China have a big vested interest in North Korea not collapsing. If that happens, then they'll be facing 10s to 100s of thousands of refugees flooding into their already unstable border regions.
Even things like banning drivers who turn down too many rides? That's not an independent contractor - an independent contractor has the right to determine which rides they will take without repercussion
Umm...I'm the last person who'd defend Uber, however I don't see what the problem is there? If my business relied on contractors, I'd also favour the ones who showed themselves to be more reliable to take the work when it was available. They also have a vested interest here, as it stops hobby drivers just creaming off the most profitable jobs and allows their dedicated drivers to more easily make a living. This is one of the reasons it's illegal for regulated taxis to turn down a fare (in the UK at least).
Yeah, it'll be highly ranked, surrounded by articles commenting on their colossal fuckup. Good luck getting the same number of view & ranling on the follow-up media revealing it was a hoax. All he's done is successfully smear the company's name for years to come.
Except that, and this surprises me also, of the over 1.5 million refugees who have entered Europe since the crisis began, not one single threat or attack has been attributed to them. Every single member of these terrorist cells were born and bred in the very same country they committed the attacks. They didn't sneak in under the guise of refuge, they didn't lay hidden for years before pouncing their attack, they were citizens by birth and lived in these countries their entire lives.
And my fear is that when they do start taking measures, it will mostly be along the lines of more repression, surveillance and reduction of freedoms of ordinary citizens. Ineffective window-dressing that for some reason ticks their boxes.
You can't have it both ways. You start by complaining that governments are doing nothing, and then complain that they are! What would you rather they do, stick to scatter bombing anything in the desert that moves? That's done amazingly well for us. And unfortunately, this whole situation is something of our own doing. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Or do you think none of the EU legislation is "forced through" or "controversial"?
It's a damn slight harder & requires more consensus than for a national government alone.
One of the arguments against the EU is that it's a slow bureaucratic behemoth to get anything done, however that's also one of its upsides - a party can't just get into power & then rush to force whatever it wants on its citizens, major legislation changes will often take more than one election to get through. Something that can be quite important to calm the volatility of democracies that don't have the protection of a constitution.
But those scientists would now have to deal with the bureaucracy of visas, which is a real PITA for day-to-day business (that affects every sector).
And yes, the UK might then be free of stupid EU regulations, but then they'd also be at risk of stupid Government regulations. The EU is the only protection citizens have against governments forcing through controversial bills - the UK's current Conservative government wanting to scrap the Human Rights Act so they can ship their bogeymen off to get tortured is one of them.
The analogue method with balls shown on live TV isn't done "for show", it's done specifically to prevent the risk of tampering - the exact same reason why we all still vote with pieces of paper & 100s/1000s of people counting them out by hand. Drawing the numbers beforehand has zero to gain, other than a ton of controversy if something happened to backfire.
Never heard of a private cloud then? We run a large virt cluster here & "the cloud" is the most straightforward & friendly way for me to refer to it to the higher ups. "Cloud" is just the same as "cluster", however the former is more widely recognised.
Using a bit of creativity to fix something which can't be repaired or put together in a standard way, is exactly what "hacking" is. Both in the original hardware sense & in the software sense. See: "To hack something together"
Which would you prefer then? a) Pay a subscription to every site you frequent? or... b) Where the content becomes the ad & everything is sponsored?
Personally, I subscribe to all of the sites that I care enough about, and for the others, I prefer to have a degree of separation between the paid content & the impartial content.
Except that it seems not all banks accept that. I tried to warn my bank when I was going travelling for a year & they said the only thing they could do was put a note on my account - that would only be seen when I phoned up to complain about my card being blocked! Completely fucking useless. In the end I had to just call my bank over Skype after every other transaction, to get them to unblock it again.
The obvious correlation is that more guns means FEWER gun deaths.
I know, right? The populations in every other developed country in the world are being DECIMATED by their lack of guns. If only there was some way to curb the violence & mass shootings:(
That supports Chip & PIN! Keeping in mind this document is 5 years old, even it already shows that all areas of card fraud (including cloning) have dropped drastically & that the abuse facilitated by the States' lack of the technology has shot up to account for nearly 1/4 of the fraudulent transactions across the entire globe.
I'm afraid you're *very* misinformed. That might possibly have been the case for a short time after the cards were introduced, however for over a decade now online purchases have required part of an online password that is processed & authorised through a direct connection with your bank. If you don't know the requested characters of your online password, you can't complete the transaction. South America has also had support for the system for the best part of a decade - even fucking Bolivia has it as standard. Seriously, the US seems to be one of the last places in the world still dragging their feet in catching up with modern civilisation.
It means today, pretty much the only way fraudsters are able to get into your bank account are by filming you entering your PIN at an ATM, piecing your password together via a keylogger on your computer (your password is never requested in full), ir simply conning people the old-fashioned way.
Most cyclists will average around at least 20mph, but the point is drivers doing stupid things leave you dead, whilst not being able to squeeze past a cyclist might delay you by an extra 5 minutes. YOU may be a conscientious driver, but there are enough idiots on the roads that a cyclist has to be defensive. A mistake on a bike can mean a few bruises, a mistake in a car will kill people. 2 tons travelling at 60mph is a *lot* of energy.
The average weight of a car is 4079 pounds, or 1850.2kg. 60mph is 26.8metres/s. So, if ke = ½ mv...
1850.2 * 26.8 = 1,328KJ...and let's say 100KG for your average cyclist & bike. (20mph = 8.9metres/s) 100KG * 8.9 = 8KJ
That's a huge fuckton of difference that a large majority of drivers tend to take for granted.
Unless you're good with a soldering iron, for many people a dead component means a new phone - much like with laptops & other integrated units (I hear Macs have also gone down this route...).
The royal family as a *whole* is worth a lowly $1 Billion USD. The monarchy itself is worth less than half of that. Today, they mostly exist as a cultural icon that's popular with tourists & looks after a couple of old estates. Perhaps doing the occasional ambassadorial visit. Since the enactment of parliament, they are expected to remain politically impartial. The next prince in line to the thrown has stood out recently, as he's caused a lot of controversies of late after it was discovered he had been writing to people in parts of government - the topics were quite banal, but as an unelected official, he's been strongly criticised for "meddling" in the country's affairs.
Even the annual "Queen's Speech" is written by the sitting government. If the royals were seen to be interfering in politics, they'd meet the wrath of both the government and the populace.
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Yeah, and it ruined the tea!
China have a big vested interest in North Korea not collapsing. If that happens, then they'll be facing 10s to 100s of thousands of refugees flooding into their already unstable border regions.
Even things like banning drivers who turn down too many rides? That's not an independent contractor - an independent contractor has the right to determine which rides they will take without repercussion
Umm...I'm the last person who'd defend Uber, however I don't see what the problem is there? If my business relied on contractors, I'd also favour the ones who showed themselves to be more reliable to take the work when it was available.
They also have a vested interest here, as it stops hobby drivers just creaming off the most profitable jobs and allows their dedicated drivers to more easily make a living. This is one of the reasons it's illegal for regulated taxis to turn down a fare (in the UK at least).
Because it'd raise even less questions if you replaced your fuck-buddy's mattress...
Yeah, it'll be highly ranked, surrounded by articles commenting on their colossal fuckup. Good luck getting the same number of view & ranling on the follow-up media revealing it was a hoax. All he's done is successfully smear the company's name for years to come.
Except that, and this surprises me also, of the over 1.5 million refugees who have entered Europe since the crisis began, not one single threat or attack has been attributed to them. Every single member of these terrorist cells were born and bred in the very same country they committed the attacks. They didn't sneak in under the guise of refuge, they didn't lay hidden for years before pouncing their attack, they were citizens by birth and lived in these countries their entire lives.
And my fear is that when they do start taking measures, it will mostly be along the lines of more repression, surveillance and reduction of freedoms of ordinary citizens. Ineffective window-dressing that for some reason ticks their boxes.
You can't have it both ways. You start by complaining that governments are doing nothing, and then complain that they are! What would you rather they do, stick to scatter bombing anything in the desert that moves? That's done amazingly well for us.
And unfortunately, this whole situation is something of our own doing. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Is that you, Donald? *waves*
And what is wrong with their gun control? Australia's normally held up as one of the big examples that it works. The massacres stopped.
Or do you think none of the EU legislation is "forced through" or "controversial"?
It's a damn slight harder & requires more consensus than for a national government alone.
One of the arguments against the EU is that it's a slow bureaucratic behemoth to get anything done, however that's also one of its upsides - a party can't just get into power & then rush to force whatever it wants on its citizens, major legislation changes will often take more than one election to get through. Something that can be quite important to calm the volatility of democracies that don't have the protection of a constitution.
But those scientists would now have to deal with the bureaucracy of visas, which is a real PITA for day-to-day business (that affects every sector).
And yes, the UK might then be free of stupid EU regulations, but then they'd also be at risk of stupid Government regulations. The EU is the only protection citizens have against governments forcing through controversial bills - the UK's current Conservative government wanting to scrap the Human Rights Act so they can ship their bogeymen off to get tortured is one of them.
I call balls on that!
The analogue method with balls shown on live TV isn't done "for show", it's done specifically to prevent the risk of tampering - the exact same reason why we all still vote with pieces of paper & 100s/1000s of people counting them out by hand.
Drawing the numbers beforehand has zero to gain, other than a ton of controversy if something happened to backfire.
Never heard of a private cloud then? We run a large virt cluster here & "the cloud" is the most straightforward & friendly way for me to refer to it to the higher ups. "Cloud" is just the same as "cluster", however the former is more widely recognised.
Remember that the possession of BDSM pornography in the UK is now an illegal offence.
To be fair, he drew most of his inspiration from his experiences policing the colonies, fighting in the Spanish civil war & the events in the USSR.
Using a bit of creativity to fix something which can't be repaired or put together in a standard way, is exactly what "hacking" is. Both in the original hardware sense & in the software sense.
See: "To hack something together"
Which would you prefer then?
a) Pay a subscription to every site you frequent? or...
b) Where the content becomes the ad & everything is sponsored?
Personally, I subscribe to all of the sites that I care enough about, and for the others, I prefer to have a degree of separation between the paid content & the impartial content.
Except that it seems not all banks accept that. I tried to warn my bank when I was going travelling for a year & they said the only thing they could do was put a note on my account - that would only be seen when I phoned up to complain about my card being blocked! Completely fucking useless.
In the end I had to just call my bank over Skype after every other transaction, to get them to unblock it again.
The obvious correlation is that more guns means FEWER gun deaths.
I know, right? The populations in every other developed country in the world are being DECIMATED by their lack of guns. If only there was some way to curb the violence & mass shootings :(
That supports Chip & PIN!
Keeping in mind this document is 5 years old, even it already shows that all areas of card fraud (including cloning) have dropped drastically & that the abuse facilitated by the States' lack of the technology has shot up to account for nearly 1/4 of the fraudulent transactions across the entire globe.
I'm afraid you're *very* misinformed. That might possibly have been the case for a short time after the cards were introduced, however for over a decade now online purchases have required part of an online password that is processed & authorised through a direct connection with your bank. If you don't know the requested characters of your online password, you can't complete the transaction.
South America has also had support for the system for the best part of a decade - even fucking Bolivia has it as standard. Seriously, the US seems to be one of the last places in the world still dragging their feet in catching up with modern civilisation.
It means today, pretty much the only way fraudsters are able to get into your bank account are by filming you entering your PIN at an ATM, piecing your password together via a keylogger on your computer (your password is never requested in full), ir simply conning people the old-fashioned way.
Huh, my superscript ^2s have been stripped out. Still, the result's correct...
Most cyclists will average around at least 20mph, but the point is drivers doing stupid things leave you dead, whilst not being able to squeeze past a cyclist might delay you by an extra 5 minutes.
YOU may be a conscientious driver, but there are enough idiots on the roads that a cyclist has to be defensive. A mistake on a bike can mean a few bruises, a mistake in a car will kill people. 2 tons travelling at 60mph is a *lot* of energy.
The average weight of a car is 4079 pounds, or 1850.2kg. 60mph is 26.8metres/s.
So, if ke = ½ mv...
1850.2 * 26.8 = 1,328KJ ...and let's say 100KG for your average cyclist & bike. (20mph = 8.9metres/s)
100KG * 8.9 = 8KJ
That's a huge fuckton of difference that a large majority of drivers tend to take for granted.
Unless you're good with a soldering iron, for many people a dead component means a new phone - much like with laptops & other integrated units (I hear Macs have also gone down this route...).
Yea, you'll only have to replace the parts that actually broke. What a pain!
loads'a bollocks
The royal family as a *whole* is worth a lowly $1 Billion USD. The monarchy itself is worth less than half of that.
Today, they mostly exist as a cultural icon that's popular with tourists & looks after a couple of old estates. Perhaps doing the occasional ambassadorial visit.
Since the enactment of parliament, they are expected to remain politically impartial. The next prince in line to the thrown has stood out recently, as he's caused a lot of controversies of late after it was discovered he had been writing to people in parts of government - the topics were quite banal, but as an unelected official, he's been strongly criticised for "meddling" in the country's affairs.
Even the annual "Queen's Speech" is written by the sitting government.
If the royals were seen to be interfering in politics, they'd meet the wrath of both the government and the populace.