Virtual reality is the new economy. It is like Jesus feeding thousands with only five fish. Except you only need one, and it is computer-generated.
Virtual pizzas
Won't fill your tummy
Or virtual water
When the real stuff is scummy
Virtual housing
Won't clean up the slums
And a virtual car
Won't take you to mum's.
Meet the new economy
Same as the old economy
Burma Shave
A State Department spokeswoman says Hillary Clinton did not break any rules by relying solely on her personal email account. Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history."
The law was amended in late 2014 to require that personal emails be transferred to government servers within 20 days. But that was after Clinton left office. Watchdog groups conceded that she may not have violated the text of the law, but they argue she violated the spirit of it. The Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich explained to Horsley:
"[O]ur expectations for public service are [that] public servants use their official email accounts."
Continuing to lie and say that she broke laws when the only argument they have is that she didn't do what they had expected is total BS. It's intellectually dishonest, and if that's the best they've got, you better get used to 8 years of Clinton. After all, the opponents trying to make something of this obviously have nothing better to offer.
One. More. Time. As I've said many times, your bus example is a red herring. And your experience certainly doesn't agree with what I've seen, so the whole thing is anecdotal on both sides.
Now take a look at something that's objectively true. It's illegal in many jurisdictions to hold a phone in your hand while driving, so here's a huge financial incentive to use voice commands and speech-to-text. Not just from the fines, but also the increased insurance premiums and demerit points going forward.
Offices I already covered. Since you dismissed it, it's obvious you never worked in an office with an open floor plan or a cube farm.
First, exoskeletons can be made that are electronic-free. Take someone who's terminal and you don't have to worry about survivability. Or take someone on death row and offer them the chance to leave their relatives a million bucks.
At that point you don't care whether they survive more than a day.
Since I'm not American, I don't have a favorite US political crime dynasty. And that doesn't take away from the fact that the State Department contradicts your claim (link elsewhere in this really, really dumb thread - mind you, considering we're talking gonzo^H^H^H^H^H American politics, which often makes Alice in Wonderland look like the epitome of logic, go figure.
I wish it weren't true, but look at the candidates.. sheesh! Hillary is going to win, because the upcoming election really boils down to a Hobson's choice.
I wonder if you'll ever realize that making overreaching generalizations with zero supporting evidence, other than your own biased personal experience, isn't going to convince anyone of anything and only makes you sound dumber.
And now you're claiming that your own biased personal experience counts:
f you could grasp context you would understand that it's not ironic. The whole point of my comment was to give you examples from MY personal experience that show your statements are incorrect.
On second thought, it's not ironic - it's deeply hypocritical AND trolling. Especially when you followed it up with:
You're either extremely ignorant, extremely stubborn, or a troll. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're the latter at this point. Otherwise, I hope you're better at programming than arguing why keyboards are becoming obsolete.
Now in the end it doesn't matter, since time will prove me right. If you're going to troll, you need to do way better than that. And if you're not trolling, you need to look in the mirror to see the cause for why your argument is hypocritical.
You might want to take your own advice from your first paragraph. After all, you were wrong about the majority of the world using T9 (it's only one of several systems of text entry used on feature phones).
Your first paragraph is ironic given that you base your comments on YOUR experience.
Schindler's List did $321,306,305 world-wide in '93. IIRC, there was only once scene with a blotch of color in it - the kid in the red coat. Paper Moon (1973) was done in black and white, and it's a pretty good movie - made it to the top 10 in '73.
And if you go back to 1970, Love Story was #1 with $106 million gross, and it was certainly not an action flick. In today's dollars, that's 641 million.
Let them solve their own process and management problems first. As far as I'm concerned, unless someone slaps a 7-figure sum on the table, it's no longer worth the ag. And even then I probably wouldn't accept, because a few decades of bad processes and asshat management have turned what used to be a pleasure into a real pain.
Now you're really reaching. "The majority of people in the world don't even use smartphones yet. A touchtone phone with T9 is still the norm for the majority of the world's population."
First, t9 sucks. Text-to-speech is already better.
Second, world-wide sales of smart phones have exceeded feature phones since 2013. With a billion sold per year, it will be only a few years before the majority of the world's existing feature phones are replaced with smartphones.
Third, you're obviously not a programmer, because with the shift to open floor plans programmers have been using ear buds for years to listen to music, and even todays cheap earbuds have mics that work really well.
Fourth, just because you write text on the bus doesn't mean the majority of people do. I see them playing games or surfing the net or listening to music. Instead of texting, they'll call, because it's easier and quicker.
Keep your head buried in the sand. The same was said about mice. And electric cars. And computers that were small enough to be "luggable". And a space station. And heart transplants.
Ever work in an "open office plan"? If only one person is talking on the phone, everyone can hear what they're saying. If everyone is talking, no individual voice is distinguishable. So, not a problem. Personally, I found such floor plans very distracting when coding, but bosses be bosses, and a decent music collection mitigates the problem - which is what a lot of us did, so we were wearing ear buds all day. The integrated mics on the newer ones are pretty damn good.
So perhaps you are the one who should fix their narrow world view.
"Avoid" does not have the force of law. Otherwise she'd have been charged. As long as the emails that were about government business were preserved, the regulations have been followed.
BTW, obviously any email from her email to a government system (or vice versa) already has been "preserved" - unless the government system has a defective backup system, in which case the government can't even comply with its own rules.
Also, from the article you linked to: "Sept. 9, 2013: The National Archives updates regulations on the handling of e-mails and federal records: “While agency employees should not generally use personal email accounts to conduct official agency business, there may be times when agencies authorize the use of personal email accounts, such as in emergency situations when Federal accounts are not accessible or when an employee is initially contacted through a personal account.” This rule change was 6 months after she was no longer secretary of state.
There are no limitations as long as it's authorized. Certainly the Secretary of State can authorize what those "situations" are.
The rule explicitly covering email only came into effect almost 2 years after she resigned. Again, from your link "Nov. 14, 2014: President Obama signs an update of the 1950 Presidential and Federal Records Act. The law expanded the definition of “federal records” to specifically include electronic communications. The law also clarified the responsibilities of federal government officials when they use nongovernment email systems, which includes copying an official record or forwarding a complete copy of the e-mail within 20 days of transmission."
Also, since Foggy Bottom is as leaky as any other bureaucracy, there are certain long-term matters I would NOT want to trust to the federal email system and the "20-day rule" (the negotiations with Cuba are just one example).
Since using her own private server is not against the law, I didn't really follow it - in Canada it's not seen as a big deal. The State Department says its current secretary, John Kerry, is the first ever "to use a standard government email address ending in 'state.gov'.
It's not illegal. The State Department says its current secretary, John Kerry, is the first ever "to use a standard government email address ending in 'state.gov'". Jeb Bush uses his own email server (jeb@jeb.org) and only turns over stuff he thinks is relevant. Colin Powell used private email when contacting ambassadors, foreign governments, etc. Do you really believe all of them were turned over?
Again, your bus example is a red herring. Almost nobody writes texts on the bus because most people take the bus during peak periods, when there's no ROOM to text. And during off-peak hours, it's still too bumpy even on good roads.
People surf the web or listen to music. That's the reality. Texting is relegated to "ok" and "cy".
So, back to reality (which you seem not to want to do). People in offices use headsets (you know, ear buds with a microphone embedded in one of the leads). No shouting, no need to speak above the noise, and the more people doing it, the better the individual speaker is masked. Call centers are an example.
People dealing with sensitive stuff should already have an office with a door that closes, so again, no need for a keyboard.
And for your private stuff, do it on your own time at home, same as everyone else.
She knowingly hosted her Email on purpose so that she had full control over what people can see or not see regarding federal government correspondence. Her wiping the box when it was under investigation is no different to what Nixon did with the audio tapes and should disqualify her right there.
Richard Nixon.... "I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
Would you want someone stupid enough to repeat one of the biggest errors in political history?
And as I said before, if your boss isn't willing to pay you to telecommute, they are not going to pay you for work done while in traffic (that's literally tele - commuting).
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Virtual reality is the new economy. It is like Jesus feeding thousands with only five fish. Except you only need one, and it is computer-generated.
Virtual pizzas
Won't fill your tummy
Or virtual water
When the real stuff is scummy
Virtual housing
Won't clean up the slums
And a virtual car
Won't take you to mum's.
Meet the new economy
Same as the old economy
Burma Shave
A State Department spokeswoman says Hillary Clinton did not break any rules by relying solely on her personal email account. Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history."
The law was amended in late 2014 to require that personal emails be transferred to government servers within 20 days. But that was after Clinton left office. Watchdog groups conceded that she may not have violated the text of the law, but they argue she violated the spirit of it. The Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich explained to Horsley:
"[O]ur expectations for public service are [that] public servants use their official email accounts."
Continuing to lie and say that she broke laws when the only argument they have is that she didn't do what they had expected is total BS. It's intellectually dishonest, and if that's the best they've got, you better get used to 8 years of Clinton. After all, the opponents trying to make something of this obviously have nothing better to offer.
One. More. Time. As I've said many times, your bus example is a red herring. And your experience certainly doesn't agree with what I've seen, so the whole thing is anecdotal on both sides.
Now take a look at something that's objectively true. It's illegal in many jurisdictions to hold a phone in your hand while driving, so here's a huge financial incentive to use voice commands and speech-to-text. Not just from the fines, but also the increased insurance premiums and demerit points going forward.
Offices I already covered. Since you dismissed it, it's obvious you never worked in an office with an open floor plan or a cube farm.
And you are still a hypocrite.
First, exoskeletons can be made that are electronic-free. Take someone who's terminal and you don't have to worry about survivability. Or take someone on death row and offer them the chance to leave their relatives a million bucks.
At that point you don't care whether they survive more than a day.
Since I'm not American, I don't have a favorite US political crime dynasty. And that doesn't take away from the fact that the State Department contradicts your claim (link elsewhere in this really, really dumb thread - mind you, considering we're talking gonzo^H^H^H^H^H American politics, which often makes Alice in Wonderland look like the epitome of logic, go figure.
I wish it weren't true, but look at the candidates .. sheesh! Hillary is going to win, because the upcoming election really boils down to a Hobson's choice.
Really? Not ironic? Here's what you said :
I wonder if you'll ever realize that making overreaching generalizations with zero supporting evidence, other than your own biased personal experience, isn't going to convince anyone of anything and only makes you sound dumber.
And now you're claiming that your own biased personal experience counts:
f you could grasp context you would understand that it's not ironic. The whole point of my comment was to give you examples from MY personal experience that show your statements are incorrect.
On second thought, it's not ironic - it's deeply hypocritical AND trolling. Especially when you followed it up with:
You're either extremely ignorant, extremely stubborn, or a troll. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're the latter at this point. Otherwise, I hope you're better at programming than arguing why keyboards are becoming obsolete.
Now in the end it doesn't matter, since time will prove me right. If you're going to troll, you need to do way better than that. And if you're not trolling, you need to look in the mirror to see the cause for why your argument is hypocritical.
You can get to any pressure you need as long as it's designed along the lines of a pressure cooker.
You might want to take your own advice from your first paragraph. After all, you were wrong about the majority of the world using T9 (it's only one of several systems of text entry used on feature phones).
Your first paragraph is ironic given that you base your comments on YOUR experience.
If it was private, you wouldn't know :-)
And if you go back to 1970, Love Story was #1 with $106 million gross, and it was certainly not an action flick. In today's dollars, that's 641 million.
Anything has to be better than that piece of pretentious slop know as The English Patient.
Just goes to show, never send a robot where a human with an augmented exoskeleton should go.
Let them solve their own process and management problems first. As far as I'm concerned, unless someone slaps a 7-figure sum on the table, it's no longer worth the ag. And even then I probably wouldn't accept, because a few decades of bad processes and asshat management have turned what used to be a pleasure into a real pain.
Far far better to do anything else.
The law specifically including electronic communications was passed in November 2014, more than a year and a half after Hillary quit.
Now you're really reaching. "The majority of people in the world don't even use smartphones yet. A touchtone phone with T9 is still the norm for the majority of the world's population."
First, t9 sucks. Text-to-speech is already better.
Second, world-wide sales of smart phones have exceeded feature phones since 2013. With a billion sold per year, it will be only a few years before the majority of the world's existing feature phones are replaced with smartphones.
Third, you're obviously not a programmer, because with the shift to open floor plans programmers have been using ear buds for years to listen to music, and even todays cheap earbuds have mics that work really well.
Fourth, just because you write text on the bus doesn't mean the majority of people do. I see them playing games or surfing the net or listening to music. Instead of texting, they'll call, because it's easier and quicker.
Keep your head buried in the sand. The same was said about mice. And electric cars. And computers that were small enough to be "luggable". And a space station. And heart transplants.
Ever work in an "open office plan"? If only one person is talking on the phone, everyone can hear what they're saying. If everyone is talking, no individual voice is distinguishable. So, not a problem. Personally, I found such floor plans very distracting when coding, but bosses be bosses, and a decent music collection mitigates the problem - which is what a lot of us did, so we were wearing ear buds all day. The integrated mics on the newer ones are pretty damn good.
So perhaps you are the one who should fix their narrow world view.
"Avoid" does not have the force of law. Otherwise she'd have been charged. As long as the emails that were about government business were preserved, the regulations have been followed.
BTW, obviously any email from her email to a government system (or vice versa) already has been "preserved" - unless the government system has a defective backup system, in which case the government can't even comply with its own rules.
Also, from the article you linked to: "Sept. 9, 2013: The National Archives updates regulations on the handling of e-mails and federal records: “While agency employees should not generally use personal email accounts to conduct official agency business, there may be times when agencies authorize the use of personal email accounts, such as in emergency situations when Federal accounts are not accessible or when an employee is initially contacted through a personal account.” This rule change was 6 months after she was no longer secretary of state.
There are no limitations as long as it's authorized. Certainly the Secretary of State can authorize what those "situations" are.
The rule explicitly covering email only came into effect almost 2 years after she resigned. Again, from your link "Nov. 14, 2014: President Obama signs an update of the 1950 Presidential and Federal Records Act. The law expanded the definition of “federal records” to specifically include electronic communications. The law also clarified the responsibilities of federal government officials when they use nongovernment email systems, which includes copying an official record or forwarding a complete copy of the e-mail within 20 days of transmission."
Also, since Foggy Bottom is as leaky as any other bureaucracy, there are certain long-term matters I would NOT want to trust to the federal email system and the "20-day rule" (the negotiations with Cuba are just one example).
Since using her own private server is not against the law, I didn't really follow it - in Canada it's not seen as a big deal. The State Department says its current secretary, John Kerry, is the first ever "to use a standard government email address ending in 'state.gov'.
Which government is not guilty of crimes?
It's not illegal. The State Department says its current secretary, John Kerry, is the first ever "to use a standard government email address ending in 'state.gov'". Jeb Bush uses his own email server (jeb@jeb.org) and only turns over stuff he thinks is relevant. Colin Powell used private email when contacting ambassadors, foreign governments, etc. Do you really believe all of them were turned over?
Again, your bus example is a red herring. Almost nobody writes texts on the bus because most people take the bus during peak periods, when there's no ROOM to text. And during off-peak hours, it's still too bumpy even on good roads.
People surf the web or listen to music. That's the reality. Texting is relegated to "ok" and "cy".
So, back to reality (which you seem not to want to do). People in offices use headsets (you know, ear buds with a microphone embedded in one of the leads). No shouting, no need to speak above the noise, and the more people doing it, the better the individual speaker is masked. Call centers are an example.
People dealing with sensitive stuff should already have an office with a door that closes, so again, no need for a keyboard.
And for your private stuff, do it on your own time at home, same as everyone else.
So why aren't you bashing Nixon for opening up relations with China? Oh, right, Nixon was a Republican.
She knowingly hosted her Email on purpose so that she had full control over what people can see or not see regarding federal government correspondence. Her wiping the box when it was under investigation is no different to what Nixon did with the audio tapes and should disqualify her right there.
Richard Nixon. ... "I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
Would you want someone stupid enough to repeat one of the biggest errors in political history?
Doing official government business on a private email server?
Proof?
And as I said before, if your boss isn't willing to pay you to telecommute, they are not going to pay you for work done while in traffic (that's literally tele - commuting).