Why make fun of the acronym? The name itself sucks even more. Is it Lee-bray Office or Lee-burr Office? One is the sound a donkey makes, the other is what gets stuck in your socks when you walk through a bunch of weeds . At least when I told people to try Open Office I didn't have to apologize for the name.
I do have to wonder though, given this report is from San Francisco and the type of people drawn to OWS, why hasn't anyone thought to set up a windmill or some sort of solar array (about 4-5 m^2 @ 0.15 capacity factor should generate as much power as people taking turns cycling 24/7). PV solar sucks in comparison to other electricity sources, but it's forte is off-the-grid applications like this.
Because the cops come through and confiscate everything and throw it in the trash, so using expensive stuff is risky. The other day the police took a bunch of stuff from the OccupySF group and threw it in the garbage. The sanitation folks returned it to the protestors saying "we're in the 99% too."
I would have thought that Starbucks (the largest coffee chain in the USA and possibly the entire world) would have been a target since WiFi has been a huge part of their business lately.
Or McDonalds (the largest fast food joint on the planet with over 11,500 WiFi locations in the US alone)
No, both of those companies have the resources to fight back. Bullies don't pick on the tough kids, just on the wimps.
Yup, read it. I was right, that was definitely not a declaration of war against Yemen.
Additionally the Authorization for Use of Military Force, September 18, 2001 authorizes use of military force against the perps of the 9/11 attacks. This particular scumbag is not accused of having anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. Finally act of Congress or not, dropping bombs on countries that we are not at war with is a violation of international laws and agreements which the US is a party to. Before you object about international law being unimportant, remember that our constitution enshrines treaties as the law of the land. So while I'm not shedding any tears for this thug, I am shedding tears for my country which has become a purveyor of international terrorism, kidnappings, assassinations, and torture.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't a Scarface poster somewhere in the campus cop office area. For some reason I can't grasp Al Pacino saying "Say hello to my leeetle friend" is an obsession with law enforcement types.
Everyone go to the local retailer and buy an EA game. Open it (don't be gentle with the packaging) begin to install it. When the EULA comes up stop the process return the store and tell them that the EULA is unacceptable and you want your money back. If they don't take it back the the EULA is not a valid contract, if they have to take back hundreds or thousands of partly used games then it'll cost them a fortune.
Can someone explain to me why they are doing this? I completely fail to understand. I'm totally left behind. I don't even know what version I run but I hate how basics like the reload button disappear or get hidden with every new version. Each new version takes me longer to get it set up to something usable. If I could have nosript with another browser I change. I don't think that I have any ability to reign in the insanity of mozzilla, I'd just like to know why they are turning a great bit of software into a giant pile of suck. These release cycles have to be lots of work so WHY?? What is the justification? There must be some advantage for someone somewhere, I just can't spot it.
This atlas is published by a limb of the Rupert Murdoch media empire. I have trouble believing that they put all this effort into making a great atlas and only looked at a single satellite image of Greenland. This is a perfect hit piece. "Scientists Exaggerate Extent of Greenland Ice Loss, film at 11." Then the respectable scientists all chiming in saying that the Atlas is wrong, and the deniers get to say "you alarmists can't even agree among yourselves!" and the fox news blowhards can rant about "another global warming exaggeration." The propaganda value of this is amazing. They're gonna get more mileage out of this than they did with the
Al Gore claimed to invent internet meme.
Once the wealth accumulates to the top only, how will the economy survive without spending by the middle and lower classes? Won't a lot of business just shutdown because people don't have money to spend?
You ask the question like this is something that might happen in the future. But really you have described exactly what has been going on for 30 years and exactly the results that we are suffering from today.
So now Joe Average understandably thinks this whole global warming thing looks mighty fishy and doesn't like the implications. He goes online to do a little research and has a few choices where to get his info from (assuming he didn't unintentionally use a biased search string like "global warming scam"): he can go to these sciencey websites using gigantic words, or he can go to these little blogs that say CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SCAM and are reinforcing all his worst suspicions. He spends the night reading through these blogs, and it all makes sense!
That's right as far as it goes, but there is more to it than that. You see Joe Average isn't stupid, granted he isn't a scientist but he is definitely not stupid. He has probably come to the conclusion that the mass media and the government are liars. He would be right in believing this. He could have come to this conclusion through any number of different paths since the mass media and the government lie all of the time. Hell there are lots of examples of "scientists" who are well known to lie to us on a regular basis. Scientists who worked for the tobacco industry, or the asbestos industry are well established and proven liars. So when that same mass media reports that scientists and various parts of the government, and that guy who thinks he invented the internet are predicting the end of the world if we keep driving our F3500 trucks, what basis does Mr. Average have for making his own judgement?
It is made even worse by the fact that huge tracts of our society are trained from near infancy that there is a sky guy who created the universe in 7 days, and sacrificed his only son to save us all. They are taught that geologists, biologists, physicists are wrong because they contradict the WORD OF GOD. They are further taught that the ability to believe things that don't make sense or that fly in the face of evidence is a virtue called "faith." The techniques that are used to teach these methods have been developed and honed over the course of millennia. The result is a highly sophisticated practice of brainwashing that when applied to young children consistently through their youth has been shown to cause lifetime belief in things that don't make sense.
How many computer or electronic device makers have Chinese plants producing their circuit boards for them? Last I checked, Apple was only one of MANY. Yet this article makes it sound like Apple, alone, is at fault here for not making good on their claim that they're committed to driving the highest standards of social responsibility throughout their supply base.
That may be the case but you have to remember that Apple is one of the two largest corporations in the US (or was it the world?), they are extremely profitable, and they claim that they care about social responsibility in their supply chain. So this is not just any tech company we are talking about. They could afford to do it right, but have CHOSEN this path. They are not ignorant of the negative consequences of their business, these consequences are planned into the process. Why do they manufacture in China? Because labor is cheaper and regulations are looser. Why is labor cheap in China? It is due to very lax labor laws, lower standard of living, and a huge surplus of available labor. Apple exploits these conditions for the sake of profitability.
I think it is utterly absurd to believe that Apple gives a rats ass about social responsibility in their supply base. That's just marketing hype, the truth is clear in their actions.
I hope they are talking about receiving antennas. I'm pretty sure I don't want a emf generating jockey shorts. But maybe one sewn onto a backpack wouldn't be so bad. Better than carrying a cell phone in my pocket.
If you film somebody being beaten, then wait until after the trial and the cop(s) has/have testified. THEN release it ANONYMOUSLY to the press.
It doesn't work that way. These sorts of crimes don't go to trial unless incontrovertible proof like a video recording is splashed all over the evening news.
RTFA (Read the F'ing Abstract) skip the F'ing article.
The article was written by James M. Taylor. At the bottom of the article it says, "James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News."
From wikipedia:
The Heartland Institute is a libertarian[2][3][4] American public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies. The Institute is designated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit by the Internal Revenue Service and advised by a 15 member board of directors, which meets quarterly. As of 2008, it has a full-time staff of 30, including editors and senior fellows.[2] The Institute was founded in 1984 and conducts research and advocacy work on issues including government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, information technology and free-market environmentalism.
The author of the article also writes for Environment and Climate News (which is part of the aforementioned Heartland Institute.) The E&CN also contains articles such as "Low Level Radiation Is Good For Human Health" and "God Wants You to Fight Global Warming "
Now the actual study in question is much less stark about it's conclusions.
Abstract: The sensitivity of the climate system to an imposed radiative imbalance remains
the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future anthropogenic climate change.
Here we present further evidence that this uncertainty from an observational perspective is
largely due to the masking of the radiative feedback signal by internal radiative forcing,
probably due to natural cloud variations. That these internal radiative forcings exist and
likely corrupt feedback diagnosis is demonstrated with lag regression analysis of satellite
and coupled climate model data, interpreted with a simple forcing-feedback model. While
the satellite-based metrics for the period 2000–2010 depart substantially in the direction of
lower climate sensitivity from those similarly computed from coupled climate models, we
find that, with traditional methods, it is not possible to accurately quantify this discrepancy
in terms of the feedbacks which determine climate sensitivity. It is concluded that
atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem, due
primarily to the inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in
satellite radiative budget observations.
I see the current crop of Republican Tea Party Types as being very much like a cartoon super villain. For example right now they are holding our future and economy hostage and seem perfectly willing to screw us all if they don't get 110% of what they want and 0% of what they don't want. Their priorities are preventing reasonable taxes being re-instituted for the rich and corporations. Now it looks like they are trying to arrange a situation where we have a debt limit crisis every 6 months so they can hold us all hostage over and over. It's like Lex Luthor controls congress and the supreme court.
Terms of Service, section 11 "Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers" number 13 "We may reject or remove any ad for any reason."
then section 14 "Termination" number 1 "If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you."
So the guy ran afoul of section 11 number 13 and was then terminated because he created "risk." Risk of loosing users. Lame.
Come on, it's not like we're talking about Project Child Rapist or Project NAMBLA here.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Something doesn't have to be supremely offensive for it to be unacceptable. Both words refer to a type of non-consensual and exploitative pornography that is often criminal to make. Just a few weeks ago a fellow was arrested at a local farmers market with a camera on his shoe, and he had been taking upskirt photos of unsuspecting women. He was rightfully charged with a felony. If this project was part of a place of employment then the name would be a slam dunk for a discrimination case and it clearly would clearly be "hostile environment" especially after the complaint and another slightly less offensive name was chosen.
I'm not sure why you think any alternative is worse. It seems to me that the person who named the projects should grow up and rename the project when a contributing member says, "hey this is offensive to me." If he refuses it also seems that subjecting the jerk to public ridicule for being a sexist ass is also a perfectly good alternative just allowing the offense to continue. I also think that a discussion of sexism in geek culture is a worthwhile pursuit.
So one barely risque project name is indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks?
I would say that calling this sort of porn "barely risque" would be evidence of of at least some anti-social jerk tendencies, but then you didn't do that you called the names of this sort of porn "barely risque" and I would agree with your assessment. But "barely risque" can still be offensive.
I have not heard of any wiretapping abuses by the FBI recently.
The only possible reason you haven't heard of wiretapping abuses recently would be because you have your fingers jammed in your ears and you are yelling "I'M NOT LISTENING! I'M NOT LISTENING!" There is ample documentation and there was substantial news coverage of abuses. In 2007 congress authorized an investigation into abuses and the numbers were shocking.
"Fine's review, authorized by Congress over Bush administration
objections, concluded the number of national security letters
requested by the FBI skyrocketed after the Patriot Act became
law. Each letter may contain several requests.
"In 2000, the FBI issued an estimated 8,500 requests. That number
peaked in 2004 with 56,000. Overall, the FBI reported issuing 143,074
requests in national security letters between 2003 and 2005. In 2005,
53 percent were for records of U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
"In a sampling of 77 case files in four FBI field offices, Fine
discovered an additional 8,850 requests that were never recorded in
the FBI's database, and he estimated there were many more nationwide.
"The 48 possible violations Fine uncovered included failing to get
proper authorization, making improper requests under the law and
unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail records."
Slashdots Javascript is just shit, its layout is just shit, and in general its just shit - there are so many shitty bugs in the code that have been complained about for ages and yet the team constantly roll out new candy rather than fix fairly major bugs.
AGREED! I can't remember the last time the "Working..." progress spinner at the bottom actually stopped.
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Why make fun of the acronym? The name itself sucks even more. Is it Lee-bray Office or Lee-burr Office? One is the sound a donkey makes, the other is what gets stuck in your socks when you walk through a bunch of weeds . At least when I told people to try Open Office I didn't have to apologize for the name.
I do have to wonder though, given this report is from San Francisco and the type of people drawn to OWS, why hasn't anyone thought to set up a windmill or some sort of solar array (about 4-5 m^2 @ 0.15 capacity factor should generate as much power as people taking turns cycling 24/7). PV solar sucks in comparison to other electricity sources, but it's forte is off-the-grid applications like this.
Because the cops come through and confiscate everything and throw it in the trash, so using expensive stuff is risky. The other day the police took a bunch of stuff from the OccupySF group and threw it in the garbage. The sanitation folks returned it to the protestors saying "we're in the 99% too."
They should send Putin. Putin could catch a yeti with his shirt off.
why would we care if the yeti is wearing a shirt?
I would have thought that Starbucks (the largest coffee chain in the USA and possibly the entire world) would have been a target since WiFi has been a huge part of their business lately.
Or McDonalds (the largest fast food joint on the planet with over 11,500 WiFi locations in the US alone)
No, both of those companies have the resources to fight back. Bullies don't pick on the tough kids, just on the wimps.
Yup, read it. I was right, that was definitely not a declaration of war against Yemen.
Additionally the Authorization for Use of Military Force, September 18, 2001 authorizes use of military force against the perps of the 9/11 attacks. This particular scumbag is not accused of having anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. Finally act of Congress or not, dropping bombs on countries that we are not at war with is a violation of international laws and agreements which the US is a party to. Before you object about international law being unimportant, remember that our constitution enshrines treaties as the law of the land. So while I'm not shedding any tears for this thug, I am shedding tears for my country which has become a purveyor of international terrorism, kidnappings, assassinations, and torture.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't a Scarface poster somewhere in the campus cop office area. For some reason I can't grasp Al Pacino saying "Say hello to my leeetle friend" is an obsession with law enforcement types.
except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger
I highlighted the relevant part.
OMG!! No one told me! When did we declare war on Yemen?!?
Everyone go to the local retailer and buy an EA game. Open it (don't be gentle with the packaging) begin to install it. When the EULA comes up stop the process return the store and tell them that the EULA is unacceptable and you want your money back. If they don't take it back the the EULA is not a valid contract, if they have to take back hundreds or thousands of partly used games then it'll cost them a fortune.
Can someone explain to me why they are doing this? I completely fail to understand. I'm totally left behind. I don't even know what version I run but I hate how basics like the reload button disappear or get hidden with every new version. Each new version takes me longer to get it set up to something usable. If I could have nosript with another browser I change. I don't think that I have any ability to reign in the insanity of mozzilla, I'd just like to know why they are turning a great bit of software into a giant pile of suck. These release cycles have to be lots of work so WHY?? What is the justification? There must be some advantage for someone somewhere, I just can't spot it.
This atlas is published by a limb of the Rupert Murdoch media empire. I have trouble believing that they put all this effort into making a great atlas and only looked at a single satellite image of Greenland. This is a perfect hit piece. "Scientists Exaggerate Extent of Greenland Ice Loss, film at 11." Then the respectable scientists all chiming in saying that the Atlas is wrong, and the deniers get to say "you alarmists can't even agree among yourselves!" and the fox news blowhards can rant about "another global warming exaggeration." The propaganda value of this is amazing. They're gonna get more mileage out of this than they did with the Al Gore claimed to invent internet meme.
Once the wealth accumulates to the top only, how will the economy survive without spending by the middle and lower classes? Won't a lot of business just shutdown because people don't have money to spend?
You ask the question like this is something that might happen in the future. But really you have described exactly what has been going on for 30 years and exactly the results that we are suffering from today.
So now Joe Average understandably thinks this whole global warming thing looks mighty fishy and doesn't like the implications. He goes online to do a little research and has a few choices where to get his info from (assuming he didn't unintentionally use a biased search string like "global warming scam"): he can go to these sciencey websites using gigantic words, or he can go to these little blogs that say CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SCAM and are reinforcing all his worst suspicions. He spends the night reading through these blogs, and it all makes sense!
That's right as far as it goes, but there is more to it than that. You see Joe Average isn't stupid, granted he isn't a scientist but he is definitely not stupid. He has probably come to the conclusion that the mass media and the government are liars. He would be right in believing this. He could have come to this conclusion through any number of different paths since the mass media and the government lie all of the time. Hell there are lots of examples of "scientists" who are well known to lie to us on a regular basis. Scientists who worked for the tobacco industry, or the asbestos industry are well established and proven liars. So when that same mass media reports that scientists and various parts of the government, and that guy who thinks he invented the internet are predicting the end of the world if we keep driving our F3500 trucks, what basis does Mr. Average have for making his own judgement?
It is made even worse by the fact that huge tracts of our society are trained from near infancy that there is a sky guy who created the universe in 7 days, and sacrificed his only son to save us all. They are taught that geologists, biologists, physicists are wrong because they contradict the WORD OF GOD. They are further taught that the ability to believe things that don't make sense or that fly in the face of evidence is a virtue called "faith." The techniques that are used to teach these methods have been developed and honed over the course of millennia. The result is a highly sophisticated practice of brainwashing that when applied to young children consistently through their youth has been shown to cause lifetime belief in things that don't make sense.
How many computer or electronic device makers have Chinese plants producing their circuit boards for them? Last I checked, Apple was only one of MANY. Yet this article makes it sound like Apple, alone, is at fault here for not making good on their claim that they're committed to driving the highest standards of social responsibility throughout their supply base.
That may be the case but you have to remember that Apple is one of the two largest corporations in the US (or was it the world?), they are extremely profitable, and they claim that they care about social responsibility in their supply chain. So this is not just any tech company we are talking about. They could afford to do it right, but have CHOSEN this path. They are not ignorant of the negative consequences of their business, these consequences are planned into the process. Why do they manufacture in China? Because labor is cheaper and regulations are looser. Why is labor cheap in China? It is due to very lax labor laws, lower standard of living, and a huge surplus of available labor. Apple exploits these conditions for the sake of profitability.
I think it is utterly absurd to believe that Apple gives a rats ass about social responsibility in their supply base. That's just marketing hype, the truth is clear in their actions.
I hope they are talking about receiving antennas. I'm pretty sure I don't want a emf generating jockey shorts. But maybe one sewn onto a backpack wouldn't be so bad. Better than carrying a cell phone in my pocket.
If you film somebody being beaten, then wait until after the trial and the cop(s) has/have testified. THEN release it ANONYMOUSLY to the press.
It doesn't work that way. These sorts of crimes don't go to trial unless incontrovertible proof like a video recording is splashed all over the evening news.
The article was written by James M. Taylor. At the bottom of the article it says, "James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News."
From wikipedia:
The Heartland Institute is a libertarian[2][3][4] American public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies. The Institute is designated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit by the Internal Revenue Service and advised by a 15 member board of directors, which meets quarterly. As of 2008, it has a full-time staff of 30, including editors and senior fellows.[2] The Institute was founded in 1984 and conducts research and advocacy work on issues including government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, information technology and free-market environmentalism.
The author of the article also writes for Environment and Climate News (which is part of the aforementioned Heartland Institute.) The E&CN also contains articles such as "Low Level Radiation Is Good For Human Health" and "God Wants You to Fight Global Warming "
Now the actual study in question is much less stark about it's conclusions.
Abstract: The sensitivity of the climate system to an imposed radiative imbalance remains the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future anthropogenic climate change. Here we present further evidence that this uncertainty from an observational perspective is largely due to the masking of the radiative feedback signal by internal radiative forcing, probably due to natural cloud variations. That these internal radiative forcings exist and likely corrupt feedback diagnosis is demonstrated with lag regression analysis of satellite and coupled climate model data, interpreted with a simple forcing-feedback model. While the satellite-based metrics for the period 2000–2010 depart substantially in the direction of lower climate sensitivity from those similarly computed from coupled climate models, we find that, with traditional methods, it is not possible to accurately quantify this discrepancy in terms of the feedbacks which determine climate sensitivity. It is concluded that atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem, due primarily to the inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in satellite radiative budget observations.
Rock bottom will be something like Wonder Twins VS Godzilla. "Form of a Mothra!" "Shape of a heavy water Tsunami!"
I see the current crop of Republican Tea Party Types as being very much like a cartoon super villain. For example right now they are holding our future and economy hostage and seem perfectly willing to screw us all if they don't get 110% of what they want and 0% of what they don't want. Their priorities are preventing reasonable taxes being re-instituted for the rich and corporations. Now it looks like they are trying to arrange a situation where we have a debt limit crisis every 6 months so they can hold us all hostage over and over. It's like Lex Luthor controls congress and the supreme court.
Terms of Service, section 11 "Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers" number 13 "We may reject or remove any ad for any reason."
then section 14 "Termination" number 1 "If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you."
So the guy ran afoul of section 11 number 13 and was then terminated because he created "risk." Risk of loosing users. Lame.
Come on, it's not like we're talking about Project Child Rapist or Project NAMBLA here.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Something doesn't have to be supremely offensive for it to be unacceptable. Both words refer to a type of non-consensual and exploitative pornography that is often criminal to make. Just a few weeks ago a fellow was arrested at a local farmers market with a camera on his shoe, and he had been taking upskirt photos of unsuspecting women. He was rightfully charged with a felony. If this project was part of a place of employment then the name would be a slam dunk for a discrimination case and it clearly would clearly be "hostile environment" especially after the complaint and another slightly less offensive name was chosen.
I'm not sure why you think any alternative is worse. It seems to me that the person who named the projects should grow up and rename the project when a contributing member says, "hey this is offensive to me." If he refuses it also seems that subjecting the jerk to public ridicule for being a sexist ass is also a perfectly good alternative just allowing the offense to continue. I also think that a discussion of sexism in geek culture is a worthwhile pursuit.
So one barely risque project name is indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks?
I would say that calling this sort of porn "barely risque" would be evidence of of at least some anti-social jerk tendencies, but then you didn't do that you called the names of this sort of porn "barely risque" and I would agree with your assessment. But "barely risque" can still be offensive.
Sounds like the Jellies have been reading about Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
If it can be rigged to run on power generated by walking, this is the core technology of a Stillsuit (see Dune).
Dump it in the reservoir in Portland!
I have not heard of any wiretapping abuses by the FBI recently.
The only possible reason you haven't heard of wiretapping abuses recently would be because you have your fingers jammed in your ears and you are yelling "I'M NOT LISTENING! I'M NOT LISTENING!" There is ample documentation and there was substantial news coverage of abuses. In 2007 congress authorized an investigation into abuses and the numbers were shocking.
"Fine's review, authorized by Congress over Bush administration objections, concluded the number of national security letters requested by the FBI skyrocketed after the Patriot Act became law. Each letter may contain several requests.
"In 2000, the FBI issued an estimated 8,500 requests. That number peaked in 2004 with 56,000. Overall, the FBI reported issuing 143,074 requests in national security letters between 2003 and 2005. In 2005, 53 percent were for records of U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
"In a sampling of 77 case files in four FBI field offices, Fine discovered an additional 8,850 requests that were never recorded in the FBI's database, and he estimated there were many more nationwide.
"The 48 possible violations Fine uncovered included failing to get proper authorization, making improper requests under the law and unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail records."
Slashdots Javascript is just shit, its layout is just shit, and in general its just shit - there are so many shitty bugs in the code that have been complained about for ages and yet the team constantly roll out new candy rather than fix fairly major bugs.
AGREED! I can't remember the last time the "Working..." progress spinner at the bottom actually stopped.