Uh... what are we trying to accomplish here? I'm politically naive, so maybe there's some subtlety I'm missing.
There's not really any politics involved here, just cronyism and lawyering crap. Suffice to say, you lose, and multinational corporates get a get out of jail card no matter what your politicos put in place to protect you and your country. International century of the corporations and their elites. You didn't really want your taxes going towards supporting your way of life, did you? Foolish backwards paranoiac thinking, that.
... despite the usual claims that such agreements have no effect on a country's ability to write and change laws.
Nobody who cares about this believes that !@#$ anymore. The problem is, those people are vastly outnumbered by those ("sheeple") who don't, and won't, care.
Crazy !@#$, and they will get away with it, due to the preceding.
Re: Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
Without it, one cannot possibly work for the Dark Side, without incurring the debilitating side effects of conscience, remorse and guilt.
Those are easily overcome with liberal doses of ethyl alcohol, which I'm quite sure he employs with great vigour. What congresscritter doesn't? Perhaps not Elizabeth Warren or reps from Utah (maybe), but they'll be exceptions to the rule.
Re: Re: Re: Looking forward to confirmation of the K9 being put down
My aunt pointed out the best dogs she's seen for attack / guard duty were search and rescue dogs who were trained to immobilize targets ...
Yes! That's exactly what they ought to be doing. Why don't cops understand this?!? Because they're militarized! They think they're fighting a war against domestic insurgents.
Their bosses should be brought up on war crimes charges. Maybe that'll force the point home. If they don't like it, maybe they shouldn't be trying to fight a war on their own people.
Mason, you're beginning to seriously damage my cool (to paraphrase Jayne (Firefly)). As for Uriel, remember Avatar? US forces in VietNam had no trouble whatever convincing themselves that they were just cleaning up the neighborhood by killing gooks, or anything that could be called a gook. The same happened in the century before last with the North American Natives. Generals who want to please their political masters will happily sink to the level of depravity necessary to do that, "for god and country."
So, while I agree with you it is possible to find wackos who would use a nuke, I can say with some confidence that they aren't commonplace. That holding the ability to kill a million people -- even a million of the most despicable enemy -- seems to have enough of a palpable gravity to give most of us pause.
Damn, there's a lot of wiggle room in there. We're doomed. All it takes is one MacArthur, or Curtis LeMay, or that shithead now running NATO currently attacking Eastern Ukraine, to convince the next GWB or the next Hirohito that "It'll be okay, trust me. This'll work."
I'm glad I won't live long enough to see it, or at least I hope I won't.
The phenomenon is industry wide (in North America, at least). I signed up with Shaw Cable (Canada) for Internet only (no cable TV, no phone, delivered over coax) and the introductory rate was "half price", ca. C$22/mo. At the end of the introductory six months, I now pay C$66/mo. When I questioned them on it, they saw nothing wrong with this and proceeded to offer to let me go for the "5" vs. "10" per month package instead, for five bucks less per mo. (woopee). Er, whut? 10 / 2 == 5, so shouldn't that make it 66 / 2 == 33? Silly me.
It's certainly a strange sort of arithmetic they use. I'm not done with them. I really want to know why they think 22 * 2 == 66.
I'm pretty sure it was the school's IT guy who was busted for that, not the teachers. I've not bothered to care what eventually happened to him. I hope he's breaking rocks, but shoveling pig shit for a living would be fine with me too.
That's not to suggest that there aren't paedos working as teachers (there are, and there appears to be a lot of them, especially in Britain, and especially female teachers; they're giving priests a run for their money).
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... is this not just another means of providing high quality access to some sites while others suffer?
Netflix has the same problem as on-line gaming and millisecond stock trading: latency is a killer. They don't want their subscribers having to wait for buffering. Netflix could work as any other network based app, but QoS (in Netflix case, no buffering) demands they go the extra mile, whereas less latency dependent apps don't. I don't much care when it takes time for a web page to display. People watching movies do.
It's in British Columbia, Canada, just North of Washington state. I believe it was in a town called Surrey. There's a huge amount of Asian and South Asian immigrants there. It was recently determined that Surrey's 52% non-caucasian. I've seen lots of rice-paddy style coolie hats in the fields while driving around on vacation, and that was decades ago. BC produce is practically a delicacy here; lots of berries, cherries, apples, asparagus, ... The unofficial name is "The Wet [sic] Coast." It seldom snows, but rains a lot (don't tell California! :-). Excellent agricultural climate due to the rain and the Alaskan current offshore.
Canada's history is littered with horrible racist incidents mostly caused by pro-British (obviously) sentiments. BC's past is one of the worst of them. They appear to be trying their best to atone for them, mostly, but it's slow going. They're still heavily racist in a lot of ways.
A ship showed up there around the turn of the last century (18nn - 19nn), filled with Seikh refugees. BC refused to let them come ashore! After months suffering appalling conditions on board, it eventually sailed back to India, where the British Raj essentially murdered them all. Pretty disgusting all around. Canada's treatment of Native Peoples wasn't much better. They/we have a lot to apologize for.
Re: Looking forward to confirmation of the K9 being put down
For the safety of the public, this animal must be put down.
I'm beginning to wonder if we ought to be using dogs in policing in the first place. Yes, their sense of smell is very useful, and they can be a powerful ally. However, they're animals. They can't testify in a trial and there's a lot of room for a corrupt (or incompetent) dog handler to abuse their abilities.
I can see them being useful for their tracking abilities, but as this case shows, they're quite capable of being little more than a hard to control loaded weapon.
I understand that it is better for 1,000 guilty people to go free to prevent the one innocent man to be put in prison (or killed) but is that really true, is that what we want?
Yes. I connect it with "for, of, and by the people" and all that. The people are supposed to have primacy per the Constitution. If you'd prefer it to be for, of, and by the state, move to France (or Quebec?). Napoleonic Code assumes guilty until proven innocent. I prefer ours over theirs. I think it's a far more enlightened form of governance, and far less inclined towards tyranny.
Why else are police allowed to break the laws they enforce if they are not being trained for some evil purpose
Occam's razor is your friend. Don't attribute anything to malice when ineptitude, laziness, stupidity ... can more easily explain it. If the powers that be intend to go all Nazi police state, there's very little to stop them from just going for it now. Or, perhaps they just prefer using the boil a frog strategy as it may ultimately be less messy in the end.
... and it's sent copies to three friends, and it's still recording, and you demand to speak with his superior officer, and you're making a citizen's arrest. "You're already boned, officer. Don't make it any worse for yourself."
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Have any police dog handlers been busted for training their dogs to alert on demand?
"Busted"? By whom? What world do you live in?
I was kind of hoping that the courts and judges might have stumbled over the stinky and thought to question whether shenanigans might be taking place. In theory, that's their job.
I'm still not sold that the site itself, like Netflix, that consumes a significant portion of overall backbone bandwidth shouldn't have to pay something extra to support building out the backbone ...
Netflix addresses that by supplying the ISPs with a "Content Delivery Network" (CDN) in house which removes pretty much all the load off the ISP, and ensures QoS to Netflix subscribers.
I think this is where a "conservative" steps in and starts ranting about "liberals" multi-cult pandering.
I cannot imagine why anyone would want to encourage non-English speakers to keep their foreign learned culture (to the exclusion of the traditional local culture) once they've emigrated to the US. The US was once known unabashedly as a melting pot for good reason. Why anyone would want to encourage enclaves of various minorities which are only barely able to communicate or understand each other, I don't understand. I've been in stores in these enclaves where there were no English speakers working there. A local govt. here had to step up and complain to a whole town that there seemed to be no English signage left.
Well, considering these things were going to kids and teachers, perhaps that's justifiable. Both of those entities are hell on hardware and heavily in need of tech support services. It's not like they're going to office workers who have to answer to their bosses when stuff gets broken.
That's what I'm wondering too. Why Apple even gets mentioned in this cockup, I don't know. They're taking a shitkicking in the press for this debacle (notice it's Apple in the subject line here too; not Pearson) for having supplied a software vendor's contract with the school district.
Apple should just refuse to have anything to do with deals involving Pearson, and maybe even try to sue the bastards out of existence.
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Re: What's the problem?
There's not really any politics involved here, just cronyism and lawyering crap. Suffice to say, you lose, and multinational corporates get a get out of jail card no matter what your politicos put in place to protect you and your country. International century of the corporations and their elites. You didn't really want your taxes going towards supporting your way of life, did you? Foolish backwards paranoiac thinking, that.
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Re: Not equal to, but above
Nobody who cares about this believes that !@#$ anymore. The problem is, those people are vastly outnumbered by those ("sheeple") who don't, and won't, care.
Crazy !@#$, and they will get away with it, due to the preceding.
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Re: Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
Those are easily overcome with liberal doses of ethyl alcohol, which I'm quite sure he employs with great vigour. What congresscritter doesn't? Perhaps not Elizabeth Warren or reps from Utah (maybe), but they'll be exceptions to the rule.
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Re: Re: Re: Looking forward to confirmation of the K9 being put down
Yes! That's exactly what they ought to be doing. Why don't cops understand this?!? Because they're militarized! They think they're fighting a war against domestic insurgents.
Their bosses should be brought up on war crimes charges. Maybe that'll force the point home. If they don't like it, maybe they shouldn't be trying to fight a war on their own people.
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Re: Thankfully, Star Wars is fiction
Damn, there's a lot of wiggle room in there. We're doomed. All it takes is one MacArthur, or Curtis LeMay, or that shithead now running NATO currently attacking Eastern Ukraine, to convince the next GWB or the next Hirohito that "It'll be okay, trust me. This'll work."
I'm glad I won't live long enough to see it, or at least I hope I won't.
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Re: Here's my story
It's certainly a strange sort of arithmetic they use. I'm not done with them. I really want to know why they think 22 * 2 == 66.
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Re: Free OC Cheese Pizza!
That's not to suggest that there aren't paedos working as teachers (there are, and there appears to be a lot of them, especially in Britain, and especially female teachers; they're giving priests a run for their money).
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Why is zero rating a bad thing?
Netflix has the same problem as on-line gaming and millisecond stock trading: latency is a killer. They don't want their subscribers having to wait for buffering. Netflix could work as any other network based app, but QoS (in Netflix case, no buffering) demands they go the extra mile, whereas less latency dependent apps don't. I don't much care when it takes time for a web page to display. People watching movies do.
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Canada's history is littered with horrible racist incidents mostly caused by pro-British (obviously) sentiments. BC's past is one of the worst of them. They appear to be trying their best to atone for them, mostly, but it's slow going. They're still heavily racist in a lot of ways.
A ship showed up there around the turn of the last century (18nn - 19nn), filled with Seikh refugees. BC refused to let them come ashore! After months suffering appalling conditions on board, it eventually sailed back to India, where the British Raj essentially murdered them all. Pretty disgusting all around. Canada's treatment of Native Peoples wasn't much better. They/we have a lot to apologize for.
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Re: Looking forward to confirmation of the K9 being put down
I'm beginning to wonder if we ought to be using dogs in policing in the first place. Yes, their sense of smell is very useful, and they can be a powerful ally. However, they're animals. They can't testify in a trial and there's a lot of room for a corrupt (or incompetent) dog handler to abuse their abilities.
I can see them being useful for their tracking abilities, but as this case shows, they're quite capable of being little more than a hard to control loaded weapon.
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Yes. I connect it with "for, of, and by the people" and all that. The people are supposed to have primacy per the Constitution. If you'd prefer it to be for, of, and by the state, move to France (or Quebec?). Napoleonic Code assumes guilty until proven innocent. I prefer ours over theirs. I think it's a far more enlightened form of governance, and far less inclined towards tyranny.
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Occam's razor is your friend. Don't attribute anything to malice when ineptitude, laziness, stupidity ... can more easily explain it. If the powers that be intend to go all Nazi police state, there's very little to stop them from just going for it now. Or, perhaps they just prefer using the boil a frog strategy as it may ultimately be less messy in the end.
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Re: Re: Re: Next case... unlawfully 'extending stop'
I was kind of hoping that the courts and judges might have stumbled over the stinky and thought to question whether shenanigans might be taking place. In theory, that's their job.
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Re: Re: Re: Why is zero rating a bad thing?
Netflix addresses that by supplying the ISPs with a "Content Delivery Network" (CDN) in house which removes pretty much all the load off the ISP, and ensures QoS to Netflix subscribers.
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Re: COME ON
"A million here, a million there; pretty soon you're talking about real money." Jeebus.
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I cannot imagine why anyone would want to encourage non-English speakers to keep their foreign learned culture (to the exclusion of the traditional local culture) once they've emigrated to the US. The US was once known unabashedly as a melting pot for good reason. Why anyone would want to encourage enclaves of various minorities which are only barely able to communicate or understand each other, I don't understand. I've been in stores in these enclaves where there were no English speakers working there. A local govt. here had to step up and complain to a whole town that there seemed to be no English signage left.
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That's what I'm wondering too. Why Apple even gets mentioned in this cockup, I don't know. They're taking a shitkicking in the press for this debacle (notice it's Apple in the subject line here too; not Pearson) for having supplied a software vendor's contract with the school district.
Apple should just refuse to have anything to do with deals involving Pearson, and maybe even try to sue the bastards out of existence.
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