> First generation immigrants are generally more motivated and productive compared to those farmed locally.
Yes but not for the reasons you listed. When immigrants come to the US, it isn't the "tired, the sick or the poor" that we are getting anymore. It's the people who had the drive to save up half their life wages, research what they needed to know to start a business when they get here, possibly learned another language and uprooted their lives to move halfway across the world. They would not be here if they didn't have that to begin with. These aren't the Joe Shmoe's of their native country to begin with even if they grew up with fewer opportunities then you did.
> Why not just have an HBO Go subscription for $10/month? They can cut out the middle man (cable companies) and get a lot more customers that only do internet based TV.
Because they are the middle man; HBO is owned by Time Warner whose entire business model is packaging tons of crap you don't want with the few things that you do and yelling at the top of their lungs about what a great value it is.
Europe is not a country, they like to pretend to be one entity when comparing themselves to the US. But one mention of something like a fiscal policy or paying off debt in a realistic manner and they break apart faster then the US congress on an election year.
> And both sides want to be the go-to destination for consumers to find on-demand TV programming.'
Cable providers don't want anything to do with being an on-demand provider for customers. In fact they want the exact opposite. If they had any interest in allowing people to pay for only the content that they wanted then they would have done it years ago and you or I would have never heard of Netflix. What cable companies want is to package 50 garbage channels in with 5 that people actually want into every tier so that they can force consumers to buy more expensive packages. "Oh you want that in HD? You'll need to upgrade to our premium package which comes with 200 channels!" Never mind that 40 of those channels are the Home Shopping Network or that the channel you want in HD comes in for free like that over the air. Cable companies across the US slit their own wrist years ago and now are just starting to regret it.
Most atheists are just tools who treat it as a religion themselves. I've met one maybe two atheists that weren't just as big of douches as someone like Jimmy Swaggart. Most of the rest are just as nut job 'I'm right you're wrong you must be like me' as any religion. They generally worship science. Worship is not the same as understanding it. Worshipping is 'steven hawking says X so X is absolutely true beyond any doubt because science!@$@%!@#^'
"Thank you for calling space launch control. If your main booster is malfunctioning please press '1'. For all other inquires please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly."
They only took this half-way to completion! If they would have only pulled the sites IP log to see who was looking at what particular video's then I'm sure we would have had a much more interesting reaction...
With the what's been in the news in the past few years about Chinese manufactoring I would personally like to see some kind of oversight comittee on this project if they're going to be allowed to put a thousand pounds of "Grade A Chinese Steel" a few hundred miles above my head. I don't know why we're worried about regulating nuclear power, this is the kind of stuff that needs to be monitored.
I've seen this term thrown around this thread a lot: MITM. This stands for Man In The Middle, a MITM attack is when an entity, a person or group of people, takes your connection to what ever host and forwards it through their machine. As the service provider MediaCom IS ALREADY THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE. Wikipedia doesn't have an informative article on them but they appear to be a Tier 1 provider so you require their infrastructure to use the internet, that means their systems, their cables and most importantly their DNS tables.
They see your IP connecting to some website, they also see the traffic to and from your machine. They don't need to break any kind of code and read every packet they only need to filter out the legit packets and insert their own. You and a hundred other posts on this thread are over thinking this.
You're right about something like CFC's, this may have been a poor example or the author trying to be too specific. But what if we found trans-uranic elements in the atmosphere of a system that has a stable star? Wouldn't that mean it's at least worth taking a second look at that planet?
The idea here is to narrow down our search field by identifying traits of a planet that we can look for with our current technology. Then to focus our effort from every planet in existence to maybe ten thoursand or so.
What I don't understand about this is how you build a simulator for a craft that only a handful of people have flown, is in limited production and for which there is no combat data in existence. I know that test pilots take their jobs pretty seriously but can they really have tried all of the stupid things that ALL of the multinational end-users are going to try?
They may not need as many _human_ janitors if robots become cheaper.
But then they will need maintenance workers for those robots. Installers to put in the other robots that build those robots. Instructors and exam writers to train those who use the robots. People to install new batteries and trouble shoot the 'hiccups' etc. ad infinum. There is plenty of room still for those who aren't too stubborn to learn, as long as our educational institutions can keep up with demand, which is why we all cry out for more support toward education.
Yeah it kind of is, It's called the Nuremburg Defense. It's still illegal but what this guy is saying is that it was is (CO? Handler? I'm not sure of the terminology in this instance) commiting the crime based on the Command Responsibility doctorine.
Is anyone really bothered by these statistics? When you include countries that allow their under priviledged childeren run around on the streets and only the middle class and above are given an education then it's not a surprize to me when our less priviledged childeren are included in the study we come up short in comparison. If we threw the people that didn't care or gave up to the wild then we would look a hell of a lot better to. In America we try more then most to not only help the unfourtunate but to actually help them improve their life, we do this by holding them to the same standards as everyone else. This means that it doesn't matter if your parents are drunks or a drug addicts, we expect you to not give up and live off the street. Instead we force you to attend our public school system (we send kids that don't go to school to correctional facilities btw), to get at least a highschool degree and to make something of yourself. The problem is that not everybody is capable of this for one reason or another and others slip through the cracks in our imperfect system; this reflects poorly in our numbers. But screw the rest of the world we're doing the right thing.
I don't see how this could be anything but the worst case scenario for that area of Japan, even if the radiation isn't an issue. Immediatly after a huge natural disaster they lost a massive power generation facility. This isn't like a power transformer blowing out or even a relay station going down, the component in their grid that is responsible for generating the electricity has effectivley been destroyed. Hospitals in the area which are probably at their breaking point already and will now need to rely on backup power much longer then intended, comminication in the area, which we Americans learned from Katrina is so important, will be limited if not down all together. Those are just the imediate effects, there will be secondary issues for months or years to come.
You seem to have forgotten to take into account things like the 4chan vote, because of them it would be more like: Republicans - 22%, Democrates 24%, Internet Party - 104%. Then accusations of fraud and the collapse of a workable system. Honestly even if the armpit of the internet SOMEHOW decided to behave I wouldn't put it past one party or the other to cast fake votes to discredit the system.
Did anyone else watch the video and think that the "Plasma Ball" was actually dust igniting and being pushed along the path of the laser? Or am I the only one annoyed by that part of the video?
The school had no grounds to get involved, this should have been a civil matter between the teacher and the children making the statements (libel, defamation, etc).
This is called "Postering" if the school administration shows that they don't back their staff then the kids see two smaller bodies each with their own self interests in mind instead of the single large machine. It would undermind the already poor level of authority that modern teachers assert over their classrooms if the school district didn't get involved in matters like this. Otherwise leagally speaking I agree with you 100%, I just thought I would point out why this is occuring.
Calling people on their failings is fine. But if Obama decided to skip work for a day then someone reported him for being a "seal-killing lobbyist-appeasing-warmonger" then that report would still be wrong, and it would be less then half as serious as what these girls did.
What these kids did wasn't the same as calling someone a jerk or an idiot on a public forum. They accussed him of being a pedophile, probably the worst false accusation you could have leveled against you and if any inquiry were made then it wouldn't matter if he was found guilty or not this teachers career would be over right there and then. This would be like calling someone a communist 60 or 70 years ago.
Heat is energy? Really? Would that be kinetic or potential energy? One may assume potential until you realize *gasp* without a second part of that equation there is no differential. Nice try but try again.
Why stop there? Why not seed blogs, twitter and facebook and initiate a misinformation campaign?
I see your facebook, blogs and twitter and raise you reddit and 4chan; watch the world burn. Also why not tell ANONYMOUS that they can do something affective without all getting arrested or sued for once?
Back to the article though, since when is a Predetor + (WiFi Router + Directional_Antenee) + Satilite_Internet_Access considered a "classified" device? I am %100 civilian but I can tell you without any insider knowledge that the way they do this can't be far from what I described.
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> First generation immigrants are generally more motivated and productive compared to those farmed locally. Yes but not for the reasons you listed. When immigrants come to the US, it isn't the "tired, the sick or the poor" that we are getting anymore. It's the people who had the drive to save up half their life wages, research what they needed to know to start a business when they get here, possibly learned another language and uprooted their lives to move halfway across the world. They would not be here if they didn't have that to begin with. These aren't the Joe Shmoe's of their native country to begin with even if they grew up with fewer opportunities then you did.
> Why not just have an HBO Go subscription for $10/month? They can cut out the middle man (cable companies) and get a lot more customers that only do internet based TV. Because they are the middle man; HBO is owned by Time Warner whose entire business model is packaging tons of crap you don't want with the few things that you do and yelling at the top of their lungs about what a great value it is.
Europe is not a country, they like to pretend to be one entity when comparing themselves to the US. But one mention of something like a fiscal policy or paying off debt in a realistic manner and they break apart faster then the US congress on an election year.
If you think of "Class" in the same context as it is used when describing Naval ships then it seems to be an appropriate way to describe a meteor.
> And both sides want to be the go-to destination for consumers to find on-demand TV programming.' Cable providers don't want anything to do with being an on-demand provider for customers. In fact they want the exact opposite. If they had any interest in allowing people to pay for only the content that they wanted then they would have done it years ago and you or I would have never heard of Netflix. What cable companies want is to package 50 garbage channels in with 5 that people actually want into every tier so that they can force consumers to buy more expensive packages. "Oh you want that in HD? You'll need to upgrade to our premium package which comes with 200 channels!" Never mind that 40 of those channels are the Home Shopping Network or that the channel you want in HD comes in for free like that over the air. Cable companies across the US slit their own wrist years ago and now are just starting to regret it.
Most atheists are just tools who treat it as a religion themselves. I've met one maybe two atheists that weren't just as big of douches as someone like Jimmy Swaggart. Most of the rest are just as nut job 'I'm right you're wrong you must be like me' as any religion. They generally worship science. Worship is not the same as understanding it. Worshipping is 'steven hawking says X so X is absolutely true beyond any doubt because science!@$@%!@#^'
Someone has been to Reddit.
"Thank you for calling space launch control. If your main booster is malfunctioning please press '1'. For all other inquires please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly."
Talk about having your finger over the button. Has there ever been a time in history when politicians were more afraid of 'F9'?
They only took this half-way to completion! If they would have only pulled the sites IP log to see who was looking at what particular video's then I'm sure we would have had a much more interesting reaction...
Really, how many of these kids STILL don't use a proxy when going to Anon's sites after so many of their friends have been busted?
With the what's been in the news in the past few years about Chinese manufactoring I would personally like to see some kind of oversight comittee on this project if they're going to be allowed to put a thousand pounds of "Grade A Chinese Steel" a few hundred miles above my head. I don't know why we're worried about regulating nuclear power, this is the kind of stuff that needs to be monitored.
DOWN WITH THE MOUSE! Say NO! to the oppresive GUI hegemoney! Long live CLI!
I've seen this term thrown around this thread a lot: MITM. This stands for Man In The Middle, a MITM attack is when an entity, a person or group of people, takes your connection to what ever host and forwards it through their machine. As the service provider MediaCom IS ALREADY THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE. Wikipedia doesn't have an informative article on them but they appear to be a Tier 1 provider so you require their infrastructure to use the internet, that means their systems, their cables and most importantly their DNS tables.
They see your IP connecting to some website, they also see the traffic to and from your machine. They don't need to break any kind of code and read every packet they only need to filter out the legit packets and insert their own. You and a hundred other posts on this thread are over thinking this.
You're right about something like CFC's, this may have been a poor example or the author trying to be too specific. But what if we found trans-uranic elements in the atmosphere of a system that has a stable star? Wouldn't that mean it's at least worth taking a second look at that planet?
The idea here is to narrow down our search field by identifying traits of a planet that we can look for with our current technology. Then to focus our effort from every planet in existence to maybe ten thoursand or so.
What I don't understand about this is how you build a simulator for a craft that only a handful of people have flown, is in limited production and for which there is no combat data in existence. I know that test pilots take their jobs pretty seriously but can they really have tried all of the stupid things that ALL of the multinational end-users are going to try?
They may not need as many _human_ janitors if robots become cheaper.
But then they will need maintenance workers for those robots. Installers to put in the other robots that build those robots. Instructors and exam writers to train those who use the robots. People to install new batteries and trouble shoot the 'hiccups' etc. ad infinum. There is plenty of room still for those who aren't too stubborn to learn, as long as our educational institutions can keep up with demand, which is why we all cry out for more support toward education.
Yeah it kind of is, It's called the Nuremburg Defense. It's still illegal but what this guy is saying is that it was is (CO? Handler? I'm not sure of the terminology in this instance) commiting the crime based on the Command Responsibility doctorine.
Is anyone really bothered by these statistics? When you include countries that allow their under priviledged childeren run around on the streets and only the middle class and above are given an education then it's not a surprize to me when our less priviledged childeren are included in the study we come up short in comparison. If we threw the people that didn't care or gave up to the wild then we would look a hell of a lot better to. In America we try more then most to not only help the unfourtunate but to actually help them improve their life, we do this by holding them to the same standards as everyone else. This means that it doesn't matter if your parents are drunks or a drug addicts, we expect you to not give up and live off the street. Instead we force you to attend our public school system (we send kids that don't go to school to correctional facilities btw), to get at least a highschool degree and to make something of yourself. The problem is that not everybody is capable of this for one reason or another and others slip through the cracks in our imperfect system; this reflects poorly in our numbers. But screw the rest of the world we're doing the right thing.
I don't see how this could be anything but the worst case scenario for that area of Japan, even if the radiation isn't an issue. Immediatly after a huge natural disaster they lost a massive power generation facility. This isn't like a power transformer blowing out or even a relay station going down, the component in their grid that is responsible for generating the electricity has effectivley been destroyed. Hospitals in the area which are probably at their breaking point already and will now need to rely on backup power much longer then intended, comminication in the area, which we Americans learned from Katrina is so important, will be limited if not down all together. Those are just the imediate effects, there will be secondary issues for months or years to come.
You seem to have forgotten to take into account things like the 4chan vote, because of them it would be more like: Republicans - 22%, Democrates 24%, Internet Party - 104%. Then accusations of fraud and the collapse of a workable system. Honestly even if the armpit of the internet SOMEHOW decided to behave I wouldn't put it past one party or the other to cast fake votes to discredit the system.
Did anyone else watch the video and think that the "Plasma Ball" was actually dust igniting and being pushed along the path of the laser? Or am I the only one annoyed by that part of the video?
The school had no grounds to get involved, this should have been a civil matter between the teacher and the children making the statements (libel, defamation, etc).
This is called "Postering" if the school administration shows that they don't back their staff then the kids see two smaller bodies each with their own self interests in mind instead of the single large machine. It would undermind the already poor level of authority that modern teachers assert over their classrooms if the school district didn't get involved in matters like this. Otherwise leagally speaking I agree with you 100%, I just thought I would point out why this is occuring.
Calling people on their failings is fine. But if Obama decided to skip work for a day then someone reported him for being a "seal-killing lobbyist-appeasing-warmonger" then that report would still be wrong, and it would be less then half as serious as what these girls did.
What these kids did wasn't the same as calling someone a jerk or an idiot on a public forum. They accussed him of being a pedophile, probably the worst false accusation you could have leveled against you and if any inquiry were made then it wouldn't matter if he was found guilty or not this teachers career would be over right there and then. This would be like calling someone a communist 60 or 70 years ago.
Heat is energy? Really? Would that be kinetic or potential energy? One may assume potential until you realize *gasp* without a second part of that equation there is no differential. Nice try but try again.
Why stop there? Why not seed blogs, twitter and facebook and initiate a misinformation campaign?
I see your facebook, blogs and twitter and raise you reddit and 4chan; watch the world burn. Also why not tell ANONYMOUS that they can do something affective without all getting arrested or sued for once?
Back to the article though, since when is a Predetor + (WiFi Router + Directional_Antenee) + Satilite_Internet_Access considered a "classified" device? I am %100 civilian but I can tell you without any insider knowledge that the way they do this can't be far from what I described.