You are right the R or D matters little. The reasons are actually pretty simple.
Both parties threaten their junior members to tow the party line or they will work against them next election. And of course, holding power becomes the most important thing to members over time as the perks are without parallel, esp. power and ego stroking.
Majority of congresscritters don't really care that much about rule of law or the opinion of their constituents.
The reelection rates are so high that their is little actual reason for them to change their ways.
D & R do have different issues, e.g., Rs like guns, Ds like abortion on demand. But they share more in common, desire for power, using gov. to solve all problems, discounting personal liberty.
When you have the profits of a major corporation to draw upon you don't actually care about the price of cocaine or hookers. Megayachts sure. But not the roundoff errors. Ex-wives as a result of cocaine and hookers are another matter entirely.
Now if you are paying $10,000 per hour for prostitute, you are not actually paying for a prostitute, you are paying for a fantasy or status or something else. High end-sex prostitues are simply not expensive if you are make $10 million annually.
Sounds like this could change due to Congressional interest though. Major Cruise Lines Begin Posting Crime Stats. Admittedly this is crime stats not cruise ship deaths, but there is enough overlap death stats might be publicly known eventually.
“The effects we find are large, consistent and statistically very significant,” Marie told the Observer. “For example, we estimate that students who were no longer able to buy cannabis legally were 5% more likely to pass courses. The grade improvement this represents is about the same as having a qualified teacher and, more relevantly, similar to decreases in grades observed from reaching legal drinking age in the US.”
So, about the same.
I thought we already knew the academic impact of canibus use from the documentary Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Whether you believe in Adam and Eve or Mitochondrial Eve you believe that everyone on the planet is ultimately descended from a single pair of humans.
There are a few Bible believers that think God has taken a hand in human development since then (curse of Ham and the black race - a rather racist and vile view, probably others I've not heard of). But almost every religious and all Darwinists believe in variation within kind, and despite quite a bit of variation all living humans are of the same species.
There is certainly a mix of natural and non-natural evolution within the process of human evolution. For example, being selected for soldier duty based on observable characteristics. Being selected for death because you were Jewish and living in Nazi Germany are just 2 clear examples of artificial selection pressure.
Being considered a more desirable mate because you are tall, short, etc. clear falls in the natural selection category.
It is clear a mix of selection styles in the human population.
We also have environmental factors that affect height. Nutrition and health care are simply the most obvious factors. Given the short timescales for the amount of change and the fact that we also see similar changes in other countries as they have modernized we can be quite comfortable in assigning most of the modern change to environmental factor.
We also have plenty of examples of isolation populations of humans being considerably taller or shorter than average. So clearly genetics may also make a considerable difference. As populations interbreed, genetic differences become a more minor component in human variation.
Though the details may be of interest, the broad strokes of this question were already well-known and accepted by almost every person with a modern education.
Her history is actually kind of interesting. Her husband was previously governor of Texas but was convicted of a number of charges. Despite this, she able to overcome this and win the governorship defeating the Republican opponent in a landslide in the 1924 election.
Policywise, perhaps the most interesting thing was that she issued thousands of pardons to reduce prison overcrowding. Mostly those convicted for violation of prohibition laws.
Once again proving the adage that there is no such thing as bad press. Memories Pizza being a recent example too. There is even a fancy name for it, Succès de scandale -- the Wiki article has additional examples.
Of course this adage is really a case of selective memory. There is plenty of examples of bad press harming the subject. Plenty of businesses, and people are harmed by bad press. When I was young, the Tylenol scare occurred because some sicko poisoned some bottles of Tylenol. Had Johnson and Johnson done anything wrong, not at all. But they had to spend a ton of cash recovering from the bad press, including changing their bottling to include anti-tampering, having product pulled from the shelf, etc.
So what is the difference in stories like these? If enough people see the bad press as over the top or simply unfair, the bad press magically transforms in just press and the net outcome is positive for the P/R victim.
Way too many dependencies on Windows based software to the APIs in Windows for this to be realistic.
It would be much easier for MS to upgrade their Unix compatibility layer to be compatible with Linux, they could easily make their own distro that played well with Windows and even offer to sell support.
I limit password length on a few sites because it was of user requirement (all willing to agreed 40 or 80 char max). I figure this is long enough to satisfy most people that understand password security. Of course, I use a one way salted hash. So, I can't send the password back to the user on a reset, also often given as a requirement by the user.
Difference is, I won't do the last one though. Why the difference, pick your battles. 40 character limit, not really a big problem, not using a 1-way hash, big problem.
Upon further reading of the research article itself, I discovered that Dropbox created the meter and then shared it as zxcvbn instead of the other way around that I assumed. They apparently also liked the strength checking in the KeePass utility which is also open source.
Teach users what entropy is? That is unpossible (as Ralph Wiggins would say).
I have a friend who is clearly quite intelligent, but can't remember how to do cut and paste -- though I bet he knows more people by name than anyone I have ever known. Even a poor quality password meter probably helps password quality more than any single attempt to teach how to make good passwords. After all we have been trying to teach this as an industry for decades without much success.
The problem is that ad-hoc password strength measurement is usually pretty bad because writing a good meter is hard, although again something is usually better than nothing. Best practice would suggest reusing code from someone else, perhaps just as Dropbox did according to the article -- apparently zxcvbn. I am not claiming zxcvbn is actually good, just that the researchers referred to Dropbox favorably in this regard.
Any company or website that can recover your password is plain text is clearly run by idiots with respect to security. Consider it a blessing that they chose to reveal that to you clearly so that you can avoid them.
The problem in this case is not that Comcast is incompetent. It is that they are flat out lying. This is breach of oral contract. IANAL and certainly don't know the penalties in this case, but I know that legal damages are quite limited in my state -- i.e.. $500 max. Why do you think they won't write out any guarantees?
Comcast screwed my over too as I had checked in advanced, was assured it was wired for cable and only required a phone call to turn it on, etc. Of course, when I made the call took several calls to determine that it was not in fact ready or had ever wired to their network. wired. Fortunately infrastructure was in place and I go service turned on only 10 tens late, but it was not pleasant for me either.
Of course they are incompetent. But they are also lying monopolistic crooks.
No military reason? US casualty estimates for a conventional invasion were typically around 500,000 US casualties (though some were much higher or lower) and estimated Japanese casualties were usually higher. Non-nuclear attacks are also devastating, the fire-bombing of Tokyo likely killed about twice as the attack on Hiroshima
The US considered simply demonstrating a bomb to convince the Japanese to surrender, but ultimately it was decided that this would be more likely to be ineffective. Considering that Japan did not surrender after the first bomb was used this assessment was very likely accurate.
The purpose of the military is to defeat the enemy. If you can drop 2 atomic bombs and end the war without US casualties you have accomplished a large military victory at very low military cost to the US.
Argue against the use of nuclear attacks on Japan on other factors if you like, but stating there was no military reason reveals ignorance or worse on your part.
Probably would not be useful to exonerate as it would only say where your car was, not where you were. For some reason, circumstantial incriminating evidence is is often more likely to be accepted than exculpatory evidence. Of course, it should be the other way around. A good defense lawyer flips this back in your favor.
Due to a project I've worked on I know that depending on the state, that most likely 20-30% of of vehicles do not have valid insurance. I've heard this both from high level BMV and law enforcement. Just because you pass a law does not mean that it will be obeyed.
DES was approved by the FDA, so clearly the FDA was not helpful in preventing the drug from reaching the market.
Thalidomide was not approved by the FDA primarily due to bureaucratic delay. While the FDA doctors would not approve it as they were waiting for evidence it was safe and effective, they would have approved it eventually were it not for the birth defects that starting showing up in other countries. Drug testing protocols simply did not test pregnant women. I.e., the US was largely spared thalidomide babies because the approval process was slower than in other countries as there was nothing in the testing to date that would have prevented approval.
When you read a headline that FDA approves new drug able to prevent 10,000 deaths annually, rest assure this also means the FDA has been blocking a drug that would have prevented 10,000 annually, most likely for quite a few years.
The drug companies have considerable incentive to market new and expensive (non-generic) drugs. But the expense to bring new drugs to market is also very high, at least in part due to FDA rules. The very high costs tend to kill-off promising developments that would simply not be economical to develop. Real life can be a bit complicated.
The cop did not choke him -- this leaves a mark every time. He died of a heart attack. Were the cops guilty of brutality. Yes. Every takedown is brutal AFAIAC. I don't know if this met the legal definition of police brutality and neither do anyone else. But they did not choke him.
The law was brutal because NYC has to make sure they collect very high tobacco taxes
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You are right the R or D matters little. The reasons are actually pretty simple.
Both parties threaten their junior members to tow the party line or they will work against them next election. And of course, holding power becomes the most important thing to members over time as the perks are without parallel, esp. power and ego stroking.
Majority of congresscritters don't really care that much about rule of law or the opinion of their constituents.
The reelection rates are so high that their is little actual reason for them to change their ways.
D & R do have different issues, e.g., Rs like guns, Ds like abortion on demand. But they share more in common, desire for power, using gov. to solve all problems, discounting personal liberty.
When you have the profits of a major corporation to draw upon you don't actually care about the price of cocaine or hookers. Megayachts sure. But not the roundoff errors. Ex-wives as a result of cocaine and hookers are another matter entirely.
Now if you are paying $10,000 per hour for prostitute, you are not actually paying for a prostitute, you are paying for a fantasy or status or something else. High end-sex prostitues are simply not expensive if you are make $10 million annually.
Sounds like this could change due to Congressional interest though. Major Cruise Lines Begin Posting Crime Stats. Admittedly this is crime stats not cruise ship deaths, but there is enough overlap death stats might be publicly known eventually.
You mean like the classics, Godzilla vs. Magalon and Godzilla vs.Mechagodzilla? Actually the second one is not too bad for a Godzilla movie.
Well, had you read the article ...
“The effects we find are large, consistent and statistically very significant,” Marie told the Observer. “For example, we estimate that students who were no longer able to buy cannabis legally were 5% more likely to pass courses. The grade improvement this represents is about the same as having a qualified teacher and, more relevantly, similar to decreases in grades observed from reaching legal drinking age in the US.”
So, about the same.
I thought we already knew the academic impact of canibus use from the documentary Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Whether you believe in Adam and Eve or Mitochondrial Eve you believe that everyone on the planet is ultimately descended from a single pair of humans.
There are a few Bible believers that think God has taken a hand in human development since then (curse of Ham and the black race - a rather racist and vile view, probably others I've not heard of). But almost every religious and all Darwinists believe in variation within kind, and despite quite a bit of variation all living humans are of the same species.
There is certainly a mix of natural and non-natural evolution within the process of human evolution. For example, being selected for soldier duty based on observable characteristics. Being selected for death because you were Jewish and living in Nazi Germany are just 2 clear examples of artificial selection pressure.
Being considered a more desirable mate because you are tall, short, etc. clear falls in the natural selection category.
It is clear a mix of selection styles in the human population.
We also have environmental factors that affect height. Nutrition and health care are simply the most obvious factors. Given the short timescales for the amount of change and the fact that we also see similar changes in other countries as they have modernized we can be quite comfortable in assigning most of the modern change to environmental factor.
We also have plenty of examples of isolation populations of humans being considerably taller or shorter than average. So clearly genetics may also make a considerable difference. As populations interbreed, genetic differences become a more minor component in human variation.
Though the details may be of interest, the broad strokes of this question were already well-known and accepted by almost every person with a modern education.
Of course, it is a funny quote, but it almost certainly never happened.
Her history is actually kind of interesting. Her husband was previously governor of Texas but was convicted of a number of charges. Despite this, she able to overcome this and win the governorship defeating the Republican opponent in a landslide in the 1924 election.
Policywise, perhaps the most interesting thing was that she issued thousands of pardons to reduce prison overcrowding. Mostly those convicted for violation of prohibition laws.
Well, since you asked for it Law that forces pastor to marry gays in Idaho city
Once again proving the adage that there is no such thing as bad press. Memories Pizza being a recent example too. There is even a fancy name for it, Succès de scandale -- the Wiki article has additional examples.
Of course this adage is really a case of selective memory. There is plenty of examples of bad press harming the subject. Plenty of businesses, and people are harmed by bad press. When I was young, the Tylenol scare occurred because some sicko poisoned some bottles of Tylenol. Had Johnson and Johnson done anything wrong, not at all. But they had to spend a ton of cash recovering from the bad press, including changing their bottling to include anti-tampering, having product pulled from the shelf, etc.
So what is the difference in stories like these? If enough people see the bad press as over the top or simply unfair, the bad press magically transforms in just press and the net outcome is positive for the P/R victim.
Way too many dependencies on Windows based software to the APIs in Windows for this to be realistic.
It would be much easier for MS to upgrade their Unix compatibility layer to be compatible with Linux, they could easily make their own distro that played well with Windows and even offer to sell support.
Easy, they were used to D&D where infravision is defined in terms of distance, which is of course bad physics, even for D&D.
The article mentions they were able to detect humans up to 50 meters distant.
You won't, but lots of people will -- who remembers whether an arbitrary website disables cut and paste during password entry.
I limit password length on a few sites because it was of user requirement (all willing to agreed 40 or 80 char max). I figure this is long enough to satisfy most people that understand password security. Of course, I use a one way salted hash. So, I can't send the password back to the user on a reset, also often given as a requirement by the user.
Difference is, I won't do the last one though. Why the difference, pick your battles. 40 character limit, not really a big problem, not using a 1-way hash, big problem.
Does not matter if the browser block cut and paste. They user probably tries to use cut and paste anyway, so its still in the clipboard.
Of course, making use of this security hole means your computer is already compromised anyway.
Upon further reading of the research article itself, I discovered that Dropbox created the meter and then shared it as zxcvbn instead of the other way around that I assumed. They apparently also liked the strength checking in the KeePass utility which is also open source.
Teach users what entropy is? That is unpossible (as Ralph Wiggins would say).
I have a friend who is clearly quite intelligent, but can't remember how to do cut and paste -- though I bet he knows more people by name than anyone I have ever known. Even a poor quality password meter probably helps password quality more than any single attempt to teach how to make good passwords. After all we have been trying to teach this as an industry for decades without much success.
The problem is that ad-hoc password strength measurement is usually pretty bad because writing a good meter is hard, although again something is usually better than nothing. Best practice would suggest reusing code from someone else, perhaps just as Dropbox did according to the article -- apparently zxcvbn. I am not claiming zxcvbn is actually good, just that the researchers referred to Dropbox favorably in this regard.
Any company or website that can recover your password is plain text is clearly run by idiots with respect to security. Consider it a blessing that they chose to reveal that to you clearly so that you can avoid them.
The problem in this case is not that Comcast is incompetent. It is that they are flat out lying. This is breach of oral contract. IANAL and certainly don't know the penalties in this case, but I know that legal damages are quite limited in my state -- i.e.. $500 max. Why do you think they won't write out any guarantees?
Comcast screwed my over too as I had checked in advanced, was assured it was wired for cable and only required a phone call to turn it on, etc. Of course, when I made the call took several calls to determine that it was not in fact ready or had ever wired to their network. wired. Fortunately infrastructure was in place and I go service turned on only 10 tens late, but it was not pleasant for me either.
Of course they are incompetent. But they are also lying monopolistic crooks.
No military reason? US casualty estimates for a conventional invasion were typically around 500,000 US casualties (though some were much higher or lower) and estimated Japanese casualties were usually higher. Non-nuclear attacks are also devastating, the fire-bombing of Tokyo likely killed about twice as the attack on Hiroshima
The US considered simply demonstrating a bomb to convince the Japanese to surrender, but ultimately it was decided that this would be more likely to be ineffective. Considering that Japan did not surrender after the first bomb was used this assessment was very likely accurate.
The purpose of the military is to defeat the enemy. If you can drop 2 atomic bombs and end the war without US casualties you have accomplished a large military victory at very low military cost to the US.
Argue against the use of nuclear attacks on Japan on other factors if you like, but stating there was no military reason reveals ignorance or worse on your part.
Probably would not be useful to exonerate as it would only say where your car was, not where you were. For some reason, circumstantial incriminating evidence is is often more likely to be accepted than exculpatory evidence. Of course, it should be the other way around. A good defense lawyer flips this back in your favor.
Due to a project I've worked on I know that depending on the state, that most likely 20-30% of of vehicles do not have valid insurance. I've heard this both from high level BMV and law enforcement. Just because you pass a law does not mean that it will be obeyed.
The U.K. France and China have also openly tested hydrogen bombs. Israel is also thought to have them.
The TSA is bad you US citizens including those that don't fly.
DES was approved by the FDA, so clearly the FDA was not helpful in preventing the drug from reaching the market.
Thalidomide was not approved by the FDA primarily due to bureaucratic delay. While the FDA doctors would not approve it as they were waiting for evidence it was safe and effective, they would have approved it eventually were it not for the birth defects that starting showing up in other countries. Drug testing protocols simply did not test pregnant women. I.e., the US was largely spared thalidomide babies because the approval process was slower than in other countries as there was nothing in the testing to date that would have prevented approval.
When you read a headline that FDA approves new drug able to prevent 10,000 deaths annually, rest assure this also means the FDA has been blocking a drug that would have prevented 10,000 annually, most likely for quite a few years.
The drug companies have considerable incentive to market new and expensive (non-generic) drugs. But the expense to bring new drugs to market is also very high, at least in part due to FDA rules. The very high costs tend to kill-off promising developments that would simply not be economical to develop. Real life can be a bit complicated.
The cop did not choke him -- this leaves a mark every time. He died of a heart attack. Were the cops guilty of brutality. Yes. Every takedown is brutal AFAIAC. I don't know if this met the legal definition of police brutality and neither do anyone else. But they did not choke him.
The law was brutal because NYC has to make sure they collect very high tobacco taxes
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