independent as the US Post Office is.
The problem that it's a pointless waste of money and effort. Hell, it's not even in space! It's well within the fucking atmosphere. We're wasting our fucking time in the kiddie pool.
The president can literally pardon himself. It would almost certainly lead to impeachement but the pardon would still be valid.
Yes, the President can in theory self-pardon. No, it would not necessarily lead to impeachment. Further, impeachment does not necessarily lead to removal from office. Recalling a sitting President is a distinct and separate action. See the last President to be impeached - William Jefferson Clinton.
Normally this leads to vile thinking to express this statement as true.
Most modern racist statements goes off the following ideas. 1. Racism isn't a problem 2. The minority group wants more then it deserves 3. We should stop such groups from demanding more. 4. We should role back any special considerations for them 5. We should give preference to the majority group
1: Racism isn't a problem that justifies treating people unfairly, it isn't a problem that justifies censorship, and it isn't a problem that justifies altering or "correcting" the truth.
2: Many minority groups do want more than they deserve. (Hint: What you deserve for being a member of a minority group is nothing more than fair consideration and treatment.)
3: We should indeed put an end to entitlements and get people used to the idea that fair consideration and treatment is what they are owed, not equal (or better) outcomes.
4: We absolutely should get rid of unfair treatment that exists only to benefit specific groups.
5: We should not give preference to the majority group. We should give fair consideration and treatment to all groups and, ideally, stop thinking of people as members of specific groups. Note, again, that this does not mean equal (or better) outcomes.
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I do agree we need to scale our military way back, but people will find it just as easy to complain about any other cuts. Maybe even easier. "We're already saving $X from the military cuts, why can't we use that for this program I like???"
Over 5000 employees, and over a billion dollar annual budget.
248 jobs is a 5% reduction in staffing overall. $75 million is less that 7.5% of their budget. And these numbers were bandied about with the expectation that they'd be lowered after push back.
When most of the work in forecasting is increasingly automated and computerized, it makes sense to trim the fat.
But of course the labor union is going to get upset. That's what labor unions do when told the truth.
I had the "pleasure" today of navigating a very modern, very important site for some work shit on my 1920x1080 monitor.
The site used about 300 horizontal pixels. Maybe it was 320 exactly, but I was too disgusted to check. It was about one sixth the width of my full screen browser, and I had to spend ages scrolling vertically to get shit done.
This shit disgusts me.
AC doesn't suck lumpy ass at gas stations for change.
If reviewers are being honest and accurate, the (formerly) 3* phone becomes better than the 4* phone after the price drop and rise to 4.5*.
Value is always a part of the rating.
Yes, really. That would be my preference as well. Water, power, roads, sewers, etc. all come well before internet access.
And they can't have both because we don't have infinite resources and things must be prioritized.
It's gonna be hilarious in 9 months when the DNC loses, loses, loses. They're still trying to lie and spin and pretend it's all nothing. Most people are smarter than that, however, and they're not gonna have anything but the most zealous and rabid of supporters left when the midterms roll around.
Not only is it the least important, it doesn't belong in the same list.
Eighty percent of the program's $50 billion would be "provided to the governor of each state." Governors would take the lead in deciding how the money would be spent in their states. The other 20 percent would pay for grants that could be used for any of the above project categories. Separately, broadband would be eligible for funding from a proposed $20 billion Transformative Projects Program, along with transportation, clean water, drinking water, energy, and commercial space. Trump's plan would also add rural broadband facilities to the list of eligible categories for Private Activity Bonds, which allow private projects to "benefit from the lower financing costs of tax-exempt municipal bonds." The plan would also let carriers install small cells and Wi-Fi attachments without going through the same environmental and historical preservation reviews required for large towers.
States get to decide how the bulk of the money is spent. Work with your state's government to make your voice heard. The rest of the money is available for grants for a wide range of shit.
This all sounds great to me. What's the problem?
No, it's just ungood, not double plus ungood.
HTTPS within the VPN tunnel will still prevent the VPN operator from reading your traffic. They'll see where you're going and when, of course, but not what you're doing.
Mt. Gox was surely an inside job. They saw the $$$ and took the first excuse they could to bail with it.
Last I heard, the Japanese authorities were going after the main guy running it. No idea what happened after that or what they may have charged him with.
Every single ICO is a scam. You're investing money into a a shitty alt coin or a shitty fake coin running on a shitty alt coin (Ethereum), with the promise that you can take the shitty alt coin or shitty fake coin and resell it to some other investor later down the line, exchange it for a decent coin, and then exchange it for regular currency.
There's not even the pretense of investing in an actual platform or currency, you're investing on a do-nothing proxy built on top of one, and you're subject to the dangers of both.
If the person running the ICO bolts, you're screwed.
If the person running the ICO somehow isn't an outright scammer, but nonetheless fails to get their honest attempt at a project off the ground and into profitability, you're screwed.
If the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to declines in value, the ICO itself has just declined in value (they keep their coins in the blockchain as a sign of good faith to potential investors - until they abscond / quit).
If the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to increases in value, you've lost out on that increase since you traded one type of coin for a proxy running on top of it.
If the ICO's coin never gets picked up by a major exchange, you won't every be able to profit from it even if you're way up on paper.
If the ICO's coin or the crypto currency the ICO is pegged to get banned by governments, exchanges, or payment processors, you're screwed.
I hate Comcast, but in this case, they are right. Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist, not to mention dictate how it must grow it's business and get a bunch of free kickbacks on those government entities?
Because Vermont is a sovereign state and can do what it wants as long as it's not in violation of federal law?
PROVE it doesn't.
We'll need full access to read (and decrypt) every packet (and all embedded data) it sends out.
Then, prove it can't.
We'll need the same access as above, then unfettered root and physical access to the device to ensure that its code cannot be changed without our consent, that the device is secure against at least remote hacks, etc.
Here's how these devices can spy on you.
1: Always listen - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase.
2: Analyze everything said - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase.
3: Filter what it picks up to eliminate silence, reduce noise, etc. - they already do this to enable detection of the activation word/phrase, reduce power demands, etc.
4: Record everything after filtering and store it. This can be the audio (Opus is quite good even down to 6 kbps), or a text-based version based on the speech it was able to detect.
5: Upload it later, when the device is supposed to be sending data after the activation word/phrase is detected. It's all in an encrypted stream, so the user will never know.
All these devices are literally 2 steps away from 24/7 spying, and that's if you believe that they aren't there already. Further, even if you trust the companies (you fool), they're one national security letter away from remotely updating your device and spying on you for the government.
Except when I typed "earth fl" I got "earth fleas", "earth flag", "earth flow", etc.
Flat Earth Society turned up somewhere in there too, but any clicking around would tell you that you're wrong to think Earth is flat.
Further, the Flat Earth Society is a joke. I love that you used it as your example because it shows how dumb you are. No one seriously believes in a flat Earth. It's clear and obvious satire, with some amusing exercises thrown in (trying to explain various phenomena starting with the assumption that Earth is flat). The fact that people like you point to it as some sort of example of ignorance is hilarious, because you're the ones who don't get it. It's a troll.
The Karman line is just a round figure (100 km) near the point where Karman noted that flight via aerodynamic lift would be basically impossible.
The ISS is about 250 miles up.
The thermosphere goes up to 440 miles.
The radius of the Earth is about 3,960 miles.
The moon is about 240,000 miles away.
The ISS is well within the comfy, cozy protection of our Magnetosphere.
40-50 years ago when we did actual space travel.
Huh? Yankee here. I get 12 sick / family leave days, 24 vacation days, and 13 or so holidays, all paid. And I've never had an issue using them. If I were to have a child or ailing parent or whatever medical issue of my own I'd get more time off for that as well. I don't think it's paid beyond my accrued sick/vacation days, but I'm not gonna lose my job or be held back because of it.
Water alone does just as much for removing germs as soap does.
Soap merely makes it easy to remove shit like grease that isn't normally water soluble.
EULAs/TOS agreements are basic law
Neither of those things are laws, FYI.
This may not be a great condition, well working space station but the thought of privatizing a space station just reeks of laying the ground work for an Elysium (2013) (movie) type situation.
Nah, to get to Elysium you have to climb the world tree.
the US government gets to turn the handle and create dollars out of thin air.
The FED isn't apart of the US government and can do what they want. The government nominates the chair and there are expectations of transparency (publication of FED minutes, etc) but by in large the FED isn't part of the government. They have a mandate and they carry out that mandate regardless of the government.
The US government issues the nation's currency, the US Dollar. The US Dollar was backed by physical gold until it wasn't. The US Dollar is backed by nothing but faith now. Why are you talking about "the FED"? Are you referring to the federal reserve bank? That is most certainly part of the US government. It just operates without needing direct approval from any other branch for each action. It is still absolutely beholden to Congress, the constitution, etc. It's not even as independent as the US Post Office is.
He mentioned it. And it's not in space. It's well within Earth's atmosphere.
The problem that it's a pointless waste of money and effort. Hell, it's not even in space! It's well within the fucking atmosphere. We're wasting our fucking time in the kiddie pool.
The president can literally pardon himself. It would almost certainly lead to impeachement but the pardon would still be valid.
Yes, the President can in theory self-pardon.
No, it would not necessarily lead to impeachment.
Further, impeachment does not necessarily lead to removal from office. Recalling a sitting President is a distinct and separate action. See the last President to be impeached - William Jefferson Clinton.
Normally this leads to vile thinking to express this statement as true.
Most modern racist statements goes off the following ideas.
1. Racism isn't a problem
2. The minority group wants more then it deserves
3. We should stop such groups from demanding more.
4. We should role back any special considerations for them
5. We should give preference to the majority group
1: Racism isn't a problem that justifies treating people unfairly, it isn't a problem that justifies censorship, and it isn't a problem that justifies altering or "correcting" the truth.
2: Many minority groups do want more than they deserve. (Hint: What you deserve for being a member of a minority group is nothing more than fair consideration and treatment.)
3: We should indeed put an end to entitlements and get people used to the idea that fair consideration and treatment is what they are owed, not equal (or better) outcomes.
4: We absolutely should get rid of unfair treatment that exists only to benefit specific groups.
5: We should not give preference to the majority group. We should give fair consideration and treatment to all groups and, ideally, stop thinking of people as members of specific groups. Note, again, that this does not mean equal (or better) outcomes.
This applies to race, sex religion, etc.