We assume that thieves have no conscience at all, otherwise they wouldn't be thieves.
The reality is that they have a mixed conscience, and might in some way feel better about what they're doing if they're not entirely thieving about things.
More often than not, if a thief has the chance to steal some money but not all the money, they will leave some of it there.
Some would make the argument that there are only two types. Biometrics is really something you have, and saying that it is something you are instead of something you have is a distinction without difference.
Hmm. These days Russia is often lumped together with Brazil, India and China. (The so-called BRIC nations, sometimes called BRICI when Indonesia is added.)
These are large, populous countries which aren't exactly developed but are growing quickly economically. Russia is a bit more developed, but growing slower.
Though Third World is a difficult concept to define, it often meant a nation which was not developed in the Western sense of the term, and either was developing or in the process thereof.
As an individual who has a degree in Economics, and a second in Russian, I think that Russia reasonably fits the definition of (advanced) "Third World." It's a developing nation, with pockets of development and wealth.
Germany's Autobahn is a very modern system, built with incredibly strict tolerances..ish.
It is modern in the urban/suburban areas. But you can still find parts of the Autobahn that have no emergency lanes and short slip on/slip off ramps. It also so happens that these part of the Autobahn are in rural regions which have no speed limits.
At attempt to do this (container deposit) in Ohio was rejected by voters sometime (I think) in the 1970s, perhaps 1980s. For some reason the topic was dropped thereafter and never picked up again.
to make it look they do care for the environment, which brings votes
I love Cleveland. The city has a few nice, up and coming neighborhoods.
But most of the city is suffering badly. It has lost hundreds of thousands of people to the suburbs. The remaining population is largely poor, uneducated and hard-up.
They don't give a damn about the environment, they have much bigger problems. This has nothing to do with votes.
Americans love the convenience and comfort of their cars, that's for sure, but I think you're mistaking that for a love of driving.
Generally, they don't actually like driving. They buy floaty cars with automatic transmissions which separate the driver from the road. Compare this to Europeans, who often drive sleek cars with great transmissions and an intimate feel.
I think you'll find that Americans will enthusiastically let the cars drive for them.
A corporation's only goal is to maximize profit. That's how it works. They actually have a responsibility to their shareholders to make money
The Economist had an article on this. Maximizing shareholder value as a company goal is, interestingly enough, a recent phenomenon, from the 1970s.
The other two company goals that were apparently sidelined for maximizing profit were maximizing value for stakeholders (typically labor) or maximizing customer satisfaction.
We might be going back in the direction of the latter two.
but if i could listen to music, at least i wouldn't have to hear everyone else screaming as i burned to death in an aluminum tube
Your description ("begins cartwheeling through a cornfield) was likely a direct reference to United Airlines 232.
I've remember reading an article about that crash. At the time the aircraft was upside down and started cartwheeling, passengers said that there was no screaming. At that point, passengers had accepted that they were going to die and were at peace with it.
Many survived of course, but I thought that was an interesting footnote to your post.
Airliners already have very robust inflight DVR systems
Eh, some are ok. Some are notoriously troublesome. All of them are heavy, expensive, require substantial wiring, and when problems occur, they tend to take down all the seat screens.
I'd be astounded if those systems are less than $800/seat installation.
Hell, a built in iPad would be the way to go if I were running an airline. Relatively inexpensive, flexible, light weight, swap it out if something's wrong.
the vast majority of people in britain now have a photo driving licence that performs the same function
Well now that the National ID scheme is/has been killed, now it's time to call up your MP and ask them to make the photo optional on the driving licence.
The mandatory photograph was added by the Labour government. Supposedly it was an effort to standardise licences in Europe, but the UK has a knack for getting opt-outs, here's a chance to get another.
Assuming that everything genetic can be explained as having an evolutionary purpose, does anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to a large group of people having a different schedule than everyone else?
I assume that the owls are meant to be sentinels for the tribe, watching late at night making sure that no one's on their way to attack. But perhaps there are more reasons I haven't thought of yet.
Technically they did open two accounts but I believe what you said still stands.
Opening a bank account isn't exactly a path towards identity theft. Money laundering, perhaps, but large transfers in and out of the account will raise flags and investigations will ensue.
Besides, I hear hotels in Europe often photocopy the identity pages of passports. Does this mean that hotel clerks all over Europe could run to Australia and open up bank accounts in other people's names, and if that's true, what are they going to do with those bank accounts?
I think you should definitely make sure to explain to others that this is an issue of human dignity and not necessarily "privacy (because people will try to find what the privacy violation is and will get confused if they can't find one, if their personal values aren't bothered by one thing or another.)
Your sense of human dignity is higher--you feel that it is inappropriate to fingerprint individuals who are not guilty of a crime, that somehow fingerprinting is disrespectful or inhuman. That you don't want to be a number on file, because it affects your sense of humanity. I'd cite the example of how the US Visit program caused a significant drop in how many visitors were coming to the US--visitors, who, understandably, didn't want to feel like a criminal just to come to the US and visit NYC.
It's worth following up with this even if you decide not to go with the job.
If you decide to go with the job, hopefully the employer is reasonable and will let you log in without your fingerprint, which the machines are damn well capable of. If not, and you want to offer up some passive resistance, say you have eczema. I personally actually have a case of eczema, which wipes out the fingerprints on a couple of fingers. You could possibly use an industrial solution of an AHA/BHA hydroxy acid (cosmetology sites may carry things like that, like 25% glycolic acid) to hyper exfoliate your skin and then use a rough pumice or other type of grimy surface to finish off the prints.
The crux of concern may be called "privacy" but isn't necessarily privacy. I don't think that he is necessarily concerned with how much of the fingerprint is retained or if it can be released, blah blah blah.
The issue here is one of human dignity. He feels (as do many others) that fingerprinting is a violation of his sense of human dignity. That somehow using your fingerprint in this type of operation makes him feel less human, less respected, more like a criminal, what have you.
Ish. I just returned a phone to ATT. They only ask what the color of the sensor is. They didn't ask if the phone was in water, or if I might have tampered with the sensor.
They could ask if I have tampered with the sensor, but that brings up the ugly potential of people figuring out that they *could* tamper with the sensor.
Taking your post one step further, perhaps there is an unwritten gentlemens' agreement between Apple and Microsoft, going back to when MS invested in Apple and promised to continue developing software for the Mac.
MS would do the above, as long as Apple stayed away from the Enterprise.
I like this idea a lot (your post and/or mine), because I think it does a better job explaining why Apple is choosing to leave money on the table than anything else mentioned.
There is something peculiarly peaceful about this footage. The TV broadcast footage is somehow a bit too intimate in regards to their deaths, too mechanical and focusing on the gruesomeness.
This video shows a quiet, sad failure, with smoke clouds peacefully crossing a couple of times. It's zen like.
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We assume that thieves have no conscience at all, otherwise they wouldn't be thieves.
The reality is that they have a mixed conscience, and might in some way feel better about what they're doing if they're not entirely thieving about things.
More often than not, if a thief has the chance to steal some money but not all the money, they will leave some of it there.
Three kinds of security:
Some would make the argument that there are only two types. Biometrics is really something you have, and saying that it is something you are instead of something you have is a distinction without difference.
I can now vote in the US' is worth it - which seems to be the only other *practical* difference between a GC-holder, and a citizen.
I would argue that that difference isn't there. As a green card holder, you can contribute federal (and most if not all state) political campaigns.
For many campaigns, the calculus works out to $75 per vote. That is, once the election is over, each vote cost about $75.
So get our your checkbook and use $75 as a starting point for your favorite candidate(s).
As for giving up your UK passport, eh, that's not really enforced.
Hmm. These days Russia is often lumped together with Brazil, India and China. (The so-called BRIC nations, sometimes called BRICI when Indonesia is added.)
These are large, populous countries which aren't exactly developed but are growing quickly economically. Russia is a bit more developed, but growing slower.
Though Third World is a difficult concept to define, it often meant a nation which was not developed in the Western sense of the term, and either was developing or in the process thereof.
As an individual who has a degree in Economics, and a second in Russian, I think that Russia reasonably fits the definition of (advanced) "Third World." It's a developing nation, with pockets of development and wealth.
Germany's Autobahn is a very modern system, built with incredibly strict tolerances ..ish.
It is modern in the urban/suburban areas. But you can still find parts of the Autobahn that have no emergency lanes and short slip on/slip off ramps. It also so happens that these part of the Autobahn are in rural regions which have no speed limits.
But see... the fingerprint cannot be stored on the card
Which naturally implies that you should do your best not to touch the card with your bare hands.
At attempt to do this (container deposit) in Ohio was rejected by voters sometime (I think) in the 1970s, perhaps 1980s. For some reason the topic was dropped thereafter and never picked up again.
to make it look they do care for the environment, which brings votes
I love Cleveland. The city has a few nice, up and coming neighborhoods.
But most of the city is suffering badly. It has lost hundreds of thousands of people to the suburbs. The remaining population is largely poor, uneducated and hard-up.
They don't give a damn about the environment, they have much bigger problems. This has nothing to do with votes.
Americans love the convenience and comfort of their cars, that's for sure, but I think you're mistaking that for a love of driving.
Generally, they don't actually like driving. They buy floaty cars with automatic transmissions which separate the driver from the road. Compare this to Europeans, who often drive sleek cars with great transmissions and an intimate feel.
I think you'll find that Americans will enthusiastically let the cars drive for them.
A corporation's only goal is to maximize profit. That's how it works. They actually have a responsibility to their shareholders to make money
The Economist had an article on this. Maximizing shareholder value as a company goal is, interestingly enough, a recent phenomenon, from the 1970s.
The other two company goals that were apparently sidelined for maximizing profit were maximizing value for stakeholders (typically labor) or maximizing customer satisfaction.
We might be going back in the direction of the latter two.
It was because she wanted to make the lamps in her headlights last longer.
Hopefully she didn't have xenons. While the xenon bulb might be ok with being switched on and off like that, it's hell on the ballast.
The Economist's review doesn't necessarily answer your question, but I would say it's more informative overall.
but if i could listen to music, at least i wouldn't have to hear everyone else screaming as i burned to death in an aluminum tube
Your description ("begins cartwheeling through a cornfield) was likely a direct reference to United Airlines 232.
I've remember reading an article about that crash. At the time the aircraft was upside down and started cartwheeling, passengers said that there was no screaming. At that point, passengers had accepted that they were going to die and were at peace with it.
Many survived of course, but I thought that was an interesting footnote to your post.
Airliners already have very robust inflight DVR systems
Eh, some are ok. Some are notoriously troublesome. All of them are heavy, expensive, require substantial wiring, and when problems occur, they tend to take down all the seat screens.
I'd be astounded if those systems are less than $800/seat installation.
Hell, a built in iPad would be the way to go if I were running an airline. Relatively inexpensive, flexible, light weight, swap it out if something's wrong.
I'd go with a good hit o' weed myself
Now that's an interesting way of livening up my next acupuncture session.
the vast majority of people in britain now have a photo driving licence that performs the same function
Well now that the National ID scheme is/has been killed, now it's time to call up your MP and ask them to make the photo optional on the driving licence.
The mandatory photograph was added by the Labour government. Supposedly it was an effort to standardise licences in Europe, but the UK has a knack for getting opt-outs, here's a chance to get another.
Since when has statutory rape been part of cyber bullying?
Now that's one hell of a Facebook app.
Assuming that everything genetic can be explained as having an evolutionary purpose, does anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to a large group of people having a different schedule than everyone else?
I assume that the owls are meant to be sentinels for the tribe, watching late at night making sure that no one's on their way to attack. But perhaps there are more reasons I haven't thought of yet.
Technically they did open two accounts but I believe what you said still stands.
Opening a bank account isn't exactly a path towards identity theft. Money laundering, perhaps, but large transfers in and out of the account will raise flags and investigations will ensue.
Besides, I hear hotels in Europe often photocopy the identity pages of passports. Does this mean that hotel clerks all over Europe could run to Australia and open up bank accounts in other people's names, and if that's true, what are they going to do with those bank accounts?
I think you should definitely make sure to explain to others that this is an issue of human dignity and not necessarily "privacy (because people will try to find what the privacy violation is and will get confused if they can't find one, if their personal values aren't bothered by one thing or another.)
Your sense of human dignity is higher--you feel that it is inappropriate to fingerprint individuals who are not guilty of a crime, that somehow fingerprinting is disrespectful or inhuman. That you don't want to be a number on file, because it affects your sense of humanity. I'd cite the example of how the US Visit program caused a significant drop in how many visitors were coming to the US--visitors, who, understandably, didn't want to feel like a criminal just to come to the US and visit NYC.
It's worth following up with this even if you decide not to go with the job.
If you decide to go with the job, hopefully the employer is reasonable and will let you log in without your fingerprint, which the machines are damn well capable of. If not, and you want to offer up some passive resistance, say you have eczema. I personally actually have a case of eczema, which wipes out the fingerprints on a couple of fingers. You could possibly use an industrial solution of an AHA/BHA hydroxy acid (cosmetology sites may carry things like that, like 25% glycolic acid) to hyper exfoliate your skin and then use a rough pumice or other type of grimy surface to finish off the prints.
The crux of concern may be called "privacy" but isn't necessarily privacy. I don't think that he is necessarily concerned with how much of the fingerprint is retained or if it can be released, blah blah blah.
The issue here is one of human dignity. He feels (as do many others) that fingerprinting is a violation of his sense of human dignity. That somehow using your fingerprint in this type of operation makes him feel less human, less respected, more like a criminal, what have you.
>It's known as fraud.
Ish. I just returned a phone to ATT. They only ask what the color of the sensor is. They didn't ask if the phone was in water, or if I might have tampered with the sensor.
They could ask if I have tampered with the sensor, but that brings up the ugly potential of people figuring out that they *could* tamper with the sensor.
Taking your post one step further, perhaps there is an unwritten gentlemens' agreement between Apple and Microsoft, going back to when MS invested in Apple and promised to continue developing software for the Mac.
MS would do the above, as long as Apple stayed away from the Enterprise.
I like this idea a lot (your post and/or mine), because I think it does a better job explaining why Apple is choosing to leave money on the table than anything else mentioned.
There is something peculiarly peaceful about this footage. The TV broadcast footage is somehow a bit too intimate in regards to their deaths, too mechanical and focusing on the gruesomeness.
This video shows a quiet, sad failure, with smoke clouds peacefully crossing a couple of times. It's zen like.