We can thank "terrorists" for: (1) an Ireland free of British control (2) the State of Israel (the Irgun) (3) slowing down Nazi atrocities in Europe (the resistance movements were branded as "terrorists") (4) the American Revolution, for better or worse
In none of these instances were the insurgents allowed to protest peacefully, nor were they able to change the system democratically
Blocking a street is not a felony, it is a misdemeanor, and it is illegal. People should be arrested for it. You can protest without breaking the law.
Once you allow protestors to break the law, blocking streets, and destroying property, then where do you draw the line? You are on a slippery slope to Timothy McVeigh.
One reason for concern: It makes it easier for police to do their work.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make police work more efficient, but have fewer police? Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the last 25 years, yet we have more police than ever.
Police work should be difficult
Would you support other measures to make police work more difficult? For instance, we could only hire police with an IQ of 80 or below. We could make them write with their left hands. We could make them use Widows 8.
not going after protesters, "vice", or jaywalkers.
Maybe we should get rid of laws against "vice" and jaywalking, rather than just not enforcing them.
When the answers to the debate are embodied in laws then the appropriate forum of debate is the legislature, not the unilateral decision to break the law.
Bullcrap. People have, not only a right, but a duty to refuse to obey unjust laws. Uber's violations were certainly more self-serving than the civil disobedience of the civil rights and anti-colonialism movements, but they helped to bring down a corrupt system, and we should be thankful for that.
Instead of "below minimum wage" it shows that nationally Uber pays nearly THREE TIMES the minimum wage. Prices have indeed gone down, but by no where near that amount. Prices have been going down because Uber is attracting more drivers than they need... because the pay and working conditions are clearly attractive to a lot of people.
Also "expenses" did not include a car cost or amortization.
It includes wear-and-tear and depreciation on a milage basis. It does not, and SHOULD NOT include the cost of the car, since few people are buying a car just to work for Uber.
My sister drives for Uber and makes about $18 per hour after expenses. This is in line with the national average of about $20 per hour. Some areas are lower, with Detroit being the lowest at $8-$9 per hour, but even that is above minimum wage.
People are not as stupid and helpless as you assume. If Uber really paid sub-minimum wage, they wouldn't be able to attract drivers.
It isn't clear if the allegations are true. TFA says the accuser "walked back" some of his allegations, which is a euphemism for "admitted he was lying".
Once a witness has been shown to be a liar, their other allegations tend to be less credible as well. So unless his allegations can be corroborated by other witnesses, or supported by evidence, they don't amount to much. Liars lie.
I believe Mozilla probably can be sued under the CFAA.
Anyone can be sued for anything. But you aren't going to do it. If you were someone actually capable of preparing and filing a lawsuit, you wouldn't be anonymously blabbing about it on Slashdot.
Litigating a case like this could easily cost $100k. Justice isn't cheap. I doubt if you, personally, could show more than $1 in damages.
I wonder how the citation numbers would change if you subtract the citations with authors citing their earlier works and work of others in their own research groups...
You also need to subtract "cycles": I cite your papers, you cite mine. Sometimes citation cycles have 3 or more participants: A cites B, B cites C, C cites A.
OR, it could be that if optometrists and/or ophthalmologists (whichever it is,) DIDN'T have this repeat business, they'd have to charge MUCH more money for the INITIAL diagnosis and prescription
This is exactly the opposite of how economics actually works. If there is an oversupply of ophthalmologists, and not enough demand, competition will push prices DOWN until enough of them quit.
Since many medical insurance plans often don't cover vision, this is one of the few medical fields with actual competition.
You mind saying where in the UK, specifically? I've run into this problem myself recently.
I got them from Vision Direct. I picked because they were the first link when I Google for "no prescription contacts". Their prices seemed reasonable, but the shipping was slow. Order at least a few weeks before you need them. The quality was exactly the same as any local company.
Fine by me, so long as you then sign a document stating you won't be going to any publicly-funded hospital as a result of fucking-up your eyes.
Your logic is backwards. The legal requirement for expensive eye exams raises the price of new contacts, and means that more people are going to be wearing old contacts that irritate their eyes, or going without corrective lenses at all.
Maybe not by law (I haven't checked), but most glasses shops won't cut a set without it.
I have never, not once, had a problem buying glasses with an outdated prescription. I currently buy from Zenni Optical. They don't even ask for the date. There is no legal requirement for them to check. I just type in the data from my old prescription.
I have ALWAYS, every time, had a problem buying contacts... until I started ordering overseas. It is ILLEGAL for an American company to sell contacts without a current prescription.
Not getting an updated prescription also has consequences: An optometrist fails to earn $100 for doing unnecessary busy work, he gets mad and calls the AMA, and then they call the politicians and threaten to withhold their millions in campaign donations, mostly to Republican candidates. The Republicans then set aside their claim to represent small government, and pass even more draconian laws to clamp down on terrorist optical products.
We can't just have people buying whatever eyewear they want. For all we know, they could be nearsighted from watching kiddie porn on the cellphones.
The "prescription" requirement for contacts is a racket. A mature person can go a decade or more without their eyesight changing significantly, and is perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether they need a new prescription or not. No other country has this stupid nanny government requirement.
I live in America, and buy my contacts from the UK. They take a few extra days to arrive, and cost an extra $2 in shipping, but I save $100 in doctor fees and 2 hours of my time commuting to a doctor and sitting in a waiting room.
There are also good online sources of contacts that ship from Mexico and Canada.
This is basically guessing that one approach is better than the other, because there's no way to directly measure the mass of those stars.
Not true. You can accurately measure the mass of stars in binary and planetary systems by the orbital radius and orbital period.
Then you take these stars of accurately known mass and calculate their mass again using the "flicker" method and the "brightness" method. The flicker method works better.
So how do you know that binary stars flicker the same way that solitary stars flicker? Simple: If binary stars differed in their flickering behavior, then binaries with close and/or massive partners would be much more affected than a binary with a distant red dwarf partner orbiting at 1000 AUs. But they aren't. Ergo, flickering is an accurate way to measure stellar mass.
Evidence suggests he was not. He was never part of Donald's inner circle. Mike Flynn was fired for lying to Pence. If Pence was "in on it", Flynn wouldn't have lied, and Pence wouldn't have been asking.
Pence would be worse on social issues, but he would likely be better on foreign policy, and economic management.
The thing is open source, if you really want x86-64, grab the code and write something:)
x86 is hard to decompile. It doesn't have fixed length instructions, so it is difficult to figure out where opcodes begin and end. It is even possible to write code that can execute two different sequences of instructions by offsetting the instruction pointer by a byte. I don't think any decompiler could deobfusticate that.
Economic sense: An Indian farmer in Uttar Pradesh installing a solar panel to reduce his electric bill so he can afford to feed his family.
Is economic sense calculating the total cost of using renewable energy sources AND their minimal carbon footprint?
Do you think a 3rd World parent with hungry kids gives a crap about "minimal carbon footprint"?
Look, America emits 14% of global CO2, and that percentage is declining. The growth in CO2 emissions is coming almost entirely from the 3rd World, and we need to find solutions that work there. Policies that make us feel good about reducing America's emissions, while leaving the rest of the world to pollute even more, are not constructive.
Slashdot Mirror
They said the bitcoin bubble would bust at $200
I remember, right here on Slashdot, people predicting the bubble was going to pop when bitcoin reached $1.
We can thank "terrorists" for:
(1) an Ireland free of British control
(2) the State of Israel (the Irgun)
(3) slowing down Nazi atrocities in Europe (the resistance movements were branded as "terrorists")
(4) the American Revolution, for better or worse
In none of these instances were the insurgents allowed to protest peacefully, nor were they able to change the system democratically
Blocking a street is not a felony, it is a misdemeanor, and it is illegal. People should be arrested for it. You can protest without breaking the law.
Once you allow protestors to break the law, blocking streets, and destroying property, then where do you draw the line? You are on a slippery slope to Timothy McVeigh.
One reason for concern:
It makes it easier for police to do their work.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make police work more efficient, but have fewer police? Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the last 25 years, yet we have more police than ever.
Police work should be difficult
Would you support other measures to make police work more difficult? For instance, we could only hire police with an IQ of 80 or below. We could make them write with their left hands. We could make them use Widows 8.
not going after protesters, "vice", or jaywalkers.
Maybe we should get rid of laws against "vice" and jaywalking, rather than just not enforcing them.
When the answers to the debate are embodied in laws then the appropriate forum of debate is the legislature, not the unilateral decision to break the law.
Bullcrap. People have, not only a right, but a duty to refuse to obey unjust laws. Uber's violations were certainly more self-serving than the civil disobedience of the civil rights and anti-colonialism movements, but they helped to bring down a corrupt system, and we should be thankful for that.
This is over year old article.
Instead of "below minimum wage" it shows that nationally Uber pays nearly THREE TIMES the minimum wage. Prices have indeed gone down, but by no where near that amount. Prices have been going down because Uber is attracting more drivers than they need ... because the pay and working conditions are clearly attractive to a lot of people.
Also "expenses" did not include a car cost or amortization.
It includes wear-and-tear and depreciation on a milage basis. It does not, and SHOULD NOT include the cost of the car, since few people are buying a car just to work for Uber.
... make terrible financial decisions in their personal lives.
Except that isn't happening in this case. For a near-zero-skill part time job with flexible hours, Uber pays pretty well.
these are sub-minimum wage gigs.
My sister drives for Uber and makes about $18 per hour after expenses. This is in line with the national average of about $20 per hour. Some areas are lower, with Detroit being the lowest at $8-$9 per hour, but even that is above minimum wage.
People are not as stupid and helpless as you assume. If Uber really paid sub-minimum wage, they wouldn't be able to attract drivers.
It isn't clear if the allegations are true. TFA says the accuser "walked back" some of his allegations, which is a euphemism for "admitted he was lying".
Once a witness has been shown to be a liar, their other allegations tend to be less credible as well. So unless his allegations can be corroborated by other witnesses, or supported by evidence, they don't amount to much. Liars lie.
I believe Mozilla probably can be sued under the CFAA.
Anyone can be sued for anything. But you aren't going to do it. If you were someone actually capable of preparing and filing a lawsuit, you wouldn't be anonymously blabbing about it on Slashdot.
Litigating a case like this could easily cost $100k. Justice isn't cheap. I doubt if you, personally, could show more than $1 in damages.
I wonder how the citation numbers would change if you subtract the citations with authors citing their earlier works and work of others in their own research groups...
You also need to subtract "cycles": I cite your papers, you cite mine. Sometimes citation cycles have 3 or more participants: A cites B, B cites C, C cites A.
OR, it could be that if optometrists and/or ophthalmologists (whichever it is,) DIDN'T have this repeat business, they'd have to charge MUCH more money for the INITIAL diagnosis and prescription
This is exactly the opposite of how economics actually works. If there is an oversupply of ophthalmologists, and not enough demand, competition will push prices DOWN until enough of them quit.
Since many medical insurance plans often don't cover vision, this is one of the few medical fields with actual competition.
You mind saying where in the UK, specifically? I've run into this problem myself recently.
I got them from Vision Direct. I picked because they were the first link when I Google for "no prescription contacts". Their prices seemed reasonable, but the shipping was slow. Order at least a few weeks before you need them. The quality was exactly the same as any local company.
Fine by me, so long as you then sign a document stating you won't be going to any publicly-funded hospital as a result of fucking-up your eyes.
Your logic is backwards. The legal requirement for expensive eye exams raises the price of new contacts, and means that more people are going to be wearing old contacts that irritate their eyes, or going without corrective lenses at all.
Periodic glaucoma testing, however, really is a good idea.
If you are non-diabetic, normal or low weight, and have low or normal blood pressure, it is very unlikely that you have glaucoma.
It is only the other 65% that need to worry.
I think the real reason is that Democrats wear contacts and Republicans wear glasses.
Libertarians just squint.
Maybe not by law (I haven't checked), but most glasses shops won't cut a set without it.
I have never, not once, had a problem buying glasses with an outdated prescription. I currently buy from Zenni Optical. They don't even ask for the date. There is no legal requirement for them to check. I just type in the data from my old prescription.
I have ALWAYS, every time, had a problem buying contacts ... until I started ordering overseas. It is ILLEGAL for an American company to sell contacts without a current prescription.
There's absolutely no sane reason why a current, valid prescription should be required when getting glasses or contacts manufactured.
Quibble: A recent prescription is NOT required for glasses. Only contacts.
No. Underage drinking has consequences.
Not getting an updated prescription also has consequences: An optometrist fails to earn $100 for doing unnecessary busy work, he gets mad and calls the AMA, and then they call the politicians and threaten to withhold their millions in campaign donations, mostly to Republican candidates. The Republicans then set aside their claim to represent small government, and pass even more draconian laws to clamp down on terrorist optical products.
We can't just have people buying whatever eyewear they want. For all we know, they could be nearsighted from watching kiddie porn on the cellphones.
The "prescription" requirement for contacts is a racket. A mature person can go a decade or more without their eyesight changing significantly, and is perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether they need a new prescription or not. No other country has this stupid nanny government requirement.
I live in America, and buy my contacts from the UK. They take a few extra days to arrive, and cost an extra $2 in shipping, but I save $100 in doctor fees and 2 hours of my time commuting to a doctor and sitting in a waiting room.
There are also good online sources of contacts that ship from Mexico and Canada.
This is basically guessing that one approach is better than the other, because there's no way to directly measure the mass of those stars.
Not true. You can accurately measure the mass of stars in binary and planetary systems by the orbital radius and orbital period.
Then you take these stars of accurately known mass and calculate their mass again using the "flicker" method and the "brightness" method. The flicker method works better.
So how do you know that binary stars flicker the same way that solitary stars flicker? Simple: If binary stars differed in their flickering behavior, then binaries with close and/or massive partners would be much more affected than a binary with a distant red dwarf partner orbiting at 1000 AUs. But they aren't. Ergo, flickering is an accurate way to measure stellar mass.
Even if you ignore the few 32-bit instructions in thumb it is still common to interleave data with the code.
The difference is that with x86 you can interleave code with code.
You can't do that with RISC.
Now if Pence is part of such collusion ...
Evidence suggests he was not. He was never part of Donald's inner circle. Mike Flynn was fired for lying to Pence. If Pence was "in on it", Flynn wouldn't have lied, and Pence wouldn't have been asking.
Pence would be worse on social issues, but he would likely be better on foreign policy, and economic management.
The thing is open source, if you really want x86-64, grab the code and write something :)
x86 is hard to decompile. It doesn't have fixed length instructions, so it is difficult to figure out where opcodes begin and end. It is even possible to write code that can execute two different sequences of instructions by offsetting the instruction pointer by a byte. I don't think any decompiler could deobfusticate that.
Define ECONOMIC SENSE.
Economic sense: An Indian farmer in Uttar Pradesh installing a solar panel to reduce his electric bill so he can afford to feed his family.
Is economic sense calculating the total cost of using renewable energy sources AND their minimal carbon footprint?
Do you think a 3rd World parent with hungry kids gives a crap about "minimal carbon footprint"?
Look, America emits 14% of global CO2, and that percentage is declining. The growth in CO2 emissions is coming almost entirely from the 3rd World, and we need to find solutions that work there. Policies that make us feel good about reducing America's emissions, while leaving the rest of the world to pollute even more, are not constructive.