The reason the sea wall collapsed was because they anchored it in peat. It was known for decades what a Katrina scenario would do and the city didn't do anything to fix it. They still haven't done anything. They rebuilt the walls to the pre-Katrina specs. This is a problem of money. New Orleans is a very poor and very corrupt city in a poor and corrupt state and has been plagued by incompetence since it's founding. I watched them set the Mississippi River bridge on fire about 3 times when they were trying to paint it. Yes, the bridge is made of steel of concrete and they till set it on fire. The school boards was issuing pay checks to dead teachers and all you had to do if you lost your pay check from the city was call up the city and tell them. They didn't bother to verify that the original check had been cashed. New Orleans reelected the representative with 100k in cash in his freezer cause he went on TV and told his constituents that he had a very good reason for having the cash but he wasn't going to tell us. When Katrina hit, the president asked the governor of LA if she wanted federal aid and she was too busy panicking to say yes. The Feds can't send the national guard into a state without permission, and LA didn't grant the permission because the entire state was busy having a nervous breakdown. This has nothing to do with Republicans/Democrats and everything to do with rampant corruption and stupid people. Point of fact, most of New Orleans and LA is heavily Democrat so I'm not sure how that stacks with your "republicans hate america and democrats are fun loving saviors" philosophy.
Actually, statistically speaking, it should go down. If the great flood/hurricane/earthquake only happens once every 100 years, now that it has happened, you are good for another 100 or so years:P We should increase the rates of people that haven't had their 100 year disaster yet cause they are next...
I think the bigger problem is you don't trust the device. If you don't trust the device enough to let it have the data, why the fuck do you trust it enough to let it on your network? You don't know where that device has been or who it has been with.
So what you are saying is that it should be illegal to loose control of your car and crash it into a solid object? Or that it should be illegal for me to be listening to the radio while driving in a perfectly safe and reasonable manner because my attention is not 100% focused on the road? Or should it be illegal for my 18 month old daughter in the backseat to be having a screaming fit because she threw her Pooh Bear on the floor? No one argues that cell phones don't cause accidents. But then again, no one argues that scissors aren't dangerous weapons that can be used to kill people. We don't make scissors illegal. We don't make using them illegal. We don't make using them around small children illegal. We make it illegal to stab a person with them. The end action you are attempting to prevent should be the crime, not the multitude of factors leading up to it.
This is evident already in most parts of the criminal code that are generally uncontested. Murder is illegal. They do not spell out all the various ways you can accomplish this goal. The statute simply says intentionally killing another person is illegal. It does not differentiate between running them over or shooting them or poison or stabbing or piano dropping.
Because it is cheaper to pay someone a small chunk of cash than it is to pay the lawyers to go to court? Why does insurance fraud work so well when the insurance companies can afford an army of lawyers to fight an unjust claim?
Obstruction only applies when you lie to the police or tamper with/destroy evidence. If they don't ask, then you didn't lie to them so can't be charged with obstruction. Moral responsibility is often different than legal liability. If I witness a crime, I am not required by law to report it and have a legal right to do nothing. The moral and ethical action might be to contact the appropriate authorities, but the law does not require it.
That said, certain people are mandated reporters of child abuse. The law does require those persons to report potential abuse. These are people like teachers, doctors, and other professions that care for children. If you were a mandated reporter, you would know.
That's cause we don't care about the natives. You'll notice that the natives didn't found the USA and are not actually a dominate population presence here. What's really funny is how anti-immigrant we can get since we are all basically immigrants. History is written by the winners.
It's not wiretapping if they don't actually demodulate the data. The RF signals are moving through the open air and thus are free game. You can RECEIVE anything being broadcast over the air. You will only run into legal issues if you try to demodulate, decrypt, or transmit. The article doesn't go into detail on how they are differentiating the individual phones, but if they are fingerprinting the signals based on externals only (all transmitters have unique quirks that you can use to identify them), there is no wiretapping involved. If they are reading the bits and decoding the IMSI's, they can run into legal problems.
Because they are talking about the University of California, not kids. These are adults.
Let me explain to you how online course work actually works. They don't eliminate the need for the proffesor and it isn't watching the lecture someone video taped last year this year. I have a full time job, a 17 month old daughter, and am 5 months pregnant. I don't have the time to go down to campus and watch a lecture in the middle of the day so when I enrolled for my master's program I enrolled via the distance learning program. Instead of me driving to campus in the middle of the day, finding a parking place, paying for parking, walking to class, and then having to stay at work an extra two hours to make up the time, I watch the recording of the lecture after my baby goes to bed and if I need to pause it for whatever reason I can. When I need to travel for work, I can watch the lecture from my hotel room. There is a real professor with a real classroom and real students that ask him real questions during the real lecture. We have quizzes and projects and group meetings using GoToMeeting. One of my group members is in Afganistan. When we need to talk to our proffessor or TA to ask them questions we send them emails, just like we would if we were all on campus. They offer office hours online. When distance students complain, the university brings it's wrath down upon the offending proffessor because the distance students are, for the most part, fully funded by coorporations and quite capable of taking their funding to another university. Please explain to me how this is all a bad thing and how my experiance is worse than if I would actually go to campus to see the lecture live? I assure you if I had to physically be there in the middle of the day, I wouldn't be working on a masters because it is far more important that I see my daughter while she is awake and get paid for going to work.
So... if I find your purse/briefcase sitting on the floor underneath your chair while you are eating lunch/waiting for a train/whatever, I can take it cause it's not stealing it's finding? Good to know. Does that also apply to unattended children, puppies, houses, and cars?
That would assume that everyone has the same idea of what 'fair' is. Oregon has decided that an income tax is the way to go. Tennessee has decided on sales tax. Now I have a choice. Do I pick income or sales? I can chose to move to Oregon or Tennessee. Or do we want every state to be like California?
No to mention how do you determine which county someone lives in. My employer can't figure out which county I live in for purposes of withholding local income taxes because no one knows where the bloody county line is. How should I expect Amazon to figure it out? Don't say zip codes because that doesn't work. It will get you close, but not exact. Then you go and factor in the fact that periodically they move the county lines or the roads that they were using for the county line.
And then the local municipality goes and decides to add a "useless item" tax and next election they repeal "useless item" tax...
The grocery store I shop at withholds taxes based on which county they are physically located in, not which county their shoppers live in.
And then what happens if the local brick and mortar store everyone is so impassioned to save wants to go and put up a webpage and process catalog/internet sales because they are growing and want to sell their fancy doodad at trade shows... now they need a complex tax database and processing system to be compliant and that costs money so I guess they won't expand...
Chains don't just pop up out of the ground. They tend to start out as a local store and then expand to more venues as they become successful. Everyone loves growth until it actually happens and then you become evil because you are popular and pushing out the little guy. But oddly everyone still buys your evil, commercialized product.
Yeah but why didn't they send out a survey and poll their customers to determine how real people would feel about the change before going through all the effort of formalizign a plan, etc.
Stores don't pay sales tax... customers do. The stores occasionaly are nice enough to collect the tax from the customer for the state. You are still responsible for paying your sales tax even if the store does not collect it. Just like if you run a cash only buisness with no paper records you are still responsible for reporting all your income to the IRS to pay your taxes. If you chose to commit tax evasion, it is your own damn fault and not the responsibility of the retailer.
But but but... Those poor accountants needs jobs too! How selfish can you possibly be that you want to eliminate the jobs of the accountants in this troubling economy. Just think how terrible it would be if the streets were lined with out of work lawyers and accountants begging for scraps...
Next you'll be proposing a simplified federal tax code and be putting even more lawyers and accoutants out of work! Shame!
Hey! I have a clean, cheap, efficent, practicly limitless energy source. Would you like to know more? Yeah... it's nuclear... oh ok I guess you would rather go burn fossile fuels cause they aren't made of scary vodoo magic...
It is easier to get your calcium needs from cheese than milk. A cup of milk has ~300mg. A ounze of chedder has ~240. You will get more calcium faster eating cheese.
Here here!
Please test using more that one browser. I loaded the survey and the menu is ontop of the questions... Not all of us have a choice in our web browser and are stuck frunning IE 7 and 8 until coorporate decides IE 9 is safe. Half the time I load slashdot and I get "compatability mode activated" and the page looks like trash. So yes, if you want to be taken seriously as a site, actually work with the equipment your users are using and don't saddle us with unnessesary scripting.
And add a bloody spell checker.
I suppose that is why some states had to pass "right to breastfeed" type laws... And why every new mom is oh-so-eager to whip them out in public and you don't see women sitting in filthy restrooms breastfeeding their baby... And why there wasn't an uproar over the baby doll that instead of coming with a bottle, was supposed to be held to your chest to be fed.
I guess all the 'nursing covers' they sell to new mothers are purly a fashion statement...
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The reason the sea wall collapsed was because they anchored it in peat. It was known for decades what a Katrina scenario would do and the city didn't do anything to fix it. They still haven't done anything. They rebuilt the walls to the pre-Katrina specs. This is a problem of money. New Orleans is a very poor and very corrupt city in a poor and corrupt state and has been plagued by incompetence since it's founding. I watched them set the Mississippi River bridge on fire about 3 times when they were trying to paint it. Yes, the bridge is made of steel of concrete and they till set it on fire. The school boards was issuing pay checks to dead teachers and all you had to do if you lost your pay check from the city was call up the city and tell them. They didn't bother to verify that the original check had been cashed. New Orleans reelected the representative with 100k in cash in his freezer cause he went on TV and told his constituents that he had a very good reason for having the cash but he wasn't going to tell us. When Katrina hit, the president asked the governor of LA if she wanted federal aid and she was too busy panicking to say yes. The Feds can't send the national guard into a state without permission, and LA didn't grant the permission because the entire state was busy having a nervous breakdown. This has nothing to do with Republicans/Democrats and everything to do with rampant corruption and stupid people. Point of fact, most of New Orleans and LA is heavily Democrat so I'm not sure how that stacks with your "republicans hate america and democrats are fun loving saviors" philosophy.
New Orleans flooded because the city got cheap on their sea walls.
Actually, statistically speaking, it should go down. If the great flood/hurricane/earthquake only happens once every 100 years, now that it has happened, you are good for another 100 or so years :P We should increase the rates of people that haven't had their 100 year disaster yet cause they are next...
By your logic we should abandon the Gulf Coast, Tornado Alley, California, and Texas.
I think the bigger problem is you don't trust the device. If you don't trust the device enough to let it have the data, why the fuck do you trust it enough to let it on your network? You don't know where that device has been or who it has been with.
They also did it with Wii-motes.
So what you are saying is that it should be illegal to loose control of your car and crash it into a solid object? Or that it should be illegal for me to be listening to the radio while driving in a perfectly safe and reasonable manner because my attention is not 100% focused on the road? Or should it be illegal for my 18 month old daughter in the backseat to be having a screaming fit because she threw her Pooh Bear on the floor? No one argues that cell phones don't cause accidents. But then again, no one argues that scissors aren't dangerous weapons that can be used to kill people. We don't make scissors illegal. We don't make using them illegal. We don't make using them around small children illegal. We make it illegal to stab a person with them. The end action you are attempting to prevent should be the crime, not the multitude of factors leading up to it. This is evident already in most parts of the criminal code that are generally uncontested. Murder is illegal. They do not spell out all the various ways you can accomplish this goal. The statute simply says intentionally killing another person is illegal. It does not differentiate between running them over or shooting them or poison or stabbing or piano dropping.
And I think you just made ackthpt's point.
Because it is cheaper to pay someone a small chunk of cash than it is to pay the lawyers to go to court? Why does insurance fraud work so well when the insurance companies can afford an army of lawyers to fight an unjust claim?
Obstruction only applies when you lie to the police or tamper with/destroy evidence. If they don't ask, then you didn't lie to them so can't be charged with obstruction. Moral responsibility is often different than legal liability. If I witness a crime, I am not required by law to report it and have a legal right to do nothing. The moral and ethical action might be to contact the appropriate authorities, but the law does not require it. That said, certain people are mandated reporters of child abuse. The law does require those persons to report potential abuse. These are people like teachers, doctors, and other professions that care for children. If you were a mandated reporter, you would know.
That's cause we don't care about the natives. You'll notice that the natives didn't found the USA and are not actually a dominate population presence here. What's really funny is how anti-immigrant we can get since we are all basically immigrants. History is written by the winners.
It's not wiretapping if they don't actually demodulate the data. The RF signals are moving through the open air and thus are free game. You can RECEIVE anything being broadcast over the air. You will only run into legal issues if you try to demodulate, decrypt, or transmit. The article doesn't go into detail on how they are differentiating the individual phones, but if they are fingerprinting the signals based on externals only (all transmitters have unique quirks that you can use to identify them), there is no wiretapping involved. If they are reading the bits and decoding the IMSI's, they can run into legal problems.
Because they are talking about the University of California, not kids. These are adults. Let me explain to you how online course work actually works. They don't eliminate the need for the proffesor and it isn't watching the lecture someone video taped last year this year. I have a full time job, a 17 month old daughter, and am 5 months pregnant. I don't have the time to go down to campus and watch a lecture in the middle of the day so when I enrolled for my master's program I enrolled via the distance learning program. Instead of me driving to campus in the middle of the day, finding a parking place, paying for parking, walking to class, and then having to stay at work an extra two hours to make up the time, I watch the recording of the lecture after my baby goes to bed and if I need to pause it for whatever reason I can. When I need to travel for work, I can watch the lecture from my hotel room. There is a real professor with a real classroom and real students that ask him real questions during the real lecture. We have quizzes and projects and group meetings using GoToMeeting. One of my group members is in Afganistan. When we need to talk to our proffessor or TA to ask them questions we send them emails, just like we would if we were all on campus. They offer office hours online. When distance students complain, the university brings it's wrath down upon the offending proffessor because the distance students are, for the most part, fully funded by coorporations and quite capable of taking their funding to another university. Please explain to me how this is all a bad thing and how my experiance is worse than if I would actually go to campus to see the lecture live? I assure you if I had to physically be there in the middle of the day, I wouldn't be working on a masters because it is far more important that I see my daughter while she is awake and get paid for going to work.
Steal 100 bucks and you are a theif and go to jail. Steal 100 billion and you get paid by the government to keep stealing.
Because then crime wouldn't be profitable. This way everyone makes money.
So... if I find your purse/briefcase sitting on the floor underneath your chair while you are eating lunch/waiting for a train/whatever, I can take it cause it's not stealing it's finding? Good to know. Does that also apply to unattended children, puppies, houses, and cars?
That would assume that everyone has the same idea of what 'fair' is. Oregon has decided that an income tax is the way to go. Tennessee has decided on sales tax. Now I have a choice. Do I pick income or sales? I can chose to move to Oregon or Tennessee. Or do we want every state to be like California?
No to mention how do you determine which county someone lives in. My employer can't figure out which county I live in for purposes of withholding local income taxes because no one knows where the bloody county line is. How should I expect Amazon to figure it out? Don't say zip codes because that doesn't work. It will get you close, but not exact. Then you go and factor in the fact that periodically they move the county lines or the roads that they were using for the county line. And then the local municipality goes and decides to add a "useless item" tax and next election they repeal "useless item" tax... The grocery store I shop at withholds taxes based on which county they are physically located in, not which county their shoppers live in. And then what happens if the local brick and mortar store everyone is so impassioned to save wants to go and put up a webpage and process catalog/internet sales because they are growing and want to sell their fancy doodad at trade shows... now they need a complex tax database and processing system to be compliant and that costs money so I guess they won't expand... Chains don't just pop up out of the ground. They tend to start out as a local store and then expand to more venues as they become successful. Everyone loves growth until it actually happens and then you become evil because you are popular and pushing out the little guy. But oddly everyone still buys your evil, commercialized product.
Yeah but why didn't they send out a survey and poll their customers to determine how real people would feel about the change before going through all the effort of formalizign a plan, etc.
Stores don't pay sales tax... customers do. The stores occasionaly are nice enough to collect the tax from the customer for the state. You are still responsible for paying your sales tax even if the store does not collect it. Just like if you run a cash only buisness with no paper records you are still responsible for reporting all your income to the IRS to pay your taxes. If you chose to commit tax evasion, it is your own damn fault and not the responsibility of the retailer.
But but but ... Those poor accountants needs jobs too! How selfish can you possibly be that you want to eliminate the jobs of the accountants in this troubling economy. Just think how terrible it would be if the streets were lined with out of work lawyers and accountants begging for scraps...
Next you'll be proposing a simplified federal tax code and be putting even more lawyers and accoutants out of work! Shame!
Hey! I have a clean, cheap, efficent, practicly limitless energy source. Would you like to know more? Yeah... it's nuclear... oh ok I guess you would rather go burn fossile fuels cause they aren't made of scary vodoo magic...
It is easier to get your calcium needs from cheese than milk. A cup of milk has ~300mg. A ounze of chedder has ~240. You will get more calcium faster eating cheese.
Here here! Please test using more that one browser. I loaded the survey and the menu is ontop of the questions... Not all of us have a choice in our web browser and are stuck frunning IE 7 and 8 until coorporate decides IE 9 is safe. Half the time I load slashdot and I get "compatability mode activated" and the page looks like trash. So yes, if you want to be taken seriously as a site, actually work with the equipment your users are using and don't saddle us with unnessesary scripting. And add a bloody spell checker.
I suppose that is why some states had to pass "right to breastfeed" type laws... And why every new mom is oh-so-eager to whip them out in public and you don't see women sitting in filthy restrooms breastfeeding their baby... And why there wasn't an uproar over the baby doll that instead of coming with a bottle, was supposed to be held to your chest to be fed. I guess all the 'nursing covers' they sell to new mothers are purly a fashion statement...