Is this real numbers? Can these numbers be trusted? Is the administration inflating the numbers? Ask your self this before sharing. last month they where weaker lots of data pointing to even weaker numbers ahead. Now suddenly its great numbers?
No (see "Statistics" 101), No, and Yes. This is not something new or unique either. The Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, etc.. numbers were all bullshit too. The only difference is in how much bullshit goes into the published statistics, and of course who's party holds power when the numbers get published.
One thing for sure though, is that there is more market optimism today than we have seen since the Reagan era. Optimism does not always translate to mass scale positive results, but my stocks sure are doing great.
Opening a Word document in Google Docs is a "fix" for Word macro based viruses. LibreOffice works the same (and I recommend this over Google), because neither has the same macro language nor do they allow the same activities in Macros.
What you hint at, is making end users responsible for security. Not an easy task.
This was done by about noon PST yesterday (5/3). Sites hosting the phishing attack were off line and DNS for many/most simply vanished. Email addresses were harvested already, which seems to be the point of the campaign. That, and to validate massive scale manipulation of Google's OAUTH. To the bad guys, it was a big success.
The subject of many/most of these emails was "hhhhhhhhh" (maybe a few more "h"s), so quite honestly people should have known something was wrong. Still, it appears to come from someone trusted, so many people bit the hook on the phishing.
Luckily this was not hosting or abusing malicious code behind it. At least, from the investigating I did yesterday that was the case.
Rules for the masses: Never open attachments you don't expect, even if you know the source. If the message subject and body look bad, the message most likely is too. Sadly even companies with massive education programs teaching these rules were beat up by this one.
Unfortunately the "we promise not to peek" dishonesty passed these laws. It would take the Supreme Court ruling them unconstitutional, not new politicians. Indirectly a Presidential appointment does have impact, which is frankly why many people voted for Trump. A liberal justice who believes in a "living constitution" instead of what we are supposed to have tends to vote in favor of Government.
Quite possibly, but we don't really know what those are.
I'm not irate at all, but I have no desire to attempt to be pleasant with a person who has so little respect for the rest of us that they flat out lie. SJWs chased one famous biologists on the subject off campus and gave the woman that invited him a concussion. Why the fuck should anyone be nice to people who may not promote the violence directly, do so indirectly because science hurts their ideology? Ignorance at this day and age is not an excuse.
I have no doubt that some highly moral people join the NSA with the idea that they can be a good guy. Just like most cops join the force to protect and server their community, and most military people join to serve their country and protect our Constitution.
The immorality at the higher levels breaks the delusion,and people either conform to a morality they disagree with to maintain a job or they leave.
All absolutely normal human behavior, well documented, and full of historical references.
We know plenty of differences, but dipshit SJWs refuse to look at science and claim anyone who does must be a racist/misogynist/homophobe/xenophobe. Mens muscles develop quite differently than women, because _TESTOSTERONE_. Women who take _TESTOSTERONE_ (which is naturally produced in high quantities by males) can become stronger than other women, but still not as strong as a man.
Now I'm going to guess that you are going to head off into 3rd hand bullshit speculation about an abnormality claiming it's the "normal", so don't.
We also know that the minds of men and women differ, because BIOLOGY. We have had hundreds of thousands of years of evolution where women had to be nurturing and raise kids or the tribe/city/country would die due to invasion by another tribe's _TESTOSTERONE_ filled males. As with ignoring biology I'm sure you will take the SJW path and claim an anomaly in history should be treated as the norm.
We have the science, and instead of claiming "bigotry" you should actually study it.
The whole point of the massive NSA datacenter in Utah is that they collect _everything_. The argument from the NSA and Federal Government was that they would only look at data where they had a warrant. Our argument back was that there is no way to ensure data is only viewed by warrant, especially when they were looking at ways of cataloguing data they could see, and trying to crack encryption on what they could not.
We were right, they were dishonest. Nothing new in terms of Government abusing power, and nobody should be surprised that the more we give them the more they abuse.
Since the hardware is already in place to copy all traffic to the NSA, law changes which impact collection of data would have to tackle that particular issue. Good luck with that. ISPs and Telecom providers get paid massive tax dollars to provide the service, so you know that they won't complain.
Women do not graduate with STEM degrees at the same rate as men. That you can find a single exception while ignoring the national statistics shows your own bias. Conversely, 61% of all medical doctors graduating are female. I could, like you did, point to a single school which graduates more men than women. That would not make the national numbers wrong, it would make me a fool for believing an exception makes it normal.
Lies, beget lies, beget lies. I have read it twice, but I have no confidence you have. Like the first post I responded to, you avoid the topics and go right to bullshit and personal attack.
False dichotomy. The point of comparison is from the outside in. Of course Christian Theology does not teach "Tolkien", but scholars do. Marxists and Progressives won't use Rand as a comparison point, scholars who believe in personal liberty and freedom do.
Claiming Atlas Shrugged was fiction is like claiming JRR Tolkien 's books had nothing to do with Christianity. The purpose of the book was to display the end game of progressivism/marxism in the US. The "progressive" movement has been around since the very early 1900s.
Most of the people commenting never read any of her books, which becomes obvious with irrational claims.
If you have an accident, your premiums go up. Your rates reflect the risk that you have on the pool, and always do. You are ignoring what insurance is and how it works. The insurer has to put up money ahead of time based on risk assessment. If you change your risk value you will pay more, and that payment is like a mortgage. Insurance will eventually cut your plan if you become too high of a risk.
Your next insurance company will give you a much higher premium because they are aware of your risk to the pool.
You completely avoided my question about Social Security. Funny how leftism works isn't it? Here is a read for you. Consider it possible that you are the hypocrite, not Rand.
Not prophetic? The consumption of media by talking heads to push propaganda in the US: Check. Pushing dialogue because "feelings" in spite of facts: Check. Massively increased taxes and for wealth redistribution: Check. Expansion of regulations to ensure Government control over the economy and businesses: Check. The "progressivism" in Europe accelerating much faster than the US: Check.
We are not quite to the end of the road, but her book describes much of what's been happening over the last 20 years pretty well. But I'm guessing that you are intentionally attempting to conflate "prophetic" with "prophesy" because again.. ideology.
When people want to cut Social Security and Medicate Leftists yell "people are entitled", "you hate the elderly", and "people pay into the system for retirement", but when it's a person who disagrees with your ideology its "Government Assistance". So which is it? Welfare that we can look at cutting or "retirement for all Americans"? You leftists need to get your shit together.
They do? Last I checked I pay the same as all my coworkers, and the risk assessment is done as a pool.
You attempted to claim that people benefited due to your good driving and eating habits. If what you claim is true regarding your insurance: Your insurance does not give benefits to anyone because of you, and does not take away benefits due to someone else. Your "good" behavior is balanced into costs just like someone else' "bad" is balanced into cost. You can't have it both ways.
Why don't you tell us which car insurance you have that would not raise your rates if you had traffic accidents and tickets? Show me a single insurance company which gives the same rates to a 18 year old that they do to a 40 year old with the same driving records. I don't know a single company that exists which does not change your rate based on your driving habits. Meaning, people with bad behavior pay more due to higher risk. As with above, you can't have it both ways.
Mom always said honesty is the best policy, try it sometimes.
Spoken like a true Fountainhead-thumping Objectivist:
If you aren't good enough to deserve a favorable contract, why should someone better lend you their merit?
Fine. I have contacted all your underwriters and canceled all your insurance policies. I fail to see why my safer driving and healthy diet should inure to your benefit.
Rand has turned out to be prophetic with Atlas Shrugged. I wonder why you neglected that one and went to a much earlier book which was more fiction than Philosophy. Fit your ideology better?
Next, your safe driving and healthy diet don't inure anyone's benefits except your own. Health insurance rates vary by risk factor, as does Driving insurance, Malpractice insurance, and any other insurance you want to purchase. Perhaps you should investigate what Insurance actually is and how it works. Oh, I know.. that probably does not fit your ideology either.
I engage in my own salary and benefits discussions, as does everyone I know. I am all for personal accountability and responsibility. I have worked my ass off to become an asset to whomever I choose to work for. Not accidental, not hand out, hard work for decades. It's not my problem if you can't negotiate a fair wage for yourself, lack the ambition to change jobs (I moved out of State 3 times for better prospects as a _single_ parent), or simply lack the talent to get a better paying job. NONE OF THOSE ARE MY FAULT! THEY ARE YOURS!
Be responsible for your own actions, or lack thereof. Cry for pity to someone who didn't bust their ass to get out of poverty.
You were not smart enough to build into your arrangement with your employers how to handle on-call work? You are not smart enough to investigate State laws protecting people on call from abuse by employers? Either way, the problem is with you not the employer. If you don't like it, start your own company and then pay yourself how you see fit.
I'm guessing you will have an excuse and whine about that one too.
While surely not all, a good number of ISPs already provide anti-virus and anti-malware detection. If you use an ISP for email, chances are pretty high that the back end is running anti-spam rules which looks for attachments and strips where a "bad" MD5 sum is found. "bad" meaning it matches malware/virused attachments. They don't need to read the contents, just look for the checksum.
As a privacy advocate I'm not too uncomfortable with ISPs scanning like this, as anything I would be worried about would be through a channel other than email which they could not scan.
I was thinking more along the lines of other things that mature which we really don't want either. Security is one aspect, but the trivial nature of IOT makes most of us try to ignore it.
I fully agree, and will re-emphasize what I said about company discretion. Learning new things on the company dime is not an issue, especially considering that it mainly helps the company. TFA explicitly states working on personal projects while making money for a company in any meaningful way. Self education, blowing off steam, or simply unplugging to let the brain relax before heading back to a complex issue.
Should an employee be fired for sitting and watching Baseball for a few hours on the company dime? How about watching the Flintstones? Playing Internet Poker? Those are all non-productive items as well, so why would you expect special treatment because you are doing something "techie" which does not help the business?
Companies should have discretion because they are _PAYING_ the person to be on the job earning money for the company.
If you disagree, go start up your own company on your own dime and allow people do work on whatever they want. Lets see how great your startup is before and after you are drained of capital.
Why do you think slimeball startups hide how they piss away money until it's too late for investors?
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Philosophy humor, not everyone gets it. Kind of like Psychology humor, not everyone gets id either.
Is this real numbers? Can these numbers be trusted? Is the administration inflating the numbers? Ask your self this before sharing. last month they where weaker lots of data pointing to even weaker numbers ahead. Now suddenly its great numbers?
No (see "Statistics" 101), No, and Yes. This is not something new or unique either. The Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, etc.. numbers were all bullshit too. The only difference is in how much bullshit goes into the published statistics, and of course who's party holds power when the numbers get published.
One thing for sure though, is that there is more market optimism today than we have seen since the Reagan era. Optimism does not always translate to mass scale positive results, but my stocks sure are doing great.
Opening a Word document in Google Docs is a "fix" for Word macro based viruses. LibreOffice works the same (and I recommend this over Google), because neither has the same macro language nor do they allow the same activities in Macros.
What you hint at, is making end users responsible for security. Not an easy task.
This was done by about noon PST yesterday (5/3). Sites hosting the phishing attack were off line and DNS for many/most simply vanished. Email addresses were harvested already, which seems to be the point of the campaign. That, and to validate massive scale manipulation of Google's OAUTH. To the bad guys, it was a big success.
The subject of many/most of these emails was "hhhhhhhhh" (maybe a few more "h"s), so quite honestly people should have known something was wrong. Still, it appears to come from someone trusted, so many people bit the hook on the phishing.
Luckily this was not hosting or abusing malicious code behind it. At least, from the investigating I did yesterday that was the case.
Rules for the masses: Never open attachments you don't expect, even if you know the source. If the message subject and body look bad, the message most likely is too. Sadly even companies with massive education programs teaching these rules were beat up by this one.
Unfortunately the "we promise not to peek" dishonesty passed these laws. It would take the Supreme Court ruling them unconstitutional, not new politicians. Indirectly a Presidential appointment does have impact, which is frankly why many people voted for Trump. A liberal justice who believes in a "living constitution" instead of what we are supposed to have tends to vote in favor of Government.
Quite possibly, but we don't really know what those are.
I'm not irate at all, but I have no desire to attempt to be pleasant with a person who has so little respect for the rest of us that they flat out lie. SJWs chased one famous biologists on the subject off campus and gave the woman that invited him a concussion. Why the fuck should anyone be nice to people who may not promote the violence directly, do so indirectly because science hurts their ideology? Ignorance at this day and age is not an excuse.
I have no doubt that some highly moral people join the NSA with the idea that they can be a good guy. Just like most cops join the force to protect and server their community, and most military people join to serve their country and protect our Constitution.
The immorality at the higher levels breaks the delusion,and people either conform to a morality they disagree with to maintain a job or they leave.
All absolutely normal human behavior, well documented, and full of historical references.
We know plenty of differences, but dipshit SJWs refuse to look at science and claim anyone who does must be a racist/misogynist/homophobe/xenophobe. Mens muscles develop quite differently than women, because _TESTOSTERONE_. Women who take _TESTOSTERONE_ (which is naturally produced in high quantities by males) can become stronger than other women, but still not as strong as a man.
Now I'm going to guess that you are going to head off into 3rd hand bullshit speculation about an abnormality claiming it's the "normal", so don't.
We also know that the minds of men and women differ, because BIOLOGY. We have had hundreds of thousands of years of evolution where women had to be nurturing and raise kids or the tribe/city/country would die due to invasion by another tribe's _TESTOSTERONE_ filled males. As with ignoring biology I'm sure you will take the SJW path and claim an anomaly in history should be treated as the norm.
We have the science, and instead of claiming "bigotry" you should actually study it.
The whole point of the massive NSA datacenter in Utah is that they collect _everything_. The argument from the NSA and Federal Government was that they would only look at data where they had a warrant. Our argument back was that there is no way to ensure data is only viewed by warrant, especially when they were looking at ways of cataloguing data they could see, and trying to crack encryption on what they could not.
We were right, they were dishonest. Nothing new in terms of Government abusing power, and nobody should be surprised that the more we give them the more they abuse.
Since the hardware is already in place to copy all traffic to the NSA, law changes which impact collection of data would have to tackle that particular issue. Good luck with that. ISPs and Telecom providers get paid massive tax dollars to provide the service, so you know that they won't complain.
Women do not graduate with STEM degrees at the same rate as men. That you can find a single exception while ignoring the national statistics shows your own bias. Conversely, 61% of all medical doctors graduating are female. I could, like you did, point to a single school which graduates more men than women. That would not make the national numbers wrong, it would make me a fool for believing an exception makes it normal.
Lies, beget lies, beget lies. I have read it twice, but I have no confidence you have. Like the first post I responded to, you avoid the topics and go right to bullshit and personal attack.
False dichotomy. The point of comparison is from the outside in. Of course Christian Theology does not teach "Tolkien", but scholars do. Marxists and Progressives won't use Rand as a comparison point, scholars who believe in personal liberty and freedom do.
Claiming Atlas Shrugged was fiction is like claiming JRR Tolkien 's books had nothing to do with Christianity. The purpose of the book was to display the end game of progressivism/marxism in the US. The "progressive" movement has been around since the very early 1900s.
Most of the people commenting never read any of her books, which becomes obvious with irrational claims.
If you have an accident, your premiums go up. Your rates reflect the risk that you have on the pool, and always do. You are ignoring what insurance is and how it works. The insurer has to put up money ahead of time based on risk assessment. If you change your risk value you will pay more, and that payment is like a mortgage. Insurance will eventually cut your plan if you become too high of a risk.
Your next insurance company will give you a much higher premium because they are aware of your risk to the pool.
You completely avoided my question about Social Security. Funny how leftism works isn't it? Here is a read for you. Consider it possible that you are the hypocrite, not Rand.
Not prophetic? The consumption of media by talking heads to push propaganda in the US: Check. Pushing dialogue because "feelings" in spite of facts: Check. Massively increased taxes and for wealth redistribution: Check. Expansion of regulations to ensure Government control over the economy and businesses: Check. The "progressivism" in Europe accelerating much faster than the US: Check.
We are not quite to the end of the road, but her book describes much of what's been happening over the last 20 years pretty well. But I'm guessing that you are intentionally attempting to conflate "prophetic" with "prophesy" because again.. ideology.
When people want to cut Social Security and Medicate Leftists yell "people are entitled", "you hate the elderly", and "people pay into the system for retirement", but when it's a person who disagrees with your ideology its "Government Assistance". So which is it? Welfare that we can look at cutting or "retirement for all Americans"? You leftists need to get your shit together.
They do? Last I checked I pay the same as all my coworkers, and the risk assessment is done as a pool.
You attempted to claim that people benefited due to your good driving and eating habits. If what you claim is true regarding your insurance: Your insurance does not give benefits to anyone because of you, and does not take away benefits due to someone else. Your "good" behavior is balanced into costs just like someone else' "bad" is balanced into cost. You can't have it both ways.
Why don't you tell us which car insurance you have that would not raise your rates if you had traffic accidents and tickets? Show me a single insurance company which gives the same rates to a 18 year old that they do to a 40 year old with the same driving records. I don't know a single company that exists which does not change your rate based on your driving habits. Meaning, people with bad behavior pay more due to higher risk. As with above, you can't have it both ways.
Mom always said honesty is the best policy, try it sometimes.
Spoken like a true Fountainhead-thumping Objectivist:
Fine. I have contacted all your underwriters and canceled all your insurance policies. I fail to see why my safer driving and healthy diet should inure to your benefit.
Rand has turned out to be prophetic with Atlas Shrugged. I wonder why you neglected that one and went to a much earlier book which was more fiction than Philosophy. Fit your ideology better?
Next, your safe driving and healthy diet don't inure anyone's benefits except your own. Health insurance rates vary by risk factor, as does Driving insurance, Malpractice insurance, and any other insurance you want to purchase. Perhaps you should investigate what Insurance actually is and how it works. Oh, I know.. that probably does not fit your ideology either.
I engage in my own salary and benefits discussions, as does everyone I know. I am all for personal accountability and responsibility. I have worked my ass off to become an asset to whomever I choose to work for. Not accidental, not hand out, hard work for decades. It's not my problem if you can't negotiate a fair wage for yourself, lack the ambition to change jobs (I moved out of State 3 times for better prospects as a _single_ parent), or simply lack the talent to get a better paying job. NONE OF THOSE ARE MY FAULT! THEY ARE YOURS!
Be responsible for your own actions, or lack thereof. Cry for pity to someone who didn't bust their ass to get out of poverty.
You were not smart enough to build into your arrangement with your employers how to handle on-call work? You are not smart enough to investigate State laws protecting people on call from abuse by employers? Either way, the problem is with you not the employer. If you don't like it, start your own company and then pay yourself how you see fit.
I'm guessing you will have an excuse and whine about that one too.
While surely not all, a good number of ISPs already provide anti-virus and anti-malware detection. If you use an ISP for email, chances are pretty high that the back end is running anti-spam rules which looks for attachments and strips where a "bad" MD5 sum is found. "bad" meaning it matches malware/virused attachments. They don't need to read the contents, just look for the checksum.
As a privacy advocate I'm not too uncomfortable with ISPs scanning like this, as anything I would be worried about would be through a channel other than email which they could not scan.
Would you be interested in our "Tourette syndrome model"?
I was thinking more along the lines of other things that mature which we really don't want either. Security is one aspect, but the trivial nature of IOT makes most of us try to ignore it.
I fully agree, and will re-emphasize what I said about company discretion. Learning new things on the company dime is not an issue, especially considering that it mainly helps the company. TFA explicitly states working on personal projects while making money for a company in any meaningful way. Self education, blowing off steam, or simply unplugging to let the brain relax before heading back to a complex issue.
Should an employee be fired for sitting and watching Baseball for a few hours on the company dime? How about watching the Flintstones? Playing Internet Poker? Those are all non-productive items as well, so why would you expect special treatment because you are doing something "techie" which does not help the business?
Companies should have discretion because they are _PAYING_ the person to be on the job earning money for the company.
If you disagree, go start up your own company on your own dime and allow people do work on whatever they want. Lets see how great your startup is before and after you are drained of capital.
Why do you think slimeball startups hide how they piss away money until it's too late for investors?