Hold on there fella. Make sure you use https://www.google.com./ This way you can completely rule out anyone between your door and Google's door. That way, when they come knocking on your door, you subpoena their information so that you can determine whether you get to sue Google, or the Federal government.
So I started to think of how the military was in the more tolerant countres and that got me thinking about the thai military:D
Imho it's pretty retarded if being gay affect your chances in the military at all.
Well the reasons are historical and make quite a bit of sense. You have to understand that homosexuality is not considered socially acceptable in some circles. Previously, being gay was enough to destroy someone's career, life, and potentially cause family problems. There are still some people whose family would disown them if they were gay. Is that right? I would say no. But the point of these background checks is to look for anything that could be used as leverage against you. If being gay is not socially acceptable in your family/social circle/career, then it can be used as leverage. That's just the way it is. Unfortunate as it may be.
It will be paying out 71% in 2047 so exactly how young are you?
I'm in my 30s and I have over 30 years until I hit social security age. So it'll be about 2047 when I am even eligible to collect my first cent... I've been contributing to social security for over 16 years now, and the last 6+ I've been capped out at the max contribution.
RIght, but if corporations are people, then their business records are clearly "personal effects and papers," no?
IANAL but that's exactly what I was thinking. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. So I guess someone in that jurisdiction needs to start suing their mobile provider to get them to delete all this location data once their bill has been paid. After all, they need the location data for billing purposes. Once the bill has been settled, they no longer need those records, only the settled invoice itself. And since I prepay, have unlimited everything, and have no roaming capabilities, there is no need to keep any location data whatsoever. Hmm...
That doesn't mean I could fly a big airplane (wouldn't even be able to start it I guess),
I used to work on simulators for jet aircraft and I bet you could fire it up no problem. They always have a checklist in the crew station, and most of the airframes I've messed around with are dead simple to start up. A very truncated version of the procedure (assuming the aircraft is safe to fly) is just APU - wait for it to spool up, Engine 1, wait for it to get up to speed, and then Engine 2 thru n. You can even start the next engine before the first spools up completely, but its usually against the procedure.
Why did this get modded down?
It's an AC being both funny AND informative!
Because I checked the star charts and my calculations say there is no way that you can have an informative AND funny AC today. It's just not possible. We've been duped.
StraightTalk is almost never ATT service anymore - you can't even order a StraightTalk AT&T SIM kit nowadays (unless you pay a premium on eBay, I suppose).
Interestingly enough: You can get a couple of different SmartTalk smartphones that are activated on the Verizon network.
Huh. That must be new. Of course I haven't looked at WFM/STraightTalk for like a year now.
Why pay more for an unlocked phone? So you aren't in a contract, they don't give you a discount on services. It makes no sense that they make a person with a locked or unlocked or out of contract phone pay the same amount. Make it worth my while and I'll bring my own phone to the game.
You can get an unlocked Nexus 4 for $300, sign up for T-mobile's $30/month unlimited data/texting (100 voice minutes), and save a ton of cash over Verizon/ATT/Sprint. Or if you want unlimited everything, it's $50 a month. Considering that I was at almost $100 a month with ATT and at $80 a month with Sprint, that $300 Nexus 4 would be paid off in 10 months with unlimited everything on T-mobile.
Try Straight talk. It's Wal-Mart's rebranded service provided by either T-Mobile or ATT (you choose which type of SIM you want). The tricky point is you don't get roaming like you would have included with T-Mobile or ATT proper. Based on where I live, work, and mostly travel the T-Mobile SIM works great for me. $45/mo unlimited talk, text, and web on HSPA+. They did call me and fuss at me for data usage once, but it was pretty egregious.. I think I downloaded like 20-30GB one month:-/
StraightTalk is always ATT service. Walmart Family Mobile is the T-mobile service plan offered by Walmart. WFM is not really any cheaper than T-mobile's new plans, either. I just moved from WFM to T-mobile
15 minutes for a colonscopy? Where do they get this number? Getting informed consent can take 15 minutes just by itself (and is something the doc has to do). 15 minutes sounds like the best-case scenario (e.g. a screening colonscopy on a healthy 50 year old with no findings) and a number to sensationalize the article. What is the distribution of times that the procedure takes? Maybe 75 minutes is actually a reasonable time to expect the procedure to take on average?
That the health care system in this country is screwed up is not at issue. The article wants to point out the ludicrousness of the reimbursement mechanisms in place. Putting in a context-free and unexplained statistic only weakens its argument.
I just had an upper GI done yesterday. I was wheeled back at 9am and was back in recovery (and in and out of consciousness) by 9:30am. That was with them leaving a sensor in my throat to test for acid reflux. I wasn't fully sedated, they just medicated me to cause me to forget what was going on, and to not feel any pain during the procedure. I'm a bit resistant to the medication, which explains why I remember things starting at 9:30
Get out the pitchforks and torches, antisocialists.
What is interesting to me is that private hospitals negotiate rates with medicare and insurers, but basically set their own rates for the uninsured. My limited knowledge on the topic is merely based upon the few articles that have achieved my attention, but medicare rates are apparently the most reality-based, since the federal government gets to collect and analyze more of the pertinent data than anyone else. The private insurers have some strength in numbers/volume, and have their own data, and get to negotiate a bit. The uninsured are basically screwed, and are asked to pay many times what is charged to the insured or medicaid patients.
Google chargemaster, if you are interested.
My understanding is that the doctors have no choice but to jack the rates up on the uninsured. The insurance companies force it. They want a discount over what uninsured patients pay. If they do not get the discount they want, they do not add the provider to their network. My source for this information? A doctor I see on a routine basis. I needed a piece of medical equipment that my doctor carried. My co-pay, with insurance, was over $500. When the doctor saw the co-pay, he sold it to me for his cost ($100). I've known this doctor for a number of years, know the names of his kids, his wife, etc. So when I asked him what the deal was with that, he was pretty straightforward with me.
I suspect that providers like hospitals often charge significantly higher rates to try and compensate for uninsured people who never pay their bills. But I could be wrong about that.
I mean, do you really need to take your backpack with you on lunch, or even bring one at all, if you worked somewhere with this stupid policy. Take the sandwich out of the bag unless they think you will steal an iPhone between two slices of bread.
The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results.
You know that women work at Apple Stores, too. Women often carry purses. They often carry things in their purse that do not include lunch. Some of those things are personal care products that most women don't like waving around. At least that is what I have noticed from the view out the basement window.
A single large chunk is no different than any other spacecraft in a transfer orbit. I think we've only had one or two unintended collisions between spacecraft in 60 years. It's rubble smeared out across orbits that you've got to worry about.
More than that, most asteroid plans intend to keep the rock in a high orbit, such as lunar orbit or a lagrange point, in orbit to provide a testing ground for manned space-flight beyond low orbit. Very little company up there..
if they bring this in slowly enough
Errr, no. Look, if you're curious about space, it's worth your time learning some basic orbital mechanics. The maths is just simple algebra (the harder stuff is generally already worked out by Sir Isaac and his successors, tidied up into neat formula) and it will give your a better sense of scale and how things work out there.
I understand orbital mechanics. The concern is not about if they successfully bring it into a safe orbit. The concern is if they try to bring it in a safe orbit and something bad happens and it comes into the atmosphere over time due to gravity. Obviously if it comes flying in at thousands of miles an hour its less likely to cause huge problems but if they don't get it into a stable orbit and it comes down, its much more likely to cause a problem.
What could possibly go wrong moving asteroid chunks into Earth orbit.
Not much could go wrong aside from the mission just not working. The Earth's atmosphere will stop an errant asteroid chunk of this size. If those chunks get far bigger, then they'll have to worry to some degree about preventing asteroid impacts with Earth.
What about all the satellites that could potentially be destroyed by a large asteroid chunk moving through orbit? I mean, if they bring this in slowly enough it could be a large chunk of rock floating through various different orbits as it slowly descends toward either.
First, the United States would not seek the death penalty for Mr. Snowden should he return to the United States.
Translation: We will not "seek" it, but we don't guarantee that he won't get it. It's up to the judge who does the actual sentencing.
I'm not sure where you are from or how you think the death penalty works but the Justice Department would have to seek the death penalty in order for him to be sentenced to death. There is a different set of rules that must be met in order for someone to be given the death penalty. It affects the rules and instructions given to a jury. In fact, a jury can only convict someone of crimes brought against them by the prosecution. Thus, if you killed someone, and the prosecution only sought murder charges, then you could not be convicted of manslaughter. You could only be acquitted if they determined it was not murder.
It's worse than you feared. India announced just a few weeks ago the development of what they call their "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator." Word is that they can destroy an entire planet with that thing.
In order to disable the breaks, they gained access to the car's interior and plugged a computer into the system bus. It's easier and less intrusive to cut a brake line. Wake me up when they can hack the car from outside.
VW hooks up the stereos in their cars to the CANBUS so that the stereo can detect when the door opens, and things like that. I am not saying its possible, but if there were a security flaw with a BT enabled stereo, it may be theoretically possible to access the CANBUS on the car and screw things up remotely.
if I'm sitting in your car, plugged in to the canbus, I can control things on the canbus....
Yeppers....
Just like if I have access to your laptop for long enough, I can get whatever is on it. (encryption will slow it down, but like I said, given time and access?)
But you'll probably notice me sitting in your car, plugging a cord into the port before I take the time to crash your car, with me riding in it.....
While this is amusing, I'm not that nervous about "security through not having some donkey plug his laptop in your car with a death wish while you are hurtling down the highway"
Having them use the "open" canbus specs, you can add aftermarket devices, and not have to take your car to the dealer for any service.
If they fully lock it down, the dealer will be the ONLY place that could work on it. And the ONLY parts you could add to your car.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are BlueTooth and WiFi enabled ODB-II devices that could be used to exploit this issue in other people's cars. I ripped out my dashboard to perform a mod to my navigation system / run some wiring. When I did that, I put a 90 degree bend ODB-II cable at the ODB-II port and ran it into my glove box just so that I could hook up my ODB-II sensor while driving without having the cable dangling between my legs. I unplug mine unless I am doing diagnostics but I know there are people that keep theirs hooked up at all times.
I can appreciate applying Anti Tamper and other IA techniques to 'harden' cars, but I hope this doesn't return us to where only ''licensed' repair facilities can work on cars.
That would be illegal as the Federal Legislature has mandated that all cars must have certain info publicly available via the ODB-II port (1995 and above). So unless that law were repealed or amended, they cannot restrict access to the functionality dictated by that law.
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$i = 0 while $i = 0 wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker" wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"
'Nuff Said
Hold on there fella. Make sure you use https://www.google.com./ This way you can completely rule out anyone between your door and Google's door. That way, when they come knocking on your door, you subpoena their information so that you can determine whether you get to sue Google, or the Federal government.
So I started to think of how the military was in the more tolerant countres and that got me thinking about the thai military :D
Imho it's pretty retarded if being gay affect your chances in the military at all.
Well the reasons are historical and make quite a bit of sense. You have to understand that homosexuality is not considered socially acceptable in some circles. Previously, being gay was enough to destroy someone's career, life, and potentially cause family problems. There are still some people whose family would disown them if they were gay. Is that right? I would say no. But the point of these background checks is to look for anything that could be used as leverage against you. If being gay is not socially acceptable in your family/social circle/career, then it can be used as leverage. That's just the way it is. Unfortunate as it may be.
TSA employee?
Yes, the Toilet Security Agency is always looking for people who are willing and able to probe peoples anal regions for fun
It will be paying out 71% in 2047 so exactly how young are you?
I'm in my 30s and I have over 30 years until I hit social security age. So it'll be about 2047 when I am even eligible to collect my first cent... I've been contributing to social security for over 16 years now, and the last 6+ I've been capped out at the max contribution.
Actually Iraq's chemical weapons program came mostly from Germany and France. Not everything bad in the world is America's fault.
Don't sell the states short! We're so arrogant we believe that we created everything good AND bad in this world! We're the best at everything. ;)
RIght, but if corporations are people, then their business records are clearly "personal effects and papers," no?
IANAL but that's exactly what I was thinking. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. So I guess someone in that jurisdiction needs to start suing their mobile provider to get them to delete all this location data once their bill has been paid. After all, they need the location data for billing purposes. Once the bill has been settled, they no longer need those records, only the settled invoice itself. And since I prepay, have unlimited everything, and have no roaming capabilities, there is no need to keep any location data whatsoever. Hmm...
I think he means pwnies.
That doesn't mean I could fly a big airplane (wouldn't even be able to start it I guess),
I used to work on simulators for jet aircraft and I bet you could fire it up no problem. They always have a checklist in the crew station, and most of the airframes I've messed around with are dead simple to start up. A very truncated version of the procedure (assuming the aircraft is safe to fly) is just APU - wait for it to spool up, Engine 1, wait for it to get up to speed, and then Engine 2 thru n. You can even start the next engine before the first spools up completely, but its usually against the procedure.
Why did this get modded down? It's an AC being both funny AND informative!
Because I checked the star charts and my calculations say there is no way that you can have an informative AND funny AC today. It's just not possible. We've been duped.
StraightTalk is almost never ATT service anymore - you can't even order a StraightTalk AT&T SIM kit nowadays (unless you pay a premium on eBay, I suppose). Interestingly enough: You can get a couple of different SmartTalk smartphones that are activated on the Verizon network.
Huh. That must be new. Of course I haven't looked at WFM/STraightTalk for like a year now.
Why pay more for an unlocked phone? So you aren't in a contract, they don't give you a discount on services. It makes no sense that they make a person with a locked or unlocked or out of contract phone pay the same amount. Make it worth my while and I'll bring my own phone to the game.
You can get an unlocked Nexus 4 for $300, sign up for T-mobile's $30/month unlimited data/texting (100 voice minutes), and save a ton of cash over Verizon/ATT/Sprint. Or if you want unlimited everything, it's $50 a month. Considering that I was at almost $100 a month with ATT and at $80 a month with Sprint, that $300 Nexus 4 would be paid off in 10 months with unlimited everything on T-mobile.
Try Straight talk. It's Wal-Mart's rebranded service provided by either T-Mobile or ATT (you choose which type of SIM you want). The tricky point is you don't get roaming like you would have included with T-Mobile or ATT proper. Based on where I live, work, and mostly travel the T-Mobile SIM works great for me. $45/mo unlimited talk, text, and web on HSPA+. They did call me and fuss at me for data usage once, but it was pretty egregious.. I think I downloaded like 20-30GB one month :-/
StraightTalk is always ATT service. Walmart Family Mobile is the T-mobile service plan offered by Walmart. WFM is not really any cheaper than T-mobile's new plans, either. I just moved from WFM to T-mobile
So the LDA is OTS at SFO and the FAA published RNAV PRM for SOIA. TTL that ATC stepped in or EVA28 would have been SOL and all passengers DOA.
You could have used more acronyms you know. Think of all the bytes and time you wasted typing all of that out!
15 minutes for a colonscopy? Where do they get this number? Getting informed consent can take 15 minutes just by itself (and is something the doc has to do). 15 minutes sounds like the best-case scenario (e.g. a screening colonscopy on a healthy 50 year old with no findings) and a number to sensationalize the article. What is the distribution of times that the procedure takes? Maybe 75 minutes is actually a reasonable time to expect the procedure to take on average?
That the health care system in this country is screwed up is not at issue. The article wants to point out the ludicrousness of the reimbursement mechanisms in place. Putting in a context-free and unexplained statistic only weakens its argument.
I just had an upper GI done yesterday. I was wheeled back at 9am and was back in recovery (and in and out of consciousness) by 9:30am. That was with them leaving a sensor in my throat to test for acid reflux. I wasn't fully sedated, they just medicated me to cause me to forget what was going on, and to not feel any pain during the procedure. I'm a bit resistant to the medication, which explains why I remember things starting at 9:30
Get out the pitchforks and torches, antisocialists.
What is interesting to me is that private hospitals negotiate rates with medicare and insurers, but basically set their own rates for the uninsured. My limited knowledge on the topic is merely based upon the few articles that have achieved my attention, but medicare rates are apparently the most reality-based, since the federal government gets to collect and analyze more of the pertinent data than anyone else. The private insurers have some strength in numbers/volume, and have their own data, and get to negotiate a bit. The uninsured are basically screwed, and are asked to pay many times what is charged to the insured or medicaid patients.
Google chargemaster, if you are interested.
My understanding is that the doctors have no choice but to jack the rates up on the uninsured. The insurance companies force it. They want a discount over what uninsured patients pay. If they do not get the discount they want, they do not add the provider to their network. My source for this information? A doctor I see on a routine basis. I needed a piece of medical equipment that my doctor carried. My co-pay, with insurance, was over $500. When the doctor saw the co-pay, he sold it to me for his cost ($100). I've known this doctor for a number of years, know the names of his kids, his wife, etc. So when I asked him what the deal was with that, he was pretty straightforward with me.
I suspect that providers like hospitals often charge significantly higher rates to try and compensate for uninsured people who never pay their bills. But I could be wrong about that.
I mean, do you really need to take your backpack with you on lunch, or even bring one at all, if you worked somewhere with this stupid policy. Take the sandwich out of the bag unless they think you will steal an iPhone between two slices of bread.
The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results.
You know that women work at Apple Stores, too. Women often carry purses. They often carry things in their purse that do not include lunch. Some of those things are personal care products that most women don't like waving around. At least that is what I have noticed from the view out the basement window.
I understand orbital mechanics.
The rest of your reply suggests otherwise. For example:
and it comes into the atmosphere over time due to gravity.
I understand orbital mechanics.
The rest of your reply suggests otherwise. For example:
and it comes into the atmosphere over time due to gravity.
So you are saying that objects in space cannot enter into a degrading orbit and eventually fall into the earths atmosphere?
A single large chunk is no different than any other spacecraft in a transfer orbit. I think we've only had one or two unintended collisions between spacecraft in 60 years. It's rubble smeared out across orbits that you've got to worry about.
More than that, most asteroid plans intend to keep the rock in a high orbit, such as lunar orbit or a lagrange point, in orbit to provide a testing ground for manned space-flight beyond low orbit. Very little company up there..
if they bring this in slowly enough
Errr, no. Look, if you're curious about space, it's worth your time learning some basic orbital mechanics. The maths is just simple algebra (the harder stuff is generally already worked out by Sir Isaac and his successors, tidied up into neat formula) and it will give your a better sense of scale and how things work out there.
I understand orbital mechanics. The concern is not about if they successfully bring it into a safe orbit. The concern is if they try to bring it in a safe orbit and something bad happens and it comes into the atmosphere over time due to gravity. Obviously if it comes flying in at thousands of miles an hour its less likely to cause huge problems but if they don't get it into a stable orbit and it comes down, its much more likely to cause a problem.
What could possibly go wrong moving asteroid chunks into Earth orbit.
Not much could go wrong aside from the mission just not working. The Earth's atmosphere will stop an errant asteroid chunk of this size. If those chunks get far bigger, then they'll have to worry to some degree about preventing asteroid impacts with Earth.
What about all the satellites that could potentially be destroyed by a large asteroid chunk moving through orbit? I mean, if they bring this in slowly enough it could be a large chunk of rock floating through various different orbits as it slowly descends toward either.
First, the United States would not seek the death penalty for Mr. Snowden should he return to the United States.
Translation: We will not "seek" it, but we don't guarantee that he won't get it. It's up to the judge who does the actual sentencing.
I'm not sure where you are from or how you think the death penalty works but the Justice Department would have to seek the death penalty in order for him to be sentenced to death. There is a different set of rules that must be met in order for someone to be given the death penalty. It affects the rules and instructions given to a jury. In fact, a jury can only convict someone of crimes brought against them by the prosecution. Thus, if you killed someone, and the prosecution only sought murder charges, then you could not be convicted of manslaughter. You could only be acquitted if they determined it was not murder.
India has nuclear weapons. Sleep tight.
It's worse than you feared. India announced just a few weeks ago the development of what they call their "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator." Word is that they can destroy an entire planet with that thing.
Sounds like an interesting person. However, I'm not sure I'd call him "famed" as TFA does, as he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.
(Which I'm sure will appear before long - once you're dead, everybody and their dog have always been your fans.)
So that's what I got to do to get my dog to like me? Everyone said to try peanut butter....
I kid I kid. ;)
In order to disable the breaks, they gained access to the car's interior and plugged a computer into the system bus. It's easier and less intrusive to cut a brake line. Wake me up when they can hack the car from outside.
VW hooks up the stereos in their cars to the CANBUS so that the stereo can detect when the door opens, and things like that. I am not saying its possible, but if there were a security flaw with a BT enabled stereo, it may be theoretically possible to access the CANBUS on the car and screw things up remotely.
So
if I'm sitting in your car, plugged in to the canbus, I can control things on the canbus....
Yeppers....
Just like if I have access to your laptop for long enough, I can get whatever is on it. (encryption will slow it down, but like I said, given time and access?)
But you'll probably notice me sitting in your car, plugging a cord into the port before I take the time to crash your car, with me riding in it..... While this is amusing, I'm not that nervous about "security through not having some donkey plug his laptop in your car with a death wish while you are hurtling down the highway"
Having them use the "open" canbus specs, you can add aftermarket devices, and not have to take your car to the dealer for any service.
If they fully lock it down, the dealer will be the ONLY place that could work on it. And the ONLY parts you could add to your car.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are BlueTooth and WiFi enabled ODB-II devices that could be used to exploit this issue in other people's cars. I ripped out my dashboard to perform a mod to my navigation system / run some wiring. When I did that, I put a 90 degree bend ODB-II cable at the ODB-II port and ran it into my glove box just so that I could hook up my ODB-II sensor while driving without having the cable dangling between my legs. I unplug mine unless I am doing diagnostics but I know there are people that keep theirs hooked up at all times.
I can appreciate applying Anti Tamper and other IA techniques to 'harden' cars, but I hope this doesn't return us to where only ''licensed' repair facilities can work on cars.
That would be illegal as the Federal Legislature has mandated that all cars must have certain info publicly available via the ODB-II port (1995 and above). So unless that law were repealed or amended, they cannot restrict access to the functionality dictated by that law.