I let all my friends whitewash the fence for a fee, and most of them paid with apple cores, apart from dead cat in a string, a blue bottle glass to look through and a kite in good repair. I have more than 48 cores and now this! Well, going to give the whole charade up and become a Pirate in the Spanish Main.
Tax Cuts are always a good solution to any problem. Especially Tax Cuts to Fat Cats and Big Businesses. But sure to call them successful Americans and Small Businesses.
Well, I'm guessing it isn't on a direct course for Earth,.
Duh! It is not on a direct course to Earth. It is on the galactic superhighway that happens to pass through the Solar System. The planned highway notification has been filed long ago in Alpha Centauri. You would have know if had cared enough to look.
The baby is so small, they are able to keep it alive technically. But it is likely to have a malformed or underdeveloped brain and deficient organ development. If it survives to be a vegetable some shyster will convince the parents to sue the maker of the plastic bag.
I take it back, there's no way you're Roger, his writing is several orders of magnitude better than yours. Moral of the story: everybody subscribe to Harper's, srsly 1 year for ~$17.
I am not Roger D Hodge, as you correctly surmised. I don't know who he is, nor have I read his column in Harpers'.
But I wrote my posting in one shot without even reading it for typos and grammar mistakes. And the posting is not really bad. For a guy whose mother tongue is not English, my English writing is decent, even when compared to Mr Hodge.
Do you always throw in an insulting parting shot? Or do you do it only when you are speaking through the keyboard?
According to Indian Tax laws, if a marginal rise in income results in a marginal tax increase greater than the rise in income, the tax payer could simply pay the extra income itself as the tax. In other words the marginal tax rate is capped at 100%. They need a clause like that because the tax code there is awfully complicated. Don't even get me started on the Hindu Undivided Family tax code. (Information quite old, have not been keeping up with it after becoming an American).
Your mistake is thinking Republicans want to solve the problems. No. All they want is to be in charge to practice their crony capitalism and religious extremism.
Following the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court, the corporations are people too with full and unmitigated free speech rights. It also ruled spending is speech. There are no disclosure laws, and next year they will make sure they will create corporations for the exclusive purpose of donating money to election campaigns. Thus you will never know who is funding what campaign, which journalists are on the pay roll of whom, which professors are writing academic papers funded by "research" dollars from those with vested interests. So it is just a blip. Next year when strange ballot initiatives come from nowhere and get enormous media play and succeed you will never know what hit you.
BTW, if corporations are people too, then isn't stock market really buying and selling people? So owning stock of a corporation makes you a slave owner?
What happens when an attacker has both factors in a two-factor situation is that security is breached. The same applies for any number of factors.
The objective is to improve security, nothing can guarantee it. No "answer" is needed.
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Most (grown) people are unfamiliar with passwords and all its implications. They re use passwords, they never change their passwords and they make us extremely simple passwords. But most people are aware of the value of the cell phone and they will notice it if they lose it. So to that extent it will help. Of course the validation code from Google should not identify the google account in the text message. Else, anyone who finds your lost cell phone could potentially hijack your account.
All it took was a blank CD that pretended to be Lady Gaga music to allow a traitor to leak 80000 classified docs to WikiLeaks.
Inside jobs, carelessness, apathy, weak passwords etc account for most of the data loss. Packet snooping on https connections is not the main source of security breaches.
There was this good time when all you needed was a good sextant, the Table of Logarithms by John Napier, and a chronometer and you can tell you latitude and longitude without any fancy nancy satellites, once a day on the local noon. Heck, they had to put glass windows on Gemini space capsules and Apollo crew modules so that they can take star shots. All that aggravation in maintaining integrity and sealing around the windows, and protecting it through re-entry... All so that these spacemen could take star shots with their sextant. . If it is good enough for inter-planetary travel it should be good to take you to the nearest Walmart right?
The Super Constellation aircraft used by all our Chiefs of Staff, since Gen Douglas MacArthur III had special window on the roof to let the navigator take star shots and sun shots
Now with this new fangled GPS, this valuable skill is completely lost. Now people need a stupid voice in Brit accent speaking from a plastic box to get them from Kalamazoo MI to Tuscaloosa Alabama.
If I didn't want my job, I'd say screw it and move on to another job or start my own company, both of which, barring the government fucking those up, would be very easy to do. But instead the government steals from my paycheck, consistently cheapens my degree and high school diploma, debases our currencies, tramples over civil rights, weakens constitutional power, and destroys basic economic rights.
You would not last two seconds in your own utopia. There are parts of the world where what you preach is being practiced today. Somalia, for instance, has absolutely no government and you can do anything you want.
Oh, wait, you want government to protect you from force and to enforce contracts, right. And the government you postulate is so small it would be as weak as the Government of Somalia.
In theory trusts will be broken. In practice it takes centuries for it to happen. It takes a minimum of 1000 years for such monopolies of force to be broken. European feudal system lasted 1000 years (400 CE to 1400 CE). Indian caste system about 4000 years and shows early signs of break up. Chinese mandarins, have been ruling them for 5000 years and it shows no sign of weakening.
Once you make the Government that small, will it be able to really protect people from force and fraud? There was a time our Government was that small. We lived to to ripe old age of 45 under that system.
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Please reformulate your analogy in automobile terms.
You freely admit, under no duress, that you watch Star Trek. That is the nadir, bottom, minima. You can't be shamed any more. You don't need embarrassing folder.
Almost all the ivies are going downhill. If you look at their published statistics about SAT scores of the admitted students, the mid-half range is 1580-1370. That is 25% had scores better than 1580, 75% had better than 1370 and 25% had scores worse than 1370. You could say the SAT scores do not test the students very well. And I will agree with you. SAT is a very low bar to clear. I have looked at the IIT entrance examn questions and that of GRE, SAT and GMAT. I would place the Indian Institute of Technology entrance examn at about 10 times more difficult than SAT or GRE. If one-quarter of Harvard student body is made up of people who have scored 690+670 or less, it shows it is not taking in the best students. Their admission process emphasizes "leadership" so much, that it is churning out people who are the "take-charge" personalities, who might not really be capable of doing well once they have taken charge. No wonder these guys invented CDS and CDOs and other derivatives that they themselves could not understand.
As long as the top journalists, captains of the industry and the top bureaucrats are all coming from the same pool, you would not see the rot brought about their group think.
I'd heard the educational system in India emphasized math. To what degree I guess I don't know. I was under the understanding that it was the primary emphasis of the educational system in India.
They stress arithmatic in the lower elementary school a lot. Rote memorization of multiplication-tables and very fast arithmatic work is emphasized. I can still rattle off my multiplication table upto 16 times 16. I also memorized fractional multiplication tables. one "arai" times three "kaal" is three "araikaal" and such things. The Indian languages have named fractions for 0.5 (arai), 0.25(kaal), 0.125 (araikaal) and 0.0625 (maakaani). English has names only for 0.5 and 0.25. These were tough. But my aritmatic peaked in my entrance examn years. I knew by heart the logarithms of 2, 3, pi, and square roots of 2, 3 and 5!
But when it comes to higher mathematics like Algebra and Trignometry Indian system is not much better than American system. The American system places less emphasis on arithmatic and rote memorization and stresses understanding basic math concepts. By the time Calculus comes around, you will see the superiority of the American education system.
But vast majority of the students in both USA and India do not get do much higher mathematics. So the enormous investment America has done in emphasizing the math concepts is wasted and frittered away. Indians appear to be so much stronger in math. But remember Arithmatic is just one subset of Mathematics. In fact it is a small subset of higher mathematics.
so let me get this straight. the indian government thinks it has a RIGHT to intercept all communication that it wants to (sans warrant, mind you).
Buddy, Government of India thinks it has the RIGHT to take all the minerals from ground. There are no private mineral rights in India. If they discover oil or coal or manganese under your property, they will eminent domain you out of the property to dig a mine. That is a different country, with a completely different notions of property rights and privacy rights than what you are used to in the USA.
we finally have a good reason to NOT offshore; that CFO's can understand.
Why would the CFO care? Most CFOs in most companies stay on the job for a few years. So just make the "numbers" for three quarters, make bonus, open the golden parachute, (skip the couple of beers and the rant that is so blue collar) and slide away.
My daughter's Sunday school in the temple has about 180 kids almost all of them in the top 5-10% of their schools. Would be considered stunning statistic. By law of averages no more than 20 of them should be in the top 10% of their school. But if you randomly pick 180 kids of all ethnicities in America from families with two college educated parents, with a median family income of 55K, you would find they too are in the almost always in the top 5-10% of their school. This is known as sample bias.
Most Indians you have come across in USA are from top schools working for top companies, fought hard to get to the top. Most Indians with that are vocal on the net, again hail from affluent families and top schools. So you are mistakenly concluding all Indians are great in Math.
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I let all my friends whitewash the fence for a fee, and most of them paid with apple cores, apart from dead cat in a string, a blue bottle glass to look through and a kite in good repair. I have more than 48 cores and now this! Well, going to give the whole charade up and become a Pirate in the Spanish Main.
Tax Cuts are always a good solution to any problem. Especially Tax Cuts to Fat Cats and Big Businesses. But sure to call them successful Americans and Small Businesses.
Well, I'm guessing it isn't on a direct course for Earth, .
Duh! It is not on a direct course to Earth. It is on the galactic superhighway that happens to pass through the Solar System. The planned highway notification has been filed long ago in Alpha Centauri. You would have know if had cared enough to look.
The baby is so small, they are able to keep it alive technically. But it is likely to have a malformed or underdeveloped brain and deficient organ development. If it survives to be a vegetable some shyster will convince the parents to sue the maker of the plastic bag.
Really? After Office Open XML courtesy Microsoft, ditching Open Office (and Office Open) monickers seems to be a good idea.
May be I should bear some of the blame too, being ignorant of the stature of Mr Hodge. Thanks for the reply.
Is that you, Roger D. Hodge??
I take it back, there's no way you're Roger, his writing is several orders of magnitude better than yours. Moral of the story: everybody subscribe to Harper's, srsly 1 year for ~$17.
I am not Roger D Hodge, as you correctly surmised. I don't know who he is, nor have I read his column in Harpers'.
But I wrote my posting in one shot without even reading it for typos and grammar mistakes. And the posting is not really bad. For a guy whose mother tongue is not English, my English writing is decent, even when compared to Mr Hodge.
Do you always throw in an insulting parting shot? Or do you do it only when you are speaking through the keyboard?
According to Indian Tax laws, if a marginal rise in income results in a marginal tax increase greater than the rise in income, the tax payer could simply pay the extra income itself as the tax. In other words the marginal tax rate is capped at 100%. They need a clause like that because the tax code there is awfully complicated. Don't even get me started on the Hindu Undivided Family tax code. (Information quite old, have not been keeping up with it after becoming an American).
Your mistake is thinking Republicans want to solve the problems. No. All they want is to be in charge to practice their crony capitalism and religious extremism.
BTW, if corporations are people too, then isn't stock market really buying and selling people? So owning stock of a corporation makes you a slave owner?
What happens when an attacker has both factors in a two-factor situation is that security is breached. The same applies for any number of factors.
The objective is to improve security, nothing can guarantee it. No "answer" is needed.
(.....)
Most (grown) people are unfamiliar with passwords and all its implications. They re use passwords, they never change their passwords and they make us extremely simple passwords. But most people are aware of the value of the cell phone and they will notice it if they lose it. So to that extent it will help. Of course the validation code from Google should not identify the google account in the text message. Else, anyone who finds your lost cell phone could potentially hijack your account.
Inside jobs, carelessness, apathy, weak passwords etc account for most of the data loss. Packet snooping on https connections is not the main source of security breaches.
Surprised IEEE site is not able to handle the load.
The Super Constellation aircraft used by all our Chiefs of Staff, since Gen Douglas MacArthur III had special window on the roof to let the navigator take star shots and sun shots
Now with this new fangled GPS, this valuable skill is completely lost. Now people need a stupid voice in Brit accent speaking from a plastic box to get them from Kalamazoo MI to Tuscaloosa Alabama.
If I didn't want my job, I'd say screw it and move on to another job or start my own company, both of which, barring the government fucking those up, would be very easy to do. But instead the government steals from my paycheck, consistently cheapens my degree and high school diploma, debases our currencies, tramples over civil rights, weakens constitutional power, and destroys basic economic rights.
You would not last two seconds in your own utopia. There are parts of the world where what you preach is being practiced today. Somalia, for instance, has absolutely no government and you can do anything you want.
Oh, wait, you want government to protect you from force and to enforce contracts, right. And the government you postulate is so small it would be as weak as the Government of Somalia.
In theory trusts will be broken. In practice it takes centuries for it to happen. It takes a minimum of 1000 years for such monopolies of force to be broken. European feudal system lasted 1000 years (400 CE to 1400 CE). Indian caste system about 4000 years and shows early signs of break up. Chinese mandarins, have been ruling them for 5000 years and it shows no sign of weakening.
Once you make the Government that small, will it be able to really protect people from force and fraud? There was a time our Government was that small. We lived to to ripe old age of 45 under that system.
Please reformulate your analogy in automobile terms.
Imam Rauf is building mosques on 900 of these holes. Rev Bigot is burning Q`ran in 984 of these holes and Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the last one.
You freely admit, under no duress, that you watch Star Trek. That is the nadir, bottom, minima. You can't be shamed any more. You don't need embarrassing folder.
What? You can tell the difference between 320Kpbs encoding and 128Kbps encoding? Are you a dog by any chance?
As long as the top journalists, captains of the industry and the top bureaucrats are all coming from the same pool, you would not see the rot brought about their group think.
I'd heard the educational system in India emphasized math. To what degree I guess I don't know. I was under the understanding that it was the primary emphasis of the educational system in India.
They stress arithmatic in the lower elementary school a lot. Rote memorization of multiplication-tables and very fast arithmatic work is emphasized. I can still rattle off my multiplication table upto 16 times 16. I also memorized fractional multiplication tables. one "arai" times three "kaal" is three "araikaal" and such things. The Indian languages have named fractions for 0.5 (arai), 0.25(kaal), 0.125 (araikaal) and 0.0625 (maakaani). English has names only for 0.5 and 0.25. These were tough. But my aritmatic peaked in my entrance examn years. I knew by heart the logarithms of 2, 3, pi, and square roots of 2, 3 and 5!
But when it comes to higher mathematics like Algebra and Trignometry Indian system is not much better than American system. The American system places less emphasis on arithmatic and rote memorization and stresses understanding basic math concepts. By the time Calculus comes around, you will see the superiority of the American education system.
But vast majority of the students in both USA and India do not get do much higher mathematics. So the enormous investment America has done in emphasizing the math concepts is wasted and frittered away. Indians appear to be so much stronger in math. But remember Arithmatic is just one subset of Mathematics. In fact it is a small subset of higher mathematics.
so let me get this straight. the indian government thinks it has a RIGHT to intercept all communication that it wants to (sans warrant, mind you).
Buddy, Government of India thinks it has the RIGHT to take all the minerals from ground. There are no private mineral rights in India. If they discover oil or coal or manganese under your property, they will eminent domain you out of the property to dig a mine. That is a different country, with a completely different notions of property rights and privacy rights than what you are used to in the USA.
we finally have a good reason to NOT offshore; that CFO's can understand.
Why would the CFO care? Most CFOs in most companies stay on the job for a few years. So just make the "numbers" for three quarters, make bonus, open the golden parachute, (skip the couple of beers and the rant that is so blue collar) and slide away.
I know India is heavily into math.
My daughter's Sunday school in the temple has about 180 kids almost all of them in the top 5-10% of their schools. Would be considered stunning statistic. By law of averages no more than 20 of them should be in the top 10% of their school. But if you randomly pick 180 kids of all ethnicities in America from families with two college educated parents, with a median family income of 55K, you would find they too are in the almost always in the top 5-10% of their school. This is known as sample bias.
Most Indians you have come across in USA are from top schools working for top companies, fought hard to get to the top. Most Indians with that are vocal on the net, again hail from affluent families and top schools. So you are mistakenly concluding all Indians are great in Math.