The "average home user" can run Ubuntu and never know the friggin difference. Who cares about home users? It's the business world that keeps Windows alive, and that's not news, buddy.
> The idea that there's some super-secret classification level above top secret is > idiocy spouted by moron UFO conspiracy nutjobs who can't even consult Wikipedia > for a simple overview of the classification system.
So, what you're saying is: NOT EVEN YOU know about the UFOs and YOU HAD TOP SECRET CLEARANCE!!! Take that, skeptics.
If telecommunications WAS a free market, then we wouldn't have an issue. Not to bring up the bailout, but we have market problems because of government intervention, and we are stuck with more government intervention to try to soften the blow (arguments aside as to whether it will work, that's at least the current logic).
Sometimes you need government intervention to correct previous government intervention. In fact, that's the whole problem with government intervention in the market.
I'm so glad they have that "listener pulse" immediate reaction graph. I'm glad because it exposes what the debates really are... jerking off the populace, telling us what we want to hear, to maximize positive response.
One thing it's not about: telling us what they really think.
You want to average independently weighted outputs to arrive at some meaningful answer? Shame on you. And anyway, if you took outputs of all possible (linear) weight combinations and averaged them, then you would just negate the weightings altogether.
1) There are "good faith" exceptions. As long as the people performing the search believed that they were doing it by the book, then the evidence sometimes sticks.
2) Even if the evidence is thrown out, there are still damages and an invasion of privacy, so the question asked here is still a valid one.
You have to show damages in order to bring a lawsuit. In this case, the damages are clear. His privacy was invaded without cause and he was arrested as a result.
Mmmmkay, well this is exactly what McCain is saying he will do: veto any bill that comes across his desk with ridiculous riders until Congress stops doing it.
"But if you do that nothing will ever get done!"
This is Congress we're talking about, here. Stopping the tortoise for a few minutes doesn't result in much lost ground. And if no one ever does it, then nothing will ever change.
Uhhh no way. The states have every right to make such laws. It is the PARTY which must make sure their procedures fit the STATE, not the other way around. The Parties have enough power as it is. Don't give them more.
Government reads my email without warrant or permission or legal authority: quit whining and don't even think about trying to sue anyone.
Citizens read the email of someone who is potentially going to be the most powerful person in the country: FBI, secret service, etc. get involved immediately and people are probably going to jail with only half of a trial.
I don't care what the world poll is. If your country blindly follows our stupid ideas, perhaps you have problems of your own.
I'm sorry, but I do get sick and tired of people quoting world polls like it should affect my voting decision.
I kind of get what you're saying and I do care about world opinion, but I think when people quote these world polls all I can think of is wanting to ask them why I give a rat's. I don't tell you whom to vote for in your country.
> The first rule of picking up girls: No matter how hot she is, wait for her to speak. If > you don't want to hear that at breakfast, toss her to the curb.
Do what I do... give her an MRE and tell her she can eat it on the train home.
I sort of doubt it. Google knows from previous experience that people are suspicious of their motives, and there are plenty of people out there who were going to read the terms of service AND the source code line for line looking for legal or programmatic back doors or silly things like this.
I'm pretty sure people upstairs at Google are not very happy about this slip up.
Good point, but I wasn't necessarily talking about paying higher wages, just higher cost labor. If better working conditions can be found with the same or equal cost to the company, than the company is just stupid. In most cases, the cost is more.
In a market where new entrants can and will compete when there is a competitive advantage available (and even when they can compete as equals), there is a problem with this. If your company unionizes, it will pay more for the same labor. A new entrant will take your company's customers from it by offering the same services at a lower cost (due to un-unionized and/or outsourced labor) and STILL maintaining the exact same profit margin, if not more. Fast forward a year or two and sales have dropped, cost advantages due to economies of scale have disappeared, and your company's profit margins are non-existent. Your company and your union have no choice but to seriously cut the cost of labor.
That's the best case scenario, by the way. The worst case scenario is that the company folds and there are no jobs.
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The "average home user" can run Ubuntu and never know the friggin difference. Who cares about home users? It's the business world that keeps Windows alive, and that's not news, buddy.
Didn't I just say that?
Careful now. The party that attempts to increase government power and marginalize individual rights tends to be the PARTY IN POWER.
> The idea that there's some super-secret classification level above top secret is
> idiocy spouted by moron UFO conspiracy nutjobs who can't even consult Wikipedia
> for a simple overview of the classification system.
So, what you're saying is: NOT EVEN YOU know about the UFOs and YOU HAD TOP SECRET CLEARANCE!!! Take that, skeptics.
Of course not. The political parties determined that.
I think you meant to use the word 'better'.
If telecommunications WAS a free market, then we wouldn't have an issue. Not to bring up the bailout, but we have market problems because of government intervention, and we are stuck with more government intervention to try to soften the blow (arguments aside as to whether it will work, that's at least the current logic).
Sometimes you need government intervention to correct previous government intervention. In fact, that's the whole problem with government intervention in the market.
I'm so glad they have that "listener pulse" immediate reaction graph. I'm glad because it exposes what the debates really are... jerking off the populace, telling us what we want to hear, to maximize positive response.
One thing it's not about: telling us what they really think.
You want to average independently weighted outputs to arrive at some meaningful answer? Shame on you. And anyway, if you took outputs of all possible (linear) weight combinations and averaged them, then you would just negate the weightings altogether.
Yes, but just a couple points:
1) There are "good faith" exceptions. As long as the people performing the search believed that they were doing it by the book, then the evidence sometimes sticks.
2) Even if the evidence is thrown out, there are still damages and an invasion of privacy, so the question asked here is still a valid one.
You have to show damages in order to bring a lawsuit. In this case, the damages are clear. His privacy was invaded without cause and he was arrested as a result.
This is just more "lesser of two evils" bullshit that got us to where we are today. When are we going to stop putting up with this?
Mmmmkay, well this is exactly what McCain is saying he will do: veto any bill that comes across his desk with ridiculous riders until Congress stops doing it.
"But if you do that nothing will ever get done!"
This is Congress we're talking about, here. Stopping the tortoise for a few minutes doesn't result in much lost ground. And if no one ever does it, then nothing will ever change.
Got it?
Uhhh no way. The states have every right to make such laws. It is the PARTY which must make sure their procedures fit the STATE, not the other way around. The Parties have enough power as it is. Don't give them more.
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Government reads my email without warrant or permission or legal authority: quit whining and don't even think about trying to sue anyone.
Citizens read the email of someone who is potentially going to be the most powerful person in the country: FBI, secret service, etc. get involved immediately and people are probably going to jail with only half of a trial.
Sounds about right to me.
I don't care what the world poll is. If your country blindly follows our stupid ideas, perhaps you have problems of your own.
I'm sorry, but I do get sick and tired of people quoting world polls like it should affect my voting decision.
I kind of get what you're saying and I do care about world opinion, but I think when people quote these world polls all I can think of is wanting to ask them why I give a rat's. I don't tell you whom to vote for in your country.
> The first rule of picking up girls: No matter how hot she is, wait for her to speak. If
> you don't want to hear that at breakfast, toss her to the curb.
Do what I do... give her an MRE and tell her she can eat it on the train home.
i wonder if you just hit the same note over and over
I'm glad that some people are able to do this, but most of the country lives in areas where that wouldn't work for them.
I sort of doubt it. Google knows from previous experience that people are suspicious of their motives, and there are plenty of people out there who were going to read the terms of service AND the source code line for line looking for legal or programmatic back doors or silly things like this.
I'm pretty sure people upstairs at Google are not very happy about this slip up.
Good point, but I wasn't necessarily talking about paying higher wages, just higher cost labor. If better working conditions can be found with the same or equal cost to the company, than the company is just stupid. In most cases, the cost is more.
In a market where new entrants can and will compete when there is a competitive advantage available (and even when they can compete as equals), there is a problem with this. If your company unionizes, it will pay more for the same labor. A new entrant will take your company's customers from it by offering the same services at a lower cost (due to un-unionized and/or outsourced labor) and STILL maintaining the exact same profit margin, if not more. Fast forward a year or two and sales have dropped, cost advantages due to economies of scale have disappeared, and your company's profit margins are non-existent. Your company and your union have no choice but to seriously cut the cost of labor.
That's the best case scenario, by the way. The worst case scenario is that the company folds and there are no jobs.
> The fact that driving people to work 60h/week ... is worse
> for efficiency than having your staff working regular 40h/week schedules.
Setting aside whether one SHOULD push employees to work 60hr weeks, what are you basing this on?