Makes sense that stupid liberals can't do math, or account for small towns in rural counties with only one hospital in that county, which happens to be in that town.
Hillary's "Deplorables" comment helped her win the election!
And nobody is looking at OTHER nearby towns that may not have pharmacies, or being this is the only town with a Hospital in that county.
The problem with big numbers, is they can be misleading. Big Numbers over a Long Time look horrible, until you do the math, and then it doesn't look so bad. In fact, it actually starts to look more and more reasonable.
But hey, lets kneejerk reaction based on large misleading numbers!
Democratic Republic. We elect our representatives. But they don't represent us, but rather their rightful masters, the corporations, unions, PACs and so on.
If that is wrong, then how do you feel about the Fusion GPS Dossier built on Russian FSB intel? If that is wrong, then how do you feel about the Attorney that met with Jr being linked to Fusion GPS?
And JUST an FYI, since the Russian Attorney was linked to Fusion GPS and the Dossier appears to be what was used for the FISA court warrant, you must REALLY be pissed off.
Either that, or you're just another AC hack that has a big fat nothing burger. One meeting that didn't go well isn't collusion. But nice try.
You're sticking with the "Russian Collusion" based on a short meeting with a lawyer tied to Anti-Trump Russian based Propaganda. Perhaps that is the Russian Collusion you actually seek?
For the record, I didn't vote for the guy. I still wouldn't vote for him (for a variety of reasons).
Demand side is largely Pussy Hat wearing or Sean Hannity watching idiots. Known by the term "average Americans'. What we need are a few Elites to tell us what we need to know, like perhaps, CNN and the NYT!
(Please note, the post is filled with all sorts of sarcasm and ad hominem to the point of being reductio ad absurdum)
Its been a year and a half, what evidence have you SEEN that indicates Trump Colluded with Russia? Short of "17 agencies say so"? Seriously ANYTHING useful would be good.
Government Monopoly means that the only action is to do what the government says you must do.
Being a Monopoly does mean you will not have competing products to choose from.
The worst possible case is Government Monopoly with Net Neutrality, where you'll have under-powered network with everyone wanting 4K Netflix videos on their phones, wondering why they can't even text anymore.
The problem isn't the law, it is lawyers and judges. The law is fine. (Some) Lawyers and Judges are known to bend over backwards to present and form opinions that aren't actually based on anything reasonable. To the point of ridiculousness.
As long as One Lawyer, can find One Judge that will hear the case, the case continues. In criminal lay there are appeals processes in place, and and eventual end to the process (sort of). In Civil Tort, there is no end to the process, as long as there is a court to hear what crazy idea the lawyer has dreamed up. And here, the lawyers know it. Which makes this whole thing about as crazy as the whole Twinkie Defense; silly to anyone on the outside, but perfect sense to a lawyer.
Engineers are doing what the market seems to be demanding.
Market wants sleek phones. Engineers make phones sleeker by removing options for battery swaps. Market want water resistant phones. Engineers seal up phones nice n tight, preventing water to key components. Market wants sleek, water resistant phones with swappable batteries. Those phones are 2-3x the cost of just sleek phones with water resistance. Market say nope. Liberal whiner complains about corporate greed.
I'm assuming you're basically talking about Cell Phones, if you are not, please take the rest as issues I have with this law anyways.
1) If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries in phones (or other devices) they would be BUYING them. If your choice was between iPhone 8 and something like an LG V20, they would abandon iPhones for LG. The problem is, that they want an iPhone first, battery second. THEY made the choice, and voted with their money. If Apple was losing BILLIONS to people who WANT removable batteries as a PRIMARY feature, they would make an iPhone with Removable Battery.
2)If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries over other features like Water Proof/Resistant devices, then they would be BUYING them. Since it is makes devices MORE expensive to have WaterProof and Replaceable batteries than one or the other, and people are choosing lesser expensive single option devices (Waterproof, no replaceable battery vs replaceable battery and don't drop in the pool) the the market has spoken.
3) In almost ALL categories, there ARE options for having those features, while giving up others, and the relative price points for each are such that the Market is making cost/feature analysis as part of their buying choices is already available.
Conclusion: A law like the one proposes removes choice and replaces it with draconian rules that the Market has ALREADY rejected with the voting dollars. This is the problem with the whole "There ought to be a law" people, is that they want what they want, but are UNWILLING to do it for themselves. This is the choice of the Consumer, not the state.
Your government just recently shut itself down despite one party controlling the house, the senate and the presidency.
Yup, controlling is sort of only half accurate. You see (and I'll assume you don't know) that the Senate has this stupid rule about Filibuster, allowing ONE Senator to hold things up indefinitely (it works better if there are a bunch). To get around that rule, there is a 60 Vote minimum, which requires, even in the best of times, at least a few members of the minority party to agree with the majority party to accomplish anything useful.
Hence, when the shutdown happened, the problem wasn't the house, or the presidency, it was the Senate, where Chuck Schumer tried to tie Funding for the government to DACA. Which lead to what is now known as the Schumer Shutdown. Eventually, Schumer realized his name was all over the Shutdown and with "assurances" from Republicans to deal with DACA, signed a VERY short term funding extension, which is now known as the "Schumer Sellout" (see the protesting DACA people at Schumer's house).
IMHO the whole thing backfired on Schumer, who was largely the one responsible for the Shutdown.
Don't get me wrong, the Republicans are pretty damn stupid, and I think McConnell is slightly below a bridge troll. But this.... is all on Chuck Schumer, in spite of the Republican Stupidity. Holding the American Tax Payers and Citizens hostage over illegal immigrants is really bad optics, even if the illegal immigrants have some basis for an emotional appeal.
How about you require everyone to pass a basic intelligence evaluation before you can vote.
FTFY?
The problem isn't social media. Or even most of the people.
The real problem are people like you who don't know how elitist you sound, or worse, don't really care. Oh, I am sure you don't want a basic intelligence test to vote, because that would eliminate a few voting blocks that the Democrats actually depend upon.
Fake News isn't a new problem, it is just one that the Elites used for a long time, and now that anyone can "publish" anything the effect by the elite media is being nullified by other forms of fake news and a few sources of legitimate news.
Its actually worse than that. There is plenty of evidence of Russian Collusion to rig the election, and it is all Hillary, DNC and the Deep State.
Hillary/DNC paid for the Russian Dossier Russian Dossier was filled with Russian Propaganda from FSB Hillary's Husband (Bill) was paid millions of dollars from FSB sources for "speeches" Hillary signed off on Uranium One, in spite of an ongoing investigation into Russian trying to corner the Uranium market. Obama Justice Dept and FBI agents were actively colluding to overturn the election Obama and Justice Dept used the Fake Russian FSB Dossier to get a FISA court warrant to spy tap Americans, namely the opposition party.
This is just what we KNOW. I realize that the GP post doesn't account for any of this, because he's probably watching CNN or MSNBC which is talking about how much diet coke and McDonalds Trump consumes, or something equally inane. Or perhaps its on the ScarJo speech at the Liberal Women's march about how awful men are, especially James Franco, while ignoring that she praised Woody Allen or her cuddling up and beaming at Roman Polanski getting a Hollywood Award of some kind.
The selective nature of their outrage is humorous. Their disdain for average people (who knew these people were gross pigs long before Hollywoudn't) extends from Hollywood to the beltway.
When your password must contain upper and lower-case letters, at least one number, a special character, must be at least 12 characters long, must be changed every 3 months
Making passwords hard to remember isn't security. It is building in faults because the experts are too lazy to figure out a better method.
Three significant length words should be sufficient. That way, you only have to remember 3 things, a couple symbols and one number. And is it sufficient for current password strengths
Gorilla!Bamboo(Mastodon)01
For the 01 means "January". "Change" your password every month on the first and you have 12 passwords without changing anything meaningful.
You can vary it up if you want,
Gorilla!Bamboo-Helpdesk = unique password for Helpdesk. Gorilla!Bamboo-ChaseBank = Your banking PW
The thing about making Passwords hard to remember is that it significantly weakens the system, because stickynotes on screens.
Most Certs are worth about what it takes to print them.
Personal Anecdote:
During the 90s, I started a cert program (takes about 2 years) for Novell, because Novell was the top tier Networking system out there. Sometime during my program, Windows NT was released. No biggie, right? As I approach finishing the program, and getting my CNE, NT takes off, even though it pales in comparison to Netware, which is more complete. I have my CNA (lower level cert) and now can't find any work with Novell, as all the businesses are going with Microsoft and NT (Which still sucked). All that training and certifications is now basically worthless.
By the time you get certified, the technology has already changed to the point of being worthless. It is much much better to just stay up on things yourself, and teach yourself. When I hire, desire and ability to learn is the only thing I care about. My #1 question I ask, which is really telling... "What is the last thing you learned?" The insatiable desire to learn is key to surviving in IT. It doesn't matter what.
PCs have migrated to your pocket as a Cell Phone with all sorts of advanced technology. Not corporate work, but average daily work for most average people.
It is cultural. Not race related. Yet we can't address it because just mentioning it triggers the kneejerk reaction.... "RACISM!!!!!!", "NAZI!!!!" , "KKK!!!!!"
When the culture creates the spaces of honor for Gangster imagery to be promoted, then you get what you see here.
Let me know when the NYT or MSNBC run week long expose on the ghetto / gang culture that perpetuates the high murder rate. Oh right, they can't because that wouldn't fit the "White Hetero Cis Gendered Males are the problem" narrative.
This applies only to Americans, and doesn't apply to any other country. But since we have a fairly high murder rate among blacks, and the corresponding racist white supremacists. It is only for discussion purposes and to give an example answer the question as asked. There are other facts that do apply and should be part of broader discussion.
My personal view is that skin color doesn't indicate propensity to commit murder at all, but rather it is cultural (which isn't racial). Change the culture, and the rates of murder will change as well. People mistake culture for race all the time.
Which group (because Black Lives Matters) has proportionally higher murder rate, white males vs black males.
The fact is, the murder rate among blacks is higher than whites. That is an inconvenient fact. There are lots and lots of potential conclusions one could make on that fact, based on other facts (or lack of other facts). But our society doesn't mention this fact, because it appears "racist" using it at face value. White Supremacists use this fact as "proof" that blacks are inferior to whites. The fact is correct, their conclusion is wrong. Therefore we don't mention the fact (conspiracy to hide facts) and the White Supremacists use that to bolster their argument.
The real answer is to not hide this inconvenient fact, but use it for a broader discussion (more speech, less self censorship) about root causes. It is inconvenient only
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You forgot Hot Grits and Natalie Portman.
Makes sense that stupid liberals can't do math, or account for small towns in rural counties with only one hospital in that county, which happens to be in that town.
Hillary's "Deplorables" comment helped her win the election!
when you take into account how that part of the country actually operates.
But why do that, when we elitists in big cities know how to run things better than stupid hicks in WV? That's just a fact!
(Please note, sarcasm)
And nobody is looking at OTHER nearby towns that may not have pharmacies, or being this is the only town with a Hospital in that county.
The problem with big numbers, is they can be misleading. Big Numbers over a Long Time look horrible, until you do the math, and then it doesn't look so bad. In fact, it actually starts to look more and more reasonable.
But hey, lets kneejerk reaction based on large misleading numbers!
Democratic Republic. We elect our representatives. But they don't represent us, but rather their rightful masters, the corporations, unions, PACs and so on.
If that is wrong, then how do you feel about the Fusion GPS Dossier built on Russian FSB intel?
If that is wrong, then how do you feel about the Attorney that met with Jr being linked to Fusion GPS?
And JUST an FYI, since the Russian Attorney was linked to Fusion GPS and the Dossier appears to be what was used for the FISA court warrant, you must REALLY be pissed off.
Either that, or you're just another AC hack that has a big fat nothing burger. One meeting that didn't go well isn't collusion. But nice try.
You're sticking with the "Russian Collusion" based on a short meeting with a lawyer tied to Anti-Trump Russian based Propaganda. Perhaps that is the Russian Collusion you actually seek?
For the record, I didn't vote for the guy. I still wouldn't vote for him (for a variety of reasons).
Demand side is largely Pussy Hat wearing or Sean Hannity watching idiots. Known by the term "average Americans'. What we need are a few Elites to tell us what we need to know, like perhaps, CNN and the NYT!
(Please note, the post is filled with all sorts of sarcasm and ad hominem to the point of being reductio ad absurdum)
Its been a year and a half, what evidence have you SEEN that indicates Trump Colluded with Russia? Short of "17 agencies say so"? Seriously ANYTHING useful would be good.
Democracy means the majority is the tyrant.
Government Monopoly means that the only action is to do what the government says you must do.
Being a Monopoly does mean you will not have competing products to choose from.
The worst possible case is Government Monopoly with Net Neutrality, where you'll have under-powered network with everyone wanting 4K Netflix videos on their phones, wondering why they can't even text anymore.
The problem isn't the law, it is lawyers and judges. The law is fine. (Some) Lawyers and Judges are known to bend over backwards to present and form opinions that aren't actually based on anything reasonable. To the point of ridiculousness.
As long as One Lawyer, can find One Judge that will hear the case, the case continues. In criminal lay there are appeals processes in place, and and eventual end to the process (sort of). In Civil Tort, there is no end to the process, as long as there is a court to hear what crazy idea the lawyer has dreamed up. And here, the lawyers know it. Which makes this whole thing about as crazy as the whole Twinkie Defense; silly to anyone on the outside, but perfect sense to a lawyer.
Engineers are doing what the market seems to be demanding.
Market wants sleek phones. Engineers make phones sleeker by removing options for battery swaps.
Market want water resistant phones. Engineers seal up phones nice n tight, preventing water to key components.
Market wants sleek, water resistant phones with swappable batteries. Those phones are 2-3x the cost of just sleek phones with water resistance. Market say nope. Liberal whiner complains about corporate greed.
which is all consumers are asking for.
I'm assuming you're basically talking about Cell Phones, if you are not, please take the rest as issues I have with this law anyways.
1) If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries in phones (or other devices) they would be BUYING them. If your choice was between iPhone 8 and something like an LG V20, they would abandon iPhones for LG. The problem is, that they want an iPhone first, battery second. THEY made the choice, and voted with their money. If Apple was losing BILLIONS to people who WANT removable batteries as a PRIMARY feature, they would make an iPhone with Removable Battery.
2)If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries over other features like Water Proof/Resistant devices, then they would be BUYING them. Since it is makes devices MORE expensive to have WaterProof and Replaceable batteries than one or the other, and people are choosing lesser expensive single option devices (Waterproof, no replaceable battery vs replaceable battery and don't drop in the pool) the the market has spoken.
3) In almost ALL categories, there ARE options for having those features, while giving up others, and the relative price points for each are such that the Market is making cost/feature analysis as part of their buying choices is already available.
Conclusion: A law like the one proposes removes choice and replaces it with draconian rules that the Market has ALREADY rejected with the voting dollars. This is the problem with the whole "There ought to be a law" people, is that they want what they want, but are UNWILLING to do it for themselves. This is the choice of the Consumer, not the state.
Actually, the next election will likely see someone like Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren. Or Ben Shapiro.
Your government just recently shut itself down despite one party controlling the house, the senate and the presidency.
Yup, controlling is sort of only half accurate. You see (and I'll assume you don't know) that the Senate has this stupid rule about Filibuster, allowing ONE Senator to hold things up indefinitely (it works better if there are a bunch). To get around that rule, there is a 60 Vote minimum, which requires, even in the best of times, at least a few members of the minority party to agree with the majority party to accomplish anything useful.
Hence, when the shutdown happened, the problem wasn't the house, or the presidency, it was the Senate, where Chuck Schumer tried to tie Funding for the government to DACA. Which lead to what is now known as the Schumer Shutdown. Eventually, Schumer realized his name was all over the Shutdown and with "assurances" from Republicans to deal with DACA, signed a VERY short term funding extension, which is now known as the "Schumer Sellout" (see the protesting DACA people at Schumer's house).
IMHO the whole thing backfired on Schumer, who was largely the one responsible for the Shutdown.
Don't get me wrong, the Republicans are pretty damn stupid, and I think McConnell is slightly below a bridge troll. But this .... is all on Chuck Schumer, in spite of the Republican Stupidity. Holding the American Tax Payers and Citizens hostage over illegal immigrants is really bad optics, even if the illegal immigrants have some basis for an emotional appeal.
How about you require everyone to pass a basic intelligence evaluation before you can vote.
FTFY?
The problem isn't social media. Or even most of the people.
The real problem are people like you who don't know how elitist you sound, or worse, don't really care. Oh, I am sure you don't want a basic intelligence test to vote, because that would eliminate a few voting blocks that the Democrats actually depend upon.
Fake News isn't a new problem, it is just one that the Elites used for a long time, and now that anyone can "publish" anything the effect by the elite media is being nullified by other forms of fake news and a few sources of legitimate news.
Its actually worse than that. There is plenty of evidence of Russian Collusion to rig the election, and it is all Hillary, DNC and the Deep State.
Hillary/DNC paid for the Russian Dossier
Russian Dossier was filled with Russian Propaganda from FSB
Hillary's Husband (Bill) was paid millions of dollars from FSB sources for "speeches"
Hillary signed off on Uranium One, in spite of an ongoing investigation into Russian trying to corner the Uranium market.
Obama Justice Dept and FBI agents were actively colluding to overturn the election
Obama and Justice Dept used the Fake Russian FSB Dossier to get a FISA court warrant to spy tap Americans, namely the opposition party.
This is just what we KNOW. I realize that the GP post doesn't account for any of this, because he's probably watching CNN or MSNBC which is talking about how much diet coke and McDonalds Trump consumes, or something equally inane. Or perhaps its on the ScarJo speech at the Liberal Women's march about how awful men are, especially James Franco, while ignoring that she praised Woody Allen or her cuddling up and beaming at Roman Polanski getting a Hollywood Award of some kind.
The selective nature of their outrage is humorous. Their disdain for average people (who knew these people were gross pigs long before Hollywoudn't) extends from Hollywood to the beltway.
https://xkcd.com/927/
When your password must contain upper and lower-case letters, at least one number, a special character, must be at least 12 characters long, must be changed every 3 months
Making passwords hard to remember isn't security. It is building in faults because the experts are too lazy to figure out a better method.
Three significant length words should be sufficient. That way, you only have to remember 3 things, a couple symbols and one number. And is it sufficient for current password strengths
Gorilla!Bamboo(Mastodon)01
For the 01 means "January". "Change" your password every month on the first and you have 12 passwords without changing anything meaningful.
You can vary it up if you want,
Gorilla!Bamboo-Helpdesk = unique password for Helpdesk.
Gorilla!Bamboo-ChaseBank = Your banking PW
The thing about making Passwords hard to remember is that it significantly weakens the system, because stickynotes on screens.
The weakest security is always the human involved.
IMHO people posting, sharing or otherwise exposing passwords, should be written up, and eventually fired.
What is the point of a password that is out in the open like this? Are passwords that hard to remember?
I wanna run away screaming!
Gold ... with BLOCKCHAIN!
Quick Patent it!
Most Certs are worth about what it takes to print them.
Personal Anecdote:
During the 90s, I started a cert program (takes about 2 years) for Novell, because Novell was the top tier Networking system out there. Sometime during my program, Windows NT was released. No biggie, right? As I approach finishing the program, and getting my CNE, NT takes off, even though it pales in comparison to Netware, which is more complete. I have my CNA (lower level cert) and now can't find any work with Novell, as all the businesses are going with Microsoft and NT (Which still sucked). All that training and certifications is now basically worthless.
By the time you get certified, the technology has already changed to the point of being worthless. It is much much better to just stay up on things yourself, and teach yourself. When I hire, desire and ability to learn is the only thing I care about. My #1 question I ask, which is really telling ... "What is the last thing you learned?" The insatiable desire to learn is key to surviving in IT. It doesn't matter what.
PCs have migrated to your pocket as a Cell Phone with all sorts of advanced technology. Not corporate work, but average daily work for most average people.
http://heyjackass.com/
It is cultural. Not race related. Yet we can't address it because just mentioning it triggers the kneejerk reaction .... "RACISM!!!!!!", "NAZI!!!!" , "KKK!!!!!"
When the culture creates the spaces of honor for Gangster imagery to be promoted, then you get what you see here.
Let me know when the NYT or MSNBC run week long expose on the ghetto / gang culture that perpetuates the high murder rate. Oh right, they can't because that wouldn't fit the "White Hetero Cis Gendered Males are the problem" narrative.
I'm going to revise one part of my comment.
This applies only to Americans, and doesn't apply to any other country. But since we have a fairly high murder rate among blacks, and the corresponding racist white supremacists. It is only for discussion purposes and to give an example answer the question as asked. There are other facts that do apply and should be part of broader discussion.
My personal view is that skin color doesn't indicate propensity to commit murder at all, but rather it is cultural (which isn't racial). Change the culture, and the rates of murder will change as well. People mistake culture for race all the time.
Here is a fact for you to research ...
Which group (because Black Lives Matters) has proportionally higher murder rate, white males vs black males.
The fact is, the murder rate among blacks is higher than whites. That is an inconvenient fact. There are lots and lots of potential conclusions one could make on that fact, based on other facts (or lack of other facts). But our society doesn't mention this fact, because it appears "racist" using it at face value. White Supremacists use this fact as "proof" that blacks are inferior to whites. The fact is correct, their conclusion is wrong. Therefore we don't mention the fact (conspiracy to hide facts) and the White Supremacists use that to bolster their argument.
The real answer is to not hide this inconvenient fact, but use it for a broader discussion (more speech, less self censorship) about root causes. It is inconvenient only