And once again, despite all the noise and hype... the numbers are vanishingly small. Much smaller than you'd expect.
And no, don't come back with "but they should be zero". That's just ignorant and stupid. The 'net is a central part of a lot of people's lives now and if they're under investigation their 'net activity is and should be part of that, just like phone records, credit card records, etc... etc...
It can get even finer grained than that... There are four incorporated municipalities in my county, so there are *five* different sales tax rates. (Not to mention the problem that different taxing jurisdictions can, and do, tax various products at different rates.)
This is the biggest news since Watergate and the news media is just pretending it didn't happen.
Um, no. It's not particularly big news - it's right on par with Jeff Bezos pulling some rusty old hardware from the same era from the ocean. It's ancient history. Not only that, it's ancient history that been known for over a decade now.
Also, happy to see this story on slashdot
I'm not - it's not news for nerds *or* stuff that's important. It serves mainly for today's Two Minute Hate and for most of the posters here to parade their vast ignorance and unshakeable biases.
Every single war we've fought since Korea was started by a Republican
That's true - once you ignore the inconvenient bits (like Ike not sending combat troops to Vietnam), and ignore the wars not started by them even though we participated in them (Bush I), and elevate small events all out of proportion (Grenada)...
How is not exposing a presidential candidate's treason putting country ahead of personal and party gain? Just because he would gain politically does not automatically mean that he shouldn't do it "for the good of the country." Those things are not exclusive.
Most people in this discussion seem to forget two things: First, the '68 election was one of the ugliest and bitterest of the 20th century.* Second *Humphrey believed he was winning". (And he very nearly did.)
Releasing this information under those circumstances would have been seen as pouring gasoline on the fire, when there was no need to do so, leading to further division and dissension within the country at a time when it could ill afford it.
* Consider that the campaign had already been marked by Robert Kennedy's assassination, Martin Luther King's assassination, the Tet offensive, widespread violence and protests over racial issues and the war...
I was just reading up on corruption of blood the other day. There's one exception that been approved by courts to be constitutional, though it's only in place in Texas: if you kill someone, neither you nor your progeny may inherit from that person.
That's the "Slayer Rule"... and it's not just Texas.
No, we have an article whose source of information is straight from the then President's mouth. You try to claim it's not true, but what exactly would Johnson gain by making this up and saying this on tapes that purposefully would not be declassified until long after him and Nixon would be dead?
Why? Potential political gain. Not only was LBJ a master politician, he was not above a bit of dirty pool - and the '68 election was one of the bitterest fights of the 20th century. Context cannot be ignored.
So that's like fifteen shuttles taking off at once.
Or it would be - if the Shuttles had only their three main engines running at launch. You've forgotten to include the solids, which account for over 80% of the Shuttle's takeoff thrust.
(Anyone know how to convert those lat/long coordinates into WGS-84 or Google Earth coordinates?)
don't worry about it, just treat them as WGS84. The datum conversion differences (at most a couple hundred meters) is generally less than the loran-c or earlier positioning tech accuracy.
You can't do that because the formats are completely different. The coordinates NASA provides are in decimal rather than DMS or WGS84.
Anything that remains of Nixon's estate (should be traceable still) should be immediately frozen to be used to compensate those affected by this
US law in general pretty much forbids such posthumous conviction and seizure (there are some exceptions, but they are narrow), and in the case of treason forbids it specifically ("no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted"). The Founding Fathers knew well of the abuses of such things for political and dynastic reasons in the Old World, and sought to prevent those abuses in the New.
I'm not sure how much I buy that... even partial serial numbers should be enough to determine that they pieces are likely to be from mission 'x' and not from mission 'y'. Enough partials and the level of confidence as to which mission they came from can get pretty high.
You can also compare the recovery location to the impact point for each mission - Apollo By The Numbers has a table giving the impact locations for the S-IC and S-II stages. I'd have to plot it out to see how far apart they are, but at first glance they're modestly well scattered. (Anyone know how to convert those lat/long coordinates into WGS-84 or Google Earth coordinates?) Again, not a smoking gun but definitely a way to increase the confidence level.
For the love-o-jebus, The nations staged the largest protest in American History...
Jesus H. Christ on rocket powered pogo stick... who the fuck cares? Anyone with the faintest knowledge of US political history knows damn well that protests don't change anything. If you voted for the same bastards (regardless of party, which 99% of those millions did), you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Stop acting like spending a few hours traipsing around with signs makes you some kind of hero who tried his very best.
Well, the management team formed by the former Pentagon bean-counter that Shrub foisted on NASA.
Translation: To preserve my bias, I'll spin and twist and handwave... whatever it takes.
IMOHO it's a mistake to think of NASA as the 'leadership' imposed by the pols in DC, I always envision the organization as being the engineers, programmers, and astronauts who do the actual work there.
Anyone who thinks that programs as large and as long as those NASA undertakes can be done without management... and that those managers don't do 'actual work'... is an ignorant fool.
Actually - if you read the article, it was NASA management that proposed the cuts... but go ahead, blame Bush. Bias and ignorance is ever so much easier than reading and comprehending.
The "family" has been dead for years, ratings-wise. The only numbers that count -- at all -- are adults 18-49, and within that group women 18-34 are particularly valued. That's why singing and dancing competitions rule the airwaves. If you are under 18 or older than 49 your TV viewing habits do not matter to advertisers, they do not matter to networks. An 100 million kids could watch a prime time TV show, and it will still get canceled if not enough adults are watching.
You seem unaware that there's much more to television than the prime-time network broadcast channels. (And your concept of prime-time seems limited to 8-9PM.)
A business model like the MLB.TV model is one that probably works best. A worldwide 24/7 online TV channel paid for by subscription and/or advertising. It provides full demographic info in real time, allows one-click purchasing to firms, and it allows for long-tail and niche programming too.
MLB.TV only works because it's basic and most important product, the baseball game, is not only essentially free (being paid for by the team owner), it's also pre-sold (there's a lot of baseball fans), and more-or-less stable (there's nothing new in the lineup and nobody's going to be cancelled). That's pretty much utterly unlike conventional programming, where not only do the show's production costs have to be paid, but new shows have to earn their bones. You're extrapolating from apples to bicycles... and that's a very dodgy business.
Long, long gone are movies like "The Sand Pebbles". Why? Because adults do not go to the cinema in sufficient numbers to matter, unless they are taking their kids to see a kids movie.
Um... what planet do you live on? Because here on Earth, there's a lot of movies that do very well that aren't kid's fare. (Not that there's anything magical about Sand Pebbles anyhow. It was a modestly popular novel that caught the eye of a producer/director with juice enough to convince the studio to make the film.)
He is not asked to do overtime and teach the kid on his own time.
Assuming that "teaching the kid" is within the scope of the contract.
There's a difference between 'facts' and 'assumptions' - you might study up on the meaning of the two words, as you're a bit unclear on the differences.
Yes, I did. And what's more, I actually comprehended it - which you plainly did not.
And as far as not stating he's being compensated... he's a contractor.
I take it then you've never actually been a contractor? Here in the real world, they get asked to do stuff that's not in the contract. That's why you *have* a contract - to limit the scope of work.
He does work for a client and bills them for his work, and he clearly states he's still working for the client, but one day they might end the contract to save money - which means he's still getting paid.
That implies the continued existence of a contract to produce the work he has done in the past. That does not mean he's been contracted and being paid for training his replacement.
Learn the difference between assumptions and facts.
While I agree mostly with what you've said, keep in mind that, as a contractor, he's been asked to provide a different service, to train the new guy, and is being compensated as both parties deem appropriate.
Nowhere in TFA does the submitter state that he is being compensated, let alone that he's happy with the agreement.
Unless you really want to, why leave the country? The U.S. can be very cheap -- you just have to get away from the coasts.
Yes, if you really want to get cheap, the Rust Belt is the way to go - but there are other points on the spectrum.
It's not necessarily the coasts that you need to get away from, it's the metropolises. Norfolk is coastal (though nobody with sense would *want* to live there), and is far cheaper than NYC or Boston. Jacksonville (FL) is far cheaper than Miami or Tampa-St Pete. (And the panhandle is cheaper still, but not nearly as cosmopolitan as the First Coast.) Seattle is cheaper than 'Frisco, but across the Sound is cheaper still... etc... etc...
When a board member calls up the CEO and says that it's unanimous, it's time for you to leave, the CEO can either save face and "resign", or let the board officially vote them out. Regardless of what they're calling it, "fired" is probably an accurate description.
Yep, at that level you're rarely publicly 'fired'... You just come back to the office after lunch and find on your desk the equivalent of a pistol with a single round in it. Everyone (involved) knows what that means.
It's not being used for electricity. We hardly make any steel here anymore.
We made a million tons of steel last week... 18 million tons year-to-date. In 2012, we made 5.7% of the worlds steel (88 million tons) - putting us in third place (behind China and Japan) overall. The only European country in the top ten is Germany - which clocks in at #7 with approximately 2%. (Most of the worlds steel is made in Asia and Russia/CIS.)
So, yeah, US steel production is a long way down from it's peak, but it's gross ignorance to say we make 'hardly any'.
Why? It's the owners choice as to whether or not something will be free. Making a documentary about something does not automatically mean having the same beliefs.
The Wikipedia quote is from Didacticism, the term the OP used is Didactic. While they share the same roots - they aren't the same word. (And didactic usually used as something of a pejorative.)
I am surprised that no one has commented on the fact that this is another case of a backdoor that was intended for the use of whitehats being commandeered by blackhats.
They're too busy dancing and singing over the fact that "some rich guys" (who deserved it anyhow) "got fleeced". Security implications be dammed.
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And once again, despite all the noise and hype... the numbers are vanishingly small. Much smaller than you'd expect.
And no, don't come back with "but they should be zero". That's just ignorant and stupid. The 'net is a central part of a lot of people's lives now and if they're under investigation their 'net activity is and should be part of that, just like phone records, credit card records, etc... etc...
It can get even finer grained than that... There are four incorporated municipalities in my county, so there are *five* different sales tax rates. (Not to mention the problem that different taxing jurisdictions can, and do, tax various products at different rates.)
Um, no. It's not particularly big news - it's right on par with Jeff Bezos pulling some rusty old hardware from the same era from the ocean. It's ancient history. Not only that, it's ancient history that been known for over a decade now.
I'm not - it's not news for nerds *or* stuff that's important. It serves mainly for today's Two Minute Hate and for most of the posters here to parade their vast ignorance and unshakeable biases.
That's true - once you ignore the inconvenient bits (like Ike not sending combat troops to Vietnam), and ignore the wars not started by them even though we participated in them (Bush I), and elevate small events all out of proportion (Grenada)...
Your willing bias and ignorance blinds you.
Most people in this discussion seem to forget two things: First, the '68 election was one of the ugliest and bitterest of the 20th century.* Second *Humphrey believed he was winning". (And he very nearly did.)
Releasing this information under those circumstances would have been seen as pouring gasoline on the fire, when there was no need to do so, leading to further division and dissension within the country at a time when it could ill afford it.
* Consider that the campaign had already been marked by Robert Kennedy's assassination, Martin Luther King's assassination, the Tet offensive, widespread violence and protests over racial issues and the war...
That's the "Slayer Rule"... and it's not just Texas.
Why? Potential political gain. Not only was LBJ a master politician, he was not above a bit of dirty pool - and the '68 election was one of the bitterest fights of the 20th century. Context cannot be ignored.
Or it would be - if the Shuttles had only their three main engines running at launch. You've forgotten to include the solids, which account for over 80% of the Shuttle's takeoff thrust.
You can't do that because the formats are completely different. The coordinates NASA provides are in decimal rather than DMS or WGS84.
US law in general pretty much forbids such posthumous conviction and seizure (there are some exceptions, but they are narrow), and in the case of treason forbids it specifically ("no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted"). The Founding Fathers knew well of the abuses of such things for political and dynastic reasons in the Old World, and sought to prevent those abuses in the New.
I'm not sure how much I buy that... even partial serial numbers should be enough to determine that they pieces are likely to be from mission 'x' and not from mission 'y'. Enough partials and the level of confidence as to which mission they came from can get pretty high.
You can also compare the recovery location to the impact point for each mission - Apollo By The Numbers has a table giving the impact locations for the S-IC and S-II stages. I'd have to plot it out to see how far apart they are, but at first glance they're modestly well scattered. (Anyone know how to convert those lat/long coordinates into WGS-84 or Google Earth coordinates?) Again, not a smoking gun but definitely a way to increase the confidence level.
Jesus H. Christ on rocket powered pogo stick... who the fuck cares? Anyone with the faintest knowledge of US political history knows damn well that protests don't change anything. If you voted for the same bastards (regardless of party, which 99% of those millions did), you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Stop acting like spending a few hours traipsing around with signs makes you some kind of hero who tried his very best.
They'll block 99% of *all* light, coherent or not, thus rendering the pilots essentially blind.
Translation: To preserve my bias, I'll spin and twist and handwave... whatever it takes.
Anyone who thinks that programs as large and as long as those NASA undertakes can be done without management... and that those managers don't do 'actual work'... is an ignorant fool.
Actually - if you read the article, it was NASA management that proposed the cuts... but go ahead, blame Bush. Bias and ignorance is ever so much easier than reading and comprehending.
You seem unaware that there's much more to television than the prime-time network broadcast channels. (And your concept of prime-time seems limited to 8-9PM.)
MLB.TV only works because it's basic and most important product, the baseball game, is not only essentially free (being paid for by the team owner), it's also pre-sold (there's a lot of baseball fans), and more-or-less stable (there's nothing new in the lineup and nobody's going to be cancelled). That's pretty much utterly unlike conventional programming, where not only do the show's production costs have to be paid, but new shows have to earn their bones. You're extrapolating from apples to bicycles... and that's a very dodgy business.
Um... what planet do you live on? Because here on Earth, there's a lot of movies that do very well that aren't kid's fare. (Not that there's anything magical about Sand Pebbles anyhow. It was a modestly popular novel that caught the eye of a producer/director with juice enough to convince the studio to make the film.)
Assuming he bills by the hour.
Assuming that "teaching the kid" is within the scope of the contract.
There's a difference between 'facts' and 'assumptions' - you might study up on the meaning of the two words, as you're a bit unclear on the differences.
Yes, I did. And what's more, I actually comprehended it - which you plainly did not.
I take it then you've never actually been a contractor? Here in the real world, they get asked to do stuff that's not in the contract. That's why you *have* a contract - to limit the scope of work.
That implies the continued existence of a contract to produce the work he has done in the past. That does not mean he's been contracted and being paid for training his replacement.
Learn the difference between assumptions and facts.
Nowhere in TFA does the submitter state that he is being compensated, let alone that he's happy with the agreement.
Yes, if you really want to get cheap, the Rust Belt is the way to go - but there are other points on the spectrum.
It's not necessarily the coasts that you need to get away from, it's the metropolises. Norfolk is coastal (though nobody with sense would *want* to live there), and is far cheaper than NYC or Boston. Jacksonville (FL) is far cheaper than Miami or Tampa-St Pete. (And the panhandle is cheaper still, but not nearly as cosmopolitan as the First Coast.) Seattle is cheaper than 'Frisco, but across the Sound is cheaper still... etc... etc...
Yep, at that level you're rarely publicly 'fired'... You just come back to the office after lunch and find on your desk the equivalent of a pistol with a single round in it. Everyone (involved) knows what that means.
We made a million tons of steel last week... 18 million tons year-to-date. In 2012, we made 5.7% of the worlds steel (88 million tons) - putting us in third place (behind China and Japan) overall. The only European country in the top ten is Germany - which clocks in at #7 with approximately 2%. (Most of the worlds steel is made in Asia and Russia/CIS.)
So, yeah, US steel production is a long way down from it's peak, but it's gross ignorance to say we make 'hardly any'.
Why? It's the owners choice as to whether or not something will be free. Making a documentary about something does not automatically mean having the same beliefs.
The Wikipedia quote is from Didacticism, the term the OP used is Didactic. While they share the same roots - they aren't the same word. (And didactic usually used as something of a pejorative.)
They're too busy dancing and singing over the fact that "some rich guys" (who deserved it anyhow) "got fleeced". Security implications be dammed.