1) Banks fucking suck. They don't always post your CC transactions right away so they can lie about your true balance and fuck you over with overdrafts and NSF's.
Anyone who relies on the information presented on their online banking statement as an accurate record of their checking account is irresponsible. It's your bank account, keep track of the charges yourself and record them in your check register every day. Keep an accurate balance of your money and there's no reason the bank will need to hit you with NSF fees.
As a scientist, I would find it a far better thing to have my claims proven correct after my death
Except that, as a scientist, you must realize that without consciousness you could not "find" anything. So no, you wouldn't find it better to have this happen after death, it would be irrelevant to you since you would no longer exist.
Weber has revised this in later novels. Gravity waves (in the Honorverse) exist both in normal space and in hyperspace. The "shadow" of the wave in hyperspace effectively moves FTL; gravcoms work by detecting the presence of the wave in the alpha band, which moves at 16 times the speed of light.
It's kinda kludgy, but it's internally consistent with the rest of the physics in the books, so it's OK.
You want liberty, take a look at what it's like to have complete freedom over a business of your own. You'll find that it ain't liberating in the ways that you were hoping.
Replace "employer" with "client", and you still have the same problems: people may not hire you due to opinions they form of you from content online. You haven't solved the dilemma, you've merely changed one variable.
You don't hate Americans, but you have no problem painting all of us with a very broad brush. How is that not hateful?
You find arrogance offensive, and yet you come across sounding incredibly arrogant.
You think "excessive patriotism" is dangerous, yet rally against an entire nation because of what some politicians (who aren't even in office anymore) said about your own country, and have nursed that grudge for years.
In short, you're everything you think Americans are. Though I bet some of your best friends are Americans, aren't they?
I'll admit that for some time I didn't have much regard for the French. (While I don't know what country you come from, it's possible it's France, given your comment about Bush and Rumsfeld's quote.) But that was because our oldest ally wasn't willing to step up and help us with our fight, and wanted to just pretend that Islamic fascism would go away on its own. But I've gotten over that feeling, because at the end of the day the US and France are brothers. And while we might fight about things, even important things, that won't ever change. So give us a break and stop judging us all based on some media-driven image of what the average American is supposedly like. There's still a lot more that unites us than divides us.
There's a scene in Les Miserables where Jean-Valjean is sentenced to 20 years in prison because he failed to prove his innocence. While the law has almost certainly changed since then, and it's somewhat foolish to base your understanding of a nation's legal system on a scene set over two centuries before, it is an honest mistake.
All the hate and vitriol directed at Americans in general because of this one mistake is another matter entirely. The racists making these comments should be ashamed of themselves.
Amazon also has the right to tell members of the Author's Guild they won't sell ANY of their books anymore if they can't sell digital versions on the Kindle. Considering Amazon's market share for book sales, I bet that would get them to STFU pretty quickly.
It doesn't sound like you are involved in network administration if you have such strong opinions about router access which is not something everyone should have access to.
I'm a sysadmin, not a network engineer. But the concepts are the same regarding root passwords: you don't own them, your employer does. And whether your boss is right or wrong to ask for them is immaterial, he's your boss, you hand them over when asked.
You can disagree with me, or disagree with the guy who was fired and then arrested for following the course of action you propose. Which makes more sense?
MBSs were backed by overvalued real estate; real estate that would not have increased in value so greatly in the first place if the Fed had not pursued a loose money policy when it comes to credit. Again, it had nothing to do with Austrian economics or libertarianism, it had to do with a central bank trying to manage the economy. Which as we (should) have learned, doesn't work.
My understanding of the case is they were asking for the router passwords, both login and enable (root). Not his personal passwords. There was no reason not to do so, the guy is an idiot and should've been fired on the spot. Letting him rot in jail for these past seven months is just overkill, though. They should let him go, it's not like he's likely to work in network security again, anyway.
Not to mention, the guy's only 47 years old. He's going to have this job until he's at most 55. That means he'll have another 10 years before he can sit back and collect Social Security. Do you expect him to torpedo his chances of getting a decent job after he's done with government service if he pisses off lots of rich people in the private sector?
CDSs and MBSs are fake, paper wealth, that could not have been developed without a central bank artificially creating a market for them. In fact, the entire real estate bubble and resulting mortgage frauds could NOT have happened without government backing, especially through the use of fiat currency to artificially inflate the value of real estate and make mortgages cheaper than they should've been.
Sorry, but you don't get to blame laissez faire when the problem was caused by a distinct lack of laissez faire in the first place, comrade.
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1) Banks fucking suck. They don't always post your CC transactions right away so they can lie about your true balance and fuck you over with overdrafts and NSF's.
Anyone who relies on the information presented on their online banking statement as an accurate record of their checking account is irresponsible. It's your bank account, keep track of the charges yourself and record them in your check register every day. Keep an accurate balance of your money and there's no reason the bank will need to hit you with NSF fees.
Yes he should, and he should be committing all of his revs to TheDailyWTF for our enjoyment.
The Catholic creed (Latin from I Believe) starts "We believe in One God" and is said at ever Sunday or Holy Day of Obligation service.
My local parish priest uses air quotes around that part.
Lucifer will be free to attend the Vatican when Hell freezes over. Because, hey, it's still warm in Italy.
Well, at least your previous junior Senator isn't in trouble.
Yet.
As a scientist, I would find it a far better thing to have my claims proven correct after my death
Except that, as a scientist, you must realize that without consciousness you could not "find" anything. So no, you wouldn't find it better to have this happen after death, it would be irrelevant to you since you would no longer exist.
Weber has revised this in later novels. Gravity waves (in the Honorverse) exist both in normal space and in hyperspace. The "shadow" of the wave in hyperspace effectively moves FTL; gravcoms work by detecting the presence of the wave in the alpha band, which moves at 16 times the speed of light.
It's kinda kludgy, but it's internally consistent with the rest of the physics in the books, so it's OK.
It's been done.
They'll all be named "Boo" and be given extensive training in how to go for the eyes!!!
...the hamster is sucked up by the vacuum.
PETA's gonna have a field day with this one.
Not to mention, you now know a potential warlord in another country if things get REALLY bad all over. Definitely a win-win.
You want liberty, take a look at what it's like to have complete freedom over a business of your own. You'll find that it ain't liberating in the ways that you were hoping.
Replace "employer" with "client", and you still have the same problems: people may not hire you due to opinions they form of you from content online. You haven't solved the dilemma, you've merely changed one variable.
There is nothing wrong with using a model.
I'll say, especially if you're a single guy just looking for a good time.
You don't hate Americans, but you have no problem painting all of us with a very broad brush. How is that not hateful?
You find arrogance offensive, and yet you come across sounding incredibly arrogant.
You think "excessive patriotism" is dangerous, yet rally against an entire nation because of what some politicians (who aren't even in office anymore) said about your own country, and have nursed that grudge for years.
In short, you're everything you think Americans are. Though I bet some of your best friends are Americans, aren't they?
I'll admit that for some time I didn't have much regard for the French. (While I don't know what country you come from, it's possible it's France, given your comment about Bush and Rumsfeld's quote.) But that was because our oldest ally wasn't willing to step up and help us with our fight, and wanted to just pretend that Islamic fascism would go away on its own. But I've gotten over that feeling, because at the end of the day the US and France are brothers. And while we might fight about things, even important things, that won't ever change. So give us a break and stop judging us all based on some media-driven image of what the average American is supposedly like. There's still a lot more that unites us than divides us.
Great, so now Israelis have to deal with offers to enlarge their penises from their politicians? Don't those people have enough problems already?
There's a scene in Les Miserables where Jean-Valjean is sentenced to 20 years in prison because he failed to prove his innocence. While the law has almost certainly changed since then, and it's somewhat foolish to base your understanding of a nation's legal system on a scene set over two centuries before, it is an honest mistake.
All the hate and vitriol directed at Americans in general because of this one mistake is another matter entirely. The racists making these comments should be ashamed of themselves.
Or you could wait until the tornado's on top of you to have your flying home. Pretty sure that would work.
Amazon also has the right to tell members of the Author's Guild they won't sell ANY of their books anymore if they can't sell digital versions on the Kindle. Considering Amazon's market share for book sales, I bet that would get them to STFU pretty quickly.
It doesn't sound like you are involved in network administration if you have such strong opinions about router access which is not something everyone should have access to.
I'm a sysadmin, not a network engineer. But the concepts are the same regarding root passwords: you don't own them, your employer does. And whether your boss is right or wrong to ask for them is immaterial, he's your boss, you hand them over when asked.
You can disagree with me, or disagree with the guy who was fired and then arrested for following the course of action you propose. Which makes more sense?
MBSs were backed by overvalued real estate; real estate that would not have increased in value so greatly in the first place if the Fed had not pursued a loose money policy when it comes to credit. Again, it had nothing to do with Austrian economics or libertarianism, it had to do with a central bank trying to manage the economy. Which as we (should) have learned, doesn't work.
My understanding of the case is they were asking for the router passwords, both login and enable (root). Not his personal passwords. There was no reason not to do so, the guy is an idiot and should've been fired on the spot. Letting him rot in jail for these past seven months is just overkill, though. They should let him go, it's not like he's likely to work in network security again, anyway.
Whoosh.
Not to mention, the guy's only 47 years old. He's going to have this job until he's at most 55. That means he'll have another 10 years before he can sit back and collect Social Security. Do you expect him to torpedo his chances of getting a decent job after he's done with government service if he pisses off lots of rich people in the private sector?
Libertarians who are willing to compromise their core principles are just Republicans, just as Greens who do so are Democrats.
CDSs and MBSs are fake, paper wealth, that could not have been developed without a central bank artificially creating a market for them. In fact, the entire real estate bubble and resulting mortgage frauds could NOT have happened without government backing, especially through the use of fiat currency to artificially inflate the value of real estate and make mortgages cheaper than they should've been.
Sorry, but you don't get to blame laissez faire when the problem was caused by a distinct lack of laissez faire in the first place, comrade.