It should really be measured by hour of work, not month of work, although you took that into consideration, most people don't.
France has a 35-hour work week to America's 40. If the rough monthly numbers are still anywhere near comparable, something is Very Wrong in the US, and no amount of "fine tuning" will make that go away.
That might mean something if the US and France had similar wealth distribution. The average American may produce more but certainly doesn't get to keep it.
its no different than any other proprietary app on Android
Except I don't like all the proprietary crud that my tablet came with, regardless of whether it's from Google or the manufacturer. It's doing god-knows-what in the background and its removal is well beyond the ability of the average user (which is the entire point, isn't it?).
So ol' "Don't Be Evil" is now "Don't Be More Evil Than Our Business Partners?"
Ohio has a Republican governor and Republican supermajorities in both chambers of its state legislature. The three sponsors of this are all Republicans.
You're not old enough to remember credit card use before they had magnetic strips, are you? There's a reason why the name and numbers on them are (still) raised off the surface of the card.
The magnetic strip system itself had to be "adopted later in its lifecycle."
Considering that real-time programming, particularly sports, is why many people hold onto their CATV subscriptions to begin with, I'm not expecting a whole lot of overlap between those who cut their cord and whose who are particularly interested in live Olympic coverage.
Are you saying, given a name I could arbitrarily pull up credit transactions for that person?
How do you think credit reporting bureaus get their information? Have you never gotten a "pre-approved" offer of credit?
I do not think so. The fact that I cannot means that data is private.
It's not private, it's profitable. The only laughable privacy Americans have with respect to credit cards is what little Congress has granted to shut up the few Americans who've noticed.
Why do you think the credit card issuers themselves are collecting and storing all this information to begin with?
Now credit card company can share that data with whoever it likes - in private - so long as I agree to that, which we all do in credit card agreements. But just because there is a subset of people who can see it, does not mean it is not private...
If you care to read that agreement carefully, you'll note that your bank has exclusive say over who it can or won't share that information with, and can change the terms (if they were to ever get in the way) with little or no notice to you. It's nothing but "We promise to sell everything only to the highest bidder."
And what are you going to do if they even do violate their own terms? Press your case in the mandatory individual arbitration you "agreed" to?
They could do the job they need to with a much broader and filtered overview of data.
And who sets up the filters, the very banks the CFPB is supposed to be policing?
Sola scriptura, upon which Creationism generally relies, is a decidedly Western, Protestant idea. Other Christian denominations and other Mosaic faiths have additional sacred traditions they rely upon that prevent scripture from being the exclusive source of absolute truth, from being interpreted completely literally, or a combination of the two.
But if you can cite examples of public funds being used to teach other faiths' creation myths as scientific fact in the Untied States, please feel free to post them.
The US ALREADY has more funding per student than any other major country. That's funded mainly through property taxes, other taxes, etc. This news story points to a 440 page report with all of the details:
And it's not as though all spending on education is public, the OECD report found. Public spending accounts for just 70 cents of every education dollar in the United States. Parents picked up another 25 cents and private sources paid for the remainder in 2010.
So it works really well for kids whose parents can afford to to pick up 1/4 of the tab. Faint praise indeed.
If upper body strength was of critical importance to CS, that might be a meaningful argument. Otherwise, "genders are different" has been used entirely too long to justify entirely too much discrimination to be taken seriously in this day and age without some serious proof to back up why it is (and should be) a legitimate factor in this case.
At this point, I think it's inevitable that spying will be a central issue in the 2016 Presidential election
No. This is a "foreign policy" issue and that barely makes it onto the voters' radar when the "foreign policy" issue is an ongoing war. That, and the election is still 3 years out.
I wouldn't even hold my breath about voters caring during next year's midterm.
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It should really be measured by hour of work, not month of work, although you took that into consideration, most people don't.
France has a 35-hour work week to America's 40. If the rough monthly numbers are still anywhere near comparable, something is Very Wrong in the US, and no amount of "fine tuning" will make that go away.
That might mean something if the US and France had similar wealth distribution. The average American may produce more but certainly doesn't get to keep it.
its no different than any other proprietary app on Android
Except I don't like all the proprietary crud that my tablet came with, regardless of whether it's from Google or the manufacturer. It's doing god-knows-what in the background and its removal is well beyond the ability of the average user (which is the entire point, isn't it?).
So ol' "Don't Be Evil" is now "Don't Be More Evil Than Our Business Partners?"
"Alright, you've covered your ass now."
You never read Calvin & Hobbes, did you?
Ohio has a Republican governor and Republican supermajorities in both chambers of its state legislature. The three sponsors of this are all Republicans.
You're not old enough to remember credit card use before they had magnetic strips, are you? There's a reason why the name and numbers on them are (still) raised off the surface of the card.
The magnetic strip system itself had to be "adopted later in its lifecycle."
Considering that real-time programming, particularly sports, is why many people hold onto their CATV subscriptions to begin with, I'm not expecting a whole lot of overlap between those who cut their cord and whose who are particularly interested in live Olympic coverage.
Do Bitcoin articles count?
Thank God.
Are you saying, given a name I could arbitrarily pull up credit transactions for that person?
How do you think credit reporting bureaus get their information? Have you never gotten a "pre-approved" offer of credit?
I do not think so. The fact that I cannot means that data is private.
It's not private, it's profitable. The only laughable privacy Americans have with respect to credit cards is what little Congress has granted to shut up the few Americans who've noticed.
Why do you think the credit card issuers themselves are collecting and storing all this information to begin with?
Now credit card company can share that data with whoever it likes - in private - so long as I agree to that, which we all do in credit card agreements. But just because there is a subset of people who can see it, does not mean it is not private...
If you care to read that agreement carefully, you'll note that your bank has exclusive say over who it can or won't share that information with, and can change the terms (if they were to ever get in the way) with little or no notice to you. It's nothing but "We promise to sell everything only to the highest bidder."
And what are you going to do if they even do violate their own terms? Press your case in the mandatory individual arbitration you "agreed" to?
They could do the job they need to with a much broader and filtered overview of data.
And who sets up the filters, the very banks the CFPB is supposed to be policing?
"Pro-Capital GOP uses NSA Leaks as New Excuse to Attack Consumer Protection Agency They Never Liked."
Sola scriptura , upon which Creationism generally relies, is a decidedly Western, Protestant idea. Other Christian denominations and other Mosaic faiths have additional sacred traditions they rely upon that prevent scripture from being the exclusive source of absolute truth, from being interpreted completely literally, or a combination of the two.
But if you can cite examples of public funds being used to teach other faiths' creation myths as scientific fact in the Untied States, please feel free to post them.
But Baidu is less likely to be in bed with the NSA, so there's that.
The US ALREADY has more funding per student than any other major country. That's funded mainly through property taxes, other taxes, etc. This news story points to a 440 page report with all of the details:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us...
So it works really well for kids whose parents can afford to to pick up 1/4 of the tab. Faint praise indeed.
The kid has two parents, so you could get the mother's partner to pay up rather than the father.
God's Own Kansas doesn't recognize gay marriage. She's a single mother, period.
You got that far? My stopping point:
If your website needs a dedicated app on mobile platforms, you're either doing something wrong or doing something unethical.
genders are different.
If upper body strength was of critical importance to CS, that might be a meaningful argument. Otherwise, "genders are different" has been used entirely too long to justify entirely too much discrimination to be taken seriously in this day and age without some serious proof to back up why it is (and should be) a legitimate factor in this case.
briefly visiting a couple of asteroids for a gravity assist
Gravity assist for whom, the probe or the asteroids?
He had a track record. In 2008 Senator Obama voted to grant phone companies retroactive immunity for participating in Bush's spying.
We can trust him.
Even if that were true, what happens come January 2017?
p.s. The shooter will spend the rest of his life in jail
You're kidding, right? Did you miss the fact that this happened in Florida? He'll walk, just like Zimmerman.
The shooter was previously the head of security at Busch Gardens.
Consider this standard of behavior when next planning a trip to Florida's theme parks.
At this point, I think it's inevitable that spying will be a central issue in the 2016 Presidential election
No. This is a "foreign policy" issue and that barely makes it onto the voters' radar when the "foreign policy" issue is an ongoing war. That, and the election is still 3 years out.
I wouldn't even hold my breath about voters caring during next year's midterm.
Physicists are both alive and dead between paychecks.