You should check your math-
Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206.
Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
I think the article makes a great metaphor of global warming causing more energy to be in the ocean, similar to steroids in baseball boosting strength
stop attributing individual events to global warming
Or as they could say in baseball, "stop attributing a particular home run to steroids", despite a clear, direct correlation between taking steroids and hitting the baseball harder, and a jump in the number of homeruns for the season. You can't simply say, this home run was natural, and that one was entirely roid-driven.
Would there have been a hurricane anyways? Likely. Is this the largest hurricane ever recorded? Yes. Was it made larger by global warming? Yes.
While Kim may be greedy and potentially an asshole, he's going to win and is playing by rules far more legitimate then our current IP circus.
Except he had his personal assets seized, his companys assets destroyed, and is facing huge legal fees along with possible extradition and decades of prison time. You say he will win the legal battle, but everything done to him so far has been illegal and yet it was still done. The forces working against him don't really care about following legal procedure, they care about ruining his life. And anybody who wants to follow his business models certainly has to carefully consider how much of their own life they are putting at risk by going against the current IP circus. Or take a look at the guys from Pirate Bay, locked in cages in solitary confinement. Are they winning the fight?
I'm all for a more open internet, but your viewpoint is full of idealistic assumptions that are by no means assured.
So a nerd might be running a company and say "fire the bottom 10%" this is logical and in theory the correct idea; but they forget that it will freak out the other 90% into thinking they are next and probably be worse than just keeping the useless 10% or at least shedding them in a less efficient but more tactful way.
FYI, General Electric and Home Depot both believe in this management strategy. All employees get ranked from best to worst, and the bottom 10% get fired, every year. It comes straight from the Roman idea of decimation as a motivational tool. Employees are in constant competition to be better than their coworkers to keep their job because everyone knows mandatory terminations are just around the corner. Does it work? Well, GE is the 3rd largest company in the world. Home Depot is the largest home improvement company in the world. But of course by most accounts they are terrible places to work with cutthroat corporate culture.
You realize these probation terms are very common for people who commit fraud via computer right? Just like Michael Vick wasn't allowed to own dogs as part of his probation, just like drug based crimes get routine urine testing. Avoiding the thing that got you in trouble is part of every criminals probation terms.
If you signed a legal contract saying you would not watch television, would you go buy a new flatscreen and watch it every night? He isn't in trouble for browsing the web for a few minutes, or using a gps device to plan a trip. He didn't "accidentally" post video to youtube. It was a flagrant violation, and he most certainly knew that.
Keep in mind, this guy has a long history of fraud and criminal activity. He made this video with the goal of inciting riots and getting people killed, and even deceived the people helping him create the film. I'm all for free speech and the idea of blasphemy laws is repugnant to me, but this guy is still a jackass who wanted other people to get hurt and die to prove a point about a group he doesn't like.
Hiring an employee typically costs thousands of dollars in headhunting fees, possible hiring bonuses, and training time. Not to mention a bad choice that doesn't work out means wasted time, and a possible lost opportunity on "the right candidate".
Also when you hire an employee, they now represent your company. If they do something stupid, your company can be sued for what they did. If they sexually harass other employees, they don't get sued - you get sued. If they break the law, your company is liable. You could be on the hook for millions in damages based on one wrong choice, or decision made too quickly.
Simply put, in our litigious society, making the wrong choice can destroy your company. That being said, it doesn't make snooping on a persons private life reasonable or right.
There is a current presidential candidate who earlier this year was disdainful of people who feel "entitled to food". He represents a sizeable segment of society who believe that people should starve to death if they refuse to work.
It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.
The hacking part was a bit of social engineering to get into the 3rd floor. You might recall it was Kevin Mitnicks specialty as well, and he is arguably the most famous "hacker" of all time. After all, it is a lot easier to convince somebody to just tell you the password you need, rather than trying a billion brute force attempts.
It's entirely possible the globe will go +2 degrees and nothing much will happen to the earth at all.
Except that research has shown a link between AGW and unusual droughts of the past few years. It seems at least possible that the unusual weather patterns contributed to the extreme midwest drought of this summer. Corn production is down anywhere from 15-50%, Soybean production is down 10-40%. (Still being harvested, so estimates vary greatly)
So 2 degrees has resulted in "nothing much" except massive amounts of food in the country vanishing. It won't affect America much this year, but you can expect revolutions around the world based on high food prices this winter.
So it is ok for some random TSA goon to feel your junk, look at you naked, or irradiate you with some equipment they swear is safe.... But having to listen to another person talk, that crosses the line!
You don't see anything slightly unusual about basing the financial underpinnings of our economy on computer programs that interact with each other and dictate the value of companies not based on actual profits, revenues, results, business methodology, strategic planning, or company history, but rather base the primary value of the company solely on the current trend of their stock, driving company value up and down in an attempt to exploit nanosecond timing to skim fractions of pennies off actual sales & purchases?
We've seen several examples of bugs in these programs that translate into financial ruin for not only the people running the bots, but random companies as well until the trades get reversed. How much faith do you have that out of hundreds of these bots, none have any bugs that pose a greater risk? (Knowing that all programs have bugs, and we've seen this exact kind of problem already happen due to bugs)
I guess I'm a luddite for wanting a financial system that pretends to be based on reality.
In the 70's the government would spray fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. The growers reaction was to cut the plants down immediately before they started to die, and sell them. I'm sure smoking herbicide is safe.
I would imagine most sellers go to some length to keep the product safe. After all, if somebody higher in the supply chain found out about one of their underlings poisoning his product and damaging not only his reputation, but his boss's reputation, and inviting law enforcement investigations into sudden deaths, what do you think the reaction would be?
And who decides if the amendment is related to the bill or not? The majority party? Luckily our congress would never act in a petty & partisan manner by randomly punishing their political opponents just because they can.
Here is the quote the foreign newspapers are reporting: “Kiss my ass; this is a holy site for the Polish people,” said aide Rick Gorka. “Show some respect.”
Sounds like Mitt and especially his aide, appreciated the love the polish people showed him.
the only people who disliked his Israel speech were terrorists.
He enraged a large portion of the Arab population across the world, by saying Palestinian culture was inferior to Isreali culture. The prominent palestinian who criticised him was Saeb Ereket who was the chief negotiator in the peace process for decades. I guess all Palestinians are terrorists in your eyes, even when they dedicate their lives to finding a peaceful solution?
It was Obama that withdrew the Pole's missile shield after all
"The Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs accused Romney of dredging up settled debates in order to score political points and said they fully embraced the new missile defense"
As to London, do you not find the snafus around Olympic security disconcerting?
Do you think politicians should practice diplomacy? Sure London botched a few things. Does insulting them about it help Mitt appear statesmenlike?
Why is is not better to have a president that actually has an opinion and voices it?
Because the goal of a president isn't to tell the world how he feels. Sharing his opinions doesn't help American interests, and seems to actively hinder the goals of the nation by insulting our strongest ally for no reason.
Current printers can't manufacture the chemicals to make the gunpowder & primer. Eventually we might get the Star Trek style printers that can make the chemicals too. But, at that point we'll have a whole range of high explosives to worry about. It seems any printer capable of doing that will likely be regulated by laws & software controls in the future.
For now, it seems regulating the sale of gunpowder is a possible the route authorities may take in countries where guns are banned. In places like the US where only some types of guns are banned, it seems keeping those types of guns unavailable may be quite difficult.
If Facebook was gaming the stats to boost their ad revenue, there are smarter ways.
What seems more likely is an near infinite army of bots, trying to steal information to build profiles, and going to every advertising link while they are at it.
Other internet advertising businesses have everything to gain by stealing from the biggest treasure trove of personal info on the net. And they everything to gain by driving up the costs of advertising on Facebook while providing no benefit.
And as this article shows, acting as the catalyst of this conversation, Team Red funded their own study. They found the same results. All actual science seems to point to the same thing. And now the denier's are holding pseudo-scientists aloft while claiming peer reviewed science is fraudulent.
The colorado shooter would have killed people even if he had to grind up the potassium nitrate and charcoal himself to make primitive hand grenades.
You seem to be ignoring the direct evidence that his homemade bombs failed to go off, and failed to injure a single person.
I can't ignore that today my coworker, a guy I knew and liked, was buried with a fucking AR-15 bullet in his head.
Fuck you and your assertions that they are equivalent in danger.
Well, this article says the the amount of "justified" homicides nationwide has doubled in the past 10 years, and that now 0.02% of homicides qualify as that. I think since 99.8% of homicides are murder, it is easy to overlook the self-defense clause. Yet pro-gun advocates sure like to mention the 0.02%... But by the same token, the gun control advocates don't like to admit that most gun related fatalities are self inflicted
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You should check your math-
Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206.
Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
I think the article makes a great metaphor of global warming causing more energy to be in the ocean, similar to steroids in baseball boosting strength
stop attributing individual events to global warming
Or as they could say in baseball, "stop attributing a particular home run to steroids", despite a clear, direct correlation between taking steroids and hitting the baseball harder, and a jump in the number of homeruns for the season. You can't simply say, this home run was natural, and that one was entirely roid-driven.
Would there have been a hurricane anyways? Likely. Is this the largest hurricane ever recorded? Yes. Was it made larger by global warming? Yes.
While Kim may be greedy and potentially an asshole, he's going to win and is playing by rules far more legitimate then our current IP circus.
Except he had his personal assets seized, his companys assets destroyed, and is facing huge legal fees along with possible extradition and decades of prison time. You say he will win the legal battle, but everything done to him so far has been illegal and yet it was still done. The forces working against him don't really care about following legal procedure, they care about ruining his life. And anybody who wants to follow his business models certainly has to carefully consider how much of their own life they are putting at risk by going against the current IP circus. Or take a look at the guys from Pirate Bay, locked in cages in solitary confinement. Are they winning the fight?
I'm all for a more open internet, but your viewpoint is full of idealistic assumptions that are by no means assured.
So a nerd might be running a company and say "fire the bottom 10%" this is logical and in theory the correct idea; but they forget that it will freak out the other 90% into thinking they are next and probably be worse than just keeping the useless 10% or at least shedding them in a less efficient but more tactful way.
FYI, General Electric and Home Depot both believe in this management strategy. All employees get ranked from best to worst, and the bottom 10% get fired, every year. It comes straight from the Roman idea of decimation as a motivational tool. Employees are in constant competition to be better than their coworkers to keep their job because everyone knows mandatory terminations are just around the corner. Does it work? Well, GE is the 3rd largest company in the world. Home Depot is the largest home improvement company in the world. But of course by most accounts they are terrible places to work with cutthroat corporate culture.
You realize these probation terms are very common for people who commit fraud via computer right? Just like Michael Vick wasn't allowed to own dogs as part of his probation, just like drug based crimes get routine urine testing. Avoiding the thing that got you in trouble is part of every criminals probation terms.
If you signed a legal contract saying you would not watch television, would you go buy a new flatscreen and watch it every night? He isn't in trouble for browsing the web for a few minutes, or using a gps device to plan a trip. He didn't "accidentally" post video to youtube. It was a flagrant violation, and he most certainly knew that.
Keep in mind, this guy has a long history of fraud and criminal activity. He made this video with the goal of inciting riots and getting people killed, and even deceived the people helping him create the film. I'm all for free speech and the idea of blasphemy laws is repugnant to me, but this guy is still a jackass who wanted other people to get hurt and die to prove a point about a group he doesn't like.
Hiring an employee typically costs thousands of dollars in headhunting fees, possible hiring bonuses, and training time. Not to mention a bad choice that doesn't work out means wasted time, and a possible lost opportunity on "the right candidate".
Also when you hire an employee, they now represent your company. If they do something stupid, your company can be sued for what they did. If they sexually harass other employees, they don't get sued - you get sued. If they break the law, your company is liable. You could be on the hook for millions in damages based on one wrong choice, or decision made too quickly.
Simply put, in our litigious society, making the wrong choice can destroy your company. That being said, it doesn't make snooping on a persons private life reasonable or right.
There is a current presidential candidate who earlier this year was disdainful of people who feel "entitled to food". He represents a sizeable segment of society who believe that people should starve to death if they refuse to work.
Yep, only 45% is part of the gun owning subculture.
It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.
And guess which Swiss bank Mitt used? UBS
The hacking part was a bit of social engineering to get into the 3rd floor. You might recall it was Kevin Mitnicks specialty as well, and he is arguably the most famous "hacker" of all time. After all, it is a lot easier to convince somebody to just tell you the password you need, rather than trying a billion brute force attempts.
It's entirely possible the globe will go +2 degrees and nothing much will happen to the earth at all.
Except that research has shown a link between AGW and unusual droughts of the past few years. It seems at least possible that the unusual weather patterns contributed to the extreme midwest drought of this summer. Corn production is down anywhere from 15-50%, Soybean production is down 10-40%. (Still being harvested, so estimates vary greatly)
So 2 degrees has resulted in "nothing much" except massive amounts of food in the country vanishing. It won't affect America much this year, but you can expect revolutions around the world based on high food prices this winter.
So it is ok for some random TSA goon to feel your junk, look at you naked, or irradiate you with some equipment they swear is safe.... But having to listen to another person talk, that crosses the line!
You don't see anything slightly unusual about basing the financial underpinnings of our economy on computer programs that interact with each other and dictate the value of companies not based on actual profits, revenues, results, business methodology, strategic planning, or company history, but rather base the primary value of the company solely on the current trend of their stock, driving company value up and down in an attempt to exploit nanosecond timing to skim fractions of pennies off actual sales & purchases?
We've seen several examples of bugs in these programs that translate into financial ruin for not only the people running the bots, but random companies as well until the trades get reversed. How much faith do you have that out of hundreds of these bots, none have any bugs that pose a greater risk? (Knowing that all programs have bugs, and we've seen this exact kind of problem already happen due to bugs)
I guess I'm a luddite for wanting a financial system that pretends to be based on reality.
In the 70's the government would spray fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. The growers reaction was to cut the plants down immediately before they started to die, and sell them. I'm sure smoking herbicide is safe.
I would imagine most sellers go to some length to keep the product safe. After all, if somebody higher in the supply chain found out about one of their underlings poisoning his product and damaging not only his reputation, but his boss's reputation, and inviting law enforcement investigations into sudden deaths, what do you think the reaction would be?
They've been in a holding pattern for 3 years now from what I can tell...
And who decides if the amendment is related to the bill or not? The majority party? Luckily our congress would never act in a petty & partisan manner by randomly punishing their political opponents just because they can.
The Poles all but endorsed Romney,
Here is the quote the foreign newspapers are reporting: “Kiss my ass; this is a holy site for the Polish people,” said aide Rick Gorka. “Show some respect.”
Sounds like Mitt and especially his aide, appreciated the love the polish people showed him.
the only people who disliked his Israel speech were terrorists.
He enraged a large portion of the Arab population across the world, by saying Palestinian culture was inferior to Isreali culture. The prominent palestinian who criticised him was Saeb Ereket who was the chief negotiator in the peace process for decades. I guess all Palestinians are terrorists in your eyes, even when they dedicate their lives to finding a peaceful solution?
It was Obama that withdrew the Pole's missile shield after all
"The Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs accused Romney of dredging up settled debates in order to score political points and said they fully embraced the new missile defense"
As to London, do you not find the snafus around Olympic security disconcerting?
Do you think politicians should practice diplomacy? Sure London botched a few things. Does insulting them about it help Mitt appear statesmenlike?
Why is is not better to have a president that actually has an opinion and voices it?
Because the goal of a president isn't to tell the world how he feels. Sharing his opinions doesn't help American interests, and seems to actively hinder the goals of the nation by insulting our strongest ally for no reason.
Current printers can't manufacture the chemicals to make the gunpowder & primer. Eventually we might get the Star Trek style printers that can make the chemicals too. But, at that point we'll have a whole range of high explosives to worry about. It seems any printer capable of doing that will likely be regulated by laws & software controls in the future.
For now, it seems regulating the sale of gunpowder is a possible the route authorities may take in countries where guns are banned. In places like the US where only some types of guns are banned, it seems keeping those types of guns unavailable may be quite difficult.
If Facebook was gaming the stats to boost their ad revenue, there are smarter ways.
What seems more likely is an near infinite army of bots, trying to steal information to build profiles, and going to every advertising link while they are at it.
Other internet advertising businesses have everything to gain by stealing from the biggest treasure trove of personal info on the net. And they everything to gain by driving up the costs of advertising on Facebook while providing no benefit.
And as this article shows, acting as the catalyst of this conversation, Team Red funded their own study. They found the same results. All actual science seems to point to the same thing. And now the denier's are holding pseudo-scientists aloft while claiming peer reviewed science is fraudulent.
It turns out he actually made home-made explosives with the intent to kill and maim people. We can put this idea to the test!
How many people were injured or killed by his commerical guns?
How many people were injured or killed by his homemade explosives?
The colorado shooter would have killed people even if he had to grind up the potassium nitrate and charcoal himself to make primitive hand grenades.
You seem to be ignoring the direct evidence that his homemade bombs failed to go off, and failed to injure a single person.
I can't ignore that today my coworker, a guy I knew and liked, was buried with a fucking AR-15 bullet in his head.
Fuck you and your assertions that they are equivalent in danger.
Well, this article says the the amount of "justified" homicides nationwide has doubled in the past 10 years, and that now 0.02% of homicides qualify as that. I think since 99.8% of homicides are murder, it is easy to overlook the self-defense clause. Yet pro-gun advocates sure like to mention the 0.02%... But by the same token, the gun control advocates don't like to admit that most gun related fatalities are self inflicted
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