Well assuming you are a US citizen. . . do you use your passport? Do you use all the treaties that have been signed by the U.S. government to allow you to travel freely in other countries? If you get injured or arrested while in another country are you going to use the US consulate services?
The government is not in the business of charging use fees instead it is like having insurance; you hope to god you won't need the military to come in and get your butt out of Sudan but you are really happy that they do. The US government is a social contract with the people it governs to provide them with what they expect from it: roads, trade agreements, international treaties for travel and business. All of these things cost money and we ALL use them in some sense even if not personally we benefit from them everyday. The only people would may have ANY reasonable excuse for not wanting to pay taxes are those living on their own land, growing their own food, and not using ANYTHING outside that, and even then they are using the resources of the land which they will not always own so they are in fact relying on the government to ensure that such land is available.
While the language may not be as precise as you may like it does convey what the chip esential problems are: it transmits its data when querried and does not require any other power source. While the chip may not be as prone to hacking or forgery problems as real RFID chips it will still be able to be hacked and forged, but more worrying, to me at least, is that it will contain information about me and transmit that info when asked WITHOUT my consent.
Not yet, just a physicist. Most people don't realize that you get more radiation for a single flight than is allowed by a low level radiation worker for an entire year. Thus if you take your docimeter on a flight you must return it immediately and get a new one so you will get reasonable reading.
So what happens to the RFID when it goes through a dozen X-Ray scans? How about just sitting in my pocket at 35k ft? Have these chips been tested to show that they will continue to work after normal wear of a passport? My passport certainly takes a beating everytime I travel: x-rays, increased radiation due to high elevation, bending, humidity, etc. I doubt all these things have been tested for.
I really don't want to have to wait and hour and miss my flight as the prove that I am who my passport says I am just because some stupid chip failed.
Almost every one of the top 10 has one thing in common, if there is an even crappier aspect of the job it is being done by the grad student on the project!
I just want recognition for something! I will have to be happy with getting my Phd if I can't get on the crappiest job list.
Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that we now have to submit papers that "might" be considered important for national security. Thus if the government already knows about the work being done in sensitive areas they can contact the researchers directly before they apply for patents.
Your logic doesn't make any sense. No one has tested ANY modern hard drive in a situation as is being discussed for anywhere near 57 years. What they do is almost exactly what the parent posted. Put 1000 drives running in a room and then get the failure rate. So while one might hope that the drives will last that long what is actually measured is the failure rate then the average failure time is found from this thus the parent poster had it right.
I think I have heard this type of argument before. . . OH YEAH that was it when slave owners told their slaves that they were better off being slaves in the US than being godless in Africa. My point is that one should not have to be "glad" that they are getting a cost of living increase in pay. Convincing people that they should be happy in a bad situation isn't doing anyone any good. In the long run you are correct that people will have to look for different jobs to get the money they need just to maintain their standard of living which will hurt the employer. Similarly switching jobs like this plays havic with many retirment plans which will hurt the employee in the long run. Just because it is the way it is doesn't mean anyone should be happy about it.
Is this just a word riddle? So the answer could be: They are not explicitly locked BACK into their rooms after they are asked the question so they can just count to make sure all the members are back?
Try getting to NASA's research center without going through Santa Clara. Having increased traffic on roads costs money to maintain. Money they usually get from property tax.
As well how do you think NASA deals with sewage, water, garbage, etc? They have a contract with the nearest municipality to: attach to their water system, their sewage system, and probably dump on their dump. All of these things will be used to a much greater extent than was ever envisioned with just NASA on the property.
Just because you don't see the costs clearly doesn't mean they aren't there.
Are you implying that the current state of the trade deficit is somehow good? Sure some small ammount of money for each article we ship to china comes back to the US but when China ships the finished product back to the US to be sold they are taking a much larger chunk of change back to China than we got.
People will die. The number who die in terrorist acts are extraordinarly small when compared to other high risk things most people in industrialized nations do everyday, like driving 2000 lbs or steal at 60 mph down a freeway within feet of other people in similar situations. My point is that stoping every person who "looks suspicious" is a subjective thing and always will be, subjectivity leads to profiling so you don't harrass the rich guy who is going to sue the station. The risks associated with not harassing everyone who "looks suspicous" are very small, why should everyone have to pay with their privacy, time, and freedom to theoretically reduce that risk?
Isn't that what the parent said? But the problem with this is that reverse engineering has been a keystone of computer development since it's dawn. By making it possible for an EULA, a contract that cannot be changed or discussed by one of the parties, to make a basic exception to the DMCA no longer available.
To see how stupid this is just look what would happen now if someone creates the latest and greatest secure document format and distributes the program by which you make and read these documents as a binary with a EULA that says reverse engineering is not allowed. This would make it illegal to attempt to make a viewer for another OS or a different view if the one provided did not meet your needs. Seems ludicous to me.
So you want us to trust Fox News that it has got BOTH the facts and the context straight? I can't look at the NYT articles because they were not linked to, quoted, or otherwise referenced in the article you linked to, but it is possible that the NYT would be against flood control spending in general but not discuss New Orleans in particular. This might makes sense if you were talking about flood control to stop flooding in places like Marin County in California which does not need federal dollars to fix its problems with flooding, or any number of projects that are not related to flooding inhabitade areas.
Now to address your last statement: So you are saying that changing one's mind after getting new evidence is arguing both sides? Some people are able to admit they are wrong, perhaps that is what happend here. Regardless none of this can be checked because the Fox News article you linked to does not quote or reference its sources. Not to mention the fact that the Fox Article clearly states that it was an editorial. There are many editors at the NYT and I am sure they have had differing opinions over the years. Perhaps we don't all need to jump on the "bash the other side!" bandwagon.
Difference: Blackjack, at least in most countrys, is a regulated form of gambling. If the rules for gambling are broken then it becomes a crime. Playing Lineage II is not gambling, and is in fact not regulated.
Who is moding this interesting? Come on people, as someone in replied already THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT. You can go about 12 miles before the curvature of the earth stops you from having line of sight. "Lasers", as you say, using radio frequencies are traditionally called Masers but operate at higher frequencies than radio(Microwave), it is very difficult if not impossible to create a radio frequency coherent source since the size of the emitting region needs to be rather large and completly uniform on a very small scale.
I would agree with your idea but there is one major problem: Joe Schmoe cannot afford to pay anywhere near the amount of penilty that would be required to have a chilling effect on large corporations. Thus we would end up with a system where once a large corporation brought up a suit against a Joe Schmoe, Schmoe would be forced to settle.
The penilty would have to be proportional to total income, before taxes, costs, etc.. Then it might be fair.
I don't know what I disagree with more: your statement that a company has no prerogative to choose to do business only with those that they don't find offensive or your complete lack of respect for the process that lets shareholders have a say in how their company is run.
Since we are talking about corporations here, which in the US have most of the rights of a human, I do not see why they should not have to abide by the same laws that I do. I cannot go and support the mafia trying to strong arm local businesses into doing as they like. Why should a corporation not be held to these same standards? While China does not have the same record as the mafia in the eye of our government it is no shining light of personal liberty.
Furthermore if the shareholder want their company to behave in a certain manner even if that is not the most profitable they have every right to do so. From the article it appears that the group of share holders is going about their request in the correct way and I don't see any reason why they should not be allowed to discuss it at the meeting, there the other share holders can vote and choose to do as they please. Your atitude ignores the rights of the shareholders that you dissagree with.
Yes we do. We are constantly having to change how we think to agree with the current blatant prejudices that other people try and attribute to our(the most populous) State.
The people of California don't, Think Different (TM), we just have a system that lets, as another poster put it, any nut job with a few bucks and some signatures put things on our ballot. While that poster obviously thought that people were not capabale of ruling themselves in any reasonable way, I would suggest that California's system allows for a more pure form of democracy within our state. But again we don't think different we just try a lot of what the people in our state thought of. Give it a try, who knows the people who are affected most by the laws just might have an idea about what laws they want and don't want.
The ruling deals with state sales taxes, NOT local taxes. Thus no matter where you live in Texas you all pay the same ammount of sales tax to the state, the other taxes that you list are for local governments, counties, cities, whatever. Thus there are only really 50 different possible taxes and it is very easy to determine what tax should be paid for the given item.
All of this is just a load of BS though since WHATEVER you buy you are supposed to pay the state taxes on; i.e. if I buy something from Border's, reguardless of their physical location I am supposed to pay taxes on that for my state. All of these laws are just so that companies can help people NOT pay taxes they should be paying.
The point of the article is that there is change occuring due to global warming. The exact size of the problem is irrelevent as is whether or not some lakes are getting bigger. The big news here is that permefrost areas are unfreezing which is having an effect on the landscape of the artic.
How is this "Insightful?" The point of the post is to provide a COMPLETELY anonymous method of checking out books from a library. So, yes wanting privacy these days means that you are a suspect, but if they don't know who you are then what does it matter? The librarians are not going to keep track of you by sight.
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Well assuming you are a US citizen. . . do you use your passport? Do you use all the treaties that have been signed by the U.S. government to allow you to travel freely in other countries? If you get injured or arrested while in another country are you going to use the US consulate services?
The government is not in the business of charging use fees instead it is like having insurance; you hope to god you won't need the military to come in and get your butt out of Sudan but you are really happy that they do. The US government is a social contract with the people it governs to provide them with what they expect from it: roads, trade agreements, international treaties for travel and business. All of these things cost money and we ALL use them in some sense even if not personally we benefit from them everyday. The only people would may have ANY reasonable excuse for not wanting to pay taxes are those living on their own land, growing their own food, and not using ANYTHING outside that, and even then they are using the resources of the land which they will not always own so they are in fact relying on the government to ensure that such land is available.
While the language may not be as precise as you may like it does convey what the chip esential problems are: it transmits its data when querried and does not require any other power source. While the chip may not be as prone to hacking or forgery problems as real RFID chips it will still be able to be hacked and forged, but more worrying, to me at least, is that it will contain information about me and transmit that info when asked WITHOUT my consent.
Not yet, just a physicist. Most people don't realize that you get more radiation for a single flight than is allowed by a low level radiation worker for an entire year. Thus if you take your docimeter on a flight you must return it immediately and get a new one so you will get reasonable reading.
So what happens to the RFID when it goes through a dozen X-Ray scans? How about just sitting in my pocket at 35k ft? Have these chips been tested to show that they will continue to work after normal wear of a passport? My passport certainly takes a beating everytime I travel: x-rays, increased radiation due to high elevation, bending, humidity, etc. I doubt all these things have been tested for.
I really don't want to have to wait and hour and miss my flight as the prove that I am who my passport says I am just because some stupid chip failed.
Almost every one of the top 10 has one thing in common, if there is an even crappier aspect of the job it is being done by the grad student on the project!
I just want recognition for something! I will have to be happy with getting my Phd if I can't get on the crappiest job list.
Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that we now have to submit papers that "might" be considered important for national security. Thus if the government already knows about the work being done in sensitive areas they can contact the researchers directly before they apply for patents.
Your logic doesn't make any sense. No one has tested ANY modern hard drive in a situation as is being discussed for anywhere near 57 years. What they do is almost exactly what the parent posted. Put 1000 drives running in a room and then get the failure rate. So while one might hope that the drives will last that long what is actually measured is the failure rate then the average failure time is found from this thus the parent poster had it right.
I think I have heard this type of argument before. . . OH YEAH that was it when slave owners told their slaves that they were better off being slaves in the US than being godless in Africa. My point is that one should not have to be "glad" that they are getting a cost of living increase in pay. Convincing people that they should be happy in a bad situation isn't doing anyone any good. In the long run you are correct that people will have to look for different jobs to get the money they need just to maintain their standard of living which will hurt the employer. Similarly switching jobs like this plays havic with many retirment plans which will hurt the employee in the long run. Just because it is the way it is doesn't mean anyone should be happy about it.
Is this just a word riddle? So the answer could be: They are not explicitly locked BACK into their rooms after they are asked the question so they can just count to make sure all the members are back?
Try getting to NASA's research center without going through Santa Clara. Having increased traffic on roads costs money to maintain. Money they usually get from property tax.
As well how do you think NASA deals with sewage, water, garbage, etc? They have a contract with the nearest municipality to: attach to their water system, their sewage system, and probably dump on their dump. All of these things will be used to a much greater extent than was ever envisioned with just NASA on the property.
Just because you don't see the costs clearly doesn't mean they aren't there.
Are you implying that the current state of the trade deficit is somehow good? Sure some small ammount of money for each article we ship to china comes back to the US but when China ships the finished product back to the US to be sold they are taking a much larger chunk of change back to China than we got.
Yup I can't spell! But hay this is Slashdot and I are a American!
People will die. The number who die in terrorist acts are extraordinarly small when compared to other high risk things most people in industrialized nations do everyday, like driving 2000 lbs or steal at 60 mph down a freeway within feet of other people in similar situations. My point is that stoping every person who "looks suspicious" is a subjective thing and always will be, subjectivity leads to profiling so you don't harrass the rich guy who is going to sue the station. The risks associated with not harassing everyone who "looks suspicous" are very small, why should everyone have to pay with their privacy, time, and freedom to theoretically reduce that risk?
The major problem with having a black hole eat an entire galaxy is conservation of angular momentum.
Isn't that what the parent said? But the problem with this is that reverse engineering has been a keystone of computer development since it's dawn. By making it possible for an EULA, a contract that cannot be changed or discussed by one of the parties, to make a basic exception to the DMCA no longer available.
To see how stupid this is just look what would happen now if someone creates the latest and greatest secure document format and distributes the program by which you make and read these documents as a binary with a EULA that says reverse engineering is not allowed. This would make it illegal to attempt to make a viewer for another OS or a different view if the one provided did not meet your needs. Seems ludicous to me.
So you want us to trust Fox News that it has got BOTH the facts and the context straight? I can't look at the NYT articles because they were not linked to, quoted, or otherwise referenced in the article you linked to, but it is possible that the NYT would be against flood control spending in general but not discuss New Orleans in particular. This might makes sense if you were talking about flood control to stop flooding in places like Marin County in California which does not need federal dollars to fix its problems with flooding, or any number of projects that are not related to flooding inhabitade areas.
Now to address your last statement: So you are saying that changing one's mind after getting new evidence is arguing both sides? Some people are able to admit they are wrong, perhaps that is what happend here. Regardless none of this can be checked because the Fox News article you linked to does not quote or reference its sources. Not to mention the fact that the Fox Article clearly states that it was an editorial. There are many editors at the NYT and I am sure they have had differing opinions over the years. Perhaps we don't all need to jump on the "bash the other side!" bandwagon.
Difference: Blackjack, at least in most countrys, is a regulated form of gambling. If the rules for gambling are broken then it becomes a crime. Playing Lineage II is not gambling, and is in fact not regulated.
Who is moding this interesting? Come on people, as someone in replied already THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT. You can go about 12 miles before the curvature of the earth stops you from having line of sight. "Lasers", as you say, using radio frequencies are traditionally called Masers but operate at higher frequencies than radio(Microwave), it is very difficult if not impossible to create a radio frequency coherent source since the size of the emitting region needs to be rather large and completly uniform on a very small scale.
I would agree with your idea but there is one major problem: Joe Schmoe cannot afford to pay anywhere near the amount of penilty that would be required to have a chilling effect on large corporations. Thus we would end up with a system where once a large corporation brought up a suit against a Joe Schmoe, Schmoe would be forced to settle.
The penilty would have to be proportional to total income, before taxes, costs, etc.. Then it might be fair.
But that is just me.
I don't know what I disagree with more: your statement that a company has no prerogative to choose to do business only with those that they don't find offensive or your complete lack of respect for the process that lets shareholders have a say in how their company is run.
Since we are talking about corporations here, which in the US have most of the rights of a human, I do not see why they should not have to abide by the same laws that I do. I cannot go and support the mafia trying to strong arm local businesses into doing as they like. Why should a corporation not be held to these same standards? While China does not have the same record as the mafia in the eye of our government it is no shining light of personal liberty.
Furthermore if the shareholder want their company to behave in a certain manner even if that is not the most profitable they have every right to do so. From the article it appears that the group of share holders is going about their request in the correct way and I don't see any reason why they should not be allowed to discuss it at the meeting, there the other share holders can vote and choose to do as they please. Your atitude ignores the rights of the shareholders that you dissagree with.
So you are suggesting we should only worry about problems when the are problems? Not before they become a problem?
Yes we do. We are constantly having to change how we think to agree with the current blatant prejudices that other people try and attribute to our(the most populous) State.
The people of California don't, Think Different (TM), we just have a system that lets, as another poster put it, any nut job with a few bucks and some signatures put things on our ballot. While that poster obviously thought that people were not capabale of ruling themselves in any reasonable way, I would suggest that California's system allows for a more pure form of democracy within our state. But again we don't think different we just try a lot of what the people in our state thought of. Give it a try, who knows the people who are affected most by the laws just might have an idea about what laws they want and don't want.
The ruling deals with state sales taxes, NOT local taxes. Thus no matter where you live in Texas you all pay the same ammount of sales tax to the state, the other taxes that you list are for local governments, counties, cities, whatever. Thus there are only really 50 different possible taxes and it is very easy to determine what tax should be paid for the given item.
All of this is just a load of BS though since WHATEVER you buy you are supposed to pay the state taxes on; i.e. if I buy something from Border's, reguardless of their physical location I am supposed to pay taxes on that for my state. All of these laws are just so that companies can help people NOT pay taxes they should be paying.
The point of the article is that there is change occuring due to global warming. The exact size of the problem is irrelevent as is whether or not some lakes are getting bigger. The big news here is that permefrost areas are unfreezing which is having an effect on the landscape of the artic.
How is this "Insightful?" The point of the post is to provide a COMPLETELY anonymous method of checking out books from a library. So, yes wanting privacy these days means that you are a suspect, but if they don't know who you are then what does it matter? The librarians are not going to keep track of you by sight.