You're absolutely right. We must immediately allocate significant funding to give flat earth advocates the opportunity to make their case, because there are two sides to every issue. We also need to consider phlogiston theory,orgone energy, and whether sacrificial animal entrails can divine the future. All theories must be considered equally valid without regard to other supporting evidence.
The Republican Party is the direct decedent of the White Citizen's Councils of the 1950s. Their agenda is the preservation of the status quo/Euro-centric political and economic power blocs in the US. That's why they hate Obama so much. He's the wrong kind of "uppity" person of color. Unlike Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, or Colon Powell, who overtly make themselves subservient to the existing power structure.
It's the same reason the House Republicans tried to shut down the DHS over the Obama administration's executive action on immigration. The only voting group of Spanish speaking people that they care about are anti-Castro right wing Cubans. They hate all the rest because of they're not white.
As for Right Wing "think tanks", the Project for the New American Century advocated deposing Saddam Hussein during the Clinton administration well before 9/11. Cheney, Bolton, Wolfowithz and Jeb Bush all publicly advocated this policy. Seems like that hasn't worded out so well, has it? Besides making ISIS possible, it also vastly expanded the influence of Iran. Real genius results on that side of the political spectrum.
The reason the GOP's behavior is "not conducive to their success" is that they are pursuing an overtly racist domestic agenda, their foreign policy is arguably the worst in the history of the US, and they severely mismanaged the US economy. (Remember the 2008 crash? Or have you ignored that too?)
"The libertarians advocate electing people who are more modest in those determination, who provide for actual needs of citizens, who don't provide mere wants as a mechanism to win favor and re-election."
Not only that, but libertarian leaders all have perfect pitch, play multiple musical instruments, speak multiple languages, can sing, dance, paint, juggle, know higher math, engineering (civil, electrical, chemical, computer), farming, veterinary science, medicine, surgery, and psychiatry. They're also perfect physical specimens, have movie star good looks, excel at all sports, know martial arts, ride horses, are expert with all kinds of guns, know how to build and use archaic weapons, and know military tactics and strategy. They are gourmet chefs. They never have bad breath, body odor, or fart.
In fact, their shit doesn't even stink. Perfect humans, just like you.
Yes, the banks, aka Wall Street, are corrupt. The people who run Wall Street, and the government regulators who pretend to , are personally corrupt, and always retire with vast personal fortunes.
But get your facts straight. The US government, and all other governments hate money laundering.
HSBC to pay $1.9 billion U.S. fine in money-laundering case
(Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to pay a record $1.92 billion in fines to U.S. authorities for allowing itself to be used to launder a river of drug money flowing out of Mexico and other banking lapses.
Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel between them laundered $881 million through HSBC and a Mexican unit, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
In a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, the bank acknowledged it failed to maintain an effective program against money laundering and failed to conduct basic due diligence on some of its account holders.
Under the agreement, which was reported by Reuters last week, the bank agreed to take steps to fix the problems, forfeit $1.256 billion, and retain a compliance monitor. The bank also agreed to pay $665 million in civil penalties to regulators including to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.
Money laundering is required by drug cartels and terrorist organizations, which are both pursued relentlessly by governments, It's illegal corruption.
You are confusing this with legal corruption. Legal corruption is the normal order of events where the rich and powerful are allowed to do things that would be wrong if you did them, along with getting free money from the government that comes out of your pocket. You are a source of wealth for the rich, and the government is the middle man.
An example of inequality under the law is Mitt Romney's 401K. He has somewhere between $21 million and $101 million in a tax free IRA account. Most people have around $42,000 in their IRA according to the article. Until recently you were limited to around $6000 a year contribution account, and it was just increased to $16,500. So, ignoring appreciation in your IRA account, and using the $16,500 amount, it would take you around 60 years to get $1 million.
When this came out his lawyers said it was all legal and he paid all the necessary taxes. I believe that. You, however, have a fixed amount of money that you can save on taxes retirement; it's not based on your income in any way. He lives by one set of rules, you live by a completely different set of rules. Legal corruption.
The Senate Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the TARP concluded on January 9, 2009: "In particular, the Panel sees no evidence that the U.S. Treasury has used TARP funds to support the housing market by avoiding preventable foreclosures". The panel also concluded that "Although half the money has not yet been received by the banks, hundreds of billions of dollars have been injected into the marketplace with no demonstrable effects on lending."
Government officials overseeing the bailout have acknowledged difficulties in tracking the money and in measuring the bailout's effectiveness.
During 2008, companies that received $295 billion in bailout money had spent $114 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. Banks that received bailout money had compensated their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in 2007, including salaries, cash bonuses, stock options, and benefits including personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships, and professional money management. The Obama administratio
Frankly, the Europeans come up with this stuff because they don't like the success of US based companies. If there was a similar European based business they wouldn't blink an eye.
For example, look at AirBus. It is a de facto EU sponsored monopoly. It has as much autonomy from the state as the Chinese companies owned by the Chinese military. No one in the EU bats an eye over this. (Note: US companies in the military-industrial complex get a similar ride to AirBus. I'm not addressing the issue of US hypocrisy right now.)
Imagine for a moment that Google was state regulated. It would end up like the banks, telcos or cable industry: the worst conceivable combination of predatory monopoly capitalism and government bureaucracy. The ability of regulated monopolies to warp the structure of regulation is unstoppable. So you get events like the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, followed a government bailout, where not one banker was even charged with a criminal offense, much less convicted. All the scum sucking bankers ended up with more money then they started with after the dust cleared. And we are no closer to effective regulation then before 2008. It's like instead of busting drug cartels, we privatized the Boarder Patrol and outsourced it to drug runners.
So regulating Google is a Bad Idea. Even though "Don't do Evil" is a lie they tell themselves, we are all a lot better off with an independent Google (and Facebook) then we would be if they got their hooks into the government.
The Bush White House email controversy surfaced in 2007 during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an email server not controlled by the federal government. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the Hatch Act. Over 5 million emails may have been lost or deleted. Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove lost emails, leading to damaging allegations. In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been deleted.
The administration officials had been using a private Internet domain, called gwb43.com, owned by and hosted on an email server run by the Republican National Committee, for various communications of unknown content or purpose. The domain name is an acronym standing for "George W. Bush, 43rd" President of the United States. The server came public when it was discovered that J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, was using a gwb43.com email address to discuss the firing of the U.S. attorney for Arkansas. Communications by federal employees were also found on georgewbush.com (registered to "Bush-Cheney '04, Inc.") and rnchq.org (registered to "Republican National Committee"), but, unlike these two servers, gwb43.com has no Web server connected to it — it is used only for email.
The "gwb43.com" domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation. Waxman sent a formal warning to the RNC, advising them to retain copies of all emails sent by White House employees. According to Waxman, "in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications." The Republican National Committee claims to have erased the emails, supposedly making them unavailable for Congressional investigators.
On April 12, 2007, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel stated that White House staffers were told to use RNC accounts to "err on the side of avoiding violations of the Hatch Act, but they should also retain that information so it can be reviewed for the Presidential Records Act," and that "some employees... have communicated about official business on those political email accounts." Stanzel also said that even though RNC policy since 2004 has been to retain all emails of White House staff with RNC accounts, the staffers had the ability to delete the email themselves.
Smell that stench of hypocrisy? It its the smell of Republicans dropping their pants and shitting on the fire built for them by the media.
It blends perfectly with the hypocritical stench of "librul bias" in the media, which bares the scent of decades of Republicans pissing on objective facts. Fox News is where they go and swill cheap beer so they can keep going with that decades long pissing contest.
Ultimately they are pissing and shitting on the Constitution, and for some reason I don't understand nobody seems to care.
Two former Covina-Valley Unified School District teachers previously charged with misdemeanors for allegedly supplying booze to underage students on a San Clemente camping trip were charged Monday with felony sex offenses.
Melody Suzanne Lippert, 38, of Covina, is accused of playing “matchmaker” for co-defendant Michelle Louise Ghirelli, 30, of West Covina, who is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old boy, according to Deputy District Attorney Kristin Bracic.
Orange County prosecutors had previously declined to file more serious felony sex charges against the two, citing insufficient information.
But a school district-related investigation that uncovered alleged cocaine use at the party led Orange County sheriff’s deputies to re-interview witnesses in the case, Bracic said. Cell phone records also helped convince investigators that Ghirelli knew the boy was 17, she said.
Lippert taught at South Hills High School in West Covina, and Ghirelli was an employee in the Covina-Valley Unified School District.
Lippert organized the unapproved camping trip through a group text message/invitation to the co-defendant and five male high school students, Bracic alleged. The group camped out at the San Clemente beach Dec. 27-29 and the teachers supplied the teens with booze, the prosecutor alleged.
Lippert was charged with one felony count each of unlawful sexual intercourse and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. She also faces a sentencing enhancement for being more than four years older than the victim.
C++11 seems to be somewhat useable. However, before that it was a complete disaster. Every time I looked at it, I saw code bases that endlessly re-implemented data structures and storage management solutions.
Even with the standard libraries, there were rarely systems without a lot of custom storage code. By it's own claimed abilities for code reuse, C++ was a failure before C++11.
Every time I brought this up, the C++ fanboys had a fit. I'm rather sure that I was forced out of some jobs because I said this. I know I didn't get hired when I expressed this opinion. I think I was better off not going to those places.
So now I'm going to make the same mistake again. If we take Stroustrup's publication of The C++ Programming Language in 1985 as the start of the ongoing C++ era, then it took over 25 years for the language to become somewhat OK. I can only come to the conclusion that C++ itself was a badly designed language, and this is proven by the time that it has taken to reach it's current state.
In my estimation, C++ was never a good idea. Even though it has improved significantly, it will always be crippled by it's basic design flaws. It is overly complex. It has a vast number of interacting corner conditions that interact in strange ways and can produce bizarre side effects. These have increased over time.
The object model creates problems and you always end up programming around it. Refactoring is invariably difficult; that's where the phrase "brittle objects" comes from. Object encapsulation works poorly. Changing the internal workings of an object is very likely to propagate outside the object. No matter how much precoding design occurs, you will always be modifying objects in ways that required a large amount of code changes in a great number of files. All of this requires a lot of testing.
Debugging has always been a problem. One of the other posts here suggested using CLANG because of it's better error reporting. Thats right now, after 25 years. Let's face it, C++ is legendary for the obscurity of it's compile and link time error reporting. Beyond that, it's not like the run time debugging environment is any better. All that it supports is the kind of break point debugging that was in C. No value added beyond K&R.
So flame away, fanboys. I'm used to it. The truth hurts, and the more squealing I get, the more I know that I am saying the truth.
"If you find CP images in a browser cache, then you've got to demonstrate that they got there by willful action and not by mistake."
This is not correct. Real actionable CP cannot be reached by accident.
I know of a situation where there was a complete web snapshot taken of a large East Coast (US) major name university. It turns out there were a lot of links to porn and other disreputable (drugs, gambling) web addresses. This was not because the school was a nest of porn watching drug taking gamblers, but due to hidden links being placed in third party advertising. It was a way to boost their web search ranking.
Obviously this was a problem, because the goal was a complete snapshot for academic archiving. Additionally,going through and looking for all the problematic links would take a lot of time and effort.
After researching the legal issues, it was determined that nothing you could find on the easily accessible internet included CP. All of that material is deeply locked up in members only sites with heavy encryption. The people engaged in this activity know how bad their behavior is, and how eager the authorities are to get them in jail. They are deeply paranoid for justifiable reasons. Someone is out to get them.
The only way that CP ends up on a machine is because someone deliberately puts it there. It may not be the owner, or any legitimate user, but it can't happen by mistake. It's not like the porn trolls who extort money from users based on legally unsupportable IP addresses. The stakes are too great for that to happen.
Yes, there's no snake oil commercial television either. Shows are not interrupted every ten minutes with loud inappropriate distractions that are used by most people to get something to eat or go to the toilet.
What universe are you from? I've never talked to anyone from that universe.
Remember all these companies pay shockingly small amounts of taxes, both at the state and federal level.
I have a counter suggestion: make the bastards pay reasonable taxes, and then the state will be able to afford to put up a nice shiny new building. Instead of having to say, beg $70 million in the first place.
Another aspect of a class action suit is reputational damage. The very fact of bringing a suit is negative publicity. Lenovo has a strong incentive to settle because the longer it is before the case is settled the more negative publicity there will be.
This is why these kinds of thing never go to trial, and why the company always makes sure they never admit guilt. When they settle to "put it behind" themselves, it's like a cat burying it's shit. They can pretend that it never happened in the first place.
As for making things better in the long run, forget it. Lenovo will do what all other large companies do, which is settle and offer discounts to people who bought the offending systems. This costs them nothing. In fact, they may make more money on the deal because they move more product, and very few consumers take advantage of these offers. As other people have already said, the only ones who make out are the lawyers.
What's actually needed is consumer protection that means something and has teeth. However, in the current political climate, hell will freeze over before that happens. Big business can commit any crime and get away with it, and even make money as a result. Just search for "HSBC tax evasion" if you want to see a breaking scandal like this.
The cops just showed that they are by far more dangerous criminals then the guy that they tried to put away.
He's a petty thief The police are violating the constitution, and completely ignoring the rule of law. For all intents and purposes the cops are the judge, jury and executioner, with a badge and gun.
The police were able to avoid a trial, which is one of the major ways that the legal system has been subverted. The penalties are so draconian that even innocent people plead guilty, because if they don't they will be held forever.
If you want to show your fake nipple in Montana, do it before HB 365 gets passed, or you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the county jail. It could have been worse. The original bill called for "life imprisonment" for a third offense.
That's right. Life in jail for showing fake nipples three times. Of course they backed off on it, but the fact that this was even considered shows how corrupt the law has become.
Your refutation is incorrect. Yes, there are other greenhouse gasses, but they add to the effect of CO2. By the way, I never specifically pointed out C02, although one of the Wikipedia quotes I included used it as an example. I wanted to limit the size of the quotes. Here is another reference showing various greenhouse gasses and their impact on the greenhouse effect:
By their percentage contribution to the greenhouse effect on Earth the four major gases are:
- water vapor, 36–70%
- carbon dioxide, 9–26%
- methane, 4–9%
- ozone, 3–7%
The major non-gas contributor to the Earth's greenhouse effect, clouds, also absorb and emit infrared radiation and thus have an effect on radiative properties of the atmosphere.
Frankly, I'm not completely sure what you are saying because you are incoherent: "the effect of CO2 is problematic, because it is mixing with other gasses and that makes a difference". Mixing how? Chemically? Via radiation? Interacting with clouds?
"... if we only were going to get warming from the CO2, then there would be little to worry about." Could you quote a source on that? Did you make it up? How about "There was a study in 2006 that further refined the effect that CO2 had on the atmosphere (narrowed the error bars)."? Any references for that one either? Did you mean to imply that reduced error bars mean that the effects of global climate change are not important? What are you talking about?
Now let's examine "We are still improving the computer models. If the science were settled, they would be much, much better at predicting." This is just flat out wrong. The quality of a simulation is not solely determined by knowledge of the basic science. For huge chaotic systems like global climate, the vast computational resources required limit predictive results. Furthermore, there is still a lot we don't understand, for example the effect of clouds, or the interaction between ocean circulation and climate. Note that these have nothing to do with the physics of greenhouse gasses, which is the nominal point under consideration.
Both climate modeling and computational resources are getting better on a yearly basis, as you pointed out. That doesn't mean the current state of the art is useless.
To conclude, you called me "kind of ignorant". I take personal offense to that. I just went to some effort to demonstrate that your are a thoughtless fool who seems incapable of logical argument and plays fast and loose with facts. Before you insult your betters you should examine your own mental resources. At this point all you have shown is that you are an intellectual failure.
I quoted Wikipedia. You referred to no source at all. Put up or shut up. Show some sources for your position. If you are right, then edit the Wikipedia page.
By the way, even if your are right, this is nit picking. It has no significant baring on when the phenomenon was proposed. Bell is just a well known figure, and he was not the first or last to bring up this possibility.
Gore is right: the science is settled. In fact, it's been understood for nearly 200 years.
The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824. The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.
In 1917 Alexander Graham Bell wrote “[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The net result is the greenhouse becomes a sort of hot-house.” Bell went on to also advocate for the use of alternate energy sources, such as solar energy.
The basic mechanism is straightforward, even thought the physical system has many interacting processes.
The Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form UV, visible, and near IR radiation, most of which passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed. Of the total amount of energy available at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), about 50% is absorbed at the Earth's surface. Because it is warm, the surface radiates far IR thermal radiation that consists of wavelengths that are predominantly much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed (the overlap between the incident solar spectrum and the terrestrial thermal spectrum is small enough to be neglected for most purposes). Most of this thermal radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere and re-radiated both upwards and downwards; that radiated downwards is absorbed by the Earth's surface. This trapping of long-wavelength thermal radiation leads to a higher equilibrium temperature than if the atmosphere were absent.
Strengthening of the greenhouse effect through human activities is known as the enhanced (or anthropogenic) greenhouse effect. This increase in radiative forcing from human activity is attributable mainly to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. According to the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations".
CO2 is produced by fossil fuel burning and other activities such as cement production and tropical deforestation. Measurements of CO2 from the Mauna Loa observatory show that concentrations have increased from about 313 ppm in 1960 to about 389 ppm in 2010. It reached the 400ppm milestone on May 9, 2013. The current observed amount of CO2 exceeds the geological record maxima (~300 ppm) from ice core data. The effect of combustion-produced carbon dioxide on the global climate, a special case of the greenhouse effect first described in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius, has also been called the Callendar effect.
Al Gore, although not a scientist by training, is smart enough to understand this. You, on the other hand, are too biased and stupid to accept facts that have been well known for a long time.
Just to make sure that your are up to speed on basic facts, the world is not flat, the earth revolves around the sun, and the universe is more then 5000 years old. Glad that I could clear these things up for you.
When you buy something to eat at a store, you can read the label and find out what is in it.. When you go to a restaurant, you can get the caloric count. If you have allergies, you can avoid eating something that could be toxic for you.
Why not software? When you buy a computer, smart phone, cable or fiber box, or other internet connected gadget, you have no idea what you are getting. The vendor can put in anything they want, as Samsung demonstrated by shipping a smart TV sets that can send out audio and video without any indication to the user.
If consumers were informed what kind of crap was being shipped with their gear, it would go a long way towards cubing this kind of intrusive behavior. Nobody wants a device filled up with junk when they get it, but it's hard, even for Slashdot types, to find out what's in the box before it shows up. A list of add on software that you could see before you buy would make all the difference.
Slashdot Mirror
You're absolutely right. We must immediately allocate significant funding to give flat earth advocates the opportunity to make their case, because there are two sides to every issue. We also need to consider phlogiston theory, orgone energy, and whether sacrificial animal entrails can divine the future. All theories must be considered equally valid without regard to other supporting evidence.
What's your point? Do you think that there are people who are immune to rising sea level? Gills maybe? Eh?
It's the same reason the House Republicans tried to shut down the DHS over the Obama administration's executive action on immigration. The only voting group of Spanish speaking people that they care about are anti-Castro right wing Cubans. They hate all the rest because of they're not white.
As for Right Wing "think tanks", the Project for the New American Century advocated deposing Saddam Hussein during the Clinton administration well before 9/11. Cheney, Bolton, Wolfowithz and Jeb Bush all publicly advocated this policy. Seems like that hasn't worded out so well, has it? Besides making ISIS possible, it also vastly expanded the influence of Iran. Real genius results on that side of the political spectrum.
The reason the GOP's behavior is "not conducive to their success" is that they are pursuing an overtly racist domestic agenda, their foreign policy is arguably the worst in the history of the US, and they severely mismanaged the US economy. (Remember the 2008 crash? Or have you ignored that too?)
Not only that, but libertarian leaders all have perfect pitch, play multiple musical instruments, speak multiple languages, can sing, dance, paint, juggle, know higher math, engineering (civil, electrical, chemical, computer), farming, veterinary science, medicine, surgery, and psychiatry. They're also perfect physical specimens, have movie star good looks, excel at all sports, know martial arts, ride horses, are expert with all kinds of guns, know how to build and use archaic weapons, and know military tactics and strategy. They are gourmet chefs. They never have bad breath, body odor, or fart.
In fact, their shit doesn't even stink. Perfect humans, just like you.
But get your facts straight. The US government, and all other governments hate money laundering.
Money laundering is required by drug cartels and terrorist organizations, which are both pursued relentlessly by governments, It's illegal corruption.
You are confusing this with legal corruption. Legal corruption is the normal order of events where the rich and powerful are allowed to do things that would be wrong if you did them, along with getting free money from the government that comes out of your pocket. You are a source of wealth for the rich, and the government is the middle man.
An example of inequality under the law is Mitt Romney's 401K. He has somewhere between $21 million and $101 million in a tax free IRA account. Most people have around $42,000 in their IRA according to the article. Until recently you were limited to around $6000 a year contribution account, and it was just increased to $16,500. So, ignoring appreciation in your IRA account, and using the $16,500 amount, it would take you around 60 years to get $1 million.
When this came out his lawyers said it was all legal and he paid all the necessary taxes. I believe that. You, however, have a fixed amount of money that you can save on taxes retirement; it's not based on your income in any way. He lives by one set of rules, you live by a completely different set of rules. Legal corruption.
As for free money from the government, what do you think the TARP bailout was about?
For example, look at AirBus. It is a de facto EU sponsored monopoly. It has as much autonomy from the state as the Chinese companies owned by the Chinese military. No one in the EU bats an eye over this. (Note: US companies in the military-industrial complex get a similar ride to AirBus. I'm not addressing the issue of US hypocrisy right now.)
Imagine for a moment that Google was state regulated. It would end up like the banks, telcos or cable industry: the worst conceivable combination of predatory monopoly capitalism and government bureaucracy. The ability of regulated monopolies to warp the structure of regulation is unstoppable. So you get events like the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, followed a government bailout, where not one banker was even charged with a criminal offense, much less convicted. All the scum sucking bankers ended up with more money then they started with after the dust cleared. And we are no closer to effective regulation then before 2008. It's like instead of busting drug cartels, we privatized the Boarder Patrol and outsourced it to drug runners.
So regulating Google is a Bad Idea. Even though "Don't do Evil" is a lie they tell themselves, we are all a lot better off with an independent Google (and Facebook) then we would be if they got their hooks into the government.
Smell that stench of hypocrisy? It its the smell of Republicans dropping their pants and shitting on the fire built for them by the media.
It blends perfectly with the hypocritical stench of "librul bias" in the media, which bares the scent of decades of Republicans pissing on objective facts. Fox News is where they go and swill cheap beer so they can keep going with that decades long pissing contest.
Ultimately they are pissing and shitting on the Constitution, and for some reason I don't understand nobody seems to care.
Two former Covina-Valley Unified School District teachers previously charged with misdemeanors for allegedly supplying booze to underage students on a San Clemente camping trip were charged Monday with felony sex offenses.
Melody Suzanne Lippert, 38, of Covina, is accused of playing “matchmaker” for co-defendant Michelle Louise Ghirelli, 30, of West Covina, who is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old boy, according to Deputy District Attorney Kristin Bracic.
Orange County prosecutors had previously declined to file more serious felony sex charges against the two, citing insufficient information.
But a school district-related investigation that uncovered alleged cocaine use at the party led Orange County sheriff’s deputies to re-interview witnesses in the case, Bracic said. Cell phone records also helped convince investigators that Ghirelli knew the boy was 17, she said.
Lippert taught at South Hills High School in West Covina, and Ghirelli was an employee in the Covina-Valley Unified School District.
Lippert organized the unapproved camping trip through a group text message/invitation to the co-defendant and five male high school students, Bracic alleged. The group camped out at the San Clemente beach Dec. 27-29 and the teachers supplied the teens with booze, the prosecutor alleged.
Lippert was charged with one felony count each of unlawful sexual intercourse and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. She also faces a sentencing enhancement for being more than four years older than the victim.
Even with the standard libraries, there were rarely systems without a lot of custom storage code. By it's own claimed abilities for code reuse, C++ was a failure before C++11.
Every time I brought this up, the C++ fanboys had a fit. I'm rather sure that I was forced out of some jobs because I said this. I know I didn't get hired when I expressed this opinion. I think I was better off not going to those places.
So now I'm going to make the same mistake again. If we take Stroustrup's publication of The C++ Programming Language in 1985 as the start of the ongoing C++ era, then it took over 25 years for the language to become somewhat OK. I can only come to the conclusion that C++ itself was a badly designed language, and this is proven by the time that it has taken to reach it's current state.
In my estimation, C++ was never a good idea. Even though it has improved significantly, it will always be crippled by it's basic design flaws. It is overly complex. It has a vast number of interacting corner conditions that interact in strange ways and can produce bizarre side effects. These have increased over time.
The object model creates problems and you always end up programming around it. Refactoring is invariably difficult; that's where the phrase "brittle objects" comes from. Object encapsulation works poorly. Changing the internal workings of an object is very likely to propagate outside the object. No matter how much precoding design occurs, you will always be modifying objects in ways that required a large amount of code changes in a great number of files. All of this requires a lot of testing.
Debugging has always been a problem. One of the other posts here suggested using CLANG because of it's better error reporting. Thats right now, after 25 years. Let's face it, C++ is legendary for the obscurity of it's compile and link time error reporting. Beyond that, it's not like the run time debugging environment is any better. All that it supports is the kind of break point debugging that was in C. No value added beyond K&R.
So flame away, fanboys. I'm used to it. The truth hurts, and the more squealing I get, the more I know that I am saying the truth.
Actually, Haskell goes all the way to 11,
This is not correct. Real actionable CP cannot be reached by accident.
I know of a situation where there was a complete web snapshot taken of a large East Coast (US) major name university. It turns out there were a lot of links to porn and other disreputable (drugs, gambling) web addresses. This was not because the school was a nest of porn watching drug taking gamblers, but due to hidden links being placed in third party advertising. It was a way to boost their web search ranking.
Obviously this was a problem, because the goal was a complete snapshot for academic archiving. Additionally,going through and looking for all the problematic links would take a lot of time and effort.
After researching the legal issues, it was determined that nothing you could find on the easily accessible internet included CP. All of that material is deeply locked up in members only sites with heavy encryption. The people engaged in this activity know how bad their behavior is, and how eager the authorities are to get them in jail. They are deeply paranoid for justifiable reasons. Someone is out to get them.
The only way that CP ends up on a machine is because someone deliberately puts it there. It may not be the owner, or any legitimate user, but it can't happen by mistake. It's not like the porn trolls who extort money from users based on legally unsupportable IP addresses. The stakes are too great for that to happen.
What universe are you from? I've never talked to anyone from that universe.
There goes Slashdot!
I have a counter suggestion: make the bastards pay reasonable taxes, and then the state will be able to afford to put up a nice shiny new building. Instead of having to say, beg $70 million in the first place.
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3. Profit!
At Wallmart, Target, McDonalds, etc.
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This is why these kinds of thing never go to trial, and why the company always makes sure they never admit guilt. When they settle to "put it behind" themselves, it's like a cat burying it's shit. They can pretend that it never happened in the first place.
As for making things better in the long run, forget it. Lenovo will do what all other large companies do, which is settle and offer discounts to people who bought the offending systems. This costs them nothing. In fact, they may make more money on the deal because they move more product, and very few consumers take advantage of these offers. As other people have already said, the only ones who make out are the lawyers.
What's actually needed is consumer protection that means something and has teeth. However, in the current political climate, hell will freeze over before that happens. Big business can commit any crime and get away with it, and even make money as a result. Just search for "HSBC tax evasion" if you want to see a breaking scandal like this.
He's a petty thief The police are violating the constitution, and completely ignoring the rule of law. For all intents and purposes the cops are the judge, jury and executioner, with a badge and gun.
The police were able to avoid a trial, which is one of the major ways that the legal system has been subverted. The penalties are so draconian that even innocent people plead guilty, because if they don't they will be held forever.
Here's a current example from Montana.
That's right. Life in jail for showing fake nipples three times. Of course they backed off on it, but the fact that this was even considered shows how corrupt the law has become.
Frankly, I'm not completely sure what you are saying because you are incoherent: "the effect of CO2 is problematic, because it is mixing with other gasses and that makes a difference". Mixing how? Chemically? Via radiation? Interacting with clouds?
"... if we only were going to get warming from the CO2, then there would be little to worry about." Could you quote a source on that? Did you make it up? How about "There was a study in 2006 that further refined the effect that CO2 had on the atmosphere (narrowed the error bars)."? Any references for that one either? Did you mean to imply that reduced error bars mean that the effects of global climate change are not important? What are you talking about?
Now let's examine "We are still improving the computer models. If the science were settled, they would be much, much better at predicting." This is just flat out wrong. The quality of a simulation is not solely determined by knowledge of the basic science. For huge chaotic systems like global climate, the vast computational resources required limit predictive results. Furthermore, there is still a lot we don't understand, for example the effect of clouds, or the interaction between ocean circulation and climate. Note that these have nothing to do with the physics of greenhouse gasses, which is the nominal point under consideration.
Both climate modeling and computational resources are getting better on a yearly basis, as you pointed out. That doesn't mean the current state of the art is useless.
To conclude, you called me "kind of ignorant". I take personal offense to that. I just went to some effort to demonstrate that your are a thoughtless fool who seems incapable of logical argument and plays fast and loose with facts. Before you insult your betters you should examine your own mental resources. At this point all you have shown is that you are an intellectual failure.
By the way, even if your are right, this is nit picking. It has no significant baring on when the phenomenon was proposed. Bell is just a well known figure, and he was not the first or last to bring up this possibility.
The basic mechanism is straightforward, even thought the physical system has many interacting processes.
The key observation is that human activity has changed the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, and this has changed the equilibrium temperature of the system.
Al Gore, although not a scientist by training, is smart enough to understand this. You, on the other hand, are too biased and stupid to accept facts that have been well known for a long time.
Just to make sure that your are up to speed on basic facts, the world is not flat, the earth revolves around the sun, and the universe is more then 5000 years old. Glad that I could clear these things up for you.
Why not software? When you buy a computer, smart phone, cable or fiber box, or other internet connected gadget, you have no idea what you are getting. The vendor can put in anything they want, as Samsung demonstrated by shipping a smart TV sets that can send out audio and video without any indication to the user.
If consumers were informed what kind of crap was being shipped with their gear, it would go a long way towards cubing this kind of intrusive behavior. Nobody wants a device filled up with junk when they get it, but it's hard, even for Slashdot types, to find out what's in the box before it shows up. A list of add on software that you could see before you buy would make all the difference.
You just described Slashdot