Well, you got someone to mod it back down. But here's the article from The Hindu, published November 2013.
"Just one in 10 women whose parents own agricultural land inherit any land, a soon-to-be-published study by U.N. Women and the land rights advocacy group Landesa has shown. Eight years after women were given equal inheritance rights in law, dowry is still seen as ‘adequate’ recompense for inheritance, the study finds."
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/just-one-in-10-women-inherits-land/article5399292.ece
Women are very likely to inherit gold in places where they are less likely to inherit land, and the correlation (if not causation) between gold consumption per capita and women's land ownership is clear. I'd always understood that people loved their daughters equally, but the tradition of giving the daughters gold and the sons land drove up gold consumption. If that's wrong, you should let thehindu.com know, and it would be helpful to offer an alternative explanation.
Nations like India, which have restrictions limiting women's ownership of land, have the highest per capital consumption rate of gold. Gold mining is the single most environmentally destructive man-made activity on the planet (toxics, carbon, and encroachment into rain forests). If families in India can pay dowry with Bitcoin, I'm all for it.
#1 Regret is "Refusing to admit #2". Those 2 old rules (most common regrets of CEOs) take Netflix's Executive a 127 slide show to present. I think slide #21 and slide #25 say that, and are the only relevant slides out of the first 40.
Then she says some pretty interesting things in slides 45-50 about the way growing companies tend to favor more rules which compromise creative talent, which I find pretty insightful. The "vacation policy" (if you don't track "hourly" pay, why track "vacation days"?) is interesting. Professional sports analogies are good, but pretty common - nothing "Netflixy" about them. There are probably 25 good slides in there. Not bad, but nothing irreplaceable.
Took about 5 minutes to read it. Didn't see any "first posts!" in the interim. Either others find it as fascinating, or I lack a life reading/. at midnight on Christmas eve.
but a whimper. (TS Elliot). If data sits in a server, and no one looks for it or accesses it, does it make a noise? I have a warehouse full of used books (recycling collection business). No one is reading them. They exist, though.
Yep, Hyperbole is a force which harnesses the innate fears of the masses. But the fact hyperbole falls short doesn't make me less sad about the extinctions of tigers, elephants and great apes, etc. When I see people snickering that polar bears aren't extinct yet, it just makes me sadder. I get truly aggravated by green bumper stickers which discredit the unimpeachable thesis that extinctions of other species are caused by our species at a rate surpassed only by volcanoes, meteors and comets.
It's a precurser to a future stock market, where buyers invest their money, the corporation's stock skyrockets, then crashes, and the money disappears without a trace.
"Sir, I'll see your 8 Californias, and raise you 13 Vermonts."
Pontificating about jerrymandering states isn't really "newsworthy" if there are no real stakes. If it were actually feasible to jerrymander Senate seats (as can be done for the House of Representatives at the state government level), other states would copy it, which is exactly why it would never happen.
As a former paper industry professional (recycled pulp), Paper is fine except that people limit its use to readable font. That is what led to Microfiche (which is now being dumped by the truckload at recycling stations as "obsolete tech"). If you printed a hard copy of everything either to microfiche or extremely small 1-point font, you could store the data in a type of seedbank or gene bank.
A salt mine may not be appropriate, but I'd like to start a business where everyone could send their hard drives to a giant 100 year Time Capsule Vault in the Sonoran desert. We are shredding retired professors hard drives which the professors probably would prefer to see preserved. The "half life" of privacy risk is different for different data... experiments, emails, credit card numbers, and porn browsing cookies are not posing the same posthumous risk/benefit. We are cremating too many of our future fossils.
IMHO the biggest threat to raw data is misplaced or randomized fear of privacy combined with copyright planned obsolescence (or mandated "e-waste" shredding for working tech, out of fear that poor people will misuse a display device). Certain data does need to be destroyed, and certain papers shredded. Treating all "data" as having the same expiration date has something to do with the loss of the data in the article.
Seriously, what is the "trickery" that gets one to download and install this "Google Vx" application, and how many Chinese people does it take to read our LOLs? Is someone out there texting their social security number or bank PIN?
Antibacterial soaps are a frankenstein. Invented as something to cure a sppoky "risk" (like "bacteria") and sold, sold, sold. Multivitamins, ADHD drugs, billions of dollars of bullshit are being sold to consumers, harnessing innate risk aversion and evolved nurture to sell snake oil. India has already used so many antibacterial products that its hospitals are a paradise for resistant staph bacteria. Go upstream from the Chinese water treatment plants, and you'll find consumers who think they are doing the right thing and protecting their families.
In other news yesterday, CBS 60 Minutes Pelley Award for reporting on the electronics industry, "2008 "The Wasteland", was discredited by the 5th major exhaustive study of "e-waste" exports (this one done by MIT) which shows CBS report that 80% of all "e-waste" exports are not recycled but dumped overseas. From the report, "Quantitative Characterization of Domestic and Transboundary Flows of Used Electronics 12/2013":
""The results show that approximately 258.2 million units of used electronic were generated and 171.4 million units were collected in the US in 2010. Export flows were estimated to be 14.4 million units, which is 8.5% of the collected estimate on average. On a weight basis, 1.6 million tons of used electronics were generated in the US in 2010 and 0.9 million tons were collected. Of the amount collected, 26.5 thousand tons were exported, which is 3.1% of the weight collected."
It is not that CBS 60 Minutes gets the story wrong that bothers me so much as the organization's stonewalling of these studies, after 41 export traders were arrested just in the past year, and after the source organization in Seattle who told them "80% of all e-waste is exported" not only abandoned the "statistic" but claimed never to have said it. http://tinyurl.com/lr7z5n3 What relates this to TFA is that both the ability by the manufacturing country to "brick" PCs they have made and sold, and the original hype about export for reuse, is PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE. If the PCs were bricked, would the economy really collapse? Or would there be a bunch of PCs ready to sell which had a different bios chip? Want to know about OEMs bricking the secondary market, and where "waste" comes from? Read Vance Packard's 1960 book "The Waste Makers", available both in print and on Kindle.
Actually it was a joke about the Boston Police Department's reputation for its cars seen parked at Donut shops. See, if the police cars are in the donut shop parking lot, the scanners would find more stolen vehicles GPS tagged there, but it would reinforce the stereotype (if you are not from Boston, but watch "The Simpsons", you might get it). I guess those are "whoosh" down mods.
"But it shouldn’t require another Sandy Hook to make us realize something has to change. The school shooters are committing a grandiose form of suicide. Media, traditionally, doesn’t cover suicides, and is very careful when it does. It’s a long-standing custom, borne out of numerous studies from groups like the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the National Institute of Mental Health.
“More than 50 research studies worldwide have found that certain types of news coverage can increase the likelihood of suicide in vulnerable individuals,” the NIMH concluded. “The magnitude of the increase is related to the amount, duration and prominence of coverage.”
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Well, you got someone to mod it back down. But here's the article from The Hindu, published November 2013.
"Just one in 10 women whose parents own agricultural land inherit any land, a soon-to-be-published study by U.N. Women and the land rights advocacy group Landesa has shown. Eight years after women were given equal inheritance rights in law, dowry is still seen as ‘adequate’ recompense for inheritance, the study finds." http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/just-one-in-10-women-inherits-land/article5399292.ece
Women are very likely to inherit gold in places where they are less likely to inherit land, and the correlation (if not causation) between gold consumption per capita and women's land ownership is clear. I'd always understood that people loved their daughters equally, but the tradition of giving the daughters gold and the sons land drove up gold consumption. If that's wrong, you should let thehindu.com know, and it would be helpful to offer an alternative explanation.
Nations like India, which have restrictions limiting women's ownership of land, have the highest per capital consumption rate of gold. Gold mining is the single most environmentally destructive man-made activity on the planet (toxics, carbon, and encroachment into rain forests). If families in India can pay dowry with Bitcoin, I'm all for it.
#1 Regret is "Refusing to admit #2". Those 2 old rules (most common regrets of CEOs) take Netflix's Executive a 127 slide show to present. I think slide #21 and slide #25 say that, and are the only relevant slides out of the first 40.
Then she says some pretty interesting things in slides 45-50 about the way growing companies tend to favor more rules which compromise creative talent, which I find pretty insightful. The "vacation policy" (if you don't track "hourly" pay, why track "vacation days"?) is interesting. Professional sports analogies are good, but pretty common - nothing "Netflixy" about them. There are probably 25 good slides in there. Not bad, but nothing irreplaceable.
Is she fired?
Took about 5 minutes to read it. Didn't see any "first posts!" in the interim. Either others find it as fascinating, or I lack a life reading /. at midnight on Christmas eve.
but a whimper. (TS Elliot). If data sits in a server, and no one looks for it or accesses it, does it make a noise? I have a warehouse full of used books (recycling collection business). No one is reading them. They exist, though.
Yep, Hyperbole is a force which harnesses the innate fears of the masses. But the fact hyperbole falls short doesn't make me less sad about the extinctions of tigers, elephants and great apes, etc. When I see people snickering that polar bears aren't extinct yet, it just makes me sadder. I get truly aggravated by green bumper stickers which discredit the unimpeachable thesis that extinctions of other species are caused by our species at a rate surpassed only by volcanoes, meteors and comets.
It's a precurser to a future stock market, where buyers invest their money, the corporation's stock skyrockets, then crashes, and the money disappears without a trace.
Apple currently has 15% market share in the world's largest, and fastest growing, cell phone market. Talk amongst yourselves, discuss.
"Sir, I'll see your 8 Californias, and raise you 13 Vermonts."
Pontificating about jerrymandering states isn't really "newsworthy" if there are no real stakes. If it were actually feasible to jerrymander Senate seats (as can be done for the House of Representatives at the state government level), other states would copy it, which is exactly why it would never happen.
Sorry that's last February not Friday
http://www.geek.com/microsoft/microsoft-security-essentials-strikes-out-on-questionable-av-test-1538990/ Geek.com outed this testing firm last Friday for A) running MSE without applied windows updates, and B) accepting sponsorship from tested softwares.
As a former paper industry professional (recycled pulp), Paper is fine except that people limit its use to readable font. That is what led to Microfiche (which is now being dumped by the truckload at recycling stations as "obsolete tech"). If you printed a hard copy of everything either to microfiche or extremely small 1-point font, you could store the data in a type of seedbank or gene bank.
A salt mine may not be appropriate, but I'd like to start a business where everyone could send their hard drives to a giant 100 year Time Capsule Vault in the Sonoran desert. We are shredding retired professors hard drives which the professors probably would prefer to see preserved. The "half life" of privacy risk is different for different data... experiments, emails, credit card numbers, and porn browsing cookies are not posing the same posthumous risk/benefit. We are cremating too many of our future fossils.
IMHO the biggest threat to raw data is misplaced or randomized fear of privacy combined with copyright planned obsolescence (or mandated "e-waste" shredding for working tech, out of fear that poor people will misuse a display device). Certain data does need to be destroyed, and certain papers shredded. Treating all "data" as having the same expiration date has something to do with the loss of the data in the article.
Wait a little longer, and you can get a 4d printed gun awhile ago.
by 3d printed guns happens without the firing of a single shot.
Seriously, what is the "trickery" that gets one to download and install this "Google Vx" application, and how many Chinese people does it take to read our LOLs? Is someone out there texting their social security number or bank PIN?
Antibacterial soaps are a frankenstein. Invented as something to cure a sppoky "risk" (like "bacteria") and sold, sold, sold. Multivitamins, ADHD drugs, billions of dollars of bullshit are being sold to consumers, harnessing innate risk aversion and evolved nurture to sell snake oil. India has already used so many antibacterial products that its hospitals are a paradise for resistant staph bacteria. Go upstream from the Chinese water treatment plants, and you'll find consumers who think they are doing the right thing and protecting their families.
In other news yesterday, CBS 60 Minutes Pelley Award for reporting on the electronics industry, "2008 "The Wasteland", was discredited by the 5th major exhaustive study of "e-waste" exports (this one done by MIT) which shows CBS report that 80% of all "e-waste" exports are not recycled but dumped overseas. From the report, "Quantitative Characterization of Domestic and Transboundary Flows of Used Electronics 12/2013":
""The results show that approximately 258.2 million units of used electronic were generated and 171.4 million units were collected in the US in 2010. Export flows were estimated to be 14.4 million units, which is 8.5% of the collected estimate on average. On a weight basis, 1.6 million tons of used electronics were generated in the US in 2010 and 0.9 million tons were collected. Of the amount collected, 26.5 thousand tons were exported, which is 3.1% of the weight collected."
It is not that CBS 60 Minutes gets the story wrong that bothers me so much as the organization's stonewalling of these studies, after 41 export traders were arrested just in the past year, and after the source organization in Seattle who told them "80% of all e-waste is exported" not only abandoned the "statistic" but claimed never to have said it. http://tinyurl.com/lr7z5n3 What relates this to TFA is that both the ability by the manufacturing country to "brick" PCs they have made and sold, and the original hype about export for reuse, is PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE. If the PCs were bricked, would the economy really collapse? Or would there be a bunch of PCs ready to sell which had a different bios chip? Want to know about OEMs bricking the secondary market, and where "waste" comes from? Read Vance Packard's 1960 book "The Waste Makers", available both in print and on Kindle.
That first photo makes me think they are coming back with tablets and commandments...
Once it is up and running, I will refer my parents there, thanks in advance.
(smacks forehead)
Actually it was a joke about the Boston Police Department's reputation for its cars seen parked at Donut shops. See, if the police cars are in the donut shop parking lot, the scanners would find more stolen vehicles GPS tagged there, but it would reinforce the stereotype (if you are not from Boston, but watch "The Simpsons", you might get it). I guess those are "whoosh" down mods.
"But it shouldn’t require another Sandy Hook to make us realize something has to change. The school shooters are committing a grandiose form of suicide. Media, traditionally, doesn’t cover suicides, and is very careful when it does. It’s a long-standing custom, borne out of numerous studies from groups like the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the National Institute of Mental Health.
“More than 50 research studies worldwide have found that certain types of news coverage can increase the likelihood of suicide in vulnerable individuals,” the NIMH concluded. “The magnitude of the increase is related to the amount, duration and prominence of coverage.”
5. You say a mad French Emperor sold it to you to finance his invasion of Russia.
On the map generated by the BPD, most stolen license plates seemed to congregate around Dunkin' Donuts cafes. News at 11.
Worse!! The Chinese are invading Roswell New Mexico!! http://www.livescience.com/28428-conspiracy-beliefs-by-political-party.html