On the other hand, if this keeps happening, someone will eventually end up being the one holding all of the oil cards. Being the only one holding all the cards when the market collapses isn't the best financial position to be in.
Your point about the energy companies finding other ways to profit off of energy once oil isn't a thing is valid. Maybe you'd suggest Ireland use their money and power to sway the board's? What is your suggestion? What if their share doesn't change opinion, should they divest then until the companies turn around or split their holdings?
Happens when you don't make it nationwide like in Australia.
Australia is totally surrounded by oceans making smuggling something like firearms evtremely difficult. The US has land borders that people, including smugglers, regularly simply walk or drive across. The existing drug and human smuggling cartels would simply add another item to the menu: firearms. Actual military-grade, select-fire/full-automatic rifles, sub-machine guns, and more. If people in the US are unable to obtain a legal firearm that complies with laws and regulations they'll buy from the black market that has no restrictions at all.
There is also the problem of the hundreds of millions of guns...many never registered...that are already in civilian hands. It would be impossible to confiscate enough to make it unlikely a criminal could not obtain one.
Because guns exist, its not possible to reduce the numbers en masse over the years if it was tried? Many would argue that as guns got scarce and the price soared, the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to buy them or find them?
Another thing is that guns favors the aggressor.
Guns are an equalizer. They allow a 120 pound (~55 kg) woman a chance to defend herself against a much larger and stronger (usually male) assailant and do it at a distance out of the assailant's reach. Same for older people. Guns save lives as well as take them. It happens almost daily in the US.
The US has had widespread civilian gun ownership since it's founding. The recent violence is a societal problem, not a "tool" problem. Simply look at the UK. Now they're talking about knife bans and one judge in the UK even suggesting people deliberately dull their kitchen knives(!). That's stupid in the extreme.
Of course, enacting bans makes politicos appear to the low-info types to be doing something without having to address the societal problems at the root of the violence that is largely due to their own government policies and laws to begin with.
Are you suggesting education for the people? Forced psyche exams at the DMV? Having the politicians change the laws?
Any solution that relies on shooting the shooter means that you tolerate one or several innocents shot before the aggressor is dealt with.
The frequency of that having occurred in the many thousands of times criminals have been shot in self defense by civilians in the US is statistically zero, where the number of lives saved is far above statistically zero.
But, let's not allow facts to get in the way of agendas.
Long story short, my hotmail email was stolen under Microsoft's watch. Someone used it for spam. I can't use skype now a decade later. There is no recourse.
It is the unintended consequences here. I can't use skype, therefore the people I do business with can't use Skype to talk to me, therefore requiring us to use something else. Once your clients have installed something else and figured out how to use it, its not that scary anymore.
If Microsoft has another use case similar, forcing honest folks like myself to use other services, and their clients, it doesn't take long to see a ripple over time. People either don't need to sign up, or end up using other software at least half the time.
Its fairly easy to create a set of connections and circles based on meta-data. One person is picked off for something, now there is an excuse to investigate everyone that person ever knew.
Just go try it. Failing is how you learn to succeed. If you're nervous about a few interviews, go interview at a few places you don't want to work for practice. You'll figure it out, just takes some practice learning to talk the talk.
Yea, its hard when there are two competing parties who both think their policies are the only correct way and wont talk about it in any reasonable manner. In a binary political system, only talking about feelings and never taking any conversation deeper than talking points, is a real problem.
Then again, what came first... The news cycles dumbing down the media, or the people answering polls saying "It was easier to read the short version, so I'll click that, because I'm in a hurry" Hmmm.
-- "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish " - Dr. Seuss
That is true. With that being said...I read this as a "Hey people, incentivize us in some way" pitch.
They've noticed the reality. Its clear there are larger benefits to society by not dragging someone down with a disease their entire life. I think they've asked, "So how do we make this work, that's not the business we are in."
-- "I have noticed a few repeating trends about people... " - Raven Kaldera
That's an amazing amount of money put into a satellite. We weren't all told this, but had this made it into orbit, all wars would have been declared over, and it would have put an end to hunger.
The internet has facilitated small niche's finding each other across the world.
The problem I see is not that folks are communicating, it's that the self checking mechanisms are seemingly non-existent. Right now, it's all about emotion, and who can make one feel more X.
When a company, like Facebook, is in an argument with its users, that the users DID know something, in other words, that the users were wrong, its gotten bad. When a company that seems to basically own their users, as they catalog their users every thought and action, concessions about them being respectful and honest about privacy are important. Not only does it look like Facebook own their users, they are telling them to check themselves.
-- "Without Galileo, we wouldn't have gone to the moon" - NASA Scientist
Assuming I need a connection to the internet. When my only providers are Comcast or Verizon, what is one to do when they are working together as one? We've tried new companies and even a city provided internet. The city is sued, the company has so many hurdles that no small company can do it. Would love your help.
There is nothing inherently wrong about people overdosing on their favorite topic. It's when they make it their reality that it becomes a problem for the rest of us.
When I talk to folks about the fake news they get why they enjoy it and read it, I'm told by them, that every story is based on a little truth. They think that they still get the base story, while being amused at how they are reading the news. Over years when this is all one ingests, it breads cynical distaste in life. Normal articles are long and boring, talking to different people face to face is out, and you can now see the truth, which really is that there is a conspiracy in everything. For the most part, they believe that they have thought it through.
-- People are people so why should it be -- Depeche Mode
There are always people that have been left out, can't get in, or are disenfranchised in some way or another. Or more simply, these folks can make money, wreak havoc and feel powerful, and have lots of time on their hands. Most importantly, they're k-rad now in their circle. These tools are at their disposal, the internet being open, allows it, until the free market does something, ie: DDos protection.
This is why security isn't and has never been free.
Slashdot Mirror
On the other hand, if this keeps happening, someone will eventually end up being the one holding all of the oil cards. Being the only one holding all the cards when the market collapses isn't the best financial position to be in.
Your point about the energy companies finding other ways to profit off of energy once oil isn't a thing is valid. Maybe you'd suggest Ireland use their money and power to sway the board's? What is your suggestion? What if their share doesn't change opinion, should they divest then until the companies turn around or split their holdings?
--
"Hi, my name is Teddy Ruxpin" -- T. Ruxpin
...than being able to re-edit video game sound tracks.
--
"A trumpet says what?" - H. Stern
This is about the equivalent of a soda tax.
Both sugar and the internet can make one unhealthy.
One man's vice is another man's revenue stream.
--
"Look on the bright side, it'll be dark soon." -- Midnight Sun
I like my pork without respiratory diseases.
A loinly disease.
--
Pun's-errific -- Jack Hoffman
Happens when you don't make it nationwide like in Australia.
Australia is totally surrounded by oceans making smuggling something like firearms evtremely difficult. The US has land borders that people, including smugglers, regularly simply walk or drive across. The existing drug and human smuggling cartels would simply add another item to the menu: firearms. Actual military-grade, select-fire/full-automatic rifles, sub-machine guns, and more. If people in the US are unable to obtain a legal firearm that complies with laws and regulations they'll buy from the black market that has no restrictions at all.
There is also the problem of the hundreds of millions of guns...many never registered...that are already in civilian hands. It would be impossible to confiscate enough to make it unlikely a criminal could not obtain one.
Because guns exist, its not possible to reduce the numbers en masse over the years if it was tried? Many would argue that as guns got scarce and the price soared, the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to buy them or find them?
Another thing is that guns favors the aggressor.
Guns are an equalizer. They allow a 120 pound (~55 kg) woman a chance to defend herself against a much larger and stronger (usually male) assailant and do it at a distance out of the assailant's reach. Same for older people. Guns save lives as well as take them. It happens almost daily in the US.
The US has had widespread civilian gun ownership since it's founding. The recent violence is a societal problem, not a "tool" problem. Simply look at the UK. Now they're talking about knife bans and one judge in the UK even suggesting people deliberately dull their kitchen knives(!). That's stupid in the extreme.
Of course, enacting bans makes politicos appear to the low-info types to be doing something without having to address the societal problems at the root of the violence that is largely due to their own government policies and laws to begin with.
Are you suggesting education for the people? Forced psyche exams at the DMV? Having the politicians change the laws?
Any solution that relies on shooting the shooter means that you tolerate one or several innocents shot before the aggressor is dealt with.
The frequency of that having occurred in the many thousands of times criminals have been shot in self defense by civilians in the US is statistically zero, where the number of lives saved is far above statistically zero.
But, let's not allow facts to get in the way of agendas.
Strat
Because of guns, more people are alive?
--
"Shoot the barrel boy!" - H. Simpson
...they just weren't young and vibrant.
--
"Wish you were here" -- Pink Floyd
2+2 is easy. My teachers went over it anyhow.
Learning how to cook is easy. I've taken many classes to learn different techniques that I had not been exposed to.
Many people have almost no exposure to cooking as children. Many have no idea how to prepare any type of food. A basics class certainly won't hurt.
Just because something is going to be mired in controversy, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
--
"Where can I find the blue fairy?" - David
Long story short, my hotmail email was stolen under Microsoft's watch. Someone used it for spam. I can't use skype now a decade later. There is no recourse.
It is the unintended consequences here. I can't use skype, therefore the people I do business with can't use Skype to talk to me, therefore requiring us to use something else. Once your clients have installed something else and figured out how to use it, its not that scary anymore.
If Microsoft has another use case similar, forcing honest folks like myself to use other services, and their clients, it doesn't take long to see a ripple over time. People either don't need to sign up, or end up using other software at least half the time.
Its fairly easy to create a set of connections and circles based on meta-data. One person is picked off for something, now there is an excuse to investigate everyone that person ever knew.
--
"It's all in the timing" -- David Ives
Just go try it. Failing is how you learn to succeed. If you're nervous about a few interviews, go interview at a few places you don't want to work for practice. You'll figure it out, just takes some practice learning to talk the talk.
--
"Thanks All Folks" - P. Pig
Yea, its hard when there are two competing parties who both think their policies are the only correct way and wont talk about it in any reasonable manner. In a binary political system, only talking about feelings and never taking any conversation deeper than talking points, is a real problem.
Then again, what came first... The news cycles dumbing down the media, or the people answering polls saying "It was easier to read the short version, so I'll click that, because I'm in a hurry" Hmmm.
--
"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish " - Dr. Seuss
That is true. With that being said...I read this as a "Hey people, incentivize us in some way" pitch.
They've noticed the reality. Its clear there are larger benefits to society by not dragging someone down with a disease their entire life. I think they've asked, "So how do we make this work, that's not the business we are in."
--
"I have noticed a few repeating trends about people... " - Raven Kaldera
That's an amazing amount of money put into a satellite. We weren't all told this, but had this made it into orbit, all wars would have been declared over, and it would have put an end to hunger.
--
One potato, two potato, three potato, four...
We shouldn't invest in mental health care because it takes too long?
--
"What's up doc?" - B. Bunny
The internet has facilitated small niche's finding each other across the world.
The problem I see is not that folks are communicating, it's that the self checking mechanisms are seemingly non-existent. Right now, it's all about emotion, and who can make one feel more X.
--
"This love is silent" - T.S. Elliot
Hard to fault him? He's a 51% owner, CEO and founder of Facebook. What are you talking about?
--
"Whats up doc?" -- B. Bunny
When a company, like Facebook, is in an argument with its users, that the users DID know something, in other words, that the users were wrong, its gotten bad. When a company that seems to basically own their users, as they catalog their users every thought and action, concessions about them being respectful and honest about privacy are important. Not only does it look like Facebook own their users, they are telling them to check themselves.
--
"Without Galileo, we wouldn't have gone to the moon" - NASA Scientist
Assuming I need a connection to the internet. When my only providers are Comcast or Verizon, what is one to do when they are working together as one? We've tried new companies and even a city provided internet. The city is sued, the company has so many hurdles that no small company can do it. Would love your help.
--
"It's blue" - Jeremy Briggs
This makes me want to get rid of my computer.
--
I like to run on a treadmill because I love to hate myself sometimes -- Laura
There is nothing inherently wrong about people overdosing on their favorite topic. It's when they make it their reality that it becomes a problem for the rest of us.
--
Beam me up scotty - Jim K.
When I talk to folks about the fake news they get why they enjoy it and read it, I'm told by them, that every story is based on a little truth. They think that they still get the base story, while being amused at how they are reading the news. Over years when this is all one ingests, it breads cynical distaste in life. Normal articles are long and boring, talking to different people face to face is out, and you can now see the truth, which really is that there is a conspiracy in everything. For the most part, they believe that they have thought it through.
--
People are people so why should it be -- Depeche Mode
>/dev/null
--
"And then there was one" - The Voice
There are always people that have been left out, can't get in, or are disenfranchised in some way or another. Or more simply, these folks can make money, wreak havoc and feel powerful, and have lots of time on their hands. Most importantly, they're k-rad now in their circle. These tools are at their disposal, the internet being open, allows it, until the free market does something, ie: DDos protection.
This is why security isn't and has never been free.
--
'I aint coming down' - Eddie Vedder, cover
Should be a daily thing.
--
Sometimes I look up, sometimes I look down.
Your studies state that even the very few people that illegally voted could not have changed the outcome of any election.
The rest of these are onsy twosy cases, or terrible articles based off of misreading of the studies presented.
--
Whats up Doc? - B. Bunny