We have a financial system based on unlimited growth, and an entire planet is being altered by our activities. One way or another, this does not end well.
I think that we can mitigate global warming, and at the same time, not lose jobs, or in fact create new jobs. As an example, if we use more insulation in houses, it will create more work for the insulation people, although at the expense of the power people. Just one, simple, example.
To help the problem however, we will need officials who can't be bent by {A} special interest or {B} special interest over the overall well being of the people and planet. To find them, I imagine voters will have to use an endoscope on all prospects.;)
You are confusing legal liability with professional integrity.
It might or might not come as a surprise to you, but the police department, which you pay taxes to support, which is supposed to protect and serve, has no legal obligation to help you at all, at any time. Yet, most of the time, the majority of the time, they will indeed assist you.
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include illegal voter registration, intimidation at polls and improper vote counting. What electoral fraud is under law varies from country to country.
The requirements for an argument being a strawman, are more than you simply labeling it as such because you disagree with it.
The reasons for the "fake" signatures vary: sometimes people just write bogus names while exiting a supermarket, sometimes they write their real name, but happen not to be registered voters (and so the signature doesn't count), and so on.
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF INDIANA OR THE INDIANA ELECTION DIVISION:
Each of the undersigned represents that: 1) the individual resides at the address after the individual's signature; 2) the individual is a duly qualified registered voter in Indiana and 3) the individual desires to be able to vote for the candidate listed below; and each of the undersigned respectfully requests you to plae the following name of the legally qualified candidate for President of the United States on the May 8, 2012 Primary Election Ballot as a candidate of the (check only one box please) [ ] Democratic Party or [ ] Republican Party.
Near the bottom of the form
County Voter Registration Office Certification
I certify that, in accordance with IC 3-8-2-9, I have reviewed the registration records of the petitioners and certify the above number to be registered voters of this County.
So you see, it is already understood that some people might fill out false information, which is why county officials swear and sign that they have validated each signature against voter registration records, and this is the source of the fraud.
And this is why partisan politics are disgusting. Thank you good sir for agreeing with me on that point.
The far left wont chase the truth unless it fits their agenda, and neither will the far right.
You just claimed Mr Nees account of the incident, is false, simply because the right leaning media outlets are reporting it. By that logic, anything the left leaning media reports is also automatically false ?
Lets have some more flawed logic. Fox News, the right leaning outlet with the most viewers, isnt a reputable news source, because you prefer a left leaning news source ? If Fox were fabricating these stories out of thin air, as you allude to, don't you think their competition from the left would be all over it, pointing out how Mr Nees doesn't exist, or Mr Nees denies making the statement ?
You sir, are what is wrong with politics. You, and every other partisan douche bag, be they right or left, with their head up their ass. You confuse the future of the country, and what is best for it and others, as a competition for power that you must win at all costs, to the detriment of all that you claim to stand for.
Your partisan rants and militant left blatherings are truly disgusting.
Never mind that there is no fraud.
From [http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10118-fox-forged-signatures-on-2008-petition-to-put-obama-on-ballot-in-indiana]
Ryan Nees, a college student who interned at the Obama White House and who supports the President’s reelection, discovered the fraud. Fox News explained what Nees found:
Nees' investigation centered on the petitions that put then-senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot. As many as 150 of the signatures, it is alleged, were faked. So many, in fact, that the numbers raise questions about whether Obama's campaign had enough legitimate signatures to qualify for a spot on the ballot.
Nees himself commented,
This fraud was obvious, far-reaching and appeared to be systemic. What seems to have happened is that a variety of people in northern Indiana knew that this fraud occurred, and actively participated and perpetuated the fraud, and did so on behalf of two presidential campaigns.
But hey, why let facts get in the way of your agenda promoting propaganda campaign ?
You are legally bound to file a tax return every year, even when you no longer work there.
This has nothing to do with being allowed to leave. Nor does the rest of your rant.
There is an entire documented experience of some guy who left the country and gave up his citizenship. In order to do it, you must first, leave the country and then fill out paperwork at a US embassy in your new country. For details of the mans experience, search the web.
Yeah. Personally, I make a concerted effort to avoid buying any products made in China. Admittedly, it is sometimes impossible, but every little bit helps.
This may very well be the case. However, the optimistic part of the process thus far, has been that the climate change deniers are now pretty much looked up as quacks, when the initial reaction was total denial and skepticism. We've moved beyond that, to the point where people and governments, individually and collectively, are working on the "how" part.
If we do indeed end up being screwed, it will be a direct result of our great success as a species, and however ironic and evidential a fact of life it may be, we at least have our success in which to take solace.;)
Also, from [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States]
The White House announced on 25 November 2009 that President Barack Obama is offering a U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. The proposed target agrees with the limit set by climate legislation that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but the U.S. Senate is currently considering a bill that cuts GHG emissions to 20% below 2005 levels by 2020. The White House noted that the final U.S. emissions target will ultimately fall in line with the climate legislation, once that legislation passes both houses of Congress and is approved by the President. In light of the President's goal for an 83% reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, the pending legislation also includes a reduction in GHG emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2025 and to 42% below 2005 levels by 2030.[9]
The day after the White House announced the U.S. GHG targets, China announced that it will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions by 40%-45% by 2020. Carbon dioxide emissions intensity is defined as the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP).
So please stop pretending the US and China aren't doing anything.
1 China[10] 7,031,916 23.33%
2 United States 5,461,014 18.11%
also, from [http://in.news.yahoo.com/durban-kyoto-protocol-gets-extension-111511742.html]
Canada, Japan and Russia had said that they do not want Kyoto to continue as it doesn't take into account emissions of emerging economies like China and India. The European Union wanted that they will agree to it only if all countries agree to a single legally binding agreement to cut down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The US is the only country that has signed Kyoto but not yet ratified it.
also, from wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducing_emissions_from_deforestation_and_forest_degradation]
In recent years, estimates for deforestation and forest degradation were shown to account for 20-25% of greenhouse gas emissions, higher than the transportation sector.[6]
from [http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/10-countries-with-the-highest-deforestation-rates-in-the-world.html]
1) Honduras: -37% 2) Nigeria: -36% 3) The Philippines: -32% 4) Benin: -31% 5) Ghana: -28% 6) Indonesia
7) Nepal 8) North Korea: -25% 9) Ecuador 10) Haiti: -22%
So the countries who are every bit as responsible for CO2 levels rising due to deforestation, get paid, by the countries with money. The whole thing is bs.
The issue is much more complicated than excusing Canada and blaming it on the US and China.
Now that I go and read the article, I see they have created a "PHP to C++" translator of sorts, not so much a JIT VM combination. It won't be nearly as bad performance wise, but, why even f' with PHP at that point.
Which is at least 50% slower on its best day, than C/C++ on it's worst day.
As for JIT, it's a non-issue. Anyone could make.c or.cpp files executable, by passing them through the linux kernels MISC binary capability. [see "Kernel support for MISC binaries" under "Executable file formats / Emulations"].
It's the VM part that kills performance. The Java VM, and presumably, the PHP VM, do not execute native machine instructions, but instead, use an intermediary format, as opposed to, native cpu instructions. This is what kills performance.
If one wanted both JIT and a "virtual environment" ( for security reasons )... one could use the misc binary feature of linux, combined with "linux resource containers" to achieve a virtualized environment ( machine ), isolated for security purposes, which executes native code, with almost 0 overhead.
Maybe they'll figure it out, but I doubt it, because they are already heavily invested in PHP. Bleh.
Combine that with the remarkable similarity between PHP syntax and C ( but without the speed ) and maybe you understand why I say... congrats, they've re-invented C. They've just done it without the last 40-50 years of iterative performance enhancements that have been applied to C/C++ compilers already.
do you honestly not think the entire Carrier IQ thing was a dirty data collection operation?
I completely agree it's dirty. So dirty, I refuse to get a smart phone from a US carrier and pay them to collect data on me. But dirty in this world of underhanded tactics and legal loopholes does not equate with illegal activity or violations of the constitution.
If you read the rest of my posts concerning this issue, you will see I'm attempting to explain to people who are still crying about it, that legislation allowing customers to opt-out of the data collection process is necessary to solve this issue. The sooner people focus on insisting legislation be enacted that requires carriers to offer an opt-out provision, the sooner this problem can be solved, and people can regain a modicum of privacy in this digitally logged world of the matrix.
It could be, except for the fact that people give permission for the carrier to "provide" ( that means give or sell ) the data to third parties, of which law enforcement is [a third party]. Therefore, it's not a warrantless pen register either.
I didn't intend it as anything more than a maybe funny, snide remark. The article was about contracting versus in house gurus, and every month it seems there is always an article about the lack of gurus, hence the comment. The "we contract everything at our detriment" crowd, who complains about the lack of gurus, would contract to get an in-house guru, get it ?
Of course, I'm a guru, but I don't want to work for the "we contract everything" crowd, so maybe thats the problem.;)
From the article....
The first 90% of the hhvm project is done; now we're on to the second 90% as we make it really shine.
And when they are finally done optimizing it, squeezing every last bit of performance out of it, adding the ability to compile to a native binary, they will have achieved the remarkable accomplishment of having re-invented the C compiler.
There is probably no way for me to opt-out of any kind of data collection that the carrier (or my employer) wants to do.
That does indeed add a whole other dimension to the problem of how to opt out of data logging, since I believe it has already been decided that employers can monitor employees activities on employer owned devices being used for work.
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We have a financial system based on unlimited growth, and an entire planet is being altered by our activities. One way or another, this does not end well.
I think that we can mitigate global warming, and at the same time, not lose jobs, or in fact create new jobs. As an example, if we use more insulation in houses, it will create more work for the insulation people, although at the expense of the power people. Just one, simple, example.
;)
To help the problem however, we will need officials who can't be bent by {A} special interest or {B} special interest over the overall well being of the people and planet. To find them, I imagine voters will have to use an endoscope on all prospects.
You are confusing legal liability with professional integrity.
It might or might not come as a surprise to you, but the police department, which you pay taxes to support, which is supposed to protect and serve, has no legal obligation to help you at all, at any time. Yet, most of the time, the majority of the time, they will indeed assist you.
Legal liability != professional integrity.
Electoral fraud (Redirected from Voter fraud)
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include illegal voter registration, intimidation at polls and improper vote counting. What electoral fraud is under law varies from country to country.
The requirements for an argument being a strawman, are more than you simply labeling it as such because you disagree with it.
The reasons for the "fake" signatures vary: sometimes people just write bogus names while exiting a supermarket, sometimes they write their real name, but happen not to be registered voters (and so the signature doesn't count), and so on.
From http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/2395.htm ... PDF document titled "INDIANA PETITION FOR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY BALLOT PLACEMENT" at http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/files/CAN-8__(2012A_revision).pdf
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF INDIANA OR THE INDIANA ELECTION DIVISION:
Each of the undersigned represents that: 1) the individual resides at the address after the individual's signature; 2) the individual is a duly qualified registered voter in Indiana and 3) the individual desires to be able to vote for the candidate listed below; and each of the undersigned respectfully requests you to plae the following name of the legally qualified candidate for President of the United States on the May 8, 2012 Primary Election Ballot as a candidate of the (check only one box please) [ ] Democratic Party or [ ] Republican Party.
Near the bottom of the form
County Voter Registration Office Certification
I certify that, in accordance with IC 3-8-2-9, I have reviewed the registration records of the petitioners and certify the above number to be registered voters of this County.
So you see, it is already understood that some people might fill out false information, which is why county officials swear and sign that they have validated each signature against voter registration records, and this is the source of the fraud.
When Rome burns, we shall all feel the heat, and it will not have mattered which side of the room we occupied.
And this is why partisan politics are disgusting. Thank you good sir for agreeing with me on that point.
The far left wont chase the truth unless it fits their agenda, and neither will the far right.
You just claimed Mr Nees account of the incident, is false, simply because the right leaning media outlets are reporting it. By that logic, anything the left leaning media reports is also automatically false ?
Lets have some more flawed logic. Fox News, the right leaning outlet with the most viewers, isnt a reputable news source, because you prefer a left leaning news source ? If Fox were fabricating these stories out of thin air, as you allude to, don't you think their competition from the left would be all over it, pointing out how Mr Nees doesn't exist, or Mr Nees denies making the statement ?
You sir, are what is wrong with politics. You, and every other partisan douche bag, be they right or left, with their head up their ass. You confuse the future of the country, and what is best for it and others, as a competition for power that you must win at all costs, to the detriment of all that you claim to stand for.
Never mind that there is no fraud.
From [http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10118-fox-forged-signatures-on-2008-petition-to-put-obama-on-ballot-in-indiana]
Ryan Nees, a college student who interned at the Obama White House and who supports the President’s reelection, discovered the fraud. Fox News explained what Nees found:
Nees' investigation centered on the petitions that put then-senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot. As many as 150 of the signatures, it is alleged, were faked. So many, in fact, that the numbers raise questions about whether Obama's campaign had enough legitimate signatures to qualify for a spot on the ballot.
Nees himself commented,
This fraud was obvious, far-reaching and appeared to be systemic. What seems to have happened is that a variety of people in northern Indiana knew that this fraud occurred, and actively participated and perpetuated the fraud, and did so on behalf of two presidential campaigns.
But hey, why let facts get in the way of your agenda promoting propaganda campaign ?
You are legally bound to file a tax return every year, even when you no longer work there.
This has nothing to do with being allowed to leave. Nor does the rest of your rant.
There is an entire documented experience of some guy who left the country and gave up his citizenship. In order to do it, you must first, leave the country and then fill out paperwork at a US embassy in your new country. For details of the mans experience, search the web.
Yeah. Personally, I make a concerted effort to avoid buying any products made in China. Admittedly, it is sometimes impossible, but every little bit helps.
We are so screwed.
This may very well be the case. However, the optimistic part of the process thus far, has been that the climate change deniers are now pretty much looked up as quacks, when the initial reaction was total denial and skepticism. We've moved beyond that, to the point where people and governments, individually and collectively, are working on the "how" part.
;)
If we do indeed end up being screwed, it will be a direct result of our great success as a species, and however ironic and evidential a fact of life it may be, we at least have our success in which to take solace.
The key is to learn to ADAPT to the changing climate, not try to exercise control we don't and can't have.
And that is exactly what is happening. Continuing to cut down forests and emit CO2 during a warming trend, would be failure to adapt.
my whole adult life has been an embarrassing time to be a USAian.
The USA is a fine place to live ... they'll even let you leave if you don't like it.
(US and China) weren't reducing their output?
Also, from [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States]
The White House announced on 25 November 2009 that President Barack Obama is offering a U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. The proposed target agrees with the limit set by climate legislation that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but the U.S. Senate is currently considering a bill that cuts GHG emissions to 20% below 2005 levels by 2020. The White House noted that the final U.S. emissions target will ultimately fall in line with the climate legislation, once that legislation passes both houses of Congress and is approved by the President. In light of the President's goal for an 83% reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, the pending legislation also includes a reduction in GHG emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2025 and to 42% below 2005 levels by 2030.[9] The day after the White House announced the U.S. GHG targets, China announced that it will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions by 40%-45% by 2020. Carbon dioxide emissions intensity is defined as the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP).
So please stop pretending the US and China aren't doing anything.
1 China[10] 7,031,916 23.33%
2 United States 5,461,014 18.11%
also, from [http://in.news.yahoo.com/durban-kyoto-protocol-gets-extension-111511742.html]
Canada, Japan and Russia had said that they do not want Kyoto to continue as it doesn't take into account emissions of emerging economies like China and India. The European Union wanted that they will agree to it only if all countries agree to a single legally binding agreement to cut down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The US is the only country that has signed Kyoto but not yet ratified it.
also, from wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducing_emissions_from_deforestation_and_forest_degradation]
In recent years, estimates for deforestation and forest degradation were shown to account for 20-25% of greenhouse gas emissions, higher than the transportation sector.[6]
from [http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/10-countries-with-the-highest-deforestation-rates-in-the-world.html]
1) Honduras: -37% 2) Nigeria: -36% 3) The Philippines: -32% 4) Benin: -31% 5) Ghana: -28% 6) Indonesia 7) Nepal 8) North Korea: -25% 9) Ecuador 10) Haiti: -22%
So the countries who are every bit as responsible for CO2 levels rising due to deforestation, get paid, by the countries with money. The whole thing is bs.
The issue is much more complicated than excusing Canada and blaming it on the US and China.
So, what was it you're doing again?
Boycotting the companies and products involved. Dollars, and the lack thereof, are votes that can't be ignored.
I'd +1 you ... if I had any mod points. One of the more lucid assessments I've had the pleasure to read.
Now that I go and read the article, I see they have created a "PHP to C++" translator of sorts, not so much a JIT VM combination. It won't be nearly as bad performance wise, but, why even f' with PHP at that point.
(It's good enough for Java, anyway.)
Which is at least 50% slower on its best day, than C/C++ on it's worst day.
.c or .cpp files executable, by passing them through the linux kernels MISC binary capability. [see "Kernel support for MISC binaries" under "Executable file formats / Emulations"].
... one could use the misc binary feature of linux, combined with "linux resource containers" to achieve a virtualized environment ( machine ), isolated for security purposes, which executes native code, with almost 0 overhead.
... congrats, they've re-invented C. They've just done it without the last 40-50 years of iterative performance enhancements that have been applied to C/C++ compilers already.
As for JIT, it's a non-issue. Anyone could make
It's the VM part that kills performance. The Java VM, and presumably, the PHP VM, do not execute native machine instructions, but instead, use an intermediary format, as opposed to, native cpu instructions. This is what kills performance.
If one wanted both JIT and a "virtual environment" ( for security reasons )
Maybe they'll figure it out, but I doubt it, because they are already heavily invested in PHP. Bleh.
Combine that with the remarkable similarity between PHP syntax and C ( but without the speed ) and maybe you understand why I say
do you honestly not think the entire Carrier IQ thing was a dirty data collection operation?
I completely agree it's dirty. So dirty, I refuse to get a smart phone from a US carrier and pay them to collect data on me. But dirty in this world of underhanded tactics and legal loopholes does not equate with illegal activity or violations of the constitution.
If you read the rest of my posts concerning this issue, you will see I'm attempting to explain to people who are still crying about it, that legislation allowing customers to opt-out of the data collection process is necessary to solve this issue. The sooner people focus on insisting legislation be enacted that requires carriers to offer an opt-out provision, the sooner this problem can be solved, and people can regain a modicum of privacy in this digitally logged world of the matrix.
They're moving away from static compilation in favor of running it in a VM with a JIT.
Which is a complete step backwards if their goal is performance.
It could be, except for the fact that people give permission for the carrier to "provide" ( that means give or sell ) the data to third parties, of which law enforcement is [a third party]. Therefore, it's not a warrantless pen register either.
I didn't intend it as anything more than a maybe funny, snide remark. The article was about contracting versus in house gurus, and every month it seems there is always an article about the lack of gurus, hence the comment. The "we contract everything at our detriment" crowd, who complains about the lack of gurus, would contract to get an in-house guru, get it ?
;)
Of course, I'm a guru, but I don't want to work for the "we contract everything" crowd, so maybe thats the problem.
We can fly to that planet that clones stormtroopers and contract them to grow some IT gurus.
From the article.... The first 90% of the hhvm project is done; now we're on to the second 90% as we make it really shine.
And when they are finally done optimizing it, squeezing every last bit of performance out of it, adding the ability to compile to a native binary, they will have achieved the remarkable accomplishment of having re-invented the C compiler.
;)
Way to go Facebook. Keep up the good work.
There is probably no way for me to opt-out of any kind of data collection that the carrier (or my employer) wants to do.
That does indeed add a whole other dimension to the problem of how to opt out of data logging, since I believe it has already been decided that employers can monitor employees activities on employer owned devices being used for work.