Meanwhile about a million jobs dissappear because of all the parts and services related to automobiles? Sorry, but we were in free fall mode at the time.
And this ingrate blowhard says;
He says Treasury officials took the same risk assumed by anyone who purchases stock
I'd like that standard first applied to banks who give people credit cards. THEY are investing in someone and they should take the same risks as if I was dumb enough to buy GM stock in 2004.
And yet $20 an hour job is all many people can get. With college education. With having gone through their retirement account. And looking at their remaining productive years.
It is nonsense. So let me have a CEO job and I'll do it for a mere $500,000. You are going to need a LOT of CEO positions to get rid of this "nonsense."
I'm really shocked your comment got karma. If everyone gets paid a living wage -- that's the cost of business. Because then people don't have to beg or use government assistance.
I believe the proper way to deal with bacteria is environmental. If you wash with soap and water and don't try too hard to kill anything living on your hands, chances are you remove gunk that will provide a habitat for dangerous bacteria and not kill what is there. Your body is flooded with bacteria so you might as well get used to the occupants you have that are doing you no harm.
An effective anti-bacterial agent, in my book, is quite dangerous as it wipes out the bacteria you've got and leaves and ecological niche for bacteria who are not necessarily on friendly terms.
We have this same issue with our crazy modern diet, where we eat foods that don't grow healthy stomach bacteria. I think a lot of allergies and food cravings can be caused by growing the wrong intestinal flora.
>> this isn't as controversial a subject as it was twenty years ago, so maybe Doctors are catching up finally.
Are you complaining about such a system or just jealous?
In the defense of French secret services -- they were only collecting the MIME-TYPES of the messages. For instance, you Mime might be caught in an invisible box, or being swept away by an invisible wind. Find out the type of mime, makes a big difference but doesn't involve personal information.
To be FAIR, the assumption with Economics is that the system isn't rigged, and the transactions we see are all that is taking place.
Nobody an predict what tomorrow will bring because you've got people gaming Futures Contracts, you have the big players swinging the value of stocks or loading up Calls to crash the value of some institution to create a buying/selling opportunity. You have banks rigging the LIBOR and other exchange rates. You have banks laundering drug money. During the Credit Default Swap scandal, certain ratings agencies were making more money on consulting, so they'd AAA rate a bond if it was that of a client. And certain company that covers most of the Private Mortgage Insurance had taken that money and bet it on the ponies, so nothing was there to cover defaults. In short, everyone but your Credit Union who has been involved with large sums of cash, has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, but for some reason nothing really bad happened to them.
The system is as corrupt as it possibly can be (but not any more than tat) with a compliant media that gets advertising income from the crooks to not look under the curtain, and the oversight is just enough to catch Martha Stewart so that the customers don't panic and run for the exits.
So Stocks and the Economy cannot be rationally examined because there are too many hidden factors and we make too many assumptions that numbers are correct and not "rationalized."
If you'd include MBA degrees on your "sweatshop tour" -- I'll vote for your proposal.
I think we have much more proof that people are "rationalizing creatures" and not at all rational. Studies on wild squirrels have shown that if you build up the nest of one, the other squirrels will build up theirs. We humans haven't become much more thoughtful than that about most of our purchase habits. If people made rational economic decisions, you wouldn't have many billions in Cosmetics and Pet Toys, you wouldn't be spending a large portion of income on vanity, and most people wouldn't be buying new cars for that "sense of freedom" and new car smell. We'd all be getting clothes at Salvation Army first. And nobody would ever support war, ever, because 9 times out of 10 it's a complete lie, and one time out of ten it's based on an exaggeration.
The more I hear about PS 4 and xBox One -- the more I realize my next gaming platform is going to be a computer.
Every other day I have to fix the finicky networking on the xBox, and every month verify that it's "really me".
Of course every week now I've got a new blog to quit using because they want me to verify by FaceBook. I hate trolls as much as the next person, but I'd rather anonymous jerks than everyone installing that trojan horse POS, that has nothing better to do than find new ways to insert itself into your life. And all Microsoft and Sony can think of instead of adding value - is new ways to insert themselves in the same orifices that FaceBook has already occupied.
people whom I only begrudgingly accepted their friend requests so I don't have to answer that awkward "Why did you ignore my friends request on Facebook" if I ever bump into them in real life
The way you talk about those disgusting babies and awkward "social things" -- I'm guessing this doesn't really happen to you too often.
This is obviously FIXED by the fact that people who post Gaming updates on FaceBook have no friends, and they use FaceBook for gaming updates and "liking" various Pizza companies to get coupons.
"David LIKES Death From Above Battle Ax Happy-Fun-Time" Wouldn't you want to LIKE this too?
PARTS of BSD, it's a Hybrid with XNU and it's part monolithic and microkernal and they've developed Darwin beyond all recognition from that point.
To say it's FreeBSD or OpenBSD or your dad's BSD is to invite the wrath of people who drank too much coffee, and I think Odin. Because that's just the kind of thing that will get you punched in a mainframe computer center.
So what you are saying is; "We aren't JUST burning the witch, first we burn her and THEN see if she floats using the best equipment, scales to determine specific gravity, and measuring the water mass lost from the container, thus proving she is either a dead witch, or unfortunate collateral damage from our 'war on terror'. We aren't monsters after all, this is for science."
I was given the power to move objects with my mind, and then some agency remotely removed my memory and ability from a bunker deep in the ground. They left me a broken man with only a vague notion of my manufactured past and a vivid imagination, but no ability to write a script that the ScyFy would carry -- when clearly, I can improve upon the "Fire-breathing Snake, but not a Dragon you NOOB!" and "Golem from a Simpson's Plot"
But I'm unsure if this is the "royal We" or just "I'm having fun like a little girl" "wee!" I'm just taking this into context and I apologize if there has been any misunderstanding.
At this time I'd like to reaffirm that this is a site for geeks about things that matter. And I differ to any English majors who can add to this discussion.
Until of course, someone renames it. Nobody can possible be afraid of a news story about PFTBA. If you call it "Electrical Insulation Gas of Heat Death" -- well, then, that should do it.
I also wonder that a "free accidental computer" might not be a way to infiltrate a company.
It's more likely that a "scam" was shipping a lot of these computers to hide the fact that ONE OR TWO destinations were the target, and the rest for cover.
Yet, I have to think that you could hide some bad trojan software/hardware on a computer and even re-burning the hard drive would not remove it -- and likely if someone used these "free" computers, they wouldn't be suspicious enough to prevent such a scam.
It's too farfetched to think that industrial farming and the use of GM modification in plants to imbed pesticides might actually have COLLATERAL DAMAGE?
However, I think we need a citation for this widespread proof you are seeing. There's not a lot of places anymore where there are no GM crops which are likely more a key player than the pesticides.
AIDS patients die because of Pneumonia or a host of rare diseases that do not kill off healthy people. Bees die off due to parasites, diseases, and many maladies that do not kill healthy bees.
So our current unnatural pesticide and GM farming practices are causing Bees to die by opportunistic infections and parasites that are natural. Studies can make the problem look really complicated if we don't look at the system as a whole.
It's kind of obvious that Bees are being killed off with "death by a thousand cuts." Whether it be the GM pesticides built into plants, or some other toxin we find in the pollen -- the point is; we have too many knives.
In our "profit only" driven system, we have to prove a specific cause to shut down a specific product. It will take decades to prove a specific cause -- and meanwhile, someone will come out with a new GM product or pesticide and yet another knife.
The number of fingers being pointed will outnumber the bees before too long.
I think that this analogy is like explaining the birds and the bees with actual birds and bees. It's like pea soup as an analogy for patents -- strained. So the lawsuit is like a 10 yard penalty, illegal use of the hands -- but they actually gain the yardage in a game 12 years later?
I also think that RAMBUS is a horrible name for a football team.
I'm very glad the IRS did go after the Swiss Banks.
However I think in light of the recent reports that Sweden was data-mining Russian internet traffic for the NSA, it's likely there is a more secret deal where we leave their crooked banks alone, and they tell us all the secrets.
I think a lot of people talking of Chinese espionage efforts are missing the bigger picture; China can already BUY THIS STUFF from contractors for the NSA. Go search some old Wikileaks talking about an Israelis firm selling these databases.
This is about Corporate Espionage, Money and Power -- the idea that nation states and governments afraid of "cold war era spying" is quaint and so very behind the times. People don't always recognize what their current age is involved in -- it becomes clear with hindsight. Maybe they aren't spying on each other but are cooperating to spy on anyone not in power.
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Meanwhile about a million jobs dissappear because of all the parts and services related to automobiles? Sorry, but we were in free fall mode at the time.
And this ingrate blowhard says;
He says Treasury officials took the same risk assumed by anyone who purchases stock
I'd like that standard first applied to banks who give people credit cards. THEY are investing in someone and they should take the same risks as if I was dumb enough to buy GM stock in 2004.
And yet $20 an hour job is all many people can get. With college education. With having gone through their retirement account. And looking at their remaining productive years.
It is nonsense. So let me have a CEO job and I'll do it for a mere $500,000. You are going to need a LOT of CEO positions to get rid of this "nonsense."
I'm really shocked your comment got karma. If everyone gets paid a living wage -- that's the cost of business. Because then people don't have to beg or use government assistance.
I believe the proper way to deal with bacteria is environmental. If you wash with soap and water and don't try too hard to kill anything living on your hands, chances are you remove gunk that will provide a habitat for dangerous bacteria and not kill what is there. Your body is flooded with bacteria so you might as well get used to the occupants you have that are doing you no harm.
An effective anti-bacterial agent, in my book, is quite dangerous as it wipes out the bacteria you've got and leaves and ecological niche for bacteria who are not necessarily on friendly terms.
We have this same issue with our crazy modern diet, where we eat foods that don't grow healthy stomach bacteria. I think a lot of allergies and food cravings can be caused by growing the wrong intestinal flora.
>> this isn't as controversial a subject as it was twenty years ago, so maybe Doctors are catching up finally.
Are you complaining about such a system or just jealous?
In the defense of French secret services -- they were only collecting the MIME-TYPES of the messages. For instance, you Mime might be caught in an invisible box, or being swept away by an invisible wind. Find out the type of mime, makes a big difference but doesn't involve personal information.
I think it's only meant to protect you from marketers getting FREE access to your cache.
They can still buy this info from Google, right?
To be FAIR, the assumption with Economics is that the system isn't rigged, and the transactions we see are all that is taking place.
Nobody an predict what tomorrow will bring because you've got people gaming Futures Contracts, you have the big players swinging the value of stocks or loading up Calls to crash the value of some institution to create a buying/selling opportunity. You have banks rigging the LIBOR and other exchange rates. You have banks laundering drug money. During the Credit Default Swap scandal, certain ratings agencies were making more money on consulting, so they'd AAA rate a bond if it was that of a client. And certain company that covers most of the Private Mortgage Insurance had taken that money and bet it on the ponies, so nothing was there to cover defaults. In short, everyone but your Credit Union who has been involved with large sums of cash, has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, but for some reason nothing really bad happened to them.
The system is as corrupt as it possibly can be (but not any more than tat) with a compliant media that gets advertising income from the crooks to not look under the curtain, and the oversight is just enough to catch Martha Stewart so that the customers don't panic and run for the exits.
So Stocks and the Economy cannot be rationally examined because there are too many hidden factors and we make too many assumptions that numbers are correct and not "rationalized."
If you'd include MBA degrees on your "sweatshop tour" -- I'll vote for your proposal.
I think we have much more proof that people are "rationalizing creatures" and not at all rational. Studies on wild squirrels have shown that if you build up the nest of one, the other squirrels will build up theirs. We humans haven't become much more thoughtful than that about most of our purchase habits. If people made rational economic decisions, you wouldn't have many billions in Cosmetics and Pet Toys, you wouldn't be spending a large portion of income on vanity, and most people wouldn't be buying new cars for that "sense of freedom" and new car smell. We'd all be getting clothes at Salvation Army first. And nobody would ever support war, ever, because 9 times out of 10 it's a complete lie, and one time out of ten it's based on an exaggeration.
The more I hear about PS 4 and xBox One -- the more I realize my next gaming platform is going to be a computer.
Every other day I have to fix the finicky networking on the xBox, and every month verify that it's "really me".
Of course every week now I've got a new blog to quit using because they want me to verify by FaceBook. I hate trolls as much as the next person, but I'd rather anonymous jerks than everyone installing that trojan horse POS, that has nothing better to do than find new ways to insert itself into your life. And all Microsoft and Sony can think of instead of adding value - is new ways to insert themselves in the same orifices that FaceBook has already occupied.
people whom I only begrudgingly accepted their friend requests so I don't have to answer that awkward "Why did you ignore my friends request on Facebook" if I ever bump into them in real life
The way you talk about those disgusting babies and awkward "social things" -- I'm guessing this doesn't really happen to you too often.
This is obviously FIXED by the fact that people who post Gaming updates on FaceBook have no friends, and they use FaceBook for gaming updates and "liking" various Pizza companies to get coupons.
"David LIKES Death From Above Battle Ax Happy-Fun-Time" Wouldn't you want to LIKE this too?
PARTS of BSD, it's a Hybrid with XNU and it's part monolithic and microkernal and they've developed Darwin beyond all recognition from that point.
To say it's FreeBSD or OpenBSD or your dad's BSD is to invite the wrath of people who drank too much coffee, and I think Odin. Because that's just the kind of thing that will get you punched in a mainframe computer center.
Don't get so upset -- it's a common mistake on Slashdot to mistake Scientology for XNU.
It's the rejection by other means; "We are not outlawing it, but it will cost you to have it."
However I don't know if the tax on savings is less than or more than inventory.
So what you are saying is; "We aren't JUST burning the witch, first we burn her and THEN see if she floats using the best equipment, scales to determine specific gravity, and measuring the water mass lost from the container, thus proving she is either a dead witch, or unfortunate collateral damage from our 'war on terror'. We aren't monsters after all, this is for science."
I was given the power to move objects with my mind, and then some agency remotely removed my memory and ability from a bunker deep in the ground. They left me a broken man with only a vague notion of my manufactured past and a vivid imagination, but no ability to write a script that the ScyFy would carry -- when clearly, I can improve upon the "Fire-breathing Snake, but not a Dragon you NOOB!" and "Golem from a Simpson's Plot"
"WOW"
And to be clear; "Wow-wee!"
But I'm unsure if this is the "royal We" or just "I'm having fun like a little girl" "wee!" I'm just taking this into context and I apologize if there has been any misunderstanding.
At this time I'd like to reaffirm that this is a site for geeks about things that matter. And I differ to any English majors who can add to this discussion.
0.00000018 PPM * 700 Rh = 0.00126 Rh/PPM
400 PPM * 1 Rh - 400 = Rh/PPM
So even though PFTBA is affecting heat about 1/8000 as much as CO2 -- numbers like that add up.
We only need 7,999 more existential threats from obscure gases to kill us off in a fiery/warm deathly Armageddon of doom. You've been warned.
Until of course, someone renames it. Nobody can possible be afraid of a news story about PFTBA. If you call it "Electrical Insulation Gas of Heat Death" -- well, then, that should do it.
I also wonder that a "free accidental computer" might not be a way to infiltrate a company.
It's more likely that a "scam" was shipping a lot of these computers to hide the fact that ONE OR TWO destinations were the target, and the rest for cover.
Yet, I have to think that you could hide some bad trojan software/hardware on a computer and even re-burning the hard drive would not remove it -- and likely if someone used these "free" computers, they wouldn't be suspicious enough to prevent such a scam.
It's too farfetched to think that industrial farming and the use of GM modification in plants to imbed pesticides might actually have COLLATERAL DAMAGE?
However, I think we need a citation for this widespread proof you are seeing. There's not a lot of places anymore where there are no GM crops which are likely more a key player than the pesticides.
LOL.
But morons have the advantage that they don't have industry hired research studying Logs instead of Idiots.
TL;DR
AIDS patients die because of Pneumonia or a host of rare diseases that do not kill off healthy people. Bees die off due to parasites, diseases, and many maladies that do not kill healthy bees.
So our current unnatural pesticide and GM farming practices are causing Bees to die by opportunistic infections and parasites that are natural. Studies can make the problem look really complicated if we don't look at the system as a whole.
It's kind of obvious that Bees are being killed off with "death by a thousand cuts." Whether it be the GM pesticides built into plants, or some other toxin we find in the pollen -- the point is; we have too many knives.
In our "profit only" driven system, we have to prove a specific cause to shut down a specific product. It will take decades to prove a specific cause -- and meanwhile, someone will come out with a new GM product or pesticide and yet another knife.
The number of fingers being pointed will outnumber the bees before too long.
I think that this analogy is like explaining the birds and the bees with actual birds and bees. It's like pea soup as an analogy for patents -- strained. So the lawsuit is like a 10 yard penalty, illegal use of the hands -- but they actually gain the yardage in a game 12 years later?
I also think that RAMBUS is a horrible name for a football team.
I'm very glad the IRS did go after the Swiss Banks.
However I think in light of the recent reports that Sweden was data-mining Russian internet traffic for the NSA, it's likely there is a more secret deal where we leave their crooked banks alone, and they tell us all the secrets.
I think a lot of people talking of Chinese espionage efforts are missing the bigger picture; China can already BUY THIS STUFF from contractors for the NSA. Go search some old Wikileaks talking about an Israelis firm selling these databases.
This is about Corporate Espionage, Money and Power -- the idea that nation states and governments afraid of "cold war era spying" is quaint and so very behind the times. People don't always recognize what their current age is involved in -- it becomes clear with hindsight. Maybe they aren't spying on each other but are cooperating to spy on anyone not in power.