It's funny how we seem to get most upset when it's people who have almost nothing doing the scamming. Yet when rich folk do scamming, like the Savings & Loan scandal, Enron, Worldcom, and so on, people don't get so upset.
I can't tell you how many times I hear about welfare fraud where someone might net a few hundred dollars a month, but these same people never once mention the corporate people who steal millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Or corporate bosses who steal the pension plans from people who have worked hard all their careers and are left with nothing. Thank god for social security so they won't starve.
So right now we're worried about some Nigerians stealling tens of millions a year when we've got tens of billions in medical fraud going on in this country.
Dating fraud isn't new. I saw an episode of the History Detectives where they tracked down some photographs to a scam mail order bride company in Chicago during the late 1800's.
The truth is people don't have time to investigate every purchase or offer they're made. And often the more desperate someone is the more eager they are to grasp at straws that purport to offer a way out of their desperation. Just watch the televangelists who sell prayer rags for debt relief.
The real reason that children shouldn't be exposed to this violence is because our brain treats watching a person do something the same as if we are doing it ourself.
As with most everything in life, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In a perfect world, family values may suffice. But when the parents are negligent or abusive, then community values should be there providing a safety net to protect children and spouses.
WiMAX is of interest to those in urban areas who are working to provide universal net access to even those who can't afford $50/month.
I think Municipalities could probably find ways to offer free wireless internet in their communities if they are creative. For example, they could offer free municipal wireless with the excuse that they want to provide job search capabilities to everyone in their community.
Also providing access to any local, state, or.gov site. And what about include access to any non-profit site, and also to any site offering free e-mail.
Add a little peer-to-peer networking between people using the same free networks and who needs any corporate advertisements or sites or access to the "private subscriber" side of the internet?
It sounded to me like they were saying that the gene was patented in the same way that a newly discovered chemical substance can be patented. Has nothing to do with how the substance is used, but rather the substance itself.
I'm really afraid that these composites will give the flat earthers extra fodder to further diminish the teaching of science in our K-12 schools. First they get rid of biology, and now they'll be getting rid of physics!
I thought the Human Genome Project was the group who first mapped all our genes? If they did this, then how can another group come along and patent it?
Isn't it possible for someone to think of a way to allow internet decisions to be voted on by the billion users? At least those portions of the users that care about it and want to vote on decisions?
Traditionally, campaign finance reform has taken a stick approach. What if we did something crazy, as they have in Arizona and Maine, like combine a carrot approach with the stick?
Publicly financed campaigns seem to be the answer to the majority of concerns most people express. The American dream is that anyone can run for office and become a congress critter or president. Publicly financed campaigns would mean that regular every day people would have the chance to compete with those who have even the shiniest of silver spoons, like Bush.
With the added carrot incentive that if you don't run on clean public money, then it's because you've had to sell your vote to your contributors rather than keep it for your promises to the voters.
Sure, continue to use the stick to keep out corporate contributions, but also use the carrot to make the American Dream a reality when it comes to serving your country.
Seems to me like the internet is ready to fracture. Aren't there geeks somewhere smart enough to figure out a mesh protocol that let's two people find each other without having root servers?
Hopefully it would make a good protocol for finding dates too.
The only way to fight lobbyists with money is by organizing voters who have none. It seems to me that Apple could lead the charge in organizing mp3 listeners to turn copyright law back from the draconian direction the music industry has been forcing it down.
One first step would be to make it illegal for anyone to receive financial renumeration for lobbying a congress critter. Why should a group or individual with money be able to hire someone to go lobby when we working stiffs have to juggle career, family, and fun with any political activities that can be fit in?
Let's level the playing field and return government back to the citizens instead of the highest bidder.
A quote from the article says, "Worse, the policy represents an attack on market-based competition, which in turn will hurt innovation."
Why isn't open document considered part of the market-based competition? They're so highly competitive that they've found a way to offer their product at little or no cost.
In a truely unrestricted market, it seems that anything other than labor should be free.
This is really about employee engagement, something every employer should be working towards. Gallup has done research on this and they've found that organizations that have some of the best employee management practices also have some of the worst practices. It really boils down to individual supervisors.
And as a union member, I want myself and my fellow employees to have the best supervisors out there. I'm all for measuring employee engagement using Gallup's 12 questions to identify supervisors that could use some training on how to be a good supervisor. Of course, if this happened, then we wouldn't need unions:-)
If companies want to protect their intellectual property, then they should pay to do it. I'd much rather our tax dollars went to building infrastructure investments here at home rather than trying to protect the property of some multinational company that more than likely isn't even headquartered in the United States of America.
I'd say that this type of device is more likely to be used against us, or other technologically advanced groups of people. We all saw the chaos resulting from an information blackout in New Orleans.
Laissez-faire policies have always resulted in revolution. How many times is the meritocracy going to have to kick the aristocracy's butts?
I don't know if I'd call blogging therapy. I think a lot of the blogging out there is just a way to make people feel better about themselves. It doesn't necessarily make them DO anything about what they are blogging about.
I'd recommend finding faculty members who are interested in making this a class project. Students can be grouped together to form teams to work on parts of the project, or to compete against each other to develop the best project.
I don't understand why more faculty don't do this type of "real world" project. I get so tired of the 2,000 plus year old style of teaching where the instructor is the fount of all knowledge spouting it in the front of a group of students.
Seems like we'd be getting a lot more bang for our tax investment dollars if we got rid of NASA and used the money to outsource all of our space project to Russia.
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I can't tell you how many times I hear about welfare fraud where someone might net a few hundred dollars a month, but these same people never once mention the corporate people who steal millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Or corporate bosses who steal the pension plans from people who have worked hard all their careers and are left with nothing. Thank god for social security so they won't starve.
So right now we're worried about some Nigerians stealling tens of millions a year when we've got tens of billions in medical fraud going on in this country.
Get some perspective.
The truth is people don't have time to investigate every purchase or offer they're made. And often the more desperate someone is the more eager they are to grasp at straws that purport to offer a way out of their desperation. Just watch the televangelists who sell prayer rags for debt relief.
At the very least it could be used to notify people when they need to touch up their hair color because of exposed roots.
As with most everything in life, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In a perfect world, family values may suffice. But when the parents are negligent or abusive, then community values should be there providing a safety net to protect children and spouses.
WiMAX is of interest to those in urban areas who are working to provide universal net access to even those who can't afford $50/month. I think Municipalities could probably find ways to offer free wireless internet in their communities if they are creative. For example, they could offer free municipal wireless with the excuse that they want to provide job search capabilities to everyone in their community. Also providing access to any local, state, or .gov site. And what about include access to any non-profit site, and also to any site offering free e-mail.
Add a little peer-to-peer networking between people using the same free networks and who needs any corporate advertisements or sites or access to the "private subscriber" side of the internet?
It sounded to me like they were saying that the gene was patented in the same way that a newly discovered chemical substance can be patented. Has nothing to do with how the substance is used, but rather the substance itself.
I'm really afraid that these composites will give the flat earthers extra fodder to further diminish the teaching of science in our K-12 schools. First they get rid of biology, and now they'll be getting rid of physics!
I thought the Human Genome Project was the group who first mapped all our genes? If they did this, then how can another group come along and patent it?
Let's turn the internet into a real democracy.
Publicly financed campaigns seem to be the answer to the majority of concerns most people express. The American dream is that anyone can run for office and become a congress critter or president. Publicly financed campaigns would mean that regular every day people would have the chance to compete with those who have even the shiniest of silver spoons, like Bush.
With the added carrot incentive that if you don't run on clean public money, then it's because you've had to sell your vote to your contributors rather than keep it for your promises to the voters.
Sure, continue to use the stick to keep out corporate contributions, but also use the carrot to make the American Dream a reality when it comes to serving your country.
I wish there were some way to give a revenue split from advertisers to the best rated podcasts.
Hopefully it would make a good protocol for finding dates too.
One first step would be to make it illegal for anyone to receive financial renumeration for lobbying a congress critter. Why should a group or individual with money be able to hire someone to go lobby when we working stiffs have to juggle career, family, and fun with any political activities that can be fit in?
Let's level the playing field and return government back to the citizens instead of the highest bidder.
So what about it Apple?
Why isn't open document considered part of the market-based competition? They're so highly competitive that they've found a way to offer their product at little or no cost.
In a truely unrestricted market, it seems that anything other than labor should be free.
Just to clarify, I'm not calling the poster stupid. This is just a play on a quote from the first Clinton election.
This is really about employee engagement, something every employer should be working towards. Gallup has done research on this and they've found that organizations that have some of the best employee management practices also have some of the worst practices. It really boils down to individual supervisors.
And as a union member, I want myself and my fellow employees to have the best supervisors out there. I'm all for measuring employee engagement using Gallup's 12 questions to identify supervisors that could use some training on how to be a good supervisor. Of course, if this happened, then we wouldn't need unions:-)
http://consulting.gallup.com/content/?CI=52
If companies want to protect their intellectual property, then they should pay to do it. I'd much rather our tax dollars went to building infrastructure investments here at home rather than trying to protect the property of some multinational company that more than likely isn't even headquartered in the United States of America.
I'd say that this type of device is more likely to be used against us, or other technologically advanced groups of people. We all saw the chaos resulting from an information blackout in New Orleans. Laissez-faire policies have always resulted in revolution. How many times is the meritocracy going to have to kick the aristocracy's butts?
I don't know if I'd call blogging therapy. I think a lot of the blogging out there is just a way to make people feel better about themselves. It doesn't necessarily make them DO anything about what they are blogging about.
I don't understand why more faculty don't do this type of "real world" project. I get so tired of the 2,000 plus year old style of teaching where the instructor is the fount of all knowledge spouting it in the front of a group of students.
It's going to be one hell of a long ride and I'd hate to overdose on strings.
But it sounds like we also might have a few less nukes because the president is now going to be given authority for pre-emptive nuclear attacks.
Since we've pulled a vietnam in Iraq, we'll just use nukes on Iran. A dead citizen can't make a live terrorist.
We'll probably use those neutron bombs so that we don't do damage to the oil. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1776 250,00.html
Seems like we'd be getting a lot more bang for our tax investment dollars if we got rid of NASA and used the money to outsource all of our space project to Russia.
This sounds like it could be fun, depending on how big the special manipulator is.