This is great news, it shows that money paying for results spoils the process. When it's opened up for peer review, one leg of any review being the ability to repeat the experiment using the exact same conditions and expecting the exact same results, corporate bias in reporting results shows up like Fat Waldo in a herd of adele penguins.
The bias being brought about by the sponsored research simply dismissing negative results as experimental error rather than seeing it as legitimate reading as far as variance in their method allows. For instance, the efficacy of vaccines has long since been biased by virtue of the historical infection rate being ignored (which for most diseases, including polio, indicates the infection rate actually reducing - naturally - to almost nil *before* the vaccine hits the market. The given example also has a side effect brought about by the use of live but attenuated cultures that has been given a name intended to hide its origin: ALS. Together these show that polio vaccine is not only ineffective, it is also unnecessary and in fact demonstrably harmful).
Given the greater-than-zero proportion of high school leavers particularly in the US who can't even READ, should we not instead of shoving IoT down their throats and packing them off to summer camp with DFE-subsidised wirelessed-to-buggery tablets, why not fall back on that method that's worked for the past few millennia: pencil and parchment, all eyes front and let's bring back cursive practice.
I went to school through the 1980s (I left high school in 1991) and would be shocked to hear of any of my grade peers not being able to write their own name. This years' outgoing are cumulatively worse than last years'. I would be pleasantly surprised to hear of a single one who could count higher than ten without breaking out the Hello Kitty calculator app. I might sound like a forty year old fart saying this but I don't give a fuck: kids these days are fucking retards. Take away the batteries and they would fucking starve to death.
the electoral commission maintains the list of candidates, in the UK this is the same agency that runs candidates through prescreening via credit reference and criminal background checks. I know that in the US there is no formal screening for presidential candidates (which is why the birth certificate bullshit is still a hot topic), but in the UK there's no such thing as a write-in, you're on the list (ergo passed the screening) or you're not.
I still have a functioning PS/2 3-button wheel mouse (the first and last one I ever bought) that's been in daily use since the day I bought it back in 1998, it's the one with the ball not the optical one - oldskool for the win! I'm after a case of split curve keyboards (like the Ergonomic 4000 but without the wheel - that while useful, I think would get in my way to be honest, and I've a feeling the 4000 doesn't use microswitches, opting instead for a membrane). I can't remember what the model number was on the original split curves but they were hands down, the best keyboards ever. You know, it might have actually been referred to as the 4000 Elite? The original one was designed by Ziba Design but the actual fabrication was in-house.
great song, almost might have been written by Lennon.
As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they're telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me
ah yes, of course we should trust a Monsanto study into the safety of GMOs just like we should trust the Coca Cola study into the link between diet and obesity.::rolleyes::.
I had some simple rules when I ran my law practice:
Work phones for work, home phones are left at home. My work phones were full wired and had no Bluetooth or other wireless capabilities, because being a single office facility, they didn't need to be. All outgoing calls were logged and recorded, all incoming calls recorded. Personal computers not permitted. Period. Work machines not to be used for offtask activities. Period. Data accessed on a strict need to know basis except: library data was generally unclassified. All personally identifiable or file data was to be treated as SCI, and NONE was permitted offsite without my express informed written authorisation.
Clinton is a family lawyer. She doesn't know fuck all about military classification. She could run circles around everybody and anybody on slashdot about family law in the States, though - she helped WRITE some of it.
so what, you have to read the document before knowing its classification?
No, no nonono.
Big red stamps on plain covers are useful in this case to indicate that yolu would be in the SHIT if you're even caught in possession of the jacket if you're not authorised to have it. Knowing what's in it? The only way they could make sure THAT information isn't distributed would be to stand you against a wall and shoot you dead.
information: foreign intelligence source: handler/reporting officer classification: sensitive compartmented information
UNTIL SUCH TIME as it is declassified by an individual with the AUTHORITY to declassify a document.
It's not just a simple case of nature of the information and the source, it's also the nature of the individual who originated the information which classifies it.
A front desk civil servant won't have access to SCI, nor will he be expected to produce it. Any information he does produce will be of an open nature, because that is what he is AUTHORISED to produce.
A regional handler will be not only expected to produce SCI, he will also be trained in its handling and who HE is authorised to pass it on to.
Clinton shouldn't have even HAD access to SCI, not even her husband has access to that anymore for the simple reason that he is no longer POTUS.
actually, Microsoft have made hardware. They made the ergonomic keyboard, and they made the wheel mouse. That's just for starters.
There is also: XBox (and the signature Big Ben controller) Hololens Webcams Headsets Sidewinder game controllers Kinect Cordless land phones Surface Hub Zune MP...
electronic photosensors are vulnerable to IR, which can temporarily or permanently blind the camera depending on wavelength and intensity and the quality of the filters used in the camera. IRLEDs can be small enough to mount on the cloth surface of a baseball cap and powered with button cells charged by solar cells which seat to form. The hardware can be had for change out of five Dollars. Baseball caps aren't illegal (yet), and obfuscating your features for electronic identification is a protected right (unless you can show me the law which dictates otherwise - I am aware of none in the UK or the US which abrogates the right to roam free from unlawful interference). The big plus is that you can wear the emitter all day long and nobody can say anything because it's practically invisible. They'd have to know what they're looking for and they'd have to show you the law which says you can't put an invisible radiator in a hat.
BTW, I wear a fedora when I go out, whether it has radiators in it I will not confirm or deny, and the only time I have ever been asked to remove it was when I was entering the Palace at Westminster and I told the Rentacop in no uncertain terms that the cover was staying on until I was in the office of the Minister I was there to see. The hat stayed on.
the games I play I wouldn't be playing if there was no other way to get the premium content. Rather than part with mobile phone information (how a lot of these things work - they debit your phone account) I find a way to grind ingame credit for it. For instance, in Battlestar Galactica, I could spend £80 for enough Cubits and Merits (general credit and PvP battle credit respectively) to buy the top tier ship. I find the game a lot of fun (I wouldn't be playing it otherwise) and prefer to grind my way up to the top tier ship by blowing the snot out of my opponents (that and I love to see grown virgins cry). I'm about 1/4 the way there. Give it another year, and I'll have my top tier ship through hard work and the ingame experience to use it effectively.
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This is great news, it shows that money paying for results spoils the process. When it's opened up for peer review, one leg of any review being the ability to repeat the experiment using the exact same conditions and expecting the exact same results, corporate bias in reporting results shows up like Fat Waldo in a herd of adele penguins.
The bias being brought about by the sponsored research simply dismissing negative results as experimental error rather than seeing it as legitimate reading as far as variance in their method allows. For instance, the efficacy of vaccines has long since been biased by virtue of the historical infection rate being ignored (which for most diseases, including polio, indicates the infection rate actually reducing - naturally - to almost nil *before* the vaccine hits the market. The given example also has a side effect brought about by the use of live but attenuated cultures that has been given a name intended to hide its origin: ALS. Together these show that polio vaccine is not only ineffective, it is also unnecessary and in fact demonstrably harmful).
Given the greater-than-zero proportion of high school leavers particularly in the US who can't even READ, should we not instead of shoving IoT down their throats and packing them off to summer camp with DFE-subsidised wirelessed-to-buggery tablets, why not fall back on that method that's worked for the past few millennia: pencil and parchment, all eyes front and let's bring back cursive practice.
I went to school through the 1980s (I left high school in 1991) and would be shocked to hear of any of my grade peers not being able to write their own name. This years' outgoing are cumulatively worse than last years'. I would be pleasantly surprised to hear of a single one who could count higher than ten without breaking out the Hello Kitty calculator app. I might sound like a forty year old fart saying this but I don't give a fuck: kids these days are fucking retards. Take away the batteries and they would fucking starve to death.
nobody, it's a suppository.
what's the percentage of human-sourced protein?
pfft.
Red matter for the win.
the electoral commission maintains the list of candidates, in the UK this is the same agency that runs candidates through prescreening via credit reference and criminal background checks. I know that in the US there is no formal screening for presidential candidates (which is why the birth certificate bullshit is still a hot topic), but in the UK there's no such thing as a write-in, you're on the list (ergo passed the screening) or you're not.
I still have a functioning PS/2 3-button wheel mouse (the first and last one I ever bought) that's been in daily use since the day I bought it back in 1998, it's the one with the ball not the optical one - oldskool for the win! I'm after a case of split curve keyboards (like the Ergonomic 4000 but without the wheel - that while useful, I think would get in my way to be honest, and I've a feeling the 4000 doesn't use microswitches, opting instead for a membrane). I can't remember what the model number was on the original split curves but they were hands down, the best keyboards ever. You know, it might have actually been referred to as the 4000 Elite? The original one was designed by Ziba Design but the actual fabrication was in-house.
great song, almost might have been written by Lennon.
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
- Working Class Hero (1970 Lennon (P)1971 Apple)
"Brand New Sucker", Jonathan Coulton?
Speaking for myself: I don't want ads, I want the content I asked for. Stick your ads up your arse.
ah yes, of course we should trust a Monsanto study into the safety of GMOs just like we should trust the Coca Cola study into the link between diet and obesity. ::rolleyes::.
failing a background check is grounds to prevent them for even running for election, which is why the BGC is done before even THAT stage is started.
why would I have a cellphone? My office was literally five minutes up the road.
hey, it's better than the fez.
why do you think I was willing to put up my entire worldly wealth on a bet? Because I know I'd clean house.
I had some simple rules when I ran my law practice:
Work phones for work, home phones are left at home. My work phones were full wired and had no Bluetooth or other wireless capabilities, because being a single office facility, they didn't need to be. All outgoing calls were logged and recorded, all incoming calls recorded.
Personal computers not permitted. Period. Work machines not to be used for offtask activities. Period.
Data accessed on a strict need to know basis except: library data was generally unclassified. All personally identifiable or file data was to be treated as SCI, and NONE was permitted offsite without my express informed written authorisation.
Never had a breach.
background checks would be done beforehand. For an appointment, you don't even start the job until the check comes back.
Clinton is a family lawyer. She doesn't know fuck all about military classification. She could run circles around everybody and anybody on slashdot about family law in the States, though - she helped WRITE some of it.
so what, you have to read the document before knowing its classification?
No, no nonono.
Big red stamps on plain covers are useful in this case to indicate that yolu would be in the SHIT if you're even caught in possession of the jacket if you're not authorised to have it. Knowing what's in it? The only way they could make sure THAT information isn't distributed would be to stand you against a wall and shoot you dead.
information: foreign intelligence
source: handler/reporting officer
classification: sensitive compartmented information
UNTIL SUCH TIME as it is declassified by an individual with the AUTHORITY to declassify a document.
It's not just a simple case of nature of the information and the source, it's also the nature of the individual who originated the information which classifies it.
A front desk civil servant won't have access to SCI, nor will he be expected to produce it. Any information he does produce will be of an open nature, because that is what he is AUTHORISED to produce.
A regional handler will be not only expected to produce SCI, he will also be trained in its handling and who HE is authorised to pass it on to.
Clinton shouldn't have even HAD access to SCI, not even her husband has access to that anymore for the simple reason that he is no longer POTUS.
because they're all criminals. The ability to lie, cheat and murder your way to the top and keep a straight face is a prerequisite for the job.
I got a Pound right here, any odds you like.
actually, Microsoft have made hardware. They made the ergonomic keyboard, and they made the wheel mouse. That's just for starters.
There is also: ...
XBox (and the signature Big Ben controller)
Hololens
Webcams
Headsets
Sidewinder game controllers
Kinect
Cordless land phones
Surface Hub
Zune MP
electronic photosensors are vulnerable to IR, which can temporarily or permanently blind the camera depending on wavelength and intensity and the quality of the filters used in the camera. IRLEDs can be small enough to mount on the cloth surface of a baseball cap and powered with button cells charged by solar cells which seat to form. The hardware can be had for change out of five Dollars. Baseball caps aren't illegal (yet), and obfuscating your features for electronic identification is a protected right (unless you can show me the law which dictates otherwise - I am aware of none in the UK or the US which abrogates the right to roam free from unlawful interference). The big plus is that you can wear the emitter all day long and nobody can say anything because it's practically invisible. They'd have to know what they're looking for and they'd have to show you the law which says you can't put an invisible radiator in a hat.
BTW, I wear a fedora when I go out, whether it has radiators in it I will not confirm or deny, and the only time I have ever been asked to remove it was when I was entering the Palace at Westminster and I told the Rentacop in no uncertain terms that the cover was staying on until I was in the office of the Minister I was there to see. The hat stayed on.
the games I play I wouldn't be playing if there was no other way to get the premium content. Rather than part with mobile phone information (how a lot of these things work - they debit your phone account) I find a way to grind ingame credit for it. For instance, in Battlestar Galactica, I could spend £80 for enough Cubits and Merits (general credit and PvP battle credit respectively) to buy the top tier ship. I find the game a lot of fun (I wouldn't be playing it otherwise) and prefer to grind my way up to the top tier ship by blowing the snot out of my opponents (that and I love to see grown virgins cry). I'm about 1/4 the way there. Give it another year, and I'll have my top tier ship through hard work and the ingame experience to use it effectively.