Most media sites are internet hacks now, posting stories for clicks, that's all they care about (alla Newsweek) and guess what, reddit is their big secret! Nate Silver was one of the very few that stuck to the data, and was trustworthy.
Have you seen the FiveThirtyEight headlines? They're almost 100% clickbait.
I have no comment about the contents of the articles, but the headlines are just a step above "one weird trick" type stuff.
There's the laws on the book, that we can all read, then there's these: guide lines, procedure manuals, legal memos, training documents, handbooks, etc etc etc.
The average person only has access to half of the actual legal documents that effect them every day. The noxiousness of the NSA's spying is compounded by secret courts and secret interpretations.
Apparently when your only choice is jail or compliance, somehow you're assisting in the process.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing."
This is why we have whistle blower laws. It's why the Nuremberg Principles declare that 'just following orders' is not a defense when a moral option is possible (with the implication that its unpleasantness is irrelevant).
You probably have a "natural cure" in your medicine cabinet right now. It's called "aspirin" and was isolated in a lab ~250 years ago, from the bark of Willow trees. It took ~130 years for a scientist to figure out how to synthesize it from chemicals, and Bayer Aspirin was born.
Many of the every day medicines we use started out as a "natural cure" whose active ingredient(s) was then isolated, synthesized, and mass produced.
Many people are stupid, but it wasn't that long ago that doctors did pretend to treat black people so that they could observe how untreated syphilis develops.....
Your point being?
The fallout from the Tuskegee experiment eventually led to informed consent laws and ethics review boards. The science based community has learned somewhat from its past.
Where do you think we get fertilizers that are used to grow the food we dig out of the ground? Not to mention that we dig food out of the ground with fossil fuel powered equipment.
Our modern agricultural system is not possible without petroleum inputs.
What else is he supposed to do in this case? There is nothing like a "double jeopardy" rule that applies to warrant applications, so the government's attorneys have and always will have the ability to keep doing it over until they get something that the judge finds acceptable.
How about 3 strikes and you're out? I've heard that is really popular amongst prosecutors and law enforcement.
Our government is the best system yet implemented.
The problem is criminality. Even if it goes up to the President (and it surely has...many times...recently) that does not mean that **our system of governance** is faulty.
A good system of governance should transparently expose, prevent, stop, and/or negate criminality. The fact that ours doesn't is a combination of weak oversight and poor internal culture. Having the "best" faulty government is not the same as having a good government.
I'd also happily debate your claims that our government is the best system yet implemented. By itself, our dual party system (and the way they shut out 3rd parties) is cause for serious complaint.
Air-gap alone is not enough. Stuxnet travelled via USB sticks.
The Stuxnet attack was (for the Iranians) a failure of operational security. The attackers knew exactly what hardware/software was being used and how it was set up. If the Iranians had one less centrifuge hooked up, or a different SCADA firmware version, the worm would have never triggered.
There is such a thing as security through obscurity. It's never a complete solution, but it should always be your first line of defense.
Except "real coin" isn't what we have --- we have fiat, which is no longer backed by anything.
And once we introduced central banking, fiat has worked out a lot better than "real coin" did before we abandoned it. I've yet to hear a satisfactory response to the basic question of why we should go back to a deflationary currency like gold. If you're feeling especially pugnacious, feel free to explain how we'd go about re-implementing [gold] while avoiding the problems of its past and fixing the actual (and perceived) problems of the present.
If every website had to be set up in a different data center for each country that they served, most websites would not bother setting up in most countries. They'd just set up wherever is most profitable, and forget about the rest.
I'm not sure you're understanding this correctly. Google's problem, like many other multinationals, is that they set up a local subsidiary. This puts their in-country operations under local jurisdiction, which means they either play ball or go home (like they did with China).
âoeBrazilian users would ultimately be harmed because they couldnâ(TM)t access new tools, new services,â said Marcel Leonardi, public policy director for Google in Brazil, in a telephone interview from Sao Paulo. âoeCompanies would choose to implement those services at a much later stage, if at all.â
This has been an ongoing process since last year, when the spying revelations were first made public. Google may not be able to afford ignoring Brazil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS It's kind of a big market for them.
Among the countries, Brazil has considered asking service providers to hold data within the country, a move that Google describes as potentially Fragmenting the internet.
How does that fragment the internet? Forcing service providers to build infrastructure in-country doesn't fragment anything except Google's business model.
Paris can only control their environment, not the industrial policies of another country. Like it or not, they're doing what they can do.
They can make a stink about it in the EU, probably file a lawsuit somewhere. You don't have to put up with pollution from your neighbor and neither does an entire country.
You can read a transcript of Greenspan's comments (with obvious errors) here:
The relevant portion starts at 00:39:11 and it's just a hot mess.
So my view is to recognize that what is causing this low rate of growth in average hourly earnings is basically so proud of -- slow productivity.
This is, quite frankly, shocking for him to say. Wage growth has only slightly outpaced inflation despite decades of massive productivity increases.
He comes back to immigration at 00:47:53 I thought maybe TFS and TFA mischaracterized Greenspan's comments. Nope. He's advocating depressing wages for white collar workers instead of raising wages for low income earners.
The only redeeming quality of Greenspan's testimony is it shows that the housing crisis shined a spotlight into his ideological blind spot. Now he's advocating for stronger fraud controls and higher capital reserves/better collateral requirements in the banking system. So in his ideal world, the banks won't screw you, but you'll have no money to put in the bank because your wages are depressed by H1B workers.
The department argues the obligation on service providers would merely "formalise" existing arrangements.
This is fallout from the Snowden leaks. What was once done in secret is now being brought into the light. I guess I was hoping they'd just stop, instead of legalizing the invasive spying programs.
They burn christian churches down in Saudi Arabia and so on.
We burn mosques and synagogues down in the USA. It happens more often than you probably know, because it rarely makes national news.
The USA (as a whole) isn't a theocracy, but it's not for want of trying. At the local level in particular, the line between church and state can be very fuzzy.
I know that even mentioning this on/. gets you modded to oblivion, but the overwhelming majority of police are good people with a genuine desire to do good in the world -- and they're not out there looking to bust heads and turn off their cameras...especially in a world where every last person on a planet has their own camera and might catch it. There's obviously a good number of well documented "bad cop" cases, but there's a lot of cops, and bad cop stories make news, because it's a big violation of our trust.
The problem isn't a small minority of bad cops, it's the alleged majority of good cops that don't immediately report and ostracize the bad cops.
You end up with a police culture that intentionally turns a blind eye to bad behavior. That's not lawful good, no matter how you try and spin it.
Hans Keppler, a geologist at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, cautioned against extrapolating the size of the subterranean water find from a single sample of ringwoodite.
And he also said
"In some ways it is an ocean in Earth's interior, as visualised by Jules Verne... although not in the form of liquid water," Keppler said in a commentary also published by Nature.
Anything that makes it easy to transfer funds to anyone in the world without going through PayPal is a good thing.
Right now, someone in the Department of Homeland Security is calling you a Terrorist. That's how Governments traditionally feel about the easy flow of currencies across borders.
The problem is that, adjusting for inflation, it should be dramatically less. That's the trend. The major outlier is for raw materials which are more costly to extract and process for use.
In the 1950's a decent Westinghouse consolve TV cost about $1000. Inflation adjusted to today, that's about $9000.
According to people who know about these things, in 1950, tv penetration was 9% of American households. By 1955 it was 64.5%. You can't compare an immature technology (1950 tv) with a mature one (1950 automobile).
To make a similar and honest comparison with automobiles, you'd have to rewind the clock back to before the Ford Model-T debuted in 1908.
There is a large untapped market for a car marker who builds the same model of car, with no changes other than manufacturing refinements, for 7-15 years, direct to consumers.
VW is notorious for selling its old models in foreign countries. The original VW Beetle was manufactured in Mexico until 2003. The VW Bus is finally getting canceled in Brazil (and that's being fought). The 2nd gen VW Passat was sold in China for almost 30 years until it was updated.
a. cheap credit money which makes it cheaper to buy a new car than to maintain and run older cars, b. regulatory creep which increases requirements continually and
a. it's never cheaper to buy a new car. b. One of those regulatory agencies crash tested a 1959 Chevy Bel Air with a 2009 Malibu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck This video speaks for itself.
c. consumers willing to spend a large slice of their income on flashy cars and status symbols.
Now you're just arguing with a straw man. We're talking about the cheapest car of 1970 and the two cheapest cars of 2014.
Surely you've noticed that all the products of technology get cheaper every year except cars?
After adjusting for inflation, a 1970 VW Beetle with optional AC is about the same price as a 2014 Nissan Versa or Chevy Spark (both come standard with AC).
That's 34 years of technology (including air bags, ABS brakes, and traction control) for almost exactly the same price as a 34 year old car.
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Most media sites are internet hacks now, posting stories for clicks, that's all they care about (alla Newsweek) and guess what, reddit is their big secret! Nate Silver was one of the very few that stuck to the data, and was trustworthy.
Have you seen the FiveThirtyEight headlines?
They're almost 100% clickbait.
I have no comment about the contents of the articles,
but the headlines are just a step above "one weird trick" type stuff.
There's the laws on the book, that we can all read, then there's these:
guide lines, procedure manuals, legal memos, training documents, handbooks, etc etc etc.
The average person only has access to half of the actual legal documents that effect them every day.
The noxiousness of the NSA's spying is compounded by secret courts and secret interpretations.
Apparently when your only choice is jail or compliance, somehow you're assisting in the process.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing."
This is why we have whistle blower laws.
It's why the Nuremberg Principles declare that 'just following orders' is not a defense when a moral option is possible (with the implication that its unpleasantness is irrelevant).
At least the ones who had threat of breaking secret Federal laws prohibiting them from telling the truth have an excuse.
Sure, they lied to us. But they'd been told by the feds that if they didn't, they'd be charged under secret laws and dropped into a deep, dark hole.
I wonder how the SEC and FTC will feel about materially false statements.
You probably have a "natural cure" in your medicine cabinet right now.
It's called "aspirin" and was isolated in a lab ~250 years ago, from the bark of Willow trees.
It took ~130 years for a scientist to figure out how to synthesize it from chemicals, and Bayer Aspirin was born.
Many of the every day medicines we use started out as a "natural cure" whose active ingredient(s) was then isolated, synthesized, and mass produced.
Many people are stupid, but it wasn't that long ago that doctors did pretend to treat black people so that they could observe how untreated syphilis develops.....
Your point being?
The fallout from the Tuskegee experiment eventually led to informed consent laws and ethics review boards.
The science based community has learned somewhat from its past.
Where do you think we get fertilizers that are used to grow the food we dig out of the ground?
Not to mention that we dig food out of the ground with fossil fuel powered equipment.
Our modern agricultural system is not possible without petroleum inputs.
What else is he supposed to do in this case? There is nothing like a "double jeopardy" rule that applies to warrant applications, so the government's attorneys have and always will have the ability to keep doing it over until they get something that the judge finds acceptable.
How about 3 strikes and you're out?
I've heard that is really popular amongst prosecutors and law enforcement.
It's wrong to say "the US government"
Our government is the best system yet implemented.
The problem is criminality. Even if it goes up to the President (and it surely has...many times...recently) that does not mean that **our system of governance** is faulty.
A good system of governance should transparently expose, prevent, stop, and/or negate criminality.
The fact that ours doesn't is a combination of weak oversight and poor internal culture.
Having the "best" faulty government is not the same as having a good government.
I'd also happily debate your claims that our government is the best system yet implemented.
By itself, our dual party system (and the way they shut out 3rd parties) is cause for serious complaint.
Air-gap alone is not enough. Stuxnet travelled via USB sticks.
The Stuxnet attack was (for the Iranians) a failure of operational security.
The attackers knew exactly what hardware/software was being used and how it was set up.
If the Iranians had one less centrifuge hooked up, or a different SCADA firmware version, the worm would have never triggered.
There is such a thing as security through obscurity.
It's never a complete solution, but it should always be your first line of defense.
Except "real coin" isn't what we have --- we have fiat, which is no longer backed by anything.
And once we introduced central banking, fiat has worked out a lot better than "real coin" did before we abandoned it.
I've yet to hear a satisfactory response to the basic question of why we should go back to a deflationary currency like gold.
If you're feeling especially pugnacious, feel free to explain how we'd go about re-implementing [gold] while avoiding the problems of its past and fixing the actual (and perceived) problems of the present.
If every website had to be set up in a different data center for each country that they served, most websites would not bother setting up in most countries. They'd just set up wherever is most profitable, and forget about the rest.
I'm not sure you're understanding this correctly.
Google's problem, like many other multinationals, is that they set up a local subsidiary.
This puts their in-country operations under local jurisdiction, which means they either play ball or go home (like they did with China).
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-29/nsa-spying-allegations-put-google-on-hot-seat-in-brazil.html
2013-10-29
âoeBrazilian users would ultimately be harmed because they couldnâ(TM)t access new tools, new services,â said Marcel Leonardi, public policy director for Google in Brazil, in a telephone interview from Sao Paulo. âoeCompanies would choose to implement those services at a much later stage, if at all.â
This has been an ongoing process since last year, when the spying revelations were first made public.
Google may not be able to afford ignoring Brazil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
It's kind of a big market for them.
The noble savage is a character of the imagination.
North/Central/South American tribes were slash and burning their way through the forests long before the European world showed up on their doorstep.
The theory is that Europeans actually promoted forest growth as they drove out the native Americans and broke the cycle of man made forest fires.
Among the countries, Brazil has considered asking service providers to hold data within the country, a move that Google describes as potentially Fragmenting the internet.
How does that fragment the internet?
Forcing service providers to build infrastructure in-country doesn't fragment anything except Google's business model.
Paris can only control their environment, not the industrial policies of another country. Like it or not, they're doing what they can do.
They can make a stink about it in the EU, probably file a lawsuit somewhere.
You don't have to put up with pollution from your neighbor and neither does an entire country.
Flup. I forgot the link
http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/key_capitol_hill_hearings/55/CSPAN2/Monday_February_24_2014/697213/
Here's video on C-SPAN, but I couldn't get the transcript to display in full.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?317941-1/national-association-business-economics-conference
You can read a transcript of Greenspan's comments (with obvious errors) here:
The relevant portion starts at 00:39:11 and it's just a hot mess.
So my view is to recognize that what is causing this low rate of growth in average hourly earnings is basically so proud of -- slow productivity.
This is, quite frankly, shocking for him to say.
Wage growth has only slightly outpaced inflation despite decades of massive productivity increases.
He comes back to immigration at 00:47:53
I thought maybe TFS and TFA mischaracterized Greenspan's comments.
Nope. He's advocating depressing wages for white collar workers instead of raising wages for low income earners.
The only redeeming quality of Greenspan's testimony is it shows that the housing crisis shined a spotlight into his ideological blind spot.
Now he's advocating for stronger fraud controls and higher capital reserves/better collateral requirements in the banking system.
So in his ideal world, the banks won't screw you, but you'll have no money to put in the bank because your wages are depressed by H1B workers.
The department argues the obligation on service providers would merely "formalise" existing arrangements.
This is fallout from the Snowden leaks.
What was once done in secret is now being brought into the light.
I guess I was hoping they'd just stop, instead of legalizing the invasive spying programs.
They burn christian churches down in Saudi Arabia and so on.
We burn mosques and synagogues down in the USA.
It happens more often than you probably know, because it rarely makes national news.
The USA (as a whole) isn't a theocracy, but it's not for want of trying.
At the local level in particular, the line between church and state can be very fuzzy.
NSA's spying/QUANTUM program, which use U.S. control of the DNS system to exploit systems.
[Citation Needed]
I know that even mentioning this on /. gets you modded to oblivion, but the overwhelming majority of police are good people with a genuine desire to do good in the world -- and they're not out there looking to bust heads and turn off their cameras...especially in a world where every last person on a planet has their own camera and might catch it. There's obviously a good number of well documented "bad cop" cases, but there's a lot of cops, and bad cop stories make news, because it's a big violation of our trust.
The problem isn't a small minority of bad cops, it's the alleged majority of good cops that don't immediately report and ostracize the bad cops.
You end up with a police culture that intentionally turns a blind eye to bad behavior.
That's not lawful good, no matter how you try and spin it.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/earth-secret-reservoir-water-scientists-191039455.html
Hans Keppler, a geologist at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, cautioned against extrapolating the size of the subterranean water find from a single sample of ringwoodite.
And he also said
"In some ways it is an ocean in Earth's interior, as visualised by Jules Verne... although not in the form of liquid water," Keppler said in a commentary also published by Nature.
Ain't nothing swimming around down there.
Anything that makes it easy to transfer funds to anyone in the world without going through PayPal is a good thing.
Right now, someone in the Department of Homeland Security is calling you a Terrorist.
That's how Governments traditionally feel about the easy flow of currencies across borders.
The problem is that, adjusting for inflation, it should be dramatically less. That's the trend. The major outlier is for raw materials which are more costly to extract and process for use.
In the 1950's a decent Westinghouse consolve TV cost about $1000. Inflation adjusted to today, that's about $9000.
According to people who know about these things, in 1950, tv penetration was 9% of American households. By 1955 it was 64.5%.
You can't compare an immature technology (1950 tv) with a mature one (1950 automobile).
To make a similar and honest comparison with automobiles, you'd have to rewind the clock back to before the Ford Model-T debuted in 1908.
There is a large untapped market for a car marker who builds the same model of car, with no changes other than manufacturing refinements, for 7-15 years, direct to consumers.
VW is notorious for selling its old models in foreign countries.
The original VW Beetle was manufactured in Mexico until 2003.
The VW Bus is finally getting canceled in Brazil (and that's being fought).
The 2nd gen VW Passat was sold in China for almost 30 years until it was updated.
a. cheap credit money which makes it cheaper to buy a new car than to maintain and run older cars,
b. regulatory creep which increases requirements continually and
a. it's never cheaper to buy a new car.
b. One of those regulatory agencies crash tested a 1959 Chevy Bel Air with a 2009 Malibu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck
This video speaks for itself.
c. consumers willing to spend a large slice of their income on flashy cars and status symbols.
Now you're just arguing with a straw man.
We're talking about the cheapest car of 1970 and the two cheapest cars of 2014.
Surely you've noticed that all the products of technology get cheaper every year except cars?
After adjusting for inflation, a 1970 VW Beetle with optional AC is about the same price as a 2014 Nissan Versa or Chevy Spark (both come standard with AC).
That's 34 years of technology (including air bags, ABS brakes, and traction control) for almost exactly the same price as a 34 year old car.