Stop it, just quit being a little weasel. This discussion is not about the NSF.
The point is, all science costs money, so all science is biased by money. You berate any finding (regardless of validity) financed by a group that has some vested interest in a result that disagrees with your beliefs, but can see no problem with the funding of concurring research.
Also, do take note that academic scientists are anything but impartial... they need to get money, a lot of money, from various "impartial places". One example would be from the NSF. If the NSF wants global warming, that is what they will buy.
Maybe you should make some AC posts, if the ratio of opinions is not in your favor? For example, if you do not have enough scientists in a related field which agree with you, start including the unfounded opinions of any and every other type of scientist.
It is funny too, that almost every person in academia (including these climate scientists) will gladly tell you that they want totalitarian government in general. Through that lens, it becomes more questionable when we hear them say that this terrible thing is real, and the only real solution is a fascist state. The ends justify the means right?
Stamp the ground, plug your ears, jam your head down a hole! The fact is that the IRS abused (profiled as you say) people from a single political movement during, and in a way which did definitely affect, the election. Even the IRS admits this is a fact. Ignore this fact at your own peril.
Of course you might be right, and the motive behind this factual event was totally absent, completely senseless and completely random... it is a hypothesis without disproof. If our goal were only to think of the simplest single plausible hypothesis, we could certainly stop there. Among circles that use thought more rigorously, it is customary to at least entertain some alternative explanations (even if only to disprove them). In this case, the potential gain, opportunity, and act, are entirely consistent with reasonable hypotheses involving significantly more malice which deserve consideration. Perhaps the director of the IRS field office wanted to persecute Tea Party organizations, or maybe somebody told him to. As mere future peons, we will never know the truth.
The fact is, we will never know the truth. No inquest will be made, and no investigative report will see the light of day. Justice if due, will never be dealt. So it still seems kinda ignorant when you say:
This was not a conspiracy.
I guess you are still sticking with, "It was OK because Obama won.", or, "I am too ignorant, or in denial, to acknowledge direct and blatant abuse, even when told about it directly from a news source which almost always champions views apologizing for such abuse."
-- The invisible dick of Federal Cronyism is what fucks workers in the ass.
Except that they already have extensive allotments on much more valuable (lower frequency) radio spectrum for analog communication anyways, ie. 6m, 2m, 1.25m, 70cm... Higher frequency spectrum is more interesting for data transfer due to higher available bandwidth, and less interesting for analog radio due to limited range.
Most communications with satellites is in the form of high bandwidth digital data, so I would say these "black boxes" (they are called radios) evidently work super tops in space. Communications satellites are equipped with linear transponders, which simply rebroadcast whatever they hear over a large range of frequencies to a different large range of frequencies. They do not care what the mode is, whether analog, digital, or exotic spread spectrum.
We are talking about 25mhz of super valuable broadband data spectrum. It is an enormous allotment, and in any enterprise besides government the operators could not afford to use it at less than 100%.
There really is a lot of public good that can arise from public safety organizations having access to a flying vehicle with FLIR capabilities that costs less than $5000/hr to operate....
They admitted to what they were doing after the election, the scandal is after the election, the abuse was during the election.
From TFA (in the first paragraph, maybe you skimmed it):
The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
I guess you are sticking with, "It was OK because Obama won.", or, "I am too ignorant, or in denial, to acknowledge direct and blatant abuse, even when told about it directly from a news source which almost always champions views apologizing for such abuse."
Furthermore, I vote for Ron Paul, so fuck the GOP. This is not about left/right, it is about liberty/tyranny. If you think your rights as a human being are being protected by a clever choice between Republican or Democrat, you are the worst kind of fool.
Government usage of RF spectrum has a reputation of being grossly inefficient. In this entire band, which could easily support tens of thousands of cell users in an area, if not hundreds of thousands, the federal government might have a dozen or two users. Instead of using bandwidth packing digital and spread spectrum modes, they tend to use older more wasteful radio services, which are more prone to interference from other users. About the most efficient usage typically attained is analog trunked systems, which share RF space, but are still prone to interference. The even worse thing about the trunk systems are that they are usually more to prevent citizens from their civil right to listen to public service communication, instead of any good faith effort to conserve/share RF space.
In other words they are using radio space worth hundreds of millions of dollars to operate what is essentially the equivalent of couple of smart phones.
It was either a conspiracy, or perpetrated by a single person.
Do you think the police profiling of stoners is either a conspiracy, or perpetrated by a single person?
It would seem that if the profiling is endemic of a single police department, much like the abuse committed by the IRS office in Cincinnati, that there is probably some informal or formal policy directing those actions. Is being profiled as a stoner a major problem for you?
Notably missing from the police profiling analogy is the direct motive of political gain, by distracting, harassing, or impeding the opposing political party's campaign efforts during an election.
Are you being paid for this? Maybe some tax debt forgiven? Is it OK, because you voted for Obama? Can you see the inexcusable abuse if you pretend that your least favorite politician did the same thing, and won the election?
Submission claims they "lose money"
They might make less money but they NEVER lose.
Only the customers lose money.
Is it just me or does everyone hate their cell carrier?
This is kinda like the whole healthcare/hospital debate, where the hospitals claim to be losing money here or there, but their balance sheets show consistent 25% profit margins. They are just making less money.
First, you buy a new phone up front, and your bill is significantly lower. Next, your bill goes up to what it was before. Finally, you pay full price for the phone and full price for the phone bill.
It was either a conspiracy, or perpetrated by a single person.
Furthermore, whoever they claim is solely responsible, or whatever small supposedly unsanctioned group of employees they are blaming, are class-a patsies. They are fall men. Someone told them to do it, and they did it, but with plausible deniability.
You are just apologizing for, and giving a glory hole treatment to... the IRS.
Are you going to apologize for the State Department too? They just couldn't read the reports right, and by the time they had to do something, they couldn't without admitting their error... being the Secretary of State is HARD!
that a bunch of people who spend a lot of time whinging about taxes and telling each other stories about being tax protestors and evading or even avoiding tax, may actually be good targets for tax audits.
i.e. if you're doing your job of loooking for people avoiding tax, then starting with people who are ideologically inclined to avoid tax would be sensible and, likely, productive.
I have a news flash for you, people in the Tea Party complain about paying taxes because they actually do.
This doesn't seem to be politically motivated, it just seems like common sense.
If one group of people tend to hate taxes and think they're unconstitutional and evil, wouldn't it make sense to profile them as more likely to try to dodge taxes?
Is it really that crazy for the IRS to look at people who claim to hate taxes, as having a higher likelihood of being tax dodgers?
Is this really the very best IRS apology that you can come up with?
In an overdue but welcome move, President Obama today issued an executive order mandating "open and machine-readable data" for government-published information.
Yes, and after so much money and effort spent creating the databases and websites, they'll contain no data because it was all marked classified for national security reasons./snark
Nope, they will just leave out the embarrassing parts and distract you with petabytes of irrelevancy.
Every branch, and each political faction, constantly, and steadily usurps power from the american people. Democrat vs Republican ballots merely ask, which powers do you want to lose today? Whichever you pick, the other party waits, because they will take away the other freedom soon enough. There is not an option that says, "I want more freedom", or "I want the government to have less control of my life."
When paper documents are redacted for distribution, they have to put on ugly black boxes, so that you can physically see that they have not told you shit. In a digital document, entire parts can be removed without anyone being wiser.
If you have an interest in learning anything computer related, you can find a book/guide/man page/example out there. If you study, you'll get good at it. If you relentlessly seek to better yourself, you'll continually improve. You'll also look back at what you wrote last year/month/week and shudder. That means you're developing.
Are you trying to say it is not required that you pay to be surrounded by drunken teenagers, to learn things?
The difference between a 20 year old coder and a 40 year old coder is usually 20 years of coding experience. That usually entails not doing silly things like pushing untested junk to production. Instead, it is pushing well-tested junk to production.
However, if this guy is just starting at 40, he may have more things in common with the 20 year old than the other 40 year old coders.
There is an element of life experience to it as well I think. It is often not until we get older that the value of stability and safety is fully realized.
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GFCI does okay until the entire outlet is soaked. Then it's useless as fuck for protection.
I can see these mounted on a couch or table getting fully-soaked no problem.
You would certainly need GFI outside of the furniture, otherwise liquid could get to the live circuitry behind the GFI.
Stop it, just quit being a little weasel. This discussion is not about the NSF.
The point is, all science costs money, so all science is biased by money. You berate any finding (regardless of validity) financed by a group that has some vested interest in a result that disagrees with your beliefs, but can see no problem with the funding of concurring research.
Also, do take note that academic scientists are anything but impartial... they need to get money, a lot of money, from various "impartial places". One example would be from the NSF. If the NSF wants global warming, that is what they will buy.
We call it climate change now due to fucking idiots going "Global Warm'n?! It's COLD OUT, HAR HAR HAR."
I have also found berating the intelligence of skeptical people while trying to convince them that fantastic claims are true frequently works.
Maybe you should make some AC posts, if the ratio of opinions is not in your favor? For example, if you do not have enough scientists in a related field which agree with you, start including the unfounded opinions of any and every other type of scientist.
It is funny too, that almost every person in academia (including these climate scientists) will gladly tell you that they want totalitarian government in general. Through that lens, it becomes more questionable when we hear them say that this terrible thing is real, and the only real solution is a fascist state. The ends justify the means right?
Stamp the ground, plug your ears, jam your head down a hole! The fact is that the IRS abused (profiled as you say) people from a single political movement during, and in a way which did definitely affect, the election. Even the IRS admits this is a fact. Ignore this fact at your own peril.
Of course you might be right, and the motive behind this factual event was totally absent, completely senseless and completely random... it is a hypothesis without disproof. If our goal were only to think of the simplest single plausible hypothesis, we could certainly stop there. Among circles that use thought more rigorously, it is customary to at least entertain some alternative explanations (even if only to disprove them). In this case, the potential gain, opportunity, and act, are entirely consistent with reasonable hypotheses involving significantly more malice which deserve consideration. Perhaps the director of the IRS field office wanted to persecute Tea Party organizations, or maybe somebody told him to. As mere future peons, we will never know the truth.
The fact is, we will never know the truth. No inquest will be made, and no investigative report will see the light of day. Justice if due, will never be dealt. So it still seems kinda ignorant when you say:
This was not a conspiracy.
I guess you are still sticking with, "It was OK because Obama won.", or, "I am too ignorant, or in denial, to acknowledge direct and blatant abuse, even when told about it directly from a news source which almost always champions views apologizing for such abuse."
--
The invisible dick of Federal Cronyism is what fucks workers in the ass.
Except that they already have extensive allotments on much more valuable (lower frequency) radio spectrum for analog communication anyways, ie. 6m, 2m, 1.25m, 70cm... Higher frequency spectrum is more interesting for data transfer due to higher available bandwidth, and less interesting for analog radio due to limited range.
Most communications with satellites is in the form of high bandwidth digital data, so I would say these "black boxes" (they are called radios) evidently work super tops in space. Communications satellites are equipped with linear transponders, which simply rebroadcast whatever they hear over a large range of frequencies to a different large range of frequencies. They do not care what the mode is, whether analog, digital, or exotic spread spectrum.
We are talking about 25mhz of super valuable broadband data spectrum. It is an enormous allotment, and in any enterprise besides government the operators could not afford to use it at less than 100%.
There really is a lot of public good that can arise from public safety organizations having access to a flying vehicle with FLIR capabilities that costs less than $5000/hr to operate....
From TFA (in the first paragraph, maybe you skimmed it):
The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
I guess you are sticking with, "It was OK because Obama won.", or, "I am too ignorant, or in denial, to acknowledge direct and blatant abuse, even when told about it directly from a news source which almost always champions views apologizing for such abuse."
Furthermore, I vote for Ron Paul, so fuck the GOP. This is not about left/right, it is about liberty/tyranny. If you think your rights as a human being are being protected by a clever choice between Republican or Democrat, you are the worst kind of fool.
Government usage of RF spectrum has a reputation of being grossly inefficient. In this entire band, which could easily support tens of thousands of cell users in an area, if not hundreds of thousands, the federal government might have a dozen or two users. Instead of using bandwidth packing digital and spread spectrum modes, they tend to use older more wasteful radio services, which are more prone to interference from other users. About the most efficient usage typically attained is analog trunked systems, which share RF space, but are still prone to interference. The even worse thing about the trunk systems are that they are usually more to prevent citizens from their civil right to listen to public service communication, instead of any good faith effort to conserve/share RF space.
In other words they are using radio space worth hundreds of millions of dollars to operate what is essentially the equivalent of couple of smart phones.
Do you think the police profiling of stoners is either a conspiracy, or perpetrated by a single person?
It would seem that if the profiling is endemic of a single police department, much like the abuse committed by the IRS office in Cincinnati, that there is probably some informal or formal policy directing those actions. Is being profiled as a stoner a major problem for you?
Notably missing from the police profiling analogy is the direct motive of political gain, by distracting, harassing, or impeding the opposing political party's campaign efforts during an election.
Are you being paid for this? Maybe some tax debt forgiven? Is it OK, because you voted for Obama? Can you see the inexcusable abuse if you pretend that your least favorite politician did the same thing, and won the election?
Submission claims they "lose money" They might make less money but they NEVER lose. Only the customers lose money.
Is it just me or does everyone hate their cell carrier?
This is kinda like the whole healthcare/hospital debate, where the hospitals claim to be losing money here or there, but their balance sheets show consistent 25% profit margins. They are just making less money.
First, you buy a new phone up front, and your bill is significantly lower. Next, your bill goes up to what it was before. Finally, you pay full price for the phone and full price for the phone bill.
It was either a conspiracy, or perpetrated by a single person.
Furthermore, whoever they claim is solely responsible, or whatever small supposedly unsanctioned group of employees they are blaming, are class-a patsies. They are fall men. Someone told them to do it, and they did it, but with plausible deniability.
You are just apologizing for, and giving a glory hole treatment to... the IRS.
Are you going to apologize for the State Department too? They just couldn't read the reports right, and by the time they had to do something, they couldn't without admitting their error... being the Secretary of State is HARD!
Don't worry, what happened in Syria was just a "kinetic action".
that a bunch of people who spend a lot of time whinging about taxes and telling each other stories about being tax protestors and evading or even avoiding tax, may actually be good targets for tax audits.
i.e. if you're doing your job of loooking for people avoiding tax, then starting with people who are ideologically inclined to avoid tax would be sensible and, likely, productive.
I have a news flash for you, people in the Tea Party complain about paying taxes because they actually do.
This doesn't seem to be politically motivated, it just seems like common sense. If one group of people tend to hate taxes and think they're unconstitutional and evil, wouldn't it make sense to profile them as more likely to try to dodge taxes? Is it really that crazy for the IRS to look at people who claim to hate taxes, as having a higher likelihood of being tax dodgers?
Is this really the very best IRS apology that you can come up with?
Paper documents went out of vogue a long time ago. Your choice now is whether the digital documents are made private or public.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
The Trojans might have benefited greatly by looking in the mouth of a gift horse....
In an overdue but welcome move, President Obama today issued an executive order mandating "open and machine-readable data" for government-published information.
Yes, and after so much money and effort spent creating the databases and websites, they'll contain no data because it was all marked classified for national security reasons. /snark
Nope, they will just leave out the embarrassing parts and distract you with petabytes of irrelevancy.
Every branch, and each political faction, constantly, and steadily usurps power from the american people. Democrat vs Republican ballots merely ask, which powers do you want to lose today? Whichever you pick, the other party waits, because they will take away the other freedom soon enough. There is not an option that says, "I want more freedom", or "I want the government to have less control of my life."
When paper documents are redacted for distribution, they have to put on ugly black boxes, so that you can physically see that they have not told you shit. In a digital document, entire parts can be removed without anyone being wiser.
If you have an interest in learning anything computer related, you can find a book/guide/man page/example out there. If you study, you'll get good at it. If you relentlessly seek to better yourself, you'll continually improve. You'll also look back at what you wrote last year/month/week and shudder. That means you're developing.
Are you trying to say it is not required that you pay to be surrounded by drunken teenagers, to learn things?
At the end of the day somebody has to tell the computer exactly what we want it to do, and that somebody will always be a programmer.
The difference between a 20 year old coder and a 40 year old coder is usually 20 years of coding experience. That usually entails not doing silly things like pushing untested junk to production. Instead, it is pushing well-tested junk to production.
However, if this guy is just starting at 40, he may have more things in common with the 20 year old than the other 40 year old coders.
There is an element of life experience to it as well I think. It is often not until we get older that the value of stability and safety is fully realized.