Baloney. They were concerned about security, they were shutting down a security related project. The logical "explanation" is to point people at the other solutions that exist to provide the same functionality. Like most logical people they probably figured people would take them at their word and not play pseudo conspiracy theory with why they quit. But like most logical people they failed to take into account the wacko's like you that would read a conspiracy theory into a clean shutdown.
What you suggested as an "answer" is reaching so far into tin foil land that I'm not surprised you don't see it. What you suggest isn't legal and the NSA is very very adept at following the law, the problem for all of us is the law and courts allow them to do a lot of things people don't like but that doesn't change the fact that what you suggest is illegal and no court would allow it. You probably want to point at Lavabit but that wasn't the NSA, it was the FBI being all club fisted. See the entire problem with your conspiracy theory is that they could have just did what Lavabit did and shut everything down and announced why. There is absolutely nothing that would have prevented them from saying why they shut it down after all they were anonymous and might not even be Americans. There is no legitimate explanation, that isn't in tin foil land, for why they wouldn't say they were doing it because it was compromised if it had been.
The NSA isn't out to get Truecrypt. They probably didn't even care about it because they had already researched and found the vulnerabilities that the audit project found and knew with certainty that they could exploit it if needed. That's how the NSA works, they find vulnerabilities then don't tell anyone about them. It's all over the Snowden revelations. But you tune that out because it doesn't fit your conspiracy theory.
You are right out there wearing your tinfoil hat. Deny it all you want but you've created a completely illogical explanation that's extremely complex to explain something that isn't that complex. Your answer simply doesn't meet Occams razor, deal with it. Accept that you want this to be a conspiracy and move on.
Most of the time the simplest answer is the correct one.
We have a project that hadn't seen an update in years, all development effort had stopped and the people behind it were basically gone.
On one hand you have a claim of an order to backdoor the software that hasn't seen an update in ages. An order that contrary to your claim would NOT be legal.
On the other hand you have a claim that the software developers basically realized that unmaintained software is more dangerous than no software because it implies trust that isn't there. So being the responsible group they are they shutdown the project so people don't rely on code and servers that's probably exploitable (and the audit shows it was) because they aren't working on it anymore.
Of those two answers the simplest is not the illegal order to backdoor the software. But feel free to keep your tinfoil hat on while you sling shit around.
There is a legitimate argument that the real authors won't step forward and enforce their copyright because they would reveal their identity.
I think that is a pretty good chance personally as long as no one is making money. But if one of these companies tries to make money on this I think there is pretty high odds the original developers will step out of the shadows with their hand out.
It doesn't need to be murder to be a crime. There are in fact many kinds of murder, and even if the officer isn't charged with it because he was simply the weapon used doesn't mean a murder didn't occur.
You know every single plane the airforce has produced has had similar issues and reports. I'm old enough to remember the press trashing the F-16.
Those costs are fake. The R&D money is spread across the individual planes without regard to actual construction cost nor that the R&D is already spent. The real construction cost to build an F-35A was pegged at about $120 million. Which is roughly a bit more ($110 million) what it costs to build an F-18 and the F-18 is fully paid for so the R&D costs aren't calculated in anymore. The fact is the F-35 isn't that much more expensive then older generation planes to build. It's problems like all jets in the past will be ironed out over time and testing. I remember all the crashes the F-16 had until they identified the high-G problem (F-16 could turn sharper than the human body could sustain without blackout) and the press labeling it a catastrophic failure that kills pilots. Ironically not that different than language being used to describe the F-35.
Personally I think the future is taking all those old fighters we have stored in the desert and putting an AI and drone type system into the pilot seat. The F-4 is a great fighter, particularly when you don't have to worry about losing a pilot because there isn't one. The F-35 is likely to be the last manned aircraft the US every produces and it is needed until drone and AI systems improve to the point that they can be relied upon in a real battlefield where ECM is raging (we aren't there yet and probably won't be for a while).
There is some truth to what the EU leaders have tried to sell. When Greece's house of cards came crashing down everyone realized there was nothing in place to either bail them out or allow them to exit the Euro. A greek collapse at the time would have brought the entire EU group nations credit down into the toilet. This would have been exacerbated by the fact that the people holding the most greek debt were other eurozone countries banks (France in particular was heavily exposed). There was so much money in greek debt in EU member banks that most of them would have collapsed if the Greek debt defaulted. Needless to say a greek default would have been catastrophic to the entire EU because there were no policies in place, nor did the ECB have authority to intervene.
That's now been fixed. The ECB has taken most of the greek debt from the EU banks in a bond exchange program. The EU has also put in place policies and given the ECB authority to intervene in the result of a greek default and the polices put in place will now require that in the event of default, Greece exits the euro (they are calling it grexit for a reason).
Now the worst that will happen to EU member states in the event of a greek default is some inflation as the ECB is forced to absorb the Greek loses by printing money. Greece will of course be fucked but they won't take the whole EU with them. The Greek collapse was an eye opener to the EU leaders. Though they haven't given the ECB all the powers is needs they have given them some tools they can use to limit the damage. If there is a grexit the market believes the EU member states will surrender further powers to the ECB to react.
And though that 330 billion is probably lost, it's better that the ECB take those loses than the member banks that previously held the assets. The ECB is also moving forward on plan to stress test the banks similar to what the US FED has done. In the end that 330 billion has bought the EU significant financial improvements and stability. Is it worth it? Probably not, but don't discount that the emergency Greece created is going to help the EU in the end by bringing better financial policies to the member states. If nothing else the Greek event cause the member states to bring their deficit spending under control.
If 10 Billion is nothing to worry about why then the GOP drive to cut the same amount from food stamps as a terrible waste of money?
Sometimes priorities are important. I'd rather "waste" that 10 billion providing food to kids in the US that aren't getting full meals than waste that money on the cost plus fixed fee defense contracts where the value is in stretching the thing out as long as possible to feed those contractors pockets. If we feel the budget is constrained to the point that 10 billion dollars needs to be cut from such an important program (food stamps) then we certainly shouldn't be wasting it on pie in the sky defense schemes we wouldn't even need if we stopped messing about in other people's business.
One other thing, once they teach how to multiply they will likely teach them the same scaling techniques you learned. The only exception is that they won't just memorize the 10x10 grid you needed to memorize to do the same multiplication. They won't need to do the draw boxes thing for very many times before the method and way to think implants on their brains.
Learning how to multiply was one of those things I had to relearn in college as part of my STEM degree because I had to understand what multiplication was before I could move to the more advanced mathematics. In fact I really struggled with the tailor series polynomials precisely because I didn't understand that multiplication and division are nothing but adding and subtracting. Your kids will have a head start on that because they will understand the method. That is if you don't act like a dipshit and tell them to just play along while teaching them to memorize it like you did.
I see a lesson that's designed to teach the multiplication is just the addition of the same number the number of times it's multiplied by. Not sure I understand the circling 10's thing but that's probably to try to make it easier to count by breaking it down into the number of 10's then counting the remainder.
I'm sure it could be tuned to be a little bit better but do you know how many kids don't understand that multiplication is nothing more than addition? (I'd wager it's better than 90% that don't even understand what multiplication is) Again the lesson isn't learning to memorize 24x4 like it was when I went through school. It's designed to teach the kids what multiplication is and how to do it in a simplified manner such that they can multiply any two numbers together. The end result is that unlike memorizing multiplication tables up to 12x12 that these kids should be able to multiply anything and know the answer without memorization. That's a HUGE benefit. The old method was to teach kids to memorize solutions when the proper way to teach it is to teach them to understand how multiplication works because with the basis of how it works under their belt they aren't limited to the numbers they memorized.
It probably bothers you because you were taught multiplication by memorizing a table, they are being taught to understand multiplication. It also probably bothers you that the problem isn't solved just by knowing the answer (Ie knowing the memorized value) that you actually have to understand what multiplication is. Do you know why a lot of people fail out of STEM degrees? Because they try to memorize answers rather than understand the material. You fall on your face in tests in those programs when you do that. The circling thing is probably to help people that struggle with math because they learn and think visually. Those people hate math the way it used to be taught because none of made sense. But if they learn the theory behind it and to visualize it they can be some of the best mathematicians because of the higher math is all about visualization.
I don't see what you see. I see an interesting way to teach kids what multiplication is and how to do it without memorizing anything. It may not be the best method but it is a significant improvement over the old method. Like most parents that learned via memorization you probably hate it because you don't understand it. Consider for a moment that you might have been taught the worst possible way and that you don't understand it precisely because it's teaching it better than you learned.
It would probably work honestly. It's not like the terrorists are masterminds. These are people that tried to set off a bomb on a plane by lighting their shoe on fire.
The person avoiding service is trying to exploit a protection of the legal system to avoid resolution. Judges take a dim view of this. As others have said the more aggressively you avoid service the more lenient the judge will be in allowing service. At some point the judge is just gonna let the claimant publish the service in the newspaper. Takes awhile and progressive levels of avoidance but it will happen. The beauty of it is you've avoided the service so well that you won't even know when the trial proceeds and you will lose by default. When you inevitably appeal the decision you will get lose because you avoided the service.
It's pretty easy to tell when someone is avoiding service, it looks a lot like hiding from the law and the courts recognize it very very well. Normal people aren't difficult to serve.
If you commit a felony you become responsible for anything that happens. The good example of this a bank robbery that goes bad and several people are shot and killed. The guy that was the driver and the guy that was lookout, they are both charged with the murder too. The basic premise of this is that by committing a felony you put in motion things and are responsible for those things even if you didn't do them yourself.
This would in fact be (IMO) a good case to apply this legal doctrine. Sure you only made a phone call, but your illegal police report put in motion a police apparatus that because of the circumstances you reported must react quickly and forcefully to protect human life under the guidelines that have been adopted. The person that made the call did so solely to elicit this response. Inevitably the more times SWAT is called out on innocent circumstances something bad is going to happen and someone get hurt. Even if no one is hurt there has been a massive expenditure but the local jurisdiction along with scaring a bunch of people and causing property damage.
IMO people that SWAT others should not only be charged with the felonies they committed (including any injuries or property damage done by the response) but also be billed for the cost of the response. Sending SWAT out costs tens of thousands of dollars and the SWATTER should pay for it. They should also be open to civil tort by the swatee for the distress and damage they caused.
Don't disagree, I get a little neck twitch whenever they call it 4K or 8K.
The 2048x1536 resolution is pretty close to 1.5x the number of pixels or 50% more pixels which at least sort of fits with the whole 100% bigger = 4x nomenclature. But otherwise I agree, the whole nomenclature system is completely screwed up. You had to expect it when the marketing department got on board, not that different than HDMI CEC where it's got about 50 names because each manufacturer gave it a name specific to that brand.
They switched to buying from LG because they didn't want to buy panels from Samsung when they were suing them. There aren't very many panel manufacturers though there are a couple Chinese makers but they won't be getting the top end panels from the Chinese, all the major panel research is done by LG and Samsung these days.
4K = 3840 x 2160 or in other words double the dimension of the 1920x1080 doubled in both directions. I've always thought calling it 4K was a bit dubious, yes it's 4 times the number of pixels but it's only twice the resolution.
But calling 2560x1440 2K is just an abomination of nomenclature, it's neither twice the size nor two times the number of pixels. In fact there is no mathematical relationship between them that's even a whole number. It's not 2K, it's a resolution between HD and 4K, but it's not halfway between in either number of pixels or resolution so stop making up nomenclature like it's a real thing!
There are two caller ID's. The first is a spoof-able public bullshit version. There is a second private version that's unspoof-able (its assigned by the telecom). Though I would love to see a law that made caller ID truth a requirement the unspoof-able version could easily be used. You just need to require that all VOIP providers and PBX's keep logs for 90 days so they can be subpoenaed.
Though I agree, I'd like to see congress change the law on Caller ID and require that it be real information and punishable by big fines and jail time if it's not and it's used for something like a swatting.
This "Pearson" conspiracy theory is just as silly as other conspiracy theories. Pearson makes money selling tests and learning materials that help kids learn. If the kids don't learn then Pearson is going to lose the client. This is a highly competitive market and there is value is standardized testing that's scientifically validated and receives continual updates to improve the effectiveness.
The old system that was used was someone wrote a test then used that test for the next 30 years without regard to how effective it was. This is the standard in American primary and secondary education since the 50's. What the state initiative common core is trying to accomplish is to bring scientific analysis to the development of learning and testing methods to improve them long term and to normalize this across the participating states so every state benefits from the mistakes. There are several companies that offer these services and more will enter the market as states allow competitive bidding for services. in the end we'll end up with far better education and better educated kids.
Some of the learning materials I saw people complaining about were ingenious for forcing kids to learn how to solve the problem rather than memorize a solution. Most STEM graduates spend the better part of 2 years unlearning methods they were taught in primary and secondary while also learning how to solve problems. One of the goals of common core is to bring that problem solving learning down into the formative years so you don't have to spend two years in college retraining people how to think. Now don't get me wrong, I've seen some downright crappy material as well, but that brings in to the whole scientific progress to learn from the bad examples by tracking, identifying and replacing the bad material.
The only problem I see with these efforts right now is that some of the states are still obsessed with "No Child Left Behind" where everyone gets a shitty slow education paced on the biggest idiot in the class. NCLB was a disaster of epic proportions with federal meddling in local education. I imagine it's effects will be seen for years to come as state legislatures and Republicans in particular attack public education and their public employee educators. NCLB allows them the method to destroy the public school system and put in place charter schools.
The worst of the worst in state policies takes NCLB policies and tacks them onto common core methodology (Scientific normalized scoring). This is what people should be complaining about more than anything. But the root of the problem is NCLB, parents and everyone really should be opposing those horrible horrible ideas. We should also be attacking education policies that take the scientific normalized scoring and applies it to individual children. This scoring is meant to rate the program as a whole, not to rate individual kids.
GW Bush should burn in hell for No Child Left Behind. There is nothing dumber than forcing everyone to learn at the rate of the slowest kid.
There are several pillars of democracy, without which democracy will fail.
The first and foremost among those is freedom of the press. Erdogan is actively cracking down on that right now. He's destroyed a significant portion of the independent press and numerous journalists have been charged with insulting him (yes it's a crime). Enough journalists have been punished that he's reined in those that remain independent for fear of jail.
Another important aspect of democracy is an independent judiciary. The judiciary was gutted and filled with sycophants last year.
Tying in with this is a separation of powers so that they can check the powers of leaders. Erdogan is pursing right now the destruction of all separation of powers by concentrating those powers in the office of the presidency (also one of the offices that doesn't have term limits).
There are many other areas where he's torn down civil society including gutting the power of NGO's, putting religion into schools and others. As you said he's working very hard to undue the legacy of Ataturk's turn away from the middle east and embracing European values. Those values are exactly what made Turkey strong and brought wealth to the people of Turkey. Erdogan is working very hard to undue that legacy by turning back towards the middle east and disavowing the very European values that made the country strong. I suspect he wants to recreate the Ottoman empire. By the time the majority of people realize what he's doing it will be far far to late with much of the damage already done.
I take consolation in the fact that the Turkish economy is going to come crashing down when the US interest rates go up. Much of the phenomenal growth of the economy in Turkey over the last decade was due to US quantitative easing and low interest rates. With near zero rates and excess cash investors could borrow US dollars at 1% and invest them in turkey at 5% and make a killing. But as US interest rates climb that money will go away unless Turkish interest rates go up as well. Erdogan has been pressuring the central bank to keep rates low with the result being 6-8% inflation. This will only get worse as the US interest rates increase if the Turkish central bank doesn't react and raise rates. Erdogan keeps accusing the independent central bank of treason for not lowering interest rates. His probable next action will be to remove the central banks independence and in doing so he'll wreck the Turkish economy harder and faster if he's dumb enough to do it. Even if he doesn't eventually one of two things will happen, either the central bank will raise interest rates to halt inflation and stall out the economy or they won't and inflation will go into double digits and existing wealth will implode. Either will be catastrophic to the economy.
You keep bringing up the forced marriage by a pastor bullshit, it isn't true and you fucking know it.
The only incident you can even quote is the one in Idaho where the city had passed an accommodation law that applied to all public businesses. The very law had a religious exclusion, but the exclusion had the requirement that the services offered not be publicly offered to all comers, they could only be offered to those that fit the religion of those offering services.
This is a perfectly reasonable balancing of rights. If you have some christian pastor offering to marry all comers, including atheists and non-Christians who then refuses to marry a gay person they are discriminating in no different a manner than they would if they refused services to blacks. The simple solution for the pastor is to stop offering services to those people that don't fit the religion of the pastor.
This is no longer what many would consider discrimination because the pastor is clear that he is only offering to marry people who fit his religious views instead of offering services to the public. One of the challenges with freedom is that rights need to end where they impinge on someone elses rights. The law needs to balance these rights in the fairest manner possible. Otherwise religion becomes the root to the Constitution that voids all other protections and rights.
That is what is absurd about this law, the people behind the law specifically prevented amendments that would have added the same language as the federal law that would not have allowed discrimination. Because that IS the intent of the law, discrimination plain and simple. It even went a step further and allowed this law as a defense against torts and discrimination suits. No one would be opposing this law if its intent and language was the same as the federal law, after all statutes the same as the federal law have passed in (IIRC) 19 states without a word of opposition.
Laughably untrue. JFK was a true democrat in that his tax cut was targeted at the middle class. He showed that cutting taxes on the people that comprise the bulk of the populace has an economic stimulating effect. They warned at the time that cuts to only the richest among us would NOT stimulate the economy and would only serve to punch holes in the federal budget.
The problem for the Republicans is that they went batshit crazy on the tax cut idea and decided that the best tax cut was one on the richest among us. This is called trickle down economics and was proven to a be a total crock of shit. All these tax cuts do is punch holes in the federal budget with little to no stimulation of the economy. For a party that claims it wants to balance the federal budget cutting taxes on the wealthiest exposes the party as hypocrites.
This is what ultimately will tear the republican party to shreds when they ignore the demand of a significant portion of their base to balance the budget. It was after all republicans that took a Clinton era budget (created between the Gingrich congress and Clinton presidency) that would have paid off the debt by now and turned it into a 17 trillion dollar deficit. Two unfunded wars, an ill advised "trickle-down" tax cut and an economic collapse triggered by deregulation and we are now on the path to the real republican goal to bankrupt the federal government so social security and medicare can be shut down so they can put an end to the single biggest policy achievement of the democrats.
I almost hope they succeed in attacking social security because their base is predominantly people of retirement age and older and it would destroy the party. Unfortunately I actually care about people so wouldn't support it just to give the republicans a dose of schadenfreude.
The irony of it is Regan is the one that embraced the conservative Christians and their desire for passing laws to limit peoples freedom in the name of religion. This very act is what will ultimately tear the party apart.
It's a tried and true public appeal that works. You claim you can't do anything about X because country why also does X and doesn't do anything about it. It's most often used in regard to pollution and climate change. In that we as America can't do anything about either because China doesn't. This appeal works most of the time because it appeals to the emotional aspect and leaves logic on the floor.
The only way to respond to this is to ask Carly if she is saying that we should degrade US freedoms and rights to the lowest common denominator because other people in the world don't have the same rights. This points out the fallacy of the logic pretty clearly because that IS what she's arguing when she says we shouldn't have gay rights because there are other countries that don't.
Let me put this clearly. We don't need a damn new enforcement of terrorism laws that they then can use to throw at the books of everyone and their grandma. There are laws already on the books for dealing with this from filing a false police report on up.
What they need to do to put a stop to this is start putting people in jail for it and make people realize they cannot fake a call to 911 anonymously. Once the story makes the rounds that if you do it you will go to jail people will stop doing it. That's all you need to do, start putting the pranksters in prison for a year or so and giving them a felony record in the process and this will stop. But you have to prove to the public that if you make one of these calls you will be caught.
But as long as the police departments treat it as a non-crime by not investigating it's only going to get worse. The for profit policing that the war on drugs had created discourages the police from pursuing real crime that's not tied to drugs.
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Baloney. They were concerned about security, they were shutting down a security related project. The logical "explanation" is to point people at the other solutions that exist to provide the same functionality. Like most logical people they probably figured people would take them at their word and not play pseudo conspiracy theory with why they quit. But like most logical people they failed to take into account the wacko's like you that would read a conspiracy theory into a clean shutdown.
What you suggested as an "answer" is reaching so far into tin foil land that I'm not surprised you don't see it. What you suggest isn't legal and the NSA is very very adept at following the law, the problem for all of us is the law and courts allow them to do a lot of things people don't like but that doesn't change the fact that what you suggest is illegal and no court would allow it. You probably want to point at Lavabit but that wasn't the NSA, it was the FBI being all club fisted. See the entire problem with your conspiracy theory is that they could have just did what Lavabit did and shut everything down and announced why. There is absolutely nothing that would have prevented them from saying why they shut it down after all they were anonymous and might not even be Americans. There is no legitimate explanation, that isn't in tin foil land, for why they wouldn't say they were doing it because it was compromised if it had been.
The NSA isn't out to get Truecrypt. They probably didn't even care about it because they had already researched and found the vulnerabilities that the audit project found and knew with certainty that they could exploit it if needed. That's how the NSA works, they find vulnerabilities then don't tell anyone about them. It's all over the Snowden revelations. But you tune that out because it doesn't fit your conspiracy theory.
You are right out there wearing your tinfoil hat. Deny it all you want but you've created a completely illogical explanation that's extremely complex to explain something that isn't that complex. Your answer simply doesn't meet Occams razor, deal with it. Accept that you want this to be a conspiracy and move on.
Most of the time the simplest answer is the correct one.
We have a project that hadn't seen an update in years, all development effort had stopped and the people behind it were basically gone.
On one hand you have a claim of an order to backdoor the software that hasn't seen an update in ages. An order that contrary to your claim would NOT be legal.
On the other hand you have a claim that the software developers basically realized that unmaintained software is more dangerous than no software because it implies trust that isn't there. So being the responsible group they are they shutdown the project so people don't rely on code and servers that's probably exploitable (and the audit shows it was) because they aren't working on it anymore.
Of those two answers the simplest is not the illegal order to backdoor the software. But feel free to keep your tinfoil hat on while you sling shit around.
There is a legitimate argument that the real authors won't step forward and enforce their copyright because they would reveal their identity.
I think that is a pretty good chance personally as long as no one is making money. But if one of these companies tries to make money on this I think there is pretty high odds the original developers will step out of the shadows with their hand out.
It doesn't need to be murder to be a crime. There are in fact many kinds of murder, and even if the officer isn't charged with it because he was simply the weapon used doesn't mean a murder didn't occur.
You know every single plane the airforce has produced has had similar issues and reports. I'm old enough to remember the press trashing the F-16.
Those costs are fake. The R&D money is spread across the individual planes without regard to actual construction cost nor that the R&D is already spent. The real construction cost to build an F-35A was pegged at about $120 million. Which is roughly a bit more ($110 million) what it costs to build an F-18 and the F-18 is fully paid for so the R&D costs aren't calculated in anymore. The fact is the F-35 isn't that much more expensive then older generation planes to build. It's problems like all jets in the past will be ironed out over time and testing. I remember all the crashes the F-16 had until they identified the high-G problem (F-16 could turn sharper than the human body could sustain without blackout) and the press labeling it a catastrophic failure that kills pilots. Ironically not that different than language being used to describe the F-35.
Personally I think the future is taking all those old fighters we have stored in the desert and putting an AI and drone type system into the pilot seat. The F-4 is a great fighter, particularly when you don't have to worry about losing a pilot because there isn't one. The F-35 is likely to be the last manned aircraft the US every produces and it is needed until drone and AI systems improve to the point that they can be relied upon in a real battlefield where ECM is raging (we aren't there yet and probably won't be for a while).
There is some truth to what the EU leaders have tried to sell. When Greece's house of cards came crashing down everyone realized there was nothing in place to either bail them out or allow them to exit the Euro. A greek collapse at the time would have brought the entire EU group nations credit down into the toilet. This would have been exacerbated by the fact that the people holding the most greek debt were other eurozone countries banks (France in particular was heavily exposed). There was so much money in greek debt in EU member banks that most of them would have collapsed if the Greek debt defaulted. Needless to say a greek default would have been catastrophic to the entire EU because there were no policies in place, nor did the ECB have authority to intervene.
That's now been fixed. The ECB has taken most of the greek debt from the EU banks in a bond exchange program. The EU has also put in place policies and given the ECB authority to intervene in the result of a greek default and the polices put in place will now require that in the event of default, Greece exits the euro (they are calling it grexit for a reason).
Now the worst that will happen to EU member states in the event of a greek default is some inflation as the ECB is forced to absorb the Greek loses by printing money. Greece will of course be fucked but they won't take the whole EU with them. The Greek collapse was an eye opener to the EU leaders. Though they haven't given the ECB all the powers is needs they have given them some tools they can use to limit the damage. If there is a grexit the market believes the EU member states will surrender further powers to the ECB to react.
And though that 330 billion is probably lost, it's better that the ECB take those loses than the member banks that previously held the assets. The ECB is also moving forward on plan to stress test the banks similar to what the US FED has done. In the end that 330 billion has bought the EU significant financial improvements and stability. Is it worth it? Probably not, but don't discount that the emergency Greece created is going to help the EU in the end by bringing better financial policies to the member states. If nothing else the Greek event cause the member states to bring their deficit spending under control.
If 10 Billion is nothing to worry about why then the GOP drive to cut the same amount from food stamps as a terrible waste of money?
Sometimes priorities are important. I'd rather "waste" that 10 billion providing food to kids in the US that aren't getting full meals than waste that money on the cost plus fixed fee defense contracts where the value is in stretching the thing out as long as possible to feed those contractors pockets. If we feel the budget is constrained to the point that 10 billion dollars needs to be cut from such an important program (food stamps) then we certainly shouldn't be wasting it on pie in the sky defense schemes we wouldn't even need if we stopped messing about in other people's business.
One other thing, once they teach how to multiply they will likely teach them the same scaling techniques you learned. The only exception is that they won't just memorize the 10x10 grid you needed to memorize to do the same multiplication. They won't need to do the draw boxes thing for very many times before the method and way to think implants on their brains.
Learning how to multiply was one of those things I had to relearn in college as part of my STEM degree because I had to understand what multiplication was before I could move to the more advanced mathematics. In fact I really struggled with the tailor series polynomials precisely because I didn't understand that multiplication and division are nothing but adding and subtracting. Your kids will have a head start on that because they will understand the method. That is if you don't act like a dipshit and tell them to just play along while teaching them to memorize it like you did.
I see a lesson that's designed to teach the multiplication is just the addition of the same number the number of times it's multiplied by. Not sure I understand the circling 10's thing but that's probably to try to make it easier to count by breaking it down into the number of 10's then counting the remainder.
I'm sure it could be tuned to be a little bit better but do you know how many kids don't understand that multiplication is nothing more than addition? (I'd wager it's better than 90% that don't even understand what multiplication is) Again the lesson isn't learning to memorize 24x4 like it was when I went through school. It's designed to teach the kids what multiplication is and how to do it in a simplified manner such that they can multiply any two numbers together. The end result is that unlike memorizing multiplication tables up to 12x12 that these kids should be able to multiply anything and know the answer without memorization. That's a HUGE benefit. The old method was to teach kids to memorize solutions when the proper way to teach it is to teach them to understand how multiplication works because with the basis of how it works under their belt they aren't limited to the numbers they memorized.
It probably bothers you because you were taught multiplication by memorizing a table, they are being taught to understand multiplication. It also probably bothers you that the problem isn't solved just by knowing the answer (Ie knowing the memorized value) that you actually have to understand what multiplication is. Do you know why a lot of people fail out of STEM degrees? Because they try to memorize answers rather than understand the material. You fall on your face in tests in those programs when you do that. The circling thing is probably to help people that struggle with math because they learn and think visually. Those people hate math the way it used to be taught because none of made sense. But if they learn the theory behind it and to visualize it they can be some of the best mathematicians because of the higher math is all about visualization.
I don't see what you see. I see an interesting way to teach kids what multiplication is and how to do it without memorizing anything. It may not be the best method but it is a significant improvement over the old method. Like most parents that learned via memorization you probably hate it because you don't understand it. Consider for a moment that you might have been taught the worst possible way and that you don't understand it precisely because it's teaching it better than you learned.
It would probably work honestly. It's not like the terrorists are masterminds. These are people that tried to set off a bomb on a plane by lighting their shoe on fire.
Looks like Ukrainian Mafia to me, either that or a vampire. Either way I wouldn't want to serve them either.
The person avoiding service is trying to exploit a protection of the legal system to avoid resolution. Judges take a dim view of this. As others have said the more aggressively you avoid service the more lenient the judge will be in allowing service. At some point the judge is just gonna let the claimant publish the service in the newspaper. Takes awhile and progressive levels of avoidance but it will happen. The beauty of it is you've avoided the service so well that you won't even know when the trial proceeds and you will lose by default. When you inevitably appeal the decision you will get lose because you avoided the service.
It's pretty easy to tell when someone is avoiding service, it looks a lot like hiding from the law and the courts recognize it very very well. Normal people aren't difficult to serve.
If you commit a felony you become responsible for anything that happens. The good example of this a bank robbery that goes bad and several people are shot and killed. The guy that was the driver and the guy that was lookout, they are both charged with the murder too. The basic premise of this is that by committing a felony you put in motion things and are responsible for those things even if you didn't do them yourself.
This would in fact be (IMO) a good case to apply this legal doctrine. Sure you only made a phone call, but your illegal police report put in motion a police apparatus that because of the circumstances you reported must react quickly and forcefully to protect human life under the guidelines that have been adopted. The person that made the call did so solely to elicit this response. Inevitably the more times SWAT is called out on innocent circumstances something bad is going to happen and someone get hurt. Even if no one is hurt there has been a massive expenditure but the local jurisdiction along with scaring a bunch of people and causing property damage.
IMO people that SWAT others should not only be charged with the felonies they committed (including any injuries or property damage done by the response) but also be billed for the cost of the response. Sending SWAT out costs tens of thousands of dollars and the SWATTER should pay for it. They should also be open to civil tort by the swatee for the distress and damage they caused.
Don't disagree, I get a little neck twitch whenever they call it 4K or 8K.
The 2048x1536 resolution is pretty close to 1.5x the number of pixels or 50% more pixels which at least sort of fits with the whole 100% bigger = 4x nomenclature. But otherwise I agree, the whole nomenclature system is completely screwed up. You had to expect it when the marketing department got on board, not that different than HDMI CEC where it's got about 50 names because each manufacturer gave it a name specific to that brand.
They switched to buying from LG because they didn't want to buy panels from Samsung when they were suing them. There aren't very many panel manufacturers though there are a couple Chinese makers but they won't be getting the top end panels from the Chinese, all the major panel research is done by LG and Samsung these days.
4K = 3840 x 2160 or in other words double the dimension of the 1920x1080 doubled in both directions. I've always thought calling it 4K was a bit dubious, yes it's 4 times the number of pixels but it's only twice the resolution.
But calling 2560x1440 2K is just an abomination of nomenclature, it's neither twice the size nor two times the number of pixels. In fact there is no mathematical relationship between them that's even a whole number. It's not 2K, it's a resolution between HD and 4K, but it's not halfway between in either number of pixels or resolution so stop making up nomenclature like it's a real thing!
There are two caller ID's. The first is a spoof-able public bullshit version. There is a second private version that's unspoof-able (its assigned by the telecom). Though I would love to see a law that made caller ID truth a requirement the unspoof-able version could easily be used. You just need to require that all VOIP providers and PBX's keep logs for 90 days so they can be subpoenaed.
Though I agree, I'd like to see congress change the law on Caller ID and require that it be real information and punishable by big fines and jail time if it's not and it's used for something like a swatting.
This "Pearson" conspiracy theory is just as silly as other conspiracy theories. Pearson makes money selling tests and learning materials that help kids learn. If the kids don't learn then Pearson is going to lose the client. This is a highly competitive market and there is value is standardized testing that's scientifically validated and receives continual updates to improve the effectiveness.
The old system that was used was someone wrote a test then used that test for the next 30 years without regard to how effective it was. This is the standard in American primary and secondary education since the 50's. What the state initiative common core is trying to accomplish is to bring scientific analysis to the development of learning and testing methods to improve them long term and to normalize this across the participating states so every state benefits from the mistakes. There are several companies that offer these services and more will enter the market as states allow competitive bidding for services. in the end we'll end up with far better education and better educated kids.
Some of the learning materials I saw people complaining about were ingenious for forcing kids to learn how to solve the problem rather than memorize a solution. Most STEM graduates spend the better part of 2 years unlearning methods they were taught in primary and secondary while also learning how to solve problems. One of the goals of common core is to bring that problem solving learning down into the formative years so you don't have to spend two years in college retraining people how to think. Now don't get me wrong, I've seen some downright crappy material as well, but that brings in to the whole scientific progress to learn from the bad examples by tracking, identifying and replacing the bad material.
The only problem I see with these efforts right now is that some of the states are still obsessed with "No Child Left Behind" where everyone gets a shitty slow education paced on the biggest idiot in the class. NCLB was a disaster of epic proportions with federal meddling in local education. I imagine it's effects will be seen for years to come as state legislatures and Republicans in particular attack public education and their public employee educators. NCLB allows them the method to destroy the public school system and put in place charter schools.
The worst of the worst in state policies takes NCLB policies and tacks them onto common core methodology (Scientific normalized scoring). This is what people should be complaining about more than anything. But the root of the problem is NCLB, parents and everyone really should be opposing those horrible horrible ideas. We should also be attacking education policies that take the scientific normalized scoring and applies it to individual children. This scoring is meant to rate the program as a whole, not to rate individual kids.
GW Bush should burn in hell for No Child Left Behind. There is nothing dumber than forcing everyone to learn at the rate of the slowest kid.
There are several pillars of democracy, without which democracy will fail.
The first and foremost among those is freedom of the press. Erdogan is actively cracking down on that right now. He's destroyed a significant portion of the independent press and numerous journalists have been charged with insulting him (yes it's a crime). Enough journalists have been punished that he's reined in those that remain independent for fear of jail.
Another important aspect of democracy is an independent judiciary. The judiciary was gutted and filled with sycophants last year.
Tying in with this is a separation of powers so that they can check the powers of leaders. Erdogan is pursing right now the destruction of all separation of powers by concentrating those powers in the office of the presidency (also one of the offices that doesn't have term limits).
There are many other areas where he's torn down civil society including gutting the power of NGO's, putting religion into schools and others. As you said he's working very hard to undue the legacy of Ataturk's turn away from the middle east and embracing European values. Those values are exactly what made Turkey strong and brought wealth to the people of Turkey. Erdogan is working very hard to undue that legacy by turning back towards the middle east and disavowing the very European values that made the country strong. I suspect he wants to recreate the Ottoman empire. By the time the majority of people realize what he's doing it will be far far to late with much of the damage already done.
I take consolation in the fact that the Turkish economy is going to come crashing down when the US interest rates go up. Much of the phenomenal growth of the economy in Turkey over the last decade was due to US quantitative easing and low interest rates. With near zero rates and excess cash investors could borrow US dollars at 1% and invest them in turkey at 5% and make a killing. But as US interest rates climb that money will go away unless Turkish interest rates go up as well. Erdogan has been pressuring the central bank to keep rates low with the result being 6-8% inflation. This will only get worse as the US interest rates increase if the Turkish central bank doesn't react and raise rates. Erdogan keeps accusing the independent central bank of treason for not lowering interest rates. His probable next action will be to remove the central banks independence and in doing so he'll wreck the Turkish economy harder and faster if he's dumb enough to do it. Even if he doesn't eventually one of two things will happen, either the central bank will raise interest rates to halt inflation and stall out the economy or they won't and inflation will go into double digits and existing wealth will implode. Either will be catastrophic to the economy.
You keep bringing up the forced marriage by a pastor bullshit, it isn't true and you fucking know it.
The only incident you can even quote is the one in Idaho where the city had passed an accommodation law that applied to all public businesses. The very law had a religious exclusion, but the exclusion had the requirement that the services offered not be publicly offered to all comers, they could only be offered to those that fit the religion of those offering services.
This is a perfectly reasonable balancing of rights. If you have some christian pastor offering to marry all comers, including atheists and non-Christians who then refuses to marry a gay person they are discriminating in no different a manner than they would if they refused services to blacks. The simple solution for the pastor is to stop offering services to those people that don't fit the religion of the pastor.
This is no longer what many would consider discrimination because the pastor is clear that he is only offering to marry people who fit his religious views instead of offering services to the public. One of the challenges with freedom is that rights need to end where they impinge on someone elses rights. The law needs to balance these rights in the fairest manner possible. Otherwise religion becomes the root to the Constitution that voids all other protections and rights.
That is what is absurd about this law, the people behind the law specifically prevented amendments that would have added the same language as the federal law that would not have allowed discrimination. Because that IS the intent of the law, discrimination plain and simple. It even went a step further and allowed this law as a defense against torts and discrimination suits. No one would be opposing this law if its intent and language was the same as the federal law, after all statutes the same as the federal law have passed in (IIRC) 19 states without a word of opposition.
Laughably untrue. JFK was a true democrat in that his tax cut was targeted at the middle class. He showed that cutting taxes on the people that comprise the bulk of the populace has an economic stimulating effect. They warned at the time that cuts to only the richest among us would NOT stimulate the economy and would only serve to punch holes in the federal budget.
The problem for the Republicans is that they went batshit crazy on the tax cut idea and decided that the best tax cut was one on the richest among us. This is called trickle down economics and was proven to a be a total crock of shit. All these tax cuts do is punch holes in the federal budget with little to no stimulation of the economy. For a party that claims it wants to balance the federal budget cutting taxes on the wealthiest exposes the party as hypocrites.
This is what ultimately will tear the republican party to shreds when they ignore the demand of a significant portion of their base to balance the budget. It was after all republicans that took a Clinton era budget (created between the Gingrich congress and Clinton presidency) that would have paid off the debt by now and turned it into a 17 trillion dollar deficit. Two unfunded wars, an ill advised "trickle-down" tax cut and an economic collapse triggered by deregulation and we are now on the path to the real republican goal to bankrupt the federal government so social security and medicare can be shut down so they can put an end to the single biggest policy achievement of the democrats.
I almost hope they succeed in attacking social security because their base is predominantly people of retirement age and older and it would destroy the party. Unfortunately I actually care about people so wouldn't support it just to give the republicans a dose of schadenfreude.
The irony of it is Regan is the one that embraced the conservative Christians and their desire for passing laws to limit peoples freedom in the name of religion. This very act is what will ultimately tear the party apart.
It's a tried and true public appeal that works. You claim you can't do anything about X because country why also does X and doesn't do anything about it. It's most often used in regard to pollution and climate change. In that we as America can't do anything about either because China doesn't. This appeal works most of the time because it appeals to the emotional aspect and leaves logic on the floor.
The only way to respond to this is to ask Carly if she is saying that we should degrade US freedoms and rights to the lowest common denominator because other people in the world don't have the same rights. This points out the fallacy of the logic pretty clearly because that IS what she's arguing when she says we shouldn't have gay rights because there are other countries that don't.
Let me put this clearly. We don't need a damn new enforcement of terrorism laws that they then can use to throw at the books of everyone and their grandma. There are laws already on the books for dealing with this from filing a false police report on up.
What they need to do to put a stop to this is start putting people in jail for it and make people realize they cannot fake a call to 911 anonymously. Once the story makes the rounds that if you do it you will go to jail people will stop doing it. That's all you need to do, start putting the pranksters in prison for a year or so and giving them a felony record in the process and this will stop. But you have to prove to the public that if you make one of these calls you will be caught.
But as long as the police departments treat it as a non-crime by not investigating it's only going to get worse. The for profit policing that the war on drugs had created discourages the police from pursuing real crime that's not tied to drugs.
There is no guarantee they pretend to be the hostage taker. They could very well pretend to be a hostage.