On the plus side, there's probably less need for railings on the rooftops and pavement cleaning/repair services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
>> fitbit isn't classified as a medical device but as a health monitoring device
And...the information collected by corporations from these things is generally considered to be exempt from HIPAA because it's "fitness information" not "medical information". We've heard the rules of the game.
However, there's a lot of money at stake here because corporations are using these things to decide who should pay more or less for health plans, and the more unscrupulous companies may also be using everyone's "optional" fitness information to weed out the laziest/largest/oldest/pregnant employees in their work force. I'd expect a lot more class action lawsuits to fly before this is all over.
Overpriced fad gadgets turn out to be crap - film at 11.
I was not sad to see fools parted with their money here except when employers started buying into them and tying health care costs to inaccurate electronic tethers. After a couple of those experiences, I know the technical groups I worked in learned how inaccurate these things were, or gamed the telemetry systems behind them (hint: their web services are usually crap/hackable) so they could avoid health care price increases without actually taking the 3000 steps, checking their pulse, or playing whatever other nanny games the system wanted that month.
First, the whining about Congressional budget: "Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Congress' budget-cutting mantra" - April 18, 2016 https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2016/04/long-airport-security-lines-are-symptom-congress-budget-cutting-mantra "With many travelers missing or nearly missing their flights, we can fix this problem in the long term by increasing the funding for TSA to do its job..."
Then, when Congress forks over some taxdollars, a half-hearted "this might help but we could use more" with most of the money going to pad existing employees paychecks in the form of overtime "Help is coming for long airport security lines" http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/12/pf/tsa-reallocation-approved-airport-security-lines/ "TSA, asked Congress last week to be able to shift $34 million to increase the number of officers at airports... Around $26 million would pay for additional overtime and part-time hours, and around $8 million would go toward the hiring of 768 officers"
Which is followed by more whining: "T.S.A. Offers New Measures Intended to Cut Airport Gridlock This Summer" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/tsa-airport-security-lines.html?_r=0 "The long wait times we're seeing now are a direct result of Congress’s failure to give T.S.A. the money it needs to do its job," said J. David Cox Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents airline screeners.
Which is why it still looks like the game was to shake down the travelling public until they asked Congress to open up the checkbox. Only they fucked up this time by getting too greedy and pissing too many important people off.
>> TSA administrator Peter V. Neffenger has shaken up his leadership team
Translated: thrown his #2 under the bus in the hopes he gets blamed for the #1 guy screwing up.
More realistically, the command to slow down came from the top, to put political pressure on Congress to increase the TSA's budget. (Remember all the news stories crying about "not enough staffing" a few weeks ago?)
It's really time to disband the agency, only now it will be impossible since there are entrenched federal jobs.
>> laundry smells bad because of...chemicals...which can't...be washed out on an eco-friendly 20C cycle >> conserve the environment by reducing the wash temperature and the use of biodegradable washing products
Long story short, they seem to be telling us at least one of two things: - you shouldn't bother with "environment friendly" detergents and washing techniques if you have kids, dogs or ever work out - we now know why filthy hippies smell that way
I'm pretty sure if it came to "family smelling bad" or "saving the twin-tuffed arselizard" my wife would be on the side of "nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure." Personally, I can't see washing temperatures dropping at all, but I would expect the equivalent of a "detergent catalytic converter" to become part of our washing machine wastewater system in twenty years - there aren't many good reasons to keep flushing that stuff into our sewers and septic tanks.
>> worst fucking console generation since the invention of home gaming
I own a Wii U. I feel the same way. Even this game isn't coming to the Wii U. Even retread titles like Zelda aren't coming to the Wii U. Like you said, it's a good thing I still have a decent PC. My kids are likely to skip consoles altogether, having played old school games on emulators and now just attached to their individual phones and tablets. But there's still the "party" aspect of all playing on the same screen that's fading fast, and Nintendo (and others) should know better.
The title implies that Apple "rules" smartphones today...but Google's share is 80% of the market. Logically, the reaction to a future "oh nos Apple is dead" should be "meh - another second-tier player will move in and secure that niche"
>> film-making pool that all cable television companies are required to put a percentage of their revenue into, which is then doled out to make Canadian movies and television shows (most of which nobody actually watches, of course.)
Bullshit - Terrence and Phillip came from SOMEWHERE, didn't they? Plus we wouldn't have had "Storage War Canada" or "Underneath the Tunes" without this valuable resource.
Birds. When their flight paths conflict with wind turbines or solar concentrators, birds are converted back into their base elements (through incineration or mechanical separation).
This. And given how much the mafia depends on reliable money laundering, I'm a little surprised to see former CEO Mark Karpeles still above the waterline.
>> The only people who dare to imagine a better society are the radicals, and we all know what happens to radicals in China.
And back here in the US, those of us who dare to imagine a better society are mostly ignored and then arrogantly told that our preferred candidate should "do the right thing" (endorse the status quo) when we try to use our existing democratic process to advance our agenda. Sounds like becoming a radical might be the smarter course of action...:)
Too lazy to RTFA, but a "Fifty Cent" party sounds like a good time.
>> China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens
Hmm...that seems low. Here in the US, I'll bet we're at least over a billion on this statistic. e.g., http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/18/ap-perpetuates-tale-benghazi-attack-caused-anti-is/
Kids wanted "iPads". I bought 'em $70-ish Android tablets instead. When they break? So what - buy another. Plus any app you'd want to use is probably free, and you don't even have to hook a credit card up to your account to access the Android app store, which is especially nice because it prevents people from making "in-app purchases". (The family uses probably eight Android devices at the moment, and I think the only app anyone's ever bought was the one time my son wanted a full copy of Minecraft on his tablet.)
Great, let's remake the exact same story for the Wii U so it's boring but now we'll incorporate the touchscreen to make it nearly impossible to play and kill off the franchise!
>> People love Zelda
Ain't nobody got time for that. Let's skip a generation and see if people will forget about Link!
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On the plus side, there's probably less need for railings on the rooftops and pavement cleaning/repair services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
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>> fitbit isn't classified as a medical device but as a health monitoring device
And...the information collected by corporations from these things is generally considered to be exempt from HIPAA because it's "fitness information" not "medical information". We've heard the rules of the game.
However, there's a lot of money at stake here because corporations are using these things to decide who should pay more or less for health plans, and the more unscrupulous companies may also be using everyone's "optional" fitness information to weed out the laziest/largest/oldest/pregnant employees in their work force. I'd expect a lot more class action lawsuits to fly before this is all over.
Overpriced fad gadgets turn out to be crap - film at 11.
I was not sad to see fools parted with their money here except when employers started buying into them and tying health care costs to inaccurate electronic tethers. After a couple of those experiences, I know the technical groups I worked in learned how inaccurate these things were, or gamed the telemetry systems behind them (hint: their web services are usually crap/hackable) so they could avoid health care price increases without actually taking the 3000 steps, checking their pulse, or playing whatever other nanny games the system wanted that month.
>> It isn't a power play to increase their budget
I disagree.
First, the whining about Congressional budget:
"Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Congress' budget-cutting mantra" - April 18, 2016
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2016/04/long-airport-security-lines-are-symptom-congress-budget-cutting-mantra
"With many travelers missing or nearly missing their flights, we can fix this problem in the long term by increasing the funding for TSA to do its job..."
Then, when Congress forks over some taxdollars, a half-hearted "this might help but we could use more" with most of the money going to pad existing employees paychecks in the form of overtime
"Help is coming for long airport security lines"
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/12/pf/tsa-reallocation-approved-airport-security-lines/
"TSA, asked Congress last week to be able to shift $34 million to increase the number of officers at airports... Around $26 million would pay for additional overtime and part-time hours, and around $8 million would go toward the hiring of 768 officers"
Which is followed by more whining:
"T.S.A. Offers New Measures Intended to Cut Airport Gridlock This Summer"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/tsa-airport-security-lines.html?_r=0
"The long wait times we're seeing now are a direct result of Congress’s failure to give T.S.A. the money it needs to do its job," said J. David Cox Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents airline screeners.
Which is why it still looks like the game was to shake down the travelling public until they asked Congress to open up the checkbox. Only they fucked up this time by getting too greedy and pissing too many important people off.
>> TSA administrator Peter V. Neffenger has shaken up his leadership team
Translated: thrown his #2 under the bus in the hopes he gets blamed for the #1 guy screwing up.
More realistically, the command to slow down came from the top, to put political pressure on Congress to increase the TSA's budget. (Remember all the news stories crying about "not enough staffing" a few weeks ago?)
It's really time to disband the agency, only now it will be impossible since there are entrenched federal jobs.
Here's a list of "other stuff" found in there.
http://www.washwise.org.au/_documents/Laundry%20detergent%20ingredients%20info%20sheet.pdf
>> laundry smells bad because of...chemicals...which can't...be washed out on an eco-friendly 20C cycle
>> conserve the environment by reducing the wash temperature and the use of biodegradable washing products
Long story short, they seem to be telling us at least one of two things:
- you shouldn't bother with "environment friendly" detergents and washing techniques if you have kids, dogs or ever work out
- we now know why filthy hippies smell that way
I'm pretty sure if it came to "family smelling bad" or "saving the twin-tuffed arselizard" my wife would be on the side of "nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure." Personally, I can't see washing temperatures dropping at all, but I would expect the equivalent of a "detergent catalytic converter" to become part of our washing machine wastewater system in twenty years - there aren't many good reasons to keep flushing that stuff into our sewers and septic tanks.
>> This would make most of Earth uninhabitable to humans
Are you sure you're counting the large landmasses in Canada and Siberia?
>> worst fucking console generation since the invention of home gaming
I own a Wii U. I feel the same way. Even this game isn't coming to the Wii U. Even retread titles like Zelda aren't coming to the Wii U. Like you said, it's a good thing I still have a decent PC. My kids are likely to skip consoles altogether, having played old school games on emulators and now just attached to their individual phones and tablets. But there's still the "party" aspect of all playing on the same screen that's fading fast, and Nintendo (and others) should know better.
The title implies that Apple "rules" smartphones today...but Google's share is 80% of the market. Logically, the reaction to a future "oh nos Apple is dead" should be "meh - another second-tier player will move in and secure that niche"
>> film-making pool that all cable television companies are required to put a percentage of their revenue into, which is then doled out to make Canadian movies and television shows (most of which nobody actually watches, of course.)
Bullshit - Terrence and Phillip came from SOMEWHERE, didn't they? Plus we wouldn't have had "Storage War Canada" or "Underneath the Tunes" without this valuable resource.
...and the elderly can trim the lawn they want me to stay off of. Maybe even catch the head of a rabbit once in a while for entertainment.
I code to get paid
When I work forty a week
Otherwise blow me
>> conflict minerals?
Birds. When their flight paths conflict with wind turbines or solar concentrators, birds are converted back into their base elements (through incineration or mechanical separation).
This. And given how much the mafia depends on reliable money laundering, I'm a little surprised to see former CEO Mark Karpeles still above the waterline.
Wouldn't Microsoft itself be in trouble for "terrorist content" under its own definition?
>> depicts graphic violence, encourages violent action
Dead Space, Mortal Kombat, Medal of Honor...
>> endorses a terrorist organization or its acts
Star Wars Battlefront?
>> The only people who dare to imagine a better society are the radicals, and we all know what happens to radicals in China.
:)
And back here in the US, those of us who dare to imagine a better society are mostly ignored and then arrogantly told that our preferred candidate should "do the right thing" (endorse the status quo) when we try to use our existing democratic process to advance our agenda. Sounds like becoming a radical might be the smarter course of action...
Too lazy to RTFA, but a "Fifty Cent" party sounds like a good time.
>> China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens
Hmm...that seems low. Here in the US, I'll bet we're at least over a billion on this statistic.
e.g., http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/18/ap-perpetuates-tale-benghazi-attack-caused-anti-is/
Kids wanted "iPads". I bought 'em $70-ish Android tablets instead. When they break? So what - buy another. Plus any app you'd want to use is probably free, and you don't even have to hook a credit card up to your account to access the Android app store, which is especially nice because it prevents people from making "in-app purchases". (The family uses probably eight Android devices at the moment, and I think the only app anyone's ever bought was the one time my son wanted a full copy of Minecraft on his tablet.)
>> People love Starfox 64
Great, let's remake the exact same story for the Wii U so it's boring but now we'll incorporate the touchscreen to make it nearly impossible to play and kill off the franchise!
>> People love Zelda
Ain't nobody got time for that. Let's skip a generation and see if people will forget about Link!
How is Uwe Boll not attached to this?
>> Wait I am confused when you put neckbeards and symantec in the same sentence
This. No one buys Symantec unless their company culture consumes enterprise marketing pieces like "Gartner MQs" to figure what to buy.
>> Microsoft has long stopped caring about Skype for Linux
And Lync for Mac. And...
>> size of a football pitch
So...about 40 yards then? I think I saw a quarterback throw that far once.