The NRA has its deep pockets and resultant clout not (necessarily) from numerous individual private members but from effectively being an arms industry trade group, the USCoC of arms manufacturers and dealers.
And so long as we continue to have the kinds of wealth disparities we haven't seen since 1929, catering to rich corporate interests (with varying levels of populist veneer) is the only way to get enough money to actually influence policy.
At least it's a known quantity, whereas with desktop Linux you're still expected to know copious text commands even to get userland tasks done because every installation's GUI is a special little snowflake.
Granted, Metro is ruining that advantage by all but requiring people to memorize keyboard shortcuts for desktop use, but at least it's still mostly the same keyboard shortcuts across all versions of Windows for the past 20+ years or so.
One thing to remember here is that most of these edits are probably made by junior IT staff rather than elected representatives
I can't speak for the others you've listed, but these Capitol Hill edits almost exclusively affect articles on sitting members and those on politically contentious topics. If it really is by "junior IT staff," then it's more likely that they're doing it under orders from their higher-ups rather than wasting office hours on topics they're personally interested in.
On the other hand, TFA seems to indicate that this SEO fiasco was less about trying to improve the utility's reputation than about improving the executive's personal reputation.
$18k of company money to try to justify a personal $60k/a raise really doesn't sound good.
If you've fallen in love with the Walt Disney World experience, you now have the option to live in a town designed by Disney itself: Celebration, Florida. Resembling "Main Street, USA" and the "EPCOT World Showcase" writ large, Celebration helps blur the distinction between between Disney and real life, effectively letting you live in a theme park.
Know who doesn't live in Celebration, Florida and its mean income over $75k/yr? The people who work in Celebration, Florida.
It's not hard to find new developments across the US where you see new apartments and condominiums built alongside or even on top of faux city shops (complete with acres of parking) to give the residents the "gentrified neighborhood" experience. But you can bet that the folks who actually work in Whole Foods or PF Chang's don't actually live there. And the folks that work there can't afford to shop there.
What the summary fails to point out, of course, is that the growth of all the extra facilities - bars, restaurants, dry cleaners etc. - also ensure the job market grows in non-graduate jobs too, so it's win-win for everyone that lives in the lucky city
Prices in cities are targeted at those high-earning college graduates. There may be greater need for bartenders, waitstaff, etc, but those low-wage workers can't afford to actually live in the city themselves, which necessitates long commutes, which eats up even more of their meager pay, which ensures that the lower class stays lower class.
Martians notwithstanding, nobody had any idea what the far side of the moon looked like before 1959. Sure, 55 years may be "a very long time" for some people, but we're not exactly talking about something that puzzled Hipparchus here.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1. Don't like the way primaries are handled? Go talk to your state legislators. Odds are the incumbents like it or they would have changed it already.
And it's not like the majorities in the Virginia General Assembly are hostile to Republicans.
Why would they want to? Even after the purge of the so-called "Blue Dogs" in recent years, Democrats haven't drunken the Kool-Aid in anywhere near the same way that the Tea Party folks have.
Most of the die-hard "radicals" of the left find Obama to be milquetoast at best and are more impassioned by the likes of Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren. But they still voted for Obama in '12 because the Tea Party was the alternative.
It's gotten to the point that the only real definition of a Democrat is "not a Teabagger." So why go after "Washington insiders" for its own sake when said insiders are doing things like keeping the Civil Rights Act on the books and not defaulting on federal debts?
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside.
There's no "right way" or "wrong way" for a car to lean on a level surface with all four wheels on the ground. The motorcycle metaphor doesn't work well here because part of turning a two-wheeler involves moving the center of mass off the centerline and letting gravity pull you through the turn. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, turning a two-wheeler involves throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
On the contrary: being thrown towards the outside of the turn means the turn radius increases, which results in a decrease in centrifugal force.
They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane.
Another poor comparison. Airplanes roll while turning because their wings are their largest working surface areas and need to be tilted off of horizontal to get the lift vector pointing "that way." The comparison here would be in banking the road surface itself (the working surface for a ground vehicle) rather than any shifting done by the suspension on a level road surface.
Perhaps Snowden is just pressing a point in presenting the argument that way to make it, feel, really personal because it is.
We're now 3+ nested layers deep into an early and highly up-modded conversation about the dick joke. This conversation about the dick joke was the first thing I saw upon scrolling down. The dick joke is dominating the conversation.
Which is exactly why he shouldn't have used the dick joke.
Rich said that the FTC, as the U.S. Government's leading privacy enforcement agency, should be given rule making and enforcement authority for the civil provisions of the LPPA.
Considering how existing US privacy enforcement is an absolute joke, I think I'd rather try something new instead of "more of the same."
Maybe the FTC could better spend their time, I don't know, jailing the traders that broke the economy?
Take a look around here. IT folks tend to view themselves as self-sufficient, rugged individualists who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Unions are for the weak and stifle innovation, and every tech bro knows they're just one angel investor away from Going Galt.
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The NRA has its deep pockets and resultant clout not (necessarily) from numerous individual private members but from effectively being an arms industry trade group, the USCoC of arms manufacturers and dealers.
And so long as we continue to have the kinds of wealth disparities we haven't seen since 1929, catering to rich corporate interests (with varying levels of populist veneer) is the only way to get enough money to actually influence policy.
Have you taken a look at Facebook posts lately?
You seem to be confusing real identification with having actual moderation in an online forum.
The article mentions that people on the marketing teams for the Xbox are among those being cut
Is it actually marketing's fault that nobody wanted to buy the always-on, always-watching Eye of Sauron edition of the Xbox "One?"
At least it's a known quantity, whereas with desktop Linux you're still expected to know copious text commands even to get userland tasks done because every installation's GUI is a special little snowflake.
Granted, Metro is ruining that advantage by all but requiring people to memorize keyboard shortcuts for desktop use, but at least it's still mostly the same keyboard shortcuts across all versions of Windows for the past 20+ years or so.
The press release and the website talk about banking class security
Well, have you actually looked at bank security lately?
One thing to remember here is that most of these edits are probably made by junior IT staff rather than elected representatives
I can't speak for the others you've listed, but these Capitol Hill edits almost exclusively affect articles on sitting members and those on politically contentious topics. If it really is by "junior IT staff," then it's more likely that they're doing it under orders from their higher-ups rather than wasting office hours on topics they're personally interested in.
You've never actually tried editing a Wikipedia page through TOR, have you?
On the other hand, TFA seems to indicate that this SEO fiasco was less about trying to improve the utility's reputation than about improving the executive's personal reputation.
$18k of company money to try to justify a personal $60k/a raise really doesn't sound good.
If you've fallen in love with the Walt Disney World experience, you now have the option to live in a town designed by Disney itself: Celebration, Florida. Resembling "Main Street, USA" and the "EPCOT World Showcase" writ large, Celebration helps blur the distinction between between Disney and real life, effectively letting you live in a theme park.
Know who doesn't live in Celebration, Florida and its mean income over $75k/yr? The people who work in Celebration, Florida.
It's not hard to find new developments across the US where you see new apartments and condominiums built alongside or even on top of faux city shops (complete with acres of parking) to give the residents the "gentrified neighborhood" experience. But you can bet that the folks who actually work in Whole Foods or PF Chang's don't actually live there. And the folks that work there can't afford to shop there.
What the summary fails to point out, of course, is that the growth of all the extra facilities - bars, restaurants, dry cleaners etc. - also ensure the job market grows in non-graduate jobs too, so it's win-win for everyone that lives in the lucky city
Prices in cities are targeted at those high-earning college graduates. There may be greater need for bartenders, waitstaff, etc, but those low-wage workers can't afford to actually live in the city themselves, which necessitates long commutes, which eats up even more of their meager pay, which ensures that the lower class stays lower class.
This remained a mystery for a very long time
Martians notwithstanding, nobody had any idea what the far side of the moon looked like before 1959. Sure, 55 years may be "a very long time" for some people, but we're not exactly talking about something that puzzled Hipparchus here.
Pay for your own Plan B.
Why would I? Much like the entire concurring majority, I'm a guy.
Pregnancy: it takes two to happen, but it's always the woman's fault.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1. Don't like the way primaries are handled? Go talk to your state legislators. Odds are the incumbents like it or they would have changed it already.
And it's not like the majorities in the Virginia General Assembly are hostile to Republicans.
Why would they want to? Even after the purge of the so-called "Blue Dogs" in recent years, Democrats haven't drunken the Kool-Aid in anywhere near the same way that the Tea Party folks have.
Most of the die-hard "radicals" of the left find Obama to be milquetoast at best and are more impassioned by the likes of Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren. But they still voted for Obama in '12 because the Tea Party was the alternative.
It's gotten to the point that the only real definition of a Democrat is "not a Teabagger." So why go after "Washington insiders" for its own sake when said insiders are doing things like keeping the Civil Rights Act on the books and not defaulting on federal debts?
now, i sure hope they don't "throw the book at them"
Would you feel the same way if he'd walked off with six figures worth of hardware rather than "computer time?"
“I feel about beating the turing test in quite convenient way. Nothing original,” said Goostman, when asked how he felt after his success.
I get the feeling this is less about improvements in AI and more about Eastern European spammers lowering our expectations.
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside.
There's no "right way" or "wrong way" for a car to lean on a level surface with all four wheels on the ground. The motorcycle metaphor doesn't work well here because part of turning a two-wheeler involves moving the center of mass off the centerline and letting gravity pull you through the turn. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, turning a two-wheeler involves throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
On the contrary: being thrown towards the outside of the turn means the turn radius increases, which results in a decrease in centrifugal force.
They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane.
Another poor comparison. Airplanes roll while turning because their wings are their largest working surface areas and need to be tilted off of horizontal to get the lift vector pointing "that way." The comparison here would be in banking the road surface itself (the working surface for a ground vehicle) rather than any shifting done by the suspension on a level road surface.
His objectively measured influence on history pales in comparison to that of Mr. Citation Needed.
My bad, I lost track of the decimal point in my mental math: it's 160 times the price he bought it for.
The amount paid was well above the market price for his team. It's 16 times the price he bought it for.
The money isn't to buy the team, it's to make him shut up and go away, i.e. a reward for bad behavior.
Perhaps Snowden is just pressing a point in presenting the argument that way to make it, feel, really personal because it is.
We're now 3+ nested layers deep into an early and highly up-modded conversation about the dick joke. This conversation about the dick joke was the first thing I saw upon scrolling down. The dick joke is dominating the conversation.
Which is exactly why he shouldn't have used the dick joke.
Rich said that the FTC, as the U.S. Government's leading privacy enforcement agency, should be given rule making and enforcement authority for the civil provisions of the LPPA.
Considering how existing US privacy enforcement is an absolute joke, I think I'd rather try something new instead of "more of the same." Maybe the FTC could better spend their time, I don't know, jailing the traders that broke the economy?
Take a look around here. IT folks tend to view themselves as self-sufficient, rugged individualists who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Unions are for the weak and stifle innovation, and every tech bro knows they're just one angel investor away from Going Galt.
Americans buy cheap crap from China because their low pay doesn't allow them to afford anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you stay in the dark, what they end up doing to you also stays in the dark.