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Comment Re:How Can The USMS Sell These? (Score 2) 88

It was agreed that Ulbriht is the only person who has a possible right to the bitcoins so he and USMS agreed that because of the volatility of the Bitcoin markets that the USMS would have the right to sell the coins as they want and then the monies from that sale would go into a deposit fund until the court case has been decided upon.
So the coins were not seized, just sold off and the value, at the time of sale, is now waiting a court decision.

Comment Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? (Score 5, Informative) 646

Actually it was a term indians used to refer to themselves; you can easily find writing from various indian leaders who used the term.
It took on some negative connotations because it was used then used in various negative works.
Also the bounty of indian scalps was not done by the US Government it was offered by British and Mexican governments.

Comment Re:Does it have to come from NSA ? (Score 1) 347

What probably happen was this mail was stored on PSTs on her local computer.
The US federal government is filled with numerous regulations governing the size of email mailbox so it is not uncommon to have people use PSTs and since there are different regulations about storing PSTs on network drives, ok this one is valid, you get large quantities of email stored on local computers.

Comment Re:I prefer (Score 1) 337

Which is why net neutrality needs to die and application neutrality needs to be passed.
Application neutrality recognizes QoS, and that ISPs customers would like to have certain sites blocked.
It would require ISPs to treat similar traffic the same way so if you want to block or slow down streaming videos you have to treat all sites the same, want to block email spam good but you have to apply the same set of rules to all email.

Comment Re:This is NOT a net neutrality issue (Score 1) 337

However if you go read the bills that have been proposed for net neutrality you will see that ISP that did implement QoS would be breaking the law.
Same as if the ISP were to setup email spam filtering or a school run provider that decided to block out site such as MAMBLA.
All of those actions would be illegal under the majority of Net Neutrality bills.

Comment Re:Inflation (Score 1) 1040

The liberals are not pushing for the increase in minimum wage because of the people who earn it but because of all the poeple who make a higher salary that is tied to the minimum wage.
So you will now have a bunch of people get a similar percent increase in salaries, which will then push those not tied to have a an increase in salary. If you are currently making $15 an hour you will not want to stay making that when the minimum wage is $15, you will be looking for $20-$24 jobs. That keeps pushing up until it does affect your area.

Comment Re:but (Score 1, Informative) 191

The coffee was not at an above normal temperature, in fact the temperature is lower then the temperature recommended by various coffee drinking group.
The way the low temperature got in was the lawyer sueing went around to places that were selling less amounts of coffee and recorded the temperatures of those places.
McDonalds stilll tells its franchises to sell at the temperature of the lawsuit and if you purchase from any major coffe chain that is the temperature range you will mostly likely get.

Comment Re:Another Goverment Run (Score 5, Informative) 83

Except that Oracle had control on some of the healthcare sites for larger states and delivered a working product on time; also Oracle was part of the team that was brought in to fix the main site and are credited by Obama himself for getting that working.
Oregon is just an example of poor management, from picking the products to use before having requirements, using the wrong type of contract, and then not doing proper check and those checks that were done were ignored by the government management.

Comment Re:Another Goverment Run (Score 1) 83

Looked this up and they were off by a under three months. They were suppose to deliver the four computers by August and it did not happen until October.
One major difference between this and what Oregon didn't do was the for that contract they had well designed requirements(according to the people doing the work) the company that was awarded the contract was expected to deliver a working product(something not in the Oregon contract) and there was contract management.

Comment Re:I'll take the USPS over Comcast (Score 1) 208

Again for account purposes yes they should be, for the amount of money they have to actually have to pay future dues owned to employees is less then the amount other government organizations do. Also the USPS is a government organization they just have a some laws that give them some independance; those same laws gave them the responsibility to care for thier employees seperatly from the government norm; something management failed to plan for until forced to.

For financial years 2007 to 2013 the USPS had a total loss of around $40 billion, if they did not have to pay the money to make sure thier current employees were set for health insurance at retirement it would of been a loss of $8 billion. Except for a few times they have not paid into the future health care fund. The future needs of thier employees does not factor into them not having a profit.
It is a lie, everyone has access to thier earning and the laws governing it; and if interested in the topic could easily read them It got started by USPS management wanting the US public to pick up the responsibities that the USPS said they would cover for thier employees so they could continue business as normal with no care. It is the same reason USPS management is wanting to dump its employees totally into obamacare at retirement and not pay any insurance costs for them.
If the USPS differences under law are to considered to be a standard it is a low one, if you say the standard requirement of governement agencies is an A then the standard required from the USPS is a C. They are not required to care about future needs as much as other governement agencies, they do now have to keep accounting planning to the higher standards but don't have to actually use the knowledge.
This is not USPS delivery this is about making sure employees have the health care they worked for at retirement BTW except for a few places, that I very rarely do business with, I require that all packages I get come through USPS.

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