Why is that a common criminal who swindles federal money, a total of $0.2 million, who, based on the description, was working in aviation industry, perhaps at Boeing or some other related company is so much more important than Boeing wasting billions and billions of dollars, doing it consistently, over a long period of time, and using nice euphemisms as budget overruns or increases in cost. Presidential plane $4 billion project has been called a wastefully excessive (in price) and nobody got interviewed by FBI. Last time I have checked the mugshots in the newspaper, a person has been arrested in my town for $100 shoplifting. Why so much publicity on individual cases of private individuals?
Cassetes have died long time ago and were totally pushed out by CD's.
CD's, at the same time, have been conquered by mp3/digital audios.
Now if you are talking about a bunch of retro aficionados, who collect vinyl, collect tapes, collect 35mm cameras. I am glad I do not hear that VHS tapes provide a more reliable image and have a soul.
Realistically, 140% increase is not enough to sustain increased interest in retro technology.
Can we all agree that Comcast really sucks, because there is no real and adequate competition?
Comcast sucks. Just sucks big time. Sneaky price increases, connection issues. Where I live, in residential area, they just disconnect in the middle of the day regularly. When I work from home I no longer rely on comcast for the connection during working and conference calls.
As such, do we agree, that the service sucks?
If you do, I challenge now you to think how will Universal healthcare will suck in the USA.
I was born and grew in a country where there many things "universal". Including healthcare.
Reality is that "healthcare" is a commodity, not a right as some people are trying to portray. If you will call commodity a right few things will happen: 1. To keep the costs low the services will be consolidated in "big" healthcare centers. There will be no real competition. 2. Since healthcare will be "free", there will be excess demand and there will be rationing. Let's say your mother is 74, has chronic disease and needs hip joint replacement. Your family will be told that it is not practical for people who have remaining life expectancy of less than 5 years to get replacement because it will be considered as waste. You will be offered unlimited painkillers though. 3. There will be excessive demand for free services. In some countries with universal healhcare to get a dental service (non-emergecy), the wait time could be 1.5 years or more. You will be places in a que.
As much as people despise current US Healthcare system, there still are some elements of competition (not many though, as pricing levels do not support existence of meaningful competition). For believers in free healthcare, please consider what people are saying about other de facto competition - Comcast.
This is the glimpse to the intelligence operations, basically a tiny tiny fraction of what NSAj, and many other agencies, do. Basic data trawling operations.
Yes, only selected torrent sited were melt into the honeypot, which means if you shared torrents of boxing matches of the racing hamsters, from specialized websites, your torrent is not included.
If somebody is using VPN, yes, IP will be shared by many users, however there are additional fingerprints left by facebook/cookies/instagram/email and you have a unique fingerprint.
Now those Russians. They are trawling all the data, and keep all the data, so that when they have target an intelligence object they would have some compromising data to be used. Ten years ago Russians filmed you in your hotel room with the prostitute and kept the footage for their private collection. Just in case.
They still film you in your hotel room. In addition to that they also keep your download history and they can customize for you next time for your taste (they will know that you like tall, brown eyed, blondes, for example).
Could have stopped. Should have stopped.... Technology is evolving fast.
If this technologically non-savvy terrorist had no idea about automated braking, just think about technologically savvy terrorist who will be able to program automatic trucks to ignore collision by hacking certain sensors. We are talking about automatic road killing robot.
How would you stop such autonomous cargo truck with no driver to shoot at?
Denial that social isolation is harming. Look, even in this thread there are so many people who are saying that they are happy alone.
More importantly, many magazines for women are pushing never ending message (never supported scientifically), that older women, after divorce are just better off.
Increase in mortality by an average of 30% would normally be declared an epidemic health hazard, on par with smoking and obesity.
Another fascinating fact is that probably a fifth of adults in USA are (or were) on antidepressants. Other studies have shown that having a partner, or a friend, to whom you can talk to, drastically reduces depression risk.
Finally, the ultimate statistical fact. In USA average life expectancy is 79.3 years (source: wiki). Costa Rica has life expectancy of 79.6 yrs, and Albania has 77.8, while Costa Rica spends one tenth of US healthcare spendings and Albania spends one thirtieth of US healthcare spendings?
Perhaps there is something wrong with US? Also, it is so difficult not to be suspicious that many purely american phenomena are known to the number crunchers, yet are allowed to stay the way the are intentionally.
I love the idea of Morgan Freeman being an option for the voice.
I would love to have an option of having Alex Jones being a voice of AI. That would be fun.... He used to be (still is) one of the highest paid voice over actors.
If a vehicle can transmit, then on the road sensors will also be deployed... "to better manage and monitor traffic and safety". On the road sensors will be able to monitor you and issue a speeding ticket every time you were driving 66 miles per hour, when only 65 mph is allowed.
Also, to cover the cost a per mile tax will be deployed.
I would call dissemination of the DNC and Podesta emails by journalists an extreme exercise of the 1st amendment rights.
I think what will be funny is that at some point Putin will be sorry that he supported Trump, for Trump will not be subtle and will not be dancing to Putin's wishes.
Why IBM was so racist? Why didn't they bring jobs when Obama was a president. Why didn't they stand behind Hillary. They could h have promised a fraction of those jobs in Michigan, and Hillary could have won Michigan (lost by approx 10K votes).
I am sure that Hillary Clinton will have her day one way or another. She will successfully run in 2020, she will win against Trump, and she will be a president. It is simply her turn and it will be historic justice. By 2020 all these scandals will be forgotten and people will be rushing to polls to vote against Trump. There is no more qualified and seasoned person to campaign.
Democrats did get more votes than Reps. However this argument is moot and irrelevant.
You can lose chess even though you still have more pieces. This is checkers game, where you have to have more pieces. In chess, number of pieces does not matter if you have been checkmated.
Can this argument about winning more popular votes be no longer used? 2020 will come and we will show Trump real democratic candidates, our gold team, such as Sanders/Biden 2020!
Unfortunately, insubordination does not go too far.
No organization can survive insubordination. I think he will sack entire agency, and you cannot find a better reason. Fraction of the agency will survive and some key functions, and some survivors will be merged with other agencies (commerce, defense).
I think you are missing the point. Are you holocaust denier or something?
Holocaust victims and survivors were tattooed! No other nation did use permanent tattoos for the prisoners. US did not tattooed their Japanese interned citizens or German war prisoners. Soviets, UK even Japanese did not do the permanent marking.
Posting here is to bring various aspects and viewpoints, that are not necessarily in line with yours. Stop denying historic facts.
Yes, yes.... we always find a way to index people to various criteria, so that we could consider them vulnerable and protect them.
It is a historical fact: Nazi's did use this particular rationalization of putting people to the camps (and numbering) for their own protection. Go read the stories about concentration camps. I did my fair share of reading...
Many of the early commentators are missing the point.
Barcode is the direct allusion to Nazi Germany innovation of using permanent tattooed numbers to account their inmates. By the way, they have used IBM computers, leading novel technology, to keep track of inmates.
At the same time Soviets did not use codes on the bodies of their prisoners in GULAG, because they had way more prisoners and all their efforts were directed toward building weapons for WW2, not dealing with computers.
Fun stuff. Who could have thought that the nazi ideas will be implemented, treated as novel and applied towards humans. The difference between permanent tatoo and a small finger nail sticker with strong adhesive is really tiny.
All those websites, until recently, have been called conspiracy theory websites, producing nothing else but conspiracy theories.
When those conspiracy theories generating websites ended up at the winning side of the elections, they needed to come up with the new name, for conspiracy theorists were, shall we say, mostly right.
Fake news are formerly conspiracy theories.
P.S. I think NYT and Washington Post, and many others, should look to see who predicted with 98.1% probability of certain recent events.
According to the internal sources, Russians forgot to unload nuclear warhead from this cargo rocket. When the rocket was on it's way and they realized that the payload will be available to the US astronauts, they just pulled the self destruction leveler.
According to different sources, the Russian Defense minister Shoygu, who is from Tuva, used this cargo rocket, basically a boondoggle, to deliver some Kremlin party food leftovers to his relatives in Tuva, common thing in Russia. Location (Tuva) and occasion (Trump victory party in Kremlin) appear to confirming the story.
If somebody had bitcoins, was smart to keep a blockchain in his own computer, and apply some common sense, this is not an issue.
If somebody opened account, provided name other information, then had to realize that their custodian is merely another type of bank, and all of the transactions will be subject to the scrutiny. Just like the regular old fashioned bank.
This is merely a way to scare bitcoin users.
Those who understand bitcoin have enough brain to maintain their anonymity.
Those systems are fine and dandy, until the next generation of drones will be introduced which will be using inertial navigation systems.
Inertial navigation system is basically fast spinning ball - gyroscope, just like the ones that were used in V2.
Not that spinning gyroscope is immune - existence of gravitational waves have been proved, but anti-gravitational weapons are still in their infancy I suppose.
1. Restrict changing jobs for the Indian style "consulting" companies. 2. Make job advertisement where american and non-american are applying something more than a formality. Right now public advertisement is merely a formality. 3. Many of the jobs do not deduct all taxes (such as SS tax). Fix that
That being said, H1B immigration is not the most pressing issue, in my view, while many people in IT industry are not about to agree.
The real issue are low skill workers across the industries, irrespective of their immigration status. H1B laws will do very little to change that.
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Why is that a common criminal who swindles federal money, a total of $0.2 million, who, based on the description, was working in aviation industry, perhaps at Boeing or some other related company is so much more important than Boeing wasting billions and billions of dollars, doing it consistently, over a long period of time, and using nice euphemisms as budget overruns or increases in cost. Presidential plane $4 billion project has been called a wastefully excessive (in price) and nobody got interviewed by FBI. Last time I have checked the mugshots in the newspaper, a person has been arrested in my town for $100 shoplifting. Why so much publicity on individual cases of private individuals?
Cassetes have died long time ago and were totally pushed out by CD's.
CD's, at the same time, have been conquered by mp3/digital audios.
Now if you are talking about a bunch of retro aficionados, who collect vinyl, collect tapes, collect 35mm cameras. I am glad I do not hear that VHS tapes provide a more reliable image and have a soul.
Realistically, 140% increase is not enough to sustain increased interest in retro technology.
Can we all agree that Comcast really sucks, because there is no real and adequate competition?
Comcast sucks. Just sucks big time. Sneaky price increases, connection issues. Where I live, in residential area, they just disconnect in the middle of the day regularly. When I work from home I no longer rely on comcast for the connection during working and conference calls.
As such, do we agree, that the service sucks?
If you do, I challenge now you to think how will Universal healthcare will suck in the USA.
I was born and grew in a country where there many things "universal". Including healthcare.
Reality is that "healthcare" is a commodity, not a right as some people are trying to portray. If you will call commodity a right few things will happen:
1. To keep the costs low the services will be consolidated in "big" healthcare centers. There will be no real competition.
2. Since healthcare will be "free", there will be excess demand and there will be rationing. Let's say your mother is 74, has chronic disease and needs hip joint replacement. Your family will be told that it is not practical for people who have remaining life expectancy of less than 5 years to get replacement because it will be considered as waste. You will be offered unlimited painkillers though.
3. There will be excessive demand for free services. In some countries with universal healhcare to get a dental service (non-emergecy), the wait time could be 1.5 years or more. You will be places in a que.
As much as people despise current US Healthcare system, there still are some elements of competition (not many though, as pricing levels do not support existence of meaningful competition). For believers in free healthcare, please consider what people are saying about other de facto competition - Comcast.
The classic is olympic size pools and school buses. Also Chelyabinsk is a city still better known for it's metallurgy, rather than asteroid.
This is the glimpse to the intelligence operations, basically a tiny tiny fraction of what NSAj, and many other agencies, do. Basic data trawling operations.
Yes, only selected torrent sited were melt into the honeypot, which means if you shared torrents of boxing matches of the racing hamsters, from specialized websites, your torrent is not included.
If somebody is using VPN, yes, IP will be shared by many users, however there are additional fingerprints left by facebook/cookies/instagram/email and you have a unique fingerprint.
Now those Russians. They are trawling all the data, and keep all the data, so that when they have target an intelligence object they would have some compromising data to be used. Ten years ago Russians filmed you in your hotel room with the prostitute and kept the footage for their private collection. Just in case.
They still film you in your hotel room. In addition to that they also keep your download history and they can customize for you next time for your taste (they will know that you like tall, brown eyed, blondes, for example).
Could have stopped. Should have stopped.... Technology is evolving fast.
If this technologically non-savvy terrorist had no idea about automated braking, just think about technologically savvy terrorist who will be able to program automatic trucks to ignore collision by hacking certain sensors. We are talking about automatic road killing robot.
How would you stop such autonomous cargo truck with no driver to shoot at?
That is denial.
Denial that social isolation is harming. Look, even in this thread there are so many people who are saying that they are happy alone.
More importantly, many magazines for women are pushing never ending message (never supported scientifically), that older women, after divorce are just better off.
Increase in mortality by an average of 30% would normally be declared an epidemic health hazard, on par with smoking and obesity.
Another fascinating fact is that probably a fifth of adults in USA are (or were) on antidepressants. Other studies have shown that having a partner, or a friend, to whom you can talk to, drastically reduces depression risk.
Finally, the ultimate statistical fact. In USA average life expectancy is 79.3 years (source: wiki). Costa Rica has life expectancy of 79.6 yrs, and Albania has 77.8, while Costa Rica spends one tenth of US healthcare spendings and Albania spends one thirtieth of US healthcare spendings?
Perhaps there is something wrong with US? Also, it is so difficult not to be suspicious that many purely american phenomena are known to the number crunchers, yet are allowed to stay the way the are intentionally.
I love the idea of Morgan Freeman being an option for the voice.
I would love to have an option of having Alex Jones being a voice of AI. That would be fun.... He used to be (still is) one of the highest paid voice over actors.
Vehicle will transmit speed.
If a vehicle can transmit, then on the road sensors will also be deployed ... "to better manage and monitor traffic and safety". On the road sensors will be able to monitor you and issue a speeding ticket every time you were driving 66 miles per hour, when only 65 mph is allowed.
Also, to cover the cost a per mile tax will be deployed.
I would call dissemination of the DNC and Podesta emails by journalists an extreme exercise of the 1st amendment rights.
I think what will be funny is that at some point Putin will be sorry that he supported Trump, for Trump will not be subtle and will not be dancing to Putin's wishes.
Don't assume. Entire question was satire!
Why IBM was so racist? Why didn't they bring jobs when Obama was a president. Why didn't they stand behind Hillary. They could h have promised a fraction of those jobs in Michigan, and Hillary could have won Michigan (lost by approx 10K votes).
I am sure that Hillary Clinton will have her day one way or another. She will successfully run in 2020, she will win against Trump, and she will be a president. It is simply her turn and it will be historic justice. By 2020 all these scandals will be forgotten and people will be rushing to polls to vote against Trump. There is no more qualified and seasoned person to campaign.
Democrats did get more votes than Reps. However this argument is moot and irrelevant.
You can lose chess even though you still have more pieces. This is checkers game, where you have to have more pieces. In chess, number of pieces does not matter if you have been checkmated.
Can this argument about winning more popular votes be no longer used? 2020 will come and we will show Trump real democratic candidates, our gold team, such as Sanders/Biden 2020!
Unfortunately, insubordination does not go too far.
No organization can survive insubordination. I think he will sack entire agency, and you cannot find a better reason. Fraction of the agency will survive and some key functions, and some survivors will be merged with other agencies (commerce, defense).
I think you are missing the point. Are you holocaust denier or something?
Holocaust victims and survivors were tattooed! No other nation did use permanent tattoos for the prisoners. US did not tattooed their Japanese interned citizens or German war prisoners. Soviets, UK even Japanese did not do the permanent marking.
Posting here is to bring various aspects and viewpoints, that are not necessarily in line with yours. Stop denying historic facts.
Yes, yes.... we always find a way to index people to various criteria, so that we could consider them vulnerable and protect them.
It is a historical fact: Nazi's did use this particular rationalization of putting people to the camps (and numbering) for their own protection. Go read the stories about concentration camps. I did my fair share of reading...
Many of the early commentators are missing the point.
Barcode is the direct allusion to Nazi Germany innovation of using permanent tattooed numbers to account their inmates. By the way, they have used IBM computers, leading novel technology, to keep track of inmates.
At the same time Soviets did not use codes on the bodies of their prisoners in GULAG, because they had way more prisoners and all their efforts were directed toward building weapons for WW2, not dealing with computers.
Fun stuff. Who could have thought that the nazi ideas will be implemented, treated as novel and applied towards humans. The difference between permanent tatoo and a small finger nail sticker with strong adhesive is really tiny.
No need to dance around the question.
All those websites, until recently, have been called conspiracy theory websites, producing nothing else but conspiracy theories.
When those conspiracy theories generating websites ended up at the winning side of the elections, they needed to come up with the new name, for conspiracy theorists were, shall we say, mostly right.
Fake news are formerly conspiracy theories.
P.S. I think NYT and Washington Post, and many others, should look to see who predicted with 98.1% probability of certain recent events.
Now you know where the spare parts are coming from.
Especially, the spare parts that are not officially available.
According to the internal sources, Russians forgot to unload nuclear warhead from this cargo rocket. When the rocket was on it's way and they realized that the payload will be available to the US astronauts, they just pulled the self destruction leveler.
According to different sources, the Russian Defense minister Shoygu, who is from Tuva, used this cargo rocket, basically a boondoggle, to deliver some Kremlin party food leftovers to his relatives in Tuva, common thing in Russia. Location (Tuva) and occasion (Trump victory party in Kremlin) appear to confirming the story.
If somebody had bitcoins, was smart to keep a blockchain in his own computer, and apply some common sense, this is not an issue.
If somebody opened account, provided name other information, then had to realize that their custodian is merely another type of bank, and all of the transactions will be subject to the scrutiny. Just like the regular old fashioned bank.
This is merely a way to scare bitcoin users.
Those who understand bitcoin have enough brain to maintain their anonymity.
Those systems are fine and dandy, until the next generation of drones will be introduced which will be using inertial navigation systems.
Inertial navigation system is basically fast spinning ball - gyroscope, just like the ones that were used in V2.
Not that spinning gyroscope is immune - existence of gravitational waves have been proved, but anti-gravitational weapons are still in their infancy I suppose.
Listing does not include multiple other agencies in USA, Russia, China, Israel etc.
That being said, they always had indirect or direct access, and this is merely a way to legitimize.
1. Restrict changing jobs for the Indian style "consulting" companies.
2. Make job advertisement where american and non-american are applying something more than a formality. Right now public advertisement is merely a formality.
3. Many of the jobs do not deduct all taxes (such as SS tax). Fix that
That being said, H1B immigration is not the most pressing issue, in my view, while many people in IT industry are not about to agree.
The real issue are low skill workers across the industries, irrespective of their immigration status. H1B laws will do very little to change that.