Russian election (U.S., 1996)[edit] The first Russian president Boris Yeltsin won his second term in 1996 Presidential elections thanks to the extensive assistance provided by the team of media and PR experts from the US.[25] According to the cover story in the Time magazine,[26] these were Steven Moore, Joe Shumate, Felix Braynin, George Gorton and Richard Dresner, who worked in Russia four months and received $250 thousand, plus payment of all costs and unlimited budget to conduct surveys and other activities. Simultaneously the US administration ensured a US$10.2 billion IMF loan to Russia[27] as it was drowning in the economic and social disaster, to keep the national economy and pro-Western liberal government afloat.[28] The loan funds have been fraudulently misused by Yeltsin's inner circle, and the IMF has knowingly turned a blind eye to these facts.[29] Although the aggressive pro-Yeltsin campaign boosted his approval rate from initial 6%[30] to 35% that he got during the first round of elections, and later made him win the second round against the left-wing competitor with 54% to 40%, there were wide speculations about the rigged nature of the official results.[31]
The Nixon investigation took days after Watergate. Sure there was an investigation going nowhere far but unless they have evidence and witnesses, they won't indict, once a prosecutor has those, he will (or should) immediately send to the court and file the paperwork.
If you have all the evidence and witnesses and you're just waiting on your hands to get a "better" witness, you risk the entire case.
Because that's what they promised, the evidence was clear (according to CNN and Mueller), the witnesses were there. As a prosecutor, you know that as time progresses witnesses will become less likely to appear and recollections of events will get foggier. You don't sit on the evidence of a murderer for 2 years before indiction, you gather evidence and witnesses, indict, then build your case in court, also the reason why court cases take months or even years, because you build your case as you progress and the defense tries to break down your case.
If you have neither evidence or witnesses in the first couple of hours/days/weeks, regardless of what you think is "out there", you're no longer investigating as much as you are on a fishing expedition.
Mueller has been at it for almost a year now and besides some sound bites and headlines on CNN nothing truly significant has come out yet. Heâ(TM)s wasting time, trying to keep his job afloat. When heâ(TM)s done his career will be over and he knows it.
Itâ(TM)s not about trust but about keeping the peace and politics. Trump may or may not personally believe what the NSA and CIA told him (which has its own agenda) but to accuse or retaliate on Russia could start another Cold War.
In the end, Russia used propaganda to influence an election just like the US does in Russia. They didnâ(TM)t hack it, they didnâ(TM)t make people vote or stop voting at gun point, they got some advertising on a Facebook - voters influenced by that are morons and are spread out evenly across the population so itâ(TM)s unlikely to have had a great effect other than being demoralizing.
It seems like everyone just trusts each other at that level. Also, does it matter? Everything should be encrypted anyway, redirecting traffic should be expected if not by States, somewhere else on the line.
There is no conspiracy, only cost. A CT scan sets the insurance back anywhere from $700-2500 and scheduling it is rather limited and requires at least 3-5 people to be involved. Reading your blood pressure costs $50, a blood test perhaps $150 in the high end and is rather routine can be done by a trained monkey.
There are much better appliances out there that are both open, flexible and rather cheap. The fact you can get an extra tech for the yearly licensing per firewall is a reason not to choose them. The only reason you do is because they provide easy integration with certain black boxes you need if you have a carrier grade network.
It's not impossible, but some things (like radial tires) are things nobody ever thinks of doing until they get the "silly government request" and then find out that it's a pretty good idea.
Some things, obviously existed but space travel brought them back in the front and allowed them to be commercialized. There are plenty of good ideas in labs, but until someone invests a TON of money into developing it out, it won't ever get to us. The government has unlimited money to spend on such things which business ventures often don't want to risk.
It's all about the risk and the return on investment in the end. If you're going to develop millions of dollars worth of kit, you don't want to do it as a business if you're probably never going to get a return.
Would we have gotten there eventually? Sure, but the space age brought us these developments at break-neck speeds, accelerating funding for risky things.
to charge $80,000 for a ~12 port gigabit Linux-based iptables server and not even modern, some of the older models run Kernel 2.2 and the newer ones 2.4.
It doesn't build industries, establish settlements and scientific research stations, or scale up solutions from expensive one-offs to mass production. NASA paid back at least 5:1 every investment ever made in it. Sure not so much today, but we wouldn't have the computer era without the space race, or memory foam mattresses or velcro or insulin pumps or LCD displays or photovoltaic cells.
Even if going to space is completely pointless (Beyond the information we get from doing basic research) it has encouraged the building of many industries. And even if it was just the information we gathered, it has helped endless amount of lives go from superstition based beliefs to actual scientific inquiry.
Uninsured perhaps not, but the number of people unable to afford healthcare has risen significantly, now 55% of people making less than 2x poverty can't go to the doctor vs. 20/30-something percent before with a slight dip (0.3%) in people between 2 and 4x the poverty level and no changes for those making more than that.
Yes, my point is, that was what common carrier status was all about, about a decade ago at least. Then "Net Neutrality" came about which actually was a redefinition of what we understood back then to be Net Neutrality and suddenly all these providers are now bundling their data, apps and Netflix/Google is more than happy to pay for priority access to the network without any repercussions.
Google/Netflix/Amazon don't REALLY want Net Neutrality, they want government protected lines for themselves but not for the newcomers. That's why they want to "protect Net Neutrality", because going back to the old days means carriers wouldn't be able to interfere with the data packets.
Is because the current incarnation supports them and not any newcomers. Bundling, zero-rating services, higher speeds on networks exclusive to Google/Amazon/Netflix and selective data caps all while maintaining the âoecommon carrierâ status helps them a bunch. Losing Obamaâ(TM)s Net ââ(TM)Neutralityâ would level the playing field again to where they all have to play to the same rules or lose common carrier.
Iâ(TM)ve seen those too. I live near an airport. As planes are landing at night they turn on some very bright lights on the nose and on the wings. Looks like 3 orbs, they can appear to be âoespinningâ as the planes wait for a runway pretty high up. Then, depending on angle they appear to either slowly or quickly approach to only slow down/speed up near the end of the âoesightingâ until they go out of view.
What you consider âoetight circleâ is actually a relatively wide area but at greater distance your eyes cannot distinguish the difference and atmospheric aberrations make it blink. shimmer and the increase the apparent frequency of spinning, you can figure out the trigonometry for yourself as an exercise.
The lights however are so bright they can be seen far up. Iâ(TM)m not sure if the pilot is supposed to have them on at that time, perhaps they forgot to turn them off. Iâ(TM)ve looked at them for a while too once and then as they approached the city lights illuminated the belly of the plane but even though I thought it was fairly close I couldnâ(TM)t hear it.
Which most of us pointed out in the years preceding, whenever the topic of state-sponsored insurance comes up. It's pretty much the same in Europe, insurance companies monopolize an area of the market and crank up the rates. It's fairly similar in car insurance companies actually, although there it's more along the lines of age rather than geographic area.
It didn't succeed because that's what the market predicted, there is ample evidence across Europe and Canada as to why it has failed with no success stories ever of a government controlled entity being a "good" solution. The US had the BEST healthcare system in the world, it also had the BEST incentive system - pay for health insurance or take the risk and don't. If you did take the risk and you were wrong there was a safety net that was still "good enough" - you still got the treatment and were penalized financially. Now, the insurance company can legally deny treatment and you're SOL even though you payed for health insurance and there is little no safety net for people that can't afford the extra taxes.
IT workers either burn out or become managers by the time they get to 35-40. Iâ(TM)m surprised anyone can even get to 50s in first levels of helldesk support.
You can thank ObamaCare for that, people that donâ(TM)t work full time donâ(TM)t need their employer to pay (as much) for health insurance. Many companies have dropped hours to avoid insurance costs. At least we now have higher taxes, a state sponsored healthcare system, more people are employed and we now get the 30 hour work week, just like Europe.
People are spending more year over year in restaurants and food places. There has been a 2-5% growth every year. Automation has a little to do with that; orders come out faster, inventory gets tracked automatically etc. restaurants have gotten more efficient and especially smaller places have sprung up everywhere to the point there is now a shortage of food workers.
A big ol ball? My init.d was about 13 scripts big which were readable and editable. Ever tried to edit systemd files? Depending on systemd version you have to create overrides, modify symlinks or edit systemd files straight up which can be in about 5 different locations and on top of that, systemd can have overrides on any changes either with an update or just inherited.
Systemd makes every system into a dependency mess.
Remove/fail a hard drive and your system will boot into single user mode, not even remote access will be available so you better be near the machine just because it was in fstab and apparently everything in fstab is a hard dependency on systemd.
My question is: if these kind of stories weren't on the Internet, would it be any different than 20-30 years ago?
When I was young, I worked as a job student (18yo) which comes with all sorts of regulations, I still regularly worked 14h shifts until 4:00am, I was payed my hourly wages and my boss gave me an extra $50 under the table every week and I was more than happy. IF I had twitter back then, everyone would be outraged but I know everyone was doing it back then too. My boss was making ~$1M/year with his little burger shop on the beach, I never was outraged that he made so much more from my extra hours of "illegal" work.
This "gig economy" is similar: young people work "on the side" using these apps, perhaps they already work deliveries for a pizza shop or courier and then they'll get a little extra that they will never report to their bosses or the tax man. In the end they'll work more than they should and they get some extra income. But now they get to Twitter because Amazon is making a billion dollars and THEY AREN'T and driving a car somehow entitles them to a profit share from Amazon. Well guess what dimwits: if you don't like it, move on, get a real second job.
Not necessarily, but you will often get things that are assembled cheaper. Eg. you'll get the same brand/model of lawn tool but with a weaker/cheaper engine. Manufacturers indeed create stuff special for Black Friday, if you're going to move 100,000 models of something, that's enough for many fabs in China.
So you want to pay more for a product for what reason exactly? You think that if things were more expensive that people elsewhere would be treated better? Like all those "Fair Farming" coffee shops etc, for some reason, the plight of coffee growers hasn't changed much since the 80's except that half of them are now farming coca plants and poppies.
Here's a fact: people will try to maximize their profits at any point in the chain. If you want to pay more for a TV, that's fine, someone will charge you more, but that won't change the fact that your delivery driver still works for peanuts.
The question is why people choose to work under these conditions in countries that practically have UBI, worker protections and a surging job market. People are being offered McJobs at $12-15/hour, yet for some reason people are still picking dangerous, underpaying jobs in the "app economy" where they supposedly pay more in gas than they earn. My intuition tells me this isn't their primary job and they aren't paying taxes on the extra income.
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Russian election (U.S., 1996)[edit]
The first Russian president Boris Yeltsin won his second term in 1996 Presidential elections thanks to the extensive assistance provided by the team of media and PR experts from the US.[25] According to the cover story in the Time magazine,[26] these were Steven Moore, Joe Shumate, Felix Braynin, George Gorton and Richard Dresner, who worked in Russia four months and received $250 thousand, plus payment of all costs and unlimited budget to conduct surveys and other activities. Simultaneously the US administration ensured a US$10.2 billion IMF loan to Russia[27] as it was drowning in the economic and social disaster, to keep the national economy and pro-Western liberal government afloat.[28] The loan funds have been fraudulently misused by Yeltsin's inner circle, and the IMF has knowingly turned a blind eye to these facts.[29] Although the aggressive pro-Yeltsin campaign boosted his approval rate from initial 6%[30] to 35% that he got during the first round of elections, and later made him win the second round against the left-wing competitor with 54% to 40%, there were wide speculations about the rigged nature of the official results.[31]
The Nixon investigation took days after Watergate. Sure there was an investigation going nowhere far but unless they have evidence and witnesses, they won't indict, once a prosecutor has those, he will (or should) immediately send to the court and file the paperwork.
If you have all the evidence and witnesses and you're just waiting on your hands to get a "better" witness, you risk the entire case.
Because that's what they promised, the evidence was clear (according to CNN and Mueller), the witnesses were there. As a prosecutor, you know that as time progresses witnesses will become less likely to appear and recollections of events will get foggier. You don't sit on the evidence of a murderer for 2 years before indiction, you gather evidence and witnesses, indict, then build your case in court, also the reason why court cases take months or even years, because you build your case as you progress and the defense tries to break down your case.
If you have neither evidence or witnesses in the first couple of hours/days/weeks, regardless of what you think is "out there", you're no longer investigating as much as you are on a fishing expedition.
Mueller has been at it for almost a year now and besides some sound bites and headlines on CNN nothing truly significant has come out yet. Heâ(TM)s wasting time, trying to keep his job afloat. When heâ(TM)s done his career will be over and he knows it.
Itâ(TM)s not about trust but about keeping the peace and politics. Trump may or may not personally believe what the NSA and CIA told him (which has its own agenda) but to accuse or retaliate on Russia could start another Cold War.
In the end, Russia used propaganda to influence an election just like the US does in Russia. They didnâ(TM)t hack it, they didnâ(TM)t make people vote or stop voting at gun point, they got some advertising on a Facebook - voters influenced by that are morons and are spread out evenly across the population so itâ(TM)s unlikely to have had a great effect other than being demoralizing.
It seems like everyone just trusts each other at that level. Also, does it matter? Everything should be encrypted anyway, redirecting traffic should be expected if not by States, somewhere else on the line.
MRI these days is fast enough to take full images of a beating heart and resolves 3D as well (unlike echocardiogram)
There is no conspiracy, only cost. A CT scan sets the insurance back anywhere from $700-2500 and scheduling it is rather limited and requires at least 3-5 people to be involved. Reading your blood pressure costs $50, a blood test perhaps $150 in the high end and is rather routine can be done by a trained monkey.
There are much better appliances out there that are both open, flexible and rather cheap. The fact you can get an extra tech for the yearly licensing per firewall is a reason not to choose them. The only reason you do is because they provide easy integration with certain black boxes you need if you have a carrier grade network.
It's not impossible, but some things (like radial tires) are things nobody ever thinks of doing until they get the "silly government request" and then find out that it's a pretty good idea.
Some things, obviously existed but space travel brought them back in the front and allowed them to be commercialized. There are plenty of good ideas in labs, but until someone invests a TON of money into developing it out, it won't ever get to us. The government has unlimited money to spend on such things which business ventures often don't want to risk.
It's all about the risk and the return on investment in the end. If you're going to develop millions of dollars worth of kit, you don't want to do it as a business if you're probably never going to get a return.
Would we have gotten there eventually? Sure, but the space age brought us these developments at break-neck speeds, accelerating funding for risky things.
to charge $80,000 for a ~12 port gigabit Linux-based iptables server and not even modern, some of the older models run Kernel 2.2 and the newer ones 2.4.
It doesn't build industries, establish settlements and scientific research stations, or scale up solutions from expensive one-offs to mass production.
NASA paid back at least 5:1 every investment ever made in it. Sure not so much today, but we wouldn't have the computer era without the space race, or memory foam mattresses or velcro or insulin pumps or LCD displays or photovoltaic cells.
Even if going to space is completely pointless (Beyond the information we get from doing basic research) it has encouraged the building of many industries. And even if it was just the information we gathered, it has helped endless amount of lives go from superstition based beliefs to actual scientific inquiry.
Politicians are not even artificially intelligent?
Uninsured perhaps not, but the number of people unable to afford healthcare has risen significantly, now 55% of people making less than 2x poverty can't go to the doctor vs. 20/30-something percent before with a slight dip (0.3%) in people between 2 and 4x the poverty level and no changes for those making more than that.
Yes, my point is, that was what common carrier status was all about, about a decade ago at least. Then "Net Neutrality" came about which actually was a redefinition of what we understood back then to be Net Neutrality and suddenly all these providers are now bundling their data, apps and Netflix/Google is more than happy to pay for priority access to the network without any repercussions.
Google/Netflix/Amazon don't REALLY want Net Neutrality, they want government protected lines for themselves but not for the newcomers. That's why they want to "protect Net Neutrality", because going back to the old days means carriers wouldn't be able to interfere with the data packets.
Is because the current incarnation supports them and not any newcomers. Bundling, zero-rating services, higher speeds on networks exclusive to Google/Amazon/Netflix and selective data caps all while maintaining the âoecommon carrierâ status helps them a bunch. Losing Obamaâ(TM)s Net ââ(TM)Neutralityâ would level the playing field again to where they all have to play to the same rules or lose common carrier.
Iâ(TM)ve seen those too. I live near an airport. As planes are landing at night they turn on some very bright lights on the nose and on the wings. Looks like 3 orbs, they can appear to be âoespinningâ as the planes wait for a runway pretty high up. Then, depending on angle they appear to either slowly or quickly approach to only slow down/speed up near the end of the âoesightingâ until they go out of view.
What you consider âoetight circleâ is actually a relatively wide area but at greater distance your eyes cannot distinguish the difference and atmospheric aberrations make it blink. shimmer and the increase the apparent frequency of spinning, you can figure out the trigonometry for yourself as an exercise.
The lights however are so bright they can be seen far up. Iâ(TM)m not sure if the pilot is supposed to have them on at that time, perhaps they forgot to turn them off. Iâ(TM)ve looked at them for a while too once and then as they approached the city lights illuminated the belly of the plane but even though I thought it was fairly close I couldnâ(TM)t hear it.
Which most of us pointed out in the years preceding, whenever the topic of state-sponsored insurance comes up. It's pretty much the same in Europe, insurance companies monopolize an area of the market and crank up the rates. It's fairly similar in car insurance companies actually, although there it's more along the lines of age rather than geographic area.
It didn't succeed because that's what the market predicted, there is ample evidence across Europe and Canada as to why it has failed with no success stories ever of a government controlled entity being a "good" solution. The US had the BEST healthcare system in the world, it also had the BEST incentive system - pay for health insurance or take the risk and don't. If you did take the risk and you were wrong there was a safety net that was still "good enough" - you still got the treatment and were penalized financially. Now, the insurance company can legally deny treatment and you're SOL even though you payed for health insurance and there is little no safety net for people that can't afford the extra taxes.
IT workers either burn out or become managers by the time they get to 35-40. Iâ(TM)m surprised anyone can even get to 50s in first levels of helldesk support.
You can thank ObamaCare for that, people that donâ(TM)t work full time donâ(TM)t need their employer to pay (as much) for health insurance. Many companies have dropped hours to avoid insurance costs. At least we now have higher taxes, a state sponsored healthcare system, more people are employed and we now get the 30 hour work week, just like Europe.
People are spending more year over year in restaurants and food places. There has been a 2-5% growth every year. Automation has a little to do with that; orders come out faster, inventory gets tracked automatically etc. restaurants have gotten more efficient and especially smaller places have sprung up everywhere to the point there is now a shortage of food workers.
A big ol ball? My init.d was about 13 scripts big which were readable and editable. Ever tried to edit systemd files? Depending on systemd version you have to create overrides, modify symlinks or edit systemd files straight up which can be in about 5 different locations and on top of that, systemd can have overrides on any changes either with an update or just inherited.
Systemd makes every system into a dependency mess.
Remove/fail a hard drive and your system will boot into single user mode, not even remote access will be available so you better be near the machine just because it was in fstab and apparently everything in fstab is a hard dependency on systemd.
My question is: if these kind of stories weren't on the Internet, would it be any different than 20-30 years ago?
When I was young, I worked as a job student (18yo) which comes with all sorts of regulations, I still regularly worked 14h shifts until 4:00am, I was payed my hourly wages and my boss gave me an extra $50 under the table every week and I was more than happy. IF I had twitter back then, everyone would be outraged but I know everyone was doing it back then too. My boss was making ~$1M/year with his little burger shop on the beach, I never was outraged that he made so much more from my extra hours of "illegal" work.
This "gig economy" is similar: young people work "on the side" using these apps, perhaps they already work deliveries for a pizza shop or courier and then they'll get a little extra that they will never report to their bosses or the tax man. In the end they'll work more than they should and they get some extra income. But now they get to Twitter because Amazon is making a billion dollars and THEY AREN'T and driving a car somehow entitles them to a profit share from Amazon. Well guess what dimwits: if you don't like it, move on, get a real second job.
Not necessarily, but you will often get things that are assembled cheaper. Eg. you'll get the same brand/model of lawn tool but with a weaker/cheaper engine. Manufacturers indeed create stuff special for Black Friday, if you're going to move 100,000 models of something, that's enough for many fabs in China.
So you want to pay more for a product for what reason exactly? You think that if things were more expensive that people elsewhere would be treated better? Like all those "Fair Farming" coffee shops etc, for some reason, the plight of coffee growers hasn't changed much since the 80's except that half of them are now farming coca plants and poppies.
Here's a fact: people will try to maximize their profits at any point in the chain. If you want to pay more for a TV, that's fine, someone will charge you more, but that won't change the fact that your delivery driver still works for peanuts.
The question is why people choose to work under these conditions in countries that practically have UBI, worker protections and a surging job market. People are being offered McJobs at $12-15/hour, yet for some reason people are still picking dangerous, underpaying jobs in the "app economy" where they supposedly pay more in gas than they earn. My intuition tells me this isn't their primary job and they aren't paying taxes on the extra income.