The CA has to be validated by third party auditors, before it can even be trusted.
All those big box stores that got their credit card numbers hacked....
Validated by third party auditors.
IIRC, one of the stores was actively being exploited throughout the audit process and still passed.
"A European schedule"?
I think it's also worth mentioning that a lot of the outbreaks we have in the USA start with someone who recently returned from Europe.
Europe's problems are twofold.
1. A decade of declining MMR vaccinations thanks to the Wakefield craze.
2. Travelers/immigrants from Africa and Asia carrying infections.
Internet should count as critical infrastructure that should be paid for and maintained out of tax money, just the same as roads.
You might be surprised how many public roads/bridges/tunnels have been privatized and had a toll booth slapped on them.
Think about it. Could you predict the sentiments of every human on the planet (over 4 billion) by asking the last 500 people born?
There are charts that you can use to look up the proper sample size for whatever population and confidence interval you want.
http://www.research-advisors.com/tools/SampleSize.htm
Generally, you over sample in order to account for geographic areas, sub-groups, age/gender/etc.
But good luck scaring the kids! It might even last for a few hours until they figure out we've dumped a huge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere for the past decade with almost no upswing in temperature. Once you realize that, you start caring about real pollution again instead of hating on poor old carbon so much.
The people denying man made climate change are also the same dickholes that refuse to enact or properly enforce job-killing regulations on "real pollution".
Look at the recent shit show in North Carolina with Duke Energy and the Republican Governor as a prime example.
Or those idiots in Texas who can't be bothered to inspect massive stockpiles of fertilizer that blow up towns.
In passing, I call attention to the point that those responsible for making a budget can subvert the whole process by just failing to execute their duty. Both the President and Congress have been guilty of that.
This is not a point to be made in passing, it's the entire core of the problem.
Congress hasn't passed an Obama budget since he was sworn into office.
Everything since 2009 has been a continuing resolution based on Bush's last budget.
Even the sequester wasn't a proper budget, as it was just cutting 10% off the previous continuing resolution.
Which puts the lie to your statement that
At the same time, you should understand that you can't "inherit" a deficit. The idea is poppycock. The budget for each year stands fresh on its own.
The real irony of it all is that Republicans want to cut spending by $1 trillion/year.
Which happens to be the exact amount of Bush's not-so-temporary 10 year/10 trillion tax cut which is now in its 13th year.
There are recalls all the time on products through honest mistakes people make. Should we call out each of these people individually?
The engineer that designed the part and the replacement lied in front of a Senate Committee when asked if he knew there was a defect.
The engineering manager was deposed in a lawsuit and said that GM made a business decision not to fix the defect.
Those aren't honest mistakes. Those are "bad actors" I'm talking about
People who intentionally do something wrong, don't fix something that is wrong, or cover up something that is/was wrong.
Your entire post is arguing against a position I did not take.
I wonder if they properly controlled for luck.
You obviously didn't RTFA.
But she signed up, got a little training in how to estimate probabilities from the people running the program, and then was given access to a website that listed dozens of carefully worded questions on events of interest to the intelligence community, along with a place for her to enter her numerical estimate of their likelihood.
"Usually I just do a Google search," she said.
In fact, she's so good she's been put on a special team with other superforecasters whose predictions are reportedly 30 percent better than intelligence officers with access to actual classified information.
It's not luck they've selected for, it's the ability to make educated guesses.
Maybe you missed the reference.
Teela Brown is a character from Larry Niven's Ringworld series.
Her defining characteristic is that she's a 6th generation of Birthright Lottery winners and thus, uniquely lucky.
That said, naming names of an engineer is a really bad precedent. What is the goal GM is trying to achieve here. Do they want people to go break the guy's windows? Burn down his house? Call him in the middle of the night or deliver pizza? Apart from potentially removing the guy's livelihood for the remainder of his life because no-one wants to hire 'that guy' ever again, and a lot of abuse being targeted his way, what will this achieve?
Why exactly is it a bad precedent?
The names of everyone involved are going to come out anyways, with all the possible consequences you described.
Our judicial system is usually exceedingly unwilling to pierce the corporate veil and directly hold bad actors responsible for their choices.
So I'm perfectly happy with a society that aggressively shuns those people, regardless of judicial outcomes.
I'm *guessing* GM's goal is to scapegoat a few responsible parties as early as possible,
so that when the management failures are unmasked, there won't be as much heat and vitriol.
I think the traditional
"But what if you're a doctor in a movie theater and someone dies because you didn't get an e-mail in the seconds after it was sent?"
i just think it's unprofessional and lazy...her performance in Orange is the New Black is equally as bad, IMHO...very perfunctory
If you hated her in Star Trek and Orange is the New Black, you'll love her in NTSF:SD:SUV
It's a show designed to make bad, unprofessional, and lazy acting really shine
Give it a try. If you find yourself unsatisfied... well, that may have been the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCWYm7B_B4&t=7s
Where is the controversy?
The controversy is that the Bible disagrees with reality.
So it's not really a controversy except to Biblical literalists.
If you want to be a deaf person, that's fine by me, but it doesn't give you any moral imperative to suggest that parents should deny their children their right to hearing.
Wouldn't the more appropriate course of action be to allow individuals to choose if they want to hear or be deaf once they've attained their majority?
I'm sure tens of people per year would voluntarily join the deaf community.
If their union is so powerful, how come they're subject to routine monitoring in this way at work?
The union undoubtedly negotiated the terms for monitoring.
For example, their bosses may not be allowed to use the records for disciplinary purposes if the microphone caught a cop saying "fuck the police commissioner and his lackeys"
Or the bosses can't review the records unless it's required for a case.
Those are just a couple of examples with wide reaching implications.
That said, good luck finding the specifics of the union agreement.
You might have to file an open records request or sue.
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