Sounds to me like a great deal of evil could be dispensed with by eliminating Tenure,
Tenure is a tenet of academic freedom. When you have reached a point in your career when you have proven worth, you get a bit of freedom to explore what you want without fearing that you'll be fired because of it. Yes, you could trust universities to not fire people for uncoordinated rambling in their research, but formalizing the relationship a bit isn't a bad idea.
2. If you're using Android 4.3/4.4, look for 'App Ops'
Citation required. I did a google for "App Ops" and there are at least four different apps on the Play store called "App Ops", and two also-rans called "Permission Manager".
Artificial or not, they are real and significant in this context. Were it as easy to fall into a heroin dependence as to fall into a prescription painkiller dependence, then these "artificial" differences would be moot. Since becoming a heroin addict requires use of an illegal compound from the very beginning, and painkiller addiction does not, there is a difference. You can't accidentally become a heroin addict, but you certainly can become a prescription painkiller addict that way.
There's no difference between Limbaugh and a junkie with a needle in an alley.
Yes, in the societal context, and in the mechanisms involved in creating the addiction, there are significant differences. You can label the source of the difference "artificial", but calling NutraSweet an artificial sweetener doesn't make it taste any less sweet.
Dirty bombs are mostly a myth. Anyone that would want to use one would get much more effective use out of a conventional bomb.
Depends on what your intended use is. If you just want to demolish a building, a regular bomb works fine.
If you want to terrorize a large number of people, a simple bomb won't do the job. Boom. Ok, that's done. Fix things up and move on. But a dirty bomb -- that leaves behind a silent source of slow painful death that the common person has no way of detecting and has been given every reason to fear. That fear comes from people telling him that "nuclear power is bad and will make you glow if a power station is built in your community", all the way down to "if you irradiate your foodstuffs to preserve them the food will become radioactive and you'll glow at night if you eat it."
There is a reason why medical equipment manufacturers renamed the process MRI when it is basically NMR. "Nuclear magnetic resonance? I ain't getting into one of those things! Oh, just magnetic resonance? That's ok. I got fridge magnets, I know that's safe."
You might find radiation scary but explosions are far more devastating than a small amount of radiation plus way easier to achieve.
For a limited definition of "devastating", perhaps. Blow up a building and you've blown up a building which can be rebuilt. Set off a dirty bomb and watch an entire city flee in panic. That's a much larger scale of devastation than just demolishing a building.
Actually, getting hooked on prescription painkillers is frequently pretty similar to getting hooked on heroin,
While the chemical addiction mechanisms may be similar in similar kinds of drugs, the issue being discussed was not chemical but societal.
In that context, getting hooked on prescription painkillers is very much UNlike getting hooked on heroin. The primary difference being that heroin is not prescribed as a recognized medical treatment for pain. The mechanism for obtaining the two are also vastly different. It is relatively easy for a law abiding citizen to obtain the initial doses of the prescription painkillers that lead to the dependency, while obtaining the initial heroin samples automatically removes the user from the 'law abiding' category.
Thus, trying to equate a Rush Limbaugh dependence on Oxy that led to illegal purchases with a heroin user is disingenuous. The former starts with "this pill was given to me by a doctor to relieve my pain. I still have pain, so I will take another one." The latter starts with "I enjoy the high that this illegal drug give me, I'll do it again for fun."
2. Smart organized criminals tend to know what they are stealing ahead of time
They knew what they were stealing. They were stealing a truck. They didn't know what was inside the truck and they probably didn't care. Whatever they found, if it was fencable, was a plus.
Right so not even worth considering.
The vast majority of people have figured out how not to beat up someone to steal from them, even though they, too, are a part of society. Some of those people who have managed to figure out why "not beating people up" is a good course of action have little to no education. Thus lack of education (your excuse) doesn't have a causal link. So, no. Pretending that "society made me do it" is not worth considering, since "society" seems to have such little force upon reasonable people. In fact, it is only the lack of societal concerns that allows people to consider such violence a reasonable option.
Its like these damned doctors. They know about fever, they know how to treat it. Who the fuck needs to study the disease that causes the fever?
It is a shame that the causal links between infections and fever are so well known, and the causal links between "society done me wrong" and "right to beat others up for fun and profit" are so tenuous. Otherwise your analogy would be rational.
They are dumb, they likely didn't even consider many options.
So giving them a free college education would bring them up to the level of amicusNYCL who could point out that beating someone wasn't likely to be the best course of action no matter what the circumstances were. Problem solved.
When someone says that beating someone in the act of robbing them isn't necessary, it's pretty silly to try to claim that the robbers just didn't know any better and that having more education would have enlightened them to the other options. Like "not beating someone" is such a difficult thing to think of without a PhD.
Its also a question of: Why are people so dumb and reckless?
Did you never consider that maybe these guys weren't dumb, that they maybe enjoy beating people up as a way of proving their control over others? That maybe they don't want to spend the money on ropes or bullets? That maybe they're doing this on a semi-regular basis, and if they beat up a few drivers then others will be less willing to resist when their trucks get stolen?
Do you think mob-style executions are done because the mobsters who do it are just dumb? Don't you think maybe they are doing more than just killing the guy they're killing, maybe it's a message to everyone else they deal with that resisting is futile and dangerous? Is the beating a loan shark applies to a debtor because the loan shark is dumb, or is it because he sending a message to ALL of his customers that being behind on your payments means more than a harshly worded letter from a lawyer?
They were unlucky to steal a cargo that might kill them through ignorance, but dumb isn't necessarily the thing they are. Unethical and amoral, yes. Antisocial, yes. Dumb? Well, they know an easy way to get money and how to keep people from stopping them.
Is it not worth trying to understand where the problem comes from?
And thus endeth all need for individual responsibility. They did what they did because society forced them to. Jake on his knees in the sewer... "It wasn't my fault.". That was funny because it was so overplayed and outrageous. Trying to make the same arguments for thugs in real life is not so funny.
Depends on the concentration and distance. It has a 33yr half life. So every 33yrs half of its mass decayed from the previous 33yr.
Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.3 years. That makes it a rather active radionuclide. The decay from Co60 emits beta and gamma radiation, resulting in Ni60.
Since the density of nickel is hardly zero, the mass of a cobalt 60 source doesn't not decay by 50% in one half life, two half lives, or five. The amount of Co60 does decrease.
I looked at a datasheet for cobalt 60 apparently you have to come into physical contact. Looking at it shouldn't do them much harm.
Interesting then that the cobalt 60 machines used in medical therapy don't put the patient in direct contact with the stuff. It must be magic. Cancers can detect the boogeyman at the door and die from fright, never getting actually touched by this magical medical miracle.
You are likely far smarter and more well educated than them.
Why yes, this is why we should pity them instead of revile them. They were obviously too stupid to know that repeatedly striking another human being with their fists and kicking them with their booted feet would cause harm to that other person. And they were obviously too stupid to know that taking the truck away from those two other human beings was wrong. Why, this truck was just sitting there, and how dare those two people stand in the way of them taking what was rightfully theirs because of the universal "finders keepers losers weepers" law. It's the truck driver's fault for existing, not the poor criminal's fault for being too stupid to know better.
All it would take to solve this problem is to give everyone a free college education so they will all be educated enough to know that beating someone up is wrong and taking their stuff is bad, n'kay?
Journalists have for years been censoring information -
That's why using "censorship" in the new, modern meaning has made it just a flame triggerword useful only to push people's hot buttons. It retains its pejorative connotation but none of the pejorative meaning. Under the current popular definition, as used in this story in particular, "censorship" means "any decision not to say something".
Journalists "censor" themselves every day they write an article. What did they say vs. what didn't they include? Editors censor the journalists, and then the public as a whole when they decide what letters to the editor to publish, how much of each to publish, and any "fixes" they apply for style or grammar.
Librarians censor every time they decide not to buy a certain book for the library. Bookstore owners censor when they choose which books to stock. Magazine/news dealers censor.
Slashdot moderators commit censorship when enough of them collectively vote an comment down below the regular reading thresholds. Slashdot posters censor themselves every time they think twice about saying something here for fear of losing karma.
Men in the workplace censor themselves on a regular basis, assuming there is any woman in the same workplace who looks halfway decent. "You look hot today" isn't something they are allowed to say, so most of them censor that kind of comment from their speech. And if they forget, then someone else will happily censor them.
Yawn. Journalists are censoring themselves. News at 11.
Seems improbable. Digital TV channels are multiplexed together, so one frequency carries multiple channels.
CAN carry multiple channels. Doesn't mean they have to or that they always do.
If you can receive one okay then you should be able to get all the others on the same multiplex okay as well, since they are just different chunks of data in the same stream.
What is your explanation for this?
Perhaps the simplest explanation really is the simplest explanation: four different analog channels migrated to four different digital channels, not four data streams on the same channel.
Out here in the wild west, most of the big network stations were too enamored of all the digital real estate they were being given by the FCC to ever let anyone else play in their sandbox. It was only the wanna-bees like CW and FOX that combined channels in one transmitter. Yeah, wouldn't it be a great system if every transmitter was required to carry data streams for all the analog channels that used to be covering an area? That way four transmitters could be spread out to cover a large area and nobody lost anything, instead of four transmitters carrying one channel each that can't be received by everyone.
I think Oregon tried to be much more ambitious than other state exchanges,
That would be a fine argument if what failed was ambitious stuff. What wasn't working from day 1 on Cover Oregon was the ability for individuals to find out what any plan would actually cost and then to actually sign up for a plan. Those are two very basic features of any e-commerce site. Could you imagine anyone trying to claim that Amazon was being "more ambitious than other sites" because they wanted to tell you how much an item costs and then let you actually buy it? I don't know about you, but when I see a website that says "We have the following products, call for pricing and ordering..." I go somewhere else because I know these people aren't serious about their web presence or sales.
Yes, Oregon has some different requirements overall because of the existing state healthcare programs, but that should not stop someone from being able to get a price and say "I'll buy it".
Yes. Oracle is a company, and they are a "tool" in only slightly out of date slang.
You don't blame the screwdriver if the contractor messes up your kitchen cabinets.
Oracle IS the contractor, sweetheart. They are being paid to deliver the CoverOregon website. But my, don't we have such catchy tunes to remind us how great we have it here in Oregon? Long live Oregonians!
The fact is that there will be people who have lost their current coverage because the law won't allow the plan and they won't be able to get signed up in time to prevent a gap. The fact is that the time it takes to get the paperwork (one report was that it took five weeks)*, fill it out (19 pages), and then get it processed (God only knows how long), will result in people not being covered and not meeting the mandated deadlines for being covered. I'm hopeful that the same groups that carefully monitor every death in Iraq and Afghanistan and attribute them all to Bush will carefully monitor any harm this system creates to the US public just as closely and attribute it to the correct source.
When the online system wouldn't work, George submitted a paper application Oct. 7 for herself and her husband. Finally, on Nov. 12, she received an enrollment packet that tells her how much of a tax credit she'll receive and lays out her coverage options. She's now waiting to meet with her insurance agent to pick a plan and return the forms.
Oct. 7 to Nov 12 to get an enrollment packet. Atrocious. At least this article is honest enough to call them "insurance agents" and not "community partners.".
The Cover Oregon website currently tells people to enroll by December 4th to get coverage by Jan. 1. Today's the 3rd. Five weeks from today will be Jan 7, 2014.
Get or build a better antenna. And put it up higher, and point it in the right direction.
I think you're missing the point. I live in a small city halfway between the two major markets. With a small whip inside antenna I used to get all the networks. Today, I get two channels of OPB (PBS). That's only because there is an OPB station on top of the hill just north of my house.
Having to put up a high, directional antenna instead of using a simple piece of wire inside is pretty good proof that the digital signals don't go as far or cover as well as the old analog ones.
I could actually live with a bit of snow on the signal. There wasn't that much that needs crystal clarity of 1080p HD. And since the solution to the "little bit of snow" is now "nothing at all", I think "little bit of snow" was better.
Recently many major ISPs have started to provide them as part of the contract.
I can vouch that Verizon and Comcast both provide wireless routers in at least some of their markets.
Comcast would happily rent me one of their routers, and I'm beginning to see their wireless routers litter the RF landscape near my house.
Charter Cable would also enable the wireless features on the router I have through them. They apparently stock and install one cable modem/wire+wireless router and then enable what you pay for.
Personally, I bought the cable modem for my Comcast connection, and run a D-Link wire-only router behind it for routing. And then whatever wireless router I feel like behind that. That means I have a firmware update to do tonight.
I wonder if the firmware update will fix a different problem I've discovered? My "router" will happily route non-routeable addresses from the LAN to WAN side. I was setting up some HSMM-MESH hardware using a different net than my home systems and I wanted to nmap them to see what was open. Imagine my surprise when a "Motorola CHS" MAC address responded to the non-routeable address I had assigned one of my MESH boxes. And kept responding after I turned the MESH router off.
Really? Do you not imagine the day when "computers" are sentient and considered on the same level as "humans" that computers would not refer to the Merlin in the same way we refer to apes? Would it not be true to consider the X86 architectures to be true descendents of the 4004? And whatever the computers are built with in the future, would there not be a primitive ancestor of some kind, even if it is not directly in the Intel family tree?
So yes, they might not use the word "apes" to refer to their ancestors, but the concept maps rather well.
but those are least of the worries. just the legality of operating those drones would be the first. then the technical.
There can be discussion about who the airspace belongs to and arguments that make government control of such airspace a good thing, but once that sucker lands on my property it's mine.
There is no debate on who owns what then.
So well that even the rightful owner will only find it several months later...
One UPS package was hidden around the corner of the garage so I didn't see it for a week. Fortunately it was a rainy cold week. Unfortunately it was a shipment of red peppers from New Mexico, which were green fuzzy peppers when I found them. Thanks, UPS.
The next time they did one better. They pried open my locked front screen door to hide a replacement pager I had been sent. Two months later I called the pager company, asked where the new pager was. They sent another. So a couple of days later I notice that my locked screen door is now standing 1/4" open. Oila! TWO pagers hidden in the same place. Thanks so much, UPS.
I saw the 60 minutes piece. Amazing Amazon. The best comment by Bezos was that this will work best in urban areas close to distribution centers. Of course, urban apartment dwellers won't have anyplace for the drones to drop boxes, and the rate of theft will be the highest there. I don't think the plan has been thought out very well.
Also, do they charge for the plastic boxes they deliver in, or do you have to leave them out for the neighborhood kids to steal/be picked back up?
It wasn't just a joke, it was a full monologue. Lots of profanity, lots of "negative love" applied to the victims. The only point he was making is that he gets paid huge sums to rant about people who have valid medical problems.
Usually human trafficking means getting people (usually men) to perform what is practically slave labor...
Usually, human trafficking means getting people of any sex to perform what is slave labor. Women and girls are included in that.
However, claims of coercion never seem to be backed up with facts.
Youwantfacts?Okay. How about Ron Wyden, beloved by all progressive human beings for his widly held positions on freedom and government? "Now we have concrete proof that sex trafficking is not just going on in the dark corners of Asia," he said. "Sex trafficking is going on in our community." "The study showed that the average age of victims was 15.5 years when they were first referred to DHS and the Sexual Assault Resource Center. The youngest of them was 8 years old."
Why yes, anonymous coward, making prostitution legal will certainly prevent gangs from putting 8 year old girls out onto the street to turn tricks. Sure.
"Just eat" is a perfectly reasonable solution when the problem is that they are just _refusing_ to eat healthy amounts of food.
Anorexia isn't when someone just refuses to eat. It's when they have a psychological issue with eating. Were it as simple as "just refuses to eat", then yes, they could just as easily "choose to eat".
If it takes a psychiatrist to convince someone to "eat", then it isn't a case of "just" anything. It's a serious issue, and Carlin was far far from being funny when he ranted on the problem. It was on the same level as making fun of cripples and gimps, and I put it that way to demonstrate the lack of "funny" he was.
By sitting on a public toilet seat. By using the free needles you can find under many highway overpasses. By simply looking at a hooker. If you're looking to find an STD for free, just use your imagination.
To paraphrase George Carlin, it's nonsense that something is illegal to sell that you can legally give away for free.
Actually, when you consider that those who are selling it are often coerced into doing so, and those who give it away for free aren't, there is some sense to a law prohibiting sales. There is also the issue of "the rich" being able to afford something that regular mortals cannot, such as would happen with organ donation vs. organ sales. I mean "kidney" type organs, not "Hammond" or "Wurlitzer". We've kinda decided as a society that a rich person low on the list of need being able to get a kidney transplant because he can buy a kidney from someone while someone who is high on the list of need cannot get a free one is a bad thing, and thus selling kidneys is illegal.
Dr. Carlin says a lot of goofy things, by the way. I last paid attention to anything he says the night I saw him launch into a rant about people who suffer from anorexia. His well-educated medical solution to their physical and mental problem: just eat. Thanks, Doc. If they could "just eat" they wouldn't have gotten to 89 pounds and near death.
As you point out, human trafficking occurs despite prostitution laws, but I don't think the failure of the law to stop all bad things it tries to prevent is a reason to repeal the law.
I have always thought that carrying a competitor's bag is actually a good thing: it tells the store that the customers are aware of competitors, which pushes to make this store better too.
I had two Walmart bags that I got for free on the Walmart grand opening day in town (now I have one) that I love taking into the competing store I shop at. It tells them 1) Walmart is a viable option for this shopper (but really isn't for the reason I expressed earlier), 2) Walmart did something smart by giving bags away instead of charging 89 cents each.
It's also personally satisfying because, until recently, that store gave a 6 cent rebate for each bag someone brought in to reuse. That the response was "of course" when I last went there and noticed there was no rebate and asked if they had stopped doing it was irking. Why "of course"? I guess it should have been obvious that they would stop giving out a nickel and a penny for each bag we reuse.
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Sounds to me like a great deal of evil could be dispensed with by eliminating Tenure,
Tenure is a tenet of academic freedom. When you have reached a point in your career when you have proven worth, you get a bit of freedom to explore what you want without fearing that you'll be fired because of it. Yes, you could trust universities to not fire people for uncoordinated rambling in their research, but formalizing the relationship a bit isn't a bad idea.
2. If you're using Android 4.3/4.4, look for 'App Ops'
Citation required. I did a google for "App Ops" and there are at least four different apps on the Play store called "App Ops", and two also-rans called "Permission Manager".
The only societal differences are artificial.
Artificial or not, they are real and significant in this context. Were it as easy to fall into a heroin dependence as to fall into a prescription painkiller dependence, then these "artificial" differences would be moot. Since becoming a heroin addict requires use of an illegal compound from the very beginning, and painkiller addiction does not, there is a difference. You can't accidentally become a heroin addict, but you certainly can become a prescription painkiller addict that way.
There's no difference between Limbaugh and a junkie with a needle in an alley.
Yes, in the societal context, and in the mechanisms involved in creating the addiction, there are significant differences. You can label the source of the difference "artificial", but calling NutraSweet an artificial sweetener doesn't make it taste any less sweet.
Dirty bombs are mostly a myth. Anyone that would want to use one would get much more effective use out of a conventional bomb.
Depends on what your intended use is. If you just want to demolish a building, a regular bomb works fine.
If you want to terrorize a large number of people, a simple bomb won't do the job. Boom. Ok, that's done. Fix things up and move on. But a dirty bomb -- that leaves behind a silent source of slow painful death that the common person has no way of detecting and has been given every reason to fear. That fear comes from people telling him that "nuclear power is bad and will make you glow if a power station is built in your community", all the way down to "if you irradiate your foodstuffs to preserve them the food will become radioactive and you'll glow at night if you eat it."
There is a reason why medical equipment manufacturers renamed the process MRI when it is basically NMR. "Nuclear magnetic resonance? I ain't getting into one of those things! Oh, just magnetic resonance? That's ok. I got fridge magnets, I know that's safe."
You might find radiation scary but explosions are far more devastating than a small amount of radiation plus way easier to achieve.
For a limited definition of "devastating", perhaps. Blow up a building and you've blown up a building which can be rebuilt. Set off a dirty bomb and watch an entire city flee in panic. That's a much larger scale of devastation than just demolishing a building.
Actually, getting hooked on prescription painkillers is frequently pretty similar to getting hooked on heroin,
While the chemical addiction mechanisms may be similar in similar kinds of drugs, the issue being discussed was not chemical but societal. In that context, getting hooked on prescription painkillers is very much UNlike getting hooked on heroin. The primary difference being that heroin is not prescribed as a recognized medical treatment for pain. The mechanism for obtaining the two are also vastly different. It is relatively easy for a law abiding citizen to obtain the initial doses of the prescription painkillers that lead to the dependency, while obtaining the initial heroin samples automatically removes the user from the 'law abiding' category.
Thus, trying to equate a Rush Limbaugh dependence on Oxy that led to illegal purchases with a heroin user is disingenuous. The former starts with "this pill was given to me by a doctor to relieve my pain. I still have pain, so I will take another one." The latter starts with "I enjoy the high that this illegal drug give me, I'll do it again for fun."
2. Smart organized criminals tend to know what they are stealing ahead of time
They knew what they were stealing. They were stealing a truck. They didn't know what was inside the truck and they probably didn't care. Whatever they found, if it was fencable, was a plus.
Right so not even worth considering.
The vast majority of people have figured out how not to beat up someone to steal from them, even though they, too, are a part of society. Some of those people who have managed to figure out why "not beating people up" is a good course of action have little to no education. Thus lack of education (your excuse) doesn't have a causal link. So, no. Pretending that "society made me do it" is not worth considering, since "society" seems to have such little force upon reasonable people. In fact, it is only the lack of societal concerns that allows people to consider such violence a reasonable option.
Its like these damned doctors. They know about fever, they know how to treat it. Who the fuck needs to study the disease that causes the fever?
It is a shame that the causal links between infections and fever are so well known, and the causal links between "society done me wrong" and "right to beat others up for fun and profit" are so tenuous. Otherwise your analogy would be rational.
They are dumb, they likely didn't even consider many options.
So giving them a free college education would bring them up to the level of amicusNYCL who could point out that beating someone wasn't likely to be the best course of action no matter what the circumstances were. Problem solved.
When someone says that beating someone in the act of robbing them isn't necessary, it's pretty silly to try to claim that the robbers just didn't know any better and that having more education would have enlightened them to the other options. Like "not beating someone" is such a difficult thing to think of without a PhD.
Its also a question of: Why are people so dumb and reckless?
Did you never consider that maybe these guys weren't dumb, that they maybe enjoy beating people up as a way of proving their control over others? That maybe they don't want to spend the money on ropes or bullets? That maybe they're doing this on a semi-regular basis, and if they beat up a few drivers then others will be less willing to resist when their trucks get stolen?
Do you think mob-style executions are done because the mobsters who do it are just dumb? Don't you think maybe they are doing more than just killing the guy they're killing, maybe it's a message to everyone else they deal with that resisting is futile and dangerous? Is the beating a loan shark applies to a debtor because the loan shark is dumb, or is it because he sending a message to ALL of his customers that being behind on your payments means more than a harshly worded letter from a lawyer?
They were unlucky to steal a cargo that might kill them through ignorance, but dumb isn't necessarily the thing they are. Unethical and amoral, yes. Antisocial, yes. Dumb? Well, they know an easy way to get money and how to keep people from stopping them.
Is it not worth trying to understand where the problem comes from?
And thus endeth all need for individual responsibility. They did what they did because society forced them to. Jake on his knees in the sewer ... "It wasn't my fault.". That was funny because it was so overplayed and outrageous. Trying to make the same arguments for thugs in real life is not so funny.
Depends on the concentration and distance. It has a 33yr half life. So every 33yrs half of its mass decayed from the previous 33yr.
Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.3 years. That makes it a rather active radionuclide. The decay from Co60 emits beta and gamma radiation, resulting in Ni60.
Since the density of nickel is hardly zero, the mass of a cobalt 60 source doesn't not decay by 50% in one half life, two half lives, or five. The amount of Co60 does decrease.
I looked at a datasheet for cobalt 60 apparently you have to come into physical contact. Looking at it shouldn't do them much harm.
Interesting then that the cobalt 60 machines used in medical therapy don't put the patient in direct contact with the stuff. It must be magic. Cancers can detect the boogeyman at the door and die from fright, never getting actually touched by this magical medical miracle.
You are likely far smarter and more well educated than them.
Why yes, this is why we should pity them instead of revile them. They were obviously too stupid to know that repeatedly striking another human being with their fists and kicking them with their booted feet would cause harm to that other person. And they were obviously too stupid to know that taking the truck away from those two other human beings was wrong. Why, this truck was just sitting there, and how dare those two people stand in the way of them taking what was rightfully theirs because of the universal "finders keepers losers weepers" law. It's the truck driver's fault for existing, not the poor criminal's fault for being too stupid to know better.
All it would take to solve this problem is to give everyone a free college education so they will all be educated enough to know that beating someone up is wrong and taking their stuff is bad, n'kay?
Sheesh.
Journalists have for years been censoring information -
That's why using "censorship" in the new, modern meaning has made it just a flame triggerword useful only to push people's hot buttons. It retains its pejorative connotation but none of the pejorative meaning. Under the current popular definition, as used in this story in particular, "censorship" means "any decision not to say something".
Journalists "censor" themselves every day they write an article. What did they say vs. what didn't they include? Editors censor the journalists, and then the public as a whole when they decide what letters to the editor to publish, how much of each to publish, and any "fixes" they apply for style or grammar.
Librarians censor every time they decide not to buy a certain book for the library. Bookstore owners censor when they choose which books to stock. Magazine/news dealers censor. Slashdot moderators commit censorship when enough of them collectively vote an comment down below the regular reading thresholds. Slashdot posters censor themselves every time they think twice about saying something here for fear of losing karma.
Men in the workplace censor themselves on a regular basis, assuming there is any woman in the same workplace who looks halfway decent. "You look hot today" isn't something they are allowed to say, so most of them censor that kind of comment from their speech. And if they forget, then someone else will happily censor them.
Yawn. Journalists are censoring themselves. News at 11.
Seems improbable. Digital TV channels are multiplexed together, so one frequency carries multiple channels.
CAN carry multiple channels. Doesn't mean they have to or that they always do.
If you can receive one okay then you should be able to get all the others on the same multiplex okay as well, since they are just different chunks of data in the same stream. What is your explanation for this?
Perhaps the simplest explanation really is the simplest explanation: four different analog channels migrated to four different digital channels, not four data streams on the same channel.
Out here in the wild west, most of the big network stations were too enamored of all the digital real estate they were being given by the FCC to ever let anyone else play in their sandbox. It was only the wanna-bees like CW and FOX that combined channels in one transmitter. Yeah, wouldn't it be a great system if every transmitter was required to carry data streams for all the analog channels that used to be covering an area? That way four transmitters could be spread out to cover a large area and nobody lost anything, instead of four transmitters carrying one channel each that can't be received by everyone.
I think Oregon tried to be much more ambitious than other state exchanges,
That would be a fine argument if what failed was ambitious stuff. What wasn't working from day 1 on Cover Oregon was the ability for individuals to find out what any plan would actually cost and then to actually sign up for a plan. Those are two very basic features of any e-commerce site. Could you imagine anyone trying to claim that Amazon was being "more ambitious than other sites" because they wanted to tell you how much an item costs and then let you actually buy it? I don't know about you, but when I see a website that says "We have the following products, call for pricing and ordering..." I go somewhere else because I know these people aren't serious about their web presence or sales.
Yes, Oregon has some different requirements overall because of the existing state healthcare programs, but that should not stop someone from being able to get a price and say "I'll buy it".
Indeed. Oracle is a tool.
Yes. Oracle is a company, and they are a "tool" in only slightly out of date slang.
You don't blame the screwdriver if the contractor messes up your kitchen cabinets.
Oracle IS the contractor, sweetheart. They are being paid to deliver the CoverOregon website. But my, don't we have such catchy tunes to remind us how great we have it here in Oregon? Long live Oregonians!
The fact is that there will be people who have lost their current coverage because the law won't allow the plan and they won't be able to get signed up in time to prevent a gap. The fact is that the time it takes to get the paperwork (one report was that it took five weeks)*, fill it out (19 pages), and then get it processed (God only knows how long), will result in people not being covered and not meeting the mandated deadlines for being covered. I'm hopeful that the same groups that carefully monitor every death in Iraq and Afghanistan and attribute them all to Bush will carefully monitor any harm this system creates to the US public just as closely and attribute it to the correct source.
* - from here:
Oct. 7 to Nov 12 to get an enrollment packet. Atrocious. At least this article is honest enough to call them "insurance agents" and not "community partners.".
The Cover Oregon website currently tells people to enroll by December 4th to get coverage by Jan. 1. Today's the 3rd. Five weeks from today will be Jan 7, 2014.
Get or build a better antenna. And put it up higher, and point it in the right direction.
I think you're missing the point. I live in a small city halfway between the two major markets. With a small whip inside antenna I used to get all the networks. Today, I get two channels of OPB (PBS). That's only because there is an OPB station on top of the hill just north of my house.
Having to put up a high, directional antenna instead of using a simple piece of wire inside is pretty good proof that the digital signals don't go as far or cover as well as the old analog ones.
I could actually live with a bit of snow on the signal. There wasn't that much that needs crystal clarity of 1080p HD. And since the solution to the "little bit of snow" is now "nothing at all", I think "little bit of snow" was better.
Recently many major ISPs have started to provide them as part of the contract. I can vouch that Verizon and Comcast both provide wireless routers in at least some of their markets.
Comcast would happily rent me one of their routers, and I'm beginning to see their wireless routers litter the RF landscape near my house.
Charter Cable would also enable the wireless features on the router I have through them. They apparently stock and install one cable modem/wire+wireless router and then enable what you pay for.
Personally, I bought the cable modem for my Comcast connection, and run a D-Link wire-only router behind it for routing. And then whatever wireless router I feel like behind that. That means I have a firmware update to do tonight.
I wonder if the firmware update will fix a different problem I've discovered? My "router" will happily route non-routeable addresses from the LAN to WAN side. I was setting up some HSMM-MESH hardware using a different net than my home systems and I wanted to nmap them to see what was open. Imagine my surprise when a "Motorola CHS" MAC address responded to the non-routeable address I had assigned one of my MESH boxes. And kept responding after I turned the MESH router off.
I saw this coming when I decided on a sig line.
Really? Do you not imagine the day when "computers" are sentient and considered on the same level as "humans" that computers would not refer to the Merlin in the same way we refer to apes? Would it not be true to consider the X86 architectures to be true descendents of the 4004? And whatever the computers are built with in the future, would there not be a primitive ancestor of some kind, even if it is not directly in the Intel family tree?
So yes, they might not use the word "apes" to refer to their ancestors, but the concept maps rather well.
but those are least of the worries. just the legality of operating those drones would be the first. then the technical.
There can be discussion about who the airspace belongs to and arguments that make government control of such airspace a good thing, but once that sucker lands on my property it's mine. There is no debate on who owns what then.
Now get off my lawn you whippersnapper!
I also have never known anyone who's had something taken from their doorstep.
I have never had anything stolen, but I also never deliberately have anything sent to my house.
I have had a UPS package show up in my front yard, though. Stolen from a neighbor, left behind in my yard when the thief found out it was cheap junk.
At least they can hide it though.
So well that even the rightful owner will only find it several months later...
One UPS package was hidden around the corner of the garage so I didn't see it for a week. Fortunately it was a rainy cold week. Unfortunately it was a shipment of red peppers from New Mexico, which were green fuzzy peppers when I found them. Thanks, UPS.
The next time they did one better. They pried open my locked front screen door to hide a replacement pager I had been sent. Two months later I called the pager company, asked where the new pager was. They sent another. So a couple of days later I notice that my locked screen door is now standing 1/4" open. Oila! TWO pagers hidden in the same place. Thanks so much, UPS.
I saw the 60 minutes piece. Amazing Amazon. The best comment by Bezos was that this will work best in urban areas close to distribution centers. Of course, urban apartment dwellers won't have anyplace for the drones to drop boxes, and the rate of theft will be the highest there. I don't think the plan has been thought out very well.
Also, do they charge for the plastic boxes they deliver in, or do you have to leave them out for the neighborhood kids to steal/be picked back up?
What he said was a joke to make a point.
It wasn't just a joke, it was a full monologue. Lots of profanity, lots of "negative love" applied to the victims. The only point he was making is that he gets paid huge sums to rant about people who have valid medical problems.
Usually human trafficking means getting people (usually men) to perform what is practically slave labor ...
Usually, human trafficking means getting people of any sex to perform what is slave labor. Women and girls are included in that.
However, claims of coercion never seem to be backed up with facts.
You want facts? Okay. How about Ron Wyden, beloved by all progressive human beings for his widly held positions on freedom and government? "Now we have concrete proof that sex trafficking is not just going on in the dark corners of Asia," he said. "Sex trafficking is going on in our community." "The study showed that the average age of victims was 15.5 years when they were first referred to DHS and the Sexual Assault Resource Center. The youngest of them was 8 years old."
Why yes, anonymous coward, making prostitution legal will certainly prevent gangs from putting 8 year old girls out onto the street to turn tricks. Sure.
One more. You know how long it took to find these links? About 640,000 results (0.25 seconds)
"Just eat" is a perfectly reasonable solution when the problem is that they are just _refusing_ to eat healthy amounts of food.
Anorexia isn't when someone just refuses to eat. It's when they have a psychological issue with eating. Were it as simple as "just refuses to eat", then yes, they could just as easily "choose to eat".
If it takes a psychiatrist to convince someone to "eat", then it isn't a case of "just" anything. It's a serious issue, and Carlin was far far from being funny when he ranted on the problem. It was on the same level as making fun of cripples and gimps, and I put it that way to demonstrate the lack of "funny" he was.
> You can get STDs for free
How?
By sitting on a public toilet seat. By using the free needles you can find under many highway overpasses. By simply looking at a hooker. If you're looking to find an STD for free, just use your imagination.
To paraphrase George Carlin, it's nonsense that something is illegal to sell that you can legally give away for free.
Actually, when you consider that those who are selling it are often coerced into doing so, and those who give it away for free aren't, there is some sense to a law prohibiting sales. There is also the issue of "the rich" being able to afford something that regular mortals cannot, such as would happen with organ donation vs. organ sales. I mean "kidney" type organs, not "Hammond" or "Wurlitzer". We've kinda decided as a society that a rich person low on the list of need being able to get a kidney transplant because he can buy a kidney from someone while someone who is high on the list of need cannot get a free one is a bad thing, and thus selling kidneys is illegal.
Dr. Carlin says a lot of goofy things, by the way. I last paid attention to anything he says the night I saw him launch into a rant about people who suffer from anorexia. His well-educated medical solution to their physical and mental problem: just eat. Thanks, Doc. If they could "just eat" they wouldn't have gotten to 89 pounds and near death.
As you point out, human trafficking occurs despite prostitution laws, but I don't think the failure of the law to stop all bad things it tries to prevent is a reason to repeal the law.
I have always thought that carrying a competitor's bag is actually a good thing: it tells the store that the customers are aware of competitors, which pushes to make this store better too.
I had two Walmart bags that I got for free on the Walmart grand opening day in town (now I have one) that I love taking into the competing store I shop at. It tells them 1) Walmart is a viable option for this shopper (but really isn't for the reason I expressed earlier), 2) Walmart did something smart by giving bags away instead of charging 89 cents each.
It's also personally satisfying because, until recently, that store gave a 6 cent rebate for each bag someone brought in to reuse. That the response was "of course" when I last went there and noticed there was no rebate and asked if they had stopped doing it was irking. Why "of course"? I guess it should have been obvious that they would stop giving out a nickel and a penny for each bag we reuse.