We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place.
The answer to that is you impose tariffs on imports from those places to the extent that their manufacturing processes don't meet US standards. The US is still the biggest economy in the world so it's difficult to ignore it as a market.
As I've said to other posters, the difficulty here is with the ITC, free trade agreements we've signed, and other legal obstacles. I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it would not be an overnight process and it would be a lot of work to implement and enforce.
What if the laws that regulate pollution within a country also included requirements for import tariffs? The imported goods/commodities must have documentation on their production method. If the methods are polluting, and the pollution can affect the country of destination (e.g. emissions into the atmosphere or water), a calculated tariff is mandated. This might be a bit complex, but maybe better than doing nothing at all and letting developing nations pollute uncontrollably?
I agree that this is a possible solution but due to ITC and free trade agreements that we have signed, this may be very difficult to implement.
Don't worry, so it doing a hit of crack cocaine, or breaking into a private computer (what [sic] should be a civil case).
Well hold on now. You think breaking into a computer should be a civil case? What if I break into your house, is that a civil matter, too? I'm not saying that it should be punished more severely than breaking into a house, but I do believe that it should be a criminal offense. The severity should be based on the severity of the damage caused by the intrusion.
If you tell me that they are two completely different things, and that one deserves more protection than the other, then I would argue that the 4th amendment should not cover your computer if your computer does not need the same protection as your other personal property. And I'd hate for the 4th amendment not to cover a computer.
What a lot of disingenous nonsense, any attempted action of this kind could easily be countered with import taxes, the entire framework for doing so is already in place.
In theory, yes. But in practice, does it really happen? Do we charge import duties on Chinese goods to offset the environmental costs? No, we do not. And if we tried, we could very well run into difficulties due to the ITC and free trade agreements that the US has signed. It's not just a simple matter of adding a tariff to goods. There would have to be a massive overhaul to our trade rules.
I am still trying to figure out was the *disadvantage* is (in terms of climate and environment) to less pollution.
I know some fat blowhard will make less money, but excuse me if that doesn't concern me much.
The issue isn't that we're concerned about the über wealthy losing money. The issue is that, unless you can get every single nation in the world to agree on certain environmental and worker health and safety standards, you're fighting an uphill battle. We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place. Then they have even less incentive to reduce their emissions. You have to solve the problem of globalization in order to solve the problem of industrial pollution. Otherwise we'll lose the jobs and pollution will likely get worse.
$0. They didn't give him money becuase a) it was a shit bug report and b) corporations are innately averse to giving out money to *anybody*, even if there's a policy saying they have to. Palestine has nothing to do with it.
Maybe Facebook's coffers are so empty that they can't afford to pay a $500 bounty?
22 comments and not one joke about his Miranda Rights?
Last I checked, Miranda Rights are a US thing, not a UK thing. I would also not be surprised if Miranda rights were limited at the US Border. I think you are required by law to answer certain specific questions about your origin and destination, and probably about your personal effects as well.
How much of the plunge was due to lack of search / app availability vs third party pages not loading properly do to analytics and other google dependencies?
This is slashdot, so naturally I did not RTFA but I was wondering if the drop was actually due to YouTube. If they are measuring traffic in the amount of data flowing through the network, then YouTube is the obvious choice. If they are talking about page hits then I would guess that its due to the search engine being down.
Multi-tasking is a plausible explanation, but I can posit another one quite easily.
If instead of focusing on writing the content you're trying to do any form of formatting, layout, entering equations, trying to do diagrams -- you are already multi-tasking and part of your attention is on the device instead of what you're listening to.
I've tried taking notes on a laptop, and I found it distracting and more trouble than it's worth. If you can see the Prof is drawing a quadrant or a graph, you can do that by hand far faster on a sheet of paper.
Maybe someone can do it, but for me, I find that good old fashioned paper is still the most effective way for me to take notes and commit stuff to paper and I can annotate it later.
I just don't think the input techniques we have available to us are anywhere near as effective as pen and paper.
My guess? Give someone a laptop which has no internet connectivity while they're taking notes, and with only the application open they're directly using -- and they'll still do worse.
I got my first laptop back when they were still pretty expensive (intel 486). I took all of my notes in college on the laptop, except math. Math was too much of a chore on the laptop. I found that, because I can easily average 150WPM on the keyboard, I could spend more time actually listening to the lecturer and less time trying to actually note what they were saying. I definitely feel like this helped me to concentrate more on the lecture. If it was a dumb class, or an easy A for me, then I would play video games while the teacher lectured, and pause them if the teacher broached a subject that I felt I needed more knowledge on.
That still doesn't make it legal (that may depend on your jurisdiction), but it will of course seriously reduce the chance of getting caught.
It's also perfectly legal to jam LIDAR in most states. THe only reason jamming radar is illegal is due to FCC Regs. The FDA governs the use of lasers and they have not made it illegal to jam LIDAR. Of course this is obviously a US-centric comment.
The problem is both are true. Morsi was the democratically elected leader, and he was setting if not himself up as a dictator permanent brotherhood rule.
Still unless someone can prove he violated Egypts new Constitution Morsi is the only legitimate leader of that nation. Its not know if Morsi's effort to marginalize opposition parties would have been effective enough to see him re-elected with a public wise to the danger/agenda he posed; it was however to duty of anyone who seriously wanted a democracy in Egypt to wait that long and find out.
This is sham; and long term I am confident it will prove harmful to reform. You can't have a democracy and a precedent for simply removing elected leaders when you are not satisfied with the outcome.
That is not true at all. California recalled and removed Governor Gray Davis. The people do not have to sit there and shrug their shoulders and say "Well we tried. Maybe next election." Does that mean that the military needs to step in? Well that depends. If Gray Davis refused to abdicate his position of governor, I would have been all for the California National Guard coming in there and removing him by force.
I've had my Samsung android phone for a year or two now, and despite trying a boatload of different (free and paid) email apps, I've never seen one that can manage calender requests
What version of Android are you running? I haven't seen any issues like that with Android since 2.2. Granted the HTC mail client had issues with handling Exchange accounts properly through 2.3 (I dropped HTC and never made it to 4.0 with an HTC phone). Maybe the issue is Samsung's proprietary email client? Because I've been using the stock android mail client since 2.3 seamlessly with ActiveSync. The only downside I see is that you can only sync one calendar (the default calendar) but that is a limit of ActiveSync itself.
The only long term solution for human race is colonizing other planets. Having all our eggs in one basket is a bad idea regardless of who is right about the severity of the impact of global warming.
So we can destroy another planet? What NASA doesn't want you to know is that we came from Mars. This isn't our first trip down Global Warming Lane.
Bankruptcy laws vary by state. I was injured by someone who committed an assault felony against me. I talked to a lawyer and found that in this state, any damages that were awarded to me from a criminal act were dischargeable through bankruptcy. The lawyer said that the best I could hope for is that they threw the book at the guy, but not to expect any damages because he didn't have any assets that would prevent him from discharging the damages in bankruptcy.
Having a vaccine that must be injected intravenously (not just intramuscularly), five times, in order to be effective is an interesting scientific advance (as stated in TFA), but isn't what one would call a practical solution to the malaria problem in the underdeveloped world (also as stated in TFA). Also keep in mind that many other proposed vaccines have looked good initially, but failed to pass muster later on, and that this trial was very, very small:
I got bit by a dog as a child. They could not find the animal and, due to the nature of the attack, there was concern that it may be rabid. I had to have 7 rabies shots over the course of about 5 weeks. Yes they were intramuscular, but it was worth every shot to not succumb to rabies. Something is better than nothing.
This is why I have been running my own domain and mail service since 2000. At least I can always keep my email address if a hosting provider causes problems.
You'd be hard pressed to hunt even mice with such a projectile, unless it weighs nearly as much as the mouse. There's a wide range between "could cause a dangerous accident" and "useful as a weapon". Even a rifle firing 22LR is arguably in the former category, though it's fine for hunting sufficiently small game.
You do realize that most civilian firearm deaths occur from a.22LR right? Tried finding the UCR Report data from the FBI but I couldn't find anything in the short time that I have. But there are way more.22LR's floating around than anything else out there, and the ammo is much more affordable.
I made the mistake of eating a hamburger in London in 2001. I was on a long business trip and just wanted something quick to eat, so I ducked into a McDonalds.
Little did I know that, thanks to the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease, this simple act would make me ineligible to become a blood donor for years to come.
Who and where are you trying to make your donation to? I used to donate blood religiously (haven't because I am irritated with my current blood bank) and my understanding is that you had to live in the UK during a certain time frame for more than 6 months. It doesn't matter what you ate, only how long you were there for. That was the case at the American Red Cross, Stanford Blood Bank, and the local blood bank in my current state.
And in case you're wondering, I am unhappy with my current blood bank because I feel that they are disrespectful. They call me every day asking me to donate. I tell them I am busy, or not feeling well or whatever and ask them to call me back. I have even been ineligible, and told them that I was ineligible for the next 6 months, and they still call daily. It's rude.
The act of spying & collecting this data didn't already pass this threshold?
While I tend to agree, I can at least commend the NSA for trying to limit the use of this data where there isn't an overriding purpose.
I suspect the real reason they don not want to release this information to law enforcement agencies is to prevent it from being used in a court of law. It will be very difficult to raise the domestic spying issue as a violation of the 4th amendment if there is no one who can claim standing in a civil or criminal procedure. So I definitely think you misunderstand the NSA's motive in this.
I was instantly reminded of Steve Jobs saying that 7-inch tablets were dumb.
Then I was reminded of an education conference I attended long ago and said that lots of PCs could be connected together and work on the same problem. The University's CS prof just blinked like he'd never heard anything so wacky.
Oh yeah, and I also remember IBM laughing at how cute PC's were. A year or two before they started sweating blood.
He may not mean dumb as in, this will never be useful. He may just mean that now is not the time for 8 core mobile chips. I would tend to agree. I have a 4 core machine in my desktop and the only time I use all those cores are 1) compiling code or 2) transcoding video. Very rarely do I use anywhere near all the processing power this thing contains. And I doubt that I use most of the cores on my 4 core telephone, either.
Actually-having-facial-hair race here, and I've yet to see an electric razor able to come close to "smooth-as-sandpaper", let alone as smooth as a proper Wilkinson blade will do it.
My beard is thick and heavy and my skin is sensitive. I shave every 3 or 4 days. My electric razor actually does a good job on 80% of my hair. But there is no way I could leave it the way it looks after I finish with the electric. I work from home most of the time, so I'll run the electric razor in between builds, or during other downtime. Once I get down to that last 20% I just use a regular razor. It takes a lot longer to shave versus a manual razor, but I do it during downtime, so I don't really care. Its also a lot easier and more comfortable than just using a regular razor when it starts getting long.
Yeah they serve all right.. I'm guessing it's not too terribly dangerous to fly about in an armored helicopter shooting at a bunch of asiatic hillbillies with AK-47s.
Not exactly the same thing as 'going down with the ship' in the face of a nuclear missile strike, is it?
Hey man I have a buddy who was a DART member (Downed Aircraft Rescue Team). His group would go out in Blackhawks to either salvage or destroy downed Apaches. Twice the aircraft he traveled in was shot down by hostiles as they attempted to land to execute their mission. I don't know how many aircraft he went in to recover, but they usually bring in other aircraft to provide support when they go into land, so obviously those hillbillies can still be dangerous.
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We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place.
The answer to that is you impose tariffs on imports from those places to the extent that their manufacturing processes don't meet US standards. The US is still the biggest economy in the world so it's difficult to ignore it as a market.
As I've said to other posters, the difficulty here is with the ITC, free trade agreements we've signed, and other legal obstacles. I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it would not be an overnight process and it would be a lot of work to implement and enforce.
What if the laws that regulate pollution within a country also included requirements for import tariffs? The imported goods/commodities must have documentation on their production method. If the methods are polluting, and the pollution can affect the country of destination (e.g. emissions into the atmosphere or water), a calculated tariff is mandated. This might be a bit complex, but maybe better than doing nothing at all and letting developing nations pollute uncontrollably?
I agree that this is a possible solution but due to ITC and free trade agreements that we have signed, this may be very difficult to implement.
Don't worry, so it doing a hit of crack cocaine, or breaking into a private computer (what [sic] should be a civil case).
Well hold on now. You think breaking into a computer should be a civil case? What if I break into your house, is that a civil matter, too? I'm not saying that it should be punished more severely than breaking into a house, but I do believe that it should be a criminal offense. The severity should be based on the severity of the damage caused by the intrusion.
If you tell me that they are two completely different things, and that one deserves more protection than the other, then I would argue that the 4th amendment should not cover your computer if your computer does not need the same protection as your other personal property. And I'd hate for the 4th amendment not to cover a computer.
What a lot of disingenous nonsense, any attempted action of this kind could easily be countered with import taxes, the entire framework for doing so is already in place.
In theory, yes. But in practice, does it really happen? Do we charge import duties on Chinese goods to offset the environmental costs? No, we do not. And if we tried, we could very well run into difficulties due to the ITC and free trade agreements that the US has signed. It's not just a simple matter of adding a tariff to goods. There would have to be a massive overhaul to our trade rules.
I am still trying to figure out was the *disadvantage* is (in terms of climate and environment) to less pollution.
I know some fat blowhard will make less money, but excuse me if that doesn't concern me much.
The issue isn't that we're concerned about the über wealthy losing money. The issue is that, unless you can get every single nation in the world to agree on certain environmental and worker health and safety standards, you're fighting an uphill battle. We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place. Then they have even less incentive to reduce their emissions. You have to solve the problem of globalization in order to solve the problem of industrial pollution. Otherwise we'll lose the jobs and pollution will likely get worse.
$0. They didn't give him money becuase a) it was a shit bug report and b) corporations are innately averse to giving out money to *anybody*, even if there's a policy saying they have to. Palestine has nothing to do with it.
Maybe Facebook's coffers are so empty that they can't afford to pay a $500 bounty?
22 comments and not one joke about his Miranda Rights?
Last I checked, Miranda Rights are a US thing, not a UK thing. I would also not be surprised if Miranda rights were limited at the US Border. I think you are required by law to answer certain specific questions about your origin and destination, and probably about your personal effects as well.
How much of the plunge was due to lack of search / app availability vs third party pages not loading properly do to analytics and other google dependencies?
This is slashdot, so naturally I did not RTFA but I was wondering if the drop was actually due to YouTube. If they are measuring traffic in the amount of data flowing through the network, then YouTube is the obvious choice. If they are talking about page hits then I would guess that its due to the search engine being down.
Multi-tasking is a plausible explanation, but I can posit another one quite easily.
If instead of focusing on writing the content you're trying to do any form of formatting, layout, entering equations, trying to do diagrams -- you are already multi-tasking and part of your attention is on the device instead of what you're listening to.
I've tried taking notes on a laptop, and I found it distracting and more trouble than it's worth. If you can see the Prof is drawing a quadrant or a graph, you can do that by hand far faster on a sheet of paper.
Maybe someone can do it, but for me, I find that good old fashioned paper is still the most effective way for me to take notes and commit stuff to paper and I can annotate it later.
I just don't think the input techniques we have available to us are anywhere near as effective as pen and paper.
My guess? Give someone a laptop which has no internet connectivity while they're taking notes, and with only the application open they're directly using -- and they'll still do worse.
I got my first laptop back when they were still pretty expensive (intel 486). I took all of my notes in college on the laptop, except math. Math was too much of a chore on the laptop. I found that, because I can easily average 150WPM on the keyboard, I could spend more time actually listening to the lecturer and less time trying to actually note what they were saying. I definitely feel like this helped me to concentrate more on the lecture. If it was a dumb class, or an easy A for me, then I would play video games while the teacher lectured, and pause them if the teacher broached a subject that I felt I needed more knowledge on.
That still doesn't make it legal (that may depend on your jurisdiction), but it will of course seriously reduce the chance of getting caught.
It's also perfectly legal to jam LIDAR in most states. THe only reason jamming radar is illegal is due to FCC Regs. The FDA governs the use of lasers and they have not made it illegal to jam LIDAR. Of course this is obviously a US-centric comment.
The problem is both are true. Morsi was the democratically elected leader, and he was setting if not himself up as a dictator permanent brotherhood rule.
Still unless someone can prove he violated Egypts new Constitution Morsi is the only legitimate leader of that nation. Its not know if Morsi's effort to marginalize opposition parties would have been effective enough to see him re-elected with a public wise to the danger/agenda he posed; it was however to duty of anyone who seriously wanted a democracy in Egypt to wait that long and find out.
This is sham; and long term I am confident it will prove harmful to reform. You can't have a democracy and a precedent for simply removing elected leaders when you are not satisfied with the outcome.
That is not true at all. California recalled and removed Governor Gray Davis. The people do not have to sit there and shrug their shoulders and say "Well we tried. Maybe next election." Does that mean that the military needs to step in? Well that depends. If Gray Davis refused to abdicate his position of governor, I would have been all for the California National Guard coming in there and removing him by force.
I've had my Samsung android phone for a year or two now, and despite trying a boatload of different (free and paid) email apps, I've never seen one that can manage calender requests
What version of Android are you running? I haven't seen any issues like that with Android since 2.2. Granted the HTC mail client had issues with handling Exchange accounts properly through 2.3 (I dropped HTC and never made it to 4.0 with an HTC phone). Maybe the issue is Samsung's proprietary email client? Because I've been using the stock android mail client since 2.3 seamlessly with ActiveSync. The only downside I see is that you can only sync one calendar (the default calendar) but that is a limit of ActiveSync itself.
fair point!
The only long term solution for human race is colonizing other planets. Having all our eggs in one basket is a bad idea regardless of who is right about the severity of the impact of global warming.
So we can destroy another planet? What NASA doesn't want you to know is that we came from Mars. This isn't our first trip down Global Warming Lane.
Restitution in criminal cases is not dischargable by bankruptcy.
So basically he's a slave until the restitution is made.
http://coloradobankruptcyguide.com/940/can-i-get-rid-of-my-criminal-restitution-obligation-in-bankruptcy/
Bankruptcy laws vary by state. I was injured by someone who committed an assault felony against me. I talked to a lawyer and found that in this state, any damages that were awarded to me from a criminal act were dischargeable through bankruptcy. The lawyer said that the best I could hope for is that they threw the book at the guy, but not to expect any damages because he didn't have any assets that would prevent him from discharging the damages in bankruptcy.
Having a vaccine that must be injected intravenously (not just intramuscularly), five times, in order to be effective is an interesting scientific advance (as stated in TFA), but isn't what one would call a practical solution to the malaria problem in the underdeveloped world (also as stated in TFA). Also keep in mind that many other proposed vaccines have looked good initially, but failed to pass muster later on, and that this trial was very, very small:
I got bit by a dog as a child. They could not find the animal and, due to the nature of the attack, there was concern that it may be rabid. I had to have 7 rabies shots over the course of about 5 weeks. Yes they were intramuscular, but it was worth every shot to not succumb to rabies. Something is better than nothing.
This is why I have been running my own domain and mail service since 2000. At least I can always keep my email address if a hosting provider causes problems.
have driven out anyone who believes in individual rights and has an IQ over room temperature.
I assume you're using Celsius?
You'd be hard pressed to hunt even mice with such a projectile, unless it weighs nearly as much as the mouse. There's a wide range between "could cause a dangerous accident" and "useful as a weapon". Even a rifle firing 22LR is arguably in the former category, though it's fine for hunting sufficiently small game.
You do realize that most civilian firearm deaths occur from a .22LR right? Tried finding the UCR Report data from the FBI but I couldn't find anything in the short time that I have. But there are way more .22LR's floating around than anything else out there, and the ammo is much more affordable.
All lawyers and all doctors are in unions, dumbfuck.
No, lawyers and doctors are more like a guild than a union.
I made the mistake of eating a hamburger in London in 2001. I was on a long business trip and just wanted something quick to eat, so I ducked into a McDonalds.
Little did I know that, thanks to the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease, this simple act would make me ineligible to become a blood donor for years to come.
Who and where are you trying to make your donation to? I used to donate blood religiously (haven't because I am irritated with my current blood bank) and my understanding is that you had to live in the UK during a certain time frame for more than 6 months. It doesn't matter what you ate, only how long you were there for. That was the case at the American Red Cross, Stanford Blood Bank, and the local blood bank in my current state.
And in case you're wondering, I am unhappy with my current blood bank because I feel that they are disrespectful. They call me every day asking me to donate. I tell them I am busy, or not feeling well or whatever and ask them to call me back. I have even been ineligible, and told them that I was ineligible for the next 6 months, and they still call daily. It's rude.
The act of spying & collecting this data didn't already pass this threshold?
While I tend to agree, I can at least commend the NSA for trying to limit the use of this data where there isn't an overriding purpose.
I suspect the real reason they don not want to release this information to law enforcement agencies is to prevent it from being used in a court of law. It will be very difficult to raise the domestic spying issue as a violation of the 4th amendment if there is no one who can claim standing in a civil or criminal procedure. So I definitely think you misunderstand the NSA's motive in this.
I was instantly reminded of Steve Jobs saying that 7-inch tablets were dumb.
Then I was reminded of an education conference I attended long ago and said that lots of PCs could be connected together and work on the same problem. The University's CS prof just blinked like he'd never heard anything so wacky.
Oh yeah, and I also remember IBM laughing at how cute PC's were. A year or two before they started sweating blood.
He may not mean dumb as in, this will never be useful. He may just mean that now is not the time for 8 core mobile chips. I would tend to agree. I have a 4 core machine in my desktop and the only time I use all those cores are 1) compiling code or 2) transcoding video. Very rarely do I use anywhere near all the processing power this thing contains. And I doubt that I use most of the cores on my 4 core telephone, either.
Actually-having-facial-hair race here, and I've yet to see an electric razor able to come close to "smooth-as-sandpaper", let alone as smooth as a proper Wilkinson blade will do it.
My beard is thick and heavy and my skin is sensitive. I shave every 3 or 4 days. My electric razor actually does a good job on 80% of my hair. But there is no way I could leave it the way it looks after I finish with the electric. I work from home most of the time, so I'll run the electric razor in between builds, or during other downtime. Once I get down to that last 20% I just use a regular razor. It takes a lot longer to shave versus a manual razor, but I do it during downtime, so I don't really care. Its also a lot easier and more comfortable than just using a regular razor when it starts getting long.
Yeah they serve all right.. I'm guessing it's not too terribly dangerous to fly about in an armored helicopter shooting at a bunch of asiatic hillbillies with AK-47s.
Not exactly the same thing as 'going down with the ship' in the face of a nuclear missile strike, is it?
Hey man I have a buddy who was a DART member (Downed Aircraft Rescue Team). His group would go out in Blackhawks to either salvage or destroy downed Apaches. Twice the aircraft he traveled in was shot down by hostiles as they attempted to land to execute their mission. I don't know how many aircraft he went in to recover, but they usually bring in other aircraft to provide support when they go into land, so obviously those hillbillies can still be dangerous.