The Federal Election Commission has no record of Phil Falcone, a registered Republican, nor LightSquared Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja of having ever contributed to President Obama’s political campaigns.
Among the issues being raised is if political contributors received favorable treatment by the Obama administration. Since 2007, a key investor in LightSquared, Phil Falcone, has donated $85,500 to Republicans and $50,500 to Democrats.
Not what I'd call a "huge donor for the Democratic Party".
Tens of millions of people don't have pensions or 401k, what's your plan for them? Let them work until they die? The young are taking care of the old and in turn we hope we will get the same dignity. Or I suppose we could go back to the good old days and let the elderly spending their golden years freezing to death under a bridge.
Sorry that wasn't all necessarily directed at you. My original point before I started ranting was that the amount of money that we "give" to the old and poor is not much at all, relatively. It all depends on how you define "give", I guess.
Another myth is that the social security you get is what paid for. The system completely doesn't work that way - your taxes pay for your parents and grandparents. Your kids and grandkids pay for you. Any "getting out what you paid in" in a comforting illusion - it's not a 401k, no money is saved or invested any more, the government spends every cent instantly these days (and would you ever expect them to do otherwise?!).
But that doesn't change the fact that we are taxed specifically to pay for social security. Any problems with social security have nothing to do with the people putting the money in, you can't blame socialism and handouts for the poor for giving people something they specifically paid for. It's not socialism, it's not for the poor, and it's not a handout.
I think SS *should* work like a 401k, but the pigs in DC would never be able to resist trillions of dollars just sitting there when there are wars we could be fighting.
We give 100% of federal revenue to the old and the poor these days.
Bullshit, all the cries of socialism and handouts for the lazy, criminal, and brown people are a charade to keep the crooks in power so they can continue to rob you while you blame socialism. A scheme that works quite well, apparently, so well that millions of people blame a guy who sleeps in an alley for their stolen wallet and take up arms to defend the billionaire who actually stole it, even sending more money to his campaign fund.
Welfare for the poor: $191 billion Tax breaks and loopholes: $1 trillion Welfare for millionaires: bailouts, corporate welfare, no-bid contracts, war profiteers: $trillions
So go on being so focused on boogeymen like socialism, sharia law, and global warming denial that you're oblivious to the real crimes, corruption and waste plaguing this shithole we absurdly proclaim "the greatest country on earth", you're following the script to a tee.
I haven't seen any indication anywhere that Google has anything at all to do with Carrier IQ. It is your service provider who put it there, and it is your service provider who is collecting the data. TFA even clearly states that this is not unique to Android devices.
It is certainly possible to work 80 or even 100 hours a week and be productive. I have done it many times, the key is to have 1) a clear goal 2) an end in sight 3) pride and passion about what you're doing. It doesn't sound like the Zynga employees have any of that, expecting that level indefinitely is just asking for crashing morale and productivity.
Why don't you explain why Valve should take it upon themselves to be the video game police and demand their competitors lower their prices and change their release strategies.
(If you look at the date on the document I just linked to, you'll notice that this was all published in February, which makes it remarkable that so many journalists happened to leap on this story at the same time, completely independently of each other, without anyone copying what anyone else did or churnalizing each other in any way whatsoever).
So what about the actual claim? Well you can read the EU's ruling here (PDF), and the first thing to note is that this isn't really a rule so much as a piece of advice, which member states are free to interpret as they wish.
...The specific health claim tested is outlined in the ruling:
The regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance.
The claim wasn't submitted for a genuine product, but was created as a deliberate 'test' exercise by the two professors, who were apparently already unhappy with the European Food Standards Authority. The panel were well aware of it's absurdity too, noting drily that "the proposed risk factors," the conditions addressed by the hypothetical product, in this case water loss, "are measures or water depletion and thus are measures of the disease (dehydration)."
Leaving that aside, there are two major problems with the claim: drinking water doesn't prevent dehydration, and drinking-water doesn't prevent dehydration.
Firstly, "regular consumption" of water doesn't reduce the risk of dehydration any more than eating a pork pie a day reduces the risk of starvation. If I drink half a pint of bottled water while running through a desert in the blistering sun, I'll still end up dehydrated, and if I drink several bottles today, that won't prevent me from dehydrating tomorrow. The key is to drink enough water when you need it, and you're not going to get that from any bottled water product unless it's mounted on a drip.
Secondly, dehydration doesn't just mean a lack of water, or 'being thirsty'; electrolytes like sodium are important too. If salt levels fall too far, the body struggles to regulate fluid levels in the first place. That's why hospitals use saline drips to prevent dehydration in patients who can't take fluids orally, and why people with diarhhoea are treated with salt-containing oral rehydration fluids. Presumably the next big investigation at the Express will expose the shocking waste of NHS money on needless quantities of saline solution, when jolly old tap water would work just as well.
So the ruling seems pretty sensible to me, or at least as sensible as a ruling can be when the claim being tested is vexatious in the first place. It's accurate advice, and it prevents companies selling bottled water from making exaggerated claims for their products, which is a good thing. They even have the support of the British Soft Drinks Association, who tweeted just as this piece was going live with the following statement:
The European Food Safety Authority has been asked to rule on several ways of wording the statement that drinking water is good for hydration and therefore good for health. It rejected some wordings on technicalities, but it has supported claims that drinking water is good for normal physical and cognitive functions and normal thermoregulation.
It's also an great opportunity to challenge received wisdom, and to make the point that keeping the human body hydrated is about much more than just drinking tap water when you're thirsty. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of journalists are more interested in promoting second-hand hysteria than informing their readers. Which is a bit sad.
I noticed Google also disallows crawlers to certain url's on google.com, yet they will happily crawl every url on your site if you don't take similar action to prevent it. We need to put a stop to this madness at once!
I couldn't agree more. I am a developer and use my pc all day every day for work, just built a new pc and upgraded to windows 7 and am really seriously regretting it. I said I'd give it a month before doing anything drastic (like downgrading back to XP32), 3 weeks in and it's not getting any better.
The new start menu, control panel, taskbar, directory views, ribbon menus, all completely suck. I expected that I would have to do some customizing to turn off all the new crap they packed in to the UI, but the most frustrating part of all is they are systematically removing the options to disable their new "innovations".
And what will certainly be the deal breaker for me is the new file search. One of my most used and important tools is now an abortion. I can't understand how this was even conceived of, much less approved, developed, tested and released. Several dozen times per day I hit cntrl+f and feel my heart sink when I realize that I no longer have a functional search feature with a competent interface and useful options.
This OS "upgrade" has been so frustrating. I've spent countless hours trying to restore things that have no valid reason for being gone, such as the "up a directory" arrow and useful status bar info in explorer. I've tried several 3rd party start menu programs now that the "classic start menu" option is inexplicably gone. I've tried fruitlessly to rid myself of ribbon menus and the unnecessary new menu bar in folder views and I've fought a losing battle to disable the magic folder views and get all folders to appear in details view with the same columns. Perhaps my biggest and maybe only success has been getting the task bar back to a reasonable state and restoring the quick launch bar.
I just can't seem to fathom who or how or why these decisions were made, or how (or if) corporations are putting up with it. That this is continuing with Windows 8 has really sealed the deal that this is the last version of Windows I ever pay for.
I had thought the verification thing had to do with their whole "circles" idea which is kind of the central focus of G+. It would hurt G+ if people lost faith in their system because people were sneaking their way into circles they don't belong in.
Or maybe I'm just naive and they have more nefarious intentions.
I seriously doubt anyone would buy the popemobile just so they can destroy it, I imagine it will cost a fair amount of cash. And even if they did, it's just a fucking car, not some sacred idol, it can't be desecrated. Your persecution complex is cute though.
Not sure how they still have hundreds of preorders when, according to their website, I can buy one today and have it within a week. Not that I would order one today...
It's funny that Obama is much closer to a Ronald Reagan Republican than any of the tea party loons. So far his policy has certainly been middle-right, he is nowhere near the extreme leftist that the teabaggers insist he is. Republicans *should* adore him, that they despise him more than any president in history just highlights the irrationality of the tea party. Race certainly has something to do with it, but the steady stream of misinformation coming from FoxNews is probably the biggest culprit.
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And Philip Falcone is a huge donor for the Democratic Party.
According to Wikipedia
Not what I'd call a "huge donor for the Democratic Party".
What does an oppressive government that is taking steps to control information and communication channels and stifle dissent have to do with unions?
Tens of millions of people don't have pensions or 401k, what's your plan for them? Let them work until they die? The young are taking care of the old and in turn we hope we will get the same dignity. Or I suppose we could go back to the good old days and let the elderly spending their golden years freezing to death under a bridge.
Sorry that wasn't all necessarily directed at you. My original point before I started ranting was that the amount of money that we "give" to the old and poor is not much at all, relatively. It all depends on how you define "give", I guess.
Another myth is that the social security you get is what paid for. The system completely doesn't work that way - your taxes pay for your parents and grandparents. Your kids and grandkids pay for you. Any "getting out what you paid in" in a comforting illusion - it's not a 401k, no money is saved or invested any more, the government spends every cent instantly these days (and would you ever expect them to do otherwise?!).
But that doesn't change the fact that we are taxed specifically to pay for social security. Any problems with social security have nothing to do with the people putting the money in, you can't blame socialism and handouts for the poor for giving people something they specifically paid for. It's not socialism, it's not for the poor, and it's not a handout.
I think SS *should* work like a 401k, but the pigs in DC would never be able to resist trillions of dollars just sitting there when there are wars we could be fighting.
We give 100% of federal revenue to the old and the poor these days.
Bullshit, all the cries of socialism and handouts for the lazy, criminal, and brown people are a charade to keep the crooks in power so they can continue to rob you while you blame socialism. A scheme that works quite well, apparently, so well that millions of people blame a guy who sleeps in an alley for their stolen wallet and take up arms to defend the billionaire who actually stole it, even sending more money to his campaign fund.
Welfare for the poor: $191 billion
Tax breaks and loopholes: $1 trillion
Welfare for millionaires: bailouts, corporate welfare, no-bid contracts, war profiteers: $trillions
So go on being so focused on boogeymen like socialism, sharia law, and global warming denial that you're oblivious to the real crimes, corruption and waste plaguing this shithole we absurdly proclaim "the greatest country on earth", you're following the script to a tee.
I haven't seen any indication anywhere that Google has anything at all to do with Carrier IQ. It is your service provider who put it there, and it is your service provider who is collecting the data. TFA even clearly states that this is not unique to Android devices.
It is certainly possible to work 80 or even 100 hours a week and be productive. I have done it many times, the key is to have 1) a clear goal 2) an end in sight 3) pride and passion about what you're doing. It doesn't sound like the Zynga employees have any of that, expecting that level indefinitely is just asking for crashing morale and productivity.
Why don't you explain why Valve should take it upon themselves to be the video game police and demand their competitors lower their prices and change their release strategies.
Two pounds a piece? Four dollars a cupcake??
Jesus Christ, do people really have that kind of disposable cash laying around these days?
Ask Starbucks et al and their $4+ coffee
(If you look at the date on the document I just linked to, you'll notice that this was all published in February, which makes it remarkable that so many journalists happened to leap on this story at the same time, completely independently of each other, without anyone copying what anyone else did or churnalizing each other in any way whatsoever).
So what about the actual claim? Well you can read the EU's ruling here (PDF), and the first thing to note is that this isn't really a rule so much as a piece of advice, which member states are free to interpret as they wish.
...The specific health claim tested is outlined in the ruling:
The regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance.
The claim wasn't submitted for a genuine product, but was created as a deliberate 'test' exercise by the two professors, who were apparently already unhappy with the European Food Standards Authority. The panel were well aware of it's absurdity too, noting drily that "the proposed risk factors," the conditions addressed by the hypothetical product, in this case water loss, "are measures or water depletion and thus are measures of the disease (dehydration)."
Leaving that aside, there are two major problems with the claim: drinking water doesn't prevent dehydration, and drinking-water doesn't prevent dehydration.
Firstly, "regular consumption" of water doesn't reduce the risk of dehydration any more than eating a pork pie a day reduces the risk of starvation. If I drink half a pint of bottled water while running through a desert in the blistering sun, I'll still end up dehydrated, and if I drink several bottles today, that won't prevent me from dehydrating tomorrow. The key is to drink enough water when you need it, and you're not going to get that from any bottled water product unless it's mounted on a drip.
Secondly, dehydration doesn't just mean a lack of water, or 'being thirsty'; electrolytes like sodium are important too. If salt levels fall too far, the body struggles to regulate fluid levels in the first place. That's why hospitals use saline drips to prevent dehydration in patients who can't take fluids orally, and why people with diarhhoea are treated with salt-containing oral rehydration fluids. Presumably the next big investigation at the Express will expose the shocking waste of NHS money on needless quantities of saline solution, when jolly old tap water would work just as well.
So the ruling seems pretty sensible to me, or at least as sensible as a ruling can be when the claim being tested is vexatious in the first place. It's accurate advice, and it prevents companies selling bottled water from making exaggerated claims for their products, which is a good thing. They even have the support of the British Soft Drinks Association, who tweeted just as this piece was going live with the following statement:
The European Food Safety Authority has been asked to rule on several ways of wording the statement that drinking water is good for hydration and therefore good for health. It rejected some wordings on technicalities, but it has supported claims that drinking water is good for normal physical and cognitive functions and normal thermoregulation.
It's also an great opportunity to challenge received wisdom, and to make the point that keeping the human body hydrated is about much more than just drinking tap water when you're thirsty. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of journalists are more interested in promoting second-hand hysteria than informing their readers. Which is a bit sad.
They are taking without giving in kind.
I noticed Google also disallows crawlers to certain url's on google.com, yet they will happily crawl every url on your site if you don't take similar action to prevent it. We need to put a stop to this madness at once!
Exactly. No conspiracy here, if you want to prevent google from displaying your pages in frames you are certainly able to.
If there is no free entry in the partition table then the malware reports to the C&C server and terminates.
So if you make sure you have 4 primary partitions created, you are essentially immune?
These are all facts that should be considererd, and have been glossed over in the research.
Seriously, WTF?
Or maybe it's that all of these predictable references to mc hammer songs are not witty or funny.
But they're the best. By a long shot.
when you click a link the referring url is sent in a header. with google and most other search engines your query is in that url.
Not to mention, we can't sue the government but apparently the government can sue us.
I couldn't agree more. I am a developer and use my pc all day every day for work, just built a new pc and upgraded to windows 7 and am really seriously regretting it. I said I'd give it a month before doing anything drastic (like downgrading back to XP32), 3 weeks in and it's not getting any better.
The new start menu, control panel, taskbar, directory views, ribbon menus, all completely suck. I expected that I would have to do some customizing to turn off all the new crap they packed in to the UI, but the most frustrating part of all is they are systematically removing the options to disable their new "innovations".
And what will certainly be the deal breaker for me is the new file search. One of my most used and important tools is now an abortion. I can't understand how this was even conceived of, much less approved, developed, tested and released. Several dozen times per day I hit cntrl+f and feel my heart sink when I realize that I no longer have a functional search feature with a competent interface and useful options.
This OS "upgrade" has been so frustrating. I've spent countless hours trying to restore things that have no valid reason for being gone, such as the "up a directory" arrow and useful status bar info in explorer. I've tried several 3rd party start menu programs now that the "classic start menu" option is inexplicably gone. I've tried fruitlessly to rid myself of ribbon menus and the unnecessary new menu bar in folder views and I've fought a losing battle to disable the magic folder views and get all folders to appear in details view with the same columns. Perhaps my biggest and maybe only success has been getting the task bar back to a reasonable state and restoring the quick launch bar.
I just can't seem to fathom who or how or why these decisions were made, or how (or if) corporations are putting up with it. That this is continuing with Windows 8 has really sealed the deal that this is the last version of Windows I ever pay for.
If this were a class action settlement the coupon would be good for $3 while the lawyers would take their $47 in cash.
I had thought the verification thing had to do with their whole "circles" idea which is kind of the central focus of G+. It would hurt G+ if people lost faith in their system because people were sneaking their way into circles they don't belong in.
Or maybe I'm just naive and they have more nefarious intentions.
I seriously doubt anyone would buy the popemobile just so they can destroy it, I imagine it will cost a fair amount of cash. And even if they did, it's just a fucking car, not some sacred idol, it can't be desecrated. Your persecution complex is cute though.
Not sure how they still have hundreds of preorders when, according to their website, I can buy one today and have it within a week. Not that I would order one today...
It's funny that Obama is much closer to a Ronald Reagan Republican than any of the tea party loons. So far his policy has certainly been middle-right, he is nowhere near the extreme leftist that the teabaggers insist he is. Republicans *should* adore him, that they despise him more than any president in history just highlights the irrationality of the tea party. Race certainly has something to do with it, but the steady stream of misinformation coming from FoxNews is probably the biggest culprit.