Two years ago I would have looked down on this, saying that the minimum requirement for participating in government would be showing up one day a year to check some boxes on a form.
However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.
Gerrymandered districts can't be fixed til the next census. Mobile voting could be a hell of a stopgap before then.
You guys don't get it - cops aren't against this because it'll catch them breaking the law, they do that all the time now with impunity. They're against it because their boss will be able to see them taking naps in parking lots.
The only way you get to a cop is to threaten to take away their OT, tenure, or pension.
I think that's ass-backwards, but I guess that's just me.
Starbucks uses a dark roast. The darker the roast, the more caffeine is burned out. The thing that makes it stronger is the espresso extraction method, not the coffee; the problem with that is, the dark roast removes a lot of the complexity and the amount needed per cup raises the price.
If you want to experience a real coffee rush that doesn't cost you a fortune, get a light roast and put it through a Mr. Coffee. Tastes better for a fraction of the price.
The findings conveniently move the goalposts - it implies that the issue is that the spying is being done incorrectly, not that it's being done at all; if it were done "correctly" we would never know, which was the NSA's original win condition.
The fundamental fact of the thing that keeps getting glossed over:
Just because a thing is LEGAL doesn't mean it's RIGHT. All these conversations about this get to the point where they go to the FISA court and they lean, hard, on the legality of the thing without mentioning how the court was set up, how it's basically a rubber stamp for the investigative services and how all the records are sealed anyway. Not that I'd expect them to, it's a talking head with a let's-hope-nobody-notices vibe, but they may as well say "and then a miracle occurs and HEY LOOK! You're safe!"
Saying something is legal doesn't have the ameliorating effect it used to.
If you ask Americans if they're okay with the government tapping the phones of Americans for national security, 56% say yes, but if you ask them if they're okay with the government tapping the phones of ORDINARY Americans for national security, that number flips to 58% opposing it.
The way it was worded and due to the weird ways people make assumptions about the authority of the people asking polls, most people assume that the feds were only tapping the phones of bad guys.
Sony may have screwed up in the past, but they also generated a metric fuckton of goodwill at E3. That press conference was a marvel of modern brand messaging. It convinced a lot of people not at all interested in this generation of console, myself included, to seriously consider a PS4.
There's principle, and there's bloody-mindedness for the sake of itself. It's okay to change your mind.
And we are (or I am, at least; can't speak for the other guy) applying my memories of what it was like to be young with the freedom to get in relatively minor kinds of trouble without people assuming I was a terrorist.
You've got to have more faith in people than that. The world is complicated enough as it is without assuming that everybody in it is out to do damage to you.
Or some engineers, fresh out of college, got bored and wanted to go on an adventure and went exploring.
Everything we do is a learning experience. You don't have to sequester yourself in an office with a pile of books to figure out something new.
We all need to take a deep breath and relax and realize that not everybody out looking at things or throwing around what-ifs is up to no good. They could be bored and curious, and the cost of expansive freedom and the right to be curious and explore to satisfy that curiosity means that, yeah, the occasional nutter intent on harm succeeds.
Here's your lesson, kids: caring about the thing you got your degree in should stop the minute you graduate, because any learning not done between 9 and 5 and in a school building by a tenured professor will get you arrested.
Didn't they solve this problem on TNG? All you need to do to cope with a coolant leak is have everybody roll energetically under the descending emergency door that's sealing the affected area off.
I've seen boxed copies of Adobe software subscriptions on sale at Staples. Maybe eventually they'll only sell them through an application marketplace or online, but that doesn't seem to be the plan for the near future.
This seemed fishy considering the market, so I did some poking around and, surprise!: not only does the summary totally mangle the facts of the rumor - Youtube is supposedly going to start offering premium CHANNELS for 1.99/month EACH, not a Hulu or Netflix-type broad subscription - but it's only a rumor that google has neither confirmed nor denied.
...then he would be charged for assault and/or murder. Leaning on WHAT IFs as justification for overreach is what got us into a lot of the mess we're in in the first place.
The game matches you with people with decks of similar strength and you earn boosters by winning. Buying the boosters ($1 per pack of 5 with one guaranteed rare or better as of right now) just gets you there faster.
Also the other staple of physical ccgs, buying boosters filled with crap you don't need for a shot at a rare you can use, is updated with a crafting system - cards you don't need can be broken down into dust to be crafted into specific rares etc you actually want.
There's gotta be a table somewhere that shows, more or less, how many ads a person like me potentially would click on a year and fundamentally what that's worth. Figure out what that amount is, combine it with my, say, top 5 or top 10 visited sites, multiply it by 100 (since it's probably pennies), make it easy for me to pay and I'll cut them a check in exchange for an ad-free browsing experience.
I pay for NPR; I would pay for my most visited websites if they made it easy.
Let me get this straight, the New York Post histrionically asserted something with little consideration for a developing story and ran with it before all the facts were in?
In order to kill somebody with a knife, you need to really, really want to. You need to consider the biology, see them as a person. You need to work at it.
To kill someone with a gun, you need to be in the vicinity of the person and you need to point at them. You don't need to humanize them at all.
"But since nearly 25 million people are expected to use this tool come this Christmas, this will definitely benefit Bing in the ongoing competition for online map applications."
Slashdot Mirror
Two years ago I would have looked down on this, saying that the minimum requirement for participating in government would be showing up one day a year to check some boxes on a form.
However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.
Gerrymandered districts can't be fixed til the next census. Mobile voting could be a hell of a stopgap before then.
you're thinking of them as an ISP, but AOL has a huge amount of web content under their control that they show no sign of letting go of.
You guys don't get it - cops aren't against this because it'll catch them breaking the law, they do that all the time now with impunity. They're against it because their boss will be able to see them taking naps in parking lots.
The only way you get to a cop is to threaten to take away their OT, tenure, or pension.
I think that's ass-backwards, but I guess that's just me.
I expect most people, even in the church, don't truly understand what Christian Scriptures actually teach.
Be careful with words like "truly" in the context of religion.
Starbucks uses a dark roast. The darker the roast, the more caffeine is burned out. The thing that makes it stronger is the espresso extraction method, not the coffee; the problem with that is, the dark roast removes a lot of the complexity and the amount needed per cup raises the price.
If you want to experience a real coffee rush that doesn't cost you a fortune, get a light roast and put it through a Mr. Coffee. Tastes better for a fraction of the price.
The findings conveniently move the goalposts - it implies that the issue is that the spying is being done incorrectly, not that it's being done at all; if it were done "correctly" we would never know, which was the NSA's original win condition.
Yep. We're fucked.
"America" is not a person. Did you mean to say Obama?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
I can't remember where I heard it, but google turns up this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57588748/most-disapprove-of-govt-phone-snooping-of-ordinary-americans/
The fundamental fact of the thing that keeps getting glossed over:
Just because a thing is LEGAL doesn't mean it's RIGHT. All these conversations about this get to the point where they go to the FISA court and they lean, hard, on the legality of the thing without mentioning how the court was set up, how it's basically a rubber stamp for the investigative services and how all the records are sealed anyway. Not that I'd expect them to, it's a talking head with a let's-hope-nobody-notices vibe, but they may as well say "and then a miracle occurs and HEY LOOK! You're safe!"
Saying something is legal doesn't have the ameliorating effect it used to.
That poll is flawed.
If you ask Americans if they're okay with the government tapping the phones of Americans for national security, 56% say yes, but if you ask them if they're okay with the government tapping the phones of ORDINARY Americans for national security, that number flips to 58% opposing it.
The way it was worded and due to the weird ways people make assumptions about the authority of the people asking polls, most people assume that the feds were only tapping the phones of bad guys.
Sony may have screwed up in the past, but they also generated a metric fuckton of goodwill at E3. That press conference was a marvel of modern brand messaging. It convinced a lot of people not at all interested in this generation of console, myself included, to seriously consider a PS4.
There's principle, and there's bloody-mindedness for the sake of itself. It's okay to change your mind.
And we are (or I am, at least; can't speak for the other guy) applying my memories of what it was like to be young with the freedom to get in relatively minor kinds of trouble without people assuming I was a terrorist.
You've got to have more faith in people than that. The world is complicated enough as it is without assuming that everybody in it is out to do damage to you.
Or some engineers, fresh out of college, got bored and wanted to go on an adventure and went exploring.
Everything we do is a learning experience. You don't have to sequester yourself in an office with a pile of books to figure out something new.
We all need to take a deep breath and relax and realize that not everybody out looking at things or throwing around what-ifs is up to no good. They could be bored and curious, and the cost of expansive freedom and the right to be curious and explore to satisfy that curiosity means that, yeah, the occasional nutter intent on harm succeeds.
I'm okay with that.
Here's your lesson, kids: caring about the thing you got your degree in should stop the minute you graduate, because any learning not done between 9 and 5 and in a school building by a tenured professor will get you arrested.
wtf is wrong with you?
Didn't they solve this problem on TNG? All you need to do to cope with a coolant leak is have everybody roll energetically under the descending emergency door that's sealing the affected area off.
http://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com/
(in case it isn't obvious, that link is loud, obnoxious and on a loop.)
Right, but Staples still gets a cut of the sale. The fact that the box is empty doesn't change anything.
I've seen boxed copies of Adobe software subscriptions on sale at Staples. Maybe eventually they'll only sell them through an application marketplace or online, but that doesn't seem to be the plan for the near future.
This seemed fishy considering the market, so I did some poking around and, surprise!: not only does the summary totally mangle the facts of the rumor - Youtube is supposedly going to start offering premium CHANNELS for 1.99/month EACH, not a Hulu or Netflix-type broad subscription - but it's only a rumor that google has neither confirmed nor denied.
http://consumerist.com/2013/05/06/report-youtube-introducing-paid-subscription-channels-soon/
Good job.
I can only think of one: Digital lending libraries.
...then he would be charged for assault and/or murder. Leaning on WHAT IFs as justification for overreach is what got us into a lot of the mess we're in in the first place.
nope.
The game matches you with people with decks of similar strength and you earn boosters by winning. Buying the boosters ($1 per pack of 5 with one guaranteed rare or better as of right now) just gets you there faster.
Also the other staple of physical ccgs, buying boosters filled with crap you don't need for a shot at a rare you can use, is updated with a crafting system - cards you don't need can be broken down into dust to be crafted into specific rares etc you actually want.
There's gotta be a table somewhere that shows, more or less, how many ads a person like me potentially would click on a year and fundamentally what that's worth. Figure out what that amount is, combine it with my, say, top 5 or top 10 visited sites, multiply it by 100 (since it's probably pennies), make it easy for me to pay and I'll cut them a check in exchange for an ad-free browsing experience.
I pay for NPR; I would pay for my most visited websites if they made it easy.
Let me get this straight, the New York Post histrionically asserted something with little consideration for a developing story and ran with it before all the facts were in?
NO WAY.
Did you know that water is wet, too?
In order to kill somebody with a knife, you need to really, really want to. You need to consider the biology, see them as a person. You need to work at it.
To kill someone with a gun, you need to be in the vicinity of the person and you need to point at them. You don't need to humanize them at all.
There is a difference.
"But since nearly 25 million people are expected to use this tool come this Christmas, this will definitely benefit Bing in the ongoing competition for online map applications."
Yeah? Prove it.