I used to get paid scads to develop SEO strategies and tactics to cajole Google to list sites on page one above the fold. Avoid the court cases, and just let these greedy, ignorant whiners die in their own filth.
"Better still, recipients are now allowed to challenge NSL gag orders within one year of receiving them."
This statement alone most perfectly limns the current picture. To interpret: in America, you're now required to wait ONLY a year to appeal suppressions of civil rights without terror of reprisals by the secret police.
Who knows but that soon (nay, even possibly within a few generations!) one might not need to be a major corporation assisted by a major, public policy interest group to accomplish the enforcement of fundamental, Constitutional rights?
'Preciate your sensitivity, but just make it easiest on yourselves. You've got bigger fish to fry. We're grown-ups...mostly. We can tune the Interwebz for ourselves as needed.
Telling the emperor (or his AG) about his wardrobe is not usually rewarded outside of fairy tales. If Señor Sanchez ever crosses a U.S. border outbound, I wish him luck getting back in.
> Richard's comment demonstrates his immaturity and ignorance. That's so wonderfully knee-jerk.
> He seems to think we surrender our accumulated experience, knowledge and capacity to think on the 60th birthday. I didn't, but recognize the existing meme that "we do" as is so frequently portrayed in the wider media, especially "re" the pseudo-news sellouts such as Fox.
> As to the 60 wasted minutes, what a bunch of crap...(blah, blah, blah). Huh?! Oh, this was not a REAL, considered remark. It was some sort of trollishly taking-my-comment-as-an-excuse (with an agist pretense) remark. Never mind...damn, I fed a troll. (BTW - "hypocrisy" - old fella, unless you meant rule by hippopotami, and I think my first or second comment on joining was about Snowden's admirable patriotism...sort o' "non sequitur" vous.)
Given the commercial success of Fox and MSNBC as propaganda outlets in sheep's, um - news', clothing, CBS HAS to do something "artistic" to maintain an audience. This is simply another network programming for the average 60+ year-old crowd with an all-the-"news"-the-way-you-wish-it-was approach.
What is the average usage of people on your network today?
XFINITY Internet customers’ median monthly data usage is 17 GB per month.
(emphasis added)
Now, class, let's review "measures of centrality" - mean (average), mode, and median. Mode is just the most frequently occurring value. Median is the value above and below which exactly half of the values fall. Mean is the numerical average. A small median can be entirely consistent with a very large mean. For instance, consider the set O = {0, 0, 1, 1000, 1000}. The median is 1 - half the values (the 0's) are below 1, and half (the 1000's) are above it. The mean on the other hand is about 400, quite a bit bigger than 1.
So, what does it mean when Comcast cites the median in response to questions about the average monthly use? Other than Comcast is lying, there's no way to be sure.
From the "we'd-rather-look-stupidly-insensitive-than-be-legally-liable" department. Oh, wait - now we're being held liable for looking stupid. Reverse that pendulum (for now)!
Presuming that some of the implied reforms occur in any generally noteworthy degree, these new non-zero tolerance policies will produce a few mistakes ("hey, this isn't a 'faux' thug - it's a real thug"). With non-zero, they'll keep a few that zero would 'a' kicked. Some of these unkicked social maladroits will crush, kill, and destroy. The resulting what-were-you-thinking recriminations and associated lawsuits will arrest the pendulum and reverse its arc again.
School administrators need real authority to enforce reasonable standards with corresponding responsibility to make decisions without the risk of total legal destruction either personal or for their systems. As long as lawyers and their intestinally parasitic clients are permitted to circle the waters in the fashions that led to zero-tolerance, the swing is unlikely to establish a lasting change.
Until sanely adult balances between authority and responsibility are reflected in all levels of this equation, the pendulum will simply swing...just like it currently does with everything else.
"Awkward" as in "self-incriminating to admit the vastness of the overreach as regards the rights of citizens"? "Awkward" as in - "embarrassing to confess the terrifying degree of totalitarian fascism the numbers imply"?
Who but Canadians (if even they) will notice?
Huzzah (a vast improvement?)!?
This statement alone most perfectly limns the current picture. To interpret: in America, you're now required to wait ONLY a year to appeal suppressions of civil rights without terror of reprisals by the secret police.
Who knows but that soon (nay, even possibly within a few generations!) one might not need to be a major corporation assisted by a major, public policy interest group to accomplish the enforcement of fundamental, Constitutional rights?
Re: Re: By all means, let's do that
NoScript Also Serves My Needs
"Ami's a VERY Smart 'Girl'"
'nuff said.
(untitled comment)
Doing almost anything productive...
For less than $100, you can buy a trailing edge box on Ebay and put up a Freenet node. The more, the merrier.
Everybody Limbo!
Justice Stings
Surely this is Onionesque satire...
Re: Ageism comment
That's so wonderfully knee-jerk.
> He seems to think we surrender our accumulated experience, knowledge and capacity to think on the 60th birthday.
I didn't, but recognize the existing meme that "we do" as is so frequently portrayed in the wider media, especially "re" the pseudo-news sellouts such as Fox.
> As to the 60 wasted minutes, what a bunch of crap...(blah, blah, blah).
Huh?! Oh, this was not a REAL, considered remark. It was some sort of trollishly taking-my-comment-as-an-excuse (with an agist pretense) remark. Never mind...damn, I fed a troll. (BTW - "hypocrisy" - old fella, unless you meant rule by hippopotami, and I think my first or second comment on joining was about Snowden's admirable patriotism...sort o' "non sequitur" vous.)
Re: Re: Re: Re: CBS is finally in the game!
Re: Re: CBS is finally in the game!
CBS is finally in the game!
"...somewhat technologically clueless..."
Lies, damned lies, and... Comcast press releases and FAQs
From: http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-average-network-usage
Top 5 Data Usage FAQs
What is the average usage of people on your network today?
XFINITY Internet customers’ median monthly data usage is 17 GB per month.
(emphasis added)
Now, class, let's review "measures of centrality" - mean (average), mode, and median. Mode is just the most frequently occurring value. Median is the value above and below which exactly half of the values fall. Mean is the numerical average. A small median can be entirely consistent with a very large mean. For instance, consider the set O = {0, 0, 1, 1000, 1000}. The median is 1 - half the values (the 0's) are below 1, and half (the 1000's) are above it. The mean on the other hand is about 400, quite a bit bigger than 1.
So, what does it mean when Comcast cites the median in response to questions about the average monthly use? Other than Comcast is lying, there's no way to be sure.
For related fun and games, check out...
http://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheCustomer/comments/1rcct8/comcast_service_an_oxymoron/
Reversing swing of pendulum...
Presuming that some of the implied reforms occur in any generally noteworthy degree, these new non-zero tolerance policies will produce a few mistakes ("hey, this isn't a 'faux' thug - it's a real thug"). With non-zero, they'll keep a few that zero would 'a' kicked. Some of these unkicked social maladroits will crush, kill, and destroy. The resulting what-were-you-thinking recriminations and associated lawsuits will arrest the pendulum and reverse its arc again.
School administrators need real authority to enforce reasonable standards with corresponding responsibility to make decisions without the risk of total legal destruction either personal or for their systems. As long as lawyers and their intestinally parasitic clients are permitted to circle the waters in the fashions that led to zero-tolerance, the swing is unlikely to establish a lasting change.
Until sanely adult balances between authority and responsibility are reflected in all levels of this equation, the pendulum will simply swing...just like it currently does with everything else.
"...awkward..." - I don't think that word means...
Let it go...
"...which the court itself has ordered to be revealed..."
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