This raid looks pretty outrageous. The court is probably the least politicized and most appropriate agency to take control until the situation can be resolved. The silver lining to this is that it is so outrageous that it may finally get that madman Arpaio removed from office.
Don't count on that. Ol' Joe's survived many attempts to remove him from office.
What I'm wondering is, will Hendershott be sentenced to one of Joe's tent cities, or will they give him one of the many vacant air conditioned cells in the 'real' Maricopa County jail, the one that Joe refuses to use? Personally, I'd vote for tent city...
This probably has something to do with the fact that he actually has his people enforcing the law, and doesn't waste money coddling criminals. Given the amount of ridiculous benefits we see in most prisons in the US that make prison a "no-brainer" for large numbers of people (see here: people actually trying to get themselves thrown in jail), I'd say I like the idea of making prison as unpalatable a concept as possible.
He gets a certain cash amount from the Feds per prisoner to keep them in his 'jails', a bunch of tent cities, population over 4,000. He spends the absolute minimum on these and runs them in a manner consistent with German concentration camps (without the poison gas showers; he doesn't want to kill his prisoners, he wants the money from it), thus creating a cash surplus he uses to make sure his department has enough weapons to take over a Third World country. You can get thrown into one of his 'jails' by having a couple outstanding parking tickets, or defaulting on your child support payments.
As a resident of Arizona, he makes me ashamed to live here.
if we count the alien intelligences that have likely been, and will be, entertained, for free.
Interesting thought there. Maybe RIAA should start funding some advanced research projects designed to break the lightspeed barrier so they can go sue ET. Secondary fallout of course would be to open up the stars for the rest of us. Maybe. Unless of course they hold the patents and copyrights on these FTL designs and keep them for themselves.
You mean like nap-of-the-earth flying practiced by military pilots in their jets? I don't know if they go as fast as "a few meters per second", but I hear they go a couple hundred miles per hour. I also hear it is quite an awesome sight to have a few scream by 100 feet overhead, and considering how few prang while doing this it sounds like it's safe to be on the ground underneath.
You mean, as slow as a few meters per second. 3 meters per sec is only 10.8km/hr. You could jog faster than that. Now for a full sized plane to be able to do that, it'd be tricky. 10.8 kph is WAY below stall speed for most planes I've heard of...
TFA: "Because unmanned aircraft have never routinely operated in the national airspace system, the level of public acceptance is unknown. One researcher observed that as unmanned aircraft expand into the non-defense sector, there will inevitably be public debate over the need for and motives behind such proliferation."
I'm wondering why there's a need for drones to interfly commercial airspace here in the US, especially when that blog also had an article about the Air Force wanting to give drones enough machine intelligence to decide for itself whether deadly force is warranted. What could possibly go wrong with that? Are the new drones gonna be used in the much-publicised 'War' On Drugs or something?
Seems every couple of weeks some timeserver leaves his laptop on a train with 300 million records on it. Don't think that'll happen with your medical records? Why is nobody talking about this?
I don't know what a timeserver is, but I do know the govt. agency I am familiar with is now mandating full disk encryption with machine-generated passwords for all mobile storage, including laptops and memory sticks, which is certainly a good idea.
So how you gonna remember a random string of characters to unencrypt your disk? And will there be a central password repository to unlock everything 'if needed'? I'm loving the potential for abuse here...
Social Security benefits are paid regardless of where you live, which might be a country that can't/won't extradite you back to the U.S.
And for those, there's the American Plan to get them back home again, if they're considered a big enough pain in the ass to the Feds to go get them. What could possibly go wrong?
I plan on creating a bee suit to let 300 pound people fly.
Oh, good. I think that has a MUCH better chance of happening then our moving towards a hydrogen economy. The simple fact is, that hydrogen is actually WORSE than any other options. Even right now, current in production Batteries are already better than what hydrogen can or ever will do.
Mebbe so, but you still have to come up with a way to recharge those batteries. Mebbe hydrogen isn't the best solution, however, it can power a generator to recharge said batteries.
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act says employees must be paid for work performed off the clock, even if the work was voluntary.
At my employer many of the IT staff are expected to work "on the weekends" with no additional compensation. Especially if they are claimed to be managers. So in essence, my management claims that we're always "on the clock."
Thing is, managers are pretty much salaried. Problem with being salaried that I've run across is, they tend to want to work you like a rented mule. 40 hour work week? Hell, they'd make it a 40 hour work day if physics would co-operate with them. The couple times I broke down and took a salary, they acted like letting me get 8 hours sleep was a cardinal sin and would lead to the bankruptcy of the company. Needless to say, I bailed pretty damned quick.
Now, I don't mind working 80+ hour weeks if that's what it takes, but dammit, PAY me what it's worth.
But if the project took "months" (let's say 4) and was a week late, that means your original estimate was 8 months. At the very least, I'd fire a Project Manager who quoted me 8 months on a 4 month project.
I wouldn't. The 4 month figure is if everything fell into place as needed, just in time. The 8 month quote factors in the customer changing specs on you 3/4 of the way into the project, and allows you to clean up the user interface. 4 months to get it working, kinda, then 4 more months to get it 'right'. How often do your projects come in halfways thru the contract period? When I can show a finished project in 3/4th the time I bid on it, they hail me as a savior, and you better believe it that I tell them if they change specs on me 1/3 of the way in, it WILL affect the launch date.
That's all well and good until they bring you up on felony charges for blackmail and computer tampering. Is it worth it to never work in the field again and get stuck having to find 'real' jobs?
But what defines off-the-clock "work"? Say you have a project due in 3 weeks, but you need to learn a new system / language / technique for it. Now you can't seem to get to sleep for a couple of nights, so you decide to do a bit of online research. Since that research applies directly to an assigned project, is any learning you do off hours "billable"?
Should be considered billable. I had a gig about 15 years ago, doing support work for a telemarketting company using two different database methods: Paradox and Foxbase. I had a 5 hour coding session to fix a data transfer problem they were having (sneakernetting a couple floppies back & forth), wanted to make it 'secretary-proof', which I did at 4 AM one night, saved them 120 man-hours a week, and billed them for the 5 hours I spent at my place on my computer. Their beancounter disallowed it because I 'wasn't in the office' for it, thus, nobody saw me code the app. Within the week, I was out of there and on to the next project. About a year later, I was doing coffee with a buddy who'd started working for them a month before and he asked me about that code I wrote. I told him my experience, He told me a couple similar tales about them. Funny thing, he left them within a week, too...
Really? Because other articles (http://westcoastsuccess.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/shaw-cable-blocks-ieee1394-firewire-on-set-top-cable-boxes-again/) indicate that the US mandates Firewire remain unencrypted.
True enough. But Shaw Cable is a Canadian company providing service in Canada. And despite what some people might think, north of the Line, they really don't care much about what Washington thinks about things, they're much too busy keeping an eye on Ottawa.
This is almost like security theater; carrying things to absurd extremes. Once a place gets busted for selling alcohol to a minor, they're so paranoid they make the tinfoil hat guys look normal.
I used to work retail back in the day, and yeah, we sold cigarettes & beer. At the time, somebody'd just gotten sued for selling somebody 'enough' alcohol to put them way the hell over the legal limit, and when he got popped for DUI and convicted, his lawyer suggested suing the bar he was served at. He did so. And won. Then the state filed criminal charges (it was Yet Another Election Year for the Powers That Were), and won. Lost in the appeal, though, but had the DUI been a minor, it woulda stuck, and the bartender selling the alcohol woulda gone away for a bit. And of course, the Powers That Were used the case as 'proof' they were Tough On Crime and Wanted To Help The Widows And Kids, so they got re-elected.
So, don't you think our paranoia was justified when the county we were doing business in decided to Crack Down?
Even though the most visible part of Google's activities is the search, I believe the corporate entity (maybe not the brand) would very well survive the demise of their search activity.
I doubt that. If the Google search engine died, so would all their advertising revenue. Where else would they post their ads?
Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
Keep in mind that any loss of profit from Bing can go directly against the company's profit as a whole, as well as the entire cost of Bing being applied to Microsoft's advertising budget. For Microsoft, it's a win-win scenario. It's just The Next Step in its advertising campaign to maintain its market dominance.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
Or, more likely, given the present 'economic climate', that the economic viability and survival is more important than giving the consumers EVERYTHING they want. Keep in mind that Google is based on selling advertising, Microsoft is selling their own technology. Advertising a 'competing service' doesn't hurt Google much, they still get the page views. For Microsoft to advertise their competition, it's financial suicide, and liable to directly hurt them, sparking a possible stockholder's revolt.
The surprise isn't that Microsoft is doing it, but rather that cio.com is the one calling them on it--a site aimed at upper management. This isn't fanboy-complaining, but business-complaining, something that will hit acceptance of Bing in the corporate environment.
Definitely, since "Nobody ever got fired for specifying Microsoft", as the old saw goes.
Of course, this was before the big financial meltdown, so things might be a bit different now...
And what do you propose to do with all those corporate lawyers if companies simply acted sensibly and didn't default to litigation for everything? The unemployment rate is already sky-high, we don't need a wave of unemployable, irritable suits hitting the streets.
I'm thinking we hear enough from PETA about live animal testing. Replace the lab animals with l*wy*rs, and we have a win-win situation.
And not all the l*wy*rs, either. NYCL is a good guy, but 98% of his profession makes it bad for the rest.
The problem with health coverage in the US is not a lack of nationalization, it is a lack of putting the responsibility for the cost of the procedures with person receiving the procedures. Thus doctors are encouraged to over-test and prescribe the latest, most expensive drugs since "its free."
A lot of tests doctors order are CYA-induced. Their malpractice insurance demands they do due diligence in making a 'proper diagnosis' to cut the legs off any possible malpractice suit. So, you'll get tests for all kinds of weird stuff even though the doctor already knows it's not the problem so that they can show in court that they ran the tests to rule it out.
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Don't count on that. Ol' Joe's survived many attempts to remove him from office.
What I'm wondering is, will Hendershott be sentenced to one of Joe's tent cities, or will they give him one of the many vacant air conditioned cells in the 'real' Maricopa County jail, the one that Joe refuses to use? Personally, I'd vote for tent city...
He gets a certain cash amount from the Feds per prisoner to keep them in his 'jails', a bunch of tent cities, population over 4,000. He spends the absolute minimum on these and runs them in a manner consistent with German concentration camps (without the poison gas showers; he doesn't want to kill his prisoners, he wants the money from it), thus creating a cash surplus he uses to make sure his department has enough weapons to take over a Third World country. You can get thrown into one of his 'jails' by having a couple outstanding parking tickets, or defaulting on your child support payments.
As a resident of Arizona, he makes me ashamed to live here.
Interesting thought there. Maybe RIAA should start funding some advanced research projects designed to break the lightspeed barrier so they can go sue ET. Secondary fallout of course would be to open up the stars for the rest of us. Maybe. Unless of course they hold the patents and copyrights on these FTL designs and keep them for themselves.
No, you lose your ham license if you have one. Broadcasting entertainment on ham frequencies is a violation of FCC rules.
Don't have a ham license? Face a major fine from the FCC as well as confiscation of your gear.
Or both, if you walk past a computer someday, and they think you just don't consume enough Britney Spears.
You mean, as slow as a few meters per second. 3 meters per sec is only 10.8km/hr. You could jog faster than that. Now for a full sized plane to be able to do that, it'd be tricky. 10.8 kph is WAY below stall speed for most planes I've heard of...
I'm wondering why there's a need for drones to interfly commercial airspace here in the US, especially when that blog also had an article about the Air Force wanting to give drones enough machine intelligence to decide for itself whether deadly force is warranted. What could possibly go wrong with that? Are the new drones gonna be used in the much-publicised 'War' On Drugs or something?
So how you gonna remember a random string of characters to unencrypt your disk? And will there be a central password repository to unlock everything 'if needed'? I'm loving the potential for abuse here...
And for those, there's the American Plan to get them back home again, if they're considered a big enough pain in the ass to the Feds to go get them. What could possibly go wrong?
Mebbe so, but you still have to come up with a way to recharge those batteries. Mebbe hydrogen isn't the best solution, however, it can power a generator to recharge said batteries.
Thing is, managers are pretty much salaried. Problem with being salaried that I've run across is, they tend to want to work you like a rented mule. 40 hour work week? Hell, they'd make it a 40 hour work day if physics would co-operate with them. The couple times I broke down and took a salary, they acted like letting me get 8 hours sleep was a cardinal sin and would lead to the bankruptcy of the company. Needless to say, I bailed pretty damned quick.
Now, I don't mind working 80+ hour weeks if that's what it takes, but dammit, PAY me what it's worth.
I wouldn't. The 4 month figure is if everything fell into place as needed, just in time. The 8 month quote factors in the customer changing specs on you 3/4 of the way into the project, and allows you to clean up the user interface. 4 months to get it working, kinda, then 4 more months to get it 'right'. How often do your projects come in halfways thru the contract period? When I can show a finished project in 3/4th the time I bid on it, they hail me as a savior, and you better believe it that I tell them if they change specs on me 1/3 of the way in, it WILL affect the launch date.
That's all well and good until they bring you up on felony charges for blackmail and computer tampering. Is it worth it to never work in the field again and get stuck having to find 'real' jobs?
Should be considered billable. I had a gig about 15 years ago, doing support work for a telemarketting company using two different database methods: Paradox and Foxbase. I had a 5 hour coding session to fix a data transfer problem they were having (sneakernetting a couple floppies back & forth), wanted to make it 'secretary-proof', which I did at 4 AM one night, saved them 120 man-hours a week, and billed them for the 5 hours I spent at my place on my computer. Their beancounter disallowed it because I 'wasn't in the office' for it, thus, nobody saw me code the app. Within the week, I was out of there and on to the next project. About a year later, I was doing coffee with a buddy who'd started working for them a month before and he asked me about that code I wrote. I told him my experience, He told me a couple similar tales about them. Funny thing, he left them within a week, too...
True enough. But Shaw Cable is a Canadian company providing service in Canada. And despite what some people might think, north of the Line, they really don't care much about what Washington thinks about things, they're much too busy keeping an eye on Ottawa.
Sure you can. Just write that into a binding contract that both parties agree to.
Screw that. Wait for the 64 bit model. Why play with dinosaur technology when you can go state of the art? :D
I used to work retail back in the day, and yeah, we sold cigarettes & beer. At the time, somebody'd just gotten sued for selling somebody 'enough' alcohol to put them way the hell over the legal limit, and when he got popped for DUI and convicted, his lawyer suggested suing the bar he was served at. He did so. And won. Then the state filed criminal charges (it was Yet Another Election Year for the Powers That Were), and won. Lost in the appeal, though, but had the DUI been a minor, it woulda stuck, and the bartender selling the alcohol woulda gone away for a bit. And of course, the Powers That Were used the case as 'proof' they were Tough On Crime and Wanted To Help The Widows And Kids, so they got re-elected.
So, don't you think our paranoia was justified when the county we were doing business in decided to Crack Down?
I doubt that. If the Google search engine died, so would all their advertising revenue. Where else would they post their ads?
Keep in mind that any loss of profit from Bing can go directly against the company's profit as a whole, as well as the entire cost of Bing being applied to Microsoft's advertising budget. For Microsoft, it's a win-win scenario. It's just The Next Step in its advertising campaign to maintain its market dominance.
Or, more likely, given the present 'economic climate', that the economic viability and survival is more important than giving the consumers EVERYTHING they want. Keep in mind that Google is based on selling advertising, Microsoft is selling their own technology. Advertising a 'competing service' doesn't hurt Google much, they still get the page views. For Microsoft to advertise their competition, it's financial suicide, and liable to directly hurt them, sparking a possible stockholder's revolt.
Definitely, since "Nobody ever got fired for specifying Microsoft", as the old saw goes.
Of course, this was before the big financial meltdown, so things might be a bit different now...
I'm thinking we hear enough from PETA about live animal testing. Replace the lab animals with l*wy*rs, and we have a win-win situation.
And not all the l*wy*rs, either. NYCL is a good guy, but 98% of his profession makes it bad for the rest.
If it's hot pink, it's probably bubblegum flavored. What, no preteen daughter/niece??
OS-X and Linux are user-friendly, they're just damned particular who they consider friends.
A lot of tests doctors order are CYA-induced. Their malpractice insurance demands they do due diligence in making a 'proper diagnosis' to cut the legs off any possible malpractice suit. So, you'll get tests for all kinds of weird stuff even though the doctor already knows it's not the problem so that they can show in court that they ran the tests to rule it out.