Comment Re:I know how to make it go faster... (Score 1) 163
If there is one industry that does not care one bit what the public think of them, its airlines.
If there is one industry that does not care one bit what the public think of them, its airlines.
Completely off topic: what would be the best way to physically disable the wifi capability of a device. Obviously you can disable in software, but I'm the paranoid sort, and would love a way of knowing that my IP web cam is not gonna be doing anything with that wifi antenna. Thinking maybe some kind of terminator or some other way of "absorbing" the signals.
That's easy - dunk it in water. You'll obtain the exact functionality you are asking for.
"THIS" is becoming the new "me too". Knock it off already; this is not an AOL chatroom.
So? How bad was the inevitable clusterfuck? Did the consultants ever get it working at all?
Right, because France is full of Republican legislators.
I don't understand why every business doesn't just pull out of France altogether. It can't be worth staying in a place where the government does everything in the absolute dumbest way possible. Whenever I hear of American government stupidity stories I remind myself that at least I don't have to live in France.
You could not be more wrong. There is nothing in the comment you replied to that say anything of the sort you are claiming. The former EPA employee simply wanted to replace obsolete regulations with some that are more applicable in the modern world. You then set up your own strawman argument to attack him.
What would be wrong with tying the sunsetting of old regulations to the implementation of new ones? This law replaces the old law, etc. That way you wouldn't have to worry about old ones going away without new ones to replace them.
Public opinion is turning sharply towards favoring legalization of marijuana. If the DEA did what you said and swooped in, that would backfire big. Congressmen would be talking about chopping the DEA's budget down to basically nothing, because its what the people would want to hear.
You're missing the point which is that the DEA *knows* the evidence can't be used in court. The DEA instead uses the evidence to surveil the person they are after to later catch them in the act or catch them in possession or whatever. In other words - the illegal spying just lets them know that criminal acts are going on and allows them to follow up with methods that are legal to actually catch the person in the act.
There is legal precedent establishing that this *may* be legal (quote from a techdirt article earlier today):
And the problem with this is?
Politicians (mainly Democrats) want a permanent black underclass in order to foster dependency which leads to an easily exploitable constituency. What do Democrats gain from this? Lots of social programs for their buddies to administer, and a lifetime of votes from the dependent underclass. After I moved to Chicago I learned all about this, as Chicago is the home of Jesse Jackson the master race baiter.
Although I'm all in favor of marijuana decriminalization, I also don't believe that prisons are full of people who have done nothing more than get arrested with a little bit of weed. Groups like NORML tend to exaggerate this a lot. They claim someone is locked up "just for pot" when in fact they had enough to be considered a dealer along with an illegal firearm. Quite a bit of difference.
Pandering to minorities = more votes for Democrats.
healthcare.gov wasn't written by coders. It was written by politicians and PHBs, which is why it will never function properly no matter what. All the heavy CS thinkers in the world couldn't have changed this.
To add to this: interviewers asking lazy questions (What is your greatest weakness?) should expect lazy, canned answers (I work too hard). If you want to gauge someone's critical thinking skills, ask a creative question requiring original thought to answer. Not some question that can be found on a list of 50 top interview questions.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.