If they aren't POWs, what business do we have giving them military tribunals? Either they're military prisoners or they aren't, and as the AC that responded points out, the Geneva convention does apply to them.
It's worse than you say: Bushco is claiming that these aren't military prisoners - POWs - but then trying to put them through a tribunal. In addition, it looks like we aren't terribly selective about who goes there. From what I've heard, a lot of people in gitmo are normal guys that were unlucky enough to be on the wrong street. Also, Padilla is a citizen - why is he being held in Gitmo? He has a right to a trial, he was arrested in Chicago, who has the right to keep him in Cuba for 4 years?
If someone is in a Chinese company building a MIPS like chip, then any allegations of Copyright/trademark infringement are more plausible due to China's past behavior. That ain't racist.
Well, I'm sure that blizzard likes 64 bit computing and will take advantage of it on the server side, so the WoW junkies will make use of it indirectly. Also, it'll be necessary once games start demanding 4G of Ram.
The implication in the article and the comment I responded to was that China ripped off the design and the comment I responded to implied that that was OK. Given China's history of playing fast and loose with IP, I find the implications plausible.
Assuming that you're actually serious, someone owns those designs - cheap PCs are a laudable goal, but that's no justification for ripping off a bunch of people.
No, it is legal because it's a public webserver with no safeguards (in that place). I would argue that the Governator thing was legal too, since that's what webservers are designed to do.
It's actually pretty easy: Al Queda recruits normal people isolated from their social network. This means that if you're a white guy in Singapore starting a job with a local company (to pick an example I may fit in the future), you'll be somewhat isolated and therefore vulnerable to recruitment.
Could be that blacks are, on average, poorer. There's a great correlation between poverty and crime. It's also possible that they get worse sentences when convicted, but the question remains whether that's due to poverty.
Oh, ok. The midwest hasn't seen the incredible runups that North VA and CA have seen - you can probably still get something that isn't a shack for $150, while that will buy a garage in CA. 2 years ago, I was in VA and watching prices go up 100% in 3-5 years, some times in 30k jumps. That is a bubble, and it's starting to deflate. CA will see price drops, inventory is up in the bubble areas, and houses are taking longer to sell instead of having 10 people fight over it the first day.
It often comes down to presence and personality.. Did the interviewer like you. Which I think is a bull shit reason to get hired (unless that's part of the job description).
No, it's a really good reason - you have to work with this person.
Yet somehow your credit history - something you DID have a chance to affect is somehow detestable?
Mainly because it's incomplete, not gauranteed accurate, and often irrelevant. This is about running the credit for someone not entrusted with corporate money.
But most likely, you were careless more than a few times and didn't make a payment on time. Perhaps you're an obstinant dick-head and decided that the most appropriate way to contest a credit charge was to never pay that credit card again.
Heh, nice strawman. Maybe you missed a payment and your other 2 cards jacked the 5% rate you had up to 30%, which then put you near or over the edge on cashflow.
If this is true then discriminating against bad credit is really discriminating against a race
There may be differences in FICO score distributions when sliced by ethinc group, but that only matters if there is some bias in the measurement. It may be that black people are on the whole poorer than average, or there may be some cultural issue (like some of the Katrina refugees that spent 6 months in a hotel in texas without looking for work). Whatever the reason, FICO doesn't appear to be racist; I don't know what inputs it uses, but it doesn't seem to have much ability to infer race, unless they keep a list of 'black' names or ding you for living in a redlined area.
Basically, all I'm saying is that discriminating against people with bad credit isn't racist just because black people have worse credit on average.
When you check your own credit rating, that counts against you as well, but not nearly as much as someone else checking your rating.
No it doesn't. You checking your credit (or your bank checking it, which they probably do each month) doesn't do anything. This is called a soft hit. If you go apply for a car loan, that's a hard hit, and it will affect your score for a short while. Also, don't open too many cards in a 12 month period.
IngDirect pays 4.4% on savings (5.0 - 5.2 on CDs). How is that not an investment tool? I'm willing to forego 0.8% for the ability to pull money out at any time. Naturally, this is for the first 5-10k only.
Be careful to distinguish accounting profit vs cashflow. I can see a lot of situations (And I'm sure there are a lot of case studies available) where companies grow themselves into insolvency.
Slashdot Mirror
If they aren't POWs, what business do we have giving them military tribunals? Either they're military prisoners or they aren't, and as the AC that responded points out, the Geneva convention does apply to them.
It's worse than you say: Bushco is claiming that these aren't military prisoners - POWs - but then trying to put them through a tribunal. In addition, it looks like we aren't terribly selective about who goes there. From what I've heard, a lot of people in gitmo are normal guys that were unlucky enough to be on the wrong street. Also, Padilla is a citizen - why is he being held in Gitmo? He has a right to a trial, he was arrested in Chicago, who has the right to keep him in Cuba for 4 years?
According to this, insiders hold about 30%, so it's not like they're totally beholden to the mutual funds.
If someone is in a Chinese company building a MIPS like chip, then any allegations of Copyright/trademark infringement are more plausible due to China's past behavior. That ain't racist.
I promise not to steal anybody's DRM implementation.
Well, I'm sure that blizzard likes 64 bit computing and will take advantage of it on the server side, so the WoW junkies will make use of it indirectly. Also, it'll be necessary once games start demanding 4G of Ram.
The implication in the article and the comment I responded to was that China ripped off the design and the comment I responded to implied that that was OK. Given China's history of playing fast and loose with IP, I find the implications plausible.
Assuming that you're actually serious, someone owns those designs - cheap PCs are a laudable goal, but that's no justification for ripping off a bunch of people.
Any safe can be opened. It's just a matter of how long.
A through D look like a step by step plan, not a set of alternatives.
No, it is legal because it's a public webserver with no safeguards (in that place). I would argue that the Governator thing was legal too, since that's what webservers are designed to do.
More to the point: the 'natural' sneakiness of the Jew and the 'natural' athleticism of the black male is anything but, and is unrelated to ethnicity.
But if one is saying that blacks are basketball players because they are keenly athletic, that is a compliment, isn't it?
Back in the 20's it was the Jews that were naturally good at basketball due to their scientifically proven craftiness.
Back in the dark ages when dual processors were rare, I found that I got a larger speedup by using faster disks than adding a cpu.
It's actually pretty easy: Al Queda recruits normal people isolated from their social network. This means that if you're a white guy in Singapore starting a job with a local company (to pick an example I may fit in the future), you'll be somewhat isolated and therefore vulnerable to recruitment.
Could be that blacks are, on average, poorer. There's a great correlation between poverty and crime. It's also possible that they get worse sentences when convicted, but the question remains whether that's due to poverty.
Oh, ok. The midwest hasn't seen the incredible runups that North VA and CA have seen - you can probably still get something that isn't a shack for $150, while that will buy a garage in CA. 2 years ago, I was in VA and watching prices go up 100% in 3-5 years, some times in 30k jumps. That is a bubble, and it's starting to deflate. CA will see price drops, inventory is up in the bubble areas, and houses are taking longer to sell instead of having 10 people fight over it the first day.
Barbarian Smith is hit and rolls 2d6 to save (can the low score be explained??)
Oh come on, everyone knows you roll a D20 to save.
It often comes down to presence and personality.. Did the interviewer like you. Which I think is a bull shit reason to get hired (unless that's part of the job description).
No, it's a really good reason - you have to work with this person.
Yet somehow your credit history - something you DID have a chance to affect is somehow detestable?
Mainly because it's incomplete, not gauranteed accurate, and often irrelevant. This is about running the credit for someone not entrusted with corporate money.
But most likely, you were careless more than a few times and didn't make a payment on time. Perhaps you're an obstinant dick-head and decided that the most appropriate way to contest a credit charge was to never pay that credit card again.
Heh, nice strawman. Maybe you missed a payment and your other 2 cards jacked the 5% rate you had up to 30%, which then put you near or over the edge on cashflow.
So you refuse to hire someone that was unlucky enough to be caught walking down the street while black
Last I checked, you can't actually get convicted for that. Armed robbery and assault is different.
You bought in Cali, didn't you? I'm so sorry.
If this is true then discriminating against bad credit is really discriminating against a race
There may be differences in FICO score distributions when sliced by ethinc group, but that only matters if there is some bias in the measurement. It may be that black people are on the whole poorer than average, or there may be some cultural issue (like some of the Katrina refugees that spent 6 months in a hotel in texas without looking for work). Whatever the reason, FICO doesn't appear to be racist; I don't know what inputs it uses, but it doesn't seem to have much ability to infer race, unless they keep a list of 'black' names or ding you for living in a redlined area.
Basically, all I'm saying is that discriminating against people with bad credit isn't racist just because black people have worse credit on average.
When you check your own credit rating, that counts against you as well, but not nearly as much as someone else checking your rating.
No it doesn't. You checking your credit (or your bank checking it, which they probably do each month) doesn't do anything. This is called a soft hit. If you go apply for a car loan, that's a hard hit, and it will affect your score for a short while. Also, don't open too many cards in a 12 month period.
Savings accounts aren't investment tools.
IngDirect pays 4.4% on savings (5.0 - 5.2 on CDs). How is that not an investment tool? I'm willing to forego 0.8% for the ability to pull money out at any time. Naturally, this is for the first 5-10k only.
Be careful to distinguish accounting profit vs cashflow. I can see a lot of situations (And I'm sure there are a lot of case studies available) where companies grow themselves into insolvency.