Well, the 90% figure is based on 90% more facts than homeopathy. Or astrology, for that matter.
Basing a statement on a baseless reference of a jackass makes one, in turn, a jackass.
Defending a jackass with poor math doesn't do much better.
90% of nothing is still nothing.
"Ninety per cent of pregnant French women use homeopathy. Astrology is a useful diagnostic tool enabling us to see strengths and weaknesses via the birth chart."
At first, I have failed to see the common ground between homeopathy and astrology - these two sentences sounded completely unrelated. But they are actually related - it says
"90% of French women are gullible enough to fall for homeopathy. This means that most of them are stupid enough to also believe astrology crap, so market is ripe"
And that figure of 90% actually comes from where? I mean other than out of Tredinnick's ass of course.
Not sure about getting abused, but it certainly drives down the earning potential in the field.
I have full time position, but was applying for a new opportunity. The position was listed with high requirements and experience. I fit the job description almost perfectly. When it came to discussing salary, they were offering $40k less than I currently make and without the high level of benefits I currently have. After I expressed disappointment in the salary for what was advertised as a highly experienced position, the recruiter said that their client was hoping to get an H1B visa person and the rate they quoted me was the going rate.
I'm an independent IT contractor in France. I constantly get calls from Indian companies with great sounding opportunities and then they tell me that it pays X, which is generally half or less of my general rate. I used to say 'no thanks' and hang up until I realized that they are certainly counting the number of Nos that they get and using that to justify work visas to bring in cheap labor. "Oh we couldn't find anyone interested look we called X hundred westerners (or whatever)).
Now I say "Yes I'm interested - at my rate". Not sure it makes much difference but I'll try and short out that process if I can.
The salary offered through both of my offers were very competitive...
Competitive when compared with Canadian salaries, or with US salaries for the same job in the target geographical location?
Even if it means a massive terrorist attack on US soil, even if means the collapse of the government, or invasion, or a mushroom cloud over a major US city, we have to resist the presumption that any agent of the executive acts without oversight and accountability.
The problem is going to be finding politicians who are willing to take the risk of having a terrorist attack succeed 'because' they stood up against the NSA et. al.
I put 'because' in quotes as such a thing could conceivably be allowed to happen by the NSA et. al. to prove the point that they need such power.
It would be nice if the NSA was using this technology to spy on the real terrorists; and by that I mean the people who actually do want to hurt you and steal from you -- CEOs and Large Banks.
I mean, there has not been a SINGLE prosecution in the great financial disaster of 2008, yet, I'll be there's plenty of cell phone conversations and text messages about breaking up bad mortgages into financial instruments of mass destruction, and reselling them as AAA+ rated securities.
Excuse me, but after 20 trillion dollars lost, and another 2 or so trillion given away to prop up a few banks who wanted to play along with the government (until such time that it became time to steal again); it seems to me that the NSA should be more concerned about these guys than a few rouge crazies who blow up the occasional civilian.
I'm betting that nothing will change so I've told my son he should become a high level banker
Except in the case of the U.K. trade sanctions from other E.U. member states are simply not permissible. I would also doubt the USA would introduce sanctions against the UK on this one, and E.U. sanctions against the USA would require approval from the UK which I doubt they are going to give. That's 45% of the worlds GDP locked in right there.
Good luck on that plan.
Not only that but all the above are sharing data on each other's citizens anyway.
Certainly very true. Absolutely, NSA and GCHQ are at fault here.
However, these kinds of stories draw the attention of even the most idiotic of individuals. Those that only a few months ago were, without any consideration, spouting, "I don't care if the NSA sees everything I do or works to break into everything." must now stop and realize they were used and lied to, and that the work of these criminal organizations is directly damaging many companies. Various encryption or communication groups and companies have disappeared without any notice by the average person, but they will see the damage when it comes to their cell phones.
'The average person' will never have any idea that any of this happened.
There is the law, notice the lawfully authorized part? They are not entitled to do anything you and I can't do UNLESS they have a search warrant or there is some other law on the books specifically authorizing the activity. I doubt even the FISA court would have rubber stamped this one.
They wouldn't need a search warrant outside the US for non-US citizens.
It would be nice to know who will pay the damages or that NSA and GHCQ can just destroy businesses as they please.
a) the businesses that were hacked or
b) the taxpayers
Until enough people get off their fat asses and do something about the situation, which doesn't seem likely to happen before the US falls back to the middle ages.
"If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others."
You assume that people do not want to harm themselves or others, which is often not true.
Organized religion is a power base and it has always been used by those in power to keep or get more power - not to make nice nice.
No religion is perfect, and while Buddhism shouldn't be a religion there are many who have made it so...and once you put religion in, you take rationalism out.
Violence committed by 'Buddhists':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
I was a bit unclear, sorry - just checked prices earlier today, could get tickets at 43 Euros each way.
Admittedly, there is a limited number of tickets at that price, and they are sold out fairly quickly; if you're ordering tickets for the next couple of weeks, you'll be lucky if you get anywhere near that price.
That said, I fully expect that the mentioned "estimated ticket-price" on the Helsinki-Tallinn line would be for a limited number of tickets, with much more costly options available - this is par-for-the-course on all transport services.
Fair enough - I guess I should have written that the average ticket price wouldn't be anywhere near 40 Euros but I agree with you overall
The original question was if they did any privacy assessment report of the impact of using drones. I think by saying that they can't find any such report, the answer seems pretty obvious....
Not obvious at all actually, as it could be that they didn't do such assessments out of incompetence, which is relatively benign, or it could be that they did do the assessments and they don't want anyone to know how invasive they're being (perhaps illegally) which is a very different situation.
It's good, that both of them would compete, and ultimately consumer would be supported!
btw, some people live only by copying and finally build the whole economy on it
Sounds more like a "We like your idea Uber but fuck you because we're going to block you from the market and do it ourselves"
No doubt the unknown company that they're going to work with will be owned by the transportation minister's uncle's cousin's favorite son.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
