Strictly speaking it is a private corporation, but the head is appointed by the federal government. And the Fed has authority to engage in regulatory activity as well as will into being massive amounts of money with a few key strokes.
Citation required for that assertion. That might be what they charge for tuition, but it's almost certainly not the full amount that it costs to run. There's money from trust funds as well as government money. Yes, at least around here, there's tax payer dollars funding it.
Not officially, I don't believe that the President has issued an executive order reinstating the ability of the CIA to assassinate foreign nationals. Which means one of a few things, that I missed a sitting President doing so, that the President hasn't done so or that the CIA has gone rogue and is doing so with security clearances above the Presidents clearance level.
They want the guy making the leaks, because the people that were in charge aren't going to be prosecuted. Given the degree to which the White House was involved in the war crimes, it's an absolute embarrassment that not a single Bush administration official will be put on trial, let alone sent to prison for committing what are very clearly war crimes. I can sort of understand not wanting to convict CIA operatives, but at very least the people who ordered the criminal activities must be brought to justice or there's no saying how often it will happen in the future.
Granted a trial is no assurance of future compliance with international law, but it does give people that are considering violating the law something to think about.
Bullshit, IT is a bit of an anomaly, but it's quite common for companies to post adverts for a job that demand four or five times as much experience as they actually want. They do it to basically scare away anybody that's new out of school, even if the potential applicant is somebody that they'd hire. Age discrimination is far more common a problem for youth than it is for the elderly. If you haven't saved enough for most of your retirement by the time you hit your 40s, you kind of deserve to have to worry about it. I'm still in my 20s, and despite a lot of bad luck, I've still got more in the bank than a third of the people in their 50s do.
Beyond that, people in there 40s and over aren't expected to have to work for free to get a job. Nobody really considers it legit for somebody of that age group to be asked to work for free and the law certainly doesn't provide much help with doing so.
Give me a break. Blaming the mistakes on the 20 somethings is complete horse shit and you ought to know that. Very, very few corporations will ever give somebody in their 20s any meaningful pull. So to suggest that an initiative of that size is being driven by people barely out of college is far fetched to say the least. Enron, MCI Worldcom, Lehman Brothers those were all run by individuals of advanced years, and they had much more serious problems. Sure I'm cherry picking a bit there, but the point remains. Nearly all of the massive failure over the years have been the result of mistakes by workers with experience. For the simple reason that people without experience rarely get put in charge of anything that can blow up like that.
Additionally, there've been a substantial number of corporations that have gone out of business because experience told them to play safe, even as the business world around them was changing. It's hardly unheard of for a company to run itself out of business by refusing to admit that the business model they're using is no longer going to work. Think *IAA, SCO and most newspapers.
IT is an industry where experience can be helpful, just not in any company that values innovation. Experience tends to prevent the necessary creativity to actually do anything too innovative. And for that matter, so does education past a BA. Thomas Edison was an anomaly in that he recognized that mistakes were going to happen and just because experience suggested that something wasn't a good idea, didn't mean that it wasn't worth trying.
Get too much experience and you put a real damper on what you're going to be able to achieve. Google in particular isn't a good place to work if you've got a lot of experience. Doesn't matter whether they're discriminating or not, it's just not an environment that lends itself well to using any of that experience. And I've noticed a real tendency for people as they get older to get more and more deluded about the value of experience even as they have less and less of the rest of the stuff to contribute.
I'm not sure about other countries, but in the US, age discrimination is mostly just babies in their 40s, getting angry because all of a sudden they're not able to compete with younger workers. Never mind that they aren't willing to go through as much crap as younger workers.
That's worthy to note, however frequently we end up with news from companies making ridiculous abuse of the IP laws. This is just as absurd as a lot of them. They just should've disclosed the tie in.
Were they to fix the LendMe function so that you could do it multiple times for longer periods, that would give them a serious advantage over the competition. I've personally no problems with them make sharing books, like a book, but this whole you can share it once for up to two weeks stuff is bullshit.
As opposed to the baby boomers that refuse to acknowledge that both baby boomer Presidents were more or less worthless. The first backed down when ever there was a challenge to his initiatives, and the second was so damned stupid that he pretty much took down the country with his inept handling of even the most basic tasks that a President can handle.
It's easy to make those sorts of generalizations, but the hard truth is that baby boomers did an embarrassing job of managing the country when they took over. If we're lucky, there may even be one left for the gen X set to manage, let alone whatever generation is coming up after that.
Probably doesn't even own a computer. Or watch TV or well interact with anybody at all. Fox is in and of itself evidence that there's a huge market for entertainment of morons and idiots.
The problem is most of the time people on some level know that it's a bad idea. I'm sure somebody had lingering doubts that cutting corners on safety equipment was a bad idea. Some people definitely realized that the absence of WMDs detected by the weapons inspector could be indicative of them not being there.
As for the poor voting to cut the taxes of the rich, some people are just so damned stupid and stubborn that they probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Not because they get it wrong, but because they refuse to actually learn anything from it. It's like those morons that keep pushing for fewer and fewer regulations, then use the inevitable catastrophe as evidence that they didn't go far enough.
Not likely. They almost certainly will rig it so that it sends data when you pass a certain point, then each time it detects that you've stopped it goes through the spool of ads to display. It's a much less complicated way of doing it. Especially since they need the sensors anyways and memory in that quantity is dirt cheap at present.
Well, even if it does pass, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. It means that the DMV will study it and in a few years make a recommendation. The development costs are completely paid for by the companies wanting to provide the plates.
I'm genuinely curious as to how on Earth CA can waste that kind of money. In my part of WA, the sales tax hits a state high with 9.5% on most items, and a whopping 10% on things like restaurant food. And we're going to be getting taxed on things like water, soda and similar in the near future. But we don't have an income tax, and even in this economy the tax hikes have been pretty minimal. The cuts have been significant, but we weren't going way overboard on spending like the essentially free schooling for higher education that was available in CA at the community colleges either.
That's too be expected. In general the blue states pay for running the federal government, but it's typically the red states that whine and demand tax breaks. California, New York and almost certainly Florida would be paying more than they're getting. Here in WA we've got the same problem on the state level. The vast majority of the taxes come from the west of the cascades, but east of the cascades is where most of the support for hobbling government and the ability to pay for things the voters demanded is supported.
I'm guessing that they're gunning to be bought out by Google. A lot of start ups do that, in fact much of what we know today as Google was previously created by somebody else.
Actually, I for one appreciate it being up. This is/. as in news for nerds. And the fact that this is in open beta for phones which it isn't included on is news. I've just given it a quick shot and I'll probably buy it when it goes on sale. It seems like it's much more realistic to use on like the bus due to keeping the finger on the screen at all times.
Not necessarily, gunshots are loud, I mean really loud. Gun shots are typically in the range of 140-180 decibels depending upon the particular weapon. Speech being about 60 decibels at 1 meter, you can sort of see the extreme difference in noise levels. If you're having to turn it up to hear voices you're going to get a huge amount of static and have a difficult time distinguishing what anybody is saying.
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Strictly speaking it is a private corporation, but the head is appointed by the federal government. And the Fed has authority to engage in regulatory activity as well as will into being massive amounts of money with a few key strokes.
Citation required for that assertion. That might be what they charge for tuition, but it's almost certainly not the full amount that it costs to run. There's money from trust funds as well as government money. Yes, at least around here, there's tax payer dollars funding it.
Not officially, I don't believe that the President has issued an executive order reinstating the ability of the CIA to assassinate foreign nationals. Which means one of a few things, that I missed a sitting President doing so, that the President hasn't done so or that the CIA has gone rogue and is doing so with security clearances above the Presidents clearance level.
They want the guy making the leaks, because the people that were in charge aren't going to be prosecuted. Given the degree to which the White House was involved in the war crimes, it's an absolute embarrassment that not a single Bush administration official will be put on trial, let alone sent to prison for committing what are very clearly war crimes. I can sort of understand not wanting to convict CIA operatives, but at very least the people who ordered the criminal activities must be brought to justice or there's no saying how often it will happen in the future.
Granted a trial is no assurance of future compliance with international law, but it does give people that are considering violating the law something to think about.
Bullshit, IT is a bit of an anomaly, but it's quite common for companies to post adverts for a job that demand four or five times as much experience as they actually want. They do it to basically scare away anybody that's new out of school, even if the potential applicant is somebody that they'd hire. Age discrimination is far more common a problem for youth than it is for the elderly. If you haven't saved enough for most of your retirement by the time you hit your 40s, you kind of deserve to have to worry about it. I'm still in my 20s, and despite a lot of bad luck, I've still got more in the bank than a third of the people in their 50s do.
Beyond that, people in there 40s and over aren't expected to have to work for free to get a job. Nobody really considers it legit for somebody of that age group to be asked to work for free and the law certainly doesn't provide much help with doing so.
Give me a break. Blaming the mistakes on the 20 somethings is complete horse shit and you ought to know that. Very, very few corporations will ever give somebody in their 20s any meaningful pull. So to suggest that an initiative of that size is being driven by people barely out of college is far fetched to say the least. Enron, MCI Worldcom, Lehman Brothers those were all run by individuals of advanced years, and they had much more serious problems. Sure I'm cherry picking a bit there, but the point remains. Nearly all of the massive failure over the years have been the result of mistakes by workers with experience. For the simple reason that people without experience rarely get put in charge of anything that can blow up like that.
Additionally, there've been a substantial number of corporations that have gone out of business because experience told them to play safe, even as the business world around them was changing. It's hardly unheard of for a company to run itself out of business by refusing to admit that the business model they're using is no longer going to work. Think *IAA, SCO and most newspapers.
IT is an industry where experience can be helpful, just not in any company that values innovation. Experience tends to prevent the necessary creativity to actually do anything too innovative. And for that matter, so does education past a BA. Thomas Edison was an anomaly in that he recognized that mistakes were going to happen and just because experience suggested that something wasn't a good idea, didn't mean that it wasn't worth trying.
Get too much experience and you put a real damper on what you're going to be able to achieve. Google in particular isn't a good place to work if you've got a lot of experience. Doesn't matter whether they're discriminating or not, it's just not an environment that lends itself well to using any of that experience. And I've noticed a real tendency for people as they get older to get more and more deluded about the value of experience even as they have less and less of the rest of the stuff to contribute.
I'm not sure about other countries, but in the US, age discrimination is mostly just babies in their 40s, getting angry because all of a sudden they're not able to compete with younger workers. Never mind that they aren't willing to go through as much crap as younger workers.
That's worthy to note, however frequently we end up with news from companies making ridiculous abuse of the IP laws. This is just as absurd as a lot of them. They just should've disclosed the tie in.
Were they to fix the LendMe function so that you could do it multiple times for longer periods, that would give them a serious advantage over the competition. I've personally no problems with them make sharing books, like a book, but this whole you can share it once for up to two weeks stuff is bullshit.
Nope, that's just a glitch in the Matrix. It happens whenever they change something.
As opposed to the baby boomers that refuse to acknowledge that both baby boomer Presidents were more or less worthless. The first backed down when ever there was a challenge to his initiatives, and the second was so damned stupid that he pretty much took down the country with his inept handling of even the most basic tasks that a President can handle.
It's easy to make those sorts of generalizations, but the hard truth is that baby boomers did an embarrassing job of managing the country when they took over. If we're lucky, there may even be one left for the gen X set to manage, let alone whatever generation is coming up after that.
Probably doesn't even own a computer. Or watch TV or well interact with anybody at all. Fox is in and of itself evidence that there's a huge market for entertainment of morons and idiots.
The problem is most of the time people on some level know that it's a bad idea. I'm sure somebody had lingering doubts that cutting corners on safety equipment was a bad idea. Some people definitely realized that the absence of WMDs detected by the weapons inspector could be indicative of them not being there.
As for the poor voting to cut the taxes of the rich, some people are just so damned stupid and stubborn that they probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Not because they get it wrong, but because they refuse to actually learn anything from it. It's like those morons that keep pushing for fewer and fewer regulations, then use the inevitable catastrophe as evidence that they didn't go far enough.
You mean sort of like how I hate you for using that stupid font?
Not likely. They almost certainly will rig it so that it sends data when you pass a certain point, then each time it detects that you've stopped it goes through the spool of ads to display. It's a much less complicated way of doing it. Especially since they need the sensors anyways and memory in that quantity is dirt cheap at present.
Well, even if it does pass, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. It means that the DMV will study it and in a few years make a recommendation. The development costs are completely paid for by the companies wanting to provide the plates.
I'm genuinely curious as to how on Earth CA can waste that kind of money. In my part of WA, the sales tax hits a state high with 9.5% on most items, and a whopping 10% on things like restaurant food. And we're going to be getting taxed on things like water, soda and similar in the near future. But we don't have an income tax, and even in this economy the tax hikes have been pretty minimal. The cuts have been significant, but we weren't going way overboard on spending like the essentially free schooling for higher education that was available in CA at the community colleges either.
That's too be expected. In general the blue states pay for running the federal government, but it's typically the red states that whine and demand tax breaks. California, New York and almost certainly Florida would be paying more than they're getting. Here in WA we've got the same problem on the state level. The vast majority of the taxes come from the west of the cascades, but east of the cascades is where most of the support for hobbling government and the ability to pay for things the voters demanded is supported.
What could possibly go wrong? I mean it's not like those freeway message boards ever get cracked.
I thought that was "Wank Free or Die Hard."
I'm guessing that they're gunning to be bought out by Google. A lot of start ups do that, in fact much of what we know today as Google was previously created by somebody else.
It's already been pulled. Or at least I can't find it, and I'm looking with FroYo.
Actually, I for one appreciate it being up. This is /. as in news for nerds. And the fact that this is in open beta for phones which it isn't included on is news. I've just given it a quick shot and I'll probably buy it when it goes on sale. It seems like it's much more realistic to use on like the bus due to keeping the finger on the screen at all times.
Not necessarily, gunshots are loud, I mean really loud. Gun shots are typically in the range of 140-180 decibels depending upon the particular weapon. Speech being about 60 decibels at 1 meter, you can sort of see the extreme difference in noise levels. If you're having to turn it up to hear voices you're going to get a huge amount of static and have a difficult time distinguishing what anybody is saying.
I've no doubt that they could've done much better. I suspect they didn't want to spend 20 years doing it.