Meanwhile, the CIA (whose mission requires them to be more pragmatic and less capricious) has been pursuing a dedicated effort since 2009 to prepare for the [now inevitable] geopolitical perils that global warming will produce, and they have warned that global warming is the most significant threat to the national security of the USA. https://www.cia.gov/news-infor...
The bill also takes a big cut out of geosciences research, which includes climate change study, from $1.3 billion to $1.2 billion, an 8% decrease.
I thought the Republicans were concerned that the "science wasn't certain yet" on climate change? Strange they would cut the funding to keep looking into it then. Unless... they know damn well what the science has already figured out and will keep figuring out and know it won't sit well with their oil industry fatcat buddies and doubt-peddling narrative.
Statistics suggests things that may or may not be true. Statistics can show that A is correlated with B, maybe an even better correlation with A at year Y and B at year Y+2, but it isn't going to tell us if A causes B.
The *statistics* don't suggest any such thing. The people who misunderstand them or deliberately mislead using them create these suggestions.
The obvious solution, since the gas tax was pegged at a fixed *price* so long ago that it is no longer sufficient to even fund the Highway Trust Fund. When gas was expensive a few years ago, it should have been easy to implement a "floor price" for gasoline to encourage investments in alternative energy by removing the risk of dropping gas prices in the future killing the ROI (e.g., if gas drops below a certain price, the tax would adjust to buoy it to a minimum level). And the tax should logically be pegged to inflation, not a fixed value per gallon. Fricking bureacrats.
...but we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by terrorists. I'm saying that needs to be front and center....
And I'm saying we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by tyrannical mass-surveillance states that use the justification of "terrorism" to develop their ability to oppress their populations. I'm saying that needs to be front and center!
the real problem isn't his tactic.. it's the way the markets allow for robo traders in the first place.
Yeah. It's the robo algos that sent the market into the flash crash as a result of this guy's trading. If he had taken his trading plan and implemented it as an algorithm to do the same thing, he probably could have just called it "arbitrage" and been scott-free.
You're a fucking moron. How does "access without authorization" warrant a 35 year sentence? Rapists and murderers get less than that. That's the whole problem here. Fuck you.
+1 Under our laws, violating a trivial TOS has no statute of limitations and penalties more severe than anything but treason or first degree murder. It is completely F*ed up!
Similarly, people who are racist may simply not like the look of the other race from an aesthetic point of view, but because that's so hard to prove, they fool themselves and/or others into thinking the other race is 'inferior' due to other factors such as intelligence, wealth, crime rates etc. which are much easier factors to quantify and compare, (though still *really* tricky to get right in truth).
Limiting my response to just this point, actually they have pretty much quantified aesthetic beauty.... http://www.femininebeauty.info...
Statistics are like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive but what they hide is vital.
The attention grabbing metaphor perhaps obscure the utter stupidity of it. Earnestly conducted statistical analysis is the best tool we have for determining the vitally important truth.
Same thing with any group that has an agenda to push. Support and praise science when it supports your views/goals, discredit it any way possible when it conflicts with your views/goals. Business (Or politics) as usual.
This is unfortunately true. I expect logic to persuade none of the "enlightened ignorant" who think they are smarter than everyone else, including science. In another example, for over 10 years, disingenuous special interests have fanned the flames of doubt while science long ago concluded humans are creating global warming on a scale that will be disastrous for civilization. When 99 out of 100 people tell you your house is on fire, you call the f*ing fire department!! You don't dither about because you're worried those people disagree on whether it will burn down in an hour or a day.
I would expect people to recognize a self-aggrandizing narcissist who cares nothing about the people he [Assange] harms for what he is.
I have yet to see evidence that the documents released by Edward Snowden actually hurting someone...
You responded to a comment about Assange with a straw man argument about Snowden. The OP said nothing about Snowden. You do know that Snowden refuted Assange's and Wikileaks' methods of release, right? (Watch the documentary!) So... back to Assange, do you have anything to say that is on the topic of him being "a self-aggrandizing narcissist who cares nothing about the people he harms"?
Perhaps the vendors themselves should buy the exploits. Perhaps, it's not that different than a bounty program except for the fact that market pricing would determine the value of a vulnerability (and the lack of nobility in the mercernary nature of the process).
YESSS. Complex boolean searching! This was the best thing about Alta Vista and why I still used it sometimes even after Google's relevancy came along and generally got your the best results intuitively.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire. So now they're outside NSA's jurisdiction and under that of GCQH, which was even ahead of the NSA with a "full take" collection system.
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+1 =)
No, the global warming has not been concluded to be created by humans.
Cool. Just remember to pull your head of your ass occasionally to breathe.
And peruse a grammar book sometime while you're at it. I can't understand the second half of what you wrote at all.
Meanwhile, the CIA (whose mission requires them to be more pragmatic and less capricious) has been pursuing a dedicated effort since 2009 to prepare for the [now inevitable] geopolitical perils that global warming will produce, and they have warned that global warming is the most significant threat to the national security of the USA.
https://www.cia.gov/news-infor...
...and 90% of the trading volume equals 90% of the exchanges' revenues.
Real change and progress in politics comes only as the old people die off and are replaced by the young. It's a slow process!
The bill also takes a big cut out of geosciences research, which includes climate change study, from $1.3 billion to $1.2 billion, an 8% decrease.
I thought the Republicans were concerned that the "science wasn't certain yet" on climate change? Strange they would cut the funding to keep looking into it then. Unless... they know damn well what the science has already figured out and will keep figuring out and know it won't sit well with their oil industry fatcat buddies and doubt-peddling narrative.
Yeah, what good is economics research? Everyone already knows the silver bullet for any economic problem is to cut taxes for the wealthy!
When I shit the thing out, do I have to eat it again?
Statistics suggests things that may or may not be true. Statistics can show that A is correlated with B, maybe an even better correlation with A at year Y and B at year Y+2, but it isn't going to tell us if A causes B.
The *statistics* don't suggest any such thing. The people who misunderstand them or deliberately mislead using them create these suggestions.
Tax gas...
The obvious solution, since the gas tax was pegged at a fixed *price* so long ago that it is no longer sufficient to even fund the Highway Trust Fund. When gas was expensive a few years ago, it should have been easy to implement a "floor price" for gasoline to encourage investments in alternative energy by removing the risk of dropping gas prices in the future killing the ROI (e.g., if gas drops below a certain price, the tax would adjust to buoy it to a minimum level). And the tax should logically be pegged to inflation, not a fixed value per gallon. Fricking bureacrats.
And I'm saying you're a government bitch. If all your kind died the world would be a much better place.
Either you misunderstood me, or I don't understand what you're trying to say. Because what I said was anti-government surveillance. ???
...but we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by terrorists. I'm saying that needs to be front and center....
And I'm saying we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by tyrannical mass-surveillance states that use the justification of "terrorism" to develop their ability to oppress their populations. I'm saying that needs to be front and center!
the real problem isn't his tactic.. it's the way the markets allow for robo traders in the first place.
Yeah. It's the robo algos that sent the market into the flash crash as a result of this guy's trading. If he had taken his trading plan and implemented it as an algorithm to do the same thing, he probably could have just called it "arbitrage" and been scott-free.
You're a fucking moron. How does "access without authorization" warrant a 35 year sentence? Rapists and murderers get less than that. That's the whole problem here. Fuck you.
+1
Under our laws, violating a trivial TOS has no statute of limitations and penalties more severe than anything but treason or first degree murder. It is completely F*ed up!
Similarly, people who are racist may simply not like the look of the other race from an aesthetic point of view, but because that's so hard to prove, they fool themselves and/or others into thinking the other race is 'inferior' due to other factors such as intelligence, wealth, crime rates etc. which are much easier factors to quantify and compare, (though still *really* tricky to get right in truth).
Limiting my response to just this point, actually they have pretty much quantified aesthetic beauty.... http://www.femininebeauty.info...
Statistics are like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive but what they hide is vital.
The attention grabbing metaphor perhaps obscure the utter stupidity of it. Earnestly conducted statistical analysis is the best tool we have for determining the vitally important truth.
Same thing with any group that has an agenda to push. Support and praise science when it supports your views/goals, discredit it any way possible when it conflicts with your views/goals. Business (Or politics) as usual.
This is unfortunately true. I expect logic to persuade none of the "enlightened ignorant" who think they are smarter than everyone else, including science. In another example, for over 10 years, disingenuous special interests have fanned the flames of doubt while science long ago concluded humans are creating global warming on a scale that will be disastrous for civilization. When 99 out of 100 people tell you your house is on fire, you call the f*ing fire department!! You don't dither about because you're worried those people disagree on whether it will burn down in an hour or a day.
I would expect people to recognize a self-aggrandizing narcissist who cares nothing about the people he [Assange] harms for what he is.
I have yet to see evidence that the documents released by Edward Snowden actually hurting someone...
You responded to a comment about Assange with a straw man argument about Snowden. The OP said nothing about Snowden. You do know that Snowden refuted Assange's and Wikileaks' methods of release, right? (Watch the documentary!) So... back to Assange, do you have anything to say that is on the topic of him being "a self-aggrandizing narcissist who cares nothing about the people he harms"?
Perhaps the vendors themselves should buy the exploits. Perhaps, it's not that different than a bounty program except for the fact that market pricing would determine the value of a vulnerability (and the lack of nobility in the mercernary nature of the process).
...charged with violating aircraft registration requirements, a felony, and violating national defense airspace, a misdemeanor.
The latter seems the more felonious of the two!!
YESSS. Complex boolean searching!
This was the best thing about Alta Vista and why I still used it sometimes even after Google's relevancy came along and generally got your the best results intuitively.
Right. So you know first hand how ignorant it is to say math and statistics have nothing to with social science. :-)
It wasn't me who said that.
I know. I wasn't trying to imply you did. =)
Oops. My bad. I stand corrected. ;-)
Oh, oops. Well, thanks for the correction. :-)
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
So now they're outside NSA's jurisdiction and under that of GCQH, which was even ahead of the NSA with a "full take" collection system.
Cute.
Good idea, Twitter. Except that now they're under the domain of GCHQ, which is, by most accounts, even more draconian in collection.