All network operators are subject to the new law, including local providers as well as the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, who have opposed it, saying the new statutes clash with overseas privacy legislation.
They already famously route everything through the United States and its complete lack of privacy laws anyway. What do they care?
Don't tell me the likes of Facebook, Google and Microsoft are worried about their image as protectors of user privacy...
When the gun lobby ensures that "responsibility" in gun ownership can only be enforced after the fact (can't even require insurance!), just how reliably must firearms kill innocents?
So, while the problem is probably real and severe, I'd like to see a better way of measuring this stuff.
The trick is finding something similarly cheap and easy to measure. For something that can be determined with just a bathroom scale and a tape measure, most of the more effective competing metrics I'm seeing involve equipment you wouldn't see outside of a major hospital.
This faces the same problem that a cross-Bering rail connection would have: "And then what?" Alaska doesn't have a particularly robust rail network (the tunnel would have to go all the way to Anchorage), and what it does have doesn't leave the state; there are no connections to Canada, let alone to the 48.
Anyone or anything that arrives by tunnel would immediately have to get onto a truck, bus, ship or plane. Unless China sees that much of an untapped market in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Company representatives seemed sure that people in practice would be uninterested in constantly recharging their watches and downloading software updates just to tell time.
It's been over 40 years since UTC shifted from elastic seconds to leap seconds. Terrestrial radio (nevermind GNSS!) synchronization signals include more warning about those leap seconds than they do about summer time shifts. And yet these watchmakers still can't sell me a watch that can properly handle leap seconds.
So yeah: I agree that I'm not thrilled about having to push software to my watch just to tell time, but I'm also not thrilled that being able to reprogram my watch is the only hope I have of getting a timepiece that actually tells time properly without having to get my own cesium oscillator.
Not that that's much hope, since I have yet to figure out how to get my GPS-enabled Android tablet to tell me what the Delta-AT is...
His English comment doesn't even make sense. The kid wanted to switch to economics.
I suspect it's a deliberate misdirection. Google wants to keep people in CS degrees to keep wages down, rather than lose them to degree programs with higher earning potential. Arguing against an economics degree was too inconvenient so he made it about English instead.
15 years of "everything's fine?" Or simply 15 years of employees quietly being passed over for promotion, implicitly encouraged to seek employment elsewhere, and not wanting to jeopardize a professional reference? Nobody ever lost a job by not complaining about their workplace environment.
Workplace discrimination and a hostile work environment are by their nature self-perpetuating and are often subtle enough to go unaddressed and unchecked for years as victims desire to avoid "rocking the boat" and jeopardizing both their present and future employment.
Any appearance of bigotry so high up the chain of command cannot be tolerated if an organization truly wishes to be inclusive. Letting him continue to hold his prior position of authority unchecked after his bigotry came to light was a mistake; promoting him simply compounded the long-festering problem.
searched the federal campaign-contribution database and found that Yagan gave...$500 to then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign who also opposed gay marriage at the time.
He also opposed preemptively bombing Iran and didn't choose Sarah Palin as a running mate. Most political candidates don't run on a single issue. Did the campaign check specifically have "Fuck the gays!" written in the memo?
According to Wikipedia, 7,001,084 people voted for Prop 8. Why do any of those people still have jobs? Shouldn’t they all be forced to resign?
Depends on if they all hypocritically run companies that claim to strive for diversity.
One reason why rich white guys like Eich are being targeted so viciously is that the many black churches who supported Proposition 8 — and, indeed, put it over the top — are out-of-bounds for criticism.
And since it's the only "reason" you listed it's the only reason that matters? Besides, unlike Eich here, "the black churches" (as well as churches of other, less sinister colors) have tended to recant prior support and joined organizations such as the NAACP working towards equality.
True, he didn’t support Prop 8 or other attempts to legally ban SSM (a strong signal at the time that his stated view was a lie),
And Paula Deen and her brother got the racial discrimination claims against them dismissed. When problems have to get worse than that before they can be formally addressed, nobody can afford a "wait and see" approach.
With Mozilla giving benefits to same-sex couples and having outreach programs for homosexuals, it is hard to see how an anti-gay culture could build up.
Written policies, outreach programs and benefits such as maternity leave certainly haven't put an end to gender-based employment discrimination, but they do make a good whitewash.
And, it is impossible for such a culture to build invisibly
It doesn't need to be invisible, it just needs to avoid prosecution ("It's just a coincidence that H-1B's under the age of 30 were the best qualified candidates for the job.")
these days ideological hiccups regarding homosexuality are cast out.
Who gets "cast out" depends entirely on who's at the top.
If and when Eich harmed an employee, that employe could be unable to legally prove his case, but could easily make the case public, thus causing Eich's demise.
And that whistle-blower will never be hired by anybody else again. All future potential employers will "just happen" to find a better-qualified candidate than someone with a history of antagonizing their employers.
Ideas need to be debated based on their merits, not on punisment and reward.
"Meritable ideas" don't pay for rent or buy groceries. The CEO has, for all practical purposes, unlimited power to mete out punishment and reward, and with such great power must come great scrutiny.
The ballot is secret for a reason, and small donations should be secret too.
$1000 is more than the average American makes in a week.
But we don't all drop $1k in support of our bigotry and then get all squirmy when asked if we still feel the same way. George Wallace was more repentant.
So tell me, the last time that you avoided going to church on the weekend, where you not a anti-religious bigot?
I don't support efforts to deny others the ability to worship if, when and how they choose.
How about when you voted I, or D, or R?
I don't support efforts to criminalize being a member of a political party.
And in this case, since Eich explicitly gave to a political group
A single-issue advocacy group that sought nothing other than to disenfranchise a minority.
rather than giving a speech, or protesting, or handing out flyers
His employees were actually surprised to learn the information.
They weren't "his employees" until last week.
Seems he *didn't* act as you imagine he would
California law and written corporate policy would have kept him from acting on his prejudices overtly. Discrimination and a hostile work environment don't need to be written into the employee handbook to be present, especially when it goes all the way to the top.
but I hate the idea of judging someone's employability based on how they vote.
And yet you would give the authority to hire, fire, and set policy to an unreformed bigot and hope it all works out for the best?
To save us some time, I'll get straight to a Hitler example, noting that Hitler personally played an important role in the design of the VW Beetle. But hippies can still drive Beetles without thereby supporting Hitler.
How many current Volkswagen executives and board members make political contributions to Nazis? We're not talking about divesting from ECMAScript here.
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All network operators are subject to the new law, including local providers as well as the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, who have opposed it, saying the new statutes clash with overseas privacy legislation.
They already famously route everything through the United States and its complete lack of privacy laws anyway. What do they care?
Don't tell me the likes of Facebook, Google and Microsoft are worried about their image as protectors of user privacy...
Terminal velocity and ballistic freefall are mutually exclusive.
Who wants something that will reduce reliability and increase price?
The problem being searched for is "I'm sure it's not loaded".
When the gun lobby ensures that "responsibility" in gun ownership can only be enforced after the fact (can't even require insurance!), just how reliably must firearms kill innocents?
It now becomes the Fast & Faster Lanes
That sound you hear is all of South Korea laughing.
when someone objects or defends his right to an opinion
You have a right to an opinion. You do not have a right to a job.
when I was in my 20's around gay people, they mostly wanted to just be accepted and/or left alone to do their own thing
They weren't quite so uppity?
Why are LGBT discriminated against if not for how they're portrayed (or deliberately not portrayed) in art and culture?
So, while the problem is probably real and severe, I'd like to see a better way of measuring this stuff.
The trick is finding something similarly cheap and easy to measure. For something that can be determined with just a bathroom scale and a tape measure, most of the more effective competing metrics I'm seeing involve equipment you wouldn't see outside of a major hospital.
This faces the same problem that a cross-Bering rail connection would have: "And then what?" Alaska doesn't have a particularly robust rail network (the tunnel would have to go all the way to Anchorage), and what it does have doesn't leave the state; there are no connections to Canada, let alone to the 48.
Anyone or anything that arrives by tunnel would immediately have to get onto a truck, bus, ship or plane. Unless China sees that much of an untapped market in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Sony said something. How customers interpreted it and what Sony had in mind need not be the same thing (and often aren't).
Condi is on the job!
If you aren't ready for advancements in technology then what are you doing reading this website?
One word: beta.
http://postalnews.com/postalne...
If nothing else, TFA doesn't sound like a particularly unbiased source.
Company representatives seemed sure that people in practice would be uninterested in constantly recharging their watches and downloading software updates just to tell time.
It's been over 40 years since UTC shifted from elastic seconds to leap seconds. Terrestrial radio (nevermind GNSS!) synchronization signals include more warning about those leap seconds than they do about summer time shifts. And yet these watchmakers still can't sell me a watch that can properly handle leap seconds.
So yeah: I agree that I'm not thrilled about having to push software to my watch just to tell time, but I'm also not thrilled that being able to reprogram my watch is the only hope I have of getting a timepiece that actually tells time properly without having to get my own cesium oscillator.
Not that that's much hope, since I have yet to figure out how to get my GPS-enabled Android tablet to tell me what the Delta-AT is...
His English comment doesn't even make sense. The kid wanted to switch to economics.
I suspect it's a deliberate misdirection. Google wants to keep people in CS degrees to keep wages down, rather than lose them to degree programs with higher earning potential. Arguing against an economics degree was too inconvenient so he made it about English instead.
corporations may also take a more proactive stance in response to them
Putting Condi Rice in charge of privacy: not a "proactive stance."
That's all fine and dandy but you're relying on Chrome and FF to keep XP support?
Officially Firefox still supports XP SP2, which hasn't seen official support from Microsoft since July 2010.
Unofficially, I haven't tried it lately but I suspect it still runs on Windows 2000.
15 years of "everything's fine?" Or simply 15 years of employees quietly being passed over for promotion, implicitly encouraged to seek employment elsewhere, and not wanting to jeopardize a professional reference? Nobody ever lost a job by not complaining about their workplace environment.
Workplace discrimination and a hostile work environment are by their nature self-perpetuating and are often subtle enough to go unaddressed and unchecked for years as victims desire to avoid "rocking the boat" and jeopardizing both their present and future employment.
Any appearance of bigotry so high up the chain of command cannot be tolerated if an organization truly wishes to be inclusive. Letting him continue to hold his prior position of authority unchecked after his bigotry came to light was a mistake; promoting him simply compounded the long-festering problem.
We
Oooh, "grassroots!"
searched the federal campaign-contribution database and found that Yagan gave...$500 to then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign who also opposed gay marriage at the time.
He also opposed preemptively bombing Iran and didn't choose Sarah Palin as a running mate. Most political candidates don't run on a single issue. Did the campaign check specifically have "Fuck the gays!" written in the memo?
According to Wikipedia, 7,001,084 people voted for Prop 8. Why do any of those people still have jobs? Shouldn’t they all be forced to resign?
Depends on if they all hypocritically run companies that claim to strive for diversity.
One reason why rich white guys like Eich are being targeted so viciously is that the many black churches who supported Proposition 8 — and, indeed, put it over the top — are out-of-bounds for criticism.
And since it's the only "reason" you listed it's the only reason that matters? Besides, unlike Eich here, "the black churches" (as well as churches of other, less sinister colors) have tended to recant prior support and joined organizations such as the NAACP working towards equality.
True, he didn’t support Prop 8 or other attempts to legally ban SSM (a strong signal at the time that his stated view was a lie),
Or, y'know, federalism.
And Paula Deen and her brother got the racial discrimination claims against them dismissed. When problems have to get worse than that before they can be formally addressed, nobody can afford a "wait and see" approach.
With Mozilla giving benefits to same-sex couples and having outreach programs for homosexuals, it is hard to see how an anti-gay culture could build up.
Written policies, outreach programs and benefits such as maternity leave certainly haven't put an end to gender-based employment discrimination, but they do make a good whitewash.
And, it is impossible for such a culture to build invisibly
It doesn't need to be invisible, it just needs to avoid prosecution ("It's just a coincidence that H-1B's under the age of 30 were the best qualified candidates for the job.")
these days ideological hiccups regarding homosexuality are cast out.
Who gets "cast out" depends entirely on who's at the top.
If and when Eich harmed an employee, that employe could be unable to legally prove his case, but could easily make the case public, thus causing Eich's demise.
And that whistle-blower will never be hired by anybody else again. All future potential employers will "just happen" to find a better-qualified candidate than someone with a history of antagonizing their employers.
Ideas need to be debated based on their merits, not on punisment and reward.
"Meritable ideas" don't pay for rent or buy groceries. The CEO has, for all practical purposes, unlimited power to mete out punishment and reward, and with such great power must come great scrutiny.
The ballot is secret for a reason, and small donations should be secret too.
$1000 is more than the average American makes in a week.
we are ALL bigots at one point or another
But we don't all drop $1k in support of our bigotry and then get all squirmy when asked if we still feel the same way. George Wallace was more repentant.
So tell me, the last time that you avoided going to church on the weekend, where you not a anti-religious bigot?
I don't support efforts to deny others the ability to worship if, when and how they choose.
How about when you voted I, or D, or R?
I don't support efforts to criminalize being a member of a political party.
And in this case, since Eich explicitly gave to a political group
A single-issue advocacy group that sought nothing other than to disenfranchise a minority.
rather than giving a speech, or protesting, or handing out flyers
He paid for the venues and the fliers.
His employees were actually surprised to learn the information.
They weren't "his employees" until last week.
Seems he *didn't* act as you imagine he would
California law and written corporate policy would have kept him from acting on his prejudices overtly. Discrimination and a hostile work environment don't need to be written into the employee handbook to be present, especially when it goes all the way to the top.
Bing Bar nothing. Windows 8 includes an unavoidable banner ad for the Windows Store.
but I hate the idea of judging someone's employability based on how they vote.
And yet you would give the authority to hire, fire, and set policy to an unreformed bigot and hope it all works out for the best?
To save us some time, I'll get straight to a Hitler example, noting that Hitler personally played an important role in the design of the VW Beetle. But hippies can still drive Beetles without thereby supporting Hitler.
How many current Volkswagen executives and board members make political contributions to Nazis? We're not talking about divesting from ECMAScript here.