Comment Re:How many really care? (Score 1) 224
With Google, I can limit the search to pages from the past week/month/year/etc. Is there a way to do that with DDG?
“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.
Watch the quoted words closely. The President cannot give the order, not even in principle. Rather, the order must come from the FISA Court. The Court gives the order upon application by the Attorney General. The AG would almost certainly not act unless she had the approval of the President. Thus, the quoted words do not imply that President Obama did not approve surveillance.
... the purposes of the company are clearly philanthropic, to advance “human potential” and promote “equality,” rather than earn money for its owners. However, it will not just make grants to nonprofits, as foundations typically do. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will also own stakes in for-profit businesses in fields like education and health care, which its owners believe will help achieve their philanthropic goals.
Some have criticized traditional foundations and other charities for not having “a bottom line,” a readily available measure of success that would enable donors to determine whether their gifts were doing any good. A variety of surrogate approaches have been proposed to judge the effectiveness of philanthropy, such as elaborate cost-benefit analyses. But these tend to be costly and controversial, and they have attracted limited interest.
What Mr. Zuckerberg and others are proposing instead is to harness the profit motive on behalf of their philanthropic goals. This is often referred to as a “double bottom-line” approach: The companies in which the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invests will have to show both a financial return in order to be sustainable and a social one—for example, increased numbers of lives saved or children finishing school—in order to obtain additional funding. And at least in theory, those companies that are unsuccessful would in time go out of business, unlike traditional charities, which can keep going, even if they are not very effective at their work, as long as they are good at raising money from donors.
The approach Mr. Zuckerberg is taking has several advantages. One is that if he had created a foundation, American tax laws would have required him to sell most of the Facebook stock he gave it. But by using the stock to fund a limited-liability company, he can keep control over as much of it as he wants (though he may sell some to make grants or investments).
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... the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative represents the most significant effort so far to take a new approach to the kinds of problems with which philanthropy has long struggled. ....
Human-dinosaur sex is technically a form of anal rape
You are obviously male and confused. Essentially all the human-dinosaur sex fantasies are of male dinosaurs having regular (especially vaginal) sex with female people. The novels of those fantasies are hardly ever bought by men.
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
