"Here's a map to businesses and households where your chance of getting shot while robbing them is lowest."
You have been warned. Don't think it won't happen. When Florida passed a CCW law, carjackers took to robbing tourist rentals. They had to change the license plate style on rentals so they weren't distinctive. (I assume they finally did this anyway.)
Yeah baby, it's a great way to stimulate the economy. We know whst gets done is less important than things get done, and money gets pushed from person to person.
Buying computers to destroy employs people, as does destroying them. Hell, what we should do is just increase taxes and hire the tens of millions of unemployed to dig ditches and then fill them back in over and over.
Well, Ok, it was some poor shlub at a phone. One of two things happen:
1. He clears it. 2. He shines on the caller, maybe saying he fixed it but doesn't (happened to me several times) or puts you on hold for the supervisor who never answers (same).
I reject the shlub hupothesis. Oh, not the shlub part. Just that it's wrong to try to motivate. When "honey" instead of vinegar fails for the 4th time, then what?
Also I doubt knowing the name does any good. They don't give their real ones so they can't be tracked down for the beatings they richly deserve, I mean, so insane phone ragers can't go after them.
Temps are also hired because they can be calved off if necessary with no explanation, especially when the contract expires.
By the way, by saying government spending should be proportional to GDP, rather than income, or need, you are saying all productivity gains are properly inhaled by government than by benefitting the people who make the optimizations. It's a trick, run! The killer is in the house!
The real reason is to bribe politicians by writing down their name at the end of the day on the most profitable trades.
Hillary Clinton once had 29 of 31 IPO trades work out profitably for her, a success ratio neither God nor the Wall Street Journal had ever seen before.
Again, I am not very concerned if Google thinks I may want to buy Pampers, Depends, or both.
Iam concerned with government wondering who I talk with who may be political. As it turns out, no one. But many people do do this, and some of them would be of interest to corrupted officials.
Therefore this mechanism, if it is to exist, needs good logging and forbearance mechanisms without warrant or, if in an "emergency", logging with mandatory followup with FISA or other court, and regular review by Congress.
"It's such an emergency we can't even do that after 12 years" that is the fraudulent, anti-freedom activity.
"Trust us" when this involves trusting they follow the rules voluntarily is a crock of poop.
Snowden claimed, and tested, that he could listen in on phone calls of important people without warrant and without setting off alarms.
It would be trivial for either party, or other large factions with connections, to insert an operative among hundreds or thousands of agents who listens in on political opponents. Prevention of that is the most important part of unreasonable search, not them listening to you wishing gramma a happy BD.
This is utterly disgusting. A cynic would suggest the 9/11 rah rah was coopted by politicians for just this purpose. We can't wait! We can't even wait to build in logging and flag-raising software piped to multiple log and encryptuon points, with MD5 of the logs stored at many other points.
Well, in honesty, it is a good demonstration of "will of the people" run amok, driving the productive away, as taxes increase, leading to problems, and the solution is, of course, even more government.
We've seen this throughout human history in cases of dictatorship and kleptocracies. Humanity is now learning that democracy can bring on sufficient burden that the difference is little different. Nobody can make a move without kowtowing to the government for permission to do things, and when they manage, against all odds, to be successful, they are expected to heave ever-increasing percents of the success back to the government.
Economics doesn't care if it's because the government is a kleptocracy or the government is filled with well-meaning rules and regulations and temerous claims that everyone should "pay their fair share", which, curiously, is always, always increasing.
Well someone is to blame. A contract is a contract, and it's not like Google was suffering financial problems. Indeed, even Motorola, who may have been, would at least keep contracts with ongoing revenue satisfied, even as other stuff fell by the wayside.
In the future, Kinect may offer you a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style narrative in which you speak commands or give orders to an ad as it's playing to change the final outcome.
As long as you are not required to participate. I loathe Hulu asking you if this is a good advertising "experience for you" and refuse to click.
Actually I don't even use Hulu anymore. Multiple 30s commercials just like TV meh. I lived through the era of broadcast-only TV where you could not fast forward thru commercials. This is no improvement, Hulu. You've returned people to the dark ages.
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"Here's a map to businesses and households where your chance of getting shot while robbing them is lowest."
You have been warned. Don't think it won't happen. When Florida passed a CCW law, carjackers took to robbing tourist rentals. They had to change the license plate style on rentals so they weren't distinctive. (I assume they finally did this anyway.)
Why do you want firemen to not have oxygen masks?
Yeah baby, it's a great way to stimulate the economy. We know whst gets done is less important than things get done, and money gets pushed from person to person.
Buying computers to destroy employs people, as does destroying them. Hell, what we should do is just increase taxes and hire the tens of millions of unemployed to dig ditches and then fill them back in over and over.
I don't get it. They're bitching because Microsoft decided to not integrate Facebook pictures?
How...sinister of them. Damned if they try to do it all, cutting out competition, damned if they don't.
Well, Ok, it was some poor shlub at a phone. One of two things happen:
1. He clears it.
2. He shines on the caller, maybe saying he fixed it but doesn't (happened to me several times) or puts you on hold for the supervisor who never answers (same).
I reject the shlub hupothesis. Oh, not the shlub part. Just that it's wrong to try to motivate. When "honey" instead of vinegar fails for the 4th time, then what?
Also I doubt knowing the name does any good. They don't give their real ones so they can't be tracked down for the beatings they richly deserve, I mean, so insane phone ragers can't go after them.
Temps are also hired because they can be calved off if necessary with no explanation, especially when the contract expires.
By the way, by saying government spending should be proportional to GDP, rather than income, or need, you are saying all productivity gains are properly inhaled by government than by benefitting the people who make the optimizations. It's a trick, run! The killer is in the house!
The real reason is to bribe politicians by writing down their name at the end of the day on the most profitable trades.
Hillary Clinton once had 29 of 31 IPO trades work out profitably for her, a success ratio neither God nor the Wall Street Journal had ever seen before.
Again, I am not very concerned if Google thinks I may want to buy Pampers, Depends, or both.
Iam concerned with government wondering who I talk with who may be political. As it turns out, no one. But many people do do this, and some of them would be of interest to corrupted officials.
Therefore this mechanism, if it is to exist, needs good logging and forbearance mechanisms without warrant or, if in an "emergency", logging with mandatory followup with FISA or other court, and regular review by Congress.
"It's such an emergency we can't even do that after 12 years" that is the fraudulent, anti-freedom activity.
IIRC, this is the third sensation that makes the tri of the tricorder.
"Trust us" when this involves trusting they follow the rules voluntarily is a crock of poop.
Snowden claimed, and tested, that he could listen in on phone calls of important people without warrant and without setting off alarms.
It would be trivial for either party, or other large factions with connections, to insert an operative among hundreds or thousands of agents who listens in on political opponents. Prevention of that is the most important part of unreasonable search, not them listening to you wishing gramma a happy BD.
This is utterly disgusting. A cynic would suggest the 9/11 rah rah was coopted by politicians for just this purpose.
We can't wait! We can't even wait to build in logging and flag-raising software piped to multiple log and encryptuon points, with MD5 of the logs stored at many other points.
With your parents tho, at least it's beautiful in theory.
The rapid downmods come from secret agent astroturfers.
You should print it on acid-free paper if you plan on scanning it back in because regular paper will be useless to you in about 150-200 years.
Really. And because Lincoln did this, his agents were able to intercept that giant mechanical spider. God help us if that fell into the South's hands.
And you can always find flaws so you can tear them down to satisfy your minuscule issues of the modern day, living in the world they built for you.
Did you count cockroaches?
Are there any major airports in the US that don't have cameras recording the runways?
Well, in honesty, it is a good demonstration of "will of the people" run amok, driving the productive away, as taxes increase, leading to problems, and the solution is, of course, even more government.
We've seen this throughout human history in cases of dictatorship and kleptocracies. Humanity is now learning that democracy can bring on sufficient burden that the difference is little different. Nobody can make a move without kowtowing to the government for permission to do things, and when they manage, against all odds, to be successful, they are expected to heave ever-increasing percents of the success back to the government.
Economics doesn't care if it's because the government is a kleptocracy or the government is filled with well-meaning rules and regulations and temerous claims that everyone should "pay their fair share", which, curiously, is always, always increasing.
And now, the punchline: "In other words, Detroit's emergency response time increased by about 1.5%.
Well someone is to blame. A contract is a contract, and it's not like Google was suffering financial problems. Indeed, even Motorola, who may have been, would at least keep contracts with ongoing revenue satisfied, even as other stuff fell by the wayside.
I remain convinced there should be a mod option of +1 Troll.
As long as you are not required to participate. I loathe Hulu asking you if this is a good advertising "experience for you" and refuse to click.
Actually I don't even use Hulu anymore. Multiple 30s commercials just like TV meh. I lived through the era of broadcast-only TV where you could not fast forward thru commercials. This is no improvement, Hulu. You've returned people to the dark ages.
"Ok, Astro. Give 'er the gun!"
I found part of a famous Lucy episode, massively distorted.
Not only is the signal quality poor, but it looks like it's been through several trans-species virtual re-emotings.
and Boba Fett
and Boba Fett
and Boba Fett
It shall be interesting to see the first Star Wars flop.