Modest indeed... If they've remained flat for four years, just making up for COLA, which is usually figured as 2.25%, would require 9.3%, so, whoooaaaa, a whole 0.7% of actual 'raise'! YAY!
Very wrong, very unfunny and the pictures were basically TGI Friday's birthday shots. Oh, how amusing. Just shows the baseness and utter lack of a life of the poster. How the !#ck did this get to the front page?
All of the component parts of that image are part of a shared historical iconography. Look at the volume of futurist art from 1910-1950... and you can't fault them for the zeppelin docked to the Empire State building as a rip-off, that is a historical event.
Well, I suppose it also bears on personal experience. In 31 years, I've been at the exit end of a gun barrel only once and would not have benefited from having one of my own and I've lived on four continents in some of the more violent corners. I figure that supports a reasonably educated guess that I probably will not need a gun anytime soon in the next 31 years much the same way that most journalists, even when covering wars, choose not to be armed as being so increases their chances of ending up dead.
Yes, and Alaska has a violent crime rate of 563/100k, which is 20% worse than average and 531% higher than Vermont, which makes it pretty hard to make a convincing argument to the corelation and speaks volumes to the fact that the local population has more to do with violent crime, regardless of the gun laws.
Really... VERMONT? Yeah, when I think violent criminals, I think Montpelier, Ben 'n Jerry's and Phish. You might as well bring an AK-47 to protect yourself at Burning Man. Pffft.
That's rather the point. The vast majority of the violent crime in D.C. occurs in S.E. (and the bowels of N.E), where the poorest neighborhoods are. The last time someone was shot in the N.W. quarter, the National Guard was deployed and there was a street protest. Violent crime happens 20 times per day in D.C., but when one person gets shot in N.W., you'd think someone exploded a nuke. Guns are just as illegal in N.W. as S.E., so why is all the violent crime concentrated in S.E. and practically non-existent in N.W.? Same thing with Maryland. Most of the violent crime is concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of Baltimore. You don't find people shooting each other much in, say, Gaithersburg. That's my point: if you live in an area with very little violent crime, what's up with pretending like you live in South Central Los Angeles? It's not your guns keeping you safe, it's the fact that your neighbors wouldn't commit a violent crime anyway, guns or no guns.
The crime rate is far lower in North Dakota than in Vermont, but North Dakotans won't tell you it's because of their gun laws. They'll tell you it's just because they don't get in the habit of shooting each other, which is a much simpler, and hence more probable, explanation.
North Carolina's violent crime rate in 2002 was 470.2 incidents per 100k of population. The national average in 2002 was 494.6. That's not a whopping difference. Tennessee, a reasonably well-armed state, had a rate of 716.9, 44% higher than average. South Carolina 822, 66% higher.
New York has fairly strict gun-control laws and had a violent crime rate of 496/100k--0.2% higher than the national average and only 5% higher than North Carolina. Crime tends to be higher in metropolitan areas, so if gun-totin' is a way to lower crime, you'd expect the non-gun-totin' New Yorkers to be much worse off. Hawaii also has strict gun control laws and had a rate of 262/100k--45% less than South Carolina.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr
Just saying "more guns, less crime" doesn't look at the causes of the crime. DC and Maryland have quite strict laws and some of the highest rates of crime, but anyone who actually lives here knows that the violent crime is localized and highly related to poverty--and the statistics generally show that more violent crime victims know each other than not and most are perpetrated by 16-24yo males. It makes thus makes far more sense to say "less poor 16-24yo males, less crime," which should explain why Louisiana, with a lot of guns and a lot of poor 16-24yo males, has a violent crime rate of 662.3--33% higher than New York compared to North Dakota, which has a lot of guns but comparatively little economic inequality and an aging population, rings in at 78--84% LESS than the average. It's not that people are afraid to commit crime in places like North Dakota, it's that they see no reason to in the first place.
There is a major, and I mean MAJOR flaw in the whole John Titor story: if the particular brand of "multiple world theory" espoused is in fact true, every possible series of events will occur. The world will be completely incinerated by nuclear weapons tomorrow...and at the same time, it won't. In at least one universe, "Earth" has never existed, in another, neither have you (and you never will).
Yet, somehow, this time-traveller is simultaneously unconcerned with the effects his presence will have because it doesn't matter, but is determined to warn about events that will absolutely come true in that particular "worldline" and we should do something to change that, because it couldn't hurt. No, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever--every possible series of events would play out regardless so there's no point trying to "change" anything.
...like "Ozone can adversely affect indoor plants, and damage materials such as rubber, electrical wire coatings, and fabrics and art work containing susceptible dyes and pigments," so as long as your computer doesn't have any rubber or coated electical wire...
God forbid anyone give anything but a lovefest for new products that although basically "good ideas" obviously need to go back to the drawing board.
Design criticism is crucial to getting designs right and there's a lot of very valid criticism to be given to the design team that produced this turkey.
...and anyone who would fork over $800 would think "I forked over $400 for my iPod and it has twice the storage space." Seriously, 20GB? WTF?!? Obviously they're trying to keep the price under that of a low-end laptop, but come on, ditch the bluetooth and put in a 50-100GB drive. Whats with only having SD/MMC? Howsabouts Compact Flash or SmartMedia? They're touting it for multimedia and they don't use the most common cards for digital cameras in favor of the most maligned and unsed format? HUH? Also, 256MB standard, but is it expandable and if so how much? "Scroll wheel?" Why not just put in a fricken touchpad or trackball? And if there's no usable keyboard and it's supposed to be ultra-portable, put the damned IR port on the front so that you can use a portable keyboard (a la Palm), not a luggable desktop one.
What gives? On first glance I thought this looked cool and could see myself getting one, but there are too many things they screwed up. Some how it seems appropriate that they use a graphic of a freaking CASSETTE TAPE for their media player. Sheesh.
No, it usually indicates a native speaker who in this forum is typing as they would speak, not as they would write a formally, often without a single proof-reading hitting "submit" instead of "preview," thus, silly little homonyms slip through.
The idea that having english as a second language increases your skills relative to native speakers is indicative of someone who doesn't understand linguistics. Just because you speak and write formally, doesn't mean you have a greater grasp of the language. It likely means little more than that you don't know any other way to use the language.
...actually it's more like seven miles, but who's counting? GSM signals generally will travel about 20 miles unobstructed, not accounting for the lateral orientation of the towers.
The guy's credentials were of no consequence to the story, so questioning them is just a cheap shot.
Even at face value, there's no reason for a cop to interrogate someone for sitting on a public bunch using a laptop, WiFi or not. If they had _evidence_ AND a _complaint_ maybe, but just officiously storming up to someone is out of line and that was his point.
FLAMEBAIT? Shit, that's half the reason companies use foreign labor, especially of the s.e. Asian variety. Hello, Kathy Lee Gifford child-labor-sweatshops anyone?
The IOC.
They get countries and commercial interests to spend billions because there's a boatload of money to be made by hosting and covering the games.
The Olympics have ALWAYS been a private interest. Ownership of the games has for over a hundred years been controlled by the IOC. The atheletes are members who have agreed to abide by every whim of the IOC in return for being allowed to participate.
There's NOTHING surprising or new here.
It's not scary at all. Unless your connection to the endpoint of your transmission is encrypted, only the first 500ft are "protected" by the encrypted AP.
Whoop-de-doo.
This whole argument over encrypting the WiFi portion of networks is like lambasting people for not putting deadbolts on their screen doors. If that's the bulwark of your security system, you might as well just open everything and put up a giant "take me free" sign.
Capitalism is about keeping the fruits of OTHER people's labor. That's the whole point of the "capital" in "capitalism" and why every Soviet villain in Hollywood movies invariably followed the word "capitalist" with "exploiter." It is by definition a system of exploitation of others, not one of retaining the fruits of one's own labor.
See: Human Capital
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Modest indeed... If they've remained flat for four years, just making up for COLA, which is usually figured as 2.25%, would require 9.3%, so, whoooaaaa, a whole 0.7% of actual 'raise'! YAY!
Very wrong, very unfunny and the pictures were basically TGI Friday's birthday shots. Oh, how amusing. Just shows the baseness and utter lack of a life of the poster. How the !#ck did this get to the front page?
...which was a ripoff of Metropolis.
All of the component parts of that image are part of a shared historical iconography. Look at the volume of futurist art from 1910-1950... and you can't fault them for the zeppelin docked to the Empire State building as a rip-off, that is a historical event.
Well, I suppose it also bears on personal experience. In 31 years, I've been at the exit end of a gun barrel only once and would not have benefited from having one of my own and I've lived on four continents in some of the more violent corners. I figure that supports a reasonably educated guess that I probably will not need a gun anytime soon in the next 31 years much the same way that most journalists, even when covering wars, choose not to be armed as being so increases their chances of ending up dead.
But, go ahead, arm yourself to the teeth...
Most of those questions are answered here:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
In short, you are safest if no one you know is likely to kill you and by arming yourself against an armed assailant, you are more likely to get shot.
It's still a load of crap.
The current understanding of all this stuff is well explained here and makes the whole story pretty laughable:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
"The only reality that matters is ours."-- Teal'c, Stargate SG-1
Yes, and Alaska has a violent crime rate of 563/100k, which is 20% worse than average and 531% higher than Vermont, which makes it pretty hard to make a convincing argument to the corelation and speaks volumes to the fact that the local population has more to do with violent crime, regardless of the gun laws.
Really... VERMONT? Yeah, when I think violent criminals, I think Montpelier, Ben 'n Jerry's and Phish. You might as well bring an AK-47 to protect yourself at Burning Man. Pffft.
That's rather the point. The vast majority of the violent crime in D.C. occurs in S.E. (and the bowels of N.E), where the poorest neighborhoods are. The last time someone was shot in the N.W. quarter, the National Guard was deployed and there was a street protest. Violent crime happens 20 times per day in D.C., but when one person gets shot in N.W., you'd think someone exploded a nuke. Guns are just as illegal in N.W. as S.E., so why is all the violent crime concentrated in S.E. and practically non-existent in N.W.? Same thing with Maryland. Most of the violent crime is concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of Baltimore. You don't find people shooting each other much in, say, Gaithersburg. That's my point: if you live in an area with very little violent crime, what's up with pretending like you live in South Central Los Angeles? It's not your guns keeping you safe, it's the fact that your neighbors wouldn't commit a violent crime anyway, guns or no guns.
The crime rate is far lower in North Dakota than in Vermont, but North Dakotans won't tell you it's because of their gun laws. They'll tell you it's just because they don't get in the habit of shooting each other, which is a much simpler, and hence more probable, explanation.
North Carolina's violent crime rate in 2002 was 470.2 incidents per 100k of population. The national average in 2002 was 494.6. That's not a whopping difference. Tennessee, a reasonably well-armed state, had a rate of 716.9, 44% higher than average. South Carolina 822, 66% higher.
New York has fairly strict gun-control laws and had a violent crime rate of 496/100k--0.2% higher than the national average and only 5% higher than North Carolina. Crime tends to be higher in metropolitan areas, so if gun-totin' is a way to lower crime, you'd expect the non-gun-totin' New Yorkers to be much worse off. Hawaii also has strict gun control laws and had a rate of 262/100k--45% less than South Carolina.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr
Just saying "more guns, less crime" doesn't look at the causes of the crime. DC and Maryland have quite strict laws and some of the highest rates of crime, but anyone who actually lives here knows that the violent crime is localized and highly related to poverty--and the statistics generally show that more violent crime victims know each other than not and most are perpetrated by 16-24yo males. It makes thus makes far more sense to say "less poor 16-24yo males, less crime," which should explain why Louisiana, with a lot of guns and a lot of poor 16-24yo males, has a violent crime rate of 662.3--33% higher than New York compared to North Dakota, which has a lot of guns but comparatively little economic inequality and an aging population, rings in at 78--84% LESS than the average. It's not that people are afraid to commit crime in places like North Dakota, it's that they see no reason to in the first place.
There is a major, and I mean MAJOR flaw in the whole John Titor story: if the particular brand of "multiple world theory" espoused is in fact true, every possible series of events will occur. The world will be completely incinerated by nuclear weapons tomorrow...and at the same time, it won't. In at least one universe, "Earth" has never existed, in another, neither have you (and you never will).
Yet, somehow, this time-traveller is simultaneously unconcerned with the effects his presence will have because it doesn't matter, but is determined to warn about events that will absolutely come true in that particular "worldline" and we should do something to change that, because it couldn't hurt. No, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever--every possible series of events would play out regardless so there's no point trying to "change" anything.
They do fall under the FTC, however.
...and the EPA has a bit to say as well.
...like "Ozone can adversely affect indoor plants, and damage materials such as rubber, electrical wire coatings, and fabrics and art work containing susceptible dyes and pigments," so as long as your computer doesn't have any rubber or coated electical wire...
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1998/01/alpine-2.htm
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
God forbid anyone give anything but a lovefest for new products that although basically "good ideas" obviously need to go back to the drawing board.
Design criticism is crucial to getting designs right and there's a lot of very valid criticism to be given to the design team that produced this turkey.
...and anyone who would fork over $800 would think "I forked over $400 for my iPod and it has twice the storage space." Seriously, 20GB? WTF?!? Obviously they're trying to keep the price under that of a low-end laptop, but come on, ditch the bluetooth and put in a 50-100GB drive. Whats with only having SD/MMC? Howsabouts Compact Flash or SmartMedia? They're touting it for multimedia and they don't use the most common cards for digital cameras in favor of the most maligned and unsed format? HUH? Also, 256MB standard, but is it expandable and if so how much? "Scroll wheel?" Why not just put in a fricken touchpad or trackball? And if there's no usable keyboard and it's supposed to be ultra-portable, put the damned IR port on the front so that you can use a portable keyboard (a la Palm), not a luggable desktop one.
What gives? On first glance I thought this looked cool and could see myself getting one, but there are too many things they screwed up. Some how it seems appropriate that they use a graphic of a freaking CASSETTE TAPE for their media player. Sheesh.
No, it usually indicates a native speaker who in this forum is typing as they would speak, not as they would write a formally, often without a single proof-reading hitting "submit" instead of "preview," thus, silly little homonyms slip through.
The idea that having english as a second language increases your skills relative to native speakers is indicative of someone who doesn't understand linguistics. Just because you speak and write formally, doesn't mean you have a greater grasp of the language. It likely means little more than that you don't know any other way to use the language.
...actually it's more like seven miles, but who's counting? GSM signals generally will travel about 20 miles unobstructed, not accounting for the lateral orientation of the towers.
The guy's credentials were of no consequence to the story, so questioning them is just a cheap shot.
Even at face value, there's no reason for a cop to interrogate someone for sitting on a public bunch using a laptop, WiFi or not. If they had _evidence_ AND a _complaint_ maybe, but just officiously storming up to someone is out of line and that was his point.
Oh yeah, he sounds like a really suspicious guy. Visiting relatives in another town, so he goes to a public library to use a public WiFi connection.
-->Insert Suspicious, Crime-Fighting Music Here--
And what's with putting priest in quotes? Could you be any MORE condescending? You might as well refer to the following a "academic" "achievements":
Professor of New Testament
B.A., Bowdoin College
M.Div., Yale Divinity School
S.T.M.. Yale Divinity School
Ph.D., Duke University
Seriously, you can't be fscking serious... please, please say you were joking.
FLAMEBAIT? Shit, that's half the reason companies use foreign labor, especially of the s.e. Asian variety. Hello, Kathy Lee Gifford child-labor-sweatshops anyone?
...perhaps because you have children.
That would explain Dallas... damned commies.
The IOC. They get countries and commercial interests to spend billions because there's a boatload of money to be made by hosting and covering the games. The Olympics have ALWAYS been a private interest. Ownership of the games has for over a hundred years been controlled by the IOC. The atheletes are members who have agreed to abide by every whim of the IOC in return for being allowed to participate. There's NOTHING surprising or new here.
No such thing as a free lunch, baby.
It's not scary at all. Unless your connection to the endpoint of your transmission is encrypted, only the first 500ft are "protected" by the encrypted AP.
Whoop-de-doo.
This whole argument over encrypting the WiFi portion of networks is like lambasting people for not putting deadbolts on their screen doors. If that's the bulwark of your security system, you might as well just open everything and put up a giant "take me free" sign.
Capitalism is about keeping the fruits of OTHER people's labor. That's the whole point of the "capital" in "capitalism" and why every Soviet villain in Hollywood movies invariably followed the word "capitalist" with "exploiter." It is by definition a system of exploitation of others, not one of retaining the fruits of one's own labor. See: Human Capital
Old communist proverb say:
...nothing new here.
In Soviet Russia man exploits man.
In capitalist America it is exactly the opposite.