Wyden's been hinting for a while that their secret interpretation of this "spy on foreigners" stuff is to spy on all Americans as well. They're probably claiming that, since internet or phone can be routed internationally since it's all data packets, that means all communication is international and they can spy on it. Shocking, I know.
How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license
In the US, your driver's license only has a chip if you've paid extra for an Enhanced DL, and they even typically give you a radio-shielding sleeve for those. And facial recognition is still terrible, especially for blind matching rather than verification. Stick to the loyalty and credit cards for your conspiracies, for now.
I have cousins who were homeschooled for most of their school careers. They went to public high school, though, because there are so many resources and social experiences you have there that you don't have at home. They all graduated pretty much at the top of their respective classes. I have no problem with homeschooling if you can provide an excellent education at home.
This grandchild is below-average in reading, which is obviously a crucial component of primary education. Failing at that, and not being comfortable with science, the parents are probably not qualified to be homeschooling the child. It is reasonable, then, to assume that they are not doing it because they can do a better job than the school system. That means it could easily be for religious reasons, which I believe are a terrible reason to homeschool. The submission likely would have said otherwise if that were not the reason.
Essentially a prisoner's dilemma. You aren't going to convince everyone in the country to lose their 1% in the hope that the merchants will drop their prices.
Exactly. Either the "friend" is actually an oppressive government or a guy with some serious problems. Tell him it's not possible. Even if it's possible, it's a bad idea, possibly illegal. Then go take an Ethics class.
I will admit that I could fall into the possible-self-test camp. I have no reason to believe that I have HIV, and there's no practical risk of me spreading it to anyone who wouldn't have already been exposed. If it's inexpensive, why not? It's like the automated blood pressure cuffs at every pharmacy. If it turned out Negative, I'd continue thinking there's very little chance I have it. If it turned out Positive, I'd go get a real test from a doctor.
I get this one, which has Chrome and Firefox tied, on my first page of Google results. It doesn't look like Google is deliberately and directly biasing those search results like Apple.
I wouldn't necessarily suspect that they were told to leave them alone to gather information. Perhaps it's pessimistic, but I read it "... so that we can use them to excuse passing CYBERWAR legislation like CISPA".
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Bubble Yum.
Bear with me for a second:
Pirating customers are heavy users.
Comcast is implementing usage-based tiered billing.
It is now in Comcast's best interest for customers to pirate, because it means they get more money.
What would that go for these days, about $440?
Wyden's been hinting for a while that their secret interpretation of this "spy on foreigners" stuff is to spy on all Americans as well. They're probably claiming that, since internet or phone can be routed internationally since it's all data packets, that means all communication is international and they can spy on it. Shocking, I know.
How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license
In the US, your driver's license only has a chip if you've paid extra for an Enhanced DL, and they even typically give you a radio-shielding sleeve for those. And facial recognition is still terrible, especially for blind matching rather than verification. Stick to the loyalty and credit cards for your conspiracies, for now.
I have cousins who were homeschooled for most of their school careers. They went to public high school, though, because there are so many resources and social experiences you have there that you don't have at home. They all graduated pretty much at the top of their respective classes. I have no problem with homeschooling if you can provide an excellent education at home.
This grandchild is below-average in reading, which is obviously a crucial component of primary education. Failing at that, and not being comfortable with science, the parents are probably not qualified to be homeschooling the child. It is reasonable, then, to assume that they are not doing it because they can do a better job than the school system. That means it could easily be for religious reasons, which I believe are a terrible reason to homeschool. The submission likely would have said otherwise if that were not the reason.
For the meme, obligatory http://xkcd.com/966/
This has been happening for at least the last ten years. They are called chemtrails or persistent contrails.
No, "chemtrails" are an urban legend that claims our government is drugging us from the sky via chemicals dumped from airliners.
Essentially a prisoner's dilemma. You aren't going to convince everyone in the country to lose their 1% in the hope that the merchants will drop their prices.
You almost got it. It's at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (named for Portsmouth, New Hampshire) which is in Kittery, Maine.
I should have specified an engineering ethics class. Sometimes I forget.
Exactly. Either the "friend" is actually an oppressive government or a guy with some serious problems. Tell him it's not possible. Even if it's possible, it's a bad idea, possibly illegal. Then go take an Ethics class.
What, your three posts on this story are your first ever? And you're not an astroturfer? Ha.
Dear All: Beware thread hijack attempts.
Now that is an interesting point.
I will admit that I could fall into the possible-self-test camp. I have no reason to believe that I have HIV, and there's no practical risk of me spreading it to anyone who wouldn't have already been exposed. If it's inexpensive, why not? It's like the automated blood pressure cuffs at every pharmacy. If it turned out Negative, I'd continue thinking there's very little chance I have it. If it turned out Positive, I'd go get a real test from a doctor.
You are correct. I mistakenly assumed that they would be sorted by descending overall score, so I stopped when I saw IE.
I get this one, which has Chrome and Firefox tied, on my first page of Google results. It doesn't look like Google is deliberately and directly biasing those search results like Apple.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/flynneffect.shtml
Especially when you're coming legally to the US. That is a huge hurdle.
I'm going to guess "trolling" on this one. He's too literate (and too anonymous) to be serious, and no astroturfer would word it that way.
Sometimes punctuation is important. "American/English Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers" doesn't make any sense.
We had that whole stupid discussion last week. Even if you like to believe it's the case, it's not been scientifically proven, and there's lots of evidence that radiation causes cancer. http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/01/1420228/scientific-jigsaw-puzzle-fitting-the-pieces-of-the-low-level-radiation-debate
I did a little searching, and decided not to moderate on this article. Here's a news article saying they were adding millimeter-wave scanners at Salt Lake City, so the summary/title is correct. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/50590050-79/tsa-scanner-airport-body.html.csp
See this Slashdot story for why this is now necessary. They banned the OTC inhalers. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/23/2247222/epa-bans-cfc-based-asthma-inhalers
I wouldn't necessarily suspect that they were told to leave them alone to gather information. Perhaps it's pessimistic, but I read it "... so that we can use them to excuse passing CYBERWAR legislation like CISPA".