Er, no. Sunset clauses are a terrible waste of government time
Umm, with well over 60,000 laws we are expected to obey, forcing re-consideration of past laws is anything but a waste of time. Hell, I'd prefer small supermajoroties just for normal laws. This bare majoroty rules all, ever-more unrestricted over the decades, really jas no philosophical basis beyond a brutal abstraction of simple might makes right. For a peaceful socoety, laws that bind should be agreed by most. It only delays implementation of shifting ideas of policy by a few years, and, combined with auto-sunset, will clean up old crap as the decades roll on.
These were enormous, decade-long studies. The qualifier is perhaps a poor description -- vitamins offer no benefits outside specific, diagnosed vitamin deficiencies. So unless you think every one of the 100,000 nurses ate properly, yes, they are indeed saying your McDonald's and hot dog and macaroni and cheese diet is fine (vitamin-wise).
No differences in disease onset betweem the two groups, ergo useless. This is also how they fpund out silicone breast implants were actually safe, in spite of fraudulent lawyers driving Dow into bankruptcy because they could FUD juries. No difference (aside from immediate rupture effects) between implants and not. And specifically, onset of things like arthritis, joint issues, and autoimmune things, lupus, etc. No difference in rates.
I wish people would point this out more -- free markets are doing what they did in the west a century and a half ago: lifting the society whole out of poverty and an agrarian existence, something central planning fails miserably at.
The proper place for government in the economy, if there is one, is to ameliorate the rough edges like sudden unemployment, but to otherwise not interfere in this unparalleled economic engine for average wealth generation.
From TFCD: "Indeed, I have little doubt that the author of our Constiution, James Madison, who cautioned us to beware "the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power," would be aghast."
The next time someone, seeking to expand the government's power, uses the meme "those founding fathers' ideas don't apply to our modern times", keep the above in mind. Their theories predict all this assholery with stunning accuracy. And that is due to studying history as hundreds of governments play out over thousands of years. Even the belief pure democracy won't fall prey to this is 100% contraindicated based on long-term history.
These are the clowns who use some kind of insertion sort to sort the files in a folder window, so when you chamge the sort on a window with thousands of files, god help you. Hell, insertion sort would be faster. It's as if their algorithm is "add the next file name, then bubble sort the whole damned thing. Repeat with next name."
This is built into their display list widget. How shameful past the early 1980s.
See, if they had just done it with proper warrants, even if just thru the secret FISA court, it would be fine. Now they're gonna get their ass rammed by constiutional challenge..
Slashdot seems to send your stuff to the server as you type it, too. My phone has lags from half a second to 5 seconds in response time between keypress and letter appearance, while my desktop (with much faster and more reliable) does not.
My first experience with binge viewing was discovering House in season 4 and back-watching seasons 1-3 over a few weeks on Hulu. Shortly thereafter I watched all of Dead Like Me where, as I approached the end, saw it had been cancelled years before.
Then Hulu started sucking with 300 seconds of commercials between segments, like regular TV, so I abandoned it. Recently I signed up for Netflix, online-only (apparently, there's a DVD mail service, WTF grandma). Currently round-robin binging on half a dozen series, 5-6 shows at a crack.
Agreed. Outlawing for-profit insurers/providers isn't a magic bullet but it's a good step, it would save something like 25 cents on the dollar.
I want that money as an attractant incentive to produce more drugs. This is what saves lives as the years pile up. Jist a few percent difference in rates of drug development compounds like interest, and 20 years down the road you find yourself with just the drug tech of 15 years from now.
There was a study that big drug companies of Europe were largely driven by US sales. This on top of the US basically inventing half the drugs and medical devices invented every year -- the free shit they give out relies on the US inventing it first.
I do not want feel-goodism executing tens of millions over the coming decades becaise this greed-driven process is squashed.
Never asked the obvious questions. "If you really aren't storing all our emails and phone calls, then why do you need to build a new $1.5 billion facility to hold exabytes of data storage? Either you're lying or you're guilty of a SERIOUS misappropriation of funds. So which is it?"
They're government -- they can do both! Billion-dollar programs are approved in Congress for pennies on the dollar with pork, making it perhaps the most groyesquely wasteful thing ever.
The $700 billion dollar bank bailout ubder Bush (who is the one guilty of leading the nation to its new spending and borrowing levels, not Obama) actually cost $820 billion after all the pork had been added to buy votes for it.
Yet nobody questions this -- some politicians presumably thought it good, but held it hostage to pork? They need to go. Others didn't like it, but got bought off by pork? They need to go, too.
It's perhaps more telling that they fear cables -- the NSA probably has cables mabufactured with eavesdropping tech in them. Tapping into same is one of their known methods, so a simple cable replacement will probably go undetected by the targets.
I.e. no black box around the cable with blinking red lights, like a movie. Just a normal-looking cable is there.
"The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans." - yeah right...
I believe that was Snowden's point, and the central theme of my standatd complaint in these threads -- that this is just a procedural "you ought to get permission" thing which, of course, a G. Gordon Liddy type agent, who's really working for some political bigwig, could simply ignore the rules and listen in to the conversations of political opponents. Even "just the metadata", connecting politicians to each other, planners, and donors, could be exploited.
Ghandi had English education, and knew the inherent decency of their people and legal system, and took advantage of it with passive resistance. MLK modeled his movement after that.
One of the favorite What If scenarios historians play is wondering how Ghandi would have done against Nazi Germany.
Hey gais! I found Slashdot's interest in this story! Hey gais!
The presence of arsenic in cobalt ore and the useless powder produced by ordinary smelting techniques led them to tag the dark metal kobold, meaning “goblin,” and thus “cobalt".
Thr vast majority of the Internet is private property; therefore warrants should be needed to get at its data. Carvng it into data and metadata is a fraud.
The US Post Office, where destination addresses and a return address (and which mailbox it came from) is government-public, and is a different story.
This metadata sophistry is like the government demanding your receipt from a restaurant, without the line items of what you ate.
FAA safety stuff aside, this is FCC -- rapid transitions between towers (you travel a mile in 4-5 seconds) confuses the cell phone system. That's why the ban at altitude.
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> the hardest decision of my life
Cut the guy some slack. You environmentalists should love him -- I'm sure his decision was very, very Green.
Umm, with well over 60,000 laws we are expected to obey, forcing re-consideration of past laws is anything but a waste of time. Hell, I'd prefer small supermajoroties just for normal laws. This bare majoroty rules all, ever-more unrestricted over the decades, really jas no philosophical basis beyond a brutal abstraction of simple might makes right. For a peaceful socoety, laws that bind should be agreed by most. It only delays implementation of shifting ideas of policy by a few years, and, combined with auto-sunset, will clean up old crap as the decades roll on.
These were enormous, decade-long studies. The qualifier is perhaps a poor description -- vitamins offer no benefits outside specific, diagnosed vitamin deficiencies. So unless you think every one of the 100,000 nurses ate properly, yes, they are indeed saying your McDonald's and hot dog and macaroni and cheese diet is fine (vitamin-wise).
No differences in disease onset betweem the two groups, ergo useless. This is also how they fpund out silicone breast implants were actually safe, in spite of fraudulent lawyers driving Dow into bankruptcy because they could FUD juries. No difference (aside from immediate rupture effects) between implants and not. And specifically, onset of things like arthritis, joint issues, and autoimmune things, lupus, etc. No difference in rates.
From TFWA:
So...spin glasses are Slashdot nerds?
I wish people would point this out more -- free markets are doing what they did in the west a century and a half ago: lifting the society whole out of poverty and an agrarian existence, something central planning fails miserably at.
The proper place for government in the economy, if there is one, is to ameliorate the rough edges like sudden unemployment, but to otherwise not interfere in this unparalleled economic engine for average wealth generation.
Oh I'm waiting for athletes to run around all Gay-OK! The Russians said athletes wouldn't be hassled, so we shall see.
From TFCD: "Indeed, I have little doubt that the author of our Constiution, James Madison, who cautioned us to beware "the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power," would be aghast."
The next time someone, seeking to expand the government's power, uses the meme "those founding fathers' ideas don't apply to our modern times", keep the above in mind. Their theories predict all this assholery with stunning accuracy. And that is due to studying history as hundreds of governments play out over thousands of years. Even the belief pure democracy won't fall prey to this is 100% contraindicated based on long-term history.
These are the clowns who use some kind of insertion sort to sort the files in a folder window, so when you chamge the sort on a window with thousands of files, god help you. Hell, insertion sort would be faster. It's as if their algorithm is "add the next file name, then bubble sort the whole damned thing. Repeat with next name."
This is built into their display list widget. How shameful past the early 1980s.
See, if they had just done it with proper warrants, even if just thru the secret FISA court, it would be fine. Now they're gonna get their ass rammed by constiutional challenge..
And deservedly so.
No shit. Where's that thank you for being a friend guy when you need him?
Slashdot seems to send your stuff to the server as you type it, too. My phone has lags from half a second to 5 seconds in response time between keypress and letter appearance, while my desktop (with much faster and more reliable) does not.
Oh, phew! I was afraid
was still in there somewhere. I'd be so embarrassed over the misspellings.
Boy that sounded like an ad for Netflix.
My first experience with binge viewing was discovering House in season 4 and back-watching seasons 1-3 over a few weeks on Hulu. Shortly thereafter I watched all of Dead Like Me where, as I approached the end, saw it had been cancelled years before.
Then Hulu started sucking with 300 seconds of commercials between segments, like regular TV, so I abandoned it. Recently I signed up for Netflix, online-only (apparently, there's a DVD mail service, WTF grandma). Currently round-robin binging on half a dozen series, 5-6 shows at a crack.
Agreed. Outlawing for-profit insurers/providers isn't a magic bullet but it's a good step, it would save something like 25 cents on the dollar.
I want that money as an attractant incentive to produce more drugs. This is what saves lives as the years pile up. Jist a few percent difference in rates of drug development compounds like interest, and 20 years down the road you find yourself with just the drug tech of 15 years from now.
There was a study that big drug companies of Europe were largely driven by US sales. This on top of the US basically inventing half the drugs and medical devices invented every year -- the free shit they give out relies on the US inventing it first.
I do not want feel-goodism executing tens of millions over the coming decades becaise this greed-driven process is squashed.
Never asked the obvious questions. "If you really aren't storing all our emails and phone calls, then why do you need to build a new $1.5 billion facility to hold exabytes of data storage? Either you're lying or you're guilty of a SERIOUS misappropriation of funds. So which is it?"
They're government -- they can do both! Billion-dollar programs are approved in Congress for pennies on the dollar with pork, making it perhaps the most groyesquely wasteful thing ever.
The $700 billion dollar bank bailout ubder Bush (who is the one guilty of leading the nation to its new spending and borrowing levels, not Obama) actually cost $820 billion after all the pork had been added to buy votes for it.
Yet nobody questions this -- some politicians presumably thought it good, but held it hostage to pork? They need to go. Others didn't like it, but got bought off by pork? They need to go, too.
It's perhaps more telling that they fear cables -- the NSA probably has cables mabufactured with eavesdropping tech in them. Tapping into same is one of their known methods, so a simple cable replacement will probably go undetected by the targets.
I.e. no black box around the cable with blinking red lights, like a movie. Just a normal-looking cable is there.
"The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans." - yeah right...
I believe that was Snowden's point, and the central theme of my standatd complaint in these threads -- that this is just a procedural "you ought to get permission" thing which, of course, a G. Gordon Liddy type agent, who's really working for some political bigwig, could simply ignore the rules and listen in to the conversations of political opponents. Even "just the metadata", connecting politicians to each other, planners, and donors, could be exploited.
Ghandi had English education, and knew the inherent decency of their people and legal system, and took advantage of it with passive resistance. MLK modeled his movement after that.
One of the favorite What If scenarios historians play is wondering how Ghandi would have done against Nazi Germany.
Hey gais! I found Slashdot's interest in this story! Hey gais!
Thank you for being a friend, Obummer the slop jockey with a finger up his nose!
I'm learning! Look ma!
Thr vast majority of the Internet is private property; therefore warrants should be needed to get at its data. Carvng it into data and metadata is a fraud.
The US Post Office, where destination addresses and a return address (and which mailbox it came from) is government-public, and is a different story.
This metadata sophistry is like the government demanding your receipt from a restaurant, without the line items of what you ate.
FAA safety stuff aside, this is FCC -- rapid transitions between towers (you travel a mile in 4-5 seconds) confuses the cell phone system. That's why the ban at altitude.
I assume this has been addressed in recent years.
And throw that into the noisy environment of a plane, and people will talk even loudererer than necessary.
We need some kind of cheap, disposible mouth cowling/bib to muffle voice. Ideally with ear buds.
So pretty much all politics is broken, by your definition.