They gave to the chamber of commerce which gave to a pac
Wrong. They donated directly to the CASE PAC.
If you want to fix it cap the election cycle to say 6 weeks, ban private donations and fund the campaigns from public funds.
Who gets public funds? Anyone running? Including Nazis? If Nazis are excluded, then who else is denied funding? If funding is based on poll results or performance in previous elections, then public funding will just protect incumbents.
Many countries have public funding schemes and none of them seem to work particularly well, nor lead to better government.
And you can get back the money you "contributed" to the NHS?
Of course not. That would put the NHS into a death spiral, as young healthy people would leave, get their rebate, and buy cheap private insurance, leaving only the old and sick.
But in that case there is a fourth and fifth and sixth party you can elect for.
in theory. In America, most people get their insurance from their employer, and have no choice. Those that get their insurance from Obamacare often have a choice of either one or two insurance companies, and the choices are dwindling as more insurers are squeezed out of the exchanges.
That third-party being either the Government or private insurance - so how are they different?
The private insurer has a profit motive. So they are more likely to charge smokers higher rates than to just deny them treatment as the government is doing here.
Still, the banking industry is employing more people, not less!
This is known as Jevons Paradox, but it really isn't a paradox at all. If you owned a bank, or factory, and automation increased productivity so each worker produced twice as much profit, would you fire half of your workers, or would you hire more?
Yeah, forget about silly things like personality and common interests.
They have subgroups for many common interests. Their members have a range of personalities, which you can explore by, you know, talking to them and socializing.
I am not a member, but I know people that are. They are weird, but not abnormally so.
The real weirdos are the people that feel a need to express their illusion of superiority by preaching about why they refuse to join every time Mensa is mentioned. Those people are worse than vegans.
Correlation is not causation. An obvious explanation is that intelligent people have higher incomes, and can afford to better medical care, which leads to more mental health diagnoses.
Then we will have to pay exectutives a lot more money to accept that risk.
And don't put them in some white-collar resort prison either.
America already imprisons four times as many people as any other 1st world country. If we are going to start putting people in prison for being stupid, we are going to need a lot more prisons.
Your company will have to contact each one directly, individually, and cut them a check for $1000
Get a grip on reality. Equifax had a profit of $488M last year. That is $3 per individual leak. Since their profits are likely to drastically decline this year, even expecting them to be able to pay $3 is unrealistic.
You have obviously never worked with Asian people. If you want to hear racism, learn a bit of Chinese or Hindi.
I know some Mandarin, and the worst I have heard is "heiren" which just means "black person". But what is often surprising to Americans is the total lack of "political correctness" in China. They will come right out and say "I don't like black people" even to strangers. I remember seeing this commercial when I lived in Shanghai. I thought it was hilariously offensive, but Chinese people didn't see anything wrong with it.
General solutions require Strong AI, which, for now, is science fiction.
Complaining that this self-learning Go program isn't general purpose is sort of like complaining that a better electric car battery won't help your Tesla reach Warp 9.
This is incremental progress, not a revolution, but it is still an interesting advance.
Hydrothermal vents are rare, most are much deeper than dolphins can go, and there is no plausible mechanism to use their heat to smelt or forge metal, especially with flippers instead of hands. Octopuses can grip and go deep, but they are not social, and hence would not develop a culture to accumulate knowledge across generations.
If girls prefer big, strong, muscular men with good reflexes, fighting skills - and perhaps some clever repartee thrown in for good measure - it's because those were the qualities a male partner needed for hundreds of thousands of years.
Obvious solution: When she isn't looking, slip some CRSPR-Cas9 into her drink to modernize her preferences.
Wrong Starbuck. The coffee chain was named after the whaler, who exerted evolutionary pressure on cetaceans to grow bigger brains, or at least thicker skulls.
I think they mean the opposite end of the spectrum as well. Those who think they are fat, even though they wear a size 0 dress. The ones that have to burn off the calories from a banana.
Burning off the banana calories with exercise is almost certainly better than vomiting it up, using laxatives to poop it out, or not eating it at all.
For everyone with an eating disorder who exercises too much, there are probably 10 that exercise too little.
There really should be big fines on this sort of irresponsible collection of sensitive data.
This would have an unintended consequence of giving companies an even greater incentive to cover up security breaches. They only have to pay the fine if they get caught.
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Placing political ads should should require some amount of disclosure.
Why? Please explain why anonymous political speech should be criminalized.
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Bullcrap. If the government was not trying to control speech, then there would be no reason for these laws.
This merely brings in line the regulations around internet ads to be similar to TV and print.
We should be removing restrictions, not extending them.
They gave to the chamber of commerce which gave to a pac
Wrong. They donated directly to the CASE PAC.
If you want to fix it cap the election cycle to say 6 weeks, ban private donations and fund the campaigns from public funds.
Who gets public funds? Anyone running? Including Nazis? If Nazis are excluded, then who else is denied funding? If funding is based on poll results or performance in previous elections, then public funding will just protect incumbents.
Many countries have public funding schemes and none of them seem to work particularly well, nor lead to better government.
Unfortunately that runs afoul of that pesky concept of "no taxation without representation."
It also runs afoul of the "Congress shall make no law" clause in the pesky 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Considering people's mouths are more or less the same size, no one should be allowed to contribute more money than anyone else.
It takes more money to be a successful challenger than to be reelected as an incumbent. So limits on spending tend to mean less turnover.
My favorite argument against socialized medicine. It turns individual's bodies into a public problem. Keep your laws off my body.
Government control of bodies was around long before socialized medicine: Drug laws, sodomy laws, prostitution laws, helmet laws, etc.
And you can get back the money you "contributed" to the NHS?
Of course not. That would put the NHS into a death spiral, as young healthy people would leave, get their rebate, and buy cheap private insurance, leaving only the old and sick.
But in that case there is a fourth and fifth and sixth party you can elect for.
in theory. In America, most people get their insurance from their employer, and have no choice. Those that get their insurance from Obamacare often have a choice of either one or two insurance companies, and the choices are dwindling as more insurers are squeezed out of the exchanges.
That third-party being either the Government or private insurance - so how are they different?
The private insurer has a profit motive. So they are more likely to charge smokers higher rates than to just deny them treatment as the government is doing here.
Yes this is weird. Any journalists that "pre-report" what they expect their future articles to say, have some serious integrity issues.
Still, the banking industry is employing more people, not less!
This is known as Jevons Paradox, but it really isn't a paradox at all. If you owned a bank, or factory, and automation increased productivity so each worker produced twice as much profit, would you fire half of your workers, or would you hire more?
Yeah, forget about silly things like personality and common interests.
They have subgroups for many common interests. Their members have a range of personalities, which you can explore by, you know, talking to them and socializing.
I am not a member, but I know people that are. They are weird, but not abnormally so.
The real weirdos are the people that feel a need to express their illusion of superiority by preaching about why they refuse to join every time Mensa is mentioned. Those people are worse than vegans.
Correlation is not causation. An obvious explanation is that intelligent people have higher incomes, and can afford to better medical care, which leads to more mental health diagnoses.
If a company doesn't pay attention to security, run in the other direction.
How do you know which companies are paying attention? Also, how does one "run" from Equifax? You are in their DB, whether you choose to be or not.
Haul some C-level execs away in handcuffs.
Then we will have to pay exectutives a lot more money to accept that risk.
And don't put them in some white-collar resort prison either.
America already imprisons four times as many people as any other 1st world country. If we are going to start putting people in prison for being stupid, we are going to need a lot more prisons.
Your company will have to contact each one directly, individually, and cut them a check for $1000
Get a grip on reality. Equifax had a profit of $488M last year. That is $3 per individual leak. Since their profits are likely to drastically decline this year, even expecting them to be able to pay $3 is unrealistic.
You have obviously never worked with Asian people. If you want to hear racism, learn a bit of Chinese or Hindi.
I know some Mandarin, and the worst I have heard is "heiren" which just means "black person". But what is often surprising to Americans is the total lack of "political correctness" in China. They will come right out and say "I don't like black people" even to strangers. I remember seeing this commercial when I lived in Shanghai. I thought it was hilariously offensive, but Chinese people didn't see anything wrong with it.
A general solution would be awesome.
General solutions require Strong AI, which, for now, is science fiction.
Complaining that this self-learning Go program isn't general purpose is sort of like complaining that a better electric car battery won't help your Tesla reach Warp 9.
This is incremental progress, not a revolution, but it is still an interesting advance.
... It can deal with hidden information.
So you mean something like poker? AI beats pros at Texas-Hold'em.
Hmm, if only there were some source of high density energy underwater.
Hydrothermal vents are rare, most are much deeper than dolphins can go, and there is no plausible mechanism to use their heat to smelt or forge metal, especially with flippers instead of hands. Octopuses can grip and go deep, but they are not social, and hence would not develop a culture to accumulate knowledge across generations.
If girls prefer big, strong, muscular men with good reflexes, fighting skills - and perhaps some clever repartee thrown in for good measure - it's because those were the qualities a male partner needed for hundreds of thousands of years.
Obvious solution: When she isn't looking, slip some CRSPR-Cas9 into her drink to modernize her preferences.
https://www.starbucks.com/
Wrong Starbuck. The coffee chain was named after the whaler, who exerted evolutionary pressure on cetaceans to grow bigger brains, or at least thicker skulls.
I think they mean the opposite end of the spectrum as well. Those who think they are fat, even though they wear a size 0 dress. The ones that have to burn off the calories from a banana.
Burning off the banana calories with exercise is almost certainly better than vomiting it up, using laxatives to poop it out, or not eating it at all.
For everyone with an eating disorder who exercises too much, there are probably 10 that exercise too little.
This version lacks CJK support as those characters are logographs rather than letters, thus they convey meaning rather than a series of sounds
That is true for C and J, but not for K. K is phonetic.
There really should be big fines on this sort of irresponsible collection of sensitive data.
This would have an unintended consequence of giving companies an even greater incentive to cover up security breaches. They only have to pay the fine if they get caught.