If not for the current push for a $15/hr minimum wage, there would not have been serious motivation to move ahead with this automation. Say goodbye to thousands of entry-level jobs!
Comey was the leader of the chief government agency in charge of domestic counterintelligence, the FBI. If this was happening, wasn't it their job to stop it?
She's right: the UK will be the world leader not only in the surveillance of their subjects, but also in repressive control of the information they are allowed to see and their communications with others. It's another sad step toward the Brave New World.
So now Germany, the most vibrant economy in Europe, is now sliding back down a totalitarian path. Freedom of speech, freedom of association, all are disappearing. So long, Germany!
Freedom of speech was blocked in the UK sometime ago. Now, with this intrusive surveillance in place, freedom of association, perhaps even freedom of thought, is on the way out. Soon, the government will know everything about everyone in the UK. I wouldn't want to live there.
While this would undoubtedly supply sufficient clean energy to meet all of Africa's needs for the present, it would irreparably destroy the habitat of the Chadian sand louse, a small but essential component of the ecosphere in central Africa. The entire food chain would collapse. I am shocked that the BBC would even suggest such a brutal and destructive strategy. We need to mobilize the Sierra Club and other caring organizations to take to the streets and prevent this from happening.
This announcement was sponsored by the Oil Research Institute, ExxonMobil, and the Saudi and Qatar governments. Thank you.
I doubt we will be seeing Amazon fix this problem any time soon. They are forcing their customers to obtain e-books only from Amazon and locking out other sources. I have obtained nearly all of my ebooks from non-Amazon sources and plan to do so in the future. This is the reason that I considered buying an Amazon Fire only briefly. It's a great tablet in every other way than this, but I will never buy one.
The one thing Carly has been really good at is hiring an effective personal press agent. Every few months, I see notices that "Carly is coming". I can't imagine why anyone cares; she has done nothing of note since leaving HP. She fouled up Lucent and failed to merge it with Philips, and then moved on to destroying HP with another ill-considered merger and her profligate personal spending of HP's money (like the G5 she needed). Since leaving HP many years ago with her golden parachute, she has held the full time position of "Former HP CEO" and worked the talk show circuit whenever she could. Who could imagine that this bimbo would be capable of running the U.S.?
I did hear one clever observation from her recently, though: She pointed out that Hillary's millions of miles of travel as the Secretary of State was "an activity, not an accomplishment".
After a failed merger attempt at Lucent and a failed merger attempt and other disastrous actions at HP, she failed spectacularly as a political candidate. And now she "is considering" trying again. She is so full of herself that she is in danger of exploding. The only thing she has consistently succeeded at is hiring press agents for herself. This "announcement" is a good example of that. She's done nothing in recent years except spend her golden parachute, and yet we are still talking about her.
Judging from her behevior at HP, her first act as President of the US would be to remove George Washington's picture from the $1 bill and replace it with her own just as she did with the portraits of Hewlett and Packard that graced the lobbies of all HP locations when she arrived there.
Is it really a surprise that Obama is redistributng wealth as quickly as he can? He promised to do this in his original campaign and has continually worked to take as much money away from people who have it and pass it out to those who don't. He is working as hard as he can to kill the entrepreneurial spirit in America.
I don't agree that the biggest "winners" with Obamacare have been people between 18 and 35. Their insurance rates have increased more than any other group; they have to to subsidize people who use more healthcare than they do. Claiming that increased participation is a measure of Obamacare's goodness is a little hollow too, considering that it is now a legal requirement to have health insurance: buy it or pay a fine at income tax time. Many people, particularly young people, who would choose voluntarily to forego coverage entirely are forced to pay for it now.
The National Parks belong to all the people of America. But, only the rich privileged class can afford to vacation in Yellowstone. What about the poor underprivileged minority children in our big cities? They can't afford to pack an SUV and drive to Yosemite, or Bryce Canyon, or Glacier or whatever. It's only fair that the rich exploiters should be soaked by the Forest Service so that the government gets more money to help the people who really need it. If they take the money away from parasitic capitalist vacationers, good! They probably have too much, anyway. (I'm kidding, of course. Unfortunately, the government isn't.)
This CD ripper can only be used to extract a copy for personal use -- after all, it's bolted to the car. If I was going to rip music to bootleg copies, it would be hard to find a more inconvenient way to do it.
These guys are either agents of the government who are allowed to kick in my door in the middle of the night (if they have a warrant, of course...) and arrest me, or they are a private corporation that has none of those rights, can be ignored by any private citizen, and is responsible for financing their own operations. They cannot be both. If this is allowed to stand, we will be well on our way to a country populated by private armies and security police who can run roughshod over the population with no adverse consequences to them. It's another example of the shocking government overreach that has been taking place in the past decade.
So now the PC police have discovered video games, one of the few remaining venues where people can act out any sort of fantasy and behave in ways they never would in real life. Let's stamp out any sort of behavior that is objectionable to the PC collective, the ultimate arbiter of everyone's thoughts and actions!
Games are a fantasy world. People should be free to indulge in any sort of behavior there that they want, without some PC Mrs. Grundy nagging at them. So, sexism, misogyny, and racism are bad. Should we censor all traces of them out of games? Clearly all of these behaviors are repugnant in real life, at least to most of us. It is a small step from racism and misogyny to violence, another behavior that is completely unacceptable in polite company. Shall we ban all violence from video gaming as well? In the ideal-world endstate, then, all games will consist of happy teletubbies playing politically correct nonsexist, nonviolent games and snacking on raw vegetables. (The cookies had to go; they promote childhood obesity.)
For me, I'll take freedom: The freedom to do and think as I please as long as I don't do violence to anyone else. Leave me alone.
In California, the legislature is already licking thier chops at the prospect of all cars being fitted with GPS transponders. The gasoline tax Californians pay was supposed to be used entirely for road and transportation infrastructure spending, but they have routinely siphoned it off into the general fund for years. Now, they say they don't have enough money to maintain the roads. Solution: A new, additional tax based on the number of miles driven! The GPS transponder will allow them to watch every car's movements and bill the driver accordingly.
One US insurance company is already distributing "free" GPS transponders to their customers in a widely-publicized voluntary campaign promising lower auto insurance rates if the company is allowed to monitor the drivers' every move, and the speed at which they make it.
These steps are every bit as scary as the recently-divulged NSA surveillance of American citizens and will represent a major step forward for the surveillance society that we all should dread.
The idea that Snowden is neither a hero nor a traitor is not supportable. However, the idea that he is both a hero and a traitor is reasonable. There is no doubt that he is a traitor. Traitor is not some vague fantastic concept, as other commenters have suggested. It is clearly defined in law, and there is no doubt that Snowden violated the oath he took when he accepted work at the NSA. He has publicly divulged sources and methods that the NSA uses. Therefore, he is a traitor and subject to whatever punishment the law prescribes.
Whether he is a hero as well is less clear, but a defensible position. Certainly, he made Americans aware of what the NSA is doing and the scope of their investigations, and many would say he is a hero for this. Whether he is a hero is anyone's mind or not, there is no doubt that he broke an oath and will be punished for this if he puts himself within the reach of the U.S. government.
We should be more concerned about what will help the most students and less concerned about what is good for the public schools themselves. The public schools now are dominated first by the teacher's unions and second by a huge federal bureaucracy. Neither of these is motivated entirely by the good of the students. I see the charter schools as an attempt by some people to break away from union and government domination of their children's schooling, much like the home schooling movement. In both cases, the students who are completing these programs are tending to be much more successful than average. Charter schools may not be the best solution to our education problems, but they are a worthwhile effort.
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If not for the current push for a $15/hr minimum wage, there would not have been serious motivation to move ahead with this automation. Say goodbye to thousands of entry-level jobs!
Comey was the leader of the chief government agency in charge of domestic counterintelligence, the FBI. If this was happening, wasn't it their job to stop it?
AT&T's service will be exactly the same with all their employees on strike. Their customers will not notice any difference.
She's right: the UK will be the world leader not only in the surveillance of their subjects, but also in repressive control of the information they are allowed to see and their communications with others. It's another sad step toward the Brave New World.
Why would you want to keep the truck around when you can jusr drive the Ferrari?
So now Germany, the most vibrant economy in Europe, is now sliding back down a totalitarian path. Freedom of speech, freedom of association, all are disappearing. So long, Germany!
Freedom of speech was blocked in the UK sometime ago. Now, with this intrusive surveillance in place, freedom of association, perhaps even freedom of thought, is on the way out. Soon, the government will know everything about everyone in the UK. I wouldn't want to live there.
What a great idea. I wonder if it's been tried before?
Great. Another way for faculty committees to grade their peers and decide who gets tenure.
It takes a lot of energy to heat a big tank of sewage to 660F. If the crude oil yield high enough to cover the energy cost of extracting it?
Let's not forget that these guys predicted Lower Manhattan would be under water by 2006. It's impossible for me to believe any of this stuff anymore.
While this would undoubtedly supply sufficient clean energy to meet all of Africa's needs for the present, it would irreparably destroy the habitat of the Chadian sand louse, a small but essential component of the ecosphere in central Africa. The entire food chain would collapse. I am shocked that the BBC would even suggest such a brutal and destructive strategy. We need to mobilize the Sierra Club and other caring organizations to take to the streets and prevent this from happening.
This announcement was sponsored by the Oil Research Institute, ExxonMobil, and the Saudi and Qatar governments. Thank you.
I doubt we will be seeing Amazon fix this problem any time soon. They are forcing their customers to obtain e-books only from Amazon and locking out other sources. I have obtained nearly all of my ebooks from non-Amazon sources and plan to do so in the future. This is the reason that I considered buying an Amazon Fire only briefly. It's a great tablet in every other way than this, but I will never buy one.
The one thing Carly has been really good at is hiring an effective personal press agent. Every few months, I see notices that "Carly is coming". I can't imagine why anyone cares; she has done nothing of note since leaving HP. She fouled up Lucent and failed to merge it with Philips, and then moved on to destroying HP with another ill-considered merger and her profligate personal spending of HP's money (like the G5 she needed). Since leaving HP many years ago with her golden parachute, she has held the full time position of "Former HP CEO" and worked the talk show circuit whenever she could. Who could imagine that this bimbo would be capable of running the U.S.?
I did hear one clever observation from her recently, though: She pointed out that Hillary's millions of miles of travel as the Secretary of State was "an activity, not an accomplishment".
After a failed merger attempt at Lucent and a failed merger attempt and other disastrous actions at HP, she failed spectacularly as a political candidate. And now she "is considering" trying again. She is so full of herself that she is in danger of exploding. The only thing she has consistently succeeded at is hiring press agents for herself. This "announcement" is a good example of that. She's done nothing in recent years except spend her golden parachute, and yet we are still talking about her.
Judging from her behevior at HP, her first act as President of the US would be to remove George Washington's picture from the $1 bill and replace it with her own just as she did with the portraits of Hewlett and Packard that graced the lobbies of all HP locations when she arrived there.
Is it really a surprise that Obama is redistributng wealth as quickly as he can? He promised to do this in his original campaign and has continually worked to take as much money away from people who have it and pass it out to those who don't. He is working as hard as he can to kill the entrepreneurial spirit in America.
I don't agree that the biggest "winners" with Obamacare have been people between 18 and 35. Their insurance rates have increased more than any other group; they have to to subsidize people who use more healthcare than they do. Claiming that increased participation is a measure of Obamacare's goodness is a little hollow too, considering that it is now a legal requirement to have health insurance: buy it or pay a fine at income tax time. Many people, particularly young people, who would choose voluntarily to forego coverage entirely are forced to pay for it now.
The National Parks belong to all the people of America. But, only the rich privileged class can afford to vacation in Yellowstone. What about the poor underprivileged minority children in our big cities? They can't afford to pack an SUV and drive to Yosemite, or Bryce Canyon, or Glacier or whatever. It's only fair that the rich exploiters should be soaked by the Forest Service so that the government gets more money to help the people who really need it. If they take the money away from parasitic capitalist vacationers, good! They probably have too much, anyway. (I'm kidding, of course. Unfortunately, the government isn't.)
This CD ripper can only be used to extract a copy for personal use -- after all, it's bolted to the car. If I was going to rip music to bootleg copies, it would be hard to find a more inconvenient way to do it.
These guys are either agents of the government who are allowed to kick in my door in the middle of the night (if they have a warrant, of course...) and arrest me, or they are a private corporation that has none of those rights, can be ignored by any private citizen, and is responsible for financing their own operations. They cannot be both. If this is allowed to stand, we will be well on our way to a country populated by private armies and security police who can run roughshod over the population with no adverse consequences to them. It's another example of the shocking government overreach that has been taking place in the past decade.
So now the PC police have discovered video games, one of the few remaining venues where people can act out any sort of fantasy and behave in ways they never would in real life. Let's stamp out any sort of behavior that is objectionable to the PC collective, the ultimate arbiter of everyone's thoughts and actions!
Games are a fantasy world. People should be free to indulge in any sort of behavior there that they want, without some PC Mrs. Grundy nagging at them. So, sexism, misogyny, and racism are bad. Should we censor all traces of them out of games? Clearly all of these behaviors are repugnant in real life, at least to most of us. It is a small step from racism and misogyny to violence, another behavior that is completely unacceptable in polite company. Shall we ban all violence from video gaming as well? In the ideal-world endstate, then, all games will consist of happy teletubbies playing politically correct nonsexist, nonviolent games and snacking on raw vegetables. (The cookies had to go; they promote childhood obesity.)
For me, I'll take freedom: The freedom to do and think as I please as long as I don't do violence to anyone else. Leave me alone.
In California, the legislature is already licking thier chops at the prospect of all cars being fitted with GPS transponders. The gasoline tax Californians pay was supposed to be used entirely for road and transportation infrastructure spending, but they have routinely siphoned it off into the general fund for years. Now, they say they don't have enough money to maintain the roads. Solution: A new, additional tax based on the number of miles driven! The GPS transponder will allow them to watch every car's movements and bill the driver accordingly.
One US insurance company is already distributing "free" GPS transponders to their customers in a widely-publicized voluntary campaign promising lower auto insurance rates if the company is allowed to monitor the drivers' every move, and the speed at which they make it.
These steps are every bit as scary as the recently-divulged NSA surveillance of American citizens and will represent a major step forward for the surveillance society that we all should dread.
The idea that Snowden is neither a hero nor a traitor is not supportable. However, the idea that he is both a hero and a traitor is reasonable. There is no doubt that he is a traitor. Traitor is not some vague fantastic concept, as other commenters have suggested. It is clearly defined in law, and there is no doubt that Snowden violated the oath he took when he accepted work at the NSA. He has publicly divulged sources and methods that the NSA uses. Therefore, he is a traitor and subject to whatever punishment the law prescribes.
Whether he is a hero as well is less clear, but a defensible position. Certainly, he made Americans aware of what the NSA is doing and the scope of their investigations, and many would say he is a hero for this. Whether he is a hero is anyone's mind or not, there is no doubt that he broke an oath and will be punished for this if he puts himself within the reach of the U.S. government.
We should be more concerned about what will help the most students and less concerned about what is good for the public schools themselves. The public schools now are dominated first by the teacher's unions and second by a huge federal bureaucracy. Neither of these is motivated entirely by the good of the students. I see the charter schools as an attempt by some people to break away from union and government domination of their children's schooling, much like the home schooling movement. In both cases, the students who are completing these programs are tending to be much more successful than average. Charter schools may not be the best solution to our education problems, but they are a worthwhile effort.
The moon shots were not managed by an old school friend of Michelle's who got a no-bid contract.
Senator Feinstein has assured reporters that she is sure this is all legal, so it must be.