But methinks Occam's Razor suggests that there is a powerful, sinister organization which is ruthlessly stamping out any leaders who even start to surface.
"The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the people, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Barak Obama is one of the most successful Presidents the United States has ever had... Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer. They couldn't be more wrong.
Luckily, nobody would be stupid enough to build a money transfer system where the user ID and the authentication secret are identical, so this breach should be no big deal.
Reason #568 for the US to move to EMV. If this had happened in Europe or Canada, the card data would have been encrypted before getting sent to Global Payments, so using the info to clone cards would not have been possible.
6 million total pregnancies 4 million live births 0.8 million miscarriages/still births 1.2 million abortions
1.2/6 = 20%
So one in five pregnancies end up in an abortion. If you only include viable pregnancies it's more like one in four. Regardless of your position on abortion it's a very high number.
"Until you actually know who's running, especially in each round, you can't vote effectively in advance. Some people did, not being NDP I'm not sure exactly how that process worked, but the idea was to see how it worked with people voting real time."
Advance voting was done via preferential ballot. You rank everyone in order of preference. If your first place candidate gets eliminated, your vote shifts to the next person still in the running.
It turns out that 85% of the votes cast were advanced ballots, so the people logging in to vote round round by round or who voted in person at the convention had a very limited ability to change the outcome.
Step 1: Threaten to sue any company that demands access to a user's Facebook account Step 2: Write an app that allows users to grant temporary account access to a prospective employer. Sprinkle in a few BS "safeguards" to make users feel better about letting recruiters rifle through their life Step 3: Charge the companies through the nose for access
I submitted it as Leonardo in the title, but the name was changed en route to posting. However, they also added some extra links so that part was good.
POTS infrastructure is fully depreciated, lines are self-powered and system is completely compatible with all existing equipment. Even if you put a fibre-based POTS system in every exchange you'd still need to keep the copper running for non-subscribers. Seems like a reasonable trade-off if they are taking the savings and using the capital to accelerate the roll-out of fibre internet.
Interested to hear from an actual telecom engineer about how hard/expensive it would be to update the exchanges.
I Googled the accident mentioned in the summary, and it turns out that the the other group of urban explorers had derailed a Mail Rail car. Didn't know that the line existed - very interesting. Looks kind of like the Chicago freight tunnels.
Toews is Canada's version of Newt Gingrich with a bit of John Edwards thrown in for good measure. When he tabled an invasive citizens spying bill this week he declared that citizens were either with him or with the child pornographers.
Toews campaigns on family values and "worships the ground that his wife walks on" (more on that below). He is a devout Mennonite and runs on his faith. He is on record for being anti-same sex marriage, anti-abortion and pro-gun. So, what does a fine, upstanding anti-pedophile Christian like him do on his days off? Why, he knocks up his family's teenage babysitter, of course. In Canada the age of consent is 16, but goes up to 18 when the younger party is in a position of trust - such as between a babysitter and employer. The girl in questions is believed to have been 17 when the affair started, so it's just plain sleazy on any level.
The Vickileaks site (rumoured to be from a Parliament Hill staffer) has been publishing the (public) records of his ugly divorce. What Toews is missing here is that information, once collected, takes on a life of its own. The parallel between his public divorce file and the impact of his proposed snooping legislation is a delicious irony, especially considering that the remarkably fertile prick is himself basically a child molester with better PR.
The box you check determines what trustee you vote for, not where your tax dollars go. School funding is based purely on enrollment, and Catholics get the same $/student as public. Back under the bridge for you
The proposed bill is like the Government of Canada forcing the phone companies to keep a record of every call that you make or receive, and insisting that Canada Post keep a register of every piece of mail that you send or receive. They'd still need a warrant to actually open your mail, but they don't need anyone's permission to build a profile of who you correspond with including who, how often, at what time of day etc...
The minister has gone on record to say that if you don't want the government to have a complete list of the letters you send through the mail, then you support child pornography. There is apparently no middle ground.
Now take the phone/mail analogy and replace it with everything that you do online - all the websites you visit, Facebook posts you make and emails you send. If you think that's a reasonable limit on your freedom then you should support the bill. If you don't want the government poking around your history file then you should let them know.
That was an amazingly detailed and quite interesting write up - I found the numerous close-up photos and descriptions quite informative. Based on your proclivity for detail I am very glad that you suffered from cataracts and not colorectal polyips.
In Ontario, Catholic schools are 100% fully-funded public institutions running in parallel with the secular public schools. It's nice to know that my tax dollars are being used to teach kids that gay=bad, safe sex=evil and wifi=devil.
Other provinces have joined the 21st Century and de-funded religious schools, but all of the political parties in Ontario are too chicken-shit to do the right thing.
1. Radio waves that pass harmlessly through your body = dangerous 2. Omniscient deity that can read your mind and plant thoughts in your brain = safe (good, even!)
"I just received 3 'refurbished' Betamax VCRs from K-Mart. All 3 had some sort of existing cassette in the slot. Most appeared to be factory diagnostic patterns, but one had a recording of last month's Seinfeld episode and documentary on penguins. How big a deal is this? Should I contact someone besides K-Mart about this?"
That said: I don't understand how they are running this IPO. Don't they usually set an initial offering price? Are they trying to auction the initial shares? I'll start the bidding with a nickle for the lot.
An IPO's price is set just before the shares hit the open market. The vast majority of a company's shares are either owned by current investors (employees, executives, angel funds etc...) or purchased by investment banks as part of the IPO (when all the shares are purchased in advance it's known as a bought deal). This gives the IPO company a guaranteed source of cash and simplifies the whole process. The investment banks then try to maximize their gain by selling their shares to their clients at a higher market price.
As an investor, you go to your bank and put in a request for X shares. You won't know the exact price until you buy, and your request may be fully/partially/not filled at all. Generally the pension funds get first crack (usually at a discount) and small investors are often left to fend for themselves.
By waiting until the last second to set the market rate the investment banks can gauge demand and maximize the revenue they get from selling their shares to their customers. Once the shares are distributed the stock starts to trade on the open market, and anyone can get in. However, strict rules block the vast majority of insiders from selling immediately so demand is heightened by the limited number of shares. That makes the price go up and everyone is supposed to be happy.
In case you missed it in the description above, the average investor is the mark and the company, the investment banks and then pension funds are in on the con.
(This is a bit of simplification but covers the gist of it)
It's probably losing all that mass due to heat from friction. It must be under tremendous pressure, seeing as how the entire night sky pivots on that single point. Long-term this will have huge consequences - when the North Star finally wears through completely the entire universe will ricochet off into nothingness like a spinning top.
It's a little sad that the last time any human was able to see the entire earth at once was December 1972. That's like traveling across the ocean and then coming home and sitting on your front porch for the next 30 years.
At least this group is smart enough to not claim that they reached space.
Of course not, but the Toronto Star certainly has trouble understanding the difference between "very high" and "space". Two front-page news stories on this in one day - a bit silly all things considered.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_virgin
Technical virgin redirects to Virginity, so that's four steps, no assistance from the Oracle...
But methinks Occam's Razor suggests that there is a powerful, sinister organization which is ruthlessly stamping out any leaders who even start to surface.
"The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the people, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Barak Obama is one of the most successful Presidents the United States has ever had... Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer. They couldn't be more wrong.
I wonder how many millions of dollars bonus the CEO will earn by cutting the workforce so drastically...
Executives are being asked to return their bonuses, so don't think it's a big win for him.
Luckily, nobody would be stupid enough to build a money transfer system where the user ID and the authentication secret are identical, so this breach should be no big deal.
Reason #568 for the US to move to EMV. If this had happened in Europe or Canada, the card data would have been encrypted before getting sent to Global Payments, so using the info to clone cards would not have been possible.
I can't help but notice that your post also ends with the word "Discuss". Was that intentional irony or merely a coincidence? Discuss.
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html
6 million total pregnancies
4 million live births
0.8 million miscarriages/still births
1.2 million abortions
1.2/6 = 20%
So one in five pregnancies end up in an abortion. If you only include viable pregnancies it's more like one in four. Regardless of your position on abortion it's a very high number.
"Until you actually know who's running, especially in each round, you can't vote effectively in advance. Some people did, not being NDP I'm not sure exactly how that process worked, but the idea was to see how it worked with people voting real time."
Advance voting was done via preferential ballot. You rank everyone in order of preference. If your first place candidate gets eliminated, your vote shifts to the next person still in the running.
It turns out that 85% of the votes cast were advanced ballots, so the people logging in to vote round round by round or who voted in person at the convention had a very limited ability to change the outcome.
The breakthrough was when he figured out that the encryption key was "Be sure to drink your Rioja"
Step 1: Threaten to sue any company that demands access to a user's Facebook account
Step 2: Write an app that allows users to grant temporary account access to a prospective employer. Sprinkle in a few BS "safeguards" to make users feel better about letting recruiters rifle through their life
Step 3: Charge the companies through the nose for access
No underpants required.
I submitted it as Leonardo in the title, but the name was changed en route to posting. However, they also added some extra links so that part was good.
POTS infrastructure is fully depreciated, lines are self-powered and system is completely compatible with all existing equipment. Even if you put a fibre-based POTS system in every exchange you'd still need to keep the copper running for non-subscribers. Seems like a reasonable trade-off if they are taking the savings and using the capital to accelerate the roll-out of fibre internet.
Interested to hear from an actual telecom engineer about how hard/expensive it would be to update the exchanges.
I Googled the accident mentioned in the summary, and it turns out that the the other group of urban explorers had derailed a Mail Rail car. Didn't know that the line existed - very interesting. Looks kind of like the Chicago freight tunnels.
Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?
Toews is Canada's version of Newt Gingrich with a bit of John Edwards thrown in for good measure. When he tabled an invasive citizens spying bill this week he declared that citizens were either with him or with the child pornographers.
Toews campaigns on family values and "worships the ground that his wife walks on" (more on that below). He is a devout Mennonite and runs on his faith. He is on record for being anti-same sex marriage, anti-abortion and pro-gun. So, what does a fine, upstanding anti-pedophile Christian like him do on his days off? Why, he knocks up his family's teenage babysitter, of course. In Canada the age of consent is 16, but goes up to 18 when the younger party is in a position of trust - such as between a babysitter and employer. The girl in questions is believed to have been 17 when the affair started, so it's just plain sleazy on any level.
The Vickileaks site (rumoured to be from a Parliament Hill staffer) has been publishing the (public) records of his ugly divorce. What Toews is missing here is that information, once collected, takes on a life of its own. The parallel between his public divorce file and the impact of his proposed snooping legislation is a delicious irony, especially considering that the remarkably fertile prick is himself basically a child molester with better PR.
The box you check determines what trustee you vote for, not where your tax dollars go. School funding is based purely on enrollment, and Catholics get the same $/student as public. Back under the bridge for you
The proposed bill is like the Government of Canada forcing the phone companies to keep a record of every call that you make or receive, and insisting that Canada Post keep a register of every piece of mail that you send or receive. They'd still need a warrant to actually open your mail, but they don't need anyone's permission to build a profile of who you correspond with including who, how often, at what time of day etc...
The minister has gone on record to say that if you don't want the government to have a complete list of the letters you send through the mail, then you support child pornography. There is apparently no middle ground.
Now take the phone/mail analogy and replace it with everything that you do online - all the websites you visit, Facebook posts you make and emails you send. If you think that's a reasonable limit on your freedom then you should support the bill. If you don't want the government poking around your history file then you should let them know.
That was an amazingly detailed and quite interesting write up - I found the numerous close-up photos and descriptions quite informative. Based on your proclivity for detail I am very glad that you suffered from cataracts and not colorectal polyips.
Oh, it gets better.
In Ontario, Catholic schools are 100% fully-funded public institutions running in parallel with the secular public schools. It's nice to know that my tax dollars are being used to teach kids that gay=bad, safe sex=evil and wifi=devil.
Other provinces have joined the 21st Century and de-funded religious schools, but all of the political parties in Ontario are too chicken-shit to do the right thing.
It's all about the Catholic perspective:
1. Radio waves that pass harmlessly through your body = dangerous
2. Omniscient deity that can read your mind and plant thoughts in your brain = safe (good, even!)
Makes sense.
Why bother? Ignore it. Dumb question. Move on.
"I just received 3 'refurbished' Betamax VCRs from K-Mart. All 3 had some sort of existing cassette in the slot. Most appeared to be factory diagnostic patterns, but one had a recording of last month's Seinfeld episode and documentary on penguins. How big a deal is this? Should I contact someone besides K-Mart about this?"
That said: I don't understand how they are running this IPO. Don't they usually set an initial offering price? Are they trying to auction the initial shares? I'll start the bidding with a nickle for the lot.
An IPO's price is set just before the shares hit the open market. The vast majority of a company's shares are either owned by current investors (employees, executives, angel funds etc...) or purchased by investment banks as part of the IPO (when all the shares are purchased in advance it's known as a bought deal). This gives the IPO company a guaranteed source of cash and simplifies the whole process. The investment banks then try to maximize their gain by selling their shares to their clients at a higher market price.
As an investor, you go to your bank and put in a request for X shares. You won't know the exact price until you buy, and your request may be fully/partially/not filled at all. Generally the pension funds get first crack (usually at a discount) and small investors are often left to fend for themselves.
By waiting until the last second to set the market rate the investment banks can gauge demand and maximize the revenue they get from selling their shares to their customers. Once the shares are distributed the stock starts to trade on the open market, and anyone can get in. However, strict rules block the vast majority of insiders from selling immediately so demand is heightened by the limited number of shares. That makes the price go up and everyone is supposed to be happy.
In case you missed it in the description above, the average investor is the mark and the company, the investment banks and then pension funds are in on the con.
(This is a bit of simplification but covers the gist of it)
Not to worry. Once we get our booster technology straightened out, we can send up a big can of WD-40.
That's the first lesson in any basic astrophysics maintenance course - always keep your turtles oiled.
It's probably losing all that mass due to heat from friction. It must be under tremendous pressure, seeing as how the entire night sky pivots on that single point. Long-term this will have huge consequences - when the North Star finally wears through completely the entire universe will ricochet off into nothingness like a spinning top.
It's a little sad that the last time any human was able to see the entire earth at once was December 1972. That's like traveling across the ocean and then coming home and sitting on your front porch for the next 30 years.
At least this group is smart enough to not claim that they reached space.
Of course not, but the Toronto Star certainly has trouble understanding the difference between "very high" and "space". Two front-page news stories on this in one day - a bit silly all things considered.