Failing to account for the vast disparity between signups and activity is a serious flaw in his argument - especially when he charges to growth to "marketing"... rather than the forced conversion and signups from people who already had Google accounts and those who obtained them via Android phones. (He does mention, dismissively, the lack of staying power later... and the lets this critical issue drop.)
For someone who claims to have RTFA.... Three paragraphs later:
So that answers the question of how to get people to try it out. The continued relative obscurity of the Diaspora Project -- the largest existing open social networking system -- does not mean that the idea itself doesn't have merit, or that users wouldn't sign up for such a system if it were launched and promoted by a big company. The second challenge would be to get people to stay, something that users apparently did not do after trying out Google+.
It's alright though, the ends of paragraphs tend to get ignored when you're powering through an article instead of reading it closely.
Heck, the time it took me to write this is probably the longest sustained period I've ever thought about what to wear in the morning.
It sounds to me like you've already internalized the process being discussed in TFA and pared your clothing choices down to items that won't clash. This enables you to grab any combination and have it work together.
I bet all your dressier shoes are either brown or black, with socks to match.
Its dead until the elections are over, then don't be surprised if it comes back.
It's dead. But this article sucks. It only obliquely touches on what Dodd has said is their new plan: Quietly engage private industry to crack down on copyright infringement.
Their new plan is more or less the same as the old plan, but it will be done in corporate board rooms instead of behind closed doors in Congress. Arguably, their new strategy is even worse for the public, since we will have almost no ability to influence the conversation at any point.
Google will silently tweak their search results, Facebook will quietly ban certain websites from being linked, banks will stop processing payments for certain companies, etc.
Samsung has been running ads dumping on the iPhone 5 before it was even released. This is 3 of those commercials back-to-back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM The second 30s ad is by far the funniest./not a samsung or iphone owner
The complaint alleges that Goldline "runs a bait and switch operation in which customers, seeking to invest in gold bullion, are switched to highly overpriced coins by using false and misleading claims," according to a statement released by the consumer affairs division of the Santa Monica City Attorney's office.
The company has been charged in the court filing with misdemeanors that include theft by false pretenses, false advertising, and conspiracy, the City Attorney's office said. In addition to the charges against the company, the complaint accuses former CEO Mark Albarian, executives Robert Fazio and Luis Beeli, and salespeople Charles Boratgis and Stephanie Howard of defrauding customers. Current CEO Scott Carter is accused of making false or misleading statements. Each of the charged offenses carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and maximum fines of between $1,000 and $10,000 per offense.
Gold coin and bullion dealer Goldline International agreed on Wednesday to refund up to $4.5 million to former customers, ending the criminal prosecution brought against the company last November.
Goldline was running a bait and switch. They were advertising bullion and pushing people to buy coins at an inflated collector's price.
but looks to me like the modern US Army and other armed forces go to an unbelievable and completely unprecedented amount of effort to avoid collateral damage compared to every other military force that has ever existed.
"It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."
Redefining what a civilian casualty is != unprecedented amount of effort to avoid collateral damage
And what are the tolerances for snapping together prefab sections of a building? Because the tolerances for projectile weapons are tighter by at least an order of magnitude and more likley two or three.
I think it is the fact that I just have time to look out at the world and wonder about the minimum wage carnie who maintains the machine.
The manufacture of amusement and carnival rides is regulated at the Federal level. The set up, maintanence, and operation of traveling carnival rides is regulated at the Federal level.
The set up, maintanence, and operation of permanent amusement and carnival rides is regulated at the State level. Your safety may vary.
Alabama, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have no regulation at all. New York has a strong regulatory environment. Would you like to know more?
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
An Origin spokesman said the portal was fully compliant with Australian privacy legislation. He said the additional information requested about each household ''adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience''.
Legislation that isn't specific essentially ensures that data will be misused. Then again, to the people who passed the law, that was probably a feature, not a bug.
We of the Order of the Primary UID only wake the elders for their annual blood feast during the summer Equinox. During this time they are given 10 mod points and 20 minutes to make an Insightful post Then they are placed back into suspension.
Now let us pray 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110111 01100010 01101111 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100001 01101100
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
The act of copying all this news material is protected under a federal copyright agreement signed in 1976. That was in reaction to a challenge to a news assembly project started by Vanderbilt University in 1968.
I have insurance companies tell me all the time that they would rather I use one of the cheaper alternatives if OxyContin comes up.
Methadone is dirt cheap, but its use as a painkiller is leading to its outsized share of overdose fatalities. It's being prescribed by general practitioners who aren't monitoring patients like they do in methadone clinics, leading to accidental overdoses. Nationally, methadone represents 2% of prescriptions and 30% of fatalities.
But what they don't tell you is that these deaths are highly concentrated amongst those on Medicaid "In Washington, the poor have been hit the hardest. While Medicaid recipients make up about 8 percent of Washington's adult population, they account for 48 percent of the methadone deaths."
As far as psychologically addictive, there is no such thing. Addiction is bio-chemical. You cannot be "addicted" to gambling, shopping, masturbation, etc. These are compulsive behaviors - they are NOT addiction. That is not meant to insult sufferers, compulsive behavior patterns are an illness and are FAR worse to deal with than simple physical addition.
Compulsive behavior is stuff like hair pulling, counting, excessive showering or hand washing, and a hundred other things. Psychological addiction is the reason drug users who want to stop cannot, or why smokers have oral fixations, or the cravings you experience once the physiological addiction is conquered.
Psychological is almost always caused by a physiological addiction. There are people who have physiological addiction but not a psychological one. Those people can quit smoking or quit heroin on a whim and never have a relapse or craving.
If you want to argue that physiological addiction leads to compulsive behavior, fine. But compulsive behaviors and psychological addictions only overlap, neither is a subset of the other.
TLDNR: There is a difference between physical needs, mental cravings, and mental compulsions.
Breaching/Disturbing the Peace is the catchall law that applies to any kind of "hooliganism" It came over to America with the colonists and was a common law in England for hundreds of years before that.
Family farms really don't exist any more, it's mostly large commercial entities farming huge areas or gigantic CAFOs.
Every time there is a dip in the economy, Big Agriculture buys up distressed family farms. As a result, the subsidies that are supposed to be helping family farms are mostly padding the profit margins of those "large commercial entities."
It's a big mess, but Big Agra has so much influence that it's political suicide to try and cut any farm subsidies. On top of all that, the Feds subsidise crop insurance premiums going to private insurers AND underwrite ~75% of those same crop insurers. Farming is not nearly the family business it used to be.
Well for the past four years they haven't been able to so my suggestion to everybody is save your money now and get ready for another recession because there is a complete lack of adult supervision in Washington and it's time we all recognized that. Being a leader means that sometimes you have to make a decision that isn't popular but one that you know is right.
Like raising taxes? Because that's the sticking point here. The Bush tax cuts blew an enormous hole in the budget and until that's fixed, the deficit will remain fucked.
Unfortunately, the Republicans have a serious problem called "no new taxes". And even Mitt Romney is on record saying he won't raise taxes
Even Ronald Reagan raised taxes to claw back some money from his (at the time) massive tax cuts.
Given that the DOD takes the brunt of the cuts, it seems fair.
What the hell are you talking about? The whole point of the automatic budget cuts (aka sequestration) is that it's 50/50 split between military and non-Social Security and non-Medicaid domestic spending. The whole point is that no one thought the other guy would be willing to pull that trigger by refusing to pass a deficit management plan.
If nothing is done and the sequestration takes effect, the USA's debt rating is going to get cut again.
The only person who decides who is offended is the person who gets offended at stuff. I can say whatever I want to you, if you get offended by it that is your problem, not mine.
Never heard of "fighting words" have you? In the USA and the UK, if you deliberately provoke someone and they become violent, the Judge will blame you, not them. You don't get to breech the peace and then blame the other guy for being provoked. This is a long standing common law, that was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.
Whether this applies to a video that's offending people in another country is... highly questionable, but morally I think the principle stands true. Freedom of speech has always had limits.
/I'd encourage you to test out your local laws regarding breech of the peace if you really believe that you can say whatever you want and the offended party will be held responsible for kicking the shit out of you.
The government is not efficient enough, nor do they have the technical savvy, to use the vast majority of the data they collect. Even assuming that department A talks to agency C, or that they have remotely compatable databases/protocols.
The NSA exists to be efficient, technically savvy, and have the ability to glom multiple databases together.
The idea that government is not efficient or "savvy" really needs to lay down and take a nap. There's a reason we talk about things that require the resources of a government.
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Failing to account for the vast disparity between signups and activity is a serious flaw in his argument - especially when he charges to growth to "marketing"... rather than the forced conversion and signups from people who already had Google accounts and those who obtained them via Android phones. (He does mention, dismissively, the lack of staying power later... and the lets this critical issue drop.)
For someone who claims to have RTFA....
Three paragraphs later:
So that answers the question of how to get people to try it out. The continued relative obscurity of the Diaspora Project -- the largest existing open social networking system -- does not mean that the idea itself doesn't have merit, or that users wouldn't sign up for such a system if it were launched and promoted by a big company. The second challenge would be to get people to stay, something that users apparently did not do after trying out Google+.
It's alright though, the ends of paragraphs tend to get ignored when you're powering through an article instead of reading it closely.
Heck, the time it took me to write this is probably the longest sustained period I've ever thought about what to wear in the morning.
It sounds to me like you've already internalized the process being discussed in TFA and pared your clothing choices down to items that won't clash.
This enables you to grab any combination and have it work together.
I bet all your dressier shoes are either brown or black, with socks to match.
Its dead until the elections are over, then don't be surprised if it comes back.
It's dead.
But this article sucks. It only obliquely touches on what Dodd has said is their new plan:
Quietly engage private industry to crack down on copyright infringement.
Their new plan is more or less the same as the old plan, but it will be done in corporate board rooms instead of behind closed doors in Congress.
Arguably, their new strategy is even worse for the public, since we will have almost no ability to influence the conversation at any point.
Google will silently tweak their search results, Facebook will quietly ban certain websites from being linked, banks will stop processing payments for certain companies, etc.
Samsung has been running ads dumping on the iPhone 5 before it was even released. /not a samsung or iphone owner
This is 3 of those commercials back-to-back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM
The second 30s ad is by far the funniest.
Hey, at least Beck pushes gold instead of bitcoin.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/goldline-execs-charged-fraud/story?id=14857253
The complaint alleges that Goldline "runs a bait and switch operation in which customers, seeking to invest in gold bullion, are switched to highly overpriced coins by using false and misleading claims," according to a statement released by the consumer affairs division of the Santa Monica City Attorney's office.
The company has been charged in the court filing with misdemeanors that include theft by false pretenses, false advertising, and conspiracy, the City Attorney's office said. In addition to the charges against the company, the complaint accuses former CEO Mark Albarian, executives Robert Fazio and Luis Beeli, and salespeople Charles Boratgis and Stephanie Howard of defrauding customers. Current CEO Scott Carter is accused of making false or misleading statements. Each of the charged offenses carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and maximum fines of between $1,000 and $10,000 per offense.
And the conclusion
http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2012/02/23/goldline-agrees-to-refund-4-5-million/
Gold coin and bullion dealer Goldline International agreed on Wednesday to refund up to $4.5 million to former customers, ending the criminal prosecution brought against the company last November.
Goldline was running a bait and switch.
They were advertising bullion and pushing people to buy coins at an inflated collector's price.
The Goldline press release about the settlement is a fine bit of doublespeak and PR nonsense.
but looks to me like the modern US Army and other armed forces go to an unbelievable and completely unprecedented amount of effort to avoid collateral damage compared to every other military force that has ever existed.
If the US Government was serious about avoiding collateral damage, they'd end the drone campaign and put boots on the ground.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all
"It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."
Redefining what a civilian casualty is != unprecedented amount of effort to avoid collateral damage
And what are the tolerances for snapping together prefab sections of a building?
Because the tolerances for projectile weapons are tighter by at least an order of magnitude and more likley two or three.
I think it is the fact that I just have time to look out at the world and wonder about the minimum wage carnie who maintains the machine.
The manufacture of amusement and carnival rides is regulated at the Federal level.
The set up, maintanence, and operation of traveling carnival rides is regulated at the Federal level.
The set up, maintanence, and operation of permanent amusement and carnival rides is regulated at the State level.
Your safety may vary.
Alabama, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have no regulation at all.
New York has a strong regulatory environment.
Would you like to know more?
Can you just ask for any email to/from a particular address, or any email with a certain keyword?
Yep.
You don't even have to be as specific as "a certain keyword," you can request specific topics.
After that, it's up to the reviewer to redact or deny permission for anything that would not be eligible for release.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
Why should they honour it?
Because it respects the social compact between businesses and the citizens they serve.
Instead, we have a prisoners dilemma where one prisoner has nothing to lose *and* can tweak the rules if they bribe^W lobby the rule makers.
An Origin spokesman said the portal was fully compliant with Australian privacy legislation. He said the additional information requested about each household ''adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience''.
Legislation that isn't specific essentially ensures that data will be misused.
Then again, to the people who passed the law, that was probably a feature, not a bug.
We of the Order of the Primary UID only wake the elders for their annual blood feast during the summer Equinox.
During this time they are given 10 mod points and 20 minutes to make an Insightful post
Then they are placed back into suspension.
Now let us pray
01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000
01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100
00100000 01100011 01101111 01110111
01100010 01101111 01111001 00100000
01101110 01100101 01100001 01101100
Why do we even listen to these people?
"We" don't, but our elected representatives do.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
If you cannot innovate; legislate.
The act of copying all this news material is protected under a federal copyright agreement signed in 1976. That was in reaction to a challenge to a news assembly project started by Vanderbilt University in 1968.
I have insurance companies tell me all the time that they would rather I use one of the cheaper alternatives if OxyContin comes up.
Methadone is dirt cheap, but its use as a painkiller is leading to its outsized share of overdose fatalities.
It's being prescribed by general practitioners who aren't monitoring patients like they do in methadone clinics, leading to accidental overdoses.
Nationally, methadone represents 2% of prescriptions and 30% of fatalities.
The CDC's websites have some information:
http://www.cdc.gov/features/vitalsigns/methadoneoverdoses/
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/MethadoneOverdoses/
But what they don't tell you is that these deaths are highly concentrated amongst those on Medicaid
"In Washington, the poor have been hit the hardest. While Medicaid recipients make up about 8 percent of Washington's adult population, they account for 48 percent of the methadone deaths."
As far as psychologically addictive, there is no such thing. Addiction is bio-chemical. You cannot be "addicted" to gambling, shopping, masturbation, etc. These are compulsive behaviors - they are NOT addiction. That is not meant to insult sufferers, compulsive behavior patterns are an illness and are FAR worse to deal with than simple physical addition.
Compulsive behavior is stuff like hair pulling, counting, excessive showering or hand washing, and a hundred other things.
Psychological addiction is the reason drug users who want to stop cannot, or why smokers have oral fixations, or the cravings you experience once the physiological addiction is conquered.
Psychological is almost always caused by a physiological addiction.
There are people who have physiological addiction but not a psychological one.
Those people can quit smoking or quit heroin on a whim and never have a relapse or craving.
If you want to argue that physiological addiction leads to compulsive behavior, fine.
But compulsive behaviors and psychological addictions only overlap, neither is a subset of the other.
TLDNR: There is a difference between physical needs, mental cravings, and mental compulsions.
Youll also note we dont have a "hooliganism" law.
Breaching/Disturbing the Peace is the catchall law that applies to any kind of "hooliganism"
It came over to America with the colonists and was a common law in England for hundreds of years before that.
Family farms really don't exist any more, it's mostly large commercial entities farming huge areas or gigantic CAFOs.
Every time there is a dip in the economy, Big Agriculture buys up distressed family farms.
As a result, the subsidies that are supposed to be helping family farms are mostly padding the profit margins of those "large commercial entities."
It's a big mess, but Big Agra has so much influence that it's political suicide to try and cut any farm subsidies.
On top of all that, the Feds subsidise crop insurance premiums going to private insurers AND underwrite ~75% of those same crop insurers.
Farming is not nearly the family business it used to be.
What has Slashdot become?
Slashdot has finally become sentient and decided to automatically remove all Beowulf Cluster comments.
/Still no unicode support
Well for the past four years they haven't been able to so my suggestion to everybody is save your money now and get ready for another recession because there is a complete lack of adult supervision in Washington and it's time we all recognized that. Being a leader means that sometimes you have to make a decision that isn't popular but one that you know is right.
Like raising taxes?
Because that's the sticking point here.
The Bush tax cuts blew an enormous hole in the budget and until that's fixed, the deficit will remain fucked.
Unfortunately, the Republicans have a serious problem called "no new taxes".
And even Mitt Romney is on record saying he won't raise taxes
Even Ronald Reagan raised taxes to claw back some money from his (at the time) massive tax cuts.
Given that the DOD takes the brunt of the cuts, it seems fair.
What the hell are you talking about?
The whole point of the automatic budget cuts (aka sequestration) is that it's 50/50 split between military and non-Social Security and non-Medicaid domestic spending.
The whole point is that no one thought the other guy would be willing to pull that trigger by refusing to pass a deficit management plan.
If nothing is done and the sequestration takes effect, the USA's debt rating is going to get cut again.
The only person who decides who is offended is the person who gets offended at stuff. I can say whatever I want to you, if you get offended by it that is your problem, not mine.
Never heard of "fighting words" have you?
In the USA and the UK, if you deliberately provoke someone and they become violent, the Judge will blame you, not them.
You don't get to breech the peace and then blame the other guy for being provoked.
This is a long standing common law, that was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.
Whether this applies to a video that's offending people in another country is... highly questionable, but morally I think the principle stands true.
Freedom of speech has always had limits.
/I'd encourage you to test out your local laws regarding breech of the peace if you really believe that you can say whatever you want and the offended party will be held responsible for kicking the shit out of you.
The government is not efficient enough, nor do they have the technical savvy, to use the vast majority of the data they collect. Even assuming that department A talks to agency C, or that they have remotely compatable databases/protocols.
The NSA exists to be efficient, technically savvy, and have the ability to glom multiple databases together.
The idea that government is not efficient or "savvy" really needs to lay down and take a nap.
There's a reason we talk about things that require the resources of a government.