"New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014, Al Gore said today at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen."
Predictability and reproducible are required for "Science". This is prophecy, and it belongs in the Religion section of Barnes and Noble. Inconvenient that the Truth isn't what has been prophesied by the likes of Al Gore.
Believe it or not, but all those "tracking features" you seem to think are intractable, are all easily defeated by a variety of means. Here is just the quick half dozen I could think of.
1) Disable Data unless actually using it 2) Disable Location. 3) GPS Spoofing App 4) VPN services 5) Firewall rules 6) DNS Encryption 7) Change your ROM (Several available, different focus/approach) 8) Incognito Mode
The problem is, that there are plenty of different ways to improve the profile being generated by the "mobile tracking device", while still able to use the various features that it provides.
However, I've found the best security for the paranoid among us, is to drop off the grid entirely, give up living in modern life, and hang out in a cave out in the middle of nowhere. But that would surely draw the attention of those looking to get you. Duh.
They didn't change anything. Their stance is "We don't recommend Microsoft Hardware" (or there about). There is no change, and they announced they haven't changed. This is a non-story about a non-story.
Tailored to California, where Fascism is creeping in.
1) California elitism fits. 2) Group politics of modern Progressives deny individual rights (except when convenient) and assert group rights over rights of individuals. 3) Anyone who is right of Gov Moonbeam and the progressive far left. Usually called "Hate" by the left. 4) First that doesn't quite fit, until Calexit is done. Then wait. 5) I would disagree that sexism is required for Fascism. but then again, there is Hollywood that is embroiled in the revelation of decades long sexist bullshit. 6) MSM 7) Calexit. Fear of "Middle America" and "Flyover Country hicks" 8) Militant Atheism/Anti-theism is the new religion. 9) Corporate power is eschewed for the most part, except the current cabal in Silicone Valley (google, facebook, Uber) which is basically chasing all other corporations out of California. 10) Labor is suppressed using imported slave labor of illegal immigration. Which is why California is a "Sanctuary" state. 11) Suppression of the arts isn't fascist. Using the arts to progress the statist control/propoganda is. See Hollywood. 12) The laws used to suppress the people are now called "regulatory" controls. Want to start a business, see how many different regulations you need to follow just to start one. The state is using police power to enforce bathroom policies, who can sell baked goods to who and even if you can plant crops and collect rainwater. 13) California has no opposition power to the current leftist Democrat controlled legislature and governorship, and hasn't for a long time. There is cronyism all over the capital. 14) There are basically elections in California, but only one party ever gets to decide anything, does that count?
It all depends on whether you excuse each of them because you like how the fascism is going. California is not for Liberty, it is all about control. Calexit is a temper tantrum because the rest of America has some control over California that it doesn't like.
Then again, one man's liberty is keeping another man from being able to "punch a Nazi".
I over simplified it, to reflect that we have the essential bits. Next up, Obama/Trump for President for life. If you think I've oversimplified it, please tell me, what "important bits" I left out? My guess it is one sided governance like in California.
Fascist America is where the government controls corporations through threats of violence. You know, democrat policies. Or do you not understand what fascism actually is?
Fascism/fæzm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce
Its not a one way street. That is a myth of people without the skills to negotiate properly. They negotiated your wage by getting you to set the bar artificially low, and countered your desire with a comparison with what you make.
Had you, instead, said "are you offering me the position? I'll provide you with my pay history immediately upon receipt of a fair offer." presents option for them to be "fair". The "be reasonable" counter was aggressive but predictable.
This is an age old technique to get people to lower their standards to appear "reasonable".
You mean the fact that Single Women just out of college earn more than their male counterparts, but an average of 8%?
"Census data from 2008 show that single, childless women in their 20s now earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts in metropolitan areas."
The wage gap myth is based on the idea that men and women make equal choices, and doesn't account for career choices, family choices, and other meaningful criteria. But hey, it fits the narrative.
My answer would be... "I'll provide my pay stub the moment you provide me with a genuine offer. If this unacceptable, would you be willing to propose an alternative that is fair to both sides?"
There is no way for them to answer the question without giving up something. If they don't propose something, they are admitting that they are being unfair. If they do offer something, that is just a continuation of the negotiation. The moment they refuse to be "fair" then you don't want to work for them anyways.
Assuming you're powerless is the greatest weakness in negotiations. You have a lot more power than you realize, simply by asking the other side to be "fair".
I've been in IT for 30 years or so. I want to be retrained to not be in IT anymore, and its partly because of what you said. People don't care about qualifications anymore, they care about bodies, and lower cost bodies means hiring more of them, even if they are useless. It is rare that I find someone that is actually good at what they do.
And if WOZ is training people for today's jobs, many of those jobs wont exist in 6 years.
With Deflationary currency, those people producing goods and services that others actually value will be rewarded. And the earning power of the youth will benefit them when they are elderly. Hence the saying... "a penny saved is a penny earned", which unlike current fiat inflationary currency is meaningless.
Further, everyone knows what rampant inflation looks like, and why it leads to war and revolution. Nobody cared when it was runaway deflation, because holding a coin for two days doubled your wealth.
I'm pretty sure that we have no real idea what business looks like with deflationary currency. We can make educated assumptions. One thing is for sure, savings would be more beneficial than spending, and credit would largely be rare, rather than common.
Bitcoin has intrinsic value above nominal fiat currencies, in that it is not influenced by central banking authorities or government programs that devalue currency. This makes it... deflationary in nature, and hence the pricing spike.
The primary value in our current Fiat currency is that it is credit based value because it is inflationary. It is better to spend a dollar today, than save it for a marginal return that might not match the inflationary pressure on that currency. It is why most wealth is not maintained in currency form, but rather assets that increase in value faster than inflation.
It is my opinion, that the combination of inflationary pressure on nominal fiat currency, and the deflationary pressure on cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, are both being reflected in the nominal currency to Bitcoin exchange rate. I am also sure that some of that is indeed "bubble" valuation. The question is, two fold, when is the bubble going to burst, and what is the proper current valuation of Bitcoin, relative to nominal currencies.
Gold is valuable because unlike most other versions of matter, is very difficult to corrupt and fairly rare.
Gold will remain after fires, earthquakes, floods.... It is slow to corrode (unlike silver)
It basically just outlasts people and is difficult to create or destroy which makes it very nice "fiat" currency. The down side is it is very heavy and difficult to move in quantities. Italian Job Physics not withstanding.
1) Most Americans outside of NYC and LA and Bay Area didn't like Hillary 2) IF we didn't use Electoral College, the outcome would have been vastly different, because different strategies would have been employed. The assumption is, that HRC would have gotten MORE votes from LA, NYC, Chicago, and Bay Area, when the reality is, she was already at "max" for the areas she won overwhelmingly. 3) Changing how the game is scored (electoral college vs popular vote) is how to actually not admit how horrible Hillary actually was. 4) She lost to a Junior Senator from Illinois, and almost lost to Bernie, even Democrats don't actually like her. While DJT actually beat a substantial number of GOP candidates to actually "win" the nomination, rather than the coronation of HRC. If it wasn't for the outright stolen election HRC would have been a two time D loser. 5) HRC lost the popular vote in the Primary in a number of states, but still won the state delegation, now you want to use Popular Votes?
This post isn't about DJT at all, it is about HRC and how rotten a candidate she actually was, and the ignorance of people who keep saying "She won the popular vote". Yeah, that is true, but that is not how to win the Presidency.
We’ve had free and fair elections and we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election. President Obama said the other day that when you’re whining before the game is even finished it just shows you’re not even up to doing the job. - Hillary Clinton
I wonder what she would say about people whining about the rules after losing the game.
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Prediction or Prophecy?
"New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014, Al Gore said today at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen."
Predictability and reproducible are required for "Science". This is prophecy, and it belongs in the Religion section of Barnes and Noble. Inconvenient that the Truth isn't what has been prophesied by the likes of Al Gore.
You mean, stop bribing Secretary of States, former presidents under the watchful eye of the Robert Mueller FBI ?
Believe it or not, but all those "tracking features" you seem to think are intractable, are all easily defeated by a variety of means. Here is just the quick half dozen I could think of.
1) Disable Data unless actually using it
2) Disable Location.
3) GPS Spoofing App
4) VPN services
5) Firewall rules
6) DNS Encryption
7) Change your ROM (Several available, different focus/approach)
8) Incognito Mode
The problem is, that there are plenty of different ways to improve the profile being generated by the "mobile tracking device", while still able to use the various features that it provides.
However, I've found the best security for the paranoid among us, is to drop off the grid entirely, give up living in modern life, and hang out in a cave out in the middle of nowhere. But that would surely draw the attention of those looking to get you. Duh.
I give way more credence to the idea that AI wasn't involved at all, as there is very little intelligence shown :-P
The previous administration didn't care about facts either. Or the administration before that, or the one before that.
Quit pretending that this is unprecedented.
They didn't change anything. Their stance is "We don't recommend Microsoft Hardware" (or there about). There is no change, and they announced they haven't changed. This is a non-story about a non-story.
No, this law is another "unneeded" law that doesn't do what it claims to do. We don't need more laws, we need better people. ;)
Tailored to California, where Fascism is creeping in.
1) California elitism fits.
2) Group politics of modern Progressives deny individual rights (except when convenient) and assert group rights over rights of individuals.
3) Anyone who is right of Gov Moonbeam and the progressive far left. Usually called "Hate" by the left.
4) First that doesn't quite fit, until Calexit is done. Then wait.
5) I would disagree that sexism is required for Fascism. but then again, there is Hollywood that is embroiled in the revelation of decades long sexist bullshit.
6) MSM
7) Calexit. Fear of "Middle America" and "Flyover Country hicks"
8) Militant Atheism/Anti-theism is the new religion.
9) Corporate power is eschewed for the most part, except the current cabal in Silicone Valley (google, facebook, Uber) which is basically chasing all other corporations out of California.
10) Labor is suppressed using imported slave labor of illegal immigration. Which is why California is a "Sanctuary" state.
11) Suppression of the arts isn't fascist. Using the arts to progress the statist control/propoganda is. See Hollywood.
12) The laws used to suppress the people are now called "regulatory" controls. Want to start a business, see how many different regulations you need to follow just to start one. The state is using police power to enforce bathroom policies, who can sell baked goods to who and even if you can plant crops and collect rainwater.
13) California has no opposition power to the current leftist Democrat controlled legislature and governorship, and hasn't for a long time. There is cronyism all over the capital.
14) There are basically elections in California, but only one party ever gets to decide anything, does that count?
It all depends on whether you excuse each of them because you like how the fascism is going. California is not for Liberty, it is all about control. Calexit is a temper tantrum because the rest of America has some control over California that it doesn't like.
Then again, one man's liberty is keeping another man from being able to "punch a Nazi".
I over simplified it, to reflect that we have the essential bits. Next up, Obama/Trump for President for life. If you think I've oversimplified it, please tell me, what "important bits" I left out? My guess it is one sided governance like in California.
Oh wait
Fascist America is where the government controls corporations through threats of violence. You know, democrat policies. Or do you not understand what fascism actually is?
Fascism /fæzm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce
(from Wikipedia)
It's a one way street.
Its not a one way street. That is a myth of people without the skills to negotiate properly. They negotiated your wage by getting you to set the bar artificially low, and countered your desire with a comparison with what you make.
Had you, instead, said "are you offering me the position? I'll provide you with my pay history immediately upon receipt of a fair offer." presents option for them to be "fair". The "be reasonable" counter was aggressive but predictable.
This is an age old technique to get people to lower their standards to appear "reasonable".
You mean the fact that Single Women just out of college earn more than their male counterparts, but an average of 8%?
"Census data from 2008 show that single, childless women in their 20s now earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts in metropolitan areas."
http://www.politifact.com/pund...
The wage gap myth is based on the idea that men and women make equal choices, and doesn't account for career choices, family choices, and other meaningful criteria. But hey, it fits the narrative.
My answer would be ... "I'll provide my pay stub the moment you provide me with a genuine offer. If this unacceptable, would you be willing to propose an alternative that is fair to both sides?"
There is no way for them to answer the question without giving up something. If they don't propose something, they are admitting that they are being unfair. If they do offer something, that is just a continuation of the negotiation. The moment they refuse to be "fair" then you don't want to work for them anyways.
Assuming you're powerless is the greatest weakness in negotiations. You have a lot more power than you realize, simply by asking the other side to be "fair".
We have "Personal Computers" that aren't running windows, we have them in our Pockets running Linux and BSD.
The idea that a PC has to be a Desktop running Windows is one that has to die. We are in a post windows world.
"Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity" - Seneca
Metrics. "Every call is answered by a qualified technician in 30 secs or less on average"
"Qualified" meaning, can read a script off a teleprompter, and then blame the customer.
Most of the time, you're incorrect. Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
You just have to use it to find the right cadence and enunciation.
I've been in IT for 30 years or so. I want to be retrained to not be in IT anymore, and its partly because of what you said. People don't care about qualifications anymore, they care about bodies, and lower cost bodies means hiring more of them, even if they are useless. It is rare that I find someone that is actually good at what they do.
And if WOZ is training people for today's jobs, many of those jobs wont exist in 6 years.
With Deflationary currency, those people producing goods and services that others actually value will be rewarded. And the earning power of the youth will benefit them when they are elderly. Hence the saying ... "a penny saved is a penny earned", which unlike current fiat inflationary currency is meaningless.
Further, everyone knows what rampant inflation looks like, and why it leads to war and revolution. Nobody cared when it was runaway deflation, because holding a coin for two days doubled your wealth.
I'm pretty sure that we have no real idea what business looks like with deflationary currency. We can make educated assumptions. One thing is for sure, savings would be more beneficial than spending, and credit would largely be rare, rather than common.
Bitcoin has intrinsic value above nominal fiat currencies, in that it is not influenced by central banking authorities or government programs that devalue currency. This makes it ... deflationary in nature, and hence the pricing spike.
The primary value in our current Fiat currency is that it is credit based value because it is inflationary. It is better to spend a dollar today, than save it for a marginal return that might not match the inflationary pressure on that currency. It is why most wealth is not maintained in currency form, but rather assets that increase in value faster than inflation.
It is my opinion, that the combination of inflationary pressure on nominal fiat currency, and the deflationary pressure on cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, are both being reflected in the nominal currency to Bitcoin exchange rate. I am also sure that some of that is indeed "bubble" valuation. The question is, two fold, when is the bubble going to burst, and what is the proper current valuation of Bitcoin, relative to nominal currencies.
Gold is valuable because unlike most other versions of matter, is very difficult to corrupt and fairly rare.
Gold will remain after fires, earthquakes, floods .... It is slow to corrode (unlike silver)
It basically just outlasts people and is difficult to create or destroy which makes it very nice "fiat" currency. The down side is it is very heavy and difficult to move in quantities. Italian Job Physics not withstanding.
Obama didn't fail, he was the greatest president ever! Fake News!
This means that the government is exempt from Article 23, which criminalizes the theft of another's work.
In civilized countries, it is called "taxes".
You'd be right, except for a couple things.
1) Most Americans outside of NYC and LA and Bay Area didn't like Hillary
2) IF we didn't use Electoral College, the outcome would have been vastly different, because different strategies would have been employed. The assumption is, that HRC would have gotten MORE votes from LA, NYC, Chicago, and Bay Area, when the reality is, she was already at "max" for the areas she won overwhelmingly.
3) Changing how the game is scored (electoral college vs popular vote) is how to actually not admit how horrible Hillary actually was.
4) She lost to a Junior Senator from Illinois, and almost lost to Bernie, even Democrats don't actually like her. While DJT actually beat a substantial number of GOP candidates to actually "win" the nomination, rather than the coronation of HRC. If it wasn't for the outright stolen election HRC would have been a two time D loser.
5) HRC lost the popular vote in the Primary in a number of states, but still won the state delegation, now you want to use Popular Votes?
This post isn't about DJT at all, it is about HRC and how rotten a candidate she actually was, and the ignorance of people who keep saying "She won the popular vote". Yeah, that is true, but that is not how to win the Presidency.
We’ve had free and fair elections and we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election. President Obama said the other day that when you’re whining before the game is even finished it just shows you’re not even up to doing the job. - Hillary Clinton
I wonder what she would say about people whining about the rules after losing the game.