A company whose business model is to build products with cheap overseas labor and then sell them for inflated prices in the US does not want any tariffs imposed to cut into their profit. Imagine that. Obviously they have all of our best interests at heart.
In a new report, scientists report higher CO2 levels now than ever since they were first measured in 1880. They further report that these are the highest levels for at least the past 800,000 years. QED: 1880 was actually over 800,000 years ago. I learn something new every day!
Worrying about whether someone else's disclosure exposes you is a waste of time. There is no privacy left, and the only way to safely live in peace is to never disclose anything to anyone. Once it is out of your mouth, it will be scraped up into the great data bank in the sky, where it will live forever. Historians and researchers in 300 years will be able to determine the precise day when you had a hemorrhoid operation, a tooth filled, or you purchased a new coffee pot. We will never need to speculate about things like George Washington's false teeth with our contemporaries, because we will be able to retrieve the precise model, the date they were fitted, and the amount of sales tax paid when they were purchased. Fortunately, we have a benevolent government that will only use this information to help us.
I cannot imagine when any user would want auto-playing video and sound on a web site. I use Chrome and I have not noticed any decline in the number of these irritating auto-playing and pop-up videos. I particularly hate the news sites where the video will pop up on the right hand side of the screen if you stop it at the top of the page -- and no close button is provided in the pop-up window.
There's no crime here that I know of and they did not do anything that I am sure others have done. The politicians are all screaming because they are incapable of doing anything else about this.
The many extensions of copyright are due in large part to the lobbying of companies such as Disney, who were desperately afraid that Mickey would pass into the public domain and all those Chinese companies would be able to make legal Mickey Mouse hats and shirts. The music business is the same. George Gershwin's grandchildren are still going to lunch on the royalties from all of his music, whose copyright the Gershwin Foundation's lawyers enforce vigorously. The protection of copyright is no longer just to protect artists and authors; it is used to protect corporations as well.
Crashing the vehicle's control computer is good for attacking modern vehicles, but the fix is easy: just arrange for your tanks and trucks to use conventional, electro-mechanical ignition systems (as most of them still do outside the US and Western Europe, I bet). These war machines would all be immune to the microwaves. However, the drivers still would not be good prospects for parenthood afterward.
The next petitioners will be the farmers in Kansas and Nebraska who have already depleted the enormous water tables under their farms. They'll demand a pipeline from Lake Michigan to the middle of the country so they can keep growing grain to sell to Russia and China. People who say this is a small amount of water should take a look at the Caspian Sea, which was killed by all the industry around it. It really pains me to see this start happening to the Great Lakes.
The author of the article makes it sounds as though some outrage is being visited on American troops in Syria. All that is happening is the the Russians and Syrians are using electronic tools to counter our own electronic surveillance. It's a little difficult for me to get upset about this.
I don't see any noticeable difference on the web version. But, in the Android version on my phone, the program now collapses email threads into a single long concatenated message with portions hidden. It makes the replies in the thread, particularly the later ones, very hard to read.
Sorry folks. You can't make everyone wealthy by printing money and giving it away. It doesn't matter how the money is shuffled around; the result is the same.
For years, the big pharmaceutical companies have focused on producing new drugs that don't cure anything, but just ameliorate symptoms for a while. Drugs that people continue buying for the rest of their life are their big money-makers. Think blood pressure drugs, statins and other cholesterol drugs, and, of course, the big cash cows, Viagra and its act-alikes. Conversely, no one is investing much in vaccines and antibiotics -- they are only used once to cure a patient.
One of the big drivers of uncertainty in the postgraduate job market is oversupply. The graduate schools admit too many students, so there is a glut of PhDs to fill a shrinking number of academic jobs. Schools like Stanford routinely hire three new PhDs when they anticipate one tenured opening, and let the three candidates fight it out before they make a decision in three or four years. This does not make for a collegial or healthy atmosphere. More of these students should be sent into the real world sooner by being denied admittance into graduate schools. It would be a better situation for everyone involved.
This is sort of like putting a second mortgage on your house and taking the cash to the dog track. It's likely that you will be living a healthy outdoor lifestyle soon.
One more big step on the road to total surveillance and control. George Orwell would not be surprised, except that it has taken this long. Even the British, with their myriad cameras recording every bit of life haven't yet linked the cameras directly to an enforcement mechanism.
I have never had any reservations about revealing my salary in an anonymous survey so that other people can learn what salaries are paid in my job and geographical location. But, I have found over the years that exchanging salary information with a co-worker has never made me happy, whether they were paid more or less than I was.
Four weeks ago, I went to Zappo's and searched for work boots. Since then, nearly every ad-containing website I visit has been plastered with the same Zappo's ad -- for the same boots I looked at. This cannot be a coincidence. I resent having my online behavior followed so closely and used for Google's profit.
It amazes me that people are willing, even anxious, to have one of these spy devices operating in their home. Your mobile phone is already telling marketers and possibly other people with more sinister motives where you go and now the latest set of spy devices will tell them everything you say in the privacy of your own home. Think, people. Is the convenience of having Alexa (or whoever) order a pizza for you worth this intrusion on your privacy? I think I'll dial my own phone for the pizza, thanks.
I use a hardbound notebook, one page per day, for to-do lists, meeting notes,and project tracking. It's cheap, portable, doesn't need to be backed up. It helps with day-to-day continuity and is permanent, providing a good future record of what actually happened if I need to CMA. I have found no software that is is convenient and accessible at this, and I have looked.
It is clear that using these drugs for any period of time increases the chances of suicide or violent behavior (as with the recent school shooting) among the users. They may not be depressed any more, but their behavior certainly is not normal or desirable. The US military services have found this to be true as well, with service people taking the drugs showing very high suicide rates. I would never take this stuff.
With an NLRB packed with Obama appointees, we are reaping the fruit of political correctness. The legal machinery has now decided that protecting women's feelings is more important than freedom of expression. America is disappearing quickly, and will vanish entirely if we don't push back.
Beautiful, dynamic Detroit attracts floods of tourists from around the world. Travel agents call it the "Paris of the Midwest". And now, these people will have many fewer places to stay in the Motor City. Another case of foolish government officials making things more difficult for small business and for the public in general.
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A company whose business model is to build products with cheap overseas labor and then sell them for inflated prices in the US does not want any tariffs imposed to cut into their profit. Imagine that. Obviously they have all of our best interests at heart.
In a new report, scientists report higher CO2 levels now than ever since they were first measured in 1880. They further report that these are the highest levels for at least the past 800,000 years. QED: 1880 was actually over 800,000 years ago. I learn something new every day!
Worrying about whether someone else's disclosure exposes you is a waste of time. There is no privacy left, and the only way to safely live in peace is to never disclose anything to anyone. Once it is out of your mouth, it will be scraped up into the great data bank in the sky, where it will live forever. Historians and researchers in 300 years will be able to determine the precise day when you had a hemorrhoid operation, a tooth filled, or you purchased a new coffee pot. We will never need to speculate about things like George Washington's false teeth with our contemporaries, because we will be able to retrieve the precise model, the date they were fitted, and the amount of sales tax paid when they were purchased. Fortunately, we have a benevolent government that will only use this information to help us.
I cannot imagine when any user would want auto-playing video and sound on a web site. I use Chrome and I have not noticed any decline in the number of these irritating auto-playing and pop-up videos. I particularly hate the news sites where the video will pop up on the right hand side of the screen if you stop it at the top of the page -- and no close button is provided in the pop-up window.
There's no crime here that I know of and they did not do anything that I am sure others have done. The politicians are all screaming because they are incapable of doing anything else about this.
The many extensions of copyright are due in large part to the lobbying of companies such as Disney, who were desperately afraid that Mickey would pass into the public domain and all those Chinese companies would be able to make legal Mickey Mouse hats and shirts. The music business is the same. George Gershwin's grandchildren are still going to lunch on the royalties from all of his music, whose copyright the Gershwin Foundation's lawyers enforce vigorously. The protection of copyright is no longer just to protect artists and authors; it is used to protect corporations as well.
Crashing the vehicle's control computer is good for attacking modern vehicles, but the fix is easy: just arrange for your tanks and trucks to use conventional, electro-mechanical ignition systems (as most of them still do outside the US and Western Europe, I bet). These war machines would all be immune to the microwaves. However, the drivers still would not be good prospects for parenthood afterward.
The next petitioners will be the farmers in Kansas and Nebraska who have already depleted the enormous water tables under their farms. They'll demand a pipeline from Lake Michigan to the middle of the country so they can keep growing grain to sell to Russia and China. People who say this is a small amount of water should take a look at the Caspian Sea, which was killed by all the industry around it. It really pains me to see this start happening to the Great Lakes.
The author of the article makes it sounds as though some outrage is being visited on American troops in Syria. All that is happening is the the Russians and Syrians are using electronic tools to counter our own electronic surveillance. It's a little difficult for me to get upset about this.
I don't see any noticeable difference on the web version. But, in the Android version on my phone, the program now collapses email threads into a single long concatenated message with portions hidden. It makes the replies in the thread, particularly the later ones, very hard to read.
Sorry folks. You can't make everyone wealthy by printing money and giving it away. It doesn't matter how the money is shuffled around; the result is the same.
For years, the big pharmaceutical companies have focused on producing new drugs that don't cure anything, but just ameliorate symptoms for a while. Drugs that people continue buying for the rest of their life are their big money-makers. Think blood pressure drugs, statins and other cholesterol drugs, and, of course, the big cash cows, Viagra and its act-alikes. Conversely, no one is investing much in vaccines and antibiotics -- they are only used once to cure a patient.
One of the big drivers of uncertainty in the postgraduate job market is oversupply. The graduate schools admit too many students, so there is a glut of PhDs to fill a shrinking number of academic jobs. Schools like Stanford routinely hire three new PhDs when they anticipate one tenured opening, and let the three candidates fight it out before they make a decision in three or four years. This does not make for a collegial or healthy atmosphere. More of these students should be sent into the real world sooner by being denied admittance into graduate schools. It would be a better situation for everyone involved.
Will Amazon have to collect sales tax if it is operating in space?
This is sort of like putting a second mortgage on your house and taking the cash to the dog track. It's likely that you will be living a healthy outdoor lifestyle soon.
One more big step on the road to total surveillance and control. George Orwell would not be surprised, except that it has taken this long. Even the British, with their myriad cameras recording every bit of life haven't yet linked the cameras directly to an enforcement mechanism.
Thanks for the expert opinion to clarify the situation. A lot of us thought killing a pedestrian was normal.
I have never had any reservations about revealing my salary in an anonymous survey so that other people can learn what salaries are paid in my job and geographical location. But, I have found over the years that exchanging salary information with a co-worker has never made me happy, whether they were paid more or less than I was.
Four weeks ago, I went to Zappo's and searched for work boots. Since then, nearly every ad-containing website I visit has been plastered with the same Zappo's ad -- for the same boots I looked at. This cannot be a coincidence. I resent having my online behavior followed so closely and used for Google's profit.
It amazes me that people are willing, even anxious, to have one of these spy devices operating in their home. Your mobile phone is already telling marketers and possibly other people with more sinister motives where you go and now the latest set of spy devices will tell them everything you say in the privacy of your own home. Think, people. Is the convenience of having Alexa (or whoever) order a pizza for you worth this intrusion on your privacy? I think I'll dial my own phone for the pizza, thanks.
I use a hardbound notebook, one page per day, for to-do lists, meeting notes,and project tracking. It's cheap, portable, doesn't need to be backed up. It helps with day-to-day continuity and is permanent, providing a good future record of what actually happened if I need to CMA. I have found no software that is is convenient and accessible at this, and I have looked.
Thanks for all your hard work. I appreciate it. It was surprisingly painful to discover that Slashdot was out during the past few days.
It is clear that using these drugs for any period of time increases the chances of suicide or violent behavior (as with the recent school shooting) among the users. They may not be depressed any more, but their behavior certainly is not normal or desirable. The US military services have found this to be true as well, with service people taking the drugs showing very high suicide rates. I would never take this stuff.
With an NLRB packed with Obama appointees, we are reaping the fruit of political correctness. The legal machinery has now decided that protecting women's feelings is more important than freedom of expression. America is disappearing quickly, and will vanish entirely if we don't push back.
Beautiful, dynamic Detroit attracts floods of tourists from around the world. Travel agents call it the "Paris of the Midwest". And now, these people will have many fewer places to stay in the Motor City. Another case of foolish government officials making things more difficult for small business and for the public in general.