I think at the moment with allegations that his campaign team was in regular contact with the Russians and that the Russians may have something pretty nasty on him, I'd say there are a lot of Ds AND Rs who probably ain't so thrilled with him.
(And yes, I know, the dossier is problematic and may be false in part or in whole).
Yes, but this is/., so it goes without saying that the comments will fall into two main categories: "dismissive because it has something to do with emissions and we all know any attempt to minimize emissions is COMMUNIST!" or "absurd and childish, because it's a corporation, and therefore the GREAT SATAN MUST BE PUNISHED!"
By "blood money", you mean a settlement for Volkswagen breaking EU law, unless you believe companies should be able to wantonly violate the laws of jurisdictions in which they operate, and that any attempt by that jurisdiction to penalize or recover costs is somehow "blood money".
Yahoo was in decline while Yang was still in charge, and he could have made the investors a boat load of money if he'd sold it to Microsoft. Whatever Mayer's flaws, I'd say she had an impossible task. But I get it, you love to blame women for things. It makes you feel manly... for some bizarre reason.
Precisely. Everybody blames Marissa Mayer, and while her time at the top has hardly been stellar, she was handed a sinking ship. It's Jerry Yang whose responsible for Yahoo's decrepitude.
Absolutely! Anyone who finds any kind of security issue and then reveals it needs to be pursued and punished so severely that everyone who finds such issues just pretends they didn't see it and moves on. That'll make things REALLY secure!
I think anyone who cares that the laws of the land are enforced cares. If emissions standards are set, and someone cheats on those standards, then they should be punished. Maybe we don't get the top people involved, but is that an argument against anyone being prosecuted?
The simple answer is simply that enough English-speaking individuals over the last 43-44 years have decided that "-gate" as a suffix at the end of a word can be used to give a scandal as a memorable name. You do understand, I hope, that human language is not a static construct, that words and even morphemes and other elements of speech evolve over time, old words taking on new meanings, new words being formed either by adoption from other languages or by joining together two existing words, and so forth. So, "-gate" as a suffix has now come to a scandal, and has for over four decades gained sufficient penetration in most English-speaking jurisdictions that I'd say it's now a permanent part of the language.
I agree. Since this boils down to someone writing software whose explicit purpose is to cheat on government-mandated tests, I'd say it's a very interesting technical story that involves a scenario that may play out in many areas of development. Being a programmer doesn't mean moral, ethical and legal considerations cease to exist.
Since the greedy inventors were more than likely educated at a taxpayer-funded university, I'd say the basic research already existed. This test, as it were, is simply a test for a specific gene marker. It's one of the reasons these sorts of gene test patents are so bloody awful, in essence they're nothing more than someone using technology largely developed using public funds to hunt down genes which the "inventor" had no part in developing, and then using a shitty patent system to assert ownership over the test.
I didn't dodge any question, I reject completely the notion that there has been a human being born in the last 200,000 that was a "self-made man". Even the boy raised by wolves was raised by wolves.
You can download the entire album, but only twice. I download immediately after purchase, make copies to multiple places, and so have never tested what happens after the second download.
That argument might have merit if the US's economic performance per capita was lower than other countries. As it is, the US is doing rather well, so there's no reason it couldn't deliver a universal health care system comparable to any other developed nation. Or, to put it another way, you're making a claim based on screwy metrics.
You've got me. All I know is that on the odd occasion that I buy something off of Google Play (I just bought the new David Bowie EP), it sure the hell doesn't want me to download the MP3s, limiting me to two downloads and harassing me multiple times after the purchase about streaming or downloading to my devices.
The problem being that no one makes money in a vacuum. The "self-made man" is a fantasy. The only self-made men I can think of are mountain men who live in the woods hundreds of miles from civilization, and even the historical mountain men still came down from the hills to trade pelts for knives.
Sorry mate, the society you live in allows you to make your money, gives you the protection necessary to keep it, gives you the infrastructure necessary for its creation and accumulation, so whether you like it or not, you have an inherent debt. Liberty is not absolute, but if you feel it is, then throw off your clothes, walk out of your house, head for the nearest vast forest and see how long you last as a "self-made man".
And where will all the engineers and researchers come from if there aren't people going into higher education? Guys like Thiel and Trump may be able to amass large amounts of capital, but without the academic, science and technical expertise working for them, they'd be nothing.
I think every member of a society should balance personal motives such as profit, against the greater good. Making a life-saving test extraordinarily expensive, and then pursuing anyone who develops a lower cost variant, particularly when the "test" as it were is simply identifying pre-existing and non-made-made genes, thus potentially harming thousands of people who the test's costs mean they cannot be tested cannot be justified save as a purely selfish and, dare I say it, sociopathic act. We should be doing all we can to get sociopaths out of any kind of corporate governance, not allowing them to game the system to our detriment and to their gain.
I think each shows a kind of pure evil in its own way. Yes, as a matter of degrees some sociopath with a law degree who uses his intellect and education to fuck over entire industries isn't committing an act quite as evil as a psychopathic pedophile that rapes and murders a child.
Or, maybe in some cases patent trolls and murderers same degree of evil.
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I think at the moment with allegations that his campaign team was in regular contact with the Russians and that the Russians may have something pretty nasty on him, I'd say there are a lot of Ds AND Rs who probably ain't so thrilled with him.
(And yes, I know, the dossier is problematic and may be false in part or in whole).
Indeed. If there was ever a case where reasonable doubt it would be one where a single illegal image was found.
Most popular email, really? According to this site https://litmus.com/blog/email-... even three years ago Yahoo was below Gmail.
Yes, but this is /., so it goes without saying that the comments will fall into two main categories: "dismissive because it has something to do with emissions and we all know any attempt to minimize emissions is COMMUNIST!" or "absurd and childish, because it's a corporation, and therefore the GREAT SATAN MUST BE PUNISHED!"
By "blood money", you mean a settlement for Volkswagen breaking EU law, unless you believe companies should be able to wantonly violate the laws of jurisdictions in which they operate, and that any attempt by that jurisdiction to penalize or recover costs is somehow "blood money".
If you have a specific accusation to make, then make it. But this is nothing more than libel.
No, the problem is that in your eyes women can apparently do no right. Did you think anyone had a serious chance of turning Yahoo around?
Yahoo was in decline while Yang was still in charge, and he could have made the investors a boat load of money if he'd sold it to Microsoft. Whatever Mayer's flaws, I'd say she had an impossible task. But I get it, you love to blame women for things. It makes you feel manly... for some bizarre reason.
Precisely. Everybody blames Marissa Mayer, and while her time at the top has hardly been stellar, she was handed a sinking ship. It's Jerry Yang whose responsible for Yahoo's decrepitude.
Absolutely! Anyone who finds any kind of security issue and then reveals it needs to be pursued and punished so severely that everyone who finds such issues just pretends they didn't see it and moves on. That'll make things REALLY secure!
I think anyone who cares that the laws of the land are enforced cares. If emissions standards are set, and someone cheats on those standards, then they should be punished. Maybe we don't get the top people involved, but is that an argument against anyone being prosecuted?
The simple answer is simply that enough English-speaking individuals over the last 43-44 years have decided that "-gate" as a suffix at the end of a word can be used to give a scandal as a memorable name. You do understand, I hope, that human language is not a static construct, that words and even morphemes and other elements of speech evolve over time, old words taking on new meanings, new words being formed either by adoption from other languages or by joining together two existing words, and so forth. So, "-gate" as a suffix has now come to a scandal, and has for over four decades gained sufficient penetration in most English-speaking jurisdictions that I'd say it's now a permanent part of the language.
I agree. Since this boils down to someone writing software whose explicit purpose is to cheat on government-mandated tests, I'd say it's a very interesting technical story that involves a scenario that may play out in many areas of development. Being a programmer doesn't mean moral, ethical and legal considerations cease to exist.
Since the greedy inventors were more than likely educated at a taxpayer-funded university, I'd say the basic research already existed. This test, as it were, is simply a test for a specific gene marker. It's one of the reasons these sorts of gene test patents are so bloody awful, in essence they're nothing more than someone using technology largely developed using public funds to hunt down genes which the "inventor" had no part in developing, and then using a shitty patent system to assert ownership over the test.
I didn't dodge any question, I reject completely the notion that there has been a human being born in the last 200,000 that was a "self-made man". Even the boy raised by wolves was raised by wolves.
You can download the entire album, but only twice. I download immediately after purchase, make copies to multiple places, and so have never tested what happens after the second download.
That argument might have merit if the US's economic performance per capita was lower than other countries. As it is, the US is doing rather well, so there's no reason it couldn't deliver a universal health care system comparable to any other developed nation. Or, to put it another way, you're making a claim based on screwy metrics.
Ah, the reasoned riposte of the Libertarian, brought out whenever their fantasies are pulled out into the cold hard light of day.
You've got me. All I know is that on the odd occasion that I buy something off of Google Play (I just bought the new David Bowie EP), it sure the hell doesn't want me to download the MP3s, limiting me to two downloads and harassing me multiple times after the purchase about streaming or downloading to my devices.
The problem being that no one makes money in a vacuum. The "self-made man" is a fantasy. The only self-made men I can think of are mountain men who live in the woods hundreds of miles from civilization, and even the historical mountain men still came down from the hills to trade pelts for knives.
Sorry mate, the society you live in allows you to make your money, gives you the protection necessary to keep it, gives you the infrastructure necessary for its creation and accumulation, so whether you like it or not, you have an inherent debt. Liberty is not absolute, but if you feel it is, then throw off your clothes, walk out of your house, head for the nearest vast forest and see how long you last as a "self-made man".
And where will all the engineers and researchers come from if there aren't people going into higher education? Guys like Thiel and Trump may be able to amass large amounts of capital, but without the academic, science and technical expertise working for them, they'd be nothing.
I think every member of a society should balance personal motives such as profit, against the greater good. Making a life-saving test extraordinarily expensive, and then pursuing anyone who develops a lower cost variant, particularly when the "test" as it were is simply identifying pre-existing and non-made-made genes, thus potentially harming thousands of people who the test's costs mean they cannot be tested cannot be justified save as a purely selfish and, dare I say it, sociopathic act. We should be doing all we can to get sociopaths out of any kind of corporate governance, not allowing them to game the system to our detriment and to their gain.
How about trying to keep breast cancer tests as expensive as possible for personal profit?
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I think each shows a kind of pure evil in its own way. Yes, as a matter of degrees some sociopath with a law degree who uses his intellect and education to fuck over entire industries isn't committing an act quite as evil as a psychopathic pedophile that rapes and murders a child.
Or, maybe in some cases patent trolls and murderers same degree of evil.
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