What's the big deal? Cambridge didn't do anything that the Obama campaigns (and most likely the Hillary campaign) did. And it's all a giant excuse factory for the fact that Hillary was a HORRIBLE candidate, and that Donald Trump (who was only slightly less horrible, but much less obviously so) won the election that she thought was in the bag.
Cambridge, Facebook, Russians, "Deplorables".... the chain of excuses is interminable. Next week, it'll be some OTHER excuse. Because it was HER TURN!!!!!
So 2700 hours is 1000 more than "other developed countries"? Let's see; a standard 40-hour workweek times 50 weeks a year is 2,000 hours (less, if you get more than 2 weeks vacation, and a lot of people do...) So either somebody can't do math, or a lot of other "developed" countries are working a lot less than we Americans do.
First, any aliens will be literally alien to us. We have no way to predict what some alien intelligence might look like. Predators? Aliens? Arisians? Would we taste good to them, or them to us? At present, all we have are our fears and imaginations.
I drink Diet Pepsi while driving. I eat fast food while driving. I talk on the phone (with my headset) while driving. I give computer tech support, talking people through troubleshooting steps while on the phone, while driving. I glance at my GPS while driving. Sometimes I listen to the radio and sing along. The only "distracted driving" accident I've been in was when the guy behind me didn't realize that I was stopping at a yellow light and slammed into me from behind.
I've been doing a lot of that stuff - eating, drinking, singing - for FIFTY YEARS. I got my first cell phone in 1990, and I've been talking on the phone since then. I don't have a problem with "distractions".
Want to talk about "distracted driving"? How about the woman who was putting on her false eyelashes at 35MPH while looking in the makeup mirror - while driving.
Blizzard recognizes the appeal of the original "Vanilla" version of World of Warcraft, and said back in November that the "Vanilla" version would be restored. So from that standpoint, a DMCA takedown is to be expected; the Vanilla fansite is directly competing against Blizzard's own new/old product.
All military personnel must enable the "Privacy" mode on all portable electronic devices when out of CONUS. Because those privacy modes are disabled by default.
All tied up in tax considerations. Company-paid "benefits" are tax-free; if you pay for those same services on your own, you're paying with after-tax dollars.
The "solution" is to cut taxes nationwide, and eliminate tax-advantaged health and retirement plans.
The idea of "benefits" being attached to your job is a holdover from the wage & price controls enacted during World War II. Unable to increase wages, factories offered non-cash benefits like health care to attract skilled workers, and later the courts ruled that these health benefits were not taxable income. In the most extreme example, a shipyard started a medical clinic to provide medical care for shipyard workers and their families. Now the shipyard is long gone, but the medical clinic has grown into its own hospital chain; Kaiser.
Abolish all that! Allow fraternal organizations to offer medical insurance. Let everybody pay for their own insurance, and pensions, and other "fringe benefits", and you eliminate the problem of "pre-existing conditions". A young adult would choose his/her own fraternal organization such as the Kiwanis or Knights of Columbus or Masons or Odd Fellows. You could go from employer to employer, and NEVER lose your health insurance.
I'm a big Heinlein fan, and "Starship Troopers" is a GREAT book.
The book is more philosophical than militaristic, the lead character was Juan Rico, a Filipino from Luzon. To cast Van Diem in the role simply proves that Verhoeven had never actually READ the book. In the book, all of the "Mobile Infantry" are men, but all of the starship pilots are women.
The movie of "Starship Troopers" was a horrible movie. No "Mobile INfantry", no drop capsules coming in from orbit, no philosophy, no morals. Just guts and core. There;s one scene in which the M.I. troopers on the ship are having a mass, co-ed, naked shower scene, This was, frankly, the ONLY redeeming value in the entire movie.
Curious that "ignoring borders" is exactly the issue at present, when the US Government has exhausted its spending authority. The Republicans think that borders mean something and that illegal aliens should go home, while the Democrats apparently feel that there are no borders to the United States that anybody is obliged to respect. Europe has been having similar problems over the last year or so.
No, no. Add a "None of the Above Candidates Is Acceptable" option. If "None of the Above" wins, then all the listed candidates are prohibited from every running for office again.
In fact, ANY candidate who gets fewer votes than "None of the Above" would be banned from running for any office ever again.
Computer voting is a time that will never come. Too insecure, too subject to tampering, and impossible to recount or validate. I want strictly paper ballots.
Want to computerize things? Scan the paper ballots and use OMR software to read them. The paper ballots remain the actual vote, and can be hand-counted or re-counted if required.
AND fingers dipped in ink to reduce double-voting and voter fraud.
Apple is "voluntarily" doing this because the only other option is the complete loss of Chinese access - and probably all Chinese assets including manufacturing and intellectual property. How long could Apple survive if the PLA starts selling "knockoff" Apple phones and computers that are built in previously-Apple-controlled factories by previously-Apple-controlled technicians? After nationalizing all the Foxconn facilities?
Tim Cook controls NOTHING that isn't in China's pocket.
All the big tech companies seem to be in a giant rush to knuckle under to totalitarian regimes, and I'm not sure who's worse at this point. Google, whose motto seems to be "Sure, Be Evil!" or Apple, who is about to turn over all the records for every Chinese Apple customer to the Chinese Government?
There's nothing new with ads appearing in navigation services; my Garmin Nuvi displays ads for customers along the route, and Waze displays ads at stop signs and in heavy traffic.
A couple of years ago, an Amazon Echo user had programmed all of his light switches to be voice-controlled. He regretted that about 2AM one night when he lost internet connectivity and all the lights turned on and the Echo devices started sounding an alarm tone. I don't have an Echo; I even refused one when Amazon offered me a free one for being a good customer. (When I refused the Echo, they offered the equivalent in Amazon credit, which I was delighted to accept.) So I can't really speak to whether that story was true, or somewhat exaggerated.
Regardless, I don't need to have every device in my house to be controllable from my smartphone.
I'll never need to worry about this, because I no longer fly and will never again leave the country. But what's preventing you from doing a cloud backup of your device at the hotel before heading hope, and then wiping your device while you're waiting to come through customs? Then tell the customs agent that there's NOTHING on the phone at all. And you wouldn't even be lying.
An excellent argument (as if we needed another) of why the "Internet of Things" is and was a terrible idea. Because even if the ISP never carries out such a threat, any network failure could just as easily cripple everybody's Echos and Nests. My computer and smartphones connect to the Internet; my fridge, stove, thermostat and other appliances don't need to.
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What's the big deal? Cambridge didn't do anything that the Obama campaigns (and most likely the Hillary campaign) did. And it's all a giant excuse factory for the fact that Hillary was a HORRIBLE candidate, and that Donald Trump (who was only slightly less horrible, but much less obviously so) won the election that she thought was in the bag.
Cambridge, Facebook, Russians, "Deplorables".... the chain of excuses is interminable. Next week, it'll be some OTHER excuse. Because it was HER TURN!!!!!
So 2700 hours is 1000 more than "other developed countries"? Let's see; a standard 40-hour workweek times 50 weeks a year is 2,000 hours (less, if you get more than 2 weeks vacation, and a lot of people do...) So either somebody can't do math, or a lot of other "developed" countries are working a lot less than we Americans do.
I'm confused. The sketch of the humans is an outline etched onto a gold foil, right? Where does anybody get "white" from that?
A Google AI could hardly do worse than a large number of Wikipedia entries.
First, any aliens will be literally alien to us. We have no way to predict what some alien intelligence might look like. Predators? Aliens? Arisians? Would we taste good to them, or them to us? At present, all we have are our fears and imaginations.
I drink Diet Pepsi while driving. I eat fast food while driving. I talk on the phone (with my headset) while driving. I give computer tech support, talking people through troubleshooting steps while on the phone, while driving. I glance at my GPS while driving. Sometimes I listen to the radio and sing along. The only "distracted driving" accident I've been in was when the guy behind me didn't realize that I was stopping at a yellow light and slammed into me from behind.
I've been doing a lot of that stuff - eating, drinking, singing - for FIFTY YEARS. I got my first cell phone in 1990, and I've been talking on the phone since then. I don't have a problem with "distractions".
Want to talk about "distracted driving"? How about the woman who was putting on her false eyelashes at 35MPH while looking in the makeup mirror - while driving.
Blizzard recognizes the appeal of the original "Vanilla" version of World of Warcraft, and said back in November that the "Vanilla" version would be restored. So from that standpoint, a DMCA takedown is to be expected; the Vanilla fansite is directly competing against Blizzard's own new/old product.
All military personnel must enable the "Privacy" mode on all portable electronic devices when out of CONUS. Because those privacy modes are disabled by default.
So choose an organization with values that ARE aligned with yours - or a true "fraternal" organization that exists only for this purpose.
All tied up in tax considerations. Company-paid "benefits" are tax-free; if you pay for those same services on your own, you're paying with after-tax dollars.
The "solution" is to cut taxes nationwide, and eliminate tax-advantaged health and retirement plans.
The idea of "benefits" being attached to your job is a holdover from the wage & price controls enacted during World War II. Unable to increase wages, factories offered non-cash benefits like health care to attract skilled workers, and later the courts ruled that these health benefits were not taxable income. In the most extreme example, a shipyard started a medical clinic to provide medical care for shipyard workers and their families. Now the shipyard is long gone, but the medical clinic has grown into its own hospital chain; Kaiser.
Abolish all that! Allow fraternal organizations to offer medical insurance. Let everybody pay for their own insurance, and pensions, and other "fringe benefits", and you eliminate the problem of "pre-existing conditions". A young adult would choose his/her own fraternal organization such as the Kiwanis or Knights of Columbus or Masons or Odd Fellows. You could go from employer to employer, and NEVER lose your health insurance.
As a Libertarian, I shouldn't like this bill ..... but I do.
Paul Verhoeven has a very shallow mind.
I'm a big Heinlein fan, and "Starship Troopers" is a GREAT book.
The book is more philosophical than militaristic, the lead character was Juan Rico, a Filipino from Luzon. To cast Van Diem in the role simply proves that Verhoeven had never actually READ the book. In the book, all of the "Mobile Infantry" are men, but all of the starship pilots are women.
The movie of "Starship Troopers" was a horrible movie. No "Mobile INfantry", no drop capsules coming in from orbit, no philosophy, no morals. Just guts and core. There;s one scene in which the M.I. troopers on the ship are having a mass, co-ed, naked shower scene, This was, frankly, the ONLY redeeming value in the entire movie.
Why is Slashdot publishing a bad science FICTION story?
Curious that "ignoring borders" is exactly the issue at present, when the US Government has exhausted its spending authority. The Republicans think that borders mean something and that illegal aliens should go home, while the Democrats apparently feel that there are no borders to the United States that anybody is obliged to respect. Europe has been having similar problems over the last year or so.
Yes, paper is ALWAYS the official vote. Electronic voting is too easily hackable, too insecure, too subject to fraud.
No, no. Add a "None of the Above Candidates Is Acceptable" option. If "None of the Above" wins, then all the listed candidates are prohibited from every running for office again.
In fact, ANY candidate who gets fewer votes than "None of the Above" would be banned from running for any office ever again.
Computer voting is a time that will never come. Too insecure, too subject to tampering, and impossible to recount or validate. I want strictly paper ballots.
Want to computerize things? Scan the paper ballots and use OMR software to read them. The paper ballots remain the actual vote, and can be hand-counted or re-counted if required.
AND fingers dipped in ink to reduce double-voting and voter fraud.
Apple is "voluntarily" doing this because the only other option is the complete loss of Chinese access - and probably all Chinese assets including manufacturing and intellectual property. How long could Apple survive if the PLA starts selling "knockoff" Apple phones and computers that are built in previously-Apple-controlled factories by previously-Apple-controlled technicians? After nationalizing all the Foxconn facilities?
Tim Cook controls NOTHING that isn't in China's pocket.
All the big tech companies seem to be in a giant rush to knuckle under to totalitarian regimes, and I'm not sure who's worse at this point. Google, whose motto seems to be "Sure, Be Evil!" or Apple, who is about to turn over all the records for every Chinese Apple customer to the Chinese Government?
There's nothing new with ads appearing in navigation services; my Garmin Nuvi displays ads for customers along the route, and Waze displays ads at stop signs and in heavy traffic.
A couple of years ago, an Amazon Echo user had programmed all of his light switches to be voice-controlled. He regretted that about 2AM one night when he lost internet connectivity and all the lights turned on and the Echo devices started sounding an alarm tone. I don't have an Echo; I even refused one when Amazon offered me a free one for being a good customer. (When I refused the Echo, they offered the equivalent in Amazon credit, which I was delighted to accept.) So I can't really speak to whether that story was true, or somewhat exaggerated.
Regardless, I don't need to have every device in my house to be controllable from my smartphone.
I'll never need to worry about this, because I no longer fly and will never again leave the country. But what's preventing you from doing a cloud backup of your device at the hotel before heading hope, and then wiping your device while you're waiting to come through customs? Then tell the customs agent that there's NOTHING on the phone at all. And you wouldn't even be lying.
An excellent argument (as if we needed another) of why the "Internet of Things" is and was a terrible idea. Because even if the ISP never carries out such a threat, any network failure could just as easily cripple everybody's Echos and Nests. My computer and smartphones connect to the Internet; my fridge, stove, thermostat and other appliances don't need to.
And never will.