Comment Re:42 (Score 1) 457
That, and free booze.
That, and free booze.
footpaths
Spritsmus!
now, if they want to be taken seriously, the 2 stations have to be reporting the SAME info, verifyably.
Why? What would be the point of having different language versions if the stories aren't localized too? Should CNN Turk just report a Turkish translation of a story about a US senator's gaffe or a football game in Detroit? Your suggestion doesn't make sense.
As someone who's actually watched Al Jazeera English, I'd just recommend that people watch it before they judge it, rather than just assuming it's the "Al Qaeda network". It's not.
I've watched Al Jazeera English occasionally. It mostly reminds me of BBC World, even down to the UK accents. Sure, it seems biased, but no more so than CNN or BBC World. The bias is just from a different pov than western viewers expect. An Arabic channel isn't an Al Qaida network by default any more than an English channel has to be the Tea Party channel. It seems rather liberal by Arabic standards.
There are those that "signed" the no new tax vow, which is backed by large money if you break it.
But if you dont, you get that money.
In the rest of the developed world, if a representative is caught taking money in exchange for political favors, he'll likely go to jail, and certainly lose his job. They don't use the 'lobby' euphemism, and just call it corruption. The person caught offering the bribe likewise.
Why so angry? It's a good joke, you should laugh. It's probably made by a
And why is having robots do the grunt work bad?
Actually, I didn't call it good or bad, but now that you mention it: you pay for it with structurally high unemployment, especially in the lower skilled segment of the work force.
Even if they do get decent benefits, work isn't just about the money. Once you're prematurely out of the work force for too long, your world shrinks and so so your chances of getting back in.
Why not automate the hell out of everything and give everyone a twenty hour work week and ten weeks of vacation each year.?
More time off means more recreational activities, more holidays, economic boom for all the service sectors. Lower stress means reduced health care costs and probably just an all round happier society.
The average hunter-gatherer worked about five or ten hours a week to survive. With all our advances, it now takes 60 hours a week? That's bullshit.
I don't know where you got those figures, but the average hunter gatherer had a very low standard of living. Half his children died in infancy, he had no health care, in the winter he was cold, in the summer he was hot, he frequently starved. These days we still have such hunter gatherers in our society. They're called hobo's, and for lack of wild fruits and small game, their hunting ground is the dumpster. You could say they don't work many hours a week, but I'm doubtful that many of them consider it a very relaxing lifestyle.
Funny how in many other countries, people start with 5 weeks of paid vacation and 35 hour weeks, and still have higher productivity than here in the USA.
Europeans keep bringing this factoid up. This does not mean Europeans work harder or get more stuff done at the office. All this means is that because the welfarfe system and high taxes in Europe make unskilled work so much more expensive than in the US or Asia, a larger percentage of the GDP is produced by robots and computers.
It's not about taxes, it's about values and culture.
You're medical system is vastly superior to ours in the US, in a number of ways.
I'll gladly pay more in taxes to have a social medical system. At least I could start my own business and not worry about my children's health. I know a lot of start ups that dies becasue n they can't afford health care to people with experience.
I know a lot of people who can't go work for a start up becasue they need insurance.
When people talk about health insurance and the economy, they always ignore all the business that don't happen becasue we have insurance tied to jobs.
Whose medical system? A completely socialized one like in the UK and France, a completely private one like in Switzerland, or a hybrid like in Germany or the Netherlands? The only thing they have in common is some kind of regulation that guarantees universal access.
As far as starting your own business is concerned, I know that in at least one of those countries, being self employed means paying no payroll tax implies no access to things paid from payroll tax, so you'll still have to get your own private insurance.
They looked at the Y chromosome first, which is identical (barring random mutations) between men who share the same male ancestor, because women don't have a Y chromosome, so it does not get recombined in the offspring.
I find this method seriously scary due to the probability of a false positive. I mean, suppose you have a system that only fails once in a million times and the killer has already left the country. You ask the two million people in the metropolitan area to submit DNA. You get on average two matches. One doesn't have an alibi. You take him to trial and tell the jury that he not only doesn't have an alibi, he had a 1 in a million DNA match. It sounds pretty convincing. It is very possible the jury won't have the understanding of statistics to ask "was this a sweep or did you only test a couple of likely suspects?" Nor is it likely that the information will be volunteered by the court.
The one in a million false positives would apply if you took a million random, independent samples, it does not apply in this case.
First of all, this wasn't a 'DNA profile' they took (this was tried a decade ago and had no result), but a Y-chromosome match, intended to find male relatives of the killer. If matches were to be found, further circumstantial evidence would then be used to narrow the search down, and finally a full DNA profile would be taken to positively identify the killer.
There was circumstantial evidence that the killer was someone the victim knew, and probably lived within cycling distance of the crime scene. They didn't randomly test millions of people, but planned to test 8000 men who were between age 15 and 60 at the time, and lived within a roughly 2 mile radius of this rural village.
OTOH species that live in really cold climates (like polar bears) will go extinct because there won't be any really cold places left.
(And polar bears are not as useful to man as coffee)
And nothing of value was lost that day. I hate polar bears, those ugly, blood thirsty monsters. After what they've done, I don't expect anyone will miss them. Good riddance.
After the incident, I can't believe there are still some polar bear sympathizers around. Sickening.
Like with so many things, there are definite signs of diminishing returns when it comes to experience, especially in IT, as the more experience you have, the more of it will probably be in long forgotten and obsolete technologies.
In my experience, the sweet spot seems to be around 10 to 15 years.
They'll need someone to teach them spelling and punctuation too, and some social skills, as their dad obviously won't be much help there.
quick and dirty: cron jobs that wipe the history file every minute.
I thought of that in about 5 seconds.
The more canonical solution is rm ~/.bash_history && ln -s
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
