If he doesn't get the authority to make anyone do what he says -- or even listen to him -- then he can perform his job as faithfully as he wishes while the NSA can carry on with its own. Everybody wins!
Well, not exactly. I mean, we have to pay for this gelded position.
True. But his/her official role (as opposed to the real role. . . ) is to provide a semblance of top-cover.
"But our Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer is investigating, and will report their findings when the investigation is complete. .."
Which will appease all but the loudest sheeple. . .
Yes, the officer is currently investigating case number 5. Of course, we get 20 million complaints per day, so it may take some time before the officer gets to your particular issue. Why, we've been talking about maybe even hiring the officer an assistant, but so far we haven't posted a position.
Well, it sounds to me like he did it on purpose in order to make a smaller purchase price for Microsoft. I think the shareholders should sue him and Microsoft for actual damages of $8 billion and punitive damages of another $80 billion.
So the US has become a Third World nation. Ridesharing is a well established mode of transport for the middleclass in Africa and Southeast Asia who can't afford to ride single passenger taxis but want something more comfortable than the local equivalent of a bus.
I think you are confusing sharing rides with ridesharing.
Ridesharing is where you call the company in advance, and they come and pick you up, possibly picking up other people along the way and then drop you off and charge both of you the full fare amount, which is usually about the same as a cab ride. So essentially, if you and the person you are sharing with had gotten together and called a cab, it would be half as much to pay the cabbie as you would have paid the ridesharing service.
Well the numbers are not pure profit either. It made $800 million and cost, say, $250 million. But how much of that $800 million does Rockstar get? I'm sure it is a pretty good cut, but Wal-mart has to make their cut too.
Oddly, I like GTA and I find the idea that anybody would spend $30 to $40 a night in a pub to be ludicrous.
Apparently, different people like different things. Who would have thunk it?
Fuck that, tell me how he manages to be so crap at a game that it takes him 30+ hours to finish!
Well, I know a lot of people in the modern generation tend to play the game like a movie. Find out all the cheats and fly through so they can buy the next $60 title. However, some of us prefer to solve the puzzles, get the hidden items and explore the whole game. This takes hundreds of hours, but I always find it more entertaining and stimulating to work it out than to cheat my way through.
Also, I have played GTA from I think GTA 3, and I have always played it from the perspective of doing the least harm possible. When I first started, I didn't even run red lights, until I learned that the cops won't chase you for that. I still am disappointed when I am in the middle of a mission and I accidentally hit a pedestrian while being chased or even worse is when the story requires you to kill a bystander. Heck, even when they give me a choice about killing a criminal, I choose to let them go.
Frankly, I think that most of the assumptions that people make about the GTA series comes from people who haven't actually played it. Just like most any other topic, most people who talk about it are talking out of their rear end.
Depending on where you live, there are a few business activities which require fingerprinting by the state. The ones I've run across are authorizations to administer medication to children (epi-pens for camp counselors), alcohol licenses, and real estate transactions. The business has no say in this - it is a government requirement. More than likely the business didn't send the prints to the state just to tick you off - the state was probably the entity which required them in the first place.
Nope. I'm a programmer. And they want my fingerprints to enter the building in which 6 or 7 other businesses do business. There is no reason to give my prints.
Well, it's a stretch, but not everybody is even able to be fingerprinted. Some peoples prints are worn away, burned off, fingers are missing, etc., and so they have to have an alternative. Since they have to have an alternative, then it is natural to assume that that alternative should also be provided to people who don't wish their private information to be misused. Of course, they don't provide any alternatives at all in my building, so people who have no fingerprints I guess can't work there, or at least can't get in after 5:30.
It's not like it's a hospital or government office or something either. It is just a building open to the public that has five or six businesses in it, all of which are individually secured.
This. Where I work, they required us to be fingerprinted and did a background check. Then I found out that they send the prints to the state, and the state keeps them on file. I didn't consent to that.
Then they wanted me to do a fingerprint for the building I worked in so I can get in after 5:30. As is my legal right, I opted out and they have to provide an alternative means for me to gain entry. Of course, they didn't actually do that, so now if it is after 5:30 and I happen to be outside, I just go home.
Yeah, the new generation of of the old generation doesn't even know how to piss on the young generation. Why back in my day, we could rank the new generation so bad they would go home crying to their mommies.
In 1999 when I was a freshman in HS, I saw another freshman walk up behind another kid and jokingly put a plastic knife from the lunch room to his back. He said, "give me all your money."
Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district.
In the early 80s when I was in grade school, we saw this sort of thing all the time, except we would use our thumb and index finger as a gun. Happened hundreds of times at recess. Teachers saw it, they didn't care, neither did the "victim". The victim was likely to be the perpetrator next time it happened. It was all innocent fun, nobody got hurt and nobody got sent to jail for it. Why we used to play guns with our thumb and index finger all the time on the playground. Too my knowledge, no one ever actually put a bullet in their finger and fired it at someone. See, kids are actually kind of smart and know the difference between a game and reality.
Oh, goody, a blame the victim campaign against bullying. That will help. In this case, they are already punishing the victim to the full extent of the law.
And if you defend yourself in school, you're punished to the same extent an aggressor is.
This is to prepare the children for adulthood, where the defendant is punished far worse than the aggressor. If an aggressor shoots and kills an unarmed defendant who was complying 100% with the aggressors demands, and then a week later the same aggressor shoots and kills a woman who was selling him a stereo, then that aggressor will get 15 years in prison and probably be out in 5.
On the other hand if a defendant shoots and kills an armed aggressor and saves the lives of multiple other people in their place of business, the defendant goes to jail for life. What kind of message are we sending here? I guess the message is that criminals and bullies can feel safe from retaliation from innocent citizens, and that they can operate with impunity without fear of reprisal or danger to their selves or their safety.
At least it is a consistent message from school to adulthood.
I guess you are one of the lucky ones whose bullies got what they deserved. In my case, I eventually couldn't take it anymore and fought back against one of my bullies. But I was duly punished for fighting back after a year of bullying, and the bully was allowed to continue to bother me for the rest of the year and now he knew that I could not fight back because authority was on his side.
criminal charges should be filed against the parents of the bullies.
On what charge? Being related to someone who chose to do something illegal? Unless you can show that the parent encouraged or provoked the bullying, then the child is responsible for his own crime. A parent can do a good job raising a child and the child still go wrong. Everybody makes their own choices and needs to pay their own consequences. What lesson does the child learn if his parents are punished? Why, that he can do whatever he wants and someone else will always pay for his actions. Yes, I know in today's society that is exactly what we are striving for, where no one has to be responsible for their own actions and everyone can blame their parents, or their neighborhood, or their upbringing or whatever, but I prefer a society where people are held accountable for their actions.
But I already paid tax on the car when I bought it-- sales tax. It's financed into the loan I took out when I purchased the car. You mean there would be an additional tax on my car, just for owning it, even if I do not drive it?
In my state you don't get to finance the sales tax. You buy the vehicle for what seems like a great deal and at the top end of what you can afford in payments, and then WHAMMO, the next month you suddenly get hit with a multi thousand dollar tax bill, and the payment options are: 1) pay it all right now and get your permanent tags or 2) don't pay it and not be able to drive legally.
So, if 5% of hard drives are failing in the first year of warranty, then the other ones have to last 180 years on average in order to meet the MTBF specifications of 1.5 million hours that hard drive makers claims. Because surely they wouldn't lie to us.
But does the ZR1 handle as well on a track in the twisties?
I'd wager the ZR-1 handles better than the Veyron. The Veyron just has a huge fat engine that makes it go fast in a straight line and can compensate for the fact that it is a ridiculously heavy car. Over two tons. About the same as a mid-size SUV.
Don't get me wrong, if someone gave me a Veyron, I'd take it. I'd drive it a bit, then sell it and buy like 5 other cars that I find more interesting and in the ballpark of the same performance.
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If he doesn't get the authority to make anyone do what he says -- or even listen to him -- then he can perform his job as faithfully as he wishes while the NSA can carry on with its own. Everybody wins!
Well, not exactly. I mean, we have to pay for this gelded position.
True. But his/her official role (as opposed to the real role. . . ) is to provide a semblance of top-cover.
"But our Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer is investigating, and will report their findings when the investigation is complete. . ."
Which will appease all but the loudest sheeple. . .
Yes, the officer is currently investigating case number 5. Of course, we get 20 million complaints per day, so it may take some time before the officer gets to your particular issue. Why, we've been talking about maybe even hiring the officer an assistant, but so far we haven't posted a position.
And I bet that the cheap $1 cables are made in the same factory in China as the $30 cables.
This isn't about the charger. This is about the wire. The only engineering that went into the cable was to insert unnecessary DRM.
Well, it sounds to me like he did it on purpose in order to make a smaller purchase price for Microsoft. I think the shareholders should sue him and Microsoft for actual damages of $8 billion and punitive damages of another $80 billion.
So the US has become a Third World nation. Ridesharing is a well established mode of transport for the middleclass in Africa and Southeast Asia who can't afford to ride single passenger taxis but want something more comfortable than the local equivalent of a bus.
I think you are confusing sharing rides with ridesharing.
Ridesharing is where you call the company in advance, and they come and pick you up, possibly picking up other people along the way and then drop you off and charge both of you the full fare amount, which is usually about the same as a cab ride. So essentially, if you and the person you are sharing with had gotten together and called a cab, it would be half as much to pay the cabbie as you would have paid the ridesharing service.
Well the numbers are not pure profit either. It made $800 million and cost, say, $250 million. But how much of that $800 million does Rockstar get? I'm sure it is a pretty good cut, but Wal-mart has to make their cut too.
Oddly, I like GTA and I find the idea that anybody would spend $30 to $40 a night in a pub to be ludicrous.
Apparently, different people like different things. Who would have thunk it?
Its a total commercial piece of triple A shit designed to sell a console and hardware?
Available on PS3, which has been out for what 5 or 6 years?
Fuck that, tell me how he manages to be so crap at a game that it takes him 30+ hours to finish!
Well, I know a lot of people in the modern generation tend to play the game like a movie. Find out all the cheats and fly through so they can buy the next $60 title. However, some of us prefer to solve the puzzles, get the hidden items and explore the whole game. This takes hundreds of hours, but I always find it more entertaining and stimulating to work it out than to cheat my way through.
Also, I have played GTA from I think GTA 3, and I have always played it from the perspective of doing the least harm possible. When I first started, I didn't even run red lights, until I learned that the cops won't chase you for that. I still am disappointed when I am in the middle of a mission and I accidentally hit a pedestrian while being chased or even worse is when the story requires you to kill a bystander. Heck, even when they give me a choice about killing a criminal, I choose to let them go.
Frankly, I think that most of the assumptions that people make about the GTA series comes from people who haven't actually played it. Just like most any other topic, most people who talk about it are talking out of their rear end.
Your pretty dumb.
Oh the irony. Your sentence contains a possessive, two adjectives and no noun or verb.
Depending on where you live, there are a few business activities which require fingerprinting by the state. The ones I've run across are authorizations to administer medication to children (epi-pens for camp counselors), alcohol licenses, and real estate transactions. The business has no say in this - it is a government requirement. More than likely the business didn't send the prints to the state just to tick you off - the state was probably the entity which required them in the first place.
Nope. I'm a programmer. And they want my fingerprints to enter the building in which 6 or 7 other businesses do business. There is no reason to give my prints.
Well, it's a stretch, but not everybody is even able to be fingerprinted. Some peoples prints are worn away, burned off, fingers are missing, etc., and so they have to have an alternative. Since they have to have an alternative, then it is natural to assume that that alternative should also be provided to people who don't wish their private information to be misused. Of course, they don't provide any alternatives at all in my building, so people who have no fingerprints I guess can't work there, or at least can't get in after 5:30.
It's not like it's a hospital or government office or something either. It is just a building open to the public that has five or six businesses in it, all of which are individually secured.
This. Where I work, they required us to be fingerprinted and did a background check. Then I found out that they send the prints to the state, and the state keeps them on file. I didn't consent to that.
Then they wanted me to do a fingerprint for the building I worked in so I can get in after 5:30. As is my legal right, I opted out and they have to provide an alternative means for me to gain entry. Of course, they didn't actually do that, so now if it is after 5:30 and I happen to be outside, I just go home.
Yeah, the new generation of of the old generation doesn't even know how to piss on the young generation. Why back in my day, we could rank the new generation so bad they would go home crying to their mommies.
In 1999 when I was a freshman in HS, I saw another freshman walk up behind another kid and jokingly put a plastic knife from the lunch room to his back. He said, "give me all your money." Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district.
In the early 80s when I was in grade school, we saw this sort of thing all the time, except we would use our thumb and index finger as a gun. Happened hundreds of times at recess. Teachers saw it, they didn't care, neither did the "victim". The victim was likely to be the perpetrator next time it happened. It was all innocent fun, nobody got hurt and nobody got sent to jail for it. Why we used to play guns with our thumb and index finger all the time on the playground. Too my knowledge, no one ever actually put a bullet in their finger and fired it at someone. See, kids are actually kind of smart and know the difference between a game and reality.
Oh, goody, a blame the victim campaign against bullying. That will help. In this case, they are already punishing the victim to the full extent of the law.
And if you defend yourself in school, you're punished to the same extent an aggressor is.
This is to prepare the children for adulthood, where the defendant is punished far worse than the aggressor. If an aggressor shoots and kills an unarmed defendant who was complying 100% with the aggressors demands, and then a week later the same aggressor shoots and kills a woman who was selling him a stereo, then that aggressor will get 15 years in prison and probably be out in 5.
On the other hand if a defendant shoots and kills an armed aggressor and saves the lives of multiple other people in their place of business, the defendant goes to jail for life. What kind of message are we sending here? I guess the message is that criminals and bullies can feel safe from retaliation from innocent citizens, and that they can operate with impunity without fear of reprisal or danger to their selves or their safety.
At least it is a consistent message from school to adulthood.
I guess you are one of the lucky ones whose bullies got what they deserved. In my case, I eventually couldn't take it anymore and fought back against one of my bullies. But I was duly punished for fighting back after a year of bullying, and the bully was allowed to continue to bother me for the rest of the year and now he knew that I could not fight back because authority was on his side.
criminal charges should be filed against the parents of the bullies.
On what charge? Being related to someone who chose to do something illegal? Unless you can show that the parent encouraged or provoked the bullying, then the child is responsible for his own crime. A parent can do a good job raising a child and the child still go wrong. Everybody makes their own choices and needs to pay their own consequences. What lesson does the child learn if his parents are punished? Why, that he can do whatever he wants and someone else will always pay for his actions. Yes, I know in today's society that is exactly what we are striving for, where no one has to be responsible for their own actions and everyone can blame their parents, or their neighborhood, or their upbringing or whatever, but I prefer a society where people are held accountable for their actions.
But I already paid tax on the car when I bought it-- sales tax. It's financed into the loan I took out when I purchased the car. You mean there would be an additional tax on my car, just for owning it, even if I do not drive it?
In my state you don't get to finance the sales tax. You buy the vehicle for what seems like a great deal and at the top end of what you can afford in payments, and then WHAMMO, the next month you suddenly get hit with a multi thousand dollar tax bill, and the payment options are: 1) pay it all right now and get your permanent tags or 2) don't pay it and not be able to drive legally.
So this guys is wasting one of humankind's most precious resource on a useless stunt to promote his company. That's real slick, that.
Note to self: never do business with Accenture.
There's plenty more helium in our very own solar system. Just ask that big yellow thingy in the sky for some.
So, if 5% of hard drives are failing in the first year of warranty, then the other ones have to last 180 years on average in order to meet the MTBF specifications of 1.5 million hours that hard drive makers claims. Because surely they wouldn't lie to us.
You're looking for a motorcycle, then. They've been around for a while!
But going between traffic on a motorcycle is not legal everywhere either. And it is not a good idea anywhere.
But does the ZR1 handle as well on a track in the twisties?
I'd wager the ZR-1 handles better than the Veyron. The Veyron just has a huge fat engine that makes it go fast in a straight line and can compensate for the fact that it is a ridiculously heavy car. Over two tons. About the same as a mid-size SUV.
Don't get me wrong, if someone gave me a Veyron, I'd take it. I'd drive it a bit, then sell it and buy like 5 other cars that I find more interesting and in the ballpark of the same performance.