Junk mail never bothered me since I always figured the senders were footing the bill. Let them waste their money sending me brochures for crap I'll never buy.
I'll be curious to know if the officer in charge of issuing this report has any contacts with private industry or ends up in a 7-figure job at Boeing or Lockheed.
He managed to hide from the most power nation in the history of the planet for 10 years with a $25 million bounty on his head. To paraphrase an investigator I once heard, at ONE million dollars moms start turning in their children. They had a helluva system and probably political protection from the Pakistanis. That's not something a moron can pull off.
Millions of wanna-be reality stars tweeting every banality. Hell, even the so-called live-tweeting was just a resident complaining about chopper noise.
Think of it this way. If I do a Google query for a map location, Google can serve up that map to me and allow me to interact with their map app, but they don't have to associate that information with me or log my queries. So, you can have location awareness applications without location tracking.
I've and an Android phone and I've had location tracking turned off as you talk about. But, it's a pain in the butt using phone with the feature turned off (all the prompts you end up navigating any time you do a location-based query).
Location awareness ain't the problem. It's reporting your comings and goings back to Google HQ. But, even if it were outlawed, I'm sure they'd figure out ways to log your shopping location queries and extract your location.
Benazir Bhutto also said that Osama Bin Laden had been assassinated by some named Afghan warlord. She was assassinated shortly after. Also, OBL then started releasing only audio taped messages (harder to verify than video). To me, this was a certain sign that OBL was actually dead. I've been saying that for years now. Current events prove me wrong.
What people seem to forget a woeful 2 years later on is that Obama ran on pumping up our Afghanistan presence to get the people *actually* responsible for 9/11 and pulling out of Iraq. I'll admit I thought it was stupid to throw more troops at Afghanistan, but it worked.
This is the legacy of Bill Clinton believe it or not. Before Clinton and the DLC, the Dems relied on labor organizations and unions to power their elections. But, that takes a lot of time and coordination when you're working with lots of little people (yeah, democracy is sloppy). Well, Clinton looked across the isle and noticed that Republicans only needed one good sitdown with a fat cat CEO donor to score big (look up Bono's change of heart about benefit concerts after meeting with the French PM).
So, he adopted (not sure if it was his idea) the scheme to court Big Business. The notion is that you now play a delicate balancing game. Lean to the right to pique the interests and donations of the big donors, but don't go so far over that your base doesn't look from pig to man and man to pig and not see the difference. Well, that scheme worked out *really* well for Clinton since Presidential elections already have built-in public appeal. But, this killed the Democrats for local and low-profile national elections. Add to that, the Dems effectively undercut their get-out-the-vote machine and disenfranchise their most fervent supporters.
Don't think for a second that officials like the President are centrist. They're just working in a political environment where they're now beholden to the same corporate interests as the Republicans have relied upon. The only difference is Republicans are willing and able to go all the way. Contrary to popular belief, people in this country haven't really swung to the right as identity polls suggest. It's just that so much of the political rhetoric and gamesmanship has swung that way that the message *sounds* more conservative.
There's a difference between tokenism and policy. We wouldn't have such a dearth of Chinese knockoffs and lead-based toys if what you said were true. And, those tainted products? China doesn't bury them in a hole or recycle them. They just ship them off to a nation that won't care.
The problem with that is you assume the Chinese are dumping crap off on us. You know those lead-painted (I think) toys we stopped from coming into our country? They kept them and sold them at home and in other countries. How about those woefully fragile Chinese vehicles we've all seen being obliterated in crash tests on YouTube? That's not the engineering of a country trying to exploit other countries with cheap crap while saving the goodies for themselves.
It has to be better than what HuffingtonPost.com does. Basically, a rigidly very left group of admins screen posts that don't meet their accepted political opinions. I'm liberal, but I'm not liberal *enough* to even post there anymore. They do leave conservative posts up strangely. It's like they want to present their own view of what "liberal" is.
Wow, now not only do you have to worry about the sex of the person on the other side of the glory hole, but now you have to worry about the species too!
Spoken like an upper-middle class white guy. Quick anecdote. I had a cool roommate from college who claimed to be paying her own way through school. She didn't pay her own rent, bills, for school supplies, car payment or insurance, and worked about 10 hours a week at her sorority. As far as I knew, "paying her way" meant just cutting a check for tuition. And, who knows where that money came from. But, in her mind she had the same opportunities as everyone else "paying their way through school."
Tech degrees have a high opportunity cost and a relatively lower resulting salary compared to something like a management degree that can propel you upwards quickly in Corporate America. Tech degrees take a lot more work in school for studying, schools are more expensive since the best programs are at the more expensive universities, and equipment costs are higher be that engineering fees or mandatory hardware you need to purchase on your own. Add to that the additional time it takes to study wipes out time you would have to work a job that could pay your way. I was shown a graduation plan by my adviser that implied that there simply wasn't enough time in the week to work and study (he also told me that *no one* had graduated from the engineering department otherwise).
So, now you need a well-off benefactor to sponsor you during school who can pay your bills for 4 years. Good luck if you can't get the loans to cover your education and expenses. Good luck paying them off when you do graduation and you can be sure as hell you won't be taking that fun job paying 10-20% less for personal satisfaction.
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Junk mail never bothered me since I always figured the senders were footing the bill. Let them waste their money sending me brochures for crap I'll never buy.
Guess I was wrong :(
Our government lost the benefit of the doubt by lying us into Iraq.
I'll be curious to know if the officer in charge of issuing this report has any contacts with private industry or ends up in a 7-figure job at Boeing or Lockheed.
2 shots and a splash of water.
I stole that from the KC Star newspaper blogs.
He managed to hide from the most power nation in the history of the planet for 10 years with a $25 million bounty on his head. To paraphrase an investigator I once heard, at ONE million dollars moms start turning in their children. They had a helluva system and probably political protection from the Pakistanis. That's not something a moron can pull off.
Millions of wanna-be reality stars tweeting every banality. Hell, even the so-called live-tweeting was just a resident complaining about chopper noise.
Think of it this way. If I do a Google query for a map location, Google can serve up that map to me and allow me to interact with their map app, but they don't have to associate that information with me or log my queries. So, you can have location awareness applications without location tracking.
I've and an Android phone and I've had location tracking turned off as you talk about. But, it's a pain in the butt using phone with the feature turned off (all the prompts you end up navigating any time you do a location-based query).
Location awareness ain't the problem. It's reporting your comings and goings back to Google HQ. But, even if it were outlawed, I'm sure they'd figure out ways to log your shopping location queries and extract your location.
Benazir Bhutto also said that Osama Bin Laden had been assassinated by some named Afghan warlord. She was assassinated shortly after. Also, OBL then started releasing only audio taped messages (harder to verify than video). To me, this was a certain sign that OBL was actually dead. I've been saying that for years now. Current events prove me wrong.
What people seem to forget a woeful 2 years later on is that Obama ran on pumping up our Afghanistan presence to get the people *actually* responsible for 9/11 and pulling out of Iraq. I'll admit I thought it was stupid to throw more troops at Afghanistan, but it worked.
This is the US. NOBODY gets elected without charisma. Hell, we've got front runners with no discernible talents BUT charisma.
That won't work. You need at least 12 people on a jury.
This is the legacy of Bill Clinton believe it or not. Before Clinton and the DLC, the Dems relied on labor organizations and unions to power their elections. But, that takes a lot of time and coordination when you're working with lots of little people (yeah, democracy is sloppy). Well, Clinton looked across the isle and noticed that Republicans only needed one good sitdown with a fat cat CEO donor to score big (look up Bono's change of heart about benefit concerts after meeting with the French PM).
So, he adopted (not sure if it was his idea) the scheme to court Big Business. The notion is that you now play a delicate balancing game. Lean to the right to pique the interests and donations of the big donors, but don't go so far over that your base doesn't look from pig to man and man to pig and not see the difference. Well, that scheme worked out *really* well for Clinton since Presidential elections already have built-in public appeal. But, this killed the Democrats for local and low-profile national elections. Add to that, the Dems effectively undercut their get-out-the-vote machine and disenfranchise their most fervent supporters.
Don't think for a second that officials like the President are centrist. They're just working in a political environment where they're now beholden to the same corporate interests as the Republicans have relied upon. The only difference is Republicans are willing and able to go all the way. Contrary to popular belief, people in this country haven't really swung to the right as identity polls suggest. It's just that so much of the political rhetoric and gamesmanship has swung that way that the message *sounds* more conservative.
Try taking a look at the last 10 5-4 court decisions if you're curious.
There's a difference between tokenism and policy. We wouldn't have such a dearth of Chinese knockoffs and lead-based toys if what you said were true. And, those tainted products? China doesn't bury them in a hole or recycle them. They just ship them off to a nation that won't care.
Make the code monkey do a ride-along!
...when it plinks off a glass wall with a bunch of LEDs and dust clouds painted on it.
They're already doing it.
The problem with that is you assume the Chinese are dumping crap off on us. You know those lead-painted (I think) toys we stopped from coming into our country? They kept them and sold them at home and in other countries. How about those woefully fragile Chinese vehicles we've all seen being obliterated in crash tests on YouTube? That's not the engineering of a country trying to exploit other countries with cheap crap while saving the goodies for themselves.
It might be the rate at which they're acquiring our debts.
It has to be better than what HuffingtonPost.com does. Basically, a rigidly very left group of admins screen posts that don't meet their accepted political opinions. I'm liberal, but I'm not liberal *enough* to even post there anymore. They do leave conservative posts up strangely. It's like they want to present their own view of what "liberal" is.
As I recall, Columbus' crew almost mutinied when they thought they weren't going to find land before it was too late to turn around.
Wow, now not only do you have to worry about the sex of the person on the other side of the glory hole, but now you have to worry about the species too!
Spoken like an upper-middle class white guy. Quick anecdote. I had a cool roommate from college who claimed to be paying her own way through school. She didn't pay her own rent, bills, for school supplies, car payment or insurance, and worked about 10 hours a week at her sorority. As far as I knew, "paying her way" meant just cutting a check for tuition. And, who knows where that money came from. But, in her mind she had the same opportunities as everyone else "paying their way through school."
Tech degrees have a high opportunity cost and a relatively lower resulting salary compared to something like a management degree that can propel you upwards quickly in Corporate America. Tech degrees take a lot more work in school for studying, schools are more expensive since the best programs are at the more expensive universities, and equipment costs are higher be that engineering fees or mandatory hardware you need to purchase on your own. Add to that the additional time it takes to study wipes out time you would have to work a job that could pay your way. I was shown a graduation plan by my adviser that implied that there simply wasn't enough time in the week to work and study (he also told me that *no one* had graduated from the engineering department otherwise).
So, now you need a well-off benefactor to sponsor you during school who can pay your bills for 4 years. Good luck if you can't get the loans to cover your education and expenses. Good luck paying them off when you do graduation and you can be sure as hell you won't be taking that fun job paying 10-20% less for personal satisfaction.