Here we see that saying "I support the liberal side of this recent political issue" is +5 insightful, while saying "I support the conservative side of this recent political issue" is -1 Troll. Slashdot: some things never change.
Are you joking? Slashdot is largely libertarian, not "liberal" (in the 20th / 21st century sense of liberal, not in the classical sense). However, Slashdot is not socially conservative, but then neither or most "live and let live" libertarians.
It should be illegal for any screen of any type to be visible to the driver of the vehicle.
Because trying to decipher a paper map at night in a rental car after flying across the continent is oh so much safer. Been there, done that, many many times - Often in bad weather.
Yes, how awful that those background checks should actually cost money!
You're not getting my point. Let's say TSA screening costs $50M per year at an airport like DEN (I've just made all these numbers up). Let's say 40% of those screened are regular, safe travellers. So that's $20M per year spent on those people, unnecessarily. Now let's say it costs $10M to run background checks on those 40% so you don't have to screen them as intensely anymore and you only need half the staff to screen those 40% - You're still $5M ahead - That's $5M the government will have saved by pre-screening those people. And that doesn't count the savings at all the other airports those people will fly through. So the government should pick up that cost, because it will save them money.
And other country from middle east. Why are they singled out ?
Because Iran is the only country in the Middle East actively trying to build a nuclear bomb that has a leadership that has talked about wiping Jerusalem off the map.
The internet was once thought of as a digital library and commons.
It still is - Write a blog. Write a book. Post it up. Discuss it. It's a still a digital library and commons. It's just not a place to download "The Avengers" for free, but it was never thought of a place for that.
This past year I downloaded about 200 movies and liked almost none of them
If you're obviously this difficult to please, why on earth would you keep downloading movies? Once you're on to movie #47 and it's still not to your tastes I think it's time to do something else. Like go for a walk.
Here's what I object to about paying for the 'security' card: I'm a 'safe' citizen - No criminal record, no issues etc. So in effect every time I step in front of an officer at security I'm eating up the (expensive) valuable resources of a trained officer who would be better served questioning more 'suspicious' characters.
If I consented to a check, the governments of the USA and Canada would not have to waste valuable resources asking me questions any more, and would in fact save themselves money. Instead, they charge *me* money for the ability to repurpose their officers. They should be encouraging as many 'safe' citizens as possible to get these cards (for free) so security can be more efficient, and cheaper to operate.
I object to this non-sensical government tax grab.
At least that's my experience of iPad users. Past the "it's so cool" period, they pretty much only use it in the toilet.
Not my experience. Gave my wife an iPad last Christmas . Nearly three months on I'm amazed how much she still uses the thing - Scrolling through photo albums, epicurious recipes when cooking, watching TV shows, playing games with our kids, Facebook - On and on. In our house it's a total multipurpose device - Every week she's using it in some new, nifty neat way.
The media isn't asking "pointed questions", they're asking for black and white answers when most peoples' views are gray
Most people, yes - But not the Teabaggers or the 99%ers. For them, the world is very black and white, with simplistic solutions to complex problems. So the media calls them on their simplistic answers and they in turn accuse the media of 'contempt and ridicule' - Because it's the only retort they have.
you find that many of the same people who oppose cuts in the generic sense support them if you simply ensure that everyone gets out at least what they paid in. Given that Medicare pays out way more than people paid in, that's a big cut with majority support.
But that's the end of medicare - That funding model doesn't describe how medicare works.
Myth #1: Beneficiaries are just getting back what they have paid in.
Nothing could be further from the truth. 'Current recipients receive over $100,000 more in benefits than they pay in' (Medicare Follies With Orchestration, The Washington Times, June 27, 1997, by Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute).
Medicare beneficiaries are under the impression that the money they paid in payroll taxes over the years was put into an actual fund somewhere, where it earned interest and grew over the years, and that fund is now being used to pay for their medical care. That type of fund, however, does not exist. Medicare is financed in a 'pay as you go' fashion, whereby wealth is transferred from current workers to retirees to pay for their medical care.
Medicare Part A is funded primarily from payroll taxes, so Medicare beneficiaries who are not currently working and paying payroll taxes aren't contributing anything to Part A (hospitalization) expenses. Part A is strictly a wealth transfer program. Medicare Part B (physician services + home health care) is funded by a combination of beneficiary premium dollars and general tax revenue dollars: 25% from premiums and 75% from general tax revenues. Overall, 87% of total Medicare revenues for Part A + Part B comes from current taxpayers, and only 13% comes from Medicare beneficiaries' premiums and tax payments.
So "Get out what I paid in" is a simplistic solution to a complex problem, which is my point - It doesn't work.
Really you ever notice any movement that gets off the ground that (however politely) wants gov't to fuck off and leave us alone always gets treated with contempt and ridicule in the media?
They're not - The media asks these 'movements' pointed questions, the 'movements' squirm and claim they're being treated with comptempt and ridicule as an out to dealing with the questions...
Teabaggers: Cut Gov't Spending!
Media: So cut your medicare?
Teabaggers: Cut all govt spending except medicare!
Media: So we can cut the military? That costs billions.
Teabaggers: Stop treating us with comtempt and ridicule!
...and yes the same thing happened with the 99 percenters when the media talked to them...
It's a pathological desire to undermine anything that is believed by anyone. It's not healthy distrust, it's a creepy, nonsensical obsession with being the one, unique snowflake who sees things how they "really are".
Saw a good program on (PBS?) a few years ago about conspiracy theorists, particularly the wingnuttish ones. One thing that is common amongst them is they tend to have a lot of disorder in their own lives - Marital/familial disorder, financial disorder, emotional disorder - Or a combination thereof. Conspiracy theories help them cope with the disorder in their own lives by allowing them to realize disorder elsewhere - They're 'searching for meaning' to help justify their own ragged lives
...because it is more consoling to think that complications and upheavals in human affairs are created by human beings rather than factors beyond human control. Belief in such a cabal is a device for reassuring oneself that certain occurrences are not random, but ordered by a human intelligence. This renders such occurrences comprehensible and potentially controllable. If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power â" or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself. Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity â" an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny..
Every time anyone knocks on the wall in my house the dog bolts to the front door, tail wagging madly with joy, thinking a visitor has arrived. Think Dug from Up!... Definitely not an option in my house.
The answer is that those meetings don't work very well
And the ones that do work well happen at companies that have spent a lot of money on technology to get themselves there - Good HD videoconferencing systems with good audio, allowing for the non-verbal cues and other components for good communication.
It does. Last summer our family lived in an apartment while our house was being renovated. There was no dishwasher. I had never before realized how much time that piece of technology saves. Instead of driving all over town looking for something I can search online now. Instead of driving to the video store I can PPV a movie and on and on... Technology has given us a lot of time back, we just take it all for granted, or 'waste' it watching YouTube videos.
That being said, preventing the agent from calling in when you know it should be calling in would be cause enough for an employer to be suspicious.
Bingo.
In fact, that very scenario results in alerts from the Absolute management console that causes IT to seek out the laptop to figure out what the problem might be - It's one of the key indicators that the device is in a 'suspicous' state.
"Destroying your childhood?" WFT? Look, I was ten years old when "Star Wars" came out. I saw it every Saturday matinee in the theatre for 13 weeks. I bought all the comics and had the toys. As far I was concerned it was the greatest thing ever. Then, later on, Lucas mucked with it. Did it 'destroy my childhood?' Not even close. My childhood is attached to watching all those showings with my buddies, maybe with a bucket of popcorn - Lucas can't ever destroy that.
The solution I came up with was to buy a spare hard drive and caddy for the machine. When I wanted to do my own thing, I swapped out the drives.
If a) you're running windows on your second drive and b) the employer has deployed tracking software like Computrace then Computrace will self-heal onto your second drive and the swap will be detected. No worries if you're running Linux on the swapped drive.
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Here we see that saying "I support the liberal side of this recent political issue" is +5 insightful, while saying "I support the conservative side of this recent political issue" is -1 Troll. Slashdot: some things never change.
Are you joking? Slashdot is largely libertarian, not "liberal" (in the 20th / 21st century sense of liberal, not in the classical sense). However, Slashdot is not socially conservative, but then neither or most "live and let live" libertarians.
It should be illegal for any screen of any type to be visible to the driver of the vehicle.
Because trying to decipher a paper map at night in a rental car after flying across the continent is oh so much safer. Been there, done that, many many times - Often in bad weather.
Can you see evidence of the moon landings...
Here you go:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/lunarphotostop.jpg
Of course there's no way you can convince those conspiracy theorist morons... They'd just tell you those pictures are faked too.
Insert obligatory ignorant "but the USA is way WORSE than China!" post here.
a sister shuttle was always kept on ready as a backup to be sent up if the other shuttle needed to be rescued.
Only after the Columbia disaster. Prior to that, no.
Yes, how awful that those background checks should actually cost money!
You're not getting my point. Let's say TSA screening costs $50M per year at an airport like DEN (I've just made all these numbers up). Let's say 40% of those screened are regular, safe travellers. So that's $20M per year spent on those people, unnecessarily. Now let's say it costs $10M to run background checks on those 40% so you don't have to screen them as intensely anymore and you only need half the staff to screen those 40% - You're still $5M ahead - That's $5M the government will have saved by pre-screening those people. And that doesn't count the savings at all the other airports those people will fly through. So the government should pick up that cost, because it will save them money.
And other country from middle east. Why are they singled out ?
Because Iran is the only country in the Middle East actively trying to build a nuclear bomb that has a leadership that has talked about wiping Jerusalem off the map.
They only lack several human rights
Are you joking? Stoning? Torture? Widespread censorship? Get off Slashdot and go read Amnesty International.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran
The trick is, we have to stop using torrents and start forming encrypted communities
Or, just go borrow the DVD from your buddy and be done with it.
The internet was once thought of as a digital library and commons.
It still is - Write a blog. Write a book. Post it up. Discuss it. It's a still a digital library and commons. It's just not a place to download "The Avengers" for free, but it was never thought of a place for that.
This past year I downloaded about 200 movies and liked almost none of them
If you're obviously this difficult to please, why on earth would you keep downloading movies? Once you're on to movie #47 and it's still not to your tastes I think it's time to do something else. Like go for a walk.
Here's what I object to about paying for the 'security' card: I'm a 'safe' citizen - No criminal record, no issues etc. So in effect every time I step in front of an officer at security I'm eating up the (expensive) valuable resources of a trained officer who would be better served questioning more 'suspicious' characters.
If I consented to a check, the governments of the USA and Canada would not have to waste valuable resources asking me questions any more, and would in fact save themselves money. Instead, they charge *me* money for the ability to repurpose their officers. They should be encouraging as many 'safe' citizens as possible to get these cards (for free) so security can be more efficient, and cheaper to operate.
I object to this non-sensical government tax grab.
At least that's my experience of iPad users. Past the "it's so cool" period, they pretty much only use it in the toilet.
Not my experience. Gave my wife an iPad last Christmas . Nearly three months on I'm amazed how much she still uses the thing - Scrolling through photo albums, epicurious recipes when cooking, watching TV shows, playing games with our kids, Facebook - On and on. In our house it's a total multipurpose device - Every week she's using it in some new, nifty neat way.
The media isn't asking "pointed questions", they're asking for black and white answers when most peoples' views are gray
Most people, yes - But not the Teabaggers or the 99%ers. For them, the world is very black and white, with simplistic solutions to complex problems. So the media calls them on their simplistic answers and they in turn accuse the media of 'contempt and ridicule' - Because it's the only retort they have.
you find that many of the same people who oppose cuts in the generic sense support them if you simply ensure that everyone gets out at least what they paid in. Given that Medicare pays out way more than people paid in, that's a big cut with majority support.
But that's the end of medicare - That funding model doesn't describe how medicare works.
From:
http://www.aapsonline.org/index.php/article/medicare_myths_and_facts/
Medicare Myths and Facts
Myth #1: Beneficiaries are just getting back what they have paid in.
Nothing could be further from the truth. 'Current recipients receive over $100,000 more in benefits than they pay in' (Medicare Follies With Orchestration, The Washington Times, June 27, 1997, by Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute).
Medicare beneficiaries are under the impression that the money they paid in payroll taxes over the years was put into an actual fund somewhere, where it earned interest and grew over the years, and that fund is now being used to pay for their medical care. That type of fund, however, does not exist. Medicare is financed in a 'pay as you go' fashion, whereby wealth is transferred from current workers to retirees to pay for their medical care.
Medicare Part A is funded primarily from payroll taxes, so Medicare beneficiaries who are not currently working and paying payroll taxes aren't contributing anything to Part A (hospitalization) expenses. Part A is strictly a wealth transfer program. Medicare Part B (physician services + home health care) is funded by a combination of beneficiary premium dollars and general tax revenue dollars: 25% from premiums and 75% from general tax revenues. Overall, 87% of total Medicare revenues for Part A + Part B comes from current taxpayers, and only 13% comes from Medicare beneficiaries' premiums and tax payments.
So "Get out what I paid in" is a simplistic solution to a complex problem, which is my point - It doesn't work.
microsoft is like nestle, never to be trusted again
That reminds me. I need to pick up some chocolate milk powder.
Really you ever notice any movement that gets off the ground that (however politely) wants gov't to fuck off and leave us alone always gets treated with contempt and ridicule in the media?
They're not - The media asks these 'movements' pointed questions, the 'movements' squirm and claim they're being treated with comptempt and ridicule as an out to dealing with the questions...
Teabaggers: Cut Gov't Spending!
Media: So cut your medicare?
Teabaggers: Cut all govt spending except medicare!
Media: So we can cut the military? That costs billions.
Teabaggers: Stop treating us with comtempt and ridicule!
...and yes the same thing happened with the 99 percenters when the media talked to them...
What of those who refuse to even entertain the possibility that powerful people and organizations sometimes work together for criminal ends?
Of course that sometimes happens - But for any given scenario you've always first and foremost got to apply the the law of parsimony.
It's a pathological desire to undermine anything that is believed by anyone. It's not healthy distrust, it's a creepy, nonsensical obsession with being the one, unique snowflake who sees things how they "really are".
Saw a good program on (PBS?) a few years ago about conspiracy theorists, particularly the wingnuttish ones. One thing that is common amongst them is they tend to have a lot of disorder in their own lives - Marital /familial disorder, financial disorder, emotional disorder - Or a combination thereof. Conspiracy theories help them cope with the disorder in their own lives by allowing them to realize disorder elsewhere - They're 'searching for meaning' to help justify their own ragged lives
...because it is more consoling to think that complications and upheavals in human affairs are created by human beings rather than factors beyond human control. Belief in such a cabal is a device for reassuring oneself that certain occurrences are not random, but ordered by a human intelligence. This renders such occurrences comprehensible and potentially controllable. If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power â" or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself. Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity â" an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny..
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Psychological_origins
Every time anyone knocks on the wall in my house the dog bolts to the front door, tail wagging madly with joy, thinking a visitor has arrived. Think Dug from Up!... Definitely not an option in my house.
The answer is that those meetings don't work very well
And the ones that do work well happen at companies that have spent a lot of money on technology to get themselves there - Good HD videoconferencing systems with good audio, allowing for the non-verbal cues and other components for good communication.
It'd be great if technology meant more free time
It does. Last summer our family lived in an apartment while our house was being renovated. There was no dishwasher. I had never before realized how much time that piece of technology saves. Instead of driving all over town looking for something I can search online now. Instead of driving to the video store I can PPV a movie and on and on... Technology has given us a lot of time back, we just take it all for granted, or 'waste' it watching YouTube videos.
That being said, preventing the agent from calling in when you know it should be calling in would be cause enough for an employer to be suspicious.
Bingo.
In fact, that very scenario results in alerts from the Absolute management console that causes IT to seek out the laptop to figure out what the problem might be - It's one of the key indicators that the device is in a 'suspicous' state.
destroying my childhood
"Destroying your childhood?" WFT? Look, I was ten years old when "Star Wars" came out. I saw it every Saturday matinee in the theatre for 13 weeks. I bought all the comics and had the toys. As far I was concerned it was the greatest thing ever. Then, later on, Lucas mucked with it. Did it 'destroy my childhood?' Not even close. My childhood is attached to watching all those showings with my buddies, maybe with a bucket of popcorn - Lucas can't ever destroy that.
The solution I came up with was to buy a spare hard drive and caddy for the machine. When I wanted to do my own thing, I swapped out the drives.
If a) you're running windows on your second drive and b) the employer has deployed tracking software like Computrace then Computrace will self-heal onto your second drive and the swap will be detected. No worries if you're running Linux on the swapped drive.
You don't know where that laptop has been or who else might have tampered with it while it has been traveling the globe
Sure you do. There's all kinds of tracking software that will tell you this and alert you as an IT administrator to policy breaches.