Something is wrong with the way Americans train police. I don't think they know this, but American police are the butt of jokes around the world. They're not real cops.
Most of them are former security guards and prison guards who think their guns are toys, like this acquitted Philip Mitchell Brailsford piece of shit who forced a guy begging for his life to play "Simon Says", pumped five rounds into him, and then typically claimed self defense like an American policeman will always do.
Cops with prior military training don't act like this at all. Maybe you would be better served by unloading your current "police force" and starting anew with recruits who have been trained to respect weapons and understand that they serve the public, not the other way around.
This behavior is required by law. A long time ago the Supreme Court altered corporate behavior forever with a ruling that corporations have a duty to their stockholders only, and aside from taxes, absolutely no responsibility to the community at large. They also recently decided that politicians have a duty to represent their supporters, not their constituents. Then they established that a corporate person has a Constitutional right to free speech, with a decision that redefined political bribery out of existence- at this point corruption can't be prosecuted unless someone can find a legal document where both parties agree to a quid pro quo.
This is what happens when you use a few narrow issues like abortion and guns as litmus tests for judgeships. Since judges have lifetime appointments, Trump has wisely chosen to nominate Hitler Youth who apparently haven't even seen a single episode of Law and Order, and he is rapidly filling all the seats that Congress left empty during the Obama administration.
It will turn out to be a Ponzi scheme, even though it didn't start out as one. Unlike traditional securities trading, with cybercurrency there is a complete lack of regulation that might prevent market manipulation by a small number of holders. And 40% of the market is controlled by a handful of shady characters. This won't end pretty.
John McAfee's Twitter account has some funny stuff in it about tulips:
He explains why the Dutch tulip mania happened:
Tulips are perishable and must be repurchased, over and over, to maintain a presence. Obviously, inflated prices cannot be sustained. Bitcoin is not perishable, and needs to purchased only once. There can be no comparison.
In other words, if only the tulips were made of plastic, this never would have happened.
He also has negative things to say about gold:
Gold is laughable compared to cryptocurrencies. How do you rationalize gold? How do you ship it? It's physical so how do you safely store it. It was good for people 3,000 years ago. Today it is inherently worthless. Soon it will drop in value as crypto currencies climb.
"Gold? Bah, I have something more valuable, bwahaha!" I have to wonder at this point whether he's managed to talk his wife into a stainless steel wedding ring. He's talking about the relative price of gold vs. Bitcoin as if the gold is going to be responsible for the fluctuation, and not the Bitcoin with its crazy, unstable valuation relative to the rest of the economy. But of course it can't be a bubble:
Bitcoin now at $16,600.00. Those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble simply have not understood the new mathematics of the Blockchain, or you did not cared enough to try. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm.
Keep in mind, he is sitting on a lot of them:
I like stuff. Most of the stuff I REALLY like I can only buy with Bitcoins. I prefer stuff over money. I can't eat, smoke, wear or fuck a Bitcoin. I got 'em, but I spend 'em.
I don't blame him. If I had his Bitcoin portfolio I'd be filling my cart at overstock.com right now and tweeting crap like this.
There are a number of indications that Bitcoin has organically evolved into a Ponzi scheme, even if it wasn't engineered to be one.
No intrinsic value: An ounce of gold is a viable commodity, and there is significant demand for it just for industrial applications, despite what McAfee says. In fact the financial industry's fondness for gold presents a hindrance to the technology industry. With Bitcoin, what is the fundamental value? "Here is a large integer and someone had to burn X kilowatt-hours to find it. And it is a member of a set of numbers that have carefully engineered scarcity." Not exactly something that makes you instinctively reach for your wallet full of fiat money.
Fragile perceived value: No matter how sound the mathematics behind cryptocurrencies are, they are not well understood by investors- and even an understanding the math of the "new paradigm" doesn't necessarily translate into appreciation of the currency's value within the "old paradigm" in which all the rest of the economy still operates. It has the same flaw as fiat money- its paradigm is irrelevant unless everyone agrees to accede to it. Furthermore, everyone knows that everyone else understands what "LEGAL TENDER" means. The math behind cryptocurrency is somewhat too esoteric for people. Most of us will not behave like rational actors who were taught number theory and blockchain algorithms in grade school. Everyone knows they don't understand the esoteric math, that most other holders don't either, and that everyone else is thinking: "This stuff might just be Monopoly money after all." When the price drops, market participants will not employ any significant algorithmic complexity in their decision making. They're going to panic. Blockchain mathematics will have a showdown with human psychology and will lose.
It's useless as a currency. It quadrupled in value over three months. Then just during the past week it plunged 25% then shot back up. For something that is passed off as "money", the price fluctuates so violently that it can't be used as a form of cash- it's only suitable for inve
I typed in my last name and found that both my parents submitted the exact same text:
Before leaving office, the Obama Administration rammed through a massive scheme that gave the federal government broad regulatory control over the internet. That misguided policy decision is threatening innovation and hurting broadband investment in one of the largest and most important sectors of the U.S. economy. I support the Federal Communications Commission's decision to roll back Title II and allow for free market principles to guide our digital economy.
This is highly suspicious because these two don't agree on ANYTHING.
I used to prank the neighbors by using "methlab" as the SSID. When I moved to Utah I changed it to "pornstudio". (There are too many meth labs around here.)
Has anyone done a study on how well left handed people play chess?
Let's make a new rule. If you're left handed, your starting position has the king and queen on swapped squares. Then we can see if lefties have a natural advantage there too.
When the Citizens United decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, this was written by Justice Kennedy in the majority opinion:
"With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters."
And now these same corporations have been given the freedom to control what you can see on the Internet.
The agency that's supposed to be in charge of securing voting machines is the Election Assistance Commission, which operates on a $10 million annual budget. A House committee voted along party lines for HR 634, the Election Assistance Commission Termination Act, which will completely shut it down by 2018.
The argument is that "this is a matter best left to the states". According to Rep. Tom Graves from Georgia, "People supporting the EAC are quite frankly proponents for a greater federal role in our elections. States themselves, they're responsible for all the elections. We do not have a federally run election system." Rep. Gregg Harper from Mississippi argued the program has "outlived its usefulness", and that closing it down would save money and cut down the size and scope of government, saying "It is time for the EAC to be officially ended. We don't need fluff".
I used to work at a drug manufacturer that did stability testing required by the FDA.
From each lot that's manufactured, they put some of the tablets in a bottle and leave the bottle in a large closet with controlled humidity and temperature. Then every couple months someone goes in, gets the bottle, and performs an assay on a bunch of tablets. This keeps going on schedule until the expiration date, when they stop doing the testing and throw the bottle out. In general that's all that an expiration date is- nobody's doing stability tests on that lot of tablets anymore.
Slashdot stopped being a tech website once it got taken over by this mob of gamer Pepe heads who think we should have a fox help set up a henhouse security system.
I didn't know that wanting to keep my personal freedom was shitty behavior.
You sound like one of those guys who sets up a gun range in front of their neighbors' backyard fence and whines about personal freedoms if they complain.
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Correct. Because civilians wouldn't get bombed by Americans if ISIS weren't the murderous assholes that they are.
ISIS forced you idiots to firebomb a hospital?
Something is wrong with the way Americans train police. I don't think they know this, but American police are the butt of jokes around the world. They're not real cops.
Most of them are former security guards and prison guards who think their guns are toys, like this acquitted Philip Mitchell Brailsford piece of shit who forced a guy begging for his life to play "Simon Says", pumped five rounds into him, and then typically claimed self defense like an American policeman will always do.
Cops with prior military training don't act like this at all. Maybe you would be better served by unloading your current "police force" and starting anew with recruits who have been trained to respect weapons and understand that they serve the public, not the other way around.
I wrote a bot that congratulates other bots for replying within 100 milliseconds to a Trump tweet.
It got banned after three posts.
This behavior is required by law. A long time ago the Supreme Court altered corporate behavior forever with a ruling that corporations have a duty to their stockholders only, and aside from taxes, absolutely no responsibility to the community at large. They also recently decided that politicians have a duty to represent their supporters, not their constituents. Then they established that a corporate person has a Constitutional right to free speech, with a decision that redefined political bribery out of existence- at this point corruption can't be prosecuted unless someone can find a legal document where both parties agree to a quid pro quo.
This is what happens when you use a few narrow issues like abortion and guns as litmus tests for judgeships. Since judges have lifetime appointments, Trump has wisely chosen to nominate Hitler Youth who apparently haven't even seen a single episode of Law and Order, and he is rapidly filling all the seats that Congress left empty during the Obama administration.
It will turn out to be a Ponzi scheme, even though it didn't start out as one. Unlike traditional securities trading, with cybercurrency there is a complete lack of regulation that might prevent market manipulation by a small number of holders. And 40% of the market is controlled by a handful of shady characters. This won't end pretty.
Tulips are perishable and must be repurchased, over and over, to maintain a presence. Obviously, inflated prices cannot be sustained. Bitcoin is not perishable, and needs to purchased only once. There can be no comparison.
In other words, if only the tulips were made of plastic, this never would have happened.
He also has negative things to say about gold:
Gold is laughable compared to cryptocurrencies. How do you rationalize gold? How do you ship it? It's physical so how do you safely store it. It was good for people 3,000 years ago. Today it is inherently worthless. Soon it will drop in value as crypto currencies climb.
"Gold? Bah, I have something more valuable, bwahaha!" I have to wonder at this point whether he's managed to talk his wife into a stainless steel wedding ring. He's talking about the relative price of gold vs. Bitcoin as if the gold is going to be responsible for the fluctuation, and not the Bitcoin with its crazy, unstable valuation relative to the rest of the economy. But of course it can't be a bubble:
Bitcoin now at $16,600.00. Those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble simply have not understood the new mathematics of the Blockchain, or you did not cared enough to try. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm.
Keep in mind, he is sitting on a lot of them:
I like stuff. Most of the stuff I REALLY like I can only buy with Bitcoins. I prefer stuff over money. I can't eat, smoke, wear or fuck a Bitcoin. I got 'em, but I spend 'em.
I don't blame him. If I had his Bitcoin portfolio I'd be filling my cart at overstock.com right now and tweeting crap like this.
There are a number of indications that Bitcoin has organically evolved into a Ponzi scheme, even if it wasn't engineered to be one.
Frankly these idiots currently in power are making Sharia Law or Any-Other-Type-of-Law sound better and better every week.
Before leaving office, the Obama Administration rammed through a massive scheme that gave the federal government broad regulatory control over the internet. That misguided policy decision is threatening innovation and hurting broadband investment in one of the largest and most important sectors of the U.S. economy. I support the Federal Communications Commission's decision to roll back Title II and allow for free market principles to guide our digital economy.
This is highly suspicious because these two don't agree on ANYTHING.
The federal agency responsible for enforcing these laws is the CFPB, which is getting shut down.
I used to prank the neighbors by using "methlab" as the SSID. When I moved to Utah I changed it to "pornstudio". (There are too many meth labs around here.)
Oh come on! That would take forever!
Has anyone done a study on how well left handed people play chess?
Let's make a new rule. If you're left handed, your starting position has the king and queen on swapped squares. Then we can see if lefties have a natural advantage there too.
...and everyone else should pay for them.
That way, www.leftyslefthanded.com will be able to hire new workers and create jobs that are filled both by left-handed and right-handed people!
Is that a crime? Anyone know?
Thanks for explaining it. It seems some people are really dense. Any political party opposed to this will disappear from the Internet.
But think of all the new high paying jobs this will create for people who throttle websites!
(At least until all their jobs are replaced by a block of code that will take someone five minutes to write.)
"With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters."
And now these same corporations have been given the freedom to control what you can see on the Internet.
Oops!
What "next democratic administration"?
Websites run by critics of the current administration will simply fail to load. From now on the Republican Party is the only party.
The agency that's supposed to be in charge of securing voting machines is the Election Assistance Commission, which operates on a $10 million annual budget. A House committee voted along party lines for HR 634, the Election Assistance Commission Termination Act, which will completely shut it down by 2018.
The argument is that "this is a matter best left to the states". According to Rep. Tom Graves from Georgia, "People supporting the EAC are quite frankly proponents for a greater federal role in our elections. States themselves, they're responsible for all the elections. We do not have a federally run election system." Rep. Gregg Harper from Mississippi argued the program has "outlived its usefulness", and that closing it down would save money and cut down the size and scope of government, saying "It is time for the EAC to be officially ended. We don't need fluff".
I used to work at a drug manufacturer that did stability testing required by the FDA.
From each lot that's manufactured, they put some of the tablets in a bottle and leave the bottle in a large closet with controlled humidity and temperature. Then every couple months someone goes in, gets the bottle, and performs an assay on a bunch of tablets. This keeps going on schedule until the expiration date, when they stop doing the testing and throw the bottle out. In general that's all that an expiration date is- nobody's doing stability tests on that lot of tablets anymore.
Jeffrey Dahmer is already in charge of overhauling Michelle Obama's school lunch program.
Slashdot stopped being a tech website once it got taken over by this mob of gamer Pepe heads who think we should have a fox help set up a henhouse security system.
In certain respects the interests of Russia and the U.S. as world super-powers are aligned, and cyber-security is one of those areas.
Um, no it isn't.
I didn't know that wanting to keep my personal freedom was shitty behavior.
You sound like one of those guys who sets up a gun range in front of their neighbors' backyard fence and whines about personal freedoms if they complain.
Your a freeloader, you use services other people's taxes pay for.
My tax dollars were used to pave the street where you live, which I never even drive on because I have no interest in meeting you. It's not fair!