> Jacob needs to fork the project and fix it, not make excuses.
Agree. But do= these actions not set TOR on the path for that course of action? His links were identified and segregated out of the system and now he is out of the management. Yeah... he is still involved but likely will be watched now. It would be best to throw him out completely.
Its the same as Ingress the only other game out there based on location data. Great tool for getting people to move around and explore. But no real point eyond bragging rights over stats.
So what you are saying is that it is nothing more than a device to gain access to your private data at google. And because all of that data is now records owned by a third party, they are free to legally sell it to the government.
Well yeah. Because he is actually consistent on his positions. What he is saying today is the same thing he has been saying for 40 years. What politician does that? Could it be an honest one? Considering that Bernie Sanders does not fit into any of the patterns that typical politicians do (flip-flopping positions with the wind, lots of corporate donation dollars, questionable positions) i do actually see him as being different than all the other people who spent their lives being professional politicians.
I use it to find diesel as that is what my vehicles take and I am not always in my normal area. That being said... I just unloaded the app. Fuck that company. Its one thing if they said they would track if do not track was set. But to say fuck you to your customers and track anyway? FUCK YOU GAS BUDDY!
You talk like lack of care about copyright in china is a choice about breaking international laws rather than an attitude that has been ingrained in their culture for thousands of years. Copyright protection is a modern invention.
There are alternatives out there. My company's direct competitor is SAP. We are an off the rack solution that offers inventory control, payroll tracking, inventory control and more. We have fortune 500 companies using our software and are implemented worldwide. BUT... we are industry specific. If you havent worked in our industry or your IT person works with someone in our industry, you would never hear about us.
I worked as a contractor for a year on a military project. In short time I was more knowledgeable than the supervisors and it got to the point where I could not get my job done because I was helping other people, and when I tried to help the people actually assigned to me, I would take too long for managements' metrics. Why? Because I actually helped the people on the other end of the phone. It didnt matter if it was a general or high ranking commander on the other line, I had to finish the call in 15 minutes or less or I was red flagged on the call. I asked them to move me up to supervisor so that I could spend my time training other people to help but it turns out, the whole goal of the operation was not to actually provide good technical support to our servicemembers. The goal of the operation was to meet metrics that were impossible if you actually did your job. To move up to supervisor you had to meet your metrics and the only way to do that was to get people off the phone as quickly as possible, even if their issue was not resolved.
Fast forward a bit and I posted my resume on Craigslist. A month later I got a call on a Tuesday for an interview that was then scheduled for the next day. Wednesday afternoon I got called back for a 2nd interview which was then scheduled for Thursday. Friday morning I got a call saying I was hired and asking when I could start. I told them on Monday I could start. I walked into my old job 4 hours late( when I woke up, not when they wanted me to be there), logged into my computer, typed up a letter of resignation, cleaned out my desk, walked over to the nearest manager (mine was out) told them I quit, gave them my ID badge and asked for an escort out of the office. Told them to call me if there are any questions.
Im still at the new job 7 years later, got promotion after promotion and now travel the world as a consultant for the company.
Burning that bridge was the best thing I could have ever done.
Part of the safety of aviation is that certain parts have a known lifetime and there are programs in place to make sure that those parts are replaced before they become a problem. Planes are not like cars. The stresses of take offs and landings are way more significant than that of just driving a car around on the road. Are people ready for the cost of servicing their cars not every X number of miles but every X number of hours? And im not talking oil change here, Im talking about service on the level of removing body panels and checking for cracks in the frame.
If something breaks on the road you can coast over to the shoulder. If something breaks while you are flying, you literally drop out of the sky which is a one way trip to a great ball of fire.
Hmm, thats lame. I put in paragraphs but when it submitted it stripped out all of the spacing.
Cliff notes:
1. I do this professionally as a software trainer and implementation manager.
2. Key thing is to make the change relevant to their lives.
3. Understand what the existing system is and what their issues with that system are.
4. Explain the new system and how that relates to what they did in the old system.
5. Explain how the issues with old system are taken care of in the new system. Not just that they are fixed but at what point in the process will those issues be resolved.
6. Make new system relevant to their work life, how will it improve things for them.
7. Once they understand that, they will be significantly less resistant to changing to the new system.
8. Profit.
I'm a trainer and implementer for a an accounting application customized for a particular industry. We are a global company with about 1500 active customer installations and a user base of about 25000 with our software managing labor and payroll for about 250,000 workers. Our accounting software is used by many publicly traded corporations, a few of which are on Nasdaq and other world exchanges. That is my background.
What I do is go into a company that has bought our software and teach them how to use it. I also at the same time help them with process improvement, efficiency, and raw material reductions.
I represent change at a company. Many of the people I work with fear me simply because they know everything is about to change. And Im the one that is going to be changing it. Some of the companies I have been working with have been doing things the same way for literally decades. One company I'm working with now setup their current system over 20 years ago. Needless to say I run into a lot of paper and human processes where people are waiting for pieces of paper to come to them or for pieces of information to be communicated to them by another person. Needless to say that there is a lot of paper and a lot of waiting involved. They have only 15 people in their front office and they go through at least a case of paper each week. The 30 people on my floor at my office by comparison go through less than 500 pages of copy paper per week. Different type of work yes, but the point remains that there is a lot of waste going on.
So Im changing everything for these people. Im bringing them a whole new paradigm in how they work. A cliche yes, but an appropriate one. I am taking them out of the stone age and into the information age. Documents are scanned in at the very beginning of their process. That paper is then archived in a filing cabinet and will only be retrieved if needed by an auditor. When needed certain documents will only be reprinted at the very end of the process. Also, instead of having to wait for a person to deliver paperwork to be alerted that they have work to do, once a new order is created an email is sent to 3 different people indicating that they have work to do and what the order number is. They can now login to the system, find the order, and begin working independently of each other and concurrently. Information about the order, instead of being handwritten is now recorded in the system. If you need that information, instead of having to track down the file folder, it is now available in the system. Need a milestone date? Its in the system. Need to know if something shipped? Its in the system. Waiting for parts to come in? Instead of having to run report to see that they are past due, you now get an email alerting you that your parts have not been delivered on time and are past due. When they are delivered, you get an email. The receiving guy, instead of having to deliver parts receiving information to someone who then checks to see if the parts have been allocated to an order yet or should be warehoused, now gets a pop up window telling him which parts are allocated to orders and need to be delivered versus being put away.
So HUGE changes in the way they do business.
How do I get people to go along with the changes Im bringing them? By making the changes, and how I explain them, as relevant to the person as possible. On my first day I learn as much as I can about the customer Im working with. What their processes are, what their people do, how they work, what their issues with the way they work are. I then mimic their existing processes as much as possible so as to not change too much (there is always time for additional changes later on down the road). And then when I deliver the training, Im able to say "Here is how you are doing things now. Which has these issues: A, B, and C So here is what we are doing now. Because we do step 1 followed by step 2, that resolves problem A. Because problem A is resolved, problem B is resolved. That sets us up f
Did any of you see the speech yesterday by McCain? Who does a speech in New Orleans and not have a single black person show up? The differences between McCain and Obama are so stark that people have very little choice in the matter. 3/4s of this country want the war to end. A vote for McCain is a vote to continue the war. He has made that painfully obvious. A vote for McCain is a vote for continuation of the same policies that have made Bush the most unpopular president in the history of the country.
On top of all of that the turnout for this election is going to be massive. Election boards nationwide have reported that turnout for just the primaries this year have exceeded turnout for general elections past. What is energizing people to come out like that? Probably the same feelings that makes Bush unpopular. Independent voters are breaking hard to the left for Obama.
And in reality, if you want the best indicator that people are going to vote a Democrat president in, look at the Republican house and senate seats that have been lost already to Democrats this year. Across the country seats held for decades by Republicans are being won by Democrats or are being polled as likely Democrat pickups already. There is one house race I know of in the south that voted 70% for Bush in 2004, it is that Republican of a district. Yet today, it is polling 65% in favor of the Democrat candidate. The turnarounds nationwide are, in some cases, that big.
There is no way this country is about to continue the policies of George W Bush with a vote for McCain.
You would think but I have walked across the border with my laptop dozens of times and have only been asked to turn it on a handful of times when walking across the border. Why do I bring my laptop? Because I still get a data connection on both Sprint and ATTs network while sitting in a titty bar, drinking $2 beers, and having a dancer feel me up for dollars in between writing lines of code. If I need a quick break I can go to the back room where for $20 I get a blowjob. You can't get that kind of service in the United States at that price.
Despite the advantages I have of crossing the border with my laptop, if they started copying my data off of it or doing more than a cursory check I would begin keeping my files on an encrypted thumbdrive and keep it in my pocket. They might ask about the laptop, but I have never been asked about the 4 gigs in my pocket even when getting off an airplane.
Thank you Sonic. It would be misinformed. I still see a problem with that though as it would indicate that in some states the woman would have a right to privacy and in some she wouldn't. Thats not right. I do agree 100% with a return to state's rights, but Roe Vs Wade was decided correctly. Just like courtrooms should not have the Ten Commandments in them as a matter of 1st ammendment protections nationwide, a woman's right to privacy regarding what she does with her body falls under the 4th ammendment nationwide. It is not a state's rights issue, it is a Constitutional issue.
And that is the one big problem I have with Ron Paul. The huge gigantic glaring hypocrisy when he calls for a restoration of privacy rights in this country under the 4th ammendment and yet still wants to prevent women from having an abortion. Sorry, if he is as principled as he likes to hang himself out as he would be for abortions as well. But no, he still wants the government to dictate what the woman can do with her own body. How you can be against the drug war and for abortion is beyond me as they are one in the same: government regulation of what you do with your body in the privacy of your own home or in the doctor's office.
Ron Paul is a hippocrite. Yes not nearly as big as some other politicians, but a hippocrite none the less. If Paul fixed this one single thing I believe that he would win this election as A LOT of people on the left cite his abortion stance, and the hippocrisy that comes with it, as the main reason they will not support him.
Hehe, I am pretty much a hippy. I shop at a vegan store, I wear hemp clothing, I recycle. Many of my friends are hippies. But when one of my friends brought up one of these issues, I laughed at him to his face. I explained to him that when these nuclear reactors with problems were designed... the computers they had then had less computing power than a $300 computer from Wal-Mart does today. My friends quickly got the point.
The problem I see with nuclear power today is what to do with the spent fuel. Fusion obviously solves those problems, but is not yet available. Yucca Mountain or space solves these problems but obviously each has its own flaws. Clearly we need to get off of fossil fuels, but at the same time, we will not leave fossil fuels until the cost of fossil fuels is greater than that of the alternatives. Simple as that.
I am rarely for taxes, but a carbon tax is necessary. Why might your tax hating self ask... because carbon based fuels are clearly detrimental to the world and our environment. The tax on them is used to off-set the damage. In many cases, a carbon tax will result in expanded use of wind and solar generation which is largely clean.
Another big thing is Hemp. I think hemp legalization in this country will have a huge effect. What is its possibility as a biofuel? Lubricant? Cloth? Food source? My understanding is the possibilities are excellent for all of those. The upside? Hemp will grow nearly anywhere and with little care. It is literally a weed. Think of all the weeds that grow in your garden without your green thumb. Corn for ethanol on the other hand requires constant care and massive quantities of water. It also needs fertile soil. Hemp in my opinion will probably be the savior of our society once society pulls its collective head out of its ass. It grows everywhere, requires little care, and is amazingly versatile.
What happens when Google's motto "Do no evil" conflicts with their legal OBLIGATION to their shareholders to do everything in their power to increase shareholder value?
There are many many people, myself being one of them, that would buy an Apple computer IF they ran the software they needed. That software is normally only available for Windows. I now can buy a mac and still use my Windows software that I NEED. My next computer will be a Mac, and I am sure there are many many people out there just like me.
So how long is it before our wonderful news media puts two and two together and releases a piece of "news" that the shooter in the Vermont school shooting today, played Pac Man and it made him want to kill?
What a remarkable commentary on the sad state of affairs in the "Land of the Free" that our government makes a press release regarding patches to our computers and the first thing we think of is that the patch is associated with monitoring us somehow. For the record, I had the exact same thought as the OP and agree 100% with what he said.
Yeah, right bloody likely. That is the most asinine thing I have ever heard. Hey, if they want to logon despite the DoD warning on my laptop saying it is a criminal offense to access the laptop without authorization, hey no problem. Until then, they can go fark themselves.
Heh, how about the cops that serve a warrant on the wrong house, and don't announce themselves? And then when the poor resident inside kills the first two people in the door, you charge him with murder even though he shot them INSIDE his house and he had NO WAY of knowing they were cops and had done NOTHING to expect cops at his door? Yeah, First Class asshattery right there.
My personal experience, watching an Los Angeles County Sheriffs' Dept perjure himself in court over a speeding ticket with something I saw with my own eyes. I asked him directly, in court, about what he did. And he lied.
In Irvine, Ca with friends driving in a newer S500. 2 cops come up to our car and accused my friend of stealing the car. When he laughed at them they pulled their guns and pulled everybody out of the car. Too bad for the cops, the car was registered to my friend. We are all Mexican. The problem... there were no Mercedes Benz's stolen in Irvine that night, despite what the cops said. ie. There was no reason to pull us over.
My cousin was driving through Mission Viejo on his motorcycle one night and was passing a car when a dog ran out and he hit it causing him to lose control of his bike. He went down and the lady in the car he was passing circled around and asked him if he was all right. He verbally responded that he was fine except that his foot was impaled on the foot rest. She went to a payphone and called 911 and hung around till the cops came. No ambulance, just cops. Nobody heard from him for a week until he turned up as a John Doe at UCI, comatose with no wallet. We know he had his wallet on him because the reason he was in Mission Viejo was to pick up his wallet from his friend's house. A request for the police report got the 1st of 9 pages. The last 8 pages cannot be found. The doctor at UCI told my aunt that the injury he had could only be cause by upward blunt trauma to the nose and normally would cause INSTANT paralysis. Cops say he hit his face on the handlebars. Of course, the ONLY damage to his face is to his nose. That also conflicts with the Dr saying the injury causes instant paralysis, and a witness saying she spoke with my cousing immediately after the crash.
Those are the best examples of shit cops I have had to deal with in my life. I have also had to deal with cops many times throughout my life for parties and what not. I have met some really nice cops that were respectul. I have also met some total dickwads. Rarely is it the older cops that are the dickwads, its always the younger cops.
NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO KILL YOU. But that is how they treat people.
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lMAO. Found the troll.
> Jacob needs to fork the project and fix it, not make excuses. Agree. But do= these actions not set TOR on the path for that course of action? His links were identified and segregated out of the system and now he is out of the management. Yeah... he is still involved but likely will be watched now. It would be best to throw him out completely.
Its the same as Ingress the only other game out there based on location data. Great tool for getting people to move around and explore. But no real point eyond bragging rights over stats.
So what you are saying is that it is nothing more than a device to gain access to your private data at google. And because all of that data is now records owned by a third party, they are free to legally sell it to the government.
Yeah. Because unilaterally ordering the dropping of a nuclear bomb is nothing.
Well yeah. Because he is actually consistent on his positions. What he is saying today is the same thing he has been saying for 40 years. What politician does that? Could it be an honest one? Considering that Bernie Sanders does not fit into any of the patterns that typical politicians do (flip-flopping positions with the wind, lots of corporate donation dollars, questionable positions) i do actually see him as being different than all the other people who spent their lives being professional politicians.
I use it to find diesel as that is what my vehicles take and I am not always in my normal area. That being said... I just unloaded the app. Fuck that company. Its one thing if they said they would track if do not track was set. But to say fuck you to your customers and track anyway? FUCK YOU GAS BUDDY!
You talk like lack of care about copyright in china is a choice about breaking international laws rather than an attitude that has been ingrained in their culture for thousands of years. Copyright protection is a modern invention.
There are alternatives out there. My company's direct competitor is SAP. We are an off the rack solution that offers inventory control, payroll tracking, inventory control and more. We have fortune 500 companies using our software and are implemented worldwide. BUT... we are industry specific. If you havent worked in our industry or your IT person works with someone in our industry, you would never hear about us.
I worked as a contractor for a year on a military project. In short time I was more knowledgeable than the supervisors and it got to the point where I could not get my job done because I was helping other people, and when I tried to help the people actually assigned to me, I would take too long for managements' metrics. Why? Because I actually helped the people on the other end of the phone. It didnt matter if it was a general or high ranking commander on the other line, I had to finish the call in 15 minutes or less or I was red flagged on the call. I asked them to move me up to supervisor so that I could spend my time training other people to help but it turns out, the whole goal of the operation was not to actually provide good technical support to our servicemembers. The goal of the operation was to meet metrics that were impossible if you actually did your job. To move up to supervisor you had to meet your metrics and the only way to do that was to get people off the phone as quickly as possible, even if their issue was not resolved. Fast forward a bit and I posted my resume on Craigslist. A month later I got a call on a Tuesday for an interview that was then scheduled for the next day. Wednesday afternoon I got called back for a 2nd interview which was then scheduled for Thursday. Friday morning I got a call saying I was hired and asking when I could start. I told them on Monday I could start. I walked into my old job 4 hours late( when I woke up, not when they wanted me to be there), logged into my computer, typed up a letter of resignation, cleaned out my desk, walked over to the nearest manager (mine was out) told them I quit, gave them my ID badge and asked for an escort out of the office. Told them to call me if there are any questions. Im still at the new job 7 years later, got promotion after promotion and now travel the world as a consultant for the company. Burning that bridge was the best thing I could have ever done.
Part of the safety of aviation is that certain parts have a known lifetime and there are programs in place to make sure that those parts are replaced before they become a problem. Planes are not like cars. The stresses of take offs and landings are way more significant than that of just driving a car around on the road. Are people ready for the cost of servicing their cars not every X number of miles but every X number of hours? And im not talking oil change here, Im talking about service on the level of removing body panels and checking for cracks in the frame. If something breaks on the road you can coast over to the shoulder. If something breaks while you are flying, you literally drop out of the sky which is a one way trip to a great ball of fire.
Hmm, thats lame. I put in paragraphs but when it submitted it stripped out all of the spacing. Cliff notes: 1. I do this professionally as a software trainer and implementation manager. 2. Key thing is to make the change relevant to their lives. 3. Understand what the existing system is and what their issues with that system are. 4. Explain the new system and how that relates to what they did in the old system. 5. Explain how the issues with old system are taken care of in the new system. Not just that they are fixed but at what point in the process will those issues be resolved. 6. Make new system relevant to their work life, how will it improve things for them. 7. Once they understand that, they will be significantly less resistant to changing to the new system. 8. Profit.
I'm a trainer and implementer for a an accounting application customized for a particular industry. We are a global company with about 1500 active customer installations and a user base of about 25000 with our software managing labor and payroll for about 250,000 workers. Our accounting software is used by many publicly traded corporations, a few of which are on Nasdaq and other world exchanges. That is my background. What I do is go into a company that has bought our software and teach them how to use it. I also at the same time help them with process improvement, efficiency, and raw material reductions. I represent change at a company. Many of the people I work with fear me simply because they know everything is about to change. And Im the one that is going to be changing it. Some of the companies I have been working with have been doing things the same way for literally decades. One company I'm working with now setup their current system over 20 years ago. Needless to say I run into a lot of paper and human processes where people are waiting for pieces of paper to come to them or for pieces of information to be communicated to them by another person. Needless to say that there is a lot of paper and a lot of waiting involved. They have only 15 people in their front office and they go through at least a case of paper each week. The 30 people on my floor at my office by comparison go through less than 500 pages of copy paper per week. Different type of work yes, but the point remains that there is a lot of waste going on. So Im changing everything for these people. Im bringing them a whole new paradigm in how they work. A cliche yes, but an appropriate one. I am taking them out of the stone age and into the information age. Documents are scanned in at the very beginning of their process. That paper is then archived in a filing cabinet and will only be retrieved if needed by an auditor. When needed certain documents will only be reprinted at the very end of the process. Also, instead of having to wait for a person to deliver paperwork to be alerted that they have work to do, once a new order is created an email is sent to 3 different people indicating that they have work to do and what the order number is. They can now login to the system, find the order, and begin working independently of each other and concurrently. Information about the order, instead of being handwritten is now recorded in the system. If you need that information, instead of having to track down the file folder, it is now available in the system. Need a milestone date? Its in the system. Need to know if something shipped? Its in the system. Waiting for parts to come in? Instead of having to run report to see that they are past due, you now get an email alerting you that your parts have not been delivered on time and are past due. When they are delivered, you get an email. The receiving guy, instead of having to deliver parts receiving information to someone who then checks to see if the parts have been allocated to an order yet or should be warehoused, now gets a pop up window telling him which parts are allocated to orders and need to be delivered versus being put away. So HUGE changes in the way they do business. How do I get people to go along with the changes Im bringing them? By making the changes, and how I explain them, as relevant to the person as possible. On my first day I learn as much as I can about the customer Im working with. What their processes are, what their people do, how they work, what their issues with the way they work are. I then mimic their existing processes as much as possible so as to not change too much (there is always time for additional changes later on down the road). And then when I deliver the training, Im able to say "Here is how you are doing things now. Which has these issues: A, B, and C So here is what we are doing now. Because we do step 1 followed by step 2, that resolves problem A. Because problem A is resolved, problem B is resolved. That sets us up f
Is this a link to the same document that is available on Wikileaks or something different?
Did any of you see the speech yesterday by McCain? Who does a speech in New Orleans and not have a single black person show up? The differences between McCain and Obama are so stark that people have very little choice in the matter. 3/4s of this country want the war to end. A vote for McCain is a vote to continue the war. He has made that painfully obvious. A vote for McCain is a vote for continuation of the same policies that have made Bush the most unpopular president in the history of the country. On top of all of that the turnout for this election is going to be massive. Election boards nationwide have reported that turnout for just the primaries this year have exceeded turnout for general elections past. What is energizing people to come out like that? Probably the same feelings that makes Bush unpopular. Independent voters are breaking hard to the left for Obama. And in reality, if you want the best indicator that people are going to vote a Democrat president in, look at the Republican house and senate seats that have been lost already to Democrats this year. Across the country seats held for decades by Republicans are being won by Democrats or are being polled as likely Democrat pickups already. There is one house race I know of in the south that voted 70% for Bush in 2004, it is that Republican of a district. Yet today, it is polling 65% in favor of the Democrat candidate. The turnarounds nationwide are, in some cases, that big. There is no way this country is about to continue the policies of George W Bush with a vote for McCain.
You would think but I have walked across the border with my laptop dozens of times and have only been asked to turn it on a handful of times when walking across the border. Why do I bring my laptop? Because I still get a data connection on both Sprint and ATTs network while sitting in a titty bar, drinking $2 beers, and having a dancer feel me up for dollars in between writing lines of code. If I need a quick break I can go to the back room where for $20 I get a blowjob. You can't get that kind of service in the United States at that price. Despite the advantages I have of crossing the border with my laptop, if they started copying my data off of it or doing more than a cursory check I would begin keeping my files on an encrypted thumbdrive and keep it in my pocket. They might ask about the laptop, but I have never been asked about the 4 gigs in my pocket even when getting off an airplane.
Thank you Sonic. It would be misinformed. I still see a problem with that though as it would indicate that in some states the woman would have a right to privacy and in some she wouldn't. Thats not right. I do agree 100% with a return to state's rights, but Roe Vs Wade was decided correctly. Just like courtrooms should not have the Ten Commandments in them as a matter of 1st ammendment protections nationwide, a woman's right to privacy regarding what she does with her body falls under the 4th ammendment nationwide. It is not a state's rights issue, it is a Constitutional issue.
And that is the one big problem I have with Ron Paul. The huge gigantic glaring hypocrisy when he calls for a restoration of privacy rights in this country under the 4th ammendment and yet still wants to prevent women from having an abortion. Sorry, if he is as principled as he likes to hang himself out as he would be for abortions as well. But no, he still wants the government to dictate what the woman can do with her own body. How you can be against the drug war and for abortion is beyond me as they are one in the same: government regulation of what you do with your body in the privacy of your own home or in the doctor's office.
Ron Paul is a hippocrite. Yes not nearly as big as some other politicians, but a hippocrite none the less. If Paul fixed this one single thing I believe that he would win this election as A LOT of people on the left cite his abortion stance, and the hippocrisy that comes with it, as the main reason they will not support him.
Hehe, I am pretty much a hippy. I shop at a vegan store, I wear hemp clothing, I recycle. Many of my friends are hippies. But when one of my friends brought up one of these issues, I laughed at him to his face. I explained to him that when these nuclear reactors with problems were designed... the computers they had then had less computing power than a $300 computer from Wal-Mart does today. My friends quickly got the point.
/rant off
The problem I see with nuclear power today is what to do with the spent fuel. Fusion obviously solves those problems, but is not yet available. Yucca Mountain or space solves these problems but obviously each has its own flaws. Clearly we need to get off of fossil fuels, but at the same time, we will not leave fossil fuels until the cost of fossil fuels is greater than that of the alternatives. Simple as that.
I am rarely for taxes, but a carbon tax is necessary. Why might your tax hating self ask... because carbon based fuels are clearly detrimental to the world and our environment. The tax on them is used to off-set the damage. In many cases, a carbon tax will result in expanded use of wind and solar generation which is largely clean.
Another big thing is Hemp. I think hemp legalization in this country will have a huge effect. What is its possibility as a biofuel? Lubricant? Cloth? Food source?
My understanding is the possibilities are excellent for all of those. The upside? Hemp will grow nearly anywhere and with little care. It is literally a weed. Think of all the weeds that grow in your garden without your green thumb. Corn for ethanol on the other hand requires constant care and massive quantities of water. It also needs fertile soil. Hemp in my opinion will probably be the savior of our society once society pulls its collective head out of its ass. It grows everywhere, requires little care, and is amazingly versatile.
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What happens when Google's motto "Do no evil" conflicts with their legal OBLIGATION to their shareholders to do everything in their power to increase shareholder value?
You get this.
There are many many people, myself being one of them, that would buy an Apple computer IF they ran the software they needed. That software is normally only available for Windows. I now can buy a mac and still use my Windows software that I NEED. My next computer will be a Mac, and I am sure there are many many people out there just like me.
So how long is it before our wonderful news media puts two and two together and releases a piece of "news" that the shooter in the Vermont school shooting today, played Pac Man and it made him want to kill?
What a remarkable commentary on the sad state of affairs in the "Land of the Free" that our government makes a press release regarding patches to our computers and the first thing we think of is that the patch is associated with monitoring us somehow. For the record, I had the exact same thought as the OP and agree 100% with what he said.
This is unprecedented action. Why now?
Yeah, right bloody likely. That is the most asinine thing I have ever heard. Hey, if they want to logon despite the DoD warning on my laptop saying it is a criminal offense to access the laptop without authorization, hey no problem. Until then, they can go fark themselves.
Heh, how about the cops that serve a warrant on the wrong house, and don't announce themselves? And then when the poor resident inside kills the first two people in the door, you charge him with murder even though he shot them INSIDE his house and he had NO WAY of knowing they were cops and had done NOTHING to expect cops at his door? Yeah, First Class asshattery right there. My personal experience, watching an Los Angeles County Sheriffs' Dept perjure himself in court over a speeding ticket with something I saw with my own eyes. I asked him directly, in court, about what he did. And he lied. In Irvine, Ca with friends driving in a newer S500. 2 cops come up to our car and accused my friend of stealing the car. When he laughed at them they pulled their guns and pulled everybody out of the car. Too bad for the cops, the car was registered to my friend. We are all Mexican. The problem... there were no Mercedes Benz's stolen in Irvine that night, despite what the cops said. ie. There was no reason to pull us over. My cousin was driving through Mission Viejo on his motorcycle one night and was passing a car when a dog ran out and he hit it causing him to lose control of his bike. He went down and the lady in the car he was passing circled around and asked him if he was all right. He verbally responded that he was fine except that his foot was impaled on the foot rest. She went to a payphone and called 911 and hung around till the cops came. No ambulance, just cops. Nobody heard from him for a week until he turned up as a John Doe at UCI, comatose with no wallet. We know he had his wallet on him because the reason he was in Mission Viejo was to pick up his wallet from his friend's house. A request for the police report got the 1st of 9 pages. The last 8 pages cannot be found. The doctor at UCI told my aunt that the injury he had could only be cause by upward blunt trauma to the nose and normally would cause INSTANT paralysis. Cops say he hit his face on the handlebars. Of course, the ONLY damage to his face is to his nose. That also conflicts with the Dr saying the injury causes instant paralysis, and a witness saying she spoke with my cousing immediately after the crash. Those are the best examples of shit cops I have had to deal with in my life. I have also had to deal with cops many times throughout my life for parties and what not. I have met some really nice cops that were respectul. I have also met some total dickwads. Rarely is it the older cops that are the dickwads, its always the younger cops. NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO KILL YOU. But that is how they treat people.