To be honest facebook doesn't exactly have a stellar track record as far as security is concerned. Maybe there IS a vuln or two waiting to be exploited...
A people that is willing to judge your leadership by something you might have done years ago which they found out about on facebook doesn't deserve a good leader. Maybe they should stick to the other kind - the too-good-to-be-true whitened teeth clean new shirted smooth talking liar who is going to rape them in the face the first chance s/he gets. You know, the kind we have all the time.
Heh, it's not like this hasn't been tried. All you have to do is look up your local religious organization - "send us your money and God will stop doing bad things to you".
That's ok, it will just force Samsung to come out with a more innovative product and eat Apple's lunch for them. Not hard to do when your R&D consists of a bunch of lawyers.
I actually thought about writing it this way and then decided against it - I mean what does a bunch of losers from 4chan have in common with Yoda? There's probably some more appropriate anime quote, but I'm not much into anime...
It's all a big contest. The US was the first nation to become industrialized in the modern sense. This gained them a huge initial lead both in productivity and technology. However the rest of the world has caught up, and while the hare rested on his laurels and thought he had won the race, he's finding out the tortoise is eating his victory cake. Other countries can do far more for far less than the US. It's not about blaming corporations for outsourcing jobs. It's not about blaming republicans or democrats.
It's about Joe Average who thinks he deserves to work 8 hours a day and earn 50k a year and live like a king in a house on a 1/4 acre lot and have 2 cars and put his kids through private schools, when Liu Bao is willing to work harder for a bowl of rice a day and just enough money to buy clothes and repair the roof of his shack. It's about realizing how hard it is to earn a living for everyone, and that any advantage that once existed is now gone. And what's worse is there are a lot more of "them" than there are of "you".
No it's more like the spoiled child who is used to getting "A" grades suddenly gets a "B" and starts arguing with the teacher about some trivial points of marking, when overall the work is inadequate and doesn't deserve an "A". AAA rating does not mean almost defaulting on debt. It means rock solid. Honestly myself I rate the US little higher than junk. I would not touch treasuries to save my life. less than 2% on a 5 year? THREE whole percent on a 30 year? Yeah right. Eat my shorts - literally. I've made a killing this past week with short sales. Now blame me for the market drop.
Wake up - the military is one of the largest chunks of the US budget. Did you really want to look at the smallest line items in the US budget and use that as a discussion? If such a large chunk is spent on military, obviously defense is one of the most important items - AND YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT. So I can just imagine how ineptly the "other" budgetary items are doing. Yeah, I'm biased. I think all of America has been sold out, on every level. You are living on ancient infrastructure and legislating/taxing yourselves to death. And what's worse, you argue with people who point this out to you. Well, good riddance. Maybe when you build a new society it will be a little less crazy.
I agree that the US has been over-rated for a while now. Especially since the round of bailouts in 2008. In an attempt to preempt what I know is going to ensue as a shouting match ("it was Bush/it was Obama" etc ad nauseam) I am not American you morons. So calling me red/blue/liberal/conservative is irrelevant - in fact it is exactly PART of the problem. Political posturing and the political circus has contaminated sound judgement in the US. America has long had a policy of throwing more money at things to fix them, but now this will never work because a) the US dollar is soon to be worthless anyway and b) the source of the problem isn't lack of money, it's lack of intelligence.
You are sitting on a multi-billion dollar fleet of F-22's that have been GROUNDED (google it). You are sitting on a TRILLION dollar contract of F-35's that refuse to fly. You have a military that pays $18 million dollars to ship a washer to Iraq - yeah, I haven't forgotten. And a popular press who instead of crucifying the people in charge for these mistakes much prefers to cover the wedding of royals who are not your royals, or ask celebrities what they think about whatever, etc.
Heh, but what do I care, I'm sitting on $4 million worth of gold krugerrands, I have 2000 acres of land, and a set of hard skills that will always be relevant. I'll be ok. I feel sorry for all the poor saps in the world that have all their savings in US dollars, however.
I also find that although it's not a hard and fast rule, a literature grad will never pick up a physics text or try to understand some biochemical conundrum, however a great deal of science majors (myself included) also excel at music and/or enjoy literature.
Medicine. I guess you could consider the psychology, disaster management and ethics courses to be part of the humanities. I also guess you could consider my whole field to be "humanitarian" with one caveat - we actually do the work instead of reading/writing about it.
Tip their hand? There's pretty good "smoking gun" evidence considering he was seen shooting people, filmed shooting people, left many survivors who can identify him, was arrested at the scene and also admitted to doing it. The trial is pretty much a formality at this point. You know that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" should not erase your ability to think. The "police" or the prosecutor would have to work very hard indeed to destroy the case against this man.
ISPs are taking a path that will promote end to end encryption and obfuscation to prevent guessing at the content of encrypted baby videos being distributed to relatives.
Oh god - yes. Please! That's the way it should have been in the first place.
Except, GDP hasn't been increasing for a long time. Your type of rationalization is exactly what caused this problem. Politicians expect perpetual growth in order to justify deficit spending. The theory states that if you leave taxes and all other things at the same level, growth will increase your income over time and make deficits disappear. Except all other things have NOT been equal. Fuel costs have increased. Commodity costs have increased. The cost of doing business has increased. The cost of labor has increased. Capital costs have increased. All of this has taken away from growth. And on the other hand, debt has not remained the same, but increased (rather sharply).
So now we're at the point where almost no amount of growth will cover the debt. Increasing taxes will only destroy growth. Issuing more debt will destroy the currency and the country's credit rating. This is the proverbial rock and hard place. What the government is going to do is inflate away the debt (there's talk of QE 3)- which solves the paper problem of the debt. However it wipes out the wealth and savings of everyone who has US dollars across the globe in the process. Not to mention that the US dollar will be dropped as a reserve (it looks like the Swiss Franc is the new contender for now) which means that America will finally have to pay for its imports in real goods and services, instead of by running the dollar printing press. It's going to shock Americans when they find out exactly how expensive and hard life is for the rest of us. Truly we live in interesting times.
Think I'm going to make a game and call it "The Nasty Wand Potions", and then wizards will be totally screwed since they won't be able to use scrolls, wands OR potions. Where is your god now?
I call BS. Porn isn't suddenly "free". It's been that way ever since the internet took off. Today's declining sales have nothing to do with it, that's just an incorrect after-the-fact attempt at justification by a junior employee.
No DRM at all on Oblivion if I recall correctly. I have no trouble running the ISO in my virtual CD drive. I think Fallout is a bit of a pain though. Funny I still play Oblivion often but never touch Fallout. Co-incidence? And yes I paid for and own a legal copy of both programs.
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To be honest facebook doesn't exactly have a stellar track record as far as security is concerned. Maybe there IS a vuln or two waiting to be exploited...
A people that is willing to judge your leadership by something you might have done years ago which they found out about on facebook doesn't deserve a good leader. Maybe they should stick to the other kind - the too-good-to-be-true whitened teeth clean new shirted smooth talking liar who is going to rape them in the face the first chance s/he gets. You know, the kind we have all the time.
Heh, it's not like this hasn't been tried. All you have to do is look up your local religious organization - "send us your money and God will stop doing bad things to you".
Obama would have blamed it.
That's ok, it will just force Samsung to come out with a more innovative product and eat Apple's lunch for them. Not hard to do when your R&D consists of a bunch of lawyers.
I actually thought about writing it this way and then decided against it - I mean what does a bunch of losers from 4chan have in common with Yoda? There's probably some more appropriate anime quote, but I'm not much into anime...
The War of the Script Kiddies has begun.
It's all a big contest. The US was the first nation to become industrialized in the modern sense. This gained them a huge initial lead both in productivity and technology. However the rest of the world has caught up, and while the hare rested on his laurels and thought he had won the race, he's finding out the tortoise is eating his victory cake. Other countries can do far more for far less than the US. It's not about blaming corporations for outsourcing jobs. It's not about blaming republicans or democrats.
It's about Joe Average who thinks he deserves to work 8 hours a day and earn 50k a year and live like a king in a house on a 1/4 acre lot and have 2 cars and put his kids through private schools, when Liu Bao is willing to work harder for a bowl of rice a day and just enough money to buy clothes and repair the roof of his shack. It's about realizing how hard it is to earn a living for everyone, and that any advantage that once existed is now gone. And what's worse is there are a lot more of "them" than there are of "you".
I bought them at $400.
No it's more like the spoiled child who is used to getting "A" grades suddenly gets a "B" and starts arguing with the teacher about some trivial points of marking, when overall the work is inadequate and doesn't deserve an "A". AAA rating does not mean almost defaulting on debt. It means rock solid. Honestly myself I rate the US little higher than junk. I would not touch treasuries to save my life. less than 2% on a 5 year? THREE whole percent on a 30 year? Yeah right. Eat my shorts - literally. I've made a killing this past week with short sales. Now blame me for the market drop.
Wake up - the military is one of the largest chunks of the US budget. Did you really want to look at the smallest line items in the US budget and use that as a discussion? If such a large chunk is spent on military, obviously defense is one of the most important items - AND YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT. So I can just imagine how ineptly the "other" budgetary items are doing. Yeah, I'm biased. I think all of America has been sold out, on every level. You are living on ancient infrastructure and legislating/taxing yourselves to death. And what's worse, you argue with people who point this out to you. Well, good riddance. Maybe when you build a new society it will be a little less crazy.
I agree that the US has been over-rated for a while now. Especially since the round of bailouts in 2008. In an attempt to preempt what I know is going to ensue as a shouting match ("it was Bush/it was Obama" etc ad nauseam) I am not American you morons. So calling me red/blue/liberal/conservative is irrelevant - in fact it is exactly PART of the problem. Political posturing and the political circus has contaminated sound judgement in the US. America has long had a policy of throwing more money at things to fix them, but now this will never work because a) the US dollar is soon to be worthless anyway and b) the source of the problem isn't lack of money, it's lack of intelligence.
You are sitting on a multi-billion dollar fleet of F-22's that have been GROUNDED (google it). You are sitting on a TRILLION dollar contract of F-35's that refuse to fly. You have a military that pays $18 million dollars to ship a washer to Iraq - yeah, I haven't forgotten. And a popular press who instead of crucifying the people in charge for these mistakes much prefers to cover the wedding of royals who are not your royals, or ask celebrities what they think about whatever, etc.
Heh, but what do I care, I'm sitting on $4 million worth of gold krugerrands, I have 2000 acres of land, and a set of hard skills that will always be relevant. I'll be ok. I feel sorry for all the poor saps in the world that have all their savings in US dollars, however.
at the names of the scientists who published the article. Notice something?
I also find that although it's not a hard and fast rule, a literature grad will never pick up a physics text or try to understand some biochemical conundrum, however a great deal of science majors (myself included) also excel at music and/or enjoy literature.
Medicine. I guess you could consider the psychology, disaster management and ethics courses to be part of the humanities. I also guess you could consider my whole field to be "humanitarian" with one caveat - we actually do the work instead of reading/writing about it.
Eh, what difference does a grade make in the humanities anyway. You're still not getting a job at the end of it all.
Tip their hand? There's pretty good "smoking gun" evidence considering he was seen shooting people, filmed shooting people, left many survivors who can identify him, was arrested at the scene and also admitted to doing it. The trial is pretty much a formality at this point. You know that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" should not erase your ability to think. The "police" or the prosecutor would have to work very hard indeed to destroy the case against this man.
No, some of them lead to Rick Astley.
Also, crack the codes, win a free trip to Norway as an "expert witness" amirite?
ISPs are taking a path that will promote end to end encryption and obfuscation to prevent guessing at the content of encrypted baby videos being distributed to relatives.
Oh god - yes. Please! That's the way it should have been in the first place.
Except, GDP hasn't been increasing for a long time. Your type of rationalization is exactly what caused this problem. Politicians expect perpetual growth in order to justify deficit spending. The theory states that if you leave taxes and all other things at the same level, growth will increase your income over time and make deficits disappear. Except all other things have NOT been equal. Fuel costs have increased. Commodity costs have increased. The cost of doing business has increased. The cost of labor has increased. Capital costs have increased. All of this has taken away from growth. And on the other hand, debt has not remained the same, but increased (rather sharply).
So now we're at the point where almost no amount of growth will cover the debt. Increasing taxes will only destroy growth. Issuing more debt will destroy the currency and the country's credit rating. This is the proverbial rock and hard place. What the government is going to do is inflate away the debt (there's talk of QE 3)- which solves the paper problem of the debt. However it wipes out the wealth and savings of everyone who has US dollars across the globe in the process. Not to mention that the US dollar will be dropped as a reserve (it looks like the Swiss Franc is the new contender for now) which means that America will finally have to pay for its imports in real goods and services, instead of by running the dollar printing press. It's going to shock Americans when they find out exactly how expensive and hard life is for the rest of us. Truly we live in interesting times.
What? Floodfill ftw.
Think I'm going to make a game and call it "The Nasty Wand Potions", and then wizards will be totally screwed since they won't be able to use scrolls, wands OR potions. Where is your god now?
Yeah, and Wal Mart should eat K Mart and Stein Mart for lunch.
I call BS. Porn isn't suddenly "free". It's been that way ever since the internet took off. Today's declining sales have nothing to do with it, that's just an incorrect after-the-fact attempt at justification by a junior employee.
No DRM at all on Oblivion if I recall correctly. I have no trouble running the ISO in my virtual CD drive. I think Fallout is a bit of a pain though. Funny I still play Oblivion often but never touch Fallout. Co-incidence? And yes I paid for and own a legal copy of both programs.