So there's a population shortage?
Now couples can have 2 children instead of one... As I recall, the 1 child limit was because the population was getting "out of hand"...
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I quite agree. We're screwed and we didn't even get kissed.
I believe this is another step towards isolationism and some form of totalitarianism. The Constitution has become less than toilet paper, or so it would seem. I would like to think that the isolationism will come from outside the country... our businesses will be padlocked and ran out of any other country on rail and justifiably so since the infinitely wise Congress didn't bother to protect "non-citizens" at least.. When the corporates get hit in the bottom line maybe they might have a chance of turning this around via the "lobby". Or, they'll probably screw us worse and get the rest of the world to join in this steaming pile.
Wishful thinking on my part... At some point, the military should, but won't, rise up to their oath to defend the Constitution. I took that oath 50 years ago and according the papers I signed then, I'm still bound by it. Just really too damn old to head to head with US Army.
This is a sad day indeed.
I would hope that whatever route he chooses to take will result in the court version of a shotgun blast of rock salt to his butt. What a twit.. demanding payment for his stupidity.
But then again, stranger things have happened here in the States. Consider that much of the cost of a ladder is for liability insurance for the manufacturer because idiots have done dumb things and sued.... and one. Thus all the warning stickers on them also.
Interesting. Malwarebytes tells me that is a malicious website and has blocked it. Google, DuckDuckGo and others show it as viable but VeriSign and Internic show it as being a non-domain. I hope you guys didn't pay good money for that domain.
Ah.... the confusion and terror of this is running rampant already.
For the medical establishment to enforce this is just plain stupid. It presumes that you have hands and that said hands haven't been damaged (cut, burned, etc.) since the first time you scanned them for reference. So smack your hand with a hammer and you probably won't be able to get medical attention.
Walmart also wants to test out drones that deliver purchases from the store to a car in its car park,
I believe (after seeing most of the customers as said store) that this so they don't have to push the cart out as they waddle to their car.
Disclaimer: I don't step foot in their stores as I find the crap they sell is sub-par even to most of the junk stuff on Amazon or E-bay. Not all is junk on Amazon or E-bay but a helluva lot is.
Maybe it was airtight. But then the courts are backed up with all the copyright infringement cases, drug-related cases, and assorted class-actions suits for just about everything under the sun. Hell, I got notified this week that I'm getting a settlement in a class-action suit I never heard of, for something I bought from Symantec 10 years ago. The lawsuit was in the works for close to 6 years.
Icon -----> the devil made me do it and there's no cynic icon.
You can still find that type of food. I can't speak for right side of the pond, but there are butcher shops here that buy their animals from farms that only feed grain, no antibiotics, etc. For things like bacon and ham... gently smoked or dry cured in the old method and a lot tastier than the "modern stuff". As for fruits and veggies, there's the organics.
If you're being serious, I have to ask: Living in denial or FantasyLand? Have you considered all the chemicals (and the scale required) needed by these factories? How about the waste from these factories? I'm not so sure the world would be more Utopia like with meat from a petri tank (a dish is just too small).
One can find the same type of sausages in the States. Maybe not always at the big box supermarket but at the local butcher's shop. Yes, they're still around. Five minutes with a phone book or search engine of choice will locate them quickly.
There is a big difference in taste and texture between the Jimmy Dean stuff and sausages from the butcher.
I suspect the WHO is just being a gravy train in this instance (carcinogenic gravy of course; I'm sure all food is carcinogenic if you try hard enough).
This is the "problem"... Who paid for the studies? Who benefits from the studies? Is it some profit motive or some hidden agenda?
There's a lot of studies being carried out and reported on. The problem is following the money and finding out the "why are they being conducted". I suspect that this is a hidden agenda series of studies and not profit based.
No... not a bigot or assuming ill-will at all. I know a lot of folks with varied backgrounds and I embrace them. I also know that there's certain places in the world, if I walked down the street eating a bacon sarnie, I'm dead.
The problem is the extremists in those groups. The world seems to be in appeasement mode. If you're a radical, the UN and many governments will bend over backwards to appease you. We, the population, are expected to go along with this... if not willingly, we will be forced to, or so it seems.
I'm sure everyone will welcome the news from the utterly reliable and credible WHO on the dangers of bacon and other processed meats.
I daresay you're right... Muslims, Jews, and Vegans will certainly. The rest of us... not so much. Oh.. I forgot one more group.. the whiney group that follows every celeb because they speak the gospel truth. If one of them picks up on this, bacon may well be doomed. Look at the vaccination BS spouted by a certain no-brain celeb as an example.
Well said and a good analysis in my opinion. Have an upvote.
The problem in the US is that the electorate listens to the "leaders" who really are leaders but the one's who get the most money and the best strategists money can buy at election time. The general electorate is more absorbed by the latest shiny or celeb than trying to figure out who's a real leader and who isn't.
The dumbing down process that started in the late 60's is working the way the government has planned....
That applies all over, particularly here in the States as well as the EU. My theory is that anyone who wants to run for office, should not be allowed to. Seems that for all almost all of them, their lust for power and ego-feeding far and away exceeds their brain power.
I'm a Yank...
Privacy might be dead but not because "most" people want it that way. Politicians have told people repeatedly that it's about "terrorists". Such corporates as Google and MS and others have told people repeatedly that it's about "improving the user experience.
As for everything else.. those folks get sound like they've been paying too much attention to Faux News and not reading other sources (both conservative and liberal since there's no un-biased news).
The old saying about telling a lie often enough and vehemently enough and soon people believe it as the truth, applies here.
Yes, we citizens are mushrooms. Our government keeps us in the dark and feeds us bullshit.
UAC is less of a security feature and more of a button to absolve MS of any responsibility if the program you're running messes your system.
Spot on!! This totally absolves MS of any responsibility. This allows every idiot who thinks they have a clue to totally screw up their system and then make that call to one of us. I'm getting old and cranky and want to tell users (and friends and relatives) "you screwed it up.... you unscrew it."
What a mess... I guess the Feds have possession of the phone in question? Then what they're asking Apple to do is unlock the door. If this goes through, then all software companies will be forced to unlock any device* the Feds wish. Bad precedent... very bad. Which would/could lead to forcing encryption with a back door. Which may effectively kill tech in the US. If there's a backdoor, others will find it and use it.
If the Feds don't have possession of the phone, they are asking Apple to unlock the door and bring everything out of the room and hand it to them. Not a good precedent either.
It would seem that if they have possession, then they also have the owner/user of the phone. He/she should be in contempt if they refuse to unlock the phone. In which case, refusing and being held in contempt is an excuse for the court and government to hold him/her forever or until they do unlock it.
What a flustertruck of epic proportions. It would serve the government right if the tech companies moved their headquarters overseas somewhere and re-incorporated as their tax money would go with them and to the place they moved. Uncle Sam wouldn't be able to grab any of it.
*Not just phones... PC's, hard drives, basically everything.
Exactly. Not locking the front door, leave the car unlocked, or leaving a pile of cash on the front porch.. no legal requirement to keep it secure. However, that doesn't make you a victim when it's robbed. It makes you an idiot if you always do, or merely careless if you forgot.
Clearly, this company is managed by idiots. If I were a customer, I'd be killing my account and changing banks (move the money just in case the crooks got the account numbers) and whatever else it took.
Only clueless morons who believe the IoT hype
Seem as if you can include the Motley Fool in that group:
http://www.fool.co.uk/special-offer/death-of-the-internet-oct-2015
Indeed they have. That author seems particularly hyped over the dollar/pound signs being waved in front of him and not the tech itself... greedy little bastard egging on other greedy little bastards who have no clue.
Light bulbs with microphones to listen for the doorbell....my god, did someone actually think that could ever possibly be useful? I wish I knew what venture capitalist funded this company,
This is useful if you are deaf. However, the existing systems are less expensive and don't require a smartphone, etc. So why bother with these bulbs...?
"as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity,"
So let's do the math... roughly 10% (depending on white or red wine so 10% is a rough average) so that is 50 bottles of pure alcohol or 500 bottles of alcohol and all the water and flavors.
Given it's orbiting time, that is some well-aged vino.
Icon --> Checking for a corkscrew.
What other decision could they have expected? Or didn't they know the case was happening?
It's really hard to listen to others when you have your head up your corporate bottom... make that bottom line... either works for me. As long as their profits, bonuses, and the shareholders leave you alone, why worry... right?
I note that this is not defined.. so it could be code, movies, business plans, etc. or maybe just the company cafeteria lunch menu. But strangely, with both the US and UK agreements I've not read anything about employee data... I'm thinking OPM here amongst others. Even at what is covered (what ever the undefined term IP covers) I'm not believing that either side will respect it.
Therein is a big problem with the internationals. They move their (I'll use steel production) from a place with good emission's standards to a place with low standards. The emissions produced offshore are higher for making a ton of steel than onshore. Yet, the Green types proclaim a victory for the onshore crowd. Sorry, the emitted crap still goes into the atmosphere of this big blue ball.
I'm not a Green, nor a denier or supporter of climate change. But... the logic of what they are doing totally escapes me.