Because in our modern society we feel more empathy for criminals than we do for their victims. We feel that criminals have chosen a profession and they should be able to perform that profession in relative safety, without fear of their victims fighting back at all, and certainly not with a gun. You don't go into your IT job and have to fear every day that somebody might hit you upside the head with a baseball bat. So why should a rapist have to worry that a woman might scratch him with her fingernails, or a burglar have to worry about getting hit with a baseball bat, or a murder have to worry about getting shot? It's their chosen profession, and in today's society, we apparently want them to feel safe in their chosen profession.
Phone payment systems, on the other hand, can be set up so that only a one-time code gets transmitted to the retailer. It can't be used for anything after the one transaction, and there is nothing to store in a vulnerable database.
That seems like it would only be possible if your phone is able to communicate with the card carrier, which it is not always able to do.
It will be so nice standing in a busy supermarket about to pay only to realize you forgot to charge your phone, won't it?
Or forgot your wallet? That happens to me more often than not having a charged phone. Granted, everyone's mileage will vary with this as with anything else.
Forgot your wallet? How did you get wherever you were going without your wallet? Hopefully you didn't drive, because that would be illegal. I have literally NEVER forgotten my wallet. I used to forget my phone maybe once a year back when carrying a phone first became a thing. Now I never forget my phone. I have had my phone go dead on me though. Either the battery ran out or there was no service. I have never had that happen with my wallet or my credit cards.
I think you missed the main point. The problem is a government entity, the school, endorsing a candidate.
A public school would be a government entity. A charter school may be a private entity, depending on the state. In Colorado, it is publicly funded, but it is an entity founded and operated privately. Whether a charter school's endorsement of a candidate constitutes a government endorsement is highly debatable. My opinion is that it does not.
Arduino UNOs can be had for 10 bucks. 29 of those can supply most classrooms. There, now everyone has an Arduino class to learn basic programming and basic circuits.
Yep, just $29 plus the cost of a computer and everyone can have a computer.
The biggest hurdle is that it is not cost effective. It will cost too much to use, and yet still won't pay for itself. We had a similar problem with streetcars in Okahoma City in the early 1900s. When buses came around, they were far cheaper, more maneuverable and could go places that streetcars couldn't, so they were replaced with buses. Now, OKC has the bright idea to raise taxes to create a streetcar system. Hello! History! Read it!.
Elon Musk's Hyperloop is a far better idea for so many reasons, and far cheaper.
Scrap this train and build that instead.
If you ignore land acquisition costs, costs of proving the unproven technology, which may actually find that it can't possibly work, and other associated costs. It would probably be too expensive to even let Musk finance it himself, because when it fails the government will have to either sped huge amounts of money to finish it or demolish it.
What did they do with the money? My guess is they sent Obama on a speaking tour or a vacation and didn't actually give any of it to schools. I know my kids high school didn't have any kind of discussion over how to spend the money from this new program.
Of course, even if every penny was sent to schools, which I'm pretty sure it was not, when you divide it amongst 131,000 public and private schools, that is only $229 each, so there probably doesn't have to be a big discussion about what to do with it. You could buy a desk and chair that you could eventually put a computer on after you have raised the money for one.
Is that a deductible, or what? Either way, the question is, what would the bills have been if you showed up as an uninsured person? Notoriously, the non-insured rate is often higher than the insured-rate-before-insurance.
It was like $2,000 before the contract rate. So yeah, it would have taken about 4 months to pay it off if I didn't have insurance, but I can't pay it off at all because I do have insurance, unless I drop my insurance, in which case I can pay it off in like 4 months.
When my wife attempted to sign up for coverage they repeatedly asked for the same documentation and when they received it, they said that they couldn't find her in the system, so it does weed out legitimate people, just apparently not people with fake documentation.
Unless you are wealthy the plans are subsidized so it is affordable. Saying it isn't is a Republican lie.
Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t!!!!!!!! A thousand times Bullsh*t. I lost my job, had ZERO INCOME. I still had to pay FULL PRICE for my coverage. Redid my application, NO CHANGE. NOT EVEN TAX CREDIT. I'm sure SOME people are getting subsidized, but it isn't people like me who have paid into the system for 30 years.
You have it wrong, what they don't care about, or rather for, is the onerous and difficult process to get people covered.
Why do we need people to be covered? We don't have an insurance coverage problem. We have a healthcare problem. Insurance coverage != healthcare. In fact, because I have insurance like a good boy, I can't really afford medical attention. We have $1,000 in medical bills from this summer which we can't pay. If we had not paid our insurance premiums, we could have paid this down in two months.
You know the AC really isn't a Climatologist, right?
It doesn't matter. If you predict a system will become more chaotic, you will ALWAYS be right. Even if it becomes LESS chaotic you are still correct, because becoming LESS chaotic is only possible if something else became MORE chaotic.
This is what I predicted when I did my Ph.D in Climatology: a chaotic system will produce much larger storms than ever before. 30 years later it turns out I was right!
You knew this was going to happen and yet you didn't warn the people of Mexico. You should be sent to jail.
Au contraire, it makes it really easy to make any old statement of what you predicted, because som AC somewhere undoubtedly said that, and the exact opposite of that. You can't possibly be wrong if you choose your targets after the arrow hits.
It's got to be hard to catch up to somebody who is so far behind you. You'd have to sell all the way to infinity, go back to negative infinity and then catch up to the $12 billion in sales that Amazon does.
There is a lot of "me, me, me, now, now, now" in American culture. Wal-mart will always have a place as long as people can't stand to wait two days over instant gratification.
Google tracks cell phones without a warrant and they don't need a belief in anything to do it. When corporations track and commoditize you like an animal, what do you care about your privacy?
The constitution doesn't limit what Google can do, it limits what the government can do. It would take new laws being written to say that Google can't do track you, which would be shortly followed by Google going out of business. On the other hand, this is big news that the SS can do this, because constitutionally, no they can't.
But most of the conservatives hate illegal immigration.
Except when hiring maids and gardeners.
And people to work in their chicken-processing factories.
I'm sure that makes a good argument, but what proof do we have that it is true? I personally have never hired a maid or a gardener at all, and neither has any of my friends, who mostly happen to be conservatives. I'm pretty sure most of the more well-to-do conservatives don't hire illegals either. They hire legitimate gardening services (or mow their own lawns. You don't get rich by writing a bunch of checks). Perhaps some of those gardening services employ illegals, but the responsibility for ensuring that a gardening service does not hire illegals is the governments responsibility, not the customers.
Shale gas exploration is definitely an extreme case because it is guaranteed to only be allowed to happen where there are practically no people whatsoever. Lots of people I know where I am from are involved in gas exploration and they go up to Minnesota and work for months at a time. That is a long way away from here, but the company pays it and pays them well. This is an example of the system working. There are people in the U.S. who have skills and there is a need for such skills in another part of the U.S., so the company pays a big premium to get the people where they are needed. If we let them hire H1bs then we would have unemployed Shale gas exploration specialists in various areas all over the country, not being able to find work or afford to move to where work is.
Me, I dislike emigration. I want people to come here and stay here. Immigrants have already been schooled to 18+ and have the wherewithal to uproot themselves for a better life.
If you're worried about competition, form an effective German-style union where both sides of industry care for long term business efficiency and want secure, motivated, skilled workers rather than a race to the bottom. Or start up your own business. If the country becomes so much more efficient that it needs proportionally less labour, said unions can negotiate a reduction in working hours.
There may be people who dislike immigration period. But most of the conservatives hate illegal immigration. And most of the democrats then like to conveniently leave the word illegal out or change it to something that sounds less like illegal. The truth of the matter is that many H1bs are here illegally, because the companies that hired them, their visa lawyers and they themselves lied and colluded to get a job when many, many Americans were available and willing to work the job for the right amount of money (ie, the prevailing wage).
Slashdot sure is anti-immigrant. One may even say *gasp* bigoted...
There are a a lot of idealists on slashdot. Unfortunately, just like in IT, the code that works perfectly under clean room, vetted data situations doesn't work so well in the real world. Everybody on slashdot is in favor of taxing the rich, but when the government looks at them and says "okay rich man, hand over your wallet", they all act surprised.
Slashdot Mirror
Why do we care about "not harming the pervert?"
Because in our modern society we feel more empathy for criminals than we do for their victims. We feel that criminals have chosen a profession and they should be able to perform that profession in relative safety, without fear of their victims fighting back at all, and certainly not with a gun. You don't go into your IT job and have to fear every day that somebody might hit you upside the head with a baseball bat. So why should a rapist have to worry that a woman might scratch him with her fingernails, or a burglar have to worry about getting hit with a baseball bat, or a murder have to worry about getting shot? It's their chosen profession, and in today's society, we apparently want them to feel safe in their chosen profession.
I don't have a drone, that won't prevent me from being shot by some asshat who knows how a gun work but can't grasp the concept of a bullet.
Do you see the problem here? Two groups of assholes tries to stand their ground and everyone else gets caught in the crossfire.
Protecting your property does not make you an asshole. Invading someone's privacy does.
Phone payment systems, on the other hand, can be set up so that only a one-time code gets transmitted to the retailer. It can't be used for anything after the one transaction, and there is nothing to store in a vulnerable database.
That seems like it would only be possible if your phone is able to communicate with the card carrier, which it is not always able to do.
It will be so nice standing in a busy supermarket about to pay only to realize you forgot to charge your phone, won't it?
Or forgot your wallet? That happens to me more often than not having a charged phone. Granted, everyone's mileage will vary with this as with anything else.
Forgot your wallet? How did you get wherever you were going without your wallet? Hopefully you didn't drive, because that would be illegal. I have literally NEVER forgotten my wallet. I used to forget my phone maybe once a year back when carrying a phone first became a thing. Now I never forget my phone. I have had my phone go dead on me though. Either the battery ran out or there was no service. I have never had that happen with my wallet or my credit cards.
I think you missed the main point. The problem is a government entity, the school, endorsing a candidate.
A public school would be a government entity. A charter school may be a private entity, depending on the state. In Colorado, it is publicly funded, but it is an entity founded and operated privately. Whether a charter school's endorsement of a candidate constitutes a government endorsement is highly debatable. My opinion is that it does not.
Arduino UNOs can be had for 10 bucks. 29 of those can supply most classrooms. There, now everyone has an Arduino class to learn basic programming and basic circuits.
Yep, just $29 plus the cost of a computer and everyone can have a computer.
The biggest hurdle is that it is not cost effective. It will cost too much to use, and yet still won't pay for itself. We had a similar problem with streetcars in Okahoma City in the early 1900s. When buses came around, they were far cheaper, more maneuverable and could go places that streetcars couldn't, so they were replaced with buses. Now, OKC has the bright idea to raise taxes to create a streetcar system. Hello! History! Read it!.
Elon Musk's Hyperloop is a far better idea for so many reasons, and far cheaper. Scrap this train and build that instead.
If you ignore land acquisition costs, costs of proving the unproven technology, which may actually find that it can't possibly work, and other associated costs. It would probably be too expensive to even let Musk finance it himself, because when it fails the government will have to either sped huge amounts of money to finish it or demolish it.
What did they do with the money? My guess is they sent Obama on a speaking tour or a vacation and didn't actually give any of it to schools. I know my kids high school didn't have any kind of discussion over how to spend the money from this new program.
Of course, even if every penny was sent to schools, which I'm pretty sure it was not, when you divide it amongst 131,000 public and private schools, that is only $229 each, so there probably doesn't have to be a big discussion about what to do with it. You could buy a desk and chair that you could eventually put a computer on after you have raised the money for one.
Is that a deductible, or what? Either way, the question is, what would the bills have been if you showed up as an uninsured person? Notoriously, the non-insured rate is often higher than the insured-rate-before-insurance.
It was like $2,000 before the contract rate. So yeah, it would have taken about 4 months to pay it off if I didn't have insurance, but I can't pay it off at all because I do have insurance, unless I drop my insurance, in which case I can pay it off in like 4 months.
When my wife attempted to sign up for coverage they repeatedly asked for the same documentation and when they received it, they said that they couldn't find her in the system, so it does weed out legitimate people, just apparently not people with fake documentation.
My health insurance rates have nearly doubled since the implementation of Obama care.
I guess it's "affordable" when you're on the government dole and US taxpayer is footing the bill.
KEEP OBAMA IN PRESIDENT!!!
Mine quadrupled and I got less coverage.
Unless you are wealthy the plans are subsidized so it is affordable. Saying it isn't is a Republican lie.
Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t, Bullsh*t!!!!!!!! A thousand times Bullsh*t. I lost my job, had ZERO INCOME. I still had to pay FULL PRICE for my coverage. Redid my application, NO CHANGE. NOT EVEN TAX CREDIT. I'm sure SOME people are getting subsidized, but it isn't people like me who have paid into the system for 30 years.
You have it wrong, what they don't care about, or rather for, is the onerous and difficult process to get people covered.
Why do we need people to be covered? We don't have an insurance coverage problem. We have a healthcare problem. Insurance coverage != healthcare. In fact, because I have insurance like a good boy, I can't really afford medical attention. We have $1,000 in medical bills from this summer which we can't pay. If we had not paid our insurance premiums, we could have paid this down in two months.
You know the AC really isn't a Climatologist, right?
It doesn't matter. If you predict a system will become more chaotic, you will ALWAYS be right. Even if it becomes LESS chaotic you are still correct, because becoming LESS chaotic is only possible if something else became MORE chaotic.
This is what I predicted when I did my Ph.D in Climatology: a chaotic system will produce much larger storms than ever before. 30 years later it turns out I was right!
You knew this was going to happen and yet you didn't warn the people of Mexico. You should be sent to jail.
Au contraire, it makes it really easy to make any old statement of what you predicted, because som AC somewhere undoubtedly said that, and the exact opposite of that. You can't possibly be wrong if you choose your targets after the arrow hits.
Was it a SPECIFIC republican that created this storm, or did all Republicans have a hand in it?
It's got to be hard to catch up to somebody who is so far behind you. You'd have to sell all the way to infinity, go back to negative infinity and then catch up to the $12 billion in sales that Amazon does.
There is a lot of "me, me, me, now, now, now" in American culture. Wal-mart will always have a place as long as people can't stand to wait two days over instant gratification.
Google tracks cell phones without a warrant and they don't need a belief in anything to do it. When corporations track and commoditize you like an animal, what do you care about your privacy?
The constitution doesn't limit what Google can do, it limits what the government can do. It would take new laws being written to say that Google can't do track you, which would be shortly followed by Google going out of business. On the other hand, this is big news that the SS can do this, because constitutionally, no they can't.
But most of the conservatives hate illegal immigration.
Except when hiring maids and gardeners.
And people to work in their chicken-processing factories.
I'm sure that makes a good argument, but what proof do we have that it is true? I personally have never hired a maid or a gardener at all, and neither has any of my friends, who mostly happen to be conservatives. I'm pretty sure most of the more well-to-do conservatives don't hire illegals either. They hire legitimate gardening services (or mow their own lawns. You don't get rich by writing a bunch of checks). Perhaps some of those gardening services employ illegals, but the responsibility for ensuring that a gardening service does not hire illegals is the governments responsibility, not the customers.
Slashdot: home of the 1%
Somehow I doubt it. It's more like: Slashdot, we sit around in our parents basement and pretend we are the 1%.
Believe me, the government considers pretty much everybody that is in slashdot to be the 1%
Shale gas exploration is definitely an extreme case because it is guaranteed to only be allowed to happen where there are practically no people whatsoever. Lots of people I know where I am from are involved in gas exploration and they go up to Minnesota and work for months at a time. That is a long way away from here, but the company pays it and pays them well. This is an example of the system working. There are people in the U.S. who have skills and there is a need for such skills in another part of the U.S., so the company pays a big premium to get the people where they are needed. If we let them hire H1bs then we would have unemployed Shale gas exploration specialists in various areas all over the country, not being able to find work or afford to move to where work is.
Me, I dislike emigration. I want people to come here and stay here. Immigrants have already been schooled to 18+ and have the wherewithal to uproot themselves for a better life.
If you're worried about competition, form an effective German-style union where both sides of industry care for long term business efficiency and want secure, motivated, skilled workers rather than a race to the bottom. Or start up your own business. If the country becomes so much more efficient that it needs proportionally less labour, said unions can negotiate a reduction in working hours.
There may be people who dislike immigration period. But most of the conservatives hate illegal immigration. And most of the democrats then like to conveniently leave the word illegal out or change it to something that sounds less like illegal. The truth of the matter is that many H1bs are here illegally, because the companies that hired them, their visa lawyers and they themselves lied and colluded to get a job when many, many Americans were available and willing to work the job for the right amount of money (ie, the prevailing wage).
Slashdot sure is anti-immigrant. One may even say *gasp* bigoted...
There are a a lot of idealists on slashdot. Unfortunately, just like in IT, the code that works perfectly under clean room, vetted data situations doesn't work so well in the real world. Everybody on slashdot is in favor of taxing the rich, but when the government looks at them and says "okay rich man, hand over your wallet", they all act surprised.