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How do you kill and dispose of millions of pounds of chicken?
You organize a large-scale, last-man-standing cockfight. The difficulty is convincing the hens that they are roosters, but chicks tend to be open about gender issues these days.
If the chickens are cannibals, they take care of the disposal part themselves. Winner eats all.
Google 'has not yet shown they are truly serious,' said Julia White, a general manager in Microsoft’s business division. 'From the outside, they are an advertising company.'
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I sell expensive jewelry door to door. Can you please send me a list of people living in your county, who already own expensive jewelry? They are most likely to buy more, so I would like to sell them some.
Please include their public energy bills, as well. This helps me to know when the best time is for me to come buy. When there is high energy usage, there is someone at home. I want to make sure that the house is occupied when I knock on the door.
I also sell jewelry insurance. People who have been robbed, are most likely to need that. Since robberies are public criminal record, I would also like a list of people who have been robbed of jewelry, and the value of what was stolen. These people have most likely replaced the jewelry, and need insurance for it.
Thank you, and keep up the good work, us salesmen really appreciate it! What you are doing is good for the national economy, and helps the War on Terror."
Medical information is much the same. That's between you, your doctor and your insurance company. I don't think you need to provide details of medical treatments to the government, or request government permission in advance to be allowed the treatment.
Hmmm . . . what about mental health records? I am more concerned about living next to someone who is bat-shit crazy, than someone who owns a gun. Bat-shit crazy + own gun = I'm moving.
But I don't think it is my right to know about other peoples' medical problems. I also don't think that people should know if I own a gun or not. With the case right now, the guns permits are public record. Publishing them, however, is major douche-baggery. It's just another "make people feel safe" gimmick.
I'm just afraid we're moving with greased lightning down a slippery slope. Pedophile database? Check. Gun owner database? Check. Mental health database . . . ?
When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
The folks with the most money: hire the best lawyers, buy the best Congressfolks and bribe the best judges.
They decide what is good and bad. Hell, they even direct the FBI to execute major dubious law enforcement activities in New Zeeland.
To Godwin this thread early: "the company did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in the uploaded photos after a wave of complaints"
"Hitler did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in starting WW2 after a wave of complaints"
On my cynical side, who really believed anyway, that Facebook and their retinue had no ownership interest in your data? They have been acting like they own it from day one.
It's never too early to start thinking about building a big glass dome over the island, before it goes Atlantis. These big construction projects always take longer and cost more than estimated. Just look at Boston's Big Dig. 1.5 million years is about the norm for big government projects.
Hey, wait and see if Las Vegas can top that! An underwater resort!
If this had happened on December 7th, 1941, this really would have confused the Japanese.
"Flight leader here. I see the ships. But there ain't no island! Can I yell Tora! Tora! Tora! anyway . . . ?"
Doomsdays and End of the Worlds are excellent business opportunities. Disgruntled old COBOL programmers made fortunes off Y2K. The same thing will happen with disgruntled old C programmers in 2038.
This latest Mayan astrological huff featured End of the World package tours to the Mayan ruins, and Survive the End of the World Shelters. Given any catastrophe, or even faux catastrophe, someone will try to make a buck off it. And there are enough idiots who will spend money on anything, not matter how worthless it is.
Two decades old, you are, then? Ask your parents about their Pet Rocks from the 70's or lock them up in Wikipedia.
They are obviously hyper-reacting. Way over the top. 24/7/365 security, armed guards, "papers please"... they are doing it all.
. . . and did the kid have a Facebook page? If a teenager doesn't have one these days, that is interpreted as a sign that there is something "wrong" with a kid. All these stories usually have a sideline sentence:
" . . . and *gasp* . . . he doesn't have a Facebook page!!!"
Like, kinda sorta crowd outsource it to armchair analysts. Just like ESPN does to armchair quarterbacks.
Who would watch hours on end of boring drone video? The same folks who watch the rest of the junk on YouTube. They can like or dislike the important or filler bits.
And let the terrorist squeal with glee, "Hey, I'm on YouTube!"
In the academic world, if you were tasked with picking a perfect team, you would steal players from Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, a fistful of Germans, Franck Ribery, etc.
In the real world, if you are tasked with managing a programming project, you don't get to pick the best. You are given some young kids with more energy than sense, an old, wise, but disgruntled experienced guy, who nobody listens to, a few folks who really don't give a damn, and most of them really truly detest each other. So you try to make out as well as you can, with what you've got.
Hey, Mercedes are great cars, why isn't every car built like them? Well, not everyone can afford a Mercedes, and maybe most folks can get by with just a Ford.
It's just the reality of life vs. theoretical academics. Despite the physics problems you solved in college, there are no frictionless surfaces. Or the ones that are available, you just can't afford.
They went and took an urban legend and made it true.
It's never been an urban legend. The CIA and other intelligence organizations have been doing this for centuries. The bread and butter of their trade is building legitimate covers for their agents, and recruiting folks who are legitimate, and have access to sensitive data or areas.
A diplomatic mission will always have a few: just look for the ones who are way more intelligent and clever for their official jobs. Journalists? Hell, their real job is to snoop around in places where they have no business. Foreign businessmen looking around about investing in the technology business in a country? Well, they just might want to know what technology the country has under its fingernails. Truly altruistic aid workers? Before they head off to some hell hole, they will be visited by someone who claims that they can really help the people, by just doing some observing for the government.
Some of these folks know they are willingly working for the CIA. The KGB used to call these "agents." Some of these folks do not realize that they are actually working for an intelligence agency. The KGB called these "agents of influence." For example, a woman aid worker might downright refuse to work with the CIA. But if approached by someone from a Women's Rights group, she might unknowingly pass on information to the "Rights Group" that ends up in CIA hands.
This is why foreigners in some places are often treated like spies. Well, there is a good chance, that no matter what they are up to, this might actually be true. Even the Grand Mufti ObL was wise enough to know this. But he was also wise enough to know that most of these folks were in fact just trying to help. So he left them alone, and let his counter-intelligence folks try to sniff out the others. In the US, the FBI handles this. They tail suspicious visiting diplomats, journalist, businessmen and academics, to see if they have another private agenda.
So, unfortunately, the vacuum that ObL left, is now filled with dumb-asses who think that since one doctor was a spy, all doctors must spies. In reality, nothing has changed. Intelligence folks will use whatever means possible to put people in the position to collect intelligence. That's just the way they have always worked. Back to the dawn of the first traveling merchants.
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So the radio station operator, also operates a tow truck business, I'd assume . . .
What China is doing today, the democratic world will be doing tomorrow.
China orders children to visit their elderly parents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20860264
Those basement stairs can really be a killer climb . . .
If you don't like the Lord of the McAfee franchise, you can:
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That covers just about anything.
Even "Certain Wireless Communication Equipment and Articles Therein".
How do you kill and dispose of millions of pounds of chicken?
You organize a large-scale, last-man-standing cockfight. The difficulty is convincing the hens that they are roosters, but chicks tend to be open about gender issues these days.
If the chickens are cannibals, they take care of the disposal part themselves. Winner eats all.
Google 'has not yet shown they are truly serious,' said Julia White, a general manager in Microsoft’s business division. 'From the outside, they are an advertising company.'
From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506371(v=msads.10).aspx
Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8
The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 allows developers to show ads in their apps. You can use your Windows 8 apps to make money by including ads from Microsoft Advertising. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 along with Microsoft pubCenter enables you to create apps that:
Talk to the child.
Is there an app for that . . . ?
"Dear Westchester County,
I sell expensive jewelry door to door. Can you please send me a list of people living in your county, who already own expensive jewelry? They are most likely to buy more, so I would like to sell them some.
Please include their public energy bills, as well. This helps me to know when the best time is for me to come buy. When there is high energy usage, there is someone at home. I want to make sure that the house is occupied when I knock on the door.
I also sell jewelry insurance. People who have been robbed, are most likely to need that. Since robberies are public criminal record, I would also like a list of people who have been robbed of jewelry, and the value of what was stolen. These people have most likely replaced the jewelry, and need insurance for it.
Thank you, and keep up the good work, us salesmen really appreciate it! What you are doing is good for the national economy, and helps the War on Terror."
Medical information is much the same. That's between you, your doctor and your insurance company. I don't think you need to provide details of medical treatments to the government, or request government permission in advance to be allowed the treatment.
Hmmm . . . what about mental health records? I am more concerned about living next to someone who is bat-shit crazy, than someone who owns a gun. Bat-shit crazy + own gun = I'm moving.
But I don't think it is my right to know about other peoples' medical problems. I also don't think that people should know if I own a gun or not. With the case right now, the guns permits are public record. Publishing them, however, is major douche-baggery. It's just another "make people feel safe" gimmick.
I'm just afraid we're moving with greased lightning down a slippery slope. Pedophile database? Check. Gun owner database? Check. Mental health database . . . ?
When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
The folks with the most money: hire the best lawyers, buy the best Congressfolks and bribe the best judges.
They decide what is good and bad. Hell, they even direct the FBI to execute major dubious law enforcement activities in New Zeeland.
To Godwin this thread early: "the company did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in the uploaded photos after a wave of complaints"
"Hitler did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in starting WW2 after a wave of complaints"
On my cynical side, who really believed anyway, that Facebook and their retinue had no ownership interest in your data? They have been acting like they own it from day one.
Can someone just post the Internet to their Facebook page? Or takes pictures of the Internet, and use Instagram?
Of course, this may lead to some recursion problems. And who will own that Internet backup . . . ?
Dead people earn a lot of money: http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/23/tech-media_06deadcelebs_cx_pk_top-earning-dead-celebrities_land.html
It's difficult to put them in jail, though, for evading taxes. Or at least for the cellmate, who has to bunk with a stinking corpse.
If they put that dingy up for auction, some rich Arab or Russian would pay twice the price for it.
You, know, just monkey around with their DNA a bit, to produce bees that pump out a gallon or four liters of venom per sting?
This is done in bad science fiction films all the time. Start doing underground nuclear tests again with beehives. Or zap them with Gamma Rays.
But be careful not to get them too angry.
And tell chicks that want better skin to just go stick their heads in a beehive.
So what you're saying is, we've got some time?
It's never too early to start thinking about building a big glass dome over the island, before it goes Atlantis. These big construction projects always take longer and cost more than estimated. Just look at Boston's Big Dig. 1.5 million years is about the norm for big government projects.
Hey, wait and see if Las Vegas can top that! An underwater resort!
If this had happened on December 7th, 1941, this really would have confused the Japanese.
"Flight leader here. I see the ships. But there ain't no island! Can I yell Tora! Tora! Tora! anyway . . . ?"
. . . half the schools in the world would be empty by now. Just think of how many people in the world play these games.
Recently, the Connecticut killer has been labeled "a basement dweller." Maybe basements are the cause, and should be outlawed . . . ?
Ancient cultures have always played some sort of war games in tribal ceremonies. It prepares the young for the real thing.
acid free art paper
That would take all the fun out of growing weed.
Hemp grown with grain fungus . . . what an intriguing idea for a new product.
Doomsdays and End of the Worlds are excellent business opportunities. Disgruntled old COBOL programmers made fortunes off Y2K. The same thing will happen with disgruntled old C programmers in 2038.
This latest Mayan astrological huff featured End of the World package tours to the Mayan ruins, and Survive the End of the World Shelters. Given any catastrophe, or even faux catastrophe, someone will try to make a buck off it. And there are enough idiots who will spend money on anything, not matter how worthless it is.
Two decades old, you are, then? Ask your parents about their Pet Rocks from the 70's or lock them up in Wikipedia.
. . . only slightly used in 2012 . . .
They are obviously hyper-reacting. Way over the top. 24/7/365 security, armed guards, "papers please" ... they are doing it all.
. . . and did the kid have a Facebook page? If a teenager doesn't have one these days, that is interpreted as a sign that there is something "wrong" with a kid. All these stories usually have a sideline sentence:
" . . . and *gasp* . . . he doesn't have a Facebook page!!!"
Like, kinda sorta crowd outsource it to armchair analysts. Just like ESPN does to armchair quarterbacks.
Who would watch hours on end of boring drone video? The same folks who watch the rest of the junk on YouTube. They can like or dislike the important or filler bits.
And let the terrorist squeal with glee, "Hey, I'm on YouTube!"
. . . and in Germany, Microsoft is handing out free copies of Windows 8 in "Schmuck" stores . . .
. . . but I have never figured out why people there would deposit their money in a place called Sparkasse . . .
In the academic world, if you were tasked with picking a perfect team, you would steal players from Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, a fistful of Germans, Franck Ribery, etc.
In the real world, if you are tasked with managing a programming project, you don't get to pick the best. You are given some young kids with more energy than sense, an old, wise, but disgruntled experienced guy, who nobody listens to, a few folks who really don't give a damn, and most of them really truly detest each other. So you try to make out as well as you can, with what you've got.
Hey, Mercedes are great cars, why isn't every car built like them? Well, not everyone can afford a Mercedes, and maybe most folks can get by with just a Ford.
It's just the reality of life vs. theoretical academics. Despite the physics problems you solved in college, there are no frictionless surfaces. Or the ones that are available, you just can't afford.
They went and took an urban legend and made it true.
It's never been an urban legend. The CIA and other intelligence organizations have been doing this for centuries. The bread and butter of their trade is building legitimate covers for their agents, and recruiting folks who are legitimate, and have access to sensitive data or areas.
A diplomatic mission will always have a few: just look for the ones who are way more intelligent and clever for their official jobs. Journalists? Hell, their real job is to snoop around in places where they have no business. Foreign businessmen looking around about investing in the technology business in a country? Well, they just might want to know what technology the country has under its fingernails. Truly altruistic aid workers? Before they head off to some hell hole, they will be visited by someone who claims that they can really help the people, by just doing some observing for the government.
Some of these folks know they are willingly working for the CIA. The KGB used to call these "agents." Some of these folks do not realize that they are actually working for an intelligence agency. The KGB called these "agents of influence." For example, a woman aid worker might downright refuse to work with the CIA. But if approached by someone from a Women's Rights group, she might unknowingly pass on information to the "Rights Group" that ends up in CIA hands.
This is why foreigners in some places are often treated like spies. Well, there is a good chance, that no matter what they are up to, this might actually be true. Even the Grand Mufti ObL was wise enough to know this. But he was also wise enough to know that most of these folks were in fact just trying to help. So he left them alone, and let his counter-intelligence folks try to sniff out the others. In the US, the FBI handles this. They tail suspicious visiting diplomats, journalist, businessmen and academics, to see if they have another private agenda.
So, unfortunately, the vacuum that ObL left, is now filled with dumb-asses who think that since one doctor was a spy, all doctors must spies. In reality, nothing has changed. Intelligence folks will use whatever means possible to put people in the position to collect intelligence. That's just the way they have always worked. Back to the dawn of the first traveling merchants.
"But some things will be freer than others."
Over-QUALIFIED people are just fine, most of the time.
Over-EDUCATED people are not.
A lot of folks are educated way beyond their intelligence . . .