Cut a deal with Uber and Lyft and the whole public/private thing goes away.For that matter, just go full public, I'm sure lot of people would allow one in their car for a slice of the action as they drive around.
That list you made, that's why something like a basic income will never happen. There's a lot of power detailed in that list, government controls people because of just what you listed. There's no way it's giving that up. Basic income would mean too much loss of control over the population.
Nothing amateurish about it and it was conceived properly and, I would suggest, successful. You are correct, if you really want to change how a subject is taught, you go through the curriculum departments of the school districts but he does not do that. That's because the goal is not changing how it's taught (that may or may not be a side benefit). The goal in pandering for votes among his base constituency. I'd say he's done that well enough to consider this effort successful.
The temperature is supposed to be less than whatever it is now or will be in the future. We are in a inter-glacial period of a ice age right now and temperatures are as cold as they've ever been based on geological time scales. They must be kept this way forever and never, ever, go up.
Here's the deal, I'd be interested in your feedback.
I send unsolicited email, anywhere from 100-200 per day depending on the email campaign and targets I'm after although 100 is by far the most common amount. These emails are 100% CAN-SPAM compliant: they come from my email, have my name, address and phone number, provide a opt-out link that is applied within seconds and you never get another from me, if you just email me to stop I apply that request immediately, etc. These are small, text only based emails that can easily be read on a mobile device.
I do not send it to random people, I do my homework. I only send to people that I believe have a reasonable probability of wanting/needing what I'm selling as anything else is a waste of time and resources for both of us. Out of the about 100 per day sent, if I've done my job properly, I get around a 10% response rate asking for more information, a meeting, or something along those lines (sometimes more, sometimes less). Out of the roughly 400 I send a week (I don't send every day) I can expect to generate 2-3 new qualified opportunities that could lead to a sale.
I do not believe this is spamming, the law agrees with that since I am CAN-SPAM compliant although I certainly see the the anti-spam "purists" could make the case that it is spam since it is unsolicited email. This approach has led to a significant increase in sales without a increase is staffing. It beats the hell out of cold calling. It used to take our sales guys about 100 phone calls a day, every single day, to generate 2-3 qualified opportunities a month and now our sales guys makes about 24 'warm' calls a day and generate literally twice as many qualified opportunities.
This strategy works and works very well. With those kind of results and a highly targeted approach, I don't think we're crossing the line. What do you guys think?
Surely you've seen "Jackass" - the series as well as the movies. "OW, My Balls" is not intellectually far removed from the current state of 'reality' television.
Huge difference between salary and total compensation. Stock options, bonuses, etc. In addition, many execs at that level get a lot of perks like corporate cars, air travel (corporate jet or spousal travel), lodging and sweetheart loans that are forgiven after some milestone (time or performance based), as well as a host of other "goodies". That $218,000 is likely more like walking around money.
No, the argument is that you want to have the ability to fight the US government.
Right now, it is illegal for the US military to conduct operations on US soil. Unless that law is repealed, orders to do so should be considered unlawful and not obeyed and the person ordering it removed from command/office. Based on my military background, I think the majority of the military leadership will take that course of action.
That being said, some may not. Other agencies, like DHS, may decide to engage in operations that are more legally murky and its leadership has not committed to following the same obligations as the military
I worked with Lotus Notes for years and, while there are some flaws, it's clearly superior when it comes to business collaboration. The latest release, R9, is about the best email client for business there is with incredible security (there's a reason secret governments TLA's use Notes) and mature deployment mechanisms that make enterprise support easy.
People used to ridicule the UI and now the UI is essentially duplicated in the most popular software (tabs, tiling, etc). There was a time where the applications written on it were frequently poor, this was due to the macro language used looked similar to a spreadsheet so every secretary and non-technical manager thought he could code (I actually saw this more than once).
There was the complaint about a proprietary language. Notes supports Java, XML, HTML, CSS as well as the built-in languages within the product. It has been enhanced so that applications are delivered to client, browser and mobile device with little alteration required making building applications easier and faster than any other platform out there. When is comes to RAD, there is nothing faster than Notes. With its new XPages dev environment, you get all the modern advantages in a solid, easy to use, package.
People whined about how it used it's own network protocol. Yes, it did. That was because such things were not widely available when Notes came out so to allow networking there was some workaround was used. Notes supported TCPIP starting in the mid to early 1990's.
With R9, there is deep social integration, advanced mail handling that shames Outlook, calendaring that just works, and a level of flexibility that lets me work the way I work best. It's a great product. I've been stuck in Outlook/Sharepoint hell for the last year and only now realize how great Notes is.
Sametime? You must have been laid off a couple of years ago. They use Connections for everything now. What IBM would really like to do is create some massive environment based on WebSphere that's so complex the service revenues will be insane and then run it out of Bangalore.
That's kind of misleading. The headline give you the impression this is a constant thing. Digging down into the article, says this happened on a "unusually windy day" at 3 AM. That 140% number is a outlier at a very specific time under very specific conditions and that may not happen again - or maybe it will. However, it is not the norm.I didn't see anywhere in the article what the average was or even a mean for days where windpower alone meets all need.
In the end, the article is a propaganda piece designed to pump up wind power as a solution.
The original intent was it represent the state and not the people. However, the 17th amendment changed that. The senate now, in fact, represents the people.
Specifically, testing revealed that the vehicle "cannot be reliably controlled by the ship or communicate when it is operating out of the line-of-sight of the ship, and the towed sonar cannot detect mines consistently," according to the DOT&E.
The memo, cited in a September Senate Armed Service Committee report, also said the drone could only reliably operate for up to 25 hours before it failed during testing, falling far short of its required 75 hours.
Can't control it or communicate with it unless you can see it and battery life is 1/3 of requirement. For $700 million, that's a pretty dramatic implementation miss for some pretty straightforward requirements.
Exactly what I was thinking. The company is very secretive - initially even refusing to identify its CEO. The backers of this start-up remain a secret.
Having worked with a number of offshore software developers, I can say that penny pinching was the driver for flaws of this type. It's likely preventing "the simplest XSS attacks" was not explicitly named in the code specification along with a outline on how to accomplish it.
Visa and Mastercard are the global digital currency. I've been a lot of places, unless you're in the middle of a third world country, those credit cards get you buying power and the currency conversions are done automatically.
Keep in mind, though, the the second amendment starts with "In order to have a well-trained militia." So licensing gun owners is perfectly reasonable, requiring rigorous training is perfectly reasonable, and making guns unavailable to those who are not licensed is perfectly reasonable--in order to have a well-trained militia.
If the reason for personal gun ownership was to prevent government tyranny, I would think that probably would have been spelled out. Don't you?
No. The second amendment is "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." A part people get hung up on is the "well regulated" phrase and they think it means legal regulation. It does not. The phrase "well regulated" meant something different back then (similar to the way "gay" meant one thing in the 1920's and quite another today). At the time of drafting, well regulated meant essentially "well equipped". If you were to phrase it today, the second amendment should read, "A well equipped Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to possess weaponry, shall not be limited in any way."
Many people make fun of Donald Trump or don't take him seriously. What most don't realize is that he is represents the pinnacle of what the Republican Party has become. All that he says is little more than populist slurs and factually incorrect statements, barring any context. He is extremely anti social, anti socialist and very pro industry and military. He resents using government money for social programs but has no problems spending the same taxpayer money for military projects. His world view is an immature outlook where the US is at the center and the rest is a nuisance or a playground for the military. He willingly and knowingly misleads the public using fear, uncertainty and doubt tactics. When he's on television he revels in the attention and uses it to entertain people with outlandish rants and to polish his public image as an anti-establishment rebel, while saying absolutely nothing of consequence. He is the kind of person that can only appeal to, for lack of a better word: white trash and its scary that it has come so far that he reaches mass appeal in the US. Abraham Lincoln must be turning in his grave from what his party has become.
Same can be said about Obama, let's try it: All that Obama says is little more than populist slurs and factually incorrect statements, barring any context. He is extremely socialist, anti capitalist and very anti industry and military. His world view is an immature outlook where the US is at the center of all evil and the rest is a nuisance or a playground for the bureaucrats. He willingly and knowingly misleads the public using fear, uncertainty and doubt tactics. Etc, etc.
Easy, right?
Here's why people like Trump: he's honest. You may not agree with the insane bullshit he promotes but you can be damn sure he believes it and will do everything in his power to implement it. It's not just pandering like every single other establishment politician. Also, he doesn't apologize for America. Not any aspect of it. After 8 years of being treated to the "America is evil" meme from our current regime, many find it refreshing. They don't want apologists, they want pro-America leadership and pro-American policies and they want them from someone that will not be dragged into the morass of DC by corporate interests in ideological bullshit games. Trump is crazy but he's America crazy and people are responding to that. Some of the other candidates better get the message and start emulating him or it's gonna be one strange 4 years.
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Cut a deal with Uber and Lyft and the whole public/private thing goes away.For that matter, just go full public, I'm sure lot of people would allow one in their car for a slice of the action as they drive around.
That list you made, that's why something like a basic income will never happen. There's a lot of power detailed in that list, government controls people because of just what you listed. There's no way it's giving that up. Basic income would mean too much loss of control over the population.
Nothing amateurish about it and it was conceived properly and, I would suggest, successful. You are correct, if you really want to change how a subject is taught, you go through the curriculum departments of the school districts but he does not do that. That's because the goal is not changing how it's taught (that may or may not be a side benefit). The goal in pandering for votes among his base constituency. I'd say he's done that well enough to consider this effort successful.
In 1997, NOAA claimed that the Earth was 3.83 degrees warmer than today. Do you even science, bro?
The temperature is supposed to be less than whatever it is now or will be in the future. We are in a inter-glacial period of a ice age right now and temperatures are as cold as they've ever been based on geological time scales. They must be kept this way forever and never, ever, go up.
Without our guns, you'd be posting that in German. You're welcome.
Here's the deal, I'd be interested in your feedback.
I send unsolicited email, anywhere from 100-200 per day depending on the email campaign and targets I'm after although 100 is by far the most common amount. These emails are 100% CAN-SPAM compliant: they come from my email, have my name, address and phone number, provide a opt-out link that is applied within seconds and you never get another from me, if you just email me to stop I apply that request immediately, etc. These are small, text only based emails that can easily be read on a mobile device.
I do not send it to random people, I do my homework. I only send to people that I believe have a reasonable probability of wanting/needing what I'm selling as anything else is a waste of time and resources for both of us. Out of the about 100 per day sent, if I've done my job properly, I get around a 10% response rate asking for more information, a meeting, or something along those lines (sometimes more, sometimes less). Out of the roughly 400 I send a week (I don't send every day) I can expect to generate 2-3 new qualified opportunities that could lead to a sale.
I do not believe this is spamming, the law agrees with that since I am CAN-SPAM compliant although I certainly see the the anti-spam "purists" could make the case that it is spam since it is unsolicited email. This approach has led to a significant increase in sales without a increase is staffing. It beats the hell out of cold calling. It used to take our sales guys about 100 phone calls a day, every single day, to generate 2-3 qualified opportunities a month and now our sales guys makes about 24 'warm' calls a day and generate literally twice as many qualified opportunities.
This strategy works and works very well. With those kind of results and a highly targeted approach, I don't think we're crossing the line. What do you guys think?
Ha, exactly what I was thinking! Megaforce, what a frigging disaster that was.
Surely you've seen "Jackass" - the series as well as the movies. "OW, My Balls" is not intellectually far removed from the current state of 'reality' television.
Huge difference between salary and total compensation. Stock options, bonuses, etc. In addition, many execs at that level get a lot of perks like corporate cars, air travel (corporate jet or spousal travel), lodging and sweetheart loans that are forgiven after some milestone (time or performance based), as well as a host of other "goodies". That $218,000 is likely more like walking around money.
No, the argument is that you want to have the ability to fight the US government.
Right now, it is illegal for the US military to conduct operations on US soil. Unless that law is repealed, orders to do so should be considered unlawful and not obeyed and the person ordering it removed from command/office. Based on my military background, I think the majority of the military leadership will take that course of action.
That being said, some may not. Other agencies, like DHS, may decide to engage in operations that are more legally murky and its leadership has not committed to following the same obligations as the military
Let's ask a US citizen about his rights being trampled: Anwar Al-awaki. Oh wait ...
Or. more likely, people are afraid of the retribution that is handed out to anyone willing to point out the problems with AGW.
Wait, are you telling me the government lied? What? That's shocking!
I worked with Lotus Notes for years and, while there are some flaws, it's clearly superior when it comes to business collaboration. The latest release, R9, is about the best email client for business there is with incredible security (there's a reason secret governments TLA's use Notes) and mature deployment mechanisms that make enterprise support easy.
People used to ridicule the UI and now the UI is essentially duplicated in the most popular software (tabs, tiling, etc). There was a time where the applications written on it were frequently poor, this was due to the macro language used looked similar to a spreadsheet so every secretary and non-technical manager thought he could code (I actually saw this more than once).
There was the complaint about a proprietary language. Notes supports Java, XML, HTML, CSS as well as the built-in languages within the product. It has been enhanced so that applications are delivered to client, browser and mobile device with little alteration required making building applications easier and faster than any other platform out there. When is comes to RAD, there is nothing faster than Notes. With its new XPages dev environment, you get all the modern advantages in a solid, easy to use, package.
People whined about how it used it's own network protocol. Yes, it did. That was because such things were not widely available when Notes came out so to allow networking there was some workaround was used. Notes supported TCPIP starting in the mid to early 1990's.
With R9, there is deep social integration, advanced mail handling that shames Outlook, calendaring that just works, and a level of flexibility that lets me work the way I work best. It's a great product. I've been stuck in Outlook/Sharepoint hell for the last year and only now realize how great Notes is.
Sametime? You must have been laid off a couple of years ago. They use Connections for everything now. What IBM would really like to do is create some massive environment based on WebSphere that's so complex the service revenues will be insane and then run it out of Bangalore.
They day they quit using US dollars as the reserve currency for oil is the day the US economy goes into freefall.
More in fact: Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://www.theguardian.com/env...
That's kind of misleading. The headline give you the impression this is a constant thing. Digging down into the article, says this happened on a "unusually windy day" at 3 AM. That 140% number is a outlier at a very specific time under very specific conditions and that may not happen again - or maybe it will. However, it is not the norm.I didn't see anywhere in the article what the average was or even a mean for days where windpower alone meets all need.
In the end, the article is a propaganda piece designed to pump up wind power as a solution.
The original intent was it represent the state and not the people. However, the 17th amendment changed that. The senate now, in fact, represents the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Specifically, testing revealed that the vehicle "cannot be reliably controlled by the ship or communicate when it is operating out of the line-of-sight of the ship, and the towed sonar cannot detect mines consistently," according to the DOT&E. The memo, cited in a September Senate Armed Service Committee report, also said the drone could only reliably operate for up to 25 hours before it failed during testing, falling far short of its required 75 hours.
Can't control it or communicate with it unless you can see it and battery life is 1/3 of requirement. For $700 million, that's a pretty dramatic implementation miss for some pretty straightforward requirements.
Exactly what I was thinking. The company is very secretive - initially even refusing to identify its CEO. The backers of this start-up remain a secret.
Having worked with a number of offshore software developers, I can say that penny pinching was the driver for flaws of this type. It's likely preventing "the simplest XSS attacks" was not explicitly named in the code specification along with a outline on how to accomplish it.
Visa and Mastercard are the global digital currency. I've been a lot of places, unless you're in the middle of a third world country, those credit cards get you buying power and the currency conversions are done automatically.
Keep in mind, though, the the second amendment starts with "In order to have a well-trained militia." So licensing gun owners is perfectly reasonable, requiring rigorous training is perfectly reasonable, and making guns unavailable to those who are not licensed is perfectly reasonable--in order to have a well-trained militia.
If the reason for personal gun ownership was to prevent government tyranny, I would think that probably would have been spelled out. Don't you?
No. The second amendment is "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." A part people get hung up on is the "well regulated" phrase and they think it means legal regulation. It does not. The phrase "well regulated" meant something different back then (similar to the way "gay" meant one thing in the 1920's and quite another today). At the time of drafting, well regulated meant essentially "well equipped". If you were to phrase it today, the second amendment should read, "A well equipped Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to possess weaponry, shall not be limited in any way."
Many people make fun of Donald Trump or don't take him seriously. What most don't realize is that he is represents the pinnacle of what the Republican Party has become. All that he says is little more than populist slurs and factually incorrect statements, barring any context. He is extremely anti social, anti socialist and very pro industry and military. He resents using government money for social programs but has no problems spending the same taxpayer money for military projects. His world view is an immature outlook where the US is at the center and the rest is a nuisance or a playground for the military. He willingly and knowingly misleads the public using fear, uncertainty and doubt tactics. When he's on television he revels in the attention and uses it to entertain people with outlandish rants and to polish his public image as an anti-establishment rebel, while saying absolutely nothing of consequence. He is the kind of person that can only appeal to, for lack of a better word: white trash and its scary that it has come so far that he reaches mass appeal in the US. Abraham Lincoln must be turning in his grave from what his party has become.
Same can be said about Obama, let's try it: All that Obama says is little more than populist slurs and factually incorrect statements, barring any context. He is extremely socialist, anti capitalist and very anti industry and military. His world view is an immature outlook where the US is at the center of all evil and the rest is a nuisance or a playground for the bureaucrats. He willingly and knowingly misleads the public using fear, uncertainty and doubt tactics. Etc, etc.
Easy, right?
Here's why people like Trump: he's honest. You may not agree with the insane bullshit he promotes but you can be damn sure he believes it and will do everything in his power to implement it. It's not just pandering like every single other establishment politician. Also, he doesn't apologize for America. Not any aspect of it. After 8 years of being treated to the "America is evil" meme from our current regime, many find it refreshing. They don't want apologists, they want pro-America leadership and pro-American policies and they want them from someone that will not be dragged into the morass of DC by corporate interests in ideological bullshit games. Trump is crazy but he's America crazy and people are responding to that. Some of the other candidates better get the message and start emulating him or it's gonna be one strange 4 years.