You don't just spy on enemies. Spying on friends is a good way to know how to push them diplomatically or to know how to reach a bargain with them. Happens ALL the time.
Again, I've spelled out that the dragnetting is my biggest problem. We're seeing that dragnetting creates such a huge footprint that it's impossible to keep the programs secret.
Manning and Snowden stopped being heroes to me when they started indiscriminately dumping documents. What value does it do to his cause to let it be known we were spying on the President of Mexico's emails?
I would never call this bill mere tweaks. I can't believe *anyone* would call this bill mere tweaks. Now, as for costs, there are some things that the ACA does. For one, it caps profiteering by the healthcare insurance industry by forcing at least 80% of expenditures to be used on actual healthcare. Second, it makes healthcare checkup plans far cheaper so that people don't ignore small health problems, then run to the ER when their pancreas explodes. I'd google for some of the other cost control measures.
Personally, I wanted a whole-hog UK healthcare system completely run and funded by the government and making doctors and nurses federal employees. What we've got is the best compromise that we could get through Congress. People are criticizing features of the ACA like they slept through the 2 years of rancorous public debate. It's a miracle that we got as much passed as we did.
In the future, when the idiots in this country crying about socialized healthcare understand what it actually means, I foresee a government-run public option being dropped into Obamacare. I also see other future changes like larger penalties for the John Waynes who declare they don't want insurance, but run to the ER when their pancreas explodes.
healthcare.gov uses Experian to validate registrants. Experian sells account information to whoever will pay for it. You're saying there's no relationship???
Uh, you have "assumed partisan rant because someone questions a policy" syndrome. Look at my posting history. I'm pretty Liberal. My point is the government is piping potentially 10s of millions of "potential health care customers" to a private company we know sells this information. What's to stop Experian from turning around and using validation information to build profiles for healthcare product advertising?
It was smart to build in the 3 month cushion, but that site is driving me nuts. First I dealt with 2 weeks of not even being able to log in (getting dropped to blank screens). Then I had registrations blow up over and over forcing me to repeat the process. Then, when I finally got my account set up, I had deal with Experian's validation blowing up, then being told to wait 24 hours for the fix, then calling back and finding out there was nothing Experian really could do and just call healthcare.gov help, then being told to just email a scanned driver's license for validation, then finding out that the online app is broken and thinks every image is over 10MB, then being told I can just mail in a photocopy or wait another week.
This IMO is an argument for doing thing's in-house. Maybe that wasn't practical or cost-effective, but most of their problems appear to be at the seams right now. And, that Solara dynamic marketplace browsing web app is TERRIBLE!
That's not insightful. The problem is lots of us who have insurance have been getting a raw deal. Including getting dropped when you get sick, having coverage capped, losing a job for being sick and being unable to afford a new plan after you get well (preconditions). The ACA isn't about just those 30 million, or they would've just expanded Medicaid.
No more dramatic subway car to subway car chases with that harrowing split second to open each door; not knowing if it'll be locked or if the international assassin will catch up to our hero before he gets through. No more gratuitous, tortured expressions as Julia Roberts struggles with the unfamilar latches. A subway chase through articulated joints will be like watching 2 guys running through an alley. Boring!
It's impossible to keep an operation that big under wraps. I can't say I have a problem with the US spying on other countries. I do have a major problem with a wasteful, counterproductive grab bag approach that relies on 20ish high school dropouts.
Did you read the article? Or, like most Slashdotters are you spouting off based on your uninformed "gut" instincts. The article is spelling out for you how black skin has traditionally been harder to film for tangible, technical reasons which required extra work for directors to address. How many directors do you think want to have interns smearing Black actors with vaseline between shots? This has obviously let directors to say "f it" throughout Hollywood's history. This has nothing to do with the "reverse racism" rants you hear on daytime radio.
Libertarian kookiness. You realize that gold doesn't have much intrinsic value, right? And look at how much volatility there is in gold by convincing other libertarians that the world is going to explode.
I haven't heard anyone arguing that figure. You think a government shutdown is free? Workers sitting at home are still giong to be paid for work they didn't do. Add to that this stupid stunt adds fuel the Chinese argument to move to an international (i.e. non-U.S.) financial base for the world economy that doesn't rely on our currency or bonds.
OK, I had to look up the definition as well and there's practically NOTHING about Citizen Kane that I would call "lighthearted unconcern." The guy is a headcase starting from the Rosebud scene.
My problem with infantry-only maps is they don't provide a counterbalance to snipers. Armor in Karkand is extremely challenging because in close quarters and on those narrow streets your vehicles are very vulnerable.
I'm guessing you didn't pick up on the context? This is an article about shiny new BF4 features and not fundamental changes to make the franchise what it used to be. If they're just going to keep pushing CoD-ified Battlefield, I'm done. I've been waiting to see if the trend will reverse and all I've heard about is some commander-mode tablet app.
Teamplay was obliterated in BF3 compared to BF2 and 2142. It's almost as if they intentionally removed the element that separated BF from CoD:
* No commanders, therefore no one directing traffic * No commander assets and their perks * Smaller squads * No built-in voice chat, so communications are limited to text chats (and virtually ignored by most players). * Point scoring now rewards individual play. You get 500 pts for winning where rounds can score you 20K points. In older BF games, losers got 1/2 points. * They kept nerfing other vehicles (especially AA) to appease people who love flying jets while making jets far too powerful. * The one thing I loved about BF2142 was there were no jets; just 2 gunships. This really balanced the air and anti-air. * No real anti-griefing features (besides a high vote threshold) to deal with disruptive players. * Same old hacking
EA said with BF3 "hey, how do we get the CoD players?" rather than asking the question "hey, how do we improve Battlefield?" Personally, I'm done with the franchise. Nothing more frustrating than trying to win a team game when 90% of players are stat whoring.
Just another example of the stupidity of dragnetting. Now, think of the size of the graph produced by analyzing all of these buddy lists. Now, think about the resources they've spent maintaining and developing the ability to scrub all of this internet traffic. Now think about all the potential "suspects" they'll end up with when 2 guys get busted with pipe bombs at the airport.
They didn't have the resources to follow the Boston bomber or keep tabs on what he was up to because they've adopted some predictive technology strategy instead of relying on following leads.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of THOSE! Especially on a sausage pizza...mmmm....
You don't just spy on enemies. Spying on friends is a good way to know how to push them diplomatically or to know how to reach a bargain with them. Happens ALL the time.
Again, I've spelled out that the dragnetting is my biggest problem. We're seeing that dragnetting creates such a huge footprint that it's impossible to keep the programs secret.
Manning and Snowden stopped being heroes to me when they started indiscriminately dumping documents. What value does it do to his cause to let it be known we were spying on the President of Mexico's emails?
Insurance IS redistribution!
I would never call this bill mere tweaks. I can't believe *anyone* would call this bill mere tweaks. Now, as for costs, there are some things that the ACA does. For one, it caps profiteering by the healthcare insurance industry by forcing at least 80% of expenditures to be used on actual healthcare. Second, it makes healthcare checkup plans far cheaper so that people don't ignore small health problems, then run to the ER when their pancreas explodes. I'd google for some of the other cost control measures.
Personally, I wanted a whole-hog UK healthcare system completely run and funded by the government and making doctors and nurses federal employees. What we've got is the best compromise that we could get through Congress. People are criticizing features of the ACA like they slept through the 2 years of rancorous public debate. It's a miracle that we got as much passed as we did.
In the future, when the idiots in this country crying about socialized healthcare understand what it actually means, I foresee a government-run public option being dropped into Obamacare. I also see other future changes like larger penalties for the John Waynes who declare they don't want insurance, but run to the ER when their pancreas explodes.
healthcare.gov uses Experian to validate registrants. Experian sells account information to whoever will pay for it. You're saying there's no relationship???
Uh, you have "assumed partisan rant because someone questions a policy" syndrome. Look at my posting history. I'm pretty Liberal. My point is the government is piping potentially 10s of millions of "potential health care customers" to a private company we know sells this information. What's to stop Experian from turning around and using validation information to build profiles for healthcare product advertising?
It was smart to build in the 3 month cushion, but that site is driving me nuts. First I dealt with 2 weeks of not even being able to log in (getting dropped to blank screens). Then I had registrations blow up over and over forcing me to repeat the process. Then, when I finally got my account set up, I had deal with Experian's validation blowing up, then being told to wait 24 hours for the fix, then calling back and finding out there was nothing Experian really could do and just call healthcare.gov help, then being told to just email a scanned driver's license for validation, then finding out that the online app is broken and thinks every image is over 10MB, then being told I can just mail in a photocopy or wait another week.
This IMO is an argument for doing thing's in-house. Maybe that wasn't practical or cost-effective, but most of their problems appear to be at the seams right now. And, that Solara dynamic marketplace browsing web app is TERRIBLE!
That's not insightful. The problem is lots of us who have insurance have been getting a raw deal. Including getting dropped when you get sick, having coverage capped, losing a job for being sick and being unable to afford a new plan after you get well (preconditions). The ACA isn't about just those 30 million, or they would've just expanded Medicaid.
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No more dramatic subway car to subway car chases with that harrowing split second to open each door; not knowing if it'll be locked or if the international assassin will catch up to our hero before he gets through. No more gratuitous, tortured expressions as Julia Roberts struggles with the unfamilar latches. A subway chase through articulated joints will be like watching 2 guys running through an alley. Boring!
It's impossible to keep an operation that big under wraps. I can't say I have a problem with the US spying on other countries. I do have a major problem with a wasteful, counterproductive grab bag approach that relies on 20ish high school dropouts.
Did you read the article? Or, like most Slashdotters are you spouting off based on your uninformed "gut" instincts. The article is spelling out for you how black skin has traditionally been harder to film for tangible, technical reasons which required extra work for directors to address. How many directors do you think want to have interns smearing Black actors with vaseline between shots? This has obviously let directors to say "f it" throughout Hollywood's history. This has nothing to do with the "reverse racism" rants you hear on daytime radio.
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Libertarian kookiness. You realize that gold doesn't have much intrinsic value, right? And look at how much volatility there is in gold by convincing other libertarians that the world is going to explode.
I haven't heard anyone arguing that figure. You think a government shutdown is free? Workers sitting at home are still giong to be paid for work they didn't do. Add to that this stupid stunt adds fuel the Chinese argument to move to an international (i.e. non-U.S.) financial base for the world economy that doesn't rely on our currency or bonds.
OK, I had to look up the definition as well and there's practically NOTHING about Citizen Kane that I would call "lighthearted unconcern." The guy is a headcase starting from the Rosebud scene.
It's about the visual I imagine.
Is it because they hate freedom?
My problem with infantry-only maps is they don't provide a counterbalance to snipers. Armor in Karkand is extremely challenging because in close quarters and on those narrow streets your vehicles are very vulnerable.
I'm guessing you didn't pick up on the context? This is an article about shiny new BF4 features and not fundamental changes to make the franchise what it used to be. If they're just going to keep pushing CoD-ified Battlefield, I'm done. I've been waiting to see if the trend will reverse and all I've heard about is some commander-mode tablet app.
Get to da Hakarl!
Teamplay was obliterated in BF3 compared to BF2 and 2142. It's almost as if they intentionally removed the element that separated BF from CoD:
* No commanders, therefore no one directing traffic
* No commander assets and their perks
* Smaller squads
* No built-in voice chat, so communications are limited to text chats (and virtually ignored by most players).
* Point scoring now rewards individual play. You get 500 pts for winning where rounds can score you 20K points. In older BF games, losers got 1/2 points.
* They kept nerfing other vehicles (especially AA) to appease people who love flying jets while making jets far too powerful.
* The one thing I loved about BF2142 was there were no jets; just 2 gunships. This really balanced the air and anti-air.
* No real anti-griefing features (besides a high vote threshold) to deal with disruptive players.
* Same old hacking
EA said with BF3 "hey, how do we get the CoD players?" rather than asking the question "hey, how do we improve Battlefield?" Personally, I'm done with the franchise. Nothing more frustrating than trying to win a team game when 90% of players are stat whoring.
Just another example of the stupidity of dragnetting. Now, think of the size of the graph produced by analyzing all of these buddy lists. Now, think about the resources they've spent maintaining and developing the ability to scrub all of this internet traffic. Now think about all the potential "suspects" they'll end up with when 2 guys get busted with pipe bombs at the airport.
They didn't have the resources to follow the Boston bomber or keep tabs on what he was up to because they've adopted some predictive technology strategy instead of relying on following leads.
If you can't run servers on it? I can't imagine using even a fraction of that unless I'm running some kinds of servers out of my house.
Thanks much, this is the name I wanted