White man walks through black neighborhood, gets attacked by black men because he's white. If you don't count that as racism than you should probably stop trying to use words at all.
While I am all for this type of legislature, I have to ask myself, on what authority do the FEDS have to make this law? I'm not sure how I see this falling into the interstate commerce clause? I mean, a person works in his state....money paid to him in a state in which he is responsible for state taxes, etc.
The same backwards logic that let them violate the airspace rules and launch the "drone" in the first place.
Who said they violated airspace? Given the fact that the helicopter crashed on to the highway, I strongly suspect that it was over the public highway or at least the public owned right of way. No, this is some punk trying to show them faggy liberals how tough they are.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The issue here is that they were denied permission to fly the chopper and did it anyhow. That's the first breach of law. The other issue is that somebody fired a single shot from a small-caliber firearm which seems to have damaged the chopper.
And yet, no charges were filed, nor even mentioned in the article. Also given that the aircraft was over the public highway at the time of the shooting, you couldn't even say that it violated airspace. So no. There wasn't a "breach of law" on the part of SHARK here.
By this logic, the public should have no method of determining their local police forces typical response times, how well or under staffed they are, etc.
Yes, because independent auditors hired by the city, county, and/or state governments perhaps even by a Citizen Police Review Board are SOOOO impractical.
Of all the misinformation you have in your post (ACORN? Really? Get thee to Glen Beck!) , these are the two most egregious, since they come from a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between government and investment banks.
First. The government does not create investment vehicles beyond government bonds. I 'm sorry, but it just doesn't. HUD did not create collateralized-debt-obligations / credit-default-swaps. That was the brain trusts on Wall Street. They were able to securitize and resecuritize these risky loans, due to deregulation of the banking industry. Actually, when it comes to the derivatives market, there aren't any regulations.
Second. No one forced anyone to buy the CDOs. While the first generation of CDOs probably was a good investments, the later generations weren't. They were so bad, that investment banks and hedge funds such as Magnatar Capital were knowingly creating CDOs that would fail, and were shorting them, all the while selling them to their clients as rock solid investments. That is fraud.
That is why people are pissed off. They're pissed off at Wall Street for crashing the economy while making billions on our troubles. They're pissed of at the government for putting policies in place since the 1980s and policies advocated by The Most Blessed, Saint Ronald of Hollywood, Peace Be Upon Him. Polices such as cutting the capital gains taxes. Removing regulations that stabilized the economy and set us on the path to become the preeminent economic power of the 20th century. Essentially, polices that punished work, and rewarded wealth. These are policies backed by Wall Street, and pushed by their lackys in Washington. These are the policies of the GOP. Just look at the charts. And while we're at it, I suggest you look at the national debt chart, and tell me who really cuts government spending.
And you know what I'm pissed off about? No one on Wall Street, is being prosecuted for fraud.
The French knew how to deal with our Wall Street problem.
Management would beat with a pool cue until you had dettached retinas for less money than that. Do you really think that management wouldn't sell out their employees for a buck? They already outsourced a big chunk of the code you said. One way loyalty is simply holding the hand that holds you down.
I am becoming convinced that this talk about "privacy" completely misses the mark about what's really going on. Someone wants privacy they want secrecy. He or she is afraid that exposing a secret will injure him or her in someway. The injury is greatest if it's exposed someone the person knows, or to someone that has power over them. In social network mining (email being the oldest online social network) no one actually reads the messages. A machine does. The secrets are never actually exposed to anyone.
English had the dumb luck to be on top when globalization kicked in. It's entrenched to the point that it will be damn near impossible to replace barring some major, unprecedented upheaval in the world order. And no, the Chinese becoming a leading economy is not a major upheaval.
I don't know about "rock stars," but I'd agree with "novelties."
When I was in Beijing a few years ago, I had a two college students come up to me. Only one of them spoke. This was literally the conversation.:
Guy: Hello. Do you speak English? Me: Yes, I do. Guy: Where are you from? Me: California. The United States. Guy: What is your name? Me: [insert name here] Guy: How old are you? Me: [insert age here]. Guy: May I take your picture Me: Okay. The guy's friend pulls out his cellphone and takes our picture. Guy: He wants one too. The guy and his friend switch places and another picture is taken. Both pictures feature a beaming Chinese guy. Guy: Thank you.
Then the two walk off down the street. I always think that when they show the pictures to their friends, they say, "Look! It's whitey!"
Perhaps "long time goal" was a bit of an overstatement. I do stand by the that it's been a recent goal, since the radical Randian/pseudo-literal-constitutionistl wing of the party became ascendant. (I will take those arguments seriously, when those spouting them take equally stern view at the Air Force.)
In 2005, Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania, now GOP Presidential candidate, in proposed to forbid the NWS from disseminating forecasts and data free of charge, and instead force access of the taxpayer supported data through for-profit companies such as AccuWeather. Why? The NWS unfairly competes with for profit companies, even though the companies get 90% of their data from the NWS, thus meaning people would be effectively purchasing the same data twice.
Of course we can follow this up with accounts of GOP meddling with NOAA funding of climate science, but I chalk that up to their run of the mill corporate-religous synergistic anti-science policies.
Also dear mods, a question can't be "informative," since it is a request for information. It may be "insightful," or maybe "interesting," but it is never "informative."
You do realize defunding the National Weather Service and turning to ostensibly private organizations such as AccuWeather (which unsurprisingly gets 90% of its data from the NWS, and thus essentially serves as nothing but a middle man) has been a long time goal of the Republican party.
And heaven forbid someone actually examine the cost-benefit ratio of a government program to determine whether or not that it is actually effective.
No. Of course not. Facts have no place in your worldview. It's just cheerleading.
Slashdot Mirror
Put up or shut up.
Links: How do they work?
Computer scientists? They're fuckin' lyin'.
Sounds great. Where is it?
While I am all for this type of legislature, I have to ask myself, on what authority do the FEDS have to make this law?
I'm not sure how I see this falling into the interstate commerce clause? I mean, a person works in his state....money paid to him in a state in which he is responsible for state taxes, etc.
And the server is in another state.
Consolidation of open-source software business model?
I'm pretty sure revenue sharing is the big reason why carriers use Google Android as opposed to some other OS, including Community Android.
Well given that self-driving cars sill aren't here, and I see no plans for a Google Self-Drive Car Dealership anytime soon.
When comes to the linux kernel, I'll answer in all seriousness, "So what?"
The same backwards logic that let them violate the airspace rules and launch the "drone" in the first place.
Who said they violated airspace? Given the fact that the helicopter crashed on to the highway, I strongly suspect that it was over the public highway or at least the public owned right of way. No, this is some punk trying to show them faggy liberals how tough they are.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The issue here is that they were denied permission to fly the chopper and did it anyhow. That's the first breach of law. The other issue is that somebody fired a single shot from a small-caliber firearm which seems to have damaged the chopper.
And yet, no charges were filed, nor even mentioned in the article. Also given that the aircraft was over the public highway at the time of the shooting, you couldn't even say that it violated airspace. So no. There wasn't a "breach of law" on the part of SHARK here.
By this logic, the public should have no method of determining their local police forces typical response times, how well or under staffed they are, etc.
Yes, because independent auditors hired by the city, county, and/or state governments perhaps even by a Citizen Police Review Board are SOOOO impractical.
Since the HUD consolidated all of these bad loans in one place, it was like a bomb going off.
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And now we have a bunch of protesters pissed off at Wall St. Huh? Perfect example of people being brainwashed by our government.
Duty calls.
Of all the misinformation you have in your post (ACORN? Really? Get thee to Glen Beck!) , these are the two most egregious, since they come from a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between government and investment banks.
First. The government does not create investment vehicles beyond government bonds. I 'm sorry, but it just doesn't. HUD did not create collateralized-debt-obligations / credit-default-swaps. That was the brain trusts on Wall Street. They were able to securitize and resecuritize these risky loans, due to deregulation of the banking industry. Actually, when it comes to the derivatives market, there aren't any regulations.
Second. No one forced anyone to buy the CDOs. While the first generation of CDOs probably was a good investments, the later generations weren't. They were so bad, that investment banks and hedge funds such as Magnatar Capital were knowingly creating CDOs that would fail, and were shorting them, all the while selling them to their clients as rock solid investments. That is fraud.
That is why people are pissed off. They're pissed off at Wall Street for crashing the economy while making billions on our troubles. They're pissed of at the government for putting policies in place since the 1980s and policies advocated by The Most Blessed, Saint Ronald of Hollywood, Peace Be Upon Him. Polices such as cutting the capital gains taxes. Removing regulations that stabilized the economy and set us on the path to become the preeminent economic power of the 20th century. Essentially, polices that punished work, and rewarded wealth. These are policies backed by Wall Street, and pushed by their lackys in Washington. These are the policies of the GOP. Just look at the charts. And while we're at it, I suggest you look at the national debt chart, and tell me who really cuts government spending.
And you know what I'm pissed off about? No one on Wall Street, is being prosecuted for fraud.
The French knew how to deal with our Wall Street problem.
Take the new job.
Management would beat with a pool cue until you had dettached retinas for less money than that. Do you really think that management wouldn't sell out their employees for a buck? They already outsourced a big chunk of the code you said. One way loyalty is simply holding the hand that holds you down.
Truth is when you add all the taxes he really pays through corporate taxes on his investment firm that he is the majority holder in...
Nice try. Both he and I own stock. We don't pay corporate taxes. The company does. It's not our accounts, nor are they our not assets.
Well then, they should simply incorporate.
Besides a few hardcore geeks, no one bothers to even look at the code.
And seriously. Like @#$%t78rRuby or $!^&$Perl is better.
That's up to 675,000 people he's hurt,
No. That's up to all of us.
Great camp. Such a horrible t-shirts.
Not as mind blowing as searching for www.google.com on Google.
There was an outcry. Complete with allegations of wiretap violations.
I am becoming convinced that this talk about "privacy" completely misses the mark about what's really going on. Someone wants privacy they want secrecy. He or she is afraid that exposing a secret will injure him or her in someway. The injury is greatest if it's exposed someone the person knows, or to someone that has power over them. In social network mining (email being the oldest online social network) no one actually reads the messages. A machine does. The secrets are never actually exposed to anyone.
So what is happening? Your social actions, you, your friends, and that very low fidelity copy of what makes you "you," (your soul if you want to get a bit melodramatic) is commodified and sold. You provide the value, and yet you receive nothing in return.. I believe it's this idea: that humans are simply goods to exploited and sold is what really underpins this talk about "privacy."
No. Just boring old brown.
But where are you when the other great memes are dying sir?
I was busy pouring hot grits down my pants!
You know, perhaps it's just my years of hanging out on slashdot, and the age of the meme, but instead of being shocked and repulsed, I got nostalgic.
English had the dumb luck to be on top when globalization kicked in. It's entrenched to the point that it will be damn near impossible to replace barring some major, unprecedented upheaval in the world order. And no, the Chinese becoming a leading economy is not a major upheaval.
English as a trade language. A lingua franca!
Off the top my head, the history of lingua francas are:
English
French
Latin
Greek
White guys are treated like rock stars in China
I don't know about "rock stars," but I'd agree with "novelties."
When I was in Beijing a few years ago, I had a two college students come up to me. Only one of them spoke. This was literally the conversation.:
Guy: Hello. Do you speak English?
Me: Yes, I do.
Guy: Where are you from?
Me: California. The United States.
Guy: What is your name?
Me: [insert name here]
Guy: How old are you?
Me: [insert age here].
Guy: May I take your picture
Me: Okay.
The guy's friend pulls out his cellphone and takes our picture.
Guy: He wants one too.
The guy and his friend switch places and another picture is taken. Both pictures feature a beaming Chinese guy.
Guy: Thank you.
Then the two walk off down the street. I always think that when they show the pictures to their friends, they say, "Look! It's whitey!"
Perhaps "long time goal" was a bit of an overstatement. I do stand by the that it's been a recent goal, since the radical Randian/pseudo-literal-constitutionistl wing of the party became ascendant. (I will take those arguments seriously, when those spouting them take equally stern view at the Air Force.)
This year Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) has proposed a 28% cut in funding . This adversely effect forecasting.
In 2005, Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania, now GOP Presidential candidate, in proposed to forbid the NWS from disseminating forecasts and data free of charge, and instead force access of the taxpayer supported data through for-profit companies such as AccuWeather. Why? The NWS unfairly competes with for profit companies, even though the companies get 90% of their data from the NWS, thus meaning people would be effectively purchasing the same data twice.
Of course we can follow this up with accounts of GOP meddling with NOAA funding of climate science, but I chalk that up to their run of the mill corporate-religous synergistic anti-science policies.
Also dear mods, a question can't be "informative," since it is a request for information. It may be "insightful," or maybe "interesting," but it is never "informative."
You do realize defunding the National Weather Service and turning to ostensibly private organizations such as AccuWeather (which unsurprisingly gets 90% of its data from the NWS, and thus essentially serves as nothing but a middle man) has been a long time goal of the Republican party.
And heaven forbid someone actually examine the cost-benefit ratio of a government program to determine whether or not that it is actually effective.
No. Of course not. Facts have no place in your worldview. It's just cheerleading.