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I don't see what the big advantage is of CEOs few have heard of being dragged in to nuke existing companies and rebuild them in the image of the old company he used to work at. Why not just nuke the company out of spite (or alternatively sell off all assets and give to charity if not spiteful) and have the CEO stay at the old place and keep doing the same thing. Same outcome but not as painfully dragged out.

Obviously if you keep doing multi billion dollar acquisitions, and then trash it all and fire everyone a couple years later when you switch CEOS, and then when things get even worse, fire that CEO with a golden parachute and bring it his cousin to do it all again, pretty soon your company headquarters are going to be an abandoned grassy field.

Talk about burn rate!

It's not a Like button, it's a privacy invading web tracker in the guise of a Like button, a disguise intended to colonize by trickery.

Germany's actions are the right thing to do.

This is your conclusion from reading about a class at the top university in the US offering completely free courses from renowned experts to anyone in the world who wishes to sign up? They are greedy bastards getting rich? That is really what you conclude from this story. Amazing.

Pointing out it's well nigh inevitable at this point due to systematic abuse of and disregard for human rights isn't saying that it is righteous or that the outcome will be good. Most revolutions lead to bad outcomes not good, but most revolutions are also inevitable. The British ubersurveillance police state experiment has gone too far and there are no signs of abating. This is not the only issue, there are others. It's pretty unlikely reform will come in time. It's not a wild pronouncement to note that the revolution has begun, it's just an observation of what is going on.

The day the Rodney King verdict was announced I took part in one of hundreds of peaceful protest marches, which were interrupted by fascist police who tried to round up participants for legally exercising their right to protest. The next day I had to make a delivery in LA and saw the riots. I got out of there as soon as I realized what was going on but I saw enough to know the city was being burned to the ground by a populace outraged over injustice, not a thugs looking for free TVs. I never said "Wow this sucks, look at those undisciplined animals rioting". Instead I said, "Wow, this sucks, look at what happens if you don't value justice in a society."

The sentence of 4 years in prison of this kid for posting on Facebook some nonsense he deleted a couple hours later inviting people to join him at McDonalds for a riot meetup that never happened is not justice. Nor is throwing a mother in prison because her flatmate brought home some looted clothes and she accepted a pair of shorts. That is the reign of terror. It is not justice, it is fascism and extremism at its worst. The people calling for violent and extreme punishment of the protestors are insane and their actions bring the destruction of their failed nation that much closer.

I agree that's going out on a limb, a bold move. It seems to me the adoption curve and history of Apple dropping fringe technologies they grow bored with after significant investment by a few firms will keep adoption far below FW rates. USB 3 has supplanted USB 2 for high speed disk access already. That battle is over and done with before Apple has even entered the race. Very high speed external disk access uses eSATA.

For video cameras, it will be USB 3 for everything other than Sony which has its own special precious non-compatible variation Thunderbolt that only works on VAIOs since Sony loves to play the special precious protocol game with their little princess friend Apple.

In 5 years no one will support Thunderbolt and Apple will be on to some new thing. Between now and then there will be at most a dozen devices supported, and all massively overpriced. The failure to adopt USB 3 and BluRay, in addition to their locking down their OS to be iOS with Big Screen will lead to Apple losing significant market share. After the big plunge in a few years, people will say that things all went wrong when Tim "Cost Cutting at any Cost" Cook was foolishly put at the helm rather than someone, anyone, with the slightest design sense, taste, or concern for the customer's experience.

Texting pricing is such a gigantic and well known scam that it's hard to have sympathy for its victims at this point in time. It's like a guy who keeps buying lemons from the same dishonest car salesmen and then asking why the guy is still in business. Um, he stays in business and gets away with this stuff because these people keep giving them money, that's how.

In the paper he states "I also prove the converse", meaning the iff clause is justified.

Just the concept of the proposition of this paper is pretty amazing. The author Philip Maymin is a serious bad ass for doing this proof. What a dude.

Tunisian riots started with people upset because of the way the police had abused some guy. Same as the UK. EXACT SAME THING. Not different at all. Police abuse provokes rioting that leads to the justified overthrow of the government. Only the ending turned out different.

This was not a dumb pointless soccer riot. It was provoked by the government violating the rights of the people. The people pushed back. Sometimes that turns violent. Sometimes it gets completely out of control. Sometimes it gets so out of control, that in the end the old regime is cast out and a new form of government instituted.

The French Revolution was no different. A bunch of hooligans mindlessly rioting and destroying things over some minor matter they should have just let go. But in the end, the king was dead, him and his wife's heads were cut off and spat upon.

This round the government got the upper hand. The people in the UK are not happy with how things are going. The revolution is not going to be this month, but it has started this month. The nation is already dead, having abused the people too long. Hard to say how much time they have before the final revolt, but it's obvious to this impartial outside observer that revolution is coming and the momentum is strong enough that throwing dissidents and fools in prison will only hasten its inevitable fall.

If you decide to come to the riot, could you bring the desert plates? Just a sack of 500 paper ones would be fine.

Famous case from World War I. There was a socialist party guy, Charles Schenck, who thought war was a bunch of BS and the draft was slavery. He printed up 15,000 tracts and passed them out to people. Oliver Wendall Holmes, a fascist if there ever was one, said that criticizing the government was the same thing as "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" and you had no right to to such a thing that might bring about a riot. So they sent Schenck to prison.

That was the wrong decision. As you are wrong here.

The problem with this nonsense is it is provoking people to go from posting gag calls for rioting to realizing the situation is so bad rioting isn't enough. Armed revolution is what is needed. The violent overthrow of the government is inevitable at this point.

Yeah, I agree. Being non-encrypted is better because they know it is being broadcast to one and all and therefore will continue to not be broadcasting sensitive information such as the identity of informants and such. With encryption, police will start talking about all sorts of new stuff because they believe it is safe to talk about on the encrypted airwaves. But in reality, although the public will no longer be able to hear what is said, there is absolutely no doubt that the major crime syndicates will have completely open access.

Hm, this subthread seems pretty afar off topic, but I'll sincerely say that if there is a God and He is Just, then it makes sense that he "Hates America" like they say. The US has become such an imperialist corporate police state. This coming from a reformed former rah rah america guy. So... Westboro has a point to some of their stuff. As far as protesting soldier funerals, why not? Soldiers spreading american imperialism, murdering children, torturing innocent people. Sure, if God exists and is fair, he hates that stuff and knowing those guys are burning in hell could be a lot of comfort to some.

I should state I'm not trolling, but I realize I'll probably get downvoted to hell for this since there is probably no one else in the US that will stand up and say they have something of a point, and also that free speech includes telling bereaved soldier parents their lost child is burning in hell, even though that is a pretty shocking thing to do and it would make more sense to keep that belief to yourself. But they don't. They advertise their politically incorrect beliefs to the world. Takes a lot of balls and a bit of craziness. I certainly wouldn't do it. It took me 10 years to get to the point where I would dare to post this one note which I'll probably chicken out and delete in a bit.

But what if everyone said what they really thought about things? Probably there would be utter chaos. I was reading today that a majority of britons believe the police should have used live ammunition to massacre the "rioters" (protesters). That opinion I find FAR more psychotic and offensive than what the nuts at Westboro are preaching. I find the advocacy of using live rounds to massacre protesting civilians in the UK to be utterly depraved and insane. That there is a majority that supports this means the world has gone insane and whatever the democratic majority wants or thinks no longer matters because they are as evil and crazy as the lunatics in Germany that elected the Fuhrer and then encouraged him to get rid of undesirables. It wasn't just the Fuhrer's plan all by himself, it was what the evil people wanted. That level of public evil and madness is what I see in Europe and the US today in the general public. A bunch of crazy dangerous people. God hates them? I sure hope so.

Yes, that should teach them a lesson.

Hey we're "having a riot" out by the McDonalds on Orangethorpe Avenue in Anaheim tomorrow at 4pm. Hope you can make it, assuming free speech still exists in the US, unlike the british police state we fought to free ourselves from.

PS come and get me coppers.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=laugh%20riot

We also should arrest all the people in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya who rioted in their countries this year as well. Disorder must not be tolerated! Government power above all else! Bow before your gods, peasants!

I agree completely. Young guys don't realize that if a "businessman" doesn't have enough cash on hand to pay for even basic expenses to start a big fancy business, there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that he has the business acumen to run a company profitably should it against all expectations survive. It's a no-win situation. You either will never get paid or you'll be working for a company run by someone who doesn't know how to run a business beyond talking some sucker into developing product for free.

The OP's comments about how he wasn't some greedy person looking for a fat check shows he's a bit deluded as well. It's not greedy to get paid for the hard work you do that benefits others, and it's a peculiar mental illness in our industry that many claim it is greedy to be paid. It is not only perfectly fine to be paid for your work, it's fine to be paid very well if you are very good, and there is no shame or greed in doing so.

Encouraging people to shake a laptop containing a hard drive is not advisable.

I'm with you: I was wondering the same thing. Some people are downvoting your reasonable and polite comment voicing a sensible concern. This sort of downvoting activity directed towards quality comments are ruining this site by trying to create a popularity club where conformity to groupthink is enforced through the threat of downvotes.

As far as App store goes, many programs will never be available on the app store. Customers who think that represents a significant burden and want to write long essays about that are not likely to be the sort of customers you want any way.

This makes no sense to me. It says it stops cmd-Q from losing your work. Every program I have seen asks if you want to save unchanged edits before it closes the window following reception of a quit. Now, Lion has a new paradigm available for quitting, but it autosaves and versions all unsaved edits, so you also don't lose your work. How are people losing their work from pressing cmd-Q? In 25 years of using Macs off and on I've never had that problem.

OK thanks, so it sounds like you're saying that if the government allows even small peaceful protests, these could turn into larger ones that threaten the existing power structures, therefore protests should not be permitted at all?

Words like "irrational" are propaganda and "how to change their mind" suggests that people should be drinking cleaned sewer water provided by a municipality whose equipment is run by drug addicts and losers, and equipment provided by the lowest bidder.

Wait you are saying the key advantage of US taxpayers funding this is people overseas in paypal blocked countries (Libya, North Korea...) get it for free?

It's a pretty good suggestion, weird it's getting downvotes.

OK, I have to ask what is the meaning behind that comment. I do understand you are referring to the Tiananmen Square protests.

The actual event referenced by the article was the opening of the Symphony season, which is an event available to anyone who wishes to purchase a ticket. No actual red carpet was in evidence in the photos. Those who attend and wear clothes by top designers are more likely than others to get their photo in the society page. It's not really about tech people being respected in the bay area in this example, it's about tech people who happen to be interested in the arts and who also wear clothes that cost a few thousands of dollars.

I do agree with everyone she is a techie.

What did people think of the article's use of opening night at the opera and symphony as examples of attaining insider social event status in the bay area? I am a bit skeptical of this since opening night is not by invitation only, seats are available to whoever wants to buy a ticket. On the other hand, most charity galas and such that end up on the social register page are also available to whoever has the money to buy a ticket as well.

"The safety of our customers is our No. 1 priority, and we're going to do what we can to keep people safe," Allison said. "We're just going to leave it at that."

If the people running the BART system were so concerned about BART customers' safety, they wouldn't have been shooting unarmed customers in the back of the head with a pistol while sitting on top of them after assaulting them. That's the thing the people want to protest, and they say the protest can not be allowed because of "safety". BART is not concerned about safety. BART is an unsafe system because their own employees murder the customers.

What were your thoughts about the fact that the world's leading expert on the topic, whom he cited in his article, responded in the comments pointing out his errors, and he responded with personal remarks and no facts? That doesn't sound like a professional statistician to me, it sounds like a child.

Hate to say it but the guy who wrote that article seems very unprofessional to me. He says he gives As to all his students for everything they do regardless of quality because it makes them feel good about themselves and like him more. Then he suggests that other teachers who don't also do this are elitists who had it easy and don't want newcomers in their A club. Then he bemoans that it is impossible to assign different grades without standardized tests.

Wherever he is teaching must not be a very good school (edit: ah Berkeley; it's overrated), everything he says is bunk.

And yes, I have taught elementary, high school and college classes. I don't do grades for elementary, but for high school and college it is not difficult at all to assign objective grades for work done. Also, the students respect you less not more when you just give out all As. Most students respect fair, impartial and realistic grading. Those who don't probably shouldn't be in college anyway.

It's also OK to do as Reed College does and keep the grades in a private file in the event of subsequent grad school transcripts needed, and instead evaluate each student with written essays and never let them see any grades. No grades at all is better than all As. Giving all As does not make you a "nice guy" any more than giving out free crack samples so people "like you" makes you a nice guy. The people don't really like you because you give them free crack, and you're not really a nice person because you do this. Wow, why isn't this obvious to people. It's amazing I have to even say this.

> Children with ADHD have a significantly higher rate of missing or duplicated DNA segments compared to other children

The problem with this study is they looked at kids who had been diagnosed and were on long term drug therapy. This is similar to studies that show that ADHD diagnosees on long term drug therapy have "brain damage", which matches the brain damage of long term stimulant users. The findings are not an indicator of ADHD, they are indicators of brain and genetic damage from long term drug use.

Much more effective than Ritalin, and safer, for treating ADHD is the prescription drug Desoxyn. It's not used as much because of the stigma of taking methamphetamine hydrochloride. I mention this because everyone agrees that methamphetamine is not an innocuous drug to take long term, the same goes for Ritalin, they both have very similar effects on brain chemistry.