A billion dollars. Right.
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream and Donuts are worth around $4.3billion so that's about 4x as big as ISIL.
Your post puts things into perspective but I am not quite sure it's the way you intended.
Ha! That's laughable that you use Twitter as the example of a non-PC policed space. Nothing could be further from the truth! Twitter absolutely censors and encourages censorship of views that don't fit the typical SJW/PC vocabulary. I guess you missed their Trust and Safety Council. You should read up on it. I think you'd be interested in the subject matter and who is and is not on the council.
In other words, people are simply learning about the downsides of Facebook.
Yes, and one of those downsides is that if you say the wrong thing, the PC Police come after you. Anyone paying attention thinks twice before posting anything controversial on FB. It's just common sense now to most people.
You missed one major difference between the two and it's very very important: Business operates via voluntary transactions. Government operates by diktat and force
That affects both how they operate as well as the outcomes they produce.
I think you are the idiot here. If Christians or Atheists committed the same number of atrocities, we would all agree with your sarchasm 100%. However, that is not the case. We don't have sleeper cells of atheists and Christians plotting to kill as many innocents as possible. You can't say the same thing about muslims and the islamic faith: they most certainly have groups around the world who are intent on killing innocents - in fact, it's one of the tenets of jihadi belief! Wherever the Islamic faith butts up against any other civilization, there is trouble. 100 out of 100 times. Does that mean anything to you?
I will never understand why people like you can't admit the obvious. Instead you want to play games and try to find equivalence between a couple of Colorado crazies and the hundreds (thousands?) of attacks done by Muslims. Good luck trying to win hearts and minds with that approach. People aren't as stupid as you think they are.
What the heck does this have to do with the Koch brothers or Koch anything? Koch doesn't deal with coal and they don't own any electricity generation companies (that I know of).....so this doesn't appear to have anything to do with them or their companies.
Are you so blinded by hatred and ignorance that you can't take 2 seconds to learn something about them?
It's hard to take the Koch haters seriously when they can't do basic research or differentiate between the different kinds of "energy". Hint: It ain't just electricity...
Nothing prevents them (or anyone else) from doing exactly that right now. They are more than welcome to bang away on the phone as much as they want and if they get in, nobody will say a peep and all is as it should be.
The problem comes when the FBI compels/orders Apple to build a 2nd operating system. Forcing and compelling people and companies who are not accused of a crime is un-American and that is why this is going to court. Wanna compel Apple? Fine, go to Congress and pass a law like CALEA. But lets be clear.....a law forcing Apple to do what the FBI wants does not currently exist and that's why the FBI is relying on the All Writs Act to force Apple to do it.
Nobody has ever suggested the FBI (or anyone else for that matter) is prohibited from hacking the phone. They aren't. They are more than welcome to use whatever resources they have to hack it. But those resources do not include Apple, the company, or any of it's employees or tools unless allowed by law.
I'm a conservative but I gotta tell you, I admire Bernie Sanders
Anyone even mildly conservative should be appalled at what the Berns positions. He's an avowed socialist for cryin' out loud! This is not even a close call.
Stop. Just stop. Comparing theology in the US to that in Iran and pretending they are alike is dishonest and disingenuous. We don't have "morality police" here in the US. We have plenty of people who think there should be a morality police but it's just their opinion.
Iran, on the other hand, has a real morality police. With legal teeth that can affect people's lives. To suggest that their system is anything like the US is ludicrous. Stop it.
Let's see......have a gun and fire back, risking that police will incorrectly ID me as the suspect vs not having a gun and getting killed by said suspect.
Foreign law enforcement (specifically the NSA of the US Government) may have a direct back door into Twitter
Not "may". They do and have for a long time now. We know that from PRISM and other programs divulged by Snowden.
This will be ridiculously easy to evaluate. If the article is true and wind is less expensive, then it will attract private investment money and a lot of it. Investments in wind will far outpace investments in other kinds of power generation (coal, nat gas, nuke, etc). And it will do so without assistance from the government or any other agency via subsidies or other legislation that encourages one technology over another.
Is that happening? No. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Thus far, without government subsidies and diktats, the wind power industry can hardly survive on its own.
a great deal of street grade marijuna is very poor quality, may be pesticide or herbicide contaminated, and is very occasionally still laced with PCP in the US
You lie. Not only is this not happening, your little tale doesn't even pass the smell test. Dealers selling bad marijuana are not lacing/spiking it with PCP. The dealers are in this to make money and buying PCP so they can sprinkle on their weed seems like a bad story from a 1982 DARE program speech. What's next, the kid who took LSD and thought he could fly?
How about this instead: a great deal of street grade marijuana is sold because marijuana sells itself. Nothing else needs to be added.
The money comes from automation and productivity increases due to technology.
And who owns the equipment that provided automation and productivity increases? How much did they invest to get those production gains? Why are the gains from that smart investment being given to someone else who didn't make the investment and has zero to do with it?
Nonsense. America has a "left" that is directly proportional to the amount of people who support the left's agenda. The reason there aren't more of you is because your agenda is not acceptable to more people. It's really that simple.
It is no surprise to educated people that communism and socialism are not popular in America so it is not surprising that there are not large numbers of people supporting those ideologies.
No. Absolutely not. There is zero chance that the tax rate would remain at $0.01. It most certainly will be increased as we find good ways to spend other people's money.
I didn't say foreign country, I said restricted foreign country. As in Syria, Iran, North Korea, and the rest. And yes, if equipment shows up in a restricted country, they will chase it back to the day it was made on the Cisco factory floor and they will question every single partner in the supply chain trying to figure out how it wound up in that country.
You act as though Iran or other sanctioned countries can just go to eBay and buy whatever they want. That's not accurate as sanctions have real teeth (and costs for US companies that don't pay heed).
You see, the US Government is very keen about governing exports. They prohibit shipping many products into restricted countries and they actively police it in a serious manner. Anyone who's product gets found in a restricted country is in hot water. It doesn't matter if the product(s) was sold through an intermediary or 20 middle men, the manufacturer is 100% responsible for asserting, under penalty of law, that their products will not end up in a restricted country and that's that. The treasury department even publishes a monthly list of offenders they catch but I apologize as I cannot seem to find it on google.
To address this issue, many companies that have been caught are required by the US Treasury Dept to document every single end user of their product. Yes, every single unit that is sold must be documented as to where it's final resting place is. I doubt Cisco is under this kind of requirement (unless they've been caught in the past) but it seems this new policy is a huge risk for them in that area. If you were an Iranian supply store trying to procure Cisco equipment, this seems like a good way to do it without anyone knowing or being able to track it --- and that's a serious risk for Cisco.
The minute one of those units gets found in Iran (or any restricted country), all hell will break loose. Again, it doesn't really matter how it got there.....
Here is a good overview of the requirements and Here is a company that has a good policy summary that they live by. Smart on them.
Understand that this has nothing to do with NSA or espionage. This is just a basic requirement of doing business overseas and exporting products. Doesn't matter whether it's plastic dog poo, Intel CPU's, lab equipment, cranes, or other engineered equipment
Symantec is subject to national security letters just like every other US company that exists. If they received one, they are prohibited by law from telling you what they do to assist the government with their products.
This is a solved problem, although by a commercial solution. Symantec's Encryption Desktop....
I stopped reading after that. If you think Symantec is a solution to any problem that exists, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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A billion dollars. Right.
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream and Donuts are worth around $4.3billion so that's about 4x as big as ISIL.
Your post puts things into perspective but I am not quite sure it's the way you intended.
Ha! That's laughable that you use Twitter as the example of a non-PC policed space. Nothing could be further from the truth! Twitter absolutely censors and encourages censorship of views that don't fit the typical SJW/PC vocabulary. I guess you missed their Trust and Safety Council. You should read up on it. I think you'd be interested in the subject matter and who is and is not on the council.
In other words, people are simply learning about the downsides of Facebook.
Yes, and one of those downsides is that if you say the wrong thing, the PC Police come after you. Anyone paying attention thinks twice before posting anything controversial on FB. It's just common sense now to most people.
You missed one major difference between the two and it's very very important: Business operates via voluntary transactions. Government operates by diktat and force
That affects both how they operate as well as the outcomes they produce.
I think you are the idiot here. If Christians or Atheists committed the same number of atrocities, we would all agree with your sarchasm 100%. However, that is not the case. We don't have sleeper cells of atheists and Christians plotting to kill as many innocents as possible. You can't say the same thing about muslims and the islamic faith: they most certainly have groups around the world who are intent on killing innocents - in fact, it's one of the tenets of jihadi belief! Wherever the Islamic faith butts up against any other civilization, there is trouble. 100 out of 100 times. Does that mean anything to you?
I will never understand why people like you can't admit the obvious. Instead you want to play games and try to find equivalence between a couple of Colorado crazies and the hundreds (thousands?) of attacks done by Muslims. Good luck trying to win hearts and minds with that approach. People aren't as stupid as you think they are.
What the heck does this have to do with the Koch brothers or Koch anything? Koch doesn't deal with coal and they don't own any electricity generation companies (that I know of).....so this doesn't appear to have anything to do with them or their companies. Are you so blinded by hatred and ignorance that you can't take 2 seconds to learn something about them?
It's hard to take the Koch haters seriously when they can't do basic research or differentiate between the different kinds of "energy". Hint: It ain't just electricity...
You forgot the last step which is the most insidious: wash, rinse , and repeat with any other US based company at will
Nothing prevents them (or anyone else) from doing exactly that right now. They are more than welcome to bang away on the phone as much as they want and if they get in, nobody will say a peep and all is as it should be.
The problem comes when the FBI compels/orders Apple to build a 2nd operating system. Forcing and compelling people and companies who are not accused of a crime is un-American and that is why this is going to court. Wanna compel Apple? Fine, go to Congress and pass a law like CALEA. But lets be clear.....a law forcing Apple to do what the FBI wants does not currently exist and that's why the FBI is relying on the All Writs Act to force Apple to do it.
Nobody has ever suggested the FBI (or anyone else for that matter) is prohibited from hacking the phone. They aren't. They are more than welcome to use whatever resources they have to hack it. But those resources do not include Apple, the company, or any of it's employees or tools unless allowed by law.
I'm a conservative but I gotta tell you, I admire Bernie Sanders Anyone even mildly conservative should be appalled at what the Berns positions. He's an avowed socialist for cryin' out loud! This is not even a close call.
Stop. Just stop. Comparing theology in the US to that in Iran and pretending they are alike is dishonest and disingenuous. We don't have "morality police" here in the US. We have plenty of people who think there should be a morality police but it's just their opinion.
Iran, on the other hand, has a real morality police. With legal teeth that can affect people's lives. To suggest that their system is anything like the US is ludicrous. Stop it.
Let's see......have a gun and fire back, risking that police will incorrectly ID me as the suspect vs not having a gun and getting killed by said suspect.
I'm gonna go with option A, Alex.
Foreign law enforcement (specifically the NSA of the US Government) may have a direct back door into Twitter
Not "may". They do and have for a long time now. We know that from PRISM and other programs divulged by Snowden.
This will be ridiculously easy to evaluate. If the article is true and wind is less expensive, then it will attract private investment money and a lot of it. Investments in wind will far outpace investments in other kinds of power generation (coal, nat gas, nuke, etc). And it will do so without assistance from the government or any other agency via subsidies or other legislation that encourages one technology over another.
Is that happening? No. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Thus far, without government subsidies and diktats, the wind power industry can hardly survive on its own.
As always, follow the money.
a great deal of street grade marijuna is very poor quality, may be pesticide or herbicide contaminated, and is very occasionally still laced with PCP in the US
You lie. Not only is this not happening, your little tale doesn't even pass the smell test. Dealers selling bad marijuana are not lacing/spiking it with PCP. The dealers are in this to make money and buying PCP so they can sprinkle on their weed seems like a bad story from a 1982 DARE program speech. What's next, the kid who took LSD and thought he could fly?
How about this instead: a great deal of street grade marijuana is sold because marijuana sells itself. Nothing else needs to be added.
The money comes from automation and productivity increases due to technology.
And who owns the equipment that provided automation and productivity increases? How much did they invest to get those production gains? Why are the gains from that smart investment being given to someone else who didn't make the investment and has zero to do with it?
How about an Outlook clone that can handle email, contacts, calendar, and the rest of Outlook? Use with or without Exchange and it's linux clone.
Do that well and corporate linux users will take notice.
Correction: Texas wasn't bad-mouthing alternative power. Texas was bad mouthing heavily government subsidized alternative power.
The difference is subtle but extremely important.
Advocating a 90% tax rate is fiscally responsible? Hmmm. Ok, you go first.
Nonsense. America has a "left" that is directly proportional to the amount of people who support the left's agenda. The reason there aren't more of you is because your agenda is not acceptable to more people. It's really that simple.
It is no surprise to educated people that communism and socialism are not popular in America so it is not surprising that there are not large numbers of people supporting those ideologies.
No. Absolutely not. There is zero chance that the tax rate would remain at $0.01. It most certainly will be increased as we find good ways to spend other people's money.
Why do you assume it will be a choice? I think many of us worry it will be a mandate and not a choice
I didn't say foreign country, I said restricted foreign country. As in Syria, Iran, North Korea, and the rest. And yes, if equipment shows up in a restricted country, they will chase it back to the day it was made on the Cisco factory floor and they will question every single partner in the supply chain trying to figure out how it wound up in that country.
You act as though Iran or other sanctioned countries can just go to eBay and buy whatever they want. That's not accurate as sanctions have real teeth (and costs for US companies that don't pay heed).
You see, the US Government is very keen about governing exports. They prohibit shipping many products into restricted countries and they actively police it in a serious manner. Anyone who's product gets found in a restricted country is in hot water. It doesn't matter if the product(s) was sold through an intermediary or 20 middle men, the manufacturer is 100% responsible for asserting, under penalty of law, that their products will not end up in a restricted country and that's that. The treasury department even publishes a monthly list of offenders they catch but I apologize as I cannot seem to find it on google.
To address this issue, many companies that have been caught are required by the US Treasury Dept to document every single end user of their product. Yes, every single unit that is sold must be documented as to where it's final resting place is. I doubt Cisco is under this kind of requirement (unless they've been caught in the past) but it seems this new policy is a huge risk for them in that area. If you were an Iranian supply store trying to procure Cisco equipment, this seems like a good way to do it without anyone knowing or being able to track it --- and that's a serious risk for Cisco.
The minute one of those units gets found in Iran (or any restricted country), all hell will break loose. Again, it doesn't really matter how it got there.....
Here is a good overview of the requirements and Here is a company that has a good policy summary that they live by. Smart on them.
Understand that this has nothing to do with NSA or espionage. This is just a basic requirement of doing business overseas and exporting products. Doesn't matter whether it's plastic dog poo, Intel CPU's, lab equipment, cranes, or other engineered equipment
Symantec is subject to national security letters just like every other US company that exists. If they received one, they are prohibited by law from telling you what they do to assist the government with their products.
This is a solved problem, although by a commercial solution. Symantec's Encryption Desktop....
I stopped reading after that. If you think Symantec is a solution to any problem that exists, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.