Bank America can be bad news. For example a few years ago I caught them selling an anti-identity theft product to my 85 year old father who needed no such thing. That's really low.
Most recently their robo signing abuses led to a huge fine.
Why didn't this person research this before chasing rainbows and unicorns for the past 5 years or so?
A literature course is something that is a very enjoyable pursuit. The literature courses I took were full of women who were very friendly. I only wish my engineering major left me more time to pursue these opportunities.
Eventually though I did establish a long term relationship with a PhD candidate in Medieval English Literature. Worked out very well in almost all possible ways. She was apparently more intelligent than the one who wrote this story and got a MLS after she graduated with her literature degree and now has a pretty reasonable job working in a tenured position in a university library. Great job, includes lots of benefits including summers off and free tuition for our kids.
Seriously though I don't think writing to what an algorithm wants is a bad thing if the algorithm wants the right stuff.
It's not as if students don't write to the algorithm the professor uses even now. The only difference is where the algorithm is stored and how flexible it is.
Ummm I think the IRS probably has most of the dodges figured out. And the risks [prison] are pretty nasty.
The United States anyway now has pretty strict foreign account reporting rules, along with the concept that no matter where in the world you earn your money it becomes subject to US taxation.
Businesses have a dodge where they don't have to pay tax foreign income so long as it isn't brought into the US. It's the reason why companies like Apple accumulate so much cash - they don't want to repatriate it unless they get a tax holiday like the one Mr Bush sponsored about 10 years ago.
Flat taxes are almost uniformly supported by rich people for the simple reason they pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes now than do the members of middle class.
It is only the ultra rich who live on capital gains and dividends who get the real tax break.
Did they really change the rules? The banks these deposits were in are clearly insolvent. As such any deposits over the insured limit are at high risk. Add in the fact that the banks in Cyprus were 7 times the size of the Cyprus economy makes it impossible for it to be a stable situation.
The same sort of thing happened when the Icelandic banks failed - foreign deposits over the insured amount went poof and capital controls were put in place.
Ultimately the idea that the US would be able to confiscate bank deposits, or need to runs into two realities - the 5th Amendment, and the fact that the US banking sector is much smaller than that in Europe relative to GDP.
Gold and silver are often sold as a doomsday hedge. The interesting thing is that there is one time when gold and silver lose their value - when economics break down completely and a condition of famine exists.
> Vigilante expressions like this never promote good results.
Too true.
In some way one can view what as going on as pure selfishness. The vigilante actions are not going to improve the situation; in fact they may make it worse because they engender sympathy for those being attacked. All in exchange for a brief moment of self satisfaction on the part of the attacker.
Outrage in this case needs to be channeled into efforts to change the conditions that led to this tragedy. Not to some ephemeral moment of revenge that only makes the situation worse in the long run.
I am afraid this sort of vigilante action is never actually productive. Already the targets are using this to justify keeping details on this case from public view.
What should be going on is pressuring public officials and the press to demand a review of the actions that led to this tragedy, and changes to laws to prevent this from happening again. Instead these attacks are only likely to be used to institute more draconian laws.
By the Atheist I understand the man who not only holds off, like the sceptic, from the affirmative, but who drives himself, or is driven, to the negative assertion in regard to the whole unseen, or to the existence of God.
Sorry folks but I've supplied MULTIPLE sources for my defintion, both from modern language and multiple philisophical and theistic sources. The idea that atheism is the same thing as a lack of belief in God is preposterous.
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Bank America can be bad news. For example a few years ago I caught them selling an anti-identity theft product to my 85 year old father who needed no such thing. That's really low.
Most recently their robo signing abuses led to a huge fine.
Warrants have to be specific as to the place to be searched. If they didn't have a warrant to do this, oh well.
They didn't get a warrant. They got a court order, which isn't something that requires demonstration of probable cause.
What happens is simple. It's all about consent of the governed and common sense.
Yes, and it can be argued that this non-taxable status is one of the major reasons that US healthcare is the most expensive in the world, by far.
Whenever ANY income is treated with a tax preference, there are real economic implications.
I think it's safe to say that the US tax system has overdone the idea of using tax rates for the purpose of economic engineering.
> just that I cannot remember the last manufactured thing I bought that said "Made in the UK"
In other words you have no argument, just some sketchy anecdotal evidence.
Sorry but I call bullshit on that.
Also be sure to add dailymail.co.uk to your hosts file i.e.
dailymail.co.uk 127.0.0.1
That modern economic climate being democracy + capitalism as competitors to socialism and authoritarian government.
Something that seems sadly to have gone out of fashion in the world today.
Lots of people believe different because some US companies supply software based on stuff like openssh and truecrypt.
Here's the fundamental problem with this sort of theory - if the US can decode something, chances are other people can too.
Coming soon to a console/computer near me.
Unlike EA the customers and stockholders of Monsanto and Phillp Morris are generally happy.
Why didn't this person research this before chasing rainbows and unicorns for the past 5 years or so?
A literature course is something that is a very enjoyable pursuit. The literature courses I took were full of women who were very friendly. I only wish my engineering major left me more time to pursue these opportunities.
Eventually though I did establish a long term relationship with a PhD candidate in Medieval English Literature. Worked out very well in almost all possible ways. She was apparently more intelligent than the one who wrote this story and got a MLS after she graduated with her literature degree and now has a pretty reasonable job working in a tenured position in a university library. Great job, includes lots of benefits including summers off and free tuition for our kids.
That only applies to criminal law.
What a waste of time.
Google could do a simple API letting you search the URLs. Or they could publish a hashed version of the URLs along with code for the hash.
There are a number of was that would give you what you want without actually publishing the URL.
Would you like fries with that?
Seriously though I don't think writing to what an algorithm wants is a bad thing if the algorithm wants the right stuff.
It's not as if students don't write to the algorithm the professor uses even now. The only difference is where the algorithm is stored and how flexible it is.
Lead and gunpowder don't do you any good when the farmer hires a band of Samurai.
[in homage to Akira Kurosawa]
Ummm I think the IRS probably has most of the dodges figured out. And the risks [prison] are pretty nasty.
The United States anyway now has pretty strict foreign account reporting rules, along with the concept that no matter where in the world you earn your money it becomes subject to US taxation.
Businesses have a dodge where they don't have to pay tax foreign income so long as it isn't brought into the US. It's the reason why companies like Apple accumulate so much cash - they don't want to repatriate it unless they get a tax holiday like the one Mr Bush sponsored about 10 years ago.
Flat taxes are almost uniformly supported by rich people for the simple reason they pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes now than do the members of middle class.
It is only the ultra rich who live on capital gains and dividends who get the real tax break.
Did they really change the rules? The banks these deposits were in are clearly insolvent. As such any deposits over the insured limit are at high risk. Add in the fact that the banks in Cyprus were 7 times the size of the Cyprus economy makes it impossible for it to be a stable situation.
The same sort of thing happened when the Icelandic banks failed - foreign deposits over the insured amount went poof and capital controls were put in place.
Ultimately the idea that the US would be able to confiscate bank deposits, or need to runs into two realities - the 5th Amendment, and the fact that the US banking sector is much smaller than that in Europe relative to GDP.
Gold and silver are often sold as a doomsday hedge. The interesting thing is that there is one time when gold and silver lose their value - when economics break down completely and a condition of famine exists.
On that basis arable land is only true wealth.
All currencies go up and down. However the ones that go up and down 20% in one day are not attractive to me for use in commerce or investing.
> Vigilante expressions like this never promote good results.
Too true.
In some way one can view what as going on as pure selfishness. The vigilante actions are not going to improve the situation; in fact they may make it worse because they engender sympathy for those being attacked. All in exchange for a brief moment of self satisfaction on the part of the attacker.
Outrage in this case needs to be channeled into efforts to change the conditions that led to this tragedy. Not to some ephemeral moment of revenge that only makes the situation worse in the long run.
I am afraid this sort of vigilante action is never actually productive. Already the targets are using this to justify keeping details on this case from public view.
What should be going on is pressuring public officials and the press to demand a review of the actions that led to this tragedy, and changes to laws to prevent this from happening again. Instead these attacks are only likely to be used to institute more draconian laws.
I reject your bizzaro Latin and substitute an authoritative ENGLISH source to further back up the philosophic citations I made previously:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism
a : a disbelief in the existence of deity
b : the doctrine that there is no deity
And from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02040a.htm
By the Atheist I understand the man who not only holds off, like the sceptic, from the affirmative, but who drives himself, or is driven, to the negative assertion in regard to the whole unseen, or to the existence of God.
Sorry folks but I've supplied MULTIPLE sources for my defintion, both from modern language and multiple philisophical and theistic sources. The idea that atheism is the same thing as a lack of belief in God is preposterous.