If they are so concerned about losing money then perhaps they should have spent a bit more to prevent the well from rupturing in the first place rather than sit around for 3 months claiming it would take many more months to plug the leak.
It is the county's equipment and they have already said they have no problem with the FBI getting access to the data. That is why.
As to the astroturf, it wasn't my intention. I was only using the name of a product I knew and had used. No different than saying, "I used product XYZ from Microsoft and it rocks!" Had I said MDM, many might not known what I meant.
Something which I had been questioning from the day I heard the phone was not the terrorist's but owned by a country government in California, couldn't something such as AirWatch be used to unlock the phone?
My answer came over the weekend when I read this article which stated the county paid for but never installed such software.
Having been responsible for setting up iPhones for a state agency, one of the steps was installing AirWatch which we did have to use on a few occasions when people locked themselves out.
Not installing such software is either incompetence or laziness on the part of the IT folks who handed out these phones.
Go whine to the OP. That is their stance as well. They don't like a law so would vote "not guilty" because they believe it should be changed or removed.
"I believe in my right to vote not guilty to stop a bad law".
Agreed. If I happened to be on a murder trial I would vote not guilty because the person wasn't being given the death penalty.
Since the law is a bad law, allowing someone who murdered someone else to be kept around on the taxpayer dime, I would vote not guilty to force the law to be changed.
You're a human being. You're owed food, shelter and healthcare.
What? No, you're not. Not in any sense of the word, "entitled".
What you are entitled to is the RIGHT to be able to have all of the above, without guarantees.
What you are advocating is me being responsible for you WHILE AT THE SAME TIME not having to take responsibility for your actions nor allowing me to dictate to you HOW to live your life. For example, you want someone to pay your healthcare for you yet, you will not allow anyone to tell you you can't smoke, be obese, do drugs or be an alcoholic.
That is not how life works. As Heinlein would say, TANSTAAFL. If you want food, you earn it. You want shelter, you pay for it. You want it healthcare, it's up to you to get it. You are responsible for your life, not anyone else.
If they need more money they need to focus on killing people in faraway lands and none of this silly exploration.
Russia is already doing just that in Syria. Every day Russian war planes deliberately target civilians opposed to Assad's dictatorial regime. This past week Russia deliberately targeted several hospitals in Syria.
Russia has tried to claim it's upgrading its weapons systems, but every time they do they come out the next month with downward revisions on the money available to purchase such weapons or put the programs on hold due to the corruption inherent in their society.
If Meyer's idea of trying to move Yahoo! forward is the hiring of PhDs, that explains much about the horrid redesign of their web site.
Only someone devoid of reality or common sense could think that crappy look and layout would make people want to stay.
As I said previously, with any luck the web designers and those who approved the new design are included as part of the force reduction. If anyone deserves to be fired, they most certainly do.
Isn't ride sharing where one is already going to a specific location and someone asks if they can come along, maybe picking up the cost of tolls for the ride? Or has the definition of ride sharing changed to mean directly contacting someone to have them pick you up at a specific location so you can be driven to a location where the person was not otherwise going and you pay them a fee and maybe give them a tip for their work?
and could terminate in the middle of a city a'la Grand central station.
You almost had it. It is Grand Central Terminal, not station, because that is where the rail lines terminate. The trains do not pass through Grand Central, they stop (excluding the subway).
Republicans who want bigger, more intrusive, more expensive government. And how will this bigger government be paid for? With higher taxes, thus showing tax and spend Republicans are no different than Democrats.
Are the people who produced the horrid piece of trash they now call a web site part of the 15% being sent packing? What used to be a fairly easy way of getting stories in an easy-to-use format is now a jumbled mess of shitty colors and blocky outlines.
I, and many others I have heard, have stopped going to their site as a direct result of the change. If Mayer, or the morons in charge of web design, were hoping to get more eyeballs to their site, they have failed miserably.
Please find me a single person who never uses health care and incurs no cost to the system. Go ahead, I'll wait.
You're asking two different questions, one of which is ridiculous.
Everyone at some time will need to see a doctor. Without exception. That is not the issue. The issue is why should someone be forced to hand over thousands of dollars every year but get nothing in return when instead they can pay when they need to?
Do you walk into a store every month, hand over a couple hundred dollars and tell them, "When I need it, I'll be back."? Of course not. You pay when you purchase your goods.
Yet somehow people have been swindled into believing that handing over their money now means they won't have to pay in the future. Which is of course completely false. You continue to pay even after you've already paid.
I have a minor medical issue, nothing which will kill me. Even though I and my employer have paid tens of thousands of dollars over the years to provide me with medical coverage, I have to convince my doctor that to get this issue resolved it is a medical necessity, otherwise I am on the hook for hundreds of out of pocket expenses.
What the hell have we been paying for all these years if I have to cough up more money? It is demonstrably cheaper and more efficient for me to pay when I need the service than it is for me, and my employer, to lose money down the black hole of insurance every year. If I were to pay as I need, I would incur no costs to the system.
Considering the redesign they went through within the last week, I certainly hope the incompetent web designer and the person who signed off on the new look are both fired. Talk about a giant steaming pile of yak manure.
As to the women given preference, considering they're paid less, on average, than men, it only seems reasonable for a company to cut costs where it can. If the woman can do the same work as a man but for less money, that's a good business decision.
Or are the men now going to whine that they're being discriminated against when all along they've been saying there is no discrimination because it's all based on ability?
When one considers the $8 billion we taxpayers are forced to hand over to the apartheid state of Israel each year, combined with technology stolen by traitors such as Jonathan Pollard, it's not as if we didn't have a right to the images.
Besides, since they deliberately attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, claiming they couldn't see the American flag flying and didn't know it was a U.S. ship despite repeated radio transmissions in the clear stating as much over a 20 minute period, we need to be sure the next time they attack us they can't use the same excuse.
Granted, I have to with the Thinkpad Yoga as well, or use the docking station, so in the end it doesn't matter that much.
Which is why Lenovo Yogas suck. Between their piss poor battery life and only 2 usb ports, one of which must be taken up by the docking station if you want to have a real machine to work with, I do my best to dissuade people from buying them when we do our hardware refreshes.
If you want to accomplish something, get an Ultrabook if you must. At least they don't force you to drag around a stupid docking station which also acts as the pass through for video and for your network connection.
It's distinguished from terrorism because the tactics are a bit different - they almost never aim to directly create mass civilian casualties or property damage
This is what the FBI has to say about the definition of domestic terrorism which you will note does not include the need for casualties:
"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
18 U.S.C. Â 2332b defines the term "federal crime of terrorism" as an offense that:
Is calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct; and
Is a violation of one of several listed statutes, including  930(c) (relating to killing or attempted killing during an attack on a federal facility with a dangerous weapon); and  1114 (relating to killing or attempted killing of officers and employees of the U.S.).
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Devout? He's been married three times! What happened to 'til death do us part"?
If he's what you consider to be a devout Christian, it's no wonder he's happy morons are voting for him
If they are so concerned about losing money then perhaps they should have spent a bit more to prevent the well from rupturing in the first place rather than sit around for 3 months claiming it would take many more months to plug the leak.
to the original Cylons? The shiny metal ones, not the luscious Asian or slinky blonde ones.
All they would need to do is have the red eye swing back in forth as part of the LIDAR system, give them a gun and they're good to go!
It even sounds like the Cylons.
I can't find any link to the actual question(s) used
Really? The Pew Research Center publishes their findings for all to see. Here is the report. Page 7 of the report lists the actual questions used.
I work for government now and worked for government when I was in charge of the iPhones.
The stories I could tell you of incompetence and laziness from private industry would rival that of government.
It is the county's equipment and they have already said they have no problem with the FBI getting access to the data. That is why.
As to the astroturf, it wasn't my intention. I was only using the name of a product I knew and had used. No different than saying, "I used product XYZ from Microsoft and it rocks!" Had I said MDM, many might not known what I meant.
Something which I had been questioning from the day I heard the phone was not the terrorist's but owned by a country government in California, couldn't something such as AirWatch be used to unlock the phone?
My answer came over the weekend when I read this article which stated the county paid for but never installed such software.
Having been responsible for setting up iPhones for a state agency, one of the steps was installing AirWatch which we did have to use on a few occasions when people locked themselves out.
Not installing such software is either incompetence or laziness on the part of the IT folks who handed out these phones.
Go whine to the OP. That is their stance as well. They don't like a law so would vote "not guilty" because they believe it should be changed or removed.
My stance is no different.
"I believe in my right to vote not guilty to stop a bad law".
Agreed. If I happened to be on a murder trial I would vote not guilty because the person wasn't being given the death penalty.
Since the law is a bad law, allowing someone who murdered someone else to be kept around on the taxpayer dime, I would vote not guilty to force the law to be changed.
You're a human being. You're owed food, shelter and healthcare.
What? No, you're not. Not in any sense of the word, "entitled".
What you are entitled to is the RIGHT to be able to have all of the above, without guarantees.
What you are advocating is me being responsible for you WHILE AT THE SAME TIME not having to take responsibility for your actions nor allowing me to dictate to you HOW to live your life. For example, you want someone to pay your healthcare for you yet, you will not allow anyone to tell you you can't smoke, be obese, do drugs or be an alcoholic.
That is not how life works. As Heinlein would say, TANSTAAFL. If you want food, you earn it. You want shelter, you pay for it. You want it healthcare, it's up to you to get it. You are responsible for your life, not anyone else.
If they need more money they need to focus on killing people in faraway lands and none of this silly exploration.
Russia is already doing just that in Syria. Every day Russian war planes deliberately target civilians opposed to Assad's dictatorial regime. This past week Russia deliberately targeted several hospitals in Syria.
Russia has tried to claim it's upgrading its weapons systems, but every time they do they come out the next month with downward revisions on the money available to purchase such weapons or put the programs on hold due to the corruption inherent in their society.
If Meyer's idea of trying to move Yahoo! forward is the hiring of PhDs, that explains much about the horrid redesign of their web site.
Only someone devoid of reality or common sense could think that crappy look and layout would make people want to stay.
As I said previously, with any luck the web designers and those who approved the new design are included as part of the force reduction. If anyone deserves to be fired, they most certainly do.
the development of ride-share schemes in China.
Isn't ride sharing where one is already going to a specific location and someone asks if they can come along, maybe picking up the cost of tolls for the ride? Or has the definition of ride sharing changed to mean directly contacting someone to have them pick you up at a specific location so you can be driven to a location where the person was not otherwise going and you pay them a fee and maybe give them a tip for their work?
At least the scheme part is right.
and could terminate in the middle of a city a'la Grand central station.
You almost had it. It is Grand Central Terminal, not station, because that is where the rail lines terminate. The trains do not pass through Grand Central, they stop (excluding the subway).
Republicans who want bigger, more intrusive, more expensive government. And how will this bigger government be paid for? With higher taxes, thus showing tax and spend Republicans are no different than Democrats.
Are the people who produced the horrid piece of trash they now call a web site part of the 15% being sent packing? What used to be a fairly easy way of getting stories in an easy-to-use format is now a jumbled mess of shitty colors and blocky outlines.
I, and many others I have heard, have stopped going to their site as a direct result of the change. If Mayer, or the morons in charge of web design, were hoping to get more eyeballs to their site, they have failed miserably.
Please find me a single person who never uses health care and incurs no cost to the system. Go ahead, I'll wait.
You're asking two different questions, one of which is ridiculous.
Everyone at some time will need to see a doctor. Without exception. That is not the issue. The issue is why should someone be forced to hand over thousands of dollars every year but get nothing in return when instead they can pay when they need to?
Do you walk into a store every month, hand over a couple hundred dollars and tell them, "When I need it, I'll be back."? Of course not. You pay when you purchase your goods.
Yet somehow people have been swindled into believing that handing over their money now means they won't have to pay in the future. Which is of course completely false. You continue to pay even after you've already paid.
I have a minor medical issue, nothing which will kill me. Even though I and my employer have paid tens of thousands of dollars over the years to provide me with medical coverage, I have to convince my doctor that to get this issue resolved it is a medical necessity, otherwise I am on the hook for hundreds of out of pocket expenses.
What the hell have we been paying for all these years if I have to cough up more money? It is demonstrably cheaper and more efficient for me to pay when I need the service than it is for me, and my employer, to lose money down the black hole of insurance every year. If I were to pay as I need, I would incur no costs to the system.
Because having health insurance means you will never die.
It's like claiming more people have health insurance when you force them to hand over their money to a private company whether they want to or not.
More high quality products developed by private industry for the US Govt...
Considering the redesign they went through within the last week, I certainly hope the incompetent web designer and the person who signed off on the new look are both fired. Talk about a giant steaming pile of yak manure.
As to the women given preference, considering they're paid less, on average, than men, it only seems reasonable for a company to cut costs where it can. If the woman can do the same work as a man but for less money, that's a good business decision.
Or are the men now going to whine that they're being discriminated against when all along they've been saying there is no discrimination because it's all based on ability?
When one considers the $8 billion we taxpayers are forced to hand over to the apartheid state of Israel each year, combined with technology stolen by traitors such as Jonathan Pollard, it's not as if we didn't have a right to the images.
Besides, since they deliberately attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, claiming they couldn't see the American flag flying and didn't know it was a U.S. ship despite repeated radio transmissions in the clear stating as much over a 20 minute period, we need to be sure the next time they attack us they can't use the same excuse.
There will be no peace until all of gaza's rocket launching hospitals and preschools get glassed.
So you're suggesting the Nazi option (Godwin rule in effect) which was the final solution?
Just goes to show Jews learned well from when they were oppressed to know how to do the same to others.
Granted, I have to with the Thinkpad Yoga as well, or use the docking station, so in the end it doesn't matter that much.
Which is why Lenovo Yogas suck. Between their piss poor battery life and only 2 usb ports, one of which must be taken up by the docking station if you want to have a real machine to work with, I do my best to dissuade people from buying them when we do our hardware refreshes.
If you want to accomplish something, get an Ultrabook if you must. At least they don't force you to drag around a stupid docking station which also acts as the pass through for video and for your network connection.
This is what the FBI has to say about the definition of domestic terrorism which you will note does not include the need for casualties:
"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
18 U.S.C. Â 2332b defines the term "federal crime of terrorism" as an offense that:
Link for reference