This is very much like the argument that gay marriage bans do not discriminate because they apply equally to straight people, personally I prefer to apply the smell test rather than theoretical arguments. Statistically while blacks have disproportionately higher levels of targeting by the police they also make up a disproportionately higher percentage of the underprivileged population. As for the broken windows I do not advocate selective law enforcement, as I mention in my original post the Politicians and Police work in conjunction on anti-poor legislation and tactics. There is simply no other explanation other than deliberate targeting, why the penalties the law imposes for minor infractions mostly committed by the poor are so tough.
That's a nice idea, but the reality is usually that the rich people just move away when the poor people come in (especially the ones with families). No way are rich daddy and trophy wife letting their little girl go to school with that rabble!
They do not move away instead they have the Politicians and Police departments enact laws and policies that turn the Poor areas into virtual prison colonies. This is what happens in NYC with policies like "Stop and Frisk" which lets cops effectivly harrass poor people that step outside of their zones and "Broken Windows" which allows them to haoul them in for minor infractions. For schooling the solution is of course private schools and voucher programs.
I'm sorry, this whole thing sounds BS to me. While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard. You have to convince more than one person that you are serious. Most places don't want to hold people - it's a lot of paperwork, hassle and expense and there are enough genuine fruitcakes so as to leave few extra rooms at the inn. Even if he got tossed in on a hold, it would be reviewed after 24 hours.
Either San Mateo does really weird things or this was made up.
You are assuming that he was not complicit and wanted to be held for as long as possible. To me this whole thing sounds like a ploy for 15 minutes of infamy.
Defaulting on national debt is no easy way out of crisis. It means greatly devalued currency, harsh Capital Controls, high borrowing costs and ultimately the foreign banks and governments the money is owed to, do not simply forget the loans exist.
If you want to accurately predict the future do as Jules Verne did and write as many of them as you can possibly think up. History indicates that you will be mostly wrong and a large number of predictions will increase the odds of getting something right.
Ubers plan for for entering a new markets has always been to start the service under the radar without asking permission. Once the have reached a certain number of users, a critical mass of sorts, they start advertising the service heavily relying on the user base to make a big stink if the regulatory agencies or courts try to stop them. In South Korea they went as far as offering free rides to everyone in order to keep in line with regulations but mostly to influence public opinion. The powers that be were clearly not amused.
A consumption tax is inherently regressive. Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption. The wealthy will spend a comparatively tiny fraction of their income on tax and continue to amass vast piles of money.
Doesn't this assume the rich and poor are buying the same items and services at the same prices? Which is hardly the case.
A whole wheat or gluten free loaf of bread costs a lot more than your basic white loaf (Sorry actual celiacs).
A free-range natural chicken costs a lot more than the factory raised ones.
Organic produce costs more than your industrial farming equivalent.
File-minion costs several times per pound than ground chuck.
A luxury class car costs a lot more than a compact or full size car.
A sports car costs a lot of money and is hardly usable for most as the sole vehicle.
A haircut at a saloon costs several times what it would cost at the local barber.
If you want you can also tack on a luxury tax to higher end items and services as many states already do.
Just a crazy thought but how about a ballast tank that would make it buoyant so it could melt its way out of the ice. Ice would melt from the top, flow underneath the craft and the buoyancy would make it rise and keep melting from the top.
The lingering arctic front brought below freezing temperatures and constant snow storms across much of the U.S this winter. Even if you solve the "sun is not shinning at night" problem with temporary storage, exactly what is it that you do when much of the countries solar panels are under frozen snow for days if not weeks at a time?
Tablets has been approved for use in cockpit during all phases of Flight. Many small plane pilots have switched to tablets for flight planning and real time navigation. As tablets become more widely used in every aspect of the flight, app makers will surely find some clever uses for smart-watches and perhaps in time a Breitling Navitimer will become something that identifies the old-timers.
In ten years and in 100 years, Apple Watch will still tell time, exactly like the Rolex, except with much greater accuracy.
Assuming it's battery lasts that long.
Apple is likely going to recommend regular service during which the battery will be replaced.
Even mechanical watches have to be regularly serviced if you want them to last a long time. Rolex recommends every 5 years for most of their watches
.
In this article from 2009 our-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin, researchers were able to identify %87 of Americans with just 3 piece of information: zip code, birthdate and sex. With the mountains of personal data both publicly accessible and in private databases and with what are essentially clearing-houses especially designed to aggregate this data, identifying people in anonymized data is almost trivial unless that data is so heavily sanitized as to be useless to research and in effect fail the "reproducible" requirement of the law.
Its funny to see climate-change denying conservatives and anti-vaccine liberals make the same arguments to support their stance against overwhelming scientific evidence, and yet blast each other as being anti-science.
The problem with this type of studies is that is that you can never establish causality. Does X activity really extend ones lifespan on its own or is the type of person that engages in that activity simply into a healthier overall lifestyle. This particular study might even be skewed due to most doctors advising patients with chronic Cardiovascular Disease to avoid saunas. Cardiovascular Disease is the number one killer in the developed world and removing them from a population sample would tip average life expectancy higher.
The merchant is already liable for fraudulent transactions. When a customer initiates a charge-back because of claim of fraud the credit-card processor holds payment and asks the merchant for documentation to verify the transaction. If the card number was entered instead of swiped or the signature doesn't match the one the credit-card company has on file the merchant than the merchant doesn't get payment. Exactly what part of this process is supposed to change with these new liability rules? If anything it makes it harder for the customer to claim fraud.
The shift is supposed to be pretty much in effect beginning of 2016 but there really is little movement in either the part of the banks or the merchants. The banks don't want to spend money to quickly replace the cards with something nobody yet takes and merchants don't want to spend money to take cards that haven't been issued yet.
I'm surprised that it's not the merchants that shall take full responsibility for fraud. That would raise the stakes on them to request photo ID or for online sales other means of supplementary identification.
When a charge-back is initiated because of a claim of fraud the payment-processor will hold payment to the merchant and ask them to provide documentation that the transaction is legitimate. On most businesses that would be a copy of the receipt with a matching signature but high risk business such as night-clubs they are (informally) asked to make photocopies of the credit card and drivers license for transactions over a certain amount. More often than not the payment-processor will find some "irregularity" and fault the merchant. If the processor finds the transaction is valid than it informs the CreditCard issuer and they will often write it off as cost of doing business. In conclusion with the pin and chip there will be little change for the merchant but I suspect it will become harder for consumer to initiate a fraud charge-back.
Which is obviously not how we measure effectiveness. There's a 2% chance *per year* that a couple that use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant and say they didn't mess it up. ("No, I swear, we put the condom on and pinched the air out of it but it didn't work.")
Studies have basically found that the "2% failure rate" may be artificially inflated by false reports of condom use, and most condom failures happen to a small group of people who are not using them correctly despite reporting "perfect" use.
Do not have a little "fun" before putting the condom on to get down to business, pre-cum can contain live-sperm. Do not use a oil based lubricant, it weakens latex. Do replace the condom or apply lubricant if things get dry, friction weakens latex. Do these things and you can have a lifetime of carefree recreational sex
Slashdot Mirror
This is very much like the argument that gay marriage bans do not discriminate because they apply equally to straight people, personally I prefer to apply the smell test rather than theoretical arguments. Statistically while blacks have disproportionately higher levels of targeting by the police they also make up a disproportionately higher percentage of the underprivileged population. As for the broken windows I do not advocate selective law enforcement, as I mention in my original post the Politicians and Police work in conjunction on anti-poor legislation and tactics. There is simply no other explanation other than deliberate targeting, why the penalties the law imposes for minor infractions mostly committed by the poor are so tough.
That's a nice idea, but the reality is usually that the rich people just move away when the poor people come in (especially the ones with families). No way are rich daddy and trophy wife letting their little girl go to school with that rabble!
They do not move away instead they have the Politicians and Police departments enact laws and policies that turn the Poor areas into virtual prison colonies. This is what happens in NYC with policies like "Stop and Frisk" which lets cops effectivly harrass poor people that step outside of their zones and "Broken Windows" which allows them to haoul them in for minor infractions. For schooling the solution is of course private schools and voucher programs.
I'm sorry, this whole thing sounds BS to me. While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard. You have to convince more than one person that you are serious. Most places don't want to hold people - it's a lot of paperwork, hassle and expense and there are enough genuine fruitcakes so as to leave few extra rooms at the inn. Even if he got tossed in on a hold, it would be reviewed after 24 hours.
Either San Mateo does really weird things or this was made up.
You are assuming that he was not complicit and wanted to be held for as long as possible. To me this whole thing sounds like a ploy for 15 minutes of infamy.
Just remembering that game gives me nausea.
Defaulting on national debt is no easy way out of crisis. It means greatly devalued currency, harsh Capital Controls, high borrowing costs and ultimately the foreign banks and governments the money is owed to, do not simply forget the loans exist.
If you want to accurately predict the future do as Jules Verne did and write as many of them as you can possibly think up. History indicates that you will be mostly wrong and a large number of predictions will increase the odds of getting something right.
Ubers plan for for entering a new markets has always been to start the service under the radar without asking permission. Once the have reached a certain number of users, a critical mass of sorts, they start advertising the service heavily relying on the user base to make a big stink if the regulatory agencies or courts try to stop them. In South Korea they went as far as offering free rides to everyone in order to keep in line with regulations but mostly to influence public opinion. The powers that be were clearly not amused.
A consumption tax is inherently regressive. Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption. The wealthy will spend a comparatively tiny fraction of their income on tax and continue to amass vast piles of money.
Doesn't this assume the rich and poor are buying the same items and services at the same prices? Which is hardly the case.
A whole wheat or gluten free loaf of bread costs a lot more than your basic white loaf (Sorry actual celiacs).
A free-range natural chicken costs a lot more than the factory raised ones.
Organic produce costs more than your industrial farming equivalent.
File-minion costs several times per pound than ground chuck.
A luxury class car costs a lot more than a compact or full size car.
A sports car costs a lot of money and is hardly usable for most as the sole vehicle.
A haircut at a saloon costs several times what it would cost at the local barber.
If you want you can also tack on a luxury tax to higher end items and services as many states already do.
Just a crazy thought but how about a ballast tank that would make it buoyant so it could melt its way out of the ice. Ice would melt from the top, flow underneath the craft and the buoyancy would make it rise and keep melting from the top.
The lingering arctic front brought below freezing temperatures and constant snow storms across much of the U.S this winter. Even if you solve the "sun is not shinning at night" problem with temporary storage, exactly what is it that you do when much of the countries solar panels are under frozen snow for days if not weeks at a time?
Tablets has been approved for use in cockpit during all phases of Flight. Many small plane pilots have switched to tablets for flight planning and real time navigation. As tablets become more widely used in every aspect of the flight, app makers will surely find some clever uses for smart-watches and perhaps in time a Breitling Navitimer will become something that identifies the old-timers.
A 10G Apple watch to monitor hear rate in spin class will soon be a must-have accessory among those that can afford it.
In ten years and in 100 years, Apple Watch will still tell time, exactly like the Rolex, except with much greater accuracy.
Assuming it's battery lasts that long.
Apple is likely going to recommend regular service during which the battery will be replaced. Even mechanical watches have to be regularly serviced if you want them to last a long time. Rolex recommends every 5 years for most of their watches .
In this article from 2009 our-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin, researchers were able to identify %87 of Americans with just 3 piece of information: zip code, birthdate and sex. With the mountains of personal data both publicly accessible and in private databases and with what are essentially clearing-houses especially designed to aggregate this data, identifying people in anonymized data is almost trivial unless that data is so heavily sanitized as to be useless to research and in effect fail the "reproducible" requirement of the law.
Its funny to see climate-change denying conservatives and anti-vaccine liberals make the same arguments to support their stance against overwhelming scientific evidence, and yet blast each other as being anti-science.
No phone subsidies.
No paying other carriers early termination fees
No data roaming agreements
No visual voice-mail and other "value added" services
No bloated management team endemic of large corporations
No huge debt incurred for acquiring wireless spectrum, upgrading infrastructure
MNVO's are not for everyone but for many people they are a great option for service.
The problem with this type of studies is that is that you can never establish causality. Does X activity really extend ones lifespan on its own or is the type of person that engages in that activity simply into a healthier overall lifestyle. This particular study might even be skewed due to most doctors advising patients with chronic Cardiovascular Disease to avoid saunas. Cardiovascular Disease is the number one killer in the developed world and removing them from a population sample would tip average life expectancy higher.
With the armies of lawyers the Industry has waiting to go thru every word and comma looking for loopholes, 322 pages seems kinda light.
The merchant is already liable for fraudulent transactions. When a customer initiates a charge-back because of claim of fraud the credit-card processor holds payment and asks the merchant for documentation to verify the transaction. If the card number was entered instead of swiped or the signature doesn't match the one the credit-card company has on file the merchant than the merchant doesn't get payment. Exactly what part of this process is supposed to change with these new liability rules? If anything it makes it harder for the customer to claim fraud.
The shift is supposed to be pretty much in effect beginning of 2016 but there really is little movement in either the part of the banks or the merchants. The banks don't want to spend money to quickly replace the cards with something nobody yet takes and merchants don't want to spend money to take cards that haven't been issued yet.
I'm surprised that it's not the merchants that shall take full responsibility for fraud. That would raise the stakes on them to request photo ID or for online sales other means of supplementary identification.
When a charge-back is initiated because of a claim of fraud the payment-processor will hold payment to the merchant and ask them to provide documentation that the transaction is legitimate. On most businesses that would be a copy of the receipt with a matching signature but high risk business such as night-clubs they are (informally) asked to make photocopies of the credit card and drivers license for transactions over a certain amount. More often than not the payment-processor will find some "irregularity" and fault the merchant. If the processor finds the transaction is valid than it informs the CreditCard issuer and they will often write it off as cost of doing business. In conclusion with the pin and chip there will be little change for the merchant but I suspect it will become harder for consumer to initiate a fraud charge-back.
Add:
FlashControl (To disable automatic running of applets is a must with the constant 0-day exploits and the widespread use of tracking applets.)
Vanilla Cookie Manager (automatic clean up after gorging on cookies.)
Why isn't this headline, "Game Theory Called Into Question for Failing to Predict Observed Examples of Cooperation?"
To prove that Slashdoters act selfishly to draw interest to their submissions, just as Game theory predicts.
Which is obviously not how we measure effectiveness. There's a 2% chance *per year* that a couple that use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant and say they didn't mess it up. ("No, I swear, we put the condom on and pinched the air out of it but it didn't work.")
Studies have basically found that the "2% failure rate" may be artificially inflated by false reports of condom use, and most condom failures happen to a small group of people who are not using them correctly despite reporting "perfect" use.
Do not have a little "fun" before putting the condom on to get down to business, pre-cum can contain live-sperm. Do not use a oil based lubricant, it weakens latex. Do replace the condom or apply lubricant if things get dry, friction weakens latex. Do these things and you can have a lifetime of carefree recreational sex
This is also the same technology being used to switch voice over LTE calls back to legacy Circuit Switched networks (3G, Edge).