What is actually at work in many cases is the invisible hand of the marketplace. It doesn't take a bunch of industrialists plotting in smoke-filled rooms. The overall structure of the market and underlying regulations is set up to push things in the direction of higher profits for the major players.
There's more profit in proprietary drugs. And the much of the FDA staff is involved with processing the trial results and paperwork. Everyone just works in their self interest.
I think this is correct. Sparkfun yellow looks too close to Fluke yellow to be a coincidence. Other manufacturers use 'safety colors' like this. Or this. Both of which seem to keep their respective manufacturers out of trademark trouble.
Not to this degree. The Internet has made anonymity much easier than in the past. As a result, people can pull a*hole stunts with little risk to their reputation.
I'm not saying we should get rid of anonymity. But we need to develop the culture to give a statement credibility in line with its possible cost to the speaker. Back in the 'old days', if you didn't confront your opponent publicly, you got laughed out of town.
Many people suffering from road rage are bat-shit crazy. I've seen people trying to cause accidents. And I've nearly been run off the road a few times by them myself. Overwhelmingly, they are laughing or have a silly grin on their face. Perhaps because they thought they caused (or nearly caused) someone else some grief.
On the other hand, I recall an interesting incident from some years ago. I was in heavy traffic on an on ramp merging onto the freeway at a crawl. Traffic was (generally) alternating between ramp and freeway, every other car. I pulled in front of a dump truck. In my rear view mirror, I watched the guy behind me gun his SUV and try to make it between the dump truck and a jersey barrier. Not enough room, he got caught between the two. Then, he gunned his engine and squeezed through, tearing the hell out of his truck. So I'm watching him (behind me now) in my rear view mirror, grinning because he had just screwed the dump truck out of one position on the freeway. Sheet metal on what was (a few moments ago) a nice truck, hanging off the sides.
Shouldn't the people who live in a locality be the main people who decide their destiny?
Absent an armed, unknown (not wearing proper insignia) occupying force, yes. Following procedures laid out in the Ukrainian Constitution would be a plus. So we could consider last weekend's vote to be of an advisory nature only.
Not sure they can be unlawful combatants unless there is actually combat taking place.
IANAL, but absent a condition of declared war, that might make any non-uniformed foreign forces in country spies. The idea of a lawful combatant may only apply once a condition of war exists.
A condition of war may become automatic once uniformed troops cross a border (no need to make a declaration in advance). But so far, I haven't seen any uniformed Russians in the Ukraine, including Crimea. So theoretically, the entire occupying force could be apprehended and dealt with as spies/saboteurs.
To be fair, we haven't seen Putin's response to Kiselyov's statement yet. And even if Putin did start some saber-rattling, lets see how the rest of Russia responds at the voting booth in the next election cycle.
Also, keep in mind what happened with Bush. He is a moron and most Americans thought he was. But during a time of conflict, he was our moron who deserved our support and re-election. We, and the rest of the world, would be better off to let Russia deal with their own politics rather then leaning on them with military threats.
Anyway, Putin isn't a dummy. He learned a lesson from the past and held the Olympics first and invaded afterward.
I'm waiting for the home school advocates to weigh in on this issue. Both ends of the bell curve are represented by the home schooled. Gifted kids, whose parents want them to have an education that the public system can't or won't deliver. And the ones who shriek when science, Darwin and anything not found in The Book is mentioned in class.
her father as an experiment got her and her sister to the chess world.
A better experiment would have been to teach one daughter chess and give the other one a Barbie doll collection and a collection of Justin Bieber albums. Odds are that this family carries the gene for 'giftedness'. Dad picked chess for his daughters. Perhaps they might have become talented musicians of brain surgeons on their own.
This doesn't demonstrate that talent is overrated. It is a great example of recognizing it and nurturing it in the face of societal norms to the contrary. In the Polgars' case, the ideals of socialism and equal opportunity* for all.
*Sounds familiar. Lake Wobegone, where all the children are above average. And how dare you claim otherwise. The idiot children's self esteem will be damaged.
What about VPNs hosted outside of Australia? I'm guessing that this is pushback by the Aussie branches of content providers. Too many people are bypassing their local high prices by getting iTunes and Netflix from the USA over VPNs.
If they think that 'bad guys' are going to rely upon a service's key management for nefarious communication, they are nuts. All the criminals/terrorists are going to use end to end encryption on top of any other transport service.
"We cannot manage our very complex, highly sophisticated capital structure with what's coming out of our high schools," said Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
That complexity and sophistication turns out to have been a game designed to keep worthless securities moving in the derivatives market. Standardized, regulated OTC derivatives was something Greenspan fought against. And then later admitted that he'd messed up. Standardized derivative contracts are the sorts of things that don't take Wall Street geniuses to generate. That becomes a clerical function that the average banker/broker can handle.
if we don't actually address the problems in our education system here in America.
One of the biggest problems of our American higher education system is the practice of injecting funds into the system as student loans. Loans that push the demand side of the higher education market up, causing an endless cycle of bigger loans and higher tuition. As a side effect, securitized student loans provide the investment market with a near zero risk of income due to the difficulty of loan discharge through bankruptcy. Another gift to the 1%.
Provide more direct assistance for tuition, effectively making the government a 'single payer' in the market with more clout to hold tuition and other expenses down.
Greenspan is a sock puppet for the banking industry. He was outed when he basically said, 'Oops. I fucked up' after the derivative market collapsed in 2007. I thought he wouldn't have the balls to open his mouth again after that fiasco.
I thought he'd been laughed out of Washington DC following the mortgage securities fiasco.
former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan believes one way to attack income inequity is to raise the H-1B cap
Econ 101 - Supply and Demand. You just increase the supply and prices go down. So, what does Al think the 'bottom' is? H-1B visas for tech workers hit the middle class. The bottom is the fast food, dishwasher, gardener, etc. That's the people who wade across the Rio Grande. Fast food restaurants and farms don't go through the H-1B process for labor.
How about we import some lower priced talent for the executive offices? That'll fix inequality. Seriously, I've seena number of situations where corporations on the edge of failure were sold to foreign firms and are now being run quite profitably. Same factory, same tools, same unions. Better managers.
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What is actually at work in many cases is the invisible hand of the marketplace. It doesn't take a bunch of industrialists plotting in smoke-filled rooms. The overall structure of the market and underlying regulations is set up to push things in the direction of higher profits for the major players.
There's more profit in proprietary drugs. And the much of the FDA staff is involved with processing the trial results and paperwork. Everyone just works in their self interest.
I think this is correct. Sparkfun yellow looks too close to Fluke yellow to be a coincidence. Other manufacturers use 'safety colors' like this. Or this. Both of which seem to keep their respective manufacturers out of trademark trouble.
Well, certainly not proper spelling and punctuation. Its not nothin, its nuthin'.
These dang Slashdot editors don't know a dang thing about proper English. Sheeit!
I really don't know.
[Quietly takes down laser bug zapper from across the street from KOMO helipad.]
People have always been like this.
Not to this degree. The Internet has made anonymity much easier than in the past. As a result, people can pull a*hole stunts with little risk to their reputation.
I'm not saying we should get rid of anonymity. But we need to develop the culture to give a statement credibility in line with its possible cost to the speaker. Back in the 'old days', if you didn't confront your opponent publicly, you got laughed out of town.
I already have a mask picked out. Hides me from the facial recognition cameras. And other drivers give me lots of room as well.
Some people smile, for example.
This.
Many people suffering from road rage are bat-shit crazy. I've seen people trying to cause accidents. And I've nearly been run off the road a few times by them myself. Overwhelmingly, they are laughing or have a silly grin on their face. Perhaps because they thought they caused (or nearly caused) someone else some grief.
On the other hand, I recall an interesting incident from some years ago. I was in heavy traffic on an on ramp merging onto the freeway at a crawl. Traffic was (generally) alternating between ramp and freeway, every other car. I pulled in front of a dump truck. In my rear view mirror, I watched the guy behind me gun his SUV and try to make it between the dump truck and a jersey barrier. Not enough room, he got caught between the two. Then, he gunned his engine and squeezed through, tearing the hell out of his truck. So I'm watching him (behind me now) in my rear view mirror, grinning because he had just screwed the dump truck out of one position on the freeway. Sheet metal on what was (a few moments ago) a nice truck, hanging off the sides.
Happy face sticker.
Why would they want 30 days of this?
Nowhere does it say the persons were of Russian origin.
Which is why they will be treated as unlawful combatants. And probably shot following a court martial.
Shouldn't the people who live in a locality be the main people who decide their destiny?
Absent an armed, unknown (not wearing proper insignia) occupying force, yes. Following procedures laid out in the Ukrainian Constitution would be a plus. So we could consider last weekend's vote to be of an advisory nature only.
Not sure they can be unlawful combatants unless there is actually combat taking place.
IANAL, but absent a condition of declared war, that might make any non-uniformed foreign forces in country spies. The idea of a lawful combatant may only apply once a condition of war exists.
A condition of war may become automatic once uniformed troops cross a border (no need to make a declaration in advance). But so far, I haven't seen any uniformed Russians in the Ukraine, including Crimea. So theoretically, the entire occupying force could be apprehended and dealt with as spies/saboteurs.
"I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee." -- Pluto
Can't drive my late model, clean car on certain days? Thank goodness I hung onto that deux chevaux.
At least lets see what the NRA has to say about this.
To be fair, we haven't seen Putin's response to Kiselyov's statement yet. And even if Putin did start some saber-rattling, lets see how the rest of Russia responds at the voting booth in the next election cycle.
Also, keep in mind what happened with Bush. He is a moron and most Americans thought he was. But during a time of conflict, he was our moron who deserved our support and re-election. We, and the rest of the world, would be better off to let Russia deal with their own politics rather then leaning on them with military threats.
Anyway, Putin isn't a dummy. He learned a lesson from the past and held the Olympics first and invaded afterward.
It worked for us. Or should we give Texas back to Mexico?
We won't go to war with Russia. We are kindred spirits. Both of us will let any moron get hold of a microphone.
I'm waiting for the home school advocates to weigh in on this issue. Both ends of the bell curve are represented by the home schooled. Gifted kids, whose parents want them to have an education that the public system can't or won't deliver. And the ones who shriek when science, Darwin and anything not found in The Book is mentioned in class.
her father as an experiment got her and her sister to the chess world.
A better experiment would have been to teach one daughter chess and give the other one a Barbie doll collection and a collection of Justin Bieber albums. Odds are that this family carries the gene for 'giftedness'. Dad picked chess for his daughters. Perhaps they might have become talented musicians of brain surgeons on their own.
This doesn't demonstrate that talent is overrated. It is a great example of recognizing it and nurturing it in the face of societal norms to the contrary. In the Polgars' case, the ideals of socialism and equal opportunity* for all.
*Sounds familiar. Lake Wobegone, where all the children are above average. And how dare you claim otherwise. The idiot children's self esteem will be damaged.
What about VPNs hosted outside of Australia? I'm guessing that this is pushback by the Aussie branches of content providers. Too many people are bypassing their local high prices by getting iTunes and Netflix from the USA over VPNs.
If they think that 'bad guys' are going to rely upon a service's key management for nefarious communication, they are nuts. All the criminals/terrorists are going to use end to end encryption on top of any other transport service.
"We cannot manage our very complex, highly sophisticated capital structure with what's coming out of our high schools," said Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
That complexity and sophistication turns out to have been a game designed to keep worthless securities moving in the derivatives market. Standardized, regulated OTC derivatives was something Greenspan fought against. And then later admitted that he'd messed up. Standardized derivative contracts are the sorts of things that don't take Wall Street geniuses to generate. That becomes a clerical function that the average banker/broker can handle.
if we don't actually address the problems in our education system here in America.
One of the biggest problems of our American higher education system is the practice of injecting funds into the system as student loans. Loans that push the demand side of the higher education market up, causing an endless cycle of bigger loans and higher tuition. As a side effect, securitized student loans provide the investment market with a near zero risk of income due to the difficulty of loan discharge through bankruptcy. Another gift to the 1%.
Provide more direct assistance for tuition, effectively making the government a 'single payer' in the market with more clout to hold tuition and other expenses down.
Greenspan is a sock puppet for the banking industry. He was outed when he basically said, 'Oops. I fucked up' after the derivative market collapsed in 2007. I thought he wouldn't have the balls to open his mouth again after that fiasco.
I thought he'd been laughed out of Washington DC following the mortgage securities fiasco.
former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan believes one way to attack income inequity is to raise the H-1B cap
Econ 101 - Supply and Demand. You just increase the supply and prices go down. So, what does Al think the 'bottom' is? H-1B visas for tech workers hit the middle class. The bottom is the fast food, dishwasher, gardener, etc. That's the people who wade across the Rio Grande. Fast food restaurants and farms don't go through the H-1B process for labor.
How about we import some lower priced talent for the executive offices? That'll fix inequality. Seriously, I've seena number of situations where corporations on the edge of failure were sold to foreign firms and are now being run quite profitably. Same factory, same tools, same unions. Better managers.