Nobody became obese or developed diabetes or heart disease from eating too much lettuce (there are other consequences, to be sure). Any number of "chicken" strips is too many, and any amount of movie theatre soda is too much. Sure, technically, you could eat these in sufficiently moderate quantities to avoid their inherently toxic effects, but few do. Moreover, they are engineered to induce you to consume the maximum amount you can stomach/afford.
Just opt out of the typical American garbage diet altogether and eat real food. Bonus -- you can eat until you are sated, not just until you feel too guilty to continue.
Should be even easier for them to do warrantless tracking of whomever they choose.
They don't need it to be any easier. The only change is that while the potentially troubling uses of these technologies are already available to carriers and the government, some customer-friendly uses are finally being considered.
Lets not pretend that objecting to this program will somehow preserve customer's rights.
"Brother" means a couple of things and you clearly qualified as neither. That is not "reverse-racism", and I don't see how it reveals some secretive "separate side to the culture". Black people aren't allowed to have boundaries WRT how you refer to them?
Racism is just as bad -- and inexcusable -- when a minority does it.
It is just as "bad" as in ignorant and contemptible. It is certainly not as "bad" as in constraining the opportunity of the majority. Many people fail to understand this distinction.
Sounds like the time my checking account got hijacked. I think what irritated me more than anything was that they went to the trouble of making a card then used it to buy a bunch of lame stuff at Kmart. I mean, if you're stealing people's money at least do something interesting with it.
Similar thing happened to me with a credit card. Hundreds of dollars spent buying from lame gift websites. Some of the merchandise was ultimately delivered to me and it was 3 terrible souvenir-grade T-shirts (two were identical). The kind of crap some kid would give to their grandparent for their birthday ("funny" golf theme, IIRC). I almost thought that they did it on purpose as a gag, but that would mean that they only stole the card with the intent of confusing me with idiotic purchases (actually, I might respect that).
Been there. I suspect that most burglaries are crimes of opportunity, so a few reasonable precautions will buy you most of the deterrence that you will achieve with even the most extreme measures. Buying a gun and wiring your house for surveillance is a double edge sword -- you feel more secure, but you are also constantly reminded to feel threatened.
Just a thought. But what if empowering the local Chinese with more wealth and work advancement opportunities provided enough societal confidence for political change? Would new-found freedom from governmental reform be worth it? I'm just asking...
China is not a free country. It is a country that literally crushes dissidents under tank treads. It is a country that arrived where it is today by relying on brutal exploitation, and those in power are not just going to roll over.
People who claim that China in just going through a phase that current first world countries went through a few generations ago need to understand that China today is not like the US in the 19th and early 20th century. The US is better now than it was then, but it was a million times better then that China is today in terms of social and political freedom.
One benefit of having a name almost as common as "John Smith" is that the signal-to-noise ratio is far too high for anyone to really know what is actually a legitimate hit or one of the other thousands of "John Smiths" in the world. Plus, I happen to share my name with several very famous people, ranging from musicians to professional athletes to actors, so you're going to have to do some serious digging to find a hit that's not related to one of them.
The obvious solution is to combine all of the information on the various "John Smiths" and judge each by the resulting composite.
Don't tell me you trust the data mining racket to never come up with that one!
Your mistake is the assumption that these sites want to maximize comments, and should thus remove barriers. In fact, these sites don't want to deal with the reams of gawdafullness that fill up most comment sections.
In this regard, turning to social network authentication schemes has two benefits:
1. Fewer people will bother commenting. 2. People that comment will have some fear that their behavior will be associated with something they care about protection, i.e. their "real" on-line identity, if not their actual identity, and will thus resist (at least a little bit more) the temptation to be total asshats.
The people who are the most likely to be impacted by high energy prices, the poor, are the least likely to benefit from the solar rebate scheme because they lack the capital to pay for the installation.
While I'm not big of the idea of "the long tail" or "trickle down economics", I would think this would help the poor in a small manner. By those able to afford it having solar panels, the power companies have less demand for their energy and so the poor are less likely to see an increase in power prices (and, rarely, a slight reduction).
Its not likely that power companies will be able to abandon maintenance on infrastructure that solar users no longer use, so those costs will have to be borne by a smaller number of customers.
On a more cynical note, the power companies will continue to operate on the assumption of constantly increasing profitability. With fewer customers, they will have to raise prices to meet their goals. Fair? Reasonable? Of course not. But fairness is not for the poor in America. Power companies will run themselves into the ground trying squeeze dry anyone they can, and the poor are the least able to escape their grasp.
Body language Tone of voice Getting an idea of the person being inteviewed Hearing a human voice in this often written world
These are reasons why a video and transcripts are different, not why either is better. Any one of those can skew the usefulness or appeal of a message being presented by video. Of course, sometimes the message itself is not the primary point, and the ability to make judgements about the messenger is paramount. IMO, video should only be used when the credibility of the messenger is significantly important. Otherwise, it is a waste of resources.
As far as I can tell, the line is drawn at inciting racial hatred.
If you aren't drawing the line where the potential for physical violence ends, it is hard to see where the bottom of that slippery slope could lead, do you jail anyone who says anything outside of societal norms? anything that is a minority opinion? any political adversary? it's a scary thought indeed!
This is a slippery slope argument. A strawman. Societies draw arbitrary lines all the time. Why is 65 MPH the speed limit on the highway. OMG, what's to stop it from being lowered to 6.5 MPH and crippling our ability to travel!?
I'm seeing reports that Zimmerman, when interviewed by police had a broken nose, and trauma to the back of the head, which does lend credence to his story that the kid attacked him physically, and with the whack on the head, possibly he was jumped from behind by the kid?
You must have also heard reports of Zimmerman leaving his car against the recommendation of the 911 operator with the intention of confronting Martin. So he picked a fight, and when he started to lose, he shot the kid.
Since we know that Zimmerman started the confrontation, why do we not assume that Martin was acting in his own self defense? He was the one who was minding his own business.
Unless Zimmerman observed Martin committing an actual crime, and he has made no such claim that I have heard, he had no right to confront him and should be held responsible for the result even if he was ultimately acting out of fear for his own life. In a similar vein, if someone is robbing a store, and the clerk pulls a gun, the robber can not shoot the clerk and then claim self defense.
As time goes on we see that the "No Limit Nigga" (Martin's tweet name) was no angel, and according to the affidavits there are witnesses that substantiate Zimmerman's account enough that he wasn't arrested.
Failure to be an "angel" is not a crime punishable by summary execution. It is clear from the 911 recordings that Zimmerman precipitated the confrontation despite being warned off by law enforcement. Unless he observed Martin commiting a crime, he had no right to accost him, and should have no claim of "self-defense".
We are waiting to see what occurred in the Zimmerman case.
No, we are not waiting. AFAIK, Zimmerman is not being investigated for committing a crime. At best, some people are investigating whether he can be investigated for committing a crime.
As far as murder being legal in Florida, there is some hyperbole there that won't pass the pedantic language sniff test. Nonetheless, it is apparently legal to precipitate a confrontation and then use deadly force to "protect" yourself from the consequences -- or simply claim that this is what happens. That is much closer to legalizing murder than any civilized society should allow.
. ..who don't know how to do a proper search (i.e. finish typing the guy's name).
Maybe they are afraid that they will be fired for using Google for suspicous purposes if they pursue his application any further.
The guy should change his name. Its silly and wrong that he should have to do so, but he is pretty much screwed and Google is much more interested in providing whiz-bang features to the.1% of users who give a rats ass longer than 15 seconds than avoiding evil (even if unintended).
Existing cards would not fit into new phones, but wouldn't existing phones be able to use a smaller card if they can be wrapped in some kind of physical adapter (as with SD cards)?
You know, I'll bet every generation since the beginning of music has been saying that once they hit middle age... My parents thought the stuff I listened to as a teenager wasn't any good, their parents thought the stuff they listened to was terrible and so forth...
FWIW, I think that the music that I listened to as a teenager isn't any good, and I have a much better appreciation of what my parents and grandparent's like.
I suspect that there are a always a few exceptional artists that stand the test of time and come to be conflated with the entirety of their era by future generations. I think that country from the 30s-50s is way better than what is being made today, but it could be that the vast majority of music at the time was just as bland as it is today, and my impression of the past is skewed by what has endured.
Presumably, people spent that money somewhere, thus creating the same revenue and some jobs. If we are supposed to worry about piracy from the perspective of lost/created jobs, we should evaluate whether funneling money through the content industry is the most efficient way of creating them.
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Nobody became obese or developed diabetes or heart disease from eating too much lettuce (there are other consequences, to be sure). Any number of "chicken" strips is too many, and any amount of movie theatre soda is too much. Sure, technically, you could eat these in sufficiently moderate quantities to avoid their inherently toxic effects, but few do. Moreover, they are engineered to induce you to consume the maximum amount you can stomach/afford.
Just opt out of the typical American garbage diet altogether and eat real food. Bonus -- you can eat until you are sated, not just until you feel too guilty to continue.
Should be even easier for them to do warrantless tracking of whomever they choose.
They don't need it to be any easier. The only change is that while the potentially troubling uses of these technologies are already available to carriers and the government, some customer-friendly uses are finally being considered.
Lets not pretend that objecting to this program will somehow preserve customer's rights.
They already have the ability. What is new here is that they are agreeing to use that ability to help customers for a change.
The good news is that these screens won't cost the taxpayers anything. The bad news is that they will be supported by advertising.
So how else would you suggest they be paid for?
How about with money from people who want to use the service provided by these booths?
"Brother" means a couple of things and you clearly qualified as neither. That is not "reverse-racism", and I don't see how it reveals some secretive "separate side to the culture". Black people aren't allowed to have boundaries WRT how you refer to them?
Racism is just as bad -- and inexcusable -- when a minority does it.
It is just as "bad" as in ignorant and contemptible. It is certainly not as "bad" as in constraining the opportunity of the majority. Many people fail to understand this distinction.
Sounds like the time my checking account got hijacked. I think what irritated me more than anything was that they went to the trouble of making a card then used it to buy a bunch of lame stuff at Kmart. I mean, if you're stealing people's money at least do something interesting with it.
Similar thing happened to me with a credit card. Hundreds of dollars spent buying from lame gift websites. Some of the merchandise was ultimately delivered to me and it was 3 terrible souvenir-grade T-shirts (two were identical). The kind of crap some kid would give to their grandparent for their birthday ("funny" golf theme, IIRC). I almost thought that they did it on purpose as a gag, but that would mean that they only stole the card with the intent of confusing me with idiotic purchases (actually, I might respect that).
Been there. I suspect that most burglaries are crimes of opportunity, so a few reasonable precautions will buy you most of the deterrence that you will achieve with even the most extreme measures. Buying a gun and wiring your house for surveillance is a double edge sword -- you feel more secure, but you are also constantly reminded to feel threatened.
Just a thought. But what if empowering the local Chinese with more wealth and work advancement opportunities provided enough societal confidence for political change? Would new-found freedom from governmental reform be worth it? I'm just asking...
China is not a free country. It is a country that literally crushes dissidents under tank treads. It is a country that arrived where it is today by relying on brutal exploitation, and those in power are not just going to roll over.
People who claim that China in just going through a phase that current first world countries went through a few generations ago need to understand that China today is not like the US in the 19th and early 20th century. The US is better now than it was then, but it was a million times better then that China is today in terms of social and political freedom.
One benefit of having a name almost as common as "John Smith" is that the signal-to-noise ratio is far too high for anyone to really know what is actually a legitimate hit or one of the other thousands of "John Smiths" in the world. Plus, I happen to share my name with several very famous people, ranging from musicians to professional athletes to actors, so you're going to have to do some serious digging to find a hit that's not related to one of them.
The obvious solution is to combine all of the information on the various "John Smiths" and judge each by the resulting composite.
Don't tell me you trust the data mining racket to never come up with that one!
Your mistake is the assumption that these sites want to maximize comments, and should thus remove barriers. In fact, these sites don't want to deal with the reams of gawdafullness that fill up most comment sections.
In this regard, turning to social network authentication schemes has two benefits:
1. Fewer people will bother commenting.
2. People that comment will have some fear that their behavior will be associated with something they care about protection, i.e. their "real" on-line identity, if not their actual identity, and will thus resist (at least a little bit more) the temptation to be total asshats.
IOW, broken by design.
Apple
Damn straight. Nobody in the world can round corners like an American.
While I'm not big of the idea of "the long tail" or "trickle down economics", I would think this would help the poor in a small manner. By those able to afford it having solar panels, the power companies have less demand for their energy and so the poor are less likely to see an increase in power prices (and, rarely, a slight reduction).
Its not likely that power companies will be able to abandon maintenance on infrastructure that solar users no longer use, so those costs will have to be borne by a smaller number of customers.
On a more cynical note, the power companies will continue to operate on the assumption of constantly increasing profitability. With fewer customers, they will have to raise prices to meet their goals. Fair? Reasonable? Of course not. But fairness is not for the poor in America. Power companies will run themselves into the ground trying squeeze dry anyone they can, and the poor are the least able to escape their grasp.
Your boss doesn't allow headphones at work?
Some jobs require awareness of phones ringing, people talking from across the room, etc.
Body language
Tone of voice
Getting an idea of the person being inteviewed
Hearing a human voice in this often written world
These are reasons why a video and transcripts are different, not why either is better. Any one of those can skew the usefulness or appeal of a message being presented by video. Of course, sometimes the message itself is not the primary point, and the ability to make judgements about the messenger is paramount. IMO, video should only be used when the credibility of the messenger is significantly important. Otherwise, it is a waste of resources.
Maybe because text is so much more efficient to create, transmit, store, analyze, consume, etc.?
Where do you draw the line?
As far as I can tell, the line is drawn at inciting racial hatred.
If you aren't drawing the line where the potential for physical violence ends, it is hard to see where the bottom of that slippery slope could lead, do you jail anyone who says anything outside of societal norms? anything that is a minority opinion? any political adversary? it's a scary thought indeed!
This is a slippery slope argument. A strawman. Societies draw arbitrary lines all the time. Why is 65 MPH the speed limit on the highway. OMG, what's to stop it from being lowered to 6.5 MPH and crippling our ability to travel!?
I'm seeing reports that Zimmerman, when interviewed by police had a broken nose, and trauma to the back of the head, which does lend credence to his story that the kid attacked him physically, and with the whack on the head, possibly he was jumped from behind by the kid?
You must have also heard reports of Zimmerman leaving his car against the recommendation of the 911 operator with the intention of confronting Martin. So he picked a fight, and when he started to lose, he shot the kid.
Since we know that Zimmerman started the confrontation, why do we not assume that Martin was acting in his own self defense? He was the one who was minding his own business.
Unless Zimmerman observed Martin committing an actual crime, and he has made no such claim that I have heard, he had no right to confront him and should be held responsible for the result even if he was ultimately acting out of fear for his own life. In a similar vein, if someone is robbing a store, and the clerk pulls a gun, the robber can not shoot the clerk and then claim self defense.
As time goes on we see that the "No Limit Nigga" (Martin's tweet name) was no angel, and according to the affidavits there are witnesses that substantiate Zimmerman's account enough that he wasn't arrested.
Failure to be an "angel" is not a crime punishable by summary execution. It is clear from the 911 recordings that Zimmerman precipitated the confrontation despite being warned off by law enforcement. Unless he observed Martin commiting a crime, he had no right to accost him, and should have no claim of "self-defense".
We are waiting to see what occurred in the Zimmerman case.
No, we are not waiting. AFAIK, Zimmerman is not being investigated for committing a crime. At best, some people are investigating whether he can be investigated for committing a crime.
As far as murder being legal in Florida, there is some hyperbole there that won't pass the pedantic language sniff test. Nonetheless, it is apparently legal to precipitate a confrontation and then use deadly force to "protect" yourself from the consequences -- or simply claim that this is what happens. That is much closer to legalizing murder than any civilized society should allow.
. . .who don't know how to do a proper search (i.e. finish typing the guy's name).
Maybe they are afraid that they will be fired for using Google for suspicous purposes if they pursue his application any further.
The guy should change his name. Its silly and wrong that he should have to do so, but he is pretty much screwed and Google is much more interested in providing whiz-bang features to the .1% of users who give a rats ass longer than 15 seconds than avoiding evil (even if unintended).
So they can obsolete all the existing phones.
Existing cards would not fit into new phones, but wouldn't existing phones be able to use a smaller card if they can be wrapped in some kind of physical adapter (as with SD cards)?
'You'd never lose the million. If you got to [$500,000 in losses], you would stop and take your 20 percent discount. You'd owe them only $400,000.'
Only $400,000? This guy has money to burn.
No, he's planning to make it up on volume!
You know, I'll bet every generation since the beginning of music has been saying that once they hit middle age... My parents thought the stuff I listened to as a teenager wasn't any good, their parents thought the stuff they listened to was terrible and so forth...
FWIW, I think that the music that I listened to as a teenager isn't any good, and I have a much better appreciation of what my parents and grandparent's like.
I suspect that there are a always a few exceptional artists that stand the test of time and come to be conflated with the entirety of their era by future generations. I think that country from the 30s-50s is way better than what is being made today, but it could be that the vast majority of music at the time was just as bland as it is today, and my impression of the past is skewed by what has endured.
Presumably, people spent that money somewhere, thus creating the same revenue and some jobs. If we are supposed to worry about piracy from the perspective of lost/created jobs, we should evaluate whether funneling money through the content industry is the most efficient way of creating them.