(It's about TTIP, which seems the same as TPP but aimed at the EU). The article claims NAFTA caused the loss of around 1 million US jobs, as opposed to the promised gain of hundreds of thousands of extra jobs.
What I read was that they gave the buoy temperature measurements a higher weight when determining the averages, to account for the greater accuracy of the buoys. I didn't read anything about changing the measurements themselves for the buoys.
Netflix cannot legally sell you the content that is licensed for US distribution if you are in Canada. By circumventing the access controls (use of a VPN to masquerade as being in the US) you are obtaining content that you have not paid for.
You do need a working netflix account, a paid one, I assume? Or do Americans just get Netflix for free? In which case the content has been paid for. What's not been paid for is the extortionist in Canada that said to Netflix "I can make them bleed harder, if you let me - and we can split the difference!".
It used to be the case that tax collectors paid the King for the privilege and then got free reign to squeeze the populace for as much as they could. Quite a lot of uprisisings started that way. But tax collection where you took everything the people had, wasn't stealing, oh no - it was all nice and lawful. And when the people starved and poached a hare in the forest, they were hung - for theft. In the view that defends that position, stealing is when you withhold money from the people holding the guns. When you take stuff from the people on the wrong end of the gun, it's just business as usual.
Well, I don't subscribe to that opinion. The extortion racket by Bell is theft. Avoiding it is just good sense.
So all these prohibitions against selling alcohol to people under 21 are all pretty pointless, even kids without friends older than 21 can get their hands on unlimited supplies of the stuff with just a little thought and effort.
I don't particularly mind kids who have forethought and can put in effort, get access to beer. If they're that smart, they're probably smart enough to not overdo it. No, it's the kids that don't think much about anything, and dislike effort, that should be kept away from drugs - including alcohol.
And it's similar with guns. Whoever thinks that making guns cheap and easy to fabricate without skills is a good idea, is nuts. I mean, if that's a good idea why not go beyond that, and give everyone who is unemployed and didn't finish high school, a bottle of Sarin gas in case they feel threatened by someone. Or a flamethrower. What could possibly go wrong?
I'll just point to the twitter account by the rebel leadership proudly claiming they shot down the plane, the numerous Russians captured in combat on the ground, the signals and radiotraffic, the eye witness accounts of the Buk missile system being moved to Ukraine, and the open support by Russia for the rebels.
Did they hand over missile systems to barely trained rebels so they could use them against the Ukrainian airforce? That's a very likely scenario, given all that's known at the moment.
However, the inquiry is still onging. I'll wait until the results are out before saying "x did it".
Let me just copy/paste the relevant bit here then.
"The California Attorney General granted immunity to O'Keefe and Giles in exchange for their raw videos shot at three California ACORN offices. Its comparison of the raw videos with the released versions found that the published videos had been heavily edited to misrepresent the workers and the situations so as to suggest criminal intent and activity."
There is a reason that evolution set our expiry date at a maximum of 100 years or so.
Yeah. Because 16 years was enough to reproduce, but in order to reach that age you needed to have a body that didn't fall apart the day after. So we tend to have a "long tail" lifespan where we are currently able to extend the tail.
But this isn't about extending the tail - except as an intermediate step, I want to extend the ramp-up and stay there! And right after, evolution and I are going to have a nice little chat about how we are going to proceed from then on - with me in the driver's seat. Because if we can control our aging process, we are likely in control of much more. And I so want to fix our rather haphazardly designed bodies...
Eternal youth WILL come. It's prudent to prepare for it, even if we ourselves may not live to see it.
I'd hate to be at just a mere 2.6 lightyears distance from an event that caused two volumes both 600000 lightyears across to be filled with hot, X-ray emitting gas.
And since men are net contributors to social services via taxes, and women are net recipients of social services -- women now extract from men via legislation what they used to extract via marriage.... And women wonder why men have picked up their ball and left the game
The reason that was modded down was *probably* because gross generalizations usually don't get much bonus points for being insightful. Especially when it's also a case of blaming the victim. Just look at the history of how women were forcibly removed from the labour force after WW2. I'm sure some didn't mind, but others did. Like my mother, who really wanted to hold her job, but was automatically fired when she married. And if you factor in the fact that women get paid less for the same work, the picture is even worse.
That isn't correct. Such free trade agreements only work if both countries are on an equal footing, otherwise there will be conditions to keep things fair.
An interesting perspective, considering how unequal the footing is between different EU member states today, and how much this is responsible for many of the serious problems facing Europe recently.
Dude, you have Wales and Northern Ireland in the UK. People living in glass houses...
In The Netherlands, there was an automatic fine to be paid to anyone who filed a FOI-request and didn't get the answers or requested information within a pretty short period. The inevitable result was the rise of small companies dedicated to filing as many obnoxious requests as possible, They reworked the law recently to tone that down a bit.
Also, someone used this law to harass a council with multiple requests per day over a period of more than a year, leading to the department having 4 full-time staff to answer just his requests. Finally, a judge limited him to only a few requests per week. He refused to obey and he was jailed as a consequence.
If any of the companies mails hit a US server, the USA can claim legal jurisdiction. This has happened before and people have been extradited over it. Post on facebook advertising your companies toolkits? Same thing. Use google maps for a map to your company HQ? Same thing. Use Dropbox? Onedrive? You're dead meat if they want to grab you. If you want to accept payment from VISA or Mastercard, well, they're US companies and they don't do business with criminals, you see...
Life can be pretty difficult for companies that don't play ball - even if they're nowhere near US soil.
The USA snoops on powers but doesn't hand that over to corporations.
[Proof needed]. What fucking sense does it make for the NSA to spy on Brazil's deep-ocean oil drilling technologies if not for giving that info to American* companies?
I hate videos. Most are badly done, and take ages to get to the point or to the information I need. Sometimes they're good, but that's a rare exception and certainly not the rule. At least with bad documentation, I don't waste as much time.
Yeah, I got the same complaint when writing specs and documentation for a validated system in a pharmaceutical company. Apparently, it's a validation thing.
I think you're right, but I'm still mad that literate programming never took off. Ilike writing down my thoughts, and then slowly expanding that into a program. Ah well, information analysis and modelling allow me to do that too. But if we had programming tools that could do that, it would lead to much better documentation and likely much better code as well.
Wow. That is certainly the first time I've ever seen someone describing Mad Max as "socialist". Oh, us poor men, to be duped by explosions and pretty women into watching communist propaganda! Before you know it, we'll sing the International, while embracing our inner female. Shortly after that, the USA will fall to North Korea and we're all going to be enslaved in the uranium mines...
Slashdot Mirror
My guess: Attack of the Drones.
Interesting link with some info about that: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...
(It's about TTIP, which seems the same as TPP but aimed at the EU). The article claims NAFTA caused the loss of around 1 million US jobs, as opposed to the promised gain of hundreds of thousands of extra jobs.
Nice site. Didn't know it but I can see it will get a lot of use here on slashdot :)
What I read was that they gave the buoy temperature measurements a higher weight when determining the averages, to account for the greater accuracy of the buoys. I didn't read anything about changing the measurements themselves for the buoys.
Yeah, just like Venus.
Netflix cannot legally sell you the content that is licensed for US distribution if you are in Canada. By circumventing the access controls (use of a VPN to masquerade as being in the US) you are obtaining content that you have not paid for.
You do need a working netflix account, a paid one, I assume? Or do Americans just get Netflix for free? In which case the content has been paid for. What's not been paid for is the extortionist in Canada that said to Netflix "I can make them bleed harder, if you let me - and we can split the difference!".
It used to be the case that tax collectors paid the King for the privilege and then got free reign to squeeze the populace for as much as they could. Quite a lot of uprisisings started that way. But tax collection where you took everything the people had, wasn't stealing, oh no - it was all nice and lawful. And when the people starved and poached a hare in the forest, they were hung - for theft. In the view that defends that position, stealing is when you withhold money from the people holding the guns. When you take stuff from the people on the wrong end of the gun, it's just business as usual.
Well, I don't subscribe to that opinion. The extortion racket by Bell is theft. Avoiding it is just good sense.
So all these prohibitions against selling alcohol to people under 21 are all pretty pointless, even kids without friends older than 21 can get their hands on unlimited supplies of the stuff with just a little thought and effort.
I don't particularly mind kids who have forethought and can put in effort, get access to beer. If they're that smart, they're probably smart enough to not overdo it. No, it's the kids that don't think much about anything, and dislike effort, that should be kept away from drugs - including alcohol.
And it's similar with guns. Whoever thinks that making guns cheap and easy to fabricate without skills is a good idea, is nuts. I mean, if that's a good idea why not go beyond that, and give everyone who is unemployed and didn't finish high school, a bottle of Sarin gas in case they feel threatened by someone. Or a flamethrower. What could possibly go wrong?
I'll just point to the twitter account by the rebel leadership proudly claiming they shot down the plane, the numerous Russians captured in combat on the ground, the signals and radiotraffic, the eye witness accounts of the Buk missile system being moved to Ukraine, and the open support by Russia for the rebels.
Did they hand over missile systems to barely trained rebels so they could use them against the Ukrainian airforce? That's a very likely scenario, given all that's known at the moment.
However, the inquiry is still onging. I'll wait until the results are out before saying "x did it".
Let me just copy/paste the relevant bit here then.
"The California Attorney General granted immunity to O'Keefe and Giles in exchange for their raw videos shot at three California ACORN offices. Its comparison of the raw videos with the released versions found that the published videos had been heavily edited to misrepresent the workers and the situations so as to suggest criminal intent and activity."
There is a reason that evolution set our expiry date at a maximum of 100 years or so.
Yeah. Because 16 years was enough to reproduce, but in order to reach that age you needed to have a body that didn't fall apart the day after. So we tend to have a "long tail" lifespan where we are currently able to extend the tail.
But this isn't about extending the tail - except as an intermediate step, I want to extend the ramp-up and stay there! And right after, evolution and I are going to have a nice little chat about how we are going to proceed from then on - with me in the driver's seat. Because if we can control our aging process, we are likely in control of much more. And I so want to fix our rather haphazardly designed bodies...
Eternal youth WILL come. It's prudent to prepare for it, even if we ourselves may not live to see it.
So... fascism was caused by choice anxiety then? I'd never have guessed!
I'd hate to be at just a mere 2.6 lightyears distance from an event that caused two volumes both 600000 lightyears across to be filled with hot, X-ray emitting gas.
And since men are net contributors to social services via taxes, and women are net recipients of social services -- women now extract from men via legislation what they used to extract via marriage. ... And women wonder why men have picked up their ball and left the game
The reason that was modded down was *probably* because gross generalizations usually don't get much bonus points for being insightful. Especially when it's also a case of blaming the victim. Just look at the history of how women were forcibly removed from the labour force after WW2. I'm sure some didn't mind, but others did. Like my mother, who really wanted to hold her job, but was automatically fired when she married. And if you factor in the fact that women get paid less for the same work, the picture is even worse.
I think that article should be required reading for any scientist, and repeated before running ANY experiment (on animals or humans).
That isn't correct. Such free trade agreements only work if both countries are on an equal footing, otherwise there will be conditions to keep things fair.
An interesting perspective, considering how unequal the footing is between different EU member states today, and how much this is responsible for many of the serious problems facing Europe recently.
Dude, you have Wales and Northern Ireland in the UK. People living in glass houses...
In The Netherlands, there was an automatic fine to be paid to anyone who filed a FOI-request and didn't get the answers or requested information within a pretty short period. The inevitable result was the rise of small companies dedicated to filing as many obnoxious requests as possible, They reworked the law recently to tone that down a bit.
Also, someone used this law to harass a council with multiple requests per day over a period of more than a year, leading to the department having 4 full-time staff to answer just his requests. Finally, a judge limited him to only a few requests per week. He refused to obey and he was jailed as a consequence.
If any of the companies mails hit a US server, the USA can claim legal jurisdiction. This has happened before and people have been extradited over it. Post on facebook advertising your companies toolkits? Same thing. Use google maps for a map to your company HQ? Same thing. Use Dropbox? Onedrive? You're dead meat if they want to grab you. If you want to accept payment from VISA or Mastercard, well, they're US companies and they don't do business with criminals, you see...
Life can be pretty difficult for companies that don't play ball - even if they're nowhere near US soil.
The USA snoops on powers but doesn't hand that over to corporations.
[Proof needed]. What fucking sense does it make for the NSA to spy on Brazil's deep-ocean oil drilling technologies if not for giving that info to American* companies?
Monitoring violations of the Benthic Treaty.
They probably contracted the building of the station to the lowest bidder - and it wasn't in the initial specs.
Interesting! I'll bookmark this, in case I ever have another validated development process.
I hate videos. Most are badly done, and take ages to get to the point or to the information I need. Sometimes they're good, but that's a rare exception and certainly not the rule. At least with bad documentation, I don't waste as much time.
Yeah, I got the same complaint when writing specs and documentation for a validated system in a pharmaceutical company. Apparently, it's a validation thing.
I think you're right, but I'm still mad that literate programming never took off. Ilike writing down my thoughts, and then slowly expanding that into a program. Ah well, information analysis and modelling allow me to do that too. But if we had programming tools that could do that, it would lead to much better documentation and likely much better code as well.
Wow. That is certainly the first time I've ever seen someone describing Mad Max as "socialist". Oh, us poor men, to be duped by explosions and pretty women into watching communist propaganda! Before you know it, we'll sing the International, while embracing our inner female. Shortly after that, the USA will fall to North Korea and we're all going to be enslaved in the uranium mines...
Well, this certainly made my day! Thank you ;)
Of course they won't. Even Stalin and Mao never sold their mass murders as anything other than "War on {criminal flavor of the day}".