I've read that staffers kept the nuclear football away from Richard Nixon during his time in office.
Without a citation, I call bullshit.
As a reminder, Nixon ended the Vietnam war, brought home POWs, opened up China, and, when campaign shenanigans threatened to bring him down, he resigned from office, rather than bring shame on the office of the President by being impeached.
I don't recall him bombing an aspirin plant to distract from his sexual adventures with a chubby intern, lying under oath about having sex with the intern, and then prance around Washington trying to act the victim when he was impeached.
There's plenty to like about Clinton and plenty to dislike about Nixon, but to claim that the military played 'keep-away' with the nuclear football for the five years he was President is unbelievable. We were decades into a Cold War with Russia, and had they known POTUS couldn't retaliate we surely would have been attacked/provoked by the Russians.
Could the new President not just completely disband them with the stroke of a pen?
No, he can't - it's not that simple. Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter with one of his major programs being the dissolution of the newly-formed (under Jimmy Carter) Department of Education... If it were possible to do with 'a pen and a phone' it would have been done.
And before anyone goes all weak in the knees for the Department of Education, ask yourself what they do that couldn't be better handled by your: State department of Education, County Department of Education, Local School Board, Local School Administrators, and Local School teachers?
We somehow put a man on the moon and invented the atom bomb without a Department of Education...
The article describe three tents outside the Amazon facility, one abandoned, one where the occupant say he's there out of convenience (the tent "was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home,"), and no word about the third.
We're talking about 2-3 workers out of several thousand temporary workers...that is a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the workforce.
The issue is the economy in Scotland, not Amazon - Amazon created jobs, and because of a glut of applicants can pay workers lower wages. The workers camping out in tents are workers that do not live near the Amazon facility, and as noted in the story, the issues for the camping workers are equal parts cost and convienience: the tent "was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home,". Easier and cheaper than commuting from home - these aren't homeless workers, they HAVE homes, just not local to the Amazon facility.
What we try to do is to calculate what amount of money allow somebody to cover the basic necessities.
That approach eliminates jobs by insisting that all jobs cover a person's "basic necessities" - and just wait for scope creep when "basic necessities" expands to include not only food, housing, but transportation (car), cable TV, high-speed internet, a smartphone, etc...
Or, you know, people could just get paid what somebody thinks their labor is worth.
For example, would you want to pay somebody $30 an hour just to empty all of the trash cans where you work?
$15 would be a good start, indexed to inflation.;-)
Those fighting for it would do well to mark 2016 and demand whatever $15 in 2016 dollars is each year this gets dragged out. Otherwise they are only going to get the equivalent of $10.75 by the time it passes, which will dwindle away every year re-creating the same problem for the next generation.
By insisting that all jobs pay at a minimum of $15/hr, you are pricing teens out of their first jobs. Paying $15/hr puts a worker at $30K/yr for a (traditional) full-time job, ($22,500 under the PPACA re-definition of "full-time" to 30 hrs/week).
Yes, and all those stupid poor people and their children in Victorian England who worked punishingly long hours. Why didn't they just stop?!
We aren't talking about working children in Victorian England, we're talking about adults in modern England with enough resources to secure their own car and insurance... Is it your contention that the only option an adult with a car in England today is either drive for Uber or die? I don't think the English economy is that bad...
So uber will just say they can not find trained workers to drive for them and they need temporary immigrant labour and they pay the lobbyists to pay the politician to get the laws they want to cripple the wage claims of their workers, it's the bullshit American way.
Consider this, if 25% of the population voted for Hillary Clinton (~60 million), that also means that 75% of the population did not vote for her. They either voted for Trump, Johnson, Stein, or stayed home. 75% of the adult population rejected her. Trump votes compared to Clinton votes is a narrow margin. Clinton compared to "Not Clinton" is a horrendous loss. Don't ask why people voted for Trump. Ask why people didn't vote for Clinton.
Consider this, 6 million 2012 Obama voters chose not to vote for Hillary in 2016... The Democrats on Team Hillary would have you believe they heard about FBI Director Comey re-opening his investigation into Hillary's private email server and choose to stay home instead, they reject arguments that she simply was a poor candidate.
Because the 16 digit CC stays the same as you brute force guess the 1,000 possible CVC codes and 60 possible expiration month/year combination...
Site A gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 000 Site B gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 001 Site C gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 002 Site D gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 003
And, assuming 1111 2222 3333 4444 is a valid card number, the central computers at MasterCard notice a pattern and block that card for suspected fraud...
Because too many Americans had connections faster than the previous 10 Mbit/sec figure... They needed to re-define the "minimum" to give the FCC an excuse to complain about US consumer's slow internet connections.
While the FCC defines broadband as download speeds of 25Mbps, about 47.5 million home or business Internet connections provided speeds below that threshold. Out of 102.2 million residential and business Internet connections, 22.4 million offered download speeds less than 10Mbps, with 5.8 million of those offering less than 3Mbps. About 25.1 million connections offered at least 10Mbps but less than 25Mbps. 54.7 million households had speeds of at least 25Mbps, with 15.4 million of those at 100Mbps or higher.
In other words, 47.5 million have internet connection speeds under an arbitrary speed picked by the government, and 54.7 million have internet connection speeds greater than an arbitrary speed picked by the government. So what?
Perhaps they aren't interested in entering into international sales agreements? What "services" do you want to buy from an American retailer that do not involve the movement of goods across international borders?
Are you trying to stream video? (They may only have licenses to provide streaming services in America) Are you trying to buy software? (Again, they may only have a license for embedded code elements for domestic use, AKA security/encryption/compression, etc) Are you trying to download an eBook? (single-country agreements between publishers and retailers are quite common outside the "major players" in the space (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.))
I'd be very interested in hearing about your "services" you hope to purchase that do not involve shipping goods overseas.
Also, it's called "NAFTA agreement" or just "NAFTA" since the last "A" stands for "Agreement".
I've never heard of a store refusing "out of state" credit cards - do you mean NY state stores refusing cards from Canada or Connecticut? I suspect the out of country car restriction is based on a history of fraudulent charges along that particular corridor between Canada and NYC, but that's pure speculation on my part.
Oh, and can you believe the NY State Thruway doesn't accept Canadian money! What's up with that!/sarcasm
Mohammed explains: “Most hackers will have got hold of valid card numbers as a starting point but even without that it’s relatively easy to generate variations of card numbers and automatically send them out across numerous websites to validate them.
Uh, sure - if you have a valid card number as a starting point, the other data points are trivial... But if you don't, "guessing" the remaining 10 digits of a valid credit card number quickly becomes a non-trivial task because the only way to separate a "correct" credit card number (which can be proven algorithmically) from a validly-issued credit card is to supply the proposed "correct" credit card number to multiple sites with all 60 possible expiry dates and each of the nearly one thousand CVV numbers from the back... (See below)
“The next step is the expiry date. Banks typically issue cards that are valid for 60 months so guessing the date takes at most 60 attempts.
“The CVV is your last barrier and theoretically only the card holder has that piece of information – it isn’t stored anywhere else.
“But guessing this three-digit number takes fewer than 1,000 attempts. Spread this out over 1,000 websites and one will come back verified within a couple of seconds. And there you have it – all the data you need to hack the account.”
So, when the headline says "Credit Card" they only mean Visa, everyone else blocks cards after as few as a dozen failed attempts, and the key ingredient to "cracking" a credit card is to start with a valid credit card number, all 16 digits, then find a list of e-commerce websites that will let you keep pitching hundreds and hundreds of credit card transactions at them so you can go through all 60,000 combination of expiry date and CVV to find the right one. Oh, then you need to make sure the attempted purchase in under the card's available spending limit.
But hey, yeah, credit cards are easy to brute-force hack, if you start with a valid, active, complete 16 digit credit card number - as long as it is a Visa card and Visa doesn't update their software.
They aren't asking would you build this racial database as a contractor, they are asking companies if they support creating a database - what do they mean 'support'? Are they looking for funding? Technical support? Contract programming? Cloud space to host it? What?
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Without a citation, I call bullshit.
As a reminder, Nixon ended the Vietnam war, brought home POWs, opened up China, and, when campaign shenanigans threatened to bring him down, he resigned from office, rather than bring shame on the office of the President by being impeached.
I don't recall him bombing an aspirin plant to distract from his sexual adventures with a chubby intern, lying under oath about having sex with the intern, and then prance around Washington trying to act the victim when he was impeached.
There's plenty to like about Clinton and plenty to dislike about Nixon, but to claim that the military played 'keep-away' with the nuclear football for the five years he was President is unbelievable. We were decades into a Cold War with Russia, and had they known POTUS couldn't retaliate we surely would have been attacked/provoked by the Russians.
So, got anything to backup your claim?
No, he can't - it's not that simple. Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter with one of his major programs being the dissolution of the newly-formed (under Jimmy Carter) Department of Education... If it were possible to do with 'a pen and a phone' it would have been done.
And before anyone goes all weak in the knees for the Department of Education, ask yourself what they do that couldn't be better handled by your:
State department of Education,
County Department of Education,
Local School Board,
Local School Administrators, and
Local School teachers?
We somehow put a man on the moon and invented the atom bomb without a Department of Education...
The article describe three tents outside the Amazon facility, one abandoned, one where the occupant say he's there out of convenience (the tent "was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home,"), and no word about the third.
We're talking about 2-3 workers out of several thousand temporary workers...that is a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the workforce.
The issue is the economy in Scotland, not Amazon - Amazon created jobs, and because of a glut of applicants can pay workers lower wages. The workers camping out in tents are workers that do not live near the Amazon facility, and as noted in the story, the issues for the camping workers are equal parts cost and convienience: the tent "was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home,". Easier and cheaper than commuting from home - these aren't homeless workers, they HAVE homes, just not local to the Amazon facility.
That approach eliminates jobs by insisting that all jobs cover a person's "basic necessities" - and just wait for scope creep when "basic necessities" expands to include not only food, housing, but transportation (car), cable TV, high-speed internet, a smartphone, etc...
Or, you know, people could just get paid what somebody thinks their labor is worth.
For example, would you want to pay somebody $30 an hour just to empty all of the trash cans where you work?
$15 would be a good start, indexed to inflation. ;-)
Those fighting for it would do well to mark 2016 and demand whatever $15 in 2016 dollars is each year this gets dragged out. Otherwise they are only going to get the equivalent of $10.75 by the time it passes, which will dwindle away every year re-creating the same problem for the next generation.
By insisting that all jobs pay at a minimum of $15/hr, you are pricing teens out of their first jobs. Paying $15/hr puts a worker at $30K/yr for a (traditional) full-time job, ($22,500 under the PPACA re-definition of "full-time" to 30 hrs/week).
Sure, they lack negotiating power but they do have choice - Uber is not the only employer, and if there is no employer there is public assistance.
We aren't talking about working children in Victorian England, we're talking about adults in modern England with enough resources to secure their own car and insurance... Is it your contention that the only option an adult with a car in England today is either drive for Uber or die? I don't think the English economy is that bad...
Or, they could simply remove the driver from the equation and go with self-driving cars - but they'd never do that, would they?
Or, you could take responsibility for your life and MOVE.
The thing is, the article is about UK Uber drivers - not US drivers.
Consider this, 6 million 2012 Obama voters chose not to vote for Hillary in 2016... The Democrats on Team Hillary would have you believe they heard about FBI Director Comey re-opening his investigation into Hillary's private email server and choose to stay home instead, they reject arguments that she simply was a poor candidate.
Uh, WHAT?
Your ignorance on the matter is staggering - do you really believe this?
Because the 16 digit CC stays the same as you brute force guess the 1,000 possible CVC codes and 60 possible expiration month/year combination...
Site A gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 000
Site B gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 001
Site C gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 002
Site D gets 1111 2222 3333 4444 12/16 003
And, assuming 1111 2222 3333 4444 is a valid card number, the central computers at MasterCard notice a pattern and block that card for suspected fraud...
Yes, better to stay where you are and complain...
Move.
Because too many Americans had connections faster than the previous 10 Mbit/sec figure... They needed to re-define the "minimum" to give the FCC an excuse to complain about US consumer's slow internet connections.
The vast majority of people "stuck" with dialup are "stuck" by choice - they have no desire/need for multi-megabit internet connections to the Internet and the high fees associated with the higher-speed connections.
I think you have a faulty understanding of how "tax breaks" work...
In other words, 47.5 million have internet connection speeds under an arbitrary speed picked by the government, and 54.7 million have internet connection speeds greater than an arbitrary speed picked by the government. So what?
Perhaps they aren't interested in entering into international sales agreements? What "services" do you want to buy from an American retailer that do not involve the movement of goods across international borders?
Are you trying to stream video? (They may only have licenses to provide streaming services in America)
Are you trying to buy software? (Again, they may only have a license for embedded code elements for domestic use, AKA security/encryption/compression, etc)
Are you trying to download an eBook? (single-country agreements between publishers and retailers are quite common outside the "major players" in the space (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.))
I'd be very interested in hearing about your "services" you hope to purchase that do not involve shipping goods overseas.
Also, it's called "NAFTA agreement" or just "NAFTA" since the last "A" stands for "Agreement".
I've never heard of a store refusing "out of state" credit cards - do you mean NY state stores refusing cards from Canada or Connecticut? I suspect the out of country car restriction is based on a history of fraudulent charges along that particular corridor between Canada and NYC, but that's pure speculation on my part.
Oh, and can you believe the NY State Thruway doesn't accept Canadian money! What's up with that! /sarcasm
Uh, sure - if you have a valid card number as a starting point, the other data points are trivial... But if you don't, "guessing" the remaining 10 digits of a valid credit card number quickly becomes a non-trivial task because the only way to separate a "correct" credit card number (which can be proven algorithmically) from a validly-issued credit card is to supply the proposed "correct" credit card number to multiple sites with all 60 possible expiry dates and each of the nearly one thousand CVV numbers from the back... (See below)
So, when the headline says "Credit Card" they only mean Visa, everyone else blocks cards after as few as a dozen failed attempts, and the key ingredient to "cracking" a credit card is to start with a valid credit card number, all 16 digits, then find a list of e-commerce websites that will let you keep pitching hundreds and hundreds of credit card transactions at them so you can go through all 60,000 combination of expiry date and CVV to find the right one. Oh, then you need to make sure the attempted purchase in under the card's available spending limit.
But hey, yeah, credit cards are easy to brute-force hack, if you start with a valid, active, complete 16 digit credit card number - as long as it is a Visa card and Visa doesn't update their software.
Read the linked-to article, only Visa is vulnerable, MasterCard and others detect the widespread fraud after a few attempts and shut it down.
It's a stupid question:
They aren't asking would you build this racial database as a contractor, they are asking companies if they support creating a database - what do they mean 'support'? Are they looking for funding? Technical support? Contract programming? Cloud space to host it? What?
Like in Miami, San Bernadino, Boston, Ft. Hood, etc?