They all go on and on about how it sucks, but they keep going back to him because maybe this time he won't hit me.
You don't understand. Facebook is going through a really tough time, what with the IPO going so bad and the stock price tanking. It's been really tough for Facebook, he's under a lot of stress. I mean, sure's he's done this kind of thing before, but that was a long time ago, when he was younger. He's more mature now, and got himself listed on a proper stock exchange. I'm sure things will settle down in the future. He loves me you know, much more than MySpace or Google+ ever did. He even told me he couldn't survive without me. If I left he'd fade away into obscurity and never reach the potential I know is in there.
[3 months late.]
You don't understand. He missed his quarterly earnings number by 3 points. He's under a lot of stress to monetize his data. He didn't mean to store all my data in plain text on a public facing server, but he had to cut costs. He loves me. Just look at how he auto-identifies me in all my pictures. He wouldn't do that if he didn't, deep down, care about me in a meaningful way.
The API was operating as designed: when a friend lists a new email address, my address book is updated to reflect it. That's normal behavior.
I can't quite tell if you're being a bit sarcastic. What happened was that the API overwrote the current email in the phones' address books with the most recently email added to the Facebook contact.
In the majority of cases, those who allowed their Blackberry, Android, iOS6 beta and Windows Phone 8 beta phones to sync their contacts with Facebook, have had the originally stored email addresses overwritten. The lucky ones had their contacts duplicated - with the new ones containing the @facebook email addresses.
It's plausible to me that they intended the API to add the new email instead of overwriting, so this could be a bug.
Lying about where you live in order to receive a benefit you're otherwise not entitled to.
So if I live in PA, but travel to DL and play at an online casino, and have my winnings deposited in a bank in NY, I am not entitled to that money?
Of course, that scenario might be illegal under the Delaware law (which may proscribe that all transactions occur within Delaware). But I could just as easily open a bank account in Delaware.
I'll bet their getting a good deal on the St. Arnold's, as the guys who started the brewery are Rice grads. I interviewed one of them for a "Dream Career" newsletter article when I was working at the Career Services Center.
There's a direct link to the more specific information linked to in TFA. There's even 7 graphs showing.... something I don't understand.
Also, you understand there is always a gap between laboratory research and industrial application, right? When Smalley and Koto synthesized buckminsterfullerene the practical applications weren't immediately realized, but now we have nanotubes used in microscopes, molecular filters and semi-conductors.
If memory serves, Pearl was the beer of choice at Valhalla, the Graduate Student pub in the basement of the Chemistry building. Yes, Rice grad students are that poor.
It is unpatriotic not to consent to state workers detaining and disciplining your child?
No. Their support of corporal punishment shows that they support the State in physically disciplining children, which may be against the parents wishes and/or beliefs. Then, in the Juvenile Daytime Curfew clause they say they oppose "any official entity from . . . disciplining our children without . . . consent." It is either hypocritical or just plain stupid.
Other language in the document implies that they favor parental rights over State rights (except for the corporal punishment). Then, in the Patriotism clause, they say that all students should swear fealty to both the United States and Texas. They don't specifically say that legal resident non-citizen children should be exempt from this, and it's possible that some Republican's may believe as much, but it is conspicuously absent. Furthermore, as a non-native Texan (who lived in Texas for several years), I'm not sure I would want my child to have to pledge allegiance to the Texas flag, and even if I did, I think that given the rest of the language in the document, I find the idea of the State compelling such a pledge somewhat (but not totally) incongruous.
My reading of irs.gov is that if you pay off your primary residence (or have a mortgage less than $1m), you can buy a "second home," say a condo in Hawaii for example, and stay there 1 month a year. Then you can rent it out the rest of the year, but still claim the interest deduction on that mortgage, up to a total mortgage value of $1m across both homes.
"We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. Corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas. "
Note that this is almost directly in contradiction to their other stated belief:
Juvenile Daytime Curfew - We strongly oppose Juvenile Daytime Curfews. Additionally, we oppose any official entity from detaining, questioning and/or disciplining our children without the consent of a child’s parent.
The "American Identity Patriotism and Loyalty" part is also somewhat at odds with their notion of parental rights always trumping the state's.
I stand corrected. Although if the total of your mortgages is less than $1m you can claim the deduction on the interest of your 2nd home. You can rent this 2nd home out provided you live in it at least 10% of the time you rent it out for each year.
The may be taxable, if you earn income from other sources which puts you above the threshold ($25k or $32k). But I'm betting that a significant portion of the 40-47% who "pay no federal taxes" are retirees drawing SS and not much else.
This is no different than a "tax break" for mortgage interest, or any other similar tax break, which is just a tax raise for the rest of us (i.e. people who rent their homes and therefore don't get the mortgage interest deduction)
This assumes that a landlord is not passing on the savings from his/her mortgage deduction* to the renter. Assuming enough competition in the rental market this should happen, and therefore the renter ends up benefiting. In other words, your rent would be higher if there was no mortgage interest deduction. On the flip side, you the renter are also paying property taxes, because the landlords property tax bill increases his/her costs, which he/she passes on to his customer.
*I know this would hold for a person who owns a single family home and rents it out, but I'm not sure if the deduction is given to a corporation who borrow's money to buy an apartment building.
A phone may not reveal a human's address or, through inaction, allow a human being to be spammed. A phone must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A phone must protect its own IP address as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
The only problem with this is that these "laws" must be programmed. This means that bugs can be introduced, weaknesses exploited, etc.
No, that's not the problem. The fact that there could be bugs is a problem of the implementation, not a problem of the laws. Sufficient QA testing should be able to eradicate most (or at least enough) bugs.
No, the problem with GPs laws is that they are too vague, and in some cases don't make any sense.
1st Law: What is meant by "address"? Home, Work, Current? All of the above? What is meant by "be spammed." Am I to whitelist every entity from which I elect to receive messages? What about reverse-911 type emergency alert systems (e.g. auto-text messages sent to students during recent campus shootings)?
2nd Law: So, I can't send an email to my mom telling her of my new address? I can't tell Amazon where to ship my purchase?
3rd Law: Is the phone only to protect it's IP address and not it's MAC address or phone number? What is meant by "protect" in this context?
It seems like a sizable number of people in this country couldn't give a shit less if Chinese people are flinging themselves off of buildings due to their dreary work conditions
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They all go on and on about how it sucks, but they keep going back to him because maybe this time he won't hit me.
You don't understand. Facebook is going through a really tough time, what with the IPO going so bad and the stock price tanking. It's been really tough for Facebook, he's under a lot of stress. I mean, sure's he's done this kind of thing before, but that was a long time ago, when he was younger. He's more mature now, and got himself listed on a proper stock exchange. I'm sure things will settle down in the future. He loves me you know, much more than MySpace or Google+ ever did. He even told me he couldn't survive without me. If I left he'd fade away into obscurity and never reach the potential I know is in there.
[3 months late.]
You don't understand. He missed his quarterly earnings number by 3 points. He's under a lot of stress to monetize his data. He didn't mean to store all my data in plain text on a public facing server, but he had to cut costs. He loves me. Just look at how he auto-identifies me in all my pictures. He wouldn't do that if he didn't, deep down, care about me in a meaningful way.
It seems a bit disingenuous to call this a "bug."
The API was operating as designed: when a friend lists a new email address, my address book is updated to reflect it. That's normal behavior.
I can't quite tell if you're being a bit sarcastic. What happened was that the API overwrote the current email in the phones' address books with the most recently email added to the Facebook contact.
In the majority of cases, those who allowed their Blackberry, Android, iOS6 beta and Windows Phone 8 beta phones to sync their contacts with Facebook, have had the originally stored email addresses overwritten. The lucky ones had their contacts duplicated - with the new ones containing the @facebook email addresses.
It's plausible to me that they intended the API to add the new email instead of overwriting, so this could be a bug.
Actually, he'll win the Nobel for it next year, and then the cars will fail to materialize 4 years hence.
32cm is like, over 12 inches. That's gonna be noticeable.
Somewhere in there is a "Your Mom" joke, straining against the seams to get out.
Exactly what is "address fraud"?
Lying about where you live in order to receive a benefit you're otherwise not entitled to.
So if I live in PA, but travel to DL and play at an online casino, and have my winnings deposited in a bank in NY, I am not entitled to that money?
Of course, that scenario might be illegal under the Delaware law (which may proscribe that all transactions occur within Delaware). But I could just as easily open a bank account in Delaware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus
I'll bet their getting a good deal on the St. Arnold's, as the guys who started the brewery are Rice grads. I interviewed one of them for a "Dream Career" newsletter article when I was working at the Career Services Center.
But until there's more specific information, this is "interesting" but not very helpful.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120628/srep00481/full/srep00481.html
There's a direct link to the more specific information linked to in TFA. There's even 7 graphs showing .... something I don't understand.
Also, you understand there is always a gap between laboratory research and industrial application, right? When Smalley and Koto synthesized buckminsterfullerene the practical applications weren't immediately realized, but now we have nanotubes used in microscopes, molecular filters and semi-conductors.
If memory serves, Pearl was the beer of choice at Valhalla, the Graduate Student pub in the basement of the Chemistry building. Yes, Rice grad students are that poor.
It is unpatriotic not to consent to state workers detaining and disciplining your child?
No. Their support of corporal punishment shows that they support the State in physically disciplining children, which may be against the parents wishes and/or beliefs. Then, in the Juvenile Daytime Curfew clause they say they oppose "any official entity from . . . disciplining our children without . . . consent." It is either hypocritical or just plain stupid.
Other language in the document implies that they favor parental rights over State rights (except for the corporal punishment). Then, in the Patriotism clause, they say that all students should swear fealty to both the United States and Texas. They don't specifically say that legal resident non-citizen children should be exempt from this, and it's possible that some Republican's may believe as much, but it is conspicuously absent. Furthermore, as a non-native Texan (who lived in Texas for several years), I'm not sure I would want my child to have to pledge allegiance to the Texas flag, and even if I did, I think that given the rest of the language in the document, I find the idea of the State compelling such a pledge somewhat (but not totally) incongruous.
Yeah, see my reply to sibling post.
My reading of irs.gov is that if you pay off your primary residence (or have a mortgage less than $1m), you can buy a "second home," say a condo in Hawaii for example, and stay there 1 month a year. Then you can rent it out the rest of the year, but still claim the interest deduction on that mortgage, up to a total mortgage value of $1m across both homes.
"We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. Corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas. "
Note that this is almost directly in contradiction to their other stated belief:
Juvenile Daytime Curfew - We strongly oppose Juvenile Daytime Curfews. Additionally, we oppose any official entity from detaining, questioning and/or disciplining our children without the consent of a child’s parent.
The "American Identity Patriotism and Loyalty" part is also somewhat at odds with their notion of parental rights always trumping the state's.
Obama and Bloomberg aren't that liberal.
I stand corrected. Although if the total of your mortgages is less than $1m you can claim the deduction on the interest of your 2nd home. You can rent this 2nd home out provided you live in it at least 10% of the time you rent it out for each year.
SS benefits are taxed as well
The may be taxable, if you earn income from other sources which puts you above the threshold ($25k or $32k). But I'm betting that a significant portion of the 40-47% who "pay no federal taxes" are retirees drawing SS and not much else.
It's a lot easier to collude, formally or informally, with a cartel of 3 or 4 members. There are far more sellers in the rental market.
Forty percent of the people in the US pay ZERO federal taxes. It's a free ride for them on my back!
Payroll taxes are federal taxes. Retired people drawing on SS already paid their taxes ....
Oh, why bother. Reason and logic won't sway you.
This is no different than a "tax break" for mortgage interest, or any other similar tax break, which is just a tax raise for the rest of us (i.e. people who rent their homes and therefore don't get the mortgage interest deduction)
This assumes that a landlord is not passing on the savings from his/her mortgage deduction* to the renter. Assuming enough competition in the rental market this should happen, and therefore the renter ends up benefiting. In other words, your rent would be higher if there was no mortgage interest deduction. On the flip side, you the renter are also paying property taxes, because the landlords property tax bill increases his/her costs, which he/she passes on to his customer.
*I know this would hold for a person who owns a single family home and rents it out, but I'm not sure if the deduction is given to a corporation who borrow's money to buy an apartment building.
A phone may not reveal a human's address or, through inaction, allow a human being to be spammed.
A phone must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A phone must protect its own IP address as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
The only problem with this is that these "laws" must be programmed. This means that bugs can be introduced, weaknesses exploited, etc.
No, that's not the problem. The fact that there could be bugs is a problem of the implementation, not a problem of the laws. Sufficient QA testing should be able to eradicate most (or at least enough) bugs.
No, the problem with GPs laws is that they are too vague, and in some cases don't make any sense.
1st Law: What is meant by "address"? Home, Work, Current? All of the above? What is meant by "be spammed." Am I to whitelist every entity from which I elect to receive messages? What about reverse-911 type emergency alert systems (e.g. auto-text messages sent to students during recent campus shootings)?
2nd Law: So, I can't send an email to my mom telling her of my new address? I can't tell Amazon where to ship my purchase?
3rd Law: Is the phone only to protect it's IP address and not it's MAC address or phone number? What is meant by "protect" in this context?
The settings updates you have to make are pretty straightforward.
...for a rocket scientist.
how often does someone from India or Russia sneak in over the Arizona/Mexico border?
How often will an Arizona cop mistake someone from South or Southeast Asia for someone from Central or South America?
It seems like a sizable number of people in this country couldn't give a shit less if Chinese people are flinging themselves off of buildings due to their dreary work conditions
Why should I care that that 17 employees (out of 1.2 million) killed themselves over a 5 year period? The rate is lower than that of the general Chinese population.
I'm not saying that Foxconn is a paragon of corporate citizenship, but don't drag out that meme to support your argument.
There is a protectionist culture in the northeast and far west, but no such shared culture in the Deep South or midwest,
Who's homogenizing now?
I'll play the odds and say Simpsons.
Goodnight Moon.