got any data to back up that blacks are being targeted, rather than just poor people or people who are dressed wrong?
Center for Constitutional Rights report, coming out of their case Floyd et al v. City of New York. The basic summary: roughly 10% of those stopped and frisked are white, 45% of New York residents are white. For blacks and Hispanics, it's 80% of stops compared to 50% of New Yorkers.
It's nonsense, that's what it is. Same as when the business press talks about "uncertainty" - it's always uncertain what's going to happen in business, and what they're really saying is "There's a slight chance that the federal government won't just do exactly what we in industry want, Waaaa!."
In 2000, it got bad enough in Florida that Fidel Castro half-seriously offered to send Cuban election observers.
The disgrace in 2004 (Bush Jr's re-election) was in Ohio, where: - The CEO of the Ohio-based voting machine manufacturer, Diebold, promised to deliver Ohio for the Bush campaign. - The election results differed significantly from exit polling, suggesting some sort of problem. - Voter registration forms from the northeastern area of the state (which is heavily Democratic) were rejected by the Republican Secretary of State because they were filled out on the wrong kind of paper stock. - Voting machine distribution was inconsistent, ensuring that people in more Republican precincts could vote in 15-30 minutes while in more Democratic precincts voting took over 3 hours. - There was some evidence of forged audits.
There's a lot of reasons for that, and one of them is that your Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, is strongly non-partisan. He sees his job as first and foremost ensuring a free and fair election in New Hampshire, and because of that he's kept his job even as governors, executive councillors, and legislatures have come and gone. That means, among other things, that his salary isn't tied to who wins, which eliminates any incentive he'd have to cheat.
Other states aren't so lucky - in many states, if the "wrong" party wins the election, the Secretary of State is out of a job, whereas manipulating an election result has little if any consequence. Not fixing the voting process makes fixing the vote much easier, so it's great for the Katherine Harris's of the world.
At least Linux Mint's installer, and I think Ubuntu's as well, figure out that Windows is already on your system during the install process, and set up Grub so you can easily just choose "Windows" when the computer is booting up.
In other words, the "powers that be" know about the problem, and have a pretty good solution in place right now.
A lot worse for whom exactly? Certainly not the portions of the Syrian population that are getting killed by their own government.
I mean, how exactly would you react if the US government started dropping bombs on, say, Houston? Would you want the rest of the world to say "Hey, that's better than having a Texan in the White House!"
Like most other entities, the US has done some good things, and some evil things.
Good things include: - Starting a string of revolutions that freed a lot of Europeans as well as Americans. - Winning WWII (shared credit to the UK and the Commonwealth, France, the USSR, and quite a few other countries and organizations) - Winning the Cold War (again, lots of shared credit, including to Mikhail Gorbachev for risking life and limb to stand up against his hardline opponents) - Lots of fantastic scientific discoveries and inventions, including but not limited to the light bulb, the airplane, the automobile, the personal computer (including lots of components for said computer). - Landing on the moon. That was awesome.
Evil things include: - Genocide against the American Indians (estimated at about 10 million people) - Enslavement of Africans (about 12 million people) - Installing and supporting oppressive totalitarian dictators who do the bidding of US-based multinationals. Some of the better known cases of this include Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Manuel Noriega in Nicaragua and Panama, and more recently Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. - The Vietnam War: This goes in the "evil" column for me due to the millions of civilians dead and the war aim of preventing a country from choosing its own leaders.
So if the US were demonstrably closely allied with oppressive regimes in the Middle East, would you want Wikileaks to expose information about those regimes and their relationships with the US?
There's even a good argument that the US acts as an oppressive regime in the Middle East, specifically in the countries it's currently occupying.
It depends entirely on what you mean by "work": If your goal is to protect property rights (which @roman_mir believes is the most important goal, e.g. this thread versus yours truly), then yes it works. If your goal is to minimize premature death caused by lack of proper treatment, then no, it doesn't, because those who can't afford medical care don't get it and die.
Unfortunately, I don't think legislators understand how research universities really work.
Sure they do - they cost the state money, threaten major donors with research about such silly things as water pollution and repetitive stress injuries, and turn out citizens who might be smart enough to realize they're being screwed over by those legislators. That's why the entire budget should be allocated instead to the football team.
It's nice that you all have public transit systems, but even if we had a nice public transit system, I'd still not want to use it. I *like* not having to share a train with hundreds of my closest friends when I go to work every morning. I get in my car, turn on my stereo and a half hour later, I'm at work.
As somebody who shares a bus with a bunch of people every day, here's why I like doing that: 1. It's cheaper for me than driving and parking where I work. 2. It's very little difference in time. 3. It gives me a good excuse to not stay 5 minutes later at work for stupid reasons ("sorry, gotta run, going to miss my bus") 4. It gives me an hour to read a book.
Yes, there's an occasional weirdo, but I consider that a worthwhile tradeoff. There's also an occasional hot chick, too.
I once ended up on a plane next to a Hollywood actress. I started asking about work she's done, and of course I hadn't heard of it, and definitely didn't know who she was. She explained that almost all actresses and actors in Hollywood made a decent but not great living doing bit parts in various movies and TV shows, and that it was a fairly good job all told but not one that would ever make her millions.
If he's not a moron, Zuckerburg has diversified his holdings in Facebook, so he's now holding millions of shares not only of Facebook but also a wide range of the S&P 500. So yeah, he could lose half of it in the net stock market crash, which would make him only half as fabulously wealthy as he is now, which is still fabulously wealthy.
Nah, a *real* captain of industry would bribe / threaten the politicians into providing public funding to build electric lines, transformers, etc, and then charge up the wazoo for everyone to use it. And if anything goes wrong, just say that the subsidies weren't high enough,so to do anything to fix it the rates will have to go up.
Another way of paraphrasing it: "Those are some nice national economies you have there. It would be a real shame if we crippled all your major companies by refusing to allow anybody in the EU to use our software."
Not really, their logic goes like this: (1) If it's mine, it's mine. (2) If it's yours, it's really mine. (3) If I want it, there's some excuse as to why it's really mine.
In other words, major corporations have exactly the same set of morals as your average 2-year-old.
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As a network engineer once said, to ACK off a horse is quite a SYN,
Yeah, but pot will be ok.
got any data to back up that blacks are being targeted, rather than just poor people or people who are dressed wrong?
Center for Constitutional Rights report, coming out of their case Floyd et al v. City of New York. The basic summary: roughly 10% of those stopped and frisked are white, 45% of New York residents are white. For blacks and Hispanics, it's 80% of stops compared to 50% of New Yorkers.
It's nonsense, that's what it is. Same as when the business press talks about "uncertainty" - it's always uncertain what's going to happen in business, and what they're really saying is "There's a slight chance that the federal government won't just do exactly what we in industry want, Waaaa!."
In 2000, it got bad enough in Florida that Fidel Castro half-seriously offered to send Cuban election observers.
The disgrace in 2004 (Bush Jr's re-election) was in Ohio, where:
- The CEO of the Ohio-based voting machine manufacturer, Diebold, promised to deliver Ohio for the Bush campaign.
- The election results differed significantly from exit polling, suggesting some sort of problem.
- Voter registration forms from the northeastern area of the state (which is heavily Democratic) were rejected by the Republican Secretary of State because they were filled out on the wrong kind of paper stock.
- Voting machine distribution was inconsistent, ensuring that people in more Republican precincts could vote in 15-30 minutes while in more Democratic precincts voting took over 3 hours.
- There was some evidence of forged audits.
There's a lot of reasons for that, and one of them is that your Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, is strongly non-partisan. He sees his job as first and foremost ensuring a free and fair election in New Hampshire, and because of that he's kept his job even as governors, executive councillors, and legislatures have come and gone. That means, among other things, that his salary isn't tied to who wins, which eliminates any incentive he'd have to cheat.
Other states aren't so lucky - in many states, if the "wrong" party wins the election, the Secretary of State is out of a job, whereas manipulating an election result has little if any consequence. Not fixing the voting process makes fixing the vote much easier, so it's great for the Katherine Harris's of the world.
At least Linux Mint's installer, and I think Ubuntu's as well, figure out that Windows is already on your system during the install process, and set up Grub so you can easily just choose "Windows" when the computer is booting up.
In other words, the "powers that be" know about the problem, and have a pretty good solution in place right now.
Just because they don't have ties to the government doesn't mean they won't lie to you (or that they are not just idiots).
Why should I believe that?
Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took - I might have known!
... could be a lot worse.
A lot worse for whom exactly? Certainly not the portions of the Syrian population that are getting killed by their own government.
I mean, how exactly would you react if the US government started dropping bombs on, say, Houston? Would you want the rest of the world to say "Hey, that's better than having a Texan in the White House!"
Like most other entities, the US has done some good things, and some evil things.
Good things include:
- Starting a string of revolutions that freed a lot of Europeans as well as Americans.
- Winning WWII (shared credit to the UK and the Commonwealth, France, the USSR, and quite a few other countries and organizations)
- Winning the Cold War (again, lots of shared credit, including to Mikhail Gorbachev for risking life and limb to stand up against his hardline opponents)
- Lots of fantastic scientific discoveries and inventions, including but not limited to the light bulb, the airplane, the automobile, the personal computer (including lots of components for said computer).
- Landing on the moon. That was awesome.
Evil things include:
- Genocide against the American Indians (estimated at about 10 million people)
- Enslavement of Africans (about 12 million people)
- Installing and supporting oppressive totalitarian dictators who do the bidding of US-based multinationals. Some of the better known cases of this include Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Manuel Noriega in Nicaragua and Panama, and more recently Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
- The Vietnam War: This goes in the "evil" column for me due to the millions of civilians dead and the war aim of preventing a country from choosing its own leaders.
So if the US were demonstrably closely allied with oppressive regimes in the Middle East, would you want Wikileaks to expose information about those regimes and their relationships with the US?
There's even a good argument that the US acts as an oppressive regime in the Middle East, specifically in the countries it's currently occupying.
Fully privatized health care DID work.
It depends entirely on what you mean by "work": If your goal is to protect property rights (which @roman_mir believes is the most important goal, e.g. this thread versus yours truly), then yes it works. If your goal is to minimize premature death caused by lack of proper treatment, then no, it doesn't, because those who can't afford medical care don't get it and die.
Unfortunately, I don't think legislators understand how research universities really work.
Sure they do - they cost the state money, threaten major donors with research about such silly things as water pollution and repetitive stress injuries, and turn out citizens who might be smart enough to realize they're being screwed over by those legislators. That's why the entire budget should be allocated instead to the football team.
Also, an important rule to remember is that if you win the rat race, all you have is the privilege of being chief rat.
You are either from the USA or bizarrely uninformed - possibly both.
I thought the one implied the other.
And how do you run the room fan if the power is out?
I've used this technique too, btw, I'm just pointing out that it doesn't quite work in these conditions.
That's not a Higgs-Boson, that's yo mamma!
It's nice that you all have public transit systems, but even if we had a nice public transit system, I'd still not want to use it. I *like* not having to share a train with hundreds of my closest friends when I go to work every morning. I get in my car, turn on my stereo and a half hour later, I'm at work.
As somebody who shares a bus with a bunch of people every day, here's why I like doing that:
1. It's cheaper for me than driving and parking where I work.
2. It's very little difference in time.
3. It gives me a good excuse to not stay 5 minutes later at work for stupid reasons ("sorry, gotta run, going to miss my bus")
4. It gives me an hour to read a book.
Yes, there's an occasional weirdo, but I consider that a worthwhile tradeoff. There's also an occasional hot chick, too.
Have you no faith in the American Bar Association?
Of course I have no faith in the American Bar Association - at least half the bars in America serve Miller Lite.
I once ended up on a plane next to a Hollywood actress. I started asking about work she's done, and of course I hadn't heard of it, and definitely didn't know who she was. She explained that almost all actresses and actors in Hollywood made a decent but not great living doing bit parts in various movies and TV shows, and that it was a fairly good job all told but not one that would ever make her millions.
If he's not a moron, Zuckerburg has diversified his holdings in Facebook, so he's now holding millions of shares not only of Facebook but also a wide range of the S&P 500. So yeah, he could lose half of it in the net stock market crash, which would make him only half as fabulously wealthy as he is now, which is still fabulously wealthy.
Nah, a *real* captain of industry would bribe / threaten the politicians into providing public funding to build electric lines, transformers, etc, and then charge up the wazoo for everyone to use it. And if anything goes wrong, just say that the subsidies weren't high enough,so to do anything to fix it the rates will have to go up.
Anything else is socialism.
Another way of paraphrasing it:
"Those are some nice national economies you have there. It would be a real shame if we crippled all your major companies by refusing to allow anybody in the EU to use our software."
Not really, their logic goes like this: (1) If it's mine, it's mine. (2) If it's yours, it's really mine. (3) If I want it, there's some excuse as to why it's really mine.
In other words, major corporations have exactly the same set of morals as your average 2-year-old.