"...Sandy Berger the former Clinton Administration National Security Advisor, said he made a "mistake" and was just "sloppy" when an FBI investigation revealed that he had stolen Top Secret memos and documents from the National Archives relating to the events surrounding al-Qaida attacks on America during the 1990s and in the year 2000. Archive security notified the FBI when they discovered documents missing, and saw Berger stuffing papers into his pants, socks, and a leather briefcase.
Upon investigation, Berger admitted that he had "made a mistake," and took them. Unfortunately, Berger says he "lost" some of the documents, but that he returned some of them after his the FBI searched his home. Amazingly, he even returned some documents that the Archive hadn't yet noted were missing! He apologized and said he had just been "sloppy...."
"What starts out as a special and intimate place to share things grows into a big, impersonal, and professional platform" s/b "What PEOPLE IGNORANTLY BELIEVE IS a special and intimate place to share things IS FINALLY RECOGNIZED AS a big, impersonal, and professional platform"
The fact is that NOTHING else in our society is determined by 'self-identification' because it's impossible to prove and easy to game. I'm a white male but self-identify as a black woman, does that mean my business can get sweet minority-owned tax credits? I self identify as a handicapped person, can I use the great parking spaces that are almost always empty?
If you assert that all a man has to do to hang out in women's locker rooms is declare "I think I'm a woman", well, how naive or disingenuous do you have to be to not recognize that thousands of pervs will do exactly that? Half the population is female. You're willing to disregard their comfort and peace of mind for the minuscule fraction of the population whose gender doesn't match their sex? That's ridiculous.
As it is, your actual plumbing is simple 'proof' of your sex. Nobody's arguing that someone who's gone through gender-switching should have to go to their original sex's bathroom, either.
You might argue that "oh noes, the button was too close to the send button, and I accidentally clicked it", however....
It didn't cost you the job because you mic-dropped the target, but it may have cost you the job because you demonstrated a disregard for/sloppiness with details. (In exactly the same way even trivial misspellings in resumes or cover letters can cost you a job: not because they don't think you can spell, but because you didn't care enough to double check something important thoroughly.) It may seem trivial, but when I get 00's of resumes for a position, honestly the first cull is going to be the obvious misfits and barring really eye-grabbing qualifications, trivialities such as misspellings (or mic-drop emails) for that very reason.
So did the mic drop actually cost you the job, or reveal that they really probably shouldn't have hired you?
It's not the point of a business to "care for" those who cannot contribute.
Businesses are (theoretically) about efficiency; they will seek the most efficient solution to the problem.
If some socialists are successfully able to sell the bread & circuses idea that the government should mandate they be paid more (despite their complete replaceability) don't expect business to put on their sympathy hat and decide "oh well".
If a person costs $15/hour ($30k/year, plus unpredictable sick days, plus harassment lawsuits, plus workman's comp, plus training) and a machine costs $25k/year (including installation, service, parts), that person is OUT OF A JOB.
Sad that you can only find shitty low-paying jobs? Start your own business, then you can pay yourself and your employees whatever you want - sorry, whatever you think is FAIR. "The world still needs ditch diggers" is even becoming obsolescent.
So we started a special lane, where people would be thoroughly examined, so they could go through screening faster. Anticipating efficiencies, fire 10% of the screeners. Resulting in extra congestion. To relieve the congestion, put random *UNSCREENED* people in the pre-check lane.
Seriously, Joseph Heller couldn't have written it better.
Even more curious (to me) are the different responses: - Arctic ice is shrinking: CLEARLY THIS IS GLOBAL WARMING. - Antarctic ice is growing: (shrug) we really don't have any idea why this is happening I guess we'll just have to figure it out (shrug, again)
Typical engineer. Should have spent at least some of that college time in Liberal Arts classes, then you'd know that "Manifold" can mean 'many or multiple' as well.
1) let's first note first that Adam Smith's observations on 'the evident justice and utility' of inheritance taxes were made in a time when there WAS NO INCOME TAX. Certainly not the confiscatory levels it is today.
2) after he muses about how children might therefore tolerate some tax once they've moved out of their parents' home, he opines: "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people" - hardly a ringing endorsement of the necessity of impoverishing children of their parents' accumulated wealth
Inheritance Tax is taxing money that has already been taxed when it was earned. The provision parents worked to make for their children, paying tax as they did so, is now taxed again, removing part of their incentive to create wealth in the process. For many recipients, the bequest comes as a lump sum when they are already established and probably own their home. It is thus available for investment or to start a business. Taxing it greatly reduces these possibilities. The capital pools built up by a family business such as a shop, for example, can be dissipated on death by Inheritance Tax, with a consequent economic loss to society, a loss that impacts employees and customers.
I was listening to a conversation about the Twin Cities LRT (now TWO whole lines!), and how it wouldn't have been possible without substantial initial funding from the federal government.
That's about $300 mill of the initial $700 mill project, and half of the second-stage $1 bill project.
The "federal money" isn't just created from nothing - it comes from taxpayers across the country. Essentially, everyone in the country paid $1 for MSP to have a train, and then about $1.50 to expand it.
Why in the hell should someone in Arizona or someone in Maine, or someone in Hawaii help pay for MN's little train line?
"But that last one will make so much money that the owner becomes wealthy" For which they (or their descendants) need to be thoroughly punished by taxation into the ground, because "income inequality".
Signed, Thomas Piketty (and his friends) "the 99%"
I don't get the point of glossy screens, ever. Not on phones, not on monitors, not on tv's. I was looking at HP laptops the other day and it's like they're going for hypergloss - this finish that makes every single dark part of the screen work like a mirror and reflects nearly perfectly every single ambient light around/behind you in your viewing cone.
Who - ever - wants a glossy screen on any such device?
I agree that it's in the interest of authorities to make it as easy as possible for these guys to communicate with family, both for eventual rehabilitation, but also for law-enforcement intel gathering.
"really ought to not exploit prisoners who don't have any choices" Well, their first choice was not to commit a crime and go to prison, don't you think?
Imo, it's a pendulum swung. First they didn't take it seriously as a threat, so the deals were easy. Now they see them as competition, and they're being dicks about licenses. Finally (when they realize the internet has long since eaten their lunch), they will come back begging for a distribution channel...
"We were supposed to get our toys cheaply"...says the person writing this on what, a free smartphone or a $200 laptop? Sitting in a $9 folding chair? Wearing a $10 shirt?
If you're writing it on a $800 ipad, that's your own stupidity - the 'cost' of that article has nothing to do with globalization, that's just iGreed.
Funny, I thought the whole smartwatch concept was always a ridiculously overpriced gadget in which the practicalities of legibility, usability, and value were entirely overshadowed by the opportunity to flaunt another piece of ridiculous technological e-peen. Or would that be iPeen?
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You mean like when Sandy Berger was stuffing "secret" Clinton docs down his pants to smuggle them out of the National Archive? THAT kind of secret?
http://www.spectacle.org/0804/...
"...Sandy Berger the former Clinton Administration National Security Advisor, said he made a "mistake" and was just "sloppy" when an FBI investigation revealed that he had stolen Top Secret memos and documents from the National Archives relating to the events surrounding al-Qaida attacks on America during the 1990s and in the year 2000. Archive security notified the FBI when they discovered documents missing, and saw Berger stuffing papers into his pants, socks, and a leather briefcase.
Upon investigation, Berger admitted that he had "made a mistake," and took them. Unfortunately, Berger says he "lost" some of the documents, but that he returned some of them after his the FBI searched his home. Amazingly, he even returned some documents that the Archive hadn't yet noted were missing! He apologized and said he had just been "sloppy...."
The myth only had currency because it's "supposedly scientifically proven" result was so contrary to what one would guess at a gut level.
That, and it speaks directly to the deep-seated fear men have (since women started concealing estrus) of being cuckolded.
Trying to prevent them certainly hasn't had a marked impact on doing so.
Preventing discrimination is SUPER important...well, unless it's helpful, right?
"What starts out as a special and intimate place to share things grows into a big, impersonal, and professional platform"
s/b
"What PEOPLE IGNORANTLY BELIEVE IS a special and intimate place to share things IS FINALLY RECOGNIZED AS a big, impersonal, and professional platform"
Thanks for the correction.
"...If it sells every car that's been reserved..."
I'm going to call it here, that less than 100,000 - maybe even less than 50k - actually turn into real orders.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=upskirt+w...
1.4 million results
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=women's+l...
534,000 results
Or maybe we should just talk to Erin Andrews?
Yeah, who's living in the dream world?
This is a company that has yet to show a profit from 200+ million regular users.
http://financials.morningstar....
-1, Disingenuous.
The fact is that NOTHING else in our society is determined by 'self-identification' because it's impossible to prove and easy to game. I'm a white male but self-identify as a black woman, does that mean my business can get sweet minority-owned tax credits? I self identify as a handicapped person, can I use the great parking spaces that are almost always empty?
If you assert that all a man has to do to hang out in women's locker rooms is declare "I think I'm a woman", well, how naive or disingenuous do you have to be to not recognize that thousands of pervs will do exactly that? Half the population is female. You're willing to disregard their comfort and peace of mind for the minuscule fraction of the population whose gender doesn't match their sex? That's ridiculous.
As it is, your actual plumbing is simple 'proof' of your sex. Nobody's arguing that someone who's gone through gender-switching should have to go to their original sex's bathroom, either.
You might argue that "oh noes, the button was too close to the send button, and I accidentally clicked it", however....
It didn't cost you the job because you mic-dropped the target, but it may have cost you the job because you demonstrated a disregard for/sloppiness with details. (In exactly the same way even trivial misspellings in resumes or cover letters can cost you a job: not because they don't think you can spell, but because you didn't care enough to double check something important thoroughly.)
It may seem trivial, but when I get 00's of resumes for a position, honestly the first cull is going to be the obvious misfits and barring really eye-grabbing qualifications, trivialities such as misspellings (or mic-drop emails) for that very reason.
So did the mic drop actually cost you the job, or reveal that they really probably shouldn't have hired you?
As I understand, the $1000 deposit is refundable, so we'll see how many of those turn into actual sales.
It's not the point of a business to "care for" those who cannot contribute.
Businesses are (theoretically) about efficiency; they will seek the most efficient solution to the problem.
If some socialists are successfully able to sell the bread & circuses idea that the government should mandate they be paid more (despite their complete replaceability) don't expect business to put on their sympathy hat and decide "oh well".
If a person costs $15/hour ($30k/year, plus unpredictable sick days, plus harassment lawsuits, plus workman's comp, plus training) and a machine costs $25k/year (including installation, service, parts), that person is OUT OF A JOB.
Sad that you can only find shitty low-paying jobs? Start your own business, then you can pay yourself and your employees whatever you want - sorry, whatever you think is FAIR.
"The world still needs ditch diggers" is even becoming obsolescent.
So we started a special lane, where people would be thoroughly examined, so they could go through screening faster.
Anticipating efficiencies, fire 10% of the screeners.
Resulting in extra congestion.
To relieve the congestion, put random *UNSCREENED* people in the pre-check lane.
Seriously, Joseph Heller couldn't have written it better.
...Antarctic ice has been setting maximums.
Even more curious (to me) are the different responses:
- Arctic ice is shrinking: CLEARLY THIS IS GLOBAL WARMING.
- Antarctic ice is growing: (shrug) we really don't have any idea why this is happening I guess we'll just have to figure it out (shrug, again)
http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...
When the "record" is only 35 years, 'record setting' really isn't that big a deal.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
The opening of the Northeastern passage? A herald of climatological disaster? Well, not so much:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Typical engineer. Should have spent at least some of that college time in Liberal Arts classes, then you'd know that "Manifold" can mean 'many or multiple' as well.
It's short for many-fold, ie multiple.
Wealth isn't a right - so you agree that we shouldn't GIVE money to poor people? They have no entitlement to such?
But basically I'd agree with you - nobody is entitled to wealth. People should be, as a fundamental human right, entitled to keep what they make.
1) let's first note first that Adam Smith's observations on 'the evident justice and utility' of inheritance taxes were made in a time when there WAS NO INCOME TAX. Certainly not the confiscatory levels it is today.
2) after he muses about how children might therefore tolerate some tax once they've moved out of their parents' home, he opines: "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people" - hardly a ringing endorsement of the necessity of impoverishing children of their parents' accumulated wealth
Finally, From the Adam Smith Institute itself:
3) http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/...
I was listening to a conversation about the Twin Cities LRT (now TWO whole lines!), and how it wouldn't have been possible without substantial initial funding from the federal government.
That's about $300 mill of the initial $700 mill project, and half of the second-stage $1 bill project.
The "federal money" isn't just created from nothing - it comes from taxpayers across the country. Essentially, everyone in the country paid $1 for MSP to have a train, and then about $1.50 to expand it.
Why in the hell should someone in Arizona or someone in Maine, or someone in Hawaii help pay for MN's little train line?
"But that last one will make so much money that the owner becomes wealthy"
For which they (or their descendants) need to be thoroughly punished by taxation into the ground, because "income inequality".
Signed,
Thomas Piketty
(and his friends)
"the 99%"
I don't get the point of glossy screens, ever.
Not on phones, not on monitors, not on tv's.
I was looking at HP laptops the other day and it's like they're going for hypergloss - this finish that makes every single dark part of the screen work like a mirror and reflects nearly perfectly every single ambient light around/behind you in your viewing cone.
Who - ever - wants a glossy screen on any such device?
I agree that it's in the interest of authorities to make it as easy as possible for these guys to communicate with family, both for eventual rehabilitation, but also for law-enforcement intel gathering.
"really ought to not exploit prisoners who don't have any choices"
Well, their first choice was not to commit a crime and go to prison, don't you think?
Imo, it's a pendulum swung.
First they didn't take it seriously as a threat, so the deals were easy.
Now they see them as competition, and they're being dicks about licenses.
Finally (when they realize the internet has long since eaten their lunch), they will come back begging for a distribution channel...
Nik isn't a photo editing suite, it is a suite of Photoshop filters (pro quality) that let you add effects to photos.
Without Photoshop, they're useless.
"We were supposed to get our toys cheaply"...says the person writing this on what, a free smartphone or a $200 laptop? Sitting in a $9 folding chair? Wearing a $10 shirt?
If you're writing it on a $800 ipad, that's your own stupidity - the 'cost' of that article has nothing to do with globalization, that's just iGreed.
Funny, I thought the whole smartwatch concept was always a ridiculously overpriced gadget in which the practicalities of legibility, usability, and value were entirely overshadowed by the opportunity to flaunt another piece of ridiculous technological e-peen. Or would that be iPeen?