You think this matters? We should have real concerns. In late October Resers had a listeria recall on a lot of products produced at one assembly plant for lots of sub-companies. There has been no followup in the news (post november) detailing any further testing by them or the FDA. That original recall was initiated due to testing done in Canada. Should there be any consumer confidence by the American public that we can trust a factory like this to produce safe food? Look at their recall window on those products, it has been expanded now and includes 2014 products. How often do they test!? Why are they still shipping this food if its being recalled? This problem was first exposed in October. How often do they do a thorough cleaning!? I have tried to followup and have not been told of _any_ routine testing done on American soil by either the FDA or the company in question. The Reser consumer rep literally told me consumers do not care about their quality practices and that she did not have any information for me on how often they test for this. I have tried to find out more and all I have to go on is public information in the news. All consumers have are gems like this and more questions:
The problem was discovered through microbiological testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. A traceback investigation and follow-up testing by FDA at the facility determined there was potential cross contamination of products with Listeria monocytogenes from product contact surfaces.
If you want to have honest conversations with people, you need to be clear what you're talking about.
I was not applying some sort of rhetorical strategy. What anon was alleging is that you cannot have any meaningful conversation with some progressives because they try to mislead people, and that they do not tell the whole story. I was merely bringing up the reality that no one wants to have an honest conversation. Further: It's misleading statements like that that turn off moderates (who can easily google the federal budget) from believing in the good intentions of us on the left. I would assert that neither side has "good intentions" but merely their own interests at heart. Each side sort of has to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda and hope that the way they frame things wins out.
Imagine if a (real not Koch-brothers-fake) community action group approached regulars on the street with a whitepaper and said: Here in these 50 pages we outline the background behind Social Security and provide statistics that reinforce our belief that everyone needs to contribute 37% more. What would those people do?
Is using bcache really this hard? I didn't see any mention of setting up bcache during an initial system install. Essentially like: install everything to/dev/sda and use/dev/sdb as cache? Couldn't this be done if/dev/sda1 was a LVM w/ / on it, maybe with/dev/sda2 as/boot?
When other progressives say stuff like this, it really pisses me off. Your statements are more than a little misleading.
Do you mean to say that those on the right never say statements that are misleading? That the big ag lobby never misrepresents the tremendous aid they get from the farm bill, while the pawns in the house try to cut spending on nutrition programs? That we do not comply with our free trade agreements - and that those other nations are merely trying to lash out at us unfairly? (I listen to ag radio, you wouldn't believe the nonsense. One day the corn lobby is complaining about the EPA relaxing the ethanol mandate; the next the beef lobby is saying how great it is since they have had to buy that over priced corn and have seen some red ink the last couple years. All the while no one cares about this particular case where government is regulating a free market?) You can pick another sector if you want, food alone is just so easy to refute you with. So please step off your soap box and review the situation(s) in the real world.
You are correct. I would like to add: the basic problem is that ACA doesn't lower health care costs. It also now puts lots of people into these idiotic high deductible plans. Bush did that too there just wasn't as many people complaining because everyone didn't have to switch to a high deductible plan all at the same time - it was gradual. It also now lets the govt spend a bunch on failed federal and state IT projects. So they replaced high insurance company profit with wasteful govt spending we don't as easily notice? All of these guys need a comprehensive audit a year or so from now. How much is/was being spent, to what benefit, and is it any better now than when the (horrible) insurance companies had all the waste? Did the govt bureaucracy just want a cut of the waste? Questions. All we have are questions and shitty expensive health care. The irony is that this is what Obama is clinging to for his legacy.
I think what this may be alluding to is the debt acting as a tax shield. I am not an accountant... I just pay attention when I read the news, this happens all the time with mergers. I have not paid too much attention to this Nokia-MS deal though and I might be wrong.
so they don't even have to pretend to appoint fair judges
Fair Judges? Those same fair judges that the Chamber of Commerce chooses for us? Or those fair judges that get kicked out once called "activist judges" for making otherwise perfectly normal decisions that some member of the "business" community hates? Tell me again who the highest bidder is? This stuff isn't trying to read tea leaves...
Is that like the bug reports asking why the prompt for closing multiple tabs comes up when users have already told firefox not to warn when closing multiple tabs? Those go nowhere because some UX nazi cares so much about a user fat fingering the Right-Click-Close-Other tabs button. But hey, please now go read the bugzilla thread because its so informative!? Oh wait, its fixed since there is a second option in about:config, that kiss on our boo-boo makes it all better right?! Firefox UX design is basically: take options away, be more like chrome, put it all into about:config. Boring.
You mean like happened to Sarah Palin's page the night before she was chosen to be the VP candidate? Or on any other such page where there is a desire to scrub past or present? I am at least happy that we have a relatively transparent view into the history of these articles - but it has already been completely undermined.
Oh and lots and lots of doctors aren't taking Obamacare, same for hospoitals. So much so that there is already talk of legislation forcing doctors to take it.
Why couldn't they have such legislation? There is already this legislation in place forcing the plebs to buy this thing from companies.
I was going to ramble on about fair use and things like ford-trucks.com blah blah... but then I looked at the site's HTML source. Seriously nice to see something in the wild that is so simple. Cheers.
Yes, among other things (Bloody Thursday?) there is this by Mr Dreamy himself. Notice how there is very little wikipedia chatter on Reagan and gun control? History is always being scrubbed.
Your analogy is horrible. This is like someone paying to bowl, with a robot, and then getting strikes all the time. They can run around saying they bowled a 300, you just have to ignore them. WoW worlds _are_ shared, so the bowling alley is obviously not a good analogy. In this case though, why should the bowling alley owner care that people are showing up and paying to bowl w/ their toy robots? It wrecks the high score list sure, deal with it.
All this said, I agree that you tarnish WoW by allowing bots... but they tarnish WoW in other ways than that and people still play. I however have quit. Paying ~$15 a month, for me, isn't worth it.
Kid having a tantrum in the store because you won't buy Fruit Sugar Pops cereal? Take the kid home and spank him, then leave him home with mommy or daddy, and do that EVERY TIME he misbehaves at the store. He will learn quickly not to do it.
Buy the little brats a container of oatmeal like it is 1932, or 2013, and teach them some real life lessons. Better yet take the time to make your own granola, show them how to do it and clean up afterwards. If they won't help, then - of course - just feed them the oatmeal while you eat the delicious granola.
It goes beyond that. Some complaints are legitimate, but things like this are just gaming the system:
Finally, multinationals that invert have an easier time achieving “earnings stripping,” a tax maneuver in which an American subsidiary is loaded up with debt to offset domestic earnings, lowering the effective tax rate paid on sales in the United States.
Most people do not know any of the details of these kinds of operations and so we all must just trust our benevolent job creators. As long as Obama has GE sitting at the table when he calls businesses in to talk about tax reform it'll never go anywhere significantly better for us the little men.
Sanity check: It was sold at a loss. Not even close to a profit. From wikipedia: A White House report sent to Congress in August 2012 estimated the sale of the remaining G.M. stock acquired by the United States Treasury during the company's bankruptcy will result in a loss of $25.1 billion to the American taxpayer. The government is basically selling the stock at half the value we would need to be selling it at. I wish people would pay attention and remember the basic details of this shit. So in review: the GM market cap is ~$48 Billion and we the people are losing about half of that, maybe more.
Absolutely, I also propose we remove the middle click functionality from web browsers such as Firefox. How are users to know they can middle click a link and open it in a new tab? This is too confusing to users.
In what world can a government ok another government to attack a civilian target? Even if one (or all) said governments "authorized" this, how do their (or all) of their constitutions let them get away with this? Either we - the people - take "cyber" threats seriously, or we realize they are not a real threat (since our governments will let anyone attack us at their whim - but not ours) and we tell them all to shut the fuck up.
We should all right now remember how the media had tried to slander this guy as having only had a GED and how he had such a high wage. How ridiculous that he would pull such bacon? Why on earth did they trust him to work for the NSA!? Now he is brilliant. This all smells to high heaven right now.
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You think this matters? We should have real concerns. In late October Resers had a listeria recall on a lot of products produced at one assembly plant for lots of sub-companies. There has been no followup in the news (post november) detailing any further testing by them or the FDA. That original recall was initiated due to testing done in Canada. Should there be any consumer confidence by the American public that we can trust a factory like this to produce safe food? Look at their recall window on those products, it has been expanded now and includes 2014 products. How often do they test!? Why are they still shipping this food if its being recalled? This problem was first exposed in October. How often do they do a thorough cleaning!? I have tried to followup and have not been told of _any_ routine testing done on American soil by either the FDA or the company in question. The Reser consumer rep literally told me consumers do not care about their quality practices and that she did not have any information for me on how often they test for this. I have tried to find out more and all I have to go on is public information in the news. All consumers have are gems like this and more questions:
The problem was discovered through microbiological testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. A traceback investigation and follow-up testing by FDA at the facility determined there was potential cross contamination of products with Listeria monocytogenes from product contact surfaces.
Kind of like the research they do with whales?
If you want to have honest conversations with people, you need to be clear what you're talking about.
I was not applying some sort of rhetorical strategy. What anon was alleging is that you cannot have any meaningful conversation with some progressives because they try to mislead people, and that they do not tell the whole story. I was merely bringing up the reality that no one wants to have an honest conversation. Further: It's misleading statements like that that turn off moderates (who can easily google the federal budget) from believing in the good intentions of us on the left. I would assert that neither side has "good intentions" but merely their own interests at heart. Each side sort of has to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda and hope that the way they frame things wins out.
Imagine if a (real not Koch-brothers-fake) community action group approached regulars on the street with a whitepaper and said: Here in these 50 pages we outline the background behind Social Security and provide statistics that reinforce our belief that everyone needs to contribute 37% more. What would those people do?
Is using bcache really this hard? I didn't see any mention of setting up bcache during an initial system install. Essentially like: install everything to /dev/sda and use /dev/sdb as cache? Couldn't this be done if /dev/sda1 was a LVM w/ / on it, maybe with /dev/sda2 as /boot?
When other progressives say stuff like this, it really pisses me off. Your statements are more than a little misleading.
Do you mean to say that those on the right never say statements that are misleading? That the big ag lobby never misrepresents the tremendous aid they get from the farm bill, while the pawns in the house try to cut spending on nutrition programs? That we do not comply with our free trade agreements - and that those other nations are merely trying to lash out at us unfairly? (I listen to ag radio, you wouldn't believe the nonsense. One day the corn lobby is complaining about the EPA relaxing the ethanol mandate; the next the beef lobby is saying how great it is since they have had to buy that over priced corn and have seen some red ink the last couple years. All the while no one cares about this particular case where government is regulating a free market?) You can pick another sector if you want, food alone is just so easy to refute you with. So please step off your soap box and review the situation(s) in the real world.
You are correct. I would like to add: the basic problem is that ACA doesn't lower health care costs. It also now puts lots of people into these idiotic high deductible plans. Bush did that too there just wasn't as many people complaining because everyone didn't have to switch to a high deductible plan all at the same time - it was gradual. It also now lets the govt spend a bunch on failed federal and state IT projects. So they replaced high insurance company profit with wasteful govt spending we don't as easily notice? All of these guys need a comprehensive audit a year or so from now. How much is/was being spent, to what benefit, and is it any better now than when the (horrible) insurance companies had all the waste? Did the govt bureaucracy just want a cut of the waste? Questions. All we have are questions and shitty expensive health care. The irony is that this is what Obama is clinging to for his legacy.
I think what this may be alluding to is the debt acting as a tax shield. I am not an accountant... I just pay attention when I read the news, this happens all the time with mergers. I have not paid too much attention to this Nokia-MS deal though and I might be wrong.
so they don't even have to pretend to appoint fair judges
Fair Judges? Those same fair judges that the Chamber of Commerce chooses for us? Or those fair judges that get kicked out once called "activist judges" for making otherwise perfectly normal decisions that some member of the "business" community hates? Tell me again who the highest bidder is? This stuff isn't trying to read tea leaves...
Is that like the bug reports asking why the prompt for closing multiple tabs comes up when users have already told firefox not to warn when closing multiple tabs? Those go nowhere because some UX nazi cares so much about a user fat fingering the Right-Click-Close-Other tabs button. But hey, please now go read the bugzilla thread because its so informative!? Oh wait, its fixed since there is a second option in about:config, that kiss on our boo-boo makes it all better right?! Firefox UX design is basically: take options away, be more like chrome, put it all into about:config. Boring.
You mean like happened to Sarah Palin's page the night before she was chosen to be the VP candidate? Or on any other such page where there is a desire to scrub past or present? I am at least happy that we have a relatively transparent view into the history of these articles - but it has already been completely undermined.
(Didn't post this yesterday because offtopic...)
Oh and lots and lots of doctors aren't taking Obamacare, same for hospoitals. So much so that there is already talk of legislation forcing doctors to take it.
Why couldn't they have such legislation? There is already this legislation in place forcing the plebs to buy this thing from companies.
There should be FIA requests to find out how many investigations led to all the participants being a mole.
I was going to ramble on about fair use and things like ford-trucks.com blah blah... but then I looked at the site's HTML source. Seriously nice to see something in the wild that is so simple. Cheers.
Yes, among other things (Bloody Thursday?) there is this by Mr Dreamy himself. Notice how there is very little wikipedia chatter on Reagan and gun control? History is always being scrubbed.
This is not a privacy violation. He did this outside his home, in public. He has no expectation of privacy. Crow.
Your analogy is horrible. This is like someone paying to bowl, with a robot, and then getting strikes all the time. They can run around saying they bowled a 300, you just have to ignore them. WoW worlds _are_ shared, so the bowling alley is obviously not a good analogy. In this case though, why should the bowling alley owner care that people are showing up and paying to bowl w/ their toy robots? It wrecks the high score list sure, deal with it.
All this said, I agree that you tarnish WoW by allowing bots... but they tarnish WoW in other ways than that and people still play. I however have quit. Paying ~$15 a month, for me, isn't worth it.
Kid having a tantrum in the store because you won't buy Fruit Sugar Pops cereal? Take the kid home and spank him, then leave him home with mommy or daddy, and do that EVERY TIME he misbehaves at the store. He will learn quickly not to do it.
Buy the little brats a container of oatmeal like it is 1932, or 2013, and teach them some real life lessons. Better yet take the time to make your own granola, show them how to do it and clean up afterwards. If they won't help, then - of course - just feed them the oatmeal while you eat the delicious granola.
It goes beyond that. Some complaints are legitimate, but things like this are just gaming the system:
Finally, multinationals that invert have an easier time achieving “earnings stripping,” a tax maneuver in which an American subsidiary is loaded up with debt to offset domestic earnings, lowering the effective tax rate paid on sales in the United States.
Most people do not know any of the details of these kinds of operations and so we all must just trust our benevolent job creators. As long as Obama has GE sitting at the table when he calls businesses in to talk about tax reform it'll never go anywhere significantly better for us the little men.
Sanity check: It was sold at a loss. Not even close to a profit. From wikipedia: A White House report sent to Congress in August 2012 estimated the sale of the remaining G.M. stock acquired by the United States Treasury during the company's bankruptcy will result in a loss of $25.1 billion to the American taxpayer. The government is basically selling the stock at half the value we would need to be selling it at. I wish people would pay attention and remember the basic details of this shit. So in review: the GM market cap is ~$48 Billion and we the people are losing about half of that, maybe more.
According to modern (US) interpretations of "secrets" anything that has happened or been shared outside of your house is no longer a secret.
Absolutely, I also propose we remove the middle click functionality from web browsers such as Firefox. How are users to know they can middle click a link and open it in a new tab? This is too confusing to users.
In what world can a government ok another government to attack a civilian target? Even if one (or all) said governments "authorized" this, how do their (or all) of their constitutions let them get away with this? Either we - the people - take "cyber" threats seriously, or we realize they are not a real threat (since our governments will let anyone attack us at their whim - but not ours) and we tell them all to shut the fuck up.
Is the US hacking their civilian shit seen as an act of war? What about all the other countries we did this to?
We should all right now remember how the media had tried to slander this guy as having only had a GED and how he had such a high wage. How ridiculous that he would pull such bacon? Why on earth did they trust him to work for the NSA!? Now he is brilliant. This all smells to high heaven right now.
Well, when it comes to the US financial system and the state of our federal reserve, could we put anything else on it?