The real danger here is that people are going to be so used to seeing "not secure" in their browser and being told "oh just go ahead and use it, this isn't important" that soon enough they'll start typing their credit cards into insecure forms again.
Democrats -- though plenty corrupt themselves -- very consistently show a less extreme desire to turn government into nothing but way of funneling money to companies. Some of their spending is on things the public actually gets to own and reap the rewards of, rather than spending tax dollars purely to privatize the profits to companies.
Just because both groups are bad does not mean there's an equivalence. It's easy to see the differences, and easy to see that it doesn't entirely boil down to opposing each other "just because".
The only sense in which any taxpayers come out ahead in these bidding games is that if they don't bribe a company then another city/state will. There needs to be national law preventing cities/states from competing with each other in bribes that clearly make a worse deal for the nation as a whole.
If your state is facing such desperate unemployment levels that you have to pay the full salaries of Foxconn's employees for decades to create the jobs... then why not just hire people into government jobs where the public reaps the benefits of the work? Create the nation's shortest DMV lines, fully-staffed parks, cleanest sidewalks, etc. Doing so might actually bring in more employers.
I "use" bing for the pay. I open up another browser, mash the keyboard, and click all the related searches on the side and bottom to open them in new tabs. Takes less than a minute to generate dozens of bing searches. Of course I don't actually look at any of them background tabs of random searches, I just close them. Microsoft gets to falsify their usage numbers, I get gift cards.
Lead gasoline causes expensive violence. Let's just make this efficient as possible and herd people into gas chambers on their retirement day. It'll have the added benefit of making lazy old folks work for longer productive years.
The live cost of Chernobyl is estimated to be up to a million.
The worst nuclear accident in history may have killed "up to" a million. Coal kills a million every year (air pollution in general kills 5.5M a year) in normal operation without an accident (and also has numerous accidents that kill thousands every year).
Coal only kills about 13,000 Americans a year these days, but is much worse in most of the world. For example, "researchers found that coal use shaves off 5.5 years of the average lifespan of a person living in northern China compared to the someone in the south." (source) In China alone Coal kills 670,000 a year.
It's more likely that people in a thousand years will die tripping and falling on their way into a nuclear waste dump, than die from the radioactive materials there. The stuff that can kill you quickly has short half-lives. They'd probably have to purposely set up house there to be in danger, and to be that stupid you'd have to be talking about a post-apocalyptic world where a few people dying doesn't matter.
will gray chinese types hack into the educator's computer
The educator/inventor you're talking may be Chinese himself, you know. He's listed as "Member of China Studies Centre", collaborates with Chinese universities, and has a Chinese name... though it looks like he studied in Singapore so maybe he's just ethnically Chinese. But who cares? Patents slow progress, I hope various countries steal and develop the tech.
Apparently Jordan and India would be their best bets for a like-minded domain... well, if a daily mail article can be accurate on occasion: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
What purpose was there to seeing the status bar at times it had nothing to display? And how often did you use the menus that it impacts you to have to click the menu button first to see them?
The ability of users to do basic things has not changed. What changed is it's no longer possible for users to do advanced things. Unfortunately, "user friendly" these days is apparently much more about preventing people from doing things to harm themselves than helping people do things to help themselves. Modern interfaces are like building a gun that can only shoot blanks, just so that people can't shoot off their own limbs by mistake.
It's actually quite interesting how few of the really wealthy capitalists are libertarian. I don't have the stats, but it feels like people making around $100K are the libertarians while those above and below aren't.
As socialist liberal, I actually do sympathize with billionaires who invest in a great beachfront home and then have to let the public waltz through their beach. It kind of defeats the point of buying a beachfront home. But ultimately, unless the law was changed after he bought the place, he should've known the rules going in and bought something a bit off the beach instead.
If Islamic State wants to give foreign aid donations to the USA despite the lack of diplomatic relations, that's nice. It's not as if the major challenge would-be terrorists in America face is lack of money. For those in need of money, does their sense of honor prevent them from robbing people or are they afraid of being shot before they can blow themselves up?
The fact that life formed so early in Earth's history -- pretty much as soon as it wasn't molten -- is suggestive of it not being that hard to form. And enough different types of species have evolved intelligence on Earth to suggest that intelligence is a common result of evolution of multi-cellular organisms. The tricky party really is getting multi-cellular organisms, since that seems to have taken billions of years.
Voyager 1 is no longer a probe in a few more years, though (tens of thousands of years before it gets to another solar system). When power runs out, it's an interstellar brick.
Anyone who lives in reality knows that no country is trying to make diplomats deaf. It's an absurdly pointless anti-strategic action which can never benefit your country and could only make all your allies turn against you. It's obviously either a malfunction of a spying device or an actor other than the Cuban state.
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The real danger here is that people are going to be so used to seeing "not secure" in their browser and being told "oh just go ahead and use it, this isn't important" that soon enough they'll start typing their credit cards into insecure forms again.
All those things make it sound like just another average day.
Democrats -- though plenty corrupt themselves -- very consistently show a less extreme desire to turn government into nothing but way of funneling money to companies. Some of their spending is on things the public actually gets to own and reap the rewards of, rather than spending tax dollars purely to privatize the profits to companies.
Just because both groups are bad does not mean there's an equivalence. It's easy to see the differences, and easy to see that it doesn't entirely boil down to opposing each other "just because".
The only sense in which any taxpayers come out ahead in these bidding games is that if they don't bribe a company then another city/state will. There needs to be national law preventing cities/states from competing with each other in bribes that clearly make a worse deal for the nation as a whole.
If your state is facing such desperate unemployment levels that you have to pay the full salaries of Foxconn's employees for decades to create the jobs... then why not just hire people into government jobs where the public reaps the benefits of the work? Create the nation's shortest DMV lines, fully-staffed parks, cleanest sidewalks, etc. Doing so might actually bring in more employers.
I "use" bing for the pay. I open up another browser, mash the keyboard, and click all the related searches on the side and bottom to open them in new tabs. Takes less than a minute to generate dozens of bing searches. Of course I don't actually look at any of them background tabs of random searches, I just close them. Microsoft gets to falsify their usage numbers, I get gift cards.
Lead gasoline causes expensive violence. Let's just make this efficient as possible and herd people into gas chambers on their retirement day. It'll have the added benefit of making lazy old folks work for longer productive years.
The worst nuclear accident in history may have killed "up to" a million. Coal kills a million every year (air pollution in general kills 5.5M a year) in normal operation without an accident (and also has numerous accidents that kill thousands every year).
Coal only kills about 13,000 Americans a year these days, but is much worse in most of the world. For example, "researchers found that coal use shaves off 5.5 years of the average lifespan of a person living in northern China compared to the someone in the south." (source) In China alone Coal kills 670,000 a year.
It's more likely that people in a thousand years will die tripping and falling on their way into a nuclear waste dump, than die from the radioactive materials there. The stuff that can kill you quickly has short half-lives. They'd probably have to purposely set up house there to be in danger, and to be that stupid you'd have to be talking about a post-apocalyptic world where a few people dying doesn't matter.
Metal is very useful for practical purposes. Gold became valuable originally because people wanted to use it, not hoard it.
The educator/inventor you're talking may be Chinese himself, you know. He's listed as "Member of China Studies Centre", collaborates with Chinese universities, and has a Chinese name... though it looks like he studied in Singapore so maybe he's just ethnically Chinese. But who cares? Patents slow progress, I hope various countries steal and develop the tech.
Apparently Jordan and India would be their best bets for a like-minded domain... well, if a daily mail article can be accurate on occasion: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Named after his massiveness Jabba the Hut?
What purpose was there to seeing the status bar at times it had nothing to display? And how often did you use the menus that it impacts you to have to click the menu button first to see them?
It's logical that we have divergent interests and therefore benefit from having more than one government, also as fallback when one fails.
It gives me the opposite nostalgia -- I miss the many bells and whistles of the Gnome 1.x + Enlightenment combo that I started on in Red Hat 6.
The ability of users to do basic things has not changed. What changed is it's no longer possible for users to do advanced things. Unfortunately, "user friendly" these days is apparently much more about preventing people from doing things to harm themselves than helping people do things to help themselves. Modern interfaces are like building a gun that can only shoot blanks, just so that people can't shoot off their own limbs by mistake.
It's actually quite interesting how few of the really wealthy capitalists are libertarian. I don't have the stats, but it feels like people making around $100K are the libertarians while those above and below aren't.
As socialist liberal, I actually do sympathize with billionaires who invest in a great beachfront home and then have to let the public waltz through their beach. It kind of defeats the point of buying a beachfront home. But ultimately, unless the law was changed after he bought the place, he should've known the rules going in and bought something a bit off the beach instead.
If Islamic State wants to give foreign aid donations to the USA despite the lack of diplomatic relations, that's nice. It's not as if the major challenge would-be terrorists in America face is lack of money. For those in need of money, does their sense of honor prevent them from robbing people or are they afraid of being shot before they can blow themselves up?
The fact that life formed so early in Earth's history -- pretty much as soon as it wasn't molten -- is suggestive of it not being that hard to form. And enough different types of species have evolved intelligence on Earth to suggest that intelligence is a common result of evolution of multi-cellular organisms. The tricky party really is getting multi-cellular organisms, since that seems to have taken billions of years.
Voyager 1 is no longer a probe in a few more years, though (tens of thousands of years before it gets to another solar system). When power runs out, it's an interstellar brick.
No worries, sound doesn't travel in a vacuum so it'll still be perfectly silent if you're outside without a helmet on.
Anyone who lives in reality knows that no country is trying to make diplomats deaf. It's an absurdly pointless anti-strategic action which can never benefit your country and could only make all your allies turn against you. It's obviously either a malfunction of a spying device or an actor other than the Cuban state.
Obama's presidency accomplished something the USA had been attempting for 50+ years: Fidel Castro's death.