In other words, the outbreak allegedly was kept secret to protect the homeless from being ostracized. But the Slashdot-linked story only mentions the first paragraph, implying that Republicans had suppressed the information about these cases because it only affected an underclass. That may end up being true, but it's not a given from the original story.
TFA said:
[Duval County health officials] spoke about CDC's report Friday, only after weeks of records requests from The Palm Beach Post. The report was released late last week only after a reporter traveled to Tallahassee to demand records in person. The records should be open to inspection to anyone upon request under Florida Statute 119, known as the Government in the Sunshine law.
There's a different between not-publicizing an outbreak and actively-keeping-it-secret Sometimes the facts speak for themselves.
Dotcom railed against the handling of the United States' legal case against him and a New Zealand court's decision to delay his scheduled Aug. 6 extradition hearing to a tentative date of March 25, 2013, saying that the U.S. government -- with help from authorities in New Zealand -- is using "dirty delay tactics instead of evidence."
Ongoing legal arguments over the legality of the evidence led to the delay of the extradition hearing, with both prosecutors and Dotcom's attorneys agreeing to the postponement, which was revealed in legal documents released on Monday.
So which is it? The US Government is jerking him around or his attorneys agreed to the delay?
This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car.
The ECU/ECM controls all engine functions. If it doesn't give the go ahead, your car won't run, no matter how many wires are cut apart or spliced together.
Boy are you going to be surprised when you read the rest of the stuff in the National Emergencies Act and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
I suggest you start handing out "Fuck You"s to Richard Nixon (his abuse of the law is the reason our first Emergencies Act was passed) and then work you way up through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr.
Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over until everyone is selling at cost
This is what free market theory predicts (cost + normal profit). This is a good thing for buyers.
and all but a couple players eventually have to shut down because they can't afford to run a profitless business forever, whereupon the few remaining players can finally raise prices... isn't effectively collusion or a market distortion.
This is what happens in real life. This is not a good thing for buyers.
It's what we had 100+ years ago and regulating that anti-competitive behavior was considered "market reform" Nowadays, removing regulations on anti-competitive behavior is considered "market reform" How did we get here?
Just an FYI, a "citizen's arrest" is limited to essentially yelling "hey, stop!". No use of force, not even grabbing by the arm. No handcuffs, no restraints, nothing. So no, it is not at all the same thing.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
The concept of Citizen's Arrest (as we know it) was first written down ~800 years ago in the Magna Carta. The laws on Citizen's Arrests are far from homogenous, but the one consistent rule is that if you witness a felony, you can stop it with reasonable force. That includes stating "you are under arrest", grabbing by the arm, punching in the head, restraints, or pursuing as needed. The rules regarding CAs for misdemeanors and breaches of the peace depend on your local or state laws.
The downside to citizen's arrests is that, if you're wrong, you are held to a strict liability for your actions. Grabbing an arm can become assault, battery, false imprisonment, wrongful arrest, &/or kidnapping.
But just to be clear: you can use force during Citizen's Arrests if it's necessary.
Or rather, the product is still produced in mass, but in many small fabs or even on the desktop, as opposed to requiring a single massive factory in China. It's distributed production.
And who's going to buy up the output of this distributed production? There is going to be serious resistance from stores and distributors because they need consistency and efficiency. The current model of factories and distribution hubs has fallen into place because it's what works best so far.
I think it's possible to make every home a factory, I just don't think the transition will be quick or painless.
You wouldn't give a gun to someone you know is going to shoot you with it, then claim their desire to kill you is a social problem, and that being anti-gun is luddism.
Enabling mass tracking and surveillance of the citizenry is like handing a loaded gun to someone you know will use it.
It's a poorly understood fact that any unwanted facts can simply go "poof" if you scream LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over.
Will your unwanted fact that "any unwanted facts can simply go "poof" if you scream LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over" go "poof" if someone screams LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over?
Which came first, the LIBRUL or the unwanted fact?
it becomes interesting to consider the point at which the 'Eh, fuck it. Move the load to somewhere where the lights are still on until the utility guys figure it out.' theory of backup power becomes viable.
The answer mostly depends on the cost of downtime for you. The real problem is getting your (customer) data to the same place as your failover solution. Some websites generate enormous amounts of data and it's not trivial or cheap for them to constantly keep it backed up at another data center. A station wagon full of hard drives is still faster than any link 99% of us could afford
We need to invest trillions in roads, water, and electrical infrastructure to keep this country going. If you let the basic building blocks of civilization rot, don't be surprised when everything else follows suit.
Chinese gov's action is not about regulating markets. It is a communist gov. making sure that they remain in power. It is a gov. in a cold war with the west.
The difference between American Capitalism and Chinese Capitalism: In America, corporations lead the government around by the nose In China, the government leads corporations around by the nose
We can debate whether that is better or not, but it's hard to argue that China's methods are not effective.
If the copyright industry is allowed to hijack our system, the answer should be to make a new Internet.
The content industry did not hijack the internet, they've hijacked the last mile service providers. That's the main choke point and that's where most of the money gets spent in start up infrastructure costs.
Your choices are to either 'hide' from the last mile with proxies/VPNs/darknets or pick a service provider who isn't part of the **AA's plan. /Or build your own national ISP.
If you don't login from time to time, hotmail (and gmail for that matter) will lock and eventually delete your account.
Fun Fact: Most people don't bother to clean up their digital refuse. So if you're looking for ways to pass the time, check and see if anyone you know has allowed their hotmail account to lapse. Then re-register it and do a password reset on any website you think they had an account with. Bonus points if you get hits from dating websites or livejournal.
The AP1000 is a Gen III reactor and has serious flaws Here's a PDF documenting the flaws And a long video that goes over some of the details and some of the politics: http://vimeo.com/31897709 I remember this from another/. thread about nuclear power
Politics and money are going to push through designs we know are not safe. I hope the Chinese companies designing their own Gen III reactors can do better than Westinghouse.
High-Value is either created through supply and demand or the backing of a sufficiently stable government. BitCoin is a good example of the yo-yo-ing you get from a lack of consistent demand and a lack of backing from anyone.
I chatted with some guys on an FPGA forum about this. They were convinced that HFT was good, as it increased the liquidity of the market.
You can increase liquidity without siphoning billions from the market.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit... Or maybe they're unaware that stock markets functioned before the invention of high frequency trading. I mean, JP Morgan and friends were "market makers" back when trades were sent out ticker tapes. They certainly didn't need racks of servers running custom code to provide liquidity back then.
it is pure, unrestrained capitalism. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, if you look at the history of capitalism, this will probably end with the USA invading another country over the price of bananas. Monkey business I tell you, it's all monkey business.
I agree and would like to see the minimum hold time on stocks set at 30 days or a change in valuation of 10% or greater whichever occurs first. Then the stock flipping parasites could go to Las Vegas to do their gambling and the stock market would once again be only for investors.
No offense, but this is a dumb idea and would break the stock market.
There are plenty of reasonable proposals to neuter the effects of high frequency trading without cluster bombing the entire exchange system. Most of the proposals are technical and not immediately obvious to someone who doesn't understand the market mechanics, but we're talking millisecond to microsecond solutions here, not days or hours or even seconds.
There are definitely rich people who make a lot less money now that HFT lowers *some* transaction costs. It's therefore worth picking apart the messenger's credentials a bit.
Lets say you're at the supermarket. You reach out your hand to take [product] off the shelf, by the time you reach out to take another [product], the shelf is empty!
A HFT saw your first signal and then swept the shelf clean, bought all of [product], and is offering to sell [product] to you at a markup. Oh, and the HFT has done the same thing at every other supermarket you would visit.
Has the market been made more efficient? Or is the HFT behaving like an anti-social asshole? I'd say the answer to both questions is "yes," but that the needs of society outweighs the needs of the market, which is why we have farking regulations in the first place.
The fact that we're still talking about this years later is not a good thing. The only thing HFTers do is to sneak in between a mismatched sell and buy order so that they can steal pennies.
The stock market got along fine without high frequency trading and there's absolutely no reason to hang onto it now,
except that it profits a bunch of 1%-ers on Wall Street and their lobbyists.
Maybe the AC is not aware that the Supreme Court has only ever recognized limited constitutional protection for commercial speech. I wonder if AC is signed up for the National Do Not Call Registry.
This exact same line of reasoning has been used to support the notion that there are certain words you can never say on television.
The FCC exists because 100+ years ago, assclowns with radios were making false distress calls, cursing at people on the airwaves, and faking naval messages. In 1912, power to regulate the airwaves was given to the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor In 1927 it was handed over to the newly created Federal Radio Commission and in 1934 it was handed over to the newly created Federal Communications Commission
/Early regulation of the airwaves is a textbook example of regulatory capture.
We do not yet have the technology to support an economic system that is better than Capitalism.
Really!? We have an economic system right now that is better than Capitalism. Maybe you've just never heard of a "mixed market economy"? A mixed market is what you get when laissez faire capitalism is tempered with regulation and social supports.
The truth is that naked capitalism signed its own death warrant over a 100 years ago as a result of its excesses. The "good old days" of banking panics, raw industrial runoff in your drinking water, monopolies, child labor, unsafe working conditions, starvation wages, etc etc etc are thankfully gone. Anyone who wants that back is an idiot.
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In other words, the outbreak allegedly was kept secret to protect the homeless from being ostracized. But the Slashdot-linked story only mentions the first paragraph, implying that Republicans had suppressed the information about these cases because it only affected an underclass. That may end up being true, but it's not a given from the original story.
TFA said:
[Duval County health officials] spoke about CDC's report Friday, only after weeks of records requests from The Palm Beach Post. The report was released late last week only after a reporter traveled to Tallahassee to demand records in person. The records should be open to inspection to anyone upon request under Florida Statute 119, known as the Government in the Sunshine law.
There's a different between not-publicizing an outbreak and actively-keeping-it-secret
Sometimes the facts speak for themselves.
Dotcom railed against the handling of the United States' legal case against him and a New Zealand court's decision to delay his scheduled Aug. 6 extradition hearing to a tentative date of March 25, 2013, saying that the U.S. government -- with help from authorities in New Zealand -- is using "dirty delay tactics instead of evidence."
Ongoing legal arguments over the legality of the evidence led to the delay of the extradition hearing, with both prosecutors and Dotcom's attorneys agreeing to the postponement, which was revealed in legal documents released on Monday.
So which is it?
The US Government is jerking him around or his attorneys agreed to the delay?
that's decades or centuries to replace infrastructure.
It takes decades to find the cash and political will to replace infrastructure.
Actually building infrastructure takes years at most.
This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car.
The ECU/ECM controls all engine functions. If it doesn't give the go ahead, your car won't run, no matter how many wires are cut apart or spliced together.
You don't hotwire modern cars.
Dear President Obama,
Fuck You.
Boy are you going to be surprised when you read the rest of the stuff in the National Emergencies Act and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
I suggest you start handing out "Fuck You"s to Richard Nixon
(his abuse of the law is the reason our first Emergencies Act was passed)
and then work you way up through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr.
Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over until everyone is selling at cost
This is what free market theory predicts (cost + normal profit). This is a good thing for buyers.
and all but a couple players eventually have to shut down because they can't afford to run a profitless business forever, whereupon the few remaining players can finally raise prices ... isn't effectively collusion or a market distortion.
This is what happens in real life. This is not a good thing for buyers.
It's what we had 100+ years ago and regulating that anti-competitive behavior was considered "market reform"
Nowadays, removing regulations on anti-competitive behavior is considered "market reform"
How did we get here?
Proper Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/us/cell-carriers-see-uptick-in-requests-to-aid-surveillance.html?pagewanted=all
Just an FYI, a "citizen's arrest" is limited to essentially yelling "hey, stop!". No use of force, not even grabbing by the arm. No handcuffs, no restraints, nothing. So no, it is not at all the same thing.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
The concept of Citizen's Arrest (as we know it) was first written down ~800 years ago in the Magna Carta.
The laws on Citizen's Arrests are far from homogenous, but the one consistent rule is that if you witness a felony, you can stop it with reasonable force.
That includes stating "you are under arrest", grabbing by the arm, punching in the head, restraints, or pursuing as needed.
The rules regarding CAs for misdemeanors and breaches of the peace depend on your local or state laws.
The downside to citizen's arrests is that, if you're wrong, you are held to a strict liability for your actions.
Grabbing an arm can become assault, battery, false imprisonment, wrongful arrest, &/or kidnapping.
But just to be clear: you can use force during Citizen's Arrests if it's necessary.
Or rather, the product is still produced in mass, but in many small fabs or even on the desktop, as opposed to requiring a single massive factory in China. It's distributed production.
And who's going to buy up the output of this distributed production?
There is going to be serious resistance from stores and distributors because they need consistency and efficiency.
The current model of factories and distribution hubs has fallen into place because it's what works best so far.
I think it's possible to make every home a factory, I just don't think the transition will be quick or painless.
You wouldn't give a gun to someone you know is going to shoot you with it,
then claim their desire to kill you is a social problem,
and that being anti-gun is luddism.
Enabling mass tracking and surveillance of the citizenry is like handing a loaded gun to someone you know will use it.
It's a poorly understood fact that any unwanted facts can simply go "poof" if you scream LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over.
Will your unwanted fact that "any unwanted facts can simply go "poof" if you scream LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over" go "poof" if someone screams LIBURAL LIBURAL LIBURAL over and over?
Which came first, the LIBRUL or the unwanted fact?
it becomes interesting to consider the point at which the 'Eh, fuck it. Move the load to somewhere where the lights are still on until the utility guys figure it out.' theory of backup power becomes viable.
The answer mostly depends on the cost of downtime for you.
The real problem is getting your (customer) data to the same place as your failover solution.
Some websites generate enormous amounts of data and it's not trivial or cheap for them to constantly keep it backed up at another data center.
A station wagon full of hard drives is still faster than any link 99% of us could afford
We need to invest trillions in roads, water, and electrical infrastructure to keep this country going.
If you let the basic building blocks of civilization rot, don't be surprised when everything else follows suit.
Chinese gov's action is not about regulating markets. It is a communist gov. making sure that they remain in power. It is a gov. in a cold war with the west.
The difference between American Capitalism and Chinese Capitalism:
In America, corporations lead the government around by the nose
In China, the government leads corporations around by the nose
We can debate whether that is better or not, but it's hard to argue that China's methods are not effective.
If the copyright industry is allowed to hijack our system, the answer should be to make a new Internet.
The content industry did not hijack the internet, they've hijacked the last mile service providers.
That's the main choke point and that's where most of the money gets spent in start up infrastructure costs.
Your choices are to either 'hide' from the last mile with proxies/VPNs/darknets or pick a service provider who isn't part of the **AA's plan.
/Or build your own national ISP.
If you don't login from time to time, hotmail (and gmail for that matter) will lock and eventually delete your account.
Fun Fact: Most people don't bother to clean up their digital refuse.
So if you're looking for ways to pass the time, check and see if anyone you know has allowed their hotmail account to lapse.
Then re-register it and do a password reset on any website you think they had an account with.
Bonus points if you get hits from dating websites or livejournal.
The AP1000 is a Gen III reactor and has serious flaws /. thread about nuclear power
Here's a PDF documenting the flaws
And a long video that goes over some of the details and some of the politics: http://vimeo.com/31897709
I remember this from another
Politics and money are going to push through designs we know are not safe.
I hope the Chinese companies designing their own Gen III reactors can do better than Westinghouse.
High-Value is either created through supply and demand or the backing of a sufficiently stable government.
BitCoin is a good example of the yo-yo-ing you get from a lack of consistent demand and a lack of backing from anyone.
I chatted with some guys on an FPGA forum about this. They were convinced that HFT was good, as it increased the liquidity of the market.
You can increase liquidity without siphoning billions from the market.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit...
Or maybe they're unaware that stock markets functioned before the invention of high frequency trading.
I mean, JP Morgan and friends were "market makers" back when trades were sent out ticker tapes.
They certainly didn't need racks of servers running custom code to provide liquidity back then.
it is pure, unrestrained capitalism. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, if you look at the history of capitalism,
this will probably end with the USA invading another country over the price of bananas.
Monkey business I tell you, it's all monkey business.
I agree and would like to see the minimum hold time on stocks set at 30 days or a change in valuation of 10% or greater whichever occurs first. Then the stock flipping parasites could go to Las Vegas to do their gambling and the stock market would once again be only for investors.
No offense, but this is a dumb idea and would break the stock market.
There are plenty of reasonable proposals to neuter the effects of high frequency trading without cluster bombing the entire exchange system.
Most of the proposals are technical and not immediately obvious to someone who doesn't understand the market mechanics,
but we're talking millisecond to microsecond solutions here, not days or hours or even seconds.
There are definitely rich people who make a lot less money now that HFT lowers *some* transaction costs. It's therefore worth picking apart the messenger's credentials a bit.
Lowers transaction costs? Which ones!?
Two years and two days ago I used this analogy to describe HFT
Lets say you're at the supermarket.
You reach out your hand to take [product] off the shelf,
by the time you reach out to take another [product], the shelf is empty!
A HFT saw your first signal and then swept the shelf clean,
bought all of [product], and is offering to sell [product] to you at a markup.
Oh, and the HFT has done the same thing at every other supermarket you would visit.
Has the market been made more efficient?
Or is the HFT behaving like an anti-social asshole?
I'd say the answer to both questions is "yes,"
but that the needs of society outweighs the needs of the market,
which is why we have farking regulations in the first place.
The fact that we're still talking about this years later is not a good thing.
The only thing HFTers do is to sneak in between a mismatched sell and buy order so that they can steal pennies.
The stock market got along fine without high frequency trading and there's absolutely no reason to hang onto it now,
except that it profits a bunch of 1%-ers on Wall Street and their lobbyists.
Maybe the AC is not aware that the Supreme Court has only ever recognized limited constitutional protection for commercial speech.
I wonder if AC is signed up for the National Do Not Call Registry.
This exact same line of reasoning has been used to support the notion that there are certain words you can never say on television.
The FCC exists because 100+ years ago, assclowns with radios were making false distress calls, cursing at people on the airwaves, and faking naval messages.
In 1912, power to regulate the airwaves was given to the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor
In 1927 it was handed over to the newly created Federal Radio Commission and
in 1934 it was handed over to the newly created Federal Communications Commission
/Early regulation of the airwaves is a textbook example of regulatory capture.
We do not yet have the technology to support an economic system that is better than Capitalism.
Really!? We have an economic system right now that is better than Capitalism.
Maybe you've just never heard of a "mixed market economy"?
A mixed market is what you get when laissez faire capitalism is tempered with regulation and social supports.
The truth is that naked capitalism signed its own death warrant over a 100 years ago as a result of its excesses.
The "good old days" of banking panics, raw industrial runoff in your drinking water, monopolies, child labor,
unsafe working conditions, starvation wages, etc etc etc are thankfully gone. Anyone who wants that back is an idiot.