It's becoming increasingly difficult to compute taxes for multinational corporations. Country B may not allow Country A to see enough info to compute a fair tax. It may be just easier to tax revenues instead of "profits", because money coming in and out of your own country is easier to monitor than trying to figure out what companies do and spend in other countries.
Are you implying MS did it on purpose? More likely, they'd be guilty of not bothering to "get around to" fixing it even if they knew there was a problem.
I've seen a lot of cases of MS seeming to neglect products, including compatibility with older versions of their own stuff, if they wanted it to just go away.
Compressed Air Energy has one major drawback. If there is a problem it could cause an explosion.
I can see it at carefully-controlled and isolated power plants, but NOT in consumer products. It's one thing to have a phone battery catch fire; but compressed air could instantly blow body parts off. I could lose a few pounds, but hopefully not by this method.
[Hillary] had top secret stuff on her unsecured network
For one, the classified stuff was sent to her by other staff members. The same problem would have happened if she had used the "regular" Department server (which was later found to be hacked). The location or ownership of the server didn't matter in terms of risk level. There is a separate communication system for classified info. It's not usually called "email" and is different from the Dept.'s regular email system. The State Dept. staff used the wrong method(s) for some messages.
Second, she didn't receive proper training in security matters. The head of IT/Security perhaps should be in jail for not verifying the training roster. (She received a "briefing", but not the formal class.)
Some suggest she's responsible for EVERYTHING that goes on in the State Dept. Unless she was informed of a problem and failed to act, I disagree. The head can't be expected to micromanage the verification of training rosters.
Just wait for the Great AI Crash. AI co's are overvalued per actual revenue. Either they'll make bigass breakthroughs to get more revenue, or there's a reality crash coming.
I love the fact that Google knows what language I develop in when I search for a function...Do you want to watch ads for tampons if you're a male?...[I like to] quickly find out about a cool new game similar to another one you might be interested in
I don't mind the use of personalization if *I* control the personalization, not Google et al. I might want sites to know my favorite games but NOT my favorite underwear brand.
And your preferences don't have to be tracked via IP address or cookies. It could be more like a Favorites list which is shared only with sites you select (or wildcarded to all if you wish).
A standardized way to request , control, and suggest personal info can be created. For example, when you do a Google search, Google could list suggested personal meta-data you could supply to simplify your searches in the future. You can click and then enter the value (if relevant) and your browser saves it. You voluntarily select which personal attributes to supply info for, and also optionally limit which sites can know that info.
The industry can agree to standardize or at least not copyright preference tags (attribute names).
A dump of your "Personal Info Roster" may resemble:
Attribute: Approx_Birth_Year_Int Value: 1970 Shared-With-Sites: * [all] ----- Attribute: Likes_Computer_Games_Flag Value: [N/A, existence is enough with "flag"] Shared-With-Sites: * [all] ----- Attribute: Gender_Male_Flag Value: [N/A, existence is enough with "flag"] Shared-With-Sites: google.com; bing.com; slashdot.com ----- Attribute: Preferred_Programming_Languages_List Value: Lisp; Go; COBOL Shared-With-Sites: * [all]
The final part of the attribute name indicates general data type: int, list, flag, date, text, and number.
Sites can have links that allow you to add such entries, upon your approval. A new http protocol can be formed for the standard, such as "pref:" for preferences. A typical URL for such would resemble: "pref:fav_underwear_brand_list,Fruit%20of%%20Loom;Bobs%20Skivvies". If you click for an entry that already exists, you'll get a prompt that shows your existing value(s) and what the site's suggested additions are (if any).
Mostly you just click and approve which attributes you share; very little typing would be necessary.
The default "site" value would be the domain of the requesting site, but you could click the "All" icon if you are okay with the entire planet knowing. (If you already have a site list for the attribute, you are prompted for deletion.)
To participate, sites must agree to not use other tracking means. Even if some sites don't follow the rules, the system described is still useful.
Gandhi and MLK perfected the art of non-violent civil disobedience. That's what we need. We can disrupt corporations and plutocrats' comfy lives without hurting people. Block traffic, boycott stores, strike, wake jerks up at 3am with 500 bullhorns. You might get 10 days in jail, but nobody is physically injured.
It's a myth most Democrats are for "open borders". Most also want to curb illegal immigration, but the current administration is doing it wrong. Walls are too easy to defeat by themselves, and expensive. I propose the following steps:
1. Hire and train more border guards. Democrats have proposed this before; they are usually not against it. (I say "usually" because, yes, they do play political games, as both parties do.)
2. Invest R&D in crosser auto-detection. Past attempts failed, but if research is kept up, they'll get better with time.
3. Audit business payroll and hiring. This will require tax money and will inconvenience businesses. (Businesses lobbying against this is one reason why GOP has been reluctant to act.)
4. Some sort of amnesty is probably necessary. We don't have the manpower to boot out those already here, and many of them have established family ties.
5. Try to bring peace to Central and South American countries rocked by violence and drug wars.
6. Treat people and countries with respect. Insults and harsh treatment of children only make the problem worse.
7. Have a more flexible temporary migrant worker system.
McCarthy's claim was that the listed individuals wanted to overthrow the USA gov't (or hung out with those who did), not merely vote for left-leaning policies.
It also shows that Oracle's database is more efficient in some aspects than Amazon's rival software
Big databases usually require careful tuning to handle big loads. Could it be the new incarnation has yet to undergo such tuning? The new incarnation may also have a different trade-off profile such that the porting process moved operations mostly as-is instead of rebalance the trade-offs to fit the new host. Much of the Oracle DB tuning may be direct production experience, something the new incarnation won't have by definition.
For a car analogy, suppose you are used to hauling big loads up the mountain in a Ford pickup truck. You switch to a Chevy truck and find your productivity drops. At first you blame the Chevy.
After weeks of experience you find the Chevy less powerful at directly going over boulders; however, it's more maneuverable than the Ford such that you just learn to swerve around boulders instead of try to go over them. Once you get used to the Chevy, the haul time is roughly the same.
You support the DNC. You support unlimited illegal immigration. You support unlimited H-1B visa.
BOTH parties do in practice. GOP only gives curbing undocumented workers lip-service. Biz bribes GOP to not do anything because they want cheap labor. (Bribery is via campaign donations.) And Democrats tried to hire more border guards roughly 4 years ago and were blocked by GOP, citing debt concerns. (Now GOP doesn't seem to care about debt.)
As far as the "violence", you are cherry-picking incidents and individuals. I can do the same with conservatives.
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to compute taxes for multinational corporations. Country B may not allow Country A to see enough info to compute a fair tax. It may be just easier to tax revenues instead of "profits", because money coming in and out of your own country is easier to monitor than trying to figure out what companies do and spend in other countries.
Are you implying MS did it on purpose? More likely, they'd be guilty of not bothering to "get around to" fixing it even if they knew there was a problem.
I've seen a lot of cases of MS seeming to neglect products, including compatibility with older versions of their own stuff, if they wanted it to just go away.
Actually, I suspect his brainwaves will look like his signature.
What do you have against the National Planning Commission (of Nepal)?
I can see it at carefully-controlled and isolated power plants, but NOT in consumer products. It's one thing to have a phone battery catch fire; but compressed air could instantly blow body parts off. I could lose a few pounds, but hopefully not by this method.
Show she did.
For one, the classified stuff was sent to her by other staff members. The same problem would have happened if she had used the "regular" Department server (which was later found to be hacked). The location or ownership of the server didn't matter in terms of risk level. There is a separate communication system for classified info. It's not usually called "email" and is different from the Dept.'s regular email system. The State Dept. staff used the wrong method(s) for some messages.
Second, she didn't receive proper training in security matters. The head of IT/Security perhaps should be in jail for not verifying the training roster. (She received a "briefing", but not the formal class.)
Some suggest she's responsible for EVERYTHING that goes on in the State Dept. Unless she was informed of a problem and failed to act, I disagree. The head can't be expected to micromanage the verification of training rosters.
Traffic in CA sucks. If you build more houses, there will be more traffic and more traffic suckage. Improve public transportation first.
Just wait for the Great AI Crash. AI co's are overvalued per actual revenue. Either they'll make bigass breakthroughs to get more revenue, or there's a reality crash coming.
He found the plug.
Jupiter: "Okay, who farted?"
"Bots took our jerbs!"
I don't mind the use of personalization if *I* control the personalization, not Google et al. I might want sites to know my favorite games but NOT my favorite underwear brand.
And your preferences don't have to be tracked via IP address or cookies. It could be more like a Favorites list which is shared only with sites you select (or wildcarded to all if you wish).
A standardized way to request , control, and suggest personal info can be created. For example, when you do a Google search, Google could list suggested personal meta-data you could supply to simplify your searches in the future. You can click and then enter the value (if relevant) and your browser saves it. You voluntarily select which personal attributes to supply info for, and also optionally limit which sites can know that info.
The industry can agree to standardize or at least not copyright preference tags (attribute names).
A dump of your "Personal Info Roster" may resemble:
Attribute: Approx_Birth_Year_Int
Value: 1970
Shared-With-Sites: * [all]
-----
Attribute: Likes_Computer_Games_Flag
Value: [N/A, existence is enough with "flag"]
Shared-With-Sites: * [all]
-----
Attribute: Gender_Male_Flag
Value: [N/A, existence is enough with "flag"]
Shared-With-Sites: google.com; bing.com; slashdot.com
-----
Attribute: Preferred_Programming_Languages_List
Value: Lisp; Go; COBOL
Shared-With-Sites: * [all]
The final part of the attribute name indicates general data type: int, list, flag, date, text, and number.
Sites can have links that allow you to add such entries, upon your approval. A new http protocol can be formed for the standard, such as "pref:" for preferences. A typical URL for such would resemble: "pref:fav_underwear_brand_list,Fruit%20of%%20Loom;Bobs%20Skivvies". If you click for an entry that already exists, you'll get a prompt that shows your existing value(s) and what the site's suggested additions are (if any).
Mostly you just click and approve which attributes you share; very little typing would be necessary.
The default "site" value would be the domain of the requesting site, but you could click the "All" icon if you are okay with the entire planet knowing. (If you already have a site list for the attribute, you are prompted for deletion.)
To participate, sites must agree to not use other tracking means. Even if some sites don't follow the rules, the system described is still useful.
Gandhi and MLK perfected the art of non-violent civil disobedience. That's what we need. We can disrupt corporations and plutocrats' comfy lives without hurting people. Block traffic, boycott stores, strike, wake jerks up at 3am with 500 bullhorns. You might get 10 days in jail, but nobody is physically injured.
It's a myth most Democrats are for "open borders". Most also want to curb illegal immigration, but the current administration is doing it wrong. Walls are too easy to defeat by themselves, and expensive. I propose the following steps:
1. Hire and train more border guards. Democrats have proposed this before; they are usually not against it. (I say "usually" because, yes, they do play political games, as both parties do.)
2. Invest R&D in crosser auto-detection. Past attempts failed, but if research is kept up, they'll get better with time.
3. Audit business payroll and hiring. This will require tax money and will inconvenience businesses. (Businesses lobbying against this is one reason why GOP has been reluctant to act.)
4. Some sort of amnesty is probably necessary. We don't have the manpower to boot out those already here, and many of them have established family ties.
5. Try to bring peace to Central and South American countries rocked by violence and drug wars.
6. Treat people and countries with respect. Insults and harsh treatment of children only make the problem worse.
7. Have a more flexible temporary migrant worker system.
Hey Cherrypick Bob,
Right on cue, your "fireworks" buddy is making news with mail to about 4 Dems and to Orangeman's favorite news org.
microplastics grow up to be room-sized Barney action figures.
Yip, the Drama-Knob is cranked to "11" on that guy. Mitch's take-out carton was violently attacked. Commie Animals!
I was going to list conservative-based attacks and threats as a counter, but it won't likely do any good: he's stuck in a mode.
McCarthy's claim was that the listed individuals wanted to overthrow the USA gov't (or hung out with those who did), not merely vote for left-leaning policies.
That's the goal of pretty much all workers, isn't it? What individual wants to work more for less money?
Big databases usually require careful tuning to handle big loads. Could it be the new incarnation has yet to undergo such tuning? The new incarnation may also have a different trade-off profile such that the porting process moved operations mostly as-is instead of rebalance the trade-offs to fit the new host. Much of the Oracle DB tuning may be direct production experience, something the new incarnation won't have by definition.
For a car analogy, suppose you are used to hauling big loads up the mountain in a Ford pickup truck. You switch to a Chevy truck and find your productivity drops. At first you blame the Chevy.
After weeks of experience you find the Chevy less powerful at directly going over boulders; however, it's more maneuverable than the Ford such that you just learn to swerve around boulders instead of try to go over them. Once you get used to the Chevy, the haul time is roughly the same.
BOTH parties do in practice. GOP only gives curbing undocumented workers lip-service. Biz bribes GOP to not do anything because they want cheap labor. (Bribery is via campaign donations.) And Democrats tried to hire more border guards roughly 4 years ago and were blocked by GOP, citing debt concerns. (Now GOP doesn't seem to care about debt.)
As far as the "violence", you are cherry-picking incidents and individuals. I can do the same with conservatives.
I'm more of a visual memorizor than a finger-movement memorizer. Some people are the reverse.
So Amazon is chipping in.
Are you saying it took MS 11 years to get the ribbon right? The fact they didn't get it right first before releasing it tells you something:
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