No, it's not. Profits would give you a vague idea of the ability to pay. Market cap is almost a made up number: As long as the stock is bought and sold in small handfuls, that's the theoretical value. But you can't actually sell them all and get that money. It's meaningless, and under the threat of fines and government action and litigation, that number is an outright lie.
A big part of the stock value, most of it, is future profits, which are now in jeopardy. 18B really, seriously hurts Volkswagen. That is a whole lot of money, even today. If it could possibly be that, the next meeting at VW is considering pulling out of the US market, and hiding behind Merkel's skirts. They probably won't, and it probably wont be close to 18B, hopefully.
I have a friend that has one. They run damned good and quiet too. You really can't tell it's a diesel as she zips thru the gears in traffic. She doesn't drive scary fast, but the thing is plenty quick when she wants it to be. I had no idea that a diesel car could be like that; now I see what the frikkin' Europeans have been talking about all these years. VW may not get much sympathy on this message board, or even in the press, but they will from their owners, and a good portion of the public that was fed up with the EPA as it was. They've sort of let the cat out of the bag on how the EPA has been holding us back. Those customers are not taking those cars in to be 'fixed', trust me on that. And I don't think you can make them. Maybe in some cites you can, not sure.
40 times, really? No black shit comes out of it, which is what dirty diesels do. And standing there talking next to the running car you can't smell it. But it would be fine if it was a giant Ford or Dodge that pulls up next to me like a house? It burns enough diesel idling at the light to power an African village for a day. It's so damned loud that I reach to turn the radio up, but it's too late; I passed out from the fucking fumes.
I also wonder if they intended to just pass the letter of the regulations, and then thought themselves very clever Germans. I mean, they are clever, and we do love their cars. But I'm not buying the whole thing yet at face value. I hope they are able to stand up for themselves. And yes, I probably trust VW more than the EPA.
More like person. And check out the garage over the woman's shoulder. Hoarders. It's only plural people because somebody at the Trump campaign instantly copped to it, and used the plural word customers; so apparently more than one person.
Everywhere I look these past few days there is nothing but piling on Trump. Honestly, I never expected him to bring the country together like this. Both left wing and right wing media alike really have it in for him. It's every story, everywhere. I never saw them so together on something, not even in the days after 9/11; not like this.
Heh. Funny. It's the insightful mod that makes me respond.
The kid was never terrified, he was quite smug, even described as passive aggressive in answering questions. 40 years ago they called it smart-alec. Don't get me wrong; good for him. I totally would have acted the same (I hope), hell I think I still would be smug about it at 50. 'It's a freaking clock; do you see explosives?' 'That largish capacitor is suspicious...' It'd be a stream of smart remarks.
Although, looking at the device; it's suspicious as hell. A briefcase that plugs into the wall and starts making noise? Complete with a ticking clock? He's supposed to get a hard time for that. Any of us would have gotten in trouble for carrying that around all day (this was not the science class) and showing it off and plugging it in. They used to call that 'disrupting class'.
The fact is, nobody really did anything wrong here, unless you want to go back to lawmakers extending police powers out of fear, and allowing the terrorists to win. And courts for allowing it to stand. I don't expect 9th grade social studies teachers to know the difference between homemade briefcase clocks and homemade briefcase bombs with clock interfaces as seen on TV. The cops didn't break the law by arresting him; it's easy enough to believe the responders can't tell a harmless homemade device from a harmful one. They got a complaint after all, what do they do; nothing?
The kid called the cops bluff by giving attitude, and it paid off for him. Good for him. Not sucking up while you're being oppressed, which we all have been in our youth; standing your ground; man, that's American as hell.
Nice touch dad, on pulling him out of that school the same day. So in the end, your family is smart and good, and you leave behind the fearful and ignorant before somebody gets hurt. (Consider private school dad; you might have to get a second job for it.)
Oh wait, not the end I bet. Now the crusaders of tolerance will march out to destroy the intolerant, as adjudicated by national social media. Obama is going to use this kid as a weapon against his political enemies. Let's see if he launches a DoJ investigation, or is content to stick to rhetoric. 50 - 50 I say.
This kid is going to make out like a bandit. Let's hope that is enough, because these things are getting expensive, socially, and that is not a bottomless well.
Ah, you were trying to be fancy. You said OCR, when you meant OMR; Optical Mark Recognition, which is what a Scantron does. I had to look that shit up.
The best of both worlds; a machine that can count ballots really really fast, and and all you need to double check it, is functional vision. Literally, a monkey could be trained to monitor a Scantron for accuracy.
That technology is so advanced, as to practically be magic.
But even if we could, why? It's hard to beat pen on paper for what it does. Matching that level of accountability is not its own reason for change.
The only thing I can think of is a voter that is too disabled to use a pen, but could touch the giant square button on a touch screen. Putting aside how narrow of a demographic that is, we've already had that covered forever. All those old people volunteers hanging around the voting place; that is what they are there for. They can and will go into the booth with you and assist you. Or you are allowed to bring your own assistant.
Pen and paper. I can think of nothing that beats it, even given edge case circumstances.
So we're really just looking for a single planet. And we communicate pretty good on this one without using neutrinos. I think it's a stretch to think even an advanced civilization would just quit using radio. What else is it good for?
Oh it's not as bad as all that. They wouldn't use amplitude and/or frequency to carry binary? I think they would, and we would see words. Might have trouble decoding it into a readable message. Unless it's easily decoded into the spoken word (which we still wouldn't understand), or video, it could be very very difficult to decode.
Longer wavelength, higher amplitude would have the best chance of cutting through interstellar noise. Like AM. And we have a few stations that really blast it. Is HAM lower than AM? There's something lower that AM right, and they really blast that too, don't they? And we're going to have some people, even if it's just Alaskans, continue to use radio like that that for quite a few hundred more years. It's hard to beat AM for what it does.
(Well, power lines with control frequencies embedded beat it up pretty good. But that's a signal that could be picked up too. Although that might sound a lot like a noisy star system.)
Visible light is right out really. How bright would that have to be? You can't even see our star from a few light years off. So shorter wavelengths are not even going to get here. But I see no reason why we wouldn't use radio forever. What else would you do with that bandwidth? The wavelength is too long to make it worth digitizing it. Given the cheapness of analog AM receivers and transmitters, that carry the spoken voice (and a bit of music) just fine the way they are, is what I mean by worth it.
Yeah.And if that's the case, I don't want to meet them either. Ah, it'd be neat at first, and I'm sure I would marvel and honor.
But basically, they are Pizarro, and we are the Incas. I believe they marveled too, and even honored. But it didn't take long for things to go badly for them. So I should not look forward to that.
Don't get me wrong, the Incan Empire was fucked up, and they got what was coming to them, probably a thousand years overdue. But still, truly considering your premise, I take less pleasure now in that moral judgement, and I'd rather not get what is coming to me.
Or, they are not Pizarro, and they don't come. At least not yet. Like you said.
Obviously, leaving your house for the customer's premise constitutes 'starting work', and being 'on the clock'. Wait, what clock? Do you carry the employer's timeclock in your car?
No, you're on salary. The clock premise is a little disingenuous from the get-go, isn't it? You're simply expected to work around 8 hours a day, 40 a week. Sometimes weekends, depending on the current project. If you don't get comp time for that later btw, then your job sucks. That's the reality for 99% of traveling jobs that anyone on/. might have. (If hourly traveling nurses are getting screwed out of significant drivetime, then that's a problem I guess, but I don't think we are talking about them.)
I'm not saying that it's not a fair ruling, my problem is in the fact that it is a 'ruling'. I can think of lots of situations where I would like to have the freedom to choose for myself, in concert with my employer, my own business. I mean, I still have the freedom to stop off at the titti bar on the way to the customers, no? What about leaving the last customer on Friday to go straight to the campsite? In fact, I re-arranged my schedule to have the most far-flung one at the end of the week, so I'd be that far out of town already. I even borrowed his bathroom to change into my casual clothes as I left.
Is all that the government's business now? Why? Was this the kind of court ruling to grant relief to some poor schlub who sued Boss Scrooge, or is it more of an edict handed down to the little people from on high? Sounds like the latter.
And btw, how is it fair that they get paid for driving to work and I don't? Even though they already did, and I didn't; that was a private agreement between them and theirs, and me and mine. Now it's not; it's a government regulation, and I absolutely want equality under government. I'll march in the street with a sign for that shit.
That's an extra hour a day for me. Cha-ching, free money!
Here we are talking about temporary foreign replacement workers, and you slip 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in, hoping no one would notice. Wrapping it with '40% of Fortune 500' was a nice touch, I'll give you that.
But I noticed. They fall for that bait and switch on the CNN and Fox forums. One should know better around here.
We Apple nerds admire the fuck out of Woz, even as we are genuflecting at the altar of Jobs.
You know the 'back in my day' competitions, where everyone has a hardship story, until one neckbeard joker says, "I had a 1 button keyboard, and I pounded in ones to make computer code. Couldn't afford 2 buttons, so I had to make my own zeros from scratch..."
And you look up, and it's fucking Woz, it's no joke, and he really figured out how to do that shit. Bite Me.
Thanks for the link. Been a while since I seen that. He only has the Macintosh on his mind, and he's determined not to slip up and spill the beans. But he still gives a decent talk, and even says he's going to burn extra processor power on the user interface. He's been back from Xerox for a few months when this was shot, and he's got the Mac in his mind as plain as day already.
Please don't jump on the Steve didn't help the Woz train. Woz would not have done it without him. Without Steve, there would have been a half dozen hobby boards like the Apple I, before the Woz got hired at SUN, where he would have gone on to do great work for some boss. The SUN would have had a floppy drive ahead of its time, and you would have never heard of the Woz. Do not doubt that Steve was over there bothering Woz every night, 'helping'. And do not doubt that the Woz needs a boss. (Takes one to know one)
Without the Woz, Steve would have had a nationally renowned typesetting and printing business, with a little photography, after 'drifting' for some number of years. Ironically, he would eventually be put out of business by the desktop publishing revolution, which, in a double irony, was delayed 10 years. He's still alive btw, because he didn't get so rich as to become weird about cancer treatments.
But slightly rich; good typesetters did pretty well back in the day...
It was. Sorry I got distracted over the weekend, I realize this is a bit late.
I remember a school in Africa. And they weren't even all in; it was a partnership they were facilitating and financing. Financing means somebody pays it back. Still, a sort of jumpstarter thing is still something. But that was a while ago, and I've seen ads since then about development and wireless and water and such. I haven't seen finished success stories on any of those things, and I would think the media would be all over them if they were there. They do love him.
Bill did go down to Haiti, and carried some money with him. I also remember some Haitian accusing him of being more about fluff and photo ops than actual cash. Just that, so maybe the right-wing nutters have infiltrated Haiti too.
Retrofitting buildings? That is news to me, and I said I was seriously asking. I can see that being easily lost in the AGW noise lately. In the US? Sounds like lucrative contracting work. Do they get carbon credits for doing that? That's probably just my skeptic talking, so I'll let that one go and take your correction.
Women's rights. I've seen those ads. Sounds a lot like trashing Republicans, but promoting; okay.
Allowing minorities access to better education. Allowing? Were they repressing them before? I kid. Yes, they fund a few little scholarships for minorities. Not any kind of full boat rides to good schools, but additional funds that might make the difference between one going of not. It is something.
That is the bulk of the charity they provide, and the entirety of it for quite a while now. Partial scholarships.
What is the 'Foundation' worth now? Well over half a billion? That we explicitly know of. Actually, you and I both know it's billions. A real charity spends a good portion of it's funds of the poor; what percentage do they lay out on a yearly basis?
Dude, it's a scam. It's a brilliant, perfect money making scheme. Of course, you have to be an ex-President to start it up, and a popular one at that. And it doesn't hurt to be a sitting Secretary of State, to really cash in on the big time.
Yes, Altavista was better than Yahoo. I remember reading that Yahoo was a static directory, updated by humans; whereas AV had a newfangled web crawler. Anyone remember the term 'spider'? Altavista wasn't known all that well though, and it was part of my geek cred to show it to users. And usually, it found what they were looking for.
Pretty much the moment Google came on the scene though, it was better than Altavista. AVs answer? Plaster the front page with ads and 'content'. Make it a 'portal' to the web.
Bush the Younger lived and worked in Texas as a young man. I believe he is retired there even now.
Hillary, on the other hand, had to quickly buy a house in NY as she got on the ballot. There was some question at the time as to whether she was actually a resident.
But I didn't attempt to draw an equivalence between the two families in the first place.
Lots? How is it that most everything she would put in an email would not be classified at least confidential, if not secret?
I mean, I would think that most every message the Secretary of State writes would be eyes-only to the people it is intended for. There's going to be a handful of "Congratulations on the birth of your Prime Minister's daughter", but most things she sends dealing with government business are going to be sensitive.
What is this history of public service? She had a Senate seat that was given to her, simply as preparation to be President. As if she's from New York, or anywhere near it...
Well, she did make a 10,000% profit in commodities in six months, and giant profits on Arkansas land deals while her husband was Governor. I'll grant those feats are pretty impressive. Not as impressive as a 'charity' foundation that rakes in many millions from overseas billionaires while she is simultaneously Secretary of State. What public service, exactly, has that charity funded by the way?
That's what I see in the 'public record' AC. What do you see?
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You know, that is a damned good point. This could be retaliation for what the EU is doing to Google. (Germany runs the EUs money)
How far back does the recall go? Quite a few years. They just now found out? No. They've been saving it.
No, it's not. Profits would give you a vague idea of the ability to pay. Market cap is almost a made up number: As long as the stock is bought and sold in small handfuls, that's the theoretical value. But you can't actually sell them all and get that money. It's meaningless, and under the threat of fines and government action and litigation, that number is an outright lie.
A big part of the stock value, most of it, is future profits, which are now in jeopardy. 18B really, seriously hurts Volkswagen. That is a whole lot of money, even today. If it could possibly be that, the next meeting at VW is considering pulling out of the US market, and hiding behind Merkel's skirts. They probably won't, and it probably wont be close to 18B, hopefully.
I have a friend that has one. They run damned good and quiet too. You really can't tell it's a diesel as she zips thru the gears in traffic. She doesn't drive scary fast, but the thing is plenty quick when she wants it to be. I had no idea that a diesel car could be like that; now I see what the frikkin' Europeans have been talking about all these years. VW may not get much sympathy on this message board, or even in the press, but they will from their owners, and a good portion of the public that was fed up with the EPA as it was. They've sort of let the cat out of the bag on how the EPA has been holding us back. Those customers are not taking those cars in to be 'fixed', trust me on that. And I don't think you can make them. Maybe in some cites you can, not sure.
40 times, really? No black shit comes out of it, which is what dirty diesels do. And standing there talking next to the running car you can't smell it. But it would be fine if it was a giant Ford or Dodge that pulls up next to me like a house? It burns enough diesel idling at the light to power an African village for a day. It's so damned loud that I reach to turn the radio up, but it's too late; I passed out from the fucking fumes.
I also wonder if they intended to just pass the letter of the regulations, and then thought themselves very clever Germans. I mean, they are clever, and we do love their cars. But I'm not buying the whole thing yet at face value. I hope they are able to stand up for themselves. And yes, I probably trust VW more than the EPA.
More like person. And check out the garage over the woman's shoulder. Hoarders. It's only plural people because somebody at the Trump campaign instantly copped to it, and used the plural word customers; so apparently more than one person.
Everywhere I look these past few days there is nothing but piling on Trump. Honestly, I never expected him to bring the country together like this. Both left wing and right wing media alike really have it in for him. It's every story, everywhere. I never saw them so together on something, not even in the days after 9/11; not like this.
Interesting times...
It looks like a briefcase:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnne...
Looking more closely, the relative size of the plug gives it away. Fine, a mini briefcase.
I was wrong. White boys bring shit like that to school every day, obviously. Carry on with the social outrage.
Heh. Funny. It's the insightful mod that makes me respond.
The kid was never terrified, he was quite smug, even described as passive aggressive in answering questions. 40 years ago they called it smart-alec. Don't get me wrong; good for him. I totally would have acted the same (I hope), hell I think I still would be smug about it at 50. 'It's a freaking clock; do you see explosives?' 'That largish capacitor is suspicious ...' It'd be a stream of smart remarks.
Although, looking at the device; it's suspicious as hell. A briefcase that plugs into the wall and starts making noise? Complete with a ticking clock? He's supposed to get a hard time for that. Any of us would have gotten in trouble for carrying that around all day (this was not the science class) and showing it off and plugging it in. They used to call that 'disrupting class'.
The fact is, nobody really did anything wrong here, unless you want to go back to lawmakers extending police powers out of fear, and allowing the terrorists to win. And courts for allowing it to stand. I don't expect 9th grade social studies teachers to know the difference between homemade briefcase clocks and homemade briefcase bombs with clock interfaces as seen on TV. The cops didn't break the law by arresting him; it's easy enough to believe the responders can't tell a harmless homemade device from a harmful one. They got a complaint after all, what do they do; nothing?
The kid called the cops bluff by giving attitude, and it paid off for him. Good for him. Not sucking up while you're being oppressed, which we all have been in our youth; standing your ground; man, that's American as hell.
Nice touch dad, on pulling him out of that school the same day. So in the end, your family is smart and good, and you leave behind the fearful and ignorant before somebody gets hurt. (Consider private school dad; you might have to get a second job for it.)
Oh wait, not the end I bet. Now the crusaders of tolerance will march out to destroy the intolerant, as adjudicated by national social media. Obama is going to use this kid as a weapon against his political enemies. Let's see if he launches a DoJ investigation, or is content to stick to rhetoric. 50 - 50 I say.
This kid is going to make out like a bandit. Let's hope that is enough, because these things are getting expensive, socially, and that is not a bottomless well.
Ah, you were trying to be fancy. You said OCR, when you meant OMR; Optical Mark Recognition, which is what a Scantron does. I had to look that shit up.
The best of both worlds; a machine that can count ballots really really fast, and and all you need to double check it, is functional vision. Literally, a monkey could be trained to monitor a Scantron for accuracy.
That technology is so advanced, as to practically be magic.
But even if we could, why? It's hard to beat pen on paper for what it does. Matching that level of accountability is not its own reason for change.
The only thing I can think of is a voter that is too disabled to use a pen, but could touch the giant square button on a touch screen. Putting aside how narrow of a demographic that is, we've already had that covered forever. All those old people volunteers hanging around the voting place; that is what they are there for. They can and will go into the booth with you and assist you. Or you are allowed to bring your own assistant.
Pen and paper. I can think of nothing that beats it, even given edge case circumstances.
If they were listening, yeah, they might. It would be the easiest thing to pick up from far away.
Really, yes.
So we're really just looking for a single planet. And we communicate pretty good on this one without using neutrinos. I think it's a stretch to think even an advanced civilization would just quit using radio. What else is it good for?
"any clue"
Oh it's not as bad as all that. They wouldn't use amplitude and/or frequency to carry binary? I think they would, and we would see words. Might have trouble decoding it into a readable message. Unless it's easily decoded into the spoken word (which we still wouldn't understand), or video, it could be very very difficult to decode.
But we would know we had something.
Yeah, but you almost make it bleak.
Longer wavelength, higher amplitude would have the best chance of cutting through interstellar noise. Like AM. And we have a few stations that really blast it. Is HAM lower than AM? There's something lower that AM right, and they really blast that too, don't they? And we're going to have some people, even if it's just Alaskans, continue to use radio like that that for quite a few hundred more years. It's hard to beat AM for what it does.
(Well, power lines with control frequencies embedded beat it up pretty good. But that's a signal that could be picked up too. Although that might sound a lot like a noisy star system.)
Visible light is right out really. How bright would that have to be? You can't even see our star from a few light years off. So shorter wavelengths are not even going to get here. But I see no reason why we wouldn't use radio forever. What else would you do with that bandwidth? The wavelength is too long to make it worth digitizing it. Given the cheapness of analog AM receivers and transmitters, that carry the spoken voice (and a bit of music) just fine the way they are, is what I mean by worth it.
Yeah.And if that's the case, I don't want to meet them either. Ah, it'd be neat at first, and I'm sure I would marvel and honor.
But basically, they are Pizarro, and we are the Incas. I believe they marveled too, and even honored. But it didn't take long for things to go badly for them. So I should not look forward to that.
Don't get me wrong, the Incan Empire was fucked up, and they got what was coming to them, probably a thousand years overdue. But still, truly considering your premise, I take less pleasure now in that moral judgement, and I'd rather not get what is coming to me.
Or, they are not Pizarro, and they don't come. At least not yet. Like you said.
Is it really so different over there? You don't work 8/40 in most office jobs? I know that in England the work hours are pretty similar to here.
But fine. It was posted here in the US, most /. readers are in the US, and I read it here in the US, so maybe my opinion on this is shit.
Here's an opinion that is relevant: Keep your socialist bullshit on that side of the pond, please. :) TY.
I don't have a palsy, so I don't even get your sympathy, much less a sweet government sponsored job.
No, not total sense.
Obviously, leaving your house for the customer's premise constitutes 'starting work', and being 'on the clock'. Wait, what clock? Do you carry the employer's timeclock in your car?
No, you're on salary. The clock premise is a little disingenuous from the get-go, isn't it? You're simply expected to work around 8 hours a day, 40 a week. Sometimes weekends, depending on the current project. If you don't get comp time for that later btw, then your job sucks. That's the reality for 99% of traveling jobs that anyone on /. might have. (If hourly traveling nurses are getting screwed out of significant drivetime, then that's a problem I guess, but I don't think we are talking about them.)
I'm not saying that it's not a fair ruling, my problem is in the fact that it is a 'ruling'. I can think of lots of situations where I would like to have the freedom to choose for myself, in concert with my employer, my own business. I mean, I still have the freedom to stop off at the titti bar on the way to the customers, no? What about leaving the last customer on Friday to go straight to the campsite? In fact, I re-arranged my schedule to have the most far-flung one at the end of the week, so I'd be that far out of town already. I even borrowed his bathroom to change into my casual clothes as I left.
Is all that the government's business now? Why? Was this the kind of court ruling to grant relief to some poor schlub who sued Boss Scrooge, or is it more of an edict handed down to the little people from on high? Sounds like the latter.
And btw, how is it fair that they get paid for driving to work and I don't? Even though they already did, and I didn't; that was a private agreement between them and theirs, and me and mine. Now it's not; it's a government regulation, and I absolutely want equality under government. I'll march in the street with a sign for that shit.
That's an extra hour a day for me. Cha-ching, free money!
"why did the PARC researchers need to investigate this topic in the first place? "
Plausible deniability.
Slick.
Here we are talking about temporary foreign replacement workers, and you slip 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in, hoping no one would notice. Wrapping it with '40% of Fortune 500' was a nice touch, I'll give you that.
But I noticed. They fall for that bait and switch on the CNN and Fox forums. One should know better around here.
I was with you until you ran down the Woz.
We Apple nerds admire the fuck out of Woz, even as we are genuflecting at the altar of Jobs.
You know the 'back in my day' competitions, where everyone has a hardship story, until one neckbeard joker says, "I had a 1 button keyboard, and I pounded in ones to make computer code. Couldn't afford 2 buttons, so I had to make my own zeros from scratch..."
And you look up, and it's fucking Woz, it's no joke, and he really figured out how to do that shit. Bite Me.
Thanks for the link. Been a while since I seen that. He only has the Macintosh on his mind, and he's determined not to slip up and spill the beans. But he still gives a decent talk, and even says he's going to burn extra processor power on the user interface. He's been back from Xerox for a few months when this was shot, and he's got the Mac in his mind as plain as day already.
Please don't jump on the Steve didn't help the Woz train. Woz would not have done it without him. Without Steve, there would have been a half dozen hobby boards like the Apple I, before the Woz got hired at SUN, where he would have gone on to do great work for some boss. The SUN would have had a floppy drive ahead of its time, and you would have never heard of the Woz. Do not doubt that Steve was over there bothering Woz every night, 'helping'. And do not doubt that the Woz needs a boss. (Takes one to know one)
Without the Woz, Steve would have had a nationally renowned typesetting and printing business, with a little photography, after 'drifting' for some number of years. Ironically, he would eventually be put out of business by the desktop publishing revolution, which, in a double irony, was delayed 10 years. He's still alive btw, because he didn't get so rich as to become weird about cancer treatments.
But slightly rich; good typesetters did pretty well back in the day...
It was. Sorry I got distracted over the weekend, I realize this is a bit late.
I remember a school in Africa. And they weren't even all in; it was a partnership they were facilitating and financing. Financing means somebody pays it back. Still, a sort of jumpstarter thing is still something. But that was a while ago, and I've seen ads since then about development and wireless and water and such. I haven't seen finished success stories on any of those things, and I would think the media would be all over them if they were there. They do love him.
Bill did go down to Haiti, and carried some money with him. I also remember some Haitian accusing him of being more about fluff and photo ops than actual cash. Just that, so maybe the right-wing nutters have infiltrated Haiti too.
Retrofitting buildings? That is news to me, and I said I was seriously asking. I can see that being easily lost in the AGW noise lately. In the US? Sounds like lucrative contracting work. Do they get carbon credits for doing that? That's probably just my skeptic talking, so I'll let that one go and take your correction.
Women's rights. I've seen those ads. Sounds a lot like trashing Republicans, but promoting; okay.
Allowing minorities access to better education. Allowing? Were they repressing them before? I kid. Yes, they fund a few little scholarships for minorities. Not any kind of full boat rides to good schools, but additional funds that might make the difference between one going of not. It is something.
That is the bulk of the charity they provide, and the entirety of it for quite a while now. Partial scholarships.
What is the 'Foundation' worth now? Well over half a billion? That we explicitly know of. Actually, you and I both know it's billions. A real charity spends a good portion of it's funds of the poor; what percentage do they lay out on a yearly basis?
Dude, it's a scam. It's a brilliant, perfect money making scheme. Of course, you have to be an ex-President to start it up, and a popular one at that. And it doesn't hurt to be a sitting Secretary of State, to really cash in on the big time.
They do just enough charity to get by.
Yes, Altavista was better than Yahoo. I remember reading that Yahoo was a static directory, updated by humans; whereas AV had a newfangled web crawler. Anyone remember the term 'spider'? Altavista wasn't known all that well though, and it was part of my geek cred to show it to users. And usually, it found what they were looking for.
Pretty much the moment Google came on the scene though, it was better than Altavista. AVs answer? Plaster the front page with ads and 'content'. Make it a 'portal' to the web.
Heh. Wrong answer.
"... if you don't like my post, don't read it"
It doesn't work that way. Your post exists in the thread, and has to be read to follow the discussion.
And you've brought that discussion down by being so mean, despite the validity of your points.
Star Trek politics are going to be a sensitive subject here. You could be nicer.
Bush the Younger lived and worked in Texas as a young man. I believe he is retired there even now.
Hillary, on the other hand, had to quickly buy a house in NY as she got on the ballot. There was some question at the time as to whether she was actually a resident.
But I didn't attempt to draw an equivalence between the two families in the first place.
Lots? How is it that most everything she would put in an email would not be classified at least confidential, if not secret?
I mean, I would think that most every message the Secretary of State writes would be eyes-only to the people it is intended for. There's going to be a handful of "Congratulations on the birth of your Prime Minister's daughter", but most things she sends dealing with government business are going to be sensitive.
What is this history of public service? She had a Senate seat that was given to her, simply as preparation to be President. As if she's from New York, or anywhere near it...
Well, she did make a 10,000% profit in commodities in six months, and giant profits on Arkansas land deals while her husband was Governor. I'll grant those feats are pretty impressive. Not as impressive as a 'charity' foundation that rakes in many millions from overseas billionaires while she is simultaneously Secretary of State. What public service, exactly, has that charity funded by the way?
That's what I see in the 'public record' AC. What do you see?