Everything that we're talking about here refers to, basically, buildings. Buildings run by the state government, buildings run by local governments, and buildings run by private businesses.
According to this article, which was linked by a poster below, that's not true. The governor's executive order, among other things:
Reaffirms the provision in the new law that gives businesses and local governments the right to establish non-discriminatory policies for their own employees.
That sort of thing is usually considered a bad thing when it comes to rights, since "right to establish your own non-discriminatory policy" generally just means "right to discriminate." Much as "right to teach your own version of science" really just means "right to teach something that isn't science and call it science." But it does seem as though local jurisdictions will be able to pass greater protections if they feel like it. (not about bathrooms though)
Submitter says cuckoldry is "rare" and "Larmuseau came up with a cuckoldry rate of less than 1 percent," with a link, but if you actually on the link it says 1-2% (from the abstract).
::sigh:: I can answer my own question here. In the "results" section it gives, "rate of 0.91% (95% CI: 0.41–1.75%)." Note to submitter: this does not mean less than 1%. This means 1-2%, as given in the abstract. This is part of why abstracts exist - to give results in an unambiguous manner, so that they're not misinterpreted. Maybe it's not a big deal here, but it can be sometimes.
After reading just the title I was prepared to be floored by an announcement that Microsoft had cut executive pay by a huge amount and given raises to everyone else in the company. Instead it's just another gender story, of how many? Great.
I mean, I guess what they're saying is good and all, it sorta sounds good(ish), but it's hardly noteworthy. You can achieve gender/race parity just by offering fixed salaries for given roles and refusing to negotiate. It's a pretty common practice.
This country has a stellar history with segregated public transportation, something like this can only work for good. Yes not everyone can use it, but there are separate equivalent ride-sharing services available for those people.
Never heard of it, I don't hang out on those kind of websites. However, a quick search gives a wikipedia article saying that there were some problems with that dataset and a number of corrections needed to be made. So... yes?
The way it's framed in the article it really just sounds like naivete. Someone told him that it was possible to "create a system where the encryption is as strong as possible, the key is as secure as possible, it’s accessible by the smallest number of people possible for the subset of issues that we agree is important." And he believed that person.
When it's framed that way it doesn't sound unreasonable, he's just listening to the wrong person. I'm sure there's someone there telling him that it isn't possible to do that, but how does he know who to listen to?... I suppose the answer is to make a fuss about it. The more people there are in the tech world who are loudly backing the other guy, the better he'll get the hint.
most "deniers" aren't denying actual change anymore
You missed a pretty important part of that sentence there, deniers have been and continue to deny whatever they can get away with when it comes to climate change. In the face of a lot of publicity from the likes of the people you mention, what they can get away with has changed rapidly in recent years from "It doesn't exist." to "It's not our fault." to "Well so what if it is our fault, it's not such a big deal anyway."
Eventually, eventually, they will run out of excuses and actually make some changes. Very small ones at first, no doubt, coupled with a lot of fan-fare saying "This is surely enough to placate those crazy environmentalist pinheads." I'm too much of a cynic to believe that things will progress beyond that, but that doesn't I'm just going to give up and roll with it.
It ended up exactly nothing like what was intended.
I don't know how you can say this. They wanted to overthrow the aristocracy, they wanted free speech and an end to political prisoners, and they wanted an end to the corruption which was giving all of their money to the wealthiest few (mostly those same aristocrats). They got all of those things. It didn't happen overnight, France had several more revolutions during the 1800s, but they got it eventually and that first revolution, the one you're talking about, is what kicked it off.
You've identified the problem here. CDMA can be made to work with removable cards, but there aren't any providers in the US who choose to do it that way. Unsurprising, since there's nothing forcing them to do it that way, and this makes it more difficult for customers to switch phones or service providers.
That's not exactly apples to apples. They're comparing prepared food from a restaurant to ingredients from a grocery store. There's another point to be made about that, it's not a useless comparison, but it's got very little to do with what I was saying.
The trouble with these canaries is that they disappear. The Reddit canary is now gone and all that this tells us is that they've been served a national security letter. So now what? It briefly inspires some discussion, but it can't do that a second time - it's gone. People will forget soon enough, there's no chance that Reddit's user base will stop using Reddit over this, and... that's it. Reddit can now be served with up to 999 national security letters (that's as specific as companies are allowed to get) with no one the wiser.
I guess I'm just complaining here, the solution is the same as it has always been - we need to get rid of the national security letters - but maybe it's worth keeping in mind that the canaries are, at best, a stop-gap way to address this.
It's not that simple. That's part of it, but it's also predatory food manufacturers - people who are concerned about their health can be squeezed for more money than those who don't care. Take just one example: Frito-Lay makes two types of potato chips which are distinguished from one another only by their calorie-content and target market, baked and fried. The difference in cost to manufacture these is trivial, and the volume for both is high enough that neither could be considered a niche product (with it's associated overhead). Yet on the store shelves, the fried product gets sale after sale while the baked one rarely goes on sale and is subsequently more expensive to the customer.
It's simply a matter of charging more to people who are willing to pay more, but this means that healthy eating is out of the price range of some people.
Ha. Very true. He's also conveniently ignoring the fact that the person he's responding to was obviously talking about certain specific places, rather than global wealth.
All bureaucracy is unnecessary? How do you figure? What is your alternative, the clean efficiency of anarchy? Bureaucracy, like anything, can be done poorly. This does not mean that it isn't serving a purpose.
The only reason it's worth it is because they've made the standard process so unnecessarily painful. Just as the TSA's enhanced patdown was designed to force people into using the then-optional stripscanners, they've come up with yet another way of getting people to "voluntarily" give up more of their privacy in exchange for avoiding some of the pain which the TSA continues to pile on.
We can look forward to the time when you'll be given the option to "voluntarily" give blood, urine, and semen samples in order to skip the two day pre-flight internment procedure. It's needed, of course, in order to check you against all of the many dozens of secret no-fly-except-to-Guantanamo lists. You wouldn't want terrorists! / child pornography! / pedophiles! getting on the plane would you? That might be bad.
Then the prison has no incentive to keep the phone system operational, and the inmates will have less incentive to work.
Okay, this is just bullshit. They don't need extra "incentive" to keep the prison operational, that's their job. And dangling basics in front of prisoners and calling it "incentive to work" is just slavery by a different name. It's fine for prisoners to learn a trade, it helps a great deal with recidivism, but it's not something that you can force on a person.
Not to mention that most of those prison industries aren't about teaching a trade at all, they're mostly just about the slave labor.
Well Big Pharma was involved, they were the target. Some lawyers paid Wakefield to concoct that bullshit in order to support their lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers.
If it really is something that Netflix is doing to keep the telcos from screwing their customers, then yes. I think the implication was of some collusion between Netflix and the telcos here, and that would be a violation of net neutrality.
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They changed the story. The line that I quoted above was in the story when I linked to it, now it's something different.
Everything that we're talking about here refers to, basically, buildings. Buildings run by the state government, buildings run by local governments, and buildings run by private businesses.
Reaffirms the provision in the new law that gives businesses and local governments the right to establish non-discriminatory policies for their own employees.
That sort of thing is usually considered a bad thing when it comes to rights, since "right to establish your own non-discriminatory policy" generally just means "right to discriminate." Much as "right to teach your own version of science" really just means "right to teach something that isn't science and call it science." But it does seem as though local jurisdictions will be able to pass greater protections if they feel like it. (not about bathrooms though)
Submitter says cuckoldry is "rare" and "Larmuseau came up with a cuckoldry rate of less than 1 percent," with a link, but if you actually on the link it says 1-2% (from the abstract).
::sigh:: I can answer my own question here. In the "results" section it gives, "rate of 0.91% (95% CI: 0.41–1.75%)." Note to submitter: this does not mean less than 1%. This means 1-2%, as given in the abstract. This is part of why abstracts exist - to give results in an unambiguous manner, so that they're not misinterpreted. Maybe it's not a big deal here, but it can be sometimes.
After reading just the title I was prepared to be floored by an announcement that Microsoft had cut executive pay by a huge amount and given raises to everyone else in the company. Instead it's just another gender story, of how many? Great.
I mean, I guess what they're saying is good and all, it sorta sounds good(ish), but it's hardly noteworthy. You can achieve gender/race parity just by offering fixed salaries for given roles and refusing to negotiate. It's a pretty common practice.
This country has a stellar history with segregated public transportation, something like this can only work for good. Yes not everyone can use it, but there are separate equivalent ride-sharing services available for those people.
Disney World, and it's not in the park itself. Geez, you've got this all mixed up. Typical Californian, giving bad directions...
It probably is fusion, just not net-positive. In other words, a collider.
Never heard of it, I don't hang out on those kind of websites. However, a quick search gives a wikipedia article saying that there were some problems with that dataset and a number of corrections needed to be made. So... yes?
The way it's framed in the article it really just sounds like naivete. Someone told him that it was possible to "create a system where the encryption is as strong as possible, the key is as secure as possible, it’s accessible by the smallest number of people possible for the subset of issues that we agree is important." And he believed that person.
... I suppose the answer is to make a fuss about it. The more people there are in the tech world who are loudly backing the other guy, the better he'll get the hint.
When it's framed that way it doesn't sound unreasonable, he's just listening to the wrong person. I'm sure there's someone there telling him that it isn't possible to do that, but how does he know who to listen to?
most "deniers" aren't denying actual change anymore
You missed a pretty important part of that sentence there, deniers have been and continue to deny whatever they can get away with when it comes to climate change. In the face of a lot of publicity from the likes of the people you mention, what they can get away with has changed rapidly in recent years from "It doesn't exist." to "It's not our fault." to "Well so what if it is our fault, it's not such a big deal anyway."
Eventually, eventually, they will run out of excuses and actually make some changes. Very small ones at first, no doubt, coupled with a lot of fan-fare saying "This is surely enough to placate those crazy environmentalist pinheads." I'm too much of a cynic to believe that things will progress beyond that, but that doesn't I'm just going to give up and roll with it.
It ended up exactly nothing like what was intended.
I don't know how you can say this. They wanted to overthrow the aristocracy, they wanted free speech and an end to political prisoners, and they wanted an end to the corruption which was giving all of their money to the wealthiest few (mostly those same aristocrats). They got all of those things. It didn't happen overnight, France had several more revolutions during the 1800s, but they got it eventually and that first revolution, the one you're talking about, is what kicked it off.
You've identified the problem here. CDMA can be made to work with removable cards, but there aren't any providers in the US who choose to do it that way. Unsurprising, since there's nothing forcing them to do it that way, and this makes it more difficult for customers to switch phones or service providers.
That's not exactly apples to apples. They're comparing prepared food from a restaurant to ingredients from a grocery store. There's another point to be made about that, it's not a useless comparison, but it's got very little to do with what I was saying.
This is an advertisement for Egypt, right? I've never seen one quite like this before, but I'm sold.
The trouble with these canaries is that they disappear. The Reddit canary is now gone and all that this tells us is that they've been served a national security letter. So now what? It briefly inspires some discussion, but it can't do that a second time - it's gone. People will forget soon enough, there's no chance that Reddit's user base will stop using Reddit over this, and... that's it. Reddit can now be served with up to 999 national security letters (that's as specific as companies are allowed to get) with no one the wiser.
I guess I'm just complaining here, the solution is the same as it has always been - we need to get rid of the national security letters - but maybe it's worth keeping in mind that the canaries are, at best, a stop-gap way to address this.
It's not that simple. That's part of it, but it's also predatory food manufacturers - people who are concerned about their health can be squeezed for more money than those who don't care. Take just one example: Frito-Lay makes two types of potato chips which are distinguished from one another only by their calorie-content and target market, baked and fried. The difference in cost to manufacture these is trivial, and the volume for both is high enough that neither could be considered a niche product (with it's associated overhead). Yet on the store shelves, the fried product gets sale after sale while the baked one rarely goes on sale and is subsequently more expensive to the customer.
It's simply a matter of charging more to people who are willing to pay more, but this means that healthy eating is out of the price range of some people.
Ha. Very true. He's also conveniently ignoring the fact that the person he's responding to was obviously talking about certain specific places, rather than global wealth.
It's not a refutation of anything.
Obviously, they don't. Why would the others want to allow the machine owners to continue owning those machines?
All bureaucracy is unnecessary? How do you figure? What is your alternative, the clean efficiency of anarchy? Bureaucracy, like anything, can be done poorly. This does not mean that it isn't serving a purpose.
The only reason it's worth it is because they've made the standard process so unnecessarily painful. Just as the TSA's enhanced patdown was designed to force people into using the then-optional stripscanners, they've come up with yet another way of getting people to "voluntarily" give up more of their privacy in exchange for avoiding some of the pain which the TSA continues to pile on.
We can look forward to the time when you'll be given the option to "voluntarily" give blood, urine, and semen samples in order to skip the two day pre-flight internment procedure. It's needed, of course, in order to check you against all of the many dozens of secret no-fly-except-to-Guantanamo lists. You wouldn't want terrorists! / child pornography! / pedophiles! getting on the plane would you? That might be bad.
Alas, even the rich can't get Sharper Image ionizing air filters any more... What is the world coming to?
Then the prison has no incentive to keep the phone system operational, and the inmates will have less incentive to work.
Okay, this is just bullshit. They don't need extra "incentive" to keep the prison operational, that's their job. And dangling basics in front of prisoners and calling it "incentive to work" is just slavery by a different name. It's fine for prisoners to learn a trade, it helps a great deal with recidivism, but it's not something that you can force on a person.
Not to mention that most of those prison industries aren't about teaching a trade at all, they're mostly just about the slave labor.
Well Big Pharma was involved, they were the target. Some lawyers paid Wakefield to concoct that bullshit in order to support their lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers.
If it really is something that Netflix is doing to keep the telcos from screwing their customers, then yes. I think the implication was of some collusion between Netflix and the telcos here, and that would be a violation of net neutrality.