No, you missed my point, I am saying that they need to mount a PR campaign and maybe a wall of shame for companies still pushing ancient password practices. Updating the guidance on a website somewhere when you have already put out bad information is insufficient to repair the damage to the best practices.
Not a hoax invented by the Chinese (nice strawman though), a hoax invented by the climate "scientists" to drum up funding. Look at US governmental funding of climate studies from the 1960s vs today (hint: we spend over $2,000,000,000 per year on AGW research and another $4,000,000,000 per year on climate technology research. That is a shit ton of cash and a business that extorts about the same amount of money from the American people as Comcast; at least Comcast provides a semi-useful service... It is exponentially larger because these "scientists" have convinced a decent segment of the population (mostly liberals lacking in a hard science education who are looking to virtue signal their fellow liberals) and enough politicians (also looking to virtue signal) that there is a crisis...
We should already be dead and the earth a ball of fire based on their computer models, which were wildly wrong, but the AGW crowd still call it "science" and keep believing because they have no clue and no background in hard science. I am one of those mythical scientists who do not accept AGW (another lie pushed hard by the AGW crowd, the 97% number is a joke and only surveyed 160 "climate scientists". http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Everyone is a "genius" on the internet, but as background, I hold a PhD in applied thermodynamics and have worked in applied thermodynamics for nearly twenty years, along with teaching for several years at university. I work/design with the underlying physics every day and have thoroughly investigated the AGW claims and the so called "science" and most of it is hand waving, computer modeling with thousands of fudge factors not based on first principles and flat out speculation by PhDs who have never done anything in the real world (100% theoretical work). If they were in any of my Thermo classes, most of the jokers would fail outright.
Let me lay out a few facts for you. If you are truly interested in science, they should be informative:
Fact: there were higher measured CO2 levels 150 years ago before the ICE and the industrial revolution: http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-...
Fact: current global CO2 levels are a myth, "global" CO2 levels are measured at a single recording station in Hawaii where levels can vary 600PPM or more in a single day (the smooth graphs you see are computer generated lies created by averaging and smoothing algorithms.
Fact: global temperature is a myth. Temperature on the planet varies dramatically from the equator to the poles, day and night, season to season, elevation, ocean depth, surface temperature, atmospheric temperature, cloud cover, vegetation type, rainfall levels, regional geography, etc. Any of those factors plus others can cause the local temperature to vary 20-40C. Global temperature is an estimate based on fallible computer models that try to compensate and calculate using many local measurements and a bunch of fudge factors (numbers pulled out of someone's ass). Satellite measurements are also factored in to this model, but again, at a single site, temperatures can swing 20C in a single day night cycle, and easily double that from season to season. However, somehow we are supposed to believe them when they assure us that the planet has warmed 0.1C in the last 17 years (well within the margin of error, which has never been well defined, let alone validated for their global temperature model). http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/style/i...
Far too many people worship "science" instead of understanding it and practicing it, probably because they are too emotional and not intelligent enough to do the later, so my posts get mod-bombed by ignorant, self righteous idiots looking to virtue signal with mod points... Regardless how accurate they are.
"The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years"
Ok, and there were glaciers down to what like Ohio less than 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure humans had nothing to do with the warming of the last 9900 years, where is the evidence that we affected the last 100 years of warming? (Hint: CO2 levels are flat if you don't cherry pick the historical data). What would the temperature rise be without humanity? Unless you can show me the science that explains the non AGW of the last 10,000 years, you don't really have a case for AGW at all. The globe gets warmer and cooler and has since it formed, life goes on.
Downmodding or calling me names does not validate AGW, just an FYI to all my friends in the pro AGW side of the fence.
Oh, you mean the the people who were first slaves and then kept in a subservient position due to government mandated segregationist policies?
When you shit on people long enough they become shitty. It takes a long, long time to change cultural values after all that.
This does't invalidate my earlier point that even with 300,000,000 guns in the US, the white majority (and other minorities for that mater) commit no more murders than Western Europe on average, which blows the earlier assertion that the murder rate in the US is about guns to pieces. I assume that you now realize that guns have nothing to do with the murder rate in the US since you didn't try to refute my facts. Nice try on changing the subject though.
Furthermore, from the end of the civil war through the end of the 1950s (about 90 years) black crime rates were comparable or lower to the rest of society while poor blacks and poor whites committed no more crime than other segments of society. Their current murder commission rate has nothing to do with slavery, it has to do with welfare which has lead to the destruction of the nuclear family which has lead to the rise of gangs and the thug culture which is where most of the murders are coming from.
I actually know history quite well, like the history in the 60s where the communists and socialists in academia tried to redefine the political spectrum to conceal their alignment with the mass murderers in Nazi Germany, the USSR, communist China and fascist Italy, which you are apparently ignorant of. Let me educate you:
Left wing: total control of everything by the government (Nazis, communists, Fascists, socialists, monarchies, oligarchies, etc. to varying degrees)
Centrist: Some power to central government, some power reserved to individuals (current Republicans, old guard Democrats, structure of the US constitutional republic, etc.)
Right wing: minimal or no central government power, nearly all or all power reserved to the individuals (Libertarians and anarchists).
soooooo..... update the damn thing and go on the 8pm news and get the word out that those rules and the stated schedule for changing passwords are both BS and give some reasonable guidelines (like 4 random words strung together) along with having the industry standard of an exponentially longer timeout after 3 wrong guesses (or just locking the account and/or blocking the IP address (or range) the bogus attempts were coming from, depending on your need for security)... and a million other better solutions to security (2 factor anyone?) rather than arcane letter/number/special character/upper/lowercase change it every week stupidity.
So I agree that one of us is at least self important and ignorant, I will leave you to try to figure out who. The reality is that those in the middle who don't qualify for medicaid can still go to free clinics (I know because I was that person for a while and I did). That still counts as health care. Alternatively you can move to a state that requires 40h jobs provide health care, or work for one of dozens of companies that provide health care for their unskilled/semiskilled workers (like Starbucks or Costco).
The other issue you seem incapable of grasping is that under Obama the economy/job market was shit, average annual wages fell by around $4500 during his tenure and there was a glut of workers as employers were afraid to re-hire because of Obama and the democrats suppressed the natural rebound that we normally see after a recession with Obamacare, all the new and expensive federal regulations being put out, etc. as well as the threat of more. Now that Obama is out, the economy is growing faster, employers are doing more hiring, and as the job market tightens and real unemployment gets somewhere south of 6% while Trump simultaneously enforces immigration laws and cracks down on illegal immigrant workers and H1B visas, we will see better benefits packages as well as employers vie for a valuable and more limited resource (labor). (As an added bonus, if we deport the 10-20 million illegal aliens, most of which use the ER without paying, our medical system will no longer be billing us for their very expensive medical treatment).
Liberals live in a theoretical bubble where if it isn't perfect or part of their worldview, the person/idea must be evil/a lie/racist/???phobic/etc. Reality is far different. Think for a moment what will happen to all those full time jobs that make too much to qualify for medicaid but don't offer health insurance because it is too expensive. When we cut the cost of health insurance by 50% (using HSAs, RNP minute clinics, rider policies for risky behavior like smoking, skydiving, bungee jumping, no longer paying for illegal alien health care, eliminating malpractice lawsuits and insurance and defensive medicine, etc.) and simultaneously they start losing employees to other jobs that do offer health insurance? In order to stay in business, they will have to start offering insurance to be competitive in the job market (99% of employers would love to offer health insurance, but it has gotten way too expensive under Obamacare). Are there still some small number of people who will go bankrupt from health issues? yes, but in the real world, there are always winners and losers, always some people who get hurt. People go bankrupt every day for any number of reasons, that is just part of life and having the freedom to make your own choices in a free country. But everyone in the US is still guaranteed medical care at any ER and bankruptcy laws limit the damage that massive debt can do.
Sorry if my statement went over your head. I am not advocating we invade them tomorrow, however Canada and parts of western Europe do have some serious problems. Thought crimes are fascist and are one of the key ingredients that evil dictatorships need to get off the ground. Those countries are literally one bad elected leader away from a new Nazi Germany...
Pretty sure those mandates were an Obama era left wing wet dream that were DOA the day Trump took office, but I could be wrong. If they are still flopping around he needs to put them out of their misery ASAP.
Everyone is an individual and their personal choices should be respected by everyone else. The fact that the fascist progressive left at Google wants to shoehorn more women into STEM jobs "just because" is bullshit and a blatant FU to all of the women who chose to put their children and family first and chose to stay at home while their husbands try to find a job being held hostage by gender politics.
Whites killed ~2700, making the white murder rate ~1 in 100,000 which is actually below several western European countries, including France.
The sad truth no one wants to talk about is we have a violent sub culture within a small minority in the US committing a lot of murders and it is not the Asians or the Hispanics. It has nothing to do with guns, it has everything to do with culture.
This kind of behavior flows down from the C- level and the board of directors, and yes, in the end the shareholders should take it in the pants, as they are responsible for holding the company accountable. They are the owners after all.
Nice, but being obscene or emotional doesn't validate your position or make you right, it only re-enforces my opinion that lefties by and large are emotional idiots who believe whatever pile of crap the alt left media and the Democrats feed them regardless of reality.
True, in other countries they just die because they can't get the procedure because it is too expensive. Also, the rest of the world does not pay full price (AKA their fair share) in the first place. The US absorbs the vast majority of the development cost of new drugs, procedures and devices. The rest of the world waits for the generics which don't incur all of the R&D necessary to make it happen in the first place...
Poor/disinterested parenting and lack of discipline (first parental, later self discipline) is what makes people/society shitty/depressed/immature/etc.
Civil Forfeture has calmed down quite a bit. Many sates have outlawed it entirely unless there is a conviction of a crime first.
Law enforcement in the real world is not perfect, you cannot point to a few criminals in the police force and extrapolate systemic problems, especially with nearly 1,000,000 LE officers in the US. In the US we have internal affairs within police departments with the specific charter to hold criminal police officers to account. I would argue that the US is in the top 10 countries in the world for honest law enforcement. Name the country and you can find stories about criminal law enforcement (unless they are fascist countries that regulate the news).
Hate speech is defined by who exactly? (Hint: the bureaucracy and/or the majority). So the rights of the minority get trampled in Canada (and all Canadians just hope they never end up in the minority, I guess). When the government decides that some of your particular views fall into the hate speech category, you will realize that you don't have free speech in Canada anymore. In the US, we guarantee all speech is free (outside of inciting immediate violence and a few other minor exceptions for immediate safety). We in the US do not guarantee a platform for your speech, or that there will be no societal consequences for your speech, but you are free to speak your mind without fear that the Gestapo will break down your door and drag you away for some view that you hold...
In the US, as long as you are a productive member of society, you get health insurance through your job and access to the best health care on the planet (which is why there are plenty of affluent Canadians who visit the US for heart surgery/etc.) Most medications are developed in the US, as are most medical procedures and medical equipment.
If you are poor in the US, you get access to Meidcaid, which is socialized medicine (the same thing you have in Canada). The poor also have free clinics available, and no one can be turned away from any hospital ER in the country. But you can keep telling yourself you have better healthcare if it lets you sleep at night.
The proper recompense on appeal is an award of 100% the value of the companies that perpetrated this shit to the victim, plus a criminal probe/investigation of the personal finances/relationships of the judge that signed off on the original warrant, as well as the government officials that executed it. The only way to deal with this kind of Gestapo tactic is brutal consequences. Just like the Gawker case in the US, it is high time that these companies grossly violating the laws and basic human rights be liquefied or handed over to their victims. Stockholders and CEOs will pay a lot closer attention and be a lot less aggressive if they know they can lose it all with this kind of shit.
Just a matter of time before the US has to invade Canada and liberate them from their "dictatorship of virtue" to restore basic human rights... Assuming the US can survive a similar onslaught by the fascist progressives.
This is an interesting read, though it is only about public roads, but clearly, in the public sector, there are a lot of costs that the private sector would not tolerate.
Pretty sure that spear phishing is a crime, regardless of your success level or whether you self style yourself as a prankster or not. The only way to legally do what was done is to immediately reply back to the targeted official/business/government agency and inform them that you were not who you said you were and that they need to improve their IT security training/systems. This guy may very well wind up extradited and charged with a crime since he went to CNN with the intention of damaging the organization that he attacked which by definition makes his spear phishing a crime.
An add blocker designed by an advertising company... Does anyone else see the problem here?
Though on the one hand I don't actually want to block every ad, especially on sites I actually get use out of, but OTOH, ads have become an assault these days, with pop overs, pop unders, autoplayed videos with cranked up sound, viruses, malware, etc. Just the other day on a site that I use regularly, a so called acceptable ad (based on ABP settings, yes I know I know) tried to serve me a zeus trjoan... The only way to really bring advertising under control is if the big advertisers like Google band together and form a non-profit that must review all ads before they are trusted, and ads must be reviewed for placement, content, viruses, and acceptable practices and then use a certificate process to track those ads and screen out any ad that doesn't have a valid certificate. Any ad company that tries to circumvent the ad standards gets banned from online advertising for 12 months (and thus goes out of business).
I know the complaint will be that kind of human review will add cost. Well tough shit, the ad industry created this problem by taking advantage and treating potential customers like shit, so they get to pay to fix it.
Ok, since you seem genuinely interested, here is my recollection:
the Democrats realized when Bill Clinton got elected in 1992 (and they held the house and senate for two years) that the general public was comfortable with guns, and inherently understood that in the vast majority of cases, guns are used defensively by the 60,000,000 legal gun owners in the US. The Democratic party was focused on as one of their top goals, to confiscate all guns. They started in 1992 by shifting funding within the CDC to research "gun injury and deaths" to support this cause. They disingenuously did not use the FBI, because the statistics the FBI would have collected would have included the legal aspects of gun use, whereas the CDC was tasked with looking solely at the risks of "death" which might be a good thing (if a felon is killed to protect innocents) while ignoring any mitigating circumstances, legality or life saved.
The 1993 report that the CDC came out with was flagrantly anti gun, and with extremely poor methodology (they stated among other things that your risk of dying from a gun increased in homes that had a gun, which clearly makes sense, because a gun is typically the most effective killing tool in the home), but did not differentiate between criminals and victims, did not look at even something as simple as checking if lawful inhabitants risk of violent death went up or down with having a gun in the home or not, they basically ignored other means of death in non-gun owning homes, etc... There were many other problems like that with the study, and it was almost universally panned, except on the far progressive left, where it was cited time and again as justification for gun control laws at the federal, state and local levels.
After the the assault weapons ban (which was finally signed into law in 1994, even though those weapons accounted for less than 1% of murders, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... while cheap handguns accounted for something like 25% of murders) the Democrats lost the house and the senate in historic proportions in 1994. (I still remember that the 1994 AWB or Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 contained the language blocking the FBI from collecting and reporting defensive gun use statistics, but I can't find info on that, though it is possible that it was another bill, that was a long time ago.) The Republicans then worked on and passed a bill in 1996 that blocked any further funding of the CDC on gun related deaths and took away the funding that they had pissed away on the "gun deaths" study that they had done in 1993.
I have made dozens of posts on this thread, the links to the other sources are there if you actually care (rather than just trolling). Feel free to read them.
7/11=64% increase in homicide rates (huge jump by any measure, sorry if it wasn't quite 100%, I am not a walking encyclopedia). If it was due to the recession, then why didn't the US see the same over 60% rise in homicide rates? Most argue that the rates fell down because the UK made massive increases to the size of their police force after the spike in homicides.
Government spending already has multiple layers of oversight, but demonstrably government wastes upwards of 50% of it's spending, based on comparison between government and the private sector doing the same job for vastly different cost. Also, anyone who has worked in government or on government contracts can attest first hand to the wasteful spending.
It is just human nature, spending someone else's money with no danger of going bankrupt or getting fired leads to vast over spending.
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No, you missed my point, I am saying that they need to mount a PR campaign and maybe a wall of shame for companies still pushing ancient password practices. Updating the guidance on a website somewhere when you have already put out bad information is insufficient to repair the damage to the best practices.
Not a hoax invented by the Chinese (nice strawman though), a hoax invented by the climate "scientists" to drum up funding. Look at US governmental funding of climate studies from the 1960s vs today (hint: we spend over $2,000,000,000 per year on AGW research and another $4,000,000,000 per year on climate technology research. That is a shit ton of cash and a business that extorts about the same amount of money from the American people as Comcast; at least Comcast provides a semi-useful service... It is exponentially larger because these "scientists" have convinced a decent segment of the population (mostly liberals lacking in a hard science education who are looking to virtue signal their fellow liberals) and enough politicians (also looking to virtue signal) that there is a crisis...
We should already be dead and the earth a ball of fire based on their computer models, which were wildly wrong, but the AGW crowd still call it "science" and keep believing because they have no clue and no background in hard science. I am one of those mythical scientists who do not accept AGW (another lie pushed hard by the AGW crowd, the 97% number is a joke and only surveyed 160 "climate scientists". http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Everyone is a "genius" on the internet, but as background, I hold a PhD in applied thermodynamics and have worked in applied thermodynamics for nearly twenty years, along with teaching for several years at university. I work/design with the underlying physics every day and have thoroughly investigated the AGW claims and the so called "science" and most of it is hand waving, computer modeling with thousands of fudge factors not based on first principles and flat out speculation by PhDs who have never done anything in the real world (100% theoretical work). If they were in any of my Thermo classes, most of the jokers would fail outright.
Let me lay out a few facts for you. If you are truly interested in science, they should be informative:
Fact: there were higher measured CO2 levels 150 years ago before the ICE and the industrial revolution: http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-...
Fact: current global CO2 levels are a myth, "global" CO2 levels are measured at a single recording station in Hawaii where levels can vary 600PPM or more in a single day (the smooth graphs you see are computer generated lies created by averaging and smoothing algorithms.
Fact: global temperature is a myth. Temperature on the planet varies dramatically from the equator to the poles, day and night, season to season, elevation, ocean depth, surface temperature, atmospheric temperature, cloud cover, vegetation type, rainfall levels, regional geography, etc. Any of those factors plus others can cause the local temperature to vary 20-40C. Global temperature is an estimate based on fallible computer models that try to compensate and calculate using many local measurements and a bunch of fudge factors (numbers pulled out of someone's ass). Satellite measurements are also factored in to this model, but again, at a single site, temperatures can swing 20C in a single day night cycle, and easily double that from season to season. However, somehow we are supposed to believe them when they assure us that the planet has warmed 0.1C in the last 17 years (well within the margin of error, which has never been well defined, let alone validated for their global temperature model). http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/style/i...
Far too many people worship "science" instead of understanding it and practicing it, probably because they are too emotional and not intelligent enough to do the later, so my posts get mod-bombed by ignorant, self righteous idiots looking to virtue signal with mod points... Regardless how accurate they are.
"The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years"
Ok, and there were glaciers down to what like Ohio less than 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure humans had nothing to do with the warming of the last 9900 years, where is the evidence that we affected the last 100 years of warming? (Hint: CO2 levels are flat if you don't cherry pick the historical data). What would the temperature rise be without humanity? Unless you can show me the science that explains the non AGW of the last 10,000 years, you don't really have a case for AGW at all. The globe gets warmer and cooler and has since it formed, life goes on.
Downmodding or calling me names does not validate AGW, just an FYI to all my friends in the pro AGW side of the fence.
Oh, you mean the the people who were first slaves and then kept in a subservient position due to government mandated segregationist policies?
When you shit on people long enough they become shitty. It takes a long, long time to change cultural values after all that.
This does't invalidate my earlier point that even with 300,000,000 guns in the US, the white majority (and other minorities for that mater) commit no more murders than Western Europe on average, which blows the earlier assertion that the murder rate in the US is about guns to pieces. I assume that you now realize that guns have nothing to do with the murder rate in the US since you didn't try to refute my facts. Nice try on changing the subject though.
Furthermore, from the end of the civil war through the end of the 1950s (about 90 years) black crime rates were comparable or lower to the rest of society while poor blacks and poor whites committed no more crime than other segments of society. Their current murder commission rate has nothing to do with slavery, it has to do with welfare which has lead to the destruction of the nuclear family which has lead to the rise of gangs and the thug culture which is where most of the murders are coming from.
I actually know history quite well, like the history in the 60s where the communists and socialists in academia tried to redefine the political spectrum to conceal their alignment with the mass murderers in Nazi Germany, the USSR, communist China and fascist Italy, which you are apparently ignorant of. Let me educate you:
Left wing: total control of everything by the government (Nazis, communists, Fascists, socialists, monarchies, oligarchies, etc. to varying degrees)
Centrist: Some power to central government, some power reserved to individuals (current Republicans, old guard Democrats, structure of the US constitutional republic, etc.)
Right wing: minimal or no central government power, nearly all or all power reserved to the individuals (Libertarians and anarchists).
soooooo..... update the damn thing and go on the 8pm news and get the word out that those rules and the stated schedule for changing passwords are both BS and give some reasonable guidelines (like 4 random words strung together) along with having the industry standard of an exponentially longer timeout after 3 wrong guesses (or just locking the account and/or blocking the IP address (or range) the bogus attempts were coming from, depending on your need for security)... and a million other better solutions to security (2 factor anyone?) rather than arcane letter/number/special character/upper/lowercase change it every week stupidity.
So I agree that one of us is at least self important and ignorant, I will leave you to try to figure out who. The reality is that those in the middle who don't qualify for medicaid can still go to free clinics (I know because I was that person for a while and I did). That still counts as health care. Alternatively you can move to a state that requires 40h jobs provide health care, or work for one of dozens of companies that provide health care for their unskilled/semiskilled workers (like Starbucks or Costco).
The other issue you seem incapable of grasping is that under Obama the economy/job market was shit, average annual wages fell by around $4500 during his tenure and there was a glut of workers as employers were afraid to re-hire because of Obama and the democrats suppressed the natural rebound that we normally see after a recession with Obamacare, all the new and expensive federal regulations being put out, etc. as well as the threat of more. Now that Obama is out, the economy is growing faster, employers are doing more hiring, and as the job market tightens and real unemployment gets somewhere south of 6% while Trump simultaneously enforces immigration laws and cracks down on illegal immigrant workers and H1B visas, we will see better benefits packages as well as employers vie for a valuable and more limited resource (labor). (As an added bonus, if we deport the 10-20 million illegal aliens, most of which use the ER without paying, our medical system will no longer be billing us for their very expensive medical treatment).
Liberals live in a theoretical bubble where if it isn't perfect or part of their worldview, the person/idea must be evil/a lie/racist/???phobic/etc. Reality is far different. Think for a moment what will happen to all those full time jobs that make too much to qualify for medicaid but don't offer health insurance because it is too expensive. When we cut the cost of health insurance by 50% (using HSAs, RNP minute clinics, rider policies for risky behavior like smoking, skydiving, bungee jumping, no longer paying for illegal alien health care, eliminating malpractice lawsuits and insurance and defensive medicine, etc.) and simultaneously they start losing employees to other jobs that do offer health insurance? In order to stay in business, they will have to start offering insurance to be competitive in the job market (99% of employers would love to offer health insurance, but it has gotten way too expensive under Obamacare). Are there still some small number of people who will go bankrupt from health issues? yes, but in the real world, there are always winners and losers, always some people who get hurt. People go bankrupt every day for any number of reasons, that is just part of life and having the freedom to make your own choices in a free country. But everyone in the US is still guaranteed medical care at any ER and bankruptcy laws limit the damage that massive debt can do.
Sorry if my statement went over your head. I am not advocating we invade them tomorrow, however Canada and parts of western Europe do have some serious problems. Thought crimes are fascist and are one of the key ingredients that evil dictatorships need to get off the ground. Those countries are literally one bad elected leader away from a new Nazi Germany...
Pretty sure those mandates were an Obama era left wing wet dream that were DOA the day Trump took office, but I could be wrong. If they are still flopping around he needs to put them out of their misery ASAP.
Everyone is an individual and their personal choices should be respected by everyone else. The fact that the fascist progressive left at Google wants to shoehorn more women into STEM jobs "just because" is bullshit and a blatant FU to all of the women who chose to put their children and family first and chose to stay at home while their husbands try to find a job being held hostage by gender politics.
Caucasian committed murder rates is right in line with other european countries https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t...
Whites killed ~2700, making the white murder rate ~1 in 100,000 which is actually below several western European countries, including France.
The sad truth no one wants to talk about is we have a violent sub culture within a small minority in the US committing a lot of murders and it is not the Asians or the Hispanics. It has nothing to do with guns, it has everything to do with culture.
This kind of behavior flows down from the C- level and the board of directors, and yes, in the end the shareholders should take it in the pants, as they are responsible for holding the company accountable. They are the owners after all.
Nice, but being obscene or emotional doesn't validate your position or make you right, it only re-enforces my opinion that lefties by and large are emotional idiots who believe whatever pile of crap the alt left media and the Democrats feed them regardless of reality.
True, in other countries they just die because they can't get the procedure because it is too expensive. Also, the rest of the world does not pay full price (AKA their fair share) in the first place. The US absorbs the vast majority of the development cost of new drugs, procedures and devices. The rest of the world waits for the generics which don't incur all of the R&D necessary to make it happen in the first place...
Poor/disinterested parenting and lack of discipline (first parental, later self discipline) is what makes people/society shitty/depressed/immature/etc.
Civil Forfeture has calmed down quite a bit. Many sates have outlawed it entirely unless there is a conviction of a crime first.
Law enforcement in the real world is not perfect, you cannot point to a few criminals in the police force and extrapolate systemic problems, especially with nearly 1,000,000 LE officers in the US. In the US we have internal affairs within police departments with the specific charter to hold criminal police officers to account. I would argue that the US is in the top 10 countries in the world for honest law enforcement. Name the country and you can find stories about criminal law enforcement (unless they are fascist countries that regulate the news).
Hate speech is defined by who exactly? (Hint: the bureaucracy and/or the majority). So the rights of the minority get trampled in Canada (and all Canadians just hope they never end up in the minority, I guess). When the government decides that some of your particular views fall into the hate speech category, you will realize that you don't have free speech in Canada anymore. In the US, we guarantee all speech is free (outside of inciting immediate violence and a few other minor exceptions for immediate safety). We in the US do not guarantee a platform for your speech, or that there will be no societal consequences for your speech, but you are free to speak your mind without fear that the Gestapo will break down your door and drag you away for some view that you hold...
In the US, as long as you are a productive member of society, you get health insurance through your job and access to the best health care on the planet (which is why there are plenty of affluent Canadians who visit the US for heart surgery/etc.) Most medications are developed in the US, as are most medical procedures and medical equipment.
If you are poor in the US, you get access to Meidcaid, which is socialized medicine (the same thing you have in Canada). The poor also have free clinics available, and no one can be turned away from any hospital ER in the country. But you can keep telling yourself you have better healthcare if it lets you sleep at night.
The proper recompense on appeal is an award of 100% the value of the companies that perpetrated this shit to the victim, plus a criminal probe/investigation of the personal finances/relationships of the judge that signed off on the original warrant, as well as the government officials that executed it. The only way to deal with this kind of Gestapo tactic is brutal consequences. Just like the Gawker case in the US, it is high time that these companies grossly violating the laws and basic human rights be liquefied or handed over to their victims. Stockholders and CEOs will pay a lot closer attention and be a lot less aggressive if they know they can lose it all with this kind of shit.
Just a matter of time before the US has to invade Canada and liberate them from their "dictatorship of virtue" to restore basic human rights... Assuming the US can survive a similar onslaught by the fascist progressives.
This is an interesting read, though it is only about public roads, but clearly, in the public sector, there are a lot of costs that the private sector would not tolerate.
http://www.nj.com/traffic/inde...
Pretty sure that spear phishing is a crime, regardless of your success level or whether you self style yourself as a prankster or not. The only way to legally do what was done is to immediately reply back to the targeted official/business/government agency and inform them that you were not who you said you were and that they need to improve their IT security training/systems. This guy may very well wind up extradited and charged with a crime since he went to CNN with the intention of damaging the organization that he attacked which by definition makes his spear phishing a crime.
An add blocker designed by an advertising company... Does anyone else see the problem here?
Though on the one hand I don't actually want to block every ad, especially on sites I actually get use out of, but OTOH, ads have become an assault these days, with pop overs, pop unders, autoplayed videos with cranked up sound, viruses, malware, etc. Just the other day on a site that I use regularly, a so called acceptable ad (based on ABP settings, yes I know I know) tried to serve me a zeus trjoan... The only way to really bring advertising under control is if the big advertisers like Google band together and form a non-profit that must review all ads before they are trusted, and ads must be reviewed for placement, content, viruses, and acceptable practices and then use a certificate process to track those ads and screen out any ad that doesn't have a valid certificate. Any ad company that tries to circumvent the ad standards gets banned from online advertising for 12 months (and thus goes out of business).
I know the complaint will be that kind of human review will add cost. Well tough shit, the ad industry created this problem by taking advantage and treating potential customers like shit, so they get to pay to fix it.
Ok, since you seem genuinely interested, here is my recollection:
the Democrats realized when Bill Clinton got elected in 1992 (and they held the house and senate for two years) that the general public was comfortable with guns, and inherently understood that in the vast majority of cases, guns are used defensively by the 60,000,000 legal gun owners in the US. The Democratic party was focused on as one of their top goals, to confiscate all guns. They started in 1992 by shifting funding within the CDC to research "gun injury and deaths" to support this cause. They disingenuously did not use the FBI, because the statistics the FBI would have collected would have included the legal aspects of gun use, whereas the CDC was tasked with looking solely at the risks of "death" which might be a good thing (if a felon is killed to protect innocents) while ignoring any mitigating circumstances, legality or life saved.
The 1993 report that the CDC came out with was flagrantly anti gun, and with extremely poor methodology (they stated among other things that your risk of dying from a gun increased in homes that had a gun, which clearly makes sense, because a gun is typically the most effective killing tool in the home), but did not differentiate between criminals and victims, did not look at even something as simple as checking if lawful inhabitants risk of violent death went up or down with having a gun in the home or not, they basically ignored other means of death in non-gun owning homes, etc... There were many other problems like that with the study, and it was almost universally panned, except on the far progressive left, where it was cited time and again as justification for gun control laws at the federal, state and local levels.
After the the assault weapons ban (which was finally signed into law in 1994, even though those weapons accounted for less than 1% of murders, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... while cheap handguns accounted for something like 25% of murders) the Democrats lost the house and the senate in historic proportions in 1994. (I still remember that the 1994 AWB or Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 contained the language blocking the FBI from collecting and reporting defensive gun use statistics, but I can't find info on that, though it is possible that it was another bill, that was a long time ago.) The Republicans then worked on and passed a bill in 1996 that blocked any further funding of the CDC on gun related deaths and took away the funding that they had pissed away on the "gun deaths" study that they had done in 1993.
I have made dozens of posts on this thread, the links to the other sources are there if you actually care (rather than just trolling). Feel free to read them.
7/11=64% increase in homicide rates (huge jump by any measure, sorry if it wasn't quite 100%, I am not a walking encyclopedia). If it was due to the recession, then why didn't the US see the same over 60% rise in homicide rates? Most argue that the rates fell down because the UK made massive increases to the size of their police force after the spike in homicides.
Government spending already has multiple layers of oversight, but demonstrably government wastes upwards of 50% of it's spending, based on comparison between government and the private sector doing the same job for vastly different cost. Also, anyone who has worked in government or on government contracts can attest first hand to the wasteful spending.
It is just human nature, spending someone else's money with no danger of going bankrupt or getting fired leads to vast over spending.