and Ford backwards is Driver Returns On Foot. congratulations you have invented a backronym that happens to support your prejudice, don't do too big dance in celebration it is only slightly harder than inventing the acronym in the first place. FUCK Fornication Under Consent of the King
because content providers who want the high ratings and people viewing it in places that at best will not increase their ratings and possibly even draw people from places that do increase their ratings will demand hulu change its ways so that it does count in ratings or pull their content.
The real problem here is that the cost to distribute media are dropping very fast. Now consumers say that should mean the price they pay should also decrease. This ignores an important point, in economics price affects directly only demand and supply levels. Costs incurred by the producer only affects the amount he is willing to supply and the number of overall suppliers. Essentially the execs are looking at their lowering cost to distribute and asking "so what? the value to you has not changed has it?" Really due to the lower costs to distribute there should be more content providers increasing the content supply which is happening just most of it is crap. The cost to produce good media, if you want to call it that more or less crap with good special effects and the rare gem, is still very high making it hard to break into a market.
One day in jr. high school science class we were talking about all the planets and when we got to Uranus to get it out of the way since it would happen anyways the teacher told us a bunch of Uranus jokes. I wasn't paying attention when he started and was thus confused when half paying attention. Uranus has a thick crust? I thought it was a gas giant? We are sending a probe to Uranus? Really never heard of that. I finally figured it out once he said that toilet paper and the Uss enterprise both search for Klingons in Uranus. I'm kinda surprised there are more of these gems on this Uranus thread. he he get it.
It is only genocide if you exterminate based on race. Now if you were to go up high in orbit then nuke the planet killing EVERY ONE then there would be no more spam, and another benefit is that there would also no longer be any genocide.
"Anyone wanting to oppose China's rights abuses wouldn't attack those pages" only if they saw it as a minor inconvenience to those organizations and the attack did not last long. If you are some shifty vigilantly group that no one knows about then you have little to loose and possibly a lot to gain if it is convincing enough that china was behind the attack. And if the end justifies the means...
"TV 4:29 - Almost entirely negative, I suspect; surely the overwhelming advertisements alone cancel out any benefits the few educational shows."
"Print 0:38 - I'm surprised this number even exists. I assume the majority of it is beneficial in some ways -- exposure to articulating an idea in writing, if nothing else."
So you are assuming that print is good and tv bad by default? I have seen some pretty awful things in print and there are good things on tv. Also I would question why advertisements cancel out anything that would be learned. I mostly ignore them and with many people having a tivo how often do you have to watch many commercials anyways? My own favorite shows on tv include Modern Marvels, Daily Show, any decent news, Scrubs and Sons of Anarchy. It is not all about education sometimes people just want some entertainment.
Problem is we want 10 tube socks for a dollar more than they want our movies. Common problem in international relations, who wants it more. Would you be willing to be unable to borrow any money because China has stopped lending and at the same time face increased prices because they wont export to us? Admittedly we are pretty even on the balance of power but if China wants to hurt us it will only hurt them slightly less. That wont be the case in the near future and what they have been working for for a long time.
It is also the police's job but it is also the job of their boss since , all the way up to the three branches of government who are meant to each watch over each other and keep each other from gaining too much power or abusing the power that they have.
Police are just doing their job. They want their job to be easy and it is their boss's job to make sure they are not breaking the law and same goes all the way up the line. They need to be held accountable for what they are doing and that starts with courts enforcing the laws on the books and the legislative branch removing bad laws. Every time you say "oh my vote doesn't matter" or you vote when you don't have the appropriate knowledge of the issues you are feeding the system that feeds off people's votes based on knowledge that is irrelevant thus changing behavior of the politicians. Like Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" or as the saying goes "Freedom isn't free" and our freedoms will be abused and short cut around if people can get a gain from doing so weather it is direct or just makes their job that little bit easier.
Obama is not the end all and be all of American government. He is no where near perfect but just because things aren't going the way you want them to doesn't mean he is solely to blame. There is an existing system that he has to work within. Now if you want W back or W 2.0(aka McCain) they would still be doing the exact same thing that W always did without any attempt to change at least Obama is making the effort and in many cases making improvements. For example he has given Iran the chance at talks which it claimed it wanted but has now proven it is hesitant at best(with good reason the U.S. has not always be the most forward negotiator).
This is one of those people who love to stir up a storm for the heck of it. Ignore him and he will no longer matter, admittadly this wont stop him from saying stupid shit just he will be ignored. And then likely go on to host a show on fox news
You assume that all four possibilities are equally likely and that you have absolutely no information on the probabilities of each outcome. Yes that is a good analysis of your outcomes at blackjack(provided you knew nothing about the game before you sat down at the table in Vegas) but information was available and ignored. In the end a lot of hype was created, at least that is what is being asserted in this investigation, that shouldn't have existed and millions if not billions were wasted to placate people who tuned into the news channels hearing every damn anchor screaming the end is neigh Armageddon is upon us.
Better safe than sorry is a good approach ONLY IF there is actual data to support your fears. This had the telling of a fake scare from the start. 1)Fox news was shitting their pants soon as they heard about it and from that point on we were not dealing with information but placating peoples fears. 2)It was a slow news week and as the Daily Show pointed out early on this flu scare came around the same time as the so called terror memos were to be released. Anybody? Fox news went way over board on their fear mongering compared to even what they normally pull out for anything Obama does and that threw up flags in my mind.
Thats right he only created what was good. Someone else created the bad stuff right? Convenient that neither are available for comment but they are there trust me. Just like we trusted the priests that Zeus and his lot controlled everything. Although in their defense they didn't even pretend like the gods liked everyone and instead just had petty little playground fights between each other.
I find it much like while at the dentist and they are passing all sorts of sharp objects drills and such that they are forcing into my mouth they are engaging in completely casual conversation like it is nothing unusual. While I'm sure that for them it is unusual and as boring as my job once it has been repeated many times it makes it no less stressful for me.
Breaking RSA encryption will become much easier once quantum computing becomes realistic. When factoring large numbers the bottleneck is in data transfer if using multiple computers which is almost required due to processing requirements. Quantum computing allows for better data transfer rates and there are already algorithms that take advantage of this and have been proven in theory but until we get our hands on quantum computing rsa will remain secure.
Since without changing the underlying technology you either get fewer false negatives at the expense of false positives or the other way around. People are fine with saying that "they don't mind the extra risk of being caught up in the blind dragnet" and "if you have nothing to hide why are you concerned?" As long as they are unaffected and only abdul al taliban towel head is. I would like to see everyone pushing for these extra security measures put at the top of the "frisk me and take five hours of my life so I can explain to you why I am flying list" not only for their direct terrorist attacks on our liberty and blatant abuse of innocent until proven guilty but so that they understand exactly what they are asking for.
I hear everyone complaining about how this guy got on a watch list but nothing was ever done about it and he was allowed to fly. Anyone else want to join me in compiling a list of these people so we can submit it as a list of people who have come under the influence of extremists? I mean what happened to innocent until proven guilty? Even at this stage he is still the accused bomber and there are people who want him hanged without a trial. They are trying to avert our justice system. Lets get them on the that one list that they can still fly so long as they spend 5hours proving everything they have done second by second over the last year even if their name only sounds similar to someone on the list and make them do it every time they want to fly. Of course there will be all the indignities of striping naked and being searched ALL over and in their body. But hey if they have nothing to hide why are they being so secretive. This will fix the real problem that the only reason flying seems so unsafe is that we have all sorts of ill informed people coming up with ideas such as baning everyone named abdul al somethingmuslimy or who refuses to eat a ham sandwich before boarding the plane. Maybe they will realize the problem everyone has is the intrusive security that treats them as guilty especially if they have a bunch of funny sounds in their name.
Also I've searched and can't find anything besides a poll of 12 people how many people out there have flown on a one way ticket that they paid cash for with no luggage or any combination of those. Sounds like a good poll.
Personally I plan on avoiding all this appearance of security as best I can. How many terrorists have been caught by the metal detectors? Yes it has deterred many but not more than providing appropriate resources to investigate dangerous groups before they get to the airport. Had money been spent on analysts and investigation that report might have been useful since someone could have checked into it. Admittedly it was very little to go on and likely would still not have been investigated but taking his shoes off sure did not stop him. What we really need is a foreign policy that makes sense and we start by not systematically screwing up the middle east so that our ally has no strong enemies. It is just ridiculous to expect these detectors and random searches to stop everything because of diminishing returns the first few steps are the easiest and have the most affect but after that you catch all of the idiots and now you are trying to fight the smart ones. And why is it within just a few days we go from saying those full body scanners are privacy invasions to asking how soon we can expect them and here is a blank check. As for Canada banning carry on?!?! I suspect airlines have been hoping for an excuse to remove something they had been offering for free so that they can charge for it. The money they save from not having a plane blown up by liquid explosives is much smaller than what they earn by forcing you to buy drinks in the airport.
The real problem is a combination of economics and hierarchy of needs. First since we are almost all well fed( judging from the obesity epidemic? whatever the hell that means not like it as harmless as h1n1) we can consider more pressing matters than how to get food and stay secure. combine that with the fact that it coasts so much to raise a child their value goes up. In un industrialized nations essentially what is lost when someone dies is the coast to feed them. add a good education and the large contribution they could have made in non manual labor fields and the losses quickly mount. So we have fewer children and invest more in each of them and ourselves until we are so afraid of danger that it nearly cripples us.
Why would you say it is a prison? I go by "what goes around generally comes back around" as my moral compass and realize that every other moral code in history has changed because it supported racism, slavery, genocide and etc. While yes some of it supported "good deed" how do you define "good" and if it is all relative then it is nothing personal against me.
"I don't know how you live with yourself." I don't know about the other guy but breathing works fine for me. Human rights is an excuse for the U.S. to force its will on other countries and point out that they are better than them. Freedom of religion, speech and such are all agreements and inventions of the human mind made by the writers of our law to gain our support and nothing more, there is no more a right to free speech than there is an Apollo to raise the sun every morning.
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and Ford backwards is Driver Returns On Foot. congratulations you have invented a backronym that happens to support your prejudice, don't do too big dance in celebration it is only slightly harder than inventing the acronym in the first place. FUCK Fornication Under Consent of the King
because content providers who want the high ratings and people viewing it in places that at best will not increase their ratings and possibly even draw people from places that do increase their ratings will demand hulu change its ways so that it does count in ratings or pull their content.
The real problem here is that the cost to distribute media are dropping very fast. Now consumers say that should mean the price they pay should also decrease. This ignores an important point, in economics price affects directly only demand and supply levels. Costs incurred by the producer only affects the amount he is willing to supply and the number of overall suppliers. Essentially the execs are looking at their lowering cost to distribute and asking "so what? the value to you has not changed has it?" Really due to the lower costs to distribute there should be more content providers increasing the content supply which is happening just most of it is crap. The cost to produce good media, if you want to call it that more or less crap with good special effects and the rare gem, is still very high making it hard to break into a market.
One day in jr. high school science class we were talking about all the planets and when we got to Uranus to get it out of the way since it would happen anyways the teacher told us a bunch of Uranus jokes. I wasn't paying attention when he started and was thus confused when half paying attention. Uranus has a thick crust? I thought it was a gas giant? We are sending a probe to Uranus? Really never heard of that. I finally figured it out once he said that toilet paper and the Uss enterprise both search for Klingons in Uranus. I'm kinda surprised there are more of these gems on this Uranus thread. he he get it.
It is only genocide if you exterminate based on race. Now if you were to go up high in orbit then nuke the planet killing EVERY ONE then there would be no more spam, and another benefit is that there would also no longer be any genocide.
"Anyone wanting to oppose China's rights abuses wouldn't attack those pages" only if they saw it as a minor inconvenience to those organizations and the attack did not last long. If you are some shifty vigilantly group that no one knows about then you have little to loose and possibly a lot to gain if it is convincing enough that china was behind the attack. And if the end justifies the means...
For all of you who insist that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" I truly hope this happens to you every damn time you fly.
"TV 4:29 - Almost entirely negative, I suspect; surely the overwhelming advertisements alone cancel out any benefits the few educational shows." "Print 0:38 - I'm surprised this number even exists. I assume the majority of it is beneficial in some ways -- exposure to articulating an idea in writing, if nothing else." So you are assuming that print is good and tv bad by default? I have seen some pretty awful things in print and there are good things on tv. Also I would question why advertisements cancel out anything that would be learned. I mostly ignore them and with many people having a tivo how often do you have to watch many commercials anyways? My own favorite shows on tv include Modern Marvels, Daily Show, any decent news, Scrubs and Sons of Anarchy. It is not all about education sometimes people just want some entertainment.
Problem is we want 10 tube socks for a dollar more than they want our movies. Common problem in international relations, who wants it more. Would you be willing to be unable to borrow any money because China has stopped lending and at the same time face increased prices because they wont export to us? Admittedly we are pretty even on the balance of power but if China wants to hurt us it will only hurt them slightly less. That wont be the case in the near future and what they have been working for for a long time.
It is also the police's job but it is also the job of their boss since , all the way up to the three branches of government who are meant to each watch over each other and keep each other from gaining too much power or abusing the power that they have.
Police are just doing their job. They want their job to be easy and it is their boss's job to make sure they are not breaking the law and same goes all the way up the line. They need to be held accountable for what they are doing and that starts with courts enforcing the laws on the books and the legislative branch removing bad laws. Every time you say "oh my vote doesn't matter" or you vote when you don't have the appropriate knowledge of the issues you are feeding the system that feeds off people's votes based on knowledge that is irrelevant thus changing behavior of the politicians. Like Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" or as the saying goes "Freedom isn't free" and our freedoms will be abused and short cut around if people can get a gain from doing so weather it is direct or just makes their job that little bit easier.
Obama is not the end all and be all of American government. He is no where near perfect but just because things aren't going the way you want them to doesn't mean he is solely to blame. There is an existing system that he has to work within. Now if you want W back or W 2.0(aka McCain) they would still be doing the exact same thing that W always did without any attempt to change at least Obama is making the effort and in many cases making improvements. For example he has given Iran the chance at talks which it claimed it wanted but has now proven it is hesitant at best(with good reason the U.S. has not always be the most forward negotiator).
This is one of those people who love to stir up a storm for the heck of it. Ignore him and he will no longer matter, admittadly this wont stop him from saying stupid shit just he will be ignored. And then likely go on to host a show on fox news
You assume that all four possibilities are equally likely and that you have absolutely no information on the probabilities of each outcome. Yes that is a good analysis of your outcomes at blackjack(provided you knew nothing about the game before you sat down at the table in Vegas) but information was available and ignored. In the end a lot of hype was created, at least that is what is being asserted in this investigation, that shouldn't have existed and millions if not billions were wasted to placate people who tuned into the news channels hearing every damn anchor screaming the end is neigh Armageddon is upon us.
Better safe than sorry is a good approach ONLY IF there is actual data to support your fears. This had the telling of a fake scare from the start. 1)Fox news was shitting their pants soon as they heard about it and from that point on we were not dealing with information but placating peoples fears. 2)It was a slow news week and as the Daily Show pointed out early on this flu scare came around the same time as the so called terror memos were to be released. Anybody? Fox news went way over board on their fear mongering compared to even what they normally pull out for anything Obama does and that threw up flags in my mind.
Thats right he only created what was good. Someone else created the bad stuff right? Convenient that neither are available for comment but they are there trust me. Just like we trusted the priests that Zeus and his lot controlled everything. Although in their defense they didn't even pretend like the gods liked everyone and instead just had petty little playground fights between each other.
I find it much like while at the dentist and they are passing all sorts of sharp objects drills and such that they are forcing into my mouth they are engaging in completely casual conversation like it is nothing unusual. While I'm sure that for them it is unusual and as boring as my job once it has been repeated many times it makes it no less stressful for me.
Breaking RSA encryption will become much easier once quantum computing becomes realistic. When factoring large numbers the bottleneck is in data transfer if using multiple computers which is almost required due to processing requirements. Quantum computing allows for better data transfer rates and there are already algorithms that take advantage of this and have been proven in theory but until we get our hands on quantum computing rsa will remain secure.
Since without changing the underlying technology you either get fewer false negatives at the expense of false positives or the other way around. People are fine with saying that "they don't mind the extra risk of being caught up in the blind dragnet" and "if you have nothing to hide why are you concerned?" As long as they are unaffected and only abdul al taliban towel head is. I would like to see everyone pushing for these extra security measures put at the top of the "frisk me and take five hours of my life so I can explain to you why I am flying list" not only for their direct terrorist attacks on our liberty and blatant abuse of innocent until proven guilty but so that they understand exactly what they are asking for.
I hear everyone complaining about how this guy got on a watch list but nothing was ever done about it and he was allowed to fly. Anyone else want to join me in compiling a list of these people so we can submit it as a list of people who have come under the influence of extremists? I mean what happened to innocent until proven guilty? Even at this stage he is still the accused bomber and there are people who want him hanged without a trial. They are trying to avert our justice system. Lets get them on the that one list that they can still fly so long as they spend 5hours proving everything they have done second by second over the last year even if their name only sounds similar to someone on the list and make them do it every time they want to fly. Of course there will be all the indignities of striping naked and being searched ALL over and in their body. But hey if they have nothing to hide why are they being so secretive. This will fix the real problem that the only reason flying seems so unsafe is that we have all sorts of ill informed people coming up with ideas such as baning everyone named abdul al somethingmuslimy or who refuses to eat a ham sandwich before boarding the plane. Maybe they will realize the problem everyone has is the intrusive security that treats them as guilty especially if they have a bunch of funny sounds in their name. Also I've searched and can't find anything besides a poll of 12 people how many people out there have flown on a one way ticket that they paid cash for with no luggage or any combination of those. Sounds like a good poll.
Personally I plan on avoiding all this appearance of security as best I can. How many terrorists have been caught by the metal detectors? Yes it has deterred many but not more than providing appropriate resources to investigate dangerous groups before they get to the airport. Had money been spent on analysts and investigation that report might have been useful since someone could have checked into it. Admittedly it was very little to go on and likely would still not have been investigated but taking his shoes off sure did not stop him. What we really need is a foreign policy that makes sense and we start by not systematically screwing up the middle east so that our ally has no strong enemies. It is just ridiculous to expect these detectors and random searches to stop everything because of diminishing returns the first few steps are the easiest and have the most affect but after that you catch all of the idiots and now you are trying to fight the smart ones. And why is it within just a few days we go from saying those full body scanners are privacy invasions to asking how soon we can expect them and here is a blank check. As for Canada banning carry on?!?! I suspect airlines have been hoping for an excuse to remove something they had been offering for free so that they can charge for it. The money they save from not having a plane blown up by liquid explosives is much smaller than what they earn by forcing you to buy drinks in the airport.
The real problem is a combination of economics and hierarchy of needs. First since we are almost all well fed( judging from the obesity epidemic? whatever the hell that means not like it as harmless as h1n1) we can consider more pressing matters than how to get food and stay secure. combine that with the fact that it coasts so much to raise a child their value goes up. In un industrialized nations essentially what is lost when someone dies is the coast to feed them. add a good education and the large contribution they could have made in non manual labor fields and the losses quickly mount. So we have fewer children and invest more in each of them and ourselves until we are so afraid of danger that it nearly cripples us.
Good they are finally catching onto this security threat. http://xkcd.com/651/
Why would you say it is a prison? I go by "what goes around generally comes back around" as my moral compass and realize that every other moral code in history has changed because it supported racism, slavery, genocide and etc. While yes some of it supported "good deed" how do you define "good" and if it is all relative then it is nothing personal against me.
"I don't know how you live with yourself." I don't know about the other guy but breathing works fine for me. Human rights is an excuse for the U.S. to force its will on other countries and point out that they are better than them. Freedom of religion, speech and such are all agreements and inventions of the human mind made by the writers of our law to gain our support and nothing more, there is no more a right to free speech than there is an Apollo to raise the sun every morning.