This is what competition between the States brings us. Corporate profits are up, wages are flat, and State tax revenues are down.
Just wait till property taxes get reassessed downward and State tax revenues plunge even further. It's hard to talk about this without sounding like a partisan, but that's only because one side of the debate wants these kinds of anti-social outcomes.
I was going to bring this up as well. Misinformation like "welfare is for minorities" exists only because certain groups are playing racial politics.
The majority of Americans on welfare benefits are white. The majority of Americans on medicaid are white.
Just so everyone understands this: As a percentage of their demographic, more minorities are using government support programs. As a percentage of the population, more white people are using government support programs.
Banks were faking/changing loan documents, lying to customers, and pushing customers into bad (but profitable) loans. All the regulation in the world won't help if there's no one enforcing the rules.
Once a significant percentage of the population becomes interested in measuring pieces of land for various purposes, people will start associating numbers to lines.
For an exceedingly long time, property was noted by landmarks (big tree, river/stream, hill, large rock, fence) The notion of formally measuring out property lines is surprisingly recent.
There are significant portions of various State borders which were officially deliniated by trees (which no longer exist) that had chunks hacked out. In the Old West, you could "stake your claim" by driving a stake, walking for a day, and driving another stake. And they certainly had the technology to properly survey these boundaries. It's existed since the 1500s. It's just that nobody was all that interested in taking the time to do it.
Do you ordinarily go out of your way just to correlate any kind of entirely coincidental absence of a minority with the implication of deliberate racism, or is this just a one-time thing?
Racism doesn't have to be deliberate.
And seeing how the sum total of the AC's comment was "How come everyone in the movie is white? Seriously." Maybe we need to ask why you think that comment implies that there is deliberate racism.
If you're interested, there are articles and studies done on the statistical under representation of women and minorities in media and how this is reflected in the final product.
It sounds like they made a large mistake. They asked a high touch user to evaluate something and when he had problems he blamed hotmail. I dont think anything that happened to him had much of anything to do with hotmail or windows 8.
Hotmail accounts have been notorious for getting compromised. It's reached the point where Hotmail has added a "this account has been hacked" choice when deciding what you want to do with an e-mail.
Mark as -Unread -Read -Flagged -Unflagged -Phishing scam -My friend's been hacked!
An asteroid is headed directly for Earth, every person is going to be affected in the same way therefore every person is equally responsible for dealing with it. There will be no "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others" here.
Sound like someone didn't put their survival bunker at the bottom of a mine shaft.
you only have 5GB of porn? damn, guess im perverted one:-P
He probably has the exact same number of files as you, but all the videos have been downconverted to postage stamp sized real media files. I mean, haven't you ever looked at a girl and wished she was slightly more... pixelated?
Ideally journals themselves would be replaced with a decentralized Web based system where anyone can publish and peers can freely review all the articles.
The tragedy of the commons is that everyone wants to publish and no one wants to review. And not everyone is qualified to review (or publish for that matter)
but nowhere is there proof or even a suggestion of proof for the statement.
Did you get to the 4th sentence in TFA?
For example, Internet domain registries show the website TomVandenBrook.com was created Jan. 7 -- just days after Pentagon reporter Tom Vanden Brook first contacted Pentagon contractors involved in the program. Two weeks after his editor Ray Locker's byline appeared on a story, someone created a similar site, RayLocker.com, through the same company.
Or how about the 7th and 8th sentences where it is explained that the military talked to the contractors and some of the websites were taken offline "following those inquiries."
"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'" -xkcd
Does that mean they shouldn't have rights? I hate racists, but I would still defend their right to free speech.
Rand would not support unions' rights. She would actively oppose their existence.
And she thought Communist ideology was evil. Like... her whole ideology was formed as a counterpoint to Soviet communisim. I'm not sure where I was going with that point, but I doubt she'd have kicked up much of a fuss if anyone collectively went after the communists.
The moral of this story is twofold: 1. Randian philosophy isn't very useful as a governing ideology and 2: you shouldn't mix your aphorisms.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
I believe this statement ignores the possibility that the individual may be discriminated against for traits they share with other individuals who, collectively, do not make up a plurality or simple majority of the population.
That or it's a logically necessary starting point for Randian philosphy to work. I'm inclined to suspect it's the latter, since Randian philosophy is full of assumptions that don't quite match the reality of human behavior.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Didn't Rand hate unions and think Communists were evil?
The problem isn't the rich, or corporations, that's just a red herring thrown at you by the REAL problem: The Democrat and Republican parties. The left blame the rich, the right blame the media. None of it is true. The laws are passed by 2 political parties that have the same goal: Power
Which party is trying to enact consumer protection laws, regulations to protect home buyers, regulations to reign in bank fraud? Which party passes laws protecting the rights of women and minorities or makes environmental protection a priority? I could go on and on, listing substantial policy differences between the Democratic and Republican parties.
I accept that both parties want power, but it seems like only one party even pretends to have a token interest in using the least bit of that power to protect my interests in even the most minimal of ways.
Great, now we're going to have an asteroid arms race. The U.S. and India will be threatening to crush Germany with a huge rock if it doesn't capitulate to their demands and cease "construction" of its own "weapon of mass destruction" aka their own huge orbiting rock.
I really wish these search companies would go back to their roots and provide bare metal search results. Stop geo/mood/intelligence filtering the results for me.
Especially the geographic results. If I want results for my location, I'll include it in the search.
Big cities have smog because of inversion layers (caused by the heat of a city). All it takes is a stiff wind or a storm to blow off the inversion layer and let the smog out. The pollution in LA is entirely an artifact of urban development and the mountain range nearby.
I'd argue that roads are slightly more of a basic necessity. And that's a national priority, not just an accident due to a mistake in one government building.
His point is that the actual regulators--the government people--were just as corrupt as the people doing the drilling in this case. What legislation should be passed by the government to prevent government corruption? Anti-corruption laws? Those exist.
Oversight. Fund the goddamn auditors instead of assuming everything will be hunky dory. Yes, this costs money. No, it does not cost more than the accidents it will prevent. Fuck you* for trying to defund them because if they've done their job, reduced accidents, and now they seem to be a waste of money.
*you know who you are. if you have to ask, then it's probably you.
Pretty much all the important policymakers have signed on to the fact climate change is occurring -- [...], it's hard to argue that climate change _isn't_ being taken seriously by the establishment.
You're making a common mistake in equating "policy makers" with "the establishment" As it turns out, we the people are actually important policy makers as well.
Just because "the establishment" frequently ignores us when they decide what to do, does not meant our opinions are irrelevant. If anything, it means that policy is made without all the relevant inputs to ensure a proper balance of outcomes.
Sometimes the country has to drag the naysayers along, kicking and screaming, but you can't ignore them because (you think) they're wrong. See: SOPA/PIPA or desegregation for more context
Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're lying. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.
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This is what competition between the States brings us.
Corporate profits are up, wages are flat, and State tax revenues are down.
Just wait till property taxes get reassessed downward and State tax revenues plunge even further.
It's hard to talk about this without sounding like a partisan, but that's only because one side of the debate wants these kinds of anti-social outcomes.
"STALL, STALL, STALL" can be issued by this aircraft even when the aircraft is not stalling, and has no possibility of stalling.
Is that a bug or a feature?
You're ignorant. If you're poor they call it EBT,
I was going to bring this up as well.
Misinformation like "welfare is for minorities" exists only because certain groups are playing racial politics.
The majority of Americans on welfare benefits are white.
The majority of Americans on medicaid are white.
Just so everyone understands this:
As a percentage of their demographic, more minorities are using government support programs.
As a percentage of the population, more white people are using government support programs.
Deregulation, not models, permitted bad behavior.
Banks were faking/changing loan documents, lying to customers, and pushing customers into bad (but profitable) loans.
All the regulation in the world won't help if there's no one enforcing the rules.
Once a significant percentage of the population becomes interested in measuring pieces of land for various purposes, people will start associating numbers to lines.
For an exceedingly long time, property was noted by landmarks (big tree, river/stream, hill, large rock, fence)
The notion of formally measuring out property lines is surprisingly recent.
There are significant portions of various State borders which were officially deliniated by trees (which no longer exist) that had chunks hacked out.
In the Old West, you could "stake your claim" by driving a stake, walking for a day, and driving another stake.
And they certainly had the technology to properly survey these boundaries. It's existed since the 1500s.
It's just that nobody was all that interested in taking the time to do it.
Do you ordinarily go out of your way just to correlate any kind of entirely coincidental absence of a minority with the implication of deliberate racism, or is this just a one-time thing?
Racism doesn't have to be deliberate.
And seeing how the sum total of the AC's comment was "How come everyone in the movie is white? Seriously."
Maybe we need to ask why you think that comment implies that there is deliberate racism.
If you're interested, there are articles and studies done on the statistical under representation of women and minorities in media and how this is reflected in the final product.
It sounds like they made a large mistake. They asked a high touch user to evaluate something and when he had problems he blamed hotmail. I dont think anything that happened to him had much of anything to do with hotmail or windows 8.
Hotmail accounts have been notorious for getting compromised.
It's reached the point where Hotmail has added a "this account has been hacked" choice when deciding what you want to do with an e-mail.
Mark as
-Unread
-Read
-Flagged
-Unflagged
-Phishing scam
-My friend's been hacked!
An asteroid is headed directly for Earth, every person is going to be affected in the same way therefore every person is equally responsible for dealing with it. There will be no "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others" here.
Sound like someone didn't put their survival bunker at the bottom of a mine shaft.
you only have 5GB of porn? damn, guess im perverted one :-P
He probably has the exact same number of files as you, but all the videos have been downconverted to postage stamp sized real media files.
I mean, haven't you ever looked at a girl and wished she was slightly more... pixelated?
Ideally journals themselves would be replaced with a decentralized Web based system where anyone can publish and peers can freely review all the articles.
The tragedy of the commons is that everyone wants to publish and no one wants to review.
And not everyone is qualified to review (or publish for that matter)
Versions count against your storage, trash counts against your storage, Google Docs files do not, shared files do not.
So I can share my 10GB truecrypt file without it counting against any storage limit?
but nowhere is there proof or even a suggestion of proof for the statement.
Did you get to the 4th sentence in TFA?
For example, Internet domain registries show the website TomVandenBrook.com was created Jan. 7 -- just days after Pentagon reporter Tom Vanden Brook first contacted Pentagon contractors involved in the program. Two weeks after his editor Ray Locker's byline appeared on a story, someone created a similar site, RayLocker.com, through the same company.
Or how about the 7th and 8th sentences where it is explained that the military talked to the contractors and some of the websites were taken offline "following those inquiries."
"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'"
-xkcd
The main problem here may be ignorance.
The main problem here may be WordPress.
It didn't have to be OSX malware, they could have targeted any operating system.
Does that mean they shouldn't have rights? I hate racists, but I would still defend their right to free speech.
Rand would not support unions' rights.
She would actively oppose their existence.
And she thought Communist ideology was evil.
Like... her whole ideology was formed as a counterpoint to Soviet communisim.
I'm not sure where I was going with that point, but I doubt she'd have kicked up much of a fuss if anyone collectively went after the communists.
The moral of this story is twofold:
1. Randian philosophy isn't very useful as a governing ideology and
2: you shouldn't mix your aphorisms.
Did investors take a 'haircut'? Then it's a default, no matter what else you want to call it. They couldn't pay their bills and needed to restructure.
No.
A negotiated restructuring is not the same as a default.
No matter how you slice it or play at words, it isn't the same.
That said, what the Greeks did was a defacto orderly default.
But because they got everyone on board, they don't have to call it one.
Greece is the perfect example of:
"If someone owes you $10 bucks, they have a problem. If someone owes you $1,000,000,000 you have a problem."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
Those who deny individual rights cannot
claim to be defenders of minorities."
- Ayn Rand
I believe this statement ignores the possibility that the individual may be discriminated against for traits they share with other individuals who, collectively, do not make up a plurality or simple majority of the population.
That or it's a logically necessary starting point for Randian philosphy to work.
I'm inclined to suspect it's the latter, since Randian philosophy is full of assumptions that don't quite match the reality of human behavior.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Didn't Rand hate unions and think Communists were evil?
The problem isn't the rich, or corporations, that's just a red herring thrown at you by the REAL problem: The Democrat and Republican parties. The left blame the rich, the right blame the media. None of it is true. The laws are passed by 2 political parties that have the same goal: Power
Which party is trying to enact consumer protection laws, regulations to protect home buyers, regulations to reign in bank fraud?
Which party passes laws protecting the rights of women and minorities or makes environmental protection a priority?
I could go on and on, listing substantial policy differences between the Democratic and Republican parties.
I accept that both parties want power, but it seems like only one party even pretends to have a token interest in using the least bit of that power to protect my interests in even the most minimal of ways.
Great, now we're going to have an asteroid arms race. The U.S. and India will be threatening to crush Germany with a huge rock if it doesn't capitulate to their demands and cease "construction" of its own "weapon of mass destruction" aka their own huge orbiting rock.
I can see it now: UN Inspectornauts
I really wish these search companies would go back to their roots and provide bare metal search results.
Stop geo/mood/intelligence filtering the results for me.
Especially the geographic results. If I want results for my location, I'll include it in the search.
Big cities have smog because of inversion layers (caused by the heat of a city).
All it takes is a stiff wind or a storm to blow off the inversion layer and let the smog out.
The pollution in LA is entirely an artifact of urban development and the mountain range nearby.
I'd argue that roads are slightly more of a basic necessity.
And that's a national priority, not just an accident due to a mistake in one government building.
I was hoping this was the CERN Insider Guide to Threats and would have handy tips like "always keep a crowbar handy" or "don't trust the guys in suits
His point is that the actual regulators--the government people--were just as corrupt as the people doing the drilling in this case. What legislation should be passed by the government to prevent government corruption? Anti-corruption laws? Those exist.
Oversight.
Fund the goddamn auditors instead of assuming everything will be hunky dory.
Yes, this costs money. No, it does not cost more than the accidents it will prevent.
Fuck you* for trying to defund them because if they've done their job, reduced accidents, and now they seem to be a waste of money.
*you know who you are. if you have to ask, then it's probably you.
Pretty much all the important policymakers have signed on to the fact climate change is occurring -- [...],
it's hard to argue that climate change _isn't_ being taken seriously by the establishment.
You're making a common mistake in equating "policy makers" with "the establishment"
As it turns out, we the people are actually important policy makers as well.
Just because "the establishment" frequently ignores us when they decide what to do, does not meant our opinions are irrelevant.
If anything, it means that policy is made without all the relevant inputs to ensure a proper balance of outcomes.
Sometimes the country has to drag the naysayers along, kicking and screaming, but you can't ignore them because (you think) they're wrong.
See: SOPA/PIPA or desegregation for more context
I'm going to quote an old post from the "DMCA Abuse Widespread" article: