Absolutely. Dune is up there with Tolkien's Middle Earth work in world creation. Not just one of the great pieces of American SF, but one of the great pieces of SF, period.
Because securing employee social security numbers and bank account numbers is an evil nefarious act, and we should hope some brave freedom fighter comes along and liberates said information and sells it to such white knights as the Russian mob.
Can you tell me how reduced? What percentage of data theft by insiders is by whistle blowers, and what percentage is by employees out to screw employers or profit by selling sensitive information?
My gut tells me the latter far outweighs the former, but clearly you must have some notion as you say that being a good organization will seriously reduce your risk.
I can't quite sort out why I have been modded troll. The issue of data leaks is a big issue, even for organizations that do good (again, however you define that. I agree that Snowden was morally right to do what he did, but try to imagine a situation in which an employee nicking your data is doing it to blackmail you or sell to a competitor?
Not every person stealing your data is some glorious warrior of freedom. Most are, well, to put it bluntly, just plain criminals, and as with any kind of theft, frequently those best placed to steal your data for nefarious ends are your own employees.
Yes, well, perhaps in La-la Land. Here, in reality, no matter how good your organization may be (for whatever definition of "good" you choose to use), you may still end up with bad employees. The question of securing your data shouldn't be about good or evil, or any particular moral judgment, but simply about how to make sure you're critical and confidential data doesn't end up being ripped off.
Yes, but if you can sufficiently undermine him personally, it becomes a lot easier to undermine what he has to say. People happily shoot the messenger all the time.
like Socrates, he will be forced to drink the hemlock tea.
If slavery was going to end in the South, why were the Southern states so keen to make sure a large ratio of future states bring formed out of the Western expansion would b slave states?
The slave states didn't want just accommodation, they wanted to expand and further entrench slavery.
The one thing I'm reasonably certain about is that whatever Lucas had approved for the expanded universe will be thrown out the door. Disney is out to make a lot of money, and it will have absolutely no interest in is optioning Zahn or any other expanded universe author.
Besides, most of the Expanded Universe stuff I've read (admittedly only a splattering here and there), is just gawdawful shit.
On second thought, considering how the standards for the prequel trilogy went down the shitter and Disney's involvement, maybe the Expanded Universe crap will set the perfect tone.
I guess it all depends on which version of reality Lucas is peddling at any given time. One day it was three trilogies, then two, now it's nine trilogies plus unrelated add-on movies. Why, by the time Disney is done, the Christmas Special will return its rightful canon place and we'll have full length Wookie porn flicks; "Revenge of Chewbacca's 36 Inch Dong!"
Meesa thinking a movie about da Binks family is mooie mooie good. Nowsa that I'm a traitorous bastard who sold da Jedi and da Republic up da river, it could be called Revenge of da Binks!
Other than through impeachment, there's no way in most presidential and semi-presidential systems to remove a President.
That's why I think parliamentary systems are better. Governments are formed out of the legislature and stand only so long as they retain the confidence of the legislature.
That seems a pretty gross exaggeration of public sentiment in Egypt, the problem, at its core, is that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cohorts won the slimmest of majorities (just over 51%), and instead of recognizing the somewhat tenuous situation they were in and moderating their activities, they basically went all out to seize control of the constitution, various local governments and the judiciary, with the clear intent of assuring a narrow islamist form of Shariah was the law of the land.
To many of the 2012 protesters, reformers, and most importantly there Egyptian Army, this was directly opposed to what they had intended. Many feared, and not entirely without justification that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were going to take a page from Ayatollah Khomeini's play book and use the reformist zeal to put in place a strongly theocratic and autocratic government.
I'll say this about it, when something like a third of any nation's populace signs a petition demanding the government reign, I would suggest to that government that it shelve more controversial policies and try to find a new accommodation with the oppositon., or one way or the other shit will hit the fan.
Well aware of it. That's my central point, that this fear of the mere mention of socialism leads to gawdawful solutions that still don't accomplish what everyone knows needs to be done. Obamacare is certainly a step in the right direction, but won't do very much to make the system cheaper, so it will still end up being a bigger drag on GDP than pretty much an other industrialized country's health care system.
There's the problem. A guy with a tumor the size of his fist in his abdomen or some poor bugger with severe head trauma and half a dozen broken bones doesn't consider himself a consumer, he considers himself a *patient*.
How are things working out for Canada? Well, let's see, we certainly weathered the 2008 calamity a helluva lot better than the US, so I'd say, on the whole, we're doing something pretty right.
But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Private coverage in Canada is largely limited to private health plans that sit atop the public system. I have a company drug plan that pays 80% after annual premium. That's hardly a hybrid system.
Yes, there are some private clinics, but they are so few in number and operate in such a legal grey zone that they really don't constitute any substantial aspect of the health care system.
I can barely parse that sentence. We're being imperialistic because we have a universal system and you keep making these Frankenstein's monsters out of a hodge podge of public and private coverage systems that cost far more than almost any other industrialized country's health care system?
Hey, it's no skin off my back. Have any health care system you like. But one does have to stand in awe of such a wealthy country so utterly incapable over such a long period of time of implementing a reasonably effective health care system that gives a reasonable amount of coverage to all its citizens.
Like I said, the Canadian and European systems are hardly perfect. But when I look at what an insane and haphazard system you have, I can't say I'd swap our system for yours.
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What other institution than government can you possibly lobby?
I'm not clear. Is the claim "Card is a homophobe" not correct?
Absolutely. Dune is up there with Tolkien's Middle Earth work in world creation. Not just one of the great pieces of American SF, but one of the great pieces of SF, period.
Because securing employee social security numbers and bank account numbers is an evil nefarious act, and we should hope some brave freedom fighter comes along and liberates said information and sells it to such white knights as the Russian mob.
Can you tell me how reduced? What percentage of data theft by insiders is by whistle blowers, and what percentage is by employees out to screw employers or profit by selling sensitive information?
My gut tells me the latter far outweighs the former, but clearly you must have some notion as you say that being a good organization will seriously reduce your risk.
I can't quite sort out why I have been modded troll. The issue of data leaks is a big issue, even for organizations that do good (again, however you define that. I agree that Snowden was morally right to do what he did, but try to imagine a situation in which an employee nicking your data is doing it to blackmail you or sell to a competitor?
Not every person stealing your data is some glorious warrior of freedom. Most are, well, to put it bluntly, just plain criminals, and as with any kind of theft, frequently those best placed to steal your data for nefarious ends are your own employees.
Yes, well, perhaps in La-la Land. Here, in reality, no matter how good your organization may be (for whatever definition of "good" you choose to use), you may still end up with bad employees. The question of securing your data shouldn't be about good or evil, or any particular moral judgment, but simply about how to make sure you're critical and confidential data doesn't end up being ripped off.
Two words; hot grits.
Yes, but if you can sufficiently undermine him personally, it becomes a lot easier to undermine what he has to say. People happily shoot the messenger all the time.
like Socrates, he will be forced to drink the hemlock tea.
If slavery was going to end in the South, why were the Southern states so keen to make sure a large ratio of future states bring formed out of the Western expansion would b slave states?
The slave states didn't want just accommodation, they wanted to expand and further entrench slavery.
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The one thing I'm reasonably certain about is that whatever Lucas had approved for the expanded universe will be thrown out the door. Disney is out to make a lot of money, and it will have absolutely no interest in is optioning Zahn or any other expanded universe author.
Besides, most of the Expanded Universe stuff I've read (admittedly only a splattering here and there), is just gawdawful shit.
On second thought, considering how the standards for the prequel trilogy went down the shitter and Disney's involvement, maybe the Expanded Universe crap will set the perfect tone.
Star Wars 2.5?
Disney paid a lot of dollaro for the rights to Star Wars. They will milk it every nickel they can. And you'll buy it! Do you hear me, you'll buy it!
I guess it all depends on which version of reality Lucas is peddling at any given time. One day it was three trilogies, then two, now it's nine trilogies plus unrelated add-on movies. Why, by the time Disney is done, the Christmas Special will return its rightful canon place and we'll have full length Wookie porn flicks; "Revenge of Chewbacca's 36 Inch Dong!"
Meesa thinking a movie about da Binks family is mooie mooie good. Nowsa that I'm a traitorous bastard who sold da Jedi and da Republic up da river, it could be called Revenge of da Binks!
Other than through impeachment, there's no way in most presidential and semi-presidential systems to remove a President.
That's why I think parliamentary systems are better. Governments are formed out of the legislature and stand only so long as they retain the confidence of the legislature.
That seems a pretty gross exaggeration of public sentiment in Egypt, the problem, at its core, is that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cohorts won the slimmest of majorities (just over 51%), and instead of recognizing the somewhat tenuous situation they were in and moderating their activities, they basically went all out to seize control of the constitution, various local governments and the judiciary, with the clear intent of assuring a narrow islamist form of Shariah was the law of the land.
To many of the 2012 protesters, reformers, and most importantly there Egyptian Army, this was directly opposed to what they had intended. Many feared, and not entirely without justification that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were going to take a page from Ayatollah Khomeini's play book and use the reformist zeal to put in place a strongly theocratic and autocratic government.
I'll say this about it, when something like a third of any nation's populace signs a petition demanding the government reign, I would suggest to that government that it shelve more controversial policies and try to find a new accommodation with the oppositon., or one way or the other shit will hit the fan.
Well aware of it. That's my central point, that this fear of the mere mention of socialism leads to gawdawful solutions that still don't accomplish what everyone knows needs to be done. Obamacare is certainly a step in the right direction, but won't do very much to make the system cheaper, so it will still end up being a bigger drag on GDP than pretty much an other industrialized country's health care system.
There's the problem. A guy with a tumor the size of his fist in his abdomen or some poor bugger with severe head trauma and half a dozen broken bones doesn't consider himself a consumer, he considers himself a *patient*.
And hey, if the poor die for lack of medical care, why that's the American way!
How are things working out for Canada? Well, let's see, we certainly weathered the 2008 calamity a helluva lot better than the US, so I'd say, on the whole, we're doing something pretty right.
But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
And handing it over to private insurance companies has produced a better result?
Private coverage in Canada is largely limited to private health plans that sit atop the public system. I have a company drug plan that pays 80% after annual premium. That's hardly a hybrid system.
Yes, there are some private clinics, but they are so few in number and operate in such a legal grey zone that they really don't constitute any substantial aspect of the health care system.
I can barely parse that sentence. We're being imperialistic because we have a universal system and you keep making these Frankenstein's monsters out of a hodge podge of public and private coverage systems that cost far more than almost any other industrialized country's health care system?
Hey, it's no skin off my back. Have any health care system you like. But one does have to stand in awe of such a wealthy country so utterly incapable over such a long period of time of implementing a reasonably effective health care system that gives a reasonable amount of coverage to all its citizens.
Like I said, the Canadian and European systems are hardly perfect. But when I look at what an insane and haphazard system you have, I can't say I'd swap our system for yours.