Yeah, nothing about how they got to that number? Did they consider that while there was certainly business which didn't happen during the outage, it may have simply been time-shifted to a few hours later?
This appears to be nothing but opportunistic marketing BS from Cyence.
Indeed, this was my immediate thought upon seeing the headline. A temporary loss of $150million that got rectified an hour later when the systems came back online isn't a big deal.
I think there are two different definitions of "fake news" running around. In the original "fake news" story it was about a left-wing activist who wanted to "prove" right wingers were dumb and will fall for stupid shit so he created a news blog with completely made up facts, like that protestors were being paid $3500 to protest against Trump...
...Then we have the way the mainstream media does fake news, which is fake context...
The facts are in the article. Nothing factually incorrect is being stated. If you think a news site is highlighting certain stories or over hyping stories that to you are non-entities that would represent a "biased" news source, not "fake news". Using the term "Fake News" to refer to an item you think is biased against your world-view is disingenuous at best and a down right lie at worst.
There is plenty of biased news articles out there on both sides of the political spectrum. Let's call them what they are though. Biased, not fake.
Now in this case, as a moderate centrist myself, I do think what Pence is wrong. I think it makes him a hypocrite to boot. Am I fuming and jumping up and down demanding his resignation. No. I personally think he's a lousy pick for an executive of the country, but this latest story doesn't sound like a huge deal to me. I think it's important to be brought up as news, it's certainly not biased to mention it. The bias will be if this is still headlining a week from now- that will be making a mountain out of a molehill. I'd be very surprised if the media hasn't moved on to the next scandal by then.
Bitcoin has a value obviously, because some people will buy it. That value is highly arbitrary and subject to rapid changes. It, just like anything else, has value assigned to it based on what society chooses to place in it. Unlike other assets, that value is subject to much more rapid change.
As an investment opportunity, I think many, including myself, would give it the cold shoulder. It seems to be frequently stolen from online vaults (with no protection to consumer), and it's future is highly unknown. Gold and money have long established precedent lasting many generations. Bitcoin is still new, and has no protections.
While that's a great definition of how much money it's worth, that's not a fair assessment of how much it's actually worth. You can't plate electrical connectors or graven images with bitcoin.
No, but you can use it to buy gold to do that. You can't eat gold, but you can exchange it for food.
Remember, this is a world where the laws of physics have changed (yeah, it is ridiculous but he bought it up) so there is no electricity.
Gold would not be useful for any of your applications (especially being an excellent conductor) in that parallel universe.
Even in a world of scarcity there will be haves and have-nots. Gold will be valuable because a precious few will see it as jewelry, even as the rest of us fight for scraps.
Gold is easily identified, very hard to fake, durable and scarce, it is an ideal currency for simplistic economies. Certainly, in the collapse of civilization, gold won't have a "use" OTHER THAN as a currency. It may widely fluctuate in value, especially at first, depending on how many scraps there are for the hoi polloi to eat and how much they're willing to exchange for a meal, but eventually, once all the paper money is deteriorated and gone, gold would live on.
I think what he might have been implying is that, it takes very little weight of gold to transfer a large amount of purchasing power. A pound of gold will go a long way.
Fake News would imply the content was incorrect, invented or misleading.
This is not fake news, it happened. There is proof it happened. Just like most of Donald's "fake news" it's not that it's fake, its that he doesn't like it being made public.
Now, what Pence did is NOT illegal. You're not going to see an investigation into it because he hasn't done anything illegal. That doesn't mean it isn't a highly questionable thing to do. It also doesn't wash away the hypocrisy of being part of a ticket whose main selling point was that the main rival was unfit to rule for doing the exact same thing.
Absolutely not illegal what Pence did- but it's not fake news because it was a foolish choice he made and that partially reflects on his fitness to govern, just like it did, as his ticket pointed out, on Hillary's.
Little known fact, most people don't get extradited unless they are believed to have committed a crime. They don't just take random people off the street and ship them to the US to be placed in Guantanamo Bay.
. Within four days, the women revolted against themselves, demanding that the men resume looking at them, noticing them, admiring them, complimenting them, and chatting them up. Actually, in the end, it made for a lot of sexual tension being released in the final weekend.
There's a HUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEE difference between complimenting women, chatting them up, etc and Cat-calling and Hollering.
HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference. The fact that so many people replied saying "women miss it when men stop complimenting them" shows exactly what the problem is. Women like to be noticed and appreciated- they don't like to be Hollered at (for the most part). They like respectful "hitting on them" rather than "hey meat come here and do me" type approaches.
I wondered why my searches for "Proof Tiananmen Square massacre is a hoax" and "Why the communist party knows what is best for me better than I do" went unanswered for 20 minutes.
Women then complain that men don't make the first move anymore.
I don't think women EVER wanted to be cat called and hollered at- and they still don't. Yes, you probably have to use more caution and common sense when asking someone out now-a-days, but this article has absolutely nothing to do with that. She wasn't complaining about being asked out.
I've hear lots of complaints about sexism in the work place, but never actually seen any in person, (besides reverse sexism). Naturally, as a man, I probably would see a lot less of it and most of my coworkers currently are women, so it would probably be very difficult for sexism to fly in this environment.
Cabbage is highly underrated- there needs to be more cabbage in the world!
Changing subsidies from corn to cabbage would be great or even my preferred solution of getting rid of subsidies all together. But it's not going to happen, and if it happens, it'll be under a D-team administration at this rate and get shouted down as politically correct vegan hipster &c &c
Yeah, and it doesn't really need to be just cabbages (cabbages can't take the heat in much of the country during warmer months, that was just an example... vegetables in general).
I understand the idea of subsidizing farming. It's more than just "poor farmers can't make enough money", or "we need more green spaces". What it really comes down to is national defense. A country needs to be able to be self-sufficient with food in case of war disrupting trade. That said, maize is a terrible product to base our diet on.
I've looked for a Raspberry Pi Zero for years... I've never seen one in stock anywhere.
I'm almost of the belief that they're fake, they don't really exist, just a pretend product put out there for the illuminati but never really stocked. Either that or reptilian overlords stole all the Raspberry Pi Zero.
Whatever the explanation- it's an imaginary product. It doesn't actually exist besides on some stores websites with a big red sold-out next to it. If it were real it would occasionally come back in stock.
Oooohh.... and it can send a message back to your phone, so you know when your SO is using it and hearing your message. That should make the weekly staff meeting more interesting when my phone buzzes so I take a peak and see it's the Mrs having fun at home while I'm learning what Stanley O'Noodle worked on for the last 7 days.
I'm not Greek, Orthodox, or Christian, but I agree with you 100%. Our bodies are designed to digest mainly vegetable based food. There's a whole bunch of crappy side-effects from eating too much meat, even if many people have lost weight on higher protein diets.
The main problem is too-much grain though. Not just in our food, but when we eat animals, the grains they consume. Grains contain different composition of fats than leaves or roots of plants and this gets passed up the food chain. There is a major link in the US between maize subsidies and obesity. Farmers grow Maize instead of more expensive veggies for the subsidies. It is used for feed and the result is lots of cheap unhealthy meat. You can almost plot America's weight based on a maize subsidy map.
It's not that grain is completely terrible- it is after all the engine of civilization, most civilizations arose based upon an economy based on cheap plentiful grains, it just needs to be limited. .
People eating too much grains and grain-fed meat = unhealthy people. People eating SOME grains, SOME meat (preferably not grain fed meat), and LOTS of veggies = healthy people.
It's a formula that works all over the world. Even the inuit people who are eating meat are eating "natural" meat, not the grain-fed meats most of the west is eating.
Simple solution to obesity: Stop subsidizing maize, and start subsidizing cabbages more. That's a topic for another day though. I'll wait for Trump and the senate to be listening.
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Yeah, nothing about how they got to that number? Did they consider that while there was certainly business which didn't happen during the outage, it may have simply been time-shifted to a few hours later?
This appears to be nothing but opportunistic marketing BS from Cyence.
Indeed, this was my immediate thought upon seeing the headline. A temporary loss of $150million that got rectified an hour later when the systems came back online isn't a big deal.
I think there are two different definitions of "fake news" running around. In the original "fake news" story it was about a left-wing activist who wanted to "prove" right wingers were dumb and will fall for stupid shit so he created a news blog with completely made up facts, like that protestors were being paid $3500 to protest against Trump...
...Then we have the way the mainstream media does fake news, which is fake context...
The facts are in the article. Nothing factually incorrect is being stated. If you think a news site is highlighting certain stories or over hyping stories that to you are non-entities that would represent a "biased" news source, not "fake news". Using the term "Fake News" to refer to an item you think is biased against your world-view is disingenuous at best and a down right lie at worst.
There is plenty of biased news articles out there on both sides of the political spectrum. Let's call them what they are though. Biased, not fake.
Now in this case, as a moderate centrist myself, I do think what Pence is wrong. I think it makes him a hypocrite to boot. Am I fuming and jumping up and down demanding his resignation. No. I personally think he's a lousy pick for an executive of the country, but this latest story doesn't sound like a huge deal to me. I think it's important to be brought up as news, it's certainly not biased to mention it. The bias will be if this is still headlining a week from now- that will be making a mountain out of a molehill. I'd be very surprised if the media hasn't moved on to the next scandal by then.
Bitcoin has a value obviously, because some people will buy it. That value is highly arbitrary and subject to rapid changes. It, just like anything else, has value assigned to it based on what society chooses to place in it. Unlike other assets, that value is subject to much more rapid change.
As an investment opportunity, I think many, including myself, would give it the cold shoulder. It seems to be frequently stolen from online vaults (with no protection to consumer), and it's future is highly unknown. Gold and money have long established precedent lasting many generations. Bitcoin is still new, and has no protections.
While that's a great definition of how much money it's worth, that's not a fair assessment of how much it's actually worth. You can't plate electrical connectors or graven images with bitcoin.
No, but you can use it to buy gold to do that. You can't eat gold, but you can exchange it for food.
Remember, this is a world where the laws of physics have changed (yeah, it is ridiculous but he bought it up) so there is no electricity.
Gold would not be useful for any of your applications (especially being an excellent conductor) in that parallel universe.
Even in a world of scarcity there will be haves and have-nots. Gold will be valuable because a precious few will see it as jewelry, even as the rest of us fight for scraps.
Gold is easily identified, very hard to fake, durable and scarce, it is an ideal currency for simplistic economies. Certainly, in the collapse of civilization, gold won't have a "use" OTHER THAN as a currency. It may widely fluctuate in value, especially at first, depending on how many scraps there are for the hoi polloi to eat and how much they're willing to exchange for a meal, but eventually, once all the paper money is deteriorated and gone, gold would live on.
I think what he might have been implying is that, it takes very little weight of gold to transfer a large amount of purchasing power. A pound of gold will go a long way.
Fake News would imply the content was incorrect, invented or misleading.
This is not fake news, it happened. There is proof it happened. Just like most of Donald's "fake news" it's not that it's fake, its that he doesn't like it being made public.
Now, what Pence did is NOT illegal. You're not going to see an investigation into it because he hasn't done anything illegal. That doesn't mean it isn't a highly questionable thing to do. It also doesn't wash away the hypocrisy of being part of a ticket whose main selling point was that the main rival was unfit to rule for doing the exact same thing.
Absolutely not illegal what Pence did- but it's not fake news because it was a foolish choice he made and that partially reflects on his fitness to govern, just like it did, as his ticket pointed out, on Hillary's.
Little known fact, most people don't get extradited unless they are believed to have committed a crime. They don't just take random people off the street and ship them to the US to be placed in Guantanamo Bay.
I think I'd rather be further North. Hamilton or Auckland look like they more pleasant climates. I'd sign up if this were for Auckland.
. Within four days, the women revolted against themselves, demanding that the men resume looking at them, noticing them, admiring them, complimenting them, and chatting them up. Actually, in the end, it made for a lot of sexual tension being released in the final weekend.
There's a HUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEE difference between complimenting women, chatting them up, etc and Cat-calling and Hollering.
HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference. The fact that so many people replied saying "women miss it when men stop complimenting them" shows exactly what the problem is. Women like to be noticed and appreciated- they don't like to be Hollered at (for the most part). They like respectful "hitting on them" rather than "hey meat come here and do me" type approaches.
Because they hate humanity and want it to suffer.
I wondered why my searches for "Proof Tiananmen Square massacre is a hoax" and "Why the communist party knows what is best for me better than I do" went unanswered for 20 minutes.
A Jay Z CD is the worst way to listen to music.
OK, maybe the quality beats a Jay Z cassette.
Meh. Finally gave in and installed Ad Blocker. Slashdot easily has the most invasive ad structure of any web site I go to.
oh shit.. too late.
No we don't know she's an SJW trying to Kafkatrap Tesla.
No we have no evidence Musk is a rapist. Yes I know he's got a penis, that is not evidence.
How do you know he has a penis?
Sounds like an assumption rather than something you know.
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Women then complain that men don't make the first move anymore.
I don't think women EVER wanted to be cat called and hollered at- and they still don't. Yes, you probably have to use more caution and common sense when asking someone out now-a-days, but this article has absolutely nothing to do with that. She wasn't complaining about being asked out.
I've hear lots of complaints about sexism in the work place, but never actually seen any in person, (besides reverse sexism). Naturally, as a man, I probably would see a lot less of it and most of my coworkers currently are women, so it would probably be very difficult for sexism to fly in this environment.
Awesome, not in a place to buy right now, but shall... hopefully still in stock in 3 hours time.
I do like the idea of more cabbage.
Cabbage is highly underrated- there needs to be more cabbage in the world!
Changing subsidies from corn to cabbage would be great or even my preferred solution of getting rid of subsidies all together. But it's not going to happen, and if it happens, it'll be under a D-team administration at this rate and get shouted down as politically correct vegan hipster &c &c
Yeah, and it doesn't really need to be just cabbages (cabbages can't take the heat in much of the country during warmer months, that was just an example... vegetables in general).
I understand the idea of subsidizing farming. It's more than just "poor farmers can't make enough money", or "we need more green spaces". What it really comes down to is national defense. A country needs to be able to be self-sufficient with food in case of war disrupting trade. That said, maize is a terrible product to base our diet on.
Maybe, I look once every three months or so and when I see everywhere is out of stock, I move on.
I've looked for a Raspberry Pi Zero for years... I've never seen one in stock anywhere.
I'm almost of the belief that they're fake, they don't really exist, just a pretend product put out there for the illuminati but never really stocked. Either that or reptilian overlords stole all the Raspberry Pi Zero.
Whatever the explanation- it's an imaginary product. It doesn't actually exist besides on some stores websites with a big red sold-out next to it. If it were real it would occasionally come back in stock.
Oooohh.... and it can send a message back to your phone, so you know when your SO is using it and hearing your message. That should make the weekly staff meeting more interesting when my phone buzzes so I take a peak and see it's the Mrs having fun at home while I'm learning what Stanley O'Noodle worked on for the last 7 days.
I am inspired!
IoT vibrators. You can record a message for your loved one, and it plays back to them next time they use their vibrator.
I AM A GENIUS!!!!!
And I probably only watch some quick instructional video on YouTube once a quarter- averaging maybe 45mins of YouTube a year.
The average person is somewhere between you and I.
I'm not Greek, Orthodox, or Christian, but I agree with you 100%. Our bodies are designed to digest mainly vegetable based food. There's a whole bunch of crappy side-effects from eating too much meat, even if many people have lost weight on higher protein diets.
The main problem is too-much grain though. Not just in our food, but when we eat animals, the grains they consume. Grains contain different composition of fats than leaves or roots of plants and this gets passed up the food chain. There is a major link in the US between maize subsidies and obesity. Farmers grow Maize instead of more expensive veggies for the subsidies. It is used for feed and the result is lots of cheap unhealthy meat. You can almost plot America's weight based on a maize subsidy map.
It's not that grain is completely terrible- it is after all the engine of civilization, most civilizations arose based upon an economy based on cheap plentiful grains, it just needs to be limited. .
People eating too much grains and grain-fed meat = unhealthy people.
People eating SOME grains, SOME meat (preferably not grain fed meat), and LOTS of veggies = healthy people.
It's a formula that works all over the world. Even the inuit people who are eating meat are eating "natural" meat, not the grain-fed meats most of the west is eating.
Simple solution to obesity: Stop subsidizing maize, and start subsidizing cabbages more. That's a topic for another day though. I'll wait for Trump and the senate to be listening.