Oh, wait, it basically is subject to the same laws as cash, except it's a whole lot easier to carry and the government can't create more of it out of thin air (which is a good thing,
My main response to "but but but gold/silver/bitcoin" is to point and say "Look! No government in the world does that anymore! It couldn't keep up!"
I've never heard a compelling rebuttal that doesn't completely ignore the history of metallic standards.
Plus Jesus is more deflationary than Bitcoin since the world supply dropped from one to zero, briefly peaked at one again and then dropped back to zero and stayed there.
Spoken like a true heretic. Any true believer would tell you that the body of Christ is exactly like bitcoin: It's thin, widely distributed, and turns to shit a few hours after its creation.
Bitcoin zealots have also been known to chant "Hoc est corpus meum, hic est calix sanguinis mei" while participating in the creation of bitcoins.
LOL Brazil can buy whatever it feels it can afford on the international market. The upfront price and ongoing software, hardware maintenance costs are about all Brazil has to worry about.
Arms sales are rarely about "whatever it feels it can afford" and almost always about fostering political relationships. Money is never a problem with arms sales, as the USA (or France) is happy to loan money (provide financing) for coutnries that want to spend billions on military technology.
"An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses."
The actual history of Anglo copyright goes back another 120ish years when the crown first decided that censorship was important and started limiting the right to publish.
/For the sake of brevity, I won't get into monks writing curses against copying in their manuscripts
That is not 35, but 235. A contractor gig is still a job for somebody. And why don't the initial construction jobs count? They aren't permanent, but are still paychecks for six or eight months for a lot of people.
Most of the contractor jobs are maintenance/security. I.E. Low paying and not exactly full time.
The reality is that there aren't (m)any other non-infrastructure commercial projects that can cost over a billion dollars and generate fewer direct and indirect jobs than a data center.
You can either sit at a computer pasting together sound samples and massaging them into some semblance of emotion,
or you can hire a musician to play it for you and give you the sound you're looking for.
Some of the most famous musical acts in the USA recorded their albums using the studio's house band. Which is why it's so funny that the submitter brings up Booker T. & the M.G.'s: they started out as a house band.
After the initial flurry of construction jobs, Apple's $1 billion+ data center in Nevada is going to result in... 200 contractor positions and 35 full time jobs.
The CEOs attending the White House meeting in the Roosevelt room were Tim Cook of Apple; Dick Costolo of Twitter; Chad Dickerson of Etsy; Reed Hastings of Netflix; Drew Houston of Dropbox; Marissa Mayer of Yahoo!; Burke Norton of Salesforce; Mark Pincus of Zynga; Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Global; Brian Roberts of Comcast. Eric Schmidt of Google; and Randall Stephenson of AT&T.
Other executives attending were Erika Rottenberg, vice president of LinkedIn; Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook; and Brad Smith, executive vice president of Microsoft.
I have no clue why anyone from Zynga (online games) and Sherpa Global (business to business & startups) are there. Sherpa Global especially. The company is barely 6 months old. How can anyone call it a "tech leader"?
It talks about how revenues went up after DRM was removed.
It'd be nice if these articles were a little less narrow minded, [...] and would, at least, acknowledge the fact that piracy has been a huge problem for the industry.
You don't dispute TFA's study that piracy increases music sales, yet you claim "piracy has been a huge problem for the industry." Which is it?
On its own, that graph proves nothing besides the fact that people are spending less on digital music and CDs. Your argument-by-assertion holds no water at all.
Judge Leon also emphasized that he was unpersuaded by the governmentâ(TM)s claims that the program served the public interest, pointedly noting that it failed to cite âoea single instance in which analysis of the N.S.A.'s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive.â
Says the Judge appointed in 2002 by President George W. Bush The NSA has had years to document even 1 "crisis" and it hasn't seemed to materialize yet.
The key to his success? He realized there are many time slots out there on TV stations that need to be filled with content, but especially for the early morning (1AM to 5AM)
There's still 19 other hours to fill and you can't do that with low budget drek. It's not a coincidence that 2-6 AM is called the graveyard slot.
think you put up a competitive bid process for a heavily regulated monopoly infrastructure provider, and just accept that it won't be the most efficient thing ever.
The difference between having the government do it vs a private monopoly, is that the private monopoly will take its profits and lobby the government to relax regulatory restrictions.
This happens in every highly regulated industry we have, monopoly or not.
We met with the school (teachers and school psychologist). A plan was devised and it seems to be working.
I will point out that poorer families and minority families generally have less education and are less able to advocate for their children. This results in cookie cutter solutions for their kids (like stimulant medication) when other less drastic solutions should be tried first.
/I'm not making any assumptions about your race or socioeconomic status.
A very current example is the rogue operation in Iraq of CIA contractor Robert Levinson. The White House is quoted in the article as saying "was not a U.S. government employee", which they can do because he was a contractor as opposed to an employee.
You may want to re-read the original AP article about Levinson. He was "not a U.S. government employee" because at the time of his disappearance, his contract had finished and he was working on spec.
Problem was, Levinson's contract was out of money and, though the CIA was working to authorize more, it had yet to do so.
"I would like to know if I do, in fact, expend my own funds to conduct this meeting, there will be reimbursement sometime in the near future, or, if I should discontinue this, as well as any and all similar projects until renewal time in May," Levinson wrote.
It's a very nuanced position to make and the government should be ashamed for making it, but they're not factually incorrect.
You mean, like how Blue Origin tried to hobble SpaceX by securing a launchpad they had no use for?
Did we even read the same article? The same summary?
In short, Blue Origin had no conceivable use for the pad, except for a possible use in the long-term.
We must have, because that was the point of their petition: to open up the launchpad for multiple users. Now, with SpaceX gaining exclusive access to the pad and facilities, Blue Origin is going to have to shop somewhere else or spend megabucks to build their own launch facility.
I understand that stocks drop temporarily on bad news. Class action lawyers solicit clients who happened to sell when the price was down, incurring a loss.
The class action lawyers are going to say that IBM's dealings with the NSA + lobbying to disclose Chinese information is material information that should have been disclosed to investors.
The lost money is going to be a second issue to be dealt with in the case.
Whereas it should either be both unacceptable or both acceptable.
The short response to your comment is that it ignores existing (historical) power structures in society.
So while I agree that both should be unacceptable, the reality is that one is much more unacceptable as a direct result of [arbitrarily long time frame] in which women have been treated as either property or second class citizens.
Making "racism" illegal is no different that declaring thought crime. When the state can govern your speech and your thought, alls well, as long as you agree with the state.
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s. It'd be nice if they had strong free speech laws, but their history has led them down a different path.
This was the offending tweet
Spurs are on their way to auschwitz Hitler's gonna gas em again We can't stop them The yids from tottenham The yids from white hart lane
There's also some other related tweets, but they link to pictures that are now gone.
Having government enforce good manners between two people is something completely different (and completely unneeded).
Harassment, stalking, loud noises, public nuisances, attractive nuisances, public indecency, etc etc etc These are all things that the government regulates in order to enforce good manners between two people.
At the bare minimum, we'd need the government to craft laws that allow us to to stop drunk people when they start acting like assholes. We'd also need the government to keep people from stepping all over the frequencies you use for your wireless devices. The FCC eventually came into existence because amateurs were forging naval messages, cursing on the airwaves, and issuing fake distress signals.
You may take it for granted, but the fabric of society is knitted together by "unneeded" laws that enforce "good manners" upon us all.
Slashdot Mirror
Vines is calling on scientific journals to require authors to upload data onto public archives as a condition for publication.
If authors put their data into the public sphere, people might notice how much of it is fudged.
Oh, wait, it basically is subject to the same laws as cash, except it's a whole lot easier to carry and the government can't create more of it out of thin air (which is a good thing,
My main response to "but but but gold/silver/bitcoin" is to point and say
"Look! No government in the world does that anymore! It couldn't keep up!"
I've never heard a compelling rebuttal that doesn't completely ignore the history of metallic standards.
Plus Jesus is more deflationary than Bitcoin since the world supply dropped from one to zero, briefly peaked at one again and then dropped back to zero and stayed there.
Spoken like a true heretic.
Any true believer would tell you that the body of Christ is exactly like bitcoin:
It's thin, widely distributed, and turns to shit a few hours after its creation.
Bitcoin zealots have also been known to chant "Hoc est corpus meum, hic est calix sanguinis mei" while participating in the creation of bitcoins.
LOL Brazil can buy whatever it feels it can afford on the international market. The upfront price and ongoing software, hardware maintenance costs are about all Brazil has to worry about.
Arms sales are rarely about "whatever it feels it can afford" and almost always about fostering political relationships.
Money is never a problem with arms sales, as the USA (or France) is happy to loan money (provide financing) for coutnries that want to spend billions on military technology.
Isn't that the entire purpose of copyright law? To encourage the release of artwork?
Not originally, no.
Copyright was originally meant as a means of censorship and was entirely focused on publishers, not authors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_1662
"An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses."
The actual history of Anglo copyright goes back another 120ish years when the crown first decided that censorship was important and started limiting the right to publish.
/For the sake of brevity, I won't get into monks writing curses against copying in their manuscripts
That is not 35, but 235. A contractor gig is still a job for somebody. And why don't the initial construction jobs count? They aren't permanent, but are still paychecks for six or eight months for a lot of people.
Most of the contractor jobs are maintenance/security.
I.E. Low paying and not exactly full time.
The local/state governments are handing out tens of millions worth of tax breaks spanning a 10 year period.
The benefits from construction are short term and essentially meaningless over that time scale.
The reality is that there aren't (m)any other non-infrastructure commercial projects that can cost over a billion dollars and generate fewer direct and indirect jobs than a data center.
You can either sit at a computer pasting together sound samples and massaging them into some semblance of emotion,
or you can hire a musician to play it for you and give you the sound you're looking for.
Some of the most famous musical acts in the USA recorded their albums using the studio's house band.
Which is why it's so funny that the submitter brings up Booker T. & the M.G.'s: they started out as a house band.
When these companies move their data centers abroad, the jobs go with them.
[Citation Needed]
Modern data centers don't actually generate very many jobs.
After the initial flurry of construction jobs, Apple's $1 billion+ data center in Nevada is going to result in...
200 contractor positions and 35 full time jobs.
35 full time jobs
The full list of attendees
The CEOs attending the White House meeting in the Roosevelt room were Tim Cook of Apple; Dick Costolo of Twitter; Chad Dickerson of Etsy; Reed Hastings of Netflix; Drew Houston of Dropbox; Marissa Mayer of Yahoo!; Burke Norton of Salesforce; Mark Pincus of Zynga; Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Global; Brian Roberts of Comcast. Eric Schmidt of Google; and Randall Stephenson of AT&T.
Other executives attending were Erika Rottenberg, vice president of LinkedIn; Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook; and Brad Smith, executive vice president of Microsoft.
I have no clue why anyone from Zynga (online games) and Sherpa Global (business to business & startups) are there.
Sherpa Global especially. The company is barely 6 months old. How can anyone call it a "tech leader"?
/Etsy also deserves some level of "wtf?"
It talks about how revenues went up after DRM was removed.
It'd be nice if these articles were a little less narrow minded, [...] and would, at least, acknowledge the fact that piracy has been a huge problem for the industry.
You don't dispute TFA's study that piracy increases music sales, yet you claim "piracy has been a huge problem for the industry."
Which is it?
See this graph to understand what I'm talking about (and this graph is a few years old, I'm sure it looks even worse than this, now): http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4d5ea2acccd1d54e7c030000/music-industry.jpg
On its own, that graph proves nothing besides the fact that people are spending less on digital music and CDs.
Your argument-by-assertion holds no water at all.
Judge Leon also emphasized that he was unpersuaded by the governmentâ(TM)s claims that the program served the public interest, pointedly noting that it failed to cite âoea single instance in which analysis of the N.S.A.'s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive.â
Says the Judge appointed in 2002 by President George W. Bush
The NSA has had years to document even 1 "crisis" and it hasn't seemed to materialize yet.
The key to his success? He realized there are many time slots out there on TV stations that need to be filled with content, but especially for the early morning (1AM to 5AM)
There's still 19 other hours to fill and you can't do that with low budget drek.
It's not a coincidence that 2-6 AM is called the graveyard slot.
think you put up a competitive bid process for a heavily regulated monopoly infrastructure provider, and just accept that it won't be the most efficient thing ever.
The difference between having the government do it vs a private monopoly, is that the private monopoly will take its profits and lobby the government to relax regulatory restrictions.
This happens in every highly regulated industry we have, monopoly or not.
We met with the school (teachers and school psychologist). A plan was devised and it seems to be working.
I will point out that poorer families and minority families generally have less education and are less able to advocate for their children.
This results in cookie cutter solutions for their kids (like stimulant medication) when other less drastic solutions should be tried first.
/I'm not making any assumptions about your race or socioeconomic status.
Since I doubt they are giving Ritalin to toddlers (yet),
http://adhdrollercoaster.org/adhd-medication/a-new-ritalin-extended-release-liquid/
The article says "children, teens, or adults" but don't kid yourself.
This is a product made expressly for children who are too young to swallow regular pills.
A very current example is the rogue operation in Iraq of CIA contractor Robert Levinson. The White House is quoted in the article as saying "was not a U.S. government employee", which they can do because he was a contractor as opposed to an employee.
You may want to re-read the original AP article about Levinson.
He was "not a U.S. government employee" because at the time of his disappearance, his contract had finished and he was working on spec.
Problem was, Levinson's contract was out of money and, though the CIA was working to authorize more, it had yet to do so.
"I would like to know if I do, in fact, expend my own funds to conduct this meeting, there will be reimbursement sometime in the near future, or, if I should discontinue this, as well as any and all similar projects until renewal time in May," Levinson wrote.
It's a very nuanced position to make and the government should be ashamed for making it, but they're not factually incorrect.
You mean, like how Blue Origin tried to hobble SpaceX by securing a launchpad they had no use for?
Did we even read the same article? The same summary?
In short, Blue Origin had no conceivable use for the pad, except for a possible use in the long-term.
We must have, because that was the point of their petition: to open up the launchpad for multiple users.
Now, with SpaceX gaining exclusive access to the pad and facilities, Blue Origin is going to have to shop somewhere else or spend megabucks to build their own launch facility.
It's also unreasonable to expect SpaceX to be able to reach the moon right out of the gate.
Well... in Kerbal Space Program...
Last month, the NSA said maybe 50,000 to 200,000 documents.
Last night, 60 Minutes said it was 1.7 million documents
Today it's "we may never know"
I understand that stocks drop temporarily on bad news. Class action lawyers solicit clients who happened to sell when the price was down, incurring a loss.
The class action lawyers are going to say that IBM's dealings with the NSA + lobbying to disclose Chinese information is material information that should have been disclosed to investors.
The lost money is going to be a second issue to be dealt with in the case.
Tor is mostly funded by taxpayers as well (through the State Department)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History
Because Linkedin didn't force a password reset for all those accounts already?
Whereas it should either be both unacceptable or both acceptable.
The short response to your comment is that it ignores existing (historical) power structures in society.
So while I agree that both should be unacceptable, the reality is that one is much more unacceptable as a direct result of [arbitrarily long time frame] in which women have been treated as either property or second class citizens.
Making "racism" illegal is no different that declaring thought crime. When the state can govern your speech and your thought, alls well, as long as you agree with the state.
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s.
It'd be nice if they had strong free speech laws, but their history has led them down a different path.
This was the offending tweet
Spurs are on their way to auschwitz
Hitler's gonna gas em again
We can't stop them
The yids from tottenham
The yids from white hart lane
There's also some other related tweets, but they link to pictures that are now gone.
Having government enforce good manners between two people is something completely different (and completely unneeded).
Harassment, stalking, loud noises, public nuisances, attractive nuisances, public indecency, etc etc etc
These are all things that the government regulates in order to enforce good manners between two people.
At the bare minimum, we'd need the government to craft laws that allow us to to stop drunk people when they start acting like assholes.
We'd also need the government to keep people from stepping all over the frequencies you use for your wireless devices.
The FCC eventually came into existence because amateurs were forging naval messages, cursing on the airwaves, and issuing fake distress signals.
You may take it for granted, but the fabric of society is knitted together by "unneeded" laws that enforce "good manners" upon us all.