I wrote a awesome testing program that resolves the problem of differences between test and production but I can't get it to run in a production environment.
But I'm part of a conservative mailing list (work friends from my last job) and tho they hate Clinton and are very conservative- they haven't made even a vaguely racist statement in 5 years. All the while quoting zero hedge and various crazy theories.
But everyone is racist. The root of racism is tribalism and it's in our genes to form into tribes. Studies show school children can be lead to do it based on eye color and that they will rapidly adopt attitudes that people with certain eye colors are smarter or dumber or have other incorrect stereotypical traits.
When I go to the drive in theater in the lily white town about 30 miles from here, I noticed I feel slightly more relaxed. There are entire groups of people I don't have to worry about offending. Everyone is "like me".
When I went to San Francisco and got on a bus full of people of many races and genders but all wearing black leather jackets- I felt uneasy. I was the outsider because I wasn't wearing a black leather jacket.
So we have to constantly struggle against racism because it's always reforming. Children who are raised in mostly white schools identify black children as bad because they are not like them. And we are talking 5 year olds who don't have racist parents.
When I'm on discussion boards there is usually a strong correlation between someone who claims to be a conservative and someone who makes racist comments. And they can get nasty and irrational on the subject really quickly. It's a deeply emotional topic for them.
You know.. when something has multiple replies it doesn't help to down-mod it any more.
Yes and when it was done for job interviews the same resume with different names got different responses. So it's not about the quality of the person's skills and credentials. It's simply because the person was easily identifiable as black.
the same thing occurs in housing.
Rental agencies say the apartment has been rented to a well qualified non-white couple and then minutes later say the apartment is available to a white couple.
Trump's dad is famous for saying, "We don't rent to n-word" to his rental agent. And Trump has been sued multiple times for racial discrimination in housing (and lost).
"The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round. "
I've been blown away how far the republican party has flipped on the russians so far.
It would explain why they put so many resources into hacking, modifying* and leaking DNC emails.
*The first leaks had cyrrilic usernames from editing and russian address hyperlinks. So everything from wikileaks after those is suspect. We shouldn't have told them we could identify the documents as fake so quickly. But we are americans and not crafty like the british during world war 2.
What gets me is how i see fewer racists where I live in the deep south than i do online. Probably because we actually desegregated our schools. When i was seeing angry northerners throwing rocks at black school children's buses at night one of the three news stations in black and white, I was going to school with other kids of all races during the day.
Yes and when it was done for job interviews the same resume with different names got different responses. So it's not about the quality of the person's skills and credentials. It's simply because the person was easily identifiable as black.
the same thing occurs in housing.
Rental agencies say the apartment has been rented to a well qualified non-white couple and then minutes later say the apartment is available to a white couple.
Trump's dad is famous for saying, "We don't rent to n-word" to his rental agent. And Trump has been sued multiple times for racial discrimination in housing (and lost).
Economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan wanted to explore racial bias in the job market.
They responded to help-wanted ads for a variety of positions in the fields of sales, administrative support, clerical services and customer services posted in The Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune with fake resumes. The researchers plugged in made-up names on the resumes that are associated with African-Americans (they used Lakisha Washington and Jamal Jones as examples) or whites (Emily Walsh and Greg Baker) based on naming data for babies born between 1974-79 in Massachusetts. The name on each resume was randomly assigned, so the same resume in some cases had a black name and in others had a white name.
Then they counted the callbacks.
The resumes with white-sounding names spurred 50 percent more callbacks than the ones with black-sounding names.
After responding to 1,300 ads with more than 5,000 resumes, the researchers found that the job applicants with white names needed to send 10 resumes to get one callback, but the black candidate needed to send 15 for one.
Would be to find ways to double or triple the cost of chinese labor. Chinese labor costs give them a huge advantage. While they technically are spending about 40% what we spend, they may be now getting over 100% of what we get because their labor costs are so low.
The F35 was a noble effort to keep the U.S. a generation ahead of our enemies capability but it's time to drop it and focus on more practical items which we can produce in large numbers if there is a war.
Or due to Automation increasing so rapidly. decreasing the need for human labor by destroying jobs one to two orders of magnitude faster than it creates them with an end goal of complete job destruction in almost all fields.
First degree misdemeanors are the most serious misdemeanors in Florida, punishable by jail terms of up to one year and fines of up to $1,000. (Fla. Stat. ÂÂ 775.082, 775.083.) Theft of property valued at $100 or more, but less than $300, is an example of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
For more information on theft penalties, see Florida Petty Theft and Other Theft Laws. Misdemeanors of the Second Degree
Misdemeanors of the second degree are the least serious misdemeanors in Florida, and a conviction can result in a jail term of up to 60 days and a fine of up to $500. If lawmakers fail to classify a misdemeanor, then it is punishable as a misdemeanor of the second degree. (Fla. Stat. ÂÂ 775.081, 775.082, 775.083.) For example, prostitution is a misdemeanor of the second degree.
For more information on this and related crimes, see Prostitution, Pimping, and Pandering Laws in Florida.
--- I think the property values are grossly low and need to be adjusted for inflation.
But the main thing is- we need a way to FORGET people are convicted after a certain number of years. As it is, we basically put them on the criminal train the rest of their lives. It's because pre-internet, society did effectively forget about your criminal record- especially if you moved to a new state. Now, it remembers forever and everywhere.
In some areas a misdemeanor can get you a year in county jail and a $10,000 fine (plus thousands more in legal fees defending yourself before you lose). Plus bail. Plus loss of your job because now you have a criminal record.
If we have sufficient alternative energy and good enough electric vehicles, we don't NEED THE OIL or the WARS in the first place.
You can use natural gas for heating but also, heating oil isn't going to drive the price of oil to $130 per barrel alone. We may be in an oil glut for another 10 years. With smart subsidies for alternative energy and electric vehicles, and conservation (LED bulbs are cheap and pay for themselves in about 2 months now and pure profit for the consumer after that), we may never see the end of the oil glut. We may finally be at the beginning of the end of oil driven engines.
We spent 2 trillion dollars and 4000 lives to protect the oil industry. Heck, overthrowing democratically elected leaders for oil companies is one root cause of the radicalization of the middle east.
I think I can cut clean solar/electric industries a little slack when i consider what we spend t help the oil industry.
Their subsidies are buried so deep in the government, they don't even look like subsidies any more.
But imagine if 5 years from now, Oil demand had dropped another 10% due to electric cars? We'd be a lot less tempted to get involved in foreign entanglements.
TellarHK said: And I'm this case the information they were given was hacked and given to them by Russian intelligence. And, they've made absolutely every possible effort to hurt Hillary's campaign by hyping releases, staggering them, and releasing them at time when they're calculated to do the most potential harm. They are in no way acting like a neutral party.
The only way Wikileaks can have credibility is if they release things on a fully non-partisan basis and that has clearly not happened here.
The headline jumped out at me and I thought it a good idea to post it here. The original story was posted by Tim Peacock at Peacock Panache. They source the following article on Motherboard by Thomas Rid: All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack.
I think by now, itâ(TM)s a foregone conclusion that the bad actors that Wikileaks is releasing information from are state-sponsored and are from Russia. Putin has made no secret of his political love for Trumpâ and Republicans have used the occasion to make great hay over the DNC and itâ(TM)s terse relationship with Bernie. . ..not out of true concern for Sanders, of course, but because they have had to embrace a very undesirable candidate as their standard-bearer.
The big takeaway from the Motherboard article is the following:
The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.
Then there is the language issue. âoeI hate being attributed to Russia,â the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboardâ(TM)s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical mattersâ"an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
Rid went on to add:
The metadata show that the Russian operators apparently edited some documents, and in some cases created new documents after the intruders were already expunged from the DNC network on June 11. A file called donors.xls, for instance, was created more than a day after the story came out, on June 15, most likely by copy-pasting an existing list into a clean document. Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with, manipulation would fit an established pattern of operational behaviour in other contexts, such as troll farms or planting fake media stories. Subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation of content may be in the interest of the adversary in the future. Documents that were leaked by or through an intelligence operation should be handled with great care, and journalists should not simply treat them as reliable sources.
I just read the heading and I've already thought of two ways to beat this.
Oh wait, two more since i started the heading.
I'm not going to list them but this is pretty trivial to beat.
Meanwhile, you've created a way for any member of the general public to release vomit inducing gas in theaters, restaurants, and any other crowded spaces.
Slashdot Mirror
I wrote a awesome testing program that resolves the problem of differences between test and production but I can't get it to run in a production environment.
You don't want to look up Google Pegs Market Niche.
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
Oh, I'm sure you are right.
But I'm part of a conservative mailing list (work friends from my last job) and tho they hate Clinton and are very conservative- they haven't made even a vaguely racist statement in 5 years. All the while quoting zero hedge and various crazy theories.
But everyone is racist. The root of racism is tribalism and it's in our genes to form into tribes. Studies show school children can be lead to do it based on eye color and that they will rapidly adopt attitudes that people with certain eye colors are smarter or dumber or have other incorrect stereotypical traits.
When I go to the drive in theater in the lily white town about 30 miles from here, I noticed I feel slightly more relaxed. There are entire groups of people I don't have to worry about offending. Everyone is "like me".
When I went to San Francisco and got on a bus full of people of many races and genders but all wearing black leather jackets- I felt uneasy. I was the outsider because I wasn't wearing a black leather jacket.
So we have to constantly struggle against racism because it's always reforming. Children who are raised in mostly white schools identify black children as bad because they are not like them. And we are talking 5 year olds who don't have racist parents.
When I'm on discussion boards there is usually a strong correlation between someone who claims to be a conservative and someone who makes racist comments. And they can get nasty and irrational on the subject really quickly. It's a deeply emotional topic for them.
You know.. when something has multiple replies it doesn't help to down-mod it any more.
Yes and when it was done for job interviews the same resume with different names got different responses. So it's not about the quality of the person's skills and credentials. It's simply because the person was easily identifiable as black.
the same thing occurs in housing.
Rental agencies say the apartment has been rented to a well qualified non-white couple and then minutes later say the apartment is available to a white couple.
Trump's dad is famous for saying, "We don't rent to n-word" to his rental agent.
And Trump has been sued multiple times for racial discrimination in housing (and lost).
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
"The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round. "
Good enough?
What if they have dirt on Trump?
I've been blown away how far the republican party has flipped on the russians so far.
It would explain why they put so many resources into hacking, modifying* and leaking DNC emails.
*The first leaks had cyrrilic usernames from editing and russian address hyperlinks. So everything from wikileaks after those is suspect. We shouldn't have told them we could identify the documents as fake so quickly. But we are americans and not crafty like the british during world war 2.
Way to stereotype mr. racist.
Trump is a contemporary.
What gets me is how i see fewer racists where I live in the deep south than i do online. Probably because we actually desegregated our schools. When i was seeing angry northerners throwing rocks at black school children's buses at night one of the three news stations in black and white, I was going to school with other kids of all races during the day.
Yes and when it was done for job interviews the same resume with different names got different responses. So it's not about the quality of the person's skills and credentials. It's simply because the person was easily identifiable as black.
the same thing occurs in housing.
Rental agencies say the apartment has been rented to a well qualified non-white couple and then minutes later say the apartment is available to a white couple.
Trump's dad is famous for saying, "We don't rent to n-word" to his rental agent.
And Trump has been sued multiple times for racial discrimination in housing (and lost).
http://www.politifact.com/pund...
Economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan wanted to explore racial bias in the job market.
They responded to help-wanted ads for a variety of positions in the fields of sales, administrative support, clerical services and customer services posted in The Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune with fake resumes. The researchers plugged in made-up names on the resumes that are associated with African-Americans (they used Lakisha Washington and Jamal Jones as examples) or whites (Emily Walsh and Greg Baker) based on naming data for babies born between 1974-79 in Massachusetts. The name on each resume was randomly assigned, so the same resume in some cases had a black name and in others had a white name.
Then they counted the callbacks.
The resumes with white-sounding names spurred 50 percent more callbacks than the ones with black-sounding names.
After responding to 1,300 ads with more than 5,000 resumes, the researchers found that the job applicants with white names needed to send 10 resumes to get one callback, but the black candidate needed to send 15 for one.
Would be to find ways to double or triple the cost of chinese labor. Chinese labor costs give them a huge advantage. While they technically are spending about 40% what we spend, they may be now getting over 100% of what we get because their labor costs are so low.
The F35 was a noble effort to keep the U.S. a generation ahead of our enemies capability but it's time to drop it and focus on more practical items which we can produce in large numbers if there is a war.
Or due to Automation increasing so rapidly. decreasing the need for human labor by destroying jobs one to two orders of magnitude faster than it creates them with an end goal of complete job destruction in almost all fields.
They also break them down into 1st and 2nd degree (maybe 3rd degree too- not sure).
Here's some examples from florida.
http://www.criminaldefenselawy...
Misdemeanors of the First Degree
First degree misdemeanors are the most serious misdemeanors in Florida, punishable by jail terms of up to one year and fines of up to $1,000. (Fla. Stat. ÂÂ 775.082, 775.083.) Theft of property valued at $100 or more, but less than $300, is an example of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
For more information on theft penalties, see Florida Petty Theft and Other Theft Laws.
Misdemeanors of the Second Degree
Misdemeanors of the second degree are the least serious misdemeanors in Florida, and a conviction can result in a jail term of up to 60 days and a fine of up to $500. If lawmakers fail to classify a misdemeanor, then it is punishable as a misdemeanor of the second degree. (Fla. Stat. ÂÂ 775.081, 775.082, 775.083.) For example, prostitution is a misdemeanor of the second degree.
For more information on this and related crimes, see Prostitution, Pimping, and Pandering Laws in Florida.
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I think the property values are grossly low and need to be adjusted for inflation.
But the main thing is- we need a way to FORGET people are convicted after a certain number of years. As it is, we basically put them on the criminal train the rest of their lives. It's because pre-internet, society did effectively forget about your criminal record- especially if you moved to a new state. Now, it remembers forever and everywhere.
In some areas a misdemeanor can get you a year in county jail and a $10,000 fine (plus thousands more in legal fees defending yourself before you lose). Plus bail. Plus loss of your job because now you have a criminal record.
That's serious enough.
If you are ALLOWED to post a selfie, then you can also be FORCED to post a selfie proving you voted the way you were threatened to vote.
If we have sufficient alternative energy and good enough electric vehicles, we don't NEED THE OIL or the WARS in the first place.
You can use natural gas for heating but also, heating oil isn't going to drive the price of oil to $130 per barrel alone. We may be in an oil glut for another 10 years. With smart subsidies for alternative energy and electric vehicles, and conservation (LED bulbs are cheap and pay for themselves in about 2 months now and pure profit for the consumer after that), we may never see the end of the oil glut. We may finally be at the beginning of the end of oil driven engines.
An AC said:
Your figures are wrong - multiply that 2 trillion number by 4 and you'll get the cost of military operations in the Middle East since the Oil Crisis.
Oil dependence has been a disaster for the United States.
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I couldn't agree more but I was focusing ONLY on the most recent waste of lives and taxpayer dollars.
I know right? And if we didn't NEED the oil, the knockon effects would be tremendous.
The price of oil would plummet.
The funding backing terrorists would plummet.
We would lose interest in fighting over it.
Sure- oil will continue to be a valuable resource indefinately, but no more so than other resources like iron, aluminum, and copper.
We spent 2 trillion dollars and 4000 lives to protect the oil industry. Heck, overthrowing democratically elected leaders for oil companies is one root cause of the radicalization of the middle east.
I think I can cut clean solar/electric industries a little slack when i consider what we spend t help the oil industry.
Their subsidies are buried so deep in the government, they don't even look like subsidies any more.
But imagine if 5 years from now, Oil demand had dropped another 10% due to electric cars? We'd be a lot less tempted to get involved in foreign entanglements.
I've dug into it pretty deeply and previously even the most extreme source (which was disproven) said 3 trillion.
So... got a link? Sure it's hard cash and not some funny business?
Aye! And a glut of as little as 3% is enough to absolutely destroy the price of oil per barrel.
There is a strong feedback loop between alternative energy and traditional energy.
As electric cars grow more popular, gasoline will become cheaper (and impair the value proposition of owning an electric car).
Of course at the same time, unprofitable oil leads to less production which eventually leads to a shortage.
The oil companies didn't have to pay for their own security and they didn't have to pay for the true cost of oil.
It's also very expensive to maintain a naval and coast guard fleet to protect oil tankers. The oil companies should be paying for it.
If they had to pay for those things- their prices would be much higher. So their prices are subsidized by tax payers.
Exactly.. We spent $2 trillion dollars and over 4,000 lives to protect Oil Company interests in the middle east.
That's a huge subsidy that doesn't get counted as a subsidy.
TellarHK said:
And I'm this case the information they were given was hacked and given to them by Russian intelligence. And, they've made absolutely every possible effort to hurt Hillary's campaign by hyping releases, staggering them, and releasing them at time when they're calculated to do the most potential harm. They are in no way acting like a neutral party.
The only way Wikileaks can have credibility is if they release things on a fully non-partisan basis and that has clearly not happened here.
You are correct sir.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
The headline jumped out at me and I thought it a good idea to post it here. The original story was posted by Tim Peacock at Peacock Panache. They source the following article on Motherboard by Thomas Rid: All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack.
I think by now, itâ(TM)s a foregone conclusion that the bad actors that Wikileaks is releasing information from are state-sponsored and are from Russia. Putin has made no secret of his political love for Trumpâ and Republicans have used the occasion to make great hay over the DNC and itâ(TM)s terse relationship with Bernie. . . .not out of true concern for Sanders, of course, but because they have had to embrace a very undesirable candidate as their standard-bearer.
The big takeaway from the Motherboard article is the following:
The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.
Then there is the language issue. âoeI hate being attributed to Russia,â the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboardâ(TM)s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical mattersâ"an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
Rid went on to add:
The metadata show that the Russian operators apparently edited some documents, and in some cases created new documents after the intruders were already expunged from the DNC network on June 11. A file called donors.xls, for instance, was created more than a day after the story came out, on June 15, most likely by copy-pasting an existing list into a clean document. Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with, manipulation would fit an established pattern of operational behaviour in other contexts, such as troll farms or planting fake media stories. Subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation of content may be in the interest of the adversary in the future. Documents that were leaked by or through an intelligence operation should be handled with great care, and journalists should not simply treat them as reliable sources.
(article continues.. follow the link above).
I just read the heading and I've already thought of two ways to beat this.
Oh wait, two more since i started the heading.
I'm not going to list them but this is pretty trivial to beat.
Meanwhile, you've created a way for any member of the general public to release vomit inducing gas in theaters, restaurants, and any other crowded spaces.