People became more productive due to technology. Now you are able to produce enough for you and your family in 40 hours / week. Before this technology advancement, you needed to work 60-80 hours / week in order to produce enough.
I'll leave it to the educated reader to deduce what happened to *40 years worth of difference between productivity and wages. *It's not labeled, but the lines diverge in 1973
Outside of jurisdictions where(either because they are large and rough, or because the sheriff is compensating for something) some sub-group of the police are practically a standing army,
This was an intentional goal of the military, which has since been exacerbated by post-9/11 DHS spending.
But originally, because of fiascos like Kent State and Waco, the military decided to give police forces military grade hardware for dirt cheap. This way, the DoD & National Guard wouldn't have to get their hands dirty when things escalated beyond the pistol and shotgun work that police forces were used to.
They might not use that particular system but I promise you snipers can and will use a targeting/tracking system should one be available that fits their mission parameters. I would be deeply shocked if such technology was not being very actively worked on by the military.
The introduction of snipers was a major force multiplier for military units. Now this gun can be put into the hands of a proficient rifleman and used effectively to project force. The only thing better would be self-guiding bullets.
I agree that it was a bad test case (good for Monsanto though). The complication is that he bought grain elevator seeds once and then saved/replanted them for 8 years. That seems like much less of a grey area than if he had kept buying them from the grain elevator every year.
However, do note that what they are discussing here is auditing 503(c).4 organizations, to make sure they were complying with the regulations.
That is, these organizations are supposed to be engaging in NON-POLITICAL activities, for which we give them the benefit of being non-profit (and, making donations to them tax deductible).
A) It's 501(c)4 B) Donations to 501(c)4 organizations are generally not tax deductible. C) The purpose of a 501(c)4 organization cannot be primarily political
The Legislative Branch makes the laws The Executive Branch executes them. Which is another way of saying that "laws that have an effect on the American public" are "the internal operations of the government".
Wasn't there something about due process in some document or other somewhere? Something about a warrant needed before the government can take action?
I can understand taking action as part of the legal process - confiscating evidence as part of filing for criminal charges, for instance. But can the government simply act unilaterally with no oversight? Has it always been this way?
This may come as a surprise, but there are some things that you have to *ask permission* to do. To almost no one else's surprise, exporting munitions (for very broad definitions of "munition") is one of those things.
Yea, they can take the State Dept to court, but it won't be an argument over whether the government has authority, it'll be an argument over whether the CAD file falls under the definition of a munition (which can be regulated).
Seems like that might be a good change to be included in the next constitution.
The United States of America is unique in its complete lack of desire to modify or rewrite its constitution. Instead, we rely on decades of Supreme Court opinions to shape the law's interaction with the constitution. What we infer from our founding document, other countries regularly go ahead and amend into their constitution.
What could Blizzard do? Performing a roll-back would wipe all progress obtained by players for the patch day, which would result in a lot of bad PR. But leaving the economy as-is will devalue all items in the game (and Diablo III is all about getting items).
In the end, Blizzard has not done a roll-back, but instead banned anyone who duped, and refunded anyone who spent real money. The bug was temporarily fixed by reverting the patch note which caused the entire mess.
Why would rolling back 1 day of gameplay be such a disastrous event?
They have not implemented a quantum-encrypted network as you are thinking of it. The quantum channel is used to pass one-time encryption pads. Then the OTPs are used to encrypt network data.
Quantum computing isn't nearly fast enough to push real world amounts of data. But it doesn't really need to, if we can use it to generate bullet proof encryption.
Not to mention that warships need electronics that are hardened against EM weaponry. As it turns out, Moore's law works against that requirement, since smaller circuits are more susceptible to interference. The older designs, with the larger process, are all we know how to harden right now.
PBS can be good [...]. Case in point: The Discovery Channel.
I don't know why you're comparing these two channels. PBS exists to provide educational programming. It's subsidized by a government chartered corporation in order to provide educational programming. The last thing you have to worry about is PBS playing reruns of Friends.
The Discovery Channel's problem is that reality tv is cheaper and more ratings friendly than information heavy programming. So we get information-lite content wrapped in a package of survival shows, fishing boats, and elimination style competitions.
FYI: Angel investors and venture capital is not the same thing.
Angels are usually wealthy individuals who want something to do with their money. VC involves cut throat money managers playing with other people's money. Both of them try for massive ROI, but angels don't always have monetary rewards as their motivation.
The Maryland law allows departments to charge a reasonable fee which includes both the cost of duplication as well as any staff time in excess of 2 hours involved in the search, compilation, or reproduction of materials. Waivers are permitted considering the person requesting the documents financial status and the public interest in the release of the information.
Make a reasoned guess at how many hours it'd take someone to compile and sanitize the records, multiply by the hourly wage of a temp, then add in a fudge factor because stuff always take longer, then add in another fudge factor because everything the temp does will need to be reviewed. You send that dollar number to the FOIA requester and ask if they still want the documents.
Why did the person want this it? Because they were starting a website to charge businesses for access to this information.
Good for him, but without a compelling public interest, there's no reason he shouldn't bear the cost of the request.
About 100 years later, Bagatelle transformed more or less into pinball when a British immigrant in America, Montegue Redgrave, invented the plunger 50 years after that, pinball goes big during the Great Depression and the industry takes off like a rocket. But don't ever forget that the French introduced the basic game to our country and an Englishman gave us what we have today.
but you will never see anyone lobbying that we need to bring in more doctors or pharmacists to lower the cost of medical care. The reason I believe is quite simple: The American Medical Association and National Pharmacists Association are very strong unions. They even lobby against increasing seats in US medical colleges and even building more colleges.
U.S. medical schools are expanding to meet an expected need for more doctors due to the federal health law. With at least 12 new schools opening and existing ones growing, enrollment is on track to produce 5,000 more graduates a year by 2019.
But medical educators are cautioning that those efforts won't do anything to alleviate a doctor shortage unless the number of medical residency positions rises as well. The number of federally funded residencies has been frozen since 1997.
Medicare-funded spots were frozen under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and numerous bills to lift the cap have stagnated in Congress amid budget-cutting concerns, including proposals to slash Medicare funding for doctor training.
We're graduating plenty of doctors, but it doesn't matter if they can't all find somewhere to finish their training after 4 years of medical school.
For some reason, the free market doesn't seem to be dealing with this.
So pitting camera in PUBLIC space is, by definition NOT an invasion of privacy.
Would a police officer following you everywhere you go (in public) be an invasion of privacy? What if they did it for months? Without a warrant? Without suspicion?
You've taken a very narrow view of what defines privacy.
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The educated reader would realize that productivity increases aren't distributed equally across the workforce.
Once upon a time, they were
http://exopermaculture.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/526916_10150870575016275_36774245_n.jpg
Then things changed (the bottom half of this graphic)
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/13/opinion/13greenhousech/13greenhousech-popup-v4.png
"likely able to" is just conjecture. Try again with facts.
The numbers are out there, see if they support your hypothesis.
People became more productive due to technology. Now you are able to produce enough for you and your family in 40 hours / week. Before this technology advancement, you needed to work 60-80 hours / week in order to produce enough.
That's what you'd think isn't it?
The reality is somewhat different:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130305161550-chart-productivity-hourly-compensation.gif
I'll leave it to the educated reader to deduce what happened to *40 years worth of difference between productivity and wages.
*It's not labeled, but the lines diverge in 1973
Yes there are other plants, but they're boring and do not serve as a backdoor totally-innocent-don't-look-at-me-like-that way to get marijuana legal.
Or Canada has an industrial hemp industry and this work is being done by "researchers at the University of Alberta [Canada]"
Outside of jurisdictions where(either because they are large and rough, or because the sheriff is compensating for something) some sub-group of the police are practically a standing army,
This was an intentional goal of the military, which has since been exacerbated by post-9/11 DHS spending.
But originally, because of fiascos like Kent State and Waco, the military decided to give police forces military grade hardware for dirt cheap.
This way, the DoD & National Guard wouldn't have to get their hands dirty when things escalated beyond the pistol and shotgun work that police forces were used to.
They might not use that particular system but I promise you snipers can and will use a targeting/tracking system should one be available that fits their mission parameters. I would be deeply shocked if such technology was not being very actively worked on by the military.
The introduction of snipers was a major force multiplier for military units.
Now this gun can be put into the hands of a proficient rifleman and used effectively to project force.
The only thing better would be self-guiding bullets.
I agree that it was a bad test case (good for Monsanto though).
The complication is that he bought grain elevator seeds once and then saved/replanted them for 8 years.
That seems like much less of a grey area than if he had kept buying them from the grain elevator every year.
Feudalism 8: Where's my Start button?
However, do note that what they are discussing here is auditing 503(c).4 organizations, to make sure they were complying with the regulations.
That is, these organizations are supposed to be engaging in NON-POLITICAL activities, for which we give them the benefit of being non-profit (and, making donations to them tax deductible).
A) It's 501(c)4
B) Donations to 501(c)4 organizations are generally not tax deductible.
C) The purpose of a 501(c)4 organization cannot be primarily political
Tea Party groups were complaining about this in February of 2012.
You'll have a mile long pack of cars, all accelerating as fast as the slowest vehicle.
And I can only imagine the rolling roadblocks you'll get when a row of cars line up and synchronize their speeds.
The Legislative Branch makes the laws
The Executive Branch executes them.
Which is another way of saying that "laws that have an effect on the American public" are "the internal operations of the government".
Why fuck around when you can buy a copy of the United States Army technical manual on improvised munitions?
http://www.amazon.com/Improvised-Munitions-Handbook-Department-Technical/dp/B001O84GWK
Wasn't there something about due process in some document or other somewhere? Something about a warrant needed before the government can take action?
I can understand taking action as part of the legal process - confiscating evidence as part of filing for criminal charges, for instance. But can the government simply act unilaterally with no oversight? Has it always been this way?
This may come as a surprise, but there are some things that you have to *ask permission* to do.
To almost no one else's surprise, exporting munitions (for very broad definitions of "munition") is one of those things.
Yea, they can take the State Dept to court, but it won't be an argument over whether the government has authority,
it'll be an argument over whether the CAD file falls under the definition of a munition (which can be regulated).
Seems like that might be a good change to be included in the next constitution.
The United States of America is unique in its complete lack of desire to modify or rewrite its constitution.
Instead, we rely on decades of Supreme Court opinions to shape the law's interaction with the constitution.
What we infer from our founding document, other countries regularly go ahead and amend into their constitution.
What could Blizzard do? Performing a roll-back would wipe all progress obtained by players for the patch day, which would result in a lot of bad PR. But leaving the economy as-is will devalue all items in the game (and Diablo III is all about getting items).
In the end, Blizzard has not done a roll-back, but instead banned anyone who duped, and refunded anyone who spent real money. The bug was temporarily fixed by reverting the patch note which caused the entire mess.
Why would rolling back 1 day of gameplay be such a disastrous event?
If you want something you can actually buy:
http://www.touchbionics.com/products/active-prostheses/i-limb-ultra/
It runs ~$100,000 and is more or less top of the line.
So, what have we learned?
That 2^31 gold ought to be enough for anybody?
They have not implemented a quantum-encrypted network as you are thinking of it.
The quantum channel is used to pass one-time encryption pads.
Then the OTPs are used to encrypt network data.
Quantum computing isn't nearly fast enough to push real world amounts of data.
But it doesn't really need to, if we can use it to generate bullet proof encryption.
Not to mention that warships need electronics that are hardened against EM weaponry.
As it turns out, Moore's law works against that requirement, since smaller circuits are more susceptible to interference.
The older designs, with the larger process, are all we know how to harden right now.
PBS can be good [...]. Case in point: The Discovery Channel.
I don't know why you're comparing these two channels.
PBS exists to provide educational programming.
It's subsidized by a government chartered corporation in order to provide educational programming.
The last thing you have to worry about is PBS playing reruns of Friends.
The Discovery Channel's problem is that reality tv is cheaper and more ratings friendly than information heavy programming.
So we get information-lite content wrapped in a package of survival shows, fishing boats, and elimination style competitions.
FYI: Angel investors and venture capital is not the same thing.
Angels are usually wealthy individuals who want something to do with their money.
VC involves cut throat money managers playing with other people's money.
Both of them try for massive ROI, but angels don't always have monetary rewards as their motivation.
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Maryland_FOIA_procedures
The Maryland law allows departments to charge a reasonable fee which includes both the cost of duplication as well as any staff time in excess of 2 hours involved in the search, compilation, or reproduction of materials. Waivers are permitted considering the person requesting the documents financial status and the public interest in the release of the information.
Make a reasoned guess at how many hours it'd take someone to compile and sanitize the records,
multiply by the hourly wage of a temp, then add in a fudge factor because stuff always take longer,
then add in another fudge factor because everything the temp does will need to be reviewed.
You send that dollar number to the FOIA requester and ask if they still want the documents.
Why did the person want this it? Because they were starting a website to charge businesses for access to this information.
Good for him, but without a compelling public interest, there's no reason he shouldn't bear the cost of the request.
pinball really is a uniquely American form
Pinball has its roots in billiards, but didn't take off in the form we know it until the late 1700s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagatelle
About 100 years later, Bagatelle transformed more or less into pinball when a British immigrant in America, Montegue Redgrave, invented the plunger
50 years after that, pinball goes big during the Great Depression and the industry takes off like a rocket.
But don't ever forget that the French introduced the basic game to our country and an Englishman gave us what we have today.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/
Like you said, all the images still work
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/image.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/downloadingcrackedv.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/priate-message.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/steam.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/itruinsme.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/appeal.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1day.png
but you will never see anyone lobbying that we need to bring in more doctors or pharmacists to lower the cost of medical care. The reason I believe is quite simple: The American Medical Association and National Pharmacists Association are very strong unions. They even lobby against increasing seats in US medical colleges and even building more colleges.
Not only is that not the problem, but the problem is 180 degrees opposite of what you're saying
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324096404578356544137516914.html
U.S. medical schools are expanding to meet an expected need for more doctors due to the federal health law. With at least 12 new schools opening and existing ones growing, enrollment is on track to produce 5,000 more graduates a year by 2019.
But medical educators are cautioning that those efforts won't do anything to alleviate a doctor shortage unless the number of medical residency positions rises as well. The number of federally funded residencies has been frozen since 1997.
Medicare-funded spots were frozen under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and numerous bills to lift the cap have stagnated in Congress amid budget-cutting concerns, including proposals to slash Medicare funding for doctor training.
We're graduating plenty of doctors, but it doesn't matter if they can't all find somewhere to finish their training after 4 years of medical school.
For some reason, the free market doesn't seem to be dealing with this.
You have no privacy in public spaces.
So pitting camera in PUBLIC space is, by definition NOT an invasion of privacy.
Would a police officer following you everywhere you go (in public) be an invasion of privacy?
What if they did it for months?
Without a warrant?
Without suspicion?
You've taken a very narrow view of what defines privacy.