And the standard of care is the same as what Romney would get? The status quo in the US is that the care given to the sick and ailing is aligned with the amount of cash you have. At it's root, are the weathy more deserving - does the balance in the bank determine the value of the person? Is a defacto caste system what you want?
If you support private health care, that is the philosophy that you are also supporting.
I live in Canada, where we often hear our public system demonized in US political discourse. I was born with an extra toe on my right foot, forked from the smallest toe (mutant!!!). At age two, it was surgically removed in hospital. My parents paid nothing, I had an overnight stay in a hospital. I can only imagine what that would have cost in the US. As it wasn't life saving (and not drastically debillitating), I could understand a family without the means in the US deciding not to have the proceedure, rather dealing with the deformity day to day, with special shoes, inability to participate in some sports with special footwear, and the general stigma of being different. Our system treats every life as worth saving. It seems ironic that the US will spend billions of dollars and thousands of young lives on wars in far away lands under the guise of spreading freedom and democracy, but not care for it's weak and sick equally at home.
The proliferation of the video was unwise, and maybe irresponsible, but should not be illegal. The onus for the violence does and should rest with the rioters, not with the publisher of a crappy video. Ignorant people will do dumb things no matter how lightly the enlightened can tiptoe.
Malware like this is unique in warfare in that the payload can be recovered intact, reverse engineered, and deployed for other motives quite easily, and (from my admittedly limited understanding) requires only off-the-shelf technological overhead. I've read several articles here recently about critical infrastructure related SCADA equipment needing per-site patches due to backdoors and poor default security settings. Presuming the proliferators of this malware based espionage are intelligent and can predict the following chain of events, they must have deemed this to be an acceptable risk, or even want it to happen...
I wonder what the legal liabilities for the originating state(s) are when a modified version impact their own citizens and infrastructure? It worries me that nations are running headlong into this type of undeclared war. Bioweapons are limited in their usefulness in warfare for this very reason - their propensity to harm non-combatants on both sides. With our dependance on IT and networks in all areas including the provisions of the necessities of life, when this escalates, it won't be pretty.
But she wasn't. She shot her own brother dead with a shotgun as a teenager, ran off with the gun and tried to steal a car from a dealership with it. The police somehow failed to charge her - dooming those people years later.
Crazy people happen - we need to notice them, especially when slapping us in the face.
This isn't new either. A friend of the family is a retired pilot (pre-9/11) who used to do lots of intercontinental long haul passenger flights, which I'd guess have the longest periods of relative inactivity for the pilots. He said their procedural handbook had a long and quite specific list of the activities pilots were not allowed to do while in autopilot to pass the time (sleep, read, etc.). It didn't say he couldn't be flytying...that's always been a great image for me. I imagine it would be hard to do if there was any turbulance at all.
Now the tiny scissors, and needles likely would be screened out.
So net neutrality is pandering to special interests and "picking winners and losers" according to Romney? Any leader who considers the individual a special interest, and thinks that not backing net neutrality isn't by default picking winners and losers is either an idiot or a liar, or both. Picking winners and losers is your damn job - pretty much the crux of it. The "letting the market decide" BS is letting the powerful corporate interests win. Any "invisible hand" or "let the market decide" crap went out the window with the bailouts.
While I can understand the anger of the smallfry Facebook investors in light of the price moves over the last few days, when you take a step back and look at the financial crises we’ve been seeing in the market over the last few years, just by swimming in the same pool as the “too big to fail” investment houses, banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and mutant variations of the same, individual investors are guaranteed not to come out ahead. Let’s think about it:
When their bets go bad, taxpayers are forced to bail them out. Do you get a bailout if you make a poor investment? Apparently not, given the foreclosures in real estate we’ve see over the last few years (I would argue that homes shouldn’t be viewed as an growth investment – if it maintains its value adjusted for inflation, fine.) Guess who holds your deed when the music stops. Who stopped the music? The “too big to fails” (going forward, TBTFs).
If the allegations of these lawsuits are true, you (the individual investor) can’t trust the players (and in the aggregate the system they comprise). TBTFs make commissions on selling you stocks, while aggressively marketing investments that their armies of analysts know are dogs. TBTFs also bet on that disparity of knowledge with complex short positions to profit from it further. If these allegations are true, at least now the emperor has no clothes, and we can see the market for the shell game it really is.
Meanwhile, some of these TBTFs have another arm that will sell insurance, which at its root is based on the premise of taking in more money in the aggregate than the sum of what is paid out. They will then aggressively deny claims, support the private investigation industry to protect their bottom line, all the while gambling with your money they are holding on your behalf, again, knowing they will be bailed out if they screw up (hey, they are TBTFs after all). Meanwhile America can’t figure out that cutting out the middle men in this equation and making health care public might lead to a healthier and more equitable society.
If a TBTF’s electronic trading algorithm gets gamed by another TBTF’s quant that figures out a hole in their model’s reaction to a market moving strategy, too bad. The assumption that the market is based on rational actors with equal information is out the window, when electronic trading is based on trading speed and guarded algorithms warring with each other. But the gurus on MSNBC won’t talk about the quant wars. They’ll give you all sorts of simple investment philosophies grounded in the myth that the market is at all based on any measure individual investors have any hope of deciphering.
On the other hand, my guns and ammo have appreciated well over the last few years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicolas_Island
Could be totally wrong, my knowledge of California geography isn't so great, but apparently the military test launches from here once in a while, even this year.
A couple of months without electricity? I'll grab my camping stuff from the loft. Shelter, fire, water, food, in that order. I can get that within walking distance of my home, and I don't mean from a store.
I know it's almost cliche to make a joke about "not going outside" on/. but I'm sure the people who can't fend for themselves will be able to get a job aiding the repair in exchange for their vital requirements.
You have a couple months of food available to you? Kudos...look out for the other millions of people without that convenience coming to take what you claim as yours.
Did Haitians all get jobs in the recovery? I mean, they're right next to an ocean filled with fish!
This is the same Pipes who advocated oversight of left leaning academics in case they poison their fragile students after 9/11?
People to advocate such things are the truest enemies of the state.
I saw him speak at my school, and he had to be hustled out of the room by his hosts after failing to respond to valid criticism of his borderline racist/fascist agenda.
Fox is selling the first 4 episodes on DVD (Amazon) so depending how this was distributed it could even be a retailer. If you are going to be that quick to market the DVD after airing the episodes, these DVDs have been sitting somewhere for a while now, or out for pressing.
If you are in DVD production before the initial airing...Fox didn't ask for it, but wouldn't have needed a crystal ball to predict it either. Fox is trying to get the cat back in the bag.
I worked at one of the major computer/office machine retailers in North America, and we would often see attempts of return fraud and brazen theft. A few that stand out in memory are the router box looking pristine and still shrinkwrapped on the outside, was found to contain a jumble of random AV cords to approximate the weight of the original product, many mismatched serial number returns, B routers in G boxes. We even had a couple walk in with a stroller with a blanket over it complete with phony kid legs hanging out the bottom. I tell you, work retail for a short period, and you'll lose faith in humanity. Especially when a manager lets it go because they are too afraid to tell a customer that for once they aren't right.
My one piece of advice to consumers, is scrutinize your boxes before you take them home. If it's been retaped, don't buy it. Sure, 75% are fine, but it's the other 25% you don't want. Associates cannot possibly test the products to be OK, we aren't paid enough to care, when fraud is caught nothing comes of it, and you end up doing the vast majority of the legwork to recify the issue if it doesn't work. Force retailers to tighten return policies through consumer choice, or buy online to avoid this altogether.
Big box retailers don't give a damn about return fraud, or at least not in proportion to the amount that goes on. In the end, it's the honest customer that pays higher prices to cover the costs, and backwards rebate structures make up for it.
I had a manager tell me once that when we beat sales expectations, it essentially means the employees on the floor are overworked, and that is a good thing to head office. It isn't just individuals to blame, think Enron, Worldcom, and Haliburton. There is a corporate ethos that if you can get away with it, do it. The corporation and profit is our culture, and culture is shredding our social fabric. Observe the result.
John Rae?
Did you mean Bob Rae?
Facts are one thing you should check, but names are more important. Yes, if you want quick health care, you can pay through the nose for it. But saying some of our politicians do something doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.
I take enough comfort in that if I am in a car accident, I can go to any hospital I want, and not pay a cent. If you want to pay to have your bunions removed, get big tits, or have surgery while putting some doctor's kid through college more power to you. I go to the hospital only when necessary, and it's been there for me - and I don't have to canvas friends and family for cash before I go.
I'm not saying that it'd work with the current 1/5th scale mockups they've done, obviously it'd need modifications. But the principle, and many of the replies have suggested good ideas, like kevlar layering, and piles of soil. Hell, 8 feet of packed snow can stop small arms fire. http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?story=6997
Military prefab buildings and facilities make sense for long term bases, but for a small team to assemble with limited equipment it would make sense. And clean water isn't needed to mix with cement, brackish standing water would work too.
Amen. I work in the tech department of a big-box store, and spyware/virus removal is the majority of what I see. I use BartPE, but it feels like it's trying to be Knoppix. And it would be useful, because most people aren't willing/knowledgable enough to make the switch, because they don't want to lose support for their card games, and if something went wrong, finding someone who knew linux well enough to fix it would be tough.
The military will be all over this. Think about airdropping an advance team in some clearing, give them 12 hours, and they have a defendable base with concrete walls. Portable bunker. If it could be adapted to making other shapes of concrete surfaces, drop a large number of them, and make a concrete landing strip. Rapid deployment operations and base fortification would have days cut off their time.
I've heard it mentionned before, but for me it occasionally renders the main window text overlapping the sidebar...just ctrl+ and ctrl- and it fixes it. I don't mind taking that step one in ten times.
While I do applaud increased political participation in any form, I worry that the influence of the blog communities and new social networks formed on the internet may not have as much of an impact as the author suggests.
Grassroots political organizations are relatively open institutions already. If you show up in person with a decent work ethic, and a willingness to help, they'll likely bring you onboard.
By helping a campaign in person, you actively go out and seek likeminded individuals to join your cause, and can reach a broad array of people, including those who don't primarily use the internet to form political ideals, because of the variation in the quality of discourse (with a heavy concentration of low quality junk). If you look at the efforts of 'e-activists', I would argue that it would be far more valuable for online community participants to get off their desk chairs, and help a campaign in the flesh. There will always be a need for people to fold the fliers, and go door to door reaching beyond an insular communities that sap the already waning civic participation rates of the public. Ranting about politics on a blog is not a meaningful form of political participation, because it requires someone to stumble across it, and accept it as worth reading. And as Skocpol points out, participation is largely restricted demographically to the middle/upperclass, and largely white. The article glosses over this point, saying that increased internet usage by the next generation will level the field...but these kids are likely to be from the same demographic pool.
The real value of using online communities in political activism is in supplementing 'real world' activities, like delegating tasks, posting meeting times and minutes, and a more open dialogue regarding policies and platforms. Parties need to embrace this change (top down) for it to have any effect, rather than being only clusters of unorganized opinion.
The ones it really effected have been sitting in Gitmo, or other military prisons without trial or charge or representation for 2 years +. They can't see the computer monitor with those black hoods on.
And their karma is going stagnant too.
What about security concerns? I'm not a programmer, but I assume a gmail checker needs a password from the user, does it not? Maybe they want to prevent someone from writing some password grabbing backdoor in an email checker...I mean, think of the number of targets that would use Gmail once it goes fully public. The general public on reading "gmail passwords compromised" wouldn't get that it was a third party issue, but associate it with Google. By providing such a service themselves, and restricting others' ability to do so, they retain control. Smart of them if you ask me, so long as it's not bloated, which it doesn't appear to be.
My guess for the current title is Halifax (Canada, during WWI) when an ammo ship collided with another ship in the harbour, and levelled much of the city. I remember reading about a piece of the anchor being found several kilometres (yeah that's right - metric) away.
Here's a link
http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/
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And the standard of care is the same as what Romney would get? The status quo in the US is that the care given to the sick and ailing is aligned with the amount of cash you have. At it's root, are the weathy more deserving - does the balance in the bank determine the value of the person? Is a defacto caste system what you want?
If you support private health care, that is the philosophy that you are also supporting.
I live in Canada, where we often hear our public system demonized in US political discourse. I was born with an extra toe on my right foot, forked from the smallest toe (mutant!!!). At age two, it was surgically removed in hospital. My parents paid nothing, I had an overnight stay in a hospital. I can only imagine what that would have cost in the US. As it wasn't life saving (and not drastically debillitating), I could understand a family without the means in the US deciding not to have the proceedure, rather dealing with the deformity day to day, with special shoes, inability to participate in some sports with special footwear, and the general stigma of being different. Our system treats every life as worth saving. It seems ironic that the US will spend billions of dollars and thousands of young lives on wars in far away lands under the guise of spreading freedom and democracy, but not care for it's weak and sick equally at home.
The proliferation of the video was unwise, and maybe irresponsible, but should not be illegal. The onus for the violence does and should rest with the rioters, not with the publisher of a crappy video. Ignorant people will do dumb things no matter how lightly the enlightened can tiptoe.
Malware like this is unique in warfare in that the payload can be recovered intact, reverse engineered, and deployed for other motives quite easily, and (from my admittedly limited understanding) requires only off-the-shelf technological overhead. I've read several articles here recently about critical infrastructure related SCADA equipment needing per-site patches due to backdoors and poor default security settings. Presuming the proliferators of this malware based espionage are intelligent and can predict the following chain of events, they must have deemed this to be an acceptable risk, or even want it to happen...
I wonder what the legal liabilities for the originating state(s) are when a modified version impact their own citizens and infrastructure? It worries me that nations are running headlong into this type of undeclared war. Bioweapons are limited in their usefulness in warfare for this very reason - their propensity to harm non-combatants on both sides. With our dependance on IT and networks in all areas including the provisions of the necessities of life, when this escalates, it won't be pretty.
But she wasn't. She shot her own brother dead with a shotgun as a teenager, ran off with the gun and tried to steal a car from a dealership with it. The police somehow failed to charge her - dooming those people years later.
Crazy people happen - we need to notice them, especially when slapping us in the face.
Thanks Al Gore...
This isn't new either. A friend of the family is a retired pilot (pre-9/11) who used to do lots of intercontinental long haul passenger flights, which I'd guess have the longest periods of relative inactivity for the pilots. He said their procedural handbook had a long and quite specific list of the activities pilots were not allowed to do while in autopilot to pass the time (sleep, read, etc.). It didn't say he couldn't be flytying...that's always been a great image for me. I imagine it would be hard to do if there was any turbulance at all. Now the tiny scissors, and needles likely would be screened out.
So net neutrality is pandering to special interests and "picking winners and losers" according to Romney? Any leader who considers the individual a special interest, and thinks that not backing net neutrality isn't by default picking winners and losers is either an idiot or a liar, or both. Picking winners and losers is your damn job - pretty much the crux of it. The "letting the market decide" BS is letting the powerful corporate interests win. Any "invisible hand" or "let the market decide" crap went out the window with the bailouts.
When their bets go bad, taxpayers are forced to bail them out. Do you get a bailout if you make a poor investment? Apparently not, given the foreclosures in real estate we’ve see over the last few years (I would argue that homes shouldn’t be viewed as an growth investment – if it maintains its value adjusted for inflation, fine.) Guess who holds your deed when the music stops. Who stopped the music? The “too big to fails” (going forward, TBTFs).
If the allegations of these lawsuits are true, you (the individual investor) can’t trust the players (and in the aggregate the system they comprise). TBTFs make commissions on selling you stocks, while aggressively marketing investments that their armies of analysts know are dogs. TBTFs also bet on that disparity of knowledge with complex short positions to profit from it further. If these allegations are true, at least now the emperor has no clothes, and we can see the market for the shell game it really is.
Meanwhile, some of these TBTFs have another arm that will sell insurance, which at its root is based on the premise of taking in more money in the aggregate than the sum of what is paid out. They will then aggressively deny claims, support the private investigation industry to protect their bottom line, all the while gambling with your money they are holding on your behalf, again, knowing they will be bailed out if they screw up (hey, they are TBTFs after all). Meanwhile America can’t figure out that cutting out the middle men in this equation and making health care public might lead to a healthier and more equitable society.
If a TBTF’s electronic trading algorithm gets gamed by another TBTF’s quant that figures out a hole in their model’s reaction to a market moving strategy, too bad. The assumption that the market is based on rational actors with equal information is out the window, when electronic trading is based on trading speed and guarded algorithms warring with each other. But the gurus on MSNBC won’t talk about the quant wars. They’ll give you all sorts of simple investment philosophies grounded in the myth that the market is at all based on any measure individual investors have any hope of deciphering.
On the other hand, my guns and ammo have appreciated well over the last few years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicolas_Island Could be totally wrong, my knowledge of California geography isn't so great, but apparently the military test launches from here once in a while, even this year.
A couple of months without electricity? I'll grab my camping stuff from the loft. Shelter, fire, water, food, in that order. I can get that within walking distance of my home, and I don't mean from a store. I know it's almost cliche to make a joke about "not going outside" on /. but I'm sure the people who can't fend for themselves will be able to get a job aiding the repair in exchange for their vital requirements.
You have a couple months of food available to you? Kudos...look out for the other millions of people without that convenience coming to take what you claim as yours. Did Haitians all get jobs in the recovery? I mean, they're right next to an ocean filled with fish!
Sharp's exec staff is taking a 10-30% pay cut for the next 3 months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/technology/13panel.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
PM me for the address for the $50.
This is the same Pipes who advocated oversight of left leaning academics in case they poison their fragile students after 9/11? People to advocate such things are the truest enemies of the state. I saw him speak at my school, and he had to be hustled out of the room by his hosts after failing to respond to valid criticism of his borderline racist/fascist agenda.
If you buy milk and bread on credit, you may have bigger issues.
Fox is selling the first 4 episodes on DVD (Amazon) so depending how this was distributed it could even be a retailer. If you are going to be that quick to market the DVD after airing the episodes, these DVDs have been sitting somewhere for a while now, or out for pressing. If you are in DVD production before the initial airing...Fox didn't ask for it, but wouldn't have needed a crystal ball to predict it either. Fox is trying to get the cat back in the bag.
I worked at one of the major computer/office machine retailers in North America, and we would often see attempts of return fraud and brazen theft. A few that stand out in memory are the router box looking pristine and still shrinkwrapped on the outside, was found to contain a jumble of random AV cords to approximate the weight of the original product, many mismatched serial number returns, B routers in G boxes. We even had a couple walk in with a stroller with a blanket over it complete with phony kid legs hanging out the bottom. I tell you, work retail for a short period, and you'll lose faith in humanity. Especially when a manager lets it go because they are too afraid to tell a customer that for once they aren't right.
My one piece of advice to consumers, is scrutinize your boxes before you take them home. If it's been retaped, don't buy it. Sure, 75% are fine, but it's the other 25% you don't want. Associates cannot possibly test the products to be OK, we aren't paid enough to care, when fraud is caught nothing comes of it, and you end up doing the vast majority of the legwork to recify the issue if it doesn't work. Force retailers to tighten return policies through consumer choice, or buy online to avoid this altogether.
Big box retailers don't give a damn about return fraud, or at least not in proportion to the amount that goes on. In the end, it's the honest customer that pays higher prices to cover the costs, and backwards rebate structures make up for it.
I had a manager tell me once that when we beat sales expectations, it essentially means the employees on the floor are overworked, and that is a good thing to head office. It isn't just individuals to blame, think Enron, Worldcom, and Haliburton. There is a corporate ethos that if you can get away with it, do it. The corporation and profit is our culture, and culture is shredding our social fabric. Observe the result.
John Rae? Did you mean Bob Rae? Facts are one thing you should check, but names are more important. Yes, if you want quick health care, you can pay through the nose for it. But saying some of our politicians do something doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. I take enough comfort in that if I am in a car accident, I can go to any hospital I want, and not pay a cent. If you want to pay to have your bunions removed, get big tits, or have surgery while putting some doctor's kid through college more power to you. I go to the hospital only when necessary, and it's been there for me - and I don't have to canvas friends and family for cash before I go.
I'm not saying that it'd work with the current 1/5th scale mockups they've done, obviously it'd need modifications. But the principle, and many of the replies have suggested good ideas, like kevlar layering, and piles of soil. Hell, 8 feet of packed snow can stop small arms fire. http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?story=6997 Military prefab buildings and facilities make sense for long term bases, but for a small team to assemble with limited equipment it would make sense. And clean water isn't needed to mix with cement, brackish standing water would work too.
Amen. I work in the tech department of a big-box store, and spyware/virus removal is the majority of what I see. I use BartPE, but it feels like it's trying to be Knoppix. And it would be useful, because most people aren't willing/knowledgable enough to make the switch, because they don't want to lose support for their card games, and if something went wrong, finding someone who knew linux well enough to fix it would be tough.
The military will be all over this. Think about airdropping an advance team in some clearing, give them 12 hours, and they have a defendable base with concrete walls. Portable bunker. If it could be adapted to making other shapes of concrete surfaces, drop a large number of them, and make a concrete landing strip. Rapid deployment operations and base fortification would have days cut off their time.
I've heard it mentionned before, but for me it occasionally renders the main window text overlapping the sidebar...just ctrl+ and ctrl- and it fixes it. I don't mind taking that step one in ten times.
Now maybe we can do away with specifically sized screen protectors, using the transparent stuff
While I do applaud increased political participation in any form, I worry that the influence of the blog communities and new social networks formed on the internet may not have as much of an impact as the author suggests. Grassroots political organizations are relatively open institutions already. If you show up in person with a decent work ethic, and a willingness to help, they'll likely bring you onboard. By helping a campaign in person, you actively go out and seek likeminded individuals to join your cause, and can reach a broad array of people, including those who don't primarily use the internet to form political ideals, because of the variation in the quality of discourse (with a heavy concentration of low quality junk). If you look at the efforts of 'e-activists', I would argue that it would be far more valuable for online community participants to get off their desk chairs, and help a campaign in the flesh. There will always be a need for people to fold the fliers, and go door to door reaching beyond an insular communities that sap the already waning civic participation rates of the public. Ranting about politics on a blog is not a meaningful form of political participation, because it requires someone to stumble across it, and accept it as worth reading. And as Skocpol points out, participation is largely restricted demographically to the middle/upperclass, and largely white. The article glosses over this point, saying that increased internet usage by the next generation will level the field...but these kids are likely to be from the same demographic pool. The real value of using online communities in political activism is in supplementing 'real world' activities, like delegating tasks, posting meeting times and minutes, and a more open dialogue regarding policies and platforms. Parties need to embrace this change (top down) for it to have any effect, rather than being only clusters of unorganized opinion.
The ones it really effected have been sitting in Gitmo, or other military prisons without trial or charge or representation for 2 years +. They can't see the computer monitor with those black hoods on. And their karma is going stagnant too.
What about security concerns? I'm not a programmer, but I assume a gmail checker needs a password from the user, does it not? Maybe they want to prevent someone from writing some password grabbing backdoor in an email checker...I mean, think of the number of targets that would use Gmail once it goes fully public. The general public on reading "gmail passwords compromised" wouldn't get that it was a third party issue, but associate it with Google. By providing such a service themselves, and restricting others' ability to do so, they retain control. Smart of them if you ask me, so long as it's not bloated, which it doesn't appear to be.
My guess for the current title is Halifax (Canada, during WWI) when an ammo ship collided with another ship in the harbour, and levelled much of the city. I remember reading about a piece of the anchor being found several kilometres (yeah that's right - metric) away. Here's a link http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/