Comment Re: Sorry, not corporate enough. (Score 1) 69
What you're missing is the depth of the investigation. There are plenty of reasons to believe HSBC execs should have known the money was dirty, it sinply wasn't investigated deeply enough.
What you're missing is the depth of the investigation. There are plenty of reasons to believe HSBC execs should have known the money was dirty, it sinply wasn't investigated deeply enough.
Some do have that special bone but I think it's in their head actually...
As I understand it, the damage was indirect. The software was left in such a state that the furnace was at the time undamaged but could not be properly shut down. That left only the emergency shutdown procedure which was the cause of the damage.
The real failure was not being able to physically operate the controls to at least manage a clean shutdown.
The root cause of the problem is a yellow too short to allow every car in motion to either clear the intersection of stop safely before the red. Once the light traps you in that situation it's just a matter of choosing your risk.
Throwing an unfair fine into the mix can lead to poor decisions.
The problem is that without some form of guidance, we're more likely to end up with the rich enjoying the machines and the rest thrown to the wolves (at least until they overwhelm the rich and kill them or at least threaten to)
Yes, but at that time, we still had a shortage of labor over all. In western society, we very recently doubled the eligible workforce through equal rights. Then with a bit of development in the 3rd world, we have multiplied it many times (but haven't given those workers a chance to become consumers). Now automation is cheap enough that even those very cheap workers are threatened with unemployment.
If you are choosing between "slamming your brakes at the last second" or "running a red light" then you were driving unsafely.***
There is a significant correlation between installing the cameras and shortening the yellow. At the same time, even if the yellow was too short even before the cameras were installed, they increase the risk of accidents since people will no longer be willing to run the very beginning of the red (before traffic the other way starts moving).
It should be, but there are too many wealthy people who firmly believe that they were born with virtue but the working class gain virtue only by working. Therefor, no job = no work = deserve to starve.
There are two classes of people. Those who feel wealthy if they have no need to worry about money and those who can only feel wealthy if they have significantly more than others. The latter just can't be happy until you're not happy.
Because until very recently, the MECHANIZATION always required a human operator AND because until recently, the limiting factor on economic expansion was labor.
We now have quite enough labor and we can make machines that require very little supervision.
What makes you think nobody will use and appreciate?
And the state does not have the right to demand that any individual accept any particular medical treatment. That's why the pressure is applied in a more round about manner.
So that just leaves us with the choice. Do we want the kids to be un-educated or do we want to find a way to educate them? Certainly making the vaccines free will address the financial askect, leaving only philosophical and religious objections. We can certainly provide education fopefully convince parents of the value and even necessity of vaccination. However, at the end of the day some will still object. Since we don't want a society where someone from the government can show up at any time and inject whatever gunk they care to into anyone they care to, we must deal with the cases where the parent will not be swayed.
Note that excluding their children from school just makes sure that they will make the same decision when they have kids. If they go to school, perhaps they will make a better decision when they become parents.
It should also be noted that not all of the required vaccines actually make sense. The main ones we are all familiar with certainly do. MMR, DPT and polio certainly. But I remain more skeptical of chicken pox. That was never one of those scourge diseases. Evidence suggests that the immunity from the vaccine is less complete that you get from having the disease and that it wanes in adulthood, exactly the time when the disease becomes more dangerous and the vaccine is contraindicated.
I agree that vaccines are a good idea but that doesn't justify removing the right to control what goes into their and their children's bodies based on their inability to homeschool.
Just what is the NSA up to here? Shouldn't they be busy heading off exactly this sort of thing? So what's their part of this action? That's right, they're busy facilitating the terrorists by weakening the security that could prevent this crap from happening so they can do the things they are never ever supposed to do. Screw protecting the country, they have law abiding citizens to spy on!
His complaint is valid because the foolish lawmakers handed the DEA their authority to schedule a drug. They should at least take that back.
THIS!
It's the same way that the initial solution to people MFing was to put a 2600 Hz notch filter on POTS lines. Then they moved signaling out of band except for the last mile. They assumed that was problem solved since trunks were protected with physical security.
They simply didn't anticipate a day when most of the population had a cellphone and a computer more powerful than their switch and where software defined radio was an actual thing that an individual could make or buy.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol