She is not being forced to remove anything, she is completely unmolested.
Are there any metal gratings she walks over that reveal similar views?
The question becomes, is there an expectation of visual privacy below a certain height above ground? The social answer is "yes, there is that expectation, only extreme deviants don't respect privacy in that way."
Fortunately, or unfortunately - depending on your perspective, being an extreme social deviant is not, in itself, a crime. You have to cause actual harm to another. I suspect the new law will be saying something about emotional distress due to unusual exposure...
The nudity laws in Texas include a "intent to shock or disturb" clause, so nude beaches get a pass because the beachgoers aren't taking off their clothing with "illegal intent."
At the moment, I'd say there are more people in the world treating gold as currency than there are all the cryptocurrencies combined.
If all the world's people switched to gold as the currency standard, it's o.k. if it goes to $100,000 per ounce, as long as you have a way to account for and trade millionths of an ounce - cryptocurrencies have that down pretty well.
The real miracle fiat currency of the century has to be gemstone diamonds.... I'm very surprised that they've held their value for the past 5 decades in the face of cubic zirconia and the myriad of other challenges they have faced.
Never attribute to conscious thought that which can be explained by laziness, forgetfulness, apathy, or political distancing.
Of course, I kid, this is one of those cases where somebody is going to make a political issue of it and "strip away the sham." Fedora is giving themselves a little bit of an enforcement delay, or warning, at best, with this move.
I don't know where you shop... my grocery store sells a gallon of milk for anywhere from $3.79 (same price as a gallon of premium gas), to upwards of $6, if you'd rather not have hormone, steroid and antibiotic enhanced cows excreting your beverage.
It is true that the overall margin in a grocery store is around 1 to 2%, but that gallon of milk has a whole lot more than 2% profit in it. Cost of goods run closer to 50%, which is why the stores can run unlimited Buy One / Get One Free sales all the time - they're not losing money on those items, just not making as much as they normally do. When you factor in costs of real-estate, taxes, electricity, labor, spoilage, breakage and theft - that's when the margins come down to 1-2%.
So, does this article mean that my local grocery store can merge with a couple of overseas grocery stores, they can all shuffle profits around, dodge taxes, and lower the cost of my grocery bill by 10% while still making more money? Maybe. But, then, those other businesses that still do pay taxes will have to pay more to support the existing services, you know, like roads to get to the stores.
I don't know about GP's experience, but any time I have explained anything to a reporter, it has come out printed as something completely twisted from it's original meaning. Case in point: told reporter "our technology has flown on Space Shuttle missions", printed in story: "Company Vice President says "their technology is going to the Moon!"" with the implication that the company stock is going to "rocket up" in value.
The same could be said for gold - there's not really very much of it (on Earth), yet, even with billions of people to divide it amongst, it hasn't skyrocketed in value.
I think there's a theoretical minimum division of Bitcoin (the Satoshi?), and if you lose enough Bitcoins, then that minimum division could become a problem. If you can make the Satoshi smaller in future revisions, I'd say it wouldn't really affect the currency - "lost" coins are no different from ones sitting in a bank.
My top problem with ALL of the current crop of cryptocurrencies is the block chain - how in the hell will that ever scale to be able to process every transaction taking place in near-real time? Thousands an hour, I can see, but there are thousands of monetary transactions taking place every few minutes in a single shopping center. I'd hate to try to scale that up to what's happening in the western world, but if just the people in the U.S. do an average of one monetary transaction every 8 hours, that's over 10,000 transactions per second - average, during peak hours probably 10x that. And Bitcoin is a "global" currency...
I like Fission power, I think we should have more of it, but I acknowledge there are legitimate concerns.
Politically, I think we're being really idiotic about it - limping along the old, relatively unsafe reactors until they are even more unsafe than when they were constructed instead of building new, better ones and decommissioning the old ones. Also, Germany shutting off their nuke plants so quickly as to spike the coal mining industry - that's really bright.
"Free energy" is my shorthand for clean, practical fusion. We've already got it in the sun, but being able to harness that power on Earth and turn it to electricity, that's what I'm calling "free."
Given practical fusion power, you can construct sun shields, really big ones.
You can also pump heat into the planet's core, which might be a very beneficial thing, long term. I'm not talking about just keeping the core liquid and flowing to perpetuate the magnetic field, I'm also talking about sucking the heat out of places that you want to make cooler to get the heat to pump into the core. Too expensive, you say? When energy costs less than 1% of what it does today, per kWh of useful electricity, it's pretty amazing what doesn't cost too much to do anymore, starting with refining metals like Titanium.
Just rambling here, but I did Gentoo about 10 years ago, back when Gentoo was the most practical way to get a 64 bit Linux OS... it took about a half day to compile and install, which isn't the end of the world, but it left me in mostly "static" maintenance mode - I wasn't inclined to try anything because of the potential cost. I was kinda jazzed about all my packages being recompiled with optimization switches tailored to my AMD64 system, but I don't think it did anything noticeable for me.
I did one full system re-compile-install of Gentoo after about 2 or 3 years, and when that didn't address my problem du-jour, I went with Ubuntu and stayed with it until the rig died of dust accumulation. Ubuntu was definitely easier to "try things" in, but it, too, suffered the classic two rednecks driving in a car fate - what are their last words? "Buckle up, I'm gonna try somethin' here..." At least a total Ubuntu system re-install only takes about an hour...
I'm looking forward to the next unexpected plot twist.
Thermonuclear weapons were a big one, and I'd say that low cost global communication (the worldy widey web) was the next.
A lot of the rest has just been grinding on existing technology. Metalworking progressed from steam engine boilers in the 1800s to jet turbines in the 1950s, and that supported the engines that have driven the ongoing transportation revolution. Moore's law-like progress has ground away at computing, from punch cards through transistors and micro- now nano-chips.
I've always liked the "infinite universes" theory that explains improbable physical constants with the observation that: "if this physical constant were not what it is, we would not be here..." In so many other universes where that physical constant did happen to be something other than what it is here, there is nobody there to observe it.
So, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel....
What's your idea of an easy migration path out of Ubuntu, preferably something still Debian based, but really, anything that serves the ideals that Ubuntu used to address 6 to 10 years ago and has gotten away from?
I see lots of hard-core Arch users around, has anybody made something like "Stable KDE on Arch" into a supported distro yet?
This idiot developed and sold some of the world's best respiratory monitoring equipment. One of our repeat customers was a big tobacco company - they paid well, and even sponsored some customization for their research. They never published anything, but they know quite a bit about the science of smoking. The investors and management of the tobacco companies did, indeed, diversify into food in the 1980s, and they have been driving the "improvements" found on grocery store shelves since then, using a similar systematic, scientific approach to selling profitable food products. I believe the consumer's health is at a similar priority for them in food as it was in the tobacco industry.
Yes, people should stop eating garbage, exercise regularly, save for retirement, etc. However, judging from past performance, they need a little encouragement in the right direction, and the available food choices, and pricing structure of those food choices in the U.S. today do not seem to be the encouragement that most people need to make healthy choices. Next, we can go down a whole health-care profit machine conspiracy hole, if you like.
Nobody is forcing you to buy pre-processed, packaged foods, you are absolutely free to go to the grocery and buy fresh produce, meats, dairy, and do all the cooking yourself. Look at the shelf space in your local grocery store and tell me where they are making the bulk of their profits. It's not in the produce aisle.
You hit a trip wire with me, I went to a lawyer once asking about civil rights considerations for disabled children and the schools, the bastard sat there, lied to me about several factual points, and dismissed my concerns about the ADA, Free and Appropriate public education, etc. with the total gem "those laws are from the 1960s, does anyone do anything about those anymore?" Guy was a total tool, and drinking buddy with the bad side of the local school board.
Fair enough that Atkins wasn't killed by his diet, still, fact: he died young.
I was basically hitting back at "Empty carbs" - just about as meaningful and true as "Don't eat fat, it makes you fat..." Carbs are one of the three basic common forms of food energy - just because calories come from carbs doesn't make them "empty," but that's the anti-carb mantra.
I will go for the "processed foods are evil" thing, though. My wife struggles with weight gain, she started "Paleo" recently, which totally abandons processed foods, among other things... it also involves lots of grilled meat and bacon, which I approve of - she dropped 10 pounds in a couple of weeks and has kept them off while still consuming the same total calories as she did before the diet...
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upskirting really does fall between the cracks of Massachusetts law.
That deserves a comic-sketch.
Catch the perv in the act, you might be able to convict them in the court of public opinion with some good ol' fashioned shaming.
Worked on Paul Reubens.
She is not being forced to remove anything, she is completely unmolested.
Are there any metal gratings she walks over that reveal similar views?
The question becomes, is there an expectation of visual privacy below a certain height above ground? The social answer is "yes, there is that expectation, only extreme deviants don't respect privacy in that way."
Fortunately, or unfortunately - depending on your perspective, being an extreme social deviant is not, in itself, a crime. You have to cause actual harm to another. I suspect the new law will be saying something about emotional distress due to unusual exposure...
The nudity laws in Texas include a "intent to shock or disturb" clause, so nude beaches get a pass because the beachgoers aren't taking off their clothing with "illegal intent."
Exceptions made for matters of national security, airline safety, etc.
As I read the ruling, it would be illegal if there were nudity involved - so does this mean it's legal until somebody isn't wearing panties?
Does work from home have a meaningful impact yet?
At the moment, I'd say there are more people in the world treating gold as currency than there are all the cryptocurrencies combined.
If all the world's people switched to gold as the currency standard, it's o.k. if it goes to $100,000 per ounce, as long as you have a way to account for and trade millionths of an ounce - cryptocurrencies have that down pretty well.
The real miracle fiat currency of the century has to be gemstone diamonds.... I'm very surprised that they've held their value for the past 5 decades in the face of cubic zirconia and the myriad of other challenges they have faced.
Never attribute to conscious thought that which can be explained by laziness, forgetfulness, apathy, or political distancing.
Of course, I kid, this is one of those cases where somebody is going to make a political issue of it and "strip away the sham." Fedora is giving themselves a little bit of an enforcement delay, or warning, at best, with this move.
I don't know where you shop... my grocery store sells a gallon of milk for anywhere from $3.79 (same price as a gallon of premium gas), to upwards of $6, if you'd rather not have hormone, steroid and antibiotic enhanced cows excreting your beverage.
It is true that the overall margin in a grocery store is around 1 to 2%, but that gallon of milk has a whole lot more than 2% profit in it. Cost of goods run closer to 50%, which is why the stores can run unlimited Buy One / Get One Free sales all the time - they're not losing money on those items, just not making as much as they normally do. When you factor in costs of real-estate, taxes, electricity, labor, spoilage, breakage and theft - that's when the margins come down to 1-2%.
So, does this article mean that my local grocery store can merge with a couple of overseas grocery stores, they can all shuffle profits around, dodge taxes, and lower the cost of my grocery bill by 10% while still making more money? Maybe. But, then, those other businesses that still do pay taxes will have to pay more to support the existing services, you know, like roads to get to the stores.
If rules like this didn't exist, think of all the tax accountants and lawyers who would be out of work.
Taxes adjust themselves for inflation, they are a percentage of ______.
However, the taxes will need to be adjusted for the additional services provided by government today, as compared to 60 years ago.
Clear, cogent and logical reasoning. What makes you think that will have anything at all to do with reality?
I don't know about GP's experience, but any time I have explained anything to a reporter, it has come out printed as something completely twisted from it's original meaning. Case in point: told reporter "our technology has flown on Space Shuttle missions", printed in story: "Company Vice President says "their technology is going to the Moon!"" with the implication that the company stock is going to "rocket up" in value.
Don't ask, don't tell passed legal muster for the U.S. armed forces...
The same could be said for gold - there's not really very much of it (on Earth), yet, even with billions of people to divide it amongst, it hasn't skyrocketed in value.
I think there's a theoretical minimum division of Bitcoin (the Satoshi?), and if you lose enough Bitcoins, then that minimum division could become a problem. If you can make the Satoshi smaller in future revisions, I'd say it wouldn't really affect the currency - "lost" coins are no different from ones sitting in a bank.
My top problem with ALL of the current crop of cryptocurrencies is the block chain - how in the hell will that ever scale to be able to process every transaction taking place in near-real time? Thousands an hour, I can see, but there are thousands of monetary transactions taking place every few minutes in a single shopping center. I'd hate to try to scale that up to what's happening in the western world, but if just the people in the U.S. do an average of one monetary transaction every 8 hours, that's over 10,000 transactions per second - average, during peak hours probably 10x that. And Bitcoin is a "global" currency...
I like Fission power, I think we should have more of it, but I acknowledge there are legitimate concerns.
Politically, I think we're being really idiotic about it - limping along the old, relatively unsafe reactors until they are even more unsafe than when they were constructed instead of building new, better ones and decommissioning the old ones. Also, Germany shutting off their nuke plants so quickly as to spike the coal mining industry - that's really bright.
"Free energy" is my shorthand for clean, practical fusion. We've already got it in the sun, but being able to harness that power on Earth and turn it to electricity, that's what I'm calling "free."
Given practical fusion power, you can construct sun shields, really big ones.
You can also pump heat into the planet's core, which might be a very beneficial thing, long term. I'm not talking about just keeping the core liquid and flowing to perpetuate the magnetic field, I'm also talking about sucking the heat out of places that you want to make cooler to get the heat to pump into the core. Too expensive, you say? When energy costs less than 1% of what it does today, per kWh of useful electricity, it's pretty amazing what doesn't cost too much to do anymore, starting with refining metals like Titanium.
Just rambling here, but I did Gentoo about 10 years ago, back when Gentoo was the most practical way to get a 64 bit Linux OS... it took about a half day to compile and install, which isn't the end of the world, but it left me in mostly "static" maintenance mode - I wasn't inclined to try anything because of the potential cost. I was kinda jazzed about all my packages being recompiled with optimization switches tailored to my AMD64 system, but I don't think it did anything noticeable for me.
I did one full system re-compile-install of Gentoo after about 2 or 3 years, and when that didn't address my problem du-jour, I went with Ubuntu and stayed with it until the rig died of dust accumulation. Ubuntu was definitely easier to "try things" in, but it, too, suffered the classic two rednecks driving in a car fate - what are their last words? "Buckle up, I'm gonna try somethin' here..." At least a total Ubuntu system re-install only takes about an hour...
I'm looking forward to the next unexpected plot twist.
Thermonuclear weapons were a big one, and I'd say that low cost global communication (the worldy widey web) was the next.
A lot of the rest has just been grinding on existing technology. Metalworking progressed from steam engine boilers in the 1800s to jet turbines in the 1950s, and that supported the engines that have driven the ongoing transportation revolution. Moore's law-like progress has ground away at computing, from punch cards through transistors and micro- now nano-chips.
I hope the next "big one" is free energy.
There are many "we"s in the world of Physics.
Some of the quieter groups may get more publication traction now that the LHC is failing to support their more widely accepted peers.
I've always liked the "infinite universes" theory that explains improbable physical constants with the observation that: "if this physical constant were not what it is, we would not be here..." In so many other universes where that physical constant did happen to be something other than what it is here, there is nobody there to observe it.
So, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel....
What's your idea of an easy migration path out of Ubuntu, preferably something still Debian based, but really, anything that serves the ideals that Ubuntu used to address 6 to 10 years ago and has gotten away from?
I see lots of hard-core Arch users around, has anybody made something like "Stable KDE on Arch" into a supported distro yet?
This idiot developed and sold some of the world's best respiratory monitoring equipment. One of our repeat customers was a big tobacco company - they paid well, and even sponsored some customization for their research. They never published anything, but they know quite a bit about the science of smoking. The investors and management of the tobacco companies did, indeed, diversify into food in the 1980s, and they have been driving the "improvements" found on grocery store shelves since then, using a similar systematic, scientific approach to selling profitable food products. I believe the consumer's health is at a similar priority for them in food as it was in the tobacco industry.
Yes, people should stop eating garbage, exercise regularly, save for retirement, etc. However, judging from past performance, they need a little encouragement in the right direction, and the available food choices, and pricing structure of those food choices in the U.S. today do not seem to be the encouragement that most people need to make healthy choices. Next, we can go down a whole health-care profit machine conspiracy hole, if you like.
Nobody is forcing you to buy pre-processed, packaged foods, you are absolutely free to go to the grocery and buy fresh produce, meats, dairy, and do all the cooking yourself. Look at the shelf space in your local grocery store and tell me where they are making the bulk of their profits. It's not in the produce aisle.
You hit a trip wire with me, I went to a lawyer once asking about civil rights considerations for disabled children and the schools, the bastard sat there, lied to me about several factual points, and dismissed my concerns about the ADA, Free and Appropriate public education, etc. with the total gem "those laws are from the 1960s, does anyone do anything about those anymore?" Guy was a total tool, and drinking buddy with the bad side of the local school board.
Fair enough that Atkins wasn't killed by his diet, still, fact: he died young.
I was basically hitting back at "Empty carbs" - just about as meaningful and true as "Don't eat fat, it makes you fat..." Carbs are one of the three basic common forms of food energy - just because calories come from carbs doesn't make them "empty," but that's the anti-carb mantra.
I will go for the "processed foods are evil" thing, though. My wife struggles with weight gain, she started "Paleo" recently, which totally abandons processed foods, among other things... it also involves lots of grilled meat and bacon, which I approve of - she dropped 10 pounds in a couple of weeks and has kept them off while still consuming the same total calories as she did before the diet...