And very often it is not legal, either. The whole point of civil disobedience is that you're willing to break the law and face the consequences rather than comply with something you feel is morally wrong.
There is always someone who brings this up, who basically says that your protest doesn't count unless you are willing to risk jail.
Well, it ain't true. Here's one of the most famous examples: The Boston Tea Party - they wore disguises so as not to be recognized and avoid arrest.
Here's another: The Underground Railroad, widely cited as a form of civil disobediance in which none of the participants had any interest at all in being arrested.
My main point is this location is not of sensitive nature, being that all foreign satellite topography imagery for public use is heavily screened.
I'm trying to parse that, and the best I can get is that he's saying the US government censors google's imagery of sensitive locations in other countries. I can see them doing that for allies like Israel, but it is really hard to make a case for the US censoring pictures of Chinese sites.
He didn't get gitmo closed either. Some people would like to think that was on purpose... but there were plenty of other things that he on purpose didn't want to do, and the way he didn't do them was to ignore them, not have a very public fight with congress.
PHD is over kill for most IT jobs and one can be a trun off to HR as you come off as needing a very high pay.M
This isn't about becoming an employee - this is about going independent. And that PhD impresses the hell out of people looking to hire a consultant - it ain't HR making that decision, it is a nervous nelly exec. They like that stuff because it gives them CYA - if you screw up they can say, "don't blame me, he had great credentials."
I don't have a PhD, but before I retired I was raking in the bucks (lawyer level hourly rates) to serve as little more than a security blanket for middle level management. I was *the* expert and if I couldn't fix it, then it couldn't be fixed. Or at least that was the way it got sold to upper management. Their problems were never that hard to begin with and I never exaggerated them either, but that wasn't the point - it was the feeling of security that was worth the big bucks to the hiring managers - budget was a known manageable quantity, the threat (to their jobs) of failure was not.
Let's change the scenario a little bit: A senator proposes legislation that bans homosexuality due to his religious belief that homosexuality is a sin. That same senator is caught soliciting a gay prostitute in a bathroom stall. Let me guess: you're going to cry hypocrisy in that scenario (as you should).
No, not only would I not cry hypocrisy, I should not. If the man was elected on the promise of banning homosexuality then it is his duty to try to keep his promise to his constiutents - that's how representative democracy works. The guy's probably got a lot of inner demons to deal with, but at least he keeps his promises.
Not that I wouldn't do the same... but it's more of Al Gores "Do as I say, not as I do" nonsense.
That's same BS as saying the Occupy guys were hypocrites for using apple products - as if they should cripple themselves into ineffectiveness by not using any and all tools available to them. Following the law and simultaneously wanting to change the law for everybody including yourself is not a case of "do as I say, not as I do."
I wonder if he was the sole passenger on a private jet that took him to sign the deal.
The jet plane which uses fuel that is priced above market to cover the carbon-offsets he thinks out to be made mandatory? How exactly is that hypocritical?
If you want to critize the guy, at least be intellectually honest about it - you only make the guy look better if the worst thing you can say about him is a misrepresentation of the truth. What's next? Accusing him of claiming to have invented the internet?
basically they are the straightest shooters in the Arabic world,
While I have a very favorable opinion of the network, that particular bar is quite low - I think Al Arabiya is a close second (generally good reporting but biased in favor of the saudi regime in the same way Al Jazeera is biased in favor of the qatari regime) and everybody else local to the mid-east is barely more than state propaganda arms.
his was in China though. And the Dad evidently gave up after the kid said "No, I'm STILL not going to look for a job." Sounds like the problem may have been lack of tough love.
Something being very popular does not de-facto make it a monopoly. People need to stop throwing around terms like this.
Actually, that is pretty much the definition for US anti-trust purposes.
YouTube has a ton of very large and viable competitors who could take it out in a second if Googe let their guard down, like Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Viddler - not to metion Facebook and Bing themselves.
Not in a second, even figuratively. Youtube has such massive momentum - that's like saying MySpace fell to Facebook in a second. Over five years or so, yeah. But you could have said the same thing about microsoft's monopoly during the 90s -- Apple was right there, just as facebook would love to usurp youtube now.
what was GM to do hire new to GM people and not the people who have been on site under the old outsource?
It was GM's decision to "fire" HP - GM voluntarily signed the no-poaching agreement with EDS/HP.
I think such things suck for the people, I've been in the middle of them before myself when I didn't know any better. But if GM signed the contract with HP, its their responsibility to honor the terms or face the consequences.
What will probably happen is that a bunch of lawyers will get some work to do for a few months and in the end GM will end up paying some sort of penalty or poaching fee to HP and the actual people will go on about their business as if none if it happened.
Right to work simply means that employers are forbidden from signing contracts with unions that say they will only hire members of the union. That's it. You might be thinking of "employment at will" which means employer can fire and the employee can quit without notice or cause unless the employment contract says otherwise - but all 50 states are like that, Texas is not special in that way.
As for specifics of employment contracts - like non-competes and such, that varies from state to state and Texas is a lot less protective of employees than a state like California (which, for example, practically forbids non-competes except in extreme cases, like a golden parachute equal to the salary for the duration of the non-compete).
Granted, he's a grand-master ranked pistol shooter, but even the most ham-fisted idiot won't take more than 3-4 seconds to perform a mag change.
I think you are giving the crazy people too much credit. Under ideal conditions, yeah, it ain't that hard. But under stress in conditions that the shooter has never experienced before, seems like there is a reasonable chance of fumbling and even dropping the magazine on the ground.
I think the idea of smaller magazines is a good one - just like I think the idea of smaller soda cups is a good one. It adds friction but does not seriously stop anything. A little bit of friction at the right point can go a long way.
On the other hand, the time when banning the sale of large magazines could add friction is rapidly coming to an end. A few more years, 10 at the most, and anyone will be able to use a 3D printer to manufactuer high capacity magazines in their living room. In 10 years, they'll probably be able to manufacture full-auto weapons too - or at the very least the parts necessary to go from semi-auto to full-auto.
Considering what users put up with in Facebook, I'd say it is very likely that the controversy was limited to the slashdot crowd.
Anecdotally it was not. My 20-something niece who barely cares about facebook-privacy type issues despite my best efforts actually cancelled her instragram account before I had even heard about this controversy. I sent her an email around noon the day it broke on slashdot and she immediately wrote back to say she had already cancelled a couple of hours before. I hadn't even expected her to care, much less take such drastic action.
Its broken up by quintiles, so already does factor in concentration of income. The top 20% of the people are paying 67.9% of the taxes, the bottom 20% of the people are paying 0.3% of the taxes.
No, those quintiles are even divisions by the number of people, not by income - the same number of people are in the top 20% as are in the bottom 20% regardless of their actual income levels.
In fact, those same CBO numbers show that the top 20% saw a 10% increase in after tax income, while all other quintiles saw a decline of 2-3% over the period of 1979-2007.
That report also states that the equalizing effect of wealth transfer is less in 2007 than 1997 - a direct contradiction of your permise that taxation has become more progressive over that time period.
What's the alternative? If Israel evacuated the West Bank today, it would have rockets landing in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tomorrow.
That is a false dichotomy used to perpetuate the status quo. True or not, it is no reason for the israeli government to continue with provocative policies like building new settlements.
Alarmist much? The *current* coral reefs will die, but new ones will appear at locations where the CO2 level is currently too low for them.
They are dying much faster than they are growing. It takes decades to centuries to grow a new coral reef from scratch. In the meantime the oceans bioversity would be decimated past the point of no return for many species.
Most of the sea life in the ocean will die. The reefs are a critical component of the food chain for fish of all sizes, including plenty that don't directly live on the reef itself.
The 64 bit branch of FireFox and loved it, it was much faster.
Not really. Look at their own benchmarks - at best performance is roughly 15% faster, some cases slower. They also commit the cardinal sin of using benchmark charts that do not start at zero, #1 on the list of "how to lie with numbers."
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And very often it is not legal, either. The whole point of civil disobedience is that you're willing to break the law and face the consequences rather than comply with something you feel is morally wrong.
There is always someone who brings this up, who basically says that your protest doesn't count unless you are willing to risk jail.
Well, it ain't true. Here's one of the most famous examples: The Boston Tea Party - they wore disguises so as not to be recognized and avoid arrest.
Here's another: The Underground Railroad, widely cited as a form of civil disobediance in which none of the participants had any interest at all in being arrested.
See, I was wondering how they were going to draw a physical parallel to what they were doing that *WAS* a legal form of protest.
As far as I can tell, the Greensboro Sit-Ins were legal.
The closest I could think of was a union mob blocking the entrance to a business, BUT that is illegal.
I believe that is illegal because of the national labor relations act, which does not apply to non-employees.
My main point is this location is not of sensitive nature, being that all foreign satellite topography imagery for public use is heavily screened.
I'm trying to parse that, and the best I can get is that he's saying the US government censors google's imagery of sensitive locations in other countries. I can see them doing that for allies like Israel, but it is really hard to make a case for the US censoring pictures of Chinese sites.
He didn't get gitmo closed either. Some people would like to think that was on purpose ... but there were plenty of other things that he on purpose didn't want to do, and the way he didn't do them was to ignore them, not have a very public fight with congress.
PHD is over kill for most IT jobs and one can be a trun off to HR as you come off as needing a very high pay.M
This isn't about becoming an employee - this is about going independent. And that PhD impresses the hell out of people looking to hire a consultant - it ain't HR making that decision, it is a nervous nelly exec. They like that stuff because it gives them CYA - if you screw up they can say, "don't blame me, he had great credentials."
I don't have a PhD, but before I retired I was raking in the bucks (lawyer level hourly rates) to serve as little more than a security blanket for middle level management. I was *the* expert and if I couldn't fix it, then it couldn't be fixed. Or at least that was the way it got sold to upper management. Their problems were never that hard to begin with and I never exaggerated them either, but that wasn't the point - it was the feeling of security that was worth the big bucks to the hiring managers - budget was a known manageable quantity, the threat (to their jobs) of failure was not.
Let's change the scenario a little bit: A senator proposes legislation that bans homosexuality due to his religious belief that homosexuality is a sin. That same senator is caught soliciting a gay prostitute in a bathroom stall. Let me guess: you're going to cry hypocrisy in that scenario (as you should).
No, not only would I not cry hypocrisy, I should not. If the man was elected on the promise of banning homosexuality then it is his duty to try to keep his promise to his constiutents - that's how representative democracy works. The guy's probably got a lot of inner demons to deal with, but at least he keeps his promises.
Not that I wouldn't do the same... but it's more of Al Gores "Do as I say, not as I do" nonsense.
That's same BS as saying the Occupy guys were hypocrites for using apple products - as if they should cripple themselves into ineffectiveness by not using any and all tools available to them. Following the law and simultaneously wanting to change the law for everybody including yourself is not a case of "do as I say, not as I do."
I wonder if he was the sole passenger on a private jet that took him to sign the deal.
The jet plane which uses fuel that is priced above market to cover the carbon-offsets he thinks out to be made mandatory? How exactly is that hypocritical?
If you want to critize the guy, at least be intellectually honest about it - you only make the guy look better if the worst thing you can say about him is a misrepresentation of the truth. What's next? Accusing him of claiming to have invented the internet?
basically they are the straightest shooters in the Arabic world,
While I have a very favorable opinion of the network, that particular bar is quite low - I think Al Arabiya is a close second (generally good reporting but biased in favor of the saudi regime in the same way Al Jazeera is biased in favor of the qatari regime) and everybody else local to the mid-east is barely more than state propaganda arms.
his was in China though. And the Dad evidently gave up after the kid said "No, I'm STILL not going to look for a job." Sounds like the problem may have been lack of tough love.
Sounds like it might be 421 aka Little Emperor Syndrome at work.
Now they are becoming standard journalist that are too dependent on the goodwill of PR departments.
Under previous management they had a strict policy of never signing NDAs. Has that changed?
Something being very popular does not de-facto make it a monopoly. People need to stop throwing around terms like this.
Actually, that is pretty much the definition for US anti-trust purposes.
YouTube has a ton of very large and viable competitors who could take it out in a second if Googe let their guard down, like Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Viddler - not to metion Facebook and Bing themselves.
Not in a second, even figuratively. Youtube has such massive momentum - that's like saying MySpace fell to Facebook in a second. Over five years or so, yeah. But you could have said the same thing about microsoft's monopoly during the 90s -- Apple was right there, just as facebook would love to usurp youtube now.
Maybe he's from Boston?
Khama only applies to Boston Brahmin.
what was GM to do hire new to GM people and not the people who have been on site under the old outsource?
It was GM's decision to "fire" HP - GM voluntarily signed the no-poaching agreement with EDS/HP.
I think such things suck for the people, I've been in the middle of them before myself when I didn't know any better. But if GM signed the contract with HP, its their responsibility to honor the terms or face the consequences.
What will probably happen is that a bunch of lawyers will get some work to do for a few months and in the end GM will end up paying some sort of penalty or poaching fee to HP and the actual people will go on about their business as if none if it happened.
Texas is a right to work state.
Right to work simply means that employers are forbidden from signing contracts with unions that say they will only hire members of the union. That's it. You might be thinking of "employment at will" which means employer can fire and the employee can quit without notice or cause unless the employment contract says otherwise - but all 50 states are like that, Texas is not special in that way.
As for specifics of employment contracts - like non-competes and such, that varies from state to state and Texas is a lot less protective of employees than a state like California (which, for example, practically forbids non-competes except in extreme cases, like a golden parachute equal to the salary for the duration of the non-compete).
Granted, he's a grand-master ranked pistol shooter, but even the most ham-fisted idiot won't take more than 3-4 seconds to perform a mag change.
I think you are giving the crazy people too much credit. Under ideal conditions, yeah, it ain't that hard. But under stress in conditions that the shooter has never experienced before, seems like there is a reasonable chance of fumbling and even dropping the magazine on the ground.
I think the idea of smaller magazines is a good one - just like I think the idea of smaller soda cups is a good one. It adds friction but does not seriously stop anything. A little bit of friction at the right point can go a long way.
On the other hand, the time when banning the sale of large magazines could add friction is rapidly coming to an end. A few more years, 10 at the most, and anyone will be able to use a 3D printer to manufactuer high capacity magazines in their living room. In 10 years, they'll probably be able to manufacture full-auto weapons too - or at the very least the parts necessary to go from semi-auto to full-auto.
The doctrine of the trinity is not the sole determinant as to whether or not a religion is "Christian".
Indeed. A surprisingly large number of evangelicals believe that the catholic church is not christian. And they aren't shy about it either.
Considering what users put up with in Facebook, I'd say it is very likely that the controversy was limited to the slashdot crowd.
Anecdotally it was not. My 20-something niece who barely cares about facebook-privacy type issues despite my best efforts actually cancelled her instragram account before I had even heard about this controversy. I sent her an email around noon the day it broke on slashdot and she immediately wrote back to say she had already cancelled a couple of hours before. I hadn't even expected her to care, much less take such drastic action.
Its broken up by quintiles, so already does factor in concentration of income. The top 20% of the people are paying 67.9% of the taxes, the bottom 20% of the people are paying 0.3% of the taxes.
No, those quintiles are even divisions by the number of people, not by income - the same number of people are in the top 20% as are in the bottom 20% regardless of their actual income levels.
In fact, those same CBO numbers show that the top 20% saw a 10% increase in after tax income, while all other quintiles saw a decline of 2-3% over the period of 1979-2007.
That report also states that the equalizing effect of wealth transfer is less in 2007 than 1997 - a direct contradiction of your permise that taxation has become more progressive over that time period.
Easy to say if you live in the US or Canada. Not so easy if you live in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. That doesn't mean we should encourage or even accept that blindness.
What's the alternative? If Israel evacuated the West Bank today, it would have rockets landing in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tomorrow.
That is a false dichotomy used to perpetuate the status quo. True or not, it is no reason for the israeli government to continue with provocative policies like building new settlements.
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Basically it is a sort of whack-a-mole with different numbers of moles each time.
So....reduced by 10% then?
That's an anachronistic definition. Modern definition, as defined by the OED:
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of
Alarmist much? The *current* coral reefs will die, but new ones will appear at locations where the CO2 level is currently too low for them.
They are dying much faster than they are growing. It takes decades to centuries to grow a new coral reef from scratch. In the meantime the oceans bioversity would be decimated past the point of no return for many species.
So what if all the Coral Reefs die,
Most of the sea life in the ocean will die. The reefs are a critical component of the food chain for fish of all sizes, including plenty that don't directly live on the reef itself.
The 64 bit branch of FireFox and loved it, it was much faster.
Not really. Look at their own benchmarks - at best performance is roughly 15% faster, some cases slower. They also commit the cardinal sin of using benchmark charts that do not start at zero, #1 on the list of "how to lie with numbers."