Nice idea but there are usually limits put in place to prevent employees/insiders from doing this exact thing. I have been involved in a couple of IPOs from the inside and each time I could not sell the shares until 3 months after the IPO, and usually by then the hype and rollercoaster has died down. If there is a massive sell off by employees it is going to cause a dive in the stock and investors might wonder what the employees know that they don't since they are jumping ship immediately rather than letting it slowly rise even more in the future.
You might want rethink that. Take a look at Microsoft stock about 15+ years ago. Microsoft was not giving out dividends to shareholders. The price of Microsoft stock was only based on what people thought they could sell it for to someone else. People were trading Microsoft stock based on emotions and that is fine as long as you realize that is what is going on. Was Microsoft successful? Oh yes, but that success did not translate in to anything for the shareholders. So it wasn't traded on the monetary value to the shareholders but rather emotions of what people thought it was worth and what they thought they could sell it for. That is fine as long as people realize that is what is going on.
Investing has almost nothing to do with numbers, and everything in the world to do with mass psychology. The markets move up and down based on what people think not usually because of some concrete fact. Is there any proof that Zynga is worth $100 Billion or whatever? No. People feel like they will last and make them money but Zynga could end up next year being the victim of the latest fad and everyone jumps ship to that instead. Hell people don't even invest anymore based on dividends or P/E, they invest based on what they think/hope someone else will pay for the stock in a given period of time.
People who try and figure out formulas for the stock market always fail. The reason is the stock market isn't driven by numbers, it's driven by people's emotions. Now if you could come up with some mass psychology method for predicting people's behaviors then you could probably clean up in the stock market.
If the server wanted it could absolutely poison the IP list with fake IPs and it wouldn't make one difference to the clients. The client would get the IP try to connect and fail then move on to the next IP. If your just mining IP from the torrent server then your completely screwed because you have no idea which ones are real and which are false. A client could poison the list as well by saying they are connected to IPs that they aren't really. Again an IP that isn't even part of the swarm is being reported as part of the swarm. There are lots of ways to screw people looking at just IPs that wouldn't bother one bit the clients that actually are connecting but would completely hose those just looking at IP lists. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was already doing that, given the kind of screw with the bittorrent system programs that I have seen out there. Programs that download but report to everyone that they have nothing downloaded yet. Programs that report they uploaded tons but never actually did. Programs that connect to the bittorrent server and just monitor reported traffic and IPs. So I could see someone writing a program to poison the IP lists no problem. I even once saw a bittorrent client written/hacked that refused all incoming initiated request and only allowed outbound ones it made. So if you got that IP and tried to connect to it, the program would not respond, but it would connect with whoever it tried to connect with. I have no idea why someone would want that, but someone made/hacked it. So nothing would surprise me about what someone would/could write to mess with the torrent systems out there.
Interesting idea, but absolutely legally a completely crappy way to go about it. Any time you have a black list is it a legal minefield and you better be sure you can legally prove your reason for them being on the black list or you are in major trouble. If you accept a black list from someone else you are still legally responsible for your actions. You banned the guy not the person who gave you the list, so you are legally liable. All it takes is 1 name getting on the list that shouldn't be due to a mistake and everyone involved ends up in a huge legal battle and monopoly accusations get thrown into the mix and becomes a complete nightmare for all the companies involved. I have talked with lawyers about a black list for people who don't pay their bills and it is such a huge legal liability and nightmare that it wasn't worth it. Here we aren't talking about something easy to prove that someone didn't pay a bill. We are talking about a subjective thing of we think it was this guy who was breaking copyright law, but it could have been his kid or his neighbor or his computer was hacked, we just aren't sure but we are black listing him anyway. Yea that will stand up in court all right with no problems at all. Not really. This is just begging to get blasted with a multi-million dollar lawsuit for defamation (you said he was a law breaking criminal), illegal monopoly, restraint of trade (the guy can't get online and do his day trading/ebay/whatever) and all kinds of other charges that are expensive and nasty if convicted of them.
You still can not collude with other businesses to exclude people from service. That is attempting to create a monopoly and it is illegal because it isn't a natural monopoly.Blacklists are a huge minefield, just ask the banks and credit card companies. There is a huge long list of legal issues and requirements that must be met before anyone can go on the list and you better be damn sure you have solid legal proof of your claim or you are sitting in a huge pile of crap and going to be seriously sued. That is why so few industries do black lists because they are such a legal nightmare.
Yes, ISP blacklists are a legal nightmare. You better have damn good proof to back up your claim and crap load of insurance to go with it or you are looking a major problems from the people blacklisted as well as the government. If you share that blacklist with others....oh man...your liability just went even higher and the government can take an even more active interest in what you are doing. I used to own an ISP and talked several times about a blacklist of customers who didn't pay their bills and was told by many lawyers it would be a legal minefield and that the government could step in a bitch slap everyone involved for collusion and restraint of trade and attempting to create an illegal monopoly and cartel stuff too. The list was long and varied of the problems. There are a whole long list of what you are legally allowed to keep a list of bad customers and the level of legal proof you must have to put them on the list and even then it could still all blow up in your face. I don't see how these guys think they will get away with sharing such a list. I only see it being a much bigger explosion in their faces given their size.
Here is the problem with your argument. Can you prove exactly who was doing what and when? Can you prove who was sitting at the keyboard actually doing it? Are you sure the computer wasn't infected with a botnet? Are you sure the computer wasn't hacked and taken over? Are you sure that someone in the neighborhood wasn't using the wifi to do it? No, you have no idea if any of that is true or not. You can not prove for a fact who was sitting at the keyboard at that given time. Was it little Johnny doing it or Dad or little Jane or the neighbor down the street? You have no idea. Judges usually frown on charging multiple people with a crime that only one person can commit. So that is the legal problem. If you have no idea who did it then you don't have a case at all and you can't legally go after anyone because you don't know who did what. The fact that such activity was taking place on the line does not prove who actually did it, and that is the problem law enforcement as always faced and why they seize the computer and find out who had access to it and look for evidence on the hard drive. ISP logs are not enough legal evidence alone by themselves. Not to mention that states have different rules about how evidence can be collected and what methods are legally allowed and what methods are not as well as what methods are merely circumstantial and in and of themselves prove nothing.
Being listed on a bittorrent server proves nothing. You don't know that the server isn't throwing in random IPs that won't bother actual clients but will screw up someone just mining the addresses. You have no idea just because the IP is listed that it is actually downloading, or even uploading. The only way to know that for sure is to connect to that IP and upload and download from it. Even then your back to the issue of exactly who are you interacting with. What OS are they running, and are you sure about that? What if the person doesn't have that kind of computer in the house, are you sure they do? There are lots of legal issues here about what you can and can not prove. That is the major problem with stuff like this and why it needs to be thrown out because it is legally worthless crap and doesn't and can't prove anything.
As long as ISP are not regulating what is posted and seen online then they do have common carrier status. I know this as a legal fact because I owned an ISP and was involved in several of these exact issues. If you start selectively blocking what comes in and what is allowed to go out you loose your common carrier status.
Don't even get me started on EULA's and how they should be illegal. Since when can I write a contract that said I can change it anyway I want at any time and you get no choice and are still bound by it. If a car dealer did that there would holy hell to pay. Why computer and software companies get a pass on this I will never understand. This type of crap was tried on book a long long time ago and the courts smacked them down. So why the courts allow it now I will never know other than suspected political payoffs.
Actual true journalism in print hasn't been practiced in the US for almost 50 years. If you have any doubt about that go ask any journalism professor at the major journalism schools and they will tell you that. There is more ambush journalism and politically slanted journalism in this country than anything else. True journalism that makes no judgments and only reports the facts from both sides does not exist anymore, to even think that it does show how little you read and how little you actually know about journalism. Yes I was a journalism major and yes I did learn under one of the best professors in the field and was point blank told that. It was said this is how it should be done, but here is the reality of the market and how they will make you do it.
How about we don't give a crap where Obama is from but want to know why it was such a big freaking deal to release his actual birth certificate? You do remember that the Democrats pulled the same exact crap with McCain saying he wasn't eligible to be President and he had to release his medical records and birth certificate. Obama didn't release his birth certificate until now and he still hasn't released his medical records. What is Obama so afraid of? So don't even try to play like Democrats are any better.
As for the "Tea Party". Please show me where they are registered as a political party or even a non-profit group. There are lots of different people and groups who have a very loose affiliation. The leftist media loves to try and make them out to be some boogie man in the night, yet they can't produce one video of them being a problem but there is lots of video of admitted Democrats harassing them at their events at people's backyards and such. Look at the crap Democrats pulled in Arizona getting a few of them arrested at "Tea Party" events. The left and the media are so freaked out about November elections and still try to say it was anything but people pissed off at the Democrats. The leftist media thinks if they can make stuff up and say it often enough that people will believe it. They still can't produce any video of guns at rallies when point blank asked, but keep trying to sell it like it really did happen. Nancy Pelosi has publicly said it wasn't people upset with Democrats they were voting about unemployment. Huh? Lady you have lost your mind. Nancy Pelosi talks like a freaking moron and thinks she if she says something enough times that some how it will become the truth. I guess because she thinks people are stupid like her. The Democrats are absolute morons and have done more damage to this country in two years than any other President and Congress in 4 years. Obama has spent more in 2 years that any President in history has in 4 years, and even using percentages he is still the biggest spender. He has raised the nation debt more than any other President in 4 year term and he did it in 2 years. You can do it adjusted dollars, actual dollars, percentage comparisons and still Obama has screw this country worse than any President in history. He also rammed Obama Care through without any way to pay for it. He claimed it would save money when no one could figure out how that was going to work. Now GOA is saying it will cost at least 4 times the initial estimates and costs are rising with 35% of businesses polled say they are going to dump health care because the costs are going to sky rocket under Obama's new plan, another 21% probably will but are waiting to see final costs to decide if they will drop health care as well. There are over 750 companies so far who have applied for a waiver to the new health care rules and gotten it. If it was such a great deal and saves money why does a company need a waiver? Of course the Democrats won't talk about that either. This Health Care bill is set to bankrupt this country and Obama and the Democrats could care less. Their only response is, think of the children. Great what are the children going to do when Mom & Dad can't afford food & housing because required health care costs to the government are through the roof. You did know that if you don't have a certain level of health care coverage you get fined right?
Obama and the Democrats have really messed this country over and we are in such serious trouble now . We have had more money unable to be accounted for during Obama's administration than ever before. The Democrats played games with the cost reports for Obama Care and told the GAO to figure it 1 year later than when it actually started and some costs were removed. The reports were so faulty and screwed up by the Democrats that they were worthless and the GAO said that point blank. GAO told the Democrats that wasn't how the reports were done, but the Democrats said we don't care do it anyway. Great job being truthful there Democrats.
Don't tell me your one of those radical leftists who think that Obama and Democrats were just fixing what Bush did and that they didn't do anything wrong right? Yea the November elections didn't mean anything nor did the type of people who got voted in to Congress. Yep I got now.
I wish people would make up their minds. The public cries and whines that Ubuntu is slow to update some packages and has really old versions that should have been updated. Now your whining about it being bleeding edge. I guess people can't make up their mind other than to say something bad about everything.
Why doesn't anyone post the most obvious answer. Get Ubuntu and run it off the CD/DVD without installing it (LiveCD). She can play with it all she wants and every time the computer is turn off it resets everything and doesn't bother her Windows or OS X setup at all and it doesn't need to save stuff to just play around with it and do most normal things like web surfing and such.
That is so much simpler since she isn't probably going to keep it around after the class assignment is over.
Watson: "You are aware that there have been rolling power outages in your area right?" Customer: "You mean I need power at my house and it has to be constant for this to work?" Watson: "That is correct, you must have a constant supply of power for it to work correctly." Customer: "Well that is stupid it should just work anyway."
Those type of calls are the reality of internet and technical support calls. Those type calls make up 95% of the calls. I know this because I owned a business that did that exact thing, and I talked with other business owners in the same field and they said the same exact thing.
Your trying to spin the numbers. If in 1992 there were 100 jobs and in 2008 there were 5,000 jobs then no matter how you slice it there are more jobs now than in the past. The fact that there may be less per bank doesn't mean anything when the total number of employees has gone up. Don't try and out think yourself. A bigger number than a smaller number is still a bigger number no matter what kind of number games you try and play.
There aren't any jobs is complete crap. People start new businesses all the time on a shoe string or less all the time. Adam W. Shepard wrote a book about how he went from homeless and $25 to a car, apartment and almost $5,000 in 10 months. I have started two businesses on $100 and supported a wife and lived good. It is possible if you are motivated and willing to work hard and sacrifice. The problem is most people think that is too hard and too much work and that they shouldn't have to do all that to get ahead. It's called being lazy and expecting to get paid for it.
This idea that today people can't make a better life for themselves because of this or that reason is complete crap. Sounds like you have been listening to the far left in this country who will say anything to promote their ideology even if it is wrong and a lie. You really should read the book "Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream". It is possible to rise up from $25 and homeless to be more in this country if you are willing to sacrifice, go without certain pleasures and willing to work hard. The problem is that is hard work and sacrifice is more than most people think they should have to do to get ahead. http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dream/dp/0061714275/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310011300&sr=1-1
I have started two different businesses with $100 and made plenty of money to live off them and do it comfortably. So the idea that people can't get ahead and it is someone else's fault that they are poor broke and homeless is complete crap. Large percentages of the homeless don't want to work and just exist on the handout from social groups, other homeless have mental issues and could never work anyway.
If your going to spout crap like the book "Nickel and Dimed" at least realize that it is a stacked deck and the whole setup was a complete sham. She clearly created a lot of her own problems that led to her downfall. Her conclusion is the same as most people who think they shouldn't have to work hard and sacrifice to get ahead. http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805088385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310011172&sr=8-1
citation needed. People make these claims all the time against Wal-Mart without realizing that Wal-Mart has changed a lot over the years because they were forced to by lawsuits. So the Wal-Mart of today is very different. I would also suggest you look at Target and their employees treatment. Target treats their employees far worse than Wal-Mart does and their insurance is worse than Wal-Marts by a long shot. People complain about company insurance because they think the company should pay for it all. Guess what no company anywhere as a rule does that any more for the average worker. So blasting Wal-Mart or any other company that requires their workers to pay a large part of the insurance is not fair to single them out.
I also want to see proof of this "dead peasant insurance". I have heard many people claim companies have it but are not able to actually prove it or document it. It is one of those things that sounds bad and people might believe it, but it is just urban legend. Why would you put money in to an insurance policy when there are other investments that will bring about better profits and at a faster rate. That just seems like business stupidity to buy insurance as an investment.
>This is reflected in the real wages and income distribution of the last 40 years or so. Adjusted for inflation, real wages have actually fallen by about ten percent >since the 60s. We are being paid less for higher efficiency. At one point the top 1% of the population received roughly 15% of the national income. Now the > top 1% receives 24%. One quarter of every dollar earned in the USA goes to the top 1% every year. In the 50s CEO's salaries averaged about 30x what > their average employee made. Now the ratio is often several thousand times.
citation needed. I see people say this type of thing all the time but the IRS reported incomes do not back it up. So citation needed.
Someone posted here on Slashdot years back that they actually did something like this. They outsourced their job to some country that used be an iron curtain country. That person did all the work he checked it then forwarded it to his bosses. He didn't have to work and paid the guy far less than what he was paid and the outsource guy thought he was getting paid a lot compared to local work. So basically he acted as a middle man and picked up a check for doing basically nothing. I wish I could set something like that up, getting paid to basically do nothing.
Watson used voice recognition. It was not allowed any help by any human it had to play all on it's own and without Internet access. It didn't do well at first but the second round it actually did pretty good. Watch the video of it for yourself and see it is excellent at voice recognition.
You might want to re-think that statement. Watson absolutely can do speech recognition and even some slang it knows what it means. You should watch the Jeopardy game it played against some of the top Jeopardy people. In the end it did quite well even though it started off poorly.
You don't even have to be IBM and throw huge money at voice recognition. Dragon Speak Naturally is pretty darn good at recognizing speech with accents and typing it out or doing macros that have been setup. That's just an off the shelf consumer product. I would imagine that Watson is far better at it.
If anyone pays cash or anything of value to be awarded a government contract over anyone else that is illegal and anti-competitive, the whole government bid process is suppose to support competition not get cash awarded for a contract. People and corporations are different due to laws specifically covering this for government contracts.
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Nice idea but there are usually limits put in place to prevent employees/insiders from doing this exact thing. I have been involved in a couple of IPOs from the inside and each time I could not sell the shares until 3 months after the IPO, and usually by then the hype and rollercoaster has died down. If there is a massive sell off by employees it is going to cause a dive in the stock and investors might wonder what the employees know that they don't since they are jumping ship immediately rather than letting it slowly rise even more in the future.
You might want rethink that. Take a look at Microsoft stock about 15+ years ago. Microsoft was not giving out dividends to shareholders. The price of Microsoft stock was only based on what people thought they could sell it for to someone else. People were trading Microsoft stock based on emotions and that is fine as long as you realize that is what is going on. Was Microsoft successful? Oh yes, but that success did not translate in to anything for the shareholders. So it wasn't traded on the monetary value to the shareholders but rather emotions of what people thought it was worth and what they thought they could sell it for. That is fine as long as people realize that is what is going on.
Investing has almost nothing to do with numbers, and everything in the world to do with mass psychology. The markets move up and down based on what people think not usually because of some concrete fact. Is there any proof that Zynga is worth $100 Billion or whatever? No. People feel like they will last and make them money but Zynga could end up next year being the victim of the latest fad and everyone jumps ship to that instead. Hell people don't even invest anymore based on dividends or P/E, they invest based on what they think/hope someone else will pay for the stock in a given period of time.
People who try and figure out formulas for the stock market always fail. The reason is the stock market isn't driven by numbers, it's driven by people's emotions. Now if you could come up with some mass psychology method for predicting people's behaviors then you could probably clean up in the stock market.
If the server wanted it could absolutely poison the IP list with fake IPs and it wouldn't make one difference to the clients. The client would get the IP try to connect and fail then move on to the next IP. If your just mining IP from the torrent server then your completely screwed because you have no idea which ones are real and which are false. A client could poison the list as well by saying they are connected to IPs that they aren't really. Again an IP that isn't even part of the swarm is being reported as part of the swarm. There are lots of ways to screw people looking at just IPs that wouldn't bother one bit the clients that actually are connecting but would completely hose those just looking at IP lists. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was already doing that, given the kind of screw with the bittorrent system programs that I have seen out there. Programs that download but report to everyone that they have nothing downloaded yet. Programs that report they uploaded tons but never actually did. Programs that connect to the bittorrent server and just monitor reported traffic and IPs. So I could see someone writing a program to poison the IP lists no problem. I even once saw a bittorrent client written/hacked that refused all incoming initiated request and only allowed outbound ones it made. So if you got that IP and tried to connect to it, the program would not respond, but it would connect with whoever it tried to connect with. I have no idea why someone would want that, but someone made/hacked it. So nothing would surprise me about what someone would/could write to mess with the torrent systems out there.
Interesting idea, but absolutely legally a completely crappy way to go about it. Any time you have a black list is it a legal minefield and you better be sure you can legally prove your reason for them being on the black list or you are in major trouble. If you accept a black list from someone else you are still legally responsible for your actions. You banned the guy not the person who gave you the list, so you are legally liable. All it takes is 1 name getting on the list that shouldn't be due to a mistake and everyone involved ends up in a huge legal battle and monopoly accusations get thrown into the mix and becomes a complete nightmare for all the companies involved. I have talked with lawyers about a black list for people who don't pay their bills and it is such a huge legal liability and nightmare that it wasn't worth it. Here we aren't talking about something easy to prove that someone didn't pay a bill. We are talking about a subjective thing of we think it was this guy who was breaking copyright law, but it could have been his kid or his neighbor or his computer was hacked, we just aren't sure but we are black listing him anyway. Yea that will stand up in court all right with no problems at all. Not really. This is just begging to get blasted with a multi-million dollar lawsuit for defamation (you said he was a law breaking criminal), illegal monopoly, restraint of trade (the guy can't get online and do his day trading/ebay/whatever) and all kinds of other charges that are expensive and nasty if convicted of them.
You still can not collude with other businesses to exclude people from service. That is attempting to create a monopoly and it is illegal because it isn't a natural monopoly.Blacklists are a huge minefield, just ask the banks and credit card companies. There is a huge long list of legal issues and requirements that must be met before anyone can go on the list and you better be damn sure you have solid legal proof of your claim or you are sitting in a huge pile of crap and going to be seriously sued. That is why so few industries do black lists because they are such a legal nightmare.
Yes, ISP blacklists are a legal nightmare. You better have damn good proof to back up your claim and crap load of insurance to go with it or you are looking a major problems from the people blacklisted as well as the government. If you share that blacklist with others....oh man...your liability just went even higher and the government can take an even more active interest in what you are doing. I used to own an ISP and talked several times about a blacklist of customers who didn't pay their bills and was told by many lawyers it would be a legal minefield and that the government could step in a bitch slap everyone involved for collusion and restraint of trade and attempting to create an illegal monopoly and cartel stuff too. The list was long and varied of the problems. There are a whole long list of what you are legally allowed to keep a list of bad customers and the level of legal proof you must have to put them on the list and even then it could still all blow up in your face. I don't see how these guys think they will get away with sharing such a list. I only see it being a much bigger explosion in their faces given their size.
Here is the problem with your argument. Can you prove exactly who was doing what and when? Can you prove who was sitting at the keyboard actually doing it? Are you sure the computer wasn't infected with a botnet? Are you sure the computer wasn't hacked and taken over? Are you sure that someone in the neighborhood wasn't using the wifi to do it? No, you have no idea if any of that is true or not. You can not prove for a fact who was sitting at the keyboard at that given time. Was it little Johnny doing it or Dad or little Jane or the neighbor down the street? You have no idea. Judges usually frown on charging multiple people with a crime that only one person can commit. So that is the legal problem. If you have no idea who did it then you don't have a case at all and you can't legally go after anyone because you don't know who did what. The fact that such activity was taking place on the line does not prove who actually did it, and that is the problem law enforcement as always faced and why they seize the computer and find out who had access to it and look for evidence on the hard drive. ISP logs are not enough legal evidence alone by themselves. Not to mention that states have different rules about how evidence can be collected and what methods are legally allowed and what methods are not as well as what methods are merely circumstantial and in and of themselves prove nothing.
Being listed on a bittorrent server proves nothing. You don't know that the server isn't throwing in random IPs that won't bother actual clients but will screw up someone just mining the addresses. You have no idea just because the IP is listed that it is actually downloading, or even uploading. The only way to know that for sure is to connect to that IP and upload and download from it. Even then your back to the issue of exactly who are you interacting with. What OS are they running, and are you sure about that? What if the person doesn't have that kind of computer in the house, are you sure they do? There are lots of legal issues here about what you can and can not prove. That is the major problem with stuff like this and why it needs to be thrown out because it is legally worthless crap and doesn't and can't prove anything.
As long as ISP are not regulating what is posted and seen online then they do have common carrier status. I know this as a legal fact because I owned an ISP and was involved in several of these exact issues. If you start selectively blocking what comes in and what is allowed to go out you loose your common carrier status.
Don't even get me started on EULA's and how they should be illegal. Since when can I write a contract that said I can change it anyway I want at any time and you get no choice and are still bound by it. If a car dealer did that there would holy hell to pay. Why computer and software companies get a pass on this I will never understand. This type of crap was tried on book a long long time ago and the courts smacked them down. So why the courts allow it now I will never know other than suspected political payoffs.
Actual true journalism in print hasn't been practiced in the US for almost 50 years. If you have any doubt about that go ask any journalism professor at the major journalism schools and they will tell you that. There is more ambush journalism and politically slanted journalism in this country than anything else. True journalism that makes no judgments and only reports the facts from both sides does not exist anymore, to even think that it does show how little you read and how little you actually know about journalism. Yes I was a journalism major and yes I did learn under one of the best professors in the field and was point blank told that. It was said this is how it should be done, but here is the reality of the market and how they will make you do it.
How about we don't give a crap where Obama is from but want to know why it was such a big freaking deal to release his actual birth certificate? You do remember that the Democrats pulled the same exact crap with McCain saying he wasn't eligible to be President and he had to release his medical records and birth certificate. Obama didn't release his birth certificate until now and he still hasn't released his medical records. What is Obama so afraid of? So don't even try to play like Democrats are any better.
As for the "Tea Party". Please show me where they are registered as a political party or even a non-profit group. There are lots of different people and groups who have a very loose affiliation. The leftist media loves to try and make them out to be some boogie man in the night, yet they can't produce one video of them being a problem but there is lots of video of admitted Democrats harassing them at their events at people's backyards and such. Look at the crap Democrats pulled in Arizona getting a few of them arrested at "Tea Party" events. The left and the media are so freaked out about November elections and still try to say it was anything but people pissed off at the Democrats. The leftist media thinks if they can make stuff up and say it often enough that people will believe it. They still can't produce any video of guns at rallies when point blank asked, but keep trying to sell it like it really did happen. Nancy Pelosi has publicly said it wasn't people upset with Democrats they were voting about unemployment. Huh? Lady you have lost your mind. Nancy Pelosi talks like a freaking moron and thinks she if she says something enough times that some how it will become the truth. I guess because she thinks people are stupid like her. The Democrats are absolute morons and have done more damage to this country in two years than any other President and Congress in 4 years. Obama has spent more in 2 years that any President in history has in 4 years, and even using percentages he is still the biggest spender. He has raised the nation debt more than any other President in 4 year term and he did it in 2 years. You can do it adjusted dollars, actual dollars, percentage comparisons and still Obama has screw this country worse than any President in history. He also rammed Obama Care through without any way to pay for it. He claimed it would save money when no one could figure out how that was going to work. Now GOA is saying it will cost at least 4 times the initial estimates and costs are rising with 35% of businesses polled say they are going to dump health care because the costs are going to sky rocket under Obama's new plan, another 21% probably will but are waiting to see final costs to decide if they will drop health care as well. There are over 750 companies so far who have applied for a waiver to the new health care rules and gotten it. If it was such a great deal and saves money why does a company need a waiver? Of course the Democrats won't talk about that either. This Health Care bill is set to bankrupt this country and Obama and the Democrats could care less. Their only response is, think of the children. Great what are the children going to do when Mom & Dad can't afford food & housing because required health care costs to the government are through the roof. You did know that if you don't have a certain level of health care coverage you get fined right?
Obama and the Democrats have really messed this country over and we are in such serious trouble now . We have had more money unable to be accounted for during Obama's administration than ever before. The Democrats played games with the cost reports for Obama Care and told the GAO to figure it 1 year later than when it actually started and some costs were removed. The reports were so faulty and screwed up by the Democrats that they were worthless and the GAO said that point blank. GAO told the Democrats that wasn't how the reports were done, but the Democrats said we don't care do it anyway. Great job being truthful there Democrats.
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Don't tell me your one of those radical leftists who think that Obama and Democrats were just fixing what Bush did and that they didn't do anything wrong right? Yea the November elections didn't mean anything nor did the type of people who got voted in to Congress. Yep I got now.
I wish people would make up their minds. The public cries and whines that Ubuntu is slow to update some packages and has really old versions that should have been updated. Now your whining about it being bleeding edge. I guess people can't make up their mind other than to say something bad about everything.
Why doesn't anyone post the most obvious answer. Get Ubuntu and run it off the CD/DVD without installing it (LiveCD). She can play with it all she wants and every time the computer is turn off it resets everything and doesn't bother her Windows or OS X setup at all and it doesn't need to save stuff to just play around with it and do most normal things like web surfing and such.
That is so much simpler since she isn't probably going to keep it around after the class assignment is over.
more like
Watson: "You are aware that there have been rolling power outages in your area right?"
Customer: "You mean I need power at my house and it has to be constant for this to work?"
Watson: "That is correct, you must have a constant supply of power for it to work correctly."
Customer: "Well that is stupid it should just work anyway."
Those type of calls are the reality of internet and technical support calls. Those type calls make up 95% of the calls. I know this because I owned a business that did that exact thing, and I talked with other business owners in the same field and they said the same exact thing.
Your trying to spin the numbers. If in 1992 there were 100 jobs and in 2008 there were 5,000 jobs then no matter how you slice it there are more jobs now than in the past. The fact that there may be less per bank doesn't mean anything when the total number of employees has gone up. Don't try and out think yourself. A bigger number than a smaller number is still a bigger number no matter what kind of number games you try and play.
There aren't any jobs is complete crap. People start new businesses all the time on a shoe string or less all the time. Adam W. Shepard wrote a book about how he went from homeless and $25 to a car, apartment and almost $5,000 in 10 months. I have started two businesses on $100 and supported a wife and lived good. It is possible if you are motivated and willing to work hard and sacrifice. The problem is most people think that is too hard and too much work and that they shouldn't have to do all that to get ahead. It's called being lazy and expecting to get paid for it.
This idea that today people can't make a better life for themselves because of this or that reason is complete crap. Sounds like you have been listening to the far left in this country who will say anything to promote their ideology even if it is wrong and a lie. You really should read the book "Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream". It is possible to rise up from $25 and homeless to be more in this country if you are willing to sacrifice, go without certain pleasures and willing to work hard. The problem is that is hard work and sacrifice is more than most people think they should have to do to get ahead.
http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dream/dp/0061714275/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310011300&sr=1-1
I have started two different businesses with $100 and made plenty of money to live off them and do it comfortably. So the idea that people can't get ahead and it is someone else's fault that they are poor broke and homeless is complete crap. Large percentages of the homeless don't want to work and just exist on the handout from social groups, other homeless have mental issues and could never work anyway.
If your going to spout crap like the book "Nickel and Dimed" at least realize that it is a stacked deck and the whole setup was a complete sham. She clearly created a lot of her own problems that led to her downfall. Her conclusion is the same as most people who think they shouldn't have to work hard and sacrifice to get ahead.
http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805088385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310011172&sr=8-1
citation needed. People make these claims all the time against Wal-Mart without realizing that Wal-Mart has changed a lot over the years because they were forced to by lawsuits. So the Wal-Mart of today is very different. I would also suggest you look at Target and their employees treatment. Target treats their employees far worse than Wal-Mart does and their insurance is worse than Wal-Marts by a long shot. People complain about company insurance because they think the company should pay for it all. Guess what no company anywhere as a rule does that any more for the average worker. So blasting Wal-Mart or any other company that requires their workers to pay a large part of the insurance is not fair to single them out.
I also want to see proof of this "dead peasant insurance". I have heard many people claim companies have it but are not able to actually prove it or document it. It is one of those things that sounds bad and people might believe it, but it is just urban legend. Why would you put money in to an insurance policy when there are other investments that will bring about better profits and at a faster rate. That just seems like business stupidity to buy insurance as an investment.
>This is reflected in the real wages and income distribution of the last 40 years or so. Adjusted for inflation, real wages have actually fallen by about ten percent
>since the 60s. We are being paid less for higher efficiency. At one point the top 1% of the population received roughly 15% of the national income. Now the
> top 1% receives 24%. One quarter of every dollar earned in the USA goes to the top 1% every year. In the 50s CEO's salaries averaged about 30x what
> their average employee made. Now the ratio is often several thousand times.
citation needed. I see people say this type of thing all the time but the IRS reported incomes do not back it up. So citation needed.
Someone posted here on Slashdot years back that they actually did something like this. They outsourced their job to some country that used be an iron curtain country. That person did all the work he checked it then forwarded it to his bosses. He didn't have to work and paid the guy far less than what he was paid and the outsource guy thought he was getting paid a lot compared to local work. So basically he acted as a middle man and picked up a check for doing basically nothing. I wish I could set something like that up, getting paid to basically do nothing.
Watson used voice recognition. It was not allowed any help by any human it had to play all on it's own and without Internet access. It didn't do well at first but the second round it actually did pretty good. Watch the video of it for yourself and see it is excellent at voice recognition.
You might want to re-think that statement. Watson absolutely can do speech recognition and even some slang it knows what it means. You should watch the Jeopardy game it played against some of the top Jeopardy people. In the end it did quite well even though it started off poorly.
You don't even have to be IBM and throw huge money at voice recognition. Dragon Speak Naturally is pretty darn good at recognizing speech with accents and typing it out or doing macros that have been setup. That's just an off the shelf consumer product. I would imagine that Watson is far better at it.
If anyone pays cash or anything of value to be awarded a government contract over anyone else that is illegal and anti-competitive, the whole government bid process is suppose to support competition not get cash awarded for a contract. People and corporations are different due to laws specifically covering this for government contracts.