We assume we have choice and free will, and thus responsibility for our words, deeds, and actions. We know that all results are the culmination of numerous previous events or actions. The further out interaction is played, the more variables take effect to change the outcome. Each potential outcome over an extended period of time with the immense number of variables that exist in 'the human experience' yields an utterly mindbogglingly and mathematically astounding number of possible outcomes. It's like the doubling game, except far larger in scope, exponentially larger...
With so many possible results, although you can guess, or use statistics to determine which of the probable outcomes are more likely, you can't know what will actually happen. So that leaves us with few effective choices if we want to take the idea of omniscience into this.
A: We have free will, and nobody, not even God, really knows what will happen, but with enough data and processing power you can make approximate predictions. Maybe God exists, maybe not, but he isn't omniscient, though it may seem that way to us.
B: The future can be known because it is set, Destiny and Fate are real, and if God exists he is punishing sinners for doing exactly what was predetermined, even though they never had a choice. There is no justice or responsibility for us mortals , just a divine asshole that arbitrarily rewards or punishes us for being stuck in the pigeon hole he/she/it/them placed us in and won't let us change.
If you like that argument, fine. If you don't, I don't really care. We currently don't know which is correct, and may not be able to ever discover which is right. But I was raised to believe in responsibility for your actions, honor, justice, compassion, and trying to be fair. Those ideals are meaningless without free will, so I choose to believe in it. If I'm wrong, then I'm predestined to believe it, so it's not like I actually chose it. On the other hand, if free will exists, and I chose to ignore it, I am violating all the principles I cherish, and that would be unacceptable. Just a small note for those small minded who would like to use the idea of a lack of free will as an excuse to ignore their own responsibility and do whatever they want to and avoid punishment. The law and society itself will treat you as if you had free will, either because you do, or they can't act any other way, so if you are really dumb enough to kill someone and declare it was destined to happen, you're still going to be looking at a nasty sentence when your day in court happens.
Unless it's one of their cars. Soon as a judge finds one on his he'll raise a major fuss and declare it illegal. Especially if he found it right after seeing the mistress.
I personally would like to take one apart and see whats in it. I also wonder if that battery pack could be repurposed. But on to the fun stuff.
Call in the bomb squad, after all you found a suspicious device attached to your car. Don't forget to call the TV News stations and Newspapers so it won't just get swept under the rug. Let's see the FBI (or whoever) wriggle under the gaze of the media like.
Make use of the US Postal systems new mailing boxs. If it fits, it ships. If you mail it back to the FBI offices without a return address, they'll probably panic and think it's a bomb. Which will be triply funny when they finally figure out it's just one of their own trackers being returned. And if anybody asks you, just innocently reply, "What's wrong? I just returned to owner, I didn't even ask them to pay for the postage.".
Attach it to something else. This is where the real fun begins. I would normally suggest a wilderness animal, but that thing was so huge, you'd need to stick it on a deer or bear, and if you can pull that off, you and Steve Irwin were probably drinking buddies. On the other hand, some more urban possibilities that can be fun are as follows. The town drunks car (or any really drunk guy at the bar) since they probably need to be tracked. The vehicle of a politician, especially if you want activity of a criminal nature to be uncovered. Try the lawyers car if you want to hear about a big lawsuit being launched by David, Roseburm, and Smeltz. (Ever notice the odd combo names they have for lawyer firms these days?) If you really want to turn things around in an ironic fashion, stick it on a police car, or if possible, a car belonging to the FBI themselves. (Fred, I just don't see him, but the tracker says we're right on top of him.) If you want them to have a cross country chase to recover it, get a whole lot of helium balloons and launch that sucker. (Damn Fred, that kid must have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or maybe one of them Shield flying cars.) And since I can't let this one category get too large, stick it on a car in the local demolition derby.
Go offroading and have it accidentally fall off and get run over. Several times if possible. And if anyone asks, just tell them "Tracking device, what tracking device? Dunno, maybe something happened when I was driving through Mr Tollmanns field yesterday, maybe you should try looking there. Of course, as I wasn't informed of any tracking devices being on my car I can't really say what might have happened to something I don't know about..."
Take it to your local paranoid conspiracy nut. I have no idea what he would do about it or to it, but it's bound to be fun to watch.
Try to claim it as salvage. I'm not really sure how to do that, but it could be fun.\
Turn it in to lost and found. Don't care who's, just somebodies. Oh, and if it could possibly embarrass the jerk sent to pick it up in some way, even better.
Tossing it on an overhead line like an old pair of tennis shoes. Yeah, you can get in trouble for that one, but just imagine watching them try to retrieve it.
Take it to your local airport, preferably through the security check if you have the balls to try, and hide it somewhere on the other side. That way they have to go through the hassle of airport security to retrieve it. I know FBI has some special dispensation, but it's still a pain in the backside for them too, especially if they are then going to be wandering around (possibly with the locator) trying to find a hidden and mysterious device. That'll make the freaking 6 O'clock news. (Today the airport was closed for 3 hours as FBI officials scoured to terminal for and undisclosed reason. Witnesses say they left carrying a mysterious package of unknown origin. Repeated requests for information from the FBI office have received no reply as of yet.) (Do you think the FBI would get themselves into hot water by falsely claiming a bomb threat, or embarrass themselves by admitting to recovering and unwarranted and wayward tracking devic
What most of the world calls football, the US calls soccer. And by pitches, they don't mean throws, they mean the same as fields. As to stones, the British girlfriend I had didn't even know exactly what the hell that was, just that it was a lot larger than a couple pounds weight.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I'm simply highlighting the apparent British tendency to use esoteric measurements that just confuse most people for no other apparent reason that it just seems British. (You really don't want to hear a friend of mines 15 minute rant on the stupidity of the UK phone system. It's hilarious if painful.)
yeah, I've heard that in the UK the truth is less important than the appearance in libel suits, so even if you had a video recording of the CEO saying something like that, they could still sue and win if you published that statement. Don't know how true that is, but the UK laws have some really stupid stuff in them. (All countries laws have some stupid stuff, but the longer the country has been around, the more moronic stuff is there.)
What you want is called EICAR, it's known as a test virus. It's not an actual virus, but antivirus programs will detect it as one, that's what it's purpose is. EICAR doesn't actually do anything, so nothing is as risk.
Now as to the warning: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE A REAL VIRUS!!!! IT WILL GET LOOSE AND CAUSE PROBLEMS IF YOU DO!
You're dealing with noobs, and even if you weren't, it would still get out and cause problems, and that's assuming that you aren't someplace that would consider you liable, or worse, in possible violation of law for intentionally infecting computers.
Is all that alarmist? No, I've actually done a lot of work with viruses and their removal, and that includes work in an actual virus lab with real viruses. The only way to virtually guarantee a safe situation is a blackbox room. Nothing electronic goes in or out. No usb devices, no computers, no disks, no wireless, no network connections, no psps, no digital cameras, absolutely nothing. I don't think the school would be willing to pay for something like that, and to be honest, I don't think it'll work with computer 101 students as they just wouldn't understand. You have no idea how many "isolated computers that nobody has access to so it absolutely can't be infected" are actually infected. It only takes one mistake, unknowingly or otherwise.
So just use EICAR and give your students a thrill without any risk on your part. It's better for everyone. After all, if you were teaching gun safety to some kids that have never seen a gun before, would you hand them loaded uzis?
The exact percentage of left handedness varies from location and field, generally ranging from 10-15 percent. Some fields of endeavor, and computers are one of them, have a statistically higher number of lefties. (Statisticians apparently don't know why.)
With a standard mouse, left and right is of no relevance, you just stick it on the side of the desk you are comfortable with. (Some lefties switch the button functions around, but most don't.) With 'ergonomic' mice and a large number of specialty mice (the rat included), have shapes and button placements that make it unfeasible for it to be used with the left hand.
Additionally, being left handed isn't 'just with respect to writing'. A lefties primary hand is, obviously, the left. Everyone has greater facility and dexterity with their primary hand than their non-primary. This is one reason why it's very stupid and inefficient to try and force someone to use the wrong hand. And just to be clear, the wrong hand is the non-primary hand, right for lefties, left for righties. Any time you try to marginalize 10-15% of your population, you are screwing up.
After all, it's only and astronimical hop, skip, and a jump away at only 20 light years. Of course that's the equivalent of telling a 4 year old in London that they can have all the free ice cream they want in New York City if they just walk/swim there. For an adult, it's not a trival thing to do, but still possible, and in the analogy, our race and society are still wearing metaphorical diapers.
We currently don't have the technology or resources to pull off a 20 light year trip, even if it's one way.
And if we did, what would we find when we get there? A planet with higher gravity, and otherwise a completely unknown environment. It may have no water, atmosphere, oxygen, or something else we desperately need to live. On the off chance it has an ecosystem, is it one that is even compatible with us, or would we have to totally destroy it before we could supplant it with our own? What if it has intelligent life? No matter how you look at it, colonizing that place would be a tricky proposition, assuming we were even able to get there in the first place.
Just a note, we currently don't have any form of life support systems that can sustain human life for 6 years without getting occasional fresh supplies, something which can't happen on an interstellar voyage. So even if you could travel at 92% light speed, you'd still die before you got there. I love sci-fi, but I also know a bit about the reality of our current developmental situation. We have a long ways to go before we can explore the stars.
I'd absolutely have to try one of these before I'd even consider getting one. There's all those issues about viewing angles, movement, and so many others. At those prices, they'll probably sell out their initial stock in Japan, but that doesn't mean it's good, just that it's new status worthy hi-tech.
last? Since pi is infinite, there is no "33 last". As for the furthest we've calculated it out, that keeps changing constantly as there are several groups trying to get the official declaration of having calculated pi further than any one else. That little accolade changes hands a lot, especially now that they are using multicomputer arrays to work on it.
Who cares about volume or density at this point as both the summary and the article specify mass. The summary says 20%-50% the mass of Earth, while the article says 3x the mass of Earth, that would be 300%. No matter how you look at it, the summary screwed up big time.
Sorry, but your argument is like calculating the seating capacity of a car when the articles in question are discussing the top speed.
Nobody needs a fart app, or most of the apps available for phones (i or smart). They want them, that's important. Just so long as the android marketplace doesn't become microstupidized like the iphone store did. Really, an app that checks the national weather database to tell you the weather is fine, but making the same app with 500 different versions that are each locked to one specific zip code isn't 500 different apps. It's just total douchebaggery of the highest (lowest?) order. Same with the apps that only give sports scores for one specific team, and all the others that have been artificially reduced to such an inane specificity. If they thought they could get away with it, they'd try to sell you a notepad program that only did vowels, another for consonants, and don't forget both of those would be divided into uppercase and lowercase versions as well. And if you wanted punctuation, that version would have a premium charge on top of the rest.
Any dev doing that kind of B.S. should be having nightmares constantly if they have any sort of conscience at all.
I'd support the store owners telling idiots trying to foist that kind of ripoff on the consumers to go take a hike, but really, if people want to buy fart apps, why should you care?
(I think I'd do a full sound effects on command package with farts being one of the aural packages. Also include for purchase the gunfire pack, sci-fi effects, animal noises, things breaking, and even screams & giggles. There, does that meet your ideal of generating additional sales?)
If you do away with the tax exemption for churches then the charitable organizations, even if church ran, will still exist as they are separate business entities that can still be tax exempt. I can even see the funding for charities increasing as churches might use them as tax shelters to reduce their total tax burden. I suspect it would also reduce the level of asset hiding/denial of churches (especially the catholic church) that occurs as failure to declare assests is something that totally ticks off the IRS. And you know they'd audit all the churches as soon as such a change in the laws occurred.
But I have to ask, what does church tax exempt status have to do with corporations having/gaining rights that belong to people not businesses?
Then I guess the question is, what union conditions aren't being met? If it's gold plated expresso machine and $180/hr when on set, they can stuff it. If it's qualified medical personnel on site and proper sanitation facilities, I'm all for it. It all depends on what their screaming about.
Yes, irta. Still not enough info about what's really going on demand wise, but it sounds like a shill for money and controlling who they hire, but I honestly got lost in all the stupid acronyms and attempts to avoid real data in it.
Maybe because they added a lot of random targets to disguise the real target(s). I'd definitely do more than 100 distractions attacks per real attack just to confuse my opponents.
I was in the USAF and had to deal with pilots fairly often. It's true they are good with their planes, but most of them are rather stupid and would fail most logic tests. (But they tend to have egos the size of Texas, and the dumber they are, the bigger the ego.) There are exceptions, about 20%, but for the most part, don't let them near anything that's not a plane they've trained on.
You're right. I'm getting defensive about this for some reason. I know defending the common good and educating the ignorant are both usually a good idea, but some people revel in their dementia and don't want it disturbed. Sometimes I don't recognize this quickly enough and need to be reminded that I'm talking to a bakatare.
You don't get it, but you'd best be careful about statements like "...for me to kill you.". That can be taken as a death threat, and since you posted on the internet, it would get the feds involved. Please do everyone a favor and go take some basic civics and law classes from your local college (or high school), until then, just shut up before you do any more damage to yourself.
Are you sure their 'idiot admin' is really an idiot? Maybe (s)he is a sympathetic techie that took a calculated risk based on confidence of the masses and plausible deniability.
Yeah, I know the odds aren't great for that, but it could be possible. (Just imagine if you had a conscience and were the admin for those scum and a chance like that came up. What would you do?)
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That's the problem, they don't think...
We assume we have choice and free will, and thus responsibility for our words, deeds, and actions.
We know that all results are the culmination of numerous previous events or actions.
The further out interaction is played, the more variables take effect to change the outcome.
Each potential outcome over an extended period of time with the immense number of variables that exist in 'the human experience' yields an utterly mindbogglingly and mathematically astounding number of possible outcomes. It's like the doubling game, except far larger in scope, exponentially larger...
With so many possible results, although you can guess, or use statistics to determine which of the probable outcomes are more likely, you can't know what will actually happen. So that leaves us with few effective choices if we want to take the idea of omniscience into this.
A: We have free will, and nobody, not even God, really knows what will happen, but with enough data and processing power you can make approximate predictions. Maybe God exists, maybe not, but he isn't omniscient, though it may seem that way to us.
B: The future can be known because it is set, Destiny and Fate are real, and if God exists he is punishing sinners for doing exactly what was predetermined, even though they never had a choice. There is no justice or responsibility for us mortals , just a divine asshole that arbitrarily rewards or punishes us for being stuck in the pigeon hole he/she/it/them placed us in and won't let us change.
If you like that argument, fine. If you don't, I don't really care. We currently don't know which is correct, and may not be able to ever discover which is right. But I was raised to believe in responsibility for your actions, honor, justice, compassion, and trying to be fair. Those ideals are meaningless without free will, so I choose to believe in it. If I'm wrong, then I'm predestined to believe it, so it's not like I actually chose it. On the other hand, if free will exists, and I chose to ignore it, I am violating all the principles I cherish, and that would be unacceptable.
Just a small note for those small minded who would like to use the idea of a lack of free will as an excuse to ignore their own responsibility and do whatever they want to and avoid punishment. The law and society itself will treat you as if you had free will, either because you do, or they can't act any other way, so if you are really dumb enough to kill someone and declare it was destined to happen, you're still going to be looking at a nasty sentence when your day in court happens.
Unless it's one of their cars. Soon as a judge finds one on his he'll raise a major fuss and declare it illegal. Especially if he found it right after seeing the mistress.
And he completely ignores the fact that what people like to talk about most is what the other people do that annoys the hell out of them.
I personally would like to take one apart and see whats in it. I also wonder if that battery pack could be repurposed. But on to the fun stuff.
Call in the bomb squad, after all you found a suspicious device attached to your car. Don't forget to call the TV News stations and Newspapers so it won't just get swept under the rug. Let's see the FBI (or whoever) wriggle under the gaze of the media like.
Make use of the US Postal systems new mailing boxs. If it fits, it ships. If you mail it back to the FBI offices without a return address, they'll probably panic and think it's a bomb. Which will be triply funny when they finally figure out it's just one of their own trackers being returned. And if anybody asks you, just innocently reply, "What's wrong? I just returned to owner, I didn't even ask them to pay for the postage.".
Attach it to something else. This is where the real fun begins. I would normally suggest a wilderness animal, but that thing was so huge, you'd need to stick it on a deer or bear, and if you can pull that off, you and Steve Irwin were probably drinking buddies. On the other hand, some more urban possibilities that can be fun are as follows. The town drunks car (or any really drunk guy at the bar) since they probably need to be tracked. The vehicle of a politician, especially if you want activity of a criminal nature to be uncovered. Try the lawyers car if you want to hear about a big lawsuit being launched by David, Roseburm, and Smeltz. (Ever notice the odd combo names they have for lawyer firms these days?) If you really want to turn things around in an ironic fashion, stick it on a police car, or if possible, a car belonging to the FBI themselves. (Fred, I just don't see him, but the tracker says we're right on top of him.) If you want them to have a cross country chase to recover it, get a whole lot of helium balloons and launch that sucker. (Damn Fred, that kid must have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or maybe one of them Shield flying cars.) And since I can't let this one category get too large, stick it on a car in the local demolition derby.
Go offroading and have it accidentally fall off and get run over. Several times if possible. And if anyone asks, just tell them "Tracking device, what tracking device? Dunno, maybe something happened when I was driving through Mr Tollmanns field yesterday, maybe you should try looking there. Of course, as I wasn't informed of any tracking devices being on my car I can't really say what might have happened to something I don't know about..."
Take it to your local paranoid conspiracy nut. I have no idea what he would do about it or to it, but it's bound to be fun to watch.
Try to claim it as salvage. I'm not really sure how to do that, but it could be fun.\
Turn it in to lost and found. Don't care who's, just somebodies. Oh, and if it could possibly embarrass the jerk sent to pick it up in some way, even better.
Tossing it on an overhead line like an old pair of tennis shoes. Yeah, you can get in trouble for that one, but just imagine watching them try to retrieve it.
Take it to your local airport, preferably through the security check if you have the balls to try, and hide it somewhere on the other side. That way they have to go through the hassle of airport security to retrieve it. I know FBI has some special dispensation, but it's still a pain in the backside for them too, especially if they are then going to be wandering around (possibly with the locator) trying to find a hidden and mysterious device. That'll make the freaking 6 O'clock news. (Today the airport was closed for 3 hours as FBI officials scoured to terminal for and undisclosed reason. Witnesses say they left carrying a mysterious package of unknown origin. Repeated requests for information from the FBI office have received no reply as of yet.)
(Do you think the FBI would get themselves into hot water by falsely claiming a bomb threat, or embarrass themselves by admitting to recovering and unwarranted and wayward tracking devic
What most of the world calls football, the US calls soccer. And by pitches, they don't mean throws, they mean the same as fields.
As to stones, the British girlfriend I had didn't even know exactly what the hell that was, just that it was a lot larger than a couple pounds weight.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I'm simply highlighting the apparent British tendency to use esoteric measurements that just confuse most people for no other apparent reason that it just seems British. (You really don't want to hear a friend of mines 15 minute rant on the stupidity of the UK phone system. It's hilarious if painful.)
yeah, I've heard that in the UK the truth is less important than the appearance in libel suits, so even if you had a video recording of the CEO saying something like that, they could still sue and win if you published that statement. Don't know how true that is, but the UK laws have some really stupid stuff in them. (All countries laws have some stupid stuff, but the longer the country has been around, the more moronic stuff is there.)
What you want is called EICAR, it's known as a test virus.
It's not an actual virus, but antivirus programs will detect it as one, that's what it's purpose is.
EICAR doesn't actually do anything, so nothing is as risk.
Now as to the warning:
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE A REAL VIRUS!!!! IT WILL GET LOOSE AND CAUSE PROBLEMS IF YOU DO!
You're dealing with noobs, and even if you weren't, it would still get out and cause problems, and that's assuming that you aren't someplace that would consider you liable, or worse, in possible violation of law for intentionally infecting computers.
Is all that alarmist? No, I've actually done a lot of work with viruses and their removal, and that includes work in an actual virus lab with real viruses. The only way to virtually guarantee a safe situation is a blackbox room. Nothing electronic goes in or out. No usb devices, no computers, no disks, no wireless, no network connections, no psps, no digital cameras, absolutely nothing. I don't think the school would be willing to pay for something like that, and to be honest, I don't think it'll work with computer 101 students as they just wouldn't understand.
You have no idea how many "isolated computers that nobody has access to so it absolutely can't be infected" are actually infected. It only takes one mistake, unknowingly or otherwise.
So just use EICAR and give your students a thrill without any risk on your part. It's better for everyone. After all, if you were teaching gun safety to some kids that have never seen a gun before, would you hand them loaded uzis?
haha, go back to the dark ages dolt.
The exact percentage of left handedness varies from location and field, generally ranging from 10-15 percent.
Some fields of endeavor, and computers are one of them, have a statistically higher number of lefties. (Statisticians apparently don't know why.)
With a standard mouse, left and right is of no relevance, you just stick it on the side of the desk you are comfortable with.
(Some lefties switch the button functions around, but most don't.)
With 'ergonomic' mice and a large number of specialty mice (the rat included), have shapes and button placements that make it unfeasible for it to be used with the left hand.
Additionally, being left handed isn't 'just with respect to writing'. A lefties primary hand is, obviously, the left. Everyone has greater facility and dexterity with their primary hand than their non-primary. This is one reason why it's very stupid and inefficient to try and force someone to use the wrong hand. And just to be clear, the wrong hand is the non-primary hand, right for lefties, left for righties.
Any time you try to marginalize 10-15% of your population, you are screwing up.
Can't adapt, or is sick of the 19th century attitude that expects you to conform to an uncomfortable and unnatural way of usage?
After all, it's only and astronimical hop, skip, and a jump away at only 20 light years. Of course that's the equivalent of telling a 4 year old in London that they can have all the free ice cream they want in New York City if they just walk/swim there. For an adult, it's not a trival thing to do, but still possible, and in the analogy, our race and society are still wearing metaphorical diapers.
We currently don't have the technology or resources to pull off a 20 light year trip, even if it's one way.
And if we did, what would we find when we get there? A planet with higher gravity, and otherwise a completely unknown environment. It may have no water, atmosphere, oxygen, or something else we desperately need to live. On the off chance it has an ecosystem, is it one that is even compatible with us, or would we have to totally destroy it before we could supplant it with our own? What if it has intelligent life? No matter how you look at it, colonizing that place would be a tricky proposition, assuming we were even able to get there in the first place.
Just a note, we currently don't have any form of life support systems that can sustain human life for 6 years without getting occasional fresh supplies, something which can't happen on an interstellar voyage. So even if you could travel at 92% light speed, you'd still die before you got there. I love sci-fi, but I also know a bit about the reality of our current developmental situation. We have a long ways to go before we can explore the stars.
I'd absolutely have to try one of these before I'd even consider getting one.
There's all those issues about viewing angles, movement, and so many others.
At those prices, they'll probably sell out their initial stock in Japan, but that doesn't mean it's good, just that it's new status worthy hi-tech.
last? Since pi is infinite, there is no "33 last". As for the furthest we've calculated it out, that keeps changing constantly as there are several groups trying to get the official declaration of having calculated pi further than any one else. That little accolade changes hands a lot, especially now that they are using multicomputer arrays to work on it.
Who cares about volume or density at this point as both the summary and the article specify mass. The summary says 20%-50% the mass of Earth, while the article says 3x the mass of Earth, that would be 300%. No matter how you look at it, the summary screwed up big time.
Sorry, but your argument is like calculating the seating capacity of a car when the articles in question are discussing the top speed.
Nobody needs a fart app, or most of the apps available for phones (i or smart). They want them, that's important. Just so long as the android marketplace doesn't become microstupidized like the iphone store did. Really, an app that checks the national weather database to tell you the weather is fine, but making the same app with 500 different versions that are each locked to one specific zip code isn't 500 different apps. It's just total douchebaggery of the highest (lowest?) order. Same with the apps that only give sports scores for one specific team, and all the others that have been artificially reduced to such an inane specificity.
If they thought they could get away with it, they'd try to sell you a notepad program that only did vowels, another for consonants, and don't forget both of those would be divided into uppercase and lowercase versions as well. And if you wanted punctuation, that version would have a premium charge on top of the rest.
Any dev doing that kind of B.S. should be having nightmares constantly if they have any sort of conscience at all.
I'd support the store owners telling idiots trying to foist that kind of ripoff on the consumers to go take a hike, but really, if people want to buy fart apps, why should you care?
(I think I'd do a full sound effects on command package with farts being one of the aural packages. Also include for purchase the gunfire pack, sci-fi effects, animal noises, things breaking, and even screams & giggles. There, does that meet your ideal of generating additional sales?)
If you do away with the tax exemption for churches then the charitable organizations, even if church ran, will still exist as they are separate business entities that can still be tax exempt.
I can even see the funding for charities increasing as churches might use them as tax shelters to reduce their total tax burden.
I suspect it would also reduce the level of asset hiding/denial of churches (especially the catholic church) that occurs as failure to declare assests is something that totally ticks off the IRS. And you know they'd audit all the churches as soon as such a change in the laws occurred.
But I have to ask, what does church tax exempt status have to do with corporations having/gaining rights that belong to people not businesses?
Then I guess the question is, what union conditions aren't being met? If it's gold plated expresso machine and $180/hr when on set, they can stuff it. If it's qualified medical personnel on site and proper sanitation facilities, I'm all for it. It all depends on what their screaming about.
Yes, irta. Still not enough info about what's really going on demand wise, but it sounds like a shill for money and controlling who they hire, but I honestly got lost in all the stupid acronyms and attempts to avoid real data in it.
That was obvious, it showed symptoms of a DDoS attack, not a DNS problem. I find it funny it was caused by their own error.
Maybe because they added a lot of random targets to disguise the real target(s). I'd definitely do more than 100 distractions attacks per real attack just to confuse my opponents.
At least the US hasn't ran over it's own students with tanks yet.
I was in the USAF and had to deal with pilots fairly often. It's true they are good with their planes, but most of them are rather stupid and would fail most logic tests. (But they tend to have egos the size of Texas, and the dumber they are, the bigger the ego.)
There are exceptions, about 20%, but for the most part, don't let them near anything that's not a plane they've trained on.
You're right.
I'm getting defensive about this for some reason.
I know defending the common good and educating the ignorant are both usually a good idea, but some people revel in their dementia and don't want it disturbed. Sometimes I don't recognize this quickly enough and need to be reminded that I'm talking to a bakatare.
You don't get it, but you'd best be careful about statements like "...for me to kill you.". That can be taken as a death threat, and since you posted on the internet, it would get the feds involved. Please do everyone a favor and go take some basic civics and law classes from your local college (or high school), until then, just shut up before you do any more damage to yourself.
Are you sure their 'idiot admin' is really an idiot? Maybe (s)he is a sympathetic techie that took a calculated risk based on confidence of the masses and plausible deniability.
Yeah, I know the odds aren't great for that, but it could be possible.
(Just imagine if you had a conscience and were the admin for those scum and a chance like that came up. What would you do?)