Pretty sure insurance doesn't pay off in case of "suicide".
Taking the contention seriously for a minute: I can cite from personal knowledge that it did in at least one case I know of. I think the policy was of long enough standing that a "no suicide" provision timed out. Don't know if that was due to that particular policy or some regulation, but the claim did get paid.
Why does Trump get a privilege (in fact a right enshrined in the constitution) that I don't just because he's a candidate?
One reason is that Twitter might fear him. He's been proven time and again to be petty, vengeful, and egomaniacal, and according to his rhetoric, not too concerned with what the law says. Not unlike the present occupant of the Oval. If he became President, why wouldn't somebody like that weaponize every 3-letter agency at his disposal and launch them at his enemies? IRS, FBI, SEC, FDA, FTC, etc. could make the lives of whoever crosses him a living hell. The IRS scandal shows that it's already happening, and a guy like Trump could refine it into a tool worthy of a Torquemada.
It's about revenue. Anything CA can do to get a bit more revenue - it will do.
I'd put greater weight on it being a gift to the plaintiff's bar. With a fat insurance company to go after instead of maybe just some unemployed schmuck with $1.14 in his checking account, there'll be a nice payday for everyone.
It occurs to me that self-driving cars are rolling camera platforms, and I can foresee a future in which recordings and the coordinates of where they were made are kept and are mandated to be accessible by the police or government (or even more likely, Google/Tesla/GM/etc). The world of tomorrow will likely be one of unrelenting, unavoidable surveillance, infinitely more than it is today, bad as that already is.
I see a vibrant private sector effort along these lines already. Government can do the most by eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers (or in rare instances putting up a few for safety, perhaps), but otherwise should stay out of the way. Government programs have a way of becoming jobs programs and therefore hard to shut down. The example of the Pentagon not wanting a new weapons system but Congress mandating it anyway comes to mind. Let the private sector risk its money and direct its deployment toward the most promising uses.
Once I can't bear to look at my old code any longer, I don't even feel like investing the time in trying to bring it up to snuff. I just rewrite it, which usually works out well because I get more experienced over time and have thought of different approaches that could have been used originally. Fortunately I'm almost always the sole author and I deal mainly with embedded apps, so the code is fairly short. I'd never dare to use this approach with more complex programs, assuming I could even talk anyone into letting me.
Sabotage the camera (if you don't want to do actual damage, tape a laser pointer to a sign post and flood the lens with light, spray the lens using your drone, float a helium balloon in front of it, etc.), wait to see who comes to repair it, then follow them back to their office.
Americans would also never steal peoples land on the principle that they're just a bunch of savages as well, nope they found an empty continent and just moved in.
And today Americans would never blow up weddings and such on the chance that there might be a bad guy, with bad guy being defined as someone not happy with having their home blown up, in the name of freedom of course. Another thing is that American business would never move their manufacturing to 3rd world countries where workers are treated like commodities just to make more profits.
Those things don't happen because the people doing them are Americans, they happen because all human beings are self-interested assholes. That's what regulation and political systems are for, to curb the abuses while retaining the beneficial elements.
I'm not much of a grammar Nazi, but I'm seeing this error everywhere now and I'm afraid it'll become the norm. The saying is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," which makes a lot more sense when you think about it.
Governments are always coming up with these requirements for others, are they going to impose these same rules on themselves as well? The only time my data has been compromised was when the United States Office of Personnel Management managed to lose every scrap of data it had on millions of people, including the intimate details of their lives necessary for security clearances. If Google or General Motors or some other private business had done this, there'd have been resignations, firings, huge fines, prison, etc. OPM does it and there's a little public handwringing, some Congressional Shame Hearings, but nothing too drastic.
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
I don't know why I'm supposed to care that some rich guy has a yacht while I don't. Nothing that the complainers about "inequality" want to happen is going to get me a yacht, just take away the rich guy's while leaving nobody better off. I'd rather know that it's possible for me to have a yacht if I ever wanted one badly enough to work hard and accumulate the wealth necessary.
Uber isn't pre-set. They'll give you an estimate, but the actual charge depends on factors like traffic, distance traveled (you might have to re-route around blockages, etc.). One driver told me if his speed drops below some figure (7 maybe?) a time charge starts accumulating. For those reasons, the Uber price isn't fixed at the time you start the trip.
The advance may even allow people to harness energy from trees and shrubs not by cutting them down and using them for fuel, but by plugging directly into their photosynthesis machinery.
One of the raps on Ferguson, MO is that the town used fines as a major revenue source, not for actual safety or law enforcement reasons. Looks like the phenomenon isn't limited to Southern backwaters.
I've seen plenty of them working. They harvest crops, work construction, pave roads or anything where they need cheap labor. If it weren't for the flood of people from South of the border I don't know how all this stuff would get done.
And yet, somehow all of those things get done in states like Hawaii and Alaska, places where illegal immigration isn't a significant contributor to the workforce.
The one bright spot to illegal immigration might be if the minimum wage goes to $15 an hour. Replacing whoever they can with illegal chump-change labor will save businesses a fortune. And I assume the pro-illegal-immigration crowd will think that's swell, because they'll be "doing the work Americans won't do" that they're always citing as justification for it.
This is what happens when you allow sociopaths to run corporations. Sociopaths should, upon discovery, be forceably removed from society at gunpoint and sent to an island together where they can fuck each other, eat each other, or whatever it is these vile neurologically inhuman monsters do to each other. No sociopath should ever have control of even a single normal, empathic human being in even the tiniest way.,
We don't even do that for the most heinous mass murderers, and you want to do it to the founder of Apple?
The Koch bros must be mighty pissed off right about now.
Maybe it'll pop your bubble, but they're probably delighted, given that they have big investments in the rail transport system that's profiting hugely from transporting oil. As someone once said, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Next time somebody proposes a new regulation to be added to the ever-growing pile of existing regulations, keep this in mind. Compliance costs eat up an increasing amount of time, money, and energy.
Besides most crime happens in crime-ridden communities, and if people want to let their communities go to hell in a handbasket, it's their problem. If you're in one and don't like it, work harder and move, or just don't raise your kids to be criminals.
I think it's time/. instituted an "Anonymous Idiot" nametag.
The move lately to release felons (ostensibly "nonviolent", but's that for just the latest, often plea-bargained-down, offense) from prison back onto the streets, and to prohibit police from stopping and questioning people who they have reason to believe are up to no good are more likely a larger contributing cause. Then there's California's new Proposition 47 law where a number of former drug and property-crime felonies have been reclassified as misdemeanors, even potentially retroactively for existing felons, so now habitual offenders know they can operate and just expect citations and not arrest. Then they don't show up in court and just keep going. Combine that with California shoving thousands of felons out of its prisons to local jails, where they end up being released because there's no room, and you have a crime wave in CA. Car breakins are up 47% in San Francisco, robberies up 28%, car theft up 17%, violent offenses up 21% in Los Angeles.
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Pretty sure insurance doesn't pay off in case of "suicide".
Taking the contention seriously for a minute: I can cite from personal knowledge that it did in at least one case I know of. I think the policy was of long enough standing that a "no suicide" provision timed out. Don't know if that was due to that particular policy or some regulation, but the claim did get paid.
Huh, wut?
Why does Trump get a privilege (in fact a right enshrined in the constitution) that I don't just because he's a candidate?
One reason is that Twitter might fear him. He's been proven time and again to be petty, vengeful, and egomaniacal, and according to his rhetoric, not too concerned with what the law says. Not unlike the present occupant of the Oval. If he became President, why wouldn't somebody like that weaponize every 3-letter agency at his disposal and launch them at his enemies? IRS, FBI, SEC, FDA, FTC, etc. could make the lives of whoever crosses him a living hell. The IRS scandal shows that it's already happening, and a guy like Trump could refine it into a tool worthy of a Torquemada.
I wish the internet had preceded Fox News so I could see what Fox News haters would have been complaining about before Fox News.
That's what they WANT you to think.
It's about revenue. Anything CA can do to get a bit more revenue - it will do.
I'd put greater weight on it being a gift to the plaintiff's bar. With a fat insurance company to go after instead of maybe just some unemployed schmuck with $1.14 in his checking account, there'll be a nice payday for everyone.
It occurs to me that self-driving cars are rolling camera platforms, and I can foresee a future in which recordings and the coordinates of where they were made are kept and are mandated to be accessible by the police or government (or even more likely, Google/Tesla/GM/etc). The world of tomorrow will likely be one of unrelenting, unavoidable surveillance, infinitely more than it is today, bad as that already is.
I see a vibrant private sector effort along these lines already. Government can do the most by eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers (or in rare instances putting up a few for safety, perhaps), but otherwise should stay out of the way. Government programs have a way of becoming jobs programs and therefore hard to shut down. The example of the Pentagon not wanting a new weapons system but Congress mandating it anyway comes to mind. Let the private sector risk its money and direct its deployment toward the most promising uses.
Once I can't bear to look at my old code any longer, I don't even feel like investing the time in trying to bring it up to snuff. I just rewrite it, which usually works out well because I get more experienced over time and have thought of different approaches that could have been used originally. Fortunately I'm almost always the sole author and I deal mainly with embedded apps, so the code is fairly short. I'd never dare to use this approach with more complex programs, assuming I could even talk anyone into letting me.
Sabotage the camera (if you don't want to do actual damage, tape a laser pointer to a sign post and flood the lens with light, spray the lens using your drone, float a helium balloon in front of it, etc.), wait to see who comes to repair it, then follow them back to their office.
Why don't you go buy a gun, invade a random country and shoot everybody. That's what America stands for.
Next time the Continent turns itself into an abattoir and is looking for America to bail it out, we'll quote that back to you.
Americans would also never steal peoples land on the principle that they're just a bunch of savages as well, nope they found an empty continent and just moved in. And today Americans would never blow up weddings and such on the chance that there might be a bad guy, with bad guy being defined as someone not happy with having their home blown up, in the name of freedom of course. Another thing is that American business would never move their manufacturing to 3rd world countries where workers are treated like commodities just to make more profits.
Those things don't happen because the people doing them are Americans, they happen because all human beings are self-interested assholes. That's what regulation and political systems are for, to curb the abuses while retaining the beneficial elements.
I'm not much of a grammar Nazi, but I'm seeing this error everywhere now and I'm afraid it'll become the norm. The saying is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," which makes a lot more sense when you think about it.
Governments are always coming up with these requirements for others, are they going to impose these same rules on themselves as well? The only time my data has been compromised was when the United States Office of Personnel Management managed to lose every scrap of data it had on millions of people, including the intimate details of their lives necessary for security clearances. If Google or General Motors or some other private business had done this, there'd have been resignations, firings, huge fines, prison, etc. OPM does it and there's a little public handwringing, some Congressional Shame Hearings, but nothing too drastic.
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
I don't know why I'm supposed to care that some rich guy has a yacht while I don't. Nothing that the complainers about "inequality" want to happen is going to get me a yacht, just take away the rich guy's while leaving nobody better off. I'd rather know that it's possible for me to have a yacht if I ever wanted one badly enough to work hard and accumulate the wealth necessary.
Uber isn't pre-set. They'll give you an estimate, but the actual charge depends on factors like traffic, distance traveled (you might have to re-route around blockages, etc.). One driver told me if his speed drops below some figure (7 maybe?) a time charge starts accumulating. For those reasons, the Uber price isn't fixed at the time you start the trip.
Isn't this how The Matrix began?
One of the raps on Ferguson, MO is that the town used fines as a major revenue source, not for actual safety or law enforcement reasons. Looks like the phenomenon isn't limited to Southern backwaters.
I've seen plenty of them working. They harvest crops, work construction, pave roads or anything where they need cheap labor. If it weren't for the flood of people from South of the border I don't know how all this stuff would get done.
And yet, somehow all of those things get done in states like Hawaii and Alaska, places where illegal immigration isn't a significant contributor to the workforce.
The one bright spot to illegal immigration might be if the minimum wage goes to $15 an hour. Replacing whoever they can with illegal chump-change labor will save businesses a fortune. And I assume the pro-illegal-immigration crowd will think that's swell, because they'll be "doing the work Americans won't do" that they're always citing as justification for it.
This is what happens when you allow sociopaths to run corporations. Sociopaths should, upon discovery, be forceably removed from society at gunpoint and sent to an island together where they can fuck each other, eat each other, or whatever it is these vile neurologically inhuman monsters do to each other. No sociopath should ever have control of even a single normal, empathic human being in even the tiniest way.,
We don't even do that for the most heinous mass murderers, and you want to do it to the founder of Apple?
Canada was recently rated as the "most free" nation on Earth. This is also the country that dragged Mark Steyn into court for having the temerity to "insult Islam".
The Koch bros must be mighty pissed off right about now.
Maybe it'll pop your bubble, but they're probably delighted, given that they have big investments in the rail transport system that's profiting hugely from transporting oil. As someone once said, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
... why we need all those H1B visas: to bring tech unemployment more in line with US unemployment overall. Unemployment inequality affects us all.
Next time somebody proposes a new regulation to be added to the ever-growing pile of existing regulations, keep this in mind. Compliance costs eat up an increasing amount of time, money, and energy.
Besides most crime happens in crime-ridden communities, and if people want to let their communities go to hell in a handbasket, it's their problem. If you're in one and don't like it, work harder and move, or just don't raise your kids to be criminals.
I think it's time /. instituted an "Anonymous Idiot" nametag.
The move lately to release felons (ostensibly "nonviolent", but's that for just the latest, often plea-bargained-down, offense) from prison back onto the streets, and to prohibit police from stopping and questioning people who they have reason to believe are up to no good are more likely a larger contributing cause. Then there's California's new Proposition 47 law where a number of former drug and property-crime felonies have been reclassified as misdemeanors, even potentially retroactively for existing felons, so now habitual offenders know they can operate and just expect citations and not arrest. Then they don't show up in court and just keep going. Combine that with California shoving thousands of felons out of its prisons to local jails, where they end up being released because there's no room, and you have a crime wave in CA. Car breakins are up 47% in San Francisco, robberies up 28%, car theft up 17%, violent offenses up 21% in Los Angeles.