When you speak in public, your name IS our business. You can stand behind your words or you can keep quiet. Choose.
Persons at risk are excepted: children, whistleblowers, dissidents, people discussing medical conditions. If you're not one of them, you have no legitimate reason to hide under your Klan bedsheet.
They sent out advance parties to place depots along the route, over 100 years ago. Totally obvious thing to do. I can't believe it has taken this long for Nasa to clue in.
Lowest bidder only maximizing profit for shareholder.
Incumbent official only maximizing donations to reelection campaigns.
I do not see much difference.
The head of the TSA is not elected and not of much use to anyone else who wants to get elected, since everybody hates him. He is also -- in principle, at least -- responsible to the public as a whole, not just his shareholders.
Shopping mall security guards have ZERO training. TSA employees have a little bit of training. Not enough to teach them that 100 ml is OK even though it's 3.2 oz, but some.
Rent-a-cops are really only watchers; they have another line of defense, real cops. TSA employees are the last line of defense.
The last thing I want is airport security handed over to the lowest bidder whose only obligation is to maximize profits for his shareholders. Some things are WAY too important to be left to the free market, and looking out for public safety is at the top of the list. TSA employees may be one step above rent-a-cops, but at least they ARE one step above rent-a-cops.
They work better than any other system, period. They don't have to irradiate you and they don't have to grope you. Admittedly Muslims and some other people consider them unclean, but they don't even have to touch what they're sniffing. The training takes time and money, it's true, but I have to wonder how many sniffer dogs could be trained for $14 billion...
Simple test for when a company is too big.
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Put a $10 bill, or the local equivalent, in an envelope on the company bulletin board. On the outside, write, "I need change for $10 please" without any indication of who you are. Do this every six months or so. If you ever come back and find that the envelope is empty, your company is too big. You have hired a thief who does not care about his or her fellow employees.
People don't sue because they have legal grounds. They sue because they think they can force the other side to spend so much money that they'll cave. Most lawsuits are settled in favor of whoever has deeper pockets. Being in the right isn't enough; you have to be in the right and rich. Otherwise it's better to keep your head down... sadly. If the US ever gets around to tort reform (yeah, right), this situation may change.
Some of us even like to give our adult political opinions.
If it's about computers, high technology, science, engineering or about the people who work with any of the foregoing, it's news for nerds. Get used to it.
He's intelligently using his strengths where they will most benefit his purpose. Compare with other celebrities who have huge egos and are media whores, e.g. Paris Hilton. How many of them use those qualities as a way of drawing attention to lies and duplicity at the highest levels of the US government? No, instead they use them to make money.
If you're not a media whore, you're a pretty stupid and useless kind of activist. Assange is doing something interesting and worthwhile with his whoredom.
It's actually rather clever of him to serve as a lightning rod for Wikileaks, while the actual work continues to go on. Right-wing congressmen can call for his assassination all they like; even if it were to happen it would not affect the publication of the leaks. In fact, it would almost certainly trigger the mass publication of the unredacted material.
"The personal strengths and weaknesses of a leader are no true indicator of the merits of his cause."
I'm an atheist (= "without religion," not "anti-religion") and you're more than welcome to baptize me when I'm dead. In fact, I'd prefer that to having your missionaries knocking on my door.
I'm also quite happy for the Navajos to make sand paintings for me when I'm dead, and for fire departments to erect crossed ladders.
"LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They're looking for whatever
New particles they can find."
The teacher's two greatest tools are charisma and attention. Charisma compels attention from the students. Attention TO the students reinforced and rewards it.
Get students fired up and they will teach themselves and each other.
Neither charisma nor attention are visible as features of the classroom. They're features of the teacher.
In other words, tax the rich, and the workers go jobless.
No... it's a little satire on 19th century society. It says nothing whatsoever about taxes. What is says is that it is incumbent upon the wealthy to employ the less wealthy rather than doing things for themselves: it is their public duty to have servants, in other words. It was called noblesse oblige -- the obligations of nobility.
That could actually work and be safe and reasonably comfortable. We already use something like this in high-G rollercoasters in amusements parks, right?
Um... yeah. For about 45 seconds at a time. Me, I'm not prepared to stand up for the two hours it takes to get from London to Berlin. Especially not while holding a kid in my arms the whole time.
He gets free publicity from the newspapers by announcing these outrageous ideas. None of them ever come to pass, but the column inches he gets could cost millions if he had to pay for them.
This jerk gets publicity for his cheap-ass airline by making outrageous threats, most of which are unlawful in any case. Not long ago it was pay toilets in the plane. Then it was standing room only, no seats, with harnesses to hold you in place. It's just a way of getting print space in newspapers that emphasizes how low his fares are.
He is, in short, a troll. Buy some advertising and STFU.
Yell loudly to all and sundry that the servers are in location X which is super-protected blah blah. Then really put them someplace innocuous and random.
Why does cargo need to get halfway around the world in 15 hours? Very little cargo actually needs to move that fast, except perishable food (which we really shouldn't be transporting that far -- grow locally or do without), and organs for donation. Ships take weeks. Some of them are so big they can't pass through the Panama Canal and have to go around the Horn like in the old days.
Seriously, planes use vast amounts of fuel to generate lift that helium gives you for free. Blimps are a good compromise between wildly excessive airplanes and ships.
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Remind me again where the Constitution guarantees a right to privacy. :-)
When you speak in public, your name IS our business. You can stand behind your words or you can keep quiet. Choose.
Persons at risk are excepted: children, whistleblowers, dissidents, people discussing medical conditions. If you're not one of them, you have no legitimate reason to hide under your Klan bedsheet.
They sent out advance parties to place depots along the route, over 100 years ago. Totally obvious thing to do. I can't believe it has taken this long for Nasa to clue in.
Lowest bidder only maximizing profit for shareholder.
Incumbent official only maximizing donations to reelection campaigns.
I do not see much difference.
The head of the TSA is not elected and not of much use to anyone else who wants to get elected, since everybody hates him. He is also -- in principle, at least -- responsible to the public as a whole, not just his shareholders.
Shopping mall security guards have ZERO training. TSA employees have a little bit of training. Not enough to teach them that 100 ml is OK even though it's 3.2 oz, but some. Rent-a-cops are really only watchers; they have another line of defense, real cops. TSA employees are the last line of defense.
The last thing I want is airport security handed over to the lowest bidder whose only obligation is to maximize profits for his shareholders. Some things are WAY too important to be left to the free market, and looking out for public safety is at the top of the list. TSA employees may be one step above rent-a-cops, but at least they ARE one step above rent-a-cops.
They work better than any other system, period. They don't have to irradiate you and they don't have to grope you. Admittedly Muslims and some other people consider them unclean, but they don't even have to touch what they're sniffing. The training takes time and money, it's true, but I have to wonder how many sniffer dogs could be trained for $14 billion...
Put a $10 bill, or the local equivalent, in an envelope on the company bulletin board. On the outside, write, "I need change for $10 please" without any indication of who you are. Do this every six months or so. If you ever come back and find that the envelope is empty, your company is too big. You have hired a thief who does not care about his or her fellow employees.
People don't sue because they have legal grounds. They sue because they think they can force the other side to spend so much money that they'll cave. Most lawsuits are settled in favor of whoever has deeper pockets. Being in the right isn't enough; you have to be in the right and rich. Otherwise it's better to keep your head down... sadly. If the US ever gets around to tort reform (yeah, right), this situation may change.
Some of us even like to give our adult political opinions. If it's about computers, high technology, science, engineering or about the people who work with any of the foregoing, it's news for nerds. Get used to it.
He's intelligently using his strengths where they will most benefit his purpose. Compare with other celebrities who have huge egos and are media whores, e.g. Paris Hilton. How many of them use those qualities as a way of drawing attention to lies and duplicity at the highest levels of the US government? No, instead they use them to make money.
If you're not a media whore, you're a pretty stupid and useless kind of activist. Assange is doing something interesting and worthwhile with his whoredom.
It's actually rather clever of him to serve as a lightning rod for Wikileaks, while the actual work continues to go on. Right-wing congressmen can call for his assassination all they like; even if it were to happen it would not affect the publication of the leaks. In fact, it would almost certainly trigger the mass publication of the unredacted material. "The personal strengths and weaknesses of a leader are no true indicator of the merits of his cause."
I'm an atheist (= "without religion," not "anti-religion") and you're more than welcome to baptize me when I'm dead. In fact, I'd prefer that to having your missionaries knocking on my door. I'm also quite happy for the Navajos to make sand paintings for me when I'm dead, and for fire departments to erect crossed ladders.
"LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They're looking for whatever
New particles they can find."
Seriously... why would you hack up a mechanical typewriter when a mechanical teleprinter already exists? Unless you want lower case, that is. :)
The teacher's two greatest tools are charisma and attention. Charisma compels attention from the students. Attention TO the students reinforced and rewards it.
Get students fired up and they will teach themselves and each other.
Neither charisma nor attention are visible as features of the classroom. They're features of the teacher.
In other words, tax the rich, and the workers go jobless.
No... it's a little satire on 19th century society. It says nothing whatsoever about taxes. What is says is that it is incumbent upon the wealthy to employ the less wealthy rather than doing things for themselves: it is their public duty to have servants, in other words. It was called noblesse oblige -- the obligations of nobility.
Napoleon asked Laplace why his book on celestial mechanics contained no reference to God. La Place replied, "Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis."
I can stand for two hours easily, and I don't have any kids. What's your point? That Harness Airlines wouldn't be ideal for everyone?
Yeah, that would be my point. You can't have an airline that discriminates against children and the handicapped. That would make you an asshole.
That could actually work and be safe and reasonably comfortable. We already use something like this in high-G rollercoasters in amusements parks, right?
Um... yeah. For about 45 seconds at a time. Me, I'm not prepared to stand up for the two hours it takes to get from London to Berlin. Especially not while holding a kid in my arms the whole time.
He gets free publicity from the newspapers by announcing these outrageous ideas. None of them ever come to pass, but the column inches he gets could cost millions if he had to pay for them.
This jerk gets publicity for his cheap-ass airline by making outrageous threats, most of which are unlawful in any case. Not long ago it was pay toilets in the plane. Then it was standing room only, no seats, with harnesses to hold you in place. It's just a way of getting print space in newspapers that emphasizes how low his fares are.
He is, in short, a troll. Buy some advertising and STFU.
Yell loudly to all and sundry that the servers are in location X which is super-protected blah blah. Then really put them someplace innocuous and random.
It worked for Servalan.
Why does cargo need to get halfway around the world in 15 hours? Very little cargo actually needs to move that fast, except perishable food (which we really shouldn't be transporting that far -- grow locally or do without), and organs for donation. Ships take weeks. Some of them are so big they can't pass through the Panama Canal and have to go around the Horn like in the old days.
Seriously, planes use vast amounts of fuel to generate lift that helium gives you for free. Blimps are a good compromise between wildly excessive airplanes and ships.