If you want to hear a good English dub check out AnimEigo's dub's of You're Under Arrest OVA or Oh My Goddess OVA. They are both crazy good. AnimEigo lost the distribution license so you'd have to hunt a little for an old copy, but it's worth it.
Edit: looks like I'm mistaken about the You're Under Arrest distribution license [1]
Just filled out the Trans Union site with dummy data to check, and none of the transaction is over SSL. So, to kind out if my child's identity has been stolen I have to expose them to identity theft....
That shocked me as well. Doesn't exactly give you a warm fuzzy feeling about a major credit reporting agency's security measures. Do some of these companies just view these breaches/vulnerabilities as a joke?
"if you aren't able to meet a certain reasonable minimum standard of living, you will be absolutely miserable."
For some people their minimum standard of living dose not require money. Buddhist monks[1] come to mind. There are also people that simply want to live away from society and thus have no real need for money.
I know people who have lived off the grid (or on a boat), without a paying job, happily. It does get wearing, and people don't seem to do it for too long - but that can be years.
(To give some examples of lifestyles that do not require income, nor external people paying for things.)
Definitely true. I think the parent was overstating it saying that one would be miserable without money.
But the larger point stands, your state of mind and your access to resources are connected, very strongly at the poverty end. There are definitely people who can be very fulfilled with very few resources (until they get sick or it gets very cold) but they would all be happier with a bunch of money, even if that's just to give away to those in need.
You can blame individual people, but the mfgrs will simply purchase immunity from their hired politicians. Its a question of responsibility. Individuals have it. Corporations do not.
I'm not sure that's true. Auto manufactures are a really big target for liability in accidents (I'd likely get more from GM then an individual in a won law suit), and a quick search [1] seems to back my feeling that there is sizable law and case law that define this area of liability. I'm not saying that it's simple to win against any sufficiently funded entity, but it's not impossible that anyone has immunity.
I guess you missed the CEO of General Motors getting grilled by congress earlier this year and tha massive writedowns they took due to the settlements they entered into with the families of people hurt/killed by faulty ignition switches. I could cite a slew of similar examples.
Looks like NameJet is based in Washington state based on their About Us page. So give what happened and the low value involved, I'd suggest two things (I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice) look at contacting Washington State's consumer protection board[1] and the Better Business Bureau [2] for the state. They might not take up the issue, but this does seem like something that would likely violate some state bases consumer protection law.
Would there be anything to prevent someone from creating a one off file format that requires a license fee and just start making FOIA requests in that format. If not, this seems like something that could be exploited for profit.
Not really, no. It's just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you're a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.
Adding a bit of objective support to that statement is a report [1] from BLS that lists Mortality Rates by industry, where law enforcement is grouped with Government.
Doesn't grouping police into "Government" dilute the danger of policework by grouping it with a bunch of relatively safe office jobs? I suspect I'm looking at the wrong plot because there's no way anyone would intentionally suggest such an approach...
Very good point. There is an NIH study [1] that drills into Law Enforcement Officers (LOEs). The number in the NIH study can be contrasted with the right side of slide 14. The mortality rate does raise a but from the Government rate, from 2/100k to 5.6 when you are talking homicide and 11.8 when considering all causes of fatalities; still puts it 3rd compared to other industries.
Thanks for taking the time to dig that up! I haven't been able to conclusively determine the units in the NIH study, but we should be careful about normalization. I don't think these are comparable as they stand:
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Homicide Rate: 5.6/(100k census LEOS over 11 years)
Instead, we should include all causes of death for LEOs (because the NIH did so for government workers) and then divide by 11 so that both figures represent deaths over the same number of worker-years. This makes law enforcement look even safer. In fact, it makes it look safer than deskwork. This is either due to a methodological difference or due to the fact that LEOs tend to be young and healthy compared to deskworkers. In any case I think the conclusion "law enforcement is not a comparatively dangerous occupation" is correct.
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time-equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Death Rate: 11.8/11 = 1.07/(100k census workers over 1 year)
"The notion that one has a right to collect data from users of a service is the same notion that says the service provider has ownership of that data."
Last year my family went to have a family portrait taken by a professional (service provider or portraits) photographer. The photos (data) that were produced from the photo shoot belonged to the photographer. That photographer was more than happen to sell me family portrait, but the law is fairly clear that he in fact owns the data (all photos that were taken), i.e. he has copyright over the data.
The law isn't actually clear at all. Commissioned works (such as a private portrait session) can very often be considered "works for hire," depending on the exact wording of the contract.
I'd like for that database to be something that I control. This is, something that I carry with with me, like a usb stick; and that I have the software/tools to view it. Then I could actually take read though any notes and maybe take a more active role in my health.
I would like that as well, but do you seriously think that would work for most people? Would you want your less technical loved ones to be responsible for the physical security of their data and carry it with them at all times?
I think that's over-thinking it. Medical alert bracelets already exist; I can't imagine it'd be too much challenge to embed a ruggedized USB stick in one, and people generally don't worry about less technical people failing to remember to wear their bracelet.
That's a really good point. It wouldn't take much more miniaturization than what we already have to put that in an earring or something else people wouldn't mind having all the time.
It wouldn't be that much more different then paper medical records. Sure it would enable some interesting attack vectors, but I don't see that to be a compelling reason to not do it. It also wouldn't have to be a mandatory thing. People that are comfortable with it can use it, and those that aren't don't have to. Much like banks, there were (are) lots of people that don't trust back and choose not to use them. The same would be true for something like this.
>>> So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy.
I see how they would know that you like Bob's Burgers, but how would they know that you dislike The Family Guy? Or, were you saying that they know you haven't declared you like Family Guy at this point in time? I ask is cause I was missing a way they could track the former, and also because I think Facebook is missing the boat by not having a way to dislike something.
If I were looking to by Brand A and saw a lot of my negative sentiment for that brand Brand B would need less positive sentiment for me to be sawed to it. In that scenario they start to displace services like Yelp.
Edit: looks like I'm mistaken about the You're Under Arrest distribution license [1]
[1] http://www.animeigo.com/products/anime/youre-under-arrest