What is it with this idea that everyone has an obligation to vote and that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing? I think it is immoral to vote when you don't understand the first thing about the candidates or the issues involved, and if you don't have time to get educated about it, then you should sit it out.
The idea that "everyone has an obligation to vote" and "that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing" are two entirely separate ideas.
The obligation question is a philosophical one that reasonable people can disagree on. But considering that the boogeyman of malicious in-person voting fraud is almost non-existent, what other serious reasons are there to prevent voting from being as easy as possible? Why is it a bad thing? Because ignorant people might vote? We have representatives to filter out the derp.
By cramming the two issues together, you do yourself and everyone else a disservice.
That is exactly how bad laws get railroaded through the process.
"More specifically, it is information concerning the development of government policy which has not been finalised, and there is a strong possibility that the policy will be amended prior to public consultation," [The Attorney-General's Department legal officer, FoI and Privacy Section, Claudia Hernandez] wrote.
The problem with this statement is that, if the first time you get to have input on a law is during the public consultation period, it's too late. By that point, months if not years of work and lobbying have gone into the legislation. That's why the flameouts of SOPA and PIPA were so shocking to the copyright lobby.
Actually, most folks I know who said they have fibromyalgia have been misdiagnosed because they had non-standard symptoms for some other condition.
Could you share with us those "other conditions" that are misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia? Because I have a very good friend who was diagnosed at a very young age with arthritis, fibromyalgia, and restless leg syndrome. This friend has been tested for everything under the sun, but maybe you have some insight that I can share with them.
Mothers lifting overturned vehicles to free a trapped child
Hysterical strength is not "mind over the body". During times of extreme stress, our body essentially disengages the safeties and allows us to use our muscles to their full capacity. One can achieve the exact same levels of strength by electrocuting oneself, which forces all the muscle fibers to twitch at once. I don't recommend you try it though, since you'll end up (A) electrocuted and (B) with torn muscles.
If it was truly a mind over body talent, there would be people (similar to Wim Hof) who could access it on demand.
What's missing on Google's DMCA notices report? Youtube. The by far largest video content website in the world ought to have very high volume of DMCA notices, if not the most, and it's inconspicuously missing from the list. To downrank and censor any website that's not Google's that receives a high number of DMCA notices? Sounds exactly like antitrust to me.
Despite his lack of proofreading, he manages to make several other valid points.
geekoid has revealed himself as one of the hoi palloi that has no choice but to drive himself around. Come GigaplexNZ, let us retire to the study for brandy and cigars, so that we may laugh at geekoid behind his back.
It seems like every week we hear about another solar power company going out of business because of mismanagement, fraud, and/or because they can't make a panel that works.
[Citation Needed] If you're not just throwing out baseless hyperbolic statements, you should be able to dig up 5 or six companies demonstrating fraud, mismanagement, or incompetence. Then again, just last week I was reading about a solar company being sued for fraud, but it was a Chinese solar company.
It's just so frustrating seeing the government foul things up for us. The energy problems we have now are all political.
Most of the problems with the USA's solar industry are Chinese subsidies allowing Chinese companies to sell at significantly below market rates. The US Government recently slapped 31% tariffs on ~60 chinese solar companies and 250% tariffs on a handful of other chinese solar companies. It's just so frustrating seeing the Chinese Government foul things up for us.
Be careful when looking at stats for water usage. A huuuuuge portion of "water used" is actually passed through power plants for cooling purposes and goes right back into [waterway]. Agriculture and industrial factories are by far the two biggest consumers of potable water.
And water used for domestic households is actually higher than ~1% when you add in the significant (>50%) losses in municipal plumbing. /low flow toilets are usually a bad choice, because ancient sewer systems require minimum water volumes to move shit effectively.
Oil made from corn? You think we're dumb enough to turn water plants, then turn them into oil, so we can backfill wells for water? Obviously we'd use oil made from coal.
I bet we could shift an asteroid's course if we packed up all the copies of Battlefield Earth and launched them against it. /Though I personally think the Mission Earth series was by far the longest series of crap books ever published.
A Cease and Desist Notice is an entirely different animal than a Cease and Desist Order, signed by a judge. It's far more likely that random authors sent out copypasta C&D threats^w notices and the hosting company folded as a result of ignorance.
Your self control is amazing, how were you able to resist writing Rethuglicans? What's your secret?
He wasn't, instead he has a browser plugin that autocorrects Rethuglicans to Repuglicans. That way, he can get the satisfaction of calling 'em thugs and the respectability that comes from not being seen to do so.
The Dummycrat plugin has less downloads, but I think that's just the lieberals manipulating statistics.
Calling it Amulet while having the form factor of a watch is somewhat misleading, I was thinking how a necklace could possibly have a secure enough interface to the body to measure the required responses.
Obviously the best solution is to call it a "life clock crystal" and have it embedded in the palm of your right hand. Unfortunately, the crystal has... side effects, the most onerous being sudden death on your 21st birthday.
That's why most countries regulate their cell providers, because the monopoly situation makes it impossible for proper competition to form.
We have an oligopoly because the FCC has been allowing T-Mobile/AT&T/Verizon to keep buying up all the competitors. The same thing is happening with telephone and oil companies. Many of the monopolies that were broken up in the early 1900s are slowly being reconstituted through mergers and aquisitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoliberalism is more or less the equivalent of modern right-wing capitalist ideology. Don't be confused by the "liberalism," it means "economic liberalism" which means "deregulate everything"
I assume the GP is talking about the 70s Oil Crisis and neoliberalism did *not* cause that. If anything, the 70s Oil Crisis caused neoliberalism to become popular and accepted in mainstream economic thinking.
When they first put together the Mars mission in 2004, the Library of Congress was smaller than it is today. So instead of confusing people with 2004 LoCs vs 2012 LoCs, they just went with miles. It's what helped them land the Curiosity rover only a few meters from the original target.
FYI - The NASA stream and the Ustream are from two different cameras with two different commentators I also think the NASA stream had a slight time delay
This data is not 'creepy' when company's are using this data privately for profit, however when it's expressed publicly in a not-for-profit way it's a privacy concern. God bless America.
How many of your nearest thousand neighbors have you shared your political affiliation with? That's what this does and that's why people find it creepy.
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What is it with this idea that everyone has an obligation to vote and that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing? I think it is immoral to vote when you don't understand the first thing about the candidates or the issues involved, and if you don't have time to get educated about it, then you should sit it out.
The idea that "everyone has an obligation to vote" and "that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing" are two entirely separate ideas.
The obligation question is a philosophical one that reasonable people can disagree on.
But considering that the boogeyman of malicious in-person voting fraud is almost non-existent,
what other serious reasons are there to prevent voting from being as easy as possible?
Why is it a bad thing? Because ignorant people might vote? We have representatives to filter out the derp.
By cramming the two issues together, you do yourself and everyone else a disservice.
The impressed button, I will not be pushing it tonight.
3 out of 20 terrorists using their algorithm.
A 15% success rate isn't anything to be crowing about, unless the false positive rate is near zero.
That is exactly how bad laws get railroaded through the process.
"More specifically, it is information concerning the development of government policy which has not been finalised, and there is a strong possibility that the policy will be amended prior to public consultation," [The Attorney-General's Department legal officer, FoI and Privacy Section, Claudia Hernandez] wrote.
The problem with this statement is that, if the first time you get to have input on a law is during the public consultation period, it's too late.
By that point, months if not years of work and lobbying have gone into the legislation.
That's why the flameouts of SOPA and PIPA were so shocking to the copyright lobby.
Actually, most folks I know who said they have fibromyalgia have been misdiagnosed because they had non-standard symptoms for some other condition.
Could you share with us those "other conditions" that are misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia?
Because I have a very good friend who was diagnosed at a very young age with arthritis, fibromyalgia, and restless leg syndrome.
This friend has been tested for everything under the sun, but maybe you have some insight that I can share with them.
Mothers lifting overturned vehicles to free a trapped child
Hysterical strength is not "mind over the body".
During times of extreme stress, our body essentially disengages the safeties and allows us to use our muscles to their full capacity.
One can achieve the exact same levels of strength by electrocuting oneself, which forces all the muscle fibers to twitch at once.
I don't recommend you try it though, since you'll end up (A) electrocuted and (B) with torn muscles.
If it was truly a mind over body talent, there would be people (similar to Wim Hof) who could access it on demand.
The most-targeted domains? filestube.com, downloads.nl, isohunt.com, and torrenthound.com.
Two search engines and two torrent sites that don't host any files?
Is that what the DMCA is supposed to be used for?
Isohunt has put up a post discussing the matter
What's missing on Google's DMCA notices report? Youtube. The by far largest video content website in the world ought to have very high volume of DMCA notices, if not the most, and it's inconspicuously missing from the list. To downrank and censor any website that's not Google's that receives a high number of DMCA notices? Sounds exactly like antitrust to me.
Despite his lack of proofreading, he manages to make several other valid points.
Good news everyone!
NASA will only have to wait half as long to find out if their software upgrade worked!
geekoid has revealed himself as one of the hoi palloi that has no choice but to drive himself around.
Come GigaplexNZ, let us retire to the study for brandy and cigars, so that we may laugh at geekoid behind his back.
The worst thing for the environment always has, and always will be hippies.
Are hippies really worse than rivers catching on fire?
The worst thing for the environment always has, and always will be unregulated corporations.
It seems like every week we hear about another solar power company going out of business because of mismanagement, fraud, and/or because they can't make a panel that works.
[Citation Needed]
If you're not just throwing out baseless hyperbolic statements,
you should be able to dig up 5 or six companies demonstrating fraud, mismanagement, or incompetence.
Then again, just last week I was reading about a solar company being sued for fraud, but it was a Chinese solar company.
It's just so frustrating seeing the government foul things up for us. The energy problems we have now are all political.
Most of the problems with the USA's solar industry are Chinese subsidies allowing Chinese companies to sell at significantly below market rates.
The US Government recently slapped 31% tariffs on ~60 chinese solar companies and 250% tariffs on a handful of other chinese solar companies.
It's just so frustrating seeing the Chinese Government foul things up for us.
Step 1: Get caught doing something shitty
Step 2: Promise to the regulators that it won't happen again
GO TO Step 1
Be careful when looking at stats for water usage.
A huuuuuge portion of "water used" is actually passed through power plants for cooling purposes and goes right back into [waterway].
Agriculture and industrial factories are by far the two biggest consumers of potable water.
And water used for domestic households is actually higher than ~1% when you add in the significant (>50%) losses in municipal plumbing.
/low flow toilets are usually a bad choice, because ancient sewer systems require minimum water volumes to move shit effectively.
Oil made from corn? You think we're dumb enough to turn water plants, then turn them into oil, so we can backfill wells for water?
Obviously we'd use oil made from coal.
I bet we could shift an asteroid's course if we packed up all the copies of Battlefield Earth and launched them against it.
/Though I personally think the Mission Earth series was by far the longest series of crap books ever published.
The third rule of book club is: You bring bagels and coffee when it's your turn
A Cease and Desist Notice is an entirely different animal than a Cease and Desist Order, signed by a judge.
It's far more likely that random authors sent out copypasta C&D threats^w notices and the hosting company folded as a result of ignorance.
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Your self control is amazing, how were you able to resist writing Rethuglicans? What's your secret?
He wasn't, instead he has a browser plugin that autocorrects Rethuglicans to Repuglicans.
That way, he can get the satisfaction of calling 'em thugs and the respectability that comes from not being seen to do so.
The Dummycrat plugin has less downloads, but I think that's just the lieberals manipulating statistics.
Calling it Amulet while having the form factor of a watch is somewhat misleading, I was thinking how a necklace could possibly have a secure enough interface to the body to measure the required responses.
Obviously the best solution is to call it a "life clock crystal" and have it embedded in the palm of your right hand.
Unfortunately, the crystal has... side effects, the most onerous being sudden death on your 21st birthday.
That's why most countries regulate their cell providers, because the monopoly situation makes it impossible for proper competition to form.
We have an oligopoly because the FCC has been allowing T-Mobile/AT&T/Verizon to keep buying up all the competitors.
The same thing is happening with telephone and oil companies.
Many of the monopolies that were broken up in the early 1900s are slowly being reconstituted through mergers and aquisitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is more or less the equivalent of modern right-wing capitalist ideology.
Don't be confused by the "liberalism," it means "economic liberalism" which means "deregulate everything"
I assume the GP is talking about the 70s Oil Crisis and neoliberalism did *not* cause that.
If anything, the 70s Oil Crisis caused neoliberalism to become popular and accepted in mainstream economic thinking.
When they first put together the Mars mission in 2004, the Library of Congress was smaller than it is today.
So instead of confusing people with 2004 LoCs vs 2012 LoCs, they just went with miles.
It's what helped them land the Curiosity rover only a few meters from the original target.
FYI - The NASA stream and the Ustream are from two different cameras with two different commentators
I also think the NASA stream had a slight time delay
This data is not 'creepy' when company's are using this data privately for profit, however when it's expressed publicly in a not-for-profit way it's a privacy concern. God bless America.
How many of your nearest thousand neighbors have you shared your political affiliation with?
That's what this does and that's why people find it creepy.
2) didn't those two companies just violate their own security standards by helping this guy kill accounts he couldn't prove were his??
The key word you seem to have overlooked is "expedite"
His support ticket was in the queue and someone got it moved to the top.