Wikipedia states that in 2011 we spent $49.5 billion on foreign aid, out of a budget of 3540 billion (3.54 trillion). That means that foreign aid is ~1.4% of the budget. But that aid makes us look a lot better on the international stage, at least to those who pay attention. 134 million for child survival, 1.89 billion for food, 29 million to fight AIDS. Are you saying that the post office delivering mail to your doro is more important to you than feeding children who would otherwise starve?
I say screw USPS, can't remember the last time they delivered a letter I wanted and UPS and FedEx will be happy to deliver packages
Perhaps you could try writing a letter to someone, and maybe get one in return? People love physical mail, and have for a thousand years; that's why the postal service is basically the only government service in the Constitution.
Because the money we give Egypt isn't enough to save the postal service.
Because we are essentially leasing desert training grounds from Egypt--training grounds that saved American lives in both Iraq wars, and probably in 'actions' that we've never heard of. And having those unexploded munitions lying in their desert, instead of ours, means that it's not our children (or other citizens) who get blown up by them.
And besides, 30 million Americans is less than 10% of the population. The price difference means that it costs the same to deliver to those 30 million Americans with door service, as it does 47 million Americans with curbside service. Why should my tax dollars support special treatment for 10% of Americans?
I'd love the police to just be able to scan vehicles to see which are active, which plates do not match vehicles and which vehicles have insurance.
We are plagued by people who do not have valid registrations, borrow or steal plates and have no insurance.
Bust 'em on the spot.
This would make it more difficult for criminals to steal cars; they'd have to take some extra time to disable the tracking device and put some out-of-state plates on the car.
I'm pretty sure that noh8rz9 is one of those people who thinks that the government should spend who-knows-how-much-money to move who-knows-how-many-people at the expense of the taxpayer. Of course, noh8rz9 isn't one of those taxpayers.
With citizens, bus fare is not the only concern - the bigger concern is having a house, job, food etc. once they get somewhere else. For prisoners, that's all taken care of for them...
So the citizens should just commit crimes, so that they can get relocated for free!
Of course the citizens are left to fend for themselves but the prisoners are evacuated in air conditioned buses.
Are you suggesting that the state should force the citizens to leave? Or are you suggesting that the citizens are too poor to afford bus fare for an air-conditioned greyhound bus ride?
Written communication by an American cannot possibly be distinguished from written communication by a foreigner. Grammar? 2nd languages? How are they able to tell who's who?
If they accidentally targeted even one American, they've just breached the constitution and are in violation of US laws that came before their grandfathers making them criminals. Why has nobody in the government been arrested over this?
Because they think they can get away with anything. Scary stuff.
You have to prove that they're doing it. And you can't do that because the information is classified.
Are you claiming that superstition and white-male supremacy are not compelling? They sure seem to move ignorant, bigoted voters.
...because superstition and white-male supremacy are the reason that Obama won the past two elections? I'm not sure I follow. Or are you saying that you yourself are ignorant, and bigoted against white males, and that's why you voted for Obama?
When I saw the second part of the blurb, I thought, "They *say* there wasn't a zombie apocalypse and that it was just a security flaw, but maybe that's only because they managed to contain the outbreak in Montana.":-)
I grew up in Montana. I've been to Great Falls. If there were zombies in February, the zombies arose from the grave and them promptly iced over, and were then disassembled using chainsaws.
I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count two people as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.
What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.
See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.
So, one person is now a mass shooting?
I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count a single person as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.
What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.
See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.
And why the hell would there be $2.3 million in service costs to destroy $170,500 worth of equipment?
RTFS.
service costs, temporary infrastructure acquisitions and equipment destruction
Or, RTFA for the details:
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.
Still outrageously stupid, but I think $4,300 to destroy $170,500 is a reasonable cost. I think the other costs--the ones with 6 or 7 figures--are the ones you should focus on.
But really, isn't giving US companies #2.3 million what the Economic Development Administration is supposed to be doing anyways? Better than spending it on the salaries for these government employees.
Can you point out a free OR open-source implementation of a phone-home BIOS on a laptop? No. No one can, as there ain't one. And a closed-cource security feature is a scam, plain and simple. I'd stay away from laptops that HAVE that feature, even if "deactivated" (how would you know?) by default.
WillHPower did not make FOSS a requirement; why are you making it a requirement? Can you explain why a closed-source security feature must by a scam?
WillHPower wants to get his laptop back if it is stolen. He's not asking for ideological purity. He knows that if his laptop has a tracking device that the tracking data could be used by law enforcement against him. That's what tracking software does; it tracks. That is not a bug, that's a feature, and is actually the feature he wants to have. Apparently he doesn't wear tinfoil; he's not required to. It is his right as a thinking person to choose to be paranoid, or not be paranoid.
The best solution is some form of hardware lo-jack. Maybe a GPS transmitter that can fit in one of the external ports on his laptop, if that isn't built in already.
The problem is if they ever charge you with terrorism because the firecrackers you throw hit the wrong spot. Would you like a death penalty for an accident? Setting precedents is dangerous, including the one of making this all up part.
One of the below posters states that there's a 1/4 ounce size requirement for the weapon to be considered a WMD, so that excludes your typical firework stand fireworks. And if you throw the fireworks at a fuel storage tank, or at a natural gas pipeline transmission station, you would be charged with negligence of some sort, even if you didn't intend to blow up anything. Being an idiot is no excuse for doing dangerous things in a careless manner.
I wonder if the German government stores a database of every one of their citizens phone? If they do, was that database used to catch these guys? Why can the Germans catch Islamic extremists using remote control planes, but the American government cannot catch Islamic extremists using pressure cookers?
Because ordinary people buy pressure cookers all the time. It's not a purchase that will be flagged; pressure cookers are not inherently dangerous, or typically used for dangerous purchases. On the other hand, buying explosives WILL get you flagged. I wouldn't be surprised if buying $200 worth of ammunition or $50 worth of gunpowder would get your other recent purchases reviewed. And if someone see's "remote control" anything on that list of purchases, they're gonna come after you.
Sounds like they are regulating it incorrectly for 2013 then. Why worry about what, when you can easily control how often. Limit each participant to some amount.
This whole thing has too much legacy cruft it seems like from the outside looking in.
So if there are, say, 525600 licensed ham operators, each one gets to broadcast for exactly one minute every year?
I would be VERY disappointed if there wasn't at least one reference. After all, if Wreck-It Ralph can have a Jenkins reference, then surely the actual WoW movie can.
Doctor's may be immune to discipline but nurses are not.
Nursing schools are cranking out young, low wage nurses, for which the hospitals are looking for any reason to get rid of the higher paid and older nurses... I know a nurse, she's in her 50s, been an RN all her life and still is forced to work x-mas and Thanksgiving otherwise her hospital will replace her with the girls coming out of the local nursing school.
Reminds me of the programming industry...
Are you saying that if you get sick on Thanksgiving it would be best, medically speaking, to only have inexperienced nurses treating you? As a patient, you would feel okay knowing that the experienced nurses were home with their families, while you were being treated by newbies?
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Wikipedia states that in 2011 we spent $49.5 billion on foreign aid, out of a budget of 3540 billion (3.54 trillion). That means that foreign aid is ~1.4% of the budget. But that aid makes us look a lot better on the international stage, at least to those who pay attention. 134 million for child survival, 1.89 billion for food, 29 million to fight AIDS. Are you saying that the post office delivering mail to your doro is more important to you than feeding children who would otherwise starve?
I say screw USPS, can't remember the last time they delivered a letter I wanted and UPS and FedEx will be happy to deliver packages
Perhaps you could try writing a letter to someone, and maybe get one in return? People love physical mail, and have for a thousand years; that's why the postal service is basically the only government service in the Constitution.
Because we are essentially leasing desert training grounds from Egypt--training grounds that saved American lives in both Iraq wars, and probably in 'actions' that we've never heard of. And having those unexploded munitions lying in their desert, instead of ours, means that it's not our children (or other citizens) who get blown up by them.
And besides, 30 million Americans is less than 10% of the population. The price difference means that it costs the same to deliver to those 30 million Americans with door service, as it does 47 million Americans with curbside service. Why should my tax dollars support special treatment for 10% of Americans?
Actually, in this case it means quite the opposite; investing your bitcoins in something (a scam in particular) is worse than investing _in_ bitcoins.
If the investors had merely been sitting on their bitcoins they would have gotten the returns he promised (although in dollar value).
Apparently, trusting your money to someone whose username begins with "pirate" is a good way to get your savings keelhauled.
Yarr!
The paper said that the new congestion control algorithms are both more performant -and- more reliable.
I'm sure that the designer of the Hindenberg said the same thing!
I'd love the police to just be able to scan vehicles to see which are active, which plates do not match vehicles and which vehicles have insurance.
We are plagued by people who do not have valid registrations, borrow or steal plates and have no insurance.
Bust 'em on the spot.
This would make it more difficult for criminals to steal cars; they'd have to take some extra time to disable the tracking device and put some out-of-state plates on the car.
I'm pretty sure that noh8rz9 is one of those people who thinks that the government should spend who-knows-how-much-money to move who-knows-how-many-people at the expense of the taxpayer. Of course, noh8rz9 isn't one of those taxpayers.
With citizens, bus fare is not the only concern - the bigger concern is having a house, job, food etc. once they get somewhere else. For prisoners, that's all taken care of for them...
So the citizens should just commit crimes, so that they can get relocated for free!
Of course the citizens are left to fend for themselves but the prisoners are evacuated in air conditioned buses.
Are you suggesting that the state should force the citizens to leave? Or are you suggesting that the citizens are too poor to afford bus fare for an air-conditioned greyhound bus ride?
Written communication by an American cannot possibly be distinguished from written communication by a foreigner. Grammar? 2nd languages? How are they able to tell who's who?
If they accidentally targeted even one American, they've just breached the constitution and are in violation of US laws that came before their grandfathers making them criminals. Why has nobody in the government been arrested over this?
Because they think they can get away with anything. Scary stuff.
You have to prove that they're doing it. And you can't do that because the information is classified.
Are you claiming that superstition and white-male supremacy are not compelling? They sure seem to move ignorant, bigoted voters.
...because superstition and white-male supremacy are the reason that Obama won the past two elections? I'm not sure I follow. Or are you saying that you yourself are ignorant, and bigoted against white males, and that's why you voted for Obama?
When I saw the second part of the blurb, I thought, "They *say* there wasn't a zombie apocalypse and that it was just a security flaw, but maybe that's only because they managed to contain the outbreak in Montana." :-)
I grew up in Montana. I've been to Great Falls. If there were zombies in February, the zombies arose from the grave and them promptly iced over, and were then disassembled using chainsaws.
You can't count or read. You didn't even need to follow the link to find that it was more than one. You are not intelligent enough to debate.
So, two people is now a mass shooting?
No. The FBI defines mass murder as four or more murders with no cooling-off period.
I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count two people as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.
What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.
See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.
So, one person is now a mass shooting?
I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count a single person as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.
What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.
See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.
And why the hell would there be $2.3 million in service costs to destroy $170,500 worth of equipment?
RTFS.
service costs, temporary infrastructure acquisitions and equipment destruction
Or, RTFA for the details:
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.
Still outrageously stupid, but I think $4,300 to destroy $170,500 is a reasonable cost. I think the other costs--the ones with 6 or 7 figures--are the ones you should focus on.
But really, isn't giving US companies #2.3 million what the Economic Development Administration is supposed to be doing anyways? Better than spending it on the salaries for these government employees.
Can you point out a free OR open-source implementation of a phone-home BIOS on a laptop? No. No one can, as there ain't one. And a closed-cource security feature is a scam, plain and simple. I'd stay away from laptops that HAVE that feature, even if "deactivated" (how would you know?) by default.
WillHPower did not make FOSS a requirement; why are you making it a requirement? Can you explain why a closed-source security feature must by a scam?
WillHPower wants to get his laptop back if it is stolen. He's not asking for ideological purity. He knows that if his laptop has a tracking device that the tracking data could be used by law enforcement against him. That's what tracking software does; it tracks. That is not a bug, that's a feature, and is actually the feature he wants to have. Apparently he doesn't wear tinfoil; he's not required to. It is his right as a thinking person to choose to be paranoid, or not be paranoid.
The best solution is some form of hardware lo-jack. Maybe a GPS transmitter that can fit in one of the external ports on his laptop, if that isn't built in already.
How does google benefit by eliminating advertisement revenue? Where did this policy originate?
Possibly with advertisers who weren't aware that their ads might be shown next to pictures of goatse.
The problem is if they ever charge you with terrorism because the firecrackers you throw hit the wrong spot. Would you like a death penalty for an accident? Setting precedents is dangerous, including the one of making this all up part.
One of the below posters states that there's a 1/4 ounce size requirement for the weapon to be considered a WMD, so that excludes your typical firework stand fireworks. And if you throw the fireworks at a fuel storage tank, or at a natural gas pipeline transmission station, you would be charged with negligence of some sort, even if you didn't intend to blow up anything. Being an idiot is no excuse for doing dangerous things in a careless manner.
I wouldn't be surprised if buying $200 worth of ammunition or $50 worth of gunpowder
You just described millions of people in the US.
And your point is...? We're talking about the government that was interested in the phone records of every Verizon customer for 3 months.
I wonder if the German government stores a database of every one of their citizens phone? If they do, was that database used to catch these guys? Why can the Germans catch Islamic extremists using remote control planes, but the American government cannot catch Islamic extremists using pressure cookers?
Because ordinary people buy pressure cookers all the time. It's not a purchase that will be flagged; pressure cookers are not inherently dangerous, or typically used for dangerous purchases. On the other hand, buying explosives WILL get you flagged. I wouldn't be surprised if buying $200 worth of ammunition or $50 worth of gunpowder would get your other recent purchases reviewed. And if someone see's "remote control" anything on that list of purchases, they're gonna come after you.
Sounds like they are regulating it incorrectly for 2013 then. Why worry about what, when you can easily control how often. Limit each participant to some amount.
This whole thing has too much legacy cruft it seems like from the outside looking in.
So if there are, say, 525600 licensed ham operators, each one gets to broadcast for exactly one minute every year?
Most at 30 are just smart enough to pretend otherwise to avoid arousing politically correct morons.
FTFY
ha ha...you said "arousing"...
I would be VERY disappointed if there wasn't at least one reference. After all, if Wreck-It Ralph can have a Jenkins reference, then surely the actual WoW movie can.
I hope there's a free trial for the movie, so I can try it out before committing to a subscription.
Yep. it's called a "movie trailer".
Doctor's may be immune to discipline but nurses are not.
Nursing schools are cranking out young, low wage nurses, for which the hospitals are looking for any reason to get rid of the higher paid and older nurses... I know a nurse, she's in her 50s, been an RN all her life and still is forced to work x-mas and Thanksgiving otherwise her hospital will replace her with the girls coming out of the local nursing school.
Reminds me of the programming industry...
Are you saying that if you get sick on Thanksgiving it would be best, medically speaking, to only have inexperienced nurses treating you? As a patient, you would feel okay knowing that the experienced nurses were home with their families, while you were being treated by newbies?