The working poor get fewer services than the truly destitute, so you lose much to be working poor.
No system is ever going to be "fair" - for one thing, people have different definitions of "fair" and for another thing, there are as many different situations in life as their are people.
I know that in Massachusetts, benefits to the poor are graduated so that the "working poor" still maintain some level of coverage.
While information leaks are nasty, what your mate is doing amounts to identity theft, which is a criminal matter.
Identity theft is just a word that the banks use to shrug off their responsibility for fraud that they enable. My friend is not committing fraud - he is not impersonating anyone else in order to take something without paying for it. If he were to make up false information instead of using pre-existing information no one would be confused enough to label it identity theft.
Why are STDs such a big problem in some places? Because health care isn't free,
There are free sexual health clinics all over the country. I think you would be hard pressed to find any small city without at least one. They may not operate 9-5, 5 days a week but they are there.
the result of a misguided and illiberal government policy
No, our entire employer based healthcare system is the result of special interest pork legislation written by the industry and pushed upon the public by a Republican administration.
I think you don't understand the meaning of "illiberal." You have agreed with the original poster 100%. Republicans tend to pride themselves on being not liberal aka illiberal, it is no wonder the current system was brought about by republicans.
In this case it is far worse. This is a 10% cut in the rate to the employment agency, so they have to cut the employees wage even further, on costs, insurance, profit etc, employees themselves are likely to get around double that cut.
That's not how contract agencies like Volt usually work. Almost universally they take a percentage of the bill rate and pass the rest on as salary to the contractor. That percentage off the top is generally fixed - all contractors at the same client get the same percentage haircut regardless of base rate. So, unless something very unusual is going on here, 10% off the bill rate is going to directly translate into 10% off the salary too.
Obviously there comes a point where a bill rate can be too low for Volt, et al, to make a profit. Typically contract agencies will just opt not to handle contract employees with such a low bill rate and hand them off to other agencies (or in some cases, divisions within the same contract agency) that have a different billing structure to accommodate the different margins. For example, it is never the case that both the sanitation engineers and the software engineers at a particular client will work through the same agency divisions and usually they will be handled by completely different agencies.
If he was making the other people up, no problem. Impersonating (for any reason) a real person is bullshit.
I tend to agree. But the real problem is with the information leakers. If they didn't break trust, nobody would have any problems (and there would be no incentive to do what he does either).
The answer is no. Despite Al Gore and Michael Moore's best efforts, climate change did not get Bush fired... we had to rely on the 22nd amendment to get the job done.
My question is, how can you be sure that the information that Google provides is actually about the person you searched for?
When performing a Google search on my name (first and last in quotes) I can make out at least three different people on the first page. Which one is me? Which one is the chemist? And which one is the guy who died on a passenger ship in the first half of the 1900s? I know the answer, but how would anyone else?
Just to riff a little bit on your point - a friend of mine has started using (abusing?) these name collisions. When required to identify himself on forms and whatnot, he uses his real name. But, he's got a list of people with the exact same name from all around the country and he usually picks one and uses their details. The name thing will cover him if someone demands an ID in person, but if he has problems with data leakage, it ends up being some other John Doe's data that gets leaked.
So, in your example, my friend would probably be and not be all three of those guys on the first page of google.
20,000 violations * $25,000 per violation fine = $500,000,000.00 in totals fines; I don't see the problem! Seriously tell someone they owe a half a billion dollars in fines it's going to get the attention of the whole community.
Who will do one of two things:
Either they will leave the community, or enough of them will hire lobbyists to change the laws so that such fines will never happen again.
today popular shows have 6 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of content.
That is bullshit. The typical prime-time hour long show has 39-42 minutes of content,leaving only 18-21 minutes for commercials. That is a ratio of 1 minute commercial for every 2 minutes of content. I know this because I edit the commercials out before watching and I use the "time remaining" counter in my video editor as a sanity check that I got all of the commercials.
A few years ago someone figured out that Intel's compiler was engaged in dirty tricks: it inserted code to cause poor performance on hardware that did not have an Intel CPUID.
It wasn't necessarily malicious, all the compiler did was default to a "slow but safe" mode on CPUIDs that it did not recognize. Intel's reasoning was that they only tweaked the code for cpus that they had qual'd the compiler against. Seeing as how they were Intel, they were not particularly interested in qualing their compiler against non-Intel chips. In hindsight, what they should have done is add a "I know what I'm doing dammit!" compilation flag that would enable optimizations anyway.
Incidentally, she's the presiding judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since her tenure began in 2002, the number of warrants that had to be modified before being accepted jumped dramatically.
Considering that her tenure mostly coincides with Bush going hog wild on FISA warrants - iirc something like 6000 total from the creation of the court in the 70s through 2001 and then roughly 2000+ per year from 2002 onwards - that isn't necessarily all that meaningful.
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News flash: amateur astronomers are nerds, as are geologists and peleontologists. You can hardly do any of thet that without going outside.
Uh, yes you can: astronomers: Bedroom window geologists and paleontologists: Hole in the basement floor
You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something But me myself I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car And I got a plan to get us out of here I been working at the convenience store Managed to save just a little bit of money We won't have to drive too far Just 'cross the border and into the city You and I can both get jobs And finally see what it means to be living
You see my old man's got a problem He live with the bottle that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working I say his body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way
I remember we were driving driving in your car The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You got a fast car And we go cruising to entertain ourselves You still ain't got a job And I work in a market as a checkout girl I know things will get better You'll find work and I'll get promoted We'll move out of the shelter Buy a big house and live in the suburbs You got a fast car And I got a job that pays all our bills You stay out drinking late at the bar See more of your friends than you do of your kids I'd always hoped for better Thought maybe together you and me would find it I got no plans I ain't going nowhere So take your fast car and keep on driving
You got a fast car But is it fast enough so you can fly away You gotta make a decision You leave tonight or live and die this way
It is practically impossible to go out on the town on a Friday or Saturday night, returning after midnight, without seeing at least one act of violence or criminal damage.
Which means you have an enforcement problem. Cameras in pubs won't do shit for that. After all, these people aren't acting up in the pub now are they? So you got them on camera drinking. That ain't a crime.
You need more coppers on the beat since, as you have said, it is so easy to find these criminal acts occuring even when you aren't looking for them.
Fact: People go to bars to get drunk. Fact: Drunk people are either really funny or really dangerous Fact: Drunk people who commit violence need to be prosecuted Fact: It's easier to prove guilt when there's proof
Um. A little bit of a stupid reaction.
Fact: People go to bars to socialize Fact: Drunk people often pass out Fact: People who have passed out are generally incapable of committing violence Fact: Its easier to convict the innocent when you can cherry pick from lots and lots of circumstantial evidence
'Just wondering if anyone has seen links to other examples of this glitch? I mean, I imagine if it's a flaw in their sonar system that it would've shown up somewhere else, right?
Here's some more - just to the east of the "original site."
You can rejoice. My sister-in-law, who lived with a guy for 15 years, got a restraining order to keep her out of their house (which was entirely in her name). The real nice thing about it was that it was "stealth" he played her for the week before, acting like they might get back together, having dinner with her, even coming over and replacing a flat tire on her car and they had no history of violence in their entire relationship (plus, the guy is like 6'5" 250lbs and she's 5'4 99lbs).
FWIW, one of her sisters was suspicious and had a friend at the courts watching the daily roster of filings (or whatever it is called) and they saw his lawyer schedule the hearing to file the restraining order and so she was able to quickly sell the house to someone else in the family before it was too late.
But hey, at least BOTH sexes are able to abuse the laws now. Equality for all.
In the U.S., less than five percent of cases go to trial. That means that less than five percent of people ever test the presumption of innocence. Why? Maybe because they're guilty . ..
Don't EVEN try to claim that bullshit. Anyone who has had any exposure whatsoever to criminal trial knows that the prosecutors threaten people with trumped up charges in order to intimidate them into accepting smaller charges for fear of getting a bad ruling on the trumped of charges. It's a game of chicken in which the prosecuctors drive tanks and the accused drive yugos and is wholly unfair to anyone who is actually innocent.
I think her real hidden agenda was to get the bacteria that favor warm, moist regions of the human anatomy to smell like anything other than sushi... a male scientist would never have thought of this approach.
She's indian, they don't smell like sushi on indians, they smell like achar. And, speaking from experience, any guy who has had a mouthful of that has wished it tasted like altoids instead. But every indian girl I've ever met is practically addicted to the stuff, even the ABCDs.
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The working poor get fewer services than the truly destitute, so you lose much to be working poor.
No system is ever going to be "fair" - for one thing, people have different definitions of "fair" and for another thing, there are as many different situations in life as their are people.
I know that in Massachusetts, benefits to the poor are graduated so that the "working poor" still maintain some level of coverage.
While information leaks are nasty, what your mate is doing amounts to identity theft, which is a criminal matter.
Identity theft is just a word that the banks use to shrug off their responsibility for fraud that they enable. My friend is not committing fraud - he is not impersonating anyone else in order to take something without paying for it. If he were to make up false information instead of using pre-existing information no one would be confused enough to label it identity theft.
Why are STDs such a big problem in some places? Because health care isn't free,
There are free sexual health clinics all over the country. I think you would be hard pressed to find any small city without at least one. They may not operate 9-5, 5 days a week but they are there.
the result of a misguided and illiberal government policy
No, our entire employer based healthcare system is the result of special interest pork legislation written by the industry and pushed upon the public by a Republican administration.
I think you don't understand the meaning of "illiberal." You have agreed with the original poster 100%. Republicans tend to pride themselves on being not liberal aka illiberal, it is no wonder the current system was brought about by republicans.
In this case it is far worse. This is a 10% cut in the rate to the employment agency, so they have to cut the employees wage even further, on costs, insurance, profit etc, employees themselves are likely to get around double that cut.
That's not how contract agencies like Volt usually work. Almost universally they take a percentage of the bill rate and pass the rest on as salary to the contractor. That percentage off the top is generally fixed - all contractors at the same client get the same percentage haircut regardless of base rate. So, unless something very unusual is going on here, 10% off the bill rate is going to directly translate into 10% off the salary too.
Obviously there comes a point where a bill rate can be too low for Volt, et al, to make a profit. Typically contract agencies will just opt not to handle contract employees with such a low bill rate and hand them off to other agencies (or in some cases, divisions within the same contract agency) that have a different billing structure to accommodate the different margins. For example, it is never the case that both the sanitation engineers and the software engineers at a particular client will work through the same agency divisions and usually they will be handled by completely different agencies.
The problem is with the exploiters.
Lol, you are a utopian.
If he was making the other people up, no problem. Impersonating (for any reason) a real person is bullshit.
I tend to agree. But the real problem is with the information leakers.
If they didn't break trust, nobody would have any problems (and there would be no incentive to do what he does either).
The answer is no. ... we had to rely on the 22nd amendment to get the job done.
Despite Al Gore and Michael Moore's best efforts, climate change did not get Bush fired
I forgot to mention - it is really easy to get the necessary details from websites like www.pipl,com,
My question is, how can you be sure that the information that Google provides is actually about the person you searched for?
When performing a Google search on my name (first and last in quotes) I can make out at least three different people on the first page. Which one is me? Which one is the chemist? And which one is the guy who died on a passenger ship in the first half of the 1900s? I know the answer, but how would anyone else?
Just to riff a little bit on your point - a friend of mine has started using (abusing?) these name collisions. When required to identify himself on forms and whatnot, he uses his real name. But, he's got a list of people with the exact same name from all around the country and he usually picks one and uses their details. The name thing will cover him if someone demands an ID in person, but if he has problems with data leakage, it ends up being some other John Doe's data that gets leaked.
So, in your example, my friend would probably be and not be all three of those guys on the first page of google.
20,000 violations * $25,000 per violation fine = $500,000,000.00 in totals fines; I don't see the problem! Seriously tell someone they owe a half a billion dollars in fines it's going to get the attention of the whole community.
Who will do one of two things:
Either they will leave the community, or enough of them will hire lobbyists to change the laws so that such fines will never happen again.
today popular shows have 6 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of content.
That is bullshit. The typical prime-time hour long show has 39-42 minutes of content,leaving only 18-21 minutes for commercials. That is a ratio of 1 minute commercial for every 2 minutes of content. I know this because I edit the commercials out before watching and I use the "time remaining" counter in my video editor as a sanity check that I got all of the commercials.
A few years ago someone figured out that Intel's compiler was engaged in dirty tricks: it inserted code to cause poor performance on hardware that did not have an Intel CPUID.
It wasn't necessarily malicious, all the compiler did was default to a "slow but safe" mode on CPUIDs that it did not recognize. Intel's reasoning was that they only tweaked the code for cpus that they had qual'd the compiler against. Seeing as how they were Intel, they were not particularly interested in qualing their compiler against non-Intel chips. In hindsight, what they should have done is add a "I know what I'm doing dammit!" compilation flag that would enable optimizations anyway.
Incidentally, she's the presiding judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since her tenure began in 2002, the number of warrants that had to be modified before being accepted jumped dramatically.
Considering that her tenure mostly coincides with Bush going hog wild on FISA warrants - iirc something like 6000 total from the creation of the court in the 70s through 2001 and then roughly 2000+ per year from 2002 onwards - that isn't necessarily all that meaningful.
Is myspace fundamentally different to the homepage?
Yes. Now they are owned by Rupert Murdoch.
News flash: amateur astronomers are nerds, as are geologists and peleontologists. You can hardly do any of thet that without going outside.
Uh, yes you can:
astronomers: Bedroom window
geologists and paleontologists: Hole in the basement floor
Do you have a car analogy for that?
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living
You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way
I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving
You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way
It is practically impossible to go out on the town on a Friday or Saturday night, returning after midnight, without seeing at least one act of violence or criminal damage.
Which means you have an enforcement problem. Cameras in pubs won't do shit for that. After all, these people aren't acting up in the pub now are they? So you got them on camera drinking. That ain't a crime.
You need more coppers on the beat since, as you have said, it is so easy to find these criminal acts occuring even when you aren't looking for them.
I'm sure nobody here would argue with me if I suggested that the internet would be a much safer place without routers.
Either that, or they could stop sending packets down the ASSPATH, that's just a recipe for disaster right there.
Um. A little bit of an over reaction.
Fact: People go to bars to get drunk.
Fact: Drunk people are either really funny or really dangerous
Fact: Drunk people who commit violence need to be prosecuted
Fact: It's easier to prove guilt when there's proof
Um. A little bit of a stupid reaction.
Fact: People go to bars to socialize
Fact: Drunk people often pass out
Fact: People who have passed out are generally incapable of committing violence
Fact: Its easier to convict the innocent when you can cherry pick from lots and lots of circumstantial evidence
'Just wondering if anyone has seen links to other examples of this glitch? I mean, I imagine if it's a flaw in their sonar system that it would've shown up somewhere else, right?
Here's some more - just to the east of the "original site."
As it should be. Its not really much different then wearing a mask at my front door. its my phone/door, i have a right to know who is there if i want.
Wrong. You have the right to open the door or answer the phone. If you don't like that they have a mask on, don't open the door.
You can rejoice. My sister-in-law, who lived with a guy for 15 years, got a restraining order to keep her out of their house (which was entirely in her name). The real nice thing about it was that it was "stealth" he played her for the week before, acting like they might get back together, having dinner with her, even coming over and replacing a flat tire on her car and they had no history of violence in their entire relationship (plus, the guy is like 6'5" 250lbs and she's 5'4 99lbs).
FWIW, one of her sisters was suspicious and had a friend at the courts watching the daily roster of filings (or whatever it is called) and they saw his lawyer schedule the hearing to file the restraining order and so she was able to quickly sell the house to someone else in the family before it was too late.
But hey, at least BOTH sexes are able to abuse the laws now. Equality for all.
In the U.S., less than five percent of cases go to trial. That means that less than five percent of people ever test the presumption of innocence. Why? Maybe because they're guilty . . .
Don't EVEN try to claim that bullshit. Anyone who has had any exposure whatsoever to criminal trial knows that the prosecutors threaten people with trumped up charges in order to intimidate them into accepting smaller charges for fear of getting a bad ruling on the trumped of charges. It's a game of chicken in which the prosecuctors drive tanks and the accused drive yugos and is wholly unfair to anyone who is actually innocent.
I think her real hidden agenda was to get the bacteria that favor warm, moist regions of the human anatomy to smell like anything other than sushi... a male scientist would never have thought of this approach.
She's indian, they don't smell like sushi on indians, they smell like achar. And, speaking from experience, any guy who has had a mouthful of that has wished it tasted like altoids instead. But every indian girl I've ever met is practically addicted to the stuff, even the ABCDs.