Oops -- I see you were referring to the pidgin English and not my post -- my apologies. I try not to make fun of people in that particular way because while I know that if I were in a country where the official language was other than English I would make it my first order of business to learn the local tongue, I also know that the post's example of broken English is a better degree of speaking than I would accomplish in the local language for quite some time.
What racism? Is it not a fact that IT jobs are being exported to India where Hindi is one of the commonly spoken languages? Now if someone had used a slur, you might have something, but that didn't happen. Grow a fucking skin.
The end result will be people who are born and work their entire lives, then die, never having had the opportunity to aquire wealth, because those who still have it aren't dying anymore.
Oh, don't worry: if it comes to that, the rich will still be dying. Only it won't be of natural causes.
It has *everything* to do with it. They didn't have a law to prosecute her for what they wanted to, and used a law against something *nearly everybody does* as a catchall so they had something to charge her with. I hope the people championing this approach don't do something a prosecutor wishes were illegal but isn't. The defendant is a terrible human being and deserves to be punished, but not at the expense of making something everyone does a jailable offense.
Mod parent up. If Microsoft did this, people would be calling for a Justice department anti-trust investigation and Steve Ballmer's head on a pike. But when Apple does it, people inhale Steve's stale farts like they were the essence of sunshine and rainbows.
Ah, but the students sometimes receive state funds. And so if one student attends a private university and receives an education grant from the state of Tennessee paid via the school (as is usually the case), the institution becomes subject to the rules.
That, and with the Kindle, you're just borrowing it anyway because of the DRM and paying to boot.
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I'd be surprised if there isn't a part of Google (perhaps one ostensibly at arm's length) executing trades based on information gathered from searches.
You'd think that . . . but they can just say they followed "best practices" and use the breach to get even *more* budget. Concur about outsourcing to consultants.
No, it increases their workload linearly--their budget and power is what increases exponentially. There's money in making management afraid, and eye-tee security charlatans are pretty good at that.
This isn't, but 2006 was and during 2006 there was a more significant election season decrease than in 2005 or 2007. Don't take my word for it--the data speak for themselves.
But this isn't normal seasonal fluctuation, either. Your argument at least doesn't shrug the decrease off as the "normal" Fall season price change (which interestingly, was steep in 2006, a mid-term election year, but not in 2005 or 2007).
I'll be interested to see your sources. I don't know the history of oil prices, but gasoline and oil aren't strictly correlated, or else we'd be seeing $1.00/gallon gas. Your geopolitical observations are interesting, but I don't believe they account for the difference in the gasoline price trends between each recent election year and the year immediately preceding. Typically, gas drops *a little* in the Fall, not by half. Interestingly, though, both the 2006 mid-term elections and the run up to the 2008 election show a significant decrease beginning in October while the 2005 and 2007 price curves are flat. I'm basing this on data from the U.S. Department of Energy at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html (the regular gas series for all regions).
Can you point to some data (Lundberg survey, for example) that show that a 50% drop in gas prices in the Fall is typical? If not, it's quite reasonable to suspect that prices are being held down by manipulators to give the Republican party a fighting chance.
By half? You really don't think there's *any* manipulation at work here? I have an open mind, though--can you point me to an independent source that shows gas prices dropping so precipitously in election season before Bush II's reign?
You *did* give them a pass, by supporting their Olympic bid. And yes, I do get the 1984 references, thank you very much. But this isn't doublespeak--denying the Olympics to a country CURRENTLY OPPRESSING IT'S PEOPLE does not make it impossible to hold the Olympics anywhere. Of course, the IOC has more to do with fine dining and bribes than "peace and brotherhood" so I've no idea why anyone would be surprised at that.
It's one country ruled by a government that overthrew the legitimate government. Interesting that you don't want to talk about China now; I guess you figured that it I'd point out that it's just a tad strange to criticize the ROV for an "internal-repression" campaign when they're fighting an armed VC guerilla force while giving China a pass for Tiananmen.
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Oops -- I see you were referring to the pidgin English and not my post -- my apologies. I try not to make fun of people in that particular way because while I know that if I were in a country where the official language was other than English I would make it my first order of business to learn the local tongue, I also know that the post's example of broken English is a better degree of speaking than I would accomplish in the local language for quite some time.
What racism? Is it not a fact that IT jobs are being exported to India where Hindi is one of the commonly spoken languages? Now if someone had used a slur, you might have something, but that didn't happen. Grow a fucking skin.
More like insightful.
Oh, don't worry: if it comes to that, the rich will still be dying. Only it won't be of natural causes.
Seize the server and apply rubber hose cryptography until the key is given up. Problem solved.
It has *everything* to do with it. They didn't have a law to prosecute her for what they wanted to, and used a law against something *nearly everybody does* as a catchall so they had something to charge her with. I hope the people championing this approach don't do something a prosecutor wishes were illegal but isn't. The defendant is a terrible human being and deserves to be punished, but not at the expense of making something everyone does a jailable offense.
Given that being gay is pretty much inconsistent with being a religious fundamentalist, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you :).
Mod parent up. If Microsoft did this, people would be calling for a Justice department anti-trust investigation and Steve Ballmer's head on a pike. But when Apple does it, people inhale Steve's stale farts like they were the essence of sunshine and rainbows.
Ah, but the students sometimes receive state funds. And so if one student attends a private university and receives an education grant from the state of Tennessee paid via the school (as is usually the case), the institution becomes subject to the rules.
. . . Tennessee's stellar reputation as a leading state in higher education. Oh, wait.
That, and with the Kindle, you're just borrowing it anyway because of the DRM and paying to boot.
I'd be surprised if there isn't a part of Google (perhaps one ostensibly at arm's length) executing trades based on information gathered from searches.
You'd think that . . . but they can just say they followed "best practices" and use the breach to get even *more* budget. Concur about outsourcing to consultants.
No, it increases their workload linearly--their budget and power is what increases exponentially. There's money in making management afraid, and eye-tee security charlatans are pretty good at that.
This isn't, but 2006 was and during 2006 there was a more significant election season decrease than in 2005 or 2007. Don't take my word for it--the data speak for themselves.
But the price drops by different relative amounts, at least in 2006 and 2008. See my other post for a link to the DOE stats that show this.
But this isn't normal seasonal fluctuation, either. Your argument at least doesn't shrug the decrease off as the "normal" Fall season price change (which interestingly, was steep in 2006, a mid-term election year, but not in 2005 or 2007).
I'll be interested to see your sources. I don't know the history of oil prices, but gasoline and oil aren't strictly correlated, or else we'd be seeing $1.00/gallon gas. Your geopolitical observations are interesting, but I don't believe they account for the difference in the gasoline price trends between each recent election year and the year immediately preceding. Typically, gas drops *a little* in the Fall, not by half. Interestingly, though, both the 2006 mid-term elections and the run up to the 2008 election show a significant decrease beginning in October while the 2005 and 2007 price curves are flat. I'm basing this on data from the U.S. Department of Energy at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html (the regular gas series for all regions).
Can you point to some data (Lundberg survey, for example) that show that a 50% drop in gas prices in the Fall is typical? If not, it's quite reasonable to suspect that prices are being held down by manipulators to give the Republican party a fighting chance.
By half? You really don't think there's *any* manipulation at work here? I have an open mind, though--can you point me to an independent source that shows gas prices dropping so precipitously in election season before Bush II's reign?
I was thinking more along the lines of select * from pr0n where hair is null;
D'oh: ITS, not IT'S. Ah well.
You *did* give them a pass, by supporting their Olympic bid. And yes, I do get the 1984 references, thank you very much. But this isn't doublespeak--denying the Olympics to a country CURRENTLY OPPRESSING IT'S PEOPLE does not make it impossible to hold the Olympics anywhere. Of course, the IOC has more to do with fine dining and bribes than "peace and brotherhood" so I've no idea why anyone would be surprised at that.
What WAS the IOC granting the Olympics to Beijing but a pass for Tiananmen?
It's one country ruled by a government that overthrew the legitimate government. Interesting that you don't want to talk about China now; I guess you figured that it I'd point out that it's just a tad strange to criticize the ROV for an "internal-repression" campaign when they're fighting an armed VC guerilla force while giving China a pass for Tiananmen.