From TFA, “ You can read our full report, which details what we found in those documents, how we filed those public records requests, and how you can file your own, here.” With the last word here being a link to another article:
Not correct. All FOIA laws that I know of say that any records created or held by private corporations under contract to the government are FOIA-able via the government. (the government has to go out and get the records for you)
Yep! Here's Illinois's statutory language on this topic:
(2) A public record that is not in the possession of a public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body, for purposes of this Act.
The nuance is in the definitional limitations/vagueness of "directly relates to the governmental function".
Yeah, my bad, I forgot the extra clause. And, of course, you often have to fight even harder for these types of records as it is extra work for the government to do, as chaps above can surely attest.
Some stuff slips through, though. For instance, I tried to FOIA the source code for the Voyager probes, but NASA outsourced the dev to Caltech and somehow there is a copyright restriction on it, or something daft like that, which means it cannot be released, even though taxpayers paid the bills.
Giving a talk about this today. Biggest problem imho is the fact there were over 33 revisions, and now over 20 RFCs related to oauth. Developing to spec is hard when you don’t realize how big the spec is.
The definition of “disposable income” used in this chart is gross income minus taxes.
I don’t think this corresponds with what most people think that means. i.e. gross income - (taxes + housing costs + food + health/childcare). I certainly didn’t.
That's the correct definition of "disposable income". The latter value is called "discretionary income", and a lot of people incorrectly say disposable when they really mean discretionary.
Yeah it’s hard to calculate a comparable figure on this when savings in one country is basically just temporarily holding money for the medical industry and getting to collect gains on it in the meantime, and in another, it’s actual savings.
I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
Adding some more context.
The Ukrainian refugees are fellow Slavic people and
the refugees from last time were mostly Muslims from the Middle East... and that the Far-Right tends to be racist.
While the fact that Ukrainians belong to the same ethnicity as Poles definitely makes a difference in how people react, another fact that counts is that the Middle Eastern refugees did not get to Poland directly from a war zone, and they did not intend to seek asylum in Poland, they were flown into a peaceful country, Belarus, and were seeking to reach the richer countries of Europe like Germany, Sweden and the UK... Poland was just their second transit country after Belarus. I think that even discounting race, this is a big difference that we cannot simply forget about.
"Several academics have critiqued the use of cultural racism to describe prejudices and discrimination on the basis of cultural difference. Those who reserve the term racism for biological racism for instance do not believe that cultural racism is a useful or appropriate concept."
