I thought the idea was to give Mittens the reigns, let the corporations have 100% control of our country (vs the current insulting 98%), and hope for some trickle down?
Unions can curb criminal behavior on the part of corporations. Of course, unions being organized power, are also susceptible to being abused as well. Arguing against having any watchmen at all is a bit silly, but we need to also consider who watches the watchmen.
Imagine putting a sign on your front lawn. A month later you bring it inside your house. Since the sign was public, does that mean the police no longer need a warrant? If twitter loses this appeal, the answer to that question will be no. It is essentially saying anything made public can never be made private. Now, if someone took pictures of that sign on your lawn, that's another matter. So a snapshot of a public site would be fair game. So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
Teaching is becoming a nasty job. The pay is low, and constantly under political threat. Socially teaching is looked down upon ("those who can't, teach", and "they get the summer off", "they are ruining our kids"). Teachers are under all kinds of pressures: "Teach to the test, even at the expense of your own curriculum!", "Handle larger numbers of kids at a time!", etc. Not to mention the sick urge to over-evaluate and fire teachers, sometimes on crazy-town metrics (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/nyregion/in-brooklyn-hard-working-teachers-sabotaged-when-student-test-scores-slip.html?pagewanted=all).
Becoming a teacher means embracing low pay, constant criticism, an ever increasing workload, and a political environment aching for more ways to fire you. Ask yourself this: Would you leave your job to teach? As a college student, would you risk making a career of teaching? Would a potential $20k annual bonus in exchange for a multiyear commitment to more work change your mind?
Some of these points are quite misguided. Moving at the pace of the top 50% of the class is needlessly punitive towards the slower kids. Why not just offer additional material/projects to the kids who move through the material faster? You can feed the faster kids without starving the slower ones.
Kicking misbehaving kids onto the street is a recipe for some nasty crimes down the line. Kicking them out of school shatters their future. When you say "unless they have a documented mental handicap", you reveal you are concerned with punishing the bad kids rather than helping the kids who get distracted. Because a child with a documented behavioral disorder can be hell for the rest of the class. Instead of removing kids who misbehave from school entirely, why not figure out a way to help them without expelling them?
False. People comparing Obama to the Russians are stone cold drunk. The choice is between Romney and his corporate fascism, and Obama and his corporate fascism. Both use the policies and methods of right wing totalitarianism. The difference is Romney will mean a more conservative than now supreme court, is entirely in the corporation's pocket, and is going to pander to religious conservatives out of desperation. Obama will mean a possibly liberal-lite supreme court, is sticking out of the corporation's pockets (and sometimes isn't in there at all), and won't always pander to religious conservatives so much as give in to them.
The supreme court is really the big reason to vote one way or the other.
Exactly. If anything this judge stepping aside confirms that NZ is behind the US when it comes to our respective judicial systems. In the US it is considered customary and just for a judge with a conflict of interest to remain on the bench. If he or she is feeling especially patriotic, the judge in question may go on Fox and Friends to confirm why one side in a particular case deserves to lose "SO HARDCORE". Stepping down to avoid potential impartiality is liberal judicial activism.
Every year, a new version will come out with less invasive surgery, better resolution, color... night mode... I hope they make these things somewhat easy to upgrade. Just imagining being able to switch visible spectrum has me wanting the future version for myself.
The bigger question is why do advertisers imagine that Facebook pages are somehow more traffic'd than Internet pages, when every facebook user is an internet user, but not every internet user is a facebook user.
They don't. They imagine Facebook users will be easier to track, market to, and (most importantly) market through. Every Facebook user is a potential advertising channel.
We're approaching a point where full records (and analysis) of consumer habits will be available from multiple sources. From how we find what we buy (google, etc), the stores themselves (from amazon and fresh direct to local grocery stores and pharmacies) down to how we pay (banks and credit cards). While there is some movement towards "Do Not Track", it is only for that very first step. What we need is a "Do Not Track" option that extends beyond browsing on the web, and allows us to purchase goods without giving companies a complete record of everything we do.
Because a city government choosing to avoid a particular tech product for environmental reasons is news for nerds AND news that matters? It is a rebuke of Apple's move, one that might be repeated in other cities across the US. It is also interesting because it represents an opportunity to get linux into government offices. If Apple wants to avoid the official certification, then there is room for competition. As an added bonus, less tax dollars spent on hardware.
So that's 5530 per day, 720 (13%) of which are lawful. So 87% of the requests are illegal, and AT&T turns down 18 (0.04%) of the total # of requests per week. Those are some stark numbers.
Corporations pick sides every day, and pour billions of dollars, expertise, and effort into fighting. And that was before Citizen's United. After the Trans-Pacific Partnership is done and packed away, expect more, not less of this.
Perhaps he visited to Australia, or is a fan of Aussie TV, or has friends from other countries, and picked it up.
I've picked up colloquialisms from visiting a place (eg Stockholm), watching TV (eg UK), or just being around people in the US from different backgrounds (eg Russia).
Counterexample: Me. If I see "Made in the USA", I wouldn't expect to find out it had been made in China. Leaving aside the reasons behind, and impact of, labeling something "Made in the USA" - if it isn't - it is false advertising.
This is with the rights granted to a citizen. Imagine what they will claim when corporations secure the rights of sovereign nations (http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tpp-isnt-really-trade-agreement-its-i):
A recent leak of one of TPP’s most controversial chapters reveals that the pact would elevate individual corporations and investors to equal status with sovereign nations to privately enforce this treaty. U.S. negotiators are among the greatest champions of this “investor state” enforcement system. It would give any foreign firm incorporated in any TPP country new rights to skirt U.S. courts and laws, directly sue the U.S. government before foreign tribunals and demand compensation for financial, health, environmental, land use and other laws they claim undermine their TPP privileges.
"Mmmm, unt we like it that way too. Make my email cpu38499@facebook.com again. Do it even though I already set a username, then tell me the only way to change it back is to set my username. Then stop me from changing my username HARDER.... SO GOOD. Now flip me over unt use my profile pic to advertise to my friends."
Or time to market marked up property as "soon to be" beachfront. Or time to invest in some myself, something for the great great grandkids to enjoy when they unplug from their neural-net-by-facebook world and want to be wheeled down to the sea by their robot butlers for their evening repast.
Quite true. While power lines are mostly above ground, public transit varies greatly. Consider the differences between Chicago, New York, San Francisco and DC when it comes to the subway (operating times, cleanliness, safety, speed, reach). Of course, things are different in smaller towns, but I was under the impression that is the case in other places as well? I'd be interested in more specifics (including an example "modern country") to compare to. The original AC's comment seems to mostly hit on above ground power lines.
I already want it. SO BAD. I want the following buttons for status: "Dislike", "Do Not Want", "That's What She Said", "That's What He Said", "That's What the Fuzzy Little Creature From Alpha Centauri Said".... Oh, and also "Winter is Coming".
Exactly, its a slap on the wrist. Especially considering the 10s of billions of dollars he costs the entertainment industry daily. The pirate bay has taken to promoting indie (non-industry-approved) artists, further cutting into socially guaranteed profits. Someone needs to be held responsible for this costly outrage!
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I thought the idea was to give Mittens the reigns, let the corporations have 100% control of our country (vs the current insulting 98%), and hope for some trickle down?
Unions can curb criminal behavior on the part of corporations. Of course, unions being organized power, are also susceptible to being abused as well. Arguing against having any watchmen at all is a bit silly, but we need to also consider who watches the watchmen.
Japan and America, East and West, meet in one person: Joe Dragon. And he's a Slashdot regular!
But you can destroy a sign. Or store it in the basement. Is a twitter post more like physically saying something, or making a sign?
Imagine putting a sign on your front lawn. A month later you bring it inside your house. Since the sign was public, does that mean the police no longer need a warrant? If twitter loses this appeal, the answer to that question will be no. It is essentially saying anything made public can never be made private. Now, if someone took pictures of that sign on your lawn, that's another matter. So a snapshot of a public site would be fair game. So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
Teaching is becoming a nasty job. The pay is low, and constantly under political threat. Socially teaching is looked down upon ("those who can't, teach", and "they get the summer off", "they are ruining our kids"). Teachers are under all kinds of pressures: "Teach to the test, even at the expense of your own curriculum!", "Handle larger numbers of kids at a time!", etc. Not to mention the sick urge to over-evaluate and fire teachers, sometimes on crazy-town metrics (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/nyregion/in-brooklyn-hard-working-teachers-sabotaged-when-student-test-scores-slip.html?pagewanted=all).
Becoming a teacher means embracing low pay, constant criticism, an ever increasing workload, and a political environment aching for more ways to fire you. Ask yourself this: Would you leave your job to teach? As a college student, would you risk making a career of teaching? Would a potential $20k annual bonus in exchange for a multiyear commitment to more work change your mind?
Some of these points are quite misguided. Moving at the pace of the top 50% of the class is needlessly punitive towards the slower kids. Why not just offer additional material/projects to the kids who move through the material faster? You can feed the faster kids without starving the slower ones.
Kicking misbehaving kids onto the street is a recipe for some nasty crimes down the line. Kicking them out of school shatters their future. When you say "unless they have a documented mental handicap", you reveal you are concerned with punishing the bad kids rather than helping the kids who get distracted. Because a child with a documented behavioral disorder can be hell for the rest of the class. Instead of removing kids who misbehave from school entirely, why not figure out a way to help them without expelling them?
False. People comparing Obama to the Russians are stone cold drunk. The choice is between Romney and his corporate fascism, and Obama and his corporate fascism. Both use the policies and methods of right wing totalitarianism. The difference is Romney will mean a more conservative than now supreme court, is entirely in the corporation's pocket, and is going to pander to religious conservatives out of desperation. Obama will mean a possibly liberal-lite supreme court, is sticking out of the corporation's pockets (and sometimes isn't in there at all), and won't always pander to religious conservatives so much as give in to them.
The supreme court is really the big reason to vote one way or the other.
Exactly. If anything this judge stepping aside confirms that NZ is behind the US when it comes to our respective judicial systems. In the US it is considered customary and just for a judge with a conflict of interest to remain on the bench. If he or she is feeling especially patriotic, the judge in question may go on Fox and Friends to confirm why one side in a particular case deserves to lose "SO HARDCORE". Stepping down to avoid potential impartiality is liberal judicial activism.
Every year, a new version will come out with less invasive surgery, better resolution, color... night mode... I hope they make these things somewhat easy to upgrade. Just imagining being able to switch visible spectrum has me wanting the future version for myself.
Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout
They don't. They imagine Facebook users will be easier to track, market to, and (most importantly) market through. Every Facebook user is a potential advertising channel.
We're approaching a point where full records (and analysis) of consumer habits will be available from multiple sources. From how we find what we buy (google, etc), the stores themselves (from amazon and fresh direct to local grocery stores and pharmacies) down to how we pay (banks and credit cards). While there is some movement towards "Do Not Track", it is only for that very first step. What we need is a "Do Not Track" option that extends beyond browsing on the web, and allows us to purchase goods without giving companies a complete record of everything we do.
Because a city government choosing to avoid a particular tech product for environmental reasons is news for nerds AND news that matters? It is a rebuke of Apple's move, one that might be repeated in other cities across the US. It is also interesting because it represents an opportunity to get linux into government offices. If Apple wants to avoid the official certification, then there is room for competition. As an added bonus, less tax dollars spent on hardware.
So that's 5530 per day, 720 (13%) of which are lawful. So 87% of the requests are illegal, and AT&T turns down 18 (0.04%) of the total # of requests per week. Those are some stark numbers.
Corporations pick sides every day, and pour billions of dollars, expertise, and effort into fighting. And that was before Citizen's United. After the Trans-Pacific Partnership is done and packed away, expect more, not less of this.
Perhaps he visited to Australia, or is a fan of Aussie TV, or has friends from other countries, and picked it up.
I've picked up colloquialisms from visiting a place (eg Stockholm), watching TV (eg UK), or just being around people in the US from different backgrounds (eg Russia).
Yes. Yes I do.
Counterexample: Me. If I see "Made in the USA", I wouldn't expect to find out it had been made in China. Leaving aside the reasons behind, and impact of, labeling something "Made in the USA" - if it isn't - it is false advertising.
"Mmmm, unt we like it that way too. Make my email cpu38499@facebook.com again. Do it even though I already set a username, then tell me the only way to change it back is to set my username. Then stop me from changing my username HARDER.... SO GOOD. Now flip me over unt use my profile pic to advertise to my friends."
Or time to market marked up property as "soon to be" beachfront. Or time to invest in some myself, something for the great great grandkids to enjoy when they unplug from their neural-net-by-facebook world and want to be wheeled down to the sea by their robot butlers for their evening repast.
Quite true. While power lines are mostly above ground, public transit varies greatly. Consider the differences between Chicago, New York, San Francisco and DC when it comes to the subway (operating times, cleanliness, safety, speed, reach). Of course, things are different in smaller towns, but I was under the impression that is the case in other places as well? I'd be interested in more specifics (including an example "modern country") to compare to. The original AC's comment seems to mostly hit on above ground power lines.
I already want it. SO BAD. I want the following buttons for status: "Dislike", "Do Not Want", "That's What She Said", "That's What He Said", "That's What the Fuzzy Little Creature From Alpha Centauri Said".... Oh, and also "Winter is Coming".
Exactly, its a slap on the wrist. Especially considering the 10s of billions of dollars he costs the entertainment industry daily. The pirate bay has taken to promoting indie (non-industry-approved) artists, further cutting into socially guaranteed profits. Someone needs to be held responsible for this costly outrage!