You seriously think TheRealDonaldTrump is "just another user"?
As far as Twitter is concerned? Yes. [And BTW, it's @realDonaldTrump.]
Sorry, the fact that someone is POTUS is actually pretty significant.
Yes, but not as far as the Twitter terms of use, rules, and policies are concerned. Twitter is no more obliged to offer an account to the POTUS than you are obliged to let him use your bathroom.
You'll note that while I can go in and edit most articles on Wikipedia, I cannot go and alter the article for Donald Trump or Barrack Obama, and for good reason. It has special protection against the inevitable vandalism that would occur otherwise from random idiots and zealots.
All of that is up to Wikipedia. Whether Twitter offers special protection for (or from?) some users is entirely up to them. It's their dojo.
Irrelevant. The POTUS may be able to alter traffic and pre-empt television broadcasts, but on Twitter, he's just another user who is subject to their terms of service and various attached rules and policies.
Also - there was no authorization to disable his account. So - the perp was violating company policy.
IANAL, but it is widely understood that the prosecution carries the burden of proof. In this case, the prosecution would need to prove that hate was a motivating factor in the crime, in order for it to be characterized as a hate crime. Deactivating Obama's Twitter account just because you don't like his politics would not qualify.
Roads: a flat pavement mastered by humanity thousands of years ago. Sounds super complicated. How would the private sector ever handle this sophisticated technology without government?
By charging a toll every time your front tires touch the roads they own. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
Firemen: no one ever knew how to put out a fire until the government took over fire services. If your house caught on fire in the Middle Ages, people would just stand there while it burned because no one knew how to put fires out until government came along.
"No, we're not going to extinguish this burning house. It's not profitable."
Defense: yes, the government military is obviously a smashing success. Just ask the hundreds of millions of people slaughtered by two world wars and all the offspring conflicts in the 20th century.
As opposed to what? Allowing evil tyrants to take over the world?
A government's first and most important job is to protect its people.
Government: such a good idea, you must be forced to pay for it!
Because paying for government voluntarily has not been a viable concept in human history. Get used to it.
A man shows up to your door in the middle of the night pointing a gun at you and your family. He tells you: hand over your money, or else forfeit your life. You think he is a criminal, then you notice his badge. Why, he is a government agent come to collect your taxes!
Something that has not happened. Ever.
Tax-collectors have the force of law behind them, but c'mon. Drama!!!111eleven
Taxation is armed robbery. If you choose not to pay, you are imprisoned. If you twist imprisonment, you are murdered.
Facepalm. What exactly do you mean by "twist imprisonment" anyway?
On what grounds can anyone support such a system which is intrinsically evil, merely because the people doing it have a title and badge?
On the grounds of a sovereign state having the power to tax its citizens. That goes back to ancient times.
Look, everyone should do whatever they can to pay the legal minimum of taxes. But I for one don't begrudge a single penny of tax I pay, even if I'm not all that fond of the government who is spending it.
Tax credit is not what you "get back". Tax credit is just a deduction from your income to get into a lower tax bracket.
No, that's wrong too.
A deduction reduces your taxable income before you calculate taxed owed on that income.
A tax credit is a credit against taxes owed, after you have calculated taxes on your taxable income. The cretit may be refundable (you get all of it) or non-refundable (you get no more than the amount to zero-out your tax liability.)
Wrong. They 'inhale' CO2 and 'exhale' oxygen during photosynthesis. All photosynthetic organisms do so.
Only when the sun is out. Most plants consume O2 and expel CO2 at night.
Nevertheless, trees are a net producer of oxygen (and a very good carbon-capture device) if you don't account for them rotting after they die. But oceans and marine plants are a more important producer of oxygen.
Are non-smokers going to have to pay for smokers' healthcare too
Not where I work. We don't hire smokers. We ask about tobacco use at the very beginning of the interview process, and reject all users.
This is perfectly legal. Smokers have no rights.
You indicate later in your post that you are in California. What you are doing is not legal.
In most states smokers are protected against hiring discrimination. In particular, the majority of states cannot discriminate against you based on legal activity conducted outside of work hours. However, smokers may be required to pay more for health insurance. Or in some states, they may be denied employment if their smoking is incompatible with the job requirements (e.g., the American Lung Association may be able to decline to employ a smoker.)
Parents often name their babies after some event that happened on their birth date. Perhaps certain groups in society are more disposed to this practice?
Dude, already tried, it didn't work. I mean, have you tasted scotch?
Yes, and it is sublime. In moderation.
Educate your palate where scotch is concerned. Start with Glenfiddich, a very inoffensive single malt. Work your way up through the malty, smoky, peaty scales of flavour, and before long, you'll be celebrating the powerful complexity of Laphroaig and Lagavulin. Sláinte!
The biggest problem with mutual funds? Most of them suck. And by "suck" I mean they fail to beat the part of the market they claim to represent, and you pay high fees for the dubious privilege of having someone mishandle your money. Not to mention that you can get unwanted capital-gains events when your fellow fund-holders redeem their shares.
On average, you're better off investing in various index funds that represents a balanced view of the market, because they are in the high percentile performance-wise, they have far less churn, and their management fees are lower.
Or better still, invest in Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) because their management fees are even lower than index funds, and their share-redemption structure avoids or even eliminates capital-gains events until you sell the shares. You can buy and sell them when the market is open (just like stocks) using limit/stop-loss and other order-types, short them, trade options on them, even hold them on margin. Mutual funds are more restricted: they can only be bought or sold once per day after the market closes, you can't short them or trade options, and the ability to margin them has some additional restrictions (e.g., minimum 30-day holding period is common.)
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
They'll be making it off other robots who shop in the store. Eventually the owners of the store will be robots. And so on, robots all the way down.
Fast-forward several millennia, when aliens arrive on Planet Earth, and find it teeming with robots following the mindless, perfunctory patters of the society of humans who built them. The aliens will scratch their bulbous heads in confusion, turn around to go back to their ship, when one of them will say "hey, we could use a set of nut-drivers."
As opposed to endangering only half a ship, I guess...
Less than that, I would think. The vulnerabilities expose a ship's IT systems. Potentially the entire set of IT systems, I suppose, but just the IT systems.
Now, there may be serious consequences from such a compromise that could endanger the "entire" ship, such as leaks of strategic information, combat readiness, or defense vulnerabilities. But the headline still reads like breathless clickbait.
Voting results for federal elections -- at the individual ballot level -- must be kept for 22 months after the election. The servers got wiped after just 8 months.
I'm thinking this is a clear violation of election law. IANAL but, given the timing of the destruction of the records -- mere days after the lawsuit was filed -- I wonder whether it's also obstruction of justice.
The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight.
LOL *snort*
That ranks up there as one of the biggest piles of unadulterated bullshit I've ever seen. I don't care which tribe you subscribe to, everyone should realize that our justice system is anything but evenhanded or impartial.
It's bullshit, but not for the reason you think. All of this talk about impartiality, objectivity, independence, blah blah blah, is an excuse for re-opening Hillary stuff in order to distract from investigations the current POTUS is facing.
If there has been a formal complaint that got ignored, there'd be a pretty clear case.
From TFA:
Demetric Diaz complained about the regular use of epithets to the staffing agency and another supervisor, the suit said. The supervisor told him he was just a replaceable temporary worker. Diaz was dismissed less than a week later in October 2015.
Owen Diaz continued to work as an elevator operator. But over time, the suit claimed, the harassment grew worse. A co-worker regularly used the N-word. Diaz found an offensive “pickaninny” cartoon with the caption “Boo!” drawn on a bale of cardboard.
Owen Diaz also got into a heated argument with the supervisor who drew the cartoon, the suit said. He complained about the incident, and started to receive poor work evaluations. Diaz left Tesla around May 2016.
I'm not sure what you definition is of a "formal" complaint, but the employees own stories indicate that supervisors were aware of the harassment, and even took part in it. This despite the complaints to other supervisors and the employment agency.
Missing in all of this is Tesla's policy for reporting such behavior in a way that it does not jeopardize the reporter's position in the company. Anyone care to share that?
Even so, it seems implausible that nobody in middle management or upwards knew this was going on.
Why wouldn't it use standard PCIE 16x or similar existing bus? Your assumptions are way off.
Well it might, but that wouldn't really allow for the "super-fast data connections" between chips mentioned in TFS. That kind of bandwidth would need to on a board that supports multiple chips with high-bandwidth connections between them.
Initially, this chip may find a vertical market in AI farms that might otherwise use GPUs. But it won't have access to the kind of crossover market that GPUs do, so it will face greater challenges with broader adoption.
For Intel's sake, this had better rock, or else it's DOA.
I'm guessing you'd need to purchase a specialized motherboard with accompanying chipset to use one of these. Whereas GPUs can just plug into slots that most motherboards have already.
GPUs, like cassette tapes, may be with us for awhile before something else comes along that competes well enough with them in cost and utility to make switching a no-brainer.
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You seriously think TheRealDonaldTrump is "just another user"?
As far as Twitter is concerned? Yes. [And BTW, it's @realDonaldTrump.]
Sorry, the fact that someone is POTUS is actually pretty significant.
Yes, but not as far as the Twitter terms of use, rules, and policies are concerned. Twitter is no more obliged to offer an account to the POTUS than you are obliged to let him use your bathroom.
You'll note that while I can go in and edit most articles on Wikipedia, I cannot go and alter the article for Donald Trump or Barrack Obama, and for good reason. It has special protection against the inevitable vandalism that would occur otherwise from random idiots and zealots.
All of that is up to Wikipedia. Whether Twitter offers special protection for (or from?) some users is entirely up to them. It's their dojo.
Anyone else is not the president of the US.
Irrelevant. The POTUS may be able to alter traffic and pre-empt television broadcasts, but on Twitter, he's just another user who is subject to their terms of service and various attached rules and policies.
Also - there was no authorization to disable his account. So - the perp was violating company policy.
Okay, now that is relevant.
U know it.
No, I doubt it.
IANAL, but it is widely understood that the prosecution carries the burden of proof. In this case, the prosecution would need to prove that hate was a motivating factor in the crime, in order for it to be characterized as a hate crime. Deactivating Obama's Twitter account just because you don't like his politics would not qualify.
Roads: a flat pavement mastered by humanity thousands of years ago. Sounds super complicated. How would the private sector ever handle this sophisticated technology without government?
By charging a toll every time your front tires touch the roads they own. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
Firemen: no one ever knew how to put out a fire until the government took over fire services. If your house caught on fire in the Middle Ages, people would just stand there while it burned because no one knew how to put fires out until government came along.
"No, we're not going to extinguish this burning house. It's not profitable."
Defense: yes, the government military is obviously a smashing success. Just ask the hundreds of millions of people slaughtered by two world wars and all the offspring conflicts in the 20th century.
As opposed to what? Allowing evil tyrants to take over the world?
A government's first and most important job is to protect its people.
Government: such a good idea, you must be forced to pay for it!
Because paying for government voluntarily has not been a viable concept in human history. Get used to it.
A man shows up to your door in the middle of the night pointing a gun at you and your family. He tells you: hand over your money, or else forfeit your life. You think he is a criminal, then you notice his badge. Why, he is a government agent come to collect your taxes!
Something that has not happened. Ever.
Tax-collectors have the force of law behind them, but c'mon. Drama!!!111eleven
Taxation is armed robbery. If you choose not to pay, you are imprisoned. If you twist imprisonment, you are murdered.
Facepalm. What exactly do you mean by "twist imprisonment" anyway?
On what grounds can anyone support such a system which is intrinsically evil, merely because the people doing it have a title and badge?
On the grounds of a sovereign state having the power to tax its citizens. That goes back to ancient times.
Look, everyone should do whatever they can to pay the legal minimum of taxes. But I for one don't begrudge a single penny of tax I pay, even if I'm not all that fond of the government who is spending it.
Tax credit is not what you "get back". Tax credit is just a deduction from your income to get into a lower tax bracket.
No, that's wrong too.
A deduction reduces your taxable income before you calculate taxed owed on that income.
A tax credit is a credit against taxes owed, after you have calculated taxes on your taxable income. The cretit may be refundable (you get all of it) or non-refundable (you get no more than the amount to zero-out your tax liability.)
I have every reason to believe that [James O'Keefe] is going to get Fox one day, too.
I doubt it. For the same reason sharks don't bite lawyers: professional courtesy.
Wrong. They 'inhale' CO2 and 'exhale' oxygen during photosynthesis. All photosynthetic organisms do so.
Only when the sun is out. Most plants consume O2 and expel CO2 at night.
Nevertheless, trees are a net producer of oxygen (and a very good carbon-capture device) if you don't account for them rotting after they die. But oceans and marine plants are a more important producer of oxygen.
Are non-smokers going to have to pay for smokers' healthcare too
Not where I work. We don't hire smokers. We ask about tobacco use at the very beginning of the interview process, and reject all users.
This is perfectly legal. Smokers have no rights.
You indicate later in your post that you are in California. What you are doing is not legal.
In most states smokers are protected against hiring discrimination. In particular, the majority of states cannot discriminate against you based on legal activity conducted outside of work hours. However, smokers may be required to pay more for health insurance. Or in some states, they may be denied employment if their smoking is incompatible with the job requirements (e.g., the American Lung Association may be able to decline to employ a smoker.)
https://www.workplacefairness....
https://www.workplacefairness....
I'm no fan of smoking or smokers, but smokers do indeed have rights.
In Soviet Russia, bar hit you!
[c'mon, you asked for it.]
Parents often name their babies after some event that happened on their birth date. Perhaps certain groups in society are more disposed to this practice?
Just wondering...
Dude, already tried, it didn't work. I mean, have you tasted scotch?
Yes, and it is sublime. In moderation.
Educate your palate where scotch is concerned. Start with Glenfiddich, a very inoffensive single malt. Work your way up through the malty, smoky, peaty scales of flavour, and before long, you'll be celebrating the powerful complexity of Laphroaig and Lagavulin. Sláinte!
Mutual funds are a blessing and a curse.
The biggest problem with mutual funds? Most of them suck. And by "suck" I mean they fail to beat the part of the market they claim to represent, and you pay high fees for the dubious privilege of having someone mishandle your money. Not to mention that you can get unwanted capital-gains events when your fellow fund-holders redeem their shares.
On average, you're better off investing in various index funds that represents a balanced view of the market, because they are in the high percentile performance-wise, they have far less churn, and their management fees are lower.
Or better still, invest in Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) because their management fees are even lower than index funds, and their share-redemption structure avoids or even eliminates capital-gains events until you sell the shares. You can buy and sell them when the market is open (just like stocks) using limit/stop-loss and other order-types, short them, trade options on them, even hold them on margin. Mutual funds are more restricted: they can only be bought or sold once per day after the market closes, you can't short them or trade options, and the ability to margin them has some additional restrictions (e.g., minimum 30-day holding period is common.)
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
They'll be making it off other robots who shop in the store. Eventually the owners of the store will be robots. And so on, robots all the way down.
Fast-forward several millennia, when aliens arrive on Planet Earth, and find it teeming with robots following the mindless, perfunctory patters of the society of humans who built them. The aliens will scratch their bulbous heads in confusion, turn around to go back to their ship, when one of them will say "hey, we could use a set of nut-drivers."
As opposed to endangering only half a ship, I guess...
Less than that, I would think. The vulnerabilities expose a ship's IT systems. Potentially the entire set of IT systems, I suppose, but just the IT systems.
Now, there may be serious consequences from such a compromise that could endanger the "entire" ship, such as leaks of strategic information, combat readiness, or defense vulnerabilities. But the headline still reads like breathless clickbait.
It's time to get over it.
Really. Like the way Republicans "got over" Obama winning twice?
The "Hillary lost, get over it" meme is old and tired. Get over that.
Voting results for federal elections -- at the individual ballot level -- must be kept for 22 months after the election. The servers got wiped after just 8 months.
I'm thinking this is a clear violation of election law. IANAL but, given the timing of the destruction of the records -- mere days after the lawsuit was filed -- I wonder whether it's also obstruction of justice.
You'll get your chance in seven years. In the meantime, you learn patience, same as the Rs did while the Ds were whitewashing.
I don't recall a Democrat-sponsored e-mail-gate investigation crawling up the ass of Colin Powell when George W was in the White House.
The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight.
LOL
*snort*
That ranks up there as one of the biggest piles of unadulterated bullshit I've ever seen. I don't care which tribe you subscribe to, everyone should realize that our justice system is anything but evenhanded or impartial.
It's bullshit, but not for the reason you think. All of this talk about impartiality, objectivity, independence, blah blah blah, is an excuse for re-opening Hillary stuff in order to distract from investigations the current POTUS is facing.
You mean the Chewbacca Defense.
Let's just hope our heads don't explode when they say: "Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly monkey!"
It's "ad nauseam"...
That would imply that the doer gets sick of doing it. You think that's the case? No? then it's ad infinitum, like the GP said.
I've worked with some racist assholes but none of them left physical evidence of their bigotry.
Try browsing on this site at -1. You'll see plenty of "physical evidence" of racist assholes.
Your anecdotal absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
If there has been a formal complaint that got ignored, there'd be a pretty clear case.
From TFA:
Demetric Diaz complained about the regular use of epithets to the staffing agency and another supervisor, the suit said. The supervisor told him he was just a replaceable temporary worker. Diaz was dismissed less than a week later in October 2015.
Owen Diaz continued to work as an elevator operator. But over time, the suit claimed, the harassment grew worse. A co-worker regularly used the N-word. Diaz found an offensive “pickaninny” cartoon with the caption “Boo!” drawn on a bale of cardboard.
Owen Diaz also got into a heated argument with the supervisor who drew the cartoon, the suit said. He complained about the incident, and started to receive poor work evaluations. Diaz left Tesla around May 2016.
I'm not sure what you definition is of a "formal" complaint, but the employees own stories indicate that supervisors were aware of the harassment, and even took part in it. This despite the complaints to other supervisors and the employment agency.
Missing in all of this is Tesla's policy for reporting such behavior in a way that it does not jeopardize the reporter's position in the company. Anyone care to share that?
Even so, it seems implausible that nobody in middle management or upwards knew this was going on.
Why wouldn't it use standard PCIE 16x or similar existing bus? Your assumptions are way off.
Well it might, but that wouldn't really allow for the "super-fast data connections" between chips mentioned in TFS. That kind of bandwidth would need to on a board that supports multiple chips with high-bandwidth connections between them.
Initially, this chip may find a vertical market in AI farms that might otherwise use GPUs. But it won't have access to the kind of crossover market that GPUs do, so it will face greater challenges with broader adoption.
For Intel's sake, this had better rock, or else it's DOA.
I'm guessing you'd need to purchase a specialized motherboard with accompanying chipset to use one of these. Whereas GPUs can just plug into slots that most motherboards have already.
GPUs, like cassette tapes, may be with us for awhile before something else comes along that competes well enough with them in cost and utility to make switching a no-brainer.