Comment Re:www.FoxNews.com (Score 1, Troll) 346
Fox News would rather you forget that half-truths are still whole lies
Comment Re:Points to consider (Score 1) 506
Religion is a business of its own
Comment Re:School::politics (Score 1) 386
Surprise, you didn't RTEFA. The very last paragraph of your article says:
"Both lobbyists must make payments to the pension plan to purchase credit for their past union years, and they are required to pay compounded interest. Over the last five years, after the lobbyists joined the plan, the two men and their union have made standard payments into the fund."
Basically they have to pay for every year they're claiming plus the interest that it would have netted.
Book Review: Reverse Deception 43
benrothke writes "Advanced persistent threat (APT) is one of the most common information security terms used today and it is an undeniably real and dangerous menace. Wikipedia notes that APT's usually refer to a group, such as a foreign government, with both the capability and the intent to persistently and effectively target a specific entity. The term is commonly used to refer to cyber threats, in particular that of Internet-enabled espionage using a variety of intelligence gathering techniques to access sensitive information, but applies equally to other threats such as that of traditional espionage or attack. Every organization of size and scope is a target, and many of the world's largest firms and governments have been victims. In Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation, Dr. Max Kilger and his co-authors provide an effective counterintelligence approach in which to deal with APT. The good news is that the authors provide an effective framework. The bad news is that creating an effective defense is not an easy undertaking." Keep reading below for the rest of Ben's review.
Comment Re:Good. (Score 2) 421
and you are correct...
Comment Re:Good. (Score 2) 421
The going over the fiscal cliff and the hitting the debt ceiling are two separate things. We won't hit the debt ceiling until at least mid January...
Comment Re:Let's hear it for the beancounters (Score 2) 432
Do you think the guy who used to make $50k and paid $15k in taxes now suddenly has $50k to spend? Nope. To pay for the corporate taxes, the guy's employer has to drop his salary to $35k/yr. Or they have to raise their prices, meaning that the $50k the guy takes home can now only buy as much as $35k used to buy when he was paying $15k in personal income taxes.
Nope! If they were bringing in $1,000,000 before his salary of $50k, they would end up paying taxes on the $950,000. Any money spent that is essential for the operation of a business, is not taxed. That is why stock dividends are paid out after taxes; they are not essential for the running a of business.
Comment Where can it dock? (Score 5, Funny) 438
Too bad it needs a proprietary port
Comment Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. (Score 1) 795
So yeah, it's great for people who come from other countries to work, but it came at the expense of the American people who used to be able to afford vacations, health care, and college but now no longer can.
We can still afford it, we just use credit to make up the difference. The only time we should worry is when the banks stop handing out that credit... like 4 years ago.
Comment Re:You make ADHD sound like a good thing (Score 1) 487
I agree that there are pluses and minuses to having ADHD. I'm able to keep track of a huge amount of information, however, getting that information out in a manner that makes sense is extremely difficult without the medication. Writing essays for school is a challenge because the transition from a thought in my head gets garbled by the time I write it on paper.
One of the funny things about having ADHD is that you're able to follow someone with ADHD quite easily, while everyone else is confused.
One of the funny things about having ADHD is that you're able to follow someone with ADHD quite easily, while everyone else is confused.
Comment Re:Is this different from sport? (Score 1) 487
It doesn't help a person WITHOUT ADHD to think any better, that is the key difference. ADHD medications will just make a regular person hyper, not focused.
Comment Re:Is this different from sport? (Score 4, Informative) 487
ADHD medications don't actually improve your ability to remember and think. They allow the taker to concentrate on the task at hand, without the brain going onto different topics because of key words. Think of the recent Microsoft Bing commercial where two people are talk, then one of the people starts talking about a different subject because of a word. Then other people start talking about other things and before long it turns to chaos. That's what it is like to have ADHD, but in your brain.
AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address 108
pigrabbitbear writes "AOL, still looking to reboot itself from the dialup days, is shooting to actually change the way we deal with email. The company's new service, called Alto, isn't a new email client. You don't have to sign up for yet another email address, because as David Temkin, AOL's senior VP of mail said, 'We need another email address like we need a hole in the head.' Instead, Alto, which is in limited release starting today, is designed to be an intelligent aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Comment Re:Deer cams (Score 1) 340
Fill the empty "surveillance cameras" with C4 and a movement sensor. Much more effective.
Last "thoughts" of the sensor: "I see something! I see something!" **BOOM**
Comment Re:9.11.2000 Never Forget (Score 1) 119
You got the date wrong, it was 2001
