The same bunch, who profited massively from selling "flu vaccines" by stirring up a flu panic.
Still waiting for that Ebola vaccine....
This is nonsense. The WHO doesn't sell flu vaccines. It does purchase and distribute vaccines to places that can't afford them. Long live rock.
Ebola is real if you live in one of the countries in Africa that has and Ebola outbreak. But for most of the rest of the world, "Worldwide Outbreak" sounds a bit like hyperbole. More like "Continent Wide Outbreak". But it is the WHO, not the CHO, so you get what you get.
You do realise the US does exactly this as well, and the prisons are corporations, and America even has more prisoners.
This is rubbish. China has more slaves than US has prisoners.
The US has very few prisons which operate as factories. Nearly all that do, pay wages. These prisons are usually more desirable for prisoners because it allows them learn skills and to bank money while incarcerated. China just has forced labor, no pay. They call it "re-education".
The global slavery index only includes people that are known to be slaves. This doesn't include the mass amounts of dormitory employees that, due to economic conditions manufactured by the government, work for nearly nothing and can't afford to live outside their factory camps.
Your argument would be more credible if the US and EU didn't have manufacturing sectors equal to or larger than China's manufacturing sector.
So you are saying that slave labor is OK because China's economy isn't as big as the US and EU?
I have a stamping press in my plant for making wire leads. Operating this press requires some of skilled labor to set up and then it is all automated. No amount of cheap labor from China can undercut us on price, we're fast and we can pay our people good wages too.
Have you been to China and seen what those factories look like? They too have automated systems, its just the people setting it up are working below US minimum wage. China can get people to work far cheaper. The Chinese can duplicate just about anything designed and built in the US or anywhere else. The materials are cheaper because China has far less concern for how they treat the environment, and the supply chain also has equally cheap labor and, essentially, vertical integration.
There is no trick. It is simply a race to the bottom. And North America is being led into this race by a Communist country who for years had stated it was bent on destroying capitalist systems. We'd be best to leave China alone. Unfortunately, greed (Walmart profit margins) and some skewed dogma about "specialized labor" is making it difficult for most to see the big picture here.
I urge anyone that gets the chance to visit factories in China to take it. It really is an eye opener and will change your opinion, if you are one to think US manufacturing is safe because we "work smarter".
I don't remember a lot of planes getting hijacked in the US before the TSA showed up.
Either you don't know the history of hijackings or your memory is defective. Hijackings were a problem that resulted in increased security decades ago.
So you are agreeing with me, just with a side of attempted insult?
If you think this is about memory or knowledge, then you kind of missed my point: The TSA isn't necessary to stop hijackings. As you went all internet flamebait to explain, hijackings were already being stopped by the security we had. Yes I agree, that was my point.
The TSA isn't going to stop anything new. It is theater - in the most facist sense.
So, will you be the one keeping about 2,000 guns off of planes this year? Or how do you think that is going to work? Vigilantees? Or are hijackings and suicide attacks just not a consideration for you?
Seriously? Aside from the obvious event that justified this nonsense, I don't remember a lot of planes getting hijacked in the US before the TSA showed up. And we didn't need the TSA to stop those 9/11 fuckers - we just needed some FBI agents to put down their donuts and respond to reports of shady characters learning to fly planes while not giving a damn about landing them. Better cockpit doors and armed pilots would also have stopped them...
Doubtful the TSA would have done much to stop the "terrorists that want to take our freedoms" on 9/11. But the TSA has gotten real good at the "take our freedoms" part.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but this is what bothering to do business with China gets us. China with its essentially a rigged economy based on something close to slave labor. The only way to compete economically with that is to become that. The cheap shit at Walmart just ain't worth it.
Trials are different than allowing manufacturers to sell driverless cars or allowing the general public to drive them. Even the Nevada law just instructs the DOT to set safety standards for driverless cars, which they have not yet completed.
This is bunk. The safety standards are dictated by federal law which is already in place.
The law instructed the Nevada DOT to "regulations authorizing the operation of autonomous vehicles on highways within the State of Nevada". And the Nevada DOT regulations have been written: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC...
Maybe you got Nevada confused with California. The California law has instructed the DOT to set standards by 2015. Those aren't written yet. Currently, Google in California is operating under NHTSA guidelines which allow for testing of autonomous vehicles. Why are these guidelines in place? Maybe the NHTSA realizes that autonomous cars are safer than drivers?
Right now, Google has special dispensation from the state to drive the Lexus SUVs. Anyone who has spent significant time on Bay Area freeways has probably seen them. But these are more or less research vehicles piloted by engineers. Deployment of a production fleet of driverless Google cars in California may be a different matter, as the state has to come up with regulations to allow for this, and that may for at least another year.
Since legalizing it, Nevada has amended their laws in such a way that makes deployment of the Google car easy. Hence all the speculation and rumor that Google may be deploying in Vegas around the next CES/LV Auto Show conventions.
I'm shock that nobody questioned this un-cited fact for this important book about a servant and her duties. Is anyone thinking of the children? This does not bode well for our civilization.
Their presentation for investors quotes a sale price of $1000, not $300.
The numbers seems a bit off. He said it cost $20 for the frame, but that looks closer to $40-$60 worth of 80/20. Not clear they really know how much this thing will cost yet.
But this machine is open source, so who is going to invest?
I'm guessing, with the crowd he was speaking to this kind of project would be open source.
I've taken the time to watch some of the Chaos Computer Club videos on cryptography, which I think is loosely connected with this HOPE crowd. They seem like a very sharp bunch. I would certainly take my chances on anything they've hammered on.
Can these guys really imagine this deal will be approved by the FCC and Justice Departments? This merger is so destructive of the public interest, it could spend a decade in court in some subsequent administration, even if the present administration allows it.
Right, the FCC is all about public interest with net neutrality and all that.
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The same bunch, who profited massively from selling "flu vaccines" by stirring up a flu panic.
Still waiting for that Ebola vaccine....
This is nonsense. The WHO doesn't sell flu vaccines. It does purchase and distribute vaccines to places that can't afford them. Long live rock.
Ebola is real if you live in one of the countries in Africa that has and Ebola outbreak. But for most of the rest of the world, "Worldwide Outbreak" sounds a bit like hyperbole. More like "Continent Wide Outbreak". But it is the WHO, not the CHO, so you get what you get.
First of all, Dinasours never existed. The fossils were put there by Satan.
Wrong. The fossils were put there by a noodley appendage.
You do realise the US does exactly this as well, and the prisons are corporations, and America even has more prisoners.
This is rubbish. China has more slaves than US has prisoners.
The US has very few prisons which operate as factories. Nearly all that do, pay wages. These prisons are usually more desirable for prisoners because it allows them learn skills and to bank money while incarcerated. China just has forced labor, no pay. They call it "re-education".
And you know this how exactly?
There are a lot of sources. The one is quite credible credible: http://www.globalslaveryindex....
The global slavery index only includes people that are known to be slaves. This doesn't include the mass amounts of dormitory employees that, due to economic conditions manufactured by the government, work for nearly nothing and can't afford to live outside their factory camps.
Your argument would be more credible if the US and EU didn't have manufacturing sectors equal to or larger than China's manufacturing sector.
So you are saying that slave labor is OK because China's economy isn't as big as the US and EU?
I have a stamping press in my plant for making wire leads. Operating this press requires some of skilled labor to set up and then it is all automated. No amount of cheap labor from China can undercut us on price, we're fast and we can pay our people good wages too.
Have you been to China and seen what those factories look like? They too have automated systems, its just the people setting it up are working below US minimum wage. China can get people to work far cheaper. The Chinese can duplicate just about anything designed and built in the US or anywhere else. The materials are cheaper because China has far less concern for how they treat the environment, and the supply chain also has equally cheap labor and, essentially, vertical integration.
There is no trick. It is simply a race to the bottom. And North America is being led into this race by a Communist country who for years had stated it was bent on destroying capitalist systems. We'd be best to leave China alone. Unfortunately, greed (Walmart profit margins) and some skewed dogma about "specialized labor" is making it difficult for most to see the big picture here.
I urge anyone that gets the chance to visit factories in China to take it. It really is an eye opener and will change your opinion, if you are one to think US manufacturing is safe because we "work smarter".
I don't remember a lot of planes getting hijacked in the US before the TSA showed up.
Either you don't know the history of hijackings or your memory is defective. Hijackings were a problem that resulted in increased security decades ago.
So you are agreeing with me, just with a side of attempted insult?
If you think this is about memory or knowledge, then you kind of missed my point: The TSA isn't necessary to stop hijackings. As you went all internet flamebait to explain, hijackings were already being stopped by the security we had. Yes I agree, that was my point.
The TSA isn't going to stop anything new. It is theater - in the most facist sense.
“It would be devastating if one of our major banks was hit, because they’re so interconnected.”
Is that NSA for "It be a shame if you had trouble with the health department in this fine establishment"?
So, will you be the one keeping about 2,000 guns off of planes this year? Or how do you think that is going to work? Vigilantees? Or are hijackings and suicide attacks just not a consideration for you?
Seriously? Aside from the obvious event that justified this nonsense, I don't remember a lot of planes getting hijacked in the US before the TSA showed up. And we didn't need the TSA to stop those 9/11 fuckers - we just needed some FBI agents to put down their donuts and respond to reports of shady characters learning to fly planes while not giving a damn about landing them. Better cockpit doors and armed pilots would also have stopped them...
Doubtful the TSA would have done much to stop the "terrorists that want to take our freedoms" on 9/11. But the TSA has gotten real good at the "take our freedoms" part.
Reminds me more of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
...Microsoft didn't share the source code?
I'm no Microsoft fan, but this is what bothering to do business with China gets us. China with its essentially a rigged economy based on something close to slave labor. The only way to compete economically with that is to become that. The cheap shit at Walmart just ain't worth it.
They aren't monopolies, just all subsidiaries of the same organization.
Can drug testing be performed through simulation and modeling? Can drugs tested on genetically engineered tissued?
Trials are different than allowing manufacturers to sell driverless cars or allowing the general public to drive them. Even the Nevada law just instructs the DOT to set safety standards for driverless cars, which they have not yet completed.
This is bunk. The safety standards are dictated by federal law which is already in place.
The law instructed the Nevada DOT to "regulations authorizing the operation of autonomous vehicles on highways within the State of Nevada". And the Nevada DOT regulations have been written: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC...
Maybe you got Nevada confused with California. The California law has instructed the DOT to set standards by 2015. Those aren't written yet. Currently, Google in California is operating under NHTSA guidelines which allow for testing of autonomous vehicles. Why are these guidelines in place? Maybe the NHTSA realizes that autonomous cars are safer than drivers?
Google HQ is in California, so they started there. They've expanded to include Nevada, Michigan and Florida, so far.
Nevada was first to pass the law. This is a good site on the issue of legality: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/w...
Right now, Google has special dispensation from the state to drive the Lexus SUVs. Anyone who has spent significant time on Bay Area freeways has probably seen them. But these are more or less research vehicles piloted by engineers. Deployment of a production fleet of driverless Google cars in California may be a different matter, as the state has to come up with regulations to allow for this, and that may for at least another year.
Since legalizing it, Nevada has amended their laws in such a way that makes deployment of the Google car easy. Hence all the speculation and rumor that Google may be deploying in Vegas around the next CES/LV Auto Show conventions.
GP's post implies robot toadalords.
Hopefully our new overloads will not be humorless automatons.
The US has had this for a while.
Nevada legalized driver less cars a couple of years ago. Google will be running an autonomous taxi service in Vegas: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
The drivers will be our robot overloads (I, for one, will welcome them).
I'm shock that nobody questioned this un-cited fact for this important book about a servant and her duties. Is anyone thinking of the children? This does not bode well for our civilization.
Their presentation for investors quotes a sale price of $1000, not $300.
The numbers seems a bit off. He said it cost $20 for the frame, but that looks closer to $40-$60 worth of 80/20. Not clear they really know how much this thing will cost yet.
But this machine is open source, so who is going to invest?
I'm guessing, with the crowd he was speaking to this kind of project would be open source.
I've taken the time to watch some of the Chaos Computer Club videos on cryptography, which I think is loosely connected with this HOPE crowd. They seem like a very sharp bunch. I would certainly take my chances on anything they've hammered on.
MS employees provides support or work on projects for other companies...
Many MS employees were employees of other companies. And then MS bought them.
Can these guys really imagine this deal will be approved by the FCC and Justice Departments? This merger is so destructive of the public interest, it could spend a decade in court in some subsequent administration, even if the present administration allows it.
Right, the FCC is all about public interest with net neutrality and all that.