..If he had run as an independent. Changing his views on many subjects in order to please the right-wing extremists cost him many votes. I like the chap. I think he could have won and been a good and moderate president. But being under the weight of the republican party broke him.
Thanks everyone for the heads-up. I have an older HTC smartphone and I really like it. An HTC Hero now way outdated and underpowered. Its small when everyone was going big. It has been very reliable, it uses a pretty standard USB connector that ive never had any problems with.
Compare this to my wife's Samsung Moment, we have had to replace the power adapter 5 times because the little conenctor is just too thin to take the abuse of regular use.
I had been looking at buying another HTC but now I probably wont. It's too bad because I really like my phone and the new HTC's look good.
" They're so used to living in a theocracy, that they presume that if a film is released in the United States, the United States Government must be behind it! How could it be otherwise?"
-It doesnt help that the news, even our local news, headlined it as a "US-made" video when actually it was just some random guy.
"I can think of no other reason why, of all the scientific facts that people might disagree with or disbelieve, [evolution] is the one they pick on. Physics gets through OK. Chemistry gets through Ok. But not biology/geology, and I think it's got to be because of religion."
Thats an easy answer. Biology and Geology are taught in school. For most middle-aged adults, these were high school requirements. Or the easiest versions were "Life Science" and "Earth Science". Physics and chemistry are electives for the nerds who are interested in the stuff.
Those that just don't "get it" are more apt to dismiss science and fall back on mysticism.
This is evolutionary not revolutionary. Aspects that were designed for one platform are moving to another. Big deal. The Dinosaurs are not inheriting the earth.
Is this really news? We know that each element has N protons and electrons, and then some neutrons(not sure how that number is derived). So its not really a 'discovery' as much as a logical step. And of what use are the super dense elements when they will all require a huge amount of energy to produce AND they decay rapidly?
Now if in theory we knew that element 1337 could produce anti-gravity or some such effect not normally possible, that would give us a reason for research and producing that may be a real discovery. Otherwise, YAWN.
The description of the article is misleading.. "available from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism."
-makes it sound like it is a government-sponsored website when it is fact a privately owned and operated site.
from the site: "About the Bureau The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is a not-for-profit organisation based at City University, London. The Bureau bolsters original journalism by producing high-quality investigations for press and broadcast media with the aim of educating the public and the media on both the realities of today’s world and the value of honest reporting."
"Donations
The Bureau was established with a £2 million donation from the David & Elaine Potter Foundation. We have also received funding from the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust, and the Green Park Foundation (based in the US). Media income
We have received part payment for our stories from the BBC, Channel4, Al Jazeera, ITN, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. Non media income
We have received monies from Oxfam. City University The Bureau receives subsidised office space and facilities from City University. The Bureau has an ongoing relationship with City University’s Department of Journalism which includes offering work experience and internships to its journalism students. Senior members of the Bureau’s staff guest lecture at the department. Google The Bureau receives free email and document-sharing services from Google. Simons Muirhead & Burton Solicitors The Bureau has a relationship with Simons Muirhead & Burton, one of London’s leading law firms. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services particularly to those in the media. It advises the Bureau on a wide range of legal issues, with some of the work done on a pro bono basis. Managing Editor Iain Overton is employed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. His annual salary is just under £65,000 with an additional pension provision on top. He has no political or commercial affiliations." also misleading from the description:
" the app in question merely relays and positions strikes as available" -the app writer may not have permission to relay this information: also from the site: "Steal our stories The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out research in the public interest. Unless otherwise stated our articles and graphics can be republished without charge. However, there are a few things we ask you to bear in mind: - If republishing online please link to us and include all of the links from our story. - Our material cannot be sold separately. - Photographs and video cannot be republished without specific permission from the licence holder. - If quoting from our research the Bureau of Investigative Journalism must be credited. The Bureau is licenced under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details. "
"No. Those things are gimmicks that ONLY "geeks" notice, the general populous caring much more about what the device can ACTUALLY do whether than precisely how it does it. If you can stumble upon a patent, then it's fucking obvious."
ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY WRONG!
The reason Apple has been able to sell it products, even from the first apple, is that is pays close attention to HOW things work in addition to what they do. Apple was not the first to market a MP3 player or a smartphone. But they realized that in order for people (with no high-tech experience) to buy possibly complicated electronic products was to make them simple, intuitive, and enjoyable to use.
That is what Apple has built its company on. Not just snazzy marketing and packing more GeeBees. But spending an exorbitant amount of time and research into usability.
If someone were to design for example a door handle that easier to open and gave a better tactile feel because of a specific curve of the handle. And this handle gave a responsive 'click' when the latch was fully released. All of those subtle enhancements could be covered by a patent. You could just as easily argue that 'hey its just a door handle' and that door handles have been around for years so that patent is invalid. But that reason would invalidate all patents. 'Hey its just steel and glass and thats been around for centuries'.
Or coming back around to tablets: 'Hey its just a handheld device that lets you store and display information' -Well thats been around since the clay tablets of 3000 BC! Again, its in the details of exactly how you do it that makes a patent.
Oh, and change ALL your passwords to anything personal that you may have used immediately, as in now, not after you leave.
Google how to save your internet favorites, also how to save your email contacts and write-ahead outlook emails (these are not nessasarily saved in contacts)
This advice is good for whenever you are given a new computer or move offices/desks etc.
Your company has everything and there is nothing you can do about it.
If your company has any decent IT people, your entire user space is backed up regularly and everything.. saved passwords, personal emails, nude photos of your secretary, etc are all saved multiple times. The best way to protect yourself is to not have any personal info on a work PC. (And using the office equipment is probably against the policy and generally bad work ethic anyway)
The second best way to protect yourself is to delete everything personal 3 months in advance of announcing you are leaving.
Something you may want to do is transfer anything personal or anything you want to save onto a thumb drive. You can run the outlook archiving (google how to do this for your version) which will create an archive you can easily access outside of the corp network controls. (make sure to save this on a thumb drive) I think this is also the best way to actually remove emails because just deleting them (and even running the empty trash) does not actually delete the emails. Running a regular archive/email cleanout could be something considered regular practice, not detructive.
Even though this is probably against your companies policy, saving emails may help protect you from lawsuits (ianal) should your former company try anything.
It seems to use a ton of jargon, acronyms, and references/citing. It lacks many Joe-reader explanations. I have to look-up three words in every sentence.
I cannot tell if this article was written by the people who performed the study, or if the author just combined a bunch of data. It looks more like the Yahoo News articles with a bunch of almost-relevant AP quotes.
Actually, Microsoft just purchased the right's to Monty Python's Flying Circus. That includes a copyright for "And Now for Something Completely Different". This predates Apples patent. Microsoft is now going sell off all of their current products. Their business model will now focus on licensing "New" and "Different" in all new products in the last 30 years. Volume licencing will be available as well as live licences for anyone using the catch-phrase "Dyn-O-Mite!" in casual conversation.
I'm tired of all these stupid studies on 'beneficial effect of.." People have been talking about red wine for years but the original study that started it all hasnt been duplicated. Just look at another topic of the day regarding retractions.
THESE STUDIES ARE NOW A MONEY_MAKING INDUSTRY AND SHOULD BE IGNORED UNLESS WIDELY REPEATED!
No where in the original article or the high scored posts does anyone actually say what is wrong with PHP. Saying PHP is like a double-clawed hammer doesnt mean anything. I would much more equate it to a normal hammer or hand tool. Other languages like Java or C++ have seemed more like a router: they can do a wide variety of things but you need an assortment of bits, templates, and jigs for any basic chore.
I have used PHP and I dont see what the complaint is. It provides specific functionality and is supported on many servers. It works and it is easy to use. Is it the syntax? The performance? The reliability? What? I HAVE MOD POINTS! POINT ME TO SOMETHING GOOD AND I WILL MOD IT UP!
That is utter nonsense. This was discussed by our founding fathers of the US government and for those reasons there are checks and balances, limits to offices, etc. In the case you suggested, the 'majority' is the average citizen. It's not like we are going to agree to turn over the treasury to Boehner. Dictatorships happen because people abuse their powers and use force to enslave the people, not by people voting away their rights. Everyone wants democracy. No one prefers a autocracy over self-governorship.
I am surprised and disappointed by this ruling. But not for the reasons you might expect.
I want the US to have universal health care, but I think the mandate was a back-asswards way of getting it and I dont think it will be successful. It would have been far better to just make it a tax. This mandate only helps the health insurance industry slow its inevitable downward spiral.
Accoding to a 2007 study by Kaiser Permanente, http://www.kff.org/insurance/7692.cfm Healthcare spending has risen steadily and has outpaced wages. This means that less and less people can afford healthcare, and in turn less people will be purchasing insurance. Of course this is cyclical, since with less people buying insurance, the insurance sompanies will ahve to increase their premiums. And so the health insurance industry is already in a downward spiral that will eventually collapse.
I fear that the health insurance mandate will not stop this downward spiral, since it will be less expensive for healthy people to just pay the fine than to buy insurance. Eventually, the US government will have to intervene.
Taxpayers already pay for a large percentage of the populations medical services. If you count Medicare, Medicaid, Federal, State, and Local governments, that makes up over 100 million users, or 30% of the population. As less people can afford healthcare, the government will be shouldering a higher percentage.
Dont fool yourself. You are paying for this one way or another. Either by taxes, or by rising insurance costs. If your company is paying the premiums, you may want to ask them why you did not get a raise this year and they will tell you it was eaten up by premiums. insurance is after all a 'tax' that you pay in order for 'services' to be available when you need them. The healthy people end up paying for the sick people with chronic problems caused by obesity, diabetes, heart disease, lung and liver diseases, all could be prevented by good diet, exercise, and staying away from drugs, alcohol, tobacco, fat, and sugar. How does that make you feel when your hard earned dollars are going to pay for someones lung cancer treatment who has chain-smoked for 20 years?
Not that I am bitter or anything. i paid more for health care in the last 5 years than I did in taxes. The last 2 years I paid more in health care than I did for my mortgage. And that is with an employer sponsored plan and a healthy family. But the good news is that this will HAVE to change. We know it and there is a clear path to where we need to go. In the next 5-10 years we will have universal healthcare whether we vote for it or not.
(I dont count laptops as a real mobile device because of their horrible battery life and need of a lap or desk.)
Great care must be taken with mobile devices to blend the size, weight, battery life, features, connectivity and usability. A loss of any one if these and you have a limited lifespan device. You CANNOT just scrap together a metoo device like you can with a PC clone in a beige box. It takes multiple research, design, review, re-design loops to get it right. Then you need to get the market to accept it. That all takes time. So expect another 2 years before the Ipad has competitor good enough.
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Was his midi-chlorians level off the chart as well?
Thanks everyone for the heads-up.
I have an older HTC smartphone and I really like it. An HTC Hero now way outdated and underpowered. Its small when everyone was going big. It has been very reliable, it uses a pretty standard USB connector that ive never had any problems with.
Compare this to my wife's Samsung Moment, we have had to replace the power adapter 5 times because the little conenctor is just too thin to take the abuse of regular use.
I had been looking at buying another HTC but now I probably wont. It's too bad because I really like my phone and the new HTC's look good.
" They're so used to living in a theocracy, that they presume that if a film is released in the United States, the United States Government must be behind it! How could it be otherwise?"
-It doesnt help that the news, even our local news, headlined it as a "US-made" video when actually it was just some random guy.
"I can think of no other reason why, of all the scientific facts that people might disagree with or disbelieve, [evolution] is the one they pick on. Physics gets through OK. Chemistry gets through Ok. But not biology/geology, and I think it's got to be because of religion."
Thats an easy answer. Biology and Geology are taught in school. For most middle-aged adults, these were high school requirements. Or the easiest versions were "Life Science" and "Earth Science". Physics and chemistry are electives for the nerds who are interested in the stuff.
Those that just don't "get it" are more apt to dismiss science and fall back on mysticism.
Why on earth would you put it this way?
May as well be opening Al Capone's Vaults! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone's_Vaults
This is evolutionary not revolutionary. Aspects that were designed for one platform are moving to another. Big deal. The Dinosaurs are not inheriting the earth.
Is this really news? We know that each element has N protons and electrons, and then some neutrons(not sure how that number is derived).
So its not really a 'discovery' as much as a logical step. And of what use are the super dense elements when they will all require a huge amount of energy to produce AND they decay rapidly?
Now if in theory we knew that element 1337 could produce anti-gravity or some such effect not normally possible, that would give us a reason for research and producing that may be a real discovery. Otherwise, YAWN.
OW! MY HEAD!
The description of the article is misleading..
"available from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism."
-makes it sound like it is a government-sponsored website when it is fact a privately owned and operated site.
from the site:
"About the Bureau
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is a not-for-profit organisation based at City University, London. The Bureau bolsters original journalism by producing high-quality investigations for press and broadcast media with the aim of educating the public and the media on both the realities of today’s world and the value of honest reporting."
"Donations
The Bureau was established with a £2 million donation from the David & Elaine Potter Foundation. We have also received funding from the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust, and the Green Park Foundation (based in the US).
Media income
We have received part payment for our stories from the BBC, Channel4, Al Jazeera, ITN, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
Non media income
We have received monies from Oxfam.
City University
The Bureau receives subsidised office space and facilities from City University. The Bureau has an ongoing relationship with City University’s Department of Journalism which includes offering work experience and internships to its journalism students. Senior members of the Bureau’s staff guest lecture at the department.
Google
The Bureau receives free email and document-sharing services from Google.
Simons Muirhead & Burton Solicitors
The Bureau has a relationship with Simons Muirhead & Burton, one of London’s leading law firms. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services particularly to those in the media. It advises the Bureau on a wide range of legal issues, with some of the work done on a pro bono basis.
Managing Editor
Iain Overton is employed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. His annual salary is just under £65,000 with an additional pension provision on top. He has no political or commercial affiliations."
also misleading from the description:
" the app in question merely relays and positions strikes as available"
-the app writer may not have permission to relay this information:
also from the site:
"Steal our stories
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out research in the public interest. Unless otherwise stated our articles and graphics can be republished without charge. However, there are a few things we ask you to bear in mind:
- If republishing online please link to us and include all of the links from our story.
- Our material cannot be sold separately.
- Photographs and video cannot be republished without specific permission from the licence holder.
- If quoting from our research the Bureau of Investigative Journalism must be credited.
The Bureau is licenced under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details. "
"No. Those things are gimmicks that ONLY "geeks" notice, the general populous caring much more about what the device can ACTUALLY do whether than precisely how it does it. If you can stumble upon a patent, then it's fucking obvious."
ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY WRONG!
The reason Apple has been able to sell it products, even from the first apple, is that is pays close attention to HOW things work in addition to what they do. Apple was not the first to market a MP3 player or a smartphone. But they realized that in order for people (with no high-tech experience) to buy possibly complicated electronic products was to make them simple, intuitive, and enjoyable to use.
That is what Apple has built its company on. Not just snazzy marketing and packing more GeeBees. But spending an exorbitant amount of time and research into usability.
If someone were to design for example a door handle that easier to open and gave a better tactile feel because of a specific curve of the handle. And this handle gave a responsive 'click' when the latch was fully released. All of those subtle enhancements could be covered by a patent. You could just as easily argue that 'hey its just a door handle' and that door handles have been around for years so that patent is invalid. But that reason would invalidate all patents. 'Hey its just steel and glass and thats been around for centuries'.
Or coming back around to tablets: 'Hey its just a handheld device that lets you store and display information' -Well thats been around since the clay tablets of 3000 BC! Again, its in the details of exactly how you do it that makes a patent.
when these automated transactions fail.. or even while they are working .. how does it affect everyone else in the market?
^^^
um...
Actually, many published papers only present evidence, and dont try to make any conclusion.
Oh, and change ALL your passwords to anything personal that you may have used immediately, as in now, not after you leave.
Google how to save your internet favorites, also how to save your email contacts and write-ahead outlook emails (these are not nessasarily saved in contacts)
This advice is good for whenever you are given a new computer or move offices/desks etc.
Your company has everything and there is nothing you can do about it.
If your company has any decent IT people, your entire user space is backed up regularly and everything.. saved passwords, personal emails, nude photos of your secretary, etc are all saved multiple times. The best way to protect yourself is to not have any personal info on a work PC. (And using the office equipment is probably against the policy and generally bad work ethic anyway)
The second best way to protect yourself is to delete everything personal 3 months in advance of announcing you are leaving.
Something you may want to do is transfer anything personal or anything you want to save onto a thumb drive. You can run the outlook archiving (google how to do this for your version) which will create an archive you can easily access outside of the corp network controls. (make sure to save this on a thumb drive) I think this is also the best way to actually remove emails because just deleting them (and even running the empty trash) does not actually delete the emails. Running a regular archive/email cleanout could be something considered regular practice, not detructive.
Even though this is probably against your companies policy, saving emails may help protect you from lawsuits (ianal) should your former company try anything.
OK, just waiting for the console that boots linux directly to steam now.
YAY!
Was this article translated??
It seems to use a ton of jargon, acronyms, and references/citing.
It lacks many Joe-reader explanations. I have to look-up three words in every sentence.
I cannot tell if this article was written by the people who performed the study, or if the author just combined a bunch of data.
It looks more like the Yahoo News articles with a bunch of almost-relevant AP quotes.
Actually, Microsoft just purchased the right's to Monty Python's Flying Circus.
That includes a copyright for "And Now for Something Completely Different".
This predates Apples patent. Microsoft is now going sell off all of their current products.
Their business model will now focus on licensing "New" and "Different" in all new products in the last 30 years.
Volume licencing will be available as well as live licences for anyone using the catch-phrase "Dyn-O-Mite!" in casual conversation.
I'm tired of all these stupid studies on 'beneficial effect of.."
People have been talking about red wine for years but the original study that started it all hasnt been duplicated.
Just look at another topic of the day regarding retractions.
THESE STUDIES ARE NOW A MONEY_MAKING INDUSTRY AND SHOULD BE IGNORED UNLESS WIDELY REPEATED!
No where in the original article or the high scored posts does anyone actually say what is wrong with PHP.
Saying PHP is like a double-clawed hammer doesnt mean anything. I would much more equate it to a normal hammer or hand tool. Other languages like Java or C++ have seemed more like a router: they can do a wide variety of things but you need an assortment of bits, templates, and jigs for any basic chore.
I have used PHP and I dont see what the complaint is. It provides specific functionality and is supported on many servers.
It works and it is easy to use. Is it the syntax? The performance? The reliability? What?
I HAVE MOD POINTS! POINT ME TO SOMETHING GOOD AND I WILL MOD IT UP!
That is utter nonsense. This was discussed by our founding fathers of the US government and for those reasons there are checks and balances, limits to offices, etc.
In the case you suggested, the 'majority' is the average citizen. It's not like we are going to agree to turn over the treasury to Boehner.
Dictatorships happen because people abuse their powers and use force to enslave the people, not by people voting away their rights.
Everyone wants democracy. No one prefers a autocracy over self-governorship.
I am surprised and disappointed by this ruling. But not for the reasons you might expect.
I want the US to have universal health care, but I think the mandate was a back-asswards way of getting it and I dont think it will be successful.
It would have been far better to just make it a tax. This mandate only helps the health insurance industry slow its inevitable downward spiral.
Accoding to a 2007 study by Kaiser Permanente, http://www.kff.org/insurance/7692.cfm
Healthcare spending has risen steadily and has outpaced wages. This means that less and less people can afford healthcare, and in turn less people will be purchasing insurance. Of course this is cyclical, since with less people buying insurance, the insurance sompanies will ahve to increase their premiums.
And so the health insurance industry is already in a downward spiral that will eventually collapse.
I fear that the health insurance mandate will not stop this downward spiral, since it will be less expensive for healthy people to just pay the fine than to buy insurance. Eventually, the US government will have to intervene.
Taxpayers already pay for a large percentage of the populations medical services. If you count Medicare, Medicaid, Federal, State, and Local governments, that makes up over 100 million users, or 30% of the population. As less people can afford healthcare, the government will be shouldering a higher percentage.
Dont fool yourself. You are paying for this one way or another. Either by taxes, or by rising insurance costs. If your company is paying the premiums, you may want to ask them why you did not get a raise this year and they will tell you it was eaten up by premiums. insurance is after all a 'tax' that you pay in order for 'services' to be available when you need them. The healthy people end up paying for the sick people with chronic problems caused by obesity, diabetes, heart disease, lung and liver diseases, all could be prevented by good diet, exercise, and staying away from drugs, alcohol, tobacco, fat, and sugar. How does that make you feel when your hard earned dollars are going to pay for someones lung cancer treatment who has chain-smoked for 20 years?
Not that I am bitter or anything. i paid more for health care in the last 5 years than I did in taxes. The last 2 years I paid more in health care than I did for my mortgage. And that is with an employer sponsored plan and a healthy family. But the good news is that this will HAVE to change. We know it and there is a clear path to where we need to go. In the next 5-10 years we will have universal healthcare whether we vote for it or not.
(I dont count laptops as a real mobile device because of their horrible battery life and need of a lap or desk.)
Great care must be taken with mobile devices to blend the size, weight, battery life, features, connectivity and usability. A loss of any one if these and you have a limited lifespan device. You CANNOT just scrap together a metoo device like you can with a PC clone in a beige box. It takes multiple research, design, review, re-design loops to get it right. Then you need to get the market to accept it. That all takes time. So expect another 2 years before the Ipad has competitor good enough.