I also am no big fan of the POTUS, but if Twitter was filtering out trolls and other related crap to cut down on the noise, then so be it. I consider it more like moderation rather than censorship.
As long as the filtering was only for "abusive and hateful" messages, I have no problem with it at all. If they were cutting out legitimate but potentially embarrassing questions based on a political agenda, then I do have a problem.
The best way to handle this is to up-front disclose that submissions to the Q&A will be moderated and abusive/hateful messages will be deleted.
It's missing a bunch of info such as what's legal data for each field, and the missing documents fill you in on a few of those. Even so, they are also incomplete.
But yes, that's a good start.
It took me quite a long time to figure out the codes for some fields, like TSAPre and Secondary Screening. The first because I had one, the second only from someone who posted in their blog about being mishandled by the TSA and helpfully posted a picture of the boarding pass with the barcode.
Download the IATA Resolution 792, you'll see in section 2.5 the data structure of the bar code for a boarding pass. Then generate the necessary barcode from the resulting ASCII string.
You'll probably need to check the Internet archive, because these resolutions were freely downloadable until a couple of years ago and then they were put behind a paywall... Free to $1500-$4500? Really?
You can use this to generate airline boarding passes too, but all the mobile passes I have seen have a digital signature appended to the end of it. The paper ones they hand out at the airport lack a digital signature.
Oh, and United Clubs actually look up your flight info, FYI.
The MPAA and RIAA consider a pirated copy a "lost sale". This is how they come up with those incredible numbers of dollars lost due to piracy.
So, downloading a film not only cost the distributors money (putting arguments over whether the downloader would have otherwise paid for it aside) - but also the government, which lost out on what would have been a taxable sale. So if you live in Pennsylvania, downloading a copy of "Batman vs. Superman" is not only is a lost sale, but you are evading paying any taxes due on the now-lost purchase. In other words: even though you downloaded it for "free", it does have a dollar value attached to it. So, to the government, you owe taxes on that download.
This is quite dangerous, because it gets government directly involved in copyright enforcement to protect their tax revenues. Now we are looking at criminal charges instead of civil ones, forfeiture of money and property, liens, etc.
Severance comes with conditions. Let's say you are a year or two away from retirement, or getting close to being fully vested in a company. Or you were laid off because they want to bring in younger, cheaper, talent. You most likely have to sign something and waive all your rights to pursue legal remedies by accepting the severance. Some severance agreements have "non disparagement" clauses, and others may have non-compete clauses.
So yes, they might give you two week's severance, but it is not the same as if an employee were to give two week's notice.
1. Being blindsided by a manager and security for a walk to HR. Yes, severance was provided - as long as you sign your rights away in order to get it. There are conditions for the severance package. Don't want to sign your rights away? Then you get nothing aside from time owed and any accrued vacation time. For reference, see the conditions imposed on the Disney IT workers.
2. In the case of a large layoff, it still comes as a surprise, but there is a slow rundown where people are given notice their jobs will be gone by a certain day, they get training and job counseling, and they also get severance with the same conditions imposed in #1.
Not the first time this has happened. Back in the PowerPC days, they had an Apple LCD monitor that hooked up to the computer with a single cable. Basically a bastardized DVI cable with an oval connector, USB, and some extra power lines in it.
It was compatible with nothing but Apple stuff, unless you bought an expensive box to convert it into DVI and a wall-plug.
There is a precedent for voters electing a candidate like Trump winning the general election. Just look to the state of California electing Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor back in 2003.
Back a year or more ago, when I went overseas, Netflix was useless because it would not allow me to stream anything from my US account. Flip back to January, and now it works wherever I travel: be it Germany, Italy, or Japan, I see and stream whatever local content is available. It is far more useful to me than how Amazon or Hulu handle it - no access at all.
Netflix has always seemed to take the "least effort" approach to people who want to work around geoblocks. Perhaps the content providers are tired of these games and wanted something more heavy-handed?
Nothing political about it. How can a standard medical term for a medical procedure be considered political speak?
It only seems political to you because "pro-abortion" sounds bad compared to "pro-choice" simply because people tend to know what the procedure does. So why duck the truth and paint it in colorful language if you are proud of your political stance?
The center to the argument is not whether women have the right to reproductive freedom (there's another one of those feel-good terms). The anti-abortion crowd (well, most of it) isn't there protesting sex education, sterilization, condoms, HPV vaccinations, v.d. and fertility treatments. They are there protesting abortions (including some caused by birth control pills that prevent implantation after fertilization). If you remove abortion from the list of services, the only people left protesting would be the uber-religious types who believe, for example, that HPV vaccinations give a license to premarital sex and sin.
Erosion due to weather, wave, and tidal activity. This can be quite fast compared to the glacial rise of the sea level or tectonic plate movement.
From the paper in question:
Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession
Reef islands? These are formed by coral that do not grow above the surface of the water. It's the sand and other junk that pile up on these reef islands that has washed/eroded away.
From Wikipedia (Solomon Islands):
while many of the smaller islands are simply tiny atolls covered in sand and palm trees.
I suppose mentioning that would be counterproductive to the scare-mongering.
Just about every ISP is a media distributor as well. Don't have any draconian usage caps? This is one way to get slapped with them.
Hard to force them to open up the market with the lobbying they do. If the FCC succeeds and forces it to open, good luck when you start realizing your cap does not go very far when you add all that programming to your monthly bandwidth and the cable companies look get their profit in overage fees.
I'm wondering how many cancellations they will get once people find out the $7500 fed tax rebate is no longer available. This is lowering the cost of the car to $27,500, which frankly is a hell of a deal.
At this point, Teslas are still eligible, but once they hit the magic number (200K cars sold in the US) rebate goes bye-bye. Based upon preorders, latecomers are going to miss out if they have not already. Tesla sold what? 60,000 cars in the US so far? There's 140,000 left to be sold in the US before the rebate phases out and meanwhile the Model S and Model X are still eating away at the total sales numbers while owners wait for delivery. Tesla sold 18,000 Model S's in in the US in 2014, and 27,000 in 2015. I'm expecting a lot of disappointed potential buyers in a year or so.
It's a PITA even for citizens. I've seen the visitor line here with 500+ people in line and a 100+ citizen line. And the short one took more than 90 minutes. Each line had 3-4 agents. WTF?
You can rule out Japan too. Their immigration "experience" is much like that of the U.S., but better staffed.
I do have to hand it to Europe, aside from the occasional short wait, it's never a problem going through passport control and customs.
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This was for a twitter Q&A session?
I also am no big fan of the POTUS, but if Twitter was filtering out trolls and other related crap to cut down on the noise, then so be it. I consider it more like moderation rather than censorship.
As long as the filtering was only for "abusive and hateful" messages, I have no problem with it at all. If they were cutting out legitimate but potentially embarrassing questions based on a political agenda, then I do have a problem.
The best way to handle this is to up-front disclose that submissions to the Q&A will be moderated and abusive/hateful messages will be deleted.
It's missing a bunch of info such as what's legal data for each field, and the missing documents fill you in on a few of those. Even so, they are also incomplete.
But yes, that's a good start.
It took me quite a long time to figure out the codes for some fields, like TSAPre and Secondary Screening. The first because I had one, the second only from someone who posted in their blog about being mishandled by the TSA and helpfully posted a picture of the boarding pass with the barcode.
Nothing that's a big secret about this.
Download the IATA Resolution 792, you'll see in section 2.5 the data structure of the bar code for a boarding pass. Then generate the necessary barcode from the resulting ASCII string.
You'll probably need to check the Internet archive, because these resolutions were freely downloadable until a couple of years ago and then they were put behind a paywall... Free to $1500-$4500? Really?
You can use this to generate airline boarding passes too, but all the mobile passes I have seen have a digital signature appended to the end of it. The paper ones they hand out at the airport lack a digital signature.
Oh, and United Clubs actually look up your flight info, FYI.
It's simple.
The MPAA and RIAA consider a pirated copy a "lost sale". This is how they come up with those incredible numbers of dollars lost due to piracy.
So, downloading a film not only cost the distributors money (putting arguments over whether the downloader would have otherwise paid for it aside) - but also the government, which lost out on what would have been a taxable sale. So if you live in Pennsylvania, downloading a copy of "Batman vs. Superman" is not only is a lost sale, but you are evading paying any taxes due on the now-lost purchase. In other words: even though you downloaded it for "free", it does have a dollar value attached to it. So, to the government, you owe taxes on that download.
Consider the IRS and Al Capone and Aldrich Ames as a precedent, where criminally obtained income is still considered taxable income.
This is quite dangerous, because it gets government directly involved in copyright enforcement to protect their tax revenues. Now we are looking at criminal charges instead of civil ones, forfeiture of money and property, liens, etc.
Watch that...
Not only can you get sued for pirating digital content, but now pirating can be considered a form of tax evasion too.
A simple HDMI splitter also does the job along with an ElGato game capture device.
If you get the right kind of splitter on Amazon (B0089DSLMY), HDCP somehow gets lost along the way and you wind up with an unencrypted digital signal.
As I said above to another poster:
Severance comes with conditions. Let's say you are a year or two away from retirement, or getting close to being fully vested in a company. Or you were laid off because they want to bring in younger, cheaper, talent. You most likely have to sign something and waive all your rights to pursue legal remedies by accepting the severance. Some severance agreements have "non disparagement" clauses, and others may have non-compete clauses.
So yes, they might give you two week's severance, but it is not the same as if an employee were to give two week's notice.
It takes all kinds.
I've seen several types of separations:
1. Being blindsided by a manager and security for a walk to HR. Yes, severance was provided - as long as you sign your rights away in order to get it. There are conditions for the severance package. Don't want to sign your rights away? Then you get nothing aside from time owed and any accrued vacation time. For reference, see the conditions imposed on the Disney IT workers.
2. In the case of a large layoff, it still comes as a surprise, but there is a slow rundown where people are given notice their jobs will be gone by a certain day, they get training and job counseling, and they also get severance with the same conditions imposed in #1.
Both of these were done by the same company.
Typically when a company lays off an employee (or a few employees) as part of a layoff, how much notice do they give?
Usually it's immediate and involves a security escort to HR.
Gotta love Twain.
He's like the George Carlin of his time... without all the dirty words.
Not the first time this has happened. Back in the PowerPC days, they had an Apple LCD monitor that hooked up to the computer with a single cable. Basically a bastardized DVI cable with an oval connector, USB, and some extra power lines in it.
It was compatible with nothing but Apple stuff, unless you bought an expensive box to convert it into DVI and a wall-plug.
So this isn't the first time we are seeing this.
There is a precedent for voters electing a candidate like Trump winning the general election. Just look to the state of California electing Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor back in 2003.
That's the way I see it too.
Back a year or more ago, when I went overseas, Netflix was useless because it would not allow me to stream anything from my US account. Flip back to January, and now it works wherever I travel: be it Germany, Italy, or Japan, I see and stream whatever local content is available. It is far more useful to me than how Amazon or Hulu handle it - no access at all.
Netflix has always seemed to take the "least effort" approach to people who want to work around geoblocks. Perhaps the content providers are tired of these games and wanted something more heavy-handed?
Yes, I remember this. I had a copy of OS/2 v2.11 that came on 40+ 5.25" floppy disks. Just insane.
Nothing political about it. How can a standard medical term for a medical procedure be considered political speak?
It only seems political to you because "pro-abortion" sounds bad compared to "pro-choice" simply because people tend to know what the procedure does. So why duck the truth and paint it in colorful language if you are proud of your political stance?
The center to the argument is not whether women have the right to reproductive freedom (there's another one of those feel-good terms). The anti-abortion crowd (well, most of it) isn't there protesting sex education, sterilization, condoms, HPV vaccinations, v.d. and fertility treatments. They are there protesting abortions (including some caused by birth control pills that prevent implantation after fertilization). If you remove abortion from the list of services, the only people left protesting would be the uber-religious types who believe, for example, that HPV vaccinations give a license to premarital sex and sin.
That may be less inflammatory, but the subject is abortion, not reproductive rights as a whole.
I do like the nice, friendly and progressive sounding "pro-choice" moniker. And the cuddly, protective, "pro-life" one.
But why not just call it what it is and be done with it?
pro-abortion/anti-abortion
No need to sugar coat it. If you need to sugar coat it to make it palatable, there is something wrong with it.
That may be true, but the ones talked about here are just the smaller ones that were created more recently, geologically speaking.
Yes, clearly the real problem is those damned kangarelephants won't quit hopping on the islands. Yeah, that's it.
Just as Rep. Hank Johnson. He's an expert on islands, particularly Guam.
There's another, easier answer:
Erosion due to weather, wave, and tidal activity. This can be quite fast compared to the glacial rise of the sea level or tectonic plate movement.
From the paper in question:
Reef islands? These are formed by coral that do not grow above the surface of the water. It's the sand and other junk that pile up on these reef islands that has washed/eroded away.
From Wikipedia (Solomon Islands):
I suppose mentioning that would be counterproductive to the scare-mongering.
Just about every ISP is a media distributor as well. Don't have any draconian usage caps? This is one way to get slapped with them.
Hard to force them to open up the market with the lobbying they do. If the FCC succeeds and forces it to open, good luck when you start realizing your cap does not go very far when you add all that programming to your monthly bandwidth and the cable companies look get their profit in overage fees.
Yes, I know. I tried typing those Icelandic names on my En-US keyboard and gave up after 30 minutes of wasted effort.
I'm wondering how many cancellations they will get once people find out the $7500 fed tax rebate is no longer available. This is lowering the cost of the car to $27,500, which frankly is a hell of a deal.
At this point, Teslas are still eligible, but once they hit the magic number (200K cars sold in the US) rebate goes bye-bye. Based upon preorders, latecomers are going to miss out if they have not already. Tesla sold what? 60,000 cars in the US so far? There's 140,000 left to be sold in the US before the rebate phases out and meanwhile the Model S and Model X are still eating away at the total sales numbers while owners wait for delivery. Tesla sold 18,000 Model S's in in the US in 2014, and 27,000 in 2015. I'm expecting a lot of disappointed potential buyers in a year or so.
It's a PITA even for citizens. I've seen the visitor line here with 500+ people in line and a 100+ citizen line. And the short one took more than 90 minutes. Each line had 3-4 agents. WTF?
You can rule out Japan too. Their immigration "experience" is much like that of the U.S., but better staffed.
I do have to hand it to Europe, aside from the occasional short wait, it's never a problem going through passport control and customs.
If the GE terminals are down, you should get front of the line privileges.
I do agree though that having a non GE travel companion sucks, but most of the time I am going solo.
When I was in the military, my whole platoon walked on board carrying M16A2's for a cross-country flight.