1. The US has a modern air defense system. I imagine Chinese drones penetrating US air space would be shot down and should things escalate, a conventional/nuclear war would result. This is why the only nations we send drones to are unable to take any action to stop us. They are not used with impunity. We aren't going to send them to Germany, the UK, Japan, China or any country with a modern army.
2. Our drones are effectively remotely piloted aircraft. Not "killbots". There is some chair jockey in a building in the Nevada desert who pilots the craft and fires the missiles and then goes home to be with his family after his shift is done.
I never said the Federal Government should be weak, but there is a far cry from the Articles of Confederation to a federal government that regulates how many pieces of pepperoni need to be on a pizza before you can call it a pepperoni pizza.
Money seeks out Power, not the other way around.
The reason there is a lot of money in politics is due to the obscene amount of Power our government now wields. When the #1 return on your investment is no longer R&D, training your employees, hiring better employees, but is instead lobbyists (to either reward your company or punish your competitors) there is a sickness. Taking money out of politics will not change this. In fact, it will just mean the money will ooze in around the cracks and crevices of whatever laws we throw up and corrupt the system even further.
Take the power out of the government and the money will disappear on it's own.
Really? At least once a week there is a story like this, chosen to excite the conservatives and to try to make the liberals look bad. Can you show me an article posted in the past several months that does the opposite? No, you cannot.
Me thinks you doth protest too much.
Obama Presses China On Global Warming - Conservatives would argue global warming doesn't exist
South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early - Conservatives know renewables will never work
Fukushima Radiation Still Poisoning Insects - Conservatives know nuclear power is safe
Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds - More climate change claptrap
..and that's without going past the first two pages of headlines.
Exactly! Or maybe someone took some photos or videos that a government doesn't want to get out. Simply kill the phone and you are done with that problem.
The bad scenarios are far more dangerous than not having a kill switch.
Besides, weren't there apps that do this that folks could purchase of their own free will"?
One site I participated in had a great way to deal with trolls. Once your rating became negative enough, you were put on a global/ignore and no one saw your posts except yourself and others with equally negative reputations.
You NEVER EVER NEVER want to search for a patent when implementing something. To do so opens you up to a willful violation of that patent and treble (x3) damages.
They think a centralized kill switch would be a FANTASTIC idea! Just brick the phones for anyone who dares challenge the state.
I can really see how this might be useful in the US. Instead of the IRS investigating tea partiers, we could just selectively brick their phones. Or if you swing the other way, disable those iPhones from all those annoying hispter Occupy protesters. Seriously, you have an iPhone and you complain about the 99%? You are the 1% globally.
I'd rather my car insurance not cover oil changes and tire rotations. I don't mind paying for catastrophic care, which because of my age (over 30) the Affordable Care Act has made illegal.
Please describe in detail your first sexual encounter. That has about as much relevance to my post as anything else. It really doesn't matter what I had as part of a private business transaction.
What matters now is the choices I have due to government force.
The second cheapest plan my family could purchase (on or off the exchange) is a $640 bronze POS plan (yes, it calls itself a POS) that has a nice budget friendly $11,000 family deductible.
Obamacare has been a flat out DISASTER for my family. Of course, it makes sense that we have more coverage. When you have everyone pay for maternity coverage, everyone pay for mental health and substance abuse coverage and give out free well visits and routine exams of course costs are going to go up. It doesn't matter if you want (or need) that coverage.
My family is now paying for coverage we don't want or need and will have to pay out of pocket $11k (in addition to almost $8k in premium) before our "insurance" kicks in. This must be one of those crap plans Obama and the Democrats talk about.
...they all stopped by to give a +1 to this idea. They'd love a way to be able to brick cell phones of protesters and stop videos from getting out into the world.
Can't you just imagine this tool when it comes to mass protests? Especially when things turn violent as they have in plenty of countries over the year. The primary way news is getting out is cell phone cameras and videos.
Wouldn't any freedom loving government just die to have access to a kill switch?
What I look for when hiring someone is someone who likes programming. Who wants to get better at doing it. Who wants to work with other people who like programming and want to get better. Someone who treats their work like a craftsman.
I think a lot of these job ads are so over the top because the folks doing the hiring have no idea what they want in a developer. Somewhere along the way someone wrote a blog post on somewhere site that talked about hiring folks who have a passion for their work.
However at the end of the day, do you want to hire a zookeeper who doesn't like animals? an accountant who hates math? a lawyer who can't stand the courtroom? No you don't. You want to hire someone who goes in does an 8-10 hour day and at the end of it says, "I'm proud of what I've done. I can't wait to do some more of it tomorrow".
I think moderately enthusiastic would be just fine for most position. What I don't want is someone who views the job as a grind or a bore. I will fire you for a bad attitude. Fake enjoying it until you actually do:)
While some believe the good book is 100% accurate and contains no flaws from copying, translating and retelling the stories for countless years and generations, I believe that some error is in there.
If you simply move the creation of birds to after calling for the animals to land, you've pretty much got the evolutionary chain: 1. Sealife 2. Makes its way to land 3. Takes flight 4. Mankind appears
So we mess up the order and all of a sudden fundies can't accept evolution. Right that wrong and it's really not that hard to imagine that evolution is a divine and guided process. Of course, it's not that hard to imagine it isn't:)
Since the government guarantees the loans, the bankers will get the money regardless. Of course it's also good for the government since this debt can never be discharged it will be paid back even if that means taking social security checks when the borrower is retired.
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1. The US has a modern air defense system. I imagine Chinese drones penetrating US air space would be shot down and should things escalate, a conventional/nuclear war would result. This is why the only nations we send drones to are unable to take any action to stop us. They are not used with impunity. We aren't going to send them to Germany, the UK, Japan, China or any country with a modern army. 2. Our drones are effectively remotely piloted aircraft. Not "killbots". There is some chair jockey in a building in the Nevada desert who pilots the craft and fires the missiles and then goes home to be with his family after his shift is done.
I never said the Federal Government should be weak, but there is a far cry from the Articles of Confederation to a federal government that regulates how many pieces of pepperoni need to be on a pizza before you can call it a pepperoni pizza.
Not at all what I am saying. I'm saying if there is no reason to bribe your congresscritter, the incidence of bribing would be drastically reduced.
Money seeks out Power, not the other way around. The reason there is a lot of money in politics is due to the obscene amount of Power our government now wields. When the #1 return on your investment is no longer R&D, training your employees, hiring better employees, but is instead lobbyists (to either reward your company or punish your competitors) there is a sickness. Taking money out of politics will not change this. In fact, it will just mean the money will ooze in around the cracks and crevices of whatever laws we throw up and corrupt the system even further. Take the power out of the government and the money will disappear on it's own.
Really? At least once a week there is a story like this, chosen to excite the conservatives and to try to make the liberals look bad. Can you show me an article posted in the past several months that does the opposite? No, you cannot.
Me thinks you doth protest too much.
One would think so, but they may also just want to activate the wipe to intentionally delete the data on the phone that could exonerate you!
http://justiceforbradcooper.wo...
Exactly! Or maybe someone took some photos or videos that a government doesn't want to get out. Simply kill the phone and you are done with that problem.
The bad scenarios are far more dangerous than not having a kill switch.
Besides, weren't there apps that do this that folks could purchase of their own free will"?
This is a record. Godwin's law before the comments!
http://xkcd.com/261/
One site I participated in had a great way to deal with trolls. Once your rating became negative enough, you were put on a global /ignore and no one saw your posts except yourself and others with equally negative reputations.
Checking out Detroit is definitely on my bucket list. However, I have conveniently put it as the last item just in case it's the last thing I do.
Tesla is trying to be a disruptive force in the auto market, they aren't going to do that by locating in Detroit. Too many "old car" thinkers.
It sounds like the real scammers are the credit card issues that have a system in place to override that has ZERO security in place.
Even then, I don't think I rank anywhere special. Oh well.
You NEVER EVER NEVER want to search for a patent when implementing something. To do so opens you up to a willful violation of that patent and treble (x3) damages.
They think a centralized kill switch would be a FANTASTIC idea! Just brick the phones for anyone who dares challenge the state.
I can really see how this might be useful in the US. Instead of the IRS investigating tea partiers, we could just selectively brick their phones. Or if you swing the other way, disable those iPhones from all those annoying hispter Occupy protesters. Seriously, you have an iPhone and you complain about the 99%? You are the 1% globally.
I'd rather my car insurance not cover oil changes and tire rotations. I don't mind paying for catastrophic care, which because of my age (over 30) the Affordable Care Act has made illegal.
Please describe in detail your first sexual encounter. That has about as much relevance to my post as anything else. It really doesn't matter what I had as part of a private business transaction.
What matters now is the choices I have due to government force.
Aren't you a lucky duck.
The second cheapest plan my family could purchase (on or off the exchange) is a $640 bronze POS plan (yes, it calls itself a POS) that has a nice budget friendly $11,000 family deductible.
Obamacare has been a flat out DISASTER for my family. Of course, it makes sense that we have more coverage. When you have everyone pay for maternity coverage, everyone pay for mental health and substance abuse coverage and give out free well visits and routine exams of course costs are going to go up. It doesn't matter if you want (or need) that coverage.
My family is now paying for coverage we don't want or need and will have to pay out of pocket $11k (in addition to almost $8k in premium) before our "insurance" kicks in. This must be one of those crap plans Obama and the Democrats talk about.
...they all stopped by to give a +1 to this idea. They'd love a way to be able to brick cell phones of protesters and stop videos from getting out into the world.
Can't you just imagine this tool when it comes to mass protests? Especially when things turn violent as they have in plenty of countries over the year. The primary way news is getting out is cell phone cameras and videos.
Wouldn't any freedom loving government just die to have access to a kill switch?
Somewhere out there is an atom without it's own IP address because we haven't fully rolled out IPv6! I demand no atom be left behind.
I know what all the neighborhood hooligans are getting for Christmas! LASER POINTERS!
I also know what I'll be getting for New Years, $10,000!
LOL! Like I'm going to trust the interesting work to someone who posts as much on Slashdot as YOU!
What I look for when hiring someone is someone who likes programming. Who wants to get better at doing it. Who wants to work with other people who like programming and want to get better. Someone who treats their work like a craftsman.
I think a lot of these job ads are so over the top because the folks doing the hiring have no idea what they want in a developer. Somewhere along the way someone wrote a blog post on somewhere site that talked about hiring folks who have a passion for their work.
However at the end of the day, do you want to hire a zookeeper who doesn't like animals? an accountant who hates math? a lawyer who can't stand the courtroom? No you don't. You want to hire someone who goes in does an 8-10 hour day and at the end of it says, "I'm proud of what I've done. I can't wait to do some more of it tomorrow".
I think moderately enthusiastic would be just fine for most position. What I don't want is someone who views the job as a grind or a bore. I will fire you for a bad attitude. Fake enjoying it until you actually do :)
While some believe the good book is 100% accurate and contains no flaws from copying, translating and retelling the stories for countless years and generations, I believe that some error is in there.
If you simply move the creation of birds to after calling for the animals to land, you've pretty much got the evolutionary chain:
1. Sealife
2. Makes its way to land
3. Takes flight
4. Mankind appears
So we mess up the order and all of a sudden fundies can't accept evolution. Right that wrong and it's really not that hard to imagine that evolution is a divine and guided process. Of course, it's not that hard to imagine it isn't :)
Since the government guarantees the loans, the bankers will get the money regardless. Of course it's also good for the government since this debt can never be discharged it will be paid back even if that means taking social security checks when the borrower is retired.
Most major northern airports have snow melters that do exactly that, melt snow. They work pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNERNVAlAMo
Of course, we can't have our railways held hostage by snow either, in that case, they just strap a jet engine onto a rail care and melt snow that way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5OrCCGV6hg&feature=related
Where there is a problem, we'll find a solution!