Is the same thing here on Brazil. USAID here helps every one who wants to overthrow any government that does not comply doggedly what the U.S. told to do.
As an American, I can assure you that simply do not understand what you are talking about. While I have no idea whether any US agency cares any about government change in Brazil, I can tell you that Lula was no problem at all. The man was rational and competent and if he and the US had different ideas from time to time, at least there was some logic to what he was doing. Dilma Rousseff is a completely different story. Early on she came on with the same anti-US ranting and ravings that are quite popular in South America these days. Geez, I don't think I've ever seen anything more embarrassing from a national leader than her photo with Fidel where she looked like an aging rock groupie wanting to suck him off at the first chance she got. If the US is trying to support opposition to her presidency, well, that is a fight that she started. Most of South America seems obsessed right now with electing anybody who espouses anti-US slogans, even if they end up running their own countries into the ground. Hey, it doesn't matter if we don't have jobs as long as our president hates the US, right? You can ask Venezuela and Argentina how that is working out for them right now.
Australia had sued Japan at the U.N.’s highest court for resolving disputes between nations
Hold the phone--you mean there are ways to solve disputes between nations that *don't* involve firing artillery, invasion or threatening sanctions? Has anyone told North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine or the United States?
That crap gets rated as Insightful and gets 5 points? Wow. Tell you what. Name ONE, just one, UN resolution considered to be against North Korea that they have willingly obeyed. In fact, to be blunt, the whole reason that there are two Koreas instead of one unified and horribly backwards united Korean under Kim family despotism is because the UN Security Council authorized the use of force against North Korea's invasion when the Soviet Union infamously boycotted the meeting, only to find out the Security Council actually could take a vote without them there.
Wherever you get your degree, don't run up a fortune in debt to pay for it. It would be better to not get it at all then to run up, say, $30,000 or more of debt to pay off - in my opinion. I do agree with you that it probably really is harder and harder to get jobs without a 4 year degree. I've seen this happen to IT people I know who don't have 4 year degrees and get laid off.
Here's the truth about Beowufl. The poem sucks. Even if it's in a language you can read, it still sucks. When I was in college I read some of the great historical works of the past in Europe, some in translations, some in the original language (if I knew it), and Beowulf was by far the least interesting "classic" work I have ever read. The fact that Tolkien cared about it means nothing to me nor most people. Want proof that while this is of interest to the Tolkien fan boys, nobody else cares? Some years ago Robert Zemeckis, who is a directory I generally like, decided that everybody was just dying to see an adaptation of the film. It made about 60% of what it cost to make it. The truth is, most people don't care. The story sucks and few are interested in it.
And exactly how much, fan boys, do you think his translation is going to bring to the table any way? If it's vastly different than what came before it, then somebody blew it. Either Tolkien's is different because the people before him were really bad at translation and botched it, his is different because he is taking massive liberties with his translation and making assumptions that the original text may not actually support, or it's going to be barely different at all because there's just not that much difference between proper translations. I've done some translation work in my day and if done properly, there just shouldn't be all that much variation between different translations. I suppose Tolkien might use a word order better suited for modern readers or use less complicated words that convey the same meaning as previous translations, and I'd praise him for that, but such things should really be fairly minor versus previous translations.
This is simply a consequence of the fact that tech startup remuneration schemes just don't work anymore, and people have been coasting for the last decade hoping the 90s would come back, and they just aren't. You can't just take programmers who would make over six figures in the market, pay them a pittance and stock, and then never have the stock pay off -- this'll work the first few times, but not for years.
One of the problems is that the number of people who are actually eager to work under these conditions is quite large. I've found that some people like startups because they cannot handle working for large companies at all. Also, I've found that some people who work for a startup that actually made it get very arrogant and decide that it succeeded because they were geniuses and any old company they join in the future simply cannot fail because they'll be part of it. It's been a little amusing to watch from a distance as some of these people have to keep looking for new jobs because the new startups they went to don't make it.
Fox does whatever it takes to get viewers/readers, including playing both sides of the issue. This was vividly demonstrated to me a few years ago when a guy I knew in high school and is a Facebook friend was posting some anti-vaccine nut job article to support his view. He posted a link to an article on Fox News from a NY pediatrician who was warning parents that the flu vaccine (this when during the flu scare of a few years ago when the government recommended getting children immunized against the flu) was likely to lead to autism and all kinds of nasty things. At the exact same time there was a different article written by Fox New's own Dr. Manny touting the benefits of the flu vaccine for everybody, including children.
Unfortunately our question has been modded way down and he'll probably never see it because it's more important for him to have 50 questions on Bab5 trivia.
Here's my question - What's the deal with the Forbidden Planet prequel/sequel/remake/reimagining/whatever your name was linked with some years ago? I've heard all kinds of rumors. One was that you finished a script but it got stolen and posted on the internet and that killed the project, Other rumors have this being a prequel, a sequel, a film set in the same universe and all kinds of things. I love the original film so if there's ever a chance of you being involved in something related, I'd love to know whatever you can tell, even if it's not much.
But, before hitting Silicon Valley, why not make a stop by the NBA?
I mean, asians and whites are dramatically underrepresented there. I'm sure you see this as a big problem, too.
Right, Jesse?
Um, Jesse?
I know you are joking, but actually Jesse and others have an ongoing issue with MLB (Major League Baseball) that Blacks are "underrepresented" right now. What they fail to mention is that there are actually plenty of Blacks and Latinos in MLB right now. If anything, they are maybe overrepresented, but many Blacks in MLB are not American, they are from other countries, mostly the Dominican Republic. MLB leaders take Jesse seriously and they throw up their hands and cry "Woe is us! We must fix this heinous problem!" but people have looked into it and nobody really knows what is going on. There doesn't seem to be any discrimination at all going on with the players and all anybody can figure is that young Black guys in the US simply don't play baseball in large numbers any more. But MLB has a program to "change this" so it seems for the moment to have pacified Jesse and his buds. If I remember correctly, a few years ago the Atlanta Braves were specifically mentioned as an example of this kind of supposed discrimination but at the time they had plenty of players of color on the team, it's just that none of them were American born. That is not currently true as they have several American born Black players on the current team.
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Just to be clear for those who didn't read the article, this entire study is based on four brighter than expected pixels.
Four pixels in the images are brighter than one might expect from reflecting sunlight, Barnes reported at the conference. He concluded that they must represent something particularly rough on the surface — a wave or set of waves.
Correct. And the scientist in question said it may indicate the presence of waves, giving him some wiggle room if a future mission goes there and finds that basically everything is frozen solid.
We need to force politicians to eliminate the loopholes, which are all legal and often intentional
To create legal loopholes and then to expect people to voluntarily pay more (than they have to) taxes is a losing and pointless battle.
If you have a plan that can actually "force" politicians to eliminate the loopholes, please post it, but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter anyway. The rich (including corporations) will always find a way to avoid paying taxes and if you eliminate these loopholes, they'll find some others that nobody knows exist right now. Lawyers and accountants both excel at this. In the past when politicians have tried to plug holes in laws, somebody comes right behind them and drills a legal hole in the plug.
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc. We cannot realistically or morally change Russia from the outside. The most powerful weapon against fanaticism would be allowing regular law-abiding Russians to vote with their feet. We could always use some more scientists and engineers anyway...
As someone who actually been to that part of the world, I can assure you that very few Russians would actually take advantage of it as believe it or not, most of them are not very interested in living in the USA and they don't see themselves living under an "oppressive government". The ones who don't like the government and have real skills have already left for other parts of Europe. The ones who probably would come here under your offer are people you'd likely regret being here as they wouldn't really be coming for love of America and its freedom but for some less honorable reason like escaping military service.
Hmm was there a major outcry by people who knew **** all about vaccines regarding MMR and the unfounded notion that it might cause Autism? We had a large outbreak of Measles in the UK recently because people had stopped getting their kids vaccinated. Perhaps the same thing happened on your side of the pond.
Yes. Basically there are 3 major health issues involving children that seem (more on that later) to have just exploded in the last 20 years and medical science have no answers as to why. They are:
1) Peanut allergies.
2) ADHD.
3) Austism.
As an American, I can only give my personal experience, but if you ask anyone over the age of 40 if as a child they ever knew anybody with a peanut allergy, you'll hear "No". I suppose someone might be the exception, but this was just simply unheard of anywhere when I was a child. Peanuts were ubiquitous as was peanut butter.
For many decades now, Americans have been struggling to determine why their kids are messed up. Each decade comes up with a different answer. In the 1990s and maybe early 2000s, the easy answer was to declare any problem to be the result of ADHD. Even things that were just normal life events (ie. a kid doesn't pay attention in class because he is bored) were chalked up to ADHD. This just became the medical world's and parents' answer to any problem at all. Junior threw a fit because you wouldn't give him $10? Well, it's not his fault. He's got ADHD. Every school room in America had multiple kids diagnosed as ADHD. Now I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I don't believe for a minute it exists in the numbers claimed.
Then there was an explosion in autism. Just this week I read that 1 in 55 kids is autistic to some extent. That is just a staggering number. It raises questions that we have no answers for at this time. Are those diagnoses correct? Is something causing autism to be more prevalent today than in the past? Was autism around in the past in the same numbers but we just weren't very good at detecting it? Nobody knows. So now there are all these seriously messed up kids in numbers seemingly never detected before and parents want to know why. So that UK doctor kook came out with his paper showing that vaccinations were to blame because they all used mercury. People generally don't like getting injections, so that was all they needed to hear that those vaccines must be causing it. Plus the fact that they were effective meant that since nobody knew anybody who actually had the diseases, the idea came out that we were risking health of the children for nothing. Finally, due to poor science teaching in the US, it became a general belief among the stupider parts of the US that vaccines were black magic anyway and nobody knew why they worked or if they worked and the whole thing wasn't any more scientific than being told to drink stump water under the light of a full moon. So all that has combined to create a climate in which significant numbers of people actually believe that vaccines are harmful and it's so obvious that they do much more harm than good that only crazy people would give them to their kids.
It's more likely you could use that same money to find a lot more than a couple dozen people by spending it more intelligently. The only thing that makes these people special is that they were rich enough to afford trans-pacific plane tickets, and they're in the news. If you think that makes them more important than other people, then YOU are the one barely attached to human reality.
I enjoy class warfare at times, but you are just dead wrong here in two ways. First of all, the flight was going from Malaysia (I assume Kuala Lumpur) to Beijing. This is not a "trans-pacific" flight. Second, as someone who is hardly rich and has actually flown trans-pacific, the flights are expensive but not insanely so. It is possible for average people to afford to fly such routes.
My ISP, who is not Comcast but another major American ISP, also blocks certain websites via DNS failures. Simply switching DNS to Google's DNS servers or FreeDNS resolved the problem.
For a list of the things the Republican have done to just one challenger in the last two cycles, check out the archives of any of the several sites where Ron Paul supporters congregate. (For example, The Daily Paul.)
Yes, by all means ask Ron Paul supporters, who see conspiracy everywhere, if there has been a conspiracy against their boy.
Here's how you enact a sensible immigration policy. You crack down on the employers of illegals such that no one will hire them. You then offer a contingent amnesty to the illegals that allows them to come forward and face no charges if they leave the country of their own volition, and you even let them keep all of the money and property they've earned if they self-deport. Then, you only allow immigrants with provable skills to immigrate as singles or with their immediate family if they're married with children. None of this "let's bring the whole extended family" over. Grandma, the aunts and uncles and cousins have no business piggybacking on that green card. That's just a recipe for waking up one day and finding a large ethnic enclave in an American city (oh wait, that's precisely what's happened in many areas because of this, silly me).
How's that Tea Party Kool Aid taste? Self-deporting will never work. I'll explain why. Some years ago I had a girlfriend who lived in a country that is not part of the Visa Waiver group of countries that don't need visas to come to the USA. I applied for a fiancee visa for her. I have some insight into how immigration really works in this country, although I do have to say that we ended up breaking up after my application was approved and she did not ever come to the USA. I've read stories about how legal immigrants can't get visas for family members to visit them because the truth is that at the consulates where US employees make the decisions, many applications get denied. The system is set up so that if visitors overstay a visa, the person who approved it gets held accountable and they may not be able to get promoted if it happens enough. There is no appeal process if your application is denied, so it's just easier in many cases to deny a request than to gamble that the person who gets the visa won't overstay. I've even heard of parents of legal immigrants where one got a visa to visit their legal immigrant child and one did not simply because they applied on different days and each parent talked to a different worker at the same US consulate. Also, the whole process of legally immigrating is ridiculously long. If anyone self-deports, they know that they may not ever be allowed back in. If the person who works on their case just doesn't like them, they can deny or delay the application and the applicant can do nothing (they have no rights as they are not US citizens).
Reddit users have verified via decompilation that the dump file includes a wallet-stealing executable. The executable attempts to send the wallet to a hard-coded IP address, whose ISP has been notified of this.
I'm sure that the relevant authorities in Russia or China will be all over this. Or not.
I was waiting for someone to post that. However, I am going to offer another view on Todd's death. Todd made a lot of claims that he was being forced to work on a project that was willingly dangerous to US national security. An official inquest found that Todd committed suicide and the US embassy in Singapore called the inquest "comprehensive, fair and transparent". I'd like to suggest that things are what they seem - Todd had psychological issues and he killed himself. I get that his family cannot accept this, but that in and of itself does not mean it's not true.
I've been to Singapore several times and while I like it a lot, it's not for everybody. If you're not rich, it can be oppressively hot and humid ("normal" people there don't have central air conditioning - usually just ceiling fans) and some people aren't really able to deal with that very well. As a white person you will very visibly be a minority there and while that doesn't bother me in the slightest and I have never been mistreated, some people may have problems with that. Singapore is very Asian as it should be given its location and ethnic makeup. It's not like living in a slice of the USA near Malaysia. Also, knowing Singapore and how it works, I do find it unlikely that a Singapore business would willingly be working on a project of immense benefit to China and one that would put the US security interests at risk. I just don't see it. I know it's not what his family and friends want to hear, but it seems a lot more likely to me that he had serious mental problems and delusions of grandeur (ie. overinflating the value of his work) that led to him committing suicide than him being a victim of a plot against the US government.
You can win with morons. If you don't debunk the whole autism thing, parents won't get their kids vaccinated. If you do debunk it, they decide that they can't trust the scientists and they don't get their kids vaccinated. Does any other developed country have to deal with this kind of idiocy or is it unique to the USA?
And as soon as someone dares to sell oil for anything but USDs, it will become obvious.
The irony about it all is that
Do tell - what exactly is stopping them?
There are at least a few oil producers who are completely opposed to the USA, some of whom are so blinded by ideology that they would cut off their nose to spite their face to damage the US. What exactly is stopping one of them from demanding Euros, for example, for oil? I'm pretty sure China would pay in any currency imaginable in exchange for discounts in price. Iran has actually been paid in Euros since 2003 for most of its oil exports, yet that has hardly had a chilling effect on the dollar.
To me this is just like the gold standard nut jobs. If the gold standard is so good then why do zero counties use it? Yet the Paul-ites in the USA insist that the gold standard solves all ills, yet not one nation on the planet has chosen to use it.
If you agree to a pay cut, then you do so with the complete and full understanding that it will be very difficult to make that up down the road. You will almost certainly have to leave the new company to go to yet another job to make up for the salary you are giving up. And note that there are no guarantees that you will be able to find another job that will pay you more, especially if you don't live in a large metro area. If you really think that you must take the other job, hold out for the same money. Refuse to take a pay cut and stick to it. If you are good then they will pay it. I can tell you from personal experience that salary offers are a game to HR and they like to lie about what they can pay because HR people are either sociopaths or they get their own pay based on how much they can screw you out of by talking you down to a lower offer. The odds are pretty high that this new company can match your current pay, but they always like to play the "We're a poor, young start up who can't compete on salary" card because guys like you fall for it.
I work for a company that was a successful start up that got bought out by a Fortune 500 company. I have no problems working for The Man. But a lot of my co-workers just could not take working for a big company and they left. One of the problems I have seen with them is that they tend to romanticize everything about their start up days and their egos are gigantic as a result of being part of a successful start up, so I have seen them leave for various other start ups that - wait for it - failed. Stun. Shock. Disbelief. Are you really comfortable that this new company is going to be around in a year? I saw a handful of co-workers all leave to go to the same start up within a short period of time and they all got laid off within at most 2 months of leaving us. I agree with what another poster says in warning you that you are likely to be on call all the time in this new job and have your stress level go up. Yeah, sure, it sounds great, but think about what could go wrong because I promise you the odds are higher that this new company will fail than it will succeed. Small companies are notorious for their pie in the sky promises that don't come true. On a different job some years ago, I had a couple of co-workers who left before the big Internet stock bubble hit and they passed up maybe $30,000 in stock options that they never got because they left. Their new job promised them shares in the company and they did really get them, but when the company got sold they got somewhere between $2000 and $5000. Everybody thought that they were going to get a lot more than that who got the shares, but that's what happened. I never had the heart to tell them how much they passed up by leaving.
Sounds like much we already knew or suspected. I'm more interested in why some people keep trying to show us what an awful character Assange is, instead of focussing on what he has done. Love him and Wikileaks or hate them; the latter seems a lot more relevant.
Probably because like here, the people who support him make a ton of noise about how he is just a saint who has been vilified by a vengeful US government and those who say "Hmm... maybe he's not a good guy after all" tend to get drowned out. Bradley Manning might have an interesting take on whether his friendship with Assange was worth it in the end. And as to a certain extent he's arguably a criminal avoiding justice, it does tend to cast a negative light over everything he does. My biggest questions are things like "Why do you only seem to publish things that put the US in a bad light? Where are the secrets from places like Russia and China, where we know corruption is the norm?" Suppose he was given information about how top Chinese Communist Party officials secretly own various businesses and profit extraordinarily from them while they keep wages down for their employees and he chose not to publish it. Would those of you who defend him still do so? How do we really know that he's not selectively releasing the information he gets to suit some ulterior motive that most supporters wouldn't like?
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Is the same thing here on Brazil. USAID here helps every one who wants to overthrow any government that does not comply doggedly what the U.S. told to do.
As an American, I can assure you that simply do not understand what you are talking about. While I have no idea whether any US agency cares any about government change in Brazil, I can tell you that Lula was no problem at all. The man was rational and competent and if he and the US had different ideas from time to time, at least there was some logic to what he was doing. Dilma Rousseff is a completely different story. Early on she came on with the same anti-US ranting and ravings that are quite popular in South America these days. Geez, I don't think I've ever seen anything more embarrassing from a national leader than her photo with Fidel where she looked like an aging rock groupie wanting to suck him off at the first chance she got. If the US is trying to support opposition to her presidency, well, that is a fight that she started. Most of South America seems obsessed right now with electing anybody who espouses anti-US slogans, even if they end up running their own countries into the ground. Hey, it doesn't matter if we don't have jobs as long as our president hates the US, right? You can ask Venezuela and Argentina how that is working out for them right now.
From the Washington Post version,
Australia had sued Japan at the U.N.’s highest court for resolving disputes between nations
Hold the phone--you mean there are ways to solve disputes between nations that *don't* involve firing artillery, invasion or threatening sanctions? Has anyone told North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine or the United States?
That crap gets rated as Insightful and gets 5 points? Wow. Tell you what. Name ONE, just one, UN resolution considered to be against North Korea that they have willingly obeyed. In fact, to be blunt, the whole reason that there are two Koreas instead of one unified and horribly backwards united Korean under Kim family despotism is because the UN Security Council authorized the use of force against North Korea's invasion when the Soviet Union infamously boycotted the meeting, only to find out the Security Council actually could take a vote without them there.
Wherever you get your degree, don't run up a fortune in debt to pay for it. It would be better to not get it at all then to run up, say, $30,000 or more of debt to pay off - in my opinion. I do agree with you that it probably really is harder and harder to get jobs without a 4 year degree. I've seen this happen to IT people I know who don't have 4 year degrees and get laid off.
Ah yes, Obama, our weak totalitarian king community organizer who is controlled by nazi tree-hugging muslim pastors.
Did I get everything that's wrong with Obama? Or am I missing the fear du jour?
I think you forgot to play the race card.
And he forgot to call Obama a "socialist". Also some kind of shot at "Obamacare" is always called for in such matters.
Here's the truth about Beowufl. The poem sucks. Even if it's in a language you can read, it still sucks. When I was in college I read some of the great historical works of the past in Europe, some in translations, some in the original language (if I knew it), and Beowulf was by far the least interesting "classic" work I have ever read. The fact that Tolkien cared about it means nothing to me nor most people. Want proof that while this is of interest to the Tolkien fan boys, nobody else cares? Some years ago Robert Zemeckis, who is a directory I generally like, decided that everybody was just dying to see an adaptation of the film. It made about 60% of what it cost to make it. The truth is, most people don't care. The story sucks and few are interested in it.
And exactly how much, fan boys, do you think his translation is going to bring to the table any way? If it's vastly different than what came before it, then somebody blew it. Either Tolkien's is different because the people before him were really bad at translation and botched it, his is different because he is taking massive liberties with his translation and making assumptions that the original text may not actually support, or it's going to be barely different at all because there's just not that much difference between proper translations. I've done some translation work in my day and if done properly, there just shouldn't be all that much variation between different translations. I suppose Tolkien might use a word order better suited for modern readers or use less complicated words that convey the same meaning as previous translations, and I'd praise him for that, but such things should really be fairly minor versus previous translations.
This is simply a consequence of the fact that tech startup remuneration schemes just don't work anymore, and people have been coasting for the last decade hoping the 90s would come back, and they just aren't. You can't just take programmers who would make over six figures in the market, pay them a pittance and stock, and then never have the stock pay off -- this'll work the first few times, but not for years.
One of the problems is that the number of people who are actually eager to work under these conditions is quite large. I've found that some people like startups because they cannot handle working for large companies at all. Also, I've found that some people who work for a startup that actually made it get very arrogant and decide that it succeeded because they were geniuses and any old company they join in the future simply cannot fail because they'll be part of it. It's been a little amusing to watch from a distance as some of these people have to keep looking for new jobs because the new startups they went to don't make it.
Fox does whatever it takes to get viewers/readers, including playing both sides of the issue. This was vividly demonstrated to me a few years ago when a guy I knew in high school and is a Facebook friend was posting some anti-vaccine nut job article to support his view. He posted a link to an article on Fox News from a NY pediatrician who was warning parents that the flu vaccine (this when during the flu scare of a few years ago when the government recommended getting children immunized against the flu) was likely to lead to autism and all kinds of nasty things. At the exact same time there was a different article written by Fox New's own Dr. Manny touting the benefits of the flu vaccine for everybody, including children.
Unfortunately our question has been modded way down and he'll probably never see it because it's more important for him to have 50 questions on Bab5 trivia.
Here's my question - What's the deal with the Forbidden Planet prequel/sequel/remake/reimagining/whatever your name was linked with some years ago? I've heard all kinds of rumors. One was that you finished a script but it got stolen and posted on the internet and that killed the project, Other rumors have this being a prequel, a sequel, a film set in the same universe and all kinds of things. I love the original film so if there's ever a chance of you being involved in something related, I'd love to know whatever you can tell, even if it's not much.
But, before hitting Silicon Valley, why not make a stop by the NBA?
I mean, asians and whites are dramatically underrepresented there. I'm sure you see this as a big problem, too.
Right, Jesse?
Um, Jesse?
I know you are joking, but actually Jesse and others have an ongoing issue with MLB (Major League Baseball) that Blacks are "underrepresented" right now. What they fail to mention is that there are actually plenty of Blacks and Latinos in MLB right now. If anything, they are maybe overrepresented, but many Blacks in MLB are not American, they are from other countries, mostly the Dominican Republic. MLB leaders take Jesse seriously and they throw up their hands and cry "Woe is us! We must fix this heinous problem!" but people have looked into it and nobody really knows what is going on. There doesn't seem to be any discrimination at all going on with the players and all anybody can figure is that young Black guys in the US simply don't play baseball in large numbers any more. But MLB has a program to "change this" so it seems for the moment to have pacified Jesse and his buds. If I remember correctly, a few years ago the Atlanta Braves were specifically mentioned as an example of this kind of supposed discrimination but at the time they had plenty of players of color on the team, it's just that none of them were American born. That is not currently true as they have several American born Black players on the current team.
Just to be clear for those who didn't read the article, this entire study is based on four brighter than expected pixels.
Four pixels in the images are brighter than one might expect from reflecting sunlight, Barnes reported at the conference. He concluded that they must represent something particularly rough on the surface — a wave or set of waves.
Correct. And the scientist in question said it may indicate the presence of waves, giving him some wiggle room if a future mission goes there and finds that basically everything is frozen solid.
We need to force politicians to eliminate the loopholes, which are all legal and often intentional
To create legal loopholes and then to expect people to voluntarily pay more (than they have to) taxes is a losing and pointless battle.
If you have a plan that can actually "force" politicians to eliminate the loopholes, please post it, but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter anyway. The rich (including corporations) will always find a way to avoid paying taxes and if you eliminate these loopholes, they'll find some others that nobody knows exist right now. Lawyers and accountants both excel at this. In the past when politicians have tried to plug holes in laws, somebody comes right behind them and drills a legal hole in the plug.
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc. We cannot realistically or morally change Russia from the outside. The most powerful weapon against fanaticism would be allowing regular law-abiding Russians to vote with their feet. We could always use some more scientists and engineers anyway...
As someone who actually been to that part of the world, I can assure you that very few Russians would actually take advantage of it as believe it or not, most of them are not very interested in living in the USA and they don't see themselves living under an "oppressive government". The ones who don't like the government and have real skills have already left for other parts of Europe. The ones who probably would come here under your offer are people you'd likely regret being here as they wouldn't really be coming for love of America and its freedom but for some less honorable reason like escaping military service.
Hmm was there a major outcry by people who knew **** all about vaccines regarding MMR and the unfounded notion that it might cause Autism? We had a large outbreak of Measles in the UK recently because people had stopped getting their kids vaccinated. Perhaps the same thing happened on your side of the pond.
Yes. Basically there are 3 major health issues involving children that seem (more on that later) to have just exploded in the last 20 years and medical science have no answers as to why. They are:
1) Peanut allergies.
2) ADHD.
3) Austism.
As an American, I can only give my personal experience, but if you ask anyone over the age of 40 if as a child they ever knew anybody with a peanut allergy, you'll hear "No". I suppose someone might be the exception, but this was just simply unheard of anywhere when I was a child. Peanuts were ubiquitous as was peanut butter.
For many decades now, Americans have been struggling to determine why their kids are messed up. Each decade comes up with a different answer. In the 1990s and maybe early 2000s, the easy answer was to declare any problem to be the result of ADHD. Even things that were just normal life events (ie. a kid doesn't pay attention in class because he is bored) were chalked up to ADHD. This just became the medical world's and parents' answer to any problem at all. Junior threw a fit because you wouldn't give him $10? Well, it's not his fault. He's got ADHD. Every school room in America had multiple kids diagnosed as ADHD. Now I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I don't believe for a minute it exists in the numbers claimed.
Then there was an explosion in autism. Just this week I read that 1 in 55 kids is autistic to some extent. That is just a staggering number. It raises questions that we have no answers for at this time. Are those diagnoses correct? Is something causing autism to be more prevalent today than in the past? Was autism around in the past in the same numbers but we just weren't very good at detecting it? Nobody knows. So now there are all these seriously messed up kids in numbers seemingly never detected before and parents want to know why. So that UK doctor kook came out with his paper showing that vaccinations were to blame because they all used mercury. People generally don't like getting injections, so that was all they needed to hear that those vaccines must be causing it. Plus the fact that they were effective meant that since nobody knew anybody who actually had the diseases, the idea came out that we were risking health of the children for nothing. Finally, due to poor science teaching in the US, it became a general belief among the stupider parts of the US that vaccines were black magic anyway and nobody knew why they worked or if they worked and the whole thing wasn't any more scientific than being told to drink stump water under the light of a full moon. So all that has combined to create a climate in which significant numbers of people actually believe that vaccines are harmful and it's so obvious that they do much more harm than good that only crazy people would give them to their kids.
It's more likely you could use that same money to find a lot more than a couple dozen people by spending it more intelligently. The only thing that makes these people special is that they were rich enough to afford trans-pacific plane tickets, and they're in the news. If you think that makes them more important than other people, then YOU are the one barely attached to human reality.
I enjoy class warfare at times, but you are just dead wrong here in two ways. First of all, the flight was going from Malaysia (I assume Kuala Lumpur) to Beijing. This is not a "trans-pacific" flight. Second, as someone who is hardly rich and has actually flown trans-pacific, the flights are expensive but not insanely so. It is possible for average people to afford to fly such routes.
My ISP, who is not Comcast but another major American ISP, also blocks certain websites via DNS failures. Simply switching DNS to Google's DNS servers or FreeDNS resolved the problem.
For a list of the things the Republican have done to just one challenger in the last two cycles, check out the archives of any of the several sites where Ron Paul supporters congregate. (For example, The Daily Paul.)
Yes, by all means ask Ron Paul supporters, who see conspiracy everywhere, if there has been a conspiracy against their boy.
Here's how you enact a sensible immigration policy. You crack down on the employers of illegals such that no one will hire them. You then offer a contingent amnesty to the illegals that allows them to come forward and face no charges if they leave the country of their own volition, and you even let them keep all of the money and property they've earned if they self-deport. Then, you only allow immigrants with provable skills to immigrate as singles or with their immediate family if they're married with children. None of this "let's bring the whole extended family" over. Grandma, the aunts and uncles and cousins have no business piggybacking on that green card. That's just a recipe for waking up one day and finding a large ethnic enclave in an American city (oh wait, that's precisely what's happened in many areas because of this, silly me).
How's that Tea Party Kool Aid taste? Self-deporting will never work. I'll explain why. Some years ago I had a girlfriend who lived in a country that is not part of the Visa Waiver group of countries that don't need visas to come to the USA. I applied for a fiancee visa for her. I have some insight into how immigration really works in this country, although I do have to say that we ended up breaking up after my application was approved and she did not ever come to the USA. I've read stories about how legal immigrants can't get visas for family members to visit them because the truth is that at the consulates where US employees make the decisions, many applications get denied. The system is set up so that if visitors overstay a visa, the person who approved it gets held accountable and they may not be able to get promoted if it happens enough. There is no appeal process if your application is denied, so it's just easier in many cases to deny a request than to gamble that the person who gets the visa won't overstay. I've even heard of parents of legal immigrants where one got a visa to visit their legal immigrant child and one did not simply because they applied on different days and each parent talked to a different worker at the same US consulate. Also, the whole process of legally immigrating is ridiculously long. If anyone self-deports, they know that they may not ever be allowed back in. If the person who works on their case just doesn't like them, they can deny or delay the application and the applicant can do nothing (they have no rights as they are not US citizens).
Reddit users have verified via decompilation that the dump file includes a wallet-stealing executable. The executable attempts to send the wallet to a hard-coded IP address, whose ISP has been notified of this.
I'm sure that the relevant authorities in Russia or China will be all over this. Or not.
I was waiting for someone to post that. However, I am going to offer another view on Todd's death. Todd made a lot of claims that he was being forced to work on a project that was willingly dangerous to US national security. An official inquest found that Todd committed suicide and the US embassy in Singapore called the inquest "comprehensive, fair and transparent". I'd like to suggest that things are what they seem - Todd had psychological issues and he killed himself. I get that his family cannot accept this, but that in and of itself does not mean it's not true.
I've been to Singapore several times and while I like it a lot, it's not for everybody. If you're not rich, it can be oppressively hot and humid ("normal" people there don't have central air conditioning - usually just ceiling fans) and some people aren't really able to deal with that very well. As a white person you will very visibly be a minority there and while that doesn't bother me in the slightest and I have never been mistreated, some people may have problems with that. Singapore is very Asian as it should be given its location and ethnic makeup. It's not like living in a slice of the USA near Malaysia. Also, knowing Singapore and how it works, I do find it unlikely that a Singapore business would willingly be working on a project of immense benefit to China and one that would put the US security interests at risk. I just don't see it. I know it's not what his family and friends want to hear, but it seems a lot more likely to me that he had serious mental problems and delusions of grandeur (ie. overinflating the value of his work) that led to him committing suicide than him being a victim of a plot against the US government.
You can win with morons. If you don't debunk the whole autism thing, parents won't get their kids vaccinated. If you do debunk it, they decide that they can't trust the scientists and they don't get their kids vaccinated. Does any other developed country have to deal with this kind of idiocy or is it unique to the USA?
I'm curious - what exactly does "computer-directed flight control" mean for a plane from 1939?
And as soon as someone dares to sell oil for anything but USDs, it will become obvious.
The irony about it all is that
Do tell - what exactly is stopping them?
There are at least a few oil producers who are completely opposed to the USA, some of whom are so blinded by ideology that they would cut off their nose to spite their face to damage the US. What exactly is stopping one of them from demanding Euros, for example, for oil? I'm pretty sure China would pay in any currency imaginable in exchange for discounts in price. Iran has actually been paid in Euros since 2003 for most of its oil exports, yet that has hardly had a chilling effect on the dollar.
To me this is just like the gold standard nut jobs. If the gold standard is so good then why do zero counties use it? Yet the Paul-ites in the USA insist that the gold standard solves all ills, yet not one nation on the planet has chosen to use it.
If you agree to a pay cut, then you do so with the complete and full understanding that it will be very difficult to make that up down the road. You will almost certainly have to leave the new company to go to yet another job to make up for the salary you are giving up. And note that there are no guarantees that you will be able to find another job that will pay you more, especially if you don't live in a large metro area. If you really think that you must take the other job, hold out for the same money. Refuse to take a pay cut and stick to it. If you are good then they will pay it. I can tell you from personal experience that salary offers are a game to HR and they like to lie about what they can pay because HR people are either sociopaths or they get their own pay based on how much they can screw you out of by talking you down to a lower offer. The odds are pretty high that this new company can match your current pay, but they always like to play the "We're a poor, young start up who can't compete on salary" card because guys like you fall for it.
I work for a company that was a successful start up that got bought out by a Fortune 500 company. I have no problems working for The Man. But a lot of my co-workers just could not take working for a big company and they left. One of the problems I have seen with them is that they tend to romanticize everything about their start up days and their egos are gigantic as a result of being part of a successful start up, so I have seen them leave for various other start ups that - wait for it - failed. Stun. Shock. Disbelief. Are you really comfortable that this new company is going to be around in a year? I saw a handful of co-workers all leave to go to the same start up within a short period of time and they all got laid off within at most 2 months of leaving us. I agree with what another poster says in warning you that you are likely to be on call all the time in this new job and have your stress level go up. Yeah, sure, it sounds great, but think about what could go wrong because I promise you the odds are higher that this new company will fail than it will succeed. Small companies are notorious for their pie in the sky promises that don't come true. On a different job some years ago, I had a couple of co-workers who left before the big Internet stock bubble hit and they passed up maybe $30,000 in stock options that they never got because they left. Their new job promised them shares in the company and they did really get them, but when the company got sold they got somewhere between $2000 and $5000. Everybody thought that they were going to get a lot more than that who got the shares, but that's what happened. I never had the heart to tell them how much they passed up by leaving.
Sounds like much we already knew or suspected. I'm more interested in why some people keep trying to show us what an awful character Assange is, instead of focussing on what he has done. Love him and Wikileaks or hate them; the latter seems a lot more relevant.
Probably because like here, the people who support him make a ton of noise about how he is just a saint who has been vilified by a vengeful US government and those who say "Hmm... maybe he's not a good guy after all" tend to get drowned out. Bradley Manning might have an interesting take on whether his friendship with Assange was worth it in the end. And as to a certain extent he's arguably a criminal avoiding justice, it does tend to cast a negative light over everything he does. My biggest questions are things like "Why do you only seem to publish things that put the US in a bad light? Where are the secrets from places like Russia and China, where we know corruption is the norm?" Suppose he was given information about how top Chinese Communist Party officials secretly own various businesses and profit extraordinarily from them while they keep wages down for their employees and he chose not to publish it. Would those of you who defend him still do so? How do we really know that he's not selectively releasing the information he gets to suit some ulterior motive that most supporters wouldn't like?