Google is now in the same position, where they use their dominant position in search to push users to their other products like YouTube, Gmail, G+ etc. If you create a Google account so that you can customize your search settings you automatically get a Gmail account, a YouTube account, a G+ account and basically everything else they offer.
Yep. Got all those things when I created a google account. Don't use any of them. And they've never tried to force me to use them, nor forbidden me from using something else for the same purposes...
So, where, exactly, is the monopolistic behaviour?
In the Original Star Trek, "warp Factor" is cubed to give the equivalent in light speed. Thus the original 1701 Enterprise could travel 64 times lightspeed at Warp 4
They said that, but 64c (or even 216c) isn't really fast enough to see some of the things that supposedly happened. 64c means three weeks to alphacent, or five months to Vega, as I recall. They were tooling around much faster than that....
Instead of writing these made up answers to the "secret question" it's far better IMHO to just have your password generator generate a new 40 random character string and use that.
Which I would then have to store in the notes section just like I do with the made-up answers?
The problem there is that all it takes is one crap site and an attacker can check all of your "reset answers" (pet's name / mom's name / etc) to see if they can be used for an attack.
Use a password manager with a really good password.
When you create an account, pick a "secret question" randomly, note it in your password manager, then MAKE UP an answer. "What's your mother's maiden name" - "Merkava". "What's the name of your first pet" - "Norelco".
Hard to guess the answer to a secret question when it has nothing to do with the facts on the ground....
do you really think they wouldn't stoop to trumping up some rape charges and put a little pressure on Sweden too?
Why would they bother? Sweden is less likely to cooperate with the US government than the UK is. If they really wanted him, they'd have just gotten the UK to extradite him, instead of fiddling around with getting Sweden to extradite him from the UK, then extraditing him from Sweden....
Speaking of payola, it should come as no surprise that "TV/Movies/Music" are among the top 3 industries donating money to both Mr. Nadler [opensecrets.org] and Ms. Blackburn [opensecrets.org].
Of course, they donate to 90% of the Senators and 97% of the Representatives. It's not like bribing Congress to get your way is somehow restricted to these two...
Always remember, if you give government the power to do anything you want, then there's big money in just paying off the government to get your way. Note, by the by, that the royalty fees being discussed (which will no doubt increase later) are set to be just about sufficient to pay for the lobbying that the industry does in Washingotn....
Within reasonable (cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, peyote) limits I don't view it as the job of the Government to regulate pleasure inducing substances. If you want to talk about the extremes (heroin and other opiates, cocaine, barbiturates), then yes, I think the use thereof should be regulated.
It should, perhaps, be noted that what is defined as "extreme" depends largely on personal opinion.
If you give the government the power to regulate something, THEY define what is extreme. And the next Congress gets to redefine "extreme" to suit them, ad infinitum....
Why would stock holders be held to account and not the people who made the decisions to, or did commit the act of whatever crime?
Assuming no Limited Liability (you know,the thing that makes corporations corporations), it's pretty well established that the owner of a thing is responsible for the thing - if your dog gets loose and mauls a child, YOU are liable. If your car rolls down the hill into a crowd, you're the one in trouble, not the car...
Same with being a stockholder - YOU own it, YOU are liable for its problems. Absent "Limited liability", of course.
Note that the whole "limited liability" thing was invented for that very reason - people weren't willing to invest in things they had no control over, so pre-corporate days, about the largest business you saw was a partnership (two to a few dozen people working together for some purpose (usually making money))....
Corporations are legal fictions, and the "rights" they have been granted are to shield employees from legal responsibility, which is the opposite of their purpose.
No, the purpose of those "rights" is to shield the STOCKHOLDERS from legal responsibility.
If stockholders were held liable for decisions by management, your 401K/IRA/whatever would be pretty empty, since a fine paid by the corporation would then be passed along to the stockholders....
And why should the stockholders by legally liable, when they make none of the decisions, after all?
Sorry you should figure how to reduce the power consumption, but well, at that price you seem not to care. Main problem with the climate catastrophe... how energy can be so cheap that you don't care about reducing consumption is beyond me.
My summertime electric bills are in the timezone of the person you're responding to. Reason? A/C running nearly 24/7. 90+ temps, 90%+ humidity, so your A/C runs pretty much constantly, even with good insulation.
The only way I've managed to reduce things is trees to the south of the house to block as much direct sunlight as possible. And that solution makes solar power impossible, of course.
Another easy explanation is that the causation goes the other way: People with dementia are less likely to gain weight.
Well, that would work if they studied people with dementia to determine their weight, instead of studying people without dementia, then waiting nine years to see if they developed dementia...
Trust us. It's real, but we can't show you.
Yeah, just like the harem of gorgeous women that wait on me hand and foot. I'd love to show you, but you know how shy they can be, so you'll just have to take my word for it...
Being overweight in MIDDLE AGE is good for preventing dementia.
No correlation has been proved with being overweight your entire life. Probably because the study examined people who were 55 at the start of the study.
So, put on a few pounds at the time of life when putting on a few pounds is pretty much natural, then ditch those extra pounds as you get past middle age and into old age.
Doing the "right thing" is obvious to most people.
Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like that old Judeo-Christian tradition to me. Or do you really think that, say, Buddhism holds to exactly the same standards of right/wrong as Christianity? Or Islam? Or Confucianism? Or Taoism?
Hint: right/wrong is pretty much defined by what you were taught as a child as proper behaviour. And different people were taught different things, depending on when/where they were raised....
Realistically, there's nothing about a review, paid or otherwise, that should require a purchase from Amazon. I can buy something in Sears and still provide perfectly valid information about the device on Amazon - it's the same device, after all, no matter where I buy it.
Hate to reply to myself, but it just occurred to me that, based on that 320 killings of civilians by 900,000 police officers and the 10K-odd murders by the general population, the murder rate for police is about ten times the national average.
In other words, you have about ten times the chance of being killed by a cop than by anyone else....
It's hardly a statistical analysis(no surprise for a sentence-long chunk of text that doesn't even have any numbers in it); but there's a fairly strong cause for suspicion: We know (actually, we surprisingly frequently don't, because apparently nobody bothers to track this very hard) approximately how many police/public interactions occur where the public side ends up dead; and we know that those have historically been deemed either justified or minimally culpable virtually all the time.
Hmm, a few minutes of google-fu shows the number of "civilians" killed by police in 2013 (to pick a year as close as possible to today, and far enough back to be sure the statistics have all been gathered together) to be 320.
Total number of police killed by "enemy action" in LOD (not accidents) was 29 that year.
A bit more shows that there are about 900,000 police officers in the USA.
So, in any given year, maybe one police officer in 3000 shoots a "civilian", maybe 1 in 30,000 is shot by a civilian.
Is this a problem? You betcha!
Is it evidence of "systematic and widespread" abuse? Not hardly....
PS. With any luck, this butthead will hang (figuratively or literally, depending on how SC handles that sort of thing), pour encourager les autres....
That graph by Roy Spencer has a huge problem in that all of the traces he shows of climate model runs and the HADCRUT and UAH temperature series all start from the same zero point in 1983. In order to achieve that Spencer had to shift all of the graphed lines up or down so they all lined up at 0 in 1983. That is not a valid scientific technique and makes the whole graph bogus.
You're not helping your side when you assert that the various models don't agree with each other or reality at any point since 1983. If the graph lines were shifted to match up in '83, that means that they didn't agree with each other then....
LA resident here. We're in a middle of a drought that's worse than the great depression dust bowl. My house is basically surrounded by kindling right now. the risk from wildfires is extraordinarily high. there were really bad fires last summer and there was a steady drizzle of ash onto the entire city. I would say that climate change is threatening my health.
You would?
So, I gather you have some evidence that the current drought is caused by "climate change"?
Last I checked, this drought is a "500-year drought" (which means that one this severe can be expected every 500 years, on average). Since we haven't got records going back to 1500 in CA, I'm not sure that we can call this drought a result of AGW....
My first thought about TFA was that 10B was small change in a 640B military budget. 1.5% or so. Assuming that the entire 10B was in a single year (hint: it wasn't).
My second thought was: "They only wasted 10B???" Damn, but that's efficient use of resources - I don't know anyone who only wastes 1.5% of their money...."
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Yep. Got all those things when I created a google account. Don't use any of them. And they've never tried to force me to use them, nor forbidden me from using something else for the same purposes...
So, where, exactly, is the monopolistic behaviour?
They said that, but 64c (or even 216c) isn't really fast enough to see some of the things that supposedly happened. 64c means three weeks to alphacent, or five months to Vega, as I recall. They were tooling around much faster than that....
Which I would then have to store in the notes section just like I do with the made-up answers?
Use a password manager with a really good password.
When you create an account, pick a "secret question" randomly, note it in your password manager, then MAKE UP an answer. "What's your mother's maiden name" - "Merkava". "What's the name of your first pet" - "Norelco".
Hard to guess the answer to a secret question when it has nothing to do with the facts on the ground....
Why would they bother? Sweden is less likely to cooperate with the US government than the UK is. If they really wanted him, they'd have just gotten the UK to extradite him, instead of fiddling around with getting Sweden to extradite him from the UK, then extraditing him from Sweden....
Of course, they donate to 90% of the Senators and 97% of the Representatives. It's not like bribing Congress to get your way is somehow restricted to these two...
Always remember, if you give government the power to do anything you want, then there's big money in just paying off the government to get your way. Note, by the by, that the royalty fees being discussed (which will no doubt increase later) are set to be just about sufficient to pay for the lobbying that the industry does in Washingotn....
It should, perhaps, be noted that what is defined as "extreme" depends largely on personal opinion.
If you give the government the power to regulate something, THEY define what is extreme. And the next Congress gets to redefine "extreme" to suit them, ad infinitum....
What's misleading? TFS says it won't be launched until 4:33 PST. Which is still hours away....
Assuming no Limited Liability (you know,the thing that makes corporations corporations), it's pretty well established that the owner of a thing is responsible for the thing - if your dog gets loose and mauls a child, YOU are liable. If your car rolls down the hill into a crowd, you're the one in trouble, not the car...
Same with being a stockholder - YOU own it, YOU are liable for its problems. Absent "Limited liability", of course.
Note that the whole "limited liability" thing was invented for that very reason - people weren't willing to invest in things they had no control over, so pre-corporate days, about the largest business you saw was a partnership (two to a few dozen people working together for some purpose (usually making money))....
No, the purpose of those "rights" is to shield the STOCKHOLDERS from legal responsibility.
If stockholders were held liable for decisions by management, your 401K/IRA/whatever would be pretty empty, since a fine paid by the corporation would then be passed along to the stockholders....
And why should the stockholders by legally liable, when they make none of the decisions, after all?
My summertime electric bills are in the timezone of the person you're responding to. Reason? A/C running nearly 24/7. 90+ temps, 90%+ humidity, so your A/C runs pretty much constantly, even with good insulation.
The only way I've managed to reduce things is trees to the south of the house to block as much direct sunlight as possible. And that solution makes solar power impossible, of course.
Well, that would work if they studied people with dementia to determine their weight, instead of studying people without dementia, then waiting nine years to see if they developed dementia...
Not anymore....
Being overweight in MIDDLE AGE is good for preventing dementia.
No correlation has been proved with being overweight your entire life. Probably because the study examined people who were 55 at the start of the study.
So, put on a few pounds at the time of life when putting on a few pounds is pretty much natural, then ditch those extra pounds as you get past middle age and into old age.
This is true under US law, but not necessarily under the laws of any particular other country.
Note that a quick google-fu indicates that bad-mouthing someone in Japan is defamation, EVEN IF TRUE!
Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like that old Judeo-Christian tradition to me. Or do you really think that, say, Buddhism holds to exactly the same standards of right/wrong as Christianity? Or Islam? Or Confucianism? Or Taoism?
Hint: right/wrong is pretty much defined by what you were taught as a child as proper behaviour. And different people were taught different things, depending on when/where they were raised....
Strictly speaking, from TFA, there aren't enough fossil fuels available to duplicate the extinction event they're talking about.
The Rate of Change is as high as it was then, but the total change possible (given that we burn all the fossil fuels) isn't as high as it was then.
Which probably means no major extinction event in the near future....
Realistically, there's nothing about a review, paid or otherwise, that should require a purchase from Amazon. I can buy something in Sears and still provide perfectly valid information about the device on Amazon - it's the same device, after all, no matter where I buy it.
In other words, you have about ten times the chance of being killed by a cop than by anyone else....
Hmm, a few minutes of google-fu shows the number of "civilians" killed by police in 2013 (to pick a year as close as possible to today, and far enough back to be sure the statistics have all been gathered together) to be 320.
Total number of police killed by "enemy action" in LOD (not accidents) was 29 that year.
A bit more shows that there are about 900,000 police officers in the USA.
So, in any given year, maybe one police officer in 3000 shoots a "civilian", maybe 1 in 30,000 is shot by a civilian.
Is this a problem? You betcha!
Is it evidence of "systematic and widespread" abuse? Not hardly....
PS. With any luck, this butthead will hang (figuratively or literally, depending on how SC handles that sort of thing), pour encourager les autres....
You're not helping your side when you assert that the various models don't agree with each other or reality at any point since 1983. If the graph lines were shifted to match up in '83, that means that they didn't agree with each other then....
You would?
So, I gather you have some evidence that the current drought is caused by "climate change"?
Last I checked, this drought is a "500-year drought" (which means that one this severe can be expected every 500 years, on average). Since we haven't got records going back to 1500 in CA, I'm not sure that we can call this drought a result of AGW....
I take it you're pretty sure your 401K doesn't include any of their stock?
No, they are not only challenges. Presumably, they are normal people.
Why do supposedly educated people persist in making spelling errors that wouldn't be acceptable in second grade?
My first thought about TFA was that 10B was small change in a 640B military budget. 1.5% or so. Assuming that the entire 10B was in a single year (hint: it wasn't).
My second thought was: "They only wasted 10B???" Damn, but that's efficient use of resources - I don't know anyone who only wastes 1.5% of their money...."