Did the US government really think that other nations would not simply build their own drones in response to our constant incursions into their sovereignty? Seems to me that whatever opportunity we had in being "first to market" is now over and the drone wars have just begun in earnest.
Seems to me the only thing that makes this data valuable is the fact that the buyers assume it is pure - meaning, that they think that your browsing habits actually reflect your interests and purchasing habits.
I know I've seen talk of this before but why not simply have an app that randomly runs arbitrary apps and browses arbitrary pages in order to contaminate the data? If all of Verizon's users browsing habits looked similar from using such an app and it was well known that the data was not actually representative of the user, Verizon would essentially be selling garbage. I find it unlikely advertisers would pay good money for garbage.
If that was the trade but obviously it is not. The *trade* is a week of free work for a chance at a job. The "beach front" condo is housing intended to make the company look a little less like a labor leach. It's a minimal amount of bait so that they can at the very least, get *someone* to apply.
"any household task that can be handled by a woman could be handled by a man. " Agreed and now go and check all the articles about women who are the bread winners resenting their SAHF (stay at home fathers) because they think the men have it easy while they go out an work. And of course, the irony is COMPLETELY LOST on those bread winning women.
Men can and do do any household task that a woman can up to and including BUILDING THE HOUSE. Sweety wasn't happy to even chip in the effort to do a few simple chores while the man worked and now is unwilling to support the man staying home and doing the house work because working all day is hard. And to the guys who think hey, everyone work and everyone split the chores. That fails to because, as my ex put it: you like doing those things (in reference to patching roofs, all the yard work, wiring, plumbing, appliance repair, all the car maintenance, etc) so they don't count as chores. Yup. Didn't count because I didn't complain endlessly. So what was "fair" for her was that I work a full day, do all the maintenance (as a hobby apparently) AND do half of her shit. So yeah, that seems fair and the next time I'm down in the 30 degree garage enjoying my hobby of working on HER car so that she can get to work the next day while she sits up stairs in the warm house reading a book, I'll have to try real hard to remember who the privileged gender is.
Laughable. But it would be quite enjoyable to see all those poor down trodden women dressed in grimy overalls collecting garbage, patching roads, changing tractor trailer tires on the side of the highway, pouring concrete, building sewer systems, fixing downed power lines, defending the nation, breaking down retired ships, building roads, and all those other trivial things so many of us "privileged" males get to do. Isn't it awesome to have the privilege that we men do? I mean, even if we do tend to die years earlier than women, it's obviously because we live so much better in our lives of privilege.
"Girls (and not just human ones) are naturally drawn to making things pretty, teaching, and caring for others. Boys (and not just human ones) are naturally drawn to hitting each other with things."
If people want to know where dogmatic stereotyping comes from, witness the seed. Talk about idiotic.
Uh... In a class action, the plaintiff's lawyers are usually fronting the bucks to handle the case in EXCHANGE for a bigger slice of the money they stand to make. Whether a company pays cash, coupons or a replacement product, there is a cost. Now, individual suits ONLY work to bury the company if everyone that was going to sign onto the class action chooses to sue on their own AND front the money (unlikely to happy on a class scale). ALSO, individually, one win for the defendant becomes a template for beating the remaining law suits. In a class action, the defendant gets one shot at making its argument potentially making a win for the plaintiff and a punishment for the defendant more likely.
Being a conscientious member of society, I try to look out for BMW owners and help secure their vulnerable and expensive machines by removing the wheels thereby rendering them immobile and therefore secure. You're welcome. You can find your wheels on eBay if you need them.
If I had to guess why anarchists hate science, I'd say it is likely because science is increasingly being used by governments and corporations against the people. Ultimately, government and corporations are what anarchists really hate and who's got all that expensive and massively patented science on their side anymore? Certainly not regular folks.
And again, the PROBLEM is keeping EVERYTHING a secret because you are too lazy and or stupid to sort out what is really worthy of being a secret. What it leads too, among other things, is people NOT taking secrecy very seriously.
"Yes, it is right - for those who sign a contract saying that they will go to jail if they reveal a given secret, it is right for them to go to jail if they then reveal that secret."
IANAL. However, it is my experience that while *anything* can be put in a contract, the legality of the contract has little bearing on the legality of what is "in" the contract. People assume that because a contract is a recognized legal agreement that then anything in that contract is then "legal."
This is why things like this go to court. If information leaked is covered under a whistle blower or some other law then the fact that there is this this statement in the contract is tough titty. It ain't legal. The rest of the contract if found to contain valid legal clauses would then be upheld.
Except that the current modus operandi is to classify and secret-ize EVERYTHING which very much does imply wrong doing. No one denies that some things the state does should be kept secret. However, a government by the people for the people are on a very short leash WRT keeping secrets which as it should be. You can't have a public institution that cannot be checked by the public. See virtually every government that has attempted this to see how that story ends. What people are crying foul over is the government's penchant for stretching the definition of state secret until how many times the janitor changes out the toilet paper rolls in the Capitol restrooms becomes a matter of national security. It has gone too far. The government is RAPIDLY losing the trust as support of the people that HIRED them and AUTHORIZED them to the job of governing OUR nation. Trust me, no good can come from this path the government insists on following.
"I am stunned that they AREN'T doing this. It is a VERY SIMPLE technique to figure out who is blabbing."
It is a simple technique. And when have you seen a government even successfully do that much? One movie script or an occasional encyclopedia set is one thing. Given the sheer volume of information generated by our increasingly paranoid and secretive government AND the need to share this information across many agencies, let me predict that total chaos will be arriving shortly. Whatever feeble productivity our government has been able to produce by sheer force of $$$ will now be completely negated as even the money will not be able to overcome the fact hat no one will know who knows what and what is true.
What is most horrifying is that our elected clods are more than happy to wage wars fully knowing they are operating on false information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries
We already have analysis paralysis and a government that passes laws that they haven't even read. Pelosi famously told us we need to pass the healthcare law just so we could figure out what's in it. *This* is without a mis-information campaign. Just imagine what's next.
"If you're in a low enough income bracket..."
*IF*. And IF you happen to not be in a low enough income bracket to qualify for some of my money, but are still not wealthy enough to afford insurance, the government will punish you with this tax until you either choose insurance over paying for food or other bills, or until you are poor enough to have them "subsidize" you with the tax money they took from you in the first place. Think of it as the slave be forced to buy the master his whip.
that all this study proved was that people given jobs do their jobs. However, the crux of the argument around immigration is *who* is given the job.
Let's be honest, there are ONLY a few reasons that a country of 300 million people would ever *need* foreign born researchers: they work cheaper, they were recruited to strategically keep them out of the hands of other countries, our "domestic" educational system is a failure and lastly, self-loathing. All the rest, like this is just justifying after the fact as a way to evade actually stating the reasons I gave above.
In the 1930s, you could order a home from the Sears catalog. It would be a complete kit that you put together on site. My grandmother had one. You'd never know it was a mail-order home.
"North American's, and Europeans partially are not yet used to prefab houses"
I can't speak for Europe but at least in the USA, some form of "pre-fab" has been around and fairly popular since at least the 1930s. From Sears homes (complete home "kits" that you could order and would be shipped on rail car or truck and then assemble on site), to manufactured homes ( aka, trailers, double-wides and "mobile" homes (not RV trailers or "caravans" as they might be called elsewhere) to modular homes which are built in rooms or sections at a time and stacked together on site), "pre-fab" is not as uncommon as you'd think. If there is any perception that pre-fab is unpopular in the USA it is usually due to people associating "pre-fab" with trailers and with modular builders going out of their way to disassociate trailers from their own product.
That looks like a breakfast meal. What's the problem with that? I thought the meals looks pretty good. A little sparse by American standards but then we're the most obese nation on earth so what the hell do we know. In the USA, ketchup and spaghetti sauce are a vegetable. Here you'll get a bag of potato chips a soft drink and industrial waste dressed up to look like meat. Put some ketchup on the meat and you've got your healthy veggie! The British kids have it good!
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Did the US government really think that other nations would not simply build their own drones in response to our constant incursions into their sovereignty? Seems to me that whatever opportunity we had in being "first to market" is now over and the drone wars have just begun in earnest.
Seems to me the only thing that makes this data valuable is the fact that the buyers assume it is pure - meaning, that they think that your browsing habits actually reflect your interests and purchasing habits. I know I've seen talk of this before but why not simply have an app that randomly runs arbitrary apps and browses arbitrary pages in order to contaminate the data? If all of Verizon's users browsing habits looked similar from using such an app and it was well known that the data was not actually representative of the user, Verizon would essentially be selling garbage. I find it unlikely advertisers would pay good money for garbage.
The irony being that a McDonalds couch would likely contain more actual meat than one of their hamburgers.
If that was the trade but obviously it is not. The *trade* is a week of free work for a chance at a job. The "beach front" condo is housing intended to make the company look a little less like a labor leach. It's a minimal amount of bait so that they can at the very least, get *someone* to apply.
"any household task that can be handled by a woman could be handled by a man. " Agreed and now go and check all the articles about women who are the bread winners resenting their SAHF (stay at home fathers) because they think the men have it easy while they go out an work. And of course, the irony is COMPLETELY LOST on those bread winning women. Men can and do do any household task that a woman can up to and including BUILDING THE HOUSE. Sweety wasn't happy to even chip in the effort to do a few simple chores while the man worked and now is unwilling to support the man staying home and doing the house work because working all day is hard. And to the guys who think hey, everyone work and everyone split the chores. That fails to because, as my ex put it: you like doing those things (in reference to patching roofs, all the yard work, wiring, plumbing, appliance repair, all the car maintenance, etc) so they don't count as chores. Yup. Didn't count because I didn't complain endlessly. So what was "fair" for her was that I work a full day, do all the maintenance (as a hobby apparently) AND do half of her shit. So yeah, that seems fair and the next time I'm down in the 30 degree garage enjoying my hobby of working on HER car so that she can get to work the next day while she sits up stairs in the warm house reading a book, I'll have to try real hard to remember who the privileged gender is.
Yes: Majority rule is what happens when you're on the side that gets what it wants. Mob rule is what it's called when you're on the side that lost.
Laughable. But it would be quite enjoyable to see all those poor down trodden women dressed in grimy overalls collecting garbage, patching roads, changing tractor trailer tires on the side of the highway, pouring concrete, building sewer systems, fixing downed power lines, defending the nation, breaking down retired ships, building roads, and all those other trivial things so many of us "privileged" males get to do. Isn't it awesome to have the privilege that we men do? I mean, even if we do tend to die years earlier than women, it's obviously because we live so much better in our lives of privilege.
"Girls (and not just human ones) are naturally drawn to making things pretty, teaching, and caring for others. Boys (and not just human ones) are naturally drawn to hitting each other with things." If people want to know where dogmatic stereotyping comes from, witness the seed. Talk about idiotic.
Uh... In a class action, the plaintiff's lawyers are usually fronting the bucks to handle the case in EXCHANGE for a bigger slice of the money they stand to make. Whether a company pays cash, coupons or a replacement product, there is a cost. Now, individual suits ONLY work to bury the company if everyone that was going to sign onto the class action chooses to sue on their own AND front the money (unlikely to happy on a class scale). ALSO, individually, one win for the defendant becomes a template for beating the remaining law suits. In a class action, the defendant gets one shot at making its argument potentially making a win for the plaintiff and a punishment for the defendant more likely.
Being a conscientious member of society, I try to look out for BMW owners and help secure their vulnerable and expensive machines by removing the wheels thereby rendering them immobile and therefore secure. You're welcome. You can find your wheels on eBay if you need them.
If I had to guess why anarchists hate science, I'd say it is likely because science is increasingly being used by governments and corporations against the people. Ultimately, government and corporations are what anarchists really hate and who's got all that expensive and massively patented science on their side anymore? Certainly not regular folks.
And again, the PROBLEM is keeping EVERYTHING a secret because you are too lazy and or stupid to sort out what is really worthy of being a secret. What it leads too, among other things, is people NOT taking secrecy very seriously.
True enough.
"Yes, it is right - for those who sign a contract saying that they will go to jail if they reveal a given secret, it is right for them to go to jail if they then reveal that secret." IANAL. However, it is my experience that while *anything* can be put in a contract, the legality of the contract has little bearing on the legality of what is "in" the contract. People assume that because a contract is a recognized legal agreement that then anything in that contract is then "legal." This is why things like this go to court. If information leaked is covered under a whistle blower or some other law then the fact that there is this this statement in the contract is tough titty. It ain't legal. The rest of the contract if found to contain valid legal clauses would then be upheld.
Except that the current modus operandi is to classify and secret-ize EVERYTHING which very much does imply wrong doing. No one denies that some things the state does should be kept secret. However, a government by the people for the people are on a very short leash WRT keeping secrets which as it should be. You can't have a public institution that cannot be checked by the public. See virtually every government that has attempted this to see how that story ends. What people are crying foul over is the government's penchant for stretching the definition of state secret until how many times the janitor changes out the toilet paper rolls in the Capitol restrooms becomes a matter of national security. It has gone too far. The government is RAPIDLY losing the trust as support of the people that HIRED them and AUTHORIZED them to the job of governing OUR nation. Trust me, no good can come from this path the government insists on following.
"I am stunned that they AREN'T doing this. It is a VERY SIMPLE technique to figure out who is blabbing." It is a simple technique. And when have you seen a government even successfully do that much? One movie script or an occasional encyclopedia set is one thing. Given the sheer volume of information generated by our increasingly paranoid and secretive government AND the need to share this information across many agencies, let me predict that total chaos will be arriving shortly. Whatever feeble productivity our government has been able to produce by sheer force of $$$ will now be completely negated as even the money will not be able to overcome the fact hat no one will know who knows what and what is true. What is most horrifying is that our elected clods are more than happy to wage wars fully knowing they are operating on false information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries We already have analysis paralysis and a government that passes laws that they haven't even read. Pelosi famously told us we need to pass the healthcare law just so we could figure out what's in it. *This* is without a mis-information campaign. Just imagine what's next.
Boy, is Fox News going to look dumb making non-stop retractions.
"If you're in a low enough income bracket..." *IF*. And IF you happen to not be in a low enough income bracket to qualify for some of my money, but are still not wealthy enough to afford insurance, the government will punish you with this tax until you either choose insurance over paying for food or other bills, or until you are poor enough to have them "subsidize" you with the tax money they took from you in the first place. Think of it as the slave be forced to buy the master his whip.
that all this study proved was that people given jobs do their jobs. However, the crux of the argument around immigration is *who* is given the job. Let's be honest, there are ONLY a few reasons that a country of 300 million people would ever *need* foreign born researchers: they work cheaper, they were recruited to strategically keep them out of the hands of other countries, our "domestic" educational system is a failure and lastly, self-loathing. All the rest, like this is just justifying after the fact as a way to evade actually stating the reasons I gave above.
Trailer Park Boys FTW.
True modular homes are often much better built since the "modules" have to endure shipping, hoisting, and be structurally stable in their own right.
In the 1930s, you could order a home from the Sears catalog. It would be a complete kit that you put together on site. My grandmother had one. You'd never know it was a mail-order home.
"North American's, and Europeans partially are not yet used to prefab houses" I can't speak for Europe but at least in the USA, some form of "pre-fab" has been around and fairly popular since at least the 1930s. From Sears homes (complete home "kits" that you could order and would be shipped on rail car or truck and then assemble on site), to manufactured homes ( aka, trailers, double-wides and "mobile" homes (not RV trailers or "caravans" as they might be called elsewhere) to modular homes which are built in rooms or sections at a time and stacked together on site), "pre-fab" is not as uncommon as you'd think. If there is any perception that pre-fab is unpopular in the USA it is usually due to people associating "pre-fab" with trailers and with modular builders going out of their way to disassociate trailers from their own product.
Someone send that kid a spy cam.
That looks like a breakfast meal. What's the problem with that? I thought the meals looks pretty good. A little sparse by American standards but then we're the most obese nation on earth so what the hell do we know. In the USA, ketchup and spaghetti sauce are a vegetable. Here you'll get a bag of potato chips a soft drink and industrial waste dressed up to look like meat. Put some ketchup on the meat and you've got your healthy veggie! The British kids have it good!