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He was distrustful of doctors for the course of his life, and subscribed to herbal/folk medicines. The reason why he funded so much medical science is mostly that Frederick T. Gates, the manager of his philanthropic affairs, managed to persuade him to do so.
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This area of law is complicated, but the answer is: a little of each.

The usual strategy is to circumvent sovereign immunity through a nifty legal trick: sue agents of the government in their individual capacity. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_actions

That appears to be what they did here. Note that the first defendant is Donald Trump, not the United States. (This presents its own set of challenges, that I'm glossing over here. But this is the general approach.)

There are also statutes waiving sovereign immunity in a number of cases. The Federal Torts Claims Act is the big one. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/2674
You don't need a visa (H1B or otherwise), the Canadian border is just like the US border with Mexico: open. Anyone can migrate to Canada from the US, just walk across (or drive on up). If "caught", they won't send you back to the US (or wherever). You can get a job, get (free) healthcare, a driver's license, the works—you don't need documentation at all (or can fake it, just like in the US). Why people migrating from Mexico stop in the US is beyond me—Canada has a way better policy towards immigrants, they love undocumented workers! Canada even has sanctuary cities (like Toronto), and unlike the US, Trudeau isn't attacking them, he's praising them!

Canada completely rocks when it comes to immigration policy and is exactly how globalism in the US should be: welcome everyone, from anywhere—no papers, no problem! We're all people after all.
Linux Mint has issues - http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-...
Why can't something as complex as a historical change have multiple causes? And when the rise of social/economic inequality is such a clearly-evidenced part of the mix, why should those who have reaped unsustainable benefits from an unfair system not share part of the responsibility?

I'm not exculpating the ethno-nationalist forces (leaders or followers). They are dangerous and wrong (and their more moderate fellow travellers have allowed, for ignoble motives, nasty stuff to fester now for decades).

But when you have a rising class allocating ever rising shares of the world's wealth to itself, resentments will build. The Gates & Thiels of this world are fairly invulnerable and can buy themselves more fiercely guarded and gilded palaces to hide in (ever higher as the oceans rise). But for the rest, you would think even self-interest (let alone ethics) would have encouraged them to use their wealth and power to argue for a fairer polity. They didn't, and it's too late now: here comes the backlash with dizzying speed. It looks to me like we're beyond reason and are headed for widening violence and wars. I hope I'm wrong.
> Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals who this time managed to take down the entire key system.

> Yet according to the hotel, the hackers left a back door open in the system, and tried to attack the systems again.

I think that answers probably why the ransom was only a 1K EUR or so. It was turning to be into some kind of a rent or protection scheme.
Why not trying any systemd-less Linux distro?

E.g. Guix is a very cool Nix-like distro.
He and his Cabinet could be held in contempt of court.
Yeah, the pizza parlor really blew the lid off if things, didn't it? Get real, timing had a LOT to do with it.
You know there's a certain irony that I would never ever use a modem that I can't turn off the XFinity wifi crap, but I absolutely love having the ability to use other people's XFinity wifi. I pretty much have access to free wifi everywhere because of it, even spent two weeks in my new apartment mooching off someone else's wifi until I could get fiber installed.
Former Vice President Biden promised that the U.S. would take covert action to punish Russia for interfering with the U.S. election.

What better way to do that than to plant fake evidence implicating the IT people involved for treason and thus provoking doubt, fear, and internal conflict within the FSB?

The folks at the C.I.A. are perfectly capable of this sort of thing and would delight in doing it.
Can someone with vouching powers vouch for the author, tiffany qi, who has been shadowbanned?
> it's easier to develop products based on Internet standards than isolated proprietary protocols

Building on TCP/IP is just fine (in-fact recommended) -- just keep that network physically isolated to the location it's implemented at.
There is no 'Muslim Ban'.

Here is the impact of the executive order on the largest Muslim populations in the world.

1. Indonesia - 204,847,000 - not banned

2. Pakistan- 178,000,000 - not banned

3. India - 172,000,000 - not banned

4. Bangladesh - 145,607,000 - not banned

5. Nigeria - 93,839,000 - not banned

6. Iran - 74,819,000 - temporary ban

7. Turkey - 74,660,000 - not banned

8. Egypt - 73,800,000 - not banned

9. Algeria - 40,400,000 - not banned

10. Sudan - 39,027,950 - temporary ban

Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
That's because video of breathing exercises on Instagram/Facebook won't garner as many likes as impressive as a scorpion pose on the mountain top.

Let's be honest, a good number of yoga practitioners here in the West do it for superficial reasons instead of actual personal improvement.
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I generally do. We are a long way from an actual civil war. I am hoping the left is able to view the 2nd Amendment in a more positive light post-election, and hopefully moderate some of the more asinine manifestations of gun control put into place here in California.

If there is one thing about modern liberalism that boggles my mind, it is the simultaneous mistrust of police departments and the government in general, but also believing that ordinary citizens should not be allowed to own semi-automatic rifles. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I once worked somewhere with magnetic locks and a decent shove easily opened the door. We did this for smoke breaks as our magstripe cards noted every time we left the control room.
U.S. sets 5-year and lifetime lobbying ban for officials
"If <x> doesn't work, you're not doing enough of it!"
Why would a North American self driving car have to handle Indian traffic?
And it said you don't need to vent if you use the filter.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/21824-licenses-to...

There are only about 300 doctors with the correct licence to prescribe diamorphine to addicts.

http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/uk-focal-point-report-2014.pdf

> Drug treatment in the UK encompasses a range of available treatments and services including community (and primary-care) based prescribing, community one-to-one and group-based psychosocial interventions to support recovery, inpatient treatment, day programmes, and quasi and fully residential drug treatment and rehabilitation support. Prescribing (principally methadone) for drug dependence is provided for stabilisation, detoxification, maintenance and relapse prevention. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)107 also provides guidance on a number of drug-treatment related topics and these are reviewed and updated regularly based on the latest evidence. Treatment interventions in any given area are expected to include advice and information, care planning, psychosocial interventions, community prescribing, inpatient drug treatment and residential rehabilitation. In addition, drug misusers should be offered relapse-prevention and aftercare programmes; hepatitis B vaccinations; testing for hepatitis B and C and HIV; access to hepatitis and HIV treatment; and needle exchange. Oral opioid substitution treatment (OST) with methadone is the most common pharmacological treatment used in treating heroin addiction; buprenorphine is also prescribed and injectable opioids, such as injectable methadone and injectable diamorphine, are also available but are not commonly used. Naltrexone108 is recommended as a treatment option to prevent relapse in detoxified formerly opioid- dependent people who are highly motivated to remain in an abstinence-based programme

There's some guidance available:
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/guidance-o...

Here's some statistics about numbers of people going into treatment. Frustratingly they don't appear to break it down by treatment type.
https://www.ndtms.net/Publications/downloads/Adult%20Substan...
I agree with you that the content was absolutely damaging.

The Podesta leaks began 1 hour after Trump's pussy-grabbing video was published, and continued every single day until November 9th. The timing was absolutely strategic and politically motivated. If you still think the timing wasn't relevant, I have a bridge to sell you.
My wife and I, after years of excellent service from Amazon, had a couple spectacular failures. It was always from their India-based customer service, not resolved by talking to supervisors, required multiple calls and hours. In each case, after doing our best to get things resolved, we emailed Jeff Bezos directly. His executive care team efficiently and satisfactorily resolved our complaints. We hope that we're driving meaningful change there, and we appreciate his team patching things up, but it would be far better if the India folks would just get it right the first time.
It says you don't need to vent if you use the filter.
#FakeNews.

It only applies to a small number of VISA HOLDERS at airports.

Thankfully anyone else who tries to get on a plane will be stopped before they board.

Thank God for Trump.
Dual citizens do not require visa issuance.

The order is about denying visas to foreign nationals and denying status to some refugees and directing the various departments to submit plans, etc on a timeline.

The only reference required to back up this claim is the text of the order itself? The NYTimes has the full text for you to read at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...
Alpine Linux is pretty awesome as well.

https://forum.alpinelinux.org/forum/general-discussion/alpin...
So beautiful to watch. Order in chaos
Are US natural citizens denied the ability to get a foreign citizenship?
The "peep" is national media coverage. The insinuation of the GGP was that mainstream media did not cover this fact. Given the reputation of the NYTimes as the US newspaper of record, the article I cite is the journalistic equivalent of using a bullhorn.

The fact that people did not protest the 2011 executive order which suspended the approval of visa applications from Iraq indicates people were not unduly alarmed.

In the present case, however, many people believe that the indiscriminate ban on immigration from 7 majority-Muslim nations is immoral and possibly a violation of the US Constitution. The protests indicate that public opinion opposes this administration's executive action.

In other words, the media were very "loud" about Obama's 2011 and Trump's 2017 executive actions halting immigration.

The people, however, see these two things very differently, as well they should.

EDIT: grammar, readability, clarification of subject in second paragraph, change metaphor from "shouting" to "using a bullhorn".
We have the NRA to protect the 2nd amendment. The ACLU can focus on the other ones. There's no need to try and put it all under one tent: a lot of the pro 2nd amendment folks would not be happy supporting the other things ACLU fights for (separation of church and state, etc.)

Nothing precludes you from being a member of both.
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I've been considering donating but never had until just now. I was going to give $10/mo but kicked it up to $15/mo on your behalf so you don't have to worry about donating yourself and experiencing negative consequences as a result. Good luck on obtaining your citizenship.
> But the average technically illiterate user has even shallower mental models for their computer than for their car, and is disinclined to attempt any amount of diagnosis.

When have you truly encountered this? If you read through the article, the behavior the guy complains about is actually users going through the process of building a mental model of what their computer does.

E.g. the woman from the article expects PowerPoint presentations to just work despite Internet video being blocked, because she has a (correct) mental model that PowerPoint presentations should be local. This is what I would expect from someone who was trying to understand their computer and has made an honest attempt at diagnosis.

I've dealt with a lot of relatively computer illiterate users, including friends and family, and I can count on my fingers the number of times I've felt someone was being willfully ignorant. 95% of the time, people are making an honest effort to learn, and bashing them for not knowing everything yet is a very unfair reaction.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an opium addiction too. We should legalize drugs and help people who get addicted, not just ban substances that some people use responsibly.
I didn't really mind it that much, I mostly found it amusing that students were so worried about taking up too much time that they'd end up taking more. And you're right, if it was one of the regulars, I definitely didn't mind, and I'd sometimes tease them mildly about it.
> Yes, and?

Yes, and therefore it is not the case that "[It] depends on the President currently in power. The judiciary has no real authority to enforce anything." See GP.

> Would you like a list of decrees ignored by previous Presidents?

I would. But as you try to assemble it, bear in mind that the relevant task is to find cases where court orders have been ignored, not "legally circumvented." You will find some of the latter, of course. But I doubt you'll find too many of the former.

I with you agree that executive orders are especially difficult to challenge in court. I also agree with you that, for this and other reasons, executive orders generally have become pretty troubling from both a political and legal standpoint. But neither of these are the claims I was addressing in my comment.
Front page at the moment 30 stories, only one that concerns current US politics. I think you can avoid politics pretty easily.
I am highly skeptical people were "locked" in their rooms. I'm guessing it was mostly hyperventilating tourists breathlessly telling the reporter how they were "locked in" their rooms since they couldn't leave and get back in. More like "Bob and I were locked in our room overnight! We couldn't even go downstairs for a nightcap!" vs. "Bob and I were pounding on the door trying to get out for hours!".

Locked in on their own volition, essentially. I've traveled a little bit, and I've yet to stay in a hotel that you needed anything electronic to exit.
Well, for certain values of "hidden" that include 40 minute long demos of product on Youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f86VKjFSMJE

Look around in their 293 videos on that channel and I'm sure you'll see a wide variety of their products, I just pulled out the first one that popped up and looked like a demo. Remember, companies need to advertise to find new customers, so they can't be too secretive.

(My biggest tip to someone looking to interview at a company is to find their youtube channel and watch a few videos of them demo their product before you interview. You will be an expert on their product compared to 95% of the people they interview, which will make you stand out. If they publish white papers, read one or two that look interesting to you. If they publish white papers and none of them look interesting to you, that's a pretty important sign too. Sure, bone up on how to find a cycle in a directed graph, but spend an hour or two on the company themselves and it will be very rewarding.)
So, I very much agree with emehrkay, but you should probably deliver the same admonition to emehrkay for the way they chose to phrase their sentiment. "Fuck you" and "fuck them" are the same when you're one of the "them".
I've installed these doors. It's easy to mess up as the switch to determine the failure mode is part of the equipment. This was an untested install.
We are affected by this. Our elasticsearch process were getting killed even though we set xmx to half of the ram. Now reverting the kernel.
When can we expect NLP to "get" this?
There was an ashtanga teacher in SoCal who did pranayama practice with a few students prior to Mysore practice. It was really demanding, somebody counted 55 inhale-exhale cycles in an hour, something like that
In parts of Mexico it's considered embarrassing to admit not knowing how far away someplace is. The conventional solution is to use the code phrase: "Quatro kilometers, señor.
Yep, you want something the manager of the local enterprise can authorize out of his petty cash - not something he has to call the CEO in on for a decision.

Even better if the guy tries to hide it out of fear of being fired for incompetence - which is the general way these things go.
Hmm. There's enough despair around and if my sharp wording added to it in your case I apologise. We're all bleeding and I need a longer posting delay. The causes of this mess are so widely distributed, finger-pointing is pointless (except von Clownstick -- I will not use his brand name -- and his crazed apparachniks who need blame aplenty)
If you do it that way you could add hardware encryption support to the network card and be back to using DMA.
My favorite quote from 1984:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
No.... They would work perfect on a highway WAY before we have cities figured out. If autonomous cars and trucks work on highways, then millions of jobs go poof.
> Once a physical addiction is formed, heroin can be a cheaper or more accessible alternative to a prescription for say, Oxycontin.

Something is wrong with the system for prescribing Oxycontin if black market heroin is ever cheaper or more accessible.
> If you have any aptitude for working with computers

It's difficult for people to estimate their aptitude for something before dumping a lot of time and energy into it, unless they have to do it or derive enjoyment from it.

> Imagine being a car mechanic who can fully assemble an engine from parts and knows the purpose of every single part; but you're being paid minimum wage to run around town filling people's cars with gas.

It's not his customers' fault that he's in that situation, it's his own fault for either investing in a skill that has no local demand, or failing to market his skills effectively.

I could learn to be the best widget-maker in the whole world, but it nobody wants widgets and I can't convince anyone that they should pay me to make widgets, it seems stupid to blame the world for this.
I agree, and would have if there hadn't already been a number of other comments calling them out for exactly that.
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If I were the jury, I'd be laughing my ass off. Then I'd have so much empathy that the guests would end up owning the hotel.

Hotel rooms that can't be opened from the inside should be strictly verboten!

Edit: That is, unless that part of the story is #clickbait, #fakenews.
A state's attorney general or a public utilities commission are probably the best US analogs.
And the EO has an exception for 'religious minorities', which are (surprise) never muslim in majority muslim countries.
What is the next, light-weight but more hardened solution after chroot? On *BSD, it's probably `jail`. On Linux, it's probably runC?
These tactics were not illegal when he used them. Although they may be considered anti-competitive, Standard Oil's monopoly waned after the turn of the 20th century. By the time that its monopoly was broken up in 1911, its market share had fallen to under 70%.

Rockefeller literally put the "anti-trust" in "anti-trust law" when he created the Standard Oil Trust. Standard Oil's lawyer conceived of a scheme whereby shareholders put their shares into a Trust whose Trustees held the shares for their benefit. This scheme was widely imitated by other businesses to the point that the word "trust" was about as tainted at that time as the word "corporation" is in our own.

A trust, like a corporation, is not in and of itself illegal or immoral. However, both are legal devices which can be used to further nefarious ends.
Electromagnet locks --- which have an electromagnet in them to keep the door closed and are surprisingly strong for their size --- are truly fail-open since loss of power means loss of force keeping the door locked, but those doors might've also had an additional fail-closed type of electric lock that requires a brief pulse of power to open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_lock
For the record I never blamed "techies". It's simple: political discourse is dysfunctional (in the sense: conflict-laden, and the conflicts don't get resolved effectively; that's all dysfunctional means). The best way to improve democracy is for each to improve the way they communicate.

2 necessary skills, that everybody can improve, are:

- empathic listening (always using the most generous interpretation of the other person's argument, and then walking back from there to your own opinion, to find common ground)

- problem-solving (look at the big picture, find the problem, and think of a good solution)

> And in the mean time, when someone tries to blame me for this mess I didn't cause and argued against, I'm going to push back.

There's nothing to push back against. This is just political conflict, and it's resolved the same way as any other conflict. If someone calls you crazy, and you reply: "well clearly I'm not crazy!" you may feel right but it's not effective communication.
Virtue signalling is a valid idea, but it has become a way too easy way of dismissing things without proof, and acting superior at the same time. Just like invoking Dunning Kruger at the drop of a hat is in, so is labeling things virtue signalling.

Getting on your twitter soapbox and expressing your opinion does sway people. Two years ago, people who would say, "The damn mexicans need to get the hell out of our country" was limited to a very limited, and marginalized, corner of the internet. Over the past two years, it became acceptable through twitter, and now it is a cornerstone platform of the Republican party.

If twitter can have that effect, why do you think it can't have the opposite effect of making it known to your social circle that those ideas are not acceptable to you?

Or are you saying that tweeting "Mexicans, get the hell out" is legitimate, but "I find those statements incompatible with my idea of being a US citizen" is not legitimate?
All those people being detained in Customs facilities at airports across the country must really be comforted that the intent isn't to keep anyone out who should be here.

You can say that, but I don't believe it. And you're not going to shut down my legitimate outrage and distress by pretending like it's not sincere.
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"Honey I bricked the locks!"