I'm actually rather impressed if it's only going to take them 18m to develop the access. I'm guessing that this is just the research end of it, and not the deployment. But, who knows.
Yeah, but then you have to put up with the government there actually helping the people and the people not going out of their way to destroy the government.
What needs to happen is for their charters to be changed to reflect that.
But, OTOH, that would mean this would fall to the FBI that was chartered for this sort of thing, and it's not like they have a particularly pristine track record to crow about either.
It's a fine line and as long as politicians are tripping over themselves to be harder on terrorists without any particular concern for protecting the rights of innocent Americans, it will continue.
I doubt there's any that overtly claim to be "land of the slaves and home of the despots."
It's a skewed view of the world to suggest that nations don't cover it up or otherwise obscure what they're doing. The worst nations often times have huge propaganda campaigns to convince the citizenry not to be concerned about it.
But, those weren't coming to a doctor or a lawyer and those would be completely different situations. What's more, doctors and lawyers shouldn't be using email as it's not secured. My doctor uses email, just to notify me that I've received a secure message.
There is no identity theft here, Zynga was informed that the email was wrong and they chose not to do anything about it. Given the messages he sent, if anybody bought into it, they deserve whatever they got.
It's not illegal to open emails sent to your account for somebody else, it's just not good manners to do so knowingly. The prohibition on opening mail only applies to mail sent through the postal system. Now, it might arguably apply to UPS and FedEx, but as far as I know, it doesn't. Email itself definitely is not protected in that manner.
Yes it does, and they've been discussed a ton over the last couple years here.
The implementation will lead inevitably to deflation and the currency seizing up, assuming of course that the authorities don't crack down on it being used to transfer funds around the world without the normal paperwork.
BTC isn't the answer, it has too many serious flaws, but we do need something that isn't beholden to the interests of a state, that can be traded for money that we can use. It's just a shame that BTC was so incompetently designed.
As somebody who used to live and work in China, I find this to be rather unfortunate. VPNs are neither good nor bad by any inherent reasoning, but what this means is that people in regions that have oppressive regimes are going to find it harder to get access to the web unfiltered as it's going to be harder and harder to fund the services.
Ultimately, if the US government has had any input in this, it's going to bite them on the ass. Well, it will bite them on the ass, regardless of causation.
Sight, I wish people would stop quoting this sort of bullshit.
The number presented do not appear to be normalized in any way, and several of the figures show the US doing quite well, with the other ones being dubious.
And precisely what is it that takes students in the US 16 years to achieve? To graduate high school is usually only 13 years, to graduate college would typically be 17 years. Even with the expectancy being 16, there's nothing you can really conclude from that as not everybody needs to go to college, nor is it beneficial to society to have people with no interest in using the information go. Compared with a lot of those countries you can still get pretty far without a college degree, if you're willing to build your own business or innovate.
It's not the unions, it's the free trade agreements and short sighted corporate greed that caused that. Unions are at lows in large part because of union busting that the GOP has engaged in over the last 30 years. Unions aren't perfect, but at least they represent labor, and they're by and large the only people that will do it. The Democrats regularly cave to the GOP over workers rights issues.
The union membership numbers are more reflective of the increased difficulty of organizing and the efforts by corporations to send as many living wage jobs overseas as possible to improve their bottom line.
You do realize that unions are the main organizations lobbying for workers rights, don't you? Just because they're working on many different things and not out in force every single weekend picketing something, does not mean that they aren't doing anything.
What's more, union workers don't necessarily make that much more than non-union workers. I remember making $3 over minimum wage at the last union job I worked which is still a sub-living wage for anybody that isn't single. And I don't think that people who work for UFCW members make absurd amounts of money either. I just passed by one of their pickets this after noon.
What's more, has it ever occurred to you that things would be even worse if not for the union influence? Thanks to decades of union busting, they aren't exactly as strong as they used to be.
Sort of, but ultimately overall you have to look at the big picture. Compare what things were like before and after unions and what things were like now as opposed to when unions were at their peak in the 60s and 70s.
You can always find individual anecdotes and examples, but the questions should be whether we're better off with or without unions and why is that the case.
How is a compiler going to know which statement is most likely to cover a given case. Or that you really don't need a long to store that particular variable?
The point is that compilers optimizing is all well and good, but compilers aren't very good at identifying when you don't need a variable of a given size or in which order you should have your cases and if statements ordered for best performance.
Oh please, the President hasn't caused any racism. He did give a focus to the pre-existing racism, but he did not cause it. The fact that you're accusing him of that strongly implies that you are in fact racist.
As for me, I'm not a bigot, I'm just not interested in playing along as you try and pretend you're not one.
I never said that personalities don't change. They change as a result in shifts in ones knowledge of the world and neurobiology. Brain damage can result in a change in personality, but pills and drugs don't change ones personality on a short term basis.
And no, being sober or being drunk does not change a person's personality. It will potentially change the expression of that personality. Taking drugs, medical or otherwise, does not cause a person to become somebody else. No matter how convenient it might be at times, the fact is that if you take a psychotropic drug, it does not cause a person to change who they are.
If it's a day to day change, those changes aren't the personality, but the lack of stability may be the personality.
Causes racial divisiveness? The President didn't cause racial divisiveness, that was folks like you. He's black, and racism existed well before his parents were born.
Politicians don't write the laws, they take the laws that the lobbyists give them and then merge them with what the other lobbyists give them and then amend them with amendments that by and large were created by lobbyists and vote on that mess.
You don't seriously think that these hundred page monstrosities are the result of politicians' staffs writing them, do you?
No, it hasn't changed my personality, personality is relatively durable and exists over decades and longer. By that measure drinking changes people's personalities.
Which is bullshit, drinking doesn't change people's personalities, it just lowers the inhibition and judgement revealing what was already there before imbibing.
What's more, neither you nor the GGP have actually put forth any actual evidence that a person's personality is changing because of changes to the body rather than changes in thought patterns.
This is neat science, but not likely to be of much value in the long run, apart from the use to repair the central nervous system.
It's hard enough to find a match for a lung or a liver, imagine trying to find an entire body that's in usable condition, just lacking a head. It may come up, but I doubt that it's something that's going to be any more practical than having somebody's head alive in a jar.
As for the mechanical one, there's already patents issued for keeping heads alive mechanically, and ultimately, I can't see why not. But, it would seem to be a hellish existence, until they can make a proper mind controlled robotic body.
Yes, your body will affect your brain, but only in so much as that's the path by which the nutrients and building blocks for the brain are obtained. The pancreas affects blood sugar levels and sugars are how your brain feeds itself.
I personally have issues with sugar wherein if I consume too much I tend to get very angry, but it doesn't change my personality, I can still cut the sugars back down and be myself. Personality changes require changes to the brain, not changes to the body.
Although things like exercise and lack of exercise might make it hard to tell sometimes, the ultimate changes for personality exist between the ears. Fix whatever is going wrong and the personality will typically go back to where it was, excepting cases of brain damage.
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I'm actually rather impressed if it's only going to take them 18m to develop the access. I'm guessing that this is just the research end of it, and not the deployment. But, who knows.
Yeah, but then you have to put up with the government there actually helping the people and the people not going out of their way to destroy the government.
Never underestimate the power of a large number of undereducated, rural hicks can have on the political system.
They've been waging a war against urban areas for years. And largely winning due to the political system giving them a disproportionate vote.
What needs to happen is for their charters to be changed to reflect that.
But, OTOH, that would mean this would fall to the FBI that was chartered for this sort of thing, and it's not like they have a particularly pristine track record to crow about either.
It's a fine line and as long as politicians are tripping over themselves to be harder on terrorists without any particular concern for protecting the rights of innocent Americans, it will continue.
I doubt there's any that overtly claim to be "land of the slaves and home of the despots."
It's a skewed view of the world to suggest that nations don't cover it up or otherwise obscure what they're doing. The worst nations often times have huge propaganda campaigns to convince the citizenry not to be concerned about it.
I suspect most if not all nations do it to some extent, the questions are which ones and to what extent.
But, those weren't coming to a doctor or a lawyer and those would be completely different situations. What's more, doctors and lawyers shouldn't be using email as it's not secured. My doctor uses email, just to notify me that I've received a secure message.
There is no identity theft here, Zynga was informed that the email was wrong and they chose not to do anything about it. Given the messages he sent, if anybody bought into it, they deserve whatever they got.
It's not illegal to open emails sent to your account for somebody else, it's just not good manners to do so knowingly. The prohibition on opening mail only applies to mail sent through the postal system. Now, it might arguably apply to UPS and FedEx, but as far as I know, it doesn't. Email itself definitely is not protected in that manner.
Yes it does, and they've been discussed a ton over the last couple years here.
The implementation will lead inevitably to deflation and the currency seizing up, assuming of course that the authorities don't crack down on it being used to transfer funds around the world without the normal paperwork.
BTC isn't the answer, it has too many serious flaws, but we do need something that isn't beholden to the interests of a state, that can be traded for money that we can use. It's just a shame that BTC was so incompetently designed.
Because it's their network and no regulatory body has told them no. Doesn't make it right, but that's how it is until somebody steps in and says no.
As somebody who used to live and work in China, I find this to be rather unfortunate. VPNs are neither good nor bad by any inherent reasoning, but what this means is that people in regions that have oppressive regimes are going to find it harder to get access to the web unfiltered as it's going to be harder and harder to fund the services.
Ultimately, if the US government has had any input in this, it's going to bite them on the ass. Well, it will bite them on the ass, regardless of causation.
Sight, I wish people would stop quoting this sort of bullshit.
The number presented do not appear to be normalized in any way, and several of the figures show the US doing quite well, with the other ones being dubious.
And precisely what is it that takes students in the US 16 years to achieve? To graduate high school is usually only 13 years, to graduate college would typically be 17 years. Even with the expectancy being 16, there's nothing you can really conclude from that as not everybody needs to go to college, nor is it beneficial to society to have people with no interest in using the information go. Compared with a lot of those countries you can still get pretty far without a college degree, if you're willing to build your own business or innovate.
It's not the unions, it's the free trade agreements and short sighted corporate greed that caused that. Unions are at lows in large part because of union busting that the GOP has engaged in over the last 30 years. Unions aren't perfect, but at least they represent labor, and they're by and large the only people that will do it. The Democrats regularly cave to the GOP over workers rights issues.
The union membership numbers are more reflective of the increased difficulty of organizing and the efforts by corporations to send as many living wage jobs overseas as possible to improve their bottom line.
You do realize that unions are the main organizations lobbying for workers rights, don't you? Just because they're working on many different things and not out in force every single weekend picketing something, does not mean that they aren't doing anything.
What's more, union workers don't necessarily make that much more than non-union workers. I remember making $3 over minimum wage at the last union job I worked which is still a sub-living wage for anybody that isn't single. And I don't think that people who work for UFCW members make absurd amounts of money either. I just passed by one of their pickets this after noon.
What's more, has it ever occurred to you that things would be even worse if not for the union influence? Thanks to decades of union busting, they aren't exactly as strong as they used to be.
Sort of, but ultimately overall you have to look at the big picture. Compare what things were like before and after unions and what things were like now as opposed to when unions were at their peak in the 60s and 70s.
You can always find individual anecdotes and examples, but the questions should be whether we're better off with or without unions and why is that the case.
How is a compiler going to know which statement is most likely to cover a given case. Or that you really don't need a long to store that particular variable?
The point is that compilers optimizing is all well and good, but compilers aren't very good at identifying when you don't need a variable of a given size or in which order you should have your cases and if statements ordered for best performance.
Oh please, the President hasn't caused any racism. He did give a focus to the pre-existing racism, but he did not cause it. The fact that you're accusing him of that strongly implies that you are in fact racist.
As for me, I'm not a bigot, I'm just not interested in playing along as you try and pretend you're not one.
I never said that personalities don't change. They change as a result in shifts in ones knowledge of the world and neurobiology. Brain damage can result in a change in personality, but pills and drugs don't change ones personality on a short term basis.
And no, being sober or being drunk does not change a person's personality. It will potentially change the expression of that personality. Taking drugs, medical or otherwise, does not cause a person to become somebody else. No matter how convenient it might be at times, the fact is that if you take a psychotropic drug, it does not cause a person to change who they are.
If it's a day to day change, those changes aren't the personality, but the lack of stability may be the personality.
Causes racial divisiveness? The President didn't cause racial divisiveness, that was folks like you. He's black, and racism existed well before his parents were born.
Politicians don't write the laws, they take the laws that the lobbyists give them and then merge them with what the other lobbyists give them and then amend them with amendments that by and large were created by lobbyists and vote on that mess.
You don't seriously think that these hundred page monstrosities are the result of politicians' staffs writing them, do you?
No, it hasn't changed my personality, personality is relatively durable and exists over decades and longer. By that measure drinking changes people's personalities.
Which is bullshit, drinking doesn't change people's personalities, it just lowers the inhibition and judgement revealing what was already there before imbibing.
What's more, neither you nor the GGP have actually put forth any actual evidence that a person's personality is changing because of changes to the body rather than changes in thought patterns.
My soul is contained in my shoes. Where else would you recommend I kept it?
This is neat science, but not likely to be of much value in the long run, apart from the use to repair the central nervous system.
It's hard enough to find a match for a lung or a liver, imagine trying to find an entire body that's in usable condition, just lacking a head. It may come up, but I doubt that it's something that's going to be any more practical than having somebody's head alive in a jar.
As for the mechanical one, there's already patents issued for keeping heads alive mechanically, and ultimately, I can't see why not. But, it would seem to be a hellish existence, until they can make a proper mind controlled robotic body.
This is a load of crap.
Yes, your body will affect your brain, but only in so much as that's the path by which the nutrients and building blocks for the brain are obtained. The pancreas affects blood sugar levels and sugars are how your brain feeds itself.
I personally have issues with sugar wherein if I consume too much I tend to get very angry, but it doesn't change my personality, I can still cut the sugars back down and be myself. Personality changes require changes to the brain, not changes to the body.
Although things like exercise and lack of exercise might make it hard to tell sometimes, the ultimate changes for personality exist between the ears. Fix whatever is going wrong and the personality will typically go back to where it was, excepting cases of brain damage.