Impossible. The theory isn't that he actually has the money. The theory is that he is in consort with someone who was "managing his investment" and that they are holding his money until after the divorce.
No one believes that he actually has the money, only that he has access to it if he really wants it.
In today's world, we recognize that a person's sexuality is their own business. That was not the world of the 1940s. Homosexuality was seen as both a sin and a mental illness. Would we bat an eye if a major government, in a time of war, didn't give proper consideration to someone who had ADD?
It's not a hardware breakthrough that'll create a true AI - it's an algorithm breakthrough that's required. Faster computers might be nice - but it'll always comes down to the algorithm.
Fast enough computers will allow us to develop algorithms genetically. Come up with a set of parameters and let evolution do the job for you.
Here we have the Obama administration reinforcing the ban on human cloning, but no one seems to care about an attempt to control the weather?
We're supposed to reduce carbon emissions because we don't know what effect it'll have on the environment, but fucking with the weather is just peachy keen?
The biggest geek that I ever worked with was 60 years old. He had kind of a hybrid position. He was a "manager", but he still did a lot of coding and system administration. I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who have amazed me with their intellects. This guy was one of them.
As you well know, it's up to you but it also depends on you. Are your older relatives still mentally sharp? If so, you may want to remain in tech. If your grandparents call you ever child & grandchild of the same gender's name before they get to yours, then go management.
no they can't - no-one in their right mind would buy a roughly equivalent 25c bulb for $5, and as a result, the manufacturers would not even bother trying to make and sell them.
That's bullshit. No one in their right mind would buy a hybrid for $4000 more than a comparable conventional car. Yet manufacturers make them and consumers buy them. Niche markets can make things worthwhile. The eco-whackos tend to be an affluent niche market. One that can shoulder the burden of $5 lightbulbs.
Similarly, saying "the market will provide more power stations", well yes it will - eventually, in the meantime while the market is getting to the point where more power is required, you're suffering brownouts. Besides, it is often in the market's interest to let you suffer like that as they you will pay more.
Again, I say bullshit. We're running out of capacity not because of utility company greed, but because of environmental luddites. We can't build more coal power plants. We can't build nuclear power plants. We can't build hydroelectric power plants. We're supposed to supply the world's electricity needs in the 21st century with wind and solar. But wait, wind turbines are a hazard to migratory birds, so we're supposed to do it all with solar...
and compact fluorescents are still more economical? why should we change then?
Why should people have any choice in the matter? We know better than all of those common folk. If people would just do what the government says, everything would be better.
As much as I hate to resort to sports lingo, it's applicable here. You can't coach football if you never played the game.
You'll be a horrible designer if you don't know how to program. Have you ever had a "manager" who didn't understand your job? That's the kind of designer he'll be if he can't code. Lack of knowledge leads to unrealistic expectations and demands. It will lead to disappointment and ultimately failure.
A Social Security Administration spokesman said the government has long cautioned the private sector against using a social security number as a personal identifier, even as it insists 'there is no fool-proof method for predicting a person's Social Security Number.'
Yeah, maybe with a wink and a nod. Social Security cards used to say "Not to be used for Identification" or words to that effect written on them in bright red ink. If the Federal Government was serious about not having the private sector use the number for identification purposes, they'd ban the practice.
I can't tell you how to become a game designer. I can tell you how to go about becoming a programmer. Learn C, learn C++ and then learn any other language you want. What's important is that you learn how to solve problems using the language of your choice. It's about process more than procedure. Programmers think like programmers. Becoming a programmer is about learning to think like a programmer.
Hire back the engineers to run these companies; we know how to design, build, and run the most complex systems ever put together by man and we could hardly do worse than those knuckle draggers currently inhabiting those executive suites and boardrooms.
Exactly. When the executives fuck up, they're never the first to feel the pain. It's always lower level employees. Engineers and low level managers get the first pay cuts and layoffs while the executives who steered the ship in the wrong direction continue to get bonuses. I don't have a problem with million dollar bonuses, but they should be tied to performance.
His entire argument is some of the dumbest shit that I've heard all month.
It's almost like when a little kid learns about the differences between rich people and poor people then wants the president to make a law so that there'll be no more poor people.
What's to stop him from incorporating a new business in Nevada? Secure Investments Inc. Oh, that's right we'll ban him from doing it. (let's disregard the fact that it stealing other people's money is banned in the first place) What's to stop him from having his wife set up the corporation, even though he really controls it? Extend the ban to him and his wife. OK. What if he has his children set up the corporation? Extend the ban to them too... What about some of her personal friends? What if he finds a former victim and says that he'll help them get their money back if they set up the dummy corporation? Oh, that's right. We'll ban him from stealing anyone's money. This time we'll tell him we REALLY mean it because even though he wasn't allowed to do it last time, we didn't specifically tell him that we REALLY mean it.
He did nothing prison-worthy.
Fraud. Larceny. Theft. All of those are prison-worthy. You're acting like they found him with a $10 bag of dope.
Wait, you are telling me that in a country where we can ban criminals from even voting, in an age where everything leaves paper trails a mile wide we can't get someone to watch his finances?
Three points here. 1. Not every state bars felons from voting, so this is not a "country where we can ban criminals from even voting". 2. Even in states where felons can't vote, some do illegally. Don't you remember the bitching in 2000 in Florida because the Republicans wanted to compare voter rolls with lists of known felons? 3. Who will watch his finances? A forensic accountant? Won't we have to pay that accountant? If we're paying to keep an eye on Bernie, that negates your whole point about it being a waste of our money to incarcerate him. He'll cost us money either way and in prison he'll pay for his crime.
And really, yes, he ruined a lot of lives, that part is unquestionable but he isn't violent.
It doesn't matter if he's violent. If you were to poison someone, that's not violence, but if they die it's still murder. If you use influence over a female co-worker to pressure her into sex, that's not violent but it's still rape. If you put GHB into a girl's drink and have sex with her after she passes out, again it's not violent but it's still rape.
Prison should be reserved for only dangerous people
I'm sure that if it was your life savings that Bernie fucked up, you'd have a different opinion. Prison is for thieves too.
Madoff is not a danger to society.
Madoff is not a physical danger to society. Your financial planner running off with your money is certainly a danger.
Why should my tax dollars pay to lock away someone who wouldn't threaten anyone's lives, property, etc if he was out on the streets (with again restrictions on what he can and can't do economically).
What the fuck do you think it was that Bernie stole? It was people's property! Your money is your property. He might not be much of a threat to that property now because everyone has been warned about him, but that still doesn't change the fact that he owes a debt to society for his crime. If he on the streets he can pull his scam again, using a third party to keep his name out of the loop. He has already demonstrated that he can't be trusted. He will likely draw his last breath in a 5x7 cell, and that's justice.
For me, it helped to see some leg too. I can't say that I knew every female's backside, just the ones that looked good. I could see the same flat, soggy or disgusting buttocks 50 times in a row and I just wouldn't commit the owner to memory. I knew every smooth apple bottom from a good distance as well.
The entire point of the SS games (as contrasted with SS2) was to swamp you with goons.
That's why I never got into SS. At the time my PC could run HL and Q2 without any problem, but SS bogged it down to no end. It couldn't handle all of those goons. I just couldn't enjoy the game. I ended up never getting into it.
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How hard is it to prove he has the money?
Impossible. The theory isn't that he actually has the money. The theory is that he is in consort with someone who was "managing his investment" and that they are holding his money until after the divorce.
No one believes that he actually has the money, only that he has access to it if he really wants it.
LK
Or his actual money would have shown up after a few years when he thought people weren't looking.
I'm sure that they money will show up again, about 30 seconds after he sets foot in Europe where the ex-wife can't touch it.
LK
Apparently not.
May as well be, because you're acting like it.
LK
In today's world, we recognize that a person's sexuality is their own business. That was not the world of the 1940s. Homosexuality was seen as both a sin and a mental illness. Would we bat an eye if a major government, in a time of war, didn't give proper consideration to someone who had ADD?
LK
It's not a hardware breakthrough that'll create a true AI - it's an algorithm breakthrough that's required. Faster computers might be nice - but it'll always comes down to the algorithm.
Fast enough computers will allow us to develop algorithms genetically. Come up with a set of parameters and let evolution do the job for you.
LK
It's like when a little kid covers his or her eyes and then thinks that you can't see them.
LK
Here we have the Obama administration reinforcing the ban on human cloning, but no one seems to care about an attempt to control the weather?
We're supposed to reduce carbon emissions because we don't know what effect it'll have on the environment, but fucking with the weather is just peachy keen?
LK
I thought it was "White Men Can't Hump".
LK
The biggest geek that I ever worked with was 60 years old. He had kind of a hybrid position. He was a "manager", but he still did a lot of coding and system administration. I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who have amazed me with their intellects. This guy was one of them.
As you well know, it's up to you but it also depends on you. Are your older relatives still mentally sharp? If so, you may want to remain in tech. If your grandparents call you ever child & grandchild of the same gender's name before they get to yours, then go management.
LK
no they can't - no-one in their right mind would buy a roughly equivalent 25c bulb for $5, and as a result, the manufacturers would not even bother trying to make and sell them.
That's bullshit. No one in their right mind would buy a hybrid for $4000 more than a comparable conventional car. Yet manufacturers make them and consumers buy them. Niche markets can make things worthwhile. The eco-whackos tend to be an affluent niche market. One that can shoulder the burden of $5 lightbulbs.
Similarly, saying "the market will provide more power stations", well yes it will - eventually, in the meantime while the market is getting to the point where more power is required, you're suffering brownouts. Besides, it is often in the market's interest to let you suffer like that as they you will pay more.
Again, I say bullshit. We're running out of capacity not because of utility company greed, but because of environmental luddites. We can't build more coal power plants. We can't build nuclear power plants. We can't build hydroelectric power plants. We're supposed to supply the world's electricity needs in the 21st century with wind and solar. But wait, wind turbines are a hazard to migratory birds, so we're supposed to do it all with solar...
LK
and compact fluorescents are still more economical? why should we change then?
Why should people have any choice in the matter? We know better than all of those common folk. If people would just do what the government says, everything would be better.
LK
As much as I hate to resort to sports lingo, it's applicable here. You can't coach football if you never played the game.
You'll be a horrible designer if you don't know how to program. Have you ever had a "manager" who didn't understand your job? That's the kind of designer he'll be if he can't code. Lack of knowledge leads to unrealistic expectations and demands. It will lead to disappointment and ultimately failure.
LK
A Social Security Administration spokesman said the government has long cautioned the private sector against using a social security number as a personal identifier, even as it insists 'there is no fool-proof method for predicting a person's Social Security Number.'
Yeah, maybe with a wink and a nod. Social Security cards used to say "Not to be used for Identification" or words to that effect written on them in bright red ink. If the Federal Government was serious about not having the private sector use the number for identification purposes, they'd ban the practice.
LK
I can't tell you how to become a game designer. I can tell you how to go about becoming a programmer. Learn C, learn C++ and then learn any other language you want. What's important is that you learn how to solve problems using the language of your choice. It's about process more than procedure. Programmers think like programmers. Becoming a programmer is about learning to think like a programmer.
LK
So, you find it offensive that I believe that a man should only serve time for crimes that he was convicted of?
I find it offensive when someone is sentenced to prison time for a crime that he was acquitted of.
LK
I don't mean to be offensive, but a 25 year old movie on Blueray for $10 doesn't mean that Blueray is ready to take DVD's place yet.
LK
Hire back the engineers to run these companies; we know how to design, build, and run the most complex systems ever put together by man and we could hardly do worse than those knuckle draggers currently inhabiting those executive suites and boardrooms.
Exactly. When the executives fuck up, they're never the first to feel the pain. It's always lower level employees. Engineers and low level managers get the first pay cuts and layoffs while the executives who steered the ship in the wrong direction continue to get bonuses. I don't have a problem with million dollar bonuses, but they should be tied to performance.
LK
His entire argument is some of the dumbest shit that I've heard all month.
It's almost like when a little kid learns about the differences between rich people and poor people then wants the president to make a law so that there'll be no more poor people.
LK
Are you going to hire Madoff for anything major?
What's to stop him from incorporating a new business in Nevada? Secure Investments Inc. Oh, that's right we'll ban him from doing it. (let's disregard the fact that it stealing other people's money is banned in the first place) What's to stop him from having his wife set up the corporation, even though he really controls it? Extend the ban to him and his wife. OK. What if he has his children set up the corporation? Extend the ban to them too... What about some of her personal friends? What if he finds a former victim and says that he'll help them get their money back if they set up the dummy corporation? Oh, that's right. We'll ban him from stealing anyone's money. This time we'll tell him we REALLY mean it because even though he wasn't allowed to do it last time, we didn't specifically tell him that we REALLY mean it.
He did nothing prison-worthy.
Fraud. Larceny. Theft. All of those are prison-worthy. You're acting like they found him with a $10 bag of dope.
LK
Wait, you are telling me that in a country where we can ban criminals from even voting, in an age where everything leaves paper trails a mile wide we can't get someone to watch his finances?
Three points here. 1. Not every state bars felons from voting, so this is not a "country where we can ban criminals from even voting". 2. Even in states where felons can't vote, some do illegally. Don't you remember the bitching in 2000 in Florida because the Republicans wanted to compare voter rolls with lists of known felons? 3. Who will watch his finances? A forensic accountant? Won't we have to pay that accountant? If we're paying to keep an eye on Bernie, that negates your whole point about it being a waste of our money to incarcerate him. He'll cost us money either way and in prison he'll pay for his crime.
And really, yes, he ruined a lot of lives, that part is unquestionable but he isn't violent.
It doesn't matter if he's violent. If you were to poison someone, that's not violence, but if they die it's still murder. If you use influence over a female co-worker to pressure her into sex, that's not violent but it's still rape. If you put GHB into a girl's drink and have sex with her after she passes out, again it's not violent but it's still rape.
LK
Prison should be reserved for only dangerous people
I'm sure that if it was your life savings that Bernie fucked up, you'd have a different opinion. Prison is for thieves too.
Madoff is not a danger to society.
Madoff is not a physical danger to society. Your financial planner running off with your money is certainly a danger.
Why should my tax dollars pay to lock away someone who wouldn't threaten anyone's lives, property, etc if he was out on the streets (with again restrictions on what he can and can't do economically).
What the fuck do you think it was that Bernie stole? It was people's property! Your money is your property. He might not be much of a threat to that property now because everyone has been warned about him, but that still doesn't change the fact that he owes a debt to society for his crime. If he on the streets he can pull his scam again, using a third party to keep his name out of the loop. He has already demonstrated that he can't be trusted. He will likely draw his last breath in a 5x7 cell, and that's justice.
LK
I think he should have been sentenced to 1 year for every million dollars he stole. He'd be doing over 40,000 years.
LK
For me, it helped to see some leg too. I can't say that I knew every female's backside, just the ones that looked good. I could see the same flat, soggy or disgusting buttocks 50 times in a row and I just wouldn't commit the owner to memory. I knew every smooth apple bottom from a good distance as well.
LK
Black guys like the biggest asses. White guys like smaller asses. Asian guys like the smallest asses.
Can I have 20K now?
LK
The entire point of the SS games (as contrasted with SS2) was to swamp you with goons.
That's why I never got into SS. At the time my PC could run HL and Q2 without any problem, but SS bogged it down to no end. It couldn't handle all of those goons. I just couldn't enjoy the game. I ended up never getting into it.
LK