But the key metric is the number of illegal immigrants in the USA, and this has been declining for quite a while now. At the end of Obama's term, there were slightly fewer illegal immigrants in the USA than at the beginning.
The article mentions 800,000 people who had a change in status during Obama's term from "illegal" to "undocumented". Is your statement that there are fewer illegal immigrants based on this change in terminology or is there some other evidence?
I'll bet anything the guy got a solid severance package though.
I bet he most likely got nothing. He was fired for cause which usually guarantees he is not eligible for any severance packages and in many states (I am unsure about California laws) also makes him ineligible for unemployment benefits.
I'm going out on a limb and further suggest he may be blacklisted. Writing this memo isn't going to be good for his long term prosperity.
Why only $200 bikes with 26" wheels? Why a one-time sales tax?
An attempt to focus on the road bikes instead of child or mountain bikes.
Why not just a bicycle license which is needed to ride on these bike paths, renewed annually?
To minimize the cost on occasional cyclers and not present a perpetual burden.
Hell, we had bike licenses when I was growing up (won't say how long ago), people pay fees to use state parks, and many states have licenses for Off Road Vehicles to support their trails.
Then, it's a choice - don't ride on the (fee funded) paths, don't buy a license.
They are trying to promote commuting via bicycle while actually contributing something toward the pathways. Avid cyclers would presumably purchase more bikes more frequently. Occasional cyclers wouldn't be required to pay some fee discouraging them.
The minimum that you would owe the IRS should be $3578.75 for the $31,000 and that's assuming no income (besides the debt cancellation) and the standard deduction. You'd pay 10% on $9,275 and 15% on $17,675. It definitely doesn't qualify as an exception to gross income because the debt isn't being cancelled as part of bankruptcy.
The missing paperwork means there is no evidence there was ever a debt to be cancelled. For a fake/imaginary loan (which seems to be the case for at least some of these), why would there be a tax burden?
Of course if the person admits the debt is real or has other paperwork showing it, the IRS may take that as evidence of a cancellation even if it can't be technically proven who owns the debt.
The final determination is probably largely dependent on the quality of their tax preparation and quality of any IRS audit.
Private companies upgrade regularly, realizing it improves security/productivity. Government agencies never upgrade, then bitch that their anti-terrorism agencies are using 10 year old HW/SW cuz they can't afford to upgrade.
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
What are you talking about? I work for a private company and we still image Windows XP or 2000 machines when the hard drives die. In fact I just upgraded an XP SP2 computer to SP3 the other day. I needed to use a floppy disk just 6 months ago. My corporate laptop is Windows 7, at least, however the lack of a CD drive is a frequent frustration.
It's no use complaining about it or insulting the entities using old software. It's expected. It will not change. The only option is external mitigation of attack vectors.
In other words, Republicans got exactly what they wanted, and they're pissed.
Somehow the Republicans completely got what they wanted at a time when both houses and the Presidency were under Democrat control and not a single Republican actually voted in support of the bill. It's incredulous.
Yes, the Heritage Foundation had a concept and then Romneycare was implemented in MA. Democrats completely embraced it in that state and then in the entire country. Perhaps the entire situation is simply a trojan horse of irony?
The White House no longer recognizes man's effect on climate, which means there's little hope of policy directed at mitigating man's effects on climate - and still probably none even if they acknowledge the climate is changing and are merely ignoring man's role.
Seriously? The White House is not omnipotent. All hope does not rest on who runs the executive branch. Write your congressperson. They pass the laws. They can take the power back if they can decide to work together and steamroll the current administration.
There are all sorts who want information on your shopping history. The NSA is passe. We know the government has access to most digital shopping data. If you are an undocumented immigrant or buying anything tangentially illegal or without paying the appropriate tax they can look it up. Today's argument is generally more marketing or blackmail oriented.
I pay cash for just about everything. I often get discounts so the merchant doesn't have to pay the 3% charge. Win win.
What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Is it me, or does it seem like you are getting mostly bread and paying more for it? Don't get me wrong. The other sub making sandwich companies are many times worse than Subway, those guys empty your wallet and fail to fill your stomach. With their "fancy name, or appearance" sub sandwiches.
I eat subway maybe once a week and load up on all of the vegetables. The $6 footlong deal with carved turkey and all the veggies is two meals. I consider it a decent deal.
Die, you misbegotten fucking idiots, die! Seriously though, they'll be using BB as a textbook example of how to completely miss an emerging market for decades to come.
Sigh. Your jovial flamebait disappoints although your final conclusion is accurate. You must be a fan of the clickbait headline strategies.
Brand licensing deals need to be outlawed. The notion is absolutely ridiculous in the modern age, a world where international boundaries mean little. How are consumers supposed to know that their Blackberry manufactured in India is different from another Blackberry manufactured in China, in fact coming from two entirely different companies? This is absurd. Either sell the entire company, or just let it rest in peace.
Nobody wants to buy the company. They tried. They failed. Instead of laying off the remaining few thousand workers they let other companies give them some revenue for the brand name while they target other markets with other brands like QNX. It also means the consumer brand Blackberry will suck unless some vendor can do something novel. It was a mistake and a waste of money to change the company name from Research In Motion to BlackBerry about 3 years ago.
so you can prove you voted the way you were paid to vote
Since every jurisdiction that I've heard of allows you to request a replacement ballot, only a fool would pay for a picture of a marked ballot.
I think you underestimate how many fools there are. How many people know they can get a replacement ballot? How many people will just do what they are asked when there is money involved?
If you really care about audio quality, you should be pretty excited about headphones that can draw power from the lightning connecter... that allows for better processing, better noise cancellation, and so on all for headphones that never need a battery.
That's something that couldn't happen if Apple stuck with audio jacks.
This doesn't make sense. The DAC is the most important component of digital audio quality. Moving it to the headphones does none of these things (digital processing is still in the phone) and takes the control of audio quality entirely out of Apple's hands. This seems counter to their general philosophy.
As for the wireless part, it seems like Apple is trying to make that as nice as possible, with as high a quality as possible. That too is better if you care about audio at all.
So why so down on such an obvious improvement that helps wired AND wireless users?
This also doesn't make sense. Bluetooth compression is known for reducing audio quality, even if you ignore the various reported connectivity issues.
Replacing an old standard without an improved solution (even if proprietary) is very unlike Apple. My only conclusion is this is a money grab. It shows them struggling to differentiate themselves in the market. I think they may have jumped the shark.
If you support Hillary, you're supporting Hillary. It's obvious. If you give your approval to candidates like that, you're going to get candidates like that.
So Hillary is one of "the most corrupt and reprehensible people imaginable"? Citation needed.
She has been under investigation almost continuously for more than 20 years by both legal authorities and very rich political opponents. During that time, the only thing which has been proven is that she sucks at email security. If she had done anything serious, SOMEONE would have sold out and given proof.
She doesn't do much obviously illegal (the email security breaches would have gotten anyone else fired or in jail), she helps out her friends, and knows more dirt on people than J Edgar Hoover. Why would anyone sell her out? This doesn't mean she is an ethical person and the sheer volume of suspicious activities specifically involving her and not other people in similar positions, say, Condoleezza Rice or almost everyone else I can think of actually, should raise some suspicions. There is simply a tremendous volume of things to overlook. One of my favorites is the security trader who donated at least a million and got appointed to the ISAB. Nobody knew why he was there and he resigned as soon as reporters started asking questions.
I looked up the definition of "evil" on M-W and found two definitions. The two candidates seem to be particularly well suited to the roles. a : morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct
There is a national grid, or rather two of them, east side and west side. The split is roughly from Montana down to Texas. It's been like that for decades. Are they talking about upgrading it or what exactly do they mean? Power is sold back and forth all over the east and all over the west.
There are 3 continental grids: East, West and Texas.
Nukes don't vary output well. Thus storage is needed in a nukes only system.
This is a common misconception based on old nuclear designs that were designed specifically to be base-load-only. Fukushima was one. Nuclear power is extremely flexible and has minimal constraints due to technological reasons. France is 75% nuclear and has load-following generation III reactors capable of daily load cycling of 50%-100% capacity at a ramp rate of 3-5%/minute.
The new AP-1000 is a gen III+ reactor rated to change from 30%-100% at a response time similar to coal or gas turbines. There are many other different and smaller reactor designs that could easily be used to supplement the large reactors, as a complete power solution.
There are many valid arguments against nuclear, but this isn't one of the stronger ones.
The reason why consumers "prefer" bigger phones is not because people want a change of clothing with bigger pockets... but the faster CPUs and such require more area to deal with heat.
Of course, I've been told by someone in the industry that nobody would give up CPU and RAM for a smaller phone, but it would be nice to have a phone about the size of an iPhone 4.
I work in the industry. I can tell you that the size is due to the display. It's not primarily due to heat dissipation. The manufacturers are convinced (based on trends and sales) that people want big phones with 5" or larger screens.
That sounds like a lot of footwork and configuration and synchronization projects required up-front - above and beyond the cost savings (meaning getting rid of your IT staff) of going to a cloud service in the first place. Hardly automatic "ready and waiting".
Users should only [reuse passwords] where the compromise of one password does not result in the compromise of more valuable data protected by the same password on a different system.
So if I have access to a highly sensitive system, it's OK to reuse that password on a system with lower value data.
OK - got it.
I am pretty sure (hoping) you are being sarcastic because that is not what the quote says at all. It is only ok to re-use a password when both systems have equivalent levels of data value.
To provide a car analogy: It is perfectly fine to use the same key for both my Toyota Corolla and my Ford Focus. However also using that key for my Aston Martin would be unacceptable.
Office 2003 is arguably still the best version of Office. I have co-workers who still use it and I've used pretty much every version since 4. I don't disagree with them, although I have personally transitioned to 2010 for compatibility. Newer versions don't provide much additional usability and make certain things more difficult such as removing the ability to select chart curves directly from the legend. Why??
Your link appears to be based on Australia laws. In the US no license or permit is required to fly an ultralight aircraft. However everyone should receive training. The autogyros are extremely stable due to their design but of course unexpected things happen.
As to the craft itself, I cannot tell from the article if it is an ultralight copter or a traditional one. Auto-gyros are somewhat difficult to achieve the ultralight weight restrictions but not impossible.
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But the key metric is the number of illegal immigrants in the USA, and this has been declining for quite a while now. At the end of Obama's term, there were slightly fewer illegal immigrants in the USA than at the beginning.
The article mentions 800,000 people who had a change in status during Obama's term from "illegal" to "undocumented". Is your statement that there are fewer illegal immigrants based on this change in terminology or is there some other evidence?
I'll bet anything the guy got a solid severance package though.
I bet he most likely got nothing. He was fired for cause which usually guarantees he is not eligible for any severance packages and in many states (I am unsure about California laws) also makes him ineligible for unemployment benefits.
I'm going out on a limb and further suggest he may be blacklisted. Writing this memo isn't going to be good for his long term prosperity.
Why only $200 bikes with 26" wheels? Why a one-time sales tax?
An attempt to focus on the road bikes instead of child or mountain bikes.
Why not just a bicycle license which is needed to ride on these bike paths, renewed annually?
To minimize the cost on occasional cyclers and not present a perpetual burden.
Hell, we had bike licenses when I was growing up (won't say how long ago), people pay fees to use state parks, and many states have licenses for Off Road Vehicles to support their trails.
Then, it's a choice - don't ride on the (fee funded) paths, don't buy a license.
They are trying to promote commuting via bicycle while actually contributing something toward the pathways. Avid cyclers would presumably purchase more bikes more frequently. Occasional cyclers wouldn't be required to pay some fee discouraging them.
The minimum that you would owe the IRS should be $3578.75 for the $31,000 and that's assuming no income (besides the debt cancellation) and the standard deduction. You'd pay 10% on $9,275 and 15% on $17,675. It definitely doesn't qualify as an exception to gross income because the debt isn't being cancelled as part of bankruptcy.
The missing paperwork means there is no evidence there was ever a debt to be cancelled. For a fake/imaginary loan (which seems to be the case for at least some of these), why would there be a tax burden?
Of course if the person admits the debt is real or has other paperwork showing it, the IRS may take that as evidence of a cancellation even if it can't be technically proven who owns the debt.
The final determination is probably largely dependent on the quality of their tax preparation and quality of any IRS audit.
Private companies upgrade regularly, realizing it improves security/productivity. Government agencies never upgrade, then bitch that their anti-terrorism agencies are using 10 year old HW/SW cuz they can't afford to upgrade.
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
What are you talking about? I work for a private company and we still image Windows XP or 2000 machines when the hard drives die. In fact I just upgraded an XP SP2 computer to SP3 the other day. I needed to use a floppy disk just 6 months ago. My corporate laptop is Windows 7, at least, however the lack of a CD drive is a frequent frustration.
It's no use complaining about it or insulting the entities using old software. It's expected. It will not change. The only option is external mitigation of attack vectors.
In other words, Republicans got exactly what they wanted, and they're pissed.
Somehow the Republicans completely got what they wanted at a time when both houses and the Presidency were under Democrat control and not a single Republican actually voted in support of the bill. It's incredulous.
Yes, the Heritage Foundation had a concept and then Romneycare was implemented in MA. Democrats completely embraced it in that state and then in the entire country. Perhaps the entire situation is simply a trojan horse of irony?
The White House no longer recognizes man's effect on climate, which means there's little hope of policy directed at mitigating man's effects on climate - and still probably none even if they acknowledge the climate is changing and are merely ignoring man's role.
Seriously? The White House is not omnipotent. All hope does not rest on who runs the executive branch. Write your congressperson. They pass the laws. They can take the power back if they can decide to work together and steamroll the current administration.
There are all sorts who want information on your shopping history. The NSA is passe. We know the government has access to most digital shopping data. If you are an undocumented immigrant or buying anything tangentially illegal or without paying the appropriate tax they can look it up. Today's argument is generally more marketing or blackmail oriented.
I pay cash for just about everything. I often get discounts so the merchant doesn't have to pay the 3% charge. Win win.
What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Is it me, or does it seem like you are getting mostly bread and paying more for it? Don't get me wrong. The other sub making sandwich companies are many times worse than Subway, those guys empty your wallet and fail to fill your stomach. With their "fancy name, or appearance" sub sandwiches.
I eat subway maybe once a week and load up on all of the vegetables. The $6 footlong deal with carved turkey and all the veggies is two meals. I consider it a decent deal.
I mildly regret not signing up for an account when I started to read /. instead of a year later.
Die, you misbegotten fucking idiots, die!
Seriously though, they'll be using BB as a textbook example of how to completely miss an emerging market for decades to come.
Sigh. Your jovial flamebait disappoints although your final conclusion is accurate. You must be a fan of the clickbait headline strategies.
Brand licensing deals need to be outlawed. The notion is absolutely ridiculous in the modern age, a world where international boundaries mean little. How are consumers supposed to know that their Blackberry manufactured in India is different from another Blackberry manufactured in China, in fact coming from two entirely different companies? This is absurd. Either sell the entire company, or just let it rest in peace.
Nobody wants to buy the company. They tried. They failed. Instead of laying off the remaining few thousand workers they let other companies give them some revenue for the brand name while they target other markets with other brands like QNX. It also means the consumer brand Blackberry will suck unless some vendor can do something novel. It was a mistake and a waste of money to change the company name from Research In Motion to BlackBerry about 3 years ago.
so you can prove you voted the way you were paid to vote
Since every jurisdiction that I've heard of allows you to request a replacement ballot, only a fool would pay for a picture of a marked ballot.
I think you underestimate how many fools there are. How many people know they can get a replacement ballot? How many people will just do what they are asked when there is money involved?
If you really care about audio quality, you should be pretty excited about headphones that can draw power from the lightning connecter... that allows for better processing, better noise cancellation, and so on all for headphones that never need a battery.
That's something that couldn't happen if Apple stuck with audio jacks.
This doesn't make sense. The DAC is the most important component of digital audio quality. Moving it to the headphones does none of these things (digital processing is still in the phone) and takes the control of audio quality entirely out of Apple's hands. This seems counter to their general philosophy.
As for the wireless part, it seems like Apple is trying to make that as nice as possible, with as high a quality as possible. That too is better if you care about audio at all.
So why so down on such an obvious improvement that helps wired AND wireless users?
This also doesn't make sense. Bluetooth compression is known for reducing audio quality, even if you ignore the various reported connectivity issues.
Replacing an old standard without an improved solution (even if proprietary) is very unlike Apple. My only conclusion is this is a money grab. It shows them struggling to differentiate themselves in the market. I think they may have jumped the shark.
If you support Hillary, you're supporting Hillary. It's obvious. If you give your approval to candidates like that, you're going to get candidates like that.
So Hillary is one of "the most corrupt and reprehensible people imaginable"? Citation needed.
She has been under investigation almost continuously for more than 20 years by both legal authorities and very rich political opponents. During that time, the only thing which has been proven is that she sucks at email security. If she had done anything serious, SOMEONE would have sold out and given proof.
She doesn't do much obviously illegal (the email security breaches would have gotten anyone else fired or in jail), she helps out her friends, and knows more dirt on people than J Edgar Hoover. Why would anyone sell her out? This doesn't mean she is an ethical person and the sheer volume of suspicious activities specifically involving her and not other people in similar positions, say, Condoleezza Rice or almost everyone else I can think of actually, should raise some suspicions. There is simply a tremendous volume of things to overlook. One of my favorites is the security trader who donated at least a million and got appointed to the ISAB. Nobody knew why he was there and he resigned as soon as reporters started asking questions.
I looked up the definition of "evil" on M-W and found two definitions. The two candidates seem to be particularly well suited to the roles.
a : morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked
b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct
Actually, the bathroom issue is also generating outrage. For an example a college in New York has removed all gender identification from bathroom doors.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/29/gender-bathrooms-cooper-union-college-new-york
My home bathroom is gender neutral.
Nowhere does it state Oxygen is produced in the process.
There is a national grid, or rather two of them, east side and west side. The split is roughly from Montana down to Texas. It's been like that for decades. Are they talking about upgrading it or what exactly do they mean? Power is sold back and forth all over the east and all over the west.
There are 3 continental grids: East, West and Texas.
Nukes don't vary output well. Thus storage is needed in a nukes only system.
This is a common misconception based on old nuclear designs that were designed specifically to be base-load-only. Fukushima was one. Nuclear power is extremely flexible and has minimal constraints due to technological reasons. France is 75% nuclear and has load-following generation III reactors capable of daily load cycling of 50%-100% capacity at a ramp rate of 3-5%/minute.
The new AP-1000 is a gen III+ reactor rated to change from 30%-100% at a response time similar to coal or gas turbines. There are many other different and smaller reactor designs that could easily be used to supplement the large reactors, as a complete power solution.
There are many valid arguments against nuclear, but this isn't one of the stronger ones.
OMG, trees in a desert are going to die?
Most of California isn't a desert, and most of the desert parts of California don't have trees (because, you know, it's a desert).
It's not a desert yet. If the drought continues and they continue to pump every last drop out of the ground it might become one.
The reason why consumers "prefer" bigger phones is not because people want a change of clothing with bigger pockets... but the faster CPUs and such require more area to deal with heat.
Of course, I've been told by someone in the industry that nobody would give up CPU and RAM for a smaller phone, but it would be nice to have a phone about the size of an iPhone 4.
I work in the industry. I can tell you that the size is due to the display. It's not primarily due to heat dissipation. The manufacturers are convinced (based on trends and sales) that people want big phones with 5" or larger screens.
That sounds like a lot of footwork and configuration and synchronization projects required up-front - above and beyond the cost savings (meaning getting rid of your IT staff) of going to a cloud service in the first place. Hardly automatic "ready and waiting".
Users should only [reuse passwords] where the compromise of one password does not result in the compromise of more valuable data protected by the same password on a different system.
So if I have access to a highly sensitive system, it's OK to reuse that password on a system with lower value data.
OK - got it.
I am pretty sure (hoping) you are being sarcastic because that is not what the quote says at all. It is only ok to re-use a password when both systems have equivalent levels of data value.
To provide a car analogy: It is perfectly fine to use the same key for both my Toyota Corolla and my Ford Focus. However also using that key for my Aston Martin would be unacceptable.
Office 2003 is arguably still the best version of Office. I have co-workers who still use it and I've used pretty much every version since 4. I don't disagree with them, although I have personally transitioned to 2010 for compatibility. Newer versions don't provide much additional usability and make certain things more difficult such as removing the ability to select chart curves directly from the legend. Why??
You need certification. here
Your link appears to be based on Australia laws. In the US no license or permit is required to fly an ultralight aircraft. However everyone should receive training. The autogyros are extremely stable due to their design but of course unexpected things happen.
As to the craft itself, I cannot tell from the article if it is an ultralight copter or a traditional one. Auto-gyros are somewhat difficult to achieve the ultralight weight restrictions but not impossible.